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MANUFJCTURING DISTRICTS. [From the Beitoa Express.) STATE or Taatee.—We turn with pam to this gloomy topic, and grieve that too improvement has taken place during the past week. Prices keep going down gradually, and r urchurrs become more scarce in Manchester every market day. Yarn, 40 hanks to the pound, has been sold at 13d., and calicoes are reduced 2.d. per piece. The stocks on hand are daily enlarging, and the difficulty of effecting sales at a profit price is greater than ever. IVe have re peatedly advised that the production should be lessened, rather than continue to add to an already overstocked mar ket. The manufacturers in the neighbourhood of Hod derafield appear to have arrived at the same conclusion, and have resolved to make fewer pieces instead of reducing the workmen's wages to nothing. It is indeed a matter of policy, for every reduction is a serious loss to those who hold large stocks. We have heard of in instance ads' eh will show the necessity of this measure. A loom at St t-hillock,near this lawn, is working a 7.8 40 reed cotton broad, St picks in the inch, and os yards long, for two shillings out of the warehouse. What will remain for the jourueyman weaver, after paying for sizing, winding, sowen, and loom rent? The work has to be taken three miles to the warehouse after it is finished. The poor's rate in this town is, we are told, to be ad vanced to five shillings in the pound. The collectors state that it is next to impossible to get in the old rate, and how they will succeed with this addition may easily be guessed. The rate will be grievously felt by such as pay heavy rents, for the means of paying will of course fall oft' in proportion to the increase. It is hoped that things will wear an im proved aspect ere long, for notwithstanding the difficulties of our situation, we are firmly persuaded they are only temporary, and that a new impulse will shortly be given to trade am! commerce. lire have been informed, that at the meeting lately held to hear appeals under the Police Act, a woman, the wife of a crofter who resides in this town, stated as a reason for exemption from the tax, that her husband earned from lOs t c 145. per week, out of which one-eighth was deducted by, his masters, because they have not a badger's shop on the premises!!! We ate assured of the correctness of this statement by several respectable individuals, and we must say, if true, it is a most barefaced and villanous species of robbery. The system of shops being opened for the ac commodation of workmen seems to be upon the increase, notwithstanding the severe penalties of the Act of Parlia ment made to prevent workmen being paid in goods instead of thecurrent coin of the realm. We are really very sorry to hear that a large spinning concern in the neighbourhood, which has always maintained a high character in the town, is giving in to the prevailing practice, by commencing one of these 30 per cent. poor-impoverishing concerns. To say nothing of the injury which the regular shopkeepers sus tain by the adoption of this plan, it is cruel to reduce the amount of a man's wages, by taking an extravagant profit on goo:ls which lie is compelled to purchase. IVith re spect to the case above-mentioned, we refrain publishing the names of the parties ; but if another instance of this alsnni nable practice should come to OUT ears, we will assuredly hotel up the principals coucerned to the just abhorrence of society. DENFEEMLINE.—The linen trade its this place is still much depressed, and there is at present little prospect of amendment. There are about 300 looms unemployed, and still mote are expected to become vacant. About Ic2o weavers are employed in levelling and repairing a turnpike Tomlin the vicinity, at a very low rate of wagese—Seofsman. o.i Friday a meeting took place here (Dublin), at the AVsavers' Hall, between the manufacturers and operatives in the silk trade, fur the purpose of fixing on a scale of prices to he paid during the present distressed state of the trade. After considerable discussion, the manufacturers agreed to meet the operatives in the same place at eleven o'clock the next day, when it is to be hoped an arrangement satisfactory to both parties will be the result. It was stated that, after another fortnight, the funds by which the Committee of the Corn Exchange had been hitherto enabled to give em ployment on the roads to the distressed operatives, would be entirely exhausted.—Dale/in Paper. Pr at te DIIITIMIB.-4:01111, JULT 13.—1 t is the opinion of some persons, that we have been too long silent upon the height to which distress has reached this city, and upon the ixteet of wretchedness which meets the eye of the most inattentive and callous observer, at every corner and in every street. It is the opinion of others, that these re presentations would be not only useless, but mischievous, anti that the work of relief goes on more effectually, by leaving the humane and charitable to the exercise of their own benevolent feelings, than by forcing, as they call it, xollections, through the instrumentality of public appeals. The reophig of flax has commenced in the parish of Deuipace, and though the crop is by no mean, good, still it is better than the farmer expected, the drought having been severely felt in the district. As a proof of this we have only to state, that at Denny-bridge the far-famed Carron is almost dry.—Sli.-ling Paper. Farmers, whose craps have completely failed, might at this late season sow a crop of barley. The writer has known barley cut down a good crop in the end of Novem her, five months hence. It will depend on the season whether barley sown so late will produce a crop of grain ; but one thing is certain, that plenty of straw will be pro deced, and, as that article will undoubtedly be scarce, it remains with the farmer to consider whether the large crop of straw would recompense him for the seed, failing a crop of grain. The green crop might be saved, by larding or mixing it with other straw, and salting the whole. Several vessels left the Tay last week for Holland, for the purpose, it is said, of importing hay of last year's growth. It can be purchased there for about 241. per stone; the importers calculate the freight will cost 6d. ; so that after paying all charges, they expect to be able to sell it in this country, with a fair profit, at Is. per stone. The pre sent price of that article in this neighbourhood is from Stud. to 'es.; and in some of the grazing districts 2s. ed. has been repeatedly refused, the fortunate holders not be ing willing to part with it, in the present appearance of all aorta of crops for cattle feetling.—Perth Courier. COMMUNICATION WITH I NDIA.—It gives us great plea sure to observe that a direct trade betwixt the port of Leith and India is soon to commence. A vessel of considerable tonnage is at present in the harbour loading for Calcutta. It is the first enterprize of the kind from the east coast of Scotland, and we wish it all possible success. LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCEI LIVERPOOL, JULY We have had a steady demand for B. P. Sugar, and fur lower qualities more money has been asked ; consequently, not so much done in them. About 1,000 lihds. have been suld, principally of the good and fine sorts for home trade. About 700 bags fine White Bengal Sugar have been sold at 735. per cat. In foreign Sugar or Molasses nothing done. In Rum very little doing, at uncertain prices. Very little doing in Coffee. In Cocoa or Pimento nothing done. About MI bags Barbadoes (linger have been sold at 00s. per eat. In Ashes the sales are 350 bids. States Pot, at 255. a 255. 811. 1/0111C Pearl. at 24.. a 21s. 6d. ; 100 brls Montreal Pot, at 21s. for Old, and 225. for New ; and 80 brls. Pearl, at 235. fad. for Old, and 245. G.I. for New. The arrivals of Rice having left the importers' bands, 100 casks Carolina have been sold, at Ills. a 19s. per cwt. ; and 350 Bengal, at Ills. a 19s. In Bides the sales are 10,0 0 0, viz.- Salted Buenos Ayres, at 34.1. to lid.; dry Salted Brazil, at 54d.; East India, at 3d. ; North American, 34d. per lb.; and Rio de Janeiro, Horse, at 31. a 4.. 2.d. each. In Turpentine, 500 brls. have been sold, at Us. 6d. per cwt. •Quercitron Bark steady; 50 Ws. Phila delphia, at 12s. fid. for ordinary, and 114 , . 6d. for inferior; some good at 13 . fat. and a small lot of New York, at 10s. Dyewoods In general very dull ; several attempts by auction, but without success; 80 tons Campeachy Logwood sold at 8/. 75.11 ti. a 8/. 10s. ; 73 tons Cuba Fustic, at 71. 2s. 6.1. a 71.12.. 6d.; 26 tons Spanish, at 31. and a few tons Zante, at 71. 10s. ; 30 tons Angola Rarwood, at 61. 7s. 6.1. and 5 tons Gaboon Ilarweod, at 6/. 55. ; 5 tons Cam• wood, at 151. ; and some prime solid Nicamguawood, at 201. a 22!. per ton. In Indigo and Cochineal nothing done. Brimstone very dull ; GO tons rough Sicily have been sold at 3g4., and 20 tom Roll, lin bond, at 111. In Shumac, 120 bags Malaga, at 115.. 6.1. a-d 130 Verona, at 6.. a 7r. In Saltpetre the prices are rattier lower, 315 bags sold, at 225. a 245. 3d. In Tar there is nothing doing. Cotton continues much depressed and prices 1-rover about :,(1. to 4d. at which reduction 4750 Mobile and 380 Uplands were sold by auction yesterday, and 70 Sea Islands, at 4d. to Id. below the last public sale. 400 bags American at d 300 Brazil have been sold for export. The private sales have been 1,900 hags of Uplands, at 50. to 73d. ; 630 New Orleans, at 61d. a gad. ; 1,400 bags Alabama, at Ad. a 6jd. ; 100 Sea Island, at 13d. a 1341. ; 20 stained Sea Islands, a t 7d.; 200 Pernambuco, at 94d. a 10Id. ; 400 Maranhant, at Od. a 9.1 d.; 150 Bahia, at 94d a 04d. ; GO Demerara, at M. ; 600 Egyptian, at 7d. a 9.0.; 30 Barbadoes, at 741. a 71d. ; 15 Cattlia gena, at 60. ; 301 Surats, at sd. a sttl. ; and 33 Bengal, at sd. ; making a total of about 6.800 bags. Import of Cotton, from gilt to 14 July. inclusive 14,923 bales. -------- COpPER CURRENCY. [From the Freeman's Journal.] We are fated, we believe, in this country, to experience not only those di ffi culties which, from a variety of causes, seem indigenous to us, but others also which are the off spring of palpable neglect and indifference to the wants of the people, and which might be avoided or remedied by common prudence. Since the time of Locke no one thing has been thought of greater importance in Eng land than a proper attention to the state of the currency ; and the necessity of regulating it according to some fixed standard, is now admitttd as a general principle in poli tical economy ; and yet, is to ha credited that in Ireland we have been left for six months without any siandard by which the price of a single commodity can he known with certainty ? On the Sth of January last, the Act for assi milating the currency of this country with that of Eng land came into operation; but on that day not a single cop per coin, in which alone the difference of currency (aimed, had been provided for Ireland. Three months, we believe, elapsed before the first cargo of copper arrived in the country ; and up to this time (six months) there is not half what would be requisite to carry on the retail trade of the poor. The effect of this has been, to keep in circulation copper coins, different in value, but under the same deno mination, to the utter confusion of trade, and to the mate rial loss of the poor, who are losers by it. The best in tentioned tradesman cannot with certainty fix a price on an article which is to he paid for in copper, because he does not know whether it may be paid for in English or in Irish copper, or partly in one and partly in the other. He there fore a dopts the surer practice ; he fixes the piiee in the old currency, awl if he happens to be paid in the new. he gins the difference over and above his regular profits. It is quite evident that the poor, whose dealings are small, must be sufferers materially by such an authorized ano maly. But we may expect that in a city like this there will he a numerous class of dealers ready to take advantage of a circumstance so favourable to the practice of imposi tion. This, we are sorry to learn, has been very exten sively the case with the bakers. The assize price of bread, for the last six weeks, has been from loid. to llid , English currency, for ie quartern loaf. When the poor man goes to buy the half-, uartern, the price is 50 ; if he pays for it in Irish copper he pays Old., which is a f raction more than the assize; but if he takes the new copper, lie is required to pay the same price. And if lie remonstrates, lie is told, •• 0, the coppers arc all the same." In fack, the poor must remain in ignorance of the price which they ought to pay for their bread, or any other article of life, while the two currencies are in circulation—and both will continue in circulation until the old coppers are pe remptorily cried clown after a certain day. BRA NCH BA N are now enabled to state, from the best authority, that the Branch from the Bank of Eng land, to which we have so repeatedly called the attention of our readers, will be opened iu this city, for the despatch of business, on Wednesday next, on the premises lately occupied by Messrs. Turners and Morris. On this event, important as it is to Gloucester and the surrounding coun try, we heartily congratulate out friends and the public. The necessary arrangements for the formation of this Esta blishment, and for taking possession of the Banking-house and adjoining premises, now purchased from Messrs. 'fur tier by the Bank of England, have unavoidably delayed the opening of the Branch Bank here ; but it must be sa tisfactory to the inhabitants of Gloucester to know, that no doubt has ever been entertained of its claims for such an Establishment, or of its peculiar fitness for the com mencement of an Institution, which, it is probable, the Directors of the Bank of England will extend throughout the country. The experiment will first be made here— successfully made, as we earnestly hope—and here will be first reaped the fruits which we augur will assuredly spring from ft.—Gloucester Journal.. _ _ THE SCOTCH Noy Es.—The anticipated withdrawal of Scotch notes his been the principal topic of interest in Cumberland and Westmorlan d .A meeting was itch! on the subject on Thursday, in Carlisle, at which the merits of the question met with rather a lengthened discussion. Sir Philip Musgrave, Bart., M.P., on the motion of Sir J. R. G. Graham, Bart. NI.P. was in the chair ; and Sir James read the memorials which are intended to be pre sented, one to the Treasury, and the other to the Scotch bankers having agencies here ; the one praying their Lord ships to take some measures to avert the threatened evil ; the other praying the bankers "to suspend the change of system which they contemplate, and which would deprive the memorialists of a currency which has hitherto proved safe." Sir James then informed the meeting that he had beeo to Edinburgh for the purpose of communicating with the Seottish bankers, and that he had received several let ters on the subject. Ile expressed it as his opinion, that the continuation of Scotch notes about the English border, was by no means devoutly to be wished ; yet be thought that a too sudden withdrawal of them would occasion a vacuum in the Border which might be calculated to do se rious injury. The present measure was proposed as a temporary one, the necessity of which, he hoped, would be obviated in the next Session of Parliament, when he would gladly support any measure tending to do away with the necessity of depending upon Scotch liberality. We are sorry to observe that the Stirling Bank has this week suspended payment; but it is understood that the public will eventually lose nothing. The bank con tains seven partners, and has existed fur nearly filty years. —Seutlmun. MURDER IN IfIELAND.—On Tuesday last, Mr. Thomas Russell, of Crobane, near Killenaule, was killed by a stag of a knife in his left breast, inflicted by a man named Denis Connell, whom Mr. Russell had detected in the act of skinning a calf of his about twelve o'clock at night. The deceased lived just to declare who the person was that had stabbed him. The murderer was apprehended at au early hour the next morning. THE BRITISH PRESS. NEGRO STEALING. [From the Norfrik Herald, American Paperl A Man who• passed by the name of William Ittlwatile, came over from Hampton last Wednesday evening, oath a negro fellow in custody, for whom the next morning, bright and early, he was endeavouring to find a purchaser; but having no document to prove his right to sell him, no one seemed disposed to purchase; indeed, Mr. Currier, the jailor of this borough, went so far as to doubt whether Mr. Edwards had come honestly by the negro, and so in order to be entirely satisfied upon the subject, he pro posed to Edwards to deliver the negro into his custody, until the right of property could he clearly identified. To this Edwards assented without the least hesitation, and the negro was lodged in jail for the present. Upon being questioned, he stated that his name was Peter, and that he belonged to Mr. William Jarrett, of Greeneville county, (Va.) That be was at work in one of his master's fields near the highway, when a Jersey waggon, drawn by two sorrel horses, passed along, in which were two white men and a black and a mulatto man. A tittle way behind was this man Edwardson horseback. Edwards stopped and told him he had just bought him from his master (at the same time exhibiting a piece of paper, which he said was a bill of sale), and that he intended to take him to Noifolk, where, if he could find a purchaser, he would sell him ; if not he would keep hint, and let him hire his own time. Believing what he had heard, the negro left his work and followed his supposed new master, who soon after secured him with irons to prevent his escape. Edward. and 'the white men in the waggon were in partnership, but he could not learn their names, nor where they had picked up the other two coloured men. The whole proceeded on to po tersbnrg, and thence down towards Norfolk, but crossed James river at a ferrying-place, and took the route through Williamsburg and York towards Hatnpmn. Edwards and Peter, however. parted with the men in the waggon some where above Hampton, and came down to that place, whence they crossed over in the steam-boat to Norfolk, as before stated. Peter also informs that he heard Edwards speak of having a mother, who lie said lived in Surrey county. Upon this information the Mayor sent an officer to bring Edwards before him for examination, but he was nowhere to be found. It appeared that immediately after delivering up the negro he left town, and upon inquiry it was ascer tained that lie had passed over the toll-bridge, on foot, and barefoot. Mr. Cherry, the officer, who had been despatched in search of him, lost nn time in procuring a horse and gig, and taking with him Mr. Mortis, at whose house Ed wards had put up, followed after, and overtook hint at Shoulder's Hill, fifteen miles on the road to Suffolk. It seems he made good use of his feet, as it took him but two hours to get thus far. They called upon hint to surrender, upon which Edwards drew a pistol and showed fight; but seeing that Mr. Cherry paid no regard to his menaces, but deliberately dismounted front his gig, and advanced to wards him with a firm step, he took to his heels, bounded over a fence with the agility of a greyhound, and footed it across a field at the rate of twelve knots an hour. Cherry, however, never asked odds in a foot race, so darted after him, followed by his companion, and but for an unlucky fall in mounting the fence, would no doubt have overtaken him at the onset ; but this little accident e.tabled the fugitive to shoot so far a-head, that his pursuer could never after get within tangible distance of him ; he however kept up a hot pursuit for upwards of a mile and a half, over fences and ditches, and marches, and through brambles and briars, into a trackless wood, when Edwards completely secured his retreat by dashing into a jungle of thorns and briers, so bristling and dense that no animal with a hide less obdurate than that of a rhinoceros would have dared to follow him. Here Cherry thought escape was impos sible, rightly inferring, from the nature of the asy lum, that, like most scrapes, the difficulty was not so much in getting in as in getting out. But he reckoned without his host; for although Edwards, on gaining his' penitential sanctuary, made a pause, as if to breathe a little, it was only lung enough for Cherry to turn round and halloo for his companion, who had been left far behind in the race. And on turning his eyes again to the jungle, Edwards had vanished ; nor could the most diligent search, which they prosecuted fur half itf hour, sake to un kennel him, and they reluctantly concluded to relinquish it. Much credit is due to Mr. Cherry, for the prompt and fearless manner in which he discharged his duty (the fel . low being armed with a brace of pis'iols), and wee 'only re gret that he was not more fortunate. We understand there is no doubt that Edwards is the. same person who, under the name of Smith, stole a pair of horses not long since, and had them under the hammer in Washington, at the very moment that the owner came up and recognized his property. Smith (as he called him self) had quickly recognized him, and deeming it unsafe to tarry longer, sneaked off and made the best of his way out of Washington ; not, however, as the report goes, without being as completely put to the top of his speed, by an eager pursuit, as he was by Mr. Cherry. TEA TRADE.—The Roxburg Castle, from Canton, 21st Jan. arrived at Quebec 10th May, with a cargo of Teas. The advantages which are likely to result from the direct trade iii this article, by the honourable the East India Company, to Canada ' have in some measure been realized by the importation of the last year, both as to the reduced price of the article, and its superior quality, independent of the increase it has brought to our revenue, and the con sequent decrease of the perilousand unlawful practice of smuggling. The Company, it appears, are determined that the people of Canada shall have the benefit of this trade to its greatest possible extent, by sending out cargoes this year, which it is said they intend shall be sold at costs and charges. When reflecting on the good which has already resulted from this measure, and anticipating the probable profits which it may yet afford, and when congratulating each other on tile successful turn which has been given in our favour, to so important and general an article of commerce, we should not lose sight of or forget the persons by whose means so desirable an object has ben accomplished. The former Parliament of Upper Canada have the merit of having succeeded in procuring this trade for us. To them the thanks of the country are most justly due, and though some of the persons who advocated this, and other mea sures of public utility, have retired from our Legislative Halls, it is to be hoped the country will bear it. grateful remembrance their valuable labours on this important sub ject.—Upper Canada Gazelle. I NT cox' CATION.—An Alabama paper gives a Iragi-comic illustration of the effects of intemperance. A man was about to sell his horse, but being himself too much ia inzieefed to attend to the matter, he desired his son to give the animal some wet meal to botoll him out. The sop was also a little intoxicated, and instead of wetting the meal with the pure element, he steeped it in a bowl of whiskey from which his father had been drinking. The natural consequence was, that the horse became intoxicated, and be gan to dance a pas sod (circus riders will do well to remember this recipe), then to lie down, jump dp, and renew his capers. After performing out of doors, a sort of kindred feeling induced him to walk into the house, and join his jolly companions. Here he began to dance before the old man, who, believing the devil was come to him in the shape of a horse, took up an axe and knocked out the brains of the poor animal. The story is told with all the gravity which beloilgs to truth, and we are therefore bound in all courtesy to believe it. COUNTERFEIT Sll.VER.—During the last few weeks an immense quantity of base silver has been put into circula tion in Manchester and the neighbourhood, and it is highly necessary that persons in the habit of receiving silver, and especially those who stand in the markets, should be very careful in examining the coin offered to them. On Saturday last, a man and a woman were taken in the Old Church-yard, by Kathie and Wordtington, two of the beadles. The woman was seen to throw some thing from her, which on examination, turned out to be a number of se shillings wrapped up in paper, and on searching the man, nine bad shillings and a bad half-crown were found upon him. They were committed to the ses sions yesterday. Last Saturday but one, a man who was selling butter in the market received no less than fifteen counterfeit half-crowns; indeed, the whole of the silver he received was base. On Saturday last, a woman tendered him a base shilling, and he immediately recognized her as one who had paid him three counterfeit half-crowns the Saturday before : she was consequently taken into custody and lodged in the New Bailey. PUBLIC MEETING IN NEW YORK FOR THE RzblEF OF URERS TIIE ENGLRESSAND DISTRESSED MANUFAC- T IN . [From an American Paper.l The continued and alnost unparslleled suffering• of a large portion of the inhabitants in England, Ireland, and Scotland (from causes altogether beyond their control), have induced several of the most respectable citizens of, and British subjects in, 'stew York and its vicinity, to call a meeting of those who may feel interested in their behalf, to devise some means, or adopt some measures, for their relief, and if prac;icable, to rescue them from poverty and starvation. A public meeting will therefore be held on Monday next, at six o'clock, p.m. at Washington Hall, to take this subject into consideration. All those who feel interested in the cause•of suffering humanity, are respectfully invited to attend. One of our public journals, after relating some of the heart-ri Ming scenes of distress among our fellow-men beyond the At lantic, thus remarks:—" Now is the time for the citizens of these United Swats to manifest their benevolence and charity towards our suffering, starving fellow-men in England. Our country is literally overflowing with pro visions of various kinds, especially flour ; and we have hundreds of ships ready to transport there provisions. Why not, then, start subscriptions, or devise some means to relieve the distresses of those people ? Such conduct would make the widow's and the orphan's heart to sing for joy, and perhaps save thousands from starvation, and bring dawn the blessing. of heaven on our land." The vivid descriptions given in the English Papers of the distress which prevails among the manufacturing classes, has excited much sympathy on this able the wa ter; and the last Mercantile Advertiser announces the in tention of several benevolent inhabitants of New York to send a cargo of flour to England, as an American contri bution for the relief of the distressed labourers. et El, 1- st ey e iie ng a ed in PERKINS. Mr. Carter, the senior editor of the New York Slates- Mart, in his Goth letter, in relating his interview with our countryman, Perkins, says— He sat with us two or three hours, and was so kind as to shew us ell the letters which had passed betweeen him, the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Canning, and Lord Liverpool, ! respecting his invention of steam guns. They pay a high compliment to his ingenuity, and, after visiting his ma nufactory, express a favourable opinion as to the prae ' ticability of this mode of warfare. The Duke of IVO lington remarked that he saw no reason why it should not produce a new era in military science ; and he thought no troops could be brought up to face a park of artillery discharging a shower of shot with such ra pidity. This is high authority, in which the two Mi nisters concur. The invention will be equally eitctive by land and sea. A public experiment was to he tried in Regent's Park on the Gth of December, at which the staff of the army, and the great men of the metropolis, were to be present. No doubt was entertained as to the result, nor that steam will, at no distant period, supersede the use of gunpowder. Invited by the comforts of the hearth, Mr. Perkins en tered somewhat at length into philosophical and mechanical speculations, giving the result of his experiments in hydraulics, to prove the compressibility of water. His investigations have led him to a full conviction, that the ocean, at the depth of five hundred miles from its surface, ceases to be liquid, becoming front mere pressure a solid, dense, mass of matter, constituting the c ntral portions . of the globe. He related an amusing anecdote connected with this sultjact. Soon after his arrival in London, he went one evening to listen to the instructions of a Professor of Philosophy. The subject of the lecture happened to be hydraulics, in which the incompressibility of water was inculcated as an axiom. At the close of the exercises, the American philosopher entLreil into a dis cussion of the point with the Prof( s:mr, and so fully satisfied him of the falsity of the axiom, that on the fol lowing evening he had the cand.:ur to retract his doctrines, and give another lecture to his class en the compressibility of water. Mr. Perkins also gave us a detail of his expe riments, which were successful, for connecting air into a permanent visible liquid. In short, he seems to play with the elements; and above all, has been the first to bring into complete subjection the fiery and intractible power of steam. This gentleman takes a lively interest in the inventive genius of his countrymen, to whom his situation in the focus of mechanics, his acquaintance with London, and above all, his own experience, enable him to afford great 863i6talleV. Ile spoke in very free and favourable terms of the invention for converting iron into steel by a simple process, entertaining no doubt of his success, nor that the patentee will realize an immense fortune. The celebrated! banker Goldschmidt has purchased one quarter of the pa tent for ten thousand pounds, and says he would not part with it for ten times that amount. if my information is correct, the real inventor has been defrauded of the reward of his ingenuity, and another person is likely to reap the profits. An anecdote was related to us of a Philadelphien in Lon don, who has an invention for extracting calculi. I have examined the ingenious instrument, and witnessed the method of using it. If it shall succeed, it will supersede the horrible operation of lithotonty. Like many men of genius, the inventor has the misfortune not to be in affluent circumstances, and on that account met with some difficul ties in securing the benefits of his skill and industry. One of the most distinguished physicians in London, after ex ' amining the apparatus and satisfying himself of its merits, sat down and wrote a cluck for five hundred pounds, handing it to our :ountryman, and saying that if the in vention should form a source of profit, the money might be refunded; but, if nut, he would please to consider it as a gratuity. We understand that our countryman, W. Davidson, Esq. of Shaftesbury House, Loudon, !ably deceased, has, out of his ample fortune, h. plea t bed -400/. i per cent. stock, as the foundation of a bursary in King's College, Old Aberdeen, to students of the name of Davidson or Knowles, Situ, Ramsay, Simpson, Leslie, Thom, Forbes, Gerard, or Gordon ; and also 6001. of the same stock, as the foundation of two bursaries in Marisehal College here, to students of the wane names, with addition of those of Cooper or Coilie.—Aberdeen Journal. MOVEMENTS or TnE MILITARY.—A company of the Second Coldstream guards left this town on Thurs.lay morning, for head-quarters (Manchester). A troop of the First King's Dragoon Guards, now lying in this town, re ceived orders yesterday to hold themselves in readiness to march on the shortest notice.— Preston Ott ()nide. On Thursday week a trotting match atminst time took place between. Barnby Moor House and Shipton Bar, on the Hull road, by a four-year-old colt, belonging to Wil liam Lund, of B-allty. The eteing went was to trot two miles in seven minutes, and the colt accomplished the task, with great ease, in six minutes and 37 seconds. AILLANCIIOLE ACCIDENT.—On Sunday a large party, consisting of ladies and gentlemen, proceeded up the River in one of the larger class of wherries. Having spent an agreeable day, they came down with the tide; and it was proposed that all the ladies should be landed on the South wark side above London-bridge. The females having been put on shore, the waterman who steered the boat strongly reannruenddl the gentlemen not to proceed through the bridge, on account of the rapidity of the current, and actually landed himself, fearful of the consequences. The gentlemen, however, determined on running the boat through, in order tb land at D ptford, proceeded to shove off the wherry from the stairs. They had scarcely, how ever, got a dozen yards front the shore, when the boat being in the current, struck against one of the dams of the' new bridge, and instantly upset. Two of the gentlemen. one named Parker, many years brewer to St. Thomas's Hospital, and a Mr. Lott, were both drowned ; and the rest of the gentlemen were with difficulty saved from shar ing a similar fate. The bodies of the two unfortunate gentlemen have not been yet found. On Tuesday an extensive tire, calamitous in its efF, ere, as poor people are the principal sufferers, took place at Craigie, near Perth, lately the scene of similar devastation. A young woman is said to have been kindling a fire with wood shavings and dried broom, which, blazing to a con siderableheight, set the chimney in a flame. Some of the sparks communicated with the roof of a thatched house in the neighbourhood, the materials of which, from the ex treme drought, having been rendered quite in a state for rapid combustion, was instantly enveloped in the devouring element. A tnan was immediately despatched to Perth, to give the alarm and to procure the engines ; but as they can not be granted without the authority of a magistrate, and as some time elapsed before that was obtained, the flames spreading in the mean time with overwhelming fury, much damage was sustained before the engines arrived on the spot. Four dwelling-houses, a wright's shop, and a cow house, fell a prey to the flames, and scarcely a single article of property or furniture was saved from the conflagration. DREADFUL Rior.—At the fair of Kilfeacle, on Mon day, no business was done, on account of a tremendous riot between two factions under the titles of the Hickeys and Hogana ' each party consisting of three or four hundred men, armed with muskets, pistols, bayonets, scythes. &c. They bad been making preparatians for this affray a month before. It appears two men were killed, one a des perate character of the name of Duggan, who had been corporal in the 84th Foot, the same who suffered two years' contioement in Clonmel gaol for a felonious assault on a female child, and who deserted front that regiment since his liberation from prison. Mr. Thompson held an inquest on his body, in Tipperary, on Monday evening. Another man, of the name of Trehy, was also killed in the affray at Kilfeacle; and two even, of the names of' Carey and Peters (the last-named was lately arraigned under a charge of murder at Clonmel Assizes), were wounded. The military from Tipperary, and the police from different sta tions, were on the spot in the morning, under the directiolt of Magistrates, who also attended the fair, to prevent the disorder; but as these went home early, the opposite fic tions came in contact, and battle and death ensued between the deluded wretches. Several wounded were supposed to have scrambled into the surrounding corn-fields, and their numbers or condition were not known at the time our cor respondents closed their letters.—Clortmel Advertiser of July 12. WE3'TERN CIRCUIT. DORCHESTER, SiTettlit, Jonah [Before Mr. Justice GARIEI.EE.I . enorra wasmenutiett. This was an action brought la recover compensation for WWq . occasioned by the overthrow of the Regulator stage-coach, troni isindon to teeter. The case was triid at the Summer Assign, 1825, but, upon application to the Court of King's Bench, the Ver dict was set asile, upon the ground of misdirection 6n Use pdtt of the beamed Judge' (Littledale), who then presided. The partta total's are already berme the public, but, an the case is one of gene: tel interest s it may not be uninteresting to read attends* to the leading points. On the present occasion Mr. Jeutmv opened the Pleadings, and, in the nbsecce of Mr; C. F. It'illiams. Mr. TANC• ED stated the plairriff's cane. lie said his client resided in London, but oc casionally travelled to the, West of England upon bushiest ; and that the defendant (Mr. Waterhouse) was the proPrietew of the Svan-with-two-Neckn. Lad-lane, and also an extensi3e coach pro prie'or. The plaintiff toilt lei seat in defendant's coach (the Re gulator) no the sth March, as an outside passenger, Ind nothing occurred until the coach had left Salisbury, which was Aga two o'clock, where, :after crossing the Aron, there in a steep hill, in driving down which, at the turn of the road,. the /ouch was upset '' , and all the paasengers thrown off'. The plamtilTreceiSed so mach' injury that he was wildly ineripsble of attending to his b e or es eti of being retooled to his family, from the period w i rl li e accident occurred until the 17th April. For this injury Ite flow came before the Jury for damages. it would be proved that the night was light, and that the itecident wag attributable to nothing else but the culpable negligence of the defendant's coachman. The' defence, he understood, was, that some cottages tehkh were On lbe. toad had bean removed, and that the coachman was in the habit of fixing his eye on the gable-end of one of these cottages, the absence of which deceived him on the occasion of the accident. He con tended, however, that such a defence was no justification whatso ever. A coachman. who had the lives of se many individual* undas.h.s care, should not admit a eaprfeinee object, like a tree or a house, self clathe owner might at any time pull down, fcr hisguide. But, in the present instance, the defence Wes altogether unfounded. Ttie cottage had been taken down the preceding day, and must hare been seen by the coachman, who paned the raid every day. In support of the plaintiff's case, Francis James Kelsey was examined. He stated that he was s'eward to lord Radnor. He hired at :lie flea of Harnani-hill, where the accidelt occurred, He is well acquainted wits the road. 'There is a turn to the right afiet crossing balinbury-hridge ; there is another turn to the left at no' great distance. There were two small cottages adjoining the road in M-r,:h, 1825. The angle of the last cottage formes the sharp tuning of the road. The cottages belonged to Lord Radnor; sonic improvemenic were being made in the road, and his Lordship dire.ted the cottages to be taken down. The accident to the Regu lator occurred- on a Saturday. On the preceding Wednesday the doors mid windows of the cottages were removed, and part of the roof taken down. On Thor-day all the timher-work was clown, and, by Friday, one of the cottages was completely down, and only the back wall and a stack of chimneys were standing belonging to the second. The turn was very dangerous, but the danger would be obviated by taking the sweep of the road. Wittman drives a one-horse gig, and always takes the sweep. He heard of the acci dent a few hours after it occurred, and visited the spot. The a hsel mark was distinctly discernible. The wheel had passed over part of the foundation of the cottage which was taken down, end then turned sharply on the road. . . Several Workmen employed is taking down the cottages couch°. ratei the tcatintony of Mr. Kelsey, with respect to the prdgress of the wo-k. John Conway examined—Was a passenger in the conch on the day of the accident. They left Salisbury at one o'clock ; it was fine star-light night, and the morn near its full. They wete upset at 11:Imam-hill. When wimess got out, he observed the track of the wheel, and that the coach had pasted over an embankment raised above the road. The road was clear. twenty.four feet wide, and lid no rubbish on it. Nothing conld be plainer than that the accident occurred through the negligence of the coachman. The passengers objected to hit driving afterward', and the guard drove. The pl . -drain' was mangled sadly ; he was alien to Longberry Hut, and placed in a curt, by six persors. Cr* ss-examined—Witness never said the coachman was not to blame, but said the proprietors were to be pitied. The coach-track was two feet out of the road. Believes the coach passed over the foundation of one of the cottages. Several other passengers were exsmined, and deposed to the same etl'ect as the witness Conway. It sag also given in evidence, that the pkintiff's actual ex penses. whilst lie rema'ned ill at Longberry Hu., amounted to 951. Mr. Sergeant WILDE fa ith whom war Air. Luse twt: and Mr. CARTER) made a powerfal address to the Jury on behalf of the d f n :ant, coatendi ig that the coachman %it! not to blame. Vta.: he was ignorant of the alters ions which had taken place in tie road. a• d had in no deg ree rentsred himself liable to a charge of unskilfulness or neg' , ge..ce. In support of the defsn lant's case, the coachman and muted were examined. The l mire that he was not aware that the cot. tage was •akrn down ' • he kept hit eye on the wall that was stand ing, a ut perceived ro hirg until he found the coach was obstructed. when, after rem tining on a balance for a few seconds, it went over. It was a'se mated b some of the defendant's witnesses, that a dense fo t hail come on about an hour before the ,tecide .t. Several stage-co tchmen, in the habit of driv:rg of this TOE 1 . were called t„ , prove that it was their general tract ce. whep there was nothia4 in the way, to turn short round the gable.e:.d of the cot tage. and not to take the sweep. Mr. C. F. NVILLIADIS reviled, and Mr. Justice GASELEE, after summing up, left it to the Jury to say, whether they believed, from the evidence, that the defendant's coachman had evinced a culpable degree of negligence. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1551. The case occupied the Court for seven hours, and did not con clude till half-past ten at night. COLE V. WELCIL—SAME t. SANE. These were actions brought by a landlord. against his late tenant, for alleged bad husbandry on an ex ensive farm, held fur several years by the defendant, under the plaintiff. In consequence of that asserted bad husbandry, the plaintiff claimed damages and rents, by way of forfeiture, to a co-Isiderable amount. The crusts involved questions of some importance, relative to the general p-ac tine of husbandry. It was, however, at length agreed by Mr. Sergeant Wilde and Mr. Williams, for the plaintiff, and Mr. Culu ridge and Mr. Barton, for the defendant, w tin the approbation of the Learned Judge, that a verdict should be taken for the plaintiff, will 20.0001. damages in one action, and 10,000/. in the other, subject to the arbitration of Mr. Gambier, who was :o have full power on all the questions in difference between the parties, la their character of landlord and tenant. ('llOl4'N SIDE. Wheatley, who was indicted last Assizes. on a charge of uttering; a forged bill to Mrs. Luce, of the Hotel, Weymouth. remains here, in custody, preparatory to his being sent pto London, for trial, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. Uz the indictment, in this county, for forgery, no prosecutor appear 4. and he was acquitted, as a matter of course. New rhILEI is stated in the Fayettevidle (N.C.) Observer of the 7th inst. that a gold mine has re cently been discovered in Montgomery county, in thst state, 'ace mile east of the Yadkin river, on Beaver dam creek, on land owned by Mr. Angus Chisholm. The dis covery was made in the latter part of last summer; but it had not been extensively wor ked until the present season. For some few weeks past from one hundred to one hundred and fifty hands have been kept constancy at work ; each hand finds on an average from three to eight, and sometimes fifteen dwt. per diem ; it is supposed by many to be one of the richest mines in the state ; the pieces found are generally` round, solid, and very purr, though not very large. One mile east of the above mine, there is another known by the name of Crawford's Mine, where the gold is found on the top of a considerable moun tain. Mr. King, an enterprising gentleman from Georgia, is at present employed in constructing machinery for the purpose of washing out the gold more expeditiously than in the common way. SEA SERPENT AGAlN.—Captain Holdredge, of the ship r l Silas Richards, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool, states that in passing George's Banks, five days singe, he had a fair view of the Sea Serpent. It was about ten rods from the ship, the sea perfectly calm, and that part which appeared out of water about sixty feet in length. The head and protuberanees were similar to the representations which have frequently been given of him by persons wha had seen him near Cape Ann. He was going at a very slow rate and appeared unmindful of the ship.' He was visible about seven minutes to the passengers and crew, who were on deck at the time. A certificate has been drawn up and signed by the passengers, which, with a drawing made by one of the gentlemen, gives a minute de 7 scrtption of the Serpent as seen by them. The number and credibility of the witnesses place beyond all doubt the existence of such an animal as a Sea Serpent.—Nete Turk Daily Advertiser. - - E;.ECTIO os.—( From the Erne Packet.)—We stated last week that the inquest on the body of Margaret Magat:- haran, who died in the Infirmary of Cavan, had adjourned, in consequence of the non-attendance of witnesses. We have since learned.that the Jnry who composed the inquest disagreed, seven of them being for finding the follewing.- verdict, and the other Ave dissenting on account of the words emphatically marked, on the finding; being intro duced :—" We find that the said Margaret l'ilagagharan came by her death by a gun-shot wound in her right side, which passed through her body, which shot was fired by Thomas Hewitt, in consequence of a riot tavern tiu 3; parties, in wtdCh the said deceased Margaret llhrtaPaian had no concern whatever." 9