The Sun. — London, England, 1829-02-19 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STN. SIR,-The Earl of Winchelsea, on presenting the peti tion from Kent, is stated to have said, that he opposed the Catholic Claims, because the voice of the peoples was against them ; but he subsequently added, that were a slew Parliament culled, and should the people, by their Representatives, sanction the measure, he would with draw his opposition. Is not his Lordship aware that these Representatives are not elected by the body of the people, but by a small minority of them only, viz., by the freeholders and burgesses, whose opinions on this subject may be (and, from their superior information, probably are). different from those of the non-electors; and, conse quently, if his Lordship considers the assent of the people at large (as he appears to do) essential to a • justification of the proposed measure, such assent cannot be collected from the representatives of the freeholders' and burgesses.— In declaring, then, that he would eventually be satis fied with the opinion of the latter, he gives up the ground of hit present opposition, and virtually ad mits dial the assent of the people collectively is not riZeessary. That the measures of the Government should have the sanction of the people at large, is certainly very de sirable; but that such sanction is necessary, every day's expe rience disproves. Were such a principle acted upon, would the Corn Bill, for instance, have passed ? Would the Test and Corporation Acts have been repealed ?—or would the various motions for a Reform in Parliament and the repeal of Taxes have been negatived ? The principle is perfectly , ttbzipian. The Legislature must pass such Acts as they con sider are for the benefit of the country, whether the opinion of the community at large be with them or not, since (as in the present instance), how few arc the casts in which the uninformed part of the community (of necessity the majority) are competent to decide what is or is not right to be done. The right of the people to petition is unquestionable ; but as this right is seldom exercised but for party purposes, or under the influence of prejudice, it would be the height of mad ness to attend to the prayer of such petitions, in opposition to the opinion of the regular representatives of the nation, Whole judgment, on questions of legislation, must neces sarily be superior to that of the petitioners, the majority of whom will always be found to be composed of a class of people very incompetent to decide upon such subjects. February 17. CIVIS. COAL MONOPOLY. Di, quibus impetium est, Sit mihi fas manta loqui ; sit numine vestro, Pander° res, alts terra et caligine mcrsas. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - - Sla,—ln the communication relative to the monopoly of-Coals in the North, which appeared in The Sun of the 3d of January, it was altogether foreign to my purpose to enter upon a detail of the particular circumstances which have effected the establishment of the " Vend," or to make any inquiry into the technical rules and bye-laws laid down for its guidance and regulation. Such points may be considered as entirely of minor importance, my sole object being to show, from general principles, in what manner such a combination was injurious to the public - interest, and by so doing, to ensure the assistance of y our excellent Journal, and that of the more liberal and en lightened portion of the Press, in effecting its overthrow. • Notwithstanding your correspondent, who calls himself " An Enemy to Monopoly," evinces so complete an ac quaintance with all the practical details of this nefarious combination, he must allow me to doubt the accuracy of his k nowledge, wh en h e asserts, " t h at i t h as never been an object with these jobbers (as he terms them), to prevent o supply of Coals, for the more they sell the better for , themselves ;" th e i r aim, l.e goes one to observe, being to secure an enormous price ; meaning, as we may suppose. a price inconsiderably above the natural one. How this object is to be attained, without somehow or somewhere limiting the supply, lam utterly at a loss to conceive. The metropolis is the great market for Coal carried coastways, the law preventing the introduction of every other kind of Coal into London. Newcastle, Sunderland, and the ad jacent small ports being favourably situated for the trans mission of Coal, the supply of London has been until lately chiefly drawn from the districts in the neighbourhood of those towns, which possess great natural advantages in its production. The owners of pits in these districts, having thus had for a great number of years the absolute command of the market, and entertaining no fear of general competition, against the effects of which they were fully protected by Act of Parliament, succeeded in establishing, by combining together, a monopoly almost as strict and exclusive as that of the East India'Company, when in the height of its power. Whatever may be the professions of interested parties, it will at the present day be almost uni versally allowed, that the great object of a monopoly is to bring about a state of things, differing, to the advantage Of the monopolists, from that which would obtain under a sYstem of free and open competition : its aim is to raise the rate of profit, in some particular branch of trade, above that rate which prevails throughout the country generally. This is the grand principle, and the master-spring in all ;: °°° Polie3; th e m anner i n w hi c h t h e pract i ca l e ff ect i s rought about may be slightly different in respect to the article monopolized, being the produce of Mines or Agri • culture, or one which is obtained by the exercise of manu facturing industry, or of commerce. The result, however, • is invariably the same ; the public is compelled to purchase at a dearer rate every article subject to restriction, which there is a desire to consume. In commerce and manufac tures this can only be effected by a general agreement amongst the producers to limit the quantity of the article . to be brought to market absolutely; but in mines and agriculture, a partial limitation in particular quarters will insur e the monopolists the same success. I would now, Sir, as well as 1 am able, endeavour to explain the causes of this discrepancy. The sources from which we obtain a supply of any commodity, through the media of manufactures or com merce, are perfectly homogeneous. The cotton worked . up at Glasgow is equally good, and equally cheap, as that on which the skill and industry of Manchester are eir . P l °Yed ; the machinery and its moving power, whether wind, water, or steam, in each place, are alike good, and Possess the same energy and force. It is obvious, from these circumstances, however desirous the manufacturers of Manchester might be to raise the prices of their goods, by limiting the supply, these efforts would be altogether fruitless, so long as the manufacturers of Glasgow refused t ° join in the combination ; and even should the latter be persuaded to do so, as manufactories are not restricted by Act of Parliament to any particular place, and as those al ready in existence possess no exclusive privileges in the ri.rchasing of cotton, or the usage of machinery, new esta u4shinerits would rise up, and, by their competition, soon reduce the price of goods to its old standard. In agricul ture the case is considerably different. The slightest ob servation will suffice to convince us that the soil of tbis, - wevery other country, is of various degrees of fertility. bile some districts of England repay with an exuberant C rop the labour of the husbandman, there are others, the P r oduce of which, after the same degree of toil, is scarcely 7orth the reaping. According to the evidence given be . bushelstn u' tvoa; re the Agricultural Committee in 1821, there were lands i w o h n the produce of which varied from 40 to 8 Wheat per acre. Now, it is not to be disputed that no land will continue long to be cultivated, unless the !ale of the produce it yields repay the expence of tillage. If we assume tot. per bushel to be the price of wheat, Which just p a y s th e e xp ence o f cu l t i vat i ng t h e very worst land, it in evident that wheat grown on the best might be afforded for 2s. per bushel for 8 }e 10=2 X4O or 80, and 2s. per bushel would be the price, under the circumstances s upposed, if the necessary supply could be obtained from the soils of the highest degree of fertility. But we know, to our cost, this condition to be impossible ; the superior 4'04 of England are too limited in extent to supply the demand of our numerous and encreasing population, and it has become necessary, in succession, and at a greater cost, to take into cultivation all the inferior soils, yielding re APectively from 40 to 8 bushels of wheat per acre, in Ner to obtain the supply of food which is requisite. It Is tru e the Corn Laivs of England have the effect of ex tending the limits of this scale ; without their operation iv e never should have been under the necessity of taking such ungrateful soils ; we should probably have stopped at soils which yielded 20 or 25 bushels per acts', and have obtained the additional supplies wanted from the Continent, In exchange for our manufactured produce. Let us, how ever) Mr. Editor, be thankful to the lords of the soil for • !hat they have not done ; they might, for they are power trui, hav e g i ven us a stricter Corn Law, or have excluded 4°r6 gn grain altogether ; and if our population could pos • tOblY have increased under such a restriction, we might have been driven to cultivate our mountain tops and bar ren moors, to obtain, by the expenditure of infinite labour :W e xPense, the fraction of a bushel of wheat per acre. hile the price then of manufactured produce is not affect ed by any difference of situation, the intrinsic value of grain In ust vary w i t h t h e f ert ili ty o f t h e so il on w hi c h i t i s r d ah ed. On a r i c h so il l ess l a b our an d l ess see d w ill pro , u ee a given quantity of grain, than they will do on,a soil e4l productive; so that, strictly speaking, the intrinsic value of corn may he diff eren t i n every fi e ld. Wh a t ever t hen has a tendency to force the cultivation of poor soils, aWheth er natural demand or artificial regulation, will have t f l o b eoeficial effect on the interest of the landed proprietor, a rise of r en t w ill b e th e necessary consequence . S uc h forced extension of tillage can never however be effected Y any privat e ar tifi c i a l regu l at i on; t h e l an d- owners o f thi s to --141tl i are go numerous a botly t that any combination amongst those for 411 , 1) a nut . /vise of mutual advantage i FASHION.A BL E I - IN TE LLI GEN CE. may be consider, il ~..,, ..;. i.,,,e-ii , :e. I The value of the l e ~de -, ~,,ed from 4 oal-pits and mines ! ARRIVALS. The Connotes.. Dinwagen of Mountuorri, and Lidy line Ant i cs. ley, in Wviriliann ~l aa, , , l 7c ,l . s. ob r c d Henry fhyone, in Piccadilly ; in general is tietuton Ine•I ln. , cireturn-t daces 'wanly, if not altogether, similar tar th,i.e * which reg:ll.nte taut won th of Earl Jernivii ' , in t:i " "..l, James's-square, a c . , r e e t , ; from ,c Brighton rin iy .11 , 4 > c n i,, Ct i T i i a l Weld Forester, in Sackvil:(;- the products of the s4,il. it differs in * different situations, c Ax i , i r ly Ellis : i l o . li c i r .i ..i - int ,i -r i a ,.. r s, nl , e i ns ; Lady Charles Somer,et, in Georgina as equal quantities of labour will seldom return t quid re- i s i i t , r r s e L• t t , ; in i,,, ( 6 3 i v . o sal: t o o r - t4l u c a 1 , ;( , 7 Co i; n - sults. If we examine the qualities of the pits in tie north tess of AlboOl.nr la, inn Cork_ s tc r oni WiLam ri t i 7 n lnatt s erton, Bart. end • y Cnn, , ri.,n to Greville and Mr Grnaville, in . 3- n' a t‘ ' o 'g rg i e t : with any degree of attention, we shall see that they em- ! I s l r a e c , n e ,; L a i brace every possible grade of variety. Some are not only i Lady,' in S ' e7rii `n o - u s - u pl r a e c& Surrey; Mr. and Mrs. Lascelles Iremonger, nlB at ge i ?r rns inu i s n e easily worked, but possess seams of coal, rich and abund iuy in Seymour-place, from L Lord Gambier's, near Windsor; ant ; others again, though riot so rich in mineral, yet en . lf )a M m r e s z .. H a o i t i e d l, the lio l fl o d n street, from advantages in point of situation, rendering the transmission ,' ,c l i r a, e i l n a i n b d e t i, t i h n l e ) Fl.e ( v ' . C a o t lin Cl n ifo 's hell Grafton-street, from Essex ; Col. Dawson Dames of their produce to market easy and inexpensive. A third in d pi l4 c l c i a s ili f , ;lcrt i l a n in St a a n nl d ipls s tre i t, May-fair; Capt. Sullivan class may be found, to which all these advantages are Major Armstrong 'l i n St. Jam es's-siree " torLpitlnGßri°usnlnlri;ork place. denied ; the mineral they contain is neither good nor y m ; iss MAj t o z r ro Nyaf t r , ep, . e in Pall-mall; st n ri r -et ; c Ad s m o iral Sir Thomas Trowbridge, in Jerm y ;n-strect abundant, and from their situation involves a consid p e u ra b l; i l c e Liu d nt A ess n o :Li i i7ng F to ie n e a a i ii r l i i expense in carriage. It is obvious, Sir, that the Cavendish-square; Major Collier, in iiegenHt-storreicettta-sgae.ent; interest will he consulted, if the supply of coals necessary for al ti, s ,e ir a s. n t l igveit„ in rark-place; the Earl and Countess Major interest will he consulted, if the supply of coals necessary for ansl Mrs. Harvey, ins I'ark-place- the Earl and Conntess of the consumption he, as long as it is possible, drawn from the Mivart'sat . Hotel, Lower Brook' and Davies pits of the first class. As the natural price is determined streets, from I m re ' ll'i , the Hon. and Itev. E. S. Capel and family, a t t le di ( t .o te, .from Hertfordshire; Hon. Wm. Keith, at ditto,_ from by the cost of production, it will of course be low, for iatioenti hlajor and . 111 , rs. Elliot, at Batt's Hotel, Dover a great quantity of produce will be procured by a small street, t from Hastings; Sir Charles Hulse Bart. AI. P 1• at his expenditure of capital. The owners, indeed, will not be able house in New Builingten-street, f i • -• P. front his scat, . Breamore House, Hants. to obtain extravagant profits; they will, however, get that 1:e I \ Lo rA r lf D A c ' c l' es C 7 1 E 0, 1, , 1 1‘ ' UCH A 111. return which is general on the employment of mercantile Earl of Hereford, A ,nc ii n u c t , t , c t i z n , , Air .i. R c icla i rd capital throughout the country. Let the demand be en- and Lady Philtippo, General and Mrs.. 0 win, Rev. Wall, Captain aii R. Vassal', Messrs. F,',Clijolfiel(dt, Bald creased to any extent by the operation of any assignable , Doveten, A. causes, still, if those pits can adequately meet such a de- fiailey, '' Pettatt7'l : . fle floy s el, Stri'ckliar'n'icrulrjj• B. 11.oxliam, Gre gory,- Maxwell, Lane, two Mortlock • 'l ' l '-e ' s, . rs. Jackson, Misses mand, at the same cost of production; no enhancement in the price of coals can ever take plate. In such a state of Cary, Hallitt, S. Hallitt, &c. ARRIVALS rI, AT /! ‘ 1 1 1 1. 1? Jo H , TON. the trade not a single bushel of coals would ever be sold Colonel Taylor, from the inferior pits, or rather, their existence would be Williams, Mr. yland, Mr: l reton, Mr. Joyce, Air. 1 1 1 1 e n e n 1 e I .:yo 10 Mi s s i i i i n ig s h, iN il r lr. i a i nd Miss Mackintosh, Colonel Gascoyne, Mr. T Colon es - el altogether unknown. With prices thus at their natural - rate, a coal pit, however rich, would nut furnish the means Rees,. 111 . r. aenrinllsi'slr. ca ll y.s r h e a , ,, M.K i . r. Agin Brown, Lady Dr. and ° Mr. and Hon. Miss Byron, Lord Ray, Sir \V. Atidy, i Bart. Noel il c. Byron ,i of realizing an enormous fortune in the lapse of a few I s s l e r , s :il tr/t r ec . a te a l n i d r. family, Messrs. Cox, Mr. liredell, Messrs. years, without even a moderate degree of caroor attention. Ma . ng lil es p , k i tt i i r s, F ll a l , r c . k l e cty it; ;.. Captain.and i . .1: ,,i 0 , 1 1 ope, Cheapness, however, would cause a great encrease in the Mr. Mrs. and Miss gall, Captain White, Dr. Copland, Mr. Fawkes, Mr. 1 1 fou ' ld -D 3l n. quantity sold, and the aggregate of profit might even and Mrs. Firmin, Mr. Robbins, Mr. Oliver, Mr. S ttl - r. u ey, &c. be greater than it is under the present system ; but such ARRIVALS AT . profit could only be obtained at the expence of no inconsi- The Earl of Huntingdon, the Earl BATH. anountess of 11 cashel and family, Loid Salto w n, L or d an d Lady DunstainMet, derable portion of pains and attention on the part of those who thus employed their capital. But the owners of the i T y r , A s t? r dr j e a w iii ß es ar ( la r a a r n d . St ie ll i l i o t ntague and Lady Georgiana Cholm ekreast L L e c t a h i la y ridiv ks C O 'o n longs a and inferior pits have pointed out a readier and less laborious Mrs. Wilson, Grant,"Porbes, Lieut.-General i Asley, Gardiner, Leslie, Knox and family ; 11aptI rs s road to wealth to their more fortunate brethren ; they have Haynes, Mrs ' ii4 , l , i r ng, an lt a .N iirs Juv i i i e is e o ; Rev. Messrs. Lier, discovered the advantage of attaching the fox's tail to the Buckle, nes' ga N c -' crck u - ° uct o< l , e l t i . Messrs. ir , extremity of the hide of the lion. Only reduce,. say they, -Rae, Barton, Coombs, Charlton', Lawr n e ' nc l e ' the supp!y or coals from the best pits below the demand, Voowi,s; Vo a n ie ll . lol i nray, Mills, Peet, Ford., Rawson, Somerset, AiLll , l n it ci ‘ n Visz, lii t i l b odg i ls, Townshend, and the price will rice to such an height, as will, while it Hampden, i:Var ' d, it g o t i l i e d; Roberts, Buncombe, !Holmes; Calthorp, Ca ' spen ar te v c e , y, F N e V ai r n ith i t i , enables the inferior pits to be worked, allow an enormous A b d c ams, ), B at ond, Beales, Spicer, Hepburn and family, Buns profit to be male by all who are the lucky possessors of combs, Barton,Robertson ;. Mrs. Hogg, Eldridge, Par sons, 'l'igatha, Tii ' 7?g ' those of the first class. Rawlins, B Wilkinson, Buckworth, Green hill, Bridgwater, Johnson ,- Misses Herbert, Tho m p son , Ed. The object then of the original contrivers of the " Vend" Phillips, Parish, Wilkins, Stovin, J o h nson , s at has been thus to raise the natural price of coals; and that moods, Howard, Parsons,' Watts, Preston.—Bath Chronicle, Feb. 19. they have achieved their purpose by limiting the supply in certain quarters, is evident even from the spewing of your correspondent himself. If such a method has not been adopted, what meaning can be attached to passages like these contained in his letter 2—" One half of the collieries is equal to the production of the quantity of the coals re quired —many of the great collieries have been reduced from a vend of 80 to 100,000 chaldrons a year to half that quantity, merely for the support of establishments which are like leeches feeding on the vitals of the coun try." Now, Sir, what is this but a limitation of the supply? These are the pits which, from their fertility, would be able to furnish coals at a rate reasonable to the public, and at the same time remunerative to their owners. If an additional portion of capital were invested in them, which it is the object of the combination to prevent, and they were made to yield their former quantity, the price of coals would soon fall and those leeches and incubi, of whom your correspondent so loudly complains, would cease to exist. Neither is it invariably true, tas your corres pondent asserts, that the " Jobbers" have no interest in limiting the supply of coals, " because the more they sell the better for themselves." It is a matter of familiar observation, that when a set of traders have, by the aid of a monopoly, been enabled to regulate the supply of any particular commodity in the market, a smaller quantity of the article in question will often bring a greater money value than could be ob tained for a more considerable quantity, if trade were left to itself. Thus the Honourable East India Company, in mercy no doubt to our nervous system, are graciously pleased to allow us about 20 ounces of tea per head annually. - The quantity of tea consumed yearly in the British Islands may perhaps be estimated at 25,000,0001bs.; if the trade to China were thrown fairly open there is every reason to suppose that this quantity, in no great length of time, would . be doubled ; yet, if we be allowed t o j u d ge from the price at which tea is new selling on the continent, we may almost to a certainty conclude that 50,000,000 lbs. would not fetch a greater money price than the 25,000,000 lbs. do at the present moment. And in truth in all trades, whether under a monopoly or in a state of freedom, every individual engaged in them, in order that his own sales may be carried to the greatest possible extent, is interested in repressing those of his neighbours ; the difference is, that when trade is free, the principle of com petition is a sufficient guarantee to the public for protec tion against imposition, while in monopolies, either actual or virtual, the facility of combination renders competition inoperative. Your correspondent, I 8111 afraid, has con founded the particular interest of each individual "Jobber," with the one which these gentlemen have in common, which is their bond of union. They have a common inte rest, which the Vend is intended to promote, in making the basis or general supply front the Tyne and Wear as small as possible, but when this basis is once fixed and ascertained, each individual " Jobber" is interested in secur ing the greatest amount of it he can for his own share. But the community of Newcastle and Sunderland, and of the Coal districts round those towns, are beginning to feel the evil consequences which must of necessity ulti mately arise from this combination. They now see clearly, that it can only be by furnishing good coals at a cheap rate (which can only be effected by putting an end to the " Vend") and by giving a quick dispatch to ships, that they can hope to retain that exclusive coal trade, which has so long flourished amongst them. Even the proprie tors themselves are becoming sensible of this; they are aware that the string has been stretched too far, and they are apprehensive that it may break. As your Correspon dent " Phile-Nauticus" observes, " the liiih price of the monopoly coal has afforded both the means and the in ducement to construct a railway from Stockton to the coal distakit lying inland from that port, from whence con siderable quantities of very good coal are now sent, super seding in many places the coal formerly procured from the Tyne and Wear." It is the effects and dread of this oppo sition which have troubled the monopolists, and thrown the apple of discord into their Council Chamber ; this it is, which makes the great Leviathans of the " Vend" anxious to back out of the scrape, and which is slowly, though cer tainly, working its destruction. Whitby, Feb. 7, 1829. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence left their residence in Bushy Park yesterday morning, and came to the King's Palace, at Kensington, where the Duchess alighted, on a visit to the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Sophia; the Duke proceeded to town and went to attend a meeting of the Committee of the Scottish Hospital. His Royal Highness, accompanied by the Duchess, returned to Bushy in the afternoon. The Lords of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council had a meeting yesterday morning at the Privy Council Chamber; thole present were the Lerd President of the Council, the Vice-Chancellor, the Judge of the Ad miralty Court, and the Right Hon. Henry Ilobhouse. The following cases of appeal were gone into before their Lordships :—"Ex parte—v. Belisario," from Jamaica ; " Bucker v. Hamilton," from Demerara; " De Best v. APlntosh," from Bengal; " Waters, sen. v. Young, sen.," from Prince Edward Island. Mr. Buller attended the meeting as clerk to the Council. A deputation from the West India Dock Company, headed by the Chairman and Deputy-chair man, waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester day, at the Treasury, and had a long conference with the Right Hon. Gentleman. The Duke of Wellington entertained the Cabinet Ministers to dinner yesterday, at his residence in Downing-street. Despatches were received yesterda7 at the Colonial Office from Sir James Kemp, the Governor of the Canadas ; and from the Hon. General Ponsonby, the Lieutenant-Governor of Malta. The Bishop of Salisbury visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Foster, our Minister to the Court of Turin (on leave of absence), has arrived in town from Brighton. Viscount Melville is recovering from his in disposition. It is rumoured, we know not with what truth, that the Duke of Cumberland will, after all, not be found among the Parliamentary opponents of the measures to be brought forward in Parliament for the relief of the Roman Catholics. It is confidently rumoured that the Duke of Wellington has got the Proxies of three Royal Dukes, who were heretofore unfriendly to the Roman Catholic claims. Sir John Sewell, the Chairman of the Com mittee to oppose Mr. Peel's re-election for Oxford, was once un unsuccessful candidate for the University himself. OXFORD, FEB. 16.—Much, indeed, did I marvel, when, having scarcely put my feet within this most Protestant and most orthodox University, I saw a group of lugubrious and black-breasted gentlemen, from among whom I heard such words as these :—" Indeed, how could he help himself? What was he to do?" " A man of most splendid talents, too." " Ay, and possess ing, as he tells us, so much information, of which unofficial persons can know nothing." " I shall give him my vote and have told my son to come hither and do likewise." I found the discussion was about Mr. Peel, and inquired if he were likely to be returned. ".0 yes, Sir, there was a great storm and bustle at first, and we very angry; but Mr. Peel's party is very strong in thkUniversity." "I take it, Sir, you are converts." I learn, on inquiry, that the first im pression was that the Ministry would go to the dogs; for having so " outraged" the Protestant feeling of England ; but, as that is not quite so certain now— " A change comes o'er the spirit of their dreams." 'Tis a capital thing to kick up a rout With a Minister who is marching out ; But a burning shame and a deadly sin To quarrel with one who keeps snugly in. 'Tie proper in " learnede clerkes" to frown On the rash young man" who is tumbling down; But if he won't stumble, and if he won't fall, To utter a word is the devil and all. Will Mr. Peel then be returned for Oxford ?—That is Lard to say— NAUTICUS. `VAR.—I have been as enthusiastic and joy ful as any one after a victory ; but I also confess that even then the sight of a field of battle has not only struck me with horror, but even turned me sick ; and now that I am advanced in life, I cannot understand any more than I could at fifteen years of age, how beings who call them selves reasonable, and who have so much foresight, can employ this short existence, not in loving and aiding each other, and passing through it as gently as possible; but, on the contrary, in endeavouring to destroy each other, as if time did not himself do this with sufficient rapidity What I thought at fifteen years of age I still think ; " war, And the pain of death which society draws upon itself, are but organized barbarisms, an inheritance of the savage state, disguised or ornamented by ingenious institutions and false eloquence."—Louis Buonaparte. But if a little time be given, Just for the working of the leaven, As now-a-day's conversions jump, I'll pledge my credit for the lump. In these days, of degeneracy every coming wonder is greater than the last. Ere long a genuine ripe and hot Anti-Catholic will be at a wondrous premium, and, when discovered, will be made as much of as the man who had been sleeping 200 years in the ice. What with the sweet enticement which a pro-Catholic Administration can offer on the one side, and the sour terror which one Mr. O'Connell brandishes on the other, not a ragamuffin will be left in the field. Corruption is entering and pervading all sides. I saw a Bishop in consternation, REPEATING a scrap of erroneous Latin ; . . Thinking about a "new translation," And asking what was the Greek for "ratting." And I have seen many other sights. I saw a man with a shovel-hat, One a ho knows full well what's what ! " Sir," he said, " among my fancies " I've been boring o'er Saint Francis, " And much light—nsuch light—l've had; " Really 'tis not half so bad— " Truly, Sir, I can't but feel " (My respects to Mr. Peel) " Oftentimes, dear Sir.! and long, " I have done the Papists wrong; " And I'll hasten to repair it— " For I know not how to bear it." The following circumstance occurred a week or two ago in Edinburgh. A respectable merchant in that city, with whom we happen to be slightly acquainted, is in the habit of supping early in company with his son—an artist of very considerable promise. While the maid was laying the cloth, the father asked his son if he had got a box made for a certain picture. The youth replied in the affirmative, and produced the article, when the other at once said, " that won't do, and you must lose no time in getting a far larger one," with other remarks to the same effect. The maid looked queer, though she said nothing, and when her master told her to go out and bring a loaf of new bread, she departed silently and with her usual alacrity. In going down stairs she met a doctor who is in the habit of looking in on her master when he happens to visit his quarter of the town ; and this accidental circumstance alarmed her so much, that in place of going her errand, she immediately repaired to an aunt's house, who lives in the most extended suburbs of Edinburgh. Though the party awaited long for their loaf of bread, no maid ap peared; and next day, when the merchant's son went to inquire after the fugitive, he found her sitting with her relative at breakfast, and in a perfect fury at the tremend ous danger to which she had been exposed. " They might say what they liked, but she kent weel eneuch what they meant—but the Lord Advocate wad hear o' the business; your faither said the box was ower wee to haud me, :and wanted a bigger ane, an' it was a God's Provi dence that I met the Doctor on the stair, wha, nae doubt, had come to help to Burke me." With great ado, the girl was persuaded to return to her service, but before the 'lapse of three days, she took some other alarm, and was finally discharged.—Dumfries Courier Depend upon it a great many illustrious and eminent meu, who, like Dr. Phillpotts, have poured out and ex hausted their phials of wrath and bitterness on the devoted heads of the Catholics, will fill up the said phials now with the holy oil of brotherhood and charity, and all the gentle affections and the milk of human kindness. lam almost disposed to plug my ears with lead, and to cover my eyes with Burgundy-pitch plaster, when I hear these Oxonians, these men of whom I should have thought they would have sung Penns of ecstacy if for orthodoxy V:ey had been led to martyrdom—when I hear them, " O tell it pot in Gath!" blaspheming Lord Eldon— " All they have done," said a clerical fop, " All they have done is wise, and well done ; " But why don't they give a quieting sp " To that busy, barking, bull-dog E—n ? " Long did the old cur pick his bone, Fast and firm to his manger sticking— " Why won't he let us dogs alone " When we turn round to get our picking ?" And, indeed, I did not know what to say for the late Lord Eldon (he is dead, I see, according to the Saturday speach of Alr. Holcombe, Protestant Honorary Secretary pro tempore.) Happy distinction ! The late Lord Eldon never grumbled nor growled in tne days of old, except when any one treated a ministerial measure with rudeness. I do not think this is very Christian of him, nor in the " doing-as-you'd-be-done-by" temper. But you shall hear more of Oxford politics to-rnorrow.—Morning Paper. DE6TE UCTIVE FIRE IN GEORGE- TOWN, DEMERARA. GFORGE-TowN, Dire. 31.----We have the painful task of recording to-day the most awful and destructive fire which ever took place in this colony. It broke out on Monday night, about half -past eight o'clock, in the house of a Mr. Maigrot, who keeps a licensed grog-shop, and was occasioned by a lighted candle filling against the bed-cur tains, during, it is Said, a scene of domestic irregularity.— This house was situate at the upper -end of Water-street. On the east side, near the public market, in the immediate neighbourhood, were a number of old buildings, and the alarm not being suddenly given, the fire obtained such hold, and spread so rapidly among such dry materials, that every effort to extinguish it was unavailing. It soon communi cated with the other side of the street, and in its desolating progress destroyed successively Mr. Massiah's premises, the stores of Messrs. Ross, Preston, Albany, and Co., and Johnston and M'Calmont. Whilst the conflagration confined in this direction with irresistible fury, it received upon the other side a momen tary check, affording some hope that America-street might yet he saved. This hope was, however, but momentary ; for the extreme heat caused by such an immense body of fire as that occasioned by so many houses an at once in a mass of living flames, acted so powerfully on one of the opposite houses, though to windward, that it caught fire, which immediately progressed towards America -street, so that this street was now assailed on both sides, rendering ing it but too obvious that its entire destruction was inevi table, both its opposite corners being at once in flames.— Several times the fire took hold of the house occupied by Mr. Paul, and as often was 4 extinguished ; but the opposite side being now in flames, the heat became so intense, the ma terials so dry and predisposed to catch the least spark, and the flames ascended in such immense volumes, that every effort proved unsuccessful; the devouring element obtained a complete mastery, which set every attempt to arrest its progress at defiance, and it proceeded up America-street on both sides, consuming house after house with awful and astonishing rapidity. The appearance was now fearful, and seemed to paralyse every effort. No language can describe, no force of poetic imagination can • ade quately picture to itself the character of this truly terrific - and lamentable scene ; and were it possible to cherish any other feelings, at such a moment of devastation and ruin to many, than sorrow and alarm, those which relate to the sublime might be abundantly indulged—the very air parched and burning, as if impregnated with the elements of destruction—both sides of the street, with all their back premises, or the most combustible materials, in one sheet of living fire—the ft Imes raging as if animated by the demon of destruction, sometimes pointing high to the j heavens, and at other times forming a complete arch across the street—light, unlike that of sun or moon reentering objects visible as at noon day, spreading a horrid glare over thousands of countenances of all colours, and clothing the trees with a hue which seemed not of nature's work, and on which the eye liked not to dwell—formed a scene truly magnificent and appalling. In this way the fire continued till about six o'clock in the morning of Tues day, and till, with the exception of three or four houses, it totally. .destroyed the whole of that district of the town bounded by the river on the west, High -street on the east, Vlissingen draining trench on the north, and Stabroek ca nal on the south. The scene is now most desolate; the very site of the different stores and houses can hardly be pointed out; and of what were two days ago populous streets, com fortable habitations, and extensive warehouses, nothing remains but smoking ruins, vitrified glass, and such mate rials as the fire could not entirely consume. Great fear was once entertained that the fire would communicate with the stores of Messrs. Murray, Brothers, and Co., across the canal ; and were it not for the judicious measure of covering the house with wet. blankets, and constantly play ing upon it with water, there is no doubt that this would. have happened, and the greater part of the town would have been destro)ed. As it is, the calamity is great ; and we have heard the most intelligent and respectable assert, that the loss cannot be less than 200,0001. sterling. Many respectable and industrious individuals are entirely ruined, homeless, and pennyless. The progress of the flames was so rapid, and the confusion necessarily so great, that little could be saved, and that little of course greatly damaged. It is impossible for us to describe the magnitude of this catastrophe, or detail the extent of individual loss; but this we know, that some who were a few (lays ago in affluent circumstances are now absolutely beggared ; that many who were extremely comfortable, and contributed to the wealth and respectability of the colony, are destitute as the wrecked mariner who saved nothing but his life; and that those who are best able to withstand the loss they have sustained, cannot but feel it to a very serious degree. Various accidents toolc place, and some of them of a very serious nature—and it is with. deep regret we announce the death of Dr. Stewart, of the 25th regiment of foot. His daring courage and zeal to stop the conflagration led him up into a situation of danger ; :and either finding his re treat cut off by the flames, or dreading suffocation, he precipitated himself from a w i n d ow three stories high, and in his fall received a concussion of the brain, and other injuries, of which he died this morning, in the house of Messrs. Fraser and Magger, where every possible attention was paid to him. We have heard of some other deaths, but we cannot vouch for the truth of the report. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of and occupied by Mr. J. Vowles, shop occupied by Mary Chisholm, and dwelling-house and shop, the property of and occupied by Betsy Massiah—burnt. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of Mr. A. Ivor, and occupied by Mr. John Paul, merchant—bnrot. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of Messrs. Jones, Griffith, and Co., from which they had lately removed to another part of the town—burnt. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of Georgiana Harding—burnt. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of Mr. A. Iver, and occupied by Mr. Latnbly, turner—burnt. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of Mr. J. H. Albouy, and occupied as a cooperage—burnt. Front half-dwelling-house and stores, the property of Messrs. Collymore and Forte, apothecaries and druggists, lately removed to another part of the town. Back half, a dwelling-house the property of Elizabeth Douglas—burnt. Front half, dwelling-house and stores, the property of Captain Luckie, occupied by Mr. M'Cormick, coach maker, &c. Back half; stable•yard for the court-house, &c.—burnt. The Court-house, Colonial Secretary's-office, and King's Receiver-office, the property of the Colony—so much da maged as to be uninhabitable. Dwelling-house and store, the property of Mr. J. H. Bibdy, occupied by Mr. Koth, watchmaker—much da maged. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of, and occupied by, Mc. R. Pinkerton, coachmaker, &c.—much damaged. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of Messrs. Bogies, King, and Co., occupied by Mr. Joseph Richard son, as a cooperage—burnt. Dwelling-house and store, the property of, and occupied by, Edward Paris, tailor—burnt. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of H. Halket, Esq. ; front half occupied by Mr. Geary, plumber ; back half by Messrs. M'Donald, Watson, and Co., as a cooper age—burnt. Two dwelling-houses and stores, the property of Mr. William Hedges—burnt. Dwelling-house :and stores, the property of, and oc cupied by, Messrs. Kersten and Co.—burnt. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of,' and oc cupied by, Messrs. Douglas, Adamson, and Co.—burnt. Dwelling-house and - store, the property of Dr. John Bryden, occupied by Peggy Anderson—burnt. Dwelling-house and store, the property of, and occupied by, Priscilla Thomson—burnt. Dwelling-house and stares, the property of Messrs. W. Johnston and H. M'Calinont, occupied by Mr. James Brand, merchant—burnt. Dwelling-house and stores, the property of, and occupied by, Messrs. John Walmsley and Co. (front store fire proof)—Dwelling-house and bark stores, &c.—burnt. Two dwelling-houses, &c., the property of Mr. N. W. Pollard—burnt. Dwelling-house and store, the property of and oc cupied by Mr. Burns, as a cooperage—burnt. Dwelling-house, the property of and occupied by Mary Bynoe—burnt. Dwelling -house and stores, the property of Mrs. Shute, occupied by Mr. Joseph Richardson, as a lumber-yard and store-house—burnt. Two dwelling-houses and stores, the property of Mr. 'l'. Forrester—one house pulled 'crown, the ether nnich damaged--all the out-offices burnt. Dwelling -house and stores, erected on a platform extend ing to low water-mark, the property of and occupied by Messrs. W. Johnston and H. APCalmont—burnt. Dwelling house and stores, erected as the above, and occupied by Mcfsrs. Albouy and Co.—burnt. Dwelling -house and stores, erected on a platform, the property of and occupied by Messrs. Preston and Cliff 'rd. Small house and stores, the property of Mr. Joseph' Vowles, and occupied by Maria Horner—burnt. Dwelling house and stores, the property of T. G. Albouy, deceased, erected as above—burnt. Dwelling house and stores, erected as above, the property of and occupied by Matty Jordan—burnt. Dwelling -houses and stores, the property of Mr. George Ross, erected as above, occupied by Mr. Ross, Air. Coey, and Mr. F. Padinore—burnt. Store-houses erected as above, the prop i . ty of vn 1 oxu, pied by Mr. G. Ross--burnt. _ Dwelling-house arid store, erected as above, the property of the minor children of Mes,rs. Samuel and Paul Massiah, occupied by Mr. Massiah and Jane Jolly—burnt. Dwelling-houses and stores, the property of the minors Massiah, occupied by Mr. James Campbell, Mr. Ttossie, Sally Delph, Mary Trayfogle, and Miss Rumpler—burnt. Dwelling-houses and shops, the property of Mr. A. Malgrot, occupied by Mr. Malgrot, Mr. Nicholls, and Kitty Stradly—burnt. P. S.—The fire-proof store of Messrs. Walinsley and Co. being considered sufficiently cooled, was opened this after noon about hill-past two o'clock, and found to have pro tected the different articles of merchandise, with which it was completely filled, from all injury. The first object that presented itself on opening the door was a cat, which seemed glad of being released from her confinement. A German Paper contains an account of a birth of five children, three boys and two girls, all of whom were born alive, but died within three days. They were from fifteen to seventeen inches in length, and weighed little more than half the weight of healthy new-born chil dren. The mother did not suffer much during her preg nancy, and recovered rapidly after delivery. DEATH OF Mil. ROBINSON.—On Tuesday last, Mr. Robinson, of Duddon Hall, near Tarporley, who had b en transacting some business in Chester, met his death on his return home. Verdict—Accidentally killed, by being trampled upon by his mare, from which he had fallen on the high-road, in the parish of Tarvin, on the evening of the 10th day of February instant.— Chester Courant. At one of the late sittings of the Academy of Sciences at Metz, an account was given of a new experi ment, in order to ascertain the presence of cotton in woollen stuffs. An ounce of pure alkali or caustic is to be dissolved in half a pound of water, and the suspected stuff is to be boiled in it about a couple of hours. If the stuff is composed wholly of wool, it will be entirely dis solved, and will form a species of soap-suds on the surface of the water, and should run through a fine sieve when poured into it boiling but. lc on the contrary, the stuff contains cotton, or other vegetable fibres, they will perhaps undergo some alteration; but they will not entirely dis solve, but: will remain upon the sievellike the pieces of rags in paper mills—for alkali, one of whose properties is to dissolve animal substances, has very little effect upon vege table ones.—Paris Paper. MR. KEAN.—Having been obliged, in con sequence of indisposition, to throw up his London engage ment, this eminent actor arrived last week in Bute, and is now once more encamped on the banks of his favourite Loch Fad. A correspondent informs us that he saw him when he landed. He was closely muffled up in great coats and handkerchiefs, and apparently so ill that he seemed to shrink from the slightest breath of even the gentle Rothsay breeze. " I should hardly have recognised him," says our informant, "but for that indescribable expression, and intel lectual sharpness of the eye, which so strongly remind us of his Richard, and which it seems beyond the power of disease either to weaken or destroy. There is no saying what the genial climate of Bute may do for him ; but ill as he is he seems determined not to be idle. He has ad vertised for road-makers, and has already set himself about the work of improvement on his romantic residence in genuine earnest."—Scots Times. A few weeks ago the child of a labourer at Doningtcn, named John Kirk, voided a very Strange animal, resembling a locust, with six feet, and two re markably prominent eyes. It lived above a fortnight afterwards, without any apparent means of support.— Boston Gazette. DESCRIPTION OF A SCENE IN THE HEART OF AFRICA.-At five p.m. halted on the borders of a large lake, which is formed by the rivers Zurmie and Zarrie, or, more properly speaking, a chain of lakes and swamps, extending through all, or the greater part of, the plains of Gondamie, approaching nearly to Soccatoo. The borders of these lakes are the resort of numbers of elephants and other wild beasts. The appearance at this season, and at the spot where I saw it, was very beauti ful; all the acacia trees were in blossom, some with white flowers, others with yellow, forming a contrast with the small dusky leaves, like gold and silver tassels on a cloak of dark green velvet. I observed some fine large fish leap ing in the lake. Some of the troops were bathing; others watering their horses, bullocks, camels, and asses : the lake as smooth as glass, and flowing around the roots of the trees. The sun, on its approach to the horizon, throws the shadows of the flowery acacias along its sur face, like sheets of burnished gold and silver. The smoking fires on its banks, the sounding of borne, the beating of their gongs or drums, the braying of their brass and tin trumpets, the rude huts of grass or branches of trees rising as if by magic, everywhere the calls on the names of Mahomed, Abdo, Mustafa, with the neigh ing of horses and the braying of asses, gave animation to the beautiful scenery of the lake and its sloping green and woody banks.— Clapperton's Journey into the In terior of Africa. EXFORD, FEB. 14.—Saturday last a girl of the name of Walsh, residing in Taghmon, put an end to herself under the following circumstances :—She had for some 'plinths received the attentions of a person who gave her reason to believe that he intended making her his wife, but who put off the match from time to tune, assign ing as his reason his inability to support the expellee of house-keeping. The girl haring obtained from her father a small sum of money (about 71.) presented it to him, by way of enabling him to commence; but from that mo inent he withdrew himself from her society, and discon tinued his visits to her father's house. The coldness and neglect with which she was treated preyed so deeply on her mind that she resolved to terminate her misery by a volun tary death. Accordingly, on the evening in question she left her home, under pretence of going for candles, but in reality with a determination to carry her dreadful purpose into effect. With this view she bought some oil of vitriol, which having swallowed she returned home. Though she had been but a few minutes absent the change in her appearance was so great as to be immediately observed by her brother and sister, who were then in the house, and who had no suspicion of her real motive in leaving it.— They anxiously asked her what was the matter ? She answered, " Nothing—she was a little ill, and that was all ;" but she grew so rapidly and so alarmingly worse that her brother said he would go for the Doctor and the Priest. She replied, " No, you will go for no Doctor for me, nor Priest either. I ant beyond the Doctor's skill ; and as for the Priest, it's too late—l'm dying, and I'm !" then conjuring him to be " revenged of that villain," she sunk under the effect of the powerful poison she had taken. THE PARISH OF RICKMANSWORTH.—The whole of this fertile parish is to be sold 'next week ; that is, the Great Tithes of all, together with the Rectory House and Glebe...---The following is George Robins' de scriptions of this fine investment :—The Great Tithes include that upon corn, grain, hay, and stubble, also upon the aftermath and clover, they extend over the entirety of the parish of Rickmansworth, which (it is said) ex ceeds Ten Thousand. Acres of rich Arable and Meadow Land, including about Three Thousand Acres, disposed in Com mons, Waste and Wood Lands, Moor and Rickmansworth Parks, 84c., of which a portion may be very soon convert ed into profit, as the inelosure of Charleywood or any of the commons will necessarily add an additional prospective value to the Tithes. It is conjectured that about 6,000 Acres only contributed last year to this source of revenue, which may account for the income being comparatively small. There are, however, so many and such important reasons why this should be accounted a most satisfactory and safe investment, that a few only of the more promi nent will exhaust the space usually devoted to such a pur pose. And first, the quality and convertability of the soil, and the compactness of the parish. It is bounded by Lord Essex, at Cashiobury; by Sorrel Chenies, Chalfont Saint Peter's, Denham, Harefield, and Ryeslip. The Grand Junction Canal nearly divides the whole property, and the river Colne (frequently running in a parallel line with it) takes its course through the centre of the Estate by means of the Canal ; the produce of the land may speedily be con veyed to the London Market. Of the tenantry, it may not be amiss to enumerate a few only :—the Earl of Grosve nor, Mr. Baron Vaughan, Edmund Morris, Samuel Salter, John Barnes, William Flower, and N. Clutterbuck, Esqrs., also St. Thomas's Hospital, and Caius College, Cambridge : a commentary upon Buell respectable names would be se- perfluous. The soil is so generally known, and so well ap preciated, that but little will suffice on this point ; it is proverbial for its convertibility, rendering it even in times (happily gone by} of agricultural distress, a certain and solid source of revenue, and now that better fortune pre vails, and the sun shines propiti►usly on the industrious views of a farmer, with the slow but certain effect result ing from the Corn Bill in view, it must be taken as granted that the present exceedingly hiyh price of the Funds, and consequent little value of money arising out of so much unemployed capital, gives to this investment a character from which the most cheering and refreshing prospect may be contemplated. The annual value, it is said, exceeds 2,100 pounds. TRAFFIC IN HUMAN FLESH. In our Paper of yesterday we laid before our readers an account of a case of this kind under circumstances of a pe culiarly appalling description. In the course of the day an Inquest was held at Tucker's-row watch-house, before Alderman C. P. Archer, one of the City Coroners, and a highly respectable Jury, on the body of the boy already described in our Paper, as above mentioned. The prisoner, John Caldwell, in whose possession it bad been discovered, while attempting to have it shipped for Scotland, was questioned in the first instance. His version of the matter was most unsatisfactory. James Killin stated that he was a ship labourer; that on Saturday last he observed the prisoner proceed along the Quay with a parcel on his shoulders, which he rested on the wall, and afterwards laid on a dray, and proceeded with it down to the Scotia steam-packet; whither witness sus - pecting that a dead body was in question, followed him; it was corded similar to a bale of goods, and had on it three large seals of wax ; witness had seen him go down the Quay on the Saturday preceding, two or three times, with packages of a similar appearance; the clerk of the ship ' refused to take the parcel; the prisoner said they were books, and being told by the clerk that he might take them away again, he said, "0 ! you may take them, the mate knows all about it :" the mate, however, who was on the quarter-deck of the vessel at the time, made a signal to the prisoner when he saw him detected, (the people beginning to gather round him) and bid him " put forward." The witness next proceeded to describe the discovery of the real contents of the package, which' was made up in a square form, so as to resemble as much as possible a package of books, the feet and legs being doubled up to the stomach and the bead bent over that again. The witness then gave an account of dead bodies.that had been discovered to have been shipped on board the saru2_ vessel, by the prisoner, on the Saturday week preceding. A gentleman of the name of Taylor deposed, that he was present on the body being discovered, and that, not withstanding the assertions of the prisoner, that he was ignorant of the real nature of the contents of the parcel, he yet, before it was opened, acknowledged, in his bearing, to one of the Police, that it was a body, and that it was a boy, thus showing that he must have had some concern in the transaction far beyond that which he acknowledged. One of the Jurors bad heard a gentleman say that day that he had within the present season cleared 2201. by the exportation of subjects. He had also seen a letter f.om an eminent surgeon at Edinburgh to a " resurrectionist" here, with an offer to him of 10/., besides paying the freight and all other items of expellee, for every subject lie should send him. After some further discussion, the Jury agreed to the following verdict:—" We find that the said boy was found dead in custody of a man who calls himself James Caldwell, but we cannot say whether said boy died acci dentally or otherwise." It was then arranged that the body should be sent to the Surgeons' Hall for examination, and that the prisoner should remain in custody to abide an investigation before the Police authorities touching his concern in the affair.— Dublin Morning Post of Tuesday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GRAND STEEPLE CHACE. The Grand Steeple Chace at Melton Mowbray for 5001 between Capt. Ross and Mr. Gilmore, which has been the theme of conversation in the sporting world for several weeks, was decided yesterday morning in favour of the latter gentleman. The start was from Greengate Ford, in Burton Lordship, over Lusthorpe Brooke, to the Noel's Arms on the Oakham road, a distance of four miles, and won only by 50 yards. Capt. Ross rode his own horse, and at starting the odds were six to four .in his favour.— Mr. Field Nicholson rode Mr. Gilmore's horse, and both horses were much distressed. It is thought that Captain Ross lost the race by taking a line to the left instead of the right. There was not a single fall. There were present at this great match :—Lords Ply mouth, Southampton, Brudenell, Darlington, Mean hey, Forrester, Count Sandor, Sir Henry Goodriche, Sir James Boswell, Sir James Musgrave, Mr. Moore, Mr. Maxse, Mr. White, Mr. Maher, and all the Gentlemen of the Melton Hunt. Mr. Bulkeley Williams, with his lady, left Melton Mow bray the evening before, on a visit for a few days to Sir Charles Payne, at Selby. Lord Alvanley's two sisters ar rived at Melton on Friday last, and it is understood that Miss Catherine Arden will hunt regularly. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS FOIL THE PRESENT WEEK. His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Fulmer- Common ; and Friday, at the Magpies, Hounslow Heath —at half-past ten. 11 prevented by the weather they will meet at the sanse place the following day. The Vine Hounds, on Monday, at Popham Beacon ; Thursday, at Worting ; and Saturday, at Round Oak, Padworth—at ten. Mr. Freeman's Harriers, on Monday, at Crowdon ; Wednesday, at Denchworth ; and Saturday, at Bamptun —at half-past ten. The Craven Hounds, on Monday, at Ashridge ; Wed nesday, at the Blue Lion, Froxfiehl ; Friday, at Welford Woods; and Saturday, at Tottenham Park—at half past ten. The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed• nesday, near the Race Coursl; and Friday, at the Dyke— at half-past ten. The Brookside Harriers will continue to meet every Monday, at Newmarket ; Wednesday, at the Lewes Race Course ; and Friday, at Tellescembe Tye—at half-past ten. The Hambledon Fox-hounds, on Monday, at South wick Park ; Wednesday, at ; and Friday, at Westbury—at half-past ten. Mr. Price's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Brick Kiln ; Thurs day, at Frith Fawr ; and Saturday, at Cefn Liwyd-bridge —at half-past ten. The Gransden Hounds, on Monday, at Lolworth ; and Friday, at Downing Arms—at ten. The Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Furneaux Pel ham ; Wednesday, at Birchanger ; Friday, at Littlebury street ; and Saturday, at Capons—at half-past ten. The Royston Harriers, on Tuesday, at Royston-mill ; and Thursday, at Ashwell—at half-past ten. Lord Harewood's Fox-hounds, on Monday, at North Deighton ; Thursday, at Cross-Roads, Bramham ; and Saturday, at Ulleskelfe—at ten. The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Winsford ; Wednesday, at Minshull Guide-post; Thursday, at Booth lane Toll-bar-gate; and Saturday, at Bartingten Heatlt —at half-past ten. General Wm. Fitzroy's Hounds, on Monday, at Mr. Wright's, Rougham ; Wednesday, at Sporle-mill ; and Friday, at Mr. Hudson's, Castleacre—at eleven. The Westacre Stag-hounds, on Monday, at the sixth mile stone on the Derehatn-road; and Friday, at Grim•. stone Field Barn—at eleven. Mr. 11. Villebois's Harriers, on Tuesday, at Bradenbam green ; Thursday, at Barton S►nce ; and Saturday, at the Swan, Methwold—at eleven. Sir Rich. Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Langworth bridge ; Tuesday, at Winceby Village; Wednesday, at Gate Burton ; Thursday, at Welton Mill and Blankney; and Saturday, at Tuthill Wood and Linwood Church—at eleven. The Quorn Hounds, on Monday, at Rolleston ; day, at Stanford Park ; Thursday, at Arnesby ; Friday, at Owthorpe (Notts) ; and Saturday, at Bardon hall—at half-past ten. Sir John Cope's Hounds meet in t},e neighbourhood of Abingdon during the whole of this week. Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at Newnharn ; Wed nesday, at Birhury ; Friday. at Willoughby ; and Satur day, at Bourton—at half-past ten. Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Bradby ; Thurs day, at Chartley Castle; and Saturday, at Rolleston—at half-past ten. The Shrop►►hire Hounds, on Monday, Rowton Castle ; Wednesday, at Stoke Heath ; Friday, at Ercall Mill and Saturday, at Acton Burnell—at half-past ten. Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Monday, at Callow Turnpike ; and Thursday, at Willersley Turnpike—at ten. Lord Searhoroutiles Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Aston ; Wednesday, at Rossington-bridge ; Friday, at Grove; and Saturday, at Sparken-hill—at half-past ten. Sir G. Sitwell's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Hardstaff- Common ; and Friday, at Handsworth-har—at ten. The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Pollington ; Thursday, at Burghwallis ; and Saturday, at Badsworth Toll-bar—at half-past ten. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Weelsby- Dose ; Wednesday, at Somerhy-bouse; Friday, at Harps ti ell ; and Saturday, at the Kennel—at eleven. Mr. H. M. Chadwick's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Weeford Windmill; and FriLy, at Clielinslcy Wood—at half-past ten. The Worcestershire Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Graf ton ; and Thursday, at Bishop's Wood—at half-past ten. The Blackmoor Vale Hounds, on Tuesday, at Cog,ley Wood; and Saturday, at Stourton Inn—at ten. Mr. Farquharson's Hounds, on Monday, at Armswell ; and Friday, at Honeycomb. . . The Cadbury Harriers, on Tuesday, at Siltri ; and Thursday, at Milborne Wyke. Mr. Nicoll's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Embly ; and Friday, at Westbury. ••• i , 4 . 1 i A' d