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land?---or what will be done?---There's the rub! KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, the husband of the late Princess Charlotte of England, on the 9th Angust, married, at Compiègne, the Princess Louise, daughter of Louis Philippe of France. Never royal nuptials attracted less attention; not that the parties are obnoxious, but that state pageants have lost their glitter with even the "swinish multitude."

YOUNG NAPOLEON, the Duke of Reichstadt, died, in the palace of his grandfather, the Emperor of Austria, near Vienna, on the 24th July, at the age of twenty-two. His disease was lingering consumption; though his sickness has been attributed to slow poison, administered by great politicians. This is not credited; they are bad enough without poisoning besides there remained nothing to make this poor lad formidable to any one.

THE DUKE OF YORK's diamonds and trinkets are about to be sold by auction, to go their length in paying his debts. They will probably not go far. The trappings of George the Fourth, which once would have brought their weight in silver, lately sold like as many old stage properties-sic transit!

SCOTLAND.

trades, societies, &c., &c., walked in procession through the principal streets of the city. The procession covered three miles of ground, was formed by 20,000 persons, with 120 flags, banners, many bands of music, and innumerable insignia and devices of the various crafts. The inscriptions on the banners were pointed humorous. On one, of different character and solemn hue, was inscribed the names of Mun, PALMER, and SKIRVING. It was dedicated to their memory! The spectators were estimated at 100,000, besides the country people, who came in by thousands. The day was uncommonly fine, and the entire pageant far surpassed any thing before imagined. Music, fire-works, and festivity concluded by far the most splendid public day ever witnessed in Edinburgh.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.---The health of our illustri ous countryman, a subject of affectionate interest to every native of Scotland, continues in the same hopeless state. This, to us, is a subject two sacred to be made the theme of a finely rounded paragraph, or of any comment whatever.

CHOLERA has extended its ravages more or les over all Scotland; though it has only fallen heavily in Glasgow and that neighbourhood; CANVASSING, REGISTERING VOTES.-Canvassing where it still continues to spread. In Ayr it has been actively carried on, registering votes is at present very severe. It has paid a flying more slowly, till the last days, when every body visit to Thurso, Wick, Helmsdale, Golspie, Portpressed forward. In Edinburgh the number of mahomack, Hilton of Cadboll, Dingwall, Maryelectors registered is 6664, instead of the old Thirty-burgh, and Nairn, and has thrown the country three! It is understood, that in Edinburgh, Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Abercromby are the favourite candidates. Mr. Aytoun, the Radical candidate, and Mr. Forbes Hunter Blair, the Tory, are both in the background. Throughout Scotland, the moderate but liberal party bid fair for success. There will be several hard contests.

THE HARVEST has made great progress with us. The crops of all kinds are the most abundant and excellent within the memory of man. Samples were shewn in some of our markets so early as the 10th. The hay crop is equally abundant: the best harvest seen for twenty years is reaping.

THE FISHERY.-Herrings have not yet appeared in great quantity; and the alarm of cholera at the fishing stations has injured business. The last accounts from Wick are rather more favourable, though we fear this is not to be a good year for the Fishery.

WHALE FISHERY.-The Hercules has just arrived at Aberdeen. So far as "life and limb" are concerned, the accounts are favourable, but the fishing is not reported good.

GAME.-The present has turned out a bad shooting season.

THE ORCHARDS upon the Clyde are turning out better than was expected early in the season.

THE REFORM JUBILEE has been celebrated within the last fortnight in most of the towns and villages of Scotland, with much heart-felt rejoicing. The 10th was THE DAY of Edinburgh and Leith; when upwards of ninety detachments of

people into great alarm. The cases on the east coast have not been numerous. Total cases in Edinburgh since the commencement of the cholera, 964. Total deaths, 549.-In Glasgow, total cases, 4705; deaths, 2262.-Cholera has spread over the most of England. It has been severe in Liver. pool. Manchester is now suffering under its ravages. It prevails in the Netherlands, and has reached Quebec, Montreal, and latterly New York. In America the disease was peculiarly de structive. It is rather abating there, and also in Ireland.

SHEEP, WOOL, CATTLE, WAGES, & THE CATTLE MARKETS.-At the first Falkirk Tryst, held on the 14th, the prices were lower than last year's, about 5s. a-head on the average. and 10s. lower than the average at the June fairs. The show of cattle was large, and much business done.

SHEEP AND WOOL.-At the late Fairs, the demand for sheep has been considered slow, butprices have not given way. Wool maintains its price.

EXPORT OF SHEEP AND CATTLE FROM THE HIGH LANDS.-From Inverness-shire the annual number of theey sent to the south markets is about 100,000; of cattle, 20,000. From Sutherlandshire about 30,000 sheep are et ported. If we assume that the united counties of Res Sutherland, and Caithness, send as many as Inverness and we believe we shall be about the mark-there are in al 200,000 sheep and 40,000 cattle exported annually from the rugged hills and glens of the north.

PROVISION MARKETS, IN EDINBURGH, GLASGOW,
AND PAISLEY.

EDINBURGH.-Quartern Loaf, 9d. to 10d. Beef, per lh,

Potatoes, per peck, 4d. and 11d.

4d. to 7d. Mutton, 4d. to 6d. Lamb, 3d. to 4d. Fresh Butter, 10d. to 1s. Salt, 9d. to 11d. Eggs, per doz., 8d. Oat Meal, per peck, of 7 lbs., 10d. GLASGOW.-Quartern Loaf, 10d. Bread Association. 84d. Beef, 5d. to 7d. Mutton, 5d. to 7d. Lamb, 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per quarter. Pease Meal, best, 1s. 2d. Common, 11d. New Oatmeal, 11d. Old, 9d. Potatoes, 4d., 173 imperial lbs. Bazaar.-New Cheese, 8s. 6d. to 9s. 6d. per stone. Old, from 10s. to 12s. 6d. Butter, from 9d. to Is. PAISLEY.-Same as Glasgow, save Potatoes, 4, and Quartern Loaf, 9d.

It is computed that England and Wales now contain at least five millions of oxen, and a million and a half of horses. The number of sheep is about twenty millions, and eight million lambs.

The greater part of the Halifax, Huddersfield, and Leeds manufacturers have advanced their men's wages. The turn-out Rochdale cotton-spinners and rovers have resumed work.

UNEMPLOYED.-We are sorry to state, that the number of unemployed operatives has considerably increased during the week. There are nearly 500 engaged in breaking stones. In addition to this, however, there are a great number out of work, who have not as yet resorted to stonebreaking. The prospects of trade are on the whole very gloomy.-Paisley Advertiser, Aug. 2.

Joseph Bonaparte, the Ex-king of Spain, has arrived at Liverpool, after a 16 years' residence in America.

The Lord Advocate has arrived in Edinburgh, and is busy with his canvass.

DUKE OF WELLINGTON.-It is again rumoured that his Grace is shortly to visit Scotland.

THE EDINBURGH BURNS' MONUMENT.-This beautiful edifice is so near completion that the scaffolding was struck on Saturday.

MONEY PANIC.-In the dread of investigation and disagreeable disclosures by the Committee of the House of Commons, on the Bank of England, the stock of that body has fallen in two or three days full 20 per cent! No one can foresee where this will terminate.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

A SHOCKING Murder was lately committed at St. Ninian's, near Stirling. A woman, named Margaret Robertson, the wife of Duncan M'Ansh, a labourer, murdered her own daughter, by cutting her throat with a razor. She was a person of bad character; and denied the fact, alleging the girl had committed suicide. The woman is committed for trial for murder.

having discharged one barrel and reloaded again, he incautiously forgot to uncock the other, and, on returning home, in leaping a fence within a short distance from the house, the gun came in contact with it, when, melancholy to relate, it went off, and lodged the whole contents (small shot) in his bowels.

DISTRESSING EVENT.-Mr. William Ewing, a respectable young farmer, left his father's house in East Cringate, Stirlingshire, on the 25th ult., to purchase cattle in the | Highlands for the Falkirk Tryst. His pony was next day seen near the banks of Loch Con, and the body of the unfortunate rider was found on dragging the lake. Mr. Ewing's money, to the amount of L.500, was found safe in his pocket. It is conjectured that he had fallen asleep, and that the pony must have turned aside to the lake to drink, when the rider fell off.

AFFLICTING CASE.-Among the ravages of Cholera in Canada, there is perhaps not a more melancholy instance than the following:-In April last, Mrs. Brown, relict of the late Rev. William Brown, Independent Minister of this town, sailed from Canada, with her family, six sons and a daughter. They were shipwrecked in the river St. Lawrence; and after surviving all the hardships of cold and hunger, want of shelter, &c. &c. for many days, had just reached Montreal when the cholera broke out. On the Sabbath, while attending public worship, the eldest son was seized-no doctor could be got to aid; however, cholera medicines seemed to prove effectual, when the afflicted mother, worn out with former sorrow, the horrors of the voyage, and the fear of losing her excellent son, sunk under the disease, and expired on the bedside. The recovering youth, who was so shocked at his mother's death as to become delirious, lingered only a few hours, and died.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF FOUR LIVES. -A very distressing accident occurred near Kinlochbuie, by which four active and industrious men have met with a watery grave. On the evening of Tuesday the 24th ultimo, a small herring boat, with five of a crew, put to sea from Oldshores, in the district of Eddinchilless. On the following day a cry of distress was heard on land by a person tending cattle near the shore, and immediately thereafter a boat was observed with her keel upwards, on which a man was stretched, drifting towards the land. On being rescued from his perilous situation, this surviving remnant of the crew related the melancholy fate of his companions.

SHETLAND FISHERMEN. In a dreadful gale on the 17th July, upwards of 100 fishermen were cast away. Many widows and orphans have been made. Here is a field for the rich and benovolent.

COLLINS.---The half-mad seaman who threw a stone at the king at Ascot races, has been convicted of high treason. It is not likely that the sentence can be carried into effect against this miserable man.

SCOTTISH BANKRUPTS.

Robert Roger Strang, insurance broker and writer, Glasgow.
Peter M Morland, merchant, Greenock.
Huie, Ralston, and Co. coal merchants, ship chandlers, and

being one concern, and Robert Huie and Robert Ralston, coal
merchants, ship chandlers, painters, and spirit dealers, Green-
ock, the individual partners of said concern, as partners thereof,

HORRIBLE MURDER.-On Saturday last, a most dreadful outrage against humanity was committed at Horncliff, not far from Berwick, which has struck the whole district with horror and amazement. Two lads of the names of Paxton and Percy, had had a dispute about a game-cock, which led to frequent quarrels, and on the day above-mentioned they again came to high words, and, it is said, eventually to blows. Whilst this was going on, Percy's father, an old man, procured a large knife, and deliberately attack-painters, Greenock, and Ralston and Co., spirit dealers there. ing his son's opponent, stabbed him in the belly, cutting him across, so that his bowels, as he fell, protruded on the ground. Not content with this dreadful deed, he turned upon Paxton's brother, another young man who came up to assist, and stabbed him in several places! The first victim lingered till Sunday morning, in great agony, when death relieved him from his sufferings; the other young man still survives, but in a hopeless state. The old monster retired to a corn field, and cut his own throat; but not effectually, as he was found bleeding shortly after; and the wound having been attended to, he is likely to survive, to stand his trial for these horrid crimes.

A fatal and most distressing accident took place at Williamston House, on the afternoon of the 10th instant. Alexander Castells, the butler, went out with a double-barrelled detonating gun, to amuse himself shooting wild-fowl in the plantations on the river side surrounding the lawn;

and as individuals.

Robert Easton, tavern keeper in Glasgow.

Thomas Smellie, smith and builder at Coat Bridge.
William Colvil, writer, Arbroath, banker there, and a part.
ner of the Arbroath Gas Light Company.

Boyd Macrocket, grain merchant, Glasgow.
William Alexander, Grocer, Linlithgow.
Daniel Lizars, Printer and Publisher, Edinburgh.
Robert M'Limont and Co., merchants, Glasgow.
APPOINTMENTS.

COLLEGE. The Chair of Medical Jurisprudence, Edinburgh,
has been conferred on Dr. Traill.
Sheriff-Substitute of Argyleshire.
Mr. John M'Laurin, writer to the signet, has been appointed

depute of Selkirk during the incapacity of Sir Walter Scott.
Mr. T. Hamilton Millar, advocate, has been appointed Sheriff-

BIRTHS.

At Hopetoun House, on Saturday morning, the 21st ult. the Countess of Hopetoun, of twin sons, the one of whom was still-born and the other only survived a few hours.

At Harley Street, London, on the 15th ult. the wife of John Forbes, Esq. M.P., of a son.

At Dunoon on the 18th ult. the Lady of George Malcom, Esq. of a

son.

At Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, the Lady of Boyd Alexander, Esq., of a son.

At Edinburgh, the Lady of Major Hugh Ross, Hon. East India
Company's Service, of a son.

At Edinburgh, Mrs. Kemp of Annfield House, of a daughter.
At Stichell House, Lady Elizabeth Pringle, of a daughter.
The Lady of J. J. Tollemache, Esq., of a son and heir.

At Newbattle Abbey, on the 12th instant, the Marchioness of Lo. thian, of a son and heir.

At 37, Melville Street, Edinburgh, on the 15th instant, Mrs. Maughan was safely delivered of a son.

At 112, Prince's Street, on the 10th instant, Mrs. Miller, of a daughter.

At 30, Clarence Street, on the 10th instant, Mrs. David Canaan, of

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On the 23d instant, by the Rev. G. Milligan, Elie, Mr. Thomas Paris, builder, to Mrs. Jane Seaton, both of Cumberland Street.

At Cuttlehill, on the 19th instant, Charles Crossland Hay, Esq., of Auchindinny House, to Jennete, youngest daughter of the late Wil liam Wemyss, Esq., of Cuttlehill.

At Callander, the Rev. Malcolm M'Millan, Stirling, to Miss Mar-
garet Thomson, fourth daughter of Mr. James Thomson, Callander.
At 121, Princes Street, Mr. Robert Scott, to Christina, second daugh-
ter of Mr. Douglas, St. Andrew Square.

At Craigend, on the 12th instant, William Roughead, merchant,
Edinburgh, to Isabella, youngest daughter of the late John Carfrae,
Esq.
At Butts House, Houston, Mr. Alexander Watt, of the Commercial
Bank, Wick, to Mary, eldest daughter of William Arrol, Esq.
At Montrose, by the Reverend Dr. Paterson, George Gordon, Esq.,
merchant, Riga, to Jane, eldest daughter of John Paton, Esq., Mon-

trose.

At Montrose, on the 10th instant, Mr. David Scott, writer, to Jane Hanna, eldest daughter of Captain Bertram.

At Haghill, on the 21th instant, James Simpson, Esq., writer, Glasgow, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late John Stewart, Esq., of Haghill.

At Bonn, on the Rhine, on Thursday, the 12th of July, Charles Lyell, Esq., younger of Kinsardy, in the county of Forfar, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Leonard Horner, Esq.

At Steeple Aston, James Moncrieff Melville, Esq. writer to the signet, to Augusta, youngest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Lechmere of Steeple Aston, in the county of Oxford.

Hon. East India Company's Service, to Louisa Thorn Smet, only At Coldstream, David James Stag Thorburn, Esq., M.D., of the daughter to J. F. Smet, Esq., Plymouth.

At Chapel, by the Reverend Dr. Barclay Kettle, Major P. Barclay, late of the Madras 14th regiment, to Marjory Clelland, daughter of the late Robert Arnott, Esq., of Chapel.

At Ingestrie, on the 17th ultimo, the Honourable and Rev. Arthur Chetwynd Talbot, second son of Earl Talbot of Ingestrie Hall, Staf. fordshire, to Harriet, only daughter of the late Henry Charles Aston, Esq., of Aston Hall.

At Paxton House, Berwickshire, by the Reverend John Edgar, of Hutton, David Milne, Esq., advocate, eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir David Milne, K.C.B. of Milne Graden, to Jean, eldest daughter of William F. Home, Esq., of Paxton.

At Flass Farm, Fifeshire, Thomas Stewart, Esq., factor to the Lord Glenlyon, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. David Knox.

At Inverness, Robert Trotter, accountant of the Bank of Scotland at Inverness, to Catherine Gordon, daughter of the late Rev. James Fowler, minister, of Urquhart,

At Dublin, John Cowan, Esq., advocate, to Annabella, daughter of the late Robert M'Cartney, Esq.

At Broomfields, Ayrshire, Daniel Robb, Esq., Greenock, to Margaret, widow of the late John Mitchell, Esq., Jamaica.

At Belfast, John, eldest son of James Fleming, Esq. Newlandsfield,
to Mary Anne, second daughter of James Reid, Esq., of Belfast.
At Knowsouth, Roxburghshire, Macduff Rhind, Esq., advocate, to
Jane, second daughter of William Oliver, Esq., of Dinlabyre.

At Uxbridge House, on the 4th instant, Lord Viscount Sydney, to Lady Emily Paget, daughter of the Marquis and Marchio ness of Anglesey.

At St. Martin's Church, London, on the 31st ultimo, Donald Cameron, Esq. eldest son of Donald Cameron, Esq. of Lochiel, to Vere Catharine Louisa, youngest daughter of the late Hon. George Hobart, and sister of the present Earl of Buckinghamshire.

On the 2d instant, at Little Driffield, William Dick Ferguson, Esq. eldest son of Lieutenant-General Ferguson of Dunfallandy, Perthshire, to Sarah, third daughter of the late Captain Platt of Whitburn, West Hall, in the county of Durham.

At London, on Thursday, Viscount Howick, eldest son of Earl Grey, to Miss Maria Copley, daughter of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart. At Gosford, on the 16th instant, William Forbes of Callendar, Esq. to the Lady Louisa A. Charteris, fifth daughter of the right honourable the Earl of Wemyss and March.

On the 2d instant, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, Mr. H. Wilson, of Salford, merchant, to Mrs. Elizabeth Willock, of the same place. Of these parties, the former lost his wife and the latter her husband in the melancholy wreck of the Rothsay Castle, last year,

DEATHS.

At Inverleith Row, Mrs. Marion Wood, wife of George Wood, M.D.

At Wilson's Park, Portobello, Mrs. Jean Menzies, widow of Captain James Macdonald.

At his house, Croft, James Ramsay, Esq., late Provost of Perth, a the 88th year of his age.

At Leith, Captain Robert Fussey, of the Smack Royal Sovereign At Burntsfield Place, Links, Mr. William Crease, merchant, Ees burgh,

At Ardrossan, James Hamilton, Esq., of Holmhead.

At Buccleuch Place, on Monday, the 30th ultimo, of fever, Jain, second son of Mr. William Oliphant, Bookseller.

At Kinghorn, Robert Aitken, late farmer at Whinnyhall, in the 680 year of his age.

At 4, Brunton Place, Mrs. Elizabeth Wight, wife of Alexmór Wight, Esq., banker in Edinburgh.

At the Manse of Fala, on the 24th ultimo, Mrs. Jane Christie, wit of Mr. A. M'Ewan, Water of Leith.

At Inverness, on the 15th July, Miss Martha Mackenzie, ever and only surviving daughter of the late Alexander Mackenzie, Es,, d Portmore, W.S. Edinburgh.

At Campbeltown, on the 20th ultimo, Charles M'Vicar, Esq., of Kile. leen, aged 70.

At Greenock, aged 61, Mr. Robert Manson, late deputy comptria of the Customs.

At Denbie, Annandale, at an advanced age, Lieutenant-Colas John Carruthers of Denbie.

At London, Mr. Andrew Mellis, of Lad Lane, merchant, late of Edinburgh and Glasgow.

At his father's house, near Edinburgh, on the 24th July, aged 24, Mr. Peter Lorimer, preacher of the gospel.

At Dunbar House, Charlotte Julian, third daughter of James Baller Esq, of Whittingham, M.P.

At Park Crescent, on the 26th ultimo, Harrict, the wife of the Ha J. T. Leslie Melville.

At Shoreditch near Taunton, on the 22d ultimo, in his 90th you, Joseph Summerhayes, leaving a widow in her 103d year. The elde son of the deceased is 75 years of age.

DEATH OF THE CATHOLIC PRIMATE.-The Most Rev. Doctor Carta, Catholic Primate of all Ireland, died on Wednesday week, at his house in Drogheda. His Grace is another victim of cholera-but he died fu of years, at the age of 92. A better, a more virtuous, we might almos say an abler man, he has not left behind him.

At 48, Melville Street, John Mitchell, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn.
At Edinburgh, Miss Susan Wardrop, eldest daughter of the late
James Wardrop, Esq., of Torbane-hill.

At Newington, William Farquhar, Esq., of Pencloe, M.D., Im surgeon of the Hon. East India Company.

At Glasgow, on Tuesday evening, Mr. Walter M⭑Feat, senar, tioner, aged 67.

At Kirkaldy, Mr. Michael Beveridge, senior, ship-owner,
At 61, Hanover Street, Mrs. Marion Inglis, wife of James Hay, Emp
At Collessie Manse, suddenly, the Reverend David Ogilvie
At Charlotte Street, Ayr, after a severe and protracted illness, Wi-
daughter of the late George Fyfe, Esq.
liam McCormack, Esq., aged 41.
At 62, George Street, Glasgow, on the 16th instant, Helen, socnad

At Edinburgh, on the 9th instant, Catherine, third daughter of
George Lyon, Esq. W.S.
At his house, Newington Lodge, on the 8th instant, George Bed,
Esq. surgeon in Edinburgh.

At Morison's Place, Piershill, on the 6th instant, aged 3, Nr
Robert Hogg, late brewer, Abbeyhill

At Smeaton, on the 4th instant, Mr. Adam Wylie, farmer there. At Athelstaneford Manse, East Lothian, on the 2d instant, sad denly, Mr. Robert Scott Bell.

Higgins, relict of the deceased William Bell, Esq. merchant, Leith
At Newck House, Stirlingshire, on the 23d ultimo, Mrs. Margarit
At the Manse of Airlie, on the 28th ultimo, the Rev. Robert A-
man, minister of that parish.

At the Manse of Bendochy, on the 1st instant, the Rev. Thomas
Barty, in the 75th year of his age, and 47th of his ministry.
Suddenly, at her house, Glasgow, on the 8th instant, Catherine Gow,
relict of the late Rev. Charles Cummings, Errol.

On the 19th ultimo, on board the Arethusa Boyd, on her vege from Trinidad to Clyde, Mr. Duncan C. Campbell, son of the late ( tain Campbell, of Patrickholm.

dow of the late Mr. William Veitch, Maryfield.
At 56, Queen Street, on the 7th instant, Mrs. Malcolm Murray,

At Buccleuch Place, on the 12th instant, Mr. George White, geon, of cholera, much regretted.

At Dalkeith, on the 12th instant, Mr. James Stirling, eldest
ing son of the late Rev. Mr. Stirling, minister of Cockburnspath
At Cleghorn, on the 5th instant, William Elliott Lockhart, B. a
Cleghorn and Borthwickbrae.

At Muirtown House, on the 2d instant, Hugh Robert Duffy, of
Muirtown.

Suddenly, at the Manse of Portmoak, on the 9th instant, Mr. Jam M. R. Laird, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Laird, minister of this rish.

Suddenly, at Ayr, on Monday, Mr. Alexander White, Darb master's office. The deceased was born on the same day with S land's darling poet-Burns-and under the same roof.

At St. Michael's Lodge, Dumfries, on the 8th instant, WT Young, Esq. late writer in Kilmarnock.

Suddenly, at Tain, on the 30th ultimo, Captain James Scobie, late w the royal veteran batallion, in the 55th year of his age.

At his house, in the York Road, on Saturday morning, the 11t stant, of cholera, Mr. David Motherwell, some time connected wit the daily press, and a correspondent of several of the provincial pra papers.

MONTHLY REGISTER OF PUBLIC EVENTS

AND

MONTHLY SCOTTISH LISTS,
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1832.

CONSERVATIVE CONGRESS.-Lowther Castle, the residence of the Earl of Lonsdale, has lately been much thronged with distinguished visitors. Amongst the company there, last week, were the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and Lord and Lady Lyndhurst.

THERE never was a period of more slumberous quiet
than the last few weeks; though it is far from the quiet that
ither signifies content or denotes future tranquillity: Dul-
ess might be the fitter word. London is empty and dull;
he Court is dull; trade is dull; the newspapers are barren
and insufferably dull. The King has been holding levees,
which there was nobody to attend. The Court go to Brighters at Bath.

on next month for the winter. The Duchess of Kent and
he Princess Victoria are travelling in Wales. The Mi-
istry are at their country-seats. Lord Brougham is at
rougham Castle visiting his venerable mother; having, it
said, previously decided every case before him. Earl
rey has been marrying his eldest son, Lord Howick. The
pposition, through their organs of the press, are alternately
tacking Ministers, and bewailing the disunion and pluck-
ssness of their party. Mr. Hume and O'Connell are se-
rally busy in their respective vocations, and active in in-
dencing the approaching elections. When the dissolution
ay take place is still unknown, and probably undetermin-
1; but as the registering of voters has turned out better
an was at one time expected, ministers may now find
urage to dissolve without holding another session.
Canvassing is still the order of the day; and we regret to
id that it is necessary in Scotland to pour forth a legion of
wyers on the country to assist in the working of the BILL.
Te never had any doubts on the issue of the contest in Scot-
nd, and now affirm with confidence, that the immense
ajority of representatives will belong to the liberal party.
hose counties which are under the direct dictation of the
istocracy will prove the only exceptions; and thence will
ford a conclusive argument for the adoption of the ballot.
hough the representation will be what is called liberal,
ere are differences of opinion on many important and vi-
1 points. It will be too late for the people of Edinburgh,
r instance, to blame their representatives, if they shall
id them opposing the ballot, triennial parliaments, and
rhaps the revisal of the corn laws; and certainly the abo-
tion of pensions and sinecure places; or, if they shall find
em more desirous, of supporting the party in power than
e broad interests of the people. It would be more correct to
y, that Scotland will send a much larger majority of
[inisterial candidates to Parliament than of Liberal repre-
ntatives, sympathizing with the wishes and wants of the
ople; for that all who said A. in last Parliament, will go
rward and say B. in this, is to us extremely doubtful.
FACTS AND KUMOURS.-The ministry is to resign; the
ries are to come in; there is to be a coalition! This last
mour is too monstrous for belief; the slightest indication
Jany thing so enormous would put every honest man on
guard. The Tories out-and-out before that portentous
acord! The Lord Chancellor, in the country, dines with
3 old antagonist, the Earl of Lonsdale, burying, says the
rlisle Newspaper, "the Westmoreland contest in obli-
on." Lord Lonsdale, the high Tory and wholesale bo-
ugh-monger! We have no doubt that this dinner was
ten on good reasons. Lord Lowther is a rising man,
ho, while canvassing reformers against reform, cried pec-
vi; and the Lord Chancellor understands his own ground.
at in eating meats consecrated to idols, the apostle ex-
orted the brethren to beware, not of committing sin, but
hurting the faith of their weaker brethren.

MR. HUME. It is worthy of notice, that Mr. Hume and his party have made an open demonstration against MinisThe electors of that city, canvassed by a brother of Sir J. C. Hobhouse, requested Mr. Hume's advice. He recommended Mr. Roebuck, the barrister, as a thorough reformer, and a candidate every way qualified; but on the condition that the electors returned him free of expense. The canvass has commenced. Sir F. Burdett was at Bath, supporting the brother of his colleague, and doing the work of the Ministry; and Mr. Hume is also there supporting Mr. Roebuck. We shall look with some interest to the result. There is everywhere a lamertable deficiency of eligible candidates; and must be till the functions of a Member of Parliament are placed on the same footing with those of any other public officer; till in short he is paid for his labour, and made independent of ministerial favour.

SCOTLAND.

FUNERAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.-On Wednesday, 25th Sept. the honoured remains of Sir Walter Scott were consigned to the tomb, amid the unfeigned regret of thousands. The spot in which Sir Walter Scott is laid is in the north wing of the splendid ruin of Dryburgh Abbey, now, alas, containing a more splendid ruin than itself.

The "Hume Testimonial," in the form of a very elegant and massy silver salver, executed by Mr. Gray, jeweller, is now got ready, and will be sent off to its destination in a few days. It bears, beautifully engraved in its centre, the following inscription "Presented to Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., by upwards of Ten Thousand Reformers, aɛsembled at the Great Reform Meeting, in the Green of Glasgow, May 17th, 1832; in testimony of their admiration of his bold and patriotic conduct during the temporary retirement of Earl Grey's Administration, when the House of Peers refused to pass the great measure of Parliamentary Reform. Glasgow, 1832." Nearly the whole amount for the above testimonial was raised in contributions of one penny each.

A very religious sect has lately sprung up in Paisley, the leading tenets of which are said to be universal atonement, adult baptism, and the speedy advent and personal reign of Christ. What is rather singular, the first converts which the itinerant preachers of this new party have made, are from the Reformed Presbyterians.

THE CHURCH.-In one of his late electioneering speeches, it seems, Sir George Murray avowed himself a Church Reformer: he even went so far as to say that church property is nationalproperty, and of course may be disposed of by the State.

THE BLOCKADE SYSTEM, or non-intercourse, recommended in Blackwood's Magazine, has, according to rumour, been frequently acted on by the Tories, though only one instance has come to light in which a Whig or Liberal has acted in rociprocity. It occurred in St. Andrews, where some weeks ago, an old woman was seen wending her way up one of the Streets of St. Andrews. It was manifest from her demeanour that her whole soul was occupied with a subject of importance. At last, after surveying carefully around, she came to an anchorage immediately opposite Bailie T's counter; when the following dialogue ensued:-B. “Weel, Janet, what's a-wanting the day?" Janet (eyeing the

Bailie with a searching look of inquiry) responded, "Ou, no that muckle. But there's ae thing I want to ken before I mak or mell wi' ye. Will ye tell me if ye be a Torar?" B. "A Tory, Janet? Atweel no. I'm a Whig, woman, an' I hae just pledged mysel' to vote for Mr. Johnston." Hereupon Janet's fingers, which had hitherto been closely rolled up in her palm, began to unfold; and laying down the King's coin on the Bailie's counter, with an air of entire satisfaction and unbounded patronage, she proceeded, "Then, my man, gie me a bawbee's worth o' your mustard."

FEU-RENTS A DIFFERENCE.-The Sheriff of Nairn and Elgin has decided that in considering burgh claims under the Reform Act, feu-rents should not be taken into consideration. The Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty has made a completely opposite decision, determining that the amount of feu-rents must be deducted. "The difference is," said the Sheriff of Ross, in the Court at Cromarty, "the difference is, that the Sheriff of Elgin is a Whig, and I am a Tory."-Inverness Courier.-[If every Sheriff is to decide in this way, electors are likely to get into a fine mess.]

Helmsdale, Embo, &c. are now clear of the contagion, bet it has since our last broken out in the small fishing village of It ver, near Tain, with a virulence hitherto unexampled in the country. Inver is supposed not to contain more than ty families, or from 120 to 140 souls, yet in this scanty populate there have been ninety cases of cholera and forty-one der The manner in which the pestilence was introduced in at very well known.

Cholera is abating in Paris, but raging in Brussels, and in s In Ireland where its devastations principal cities of America. have been in some instances dreadful, the disease is decide abating. It has re-appeared in Paisley after a short cessatar It has reached Aberdeen, and in Edinburgh has maintained o In London t same slow, steady pace for eight months. increased; the deaths are believed to be much more numer than they are reported. In Edinburgh, total cases 1995; died 720; recovered 488. In Glasgow, total cases 5457, at 2612.

It is a curious fact, that in Herefordshire, where the people drink nothing but cider, and eat apples by the bushel, nat ser case of cholera has yet occurred.

MALT LIQUORS.-It is a singular fact, that, so far as w know, not one of the men employed in the breweries in ta city and neighbourhood have been attacked with cholera. Thes men, it is well known, get a daily allowance of the best.— Glasgow Paper.

When the cholera morbus broke out at Exeter, Bishop Phi who had been residing there, fled to a place about 17 miles off. This has been the conduct of nearly all the dig taries of the Church-thus affording a most striking contrast the conduct of the Irish Catholic Prelates during the prevalence of famine and typhus among their flocks.

Mr. COBBETT will be in Edinburgh on Tuesday, 9th October; and will deliver lectures in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paisley, &c. SCHOOLMASTERS.-We have seen a printed circular, dated Perth, expressive of a resolution on the part of the School-potts, masters of Scotland, to frame a petition and remonstrance to the Legislature, for being either exonerated from the duties imposed upon them, in regard to the registering of electors, or for obtaining a remuneration proportioned to the extent and importance of their services. It is clear that the present tri-ing fling allowance of sixpence for every enrolment, is not at all an adequate reward for the trouble our Scotch Schoolmasters are thus put to.

The total number of burials in London, within the week ent
August 31, was 983, of which 274 were from cholera; an
of nearly 40 deaths a day by that disease.
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SUSPICION OF ROYAL MALVERSATION.-A meeting of the creditors of the Duke of York, was held in the course of the month, when several new claimants on the estate were a ed. The total amount of the bona fide debts now registered tr the committee, independent of bonds, exceeds 70,000. Sem important information was adduced respecting the jewels of the Duchess of York, which, subsequent to the death of his eva

The HERRING FISHERY has rather improved within the last three weeks. On the West Coast of Sutherland the herring fishing has been very successful of late, some boats having upwards of forty crans in a night. There are a number of vessels pur: chasing herrings in the Lochs of Inchard, Laxford, Badcall, and Glendow, several of which, after having made cargoes, have sailed for market. The price of the cran varies according to the take, from 8 to 12s. Lately a shoal of mackerel was driven ashore at Mac-Highness, were valued in the presence of the executors, at nearts duff, and so many remained in the basin of the harbour on the receding of the tide, that upwards of 12 barrels were lifted off

the sand.

STATE OF TRADE.-The latest accounts from Paisley were more cheering. Throughout Renfrewshire generally, we are told the public works are at present all going at full time, and the inhabitants are pretty well employed. In the hand-loom department, however, a great deal of distress has been lately, and still is felt in the large towns; but symptoms of an increase of work have begun to manifest themselves in that line also.

150,000l. These were carried to Windsor, by desire of his int Majesty, but how they were disposed of has not yet been re tained. An inquiry is on foot touching certain debts said be due by his late Majesty to the Duke of York, upon warb d is expected evidence will be obtained from a lady now residing at Brighton, whose intimacy with the transactions between the royal brothers will no doubt enable her to throw a light on the subject.-Globe.

The Ministry is beginning to tumble to pieces. Our belief is that the chances are greatly in favour of Lord Grey's "coming to the scratch" again as Premier. We all along su that Mr. Stanley would not go to Ireland. The fury of O Car The Calico Printing trade is brisk in the West Country. nell, upon a former occasion, kept him here; and now the up The HARVEST is almost completed. The heavy rains early in quenchable zeal of the Lord Lieutenant, upon the other tac the month, which laid a considerable breadth of corn, have done equally bars his fulfilment of the duties of an office of w less harm than was expected. From every quarter the accounts he has seen less than any Irish Secretary that ever existed. in are favourable. Many fields are not merely cleared but plough-order to smooth this difficulty, and to put somebody forwar ed up. In France the harvest has been most productive, and who really can do something, Mr. Stanley will be, nay, wee prices have fallen. A large vintage is looked for. lieve, we might almost say, is Chancellor of the Exc Should Mr. Stanley assume the Chancellorship of the Excer Mr. Kennedy will go as Secretary to Ireland, and Colone berly will succeed Mr. Kennedy.John Bull.

CLYDESDALE ORCHARDS.-The large fruit, consisting of apples, pears, and plums, in the orchards in the parishes of Dalzel, Cambusnethan, Carluke, Lesmahago, and Dalserf, were sold this season, 1832, some by public roup, and others by private bargain, at L. 1262: 16s.

The Schoolmasters have determined to oppose Mr. Hume's motion for establishing parochial schools in England. They have found out, that will, if carried, "destroy the scholastic profession."

CHOLERA.

Inverness has been the chief new seat of this disease in Scotland. The cases and deaths have been rather numerous considering the population. By the latest returns there have been 409 cases, and 130 deaths. Among the deaths is the Rev. Mr. Findlater, minister of the Gaelic Church in Inverness, and Dr. George Forbes. Cholera has now appeared in Dumfries, and in Kirkeldy, and Cupar, but in a mild form.

The former stations of the pestilence, Portmahomack, (the population of which village is about 200, one-half have been seized, and one-sixth of the population have died,) Balintore,

The Duke of — lately made an asssault on four late furiously riding his horse against them from the road m fout-way. This is a small matter comparatively among th ings and Doings of his Royal Highness, but the remark Times is of moment. It remarks, that "the direct succes i to the Crown of England has been broken by act of Pari before now; and we live in times when Englishmen pr without much ceremony to act upon their moral impress.

The Marquis of Abercorn will, it is now cont said, be married before Christmas to Lady Lousa sell, second daughter of the Duke of Bedford.

Earl Munster is said to have been travelling in land lately under the name of Oldham.

BANK OF ENGLAND.-It is impossible to descr adequate terms the feeling of disgust created in the lic mind by the disclosures which have been made by

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