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- 1 sofficiendy disguised .ountenanoe, sad an after passing, tell cargo, and crew behig , ,t sea,) had ma ried a second _ ; left apprentice to the bookbinding business, now kept a bookedling and stations shop, in which he was assisted • by a daughter. ' The liberaterllcaptive sought out and entered the shop, and on pretence of being recommended to a bed, invited himself home with them in the evening, and there found his Jean and her new husband, enjoying themselves wand the domestic hearth. After some circumlocution and preparing the way, be berosieed (naming his wife) if such a woman still lived in tbe place, and If she did, he had some intelligence et her husband to communicate. The question, under the present circumetances of the familys rather alarmed than pleased, and caused the stranger to be looked upon with suspicion, as meaning to impose on them At length, assuming the well-known .ock and tone of un diminished affection, he appealed to his Jean if she did not recognize him under all his concealment. The appeal was not made in vain ; the recognition was on both sides tender end affecting. On being asked to which of the two hus bands she chose to attach herself, the " wife of two hus bands" emphatically exclaimed that Willie (the first husband) had been the betrothed of her youth, her first love, and the parent of her children, and now that he was, as it were, restored to her from the dead, her choice was to be his for life and death. The second husband having had it put id his option, by the real Rudman, to appropriate what he could justly elaim,•neteil extrerilely honourable. choosing nothing save a gold, watch he himself hail presented to diesuppoard widow wh e n h e we dd e d h er , an d on its being restored, left the house, town, and that district of country, never since having been either seen or heard of. The pro-, minent actor in this little interesting drama has now • vessel of his own, and is occasionall • in the habit, in pur suance of his marine occupation, of visiting the port of Perth, and tells the tale of his romantic adventure as it really occurred, with an amusing pleasantry and original simplicity.—Perils Lburier. CRICKET MATCH FOiOViTHOUSAND SO. FAREIGNS. The Return Match between the Hampshire and Sussex Clubs commenced on Monday in Hmmithill Park. In the presume of a int great assemblage of miters. Several of the players have been changed, and the play his in consequence been inferior to that in the lint game. 3. Broadbridge's batting and bowling is greatly rnisseil by the Sussex gentlemen, whose scoring, it will be seen, has fallen short of the match in Petworth Park. The following is *statement of the first innings, which was played on Mouthy chit second was begun in the evening, but could not be con dulled :- 11A5IPSHIRE. FIRST INNINGS. Mr. Deeds; b. W. Broad. knee, . . . 6 Rh E. Knight, b. Serie . 3 Ilk E. Jollttfe, run out . 8 Mt. T. Beagley, b. Serie . 0 Alt. Crimble, s. Hooker 12 Alt. rooter, e. Thumwocd 3 Mr. J. Bagley. run out . 25 51r. H. Knight. b. Serle . 0 Mr. :Maynard, b. Hooker . 10 Sir. Roberts, b. Serie . 3lr. Burt, not out . 0 Byes - . 0 St'SSEX. TIEST INNINGS. Mr. Hill, b. Burt . . 6 Mr. Light. LJ. Beagley - 6 Mr. !looker, run out - 4 Mr. W. Broadbrido, c. Maynard . 5 Mr. Warren, e Crimbla - 1 Mr. C. Dilloway, not out - 15 Mr. J. Thuniwood, a. J. Beagle y - 0 Mr. Bayley, e. Roberts - Mr. J.Dilloway, e.J. Beag ley . - Mr. S erie, b. Deedee -12 Mr. Ayling, e. Roberts . I Ryes - - - 1 71 I I LIVERPOOL, 11forcnay Ersxzwn. Wind N.W. fair, blowing fresh—High Water 43 tn. P. 11. Arrived the Mary Caitherise. Price, front Charleston, Railed 20th July ; Frederic, Punton. from Borne; Smyrna. Pane, from Zante and Falmouth; Brothers, Jarri., from Salcombe. Ths Sam Brown, Reed, fur 51tramichi ; Concord, Addison. for Quebec; Blucher, Block, for Miramithi ; sailed from hence I Itb I wt.. have tome back. A vessel with cattle is reported to have been lost on Saturday won. c ~fhe Otter, Simpson, heoce f or Af r i ca , was totally lot 14th inst. Southport —crew sere. CIT Y Or LONDON LITIA•AY AND SCINNTIFIC INITI.• V;IION—Thia Institution, which 'trendy consist • of • body of from live to six hundred young men, belonging to the most respect able holism in the metropolis, and bids fair to be as flotufshing the 3 1e , :hanics* Institut-, is now in active operation. Scientific lecture. are delivered twiee a week at Albien-hall. At the lecture tlel:ve:eil on Mno4ay lair by Dr. James Mitchell, on the subject of the terrestrial globe, there was exhibited a globe which had been Lutihel for the occaeion by Mr. Addition, the King's globe maker, and wh:cb is allowed to be a chef crone. It is no lees than thirty 'z en inches in diamet er , an d as the surfaces of globes are in propor- , to the squares of the diameter, its surface is nine times SR great , Is the twelve inch globes, and nearly three times as great as the israty.one inch globe, the largest made in the metropolis. The t oes: globe In th e wor ld i s the one in the Royal Library at Paris ; tilt. however, is not covered with an engraved map, but is rudely Nutted at d gilt, and can serve only for show. Institutions on the Piss th's:lnititution, tarried on by the co-operation of persons en. esta uncommercial or professional avocations, having for their "Steel the ciltivonon of different branches of literature or eelence, t o th'se chiefly attended to by the mechanics, are now, we under. Kan!, forming in several country towns. rsito St a's I xi:prat . ..Last night, about eight o'clock, inquisition was held before T. Shelton. Esq.. at St. Bartheilo r'en's Hospital. upon view of the body of Mary Rosling, a mar. tettl aoruao, about 3G years of age. It appeared trom the !'lnly of sev era l witnesses that the deceased was a woman of 4 `Pt"esi morals, and much addicted to drink. Mr. W. Birch, of the att en di ng surgeons at the hospital, said the deceased had u.'r:l brought in there so last Thursday evening. and died the fol. Innrsilg ; that she had been subsecluently opened, and ,torn the tfrusion of blood on her brain, he bad no doubt but she eel her . 1 e4 , 11 by ;inspires , The Coroner summed up the evidence,. £ .1 , .etary wit h out holistic:in returned a sertlact—" Died by ittlttesy•' ..., smuggling system is safely , . on by the insurance of th e machinery which is prohibited by law to be exported; and there fs-reason to behave, that in regard to the exportation, of such prohibited machinery to France, the premium paid' to the insurer does not much exceed the duty char gni Cm the importation of such machinery into that couutry. Your Coonskin cannot better express themselves on these subjects than by extracting a part of the evidence taken : " Ceuld you at the present moment, if you wished to cotton or other machinery, d o so b y p ay i ng t h e insurance T-.eireg ,any quantity; the greater the Netter. " Then arc you of opinion that the laws are not effectual . e vent those articles- that a r e p ro hibi te d f rom b e i ng ex ?—They are wholly inefficient, both as regards direct and in. exportation ; the direct mode of sending out m a chi ner y i n ties I bare stated ; the indirect mode Is acoornpfiebed b lag the prohibited w i t h t h e unprohibited articles 1 it is Worth any map's while to order a quantity al unpaohibitod machinery to fet out a quantity of prohibited, for under thismode it is very dif cult to separate prohibited from unprohlbited machinery, and this never an be detected by custom-house officers. '•;•i ssa aeeteftile the exportation of machinery and tools to any ex " Idsred, it is impossible to preemie the exportation of pro hislialtichineryt-,-Yee never can prohibit every kind of mein ' eery going. while you permit any to go; It must either be *holly open or whOy closed ; there can be no middle course. .- What is the bkhest rata at isaraniaa• Po lip are transit of rda irki ligri= : tir hiteriatey-fitrbe to that ha come to z e t te is large Imierifbet - etirerabil quantities ; if I had 90,0001. worth to ;end I shotild pay thirty per cent. to any port in France ; but rot 1,0001. or 1,6001. perhaps forty per cent. would be required; the reason is, that a vessel engaged in such commerce is subject to alt the meonveniencies in taking 1.0001. worth that it would for 20.0001., and the profit on small quantities of machinery is not alultalent to the increased price of insurance. Do ysu know how persons export prohibited machinery 2-1 kniow of - no other means than those I have explained. A circum stance, that is, perhaps, a little curious, tame to my kuorriodge, that the officers, two or three years ago. actually seized a quaellty of machinery going to France, and sass of that machinery was sold at the Custom-house, and benagia,maddent there to the person afterwards in France, who originally Woe* it, and that transac tion, I understand, took place last yeast soll.l Wier/ the Govern ment and the Custom-house empl ed V ise diligence, but the plans of the shippers were so All the precaution and diligence of the Custom-hewer woo dm wistriag." Evidence was given before ghe.Committee of 18524, and also before this Committee, *it a considerable portion of prohibited machinery consists of such ordinary and common parts and pieces of machines, applicable Re well to machines which are not by law prohibited, u to those which are prohibited, so that it is difficult, if not nearly impossible, for any one to say that they are actually parts of a prohi bited machine. Other machines or parts of machines may he disguised; many parts of prohibited machines are so small that they may be easily concealed, while other parts by being pocked with tools that can be exported, and also by exporting them from different ports, may be so disposed of as to render detection impossible. " There ars east numbers of packages," eays Mr. St. John, Controlling Searcher of the Customs in London, . which we open, where there are yens of machin e ry pick e d with iron and ste e l articles from Birmingham, purposely packed for deception ; and It is almost an impossibility for an officer to know whether they an or are not prohibited, being only parts of machinery." To the same effect it is stated by Mr. Boyd, General Surveyor of the Customs—" Out of a vast number of packages exported but a small proportion can be opened at all ; and in opening a proportion of those packages occasionally, they do discover something that is machinery; but it is always in detached pieces and in parts; large machines cannot all be made up in one package, and they hare a great deal of difficulty in telling whether those proportions belong to a machine that is prohibited, and a great many pass In packages which are not opened, because they cannot be opened. It is a very rare occurrence indeed to meet with prohibited ma chinery which appears so." It is, however, asserted by Mr. Ewart and Mr. Ken nedy, Aar if the searchers at the custom-houses were well inattucted, that they might distinguish the prohibited from the unproltibited machinery, admitting at the same time, however, that it would be difficult to put the law rigidly into effect. Considerable discrepancies in the laws were also pointed out by the officers of the customs and other witnesses: deny/trews of all sorts in metal, with or without the , screw, is a prohibited tool, but the screw alone is (not a prohibited tool ; and hence it follows, that no thing belonging to a press is prohibited, except the frame, which is the least important part, and that too, 1 when sent in pieces, which it may be, is not considered i frame. In other cases tools and machines are prohibited, but the tools to make them arc not generally prohibited. Lathes, with the exception of pottcrs lathes, are not pro- • hibited, be their powers ever so great. Steam engines are not prohibited, and yet by means of steam engines and lathes, with other common tools allowed to be exported, ' almost every other tool and machine may be manufactured. It was stated to the Committee, that newly invented Ma chines in the iron or steel manufacture, might generally be exported, but that those in the cotton, woollen, linen or silk, if known, would be prohibited; and all the gentlemen from the Custotn-house affirmed that the law was so defec tive, that, by a little contrivance, the facility of evading it' was such, that " all the block machinery at Portsmouthl might be exported." Much more might be stated from the evidence on Mg subject ; but enough, it is hoped, has been brought for-1 ward to show the ineflicieney of the laws intended to pre vent the exportation of machinery and tools ; and it must be evident to every one, that laws that cannot be executed and thereby become an incentive to fraud, ought either to' be mended so as to render them efficient, of !Chilly re- I pealed. Another important part o! the inquiry ratites to the appears of 1750, prohibiting dm exportation of tools or utensils 'used in the woollen trade, there is most unaccountably in- I eluded a prohibitioo of the tools or utensils employed in the silk trade, although at that petiod, the manufacture of'silk in this country was still in its infancy, and the implements and tools in use in Great Britain confessedly inferior to those on the Continent. It will be in the'reeollection of the House, that one of the principal objections made in the last Sseaion of Parlia ment to the importation of Silk manufactures, was the alleged superiority in implements and tools possessed by the manufacturers on the Dominant; a strong proof, in the opluion of your Committee, of the folly of prohibiting by lin Act of 1750, what there could not be the smallest in ent to export, and of the total abeence of any sound principles or correct detain the commercial legislation of ajant period. The 14th Geo. 111. c. 71, (1774), the next Act on the Statute-book, exhibits a similar inconsistency in prohibit ing the tools and utensils used in the cotton and linen manu factures, or a mixture of either. It is well known that in trance, Germany, and 'Other parts of Europe, the linen "rade bad arrived pt a very high ,elcgree of perfection, and Inn, whatever premien - As might havebeen deemed neces-, kin regsrd. to _wigs/sentiments beerturn Intoisinery, slrtoof or utensil possessed by Great Britain at that period, for the manufacture of linen, could have been an object of importation on the Continent. Your Committee cannot pass over the Act of the follow ing year, 13th Geo. 111. c. 5, (1775), without observing, that it permits the exportation of wool cards, or stock cards, and spinners cards, to the British colonies in North Ame rica; because, says the Act, " the prohibition to export them had proved extremely prejudicial to great numbers of poor families in England.' And your Committee may be permitted to remark, that every prohibition of the same kind, if not followed by the same consequences, has at least been productive of no apparent benefit to any part of the community. Although actual injury to the industry of the country had thus become evident, in one branch, from restraining exportation, the Legislature, in compliance with the appli cation of several manufacturers, proceeded, by the gist Ceo. 111. c. 37, (178 i), in the spirit of former enactments, to forbid, not only the exportation of all tools, but also of all models and plans connected with the wool, cotton, linen, or silk manufactures, under a penalty of 2001. for each offence, and the forfeiture of all articles, so prohibited, if attempted to be exported. A further prohibition took place in 1784, by the 2211 Geo. 111. c. 60, of all blocks, plates, engines, tools, &c. used in the calico, cotton, muslin or linen printing manu factures; and in 178.1, by 2.5 th Geo. 111, c. 67, the iron and steel manufactures appear, for the first time, to have occupied the attention of the Legislature, and a long list of tools and utensils, including, in fact, almost every tool or utensil that could be used " in repairing, working, finishing or completing the iron and steel manufactures of this kingdom, by whatever name or names soever the same shall he called or known, now or any time hereafter, and also of any models or plans of any such tool, utensil or implement," under severe penalties, as if to prevent the in dustry of the country from being employed in the manu facture of any of those numerous articles required for any other part of the world than the United Kingdom. That Act would appear, however, to have bad a part'. elder reference to the button and buckle trade, which the Legislature seems to have been anxious to monopolise for this country, as almost every tool employed in their manu facture (as will be seen in the Appendix), is especially designated; but the buckle trade may be said to have entirely ceased along with the fashion which gave it birth, notwithstauding these holstering precautions. With re spect to the button trade, great improvements have b een made in these kinds use d for home consumption ; and though our manufacture of them is equal, if not superior, to any in Europe, yet it appears, by the evidence of Mr. Osier, .from Birmingham, that he fancy button trade it almost entirely lost in this country, notwithstanding the. precautions of this Act to retain it. from his statement, on the authority of Mr. Ledsam, one of the largest button manufacturers in Europe, it would appear that England at one period supplied France, Germany, Italy, and Switzer. land with buttons ; and that in Birmingham alone RO,OOO - were made every week for the foreign market. The reasons assigned by Mr. Osier for the loss of that trade, partly explain the cause; namely, th a t co pp er cou ld b e obtained on the Continent at 60 pet cent. less than in England, owing to the protecting duties Imposed iu favour of the mining interests in Cornwall ; and that t h e stamp duty on silver, and other charges, raised the price of the article so as to render competition with the French and other manufacturers, utterly impossible: an additional proof, if any were required, that the low price of any article of equal quality, is a better security for an extended market, than any legislative restriction on exportation of the tools employed in its manufacture. Your Committee have deemed it proper to notice this Act (with Gco. 111, c. 670 the more particularly, as being the most comprehensive and sweeping in its enactments against the exportation of tools, in order that the House may judge of the inconsiderate manner in which it most have been passed, as by the Acts of the following year (26th Geo. 111, c. 76 and b 9), it is repealed, and another long list of exemptions, (inserted in the Appendix) enumerated, which render the law at present so complicated, that, ex of the difficulty of discriminating the particular tnachinery, *tamed in the evidences, it is extremely t, if not impdssible, to ascertain what are and what prohibited. , 1 deserving of notfee, that by the 26th Geo. 111, c. 'B6), it is declared that, " as theesportation of moll _ to North America had been beneficial to this' country, and as the allowing of a general exportation thereof to foreign parts will he highly serviceable to a great number of poor families in England, employed in the trade making such wool cards," the same were then and are Av allowed to be exported to all parts of tile world. Neither the grounds on which these Acts were I repealed, nor the advantages expect e d t o be passed i them, appear to hale been 1.211 understood. as by t.ttli (c. 67.) the prohibition was perpetual, whilst by 26th (c. 89.), it was provided that the prohibition '.l only continue in force till the end of the next Soh.' Parliament, and no longer. Committee beg leave to state their opinion, dol l ,in laws which regulate the export And import of article, should be made as seldom as possible, as by change new establishments and cdntlections in Com • must necessarily be formed; and exclusive of the ' capital consequent thereon, the uncertainty to which ire rise in the minds of merchants and manure& must greatly tend to impede the commerce end the prosperity of the country. Many able and ihtel men have even gone so far as to assert, that it is .such better to submit to inconvenience and loss than make a sudden change in any extensive branch of the industry of the country, although that change might ulti mately remove the inconvenience and loss suffered; yet so alias the uncertainty been as to what line of conducts Legislature would ultimately pursue, that' the Stasolt '• affortla, in the instance of machinery, a notable e of the total want of any fixed principle; exhibitit4 • same year, one Act to permit the exportation o f i tools, because their prohibition bad proved Was to the industrious classes of the conottunity r end , prohibiting the exportation of other kinds, be.. cause.such exportation was considered to be detrimental -"-- provisions of thar Act, which would have expired .7, were continued from year to year by the 27th, I, 29th, 80th, 31st, 32d, 33(1, 34th, till, by the, 3.Stli to. 111. c. 38, it was rendered perpetual. These Acts also prohibit the exportation of an tools, implements, and machines, used in coining money, al ' it would be extremely difficult to shots why any should have impediments thrown in its way for , 4 money for its own use, or what possible injury this country could sustain from supplying other nations with - - various and expensive machinery which is necessary in quantities to the establishment of mints. No per on, however, appears to have been granted by legisla authority for this purpose, except in one solitary in ,nce, namely, in that of Mr. Matthew Bolton, an engineer ; Birmingham, who by the 39th Geo. 111, c. 96. (1799) mu permitted to export the machinery necessary for the erection of a mint in the dominions of the Emperor of . and to send workmen there to erect the same. Majesty's Government, as appears by the evidence, under the exigencies of the case, thought it right time to time, on speehtl applications, to grant licentes se exportation of different articles of machinery to, various parts of the world. The Committee, in 1924, examined many practical men, for the purpose of ascertaining bow far, in their opinion, the prosperity of our manufactures had been promoted by, the laws which prohibit the exportation of tools and machinery, and how far the improvement of the manufac tures of other countries had been thereby retarded. Many of these witnesses were of opinion, that considerable advan tage had accrued to this country from the protection which these prohibitory laws gave to our manufactures, by their operation in preventing foreign nations from becoming our rivals in several branches of manufactures: but a eareful perusal of their evidence will best show the grounds on which those opinions are founded. - • ..* ••• In addition to the examination of persons practically conversant with machinery and manufactures, that Com mittee called before them, autl examined, two gentlemen eminently qualified to determine, on general principles, the policy of prohibiting the exportation of tools and ma chines. •Thesegentletnen gave their reasons at ledeth for believing the prohibition to export tools and machines to be injurious to the commerce and manufactures of this cook, inasmuch as we thereby shut ourselves out f It no, branch of business whieltwould give emplortient rol4 a largo number of our people, increase our own capebiliti adaeonsiderebly to the amount of our productions, an ' consequently to the increase of capital: particularly so, as the materials of which tools and machinery are made are almost entirely the products of our own soil, and may be procured by the labour of our own people in unlimited quantities. Your Committee beg leave, however, to call the attention of the House more particula rly to their evidence, which contains matter of the greatest importance, as it explains many of the grounds on which, in the opinion of those gen tlemen, commercial intercourse, in order to be prosperous, ,should be founded. Another circun.stance of some moment, to which your Committee beg leave to request the attention of the House, is the commercial jealousy which the prohibition to export tools and machines is calculated to perpetuate, and the effect which the repeal of these laws would produce on the ; policy of other nations towards us, and how far the removiL of all such causes of jealousy would operate in respect hat many regulations and restrictions now existing on corn: merce, which the members of every enlightened govern ment mint necessarily wish to see removed, and which the Legislature appears to have had in view in the late various important alterations in the commercial relations of this country. (To be concluded to-morrow.) EDUCATION IN THE HIGHLAND& The Report of the Committee of the General Assembly, with respect to the state of education in the Highlands and islands of Scotland, has been published. It contains a la mentable picture of the deficiency of this important acqui sition in some of the most remote districts. In ten synods, mostly lowland, the means of education are considered ' nearly, if not altogether, adequate to the wants of the po pulation; but in the remaining six synods, including 143 parishes and 377,730 persons, there is a want of 250 addi tional schools to educate the people under 15 years of age. It is however to be considered that there are vast numbers above that age wholly illiterate. It is also very difficult for all the inhabitants of many parishes to receive the benefits of religious instruction. The extent of many parishes, the impassable mountains, and arms of the sea by which they are intersected, some of them also consisting of clusters of islands, puts it out of the power of the clergyman to be so frequent in his visitations as either he or his parishioners would wish. To remedy this the Committee of Assembly propose the appointment of 130 catechists, to go round among the people to instruct them ill the principles of religion. This gloomy picture, however, is relieved by the ]addable anxiety that exists among the people themselves to possess the benefits of education. The Report mentions instances rof parents parting with their best clothes in order to pro cure the means of educating their children. In other cases the inhabitants of a glen sometimes subscribe to send one of their boys to school, and lie in his turn instructs the others in the evening. The beautiful ancient story of the Grecian daughter seems revived in an improved form in the spectacle frequently exhibited in these solitary wilds, of the illiterate parents listening to the sacred Scriptures read by their educated child. _ These traits in the Highland character are more descry ing the attention of both the philosopher and the statesman than many of the other peculiarities which are frequently brought forward. How much more worthy of considera tion and encouragement are such feelings than those which form the subject of inquiry of many who profess an at tachment to the manners and customs of the Highlands, and whose whole researches begin and end in some trifling details respecting the notes of some Chieftain's pihrods, or the checks of some clansman's tartan.—Glitrg,otv Journal. The case of Bell r. Hill (a Methodist preacher), for de famation, tried at York Assizes, and in which a venlict of Mot. was obtained, has been investigated at she annual conference of preachers in that connexion, and the Bet, de fendant ordered to be publicly censured, in the presen4 . l him brethren, and to b e su s pend e d —not from preacher but from acting as a superintendent—for five years. • - EXPLOSION OF POWDER-MILI.S IN REPORT policy, in a politica end mentnereial tic*, of jaroltibiting elusive .FYIJIMS. . PROACTIIE BELECT COM SUTTEE ON mit LAW !the expansticia of web end winadnery, upon the supposi- ',kinds of _........._-- BELA INO TO THE EXPORT Of TOOLS AND ti on th at the l aws be reutlered efficient to that end. difficult, • The Jeered et Indre A Loire contains She fellewing details MACHINERY. ' • And here your Can *es beg leave to observe that at the are not 1 --..... o f t h e hor w r p iA accident which happened et the powder- The Select Committee appointed w Inquire int o the e w e o f th e dams when the save land were Made which ' prohibit the It is c mills of eareeleagnes from Toot. :v-- Law and its consequences respecting the exportation of tools and exportation of tools a* machinery Tay erroneous notions 76 (1781 eAt five minutes after one in the afternoon one of the asirectrz,Landta who were empowered , to report the Minutes of were generally entert4no in regard ' to commerce and ma- cards It wor k s hops where the powder is corned blew up at the very of the House, evanced ih them s e -hsve, pursuant to the Order aufactures. It was that a received opinion that the liberty country, h e matters to them tefened, and hats Meant twelve of the workmen were returning into it after upon the fottostlng Report.of -exporting any tither that was likely to increase the thereof I diner. These twelve unfortunate men are almost all r eed t is necessary, for the purpose of reporting (telly to the commerce and manufactures of Another muntry, Would be number f at h ers of families; their limbs were scattered abroad _to House on this subject, to advert to the proceedings of the injurious to those of the Country from which the eeporta- of make great distances; some were found among some poplars 100 Committee , appointed in th e l ast S ess i on e to inquire auto tion was mad e • sod hence arose those various ensainents now alio pica o @: The explosion was so loud that it was heard at t h e state of the law in th e U n it e d Ki ng d om, an d i ts con - resp e ct i ng trad e, as well as those width prohibit the ex- Neill' more than six leagues f r o m th e pl ace . The su ck was so sequences, respecting artisans leaving the kingdom'and re • pot talon of tools and machinery frost the United Kings and type great that doors and windows were shaken by at Tours, siding abroad ; also Into -the state of the law and its cotter- don. from th and even some panes of the glass broken. quences respecting the exportation of tools and machinery; The. history of the Acts which still remain on the the led This building, which contained three thousand weight and into the state of the law and its effects, so fat a t relates to Statute Book, relating to the expottation of tools and ma- the 26tt of powder. has entirely disappeared, and it is with (life- the combination of workmen and others to raise wages, or to chinery, would,if unfolded, show, both ftom the intervals of should o eulty that the foundations can be discovered. A magazine regulate their wages and hours elf working, and to report time which elapsed between the passing of these Acts, sion of I in which twenty-five thousand weight of powder was de- their opinion and observations thereon." From the Minutes and the perplexity which prevails in the enactments Your pelted, and whiCh was at a distance of about a hundre d of Evidence taken before that Committee it appea rs , th a t a themselves as to *bet mayor may not be exported, that changes gam, has been ouch damaged; the roof has entirely given considerable number of persons wens examined respecting no fixed principle was kept in view, but that they were any are( ',ay under the fall of the beams and other parts of the the exportation of tools and machinery, and the laws re- dictated by a mist ak e n jerdensy of permitting other nations any clia nee. The shock. was so felt thaw that all the powder lating thereto, sod that considerable apprehensions of evil to benefit by oar . ts. In order, hoWever, to merce m w as shaken out of the barrels in which it was conta i ne d, from the repeal if the laws which forbulthe exportation of draw the attendee House more particularly to the loss of c The tenions.eusPleiyal ahqut the Ripault ertattazine, NE tools and machin er y were entertained b;7 many p ersons en _ pr ese nt s t ate ' a t h e w res p ect i ng t h e exportation of they h'il itzlemen of courage and devotedness, loptened immediately to pump gage.) in the manufacture of mita' goods, lace, &c. and tools and machinery, your Committee have deemed it curers n upon the magazine; and it is perisaps t o thi s ac t of devo- also by some manufacturers ofenachinery, %sliest other ma- Proper to put, in an Appendix to their Report, the various check th ton that may be ascribed the preservation of that malni- nufacturers of machinery, persona of great experience and clauses of the existing Statutes relating to this subject; the ligent m titan establishmeet, the dune of its kind , perhaps, w hi c h intelligence, were decidedly of opinion th a t th e p ro hibi t i on s li g h test attent i on to whic h , i n the ()pinion of your Com- often ins at present exists in Etiolate • to export tools and machines was beneficial to no one, and ramie will he su ffi cient to confirm the observations which to make The imaginal* k startled at tie hart *taught* of highly injurious to the eenneetee and manufactu res o f thi s they have thought proper to make upon them and the re- industry the calamities witinktekellid have followed the implosion of and other countries. The Committee, therefore, in order commendation with Which they have closed their Report. mately n these twenty-five tbotomed we i g h ti er . , . that a more correct jud gmen t m i g h t be formed on matters The first act p o i n t e d out by the Commissioners of the great hat " The other msftiffillell'lind ea of eft bare of so much importance, refrained from proposing any urea- Customs, as a rule for-their conduct, is the 7th and 9th of the Legi starred cdneldenthlilik train Of the su ; the re to the House at that time, but came to the following William 111. (1695,e Waal the exportation of the new book aff( dwelling-houses of It . . es ate Chief Camminiary), Resoluti on :-- stocking frames (invesiteity William Lee, A.M. of Cam- ample of pa of M. the Lieutenanl Petit' de Charlene,' (she *e That your Committee have examined evidence respecting the bridge, ;bout the year 100) was first prohibited, bring in the sa Inapector), are no longer hahitible. The roof' are totally *sport at m ac hi ner y, w hi c h will b e r oun d i n t i ts appendix ; but about 100 years after 'belt invailion, and nearly 30 after kind of escaped they are of opinion, that furter" , inquiry and a more complete in- deetrOred, DOT one of the window-frames has their introductioo Into a e-msd it will be seen by Hole to ion should take place , before this tmponant subject ins be ~e , _, • , es d ama g e , a nd every.sibelow-pans is reduced to dust. =welly decided on ; amt they therefore recornmead. that the `ees- 9, suet eetie efi• 'Of these frames from place to another, "In all likelihood the occasion of i c e explesion will* ..• , or tats important " m i ce s h ou ld b e „ sam e mme abet be Egedatede • in all cases, unless due cauee.sui ~,......... .............e. A Ilel7 lingila causes . '. n of p a el ateent e , • einatim was given to of Framework Knitters in and the i . doer of the wake', being lien ill hi= thee •• ' rear/ to the brire es derbil;theasplireldoe of Lembo. It is spn . remote any of these stocking in 1787, OM grails' Or 1iba..11001 41 1 wind mid Ole • machinery, 161 inefficiency to 'ac- frames ..from one t int to another, although it Seth, 291 straittit another, lily have Pedaled a apart which w• • . epee • the aids for which they were enacted , very toe- would be altogether int to give the notice required, Geo. 111 have occasional the explodon. dam* evidence was given by Mr. Dead, the Chairman of or to obtain such leave, as e nemeworl Knitters Corn- These " Two persons only, oar a soldier stationed at Ripault, the Mini of Customs, by several of the principal officers pony has ceased to exiitiortmwards of half a century. implemet bore been berioutly wounded by the hang tubs of the of the Customs, and others. It is also worthy of observation; that although so early as though ii bedding." . It-appears that in consequence of Lone tools and ma- the year 1447; woollen clogs was one of the greatest articles co u nt r y 5 THR orrri OP IWO 11111111AN71.1. ommemosememeatiem chi:ambling legally e xp or t a bl e , an d others being altogeth e r o f expettuien, and is so considered in a supplementary coining n — e prohibibl, and from the cir cums t ance o f mew tools and treaty of cm ometee otideltuled th in at year between Henry country c The sailing master of a vessel to sport on the . seem machines being daily invent e d, an d no t prohibitaa by name VI lt d and the Asellffiike Philip, Sovereign of the Neth e r- th e var i o bekassio. - many Act of Parliament, it is extremely difficult, and lands; anal *ldiot* that manufacture continued to be a large qua east coast of Scotland was, *a a ways.. to the Mediter- tly impossible, for the officers of !tie Customs to staple of great importanat to this country, arising partly mission, ranean, aptured by the Algerines, sad domisied in slavery . = what is and what is not prohibited to be ex- perhaps from the quality or the wool, and partly from the live auth for eleven years • lye oftb -me ensployietet hard labour, Ported. Ever one of the officers examined by the Corn. with a bullet nibs. Weight fettered f• olio/ big ankles,— • Y . improvements in our masatinery, yet no legislative enact- stance, m mince promd the inadequacy of the laws for the purposes t was deemed necessary for its protection, as regarded of Birmii till happily released from so painful a dossaien, in coons - intended, and expreesed their doubts as to the possibility t implements used, till the year 1750, when the 23e - was perrr queues of the celebrated chastisement indicted on these of any law being rendered efficient, while any tool or ma- Geo. IL, c. 13, was pemed, in order to prohibit the ex- erection barbarians by Admiral Lord Exmouth. R?turning to his oboe whatsoever was permitted to be exported. It was portatiou of the tools or utensils employed in its fabricatioi. Russia, i native town, safficiendy disguised in tattered apparel, a also century proved by oper a ! w it nesses , t h at cons id era bl e Yuan - An interval of mom than half a had thus elapsed, But his 1 toil-worn countenance, led an unshorn beard, he l ear n t t h at his wife, after passing t titles of prohibited - machinery was exported ; and the during which p er i o d no i nter f er e nce on t h e part o f t h e L e - h ave. um (step, cargo, and crewab years in supposed widowhood, Minutes et Evidence aseennpanying this Report exhibit a g i s l ature to prevent the exportation of a ny ki n d o f t oo l s , f rom time hrbg conjectural to hav e p er i s h e d at sea,) had ma reed • second husband ; an d t h at a son,system of ensugg to ling carried on to a consid e r a bl e ext en t. appears have taken pla ce . I n the same Act, however, f or th e e] left apprentice to the booksbindin e b us i ness . now Lent n ..,.. Ime system is safely carried on by th e in s u ra n ce o f t h e ( o f 1730 _ nrnhihitino eh. —......,;-- ..e .......i_ ..,..—.:l_ • GI OIFORD CIRCUIT. ASSlZES—OLouctleira. A crovfn LIBEL. Sonfis s. at•Ciles. Mr. Catistitt.ft opened the pleadings. Mr. Tat/meow stated that this action was bresslkt • tiawir s ibe character of the plaintiff ftoen oalownies east spar the de fendant, in • letter sent by hies to a pes•011 . It would be ntceasaty that they &meld kadiw i v tamed • Smith, who resided near WOlCelliff. had see eat of whom married a person also named Smith, and b • married Mr. Woodley, the person to whom the letter was strat. re had been for a considerable time an attachment between the plaintiff and Miss Mary Smith, one of the daughters of Mrs. Smith; and in the lattet part of last year the plaintiff' visited I'd?, Woodley. About this time it was reported that a daughter of Mts.iiintith, who had married • person of the same name rear Bridgenorth. fix/ eloped with a Captain . Jones. It was to that circumstance the letter referred. (The Learned Counsel read the letter.] Such a libel required no comntenu—the defendant was an opulent man, carrying on business as a wiommerchant at Cheltenham. The plaintiff had also been in that trade, but had retired. and was living on his property. He should prove the lib e l t o he o f t h e d e f en d ant 'a handwriting, and should ask such damages at the hands of the Jury as would vindicate the character of the plaintiff. Mr. Thomas Woodley said—l live at Cambridge. lam the brother-in-law of the defendant. We married two of the daugh ters of Mrs. Smith, who resides near Worcester. She has a daugh. ter named Mary, who is unmarried ; another named Sophia, mar. rilived to Mr. Smash , e in e o r w that liri the ge erth p . lai l otff had paid attention bel i eve lta th at she ed rion to Hirst notnw Mary Smith fot seven years. She is a daughter of Mn. Smith. I invited he and also the plaintiff to visit me in Cambridgeshire. They came on the 21st of October 1824. They came together. The plaintiff stayed three weeks, and Miss Mary Smith stayed se_ veto] months. I received this letter (the libel) by the post. while Miss Smith was in my house, the plaintiff' being gone. It Is of the handwriting of the defendant. I heard from Miss Smith that her sister at Undgnorth had eloped with a Capt. Jones, who is the brother of the plaintiff: Cross-examined by Mr. WIllORT—The courtship between the plairtiff and Mies Smith was of seven years standing; It wss not so long on account of the plaintiff's youth, he being about 50. The first wife of the defendant was my sister. I considered the letter to be written in confidence. I received it on a Sunday morning, e hen teas dressing to go to church ; My wife asked to see it. 1 told her she simuW not, but she said she would never rest easy without she did. I told her It contained something very unpleasant, and. she must not let her sister see it. She promised she would not, and I went to chord). On my return, the first thing I sate was the letter on the Mantle...piece, and my *ire and her slater standing by the tire. Miss Mary Smith said, " Here is a pretty' Ref out.' and I said, " Mrs. Woolley, have you let Mary see this letter ?" she 'said, " Mary teased inc for an hour and a half, and I could not help it, but she has proniised not to tell Mr. Jones." Mr. Justice au a ROUSH—HOW could you be So foolish es to trust • woman with a secret ? The letter was put in and read. It was to the following effect, and addressed to Mr. Woodley : " Dear Thomas, " Cheltenham, Nov. 11, 1824. " I quite expected you to have - replied to ours. Mr. Thomas Smith is at the Illythe, 1 saw him the other day, and he said that Mr. Jones had called upon him in town, which we were surprised to hear; whether Mary was with hire or no we could not learn, as I was from home when Mr.. J. called. I suppose he has left you, if he has it is quite as well, as it has come out he is, and has been, playing a double and deceitful part. You are no doubt aware of the circumstances between Captain Jones and Sophia. " Will you believe it when I tell you that Mr. J. it at the hot. torn of every thing, and was the cause of that unhappy business. 14'ill you believe it, the Captain threatens to expose him, and you may rest assured that what I tell you is fully proved and substan tiated. I have not heard and cannot tell half the diabolical schemes he has put in practice with regard to the above affair, and if Mary did but know what he says and how lie talks bf her, site would never see or speak to hint again. Mr. Longmore says he shall never enter his hottse, and Mrs. Smith says the same. All this I tell you in confidence, act as you please. Mamma desires her kind love to all, and to tell you that she intends to write soon. I remain, dear Thomas, yours, most sincerely, " J. BistOxts." Mr. 0. PRILLIPII addressed the Jury for the defendant, and contended that the letter having been written in confidence could not be considered a libel. Ilr. Justice Be ano uoit gave it as his opinion that the letter was clearly a libel. The defendant In the letter asserted that these matters had been proved and substantiated, and not merely that he had hbard them. If the defendant had only stated it as hearsay, or had now ptoved it as fact, the observations would have had great weight, but instead of that, he takes upon himself to state that the plaintiff had been guilty of diabolical Conduct, Ind that he does hot know half of what he has been guilty of. As it was not justified it must be taken to be false; and on the mere publication of such matter the law implied malice. The publica tion was proved, the damages were a question for the Jury; and the amount of them ought to he a fair and moderate compensation for the injury done. The Jury having deliberated for a considerable time, found a verdict for the defendant. Some other eases of no interest were disposed-of'. This evening the business of the Oxtord Circuit was brought to a conclusion. _ . - MUNSTER CIRCUIT. - TIPPERARY AS3ISES, CtowitiL, A. S. Jelin Keily was put to the bar. The indictment ran thet lie did murder one W. Hackett, at Ki!wink on the ad April, by giving him one mortal wound, of which he died. Edward Cleary exantlned— Knew the deceased , end saw him in Clonmel, in the house of Matthew Looby. publican. Witness, his brother, and deceased had been there. The deceased desired wit ness to call him into the house, where he had drank some porter with them. The deceased and prisoner went out first, and witness and his brother followed, after settling for the reckoning. Witueot heard no more of deceased till the Tuesday following, when his corpse was found. Witness passed on to his residence at Abbey, and on arriving at Medfield saw Colonel Bagwell's and Mr. Stein's workmen going to the hurling.rnatch, after their work ; they stop at six. On being asked how long they remained at the public house, tile witness answered, while they were drinking a half-gallon of porter. Thomas Sully examined—Lives at Ratlikeevan, two miles and a halt from Clonmel. It is on the road leading to Caber. Was brought to where the corpse of deceased was found on a Tuesday. On the Saturday evening preceding he saw tile prisoner and de ceased go along the road together. To the best of hie reason it was about half-after six o'clock in the evening, for he had not long returned from his day's work. There were others before and after them on the road. Witness spoke to them at his own door, and took notice of them. They passed witness to go to Caller or Cashel, whichever they pleased, and appeared to be coming from Clonmel. Witness saw the body of the deceased half a mile from where he saw him in prisoner's company. He saw them approach the finger post leading to W'oodroofe ; the body was found at Kiln - toles!). Pat. Phelan examined—Lived in Other, and knew the lends of Kilmolash. Recollected having, on a Saturday evening, been pro ceeding from Clonmel to his residence, in company with • boy named Thomas Walsh, when he four.d a hat at Kilmolash Wit ness heard of deceased having been found, but could net tell how long after the Saturday on which he found the hat, which he brought to Caber without having taken any particular notice of it. After it was about two days in his possession, however, he looked at it, and found the name of Wm. Hackett written in it. At the time the hat was found on the road a post-chaise drove by, to thu driver of which he mentioned that he found a hat,-but he passed on without making any observation. At this time witness saw a man in a field, who was near enough to hear witness, but he made no answer. He kept the hat safe in his box for two days, endt senor. log to find on owner for it, when he at last gave it to Mr. Chief Constable Percy, of Caher. Margaret Hackett, widow of deceased, was placed in the witness chair with diiticulty, and the poor woman seemed far advanced in pregnancy. She was examined. Arc you widow of the late W. Hackett. Witness, sighing deeply, said, Oh ! I am. She lived, she said, at Derrygnith, about five mites from Clonmel, on the Caher road; Mr. William Hiatt was her landlord, and lived there about twelve months; her husband was employed by Mr. NAB as driver. Do you know the prisoner? Answer—Oh ! I ought to know him, which expression she accompanied with a scream. Iler husband was employed as a keeper over Keily last harvest ; saw the prisoner atter house the Sunday morning after her husband was killed, between seven and eight o'clock ; her husband had left home the morning before for Clonmel, to go to hlr. Mall, and hrd not returned; the prisoner asked. witness if it was late when Billy came home last night ? To which witness replied, that he had not returned at all, and questioned him if he had seen him ; the prisoner said he had, ebont one or two o'clock, In the streets of Clonmel, with his brother Jack, who was selling aload of cabbage: the prisoner added, that he asked the deceased to come home, anti was answered by him that he would not, as the night was too cold the witness was induced to believe that her husband had gone to Mr. Alan's seat at Annerville, and MRS joined in that opinion by the prisoner, who asked for a needle to mend his emalielothes. which was all torn, as well as his suspenders. \rime** charged him with having been in a fight on Saurday, which h• denied, observing that he had come home very early from Clonmel. Prisoner lived but a quarter of a mile from witness ; he hail been in the habit of coming to witness's house until her husband hail served hint with an ejectment; was, however, friendly for sic weeks previous to her husband's death. at which time, he was em ployed as keeper on Keily's lands. Prisoner said he hail come 1.1 witness's house to •look for one Mara, a country carpenter. to re turn him a cost which he had borrowed. The prisoner had. On the Monday preceding, corns to witness to borrow some clothes of her husband's, which she refused, but referred him to her husband outside the house. The prisoner did go out, and resumed. when the witness gave him her husband's cravat, which he hail taken oil' the evening before. A short time previews to the prisoner's yid: with hon. W itness named Murphy, who lived in the same y ard that morning, he had sent her did . not get the cushion of it. This she remarked to Kelly, whit asked if it had not come home. and. if not, that he must ave it husband's cravat home v . n be at his house, and would send it over oi. his return. Witness was present when the body of her husba nd was taken o ut of the di searched his pocket in presence of every person there, anti found the cushion—in fact , ft was the first thing she did eta mon making the search. White wi netts hail the einveraation whit Knits'. et her bootie, her father. nullity and brother.ialaw were in the house • t e old man was in the room, and his son about tha I boom, and were therefore within hearing of what passed he. tween horse it Kelly. 'rite hat produced was her husbantra hat Oval tun) Was ; was looking at i t s i nce s h e came 00 Os ~. , i l il , i f 1. 1 ii; ' .'. i.; f ( i r, I 1 , 1 1 111 ws 3 the 'a Ke4 wee 'the tie ciriC in - •