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Suppo production and consumption, and, as if these were ! sitions, however, may appear loose and uncertain, not sufficient to perplex the consideration, it is al- I and it is much to be regretted that the census of most always associated kith abstract controversies their population has not been taken at such inter of political economy. Yet as one third nart, or vela, as to bear more directly upon th•t present 700,000 tone, of the whole shipping arriving an- question. In Nova Scotia, however, mo.e exact nually in the United Kingdom, from beyond seas, I accounts of the increase, from 1817 to 1827, have comes laden with wood, the maritime ascendancy been kept and published, and which gave the of the British Empire may be said to depend upon following results: this trade ; and consequently its circumstances, however complex, demand the most thorough in quiry and accurate knowledge on the part of those, who attempt to regulate it by legislation. At whatever period this country first became dependent upon forests beyond seas for supplies of wood, perhaps the earliest traces of that depend enae, in our laws of trade, are to be found in the navigation acts of Cromwell and Charles the Se cond. in 16.51, therefore, the resolutions of the Commonwealth, and in 1660 the stat. 12 Car. 2, c. 1. restricted the importation of certain articles from foreign countries to British ships and ships of the country whence imported. Of which articles, among the first enumerated, as the most important, are masts, timber, boards, and naval stores, and on importation in foreign ships, they were charged with the alien's duty. In 1821, all former duties were repealed, and new imposed in Great Britain, by the statues 1 and 2 George IV. c. 37 and 14. with a continu ance of the same drawback. The charges then laid upon deals and timber were these : Deals, per 120. 8 to 10 ft. above 7 inobes wide, by • 14 thick In British ships - - £8 2 6 Foreign - - . 8 7 0 6 to 16 feet 7 inches, 31 In British ships - - • 19 0 0 Foreign - - - -19 19 0 Colonial - - . • 2 0 0 16 to 21 feet, 7 inches, 31. In British ships - - - 22 0 0 Foreign - . - .23 2 0 Colonial - - - . 2 10 0 6 to 21 feet, 7 inches, above 3i- In British ships . - -38 0 0 Foreign - - - -3918 0 Colonial - - - . 4 0 0 Above 21 feet, 7 inches, 4. In British slaps - . . 44 0 0 Foreign - - - .46 4 0 Colonial . - - . 45 0 It The same, above 4. In ritish ships - . -88 0 0 Foreign - - - - 92 8 0 Colonial - - - - 10 0 0 Deal Ends. 1817. 1827. Population of Nova . 82,05 , 3 121.848 The increase in Upper Canada is still more sur prising. That colony was planted iu 1782, by about 10,000 persons. The official returns gave it, in 1824, a population of 151,097, and, in 1830, of 211,117. Nearly half of the timber is brought from Upper Canada. In 1792, the last year of peace, the official va lue of their imports from Great Britain was 1,119,991. The average of the three years pre ceding 1806 was 1,045,615. The average of the three following, 1,834,1201. During the pe riod of three years after the Timber Trade, those imports, which contribute there so greatly to health and the enjoyment of life, were increased nearly eighty per cent. The shipping freighted with their exports enter ! ing inwards into Great Britain, was, in the year 1792, 33,176 tons. In the year 1802, it amounted I to 41,201 tons. In 1817 it amounted to 211,031, lan increase of above threefold. In 1825 it reached its highest point, being that year 489,844; but in 1829, the navigation so employed exceeded 1 431,000 tons, and upon the average of the last six i years it amounts to 430,000. STATEMENT 07 LIVE STOCK IN NOVA SCOTIA. 11108. 1827. Home 6,763 12,951 Honied Cattle .. 56,972 110,818 Swine ..27.695 71,482 Sheep.. 75,364 173,731 But, above all, what is to become of the capital invested by the colonies in the conduct and advance ment of this trade? Invested too, not merely on the tacit faith and encouragement of repeated acts of Parliament, but after the express invitation, the anxious solicitation, of the ministers, when by the hostilities of Europe this country was in danger of utter destitution. These investments should not be estimated according to the immense wealth and enterprise of this country, but with reference to the , means of that their amount is of most serious im portance. The colonists themselves compute it, in steam mills, water mills, dams, wharfs, private canals, warehouses, and other establishments, at no less than £2,100,000. Besides which, the value lof almost all the fixed property in the country, or at least in the lower districts, depends upon this trade, and, having risen with its rise, must sink with its decline. Under 6 fee, 7 inches, 31. In British ships . - . 8 0 0 Foreign . . . - 6 6 0 Colonial - . - . 0 16 0 Same. above 3i. In British ships - . - 12 0 0 Foreign - . - -1212 0 Colonial . - 1 10 U Fir Timber. As to the inferiority of the article, it should be remembered, that there ure imported from Canada two species of fir timber, of which one only, the red pine, can be fairly compared with the Baltic. The yellow or white pine, not found in the north of Europe, is for certain purposes, (as musical in struments, the inside work and pannelling of houses, and some others,) preferable to any wood whatever, because larger, less knotty, and more easily wrought. For many other uses, however, it is undoubtedly unfit, and particularly is found to de cay in this country, if excluded from the air. But for whatever purposes the yellow pine may be leas suitable, for these, and for every other, the red pine of Canada is fully equal to the best firs of Norway or the Baltic. In point of strength and tenacity, the experiments and testimony of Sir Robert Seppings placed the respective merits of each before the Committee of 1821, in tho follow ing comparison : 8 inches square and upwards. In British ships - 2 15 o Foreign . . . . 2 17 0 Colonial - . . . 0 10 0 On the 11th February, 1831, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in opening his budget for the year, announced his intention of remitting duties of cus toms and excise on certain other articles, and sup plying the deficiency thus caused by raising an ad ditional revenue on wood. And this addition he promised should be obtained, not only without any increase of burthen to the public, but even with considerable relict'. The details of that measure he reserved to be explained at another time; but the principle and rule of it he then declared to be, a :eduction on Baltic timber of ss. from 21. 15s. a load to 21. 108 ; and an increase on colonial from lUs. a load to 20s. Deals lie proposed to charge in similar proportion, according to their cubical contents. On Friday the 18th of March, the day appointed for the discussion of this measure, in which the ministers had in the mean time frequently intimated their resolution to persist, they suddenly declared it to have been abandoned, and in lieu thereof brought forward the following proposition :—to make no addition to the duties on colonial timber and deals, but to reduce the duties on Baltic by the whole amount of 15s. a load, by gradations in three years; that is, from January, 1832, till 1833, the duty on foreign fir timber to be 21. 9a.—durint• 1833, 2i. 30.—and after, 21. a load ; and upon deals in the same proportion. And this change they now de clared was to extend to Ireland. Never was there a repulse more signal and ex emplary. There is no form of rejection which could more strongly mark the opinion entertained, nut only of the nature of the measure, but of the conduct of those by whom it had been thus pro posed. Of 426 members present in the commit tee, 236 voted that the chairman should leave the chair, 190 opposed the motion, and it was curried by a majority of 46. It may be rendered evident by a few figures, that the colonial trade in timber and deals would have been most grievously injured by the duties piopoeed, and, it is feared, have wanted little of being totally destroyed. The first cost, the freight, the charges, and some profit, however small, it is well known, must be first paid before anything can be collected in the name of duty, or trade and industry will soon come to an end. By comparing, therefore, the amount of these ingredients, which compose the whole cost of colonial wood, with the market price, which is regulated by the cost and duties of the foreign article, it will be seen at once what the former can bear, and at what point it must be abandoned for that of Northern Europe. Digo - mice, of course, there can be none, whether the wood of Canada is put out of market by enhan cing its price through incrcnbe of its duties, or by reducing the prices of the liral commodity through' a decrease of duties on Baltic eood. A deduction of 31. the pleat hundred, equal to 11 a. lid. per load, was to be made from the 12 feet deals of Norway, and an addition of 41. the great hundred, or 14s. 9d. the load, made to the spruce deals of Canada. No competition could have stood this yet on the 10 feet deals the difference would Lave been far greater. There are brought from the Colonies about 18,258 great hundreds of deals, equal to 105,895 loads, and requiring about 70,000 tons of shipping. This, therefore, was in deals the amount of trade and navigation to have been terminated by the new duties. - - Specific Gravity. Breaking Weight. Canada Red Pine .. 657 ... 611 lb. Riga Fir ... ... 753 ... 42 Norway Spar ... 677 ... 656 With regard to other descriptions of Wood,— the inferiority of the oak timber, and spruce deals, from the Colonies, is acknowledged, and the only question made, is of the degree ; but the rock-elm of Quebec is, for strength and durability, unri valled by any naval ti ber, and the masts of Ca oads are the largest and finest in the world. The tonnage of this kingdom has, since 1816, declined nearly 400,000 tons, of which one-half has disappeared, or its disappearance been disco vered, since 1822. The value of ships in the timber trade has, since the year last mentioned, de clined from 111. a ton to 51. 10s. and the rate of freights to Canada from 31. to 21. per load. The competition of foreigners has so driven British na vigation out ofjhe foreign trade, that the propor tion of foreign to British shipping has increased about seventy-five per cent. since iu the year 1792 ; nearly two-fifths of which increase have been made within the last seven wears. Ihe trade of the British North American Co lonies to the United Kingdom gives freights to above 430,000 tons yearly, (on the average of the last six years.) and constant employment to about 301,000, exclusively of repeated voyages, which may be mule by three-tifths of the whole 430,000 tons, and this quantity of 331,000 tons is nearly one•seventh of the whole registered tonnage of Great Britain and Ireland. The proportion of British shipping to foreign was, in 1792. about 100 to 351, in 1822 about 100 to 516, and in 1829 about 100 to 616, on the ave rage of three years preceding each period. A circumstance, thoroughly French, occurred at Patio last week. "there is in Paris a small theatre in which all the actors are children under seventeen. One of the principal iiCitrraell In tiiis establishment, a pretty interesting sill. named Bruce, aged nut quite fourteen, had, it appears, tiltued an attachment to young man of seventeen, named Loui.• Crete, an orphan entitled to Wine property. Parents lied guardians were. as usual. UlilaYiniranlC to the levers, and a few stolen interviews art re their only solace ; it has, husever, been clearly areertained, that nothing criminal had paired. On Titeaddy lot, Nina Bruce having had a quarrel with her parents in die morning, sent to rehearsal at the theatre as usual, but instead of returning home. met Master Crete by appointment, and walked with him to the Bois de Boulogne, carrying a small basket containing • pair of pistols. On reaching a secluded spot, the young gen tleman made a bed of leaves and flowers, on which the young lady sat down, and undoing her upper garments, opener h,r left breast, when her hirer, by her desne, idiot her through the heart with one pistol, and himself through the head with the other. The bodies were found in this state by a gam•. keeper two days afterwards. By their side was a letter, stating that they were about to voluntarily snatch thennialrea I from die tyranny to which they woe subjected, &c. ilks. PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. LEIC'ESTER CHRONICLE. Puff paragraphs are making the round of the Papers at this time in recommend:4ton of emigration schemes, origi nating in the l'otorit r and other ministerial Ludo') Papers; hut the letters received from hundreds, who formerly have been caught by these halo, prevent their taking In the mid land counties. They resemble the seducing squibs of re cruiting perjeanta. Tuteuttir, RESEWED SZARCR TOR C01N0....-0/1 Monday afternoon, under the authority of the crown, search was recommenced . Up to Tuesday evening, ' the quantity discovered was estimated at not more than 900. These were deposited u they were found, in a kind of save-all under the orals of lord John Vernon, and R. J. HarpuZ Esq. During the whole of Tuesday, the bridge was crowded with people. No spirit of opposition was evinced on the part of the former searchers. A troop of hussars pasted through Derby on Sunday, on their route to Tutbury. and are now stationed there. The search will con done till the crown authorities are satisfied no further disco veries can be made. CORPORATE Pa OPtarr But...—Mr. Evans's bill on this subject provides against the waste and dissipation of cor porate funds on elections of members of parliament. It enacts that monies on personal property belonging to mu nicipal corporations, are not to be applied in or towards parliamentary elections, and all bonds, &c. for securing the same are to be deemed and held void. All payments, &c. made for the purpose of inducing any person to exert himself in parliamentary elections at • future time, to be considered as expenses within the meaning of this act. Conveyances or other dispositions of real property, for the purpose of satisfying or secuting any expenses hereby prohibited, to be deemed and held void. All votes and other proceedings of corporations contrary to this act, to be void. Corporate officers or others making any payment contrary to this act, to make good and repay the amount or value of money or personal property so misapplied. Any number of freemen. burgesses, or corporator, are empowered to bring actions fur all violations of this act, in the name of the general body of the corporation ; and all mcmbrs of such corporations who shall act contrary to the provisions of the act, to be guilty of a misdemeanoar. and to he for ever disabled from holding any office in such corporation. The act only ex ends to England and Wales • but the abuses here complained of at e as g e neral in Ireland. and require check as much. The public schools in this town, to afford instruction to the whole, or the greater part, of the children of the poor, are St. Margaret's, St. Martin's, St. Mary's, St. George's. the National, and Newton's, and the number of children educated in them according to the Report of the National Society for 1830, is as follows :—St. Ilargaret's, 110 boys, 50 girls; st. Slartin's, 150 boys, 80 girls; St. Mary's. 80 buys, 40 girls ; St. George's, 94 boys, 113 girls ; the Na tional, 284 buys, 102 girls; and Newton's may be esti. mated at 100. Total 1203. The above schools are well tilled, and many applicants are dismissed from want of &geom. mudation. Tile population of the town, according to tie census just concluded, may be reckoned in round numbers at 40,000. Is it reasonable to suppose, that in a place where the poor form so great a proportion in the popolatioa as they do in Leicester, that 1203 is the total number, or even the greater part of the children, between the ages of seven and tourtten, requiring education? 1 think it will be manifest that six schools are very insufficient foe this purpose. The system of religious instruction pursued, too, in these schools, is exclusive. The children are taught the Catechism and Tenets of the Church of England, and whether the offspring of Dissenters or not, are required to go to church on the Sabbath day. At the Quarter County Sessions the following rural crime, and severe us/tenet, is mottled :—Thomas Clark was in dicted for mil:king a cow at pasture, on the 2011 i of May last, the_posperty 31f. T. Daniell The prosecutor, who lives at &My, said that in consequence of having some suspicion that his cows were milked, he and his son went to watch under a hedge, on the evening of the lath of May. After a short time the poisoner cause and milked a cow, and on his return hem he delivered him into the hands of the con stabL' with a vessel containing about three pints of milk, which he took from . John Darnell, son of the last witness, corroborated this statement. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, sod the prisouer was sentenced to three months' bard labour. Co a OWE11:11_ ISQUEsT I7 -On Tuesday the 98th ult. as inquest was held at Lyddington, before C. Hall, Rs+ one of the Coroners for Rutland, on view of the body of Elisa beth Baldwin, aged 22, who, in a fit of despondency, occa sioned by unrequited attachment, with lora of service, de stroyed herself by taking poison, sad a verdict of Fels*. Ise was recorded. The fate of this young woman excited a strung interest In the neighbourhood, from the circumstance of the mother of the unfaithful lover having procured for the deceased the faithful potion (arsenic,) and whose after conduct is supposed to have powerfully contributed to the melancholy catastrophe. About six o'clock on Tuesday evening, three men named Smith, iVilliamson, and Slack, escaped from the Borough Gaol. They had contrived to make an aperture in the wall of the water-closet by means of some sharp instrument, suf ficiently large to admit a man's body, through which they passed into the yard of Mr. Attetbury, cabinet-maker, High-street, and got clear off before they were missed from gaol. On Wednesday, 21r. Riley, lace-maker, Loughborough, breaking a hen's egg, found it to contain one of the waver reptiles. commonly called a bull-head, the remainder of the egg heong filled with spawn. Wheat. 71s lld ; Rye, fits; Barley, 38s; Oats, 31s 6d ; Beans. 445; Peas, 211%; Fine Flour, 644; Standard Wheaten, 62s to ; Household, 49. to 601; Quart= Loaf, wheaten, 19d ; ditto, household, 94. FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL. BRISTOL COLLEGE EXAMINATION.OII NOM Tuesday, and Wednesday last, the whole of the students un derwent a private examination, conducted on the Cambridge plan, by written translations and answers to queetions in the suhjec.* with which they had been occupied since the opening et the College in January last. On Thursday, those who had most distinguished themselves were publicly examined vies race, by the Rev. W. I). Conybeare, the %leiter ; the Prin cipal and Vice-Principal, and the Head Marilee of the Junior Department 4 some of the papers also which they had written during the preceding day. were banded round to the enmpany in their uncorrected state. The Theological and Classical part of the public examination consisted in constru ing passages tram the Greek Testanient Pinder, !Bitchy. lus, Plato, Atistortanes. Thucydides and Juvenal, and an 'acting questions in them of precisely the same kind as are usually proposed at the Universities. A junior student was also examined in the blemorabilia of Ximophon. Some of the subjects, viz. 'radius. Horace, Virgil's Georgics, So pbocles, Euripides, and Xenophon's Atiabasis ' were nesse eerily passed over for want of time. Two of the students were examined in Mathematics', one in plane and solid Geo metry, Algebra, Trigosaametry, the Differential and Integral Calculus', and Mechanics, the other in place Geometry and Algebia. Three were examined in Locke. One of the stu dans recited an excellent poem, which be had composed on Belshazaar's feast ; another a translation into Greek lambics of Hamlet's Soliloquy on Death. A revision of die Bath and Bedminster District Corm mittens or that ancient and excellent Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge having been deemed expedient, a pub. lie meeting of its members was held at %intim on Tues. day last. The Report was read, by which it appeared that the number of Bibles distributed by the Society in the year ending April, 1830, amounted to—Bibles, 80.8481 Testaments, 60.818; Prayer Books, 148,212 ; Paaltent, 13.582, which, with the other books and tracts dispersed by the Society, formed a total of 14114680. The distribu tion of the Bath Committee for the year ending April. 1831, was—Ball s. 8111; Testaments, 1182; Prayer Books, 2,358, and other books. to the total amount of NAM. It was that clever wag, Brinsley Sheridan, who said of the Ministers who lost him his snug birth of Treasurer of the Navy, that the %Vidor,' always contrived to run their heads against a vial. If such was their conduct in his day, what could he bate said of the ingenuity of the present luckless race, also out only perform the same feat, but themselves build the wall expressly fin the purpose of running against it. AIItkIVXD AT IVATT'S Singh. HOTWELLII.—Lady George, Col. O'Grady, M.P. and Lady, Lleut..CoL Dwyer, Captain and Mts. and Miss King, Captains Hill and John son, Lieut. Kclstionstone. kev. Dr. Austen, Rev. Mr. C. Morgan and &Indy, Rev. Mr. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Alder; 111esers. 2 Williams, Stewart, Alder, Beamish, Shawe. R. O'Grady, Grubb, Dillon, & N. Ward and two aces, De a n e , Phew, Macdonald, C. tie Lingle ; Mistresses Burly, Crawford. Gibbon; Misses 2 Williams, Stewart, 2 Craw ford, 3 Gibbon. MARRIED. —The Rev. Wm. Day, vicar of . that pariah, to Nliss Jones, of Stapletou.—John Ley, Req. of Newton' ' Abbot, to Charlotte, only daughter of the late George Catania, Bag. of blanaton.-- The Rev. Thomas Butler, of Shrewsbury. to Fanny. third daughter of the late Philip J. Woreeley.--At Uphill. Major Willies' Godley. to Mary Anne. eldest daughter of Henry H Req. of Wells. DIED—Mrs. „loan Harris, aged e. 81—lo Trinity-street, M. Felix, Raj. M. D. aged 77. MA NCNESTER TIMES. _ Since the opening of the branch of the Liverpool and Man chester Railway front Bolton, on the 13th inst. there have been conveyed 1,546 passengers. The average receipts are 10,0001. per annum, and the effect is, that every stage coach has ceased to run between Bolton and Liverpool. On Tues. slAir week the number of passengers to Liverpool was 136. patent has lately been taken out by Mr. Grime, en. gYaver, of Bury, for an improvement on railroads, which is likely to become of considerable public advantage, more especially during the winter months. The object of the patentee is to clear the rails from snow, hail, ice, or even moisture. by constructing the rails hollow, and passing steam, heated air, gas. or hot water through thtm, along the whole length of road; keeping them of such a tem perature as to cause the snow, hail, &c. which may fall on them, to melt, and run of in a liquid state, and any moisture which would otherwise remain on their surface, to evaporate. By this means, those obstructions to the progress of the locomotive engines during the wintry months will be removed; and in wet weather, during any part of the year, the moisture on the rails (which from the diminished traction, renders it difficult to propel heavily laden carriages,) will be speedily evaporated, at a triffng expenditure of fuel. To prove the practicability of the plan • series of experiments (instituted by the patentee. under the superintendence of Mr. Todd, an experienced civil en gineer, of 31anchester,) have been performed at Bury, with iron pipes, varying in length, from 300 to 1100 yards, and laid in a continuous line on the Bury and Manchester road. One end of the line was attached to • small high pressure steam boiler, belonging to Wood, cotton ma nufacturer, of ltedvales, from which the steam and hot water necessary for completing the experiments were sup. plied. The first trial was made with the steam at a pressure of 35 lbs on the square inch, and with 300 yards of pipes; at the farther exttentity of which (after heating the pipes) the steam issued at a temperature of 210 degrees ; atmos phere 60 degrees. it pipe was then inserted in the boiler. its lower extremity immersed in the water, and reaching within a few inches of the bottom, and the other connected with the line of pipes on the road, lengthened to half a mile. The safety valve being weighted in 40 lbs no the square inch, the pressure of the steam on its surface forced the water witty considerable velocity along the whole line, front the extremity of which it issued at a temperature of 150 degrees ; atmos phere as before. The line being extended to 1100 yards, with the same pressure on the boiler, and the same atmos pheric temperature, the water was delivered at the farther extremity at 100 degrees. The pipes being laid on the sur. face of the road partook of its inequalities as well as of the curves in the line : had not this been the case, and had they extended in a right and level line, a much less pressure would have effected the same results. The Oldham Spinners' Turn-nut is becoming more ge neral, and in addition to the mills stated to be out last week. those of Messrs. Radcliffe, ()reeves, and Mrs. Broadbent and Sons, and Lees and Harrison's, have since turned out against the proposed reduction of their wages. The number of spinners now on the strike cannot be less than duce hun dred, who must derive tl•eir support from the operatives still at work, whose extra contributions to the union will greatly curtail their earnings, and add to the general distress of the trade. From one thousand to fifteen hundred hands are already out of work, in consequence of their employment being dependant on that of the spinners. l'be general trade and business of the town is very much diininisb..ll by the repeated collisions between the employers and employed, and if some legislative measures be not speedily adopted, to prevent the disastrous reductions of the laLourer's pittance for his toil. the coca queucee will be ultimately fatal to aIL The condition of the hand-loom weavers is deplorable and distressed in the extreme, and a type of what the tuturc con dition of the other classes will be, if reduction upon reduce. Lion.-ace in the weavers' case, has brought them to their present condition—is to be taken from their already made. quote wages. The collier; who turned out last week at Rocker, against some new hands, have resumed their work. Those at Hunt Lane are still out. A number of new bands &Hived on Suns day, in addition to those already engaged at the colliery. No symptom of disturbance has hitherto been manifested. Corps of military, horse and foot. are stationed in the town. We have much pleasure in stating, that the locomotive engine, the St. Rollos. belonging to the Garokirk and Glass gow Railway Company, made a first or trial trip along the whole line on Saturday. It went at great speed strums many pans of the road ; and, upon the whole, performed very much to the satisfaction of those who accompanied it. NaTiraaL Cuamerry.—There is now in the garden of Mr. Sharpies, of Harwich, a wasp's neat in a gooseberry tree; it is in the form of a balloon, and has the appearance, at a distance, of being covered with cloth. A sentinel wasp is constantly on duty, at the entrance of the nest, who care fully teas:thee all corners. Then ate also three or four other wasps on the top of the nests, who regularly take their turn of duty. Some hundreds of spectatorshave called upon Mr. Sharpies, to inspect this curiosity. The following is a traveller's account of his exclusionist the Rail Road :—We then took our places in the second class coaches as they are called, though they are mushroom like a large Newcastle coal waggon, with low sides seats; and some of than having no doors and very /ow an the sides, appear far from safe. Indeed. en this account, our wonder is that there have not been many more accidents than are recorded. It Wenn tome desirable that the waggons sissuld be deeper to prevent persons who stand up, which is very common front various motives, from being jerked eat. It alto occurred to me. that the doors of all the osseliss should be fastened by Nome sort of a spring -lawn. so as to provost eat:molly their flying open or being improperly fast. sued. The smoke and steam of the engine were generally offessive, Wag mostly in a straight line over the passengers hendi ebs en t il Sthasionally the iron tube vomited forth in its Wits and pieces as large as up to the size of a W Men.. by which several gentlemen in the second wipe (sham twelve yards off the engine) suffered in liernag their clothes burnt through: the writer had his swisosst burnt in this way a hole of 1-inch by j-inch. I should thine to remedy this. the first four or five coaches should be covered at the top, and the that in the front, otherwise, the last coaches are far the best. In all of them, but especially in Most Dearest to the engine. the nurse Huai the short stuttering of the steam is not pleasan.., and which the rumbling of the wheels ut the coach not a little increases. Fut the &slims up of passengers on the road, the carriages am irequently interrupted, which to some might not be agreeable, but to nit who was not in a hurry, of no moment. This I untiersistid Cu not the case in the first dais coaches, which must be decidedly the best, and much to be preferred by all who do not mind the extra w siding. On the whole, to men of business, the dis patch of either clams of coaches mum be very acceptable ; the first going in an hour and a halt; and the second in two hours. But, to people on journeys of health or pleasure, not of so much mumente The price, at least on the second class, say as. appeared to me too much, end I have eel) , little doubt that well managed and well ed coaches at is. lid. or hr. outside, on the tatter road would obtain support. I am nut sure. sheibsr I ought to say that I thought the persons who attended the coaches did not appear to me very intelligent or respectable. but l may be mistaken. us Niw Buss BHA.—Has a bishop nothing better to du than meddle with public houses? 'I he Bishops of Bath and Wells (a very watery title) complains of the new beer bill. " hurry third or fourth house in some of douse towns" he attys. " is a beer shop, and the greatest excesses are in consequence committed." There can be nu such cmisequences. '1 be more situps the less chance of rzcass4 s If every shop were a beer shop, every man would be his us u cuatonier, and drink his loser solitary and quiet in his own house. The more situps tittle ate. me more the drinkera are di. vided, and the excitement attending large tympanic* is lessened. Lad Alluniesbury was for giving mag strums cootroul of the houses. Aye. aye. the sweets of licensing are out forgotten. Justice Greedy would be at his old trade again. Lord Melbourn very tooltslrly observed, that in the opinion ut the country generally, the bill had been perni cious. Fur the country generally, reed the cuoutry gentles men; sad the remark is doubtless true. The squires are it course dissatisfied with a trade that takes justice joubing out of their hands. Consult attorneys shout law rowel ; the proprietors of the noes (as Lord Althorp actually did), about newspaper monopoly, and the stamp duties that create it; smugglers about customs; and country gentlemen about beer hills. Sat t: IiDAT, June 2b.— I !relate large Import of grain and flour front Imeign pans, with the fine prospect of tine home crops, have great weight on the minds of the purchasers, as all markets are reported on the decline ; in this the business has been exceedingly light during the potent week, and must articles in the corn trade have been offered oo lower terms. We had a fair attenthuice of millers and dealers— (but the Conner want very little wheat, the mills being not o-e third employed) the show of samples was mot large; COVENT-GARDEN NIARKET-THIS DAY. his market was well attended this morning, and plea , fully supplied with fruits and vegefabka. In the wbolmill pastime 'market there was a plentiful supply of new potato —fur old une• there is no demand, and they may be bootik' at almost any price. PRICES. Peaches. lOs to 30% per &stn. Melons, Is to 2s plc. Nectarines, lOst to 30s per dozen. P ea s, Is to 2s per do sieve. Cherries, 6d to is per ib. Strawberries, 6 d Is Is 6tl per prude. Raspbetries, 6d to IA pines, 61 12s per pound. Grapes, 2s 6d to 6s. Cescambamoddid Is 4d per brave. Mushrooms, 2s 64 to 3 per wadi Ido ker. Walnuts for pickling, 2% per hundred. Igoe 1' Is per quaritru. *Gad Beans, 9d to Isld per Whigs New Potatoes. Id to 3d per pound. Turnips, 3d Is dd per bunch. l:strots, 4d to Ild. Cabbages, is to Is 6d PI dozen. Cauliflowers, Is 6d to 4s per dozen. Horse Ito dish. 4s to rls per bundle. Old Potatoes, is 6d to 34 U per cwt.. Celery, Is to 2. per bundle. Lettuces, Is Id 31 per score Onions. 2d to 441 per bunch. Changer, 4s to 111 per 100. brims'', 4s to 10.. Altnoods, 76 per Spanisb Nuts, 6s. COUNTRY MARKETS. Ussatass —Wheat per load (40 bushels) 14!. to 201. O' Barley per qr. Ui to 555. Oats gas to &Ss. hero is to 475. Pass sto —IL Hamm. Hsaarsveao--Wltsat per t 0.4 (eve bustle.) 41 to 465. Beans 56s to vvs. Peas 26s to stk. Barley, Id quarter, 32s to 36.. Oat% sith, to 32s Hostroso— Wheat per gr. ats to 72.. Barley 30104 0 Oats 26s to 35$ Best's 561 to 445. Pees 38. to 4431. iDox : Panted and rublhahrd by JOllll MATNIL 11 lb ° STA& OrtICZ, Na 1, Picksu-plier, Temple Hir• however, wheat was (Aral fall 3d palelbs below Stitt!" week, and the greater part tamed off unsold ; Grindin g g w. ley is a shade higher. Oats may be noted Id to led lov e than last week. Boiling Peas remain nominal. Beans se not dm bebk male as of late. The Malt Trade remains ie the same languid state. Sack and Banal Flour are each 1, cheaper,and t tatnseal is Is to Is 6d per load below la m wide , raters. Mr. Elliman, so long and so justly a favourite of the public as a spirited and intelligent actor, died y est.r . day morning. He was in the 68th year of his age. The fleet under the command of Sir E. Codring, ton sailed from Portsmouth on Thursday, fully equipp e d i„ every way with their war complement. The fleet confined of the following :—Calednnia and Prince Regent, flagship. Afis, Talavera, Donegal, Revenge, Wellesley, Alfred: Barham, Curacoa, and Pearl. Commodore Lord Y d s, rough, in the Falcon ship yacht, and 23 of the Royal v, cht Club vessels, and nearly 200 other sail, accompanied th e fleet. Some of the ships were so bad pressed for men, 0 4 , midshipmen were on Ante recruiting. BIRTHS. The 7th hut. at the Gothic, Kenti.h Town, the lady 0 ! Sir J. Williams, of a daughrer.—The Bth inst. at &tom e . holm, Kent, the lady of J. Craufurd, F:sq. of a son._Th, 3d instant, at Hertford, the wife of E. Darby, Esq. of daughter. The Bth inst. at St. George's Church, Hanover-squar t M. T. Smith, Esq. M.P. to Louisa, third daughter of S, . M. W. Ridley, Bart. M.P.—The 7th Mat. at Holy T r i n i ty . Church, J. Ogilvie, Esq. of Brompton-square, to Ifni, second daughter of the late J. Hance, Faq. of Brompta. row.—The 7th Inst. at St. Mary's. Stoke Newington, Mr. W. F. Mills, of King-street, High Holborn, only son of it. Mills, Esq. of Camberwell. to Marian, only daughter of I Crouch, E q. of Stoke Newington Park.—The 6th inst. at George's, Hanover-square, J. W. Ellis, Esq. of the Middle Temple, to Emily, youngest daughter of the late I. &Hun., Esq. of Hertford -street, May -fair. DIED. The 7th inst. at Clay Hall, Old Windsor, the residen t' of her daughter the Duchess of Roxburgh, Mrs. Green, h. het of V. Green, Esq. at the advanced age of 86.—The inst. Jane, second daughter of A. Jones, Esq. of Chan - Tim. hill, Surrey.—The 7th inst. 73, Mr. R. Cater, of the Steck Exehange.—The 7th inst. at his residence, Eltham, K el; 79, J. Warner, &el —The 7th inst. in anchesterolua te 63, S. J. Vachell, EMl.—The 7th inst. at her house, Upper Baker-street, 86, 3lrs. Katherine Hartom.—The 6.h in Mr. J. D. Lucas, solicitor, of Nottingham.street, S t . M s . Tylebone.—The Pith inst. 86, Mr. Dyer, of Blackherh... The 6th inst. at Kennington, 62, Mary, the wife of G. %V. Paddon, Esq. of His Majesty's Customs.—The sth km. sear Ramsgate. 64, W. Parkinson, Esq. =is STAPLES OF BRITISH C 0616, (THIS DAY.) • lITICLIs. coiwm Woo:. (Loo.) &La (thrown: (raw) Fus • host - - I COITER . LEAD - -1 TIE - Somalis - - , TOBACCO - .1. Oia. • • BSADIDT Ru* - (1. (10 a 2 0 -1 Gams - • Puss - &miss - - Alsosess Can • Hums - Corr= . 'nu, Burros • Cusses Tm. Low (Rua.; RICE Mums (Loud.; Coon (London, Hon (London: Flay (London: COALS - Gasavra Avi WIDOW, KINDS. ' •ND IiCASURE Bowed 1 Pernams N. Orleans' Saaony pr. ' Austria pr.l Blanket Pied. whi Modena Bengal China Rigs Antwerp Pig Bars Maryland Virginia Cuba Florence Irak rape 'Bordeaux iiamaica i Dernerars Irish Good Good Prime (. 1 . °2 gi) Iftutts 1 R Ayres British t Plant. S. Domingo !Mucha Cungou Hymn Cork Dutch Cheshire Gicestee Yellow White CarolanJ Bengal Beef Mutton Veal Pork Wheat 'Jerky Oats Beans Kent Sussex Ewes Farnham I.ood Middling Straw We['vend Others Wheat !, Harley I Oats Means to 6ld to Tftl to 7id to Ss 6J to 4, to Ss to 11 SJ to 10J I to 44, 13s to ISs 10s to 144 12. to 161 £5l £55 to £6O £4 to £5 £6 to £6 !Os £l2 10 to £l3 IV £B7 to £BB £72 to £73 rZis £l5 S to £4 ,48$ to 50s )101 to 741 11120 to 25. SOs to 55s I4d to Sd to Sid Id to Is 46 'Half ebest,2ll Per CWI6. HMS 1 Per—ton IN, .:..t. -(cu.: IPer Ns Per cwt. to 4 3d to Ss id Is. to ss 641 94 to lOs tOs to 114 9.4 641 to So 941 LIS to £39 £2B to £39 £3O to £4O XS to Xl5 god to 234 9d to 114 ES 13. to Al 19 .C 5 4s to set A 2 to £2 2s XS to f 6 Is 104 to 2. ss Id to 8. 641 4$ 24 to 44 54 £4 104 to £4 154 As 18$ LS S. to 4+3 164 ks £ll as to 82 la ;£2 Is 114. to 184 1128 to 184 id tod to 44 44 Os 04 to 44 id 14s od to 4s 24 s thl to 4. id ~60s to 711. to 48. Per ewe Pr grarteri - s to 29s I --• 5s to 46. Per cwt. £3 to £ll 19. to 4116 ils - A 6 to 89 Os - Z 6 to Jlll5 ;Per load 15. to t 4 is f 5 to at 3 IS• tl 6s to Al 124 Per arid. is Od to 33. 04 --- 41 6d to 29s !Pr quarter ' s 7-134 s 10-90 d 11-644 Is 11.104 Per galion A s Per pipe IPer pound ---. 1 Pt, cwt. ~... 1 4 :, ~;~, ' ~i 4 I BriUsh Bars Blocks