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On Tuesday the 9th the Presbytery of Dumfries sustained the presentation of Mr. Oswaldof Auchencruive, nominating Mr. Robert Crawford, assistant and successor to Dr. Dow, as minister of the parish of Irongray, and agreed to moderate the call on the 1st of November.

The United Associate Presbytery of Edinburgh have ordained Mr. John Robson, A.M., to the pastoral charge of the congregation of Lasswade under their inspection.

Dr. Mackay is succeeded in the incumbency of the parish of Laggan, by the Rev. Donald Cameron, on the presentation of his Grace the Duke of Gordon.

On the 20th September, the Rev. D. Williamson was ordained by the Presbytery of Kirkcudbright to the pastoral charge of the Parish of Tongland.

On Thursday the 27th ultimo, the Rev. John Cumming, A.M., licentiate of the Presbytery of Aberdeen, was ordained by the Rev. the Presbytery of London, to the pastoral charge of Crown Court Scottish Church, Covent Garden, London. The Rev. D. W. Gordon, minister of the parish of Earlston, presided on the occasion.

The managers of the Glasgow Mechanics' Institution have appointed Mr. Hugo Reid, of Edinburgh, Lecturer on Chemistry to the Institution.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.

William Gray, manufacturer, Kirkintilloch.
Alexander Paterson, grocer, Glasgow.

Johnston, Wilson, & Co. grocers and merchants in Helens

burgh.

William Thomson, agent and grocer in Airdrie.
James Fraser and Son, tea merchants, Glasgow.

John Malcolm, merchant, agent, and accountant, Glasgow.
George Reid, merchant, Glasgow.

Thomas Kydd, clothier, in Arbroath.

John Reid, grocer, and merchant in Glasgow.
William Anderson, junior, merchant, Leith.

James Kay, sometime merchant in Stirling, now weaver and manufacturer in Partick.

Patrick and Thomas Smith, grain merchants in Glasgow. Stodart and Martin, wholesale merchants, commission agents and brokers, Leith, and of Laurence Stodart and Andrew Martin, partners of said firm, and as individuals.

J. and G. Shaw, cabinet makers, Glasgow.
Peter Birrell, bookseller and stationer, Cupar-Fife.

OBITUARY.

William Sutherland, senior, of Kilpheader, died at his residence in the Crosscauseway on the 5th inst., in the 81st year of his age. He was said to be the eldest male descendant of the Earls of Sutherland, and enjoyed a small annuity from the present Countess, in respect of his illustrious descent.

DEATH OF LORD MACDONALD.-On Satuarday the 13th, aged 57, the Right Hon. Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, of Thorpe, near Bridlington, in the county of York, and of Armidill Castle, Isle of Sky, North Britain, a LieutenantGeneral in the army. He is succeeded by his eldest son, James William, now Lord Macdonald.

THE LAST OF THE OLD SCHOOL OF IRISH WARRIORS.Died lately at Vienna, at the patriarchal age of 92, Andrew Count O'Reilly (not the same mentioned by Lord Byron), General of cavalry in the Austrian army, Chamberlain, Commander of the Imperial Military Order of Maria Teresa, Colonel Proprietaire of the 3d regiment of Light Horse, &c. Count O'Reilly was the second son of James O'Reilly, of Ballincough, county of Westmeath. An important incident in the early part of General O'Reilly's career is not unworthy of notice, illustrative as it is of the manners of the period, termed chivalric, but which the fastidious of modern times would call semi-barbaric. He and a brother officer-the Count de Klebelsberg-were rivals in their pretensions to the hand of a rich and beautiful Bohemian heiress, the Countess Wuyrbna. As both could not succeed, they determined on removing any difficulty the lady might feel in selection by a duel a outrance. The intended affair was, however, reported to the authorities, and they were both placed under arrest not, however, to be thus summarily defeated; they accordingly Their purpose was betook themselves to Poland-and there, in the neutral terri tory of Cracow, met and fought. For a considerable time victory was doubtful; at length, however, the antagonist of O'Reilly bit the dust, but not until the latter had received many dangerous wounds. The lady's affections, hand, and fortune were the reward of the conqueror.

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a son.

At Friar Bank, Jedburgh, on the 2d inst., the Lady of James Grant, M.D., of a son.

At 26, Howe Street, on the 7th instant., Mrs. Renton, of a daughter.

At Arlary, Kinross-shire, on the 5th current, the Lady of G. A Walker-Arnot, Esq. of Arlary, of a son and heir.

At Moffat, on the 5th instant, Mrs. William Younger, of a son. At 22, Howe Street, on the 3d inst., the Lady of James Veitch, Esq., younger of Eliock, of a daughter.

At Dunbar, on the 3d inst., Mrs. C. L. Sawers, of a son.

On the 8th inst., Mrs. Mathew Fleming, Moore Place, Glasgow, of a daughter.

At Annfield, near Glasgow, on the 9th curt., Mrs. J. M Auld, of a On the 3d inst., at Maxweltown, Dumfries, Mrs. D. B. Douie, of a

son.

son.

At Rockbank, Milngavie, on the 9th instant, Mrs. Smart, of a son On the 4th inst. at Williamfield, near Irvine, Mrs. Robert Macredie, of a daughter.

At Great Stuart Street, on the 14th inst., Mrs Christison, of a son. At Fettes Row, on the 14th inst., Mrs William Anderson, of a daughter, At 15, South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, on the 16th inst., Mrs Badenoch, of a son.

At the Manse of Kilmanivaig, on the 5th inst., Mrs. McIntyre, of a

son.

On the 9th instant, the Lady Lucy Eleanor Lowther, of a daughter, At 8, Great Stuart Street, on the 14th instant, the Lady of William Robertson, Esq., of a son.

At her father's house, Stratford Green, Essex, on the 11th inst., Mrs Alexander M'Neil of Collonsay, of a daughter.

At Cathcart Manse, on the 12th inst., Mrs. James Smith of a daughter, At 6, Blythswood Square, Glasgow, on the 16th inst., Mrs. Fletcher of a son.

At 112, West Regent Street, Glasgow, on the 16th inst., Mrs W m ̧ Smith, of a daughter.

At 61, Regent Street, Glasgow, on the 15th inst., Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, of a daughter.

At 20, York Place, on the 4th instant, Mrs. Lee, of a daughter. At St. Andrew's Square, on the 20th instant, the Lady of Colonel Stewart, East India Company's Service, of twins.

At 5, Albany Place, Glasgow, on the 22d instant, Mrs Clunie, of a daughter.

At 3, Caledonia Street, Paisley, on the 22d instant, Mrs McLean, of

a son.

E son.

At the Manse, Kirkintilloch, on the 21st instant, Mrs Tannahill, of
At 1, Stafford Street, on the 23d instant, Mrs Nunn of a daughter.
On the 11th instant, Mrs Macalister of Glenbarr, of a daughter.
At 9, Newington Place, on the 25th instant. Mrs. H. Pillans of a
At 14, Scotland Street, on the 27th instant. Mrs Balfour, of a daugh.

daughter.

ter.

MARRIAGES.

At Smith's Place, on the 2d current, of Stirling, M. R. C. Smart, Engraver, Edinburgh, to Emily Margaret, daughter of Mr. Samuel Morton.

At Aberdeen, on the 27th ultimo, John Smith, jun. Esq. advocate, to Margaret, daughter of William McKinnon, Esq. Colonel R. Robertson, of the Bombay army, to Harriet, second daughAt Heath Cottage, near Inverness, on the 26th ultimo, Lieutenant ter of Robert Pierson, Esq. of Riga.

R. N., second son of the late James Corbett Porterfield, Esq. of PorterAt 27, Albany Street, on the 28th ultimo, N. Gordon Corbett, Esq. field, to Margaret, daughter of Patrick Borthwick, Esq.

At Arden, Lanarkshire, on the 27th ultimo, James Winstanley, Esq. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to Christina Speid, youngest danghter of Robert Jameson, Esq. W. Ś.

At Glasgow, on the 4th instant, William Todd, Esq. merchant, Cork, to Miss Helen King, daughter of the late John King, Esq. of Fowlwood. At Kirkbride, on the 1st instant, Montgomery Cuninghame, Esq. se, cond son of Sir James Montgomery Cunninghame, Baronet, of Corsehill and Kirktonholm, to Miss Charlotte Niven D. Hutcheson, of Southfield.

At Teignmouth, on the 25th ultimo, James Staunton Lambert, Esq. M.P. to the Hon. Camden Elizabeth, only child of the late Camden riff-substitute of Caithness-shire, to Williamina, youngest daughter of Gray, ninth Lord Kircudbright. At Thrumster, on the 19th ultimo, James Gregg, Esq. advocate, sheJames Innes, Esq. of Thrumster.

At Perth on the 26th current, by the Rev. Mr. Esdaile, John More, Esq. accountant of the Royal Bank, to Helen Elphinstone, daughter of the late Walter Lockhart, Esq. Depute-Clerk of Session.

Esq. of that town, to Elizabeth, daughter of William Fowler, Esq. of At Sligo, Ireland, on the 15th current, John Fenton Motherwell, Edinburgh.

At London, on the 26th ultimo, Robert Paton, Esq. W.S. to Isabella only daughter of Thos. Phipps, Esq London.

At Tynningham, on the 26th ultimo, Mr. James Forest, baker, Belhaven, to Jane, the daughter of Mr. Adam Dickson, Tynningham. At Linlithgow, on the 2d instant, Robert Speeden, Esq. tanner there, to Elsie, eldest daughter of the Rev. Alexander Knowles, minister

there.

At Meerut, East Indies, on the 8th March last, William Henry Gr. ham, Esq., engineer service, to Margaret Reid, eldest daughter of George Stedman, Esq., S.S.C., writer in Kinross.

By special license, at Tralee, on Saturday last, Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M.P. for the county of Clare, to Mary Frances, only daughter of Blinden Scott, Esq., of Cahercon.

At Paisley, 9th inst., James Orr, Esq., Crofthead, to Catherine, daughter of the late William Orr, Esq.

At Wishaw, on the 9th October, Mr. James Hamilton, of New Orleans, to Miss Jane, daughter of the late William Duncan, Esq., writer in Hamilton.

At Moffat, on the 8th inst., the Rev. Coll Turner, minister of the Scottish Church, Workington, to Jessy, second daughter of Alexander Craig, Esq., Burnbraes,

At Delhi, on the 5th of May, Brigade- Major William Ramsay, Hon. East India Company's service, Bengal establishment, to Miss Susan Hay Crichton, eldest daughter of the late William Ballantyne Crichton, Esq. Dalkeith.

At Addington, Surrey, on the 12th inst. the Rev. J. Adolphus Wright, youngest son of Ichabod Wright, Esq. of Mapperly, Notts, to Harriet Elizabeth, youngest daughter of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.

At Derrynane Abbey, on Sunday the 8th instant, Charles O'Connell, of Bahoss, Esq., to Kate, second daughter of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.

At Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 224 August, Mr. Alexander Henry, of Greenock, to Jean, eldest daughter of Mr. James Reid of Edinburgh.

At Ross Priory, Dumbartonshire, on the 19th instant, Alexander Wellesley Leith, Esq. advocate, eldest son of Major-General Sir George Leith, Bart. to Jemima Jean, second daughter of the late Hector Macdonald Buchanan, Esq. of Ross and Drumakil.

At Edinburgh, on the 18th instant, William Alexander, Esq. W.S., to Jessy Mercer, eldest daughter of Alexander Gordon, Esq., 7, Windsor Street.

At Glasgow, on the 16th instant, the Rev. William Carsewell, of Eaglesham, to Mary, second daughter of the late Thomas Cuthbertson, Esq. of Lyon Cross.

At Bath, on the 4th instant, W. Leaf, Esq. of Elgin, to Miss Rose, sister of Sir George Rose, one of the Judges of the Court of Review.

At Shergarton, on the 23d instant, the Rev. Thomas Anderson Crawford, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John Harvie, Esq. of Shergarton.

At Chapelton, on the 23d instant, by the Rev. Mr Currie, Cumber. nauld, Mr Peter Taylor, Kelt, to Mrs Isabella Rennie.

At 5, Atholl Place, on the 24th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Muir, James Tait, jun. Esq. Hailes, to Jane, only daughter of John Wilson, Esq. of Garden Estate, Trinidad.

At Echt House, Aberdeenshire, on the 23d instant, Patrick Watson Carnegy, Esq. of Lour and Turin, Forfarshire, to Rachel Ann, eldest daughter of James Forbes, Esq. of Echt.

At Clearburn House, on the 23d instant, Mr. George Ferme, jun. farmer, Rosebery House, to Ann, only daughter of Mr John Plummer. At Viewforth Place, Edinburgh, on the 23d inst. by the Rev. Dr. Gordon, the Rev. William Scott Moncrieff, of Penicuick, to Hectorina youngest daughter of James Robertson, Esq.

DEATHS.

Here, on the 30th ultimo, Mr. George Mirry, Tobacconist. At Dundee, on the 28th ultimo, John Rutherford, builder. At Warriston, on the 26th ultimo, Miss Agnes Greig, daughter of the late Alexander Greig, Esq.

At Edinburgh, on the 23d ultimo, after a short illness, Mr. Lachlan Shaw, printer.

At his house in Fort. William, on the 20th ultimo, the right Rev. Dr. Ronald M'Donald, Roman Catholic Bishop in the western district of Scotland.

At his residence, No. 2, Eldon Square, Newcastle, on the 27th ult. aged 30, after a severe and lingering illness, Walter Skerret Morison, Esq. M.D. His upright character and truly amiable disposition, during his short career in life, will cause him, in death, to be sincerely and deeply regretted, by a sorrowing family and a large circle of friends. At Woodside, near Kelso, on the 26th ultimo, Mrs. Ann Park, relict of the late Edward Park, Esq. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

On the 27th ultimo, at his residence on Summer Hill, Dublin, Lord Viscount Harberton, aged 70 years. The title devolves upon his next brother, the Hon. and Rev. John Pomeroy, Vicar of St. Anne's parish. In Ferns Court, Kevin Street, Dublin, on Saturday se'ennight, Aaron Botts, a Chelsea extra pensioner, aged 106 years. He served in most of the general engagements in America, and was the subject of four Kings.

At Dunbar, on Thursday the 27th ultimo, in the 49th year of his age, Mr. George Turnbull, surgeon.

At his house, 52, West Nile Street, Glasgow, on the 1st instant, William Lang, Fsq.

At Inverness, on the 21st ultimo, of cholera, Dr. George Forbes, physician, aged 66.

Lately, at Montrose, at the house of her brother, Sir George Ogilv, Bart. Sarah Susannah, eldest daughter of the late Sir David Ogilvy, Bart. of Barras,

On 30th Sept., in King Street, Mary Muirhead, wife of Mr. Thomas Marshall, merchant, Glasgow.

At Dumfries, on the 30th ultimo, John Bryden, Esq. wine merchant. At Edinburgh, on the 25th ultimo, Captain William Foggo, of the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Service.

At 7, London Street, on the 25th ultimo, Mr. Walter Turnbull, accountant of Excise.

At Dunfermline, on the 5th instant, Mrs. Janet Alexander Harrower, wife of James M'Farlane, writer.

On the 3d current, at his house, 25, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh, Mr. William Marshall, jeweller.

At Ayr, on the 1st instant, Mrs. Tulloh, relict of Alexander Tul Esq. of Burgie.

At Whitfield House, Leith Walk, on the 4th instant, Captım Richard Ferguson, of his Majesty's 2d regiment of dragoon gum, now quartered at Piershill Barracks,

At Cupar-Fife, on the 4th instant, Mr. David Gray, merchant be, after a few hours' illness.

At Marshall Place, Perth, on the 26th ultimo, Jane Margaret ham, wife of the Reverend John Johnston.

At the Manse of Dunbog, on the 26th ult, the Rev. James Keyle minister of Dunbog, in the 80thyear of his age and 40th of his At Union Street, Glasgow, on the 10th instant, suddenly, Mr. Ete Aitken, wine merchant.

At Gallowgate, suddenly on the 8th inst., Mary Dickie, wife of Robert Thallon, merchant, Glasgow, much and justly regretted. Suddenly, at 131, West Regent Street, Glasgow, on the loth, W Alexander Buchannn, Old Monkland, aged 78.

At Langlands-house, Kilmarnock, on the 6th current, Wilm Rankin, Esq., chief magistrate of Kilmarnock.

At his house, 41, York Place, on the 4th current, Alexander Burns, Esq., W. S,, after a few hours' illness.

At 4, Heriot Row, on the 3d instant, Mrs. Christine Jameson, ve of James Robert Hart, Esq. of Drumcrosshall.

At her house, 10, Hart Street, on the 7th instant, Mrs. Brodie, teist of the late Mr. Wm. Brodie, writer, Edinburgh.

On the 1st current, Mr. Malcolm Morison, merchant, St. Andrew) Street.

At Lixmount, on the 7th instant, Mrs Williamson Ramsay, of Max.

ton.

On the 15th of September, Captain Lock, the distinguished amateur artist, was drowned in the Lake of Como,

At Charlotte Square, on the 12th instant, Thomas Scott, Em, elast son of F. Carteret Scott, Esq.

At 3, Moray Street, on the 9th inst., William Bertram, Esq, late chant in Leith

At Edinburgh, on the 10th inst, Mr. George Watson, Booklet, College Street.

At Dalkeith, on the 10th inst. Mr. Robert Aitken, merchant, there At Whitefield, on the 12th inst., Margaret, daughter of Thomias Pest, Esq. W.S.

At Edinburgh, on the 9th inst., aged fourteen, the Hon. Alexande Kennedy, second son of the late Earl of Cassillis

At 110, Prince's Street, Edinburgh, on the 11th inst. Professor Arthbald Baird, of St Andrews.

At Edinburgh, on the 9th inst., Margaret, daughter of the deceased James Fogo, Esq, of Killorn.

At Dunfermline, on the 10th inst., Mrs. Birrell, relict of the late Mr W. Birrell, manufacturer there.

At Symington House, Gala Water, on the 12th inst. Mr Wilm Berwick, Brewer, Edinburgh.

At Sprouston Manse, on the 12th inst, the Rev. Ninian Trotter. At Huntly Place, Inverness, on the 14th inst. Margaret, relict of the late Capt. John Mackenzie of Greenyard, Ross-shire.

At Cowieston, Paisley, on the 17th inst., aged 51, Mr. Duncan Re derson, 50 years of which he lived in the same House in which he died. although only a tenant. This gentleman's name is far too readers, from his zealous endeavours to introduce the growth of Cod bett's corn into Scotland.

At Dumfries, on the 10th inst., John M Gie, Esq. surgeon. At Dumfries, on the 11th inst., Mr. James Thornson, architect, Convener of the Incorporations.

At Dumfries, on the 9th inst., Mr. John M Minn, merchant At her residence at Glencaple, near Dumfries, on the ith curt, Mis Charlotte Maxwell, daughter of the late Edward Maxwell, Es At Dumfries, on the 12th inst., at a very advanced age, Mr. James Strong, turner. The deceased officiated as clerk in the Episcopal cha pel there, and even up to the Sunday preceding his death, he had been once absent during the long period of 47 years, or 2444 Sabbaths At his house, in Gullan's Close, South Back of Canongate, on the instant, John Rutherford, currier, much respected; aged forty

seven.

At 8, Atholl Place, on the 13th instant, Mrs Isabella Adam relict of the late Robert Brown, W.S.

At 5, Buccleuch Street, on the 20th instant, Mrs Agnes Handyse spouse of Mr John Arnot, and daughter of Peter Handyside, b Greenhall.

At his house, 38, Minto Street, Newington, on the Ith instant, Ja Chambers, clothier, 47, George Street, aged fifty-eight years. At Dalkeith, on the 16th instant, Peter Leyden Torrance, son of George Torrance, baker, Edinburgh.

At Edinburgh, on the 18th instant, of apoplexy, P. M. Buchan, Ei, surgeon, R. N.

At 12, Cassels Place, Leith Walk, on the 19th instant, Mrs En beth Hardie, relict of Mr John Hardie, merchant, Edinburgh, At Benfield, near Cupar Fife, on the 22d ultimo, Mr James Ingl in the ninety-fifth year of his age

At Old Greenlaw, Berwickshire, on the 10th instant, Mr. Alexa Hogg, farmer there.

At Whinkerstanes, Berwickshire, on the 16th instant, Mr. Robert Thomson, farmer there, in the ninety-first year of his age.

At Banff, on the 9th instant, George Lemmon, Esq. merchant, a sixty-one years.

At the Manse of Chapel of Garioch, on the 13th instant, James rymple, youngest son of the Rev. Henry Simson. At Inverary, on the 11th inst. Duncan Campbell, Esq. of Dunches gine, late Sheriff-substitute of Argyllshire.

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POLITICAL REGISTER,

AND

MONTHLY CHRONICLE OF PUBLIC EVENTS,
SCOTTISH LISTS, &c.

No. 4.-VOL. I.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1832. PRICE THREE-HALFPENCE.

NEWS OF THE MONTH.

waited the critical moment of the active commencement of preparations for hostility, and as soon as the British fleet sailed, at their

CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS

We see the month close, in the singular predicament of not being able to tell our readers whether Great Britain is at peace or war with Hol- endeavoured to excite the Dutch against England, land. PEACE is the interest and the desire of and plunge the country into an inevitable war. A this country, and peace must be the earnest wish general war is now the forlorn hope of the Tory of the government, which is, however, so entangled party, and they have done, and are doing, their and hampered by the policy pursued by the Duke best to promote it, while hypocritically deprecatof Wellington's administration, that till those con- ing its commencement. The moment a French ditions are fulfilled to which it is pledged, we army passed the Belgian frontier, and that the commust, in alliance with France, assume an attitude bined fleets of Britain and France appeared in the of hostility. These conditions are the restoration | Scheldt, there is every reason to believe that Dutch of Antwerp to the Belgians, and the free naviga-good sense would have carried it over Dutch tion of the Scheldt, a freedom important to every bravado, save for the hypocritical Conservatives at commercial state, and to none more than to Bri- home. They have held meetings in all their tain. To enforce these conditions, after far too strongholds, but, we are glad to see, have made much time had been granted the Dutch King-no impression on the people-who detest war, but time worse than wasted, since it has confirmed him also understand and detest the Tory policy. Even in his obstinate purpose, and given him leisure to their meetings have been insignificant, but they tell prepare for carrying his objects by force of arms-in Holland, and keep up the spirit of the Dutch to our fleet, in conjunction with that of France, has the fighting pitch. Copies of the address to the occupied the mouth of the Scheldt, while a French King against the Dutch war, voted by the Barings, army, of 75,000, has entered Belgium, and now and such like, at their packed meeting in the City menaces the fortress of Antwerp. An embargo has of London Tavern, are posted on the walls of every been laid on the Dutch shipping in this country, town in Holland, to prove how unpopular the war and every post may bring us intelligence of the is at home, and shew them, that by holding out, French, under Marshal Gerard, having begun the Britain must be humbled! The Tory papers are siege of the citadel of Antwerp. Nor have we now actually exulting at the strength of the Dutch a doubt, that this post, unjustly occupied by the army, and in the hope of its triumph over France Dutch, will be defended with the utmost obstinacy. and England, knowing, as well they know, that the The Dutch have not yet laid any embargo on our army of the King of Holland is but the advanced shipping in the ports of Holland. This is a part guard of the army of despotism. of their policy; as they wish to conciliate the THE EDINBURGH CONSERVATIVE MEETING was commercial and manufacturing interests of this held on the 22d. It was but a poor affair, on the country, and by detaching Britain from France, whole, which no one seemed to think it worth render Belgium an easy conquest. They have, while to knock on the head. The address is left however, called out the whole of the militia, and the for signature, and will receive the names usually address, or order of the day, of the commander of the beat up for on such occasions. It may, however, garrison of Antwerp, General Chassé, reads very be destined to the honour of being posted like that of a man in earnest. With the reduc- on the walls of the Dutch towns, and help tion of Antwerp, and the establishment of the free navigation of the Scheldt, we trust this war may end, if it go even so far; and boldly may we affirm, that save for the part played by the Tories of this country, it never might have gone so far. To them we shall owe this short war, or violent expulsion of the Dutch from the usurped fortress, which commands the commerce of Belgium. They

to animate a people with whom, before it was voted Britain was all but at war, to hostile resistance. So much for Conservative patriotism. The meeting at London has received the thanks of the Dutch merchants for the co-operation of its members with General Chassé against Britain and France! Perhaps our addressers may be similarly honoured. Had the friends of freedom in

this country been so thanked by the Republicans ago, laid, in the violation of every principle of in of France, what would our old Tories have said? ter-national justice, the foundation of all this misHad they been so thanked when their British chief-namely, Castlereagh, Wellington, and the sympathies and cordial good wishes went forth Holy Alliance of cutters and carvers on the rights with the armies of Young Freedom, mustering and peace, and the territory of nations ;-even then against the combined despots of the continent, the these new friends of their kind, and haters of war. thing would have been called treason at the least. should not be forgotten in the orisons of the people. The trickery, and unnational feeling displayed by To them we shall owe the temporary derangement the Tories at these meetings, has signally recoiled or suspension of our commerce, and, remotely, upon themselves. They have given an impulse to every evil with which the crisis may be fraught. the flagging popularity of the Whig administration; and while every true man deprecates a war, he no less loathes the artful Tory fomentors of strife.

are not satisfied with the reigning Bourbon, bat the expelled ones they loathe. "A restoration," says Charles Fox, "is the worst of all revolutions." Heaven protect France and Europe from a second Bourbon restoration! The French Chambers have met. The speech of the king is full of energy, he alludes to the civil war, and the end put to it by the capture of the Duchess de Berri. His Majesty then congratulates the Deputies on the re-establishment of confidence and national prosperity, and on pacific assurances from foreign powers. With regard to the engagements contracted towards Belgium, his Majesty observes:-"The King of Great Britain participated in my sentiments. Our

FRANCE. The government of France are said to be a little embarrassed with the Duchess de Berri, now that they have caught the fair Tartar; they will probably let her lie by for the winter months to recruit from her fatiguing esca At the Edinburgh Meeting, Mr. Johnston of pades, and then contrive to prevent her a second Straiton, the present representative for the Dun-time entering the territory she has been prefermline and Stirling boroughs, was more succes- sumptuous and wicked enough to disturb, and en ful than any public man we can remember in prov-deavour to deluge with blood, The French people ing himself unfit for public trust of any kind. His was clearly a case of mental imbecility, or that of a facile person acted upon to his own dishonour as a public character, by the rogues about him. In joining the Tories, he might, all the while, we have no doubt, have believed that he was doing something greatly to recommend himself to the electors, whose suffrages he was soliciting for the new Parliament. It is not likely that Mr Johnston will ever again show himself in Stirling or Dunfermline, and much less so, that a single individual pledged to him will not consider such pledge as for ever null and void, after the conduct of the candidate. All electors would require to bestow a little consideration upon the understand-flags float together at the mouth of the Scheldt. ing and principles of their member, (and there can be no foundation for public principle without some few grains of understanding,) as well as his fortune and status. A community that shall send a fool or a knave to the new Parliament, not alone betrays the general interest, but disgraces itself; and it should share, and deserves to bear singly, the contempt and hooting the nation will pour upon such representatives.

Among the CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS, one was held at Leeds, which the REFORMERS defeated in good style. They attended in great numbers, as, at a public meeting of the inhabitants of any town, the inhabitants of that town have certainly a right to do, and triumphantly carried an address of a tendency quite opposite to that proposed. We expect no more public meetings the faction will be stifled into addresses, voted in hole and corner, and signed by their compulsory levies. In the meanwhile, strongly deprecating war, and anxious that it may be avoided by every honourable means, we trust that by this day month we may have the satisfaction of announcing that the attitude of determination at last assumed by France and Britain, has either prevented active hostilities, or brought a short-lived campaign to a happy termination, and the Dutch King to his Even then, those who, 17 years

sober senses.

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The French army, the discipline and good
spirit of which equal its valour, arrive at this
instant under the walls of Antwerp. My two
sons are in their ranks.-In giving to the King
of the Belgians my dear child, I have strengthened
by a new tie the intimate connexion of the two
nations." He urges expediency, the tyrant's plea,
for the transactions of June, and exults in the
success of the efforts to crush the public feeling st
that crisis. The Belgian Chambers were opened
by King Leopold on the 13th. His speech is very
moderate in its tone. If the fleets of England
and France are not enough to bring the Dutch
to their senses, by restraining their commerce, a
French army is to take them in hand. This is
the amount of it; and this is now done. The de-
claration of Prussia is more enigmatical,-twenty
interpretations are put upon it. We know how H
the wishes of Prussia tend, and must leave the
conduct of that government to interpret its pe-
licy.

THE ELECTIONS IN AND ABOUT LONDON.-We have, in another section, noticed the general state of the elections. But Westminster and Middleser are central positions, and deserve greater atten tion. In Middlesex, we are glad to say, Mr. Hume has not only made a decided rally, but discomfited the party of the Church and Tory candidate, Lord Henly. Hume will now be supported

by the ministerial interest. How much of this he may owe to the late alarm of the Dutch war meetings, it is for himself to judge. Nor is this all. The part Sir J. C. Hobhouse acted at Bath, through his brother, is visited upon him in Westminster; where many of the electors besides are dissatisfied with his conduct since he became a member of the government, and by his refusal to come under any pledge. They wish their representative to be a man unfettered, save by his constituents, and they have accordingly nominated Col. Evans as a candidate; who is now what Hobhouse professed to be when they first chose him. Sir Francis Burdett is exceedingly angry with Col. Evans, and that at this usage of his colleague, but the electors persist, and Col. Evans consents to stand. He pledges himself to triennial Parliaments, and 5 to the abolition of the taxes upon knowledge. The report that Mr. Place is to start against Sir F. Burdett is a party lie to injure Col. Evans with the old electors, Mr. Babbage, with whom our readers of the Schoolmaster are unacquainted, is in high favour in Finsbury, where Mr. Wakely has also many supporters. We hear of other names, but they are unknown to us.

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THE CHURCH.

DISSENTING MINISTERS.-The Appeal Sheriffs of Stirling, Lanark, and Ayr, admitted at Alloa, on Tuesday last, one of the Secession Ministers, who had been rejected by the Sheriff of Clackmannan and Kinross, and other three Secession ministers at Kinross, on Thursday, who had been rejected by the same Sheriff. Their rule of judgment seemed to be, that the minister should be in possession of a manse which was the property of the congregation, and worth L.10 per annum. We understand they admitted, under the same rule, all the Secession ministers in the four other counties of their circuit, viz.: Stirling, Lanark, Ayr, and Dumbarton. It appears to us, that any person who reads the act without a particular bias, will see this to be its natural interpretation; and we have heard, on testimony in which we place every confidence, that such was the intention of the learned Lord by whom the bill was framed. As there has been very considerable discrepancy of judgment among the Appeal Sheriffs of the different circuits on this point, it would be desirable to ascertain, what Dissenting or Secession ministers have been rejected, that they may unite in application to the House of Commons, for such explanation of the act as will give effect to the intention of the legislature, by rendering its operation uniform throughout the counties of Scotland.

DIVINITY CLASS. Dr. Chalmers opened his two Divinity Classes on Wednesday the 14th; the one exclusively for professional students, whilst to the other, on the evidences of Christianity, non-professional students are admitted; and we do not well see how many of our loungers and men of fortune could more usefully employ an hour per diem, than embracing the opportunity thus afforded them, of hearing one of the most eloquent men of the present age presenting to their minds the most striking and powerful views of the evidences of our Christian faith.

REV. ROBERT MOREHEAD, D. D.-On Sunday the 11th, this amiable divine of the Scottish Episcopal Church, preached his farewell sermon in St. Paul's Chapel, York Place, previous to his leaving Scotland to take possession of the living in England, to which he has recently been appointed. The doctor took his text from John, 1st epistle, ii. 13, and, in a strain of beautiful and unaffected eloquence, expatiated on the interesting nature of the connexion which has for such a length of time subsisted between him and the numerous and respectable congregation of St. Paul's Chapel. Dr. Morehead leaves Edinburgh with many kind wishes for his welfare in the new sphere of pastoral usefulness to which he has been called in the sister church.

CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS, KIRKALDY.-The dissent ers in Fife are in movement almost to a man regarding

the subject of Church establishments; the clergy have been corresponding with each other, as also the more inonset is expected to take place at Leslie on the first Wedfluential laymen in the dissenting interest, and a grand nesday of December; a number of ministers from a distance are expected to attend. The door is to be open to kirk folk as well as others, and any one is at liberty, be his sentiments what they may, to take part in the discussion. The celebrated Robert Gourlay, of horsewhipping notoriety, has pledged himself to compear and aid in the demolition of the kirk, and it is supposed, that twenty years hence there will not be a steeple standing in a' braid Scotland.-From a Correspon dent.-Chronicle. ty, that the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Hume of DALMELLINGTON PARISH.-We learn, on good authoriHeriot to the church and parish of Dalmellington, so much against the wishes of the inhabitants, is not now to be persevered in ; but that a clergyman favourably known to the parishioners, will be selected to fill the important office.

ing was held in Dr. Beattie's Chapel, Glasgow, on Monday VOLUNTARY CHURCH ASSOCIATION.-A public meetevening the 12th, and resolutions adopted for establishing a "Voluntary Church Association" in the west, on an extensive scale. Dr. Dick was in the chair, and a great law, Mr. Ewing, and other leading men among the disnumber of clergymen were present, including Dr. Wardsenters. The chapel was crowded.

An Association has been formed at Newcastle, composed of clergymen and laymen, members of the Church of England, for the protection of the Church establishresolutions are abundantly kind towards the institution ment, and for the promotion of Church Reform. Their which they profess to protect. They wish for a few more Bishops, and they have no objection to give up tithes for a fair equivalent. They would not be vexatious from the mere love of vexing.

THE ELECTIONS.

Monday.
It is expected that Parliament will be dissolved on
The elections will occupy less time than at
any former period; and if need be and there is great
need the new Parliament may re-assemble about the mid-
dle of January; or, allowing for the holyday season, by the
21st. No new light is thrown upon the elections. There
has been a reaction in Middlesex, where for a time Whig
and Tory appeared to unite against Mr. Hume. In Scot-
land, Berwickshire, East Lothian, and Ross-shire will be
close runs. The other counties stand as before. Ministers
will, it is believed, have an immense majority of votes
from Scotland-43 are reckoned upon; and if the defection
of Mr. Johnston of Straiton, who was reckoned a sort of

Radical, bring in Lord Dalmeny, they will have one more.
The part Mr. Johnston acted at the Edinburgh Tory meet-
ing, against the Ministers, in the affair of the Belgian con-
troversy, has for ever damned him with both Whigs and
Radicals. Lord Dalmeny, who is the eldest son of the Earl
of Roseberry, has this week, made a successful canvass.
The Ministers expect a large majority in England; and
whatever kind of members Ireland returns, Tories will
registrations which has delayed the dissolution.
not be of the number. It is the slow progress of the Irish

A new species of corruption is practised by the Tories in the

COUNTIES. They are buying up, at a good price of cations; and we are ashamed to say, that in Mid-Lothian, course, houses and gardens which confer ten-pound qualifi and in the town of Dalkeith, there have been found persons despicable enough to conclude such filthy bargains, and to Reform candidate. This must, of course, be met by a simievacuate their dwellings, and forfeit the vote pledged to the lar course of crooked policy on the part of the liberal candidate; and elections resolve, as before, into an affair of strength of purse. Verily the stones of the street will Clerk has already procured at least two votes in this way cry out "Ballot!" if this is to be the way. Sir George in Mid-Lothian.

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