The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-11-15 00:00:00

X4*-- '• • e. . • 'o* ; . . -.. • Milegnito,lo6l,7o~/100ffaMilia.+- . KAII.S. eve. arts. IiWO. * . v. . . . T`whitn . 0 I ....nfollawl 0 ...Waterford.. • ..0 I. ...ITambvel . 0 ..,.0 & . 144rsey • • .. 0 1.... From* 0 _.....1.10,0 0 1 0 ...Flatulers . ... .. .0 r' -ft ...Guttenberg 0 0....Mr.1ta ...0 . .1111111 - E OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OMB ()CLOCK. ▪ Sank K$ ~ • India Stock Spry CI. Ilitto Benda ..... 77 79 •II p. I'Lrman &VA 8a.9111.2d. 20 poleout • won t . 7 46 47 --• pm. rpm Cep a, llolf 1 ---2012.... 44 47 pm. Nero Faro.. mat; --Small .46 —n pm lasi Alin.. ...In 20 16.16 Lottery Tickets.. ..... a. • ,Irp.iner fret, *tatessnatt. NATURDAV EVENINo. NOtE3IBER.IS. nuts Excoawor., 12 o'Cr.oca.—Coneols opened at 1331 ii . and e for seat Account, at which prier they are steady up In this hoar. to the earlier part of the mornieg some hosiers, was doing. Ooe broker bought 100,000 at 831 fo► non account. &rem, has arrived from Paris, but the papers' • brought by it are not of a later date than those we yester. day reeelved. It was confidently arseete.l this looming, that the new Royalist Loan had been taken by subscription at Paris. This report 'has reused Spooish Bowls to fall II per cent., . Private letters from Paris state, that a party of • Oben, ennnerted with another party in London, exert all tbeir endeavoors to depreciate the Spanish market in the above Capital, ant are using all their interest with the French press to insert I minus reports for their own viers We do not hear hot of one failure yeah r.lse in the Spanish market, and that one was not t any great extent. • A:tattoo Pustas .—Spaaish Bonds opened at 241 to nd sow after fell to 231 i, with a very heavy market. • if nidb Ronda (New) 18.-0;11, 231—Colombia, 59 to 00. Poyale (law) 411. • In Mother foreign sect rr i t ;ea there is vrty little doing. New York Papers have arrived to the 17th Oct. of which the following are extracts : (Ftom the Philadelphia National Gazette.) We have examined our file of Mexican papers to the 20th August. They are filled with the reports of the pro• feedings 'a the Provinri .1 AsseMblies, in reference to ' the acknowledgement of the Supreme Provincial Govern ; mesa at Mexico. The voice of the Provinces has been expressed in fame of a Federative Government, with the • Supreme Executive at Mexico. This Assembly appointed on. this 11th Ally the citizens to form provisionally the Soprenie exeliiiive Power. Oa the 3•1 July, General taapez de Sastisa recognized the Supremo Rxeeu nos Power of Mexico, and in his address to that body. signifies the pleasure, he learned that the Supreme • Congress, is accord with general opinion, was employed in determinating the bases upon which to organise the, iM• I Lion into a Federative Republic. •ft • In several of the Mexican documents, strong deteeterlon is expressed of the French invasion of Spain. On the 20th July paper money totlie unountof 200,000 dollars was publicly burnt. • By a Decree of the Semite of Chili of the 25th June, says the Notional,Garefte. every one bora since the year 1811, within the territory of the Republic is free, every one • who treads tie soil of the Republic Is free, and all who have, here tofore been slaves are also free. An arrival at Baltimore from St. Jago de Cubs. brings intelligence that General:Morales and his army were still at that place, and that a contribution had been levied upon the inlitaisitarts for their support. • The Congress of Bogota was prorogued by the Govern. merit, at their own request, for mach a period as they might rd ennronieet; less than 30 days, as provided by the Constituti or. The object of this measure was to arrange the financial and law departments. A new law has been made to enconrage foreigners to become sateralized. which offers more advantageous terms than the former ore. According to the recommendation of the Minister of the • Home Department. the Government have granted to a foreigner. Juan Bernardo Ethers, the exclusive right of navigating the river Magdalena with steam boats for 21 years. We learn from the ionsiana GazeHe of the 19th of Sep tember. that a severe storm commenced at Baton Rouge, en Thursday the Ith of Sentembwr, and still continued on the Sunday following. On Saturday night the storm was extremely violent, prostrating trees in every direc tion. The rain fell in. torrents. The slaves were compelled to fly from their cabins to save their lives, as the roofs were tarp off by the wind. One planter had visited bit ecatton-Gehl, and saw sufficient of the destruction to • satisfy him thattlie topes of the planters in that vicinity , of mabing may Ising like half a crop, were at an end ; at, "Ilettrttitt watalds sltutaton: ss he found his cotton toru op by the room and levelled with the earth. This planter bad not seen a neighbour since the storm con. inencett. as no one dated to venture from the continual fall ing of the trees. A letter 'Penrod in New ()deans from a respectable gentleman on the Arcadi an Coast, states that the late storm had destroyed a third of the sugar crops in that neighb our hood. • The picking of cation had b .en mach retarded by the • late wind and rain, and very coosideratsly 'reduced io quantity. NnirOnt.ssns. &WT. 13.--Covron.—Out little doing, as will be the case until the new crop 'comes in. Our hielest qootstion been &stained _this week for about . Y leaks snood quality •L and 10 cents for 32 fait. Alabama. Ctaactstore; OCT. 3.-+CoTTex .. -4Jpland Whit re. Sahel of the old crop goes off heavily from 12 to 15 cents. Sant lots (sew) received 'by waggons, have brought ge metalfifroin 1$ to 161 cents during the week, for northern COMMlliptioa. We have heard of one lot of a favourite liseendlliat wont oft as high as 17 cer.t.. Srl tee lislandstbsre has been no business dotte.--They Made nominally from9l to 3D otiots. • lltsca.—Very little old rice vet remains to fir., .hrqught to sitirket, and the active competition of a few purchasers ghee SC tbe parcels es they cornett' et rates which cannot be main ' able/ when Oa new crop strives. Holders have obtained es bieVfor prime quality t'is week es font. doltars, 3-10ths, en fernery inferior 31.--We have not advanced our quotation Own die prices et the last west. _ 116. THE STATESMAN Gemmel Mins aid Rotten, have chosen, Pram* as doifl platter refaige from the ferocity of Ferdin an d. S uc h a Be i er . ties of an asyleviipalts emphatically the 'plaice which the liberals of Spain entertain of England, and the policy of *sr administration. They prefer an open enemy, with whom they have been combatting sword to sword, to a deceitful friend, who has been affecting to wish them success, and to lenient their misfortunes, while se cretly hiding and abetting in the means taken for their destruction. The speech of Mr. Canning, at Ply mouth, was admirably calculated to excite the batredand disgust of every friend to liberty in Spain, and particularly whetieontrasted with what be bad before stated in the Mouse of Commons. Did he say, in January last, that an inter fereoce in behalf of. Spain would be Quixotic ? On the contrary; he deseribett .her u certain of maintaining her own canse. His great argument was, that Spain was not In need of any assi4tatice. " A large army will be starved in Spain, and a 'small one defeated," was a phrueln the mouth of every Minister, and of every friend of every Mi- Meter. They said there was no occasion to interfere—that France ; woald be soon 'taught the invasion was as dangerous as it was unjust; and that We should husband our resources because our interests were not endangered.— Now Mr. Canning comes forward, to my that it would bare been Quixotic to interfere ; which, besides •being a 1 141sebood with regard to SpaitY, is a libel on Great Britain, of whose resources be•occasionallp speaks in anehryeiglity" terms. It is saying that we could have added nothing to the defence of Spain—that with our assistance, the idea of defending Spain would have been as Quixotic as if when Spain was abandoned to her own defence—that, :n short, England resembled a cripple looking on at a burglary, or a murder, neither able nor willing to interfere, and not even courageous enough to give an alarm against the thieves, or the assar.ins. .This is Mr. Canning's portrait of the Government of whtcjt he is so conspicunus a mem ber. This is what be thinks of "dm envy and admiration of the world;" and it is no waiter of surprise that other countries should agree in the opioirin of. our. louden Secretary. The Spanish Liberals, therefore,-neturally imagine that England will be the next prey •orthe ,fiely Alliance ; and, finding all idea of a resistance to 'despotism in Europe. wild and 'visionary, they4o at onye to France, where they know that policy will spec n-tbeir lives. and perhaps seek to conciliate them to , aid le the 'ulterior designs of the Great Nation. We shoUld mach like to hear Mr. Canning describe the difference between the actual "cootinental system," which now exists, and is in. creasing in the vigour of operatioci, with public opinion bits favour against Ragland, and secured by a necessary communion of interests among Its • authors— With the inefficient system Attempted to be esta blished by Napoleon, against the feelings of the people, and in opposition to the .interests - Government whom ue forced to bkoite his agents. This would afford a fine scope to the talents of the Foreign Secret ary. •With what an abundance of admiiable would the subject furnish him! And then for the i exercise of his talents for sophistry, what a nice jesuitical distinciitnimight be drawn between the horror of bevies been.rnised by "a Corsican adventurer;' and the wing.- , tage4f being destroyed by the legitimate drseendant of half-a-store Russian Czars ! The Morning Chronicle sad the Courier ther there is any difference between a Whig at The Cori- ler says there Is none. "tertZ .Chronicle, "except your lithig bappeni) " tye," says the Courier. " but then he is no Whig." "No," says the Chroniele—" certain!, he is not ; for a Whig. to be any thing, must bee Reformer: for if be is not a Reformer, be certainly does not differ 'from a Tory!" The I , „ reauers of the oTsTcsmAs will probably ask the Whig, why he wears an unmeaning, or a disgraceful epithet—why he does , not avow himself only end solely a Reformer ! t . oting Tory.— f," says the Mr. Bowring has been refused pertnission to go to Paris for a few days on particular business, which required Isis presence. The French Uoverntneot, then, is at scar with Mr. rowing. IVhat a vlorionscompliment to the Bourbon dynasty ! It Las concreted Spain, hitt it dreads Mr. Bow -1 ring, an honest, able English Merchant. • -.,r/.0.- The plan proposed on Tuesday evening, at the Crown and Anchor, of establishing in London a 44 Mechanic's Icititute," similar to that which has so long flourished at Glasgow, is meeting, we are • heartily glad to bear, with the most flattering encouragement and extenilse support. The Committee to whom the General Meeting referred the preliminary owasures for founding the Institution. met Met night, and ippointed a Sob Committee to draw the ontline of its constitutioe. Dr. Birkbeck, the foinder of that of Glasgow, is, as be ought to be, a member of the Sub Committee ; for who is so competent to lay a fit foundation for the projected Institute, as he in whose judicious mind the model had originated, and by whose fostering care it has now arrived at matotity, and become productive of such extensive practical utility ? ,As soon as the Committee have completed the outline of their work, we expect another General Meeting will be called; whets a large accession still be announced to the nut:thee of those who are candidates for admission into the Society. In the present embryo state of the Institution, the sums subscribed and receive , ' as donations, we understand, amount already to several hundred pounds. WtNnson, Friday, Nor. l4.—The day being fine, His Majesty took an wring on horseback in Windsor Great Park. The King continues in the enjoyment of excellent heilth. The Earl of Fife left the Castle this day for London. A Cabinet Connell, it is said, will meet next Tuesday. It is nearly three months since one has been held. All the Minis.ers ate expected to be in town by that day. Sir Robert Wilson is now at the seat of a Gentleman, in Hampshire, greatly reduced in habit from 'anxiety and fatigue. We bear, that he dots not mean to apnea among his polilical kends in London for a month •or aitt weeks.—Morning Paper. SIR R. AND THE DEY OF ALGIERS. (11`ROM J atoantsto LEVER A envious adventure Sir ROBERT hes had since the fall of Cadis. All efforts being found fruitless. he was deter mined to prevent. as far as he was able. tho menu of fur ther annoyance, by carrying off three barrels of gunpowder in a vessel in which he escaped. The currents carried the boat into the Bay of Algiers, he demanded en interview with the DRY. and begged his Highness's acce pt a nce of doe present, which was most graciously received. The Doi detained Sir ROBERT two days in the Palace, and allowed him to visit his Ilareni, as a mark of special condeseension. Bet the most important achievements of all wars a solemn pledge given by the Dar. that the persons and property of all Spanish Liberals should he respected by his people. Subsequently to this, Sir ROBERT returned to Gibraltar, and seam went to Cadis, where he had au interview with FURIBBANO. By the Hamburg Papers which have arrived to the Atis inst. we learn that two hlemhers of theeonimission sent to examine the nature of the gold mines lately discovered in the great chain of the Ural mountains. in Russia, have returned to St. Petersburg, and reported that !hey were rich. and likely to be productive. The poverty of the Russian fivances has hitherto proved a bar to some of the all grasping schemes of the Russian Cabinet ; bat if these mines be work and furnish them with adequate supplies, who knows , how far their ambition may carry them ? It is now reported that Sir Robert Gifford w►ll sneezed to the Chief Justiceship of the Pleas, in the mom of Sir R. Dallas. The Attorney General's wish was to obtain the AbstershiP of the Rolls, but the improving state of Sir T. Plumer's health induces his Honour to preserve his seat, at least for some t►me. Mr. Justice Bayley, we learn, is t 6 be the new boidtlitief Heron; ■nd the vacant seat in the Court of King's Bench will be filled by Mr. Baron Hal lock, who is to be succeeded in the Exchequer by Mr. Ceurtexay, the Memher for Exeter. and Master in Chine eery. Mr. Hurece Twiss, we are told, is to be reworded for lii political exertions with the Mastership, as soon as it shall be mated by . Mr. Coortenay. %Pe believe there is little doubt but Mr. Sbadwell will be the new Solicitor tieneral. Besides these changes, it is expected, that in a ;hod time, one or two other vacancies will occur in the judicial seats. when Mr. laittledale and 'Mt. Sergeant Onslow are to ha• thought of. As soon as eonvenieat, Mr. Nolan, we learo, is to haves Wittcb Judgeship.— (Morning paper.) On Tuesday week the Rev. A. Baird was inducted BA Professor of Oriental Langoakes in St Mary's College, St. Andrew's. Scotland. Since the commenrement if the war in Spain, the nom. ber of vessels of wsr in the French marine. has been in creased from 90 to 15 1 .), and that of the sailors from 8,000 to 19,000. • A great sensation has been caused in the fashionable cireleitv a most extraordioary Magisterial interference ia. a tinirter which , up to Saturday last, bed been alitosys exeutpted frog the Melts . of the Police. Why the Clair House, which is fr*qiiiititY, mieloaively, 11l persons of the highest respeetability;ceinpiefiendisik•niArly all the ran k . of thetountry . . should have been iiiiipetfdift sit% V*evies of nosh*. it is entirely beyond 9ur Our readesewill-scarcely believe it, when we state, that, at' s little after 'l4 41'r:hick on the evening IshOyeenclutignittle the ttentleinen i (IS in tosenber) then assembled at the Club House, on the Sterie- were :Insulted by the entrance of several Police Officers:- - shot rifinutely searched ell the rooms and offices of the Wirier; fat s tifr•purpose of ascer taining whether any persons were •Pliyhrg at.hazard. It is but justice, however, to the individuals eibishiyell'oo this occasion to add, that they expressed the pain and regret, whictObey felt at being obliged: to execute the orders of him. or those who sent them on such an errand. Of course., the only consegnences which resulted from this visitation were, the throwing the house into a state of confusion. and distinhrtigAbe repose of a Grialenian, who. had retired to rest. ft to preenerfeo; Hatt , ifbrmsttl tat At ad been ..gi ern to the Magibtrates that•gamfigglistisrectfeletitatbi befili but the bare fact, that the knowledge-of such a • cirenin stance (even allowing that it were true) most necessarily have been confined to the members of the Club, renders sack *a pretence, inadmissible •and aboard.—(Brighton. Herald.) Palace Yestimszt.—Toplits. Sept. 9.—At Theresiens tadt I had the good fortune to see Prince Ypsilanti, who had been lately removed to that romp. He is treated with entich'empect, thongb constantly under a very strict super intentleoce. and is allowed (but slwsys attended by an officer) to go about at liberty within . the fbrtress, accom panied by bit younp sat brother, • tired( naval captain, an.l four other Greek officers, all of whom were likewise with him at Nlinikatsch ; be appears lobe in very good health. Ile is a toll handsome Mill. with a high forehead, asimited black eyes, black hair, an Italian, rather than a Orean, nose. and a smite about his month. He wore a white hat, and • dark blue great coat. Hie brother appeared pale and melancholy. They have several well-fornished Looms, and are in cant fht nothing, 50 Ratios per day being allowed, as I was toll for their support.—(From the. Hesperus.). We are exceedingly sorry to have to announce, that a stocking frame, belonging to Mr. Lowe, in this town , b ut in the ho agi ofMr. 11. Carnes, of Carlton, was broken on Friday airfit.—(Nottin f hans Review.) A part of the goods ut Mr. John Selby. of Coalpit Lane, I have been seised, this w••ek, and will be sold, to pay the sum of tropence-halfpenny, claimed by the Her. 0. Wilkins, vicar of St. Mary's parish in this town, as Easter dues, together with tea shillings as his costs in obtaining the saute.—(/did.) EMITS& OVIIMINGS.—Tte subscriptions totry the merits of these clerical claims, are, us understand, contributed. byall classes in .this town. with an• alacrity wbieh has exceeded the expectations of the warmest fneods to the undertaking. The industrious classes, who are perhaps most interested in the question, not only most cheerfully tender their few pence each oet the occasion, but express themselves in very grateful, terms to the respectable individuals wbo have come wore prominently forward ip the buoiuns.—(taicestsr (3rsuside.) WEEKLY REGISTER OF WEATHER. The week eommenced witii a clear hat shcrp atmosphere, and the hovering of the sitoke of the Metropolis. him a fog./ on Tuesday moraing, was an evidence of the greater rie‘rte of cold in the superior strati, and an Indication of the severer weather we were soon to experience. On Wednesday, the frost was smart. and with s little relaxation yesterday, coo• tinned till this morning. Yesterday 'nursing there was hoar frost. with a bright sky ; the oiher mornings have been fogey. though the days were fine. There has been nu rain here this `week. on Thursday seanight. In the afternoon, there was alwarced at Water ford, a phenomenon lust desetyes to he recorded. While rain was descend- 1 leg In torrents, and immediately after the atmosphere had hire unnetiAlly dark, the southern part of the !leavens became suddenly illuminated, and tbe tight emitiauedinereminglor along ten minat.s. In this time the ther mometer rose II degrees, and the barometer was sensibly affected This phenomenon is ascribed. with reams, to tkre pus4oge otel,•etrie matter from one cloud to another iu as opposite state of electricity. dUend, Nov. I. ----------- ti ' o'clock INIOIETER. o'clock. il at might.' Noy.O, S 10, M IL It, W Is, Th..— 14, It. 16, - by be i Send. U. L ISAROViTER. 40 40 33 30 ,3•: 33 46 43 i 41 44 I 38 40 36 41 I 34 48 • 33 43 43 6o 30,44 !Fair ,53 = Pair .03 Fair ,44 s Fair i Fair • ,23 Fair 3') clnu IV r lyric of cold curly is qw morludio ipo ascortaitte4 r 64111 1. r iattfr M. t. IW. 9 Th. ' F. I go. I 86. I $6 2d. 1 2d. 31. 1 41. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCH. Dear November November 14.—Wied W.S.W.—Came down from tho . River and sailed the Brothers, Hill ; Julius Closer. 841fiord; and Whim, Heard ; also and remain, the Resew, Spat: ie .:4l4 fOrra Leone ; Daniels, for the South Si..; . Holland ; Denison, Read ; and Nancy, Hanle, for Jamie"; William Pitt, —. for Messina, and Iferolna, -- for Van Mamma's Imad.—Arrived sod sailsol for the litro:tho Dom, from Smyrna. POATINOUTII, November IL—Wind S.—Sailed tie Governer Harcourt, Wilson, Geherous Planter, end theism's, for Lon. doo_; Speculator, for Dictate; sad his Majesty's ship Alacrity for Gibraltar. PLY MOUTU. November 12.—Wind E.—Arrived the Wen. deter, Waygood, from Qeebee ia SO daft.-01f the Port, the Abigail, front New York for Loodon.—The Wanderer lett at Quebec about 190 sail of shipping, and .any late arrivals a day or two before she sailed. irktmotyrn, November 13.—Wind E.S.R.--Arrived the Marquess of Salisbury Packet,from Rio Janeiro, in 32 days. Sailed the Prince Leopold for Andrea; Luna. Bishop, for St. Michaels, and the Maisie* end Diamond, for hoodoo. The Hope. of Whitehiren. Coibou-ne, - biniad to Ne'sr Rich mond, was driven on shore 98th September on Misest hlartd,at the entrance of Bay Chahar, and it was feared would •he wrecked. .1 .eseesoesswensweerwswes THE HOOK LIUHT HOUSE. f• (FROM TIM WATIMPOZO CVItONICLO, NOV. 11.) . We trained yesterday status with regret, through doe marliom of gentlemen who bad ust arrived in town from Dunmore, that, at the time , of -their leaving that glace (about one o'clock), the. lightleotute on Hook Point, at the Eastern side of the entrance of Waterford Harbour,- op peered to be on fire, the volume 'of smoke proceeding from it extendi ng searly aerossthe breadth uf tbe Harbour. The Denmore pilot bookers and other bouts wets making towards the Point, with a view to render intsistanee. ITO to a late boar last night, we could not learn that ngjr further account had reached town—and of co u rse are . enable to statethe origin of the accident. Sr the extent of the damage done; we should hope, howeser, ewes hens . this circum stance that the latter has been hut trilliogas it is to he pressi;md that, if any serious injury •haebeett sustained, • such as would occasion the temporary suspension of the light, it would undoubtedly have been announced by a message from the Pilot Master at Dunmore to the Wit hout Domini ssioners. Tetanal . Montrixu.—We ate happy to he able to cosfirin ,the preceding conjecture as to the limited extent of the I damage. A person who left Dunmore this morning ia fangs ds, that the fire was speedily got safer, wittiest haviogoccasioned any actions mischief, and that the light was exhibited, last night as usual. Our informant was set in .possessioo Of : any further particulars. ON THE KIRK OF SIM TLARIO.-:10.0:.. MACFAR. ' . .--ellew— • , - • • .. .. . . .. ("nom trts steasceS issz reams, Nov. 12.)' . We had intended to elmw our observations upon this he• gestao subject this weer; het as some very interesting Umelbgence has .been eemmunicated to us, which will re. Enl Ire some investigetioa.on Sur port, before it • meets the; '! C - ,oye i , We thel'itiontiteenfriettes,. at present, to ens ..- ' Otrcttnitta*Y 'rintletstter ,fllViVil • this lase.Som. few pirsestis,. very respeita6lr, 'We believe, . but who ' seldom terfered in the Church - lEldr' before, getup • petition's the Synod uflilasgew and Ayr, praying that the presents. ROW 'Of Dr. blerfarlane migb be sustained. Some of the Itself!, bare ev.pressed.. their sorrow at their having bees.; ndiaa;l to sign MS docamenti to the others, we beg bye is propose the felletrieg, semis% es arising from tit& 1 -petition. 1... Whether was the &Wails et shames Principal the 'lloj'aipAuge4 10 visiting the perish, Ite, P• 2:. How ;postilions more t hen . osee.dl4 Ileflate.Friaci pal i liait)iis parish.der4g, #OO , ast 'A Inn ? '-. .. 1 " p t; rl4•Abdt attiornioi—Okr ~, -robp ivied 04kfoie wsea theiretoesikirlets art k.iliat p*ied ? • -.' ... '-' 4 . . 'Why - here owl. of the mostreligious and itidepengent Members of the Session sat in_other churches fQr IMO, leers past ?.,,,r.: • . . 5., Is it not s general opinion is the Parish. that its *Aiwa% instruction has been neglected ever siaa the law' &Principal was allowed to be its Minister? • - , ' . . . IL Why is there a greater propottioe bf. Disientskelp the High Church Parish than in any other'Paishil Glasgow ? -. . V\ . ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON. •-•-+m..-- • . 1 TO THE IRMO" MN TIM MITRIMPORO MIRROR. Sta—The desire expressed in yoir Petah of this day, to receive an explanation of the Phenomenon which it - Pared is the atmosphere on Thursday last, induces me to say, that being particularly engaged at the time it occurred, I had only every parti4l view of it. through vrindons in s westerly direction. 'However, being informedly a P who was more fortunate in observanoe, that two very blart 1 clouds seemed to separate with great rapiditivil Iseaceis for that they were both positively electrified , t hat of course 1 they rep. fled each other, sod that the euperabtindant vie: 1 tric fluid with which, they were charged, was the prioripal Lc a use of the brilliant appearance, the almost conti nt a l ,streams of rain jest then deseendiog, acting as condoctots to convey this fluid to the earth. As soon as the ell' dense atmosphere was broken through. the rays. of the setting sun considerably increased the effect, and oho pea doted a betntifnl rainbow. It is well known that, on as count of the horizontal refraction. the toe at setting orbs saanmes au oesoge colour. If one of the clouds had bees positively, MO other negatively, electric, there is no dole that alarming thunder would 'hare been the remit of the powerful flashes of the electric debt, which- would the have passed between the positive doled and the negative. This subject reminds me of the sun's rays 'peering I diverge so considerably from each other on pante, throe. any opening in the ciosds. In the science of Optics* rays are assumed to come in parallel directions and in righ lines. Why then seem to diverge ? 1 have never 401 what I should calls, crortfct enlahadoll - 61041, *l' 0 that agrees with my own ideas on the sabpst. Pit" soine of your Readers would account for it me : a principles. Watirford, N0v. 1 .97 , Sir, your °bodkin loam The 19 o'clock Union Coach, which leaved this City* • 41 foe the Metrepolis, was robbed about ei g ht Velvet le evening of Saturday last, on Blecklierth. walls pros P its destination. It will appear, that the coaehpassed a 10 the road, in which were three men , b ut of whom the e and guard had no suspicion; a short time , ho w et er had whets the gnarl's attention was directed to a noise belle V seet'on wthch he was sitting ; but from the deftness sit I § l evening, he was prevented from seeing any paragon; MOO deemed it prudent to alight and ascertain whether ell ft. r party in the box behind was safe ; while to the set of dills' he ob d a man making from the coach with a treat 0' immediately followed sad secured him, when a detradie d mine took place; and ne guard calling to the el:lacteal! placed the reins into the hands of a passenger. sod praeto r , to the assistance of his companion, who be tined la 1 " W with the robber, and immediately knocked the rased d end theimsecured the horse and cart, which had he dew /i . by the illher men ; and conveyed their prisoner to Del*" weere. after an examination before a Magistrate. he east* milted to NI aidstone Gaol to take hie Mal. I.lpon look'it ol' t the parcels not one was found wanting.--A It" g r.at l; bek,n;log to the coachman, was stolen , end c arried elf It!, , other two, who are well known at the itriekleyers' Arms.; from the impossibility of their iderlitv. no pro/peel:Wes taken against them at present.—(lit *Oak (Arca.) ...,,,k, The contents of the boa stolen Off the Margate tabor ~ a *herniae since. with the esceptiOn of •knife aorta" 'L. yesterday found tied op in a buteke ho 'be lead near the' tom of Statue:. hih, sear Stutriff((bid.) ; ~• RI .r C VI .1 • ,N .. . 41 .11 • •L - ..-w • • di . /11 Am , Lei '!~1 r~Y~ ~~ I -. 11 1 i • :1 • .~ , S