BOSTON. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1826. The visitation of the Public Schools of this city, took place on Wednesday last, when the medals were awarded, and the School Committee, the Preceptors, and meritorious Pupils, dined together, with all the city functionaries at Faneuil Hall. We are happy to learn that the President of the U. States, attended the visitation, and dined with the party. [The particulars of this interesting exhibition will be given in our next record.] The New Church in Purchase-street,was dedicated to Almighty God, on Thursday last. Sermon by Rev Mr Gannett. The Rev Mr Wayland has been permitted to vacate hus office as pastor of the first Baptist Church in this cky; and the able and learned Dr Fishback, of Lexington, (Ken.) invited without opposition as a candidate to succeed him. On Wednesday, last week, an Ordination was held in Christ Church,by the Right Rev Bishop Griswold, when the Rev George Otis, of Harvard University, and Rev Geo. Griswold, of Northampton, Deacon, were admitted to the holy order of Priest. The Rev Mr Dubois, has been nominated by the See of Rome, to be Roman Catholic Bishop of New-York. On Wednesday last week, the Concord Chapter of Royal-Arch Masons was installed in that place, in due form. Mount Horeb Chapter of the same grade, will be consecrated, and its officers installed, at Lowell, on the 31st inst. A History of Newburyport, from the pen of Caleb Cushing, Esq. is now in course of publication. The papers, from almost every part of the Union, continue to be filled with accounts of the funeral solemnities, which have been rendered to the manes of Jef ferson and Adams.-So should desert be crown'd. "The sweet remembrance of the just, FANEUIL HALL MARKET. It was intended, as mentioned in our last, that the new Market, should have been opened on Tuesday last; but the preparations not having been fully completed, it was postponed to this day, when the removal, from the old stand, will be carried into effect. On this occasion there will, no doubt, be a fine display of the fruits and productions of our exuberant soil. The following are the rates, appraised by the Committee for the annual rents of the Cellars, under a A new Medical School is contemplated to be established at Woodstock in Vermont, under the style and title of the " Clinical School for Medicine." For this purpose meeting has been held, at the above place, by the advice of several gentlemen of the Faculty, as well as the solicitation of various Students, and the following gentlemen appointed Lecturers, viz. Joseph A. Gallup, M. D. Materia Medica, Clinical Practice and Obstetrics.-J. V. C. Smith, M. D. Boston, Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery-Charles U. Shepherd, A B. Boston, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and GeologyMr. Luther Cross, N. H. Botany and Pharmacy. The Lectures to commence on the 11th Sept. next, and be continued one quarter. WORCESTER COUNTY. In the sketches of history of the County of Worcester, as published in the Worcester Magazine and Historical Journal, we find, that the first meeting of the public officers, under the act of incorporation, was Aug. 10, 1731, when a sermon was preached before them by the Rev. John Prentice, of Lancaster, from ii Chronicles, xix. 5th and 6th verses "And he said to the Judges, take heed what you do; for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in judgment. Wherefore, now let the fear of the Lord be upon you, take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." The first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for Worcester, was William Jennison; the second Judge, of same Court, was John Chandler, afterwards Chief Justice. Of the 24 Judges, filling this office, but two are now living, viz. Hon. Michael Gill, of Westminster, and Hon. Judge Strong. House, and Jail. Lancaster paid the highest rate, 162 16s 8d, and Lunenburg the lowest, 17 16 3. The military strength of this county, which forms the 6th division of Militia, is estimated, in a return for 1825, at 7,803 effective men.— Cavalry, 417-Artillery, 314-the remainder grenadiers, riflemen, infantry and light infantry. The History of ancient Mexico, written originally in Italian and in MS. has been lately translated into Spanish by Father Llanvigero. It contains annals of the reign in 1520. Mexican nation from its commencement We find the name of John Chand-in N. America to the close of Montezuma's ler, and John Chandler, Jr. as filling the offices of Judge, Jus ice, and Clerk of the Courts as Sheriff, Judge of Probate, Register of Probate, Register of Deeds, and County Treasurer. One member of the Executive Council has been taken from the County of Worcester, every year, since the organization of the present form of government, in 1780. The first Counsellor elected, was Moses Gill, of Princeton, who continued to be re-elected, until 1787, when he removed to Boston. The members of Congress, elected from the County of Worcester, since the formation of the general government, were Jonathan Grout, Artemas Ward, Dwight Foster, Levi Lincoln,* (father of our present, worthy Governor) Seth Hastings, William Stedman, Jabez Upham, Joseph Allen, Abijah Bigelow, Elijah Brigham, Solomon Strong, Benjamin Adams, Jonas Kendall, Jonathan Russell, Lewis Bigelow, Jonas Sibley, John Locke, William Stedman, and John Davis, (the present member.) Record, 1732. A county tax of 1311 18 4d was levied, for the purposes of building a county Court Hon. Levi Lincoln, took his seat, March 4, 1801, and the next day was appointed by the President AttorneyGeneral of the United States. ORDINATIONS. Church Hartford, on Wednesday, June At a special Ordination, held in Christ 14th, by the Rt. Rev Thomas C. Brownell, D. D. LL. D. Bishop of Conneticut, the Rev Joseph T. Clark, deacon, Rector of the Church in Woodbridge, was admitted to the holy order of Priests. Morning prayers were read by Rev Prof. Doane of Washington College; the Candidate was presented by Rev N. S. Wheaton, Rector of Christ Church, Hartford; and an appropriate exhortation was delivered by the Rt Rev Bishop. Rev Prof. Humphreys of Washington College, together with the Presbyters before named, assisted in the imposition of hands. At a special Ordination, held in Christ Church, Hartford, on Thursday Aug. 3, by Rt Rev Thomas C. Brownell, D. D. L. L. Bishop of Connecticut, George A. Shelton, A. B. of Bridgeport, Con. a graduate of the Theological Seminary, and Geo. C. Shepard of Amherst, Mss. were admitJames A. Fox, deacon, of Woodville, Misted to the holy order of Deacons; and Rev sissippi, was admitted to the holy order of Priests. Morning prayers were read by Rev. Wm. Shelton, Rector of the Churches in Fairfield and Weston; the Candidates were presented by Rev N. S. Wheaton, Rector of Christ Church, Hartford; and an appropriate discourse was delivered by Rev Prof. Doane, of Washington College In the Ordination to the office of Priesthood, Rev N. F. Bruce, M. D. of St. Croix, and the Rev Prof. Humphreys of Washington College, together with the Presbyters before named, assisted in the imposition of hands.-Conn. Mirror. FOREIGN SUMMARY. The Emperor of Russia has published a manifesto of the result of the Court of Inquiry, on the subject of the insurrection in December last. It places the insurgents and conspirators, in two classes, viz. one composed of those who were guilty of high treason, with criminal and murderous intent; and the other of persons of weak minds, acting under the influence of a blind confidence of others. The first are to be tried by a High Tribunal, and punished forthwith, agreeably to its decisions; and the latter, after undergoing a simple correctional discipline, discharged. The Emperor has also published a decree, abolishing the punishment of death, m his dominions, for all crimes, excepting that of high treason; and imprisonment for life in the mines substituted. of their finanaes, and the cupidity of their public agents and commissaries, rather than to the want of numbers or gallantry in her sailors or soldiers. Under better arrangements, in this respect, Greece may yet recover her long lost liberty. The health of George IV. had been much improved by a new and persevering course of exercise and temperance. The elections in England, though in some districts, attended with enormous expences to the candidates, have terminated favourably to the public interest. Perhaps the Catholic question will have gained some new recruits; but it is certain, that the spirit of Radicalism has been scorch'd, if not killed, in these political struggles. The public subscriptions for the relief of the distresses of the northern manufacturers, having been found inadequate, government were about adopting extensive measures to accomplish this humane object. The royal family, and nobility of France, were turning their attention to the protection and patronage of manufactures. To effect this object, no means are spared; and France, under such auspices, may yet rival England in her most important manufacturing establishments. The affairs of Hayti appear to be in a dangerous condition, if not fast approximating to a civil war, or revolution. The cause assigned for these discontents, either It is now understood, that the differences which have subsisted between the Ottoman Porte and Russia, have been amicably adjusted to the full satisfaction of these two parties, and the concurrence of all the foreign ministers residing in Constantinople. A London paper, received at Philadel-real, or pretended, is, the disability of the phia, one day later than the accounts, brought here by the Emerald, gives, as a report, that Constantinople was in flames, on the 24th June. It is proper, however, to say, that a late French paper questions the truth of this report. Still, as the old corps of Janizaries had become disaffected, and were in a state of despera- || tion, by the new military arrangements of the Sultan, such an event is by no means improbable. The affairs of the Greeks, though not hopeless, were despérate. Some of the more powerful causes of their distress, may be fairly attributed to the bad state people to pay the taxes, assessed to meet the enormous indemnity, which they consider as being spunged out of them, through the cupidity, rather than the justice or generosity of France. In this state of things, it is now said, that President Boyer, who had been much perplexed and embarrassed; by the disaffection publicly manifested throughout the Island, was about resigning the Chief Magistracy; in which case, it is not difficult to perceive, that the convention with France will be broken up; a war, of some kind or other, break out, and the country again thrown into the wildest confusion and disorder. DOMESTIC SUMMARY. More Canals afloat.- It is now said, that a contract has Been concluded on, between the government of Guatemala, and a company of enterprizing men, in New-York, for opening a navigable communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, through Nicaragua, by the river St. John, into the Lake of Nicaragua-from the western extremity of which it is but 17 miles to the Pacific. There is no doubt of the practicability of this undertaking; nor of the immense advantages which are to result from it, to the commerce and manufactures of the United States. The capital, required by this company, will be five millions of dollars. A Colombian vessel has appeared on the coast of Africa, and destroyed three French and Spanish Guineamen, burning, at the same time, their trading town. A new Steam-Engine, for propelling vessels at the rate of nine miles an hour, has been invented by Mr. John Babcock, of Conn. and fully proved to answer the object intended. It has no boiler, but is governed by generator sor tubes. The machinery is simple and portable, and will require but little fuel. The schooner Dolphin, which was supposed to have been lost, on some of the Islands in the Pacific, has been heard from, and her crew safe. She was at Woahoo, 17 Jan. and had succeeded in the object of her cruise, by finding and taking off the survivors of the crew of the whale-ship Globe, of Nantucket. The Hon. RUFUS KING, late Minister to England, and family, arrived at NewYork on Tuesday, Aug. 15, in the packet ship Acasta, from London. The Hon John Jay is said to be the only surviving member of the Congress of 1774. We have in this State also, a patriot of 1774, still living. Hon George Partridge in the Old Colony. He was a representative in June, 1774, when the delegates were appointed for the first general Congressand was also a member of our provincial Congress in October, 1774.-Gaz. A new edition of Sir Walter Scott's Works, published at Paris, contains a fac simile of a letter from Sir Walter Scott, dated in 1821, to the translator, in which he says, it is an erroneous supposition that he is the author of Waverly and the other Novels and Tales, ascribed to him by the French editor. The number of bankrupts in England, gazetted in the half year ending with June 1825, was four hundred and eighty nine, while those for the corresponding period of this year has been 1827. A Brussels paper says, that the mound to be raised in the field of Waterloo is nearly finished; a great part of the stones for the pedestal on which the colossal lion is to be placed, are ready; some of them weigh 22,000 pounds. From the top of this mound, which is 160 feet high we command an horizon extending six leagues every way; the forest on the Sambre, the heights on the plain of Seneffe, the forest of Soigne, to its skirts on the side of Tirlemont, and the first village of Hesbaie. Almacks in India. The emigration of our northern brethren to India has always been pretty copious. In the time of Sir John Macpherson's government, most of his staff consisted of Scotch gentlemen whose name began with Mac. One of the Aids-de Camp used to call the Government House Almacks, "for," said he, "if you stand in the middle of the Court and call Mac, you will have a head popped out of every window.”—Eng. pa. Mr Charles Starkweather and wife, of Northampton, have made a donation of five hundred dollars to the Board of Foreign Missions. Among the Americans prescn't at the celebration of the last anniversary of our national independence in Paris were Geo. Bond, Esq. Dr Niles, and Messrs Coolidge and Emerson, of this city. ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL. consequence of these opinions I pro-. pose the following toast:-The budget of American Liberty--Let other nations reflect what it cost, and what it contains." MR BOWEN.-I hope you will give The anniversary of American In- your readers some further extracts dependence was celebrated by the from the old M. S. Journal of Mr. Americans at Paris, and a public Samuel Sewall, as many of his dedinner given on the Fourth of July. scendants are now living, and feel Gen. LAFAYETTE, his son, and Count gratified in tracing the history of Lasteyrie, were present. Count Count their ancestors, whose families were Segur was prevented from attending highly respectable for talents and from ill health. The hall was deco-learning, as well as for probity and rated with French and American flags. The number at the table was sixty five. Mr Barnet, the American Consul, presided. Among the regular toasts was:-"Our illustrious benefactor, Gen. LAFAYETTE-We cannot but add our voice in echo of the voice of our country." The General rose and returned thanks, and briefly related a history of his visit to the United States, and alluded to the extrarordinary attention of our countrymen. He said "It is thus, gentlemen, that after having visited the twenty four United States, after having, on the glorious ground of Bunker Hill, celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 17th of June, I had the pleasure to dine the last Fourth of July, at the same place where commenced those welcomes, as touching as they were honorable. To day, I am happy to assemble with you in this circle, at a period of half a century since the era of a new social order, which has already pervaded the American Hemisphere, and which cannot fail to enlighten, and at length to liberate the world. I am still more happy, (permit the observation from one of the veterans of the revolution,) on finding here so many of the citizens of America, who, the more they see of Europe, the more will they be attached to those institutions founded on the rights of man-republican virtues practical liberty-simplicity of policy-true representation--the selfgovernment of the people; and in christian benevolence; and every thing relating to them must be more or less interesting. There is one of the family, now residing, I believe, at Bath [Maine] who is very aged, but still retains the brightness of the christian character, and is much respected and beloved by his neighbours. He bears the rank of Col. and was a distinguished partisan in our revolutionary struggles for liberty and independence. There is an instance, which I have heard mentioned, of his gallantry and presence of mind, during those times, which tried men's courage and patriotism, which I have never seen in print. It is thus told. "During the spring of '75, a British armed vessel was laying at anchor in the Kennebec river, a small distance from the lower part of the town of Bath, where it seems Col. Sewall them resided. Its object was to procure ship timber, particularly the white pine, and detachments were daily sent from her, to a Cave, at the upper end of the town, called, at that time, for distinction sake, “The King's Dock," where the workmen used to prepare the timber for shipinent. The number, usually sent, was about 20, under the direction of a naval officer. This business went on, as usual, without any annoyance from the inhabitants, until April of that year, when the news of the battle at Lexington, having reached Bath, by land express, a party of about 20 or 30 of the more active |