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chemist, where the Proarentnr wec first taken in Holborn, stated, that a ottettstia ma'n looked at the wounds, and by his &dater he put on a little ndlie -4 sire plaister. lie iLqulrl otherwise Wive iater fer.4.l. hot have .4.-hit the 134, to the tiovitril. Thomas and Jolm Iwo of the brothers of the Defehotstot e • who *eve prevent •her, flirt chlled In ok that the 11.% upiaht he sell% • owed that on ,wither *craw*, ilia he ratuotwee hint 'elf as the father of the loci. • . The defence to•ing closed. Mr. A !AIRY replied. ItECORDER •UnFlird tip the "widener, in the t•nurw of which I.e took: nocinion t aisimativert in the severest terms on she iillittuivilty which find been darplayed by the Fidler of the young Defend. ,t. The Jury, **Allot any hesiiution, found the D e . tendant The It ccussise their n-ked the tidier of the De. Sentient it he was willing. 111 order 10 Oren the se. verity of punishment, which must otherwise fall upon Win, to make a pecuniary compensation to the Pro.etiator ? Mr. Sirninim.ls espre.srd his willingness to do srs and wished to know whit would be espected from MO. The Rrcoaout said that 301. would he expected by the Court to be press ass rompeowstioss, the Court not hive allowed to stand is Iwo of punishuseut, tor il,e weeder yetis of the lie. fenslant. Air. Simmondt WOO !Ivo allowed to go home to iur.eure the ))))) uey. when a unmask prouthturut only would he inflicted no the young liefireutaat, also remained 111 the. Court till hot father's /ruin.. NAVAL INTN.LLICENCE. ►ORTs7IOLTA, ocroUnt 1. Arrive.] the Aetole, Colibertu.s, from Messius. VALIOOO7II, 30. Arrived Ow Dolt. of Kent packet from I.rshoo, in Moo flays; Novitoe, °mini,. fr.•m Ihnen. Arri►rd of the Port the .I.lllr, Dllllhork, Iron, ni,ortn, in fourteris dogs. PLVIIOUTU, SIPTI.MII/1 30. Arrived the Robert and Mantra...B, Cr ,y, fi.•m Itica,iss 17 shy. —Off Ow port the All.xander, M.tlrr, Ito. Cadiz for N'% bur I. R 7 data. Passed by ih. /wore Adrian, Boon, from Rollordool for R.invia, mod she GrJoars Mow, Logi, hogs Lisboa for Londoo. 111ARICICH, °MISER 1. Arrived the Lrieratev, Hammond, Irum Cuxhaven, with &r. DIAL, OCTOBER 1. Sailed laet ■ight the whole 0( the otsigrardbudaul C.d. the C4me skarn /►em she river and sailal the Circassian. Wa•... for essrivintsasis sod Calculi.; and Griffin, Cubists, Cs. siw ?Ivan ars.. Arnrrol sold sailed for the river Ike Bur'intim, W 1!..., from Jll3lllCie CORN EXCHANGE, OCTOnflt 2. Nearly at ihe close of Momlny's nimrket a saddled fan look place on the price of Wheal, in consequence of an lialwidtge stutter ..lane Fh.ur el Si. pee sack under She quitted price s and some of the hest runs le itteffecinally offenrd al a re. (Porton. of 3.. per rpo3lior; and althowth wt have hid au ✓er , val.. except Iwo ver.el4 from the Norfolk coast, Wheat S. e%r”rils,,il) heavy this tint at that abatement. New tl.lll 113 Ir. mot Na 2, per qr. lower thaw .41 list Mluutar st . i , lll(lll. 4416 9.1111 in rentrtl. and are vrady .ale at the a•ivaore of lit‘t Mooday.--168 Betas, Prase, rut otber articles there is Ito 015.f6110111. ()it Thursday se`nitight, at eight o'clock in the sviorsiing, a horse was discovered on an island called 1:le Horse Nisbitt a mile from the pier brad at Porirratli, Cocoa all. The animal fell neer the rlitt oboist lOU feet high into the water, without nev injury, slid was carried by the ebb to the i.l,ud, nearly a mile front die place where he fell. About 4C %VII o'clock yesterdby morning the Swatilard, facing Somerset House, in ncie theadfully alarmed at a great part of the street Wittig in, and exposing to view a mist fearful :11))sr, the bottom of wbicli the eye in 011 not revel,. On essuntiation it appears to 114 t b-en an old well coerced io, and upward, of lot!". Gri iii depth, eighty of t%hiCt is now 101 l of w:iter. I 1 it it happened at bight the loss lives that wool I occur is incalculable, as this tremendous shlss is in the vet)• cruise of a very uanots thorotigiilare, so th■t whoever might tinfor tiestely fall iii could give no alarm, and one wile, ;moth, r might meet the same fate. The well shunt tight feet Ili diameter. Many curious it in the (11116 e is the day : It is yore fenced over to prevent accidents. Th e f o llowing details, as curious as interesting. res : ,ectitie finilit• of the particulars which followed tee trial ul C,lols and Roger. are extracted from a dat,(l Strasburg, the Y3ll ir.sliiirt coliforrnily with the custom of Councils of the arensed wets teconducted to ptisoil. At r•rll the doctiwion had be. it brought to total :he pentenee pronounced. the reporting Captain got e notice of it to the gaoler of the Iluuse of Jus tice, where Caton was in ellisiody, in order that he should prepare the coodenaned. tor the notitiration of the gro tt ier a Itirli Has shout to he wade to him flu presence of the guaid under atoms. Ile was at ditim r t,b4.n the hearer of the order of the re pt trr, pre,r mud litimelf, and whilst the gaoler wrote the treript. Caren, having cast lii• eyes on the fatal billet, exclaimed, " I em condemned ! 1 rxi ,„ ! , 4 ,1 , o h e en." He then finished his repast. AL De l'o4sa. Captain-Reporter, then arrived, •meceded h t the guard. cud read to Caron the aen leiter of death. Hr liqesied tranquilly, anal after waits e,r l to the Calitattt, " It is nil set of iujos ttre ! but I peeler bang condemned by you rather .hen by sty fellow.eittzens." lie deniataled a re vi.loll. It is oar I;tt , ssti at what time the Council will teotrinble to determine upon tins dernatid. Amongst the •Ixty Wits , esSCS cited before the Council at the dentinal of the accused, figured M. DublJr (Cse•lir litmus), cootlemnesl to live years isripri•outtneut fur the e..uspiraey of Erfurt. Sulu rriostid to declare his situation arid profession, this saltness saawrred—" A netich Ouse% free, though ill irons.." 'Phis affair occupied the Council of War during lire sittings. Caron displayer! much presence of mind in the mowers that he imide..uud as much in genuity ill the questions that he addressed to the witnesses on both sides. During the latter sittings so alteration and appearance of despondency was iu him. All good tutu regret that such a saw should hare lost himself its becoming the ae sumpliee of the factious enemies of a legitimate throne. mull the scourges of their country. NEW SOUTH WALES. EXTRACT IFEONI THE REPORT OF THE COMM , . I "MIME OF INQUIET INTO THE STATE OF THE COLONY' OF NEW SOUTH WALES. (Contifitatt from yew Paper e yesterday.) Another instance of the some kind had taken place during the residence Mr. Deputy Aasista•.t Commissiry-Genersil 'Walker at Launceston. A •d'emale convict was not only permitted to live with him. hut he appeared with her in the town of Laenceiton, and in a manner that evinced the terms upon which they lived. This occurrence took place during the residence of Lieutenant-Colonel Cimi tiere at Launceston, who endeavoured by admoni tion anti remoirstarice wish Mr. Walker, to !.event the occurrence of such It di•g►aceful practice. lie expostulated with him its vain ; sad it was with in. flute. surprise 1111(1 regret that I learnt that after the departure of Mr. Walker fur brad.gea►ters, Mr. Archer, one of the Magistrates at Laulireornii, had recommended the same female convict to Lieute nant-Governor Sorrell fir a ticket of leave, Throe circtstnatanees are sufficient to show the very low state of public moods at Launceston; and, from the information I received,' 1 found that it gerater degree of immorality prevailed in all the settled districts. The same system of remuneration that prevails ■t Sydney, in assig g caevicts on the wore to the different officers of G .vernment, exists likewise at Hobart Toots and Launceston ; each of the Alegi stnites is sllowed four of sack men; and Maio , Bell has that 'bomber in his capacity of Magistrate, and two more as Acting-Engineer. With the exception of Mr. Gordon. and Mr. Deputy Judge Advocate Abbott. the magistrates allow the greatest number of the men arsigesed to them to make Own payments in wheat, in the ar ticles in which they deal, or in money; the last is the least freqaent mode ..f payment, and the least regular. Where the emivicts who are thins allowed do not lit•e upo n the rano., or in the houses of the magistrates, the same consequences follow as in New South Wales; and the some obscrinnimis that applied to the system of remuneration there, are applicable in Van Dletnan's Land, except that the control over the convict'', and the knowl e d g e of their places of residence, is much more precisely traced and fixed by Mr. Ilsiniphreyr, the police magistrate, than it is by the priticipale superinten dent of convicts at Sydney. 'At Launcestou I found that the system equally prevailed ; but as the commandant, Lirurenaut•Colotiel Cimitiire, and Lieutenant Lorton, of the 44th regiment, who was appointed to art as coroner. aid Lieutenant Vanderareulen, the iorpector of work*. were tint possessed of farms, they met-tinnily gave permis sion to their men to work were they could find em• ployment. and received wheat from them in returns it had been repeatedly charged by Mr. Leith, the superintendent of oinks at George Town, that the several commandants sit that swims had seleCted some of the best workmen as their @sniped con victs ; and 1 found that a rough carpenter had been far six months assigned to Lieutenerit-Colonel Citniti&e. This is a species of appropriation, that forms one of the principal advantages derived from the remote or ifilnirtlirie sOpefts.ftlidrner of the cost vim.; and us the difference between a skilful mid me alcilful labourer constitutes the difference of loss or Rani to the settler, so is the seine degree of interest felt, and the same distioeti tttt enenipted to be made, by those to whom they are nasigned for rentnitera tom ; the only ellifereuee between the two cases being. that in one the ►titter bus no power or Melia.* of selection, and iu the odor many viresinetances combine to give that power anal to conceal us exer cise. The manner in which Lientenaar.Colooel Cimi tidre disposed of the produce of his inen's labour will be untieed when I come to consider the Wire motion that I received, soil the evidence that I souk anon that subject, its cum junetion with Lieutenant- Governor Sorrell. The worns that were imide to me of offences committed et Hobart Town, embrace a period of ten yeas.; hut those only that are subsequent to the month of Aped 18 i 7, Ire certified by Mr. Humphrey., the Police Magistrate. As the proceedings were not alweyv taken dowil in writing until after that time, our the records in his custody, or in sod, I/ stare that an accurate transcript or abstract cculd be made fions them. I cannot rely with confidence noon the records of offences that ure of an earlier date thugs the mouth of April 1817 ; au abstract, however, has been taken of the offence§ pimished by the Magi strates during the period of ten years. In cols sequence of the expense that has attended the tram:- mission of prisoners and witnesses from Van Die men's Land to Sydney, all offences committed by convicts there, except murder, were ordered to he tried and punished by the Magistrates. And for the purpose of better preserving the peace, a practice has been heuelicialiy iusroduced of binding over, for • certain period, free peranos charged on oath, and credible tea ov, wills having committed breaches of the peace, and of reviving the recognizencer, if it should appear to the Megiatrates that there war a necessity for such a measure. In cases of felony and misdemeanor likewise, • criminal jurisdiction was exercised by the magistrates over free persons, from the year 1810 till the arrival of Mr. Deputy Judge Advocate Abbott ; when, with the exception of taking securities for breaches of the peace, sod fining for drunkenness, the offences of free persons were referred to the cognizince of the crituival courts at Sydney. The extent or ttttt Seliments inflicted by the ma gistrates at Hobart Town nppears to have varied greatly. In the years 1810 and 1811 se many as 500 lashes have been isiflicted ; but since the commencement of the year 1816, they have very rarely exceeded 100, and have generally been limited to 50. In consequence of the factlity of reference pos sessed by Mr. Humphreys to the name as well as condition of every ootivirt that has arrived iu the southern settlements of Vao Diemait's Land, since lie was appointed to the seperiateiodenee of the police in the year 1817, lie was enabled to tax those particulars to a very large proportion of the convicts that had been brought befure the magistrates at Helmut Town. except in the years 1819 mod IMO. when, iu consequence of sending off from Sydney. with greater dispatch than usual. a number of convicts who had been engaged in an extensive smoqpiracy to surprise and carry off vessels Irmo tte harbour of Pint JcckicQr (belt 014 0 64 sell. tences bad not been transmitted from the Secre tary's office at Sydney, and their condition could not be arcertoineel till the muster of 1820 was com pleted. It is by reference to that document that I have been * able to esrertaio the exact numlwr of the different clte.es of convicts in the distract of Holont Town, and adjoining districts, end to compare it with the convictions for the acme period, without this knowledge of these particulars for the precedne g year s , the same COMptifiooll cannot be effected, but for six TOIIIII 4 of the year !sip it appears, that oat of 457 offences "'plan" b y convicts in thew district-, 202 were committed by convicts transported fur seven years; 41 by those for 14 years; soul 134 by those fur life; the num hers of convicts of those ve!ersl classes amounting to 946 for i•evrti years, 255 fur 14 years, and 709 for Isle. 11 will thus appear that the proportion of offences committed by she class of seven years (Nuevo-is, is to the whole numbers of that class as 1 to 31; the proportion of the class o fl 4 years, is as I to 6 1.5; end that of the convicts for life, is al 1 to st. The I 111 l ited accommodation of the gaol altsflo. butt Town, slid the number of prisoners with which it 11811 burn fr.rpiently crowded before the means could be procured of sending them with the with ln Sydney, has mach diminished the effect of confineusent their : Lieutenant-Governur Sorrell has endeavoured to remedy it by the construction of solitary cells ; but they have not been. lately, found sufficiently numerous for the prisoners 'eel towed by the magistrates. The punishment of the goal-pg at Hobart Town I obsevved to he very inefficient. The Pri soners worked its irons, as at Sydney. in cleaning and levelling the etre. to; but I could observe that there war very little exertion used to make them work. and that they frequently received supplies of food from their *Acquaintance in the streets. Lire. teuent-Governor Sorrell had long perceived the want of a place of secondary punishment. similar to that which had existed at the Coal River ; and agreeing with me in the expediency of providing our that wool(' be more within reach, Mr. Oxley, the Surveyor-General, who accompanied me to Van Dwindles Land, undertook to visit and inspett a harbour on the north-west coast of Van Diemen's Land, dist had received the appellation of Mac (interne Harbour, taking with him the pilot of Hobart Town, Kelly, an experienced navigator, who had previously visited the harbour. A series of violent end adverse winds from the north-west prevented the vessel in which they embarked from making much progress after they left Port Davey, a har . bour that they first proceeded to examine; end alter cuuteorleug eganist very bad weather for four. teen days, with great perseverance, end under cir curnetoucee of some personal hardship, an appre hension of want of plosioiona obliged them to re turn. I endeavoured to collect as much informa tion as I was able respecting this harbour; for it appeared, both to Lieutenant-Governor Sorrell and myself, to possees some particular recommendations fur a place of punishment. The spectre' of timber known in the colony by the name of the boon pine was found iu great abun dance; there were also indications of coal ; and th e ranges of merit mountains that rose from the shores of the harbour towards the interior, and through which no one odd yet attempted to pass, formed god security against rarsilw. Unfortunately the entrance is Miriam., and difficult for vessels drew. ing more than eight feet water, and the bar is knowu to shift alter the prevalence of north-west winds. From the nature of the toil that has been exa mined on the- shoreo of this harbour, the maisite mince of the convicts sent thither would entirely de pend upon imported food ; and. from the best ac count., I. wino induced to believe that the supplies would be liable to misty muskies and interruptions from bad weather and bad navigation. Lieutenant- Governor Sorrell seemed dispooed to renew the ex periment under more favourable circumstances of weather, but 1 was not induced to believe that his further invertigation of the capacities of Mar:quer:iv Harbour would he more satisfactory than the sc coums that I had already received. The registry of orfences and punishments iuflieted at Launceston I found to liner been very irregularly kept until the year 1817. From the 23d of No vember. 1813, to the 24.1 i of Map. 1817, rough !ninnies of the evidnice had been token by the per. son who now acts as clerk to Lieutenant-Colonel Cuniti!bre, and fair copies were made by the clerk alterwa►ds, but have never been signed by the Ma gistrates. In examining these hooks I found the same difference in the extent of punishment existe•l that is perceivable in the registry of offences and punishments at Hobart Town, and the same exer cise of r ' ' at jurisdiction over free men. Au abstract is made of the 'somber and nature of the offences committed at both places in the different years. Before I quit this subject I think it necessary to state, that recourse to corporal punishment became inure a mutter of necessity at Launceston than at any other of the settlements. The place of con finement there consisted only of two small rooms in a house built of wood, without any fence or wall to separate it flail the town; and the communica tion of the prisoners with their Incases, their Ire_ quest escape, and the want of control over them, have all had their influence its impeding the course of criminal justice, both in the investigation and dart:lieu of crimes, us well as in their punish ment. The female coovictr, from went of any ►eiterate room in the prison, were placed in a smell wooden but near the blacksmith'', forge, now converted into a church, and a constable wee placed over them to prevent their escape. This mode of 000 i o Innen' sae found so ineffectual, that latterly the female convicts were rent to George Town, where they cohabited with the Government convicts. As the attention of the different commandants of the settlemerst at I'ort Dalrymple had been ex clusively directed to the construction of the build ings at George Town, it was nut considered neces sary by Gove►nor Marquarrie to incur ail expense iu the repair of those at Louncesion; and, although the necessity of making these repairs has been daily increasing from the increase of population, the go. venter always hoped that with the removal of the residence of the commandant from Lean. moon to George Town, the maw .1 the popula tion until name also. Upon what ettoacous rsuncle atilt expeclalio3 was. and noon what equally erroneous perception of the local adeant•ges of these two station., Goveroor 11J•e -(parte'. recommendations and suggestions to your Lordship have been made. it will nfterwsrds be my duty to point out to you ; but the imme diate tie...essay of making some provisims it Laun ceston for the coiefinentrist of pri•otiers was so dis tremingly f e lt, that although Governor Nlacquarrie did loot concur in the views that I took of the ex pediency of immediately sospending the buildings at George Town, hr color-sited to allow some repairs to he made to the gaol at Launceston. and has put i t stop to several nosulhorizsd locations of land in that town, which had been mode by the c mond •iit withoot the knowledge of Lieutrooot-Governor Sorrell, and under the notion that it was the inten tion of Governor Nlacquarrie to abandon the town of Launceston altogether. Having now observed upon the state of crimes end punishments iiiflicted by the Magistrates upon the convict popolstion of Nrw South Wales mod Vast Diernaii'd Land, I think it u more convenient opportunity in this place, to afford your Lordship some isiformation respecting the settlement at Hunter's River, otherwise called the Coal River. Upon the evacuntion of Nittfulk Islatol, which, at an early period of the colony, wits the first place to which convict. were sent by way of punishment for offences commuted within the colony, the im portance of Hooter'. River, ran place of secondary punishment, became more fully known. Previous to that now it had been resorted to us an establish. mint for procuring a supply of ersols sod timber for the demand of Government aid of individuals, who were allowed to resort thither in vessels of their own, and to purchase timber at the rate of three 'wore per supeoficad foot, uud coals at the rate of 101. per toil. By the tenour of the instructions given by Go vernor Macquarie to Major Morisset, the present commandant, sod dated the ZVI, December, 1818. it would appear that the exchoive supply of the same wild.... to Goverumeot was considered to be the principal object of the establishment, and the ponialiment of the convicts sent thither, to be a subordinate one. There are, however, full instruc tions upon both points ; said commendable at- Ifitt.ots is shown in them to prevent as much as possible the communicator, of the prisoners with the crews of vessels ilia might touch at Prot floater, or the introduction of spirits. Port limi ter is situated io 32 deg. .58 min. south latitude, and 151 deg. 4p2 milt. east longitude, and 5-2 miles to the north of Port Jackson. The voyage toatid from thence may be performed in eight hours; but the difficulty of entering the harbour and of leav en it, in certain periods of the tide, tretpiently causes a stronger detentlon. The settlement and town are situated on the slope of a hill, that pre sents a front of abrupt sandstone rock towards the sea, gradually receding into a barren clay and rand towards the interior. The house aid residence of the commandant Major Morisset, is placed in an elevated situation at the end of the principal street, and commands • view of the whole town. The houses of for convicts are placed at itregular &a teliers from each other, but preserve an even line towards the sheets, which are well laid out, and kept in good order. They are servo its otainber and contain altogether 13 houses that beloug to Government, and 71 that belong to prisoners. Flaying found it necessary to provide fur souse place of lodging for those plisonerr, who either could not easily find it themselves, or were tint In b trusted in the houses of When., Major Mutisset lately built a wooden barrack, containing four apartments for sleeping, and two fur messing; the cosiviets. The plan 111111 (1101e1O110111 of this build tog are contained in the Appendix. The greatest advantages have been experienced from this measure, both in the prevention of noc turnal escapes, and of ilw bettering of the men's rotten , . for tobacco slid utilities that were not allowed in their government ration. This building contains two rooms, in which there are double rows of cribs, and in each of these three men sleep. l'he dimensions of these cribs are boar beet three inches by six fret. Theme are also two sheds, one of which romans 24 births. and the other 18, all of the same dimensions as its the other rooms, affording altogether acrotomodation for 246 men. The rennsilithor of the convicts either possess hunters of their m.ll, or obtain lodgings by the performance of domesto: bibour for the °worts. An arrangement productive of very briii.lienri con sequences has been ',wooed out ill the tristrttchuois to the commandant, and has beets store adopted by him, by virtue of which every person who poplin; for permission to build a house becomes respon sible fur any lodger quilling the artileniciit without leave. It is the interest therefore of the owner if the !loose to afford toloimation of an intended escape of his inmates, said the preparations tor it are now so well known, that timely precautions and common vigilance to the visionaries may generally pleielit theta. The hours of labour far the consicis in hammer are from five o'clock till rigid, front nine till twelve, and from two to sunset. except on Saturdays, when they hare from ten till tour to thennadees, and re sume their work from four till rtilmet. 'nit con vict, at Newcastle are inut.tetai four times iu the day by the superisiteudem, a ho was • free man, mild formerly r serjeant w the 46th regiment ; and if any report is made or suspicion arise of a robbery or an escape, the convicts are mustered at their own houses. Constables and overseers are selected Roue the prisoners who most trCUIt4IIICII4I themselves; and their pay consists of an Me:teased ration, and some times the labour of a couviet. it is stated by the superintendent Evans. that he bud tin coodideure iu the constable., and that they. ColllllWrii at the escapes of the !tribune's. The Labour at Newcastle consists of the common and cornier mechanical operations, that are C 011410441 ill a place culled the lumber-yard. and iu cutting and procuring logs of wood from • distance of 70 miles us the interior of the country. Parties are sent upon these expe ditions under the superintendence of au overseer and a deputy. and the wen are linked by them to cut and convey to the liver a certain quootily of wood proportioned to the Mousier and ditEcully of procuring it, and subject to the discretion of the commandant. The logs of wood are thew mode Mot rails and floated dos° the river by the tide. huts beim mode epee then for the prettetieu the gunge dram their stirkst, With Lots sometimes tight days, Lntis always naceriain, on secouot of the depth of water and current of the rivet. parties are sometimes absent fur II molith or mare upon these expeditious, and carry proistsig!:, with them for that period ; and a steel mill for grinding their corn. Another species of work la the Coal River consists of hewing and raising coil at one coal mine that is now worked there. Until the year 1817 coal was obtained at this settlement by a drift made on the sea shore, and level with 11, penetrating a seam of coal that *hewed itself wider the large mass of superincombeut sandstone th..it forms the south headland of the entrance to ter's River. The depth of the seam is three foq- , and one inch: and it is the slime that is now worked by a perpendicitlar shaft of I II fret, anti a co , n. mon wisidlass turned by convicts. Ti,.. W.1.,' found in the present coal-none is carried r ti i• t • old drift to the sea shore. •0 employed in the working of the mine, ail.; mouth of the shaft immediately adjoins thr of the Cotumendant's house. Twenty too, of e „. d . can be raised in one day by the slumber of men Slink• employed; and I olarrtrd that revers' could pre form their task before the ordiurry labour of t h e convicts ceased. but that they were drt.iintd ;it the mouth of the pit, under a shed, to preveiit them from taking advantage of the absence of the other convicts from their houses, and plunderin 4 them. Eight of the tamers employed, who how the coals, are allowed an extra half-ration ; awl it is found necessary to employ those tarts wilt) are expert in this labour. convict. who have been ac customed to it it) Eugland are (reticently sent op to the Coal River, direct frow Sydoey, upon their first disembarkation front the ships. The height of the pit. in which the coal is worked, is four feet and a half; and the coals are conveyed in harrows front the point al winch they are hewn, a distance which is the month of February, 1820, tc,, , not less than a hundred yards, to the bottom of the shaft. The labour in the coal mines at Newcastle i 4 found to be !at-judicial to the health of the COl,- Vic's, on account of the bad ■or of the mote that they breathe, and the difficulty that ii expen.ott•tvl in clearing it of water. Alalimes, pulmonaly rood rheumatic complaints, are those from viloch the miners most .offer. itaxt kind of labour in • hich the cam los me employed is that of constructing a breakwati-r wall, thst has received the name of Mucquarri , Pier ; and that is intended to connect a small island ut the mouth of the river with the main land. Tl!r object of this work is to prevent the effect of a rt.,. tide, which in south and south-east winds flows wai l rapidity and violence into the regular channel of the river, and throws vessels that use passing it on the shoals of the northern shore. The work will err. toinly be useful, whets it is finished, but it proceeds very alua ly. Toe last mode of employment, or rather of pu nishment, for men who are found to be refractory, or sent wish bad characters from the other wide menus. is that of collecting oyster shells and burn ing them into lime._ (Te is tonliiased.) LUNAR IRIS. or RAINBOW ey MOONLIGHT. The trio Lenart', is so seldom creel, that Dr. Plot assert , in his hisinry of Oxfordshire, that be knew several I a slid eminent observers nits never saw one I. their liars; a i that Aristotle noticed wily facer in the course of fifty year , . Ass exceedingly interesting lei% of Otis description, alvcii made its appointing* nearly dm north, was dietinctly ob i...awed by several person■ is the neighbourhood of Semen Ritual half-past eight o'clock us Saturday evening. 'fins Iron is Ihr braves, was every way complete ; the curirstarrt maitre, Mooch its limn wasext►asive; and the shiny' , " of its apex seemed to us to be snore than 10 degrees. With that Weeklies* of darkness which the ran...fraught eosin bad then assumed iu the Mick pulled, t►is irktfe Arch of Lkasiy, formed a its iking cuotrast ; whilst several stars in the cut. siellation of the Dear, which were, fur • time, eunspiciloas above, imparted additional grandeur to the scene. A rain. how by moonlight. m so rare a plummier**, that it was viewed, by spectators, with tint littering kind of admiration which is characterised by wonder mingkd with delight. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Ct. Coos.. 81ill I Es. Hills. 4.... 1,000 1 . New 4 per Cent.. 10013 I 3 5 pr. Imp. 3 pet Ct. Aun. 81i I Ditto Swill... 5 s pr. India 80nd5..... 50 pr. I Cons. for Ace...—. alp Lottery Ticket. YV. 15.. CO,ll, MARKET, Oc-rontit 2. Ships at Markel. Nisipo Sold Price. d Newcastle 10 Sunderland 1 Elgin Main 1 . .... —s. lid. to 37a. lid. 1 Cu lm BIRTHS. On Cie 26th September, in tisillanthrgnste, Dublin, tin. Count. Si of Longford, nt's O.OIL DEATHS. Uu ihe29.h Sepielaber, at Noting Leder, near Chirp"- ham, %%Ilia, thr Dowager Lady Call, wider* of the late Sir Julin Call, Hari of 111141. turd, Cornaa!l. tin Satpli) last, shier a oval sea. re 'News, at her Image F. isi's Ware, Raac, , r, uoirrrsally Iciretie.l, Alia. tine... HMI! WATFR AT LONDON BRiDGF. 'VMS DAT. Morneser 26 after 3. I Ewa*/ 43 alto 3. /VIM C(MINAL BALM nt . GILIEAD nos .ll. se w s peat efficacy in all nervons dissuaders, hr.!. aches, wcalint sits, as and !unlit's of sturils (Lamas , C of sight. confused . , itg!tt an.l • ?ale! ingt of aim vapours and Ittel and all kinds ..f hysterie winch gradually ?4 , ta nfl by aloe use rflhia ashainiata In SiChlallif of the /Illllll.lCh, filniellentll a, and obiatenclion., it as a ask 'nil power' ul tenrdy. It if admirably calculated td afford rills( to I.r,.k.ii •11.1 decayed ninallitutivas, ninn . idl.er rt m. 43. s a e h.. The C o ral:it ftslin of (:dead if 1111 , 1 in hOtllra. pr.. I 1 . and 3.35. earl , . ihe irtner e.nlatning the quantity ..f I yi as 11... by nll Airdieinr Venders in the Unite-1 &fn, will, anti In Ltranalon by Mr. le.: t• • Olou• 68 , Co. ; Saaorr ewe Duna and 0. ;. , ; Mt. Tou a.son, I:bath:net; and ull ilo 3 , • ‘. Sand. So.,risnit, Liverrnol," is cognised 0•• lb , stun'', to imitate .shit Is is felon/. Of ...bum may he had, prier 3s. - • • -•- SOLOMON'a DE TO HEALTH; or, Advice Both Seacs, in a V.eeitoy of Cowlslain's; with an Eirtey an llle Veorresi ifi.rsio., fermilial Weslaco , . awl that .ic,lrurtire habit nallrd OnaniYm ; !Melrose as A4.lcrei tn l'ormets, Tutor,. %oil Goer-onto , of Youth. The intention of 'hi, noek is NT the (minim; p•r#osr °I varying yonll, from failing into s &Maim am/ d 4 Wortit' habit. that famisytees the stoma, eiestroys the health and spirits of its votaries.iiid mailers them firelltp apd tesetire for life. !Awed aad PAl..►ed at THE sitrrism PREP aid THE GLOBE OaLer. 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