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The Pari■ Papers of rumlay, which arrived last night, , arc quite barren of domestic intelligence. The Etude, dated Wednesday, gives us some further information of the endeavours of FERDINAND VII. to restore the ecclesiastical discipline of the Council of Trent. The plague has disap appenr:ll in Wallachia. Count DE to NE EL A mi. M - ~ the Spanish Antbarsador, has arrived at Paris. Cita eses X. maintains his character for activity. On Weanesday morning, at eight o'clock, he was to visit the church of St. Genevieve ; at nine he was to view the New Exchange ; and at twelve he was to preside over a Council of Ministers. The paper.; belonging to the Royalist opposition seem completely et a loss how to proceed. They no iongcr in ddlge in the violent language in which some time ago they aslaildl the Ministers, and unfortunately they have no foreign. news to put into their columns. The •fuurnnl dee Debate of Tuesday is principally occupied with an e:ahorate criticism of the discourses of Sr. Item., Sr. Gamorr, and Sr. CIPIIISOSTO74, Mill the l;wuli•liesne is filial with an historical cciay on the French monarchy. The anecdote we give from the Conatiti , tiorm-Iresistimg N. Fa* 'mita r and the gardener, is a fine illustration of the mods in which the Law is :01MM:tired in 1.11.11t:C. We believe there is no longer soy doubt as to the un fortunate misunderstanding that has taken place between Lord Al ltllllUlr and Sir EDWARD r. According to all the amounts we have heard, it is char that the Com mander-in-Chief has not been treated by the Goventor- Osumi wi►h that attention to which his rank, character, and services entitled him, and he has, therefore, felt it his duty, in self-defence, to apply for leave to return home. The feeling in India is, we understand, decidedly fa vourable to the gallant General ; and we do not apprehend that the difference, to whatever changes it may had, is likely to deprive the Indian army of its Col 1111 l andcr-in- Chief. We have abstained from recurring to the subject of the tax indirectly levied on English engravings in France, until we had waited to observe whether dna extortionate system, to which we did not at first presume that the Ministers of the French Government were accessary, would he discontinued. We certainly did expect that the liberal conduct of the English Government, in taking off the ditty from French engravings, and thus facilitating their im partation into this country, would, when it came to be generally known on the other aide the water, index that Government, fronts feeling of shame, if not front a sense of 'wake, to abandon the rapacious exaction of Iwo copies of every English print consigned from this country to France. As no intention is manifested of relinquishing the levy of this tribute, we shall nut fail to revert to the subject when Parliament meets. In the mean time, we shall turn to the article on this sitl..Wet which our statement drew from the /Wile, and which was extorted from it by finding the facts which we bail disclosed copied into the French Jour nals, and creating au impression which it was thought ne cessary to counteract : • !Same journals, Oars the Eto:Po nn the authority of on ErtgliA papre, have stated that a new tax has been lately laid on foreign engravings inns-wed hot,, l'r.ince„ and that t:•.ree copies were kepi by thee:Went-house (A.:re fir the Directors of the Library. farm se: larth am incorrect, al nee the onnesitscricvi de -41-ced from , then). " The truth is. tha• PUT:1111.1f to the law of the _sth 7.1.1r.h, and of the ardounsace 'ley 1, one pmtd or every engraving, or lithographic priz!. is Omen, at the tl ilima! of the library hi save for a copy. aryl anothiz ere .r. which the authorization is ieseribed, is trans:oiler•' der , soill. This firrlnality ouce antis fed is not tn.-lied rhea tutor rorier arc sent." Did the Ute;le Editor stipvve that we should rest sat in fed with this account of the . jegele? Dees he suppose t"st the English print-sellers are to it:111114 to this (rondo 1-nt 'section upon no other or better ju..titication than is c:ritainc , l in this account of the matter' In the first place w• would ask, tinder what autht.ritv way this law of the u:dh March, and this thihamillee of the ict May, letracil ? 14 e should like to sec them produced, that the English denier may judge of their fairness anti validity ; that he moy know upon what prinvirle of policy they were Acted, and en shut rite of iwitir • -occoling, as well tit:. our engravings ,Aritlou to a printseller in I.**6lCh prow copy being lea a and taken by the Minis here told, is placed at the they were rithorized. The pro defence of it, is truly curimm. If fa are consigned by a printseller in Lou e • Paris, the price, for example, of vac piatas, I.re ef Mtn are demanded au send Police ; use pea f; we are her x . ~ ~; i 1 14 ' ' . :4 , i 1 , P A , Li &vases' tithe Library, and another is transmitted as de ;Nowa ; the remaining tarn print" out of the furr arc thus instantly dooLled in rice, or the London print...4;l4r cannot be reitnbursed, but at this highly-advauml price they find no purchaser, and the foreign trade of the Louden print seller is thus as effectually put en end to as if tl:v importa tion into France of English engraving% %I.: re prohibited by positive law. And this, after the 10;erality of the English Gm/Eminent has, in effect, taken off the duty from French engravings imported into this country ! " Well, hut," says the Eiuik, very gravely, " this for mality on-c satisfied, it nut repeated when other copies are sent." This we can readily believe, as we suspect there is no London primseller, whose property has been once subjected to this from/ay, that will put it in the power of the French Government to repeat it. It si Worn happens that more than four or six of a very experr , ive print are sent on the first consignment, and until it is known whether the public approbation is likely to ensure such a sale as may warrant a speculation to a further extent ; but this extor tionate demand being made upon the few thus experiment al 4 consigned, the increased price which it becomes neces sary to fix upon them, in order to indemnify the London dealer, prevents their finding a purchaser, and the Paris agent has no alternative but to keep them on his hands, or return them to London as unsaleable, after which the sending othr c,pirs vrould be an act of imemity. The ri gular duty imposed in France on English prints is about ciettera per cent., while no duty, or a merely no minal one, is exacted on French prints imported into this country. Now we have here an additional indirect duty of 33 per cent., which is enormous ! What would be said, if, in addition to the high duty on French wines, two pipes out of every four of every sort itnpurtvol wvre demanded at our Custom Ilouse,on their being landed at the port of 'hirer or of London ? What would the merchants at Paris or Bordeaux say, on being told, in answer to their com plaint of so monstrous an exaction being made, that by a law of the 25th March and of the Ist May, env per ()revery sort of French wine imported was Ith:ged at the disposal of Mr. CANNING'S butler, in the cellar of the Foreign Secre tary ; ■nd that another pipe, on which the authorization was inscribed, served as a sample to Mr. Pest., pour co tithe /'essay, as Minister of the home deplrtment !! The plain truth is, that the French Government are anxious to preclude the engravers of this country from any chance of successful competition with those of France; and they therefore resort to this expedient as one means, 61111 an effectual one it is, of shutting them out from all oppor tunity of extending it. They look, we know, with an evil eye on Mr. Aattowsurrn, who has lately gone from this country, and whose establishment in Paris, they fear, is calculattsl to extend this branch of commerce, by exhibit ing publicly the most distinguished and select specimens of the English school of Art. Nothing can be more ill founded than any apprehensions from this source, nor more illiberal than the expedient resorted to to counteract it. It must, if persisted in, become, in its consequences, much more injurious to the artist of France, than it can possibly be to the artist of this country, as it must of necessity lead to the imposing, as soon as Parliament meets, a duty on all French engravings, equivalent to that which is now exacted, directly and indirectly, upon the same articles ex ported from England. The boxer Hudson, it appears, is likely to survive the dreadful shock his frame sustained in the late fight at Warwick. If lie had died, we should have hoped that all the parties, as far as they could have been identified, who were present, sitting and abetting his death, would have been immediately secured, in order that they might have been put upon their trial for in seantlabus and audacious an outrage upon the public peace and the laws and charac ter of the country. These brutal exhibitions ought to be suppressed. Like the gladiatorial combats of the Romans, they tend only to debase ..*.e populace, and degrade those above them to the same level of infamy and vice. It was to have been expected that the proofs lately given of the fraud and dishonesty of the abandoned fellows con nected with the prize-ring would have had the effect of putting an end to a practice, which, under the pretence of inspiring courage, in fact only fosters cruelty. But what an atrocious libel is it on the bravery of Englishmen, to represent such means as necessary to rouse them to the de fence of their country ! The science and slung of boxing are the growth of yesterday ; but to what date can we refer when Englishmen dared not meet, or could not conquer their foes? We rather siotreet that the fools atul rogues who support pris.Agliting, have not attended to the alteration which ban been made in the power of the Judges to purdah for manslaughter. That ollimce is now punishable with any severity, short of death ; and if some of the pugilists should be killed in their mercenary tights, we think that the guilty parties will t seape more easily than they deserve, if they be not made zo share the fate of Comma/ft. Yesterday was the settling day in the British Stock Market ;on the whole it turned out a Bull account. The scarcity of money caused by the demand to pay differencLs produced a decline in price towards the middle of the day, from which, however. the Funds recovered towards the close of the Market, and finally exceeded any quotation that has been made for some days past, having reached 96. Further than settling. but little business was done in the Market. Mexican Bonds also fell front their opening price, partly, of course, from the cause already stab el, and partly owing to a large sale effected by a Gentleman who is known to lie extensively connected with these securities, hut in they course of the day they gradually improved, and at the close of the Market reached 66 1- Bth. The arrival of the Jamaica packet, which there is every reason to ex pect in the early part of next week, will, in all probability, either confirm or contradict ;he late important intelligence tome South America, and then a derided rise or fall of all these funds must take place. The Canada Shares, in con sequence of the rumour of Tuesday, width we combated yestaday morning, had fallen from $ to 4i premium, but in the course of the day they recovered, and at the close were from ; to 14 prem. . . We never vet linew a settling day on the Stock Exchange to pass over without its corresponding jobbing hoax. SAII/e -times these trieloi are well got up, and have essay appear ance of verisi kkk ; at others, a confusion of dates and places whews, to all those who take the trouble to think for themselves, the fallacy of the statement. We never, how ever, met with a more glaring absurdity than what was attempted to be palmed on the King's liege subjects yes t. It was confidently stated that by edifices from It. the army in the Romanic territory had mutinied, refused to ronain there, and marched bark to Calcutta in a body. We have several good reasons fur doubting this report—first, all the Sepov battalions on this service were volunteers, and as they had hitherto been successful, there was but little chance of their being discontented ; secondly, we have published the very latest intelligence from Bengal, whi is makes no mention of any such matter; and thirdly and lastly, which indeed imperscdes the other two, the thing i. totally impossible. as, besides marching through the Juntletininils, all impassable %tranipy jengle, intersected by a meshwork of streams too deep to lie forded at any time, touch Ic s in the rains, they must hay:. marched across the hlegua, which, in the month of June, is so broad that the ono side cannot be seen from the other: by sea they coned not go. as the transports had gone' or More men. So much for people making statics about a country, of the geo graphy of which they are entirely ignorant. THE BRITISH . PRESS. FRENCH PAPERS. Irwin the Maile, datenVeclnesday, Nov. 241 (BY EXPRESS.) MADRID Nov 18. The Ring and all the Royal Family are still at the Escurial. Yesterday a funeral serrice for the repose of the anul ut his Ma lear Louis :(VIII. was celebrated in the Royal Church of st. sidore. The King. unwilling that any of the sere ices which were rendered hint during the reign of crime should remain unrecompensed, and impatient to testify his royal grafitude to such of hi• fAithful sub jects as have combated the perfidious enemies of the altar and the throne orders, that every indiviilual who thinks he hue title to his favours, shall present within a month the claim he thinks he can make. A Royal Ordinance onlers the Camara to make a strict search after persons who, enjoying ecclesiastical benefices, still continue to wear the secular baba. Ilia Majesty decrees, that in this matter, the Canons of the Council of 'rent be taken as a rule. The Minister of War has transmitted to the Director-l/eneral of the Artillery the orders of his Majesty, that she number of work. men shall be increased in all the manufactories of arms, and espe. peci:lly in those at Oviedo and Corunna. General Don Juan Downie (Sir John Downie) has been men. tinned with particular praise in the Aladrill Gazelle, for having displayed extraordinary zeal and activity in the organisation of the royal volunteers of the province of Andalusia. BITCH 99999 OCT. 17. The Court of the Prince, which Is the house that hat. the least to fear from the plague of any in Wallachia, manifests very serious alarms. The Ilospodar Chats takes the greatest precautions. lie has notified to the Boyars. that those among them who may wish to return to the country with their families are at liberty to do an. OCT. 19.—Only two new eases are spoken of. one of them doubt. ful. Achmet Aga, eimionander of the Turks, has placed four sentinel, at the door of the metropolitan. Oc T. 29.-I)ne or two new Mal at vaguely spoken of. 1/c T. 21--No case. OCT. 22 and 23.—N0 cave. PARIS, Nov. 23. The Emperor of Russia arrived at his palace of Zarvkojeselii, in the evening of the 4th of November. His Imperial %lnjesy is in excellent health. The hereditary Prince of Saxe kl'eitnar and the Grand Hotline; Maria. his consort, arrived with their children at Hatsehina the same day ; the Empress Maria went to the third stage to meet her daughter. The Empress Elizabeth, who has been ill of a cold and fever is better to-day, and seems to 1):: r..coir..retl. rogue:lt Fun ins.—l'Anis, Nov. 23.—rive per Cent. Consols, Iolf. httc. 55c. link.; Ntapnlitan Hoods, in pounds met, ling, 0Ii.; Royal Spanish Loan, 544 ; Rank Stuck, 1903 ; end of the month was, at three o'clock, 1011. 70c. (The Moiritrar of Tuesday, Nov. 23, has no official article.) STOCKHOLM, Nov. 2. The Crown Prince is no longer Viceroy of Norway. Thin reso lution, which has excited some sensation, has been published in the following terms:— •' Our lively solicitude for the two kingdoms, whose progressive prosperity depends on their recipnical administration, has inducd us to reCili to um fair diler son, his Royal 114thness the Frown Prince. In order to give him the facility to familiarise himself here at Stockholm with the course of affairs, both Swedish and Nor. wegian, we have most graciously resolved that the nomination of his Royal Highness as Vin•my of Norway shall cease to have effect at the end of this month. We testify to our very dear son our royal satisfaction for the zeal and aciiviry with which, during his functions as Vitemy, he has attended to the welfare of our Nor wegian people." (From the Conslitutionwel of Tuesday.] A few days ago an incident occurred (and which, indeed, is hut one of many), %hewing in .hat manner the gurodiatoi of the rublie authority act, for the prei,cration of order and the maintenai:ce of the laws:— M. 111. lived in a house, the garden of whieli adjoins that of M. Tranchet, the Ifireetor.Denend of the !Notice of the Kingdom. line day the gardener of NI. M., while engaged in toruttiug score trees hanging over the party wall, let his knife fall into the garden of M. Franchet. Pe did not ennsiler that he was etornoning any crime in going into the garden to recover it ; but he was taken up as a thief, and, in spite of all his onnestations. the gems-crimes carried him away to prison. 31. 111., apprised of this utphortunate mistake, hastened to M. Tranchet, aid was informed that he could not be seen; he, however, insisted, and at length M. Tranelpet made his appearance, eseeedingly irritated that any one should dare ! to come to him to demand satisfaction for an evidcnt piece of injustice. 31. M. stated, that he had not intended himself to ask any favour, but that an innocent man had been taken by his orders, and carried before. the :'refecture of Police, and he was doing him a service in allotting him an oppnrtur.ity of repairitog the injustice of which he had been guilty. The eouference which was going on was not anitel to the taste ! of M. Franchet ; and In order to put a stop to it, he had recourse to In, old argument, that is, to the gem-cranium, who are with him at all times ; he called to them, and desired them to conduct M. M. also to the l'refeeture of Police, where lie would lind hOs gardener. M. M. made some efforts to avoid this abuse of justice and authority, but he was at length compelled to yivltt gensoarannes Ipave their reasons for the most implicit obe- thence, and he was in the end conducted to prison, where he re mained with the gardener until the next day. 1 ediately that he was at liberty, he waiteti on one of his friends, who was a nloP•istrate, and inquired of him if he could have no redress against 11. Feenehet. F rom t h e a d v i ce t h at h e ye . eeivecl he was determined to promecute hint for his abuse of power. M. M. did more. he employed 31essrs.fitilehani and Itilleencl, who drew up a memoir, vault he had ready to present, when the ti was supprevied, anti the memoir withdrawn. iVe are Ignorantsc on of the motives which have induced N. AI. to waive the prosecution of so scandalms an affair ; but we can easily persuade ourselves that he has yielded either to fear Of menaces. HOW Cart Wel/111/Me a man who reasons with nothing but genpuerartnes, and uses no other argument than a dungeon. nod who thus interprets the loyal words of tits Monarch—" Do not go beyond the laws?" The monster Leger is new on his trial at Versailles ; the charges against hint are mbhety, far, murder, aid the secreting the body of his victim. The detniis 01 his crime are so revolting to human nature, that it is impoasible to 'publish them. The trial was con. ducted with cloned doors. Ni' preset were Minified into the Court but the advocates and the editors of the journals. From the E.toi/c, dated Tuesday.) The Prussian Government has addressed to the differee.t 'emitted some authentic information respecting the spirit of the Accra society known by the 113111 C of lint why's:whet. This dorm. nient, which is entitled to the greatest attention may be regarded as a succ , net reespitula.ion of the inquiries which have been carry ing on since 11119, and which are still in proftress. It continua the general opinion that the :4ecret associations of the students do not in themselves contain anything that is dangerous, but they are ex tremely reprehensible in two points of view: firAt, because /Revolu tionists may avail the iitselves, as they leave done, of these asrocia tions, to propagate their institrtetionary doctrines, and to promote their practical acconinlishn:ent ; and secondly, because , teCTN asso ciations having been prolnaited, individuals who continue to. belong to them are guilty of a viiilmion of the law.. Prince klaxlnitlian of S.lionv, fether of the Queen of S'nin, was expected on the 211th at Raronve. The next 413 y the Pri%ce was to enter the Peninsula ; the french troops were to seemnpany hint to Iliergos. The province of Into was to name four deputies to com pliment his Royal llightiess. The Allgen:eine Zeilus:c contains an article which con fidently represents that a new arrangetnen: will be made with the Southern States of tfe-many, to introduce a sys tem favourable to an entire freedom of Foreign trade. It was reported that the Prussian Tariff which was esta blished for three years, will he greatly modified at the end of this year when the term expires. The preliminary conferences relative to the Treaty of Commerce between Switzerland and Wirtemberg, began at Zurich on the Bth of November. The new commercial route of the Rentardin, it is suppos:tl, will become of great importance when the relations expected to grow out of the treaty shall be established. It has already been stated, that some of the Continental Powers have reciprocally abolish :41 the impost called Drat de Deem-line, payable on the tronsfer of property from one country to the heirs, or rather claimants, in another coun try. This relic of barbarous legislation is rapidly disap pearing; and we tied that, iu consillience of the Russian Ukase of the I nth of June, t WZI, decreeing the abolition in regard to all commies whit...it admitted the principle of re ciprocity, official Its:lentil as hare here exchanged between the Rusin I:averment •Ind our Minister at St. Peters burgh, establishing the fact of that abolition as between Russia and Great Itrits u, The body of Gret•l. troops disciplined in the Ettropean .manner at Nauplion, have made progress, and are daily increasing in u umbers. On the of August they were first clothed iit the Ifellenie uniform, anal passed M gravel review in the presence of several foreigners of dis tinction, who ear.ressed astonishment at their proficiency in the short t . • ettey had been embodied, and at the accuracy anal quickness of their evolutions. Letters of 'die knn ult. from liaaliatty, state that the Rtmgapore Light infantry were ler orders for imme diate cuthar i aation, to join Colonel Richards, at Kolliahar, in the nei ghbourhood of which plaice the Runnette had stockaded themselves iu atone force.—Coleefiu John Buil, June 12. Extra et of a letter from Lima, dated June 11:—\o alterati,m has taken Owe in the state of this country since my ha. The army of liolivar is said to have strength ened itself somewhat, and to have moved in a direction towards Upper Peru ; his friends have all confidence in his ste.cesa, hut some others, who have seen the !We Of affairs tunler the other Government, and have observed their operations for the last two years, think ditf'erently. It 'would seem that the Royal army must have received crders from the Viceroy not to risk a battle yet awhile ; probably not until it be known whether a Spanish tiaval force is coming into those seas et not. LI7'I , 7RATUR A VIEW OF Tfl E PRESENT STATE OF TILE SALMON A:41) CHANNEL FISHERIES• Br J. Cools fan, Exu.—Longman and Co. We have here a subject of the utmost importance brought under the public consideration, by a writer every way competent to awaken that attention to it which it most urgently calls for. and which, after the view which is here given of the tkplorahle system of depredation under which the salmon fisheries arc conducted through out all the rims in Great Britain, in which that toast valuable fish is found, cannot fail to lead to that legida live remedy which these flagrant alums have so long mid so loudly called for. The Report of the Committee of the House on the Slitlloll Fisheries of the United Kingdom was published at the close of the last Session ; but as we shortly intend to of upon it separately, we shall do nu more at present than advert to it, and proceed to remark on the authentic and glaring facts which arc laid b , fore the public in the volume before us. 'rinse facia have never yet been hrou,Ait within the knowledge of the great body of the people, or Parliament could not have let the subject sleep. Connected as it is with the political economy of the country, it would, in this view alone, have forced its way to the attention of the I,,gialature, and have obtained, long before this, a practical and efficient reniedy. " The followleg pages (says Mr. Cornish) are written by one who has not only long witnessed the scenes of abuse which they expose, hut who, if he did not first kindle the flame that is now blazing from ore end of the kingdom to the other, has enntributetl, hr believes, to light it. lie has, ilevertheless, no ether motile in having so done, and in publishing a true state of the case. than that sonic rood may arise out of it to the community. Units cannot be elfectel to the extent of procurittg a new law, at least it may be partly ,ursine(, by putting the old ones in force, as far as they are practicable. Soil, leeislative authority without executive power, is like a highly-finishes lock without a kcy, for want of which it can neither be opened nor shut, or applied to any practical advantape." The most inveterate and destructive of all the different modes of warfare is that carried on by the "salmon weirs," which, instead of restricting the capture of the salmon to that season to which it ought to be exclusively confined, extends it with a mercenary and unmerciful scitisliw as, that threatens the utter extinction of the species, so far rs tits rivers of Great (Niacin are concerned in their preservation. The salmon is both a salt and fresh water fish, and cannot live unlesa it has access to both. Obedient to the instinct of their nature, they have the sea at the spawning season, and sz•ek the fresh-water rivers for the purpose of depositing their roc. The young, ditts generated, betake themselves to the sea. and, in their turn, in the bridling season, return again to the rivers. Now, it is quite clear that '• if the old fish enn,t4 go up Me firers to breed, nn young fry can come (lowa the rivers to min r the sea, and Mere grow to odulls; there can con sequently be no inereas:, and if no incre a se, there must be ultimate el furnsi ruffian." The abundant supply of human subsistence, which is cut cif by means Or the unsparingde vastation tnoltr which the minion is daily .11 hourly ills- appearing, is manifest; and instead of aifitriling a cheap and nutritive food in every part of the kingdom, this fish is thus raised by its scarcity to a vice which puts it almost beyond the reach t v,n of the middling tai tem F. There is one of the habits of the salmon on which it is recce very to a lea words, as bearing upon the present subject, in seller to show arid to establish the detrimentai elli:et of impenetrable barriers arms. rivers, tither by weirs or otherwise. !It. Turner s:”4 • alien it so happens that their passage is efrectually ob ,t,ilred. they soon gm* leen and sickly, and in a year or two pine away and die.' We all know the irresistible instinctive purposes of lola fish 1 3 get Or into the rivers; tin ir wonderful efforts show it. We all know that it is only in the sand-beds of rive:a that the tisli can spawn. If, therefore, they are thus thwarted in cimeply- Mg with the dictates of instinct, which never misleads or deceives, it is teoet reaatinettle, if rot conclusive to infer. that they do. as Dr. T. says, • pine away aed the for a minion, as it , oblerv"l before. being a , .11! and a fresh water fish, cannot live with. out hewing aceres to both ; it' he is denied eitier, it is alike death to him. It is alit known the: ere. it shed in ittyropitious sues. thins, to sibieli the fish is entity:tiled by r.cces-ity whorl withheld front those to which nature di nets leant, teronys ulna-tire. Itll this should lie the case, why the egg estmot bra hatched in the sea, or in the tide-way in t ivers, like the eggs of other fish, is a mys tery, like many other mysteries. which will ever remain undis covered ; nor should we he the wiser or th e better if we could de • detin. The midoilletel Let, however, is, that unless the fish eat. :dish) the re crssary high tip the sivirs, the re awn cot'er tai notlii•.g. fleece fellow 11w piJmiriiitis effects of! these obeitietiees, which , preren•ing ihr urn ii,ll from going up I the rivers to spawn, lave them int., traps, :eget.. Pic!, ore eanght ' and killed. Ther are obe7itig a risistless necessity in hunting for an aperture to eet tip the streams, and are thus/M. rd intothe.ltsh lois. The situation of the smut lisp shove the weirs is just as bad ; they are hemmed in, and prevented from retiring to the aims to recruit Haver streeeth and invigorate their slsteni, mild they leo: almost the awe:ounce of tilt it spleen., snit ye, iv 4. In this state they are quite WI atahle nod 111111.1kOics0;11c, and I have no ' doubt mould rt.iMAI any one obligal to taste them. These back fish are not those which the *enters tictroy ; they kill the fish as they Clinic from the sea to breed, not those sl,lc 1 ere rentre- I ing to the %,•:1 alter breeding. It is, theretine, evident that the minion fisheries can never preeer whilst OWw obstacle's, irterferirg so much with the instinctive habits of the hell, are allowed to -silt. I tin not mean to say that all WC1716 should, even if they ntald, be swept away entirely, because they may be nation ' ally advantageous in a contmeteial point of view, both for the miller and the manufecturer ; but I do mean to say, Mut all weirs should be so eonstrneted, and nothing is easier, that the fish in times of flood may easily go up the rivers to breed ; and that, after they hove bred., they may be able again to retina to the sea. " I well remember seeing some years ago on the river TEte.V, a weir which had elevated sakes at the foot, over or through which it was impointible for a fish to paw, : the stake wee., placed there to force them into a lock or trap by the side, which easily atlitsined them, leo front which they could not escape; and, consequently, the occupier of this device bad the pur r nl nif.iiaw every fish von this fine river, sizeable and tinsizeetle, seasimatire and unseason. ' able, the /teeth-Hier te2ae at the mercy of an inteicAted indkidno!. On the !lens was a device scree hing like else former. I went ten purpose to FCC it, and I have been informed that there arc screed on the firer operatic: pretty ;nail,' in the some way. The one I saw was contrived thus:—Phi mill-(rot occupied nearly the whole stream ; of coarse all the retuniirg or, old fish entered . into , this ; they could pass no further than the mill; about ten or twelve feet above the mill was a waste fender, am below this fender, or between it and the natural stream, on a :Marti descent, was a kind of wicker er basket work. The miller had only to draw his ' waste fender, and ereryfish Pilo-wing the stream must pass into this ' tray. lfe then stops the water by letting down the fender, and eve, olfilh is wpm ery hind in lost ?Pt 111 Ith S. It was prinful in see the milli:net ye ell.‘lo X-R On aqieh strewed the rand-bonks of the DART in lice iide.roo low TOT •04- E R about three years ago: the old dish could w.f ors M e we i r , and when the natural season arrived they were compelled to shed their spawn :, 1 1:re they e , nld. The whole pi u,.ed ao,oti,e; for, us those seed-bed% were dry at low water, and the rand shifted with the tides and the floods, the spawn was uncovered and lay so thick mein the sortie-rt. that a man could not put hie tout on the sand without crush• ing a littedre.l to teems at a time. • At the period I allude to it was quite lamentable to see the tin- ' IVIIIIiP!• efforts of the salmon to get over T.-bli'as weir. I was an eye-witness to it ; repeatedly be aten back, they tried again and again, until they were quite etch:mend, and had scarcely strength enoughl to posh their noses shove the scream of the water. IV/at loss 1/it's obstrii.stion roust ' , iodise( to Me ptibl;•• it is beyond any known swan* of to I ;write. Hilt 1111111 the number of old breeding fish that were ileiorovisi at the smite time by the spear alone on the rivers. Avon and Ilarbourtie (the latter isuly a breach of the Dart) it has been calculated that '269 3111.11.1uN *A11.11074 s purr...olrd erom 'din!! 10 H., - • , What a striking picture is this! What a soure:• of re lief in hard times, from the pressure of scarcity, is here with drawn from the manufacturing population ! Surely if any abuse ever required to be checked by Icgish•Ave interference, this does; the existing laws are insufficient, and the few penal enactments which are applicable, and which might enforced with et!;•ct, are either openly infringed, or artfully evaded. It is high time that Parliament should look at this subject steadily, aril consider it seriously. Mr. Cornish evinces a thorough knowledge of the enormities which he so forcibly expoies, and which it is impossible for any of his readers to ri fleet upon, without catching a portion of that just and generous warmth with which he himself contemplates them. in& hares and partridg.es are protected by the most rigorous laws, and while poachers are pursued with a severity alike repugnant to justice and revolting to hu manity, the salman fisheries ' which might counteract those causes which so frevently create a pre mature th iency of food, and which might be made a source of incalculable relief to that distress so frequently oreasi )))) ed by low wages, are utterly dinTgannxl, and the flagrant malpractices which prevail in them are wholly overlooked, although so destructive to the species, that it is almost surprising that there should be a single salmon in existence. " Mont animals," as this animated writer very justly remarks. " whether ftw the profit or the psstitite of mankimi, are allowri smile seasonable testing time Int increase; hut the salmon, much more valuable than !tans,, pheasants, or partritNes, is nut allowed on; nicinc:in's rest, not even ft* procreation. The cruelty of such condom is only equalled by its impulicv. " It is thall drat the $41.11611$ IVlSlltatts. as far as tks co y. re , a der pwGlie, ur, isu.npieirly useless —so match so, that Arse Is 11 , 1 d. W 24 a Sal WA it' r j against the tw t :rs t f .fiSlSCriet th , aqieWat Vie muotry. It is, indeed, to Arm toll to the pandoos, this real srortity ,4 salmo n ; 8 t o be eillrihnlea. L eery oth _ in the known world, requires. 'Lel itlitaMs, teat ie ,, d during gewtstion, and at the time of twinging forth, and i,, opportunity fur the MAN' and growth of its young ; b ut , hi Icon and invaluable creature, tho ug h where to go. is brat obstructed when ine body horn pregnancy is ill tilde to combat obstmcti un , delay iv but 'Tustine word for &alit ; then hawed d.ea a wtld Mast, worried from place to place, uncraueld secuted. and ultimately impaled alive on an iron sp,. rJlly is the very act of .70:Nisi:. Not evi' tt, night, when must other animals seek and fh restme fn.r, persecutors. are to lion any protection ; watehrel 41.4 tra c t haunts hn day, milk:Nil to ctreahe places of t:;:!tt be he ar. h e t a m s's ev.y •k; nil In his more cunning aril Unit 111. e (I at a it:towel t telirn he cx pert% rot it.isdetef, and alien s!.. with no molestation, Should he such imp eleneet,t, what taro awaits hint ? he is t,,t o , rit er, returning to the %Ca ; grarv , d by b , i3g s b ram ,Gentle for soot of that elment shid, deuce has made necessary to his prosperity, leis tacreue, existence. Nuch is the trite state of the mimeo* f eirriet. Will at able man deny that a new law is imperatively twee...kg !, the abuses whirl. have lwaught them to such a comlitOn s Mr. Cornish not only goes to the root of thee. points out the remedies. Never was the bounty or so shamefully intercepted as it is by the dos, covet of weirs, by the traps, by the• fish-locks, by the si x , by every deadly contrivance through which the sal: destroyed. The extreme importance of this subject will indtfre soon to return to it. We hope, however, that Ikon and the ensuing Session this voltunewill be widely ci7t anti will find its way into the bands of every Mom Parliament. While we arc enclosing waste la n ds i direction, and throwing away wealth, in so mane the kingdom, upon an ungrateful soil that nerd- w: the expense of cultivation, and all this for the crow, pose of increasing the stock of human subsistence, entitled to hope that the attention of Government drawn to the fertility of the waters, as well as of time one being as important as the other to the r‘, ! , the people, and to the current prospt rity of the t.a:i MR. FA 7'I.1:110 On Wednesday night, et ten o'clock, Mr. Fate. exhausted by the horrors of the day, lay down his bed. After having fervently, and in a load preyed for mercy to I iod, he fell into a sou:.:1 which had but few interruptions during the ni arose immediately upon hearing the preparations execution of Harwood. Win ti Mr. Fauntleroy is, death-bell toll, he fell upon his kne:•s, and prat e d fellow-sufferer who was about to leave the wirlii. peared greatly shocked, but be became composed ; lapse of a few minutes, when he thought the, Harwood were at an end. At about ten oclock he fasted, and seemed to be much refreslmd by the sleep which he had enjoyed during the night. After fast he called G • a quantity of paper i,nd pens at and sat down to write letters to his fri, tuts. ' occupied the greater part of the slay in bidding well, by letter, to the greater number of his f and in writing directions to others about his childn , was visited frequently uuring the day by the R k Springett, Mr. Baker, and the Ordinary ; aril he ',Mel, in the presence of those gentlemen, the tat evidences of a mind made op for the last mortal c He mentioned two or three toms in the course of ti. that he would shut himself out from all society, rarer of the Ordinary, Mr. Springett, and Mr. flai:,r Saturday; but he spoke of three or four awful int which l i e must, he says, undergo, and which he pra y be able to !war with &mesa. It would, we have reason col believe, relieve the unfortunate man from a great dial ill pain, if the obits to him were confined to as Gw of his friends as possible. Many of them call .1 vi sterility at tl . e prison, but he has taken the advice of tke Ordit.ary, v,:a has often witnessed the afflicting consequence of suottiod before death, to those who survive as well as to those sly, arc cut off; and be sent them his blessing, and hale then, farewell by the meserger. Ile dined at three o'clock, vu: was rather more cheerful in the evening than Ite ayra-2 sine the last communication was made to hint. It ~, intention of Mr. Springett to attend him to the , 14::.!. He expressed a vs•As to be accompanied by that :;cut e.:. to the place of ext cutlets, and it was instantly agreed :t. F4SUION4BLE INTELLIGENTE. The Marquis of Lothian left town yesterday for Hatfi hi. or visit to the Marquis and 3larchioness of The Earl and Counts■ Cowper have arrived in town from ..kte seat, Pailsenger, llerts, on their way to Brighton. Lord and Lady Ell,nhorough arrived in town yesterday, !us their vu: at itothanipton. Lord Ilervey has left General Ross's sent in Per's. for Ix father's (the Earl of (Bristol's) seat, Ickwortli Park, Ist.lf:•lit. Th.• Earl of Gosport left Blake's Hotel, Jernlyn-stre:t, roar• day, for his seat in Sonia. J hiwager Lady Ellenborough has arrived at Cambridge Bente from Sandgate. The Earl and Countess of Jersey have arrived at their seat. II!. (Beton Park, Oxfordshire, from the illarquis of Loudest:l. Bowies] Park. Wilts. Bsrl Gowcr lett town yesterday for his father's (the Marquis ct Statfmrskseat at l'uhay!. V. K. Tynte, I.sq. 31.1. has left Portman square for Wes mouth. :lrrirals at the British lintel, Jermyn-atrect t—A ugustus Retl , ley, Esq. from Surrey ; 3lessrs. Hamilton, from Dublin ; J. thin, Esq. l Oxford ;J. Brown, Ent'. front Suffolk ; knt, E.q. front a tour. Dvparturen :—Mr. and 3lrs. Babb. r. l/xfonl ; Ker. A. Ilietford, on a tour. Arrival, at the Clarendon lintel, nand-street :—Colonei Mrs. Espinasse, from Twickenham ; Colonel Wilson, from York shire ; Stewart, Eul from a tour. Sir (;.“11trey Webster, Ilan. has arrived r.t the Cocoa Tree Cl - House. Sr. James's-atreet, from on board his yacht, the Elizabeth. lying at It antsgate. .t trivais at the Bath lintel, Arlington-street Mr. Arhytto - ut attd 31r. 31•1,e0d, front a tour ; Mt. and Miss 3lanning, front t!.e I 'ontincta. Departures:—General the 31arguis o f Harcourt. tot Oxford; Mr., 31r1., and .Gas l'robyn, fur their scat, ltioutm tershire. The Duke of York visited his Majesty yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester received visits on Wilbertby from the Princess Sophia, the Princess Saphia Matilda, the Princess Vittoria, and the Princess fission ; and rw teralay was visited by the Princesses Sophia and Fe-dolr. Her Royal Highness was not quite so well yesterday. Toe EARL or HOFETOVX . II Fr! of Hopctoun having completed his .21st year upon Mos day, the 15th November, a number of the tomtits ure his Lordship's estates in the county of by the tenants of the estate of Rosyth, in tile county .I Fife, met at Newhall's Inn, to celebrate the event. Their attachment to the Noble family of ILT town, upon wh^le property most of them have passed their lives—the:rsit row for the recent loss of their noble benefactor. Foe i° the day that ushered their rising Ape to manhood& 6 1 e4 and valued interest.—Cokelosion Mere,: ru. INNZRLEITIIEN, NOV. 4.—This day the venerable the Earl of Traquair haring complete, Iris soth par. d e tenants and femurs on his Lordship's estams met by unanimous and almost spontaneous consent, t.• 'Nate the day. Madame Survilliers, the wife of Jo se p h Rvonapirte, " at Frankfort several clays, with her daughter. She is rc her way to Rome. It is reported in the theatrical circles. that *lady. I.i.h in the tragic walk. is about to institute proceedings set) l her hushsnd, in order to procure a ilicor:e.—DalrliS Loan BYRON'S rtIiNVLRIATIONS.—The literary ruh;"' will be glad to hear that the new edit:oit of this interes:M: work, though very beautifully got up. is printed in a ale:. compressed form than its Tweeter:lsom and is then tote published at so moderate a price as to he within the lore chase of all the reading classes. FA rxri.r.nor'..--Thc result of the deliberation in the Privy Council, and the consequent order for the ens I:- non. on Tuesday next, of the unhappy husband of this lady. was not made known to het mita about seven 0'.10.i on l'rednesday evening, when it was communicated Ity the r son. l>n hearing the decision, she became distracted 'rah grief, snd shortly after was eompletcly overcome with tl most agonizing sorrow, and lost to ry thing around her. In that stine she remshic 1 for some hours, and at lon th was with difficulty conveyed to her hed-rootn. She rettisitted in the most distressed state the whole of t he nicht, anal at a late hour yesterday morning had tie.' met' spoken. Her sister, who came from Rath a S days since, is her consoler and fellow-sufferer in en : • and is unremitting in her attentions. The son. rt!!.' about twelve years of age, is also in a state of s; more easily conceived than.delsctibei, It lI K 'At ! , roi46 t 'g 'ld a "tncr < ')10 , n „ her 41?. fnc n y, HI 1.61 of c •il, Of nz, :1 11:1:011 1: ‘ent `v. :7[ll! r , rll6 (c I 111,T y 1 e me.. 11 1 ,2 e, tilt.;. • A 15 IC. :Ift: 111 P14:3 Ilc 11.i1 tb ben er and , Ile trio I-I ing tn. I Licb. hI rm. II P t r. lb he esh'.- Ftmngit coMtict. thy ,; 5 5, [cep.tl • ri• . in st!er Ittrrevii 11 pra‘s ;, 't