Star. — London, England, 1829-08-19 00:00:00

DISSENTERS. We always have been of opinion that a man of no religion—that is, from indifference—is ready to embrace any tenet—no matter how preposterous—from the same cause which prevents him from professing one in parti cular: so, when we see a whole people careless on the' subject, we are prepared to behold them the next moment blindly plunge into the very extremes of fanatical ab surdity. The example of France partially proves the justice of our principle :—from irreligion she slid to no religion ; and from no religion she is now inclining to reli gious extravagance and bigotry. So, on the otherhand, we hold that a people divided into as many sects as com plexions, lightly assuming this or that creed, as they try on a suit of clothes—by capriciously giving so serious a thing the character of mere mode—depending on general caprice, tend to bring fundamental truth itself into disre pute ; and do more to encourage scepticism than all the arguments which the free thinking philosophers can de vise to overturn religion altogether.—ln consequence of the general census of sects, ordered to be made through out these realms by Mr. PEEL, the Manchester report on the numbers of the various Dissenters in that town, Classed under their respective denominations of sect, pre sents a most melancholy picture to the mind of the gene ral disunion prevalent throughout the country on the grand matter of religious opinion ; and in support of our argument it will be found, that the Unitarians have gained ground upon all the others—save the Wesleyan Methodists, who still, as yet, muster an equal number. The subject is food for much serious reflection. We quote from the Manchester Advertiser : " The following is the number of Dissenters associated with the various bodies in this town. The numbers are taken from the re turn made to the Clerk of the Peace for the County, in obedience to an order transmitted by the Secretary for the Home Depart ment s—The Particular Baptists, 700, (William Gadsby) ; Bap tists, 400 ; Baptists, 156, (William Jackson) ; Partkulaelleptists, SO; Catholics, 22,240; Catholics, 5,490; Ditto, 41,000; Bible Christians, 600, (Rev. James Seholefield); Society of Friends, 640, (Jno. Bradshaw) ; Independents, 1,200, (Rev. W. Roby) ; Inde pendents, 800, (Samuel Bradley) ; Independent Methodists, 279 ; Independent Wesleyan., 70; Wesleyan Methodists, 1,300; Wes- !cyan Methodists, 500; Ditto, 500, (Robert Watson) ; Ditto, 900, (William Lord) ; Methodist New Connexion, 258; Calvinistic Independents, 500, (Jno. Pyer) ; Primitive Methodists, 400, (T. Aspinall); New Jerusalem Church, or Swedenborgians, 240, (R. Jones); Presbyterians, 760, (Rev. R. Jack); Wesleyan Methodists, 4001 " Israelites," 264, (Rev. Abrahams) ; Unitarians, 1,000, (J. G. Robberds) ; Ditto, 300, (Jelin James Taylor) ; General Bap tists of the New Connexion, 100 ; Welsh Calvinistic Baptists, 200, (George Williams) ; Welsh Independents, 250, (Jno. GriMth) ; Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, 503; Independent Methodists. 134 ; Independent Methodists, 350,( William Dakin); General Baptists, 23 ;, Indepeodent Methodists, 74. Some confusion will arise in reading the above state ment, from the absence of some of the Ministers' names. The only return wanted to make this list complete, is that of Mr. M'All's Church, in Mosley-street. Allowing his number to be six hundred, which, we have reason to believe, will be found near the truth, the total number of Dissenters in the township of Manchester will be 64,032. It should be recollected that, as it respects the Protestant Dissenters, these num bers merely include those who are joined in church communion, and not the congregration who attend at the various chapels. Upon what principle, or in what mode the number of Catholics is ascertained, we are at a lose to conjecture. STOCKPORT, AUGUST 13. The long and distressing turn-out of our operatives still continues partially. The spinnerb seem u determined as ever not to return to work at the reduced rate of wages. It is otherwise with the dressers and weavers. The spinners have funds from which each receives a few shining' weekly ; the other two branches have none • consequently all the weavers and dressers who can obtain employment are gone to work. There are vast numbers of these who cannot meet with employment, and their distress is, in many instances, as great as human nature can sustain. In many of the mills, where all the spinners are at work, more dressers and wea vers could be employed ; but it appears, that so binding are the conditions of the masters combination, that no one is to be em ployed who has not a discharge from his last employer; and this is almost universally refused to those who turned out against the reduction. We know one person of acknowledged good chancier, very superior intellect, and an excellent workman, who, upon ap plying to his employer for his work again, was told that none in their employ had been more highly esteemed than he • but as be had been amongst the turn-outs, he should neither be employed in this town nor in any of the surrounding towns ; and that he might, with his family, leave the town and country as soon as he pleased. These facts, we learn, with scores of a similar kind, will be proved in the place where they ought to be known. How are starving families, who have not means to emigrate from one parish to another, to leave the country? Is it to be borer, that em ployers should have power, whenever a man or woman refuses to comply with their conditions, to inflict the punishment of perpe tual banishment upon them? To banish • few and starve others, are means too desperate to be adopted for the purpose of terrifying people, by example, to submit in future to reductions of wages. Absolute hunger, and hope cut off, will drive the sufferers to that desperation which is stronger than the terrors of death—a state in which they can neither reason nor be reasoned with. It is in vain, after we have, by attempting to starve people by wholesale, pro voked acts of madness and indiscriminate cruelty, to attach all that Marna to the victims, which is chiefly attributable to the tormentors. One extraordinary anomaly is worthy of attention in the history of this contest of masters and operatives ; while the starving or expa triating conspiracy just described exists in unconquerable or unop posed vigour, some operatives are to be brought before our Magis trates this day (Thursday) on a charge of conspiring and attempting to induce other operatives to leave the town—.a town where hun dreds can obtain no employ I AU these lamentable and remorseless animosities, which distract us, were produced by,thc Hyde manu facturers. The masters of Stockport are saints to them ; nor Is it to be doubted, that nearly all of which we complain was batched there. Shortly after the repeal of the combination laws, which very few masters here regretted, the masters of Hyde took the alarm ; met at the White Bear Inn, and formed a combination; the object of which was never lost sight of, till, by underpaying their hands, and underselling our manufacturers and others, the latter began to think eta remedy ; to accomplish which, they unfortunately con nected themselves with the Sons of Mammon at Hyde, site. Never till then was there a document for the relinquishment of liberty pre sented to our operatives to sign; nor a system adopted for the pro scription and bani,binent of operatives, who disoblige any of the combined employers: never was them a book for that purpose printed and kept amongst masters, containing the names of thou sands, who. by these means, were compelled to return to the em ployers they had left with due notice. We hope the particulars will not make any of the Hyde masters angry, because we have them from a gentleman who was at the meeting.--Menckater and Seford.ideoreieer. The Marquis of DOU RA eldest son of his Grace the Doke of Winans:ow, has joine d the depot of the 60th Regiment, o f which he Is Captain, in Portsmouth. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.—A. Mimi:imn, of Sainte- Caloasbeles Vienne, in France, has recently, while digginfoun datives In some part of his ed. diwoverd several interesting Roman relics. Among than were two hathing-rowns, beautifully ggspg.up with white marble, and pipes of baked ear* to convey tbe beat. It is presumed that these remains belonged to a mag seam residence, which was pillaged and destroyed dialog an option of the barbarians of the North. Near the same spot Mtflt end several fragments of statues, of ergulake workmanship, and write states 01 HYPO, io the Aseet style of Greek sotaftare, Ramer than life. . . LITERATURE, DRAMA, the FINE ARTS, 4.c. •-. IRISH STATISTICS. From a valuable M.& paper belonging to %sienna Glues, Esq, andpubUshed by him in his interesting Memoirs of the family of Glue., it appears that the profitable lands forfeited in Ireland under the CumntrinsVeilth, amounted to 7,708,2. W Statute Acres, leaving undisturbed about 8,500,000 acres belonging to the Pro testants, the constant-good-affeetion-men of the Irish, the Church and the Crown, besides some lands never seized or surveyed. In 1675 the forfeited lands had been disposed of as follows : COLATTIO TO THE VOILISM. St. Acres. Adventurers 787,326 Soldiers . 2.385,915 Forty-nine Officers • Royal Highness Duke of York . 169,431 Provlsors 477,873 Duke of Ormond and Colonel Butler's Lands 957 516 Bishops 'Augmentations 31,596 4,560,057 GRANTED OR DTUPOSZO Or TO THE 111111. Sc. Acres. Decrees of Innocence . . 1076,520 Provisory . 491,001 Kings Letters of Restitution 46,398 Nominees in Possession 68,36(1 Transplantation 2,325,809 The forty-nine Officers are those who claim arrears for service under the King before 1649. The Duke of York received a grant of all the lands held by the Regicides, who had been anointed. Provisors, were persons in whose favour provisoes had been made in the Acts. Nominees, were the Catholics named by the King to be restored to their mansion-houses and two thousand p acres' contiguous. Transplantation refers to the Catholics whom Cromwell forced from their own lands, and settled in Connaught. There remained 824,391 acres still unappropriated, which were parts of Towns, or possessed by English or Irish without title ; or on account of some doubts, had never been set out. ENG LISH OPERA. Another new piece, announced by that most prodigal Amphitrion of dramatic novelty, Mr. Aseoin, invited us, nothing loath, again to his Theatre last evening. The production was presented under the name of the " Spring Lock," described as a musical entertain went, composed by Mr. 0.11. itoowatt.. We apprehended. from the choice of the overture, that we were to assist at the representation of one of those incessant abortions of modern brain, full of mystery and fustian, of which we are sick—sick even unto death. The piece, opening with a glee set to words selected from the works of H. Nest; gave us no flatteiing hope of much excellence ; a vapid dialogue, striving at wretched.onsurti, betokened no more satisfaction for us in the prose ; still, as the plot advanced through maze of superpuous nonsense and impertinence, we caught a glimpse of promise, &rich bribed a partial interest and much indulgence. But at the end of the first A t our fortitude was exhausted, and we were compelled, with inortificatioe, to give in. From LUCA'S most improbable story the Author.has rummaged and tormented a restive brain, to cook up a still more improbable drama. From the wild unconnected tales of the yet unformed novelists— such as Lima and BOCCACIO.-3 dramatist should be content to cull a stogie trait—not blindly walk through all the crooked paths of their crude fictions, only esteemed now from their anti quity, their illustrations of the manners of their times, and the ab stract spice of humour and genius sprinkled in them here and there. The author, however, was determined not to borrow by halves, and foisted every thing in which three disproportionate acts could possibly contain, until the multitude of inconsistent events fatigued our minds like the busy dreams of a nervous fever. To our astonishment, Mr. Roowzu.'s efforts called a halt with the first act —sad, destitute of all vocal embellishment, this little monster of a piece, with a tail most awkwardly and most vilely miajoined to its head, proceeded to its close—Heaven knows bow. AU we had of music, however, was pleasing in melody, though undistinguished by any peculiar genius. Orchestral effects of Bell Bute and castinet were too frequent, and could not have availed one half act longer. Mr. WOOD did his best in the little air afloted to him ; but the metallic after-twang of this; gentleman's: voice is an insuperable disadvantage. Katie, as Monaco, put us In mind of Ger strant—his acting in the piece being of the same description of Comedy. Sawn, as usual, was admirable in exterior ; Mrs. KEZLT, effective In a bad part ;—bias CAME simpered and sung—sung and simpered, as is her manner ;—and Russet, stuck into an unnecessary part, showed us what he could effect were he properly encouraged. The piece, we think, may probably run a week ;—untU which time we fear not to recover from the horrible puns with which the Spiv Lock has set our teeth on edge. These were too wretched even for success with children. •*• * • -..fID - THE ENGLISH COMEDIANS LATE IN FRANCE. 11l used in every respect, and booted every evening, by an im placable cabal, the English comedians bad their closing night on Monday last, and are now returning to awe the Straight, pursued by the blues which will a little later follow the Prince tie Polig nee. This new company was a wretched one we must admit ; but the reception we gave them was gross and cruel. Happily, how• the cabal, of which these unfortunate players are the vic tims, is the work of a gentleman who arrived express from Lon don for this courageous and honourable purpose. There, then, is French hospitality abused to gratify the rage of John Bull. We do, however, beg of him to send us for the futire performers who will ill use Shakspeare and Rowe a little less.—Cenalitadiannel. MANCHESTER, Atm. 15. MADIMOISZLIX SONTAG'S CONCERT.-7Tbh distinguished vocalist commenced her promised Concert, at the Town-ball, Salford, on Thursday evening. She was assisted by her sister, Mademoiselle NINA SONTAG, Madame Dvizian and Signor Petit. From the statement which appeased in the Herald of Thursday last, it appears that Mt. Sweaty bad this favourite syren at an engagement at the Theatre, which alter the manner, and we presume upon the same prirscipa as her rejection of the offers made here by the Festival Committee, she declined accepting. We fear these circumstances bad the effect of injuring her audience. At the commencement of the concert, and indeed at its conclusion, the room was nut more than half full, though the company was composed of many of the most opulent and respectable families of tbe town and neighbour. hood. Madame Sonara's principal excellence appears to be in the clear and rapid execution of the most difficult passages. Her per ,formaoce of the variation of " Rhodo " called forth a most raptur ous encore and excited the liveliest a n d most enthusiastic demon strations of admiration which we ever remember to have heard in a concert room. Madame Dummy astonished the company by her performances on the piano forte; Signor Puns is too well known in. Manchester to require any notice. Minxes Rorat.—The company, amaagst other powerful ac cessions, has been this week strengthened by the talents of Mr. Kean. This eminent tragedian, whose occasional eccentricities are so amply redeemed by correct conception, impressive delivery, and startling bursts of genius,—together with the assumption of that truly convenatiooal style, in dialogue, which renders the illusion of the scene complete, and Identifies him with nature and pro priety ; this great actor gave to the character of Blaylock, in which be appeared on Wednesday evening, scarcely less rifest than when he first broke forth, like a sun, upon the " darkness that might be felt," which then obscured the drama. It would be insulting to the taste of our readers, to point out the various beauties of this per formance; but we cannot refrain from adverting to the consummate skill evinced throughout, in the preservation of the Jew's master passion—his hatred of the Christian. His love of gold, even is swallowed up by his thirst for vengeance ; but, when he finds it about to be satisfied, his savage exultation, subsides into that gloating delight, consequent upon nearness of ac quisition ; and he seems to revel in the anticipation of bloody enjoyment. One point, however, made by Mr. Kean, we feel called upon to individualize, because it is a touch of nature which, like his admirable scene with Ophelia (in Hamlet) corrects the great Shakspeare himself. In the expressman of furious indig nation against his daughter, for eloping with his diamonds and his deans, he says—" 1 would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels 111 her ear. Would die were !tensed at my foot, and the ducats In her coin !" But here Mr. Kean stiffen the father to triumph over the .kw, and pathetically adds—" Oh, no I not so, not so!" This interpolation is truly Shakspedal, in as much as it beautifully amimilates with nature. The author of the Merchant o f Vegas" makes Lady Macbeth recoil from the murder of Daman, eves in the hot and feverish height of her sanguinary desires, because be " resembled her father as he slept ;' and in accordance with such a feeling, the Shylock of Kean in the midst of his passionate denouncement, remembers the affection which binds him to his child.—Mr. KLAN'S Richard, of Thursday, presented no feature of novelty; it was as finely delineated as ever, with the exception of some trifling physical deficiency, in the more impas sioned sefoes. Ksam is still " Lord of the Lion heart and Eagle eft i" but his looks (and sometimes his manner) convince us that he is not quite so young as he was even ten years ago.—Great praise is due to the Management for the superior cast of the eintr tainmetits afforded for several weeks past ; but. if a continuance of such fare be desirable, the play-going public must be more fre quently in attendance. Mr. Kean, however, has brought good houses.—Mintekester Advertiser. COPTIC LANGUAGE. _ Without pledging ourselves to the extent of the writer's dog mata. we insert the following u a suitable addendum to our last week's paper on hieroglyphics :—" The literary world will be asto nished at the variety of Champ°llion's labours, the indefatigable spirit which he arplies to them, and the important results which they must produce. I shall content myself with naming, as one portion of them, that be has composed a complete Grammar of the Coptic Language, ii, which he proves that this is the language used in the inscriptions on the ancient Egyptian monuments. He has also compiled a Coptico-Egyptian Dictionary. contained in three quarto volumes, and comprising the three distinct dialects, vs.—the Thebaic, and Heptanomic. To every word he has rtached authorities, justifying the meaning which he assigns to it ; the chi, f part of them being derived Irvin the inscriptions he has personally investigated on the several sites themselves. 13y these works my persevering friend will be the means of adding to our lit y hires the ancient wisdom of Heliopolis, Alemphis, and Thebes, in so far as it can he gathered from the deciphering and explanation of a character which has hitherto baffled the compre hension of antiquaries.—J. Acaau."— Literary Garotte. August 15. ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH. CHRONOMETERS. The annual public trials of these beautiful pieces of mechanism closed on the 31st of July, when the prize was awarded to chro nometer, Dent, No. 114 ; its variation between any two months during the year is 0.34, being a trifle more than half a second!— The reward, though now comparatively small. answers the pro posed end—the gradual improvement of the chronometer. The util!ty of the public annual trial may be estimated from the fact, that nu fewer than 344 have bran entered in competition for tke prize since its establishment in 1892, before which period the chronometer-maker knew but little of the performance of his own production. The first year's trial detected the imperfections which existed, and which have not since recurred. On the con trary, the maker has had the advantage of watching narrowly the progress of his machine, and by this means of gaining an expe rience which otherwise could not have been obtained. Although longitude has occupied the attention of the English and most other European Governments, aud induced them to offer and bestow the most liberal premiums, every effort was iwitfficient to produce a satisfactory performance; and to the adoption of this annual trial we are, no doubt, ladebted for the improved results. According to one of the rules, tin maker is allowed more than two chronometers upon trial during the year; but it is generally known that more than that number have been entered by different individuals in fictitious names, or in the names of persons neither owning nor constructing them—it is therefore to be hoped that proper steps will be taken to prevent a recurrence of this abuse, as it destroys the fairness of competition, to the detriment of the greater number of the depositors. THE GARRICK PAPERS. OROS SUR COURT JOURNAL.) The following letter to Garrick, from Bishop Warburton, is Very characteristic of its writer : " Prior Park, Feb. 17. 1761. " DEAR Sta-13Pfote I left town I talked very seriously with Millar concerning that scoundrel poem, and more scoundrel subject of it. He appeared truly concerned. and, as he told me, spoke to Willis with great resentment of the injury done him, by incur ring your displea-ure through his perfidy. " But do such wretches as the writer of the poem, and the hero of it, deserve a serious thought from you ? I think you and I have all the standard dunces of the kingdom on our hands. You the rhyming, and I the prosaic dunces. You have most of the nature of tbat sort of vermin DRYDEN speaks of— ' So little and so light, One could not know they live, but that they bite.' Mine, most like that which Sir Hugh, is the play, calls a familiar beast to man. and signifies love. "On this account I must tell you a story. Two English sol diers, travelling through the Highlands, were one night in parti cular most miserably lodged, and before morning, half eaten up with these two sorts of vermin. As day-light approached, they resolved to make an ample sacrifice for the violated rights of Jupiter hispitalis I but the first attack was so ill planned, that a great patt of the enemy had escaped, had not one of these Com manders, observing the absurd manseuvring of his fellow, called out, ' What the devil, comrade, are you about? Let es first se cure the light-horse; the heavy-armed foot lie at our mercy.' " And now, should you and I, think you, be better employed than those two brave sufferers, did we seriously set about revenging ourselves on the worthless vermin that molested us? I was pleased to see you in sentiments more characteristic of you, the last time we were together, when you hinted to Mr. Berenger and me your inclination of being the means of diverting some rays of the King's favour to shine on the other house. I said nothing to you then, but you will pardon me for giving you mytboughts now Were the King's using your house intended as a matter of mere favour to you, your' modesty and generosity would be well employed to serve your neighbour. But since the King, in this, consults only the gratifi cation of his own amusement, which your acting is necessary to, modesty end generosity would seem to be misplaced in hinting any thing in behalf of the other house. " My best respects to good Mrs. Garrick, along with those of all here—conclude me, my dear Sir, your moat affectionate and faithful bumble servant, " W. GLOUCESTER." CAMBERWELL FAIR. This annual scene of mirth commenced yesterday upon Camberwell-green. Unfortunately fur the senders of toys and other articles t►e rain fell in torrents, and soon placed their encamp ment in a swamp, which none could pass without sinking up to the ankles. The loss must have been considerable. Towards evening the rain ceased,and many of the hardy admirers of the fair bade defiance to all obstacles. There is but slight variation in the arr.ngement of stalls and shows : Richardson, Scowton, and Woombwell, occupy the principal part of the fair. Novelties there are none. Gigantic females, dwarfs, wild animals, and the memorable murders in Edinburgh, are again the principal objects of curiosity. Most of the visitors abandoned the busy scene among the shows, to enjoy the comforts provided in the houses, where music, vocal and in strumental, kept them in high glee. Lord H A RBOROUG it, in hid Dutch lugger De Entetge, is now at Cowes. A fire at Bombay had destroyed all the huts composing the lines of the marine battalion. An explosion also took place on the &I of 31arch at the liundur contiguous to the Castle. About' 12 persons were more or less injured. There is now residing at Chorley-moor a man, named Joseph Bolton. who is in his hundred and second year! The old boy is in full possession of all his faculties, weaves for a living, and earns 31. 6d. a week by his exertions—wages which, in these de plorable times, our poor weavers have been h.bitstated to consider none of the most despicable.—Prestos The returns of the slaves manumitted at the Cape of Good Hope, detail their names. Among them are the following : —Johanna Van Wilhelmina, Pamela, Achilles, Romeo, Damon, Coridon, Sylvia (aged 73i years), and Bonaparte. aged 25 years, who had belonged to Hendrick Van de Grad, sen. THE. BACHELORS BEVEL.—The splendid luminary on Tuesday having made a glorious "golden set," no doubt was entertained by that numerous body, the Bachelors of Windsor, that the succeeding day would prove as lair as the most sport-loving mortal could wish or expect. The morning came, in "russet mantle clad," and the juvenile cricketer., after dispatching a roll or two, and three or four basins of coffee each, as speedily as possible re paired to the scene of action—the Acre. The spoits commenced with a match by 24 young knights of the wicket, from 11 year. and four months old, to 15 years and a day ; none rising 17 were al lowed to enter the lists. The game was touched off in first-rate style, and won by that side which scored the g number of runs.. Alter this a favourite entertainment was per lot med in a tent on the the bill, entitled " Beef, veal, and ham," which went down uncommonly well—the young actors acquitting themselves in the very best manner. A variety of rural amusements followed, such as running in sacks, eating rolls and treacle, back-swording, wrest ling, jingling, and racing fur a gown-piece by four swift-footed damsels, together with various other sports, including a Jerusalem pony race, which was well contested. We should imagine that 5,500 persons were assembled to witness the vinous kinds of fun got up fur the occasion. At half-past eight the most splendid dis play of fire-works we ever witnessed ; the Chevalier Southby, of Vauxhall, was the pyrotechnist, whose skill in this particular art we have so Mem witnessed.- The arrangement for the revel Amp thee was concluded in such a manner as to give full sitistacdou te the vast assemblage of persons for .wisose jollification this antidote to ennui was produced. The weather during the day was oppres sively hot, and tbe demand fns( Grantham's superior &Pr. beer was greater than on any previous occasion...4Jc*** Chrstatir, ADMIRAL RIONY AND TUE FREN...I MINISTRY, The refusal of Admiral RI c; x v to tamjsh his lau:el.i, by joining the puppet Goths about to try their wretched skill on the Constitution of his country, does him the highest honour; and deprives the wretched confederacy of the only name woithy of respect in the list of their . party. How these servile tools, without influence and talent, are to work the machine, we cannot conceive. At least they will require firmness to brave the storm. How dear must power be to these silly men, that thus, for its temporary enjoyment, they can expose themselves to clamour, ridicule, danger, and the certitude of future contempt. CHALLENGE. The following national trait is so truly original, that we stag a million against all Europe, from the Nortb Cape to the Dardanelks, to show us any Newspaper or publication whatever, containing a defiance so magnificently grand, so daringly confident, as charac terizes this challenge in championship of a Short Horned Tup, Rousseau was right when he styled England a laud of eccentrics : " A Gentleman, who was on a visit to Chilton this mirnitig (in company with many °Mara), after the exhibttiun of the celehrated Short Horns, which are confessedly unrivalled, expressed astonish-. ment t.n beholding the sheep, and was so delighted with twe top named Childers, two years old, that he involuntarily proposed to stake One Thousand Guineas that no sheep cou'd be found equal to him in the known world ; and he hereby offers a ber.of that amount to any one disposed to take it, who has only to -iznify his wish to the Editor of this Paper, and it will be immediately at tended t0.".-- Tyne Metal ry. So much for a Sheep ;—now, readers, for a GOiSe : " On the 6th of August, a gonae belonging to Mr. ilauvick, of Highway, deed, which bad been in the family thirty-our years. and in that time had reared above Awe ktiwired young ones. Moat three year. ago it lost one eye, and at the latter end of Jahuary test the other ; but. nutwitbstaliding its total blindness, it his sluice that time reared toiX fine geese."—Both //add. The history of its pedigree, character, habitudes, manners, at:d various moulting', we anxiously expect in the neat Bulk Herald. We have been favoured with the name of the PRIPICZ of 7'..ps : we should equally like to know that of the Qu►x. of Geese ! COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. HARVEST, CROPS, &c: Tii H AnyrsT.—Letter.i from the frontiers of Bel gium state that the wheat and rye. newly harvested, yields a produce greatly exceeding that of all foregoing years. The old farmers have no remembrance of a harvest so abundant and pre ductive.—Faris Paper. The harvest has commenced in many parts of Shrop shire. and the wheat crop appears every where to be abundant, the only fear entertained being that the weather may not prove hne fur the getting in of the harvest. Lt 31 ERICK.—We were visited on Wednesdw by some very severe weather, and exceedincly heavy rain, which continued to fall without intermission all that day and night. It was succeeded nest morning by a violent trite, and occasional furious squalls, which altogether, we apprehend, must have dove some serious hurt to the crops. Some of the heavy corn fields are laid in many parts.—Lieseriek Chronicle. ABERDEEN.—On Tuesday lut we had tone lotel peals of thunder with vivid Hashes of lightning, succeeded by heavy rain, which fell for about two hours literally in torrents.— The weather has since undergone a very unfavourable change, and become very cold, with occasional frost in the night, so as during the succe.dling part of the week to have been unpropitious for the harvest. We shall hope, however, that the weather may soon lie come genial and favourable for ripening the crop, which is fast coining to maturity, as, with warmth and sunshine, we would have pretty general harvest in the cour-e of a fortnight or three weeks hence. On Monday last barley was begun to be cur in this neighbourhood, at Mill of Auchmacoy, near Ellon ; the same day, at Whistlebury, in the parish of Kineff ; and, in the course of the week, at Fyvie, and Orchardton of Udny.--alkotkeas Chronicle. PROSPECTS Or TH E HA RV EST.—Among the facts which have come to our knowledge front a long residence in the country, we have observed, that a cold and wet summer is genet ally au unproductive one. We do not arm that heat anti drought might not he continued to the destruction of the farmer's hopes ; but, speaking of whit are in common parlance so called, we say that even in their excess they are invariably advantageous. and their contraries the opposite. Nor is the reason far to seek. The unfer tile tracts of Great Britain are so ftum coldness of exposure, from elevation, and front the dampness of their subsoil. In dry and warm summers such tracts are covered with luxuriant crops. They then come not merely in supplement of the failures of the lighter soils, but as an enormous addition to the produce of the strong soils. In a cold and wet summer, on the contrary, the stronger soils return little, the uplands nothing, and only the lighter and less valuable portions are productive. Looking, therefore, not to the reports of a district, not to speculations concerning markets, but to plain matter of fact, the pres:nt summer has been singularly cold and wet, and vie cahoot h 1, bazardiag a prognos tication, notwithstanding the favourable accounts tr a m many parts respecting the ',respect of the aproach.ng harvest, that it wriii not eventually prove so productive as many writers seem to . pate. It is consoling, however. to add, that the weather, at pre sent, is more favourable, and seems more settled, that) has been the ca.e for some weeks.—Manciesier Paper. _ _ The destruction of the feathered tribe, sf almost every species, occasioned by the late tremendous storm, and the tremen dous rains is uncommonly great. The woods and plantat;oos iy some parts are literally strewed with them Even the crows were . al much exhausted and injured by them, that on Tuesday, when the rah* bad ceased, immense numbers aliowed themselves to be taken by individuals, without attempting to escape. Partridges, grouse, &c. have also suffered to a great extent. Thousands it them have been drowned , and many of them that had in one sense escaped t h e rains, w e r e destroyed after they had ceased, by alight ing on those fields where they had seen the tops of coin, and which contained 18 or tO inches depth of wafts . (-Wirier. - - NORTHERN HERRING FIsIIERY.—A correspondent in the baroness Courier, in a letter, dated from Thurso. the Ist in.tant says, "for the last ten days herrings have set in here and to . the westward in great abundance. One curer at Puri Sierra bad 120 crans from eight boats, none of which were well equipped; and the only nouth frith boat, now remaii log at this place, belonging to, and sailed by that indefatigable fisherman, W.l.er Banks of Fitherrow, delivered two days ago 19 cram, and yesterday cram ; and this morning a small yawl had 12 crans of very superior fish. Ou Wednesday morning 36 boats belonging to Clyth, brought in 3bo barrels to one curer. Friday and Saturday a num ber of the Wick boats brought from five to forty barrels. and two. boats brought 70 per boat, but a %rest many boats bad only a few, herrings." We have had no direct intelligence from Wick later than Monday last. Tne fish had then appeared in that quarter in abundance, hut owing to the unfavourable winds and tentpastuoua weather, few or none ut the boats have ventured to aces for eight days. 111=11=1=MMIMMINMIRO • MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A lady, in a neighbouring town, who bad risen rapidly from the kitchen to grace the bead o f' her niaster's table, was one day entertaining a large party, when the coaverution happening to flag, one of the guests rrniarked— " aqui pause ;" " and what's your bu.iness wr my artful paws," in wrath, retorted the landlady; '• if you had scrubbed the house as laa g as I have done, your pees would ua bee been see bonnie and woke as they ate."—Eittabsergh Paper. . • CORN-EXCHANGE,MARK•pLANR, Aim. 19. Our market was very lively this uturuing. having store country ' buyers than can be remembered on a Weditetklay, owing, no doi.bt, to the great quantity of sail's that his :Mho ante Monday. Prim: samples of Foreign Wirrat .old freely at the prices of lad Monday, but there was no demand for the other de•criptiun•. Barley, &ails, Peas, and Oats, SOW at nearly last 3101111.7% prices. •. IMPiIIiTATION• lINCK IMINDAT. Wheat, English (qrs.) . 1,050 Foreign . • ^ Oat,, ksigush . . 10,050 Foreign . Isish . . 4.450 7,00 . • Foreign /3arky, &Oita . Irish COAL lt HALF•TAST Ors. — There was only a limited supply of Sunder, . t an g and Newcastle Coal at market to,dey--eleven ships only hav ing arrived sine Monday last; making a total on the Coals arrived • of 61 ships. The Exchange was well attended by merchants, art{ Coals generally were in good demand. Ships arrived dating the present month, 564. Best Wallsend Coils • 524. id. 52a. fd. , Other sorts 4.« fie. 6d. Ms. dd. Ships at /*Yet ... 224. 9 's