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Frederick Hotham Colonel Sibthorp, M.P. Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart. Sir William Way, Bart. K.C.B. CAPITALS, A MILLION STERLING AND UPWARDS. The PROFITS are divided amongst those who now insure, as well as the original Members, in just proportion to their respec tive payments. Ir. the Fitts Orrice, RETURNS, during the last Fifteen Years, to the Amount of X 86,000 have been PAID TO ALI. Pea:toss who have continued insured Seven Years, upon ANNUAL as well as upon Summar. Policies, and whether they have been Sufferers or otherwise. In the Lire Orme, BONUSES, of £l3 Bs. £46 12a. and £3O 101. per cent. have been divided during the last Twenty-one Years.—These are (at the option of the Persons insured) either added to the Policies or applied to the reduction of their future Payments. Mtur•ar MIN are net charged additional, unless called into •CTUAt. Service. Persons are at liberty to pass and repass to the Continent, under limitations, WITHOUT LicaNca AND ANTRA PASAIIUNI. If any Person die by Suicide, Duelling, or the Hands of Justice, the full •alue which his Policy bore on the day previous to the time of his Death will be paid. No Admission Fees are required, nor is any Charge made for Policies, except the Stamp Duty. Kr Persons who have been insured in the Fire Offices lately dissolved, may remove into the Comm' Raz Orrtca without any additional expense.—Agents are appointed in all the principal Towns. NEW PUBLICATIONS. This day was published, price Bs. In 12mo. the Fourteenth Edition,with important Additions,Altera tions, and Improvements, by the Rey. G. Octets, ILLUSTRATIONS OF MASONRY. By the late WILLIAM PRESTON, Esq. Past. Blaster of the Lodge of Antiquity; acting by immemorial Constitution. Printed for Whittaker:Treacier,ind Co. Ave Maria-lane. This day was published, Second Edition, altered and enlarged, Demy 18mo. price 4s. 6d. Royal 18mo. 6s. boards, MATINS and VESPERS : With Hymns and occa sional Devotional Pieces. By JOHN MO/RING, F.L.S Printed for Whlttaker, Treacher, and Co. Ave Maria-lane. Lately published, in royal 9.4m0. price 51. 6d. bound, the Third Edition, with additional Hymns, ANEW SELECTION of more than EIGHT HUNDRED EVANGELICAL HYMNS, from the best authors in England, Scotland, Ireland. America, &c. includ ing a great number of Originals; for PUBLIC and FAMILY WORSHIP. Alphabetically arranged In three parts: being a complete Supplement to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns. By JOHN DOBELL. Printed for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. Ave Maria -lane. In the press and speedily will be published, A LEITER to SIR HENRY STEWART, Bart. Author of the" Planter's Guide," proving (in refutation of the opinion advanced by him), that to Trench, Manure, and Cul tivate Land for Trees, will not deteriorate but improve the quality of Timber. 13 7 W. WITHERS. Printing for Longman and Co. and to be had of all other Bo:As:Hers. ESTATE AND HOUSE-AGENCY OFFICE, No. 93, RISHOPSGATE..STREET— LIENRY L COOPER, in submitting to his Friends AA the publication of his Register for the present Month, is happy in being able to state that, after having already disposed of a much greater number of Properties than on any former season. and from the patronage his Agency Establishment has found with the Public, he has still the opportunity of laying before them a List of Houses and Estates, which few Competitors can exceed, either in value, importance. or variety, and in situations which comprise most of the counties in England, thereby rendering it almost impossible but that parties, either as buyers or sellers, at the reasonable value of the day, may both be accommodated. An engagement of upwards of forty years in the Upholstery Depart ment, on the same spot, will, it is presumed, be a sufficient gua rantee for his integrity and responsibility ; and when the locality, as to situation, is considered, being in the immediate vicinity of tlte Bat.k of England, Garraway's, and the Auction Mart (the resort of the monied and landed interest of the country), presents facilities peculiar to this Establishment for effecting immediate and advmtageous sales, at the fair marketable value of the day, of what ever interests may be committed to his care. N.B. Noblemen or Gentlemen desirous of taking a professional opinion will be waited on at their residences or Estates. 53, Bishopsgate-street Within. A N INI PO RTA NT DISCOVERY for preserving and beautifying the TEETH and GUMS. ROWLAND'S ODONTO; or, PEARLY DENTIFRICE. The high and important character of this Powder has obtained from some of the most eminent cf the Faculty has induced Messrs. ROWLAND to offer it to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public at large, as an efficient Vegetable Powder, composed of ingredients the most pure and rare, selected by an Indian Uotanist ' and possessing extra ordinary power% in realising a beautiful set of Teeth—sustains them in pristine purity, whitiness, and firmness, averts decay, and strengthens the Gums. On unsound and imperfect Teeth, ROWLAND'S ODONTO ()mates as a Renovator! excluding an deleterious matter from its corredent seat, and, clearing the way of impediment, induces the regenerative influence' thai chiracterizes the Teeth by the new features of beauty and stability. Price 2s. 9d. per Box, Duty included. Each Genuine Box has the Name and Address engraved on the Covet nment Stamp," A. ROWLAND and Sox," 20, Hatton Garden, hich is pasted on the Wrapper. The Genuine ki sold by most Perfumers and Medicine Venders. • .HE use of alt era ti ves , p ar ti cu l ar ly that most safe and 1. effectual alterative, the VEGRIA PLR SYRUP of DE •YELNOS, is generally directed in the Spring and Autumn, and 'the symptoms of Schrophula and Scurvy, in Tumors, Ulcers, Men strual' ObstruCtiOns. C,Onsumptioni, &c. are then usually most salanuing ; but the hopes of.a speedy cure, in such melanchtaly caws, are most reasonably entertained in Summer, as the power of the 1414 cine Is much Increase;l 6y . 'warnith; M C►riil Am, therefore;hopes those who are afflicted with such • &scalers. will not adapt the general error. and deter the cure of it es the Asttuntn, for though it may then be. necessary. to certain , habits, it is nut so cgectually in Summer, particularly if the Tumors are 40 ,the Ulcers deep, aril the Cliitructiolii obstinate. Ibe gebtline Syrup 'of De Winos can Milt be preparid by Mi. Cae6itis~ ' at her horiii, ' No. 52, Berneri.street. o:ford-en:eel, `where it is sold at Vs. a bottle; and, by kw, appointment, at Dtplsc's ' ;Chegside and. most of the respectable Me .dichie - .VW:niers in Town and COnniry:* PLYMOUTH, Sept. 24. His Majesty's ship Druid, 46, Captain W. Sandom, arrived on Thursday, from Portsmouth, having put into Portland Roads on her way to this port. She was towed into harbour by the Meteor steam-vessel the same afternoon, to prepare to be paid off and to be surveyed. His Majesty's sloop Lightning, is. Commander Thos. Dickinson (b) sailed on Monday for the South American station. The Britomart, 10, Commander Johnson, came in on Saturday afternoon from cruising. His Majesty's ship Britannia 120, Capt. George Burdett, sailed yesterday for her destination, about four in the afternoon. The sight was extremely grand, and attracted a multitude of spectators to the Hoe. The Marines, who were exercising on the Hoe at the •time, drew up in line as she approached in one of her tacks, and rite band played " Rule Britannia" as she passed. The wind hanging to the Westward of North, it is highly probable she will be obliged to return to the Sound. In Hamoaze—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid. Orestes, Leveret, Royalist, Eclipse, Calypso, and Meteor steam vessel. In Barnpool—Undaunted. At the Island—Bramble. In the Sound—Trlnculo and 13ritomart. Arrourriassirs.—Capt. Sir J. Brenton, Bart. K.C.B. and Lieut. H. T. Harris, to the Donegal; Commander Drake Lieut. Wm. Dawson, and Captain Halloran, and Lieut. Serie, Royal Marines, to the Ganges; Lord Francis Russell to be Lieutenant of the Undaunted. Mr. Alexander Wisemoutb, of the Royal Hospital, Plymouth, is appointed Afaistant-Surgeon of the Donegal. Lieut. Herbert Schomberg, of the Orestes, is appointed Acting Lieutenant of the Britannia, vice Seccombe, at the Hospital. Commander William Hutchinson (11127) is appointed Inspecting Commander Coast Guard Service at Poole. _ _ Lieut. J. P. D. Larcom, is promoted to the rank of Com mander, and to the Harpy, 10, at Jamaica. Sir P. Parker, Bart. is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, R.N. Lieut. Charles Thomson, of the Kent, and Fred. A Smith, of the Britannia, have exchanged appointments ; and Mr. J. London, is appointed Purser of the Talavera, at Sheerness ; Mr. W. C. Spinfen, of the Druid. promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Mr. Robert Parker, Admiralty Clerk, goes out in the Britannia, vice Curgenven, deceased. Second Lieutenant Alexander, of this Division of Royal Marines, is promoted to be First Lieutenant, and is appointed to the Ports. mouth Division. The ships at present building in this Dock-yard are—the St. George, 120 gum; Nile, 92, on two decks; Hindostan, 80, on two decks . (teak); Tigress (teak) ; Statira, and Proserpine, fri gates; Race-horse corvette; Reindeer, and Rolla, 10 gun brigs. The Savage brig is to be laid down as soon as the Reindeer's slip is vacant, and the materials are getting ready. At Portsmouth — Neptune, 120 guns ; Indus, 80 ; Actasou 28 ; hazard, 18; Elec tra, 18; Termagant ; Buzzard, 10 ; Charybdis, 10 ; Lynx, 10. Those ordered to be built are Royal Frederick, 150; Euphrates, 46; Spartan, 46 ; Theban, 46 ; Tiber, 46; and two sloops of 18. His Majesty's ship Espiegle arrived at Barbadoes from Trinidad 23d July. The Zephyr arrived at Barbadoes previous to the 6th August. The Sheldrake sailed front Gibraltar for Malta and Corfu fist August. The Sphynz arrived at Madeira front Falmouth Aug. 23, and sailed 24th for Rio Janeiro. The Espoir sailed front St. Helena for Ascension 25th July. The Athol arrived at Tan gier from Portsmouth Aug. 24th. The Champion arrived at Ha lifax from Fernando Po Aug. 11 The Ranger arrived at Havam nab front Jamaica July 3. The Victor arrived at Vera Cruz from Honduras July 6. The Eliza, 'Ball, arrived at Malaga from this port Aug. 21. The Anne, Rowe, of and from this port, arrived at Gibraltar Aug. 21. The Gilmore, Gerry, from this port, with emigrants, arrived at Madeira Aug. 24, and sailed 28th for Swan River. The Falcon, Littleworth, from this port, arrived at St. Michael's 9th Aug. and sailed 21st for Cadiz. Th e Pearl, Fox, of this port, arrived at Sunderland from Amsterdam 13th last. The Margaret, Boneo, of this port, arrived at Waterford from Newfoundland 13th Sept. The Catbarina Dorothea, Tinian, arrived at Pernambuco from this port July 7. The Hayden, Smith, has arrived at Quebec. The Matilda, Cuming, sailed from Cardiff for Naples and Mes sina an the 19th inst. The brig Agenoria, Evans, from Memel, for Gloucester (last from this port) sprung a leak and upset about 28 miles SW. of Milford. The Captain, his wife, and part of the crew landed at Penance on Saturday ; the remainder of the crew were taken off by a brig bound to Southampton. The vessel, during the same voyage, sprung a leak, and was obliged to put into Yarmouth and discharge her cargo to repair ; and on entering this port got on shore on the Breakwater, and received some damage. THE LATE CALAMITOUS FLOODS IN SCOTLAND, AND MEANS OF REPAIRING THEIR DISASTROUS EFFECTS. The following are extracts from an unpublished letter upon the above important subject, transmitted, upon the thy it bears date, to the Noble Earl : TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. MY LORD-It is the high situation which your Lordship holds in Administration, and your family estates being situated in —, and your family title derived from the name of —, one of the counties of Scotland, Aberdeen, which has suffered moat severely by the late disastrous floods, which induces me thus to address you, as your Lordship must be well informed of the ruinous losses which these have inflicted upon the lower and middling cl . of Lamers, in their growing crops, farming implements, cattle (for want of provender to bring them through the winter), and, above all, in the permanent destruction of much of the expensive int provements executed at their own cost, in so many large counties. A public subscription has been talked of, in aid of these descrip tions of farmers, and certainly, whether we consider the extent or durable nature of the calamity, or the useful and excellent charac ter of these sufferers, now, by no imprudence of their own, for the first, and, it is to be hoped, for the last time, brought before the public as requiring aid, few cases seem better deserving that the hands of those in easy circumstances should " be opened wide" fnr • their relief • • • I dare not presume to press the subject more, but leave it to yourself to judge of the propriety of permitting your Lordship's name to be used in calling, in the first place, a public meeting of the Scotch nobility, gentry, merchants, and tradesmen. resident in and about the metropolis ; along with ch.! many wealthy English mercantile London houses connected with the trade of Scotland, to take the matter into consideration. But. my Lord, there is another, perhaps, more effectual mode, and one more congenial to the feelings of the sufferers, of repairing this national disaster, upon which I consider myself better entitled to offer an opinion. Some three or four years back, when the subject of the cur rency was so much agitated, it was the fashion to designate the Scotch and all other Banking Companies, issuing small notes, by the most opprobrious epithets—in fact, a sort of phrenzy pre vailed upon it, which even made its way into the Legislature.— Although a atranger to the Press, and, front my habits, unaccus. tooted to public writing, I was among the first, in London, who had the hardihood to attempt opposing the torrent, by entreating the then Administration to paws., before tampering with the all-vital question of the currency, except by corrective regulations ; because, as it then stood, it had accommodated itself to and incoporated itself with every transaction of life, from the lowest to the highest. I stated, although aware my opinions would at the time be scoffed, that a few years' direful experience would greatly change public opinion. Was I right, my Lord? How few, comparatively, are thete.now, possessing practical knowledge of our internal trade, agriculture, and manufactures, who will say that a public and private taxation of upwards of SO millions sterfing, with a rental of more than half as much in addition, can, without that aid to personal credit and earnings which attaches to a well-bot tomed paper circulation, be raised from a population of 44 millions. of which one-third is in a state bordering upon destitution? To what else, in the apparent midst of every thing which ought to contri bute to general prosperity. are to be ascribed the unexampled de cay of capital among the indu.trious of all the lower and middling claws, and such a scarcity of money among them, al has been seldom beforq felt, but that while the credit of the State has been kept up by a rigid levy of our vast taxation in a currency raised one third, but in practical effect. doubled, personal credit has been run doWn by injudicious legislation and unjust tampering with the cur rency • by which however, we may delude ourselves, by giving it other. pastes? The result, has . been a barefaced rubbery of, some hundreds of millions ateillngcommitted, and continuing to he committed, upon industry, in favour of a realized capital—aggta. vated by our also continuing to have those almost boundless do mestic and foreign resources of the empire sealed up, which, if opened to capital, skill, and enterprise, would, in a few years, render our taxation, large as it is, not only bearable, but capable of being so increased as to maintain such wars as might be forced upon us for upholding the interest or honour of the State, without incurring additional debt ; besides affording profitable employment to every one in the United Kingdom able and willing to labour at any use ful occupation. Here it will be answered, that no change has as yet been made in the Scotch currency and banking system. This is a mistake. Men so prudent as the Directors of the Scotch Banks, which, amidst so many disastrous changes, have fur a century been kept in the highest credit, being forewarned of the intended alterations, and finding themselves, as they must at present, pressed upon by the prevailing scarcity of money in England, in place of making such large fresh advances as the farmers would require, to se pair their enormous losses by these floods, will rather feel inclined to draw in, by degrees, those already made. But, were it not (or this threatened change, the prudent, indus trious, thrift Sclltch farmer would as heretofore, and was well ex pressed by Mt. Pitt, find his personal character stand him in the stead of capital, by procuring one or two reputable friends or tie gh bours to join their personal security with his own for a P ermanent bank loan, or, as ft is there called, " a bank cash account, to enable him tore-commence his important labours by purchasing food for his household, provender for his cattle, farming implements and seed-corn for next crop, to re-improve and re-cultivate his best lands, for the present rendered waste by the floods. In short, my Lord, my proposition is, that Administration should give such demi-official notice as will be well understood of their intention, upon the meeting of Parliament, to recommend to both Houses to make a declaration that no important change in the system of Scotch banking shall be made without a previous no tice of at least seven years. This, at once, would greatly lessen the disastrous effects of the floods, by enabling the Banks, with safety, to issue capital to restore the ruined cultivation, as well as the public and private roads and bridges. Fear nut, my Lord, in this kingdom, so renowned for the pro duction of so large a share of whatever is truly valuable to man kind—the emporium, besides, of the trade of the East and West— that there can ever exist a permanent scarcity of gold and silver. The notion is about as wise as to imagine that our twenty or thirty millions of gold and silver coinage would remain in circulation, in sufficient quantity for the currency, if greedily sought after by the holders of SOON six hundred millions of public securities, and of bankers' notes and deposits, acting under a delirious panic, arising from some real or apprehended public calamity. —With a debt of eight hundred millions sterling, we cannot possess a gold and silver sterling currency that will remain steadily in circulation under such circumstances; and in our very involved domestic and foreign relations, such must be expected not unfre quently to occur. The truth is, in future, gold and silver can only be our" fair weather" currency, to bide itself when the storm rages, and to re-appear when it shall have passed over. Nor inn I aware, provided the Legislature had the wisdom, justice, and manliness, to lay open the immense latent resources of the empire, and to show a benificent kindly feeling towards fhe great body of the people, that there is any thing in this to occasion well-founded alarm ; as to suppose that a country, possessing more than half a thousand banking establishments of the most unquestioned stability and credit, would not, under the most adverse circumstances, find other means than " a state of barter" for carrying on its trade, is a conceit too puerile for serious refute tion.-1 have the honour to remain, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, 7, Clarendon-street, Clarendon-square, Aug. 29. GEO. MACKENZIE. LOWER CANADA, July 20. i• We have nothing new here—all is tranquil at present, and quiet as the tomb. The object of the present Governor, Sir J. Kempf, appears to be almost exclusively an endeavour t• conci liate all parties, which, if be accomplish, be will do more than any preceding Governor—for it is a fact that almost all his predeces sors have been at drawn daggers with the House of Assembly. As to the great body of inhabitants, termed French Canadians, I never bad but one opinion, which is, that while their primitive institu tutions are upheld, the immunities of their Clergy left unmolested, their customs as little trenched upon as possible, and above all, to keep them as unmixed as possible from the Camelion-like mass that surrounds them, they will remain a happy people ; and I will venture to say, will form the strongest barrier against foreign en. croachment. But if new-fangled systems are attempted to be in troduced, with a view of investing British capital or otherwise, by which any serious innovation will be made upon the confirmed habits of this simple, honest, and hardy race of men, from that moment the bond of confidence will be broken, and our ambi tious neighbours will tamper with their loyalty. The penetrating glance of Mr. Pitt at once pointed out the line of policy to be pur sued as respected their happiness, and strengthening their attachment to England, which was to keep them as separate as passible from the motley multitude which surrounds them, and between whom there can scarcely be a single point of concordance. A more lighthearted and happier race of men do not exist than the Canadians. The Priest sets all right with respect to conscience, and it is a maxim with the Canadian, that " sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." If he possess the means of present enjoyment, he is the gayest of the gay, and never trusts to the morrow fur the reversion of an enjoyment he can accomplish to-day. In fact, if left unmolested, they are a quiet, inoffensive, happy, laborious, and loyal people.— Nor do they want to be initiated into the trick and traverse of the slab-sided Yankee, the gloomy pound-shilling-and-pence calcula tion of Scotch profundity, the disgusting surly selfishness of the Dutchman, the incessant neck-or-nothing speculations of John Bull, or the Irish shillelagh dance ! All these things Jean Baptiste feel happy in being a stranger to. He is taunted with being ig norant, but his life is an Elysium compared to most of those who look down upon him. Bonaparte, in his Russian campaign, should have had Canadian horses. In winter the icicles may be seen hanging to their noses a foot in length, like the drops of a chandelier, and they sometimes get little but straw to eat. These animals, although not over swift, will undergo an immensity of fatigue, and are proof against hard fare. Frezen all over till they are as white as a Counsellor's wig, the intensity of the weather seems to have no effect upon them. GENEVA, Scptember 10. I arrived here last night from Poligny, having been exactly seven days in performing the journey from Paris. This was in a great measure in consequence of the ainsost impassable state of the roads, owing to the constant and most incessant rains. On ascending the Jura, I was horrified at an accident which occurred about a quarter of an hour before I reached the sad scene of the catastrophe. While dining at Poligny, the diligence of M . Lafitte and Co. got the start of our carriage; but we soon again overtook the public conveyance, but only to find the postillion a corpse! The night was fearfully dark and stormy ; the rain fell in torrents, and the horse on which the postillion rode having made a false step in descending one of the heights with which the Jura abounds, the rider was precipitated, and before he could recover himself the wheel of the carriage had passed over his head and crushed it to atoms. The horror of those travel ling in the diligence may be conceived, but the inconvenience cannot. In the middle of an inclement tight the travellers were obliged to remain in the carriage while the condueteur of the vehicle sought an authority, somewhat like our Co roner, to verify the death, and take the necessary deposi tions touching its cause. This occupied at least two hours, at the end of which time the canductPur took the place of the pos tilion to Morey, the post•house. I could not Icon, nor do I in. deed believe, that the accident originated in any carele•snnru of the driver; but more than one of the inmates of the diligence hinted that one of the horses was new to harness, and therefore unfit to be yoked on such as road. En peasant. I may remark in general, that the French roads are pre-eminently the worst in Europe. and the postillions and posting are quite worthy of them. Geneva has much increased in size since my last visit, and an entirely new street has been built more magnificent than any which hitherto existed. This street resembles in its size and the structure of its houses the Rue de Rivoli at Paris. Geneva has latterly profited largely by the influx of English to and from Italy and Switzerland, who are all more or less purchasers of its jewellery, trinkets, and renowned musical boxes. Among the uunaber of those who have lately passed from Rome on their way to Engl..nd, are fir. James Paul Cobbett, and his sister Miss Cobbett, un their way to England. Put more of Geneva and its visitors in another letter. NEW SOUTH WALES. We extract the following extract front a letter, written by Mr. Cunningham, dated Sydn'y, April 28, 181: 0 , which throws an important light on the geography of the central parts of New Holland: " Captain Sturt and his party of discovery (says Mr Cuni.itt ham) penetrated two degrees of longitude to the westward of the point where Mr. Oxley, 1818, turned hack in the swamps ot the blacquarrie. He found the same country parched with drought, which in 1818 was a perfect sea, as tar as could be discovered. " The Macquarrie bad ceased to be a river, and there was trace of its bed on those vast levels over which its waters are s., extensively distributed in floods. Passing on to longitude 145 E. iu the parallel of 30 deg. lat. Captain Sturt was surprised to fall 611 with a river, about half a mile wide, and flowing towards the south-west, its waters being as salt as strong brine. Finding a hule ape:his/I water, at some distance from the bank, he encamped hi, people at it ; and then, with a companion, rode down the river, about four miles. Finding no water to drink, and that the rifier had become much salter, they returned to the party, and got back to Mount-11-writ, a hill on Macquarrie. Thence they proceeded till they came to the Castlereagh of Oxley, which they traced cis it, confluence with the Salt River, about fifty miles frgm the point at which Mr. Oxley had first seen lt. A low depressed country, destitute of food for his horse* and bullocks, and without fresh water, obliged him to make a hasty retreat eastward to hi4hei ground ; and having lost all his dogs by heat and extreme eahms don, he hurried on fast Bathurst, and reached Sydney two day. after, having been out since the month ot November. "The result of his expedition is simply this :—That below Mount Harris the country is totally uninhabitable, and that for tw•o rea sons—first, in dry seasons, like the present, there was no water oo which civilised man could subsist for six months, without endat:. gering bowel complaints, cutaneous diseases, and other maladies. Secondly, in a season of protracted rain, such as I have witnessed in our colony, and which :11r. Oxley met with on the Macquarrie in 1618, the whole is extensively inundated. " The ' Salt River (discovered last January) is rather a large stream, formed of the Castlereagh, Macquarrie (when it exists), Mr. Oxley's Field, which drains Liverpool Plains, his Peel, and my Gwydir and Duntaresque, each YOO yards wide, discovered in 1827. These unite and constitute what is now proposed to be denominated the Darling! It is from half a mile to three quarters in width, and bounded by steep red banks. The circum stance of its being salt is explained in this way : constituted of the several streams above enumerated, it flows down a declivity of country to about 500 feet above the level of the sea. There (in longitude 145 degrees east) it passes through an inhospitable region. the soil of which is saturated with mineral salt—brit.e springs having very frequently been seen boiling up a foot above the surface. In consequence—notwithstanding its considerable breadth—its waters are, at this dry season, so perfectly charged with salt as to render throe totally useless to drink. What be comes of this river, which is really the general drain of the coun try, remains doubtful. I have had a long conversation with Caps.. &urt, the result of which has been to induce me to give it as my.' opinion that, although it tended south-west towards the south coast, it eventually takes a decided bend to the north-west, and then (to carry on my theory of our interior) flows across the . country to the north-west side, where (in latitude 17 degrees) it • is poured into the ocean." COBBETT'S CORN. A numerous and respectable fleeting of those inte rested in the introduction of American Dwarf, or Cobbett's Corn, took place in the Cowieston Tavern, Paisley, Thursday evening last. In addition to the other ornaments of the room, the table was graced with a fine plant of this corn in a Bower-pot, in which it had been raised. Mr. Lee, of Stanely, on being called to the chair, said that the fine plant on the table was a specimen of the variety by which nature delights the eye, and indulges the appetite of man. What ever country or climate we visit, nothing is so ready to attract the eye of the traveller as the varied plants, shrubs, and , with which its surface is decorated. In fact, the whole productions of earth, air, and sea, are nothing bet an endless variety ; and man the most perfect work in creation, presents to our limited mind an infinite intermisture—in colour, habit, temper, and form. There are few things more striking than the remarkable way in which the earth is suited for the production of this variety ; for one kind of grain takes up one part of the soil for its nourishment which is of no use to another, and what is left by the one kind goes to nourish another kind when planted—thus a farmer may have a crop of oats, and a crop of peas alternately, for several years successively, withou t running out his ground so much as two successive crops of either kind would do. Therefore, the greater the variety of different kinds of crop the better for the farmer, the landlord, and the country ge nerally. He had not yet bad expeperience of Cobbett's corn to au extent that enabled him to say how far it would affect the ground in this respect, but he had no doubt that it would be found an ex cellent preparative crop to some of the other kinds of grain at pre sent in cultivation in the neighbourhood of Paisley. For these reasons be considered its introduction as likely to be a national benefit, and worthy of the attention of every landlord and farmer. It was no argument against its introduction into this country, tha: it had hitherto been confined to warmer climates. The most im portant of the present crops had been introduced in a similar man ner to this country, and under more unfavourable auspices ; for the matchless pen of its introducer had silenced every clamour against it, and extended its cultivation in one year throughout the United Kingdom. It was far different with some of our other crops and improvements in this respect ; for the first person that attended to summer fallow in Scotland, was looked on as only making a pre tence to cover his poverty, and the first who cultivated turnips was looked on as a downright fool; and although it was only about a cen:ury since the introduction of this root, he was of opinion there were as many raised annually in Great Britain, as wool nearly pay the interest of the national debt. Mr. U. HILIWZRSON said, that from what had fallen from the Pre sident, they must be well aware of the great benefit likely to result from the introduction of this plant. It was looked on by the American farmer as his mod valuable crop. It was the staide article of food used by the inhabitants of Spain, Portugal, and France. It was likewise cultivated to a great extent both in Africa and Asia, and he had no doubt it was the corn so often referred to in the Old Testament, and the corn which our Samoa, with his Disciples, plucked, and ate on the Sabbath-day. He therefore thought, that Indian Corn was by far too limited a term for it. seeing there was such a variety in its nature. and the countries where it was in use, and therefore, he thought American Dwarf, or Cobbett's Corn, was a proper name to give the kind which had been introduced into this country. For the encouragement of the public--pirited individuals who had planted it, one of the gentlemen present had offered a guinea as a premium to the person who would produce the best ear raised in the West of Scotland ; and they were called together on this occasion to fix the time and make other ar rangements for the competition. He would, therefore, reconimend every person present to give their opinion openly and candidly as to the hest mode of conducting the business. and making the Public aware of the importance of this grain. After several other Gentle men bad delivered their opinions, it was fixed that the competition should take place at Paisley, on the third Friday of November, be teg Paisley fair, and that those interested in its introduction, with their friends, should afterward+ dine together. A Commit tee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements, and Mr. Duncan Henderson, grocer, COWICSIOII, was appointed Secretary for com municating with those at a distance. Three Gentlemen Were also appointed to he judges on the occasion. •We understand that the particulars will be given in an advertisement, when the prelimina. ries are completed. It was likewise mimed aid agreed to, that a subscription should be opened for a Ynd prise of a silver medal toe the best plant ; and from the manner it seas filled op by those pre sent, there is every likelihood s$ a third, if not a fourth prize bang awarded.—Glasgow Free Press. :11k 1 . 1" . it : 4 !