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z .e- - a A ir_ ,(--) THE• QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. LXXIII. Will be published or SATURDAY NEXT. _ , This day tvere"published, in foolscap Bvo. price 6s: 6d., PACTS in VARIOUS SCIENCES to ASSIST the MEMORY. " Condensation is the; result of time and experience, Vhieh rejects what is no longer essential." Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street. irk its day was published, in post Bvo, price 9s: 6d. with numerous Wood Engravings, of original Portraits, and subjects of interest, THE GOLD-HEA DED CANE. `i The Gold-headed Ca ne , w hi c h is the hero of thi s liftlelialUme, was once grasped bY,the palms of R a d c liff e, Mead, Askew, Pitcairn, rind Baillie—hut is now deposited in a corner of the College of physicians. 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NOTICE is hereby given that a HALF YEARLY GENERAL COURT OF PRO PRIETORS will be held at this House, on WEDNES DAY, the 16th inst., at One o'Clock in the afternoon pre cisely, to declare a Dividend for the last half-year. By order of the Board, P. MILNER, Accountant. CHARACTERS OF THE BRITISH SOVE REIGNS WHICH HAVE REIGNED FROM 1066 TO 1820. According to the curious and extraordinary work of Monsieur Cresar Moreau, F.R.S., on the Chronological Records of the British Finance, we find the character of each British King described in the following manner : William 1. was at first just and humane, afterwards cruel and severe. William IL was violent and arbitrary, and historians say he had not one good quality. _ - Henry I. was cold, prudent, and politic, yet intriguing and ungrateful. Stephen was prompt in decision and hold in action, his friends applauded his generosity, and his enemies admired his forbearance ; he won the high by' courtesy, the low by condescension, all by an air of affability and benevolence. Henry 11. possessed every accomplishment--he was liberal, humane, and courteous. Richard I. was a great warrior, even a century after his death his name was employed by the Saracen cavalier to chide his horse, and by the Saracen mother to terrify her children. But when we have given him the praise of valour his panegyric is finished. His laurels were steeped in blotid, and his victories purchased with the impoverish ment of his people. To his wife he was as faithless as he had been rebellious to his father. John, historians say, was polluted with meanness, cruelty, perjury, and murder; uniting with an ambition, which rushes through every crime to the attainment of its object, a pusillanimity which often, at the sole appearance of op position, sank into despondency; arrogant in prosperity, abject in adversity, be neither conciliated affection i❑ the one, nor excited esteem in the other. Henry 111. Historians say he was gentle and credulous, warm in his attachment, and forgiving in his enmities, without vice, but also without energy, he was a good man and a weak monarch. Edward I. Historians say lie was cold, penetrating, and courageous. Edgard 11. was weak, indolent, and incapable of govern imnt. Edward 111. Authors say that this was one of the greatest and most accomplished Princes that ever sat o❑ the Throne. Richard.H. Authors say that his education was neglected, which rendered him haughty, irresolute, and a slave to pleasure, but he was liberal to his favourites. Henry IV. Historians say he was proud, cautious, and resolute, and sometimes cruel. • Henry V. was not only a warrior, but a statesman, but being continually engaged i❑ war, he had little leisure to discharge the duties of a legislator, he was endowed with many amiable virtues, and unstained by any considerable blemish. Henry VI. His personal character commanded the re, spect of his enemies ; he was virtuous and religious, hu mane, benevolent, and forgiving. Edward IV. Historians say, was a Prince of elegant person and insinuating address, cruel and revengeful, a slave to pleasure ; but in adversity, evincing a great fortitude. Edward V. reigned only from the 9th of April to the 22d June. Richard 111. was cruel, unrelenting, silent, and suspici ous, and as much deformed in body as in mind. Henry VII. seemed to have been formed by nature for the circumstances in which accident had placed him ; it was his delight to show an air of mystery over the most ordinary transactions : his suspicions kept him always on his guard, he watched with jealousy the conduct of his ►ery ministers, and never embosomed himself with freedom, even to his consort or his mother ; tenacious of his own secrets, and adroit in divining- the secrets of others, he was able to unravel the plots, to detect the imposture, a❑d to defeat the projects of all his opponents. Henry VIII. Authors say was endowed with genius, talents, and courage, but stained by all the cruelties that characterize a tyrant. Edward VI. All are of opinion, that this young King possessed excellent qualification s and mental accomplish ments. Mary. This Princess possessed few qualities, either esti mable or amiable, except sincerity, a quality she eeems to have maintained through her whole life. Elizabeth was arbitrary, cruel, and intolerant in her public character, asd in her private life she had neither the softness of disposition, nor the amiable benevolence of a woman. James I. possessed many virtues and many vices, with generosity bordering on profusion, learning on pedantry, wisdom on cunning, and friendship on fancy. Charles I. was a man almost without blemish, an indul gent father, an affectionate husband, a kind friend, and a good master. Charles 11. authors say, was affable, easy of address, and good-humoured, but often averse to business, and too much addisted to pleasure. James IL possessed many virtues, many vices, and on several occasions so arbitrary that his children forsook, and his army and favourites deserted hi m . _ _ William and Mary. Authors say William was a brave General, a deep politician, just and merciful. Anne was a pattern of conjugal affectitm;, a tender mother, warm friend, and a munificent ptron, George I. was prudent, wise, ai:A cautious in the choice of his Ministc.n:. George 11. was in his temper sudden and violent ; but this, though it influenced his conduct, made no change in ds behaviour, which was generally guided by reason. He plain and direct in his intentions, true t o hi s wor d , te "Y in his favour, and protecting to hiss ervants, not P ar , ti4 g even with his Ministers, till compelled to it by the viffieneo of faction. Georg e i „ . i „.„, II is represented as a Prince, remarkable for his c— "eY, and possessing many accomplishments, a pattern of cotij and much bel yed by gal affection, a tender father, warm friend, the people which he governed. All lrishman travelling go o d a dd ress an d i ns i nua ti ng levy i ng con t r ib utions on the public by feigned about this coun ty for some months, manners i tales of distress, &c. lie was at Truro in the last week, and stole several articles from different public-houses where he had been taking refreshment, and which he sold imme diately afterwards.--.- Cornwall Gazette. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1828. RESENT STATE AND, FUTURE PRO SPECTS OF THE COTTON MARKET. (From the Liverpool Albion.) We purpose, according to our annual custom, to inay6 few brief remarks on the above interesting eohimeroial topic. The statements of, the brokers will be made up in the course of to-day ; and the'antiouncement of As stock is looked for .by holders and speculators with an anxiety gom mensurate with the interests _which they have at - stake. On the favourable or the unfavOurable character of thoSe statements' much is generally supposed to depend.' T6t the stock on hand will be found to . be unprecedentedly large, no man who has noticed the imports of cotton during the present year, and compared them with the outgoings, will feel the least surprise. But, 'whether that stock, heavy as it undoubtedly is,. will, when officially declared; depress Or elevate the'hopes.of holders and speculators, depends, in, no inconsiderable-degree; on the knowledge, the forecast, the very. temperament of the individuals whose . attention has been fixed on the subject, and who have made it a matter of minute examination as to the past, and of probable calcu lation and reasoning as to the future. The great, the en :grOSsing question with these persons is—Will the present holder.of cotton and the future importer realise,better prices 'during the next than they have •realized during the past . year ? , enable.them to, solve-this all important question. the deeldrathin 'Of die probable stock in theports is suppoia to be indispensably necessary,: although the.loose and un satisfactory manner in which that stock, is ,ascertained renders the statement scarcely more to be depended on than the private calculations of individual :importers, brokers, and speculators. Still, .the declaration of stock has always a powerful effect on the market; and, however its accuracy may be questioned, its influence is universally felt and acknowledged. 'On a question which commercial men are the most com petent persons to form a decision, it would be the height of presumption in us to hazard an opinion. We shall, there fore, content ourselves with making a few general and de sultory observations on the subject ; observations which, whilst they cannot possibly do harm, may, in 'some degree, tend to the elucidation of the interesting topic which will, to-day, engage the almost exclusive attention of the mercan tile classes of this great commercial town. In our last article on this important subject, we stated, that the comparatively low prices of cotton at that period were not likely to check production: on the contrary, we anticipated that they would increase it, because, cotton being, for the mast part, the produce of slave labour, the deficiency in price would, most probably, be wade up by quantity, (the seasons being propitious,) until the crack of the whip had forced from the slave that effort beyond which hiS physical strength could realize nothing more. This po sition has never been doubted ; and recent experience con firms its correctness. Whether the superabundant crop which the United States yielded, during the year 1826-7, was the consequence of such forced labour on the part of the slave, and whether the utmost has been extracted from the soil which his labour can be wade to produce, we have not the means of judging. We are informed, that, in addi tion to the large plantations, it is common for even children to clear strips of land and to sow them with cotton seed; that they weed the plants and gather the fruit, when there is nothing else to employ their time ; and, such is the ac commodating character of these little crops, that the pick ing can be put off until all other necessary labours are at an end. This class of producers may have sprung up in con sequence of the high prices of the year 1825. But, be that as it may, the system continues, and the annual amount of the crops, from whatever cause, is greatly augmented. This is evident from the crop of cotton,' in the •United States, during the three preceding years, for which the re turns were as follow : Total crop of 162 t-3 369,249 bales. Ditto ..... 720,027 ... Ditto 1826-7 957,291 ... The vast and increasing consumption of cotton, in the manufacturing states of Europe, requires, it is evident, a correspondent augmentation in the production; and, al thcugh prices do not appear, at present, to keep pace with the increased consumption, no other article of general use can be fixed on which offers greater inducements to specu lators and capitalists than the staple. Whether or not the prices which have been current have remunerated the planter, we know not ; but we know, that too ninny of the importers have lost, this year, money on most of their transactions in cotton. And, if the following statement, which was handed to us in October by a respectable spin ner, be correct, the manufacturing department of the busi ness has been equally unprofitable :—A third seventy-four hand-loom calico, in October, was selling at ss. Iod. The price of cotton, Boweds, was 6,1 d., and Pernams, 91d. The proportions of these descriptions for twist and weft make an average of 7d. per lb. The calculation, then, is as follows : Cotton 311 b. at Id. per lb 2 8 Add 1-sth for waste 0 5 Spinner's wages 0 101 Interest of capital in machinery, card s , ? incidental expenses, &c c 0 21 Weaver's wages 1 10 Carriage to market, expenses of sale, &c 0 3 6 3 Leaving a loss of .sd. per piece, or 7 per cent. ; I per cent, more than the duty on the cotton. Having made these general observations on the increased production of cotton, particularly in the United States of America, and shown that some increase was required to supply the augmenting consumption of the staple in Europe, we proceed to state some facts respecting imports, prices, and stock. The import into the United Kingdom, during ?. ( 880,000 the present year is 3 Stock, 31st December, 1826, 342,500 Total 1,222,500 Estimated consumption in Great } 725,000 Britain Export Estimated stock in the kingdom at present....... 419,5-00 PRICES, LAST YEAR. Uplands 61d. to 7idl, Pernams, 9id. to 10-kd. PRICES, THIS YEAR. Uplands :id. to 6,0., Pernams, Sd. to Sad. The prominent features, in the above statement, are the great increase of consumption, the heavy stock remaining, and the great disparity between the prices at the piesent and at the correspondent period of the last year. The con sumption of 1826 was 175,000 bales less than during the current year. This great increase may be partially ac counted for, by supposing that more than an ordinary pro portion of Brazil cottons have been used, which are only half the weight of American hales. If this be the case, the great bulk of the present stock must be of the latter description ; thus constituting it really heavier than at first it appears. The question, however, whether or not cotton will ad vance in price during the ensuing year, requires us to con sider the subject on a wider sphere than that of the British stock and consumption alone. Franco and Germany are making rapid progress in the art of manufacturing cotton goods. The former wants annually a supply of upwards of 300,000 bales : it is estimated, that she consumed, kst year, 310,000 hales. The supposed consumption of Europe and the United States is— Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherh',%Cig 100,000 England Franee 300,000 America retains for her own use 130,000 1,230,000 The supplies are supposed to be as follow : The only doubt in our minds on the subject originates in the unprofitable character of trade in general, owing to the action of a 'combination of causes at which we can only glance. Among these may be enumerated.—The great diminution oftapital by former overtrading.—The weight of. taxation.--The multiplicity of commission -houses, whose system of advances and accommodation to consignors has inundated all the knoWn fOreign markets with goods to s uc h e xcess, that years will be required - to run off the stocks. and to eestofe Price's to a remunerating level. The in crease of foreign Manufactures, as shown by the consump tion of cotton in France and the Netherlands, &c.—The present heavy stock.--And, lastly, the system of national legislation, which partially shuts the English merchant out of the 'lndian markets, and closes the continent of Europe against our manufactures. But, in spite of all these draw backe; there is, we think, from the detail we have given of the stock,llie'consumption' and the supply, better ground to expect improvement than to fear further decline. A .revival in the foreign markets is, -however, •essential to a permanent improvement; and we trust that this indis pensable support to the cotton market will not be long delayed. We anticipate no reduction on imports during the next . year. The' same sources will, we doubt not„contipue to yield the same supplies. The cotton must come to Europe. It is the chief payment which the Americans and Brazilians can make 'to tifi;' and, if they exported every pound of their wool, they Woad still be in debt to the Europeans for Manu factured goods. , . . Whatever. may be the future prospects of the cotton market, and be must , be p, bold Man whd will undertake, after the experience of the last two years, to pronounce a dogmatical opinion on the subject, one fact is' certain, that there will be no scarcity of cotton during the coming year. There will be "enough and to spare." Egypt, as we pre dicted tWelve'mOnths ago, bas ceased, for the present to afflict the holders of cotton, by sending hither any of her plagues in the shape of cotton'; and the Pacha of that country is too busily engaged in war and politics to attend to agriculture and merchandise. But America will con tinue to pour her myriads of bales into Europe, and make up, from her superabundant stores, for any deficiency in the imports from the East. In conclusion, it must be expected that this article, like all other descriptions of property, will .be sensibly affected in price by the acts of the legislature in the ensuing session of Parliament. If the Government, as at present consti tuted, would continue to rule the destinies of England, it is possible that the rigid course of legislation adopted last year, with reference to what the economists term the mo netary system of the country, will, for some time at least, remain undisturbed, and that the nominal value of all com modities will be thus forced down to a point of unexampled depression. If, on the contrary, any material change of the ministry should occur, or any attempt be made, by the present cabinet, to soften down that inexorable policy which limits the small-note circulation N April, 1828, we may look for an immediate and a very perceptible advance in every species of property. The uncertainty which is felt on this subject, and the vivid recollection of the ruin ous consequence of frequent changes in the money arrange ments of the kingdom, have, by creating a strong disin clination in the minds of capitalists to invest their money in articles of commerce, produced an effect such as might have been expected from any circumstance tantamount to the annihilation of half the unemployed capital of the kingdom. The attention of importers and speculators should, therefore, be' strongly directed to the position which Ministers take with regard to this all-important question ; and, abstracting their minds from the more obvious consi derations of supply and demand of Cotton, they ought ra ther to watch with an observant eye those great public measures which influence the demand and --the +supply of Money. We have before us the quantity of cotton taken out of the Havre market alone for the last ten years:- 1817...62,166 1821-122,820 1825...120,749 181 S-90,049 1822...129,221 1826...186,430 1819...95,321 1823-112,625 1827...160,000 1820-96,15 S 1824...144,970 Stuck 50,000. The quantity taken out of Antwerp, this year, is upwards of 50,000 bales. North America 900,000 Brazil East and West Indies, Egypt, &c lOO,OOO 1,250,000 Those who hare watched the market, during the pre sent year, must have observed, at different periods, that a spirit of speculation has Occasionally shown itself; but no sooner had a small advantage in price been gained, than languor agair/ seized the dealers, and prices drooped below the former currency. Capitalists were too doubtful a nd importers too necessitous ; and the improvement was not sustained. It is certain, however, that, notwithstand ing the heavy stocks in the ports, some bold opera tors entertain a favourable opinion of a speculation in cotton : and, looking at the production and consump tion abstractedly, we can readily suppose these per sons have before them a flattering hypothesis as to the causes which may tend to increase the value of the article. egs against a r, he whole of th entire paw rem of the three all , and he was JO These were tl: 1 : 0) • 10, ••••, ‘," I- , • z . .. , ~,, .... ....\ f ' I. ,;.,_. ~ ..,'- t — ,7T:,- .. 74 ', ,41111 6. - -- . . , . • I . ‘.• ,, , i, 5- •sl .46 ---- -.- 1 1 - .l.7i ii • • Ar••• • ' •. -. '''' ',. /0 .- , ,,„.a1e ..ao"\ \ ,,, „t.,,,•;,---'''' , • , ~.,i'l,:, ~ a ' •Ji. ,fiii ' ' ~s , ;'l , , ', l t, ;#= •.,-/' ' " 3—= " '''''';'; ' / , 0 - ,„ 0 ~4 --, ...:_,,, .... N s . 1 / 4 i kr +: • - ' . N. , ..,, , t. ~•I•,' ..• ... ' , '1 .‘. • , \ . ....„ t ,, • ‘ ~,-9:,-.„- -,....,,,,,„. .._.„ .. ,40 ,/ 14 ~••,:', , , ~, ;4 44 \ -_, k 4 , _ . ...... 4% . n - • fl , .' .t, „ i i ~ a A 4 , ' 0 /Tl,l„itilta TIGER. HUNTING. PRICE ID. We have been kindly favoured, by a Corres r 1() nN ex lhat e tr ursion of D oongu l ::--- S ltg Hydrabad, who -formed one of th e the 'f o ll ow i ng i nterest i n g narrat i ve of made their appearanc e i n the district and hear th e v ill age o f D oongu l , about eighteen miles in 'a nort h er l y di rect i on f rom 'l)3trlidY e e' vera e l tigers havi ng the city of Hydrabad, belonging to. the Chief Minister of the Ni7,ain's Government, a young gentleman of his service was desired to assist in their extirpation. He aceordbigly proceeded with a small party of horse and Soot, amounting to fifteen horse, Nvlio dwindled into une at t h e end of the excurs i on , a nd six. Arabs an d tea Shiharees, or: 'huntsmen, who are empl oye d something like chasseurs. • He proceeded towards the end of February, and terminated his . excursion about the middle of April last, with .some satisfaction to his em ployer and to hiMself, thouah 4 nOt attended with, such beneficial consequences to him as the nature and danger of the service might have led him to expect. His attention was first directed to se cure all the points where the tigers generally ap peared, by placing men on trees, by excavating little caves to bold three pr four men covered, and the top raised a little above the surface- of the earth, with loop-holes for the guns, in all di rections, excepting the rear, where the entrance was made, and secured with thorns and bushes, form ing a kind of masked batteries, in which he and the men placed themselves, in moonlight nights, which is the usual time of the tigers roaming. Another mode was, to enter the woods and rouse the tigers out, which did not well succeed, though it afforded much sport on one or two occa sions; the country, from the road, in appearance is only covered with heath, and would not lead one to suppose that tigers would harbour there ; but as you enter the thin scattered bushes one is gradually led into a low, thick, and almost im penetrable wood, through which it was with the utmost difficulty that man, horse, or, elephant could penetrate, .and at every step, exposed to be seized by the tigers, which, during the excur sions, very am passed" within thirty or forty . yards of the party without being seen, and were observed by the first tracks imprinted on the ground. Another.thode was; bpiS§Ociating one or two other young men' of .his acquaintance, and collecting. parties froth every village, to enter the jungles at different points, to meet at one, making the greatest possible noise with tomtoms to rouse the tigers, the probability of driving them to a central point, where they might be enclosed and attacked on all sides. This was one of the least successful modes, as the tigers seemed to be shy of the noise and tumult, and though frequently roused, always contrived to skulk off through the thickness of the jungle and the high grass with which the ground is covered, and ome or two of my companions had some nar row escapes on those occasions, as they were often obliged to go on horseback, and to dis mount whenever an alarm was given, to prevent their being carried off by the terror of their horses, or their own ; and although they went to the attack with alacrity, the result was very doubtful between the feeble efforts of a man and Itt ' at Doongul, some at , .7 ,9 a 0 at ami i parthetic nature. The6l.st 1,%.S 00F. ni , ,-- . (?r Otal,A., pf: the . vi ll age. ut DII ,11. i, ht \to the city of Hydrabad to eet ee( i A i oc ha 1.- 1 10 0 3 i And was returning aft vin -c tse4 ., estra 'sin. sum, and on the way, "a -little ....yonA the n torithent of Secunderabad, 4 44L iA , arearstie Peon seated, and . apparently a traveller on the same 'Way. . After mutu a l inquiries, the Peon told the - Bunnia he wat - ggink to the same place ; and as the Bunnia was glad to'have somebody to accompany him, he gave him apart of the victualshe had about him. tcreat, and on their:iray, asthey mutually re lated. their, histories, the Bunnia innocently men ' tinned the object of his visit to the city, and of his returning-with the money he had, collected; this immediately raised the avarice of the Peon. who decided in hisinind to kill the p oor Bun nia at a proper place, and strip hini of his money f they were proceeding together with this design in his mind, 'until they came to a place where the ravage i of the tigers were notorious, and he prepared to kid the Bunnia ; and while s p w e o o r n d ai, t od carried him Ahe was stru gg li n g with him and was drawing his slaybi‘l'atiger sprang upon the ;caving his shield and sword, which the ;Bunnia cam:. a to Doongul, ' as trophies ofretributive justi ce i n lila- favour. if such' instances of retributi on were frequei.: and regular, it would better deter us. from • thou.." crimes which are often committed in defi:,iceof every real or fictitious. terror with which our minds are incuicata. , , , • • ' The next was a,Bunjarra and his wife, who were lyin g together under a tree, when a tiger sprang up and seized the woman by the head. 'l' he husband,. from mere impulse to save his wife, held herby the legs, as ru and t .., crgle ensued between the tiger pulli ng h e r b y li' - e head and the man by the legs, until the issue; which - could not be doubted, when the tiger carried off the woman. The man seemed to be rather partialto his wife, and devoted himself to reven g e her death, forsook his cattle and property, and i,e signed them to his brother, and offefed ilia ser vices to be of the tiger-killing party, and strayed about the jungles until he was heard of no mote.' A young handsome woman, who had dresse6z and ornamented herself for some particular oc , casion, happening to go a little beyond the pre cincts of the .village, was seized by a tiger ;• but, being rather stout, and too heavy to he clearly carried off, her limbs were torn off from the waist, and the upper part of her body was ea , :- ried about a mile from the place, through a thick part of the jungle, where it was seen by the party fresh, with the viscera devoured, the sight causing many painful emotions. A camel driver, who had ju s t b e en married, was bringing home his bride, when a tiger fol loWed, and had them in view a great pax' t of the road for an opportunity to seize one ofth,em - ; the bride having occasion to, alight on the road; was immediately seized, and carried off by the tiger. , A shepherd was taken by a young tiger, and V% as followed by the mother, a lar g e tigress, .and devoured, at the distance of two miles ; and a Bunnia, or dealer, from Bolarum, was taken re turning from a fair. A woman, with an infant about a year old, was taken by a tiger, ; and the infant was found by a Putts!), or head of the village, who brought it to his-house. the ferocious strength of a tiger. One of the high roads was entirely impassable, and deserted from the ravages of the tigers, and the others so infested that people . could not travel, or the vil- Some ofthe Company - s elephants that were going for forage were chased by a tiger, which was ke'A oft' by a spearman ; and a comical chase of them was made up to Doongul, the elephants running before the tiger until they entered the village. Among the artifices practised by the tigers to get at their prey may be mentioned one, while the party was at Doongul, where two Bunjarras were foraging their cattle about a mile from the village, and a tiger got near the herd unperceived by the men, who were the object ofthe tiger's prey_ as it is generally said that a tiger, when once he has tasted human flesh, prefers it to all other. The tiger screened himself behind the cattle, and whenever he was exposed by their moving, crouched himself, until at length he was espied by the men, who immediately fled with all the speed their terror could communicate to the village, where the drove return e d i n th e even i ng pontaneously to their place. The Bunjarras were so struck with fear that they had not the power of informing the party of the circumstance until the next morning. The Bunjarras are great. sufferers from the tigers, as their mode oflife oblige 7 them to pass through jungles and places where they and their cattle are continually exposed to the ravages of the tigers, and cause a great ob ,aruction to the industry of a useful kind of people, in a country where the impediments to the industry and activity of trade are sufficiently great without such dangers. These are what occurred during the stay of the party at Doongul, besides many others that were daily reported, and do not require describing, from the uniformity of the occurrences. It is said the lives lost by these tigers amounted to about three hundred persoPs in one year within the range of seven villages; and the destruction of cattle, sheep, and goats, was said to be immense. lagers move out Of their villages with safety, as the tigers often lurked about the skirts of the villages, and carried off the poor inhabitants; and some of the accidents that happened are so melancholy and affecting, that they will be narrated in the course of this narrative. After various unsuccessful at tempts, the first tiger was killed by one of the parties. The tiger having killed a bullock, he was scared away by the people, and the carcase was left on the spot to allure the tiger, and some of the party secured themselves on trees, whence he was shot by one of them when he returned at night to his prey, He received two balls, but afforded no sport. The second tiger was killed when returning from a morning's hunt, when he suddenly started upon one of the Shikarees, whom he threw down by the mere agitation of the air caused by his blow, and the Shikaree merely received a scratch from one of his claws. Mr. A. 8., who was mounted on an elephant, im mediately fired both the charges of a double barrel gun at the tiger, and laid him sprawling On the ground, when one of the party ran a spear through his neck, and he received a charge of slugs in his mouth. The Arabs kept firing at him at random without a shot hitting, but to the great risk of those about him. The third tiger was shot almost in the same manlier as the first. The fourth tiger afforded the most sport, and the sight was truly grand from the efforts and attacks he made, from the scene of the sport, which was a small range of low rocks, among which he secured himself, and repeated his at tacks, bounding from rock to rock, and pro ducing a striking effect on our minds. Three tigers made their appearance at first, one of which was fired at and wounded, when the wounded one and another disappeared, and the other was fol lowed to the rocks where lie lodged himself, and first threatened the whole front ofthe party ;then he sprang at an Arab who was on a small rock. The Arab fortunately in attempting to escape fell below the rock, upon which the whole force of the tiger's blow fell, and the stroke was so violent that he lost all the claws of one of his fore paws, and he then received two shots, and was wounded. He then retreated, and made an attack against Mr. A. B.'s elephant ; the elephant standing his ground, he retreated again, bounding upon the roc k s , and crouched himself on one which over looked the elephant, and caused apprehensions of his springing upon it from above, when Mr. A. B. gave him a ed his head, em shattered againg sive effort was A panther was killed on the return of the party, near the residency, where he attacked a Bunjarra, and lacerated his right arm dreadfully and kept bounding towards the passengers, until he was followed by Mr. A. B. into the rice field and shot. A large ferocious tiger has lodged himself in thick and large field of sugar-cane, near B ceder, which cannot be cut, and has been standing up wards of a year from his ravages. A gentleman Japing with a party of horse surrounded the field, and in attempting to dislodge him lost a few men and horses, and the attempt was found so diffi cult and thathazardous t , hat v as eras st togiven d road to Madras near :Ne.igoonda, and that of Nlasulipatam, is noo' Infested with tigers ; and st u m p y . them, ihe i'Ze-noect; the e rio p t a ls7 wounded, and they have not any. Some of the tigere have made their. appearance within so short a distance 0 eight miles from Hydrabad, near succeeded in Hyatnuger , where a' tiger, three data ago, tore ~ff th , right arm of a Sepoy in the Minister's serviee• The e s t a bli s h ment o f t h e P an d emon i um i n "t. James's lately called forth the opinion of the hightst Personage in the kingdom, who expressed himself in a 'canner which reflected the utmost credit on his head and leart. A Nobleman of some standi ng a t Court,in answ ci o a question from his Royal Master, denied, in a most un equivocal way, having become a subscriber to this splendid einple of vice. The Monarch e vinced his satisfaction ,t the intelligence, and in his usual - nervous style, de nounced such receptacles Lie not only / a disgrace to the country at large, but to the age in which we live.— Thum ACCIDENT AT THE NEW POST OFFICE.—..-- Tuesday morning, at about ten o' c l oc k , a most s h ocking iccident took place at the New Post-office. A young man, , iamed Witaiaar HART, was assisting some of the ma - ,ons in lowering a scaffolding, when he incautiously trod , 1 „,, ~,,e of the loom , planks, which, giving way, lie vas precipitated to the ground, a height of nearly 'event', ..,,,, t . In the fall hi:i body came with excessive vio_ l ence against some thick planks, foaming another scaffold : ng, and the force of his weight broke them completely hrough ; and on his arriving near the ground his heal gime in contact with a large stone, which dashed it to pieces, t . , shot front a rifle, which penetrag' ntered his chest, and tha ball ' la s Ist the rock, and his last ecay . ul. so great, and he struck its lin rock with such force, tha' they lost heir claws, and he hg d only one mining. The fifth tiger was on( )ovementioned that was wounded, ‘i build dead four dad's afterwards, he five tigers killed by the party, killed, and one wo un d e d— a wo lf ether, a jeopard, vhogs r k d ille s d y, i „ v arnerabl e hares, lii prti ge , and some peacocks, wild go a ts ; n d porcupin es , and immense rock pella snakes. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DI AllY.—SaTtotnAt - , J. 5. Bayley, J., Collyhurst, Manchester—Star, Manchester Birch, S., Ma»chester—White Lion, Manchester ii Brooks, N., Dot erdale—Star and Garter, Worcester Evans, D., Swansea—Bush, Bristol ll Grey, G., Morpeth—T'urk's head, Newcastle ll Iggulden, S., Dover—Guildhall, Canterbury ... ll INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Pious Jan. 7, at Nine o'clock. Finnes, C., Worthing Smallman, J., Strood Goodman, J., Penryn Sturman, G., Old-street-r oa d Qui ley, E., Cannon-street, St. Syred, D., Chapel-street, Edge. George'S ware-road Randall, J., \Vest-street, Car- Waterlow, T., Churchill-street, naby.markst Spitalficlds Sinnott, L., Drury-lane COUNTRY.—At the Shirchall, at Brecon, Monday, January 7, at Ten o'clock. Awbery, D., Itumney, Llangonider . A very interesting communication will be read at the Royal Society on Monday next, by the Rev. Dr. Duticatc, of Ruthwell, on the impressions of the footsteps of animals which have been discovered in the strata of sandstone, in the quarry of Corncockle Muir, near Lochmaben, in Dumfriesshire.— Caledonian Mercury. CURIOUS ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.—The following anecdote has been communicated to us orally by a friend. It has not, we understand, before appeared in print :—" When the Royal Hotel, at Birmingham, was kept by Mr. STYLES, a gentleman who occupied, during his stay in the town, a suite of apartments in the house, sent for his host, and requested him to take him to some warehouse, where he might purchase a few wire fenders. Mr. STYLES accompanied him to the shop of Mr. - BUSBY, the wire -drawer, in New-street, who, from the plain dress and manners of the stranger, took him for a homely farmer of humble circumstances. Some fenders were shown of a pike which appeared to Mr. B. suitable for such a cus tomer. lie, however, inquired for others of a finer make, which were accordingly produced. These, too, failed to please, and an article of the very best quality was inquired for. " I tell thee what," said BUSBY, " old chap ! thou'lt excuse me, but the price of even these will dip pretty deep into thy pocket." " Well, Mr. Wilmot]," said the pur chaser, " I'll endeavour to find money to pay for them-- and I want the very best you manufacture." They were shown and accepted. " But," said the vender, '• I must either have security, old gentleman, or the money, before they leave my shop." " Send them, when packed up," said the stranger, " to Mr. STYLES'S, and they will be paid for on delivery." This was agreed upon, and Busnr turning familiarly to the strangt•r, said, " Now, old chap, a glass of good ale would he no bad thing ; will't have a glass?" " With all toy heart, Sir," was the reply. BUSBY led the way to the kitchen, which he thought the most suitable apartment for his humble guest, and the three discussed the contents of a flowing can of home brewed. After some chat, the wire-worker said, " I say, old chap ! thou knowest somewhat about pigs, dost not? Won't come and see my little runts?" Without waiting for a reply, he conducted the stranger to his yard, where they saw and admired the pigs, and other et cetera: of do mestic economy. Mr. STYLES and the stranger then de parted. At the appointed time BUSBY appeared at the bar of the Royal lintel with the feniztrs—" Well, STILES !" was his " where is the old farmer chap ?" " Show Mr. Busny up," said the innkeeper. Mr. B. was some- Y.-hat startled on being ushered up the great staircase, at the top of which he was encountered by two servants in splendid liveries. " This room, Sir," said one of them, as he opened the door, and hurried in the bewildered man of wire—in troducing him as—" Mr. BUSBY, your Grace!" Hearing the words " Your Grace," and finding himself in a rich Apartment occupied by the "old chap" himself, with a full sense of the familiarity he had used to the great unknown, he was about to leave the room in confusion. But his Grace rose from his chair, saluted him with cordiality; forced him to take a seat the opposite side of the fire; pro duced a bottle of excellent wine, and filling him a glass, said, " Come, Mr. BUSBY, I admired your caution and your frankness, and, as I drank ale with you in the morn ing, you must now drink wine with me." The kindness of his Grace's manner, and the generosity of the liquor, soon dispelled the bashfulness of the wire -drawer, and it was not till they had finished the second bottle, that Mr. BUSBY, after receiving his money for the fenders, rose and took his leave, highly gratified by his interview with the ;oily Duke of NORFOLK.—Lancashire (Liverpool) Lite rary Museum besides a bear bytena, a pang every other day floricans, spotted deer and and Cobra Cap( Anwg. the occurrences during the excursion r i t- 4e-1 i ~~E lj~ / /12 . ham, 7 1