THE NATIONAL REGISTER hail been Imind in Enropeosho had never seen the Bible, neither had they heard the Word of Ood in their native language. He alluded to the Norwegian Swedes. The Bible Society had led them to the spirit of the divine writings; the same blessings had been extended to the Oreenlandera and Eseiiinaux. The Rev. Mr. LEE sin/ported the principle upon which : Female Associations were founded, and proposed to este bli.h ten Female Associations to be in connexion with the City of London Ladies' Branch Society. The motion was carried. The Rev. Mr. Powet.i. then said, "I beg leave now to introduce to your notice two illustrious strangers who, I son sure, loan• heard its this day with the greatest plea sure. are the Chiefs of lour trines of the North American and their residence is in Upper Ca. WAR, not far f the Falls of NW :Ma. Their object in coming to England is to settle with our Government some claims Of settlements, within their own territory ; and as they are strangers from a tar comitry, we are delighted to know that they are friends of humanity, and friends of the BIWA!' and Foreign Bible Society. One of them has been in the British are vice. The senior Chief, who stands be. tore him in regimentals, is Brimil, who did ranch good in the American war. 'Die lemon ot the other Chief is Carl, and he wishes to address you, and express his uwu ob servations." The youthful and warlike Chief, lit the dress of a Mo hawk Indian, then astonished the audience, by addressing them with elegance in correct English. He expressed pleasure at being present at the meeting, and observed, that lie should be happy to become a promoter of the object the Bible Society had in view among his country men. He should inforia them of all he had heat i. the Rev. Mr. CLAYTON ridiculed the idea of indelicacy which had been affixed to the duties the Ladies hail to performs. There was neither indelicacy nor difficulty. Difficulties were started at tines by persons which really had 110 existence ; but Ladies were nut to be discouraged by what others said—they ought to go on until they found difficulty. If they would look to the folios of Dr. Julmsou, they would lied net-work a most difficult Mims, but per :laps they knew it was easy. The learned Doctor gav• the followhig detiuitiou:— •• ,Vet-murk. —Any thing reticulated, decnssateil, at equal instances. A texture woven with large interstices or meshes." —(This quotation occasioned a laugh.)—Could any thing appear more complex at first sight, yet every one knew there was not much difficulty no making a cabbage-net. lie advised Ladies to persevere in the good object they Mid in view, and they would have uo lesson to regret they had entered upon the service. The Rev. J. P. W AILLY , Chaplain to the King of Swe den, eulogized the Institution, and moved that the Asao. elation be at liberty-to add to their number. After several other Clergymen had spoken in support of the proceeding, thanks were unanimously voted to the worthy Chairman, who returned thanks, expressing the pleasure he Shollid feel at all times to second the good intentions of the meeting. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SEAMEN'S SOCIETY AND BETIIEL UNION. On Wednesday evening last the anniversary public meeting of the above most excellent society, which has for ifs im portant object the dilution of the /tidy Scriptures arid reli. gious principles among seamen, by establishing floating chapels, was held at the City of London Tavern. The great room was tilled almost to sad'. irati eeee by a most respectable assemblage o lathes and gentlemen; and so numerous were the persons who could not obtain admission that the repurt of the society's proceedings fur the last year was read in the large dining-room below, which also was filled with persons of both sexes. On the raised platform in the principal room the Royal standard writ displayed, rind on each side the blue Bethel tag, with the word" Bethel" inscribed. Several beautiful models of naval ingenuity were exhibited in the course of the evening. At lutlf past six o'clock the Right lion. Lord Gambier, K. C. 11, took the chair amidst warm applause. He was supported by several reverend and naval gentle uen. The noble chairtuan bricily addressed the meeting by emigrant latiag them uti the cu.ninlieireiirg of the Institution, and on its progiess. The report was then read by the Secretary, and pre sented a gnat y ing detail of the labours id' this sots h.q. which appear mu have ellected great and lasting good for seamen, Many instances, snnie of an affecting nature, eve read to the meeting hr support of the utility of the last it whin. On the report biing read, several geottemen addressed the assembly in furtheraii:e of the society, which appear‘ to be in a lauriiiiing condition. Tile usual routine of business having been gone through in the selecting of officers, &c. thitoki were voted to Lord Gambier.inarlto expressed his acknowledgments, and the nutting broke up. . . On Saturday last an inquest was held ut the Kamalas in the parish of !lay up, iu the comity of !indoor, before Edward Meredith, Esti, one of the coroners fur the r 00000 ity, for the purpose of:ascertaining how Arthur Bedward, late of the parish of Beguildy, tailor, (who was Initial 'Mown ono a ditch leadinA fl Knighton to the Lluyney) on the Friday morning precedim came by his dearth; and after a patient and attentive csaininatimi of the caw, the jury re turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Samuel Harley, of the parivli of Knighton, bloomer, and he aas committed to the Cilatinnitil gaol ut Pia steigii lii take hi, trial fur the cilliC. Ti.e deceased Willi an elderly man of the age of 60 sir ispia ;tidy, and was murdered as lie was going home from hot A lnon market on the Thursday night, between the hours of ten and eleveu ; he has left a a Maw and tea children to has untimely end. On Sunday Samuel Hurley cut his throat with a rasor su the plisuu, and nu hopes are eon:named of his recovery. Cbittous SiPaiste or WATErt..—there is at present at a place called Caw, to the county of Londonderry, a sycamore II Ve which COnt.llll6 a well of excellent Irish tvater. At the height of live feet, the trunk is allow eighteen inches in diameter; at seven feet ii seems to hate separated into two branches of equal thickness, our of which has shut up to a very considerable height, twenty ur twenty live feet perhaps; from that part. of the trunk from whien a correqxmiling bowers is supposed once to h ive grown, issues a stream of ezcelleiu water, perlectly cord and clear, which never fails, even in the honest weather or Inugi lit drought: the tree seeing per fectly licaltliy, aiel in lilt iirl3lll MURDER NEAR ROMFORIE APPREHENSION OP TOE MURDCREII.--0040111's PiQUENT, &c.— We are happy lll have it in our power to state, through the exertions of the local/ police of Rumford, &r. this delinquent has bre,' apprelseuded. He was taken in 'bed at a tavern at Gravesend, nad conveyed fwefore the Mayor, before a hum be was examined on Saturday last.-_ 'l'lw prisoner, whose Hann. is Motel Seward, is a dark ill. flavoured man; he is shout 24 yams of age. He was charged with the a illut murder of John Ballard, by calling and stab. hiag him in live different pat is of the body. On the prisoner being brought to the Town Hall at Gravesend for examina. lion, thousands of persons had assembled, anxious to catch a glimpse of the accused. The evidence against him was the 3 oung woman whom he funnel ty courted, and who %%as in the company of the deceased when the prisoner stabbed him. The following is her evidence ; Mary Smith return. She ails servant at the VVlaitemborse Tuveru, at Chad% ell, which is Maim two miles from Rom. ford. She knew the prisoner; he had at one time paid his addresses to her. She knew the deceased, Ballard; at the time of its death he was her lover. Oil IVerbiesilay last she went with the deceased to 'Gotthard, to see the statute fair; a hale she was there in the fair she observed the primmer fol lowing them from one p art of the fair to :another.—At eight o'clock the deceased and herself returned hum Romford towards Rusts-green, and there 11101 the primmer. He said, "Mary, I a ant to speak to yon." She replied, "speak, then, I can hear pm." Ile rejoined " I want to speak a aunt privately to you." She ails% creel " a bat you have to Si. yto toe speak amt." Ile refused to do so; and entreated her iu knee the deceased and walk aaide, nod hear what he had to -ay. She wrist up to the prisoner, some short distance fi um the place w here the deceased stood, and prisoner begged site would quit the deceased; she said that she wank! 1101 ; that she did not a ish his (the prisamet's) cam. pan> ; she had alone a ills him, and requested him to leave her. He &elated that he %mild not, and Beelibeti greatly agitated; he coiled her vile mimes, and said that she was as w—e, and she knew it. Deceased stepped up, on hearing such infamous language, and told the prisoner to go about his busbies& The prisoner appeared very furious, and seemed inclined to du her some harm; lie used the grossest language, rasa towards her, and then the deceased took him by the Col. tar, and a scuttle immediately ensued. The prisoner struck the deceased a blow, which was returned by the deceased, and they fought two or three muds. 'file deceased appeared to have the best of the tight, and at the thud scutio, the de ceased cried out " he has murdered sue ! he has cut out my bowels!" and pat his hand to his belly, to pretreat his (mach§ protruding. There being a number of houses near the spur, she alarmed the inhabitants by cry iug " Mairdse." The prisoner roil oil before assistance arrived. The deceu*d walked a short distauce, and then was carried to the Crown Tavern, Waveriux Well, She did not see a knife in the pi homer% hand at the tame of the scale. After the above evidence had been received the prisoner was delivered by the Mayor into the custody of Adams and Finch, the constables of Rosufurd, on their producing a *ar rant under the hand nod seal of Talbot, Esq. the mantistrate of Rumford. Oil Saturday evening the prisoner was taken to Romford he slept in the gaol at night, and on Sunday morning he wits token to the police-office, before Talbot. Esq. and - Sterru, Erg. the coroner, An inquest was held on the body; of the deceased at the Crown Tuvern, Havering Well, before Mr. Sterry ; and in addition to the evidence of Mary Smith, tile following was adduced James Baskett sworn.—lle is a shoemaker residing at Romford. He had known the prisoner fur some years, they had worked together fur a considerable time; but 01st re cently. Wednesday last the ',Huker came to his house about five o'clock in the evening, and burrowed a sharp pointed knife which he (witness) used for cutting the edges of shoe roles. Ile said he winged it to cut a stick with.— lie went away with the knife, lied returned a little rifler nine the same night. Ile took a seat, and said that he had beets almost murdered since he went assay. He had not brought the knife a loch he borrowed back, having lost It; bat be could pay him two pence fur it. The knife was six inches long in the blade, with a common wood handle to it. He (witness) asked a hat had been the matter? He replied that that be hail been as far as the hurdle maker's at Rush•green, :Ind had met with a young man and woman, and he talked to the young woman with the knife in his handond whilst lie was talking to her, the young man that was with her came up and struck him, and in the scuttle he lost the knife. The prisoner then asked him to go us far as the White-horse, Chadaeil, to learn what was going forward, and what was doing relative to the quarrel a ith the deceased. He refused to gii. His (witness's) wife said to the prisoner, " I hope you have not done any bail act with the knife." The poi. goner replied," No, unless the man fell on the knife in the scuttle." Ile (witness) then because alarmed, and ordered the prisoner to leave the house, which he did. Mr. Carruthers, surgeon,of Rumford, was examined, lie described tile nature of the wounds indicted by the prisoner on the body of the ilecea.ed. There were five wounds ; three of them acre mortal, one of them was between one and trio inc. lies in h and depth, across the belly, below the navel, The July rem' ned a verdict of " Wilful filurdsr against the prisoner Daniel SC W de" Between one and three o'clock on Tuesday morn ing, some villains broke open the dwelling-house and shop of Mr. Charles Cooper, grocer, 30, Upper N orth.pluce, Gray's From a Ica caddy hick was standing on tattle in the parlour, they took PA sovereigns, OIL iis Bunk of England and Country mites, 131. in silver, and a foist r caddy spoon. It aplieurs that they must have remained considerable time in the house, as they broke open the cellar and pantry duffs, and regaled themselves in the kitchen i he bible was found in the morning strewed with cold meat. bread and cheese, tile, 1% lave, and gin, together with the bottles iiiid gla s s's. There nes also u brittle of wine and a bottle of gin, partly drank, a ill the empty glasses tin a table hi the parlour. The robbers entered the ►hip. tool selected gr o cery and oilier articles, a hick they had parrot at the situp door ready to be carried all to the ttttt ount of 1001. A qualitity of pla.e, whirls the villunw had taken fr lttu pal lour clri,et, 11116 liiMieu in it chest rit ten. from the magnitude of the primes ty placed at the dour ready to be taken aa ay, it is supposed they must have had u cart, or other conveyance tin the spot to curry the goods amity, hut were disturbed. There is now growl's; in a garden belonging to'l'ho, Garstanz, at Hearth% not!, near Blackburn, a hollyhock, in full flower, the middle branch of which measure. l.t feet 1i inches high, and two side branches to feet ti such" high, of this year's growth. 4 L,11)1 . BILJA (.41 On Monday a numerous meeting of fashionable and respectable females. as well as gentlemen aho admire ltildr Asiiiiciatioes, was held at the City of Low' on Ta vern, its order to establish a Ladies' Brawl) Society, also ten Female Associatious for the extension of the Holy Scriptures. The meeting was held in the Great Room, and the chair was taken about 12 o'clock, by John Thornton, Esq. who I aimed the object of the meeting. lie explained, that whilst the present Bible Society consisted of but one in stitution, it was incapable of accomplishing its objece. Ladies had beets found of flue greatest use in promoting the views of the British and Poi eign Bible Society, and it was most expedient to exit lid their able and valuable rthwts its a cause they were found so ready to promote. Blanch Societies of Ladies had been formed in a few places, but the metropolis of the Empire wit, ail hoot one. Having strongly recomniended the proposed establish ment, he intimated that sevei al gentlemen were prepared to state more in detail the advantages to be obtaiued from the ineasnie alley had met to carry Into effect. The Rev. Nit. OwliN, in a most able address to the composts, stated that the Gospel hail been happily ex tended by email, of the Ilibie Society, not only to the eastern and western shores of the Atlantic, but persons had conic from the savage tribes of Ante' ica to praise the iustitiiii ~, and acknowledged the blessings of Divine Providence. The iustitution had found great support Laittes, and lie was consinced nothing could be mire itilvaiirageons than the proposed establishment. it had been said, that the efforts of ladies in aid of the society were somewhat at variance with female delicacy. lie plutested against that opinion, lie would send those who enter taint if such mitimis to Liverpool and Man riirstu-r, and other parts, wla te temi.les, without the least violence to the delicacy retheir sex, had piste°. sestet with ardent-, and accoinplislied the objects of the institution without feeling a blush upon the cheek of native i ~,,, ocence. It was well known the great City of Loudon calamities! persons weal diTosed towat (is the insti tattoo, but advantage could not be taken of that feeling, its conseqnence of the want of persous to address them.— 'the City of London Auxiliary Bible Society had obtained a high cuaracter. It bad proceeded with energy primer to animate a central branch society, to which all would look up in Intuit. Ile wished to see the chief citizens of London decked nut only with gold chaius and fur robes, but with the honour of raising up in the chief city of the British Empire a female branch of the Bible Society, which would aid the Auxiliary Society, and diffuse the light attic , Gospel to the dam kest recess.—Mr. Owen ex pressed fervent hope that Divine Providence might bless the lrrtaking. He also 'nosed to form the Ladies' Branch Society according to the recommendation of the Auxiliary Bible Society. The Rev. Mr. FR ESIIrIELD rose to second the resolu tion. I t was not his littentioo to occupy much of the time of the inertieg. He slionld jest tread un the ground Mr. Owen had occupied. The objeetion which some had made to the duties of a Female Branch Society WI the ground of indelicacy, had induced Mr. Owen to ad vet t to the conduct of Ladies in Liverpool. He was enabled to say that a Ladies' Branch Society, in connection with the Auxiliary Society, had raised the subscriptions in Liver 'Mut, in the course of tau years and a half, 15,0J01. Not less than 5,00i11. was collected by Ladies themselves. It did nut appear to him that the effort to save men from vice, and inculcate morality, could be derogatory to fe male delicacy. The Rev. JOSEPH HUOIIIOI said, a paramount duty called him, as Secretary to the Bible Society, to support the proposition before the meeting. If any proceeding was calculated to pioinote the good of mankind, it was that lea consideration. It was an object of extensive importance, requiting a palioness, and his intention was to move, that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent lie invited to become the patroness of this Society.—(The lodination was received with applause.)—Nlaking that propointiondie felt lie was actuated by grateful recollec tions. All must remember the obligation under which the British and Foreign Bible Society were placed by the outdone' excellent conduct of an illuttrions persou now no more. illitatrions potion would guter into all pu blic sympathies, and express his approbation of all that was good. (Applause.)—the public had seen lieu gluing fifty timer in the year to public iiistitistions, in order that he might give that assistance which Divine l'a ovidence 0411 enabled him to import to the necessitous, the uninformed, and the afflicted. 'floe illusti Mos person left a legacy which might be considered a consolation. lie never adverted to the Duke of Kent without enguis)i, and his mind was only consoled by the reflection that Divine Pro vidence often took away mitt instrument, and kit another for the accomplishment 01 his all-wise purposes. He al luded to her Royal Highness the Duchess id Kent, whom lie wished to be patroness of this Association. With respect to the general wishes of persons to support the Bible Society, in Russia they had expressed a determina tion to distribute the Scriptures throughout that Empire. The first resolution of the British Bible Society was to provide all parts of the world, %Inch Providence would afford thrum, the means of visiting with Bibles. Atter 23.000 copies of the Bible load been circulated in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, it was thought many families and many cottages had nut been visited; an Auxiliary Saeiety was consequently established, and .10,0 0 HIM 0 copies were distributed its ;Manchester. Having eulogised the conduct of the societies in other instances, lie con cluded by observing, that the Secretary a toed read a letter, in which her Royal Ifiglimss the Lthchess of Kent had expressed herself willing to become the Pr exident and Pill MICR& of the esialdisimatid. The letter of her Royal Highness was accordingly read, in which she consented to become Patrone►s of the City of London Ladies' ltranch society. Mr Garret:, the bat Eisler, seconded the motion, which was put and carried iiiiminionsly. 'the Rev. W Atli) Law proposed introducing several names as Joint Pats our sses and Vice Pt esidents. The list was read, and among them well' the names of the Countess Spencer and Airs. Vaiisittai t. The Her. Sir. MARSH iiet . Wided the prupwition foe Vire Pie bitterns, and the motion was canted. 'flee Rey. Mr. BitESl.t, a German Minister, who had just returned trona the Noeth of Enrore, where he had travelled to promote the Objects of the Bible Society, ex tolled the condriet of tier Unceo of Denmark, stlio cam.- dyed arligtuns zeal is the cam:anon of Iter (guilder:l, mid Inproi led the means fur propagatiun the Liospel. He "t r d, with !egret, that a totioe of Pautt•stant