The Sun. — London, England, 1828-09-06 00:00:00

WOOL AND SMEARING. We copy the following letter from the Inverness Journal:— the kindness of one of the best &len& to the interest of the Highlands, Lord Colchester, I have received a copy of the - Report of the Wool Committee of the House of Lords. It is very bulky, containing nearly 700 folio pages, and contains a mass of most important information. Ido net mean to attempt to make an abstract of it, bit merely to state, with your permission, to the sheep farmers of the North, what appears to me to be the true cause of the stagnation in our home-market, and the only remedy likely to restore the demand for wool grown on our mountains. The cause of the importation of foreign wool is; that our home wool has become of inferior quality to wh:st it used to be, and that a second quality of Gesrman wool is found to work up better. Now, while our woollen-manufactures are nearly excluded from the West by those of the United States of America, and find great difficulty in keeping posses sion of any market abroad, we have been, perhaps, rash in ascribing to them any wanton preference of foreign wool. They must be protected and sup ported : and if we do not choose to attend to the improvement of the quality of our fleeces to a de gree that will suit them, we must be content to re store the deer, the fox, and the eagle, to the exclu sive possession of our mountains. As there is no doubt whatever that the quality of our wool may be greatly improved, let us without delay set about this important work. This may be effected by two measures—by attending closely to the quality of fleeces of the breeding stock, and by using a proper salve. This last has infinitely greater effect titan may be generally suppo , ,ed; and I am quite satisfied that Mr. W. Taylor of Leith, has discovered a com position which, when brought to perfection, es I hope it will soon be, will in no lonsi time be univer sally used, on account of its 'Softening qualities. In regard to the improvement of the fleece from selection in breeding stock, I consider that an annual show and . es,mpetition for premiums will be the surest m'sttrod of effecting it, and to invite some re spect,able wool dealers to attend as judges. For tts'is purpose a central situation, to suit both the East and West coasts, should be chosen ; and as on looking at the map 1 can see. none more convenient than my own residence, I am willing to give grass to the competing stock, free of expence, and to put up proper perms for the exhibition of the rains and ewes. The premiums will be quickly subscribed: and the trustees for manufactures, as well as the Highland Society, will no doubt readily contribute. I propose that the Northern Association of Proprie tors and Farmers for the improvement of sheep and wool shall be revived, and that those of each county who approve of these suggestions shall meet as soon . as possible, and appoint deputies to attend a meet ing for arranging the time and place of the first ex- hibition, and re-establishing the Association. 1 have little doubt that all. concepted. will easily conceive hew likely such a bond among. Highland proprietors and their tenants is to: prove beneficial in the present circumstances of the country. If such meeting in the different Northern Counties shall be held, I shall be happy to receive communications from them, and with their authority call a meeting of deputies at the time considered by them most convenient. In regard to the general question of the wool trade, I am now decidedly of opinion, that to impose any heavy duty on foreign wool would in no long time utterly ruin the manufacturers, and that the ruin of the sheep farmers would instantly follow.— The manufacturers say that they expect to procure in due time from New South Wales all the fine wool they require, and that it is preferable to Eu ropean. If we can so improve our wool as to make' it equal to the inferior German wool, they will pre fer it. Let us therefore set. to work in earnest. — I am, your very obedient servant,. G. S. MACKENZIE. Ct ul, Diagivaii, 17th July, 1828. • (lirorn tl.is Scotsman.) • y The learned Baronet, whose, activity is ,unwea ried in promoting useful laiproyemelds, liasi Oven' the wool-growers a piece of good advice, which, as coming from one of their own order, we hope will not be thrown away. It is well known that a great portion of the wool grown in Scotland is in jured in its quality ; and some of it rendered abso lutely useless, by the faulty mode of smearing. For the information of unlearned readers, we may men tion, that this operation consists in anointing the body of the sheep about the beginning of winter with a composition which is intended to answer two purposes, to protect the animal from the in clemency of the weather, and to destroy the vermin which feed upon the skin. The salve .or substance generally used for this purpose. is a composition of tar and rancid butter (the latter generally imported from Germany), mixed in various proportions, and made up in a rude enough way according- to some old recipe. This substance invariably deteriOrates the fleece. No art or labour in washing can perfectly clear the wool of the tar ; and hence the stapler gives a low price for what he buys, and rejects some as altogether unfit for his purpose. It is computed that there are about three millions of sheep in Scot land, and if we allow one pound of salve for each, we may judge from the great quantity consumed, how much depends upon the quality, of the com position. The new salve to which Sir George al _ ludes is made by Mr. Taylor of Leith, who has been employed some time in experimenting upon it. The subject is one of which we have no knowledge; but the decided testimony of Sir George certainly entitles the composition to the attention of wool growers. We have also seen a letter written by Thomas Lockwood,Esq. of Huddersfield, known as a great wool-stapler and manufacturer over no small part of Scotland and 4ngland,, whose opinion of the n ew salve is equally favour*Ae. He says—"Nhen I had occasion to go forward to' Satherlandshire, I examined the wool immediately after it was taken off the sheep's back, and I found that it looked ex ceedingly well in the fleece. On havin g it scoured (which was done for me in several itist iss ,„,) , I was highly pleased with it, not only on , account of the - colour ,which went perfectly white, and with very littl4labour, but also because it had a handle w hi c h vie tcidom meet with in Cheviot wool. lam qui te sure the salve will be of great im_portance, both to the grower and manufacturer. The softness it gives to the wool surprised me , being somewhat of the kind which we find in foreign wool. We state on the best authority, that there is not the least likelihood of Mr. DAwsoN retiring from the Ministry.—Berlz.4 Chronicle. A formidable opposition to the Omnibus roaches has started up in Paris. A great number of new coaches upon the same principle of cheap conveyance, called • " Len Dames Blanches" (the white ladies), have been built by a new company'. They are painted white , w ith a motto i n gold upon a red ground ; and at the back of each coach are eketches of Scotch scenery and costume, from the opera of La Dante Blanche. The horses and their harness are white, and the drivers wear white hats, and embroidered white Coats. The mode of ascending the coach is different from that of the Omnibus, which has been so much complain e d of. In the new coaches it is a flight of steps with a railing t o pre V ent falling, and the doors, instead of opening outwards, disappear by means of slides i n th e panels; a kind of trumpet under the seat of the coachman, and w hich i s played by pressure, e x ecu t es the principal airs of the opera of the same Blanche. The partridge shooting has commenced, but the breed has been very seriously injured by the heavy joins. The best manors are scantily supplied, and upon,themorst there is no game at all. Perhaps there never was - a Season when so many birds were destroyed, for the numbers left last year were unusually great. Whole coveys have been found drowned, and even the old birds, from affection to their offspring, have stayed by them and undergone a simi lar. fate, rather than desert them. Very many instance, have been stated t o us o f th e o ld and young being found dead together, and two in particular, of an old partridge with some of her young ones under her tying`, and the rest lying dead around her. The sport has been conse quently very much abridged. The pheasants, we arc told, are even more cut off than the partridges.---Nor mid& Mercury, FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. .t.'RENCH PAPERS. (From the Journal des Debats.) PARIS, SEPT. 2.--" Truth is brought to tight with so much difficulty, thro4gh trie obscurities and the coutradictions , with which tl.:e accounts from the t'est hated liti3en replete since the opening of the cam paign, that it is almost impossible for us, who are placed at so great a distance from the theatre of events, to judge respecting them with certainty. " The military operations have at least places and dates; and with this double assistance, we interpret their results. Whether the details come to us from Petersburgh, from Berlin, from Vienna, or from Constantinople, we are not less acquainted with the facts that a part of the Turkish provinces are in vaded,—that some of their strong places are in the power of the Russians,--that their right wing is ex tended even to the frontiers of Servia,—that Abasia is occupied, and that Erzeroum is upon the point of closing or opening to the army of Geo rg i a the Asiatic road to Constantinople. Upon these principal facts, at least - , we are certified. But do we wish tO form an 'estimate with more or less certainty of the elements of the resistance of the Turks behind the ramparts of their moun tains ? Do we wish to take into the calcula tion their fanaticism, at first slumbering, and after• wards awakened with energy ? Here the sources of our news begin to re-act upon the consequences which we are to draw from them. In Poland the Turka are represented to us as indifferent in the actual crisis ; in Austria, they describe them to us as rushing to arms at the voice of the Sultan. The material force of the armies augments and diminishes, according as we learn the number of them through Berlin or through Vienna; and the Balkan itself is sometimes stripped of cannons, sometimes crowned with an immense artillery; to-day, the seat of a famished army,—to-morrow, a camp which abounds in resources and provisions. " If the military events present themselves to us but with data so imperfect, how much more difficult does it become to separate the local political combi nations from the mystery, often interested, which envelopes them ? At head-quarters, where there are as many ambassadors as there are great powers in Europe, there is, without doubt, something more done than drawing up bulletins; and from Constan tinople, we know that there is not there even to the Sultan, who has just chosen his contractors among the Plenipotentiaries of Ackerman, and who gives to his Commander-in-Chief, a Minister for Foreign Affairs as Lieutenant. " Under such circumstances, the voyage of the Emperor Nicholas to Odessa, at the very moment when the most decisive action of the campaign seemed to be at hand, and the invitation which has !seen addressed to the principal diplomatists at the camp of Shumla to follow his Majesty, have naturally given rise to the idea of a negotiation which two great European • Powers urge with all their desires and exertions ; but before fixing, perhaps, the basis upon which this negotiation is to be opened, and certainly, at least during the time necessary to direct it, if, as it is everywhere announced, no effective ar mistice has suspended the operations of the imperial army against Shumla and Varna, events will have proceeded to a catastrophe, and there will be no further need of diplomatists to ascertain whether 'Constantinople is, or is not, saved this year. Be sides, is not this the first question to be resolved ? Will not its solution put an end to the necessity of remarks, and counter remarks, upon the European equilibrium ? • " We confess that the . conferences of Odessa, while the war continues, do . not appear to us suscep tible of producing any serious result. They will continue just so long that Europe will know without them what the fate of Turkey will be. In October all will be changed. Either the Russians will be beneath. the walls of Coustantinople, or they will have renounced the intention of going there. " In the first event, •we may have a congress, in which the-Sultan alone will not be represented ; in the - second,- we shall also have one ; and certainly more weighty circumstances will never have brought together the organs of the *principal nations of Europe. Neither in the one nor in the other, will Greece, at leat, present herself as a supplicant. Her affairs are settled, and seven years of glory give her a title to repose. She has entered into the number of states, and that one which protects her now with its bayonets and its vessels, will also know how to aid her with its councils and to cover her, in peace as well as in war, with its glorious and tutelar pro tection." (From the Gazette de France, dated Sept. 4.) VIENNA, AUG. 24.—The news which stated that the Infanta, Donna Maria de Gloria of Brazil, was to come and finish her education at Vienna, is con firmed by the arrival of a Neopolitan vessel at Genoa, which announces the speedy arrival of that Princess. It is said that several persons attached to the. Bra zilian Legation at Vienna will shortly go to Genoa to receive her. AVG. 25.—We have' letters from Odessa, dated the 14th. They state, that the Emperor intended to remain there till the 19th, and then return to the army. Lord Heytesbury, who arrived on the 10th, Prince Philip, of Hesse Romberg, and all the other Ministers who had arrived on the 12th, had had the honour of being presented to his Imperial Majesty. It is affirmed at Odessa that provisions are scarce at Constantinople, and that a re-action on the part of the people was apprehended. The Sultan seemed however, more resolved than ever to defend himself to the last extremity. A report has been spread on our Exchange, of the taking of Varna by the Russians. The Stocks had declined in consequence of this news.*—Angs burgh Gazette. PARIS, SEPT. 3.—A letter from Constantinople, published in the Augsburgh Gazette, adds to the details already known respecting the departure of the Grand Vizier, that the pacific party aemanded that the mediation of England should be secured, which appeared to it the more easy, as Lord Heytesbury had letters of credit for 300,000 piastres on an Amsterdam Banker at Pera. (From the Mcssaper des Chambres, Sept. 3.) PARIS, SEPT, 2.—Letters from Constantinople of the Bth of August, speak of the departure of the Grand Vizier as being very near at hand. Bulletins favourable to the Turkish army continue to be pub lished in that capital. FRENCH FeNDS.---PARis, titer. S.—Five per Cents. 108 r. 75e. 70c. 75c. 70c. 95c.; Three per Cents. 73f. 50c. toc. 50c. 55c. ; Bank Actions, 1863 f. According to the Austrian Observer the following were theyrices:— • AUG. 22 .—Metalliques, 93. 15-16. ; Bank Shales, 10711. ACG. 23.—Metalliques, 91. 0. ; Bank Shares, 1071.1. --- Some advance, we understand, has taken place in the price of iron, Sheffield Courant. B es id e s the capitalists who hold stock or land, or house's, there is a large class at the present time who hold nothing , but kee p their mone y in han k - notes, under a the fear of som e crisis, locked up and un p rodu ctive. It is s upposed that the f und de p osited under thi s apprehension in the Bank of Englan ,a d s , si a n v e h e ich un T e orgyoenae rs a ago materi a l waigal et mated at 5,000,000/, i crease, and falls little short of 8,000,0001. Such was the impression made among this class by the panic of 18-25, that even now, after an interval of three years, they acquire very little more confidence in private credit than they had at that time. This is one cause of the apparent abundance of money in London, which is apt to lead many into error, for people of inferior credit find as much difficulty in get ting assistance as ever, while those, on the other hand, who move in the first mercantile and banking circles, borrow ' almost on their own terms, at any rate of intere st the y choose to offer. In the country generally, where credit has recovered still more slowly from the recent shock, ac commodation by loan i s with much difficulty obtained, though this ari ses i n p ar t f ro m th e s ituatio n o f the country banks, which are contracting their operations against the period when the small notes are to be withdrawn from cir culation,.-. Time, LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1828. The French Papers contain some additional particulars of the situation of affairs at Constan tinople. If we are to believe them the SULTAN is resolved to take up a new position with respect to the grand struggle likely to decide the fate of Constantinople. He now sees clearly the probability that Varna will fall, and that the Russians will proceed along the coast. In order to arrest their irogress to Adrianople he intends to meet them at the Little Balkan, and has ac cordingly ordered sixteen batteries from the arsenal, and several regiments to be sent forward, to form a body of reserve, to watch the enemy, should- they endeavour to pass the mountains between Varna and Bourgas. In the Stanches, or Little Balkan, will be placed the lines des tined to defend the water sources which supply the capital. On the Hellespont side they have resolved on putting Gallipoli on a war footing ; and two Pachas, sent to the Dardanelles, are charged with the defence of the castles. Thus it will be seen that the Turks are now becoming sensibly alive to the dangerous predica ment in which they are placed by the obstinacy of the SULTAN, aided by the perverseness of the DvA N. But notwithstanding all their prepa rations, they willfind, unless the Russians relent, that they will be of little use. Letters have been received this morning from Madeira, by the Comet, ORNISTON, which vessel sailed from thence on the 9th ult. At this pe riod every thing was tranquil, the utmost exer tions had been used to put the Island in a com plete state of defence ; for this purpose they had launched three gun-boats and armed them hea vily, the batteries were in an effective state and well prepared; the force in the Island amounted to nearly 3,000 men, who seemed fully deter mined to support the interests of Don PEDRO. Two vessels of war, which had sailed from Lis bon in July, had appeared off the Island, and some communication had taken place between the English Consul, Mr. VEITCH, the Captain of his Majesty's ship Medina, and the Portu guese Commander, the result of which was an understanding that the blockade, as far as related to English shipping going to or from Madeira, was to be considered as inoperative,- amid they had the greatest confidence in their ability to meet any attack that might be made by the ex pedition from Lisbon. At a period like the present, when party feel- ing has attained such an alarming height, and the apple of discord has been cast by bigotry among suffering millions,—it must be a source of real gratification to find that the line of demarcation between the Protestant and Catholic, is not yet so thoroughly defined as the misrepresentations of some Irish Papers—(wc say some—because the majority is on the right side)—may lead our readers to suppose. Of this fact we have suffi cient evidence in the following spirited address to the inhabitants of Tralee—which coming from a Protestant, and a member of a leading family in the county of Kerry—must afford sincere pleasure to all who take a lively interest in the welfare of Ireland. We are satisfied that no impartial reader 'can peruse this appeal to the enlightened mem bers of the Community without applauding its motive and approving its spirit. The language is that of a true patriot—unswayed by self-inte rest—free from all personal vituperation and ungentlemanly abuse,.—relying for its strength on the justice of the cause alone,—and powerful in the absence of every aid, save truth. It were' to be wished that all such appeals were couched in similar terms—and that every man who raises his voice in opposition to injustice may stand aloof from personality and virulent invective. Where the cause we support is manifestly just, can such feeble aids conduce to its stability, or add weight to a single argument in its favour ? Will they not rather undermine the foundation of its strength, and overthrow the mighty fabric at the moment it should stand proudly forth—an emblem of dignity and truth, to an admiring world ? We do not here di rectly allude to that public expression of opinion so frequently directed by one party against the members of the other as a body,— which though in itself sufficiently reprehen sible, when carried to excess,—still falls far short of the subject of our present animad versions—namely—that unhappy system of pri vate slander and public attack on the character of individuals, merely because they happen to be members of an adverse party,—such a system we hold to be as despicable as it is disgraceful to the age we live in—and we sincerely regret to find that the passions of the contending factious in Ireland too frequently hurry them into an exhi bition of these disgusting personalities. Again and again we earnestly recommend all true friends of their country—be they Protestant or Catho lic—to abstain from such irritating language, and rather to follow the example of the talented young gentleman, whose manly address we now give— looking to the justice of their claims alone for ultimate triumph—while they hold in fitting abhorrenez, all party rancour and bigotted animosity. (From th• Core Mercantile Chronicle.) nuicEs OF STOCKS THIS Bank stock 3 per Cent. Red. i... shut; 3 per Cent. Cons. SR !4; 3 , 4 per Cent. - Ditto Red. shut 4 per Cent. 102}4 % Ditto, 1-26 Bank L Ann. shut! India St, ek 243; Nun It, nds lO9 pin.l, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS I)AT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds . —iPertiviati Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds —,Portuguese Bonds Chilian Bonds_.. Colombian Bonds_ Ditto, 182% 2 4 DPRruiutstssolann New, Old Danish 63S :,Spanish, 1821 1 1 1,4 11 Greek Bonds --..— 1823 — Ditto, 1825 .... 18% 19% 19 41French Routes, 5 p. c. —f, — c , Guatimala — '----- Exchange Mexican Bonds — --- 3 per cent Ditto, 1825 --- Exchange PR:CES OF IRISH' STOC Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 31,3 per cent 9341 Ditto, New 4 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 3,V, per cent 961 Royal Canal Stock —; Grand Canal Stock --, City Deb. 4 per cent - -1 Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c — Arrived. !KS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 3. St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto — ;National Ditto — Patriotic Ditto — Hibernian Bank — Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine — Mining Co. of Ireland ,Commercial Building s — NGE Y ESTERDA Y. COURSE OF EXCH. , Amsterdam C.F.12 3 Ditto, at sight 12 141 Rotterdam 2U. 12 3 Antwerp 12 31 Hamburgh N. B. 13 14 Altona 13 141 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 60 Bordeaux ' 25 65 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 51.1514 Petersburgh, rhle... 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective tl. 2M. JO 3 Trieste do. 51adrid Cadiz 36 Bilboa Barcelona 35% Seville 35% Gibraltar 46 Leghorn 48% Genoa 25 40 Venice Malta Naples ' 3 9 N Palermo per oz. 119 Lisbon 45 Oporto 45% Rio Janeiro :3O Bahia ' 3l Buenos Ayres . Dublin, 21 days' sight Cork / g BULLION, PER OZ. X. 6. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars ....... 0 0 0 Silver, bars. standard 0 4 MA ILS. Due.l A rrivetl. O America 0 0 Hamburg]] O Brazil 0 0 Holland 0 O Buenos Ayres 1 Dublin O Flanders " 0 0 Lisbon I France O Gottenburgh 0 0 Mexico O Guernsey& Jersey. 0 1 'Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Murning...39 minutes after 0.1 Evening ....56 minutes after 0 V Due. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (South Sea Stock — Old Annuities INew Ditto — Ex. Dills, £l,OOO 2d. 74 75 pm. Ditto 500 2d. 74 75 pm. Ditto Small ..... '2d. 74 75 pm. Ditto Commercial — l ,lll. ( Bank for Account ___. India for Account ...... -- 'Cons. for Acct. TO THE INHABITANTS OF TRALEE. GENTLEMEN,-Mr. O'Connell has addressed you, and exhorted you to exhibit at this momentous period, the free exercise of those rights with which the Constitution of these realms has invested you. Will you give ear to this appeal ? or must it be no sooner heard than forgotten ? as an inhabitant of your County I may be permitted to put this question, and as an intimate with many of yon, I may anticipate your reply; the appeal will be heard—and not only heard but obeyed, for the sp;rit of independence and true patriotism is within you, and grasps at the opportunity presented for developing its energies. Mr. O'Connell has appealed to you—but it is not Mr. O'Connell's appeal—it is the voice of six millions !—bound together by equality of suffering, by equality of oppression, by equality of degradation— bound together by a sacred bond of union, that no earthly power can break, while the spirit of exclusion is tri umphant. England is arousing from her lethargy, the sleep of an hundred years is at length shaken from her eyelids, and her eye is fixed on the horrid picture ; " Ireland in chains writhing and heaving beneath the weighty bonds which have nearly rent her heart in sunder." Ireland the avenger of England's wrongs, her sons who fought and fell in battle by her side, but fought and fell in slavery, the remnant still fighting, conquering, but conquering and fighting in de gradation ; the picture is a dreadful one, though not exag gerated; England shuddering shnts her eyes, but only to open them to a thorough conviction of her merciless in flictions, and a fixed determination to snake amends— truth is abroad—it exclaims that Catholic disability of the 19th century is not Catholic disability of two centuries before ; that Catholic virtue can no longer be enslaved by Protestant intolerance. Unanimity, decision, and perseve rance, are working their silent way; thousands are con verted on the road, and rally round that standard, from which once they fled as from the poisonous Upas. _ _ This is a bright prospect, and the haven of liberty is nigh—but to attain it—one mind—one feeling—east-- west—north and south—is necessary—the spirit must be general—Kerry must awaken her energies, nor be last to follow the glorious example of the County Clare—and if I rightly estimate her principles she will not be backward. The bigots of England and pitiful Orangemen may pro phecy rebellion,—fools—let them prophecy it in themselves, if they choose—for the cap fits them—but do they ab surdly suppose, that Catholic Ireland is not yet awakened to the overpowering influence of universal unanimity-- are they not aware that union of mind must, and will achieve what can never be attained by union of body—to barbarism—to the dark ages—to cringing ascendancy men —the latter belongs as matter of right—(the loyalty of the 400,000 is a sample of it! !) But its this intellec tual age, be our's the glorious task of proving to intole rance, the resistless efficacy of the former, when linked with the unflinching perseverance of suffering Irishmen. Inhabitants of Tralee—and Catholics of Ireland—the hour is at band—equality of rights awaits you—let una nimity be your guide—and freedom will follow is your footsteps. F. W. M. * We understand the writer is Mr. Frederick W. Mullins,, eldest son of the Hon. and Rev. F. Mullins, of Beaufort House, county of Kerry. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE o'CLorr Consols opened this morning at 88f, sellers, for account, became buyers, and were done at 88k, since which, with very trifling business, they have gone back to 88i for money, and 88k, buyers for the 15th October. India Bonds are 107 9; Exchequer Bills, 74 5 pm. The Foreign Funds remain without any transac tion of impertance, and not snore than three bargains have been done since the commencement of business ; Russian Bonds have improved a trifle and are 94 4; Danish have been done at 63i ; and Portuguese at being a shade lower. In Shares every thing is dull, and no business can be reported. The only news in the City to-day is from Madeira, by a vessel that' sailed on the 9th ult., at which period every means had been resorted to to put the island in the best state of defence against the threatened expedition from Lisbon, the sailing of which we already know. Gun-boats had been launched, the military force in the island consisted of nearly 3000 men, who appeared to, be faithful to the Constitutional cause, and felt themselves secure against the armament of Don Miguel. The Camden packet, from Jamaica, was spoke with on the Ist inst., 40 leagues to the S.W. of Scilly, by a vessel sugar loaded from Bahia, arrived off Falmouth, and the West India merchants in con sequence are complaining bitterly that such frequent instances take place of merchant vessels proving their superiority in despatch to the Post-office packets. Three per Cent. Consols, 87 ; Ditto, for Account, esi 4 ; Bank Stock, shut; India Bonds, 107 109 pin.; Exchequer Bills, 74 5 pm. Fonainn.—Brazilian, 63 ; Buenos Ayres, 43 5 ; Chilian, 26 8 ; Colombian, 24 I; Danish, 63i 1; Greek, 19} ; Mexican, Six per Cent., 40 ; Peruvian, 2! 4 ; Portuguese, 53i 41; Russian, 14 4 ; Spanish, 11 MtNEs.—Anglo M ex i can , 70 67 dis. ; Brazilian, 46 48 pm. ; Bolanos, 135 45 pm. ; Colombian, 4 a dis. ; Real Del Monte, 130 110 dis. ; Ditto Subscription, 32 20 dis. ; United Mexican, 18 17 dis. TWO O'CLOCK. The Price of Consols continues without variation at 88R, and no business, the Market being almost deserted. The Foreign Funds are in a simihr state. THREE O'CLOCK . Consols for Account, 88 1 1 I. Nothing doing. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 88i Do. for Ac. 88 Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Chilian Do. Columbian, 1824 241 Danish 63i Greek, 1825 19i Mexiean, 1825 Peruvian Russian 94 Spanish, 1821 11 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FI:ONI LLOYD'S. DEAL, SEPT. s.—Wind N.E.--AiTived from London; the Laura, Thomas, for Newfoundland ; Ann and Elizabeth, Colom, for the South Seas; and Maraboo, Duke; for Africa. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. s.—Wind variable.—Passed the Electra, Baker, from New York. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Wind E.—Arrived the Albion, Hudson, from Havre. Sailed the Russian squadron for the Mediterranean; and Albion, Hud son, for Nantes. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Wind E. to S.E.—Arrived the Mary, Shand, from Bahia. DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 4.--Arrived the Comet, Ormston, from Madeira, sailed the 9th ult. HULL, SEPT. 5.--Arrived the Waterloo, White, from Riga; Hilda, Bedlington, from Memel; Re quest, Davidson, from Dantzic; and Malvina, from Gottenburgh. DOVER, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Zenobia, Douglas, from Calcutta, sailed the sth of April. ABERDEEN, SEPT. 3.—The John, Gibh, from Archangel to Yarmouth, passed through this Bay ; she spoke, on the 9th ult., off the River Ponai, the Anaereon, Newton, of Sunderland, returning to Archangel water-logged, having been on shore upon Knock John. The Tyne, Cotgrave, was burnt at Bombay the 19th of March. The Newland, Hunter, from Riga, was on shore on the Holm Sand yesterday; cargo discharging. The Elizabeth and Sarah, Smith, of Shields, and the Cassiopeia, of Sunderland, were lost on Hasbro' Sand on Thursday morning; crew saved. The Thetis, Bailie, of Bristol, was burnt at sea; the master and twe of the crew were picked up in let. 36. long. 41., by the Cognac packet, arrived off Crookhaven. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. POLICE INTELLIGENCt.--(THIS DA.V. BOW-STREET. A ragged looking woman was brought up in custoti, under the following circumstances :—Four gentlemen tv, walking along the Strand, at about two o'clock•this n lOl / ing, and were accosted by the prisoner, who was la beastly state of drunkenness, and continued to annoy aforesaid gentlemen till. they looked round for a watchm and insisted on the first they met preventing herfollowt The watchman after some reluctance interfered and thr her down. She got up, ran screaming aftec t h e gent men, and accused one of them with trying to stea l pocket by tearing it from her. Her screams brought. John Benzley, another watchman, who persisted in ta lc ' ker charge, drunk as she was, and the whole party we to the watch-house, the watchman by the wily ' having with great rudeness to the gentlemen.. W • at the watch-house the constable detained the g if and dismissed the gentleman, who attended this mor ing to complain of the watchma n ' s t rea tment. • ( : ) .° 4 of them stated that on several occasion s h e had been stilted by females in the Strand, near B ea zley's beat, al! coal never make a watchman hear his c a ll. If, bower a female h a pp e n e d t o s cr ea m, th e n a flock of " appeared i n a f ew m i nu t es . H e h a d no d ou bt lhttE watchmen were c on nec t e d w ith th e women , an d . frequent' made a good night's w or k o f it. It was proved that Beasley kept a b ro th e l in Eagl e court, and Mr. HALLS suspended him i n consequence. CHANGES. The Earl of Chatham, on a visit to Lord Viscount Sydney, at Frognall, in Kent, from Charles.street, St. James's-square ; Mrs. Lane Fox, and a party of female fashionables, on a visit to the Earl of Westmoreland and the Ladies Fane, at Apthorpe Park, Northamptonshire ; the Marquis and Marchioness Wellesley, from St. James's-square, for Brighton; the Dowager Countess Beauchamp, from her house in St. James's-square, for Paris; Captain Walpole, from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris ; Major and Mrs. Barclay, from Brighton to Ramsgate ; Mr. and Miss Trower, from Richmond to Ramsgate ; Major Oglethorpe, from Scarborough to York; Major Booth, to Maid, stone; Captain and Mrs. Scarsdale, for Bath; Major Cotbyn, for Dublin ; Mr. and Mrs. Broderick, from Brighton, for Bognor Rocks, near Chichester; Mr. and Miss Earle, in Albemarle street, from their seat in Lancashire ; the Earl of Ashburnhain, at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington anti Cork-streets, from his seat, Rattle, Sussex ; Mr. and Mrs. Markham, at ditto, from the Isle of Wight ; R. Wylie, Esq. at ditto, from Southampton ; the Honourable Mr. Browne, at ditto, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Gurdleston and family, in Albemarle-street, from Hastings; Captain and Mitt. Conyer, in Wirepole-street, from Brussels ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Murray, from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's street, for Brighton ; Sir Henry and Lady Floyd, from St. James's-street, for the Continent; Dowager Lady Shee and the Misses Shee, from Cook's Hotel, Albemarle street, for Kent ; Sir Fienry Parnell, Bart. from Jermyn.street, on a tour. ARRIVALS A' ASKERN SPA. R. Hibbard, Esq., Limb Hill ; Mr. J. C. Reinhardt, Leeds ; Mr. Skidmore, Sheffield; Joseph Fryer, Esq. and family, Toot hill Grove ; Wm. Aldam, Esq. and family, Warmsworth ; Rev. G. Bladon, Darrington ; P. Hubbersty, Esq. Worksworth ; Jas. Norris, Esq. Halifax ; Taylor, Esq. Wakefield ; Mr. Mrs. and Misses Prickett ; Misses Armistead, Hull; Major Booth; Mr. Johnson, London; Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker, Morton; Captain and Mrs. Saunders, Miss C. Elston, Mrs. Denison, Doncaster; Mr. Makins, Mr. and Miss Jackson, Miss Field, Leeds; B. E. Priestley, Esq. and Mrs. Priestley, Hunster ; E. Thompson, Esq. Armin, Bowden ; Mr. Green, Mr. Heertley, Colonel and Miss Gooch, Carlton Hall. A King's Messenger (Mr. FENNESSY) ar. rived at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterday af ternoon, with despatches from Lord COWLEY, our Ambas sador at Vienna, and from the British Charge d'Affaires at Madrid. The despatches were forwarded to the Earl of ABERDEEN, at his residence at the Priory, Stanrnore. Sir HERBERT TAYLOR has entered ell the duties of Adjutant-General, and has transacted business at his office in the Horse Guards. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER left town yesterday for his country seat. • The Duke of RUTLAND arrived at Belvoir Castle on Friday evening, in excellent health, from his cottage near Sheffield, where he ha% been taking the diver sion of grouse shooting for some days.—Leicester Journal. Brunswick Constitutional Clubs are about to be formed in Shropshire, and the northern counties of the Principality.—Skefiield Courgut. DIOGENES was not in the. wrong, who, when the great ALEXANDER, finding him in the charnel-home, asked him what he was peeking for, answered, "I am seekisg for your father's bones, and those of my slave ; but I cannot find them, because there is no difference be tween them." FLY WATER.—Prussic Acid has been ob tained from the leaves of green tea, in so concentrated a state, that one drop killed a dog almost instantaneously. A strong infusion of Souchong tea, sweetened with sugar, is as effectual in poisoning flies as the solution of arsenic, ge nerally sold for that purpose.—Mirror. As an instance of the flourishing state of Church-of-Englandism, in North Wales, a correspondent informs us that he lives in a parish in which the parson is obliged to give a quart of ale to a couple of his parishioners to induce them to attend church when he is publishing banns of mitrimony ! —Dublin Morning Register. The oat crop throughout this county has this year proved a failure in a remarkable degree ; in many in stances they will not pay for the labour of carting from the ground. Beans, on the contrary, are everywhere a pro digious crop. Barley is also good, and a fair average crop.—Bath Herald. - A child of a labouring man, named THOMAS, died at St. Ive's last week, in consequence of eating unripe blackberries.— Worcester Journal. " My Aunt Margaret's Mirror," " The Tapestried Chamber," " The Laird's Jock," and " A Scene at Abbotsford," are the names of four Stories written by Sir WALTER SCOTT, which will appear in the forth coming volume of The Keepsake. There is no material alteration in the state of trade at Dewsbury, Huddersfield, or Halifax, at each of which places there is full employment for the weavers. The manufacture of coarse woollens at Elland, is brisk.—Don caster Gazette. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.---We regret to state that the body of Mr. HAWLEY', the respectable jeweller and silversmith, of 75, Strand, was found drown ed early this morning, in the river Thames, between Vaux hall-bridge and the Red House, Battersea. The unfor tunate gentleman has not been at the shop since Thursday last, and it was supposed lie was at his counting-house, near Brixton. The body was conveyed to the Red House, Battersea, where an inquest will sit this day. The Gazette of last night may be considered an Extraordinary one. It contain• only one Declaration of Insolvency, and one new Bankruptcy ! ! ! THE WEATHER.—The weather continues excellent, and harvesting is pushed with an activity far surpassing that manifested in ordinary years. Within a circle of six miles rouud this city, the harvest is about completed, and the happy tenants of the plains are ranting at " kirns" in every direction. There is, however, a growing demand for shearers for distant parishes. Most of those who appeared at the Port these two morn ings have been hired at ls. 6d., and the hands taken out twelve miles got 2s. and victuals. The reapers' wages have hitherto been lower in this city than in any other quarter of Britain. At Glasgow, the grand entrepot of the Irish auxiliaries, wages have run from Is. 6d. to 2s.— On Monday, at Dumfries, the wages were 25., with an al lowance of milk, and some bargained successfully for their dinner. At Carlisle the wages are 2s. 6d., and at Cockermouth 3s. 6.1., while, before yesterday, 'it was only in a few cases they exceeded Is. 3d. in this city ananeigh bnurhood. In every quarter the dark forebodings and gloomy apprehensions, which so long and so generally pre vailed, have been succeeded by the hope, almost certain, of more than an average erop,—seas7„7,. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) FISH-MARKET, DILLINGSGATE. Fish was tolerably plentiful this morning, but the st consisted of a few sorts only. The quality of Salm°° vil particularly fine, but the enpply was limited. A 00 siderable quantity of prim e Cod-fish me t a ready sale' , The following were the prices:— vn g 0 Prime Turbot, each Ws. Od. to ---' Ditto small, per do. 5 0 El Soles, per three pairs. Salmon, per lb. .......... . .... 0 9 ' Cod Ash, each 5 0 I n State, each Brill, each .... ..... .............. ........... . ..... Live Flounders, per quartern 5 Live Eels, per slb ..... 4 0 Fine Lobsters, per score 4O 0 93 Inferior ditto 2O 0 36 Fine Prawns, per lb. 6 Shrimps, per gallon Fine Yarmouth lied Herrings, per hungred 0 0 10 Best Common Oysters, per bushel 8 0 i° Natives COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. There WWI a good supply at this morning's market, - the trade WtiS dull, and the prices about the same as this day se'nnight. s. d. s. d. Potatoes (per cwt.) 3oto 7 0 Cabbages (12 heath) 1 0 2 0 Ditto Red Cauliflowers 1 0 3 0 Horseßadish (bundle) 16 3 6 Celery 1 0 1 6 13rocoli Carrots (l2bunches) 4 0 8 0 Turnips Young Coleworts or (iroens 1 0 2 0 Leeks 0 9 1 0 Turnip ItscliNhes 0 9 1 0 French Beans (gallon) 0 9 1 6 Mulberries ( rattle) 0 6 0 9 Black Wall Plums Peaches (dozen) 4 0 8 0 Apricots 3 0 6 0 Harlenuts (bushel) Sea Kail (ptunnict) 0 6 1 0 6. 6toll e) 0 sp r i e n e age r (h ea a s l e f . ..si: v 6 n Brood Beans 1 $i Apples, Common 26 0 ao Ditto, Choice Pears Orleans Plums 1 0 Damsons 3 0 Common Plums Gooseberries... ...... 0 1 1 Currants '1 6 , $ 1 lemons 6 0 I I Span. Chemnits (peck) 5 0 Preneh ditto 3 6 I '6 Spanish Ilazlennts 4 6 yl Cucumbers (doe.) O9 0. Ditto small (100) Onions (for pickling) 0 9 1 6 , Filberts (121b5.) 5 0 $P Elderberries (bushel) HAY MA 'IKE L'S-(At Si. JA per Load of 33 Trusses.) UES'3. I.fi .C. s. Clover flay 3 lb too 0 Oat Straw 1 16 i Wheat Dito 2 0 idol! trade, at Thursday's li i6+ FIELD. l• ' 0 Cloy. Hay generally 4 0 E 66 I: Do. extra tine 0 0 i 1 ; Oat Straw I 1 4 g Wheat Ditto I 10,1. sk trade, at Thursday's PE"' X. a. X. Lowland Meatt.Ha) 2 15 to 3 0 Upland Ditto 315 415 Ryo.grass Hay 315 415 New Meadow Hay 3 5 310 A moderately good supply, and a SMITH. £. s. f. s. • Lowland Mead. Hay 2 15 to 3 5 Upland Ditto 315 4 15 Rye-grass Hay 115 415 New Meadow Huy 310 315 • A moderate supply, and a brie ' PRICE OF BREAD. t he The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis Is lid. woo° 411): Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to Oid. that price. PRICES OF HOPS—Sept. 6. 2/. Ifs, 3/. 106. to Kent Pockets, SUE 6tX I)ittO 21. les. 34 Os. to Ets,ex Ditto 2/. I*. 3/. Si. to Farnham Ditto, 01. As. 54 us. to Seconds 01. Os. 44 Os. t• 21.105. Si. Os. to 24 ts. 21. 10s, td 26* Os. 21. 1541. to 4200,000. /31 " 31. t"' 31. Kent Bai ,Su►sex Ifitto Essex Ditto.. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—.s.pt. 4. 0 4 ' Hay Od. to 9.56. Od. I! lover SU. 0110 5traw....,,.,,.,..,.,.,.0d. to 4es. Od. PRICE OF OIL. A „,,,,, 6 Rape Oil, brown .........—. 341. 05..,,..... Refined ........x.'' 0 .. Linseed Oil —___ il 10 s___. .. _ Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ten PRICE OF POTATOES.—Sept. S. New Ware 2l. Os. to 31. 10s. per PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. 8utt5.....Z0 to 561 b... 20 21 to 661 b... 22 23 Dressing 15 17 Fine Coach Hides --. 19 20i Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 151 184 Ditto to 501 b. 181 21 Ditto ........ 2O 22 LEATIgEIt , ta d. S Tanned Horse Hides.+ panish22l4.- tad. Per dozen. , a Calf Skina... SK to 441 b. Ditto ~,....5010 701 b. Y 1 t Ditto 70 to 801 b. , V , Small Seals, Oreenlanttp>--' PRICE OF TALLOW Si Town Tallow 42a. &t. Yellow 38s. 6d. White , 39s. Od. Soap Ditto 37e. ed. Melted 335. Od. Ditto Od. YAP, ow e. per I liib.—ZePo e . t o t ell • s op. Mottled 0 4 0 , White —... 00 ,1 z: Graves 56, v . Good Drefes.........•—•'' PRICE OF CANDLES. RO I • The price of store Candles, in the retail shops , is as fol so. ox 'atulle .3. per doz. 7s. Ocl. to Os. 01. I Moulds, per dozes PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone et tilb....SePt• 40 'rice of Tallow (as stated by the fallow Melt ors) .ET.—Sept. 5. f 6 6, g Wall's Hotspur ••• s s „ Ditto Perkins and; Ce• si Ditto s 6 Ditto Russell's 35 Ditto Walker Stebarts' Eden Eden Main Walls End Hetton...... g 3 0 Walls End Walls End Stewart's 5 0 Cowpen Hartley 50 U, Silkstone Ditto W. E. Liddell's Trader-----4 j 9 0 Beamish S. Moor erns , j o Old Etherley small 16 0 Primrose lips sold 36—Unsold, a' wroic ,KBT, IIIRO Tti Wheat. Barley. Oats. COAL ltlAftli Beaumont SOs. 6d. Dean's Primrose 30 0 Hebburn Man —... 33 6 Holywell _ 32 0 Kenton West 32 6 Killingworth St 3 Percy 28 8 Pelavr PontopWinier.... .. 31 0 Tanfictd Townley —.. 31 9 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 35 9 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 34 6 Ditto 33 0 Ditto Carr and Co. '29 6 Ditto Clarke and Co. 3•l 0 Ditto Cramlington........ 99 6 Ditto Hilda Ditto Peareth. 32 0 Ships at market, 63-8 h COUNTRY CORN MARICKTS DURING TIM W . -- - 0 , 0 ,. 1 Wheat. Barley. 1 Oatg g Per Quarter. ' Ashburn .... tt2 66 - -." 1 1--"'-"---24zT ...... 4 44 Basingstoke ............ 80 78 - - 24 23 1 ,,, e s Bath . 5O 76 30 3(1 25 28 ",,," Bridgewater ............ 58 72 113 32 - 24 , ots , Bristol _ Chesterfield ..--,. 58 64 - - 24 28 li 5 Derby ~.-. - - 22 25 , Devizes ........-........ 50 60 34 35 24 30 V ; V,, Doncaster -.-..... 55 66 26 33 13 29 '1„." v s- Derche5ter............... 50 76 27 30 i 24 28 1 " "..' Exeter. . (12 64 30 32 22 24 44 Gloucester.-...,...... 56 64. 23 36 22 28 4° t r ,,, 1 Hungerford -. 40 60 27 33 V 30 ~, 11 LeiCftter. _ - 13 - 37 - 30 „.'"' 4. ` Newbury.. 40 85 32 39 24 33 '''' Romsey --....... 55 58 30 31 25 29 '' 4 ,' Shaftesbury - Si) - 28 - .25 -4, , 30 35 45 Shelton Mallet .. 52 58 28 30 26 ,, .. Sherkorne ..-. 60 70 28 30 26 28 11 4-r Taunt0n...............„- 70 80 - - 24 29 7, Y l , Ye0vi1...... 60 72 30 32 26 30 " el d s c' . ' Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s. .$• 0 0' , fireivabury .......... 80 92 00 00 50 70 v SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.--SePt• 3 " . tbi idd l supply of all sorts of Grain a ' ss except ing Wheat, which was large. were flat, and prices in general a shade lower'. rtesne , Beef, per lb. ... Os. 3d. to Os.7d. Fresh Butler, Wheat. Bare. Oats. Pease. ---„, 0,1 First 624 0 8 30s 1 08 26s od r. Od ''' t second sos 6d .4). ; od 24. s Od 31, DA 255 ug Third day's We m ha a d rk a et m , ratcEs OF rnovlsloNs, ate. 1 01 ' Mutt0n.............. 03/ 0 6 Salt Ditto, ,_ ,0 0 ° A , lb.0g.0•1. toe. 9 Veal ----•-•-- 0 5 0 7 Ditto, per eat. 76 0 ~'" u P0rk..............-- 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per dec. 0 8 " 5 0 Lamb, per gr. 1 6 3 V OatStraw2;.) '7 6 Tallow, cwt.... 30 0 31 3 Whe a t Ditto... 9 0 1 2 0 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 9 Barley Ditto 0 0 0 Potatoes, 148.,. 0 0 0 4 Hay, per 5t..,:; EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET......Sept. 2. l oot, We h a d a large supply of Oatmeal at this day's 01 ' / le. which sold heavily at last week's prices. Barleyra es per sack, and 2d. per stone lower. ~ 0 I'er Sack of 280 1 b. Imp. Per Stone of 14th . 10' , "'i 6 First Oatmeal £1 17 0 First Oatmeal ... ....... .... -e n ° 1 / 1 0 ..... Second ditto ll5 0 Second ditto ....... "t, I 0 Barleymeal 1 10 0 Barleymeal... ............ „ I v 40' Peasemeal 1 6 0 Peaseineal ........ ....::: Pot Barley-No. I, per cwt. 135.-'2(l, 155.--3 d, 136.-red, ~ GLASGOW CORN MARKET.--SePt• S' lO C Little alteration in prices of Grain, and no t business doing. • V‘4 Wheat, per 2101 b. s. d. s . d. O a t s , per 1.641 b. 6 . o to .i , British, old 3O 0t032 0 Iri s h lO gu .--- new 26 0 28 0 British l 6O 0 Canada, free 2 3 5 1 00 3 29 0 ° E Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish_........ ...... N 0 .v English'2 English "g . !: ` .. e . .............. ( 6 ) o,', i 0 0 Pease, S c ottish ... ill A _ Scottish 2B 0 30 0 Oatmeal, per 1101 b• 110 '- Irish PI 0 240 Fleur, per 2801 b. . ,. sv PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O - Ditto National 5 I' 4 Hibernian Mining Co Alliance Fire and Life Insurance Co lO 934 General Steam Navigation Co. • It