Star. — London, England, 1829-08-03 00:00:00

THE KING. WINDSOR, AUGUST 2.--The KING left tho Royal , Lodge yesterday, and drove to the Fishing Temple, where he was shortly joined by the Duke of CUMBERLAND, who arrived on a visit to the KING. His MAJESTY, Royal Brother, and suite went on board the pleasure boats, and took an excursion on the lake until five o'clock, when they proceeded to the marquees, and dined. His MAJESTY, after dinner, returned to the Fts' Mg Temple, and enjoyed the diversion of angling. About eight o'clock the Duke of CUMBERLAND re turned in his travelling-carriage for London, and his MAJESTY drove back to the Royal Lodge. The KING took an airing this afternoon, and is expected to visit the Castle. 7 - • COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of CUMBERLAND left his residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, on Saturday morning, for the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, en a visit to the Kum. His Royal High nen dined with his Marren. and afterwards returned to town. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE gave a grand dinner, at an early hour on Thursday, at their resident* in Bushy Park, to the young Queen of Poe and the Ladles and Gen doom of her suite, who arrived from blebs= in the early part of the afternoon. Summonses were issued from the Foreign Office, Downing-street, on Friday evening, i.e holding a Cabinet Council terday afternoon. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon the assembled at the Foreign Office : those present were— n't Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, that Earls of Rosslyn and Aberdeen, Viscount Melville, Lord llenborougb, Mr. Secretary Peel, Sir George Murray, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ' Mr. Herries, and Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald. The Ml.' sisters continued in deliberation till di o'clock. The Duke of WELLINGTON came to town to attend the Cabinet, on Saturday evening, from Weimer Castle, Kern. The Earl of Azzsozur came to town fir the same purpose, yester. day afternoon from Tonbrldge Wells. The CMAXCILLOIL of the si Exczoosa a lso came yesterday, from his seat near Dorking. Mr. Secretary PEEL visited the Duke of W &Lux °Tow yesterday. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. Lord Robert Seymour for Tall;ris, sear Lan&lo in Wales; Lard Monte for his seat in Scotland; General Sir John Keane and Major Macdonald for Gordon Castle, Aberdeenshire ; T. B. Pyle:, Meg. M. P. and Mrs. Fyler, from their house in Dom. street, for Durham; General Hughes, from Regent.street, for Scathed : Mr. Mrs. and Masters Partaker, from their house in Grafton-street, on a tour; Mr. Godfrey Meynell for Bradley Hall, in Dab • Mr. Delmi Radcliffe, in Piccadilly, from Buck s Me Karl of Ferrero, from Harley-street, for Mar. gate; Lord Says-and-Selo for Belvidere Park, in Kent ; Capt. Met. ea la Pali•mall, from Gibraltar ; Mr. T. Calverley, from Berkeley 'guy*, for Ewell House, Epsom ; the Earl sod Countess of Cla. rendes, and Lady Ellzabmb Wan, for the Grove at Watford ; Mr. Rickard Norris for Basing Park, near Alton, in Hampshire; the Hew Hugh Undsay, M.P. on a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Beilby ac for Amick. in Yorkshire ; Mr. Samuel Smith, M.P. f T orT se edball Park, near Ware, in Hertfordshire ; Mr. John Smith, M.P. for Dale Park, near Amadei, in Sawa; the Hen. H. Compton for the Manor House Southampton; the Countess of Addeo* and Admiral Sir William Johnstooe Hope on a tour ' • Lord Kenyon and the Hen. Misses Kenyon for Gredhagton Hall, sear Ratfinft, in Fl ntabire ; the Bari aad Countess M.snven,Viecoust and the Viscountess Newark, and the Hon. W. Pierrepont, for Theresby Park. near CNlertea, Nottinghamshire ; the Countess Dowager of Mansfield for Ridanond bill ; Mr. Hoary !Owes for Colesburn in Gloocesterhirs; the Coolness Pomfret on a tour; Mr. John Stewart, M.P. for &affairs ; the Earl and Countess Nelsen, for Trefalw-place, near Salisbury ; Lord Games, for lwadeadaiy„ in Ireland ; the Rev. WMiata 011111.f. i Mrs. and the Misses Garniw for Rookesbory Hall, near Farelssas. Hants ; Mn. Raymond Ba rker, on a tour; Major Gardiner and Captain Deleon, In Albensar-street, from Malta; Mr. Henry Shrine. for Upham Hall, near Doper Rocks; Mr. Eyre Caste, for West Park, in Hampshire; Mrs. Rigby and Miss Wykeham, for Oxfordshire ; Mr. Robert Gordon, M.P. for Cirencester ; Mr. Adam Gordon, for Hallaillemptead ; Sir R. B. P. Phillips, for Placa Castle, in Pealstehealpire ; Captain Carter. in Brutes. ' 'Met, from the Hague; Lent.-Colonel Petendorff, is Pall. auk from Berlin; Captain Barker, in St. James's-place, from Paris Captain Macdonald, in Sackeille-street, from the lonian Iskads. - NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. --..w.-- Maim ARMED Tin Dar—Diablin 9—Waterford 11--Sweden 1..- Hanaborgh I—Flanden I—France I—Holland I—Leeward Blends I—La Guayra 1. The George and Elko of Riga, has put into Chriatiansand leaky. and will be obliged to discharge. Ilse Middlesex, from London to Quebec, Is wrecked Dear New feundiand ; several of the crew have arrived at Labrador. The Waisingham, from Bermuda, and the Thames, front Quas i bee, is supposed to be arrived in the Downs. Dam., Ave. I. Wind light and variable,—Arrived the Seamy* Yates, from Bombay; Enchantress, Head, from St. Vincent's; Beaufort, Sandie% and James Harris, Tally, from Jamaica; Ge neral Colin, Larkinson, front St. Anders; Matchless, Nail, from the Brazils ; Manlius Johnson, from Java ; Jackson, Clarkson, from Grenada ; Ende a vour , Canniest, Emer ald, Storer, and Ben jamin and Mary, —, front Quebec ; and William and Alfred, Drysdale, front Andgua. Arrived from London the Cecilia, ........ for Rio Janeiro. Arrived the Clifton, Curtis, from Jamaica; and Hope, Nlallois, from the Cape of Good Hope. Aus. L— Wind &S.W.—Arrived the Johanna. Bigg, from Gra nada ; Harmony, —, from Minuitichl ; Spike, Morris, from Bermuda ; asd Somanewhire , from Jamaica. Postmaster, Am. I.—Wi —, nd W.S. W.—Arrived the Medan, ......., from Havannas ; Dryad, Swinburne, from Quebec ; True . Briton, Balderston, from Trieste ; Lord Cochrane transport, -......, from Ceylon—Sailed from Colombo the 14th February, from Point de Gale fa March, and from the Cape of Good Hope Mk May ; passed Sc. Helena 14th June. His Majesty's ships Java, Rain bow, Success, sod Pandora, were at Trincomalee; and his Ma jesty's ship Hinds gone to Bombay, to bring the Andromeda, new frigate. His Majesty's s tr Maidstaae, Tweed, Falcon, Comet, and Espoir, were at the . Sailed the Columbian; Delano,, . and Nye Nye, for New ork ; and his Majesty's grip Athol, for Afric a. The Surrey, Kemp, is come out of dock, having sus tained very little damage, and is reloading with every dispatch. Pinworm, Jan 31.—Wind N.--Sailed the Pentane, rinhaby, ' for St. John's ' • Cato, Thorn, for Quebec ; and the Dunk frigate Ralpel, for Batavia. FALIOOOTaI. JOLT 31.—Wind N. Ago. I.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Opossum packet, from the Leeward Islands -- ailed from St. Thomas's 4th July—spoke, end, his . M as 'a packet Goldlinch, for Halifax. Sailed the Falcon. for St. Michael's ; and Sandwich packet, for Lisbon. SWARM, Jam 31.—Arrived of port the John, Wilkinson, from Janma. Goom, Am. I.—The Rhoda, Cora, arrived to-day from Ham burg!, IN easing upp the river, took the ground at Ayster Ness, and Map her . She has carried away the guard boards 00 the semeheerd side, damaged her sails, and it is feared she has taken In water—me of the crew drowned. Doan. Ave. I.—Off the port, Montreal, Eden, from Jamaica. Swage, JULY Mk—Arrived the Thomas, Gibbs, from esehee. Hinz, Am. I.—Arrived the Brothers, Butterworth, from Mallargel; Rambler, London, from St. Petenbargh ; Hilda, Ildlingtos, from Memel ; and liesolutiso, from Miramichi. HOLTISEAD, Am. I.ollr the port, the Vara, Hardy, frost Paraiba; Cowper, —, from New Orleans; Craniums Castle, ••••.-.. front Mirantichi ; Amelia, Walker, from Prise* Edward's "lad. ; Kent, —, front Africa; and Corals, —' Iran Boston. lamilla oo l., Jun 31.--Arrived the James b ailie, --N front MANS; Balfour, Bee, from New Orleans; Arabella, 14 4 1.A0d, ties (lasbee ; Campo Bella -- and Aurora, Herring, from MiranskM ; Henrietta, Owens, from Pinar; Royal Edward end' Uremia, Medley,- from Bay Chaluer. The Prince Regent, hound he Quebec, which was on shore:at Bast Hoyle, bas heen got 1r :. 'WI without damage, and proceeded on her voyage. k. -- ---- . The Grand Dinner given at Burlington House, in honour of the approaching nuptuals, was attended by the Duke of Devonshire Marchioness of Stafford, Earl and Countess of Car lisle, Viscount Granville, Lady Charles Fitzroy, Hoe. Mrs. Stanley and Lady Outride Sloane Stanley ; lion. Charles and Lady Wm*, Cavendish, Hon. Miss Levesos Gower, Hen. Mrs. Ontsmasik and her son. ; Mr. William Cavendish (the intended .. Mr. Gib. Cavendish, Mr. Itichaid Cavendish, Miss F, . soil Cavendish, and the Moe. Was. Howard. :1 7- Aclitedl -II x gra. bap been returned Member of Par . ammasiep.Ches, without any opposition. The Shoff. contrary le 41991emiewbed ma haskixios to put k* . in. nomination- , —and the people big perfectly saddled, evcrg.Mag passed of without .Ist: -, ~. .: ~ , ••..t. • i EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MO§OPOLY. • Just as we are on the subject of our trade with the East Indies, and the great impediments and restraints under which it is kept by. the Leadenball Company through the operations of their present expiring charter, we receive a number of the Aberdeen Journal, contain. ing a synopsis_ of one l ec t ure b y M r . B UCKINGHAM , which we extract with pleasure from that spirited and able paper. We give it—as we find it there—feeling that any comment by us would only weaken the condensed reasoning of the philosophical and intelligent lecturer: feeling, also, that our own argument on the same topics cannot fail to derive, from such coincidence, a great ad ditional consideration with the public. The Lecture on the India Company's Monopoly, being the es sence of the whole, was listened to with profound attention; and we doubt whether there was a single individual who before had any idea of its being so full of evil to the country, or who did not leave the room with a axed resolution to du every thing within his power to prevent the renewal of the charter of exclusive privileges, which Is productive of .uch unmixed evil. According to the concurring testimony of the principal papers of the kingdom. Mr. Buckingham appears to be recognised by common consent u the individual of all others especially cakalated to effect the overthrow of this eolossirs of corruption. Possessing what can be so rarely found netted, the requisite knowledge, abundant zeal, and a capacity to make even the driest and most intricate mat tars clear and agreeable to hearers of every capacity, be cannot fail, wherever he goes, to draw larger and larger audiences, and to send them away converts to his views. His crusade will be a more powerful and more successful one than any that has for a long pe riod been waged against any existing abuses; and wh his name may be beard, the ft lends of free trade. of good government, of religious instruction, of moral improvement, and of national ho nour and reputation, are bound to give him their earnest and cor dial support. We think, indeed, that no man in the kingdom ought to be indifferent to his success, and that it will be &reproach to the public spirit of the merchants and manufacturers of the country if be is not placed in Parliament, to advocate their cause there—as that is, after an, the only assembly in which the whole nation can be addressed at once. We could proceed at much greater length if we followed our own feelings on the subject; but our space affords only room to give the following condensed ab stract of this powerful discourse 1. The history and constkution of the East India Company, with the qualifications of Proprietors, and graduated scale of duties ob. served by the Directors, ate alone sufficient to show their total unfitness to direct either the commerce or the government of a vast and distant empire. it. The practical effect of their mismanagement has been. not to benefit either country, but to increase their debts in each, as if they were aware that they had a pui•ive int e in becoming more and more embarrassed ;—this incapacity to exercise the trust reposed in them is therefore of itself a sullici!nt ground for depriving them of its further possession. 3. Notwithstanding the high antiquity of the civilization of India, great even before the Macedonian empire, and the natural progress of time. under any good system of government, to im prove all the arts and manufactures, the country continues to be in the mama state of rudeness, in every thing that regards all these, u when the East India Company first traded to it, more than two centuries ago. and In very many instances it has declined. 4. The disabikies under which the English, who are not actu ally in the Company's service, labour in India, in consequence of their living there by sufferance only, liable to be banished without trial, and without a reason assigned, and the impossibility under such a system, of any thing like justice or prosperity being attained. 5. The arguments used by the advocates of the East India Company against the settlement of English merchants in the inte rior ; and the answers by which thew arguments are met. • 6. The universal prevalence of a desire among the natives of India, in every part that has yet been visited, to possess British manufactures of every description ; the imitative and even osten tatious disposition of every class to resemble the English in all tanforbidden things I and the obstacles to the gratification of this desire, beyond the mere precincts of the three principal settle- Monts or ports. 7. The revolting spentitions of the Rhoden+, in the pilgrimage at Juggernaut, the fair at Hurdwar, and the confluence of the mamma and the Ganges,—from all of which the East India Com pany reap an absolute profit ' • and the burning widows alive, from which the Brahmins also derive great gains • as well as the Manua Poojah. and other nameless abominat ions, common throughout the country. The widows are burnt at the rate of two a-day throughout the whole year, so that these horrid fires are never extinguished. 8. The routes alleged by the East India Compaur for not in. Uttering with the tnenners, customs, &c. of the Hi ahe as well as fallacious ; as they have taken away the lives of Brahmins, held captive and even pawned their idols, dethroned their Princes, and violated all their rights, whenever it served their purpose. 9. The example of Lord Wellesley, in abolishing the practice of drowning infants at Savior, proves the nee with which all such murderous practices may be abolished ; and the testimony of the most able and mast experienced of the civil and military servants of India, is uniformly in favour of the authoritative abolition of the monstrous and inhuman practice. Difference between tours. don devious and toleration of acts. 10. Effect of opening India to the settlement of Englishmen, and the consequent improvement of all the productions of the soil ; to abolish slavery, and yet to provide a reined _y and a compensation to those who might suffer by the change. Effect also in giving interest in the improvement •of thetountry ; interest in defence from invasion ' • interest in support of good government ; and in terest in the le gislature of England. 1. Exclusive nature of the trade to Odes, and excessive jea lousy of the East India• Company at t►e least participation of ethers in this trade. - I. Profits derived from this, soelelently large to cover all the losses on the trade with India, all the expenses of the wasteful and extravagant mismanagement, and to pay a dividend to the proprie tors of India Stock. - - 3. Consequence of this exclusive monopoly—a duplication of the price of tea, exclusive even of duty; and a quadruplicatioo in consequence of the duty being ad Worms. 4. Universality of the use of tea makes Ms a tax bearing on all classes of the nation, and even heavier than that on corn ; with this essential difference i that the latter has at least the excuse of being 'opposed to benebt a very large and influential Chas of the community, and to render us independent of foreign aid; while the former has the effect of injuring millions, without benefiting a hundred individuals, and of giving to foreigners a wealth in which Englishmen dare not pardcipate. 5. Vast population of Chios, sod active and consuming charac ter si the people. The market for English goods in that country, ti admitted in free traden,gres ter than that of all the world besides ; and their disposition to receive our goods, shown by their now Robe cotton-twist and piloted goods, sent frosnlianchester through American vessels. s. Reduction in the price of tea would necessarily lead to in creased cessamption ; and this return alone would be sidlicient for an immediate supply of manufactures of every description, including hardware, porcelain, cloths, silks, cottons, and all kinds of orna mental luxury ; besides the increase which always takes place in every good article the moire it becomes known; as witness tea, sugar, and indigo as Imports; and coetou-goods, cloths, and almost every kind of Biel& wares, as export'. 7. The shipping and ammo of the country injured and insulted by the existing , which prohibits English vessels and Eng- Rah seamen, now ise want of employment in our docks, rivers, and badman, Irmo istinsike Chins either out or home ; 1 while Americans, French, Dutch, amid Dimes, anchor la our very ports, load for China, make fortunes for their owners and consign able provision for their crews, and laugh with contempt and deri sion at our starving artisans and seamen, who cannot and dare not follow than. _ _ _ . • . -i. Bursae sniped by the East India Company against the ad. mission of British fret seamen in the ports of Mina, while their" own and the Americana frequent them with misty, the most pre posterously absurd that the human imagination could conceive. S. Doctrine of vested rights, inviolability of charters, easy col lection of revenue, safe government of India, Ste. which waist set up in defence of perpetual monopoly, must be met by the broad question of national rights—equal participation of benefits—the good of the many rather than the benefit of the few—and the effect of Free Trade to diffuse, not merely wealth, but moral improve ment and happiness over all the countries engaged in it.—.dbeniess Hyde Park yesterday boasted a numerous cavalcade of d►stinguished rasidanables; and Kensington Gardens presented a most elegant promenade foe se►eral bows. The Speaker of the House of Commons has taken the mansion house belonging to Lord Amu. near Harwicb• Right Hon. Gentleman and family will shortly leave London to take pomade's of the prelude's. • All the late rumours with respect to a change of the akikor bad, we wedussad, no tbeedeties whatever. • LITERATURE; the FINE ARTS, DRAMA, ¢c. LADY MORGAN'S NEW WORE. " The Book of the Boudoir" hps j let mad* :u apps r anee ; and a glance at it satisfies us that it is not an unworthy nseinher of the same family u" O'Donnell." Lady hioaoas, of all ladles, has an easy way of telling what she has to say ; and in the col ketion of anecdotes before as, ber ladyship has succeeded In making a book, which every lover of fight literature must Instead, have in hi. hind..—We submit a few specimens Mat.estaa —Cobbett and the Irish reformers look with detesta tion on Malthus and his doctrines; and many ° right thinking" persons as they call themselves, fancy that they have discovered a valuable ally in him. The same error is common to iamb. If Mal thus's position be true (and uo naturalist can doubt it.) it follows as a matter of demonstration, and there is a greater necessity for political freedom. The greater the obstacles panne oppo-es to man's comfortable existence, the greater efforts ire required to overcome them. and•the greater is the necessity that all his powers should be drveir'm•d to the uttermost. Hitherto the animal has been fully equa 4 % use task of self-•ubsistence, wherever bad go vernments have not interfered with the natural distribution of the product. of industry, and quartered noble indigence upon plebeian activity. Civilisation confers an increased power over the vie menu, and a corresponding facility in manufacturing food ; but unjust governments weigh down the labourer, and avail tbennelve of every impnevement to increase the lion's share of the product. Malthus properly under.tood, is a powerful radical reformer. C is Pannone —The earliest petition I know of, on behalf of the Roman Catholic, is that addressed to James the First, be ginning. " Most Puissant Prince and Orient Monarch!" In this petition the 'sufferers class their persecutors as being Protestants. Puritans. and atheists. or polititians : a meddler in politics, in the. days of the absolute Stuarts, was let down as an atheist. VIEWS or WIZ CATHOLIC Quasnos.—" Let me send you some turbot, said Mr. the other day at dinner, to a wen known and respectable Irish Catholic banister. " Turbot," replied the Papist counsellor. cattily, " 0! I sat , emancipated-4 have done with 5Th I" The Irish Catholics bate fish ; but are rigorous oba Teen of fasts, and of all forms and ordinances imposed by a church. to which, as much from a point of honour as of faith. they rigidly submit. How many of the idle forms of church discipline will fill into desuetude, will; that feeling of sympathy for the persecuted faith that imposed tbAe ! a feeling which Catholic emancipation will cool down and obliterate. After this brief haslet', every topic under the sun it treated of in these two volumes—from woman's love to viragos—from bad books to legislative literature. We are desirous to recommend to all who have any respect or regard for polite literature, thukaines splendid perio dical,—the second number of which is now lying before us. The contents of this work, u well as the style in which it is got up, are of a superior order, and far aurae the ordinary internal and external composition of our ephemera. We intended to make ample extracts front this number to-day; but must postpone it on account of a prow of other matter. We can only afford space for the following extract from a critique on the Memoirs e Kr Duke de Saint Masons—" a sort of literary curiosity, as they are perhaps the only faithful record of the personages and events of the Grua* Sleets, as it has been called by the partisans of absolutism." This anec.lote refen to Pavia the Great : " The Cur of Ru•sia had already commenced hls travels. Fame has spoken so loudly of this Prince, that I think it necessary to give a succinct account of so celebrated a perseaage—of one, whose name will doubtless be handed down to the most remote posterity, as having rendered formidable to the wheie of &rope a Court which, properly speaking, never bad deserved the name, and a people who, from their state of barbarism, were either despised, or wholly unknown amongst the nations of the earth. Notwithstand• lag that he observed a strict incognito, and aufered nu considera tions of rank or dignity to interfere with his object, he yet exacted a suitable degree of rt-pect, which it was his pleasure to enjoy after his own fas Mon. " The Czar was secretly offended that England should not lave judged it expedient to diaparcb an Ambassador to him now, espe cially that be was so near, and the more because be was extremely =sinus for a commercial alliance with that country, provided the terms could be arranged to his satisfaction. The expected Embassy at length arrived ; the Czar, however, long delayed giving audience to the Envoys for whose reception be at last appointed a day and hour, but on board a large Dutch vessel, the construction pi' which he was about to examine. Two of the Envoys found the place ra ther unsuitable. but there was no disputing the humour of the Czar. Matters, however. were much worse upon their arrival on board the vessel, when it was signified to them that the Czar was at the mizen-top, and intended to grant then audience on that rather pe rilous spot. The Ambassadors, who, to use a seafaring phrase, bad a goad deal of the land lubber in their composition, made their respectful excuses. The Czar insisted, and the poor Ambassadors were thrown Into the utmost consternation, by the obstinacy with which he enforced his unaccountable whim. At length, from the short and blunt replies returned to their repeated remonstrances, they came to the conclusion that the Czar was determined to wit ness their agility in climbing the rigging, and dal+ ascordingly,with much fear and reluctance, deckled upon making the dreaded exhi bition. On the elevated and rather narrow spot to which they at length clambered, the Czarteceived them with as much majesty as if be had been seated on his throne. He listened to their harangue, answered in terms extremely littering to their King and nation, and afterwards diverted himself with the terror still visible on the countenances of the Ambassadors, to whom be intimated with a hearty laugh, that the scene in which they had unwillingly figured, was intended as a punishment for their tardy arrival." PROGRESS OF THE ARTS IN FRANCE. Within these twelve years France has made immense progress in almost every branch of manufacture. A new discovery has been made in printing, by which classical works, used in every country, need only be set up once. Thus, if an edition of the classics be printed at Paris, editions may be published in England, Germany, Hol land, &e. without being at the expense of a new composition. Be sides the advantages of cheapness, the test, once established, can never vary, and the type is always new. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION IN GREECE, JUNE 21.- - The members of the +cicadae commission ate all engaged in ex. cortices. Coluael dory St. Vincent, accompanied by funs of hls colleagues, Means. Vida, &menet, De Launay, and Bruit, has succeededin travelling through Mains, where he was very well received by all the chief+, especially by Captain Mourtaino+. He took advantage of these favourable cis cum,tances to ascend Mount Taygetus, which had never belore been done by any known traveller. These Gentlemen after four days extreme fa• tissue, and in spite of the snows with which Taygetus is still co vered, reached the summit, and were able comet!, to measure the bigbe t mountain in the Morea. They are at present in the heart of Arcadia ; and have measured Mount Lyceits and the ancient Cotyllus. Messrs. Bonet, Dubois, and Amaury Duval, with their assistants, are at Olympia, where wane excavations have afforded them very satisfactory results. They have discovered a temple, which they suppo.e to be that ot the Olympian Jupiter. The length ot this monument appears to be g4O feet ' • the columns art 21 feet in circumference. Al. Boulder, we of the members of the PletlOD of architecture, came, a fortnight ago, to Modulo, to ask of General Schneider for a supply ot tools to be able to con tinue, with more activity, the interesting dolls which they intend to make.—Literary GastUr. The following pleasing anecdote of GAINSBOROUG H the painter is given in " Cunningham's Lives of British Painters :" " One of his acquaintances, in Bath, was Washers, the public carrier a kind and worthy masa, who loved Gainabotougb, and ad mired Lis works. In one of his landscapes be wished to introduce a hone, and, as the carrier had a very handsome one, be requested the flan of it for a day or two, and named Ms purpose : his ge. Demos neighbour bridled it and saddled it, and Sent it ass present. The painter was not a man to be outdoor in acts of generosity ; be painted the waggon and horses of his friend, put his whole family and himself into it, and sent it wen framed to Wiltshere, with his kind respects. It is coosideted a very capital performance. From 1761, when Gainaborough began to exhibit his paintings at the Academy, till his removal from Bath in 1774, %Macre was annually employed to carry his pictures to and from Loaders ; he took great cargo( them. constantly refused to accept money, saying, " N0....n0--1 admire painting too much," and plunged Ids Mods fa his pocket to secure them against the temptation of the offered payment. Perceiving however, that this was not acceptable to the proud artist—the honest carrier bit upon a scheme which pleased both. When you think (said be) that I have carried to the value M a little painting, I beg you will let me have one, Sir ; and I shall bemore than paid." In this coin the painter paid Washout sad overpaid him. His son is still in possession of several of these pictures, and appreciates their value • many of Gainabotoogies pro ductions were not so' worthily disposed of." A Correspondent informs us that the Duke of PORT tallo is about to build a sinall•elass frigate. which he 'steeds is present to the Admiralty ; end that a Naval Mae, who commanded one of the experimental squadron, is to the mostroction of the frigate. The Oliver fa inestkos has already bulk a doop of war. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. • QUARTERLY AG It:CULTURAL REPORT,—G:IriL in tereilt now begins to be e tested regarding the probable productive tun of &gemming harvest. The very cold and wet weather ethic*, prevailed during the greater part ut April rendered the latter part t , of spring usfavemrabk to all :he crape, anal a calwaiderable part of them, chiefly those on the colder clay.. suffered in a degree which they have not site recovered. The tract at dry and wane weather which succeeded, although fair arable to vegetation foe a time, ter. Muted ill a severe drought, which lasted till late in June, wheel copious rains fen, and continued to MI to thr present time. The oats and barley, though much restored by these Mos. may be terme4, we believe, throughout the greater part of &Island. a likkt and defective crop. Wheat has a more favourable appearance, thus* the eases are eves y where numerous where it bas never recovered the cheek which it sustained in the early part of the scamps. Prices of grain for the last •hree months have net undergone mach change. Considerable quantities of all kinds of corn have hewn imported from abroad; but as nearly the whole of this has hew ordered to bond it has not yet hems brought Into cut:wet:tom with free corn, and so has not materially influenced the mai krt. At the time we write there exists same excbensent animist the traders, from an apprehro-ion that the heavy and steeping rains which have been generally experienced may have injured the wheat crop while is bloom, and laid it down when strong in the straw. Lawking to the stock of free and bonded wheat in granary, and making an allowance for what may fairtyhe.prearined to rem in in the hands of the farmers, taking into contaeratioa the interval to elapse be fore the new crop can become available, and the necessary cou• umption during this period, it Is probable that we shall reach the supplies of the nest harvest with an snu•u ally small stock in hand. —Quarterly Agricultural Magindoefer August. STATE OF THE COUNTRY.— We have frequent or - portunitks of observing pretty accurately the *tate of affairs as they affect the general body of the people; and we have known seasons of bitter distress and transient prosperity re-pectively depress mil elevate various portions of our couutryineu, particularly the pro ductive classes. But we must say, and we speak from personal observation, that in no period of our editorial life have we ewer known such general and such hopelesi distress as is now tape riesteed throughout ibis county, 'by all classes. except stipendiary r and other public sod private anoskants. There is no class of men connected with the centimes dal interests of the rolostr:-. in which every individual (with such exception. only as serve to establish the rule) does not feel himself poorer to-day than be was yesterday. Trade seems at a stand still ; the bulk of Ithe circulating medium is in comparatively large masses, there being little temptation fur its empleynsent ; the ready money change of the peop's is gone; wages are low in the extreme ; and employn:ent at any wages can scarcely be had ; the poor are actually soffit log want, and the middle and upper classes seem to despair of any amendment Diminisi , ed prices and undiminished taxes have pro duced privation and mourning among producers; abundance and joy only among recipients. Government can and ought to afford relief and it would do so if the people were fairly and fully repre sented in that House which vote, the supplies. If this position to doubted, !et the earriment be tried..—Liverpeelllerwery. HERRIN.: kISIIERY. --BANFF, JULY 27. —The fishermen have been prosecution' the herring fishery for two weeks. bat we ri give to say with very little sours , . At this time last year they bad Gibed six times as much, but if the shoal of fish. which is believed to be at a considerable distance, comes Is shore, they may easily make up their lee-way. One small cargo Is ship ping for Hamburgh, being the produce of nearly 100 boats. We have reason to believe that, for grouse shooting, the prospects of the vortsmen were never more flattering thau for the prevent season. The game is most plentiful, and every thing beta tended to make the birds in excellent condhiun. In the low country, the partridges, both young and old, were greatly dr. strayed by the heavy and incessant rains of the 11th and 12th inst. Many of the young were then about quitting the shell, or had just left it, and in many instances the old ones were found dead, shield ing their brood—a remarkable proof of the attachment of the animal to its youlk—ftwthCosoier. PROJECTED LACE FACTORY.—A colony of female' consisting of twenty, between the ages or 13, 14. 15, and IS, ar rived at limerick, on Tuesday, from London. The object of the importation is to establish a lace factory in Limerick, under the superintendance of an English capitalist. So high is the selling price of the growth of all the produce of England, that it is found cheaper to repair t►e sluices. locks, gates, du. of the Medway Canal, passing through the midst of the Boost At woods of this country, with timber brought from Attica, than with English oak. These repairs are now, we are 'stormed, actually malting with African timber. STATE OF THE CROPS IN THE DISTRICTS OP BAL QUIIIOnaII AND esta.annea.—The crops of every description raised in these districts look extremely well, and promise the cnitivator a lull return for his labour. Potatoes are in excellent condition, and bid fair for an abundant produce. The grain crops. barley in par ticular, surpass those of some years past. The writer lately ob served, on the side of a mountain, a patch of barley. that excelled in richness any be had seen this gesso° in more highly cultivated grounds. Meadow hay looks luxuriant—even so heavy as to lodge, and will amply supply the deficiency et rye grass. But • late harvest is generally an•• ' —Airbag Ade. TILE HARVEST.—AII OUT acidiessis hes the interior agree In saying. that there is the Met pretalig respect., of an abundant harvest, and if the weather entieues favourable, it will be considerably sere than an average etegb.--Drilis Me►cantile Alvertiser. It is intended to increase the existing law taxes in the next &ado° of Parliament. The new measure will double the prest at taxes oss professional men—namely, the taxes paid by attomies, pleaders, and conveyancers, for their annual certificates, and the taxes paid by students, banisters and Jaywalks, on their admission to their rank. The increased produce of the tax is espeeted to be trots 200,0001. to 500,000 f. per annum in the me tropolis shine.—Obserer. It is said that the saving produced by the breaking up of the Hoard of Customs at Edinburgh, with its dependant which mob effect finally as the Sth last. will meant to SO#lori. or 40.00 W per annuns.—Seetansan. On Wednesday evening the brig Deveron sailed front Gr.enock for (tuber, with 70 passengers, most of whom are whole families from different part. of Perth and Argylealstre. The amiable sisters of the Duke of BoccLaucti now• occupy the piaturesque house and grounds on the banks of the Thanes ahem Richmond Bridge, once the favourite retreat of the Doke et liontonu, from whom t lineally descended to 614 grandson, the present Duke of Rucm.aucu. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANK, Au. 3. Our foreign supplies continue to arrive in great abundance. mid at all the accounts from different counties agree that the Wheat crops have not been injured, and am of the most prem , sing kind. the mean trade was exceedingly dell this morning, and ' to effect sales, even on a very limited scale, lower prices were submitted to, say Item nne to two shillings per quarter under the prices of this day se's/light. Barley bring in short supply, folly supported last Pdood.ss's prices. Wangs of both descriptions west two Millings per quartet lower. Peas ' although heavy sit'e, were not cheaper. o.ts, frum the magnitude of the arrival, were extremely heavy, and tone shilling cheaper. In other ankles there is no alteration. Wheat, Kent Lk Rotel. dos 731 Peas, Grey Mt 341 Suffolk. 110. 714 Deans, Small 34. 34s Nortelk, 505 335 Tick 30r 35a Rye 2d. 30s Oats, Poiatne 264 .104 Harley 9011 544 Poland 945 975 Malt 6(s 68s I Filed 141 s 114. Peso White 34s 36. Floor, per sae!, 600.1.5% ;kilns 3s. 40. Rapeseed 33i. 351. pet last. tsawalaeiovs LAST Wilk. Wheat, English quitters 4.507 Irish Oats 3,607 Do. Foreign 27,1133 Rye, English 5lO Irkla Ditto —.. Dll• Foreign ..-- Batley, British 2,3117 Beans, English 1,331 De Foreign :4;10 Ditto, Foreign —...—. Irish ........ Peas. English 246 Malt, English Ilitglidt Oats Foreign Ditto 1.4113 Ditto Fu;elen 320 2,00 &INA Floor. ucks 5,244 • 27,660 American ditto. ►rk 3,689 SMITHFIELD MARKET, Asa 3. earns AT DIARNIT. Beasts 2,459 I Sheep 24,4001 Piss 220 I Calves 241 Beef . . 4. Id to 41 id Veal . . id to 51 24 Mottoes .4. 2d 41 6d I Pork . . 3s 104 4s 10d Lamb . 4s Id Ss 44 Hay per load, £4 15s. to 44 10s. Clover £3 10.. to £5 Ss. —Straw XS Os. to 12 Ss. COAL MARKET—Toss Dar. This was the lint market day of the present month, and the Coal Exchange was well attended by merchants. These was as abundant supply Sunderland and Newcastle cab at market, one hundred and doe. slaps baying arrived dote Friday tad.— Me supply of the various sorts of coal for the last month of July has been very plentiful, and the demand has been very good; for, although upwards of 700 Mpg arrived during the mootb, only 10$ eligs remained unsold ♦ fair budgets weediest today. Best Wallsentf Cab Ws. Ild. rats. Od. • Other sons ooe. Sips /gmbase 21114 : , • . . • VI: .10,111