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• Mr. S. Sebay, a Jewish merchant of Morocco, was accuse*! in the year ia4sof blaspheming the Mahometan religion, by a Mahometan merchant of that plate, who, jealous of Mr. .Sebay’* success iu business, resorted to calumny and fal ehood as a means of revenge. Mr. Sebay was tried, as such charges are tried, by Mahometanism against Judaism, and being found guilty, the choice was offered him of renouncing his holy religion, and embracing Islamism, or perishii.g by fire. With a devotion and constancy to the faith of his Fathers, he chose the latter dreadful alternative; and at the early age of twenty-four year* he gave his body tip to the torture of devouring flame* praising the unity of his Maker in the last moments of agony. If lam not misinformed, Mr. Sebay was d stonily related to Lady J. Montefiore.

NOTICE. ■\TTHEREAS a Writ under the hand V? Robert Henry WynYard. Esq., Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, bearing 1 date the second day of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-feur, hath been directed to me, Tnos. Beckham, Ksq., as Returning Officer for the Suburbs of Auckland, requiring and commanding mo to cause to be elected by and from amongst the Voters, duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and form by Law prescribed, one person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council for the Suburbs of Auckland, in place of William Field Porter, Esq., resigned. Now, therefore, I the said Tnos. Beckham, Ksq.. Returning Officer for the Suburbs of Auckland, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited Writ, give notice that a Public Meeting of the Electors of the Suburbs of Auckland will be holden at the Police Office, Queen-street, Auckland, on Thursday, the nineteenth day of October, instant, at noon, for the purpose of Nominating one person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council for the Miburbs of Auckland, and in the event of a Poll being demanded for the Candidates, or any of them, such Polling shall take place on Friday the twentieth day of October, instant, at the Police Office, Queen-street, Auckland; the Voting to commence at any lime after nine o’clock of the said day, and to close at four o’clock on the afternoon of the same day. Tnos. Beckham. Returning Officer. Police OJice, Auckland, October ord, Hfs4.