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. minute. We ought to remember at once the difficulty and the va lue of a fi rst step towards amendment. It must inevitably lead to more ; sad, as the harbinger of more, be it welcomed. HERALD.—Having taken an earnest and anxious part in recom mending that the lives of the remaining men left for execution under the Special Commissions should be spared, we feel a corresponding s atisfaction at finding that both Lush and Withers, whole awful doom had been pronounced at Salisbury, under the tragical circumstance, have been reprieved, and that respites have been forwarded to Aylesbury in stay of the execution of Blisszard and Sarney, with a view to a cam. mutation of punishment. This is a circumstance gratifying to huma nity, and will make a more salutary and moral impression on the classes of distressed labourers and artisans, who engaged in the late disturbances, than could have been produced by the effusion of blood. Government deserve credit for at length attending to the voice of public opinion on this subject, and advising the sovereign to interpose the noblest attribute of the prerogative between so many victims and the uplifted axe of the stern law. Of the convict Holder s, we have heard nothing, but presume that be will not nose be made a so litary exception to the lanky of the Crown. The taking of a single life in consequence of the late disturbances is to be regretted. The laws that confound the offences of rioters and machine-breaker with the guilt of the deliberate murderer are not to be justified on any sound principle of justice, policy, or morals. It is time for legislators to teach the people that life is too sacred to be made a mere political sacrifice for offences that imply no heinous depravity of heart—too noble a gift of the Creator to be set at no higher value than the price of a rsg.grinding machine or a spinning-jenny I It is time to humanise the law of a country which has had the benefit of the civilizing Influence of the Gospel for at least twelve hundred years ! While sciencc--while literature—while the arts that gam and em bellish life have advanced td a high degree of excellence, have our moral faculties been asleep, that justice even in the nineteenth century, appear in unnatural alliance with the pri nciples of barbarism ? How long shall England possess the disgraceful distinction of having a collection of criminal laws more sanguinary than those of any.other country in Europe, with the exception perhaps of Turkey, where life has no more value , than the wantonness and caprice of a benighted despotism chooses to assign to it, and where the tyrant's will is law ? Until the Legislature interposes to reform effectually the criminal laws of England, we hope they will be, for the future, so administered as to make their practice mote consistent with the principles of Christian civilisation, and pre pare the mind for that judicious and enlightened change which public opinion demands and expects. Hanar.n.—Oreat misconception appears to prevail in the public mind as to the legal nature of the charge under which Mr. O'Connell and others have been arrested and held to bail. The gist of the alleged offence is stated in the Dublin Papers to consist in conspiring to evade the lord Lieutenant's proclamations," and several LondonJour. nals have commented upon ft as if the information were laid under the Act which gives the I.ord Lieutenant's proclamations the force of law. Now, if we understand the ease at all, no violation of the provi sions of that Act, which is the 10th George IV. has been committed, nor is any such offence charged against Mr. O'Connell, nor indeed any offence, under any Statute whatever, but a misdemeanour, cognisable by the common law only, as is the case with most conspiracies. A conspiracy to evade the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation must be • conspiracy to effect either a lawful or an t o lawful purpose. If an un lawful purpose, then that purpose, if carried into effect, must be Itself indictable. Yet, who ever beard of any person being indicted fot an evasion of the law, or an evasion of any particular Statute, or of any proclamation ? We doubt that a conspiracy to obstruct such proclamations can come under the cognizance of the common law, for this latter law is founded on ancient immemorial usage, and the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation are unconstitutional novelties, of which the common law knew nothing. Much more do we doubt that a con spiracy to evade those proclamations can be so Indicted ; and the Statute itself has made no provision against such a conspiracy, which, if it means any thing, means a preconcerted determination to abstain from doing any thing that may be a violation of the law ; and It is only a direct violation that the law can reach, for there is no principle of British jurisprudence more settled than that a penal law cannot be extended by implication to punish any act not defined or expressed in the Statute itself. So fir for this question as a matter of law. Of the policy of Lord Anglesey's proceedings we have spoken before. We say that his proceedings are calculated to disgust men of conadtotional principles, and will go farther towards effecting a Repeal of the Union than any influence which Mr. O'Connell could have possibly brought to bear upon the subject. CODBETT'S Itruisrsit,...-.Now , — Kh Ministers, if you be con vinced, as I hope you are, that thefires have been set by the labourers without instigation from any body; that the means of terror or of pu nishment are not calculated to put an end to the fires ; and that the fires, unless effectually put a stop to, may become far more extensive than they have hitherto ban; if you be convinced of these truths, as I hope you are, it only remains for me to Mat eon to you what I deem the proper and effectual means of putting aMy to these fires ; and these means arc as follows: 1. To issue a pardoning all the offenders of every description, whether tried se siot,upes unseeing into sureties to keep the peace for a year, and bash thins who have already been seat away, and including eb b s= pardea ea the like terms. Oh ! gentlemen, think et[ the with which you would thus fill all the bosoms in all the in these beautiful counties And think of the gratitude with yes would fill those bosoms towards yourselves • and. above MI digs, think of the blessings which, coming from t he hearts of fathers and mothers and children and brothers and sisters, you would brio: down upon the head of your royal master.-2. To repeal Sturges Bourne's two bills, and thereby restore to the rate-payers their rights, restore the power of the native overseers, and restore to the justices of the peace their former power of ordering relief, without which the indigent pco.,r can have no sure protection.-5. To pass an act, making it a nth demeanour punishable with heavy fine and imprtsooment for any over seer or other person in parochial authority to subject the indigent poor to work like beasts of burden, to put them' up at suction, or otherwise wantonly to degrade them, taking as the preamble of the bill that text of holy writ which says, Oppress not the poor because he he poor !" 4. To repeal all the acts which have been passed relative to the game since the late King George the Third mounted the throne. and parti. vitally that act which punishes poaching with transportation, which act has filled the county gaols with prisoners, which has trebled the county rates, which has thrown a burden on all the people in order to preserve the sports of the rich, which has filled the breasts of all the villagers of England with vindictive feelings, which has been the cause of endless affrays between poachers and keepers, and which in conjunc tion withLd./Gleaborougles act has brought scores of men to the gallows. 5. To pass an act to repeal and uttarly abolish Ellenborough's act, which, by making it a capital felony to strike a man with a heavy in strument without killing him, or to use deadly weapons in your own defence against a gamekeeper, though without killing him, puts the striker in the one case and the defender in the other, upon a level with the wilful, p rem editating, cool, and cruel murderer, tends to confound all notions of discrithination in crime; tends to harden men's hearts, and weaken in them every sense of justice and humanity. Now, gen tlemen, these are, in soy firm conviction. the only effectual means of putting a stop to the fires which now terrify and disgrace this once great and happy England. That they are easy of execution, and speedy and quiet, you know well; fur you know that they all may be accomplished in about forty-eight hours after the meeting of Parliament; and you know that the proclamation may be issued to-morrow, and that is the great thing of a 11...- 1 propose to you nothing new, be it observed; not only nothing revolu tionary but nothing new do I propose ; nothing but a return, in four apparently unimportant particulars, to the long-established laws of the land ; nothing do I propose touching the property of any body of per sons ; nothing to meddle with any institution of the country, even so far u to correct its acknowledged abuses ; but I simply propose an act of graciousness and lgoodneas which would reflect eternal honour on yourselves and on the king, the love of whose people to Min it is your first duty to preserve; and I propose to you the repeal of four acts which you yourselves, upon reflection, must lament to see in the statute. book. And gentlemen, if you believe that these measures would extin guish the fires, you will sot, I am lute, suffer false peke to restrain you from the performance of a duty eo sac red. There is no remedy but that which goes to the root of the evil. That root is In the hearts if the people : you must extract the root or tear out the heart, or the evil tut remain. Yesterday the most remarkable glut of Dutch plaice ever I%itnessed in any market was seen at Billinsgate. Crowded a 4 the market was with dealers, the salesmen could not get purchasers for hundreds of bushels of the plaice, and great quantities were sold for a penny a dozen, although each weighed upon an average 31b. One salesman, after a fruitless endeavour to sell nearly a hundred bushels of Dutch plaice, went to Mr. Go!thump, the clerk of the market, and request ed that he would dispose of them as he pleased. The sales man had offered them at the rate of 50 for 4d. and as he could not procure that wretched trifle for them, be would aot trouble hi.: self about them any more. Mr. Goldham l‘ent to the Lord Mayor to learn what he should do ith the fish, and his lordship immediately ordered him divide them amongst the poor. It is remarkable, !at, notwithstanding this glut of fish, which has existed a full week, the price of fish all over the town is • high as usual. It is peculiarly desirable that poor should be aware of the enormous quantities of vellent plaice in the market ; for it has been some time ea , e that Billingsgate -market has been able to supply ;a s fur large families at the rate of a halfpenny or a ' !my a family. This extraordinary glut has arisen in a i.leasure from the check upon Billingsgate thieves. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. MANUFACTURES-PAPER CURRENCY-FOREIGN MARKETS-THE WOOL TRAWL In consequence of our invitations, we have been favoured with the following most intelligent letter, from a well-known and most respectable manufacturer, in one of the most po pulous districts of the clothing and blaiiket manufacturers, of the West Riding. The extensive and rapidly-increasing sale of the STAB, in all the manufactories of the kingdom, enables us to promise our Readers a series of similar commu nications from other districts, of course far superior in value and interest to the subdued and qualified reports of local Editors, on such subjects : Near Halifax, Jan. 20, 1831. Every thing progresses from worse to worse. If there be trade there is no profit, and he is deemed a very clever fel lOw who can make common interest on his capital. The operatives in this neighbourhood have been much better off than their employers, there having yet been no diminution in wages ; but the time is fast approaching when they will be in a like state with their agricultural brethren ; and if they be, then comes an accumulation of difficulties. The masses of men which Yorkshire and Lancashire can produce, will be of a different complexion from the petty mobs of the farming districts of the south. For in stance, I was one of the chief supporters of -, during the late Yorkshire election, and when he visited this place, although the neighbourhood had only three hours notice of his intention, yet be bad an audience of 20,000 persons assembled in the yard of a manufacturer's premises ! ! ! I have long foreseen the calamities we are now experiencing; but until the change in our monetary system, I did not ex ' pest them to their present extent in my time, but I fear now I shall see them horribly increased, if the Government does not interpose, and retrace its steps. In my opinion, neither Cobbett, nor Attwood, nor reform, can save us alone. We are too far gone, and require part of each, to be combined with some bold and stupendous stroke of a new and novel policy, on the part of the present or some other Ministry. We have now to lift up the great bulk of the population from pauperism and degradation, which must be done, and INSTANTLY, or anarchy will speedily overtake us, and ten days of it will ruin the country for twenty years to come. There is, however, a specific remedy, and in our posses sion, too, which could be instantly applied, and cannot fail in its effect. My plan would be to borrow from 50 to 100 millions on the poor rates, in order to build cottages on the sides of turnpike roads, and then to colonise on portions of the best land, say from one to . five acres to each family, according to its number, and want of employ ment, so that when their labour is not required by the large farmers, every individual may be fully and profitably employed. Fix a rent of average value of the land in the parish, which the peasant farmers will soon be able to pay, and one half of the amount of the present poor rate will be more than sufficient to pay the interest of the loan, which together with the cottage rents, would probably repay it in twenty years. Adopt this plan, and it will abolish work-houses, and ad vance and elevate the present degraded state and character of the peasantry, rendering them again consumers of the produce of the shuttle and the flail, which atpresent they are not, nor ever can be, but by the adoption of this very mea sure combined with reform, retrenchment, and a return to the paper money system, under certain regulations. It was the paper money which created every thing which we have now, more than we had forty years ago all the mills and machinery—the warehouses—the ships-- the dwelling-houses —the useful and ornamental furniture— the public buildings—the roads and canals, with all the vast improvements at home and abroad, and, most important of all, the increase of population, and of human intellect, which has produced each a general refinement, that when compared with the state of forty years ago, it makes that period ab solutely barbarous. Sir,—We can no more do without paper-money than the water-wheel which has been at work for the last forty years, with a full supply of water, can now perform as much work, when one half the water has been taken away. Without paper-money we must go back to the state we were in forty years ago, when this town and others in this neighbourhood, had not more than one-fifth of the po pulation they now have. This cannot be; the people will live, and endeavour to live as well as they can ; and nothing can prevent them, even if it comes to the levelling of all ranks and distinctions, leaving every one to earn his own bread by the sweat of his brow ; which will in evitably be the case, if the remedies within our present con troul be not soon applied. That distress exists, is now universally admitted—we have plenty of proofs of it in all sorts of ways ; but I will mention one, arising out of the state of one of the branches of our local manufactures. For instance, we say that in the empire we have five and a half millions of families, which, if but tolerably well off, would consume annually one blanket each, of the weight of four and a half pounds—not very large at that— which, at the present price, will cost 6s. 9d. and requires 61b. of wool to make it, at 9d. per lb. or 125,500 packs,lof 2401b5. each. Now it may be proved, that there is not machinery in this trade, in the empire, capable of working up more than about 80,000 packs, and that this machinery, from want of demand, during the past five years, has not been employed more than about three parts of the re gular working hours of eleven per day on the average, and that at least one half of the produce is for export demand. From this you will see, that our own population is of little or no use, as customers or consumers of the manufac tures of the country, and of course will become less and less so. During the late great depression of the price of wool, l i we experienced a large demand for export, but not for , home consumption ; so that foreigners could afford to pur chase, when our own population could not: a proof 01'1 which we had during the whole of the year 1829, and up to the Midsummer of last year, when wool was about half its present price ; and if our home consumers could not then afford to purchase, it is fair to conclude that they cannot, now, because they are in a worse situation, and less able now. We also expect that the present comparative high price, will curtail the late foreign demand for goods composed of English wool ; and, at the presetit moment, we experience this; some houses in this vicinity—which are the largest consumers, not having orders on their books to the amount of 2001. Of course they would be at a dead stand, if they bad not had laid in a large stock, when wool was lower; which they are now sparingly giving out to their work men, on speculation for a foreign demand next summer. Thus the foreigners have run away with all the cheap goods ; and the stock of wool is so reduced, that some are of opinion that if the consumption should be equal to what it has been, that there is not in the country enough to sup ply it until the next shear time in June and July. The Americans, French, and Germans are now also be come large buyers of English wool, even at the present prices; which it appears they can manufacture cheaper than we can ; so that by and bye we shall see our whole produce carried into other countries to be manufactured, in order to prevent which, I apprehend it will be necessary to return to the prohibitory system of non-exportation. But all this must be prevented by getting the people into profitable employment. I have stated that 125,500 packs of wool, for blankets only, ought to be required for home demand ; which is about one fourth part of the produce of the empire ; and if I extend the calculation in the same way to flannels, worsted stuffs, common clothing, and all the endless varieties of goods fabricated from English wool, and which this country would require, while in a flourishing state, we should have to import at least 150,000 packs of wool to supply the de mand, besides all the fine wool for clothing of the upper classes as neither you nor I wear any home grown wool, but in flannel or hosiery. The same reasoning will apply to the cotton and silk ma- 1 nufactures, &c. The blanket trade, however, is the best proof of the po verty, because next to food, this article is the most essential, and we find that the five millions and a half families do not, high and low, rich and poor, consume more than 20d. in wool annually ! !! The main point is, whether we could, or could not, get on without any export. I think we could, if all the popu lation get into employment at good wages; but with free trade to both the Indies, in addition, we could defy the world—nay, we could even pay the present taxes; but I would likewise have reform, and also the bated and abused paper-money system, which has given us all we now enjoy, more than we had fifty years ago. • • • to tiu fjl ti:t ex t: 221., IRELA A D. MR. O'CONNELL'S LETTER TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. Within that land was many a malcontent, Who cursed the Tyranny to which he bent That soil full many a wringing despot saw, Who work'd his wantonness in Form of law. Marion-square, 21st Amway, 1831. MT SIELOTED AND ILICIPTCrID FXITYDII { -1 11111 your servant. My deity is to do your business, and to obey your canmands. 1 en drab dhalaim the tits:trine that a representative of the people can, without Wig dishonest, disobey his constituents. If be differs conscientiously from his constituents, these is but one course for him to pursue, and that is, to tesign. In fact, the contest between a representative and his constituents is almost always a controvessy between selfish interest and sacred duty. When I solicited your votes I pledged myself to constant attend. twee in the house. I have hitherto kept that pledge unbroken. It was and is my flied determination to be in London the day the Parliament meets, unless i am prevented by the paltry prosecution which has been instituted against me. I am bound to say that I am perfectly convinced that the prin. cipal motive of the most active advisers of this miserable prosecia lion is to prevent me from attending in my place to describe and denounce the despotic, arbitrary, and most unnecessary measures that have been resorted to in Ireland. It would not be convenient for some arch-jobbers in Ireland, who contrive to stick their families, like leeches, to suck the heart's blood of Ireland, to have me expose all the details of that species of peculation which enriches one family at the expense of an im poverished and exhausted country. But there is one prime grievance, which, above all things, it is my duty to expose—the vestry cases and the tithe system. In all my addresses to you before my election, I ventured to prophecy that the time was fast approaching when the people of England would join us in a loud and irresistible demand tor the total abolition of the tithe system. That .alutary cry has commenced in England. It is beginning to be re-echoed in a proper and legal manner in Ireland. The accomplish ment of my prophecy is fast approaching. If 1 shall be permitted to do my duty in Parliament this session, I hope that this most important result will be advanced; but, after all, it is wily to the repeal of the Union that we can loot with certainty for the total abolition of tithes. This is one of the great reasons why I insist upon that repeal. In deed, the repeal of the Union is the great and really healing measure which alone is calculated to fonn the basis, and raise the superstructure of prosperity in Ireland. Without it, distress must accumulate; po. T eny must ; famine and pewilence, which we yearly taking a wider range, must become almost universal ; and Ireland must become a solitude or a slaughter house. I say this advisedly. But therepud of the Union terrifies the sordid aristocratic absentees, and especially the bloated pluralists of the established church, who shudder least we radical reformers and anti-Uniontsta should realise our plan, of the payment by the state, of all such of the Protest. ant clergy as really perform spiritual functions, in an ample propor tion to their real labours, and not paying at all those who do no work. It is, however, thought wise and prudent to keep me out of the House of Commons this session, and, accordingly, this strange prosecu tion has been got up against me. Here I am striving for three things : First—To abolish Tithes. Second—To destroy corporate monopolies. Third—To Repeal the Union. And endeavouring to do these things by peaceable, legal and consti. tutional means, and none other, 1 am set toe and assailed as if it were a crime to love one's country, and to struggle honestly, faithfully, and disinterestedly to serve her, and to seek peace, comfort, prosperity, and liberty for her inhabitants. My constituents—my friends, be not discouraged. Patience—obe dience to the law—no oatia--no secret *wieder—Do turbulence —no violence•—but at the same time peaceable, legal, and constitu tional agitation. Let every parish, nay, let every village meet. Let there be a petition from every village, parish, town, and district. Let those petitions firmly, boldly, but respectfully demand the total abolition of tithe and vestry ceases. Let them state that Ireland is an agricultural country, in a most depressed state, and, therefore, requires that rt the agricultural produce should be relieved from all ecclesiastical buhens. Let your petitions state those three fat to Ireland is the most fertile (*entry in the world —the most productive for bet extent—the best situate for industry and coo. mores, and yet that she is the country in the world deriving least benefit from them advantages. Secondly—That Ireland produces more of all the prime necessaries of life than any other country under the sun ; and that there is no ether country in which the people receive so little of the necessaries of life for their use as In Ir eland. Thirdly—That Ireland has, at one and the mime time, the richest estiblidted church in the world, and the potent population, with the smallest number of votaries of the religion of the state. Do not ask why all this is so. We do not gotten onmelves. We are maned and managed by others. We are a province, when we ought to be a tattoo. Do not, therefore, ask why there is so muds okay and woe in Ireland, but seek for an amelbeadon through the only channel by which it can be obtained, that of the law and cesetitutien ; and if I have any influence with you, now at my instance. and for toy sake, re. doable your e=choes —mul;iply your petitiona—aind domains never to (slat until Ireland regains her legislative independence. I am, my hounds, Your devoted and most faithful servant, DANIEL O'CONN EL L PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Facts, °Salons, and Public Ezertis s connected with this pea Na tional Que , tion. , ( To he °Missed instil a Plan be brought before Parliamenf) Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS, in the third part of his late . Tour through the Kingdom, relates, that in conversations with the intellectual society of Sheitield, the parties uniformly de precated representation, without a reformed and improved system of election—th a t is, a shortening of the period, and voting by ballot. On the present demoralising system of election, they deprecated the power of returning members, as the greatest curse that could befell their present united and happy population, while they considered it a gross insult, that a wealthy place, with above 50,000 inhabitants, should be unrepresented. We have much *astute in announcing, that the petition for reform, agreed to at the late public meeting of the householders and traders in Glasgow, has received upwards of 13,000 signatures; and we have no hesitation in ex pressing our belief that the signatures to it will soon out number those of the Edinburgh petition. Motions on this subject in the House of Commons, during the last 50 years : 1782 By Mr. Pitt .. • • ... negative(' by .. 20 17811 By Mr. Bawbridge .. • • ditto ... HS 1783 Mr. Pitt ... ... ... dit o ... 144 1785 Ditto ... ... . ... darn ... 74 1790 Mr. Flood ... .. withdrawn 1793 Mr. Grey, now the Premier ... ... negatived by .. 241 1797 Ditto ___ ... . ditto .. 165 ... --- ... 18011 Dltto .. ... .. .. 1809 Sir F. Burdett ... —• ... 1810 Hon. T. Brand ... ... ... 1812 Ditto .. ... 1812 Harris of Taristoek ... .. 1817 Sir k. Burdett .. .. ... 1818 Ditto ... ... ... ... 1819 Ditto .. ... ... ... 1821 Mr. Larnbton, Dow Lord Durham ... 1821 Lord John Russell . .... 1822 Ditto ... .... ditto ditto ditto ditto ..1M .. 59 ... 119 .. 10 127 , 18 8 ... 9 5 . I s 1306 1823 Ditto 1823 Ditto 1824 Hon. Mr. Abercrombie 1826 Lord John Russell 1829 Nlarquin of Blai !ford 1830 Ditto ... ... 1830 Mr. O'Connell ... 7 4 4 . I i SI 3 THE TUB?. TATTE RSA Lil3--YansaDA T. DEPIT. _ _ _ 12 to I agst Mr. Beardsworth's Co'wick 14 to 1 Lord Sligo's Bras•de Fer (taken) IS to 1 Lord Jeraey's Filagree 15 to 1 Lord Exeter's Bohemian 17 to 1 Lord Jersey's Blonder 17 to 1 Mr. Chifney's Caleb 19 to 1 Lord Exeter's Hems, 20 to 1 Mr. Pare's Rattler (taken) 20 to 1 Lord Wiliam's Varennes 23 to 1 -- Lord Jersey's Cobweb 25 to 1 Colonel Udney's Ando,/ 2$ to 1 Duke of Grafton's Pastille 30 to 1 Lord Orford (taken) 45 to 1 Incubus (taken) SO to 1 Brother to Monehe (takes) 1000 to 10 Mirandola (taken) 600 to 500 on Varennes and Cressida and Pastille (taken). 1000 to 6 apt Bokendan, Oxygen, and Zany winning (taken). 14 to i was offered apt Zany for the St. Leger, but nothing was done on that or the Oaks. DISTRESSING CASE—LOSS OF THE BRIG QUIXOTE, Belonging go Jersey. Last week, Clement Noel, the mate, and a seaman named Philip Mime, lately belonging to the brig Quixote, BeMachete, master, of Jasey, were landed here from the smack Three Brothers, front Havre ; and, being ill and in distress, were, by desire of the Magistrates, taken into the hospital of the poor's portk and pieced in a ward, where every attention was shown them. UMastanding that these men kid been in the most imminent danger of their lives, and had suffered very great hardships, we last Monday visited them, when Noel, who ap an intelligent man, gave us, in presence of his shipmate, the to!. owing detail : et They belonged to the Quixote brig, the crew of which consisted of nine hands, including the roaster. Several months since she sailed Mr Newfoundland, from thence she proceeded to Cadis, and afterwards to St. Lucie, in Spain, where they took in a cargo of oil, for Liverpool. The brig sailed from St. Lucie on the 23d October, and, after being at sea a few days, experienced very bad weather, the ship labouring greatly. • The storm continued, with but little intermission, till the 6th Dee. wion the gale increased almost to a hurricane, and they were obliged to heave - the vessel to, being then in lat. 48. N. and long. 9. 13. W. After lying_ to some time, they attempted to said under the main-topsail, when, • about half-past six o'clock in the evening, being very dark, the brig was struck about midships by a tremendous sea, and thrown on her beam ends, the cargo shifting se the same moment. The watch (two men only) being on the deck at the time, cut away the lanyards of the rigging, and the masts going over the side, the easel righted, but she was full of water, the hatches having broken up by the violence of the concussion. When the sea struck bee, four of the crew were in the face-Buddy, only one of whom was enabled to escape on deck; the other three poor fellows were unfortunately drowned. The master and our narrator were in the cabin, and with diffic ulty mashed the deck - The ship was now a complete wreck, the fore part being entirely buried in the water ; the sea, which was making s fair sweep from stem to stern, was running mountains high, and con tinually breaking over her. The remainder of the crew, expecting every moment would be their last, with difficulty held on ; the weather was in. tensely cold, and they were all completely drenched, and meetly a / tw is t e d with their previous exertions. About two hours alter the accident took place, the master died, and on the following morning another tithe crew, worn out with cold and fatigue, after uttering a kw feeble expression, yielded up his breath into the hands of his Maker. 'lle misery and deplorable situation of the four unfortunate men w h o still clung to life, when the morning dawned, cannot be described; within a ft.er short hours they had witnessed the loss of five of their companions; the sea was still tremendously high; they were on a wreck which they expected every moment " the mighty waters" would overwhelm ; in addition to which they could procure no food, and their strength was wasted by the sufferings they had endured. Trusting, however, that some vessel would descry them, they encourag e d eac h ot h er . and strained every eye over the wide expanse of horizon, in hopes of seeing a sail • but their hopes were not soon to be realised.— On the 9th of December another of the crew died, and the reniainder, with the little strength they had left, lashed his body to prevent it front being washed away, in order that they might feed on it ! I—being nearly famished, as they bad had nothing to eat sines the vessel had become a wreck. On the following day, being driven t o d espa i r , they gnawed part of the arm of their dad shipmate ; and on the 1 ith, they were again driven to the same dreadful alternative, of either eating a portion of the body, or perishing with hunger ;—na tine could uo longer be sustained without some son of nourishment. On the 12th, the storm considerably abated, but still no relief was at hand; they were getting weaker and weaker, and the body on which they bad sustained themselves was becoine nearly putrid. When the morning of the 13th opened on them, our Laraine and another of the remaining three were completely exhausted, and could use no further exertions. They had indulged in that hope which still " defend, make* the heart sick,' and they could' do no more ; they accordingly lay down on the deck, with a humble resignat:on to the Divine will. Athua, who had yet k little strength remaining, looking over the side, caught sight of a sail, t.rd, iu • the best manner he could, made a signal, which providentially etas no. need by the vessel; she bore down, and proved to be the French brig Ceres, bound to Harikur. They took of the three men front the wreck (lat. 48 N. long. 10.30. W.) treated them with great humanity ; but on the 16th one of them died , leaving the two now in this place s out of all the crew. On landing at Hanker our narrator and his cotn. psnion being very weak, were plead in the hospital, where they re mained 17 days, and at the expiration of that period being somewhat re covered, they were scot by a steamer to Hann, and from thence were sent here by the British Consul from which place they sill sail by the that ship for Jersey. The poor fellows, though greatly recovered trout their (=nailed condition, still remain weak. They said in our presence that they had not wanted foe any thing since they had been under the care of the Governor and Guardians. Lieutenant Derrinian, Governor, • Instantly consented to their admiesisn loathe house, and, with the true characteristic of a British nailer, ordered them to be taken the utmost care of—commiserating their mi sfortunes, and endeavouring, by giving than all the comforts the establishment afforded, to alleviate then dis tresses... Plymouth Herald. The works in Hungerford-market were commenced yea: torday. Part of the river is to be embanked. It is eipouid that all the neighbouring wharfs will ultimately be brought ont to the same extent u the market, so that the property ' of the Duke of Northumberland will be considerably im proved. The City Navigation Improvement Committee have taken means to set out the line of improvement. ••• 1;8 •• 1 .. • 2 ... 124