The Sun. — London, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

_/- MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.. ibis Th e ail, J 44 The " Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela"—a Jewish traveller who is supposed to have lived in the thirteenth century—forms the subject of the first article in the present Number. Several,cu rious extracts are given from this "Itinerary," and among them, is a brief sketch of the far famed city of Bagdad, which, at the period when Benjamin visited it, was celebrated throughout the East for its vast population, its abundant wealth, and magnificent public buildings; the circuit o f th e C a li p h' s P a l acea l one was three miles, and comprised within its inclosure, parks, pleasure grounds, and reservoirs! " How are the mighty fallen !" This once splendid and powerful city, where the royal hero of the " Arabian Nights" held his Ccurt, is now in the last stage of hope less decay. War, pestilence, and famine have successively devastated it, and the recent inunda tions of the Tigris have all but completed the work of destruction. " A Passage in the Life of a Maitre d' Armes" is an animated account of an interview which a French fencing-master had With the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, win), after witnessing his professional skill, gave loin a letter of recommendation to his Imperial brother, Alexander. We quote the concluding portion of the writer's narrative:— At ten o'clock the following morning, I started for the Emperor's present abode, the Palace of 'J'zarsko Selo, determined to walk in the gardens until I met him, and to risk the penalty of imprison ment, incurred by all who ventured to present a pe tition to his Imperial Majesty. My stock of patience, however, was very nearly exhausted, when I had waited and wandered more than fbur hours in the Palace-gardens, which contain in their vast incicsures, slopes, levels, lakes, and forests ; grottoes, pyramids, and statues. All these I had visited, without per ceiving any one but the sentries and a few loungers; and I was beginning to despair of meeting him whom I came to seek, when the avenue I had just entered was ciossed by an officer in undress uniform, who sa luted me and continued his promenade. I asked a gardener's boy at work near me who that very polite °Meer was. " The Emperor," answered he. I immediately darted down an alley whic'i I calcu lated would traverse the path Alexander was follow ',Pg. I had scarcely gone a hundred yards, before I found myself so near his Majesty that I 'mused in 4. B ?_lne alarm. The Emperor halted for an instant; ren seeing that respect prevented me from approach 'ng him, he advanced towards me, and I awaited his c oming, 'standing uncovered on the side of the foot path. The Emperor limped slightly, owing to the re °Pening of an accidental wound in the leg, received in one of his journeys to the banks of the Don. As he ',lowly advanced, I had leisure to observe the great c. r eange which had taken place in his appearance since ▪ had seen him in Paris. His countenance, formerly a° Open and cheerful, had now a sickly and mournful expression, and he was evidently a prey to the deepest melancholy. Notwithstanding this, his looks were so benevolent that I felt re-assured, and as he passed near me, I ventured to address him. " Sire!" • " Put on your hat, sir," replied he. "It is too cold to remain bareheaded." Seeing that I hesitated, from respect, to obey him, he seized my hat, clapped it on my head, holding my arm the while to prevent my taking it off again. When he found that I made no further resistance, he said— " Well, sir, what have you to say to me ?" " Sire—this supplication," and 1 drew the petition ,from my pocket. The Emperor's countenance fell. " Are you aware, sir,", said he, "you who pursue nie even here, that I absent myself from St. Peters burgh to avoid petitions and petitioners ?" I know it, sire ; but my petition has, perhaps, more than most others a claim on your Majesty's gracious con s id era tion, It is countersigned by your Alajesty's august brother—by his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine. " Ah, ah!" exclaimed the Emperor, holding out his hand, but immediately withdrawing it. " So that I ventured to hepe," I continued, " that your Majesty would, in this instance, deign to deviate from the rule established." " No, sir," replied the Emperor quickly. " No, sir :I will not take it, because if I did, I should to morrow be pestered with a thousand such papers ; and I should b e compelled to abandon these gardens, where at present I find solitude and quiet. But," added he, observing my disappointment at this refusal, and ex te.nding his hand in the direction of the city," put you". petition into the post-office. I shall receive it to-night, and the day after to-morrow you will have my answer." " Sire, I know not how to express my gratitude," " Prove it, then," he replied, " by telling no one that yon have presented a petition, and escaped Punishment. Good-day to you, sir." With these words, and a gracious but melancholy the Emperor pursued his walk. I did not fail - Trif• " I . p l ow his advice, and put my letter into the post. u f t .:,',. ll Veror was true to his promise, and two days si al , — ; .a s r ls I received his reply. It was my commis fencing-master to the imperial corps of elihneers, with the rank of captain. ✓ "Poems and Ballads of Schiller," form a ve ry delightful poetical melange. "Cassandra," .11 Particular, is a truly impressive and energet i c lyric , in which Schiller's teeming fancy is seen to t e a,t advanteo. "An Ancient Dandy" is a i' e 'Y tale, written in a spirit of arch and good ,,111:11,, his raillery. The sketch of the old Bea u s toilette reminds us, in its minuteness and Par ticularity, of that well-known scene in the Clandestine Marriage," where Lord Ogleby 8 v r epresented as elaborately figging him out for the day. "Marquis Welles. ? '— as the title implies—is a biogra sketch of this eminent statesman. The Sketch i s eulogistic, r but not too much so ; but writer whose style is his chief recommenda o exceedingly hasty and reckless in some his Essertions, as, for instance, where he re- Tarks that " no transaction of European king 02Ing within memory so nearly justified the name ..,!,.tniracle, as the Spanish insurrection of 1808 ." hat was there miraculous in a proud, jea lous nation, opp ress ed and trampled on as having "'Pain was by France at the period in questio n , recourse to arms in order to e ''aneipate itself from its degrading servitude? In v e ca n recognise no supernatura l agency i n this ap s tance of resistance to tyranny. Again, still it , L cling to the Peninsula, the writer says, iarbOain, which - bad known nothing of popu _ government from the fall of the Ito u'au empire, became suddenly a hive of popular) governments." early and This observation ex hibits great ignorance of Spanish history. their Y fur system of period —say a Aragon were remarkable from an 0 --say the thirteenth century—for sopopular administration ; indeed, e were these two kingdoms, the most intim opal in the Peninsula, from knowing " nothing popular government," that they verged on ___ absolute democracy in their political institutions! 1 . : Caleb Stukely " contains some clever writing, but the story, as a whole, is too elaborately Worked out, which gives it an air of stiffness and ?rmality that detracts not a little from its inter st. <<A Lay of the League" is a humorous ?oeiical squib. " Thomson's Seasons" is a most 7ktertai n i„_ g notice of the late splendidly einbel 'kled edition of this fine poem. BENTLEY'S This periodical has r ill ea l ct d ed Ei u L s A a N t such Y. a late that we must perforce content ourselves 4.1 , a a hasty glance at its contents. It on %ne whole, an entertaining u r niiber, varying p le asantly from grave to gay. drst article i t a n account of an unsophisticated andedock of Cockney's. rt unes and misfortunes at Paris, ttrol l practical jokes, played er og ot o n n so l n ii . rn i t r a sarn pish - adVenttirer, one Jack are several whimsical incidents w i l n ici t i lii i s s a o r n ti e cl o e f , 4 , 1 1-14 no lack of broad humour, le. most popular qualifications that a Periodical writ er en , Leech addeffect of the different possess. Some clever Illustrations by greatly to the sketches and descriptions. The " Life and Snags Anacreon is an agreeable essay, interspere d 'with scraps ofcriticism and poetical translations.e do not , however, agree with the author . 11 remark th a t " it would be difficult to find . i l a n r Y ity tw O o r poets betw een w h om so grea t a sinn genius and disposition existed as. that :between Horacc and Anacreon." Both certainly 'were social an d f est i ve in their temperament, and sang the joys of l ove an d w i ne w i t h equa l g r ace and freedom, and so far they resemble each Other; but Horace was a thorough man of the world, w hi c h we have no proof, in his j rlt ings at l eas t , t h at A nacreon was ;\ again, °race when he pleased, was alternately a good- Tnnoured and caustic satirist, whereas Anacreon noes noire appear to have had the slightest idea of ; moreover', Horace was an elegant and I,'lcliclotts critic, and imbued with all the lighter _"terature of the age ; occasionally, too, though . `,""ften, he evinced in his more serious lyrics iboral dignity and elevation of sentiment ap 11;r°3eInng* to the sublime; in Anacreon none of r le se qualiti es are visible; he display s no lofti sser ot thought, no acquaintance with even t h e l it atur e of his own country, but is simply a - az Y) Epicuredn, whose range of id eas hiniteeto a - degree, and whose sense of enjoy /Tient is purely animal, however gracefully it is S"Pressed. The " Haunted Mine" is a passable tory fro m the pen of Mr. ['cake. " A Cam gn with the Christinos" furnishes us with .r) ~, rne entertaining and animated details the l a t e late civil war in the Peninsula.resp " The Child" is a pathetic little poem which Re regr et t h at our limits will not permit us to extract. "The Piper" is an Irish story, verging —after the fashion of most Irish fictions—on the extravagant; its chief defect is its l"ngth. " Richard Savage" is unusually spirited this month. The quarrel between the hero and Lord Tyrconnell is described with a truthful earnest ness worthy of Boz. " The Philosophy of Fighting" is principally to be commended for its illustrations, which are ingenious and fanciful enough. We quote from the "Traitor's Doom" an account of the execution of a native Indian officer who had betrayed an .English regiment with which he professed to be in alliance : The Deputy Judge-Advocate was desired to read an account of the proceedings of the general Court martial held at C— on the prisoner, Dewallah Surhat, lately commanding the Auxiliary Native Field Force, charged with having on the night of the 15th of October, 181—, willingly and treacherously betrayed the British forces, with whom he was appa rently acting as an ally, and thereby, &c. While the proceedings were being read, the prisoner was much agitated whenever the treason he had been guilty of was alluded to. He evidently was much pained. The convulsive movements of his countenance showed how acutely he felt his position ; but when the whole trial had been recited, whim the verdict of " Guilty" was pronounced, he seemed suddenly to recover his immobility. When, the sentence of death was read out he did not quail in the slightest degree; and finally, when the sentence of the Court condemned him " to be blown from a gun," he looked with an almost triumphant glance on his late friends, who stood horror-stricken around him. The General was perfectly overcome. His former friends and brother officers shuddered with dread at his coming fate; for though the sentence was strictly just, yet many who had never seen this mode of execution drew back with terror and disgust. Surhat was the calmest man on that field as we wheeled back into line preparatory to the dreadful scene. We took open order, arid the prisoner marched along the line, and up again be tween the ranks. Ile was then taken toa spot some hundred yards in front of our centre. No coffin was there to receive his rem sins, as I had previously seen at military executions— -no friends to take his body away after his doom ha d been completed—so clearly was it foreseen that his ar inihilation would be complete, his whole frame scatte red to the winds, the morsels left in all directions for Ore beasts and birds of prey. The troops were now "tt, old off" in three divisions, the wings wheeled up, the artillery brought into the centre; thus, as it were, :re-forming a hollow square, x_ept on the side on whilch the prisoner stood. A single gun was now bro' tight up, turned round, and unlinked. The drivers \ willingly trotted away to the rear. The prisoner was desired to advance ; he did so within a pace of the mr.vale. The deputy Provost Marshal produced a cord with which to bind him to the gun. For the first trine Surhat seemed shaken. He made a special request that he might not be tied down. The General was solicited, and consented that it should be so. The prig oner turned upon him a look of the sincerest and hear tfelt gratitude, shook hands after the European man] ier with the Provost-Marshal, and after receiving his directions, agitatedly given, walked boldly up to the cannon, and pressing his body up to the muzzle, threw his arms round the gun itself, gave one last glance, and stooped his head down to the piece. At the same instant a signal was given, the ready-lighted match was applied to the touch-hole, a flash of ilia., a volume of smoke, a roar ing sound re-echoed fi •ot a the neighbouring hills, and all was over. A few c lrops of blood, a few scattered remnants, scarcely rec •ognisable as ever having be • longed to humanity, wi me all that now remained of the once proud, the genero as, the brave chieftain, who, by thus choosing a doe m which brought total earthly annihilation, seemed di !terrained to leave behind him no record of the basely-faNen chief, the hated name of traitor ! NEW MONT HLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Hood leads off ' this Number with a highly diverting article he: tded " News from China, " which consists of a correspondence between a Mrs. Jemima Budg( and her son, who had gone out to China on a a ammercial speculation. The chief epistolary characteristic of the mother is a remarkable indiffer' once to orthography ; that of her son, a strong te ndency to be too poetical in his prose—in other . words, to lie as fast as a horse can gallop. These; two peculiarities are turned to most amusing a et ;ount in the correspondence of the amiable co uple. Here is one of the young man's yarn s; the incident is supposed to have occurred wh die the was sailing in the Chinese seas :—" We can ie a oross a striking proof of the deleterious effects of opium, namely, a man-of war's launch with a midshipman and twelve hands in her, all as i list as tops, and .as hard to be waked it p as Diletor Watts's sluggard. Luckily, there was ocean's of cold pig at hand, and did'nt we give it th em with the gravy which at last l' ,rought them ,to their senses, when it appeared 'shat hearing so much talk about opium, and:finding a package of it adrift, they had chersTed a little out of curiosity, which being An overdose had sent them all into the land of Nod.. Poor fellows, it was lucky we picked them up, before falling into the power of the pigtails, i ustead of the ninetails; for they had two doze n apiece on rejoining their ship, but one of the m, a deep old file, took another dose of the apium beforehand, and so was flogged in his sleep, they say, without feeling it." We subjo in another specimen of the young traveller's pow -•ers of mendacity, which is as compact a co . Ilsection of circumstantial lies as any perpetrate al by the notorious Baron Mun chausen : The Chinese towns are very . populous, so much so that there isn'tr oom for half the inhabitants on dry land , and according] y hundreds and thousands of families live, where yc rt would'nf, namely, on the water, in regular swim - ming houses, with no ground floors. This arrangemien t of course prevents the rising gene ration from playing as ours does about the streets, so they play about the deck instead, which being wet and slippery, it often happens that some of them, especially what you call the little toddles, plump overboard, and. we xuld . be drowned but for a great empty calibash that flair mothers tie to their backs, and which acting like a cork jacket keeps the dear little ducklings afloat, 6,1 their industTious parents are at leisure to haul them - out with a long boat hook. An operation they never hurry themselves about, knowing the darlings are perfectly safe, as well as doing their own washing, s whine ese young uns from the same sense of securit y- are fae from particular about their footing, but drip in and flu at as if they were paid for doing it, hi :e the aquatie, actors at Sadler's Wells. Well, you see when the n andarin boats bore down on the gun-brig she bega a to fire away like blazes, right and left, and one or two of the random balls falling among the floatini houses, the proprietors considered it as a notice; to i luit, and away they went helter skelter—sove qz ci pen, which is the French for devil take the hindermost , some up the river and some into the canals,—when e Water-lanes and River , terraces moving off in double quick, with such screaming and hov cling, tl ley say, as never was heard. In such a skuri .y the ji tvertiies got knocked over board, poor thing ;s, like fun, scme of the unpleasant or snubbed chili' iren in lai..gefiuniiies perhaps getting a kick on pur pose ; hos vever .in they went, plump after plump, ',lke 'frogs, frightenkals into a pond—the brig all the chattering while kicking up a regular smothe r, and away like thornier as long as she could get an answs.a. and rather lo tiger. At last; she sto pp ed firing, and the s mole clew ring off lo and behold there was not a mai idarin boi it in sight—the swimming town had gone into the • country, and all round the ship the sea was alive wi th little Chineses brought down by the eb" b tide, all floating about with their life-preservers, ai id scream; ng like Sea-gulfTfor their absent fathers an 3. mothers. As common ht insanity va, suired they wereall picked up - and - taken abo a n d th e bi g, one hundred and sixty four in all, fro m r grog apiece, whi e year upwards, and after a little warm .eh some t took naturally and others quite the revers( .1, the. captai n sent them all off in a gig and a cutte s, with a ti 'bite ensign to each boat. Not that the C' aines( would mind firing on a flag of truce, which tl ley di d so unmercifully, that the officer in charge, out, hut sanity, gave orders to pull round, and brought 'all the little innocents on board again, as well as sortie six or seven more which they had picked up in the's.- pal ;sage. Well, when Captain , saw them all col tie ba ck on his hands, he looked at them, then' say, l ike as i ogre, for he thought the bar barians had conti i ve d it on purpose, to prevent his fighting his ship, and he swore, so soon as the flood made, he wool, 1 heave the brats overboard, every cherub, and let t hem fide back again. But when the time come, bein g a Family man himself, his heart always misgave, —so the children remained aboard,-- and there was h e' Majesties gunbrig the turned into a regular I. is undlingilirospital. By goodluck ; cur commaisder took me with him on a visit to the s ig., and sure enough she was literally swarming wit' s lib le flat-faced Cdhinese, some put to bed three ani:: four in a hammock, and the rest sprawl ing about e deck( s each looked after by a strapping he-moseins Id s i x f a at high,—the carpenter's nurseling excepted, s v 'Oi e h, be') ng called off to a job, he had tied by the 1e , 6 - • r i n g bolt. And oh, thinks Lif my dear 171 " he rip - motiai could but see the boatswain ! a great, re, 1.4 iced m ( miter, and almost as hairy as the beast that sue &led BA artmlus and Romus, a sitting on a carrona with a brown foundling on each knee, one getti g ua:l, and the other sick, from being tried with a ip a sq.because it couldn't soft quid of tobacco, manag e liar,• • And then the noise !—for at least half of I biscuit . I d the children were scr eechin g like para keets" do; et think for want of toys, far one had a marlinspik ' and another the tar-brush, and another an old SW ab, but by degrees the whol e kit of inno cents on deck 1 their rapes as if King isd set up , Herod ha , I :got among them—and nohocly knew why. Some rho aght it was at the black cook, and Others THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1, 1842. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE BONDS. The unfortunate position of the parties who became' purchasers of the Treasury bills of Spain, issued through the agency of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, in 1836, has been often alluded.to. A letter publisheA, in one of the Morning Paper*Of to-day, with the sig nature of Sir Isaac attached tb it, makes known the fact, and it is one with which the public are not at all familiar—that the worthy Baronet was made the me dium of another calamitous loan arrangement in the same year. Sir Isaac was, if this meeting be pro perly interpreted, for his mode of expressing himself is far from lucid, induced by the representations made to him at the period referred to, to get up a loan for Portugal, to the extent of about a million sterling. According to the terms entered into between Portu gal and Brazil, at the time of the separation of the co lony f.oin the mother country, the former became responsible to the latter for a portion of her public debt. Sir Isaac says in his letter, which is addressed in the way of remonstrance to the Conseiller De Paiva Preira da Sa, that he was assured, in treating for the loan in question with Baron Moncorvo, him self, and Mr. Vanzeller, that " the claim of the Por tuguese Government upon Brazil was for 1,800,0001.; and that there was no doubt that the right to at least 800,0001. would be established." But Sir Isaac was further under the firm impression, and it is to this point he desires more particularly to call the atten tion of the Conseiller De Paiva Preira da Sa, that the indivi4uals named were "all convinced the Brazilian full powers tor the settlement of the debt would ar rive by the next o: by the succeeding packet, and that in a few months it would be settled and discharged. This last assurance was, he proceeds to observe, strongly urged as a reason why he might " with per fect confidence enter into the proposed contract," and on this ground it was that he of his own accord stated, that although it was an invariable rule for a Govern ment raisiag money on loan not to exercise the power of redemption below par, yet in this instance, as the account would be so speedily settled, he would consent to fix 90 per cent. as the price for redemption. The upshot of the matter appears to be this. Sir Isaac was, in the Portuguese-Brazilian arrangement, made a cat's-paw of, pretty much in the same way that he was in the Spanish Treasury bond matter with whibli he allowed himself to be mixed up in the same yew' of 1836. Portugal suspended payment of her dividends almost as soon as she got the money out of British pockets, and Brazil has never from that time to the present come to any settlement at all. It re sults that there is due to the bondholders at interest, there being, out of eleven dividends payable from June, 1837, to December, 1842, four discharged and one advertised, 211. 55., which, added to the capital at the redemption price of 90 per cent., gi;res to the holder a claim of 11 1/. ss. on each 1001. bond. This liability it is proposed by the Portuguese ?end Bra zilian authorities to get rid of by an issue of bonds at the rate of 85 per cent., the only reason that can be assigned for taking those high figures as a standard in the case, being that such was the value of a Brazilian bond years back, when the business was first brought under discussion. The bondholders ask, and with much reason, why, after being grievously prejudiced by the bankruptcy of Portugal, and the deception practised, they should have thrust upon them, in dis charge of the Portuguese obligation, a Brazilian bond at the price of 85 per cent., which will fetch, at the market value of the day, no more than 55 ? Upon this principle there would be a confiscation of 30 per cent., and Sir Isaac, with an energy greatly becominp; a man in the situation in which he is placed, com plains of the contemplated injustice, for such it un questionably is; but the injustice committed by Spain in the Treasury bond affair is, it must be al lowed, incomparably more gross and outrageous. The Treasury bonds were redeemable instruments, having but six and twelve months to run in the man ner of bills of exchange, and payment of them was actually advertised in the London journals, but the holders never got their money. Not a fraction of either the principal or interest was ever paid them, whereas the holders of the Portuguese bonds, under Sir Isaac's contract of 1836, have already received four dividends, while a fifth is advertised for payment. And yet, in the case of the wretched Treasury bond dupes of Spain, nothing in the shape of a remon strance, or even of a complaint, has ever emanated from the pen of Sir Isaac. The sufferers would be thankful for an exposition of all the circumstances and instructions under which the Spanish Treasury bills u ere' ushered into circulation ; but Sir Isaac turns a deaf ear to their applications for them, and there is no document whatever before them to show that he has ever once raised his voice against the shameful fraud which, through his influential and re spectable name, was practised upon them. Sir Isaac, to be of any service to his clients in the case of Portugal and Brazil, 'should afford some proof of his zeal, consistency, and impartiality, as the gene ral course of action. The first of the ensuing month will, he is reminded, complete the sixth anniversary of the Spamish Treasury bill delusion. The Portuguese 'Government seems disposed to quarrel with the bondholders, on the ground that, in their endeavours to obtain an adjustment of their claims, they have been over-urgent, as if, indeed, they were the wrong-doers in the case. Sir Isaac meets the insinuation in the following manner : " Is it not rather hard that the bondholders should be subected to the imputation conveyed by your let ter, when, after being assured at the outset that the redemption would take place in a few months, they have waited for it six years with a patience almost unexampled, and when their recent remonstrances have been directed, not to Portugal, but to the Bra zilian Government ?" The interrogatory will admit of but one reply. It is extremely. hard, and in fact disgusting ; but, on a comparison of the two cases, there is again this material distinction to be made in favour of Sir Isaac's Spanish constituency. The Treasury bondholders have payment stipulated for on a given date under the authority of the Queen and Cortes, but in the instance of Portugal there is no stipulation, no specific pledge whatever. All was left to vague indefinite assurance.—Post. EFFECTS OF BAD TRADE ON THE PROVISION MARKET . The Dublin Evening Mail, of Wednesday last, in an article on the panic in the provision trade, remarks, that " the suspension of business in the manufacturing districts of England" is, no doubt, one great cause of the present depression in the prices of agricultural produce; and it very naturally anticipates, that " the Corn-law repealing partywillTherefore contend, that the injury done to the agricultural interest by a stag nation of manufacturing industry, is greater than would result from the repeal of our remaining pro tecting duties." That its anticipations on this head will be amply verified, we firmly believe ; and we must confess., that we hardly know a better argument for convincing a farmer of the injury he suffers by the food monopoly, than the one alluded to by the Mall. We are continually hearing statements about the cheapness of food, in consequence of Sir Robert Peel's tariff; but we feel persuaded, that, in many instances, the fall in prices is entirely owing to the extreme po verty of the labouring classes. It would be easy to bring abundance of proof in support of our opinion on this head : we shall, however, merely direct attention to the enormous falling-off which has lately taken place in the importation of sheep and pigs into this country from Ireland. We learn from Porter's "Progress of the Nation," that, in 1832, the number of sheep imported. into Liver pool from Ireland was 98,337 ; of pigs, 149,090 ; and that, during the years of manufacturing prosperity which succeeded that period, this branch of traffic con tinued steadily to increase up to 1837, in which year our imports into Liverpool were:--sheep, 225,050; pigs, 595,422. What the amount of our annual im portations have been since that period, we have not been able to ascertain ; but we have now . before us an account of the total number of cattle imported into Liverpool from Ireland, in 1842, up to the 24th Oct. inclusive, from which it appears that there have been only 145,582 pigs, and 108,543 sheep. For the pun, pose of comparison , : B let us suppose that importation, during the remaining ten we e k s o f the present year, goes on at the same rate ; and the arrivals in 1842, as 7 compared with 183, will be -37. 1842. Decrease. Sheep...... 225,050 133,332 ,$ 91 , 718 Pigs ...... 595, 422 172,688 429,734 Now, in the face of such evidence as this, which is merely a sample of what might be furnished, is it not utterly absurd to attribute any considerable share of the late reduction in the price of provisions to the working of the new tariff? We observe that the country gentlemen are still most indefatigable in their effortv to persuade the farmers that there is not the slightest reason to be alarmed about either the new sliding scale or the tariff. Per 'haps they are not very far wrong in the observations they make on that head ; but the facts we have stated, as to the falling off in the consumption of animal food in the manufacturing districts, will show that no tariff will protect the farmers from ruin, if the manufactur ing population should become so impoverished as to food. —Manchester Guardian. landlords no sinister interest in de the farmers that there is endeavouringnbc e )t E Qului e aer s yi l e i t h ol te Pi s tau i r' r ec e Pht ; i' s 'is.e o se n ufao t obe alarmed ? Will not the farmers promise high rents in proportion to their con fidence in future high prices ? Do they not believe that prices depend on the land ? Can those who wish to hire land have, on such a question. less disinterested advisers than thcss who have land to let? We begin these doctrines, an d it may b e a d v i sa bl e to suspect that th e lando w n ers have a deep design in propagating t a tfe farmersntig should nourish the same kind of sus picion.—ED. Sun.] Accounts from the country state that the winter has s?t in with great severity, and that such keen frost and heavy falls of snow have not occurred in the month of October for many years. said the NewfOundland dog—however, the secret came out at last. "Forward, there ! " sings out the first leftenant, " what is that noise?" " Why then if you please, sir," says the coxon, "it's all along of the ship's monkey. lle's got so infarnal jealous of our nuss?n and fondlin the Chinese babbies that he's crept round on the sly and give 'em all a bite a piece! " In the present chapter of the " Barnabys in America," the scene of action is removed from New Orleans to Philadelphia. Major Allan Barnaby . has been unfortunate enough to make a slight mistake at cards, by which accidental blunder he has contrived to win three or four thousand dollars. Being a modest man, he is naturally overwhelmed with confusion at the idea of having committed such an inadvertence, so packs up and packs off from New Or leans with tile greatest possible expedition, and on reaching Philadelphia endeavours, through the agency of his clever, scheming wife, to ingratiate himself with the broad-brimmed, drab-breeched natives. These incidents are hit off in Mrs. Trollope's liveliest and most caustic manner. " Reminiscences of a Medical Stu= dent" consist of a love-story, told with feeling and simplicity. " The Five Incumbents" is amusing, but there is too much of it. It might have been curtailed with advantage. The re mainder of the articles are neither better nor worse than usual. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Fraser is not quite so good as usual this month, though containing one or two articles of more than average merit. The first, entitled " Aff glianistan," is one of these ; it is a notice of Mr. Masson's admirable volumes of travels in this remote quarter of India, and discusses the pro priety of the late expedition to Caubul in a temperate and rational spirit. The cursory sketch of Dust Mahoined's adventurous career is cleverly drawn up, and will interest all who have the slight est acquaintance with East Indian politics. For the substance of the sketch, which is necessarily much abridged, the Reviewer is indebted to Mr. Masson. " Midway" is a rambling, desultory essay —or, rather, an unconnected series of para graphs on a variety of themes, scarce one of which is of the slightest interest, The only good remark we have been able to discover in it is the following, which by the bye, is quoted from Madame De Stael :—" In all circumstances of life you may observe that as soon as a man per ceives you are in pressing need of his assistance, he almost invariably cools towards you." This remark is more in the spirit of Rouchefoucault than of the authoress of " Corinne," who, if' we remember rightly, does not often deal in such bitter, truthful sarcasm. From the " Memoirs of Sir Murray Maxwell," which we regret to state, are chiefly remarkable fbr their prosi ness, we quote the only two anecdotes worth reading : During this long interval there occurred but little either to the subject of this memoir, or to those most intimately connected with him, of which it is neces sary to make mention. Once, indeed, Captain Max well had well nigh lost his life in a way which would have mortified the most casual of his acquaintance, not to speak of the agony which the accident would have caused to those more deeply interested in him. It happened, that in the course of a ramble near the Devil's Point, at the entrance of Hamoaze, he took, on a certain occasion, a flying leap over a loose stone wall that ran in front of - him. The leap was a se rious one, as may be guessed when we state that the height of the wall was such as to hide from the view of the leaper all that lay beyond till he was actually in the air. And that which did lie beyond was a quarry or pit, measuring not less than sixty feet in depth. Captain Maxwell saw his danger after the spring had been taken, and, with rare presence of mind, averted it. He dropped one foot while topping . the wall, so as to catch the upper part of the coping, and the stones happening to be weighty, and to hold well to gether, he succeeding in throwing himself back again upon his own ground. In speaking of this narrow escape he used not unfrequently to advert to another instance in which his agility in leaping had come un expectedly into play. When fitting out the Ulysses, near Long Reach in the Thames, he landed, on a cer tain occasion, with his friend Captain Nourse, and strolling into the country, came suddenly on a party of country lads who were practising at a bar. The two officers stopped to watch proceedings, upon which the countrymen entered with them into a sort of skirmish of wit, in the course of which they chal lenged the blue jackets to jump. Captain Maxwell immediately took up the gauntlet, and raising the bar about a foot and a half above the highest point which they had yet attempted, he, without any apparent exertion, cleared it. The countrymen were quite amazed, while Captain, then Lieutenant Nourse, ex cl timed in high glee, " There, you land lubbers,— can you do anything like that ?" "Children" is a pleasing sketch, whose pre vailing tone is kindly and cordial. The writer is a great amateur of boys and girls, whence we conclude lie has long since resigned all preten sions to a state of single blessedness. In 00 Notes by a Reader of History" we find this curious passage :—" The following is a summary of the exploits of a Queen of Syria, Cleopatra by name :—she had been the wife of three Kings of Syria, and the mother of four. Two of her hus bands she had been the death of; and of her sons, one she murdered with her own hand, and would have served another after the same fashion, only he poisoned her instead." An amiable couple, this mother and son, and worthy to compare with Agrippina, and her respectable first-born, Nero ! " Hoaxing Histories" is a passable story, in which the manifold grievances of a fat old gen tleman in the Kent-road are related with some humour. In the observations on the " Ashburton Treaty" the writer boldly ex presses his disappointment at the result of Lord Ashburton's mission to America, and states that his Lordship was about the most unfit individual that England could have selected to settle her dispute about the Boundary question with the United States. " Dickens's American Notes" is a very disparaging review of this sketchy and gossiping work; some of the Reviewer's stric tures are just enough, but on the whole he is too severe. We quote from the article headed " Midway" a whimsical anecdote of the present King of Prussia : His Majesty, when taking a morning walk in the neigh bourhood of Potzdam shortly after his accession, ob served an old woman belabouring,a donkey " with all her means." The beast would not budge an inch, and as the cart at his tail contained the morning milk intended for the principal families in Potzdam, the old lady's perplexity pretty nearly equalled her rage. The King, after enjoying for a few moments this specimen of the " contortion of the sybil without her inspira tion," approached, and inquired whether the donkey had been seized with a sudden fit of sulkiness, or was at 'some of his " old limes." "Ah ! Sir," said the disconsolate dame, " the accursed brute knows well enough what he is at. He wants to ruin me. It being now nearly breakfast time, all my best cus. tomers will be on the look-out for this milk-cart. I shall lose every soul of them, and all through the obstinate malice of this malignant beast. But if," here she hesitated and looked imploringly at the King,—" if a fine gentleman like yourself, Sir, would assist a poor wo nan, we might manage the animal between us fast enough." " What would you have me do ?" inquired the King. " Just lay hold of him by the ears, and while you tug away with all your might, I'll anoint his hind quarters with the cudgel, and off he'll start, nor stop till he has reached the town." His Majesty did as he was desired, and the donkey, seeing the odds against him, went on his way Itt a very tolerable pace. On returning froin his stroll, the King related to his Royal Consort the co mical occurrence which had made him for once milk purveyor to the good people of Potsdam. "My dear Fritz," said the queen, remonstratingly, " when you were Crown Prince this sort of thing was very well, and, indeed, highly amusing ; but as King —" " Nonsense, my love," cried his Majesty, " what have I done in this more than was done over and over again by my late father? Many an ass did he help forward during his reign. SO you see I have a Royal irecedent in my favour." PaisoN DISCIPLINE. - A few days since Daniel O'Neale, a prize fighter, who has fought several battles in the ring, died in the workhouse of St. George-in-the• East, to which place he had been re moved about five weeks since, on his release from the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, where he had suffered twelve months' imprisonment and hard la bour, for an assault of an aggravated nature on a labouring coal-whipper in the district. The deceased was better known by the name of Poacher Neale, and previous to his incarceration was a remarkably tall athletic man, of great strength, and in good health. He came out greatly reduced—a mere shadow of his former self—and his wife and his friends could scarcely recognise him. When Neale was committed for trial, the Magistrate said, " You are a giant in appearance, and possess the strength of a giant, and no ordinary man can stand up against you." T:fis description of O'Neale was correct enough ; be entered the prison a hearty, strong man, in the best of health ; he gradually wasted away, and when he left his place of confine ment he was as helpless as a child. He was removed to the infirmary of the workhouse, where he lingered for a month and died. No inquest has been held on the body, or any information given to the Coroner. WHIMSICAL PROJECT.—A young lady advertises, in:a morning paper, for some cancelled postage-stamps to paper her drQssing-room. She states that she has collected nearly 16,000, but she finds that insufficient for the purpose, and will be :obliged to any good natured persons assisting her in her whimsical project. SPIgIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. I PORTUGAL. I FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. I The Tagus steam-ship arrived at Falmouth at two pLOßE.—A g ricultural dinners continue to n.m., on Friday, with the Peninsular mails. She left be followed by speeches from those who attend Gibraltar on the 20th Oct., Cadiz 21st, Lisbon 24th, 'them, which are likely to spoil Sir Robert Peel's Oporto 25th, and Vigo same day; haying fifteen appetite for h;s own. At these scenes of former passengers. hilarity, where rampant hopes of an approaching LISBON, OCT. 24.—0 n the 20th inst., the Prince change of Government from Whig to Tory were • de Joinville, and his brother, the Duke d'Aumale, the order of the day, the farmers were wont to arrived here from Brest, on board the French frigate congratulate each other with the assurance that , Belle Poule, escorted by the Coquette sloop-of-war, under Sir Robert Peel's auspices, "protection and the Asmodee steamer. The two Princes landed to agriculture" would be secure. No rude hand in the course of the day, and proceeded to visit the would then venture to raise itself against Queen, who had sent her own carriages to convey. the " landed interests," much less to reduce I them, and by whom, as well as by her husband, it the duties which operated as a barrier to the appears, they were received with the most flattering importation of foreign corn and the introduc- attentions. The Prince de Joinville, after a short stay Lion of foreign cattle. " To-morrow shall be as here, will proceed to Rio de Janeiro, to receive his to-day, and much more abundant . l" was affianced bride, the Emperor's sister, Donna Januaria; chaunted in all the triumphant notes which the Duke d'Aumale's destination is to join the French speech and song could supply. Sir Robert Peel army in Africa. Both Princes, on the day after their is Premier; and how changed the scene ! From arrival, went on board her Britannic Majesty's every corner of the land where the farmers meet, sohooner Lynx, to visit her commander Lieutenant at market, or at dinner—the voice of mourning, Burslem, by whom they were received with all the lamentation, and woe, is heard—deploring pre- honours due to their high rank. They have since sent depression and indulging in forebodings of then been driving frequently about the city in an coming ruin ! Here and there, the M.P.'s who, open carriage, dressed in plain clothes, and with only faithless to their elle-netnews, consented to be two attendants. made the dupes or the slaves of the Government, Lord Howard has had further interviews with the in the passing of its Corn-law and Tariff—a Go- Duke of Palmella and Senhor Gomes de Castro, on vernment which obtained office on the pretence the tariff question. The Portuguese, it is said, will that the interests of agriculture were threatened snake no reduction on woollen cloths or salt fish, al by the projected changes of the late Ministry— leging the necessity of protecting their own menu endeavour to console their disquieted con- factures, and the fishery company. On woollen stuffs stituents by hoping that things will not turn and fancy articles they are willing to make some re out so bad as their fears suggest. The much- duction, but their consumption here is inconsiderable. abused farmers refuse to be comforted. They With respect to the comparative value of our imports, point to their present altered condition; and ask, woollens amount to about 150,0001., while cottons If results like these show themselves already, reach 800,0001., and the amount might be greatly in what will be the full measure of th e ir calamities creased by - a reduction of duty ; this snakes it con when the competition on which they must now sidered probable that the question may be settled for enter with the foreign corn growers and cattle the present by our accepting the present offers of breeders is brought into full play? We have Portugal; provided her demands on us are not too given illustrations of the dissatisfaction and de- extravagant. spondency manifested 'by the agriculturists at Th e P ortuguese s till cont i nue to levy a h i gher their dinners—not merely in one or two districts, duty on English cheese than on Dutch cheese, con but in every part of the kingdom in which they trary to the evident meaning of the treaty. have been held. Essex, Cambridgeshire, Nor- During the month of August last there entered thamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, the port of Lisbon 107 Portuguese coasting vessels, Hertfordshire—in fact, wherever a meeting of total crews 845, and 'tonnage, 4,977. The list of agriculturists was held, and speeches on the state Portuguese vessels employed in distant or foreign and prospects of the landed interests made, there trade, and of foreign vessels of all nations, was as fol was heard strong expressions of dissatisfaction lows :—Portuguese vessels 32, crew 404, tonnage with those measures of the Government which 4,506; English vessels, 32, crew 447, tonnage, 5,011 ; had relation to their interests—intermingled Swedish and Norwegian vessels 10, crew 94, tonnage with denunciations of Sir R. Peel fbr his decep- 1,677 ; Danish vessels 9, crew 76, tonnage 1,004: tive policy, and upbraidings of their members Russian vessels 4, crew 43, tonnage 756 ; Dutch ves for supporting him in passing those measures into sels 3, crew 18, tonnage '273; Austrian vessels 2, laws. crew 26, tonnage 735 ; Neapolitan vessels 2, crew STANDARD.—We have lately had in the 21, tonnage 353 ; Brazilian vessel 1, crew 20, ton- Opposition journals much new fbund sympathy nage 303; Mecklenburg vessel 1, crew 10, tonnage 176. with ,the productive classes, more particularly It will be seen that the number of ships of all na farmers, who are described to be in the road to tions, besides English and Portuguese, amounts to ruin opened by the tariff and the modified Corn- exactly 32, and their crews and tonnage to 308 and law; again, the same journals have been loud in 5 , 987, complaint of the jacobinical spirit which, by ex- The Suspension Bridge which has been some time empting from the Property-tax all incomes under constructing has been completed at Oporto, and was 1501. a-year, makes, it is said, for the first time placed in its situation last week. (the assessed taxes being of course forgotten) There is a report that the Government are making a distinction between the several amounts of a loan in England; the National has alluded to it property as objects of taxation. It is surely a several times since Gomes de Castro came in, but the little ungracious in those who complain of the ex- Correio denied it. The Exchequer bills have not yet ,ercise of the jacobinical spirit in which incomes come out. of less than 1501. per annum have been exempted, Sir C. Napier came here by the Montrose steamer to complain now of " the violation of the on Friday, and remains; he was saluted by the Poe graduation principle." The exemption in tuguese forts on coming in.' question is surely an application of the graduated scale in those cases which only can seem to call for it; as to the " graduation principle," illus trated by such cases as follow, it is a simple im possibility. No general law ever was or ever can be so graduated as to meet the circumstances of particular families or particular individuals. If, therefore, the Property-tax stood alone, it would not be liable to objection on this score. But the Property-tax does not stand alone; if it carries in it no principle of graduation, it is accompanied by a compensating principle infinitely more just and more efficient than any principle of graduation embodied in words could be. This principle of compensation is to be found in the modified corn-law and in the tariff. Take the very cases cited by one of our Contemporaries—a lady with a numerous family of her own, and a dependent sister, must surely save more than about 8/. per annum by the reduction in the price of provi sions, and of many other articles of use, conse quent upon the measures by which the Property tax is accompanied. Suppose her family to con sist, in the whole, of eight persons, servants included—and a numerous family can hardly consist of less—will it be said that the ex pense of each will not in the year before us be less by 20s. than in the year that has passed ? The widow with six children again must questionless save more than Si. 12s. upon the food, clothing, lodging, &c., of seven persons; and the naval officer, with five children, must be a gainer in the same proportion. The truth is, that the measures of the last session, taken as a whole, constitute the greatest and most valu able system of relief to persons with small in comes and large families, that was ever vouch safed by the Legislature of any country. Per sons with very small incomes have the benefit in the highest degree; for their domestic expenses are lightened without the imposition of any new burthen; and those immediately above them have a very great balance of gain in the excess of relief above the burthen imposed. They are only the very rich, they whose incomes usually exceed their expenditure by a great deal, that either feel the Property-tax or contribute very materially to the public revenue. Now what would a Property-tax, upon a graduated princi ple, but unaccompanied by any measure of relief, do in the cases cited! The two ladies spoken of; and the naval officer, might have less to pay, perhaps not more than two-thirds of those sums with which they are now charged—but two thirds it must be, or the graduation would amount to a scheme of downright robbery of the rich, to make up the general amount required— and all that they must pay would constitute a dead loss, instead of being balanced, as by the measures of last session it is balanced, by a great gain. We need not repeat it, that no imaginable graduated scale could be adjusted to the different circumstances of different fami lies; that can be done only through articles of consumption : reduce the price of such articles, and you afford a benefit exactly proportioned to the number and burthen of families. If one were to make an estimate of the expense of a family of eight or ten persons in the humbler middle class of life, we are confident that he would find such a family saving 201. or 301. by the measures of last session. But the Property-tax would take this sum from persons not possessing less than 700/. or 1,0001. a-year ; from persons possessing less than 1501. it takes . nothing. We have said all this before. b ut the y who have to contend for truth against the arti ficers of falsehood must count upon the penalty of Sisyphus. TOBACCO TRADE. The new Act regulating the trade in tobacco will come into operation to-day, and therefore it is as well that the dealers should be acquainted with the stringency of the penalties attending its infringement. The following sections are of high importance : " Sec. 3. And be it enacted, that every manufac turer of, dealer hi, or retailer of tobacco who shall re ceive, or take into or have in his possession, or who shall sell, send out, or deliver, any tobacco or snuff which shall have been manufactured with, or shall have added thereto or mixed therewith, or into or amongst which there shall have been put, either be fore or whilst in process of manufacture, or after being manufactured, or in which there shall be found on exa mination thereof any other material, liquid, sub stance, matter, or thing than, as respects tobacco, water only, or in roll tobacco water and oil only, and as respects snuff, water, or water and salt, or alkaline salts only, or lime water in snuff known as Welch or `lrish snuff, shall forfeit 200/. " Sec. 4. And be it enacted, that all tobacco and snuff which shall have been manufactured with, or shall have added thereto or mixed therewith, or into or atnongs t which there shall have been put, either before or whilst in process of manufacture, or after being manufactured, or which on examination shall be found to contain any other material, liquid, sub stance, matter, or thing than, as respects tobacco, water only, or in roll tobacco, water and oil, and as respects snuff, water, or water and salt, or alkaline salts only, or lime water in snuff known as Welch or Irish snuff, shall, wheresoever the same may be found, be forfeited. " Sec. 7. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for any officer of Excise, at any time that lie shall see fit, to take a sample or samples of any tobacco or snuff unmanufacturcd, or in process of manufacture, or manufactured, in the stock, or possesion of any manufacturer of, dealer in, or retailer of tobacco, paying for the same, if demanded, at the current whdlesale price of such tobacco or snuff." --- There is not at present, we believe, any probability that Parliament will be assembled before February ; at all events, it is quite certain that Mi nisters will not advise her Majesty to summon the Legislature before the state of the revenue on the expiration of the next quarter shall be before the country.—Herald. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Wednesday next for signifying her Majesty's approbation of the Lord Mayor elect ; after which ceremony, Wednes day, being the first day of Michaelmas Term, his Lordship will receive the Judges, &c., at his residence in George-street. NEWFOUNDLAND COD FISIIERIES.—Th e Iris, ar rived at Fecamp from the Banks of Newfoundland, has 30,900 codfish ; and reports the Alexander, Mag nau, with a full cargo, and several other vessels from Fecamp, and states the fisheries to be very successful. SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inques was held a few days ago, in the village of Pontantown before W. Bonville, Esq., on the body of Mr. Joseph Griffiths, accidentally drowned in a shallow mill leet near that place, under most singular circumstances. It appears that on Tuesday deceased had occasion to go to the village of Llangendeirne on business, and that on his return home in the dusk of the evening, within a hundred yards of his house, he had to cross a narrow footballs:lF of wood of two planks, covered •NVith stones and clods of grass ; there happened to be a hole in the centre of the bridge, into which his foot slipped, up to his knee , and he fell backwards, with his head in the water, which was about twelve inches deep. No person being present at the time, he was unable to extricate himself from this singular and perilous situation, and was consequently suffocated. Some time afterwards, a woman coming' that way discovered the deceased a lifeless corpse, suspended by his foot, his head only being under the water. Ver dict—" Accidentally drowned." —Lancaster Guardian. ALARMING FlRE.—Sunday evening, shortly before ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensile chemical works and vinegar distillery belonging to Messrs. Beaufov and Co., situate at the bottom of Lavender hill, Wandsworth-road. The flames were first dis covered by a person passing the spot. An alarm was instantly given, and the private engine kept on the establishment, as well as two others, were speedily got to work. From the inflammable nature of the premises the fire spread with great rapidity, and the reflection was very plainly seen from all parts of the metropolis. Several of the brigade engines were dis patched in the direction, and a good supply of water being obtained, the flames were confined to the outer warehouses and sheds, the damage done to which is very considerable. No less than six engines from London were on the spot, and a number of brigade men were ordered to remain on the premises during the night by Mr. Braidwood, who was present with the Watling-streetengine. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, OCT. 28 . --The sales effected in Foreign wool during the past week have been only to a very moderate extent. The de mand at present is principally for the lower and middle qualities, and German lambs' and dead sheep's wool are little more in request, while the consumption of fine wools seems to be, and for some time has been, much on the decline. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, OCT. 28.—Sales of English wool have not increased this week, the manufacturers still limiting their purchases to their immediate wants. Prices may be quoted the same as last week. TRADE OF LEEDS.—The markets at our Cloth Halls have been duller this week than last, and there appears to be a total absence of speculation for goods of any description. The principal articles bought are fancy cloakings, in particular patterns, with a few beavers and double milled tweeds, whilst fine and middle qualities of cloths are as dull of sale as at any period of the year. There has been a moderate busi ness done in the warehouses this week, but it has been principally to purchasers from the country and from Ireland. A few wholesale buyers have been in the market, but they have confined themselves to as sorting their stock to a very limited extent. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The demand to day for pieces, which is not very animated, runs on heavy goods, such as lastings, damasks, moreens, and low Orleans cloths ; of the latter article the market is not very abundantly supplied, and fair prices are given. In fancy goods the condition of the manufac turers is very . distressing, and the sales made at ruin ously low prices, without any prospect of the slightest improvement, as the winter trade is usually for plain fabrics. In yarns we cannot hear anything better, but rather the contrary; the adoption of short time is getting more general, and appears to be the only safe guard to put an end to the present extremely low prices, which we learn are below what they were ever known before. There is still a dulness in the wool trade, and the purchases made are of a very limited character. Noils and brokes are steady in request, but at a shade lower in price. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, OCT, 28.—We cannot alter our report of the woo l market this week. Stocks continue very bad; the demand is limited, and prices are firm at last week's quotations. TRADE OP MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING. — Cloth of every description is now lower than at any former period during the last eventful four or five years. A sale was made on Tuesday, of 3,000 pieces of hand-loom cloth, 66's, weighing 41b. to 41b. 2 oz., at 4s. a piece of 28 yards—thus 3,000 pieces of calico were actually sold for no more than 6001. It is im possible thus to go on. The most sanguine in the trade heretofore, are evidently beginning to think that no,benefiting and timely remedy can be applied, even if there was the disposition to apply one. Twist is again the turn in favour of the buyers, though it is not so depressed as cloth. Our winter prospects are frightful.—Leeds Mercury. • ---------- EFFECTS OF TILE FALL or PRICES.—The land lords in Ireland, like the landlords in England, having in general mortgaged their estates, see that the fall of prices will place their creditors in possession, and they begin to call out for equitable adjustment. We have heard that phrase before, and Colonel Thompson interpreted it, we recollect, to mean a tax levied exclu h sively on the landown ers, for the benefit theofp 0f t manu facturers, equal to the sum which the C orn -l aw h as ann ually, since 1815, taken out of the pockets people. ES OF INSURANCE.—WC are giv en t o under ll.iT stand that, owing to the serious Insurancelosses which have re cently Companies generally, en n a s N u , e s r t y a i ned b y lire unanimous ' detvnin a ti on has been come to amongst them to make a considerable:advance in the rates of premium for the insurance of cotton mills and Liverpool a nd, will and Man chester w arehouse risks, which, we are infor med , come into immediate operation.—Manchester G ua rd ia n . RAISING A WRECK. On d A ia l n on . day morning last, a valuable wreck, namely, that of a first-class steamer, called the Mountaine er, ri sunken about two years since near the Sw raised by means Y or C4 ' ill on the beach, in theon the western coast, was presenceosvernm G o ve rnment l l igi l l a tc rg rs e , i r n d m p b l o a r ced of persons who had assembled to witne ss ' the undertaking. The vessel is the property of the Swansea and Liver pool Steam Packet Company, and cost 20,0001. MELANCHOLY EVENT. THREE LIVES LOST. Sunday morning a most melancholy accident oc curred in the river Ouse at Turn Head, near Selby, by which three lives were lost—a mother in the bloom of life and her two children—and three others were most providentially preserved. We have received the following particulars of this sad accident :—Mr. David Broadhead, captain of the vessel called the Hopewell, belonging to Mrs. Jolly, of this city, had been to the Silkstone Pits and loaded the ves sel with coal. • There were on board Captain Broadhead, his brother, his wife, aged twenty-two, and his three children, viz., 'William, four years of age, George, three years old, and Henry, nearly three months. On Sunday morning, at one o'clock, the vessel reached Turn Head in returning to York, where it was made fast, and in a few minutes after wards the captain and his family retired to rest in the cabin, and his brother in the forecastle. Previously to this the pumps had been tried, and as no water could be obtained the vessel was judged to be all right and safe. In a few hours afterwards, however, the captain was suddenly awoke, and jumping up saw the water running into the hatchway, the vessel it seems having sprung a leak, and was in a sinking state. His first impression was to warn his wife of the impending danger, but he was so paralysed that he was unable to utter a single word. He seized hold of her, and she got out of bed, all of which was the work of a moment. Two of the eldest children, viz., William and George, were lying on the fl oor , an d taking them both by the arms lie attempted to make his escape, but the latter child unfortunately fell back into the cabin. The water was now rushing in with such impetu osity that the captain found it impossible to get out, and most probably had not his brother, who had been awoke, and had got out of the forecastle, come to his assistance, he would have been drowned. As it was he was obliged to wait till the cabin filled before he could get out. Ile then made an attempt to save his wife, but found it was impossible to do so, and after uttering an exclamation, " Oh, David !" she sunk in the cabin to rise no more alive, all these distressing circumstances occurring in less time than has been taken up in the narration-of them. The captain, his brother, and the child, then got into the boat, the two former having nothing on but their shirts, and the latter his night-clothes; they were all in a pitiable condition, being dripping wet from head to foot, and suffering extremely from the cold, Captain Broad head and the child were then put ashore, and the brother remained to see if either of the bodies floated out of the cabin. The captain then proceeded to a farmhouse about half a mile cff. When he arrived there, lie was so benumbed with the wet and cold that he could scarcely walk, and under such circum stances one would have thought that any one possess ing the common feelings of humanity would have ex tended to him that sympathy and ready assistance which his case seemed to demand. Far different, however, according to our informant's statement, was the case. On arriving at the house, Mr. Broadhead knocked at the door, and shouted as loud as he could to make himself heard. In a few minutes the occupier asked him what he wanted, when the captain briefly narrated to him the melan choly accident that had taken place, and asked him for shelter. About twenty minutes elapsed before the door was opened, and on getting into the house he found that it was then half-past five o'clock. He asked for the loan of some old dollies to cover his nakedness, but he was told they had none : at length the man servant fetched him part of an old shirt, which lie put en, and after pressing hard, obtained some other articles of clothing. It was at least an hour before the brother could get anything to put on. After he had put the child into the bed which the man-servant had left, Mr. Brolulhead went back to the vessel, and suc ceeded in taking out of the cabin his wife and one of the children ; the other had not been found up to Tuesday evening. 'We might state some other facts connected with the subsequent conduct of the occupier of the above house, who seems to have acted on the principle of the priest and the Levite, but our limits prevent us from enlarging upon them. By way of contrast, however, we may observe that the distressed captain met with a good Samaritan in the person of the landlord of the Boot public-house, at Barlby, who behaved with great kindness towards him, provided him his dinner, &c., and without expecting " fee or re ward." On Sunday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Boot public-house, Barlby, on view of the bodies, by Mr. M. Pearson, the Coroner of Selby, and after hear ing the evidence the Jury returned a verdict of " Ac cidental death" in each case. The bodies were re moved to York on Sunday evening, and were interred on Tuesday afternoon in the churchyard of St. Mary, Castlegate. The event has caused a very melancholy interest in this city. We may remark, in conclusion, as a singular fact, that three persons in the family of the deceased woman were born, died, and were buried on the same days.—'York Herald. On Wednesday, the new station on the Greenwich railway, communicating - with the Thames Tunnel at the Spa-road, was completed, and will be opened for traffic on Sunday next. By a clause in the Company's Act, it is provided that the trains shall stop twice a day for the conveyance of passengers to and from this place, but the traffic, it is conceived, will render it ne cessary that the trains should stop more frequently. A Sur BETWEEN TIIE CUP AND TIIE LIP.—A mar riage took place on the morning of Wednesday last, at Beaumaris, which caused much merriment, espe cially amongst the youngsters. It appears that the fair lady had been twice asked at church to another young man, and that preparations were being made to have the knot duly tied early in the ensuing week ; when, on Tuesday evening, an old flame of the dam sel, happening to enter the town, determined " to cook up the old broth," and accordingly lost no time in procuring a license. On the next morning, whilst the young man first spoken of was busied in his po tatoe field, indulging doubtless in happy day dreams of the future, intelligence was brought to him that he had been fairly jilted—his intended having been just married by the Rev. Curate at the church of St. Mary. There is nothing, it seems, "like striking while the iron is hot."—Carnarron Herald. lloanin DEATIL—AII inquest was held on Tues day last by Griffith Jones, Esq., Coroner for the County of Merioneth, on the body of John Roberts, lime-burner to Edward Owen, Esq., of Garthyngha red, when it appeared that John Jones had, on the morning of Monday, the 24th inst., been in company with the deceased, drawing lime from the kiln at Garthisaf, and that on his return from breakfast he found John Roberts in the centre of the kiln, plunged up-to his knees in the burning lime. He was in an upright position, with his hands raised above his head The body appeared a complete burning mass ; and on a chain being passed round the trunk, it was dragged out, charred to a cinder. A large iron bar, used for poking the lime from the kiln, was resting near de ceased ; but there was no evidence to show how he had fallen into the kiln. Verdict—" Accidental death." The deceased was sixty years of age, but had not long taken to the lime business.—Carw 2 rvon Herald. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—The annual exhibition of this body took place yesterday at the Ainphithea as a Tuesday prelude, w e nextsu. p p Thereose , to the l‘ Ils Municipal usual,ic. p e l n e u c - inerous attendance of the Irish cle r gy and their allies t t i i • o e n , on —as usual, the rectors, and the great body of the Eng lishelergy were absent—and, also, as usual, the greater portion of the audience c onsisted of females._ The Chairman, Dr. Tattersa ll, made the wonderful disco very that the recent change of Ministry was the im mediate work of Almighty God. We must, in charity, of the extent to Avilich bribery and corruption were suppose that the Re v. Gentleman is wholly ignorant carried at the last general election. The assertion was blash emous , and really, we do not see that much less can be said of the notion of Dr. Tattersall, that Peel is Prime Minister by the especial grace of God, and not by virtue of his own double dealing. The next speaker was the Rev. 11. M‘Noile. A mighty change dream.o Popery"l V all at re member over thelustily s h p e irit of his shouted' isT for mer meetings of the kind—how bitterly he d enounced the Whig Ministefs for continuing the grant to May nooth College—for their sc e how m scheme of national education, and how vigorously he called for the repeal of the Emancipation Act. Now mark the change • he is silent about repeal ; h e no longer comes forward to the front of the stage and shouts " No Popery ;" and he seems to think that, though the Whigs were such terrible heathens for doing certain things, their Tory successors may do exactly the same without exposing themselves to the slightest risk of similar denuncia tions.—L • tverpool Mercury. TIIE DEAD Arave.—A short time ago an inha bitant of Nantes, who was supposed to be dead, was placed in his coffin for interment, but he suddenly gave signs of life on hearing the de profundis chanted, having been simply in a trance, and finally recovered. This happy recovery is about to give birth, says a Nantes journal, to a law-suit of a singular character, for the ex-deceased, after having received the sincere felicitations of his friends, and the extra-sincere ones of his heirs, has been presented by the cure who su perintended the funeral ceremony, with a demand for 19f. for the expenses of the funeral. The resusci tated gentleman, considering it rather hard to pay suc h a sum for a funeral which did not take place, re fused to honour the cure's bill, on the ground that he had not been buried, and that if the cure thought he had, he had better apply to those who had commanded the ceremony. The cure, on the other hand, declares that if the interment had not taken place, it was not his fault, and that, therefore, as he had prepared all matters ne cessary for its proper execution, lie should persist in his demand. So the matter rests at present.—Galig nanis Messenger. TIIE GREAT WALKING FEAT:•EIiWOrth EICC0111.• plished his great feat of walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 successive hours, at Porter's splendid hotel course, Cambridge, Mass., on Wednesday morning, at five o'clock.--New York Herald.. 1) )r jef rial r 5 li e. el3r/ ;„ off _Jo ,ke°