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i i ",0.4.. - ' ei l . ..........04_,i, , ,, " : i..*..,--..,., -. spmrlV , OP THE - PUBLIC JOURNALS. A correqp - Ondent; : r igning himself " a Reader of the Times" has thought proper to arraign this Journal for not being sufficiently in the front of the opposition to Ministers ; and the instance by which the gentleman would illustrate his ac cusation of our supporting the views of the pre sent (British) Government, is our alleged " at tempt to uphold the appointment of the " traitor Bourmont to a high station in the French Mini stry." Now, in the first place, we made no such attempt to " uphold" the traitor Bourmont. We remember having called him a man of ability-- and so far a useful colleague to Prince Polignac. Ilia if it he meant that we had any wish upon the subject of Bourmont, or of Prince Polignac himself, as to their accession to office, or their tenure of it,—that we cared one straw about the success of either of these foreign politicians.as Ministers further than might be connected with the chance of their measures of foreign policy being favourable to the peace of Europe and to the duration of cordiality between their country and our own,—the civil person who insinuates his animadversions upon us, is very sadly mis taken. So much for foreign politics. Respect ing matters nearer home, we have seen it right and just pretty often to support the mea sures of the Duke of Wellington, or ra ther, we have considered his behaviour, in relation to one great public question, so manly, so wise, so useful to his country, and conferring on him so fair a title to gratitude and honour from every man to whom domestic peace and happiness are dear, that we have treated with forbearance some other proceedings of his government which appeared to us of a more doubtful complexion. If we are wrong in this, the country errs. with us ; for it rallies round the Duke, and clings to him. If we are wrong in occasionally showing that we have not forgotten the Duke of Wellington's civil ser vices, and that we on the whole are satisfied to have him for Minister, because we despair of finding a man more eligible in the present con dition of the realm, name to us that better, and convince us of the possibility of obtaining him for successor to the Duke of Wellington, and we are in opposition to-morrow. But it is no great proof of discernment in us that we can judge how he is beset, and what slippery, treacherous, vexatious, harrassing, meannesses of the lowest order, though in the highest places, are perpetually made use of to ensnare or to provoke him. Let our correspondent look at the alternative—let him but imagine the Duke of Cumberland, or Lord Eldon, as effective head of a British Administration, and then ask him self whether the Times does not its duty in yielding the Duke of Wellington an unbought support.—Times. We cannot help calling the attention of the public to the result of a trial at the Gloucester Assizes (Davis v. Capper) reported in our Journal of this day, wherein we find by the ver dict of a Special Jury, the value they set upon the liberty of the subject in that county. The plaintiff, a woman advanced in years, was taken tip on a charge of felony. At the examination which took place before the defendant at Chel tenham, no proof was offered of her guilt,—the articles alleged to have been stolen were not found in her possession, but her accuser pro duced a letter addressed to the plaintiff; which she bad intercepted and opened by the advice of a police-officer. The letter contained a number of vague allusions to the robbery which it was alleged had been committed on the plaintiff's accuser. The plaintif was called on by the de fendant to state who was the writer of that letter, which had never been received by her ; and being unable to do so, is committed for sixteen days to the House of Correction at Northleach, in order that in the mean time information might be obtained respecting the writer of a letter that was never in the possession of the plaintiff. At the House of Correction she is treated as a per son convicted of a misdemeanour, and at the expiration of the sixteen days brought up again before the Magistrates at Cheltenham. The de fendant, who committed her, was not then pre sent,—he was attending other business at Glou cester. No further evidence was offered in sup port of the charge of felony, but the Bench de clining to act in the absence of the committing Magistrate, the plaintiff' was sent back to the gaol of Northleach for three days—that was, till the next Bench day. She was then brought up again, and, no other evidence being offered, dis charged. For this violation of the principles of justice, a Special Jury of the county of Glou cester has given a special verdict for the plaintiff; with 101. damages ! ! !—/bid. We learn, with great satisfaction, that the Commissioners for the Amendment of the Law of Real Property are employed, during the pre sent forensic recess, in vigorously prosecuting the great and important objects of the task confided to them. The several portions of the work are distributed among the members of the Commis sion, according to an arrangement formed be tween themselves; each, so soon as his indivi dual labours are completed, submitting the result to the united consideration and revision of all his brethren. Amid all the midtilarious topics of inquiry within the sphere of this Commission, there is, perhaps, none of more importance than that of establishing an universal registration of all conveyances and changes on real property. Could such a registration be enforced, it is asto nishing how extensive a field of litigation would be at once destroyed. In the counties of York and Middlesex, and in Ireland, the system had long been established ; but it has not been en forced with the inflexibility which is needful to make it fully beneficial. Meantime, one of the members of the Real Property Commission, Mr. Duckworth, has lately visited Ireland, and been for some time engaged, with Sir An thony Hart, the Chancellor, in investigating the operation of the Registry-office in that kings j dom, and similar inquiries are being made, with ' reference to the Registries in the two Eliglish counties where they exist. We suppose they will likewise extend to Scotland. While, in this meritorious manner the Law Commissioners are devoting themselves to their duties, a very absurd clamour has been raised, in certain quarters, against the expenee attendant on the Commission. It was very well said, that the sole end and aim of all our great political Etablishments— of the whole apparatus of Government, King, Lords, and Commons, with the Army and Navy to boot—is no other than to set one man with wig upon a Bench, and twelve others in a box by his side : yet if it be proposed to make ever so small an addition to the minute portion of time National Revenu e which is applied directly to purposes of real and public utility, either for erecting a new Tribunal, or remunerating an ad ditional M ag i s trate, we hear o f nothing but the necess ity of frugality, anti that from the very persons who would , without a murmur, see the patio,nal resources squandered on a war under- taken from any filmsy policy, engendered in the brain of a diplomatist, or for the maintenance of some vain and frivolous point of national honour. —Morning Cironide. We find that a statement in our Paper of yes terday, relative to the amount of emolument lately attached to the office of Solicitor of the Excise in Ireland, has been doubted, on the ground that it is too monstrous to have existed even in that country of jobs and abuses. The fact we stated is simply and strictly true ; and 'here are some circumstances which we now with the same direct knowledge of their existence for many years, still more curious, and more illustrative of the Irish Revenue system. The different prosecutions for offences against the Excise Laws were wholly discretionary with the Solicitor for the Board ; and from the mode of payment by bills of cost, it was naturally to he expected that few cases, however trivial, escaped the notice of an attorney, to whom each. whether prosecuted to conviction or not, was a certain source of profit. This, one would think, was bad enough in all conscience; but the evil by no means rested there—the invariable usage was, in every cause, however trumpery, to lay a case before the Law Officers of the Crown, a; well as before the two regularly retained Bar risters, known as the Counsel to the Com missioners. In -process-of-time, the frequency of these appeals to the sages of the law ren dered the old plan of the fee accompanying the brief too troublesome, and a regular pass-book actually existed, to note the num be) and amount of fees; which, when they had accumulated to a sum of a certain magnitude, were paid of in the usual trades- manlike manner: Where the mutual advan tage of the Banister and the Solicitor were thus conveniently adjusted, the consequence may be readily guessed. Another enormous waste of public money arose from the system established by the late Lord Oriel, when Chancellor of the _ _ Irish Exchequer, of fining the town-lands wherever a conviction was had for illicit distilla tion. The clear profit to the Excise Solicitor upon each conviction was something more that five pounds ; and the aggregate amount may be supposed tolerably great, when we assert, which we do upon a perfectly competent authority, that the number of convictions upon a single Ci►cuit actually exceeded tw•elce hundred. Well might the Irish Secretary of that day, who now holds a still higher employment here, call the Excise Solicitor the Child of Fortune. We are not sufficiently in possession of the nature of the changes since made in this branch of the Reve- nue Department to pronounce an opinion ; but w•e hope and trust that a system ►vhich left a man confidentially employed no alternative but that of acting the pact either of a knave or a fool, is utterly and irrevocably abolished.—Aid. We find that our anticipations on the subject of the Court Martial sitting at Portsmouth, as to the imperative necessity of entering more fully into the nature of the instructions under which Sir E. Codrington acted, are gaining additional consistence from the course of the proceedings. This is no more than we expected, as our opinion rested upon the judgment of an able and dis tinguished naval character. It will be observed that the prosecutor upon every occasion com plains of the suppression, or, at least, the non- production, of documents which he conceives es sential to the ends of justice ; and it is confi dently asserted by well-informed persons, that the propriety of furnishing or withholding them is at this moment a subject of rather acrimonious discussion at the Admiralty. The Secretary of the Admiralty, whether deservedly or not, has long been extremely unpopular, both within doors and without ; and it is whispered that the pending Court Martial is likely, in some way or other, to accelerate a retirement which, we be lieve, has been for some time contemplated, and to which we apprehend the great majority of all parties concerned look forward with anxious ex ' pect ation.—Eid. The Dublin Evening Post has the following remarks relative to the result of the trials of the police-men arising out of the riots at Borriso keene :—" Homicides were certainly commit ted in Borrisokeene ; and notwithstanding the acquittals—eery needlessly, we think—not to use a stronger phrase. But there was no miti gated verdict—There was no conviction for even justifiable manslaughter; no verdict that would send the homicides out of the country." In this short passage there are two strange bl un d ers —the one is, that there could be such a verdict as " justifiable manslaughter"—such a verdict was surely never heard of except by the Editor of the paper in question. In the law of Eng land " manslaughter" means the specific crime of feloniously killing, and it only differs from wilpd murder in wanting the ingredient of malice aforethought. It, therefore, never can be a justifiable act. The other blunder consists in supposing that an act which is justifiable in law would be the subject of trawpoilation or of any punishment whatever. Thus, though a verdict of " justifiable manslaughter" would be a gross absurdity, a verilict of "justifiable homicide" would be tantamount to 8n acquittal ;_ and the Jury, in the cases we allude to, returned verdicts of " not guilty," precisely because they con sidered the acta Df homicide justifiable—not because they did not believe that acts of homi cide had been committed.—Morning Herald. We have no wish to prejudice the result of the trial, at present pending, of Captain Dicken son, for alleged misconduct in the battle of Navarin, which, through the treacherous con duct of Russia, :;i3s led to results very different indeed from those which ;,-;:re anticipated at the time it was fought ; but we cannot withhold the following observations from our readers oa the subject, which appear to be fully justified by the incidents and progress of the trial. We fear dist there has been attempts to sacrifice the hero of Navarin to political feelings of a very different character from those under which he was ordered to fight. "It is cle4r from the progress of Captain Dickenson's Court kTartial, ' says the Hampshire Telegraph, " that it L s2ught to try what th.; lawyers call a collateral . issoe, namely, something wL,ich does not immediately of necessity belong to Lilo o;iginal case. Sir Edward Codrington has appeared twicz,u thrice as a witness. On each occasion he has !nada strong and puog;3nt allusions to something which the Adm;ralty have either kept back on the one side, or unnecessarily pressesd forward on the other. Be has never appeared at the table of the Court, In;t he has alluded to papers of Mr. Croker, or the Admiralty, which either do not belong to this case, and are pertinaciously pressed into it, or do belong to it, and are improperly withheld. This must be settled between the Admiralty, Sir Edward Codrington, and the Court Martial, the last being only involved by listening to the mysterious allusions. The re- malning question is, what has Captain Dicken son to do with these controversies ? The Court has not yet interfered—perhaps ought not ; still it is evident Sir Edward Codrington thinks he has something to bring out. Why is the dis closure withheld ?"—Morning Advertiser. Whatever may he said respecting the apathy of the Duke of Wellington, and his disregard of tht progress of affairs in the East, we have reason to know that his Grace is penetrated with the most lively interest on the subject, and that it will be in spite of him if Constantinople be ever occu ,ried by Russian troops. Orders have been transmitted to every quarter in the Mediterranean Ind Archipelago to adopt proceedings, which, ,ve trust, will be rendered unnecessary by the conduct of Russia, but which, we know, will be resorted to, in case of necessity, in order to pre serve the integrity of the Turkish empire. The insurance on a Russian ship of war would not, indeed, be safe, at the present moment, tinder 99 per cent., should Itt , sia think of seizing the capital of the East, and establishing her power on the shores of the Bosphorus.—lbid. SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT-GLOUCESTER, SE PT. 1. DAVIS V. CAPPER, ESQ. The evidence for the defendant having been con cluded last night when the Court adjourned, Mr. CURWOOD, for the plaintiff, this morning replied. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, in summing up the evi dence to the jury, said that the question for their consideration was, whether Mr. Capper had exceeded his jurisdiction. If he had, he was answerable in this action, and that question involved two points, first, was the commitment made bona fide in the exe cution of his duty as a Magistrate, or was it tainted with some sinister motive, such as extorting from the prisoner a confession ; or, secondly, was it made without any corrupt motive; and if so, was it for an unreasonable time ? In either of these cases it would be illegal. The Jury retired for about an hour, and on their return produced the following written verdict : We consider that Mr. Capper acted bona fide, and without any impure motives in the committal of Mary Davis for re-examination. We consider the period of committal unreasonable, and we find for the plaintiff damages 101. BUDD V. IIORWOOD. The plaintiff and defendant were, it appeared, rival bakers, living at Box, and the defendant having had the misfortune to be robbed of some flour, the de fendant's wife was heard to say, it was bad times when one baker must rob another, thereby insinuat ing that the theft had been committed by the plain tiff. He (Mr. Seijeant RussEt.t.) was instructed not to press for heavy damages, but merely such a com pensation as would effectually remove the stain from the character of the plaintiff.—Verdict for the plain tiff, damages Is. WATTS V. OGDEN. Mr. MAN.F.AN opened the pleadings, stating that this was an action on the warranty of a pointer dog. Mr. CAMPBELL, said the plaintiff resided at Wood chester, in this county, and had been educated for the law; but having the good luck to succeed to a large fortune, he became a country gentleman, and in the course of the last year, wishing to have a good pointer, he purchased the bitch in question, which was warranted steady, and to have been re gularly shot over. Now that warranty meant not that the dog had been tied to a tree arid a pistol fired over her head, but that she had been regularly used and shot to as a sporting dog. The season not buy ing at that time commenced, Mr. Watts, with a view to try this new purchase, fired at a sparrow, when this dog, that had been warranted to stand fire, was actually frightened, and ran out of the field, with her tail between her leg•. Mr. Baron VA►JGHA\ having summed up the evi dence, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 5/. Robert Bowes, Isaac Michell, and George Adams, were indicted, charged with killing Thomas Lowe, in a stand-up fight. The Jury found the prisoner Howes Guilty, and Witchell and Adams Not Guilty. Sentence postponed. Elizabeth Morely, an ill-looking woman, was in dicted, charged with having obtained various .ums of money to the amount of GO/. by false pretences, from James Best, and of uttering a forged note, knowing the same to be forged, whereby she ob tained 101. from the said James Best. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and she was sentenced to six months' imptisonmemt. NORTHERN CIRCUIT-LANCASTER, AuG. 31. The Assizes for the county of Lancaster com menced to-day. The business is very heavy. The calendar contains the names of seventy prisoners, and there are two hundred causes entered for trial. Of the latter, however, a great portion are expected to be undefended. Mr. Justice BAYLEY took his seat in the Crown Court at ten o'clock, and soon afterwards delivered his charge to the Grand Jury. He then proceeded to try different cases. Elizabeth Holder was charged on the Coroner's inquisition, and also on an indictment charging her with feloniously killing and slaying her infant child, Thomas Holder, at Manchester, on the Ist of August last. Susannah Ellison--I remember the birth of Thos. Holder. He was nine months old when he died. The prisoner was very negligent to the child. The straw upon which it used to lie was never changed. The prisoner was in the habit of giving it stuff to cause it to sleep. She suckled it for seven weeks, and then weaned it. Some time after that it used to he fed with dry bread and sugar, but always very sparingly. The prisoner and her husband were both in the habit of going out to sing at parties. She would go out almost every evening at eleven o'clock, and frequently stop out all night. Mr. Holder was seldom at borne. He never took his meals at home, lie seemed to be very fond of de ceased. Deceased used to be put to bed at seven or eight in the evening, and be left to sleep until one or two on the next day. Deceased was not a cross child. He was very seldom taken out of the cradle, the straw of which was constantly wet. No attention was paid to the state of the child's person. I used often to speak to the prisoner about it, and asked her to allow me to clean the child. She always told me to mind my own business. The child had no covering at all except what I could get pet on it. It languished, and gradually grew very ;eat). On the Ist of August it died. Cross-examined by Mr. BROWNE.—I am now in the service of Mrs. Taylor. I went to her imme- diately after I left the prisoner's service. I was not hired by prisoner principally to take care of the child. I was hired to do all the work. When the prisoner went out at night, the child was left under my care. I might have fed it with bread and sugar as often as I pleased, but I did not. The reason why I did not was, that my mistres3 always told me to mind my own business, when I spoke of do ing any thing for the child. I never but once took the child out of the cradle to change it when my mistref,s was away. If I ever went about it when she was by, c:4,- always told me to mind my busi ness. The prisoner used to give stuff to the child to make it sleep. I once gave it soma wine 4 n4 cloves. I one got stuff from Dr. Mann to give to it. The child was quite naked in the cradle, except when I could find something to put over it. The husband of prisoner was very fond of the child, and used to nurse it when it was taken out of the cradle and given to him. I had the care of the child whilst prisoner was out, and that was almost every night. The child would hare done very well, if properly attended to. A surgeon from Manchester, who had examined the body of the child, and had heard all the evi dence on the trial, could not undertake to say what was the cause of the child's death. Mr. Justice BAYLEY here stopped the case, and said that upon such evidence it would be the duty of the Jury to acquit the prisoner. The Jury accordingly found a verdict of Not Guilty. The husband of the prisoner, who had been pre sent during the trial, immediately upon the verdict being given, ran to the dock, and the joy which they mutually expressed cause a strong mensationio the Court. WESTERN CIRCUIT-DitfOGENN .tTER, SEPT. I. Chief JUDlie! TINDAL was engaged the whole of yesterday upon a tithe cause, in which the principal qmestion was as to the existence of a modus. Not being completed yesterday, the case was resumed this morning, arid occupied the Court throughout the day. It presented no feature of public interest. Mr. Serjeant BOMPAS also sat yesterday and to day, and disposed of some Common Jury cases, Special Juries being reserved for the Chief Justice. This arrangement, which was made with a view to bring up the arrear of business occasioned by the ill ness of Mr. Justice Burrough, and in order to get through a cause list unusually heavy, has not suc ceeded to the extent that was. in all probability con templated. Nothing that would bear reporting oc curred yesterday. This morning it was found necessary to make re mallets of about 15 causes, the commencement of the Bristol Assizes being fixed for to-morrow (Wed nesday), and there not being:time sufficient to dis pose of them in any other manner. Of all places that we have ever witnessed, Bridge water is the worst suited for an Assize town. The accommodations it affords are dear and detestable.— Nothing can be more inconvenient than the Courts, which we believe were constructed in the reign of Queen Anne. As for the public press, there is no provision for the accommodation of individuals con nected with it, and upon this occasion they owe it entirely to the personal courtesy of Sir Alexander Hood, the High Sheriff, that they have been able to obtain that degree of accommodation which was ab solutely indispensable for the performance of their duty. The health of Mr. Justice Burrough is, we under stand, very considerably improved. WORLOCK V. TUCKER. This was an action to recover the value of a horse let on hire by the plaintiff to the defendant, and which, while in the hands of the latter, met with an accident that subsequently occasioned its death.— There were counts in the declaration eaiming com pensation for the hire of the horse and the expense incurred by the plaintiff in endeavouring to cure it. Among the witnesses called for the plaintiff was the driver of the Bath and Exeter mail, who proved ' the serious nature of the injuries, the unskilful way in which the horse was treated by the landlady and boots of an inn at Taunton, and the impropriety of sending him on to Glastonbury, upon the day after ' the accident. Cross-examined by Mr. JEREMY—YOU know something about horses ?—I should think so. Well, but you are more practised in driving than taking care of them ?—I knows a trifle of that too. I've had to do with horses all my life, been born, bred, and hedicaled with them since I was the height of my fore vheels.—(Laughter.) I don't ask you if yen have ever had to do with broken•kneed horses before, for I know the respec tability of your mail.—(A laugh.)—The hostler of the George is a clever fello w a b ou t h orses , I b e li eve ? ' —Oh, e'es. But he wasn't at the inn the night the horse ar rived, arid the animal, as we have heard, fell into the hands of boots. Now, can't you say a good word for boots ?—Yes, in his professional capacity.—(A laugh )—He polishes shoes very well.—(Continued laughter.) Has he been to the University ?—(A laugh.)— I can't say as how he was, but amought.--(A laugh.) The son of a veterinary surgeon stated, that as he was " going to visit his other patients," he was called in to attend a consultation on the case of this horse, felt his pulse, and prescribed remedies for the injuries done to his sinorial g'ands.—( Laughter.) Cross-examined—Was a student of the veteri nary science—that is, an apprentice to his father— and called horses his " patients."—(Laughter.) The father of this witness gave a very learned ac count of the symptoms attendant on the case of" the patient." The horse was proved to be worth 25/. The ex pences of the " medical" treatment and the hire for six days were estimated at .5/. A number of witnesses having been called to make out this case, and the Learned Judge having summed up the evidence in a very elaborate mariner, the Jury pronounced a verdict for the plaintiff—da mages 5/. FLOODS IN SCOTLAND. GLASGOW. (From the Glasgow Chronicle of Aug. 28.) Thursday morning, at seven o'clock, Clyde was only about eighteen inches above its usual level ; but about nine, it had risen six to eight feet ; at two, twelve to thirteen feet ; and in the evening, to upwards of sixteen feet. The com mon sewers were consequently gorged, and the water stood at considerable depth in the lower houses of the Bridgegate. The Molendinar and Camlachie burns were swollen to a great height, and the low houses in their neighbour. hood were inundated, and the people obliged to remove their furniture. The Flesher's Haugh was covered, and the water was considerably be yond the sheds on the quay. About nine o'clock the river began to subside, and has since gra dually receded. Great fears were entertained in the lower parts of the town for the effects of the tide, but the flood had previously began to abate, and no additional effect was produced. The rain was particularly heavy round Lanark, and in the vale of Clyde. About three o'clock on Thursday morning it was falling in torrents.' At six the river Mouse was greatly swollen, and the Nethan and Avon were dashing their banks with awful fury. The wheat and corn in that district are said to be much damaged. In dif ferent places the roads were flooded. At Mearns and neighbourhood the rain fell heavily, accom panied with a strong wind, for twenty-four hours. F e w of the fields of grain in that quarter are flooded, but it, is greatly lodged ; and if' a good breeze does not immediately spring up, serious consequences are anticipated. The potatoes have suffered materially, numerous drills having had the earth completely washed away. Between Glasgow and Stirling, the rain on Thursday was equally heavy ; and every species of crop h a s been seriously injured. On the Edinburgh road c onsiderable damag e has been done. The corn-fields were, in many places, observed to be under water a foot in depth, and several stooks were seen at different times floating down the Almond. At Airdrie, all sorts of grain are re ported to have been slightly i n j ure d, w hil e i n the burns at Chryston and Hogganfield, con siderable quantities of hay were carried down the stream- At Kirkintilloch t h e fl oo d was so great, that it is sai d n o th i ng similar h as b een seen f or th e last twenty years. One farmer in Campsie parish, adjoining Kirkintilloeb, had about forty acres of crop completely covered, while all the parks around presented the same appearance. morning the w a t er was across the toll- Friday r oad at the end of Luggie Bridge, and at the hed g es, Of the tops while, in the eastern quarter of Kirkintilloch, the houses were flooded. A number of sheep were swept off Campsie hills, and carried down by the violence of the current. Little corn had been shorn, but the greater part of it has disppeared. Altogether, from Inchbelly to Balmore, it has been estimated that a thousand pounds would scarcely make up for the loss : As .. tained. In one direction, north of over- is said several aL, s of wheat 1,-os whelmed in .thc. sand i..' ! rown out of ti- At Ayr t.1:01 - 1 , - , Gn overflowed :r- banks ; but the al appears, florn the accounts received from that quarter, to have been less severely felt in the south. In the more immediate vicinity of Glas (row, it is believed a few days fine weather wo u ld recover the corn and wheat ; but in exposed situations the potatoes appear to have suffered considerably. ABERDEEN. (From the Aberdeen Chronicle of Aug. 29.) We lament it is not in our power to state any unfavourable change of the weather since our last, the month of August being now about to terminate with as little appearance of summer or portion of its genial warmth as we can for many years remember. The cold northerly winds have prevailed throughout the week—for the two or three first days without much rain—so that the reapers were able to proceed with their work, and several field of barley have been cut down in this neighbourhood. The atmosphere was, however, gloomy—the sun seldom making his appearance, and the temperature very cold, so that the crop has been greatly checked, and made little progress towards maturity. On Wednes day the morning promised well, with the wind from the south-westward, and the sun shed his enlivening rays with great splendour ; but this delusive prospect soon vanished, and the gather ing clouds gave too evident presage of an impending storm. In the course of the afternoon, the rain began to fall, and, as the night advanced, poured in torrents, ac companied with a violent gale from the eastward, which continued with little abatement great part of Thursday. Friday, the wind again shifted to the north yard, with frequent showers; the weather cold and gloomy, with the like ap pearance of inconstancy as for some weeks pre vious. The crop, we are sorry to learn, has in consequence suffered considerably, and in some situations, particularly where it had been injured by the late calamitous flood, has been flattened as if with a roller. The late crop of turnips too, it is much feared, must be greatly affected by this excessive and unseasonable rain, and in the low ground especially, almost wholly checked in the growth. The rivers Dee and Don have again overflowed their banks; and from the quantity of light timber, &c. which was floating down our harbour on Thursday, when several boats were employed in collecting it, there is little doubt but this flood has not been unattended with farther damage on the banks of these rivers. The fresh in the rivers northward appears also to have been very considerable, as the mail of Fri day from Inverness remains due—no doubt, owing to the difficulty of crossing the Findhorn and Spey since the loss of the bridges over these rapid and dangerous rivers. SECOND INUNDATION IN MORAYSHIRE. By a gentleman who arrived at Newhaven in the Brilliant, steam-packet, yesterday, from Cromarty and Aberdeen, we learn that there has been another dreadful storm in Morayshire, on Thursday last, and that the bridge of Nairn, (the only one left standing betwixt Aberdeen and Inverness by the last floods, ) has been in consequence swept away. The roads were again impassable, and the North mail was two days due at Aberdeen on Saturday.—lbid. INVERNESS. (From the Inverness Journal, Aug. 28.) Yesterday was one of the most stormy days which we have had during the season, and the quantity of rain which fell was ascertained, by the very great increase of the neighbouring streams, to have been considerably more than during the storm by which the country was deluged and the bridges carried away on the 3d and 4th current. The bridge over the river in the Royal Burgh of Nairn, the bridge opposite Kilravock and Holm, the bridges at Craggie, at Auchnahault, at Cas tlehill, at Dochfour, two bridges at Urquhart, a bridge of two arches at Mid Lairgs, and several others, which stood firm during the last floods, have yielded to the present, and scarcely any, where the rain was heavy, have withstood the strength of the torrent. The river Ness was considerably higher than on the 3d and 4th current. and brought down this morning quantities of corn, wood, &c. ; the stream, by its muddy colour, showing that much soil had been also carried away from its banks. We have just seen one of the guards of the Coast Mail, who arrived this morning from Fochabers. He says that he never experienced such a night, and from him we h ave co ll ecte d the following particulars of his journey :—The coach having left Fochabers at f our o ' c l oc k , P.M., got forward without any interruption to the Spey, where, in consequence of the boisterous rapidity of the torrent, which swept along with it corn and wood in great abundance, the boat men were with difficulty prevailed on to ferry the guard across. They stated their determi nation not to venture again while the current re mained so strong. Mr. Shearer, the Post Office Inspector, was fortunately at Forres, and the guard having advised with him, set forward. He says that the Findhorn and Burn of Forres having overflowed all the intermediate lands, formed a sheet of water of many miles extent, which very nearly reached the shambles of For res. The tenants where every where seen aban doning their houses, and wading through the water to save their furniture. On his way to the Fbidhorn the guard called on Mr. David son, who resides about two miles to the east ward of that river ; he accompanied the guard, and promptly secured six men to carry the mails across the river, which was done with scarcely any detention, although the ebbing current was fearfully strong. Four of Mr. Davidson's men then volunteered their services, and car ried the bags on their backs to Earnhill, where the guard procured a horse and cart from Mr. Lou don, in which he proceeded to Dyke ; there th e Rev. Mr. Aitken was waiting in readiness with his servants, and several lights, to assist forward the mail. One of the servants from the Manse waded before the cart for upwards of a mile, the water covering the road, in many places, to the depth of three feet. At Auldearn the guard was met by the Rev. Mr. Barclay, who informed them that the bridge at Nairn had b een swept away. After a most boisterous night the cart arrived opposite to Nairn, where the guard blow ing his horn, several persons ins t ant l y came for ward and advised him not to attempt to cross the bridge, a great part of it having f a ll en ; an d find ing it, tillak t three however, eee coa,r i t.ioct impossible thisAuldearn, d morning, t o e ar , arle r boat,when hiee he drove re mained get a where again set out on his way, to Inverness, and ther e , being still from two t o t h ree f eet i n b rea d t h o f the j bridge held together, he with great peril passed it, accompanied by Mr. Loudon' ;on, ori, whom his father had sent from F„'7'r-_. ; i,l assist. him. Tire ri',er Nairn overtilwed its to 21 inche thC late storm, ..0 great apprchens;lns w , lre entertained that the bridge of iLviot lauu,,. have been swept ofi; although founded on a rock considerably beyond the usual height of the water ; but it still stands, although it must be much shaken. If this bridge had been carried away, the communica tion to the south by this road, at least for car riages and carts, would have been completely cut off; as there is no place within four miles of the Highland road where the river is fordable. All the temporary bridges erected since last flood have fallen before the present, and the cultivated fields, which .were only partially injured on the banks of the river, have now been completely destroyed. The breaches which the river had made in the dykes and embankments not having been repaired, the way was clear for the water, which rushed forward with astonishing rapidity, carrying everything before it. Again have the unfortunate tenants of Rosefield, Kildrumnie, and Allanha, seen the river devastating their fields, without being able to offer the smallest obstruction. At Faillie the water covered the farms ; and in deed on the whole of the lands of Cantry. a nd Kilravock the havoc has been immense. The mill at Culdoich has been carried off, and the miller's crop destroyed. At Daltullich, the Nairn carried away a quantity of corn and corn land, and from forty to fifty trees a little below that place have been swept off, the banks having also fallen before the violence of the stream Cattle were observed floating down the stream, together with wood, furniture, &c. The Spey rolled along in awful majesty, and some of the finest fields on the farms of Cul nakyle, Burchfield, Gartenmore, Bellforth, Bal- Entomb, Craggan, and Kirktown, have been de stroyed. The Findhorn, perhaps a stream which in ra pidity and destructiveness is not equalled in Scot land, destroyed so much on the 3d and 4th cur rent, that little was left for the torrent to carry off, but that little was swept away. Its banks were overflowed to a great extent, and if there had been any bridges left by the late flood, they would have unquestionably been swept off. THE MARKETS. COAL MAI? Adair's _ —.—.. 278. 911. reatiinont 27 6 Burdon ,28 3 Hebl4tirri Main 29 0 Holywell 26 3 Killingworth 30 6 Kenton West 29 0 Newburn , '2B 0 Peiaw — 27 0 Percy Main 27 6 Sh ipcote. .26 6 Tantield 30 0 Tanfield 96 6 Townley 26 9 Willington Wylam .28 6 Wal ls End Bew ick e& Co. 33 0 Walls End Boundary .. 27 6 Walls End Brown's 29 3 Ditto Brown's unscr.—., 27 3 Ditto Clarke and C 0..., 29 0 Ditto Carr and Co. .«.,. 28 6 Ditto Crainlington— 27 6 Ships al market, 82--Sli COUNTRY CORN MARK .ET.—Sept. 2. Walls El;( l Newmarch... 31s. 9d. Ditto Hilda ••••••..r.• 20 6 Ditto 32 0 Ditto Northumberland 29 6 1)i tto Peareth --- 27 0 Ditto Perkins and Co.—. 29 6 Ditto 32 3 Ditto Russell's 33 0 Ditto Walker 32 0 Nesham 28 6 Walls Fild Hetton---.. 34 6 Wall's End 32 0 Walls End Lyons 31 9 Walls End Stewart's 34 6 Russell's Hetton's W.E. 34 3 Hartley 31 0 27 0 Stone Coal----- 46 0 Pelaw 27 0 Hetton small 17 0 Hutton Seam Coal IS 0 Londonderry 19 6 ips sold, 53 —Unsold, 27. ETS DURING Till: WEEK Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. t. s. Abingdon---- 58 82 32 38 21 32 42 Andover 70 35 22 29 46 Birmingham—. 72 82 32 36 24 36 46 Bridport 56 74 32 39 26 34 54 Cirencester 52 72 SO 34 23 25 44 Faringdon-- 54 86 36 40 26 38 46 Guildtbrd 49 74 32 38 24 33 45 Henley. 54 83 30 35 20 30 40 Hereford 64 84 38 45 36 40 60 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead ...-- 65 84 29 39 22 30 51 Oakingham --. 56 76 30 36 18 32 43 Reading 60 82 32 37 24 34 42 60 78 34 40 24 34 5 6 Southampton 54 78 37 40 28 32 4 8 Stroud 66 80 34 38 22 32 42 Tewkesbury 65 87 40 42 30 38 51 Uxbridge 48 81 32 34 23 31 43 Wantage---. 50 78 30 37 22 30 Warminster -- 48 82 :'() ai 27 38 54 Windsor 64 86 32 36 26 38 54 Woreester-- 70 75 36 40 24 32 44 CHELTENHAM MARKET.—Sept. 1. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. d. to d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb 7 8 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork. ............. 6 7 1 Hay 3l. 10 4 . t o 31. 15s. per ton. ...•• per ton. LEWES MARKET.—Sept. 1. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 8 0 to £3 16 0 Red ditto Barley Oats, New 1 2 0 1 6 0 Beans 1 17 0 0 0 0 Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 per thousand. HULL MARKET.—Sept. L With the exception of Thursday and Snnday, the wee" ther has been unfavourable for harvest; notwithstanding the farmers have been very busy in securing their Wheats. To-day we have several samples of New shown, for which from 625. to 70s. was demanded, but there was not much sold ; the condition of it is generally soft ; indeed, whet we have seen, before it can be used by the miller, mtl'i require a considerable mixture of Old Wheat, or Lie par tially dried on the kiln. During the week, some sales took place at an advance of Is. to Us. per quarter on the currency of last week. To-day, however, there has only been a very limited inquiry for Wheats, and we consider the prices on all qualities without alteration from onr last. Bonded Wheat is not so much in demand, but without al teration in value. Oats and Beans, both free and under lock, continue in very trifling demand, and price almost nominal. We have many inquiries after grinding Barleys Barley, but not much here ; but on the business doing our quotations are fully maintained. Rapeseed and Lin seed the same as our last. Wheat, Old —s. —s. —s. Wow --e. Ms. 70s. Foreign —s. 665. 70s. ......In bond... --a. —s. --s. Oats, Poland —s. 20c 248. Old —B. s. 2135. Sinai! or Feed.... —s. 12s. 18s -6. 241. Foreign —a. 20a. 24a. Barley, Norf. & Sut ... —e 265. 28s. Line. & %Vold --8. 28s. 30s. Foreign —s. 30s. 225. Beans 345. 365. 398. Foreign --I. 3ris, sgi. Pease, White —s. 345. 365. Grey ..-1, 30s. 32i. . Tares —s 345. 36s Foreign —B. 28s. 325. Rapeseed, in bond none. DUMFRIES MA_ s. d. 5. d. e. d. e. d: Wheat, Imp. Bush... 8 9 to 9 0 Butter, 16oz Barley 4 4 4 C Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 0 Oats 2 9 3 4 Beef, per 1b.... ...... ... 0 4 0 0 Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 24 2 6 Veal O3 0 4 Potatoes, cwt. CATTI.E.—TIie mtmber of Cattle on th e Sands to-day was only 756, and many of them were left unsold; the jobbers state that there was not a lot sold on which they did not lose money. .KETS.-Aug. V. BIRTHS, On the 2d inst. Mrs. S. W. Rowed!, 31, Cheapaide, of a son. On the 30th ult. in Bernard-street, Russell-square, the lady of John Davidson, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 2d inst. at Aldingbourne, Sussex, by the Rev. James Dallaway, Viscount Andover, eldest son of the Earl of Suffolk, to Tsabella, Neconcl daughter of the late, Lord Henry Howard, a n d n i ece t o hi s G race t h e D u k e o f Norfolk. On the Ist inst. at Streatham, Mr. J. B. Massey, of Bridge-street, Westminster, to Miss Horne, of the former place. On the Ist inst. Edward Amos Chaplin, Esq. of Gray's Inn, and Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, to Geor giana, third daughter of Benjamin Morland, Esq. of Sheepstead-house, Berks. DIED. On the 28th ult. the R e v. Richard Taylor, Vicar of Kingsombourne, Hants, in his 87th year. On the lst inst. at Cromer, the infant eon of Thorns , Hankey, Esq. Fenchurch-street, aged 20 months. On the 30th ult. John Tatham, Esq. of Dorset-places Dorset-square, aged 62. On the Slat ult. at his residence, Blackheath, Chariest Bankes, Esq. aged 40. PRINTED and Pet:Taman by MURDO YOUNG, at the oFricr, 112, STRAND, LONDON. ( i