The Express. — London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

mat had snored I. him (Mr. Camel) mime beg lead In Inf ield ma the oddities id his Waved°, it, end that he a gesesed at ears semis, twisieetet widmat say pease El:Mlwoad set his labour ha sin (Hear, Isar.) :sat firs dials his bag, sad tbea so doe ht • or brims forth fruits is abseilimas. as it was with tbs mild et the dreamed. It they attempted to sew esti la his sareforani miaut then wield be so sdspMßes bet hit them g• to tweet with the meatimeo *sr hale ▪ eated. Let theme dig so to speak them the the dykes sf tetal abethease, r u d e ra& his be efs"f the alsehol, meal this he would be prepared to reeds his iatelleseall sad *data feed. wed " aid theses.) Thee they esw the maims el the !spa ; ) west boatel= NM end woad bass lartli fruit I. almadimem They had *seethes. of misiateme ia various perm of the blemdemeeter h ay, that sisse the prias4les sf teetotalism beilbseallethebed. use, had w! seed massy insteases of ~_hoods the emly send el their visa bat tuned to spiritual ways. Beam Male deem whin the anthers divides et the evassedeml abaft reposed se a matter for lavatigaties the aosassies twos& toestalim sod infidelity, a pest deal of treatment wee created throughout the entire kingdom. He (the Askew) himself felt .atonally Indignant at such a prop°. skim, aid hut writtea letters to verbs parts of the fals ities es wkish he received about 100 replies. Ho wee sot Ow to read then all, bat a few extreme would show that teetotal is did not stop In staking a was sober, but would sees maks him religioes—teat was provided the ministers of the gospel sympathised heartily with the ears. The Rev. W. Morgan, 8.D., Isonsbeat of Christchurch, Bredkrd, Y./finlike, said : " I bare belga privileged to labels, as a der for 36 sirs ; bat I have attended sestinas sad presahwt swum he the society is Loots, York, Hull. Barrow-upon-Hamber, Porklington, Market Weiaston. Tadeaster, Ripe., Her reorgete, Huddersfield, R stasis, Manchester, and may other tow. s sad villages. And in all them plasm, I head that teetotaling directly or indirectly promoted the wee of real piety. Many fads, in the eonversion of enure bg God, whisk are well known. in every plan, attest the peat utility of teetotalist, I by no seas west that every teetotaler it a real Chris tan, so more than that every prafeesed Christian is a real Christian ; but I do maintain that way very wicked, absadosed character% masa, whom wire may lade., bays, by the gross of God blessing mo totalbr, become en ornament to the Chastise shwas. Is my wide fled, of observation this is any dulled tee:gamy. I say age's I know many wicked people and tellable con verted to Odel by lases of teetotal's." The Rev. U. E. Graham, A.M., Hector of Ladino, Musaioa, Cornwall, said : " About tea years beck my pariah was sunk bass meet degraded mate; dreokensess see the nee, sobriety the szseptice. Mr. Teen come amongst ea, and I wee inclined to try what amiss cut the prineiple would do. I muted ell my therein in the cause, sod the result was 600 tee totalers. Teo ehareb (a soasiderabla gaud one) had been deserted during the reign of infidelity, for so 1 consider drunkenness to be; I was the compelled to "Warp it with 460 saw "hasp, all of whisk were well filled, and the perish is occh a stater I would feel a pleasure is base its siniitor." Rev. Newnan Hall, A.M., Hull, said : •• Several minolsere of my church wore plugged is the west kind of iatidifity—the ioadelity of habitual profligacy sail papa. d with by tote! abstinence. Having thus bosoms sober. they aresew ales, through the grace of Clod, Bans righteous and godly life." Rev. J .nee Liberman, Sumy Chapel, London, said: " I have tie pleasure every commission &abbe* to is. several et the Lord's table, woo were oats the cars of their lasedies, the plague of their neighbourhoods, mid the grief of their owe souls, now intelligent end devoted mseaben of Christ's church, whom teetotaling hut led to God's hews, when the o..tiptl formed them into • new creatures in Christ Jens.'" Bev. Eiward I:Schmitt's, A.M.;rector of Walton, Harts, mid • " I as hippy to say that I have ezr rimmed the moral beagicsal the temperance saute in my own parish. In two er tkres ens drunkards have been reformed, to the great hippie's' of their families, through the ex. nine of some el ay dock who have taken • lively iutereet in the sow moat." lie trusted that these testimonies were lllMMElloe se to the service obi , k tutu ahem must render to the Medea of the Gospel. He sees: rot at too great kneth mostopoi he their attention. He treated he had sad sfildent to show them the importune of total abstinence as e weans of benefiting the people morally, socially, physically. sad religiously- He asked them, as Christian men and Christi's women, to With of the 600,000 drunkards in this enntry, and rot to let them go down to the b moraine pit crying out, •• No mai Gareth for my soul." (Hear, hear) They (the lid. rely) were determined to poses n. They would hawk at the door of the Conference, net sever stand still until they made all Census people awake to the evil. He treated that minium and lefty, Christian men and Christian women, would come forward and eh iw to the world, by their ex ample in 'lenience, that they c insidered the lives and soak of their fellowerestion of more impotence than ay anti. &anis they said experience hem the use of "Jong drink. (rho r. ) The Rey. W. MORTON, lee of Calcutta. then addressed the lasting. He said that alter needing 30 years as a sir does/ in • for. lira country, he islet a deep and growing in tense in the &nemeses eau& Mr. D. G. PAYNE, of Deptfaed, was the next 'esker. He 'randy appealed to pre forms of religion, who were not yet total abetainere, to meditate calmly on the spirit and tenon, of ecrinture, declaring his Whet that the malt of their doing so would he the Livia:ion by them of the principle of total stwinenee. The Rev. S DUNN, of Nottingham (late number of the Week) en Con.eret.ce), on risies to address the meeting, was received with lout add reiterated cheers. He said he be lieved then, notwir.standing all the attacks which had been made on the CAWe of abstinent*, it was rising in public estimation. It was • satisfeenio• to himself to be able to declare that be had never drank a glass of brandy, rum, or gin, had never smoked a pips or a cigar, end bad never taken a pineh of snuff elan he was born. (Laughter and cheers.) He bed now posed lis fiftieth year. In the coarse of hi. hits he had, perhaps, travelled as many mules, preached as maxi eernsees, delivered as many lectures, seen es mach pa service in verions dials, under various eircomdanee, by night and by day, as the see and oa the lend, a. most ordianry ; end though he had never tasted ardent quite, he had never yet had on day's bedny sickness or pain. (Cheers.) He then pros. ded to relate his mitsionsry experience, for the purpose of illuatratieg the practicability of total abetinteee ander the most trying cir cumstances of Wed• sere life. Tee Rev. J. KIRK, of Edinburgh, delivered the concluding address, choosier as his special topic the influence of the drinking customs of society on the epiritnal interests of those who were en. peed in the trade of strong drink. He secluded by calling opal all who were not then total abstainets to become ea at emu. (Cheer...) A vote of thanks was given to the chairman. A add etion towards defraying the spews iaddental to the series of meetings was casts la the sane of the evening. Aff OBSTRUCIION TO THE POST•OPPICE.— On Sunday same miechievous proems Owed a ladder, upwards et eighteen feet long. woes she reed in the way of the Poet-oaks ounibueei, it is blued for eons evil purpose. It b brtunate, however, that it was broken by the passing onr It of ea espy vehisle. --•- • • - MILITARY RIOT.—At Newport, MORRSORthithire, es the ev. sing of the 22nd instant, from thirty to forty psi maim of the 14th regiment got intositatal to oss of the btu grope in this town. Os their loosing the how, they grossly insulted every person they met, iaflicting with their wombats tremendour blows, sod completely cleared ire anew. Thew attacks were altimatoly 'abetted by the *Ws, but not before several respectable inbabitonts hrd been very much injured. A Eliot inquiry I. imperiously celled for in ibis eve. FIRE AT THE MODEL SATIN AND WA9NEOI7B3III. Last evening at a few minutes past six o'clock a ern In. volvief a serious destruction of property broke out in the extensive range of premise erected by the semolina' for promoting the establishment of baths and mahatma for the labouring classes, situate in Cinialstomequare, Whitt chapnl. The am., erommeseed in cos of the drying houses, a temporary building erected by the 'Paining* with timber tot the purpose of tasting its tame/ previous to building a more sabstaatial compartment Contiguous to this erection was the washing department, hatain(ng $4 wash tube, and ea sae side stood the mangling houses, and eit the esker the bomb, compartment. The whole am traded Is me &ivied.' skeet 10) fest, sad in the other 75 feet. At Use time stated above some of the wegfagmen of the swlddisimeet were greatly obrated by pMstcel • dense mess dumb, posing through the di rent passages load *to the melons compartments In the extensive range of =tUpon gaining the drylag-boms the whole of the ad Mr drying the clothe were, togrher with the linen hanging thereon, kind to be enveloped in lames. Over this building were several large tanks, containing in the whole upwards of 3,000 gallows of water, and in order to guard spinet the ravages of fire the committee had proper engine hose attached to thee* tat lts, so that in the event of an outbreak • ready supply of water might be *ought to bear upon the lames. The list Wag attempted by the pining belonging to the premises was to fly to the hoes connected with the tanks and matter the wain over the flames. Unfortunately, although the roof was termed of Goa, the ceiling was oonsuneted of timber, and the dames travelled along the top of the baUAlig almost with the rapidity of lightning, sad so intense was the heat from the lames that the glass windows is eke selling qeickly became broken, when the fire rushed through the openings in immense bodies, rising so high as to threaten with destruction the whole of the stir rounding horses. A somber of engines were apes day is attendance, and the hose of several were conveyed through the front baths, sad were brought to bear upon the great seat of fin, wits] st • number of firemen were at the same time sent up the sealing ladders to meant that pinion el the roof not on fl-e ; but in spite of every exertion, It was not %mil past 9 u'n!oca that the filmes weld be etmosered. The dames* dote by this diesetrom event is very sonsider able. The drying house is entirely consamed, and all it contained. Tn. mangling and iron compartments an also d.stroyed bat betanaiely nearly the whole of the tabs la , the .11111 base mesped with trig og injury. The engiassees sirgertment has escaped uninjured. Tem boilervoome have Nhawiie escaped any Minty except fr.* water. The stommengine and the machinery base elm re *Mewl se damage except by water. The pectin of the private cash has likewise ne: ived we of any in portance, bat, notwithstanding, the amp wOneidemible sot what is woolen the Peer people forw6.o.lllolllmallasill the baths were specially erected, will be nate wet Wow mime*, tiey=iwa otter the troi situ remise %key seemed, iser tint purpose. SECOND EFFORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON ARMY AND ORDNANCE EXPENDITURE. It may not have escaped the recollection of our readers that this report, which relates to the ordnance estimates, was Muted on the 14th of July last, with a vlsw to pat =Mbar* of the Home of Commons in ==of the views of the eummittee previews to et the Chancellor of the Exche9uer's Ibeesiel etatmeat. The minutes of the committee's preereainge were appended, bat the evidence and llPTdin of documents were reserved for &tore oatial. The report with them additions was deliverreiyesterday. Itis a blue book of 1178 folio pages : et which the report fills 84 ; the minutes of ' evidence, 834; and the documents, 468. The witnesses examined by the committee were $7 in number. Of these 29 are officials on the ordoasee establishment; four eng ricer or art.liery officers whip have held temporary appointments under the Ordnance; two manufacturers of arm@ who hold se have held:mends with the Ordnance ; and one in dependent gunmaker. Their examinations occupied 29 days. extending over the months of February, March, April, May and June. The same whammies were repeatedly had up again for examination to ex pliin statements of their owe, or account for their difference from those of other witnesses. Their names acd offices are es follows, in the order of their retrct tive first &prance,: OFFICIAL W1T11211111.--Th• Hop. George LIMO, clerk to the Ordains.; Major-General Sir H. D. Res, deputy adjusast-geasnl is the Royal Artillery ; Major-G:onel Sir J. F. Bargeyne Inspector general of fortifications •, Major- General IL J. J. Lasy, director general of the field traits &patient; Llemosant-Colonel R. Harding., director of the royal lakmardasy; Captain A. T. Tallals, insp.:oor of ganpowdsr; Oiled W. B. Duda., Inspector of artillery; . Cif Sir L NOrdilat. R.N., principal store keeper Lisatanaat-Oviesel J. N. Colqahoun, assistant impactor of the royal amiego department; B. M. Beset:ea, Esq., storekeeper et the royal armed ; Mr. Joseph Pella% OM dark in the storekeeper's department; Mr. Rehm. Perrott, chief clerk in the storekeepses oliset M. Gems, Liven, inspector of small arms ; Cohen& I'. glib, Alenter of the estahllekeaaut at Chatham Mr the ilemeesiee of the engineers' depart Tent ; Msjoraesond Perber, awitmant governor of the Royal Military Amerneme I Omer& L Wilmot, second captain and paymaster of dm; lAmeMsses Colonel L A. Hall inporistendent of the sr& mese surveys; Captain W. YeUaad, in Marge of the heel. gasman' department at Southampton; the Right Hes. Mari Grey; &shard Estee, Esq., storekeeper at Devon ppoosttt; A. Stewart, Esq., storekeeper at Portsmouth ; Major. Gemmel C. R. Fox, sarveyow rascal to the ordnance ; Capt. Lord Clarice, Pewit, secretary to the master-general of the ONIMOSOI ; M. Elliot, Esq., thief sleek lathe master pastels' elm; W. G. Anderson, , eminent paymuterlp nerd ; I. A. litiffay, E.q., auditor of naval and military accounts; James Tr/sow. Mq., in the store account examiner's office; Reer•Admirst J. W. D. Dundee, a lord of the Admiralty; R. Byhem. EN., secretary to the Board of Ordnance. SAKI- OFFICIAL W ITX —Lieut.-Colonel Chesney, K.A •' Colonel F. Campbell, R.A. • Lie ut.-Coloael W. Reif ,R E. • and Colonel W. Breretito, all of whom have need as " re:sportive oaten" under eke Ordnance; Mr. W. L. Sargent, sad Mr. John Wheeler, who have held contracts for small arms with the Ordnance. Not OFFICIAL WIWI ISIL —Mr. William Greener, gun maim, Birmiagbaa. The documents in the appendix are arranged in ten dames. There ere 67 relating to the Oidnanee Vote I ; 7 to vote 2 ; 24 to vote 3 ; 28 to vote 4; 7 to vote 5; 99 to vote ; 18 to vote 7;9 to vote b;2 to vote 9; acid 10 miscellaneous paper'. In future publications we will present our readers with extracts and abstracts of the most material parts of the evidence and documents, as we did formerly with the report itself, and the minutes of proceedings. THE CHOLERA. ENGLAND ID WALES. .ra . adiaracea, reported to on Monday, Oct. 29, 1849, . . Bran• districts • North Witchrord (Chatteris district), e. 1 Portsta Wand (Kingstosiand Landpwt), e. 1 Preston, e. 3, O. 2 Rotherham (Shohrsagb), a 3 Belford (Retest road), d. 1 Seuleiaus (Drypool), d. 1 Silt Stela (Hsairiserorth), d. 1 S , .iith Shit Ids & Wistos, c. 2 Stourbridge (district of), c. 3 raeesster (L.thertda sus Ab-rtord), e. 3 Thorne, e. 1 Terapiron (Titehisarshl, a.l l'otnes (Brixhso). e. 2 r)nesiouth(Randen district) d. 1 W ikefield (Stanley), c. 3 Walwh (lliirrisigh). c, 2 West Broinwttilt & Oldbury, d. 3 Westbury e. 1 W, et Derby ( Walton-on-the- Hill oistriet), d. 1 Whitehavou(St.bets district) d. 1 Wigsn, e. 12, d.l Walloon (Coerrottall), d. 2 Witney (Surloril and Fal brooa), e. 2 Wolstanton (Tonstall dis trict), d. 1 Wolverhampton (Willenhan) A. 2 ID, Ocr. 27. l iihwick, c. 3 r. 29. THE PXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1849.: CULTIVATION OF THE FORTY•DAY MAIZE. The Saab Advertiser gisse a report of tits mulling of the Both y Farmers' Club, last week, where Mr. Keene made the fo llowing remarks en the cultivation of the forty day Raise : Mr. Keens was warmly applauded. He had before him newness spasinasse of Indian sera sad forty-day maize, is cobs, rams, and shelled-out samples, grown in Almeri Berbodoes, the meth of Freese, Midden; Hampahlee, s ad Mhos places. The forty-day mains which had been collie SAM et Bitters*, near Southampton, by Sir Edward Bathe, sad W Mr. Compland, in e*section with Mr. LIMO. we. dadiledly the best of thewWe lot, whether as repodol tho ildrisem of the cobs, mitigates sad quality el*, Webs or Neal and the Bitterne mares, as well se them hem St igenses-park, were thoreeghly ripened, sad the gibs ware Mgvdar y garnished with grain from base to apex. TIN di& demos in kiadawas apparent in most of the seraphs ; yet the similarity of the grain of the Berbadoes to that of the forty day was so great that the nexperieneed •y• Gould not detest the difference, although it would sot came Sordoni= here even in the most favourable seasons. The speaker said h. had been a traveller, and in the wares of his residence abroad he Lad had much rut tiest experknes fa the cultivation of main, sad these'. etances—oae la particular, the failure of the potato crop —bad led Mira to pay attention to it as an article of food to be cultivated la England. In the first plan, perhaps, it agent be asked how he became so intimately acquainted witb maize ? He maid tell them. He was a miner, and having had the taking of traces of land abroad, in the Basque pro- vinces, when the maize was the chief article of soon among the p. smutty, and as that land, from its peculiar, and he might almost say is regard to toms 01 it, frosts sterile nature, would grow nothing so well as maize, sad as he could farm better for kismet than anybody could farm for him, he keit it ia his cows hands ; and for the lest tbree or four ran had devoted a great deal of tiase and armlike' to the various kinds. ia order, if possible, by selection of °congenial sorts, and adopting a tree= of itybridatioo, to produce a variety suitable to th e c li mate of the teensy so that Inca.. of a failure is one description of food there s hould be another to fall bath upon. In Spain then were sassy varieties of maize —about a bemired and thirty • and the qualities were u various as the varieties, molest On various sorts were applied to different purposes, ens being retained for human food, another for end* a third for poultry, sad so ca. It was generally tows trim the 16th of April to the 10th of Jun, bet he was ceolident that the best time fur sowing it In Bag- land was from the 10th to the 25th te May. Teat was the time of aeries in the Pyroners,and the climate was there much like that of the south of Eoelaad. He thought teat they might not to risk putting it into the ground before that time, is consequence of the danger of frosts. The seed he had brought with him to England was an of that kind usually grown in the Pyrenees, for it had been his study to prelates e mails of more rapid growth, so that it might attain remo tion after tie usually late frosts in England. One of the sorts was known generally as " chicken's coon," from the circutiotacee of its being given to chickens for food, but it was worthless as an article kr hums food. Now, the forty day mans W.!e the often severe no,t of our springs better t - an the other sorts with which they were acquainted. That he might venture to assert without fear of contradiction ; it had been grown this year with success, although under con siderable difficulties, at Putney, in Middlenz, in Sc. James's. peak, Loudon, ea the estate of Sir Edward Butler, at Bit erne in their own district, and by 3.: r. Cou,,land, deo at Bit temp. The cob he then held in his head wu grown by tb. latter; it had been sown at the extreme limit of the season, on the 23rd May, nevertheless it had attained a perfection of growth superior to the cultivation of the Lynne's. It was in fact a beautiful specimen from a field of corn as fins &zany be had seen is the district from whence be brought the seed. The next samples he had to exhitdt were grown In the same field, but they varied in colour ; yet still they were of the kill day variety. These specimens were far superior to the cote he would now show to them, which were grown last year in the Pyrenees, and were regarded in that part of the world as excellent samples. This was a point well worthy of their attention, because i: was a convincing and undeniable proof that the temperate climate of England was more congenial I to its nature and more calcula•ed to mature it then the occa sional parching heat of the turd-day run in the Basque pro- Tante, which often checked the growth of the plant. 1 hat, as be said before, was an important fact, and worthy of their consideralloo, from the eireamstanes of our climate being more suitable to tie nature of the forty-day mane which he had eatneeded in producing: the robs were liner in every resin t. and the corn tn , re perfect. The CHAIRMAN —Certainly, judging front the epeci • mans, that seems to be the cues. Mr. KEENE—Then is no room to doubt the fact ; the matter is self-evident on a very causal inspection indeed. That was a great pint gained. something beyond actual ex pectation, in fact, and to be accounted re, not so much on the eroond of cultivation perhaps, for there had been diffi culties in that respect (to be remedied in future trials he hoped), bat on the more important ground of our climate b. tug sound to be suitable for its perfect growth. Thus, then. having sufficieutly establiabed the fact that the forty day maize can be suoneshally ripened in our average summer month., the nest point for conaldention was the mode of @owlet. He had already alluded to the time for depositing the seed in the soil; and again he ask d them to take hie advice in this matter, anti sow from the lOth to the 25th of May. Depend upon it that was the beet time in this part of Europe. He bad told them that particular districts In the Basque provinces grew their particular sorts, and they bad goon and substantial reasons to off, r in favour of their local preferences ; it was to them • Matter of vied imp,rtance, for it was their °hitt nourish- sent : its cultivation nib them had b-en a practice of ages; and they would not hear of sorts beoughtfrom other climates, hotter t r colder, from India or from North America. Their sass seuiud their particular districts, and to these they name firmly and faithfully adhered. Apply this, then, to Mis lead : he bad brought them a sort suitable to the climes*, and the mode of culture was this. In choosing a spot let it be as free from abide as povible ' with no high trees ; sad an exposure to the east and south east was preferable. Let them open furrows, like those f planting potatoes, about five or six inches deep and twenty-Ai: inches apart—that was or say, twenty-six inches from farrow to furrow. Then let them drop is the maize as they would French beans; then tnrow ov r 'he seed in the furrow some welt-reties manure, and finish by covering up with not M. 141 than two inches of 'tab, making all level. After about eight days' sowing the pleat would make its appearance above ground, and when about tan iitehes high—that was to say, strong and well op also.* the ground—it should have its first hoeing, or "trilling up, exactly as they would potatoes. If two or three plants came up together, let them root up or break off the w.aksst. They Wok' now be left till nearly three feet Malt, except that, where they appeared too thick, they might day by day, as wanted, pass along each row and pull up the surplus plants till what they lett stood at about ten inches distance, paying attention to remove, in preference, throe that did net appear to be fanning their end lobe. NOW, these surplus plants formed excellent and sweet ford for harm d cattle In particular, and they were consumed with avidity. They would next, when about three test i d b, give the second hoeing, earthing them up well, but especial care should be taken not to fill with earth th s eye of the phut, but this had more pull , ruler reference to the first hoeing, when the plant was in its dwarfish state; for this reason—it the eye of the plant got filled with earth, and rain followed, the chances wars that it would rot away in the qqe. In lull summer the plant would rapidly advance, eepedatly after tbe second hoeing, and about the fortieth day they would find some of them first beginning to path out their Bawer-stalks. The bead of the mail', as many of them knew, :brew out a drooping feather, sad the dropping of the dust from the flower upon the feather impresesen the seed-head, and made it yitl t its , iull gran. Nrw, as the feather died, so as to crumble, and a yellow east in the leaves indicated that the sep had began its descent from the flower-stalk, they should pass along the I rows and cut off this fin weestalk at an inch or two above the first point over the seed-bead. Tea days after the lower '. INV'S Shetld be stripped off, sad the gob aloe, left upon the stalk to ripen. Both the tope and leaves formed ezimilimt food for est:le. The Barbadoes pant was a perfect *tura it its way; bat then, after ill, instead of forty, it would t eke at least a hundred and forty of our summer days to produce its lower alone—that is to say, .1 all the plans ot tn. Berbadoes sort sown in the Perk only one head tame I into filwe A r, when the forty-day maize was ripe and St to harvest. He came next to speak of the use of Th. Mexicans extracted a spirit from it which they called eta*. In the Basque provinces they had many preparations of it, end if properly preps,. d as bread to thought the 'shearers of Britain would soon take to it as food. Mr. WYATT—It will not do in England; it might do foe pigs. but 'arming men would not take to it. Mr. EEENE—WeII, that was :alter a broad assertion. Now, Roc, • few facts to meet it. It was a preferred food in very wide and livelong districts on the Continent. tip. grown men, hard-workers, women, and children, looked to it with fondness as their chief hood. The food of the great Landes w,s millet; but of late piss ibe culture of maize had bete Introduced ; and the Baron d'Hausses, one of the most distinguished French agriculturists, and for some time prefect, or chief lentil nosey of the department of the Landis, thus wrote in 1829, d scribing the con sequent of et in the cheese in the health of the popula tion, from actual observations, be it remembered, whilst going through the depot taken when controlling the recruit ing of the army : The population of this department resents a marked improvement in their physical condition of which we ean follow up the traces in omen:lag the old men to the yowl' of the t resent day. The old are short, this, and rickety formed, whilst the youths are tall, wall-formed, and rgetie bearing ; and the interval which separates the ages offers classes of men Coding to a strongth and form which tan only be explained by the progress the isnot eosin has made in the food of the people, and it is in the mead generation that the effects bac one strikingly apperent." Mr. Keene then spoke of the safaris of the plant. In the at place, it eun' a ined saccharine matter for the production of sugar, although not in quite so irreat a proportion as beet. Its presence was reterind by Parini trier in 1781, but be mid not certain. it; but in 1835 and 1836 the French Royal Atadenty of S knee was remote d with cryrallised auger by Dr. Falls Simples tram different toils were found by cif forint ehemistii to contain 75 to 77, 80, and 81 per cent. of starch, ant 41 per ant. of water, and 10 per nat. only of Sugar. 4401b'. of stalk gva 391bs. of cinders, tootainlng 13ibs. of alkali in different combies ions of pota sh, and only traces of phosphates tad silica. Hers were the stetisticnl facts in regard to the la ports of max- in seed-grain and in meal :—Io 1840 the importation was 23,333 qearters of mese and 14 cwt. of meal, and in 1843 it lowered to 20,726 quarters of corn ; but in 1846 .he importation was to the extent of 706,80 6 qrs. of cern, and 131,809 cwt. of meal ; and in the year following the amount was equal to one-half of our importation of all kinds of grain, or 3,614,637 quarters , of core, and 1,451 010 cert meal. now we were to com pere t':e importation returns for the last three months of July, r ennet, and S'nt.mber, with tbe llama months of the year before, we shell find that the menthe of this leer present &dant et deaths from the Genova Board of Hi from Um Seperistaidest High ataht.m.uuder•Lyne, diary. 1 Ay Isonzo (UottiatialD, eho. 2 &Boa, e. 1 Berwick. spom-Tweed, c 2 Birmi. ohms, d. 6 Bleekburn, it. 1 Braille's' (Allertim), d. 1 Bildowater, c. 8 Brinport. d. 1 Clifton Union (B'. Philip and Jamb), o. 1, d 2 Cletrea (Nlidammer Norton), e. 2 Cockermunatii(Matyport).c. 1 Llanimitem, e. 1, d. 1. Dirtier& c 2 Dosimeter e. 2 Dodley, Tiptoe, Belpley, mad Rowley Ws* e. B Beeleeliall Bkrlow, e. 2, d. 1 Gm Is(tiwim beet), et. 1 ' Halogdmi (iterriumwa), d.l Histiage (On), el. 1 e. 1 Hudderalield Odelthema d. 1 Ilattu4don (Bairtry), d. 1. Kmareaburoush, c b Lancaster (Bkeltem). e. 1 beetle,. 3 (Oopford), d. 1 Liverpool, d. 1 Macebeeter, d. 2 Newark, c. 1 Newbury, d. 2 NowtomAbbot (Torgiev) l 4.l - - . FVOILA24I Paahrid• (24th & 2Otit Oct.), it. 3 OCT: Pasbride, C. 4 Otasral Total—l:melee ►ed • England sad The deaths are returned registrars' districts, as it i.k 1 every plass separately. Edinburgh (for week ending 27th latent), e. 6 Cho. Dia. .. No team 84 41 15 0 Total . Waki .. 99 41 ordieg to the sopenntcncleet id impraztieable to diatiertiah REPORT OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ON CHOLERA. A long report of the cholera genunittect, appointed some time since by the Ronal Gasp of rhysiciaos, has been agreed to, and will be circulated amongst the mambas of the college. The following am the principal results braved at, sad the conclusion which seems to have justified them " 1. Bogies presenting the characteristic tonne of the to talled cholera fungi are not to be detected in the sir, and, as far es our experiments have gone, not is the drinking water of Infected plasm. " 2. It is established that, under the tens 'annular bodies' and cholera cells, er fungi,' there have been confounded sow y objects of varioa and totally distinct snares. " 3. A large number of these have been traced to sib. stances taken as food ur medicine. " 4. The origin of others is still doubtful, but them are clearly net fangs. 3. All the more remarkable forms are to be detected in the intestinal evacuations of pereuns labouring under diseases totally different in their nature fr Is cholera. " Lastly. We draw from these pie mi.es the general con- Mullion, that the bodies found sad described by Mesas. Britten and tiwayne are not the cause of cholera, and have no inclusive eounection with that ail* or, in other words, that the whole theory of the disesse which ha. re cently been prupeenied is erroneous, as fax as it is based on the saistence of the bodies in question. " WILLIAM BALT. 11 D , t Cholera " WILLIAM W. Gm., M.D., f linb-eon.nsittes." STATE 07 TEE WIST-EMD 1111WISVI.—The deeetip live report of state of the sewers in the Westmiaarer die net shows that the new neighbourhood of Wendel' street is In no degree wane than other plan". In the Koightsbridge sewer, near the end of Sloanrstreet, " tho deltas t is so great, and tke stench so strong, that one of the men came ant in a fainting sate." Lownderpleee, "one to two feet of deposit" Esher street, " two 'est of deposit." Oxford strew, " as the north side from Portman-street, westward, in so ruinous a mate as to be in dar.ger of falling. • • • Maw be nearly ehoktd with deposit bet. re it can have any discharge." Whitehall plan s, wretehhi state. •• • Two sr thre feet deposit. • Totbill street and Westminster Workhowse, ie ieseribable. 81. Georsinseguarr, "one to two Get of putrid natter." Chestcrflell-strest, "ro Shed with deposit tkat porions of thew canrot be perambulated." Parliament-street, 'swirly (Wed with deposit—smell her- Tibbs ;" and so from bad to worse. And " oven throughout the sew Paddlogten district, the neighbourhoo 1 of Hyde parkitarrins, and the costly Noun and stints adjacent, the sewers aboui.d with the foulest deposit, from which i the most dinning efilevium arises."— The Builder. SMUGGLING Besszi.—Smuggling appears to be reviving of late, whether throagh We retinue cruisers being ma& of or the mounted guards disbanded, it wo ild be difficult to h.sss I a warren *AAA. Perk r, how. ever, the impetus has bees given owing to the iocreued dulled dace the chaste Ass ma is is appearance. Two , attempts to 'waggle have reeently bees nada in Shoreham h Acne, and bo7h have been finivated by the tact and 'liken of the Storage' coast guard. Us Tau/edgy, the 1321 last , the sank John and Mary, of C den. sten came into the harbour with oysters. She bed on board 73 tabs o: spirits of brandy, emigrated under the oysters, all of *kick were seis.A. The crew were saki n before tre magistrates at &if ning sad remanded until Frii'ay, tAo 26th instant. Vie vessel seized is well found and topper fastened. A French boat was discovered on the be eh, seer Brackletham lane, parish of Est Withering, it& the 1 ihk kamptost distriet, on the wonting of the 20th instant. by the asset 13'11 , appowsi to have indict a I neeeargo of is 4 spirt:-, with which the ganglier' got clear off. Net of a bot le of French wine was left in the boat. doable the importation of the preceding year, for they were to the 'cleat of 770/47 quartan of sore. and 989,637 cwt, of eons meal, repeessatiog a mosey va'ne for the impatinion of the kat three months real to erase of 2 090,0001. star ling. This was important statistical laforma• leo, from tilloal returns, and beyond the pee of dispute and he saw no rea son to doom. say I. the damask They could not fail to see the isaportsaes of a free yiekliag gyp, fetching from 300. to 38s. per quarter • sad he did am see why Hautrehire, when then were tioussads of mires of suitable land, now almost se altogether unprelastive, should not be ems a inabse-growing meaty, and if you will not mama it seed it to those who will. The idle sends leads would at 88 c• bosoms prodastive. There was no doubt of the het ; the trial had been made, sad there wee iadiepatable evidence in favour of a liberal and isalteshatiag where of the maise. The ham or rejadies had been brawl through, and that was a great peat seised. Whoa he spoke of sasoraiful ex. palmate is serehlaad, he did sot speak out of the book ; he was at hams with them, end where the teat of truth was at hand. Bat, beyond their own district sad about his home to the Pyrenees. he had seen Showers& of scree re dressed from sterUi!y, as it were, and made rich is the him bandry of males. Tee, ha had seen hundreds of mere sand lead brought into cultivation and made worth 261. an sae. whisk previastly to malt cultivation would not have fetched Si an acre . (Hear, bear, and chars.) Now, with respect to the cultivation of the forty.day mass in &viand, he had bad great difficulties to contend with. In the Brat place, be had ea a sham of land, to say nothing of situation, which ' especially In a great trial, wee t oportanr. Nctirithetanding the experiments made under his own sureerikutes both in 'nodal (a very unlikely spot) and in a rural district of Hampshire, the experiments had been perfidy successful and sivishietory„ Hr. WYAT f—What was the produce. We like to get to fats ? _ HERNE replied that he should have them, and Indic potable tactile too. la their own meaty—in Hanipshire—a very few miles from that place, as meek as fifty bushels of maize earn per acre had been gathered this year, althustek wow circumstances over which then was no control the seed was pat Into the ground later then it ',light to hive been, gad the soil was far from being in a fit condition for depositing the _med. Toe probable average producer was " 46 4 ealogallfd. Taking the drills at twenty-six inches wide, and Ike pleats at ten inches distant, there would stead 27,600 plants is ea etre, which at amen oohs to the quart of seed—and that was a liberal allowance, thirteen being the average—there would be *WM quarters to the sere. But la presides one-fourth less. This number of plants stand on the ground, yielding about fifty bushels. He bad hand of (woes yielding 100 bushels per acre, but he was n-01,81)1114 his statistical facts to its cultivation in the present year in England- He had had ex. perieuee himself of sorts from various °Gantries, from India, America, end from Turkey, but he had confiner him self in his experiments to the growth of a sort which might be cultivated with success , in England is an average summer weather. He believed that he bad succeeded. The experi ments of the year he invoked confidently in his svour, and be bed still higher hopes and more sanguine eapectations in regard to the future. tie had good rowan to say that he bad by hie own efforts originated and brought to ttieir own soil anti climate • suitable maize wholly independent of or as a follower of anything that had been attempted before him; and he might, perhaps, in all suitable humility, apply to his exertions the language of Loru ll.con, " L a men perform that which bath not been attempted before, or attempted and given over, or bath been sebievid but no:. with so good circumstances, he shall purchase more honour than by effect ing a matt. r of grist r difiLulty or eist,e wherein he is but • follower." (The speaker resumed his seat amidst canal , derable applause.) EMBEZZLEMENT BY A POST-OFFICE CLERK.—For a I , considerable period numerous complaints have almost cone ' stoutly been making to the post-office authorities by peril's residing in this and other towns of the loss of letters coo t.iniog mosey ; and, from the local arrangements of the post office, suspicion was almost invariably oast upon the B •nriek pot-dike. These losses have latterly attained such a height that it was necessary to endeavour at least to discover the de : linqu, nt, and according)) a trap was laid, into which it was thought probable the guilty party would fall. Letters from Northumberland to Edinburgh and the north are sorted in the pas'-i•tfice in this town, and here only are the bags for these places made up. This being the amuse ment, two letters were despatched on Wednesday from Alowick by one of the inspectors of the London Poet office, addressed, one to a party in Edinburgh, and the other to Copse, the one contaiaing a is vertign and nine postage stamps, all marked, the other c intainang a new Kirin Inca, also marked. When the mail arrirr din Edinburgh the let ters were not found in the bag, showing at once that they must have been abetracted at the Berwick post office. A telegraphic notice wee immediately conveyed to Alawick to this effect, and the official who posted the letters in gues.ioa came to this town for the purpose of making the necessary investigation. On his armed here, between five and six u'clock in the evening, a warrant was obtained from O. Gilchrist, Rel., arse of the magistrates, to search the pertain and houses of the post-office clerks, and, accompanied by Mr. Prondloot, the police officer, he proceeded immedistely to put the warrant into execution. Oa searching Richard Elbert, the second clerk, the sovereign, the Morin piece, and the stamps were found on his person. Of course a warrant was imps Mandy made out for his committal to prison. On Thundey the prisoner underwent a private examination before the mayor and the other magistrates peanut, and was committed for trial at the next Northumberland mines. Mr. Rowland, stil.citor for the prisoner, minded to watch the proceedings. Oa &opined in to admit the prisoner to bail, the magistrates required two sureties of 2001. each, but it was stated to be impossible for a person in his situation in life to procure such heavy bail. He theta re females in custody. This case has excited csnaideratde haulm in the town from the pri souse's I reviaus good character, and his being long con nected with the Post-office.—Berwick Warder. A LADY'S POCKET PICKED OF 4001.—Early yes terday forenoon, the wife of Mr. Hill, the architect, put into her purse Bank of England notes to the amount of 4001., for the purpose of taking liven to her husband's office, in order that they might be ultimately placed to his credit at the back. On her way to New.etreet, however, mom. panied by her little boy, she had occasion to go through the Market-hall, and, shortly after quitting the vicinity of the Bull-ring, ehe found that her purse, with its 4001., had vanished. Within/ bad occurred to make Mrs. lidl suspect she hat been robbed, but there can be no doubt that one of those little rooms who swarm is our streets Sound himself the asexpected t armor of a fortune, who, a moment before, had not a farthing in the world. Information was at once riven to Superintendent Stephens, and toe detective force were ems vs the alert; bar, up to going to press last night, nothing had been heard of the money. A reward of 2W. has been offered for the remover, of the note., the anneben of almost all of which are known, and of rousts payment has bees stopped, as far as is practicable.—Biresing. Jour. ALLOTMENTS eon SPADE LABOUR.—The Rev. T. Bowen, of Stoke Hammond , has recently caused 15 scree of land, in that parish, to be allotted to the poor for cultiva tion by spade labour. The act is an excellent one. We should rejoice to see every working man in the kingdom in the poseeseion of a plot of ground wherewith to obtain the bountiful produce of the teeming earth ; if such were the cue, a bbtais, as well as individuals, would be greatly bene fited. Some persons unfairly avail themselves of an undue profit from land let out to plots. In illustration of this we may observe, that we know of many instances in which sgri. colourists let some of the wont of the land on their farms at more than double what they pay per we. In some cuss the rent is rtquired in advance, in addition to the abort rental. Notwithstanding the, such an excellent savings' batik is the land. when well managed, that its pos session is, even on such terms, greatly advantageous. Of nuns it would In saws so if the owners of the soil would give them oplortanities of being first instead of second tenants. In this matter than is a wide scope for the ' really wel l- disposed landowner to hen& the community, and himself at the same time. Every landlord might, in snits a new lease, stipulate for a certain number of acres ro he underlet to farm labourers employed on the estate. — Bucks Advertirer. Tan Rivals Don, Trent, end Derwent have been so swollen by great rains in the North Midland Hills, that they have overflowed at various places not usually subject ' to such mishaps. At Derby three persons have been drowned in the crease and floods of the Derweat. Attila %TIDE CASE.—At the petty semione held at Stratton, on Thursday, 4.11 inst., Wane C. N. Bray, Eag , the Rev. 1 Davie, and the Rev. W. Lae, magistrates, a bastarday ease came on which crested some considerable degree of ezeitement, in consequence of the extraoedinary drenmetaltere connected with it. The parties is guidon were Mary Dinner, a girl about 18 years of age, of Lasalle, applicant, and Edward Cole, of Stratton, yeoman ' a married man, defendant. What suited the public mirid so lunch was, that Mary Dinner charged s pervon as being the father lof ler child wane lit le time before she left Cole's servile', which she has since stated was untr.le. In the coons of the investigation the girl Mated that stout January last she used her mister. Edward Cole, for some money to provide for her hpproaettieg eenffianend. He directed her to apply to a neighbour, sad borrow their bunch of key., wheh would unlock the drawers wheys he kept his cash, and take what she wanted, which, she 'Aid, he stated he could not give h , r himself, because Mrs. Cole kept the key. keorling to this permute' n, the girl takes not 7e. 6d., when Cole ir steady turns round on her and tells her if she did not pat the child on some *be, be would seed her to gaol ; and to frighten the poor girl, bag her she would be transported: he then named a person who she was to say was the father. The bench made an order on the defendant for 2e. 61. per week for the child, with an expenses. The isdhsnent populace, to the number of about 200, met to gether in the evening with lighted torches, and paraded the town with an of of the putative father, which at last was committed to the l am es.—Correrpoodent of the Western Times. THE RECENT CHILDBIRTH CONCEALREET AT HOBBVIIT.—APPILEILIINtION Or lilac CIiAVIX AGAIN. — Ili,. Craven came from Lancashire to liorbure slot g with her reputed father daring the afternoin of Thursday, the 19th itis•aza, and at about ten o'eleek the same evening abe was arrested in Mr. Craven's dereliimg.house by constables Hun!, Moulding, and Ow. On Friday nut she and Con stable Geo storied off to Waltell Id in Mr. Craven'e gig; she mounted the • tiver's seat, sad then drove to the Woodman Inn, Wak• field, epparently quite lancnicented and regard less about the matter, although may persons asvembled to have a gni at her. Shortly after her arrival at Wakefield she was taken to the Court-house bef ire T. H. pworth, when it was arranged between Mr. Highest sad Mr. Stringer, that she should be liberated on Mr. Highest and herself entering into a recognisance for her appears - ea at the Coen-house, Wakefield, on Moeda,' seat. After the rscog tannin was enured into she drove off, alone in the gig to Mr. Craven's residence, where we understand she lulu re maine.— Wakefield Journal. THE OORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK. Man the Mark-bee Ileprem.] The firm tone by which the trade in wheat was thareaterieed sheet the middle of the meath has been sue ended by a reastioa, and a part of the advance thee esta blished is prices has agar bra lest. Meanwhile only mo derato supplies have been brought forward by the farmers, sad the defiles mane abnegate be attributed to say Menem in the delivesies ; indeed, soling hes ocesnedof ardor to alter the pail rof Madre, and we are eonrequently inclined to Writer* the rallies to the natural felling off in the de land wldshallm be masted to follow after the merchants and millers periwig what they deemed sufirent to provide foe their priori trate. The weather has, dens, the last two or throe weeks, been ea favorable for all entriber laboots as could posaibly be dared, sad in the asthma part of the kingdom a very Imp breadth of land has been sorra with wheat. The son mpation of more liberal supplies from the growers, after this end other artrau-labours shall have been completed, has no doubt had some induces en the operations of buyers, who having probably secured enough to carry these on for a week or two, may consider it prudent to ;postpone farther purchases until such time as the markets shell have become better sup plied. If these conclusions prove correct, some further de cline in the value of new wheat may be calculated on ; but owlets to the reduced state of the stocks of old in all parts of the kingdom, we do not deem a reduction in prices of the latter probable. The almost complete silence which ie now direct with regard to the potato crop leads to the conviction that there is not much to complain of. 'the lilting and pitting of this root it drawing to a elan in most parts of the country ;and it the disease had been very extensive, we Mold hardl y Mae tailed to have received daily amounts of Me =lschia which the praise of digging must, in tnat are, have afforded evi dent., of. An opinion is therefore becoming prevalent that the loss from disease will prove le.e than was at one period feared ; and this atauranoti may also have some Milne:Lee on the haute range of prices. The arrivals of grain tram the continent of Europe have not been large of late, either her or at the outeports ; but at Liverpool a considerable quantity ot flour and wheat have this week been received from the United States and Ce tera. The seers' impression appears to be that the sup plies from that quarter will not be followed up ; end it is likewise probable that the receipts from the Baltic will be on • more moderate scale than heretofore. The decline iu the price of wheat has amorted to about 2s. per qr. at some or the markets in the agricultural districts, held since Mon day last; and at most of the large consuming towns a re duction of Is. to 2i. per qr. on the extreme rates realised the previous week has taken place. The demand fee wed wheat is already *Unmaking, especially in the southern markets ; and in the course of another week or two the inquiry for that purpose may be expected to cease altogether. In the north, the weather h.s lark, been as favourable for preinriag the land sad sowing r with us; and our letters trout Boothend innnu us that a vast amount of work had been dune. The dull account. from hence ap pear to have had their usual isfluence, and though the supplies were not large, either at E , iimurgh or Glasgow, wheat was easier to buy on Weduesday than on that day week. F.One Ireland we learn that opinion had undergone a good deal of change in regard to the extent of the potato disease, but we are nevertheless led to believe teat the disorder has proved more prevalent there then matins side of the Channel, and that its 'fleets will hereafter ba felt. The entail trade had, mcenwhile, become very dull ; end tine value of wheat and outs had tended downwards at the principal markets. Moderate shipments of corn and flour were in proems to England, norwithstanding the discouraging advice§ from hence, and the unsatisfactory resultuf previous consignments to the English markets Nu Mutates has yet taken place in the arrivals of wheat coastwise into London, only 3,467 qrs. having come to hand dueler the week ending this (S...turday) evening, nearly all from Essex end Kent. The offers from Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire have, however, been inure numerous this week tine at any previous period sines harvest; and not withstanding the smallness of the receipts coastwise, and the trifling character of the show by land carriage wimples from the n. %labouring ecstatic!, the trade in wheat has remained In an r xosedisigly dull state. On Wednesday the tew runs exhibited on the Esser and Lent stands could not be pieced, though freely offered at the saluted terms of Monday. Fur cargoes to be skipped from the east coast, rather less money was in some instances taken ; still buyers were exceedingly cautious, and the busi age. done was altogether unimportant. On Friday there was even less disposition to buy than earlier in the week, but sellers were unwilling to accept ler money, and where sales were made tenser rates were r. shoed. The supplies of English wheat having for some weeks pest (assisted entirely of new, the millers nave been obliged to employ old foreign extensively for mixing, and the stocks of the latter in i.ranary hare cunerqut idly diminished mate rial)y. The flair qualities have, therefore, been held very firmly ; and, nutevithstanding the reaction which has w eaned us prices GI English, little or nu change has taken place in the value of foreign. Transacti ms have certainly been n quite a retail scale since Monday, but factors have fanned to make the slightest concessiou, and good useful parcels could nut b- bought cheaper on Friday enan in the beginning of the week. The ardivels (rum abroad have amounted to only 9,200 qrs. distrait the week ; and, as what may hereafter Dome to hand from the near continental port* Is lieely to 00litill principally of new, the prospects are is favour of the value of old wheat being maintained. The sale f r flour has hardly been so extensive this week so before, still the nominal top price of town-made has been steadily supported, and no quotable alteration has occurred in the value of other descriptions. The quality of the flour lately received from the Caned States is very inferior, and tale greatly short of the produce of the previous year ; tne best brands of old have consequently tom held at full terms. The arrivals of home grown barley have been mode rate, and little has been exhibited by land-carriage samples dace Monday. The inquiry for this grain was not lively either on Wednesday or Finlay, but factors =militated no particular anxiety to press sales, and tote beefiness transacted was at previous prices. Foreign barley has come to hand rather sparingly of late; and though we have still a small quantity on the market, the notion that receipts from abroad may hill off has bad some rafluenco, and a steady sale has been experienced for good heavy grinding sorts, at rates lolly equal to those entreat on Monday last. New malt having been far from plentiful, ha, commanded quite former Irises; old has moved e ff slowly &elate rates. A considerable proportion of the supply of oats is this wet k tram Ireland, viz , 7,633 qrs. out of a total of 15.210 qrs. Whilst the Irish receipis slow an increase, the Wile' off in the foreign supply is material, and factors have therefore demanded former terms. The large dealers have, throughout the week, acted cautiously; but needy buyers have been unable to purchase good corn below the currency of Monday last. Tin Irish oats ere not generally of file quality ; toe best parcels, weighing 42 1 bs. to 4344., have brought 20s to 215., whilst the light sorts have been offered at 16s. to 171 per qr. Beans hate c me to hand rather sparingly, and previous prices have been steadily maintained. Nothing of interest bas transpire d in peas since our last, and quotations have undergone DO change re Tibias notice. Indian corn has been neglected, ants though sellers have manifested a dilersitioa to aooept lower terms in order to facilitate business, we have not heard of a single bargain having been Foarron.-Very little change appears to have occurred in the value of wheat at any of the Baltic ports, and according to the latest advisees, prices were still relatively higher there than in this country ; hence but few ahipments were being made to Great Britain. Letters from Dantzic of the 20th indent, state that fine qualities of old wheat had become exceediegly scarce, and that full terms had consequent !) been asked. The preceding day about 160 lasts had been sold. For a parceled old 62Ibs. Cum wheat, high mixed, 435.; for fine Inland mixed of 621b5., 41e. • and for secondary qualities, 38s. to 40e. per qr. free on boak had been paid. During the week 580Iasts had changed bands. Freight had rather a ivanced • 36.8 d. had been paid fora smell easel for Leith ; 3.. 64. for a ship of larger sue, to load for Hall ; and 41. 9d. fur Liverpool. From Konigsberg we learn, under date of 19th October, that erne quantity of wheat had been bought there in ex pectation of orders received from the north of England, which had given an impetus to business. It was nevertheless the prevailing opibioa that prices would not be maintained when supplies of new increased. Old red wheat had been sold at 365., new at 335. 64. to 345., and new mixed at 33e. per qr. free on board. Small barley was quoted 13s. 6d., and large 160. per qr. Gee on board. In other articles very Bale business bad been done. Beans were held at 215., and tarts at 16e. 6d. per qr. free on board. At &Attie, and the 22nd inst., holders of Wheat were very firm; the supplies from the growers had not increased much. gad most of what had bet a brought forward had met buyers at previous rates-say 32e. per qr. for good dry quali ties of new red wheat, weighing 611 be. to 82lbe. per bushel. Fine Barley had been inquired fo r , and commanded equal to 170. 6d. per qr. free on board. Freights had advanced, 41. per rye. being then asked to London, end 3e. 6d. per qr. for wheat to the east coast. R chick letters of the 20th October, state that some slight inn ease ha d taken place in the deliveries of wheat fr..m the growers, and the export demand having been slow, the tendency of prices had been rather downwards. Good tifillte. qualities might have been bought at 345. to 35e., and barley ea 621 be. weight heal been offered at 160. per qr. free board. *game as at Rostock, with but little doing at any of the At Stu/send, Andean, and Griefswald , p ri c es w e r e abo ut a k e ll td b q :. rad w ., e tr ig ro h ewi tz aht fully *nee named. Letters from Hamburg, of Tuesday, state that the excite. meat caused by the advance which occurred at Mark-lens ee t h e 15th ()Amber, bad not then subsided, end that holders field wheat had demanded very full terms. Old Upland, of and now, 6141b5., 395. 6d. h bos a" rd realie . rule s ; had been in lively request, as much money as before, say 21s. 3d. M 21e. ed. for. 50ibe. new Basle, and 22e. to 224. 3i. for lOgihs. to albs. qualities. From ourports the sales had been rather important, about IKON barrels Danish Barley having &with hands Mace Itheprevious poet day, at pnoee varying from 17s. 6d. to 181. 3d. per qr., free on board. In the Dutch and Belgian markets but little variation appears to have taken place in quotations of wheat. At Ito:tertian on the 22nd, new Rhine, 600 n. to 62the. per bushel, was held at 365. 9.1. to 38e. W.; fine, of 62‘lbs. to 633 a weight, at 40s. to 41e., and old at rates varying from 37e. 64. up to 435. per qr. free on board, according to qua lity. OW Antwerp lotion of the 23rd Instant reprwnt business as dull, and prices rather tending downwards. 62lbe. sew Tunnies 111111 than obtainable at; equal to 38e. 61. to to,. per qr. free ea bond. Polish Olems, weighicg 611 be., wae quoted 86e. to Me. 13d• per qr. A temporary rife was maned at same of the French markets by the advances from hence of the 15th end 16th, but subse quently wheat receded again, and according to the latest 'comae from that enuatry business had become dull. At the principal porta in the Mediu Trams the Talus of wheat appear to have been well maintained ; and a: Mar seilles, on the 23rd, Pollak Odessa 60th. . to 611bs. weight was quoted at 33e. to 345. per qr. tree on board. From Galata we have advice, dated 11th October ; the beat qualities of Deft wheat were then quoted 25e. 2d. to 27e. bd., and infaior sorts tram 19e. 7d. to 24e. 511. per qr. free on board. Freights to Cock cr Falmouth, 9s. to 10e. per qr. for wheat. FLAX versus COTTON. [[tom the GISIVIC Daily Mail.) The late Mr. Marshall of Ueda, who was the most extensive flax spinner of England, said once that be yet ex pected to supersede cotton entirely by flax. The Daily News mentioned, a few days ago, that this object might be acoomplfehed, and that flex at p reheat may advantageously replace cotton. The paragraph is short, and we may there for* copy it again : " It perhaps may not be generally known, even by those engaged in fl ax, that by completely robbing the fibre of all its gem, we get immediately • fine feathery material like raw cotton, only somewhat @trouser ; the strength of the flex is rather diminished by this process, but still the fibre is much superior to cotton, and it may be psased through all the present cotton machinery in the subsequent processes. This cannot fail to be highly interesting, now that we aro threatened with a scarce and consequently dear and inferior supply of cotton ; and sines much flax stalk is thrown away, both at home and in India, the plant being cultivated for the seed, it foram we have ben. prinui facie, a much lees ex pensive raw materiel than cotton." A similar experiment was attempted, and a patent was, ' we believe, taken out soma yams ego, for preparing flax in this manner ; but the scheme was not, we believe, success ful. and it was abandoned. Flax is generally higher in price than cotton. East India cotton is often sold for Us. to 30e. per cwt.; while very ordinary flu brings a higher price. No other agricultural product varies so widely in value as flax, not from the state of markets so much as the quality of the article. We have seen flax sold for 141,. per cwt. and for 255. The quality depends greatly on the cars bestowed in preparing the crop after it has been pulled ; and, therefore, in some quarters of Ulster, where it is extensively cultivated, the farmers are now in the habit of selling the crop on the ground to parties whoa* business is to prepare it for the market . This dial nen of labour is convenient in two resp:cts fur the grower. He obtains the return of mone y earlier than by the common process, and , s relieved from • cczaiderable responsibility in the prep nation of his crop. The value of the flax in a parish is thus undoubtedly increased, and its cultivation must be greatly promoted by every reduction of risk and delay in mining its price. Toe ethane mewioned by the Daily News does not lead se to expect the employment of flax generally for cotton. The world needs both. The demand for them is not likely to be diminished ; and the ordinary linen trade will consume all the flex that can be produce d here or in the colonies. We pay at present four or five millions sterling per annum for flax to Runk chiefly, and we pay cash. Bunn taxes our manufactures extremely, whin we take its flax free of duty. The increased growth of this plant in ilieter is requi site for the linen trade there, and Ireland still imports largely from the continent. This importation implies a waste or means and • wsw. of energy consistent with the character usually ascribed to that country, although unjustly, so fax as Ulster is concerned. A similar or a greater degree of negli gence is exhibited here. The Irish lima trade is far more. nearly supplied with the raw material from Ireland then the Scotch trade from Scotland. No comparison exists in that respect between the countries: ft r the crop is almost entirely neglected here, and some old leases proscribe its enaltivation. Agriculturists are now wiser, and allow it a place in the rotation suitable for a great proportion of our nil. We have been informed by eminent sgneulturists in Ireland, that its place in a proper rotation cannot be easily supplied. In some distrie's of this country it hes been more extensively introduced within a few years, and, as we bare lately stated, with great profit to the growers. The na ture of the crop renden it most advisable in a district where Moue is abundant. Oa that etc .nut no other crop would be more suitable or more profitable in the western highlands or islands, if the soil and climate were compgtent for its growth. On the last particuler wo have no douht regarding many ial .nds and many distil, is of the highlands. We referred some time ago to the state of the wheat crop under good management in Islay, and the answer ailbrded by practical experience in that island, to assertions iudu ed store by indolence and prejudice than any other wide/ regarding these exit wive diecricni. We know that labour is deficient in the higlinids, if it were rightly applied ; but in the meantime, the introduction of this cultivation in many quartets would secure the landloru's rent and the tees:it's subsicence. Hemp and flax may be produced advantageously . in the North American colonies. They crow luxuriantly in Nova Slone 1111.1 in New Brunswick. Labour in these provinces and in Lower Canada is not high-priced, while land is very cheap; and an humane freight in this class of products might be snouted by a very sliAbt encouragement of their culture. The advadtage of looking to this country and the colonies for raw material in obvious to any trader. All parties agree that if we can sell go als pr fleshly in exchange for the pro , duce we require to buy, this mode of pasmeut is better than in cash. Two colonies and the Lome farmers do not want. inciney. They invariably take goods; and all the four or flee millions ;mid to theountinent in gold, for fin, might be, with great advantage, paid at home and to the colonies in goods. Toe linen trade might closely resemble the hen trade, of which the net. 'ante to the country is the proceeds received by the imminent,. A BUST OF MENDELBSOHN bag been placed in hoot el the orchestra of the Sit iningham Muds hell. BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES FOR THE PoOlt AT BIHMINGMAM.—The first stone of a building to be devoted o tne penman of providing hatha and wash houses for the poor, wee laid at Birmingham verderdey, he the mayor (Se' unel Thornton, Fen.), assisted by tits mawdsws of the town council, and other SkalerllOts ut roe borou,go. Tut, op propriced to this purpose le in Beet-a rset, adjoining the brive foundery • stahlmement of the Messrs Harcourt. There is to he about one hundred baths and fifty wish houses ; the lost of which is estimated at about 10,0001. The usual formal ceremony upon sack °anima haviug been gone through, the arrsesblaye was briefly but appropriately aedressi il by the mayor, Mr. Alderman Culler, and the It-v. J. Cef O'er (formerly of Chelsea), who spoke of the great social adventages that would result (rem the provision of adequate means of cleansing, and of public parks and other places of recreation for the poor. As a proof of the extent to which public baths and wash-houses were made available by the public, he cited the fact of no km than 170,000 persons having visited the establishment for this purpose in Lei.' ster-equare since the month of January in the present year. Ther• persons whose philanthropic minds has led them to turn their at tention to the improvement of the at cial condition of the poor were as are that it was no alight importance to turn a dirty men int, a clean one. As long as the lower elms of cur fellow creatures w re left to • a 1 rw in squalid filth, would the appliances of religion, or of edu cation, in effort to improve his social coed:don be found to be altogether is vain. * a of all parties were now of one opinion, that this of all other gunk no, was the questiod of the day—'he condition of England qua ati M. All @academe does and contentions gave way to the one absorbing topic— the improvement of the physical and moral condition of the people. With referer ce to the ex teneiun of the polities' privi leges of the people, he begged to corrects supposition that cler gymen were opposed to this; for his pert the only leer be he had on the subject was that the education of the p ogle should not be of a sufficient clutrectt r to fit them for the exercise of their civil duties ; otherwise he was in no way afraid of the use of political power by the people. Tree rev. gentleman strongly urged the necessity that existed for the establishment of publiu paiks and places of recreation in such • town as Birmingham, and concluded by congratalat ing his auditory that the step now taken was in the right direction. Beneath the stone wag drpnitcd various borough muniments and the coins of the present reign, resented by the Midland Banking Company for that purpose. ANOTHER INCENDIARY FIRE AT CLAVERING.—OR Friday night "perk, about balbpast 11, a smell cow-shed attached to the dwe Hine-house of the widow Barker, a re spectable person at Clavering, was found to be on fire, and was quickly burnt down, causing the destruction also of the house, a smell barn, piggeri e, &c., and communicating to two other dwellings, destroyed them also, theis depriving four families of their homes: the greater part of the furniture was alto consumed. Fortunately three cows bis longing to Mrs. Barker were in en adjeining meadow, or they must have been arterificed. Superintendent Clarke and Constable Piney were quickly on the spot, and finding that some ill-Anjou existed against Mrs. Barker by a youog man who was paying his addresses to her daughter (but greatly against the wanes of her family, on arc .uLt of his general bad character), he was narrowly watched, strict inquirks were instituted respecting his mememente, and on Sunday night this innividual, named George Chipperfitld, was se cured by toe above-named edit:ere. Accordingly on Tues day an inveetigation of the eircumstanoce was humid before Richard B:rch Wolf, Esq., and Captain Henry Byn;, at the Newport police station, which terminated in the prisoner being fully committed for trial.—The pnnc•pd evidence against Chirps-Hi-Id was the threats be had made ma of respecting Mrs. Barker, previoueiy to the fire, in consequence of the interference she had made as to the acqucintance b. tween him and her daughter. The young woman very reluctantly gave any evidence in the case, and was threaten , d by the magistrates to be committed fur re fusing to substantiate the tea Maws! she had before given to the police ofil.ters The prisoner's footmarks were traced from the fire towards his house across a fild.—Chelniforel Chronicle. GREAT FALLING-OFF IN TUE VALUE OP LAND:. 03 the 18th lost., at Athecry, Mr. Thomas Connell, auo- Unser, put up for a rie by auction several lots of land, the prcperty of L ad Orson:ore, in that at iglibeurho,d, but now under lie courts. We would here observe those lands were held by the lite truants at from 20e. to 345. per acre, for the greater part of which a single bid could not be pot. The followicg is the archr in which they were put up : 81 acres, knocked down fcr 31. per annum ; W acres, no bidd, rs ; 10 acres, knocked down for 41 per annum ; 9 open, do. do. do. 31.35. do. ;10 scr• e, no bidders ; 6 eery, no bidders ; 101 ser knocked down for 21. per annum ; 20 acres, no bidders : 20 SOW, **bidders ; 74 acres, knocked down far 81. per annum ; acres , no bidders ;35 acres, do. do. ; 341 sac, do. do.—Galway Mercury.