Star. — London, England, 1831-09-28 00:00:00

PERPETU IL_AL3IANACK. ! t ii;; W" . .. If , - 4 li, AL lit''' Allv :, SUGAR REFINING QUESTION. REFINING Me. R ten x•ns. a humble but most ingenious', man, whom we 1)04 ve presently to hold a subordi text° situation in the India House, and whose early 4!ays were meritoriously passed as a private in the Coldstream Guards, after a series of years spent in anxiously endeavouring to combine in one sheet. i all the most useful and interesting informstirm I which ought to compose an Almanack, has at! length succeeded in compiling a ww!c, which, from its general utility, must be acceptable to the titer chant, the gentleman, and the scholar. :Ind prove nu invaluable appendage to the Counting-house, and the study, by affording without difficulty, and at a single glance, every information regarding the rapid and important march of time, and the e.. - rnts connected therewith, from the commence ment of the Christian iEra, to Perpetuity. Mr. Richards observes, that the very great labour and expence to which he has been subjected, in bring ing th:s work to maturity, must be sufficiently ob vious ; yet neither the 'lie nor the other have les sened his endeavour to produce an original design, embracing a comprehensive mass of information, of vast utility to this great commercial nation. The !kn. East India Company, after a minute inspec tion of its merits and utility, have orde-ed forty copies, for the use of their great commercial establishment. We have examined the proof sheet, and find the following forming a part of the con t( nts :—A Table showing the Day and Hour of the New and Full Moons for ever; a Table showing, by the Dominical Letter, the first day of any Year, lt.uu the alteration of the style, 1752, for ever ; a Telegraph showing, •by the Dominical Letter, what day of the week any month commenced in time past, or will do in future; th‘? Hour of the rising and setting San fot any day of the week, month, or year ; a Table to find the Prime, or Golden Number ; a Table showing the dates of the Moveable Feasts; a Geographical Clock, showing the present hour in various parts of the world ; an improved Circular Barometer, or Weather Table ; a Table of Terms and Returns, arranged to the late regulation ; n Table giving the Sunday Letter from the Christian /Era, to the alteration of the style in 1752 ; a Table of the Planetary limns, for every day of the week ; a Table of Nautical Miles from London, to the diflerent Sea Ports ; a Table to find the Moon's Age; a perpetual Tide Table for 1511 ions Sea Ports ; a Table of Elements of the Planetary System ; the Grand Divisions of Europe, Islands, &c. Universal Money Table ; the Transits of Mercury ; the Ti ansits of Venus ; the Eclipses of the Sun for 26E5 yens ; a Table of the Julian and Solar Time ; the Division of Time : the Jen ish Year ; the Egyptian Year ; the Turkish Year ; the Grecian Year ; a Table of the Righ: Ascension and Declension of Thirty six Stars ; a True Figure of the Ea! th, Islands, &c. &c. Transfer Days, &c. &c.— Stamp and Legacy Duties. Spoilt Stamps, &c. Moon's Rising and Setting ; Four Seasons of the Year ; Stamp Penalties; and, lastly, A Table sliming the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, until the year 1900, with a variety of other useful in formation, selected from the best authorities.— We ate rather disappointed to find, since the above notice was written, that notwithstanding the merit and usefulness of Mr. Richards' work, and the liberality of his Majesty in pettuitting it to be eradicated to him, one single copy cannot be pub lished without being intercepted, seized, and con fiscated by the Stamp-office: and this is no com mon case ; for while common and spurious Al umnacks pay only a trifling duty of a few pence, tl.At projected by Mr. Richards is charged at Ten Shillings a sheet! This, among other griev as,ce3 springing out of the Stamp Laws, is one Litli demands prompt and public attention. The case of the Liverpool Merchants, by which is clearly proved that Sugar made by nations win re the Slave Trade is still in active opaeatioa has displaced British Colonial manufacture—The refusal of Government to give up the Refining question, r to grant a Committee of General In quiry—The f•ct of their granting the Bill being a bonus to those ra ho still carry cn the trade, a reward for the nefarious traffic in human flesh—And the statement of Mr., Claxton of Bristel, which prove- that 77,000 Slaves have even recently been imported into the Foreign Colonies, in less than twelve months—combined itir the posirive approach of danger to the very exi.tence of our fellow-subjects in the colonies, of a!i colours, as is fully proved in that gentleman's first letter to :Mr. Buxton—call loudly for a change ere it shall be too late. The party the writer of tlls has acted with steadily for twenty years is that of anti-slavery ; and, no twithstanding his friends have been handled Fortress hat roughly by Mr. Claxton, yet there is such an air of fairness, such honest blame of the had parts of the system, and so much candour in his statements, that for one be is ready to join hands in any plan that tan be adoptei, that will in the remotest degree allay the present fer ment, and offer an approach even to a b.trei or der of things. It seems he has traversed and re• traversed the colonies; and also that, however sen:e of the planters may disavow the state of the nrgroes, or dislike any thing depreciato yof their properties; there are others who acknowledge t' e' truth of his Statements ; and there can no longer' he any doubt of the roost general distress th-re, or the precarious situation of the merchants here. A Second Letter is promised, and a Plan for Compensation, as well as Emancipation. If it be in keeping with the following plain bat clear sighted statement of the situation of all parties concerned or interested. which I copy from the First Letter, it is to be hoped it will be worthy of ,onside ation at least. The Nation csEs for Emancipation. Tht• Slaves have been totally unsettkil and disorganized, %reeling Emancipation. The Planter, fairly dealt by, would be better for Eman cipation, if free labour was only even tolerably or partially established. The Nation admits the justice of Compensation. The planter has a right to demand compensation. The slaves, of themselves, can ht no party to compen sation. The nation cannot cornpensatc to the full value of the property. The planter demands, as a right, its full valuc. The Slave can be ro party to v.iluire, himself as a pro- petty. Will the nation enter upon a feasible szberne and meet the planter ? Win the planter tome r.lo a rtasom.bl, pnositien and meet' the - nation ? Will both the nation and tl c plarttr join herds, in as. sisting the slave to do his tart, it sucb a way a s 0 , 4 1] to the benefit of all three ? , 4, It appears to me the Nation has to dread the loss of re venue. ! The planter loss of property. The slave, if not to dread, to be exposed to all the evils attending want of employment, doubly dreadful if sugar. culture is abandoned, where there is already a superabundant population. The Nation will have—First, to consider the consequences upon the Revenue of any sudden convulsion in the Sugar ! Cclonics. Secondly—Whether it cannot adopt a graduated scale et Compensation, which, while it may be guarded with provisoel, inly at the sane time encourage the Planter to establish the systan of wages for labour, and fair profit from stock. Thirdly—The dreadful consequences of breaking down, by a first act of injustice, the sacred barrier of private rights of ene of its classes. Fourthly—Whether the crushed lumps of England may not be admitten into Russia, and other countries, on the same terms as those of Cuba, which go through the same process : or as the doted sugar of the Brazils: whether the Slave Trade may not be stopped, and the value of the staple commodity raised by an increased demand, or by a bounty of about 140,0001. on the annual overplus of the refiner. The planter will have to consider—First, the conse quences of any sudden convulsion. Secondly—Whether it will not be madness to allow the time to pass, when there is a chance of something being obtained. Thirdly—Whether it is not his bounden duty to do his utmost to prepare the Slaves to be willing free-labourers ; to increase civilization, from which alone can it be expected the Slave can be brought to understand the real meaning of doing as he would be done by, and loving his neighbour as himself, and thence comprehending that the prime value of wages for work is the encouragement of industry. PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. TYNE MERCURY, Sept. 27. A very numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Newcastle and the neighbourhood took place this day (Monday). Sept. 2Gth, Archibald Reed, Esq. Mayor, in the Chair, for the purpose of considering of a petition to the House of Lords in favour of the Reform Bill passed by the House of Corn. mons. ALNWlCK.—Pursuant to a requisition to the Chamber lains of the Borough, numerously signed, a public meeting was held on Friday last, at noon, in the Town Hall, to con. eider the propriety of petitioning the House of Lords to pass the Reform B:11 John Can, Esq. of Bondgate Hall, was celled to the Chair, who opened the business with a very appropriate address. The formality of moving distinct resolutions was dispensed with, and a petition prepared for signatures was read by John Lamina, Esq. and unani. mously adopted. The meeting was then addressed by Mr. Lambert, and by Mr. Bushe l , solicitor. ANOTHER COLLIERY HXYLOSIONASOUt 9 o'clock ' on Tuesday morning last, an explosion of hydrogen gas took place in Willington High Pit, the property of blesses. Bell and Dixon, by which Thomas Nichols, Joseph Armstrong, Thomas Cowell, Michael Martin, and Benjamin Twigs, four men and a boy, were deprived of life, and several others were burnt. There were upwards of 100 men in the pit at' the time. On Wednesday, a coroner's inquest was hell at the honse of Mr. Wardle on the body of one of the deceased, and, as usual in cases of this description, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." Seve ral of the witnesiesj who were examined swore that the mine was in geneitol, and immediately before the explosion took place, in a ea and healthy state. But they added an important feet— where this pit fired, candles were used. We have repeatedly urged the extreme impropriety of using lights of this die.' scription. The practice appears nevertheless to be continued. It is far from our intention to charge the proprietors of thlai colliery with wilfully exposing the lives of their workmen to destruction, or to impute to them a more careless system all mining than is adopted by other coahosners. But we care not to whom the coal.nrine belongs ; wherever candles are used, and wherever children are employed so keep the trap doors, as both are known to have been the causes of many direful catastrophes, we do not hesitate to declare, that in all such cases the managers ate open, in our opinion, to a cri minal prosecution, if death should ensue from such modes of carrying on their workings. This is not a doctrine held by us merely —it was the deliberate declared opinion of Mr. Justice Bailey at the Durham anises some years ago.— Wherever, he observed, those who had the charge of coal mines employed improper implements, and death ensued in consequence, they were liable to be tried for manslaughter. Candles and children are improper implements for the pur poses to which they are applied. It is no answer to say that the mine was previously in a healthy state, and therefore candles were used. NEWC,%STLS, Sept. 24.—We have had an early and re markably fine harvest, and every description of grain has been housed in the best condition. There was a large supply of country wheat this morning, which fully supported last week's prices; some sold for wed as high as 68s. per qr. In other articles there is no itera tion. Fine Flour_,_ 475. to 488. per sack. NEWCASTLE H•T •ND STRAW MARKET...OR THOM day last, old land hay of this year's growth, sold from 41 to 515 s ; new land hay of do 41 to 518 s ; old land hay of last year'd growth, 411fm to 816 s per ton ; 50 cart loads of hay at market. Wheat straw, IS loads, from Is 3d to 2s ; oat straw, 5 loads, from 2s to 2s 3d per theatre. NEWCASTLE CATTLE hilientivr.....On Tuesday last, beef sold from 5s 9d to 6s 91; mutton, 6s 9d to 74 ; lamb, 6s to 6s 3d per stone, sinking offal. PRICES of BUTTIR, BACON, tire. Sept. 22.—Northum berland bacon and h ams, none; butter, 48s per firkin. Cumberland bacon 8s 6d ; Hams, 8s 3d to 8s ad per stone. Butter, 435 per firkin. MA RRIE.D.—At Tynemouth church, on the 20th lust. Charles atoms Johnson, Esq. of Camberwell, Surrey, to Ann, eldest daughter of John Crawford, Esq. of North Shields. Di ED.—At Suminer Hill, on the 19th inst. DI iss Wright, aged 45.—At Elwick Hall, Durham, Lady Park, wife of the Hon. Mr. Justice Park, aged 65.—At Ouseburn, near this town, on the 9th inst. Dlr. Robert George Rea', 54. A: Houghton.le-Spring, on the 17th inst. Isabella, daughter of Slr. Forster, viewer.—At Richmond. on the 19th inst. Mr. George, late of the Richmond Theatre, 86-20th inst. Miss Gray.—At Mitford Seeds, on the 19th inst. Mary, only daughter of Mr. John Anderson, 16.—At Morpeth, on the 19th Inst. Mr. John Bootyman, mason, 37.—0 n the 211; inst. by the accidental discharge of his gun while shooting at Croglin, Cumberlanek John, only son of Richard Lowry, Esq. of Durranhi ll House, in the same county, 26. YORKSHIRE GAZETTE, Sept. 24. The preparations by the Committee at the Yorkshire Museum for the reception of strangers who are expected to honour this meeting with their presence, are now nearly com pleted, and on Monday many arrivals may be expected. The morning of that day will be devoted to registering the names of those intending to be present, and delivering to them dekets of general admission. On Monday evening, at eight o'clock, the ;apartments of the Museum will be lighis9 19 and the first evening convenasione held. Oa Tuesday, at twelve o'clock, the first meeting for satin- I ° w e n s will take plate, whew it is _understood. that Lord Milton, as President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, will be called to the chair. At this meeting, the proposals which may be brought forward for the conduct of the meeting, and for the establishment of the projected per manent association of the friends of science. will be discussed. Meetings for scientific discussion, and the reading of memoirs, will be held at the same hour en the remaining days of the week. On Tuesday, at live o'clock, there will be a public dinner, in the Festival Concert Room, or at one of the principal Hotels, and at eight o'clock, the company will adjourn to the evening party at the Dluscum. The second public dinner will be on Friday. On Wednesday evering, the pursuits of the week will be agreeably divers;. fled by Dr. Camidge's Concert at the assembly.rooms. The attractions of the evening meetings at the Museum (to which, we understand, that ladies are to be admitted each evening, under such restrictions as to number as the influx of visitors from a distance may render necessary, will he scientific con versation, the exhibition of remarkable specimens in natural history, the arts or manufactures, or of philosophical instru ments and striking experiments, which may be contributed by the scientific visitors; and possibly, on one or two oe'the et enings, a popular lecture on some interesting topic of na tural science may be delivered. Lord Milton, and several gentlemen eminent in science, will partake of the splendid hospitalities of Bishoptherpe Palace during the week ; and many of the members of the Yorkshire Philosophical So. cicty, resident in and neat York, will enterusit. their scientific Wends at their respective homes. REQUIbITION TO Slit. Sane's, M.P.—Mr. Sad'cr's cerise goes on as prosperously and gloriously a, his best fiends could wish. The requisition, ceiling upon him to sta-c! *or Leeds, daily receives a great acquisition of respects. t.l, ' f s, too, who are to be electos. Saatous AFTRAT....OI Sunday last, being Pateley feast, four police officers, Wynn, Dinsdale, Sweeting, and Binns, 'eft Ripon for Pateley-bridge, in order to take into custody two noted poachers of the name of Sinclair. They succeeded in taking a^d handcuffing one, hut had no sooner walked a few yards with him, than they were met by a gang of Sin clair's comrades, consisting of twelve or fourteen men and women, armed with knives and bludgeons. The men in their Alin sleeve', aided by the women, commenced an im mediate crack on the police officers, and after a desperate struggle, which lasted about half an hour, rescued the man taken, and left for dead on the field two of the officers. Fates.—On Tuesday evening, a quantity of straw, con taining shout 70 loads, belonging to Mt. Robert Lamplongh, was set on fire at the Tock-dale farm, Langtoft. Some corn-stacks, close by, were fortunately saved. A thrashing machine had been used on the premises during the two pre vious days. On the following night. a quantity of straw, belonging to Mr. W. Moody. of Ruthann, was on fire, but being early discovered, the flames were extinguished before they had done much damage. Mr. M. had also had a thrashing machine at work, and both fires are supposed to have been the acts of incendiaries. THE UNDRRLEY STUD SALE. The following Blood Stock, the property of Mr. Nowell, were sold during the week, at Doncaster, by Messrs. Tat tersall, at the following prices : go. Brown Yearling Filly, by Aluley, out of Young Ca. price, by Waxy, out of Caprice, by Walton ... 2 9 Bay Yearling Filly, by Muley, out Clue, by Marmion 40 Brown Yearling Filly, by Muley, out of Lucinda, by Haphazard ;in the Oaks, 1833. Mr. Dilly .. 71 Bay Yearling Filly, by Muley, out of Johanna South. cote, in the Oaks, 1833. Mr. Dilly 245 Brown Yearling Filly, by Muley, out of Miss Wasp, in the Oaks, 1833. Sir Mark Wood .. ... 100 Bay Yearling Filly, by Muley, out of Rosanne ; in the Oaks, 1833 .. 80 Bal Yearling Filly , by_ Longwaht, out of Dulcamara; In the Oaks and a Foal Stakes at Doneaster,loo h ft (7 subs.) Oak, 1833.—M r. Dilly ... ... 185 Brown Yearling Filly, by 51uley, out of Lady Erne, by Stamford, in the Oaks, 1833 .. 60 Bay Yearling Filly, by Longwaist, out of Lamm, by Zodiac, out of Jerboa'.; in the °ale, 1833 . 90 Chesnut Yearling Filly, by Muley, out of Prima Donna, by Soothsayer; in the Oaks, 1833.—Mr. Charlton ... .. 80 Brown Yearling Colt, by Muley, dam by Cato, out of Omphale, by Waxy.—Mr. J. Smith ... .. 30 Brown Yearling Colt by Muley, dam by Dick An. drew., (Mufti's Dam) out of Donna Clara—Mr. Walker ... .. 120 Bay Yearling Colt, by Muley, out of Mishap, by Haphazard—Mercury Dorimont, dec. Mr. W. Claney • • .. 30 Brown Yearling Colt, by 51uley, out of Long. waist's dam ;in the Derby, 1833—Mr. Peel ... 180 Bay Yearling Cult, by Longwaist, out of Brown Duchess, (Toso's dam); in the Derby, 1833—Mr. Yates Brown Yearling Colt, by sluley, out of Doll Tear sheet;.. in the Derby, 1833 ... 165 Chesnut Yearling Colt, by Muley, (out of Principessa and Margrave's dam); in the Newmarket Stakes and Derby, 1833—Sir Al. Wood • 560 Bay Yearling Colt, by Longwaist, out of Sophy, by Comus; in the Derby, 1833—M r. W. Chifney ... 70 Chesnut Yearling Colt, by Itluley, dam by Comus, grandam by Election; in the Derby, 1833—Mr. Walker 160 , Black Colt, 3 yrs old, by out of Miss Wasp; I in a Foal Stakes, 100 h. ft. Doncaster, 1831 .. 58 LEEDS CORN AlsaixT.—There has been a liberal sup. ply of wheat from the farmers this motning, but the arrivals of grain up the river have been small. New wheat may be noted 2s per quarter higher, and hi some instances still more; fine fresh old has obtained the price of last week, but there is very little demand for the secondary and stale samples. There is but little new barley at market, that which is fine bas been full as high as last week. Oats and Shelling have not varied in price. The same may be said of beans and peas. For malt the demand ,is very limited, and to force sales lower prices must be submitted, to. Rapeseed has not varied in price. HULL Coax MARKET, Sept. 20.—There has been a very limited business p assing in all Grain during the past week, and to this day's market the supply is very short, owing principally to the late heavy decline which has taken place in the consuming markets, to which the farmers in this neighbourhood are not inclined to submit; the little business, therefore, transacting to.day, is at last week's prices. Nothing d oing in old Wheat. The Oat trade keeps excessively dull, and prices remain as last quoted. Several samples of new Barley showing, the best qualities of which bring about 38s. the grinding qualities are in more request, and last week's prices freely paid. There are several parcels of old Beans brought forward, but the trade dull; very few new ones shown yet. Rapeseed not so free sale. Linseed without alteration. WRICEPHILD CORN MARIRTe•The arrival of grain to day is much short of last week, yet fully equal to the wants of the bnyers. The state of Liverpool Market very mate. rially checks the demand foe wheat here, and to-day very little business is done, holders generally standing fi rm at about the rates of thi s se'nnight. Barley is offering in greater plenty, and is Is. to 2s. per qr. lower ; for second qualities of South, there is no demand whatever. Oats are steady lu price, but Shelling barely fetches last week's psi. ces. Beans are without alteration In value. Scarcely any thing doing in other articles. Per quarter of 8 bushels of 601 b. per bushel.—Wheat, red, Norfolk and Suffolk, 58s to 60s, fine, 62s ; Lincoln shire and Cambridgeshire, 455, 52s to 601, fine, gls ; York. shire, 47., 52s to 57‘ fine, 595; white, 51s, 58s to 635, fine, 67s ; foreign, red, 50s to Nis, fine 62s ; white, 51s, 57s to 625, fine, 665. Yoax FORTNIGHT Fate, SEPT. t2.--We had a brisk sale of stock of every kind, putchasers being numerous, and there being a large and valuable supply of both beasts and sheep —Beef, As 6d to frs per stone; Mutton, 51 to 61 per lb. MARRIED.—On Thursday, Mr. Joseph Staneliffe, Canal Lodge ' Alirtield, to Miss Holland, daughter of John Holland, Esq. of Stead House, near Halifax—On Wednesday, at Sutton, Thomas Gmyburn • Esq. to Eliza, youngest daughter of 3enjamin Holland, Esq. DIED.—On Wednesday, the 21st instant, aged 60, Mr. John Gatecliffe, Commodore of the Pilots, at Hull, much respected—On Sunday, the 18th instant, Thomas Davison, Esq. cf sliddleton.Tyas, in this county--Same day, at Richmond, Sir. George, late of the Richmond Theatre, aged 86. MIDLAND REPRESENTATIVE. At the Meeting of the Birmingham Political Union. ?Jr.' William Weston begged of those members of the Council who were opposed to paper currency, to look to the United States of North America, which had prospered for 90 yeah with nothing but a paper currency. There were bank notes in America for a quarter of a dollar and if the currency were to be contracted there, there would he universal anarchy and ruin. In order to show the ruinous effects of a centric- Lion of the currency in this country, he would take the li berty of rsadingsbe fallowing scale of prices of staple arti. des, of Birmingham manufacture, in tile four years, 1818, 1824, 1828, and 1110 COMPARATIVE PRICES OF HARDWARE, AteaII7rACTUNED IN AND MEAN BINMINGNAM. Description. 1818. per ewt 13s 2s 6tl pgr Is ' 18s p gross 3s • p dozen 1. 9s p set 3s 6s p dozen 2s 4% Od p gro 2s Sts p gross 2s 11d p doz I • p Isi 4s p des Is 23s p cwt 18. 10d p do I Cs 9d p dot 21 21 3d p doz 38s p doz 13s 6s each Is 4s6dppr Is 22s8dpewtIls 14 P Pair ... 17s p gross 7s .. 28s p ewe 18. 304 p cwt 19. ... 4s Gtl each is ... les p bundle 7s 104plb Anvils ••• ••• Awls, polished Liverpool ... Bed Screws, 6 inches long .. Bolts fur ots, 6 inches .. Braces for carpenters, with 12 bits .. Bits, tinned, for bridles Buttons for coats ... Buttons, small, for waistcoats, Ike ...I Curvy co.ubs, 6 bared .•. • • Candlesticks, 6 inch brass Commode knobs, brass, 2 inches Frying pans ... • • ••• Hinges, cast butts, I inch .. rolioe 11..mmers, No. 0 I.atches fur doors, bright thumb . . Locks fur doors, iron rim, 6 inch .. Locks for guns, single roller Plated stirrup. Sad irons and other castings ..• Shovel and tongs, fire irons Tuned table spoons Trace chains , . Vices fur blackemiths, &c. Japanned tea trays, 30 inch I,un wire, No. 6. Brass wire Upon the average of this table, tvappeared that men had to produce three Woes as much In 18:10 as they had in 1818, 1 toe the same simian of money. - Mr. Wevon then procesdid to describe the great difference in the condition of the working chases, in the years 1818 and 1890. In tho first-men timed year they were well fed and well clothed, and had many of the comforts of life; whereas now, it was ex actly the reverse. Mr. Salisborl's lecture on botany and rural economy, de. livered at the Philosophical Institution, on Thursday even ing. was of a description calculated to render much useful and practical information to all classes of society, his direct object being the giving employment on our own soil to all the industrious poor who may at any season be distressed for want of work, and which he illustrated to demonstration by the followingabstracted facts. Mr. S. states the following facts, in which he has succeeded in rendering poor persons happy in the innituting of employments on the land. From whence and whence alone can we apply all the labour of a surplus manufacturing population, much of which reasoning he made most happily apply to the small gardens near this town :- 46 We never can have too great an abundance of the necessary articles of food and existence. All these arc to be produced in all countries from the surrounding soil, and in proportion to the good or bad management ex. ercised. The best wheat land cultivated by the plough does not yield half the quantity of sustenance afforded by the saute when cultivated by the spade, and po tatoes are the produce. A crop of potatoes, on good land, is not less ip proportion u to profit, than the same land will produce if madder, opium, liquorice, du. be grown ; and these and other similar drugs that are brought from other countries, could be raised here of better quality, and at less cost, than they are to be purchased at. That any healthy boy, of tee years old, can dig and cod irate, in any of those crops, sixteen square yards in a day, and that every day's work will net a produce worth from bd. to Is. 61." Blaatiwomax, Uri. 22.—We had a very full supply of every kind of grain at to-day's market. Wheat was 4d per 62Ibs • malting barley Is to 2s per quarter ; and flour Is per mei below the currency of this day se'nnight. The oat trade dull, and but little doing in malt. Beans, peas, grinding barley, and Indian con) support recent quotations, but there was no briskness in the demand. No alteration in the meat market, best things sell readily, while the indifferent are a drug, and are more plentiful than the best. Beef, bd. to 6d; Mutton, Od to tied ; Veal, 6tl to 7d; Lamb, 7d to 74d; Pork, 5d to s}d per lb sinking the offal _ M A RRIED.—At St. John's, Bedwardine, Worcester shire, A. F. Sparkes, Esq. of Ilrignotth,:to Mary Anne, the yotmgest daughter of the late Wm. Whitmore, Esq. of Dudmaston, in the county of Salop—At Liverpool, George R. M'Grath, Esq. of Upper Dorset-street, Dublin, to Eliza, youngest daughter of the late T. Turner, Esq. of Cheadle, Staffordshire—At Newbold Verden, W. T. S. Daniel, Esq. barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's Inn, to Harriet, eldest daugh ter of the late J. illayou, Esq of ColeshUl. DIED.—Mr. Shearman, draper of this town, aged 49 Mr. T. Chinn, of Harelwood Cottage, Edgbaston, 27 Sarah, wife of Mr. Thomas Freeman, sen. of Great Hamp ton-street--Mr. &mut' Silk. of Woolverhampton 20—In Bath.row, Worcester, R. Chamberlain, Esq. who served the office of mayor, in 1816-17—Mrs. Bew, wife of Mr. R. Bew, Bilaton—Mr. T. Johnson, Coventry, 68. THE SUSSEX ADVERTISER, Sept 26. Lawns Rzroau blzEvisto.—On Thurday a meeting was held at the County Hall, in this town, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of resenting a petition to the House of Lords, praying their Lordships to pus the Reform Bill. Mr. G. Adams, the Senior Constable *as unanimously voted to the Chair. He britfiy stated the object of the meeting, and requested that those present who were not inhabitants of the Borough would refrain from de livering their sentiments upon this occasion, as Town Meet ings had sometimes fallen into disrepute by an opposite line of conduct having hew observed. On Friday ee'nnight, at an early hour in the morning, a barn and hovel, on a farm at Ashington, occupied by Mr. Bristow, were burnt to the ground, the barn contained a quantity of beans ; the fire communicated to some stacks of oats, the produce of 16 acres, which were also consumed. This diabolical act is supposed to have been effected by an incendiary. LewES.—Red Wheat 3 2 0 to 3 4 Peas 1 17 0 to 0 0 0 DIED—On the 2 ith instant Richard A Turner, Esq. of this Town.--On the 23d instant, at Walberton, near Arun del, Mr. Hide, in the 110th year of his age: NORTHAMPTON TREE PRESS, Sept. 26. ATTEMPT AT BUILOLAST.—A ROMMEL SMOT...-.011 Friday night, a journeyman, in the employ of Mr. Burford, grocer and baker, of Silverstone near Towcester, who sleeps in the shop, was awoke about inidnight by a noise as of e person attempting to remove a pane from one of the win dows. The noise continuing, he arose and looked through an opening at the top of the shutters into the street. The thieves hearing some person Within ran off, and as they crossed the street, he was able to see there weft three of them. He immediately roused his master, and his master's sop, and they went in pursuit of them. Old Burford armed himself with a double barrelled gun, his son had a tingle barrelled one, and the journeyman a pitch fork. On going to a yard belonging to Mr. Whitlock, old Mr. Barford discovered them crouching down by some sacks, and immediately called out " Here they are !" upon which one of the men jumped up and ran towards him with an 'iron bar, sharp on one side, saying, " d— you, I'll teach you, to call out here we are." Old Mr. Bradford levelled hit gun, but it missed fire. The man, who had checked him self on first seeing the gun, again ran forward, and was tired upon by the son, when he turned round and ran, as if unin jured, followed by his two Companions • but he had not got above forty yards before be fell down de ad, the shot haring entered his heart. The other two men escaped. The de ceased was afterwards identified as a notoriously bad charac ter, named Robert Howard, belonging to a village named Paulspury, about three miles distant. SHOCKING EVENT.—On Thursday week, the Revereni Arthur Drake, who had been married that morning at Croydon, assed through Aylesbury, with his happy bride, to his residence at Bucknall, Oxfordshire, and, doubtless, indulging in the prospect of many years of happiness. Last Thursday the corpse of the Reverend Gentleman was conveyed back, to be laid in the vault of his family, at Amersham. So uncertain is the nure of human life under the happiest circumstances. It appears the reverend gentleman was somewhat . disposed the day previous to his marriage, but on th day of the solemnization he seemed particularly well and happy. The marriage took place at Croydon, where Carbenell, Esq. the huller of the bride, has a seat, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. J. Drake, brother of the deceased. • The party started fee Bucknell during the morning, dined at Aylesbury, Sind arrived at Bucknell about seven in the evening. Ur. Drake seemed somewhat fatigued by the journey, and exclaimed, " Thank God ! we are got Dome in safe ty." He afterwards conducted his lady over the house, was particularly cheerful and used many expressions Indicating his satisfaction and happiness. After sup. per the bride retired to rest ; the reverend gentleman immediately followed, and spent some minutes in prayer in the cliatnber. He then got into bed, fell instantly upon his pillow, and seemed composing himself to sleep.— There was something peculiar and hard in his breathing, but his lady supposed it was the effect of the fatigue of the journey, or might be usual with hint while going to sleep. It does not sprier that the 'idea of death occurred to Jiro. Drake ; still her apprehensions was sufficient. with the strangeness of the situation, to keep her awake the whole of the night. As the morning advanced her apprehensions increased. At an early • hour she lett her bed, and awoke her maid in an , , joining room, requesting her to see if Mr. Drake " ill, or if he was sleeping in his usual manner. She look' at her master, • wade same gentle effort to awake bin:, • her fears were immediately alarmed. She hastened to k ad up the man-st rvant, who, endeavouring to move his waste, 6 d found lie war really a corpse. A medical man was soon Bdpresent, to whom it was evident that life had been exr many hours; his death being occasioned. apportraty, ;;`, l l aPoPitilY• •„.., Sir E. E. Wilmot, of B:rkawell Hall, has allotted to , labourers, half an acre of land each, at a moderate rein lie has, in addition, a p, ve 201. to each man. as" Werincereiy hope this given laudable ig example of the worthy Bs -9„ renCt, to provide so e ff ectually for the wants of the labouring poor in his own immediate, nelghbouthood, will be speedily imitated by these who possess the means of doing so. MARRIED.—On Thursday, the 15th Instant, at Faken. a. ," ham, Mr. Henry Green, Solicitor, to Eleanor, daughter the late R. Cotton, Esq.—On the 13th instant, the R w Charles Green, rector of guxhall and Ralston, Suffolk, Anne, second daughter of George Baker, Esq. of Sutton, uu near Ipswieh.—On Wednesday, at Tansor, Wm. Fowle -61 Esq. Priory, St. Neots, to erthaine, youngest daughter Mr. Alderman Brown, of this town. DIED.—On Monday last, in the 18th year of her ;Sr Mae. daughter of •Brigtidieb.General J. It. Lull , Neuttonch, Honsbay.—On Tukiday, the 13th inst. at Rum. ham, Norfolk, In the 39th year of his age, the Rev..' Glasse, M.A. one of , themagixtrates of that county. POL. POLICE REPORTS. BOW-STREET. . T li Charles Wm. Rostra was charged with hating f 4:•::, represented himself as an officer of the Palace Coen, i, which means he fraudulently obtained the sum a ~:'. DAU guinea from Mr. Richardson, a medical student. It er e peered that on the night of the 21st instant the goo k , where tutor and the prisoner met at the Sun public house, I ,_ S Devereux-court. The primmer said that he held a 11.: 1 UV against the prosecutor for 141. issued from the r,,h,,* Lanlc Court, at the suit of a female named Margaret Robi n .„,, _.-- -It was finally arranged that the prisoner should amp : COI the undertaking of Mr. Cooper, the landlord of tb: Sat, for his appearance in the morning, and that for this aeo n ,. modatlon a sum of one guinea should be paid instantly. a ! a further sum of 11. 6s. on the following mornitg. tr, i , Ti guinea was accordingly paid to the prisoner, who therenpoe act the prosecutor at liberty. An officer row the P.dar, afar Court proved that the prisoner was not an officer l f t.v. court ; be was only an assistant to his father, who ercari,, i. ri employed him to serve and execute writs. He was cr,rs. milted for trial. OA THAMES POLICE. CA George Smirk, driver of the cabriolet No. 8, vas contil. ted for trial, charged with stealing a silver watch and appal. TAB doges, a pocket-book containing bills and papers of vale., TIM and a silk handkerchief, the property of Mr. Thomas Clark, 11111 a barge-master, of Brentford, in his vehicle. A 4 Yesterday seven individuals were brought may b before the magistrate at Hatton Garden, fur out. after 1 rageous conduct against Wm. Lucy, who had here unless acquitted at the Old Bailey, on a charge of viol,. BM ting a girl of 10 years of age. Among other to ills annoyances, they burnt him in effigy on Monday eslisi night, in Wilmington-square, and broke his mil.. sum 41 doors, in which thousands concurred ; but the seven had been singled out by the Police. Oa, -- of them was held to bail, but the others were dig. tagcharged. HORTICULTURAL CUILIOSITY.--TO those rah: 1 4,. are curious in observing the varieties and change I RI that are constantly taking place in the reetal,l. t world, the following account of a tare occurrent, Bayns • in this way, may be found perhaps both novel and it. 0 ' interesting. There was lately gathered h ow a "v to its ' peach -tree, in the garden of Mr. Coalfield at Clap- feeler ham, a wall fruit (or as some would stay fruit,' knowl • growing together, and blending the doulie proier come ties of peach and nectarine-the andyytous 1 ,,,,. Lerte • sica of Linnaeus-bo li were perfect in their forma- In 1 Pet ▪ tion : the outer coat of the one being in all re:ipect- i rough, and the other smooth and fine, as ob e:i . e' From I in the common varieties of these fruits. It wa; , ' remarkably handsome specitven, and Lad ri. 46 1 pened well, though the proportions differed *di g materially in size, the peach being ranch Mem • larger than the nectarine-a difference, by L I : the way, always observable in this variety of the e species. The fruit, though to all appearance 4i.-- c tinct, was joined together at the centre, and ..t. , 1 ° attached to the same shoot or foot stalk. On t . :. opening it, one stone or cobble was found in tl to middle, of a size rather smaller than common, and I. , of a dark pink, or more of a dullish red colour. I , In Bri a may not be much out of place to remark, that a whenever this phenomenon or /usus is seen, it has of been always found growing on the same side of the I. tree, and the nectarine part as constantly occupying in the outermost place. Suppose, for example,the tree o to be planted in a south or south-varying aspect. 2. ' 0 the fruit will be found not to the east point, but AND 1)( uniformly to the west side of it. I omitted to state. S. ' a- there was but one single fruit produced by the DIEST/ N tree, and that a well trained, rather small, but a . )n healthy one.- Pechhem Rye, Sept. 24. F. E. 4. 1 xl, mememeemmemsamal LAN BIRTH. ?i i : Metal inst. at his house in Billiter-street, the lady c: Bvo, I n. Dr-Chides James Fox, of a son. 6. I gh The ifith inst. at Brighton, the lady of J. Mayhew, d BThi e t. Fitsroy-square, Esq. of a son. era ill ice as DIED. . _ ' re The 27th inst. at Greenwich, aged 70, Mrs. Suter, a. 6. 1 rm lld lict of Mr. Thomas Suter. •D y Ji • ,le STAPLES OF BRITISH COMMERCE. livo 7- ; I 11 - Corrox (Liv.) Bowed Per , pound 3d to 60 & 1 rid Pernams 1 7d to 7141 A u p a ks, N. Orleans, --- Sd to 7!,cl Iffs. Qd ich Wool. (Lon.) stony pr. Si to Ss . 5. an Austria pr. 2s 6d to 4s mil Segovia -- 2s to Ss ap all Ileeol his S Down ..-- is to Is 3d stubs im. Blanket ed to 10t1 red Sti. a (thrown) Pied. white --- sos to 44, it do. easZa (raw) Modena .-.- 15 $ to 15 1 got Bengal lOs to lis 11. Mg China --- 12, to 16s Tr cu a ti l de- F LA , . . Riga Per ton 5651 me- Antwerp £55 to £6O e 4 ned im,x - . pi g ...-- £4 to £5 lt Bars ..-., Lo to £6 10s pi, end Swedish £l2 10 to £l3 h ARIA IMII Coma - - British •-..-. £u7 to 034 l& PP/ nay, Loan Bvo, I 14. IN . .S. America ___ . c £7 1 2. 3 i t o , .t .€ 7 1 35 - - Blocks -..... is to £4 Da •end TIN suc.an Lords suit • te- 15. s.- . - Lump BeePowgtiacir Per cwt. 7fi1ne)142270581. t 0 0 0 2 r4 5 1 : Jamaica -- sos to s:s Islam tl n Tosacco - - BLeryland Per pound'ad to 5d the Virginia 5d to 30 PER, well ' Cuba is Id to 1141 don O m . . Florence Half chest 215 ride , Linseed Per cwt. 40s P I Rev. Pale rape 501 irted BRANDY . - Bordeauz Per gallon 35 to 45 *peel! ' llr 's Rota - (14 Jamaica --- r % l is 3d to Is II piste ring. ( 10 a 20 ) Demerara 126 to 25 6J ee ne,,/ , Worsitsr . Irish los to 10s Iter 1 laze- Scottish --10 s to Ili rose, Ginty* - • --- os 6d to .s 9.1 Rayi ""' Poar - J,Good and g "P' Samar - -Good and c :man mAni,A - I ,Prime are I co y er Cara - -1(92 gs)used to lid The upon HIDES - It . stt i 4 res Per Pe_ ..... ... -n--------ri :i poundpipe £35 to t ttt o lloo .1: : 121 3 54 ; 0 1 99 Iting, B pl ri a tia nt h . t Per owt. with vend , going S.Dontlngo -- ,C 2 to £ 2 21 Won ieath £3 to £6 Mocha was Fsa tigue Corns - . - • Bobea Per pound Is iOd to es . ream keep Coogou -- as Id to is 6 , 4 Dino ming is 241 to 41 .4 Hyson bottle earl y Berrie - - Cork Per ewe. £4 101 to ill I a Dutch £4 to £4 IS ruins was Cogan - - Cheshire A:3 Ss to £5 * . 13 , 41s5stoto£A4 1; Pn ooked Gin'ster £2 Us to i l ° gal and TALLOW (Rust. ) Yellow £2 - sot's call White "'" £2 Is aster, Ries - - Carolina 141 to 165 Pelee soon C Bengal '-'• Iles to 16s 6d the ttinct Mum (Lard. Beef Per arose Ss Od to 4551 Elm r, by Mutton Ss 6d to 4s a Veal —. 4a 05 to 5 ,44 P'elm to 40 Also Pork "'-' is 4el to li a mt.- Roca Coax (London) Wheat Pr quarter 58s to 20; Man. Barley , -- itSs to 42, met nn y B a . wring Oa a te ns . 3 21 5 5 5 t t o o ! , 5 : 4 4 litic - . Ndil Y Hors (London) Kent 1' 'Cwt. £4 Os wJE : n Intl S O n arn ue ls z ons —".---- £ : 44 01054:t;t::. lii. ,: : . ' Al akin. • Oras ter of ' Bout Rev. Har (London) Good Per load £2 13- ":: . Ile, to. of I A Clover £31 3 , linen,t• ln • traw -- k 1 n O ' t ' rwler ..„ -t. • 1,, of 4-Oats WsUsend Per skald. 325 od to • • , Bold Others , —. .4s oJ in 71 `' • Dek •Gailitri Avail. Wheat Pr quarter 63s •• • -.0 N, r ages Barley 37 1 4.'70 knley, Oats I-- .. 5 2-5 , 0 • deft( Bun. Emil John Iftit*, for u bil LO s it r ti a o 2 x or :"Pri v i t h - c re g d7a a ri n r i i l s o Pti . I, h ,pi l l isli ck --- ed ett b . y pi J a o ce 4 i , l l : l Te °3 r l T 4‘> . 1 ,.... ' -r,