The Express. — London, England, 1852-08-24 00:00:00

gof ▪ 'inkiest, hat none have tuned out • great prodigy. The Bed 114 ia particular, was a favourite spot, and was won eat up al ribbons. A rush was moils • few days ago to • coupe of gullies between this and the commissioner's; but few have yet reached to the rock ; and the result TeOlaigii consequently problematical. The gul lies ere general faiouritee, from the softness of the sod; ter it is dreadful week to sink is wee of the hills, which cast be effected only by gads and hamming ; sad the einem; of three inches is generally • good day's work for a ~,,,i ia , o f good able miners, whereas they could easily sink sit fee! per diem in the gullies. The g‘neral rush is wow e. ficadigo ('reek. whither the diggers leave the Mould by bUitirld. Inat's Creek cuutioue• to tom out good quan tin, of gold, but it is an inconvenient locality, as the mated water is Campbell's Creek. The Golden (fully Is nearly worked out, sod the cartage to the Loddon is far more trouble and espeuse than the general ea us the re maining soil transom. A few holes here, however, do well. Along the Loildon, digging is not worth a fig, the dl being so leafy and tight as to Moat out of i : o the tin dishes. Sal *bury (lolly was a failure, and so were a number of others too numerous to menteen. Mr. Toliner's •edt, acid the escort to Adelaide, have crested A gfc a ..o.Atiou at Forest Creek, where meet of the diggers are loom South Australia. The high price for gold gas rant" el for • twelvemonth by the legislature, and the escort being both efficient and gratuitous, will secure for Adelaide a I age importation. ,ewer was there a more migratory race, says a corres pond. id of the .lryns, then the true gold digger. He is ~.oe ua lly shilling sod changing, always hoping for something better. At the present time, when water is so scarce Of to allow of but very few cradles to be worked with advantage, the large majority of the diggers are scat tend completely over the lace of the country, in search of ,i,,,eriga that may pay tnem better than their present ones. which require more water for washing than the state of the cee . e k rain allow. la this search not a gully remains Imo visite a, not • watercourot unransacked, not a ridge oa r, rood by holes. For miles and miles around Barker's and Friars Creek hardly a nook can be found into which t e e ep. ; ele of the digger has not penetrated—this rage for i rte coos is no great that it leads to considerable annoyance to ',my. Oat geutlenaan. who had been much troubled by • tarty of some twenty or thirty idler', who hung round tt... i.ole that him. If and hie companions were nia:emg, determined to punish those who were wet, hing so eagerly to avail themselves of 'atm theft labour. First letting his comrade into the scent. he dropped • small nugget where he couia ...oily find it again, and taking it up on his spade in or, li A way at that the idlers should see it, be asked his 1, 1..1 1 it was nut gold. Of course, the answer was •• a , • .•: and the nugget was handed round to an admiring sw. of the looker: on, who very soon after departed. The e, et ,u ening, however, when our joker Canae to work his c.:ai. he found the ground all parcelled out, and no less that. two Manche I holes in the course of being sunk ors each • A him, so quickly had the news of the nugget spread. N, ar:y the whole of the tiau in the bed of Forest Creek ate now being pierced for water, each party slaking • wall for theme-Ives, neer whica the cradle is mounted, and a m.l. space hollowed out to receive the tailings. In this was. v, ry excellent water is procured, some of the beet of the wells being reserved for domestic purposes. In al.lotion to the labour of sinking the wells, • depth of sonic o feet, and drawing the water, the stuff has also to tee yes erricd out, for it is more quarrying than digging in mast tat the hoc/tacos, and then carted, often • distance of some mile., to spots chosen fir washing. Thus you will hos much labour now attends the priedultion of the 'lli um.: metal that comes into your city, and how hardly the non. r emus the money which be receives in return. Everything, says the writer last quoted, continues at • monstrous price here, our storekeepers being satisfied with not] - ant under • hundred per cent. on Melbourne prices, and with Melbourne rates as they sow stand you can judge how i zorbitantly we have to pay. But it is not the store kie;ar that is so mach to blame, as he has to pay very heavy for the carnage of his commodities, teams being scam . amp the toad being is such • state as to mimeos coroiderably the cost of supplies. la fact, to the state of the rood may be attributed scarceness of carriage, for so o wner of a good team would willingly risk their destruetMu en •urti a highway as that to the diggings. Thus then the blame of the heavy cost of living at the diggings rests on the heel state of the road ; and the fault of their being so bad naturally lies at the doorof oar parsimonious esseetive, who hest done nothing whatever to assist as. Not only is the whole line in • complete state of nature, beirig such as it soi.ae found by the first wheel that traversed it, always excepting the holes and ruts that traffic has made, bat even the bridges which moments of temporary activity have caused to be constructed are fast become( useless. That over the Colban has been brokenbeeked foe some sone a past, and every lades team that passes over gives it a deflexion that is anything but pleasing to a nervous individual. The fire flood of water will sweep it away. eves if it be sot broken down before then, carrying with it some luckless team and some fatal driver ; sad thee ' Unwell to the three or four hundred a week for 'suet money. To says • few pounds hundreds will be sacrificed, whilst the diggers mil' be left to providence for the supplies that hard labour so urgently requires. II kaows, that it wall he difficult enough to procure rations for so many mouths as we have bete, when the winter comes on, with out an tether Impediment being thrown in the way by the listkssswe, emey, and sordid grasping of our day sad miserly executive. Before I conclude, I would call attention to the ssmevous s eta that are made by pen= hors a, to letters by their blends I. Melbourne not reaching them. In mina keens= the fault arms hem the persons theme% who hove glees addresses that send their latent's sans Mae Mien they wish them to be. Perhaps it may ma he okosialorr nosier to mention thus publicly, that tar paw es mores. or Fryer's Creak, the address is 6 . Fame Or leir) Creek, Illynetss," arid not "Mount Alsoollasr," =Wen so addressed ge to the Por cupine Creek. For the landigo Diggings, aro aline is, of course, to Mount Alexander. Era the correspoadres of the Arm, whit red to be foremost in reposentiag the diggings as ia • sees of =order, set. LOW to hare altered their tone. For myself, ems one of them, I went up to the meek, will ea the tales of rubbery and violence fresh to my resonnhomes ; I laid me down ia fear and deem the lantern, and the pistil barreld a ting on my mind's eye; Illidiesseqseatly I myself with more than t Lys isep--ems eye eporn—snd en On slightest noise I lis With Wed Ineatb fir the flearine of the marauder who we. le bunt, revolver ht bawd, into the tent, and demand wry .. mosey or my life." But, as the night wore =Mound that I was disguised only by sea scat- Monet me on • belle at either end ell the amok =te babas of twenty saa, or penhesea by the joy= e of • song amain hem the eat of seen of si gy more fortunate thas ordinary. Oa this,l g n:o r k a heart of grace my nightcap was cosily over my ems, I rifled use et my and was soca fait asleep, soil was lewd So mat monolog so deeply embedded is blankets, the arthing less than sit robbers could possibly have awakened es. lam very anat inclined to Walt that a great oddest stir about the inse curity of life and property has bens =As by designing pr ism for some particular pap= of this own, but on this I shall say so more until (inseam= sey j ustify my sus pie ~as. For iastance, only • shoe time book I was In a gully where some two Of AIN bendell Ell• were all buy sinking new holes, and • sem wes annaillod that ledge Lynch eras about wr name mend log the signatures of has supporter, sad that enne Me thamani mess bad already been secured. The very smoksf 45111 was selliest‘ and so general was the burst if Imeggia hen the inns pre seat, ell orderly, well diesel peatema t that tho Met weer an. or,d to show humid Ilad, hewellOr, afflennebb opinioes been elicited, then is bed Ilittle d ean the the genteman of the bowie hails said the reminit moll brow favoured us with an interview. Whilst en the =dee if rebScries, I may mention that the eke( sees of daft in 1 convolved by isd.viduals on some member of their party, Of by •orne member of a party on his mates ; or, perhaps, the i.eantig onto: sees poem who baring indulged too freely at the sly peg sham has not bees so careful In the selection of his eamposims. Numerous imam= of this sort of thing have racked ay en : though, dreg ay stay here, I hare as yet herd of so ono =tame of teat odd). rye OUTASGZ Br PAInONEILII IN APPULBY GAOL.— On Saturday lest an inquiry took place before the visiting pique. of Use gaol, at Appleby, relative to the madam of some of the !wafters is itenamitting a groat mitauge upon the turnkey. and attempting their tape. The beta wee, these:—Oa Thursday morning the terskey, hem Wm, we at the steel bow, Ss .desk. to =ha the doors of tie sleeves alb. The Mt MI be ams to Wag that of Thomas Moor, • streser smiled of Woo, at the last ainizen and uads SMISIONS twelve mouths' imprimmeent. HS shekel the hese and Moor came out. He neat treats the eoU et John Theaton, weather primmer if Ms at the team ye..., sad made/ menones id he seven 7 , M.. and the imbed he bad speed des Mere ease him, grasped his toed Sub* with both Seem. sad tried to push his hate Thestes'a all. The Meakey strurieled with him, but Maw being • mach Mr era iaccesdrd is throwing his dews. and ' Wand him by the throat, and said. M New. yes surds you, - at the same Mme threendlog the keys. 'The tusks replied that he should set Ise ties. .• This I i de lee ru. &joined Mew, eel ussisesd a violist attack upon his, i& while& Is else Ness braises '4 , 0 hie heed and throat. tie ems se Mist bed illesesied throning the turnkey ilem i llmains. dr ether ewer. also fell apron him, end the phis bele foes ►kis reset Moor asked him if he but SEM the emakera but. adding. "If Ton lad it I'll le he bits." The turn key sow rotted kis strength inbseelkik sad net Mil the Ihf•els a Heir began to tell Bes t The isms tb• Mr. Roberts (else less mod ai r ee. ,,_ Peeel wily. sad wee thee la lb= Ct . ihe ine " I° 4 se to his asoistasee, sad g , versor being elowly hawed by Se debts Mmes aced Tbezto a saw they IMO Illeallabillitr a = /*Pled quietly. From a atmwallnlMMlX SYS the rwersee 41 ^eerhesed between it. orbs pelemee ea the peeiese 'Kehl be apprehended that ass estlereak was sester *ha, sad ordered the him's, le be ea his need. de end.sely no the mornings the latter ours teak the p., maims to divest et ell keys eteePHof thim wih.eh unlocked the dem el the aleogies cells, and skate empty hi. peckeu of hie bath sod ether articles; MI tri thes. end to the activity and vlgiame of thepenirMee may h. ...eribed the thwarting er , _ The aseci.tretes ordered that the Ws pee, sew end T b heatre, should b e continued IMO; that gar should ihilicted for the assault sad SININOPOd MOM end &weed ; ales that the 'lbw bed Shown taken part in the eeeseherey be kW is Woe( cuthassest. FAMILY COLONISATION. Last evening a public meeting wan held at the Parochial School-room, Claphauseemmos, to bear an ad dress from Mrs. Chisholm on the subject of family colonisa tion. The meeting was numerously attended, the room being filled, and many persons were °snide, who could not find room in, but who listened at the open doors. The KeT. Mr. MOWVeT, the Meter, presided. Mr. 8. Stoner first addressed the meeting, by way of in. trodueing Mrs. Chisholm. That lady, he said, first landed in Australia thirteen years ag•e, when the emigration to that country was confined to convicts and paupers. She there found a large member of young women who when they arrived bad no home to go to. She applied to government for assistance, and government we. induced, alter some demur, to grant a wooden barrack, twenty feet square, where *be lived with them, and got many of them situations. The others she took into the interior, where labour was most in demand, and afterwards she took whole families into the interior. and in that way had been the means of providing for some thousands of persons. She afterwards came to England and established • system of emigration, the three lending principles of which were that the 'mending emigrants should save and pay by instalments their passage-money; that associa tions should be formed by whom persons who could ha trusted should have their peasage-mosey advanced for theta to be repaid after their arrival ia the enemy, and the third was the providing proper accommodation an board the ship. Ile was sorry to have to state that just before the opening of that meeting their chairman had received a letter warning him from taking the chair, because Mn. Chisholm was a Roman Catholic. Now with regard to that be had an answer to make, Mn. Chisholm had been be lore the public 13 years, and there bad been no complaint by any one that she had been actuated by itetenan views, and she had given a pledge to the chaplain of the bishop of Australia that she was not, sod would not be actuated by sectarian views, and that her sole object was the public good. (Cheers.) Mn. CIILSHOLIt then cams forward and was loudly cheered. She said this was the first time she had appeared on a public platform, and she felt diffident in addressing them. It was a great trial for her to do so, but in great trials they met with great support, and it was a comfort to her to feel that if the day of persecution had not gone by, there were some minas tilled with that charity which God gave to bleu. (Cheers.) She believed that if she honestly did what was right the clergy of the church of England would help her. She had had 60 families, at one time under her care at Sydney, and anxious that they should get • day's wage for • fair day's work she had entreated them not to accept government work et a lower rate, which would have pauperised them, and she had gone with them into the interior, and though there wee only one complete set of agricultural implemeats for 30 families yet some of these parties were now remitting ON. each to aid the emigration of their friends, and there was not one of them that was not now in good cir cumstances, and able to give his 51. subscription for any public object. In commencing her work with single female emigrants she commenced with two ' one a Roman catholic and the other • protestant, and she kept them, till she found them situations, and hundreds and thousands bad been thus provided for. Iler being a catholic was the one thing brought against her. But the bishop of the Church of England in that colony was a noble-minded man; he did not privately slander, but his chaplain was directed to write to her, and to put a few plain questions. These questions were as plainly answered, and to this day then was a good teeling be tween them. After her return to this country on examining into On accommodation in emigrant ships, she fond that aged men, and women, and children under 14, all slept in one compartment. She determined upon arranging what were called enclosed cabins, which pro vided foe the separation of females. A benevolent noble man, bearing of her efforts, said be would raise a few hundreds to help, but the shipowners, who were afraid she was going to rain their trade, called upon him, and dropped the venom in. They said, " Mrs. Chisholm is a good kind of woman, but people eaanot tenet her ; rhe is an agent of the Propaganda." The nobleman we afraid, and the subscriptions did not some in. She persevered, however, with regard to the enclosed cabins. She had sent off ten ships with these arrangements, sad now there was scarcely en emigrant who did not inquire if there were enclosed cabins. She had lately had • somantaicatiosefrom a large ehipewaer in London, who said he would cut oat her plan and give more apace. no told him in reply that she would help him to tarry his plan out. There was nothing now wanting in emigration but that the people should have ma id/see in skips, and in the provisions, and that the clergy of all deuentinatiose should come forward and do their duty to meet the depravity that sow prevailed, in order that emi gration might be moralised. Her husband and herself had been separated now about a year, and she intended to return to the colony in the spring, and to devote herself specially to the care of the single female emigrants. Meanwhile the work was proceeding. They had received 2,0001. from her hus band; and in a letter he stated th t then were several sir vents paying 3e. and 4s. a week to maintain theiryarents with greater comfort is England. Upwards of 40 aged parents had hoes sent for, and a number of wives. Many loung men also, were sending for the girls they eft behind them—(cheer)—and when they arrived her husband always looked up the clergymen and had them married at once. (Cheers and laughter) She had no doubt that this system of readttance would be effected by bankers, shortly, bat at present, except through this society, there were no means of remitting small sums with the certainty of th.ir being applied to the in tended. Kra Chisholm then spoke of the hospitality of the country, and said that when she was 'nag into the ice tenor with emigrants' provident, sometimes a whole cart full at a time were laid for her on the road side. In con clusion, she stated that this was a preli.ninary meeting, and that she would meet them again on some future occasion, to give them the benefit of her experience as to the arrange ments to be made foe the passage, when she hoped the rev. chairman, if he was net afraid, would again preside. The CIAIIIIIAN mid tie was not at all afraid, but should ho happy to preside. Three diem were then gives for Mrs. Chisholm and three toe the rector, and the meeting separated. GREENWICH TIME SIGNALS. The arrangement' for traniatitting true Greenwich time ustanstically *ma the Boyd Observatory by electric are now sampinal. sad is practical operation, on Eastern Railway. At moss mid at 4 p.m. a diaM but or deflection of the telegraph wee is debts at Ismdss, Teak**, Anlikrd, Folluntam sod Dom whim It smessmis (bedaub& ism time. TN Ira dam mical Gem Ommeldi was Wm ex =Mby Mr. C. . Walker, is Oa seek-room at the ishima at 4 p.a., Alma peselag dogma to Dem. The 11 am awed, es Mime wm resolved at Landis Is Os if De. Irlassghanmpof Cannes l aid the was of the dime (my to Ms mama of Kr. Herbert, the imam of this Wl* Modern Railway Cosa may. Sines that time engallmsts hays daily been wads, and the missniary adisiiimmais completed; and the dap transminlin tines ewainsentsl at noon, August 19 ma d will M instimed from day to day. At 2 pm. the signal will pass to like meow adminatically to statism es the North Kent line, mad aimesmints are in progress by which all sestina as the Bath ZOOM Ines of railway shall have true timid hasesse a : c :l aiii The minhab of Oh easy be readily tut- MOW. A train of his hiss meassmeed by Mr. Ingiord, which is kept Is keiles by Ifs. Onemes large inkat the Leedom teemems. Oman of Miss wheels we or sae piss es sada the numbs, dsad dm M ankh they are re quired. Lu n t ied. osnmen stets of Maw, whoa these studs ars out of masa. the wire Irma/ Sea Omen wieh Ob winatory raw se the wire that will emenally lead to Lothhery or the BMW ; mad the wire loading from Dom rem es a was haft to the earth, and lambed*/ at Leethe—tbst to to say, 'pimp tipped smd hew are row ea oath elliwAss ia dis apple i week Nap ere Dew asked , a baked for this lass thrusts heitial thin duster of ad a pia in the wheel this streelke oak is the in ether dais parse dam ap the ssplaitys, now some la Wek witb MAIODem Ow tyska ad @kik Wan bear Ike esaftet slobOt te sainilih Wee, at the same tim diming th• WM flea the Lethithey or &raid wise ; sail it Mlle It Y this pukes he *boat 2i LIMOS. senectimp Doke with Onaniiii ready to reselk At Oesea Kr. Ibeplisrd's elsOrekelmis with is is skim It is essasked M orb a awes WO he wire ' leading from latalimibse MIK* on triLea of tba last a mush of *Obeli •01111111ike , is r Wink • spin Meshed Is Oh who sod another kleebed to the ordinary mad addi beaky AO he teleseepo parpeses, sad a signal of insiesimmems amass park. ran r. Carter's abet pan= Am st a r k tits pis mess for ward, the Dom who Mons la be Amer, est the win is again free fur asetber_ pi ar met sad theash ilik = wbieb, k Ode sees, will be • NM In rwpe{Mlhi Lothbary wire, this comeition isnot yet established, hot will to la a few days, when the Rimini Telegraphie Compam wM ham the aesss of taking • time eivW at my of Übe taming 21 holm, mad barbs it visible Mk by tha ha ball, that ham been erected I. the theeo, ad hg lalbs it throughout the kingdom alms the vesieusliase of railway. MELANrItOLT AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On atm.- day Nat ea Richard 8. Firwaiseg, Eiq ., was returning ben Schell Petty Heinen la • sena SI ben, the little ere* mimed stays and lemsdilidg Riad sad onlywring down with her a little bay, wbe bed onnegnied 111. Flooring. The unfortunate gentleman Wren semolina Teg a few W astes, hat althosgh within a few yards irides ahem sad • , heat bad been immediately lansehed for his relief, ha soak 'to a watery geese. !lie remains, which were disowned es Monday, were attended to the burial ground el the Tamil)) Aughadown by • very large and respectable as. sera) of friends, who deeply lamented hie redden mod intim y end.—Cord Censtituf io,s. DRAM OF AN RRlliblvt LIVERPOOL MERCHANT.- We regret to onsounce the death of Mr. Thomas Ripley, one el the most respectable sad successful of our "merchant princes," who *spired at his residence is Abercromby square, on Friday morning. The immediate cause of his death, which was somewhat sudden, though not quite unex pected, was disease of the heart, Irum which ha had for some years pest been a sufferer. Mr. Ripley, who bad at tained the sge of 61 years, was extensively eogaged in the East India and China trade; though, at an ember period of his career, his transactions with the West Indies were OR a very extensive scale.— Liter/Pool Mail. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1852. VW Court. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. Yesterday the ha_lf-yearly meetin g _ of this com pany was held at the Railway Station, Lichfield, Captain Dyott, in the chair. Ile report stated that the total expenditure on espies) account was 'J15,617/. to the 31st of July. The low rats of interest prevailing during the parr half year has gabled the board to reduce the annual charge from an average of U. 7s. 9d. par cent. to 41.2 s 6d. .per tont per annum as the Masi affisnsit of the company's beads. The works fee the Tipaen branch will very shortly be fi nished, thereby eoli ths Stow Valley Railway with this lies. The bill b a rt im agt in by this company for a branch to Berton-on- Trent was withdrawn in parliament, under an arrange ment with the Midland Railway Company, satisfactory to the lessee, whereby passengers ars conveyed to and from the line to theirs by every train of this company, which super seded the necessity of that measure, a n d from which the public have materially ben.Htted. The dividend warrants will be issued on the Ist proximo, being at the same rate as last halflear, namely, 3s. Bd. per 'hare, or Itlf. Ba. lid. per 100 shares, after deducting the income tax. The CilAlUltAX in moving the adoption of the report, said—The fact, gentlemen, of our line being In the hands of and worked by lessees circumacribes very much our half yearly statement, and also materially curtails the remarks open to me to make to you ; en that account our report is what may be considered by some a meagre report, but it is so bemuse we have little to report upon. Our attention during the last half year has been mainly directed to the capital account, with the view to keep it as low as we can ; and whilst on that subject I may say that the large amount which appears to have been added during the last half-year to the capital account is very much attributable to the altered value of money, for, considering that circumstance, we thought it bettor to raise a sufficient sum for our wants by way of loan, rather than have a large balance against us at our bankers. We have negotiated a loan of 60,00 W. at 31 per cent. to pay off our bankers, and we have a further sum of 20,0001., which will be applied as we have need ao to do. As respects our policy in the series of parliament recently closed, you are aware that we successfully opposed the scheme of the Oreat Western Company to lay down the broad gauge from Wednesbury to Dudley, and we were equally successful in our oppoaition to the endeavour of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Warwickshire Company to make a line from Cannock to Walsall. For this company to have permitted such a project to be carried out would have been nothing lass than suctioning the entry of a rival company into the district which parliament has allotted to us. 1 believe, however, that the company to which I have referred contemplate even now the making of a line from Cannock to Rupeley. Certainly if it is to be made from Can nock to this district it ought to be made by ns. (Hear.) I hope that the shareholders will concur both as to the policy of the opposition and in our views on this matter. Your directors are fully satisfied with the manner in which the icemen perform their contract, believing, m they do, that the line is worked to the advantage of the pnblic and the district generally. With reference to a meeting held at Stafford shortly after our last half-yearly meeting on the subject of the transfer of the less. to the London and North Western Company, some misapprehension on that aubjeet got abroad, but 1 believe that the Londo n and North West ern Company ars willing to conclude an arrangement which would hand over this line to them. At the time to which I referred the difference was on the subject of terms; that is, whether this company should have 4 per cent. or four• fifths of the North Western dividend ; the only change is that that company is now willing to secure to the South Staffordshire four-fifths of its own dividend, with a mini mum of 4 per cent., and that we should share in whatever the North Western paid to its shareholders above 6 per cent., and we should not go below 4 per cent. ourselves. A PIOPUIRTOK—I should regard that as a highly satis factory arrangement. The CIMIIIMAN—WeII. UOihinamore h has taken pleas 011 the subject ; of comae if it does, . interest of your keens, who have a 21 years' term, will have to be fairly provided for. (Hear.) I have nothing more to say than congratulate you oa the satisfactory state of your property, and to move that the report be adopted and circulated. Mr. C. } ORISTIES, It P. for Walsall, seconded the motion. He reminded the shareholders that the prediction of their chairman (Mr. Chawner) twelvemonths ago had been folly verified, for their shares, which were then nearly at W. dis count, were new within a frac ion of par. He believed that the railway was now in such a state that it paid both the share holders and the lessees, and in the event of any transfer of the line being made to the North Western, he was sure that the interest of those gentlemen (the lessees) who had borne the burthen and heat of the day would be fully cared fur. OSBORNE, MONDAY. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Prince of Wales, the Nguema Royal, and Plinems Alice, attended divine service yesterday morning at Whippinghain parish church. The Bev. F. Prothero performed the service and preached. The Earl and Countess of Derby left fit. Leonud's yesterday afternoon for Osborne, Isle of Wight, on a visit to the Omen. Lord Mandeville bed an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday at the lioensvother.—Mr. Newdegate had also an interview with the right bon. secretary. Despatches were received from the Goversof-Oebtral of Canada yeeteiday at the Colonial-aloe. STARTLING EVENT AMONG THE DERBY ITES-THE UNKNOWN TONGUES. (Freak tbs Doey Aiwa ) - - - - Little has been heard of the "unknown tongues" since the death of poor Edward Irving. The general public may, therefore, be able to form some faint con ception of the dismay which prevailed at the break fast-tables of the Derbyites, yesterday morning, when the second leader of their morning journal wee found to be expressed in what certainly cannot be called a "known tongue." A few samples may suffice to show the nature of this very extraordinary effusion. The writer starts with an allusion to the " wig wams" of the Mexicans in the days of Cortes— when the said Mexicans, by the way, had cities and temples in abundance—and goes on to declare— " Fully sensible of the orthodox amount of the ad vantages of a coat from Steitz, and a cutlet from Soyer, we can appreciate the mystification of a few artless Indians . " And, passing from Indians to Liberals, ho remarks—" Lnable to carry on the go vernment themselves, resigning the reins wilfully and spontaneously with the low spirit of the tailless fox in the fable, they are jealous that another should mount the executive-box they vacated, or flourish the whip they could not wield." The words sound like English, but English they cannot be; for what idea can any man attach to the " vacating of an exe cutive box?" or how can any mortalimagine a " tailless fox " " flourishing a whip ?" But this is plain sailing compared with what follows :—" This last [Lord Derby's disavowal of political tenets] has been the great standing arch charge served up day by day, hot and reeking, in all the sauce of tography, and the pomp and cir cumstance of a Mor ning - Chroniele's rabid columns. Now, we were aware from the first, that in our character as champions of the government our goose quill would be called upon to stand up for Queen's English and Lind l ey Murray's grammar—not to mention its censorial liability in the case of in capacitated themists—as witness our article a week or two back on the Tines; but we really and honestly never expected that in these days of Wheatley. and Mills we should be forced to metem psychosime our critical spirituals into the physical economy of some common-place fourth-form boy, and instruct our blundering contemporaries that a die- avowal of an intent, is not necessarily a dishonest act on the part of the disavower. We would have them know that the disvouchement of a sentiment, and the repudiation of a purpose, are as far from meaning the same thing, or having the same signification, as the poles ate apart." Here are words enough—and big ones, too, some of them—but what do they mean ? As the drama tist says—" She speaks, yet she says nothing." The last sentence of the article has something like a meaning in it: Whatever his practice may 1)e— -and that will be guided with him as the servant of the Queen of England according to the wish of the people of England.—Lord Derby's convictions and the convictions of all his partisans, will remain to the end sentimentally unchanged and unchangeable.' That is, to retain place, " Lord Derby and all his partisans" will do that which they believe to be wrong and mischievous; a new version of " video meliora proboque eleteriora segesor." The report was unanimously adopted, sad a motion de claring a dividend after the rate of 4 per cent. per annum was paned with correspeeding unanimity. SOUTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. The capital account of this company shows that 876,8871. had been received to the 30th of June, and 794,8111. expended, keying a balance of 81,0761. The revenue ac count for the half ear shows that 16,0631. had been received and 6,1131. expended, leaving a balance of 9,0601. The receipts of the River Dun navigation amounted to 24,6.561., and the expenditure to 16,9781., leaving 8,6771. The net revenue account showed a balsam from the last account of 16 8531. ; from the revenue of the railway of the past half year. 9,9501.; and from the navigation 8,6771.—t0ta1, 36,3801. The divtdend for the half-year ending December, 1851, amounted to 16,6161., and is de ducted from the 36,3801., leaving 18,7641. available'for divi dend. PORTBURY PIER AND RAILWAY. The twelfth half-yearly meeting of this company, which it is intended to wind up under the Railways Aban donment Act, was announced to be held yesterday at Bristol, but at the hour dud there was not a sufficient number of shareholders present to constitute a meeting. The report of the directors, which was laid upon the table, stated that the six months allowed by the Abandon ment of Railways Act, 1830 for the making of claims for compensation in respect of demi* alleged to be sustained by ream of the abandonment of the undertaking, expired on the IS July last, and that the only claim sent in was one l i ri i niakson. the surviving trustee of a Mr. Clark, for the injury sustained by the trust estate in the event et the purchase not being completed. Upon this matter there was a suit, which must proceed and be &reed of, which, it was hoped, would be effected in November. The directors bad disposed of some land for 1111., and the masts of the company had now been realised. Whin the claim of Mr. Clark and his trustee was disposed of the accounts of the undertaking could be finally wound up. The general statement of receipts and payments to the 31st of July, 1862, showed that the amount received on account of capital and interest was 21,38 M., and the total payments were 16,7191., leaving a balance in the hands of the beakers of 4,645 t. REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE. [ from the Mask Lowe lamas., _ _ BRITISH.__ The Milian of the outstanding grain crops be ams. bee die, to day a abject of inassaing anxiety. The mother Mk _dams ter bat, been of suck a character as to slim IM MN being made with harvest opera M. The has, (or the most part, been very .hies 1 tbs quesatity of . rain which has fallen has esitiese as great es the preceding week, still the at. uscopbage has been moist, and it is to be feared that the corn whisk has heat carried has bees gee up in very indif. inset esedities. Os Tuesday sight most of the southern pmts el thi~~e were visited by heavy thunderstorms. Caaaidmakla f was doers thereby to the uncut grain, end that width bad been peevienely cut was rendered to. tally neat be tarrying. Os Wedaeaday and Thursday the weather was aseaparatively by, het sines ties we have had light amen hew time Ur hew Ueda does rims steams at surprise can be Mt that Iles assemile of the pre velem* el greeted ears shield have laweettd ' • indeed, the same hints on this subbase ban now beam. * very r owel, sad the injury to the quality is indikedble, however iheatrable the weather ..for Itereallar. We have esensinly as desire te auggstake a gamey view of the future, sad as beg ee there were grenade to believe that aa might set mattes right, we slug te a th e = a lha il =less might sot beausioua ; but weadm eapealsased Ow the isommesseement of the pressat Enna has destroyed all thanes el a intarable tan minden of the hermit, at heat in the forward parts ot the . k M a rtel the rim Humber mitten an, we are happy to say, is a much bettor poetise. Neither blight nor mildew to prevail there to Garbing like the same extent Is ON south, and much lees mischief has been done ht parts by the weallser. Bat even with this redeem ing blare there is tee each reason to believe that the aggregate predate of the kingdom will fall short of that of g.sd avenge la quality ; whilst the quality of a very farts p et the grata must, nadoubtedly, be very inferior. That the milies state of affairs should have caused some exciteseest Is not to be wondered at ; indeed it is rather • meta el surprise that, under the circumstances, the general wills should have manifested so little concern. This mg an la attribute to the prevailing opinion that with hewtrade high prices are impossible. The idea is. no doubt, in the abstract, correct ; still contingencies might arise to upon this theory. At this moment our stocks of foreign wheat are comparatively light; and though a ooesiderable quantity is a passage from the Black Sea, he., if the new of hme growth should prove too damp for use, which is certainly not improbable, and the consumption be thrown entirely on foreign for several mendet, it might Means difikult to obtain adequate sup plies without arawrially 'shaming prices abroad. The rho ht the vales ./ wheat, at mast of the provincial markets held dam Meerlay, has been Is. to 2s. per qr., at ems the Memos ha bee greater. Hitherto there has not been muck eputlatiess, tad the millers having conducted *Mir operations with sendde rah'. caution, the sale ha not been partisandy tree. Holders appear, however, to feel perfectly willed that the demand must come, and have ' therefore numilland so anxiety to press business. The reports respeeting the state of the potato erop are, as usual, very conflicting. On the whole, there seems to be less despondency than was the case in the commencement of the month ; and it is, therefore, lair to infer that the disease has not spread so rapidly as was then apprehended would be the case. The advice' from Scotland inform us that the weather had continued unsettled. About one-half of the crops had been cut in the south, and a considerable degree of uneasi ness was felt se to the result of the harvest. This, and the upward movement in the English markets, caused wheat to rise 2s. per qr. at Edinburgh, on Wednesday; but at Olas. CLERICAL TsE CONVOCATION OP THE CLERGY of the pro vince of Canterbury wu duly prorogued an the 21st inst., by the Vicar-Oeneral of the Archbishop of Can terbury, pursuant to the royal writ, until Friday, the 22nd day of October. NAVAL Auourr 23.—APPOINTIUNTS.—Com =wider IL J. Lean to Dorm, ; Masten C. Turner to Biiterw; Y. Wallis to Looprof ; Y. Wise to Medea; and T. Osman to rolorolo. Clerk O. Lone to Victory. Gun ner W. &Kith, Boatman W. R. Myatt, sod Carmine C. Kemp, to &nem SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY. IT. MILL 9 as 4 Eget Lon Iteesses Illiskwell (take 5 to 2). 4 to 1 Mr. IletsseellenidOlteorke. 9 to r Mr. Jan inmen s imperew. 12 to 1 getupsernea. 12 to 1 Deentlllilinewfs Can inniager. 9:0 to 400 knolleaw and Deist Olwerbo (t). Daniel O'Rourke was Wks& for upwards of 1,6001. at 4 to 1, lisawireis kr two or three hundreds at 4 to 1 end 9 to 2, add Ownears hr about 5001. at 12 to 1, the odds in each ease Wag Wired at the dose of the betting. We are requested to state that Augur wn scratched for this ran between five and eta o'clock on Tuesday evening last. LEAMINGTON NAMES. 7 to 1 q.t Mr. Farnmsee cmisBnTaaVertr . 40 fo I NW Mr. Or N wee's Seamerom WT, NU. II to I apt Berm asilweidira Gewlw G IOSL N 1 Poway% Mew t tiara/ INK). fo to 1 Ths Newt wlnsliq NeDiCheinpagas Mann owl Dry. RADCLIFFE RACES.—MoNDAy. (so zLicratc TsLionArm.) HIATOX PAWL STAKES of 6 an oath, and 26 added, for 3.pr.elda, Est 101 b; 3 yrs, 7st 71b; four, fiet 7th ; five, 9a3 I sk awl send, fist 3lb ; maresand geldings allowed 31b; whims, or SG suns this year, 31b ; twice or 100 sow. Ms extra ,• tM sesesi Sam his stake. One mile. Mr. Milers b Aisbabss yrs Mr.& Wsibe's Gams Tommy, 2 yrs Kr. Mims% Lady Jewry, a yrs 1 WILTON Cur of 100 son., added to • handicap sweep stakes of 16 ewe sack, 1011, and 6 only it &Ward 1 the wiener es pay 26 an. towards ozpowno, and the sews/ te saw his obits. Two mike and a die. (32 mak" 16 of when iselasni) Mr. KINN mE lir a Llithr Daryayre. IN Mr. W. MOW, Mrs? Nainfor w tOli Mr. T. Dawns NA oLony a yrs, Mt Ma Mr. H. WaNsWo INN el Tkem ayre, Psi Oa 4 Two MINN stoned. Wes half a length. Two-va•as-oin Errinns of 6 net. each, and 30 added ; colts, Bst 71b • fillies and plays, Bst 31b ; wieners n 0.., hits ; twigs, liPs extra ; the mend saves kis stake. Three. quarters d a olle. (8 ads) Mr.l.oBlBBoBibt — mr. Meal be Tani lorffrel Mr. 1L Welneoll•liainsTowasy Mr. WINN k s Nonglike TAUNTON AND WEST SOMERSET RACES. (sr amicTato Toutoorra.) TAUNTON STAMM of 10 mows. each, h ft, and 8 only if &eland. About • tallo and • boll. (11 subs, 4 of whom dodarod.) Mr. 0. Droves MN s, 4 yrs. OM Mr. J. arms ad Mew Mmirma.4 yr% Oat Mr. T. tiorroon Slomarty PstSsar, 4 yrs. OM 7116 Tax Aacn•otootc.u. Neuron or Onus 1 BMWS AND INZLAND.—The wad at in I. maks with Ws institute will easeseanre at OINIONIIF on:ryas tsvierrrow (Teseday), salmi the me et bit Own the Rake et Sarliksaboderl. • = Par , roe etas peeesehe OD oe tepals. et the tioa week bee kit •ot Ole vieltole sill = mileSsa. as latrahrlsey awake will be bid at item it Tarolog, la the isowebtreees. after wldelt Wile MI be pail to at Calle, Ibe Mumma et the Oak* et•aragraara, Ole osetabo et the leasirella ma OW 'Nub et Memel la and aver Oa tem. ' Oa Itea= so a tio sesame' seetfey in d vela le = and antiquarian au : Me, sad peeoleei err Or Zed of Carlisle, the Mary T. Illibil eat WIC W. W bin Veil. will be bele la On mar odd lestere.roaa of the Literary nail Ilblemplawg . Os boob tbs., days there will be &est easeedias to p set yet announced, and on the boa the polite dinner of the institute will be held, and Itio harlellaeolate of the new building connected with the Mew, will be laid by the Date of Mortkmakalsad. Oa Friday *ere will be @reunions to Alnwiek, likalreth, sad Wasiftwordi ; os Saturday, to Durham; on Mandy, to Pridkos Castle, ileximm, and a portico of the Zeman win ; imam Tuesday, to Jarrow and emouth. Moethege efileessemewin slobs MI es TesaleNeed the oceedediej moalkiStake pies tr Weieesday, tlee lit of &pees bee. the met there . bee reieversasione of the Mindy Pkilmispbleal keisty, a ball at the Assembly men', a karry kis for Bt. Peter's Church, a concert of the Illeelety, a botanical and horticultural exhi bition, and a dramatic performance by the members of the Quid of Literature and Art, un4er the direction of Mr. Charles Dickens, so that a meson of extraordinary interest and nekty is anticipated. SITTINGS OF THE INSOLVENT DEBTOILS' COURT.-- The Insoinut Debtors' Court will sit apsis on Monday ant for bail cases and motions. By this timely notice per sona in custody can provide themselves with hail, rad thereby save sense weeks' imprisonment. The bearing of met will be shortly resumed before Mr. Commissioner Law. grow business wee slow, and prices little higher than on that day week. The Irish accounts vary materially in regard le the esti mates of the probable result of the harvest, as well as is reference to the state of the potato crop. The alarm os the latter subject seems to have in • greet measure sub sided, and tbu reports from thence are altogether of a more encouraging tone than was the cue last week. Very large supplies of potatoes had been brought forward by the growers which bad been forced off at low prices, and inter fered with the sales of wheat and Indian corn. Hitherto very little new wheat has been brought for ward for sale, and those having old on hand appear to be in no particular hurry to part with the same. The arrivals of English wheat coastwise into the port of London hams been small, only 4,109 quarters having been reported up to this (Saturday) evening. On Wedaseday the Essex and Kent stands were nearly bare, and very little was consequently done ; where voles were made, however, full terms were realised. On Friday • few lots were brought forward from Essex, which factors were enabled to place at rates it would have been difficult to have realised in the beginning of the week. The supplies of foreign wheat have increased ; 26,341 qrs. having come to hand during the week. Of this quantity • considerable proportion is from Holland, where very high prices have been paid fur the same. In" addition to a lair local inquiry we have had a good country demand (or foreign wheat, and the transactions altogether have been rather extensive. There was more doing on Friday than earlier in the week, and in some cases previous prices were rather ex ceeded ; but the advance was not so general as to make it necessary to alter quotations; very moderate qualities of red Baltic brought 435. to 44.., and good to fine 45r. to 475. per qr. Other descriptions realised proportionate rates, and (baton were not by any means disposed to piss sales. The operations in floating cargoes have been more or less inter fered with bz the high demands of sellers; still a fair amount of business has been dune, and there is at present only one cargo arrived off the wait undisposed off. l'olish Odessa red has brought 38s. to 38e. 3d. per qr., cost and freight, and corresponding terms have been paid for other sorts. The offers from the Baltic have in general been at too high prices to tempt buyers, and comparatively few bar gains have been closed ; for fair qualities of red 4 3.. to 44.. per qr., coat, freight, and insurance, has been asked. The town millers agreed, at a late hour on Monday, to raise the top price of town-manufactured flour 3e. per sack; this advance has since been well maintained, with a tolerably free sale. Other descriptions of dour have risen in the like proportion. American has been in active re quest, and good brands have sold currently at 225. to 235. per,barrel. The arrivals from abroad have not been large; from France only 2,382 sacks, and from America 9,501 bar rels ,have comae to hand. Barley of home growth has come forward rather spa riafly, and the few lots which have appeared hare been easily placed at the extreme terms of Monday last, and really fine malting qualities seem likely to comm,nd full prices. The receipts of this grain from abroad have been tolerably good; having, however, had rather an active de mand fur grinding, the late advance has in some cases been rather exceeded, acd quotations were fully as high at the Wins ?o in the aosoluencement of the week. Malt has crept up in value within the last eight or ten days ; more especially the finer quelitin. The arrivals of oats from out own coast and Scotland have been scanty, and the receipts from Ireland only mo dente ; having, however, received 39,566 qrs. from abroad, nothing like scarcity kas been experienced. The greater part of the foreign supply has been from Archangel, and this kind has therefore been more difficult of disposal then other sorts; still good samples have rather risen in price, 17s. 6d. to 18s. per qr. having been asked. Ihe oat trade, on the whole, has been more firm than active • but the prevailing opinion is that old corn will be wanted up to Christina., and some fortheradvence is there fore calculated on. Beans have been in moderate request, and have not been sold at all cheaper than before. Peas have realised fully as high terms as previously. In oonsequenoe of the pressure of potatoes on the Irish markets, the demand for Indian corn has slackened more or less. FOREION. By the most recent advice, from the north of Europa we Tetra that the weather had been more favourable there than in this country, and harvest operations appear, on the whole, to have progressed auspiciously. There are some complaints of blight, mildew, and shrivelled grains ; but we are inclined to think that the produce of wheat will tarn oat well in most parts of Germany, se well as in Poland. From Holland send Belgium the reports us lase satlsfac rawand is Frames the oorn-cropo appear to have been y *And by the prevalence of wet weather during the but two or three weeks. — The 80seouataf;atbeBaltie are of a more subdued tone this week than we were prepared to espect, and at some of the lower porta a reaction in prices to the silent of about 2s. per v. bag, 14 memo, taken place. At Dyad& hasway_e'. the tendency had been the other way, mill Mew Med the 17th instant state that a large beseama bed bees deface there at gradually improving rates ; /wink Mgl obwalzed 46e., and for hue bug quality (the 46a 6d. per qr. free on board had been paid. Carl" qrs. bad changed bends. Kestiplierg letters of the 16th August speak well of the wheat and rye crops ; the latter had been secured, and the former was fast being housed. Barley and oats would, it was feared, prove very abort, and of light weight. Wheat had been in fair request ; equal to 42.. to 435. per qr. free on board had been paid for 611ba. highwixed, and Us. to 40s. for 611 b.. red. At Btsttia, os the 17th inst., the weather was very fine, and harvest qperations in that neighbourhood were fast drawing to a dose. Very little is said about the result, from which it may be fairly concluded that there was natMeg Meanwhile of ; and this belief is further strength ened by die het that prices of wheat had since that day week ressisilig. per qr., and fine qualities of red were then quoted MA, Ms. per qr. free on board. At Realaak.sa the 113th August, holders of wheat were very lb. aid dieuet the harvest was progressing auspi ciously, mien hid manifested no disposition to lower their prettied's", las qualities in granary being then held fully as high rat say = i ps e riod. Advice' from , of , last Tuesday's date, speak well of the weather, mad t l progress made in securing the crepe. The somewhat exciting reports from hence had failed, therefore, to produce much influence, and prices of wheat had given way about 21. per qr. St ooks of Spring corn had been reduced into a narrow compass, and barley, oats, &0., had brought fall terms for local cansumption. At Amsterdam, ca Monday, there was considerable ex citement, and prices of wheat row 6s. to 75. per qr. At the Black Sea ports the wheat trade seem' to have remained quiet. At Galata the best qualities of wheat were obtainable on the 2nd inst. at 245. 7d. to 261. 7d., and at Ibraila at 22e. 2d. to Ms. per quarter free on board. Freight to the United Kingdom wee 10e. Bd. to 11s. per qr. The advice' from America speak well of the harvest, and supplies of old wheat and flour having been brought , the tendessey of prices had been downwards at the principal markets. That America will be in • position to furnish large supplies of Oreadstnek seems tolerably certain. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. ABllo4 , llllol%—The weather this week is this neigh bourhood hae been very changeable. On Tuesday evening a ahem Asks over the town with great violence, and owed mask alarm. The lightning was very vivid , and thallesise Allowed each other with groat rapidity, whilst the pm& et thunder were fearfully loud. Many parties woes Misted with partial blindness—a dimness of eight, whisk lasted several minutes; torrents of rain descended for ma hear and a half, doing much damage by inundation. elhelild the present fickle weather continue, serious feats are mitertained that the crops will greatly suffer. Wheat is in market, on Tuesday, rose from A. td to 7e. 6d. per Caittuiiinx;:-Grave apprehensions were excited during ft=week by the very unsettled end unreasonable . The late heavy rains have does considerable injury to the orops, and will seriously detract from the pro , specie of eke harvest indullged is a few weeks ago. The weather today (Thursday) has improved, and is sufficiently Ana for harvest opperatioas. The crops are at for the sickle, and a week or two of fine weather well enable the farmers to secure them. The potato disease is general, and sad havoc has been made bf it—Camerae* Journal. HCNTIKODOWSIIIIII.—The cutting of the corn crops LB pregremtog alowlt y in oonesque wet and sn ce y or i.or tb so e . w e esther, which time. lr has been remark e little of the corn has been stacked, and that must be in Very condition. Reports are prevalent of the corn growing in the sheaf ; and should this unfavourable weather continue, great damage must ensue from that cause both to the cut and uncut corn. With • bad crop, both in quantity and ee quality, and withwther unequalled for harvest Operations sins 1800, the prospect of the agriculturist is one of gloom and despondency. From all accounts it appears that the preset t crop will be wone than that of 1850; thus, with frae-trada prime, the ten farmer will experience two years of unprecedented bad crops out of three, a combination of circumstances priming with great severity and hardship upon him.—Carnbrie (Amuck. OXFORDSHINLE.—The weather dace our last has con tinued to give the greatest anxiety to the farmer ' • it rained heavily the whole of Saturday night, sad early part of Sunday morning—so copiously did it come down that it inundated the meadows and low lands contig u ous to She river Cherwell to a greater extent than hes been known for some yeare. The afternoon of Sunday was clear and very hot, and after so much moisture must have caused the corn to sprout, as well as otberwiwise sufficiently to damage the barley (which had been lying in the rain of the previous week) as to render it unlit for malting purposes. Comparatively but little corn has been carried this week in our immediate neighbourhood, the greatest breadth was par hap cleared en Tuesday morning, but that must have been in questionable condition; the rain on this day set in heavily about three in the afternoon, and put a stop both to cutting and carting for the day. Wednesday, Thursday, and yes terday, the scythe and reaping hook were kept is pretty full play, and a great deal of corn has been cut ; the rain which has fallen during these three days has been mostly of a drizzling nature, with a murky atmosphere, just sufficient to prevent the carting, but net the cutting of the corn. We have not beard of any corn having been carried in suffi ciently good condition for the barn. The second clover crop, which was so full of promise, presents a sor appearance, and will prove, we fear, of but little value. The afterfeed on the uplands is abundant, but in many of the meadows will sustain much injury from the good.—Ox ford Journal. TIIE WEATHER AND HARVERE IN SCOTLAND: 9k Since our last (says the 'Scotsman) the weather has been highly favourable for the operations of the harvest, Dot a drop of rain having fallen, and the bright sunshine has been accompanied by light breezes generally from the south-west. The temperature still expeneneed a ext.emely rare in our northern latitude, both as regards its uniformity and height. The thermometer at nine o'clock for the last three days has been steady at I 6 legs. At three o'clock on Wednesday it was 72 degs. ; on Thursday, 72 Ileac ; and yesterday, 71 degs. 1 his, with th e brightannshine, has rendered out-door exercise somewhat oppressive, and labourers in the field must have suffered much from the heat. Since Weelnessl.iy the barometer has also advanced from 29.56 to 29.93. This high point, with wind from the south-west, is indicative of a continuiume of fine dry weather. In this neighbourhood little or no in. jury has been sustained by the heavy rains, and the crops still remaining to be cut are so ripe that there is consider able danger of abrading should we be visited with high 1 winds. In the west of Scotland, particularly in Lanark shire, a gloat paucity of labourers for cutting the crops is I experienced, and such a simultaneous ripening of the crops bee never been before experienced. Leading to the steels ' yard is now general in almost every district. Some farmers in this neighbourhood complain that the grain has not har dened in the stook, and that it will nut be soon ready for threshing—a contisiviauce of dry hard breezes, with sun shine, brine neceuary to put it into prime condition for stacking', On the whole, the farmers of Scotland have reason to be grateful for their present prospects. QUARTLRLY MEETING OF THE LIVERPOOL i . w . - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. (FROM OCU OWN CORRILSPONDENT.) Yesterday afternoon the quarterly general meeting of members of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was held at their offices, Ezehangehuildings ; 111.7(in Esq., President of the Council, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in introductng the business of the day, said that the attention of the council had been called during the past quarter to many subjects of great importance to the mercantile worli, but none were of greater moment to the interests of commerce, and to thou of Liverpool especially, than the questions of customs reform, commercial tribunals, and an amen !aunt in the system of administering the mer cantile lew. After reviewing the operations of the council in relation to these subjects, he called on the secretary to read the report for the last quarter. Mr. Mousers then read the report, which contained a statement of the views of the council on the various sub jects of customs reform, mercantile law reform, postal re form, and an amendment of the patent law. In reference to the Brat subject, the report alluded to the parliamentary committee which sat towards the clo-e of the lest session, and recommended that the head board in London should consist of not more than live conamissionere, one of whom should sit in parliament, aid at least one should he a man of large practical commercial experience ; it was also re commended that the collector, comptroller and head in spector, at each of the chief ports, should form local boards with power to dispose of all eases of disputed duties within the jurisdiction of each, where the sum or proporty in dis pute may not exceed 1001., reserving a right of appeal to the head board of London, or to the Lords of the Treasury. In order to afford increased faci lities for the transit of goods, it recommended that power should be given to the local boards to decide on the nature and extent of examination of goods which would be neces sary on application being made to them. The practice of requiring vessels of small size to procure a license to go beyond given distances from the coast was recommended to be abolished, inasmuch u it is no longer applied to coast ing vessels, the smaller craft, swift stesmers, or foreign vessels of a like description. The council again urged at tention to the hardship of making owners and employers of ships responsible for the acts of their servants in smuggling, or other infraction of the customhouse laws, where such acts can be proved to be beyond the control or cognizance of the owners or employers. After referring to many other subjects, chiefly of a local character, including an effort on the part of the councio. to procure increased facilities in the postal communication between Liverpool and Scotland, the report directed the attention of the chamber to the necessity that exists for every possible faci lity being given to the expansion of the export trade—a trade which Liverpool has se long enjoyed, and which, of late, has been considerably diverted to London. Allusion was also made to the corn trade, especially in regard to the excessive charges incurred at this port on the importation of grain and Sour, which were stated to be considerably higher than those of other ports. The report concluded by an nouncing the presentation, by the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1831, of a set of 16 volumes of the trade cir culars and lists of prices of the exhibitors, and illustrated by lithographed and engraved plates. Wm. Snows, Esq., M.l'., moved the adoption of the report. In reference to the allusion made to the subject of Customs Reform, he quite concurred with the recommen dations of the council, and it was satisfactory to know that Mr. (Methuen and others had expressed their decided opinion that the evidence from Liverpool was the best of any laid before the committee. (Hear, hear.) Upon some of the points in the report, as the chamber was aware the committee's labours were not concluded till a late period in the session, he (Mr. Brown) had considered it his duty to write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had forwarded a very courteous reply, saying that he had read the Reports of the Liverpool Council with great care, and that they afforded many very valuable suggestions. Still he must remind the chamber that if they wanted to obtain acts of parliament, they must not look to their neighbours to procure them ; they were not to be procured without ex passe' and he trusted the merchants of Liverpool would contribute their share towards the repeal of '23 oppressive acts, and the passing of one serviceable and just enactment on the subject. Mr. Brown next alluded to the evidence given by Mr. Travers before the committee, in which be stated that the merchants of Liverpool were unreasonable, and showed that this port labours under many disadvan tages under the Customs law, from which London, Dublin, and Bristol are exempt. Referring to the topic of mercan tile law reform, noticed in the report, he trusted soon to see the adoption of simple means for the redress of wrong, and fewer formularies for the recovery of right. (Cheers.) He regretted the objectionable nature of some of the clauses in the Passengers Act Amendment Bill, and trusted that in the next session some action would be taken to remedy all well-grounded causes of complaint against that useful measure. In reference to the subject of railway charges as connected with the export trade, he must confess that, although a propri-tor of the London and North Western Railway, he did think it unfair that the mileage charges between Manchester and Liverpool should be so much greater in proportion than those between Manchester and London; the rates for loading and unloading having been fixed and equalised, he considered that the mileage ought to he the same. (Hear.) Mr. Brown next alluded to the act passed last session, called Lord Campbell's Act, and stated that it had been admitted even by the President of the Board of Trade that the measure required revision; and so prejudicial was it to the interests of shipowners, that one firm in this town (Messrs. bi'lver and Co) told him they had sold out their shares in no less than de steamers rather than incur such risks as that act rendered them liable to for any misconduct on the part of their servants. Allusion had been made to a cheaper system of ocean postage, a subject in which he (Mr. Brown) had long taken an active and high interest; and he might state to the meeting, that at an interview between a deputation of the American Chamber of Commeree, accompanied by Sir John Burgoyne, and the American Minister, the latter had pro mired to ums the subject upon the attention of his govern ment at Washington; and though he had great doubts about the rates being reduced so low as the deputation seemed to consider they might be, yet whatever could be done in the business should receive the best attention of the proper authorities in the United States. There was another paint in mane:ion with this subject that might prove inte r/Ming le the meeting. He had recently received letters he slorrespondents is New York, who stated that Mr. Batts--who is the American Rowland Hill—had been so much engaged recently in his efforts to secure an additional grant to the Collins line of steamers, that he bad re• framed from pressing on the attention of the government at Weehingten the policy of reducing the rates on ocean postage ; but now that the additional grant to the Collins line had bean caviled, Mr. Bates would give this subject the whole benefit of his powerful assistance. (Cheers.) On the subject of the patent laws, though he might differ in opinion from the majority of the chamber, he could not avoid stating his belief that those laws altogether were pro ductive Of greet tajury to the nation at large. The report had made allusion to the necessity of obtaining some reduc tion on the heavy rates of pilotage now charged upon steamers, and vessels towed by steam. There was certainly plenty to complain of in this respect in the Mersey, but the pilot service, n the Downs particularly, required some amendment and supervision, and the notice of the subject by the Council would confer a benefit on the mercantile community at large. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman next referred to the light dues, to the decimal coinage. and to the grant for removing the Swilly Rocks ' • and concluded an address which was listened to throug hout with the tit• most attention and respect, and at its conclusion elicited considerable applause, by urging on the merchants of Li verpool to support, both by their name* and funds, their Chamber of Commerce, which, unlike almost any rub, r lo cal association, was looked upon in London with the great est deference and respect. Mr. T. B. Housestt ' M.P., rose to second the adoption of the report. He went over the various subjects embraced therein, commenting thereon at some length as he pro ceeded, and perticularly dwelt upon the hardship of making the owner of a vessel liable to punishment for the miscon duct of a captain or chief mate. If the latter infringed the law, he would say, let the penalty be upon them, and if they could not pay let them be sent to gaol, the same as in ' any other ease, as a coachman for instance. Upon the question of postal reform, Mr. Hursfall stated that he had found the delivery of his letters so much delayed at Derby that he wrote to the postmaster on the subject, and had received for answer that he must write to his cor respondents in Liverpool not to poet their letters until after the departure of the 7.15 p.m. train to Manchester, when they would reach hint sooner than if sent by that train. (Laughter.) In his simplicity, however, he had thought that quite as easy a method would hav e been for the postmaster to direct that the letters should be sent by the train that would convey them the soonest to their destination. After some ether remarks, Mr. Horsfall resumed his seat amidst general applause. The CHAIRMAN then put the motion for the adoption of the report, which was carried unanimously. Mr. Burt moved, and Mr. Arnold seconded, a resolution, regnesting the council to solicit a renewal of the good offices of Lord Malmesbury, In reference to the twee' sustained by British merchants at Vera Cruz and Tampico.—Adopted. Mr. Boucle then delivered a long and able speech on the Customs question, and after the transaction of some other business the Chamber dissolved, with a vote of thanks to the chairman, and to Messrs. Brown and nonfat!, M.P. -a .1