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rtg ree om li) WO. re!" lief bey the itu- DUTCH PAPERS. Buusett.s, Atro. 20. c ate informed that the re-printing of French works, which his never been carried on to such an extent in our provinces as at present , will soon be applied to the French Journals by a lytho graphic process. It Is calculated that the subscription to these Pa. p e r', which now costs, with the postage and triple stamp, 31 francs , 20 cents. per quarter, not Including the porterage, will be only ten n om, which will be a great Injury to our Journals. Atjbuse 21. Thareprint of the French Journals, of which se spoke yesterday, will be executed by lithographic and chymical process, to whir* te inventor has given the name of identigtypby. Every foreign Journal. for which there shall be one bundled subscribers. shall be /g rimed, and the reprint shall appear two hours after the arrival of the mail. This prospectus fixes no prices except for the .tfonitear, the Cow e.atioamet, the Conrrier t +-Junin'. and the Pandora. The Mo. saw will cost 14. 26, and 80 florins fur three. six, and twelve months. The two opposition journals 11. 18, and 30 florins, and the Pandora 8, 18, an ds 30 florins. The diflirenoe between them and the pressed price. be from 23 to 30 per cent. - - TRIESTZ, A uo. 5, A Saidialit eidaeky.hesjuet obtained pertnission of the Aus trian Gerenronse w imens, in the arsenal of Venice, a frigate of 56 0 , krt doe Potts of Egypt. All the materials will be fur citbsils,. the Magi/has of the arsenal of Venice, at the Tariff pries& FRANKFORT, Avis. 15. A 1011e111 to letters has Milan a report is current irr that city that ten Count de Nleppim *at gentleman usher to the Arch • Maio Lenien. - Didier of Parma, to whom he is said to ' he iesi rernied, is he bo Weed to the dignity of a Prince. It j billiellhat eirt Wapner of Austria lately honoured the General wide deteihiond dime oif his Orders. This extrasedinary honour seems to codes the report of the marriage. Bitstrts, Ara. 21. Proceedings have boos instituted by the public authorities of the province of Antwerp, against those ecclesiastics who are accused of having excited apposions in the purchasers of national do mains respecting the lawfulness of their possessions. Rorrrabax, Ab 0.22. The two ships fitted out in the spring from this city for Green. _hod have returned. one quite clean , the other with a barrel and a half of seal blubber t that from Harlingen is also returned without Ash, and with only forty bands of seal blubber. ANSTEADA_ & t it Au 23. g ie b aage an Loudon, 3f. t Two Months, 3E. le. SOUTH AMERICA. Of all the books which have issued from the press re lative to this interesting portion of the globe, the Travels q' Colonel Stn.easos, which have been recently published in Liverpool, contain the fullest account we have seen of the manners and customs. the trade, commerce, &c. of the newistes. The work isequally valuable to the politician, the geographer, and the merchant, and cannot fail to ob tain, u it well deserves, an extensive circulation. From the mass of important information to be found in these volumes, we extract the following account of the trade of Peru, and of the market which Lima presents for British inamiateuroa:!—_ " I shall conclude vir account of Lima with some observations on its commerce, perks/2,1y thas part which is interesting to British manufacturers. " Callao, being the principal port of Peru, and the only one de nominated abibindo gettettl, Ot free for the ingress and egress of vessels to and from every part le Ate Spanish dominions, Lima was consequently the general msnket fur all foreign as well as home commerce, and here the traders from the provinces regsired with such productions as were destined ter exportation, as well as to, purchase a stock of manufactured goods, either foreign or from other parts of the country, besides such raw materials as were ne cessary fot mining tools and those of husbandry. "Owing to the diversity of the climates in tire Flee-royalty of Pent, all limb sißorspes• manufactured goods find a ready . sale those from isilbiad ass ssestly preferred to any other; indeed many CM say =II hem that country and the supplying of those by them ts a population of a million and a half of Vast bneessildiend as a means ot extending her commerce, the aseilai yrelbemere given to them must be highly flattering, so well as benellsbl lb. British nation. The returns from this market have been gold, silver, and tin ` 4 k, cocoa, cotton, vicuna wool, sheep wool, and some drugs." - " Oa elides a beset in Lima, or in any other part of Peru that I wished, almost every object reminded me of England ; the win. dews weft glued with English glass ! the brass furniture and onto_ mends on the commedm, tables, chairs, etc. were English ; the chintz or dimity haagMgs, the linen and cotton dresses of the fe males, and the dells seats, clocks, &c. of the men were all Eng. h ill ; the tables wen severed either with plate or English earthen. ware. and English glass, knives, forks, &c. ; and even the kitchen utensils. if of iron, were English ; in line, with very few excep tions, all was either of English or South American manufacture. - (:oarse cottons, nankeens, and a few other articles were supplied by the Philippine Company. Spain sent some iron, broad cloth, Barcelooa prints, linen, writing paper, silks, and ordinary earth. enwan. From the Italians they had silks and velvet; from the French, linens, lace, silks, and broad cloth ; from Germany, Inetm:g emeh atillas), common cutlery, and glass; every thing else was or of bents manufacture. "Idemthallits te assert, that goods of a superior quality always Nest with early purchasers, because those who can afford to buy fo es* reds always inquire for the best ; and the more modem snd fasidenteble the goods are, the better and the quicker is the sale. Thick broad cloths, in imitation of the Spanish San Fernando cloth, •an bem for the interior; and thin fine cloth, in imitation of the French sedan cloth, is most suitable for Lima. The Manchester broad flannels, either twilled or plain, with a long nap, dark and light blue, crimson and pink, bright green, pale yellow, brown, white. and any shades or half colours, are very saleable com modities, either on the coast or in the interior. Keneymeres, cords, and velveteens; Irish linens and common lawns cut into pieces of eight yards each, in imitation of the French bretagnes and intopillas ; coarse linen in pieces of about thirty yards, imitating the German platillss ; and fine Scotch cambrica, as well as table linen, sheeting, &c., meet a great demand. All kinds of cotton grinds, particularly stockings. muslins, and fashion. able prints of delicate colours; also dark blue prints with small whits sprign, Re., which are used for mourning by every class are in common use among the poor; besides dimities, jeans, and white quilts (Marseilles), which are very saleable articles. Silks, damask (crimson), ribands, particularly narrow, and good velvets (black), are in great demand. Glees and earthenware, all kinds of hudware and cutlery (few forks). mechanics' tools, large hammers and wedges for the miners, spades, shovels, pickaxes, &c. ; quick. silver, In the mining districts, also iron and steel are saleable etudes. Trinkets are not in much estimation, because the inhs. bitattts seldom wear any that are not of gold and precious gems. Hats are well made in Lima, and the materials are of the beet quality. Shoes and boots are another manufacture in which the natives excel, and their materials are tolerably good. The ceeds sans from l.ambayeque are excellent. Drugs are extremely dear, for even those produced in different parts of the Spanish colonies are generally first sent to Europe, and thence back again, except in Lima, the chlochona bark, sarsaparilla, capivi balsam, guaiacum, and some others, the produce of Peru. " I shall have occasion to mention, at different places, the utility that would result from the introduction of machinery, not only as it wu evinced at the date of my narrative, but as rendered more parent by the subsequent political changes of the country. •• In Lima, an intelligent Spaniard, Don Illatias de la Reta, established looms and other machinery for weaving cotton sail cloth, and some mars, articles of the same material. At his death the manufactory was abandoned ; but there is no doubt that the plan would hare answered well had the projector lived. At pre. sent (1824) a pottery or manufactory of common earthenware would be a very lucrative establishment; ea also, a work for ordinary glass ware; because the materials for both may be hail conve. niently, and of good qualities: the consumption of both is very great, and their prices comparatively high. Indeed, if the intro duction of editor will pay the freight and other indispensable charges, t it Is evident that a speculation of this kind could not fail. All the earthenware for ordinary purposes is manufactured here; but it is heavy, and very clumsy : however, as it is, large quanti. tle!_are sent to different parts of the country. Good steady mechanics—carpenters, cabinet-makers, mill wright*, blacksmiths, whitesmiths, silversmiths, watch-makers or repairers, shoemakers, and tailors, would meet with constant work and good wages; but It would be advisable for each artificer to take a supply of tools with him. I mention this on account of the changes that have occurred in the Governments ; because, dur. ing the colonial system, a foreigner was liable to be ordered to 'nye the country at a very short notice; but, notwithstanding that risk, snivel were established in Lima in 1008 and the succeeding fele*. and were never interrupted. " The subjoined is an account of the prices of some articles, winch will convey an idea of the profits derived by the merchants. principally old Spaniards, before the revolutions in America affected this market. " Good broad cloth, per yard, (tom 111 to 20 dollars ; kersey. !pens from 7 to 10 ; broad coloured flannels from 3 to 4 ; tine Irish li ke from 3 to 4 ; fine German platillu from 1; to 3 ; ordinary German platillu from 1 to 2 ; fine French lawn from 3 to 4; fine French cambric from 10 to 12; printed calicoes 2 to 3 j ; fine pr rated calicoes fitom 3 to 4( : fine muslin, from 3 to 5 ; fine cam bnc muslins from 3 to 3; silk velvet from 10 to 12 ; fine velveteens 2 ,' 4, 4. Dine and white earthenware plates per dozen, from 12 to • 3 ; common German half-pint glasses from 8 to 12; corn. aeon knives, with bone handles, from 10 to 12; common knives, Pith wood handles, from f, toll. Much has been said by every writer on South America respect the Spanish colonial rostrictions. They certainly were, like all others, most severe, until experience proved to the Government of t he P vent state, that it was not the welfare of the individuals or or particular companies or corporations employed In commerce, els' could enrich time Government. The Conde de Aranda, when Prime minister in Spain, was well apprized of this truth, and what really sound policy in him was called liberality. However, 4 ' Peru was at so great a distance from Europe, she never was so ' 4, th oppressed as those colonies on the opposite side of the new file wheat harvest is over in this neighbourhood, and report speaks very favourably of the crop. O. is and bar -41 are not so good, snd a great want of pasture is felt by ; but this has been in some measure relieved by the Ponial showers that have lately fallen. Turnips have suf 'real greatly 'Vona the want of rain.---Brighlva Gazette. FRENCH ENCAMPMENT O/ THE PROSTIERs SPAP • The following letter from Bayonn wattles intelligent* which may be relied on respecting the formation of the camp in the neighbourhood of-that city. The troops en camped there amount to a formidable corps d'armee. A si milar one is formed on the side of Perpignan. The force of these assemblages of troops corroborates the report of their destination, mentioned in another part of Our paper, and of the approaching changes in the political state of Spain:— " BAYONNE, AUG. 16. " Gen. Pellepont, appointed to the command of the troops destined to be encamped in this neighbourhood, has arrived here with his staff, and to-morrow the 24th regiment of Infantry will arrive, to replace the 4th regiment of Light Infantry, at present in garrison at the citadel, who will im mediately enter the encampment at Marac. Every prepa ration is made for the reception of the troops, the infantry at Marac and the vicinity, the cavalry at Ustaritz and St. Jean de Luz, and the artillery on the (;lacis. It is said that the whole will compose a body of fourteen thousand men, and will be assembled by thestlth inst. Various are the rumours respecting the destination of this army ; those most conversant in affairs of this nature, assert that it will remain here in readiness to enter Spain in case of need, to enforce such measures as the government may deem ex pedient. The King of Spain appears to be moderately in clined, and inclines to the absolute necessity of establishing a constitution, as the only means of restoring tranquillity, and re-t•vtablishing the respectability of the nation. The Infant Pon Carlos had formed a strong party against the existing Government, in which figured the noted ecclesias tic well known by the appellation of the Trappist. lie has been attested, With several others, and the actions and per son of Don Carlos are closely Watched. In fact, at Madrid, Vittoria, Burgos, St. Ander, and Saragossa, there are con tinual disturbances. The measure of disarming the Roy alio volunteers is said to be decided upon, and has com menced at St. Sebastian with th e di sm i ssa l of the most re spectable individuals composing the corps, and afterwards with general orders for the deposit of the arms in the arsenals within twenty-four hours, on pain of punishment. The guards are doubled, and the gates of the city ordered to be closed at seven o'clock until further orders. This ap pears to have had the desired effect, and tranquillity reigns at present. The tribunal entitled ' long esta , Wished at Madrid for the trial of soldiers, &c., for offences conunitted, has been dissolved; and in future, Mutts in form of a courtamartial,' will judge the delinquents. This measure has given universal satisfaction in the Spa nish army, the military tribunal having been conducted in la manner completely inquisitorial. The numerous unfor tunate Spanish refugees here, are in great hopes that some '..thing favourable will occur in their behalf ere long; Many of them are in the last state of misery, devoid of even the means of existence, except what the charitable inhabit ants of the city afford them. Their memorials to the French Government praying relief remain unanswered and unattended to." TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Attains. 2t. Sta,—Have the kindness, will you, to spare me half-a column of your paper. I was present at our meeting last Tuesday night, at the Crown and Anchor, and though 1 didn't want courage to speak, and brought a great many trade-resolutions, which I resolved to propose, yet no sooner did I rise, than some of my fellow-journeymen—l beg their pardon, some one of my eo-assistants—stepped forward before me and began speeches which, compared with what mine would have been, were all sit f f, and ridi culous beyond measure. Every time I rose some one jumped before me to get a hearing. I caught the Chair man a eye once, and I hoped 1 should have caught his ear, but a long-shauked fellow from Toole -street got the start of me just as I was about to begin, and after him so many speakers followed in quick succession, and talked away at such an unmerciful rate, sometimes three or four at a time, that I couldn't get in a word edge-ways. This, as you may well suppose, Sir, was a great disappointment. I had come well primed to the meeting, as you will judge from the heads of my intended speech. I can only send you the disjointed notes and memorandums. I should have filled them en, as the painter's phrase is, in such a manner as to have made a figure In the newspapers of the next day, and have become celebrated as the pink of assistants; but fate ordained it otherwise, and I must submit ; neverthe less, the public will be able to judge from the skeleton what the full-length speech would have been, and the effect it was calculated to produce. NOTE, TOR MY of rren AT THE CROWN ANO ANCHOR. My friends and fellow assistants—Or, Qu._ IVoutrnt " my countrymen and comrades" sound better as a begin ning? Either is better than " Mr. Chairman." Mem. To make some remarks at the outset on the value of time; that is, of our time, not our employers =their time is their own. " Time for all things." SoLostort. Not true as to .4r sirtunt Linen-drapers, Haberdashers, Silk-mercers, Ho -1 Biers, &e. who have no proper time for sleeping, or shaving , or cultivating their minds. Benefits of cultivation. Lear n : inf better than house and land. OLD LII LY. To deny this, and to compare the difference in value between a stock of Linendrapery and a stock of Learning. Taste for science. Taste for venison. Tute for an elbow-chair. To cultivate either, shops must be closed at an earlier hour. Masters have no bowels. Distinction between a worthy man and a man of worth. Tradesmen mercenary. Never happy but behind their counters. Mem. To say some thing about proper counter-action on the part of their As sistants. A pun enlivens. Assistant Linen-drapers, Ha berdashers, Silk-mercers, Hosiers, &c. are men. Man is a free-agent ; what does a free-agent mean, but a being that may or not act just as he sees fit. This right is impre scriptible. Rights of Man. Right to discontinue bind• ness at what hour they think fit, summer and winter. Without this, no free-agency. At present no leisure for amusement. Have been once at Astley'a Amphitheatre in my life, and only once. " I have been there, and still would go." WATTS. Coburg Theatre might as well be at Calcutta. The spirits want refreshment towards even ing. Drip away during the day like the dribbling of a water-cock. In the months of March, April, September, and October business to close at eight in the evening. The hour of curfew. " The curfew tolls the knell of parting ' , day." GRAY. Towards this hour the capacities of all men get costive. " The lowing herd wind, &c. Qu. What do they wind? It'e are winding and unwinding all day. Emancipation. A better opportunity never offered itself. Humbly propose. Determined to persevere. Useless to stop one hole in a sieve. Remonstrance. Retaliation. Leisure for mental improvement. Wanted by none more than my brother-assistants. To conclude with some re marks on the system of Combination. its tendency to bring labour and Industry and every thing else to perfec tion. Freedom cannot die. Is like a toad buried in sand: From all the above Notes, Mr. Editor, I should, as you may readily imagine, have compounded an oration that would have astonished all the Shop-men from Hyde-park Corner to Cripplegate . • and behold all the blossoms of my eloquence were nipped in the bud ! But my labours shall not be wholly lost to the world. I shall give these heads a hody, by maturing them into all that fulness of argument of which they are capable, and I shall then publish it, in spite of the lricism, as a speech intended to he spoken. It will then be seen how much the Assistant Linen-drapers, Haberdashers, and Silk-mercers, may be enlightened by lIOSIER'S OHObT. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at the Hague on the 20th instant. Mr. Canning is expected on a visit to Portumna Castle, county Galway, the seat of his son-in-law, the Earl of Clsnncard. N. M. Rothschild, Esq. gave a grand dinner and fete, yesterday, at Stamford-hill. He was honoured by the pre sence of Prince Esterhazy, the Russian Ambassador, the' Spanish Ambassador, and several other persons of distinc tion, in compliment to the Barons Rothschild, his brothers. Mr. Kean, who is now performing at our theatre, in tend., we understand, to take his passage for New York in the packet-ship Canada, Captain Rogers, which will sail on to-morrow week, the Ist of September.—Liverpool Courier. The Legislature of the Isle of Man has passed a Bill, regulating the admission of persons to the Manx Bar, which is completely overrun. In future there is to be a fifty pound fine, and five years service to confer eli gibility. , • ctftcuLATloxpr THE PIBLB. • The following speech, 'Which was made by the Earl of Liverpool at a recent Meeting of the Kingston Auxiliary Bible Society, is copied from the monthly extracts of the l i parent Institution, in the shape it Was taken down by the Reporter, and corrected (we are Informed) by his Lord ship himself. " LADIES avii GeNTLIMEN,—I cannot return thanks for the honour you have just dooe me t teithout trdttbling you with a few remarks. It it now ten years Since I fir* attended a meet.' ing of a Bible Society in another part of tbe country ; and I can truly by, that le edicts of the Society ever since that tim e h ave confirmed me in t le opinion I then formed, that it was calculated in an eminent degree to promote the interests of religion and vie. tue. The character peculiar it is universality. It confines itself not to one country alone, but extends to every country in the four quarters of the globe, and to every region, however remote ;- and how could we go to foreign countries, and to people of difTerent religious persuasions —how could we go to the Lutheran; to the Calvinist, to the Great, 01 to the Reman Catholic, without lint laying it down as our fdundatioa at horse, that we admit all our fellow Christians of whatever description ss members of this Society; and that if there are any who refuse to accept the Scriptures from us, there are none to whom we refuse to give them ? " Standing upon this broad basis, we wish to look upon all Christians as brothers ; and desire to regard all the nations of the earth as united in one comma tie under the same God, and acting under the direction of the same general code of laws given by his sacred word. If I could imagine that this Institution, universal as it is, could in some degree have affected other Senevolent in. stitutions antecedently formed, but having more limited objects in view, I will freely own that the greatness of the object would not have suffered me to withdraw from it; but it is a satisfaction to reflect, that the effects of it have been, what I should have an ticipated they must have ban, to increase the zeal, to augment the funds, and to improve the character of all; because the same prin ciples on which this Society is formed may be applied in a degree to all others, and the motives which lead to subscribe to this, would lead to subscribe to others. " We live in a time when great efforts are making towards the general education of all classes and all descriptions of men ; and God forbid that any -one-should suppose that there is any branch of education e r, wh l a r feetilthe acquisition of which any classaheuld be excludwd," tegift eke knowledge of whit some benefit might not he acq ; yet I cannot but loot to religions education as the only sure foundation of all useful knowledge.— If the Bible is the Book of Piety, the Bible is not less the Book of Wisdom ; and if there are any who have the knowledge of this Book, and scarcely any other knowledge, or what is called knowledge, besides, they ! ti ham from this Book to discharge every duty of life; they will learn, principally and chiefly, their duty towards God ; but they will also learn the duties of good subjects, good husbands, good parents, good children, and good neighbours: they will learn to stifle and to smother the tumult of passion in their bread, and to rest contented in the condition of life in which it has pleased God to place them. But if there arc any who possess all other knowledge, and are yet ignorant or neglect. ful of the Bible. they may become the disputers of this world ; they may be knowing to souse purposa, but they will fi nd them., selves involved in all those mazes of error in which the great men of antiquity were involved, who looked forward distantly and remotely to a revelation like that which the Christian dispensation has given to the world. " The object of the Bible Society is to circulate the word of God among all nations. It has already circulated it in every quarter of the Globe. The Scriptures have been provided in 140 , languages, in fifty of which t!Wy had never existed before. It is our object to convey this blaming to every nation, however remote; but it is our object, and more especially our duty, to circulate them amongst our own fellow subjects ; to bing up the rising generation in the knowledge of them, and to make them feel, without depre ciating any human knowledge, that it Is from the knowledge of God, DA conveyed in his word, that their happiness in this world, and their salvation in the world to cane, must depend." O'CONNELL versus COIiBETT. TO THE PROPRIETOR OF THE MORNING REGISTER. Cm, Atria. 21, 1825. MY blest Slit—You have made the public a kind of half promise that I would publish a reply to Cobbett's foolish but viru lent attacks upon me 9 • and I am move than half determined to keep your promise. 1 will do it so soon as his last Register shall have gone the rounds of all the Orange newspapers. They readily publish his attacks upon me. They will not publish one word of my reply ; they hate me so, beeatee I have la.* ed the Catholic cause! IVell, I consent. Before I have time to give a detailed reply to his ludicrous, assaults, I wish to carry the war into his quarters, and to in. form him thus, that I distinctly charge him with three pure fictions. _ First—lt is a pure fiction of his invention, that any person of character told him that my speech at the Bridge-street meeting was accurately reported. Set that down for falsehood the first. Second--It is equally unfree. that any such person told Inm that Mr. Brie was the reporter etf that speech. Third...lt is equally untrue, that any such person told him that the report of that speech was shown to me by any person, before its publication. I distinctly accuse Cobbeit of these three ildiorat. There is but one way of convincing me that he has not wilfully invented them. It Is. by giving the name of tha.ellesgsd itaktcast. Let hinknot shuffle upon this point. He has publicly relied on this pretended person's Information, and heeennot shelter himself, under any pre tence, froth giving his name. But no, he truly soUl not give it— simply because he cannot. It would be quite idle for Min to allege, that he is restrained by delicacy !—Deltcacy, forsooth !I ! Why the charge of corruption, which be brought against me in hie first attack, and retracted in his second, was grounded upon the private—(if any thing be private)— conversation of a gentleman at his table after dinner. It is quite manifest that he has misrepresented, in his first attack, that convey. action. But he is a pretty fellow to complain, as he has often done, of the publication of private letters, and yet publish the after. dinner conversation of a guest at his own table. We manage these things differently in Ireland. But I will return to this subject again, with more of contemptuous ridicule, than of that sober ear. neatness which it would, upon a more important occasion, deserve and obtain. I have thrown these things out in this way, just to amuse myself • little on matters rather collateral to the principal subject between us— , by thus distinctly impeaching his veracity and denying his delicacy. 1 will give him at leisure a fall reply. His second letter has In. deed furnished part of that reply. In the first he charged me with corruption : in the second he acquits me of that charge, but still accuses me of " inconsistency" and " inordinate vanity." He Is, to be sure, a comical miscreant, to accuse any person of " inconsistency" and " vanity," as of crimes. Why, suppose I were guilty of both these crimes, I should make no other apology to him than the school-boy phrak I—" The bed Is large enough for both of us—shire the blanket, frknd Cobbett." My next letter will be longer, but some days must elapse before I can write h. _ I am always yours, very faithfully, DANIEL O'CONNELL. FLOODS IN SCOTLAND. The mountain streams were much swollen with the heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday last, and in Strath. Hiairn and Strathdearn did considerable damage. The ' river Nairn rose to a greater height than at any time since the year 1782; some old people say that the flood on Sunday last was four feet higher than on that occasion ; the river covered the haughs on its banks, from Dun maglas to the town of Nairn, and several farmers had to remove their families and cattle. The waulk mills at Fairlie were under water, and a kiln at Cantray was thrown down by the current ; when the flood subsided ' the low grounds in some places were covered with potatoes, and other articles carried down from the heights. The titer Fearne, which runs into the Nairn, broke down the em bankment made last year, changing its channel, and rush ing over the farm of Milton, on the property of Farr, swept away the newly cut hay, and destroyed the potatoe crop ; a part of the garden-wall was carried away ; the arable land of Coulbuie was also covered with water ; a girl passing from Milton to Coulbuie was surrounded by the water, and the island on which she stood was decreasing in size, when, after be ing three hours in this perilous situation, she was extri cated by some fox-hunters. Loch Moy was swollen by a reflux through the channel, by which it poured its usual tribute into the Findlioni ; a burn near Moyhall carried away the bridge over it, and flooded the high-land road so as to render it impassable ; the Caledonian coach was in consequence compelled to return to town on Monday morn ing ; but a temporary bridge having been erected, the coach proceeded to Path the following day.—lnvcrncss Journal. LORD COCIIRANE A COTTON-SPECULATOR,4t is fact not generally known, that Lord Cochrane, whilst he was on the northern coast of Brazil, during part of last year and the beginning of the present, invested nearly all the wages and prize-money he received in the Brazilian service in cotton, which was consigned to an agent in Li verpool. We have not learnt whether his Lordship's agent disposed of the cotton during the reign of high prices, or whether he still holds the article. Amongst the whole bench of Ilishops, there is not a more kind, condescending, and affable Prelate than his Grace the Archbishop of York. As an instance of his Grace's condescension, we may mention the following circum stance respecting the late confirmation at Hull. A party of three young persons, who had been accidentally detain ed in coming down the river, arrived at the church too late for the regular services. On its being mentioned to his Grace, with that kindness which marks his character, he expressed his unwillingness that they should be disap pointed, and immediately repeated the ceremony of con tirmation for them exclusively. COMBINATi 01 1 11 IN btilit.rx. CO4ECIE-STREET POLICE OFFICE.—This day three men, named Patrick Nolan, Laurence Gaskin, and Win. Drabason, were brought forward on a charge of combi nation. From the evidence of Mr. Wm. Murphy, of Bathe lone:welt, and three tradesmen in his employment, it ap peared that the prisoner Nolan had worked as a sawyer for Mr. Murphy all last week, at his yard in Kingstown. Yesterday morning Nolan left his work, and when Mr. Murphy remonstrated with him on his improper conduct, he said he would lode his work when he pleased. About {l've o'clock yesterday evening Nolan and the prisoner Gaskin (the latter 'very d(unk), came into Mr. Murphy's premises, and advancing to the saw-pit, where there were men at work, threatened to punish them for ‘. working under rates," and corning in Nolan's place. Mr. Muiphy hearing the altercation, seized Nolan, and dragged him from the premises. While this., was going on, 04: 1 ,kin took up a hatchet, and swore he would cut the heads off Murphy and the sawyers at work for hiett. The prisoners Nolan and Gaskin were convicted itt the uttpdfit penalty of the law—three months' imprisonnient and hard labour. There being no evidence agtlinst Brabazon, be was discharged. daskin declared his inten. ;ion of appealing to the Quarter Sessions.—Dublin Even ing Post of Tuesday. COM gINAPIONS IN SCOTLAitIi. The alarm naturally felt by all classes at the operations of the combined colliers to limit the supply,and by a forced scarcity to raise the price of coals during next winter, will not be at all allayed by the intelligence that Mr. Dunlop, of Clyde Iron Works, whose case 'was so fully debited last, week, has been obliged to comply with the demands of his colliers. His Hamilton Patin colliery has been stopped' twelve weeks, and the iron arttrks six weeks. The wages of his workmen amounted td about 1,200/. a fortnight. The idle workmen were regularly supported by the rest of the combination : and what must excite surprise, with the exception of five of the principal dal-works, they readily found employment in other Quarters. This latter circumstance had a strong effect in inducing Mr. Dunlop to give way as he had at least expected that none of the trade Would have employed those men who had so Unjusti fiably left him. As long as this continued any attempt to reduce them was considered bopeless. So many had thus been employed elsewhere, that on Saturday week the general combination were only 801. out of pocket to support the idle man. The loss accruing from the stoppage of the works was great and it was therefore deemed useless to protract a contest single-handed when the chances were so much against him. The colliers have partially re-com menced working, and the blast furnaces are putting in order ; but the population of the village will consume another fortnight in idleness before the works are fully set a-going. As was to be expected, on the termination of the above dispute, the colliers of another extensive coal-master , struck work on Saturday, Other coal-masters probably will next be the object of a strike. The public will soon feel the consequences ; already at some of the coal-bills the price is raised. In the meantime the colliers are going forward with these alarming proceedings unchecked. On Saturday last there was a secret meeting of nearly one hundred delegates at Westmuir. The colliers have it in agitation at present to present Mr. Dunlop with a gold medal, cup, or snuff-box, value one hundred guineas, as a testimony of their gratitude for his yielding to the•r demands.—Glasgow Chronicle. WONDERFUL SKELETON. [From the Louisiana Gazette.] A gentlemen now in this city (New Orleans) has a col lection of bones, that he has spent one year in disinterring from a beach about forty miles from the mouth of the Mississippi. He has expended his all in their obtention ; and as the magnitude of the bones is calculated even to confound the moat expert osteologists, the citizens will be amply gratified by spending a few bits each, for the sight, and advantage of the gentleman, who unites with a good share of understanding a pleating deportment. I We may ransack the annals of Linnseus—we may search Goldsmith from index to appendix—we may go the entire routine of natural histories—we may resort to all kinds of mtgistrocity—and refer to Jeffersonian descrip tions and exaggerations of mammoth, yet all will fall short of the present wonder, which is at least the eighth of the' world. The accounts given of the mammoth, the ele phant, the whale, the sea-serpent, Oct-. are mere bagatelles In comparison to the genuine description that this animal admits of, frrom the dimensions of the parts of the skeleton, already obtained. One of the bones is 18 feet in length, with a correspond ing breadth: the largest extremity evidently answers to the human scapula; it tapers off to a point, and retains a flatness to the terminations. From these facts we may in fer that this bone constituted a fin, or fender; one of its edges, from alternate exposures to the tide and atmosphere, has become spongy or porus, but generally it is in a perfect state of osification. It is evident that there was a cor responding fin, or fender; therefore the animal must have been fifty feet in breadth from one extremity of a fin to the other, allowing for wear and tear, as well as a dispropor tionate width of the back to the length of the fins. There are several of the Dorsal Vertabra', and one of th lumbar, and a bone answering to the cocygis in our an t tomy. The vertebra are sound, and corresponding in size to the largest bone ; the protuberances of the verte bra are three feet in extent • they lead to the supposition that the animal had considerable protuberances on the back; the body of each vertebrae is is at least 20 inches in diameter, and as many in length; the tube or calibre, for containing the spinal marrow, is six inches in diameter; some of the arteriel and nervous indentions or course, are yet visible. '`here is a bone similar to our or calcis, one foot in length, and, I suppose, eight inches in diameter.' From all these circumstances, it was evidently an animal that surpasses any that history has made us acquainted with in the animal kingdom. If the skeleton was collected, and the bones all but in entire, it would compensate us for a pilgrimage at least to Mecca. PATHETIC NARRA7#E. The rsmarkably fine bells of Limerick Cathedral were originally brought from Italy ; they had been manufactur ed by a young native (whose name tradition has not pre served), and finished after the toil of many years; and he prided himself upon his work. They were subsequently purchased by the prior of a neighbouring convent; and with the profits of this sale, the young Italian procured a little villa, where he had the pleasure of hearing the tolling of his bells from the convent cliff, and growing old in the bosom of don.estit happiness. This, however, was not to continue. In some of these broils, whether civil or foreign, which are the undyint worm of a fallen land, the Italian was a sufferer amongst Many. He lost his all; and, after the passing of the storm, found himself pre served alone amid the wreck of fortune, friends, family, and home. The convent in which the bells were hung was razed to the earth, and there last carried away into another land. The owner, haunted by his memories, and deserted by his hopes, became a wanderer over Europe. His hair grew grey, and his heart withered, before he again found a home or a friend. In this desolation of spirit, he formed the resolution of seeking the place to which those treasures of his memory had beets finally borne. He sailed for Ireland—proceeded up the Shannon— the vessel anchored in the pool, near Limerick, and he hired a small boat for the purpose of landing. The city was now before him ; and he beheld St. Mary's steeple, lifting its turreted head above the smoke and mist of the Old Town. Ile sat at the stern, and looked fondly to ward it. It was an evening so calm and beautiful as to remind him of his own native skies in the sweetest time of the year-.-the death of the spring. The broad stream ap peared like one smooth mirror, and the little vessel glided through it with almost a noiseless expedition, On a sud den, amidst the general stillness the bells tolled from the cathedral—the rowers rested on their ores, and the vessel went forward with the impulse it had received. The old Italian looked towards the eity, crossed his arms on his breast, and lay back in his scat; home, happiness, early recollections, friends, family—were all in the sound, and went to the heart. When the rowers looked round they beheld him with his face still turned towards the cathe dral, but his eyes were closed, and when they landed -1/4-y found him cold !! REMARKABLE TRIAL FOR MURDER. The following singular case is at present the subject of dramatic representation at one of our minor theatres (the Coburg). I'he narrative is extremely interesting, as ex emplifying that eitvionstantial evidence, even when ap parently the most conclhsive, is not always to be relied upon as infallible. It happened in the year 1674. The reader will find the account df it In the Gentleman's Mer azfne f. r 1762. " In the reign of Queen Elitabeth, A person wet It mit:tied before Sir J.tet as men, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, upon en indictment for the mur der of a man, who dwelt in the same parish with the pri soner. The first witness against him depostd, that off a certain day mentioned by the witness, in the morning, as he was going through a close, finch he particularly de scribed, at some distance frotti the path, he sdw a person lying in a condition that denoted Ishii to be either dead or drunk ; that he went to the party, and fohnti him actually dead, twd wounds appearing its hiS breast, and hid shirt and clothes much stained with blood; that the'woundpap peared to the witness to hate been giVen b' the puncture of a fork or some such instrument, and looking about he discovered a fork lying hear the corpse, whirls he tbok up. and observed it to be marked with the initial letters of the prisoner', name; the winless at the same throe produced ate fork in Court, which the prisoner owned to be his, and. waved Liking the witness any questions. " A second witness deposed, that, on the Morning of the day on which the diceased was killed, the witness had risen early with an intention to go to a neighbouring mar ket-town, which he named; that as he was standing in the entry of his own dwelling.house, the street door being open, he saw the prisoner come by, dressed in a shit of clothei, the col Cur and fashion of which the witness described ; that he (the witness) was prevented from going to market, arid that afterwards the first witness brought notice to the town, of the death and wounds of fhe &ceded. and of the prisoner's fork being found near the corpse; that upon this report the prisoner was apprehended, and palled before I Justice of the Peace, whom lie named and pointed at, he being then present in Coat ; that he (the wit - ness) followed the prisoner t 3 the Justice's house and a tt e nd e d Iris siamiz nation, during which lie obseri . 'ed the exchahge of raiment which the prisoner had Ode erste the time lehen the wit ness had first seen him in the Molting ; that at the time bf such examination thf prisoner was dressed in the same clothes which he hail on at the time bf the trial, and that on the witness's charging him with having Clanged his clothes, he gave several shufiling . atfitters, unit ,dUld have s denied it ; that upon the witness mentioning this clienm4 stance df the change of dress, the Justice granted 4 war rant to search the prisoner's house for the eldthes &scribed by the witness as having been put off sine the inclining ; that the witness attended and assisted dt the search, and that after a nice inquiry for two hours and upwards;. thd very clothes which the Witness had described *etb disco= vered concealed in a ttras‘ bed. He then produced die bloody clothes in court, which the prisoner ostned to Ist his clothes, and to have been thrust into the sod* kJ with ail intention tbtonceal them, On acconfit of then being Ulootly. "The prisoner also waved diking this second Wilms any questions. " A third witness deposed to his baiting heard the pri-t soner deliver certain menaces against the deceased, from whence the proseenia intended to infer ri proof of' malice prepense. In answer, to which the prisoner .proPcseed cer.; tam questions to the Court, leading to a discotery of the occasion of the menacing expressions depoled to; and from the witness's answers to those qinstiorls, it apPeired that the deceased had first menaced the prisoner. " The prisoner being called upon to make his de?ence, addressed the folldWing narration to the Court, as containing all he knew concerning the manner and circumstances of the death of the deceased, vie ; " That he tented a dose in the same pariah with deceased; and that the decertSed rent.: ed another close adjoining to it. Tlitit the only way tai his own close was through that of the tieeessed, and that on the day the murder sn the indictment was laid to be com mitted, he rose early in the morning, in order to go to his band. - work in his close, with his fork in and pawing through the deceased's ground, he observed.a min It some distance from the path, lying dowfl al if dead ot.drunit ; that he thought himself hound to tee what .totiditinn the person was in, and upon getting up to him he &Una hint at the last extremity. with two wounds in his brealt, frinitt which a great deal of blooi had issued; that in order to relieve him he raised him up, and with great dtfficulty set him in his asp—that he told the deceased he was greatly concerned at his unhappy fate, and the more so as there seemed to be too much reason to apprehend he. had beteg murdered—that he entreated the deceased to discover,. ie possible, the occasion of his misfortune, assuring him be would use his utmost endeavours to do justice tO his efsfili ferings; that the deceased seemed to be tensible of what he raid, and in the midst of his agonies attempted; as he thought, to speak to him, but being itiied with a ruffling in his throat, after a liOrd struggle, he. gave It dreadful groan, and vomiting a great deal of blood, some Of which fell on his (the prisoner's) clothes, he expired in his anus; that the shock he felt on account of this accident wits not to be expressed, and the rather as it was well kncittn that there had been a difference between the deceased and him self, on ',filch account he might possibly be inspected of the murder ; that he therefore thought it advisable to leave the deceased in the condition he was, end to take no farther notice of the matter; that, in the confusion he Was in when he left the place, he tdok away the deceased's fork, and kft his own in the moth of it, by the side of the corpse ; that being obliged to go to his work, he thought it best to shift his clothes, and that they might hot be seen, he confessed he had hid them in the plate where ' they were found ; that it was true he hail deified before the justice that he had changed his clothes, le:ng conscious that this was an ugly circumstance that mi;lit be urged against him, and being unwilling to be brought into trouble if he could help it; and concluded his story With a solemn declaration that he had related nothing but the truth, without adding Cr diminishing otie tittle; as he should answer it to God Almighty.' Being then called on to produce his witnesses, the prisoner answered with a steady composed countenance and resolution of voice, Ile had no witness but (god and his own eonseience:' " The Judge then procadcd to deliter his charge, in which he pathetically enlarged on the heinousness of the crime, and laid great stress on the force of the evidence. which, althOugh circumstantial only, he &hilted hr thought to be irretistible, and little inferior to the tnost positive proof ; that the prisoner lied indeed rooked up :3 I very plausible story, but if such, or the like allegations, were to be admitted, in a case of this kind, no MUrderet would ever be brought to justice, such bloody dee& being generally perpetrated in the dark, Ind with the greatest secresy ; that the present case as exempted, in his opi nion, from all possibility of doubt, and that they ought not to hesitate one moment about finding the prisoner guilty. " The toreman begged Of his Lordship, as this *as s case of life and death, that the jury might be at liberty tt.: withdraw, and, upon this motion, an officer was sworn to keep the jury. ame on j a ug e T t h h i a i n s v i t t n:g e ia i an: verdict, c t t ai a h t e night, t n o rs s t i g i n n if the expecting morning, the return inti 6 the tole:titeu sast j in u imie r pd y e , fmlov a rioi t ulaalnd l s a f‘ro s ysl t el,rna se ittth n ha t eilta it eti n ilreo:it. o le,g ffi ibei r e o ffi cer for inq uire t t o hem to . them sonie t 6 h f it the b ri ii tune to have a forerhan that proi u • o eil t f th to th a e t b i e r it a ba( * si a n l i gu Y tl l i l l a t a i t t r i in n ti s i c i t e a s n i n o c o t e - 1 of the most inveterate obstinacy, who having taken up a different opinion from them, was unalterably fixed in it The messenger was no sooner returned, hut the, complain ing members, alarmed at the thoughts of being, lictrt under confinement all the night, and tic pairing of bringing their dissenting brother over to their own way 6f thinking; agreed to exceed to his opinion, and having acquainted ban with their resolution, they sent an officer to detain his lordship a few minutes, and then wolf int 6 court, and by their foreman brought in the prisoner not guilty. His lordship could not help expressing (he greatest surprise and indignation at this unexpected verdict, and, after giving the jury a severe admonitinn, be refused to record theft verdict, and sent them bark again, with directions that they should he locked up all night, Without fire or candle. The whole blame was publicly lard on tbe foreman by the rest of the members, and they spent the night in loading him with reflections, and bewailing their unhappy fat. in being associated with so hardened a wretch ; but he no.