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Ambassador to this Court : a better choice we could not conceive, and we are quite sure it would be hailed here with general satisfaction.— Times. It will be recollected, that at the early part of the present year advices reached this country from Bombay, with intelligence of a difference having arisen between the Bombay Government and the Supreme Court at that Presidency, in consequence of the Judges of that Court assert- • mg a jurisdiction over the natives in the provinces in that part of India, which the Governors con tended ►hey did not possess. Of this we gave at the time a full detail, and need, therefore, only remind our readers, that the chief point was the issuing a writ of habeas corpus to bring the body of a native of the privileged class from Poonah to Bombay, the execution of which was opposed by the Governor and Council, on the. grounds of political expediency. Sir J. P. Grant, the only surviving Judge of the Supreme Court of Bombay, subsequently sent home a memorial to the King against the proceedings of the Government, on which a meeting took place of the Privy Council, where the whole of the question underwent a full discussion, and their decision was against the right assumed by the Judges. It appears, however, by advices of the 4th of April, received yesterday from Bombay, that Sir J. P. Grant, without waiting for the result of the appeal to the Privy Council, has closed the Supreme Court. The appointment of Sir James Dewar as Chief Justice (who was the Company's Advocate-General at Bom bay), by his Majesty's Government here, in February last, over the head of Sir J. P. Grant, seems to testify the opinion of Ministers in this matter, though we are aware that it is not a mat ter of course to convert a Puisne Judge into a chief. The views and decisions of the autho rities at home will have arrived at Bombay in the course of the present month, and will, at least, have convinced Sir J. P. Grant that his con duct has not received the support on which he relied. In the mean time the question will have been productive of inconveniences of no ordinary kind, on the spot where these ill-timed differ ences have occurred.—lbid. A very sensible article has appeared in the Dublin Morning Register of Monday last. — The Irish Government has issued a Proclama tion, offering a reward of 2001. for the discovery of the persons concerned in the murder of cer tain " persons called Orangemen."—" We will say (observes our Dublin contemporary) that it was wise to issue this Proclamation ; for though the persons called Orangemen' might have been returning home from occupations entitling them to only a very modified sympathy, still the outrage committed by their assailants was a violence of• fered to the general peace and prosperity of Ire land, as well as the law of God, and w as there fore deserving, on a double ground, of punish ment." Our contemporary adds, " While we say this, however, we should not, in candour or justice, omit to notice that there has been no reward offered for the discovery of persons called Orangemen,' who have been guilty of atrocious deeds ; neither should we hesitate to declare to the Government, that until such per sons, when they become criminals, are treated exactly ss if they were of the faction called Ribboninen.' all their efforts to establish a useful or permanent tranquillity will be perfectly vain and nugatory." Our contemporary then takes from the last Sligo Luminary a catalogue of twelve murders perpetrated by Orangemen in only two Baronies of the county of Leitrim.— There is this difference between the murders per petrated by Orangemen and the murders perpe trated by Itibbonmen, that the Government are not supposed to know the former. The whole of the Magistracy of the North of Ireland being Protestants and partizans, take cognizance only of the murders perpetrated on those of their own party. A Queen of Spain has no legs—an Orangeman never commits murder. The Go vernment, were a representation transmitted from the Magistracy of a foul murder committed by Orangemen, would of course issue a Proclamation for the discovery of the murderer ; but the Govern ment takes no more responsibility on itself than it can help taking, and therefore chooses to see only through the spectacles of the local autho rities. Of course, the peace of the country will be farther than ever from being restored by this uneven-handed justice ; but then the Members of the Irish Government are not such fools as not to know the difference between " a united, a powerful, and an audacious party assailing them on all sides," and Catholics, who have none to represent them. Justice in this world is only for those who have power to enforce it, and that the Catholics have experienced already. We wish the Duke of Wellington would deal out the same measure of justice to Catholics and Protestants—but we fear he is yet unable to do Aso ; and it would hardly be fair to exact impos sibilities from any man. His Grace knows, as well as our Dublin Contemporary that " Re wa:ds for the apprehension of murderous Orange men ought to be as prompt and liberal as for that of offenders of the opposite class." But impartiality with the present Magistracy is imn possible ; and the time, we fear, is not yet ar rived for his daring to place power in hands that would use it without partiality. When a homi cide is committed, the religion of the murderer and the murdered is the very last point which ought to be inquired into. But we know that it is the only point which is material to the issue. It does not require the gilt of pro phecy to foretel the consequences which roust flow from Orange justice. The Catholics having no con&lence in Magistrates, Jurors, or Govern ment (which last sees not with its owes eyes), will take justice into their own hands. The Govern ment, which cannot now see the wrongs inflicted on Catholics, will be forced at length to open its eyes. Thus when the prevalence of outrage shall force a conviction that a change of system is imperiously necessary, will justice be done tfa Catholics. The Irish ought by this time to know that no good is ever attained without a struggle ; and that till the Orangemen of the North of Ireland find that they have enough, or till the Government is forced to re• form the Magistracy, there is no hope of justice for Catholics.—Morning Chronicle. In an article on the subject of the recent change of the French Ministry, wo yesterday took occasion to say, that favourable sliolieipa tions were indulged in, by persons well qualified to form a correct judgment on subjects connect ed with the mutual interests of Great Britain and France—our allusion had an especial reference to the modification of the existing restrictions which clog the commercial intercourse of the two countries. The necessity of a revision of this most impolitic and oppressive system has been long felt and acknowledged ; but the diffi culties in the way of an equit a bl e a dj us tment of rival mercantile and national interests, have itherto been found insurmountable. Impartial practical men are almost unanimous in express- ina their conviction that the more enlightened portion of the English manufacturing and com mercial interests were at bottom much less tena cious of the present practice, than the corres ponding classes in France ; and that in the latter country, somethirig more of energy in the Ad ministration must be an indispensable prelimi nary to any change in the ititernational commer cial regulations likely to be permanently and mu tually advantageous. Now this infusion of ad ditional vigour is precisely what is insisted upon as the natural and inevitable result of the late fundamental change of Ministry. It is unneces sary to waste many words to establish an almost self-evident proposition, but if any proof is re quired of the prodigious disadvantage of the existing order of things, it will be found in the Official Parliamentary Returns of the two Coun tries, which show that the commercial intercourse of France and England is inferior in extent and value to that which exists between England and a second-rate German State—Saxony, for in stance, or Bavaria. This fact, uncontradicted and incontrovertible, should, we would think, be sufficiently decisive. We do not affect to know the exact nature of the measures in con templation on this important subject ; but we have heard—and from such a quarter as leaves no doubt of the authenticity of our information —that some great and effectual change is confi dently looked for, and that there is little appre hension, on the part of the British Cabinet, of experiencing the same inexpugnable opposition they have hitherto encountered from the pre judice or timidity of the men to whom the in terests of France were confided.—Thid. It would appear from the examination of Sir A. B. King, the King's stationer of Dublin, that he supplies the different offices in Ireland with paper of English, not Irish manufacture. We should hope that the Government will order the supply in future to be of Irish manufacture, it being, according to Sir Abraham's account, cheaper. A curious secret has come out on this inquiry into the Dublin Stationery affair, that the Lord Lieutenants, cooks, Sze., have the privilege of so much paper being allowed them. It is evident that the cooks, &c. have little or no use for the paper, and for this reason, they do not receive the paper, but its value in money from Sir Abraham. Mr. Hume, at the next meeting of Parliament, we hope will take up this paper affair, as well as other matters of a similar nature in Ireland. The grants (as they are called) for Ireland have been tolerably plentiful for a great number of years past. But we hope that they will be more narrowly looked to than they have been. Our belief is that one• half of" the grants for Ireland might be saved to the people. For our part, we are sick of this word "grant'' being used in the way it is toogenerally, for as it respects Ireland especially, the word " grant" too often means throwing away money among a parcel of people who do nothing for it. —Morning Herald. It seems to be deemed necessary to caution the world against the belief that the recent change the French Administr4tion has had its source in anti-Russian principles, and promises to lead to:consequences adverse to the interests and de signs of Russia. If this admonition were neces sary, it would be prudent and beneficial ; for it would be both discreditable and disadvantageous to the new Ministers of France to suppose that their accession to-office is the signal, or is likely to prove the cause, of any violent and abrupt change in the foreign policy of their country. We are anxious to believe that the principles which will actuate the Statesmen who have just been called to preside over the destinies of France are the most remote that can be imagined from sudden and violent transitions of any kind; and we must do their predecessors the justice to acknowledge our conviction that they have left the foreign relatioms of that country in a state in which no such transition can be necessary. With respect to the affairs of the East of Europe, the interests of France and England were so plainly the same, and the interests of both so evidently adverse to any project of aggrandizement on the part of Russia, that little doubt could be enter tained as to the course which France would pur- sue under any Administration whatever. To maintain the balance of power in Europe as it now exists, was and is an object of French policy which no Statesman could misunderstand, under- value, or neglect,unlessby renouncing the name and character of a French Statesman, and aspiring to that Cosmopolitan reputation and influence which is the day-dream of Liberalism—which, in attempting to grasp the whole universe, takes firm and secure hold of nothing—which pursues a vain shadow, and neglects whatever is real and substantial. If the professions of Russia turn out to be sincere, that she meditates nothing inimical to the present settlement of Europe, in this case the principles of the present Adminis- tration of France will not be anti-Russian. If those professions are hollow, the principles of the late Ad ministration would probably have proved anti-It us sian. What, it may then be asked, is gained or lost on either hand by the change ? The answer is easy, and we think sufficient—the former Ad ministration was in some degree connected with and dependent upon the support of a party, many of the it lividuals of which take a pride in acknowledging their indifference, while some of them do not disguise their hostility to the pre sent settlement of Europe. It was therefore within the reach of a disturbing and paralyzing . . influence with respect to its foreign policy, which impaired its claim to confidence. From this in • fluence the new Administration is entirely free, the party by whom it would be exercised standing towards them in the relation of a vowed and open enmity. This is much, but it is not all. The character and pi-gbable conduct of the French Government, in any conceivable emer gency, must be an important element in the gal• culations of any Power that is balancing between the risks and the advantages of an encroaching .rl ambitious policy. It is now more certain than it was a week ago, that the names of Phil hellenisin 4.a philanthropy, by which we have seen nations and goyernments led astray, will possess no power in the Frciu-.:1; Councils that is incompatible with the solid and perrucnent in terests of France. And is there any man who can believe this .cert4nly will be without its effect iip.OP the deliberations of st. etersburgh, or the militsry IrA oyemerits between the Pantibo and Adrianople ?—itigillir.ig Post. Mr. Peel's new Police Regulations are, we fear, wore likely to disappoint than to gratify' those who ,atitiizipate from their operation a material improvement Fr the protection of the persons r*.ni.) property of the public. His division of districts, and his allotment of them to super, intendants, inspectors, se6cants, and police con stables, may '440 as wise as it appears Methodical ; but it seems to us that there is one radical defect at ihe i/ottom of time whole, and that that defect will vitiate the whole system. We allude to the inadequate pay wilich it has been thought proper to bestow on the new guardians of the public. The Superintendent, for instance, is to have a salary of only 2001.—the next in rank to him, the Inspector, 1001.—the Police Serjeant, 35.6 d. a day, and the ordinary Police-Constables, only 35., out of which, by the bye, they are bound to provide themselves with a plain uniform, and from adding to which, by labour ing at other occupations during the day, they are expressly forbidden. Now it appears to us that this rate of pay is by far too low, either as a " comfortable livelihood," a sufficient remune ration for the services required, or as a guarantee for the good conduct of the parties employed. There is, undoubtedly, much misery in the me tropolis and throughout the country, so much want of employment, that many will be found to embrace with eagerness, as a temporary means of livelihood, the petty pay which is thus held out in the new police system ; but it may be affirmed with equal truth, that few men under the age of 35, of vigorous constitutions, and sufficient intelligence to act with benefit to the public in the capacity required, would accept of the terms as a permanent means of livelihood. The sum, in fact, is not sufficient in the metropolis, where provisions are dear, and the temptations to dishonest practices extremely numerous ; and if not sufficient, what greater security do the new arrangements afford against such practices than the parish system, which they are about to supplant ? We know of none. There are undoubtedly many individuals whose honesty would be proof against temptations un der any difficulty of circumstances, as there are also others whom no amount of wealth would prevent from being dishonest ; but taking the average, it may be safely affirmed that the gene rality are the one or the other, according as their interest preponderates either way, and that the best security against fraud, corruption, and im proper collusion, as well as the best stimulus to exertion, is an ample remuneration for the ser vices required. When satisfaction has been given to individuals on this head by the public, it has a right to expect that it shall be served by them with diligence and fidelity ; but, we repeat it, that without attention to this main point, it has not only no security, but no good reason to demand it.—Morning Advertiser. SUMMER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT-MAIDSTONE, AuG. 10. The Courts opened this morning at ten o'clock, when there was a very numerous attendance of the Magistracy and Nobility of the county; among whom we noticed the Earl of Romney, Lord Viscount Torrington, Lord Viscount Sydney, Lord Viscount Marsham, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart., M.P., Sir Edward Cholmondeley Dering, Bart , Sir Win. Jervis Twysden, Bart., Sir John Maxwell Tylden, the Hoi. Mr. Byng, Lieut.-Colonel Shaw, Major Best, Mdjor Dalison, &c. The Grand Jury having been sworn, his Lordship proceeded to deliver his charge, in which he congratulated the Grand Jury on the diminution of the calendar as compared with the number of offenders when he last had the honour of addressing them. William Lovett and Joseph IVells were indicted for assaulting John Harrison,at Deptford, and stealing from his person a handkerchief, and 7s. Gd. in silver. Lovett was found Guilty,—Wells, Not Guilty. His LORDSHIP intimated to the prisoner that he should feel it his duty to pass sentence of death upon him, and in all probability that sentence would be carried into execution. The unhappy youth, who is only 17 years of age, wrung his hands, and throwing himself on the floor of the Court, entreated for mercy in the most moving manner. His father at this time approached him, and, deeply distressed at his son's awful and disgraceful situation, embraced and kissed him se veral times in the most feeling manner. The audience were quite affected at this touching scene. His Lordship deferred passing sentence for the present. In the Nisi P rius Court Mr. Justice PARK was engaged in trying two or three actions which pos sessed no feature of general interest. TUESDAY, AUG. 11. Horace Knowiden was found guilty of entering the dwelling-house of Steward Clark, at Tenterden, and stealing therefrom three half-crowns.—Sentence of death recorded. Thomas Martin, aged 19, was indicted for steal ing one sheep, the property of Thomas Pilcher, at Lenham. vv Thomas Pilcher, son of the prosecutor, stated that on Saturday, the 6th of June, his father had a flock of 27 sheep. On the next morning he went to the field with some other persons and found one sheep lying in the gateway, with two of its legs broken and one flayed. Its head was very much beaten, and its eyes nearly knocked out. It was not quite dead, and witness stuck it. In a little time the prisoner was brought into the field : his feet were bloody and his legs were covered with wool. Witness charged him with killing the sheep, which he denied. They made him carry the sheep home, and afterwards took him to the constable's. He did not !eetnto be so sharp as he ought to be—not quite in his right mind. James Whatman, Esq , surgeon to the county prison, had examined the prisoner, and considered him very weak in intellect, but not insane. Couhi not say whether he was capable of judging right from wrong. The Jury returned a verdict of maiming the sheep, but acquitted him of stealing, which negatived the capital part of the crime. His LORDSHIP sentenced him to such labour as was suitable for him, for six calendar months; during which time the surgeon would take care to visit him. Charles Middleton was indicted for stealing on the 17th of August, 1828, at Chatham, a sovereign, the property of Ebner. Ths prisoner said nothing in his defence. His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, . said be had been dealt very leniently with, as he might have been indicted for forgery, and have forfeited his life. —To be transported for seven years. Three men, named Adams, Spencer, arid Fife, were found guilty of highway robbery, attended with great violence, on a man in Lewisham-lane, when in a state of intoxication. His LORDsIIIP having put on the black cap the criminals instantly fell down on their knees, and most earnestly entreated for mercy with groans and ejaculations. His Lordship said the crime was of the most aggravated nature, for the poor man whom they had ill-treated in this horrible manner was in such a state of intoxication that they might have robbed him without any violence. He must, there fore, pass the awful sentence of the law without giving them the slightest hopes of mercy. His Lord ship then passed sentence of death on the prisoners in the most impressive manner. WESTERTT CIRCUIT—EXETER, Auc. 11. There are 32 cases entered for trial on the civil side; of these 13 were disposed of to-day, but the follor..ing is the only one that possessed the slightest interest. TOZER V. DULL. This vas an action brought to recover a sum of 71., being the amount of a bill of exchange passed by the defendant to the plaintiff, in part payment for two horses.—Verdict for the plaintiff. Although the calendar is light in point of num ber, the offences charged against many of the pri soners are of a very serious character. Of 48 pri soners, whose names are contained in the calendar, three are charged with murder, five with map , slaughter, the same number are accused of arson, one is charged with assaulting an infant, one with an attempt to poison, one with bigamy, and one with endeavouring to procure the miscarriage of his wife by violent means. There are seven prisoners to be tried for robbing the Devonport Bank. The names of the Hon. Hugh Clifford and - Weld, Esq., both Roman Catholics, were called over in the list of magistrates, and the former was called on the Grand Jury. George Stanley Carey, Esq., also a Roman Catholic, is one of the Grand Jurors. _____ After a short time, several true bills were pre sented. _ John Morris was indicted for having maliciously stabbed and cut Epaphras Seage, of Paton, with intent to kill or do him some grievous bodily harm. The Jury found a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner on the third count of the indictment for an assault, with intent to do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Justice BURROUGH, addressing the prisoner, told him he should be sent out of the country for 1 i fe. [Messrs. Mathews and Yates have come down to amuse the inhabitants and visiters of Exeter during the Assize week. The former was on the bench in the Criminal, the latter in the Civil Court, in the course of the day.] OXFORD CIRCUIT—STAFFORD, Ace. 10. &lath Wizeeldon, a very pretty girl, was charged with having on the 13th of March last, robbed her mistress, Miss Rogers, an elderly infirm lady, of 3151. 17s. 6d., her property. Miss Rogers, being asked what she knew against the prisoner, said, I know nothing against her; I do not think that she has taken any of my money ; she has been in my service upwards of four years, and I believe her to be very honest. Mr. William Chalorier, of Leek—ln consequence of information, I went to Miss Rogers's on the 13th of March. The prisoner told me that her mistress's house had been broken open, and showed me a win dow open, with a pane of glass out, and a door which she stated she had locked the night before, through which any person getting in at the window must have passed to the room from which the money was taken. I observed the lock. It was not marked or injured. I examined the premises, and I believe no person could have got in that way. I told her that unless she gave up the money, which I believed she herself had taken, she would be committed. At length she gave me the 3151. 17s. 6d., which I now produce, out of a sort of oven in a kitchen or cellar in the house. Other witnesses corroborated this statement. On their cross-examination it appeared, that Mist Rogers frequently hid money in different parts of the house ; that the prisoner had full knowledge of that fact, had always access to her money, paid her bills, and had her entire confidence, and that she should be most happy to take her again into her service. A person might have got into the window by a ladder, but no ladder was on the premises, and could not have been got there without coming through other houses. Verdict—Not Guilty. The lady, who seemed not to have a very strong mind, notwithstanding some remonstrances, left the Court with the prisoner, both appearing well pleased at its termination. AUGUST 11. John Rogers was indicted and charged with the wilful murder of Mary Brierly, alias Hill, on the 22d of July last, at Wolverhampton. Mr. CORBETT, with whom was Mr. BUSBY, in addressing the Jury said, that the deceased had for some time cohabited with the prisoner, and on the 22d of July last, in consequence of some disturb ance, the prisoner stripped to fight in Little's-lane, Wolverhampton. The deceased hung round his waist, and prevented him from fighting, and during that time received several blows from a woman called " Shrewsbury Poll," who cohabited with the man with whom the prisoner was about to fight. However, the prisoner and the deceased retired from the crowd which had collected to the house of a woman of the name of Carrington, and after re maining there a short time, went home together. The facts which occurred on their arrival at home would be better described by the witnesses. Sarah Carrington—l am the wife of William Car rington, and reside in Little's-lane, Wolverhamp ton. I remember on the 22d of July last a crowd about our house. I saw John Rogers there amongst the crowd, and Mary Brierly. Rogers was going to fight with some man, but 1 don't know who. He had his shirt off. Mary, the lass that is dead, caught hold of Rogers round the waist, and said, " John, you shan't fight ;" and they came out of the crowd, and went into our house. I don't know Shrews bury Poll. When Rogers and Mary Brierly got into my house, they sat on the chair at the far end of my house. Rogers asked her for a shilling ; she said, " John, I ha'nt got ever a shilling ;" and lie then asked her to give him a sixponee to buy a glass of rum. She said, she had got only one farthing in her pocket, arid that was all. Rogers then said, " You —, you have got one." He lifted up his hand to strike her, and said, " I'll almost kill you, when I get you home." I prevented the blow, and told her he should not hit her in my house. I then turned them both out of my house, and they sadly blamed me for it. They were both very tipsy, her likewise worse so than him. Elizabeth Adams—l am the wife of Thomas Adams, and was on the 22d of July at the top of Little's-lane. I saw nothing of the prisoner and the deceased till we got home. They came just after we got home. The deceased swung upon the prisoner's arm, and he had an arm round her waist ; he had her bonnet in his hand. When they got into the house the prisoner asked the deceased to walk up stairs. When they went up I sat on the steps, and while I remained there I heard several blows. I heard her say, " Don't beat me any more, John." The prisoner and deceased had been up stairs about a quarter of an hour before I went up. When I got to the top of the stairs, I saw the prisoner strike the deceased. She was a short distance from him, standing with her hands down by her sides. I did not see where he struck her, but he aimed at her head. She fell forwards, with her hands crossed upon her breast. The blow seemed to have been very violent. When she was down, I saw him, with his right foot, stamp twice upon the back part of her head, a little above the neck, and kick her upon the left ear. The kick was with the toe, of his shoe. While he was doing this, the deceased lay on her face, and offered no resistance, being tossicated with liquor and the blows. I said to the prisoner, "Don't hit her, for God's sake, any more, or you'll kill her. She's dead now, pick her up." The answer be made was, " her eyes, let her lie, she's not half dead yet." He sat down upon the bed with his hands upon his knees. The de ceased lay perfectly still on the floor, and when I saw this I got across her back, put my hands under her breastis, and lifted her head a little up, and there came blood from her nose and left ear apparently as thick as my finger. As soon as I lifted her up, he got up and went down stairs; he did not look at her at all. I then called out to Mary Brown for as sistance. She came,and a man of the name of Samuel Aston. They assisted me in getting the deceased on the bed. Her head rolled on one side. She heaved or sighed once, but did not take her breath down again. She set her eyes a little open, and died instantly. We then went down stairs, and Mrs. Cox came up with me. She made an alarm and called out, he has killed the woman. The pri soner then came up into the room with the crowd. He came to the bedside, and Mrs. Cox said, " You rogue, you rascal, you have killed the woman." The prisoner replied, leaning over the bed, " Oh, her eyes, she is not half dead yet." A look ing-glass, a basin of water, and salt, was called for. The glass was put over her face, but there was no breath upon it. When the doctor came, he examin ed the head of the deceased. When I next saw her there were black marks and a swelling all round the ear that had been kicked. Mary Brown gave a similar account of the trans action. the bed near to the deceased. I said " Jahn, there is a charge of murder against you for murdering this young woman, and you must go along with me." He asked me if I would allow him to kiss her. I said " Yes," and he kissed her. He rose up, and putting his hands up to his head, said, " I am the murderer. Hang me, hang me." He then sat down again by the side of deceased, and made a grab over at her packet, which he seized, saying, " That is mine." I wanted to take the pocket from him, and he refused to give it me; and 1 therefore tripped up his heels and took it from him. There was a farthing in it,and a pawnbroker's ticket, which I now produce. The Jury, after a few moments' consideration, re turned a verdict of " Guilty of Manslaughter." Mr. Baron VAUGHAN then sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life. Samuel Roe was indicted, charged with setting fire to a barn and cart-house, at Penkridge in this county, in the occupation of Ann Hyde.—Not Guilty. VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. Extract of a letter, dated Hobart -town, Van Dieman's Land, March 26, 1829 :—" This is indeed a lovely country. Take the climate of Italy, the mountain scenery of Wales, the ferti lity of England—combine these, and you have Van Dieman's Land. Of fruits, and other pro ductions of the earth, there is a constant suc cession, for in this place there is no winter, un less about two months of' rain and wind in June and July may deserve the name of the season. All fruit, grain, and vegetables, have a finer flavour, and grow to much greater perfection, than in England. I think if Dr. Gall had exa mined the cranium of the world, he would have discovered the bump of philo-progenitiveness on this spot ; for, positively, cattle, sheep, kanga roos, hogs, dogs, children, and other animals , increase so fast as to become a nuisance. The y cattle brought by the early settlers strayed away and have bred among the mountains. The stock of timber is most beautiful, and appa rently inexhaustible. Pine, oak, stringy-bark, peppermint-wattle, cedar, gum-wood, rose-wood, and light wood, abound in trees of majestic growth inconceivable to an Englishman. The heaths, wild-flowers, and fruits are exquisitely delicate and delightful. The air is impregnated with the perfumes of odoriferous plants. The peppermint, which gives a cinnamon scent, the camphor plant, musk plant, geraniums, myrtles, and honeysuckles, grow spontaneously to the size of trees. There is only one native wild beast, a small kind of panther, which is timid, and avoids the approach of man. The most formidable animals are of the insect and reptile tribes ; providentially they do not attack escu lent vegetables, but they will devour a timber tree in a little time. Of the tarantula spider, as large as a walnut in the body, I have de stroyed many in the sitting-rooms ; these, with the horrible centipedes, are very poi sonous. There are sixteen species of snakes of deadly venom. From the plenty of horned cattle, their prices are low-- a live ox, or a cow and calf, may be had for 3/. sterling ; good fat sheep alive, are from 2s. 6d. to ss. a head ; pigs, just now, are dear, 6d. per lb.; kangaroos, which all the frequenters of the Zoological Garden in the Regent's Park may not know, is equal to venison, any body may have for shooting. You may fill a bushel basket in five minutes with oysters and muscles at any of the bays. In half an hour, the other day, I and two companions caught seventeen tray-fish, weighing from two to four lbs. each, equal in flavour to English lobsters, in company with a delicate eating parrot-fish, of 121b5., besides a rascally young shark, that would not let our baits alone. Beef and mutton are finer flavoured than ill England, which may be ascribed to the rich and odoriferous herbage the animals feed upon, and to tile state of repose they uninter ruptedly enjoy. Flour is lid. to Lid. per lb., which is deemed a fair average price, neither cheap nor dear. Potatoes are ss. per cwt. Peaches are a penny a dozen ; and apples are in such quantities that they lie and rot. Grapes are fine and abundant, but as yet not much cul tivated. We have capital French wines very cheap ; good Burgandy at 4s. 6d. per gallon. Hops grow luxuriantly, and malt is begun to be made. You may readily catch almost every known and delicious kind of fish in any of the noble bays which abound ill this country, or buy them in the town for a mere trifle. There are all sizes, from the whale to the minnow. There are no Game Laws ; the possession of a gull is the only qualification, and your ability to walk and take good aim your only certificate for shooting when, where, and what you please.— We have eagles, hawks, and almost every va riety of the feathered race. Wild ducks are fine and fat, and so numerous, that I saw a man bring down twenty-four at one discharge of his gun. They abound in the extensive rushy la croons. Poultry is plentiful, and all birds thrive well. There is no want here ; there are none of af i ui t sirycgosevere, those pallid, care-worn, anxious faces, that look from every corner and street in London. There is no misery but what results from idleness, de bauchery, or . unwarrantable speculation. The black population is not very numerous, but ut terly insensible to the blessings of civilization. They are such arrant idiots as to prefer naked • mess in a climate where clothes are not requisite, to being encased in woollens proffered to them in exchange for liberty ; and they prefer a life of ease and independence to one of labour and re straint. The whites, wisely disgusted by such brutal folly, express their difference of opinion by arguing upon them from the mouth of the mus ket ; and the blacks acknowledge these appeals to their understanding by spearing the whites at all convenient opportunities. The controversy must be interminable, until one colour has extin guished the other. The blacks have great mus cular strength, and are the most deformed and ugly of the human species. They go in herds ; but, from all that can be collected, they have no chiefs, nor any idea of a form of government. Young ones have been taken and brought up in families, but at puberty they have invariably te turned to the woods. What we heard in Eng land concerning the reformation of convicts in this colony was fudge. They are as profligate and idle as the thieves and vagabonds of the United Kingdom. All that regulations amtiosnscisao; the iso b r s ev e lu r t observe rendered learn upon the subject amounts to this :—the temptation to crime is lessened by compara tivethenl and inidooatnrebceeceoart hence, as I conceive, it is will timnaieonnr cer tainly that robberies and such offences are less frequent a.wbfaock thoseu or:: are the pains of selecting their associations, the po pulation inflictedun more f r e ‘b ; v d ya a r i :e l : ° a d ; d ° this beautiful. climate ; to those who will, a set Clement here is easy. It is a country in whit' than in England. 'To E -mers and men of handif Aft trade,' Josoph Sparrow—l am one of the constables of tan ' t eed,which it is impossible for any hones —cr.. trades must suc. Wolverhampton, and was sent for to apprehend the and in prisoner ; I found the prisoner sitting on the side oft man to starve who is willing and able to work.' THE KING'S ANSWER to the WEAV.EItS PETITION. .1 l e l A very numerous Meeting of unemploy, Weavers took place last night, at the Crown !I" Anchor, Hare-street-fields, when the following letter, which had been received in answer to th e Weavers' Petition to the King, was read :--- " Whitehall, August 11, 1829. " Sir,—l have laid before the King the Petitie" to his Majesty, which was placed in my hands by Deputation of Silk-Weavers, of Spitalflelds. " His Majesty deeply laments the distress w01.,, c prevails in that district, and regrets to befit. that L': sufferings of the innocent and industrious workme n have been increased, as there was reason to fear thq would be, by the lawless acts, and outrages on Po' perty, that were recently committed in Spit a lfieldf• «His Majesty has directed the Petition to be re ferred to the consideration of his confidential Se t " vants, who have not felt themselves warranted 1:1 in, advising his Majesty to encourage the emigration the Weavers of Spitalfields to any of the Colnni. s A Possessions of his Majesty, by special pecuniary la" for that purpose. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " Mr. John Jebb. " ROBERT PEEL." t The reading of this letter had an evident effe ct upon the Meeting, and many of them gave ven t to their feelings of disappointment. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR. Adair's Beaumont 2S 0 Burdon .. 25 9 Hebisurn Main 2q 3 26 6 Killingworth 28' 0 Liddell's 24 3 Polito!) Windsor 23 0 Shipcote 24 6 :ET.—Aug. 12. 01 Walls End Newmarch.. Ditto Heaton , Ditto Northumberlatid • ; Ditto Perkins and C 0... zi Ditto 1 ,„, I)itto Russell's 30 a ▪ " Ditto Walker 24 Latobton's Primrose • . 6 Neshani g Walls End Helton...* 90 Walls End Stewart's .• PembertonLlangennech:s . . 0 Llangennech Coal 3! 0 Stone Coal Drim 48 Pontop Trader , g l'anfield Trader . 03 ,„ Londonderry small Iluastll's small Tatitield Tanfield Lea 27 6 Townley , '26 6 Willington Wylam 28 0 Walls End Bewicke& Co. 30 0 Ditto Burraton 27 9 Ditto Carr and Co. Ditto I. I i Ida 26 6 Ditto Hotspur....--.. 27 3 Ships at market, 72—Ship sold, 4734---Unsoli 41. 24%* wEE'‘ . COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WV___! ; i . Wheat. Barley. Oats. 8et5....„ Per Quarter. s, to a. a. to a. a. to a. 42 Abingdon.....— 58 82 32 38 21 32 -•"' 46 Andover....-- 62 79 29 36 22 29 46 Birmingham.--. 72 82 32 36. 24 36 54 tlridport 56 '74 82 39 26 34 45 Cirencester 52 72 33 26 46 ingdon---- 54 86 36 40 26 38 45 Guildford 49 74 32 36 24 33 40 Henley. 54 83 30 35 20 30 r 4;0 Hereford 64 84 38 45 36 40 56 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 51 Maidenhead 65 84 28 39 22 80 4:1 Oakingham 56 76 30 36 18 32 •-• 42 Reading 60 82 32 37 24 34 52 Salisbury 54 '74 33 36 24 35 46 Southampton 54 78 37 40 28 3'2 42 Stroud Tewkesbury 65 87 40 42 30 38 "'"" 45 Uxbridge 48 81 3.3 36 23 31 .42 Wantage.--. 50 78 30 37 22 30 56 Warminster .—.—. 49 77 32 36 24 435. •••" 54 Windsor. 6O 80 36 40 24 34 •-• 44 W0rce5ter.,......,,,... 70 '75 36 40 24 CHELTENHAM MA RICET.—Aug. 11. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. dt° 8 Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb - Pease 5 0 0 Pork 6 Beans 4 9 5 6 Laulb.. Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork Hay 31. 10s. to 3/. 15s. per ton. LEWES MARKET.—Aug. IL 0 White Wheat (per quarter) £3 10 0 to £S •- ig 0 Red ditto 3 8 0 3 1 ' 0 Barley 1 Oats, New 1 2 0 6 v Pease Oil Cake. New l 2l 1 0 7 0 0 per th I___ j____,,t 11 HULL ISt ARKET.—Aug. 11. k jD The Corn trade has continued throughout the We e ,o a very lifeless state, and the weather, with the excePl i „ - 0 of Sunday night and Monday morning, has been veryl""r, for the harvest, which will be general in this neiO b V h il t r in a week or ten days from this, if the present vie s ,7 o - 0 continue. To. day there has been very little dispnor o manifested to do any business, and on the trifling . 0 1 made, a reduction of 2s. per quarter has been iiu bild- for to in the best qualities of both English and foreigl",All any other description we have no buyers to-dsP, we qualities of spring Grain are in very trifling r do not alter the quotations of any sort, but our Inki s pe , nerally are nominal. No inquiry for lock Cot" !sat seed and Linseed without alteration. Th e d u ty 1 35— . 4 of week, in this port, was 188. Bd. on 4041 quart e t 0 Wheat ; 12s. 3d. on 8463 quarters of Oats ; and 134* 249 quarters of Beans. - mt , tl 9 h Wheat, Old —s. —s. —s. Vele —B. .--_; , . 41 . Foreign —s. 60s. 625. ln bond... --E. 26 6 * --s. Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 245. Old -.8. go. .... 43. ... 4 Sinai! or Feed.... —s. 12s. 18s. ....A. • - --... Foreign —s. 20s. 245. Barley, Norf. & Slit ... —s 265. 28s. Line. & %Vold .... 4 • v i. git'' Foreign .-6. 91 6 ... 334. Beans 345. 365. 38s. Foreign ......... -- 4 * q n s . Vl' Pease, White —s. 345. 36s Grey ............ -- 4 •"ig.. 3 2, ,' Tares —s 345. 365. F0reign......... —tot 28t' Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last -__ -.........f:...-----7"" DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Aug. 6 . ,d. 9 0 1 ° Wheat, Imp. Bush 8 9 to 9 0 Butter, 160 z..... ........ ' Barley 4 0 4 6 Eggs, doxen .............. „0 4 _0 6 Oats 2 8 3 2 Beef, per 1b........... o ; , v. o Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 2 4 2 6 Veal ........................ , I . ), Potatoes, cwt. t; tedB3 Carmv.—The number of Cattle on the San d s i i,golu was 1174. Our market continues in the same ;a the condition that it has been in this same time past , $ a prices are nearly the same as those of last week. The following is a literal copy of a letter nil-, by ADAM BaYDEN, a farmer residing at Howick, t° : Ytr if, late KING. There was some little delay in the but it reached the Royal foot t° "Dear Sir,—l went thirty miles yesterday on - pay your taxes, and, after all, the bodies would uot,tot them, saying that I was too late, and that now the q/ 00 be recovered by regular course of law. I thought , ; , t sl' was like me, money would never come wrong to Y°lll. though it were a few days too late ; so 1 enclose ilobst in notes, and half a guinea, which is the amou nt w'holf they charge me for the last half year, and fourPea ce m ock penny over; you must send me a receipt when comes back, else they will not believe I have p aid )° r i° che yt, : o Direct to the care of Mr. Andrew Wilson, but Howick. I remain, dear Sir, your very humble 9eret. " ADAMl3°l(ll'r do; " P.S. This way of taxing the farmers will 0 017 you will see the upshot. • " To his Majesty, George Rex, . he r e.i. On the 11th inst., at 13 BIRTHS rockwell-hall, Surrey, the the Bence of her father, John Blades, Esq., the 13d Y n - of ti Rev. Edwin Prodgers, of St. Matthew's, 13 ' ixte' (laughter. On the 11 th inst., at Loughton-hall, Essex , the 1 5J), Of William Whitaker Maitland, Et.q , of a daughter. tvytoo' On the 11th inst., at Wellingborough, S ort" . shire, the lady of the Rev. C. Pasley Vivian, of a r, the On the 11th inst. at Romney-terrace, Westinioe lady of W. H. Elliott, Esq. F.L.S. of a daughter. MA RRIED. „ co lor' On the 11th inst., at Ma rket-Deeping, M r. 5. Viate of Lower Tooting, to Charlott e , on ly daughter of t Mr. J. Youd, of the former place. t Ol l 9 On the 12th inst. John Yo ung , Esq. of DeP o f till Sarah Sophia, eld e st d aug ht er o f C. Dowson, E 6 q . former place. DIED. IDee On the 11th inst. at Clapham, in Surrey , I lenrY l oa t ' borough, E s q. late Cl e rk of th e North Road General - office, in the '7sth year of his age. Sien na On the 25th March last, at his native place in after a few days' illness, A. Montucc i, LL.D . JO c b On the 12th inst. in Cowley-street, Henry E°- second son of the late Mr. E. \Veilkyns, of t he St °- Exchange. • # At Dublin, by drowning in te canal, Michael Ca #I aged 14. The father of the boy, who was P relent at inquest, is now aged 102. of On the New Road, near Newcastle -°1 ari-TY°:as Tuesday last, Christopher Stevinson, aged 7:3. Ile ‘,.. di matt of great personal strength and powers, and 12 survivors of the Centaur, 71 (700 men), CaPt3l,l'„ti glefield, which was lost ' • the At' 3 "l 47 years ago in Ocean, on her retnro from the West lodic's, a fter . es one . 0 1 10 rious victory gained by Admiral Sir George I3ridgea . I ' I ney over Count de Grasse. The above, with 0 1 P, t3i'i iii and ten more, saved themselves by getting into.tne Joe nace ; and after experiencing unheard-of misery', g Fa al on the 17th day. The stoutest and largest 11'a.",3' the boat's c ompany died of cold and starvation on the I . i day.—(See Captain L's ttive.)---The abo",-,:-:1 supposed to be the last survivor of them.—Ty Ale ' .., -•,,,--- ,- 2 ------ ,,i - th -- _ ___------ PRINTED and PIIIILISHED by MURDO YOUNG, ..- • OrricE, 111, STR•liii, LOSPOI:i• •