The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-09-02 00:00:00

`i~; • •. 'Mk •- • 4- THE JPPROACHING CONGRESS. The approachidg CGNGICEsS of SOVEREIGNS, or DEPUTILB of Snvereign% at Ais.la•Chepelle, is a sub. • jest estremtily worthy of public attention. We real ly believe. the removal from France of the ARMY : Of OCCUPATION will be one of the results; and so tar we unfeignedly rejoice! The relative peace establish ments of the military forces of the several European rowers, is stated to be one object ; and it is added, that a REDUCTION in all of them is in contemplation. We shall be happy if this proves to be correct. We need not dwell on the Advantages, commercial, moral, and political, which must arise from both or either of these measures. Our Readers well know, how to appreciate and respect them. But other, and very different objects are stated to be in the view ci/ the Congress. It, is said, in respectable foreign ► Joornals. that a CONFEDERATION of the great Powert o f Europe will he made at this Congress, to preserve the peace of Europe. This also, we should hail with pleasure, if the words " Peace of Europe" could nut bejostly translated into—the QUIET and SECURITY of DEsPOTI-M its EUROPE; and if they did not, in fact, design that and nothing else. To impede, and if possible arrest the MARCH of MENTAL IMPROVE MENT. and the consequent desire of FREEDOM, is too plainly ILO first object and dearest wish of the great Powers ..1 Europe; and this, they courteously, and its a court-like style, term " preserving the peace of Europe." As to tee real peace of Europe, or in other words, the absence of war among all the Powers that oc cupy ;be territory of Europe, the farthest thought they have, Rod the wish most remote from their heart is— to make that permanent and interminable. They would as soon give up the SPORT OF WAR altogether, BS 11 I[ooll si•orisman mould his hounds, or his dog and • gun. This is not 111. peace of Europe, in theirdic tiOnary It is the TRANQUILLITY of DESPOTIQM, cod not ttn• REPO:E of the PEOPLE, they seek. We cats cr e dit them, indeed, if they tell us, they do not wish to go to war with each other at present. They have two very along motives fur peace among themselves for a while. They are in the situation of a man who has rode his hackney or hi. hunter till it cannot keep its feet, but is every now and then on his knees with him. That man must give the animal ease, and a fresh meadr , w to recover health and strength in. And so must they art with their People, for a time. They know this, and do not work their slaves entirely to death, ',though neatly to desperation. But they have another, and considerieg their natural, their he reditary feeling, even a stronger motive. They need unanimity for the present smug themselves, to con cert and carry into effect the means of suppressing and for ever setting at peace and rest, the sPIRIT of ENQUIRY and the GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE among . the PEOPLE. They hare seasons for peace at present, and we gibe them our assent when they say, they in. tend it at present. But oar jealousy is the greater,,as to their movements at this new Congress. It is said, that the KINGDOM of IlArrovEtt is to be rounded and aggrandized. Why ? It is to buy over, &bolls/. the natural Ally of the People's rights, that IlousE . of HANoren which was placed on the THRONE of England (when it bad no Throne of its own) to preserve, and expressly to preserve the PEOPLE'S BIGHTS ? The People of England should look into this ! It is, for their sake, to be lamented that the new Parliament is not sitting, that representations might be made by the Commons to the Throne, as to the choice of the person who is to .represent Eng land at that Congress. Certainly my Lord Castle reagh would not be the choice of an independent Moose of Commons. The man who, like Lord Strafford, used the People as a ladder to mount to the place of his ambition, and then despised and spurned at them, would not be sent with the Pep ? Les WILL, to take care of the PEOPLE'S RIG tuts ? II is a portentous thing, this Lord going to the new Congress I—But it is further said, there is to be a new SUPREMACY created in Germany, in place of the power and dignity of Emperor of Germany, sue. rots , .en by Napoleon ; and that is to be enjoyed, for limited periods, in turns, by (ENGLAND, ( Eng lund!) AU.TRIA, and FRANCE.—That is, there is to be laid new foundations for new wars on the Continent, in which England is to be the I.IN-Ar.t, and the Continent 1110 FATTrNEII, her 11/7/d.+ with English blood. end her commerce and industry with English gold!—Where is the Parliament, to en quire into this ? I'ETITIONS should forllwilh, he sent from every part of the United Kingdom, to pray for the immediate assernb!ing of the Pat tisment. We recommend this, most set iously, to the attention o f the country ! _ To-morrow, according to annual custom on 3d of September, the Right 114 s. the Loup NI AYO it, Sheriffs, Recorder, orl several of the Alilermen,in their vespeclive carriages, attended by the City Marshals, Marshalmen, ecc. will go in grand procession from .the Mansion-house to to p r oclaim Ruth°. lomew Fair, and open the lligh Court of Pied Poudre,' .40 the Hand and Shears, in Cloth Fair, for the trial of assaults, petty larcenies, and misdemeanors, com mitted in and about Smithfield during this three days continuance of the Fair. To-morrow the Prisoners who stand committed on charges of felon), will he removed from the various jails in the City of Loodoti and County of :Middlesex to Nengate, preparatory to their taking their trials at the ensuing Sessions, et Justice 11411, in the Old Bailey, which will commence on Wednesday neat, the 9th inst. The Sessions for the County of Middlesex will commence at the Sessions-house, iu Clerkenwell green, on Monday twit, the 7th inst. WAGER AGAINST TIM F..—Preci;ely at seven o'clock, en Monday morning, Jack Marlin, the baker, alias the pugilist, started from the house of Mr. Goldsmith, the sign of the Bull, in East Sheen, to run to the house of Mr. Booth, of the Tailors' Arms, Clayton-street, Kennington Cross, being a distance of eight mites and a half, for a wager of 40 to 20 guineas, to perform it in an hour ; and which he readily accomplished in six minutes within the given lime. As Thomas Franks, Esq. of Bristol, was going along Piccadilly,opposite D e vonshire-house, towards' Ilyde Park corner, accompanied by his Lady, oil Sunday night, about 11 o'cleck• two villains view on each side of them, one of whom snatched off Mrs. F.'s valuable shawl, and the oilier took Mr. F.'s gold .ustch and appetidages, with which they made clear cff. I. IL V r, )r of rs ~ i , • SPAIN, SOUTH AMERWA, ASIO rite In. 4LLIANCE. The Note of the Court of Madrid, which his re cently been made public in this country, though it is formed with more skill than State Documents in gene.' ral, betrays the °Vision which the Spanish King and his Ministers entertain of the Holy Alliance. This Alliance may be justly regarded as a convention for the security of despotism ; for the preservation of tl,e privileges usurped by the Continental Monarchs: and especially for the destruction of that spirit of liherty which is the harbinger of hope to the slaves of power ! The Dilly Alliance Sovereigns intend we are told, to mediate between the corn. hatants; and if the Patriots will nut accede to their wishes, it is hinted that force will be em. played. The questiots et issue lies bet ween a Despot and his former slaves—between the conquerors and the conquered, who have resolved to be free—be tween usurped power and the Peoples' rights ; and if the Sovereigns should unite with the Spanish King, it is evident, that the progress of reason, justice, and liberty, is inconsistent with their wishes and preten sions. The right of Spain to the Colonies, is founded on the sword—a title so base in its origin, that it wi thers away as soon as the People disoin it. The na tives, for reasons which they deem powerful, have discarded their obedience, pronounced their will, and set up a Government for themselves. Every at. tenipt of the King of Spain to regain the coon. try, is en attack on the jot rights of mankind —an attack on the right which the inhabitants possess to adopt such a mode of Government as they deem most conducive to their interests. The Patriots form the great majority ; they are not a faction, or a! combination of lite few aphis , the many ; therefore: they_are not rebels—a nation casitsret rebel. No. thing ran be more certain, titan that South America has tint flourished under the tyranny of Spain; the! its commerce' has been cramped, its energies im.' paired, its favoured situation rendered almost use. IPsS, its laws incompatible wills liberty, and their administration abused. To get rid of these evils, the South Americans threw off the burden which their oppressors imposed, and broke the yoke under which they had so long groaned; and, after they had declared themselves free, the servile mittions who were seat to subjueste them, if they were sta. tires, were rebels, atsSif net, they were foreign in graders. Time cannot sanction iniquity, nor can the lapse of ages convert injustice into justice; there no Royal method , of changing wrong into right.— Locke tells us, " The first conqueror, never haring had a title to the land of the country, the People, who are the descendants of, or claim under those' who were forced to submit to the yoke of a Govern ment by constraint, have alira,ys a right to shake it off. The end of government is the good of man kind; and which is best for mankind, that the Peo ple should he always exposed to the boundless will of tyranny, or that the Rulers should be sometimes li able to be opposed?" • The Monarchs nn the Continent should attend to the hints'. linos in their own comatrie.„ endeavour to shape them to snit the manners and feelings of the times, to rectify their errors, and correct their otiose,. By pur.uing such a course, they would make their Thrones more stable. ensure the succession of their descendants. nod unites their subjects with them in the bands of love. They would he hailed as the shepherd: of the flock, which would submit with reverence and delight. Kut by ex hibiting all haired of liberty, and an abhorrence of necessary innovation, they will generate an implacable ill-will, a Inch standing armies cannot destroy. All of the political. many of the moral and some of the physical evils which Nations suffer. are the efff4ts of bad Government. To lessen these. mould be snore productive of trite -fur:,, than cutting the throats of a hundred thousand men.de , ol , iiing extrusive provinces, burn lug nomeroins tow as, or blow ing up vast fleets iii the air 1— 'f lie it odd will, err long. he sick of such Moody tragedies, which are mere farces to the great ; the glory whirls springs from them will soon go out of fashion, and then some but dr., moo. will ;idolise it. Bad laws and had government are the result of entrusting the mighty affairs of nations to men of little knowleder, and 10"-s talent. %%ha! can this country expert (ions the exertion% of laird Castlereagh ?—a own, neither great as a Siates:nan, as an ((rotor, a. a Writer. nor as a Philosopher! —one, who never spoke or wrote a sentence, that posterity will commend; hot who has committed many political deed., which it will despise. Ilis mind is not moved by that vir vivida, which ingnishes genii's; it is lion commuted by the strict dise , pline sit toe mathematics; it is not enlightened by a pro. found knowledge of history ; it it not correct. d by an enlarged view of science and the arts ;--What he, to use Burke's phisite, " when the file affords no precedent r—lncapable seeing beyond the horizon of the time.. all his designs are to suit the passing day, to harmonize with its follies, and amalga mate with its ignortitiCe. That ardent love of liberty, which marks the characters of all GREAT MEN, never disturbed his re pose ;tohe a supple-jack to Monarchs, a posture master in their ceremonies, a culler in Courts, accords better with men of his mould If philissnidiess were to sit in the Councils of she Allied Sovereigns. they would not nssist in driving the Patriots into their former bonds; enough has been done already in she plundering of nations. R. ti in the transfer of their I n h a bitants, to disgust monk ind. The King of Spain may promise to r e form, may pi omibr to he snore kind. more generous, more liberal, mote heneticent ; but is it rational to expect, that he, who, b'. the goadlq aid et' England, rules with an iron rod at home, will OW a mere willow abroad ? —that the maker of vettienais to gain the approbation of biota, will be tolerant, in distant regions, in matters of (aim ?—that the restorer of the in famous and cruel Inquisition, will love mere. in Souili Ame rica ? that he, a los ha- consigned the enlightened friends of free dom in Spain, to the Rallies, to dungeon... to exile. and death, will .plitlissophically select from the Insurgents, as he calls them, the Ministers of. his council:? What rational be;og will g ive credence to such profs-. ion.? Would even Lord Castlereagh? Will the Patriot. bend in suhinission on the faith of such 'older. takings? Will they, who have begin to taste the blessings of freedom, return to the curses of slavery ? %% ill they, who have pursued the tyrant. embra^e h , v knees, implore his forgiveness, and promise repentance? If they refuse a ill the Allied Sove reigns dare so insult mankind, by endeavouring to make free men slaves? Will they openly avow a love of tyranny, and a determination to maintain it? It will he good for them to be quiet: the wall is older and wiser. The mandates of Sove reigns are now investigated, their motives weighed, and their ac tion^ approved or condemned. Blessings fallow their footsteps if they are ,heneticial; it detrimental, curies surround them loud and deep. ImITATI of; TE‘.—On Wednesday morning a large quantity of dried herbs, of various kinds, curled in imitation of tea;was found lying on the west side of the Earthen Mound by aurae boys, who soon carried it off, or scattered it in the wind. The imitation was very bad, both in regard to the curl and the colour ; but it had clearly been manufac tured for the purpose of passing it for genuine tea ; and it is probable had been thrown out by some ne farious.trafficker, who bad either not been sufficient ly versed in the art, or who had taken the alarm at hearing of the numerous convictions for this crime which hare taken place elsewhere.—( Edinburgh Paper.) The new Arcade erecting on a part of the pre. mices of Burlington-house, will, like the Royal Ar cade adjoining the King's Theatre, he occupied by tradespeople in the fancy line ; but the range of shops in the former will be on both sides, witb con venient dwellings for the tenants : over them. 11101‘,•••••.,.1.,••••11..*4.0411:, ~~a _ ~ rAI ILY I ~'~"rs~?^'~' ~. ' S - - .::.. . LONDON MAltrEtS, Tun.. 1. WEST INDIA AND SPANISH MAIN PRODUCE. Covert —Several public sales hare been brought forward since our last, at which prices .haw! consi derately fluctuated, those on Wednesday having golly very dull at Bq. to 10s. per cwt. lower prices than were obtained on Tuesday ; bot on Thursday th.• demand revived, and prices recovered from 05..t0 7s. per cwt. •, B. P. SUGAR% were In brisk viormlartl in ,the earl) npait . of the week, and the sales flprted *ere at higher prices; since then the market has been doll, and the prices then offered are-naw•readily accepted. COCOA.—A parcel good Airline& Cocoa sold Si auction Oil Thu rsdaY lesr from 1124.10 11611. per cwt. and a parcel common Red West India withoist certi ficate sold at 85g. DYEWOODS.— Log w nod has continued in demand, and Canspearby in bond would now losing 91. I. per ton. Cargo Jimaica is saleable-et 81. 155., and shipping wood at 91. Fustic has been in good re quest at advanced prices. • Rusts have bees. in steady demand. PIMENTO.—A large quantity was brought to pub lic sale last week, and nearly all sold at from 101 d. tp 104 d. P r, 11). . •.. NORTH ft%IF.RICAN PROMICE. CAROLINA Race in bond has %been sold at 50s. duty free, 545. per cwt. East Ladle dull. ToIiACCO continues steady's - kb • lavas variation in pr • ROUGH TURPENTINE --The cargo which arrivid 1 / 1 41 week remairts.urrtiold, the f holJers are asking 18s. per cwt. 'l' 71111177 . r;,,,T,7 . FL 1 ~:~~ GIKTY [tame A coiteueoeritarr.l The Meeting was necessarily less net .oitled than iu former years, tossing to tin ,est. Upwards of 50 Gentlemen dined •tary Thursday, and more then 300 w .ident CM the following day. The Seim( .er appeared in better order. The cattl .e r e particutirly admired, and, as we mere was great competition fro thou. ...td„ The Stewards for the ensuing y, Young, Esq. of Youngfield, the Rev. J and Joseph Saul, Esq. Th e following eve the heads of the President' 4peech on the distribution of the Premiums given It the Itistitution t on Friday; the 21st of Augus 1818 : The PitrgioENT with great animation .congratulated the Society on the generally improved state of thr' country since the IRO Meeting: that egricult or manufactures; and commerce, were ite a more pr sperous condition than during the preceding tvi years, was undeetneilly true—but whether they wet likely in be permanently so, was a question of int nice importance to every individual in the empire.— All that energy end ability can effect will not wanting on the part of the People. lrhat Great Lit lain possessed knowledge and capital beyond a other nations would not he questioned ; but as counterpoise, she was burdened with taxation doubt in am , tint to that of any other civilised State in Et', rope. The aggregate of Government taxes, dividet among the *hole population, esceeds 4t. per head yearly ; the consequence of hid: is, that the neces• ,caries of life here are higher in pace that, in any ter ritory no the Continent. Many attributed the na finite' improvement to the discontinuance of the Pro perty Tan, the War Tax on Malt, and a mitigation of the Tax :tit Agricultural Iltoses ; little attention, however, is reqoifite to perceive, that this is not t he caSp—f,,r the present amount of the taxes, c o mpared with the present actual eggregate iticnme id the coun. try, is nearly as possible toe seine. During the war the income of the country was estimated at I -110 ; 000.0001. the taxes at otte-fifth is 80,000,0001. sterling. the depreciation In the value of all kinde ! of property, which followed the coriclosinn of the war, struck elf one quarter part of the income of ' the People, while the reduction in labour, that great source of the wealth,' of nations, fell item 180 to 1 4 10 millions—the land a n d the growth' commerce of thei country fell about 40 millions more—striking off at once 100 millions, and thus the proportiou which the ireduced taxation bo r e t o i n c o me was t h e m i m e ; Th e i influence of the voice iii. the People on Parliament iabolioed the Property 'fan ; but had it failed; that oppressive tax could not iu future have been I collected. 'flint the agriculture, the manufactures, and Com: : merce of the couutry have revived, there t.an be aid i question ; but an important one rests behind. Hag prosperity generally diffused itself through all ranks and orders? Does the price of labour bear a due proportion in value to that at which the necessariel of life are held up ? Certainly not. And yet en increase in the labourers' wages cannot, it is much to be apprehended, take place, without bringing on the ;country, on the great body of the People, greater and more grievous sufferings than they at prenent endure. One-third of 13:itish manufactures goes to the supply of Foreign Swett, which must depend solely and entirely on the cheapness of labour, the only means by which we are enabled to compete with other countries. Advance the labour, end the looms will cease to work ! Can any country be said to be in a state of 4 prosperity when the labouring classes are in a state of sullerence ? The intelligence, exer tions, and capital of the country, are capable of doing touch ; but they cannot effect impossibilities ; they wilt have their operative influence with the agri culturist, the manufacturer, the merchant, and me chamic, in facilitating the general prosperity, but they cannot immediately improve the condition of the labouring classes. A reduction in the expenditure • of Coverhment, which would progressively reduce the present enormous testifiers), can alone restore the empire to a sound state. The difficulties are great, but ate not physical impossibilities—they must be met, opposed, and vanquished. The voice of the People is competent to the task—they must he heard and respected. Many, very many are the blessings of our inimitable Constitution -there is no one un der the sun comparable to it—but grievous and ins supportable is tire weight of the public burdens.— The temperate, yet firm, demands of tne People, can alone resttairs that system of wasteful extravagance which has inflicted such general suffering. The tree barometer of national prosperity exists not in the splendour of palaces, trot tall its pIbefIOWIIII mere ascertain the happiness of the lower, or the pro sperity of the middle ranks. A few may lie in easy affluence, but the many are enduring the greatest ;ravenous. The President took an occasion to say, that he felt it au imperious duty to advert to what he conceived to be the real state of the country. The danger exists nut it. exhibiting the actual condition of the empire, but in being deceived by fallacious repute sentations aud delusive hope , —it is certainly more agreeable to flatter by partial statements, than to ruing under review general, though disagreeable truths. Disclaiming : all advocacy of party, or any unfrieude Aires. to the present conductors of public affairs, it eres the system which the Pre.ident reprobated—a system which all Ministers, be they whom they may, *ere compelled to have recourse to, aud must so go. wore their conduct whilst the Repttseeiation of the reepie 'eosins as it is at present. This impute source, whence most of the political evils flow, mutt ever be deplored by ell good men Initiator a just sense of their own Inialietiable tights. Certain it is, that no permauent advantage can accrue to the country till the origin of all our political evils be dispassionate ly considered and wisely done away. This hasty review of the situation of the country (she President observed) became necessary fur the purpose of banging under consideration a point inti mately connected with the object of this Institution. It is important to deliberate and reflect on the causes that operated so sudden, so 'eighty, so over whelming a change in the general state of egticui. tore. It has been contended that too gteat a capital I had bent employed iu husbandry—that our proc:uc. 1PR1,7 9 7 I ' ' " . . It 40 . smesoirsly et: t.t early har. I al 'lie °nit: ui Is she l're. ,oss Id, in it-- tle and a Pool understand; n ;itch 0 Piti „et Fear are ohu Ben.on, • e President's ums given by of August, .congratulated • I .(rte of the t agriculture, t i r s a caorP pro. . peceiling tin t tier they were • ,t: eation of Intl- the empire.— .t will not be 'hat Great Bri: al beyond all . - r ti nett ; bat as I ▪ itstion double td State in Eu. Lases, divided SCIUTH AMERICAN PRODUCE. The Colton market has been uninteresting since oor last, the demiled for ezyort was less active, yet full prices have been obtained on. the sales made; Pernams of fine quality were much waisted, but ate now very scarce. The sides of the week are, duty paid, 100 Uplands lair to good 21d. to 22.1.; 460 Pernamhuros fair to good 2s. lid. to 2s. 2d. flue 2s. 21. ; 570 Batiks fair to4kood 2.. 1 0 24. ofd., fine 2.. Id.; 40 Grensda good 22i1 ; .33 Sins rites good 1711. ; in bond, 10 Surats goo.' 16:41. ; 300 Betignls ordinary to middlitre 92i1. to 10d. fair to good 101 d. to 10111.; total 1,513 bags. The imports are, 47 Grenada, 30 Jamaica, 1,475 Surats, 1,742 Bengals ; total 3,294 hags. . • BALTIC PRODUCE. Illy.Nte haw been in good demand chiefly for arrival, and 471. paid for July shipment. ' TALLOW has been in great demand for present de livery," and 10s. lier cwt. advance has !Ares' obtained on last week's priced, viz. Y C. 88s. on the spot, and 85s. fur delivers all the year. BRITIsII STAPLE ARTICLES. The business done in Itv.iisto `istroArts has beets very considerable, and prices are full Is. higher. The market has become bare of good+, and there ere many buyers for future time. Brown lumps 108 s. to 1095.; ditto Single 114 s. to 1155.; Powder 116.; Crushed Sugars 68s. to 725. I rasa Puovisrows.—There hare been few sales of Beef made lately, the holders anticipating a . demsnd in consequence of the high prices of pork. India and Mess Pork are in very brisk demand. Otis.— Greenland Oil bas again adverted, and some considerable business has been done. Sperm Oil is dearer. Pale Seal has been sold at 451. Lin seed Oil Is very dull at 481. Rape Oil relined 631. • LIVER Pool. REPORT, Ace. The Jettison for Cotton has continued very steady, and pikes hare !Well fully supported: Peritams have agsin been taken on speculation, and but very few are now die t ed under '2s. 2d. The total sales amount to G2OO bets, and consist of 1850 lloweds 191 d. to 211 d. a few 21141. and 2td. ; 850 Oileans 201 d. to ; a few Dutibars 21: ld.; 110 Sea Islands 34.21. to 3s. 5141. ; 900 Pernarns 21{d. to 24. 2d. ; 630 B4hias 23id. to '9.4. '01(1.; 9UO Maranhams 21. to 2s. old.; and very fine 2s. Op.; 40 Demararas 23i. to 2313.; 10 Ilsrlaadoes 2241.; 40 Cdrthagenas 21d.; 1 40 Surat% 150. to 19d.; 430 Bengals 10d. to 111.; and 400Tennessees (by public auctiou)l9l. to 201 d. per lb. . . There has been a good demand this week for B. P. Sugars, and the pub;id sales have gone off at an im. provement on all descriptions of Is. per cwt. The Coffee market has been dull since our .last. Caro line Rice in bond has brought 451. to 465. duty free 515.; and about 500 bags of 6iie Pstina 31s. ,to 325. Cocoa and Pimento are without alteration. Barbadoes Ginger, of good quality, has sold at 88s. Rums are steady, • P OST°CRIPT, TUESDAY, SVPT. 1, FOUR. O'CLOCK. The B. SUGAR market was dull to-day, and very few I•ales were made. CorvEz —Three public sales Were Wrought forward to.dav, bet the market being very dell, nearly the whole was taken in ; the ordinary qualities that we.e sold went about 3.. per cw t. lower than the last sales, huk the middling from Is. tows. lower. Monday morning as the Eclipse, one of the Brighton stages, was coming to London, the linch pin came out, by which the coach was upset. Fortu nately, though the coach was full inside and out, stone of the passengers suffered any damage, except a few scratches, which some of the latter received by falling into a hedge. After a delay of three hours the coach proceeded with its former cargo, with the exception sof a Quaker and another Gentleman, equally wise, who refused to re-embark in so frail a convenieticy. The wiseacre., who still stuck by the vehicle, had not been conieyed half a mile, when the same wheel came off again, in consequence, as we understand, of the carelessness or incompetence of the person who was employed by the coachman to secure it. In this second instance one Gentleman only re. ceived a severe bruise nn the leg, the rest escaping without any material injury. . Monday evening, as one of 14 ,Edmonton stages was passing near the Dichotic*, it was sud denly overturned, in consequence of the aulte.ttee breaking. There were several passengers on the out side, as well as tree persons inside of the coach; but they all providentially escaped with little injury.— During the moment of confusion which the accident occasioned, some villain stole the coachman's hat, whip, and box-coat, with which he made clear off. Partridge shooting commences this day. • The covies are numerous, but stronger ou the wing than Mr known. .1 - • • ; - 'I . r~ r • • . . r i • - • • • MI I _ • :-s F F 1 r II . . 't V n g ,c-!L -r;