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appear to us that such to be magnified into sub ial, or that an Admiral n every instance to prove of his opinions or asser _, they were not given with a view to public exposure : but there our admission ends. Sir Edward Codrington might, for aught we know, have been correct in making confidential statements to the Admiralty of the f'dative merits of the officers employed under him ; and, if it was his duty, he ought to have made such statements at the time. If he thought the slow ness or slovenliness of Captain Dickenson defi ciencies so slight as not to be worth mentioning, when they were most vividly impressed on his mind, he ought not to have magnified them into delinquencies two years afterwards left the Admiralty to chew the cud upon them to Captain Dickenson's detriment—and then endeavour to 'relieve himself from the business, by exc!aiming—" My Lords, you are to look these accusations of mine as just important enough to destroy Captain Dickenson in your esteem ; but as not of importance enough to deserve an inquiry into their truth or their fallacy, before a competent tribunal." Sir Ed ward Codrington's repugnance to a court-mar tial, after having done Captain Dickenson all the mischief that an unfavourable sentence by a court-martial would have inflicted on him, is one among the circumstances least easy of explana tion to be found throughout this proceeding. So with regard to the " round robin," which has been dwelt upon.. It is more than probable that a punctilitts, reflecting, or high minded man, might have felt at once the impropriety of such an application in his own favour ; and, in truth, an old officer of the rank of master saw clearly that it would get Capt. Dickenson into trouble— on opinion in which several post-captains of the squadron concurred. But Sir Edward Codring ton had effaced at the time every record of the inconsiderate action,—had distine4 forgiven it, ought to have expunged it from his memory, and !surely ought not to have raised it again from oblivion, to aggravate the pressure of other charges, not themselves of sufficient weight for the purpose entertained by the Vice-Admiral. On the whole, we deeply regret this business from beginning to end. Under the wing of one formal prosecution, it brought into question the personal merits of more than the party against whom it was ostensibly directed. It has turned an unfortunate coolness between the Admiralty and Sir Edward Codrington to evil account, by sending forth shameless and iniquitous rumours of a design on the part of the Board to gratify their resentment against the gallant Admiral by forcing him into a position from which he could not be honourably extricated. If Sir Edward Codrington has any thing to be sorry for in this court-martial, we are bound to say—and we do so with great respect for him, but with a still greater for the cause of truth and justice—that he has his own want of calm foresight and con sideration to thank for it.—Times. There is a good deal of truth in what the Standard of last night says, on the subject of prosecutions for libel The people of this country have been long aware that libel prosecu tions have no relation whatever to the truth or falsehood of the matter prosecuted. They are aware that so wide is the field of writing, over which what is called the law of libel' extends, that the most harmless or laudable writing may be brought within its penalties : while this law, o omnipotent for evil, is so powerless for any good purpose, that the most atrocious charges may be made, by a crafty writer, in a way not to be misunderstood, against the most upright man in society, and with perfect impunity."— We confess that we are not a little surprised that the Duke of 'Wellington should have thought of entering a Court of Law against a newspaper— not for the purpose of meeting certain specific charges, as was the case with the Lard Chan cellor, but to punish a writer for giving him a character which he thinks he does not deserve. We are far from approving of the articles se lected for prosecution ; but there are many other things in this best of all worlds of which we do not approve, but which we bear as well as we can. It is an inveterate custom with English men to abuse their opponents : we are essen tially an ill-bred people. The draymen who at the corner of a street apply to each other for a quarter of an hour all the reproach ful terms that their knowledge of the English language, which is peculiarly rich in them, suggests to them, and yet part without injuring each other either in body or mind, are typical of the nation. Our Divines of all sects, abuse lustily all who differ in any respect from them. Doctors very soon drop their breeding when dis cussing the merits of their brethren.. The Editors of Newspapers are Englishmen, writing for Englishmen ; and knowing the inclination of their countrymen to have everything very good or very bad, now that we have no national enemy—the French being our best friends—and that Buonaparte is removed to a better w'Brld, the occasion of so much powerful composition while he lived ; and knowing, also, that it is use less to abuse Ferdinand or Don Miguel, as no one concerns himself about them—they must have angels and devils at home. The English, ever since they had a free press, have had the satisfaction of hearing all the Ministers repre sented as little better than fiends in human shape. As any one who loves to hear the Old Lady at Rome well scolded may be gratified by the Rev. Edward Irving, so any one who likes to hear a Premier set down in good stile knows also where he can be gratified. We are astonished that the Duke of Wellington should have wished to de prive the lovers of strong language of the satis faction which his predecessors have been the means of furnishing to a portion of his Majesty's subjects. He has been called dishonest. We have often admired the temper of the lower or ders under reproaches. When a strong term has been applied, the answer often is—" you can not prove me so." The Duke ought to have known that calling is not proving; and that he is just as honest and patriotic, and kind and benevo lent, and what not, after the use of the terms applied to him as he was before. But mark the logical inconsistency in which he involves him self. He either supposes that the opinion ex pressed of him has made an impression, or it has not. If it has not made any impression, why trouble himself about it ? If it has made an impression, will that impression be counter acted because a few Jurymen have pronounced the articles to be libels ? Are the opinions of a few Jurors worth more than the opinions of the people of England ? It is unworthy of a great man to indulge in a vindictive feeling on account of injuries. We had an idea, which we are unwilling to renounce, that the Duke was proof against attacks of .this nature. But hOw ever this be, even if he be sensitive, it is bad po bey to display it by prosecution. Nothing in vites so much to attack as the discovery of sen- sitiveness. We remember when at school, the great point in selecting objects for mischievous annoyance was their possessing a bad temper. A person who had so much command of him self as to conceal his emotions, was passed care fully by. The Duke of Wellington may be assured that men and boys have many points in com mon ; and that as he cannot put down the Press, he is only bringing a hornets' nest about him self, by the injudicious course he is pursuing.— Morning Chronicle. We have copied from the Dublin Evening Post a long article on the subject of the Tip perary Meeting ; and agree with our contempo rary in several of his opinions. He is well aware of the causes now in operation in Tip perary, as well as in other parts of Ireland, and of the difficulties which must be encountered in any serious attempt to remedy the evils of that country. The article of our contemporary was followed by an extract from the Chronicle of Wednesday last, after which he made the fol lowing observations:— " We have left ourselves without space to animad vert on this extraordinary piece of declamation. We shall only say, that had it been delivered viva voce in the close meeting at Thurles, it would have been received with unbounded plaudits by the collective wisdom of Tipperary. Had it appeared in the Morning Journal, or the Standard, or the Dublin Evening Mail, we own we should not have been much surprised, but we confess we are not a little startled with the disingenuousness of our contem porary, not only in misrepresenting our statements, but in joining the High Tories in running down the native aborigines.' We congratulate the latter on the able and learned advocate they have acquired in the Morning Chronicle, and must content ourselves for the present with promising, in the newspaper phrase, that we shall, as in truth we are imperatively eilled upon, resume this subject with our learned friend in our next." We really do not see how we can be consi dered as joining the High Tories in running down the native aborigines, because we advo cated the necessity of supporting the Police in the discharge of their duty, and contended that the riotous habits of the peasantry must be restrained. The best friends of the aborigines must wish some essential changes in their cha racter. It is for the ultimate good of the abo rigines themselves, that the present state of things should be succeeded by another, as soon as possible. Our contemporary, like ourselves, is aware of the necessity of a Poors' Rate in Ireland. We find the measure enforced in an able article on the book of Mr. Sadler on Ire land, in the forthcoming Edinburgh Review, with an early copy of which we have been fur nished.—" So long," says the Edinburgh Re viewer, "as the poor are left to depend on the unconstrained bounties of others for a resource in periods of exigency, the landlords take com paratively little interest in their situation, in the increase of their numbers, or in the administra Lion of the provision made for them. But the moment the poor acquire a legal claim upon land and other tangible property for support, it becomes the interest of every individual pos sessing property to see that the funds destined for the support of the poor are properly ad ministered, and to exert himself to prevent their undue influence. It may at present seem immaterial, perhaps, to an Irish land lord whether he allow a parcel of mud-huts to be erected on some neglected portion of his estate, for he may imagine that in the event of his afterwards wishing to pull down these huts, lie has only to order their occupiers to quit. But if the mere existence of such persons on his estate for a limited period gave them and their families a legal claim for support in all time to come, the landlord would, in order to protect himself frOm this indefinite responsibility, refuse to allow the huts to be erected or the occupiers to acquire a settlement. To suppose that he should act otherwise, would be to suppose that the protection of his property was indifferent to him. We showed in an article (No. 94) the owerful influence that this principle has had in - England ; and we have not the least doubt, that had a system of Poor Laws, similar to that which has been established for the same period in England, been established for the same period in Ireland, it would, by giving the landlords and gentry of the country a deep pecuniary interest in the repression of the numbers of the poor, have powerfully tended to prevent that splitting of farms, and excessive increase of the population, that are the prime causes ofall the evils of Ireland. At the same time, it must be acknowledged that the question as to the expediency of introduc ing Poor Laws in the present situation of Ire land, when it is so overrun with an unemployed and beggarly population, is very different from the question as to the probable operation of those laws, had they been introduced when the popu lation was comparatively thin. However, we shall still be inclined to think, for the reasons now stated, that their introduction would be ad vantageous, provided there be in Ireland the means of administering them, so that they may be made productive of those restraining_ effects, in whi c h, as i t appears to us, their advantage mainly lies; and hence the primary question is, do means exist in Ireland, or can they be de vised, for administering a system of compulsory provision for the poor, so that it could be pre vented from becoming a fresh source of impro vidence and idleness? it is not at all likely that such means could be long wanting. The landowners of the country would immediately perceive that the preservation of their property depended on their being able to devise checks to arrest the torrent of pauperism. Every landlord would then, in pursuing his own obvious interest, set about adopting the most vigorous measures for lessening the present population on his estates, and for preventing its undue extension in future : and he would of course be inclined to join with his neighbours in any scheme that might seem best calculated to forward that object. We do not, we confess, think that it is possible otherwise to root out the inveterate habit of splitting land, or to impress the gentlemen of that country with a sufficiently strong sense of the mischievous consequences resulting from that practice, and from the two great multiplication of cottagers and occupants." —lbid. An extraordinary charge is made against Go vernment by those Dublin newspapers which are served with notice of ex officio informations, in consequence of attempting to intimidate the Court and Jury, by threats of popular venge ance, during the late trials of the policemen at Clonmel. '['he charge imputes the base sin of ingratitude to Government, for enforcing the laws of the land against their own staunch and zealous supporters. This accus a ti on on th e part of the " liberal ,, papers is equivalent to an avowal, that they expect to receive, as a reward for their obtrusive flattery to certain Members of the Irish Goi ernment, a complete impunity as to their own violations of the law ! If the Irish Government had entered into any such compact with the " oracles of Liberalism," or with any party whatever, they would deserve the chastisement and scorn of public opinion. -Such conduct would betray the last degree of criminal weakness, and show they were utterly unfit for any thing but to make the " majesty of the laws" ridiculous and despised. Let us for an instant suppose the persons on trial for their lives had been Roman Catholics, and the Protestant press, before and during their trial, abounded with outcries for their blood, declaring that the Orangemen would inevitably take up arms in the event of their acquittal, and thus endeavour to intimidate the Court and Jury by threats of insurrection. Let us suppose this for an instant, and would not the Popish papers have reason to describe such conduct as most flagitious, and treat it as a most impudent and absurd thing for the Protestant jour nalists to say that they had a right to do all this, because they had long been the admirers and flatterers of the persons composing his Majesty's Government? It is a new thing for " Liberalism" to avow that it expected a li. cense to trample on the laws and degrade the sanctity of Justice, as a return for acts of syco phancy to some functionaries of State. When the Popish Papers put forth such a claim on the gratitude of the Irish Executive, they would do well to recollect that, great as their zeal may have been to recommend themselves to the atten tion of the Vice-Regal Court, an injudicious ad vocacy may be worse than the most direct hosti lity. There is a sarcastic truth which tells us "no enemy match a friend," and perhaps the Duke of Northumberland and Lord Leveson Gower may not be sorry for an opportunity to disencumber themselves of the suspicious friend ship and ominous praises of the journals in ques tion. At all events, in the very heyday of their popularity they only came in for a share of the leavings from the rich banquet of flattery laid out for Mr. O'Connell. As the latter has with drawn his protection from the Duke of North umberland's Government, and greatly delighted his " liberal" audience, at a late meeting in Cork, by comparing his Grace to the sign of the " hog in armour," we may presume his followers will understand that to offer any more adulation in that quarter would be to " throw pearls before swine." We do not advocate the prosecutions which Government has commenced, but we can not let the mischievous doctrine pass unnoticed, that the services of flattery performed to the ' officers of Government ought to indemnify a fac tion for the most dangerous attempts upon the integrity of the administration of justice.—Morn ing Herald. We wonder what some of our fair actresses and singers would think, if the laws of England were to visit their occasional, but somewhat too frequent capricious absences from their engage ments with the same severity that those of France appear to do. There, it would seem, that a fair enchantress of the sock or buskin, or a hired de votee of the song or dance, has only to absent herself from engagement without leave, and she is instantly visited with some heavy legal pro ceeding, which lays the dancer by the heels, and makes the songstress attune her notes to no very harmonious strain. There are other parts of the Continent in which the mode of treating public performers, even of the fair sex, is more sum mary and severe even than in France. In England we seem to suffer matters to run into the other extreme. Here an audience hardly know when they enter a theatre or a concert room, whether they have any chance of hearing the singer, the actor, or the actress, to witness whose celebrity they have left their firesides and parted with their money. They certainly, in the language of Sterne, " manage these mattersbetter in France," and we cannot help thinking that if a little of what may be styled summary alarm were held out here, some of our public performers, both male and female, would be shyer than they are of subjecting the public to disappointments which they at present, for want of some such control, so often experience.—/bid. All the accounts which we receive from Ire land testify, in the most unequivocal manner, the deplorable state of anarchy and insubordi nation to which the country has been reduced, and the utter inefficiency of the healing measure of Emancipation to root out the deadly feuds and animosities which exist between the Ca- tholics and the Protestants, on the one hand, and between the different clans of Catholics, on the other. Murders, robberies, and breaches of the law of every species and kind continue to be perpetrated, with a perseverance which shows that, while strong measures must be resorted to for the preserv a tion o f lif e an d property, tim e alone, and a great enlightenment of the people, can effect a radical cure. The law and its officers, instead of being feared and respected, are looked upon as enemies, which must be put down for the better and more complete gratification of individual or party revenge ; and hence, when the agents of the Government interfere to prevent the shedding of blood, the con tending parties, instead of obeying their man date by dispersing, rush upon the unoffending individuals, and are well satisfied provided they can wreak on them the vengeance which they had intended for their original opponents. Such a state of society is as unknown any where but in Ireland as it is truly deplorable, and can only be accounted for by the immeasurable tyranny which has been exercised towards the people of that fertile island, in the name and under the cover of law ; for all have an interest in obeying the law where it is impartially executed, except those who are stronger than the law ; and had there not existed in that miserable country a party which made the law what it pleased, and administered it how it pleased, it may be safely enough averred that the people of Ireland would have been as much characterised by regard to it as they are now notorious for breaking through all its sanctions. But what is to be done ? We answer, repress by force what the fear of the law cannot accomplish ; and superadd. to this unpleasant, but necessary, means, all the moral force which can be brought to bear upon the people. Correct the real grievances of the people—dismiss fro m th e j ust i c i ary the petty tyrants who delight in trampling upon them — above all, provide employment, and provide edu cation, for the people, and the disturbances which now strike at the roots of the prosperity of the country, will become as disgraceful in the estimation of the people of Ireland, as they are now common and unthought of. These are some of the means and time only, it is evident, can give them effect ; but in the meantime, out rage must be regressed by force, and violence checked by armed interference. No other doc trine will produce any impression upon a people who have been accustomed to live in utter disregard of the law, and nine -tenths of whom have apparently about as much idea of the neces sity of conforming their conduct to it, as an English poacher of the righteousness of the law which interdicts him from shooting hares and partridges.—Morning Advertiser. LOSS OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND LIVERPOOL MAIL. (Further particulars from the Liverpool Albion.) The non-arrival of the mail from Birmingham, at the usual hour (half-past seven) on Friday morning, gave rise to apprehension for its safety from the floods, which it was expected would have been caused by the almost incessant heavy ra n which fell during the preceding twenty-four hours. The fears thus awakened, increasing with each successive hour of delay, had spread throughout the town, and reached a pitch of intense anxiety among those whose expected friends were supposed likely to have been travelling by that conveyance, when the Rocket Post Coach, which leaves Birmingham some hours after the mail, arrived about noon, bringing the ac count of the melancholy disaster, of which the fol lowing particulars have been communicated to us : In the parish of Smallwood, about three miles on this side of Lawton Gate, in Cheshire, the road crosses a hollow by a small bridge,called Smallwood Bridge, under which passes a narrow but somewhat rapid stream. When the mail coach arrived at this spot, it was found that the stream, swollen by the rains, which were still falling heavily, had overflowed its banks and flooded the road, and the waters con tinuing to rise very fast, washed away the bridge at the moment when the coach was crossing, which was thereby precipitated into the stream. The coachman (hall), falling from his seat, after much difliculty, and having sustained very considerable iujury from the kicks of the affrighted horses, suc ceeded in reaching the opposite bank. The guard (T. Moreton), was carried down by the impetuosity of the stream a considerable distance. At length he caught hold of a tree, on which he hung for about an hour, when, it having been discovered where he was, a rope was thrown to him, and he was rescued almost as much dead as alive. Of the horses, one was drowned, and two others are stated to have been so much injured as to render it improbable that they can ever be worked again. We now come to the tragical part of the event. There were but three passengers, and those were inside, of whom one, a slight made active young man, forcing himself through the window of the coach, was extricated from his perilous situation by the persons whom the accident had drawn to the spot; the other two being too lusty to pass through the aperture by which the former attained safety, unfortunately perished ere the utmost efforts of the active and humane people of the vicinity for their relief could avail them. The body of one of them was found.in the coach when the latter was got out of the water, after having been immersed in it for seven or eight hours ; but that of the other had not been recovered at the time to which our accounts extend. Their names, as entered in the way-bill, are Trueman and Bennett. The latter was, we un derstand, a resident of Liverpool. The coach, with all the mail bags, parcels, and luggage, re mained under water, persons being stationed to watch it until the subsiding of the waters admitted of its being recovered. This was effected in the course of Friday forenoon, and the guard reached the Liverpool Post-office, with the letter-bag, at four o'clock in the afternoon. Great alarm pre vailed, during a considerable period of the forenoon of Friday, for the safety of the London mail, which left this town on Thursday night, its ordinary route being by the same bridge; but it was at length happily dissipated by the arrival of information, that, hearing of the waters being ou t in that direc tion, the guard had taken the precaution of going by another road, through Sandbach,and thus avoided the danger. (LATEST PARTICULARS.) By subsequent accounts it appears, that both of the bodies had been found, and a Coroner's Inquest was held over them on Saturday, at Smallwood. Mr. Newman, one of the gentlemen who was drowned, was a resident of Walsall. Who the young man is who escaped through the coach win dow is not known; but to his exertions the coach man is mainly indebted for the saving of his life, for he was sinking in the stream, when the young man, who had got upon one of the wheels, pulled him back by the capes; and to him the passengers in the London mail, from Liverpool, are indebted for their lives, for, had he not walked along the road, stopped the mail, arid informed the driver of the bridge being carried away, that coach would, in all probability, have followed the other into the watery abyss. The coach is broken to pieces. ( ~, \ : -1 -.v.vb -,, -----° ii.r_'eal ...: ; ,..th ~., , ,'" .? .. , , tril-ii it . 1 1 r; art _,, -, d '... • i,p4T,ifielled i y . '''' S'Aery item tions, when they were n MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) St GAR.—The demand for Muscovades last week was ra ther limited, owing to the late extensive purchases, and the wholesale grocers having apparently supplied them selves with a small stock. The estimated sales were only 2,500 hhds. and trs. There was not the slightest altera tion in the prices. 'The stock of Sugars is about 9,000 hhds. more than last year, having accumulated with the large arrivals. The estimated purchases this day, includ ing the Barbadoes public sale, are 900 hhds. and trs. The new supply induces the buyers to refrain from pur chasing. In the Refined Market last week there was a good demand for goods for exp at, and as the low lumps were scarce, there was more attention paid to the finer qualities, of which the purchases were rather extensive, the prices generally were 6 , 1. to Is. per cwt. higher, and several contracts for goods to be ready two weeks hence were reported at the market currency. In fine goods for• home consumption the purchases were inconsiderable. Molasses dull. The low and mild Refined are to-day in good demand, and rather higher. Total delivery of Sugar last week from the three Dock warehouses :-3,270 hhda. and trs. and 4,597 bags. London and St. Katherine Docks :-....Stock of Sugar 6,220 hhds. and trs., 11,654 bags, and 5,754 chests and boxes. • FOREIGN SUGARS.—The new arrival of white Havan na(' Sugars, nearly 1,700 chests, were put up to public sale on Friday, the whole sold with briskness, and at high prices ; fine strong white 48s. to 495. 6d., good and mid. 461. to 485., two parcels of yellow were put up, for which there were few biddings, they were taken in at rather lower rates, 255. for ordinary, up to 295. for very good. 90 packages grey Bahia, the sound taken in at 30s. The only purchase by private contract was 60 chests good white Bahia at 345. Some Bahia+ and Rios, about 250 pack ages, offered at public sale, were all taken in, brown 16s. to 255. This day 14 chests 2 bags Brazil Sugar washed. EAST INDIA SUGAR. —4,810 bags good grey Manilla Sugars sold on Friday at full prices, 28s. to 31s. This day by public sale 2,922 bags Mauritius Sugar, of a very superior quality; the whole sold with briskness, at very full prices ; good brown 495., up to 645. for fine yellow. WEST INDIA MOLASSES. —There is no alteration in West India Molasses. COFFEE —The Coffee Market was not so brisk last week, owing to the late large purchases, and also to the extensive sales advertised in Holland : there was no altera tion in the prices. Fine Jamaica went off freely, all the other descriptions are rather dull, fine fine ord., 465. a 525., mid. to good mid. 555. a 71s. 6d. ; a considerable propor tion of the Demerara and Berbice was taken in. Foreign Coffee was not much inquired after, good ord. Brazil sold at 345. A parcel of nearly 600 bags good ord. Batavia was taken in. This day 195 casks 216 bags British Plan tation; 108 bags East India, and 244 bags Foreign ; the (Foreign) Brazil good ord. all taken in, 335. offered and refused ; ordinary Sumatra at 31s. ; the Jamaica sold with briskness ; the fine at a further advance of 25., mid. to good mid. 60s. a 735. Html, BRANDY, AND Hou.arins.—The Rum Market has been rather languid, but few parcels are forced on the Market for sale, as the holders' are firm in anticipating better prices. The pur c h ases l ast week were quite incon siderable, consisting of some Leewards, n shade above proof, at ls. 9id. a Is. 10d., and some good Jamaica, 28 to 32 over, about 3s. The purchases of Brandy were considerable, but not so extensive as might be anticipated from the rise in France, and the unfavourable reports of the vintage ; they were chiefly made at the advance of Id. to 2d. per gallon. In Geneva there is no alteration. H E MP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The Tallow Market has been stea dy, the prices little varied ; the exports to France lately have been considerabl e . H emp ma i nta i ns the late advance. Flax is little varied. The letters from St. Pe tersburgh are dated 28th ult. Exchange 10d. 11-16 23 .32, Tallow 101. Bought 1,000. SPICES.—There are inquiries for Pepper, and some demand for Nutmegs, but the sales are inconsiderable. Irinico.—The inquiries after Indigo are not so general as last week ; there is no alteration in prices. The quan tity already declared for next sale is about 5,000 chests. oas,—The Mark e t f ur common Oils is Arm, there i s little variation in prices. The accounts from the Fisheries are only to the Gth June, which is too early a date to afford any correct report respecting the success of the season ; the ships were all on the fishing stations and had found a fair supply at so early a date. FRUIT.-The holders of Valentia Raisins have evinced a greater disposition to effect sales; some Red Smyrna Rai sins wet e sold at a trifling reductioa ; a cargo of Cepha lonia Currants has appeared at Market, and the prices are to-day rather lower. SALTPETRE. —The Market is firm. This day, by public sale, 401 bags Saltpetre, all taken in at 255. 6d. TEA.-The Company's Hysons have sold at 3s. 7d. a ss. 4id. Private Trade Teas finished this day; the fol lowing are the prices :—Congous in chests Is. I Id. a 2s. 2d., boxes 2s. a 2s. Id., small ditto 2s. 4d. a 3s. 5 , 1., Souchong 2s. 9id. a 3s. Old., Caper 2s. 73-d. a 2s. 10i-d., Orange Pekoe 3s. 7d. a 3s. The Tea sale finished this day, except the presents. IRISH PROVISIONS.-There is no alteration in Irish Provisions worth reporting. RICE. —There is no variation in Rice. the Market rather dull ; at public sale last week 5,000 bags Java were all taken in ; 78. 6d. was offered and refused. By public sde this day 680 bags Rice, all taken in ; good white Bengal at 12s. 6d. COTTON.—The purchases lately have been considerable, but there is not the slightest alteration in prices. The sales for the week ending last night inclusive consist of 1,200 Surat, Sd. a 4id. ; 300 Bengal, 3-Id. a 4d. ; 1,200 Egyptian, 641. a 61d. _ TOBACCO.-There is a considerable demand for To bacco, but the holders will not accept the offers made, as they are sanguine of obtaining higher prices, on account of the unfavourable reports of the crops in America; the few sales reported are inconsiderable parcels to the trade. HOPS.-The high winds and cold weather have an un favourable effect on Hops; the duty, from 42,000/ , has fallen to 36,000/. ; the highest price for old is 71. •The picking will be general next week. EAST INDIA PIECE GOODS SALE, Bth and 9th Sept. Company Goods—White Longcloths and Sallampores sold on the average as last sale. Blue ditto Bandannoes, superior and scarce descriptions higher, others lower. Private Trade—Blue Sallatnpores few offered, sold Is. or Is. 6d. higher. Ditto Nankeens, much the same as last sale. White ditto, of which there was a considerable quantity of the bleached sort, sold at 4s. Yellow Nan keens, chiefly refused, or bought in by the proprietors; those sold were at much the same prices as last sale ; the stock of this article in the proprietors' hands is consider able. Madras Handkerchiefs, a considerable quantity offered, chiefly good, few or none sold, though some of them offered very low. Damasks, a considerable quantity, chiefly taken in at low prices. Crapes, Shawls, Hand kerchiefs, an Dresses, of the ordinary kind, chiefly taken in. Crape Shawls, long and square, and Scarfs richly embroidered, sold or taken in from 170 s. a 2255. Co loured and Black Sarsnets, Lutestrings and Satins, chiefly taken in at about former prices, rather lower. Black Silk Handkerchiefs, abundant, and chiefly taken in at low prices. MINING INTELLIGENCE.-Sales at Redruth last week. Quantity of Copper Ore sold 1,893 tons; average pro duce 8. Quantity of fine Copper 150 tons 17 cwt. Amount of 5a1e11,260/. 15s. Average standard 1091. 4s. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Boston —4 T 20 39 Gainsborough 64 22 39 Grantham 54 63 32 34 27 32 42 46 Grimsby 45 60 18 26 40 44 Horncastle—.. 60 67 21 28 18 24 38 40 Lincoln Spilsby 46 52 28 32 18 21 38 42 Stamford 5O 64 26 41 York NORWICH. Sept. 12. Our harvest (with the exception of Beans) is now ge nerally completed, yet we have some Barley in the fields, for which the present showery weather is very unfavour able. Wheat, although not an abundant crop, is a full average. Barley is rather deficient. Oats are not much culivated in this neighbourhood. Pease are an abundant crop. Beans are expected to prove a scanty produce, but not to so great an extent as has been anticipated. Our market to-day was well supplied with Wheat, but most of the samples being in poor condition, such as were dry sold readily at Is. to 2s. per quarter higher than last week, whilst inferior descriptions are Is. to 2s. per quar ter lower. Good Barley is rather dearer, as are also Oats and Beans, but Pease being plentiful are rather cheaper. Flour is Is. to 2s. per sack lower. Wheat (per qr.) ... 50s. 60s. ios. I Beans (per qr.) 4O:. 425. Barley Oats 2ss. 265. 28i. Flour, fine (per sack) 48s. 51s. CANTERBURY. Sept. 12. We had a fair supply of New Wheat ; some samples were very good and dry, but the greater part cold, end unfit for use without the kiln. Our New l3arlsy comes to hand much discoloured, but having as yet but a small supply, as well as Beans, Pease, and Oats, we cannot no tice any alteration from their former value. Wheat, wh►ts 6os. to 70s. red 625. to 625. Barley, Making 34s. to 368. Oats Beans 32s. to 345. Pease 32s. to 38s. EXETER NI All Beef (score) 9s Od. 91. (id. Mutton (lb.) 0 s—o 6 Veal and amb 0 —0 6 Perk 0 sf-0 7 Geese (each) 4 6 —5 6 Ducks (coup e) . 3 6 —t 6 Fowls. 2 0 3 0 KE I S. Sept. IL Whet (bushel) Ss. Od. Ds. 6d. Barley 4 0 —4 9 Oats 2 9—3 3 ' Beans 6 o—6 6 Butter (lb) 0 81-0 10 E;gs (11) 0 o—l 0 Potatoes (peck) 0 B—o 0 CHESTER.—Wheat, per 751 b. 10s. 3d. to 10s. 6d., Bailey, 39 qrts. ss. 3d. to ss. 6d. ; Oats, 491 b. 3s. 3d. to 4s. Od. NArrrwiell.—Wheat, per 751 b. lOs. Od. to 12s. Od. ; Barley, 38 qrts. ss. 9(1. to 6s. Od. ; Oats, 501 b. 3s. 6d. to 4s. Od. GLASGOW MARKETS. (From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.) The transactions in Raw SUGARS have not been exten sive this week ; the sales amount to 450 Witch. and tcs., and prices are without any variation. The sales made in COFFEE are only 10 tierces of ordi nary Berbice at 40s. ; and a few bags of middling St. Lucia at 555. A trifling lot of PIMENTO was sold at 61d. Nothing done in GINGER. The transactions in Jamaica RUM are so trifling, that they are not worthy of remark ; 3s. a 3s. 2d. are the prices 16 0. P., and Leewards 2I d. a 22d. for Proofs. There has been a good demand for Carron this week ; the sales amount to 1521 packages; no improvement, however, in prices can be quoted. The particulars are, 40 Sea Island, at 1011. a 12Ad. ; 43 Stained do. at 6441.; 15 Bowed do. at 7d. ; 634 Bowed Georgia, at 51d. a 6d. ; 441 Orleans, at 5-id. a 61-d. ;25 Pernambuco, at ; 150 Egyptian, at 6d. a 6 d. ; 12 Demerara, at 611 3 7d.; 60 Porto Rico, at Sd. ; 101 Surat, at 31d. a 41 1 2 . d. In DYEWOODS there has been nothing done during the week. The sales made in ASHES have been confined to retail parcels of Pots at 345., and Pearls 335. a 335. 6d. TOBACCO remains flat, without any variation in price. Y. C. TALLOW is selling steadily at 40s. a 40s. 6d. The transactions in Fish OILS are limited; Whale 241. a 241. 10s., and Pale Seal 231. a 231. 10s. per tun, old measure. The arrivals of GRAIN, although still moderate, ere more extensive than formerly. In the Wheat trade there has been a fair business done, at about last week's rates. Oats are 6d. per boll lower.. The sal les made in Barley Beans and Pease have been limited at a reduction of ls, without variation. IDAY, Sept. 11. To M. P. 3,5(8 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone; : , 3 0 27 8 1,221 Bete , l7 stone 14 0 12 10% 0 Barley l6 stone! 0 0 3,815 Oats . .12 stone' 10 0 17 0 12 9% 7,285 Cwt. Flour . 9 stone 7 0 28 0 0 941 Oatmeal 8 stone 10 0 18 0 10 1% Sold to Bakers only. 5,465 Cwt. F10ur...,,,,. l6 0 28 0 21 2% Average price of Wheat and Flour 51s. 4d. per sack. Receipts of Flour, 11,2... 1 1 Firsts, —,—. from 235. Od. to 28s, Od, Sales of Do. 7,282 Seconds, ......s. from 16s. Al. to 225. Od . Thirds,--...... from 7s. Od. to 13s Od. DUBLIN MARKET N From 20 0 H o PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf, 41b. 50z.., Olid. I Halfquartern, 21b. 2oz. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. IMPORTED. EXPORTED. Same pc- Previous- This nod last ly this year. year. year. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. 577,911 48',,,239 1,180 30,829 57,795 49 ,719 1,190 43,481 27,247 31,729 237 ted In 1829 ............. 76_917 Bags, &c. Liverpool 577,911 London 57,795 Glasgow Total exported In lt ............ .' 76,917. Same period 1928 52,151. CATTLE. AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL FROM SEPT. 7 TO SEPT. 12, BOTH DAYS INCLUDED. Cows. I Calve I s. Sheep. I Pigs. I Horses. Mules. 2901 512 5267 1946 I 1 0 A person residing at Petham, in Kent, by the name of GAMBRILL, shot a wood pigeon in November last, with 920 clevels of wheat in its crop, which be sowed in a field, and obtained one gallon and time tparts of fine wheat. EFFECTS OF THE THUNDER-STORM• Yesterday afternoon the neighbourhood of La's' beth was thrown into the greatest alarm, in cons' quence of being visited by a most tremendous thug' der-storm, which, we are sorry to say, did consider' able injury to the houses of several of the inh? bitants, and also injured some persons most serious'!' About five o'clock in the afternoon a clap of thus' der of a violent description, which was heard fo r several miles, shook the whole of the neighbourhood , and excited so much alarm and confusion, that the inhabitants of Lambeth-terrace, South, North, eg l , other streets adjacent, were seen to rush from their houses, under the impression that they would fall to ruins, in consequence of the severe shock, which I was similar to that of an earthquake. The inmate of the house of Mr. Capper, of Lambeth-terrace , were exceedingly terrified, and had a most narrow escape. Mr. Capper, who is connected, we under' stand, with the Admiralty, was absent from home et the time of the alarm. None but his niece, Mks Ward, the groom, and other servants, were in the house. Their attention, immediately after the clap of thunder, was attracted by an explosion resembling the loud report of a gun, which caused the founds' don and the whole of the premises to totter; and scarcely had the report taken place, when the whole I roof of the house, with two stacks of chimneys' gave way, and fell in with great force. The a djoin' ing houses were also considerably shakenand injured? and several passengers, who were passing by a t the time, narrowly escaped from injury, as the parapet stones, bricks, and tiles, fell in all directions, to 'bet imminent danger. The injury was caused by a thunderbolt having fallen on the roof of - the - house with tremendou s force, and forcing its way through . the chimney , through which a large ball of fire fell,- rebounded .11 over -the kitchen, and took its direction towards the door, when it disappeared. The furniture in the upper part of the house was destroyed. At about the same time a similar effect was felt at Mrs. Bar' low's, next door; but the injury was not so extensive as at Mr. Capper's. The butler (William Price) to Mrs. Barlow was in one of the apartments, wiles a thunder-bolt came through the chimney, and strilv ing his legs, laid him senseless on the floor, until he received assistance. Another house adjoining was also excessively shaken, and the parapet stones force away from the front. The shock was also felt at th e Lambeth School. Mr. Everard, the master, was° the middle of the school-room at the time of thi, tremendous clap of thunder. He was surround by his scholars, nearly 400 boys. The continue' peal actually shook the whole place, and the forte, rattled on the floor of the sch o ol. Mr. E. ca u tion& them not to look at the windows, as the lightnil was flashing very s t rong . O ne b o y, h owever , na m Jones, residing in Carlisle-lane, Lambeth, whos e eyes had been previously afflicted, looked round, al* was struck by the lightning, which burnt his face ved much, and deprived him of sight for a short period. SHIP-BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS. Some improvements are now going on Portsmouth, in constructing and fortifying the bows of ships. One of the objects contemplated by the late improvements introduced by Sir. IL Seppings, but not the principal one, was to for' tify the stern better. His plans enable the run" away ship to fire a greater number of gun° against the chasing one. Our Naval Officer' say that the advantages of the improvement will all belong to the enemy. That we are generally the assailants, and rather require the bows of our ships to be well armed than the sterns. It nig even, they say, be a temptation to turn tail 0 11 the foe. At any rate, as other nations hay° adopted the plan of fortifying the stern, we are compelled to fortify the bows of our ships better , and to effect this is the object of the improve' ments introduced by Mr. It. F. S. Blake. , g SO much (he says) were chace guns required even in the late war, and before the stern was fortified, that there is not a veteran in the navy who h2 O not to regret for himself and friends the loss of laurels, or some personal advantage, by the want 0 1 efficient guns of this description." By altering the shape of the ship's bow above the water-line , _ and not interfering therefore, in any manner vt°, her sailing properties, he remedies this defect, an" brings, in a three-decker, a battery of guns to bear right 'a -head. In all other ships he is enabled to double the nily . ber of guns which bear in this direc tion, and to point them, which is not very 00' , as ships are at preserit.formed, except with W e i guns on the upper deck, directly in the line ° the ship's course. The bow, above the water line, is, in his plan, made • broader, and less like a wedge than at present. No additional expel° will be necessary thus to form the bow, and ri le essential part of the ship will not be weaken!' A; In the opinion of a Naval Officer, it will "1„ more room on the upper decks, and prohO t ; tend to make the ships so built better sea-het • Sir George Cockburn saw the mod e ls o f t" lg plan, when he was here some time back, and tnt mediately an order was given to make the b ° of the Vindictive, now un d ergo i ng repa i r s an t alterations, of this form ; so that it will have. fair trial. The ingenious autho r of the plat! 19 also the author of several other mechanical 10 2 e provements in his own department, for which P . has already received the approbation of his su . periors. In general there seems to be a con s % derable degree of activity of invention among s t the people connected with the Dock-yard 0 .: Portsmouth, as .if the C o ll eg e here created a st i ,i mulus to exertion b e y on d its walls, and as I/ the reproach of indolence usually thrown on dock-yard people were not now, if ever, deserved• MAYO.—CASTLEBAR, SEPT. 7.—The re' mains of a murdered man were found in bog near BOP near this town, a few days ago, the head severed from tb.e body, and the general appearance much disfigured. Who conjectured to be:the body of a man named BgowU , W ho was known to be possessed of a sum of money, amountil tq)6o/., and who, it was supposed, bad gon e to Engls" for goods. He has not been heard of for some tine.--" Constitution. BIRTHS. On the 14th inst. at St rea th am -l o d ge , M rs . G. Sc° tt ' of a son. On the 13th inst. the lady of E. Hickson, Esq. Kind' street, Cheapside, of a son. MARRIED. On the 15th inst. at Marylebone, N. W. Hake, Eqy only son of the late Rev. J. Hake, rector of Wel f°l : Notthatnptonshire, to Caroline, third daughter of ...„,.; Samler, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park. of On the 15th inst. at St. Pancras, Mark 'Sloper, EA' o f Bishop's Cannings, Wilts, to Miss Christina Dough* Kentish Town. of On the 34 inst. at Gossford, George G. Suttie, E 0 4 0 . Balgone and Preston-grange, to the Lady Harriet Cha rte " daughter of the Earl of Wemyss and March. ... DIED. d At Boulogne, Antonetta, wife of John Ellis, Esq. Flee "" i :n daughter of Sir Peter Parker, Bart. Admiral of the On the 14th inst. at Norwich, Jeremiah Ives, E"l' '- his 53d year. On the 15th inst. in Lincoln's-inn-fields, Bi goe Charl es Williams, Esq. Admiral At Milan, en the 22d ult. George Losack, Est' of the Blue. On the 14th inst. at Camberwell, Mr. R. Taylor, clerk of his Majesty's ship Doris. On the 12th inst. R. Page, Esq. of the Wan of the d of Ma deira, Knight Commander of the Portnix'e Tower and Sword. Order 'LING, Al --------- PAINTED AND PUBLISHED BT DIVRDO YO THE °mut, Svsex, LONDON. 9