The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

IHE SUN, LONDQN, F.RIDA Y EVENING SFPrEMBER 2. 1842 COMPARATIVE LIVES OF GEN TLEMEN, TRADESMEN,. and 'MECHANICS. (FROM OFFICIAL RETURNS.) The following calculation: of , the comparative chances of life to different classes of the community in towns and rural districts, dtawn up from retu rns made to th e S ecre t ar y o f he:Poor-law Commission, furnish some facts for curious consideration on this subject. • One of the first returns is from Dr. Barham, the sum of which was as follows : BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY). " IN RE LAM ONT, STEWART, AND MATRAV ERS. ?The' bankrupts in this case were the well-known andciensive brewers in Skinner-street, Bishopsgate. The amount of debts which appeared in the sched u l e , as proved aga i nst the partnership estate of the bank rupts, was 38,3221. 19s. 3d. The separate debts Pr9v. s ed on the account of Matravers amounted to 11,766/. 125., and those against the estate of David Stewart were 8,115/. Is. 9d. :During the last month, Lamont, the remaining partner, applied to the insolvent Court to be dis charged as an insolvent debtor, in which he suc ceeded ; and from . his sched u l e fil e d i n t h at Court, it a appear e d th a t the mount of debts which he incurred in - relation to the brewery in Skinner-street, was 10,8191. Is. Bd. This day was appointed • for receiving proofs o: delits ;:howeyer, the only one which was at all con siderable in amount, was a claim for 3,0001. by Mr. J. t:IL Maclean of Jermyn-street. 0 LICE INTE L LIG ENC E GUILDHALL—(THIB DAY.) Williant.King, who was dressed in the garb of an ostler,• was committed to take his trial for stealing a Macintosh coat, and a pilot coat, from the Castle and Falcon Inn, ..Aldersgate-street, about ten o'clock this morning.. Wm. Young, a respect a ble-looking youth, of ab ou t 15 of years of age were - charged w ith em b ezzl i ng the sum 205., the property of his aunt, Anna Young. Mr.. Jame Evans stated that he was sub-secretary to the,Gigar-makers' Orphan Society. The prisoner had two :orphan sisters, who were pensioned on the Society; and received ss. a week.• The prisoner had been, in.the habit of receiving the money t o p ay t o hi s aunt for!the mai n t enance of his sisters. It appeared from the evidence of the aunt that she hadgiven him two order; for 10s. each, but he had • retained the money. —The prisoner was remanded. • li° W-STREET.—(TIUS DAY.) An odd-looking little man, whose large moustache nad.general expression of countenance gave him the appearance of a Pole, and who stated his name to be Richard Balfour, was placed at the bar, char e annoying Mi ss M aria Leggett. g d with Miss Leggett, a young lady of considerable per sonal attriwtions, stated that she first saw the prisoner about November of the year 1838, when he accosted •her in Fleet -street as if she were a lady of title; he followed her a considerable distance into Regent street, and said that he was betrothed to her, and was determined to prosecute his suit. She got rid of him that time without having recourse to a MigiStrate. In the month of May, 1839, he again followed her as she was passing down Regent -street. To avoid him she entered a shop ;he remained outside, and collected a considerable crowd round the door by . his extravagant conduct; he called her "The Lady Elizabeth. The shopkeeper gave him into custody, and he was taken to lborough street. Wi tness did not know what became of him then. The next she saw of him was in September of last year, when she met him in the street at Cam berwell:;, She went into a shop in order to avoid him,,,and he remained outside waiting for her a considerable time, but at length went away. This /nothing again he met her in the Strand, and took hold of her by the arm, called her his betrothed, &c., and otherwise very much annoyed her. She then gave him into custody. Mr. TWYFORD questioned the length, w h en it appeared that he was an Englishman, prisoner a t some and not in his right mind, upon which the Magis trate ordered him to find bail, two sureties in 30/ each, and himself in 601. THEM ARKETS.—(THIS DAY.) This COR N EXCHANGE . week's supplies have been inconsiderable of English Grain, and much less than latterly of Foreign Wheat. . Having country buyers, a good quantity of Foreign'Wheat was sold at 2s. per quarter advance on Mondy's prices. Other articles were firm in value, and theiti wits no more demand for Flour than of late. Th o '- s S MITHFIELD. better ttpiity of cattl e was short, the demand something P l y , but no alt erat i on i n prices. Of Sheep the sup wasgood, walla steady tr a d e . Of V eal the trade Pa* rather better, an d 2 d . to 4d. per stone higher. In Pigs there was little done, except in fine small Porkers. No alteration in Lamb. Beef, 3s. to 4s. 6d. Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 4d . ; V eal, 3s. 4d. to ss. 4d. • Pork, ; 2s. Bd. to 4s. 4d. Lamb, 4s. 10d . to ss. 4d. Beasts, 526 ; Sheep and Lambs,, 9,670 ; Calves, 340 ; Pigs,4o2. COL ONIAL MARKET. The salel,wm moderate, and full prices were aid. British Phuitation Bugar sold freely, and at extrpeme l'ates; kue Afocery sorts 653. to 68s. per cwt. Bengal and Itainitins were a shade higher. Coffee dull, except fine qualities, which brought full prices. Fine Jamaica 1255. to 1265. per'cwt. Rice is asked for, and commands fullp• — DALILEITII PALACE, IVED NESDAY.—There was some disappointment experienced among the inhabit ants of Dalkeith and the surrounding villages this afternoon by the non-arrival of the Queen and Prince Albert, for it was a general holiday, and hundreds had collected at the King's entrance to the demesne of ( the Duke of Buccleueb, amralong the Leith-road. 1 - In addition to -the Earl of Aberdeen and Sir Robert Peel, Lord and Lady John Scott, Lady Caroline Thynne, Mr. Edward Drummond, and the Earl and Countess of Cawdor have arrived. The above select circle was to have formed the dinner party this evening, in addition to the suite in, attendance on the Queen. The dinner to-morrow was to have received a large accession, covers for 40 were to be laid; but owing to the Queen and Prince Albert not landing to-day, the a rrangements will, no d ou bt, b e somewhat altered. ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY AT EDINBURGH. By the following notice from a Correspondent at Berwick-on-Tweed, we may safely conclude that the Royal Squadron reached its destination early yesterday (Thursday) morning. The weather had been very thick and hazy on Tuesday : BERWICK-ON-T WEED, AUG. 31. WEDNESDAY, SIX O'CLOCK P.M.—The Royal Squadron is now passing. Wind N.N.W., very fine weather. W. S. TEA MARKET: The pbblic sales were brought to a close. Upon the whole they show a better result than was generally anticipated, for although the proportion sold was small, the prices realized fully maintained the previous currency. Sound low Congou ls. Bd. to Is. d. lb. TALLOW MARKET.er Prices a shade lower, and the trade bought cautiously. Fine Yellow Candle 475. 6d. to 475. 9d. on the spot, and at about the same rates for duty in the last three months of the year. SPORTINTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LEOMINSTER RACES--TuEsDA Y. • The. Ladies' Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Mi. Davies' Pickwick, 5 yrs (Crickmere) 1 3 1 ..._ r. Mr• Hal lA l's Br ecwood, 4 yr s ....................... 2 1 Th 2 Stubb's Bounty-. 5 yrs ....................... 3 2 3 e He refordshire St a k es o f 5 so t s. each, With 30 added. • Heats, one m il e and a quarter. Mr. Davies' eh f by Bran, out of Greenfinch's dam, -wi,_3 yrs .................... ...............(C ast l e) 1 I t. T. Wilkes' Dr. All en, 3 y rs 2. dr • Mr. Robinson's Finality, age d Th e hack Stak es o f 3 soya. each, and 20 added, mile and a quarter, were won by MH r. all's Kitty beating three others. THE PALACE OF HOLYROOD. " PALATIUM SANCTA; CRUCIS." Eting my armour bright„and my co urser w hi te, 'Tis-not each day that irvi'arrior bight May see a Royal bride ! Then helmets glance, and gleams the lance, Throughout the vasty wolde ; And brake and bramble glitter gay With pearls and cloth of gold, Holyrood, to which an imaginary sanctity has long attached—which has been the residence of a long line of Kings—the histories attached' to II hich are con nected with the splendid, and many of the ,dark, spots on Scottish annals, is now about to receive our Illustrious Queen and Sovereign within its walls and precincts. Royalty will once more throw into magnificence those halls and chambers which have for a long time been dim and silent. The present Royal visit Will tend, in some degree, to excite in the minds of the loyal people of Edina no faint idea " of the days of other years," when the presence of its Monarchs communicated splendour and animation to the ancient metropolis, inspiring it with a proud consciousness of the remote antiquity and hereditary independence of the Scottish. throne. James V. is supposed to . have been the first who gave rise to this stately fabric, from his ha v i ng , as the old chro n i c l ers re l ate, "in ie sprin g o f the year 1525, found e d a f a i r palace. in the Abb ey of Holy rood-house, and three great tours till rest into, when he pleased to come." So says " Pitscottie's Chronicle," and who will doubt it? WEDNESDAY. Ile Wolfby Stakes of 5 SOTS. each, with 25 added. Heats as above. : li l t : D avies' ch f, by Bran, Greenfinch's dam, 3yrs 1 1 kr. T. Wilkes' Dr. Allen, 3 yrs Hall's Breewood, 4 yrs Th e Hurdle Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added Heats, Mr. li ol twice round and th e l ong l ength. man's The Page, 6 yrs 13, stroll linthschild's Consul, aged 41r; navis's - Vagary 4 yrs k :L'he Scurry Stakes ' , with 5 sons. added, were won by • 'lades liimedor, beating five others. The Gentle tnens • BECCLES RACES --TUESDAY. ' Purse of 501., winner to be sold fur ' 200/ &c. Heats about two miles. Arr. I) • ' " ' (Pettit) 1 1 , eau 6 Fspartero, 3 yrs fi r' WoOdeoCli'S Aolian, 4 yrs 2 2 ..11 , At "e r • R • l 'inie s Frailty, age d ush's br gby Plenipo, out of Mansfield's d am 4 4 pstakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added ; winner to be k r , b e Sold for 100 t, &c. Heat s , once round. Atr, _ ttit's S weetmeat, 3 yrs (Pettit, jun.) 1 1 A4,-• swald's Evasion, 3 yrs ' I\i'rl'• Able' s L ottery Ticket, 5 4 2 yrs r * P l °3'es' Gunabolette, 5 y rs . 2 3 3 4 tle,.:: "Q. Pon y race Wll5 won by Mr. Clevel au d' 3 B in i e ht, beating two others. 'l' k , , T , WEDNESDAY. 1 - ' O wn Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Heats :Nip . c , about two miles. k r, Iy3o al's Evasion, 3 yrs (Sturgeon) 1 1 2 2 N.. Woodcock's lEolian, 4 yrs 41 • T - -, 3 3 Th urner s Alice Hawthorn, 3 yrs e St and 'Stakes of 3 sous. each, and 10 added. Heats, At r. b . once round. it„ .olgtinld's Camilla, 6 yrs I‘A ' it i r e: eill iyrtehl:n,:l'vs r ß a i r l i t d 3 e ., T a A g g ( ! ? l d t, aged (Ling) 1 1 4 2 3 3 A 2 2 dis i ls I()Yes Garnbolette, 5 yrs t o , W.hoo Whoop Stakes, with a purse added, once C? 1, n t " . Orur three 4 hurdles, were w 5 on in three heats, bVlation C s' Lottery Ticket, yrs, (Brett), beating .- Il and the Stranger. On the Bth March, .1326,7, Robert Bruce held his fourteenth Parliament with • the church of Holyrood Abbey; and Edward Baliol held his Parliament in the same place in February, 1333-4. Robert HI. also - occasionally resided here when he came to Edin burgh, and here granted the remission to Albany and Douglas, for his son Rothsay's death. James II and his Queen also resided at Holyrood, where, on the 16th October, 1430, she was delivered of male twins; one of whom (James II.) succeeded his father, and was crowned here on the 25th March, 1437. In June, 1449, that Prince was married in this favoured place, to Mary of Gueldres.- He was also buried here, in August 1460. Holyrood was thus the scene of four of the principal events in the personal history of James IL—viz., his birth, coronation, marriage, and burial. James 111. took up his abode here " while he gladdened Edinburgh with his presence ;" and "on the 13th of July, 1469, was "maryit in Holyrood House, in greate dignitie, with Margaret, the King's douchter of Norway, Dasie, - Sivasie, and Denmark. (Old Chron. at the end of Tryntoun.) James IV. was also married here, and Young, the herald of teat Kings marriage, at the age of thirty, to Margaret e England, in her fourteenth year, gives the following curious account of it " After all reverences done at the church, in order, the King transported himself to the Peals, through the cloistre, holdynge allwayes the Que ue b y t h e body, an d h ys b ed bare, VII he had brought her within her charmer." The same monarch, also, on the 16th February, 1505-6, ratified in Parliament his gift of 20 merks from the great customs of Edinburgh, for the main tenance of a chaplain to sing in the chapel, within his palace of Holyrood, and for his fee in keeping the palace. In 1506 the palace appears to have sustained some injury by fire, on the 17th of Aprl in that year, he granted a charter to the Earl of Huntley, in which he recited, that the Earl's title deeds had been lately consumed by fire, in his lodging within the Royal palace.—(Parl. Rec. 523.) During the inroad of the Earl of Hertford, in the minority of Queen Mary, this palace, with the abbey, were burnt by the English army ; they were both, however, soon • repaired, when the palace became a larger building than the . present, and consisted of five courts. - ------ - --- DUN FERMLINE. T t , . . (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) hrtv!' }:sl3 - 4 :r, NI NE o'CLOCK, P.M.—The authorities 1. 0 ng declined to allow a public .meeting to be held .l e cullsider the propriety of resuming work, _1 c the matt LabourPommittee met this morning to take tit Natter into. consideration; they agreed by a majo -1,43: cf 30 to 16 to resume, but recommended that the th N ils th districts should hold meetings and report to fave,,—* The r esu l t was, that above 1,200 were w,:ara„ble to lab our b e i ng resumed, and above 900 Fo rk this c ontinuing th e str ik e. Many commenced k .' this afternoon, and it is expected there will he toly.eneral resumption of labour to-morrow in the tiVr„" l ,..• It ts not known what the colliers intend to do. Thomas Morrison's examination has been con )l,o'ei• It is expected he will get out on bail to- Pa r t. r(3/ ,, v ' Mr. M. is the leader of the movement t:sseci r. Y u9 re, - and is very popular with the working- 1 s. lie has all along been opposed to physical a and to the policy of the O'Connor school. 1 e Iva _lo . e to who challenged O'Connor when he °ltlfeNnhtin.s tplioislicquarter, to discuss with him the propriety ove in opposing the Anti-Corn-law m A . hens.warrant v as issued on Saturday for the appres ch;xi 104 of Andrew Henderson, weaver, who w r a_ rrri ao of the committee. rendered le He voluntarily su o Ye4 r , of . himself this afternoon. He is a man of_ is lipo a ge , been a very respectable character, and i tiatt B ed to all yiolent measures. n is hoped that era will noW resume their former appearance in t. . . . Upon her return to Scotland, Queen Mary took possession of this palace, on the 19th of April, 1561, and on the 29th of July, 1565, her marriage with Henry, Lord Darnley, was solemnised in the adjoin ing abbey church, at live o'clock in the morning., The assault' and murder of David Rizzio was per petrated in this palfie3 on the 9th Mareh, 1566. His blood is still said to stain tLe floor of one of the oldest , QUEEN'S VISIT TO.SCOTLAN.IY. LA NV INTELLIGENCE, this district, and that nu? Tory !I,i torn will sp'yedily ' have their eyes opened to the policy of removing the NON.4RRIVAL OF TIIE QUEEN. . - SECONDARIES.—(THIS DAY. causes of such commotions, by granting a repeal of EDINBURGH, WEDNESDAY :X'IGHT.—D, would be difficult to g'.ve you anything 'like an adequate idea Mr. Secondary JAMES took his seat on the Bench the Corn-laws. at twelve o'clock. The list contained - but one cause, ' of the excitement that has prevailed here the whole of the day. As regards business, the clay has been all and that an undefended one, having disposed of but a dies non. The few shop open might as 'well which. the Court adjourned. e lie outlose closed, as doors alm in almost the heir entireh oliday of ' t h i a o ‘ i . r e turned b ? y‘u ryas fir z imme diately after breakfast, and kept promenading the p st e r c e l e e t d s through which w t h il i l ch th t e heß 1 eveningdress tie pop I l ! a procession adliNaans advanced. Those who had secured seats, in many instances took possession of them at an early .bour, and exhibited the utmost patience while any hope remained of her Ma I esty's arrival. The following notice, which was pOsted up in the course of the day, gave comiderable satisfaction, as putting an end to the uncertainty and doubt, and to reports of an adverse nature, which have prevailed for the last two or three clays : 7 -- " The Lord Provost, Alagistrates, and Town Coun cil are happy to announce to their fellow citizens, that a deputation of their number have this moment arrived from Dalkeith Palace, after having had an in terview with the Duke of g u Mooch , the Earl Of Aberdeen, and Sir Robert Peel, who- assured them that her Majesty would be. prepared to adopt any' ar raat,ements as to her p rogre s s t h rough the city that would be most gratifying to the inhabitants of Edin burgh. If her Majesty should not have power to land before five o'clock, her entry and progress through the city will -be delayed until to-morrow, when she will enter the city by the Barrier-gate, at Brandon street, as formerly announced. (Signed) `, JAMES FORREST, " Lord Provost." This announcement gave unmixed satisfaction, for an impression had gone abroad that her Majesty was averse to any public entry, and would most likely upon landing, drive in a close carriage to Dalkei' Palace. The opinion entertained at present is, that her Ma jesty will not reach Granton till an early hour to morrow morning. The Germal Steam Navigation Company's ship the Trident, arrived here about twelve o'clock to-day, and the Captain (Sharp) reports that he sailed with the Royal squadron on Monday morn ing, and that he continued in' company till off Har wich, where the ships .had arrived about six in the evening. The loyal George was then in tow of the steam-ships Black Eagle and Shearwater, accom panied by the Monkey and Rhadamanthus. A thick fog was at that time coming on, when the Trident shot ahead, and continued her voyage to Granton. The Royal squadron was then sailing at the rate of 61 to 7 miles an hour. The wind was blowing from the north-west, and none of the frigates were in sight. I had a conversation with a gentleman who came passenger in the Trident confirmatory of the above. He also stated that the Trident, during the fog, had frequently to throw off steam and slacken her way. It is obvious, therefore, that her Majesty cannot arrive at Granton till some time to-morrow morning. Come when ,she may, ,she is sure of re ceiving a most enthusiastic welcome. The weather still continues fine. GRANTON PIER, WEDNESDAY. —Throughout the day thousands have resorted to this neighbourhood, in expectation of witnessing the landing of her Majesty and her Royal Consort. The Duke of Buccleuch arrived at half-past one from Dalkeith, and many of the nobility and gentry were present in their carriages ' • among whom were observed Lord Fred er i c k Fitzelarence ; Countess of Wemyss and March and Ladies Charteris, Viscount Melville, Lord Echo, Earl o f Rosebery, Marquis of Breadalbane, Duke and D uc h ess o f R oxburgh, &c. The Frith of Forth presented an exceedingly ani mated appearance, from the number of craft on its broad surface, dressed`, with signal and our national flags, in addition to several fine steamers, likewise adorned with their variegated colours. The Royal stud and carriages came from Dalkeith this morning, in order to he in waiting for the re ception of the Queen and the members of the Royal household in attendance on her Majesty and Prince Albert. They are now to remain at Granton for to night. apartments. On th e 15 t h May, 1567, th hall of this palace was the scene of the same Queen's unfi r tunate union with James Earl of Bothwe'l. They soon, however, abandoned Holyrood House,•in conse quence of the threatened seizure of their p riems ;led from it to Bothwell .Castle, and thence to Vie Castle of Dunbar. After being brought back to her own palace, from the unfortunate affair of Carberry-1.111, she was removed to Lochleren Castle, as a priscne; for life. After Mary' s removal from Holyrood H ouse, the articles of value belonging to her were sei zo d b y the Nobles, and h er plate ordered to be coine,l, for answering their pecuniary demands. Some trifling alterations and repairs were made in the Palace, under the direction 'of Inigo Jones, about the time of .James the Sixth's return from Denmark with his Queen, who was solemnly crowned in 1590, with the accustomed rites, in the abbey church. Holyrood-house, indeed, appears to have been a fa vourite residence of James VL•until his succession to the English throne. It was here that his Queen was delivered of the Prince Henry Frederick, and the Princess Elizabeth, who was christened here on the Ist of December, 1796. After a splendid reception by the :.Magistrates an citizens of Edinburgh, Charles I. was crowned in th abbey church of Holyrood, on the 18th June, 1631] with unwonted ceremonies, and perhaps unexamplth splendour. Great part of the palace was destroyed by the sol. diers of Cromwell, after which it appears to have re. rnained in a ruinous condition until the Restoration when-an order wasiissued by Charles H. for repair ing it. In consequence of this mandate, the present magnificent fabric was designed by Sir William Bruce, a celebrated architect of that reign, and built by Robert Mylnc, mason, A.D., 1671-8. During the • reign of James VII., who manifested a great partiality to the Catholics, that king insti tuted a " Popish Colleg e in the abbey of Holyrood," and published rules for it on the 22d of March, 1688. Children were here to be educated, gratis in that faith. He also appointed one 'Watson, a Popish printer, to be King s printer in Holyrood House, who obtained also a right from the Privy Council to print all, the prognostication s at Edinburgh, 'which accounts for many books bearing in their title pages the imprint " Holyrood Hou se , On the 23d of November, 1686, the King's yacht arrived from London at Leith, With the altar, vest ments, images, priests; and their appurtenances for the celebration of Popish worshipiu the - Royal chapel. On St. Andrew's day (Nov. 30) the chapel was con secrated by holy water, and a sermon by Wedrington. The effects of this imprudence became manifest. In December, 1688, the populace of Edinburgh medi tated revenge. The students of the University joined them. They proceeded to Holyrood House to accom plish their design on this unconscious structure. The guard opposed and fired on them, under the direction of Captain Wallace, but, having surmounted this ob stacle, they forced the doors of the chapel, and, after destroying the ornamental parts of the building, car ried off the furniture to the cross, where it was burned in zealous triumph. In . the:year 1745, the young Chevalier Charles, during his residence in Edinburgh, took possession of the old apartments, built by James V., and a few woeks afterwards, the Duke of Cumberland, on his return from the field o f Culloden, occupied the same rooms, and the, same bed, which is still remaining. Subsequently to this time, the palace was much neglected for many years. About five. and forty years since,. however, the Barons of the Exchequer caused the whole' buildings of the palace to . undergo a tho rough repair. , I Shortly after Wards the Royal apartments afforded an asylum to the unfortunate ,exiles of the Royal family of Prance, Monsieur, then Count, d'Artois, and his two sons, the Dukes D'Angouleme and Berri, with many oth ers o f th e F renc h nobility. Th ese illus trious strangers, after a residence of several years in this palace, left Scotland in 1799, after expressing a high sense of gratitude for the generous treatment they had experienced from the Magistrates, Nobility, residence in Holyrood and Gentry. D ur i ng hi s House, his R o y a l Hi g h ness h a d f requent levees; which were extremely brilliant, and attended by the first personages and,characters of the country. m any o f these Roy a l re fu gees have s i nce re t urned to Holy rood H ouse , an d i t i s not many years s i nce t h ey finally left it for their native country. Among the curiosities shown, are many articles Which belo nge d t o Q ueen M ary : in particul ar , a b e d of Mary's which is of crimson damask, bordered with green stalk tassels and fringes, and is now almost in tatters. The trap-stair is also shown, through which passage Lord Darnley and the other conspirators rushed in to 'murder David Rizzio, while the Queen Wits supping with the Countess Argyle. The armour of Henry - Darnley and James: ,Itf. appears in the room from which the musician was dragged. Through out the suit of. apartments some good pictures are shown : one in particular, the gallery, of a dark .and solemn appearance, which contains one hundred and eleven portraits 'of the kings of Scotland, from thcre pitted time of Fer g us I. down to the time of the Re volution. These portraits were all hacked and- slashed and many large pieces cut out of them by General Hawley's troops, in 1745, when quartered here. This gallery is now used at the election of the Sixteen Scot tish Representative Peers. his late Majesty, G-;.or e IV, visited this palace on the 15th Augu s t, 1821.. A - vast concourse of people at tending him on his landing at Leith, to the Palace of Holyrood, where the Lord Provost and Town Coun cil of Edinburgh presented a congratulatory address. On the 17th his Majesty held a Court here, and on the 20th, la Levee, at which addresses 'of the different public,hodieS in Scotland were received. On the 22d, he repaired, accompanied by a grand procession, from the Palace of Holyrood to the Castle, escorted by the Highland Clans, under their respective leaders, in full tartan costume. On the 23d he reviewed the troop's on Portobello Sands, amid an immense assem blage'. of his Scottish subjects. On the 24th the King made ; his - appearance at a ball given by the Peers at the Assembly-rooms, and on the following day dined with the Corporation in the Parliament House. On Sunday, the . 26th, his M a j esty attended d i v i ne serv i ce in the High Church, and soon after service proceeded to Dalkeith. On the 27th he embarked at Queens ferry, and immediately set sail for the Thames, where the Royal squadron arrived on- the -30th, wher4 his Majesty landed at Greenwich, and proceeded thence to Carlton-house. a la MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS CITY, THURSDAY EVIINIXG. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. HERALD.—Further sales of StOck were reporter to-day, but were referred to speculation growing ou of rumours industriously propagated in the latter par of the : day, that the intelligence by the overland de spatch from India, known to have reached Marseilles, and which may probably reach town by the morning:, was of an unfavourable character iii respect of opera tions beyond the Indus. A second edition published late in the day by a morning paper, better known than reputed for its StoCk Exchange pigeon expresses, announced indeed that such was the tenor of the news en route. Little faith however • was placed in the statement from so suspicious a quarter, since it was not forgotten that on a former occasion of an Indian despatch the same paper published two extra editions, each containing different and opposite versions oft he intelligence said to be brought, but which of course Were riot intended to influene,i, the market arid pro mote speculation, or to enable those who had actedon the first and false version to realise such . profits as might have resulted from the variations of prices con sequent. The funds however were 'only affected a shade on the present occasion, and the jobbers were clearly not to be pigeonedngain. Sl:N.—The sales of Money Stock having been con tinued in the afternoon, prices gave way still further, and Consols filially left off at 923 921 for Money; and 92i for the Account ; India Stock, 251 252 Exchequer Bills, Old, 53 35 ; New, 49 51 prem. The • prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 101,1 102 f ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 59 3523- ; the Five per Cents., 102 1021 ;' Danish, 84 85 ; and Brazilian, 643- 651, Mexican Bonds were lower at the close•of business, the quotation being 341 341. The prices of the Shares were—London and Bir mingham, 185 187 ; Birmingham .and Gloucester, 42 44 ; Great Western, 82 83; the Half Shareg, 591 ; South Western, 60 61:; North-Midland, a 58; the New Shares, 273- ; Eastern Counties Northern and Eastern, 37 381; Mackwan, 7 1 8 ; and Brighton, 33 331 per share. • The returns of the Brighton Railway show a great advance upon the past week, the passenger traffic amountsng to 3,9501., and the sum from goods 4.521., making a total of 4,4021. The quotations of the Fonds were--. Peruvian, 15 16; Colombian, 20+ 201; Porliguese Five per Cents., 3": 3 - f 344; the Thre. i per Cents., 20 203-; Spanish Five per Cents., 16 161 :x Coup3;is; and the Three per Cents., 203- 201. THE GREENWICH RAILWAY AND 1 THE THAMES TUNNELL.—A new station has been erected, and will be opened in a few days, so as to affiwd facilities to the public Makin g th e i r way fro , the nort h side of the river and the numerous docks to Greenwich, &c. It is sittta:ed at the Spa-road, Bermondsey, midway between London and Greenwich. EGYPTIAN WHEAT.—Last year the Marquis of Bristol gave to Mr. Mitchell, a gardener of hemp-town, several ears of corn found upon opening an Egyptian mummy, supposed to be -two thousand years old. At the proper season the grain Ivan sown, and has been cultivated by Mr. Mitchell with great care. It has pro duced very fine ears of corn, some of them nine inches in length, but the ,grain is much lighter than the common wheat. Mr. Mitch e ll has .avert the Crop to ma k e fur ther experiments next year. liAmnuautt, Atro. 18,—It is a singular fact, that only a few days ago flame; worn discerned on digging among the rubbish In the neighbourhood of St. Peter's Church, though three months have elapsed since the con flagration,-4/Mna Mercur,y. MAJOR-GEN. PASLEYS OPERA. TIONS AT SPITHEAI). - ENTIRE REMOVAL OF THE WRECK OF TRACY'S LIGHTER, SUNK IN 1783. The operations against the wreck of the Royal George have been carried on this season with greater activity than in any former year, but have attracted les - s.liotiee, in consequence of those great explosions which`excited so much public interest and curiosity, and attracted thousands of spectators, having become. Unnecessary in the present state of the wreck, the re mains of which are now buried in a shoal of mud only a few feet higher than the adjacent anchorage, so that .Major-General Pasley has directed that no charges exceeding 2001 b, of powder shall be used. On the 4th of May Lieut. Hutchinson, the able and zealous officer who was employed the whole of last year as the executive engineer at Spithead, set Out from Chatham at half-past four o'clock in the morning with a detachment of Royal Sappers and Miners, and all the necessary stores, and the whole were embarked on board the Success frigate hulk at Spithead the same evening, having gone from Chat ham to Gravesend by Edwards's vans, - thence to London.bridge, and afterwards to Vauxhall by steam boats, and thence to Gosport by the South Western Railway. Such are the modern facilitiea- of travel ling; but only a fe'w years ago a detachment of sol. Biers could not have made the same journey without a harassing march of nearly a week, involving much greater e:pense to the Government. On the sth of May the pensioners who had been employed last year were engaged, but a gale of wind prevented the operations heir).- commenced before the 7th of that month, when only four divers were employed, which number was increased to five on the 13th of May, and to six on the 3d of June, and. the same number has constantly been employed since. All the divers are soldiers, either of the iloyal or of the East India Company's Sappers and Miners, the' former , being generally the same who worked last year, the latter volunteers, who, by approbation of the Court of Directors, will take out that important art to India, as - well as the use of the voltaic battery for sub marine explosions in its most improved. application ; and in the meantime they are very useful at Spit head, which, from the depth of water, the strength of the tides, and the present state of the wreck, covered with stiff mud, and embarrassed .by iron and shingle ballast, staves of casks, firewood, &c., affords the best school of instruction in helmet diving that could have been found. It was the intention of Major-General Pasley to have employed six or seven divers from the first, but the stores of last year having been found in bad order, especially the air-pipes, he was obliged to wait till new were supplied, and there fore the wreck of the small vessel sunk about 50 fathoms south of the Royal George was not attacked until the Ist of June, when he directed that Corporal Harris should take charge of the removal of it. The Corporal had previously gone down to examine it, and reported that it was about 60 feet in length, and that the timbers could be traced all round, rising five or six feet above a small shoal on which it was partially imbedded, the upper part of the timber being worm eaten and decayed. This report, was verified by Lieutenant Hutchinson himself, who went down to the same spot. It was soon found that there was not room for a second diver to work conveniently in the removal of this little wreck, so that Corporal Harris was exclusively employed about it. Not being able at first to ascertain the name of this little vessel, it was called the Perdita; but afterwards its history was discovered by consulting the letter books in the Master-Attendant's office in Portsmouth . dockyard, and it proved to be a mooring lighter, em ployed by Mr. Tracy, in 1783, in his unsuccessful attempt to weigh the Royal George, and was sunk in that operation. The then Master-Attendants of Portsmouth dockyard, who evinced throughout a dis position rather to put obstacles in Mr. Tracy's way than to assist him, as they were or d ere d, r e p orted to the Navy Bo ar d, by letter dated the 20th of April, 1784, that they had tried to weigh this lighter, but failed; and th a t th oug h it was perfectly p rac ticable to recover her by employing more men and Vessels in a second attempt, her value would not even pay for the cordage that would be expended in the opera tion. She \vas therefore left at the bottom,. to be re moved fifty-nine years after she sank, by a Corporal of the R oya l S appers and Miners. o part of her is now left, the floor-timbers, kelson, planking, and keel, having been successively got up, but not without expending about 7501 b. of powder, in charges placed from time to time by the same intelligent and active diver, of which the largest was 1801 b.—none of the others exceeded 701 b. The demolition and removal of the wreck of the Royal George has been going on with zeal and ac tivity, never fewer than four or five, and now six divers, being constantly employed. On the 20th of June, 3,065 cubic feet, or 61 loads of timber, had been removed from the two wrecks, besides 219 pigs of iron ballast, from the Royal George, the latter :weighing, at 3 owt. each, 32 tons 17 cwt. Of these Lance-Corporal Jones, one of the best divers, sent up 19 pigs, or nearly 3 tons, in one day. On the 30th of June, the qu an tit y of timber stacked . for sale i n the dockyard, amounted to 6,804 cubic feet, or 136 tons, from the Royal George, and 2,187 cubic feet, or 44f loads, from Tracy's lighter. An additional quan tity of iron ballast, &c. was also recovered. Major- General Pasley was anxious that the whole of the• timber got up this year should remain till the end of the season, but there literally was not room for it, without inconvenience to the service of the dockyard, and therefore the portion above-mentioned was sold as a matter of necessity. The only serious accident that occurred was to pri vate Williams, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, whose air pipe burst whilst he was at the bottom. "he fracture took place above water, and as soon as ad hissing noise drew attention to it, he was gulled up by his breast-line, and sent immediately to Haslar Hospital, where he was skilfully treated and came out of hostdtal in 25 days, and imm e di a t e l y re commenced diving again, neither he nor the -- other divers being disheartened by this accident, Which Was owing to iron wire having been used internally to stiffen the air-pipe, which corroded into a mass of rust; a circumstance not to have been foreseen till expe rience drew attention to it, because salt Water does not penetrate into the air-pipes whilst being used. The same accident happened last year to private Ca meron, who was also disabled for some time, but is now one of the most active divers. Williams, how ever, was soon o bli ge d t o l eave off, havidg renewed this laborious occupation at too early a period of his convalescence. A large block in No. 4 lighter broke, and in falling struck against Mr. Clewitt the fore man of rigging, and grazed two . other men al so , b u t luckily wi th out i n j ur i ng them severely. Corporal ilarris was twice annoyed, and Corporal Jones once, by a dead body—probably drowned less than a year ago--in a state of decomposition, but. not abso lutely a skeleton, having clothes upon it, which came in contact with them, having drifted with the tide into a sort of basin made by the removal of the lower part of Tracy's wreck; hut though they came up in a state of agitation on first meeting With it, they soon went down again, and finally it was got up by Corporal Harris, and towed out of the way by a boat and sunk after attaching a pig of ballast to it. From fm wreck of the Royal George much fewer remain?. of the unthrtunate crew have been brought up than !night have been expected, only one perfect skull hay ing been found this season. An 18-pounder iron gun was got up by Private Cleghorn on Saturday, the 17th ultimo, being the first recovered this season, but if the accounts ftirnished by the Ordnance -office at Le commencement of these operations are correct, here ought still to remain twenty brass .guns at the FLANDERS MAIL. ANTWERP AUG. 29.—We learn that several car goes of wheat are expected from England. All kinds of flour and bread are rather dearer at Brussels than fixed by 14th of August. Among the passengers by the Wilberforce steamer are—General Sir P. W. French, the Mexican Ge neral, ;Anastasia Bustamente, and Captain Jose Maria de Caldoran. . The reigning Duke of Saxe Gotha, the King's brother, accompanied by his Aides-de-Camp, arrived yesterday from Ostend by a special train. His Royal Highness will pass some days at Lad:en. Prince Esterhazy did not leave Brussels till yesterday. The Government has received notice from its Charge d'Affaires at Copenhagen, that a Royal lleseript has been published, which abolishes the charter granted in 1792 to the DaniOt Asiatic Com pany. Previous to • this ordinance the Asiatic Com pany had balanced.: its accounts, and convoked the proprietors, who - did not attend at the meet ing. It is said that on the settlement the pro prietors will receive 40 per cent. It appears that though the ground Is prepared for the iron rail way from Lille to IZoubaix, so that the engineers agree that the rails might be laid down, and the war Opened in October next, this cannot be done till May next year, because the rails are not ready. Where fore ? These rails are manufactured at Aveyron,, in the south of France, and as the carriage .bv land would he too expensive, they must be sent to a port in the Mediterranean, and brought to sea through the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bay - of Biscay, &c., - to Dunkirk, whence they will be conveyed by land to Lille, while there are heaps of rails close at hand, on the other side of the invisible line called the frontier. 'Perhaps these rails of Alais aTe cheaper than the Belgian rails ? Not at all ; the latter cost 200 francs the ton, and the French rails 4450 francs, exclusive of the expense of the voyage; so that this vast additional expense is to be borne by France for the benefit of the great proprietors of iron works in the south. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSP.LB, AUG. SI. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent l OO% Lean of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ... Three per Cent Thlrty.seven Mu 11 ns, ditto , 18401 ICOI, Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent Society of Commerce. Four and a Half per Cent 96 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent National Society Excha, ge on London (short) - -Brussels Papers, Aug. 31. AUSTRIAN bU N Da.— VtENNA, Are. 23. Five per Cents. l' , letalliques ll9 Four per Cents Three per ('eats Bank Shares ............. . 1182 Allgenteine Zeilung, August .‘27. HAMBURG!! BORSEN HALLE. Arc. 27. Kills. )Joney. Austrian 5 per Cents Bank Shares 1652 16.8 Angln.Russian Loan IC94 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate...- 100 ! ,i " 1 4 Inscription, Ist series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., NI and 4th Series Qi 97!, Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) MN RN Dutch Actual Debt, '44 per Cent. ......... 'A Ditto a per Cent. Polish Bonds New Tickets 14.8 Anglo-Danish Loin, 3 tier Cent. Spanish, New 5 per Cents. More than 4,0001 b. of gunpowder have beep fired against the wreck of the Royal George this season, chiefly in small exPlosivns, not usually .exceeding 701 b. ; but whenever charges of about 200Ib, were to be fired, red fiags'were hoisted on the Success frigate hulk, as well as on the mooring lighter, some hours before, as a signal. All persons or families who wish to see the divers go down and send up -timbers, &c., are received on board the lighters on asking permig. ;ion of the officer suprintending, who is present 'le whole of each tide. More than 100 men are con «l`, at work, for whom the divers find ample em- oymei REWARDS TO a n days ago Mr. Clark, the landlord of the Duke Of Gloucester public house, in the New-road,,Whitechapel, appeared at the Lambeth-street Police -court to show cause against an order being made upon him for the payment of the re wards to the firemen belonging to two of the brigade engines for attending at an alleged fire at his house. Mr. Clark declared that no fire took place at his house, hut the fireman produced a witness who swore that he not only saw a quantity of smoke, hut sparks and flame issue from the chimney. Mr. Ilenry, upon this testi mony, was about to male the order on 'Air. Clark, when the latter made a form a l comp l a i nt aga i nst John Pross, one of the brigade firemen, No. 16. for gross, misconduct at his house, and the case stood over for the production of witnesses. It has since been gully grille into, and the conduct of Pross being fully proved, both by Mrs. Clark and other witnesses, to have been most insulting and offensive, Mr. Henry, after remarking on his im proper conduct, disallowed the reward, and ordered Pross to pay it back to Mr. Morse, the churchwarden of Stepney, who bad handed it to him on the production of his affidavit that a fire actually took place, and that his was the first engine. MELANCHOLY DEATH FROM Trot:-ARILSo--.We re gret to have to record another death fro m th e i ncautious use of fire-arms, under circumstances which, from what we have heard, throw a great deg ree o f culpability upon the accused party. It appears th a t, On Tuesday f orenoon, a young man named Joseph llenry Bennett a pupil to Mr. NM, surgeon, Cookridge-street, was amusing him self with firing a loaded pistol at a mark, Ile was in his master's surgery, and h av i ng charged his pistol with b a ll , imprudently pointed it several times at a groom in Mr. Ilcin's service, who threatened him with punishment it' he did not desist, telling him that he would be sure to have some accident. This, however, it appears was no warning ; for he presented the pistol at a young man named John Duriwell,.brewer and assistant ostler at Mr. Wharton 's, he fired, and the ball having entered his breast, he fell and instantly expired. T!leinquest was summoned on Wedne s d ay morning. —York Courant. On the 23d ult., a woman named Bonnin, of Aval lon, in th e Y onne, b eing in a state of ferocious madness, attempted to murder her own daughter, a girl fled 14, by plunging a knife several times into both her eyes. The poor girl is not dead, but there were very slight chances of her life being saved. The insane mother is in safe custody RESERVE - Or IVILKIE.—Of his reserve we recollect a story highly characteristic of the man. One day, when asking a frank from his kind friend the late Lod Hol land, his Lordship waited some time, with the pen in his hand, for Wilkie to give the name and address he wished to have inscribed upon the cover. " Whom to, Mr. Wilkie ?" said his Lordship, smilingly. " Oh," said Wilkie, with his usual reserve, " My Lord it's just— my Lord--it's jug a lady !" Lord Holland laughed, Wilkie still hesitated ; but, recollecting himself; became in another moment properly communicative upon so small a natter.—,Fraser for September. PRICE OF SUGAR..,:: HIGH PRICE OF BREAM :: Considerable attention having been lately directed to the hi g h pr i ce o f b read in London, the following I EFFECTS -• OF MONOPOLT:'-x .! • mufti ks may, perhaps, be interesting:— The price of bread in Paris is regulated by law, 1 The follow:rg average prices of Tirowii; .or'"Alus covado British Sup Is, Will be published itt the according to a certain scale, deduced from the price of . . flair of first and second qualities. The following is Gazette of this evening : the . ..• : • method of calculation adopted by the municipal . West India i officers in fi x i ng the assi ze . of bread:— •• • East India - b„ The weight of a sack of flour is 1 . 59 kilogrammes Mauritius gross, or 1.57 kilogrammes net. This quantity is Total average price of the three' dOqiiiii'' tons, estimated to yield 102 loaves of bread of the Weight 355. 54d. per cwt. 1* .. of 2 kilo,;.framines each ; that is, it produces 204 kilo- . The actual quantities sold on account .- )f" the im grammes of bread. The cost of manufacturing this Porters, in the week ending the 30th of , August, quantity of flour into bread, including the baker's according to the returns made upon oath, by the profit, is fixed by la w at 116. T ak i ng, -therefore, sugar brokers in conformity with the Act of Parlia the average 'price of flour, of first and seco n d qua li t i es, merit, and on' which quantiti es th e above .pkicei are in the Paris market, as sho wn b y t h e l ast returnS; at , computed, consisted of 13,631 cut. of West India. 66f. 50c. for the sack of 159 kilogrammes, to this deli] i 4,153 cwt. of East India, and 015,125 civt.,of Mauri -111. for charges of manuflicture, making 77r, 50 c • .Sugars. ~ and . .. divide this sum by 204, the number of kilogrammes About 150 cwt. of Kaur sugar have been sold in of bread to be made from this quantity of flour, and the same week at 255. per cwt.,• which being classed we obtain 38c. for the price per kilogramme of bread as East India, unthirly depresses the average. price of as fixed by the last return in Paris. This is th e that kind ofsngar. .. . ... price for bread of first quality ; the inferior : is re in . Foreign Muscovado Sugars, equal in qua lifv to the lated in a similar mann er from the average price of averago of West India, may he bought at )(is. tour flour of lower qualities. cwt. ; the monopolists are therefore continuing to en- It is found, by making the proper allowance for dif- rich themselves on this one article, as described last week, at the rate of four millions sterling per...annum. f?.rence of French and English weights, and the vela- Government will surely not allow the.cohsumers tive values of the two currencies of thecoantry,,that 3S cents. per kilogramme is equal to about flid. ster- of West India Sugars to be fleeced after this fashion much longer. ling for 41b. English *eight avoirdupoise. ', • ... _. This, although a moderate price here; •is very high I)utch Refined Sugars may be purchased at 225. :' .. as compared wi th th e or di nary price of bread in Paris. per cwt.. and f ore i gn treacle at Vs. per cwt. Now, since the city of Paris is constantly supplied The West India proprietors residing in this country with bread und er th ese regulations, it is evident that declare, and there are no grounds for suspecting in bread can b e ma d e f rom these data, and afford a this particular instan ce t h at they declare to be-:.true profit to the baker. It may, therefore, be seen at what that which they do not themselves believe, that Sugar price bread could be now made in London after mak- cannot be produced upon their estates profitably fur less than 355: per cwt. equival en t to 605,-per , cnt. ing the ne cessary a ll owance for the difference in the price of flour. , • duty paid; that is to say, the costs of labour and of If 157 kilogrammes of flour makes 204 kilogram- necessaries essential to the cultivation of the •canes, mes of bread, then 280 lb. of flour (the contents of an of making the sugar, of packages for its reception, Of English sack) ought to produce rather more than freight to this country, and of various other-chcrges 363 lb. of bread. incurred, previous to the sale of the sugar in Mincing= • Since 159 kilogrammes are equal to 3511 b. Ling- lane, amount to very nearly 355. per cwt. 0:x ditty - fish, and it cos t s 111 to manu f acture this quantity . Although it would be a difficult task to dispi'ove thi's into bread, it mus t requ i re a b out 7s. to manufacture assertion, yet the fact o f sugar of equal quality 6ing 280 lb. of flour. freely sold at 16s. per cwt. in the same market .with the West India, b o th sugars h av i ng h a d the sam e The highest pri ce o f t oms - ma d e fl our was quoted last Monday, in Mark-lane, at 475. per sack (the quantum of labour bestowed upon them lends natu average a s t a k en i n F rance would be much lower) ; rally to the con c l us i on , t h at t h e charges aiyove.ennme add to this the cost of manufacturing into bread —say rated under different heads, amounting in theaggre.- 75., -we obtain 545.; and dividing this by 363, the gate to 335. per cwt., are either exorbitant, or grossly number of pounds of bread which can be produced mistated. Assuming them, however, to be actually t' from the sack, and we obtain less than 7141. for the paid, we propose, with a view to show how they Tnay price of the 41b. loaf. be . reduced within a moderate compass, to examine Perhaps the cost of manufacturing bread here may each class of charge separately, taking them in the order in which they are pl ace d • above. The cost of be a trifle high er th an i n F rance; b ut it is probably fully compen-ated by having used in the above calcu- labour, both as regards the cultivation of the dines, and of maki ng th e sugar, stands first for consid era ti on . lation the hi g h es t pr i ce o f fl our i nstead of the a v erage price in th e market. The proprietor s comp l a i n that there are "not By this calculation it is obvious that the public in the sugar colonies a sufficient number of hands to have been p a yi ng a most extravagant price, and at- work the soil ; th a t th e d eman d for labouterS cense tention has na t ura ll y b een di rected to the cause of the quently being g rea t er th an t h e supply, wages ate so high that the n egroes can li ve comfortably .on them, evil. It do es no t, h owever, appear to require much divination, an d i s eas il y tracea b le to the associations and work but th ree d ays i n t h e week. To meet this difficulty two meth o d s present t h emse l ves; eitherm formed amon g th e b a k ers t h emse l ves for what they of migration to a cons id era bl e extent must he eneou course call th e " pro t ec ti on " o f their owninterests. raged and sec ure d, or t h e worn out plantations mu 4 These associatio ns , w hi c h h ave ex i ste d i n almost every b district of th e me t ropo li s an d t h e suburbs, regulate he thrown out o f sugar cu l t i vat i on. It must be eon • the price of the loaf in accordance with the opinion of leased that the chance of success, throug,ll the'means of extensive im m i gra ti on, i s remote. lie West-Ine the majority o f th e mem b ers, w h o will naturally dians have tried f or y ears t o i ncrease the nuither of' enough he an x i ous t o get t h e most they can out of their busin ess . It w ill , t h ere f ore, at once be seen their labourers by th at p l an, and have signally failed that it is this sort of combination which has sustained in their endeavours ; and well they might, for when the' price of b rea d aga i nst t h e great fall now quoted in ever a few unfort una t es h ave b een ent i ced to enter their service in th e co l on i es, t h ey have been soahOrni the value of • grain, and whi c h i s lik e l y st ill ' to i n fli ct nably ill used, th a t th ose w h o were not aetnally'des sures in the shap e o f an ass i ze b y t h e M ayor, or other serious injury u p on th e pu bli c un l ess remedial mea stroyed by the h ars h t reatment they encountered, or by the effects of the c li ma t e , have been too happy to mode, be spe e dily a d opte d . Th e great and just cry, run from their empl o y ers th e fi rst opportunity which made against th e hi g h pr i ce o f t hi s ch i efly-consumed offored for their esc a p e . N o t many, probaGly, hate commodity has not i n any grea t measure relaxed the influence whi c h th ese assoc i at i ons have over the trade, reached the homes from which th ey were i n d uced to who hold m on thl y an d quarterly revelries out of the d ep a rt by misrepresentation s of the climate, of the fines they inflict on any of the refractory members nature of the work to be performed, and of the laws who may be disposed to serve the public at moderate under which they were to live ; but those who hare, prices. ~ have described, i n th e l anguage o f trut h , to their To show in its proper light how these associations neighbours, the misery of emigrating to the West exercise their functions in regulating the price of the Indies. After the exposures of this description. which loaf; two of the rules of one of them are extracted. have occurred, ' the West Indians can entertain -no They particularly allude to the question now under hope of recruiting in Europe; they should .deelnia consideration. that European constitutions are not suited to'the'cli " Rule 7. That when a ri se i n th e pr i ce o f b read mate, that the Hill C oo li es are hardy, accustomed to y is agreed upon at any gene ra l or s p ec i a l meet i ng, and heat, and willi ng l a b ourers ; on their credulity the any member cannot from a n y jus t cause comp l y might practise ; b u t the British nation, i n a p o t en ti a l voice, will say " No" to their a ppli ca ti on to be al with such rise, he shall g i ve no ti ce t o th e S ecretary, lowed to entrap th ese simple-minded people. N'o! who shall immediately summon th e C omm itt ee, an d they. shall endeavour to remove the obstacle ; but, you. have already ab use d th e confidence weresed should they be unsuccess f u l, th ey s h a ll g i ve not i ce to in you. What has b ecome o f t h e deluded creatures we permitted you to exp or t f rom The East Indies to the Secretary to call a genera l m ee ti ng as ear l y as possible. the Sugar colonies a few y ears s i nce ? The W est "Rule 8. Should th e ne i g hb our o f any mem b er Indians . themselves h ave defeated all sexp'ectation of fall his bread below the general price, such member assistance by immigration. We shall, therefore., 'next week, turn to the o th er a lt erna ti ve , and exaMine What shall immediately gi ve no ti ce t o th e S ecretary to call a general meeting. the effect of throwing o u t o f suga r cu ltivation those -•-. .- So that, in fact, the argumen t w hi c h severa l o f the Plantations *hich have become exhausted, Wonldilave trade have set up in the letters they have addressed to on the labour market in the West Indies. ' • .-- this journal —viz., that competition would work: the price to its proper level, is completely annihilated ; for it is clearly perceptible that a concentration of the trade, formed on the basis here described as an associ ation, could and would at any time destroy any tem porary. opposition which might be started. The two classes of the trade, the " high price " and the " low price" bakers have, it is believed, distinct and separate societies, all working to the same end and effect. Hence it is evident, that though operating in different channels, they have the required influence on the general: price —the rise or fall of one class guiding the rise or fall of the other.—Times: MORTALITY in the METROP The fallowing are the results of " A Table of Mortality in he Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths ____.B4%;. all Causes Registered in the week ending Aug. 27, 1842." The 'Table is usued from the Office of the Registrar-General:—:- Weekly Average 1038-540-1 Total. Fo - i; f Fit; Summers (Years Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 193 191 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 151 150 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration A.;;seases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidnoys, &c Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c 2 8 •10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles 6 , 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 I 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat. ll9 95 104 O'd Age, or Natural Decay 6l 54 69 Deaths y Violence, Privation, or Intern- CA CM OF DZATII. perance Causes not specified 2 . 6 • 7 Deaths from all causes - Average Weekly Deaths B4B 912 Population. Average Death VIII Woody • in merated Deaths the 1541. 183,P-4 '-1. .V. eek. West—Kensington, St. George i ..____...-_..._... 1 ( Hanover-square), Westmin- Four I .Fgur stcr, St. Martin in the Fi e ld s , re - ro.jSummers. St. James North—St. Mary-le•lione, St Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 149 '167 Central —Saint Giles and Saint ' • George, Strand, Clerkenwell, • Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon don, - • West London, City of London_ ... 373,806 IsB 174 170 East—Shoreditch,Whitechape , . . Bethnal Green, St.. George . in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,493 206 M. ,219 South—tit Saviour, St. Olave, .. . .., . . , St. George( Southw•ark),Ber. mond.ey, Newington. Lam- • . Beth, Camberwell, Bother hitke, Greenwich .... 439,030 221 213 • ,210 D!ST II ICT.. Total 1,870,727 912 $4 6 . B ' s It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon. don with and without the walls, the City and Libor s tios Qf Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—. and the parishes of St.. Marylebone, St. l'aueras.. Kensingto n Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea),P o d: dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newingten), St. Leonard Hrom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas - Th and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. e poptaation, as enumerated in 1831, wa, 1,594.89 0 , and in June 11, w „ 1,870,727. Tte weekly aver:ge for 1838, 18 39 ; 1840. And 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths i n the four ears 20S, and the deaths in the foil - winter- by 32 . y by TEMPFKATIIIcE IS TIIE WF.F.Kti ENDINg Au g' 20 . Aug. 27; s6' titP 61 48 72 68 1 . hsio. flighNt LnK•est _ . Datil , Mean . ... I General 'Register °thee, Sept . • LoNDON, SEPT. I.—The weather changed this morning about one o'clock, and has continned.tO dins with little intermission, ever since. IVind this dsy at n. 01) meilerate breeze, hazy, with rain. .iunact— Wind from the Nvestward, and thick, hazy u'etither, vi4ti drizzling rain at time. INTERESTING TO • LADlES.—Persons - of (ICllrittO complexion are susceptible of the influence of the atmos phere at this peculiar season ; and Ladies, whether fre quenting the crowded sidoon the close assembly, the rural ride or drive, the suunner promenade, or the aquatic excursion, should invariably have recoil/se to that invaluable discovery, ROWLAND'S KALTDOS, • which is found to be the most gentle yet efficacious preparation that science has discovered fur the prcserration of female /wanly and grace. Throughout season, time an climate, this faithful auxiliary arrays the neck and arms in radiant brilliancy, and perpetuates the vivid bl.)om of juvenile attraction. Testimonial from John Sawyer, Esq., of liarn . •ood Loft.% Maidenhead, fleas, to Messrs. S. and 8.. Solosnime, 39. Albemarle street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King NVilliam.strect, City.—" Gentlemen,—Having been deaf ter some time, which I found increasing, and which very .tnueh incon venienced both myself and friends, and observing your announce. went in the daily papers, I was induced in the month of Notember. 1839, tornaketrial of your Invisible Voice Conductor, Sound Mag, riders, and although at my advanced age —at that time past 77th year—l had no hope of obtaining any relief, but 'immediately I applied them according to your directions, and te the surprising astonishment of many of my friends around me, I could hear with them the general conversation, and I am happy to inform yen that by the constant use of them both my ears and my bearing hare be. came so much improved that I can now hear acutely withoutthcir aid, and in consequence of the valuable benefit which I have delised, has caused me to make application to you kir Spectacles, which! Ind equally good, and afford me all the ctunifert and relief by day and candlelight t hat I could desire. I feel much pleasure in handing you this testimonial for the great advantage I hare derived, and shall be most happy to make this statement to any inquiry that may be made. 1 am, Gentlemen, your most obedient ser van t, Irian-3.er June 1114 `2." —Observe the Messrs. Solornons have no con. nexiuu with persons of the same name in Ireland, and Scotland, they do not employ any travellers nor agents; the genuine arti. cies are only to bo had in London, at their establishments, 39, Albe. Marle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the Yolk Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City. YEWS J~~~~• hospitals and poor patients, 69r4;9?2 stablislnnent3 istruction, by ildren. The amber 2,136, ,chers in tho 'here arc 13 )f blind pro- Ors issued departments, .. consideration, Tenee o£ dis las also corn he et nth of 5 , there in the , so as to ad applied with: f, p not a par- )ol met last g - tilations of a differences a deputation a the masters be so greatly rhe weavers ?ds are with- of the Paris the 30th of imenced last • Eight werseers, are mehester on I the conduet aid meetings a Committee e terms with the field for t Dudley - on mblage, and charged at tter contain • n ass istan t -3sed several femen in the e, enclosing and to have district. A id upon him. rd evidence, t-grove om- Marylebone arlborough movering a alleged to 'he servant, ress's treat ivered up to lady dater- upwards of IVoronzoiv Jupiter, for sdowne are with Lord -.3 }line. . Cavendish eft town on . • rk. lave arrived :,1 his lady in ie in Colne, -morrow at ed in town he Earl of. Wollerton r this :-ca ,t ; a fancy Miss Ade- with many Lnd amuse- om Edin nit Morton Mary, and i acquired JGENCE. igh, Esq.,, bot, E: q., sq., from Esq., from Esq., from am, Esq., tmbrough, or South- Cork. k.TION. ern, liar ;lr, ZariCa. Emerald, Nau- f amuse talented )ol: place. 7rs which ng health umber of ritness an w of the lens, and now rill I arrows, ► Wilson, tion. y of the present Ince at a - Watson ; el ; :Miss gentry. rent pro company !mice this al resort. ily man - ?ady for mil; the Lotion of y tends ng July ow tired Ven tiler oT ed. Graham Tho Monday s impor rnerally ACCOM we have ht lion. intment ile eon py %ere he same are put at the inferior 'used to tion in las been, er than at some ,ch was mplaint colonial )un(l. ,M3O. 'MSS. i. • .71 1 ' IT. iJy. .1' it • ;; • TRURO. • No of Average age Deaihs. of Deceased. 33 Professional persons or gentry and their families • 138 Persons engaged in trade, or simi larly circumstanced, and their families 447 Labourers, artisans, and others, Similarly circumstanced, and their families In Derby the proportions appear to be as exhibited in the following. table : 40 years. DERBY. No. of A verage Age Deaths. of lkeeaseti. 10 Professional Persons or Gentry 49 years. 125 Tradesmen 3B I 752 Lab ourers an d art i sans 2l „ On looking, a t th e su b sequent returns, it is to „ be borne in mind that wages are nearly double in Man chester to the average of wages in Rutland s hi re , though rents arc hi g h er in Mancester. Some allow ance must also be made for the very high average age in Rutlandshire, from the circumstance that many of the children or young people migrate from thence to manufacturing neighbourhoods for employment, which would have passed the age at which the greatest mor tality takes place among children, but still it might be expected that their migration, as it is constant, might to some extent increase the average age of death or apparent duration of life in Rutlandshire, though not very materially; on the other hand, there is, perhaps, a larger proportion of children in Man chester. The return is as follows :--- Average age of Death in Manchester. MI tiandshire. Years. Years. Professional persons and sentry and their families 38 Tradesmen and their fami lies (in Rutlandshire, farmers and graziers are included with shop keepers) Mechanics, labourers, and • their families ......... 17 38 In the Union, comprehending the adjacent mann facturihg districts of Bolton, the proportions of deaths in the several classes as returned by the Superin tendents, registrar were as follows in the year 1839 : BOLTON UNION. 20 4 No. of )enths Average age o 103 Gentlem en an d persons engaged f Deceased, in professions and their families 43 years 381 Tradesmen and their families.. 23 „ 2,232 Mechanics, servants, labourers, and th e i r f am ili es 18 „ In the distri c t o f Bethnal-green, the average age of deaths in the year 1839, was as follows, in the several classes, from a population of 62,018 : BETHNAL GREEN. No. of Deaths. 101 Gentlemen and persons engaged in professions, and their. families... 45 years, 273 Tradesmen and their families .. .. 26 „ 1,258 Mechanics, servants, and labourers and their families. . . 16 „ The mean c h ances of life amongst the several classes in Leeds appear, from the returns of the Registrar.. General, for the most part to correspond with the anti cipations raised by the descriptions given of the con dition of the labo ur i ng population : -- _ Average age of deceased. LEEDS BOROUGH. No. of Deaths. 79 Gentlemen and persons engaged in professions, and their families... 44 years. 824 Tradesmen, farmers, and their families .... 3,395 Operatives, labourers, and their families .......... 19 „ But in Liverpool,' which is &commercial and not a manufacturing town, where, however, the condition of the dwellings are reported to be the worst, and where, according to the report of Dr. Duncan, 40,000 of the population live in cellars, where also 1 in 25 of the population are annually attacked with fever— there the mean chances of life appear from the re turns of the Registrar-General to be still lower than in Manchester, Leeds, or amongst the silk-weavers of Bethnal-green. During the year 1840, the deaths, distinguishable in classes, were as follow LI VERPOOL, 1840. Average age of deceased. 27 .„ No. of Deaths, Avt r lge age de.,easeil. 137 Gentry, an d professional persons, &c of . 35 years. 1,738 Tradesmen and their families .... 22 ~ 5,597 Labourers, mechanics, servants, &c. 15 , Of the deaths which occurred amongst the labouring classes, it appears that no less than 62 per cent. of the total number were deaths under 5 years of age. In the Whitechapel Union the numbers were as follow in the year 1838: WHITECHAPEL No. of Deaths. 37 Gentlemen and persons engaged in professions, and their famili es 387 Tradesme n and their families 1,762 Mechanics, servants, and labourers, and their families.. . The following permits a fair judgment of the corn. parative mortality amongst the average of a town population : Average age of deemed. 45 years 27.» STRAND UNION. No. of Deaths. 86 Gentry and persons engaged in pro fessions, and their families .. . . 43 years 221 Tradesmen and their families .. . • 33 ~ 674 Mechanics, labourers, servants, and their families . Averag© age of deceased. 24 .„ KENSINGTON UNION. No. o. Average age Death:,. of Deceased. 331 Gentlemen and persons engaged in professions, and their families 44 years 348 Tradesmen and their families , '29 1,258 Lab ourers , art i sans, &c., and their families 26 The average periods of death among an agricultu ral population appears in the following estimate made from all the Unions in the county oflVilts during 1840. In this examination the registries of deaths in the towns were excluded, and only those of persons in cluded who were described as agricultural labourers, or as farmers and graziers, or - as gentry and profes sional persons resident in the rural districts. The results were as follow : UNIONS IN THE COUNTY Or WILTS. No. of Average Age Deaths. of Deceased. 119 Gentlemen and persons engaged in profession s , and their ... 50 yea rs 218 Farmers and theirl families. 2,061 Agri cu lt ura l l a b ourers and their fa- 48 ~ milies The following table exhibits the mortality preva lent amongst the different classes,. 'rlrtly mining and manufacturing, and partly agricultural, returned by the Clerk of the Kendal Union : KENDAL UNION. No. of Deaths. Average Age of Deceased. 52 Gentlemen and persons engaged in profession=, and their families 138 Tradesmen and their families 413 Operatives, labourers, servants, and their families .. The following remarks of Mr. Chad . Vvle . l( Jones 34 will appropriately close the consid era ti on of this subject ‘,4 cry dangerous errors," he ob serves, " arise fro . m statistical returns and insurance tables of the mean chances of life, made up from gross returns, of the mortality prevalent amongst large classes, who differ widely in their circumstances.. Thus we fi n d on in quiry into the sanitary condition of the population of different districts, that the average chances of the life. of the people of one class in one street, will be 15 years, and of another class in a street adjoining, 60 years. In one district of the same town it is found, on exa mination of the registries, that the mortality is only one out of every 57 of the population, and in another district one out of every 28 dies annually. A return of the average, or the mean of the chances of life, or the proportions of death in either instance, would and does lead to very dangerous errors, and, amongst others, to serious misapprehensions as to the condition of the inferior districts, and to false infe rences as to the proper rates of insurance." Dover keeps on filling daily, and we should say there is more company in the place than was ever before seen by the oldest inhabitant. The 'weather continues in the daytime almost as hot as ever ; but as the days draw in, and the evenings creep out, the cool sea-breeze after twilight becomes most refreshing and health-inspir ing. A day or two more of the present fine weather will bring us a harvest home. The wheat comes to hand so matured, that in several instances we have witnessed the thrashing-machine at work in the fields.—Dover Chronicle. ACCIDENT RELIEF SOCIETY.—The Secretary of the Accident Relief Society states that the 'Rev. Mr. Boddington. who appeared as defendant in a cafe at Clerkenu ell Police Court, on Tuesday last, has not been connected with the Accident. Relief Society for the two years last past. P •