The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1825-10-19 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. 51111, —You would much oblige a little family circle if you would inform them of the true meaning of a Papal Butt, and from what that singular term is derived. We we re move immediately led to unlike this inquiry from re ading in the British Press of to-day that a Bull of Excommunication was fulminated last month by the Pore against Dr. VET ' who has been lately elected Bishop of Deventer, in the Netherlands. The term, we know, ain common use. By complying with our request, you will greatly oblige several of your October 18. FEMALE READERS. o .° The Papal Bull is an Edict written upon parch ment, and takes its name from the Book or seal, originally of gold or silver bullion, but now frequently of lead or wax . appended to it, when despatched from the Court of his Holiness of Rome. This seal bears the impress on the right of the head of SL Parrs; on the left that of St. PAUL . On the reverse is invribed the name of th e reigning Pope, and the year of his Pontificate. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sr a,—The third column of the second page of your im pression of yesterday is devoted to a commentary on the proceedings of the Bethel Society. In the detail you seem a little mistaken in the view you take of the acts and ma. tives of those religious reformers. though you may be right in your conclusion as to the' results. You commence by n a m ing, that men often do much harm by mistaking their means of doing good. The terns " doing good" in some e ur oeice means maLini.r a pr,jit, and in that sense you should understand the good intended to be worked by the Bethel Union. You may have observed for some years pest, and particularly since the peace, when employme its of all kinds have been difficult to obtain, a great incre Lie o' thus: worthy gentlemen who seek to get a living by their tongues in preference to their bands, and consequently a great increase is the number of those kind friends who arc so anxious about the salvation of our souls, the new Ito proved means of effecting that desirable objact, and in the activity of those who still pursue the old means, which leave been so beneficial during the last half century. It seems now, that this diligence its "doing good," this in dustry in seeking up the twopence per week, has reached its sse phis Ora. All the cities, towns, and villages—all the streets, b'ghways, and hedges—nay, every odd bush has been best up for these beneficent coati ibutions, and Evangel ell saps of every denomination have heen opened in every part of the island where it was supposed possible that any good:mild he rime. The result has rewarded the industry of those worthy labourers, and more twopences hare been collected ; more teachers of the right path have been nwintainid than could have been expected. !laving thus done goi , d in every part of the land, it might have been supposed that the means of doing good hail found their limit, hut the indefatigable zeal of these gentlemen has discovered a new source, a happy one, indeed, to islanders—the water. Whether the idea is original, or the hint borrowed from the Chinese, the Venetians, the Dutch, or others, the ingenuity of the application is still the same; fair it appears by your remarks that they have already opened shops upon the water for accommodating that class of our countrymen who cannot with equal convenience bring their twopence per week to the shops on land. You are liberal enough in one part of your remarks upon these shops afloat, to say, " let the world of waters be covered with them !“ So they will, if a sufficient number of twopences per sr:rk can be found to enable their Evangelical tenants to do any gaol; but how is this to be eil'ecteel by any other ineansthan the very preaching which excites your appre 'Missions ? The sailors must be convinced that their souls ate in imminent danger, and as they area set of' men not to be alarmed with trifles, as they braved the " battle of Trafalgar," what more terrible could be intro duced to their imagination than a shower of fire, that should fall perpendicularly upon their vessels (for broad side they care not), burn and blow up rigging and hull, destroy all their bo d ies, and sweep away all their souls to eternal damnation ! These worthy preachers had not been all things to all m n if they had offered soup moigre to sailor. Their allusion to the impress is not introduced as an excitement to mutiny, bat only as a seasoning of sympathy, ti curry favour. It is quite surprising that you do not perceive that no goal can be done in the shops, with which you consent that the waters shall be covered, if steam-boats, wherries, &c. shall be allowed to carry cus tomers peat them, to be set down at Greenwich or else where, Tor Ole and simple recreation! No, no, Sir; amusements of all kinds turn the mind from the shop; re creation braces the mind as well as body, gives rise to lively thoughts, and dispels that monotonous gloom which is'the main stay of the shop. You say, " the Bethel preachers would do well, in their zeal for the tolratioe or sailors, to attend a little to their Got duty." They do so, and it is astonishing that you do • net perceive it. The salvation of the twopence per head per week is the semmuns of their own duty, and please to say if you think you could do it letter? The sailors are only to be caught upon their own element, and is is wise • to set shops afloat for that purpose, for to the shops on store they could not be drawn ; there they are told, in suitable laagu3ge, the dangerous condition of their vuls, and that, for ti e moderate premium of twopence per week, they will Fe read . safe. So far is very easy while they are in port; but you are apprehensive that risen the sailors are out upon tervisx, and cannot pay the weekly , premium, the pulley b.eome void, and the sailor lose his courage. This certainly is an evil result which at present seems un -4 provided agates t ; but despair not, human ingenuity is not vet exhausted, there may be some editions of the Bethel ilafs ne published at a suitably high price, containing ns p-ayer and particular o b se rv a n ces , w hi c h ever y sail buys and carries out with hint to sea, and dill sf- grntly atkimls to, may be assured will preserve him (back ' slidingp of mind excepted) as surely as the payment of the wtek.y "meth= at the original shop. This however, is not a perfectly ne w id ea , i t i s part l y b orrowe d from Joanna Sautheote. If this elucidation suppl;es you with any thing consolatory please to return your thanks to your Inunbk set vent, , Oct. le, Ittgfi. PILETER PLUPERFECT. WEAVERS' ASSOCIATION. Irrom the Cksgew Free Preer.l The General Committee held an ordinary meeting on Saturday last; Mr. Thomas Clark, Chairman. A return the weavers in each district, that bad left the employ of Ismaili houses. ; was given in, and the number that would have their engagements finished by next week was also mentioned. Th;se houses must soon, if the regular price is not paid, be left without a weaver; the more so, as the work is increasing elsewhere without diminutive in the prices. Several hundreds of new members have joined the standard during the last week. Attempts having been mat!e to reduce the price of weav ing in several fancy fabrics, it was resAved, that an aggre gale warcting of the weavers in that department should be Steil on Tuesday even:ng, for the purpose of taking mea sures to resist such innovation, end a correspondence to be opened with Paisley, to acquire the co-oporatious of the weavers there. A meeting of ti:e harness weavers of Glasgow was held in •Amleraton, on Tuesday evening, to hear the result of a deputation to Paisley. According to their Report, a meet ing of the fancy weavers in Paisley took place, and they have resolved not to take any work under the Glasgow prises ; and fonds are to be raised for the purpose of sup porting those who may be thrown idle in consequence. The Anderston meeting also resolved to resist certain houses that hare lately attempted a reduction; and as liarnear, ireavera are put to greater difficulties by suspending their work than what is experienced by the plain, light, and heal muslin weavers, an additional sum of three shillings is to lse granted above the ordinary aliment ; and this cotta alkaance is to be supplied from the resourcts of the har ness /leavers themselves. Upon inquiry, it appears there is no TA! causes existing for the reduction of prices in that branch ; and de most extensive house in Glasgow declares there is more reason to advance the prices than otherwise; consequently it is anticipated that a spirited and successful resistance will be made against reduction, by those engaged in that very ingenious branch of weaving. The vintage appears to be generally good throughout Eu►ope ; in the Prussian provinces on the Rhine it is re ported to be excellen•. THE HIBERNIAN BIBLE SOCIETY AND TIIE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS OF C. 4111,011: The attention of the public in Ireland, and, in * consi derable uegrte, in England also, has lately been attracted by a question which has arisen between some of the lead ing individuals in the Hibernian Bible Society, and seve ral of the Roman Catholic Clergy belonging to the Jesuits' College, near Carlow. Many unconnected parts of this controversy have been printed in the London Papers, but no general view of the dispute bra yet been given. A short space will enable us to do this, which, if the argument is to be continued much longer, will become a desideratum. In the sumi-er of Is-44. the Clerical Agents of the Bi ble Seciely of Dublin visited Carlow for the purpose of being present at the Annual Meeting of the Auxiliary So ciety of that town. The proceedings on that occasion were interrupted in an unusual manner, by the opt osition of several members of the neighbouring Jesuits' College, who denied the fundamental principles on which the Society was constituted, and raised a long discussion upon this preliminary question. That the result of the whole was not entirely satisfactory to the Jesuits, was apparent from their announcement that the attack should be recommenced at the next Anniversary. They gave a pledge, which they would now gladly recal at any cost, that if the Society held a similar meeting in the following year, they would be at their posts to oppose its proceedings. This unfortunate pledge has proved to them but " the beginning of troubles." Given at the moment when they were smarting under the effect of their opponents' argu ments, they soon saw that, ;altliough it might serve the temporary purpose of lessening the shame of present defeat, it but !protracted the evil day, and bound them to face again those antagonists whose very names they would gladly have forgotten. They soon ascertained, too, that the superiority of Protestant reasoning was proved in the most effectual and unanswerable manner, by the crowds of Roman Catholics who pressed forward to obtain those very Scriptures, the reading of which they bad endeavoured to prove dangerous: insomuch that the sale of Bibles in many districts increased in a fourfold degree. In this unpleasant predicament, the only hope that re mained to them, was that of contriving some expedient to get rid of their pledge without absolutely confessing that they dared not fulfil it ; and, accordingly, we have had a succession of paltry contrivances, none of which, however, hive yet succeeded. The first step was to endeavour to raise a dispute about the order of proceeding at the meeting. To leave them no excuse en this ground, the Society's officers even promised to pass through the regular business of the day with all possible pro forma brevity, in order, afterwards, to give them time to state their objections to its principles. Upon these terms they could not avoid accepting tickets for the meeting. Their courage, however, could not be screwed up to time sticking point; and, within a few hours of the time of meeting, the tickets were returned. But they soon began to find that an unredeemed pledge is not quickly forgotten. If to stand the combat appeared too dreadful a hazard, the scheme of flight was, in its turn, intolerable. Hence a second expedient became necessary, and a must valorous one did they adopt. They would hold a Bible discussion themselves, and keep the field for a whole morning against all corers: taking care, however, like most prudent champions, that their antagonists should hear nothing of it till all was over. Waiting till the Cle rical advocates of' the Bible Society had left Carlow, they called this Public Meeting in their own Chapel at two days' notice, so that it was physically impossible for the Protest:ot Clergy to return in time. A manoeuvre like this only required to be explained, to ' call down upon its contrivers universal derision. But the friends of the Bible Society wished not so much to bring ! their opponents into shame, u to establish before the peo ple of Ireland the truth and importance of their own prin ciples. Personally they were already triumphant, their opponents evidently fearing to meet them. But an im plied victory was less desirable to them than a real conflict of argument, the result of which was certain, while its operation on the public mind would be inore decisive. Sic of the Protestant clergy, therefore, joined in addressing the Carlow priests. " You have expressed,"said they," a de ' sire to be heard, in a public meeting and in the face of day, against the principles of the Bible Society. You have ex ptessed this desire by obtruding yourselves upon the Carlow Bible Meeting of 1825.. You have again expressed it, by ap plying for admission to the Meeting of 1823. You have a third time expressed it, by calling another meeting in your own chapel for that express purpose: but in all these attempts you have failed of your own purpose. The first was a hasty and angry interruption of business ; in the second, you declined meeting us; in the third, you took care that we should not be able to meet you: Now, there fore, we offer you what you profess to have been seeking. Let us agree to meet in the face of the public—you, to state your reasons for opposing the circulation of the Scrip tures: and we, to too heard in defence of them. We are ready for a fair, temperate, and open discussion of the question, and you, and if you do not really fear to enter upon it, will surely accept our offer." A straight forward and manly appeal of this kind always proves in the last degree perplexing to those who are rely ing upon management and address. It involved the Car low Priests at once ten times deeper in the predicament from which they were endeavouring to extricate them-' I selves. Their friends saw no way of escape for them, but in braving the worst, and venturing at once upon that contest, which, while they professed to be seeking, they really dreaded. The lubricity, however, of genuine fear is not easily calculated upon. A third expedient, and one which most forcibly confessed the terror they felt, was now tesorted to. The renowned Dr. Doyle came forward in ! pro/via persona, and, clad in all the plenitude of Roman epis:xspal power, forbade the meeting; while, in order to give some colour to this strange proceeding, he stated no less than seven grounds upon which he judged such a dis cussion to be highly improper. After the astonishment which this step naturally excited had a little subsided, the- Protestant Clergy began to exa mine these grounds; and one of them, the Rev. R. Daly, addressed a letter is Dr. Doyle upon the subject. lie remarked dip all these reasons fur not agitating the question had existed long before the present occasion. ! They were not derived from temporary circumstances, but ! from general principles. How was it, therefore, asked Mr. Daly, that they were not earlier discovered? How was it that they did not prevent the Carlow Priests from disturbing our peaceable proceedings in 184 t? How was it that they did not prevent our being threatened with a similar interruption in 188..1? And how was it that they were allowed, without whisper of prrohibition, to hold a meeting for the very same discussion which we now pro pose, hut at a time and place which it was known would secure our absence? Leaving Dr. Doyle to answer these, quesCons, Mr. D. reminded him that, however adroitly he might have covered the retreat of his troops, and what ever credit might be due to him personally on that ground, still a retreat was in itself a confession that the body effect ing itfeareti to come to anengagetnent. „ This remark was generally acquiesced in by the public, and the Carlow priests soon found that their retreat, though' effected, bad not extricated them from the predicament of being generally understood to have shrunk from the open defence of their own principles. A fourth expedient, therefore, became necessary, and was accordingly resorted to—and a most singular manoeuvre it presented. The mandate of Dr. Doyle, as we before said, stated no less than seven grounds upon which a meeting of the kind proposed would be highly improper and dangerous. One of the Carlow Priests, the Rev. Mr. Nl'Sweeny, professing to overlook the whole of these, treats the mandate as a simple prohibition, resigns his situation at the Carlow Se minary, withdraws himself from the Doctor's jurisdiction, and, in his turn, challenges the Protestant Clergy to a dis cussion. But his challenge is so clogged with ridiculous stipulations, that we cannot, notwithstanding its swaggering tone, look upon it in any other light than that in which we have ourselves heard a Roman Catholic describe it. "The Protestants, - said he, ” gave a challenge which we did not like to accept, and now, to be even with them, we have contrived such a challenge as they will not accept." Unfortunaiely, however, for his mirpone, Mr. M'Sweeny managed the scatter rather badly. His stipulations guarded him, it is true, from any possibility of being, compelled at last to appear in the field, but th e y did this in a very pal pable and bungling manner. He stated, first his object to be, the convincing the people or England,by his arguments, THE B. PRESS. of the truth of his principles ; and then he laid down a condition of the discussion, which, while it conld avail no thing fur thin end, arsa perfectly absurd as coming from a Catholic, while it would have been equally so if accepted by a Protestant. He proposed that the dispute should be held before a tribunal of lift:. Protestants and fifty Ca tholics, and that both parties should sign an agreement to abide by the verdict of this body. The absurdity of establishing a tribunal thus constituted was apparent. It seevred to the brave Mr. IW3weeny a drawn battle at least; for the point to be argued was one on which the Church of Rome had already pronounced its opinion, by which opinion one-half the Jury, the fifty Roman Catholics, would, upon tilt it own principles, be bound. These fifty would, therefore, c o m e i n t o the Jury box, pledged to affirm Mr. M`Sweeny's proposition ; and could he but gain the vote of a single man of the fifty Pro testants, the whole of whom he took care to stipulate should be of his own choosing, his triumph was safe. Even should he fail of this, a drawn battle he must obtain. Dr. Singer, Mr. Daly, and Mr. Urwick, have all accept ed his challenge, but they demur to this absurd stipula tion; and the ground they take is perfectly unanswerable " You cannot persist in—you ought not, as a Catholic, to have prnposed—such a tribunal as this. As a member of the Church of Rome, you must contend for the infallibility of that Church, and you must submit to be bound by its decisions, and by them alone. You are not at liberty, Dr. Doyle has already told you, to submit a question, on which your Church has already decided, to the verdict of any hundred men—and you cant. rt bind yourself to receive their verdict, against the authority of the Church ; nor could we. as Protestants, give up the right of private judg ment to any body of men whatever. We accept your challenge, but you must, as a consistent Roman Catholic, modify this stipulation." Thus stands the gut stion.—By the last Dublin Evening Post we learn, that Mr. NI - Srvesiny gives no other answer to this acceptance, than a reference to a former letter, in which his stipulations were stated. In other words, he neither defends his absurd position nor yet abandons it. The Euglish public will know what to think of Mr. 111`Sweeny. They will say to him, "You have expresad an earnest desire to hold an argument on the propriety of the right of private judgment, and on the circulation of the Bible ; and you have distinctly stated, that your object was, to disabuse and enlighten us. An opportunity is now afforded you, and nothing hinders but a single point of disagreement. That point is one which, it clearly appears, you cannot, as a consistent Roman Catholic, persist in; it is also one which has nothing to do with the judgment we shall form on the arguments adduced. We look to you, therefore, at once either to abandon or to justify it ; and your failev, in doing the one or the other must oblige us to suppose that the wriole affair is a trick, and that nothing real has ever been intended by you." In our minds, indeed, there remains no doubt of the real nature of Mr. APSweenv's proposal. It is nothing more or less than a new expedient to extricate himself and his brethren from their uncomfortable predicament; but it will fail, like all the preceding marneuvres for the same purpose. It ha.. already failed. The letters of Mr. Daly and Mr. Urwiek have already put the sincerity of his in tentions to the test, and he now stands before the public in the character of a man who gives a challenge, but takes care there shall be no fighting. This last expedient has, therefore, left the Carlow Priesta rather worse than better by its operation. They will feel less comfortable now than they did before its trial. We shall wait with some curiosity to see what will be their next effort. Something they must do—something they will do—and the chancJa are, that every fresh manoeuvre will sink them sleeper into the mire. CLERKENWELL HOME MISsIONABY SOCIETY. Yesterday the Fourth Anniversary of the Clcrkenwell Auxiliary Society was held, the service of the day commencing by the per formance of divine service, at Providence Chapel, St. Jn h n.street_ road, when an appropriate discount. was delivered by the Rev. 0. Clark, of Ponder's-end. In the afternoon the Committee, Suberribers, ate. partook of a repast at the Crown Tavern, Clerkenwell-green, and at half-past six in the evening the annual meeting was held at Spatields chapel (Lady Huntingdon's), and notwithstanding the unfavour able state of the weather there were upwards of one thousand per sons present. The Rev. O.C. Seurat, of Penzance, in the Chair. The Reverend Mr. Eewors invoked the Divine blessing on the Society, after which— The Rev. CHAIR MAN opened the business of the ea ening by congratulating the meeting upon the Surma of the first exertions of the Society, which was not only a proof of their etforta being se conded by the divine blessing, but also an earnest of the fur ure pro tection of the Almighty. The' Parrot Society had gone on from stage to stage, and from strength to strength, and it was astonish ing, when the funds of the Society were looked at, by what means the objects of the Society were carried into effect. From a small beginning the Society had become one of the great national and metropolitan institutions, and its progress was in a very great de- gree owing to the seal of the ladies, who Fenerally, indeed, stood foremost in every work which bad for we object the in.' struction of the ignorant and the amelioration of human woe. That active exertions were necessary was apparent from the zeal manifested by those who went about to promulgate doctrines which went the length of disputing the resurrection of our Saviour, and endeavoured to uproot the very ground-work of the Christian re ligion. To such extent indeed had these infidel principles been carried, that public debating Societies had been opened, to promote them ; and the managers of these places had stated their determi nation to employ 51isaionaries to dis:eminate their tenets in various parts of the kingdom. The Rev. Chairman concluded an ener getic address amid considerable applause. Alr. BERRY, the Secretary, read the Report, by which it tip peared.that during the past year great success had attended Ihe exertions of the Parent Society, which at present employs 40 Missionariea, who labour in 21i8 villages, among a p o p u l ation o f 146,000 Pottle, about 20.1100 of which elatedly hear the Gospel, and 3,000 village children receive the benefit of religious instruction; and, moreover, that the Tract Society had sent forth, through the medium of this Society, nearly half a million of its little messengers of moral truth. It also appeared that the funds of the society had been considerably augmented, and that the auxilliary society had been thereby enabled to increase it, annual contribution to the parent fund. The report concluded by ' an appeal for increased odour and more extended The Rev. R. QIfRBIS, of Hartland, Devon, sAldressed the meet ing, and pointed out the utility of the society. Its object wits not to make sectaries to the prejudice of the Lstablished Church, but to convert the ignorant to Christianity. The Rev. Gentleman ems chided by moving that the report be printed, and circulated under the dirclion of the Committee. Mr. t ITCH seconded the motion. The Cum nmax and several other Gentlemen addressed the Meeting; at the conclusion of which a liberal collection was made in aid of the funds of the society. Sittings appointrd in Middlesex and London, before the Right lion. Sir William Draper Beat, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at West minster, in and after Michaelmas Term, MS.— IX TERM. MIDDLESEX. LONDON. Tuesday . - Nov. 8 Thursday Wednesday . 18 Thursday Wednesday . —23 Thursday . Nov. 10 17 APTIR TRIM. Tuesday . Nov. Wednesday . . Nov. 30 N.ll. The Court will sit at ootro'clock or. Nay. 8, 10, 16, and 17, and at half past ten precisely on each of the other days. SINGULAR CAVE.—The existence of a singular cave in the county of Berks, of this State (Pennsylvania), near Maiden Creek, has long been known to the surrounding inhabitants, but it has never been explored with any per severance until a short time past. The entrance to the cave is so small that it is with difficulty a person can crawl in at the aperture at the mouth. It gradually widens, until it trininates in a spacious circular chamber, about 50 feet in breadth, and from 4 20 to 30 in height. This is sur rounded by five or six smaller ones, which are regular in shape, with an even bottom. In the central chamber, at one extremity, stands an extraordinary elevation of solid atone, which has the perfect appearance of a church pulpit, insomuch that several have supposed it the work of art. Several fine springs issee from the rocky walls, and many pecnliai specimens of fossil remains have been found in different parts of this stibterrancous vacancy. A small opening has been discovered in one spot, which the ex plorers are now clearing away, hoping to discover some thing still more curious and interesting. —Philadelphia Pape r. At Nashville Teun, on the Ist of August, Colonel A. Love, the conductor of a steam-mill, while superintending its operations, in stepping near the pitman wheel, was acci dentally thrown off his balance, and struck by the wheel down into the midst of the machinery, and, shocking to relate, was literally torn to pincs.—Warhingtun Gazette. COLONIAL INTERCOURSE BILL. A Washington Paper, the National Journal, which is understood to be the organ of the sentiments of the prevail ing party in the United States, contains the following ob servations on the Colonial Intercourse Bill, passed during the late Session of Parliament. They will be read with some interest, notwithstanding the abeurdity of the con cluding paragraph, by which it would seem that the British Government only f restme to legislate experimen tally till they have ascertained the feelings and dispositioes of the Cabinet of Ilrashingtont— g' To men of intelligence, who have attended, for some few years past, to the course of British commercial legis lation, it must be apparent that the object of the Board of , Trade and the Government of Great Britain is. to render that island the emporium of the commerce of the whole world. The only obstacle she has to encounter, in per fecting this new system of universal monopoly, is the regulation of her colonial trade, so RR to render it subser vient to her grand design. 'flue United States have often pressed the British Cabinet to place the Vi'est India and British continental American ports on the same footing. with regard to this country, as the British ports in Europe ate placed by convention; that is, upon a basis of equality, in relation to admission and duties. The Colonial Inter course Bill, recently enacted by the British Parliament, may be considered as tending to smooth the way to such an equa lity ; but the manlier of it is more exceptionable, as it is more uncertain in its duration than an agreement to the same effect, by treaty, would he. That this Act of Parliament has been passed exclusively with a slew to benefit the navigation and trade of Great Britain is obvious from its provisions. They contain exceptions which must operate to the disadvantage of the productive industry of large and valuable classes' of citizens of the United States. Dried or salted fish, beef, pork, or bacon, whale oil or fins, sugar, molasses, or rum, of foreign pro duction,' in all of which our fishermen, grazier., agricul turists, manufacturers, and merchants, arc more or less deeply interested, cannot be carried direct to the colonies in vessels of the United States, upon the same terms that they may be conveyed in British ships. The act, more over, establishes a line of ports with the privilege of the warelioneiug system, commencing at Quebec, in Lower Canada, and running through Ilalifax, in Nova Scotia. St. John's, in New Brunswick, to Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, inclusive. The intention of this extension of the warehousing system cannot be mistaken. It is, by the means of British capital, to concentrate as well the manufactures and productious of Great Britain and her colonies as the productions of the United States, at the ma ritime points specified, in order to secure preferences to British bottoms in the transportation of them, and to give to British merchants a ready opportunity of availing themselves, not only of the occasional rise of prices in our own market, but of that in those of the IVest Indian Ar chipelago, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and La Plata. Should the Government of the United States acquiesce in this project, it will manifestly operate to the benefit of the British North American possessions, to the detriment of the substantial part of the trade of the eastern, an 1 a por tion of that of the middle, western, and southern Stated of the Union. It will likewise promote, to a large amount, the employment of British and Colonial tonnage; which, it is a notorious fact, notwithstanding the commercial pro sperity of Great Britain, has not kept pace with that of the United States. Another and a political motive may be dis covered for the passage of the Colonial Intercourse Act. The erection of new and independent governments in Spa nish America presents a new aspect of affairs, which must, at no very distant period, materially affect Europe. It is probably the policy of Great Britain, therefore, by a gra dual repeal of her Colonial restrictions, to raise up a power more directly in the vicinity of the new American nations, that may enable her to exercise a more immediate and de cided influence with them, in counteraction of that of the United States. We are in ,some degree justified in this view of our zubject, by an observation which was made by Mr. Huskisson, in the house of Commons, in the discus sion of the new British Tariff; on the 17th of June last. Ile said that he was inclined to give every encouragement to the productions of the West Indies, and to endeavour to raise new articles there, and to make them less depend ent than they had hitherto been on the United States, for their own maintenance and that of their slaves.' Although enacted in July last, the British law is not to take effect until the sth of January next ; a postponement which, we presume, was intended to ascertain the effect it would have on our Governtnent." THE IRON TRADE. - At the Staffordshire quarter days, last week, the price of iron was further reduced 10s. per ton, which, with the reduction last quarter of W. is a fall of nearly 40 per cent. in the last six months. This depression is chiefly attribut able to the extra supply which the late extraordinary prices brought into the mat ket, and the diminished demand which the high prices also produced. At those high prices the traders and manufacturers were unable to meet the foreign consumer, and as low prices were anticipated, the sales of iron the two last quarters were comparatively small. It is probable also that the late scarcity of mot.ey and restricted discount, attributed to the operations of the great Thread needle-street conjurors, may have accelerated the fall. The price, however, is supposed to have reached its minimum, and a rise next quarter is not improbable. Many furnaces are blowing out, and the small capitalists will be driven from the trade by the present reduction. This, with the increased demand which has followed the lowering of the prices, will have the usual " re•uction." A considerable quantity of bonded foreign iron, after import, has been ex ported to supply foreign markets, where British iron was formerly consumed—its cheapness compensating its infe riority this of course will cease with the causes. The price of labour must fall with the reduction in the price and quantity of iron ; and the spirit of combination will, consequently, vanish without the usual annual alteration of the Combination Laws. A considerable sensation has been excited among the Staffordshire iron -masters, by the recent purchases of a large Metropolitan Mining Company of mines and furnaces, in the neighbourhood of Dudley, and currently reported to the amount of half a million. No jealousy need he entertained by the individuals of a large ' staple trade against public companies speculating in their business. The expensive and defective management of public companies never did or can compete with the private 1 1 trader ; and the purchase in question is an encouraging 1 proof of the increasing and remunerating value of mineral property and the British iron trade. The prices of coal are fully maintained, without any probability of reduction. The Birminghons Gazette says—" The price of Iron has suffered the depression which all conversant with the state of the trade anticipated. In Staffordshire the fall has been I!. 10s. per ton last quarter day, and 21. per ton shortly before, making in all a reduction of 331. per cent. The consequence of this great reduction of price has been an attempt pretty generally. to reduce the worktnan's wages, which have been of late unusually high even when viewed relatively to the advanced price of the commodity produced. Many have closed their works with this intention, and the attempt, which has only one object in view, will have the additional effect of bettering the market by preventing any thing like a glut, and, perhaps, may even give a favourable turn to prices. The last depression is however more at tributable to the expected influence of the additional capital shortly to be brought into play, than to any relation of sup ply and demand, which may be said at the present time to be fortunately adjusted." A young lady in Connecticut has been killed by light ning, and her breast mangled in a frightful manner, sup posed to have been caused by the electric fluid being attracted to a steel husk which she wore in her corsets.— New England Paper. MAD Foxes.—We learn that many Foxes are running about Barrington, New flampshire, and its n e i g hh our h oo d, afflicted with hydrophobia. A number of cattle have been bitten by them, and died of this afflicting malady.—.4m ti can Paper. In consequence of the number of lamps broken by the young scaulcmics at Cambridge, the par contractor has been obliged to abandon his contract, and the town is now in total darkness. except so far as a partial return to candles and oil prevents it ; and it is doubted whether any person will have the boldness to venture on a fresh contract under such discouraging circumstances.—E:e'ting Paper. SPORTING INTe NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEET11•;0. Mambas Mows. The day's sport, notwithstanding the precarious state of the weather, has been very good. although reduced by forfeits from nine races to five. To-morrow, nine stakes and matches had also been settled, but three of them have gone ow, Viz. the matches between Middleton and Cianny meile, Paul Jones and Verbina, and Cremona and Jerboa. In the match mentioned in our paper of yesterday, between Lord Anson and Sir John Shelley 's fillies, the betting Was 2 to I on Sir John's, which was rode by Robinson, and the other by Arnull. The Jockey Club dinner was attended by his Grace the Duke of Portland, Earl Stradbrooke, Earl Vernlain, Lord Kensington, Lord John Fitzroy, Sir John Shelley, Sir John Byng, Colonel Synge, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Payne, Mr. Rush, Mr. Keating, Mr. buncombe, and several other dis tinguished Members of the Club. After dinner, many others who had been at private parties, visited the rooms for cards. The betting on the day's races was heavy, but no sltera• lion took place on the Derby, &c. !klatch—`! and 3 to 1 on Rigmarol. GARDEN STARER. L to 4 apt. Bizarre 5 to 1 apt. Crocke r y 5 to 2 and 3 to 1 apt. Vitaß l ina I 6 to 1 apt. A debut, Match-4 and 4to I Palau Royal. SW EE PSTAE ES. 6to 4 Camel agst. the field 14 to I agat. Tontine 3 to I aget. Mortgage b to 1 agst. Dahlia. The running was as follows : (For the first race, ace yesterday's paper.) Matgh-100 h. ft. T. V. ('. Mr. Nnwell's e. by Aladdin, out of Doll Tearsheet, . I Capt. Rous's Rigmarol, by S oo th sayer , fi st 7lb The first part of the race Was well-contested, but when near end. Mg Mr. Nowell's colt s h o t ahead , and won v er y c l ever l y . R ole by b Boyce, Rigmarol by Robinson. The Carden Stakes of 100 tors. each. T. 31. 31. Lord Verulam's Vitellina. 4 yes 7st 1 111 1 Lard O. H. Cavendish's Bizarre, 5 yrs 9st 51b. Duke of Retland's A delim 3 yrs 7st 6lb General Grosvenor% Crockery, 3 yes 7st 41b. - 4 111 r. Pettit's Bravura. 4 yrs fist 121 b . Duke of Rutland's El Dorando, 4 yrs fist. 3lb - pd. Vitellina made all the running to the cords, when Bizarre came un and challenged her ;--a struggle, appnrertly severe, then took place till within the last three strides, when Vitellina let lome. anal won cleverly by a length. Crockery was beat clean ofl', at abtot half a distance, and Mehra was close at the haunches of Bizarre. Vitellina looked full of running most part of the rice, and some sail that she ran -away with the jockey ; the fact is, s h e was f u ll o f running, but tigh. in hand. for we can assert with confidence, that Cottony wan looking round and pulling, in ord!r to.eaae his mare and win easy. Bizarre was rode by Arnull, Adeliza by Barnard, and Crockery by young Buckle. : 3 Match 200, It ft. Al,. M. Mr. Thornhill'. Reformer. Cat Mb Lord Exeter's Palnis Royal. fist 9th - - 2 At starting Pa lain Royal took the lead, and made very strong true running, keeping in front about half a length to the distance, when Reformer, rode by Chifney, shot ahead in very easy style, and won cleverly by neatly two lengths. James Robinson tode l'alaia Royal. Third and lost year. One third of a subscription of 2.3 sous. each, for 3yr olds ; colts, Rat 01b ; fillies. Oat Mb. A.F. Bona fide the property or subscribers (ten subaeribers). Lord Egremont's br c Centel - - . 1 His Royal Highness the Duke of York's b f Dahlia - 1 Doke of Portland's br c Mortgage - - - 3 Doke of Oration's Ch f Tontine . - 4 Lord Lowther's br c by Haphazard . pd This was a true run sate. Mortgage jumped off a nd made very strong running, the other three following head and head closest his haunches, an 4 they continued thus placed until within half the dis tance, when Camel, the favourite, come out, and won in very easy style by a length ; rode by Aron!). Dahlia by Ooodison, Mortgage by John Day, and Tootine by Buckle. Match 200. It ft. T.Y.C. Lord Orford's Orion, Bst 11b, rec ft from Lord Exeter's Athr. Man, Bst 71b. Match 100. Mr. Greville's Don Carlos, Ost 916., rec ft from Mr. Thornhill's Surprise, Bit. Match 100, li ft. A.F. Captain ROM's Corn iction. 4 yrs, Bst 11h, rec ft from Lord Huntingfield's The Lark, 3 yrs, Bst. Match 100. T.V.C. Mr. Pettit's Retreat, agst Mr. Greville's Elizabeth—Ofr by con. sent. The appointments for to-morrow. At one—Sweepstakes of 10 cots. each, fur 3 yr olds, ;it 1 lib: 4 yrs, B't 71h; 5 yrs, 8t I'2lb; 6 and aged, 9st. T.Y.C. Winner to be sold for 200, &c. Captain Rout's Conviction, 4 yrs ' Mr. Cooper's b f Amadis, out of Oceane, 3 yrs Mr. Rogers's cby Haphazard, out of Harriet's Dam, 3 yrs . Mr. Pettit's Retreat, 3 yrs Mr. Molony's Cinder, 5 yrs At half-past one—Match 200, h ft. T.Y.C. Duke of Grafton 's Cramer agst Mr. Thornhill's Hogarth. At two—Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sons. each. T.Y.C. The following horses entered :—Gironette, Retreat, Web:, Lo. gic, c by Haphazard out of Harriet's Dam, Black Jack, and Pipy. lino f. • At half-past two-501. for 2 yr olds, colts Bst 41b, fillies Sot 91b. T. Y.C. Lord Verulam's ch c by Selim, out of Tredrifte Mr. Rogers's hr c by Filho, dam by Clinker General Grosvenor'. b I by Abjer—Mite Mr. Ooddard's b c by Senolenske--Norah Mr. Pettit's ch f by Aladdin—Johanna Southcote Duke of Orafton's ch e Paul Jones Mr. Rush's l;tr f by Pioneer—Eleanor Mr. Wyndham's b c by Whalebone, dam by Teddy Mr. Hunter's eh f by Oemus—Sprighily Colonel Wilson's ch c by Abjer—Spinning Jenny At three—Match 100, h ft. T.Y.C. Lord Tavistock's Shadow, Bst 61b, agst Lord Anson's ha, Bat 21b. • At half-past three—One-third of a subscription of 25 sons each, for 4 yr olds; colts Bst 10Ib, and fillies Bat 71b. D.I. 8009 tide, a.c. (10 subscribers.) Duke of Grafton's Purelle His Royal Highness the Duke of York's Don Carlos Colonel Wilson's b r Augur, by interplittr Lord Verulanfs Vitrllina There was to have been a prize fight yesterday in the neighbour. hood of St. Alban's, between Reuben Martin aul Young Om; but m consequence of the exertions of the wife of the former, he was taken into custody by the police, and bound to deep the peace. It was said, and very probably with tnith, that this interference was a contrivance of some parties who had betted deeply in Martin's favour, and were afraid of the contest. We can believe any thing. however fraudulent or base, respecting these heroes of the prize ring and their associates. The blackguards who had assembled on the occasion were not wholly ilisappointed of their expected treat. as two other matches between pugilists of inferior fame were fought. In the first, the combatants were young Dutch Sam and Harry Robins. The former of whom was. oiler a hard snuggle. de eland the victor. The decisive step; which have lately been to►en for the suppression of these disgraceful exhibitions. have had a powerful effect in putting an end to them. .The mob that yester. day infested the vicinity of St. Alban's was composed almost es. elusively of the lowest and most ruffianly individuals. The glOrin of the Prize Ring will soon be no more. AIIIIITCAN CI:Cr M nEns.--It is stated that in two gar. dens at Gleayeland, Ohio, two cucumbers have beep raised during the present season, one of which measured four and a half feet in length, and the other the same length withi4 a quarter of an inch.—PiilarAlpiliu Paper. On Saturday ae'nnight a magpie, perfectly black, was shot on Bugshill farm, Salehurst, by a gamekeeper, named Gilbert. An extensive forgery on the Montreal Bank has lately been discovered. It is stated that one forged cheek, drawn for 1,7 not had been paid, with which the individual who • procured the payment had taken his departure for the • United States.—.4mrsiren Paper. • HAZARD AND CO.'S CON FINITE') SUCCESA I !—Yeats'. day No. 11,519 (Class A) was drawn a Prise of Twenty Thousand Pounds ; also No. ?ill (Class B) a Pi•ize of Twenty Thousand Pounds, both of which were sold and shared by Hasanl and Co., who also shared and sold two Prizes of 23,000/. in the previous drawing, on the 31st August last. Three is -20,000 drawn yesterday all sold by Bisit !!1— Bislt's good Corinne still prevails. Ills success in the draw ing of yesterday is unparalleled, having shared avil wld the following Capitals:- 1002 . in 9 Shares - £20.4115 2271 - Is 9 3heffes - _'0.030 11,119 - Whole Ticket - 20 040 9750 . Whole Ticket . 1304 i 12541 . Whole Ticket - 516 - 6383 Is. Shares 217 316 . Whole Ticket . 217 4897 - In 9 Shares . 91; The fortunate holders of any of the above may, as utival t , receive the value of their respective Shares on demancl, at either of Otices, 4, C.:Within, or 9, Charing-am t 1 •