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BRIGHTON, JULY 22. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE and the Ditches, of GLOUCESTER have beta much in public yesterday and' , to-Jay, chiefly as pedestrians; their Royal Highnesses are looking remarkably well. The Duke was on horse• back in the afternoon. for an hour oi two yesterday, ac companied by Cnunt KIELMANSIGGII and Major JONES Colonel HINNY WYNDHAM, of the Mb Royal Hussars, had the honour of dining with the Duke of CAMARIDGE, at the Palace, on Sunday. The Countess of Mat.atnsu RV had the honour of ♦isiting and re mining some time with the Royal Duchess, at the Pavilion,yesterday. Among the many distinguished Personages who left their names at the Palace yesterday and to-day, we noticed the following— The Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, Lord Kenyon, Mr. and Lady Amelia Boyce, Admiral and Lady E. Sotheby, Lord and Lady Hawarden, Lord and Lady Churchill, L a dy E. Fitzroy, Lady Susan Hotham, Sir David and Lady Scott, Ind General Sablonkoff, in the Russian service. Lord and Lady Ku.= ILY are among the last arrivals at Worthing. THE ARMY. This day Lord HILL, ai Commander of the Forces, held a Levee in his Office in the Horse Guards. The following General and ;bon 25 other Officers paid their respects to his Lordship-- Generals Sir George Hewett, F. Maitland, Earl of Ludlow. hart; Marquis Tvreedale; Lieutenant Generals Wetherall, De tliquire, Conran ; llajor General Sir Wm. Sheridan. EAST INDIA COURT MARTIAL Head-quarters, Camp Gorounda, Feb. 11. At a Native General Court Martial assembled at Neernuch, on the 14th January, 1328, of which Subadar Major Gunge Ram, of the 31st Regiment Native infantry, is President; Baney Sing, s epoy of the 4th Company let Extra Regiment of Native Infan try, was arraigned on the following charge— Charge—" Baney Sing, sepoy of the 4th Company Ist Extra Regiment of Native Infantry, confined by order of Brigadier Lumley, commanding the hleywar field force, on the following charge— " For having, on or about the 14th of October, one thousand right hundred and twenty-seven, in the cantonment of Nermuch, murdered Luchniun, a native woman." Upon which charge the Court came to the following.decision— Finding-a" The Court having maturely and deliberately weighed the evidence Tlefore them, and o hat the prisoner has urged in his defence, ate of opinion, that he, Haney Sing, sepoy of 4th Com pany Ist Ewa Regiment, is guilty of the crime laid to his charge." &utence—" The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the crime laid to his charge, do sentence him, Raney Sing, sepoy 4th Company Ist Extra Regiment, to be hanged by the neck until he is dead, at such time and such place as the Commander in Chief may be pleased to direct." Not confirmed. (Signed) CONIBERMERE, _. • General, Commander-in-Chief. Remarks by the Right Honourable the Commander-in-Chief : Although it is not unusual, under peculiar circumstances, in Bri tish Courts to consider presumptive evidence sufficient to condemn a person to the severest penalties of the law ; yet it is never deemed conclusive when positive or circumstantial proof can be obtained. In the proceedings of the General Court Martial now before the Commander-in-Chief, his Lordship observes, that the evidence on which the prisoner had been found guilty and sentenced to death was purely presumptive; whilst there were several points of fact which, had they been closely investigated, would have tended satis factorily to establish the innocence or guilt s f the prisoner. It appears by the evidence given before the Court, that, about _ . . . . four o'clock in the afternoon, a cry of murder was heard in the lines of the regiment to which the prisoner belonged—that a large 'converse of people assembled at the prisoner's hut—that the de ceased was found dead, with her throat cut, and the prisoner lying senseless on his churpoy, with a knife sticking in his breast, having also some other •fight wounds; no inquiry was made by the Court for the person who first discovered the murder, how it was disco vered, from whence the cry of murder originated, or whether any person had been seen near the but by whom the deed might have been committed. It was also presumed by the Court, that the knife w►ich was found in the prisoner's breast had been used for the mur der et the woman—yet no endeavour was made by the Court rte ascertain whether the knife had belonged to the prisoner, or to any other person. l'hese were important points, which should have been brought under the notice of the Court by the Depu:y Judge Advocate, who conducted the proceedings, and whose duty it was is produce the fullest and clearest evidence on the case, or to show that it was not possible to obtain any more circumstantial evidence than he had brought forward. Under these circumstances, though inclined to believe that the Caen have passed a joist verdict, the Commander-in-Chief is bound to give the prisoner the full benefit of all doubts, and has, therefore, withheld his confirmation of the proceedings; but his Lordship directs that the prisoner may be removed out of the military can tonments, and dismissed the service. By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, C. FAGAN, Adjutant-General of the Army. NAVAL INIELLIGENCF.. Maas AIIIIIII/ THIS DAT.DLIbiII2 I—Waterford I—Guernsey and Jersey I—France I—Lisbon 1. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Lisbon, dated 15th July It bas been °Sadly announced on 'Change to-day that the blockade of Oporto is taken of It is reported that the DMus lmperidor, Ilzamoso, bound to Terceira, which sailed hence yesterday, has been captured by a privateer, in sight of land, which did not show her colours. The Captain asked for her papers, and finding them in the name of Don Minors. I. King of Portugal, said that be did not knew such a person, and seized the vessel. The crew were put into a fishing-boat, and returned here today. It is reported that there are several other vessels of the same de scription cruising of the Tagus." The Sophia transport, bound iso New South Wales, struck on Arklow Banks on Saturday, having thrown all her deck lumber and guns overboard. She makes ten feet water an boor. A survey will be held this day. 13w., Jety 23.—Wind &W.—Arrived the Tobago, LARDLII, from Quebec. The outward-bound remain. Poarnsoern, Juhr 23.—Wind W.—Arrived the Dryad, Swrs lOU, from Montreal. Passed the Emerald, HOOD, from Quebec. Sailed the Mary, BILACMCSOIT. for Bourdeaux and the Cape. FALMOUTII, JOLT tie.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived from Loudon the Hector, GRAY, for Trieste: Arrived the Sandwich packet, hem Lisbon—saikd 16th instant. Sailed the Coromandel, Boras, for Ceylon and Calcutta; and the London packet, BLOOM; for Philadelphia. FOLKSTON; JOLT !S.—Arrived the Water Lily, from Jamaica; sad Orate, from Sydney. Wrrwouvu, Jura O.—Arrived the Emmeline, Tumuli, from Neva Scotia. l'ootadmm t3.—Arrived the Helen, TATLOIL, from Riga ; and Alert; Bsly, from Memel. Cowes, JULY U.—Wind W. by S.—Arrived the Wanderer, Wsunes.i, from Havanna ; William, GRAY, from New Orleans; mad erre., Loscor.x, from George Town. iIMIIIIIIIS, JOLT' 23.—Arrived the Eliza, AMPLE., from New Toth. MAPAATIt, JULY 23.—Arrived the Waterloo. Daus, from Ja- °menace, JULY 21.—Arrived the Star, ll , Downe., tram Lama. • LivaarooL, Jut.' 22.—The Alice, Romans, is said to have been int near St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, on the 23d ultimo. Ar rived the Witham Appleton, Evian, and Ardwell, NewLowns, Irvin Quebec ; Hero, Jacasos , from Mobile; McLellan. Hll3Olllll, l id Edward Downy, PUCDY, from New Orleans; Ceres, &au emus, Andes, KaLogrue, Arabella, Fosse", and Hanover, Bas e:um, from Charleston ; Flora, Davis, from Baltimore; John and Francis, MaLs.mn, from Quebec ; Sarah, GALL, from Pictue ; Aid, Latta, from hiiramicht ; Royal &sward, —, Port Medway, —, aiid Anwick, %MM. from B.y Chalcer ; Corsair, Anmeraorro, 'rum Nova Scotia; William Ogilvy, —, and Ceres, Patti, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Wilson, SIMPSON, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick &mouth, Hans, from bliramichi; and Canada, GsamAar, from New York. The following letter has been received at Lloyd's: " The ship George Canning, on the 19th of Se ptemiser,lB27, Pa. steering S.R. by R. fresh gale from the westward, observed the *liter decidedly of a greenish east, as if we were in soundings, lat. Preceding norm 39.40. 5. long. 26. 43. R. by lunar observation. of 16, brought forward by chronometer et 8 a 34 of the 18th Sept. Tl l e Officers remarked to me they thought we were in soundings The water was muck more discoloured teen the day before. At soon w e hove to, and wooded in en fathom. very line sand, with reddish specks. lam of opinion if we had sounded at 8 a it. we should have had less water, as the water was muck discoloured at that time, but having found the thermometer at that time a deg. ih rlnee in the water thao tit the air, was what hindered me from heavin g to at eight o'clock. At 5 P.M. rounded to. and struck bottom at 100 fathoms, hard rocky bottom, with rotten ground. The water at that time bad nearly resumed its dark blue colour. I have called WI Canning Rank, and have no doubt of the position being nearly correct, as having made the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul's, en the sth of ()ember. Our chronometer was 10 to E. and lunar to W. (Signed) " JAMES CLARKE, Commander." THE HARVEST. ---► A errrecpondent has sent us the following iiints for the preservation of the crop, which the state of the wea ther seems to threaten— A large farmer in Staffordshire, in wet ha , vest sea sons, manages to save, and comply t-ly gather, his corn and grain by the following method: He arts the crops ripen before he has them cut; he then seizes the intervals when the sun is on, and the corn dr y and warm, to cut:: and having a great number of shed , , out-houses, barns, and sheep-shelters, he carries home as much of the crops, thus dry and warm, as his covers will receive, every other day, and sets it upright (if wheat), either in sheaves or opened; and after two days, in which it will dry and harden more, puts it into narrow sheltered stacks, with upright trunks or poles to let the air through ; by which he is always successful. If corn, lodged before ripe, be raised gently so as not to break the stalks, with an angle-rod, and a few long sticks, springles, or heathers, hedge headers (or strong thick pack-thread), be laid on short sticks stuck in the ground, with forks at top to receive the headers, to hold it up a little while, the changing of the wind will very often set the corn upright again, and save it to ripen. LORD MANNERS. The truly classical and elegant testimonial from the Bar of Ireland, which has been prepared since his Lordship's departure from that country, was presented to his Lordship on Wednesday last. It represents a Temple, three feet high, and two feet across the plinth, which is a curved sided quadrangle, upon which stand• figures of Egyptian hous. In the centre of the quadrangle rises an octagon base, seven inches deep, of great arckittctural beauty. On four entablatures, sur mounleu by busks, are represented, in alto relievo, the following subjects: King JonN signing Zsfagna Charm —the motto, " Nolan:us leges Anglia neutari *—Nloser receiving tr.e commandments on Mount Sinai, with a view in perspective of the Hebrew encampment—and Lycußcus swearing the Spartans. 11: the octagon base stands a circular centre, orna merled at the bottom with totes, having his Lordship's alms beautifully chased, opposite which are the arms of Ireland with two superscriptions inwreaths to correspond, " TO TKOMAII LORD lIRAINDIRS TROX TOR PAR OF IRILAND." The centre is surmounted by a highly embossed scroll border, with tour lions heads, from which spring tour consoles richly chased, and attached to four square pillars—the b.'ses of four Egyptian pilasters. On each of the consoles stands a statue of exquisite workmanship —Wi%clum, Prudence, Justice, and Piety, so arranged, that the attribute of each figure corresponds with each subject of the entablature beneath. The pilasters sup- port a noble frieze, highly ornamented a ith an oak band and Grecian honeysuckle. The top represents the law regalia, Chancellor's purse, mace, &c. sur• mounted by a crown. Al: the chased or embossed parts are of white or dead silver : weight of the entire 1620 oz. FlRE.—About one o'clock this morning. the premises of Mr. DEAN, corn chandler, Shoreditch, were dip coveted to be on fire, which, hut for the prompt arrival of the engine•, and exertions of the firemen, would have proved very destructive in its effects. The fire was not got under until three horses belonging to the esta blishment had been burnt, together with a quantity of hay and straw. The number of Jews in Great Britain and Irelandis not supposed to exceed ten or twelve thousand, and I , many of these are migratory. A few days since, a female named Craig, who had attended on a family during their voyage from India, on board the Juno, landed at Gravesend, and on going to a private lodging house, she experienced a remai lc ably strong craving for food. Some refreshment was provided, of which she part sok very heartily, and, after taking a little brandy, she almost instantly expired.— Her husband arrived only a few hours after the melan choly occurrence, having just landed frosts another ship. —Maidstone Journal. WINCHESTER, JULY 22.—The expectation that his Grace tile Duke of Wellington would attend tl e Races drew a very numerous and fashionable company ; his Grace, however, was prevented attending by the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Duchess, with many other fashionable:, was present. In the absence of the Duke, his duties as Steward were ably performed by our worthy Member, John Fleming, Esq. The day's sport was good, although few horses are here. HARVEST IN THE UNITED STATES.—" There has, perhaps, never appeared in the vicinity of this city a greater promise of an abundant harvest than that which et present exists. The crops of grass, unusually luxu tiant, have in many places been cut, and, owing to the fine hay-making weather, have been cured in a state of great excellence, whilst the second growth is already beginning to cover the earth with the brightest verdure, free from any tinge of the yellowness frequently ob served at this season of the year, produced by intense heat, and the absence of a proper degree of moisture.' Fields of wheat and rye are seen waving in the richest luxuriance, rapidly becoming ripe fur the sickle, and pro mising, by their sturdy growth and heavy heads, to make a full return to the husbandman for the pains and labour bestowed upon their culture. The Indian corn, perhaps . the most graceful plant known in our agriculture, is rear ing itself in all its graceful symmetry, tree from the evils that often retard its growth, or destroy it altogether; and although the season is not sufficiently advanced to count- with a certainty on the productiveness of this use ful vegetable, liable as it is still to suffer from the parch ing droughts of Midsummer, we may look forward with hope that the strength it will have acquired by its rapid vegetation at this early date, will enable it to resist, in a great degree, any impression from unfavourable weather herealter."—Baiarnore Paper. Tuesday night a most daring and extensive robbery was c smmitted in the house of Mr. Foster, a jeweller 13, Aldgate, when property, consisting of seals, chains, rings, and other articles of jewellery, to the amount of 1,200/. were stolen. It appears that about eleven o'clock on Tuesday night. Mr. Foster's errand boy was sent out for some beer for supper. Mr. Foster was the only person in the house at the time, and he was in the room over the shop. The boy on leaving the shop shut the door, which was secured by a spring lock, and it is supposed that at that moment the thieves opened the door with a picklock, and entered the house. The boy, on returning with the beer, found the door open. An alarm was, of course, immediately raised, and every pan of the h•iuse was searched, except a water closet, which is behind the shop. No one having been found c incealed in the premises, Mr. Foster felt satisfied that if Vie thieves had entered the premises they had been aa. med. He had been up stairs, however. but a few minutes, when he heard a chair overturned in the shop, and on going down he discovered, notwithstanding the vigilabt search he had made, that some persons had concealed themselves in the house, and had carried off the property before mentioned. The thieves were evi dently in a great hurry, as the♦ lett behind goods to the amount of 2,0001. the principal part of which was disptayed in the window sad in other parts of the shop. THE NORTHERN COUNTIES. PUMA A CORRESPONDIDIr. I have visited, since I last ad'rrs•ed you, the va•ivus trading and manufacturing di•trrcts of Nintfiurriber- land, Durham, and the North Riding rif York-hire. In Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland, the shipping trade suffers much depression, especially at the two latter places. The commerce of Newcastle appears to have increased of late years, and there is at present some ac tivity in the port. At Sunderland, loud complaints ale made •f the stagnation in the shipping trade, though upon inquiry I find that above the average number of ships are building there. The state of the coal trade in these parts is too well known to require details: the actual monopoly which exists at the pits offers a bar to the operation of those principles which, in respect to other commodities, keeps trade in a healthy condition. Some pits are not worked ; in others the pitmen labour only a few hour., in alternate parties; the supply is thus proportioned, not to the effectual demand, but to what is considered as a remunerating return. Real competition, the essential and regulating principle of free trade, is proscribed in the working of coal, which is conducted like that of the precious metals. At North Shields, the usual clatter is nn longer heard, and the streets, if they were somewhat wider and cleaner, might be mistaken for the quiet haunt of fashionable idlers. ' Considerable progress is making in the new pier at Sunderland, a bold and useful undertaking. The mouth of the Wear will thereby become a very commodiou harbour for shipping, with the advantnes it derives from its matchless bridge of a single arai, admitting the passage of fall brigs without lowering their topmasts. In these cnuirties, as in other pal is of my journey, gaols ate enlarging ; in proportion to the diminntion of honest employment for the labouring classes, addi tional space must .of course be provided for them in poor-houses and in gaols. A very handsome town gaol has lust been completed at Newcastle, upon the panop• ticon principle. The interior is constructed with ela• borate regard to the health, comfort, and cleanliness of the inmates. The debtors' apartments (tenanted fet of expense) are neat and commodious; they must be enviable dwellings to some individuals. There h a roomy kitchen and a commodious yard. The felons' cells are almost equally good. Tne attention paid to, cleanliness and decency is remarkable throughout the prison. The sexes are kept strictly apart, and there a some attempt at classification of the prisoners, though not very judicious; for instance, a moral prisoner is sometimes confined with an immoral one, with the imple expectation that the contact must be favourable to the latter. The chapel (over the keeper's apari merits) is a plain but spacious and elegant room, where the prisoners ate so placed in classes that each indi. vidual is under the preacher's eye, whilst the classes are precluded from a sight of each other. There is a tread mill, used for crushing hr'rse beans; the labour has been found to be not only not prejudicial to the health of the prisoners, but decidedly the reverse. It is a lament Able spectacle to witness the havoc which the late heavy rains -have created in the agricul tural prosperity of the country. Almost all the rivers in Cumberland, Northumberland. Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, &c. have swollen to an extent unprecedented at this period of the year, and where the banks allowed it, have flooded the adjoining country. My own observation, and the tes timony of eye-witnesses in the districts remote from my notice, concur in inducing a belief that scarcely an instance can be referred to of such a sudden destruction of the farmer's hopes. I have seen arable and meadow land, almost as far as the eye could reach, converted from a luxuriant garden into a vast lake, the hay float ing in corrupted masses on its surface. This is the case particularly, I am told, along the high road from 1311 V• try, in Yorkshire, to Newark-upon-Trent. Fields of wheat are driven and laid as flat as if trampled by a herd of cattle. In the country about me, manufactories have been undermined and overthrown which had stood for years. Budges have been swept away, and small buildings have shared the same fate. The new bridge building at Cockermouth (beneath the old arch) •a nished in a night. 1 saw this erection about a month back, and anticipated its fate, should a flood happen; the centre was supported by clumsy props fixed in the bed of the stream, and acting as a dam. FROM THE COUNTRY PAPERS. BIDFORD I JULY 22.—The rain still continues its ta. •ages un the hay harvest, and excites the fears of the Lamers for the growing corn. The showers are so heavy, that they beat down the grain—the barley and rye suffer very much, and if the wheat were heavier in the ear than it is at present the mischief would be greaser. On Saturday last the evening was fine, and hopes we e entertained of a change of weather ; but St. Swithin's favours returned with redoubled force on Sunday— it rained in torrents all day—the water fell in sheet, and it seemed more like the effect that would be produced by an infinite number of those vessels that 'are used for watering the streets than ordinary rain. The waters I.f the river Ou‘e are in consequence out, overflowing the low countries, concerti° ; fields, with all their produce, into broad lakes, and sweeping away vast quantities of hay. A Gentleman told me, that the other day he saw in one place the produce of twenty acres floating upon the river. A far tner in this neighbourhood, who has thirty acres of hay down for some weeks past, says, that if it were swept away like that of many of his neighbours, he would be con tent; but as long as it remains upon the ground, he is put to the expense of endeavouring to save it in the intervals between the showers, but is continually disappointed. The corn speculators are abr• ad, watching the " turn of events: Just at this moment they are in great perplexity, because a few weeks of real summer weather setting in new would not only save the wheat, but probably produce a most luxuriant har vest. Their operations are therefore suspended for the present, while they are eagerly watching the appearances of things. To-day we have had a violent thunder storm: the lightning was remarkably vivid, and the rain de scended with tropical liberality. The electric fluid struck the house of the Moravian Minister in this town, but did no more mischief than knock off the chimney, displace some tiles, and make an ignoble lodgment in the scul lery. The whole neighbourhood was alarmed by the tremendous crash with which it was accompanied. FROM TUC RosTuß GARRITY. The morning of Friday last was showery, with partial gleamings of the sun, and the atmosphere was sultry and oppressive. About noon the clouds appeared violently agitated, and assumed the form of thunder clouds; the lower stratum was then evidently nearing the earth, and every minute becoming more dense. One cloud assumed a dull lead colour, and was almost sta tionary for some minutes. Some labourers at work in a field inWybertonFen noticed a r emai kable appearance in the hemisphere; they state a small cloud seemed suddenly to descend in the shape of a column, and as suddenly a similar cloud appeared to rise from the earth ; the two joined, and formed a vast column 40 yards in breadth, reaching from the earth to the clouds. It was quite black, and at a distance very much resembled smoke. When the column was perfectly formed, the magnifi cent body advanced rapidly in a direction from the ..mrll towards the north-east, accompanied by a loud rushing ,kitind, which resembled the discharge of artil lery. It was seen thus advancing for several miles un il it reached Wybeet m Fen ; there its power and ravages were distinctly visible to persons who were , within few yards of its track. rwn labourers employed in spreading mantwebn Mr. Clark's firm, at Wybeiton, perceived the column ap proaching, and retreated. The manure which they had been .pee.rtling was taken up by the whirlsvind,an dsome of it carried above an hundred yards. The terrific mass then crossed a wheat field, beating the corn close down to the earth; as the young straw easily bent, no further daMage was done to the corn. The breadth of the co lumn is plainly discernible by its track through the wheat, and exceeds 40 yards, for which breadth the coin is levelled as though some ponderous body had pressed it to the earth. The North Forty-foot Drain then interposed, but it speedily swept across, and kom the quantity of water it deposited immediately afterwards, there cAn be little doubt but that it drew up the entire body of water which spread across it: track. On the north bank of the Forty-foot, near the spot where the whirlwind crossed the drain, a farm-house and suitable buildings etre situated, occup'ed by Mr. Horsewood; and on this farm considerable damage was done. The column drew into its awful vortex a very heavy cart, which it lifted with violence from the ground, and carried with amazing velocity the distance of 42 yards, and then it was dAshed with great force to the earth; it alighted upon the shi f ts, which penetrated...flea/1y four tett into the ground. The whirlwind also took up an amazingly heavy roller from the same farm-yard, which is used to level ploughed land, and which requires four hones to draw it along the gr‘und; this huge machine it raised horn the earth, and actually carried forward a distance of 20 yards! After passing Mr. Horsewood's farm yard, the whirl wind proceeded.over another wheat field, and here it met with a labourer, who could not retreat sufficiently fast to entirely elude its power. The accompanying air of course partook of the violent motion of the whirl wind, and a portion of this came in contact with the labourer's dress, which it immediately set in motion. He made a violent effort, however, and springing for ward, eluded the terrible engine which would in another moment have caused his death. The column then passed towards Mr. Pepper's farm, where it committed m illy devastations; a large apple tree, standing in the orchard, was literally drawn up by the roots, and carried forward a considerable distance. Fifteen geese were also taken from the earth, to which they returned in a moment quite dead. A great number of pigeons were killed in a similar manner. BAREARD•CMITLLJULI 16.—1 n Swaledale the water has flooded many hundred acres of grass, and done great damage. Some individuals, who expected a very abundant crop, are bereaved of it, and behold with distress their property completely entered with sand, Etc. Horses, cows, pigs, sheep, and - trees, were carried away in the wreck. At Barnard-Castle little damage has been experienced ; but the Tees, on Sunday last, exhibited a most alarming sight; it being higher than it has been for years. WifITET, JULY 13.—For this last week we have had nothing but rain, which has made the livers in this neighbourhood swell greatly, and this morning a beau tiful suspension bridge, built at Ruswarp, at the sole expense ut James Wilson, Esq. M.P. for the city of York, was carried away by the torrent, • and every ves tige of it has disappeared, the greatest part of the floor having gone to sea. The damage done in this neigh bourhood must be very great, as the waters have swept whole fields of hay away, and the corn and potatoe fields are completely inundated. SHOTLEY Samos, JULY 17.—Sunday the Derwent rose higher by several feet than the oldest people in the vicinity can remember. The damage done in the hatless must be immense, as they were all covered with water, and from the rapidity of the current both the crop and soils are carried away. The damage at the paper mann. factory at Shotley Grove is very great; the whole of die dam-head and apron are gone, and great part of a new quay for the erection of another mill is swept away. Fortunately that part of the quay on which the sew buildings are erected have received no injury from the floods; although from the rain having penetrated the new walls which were not covered in, some have fallen and others will have to be taken down. Lintz Ford Bridge was forced down to Wellington Mill by the violence of the flood, and most of the wooden bridges have been carried away. A water-spout tell at the foot of the bank near Hamsterly Lodge, and washed part of the lodge away. GLASGOW, JULY 22.—From Saturday morning to Monday afternoon an immense quail ty of rain fell in this neighbourhood ; the clouds literally discharged torrents on our heads, and.long as is the period we have mentioned, there was scarcely any intermission in the deluge. The natural consequence was, that the Eden, Caldew, Patera, and other rivers overflowed their bank-, inundated the holm lands, and, in some parts, the water carried off a considerable quantity of hay and a few sheep ; but both the Eden and Caldew have fre quently been considerably higher than on that occasion. DUMFRIES, JULY 22.—An immense quanety • t rain has fallen of late, and the sky, we are very sorry to say, up to a late hour last night, gave no indication of a fa vourable change. A succession of violent thunder storms appear to have visited the whole country, and the Joni nal: are filled with sad accounts of crops lodged, build ings damaged, roads rendered impassable, meadows overflown, cattle, and, in some case-, men drowned, and valuable property swept away. On Friday last the thunder was prodigiously loud a few miles to the westward rf this town; and we have heard that at a place called the Garden, three cottages were struck with lightning, and the inmates injured and dread fully alsrmed. All our streams have been flooded to overflowing, and some damage done to the mea dow hay. The rye-grass, fortunately, is mostly In rick, and though the crops in many places have been partially lodged, the stalks are bent rather than broken; and various farmers have given it as their opinion, that they will rise again, or at all events fill, provided we have a few favourable breezes, accompanied by warm and dry weather. A distinguished agriculturist con nected with this part of the country, who lately tra velled as far south as Kent, informs us that the crops are better in Scotland than in any part of England he visited. The wheat he describes as being only middling, the barley excellent, and the oats fair. With such a prospect before us, we still fondly cling to the hope, that the weather, as the country people say, will .1 take up," realizing the husbandman 's must sanguine hopes, and filling the widow's heart with joy. ABROAD AND AT HOblL—The English abroad can never get to look as if they were at home. The Irish and Scotch, alter being some time in a place, get the air of the natives, but an Englishman in any foreign Cou►t looks about bun as it be was going to sieAl a to ukArd.—Mirror. be lb ,o- oro . of a • A 11.41 MM