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Longman. ~ umerons scientific botanists, whose names are prominent as authorities, have of late years made it subject of regret. that the English Oak, whose solidity, -.oarability, and strength, have rendered it permanently acl ;Pted in the building of our navies, should, from various assignable causes, stand the likelihood of grow so far scant and degenerated, in the island, as to text to unavailable for the purposes which it is at P r esent employed for. Speculation and forethought ,L l 'c'e) therefore, been at work to discover among the ace of forest trees, some particular tribe or member, r°ch, f rom it s approve d goo d na t ure and qualities, Ida be capable of supplying its place. Many mem 'l's of the arborescent kingdom have been proposed, and their respective properties and qualifications di 'ated on by th e i r se l ec t ors and advocates, with dif ferent degrees of plausibility. But the first horti culturist who, treading in the footsteps of Cobbett, s brought f orwar d the Acacia tree, or Robinia Pseudo Acacia, earnestly with this view, and in this c ountry,, appears to be Mr. Withers, who, convinced of importance of the subject, and its needful con lideration, adduces, in his above excellent work, every 'Obtainable proof and fact corroborative of the worth 'mod advantageous ualities of this species. .4._Preliminarily its hould be remarked that a decided e tinetion must L.e drawn between the two varieties A cacia now existent in this country. The true Acacia (Acacia vera) is a genus which comprises a number of trees, natives exclusively of tropical cli rilates• But the Acacia (the Robinia Pseudo Acacia) he under Mr. Withers' consideration — is, on e cther hand, a hardy tree of North America, and ou ght not to b e confounded with the former, as, if t hey bear any relationship to each other, it is remote ltd unconnected. Of its name "Robinia," and its ',...'".:coductio n into Europe, it may be premised, that it i" John Robin one of the professors of the Jardin e s Plante s , an d ' from whom so many botanical trea sures were subsequently derived, who brought it in in i O 1 during the reign of Henry IV. Linnvaus i .` - ' 6 te r‘vards justly decided that the benefit ought to be - 117 4 memorated by bestowing on the tree the name of e botanist. fo Hitherto the Acacia has been used in England only . 14 24 purposes of ornamental planting. The sym i„‘lT of its form and the elegance of its foliage have 1,"" e it an especial favourite in embellishing our L v ils, ave nues , an d shrubberies. In the summer on its clusters of bloom, not unlike the orange Ij o w er, fill the air with a similar perfume, and in St. Ini ngo, are even made to distil a sweet and Palatable liquor. Evelyn used delightedly to sit in L ile shade of the Acacia, meditative of his " Sylvia :" Palace -yard, h ea d s h a ve reposed beneath it in the old ree-yard, Westminster, and groups of love and s t. 'llY formerly were held under it in the park of Out its utility, it should appear, surpasses its Av ,?:., s u r.y, while its profit rises beyond its beauty ; and, bed Allv. Withers, we proceed to show its importance bet valu e as a sterEng timber tree. The Americans, va ,, t . e r aware of its uses than ourselves, use it for a hill of purposes—for hop-poles, vine-props, hoops, tivs Work, and many sorts of machinery. Especially t or 'Y Prefer it for the stern-posts and knees of vessels, 8 . 1 . which, in our British dockyards, only the finest h e " vt h of the Oak is used. In France it has long .4 11 found profitable to the forester in its use, as fire iiir(!d, and making charcoal, and its grained wood, for iture, puts it in request among turners and / 1 1 , a er 7ers. is ro- The tardiness of the Oak in growth p 1 .,„ : 2 1 , while that of the Acacia is astonishing in its so f:,T,ItY ; and it is a tree, which, on account of the L o '"EtY of its grain and texture, the natia es of j„ ll4 ana style, par excellence, the hard-wood tree. this light, an d o th er co ll a teral views, it is in foittable for ship-building. From a growth of from u rteen to t wen ty y ears , it acqu i re d sufficient bulk to be is pent into b eams an d g i r d ers : a t thi s age the wood _ r ally as co m p ac t an d h ar d as th e O a k, and the older th e wood th e more so lid w ill b e t h e planks. Its re productive powers also in the plantations are such, and so , Pparently indestructible is the vitality of its roots, "at while a thousand plants have been thought to be "adicated from a tract of ground one year, during the ''j le.oeeding tens thousand others have sprung up. It other also upon those i n f er i or san dy so ils, where I -19 . r f ores t-t rees b arely exist. Glancing, therefore, only cursorily over the few able supported s t atements above, Mr. Withers' laud tale enthusiasm for the planting of this tree generally to England, is far from unwarrantable. Cobbett, a flan of the strongest sense and judgment, accounted its value such, that he himself imported some thousands of seeds from America., having the benefit and even safety of his country : at heart. At Boston it is almost wholly used in ship-building, and various other t owns i n America employ it undeviatingly for n aval purposes. It has only to come more actively 1 ' 0 use, to be widely, if not universally adopted. With one conclusive evidence in favour of its great ii l , 7e -Pgth we shall close, viz., that by experi -41,2s made at her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, ~,,""e ,comparative strength of this and other woods, lk a i s °and that while very fine English Oak gave lart a ,,,,' 7 a number expressing its strength, and the th e ea , ° - other specimens of, Oak 1,535, Acacia by oth er :P e rCYlient gave 1,867. This fact, collated with that adda,led, will, we hope, win for Mr. Withers of i 7 l eation L among horticulturists and the guardians 4 ° " 1. Ilary which the importance of the subject ernands. • THE SALAMANDRINE. the Lim e and Parsons, London , 1842 . idea of this poem, if not altogether original, at I . ief s l ate dese rves p rai se for the elegance and fanciful - %e and the s kilful and feeling manner in which it is il,"" e d out. Mr. Charles Mackay is the author, and )4 4 ;" f e " Salamandrine" he has certainly produced his ta i effective poem. His heroine, as may be stir . - ia t '• from the title, is a fire-spirit, whose destiny it ° b e cursed with a soul, which, after a succession ca. h t perishes together with her body, unless s he 'lee, a mortal lover, in whom she can inspire a tIri; 1 1 Pure, and lasting attachment. The Salaman s%reL, after, we ma y suppose, a long and ineffectual hearer is fortunate enough to meet with a " sweet- Si r in the person of a chivalrous young knight, da, - Gil bert, who "keeps company" with her for so me c oi ,: t in the woods, and pledges vows of undying br o euc'4:; but on quitting her, and her combustible he - 7 , orphyr, in order to return home for a season, 1 4%1 1 forgets his vows, and makes love to a re the a ° l 3* handsome young gentlewoman, rejoicing in Spi t pastoral appellative of Rosaline, who accepts his k ar , ; a nd promises to become Lady Gilbert. On the t a i, 'age eve, however, the deserted Amethysta, the tie l andrine, makes her appearance before the nup tee,PartY, and by the force of her spells, compels the knight to follow her, a long and weary way , s t Pgil woods and across moors, until he finds him t` the the presence of her indignant brother, Porphyr, lha c urses him with sudden old age and infirmity, so to none of his friends or relations shall ever be able qiit e cognise him. In this wretched condition Sir o a rt l4 is ministered to by an old woman whom he en ,stor-v'ers in the woods, and to whom he reveals his 3 u st r at the same time acknowledging that he was to, A S served for having made so ungrateful a return rerrtrilethysta's affection, and expressing the deepest thi 3 u rse for his conduct. Scarcely has he uttered tet„ P e nitent declaration, than his youth and strength and the old woman undergoes a similar 111 3 - "Lug change, when he instantly recognizes in her t ake former love, the Salamandrine ; and the poem 1110 ) , ,s , l eave of them in a state of the most extatic con '4l felicity. Nothing can be more graceful than fa t - z ll-I ,,anner in which. Mr. Mackay has versified this 1vi, k 1 , 141 1 le gen d, or more apposite than the imagery tr ti l t Whic he has surrounded it. He exhibits the earnestness and sensibility of the poet, and will _ th an more readers and admirers of his " Salamaneirine" Judging from his modest and somewhat despond ° Preface, he seems to calculate on. 4 a. . tVERAL ARMORY of ENGLAND, SCOT -1:), and IRELAND. Churton, London, 1842. til e 0 ? iS a very careful, pains-taking compilation, and 4,4 41 ', the completest 'of the sort with which we are al 4 ; o a 'uted. It gives the armorial bearings, &c„ of Both: t every respectable family in the empire, to vaelor with a dictionary, minute and copious, of the 10t 4 , 11 , s technical terms used in heraldry. The vo- Itoci e ,:: Prefaced by a brief, ingenious essay on this that ‘ science, in which the writer justly observes .„ Heraldry, cherished since its nativity, has It i lra eS s i . u ed in every age, in every country, and under bee n every form of government. In England it has Nt il i7re tha n f on dly f o stered; throughout the other a s pa rt -1 " of Europe, armorial bearings were esteemed e tklt and parcel of the trappings of nobility ; here, aPpe nd uf arms has always been the indispensable 4uired a Ye of a entleman, and, be it inherited or ac ; i t is equally an object of pride and display.' 41 44 ( 6 ‘... " u rk forms a thick volume, imperial octavo, is 4 4% 1 ,7* got up, and, considering the immense Pohn of cq . matter ce it contains, is remarkably cheap, in pri. STAIINSTPR REVIEW. No. LXXITT. In Hooper, London, 1842. /lit ;controversial disquisition, entitled the " Thirttyt e t ~ le zes which heads the present Number, he : e gr v :e .atb l i v s e p riner:td ' eavours to revive the discussion respect 7 Oxford Tracts. He writes in a free and of inquiry, but his subject is against him, nop 7, is °ne that has long since lost all claims to lnterand it is scarcely possible to revive the taria est that once attached to it. The Oxford Trac tonl-thlis mllay be still making proselytes, but the sober, ola re -- P - sense portion of the community having de i*e,t; against them, their sayings and doings have Port a — , e ) "Inparatively speaking, of little public im- Po et j, e p e• The paper on the "Roman Empire and its expres,.l.Urnishes the Reviewer with an opportunity of ~om' l ng his opinions of the poets who flour n ish . ed . in tr , ' subsequentl to the Augustan age. is in remarks on the want of nationality among the subjects of the Empire, are ingenious, but they are too strenuo , ,, insisted upon, and pushed to too great a Lngth. "'There was no Roman people," he ob serves, "no public to address. The Empire retained its unity, but it was heterogeneous ; it was the abode of many nations, but no people." This is too broadly put. The remark should have been more qualified. The Romans in the days of the Ccesars, were certainly not what they were in the days of the Republic ; still they gloried in the name of " citizen ;" it was their prime boast that they formed part and parcel of the great nation; and so long as a spark of this patriotic feeling lingered among them, it could scarcely be said that they were "no people." Alluding inci dentally to Seneca, the Reviewer repudiate; the notion that his tragedies are so indifferent as they are generally said to be, but he does not prove his hypothesis, nor indeed can any critic—except for the mere purpose of paradox—deny that they are cold, bombastic, devoid of action and passion, and con stantly running into extravagance. The "Medea" is the best ; but even this is sorry stuff, when compared with the noble drama . of Euripedes on the same subject. Speaking of Seneca's CEdipus, the Reviewer says—" We will quote one passage which has always appeared to us conceived in the intense spirit of our old dramatists. It is at the close of the CEdipus, when the unhappy King is left with the corpse of his mother on the ground, and his eyes torn out with his own frantic hands ; after addressing Apollo, and accusing him of his misfortunes, he determines to leave Thebes, the scene of his incest and misery ; he feels his way forward for a pace or two, when he arrests his steps, for fear of stumbling against his mother. Siste, ne •in matrem incides !' This is very grand and pathetic, and in the highest dramatic spirit.'' The passage is impressive certainly, and would seem to have suggested a similar one in Galt's clever novel of the " Entail," where a young boy, on entering church with a relation, suddenly pulls his companion back, as he is about to tread unconsciously on the stone that covers the ashes of his grandfather, observing, " It's grandpapa ; dinna tramp on him !" Of Persius, the Reviewer says with truth, " his lan guage is obscure and corrupt, and his r y thm perfectly ludicrous ; his verses are the gaspings of a premature and asthmatic muse." Persius is indeed the most obscure in his meaning, and dissonant in his verse, of all the Roman Satirists ; his very Latinity differs from that of every other versifyer, and it is worth no one's while to undergo the labour consequent on an attemt to fathom his meaning. " Frederick the Great' is a spirited article, wherein a faithful portrait is drawn of this illustrious soldier, and would-be phi losopher. " Mines and Collieries" discusses a subject in which the public lately haVe taken the deepest in terest. The Reviewer, of course, adopts the humane —which is also the rational—side of the question, and warmly commends Lord Ashley for his generous in terference on behalf of the poor, unbefriended chil dren condemned to wear away their, lives as slaves in mines and collieries. Altogether the Number is one of average merit. THE WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN. (Extract of a letter from a Non-Commissioned officer of her Majesty's 9th Regiment of Foot; dated " Camp, Jellalabad, 20th April, 1842.") " I think, when 1 wrote from Kawntoor, I told you our destination was Caubul. We marched from there on the morning of the sth. We ascended the heights in five hours, and found the enemy ready to receive us with a sharp fire, which lasted eight hours, when they gave way. The Infantry had the brunt of the work, particularly our regiment; we lost twenty men and a lieutenant, and forty wounded ; we were five days and nights on the top of the heights with nothing but what we stood in, a continual firing kept up the whole time, and all we had to eat or drink was four or five mouldy biscuits and a quart of water, which we carried with us in our canteens. We did not suffer so much from want of food ; it was water we wanted most. A continual biting of cartridges causes thirst. The Khyber Pass is a deep and narrow ravine,' overtopped with high mountains. After we ascended the first height and drove the enemy off, we mounted them successively ; and as they fled we advanced, until we beat the whole of them, amounting to about 5,000. It is calculated that five hundred of the enemy were killed. We had not an opportunity of taking any prisoners ; for as they gave no quarter, neither did we. The moment a man falls they run up and cut him in pieces with huge knives. After we got through the Pas; we came to some villages; but the in habitants had all fled, and we burnt them to the ground, and destroyed the ripe corn—hundreds of acres of it. On the 16th of this month we arrived at Jellalabad— a place desolate in its appearance, it being a succession of mud forts ; in one of which the 13th regiment of foot had been shut up for seven months ; and, not expecting any relief, they sallied out on the enemy, determined to die by the sword rather than die with hunger. Luckily they beat them off, leaving the plain on which we are now encamped strewed with slain horses and men to the amount of 5,000. We came to their relief in a few days after ; so that there is now an army of 20,000 men, and not much fear of our ever being attacked again. " P.S.—We are going to attempt to release Gene ral Sale's lady and. daughter, with several other ladies, two soldiers' wives, and two men of the 44th Regt.— all that is left of an entire regiment." COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, left Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past five o'clock on Saturday after noon, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at. her residence Bushy House, Bushy-park. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, afterwards left town for their resi dence at Kew. The Hon. Mr. Archibald, the Master of the Rolls of Nova Scotia, Mr. C. D. Archibald, F.R.S., and Mr. G. Lawrence, had interviews with Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial-office. A Deputation of machine-makers, headed by Mr. M. Philips, M.P., and Mr. E. Buckley, M.P. and including Messrs. Jenkinson, Curtis, and Higgins, of Manchester, and Mr. Hackin, of Bury, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon on Friday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A Deputation on the wine trade, including Lord Sandon, MY., Mr. Masterman, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and Mr. George Barnes, had an interview with the Chancellor of th; Exchequer, and Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, on Saturday, in Downing street. Sir Charles Metcalfe and Sir William Gomrn had interviews with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office on Saturday. A Deputation of Shopkeepers of Manchester, consist ing of the following:—Mr. R. Owen, Mr. W. J. Birch, and Mr. J. Peate, had an interview with the Earl of Ripon, on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. The Right Hon. Sir George Murray, Bart., and Miss Murray, have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. The Lords present were,-the Lord President, Lord Brougham, the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir A. John ston and Sir E. East sat as Privy Councillors. Mr. Richards, Queen's Counsel, was heard for the appellant, on an appeal from Bengal, opened at a former sitting, "Baboo Deep Narain v. Lal Chutterpeet Singh." `Mr. Lofttis Wigram, Queen's Counsel, also commenced his address. The case was adjourned. NAVAL OFFICERS. TO THE EDITOR OF TIRE SUN. SIR,-It was with much surprise that I heard Mr. Hume state in the House that a young man can be a post-captain at 26 years of age. Why, Sir, they can he, and are made post-captains at 22 years of age ; which is shameful, for post-captain is an exceedingly high rank. They (the sons of the elite of the aristocracy) are made lieutenants at 19, commanders at 21, and post captains at 22. Now when Sir George Cockburn, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Admiral Dacres, &c., were made captains, the law was that no one should be lieutenant under 20 ; yet, despite of that law, Dacres and Cochrane were made post-captains at 17 years of age, and I be lieve Cockburn was under 20. Dacres's father was Commander s -in-Chief at Jamaica, and Cochrane's father Commander-in-Chief at Barbadoes, at the time that each conferred that rank on his son. I hope this will come under the notice of Mr. Hume, that he may take the earliest opportunity in his place in Parliament, of correcting the error into which he has inadvertently fallen.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A NAVAL OFFICER. London, July 16, 1842. FREEMASONRY. MASONIC ANECDOTE.-- In the summer cf 1835, the schooner Vigilant, Captain Bergain, from Dunkirk, arrived in Lerwick harbour, with loss of sails and other damage. The captain procured an agent, with whom he agreed for the necessary repairs, which were soon effected ard the vessel declared ready for sea. A misunderstanding, however, arose between the captain and agent, on the charges incurred, which, in the sequel, proved to he excessive ; the captain threatened to sail without acknowleding the ac count, unless corrected, whereon a meditatione fuga warrant was procured against him. I knew him to be a man incapable of acting with dishonesty, although a little acute with detec tion of certain mistakes, and was struck with astonishment at seeing him marched off to prison, and incarcerated beside a felon convicted of theft and burglary. As the captain under stood the English language but very imperfectly, I proffered my service in his forlorn state. After the burst of indignation which naturally followed, had subsided, he earnestly requested that a Freemason might be sent to him ' • I was acquainted with several gentlemen reputed to be of the Order, and to whom I FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF LEICESTER.—Monday made his case known. The agent who procured the warrant, the judge who signed i t, and the captain who suffered by it, last will long be remembered In West Norfolk as the day on ,1 hich were all Freemasons ; instant justice was rendered, and the the mortal remains of one of her most distinguished characters, captain immediately liberated. I was so struck with the won- the munificent patron and friend of agriculture, the liberal drous influence of the mystic tie over the usual tardy operation landlord, the generous master, the open-hearted benefactor, of official regulations, that I eagerly seized the opportunity to j ware consigned to their final resting-place. become a Freemason.—Freemasons Quarterly Review, July. THE HARVEST. —The first field of Talavera wheat A NICE CHANCE FOR SINGLE LADIES.—A novel in Sussex, and, we believe ; in England, was cut by N. Hall, announcement in these words, W anted a Wife," is to be seen Esq., of Southwick, on Wednesday se'nni g ht, which will be posted at a house in Hern e sa y ; the consequence of which has fit tar the miller on Monday next. The harvest will cora been to attract hundreds of fair applicant s , b u t all to no pur- cnence generally in a few days. The wheat is full in the ear, pose, for "my gentleman appeals too fastidious to make a an d will wei g h,heavy. The barley and oats will be li g ht cro p s. elections.— Canterbury Journal. i Braaten Herald. days. The ships of war in Mahi; Harbour, under the orders of Sir E. W. C. It. Owen, have been some time ready for sea, and it is generally supposed will leave for a short cruise about the 13th ; but it would appear that there is a studied desire to avoid coming into contact with the French ships of war in these ts. The Calcutta sails for Lisbon and England in a day or two, her late Captain, Sir Samuel Roberts, going home as a mere passenger, having been placed on half-pay by the Admi ral, for being more than six weeks in Malta hospital, sick. TIM SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1842. LEVANT MAIL. COISTANTINoPLE, J UNE 27.—Matters are likely to con tinue for some time longer in an unsettled state in Syria unless the three Powers have recourse to those coercive measures, of which rumours have been bruited abroad during the last ten days. Should these measures be enforced, it is to be de sired most earnestly that they may produce immediate effect upon the Porte, and not entail the disastrous consequences— rebellion and civil war—anticipated by many persons here and in Syria. That rebellion and civil war should take place is highly probable. During the last five or six months every thing has been done by foreign emissaries and agents to widen the breach between the people and the Government, to excite the Chiefs against the Porte's local authorities—to foment discontent among the people, and to inspire them with an idea that the Great Powers were prepared to support any attempts they might make to emancipate themselves from the 'Turkish yoke. Measures have been employed and coun tenanced that would not be permitted in any other country in Europe, and the Lebanon, thus prepared for revolt, is ready to rise at the first signal. It puzzles the wisest heads to comprehend what England is to gain by this. What France can gain is easily comprehended. She has already obtained a victory by the destruction of our in fluence here, and by the knowledge that it is morally and phy sically impossible that we can reap the slightest advantage here after in Syria. Her object, and that of Russia, has been to ex cite us to quarrel with the Porte, so that we may not support the latter against them, nor obtain concessions when required for ourselves. Knowing that the further we advance in our present system, the more detrimental will be the results, France continues to urge us forward. We have already done enough for Russia, and she therefore cautiously withdraws, and leaves us to get out of the scrape as well as we can. According to the latest accounts from Syria, serious dissensions have arisen be tween the English Consul and Turkish authorities at Beyrout. It appears that Emir Abdallah and his sons, fearing to be ar rested in consequence of the Governor having discovered that they were implicated in a plot or conspiracy, had taken refuge on board a *British ship of war. Mustapha Pacha demanded their surrender. This the Consul very properly refused. Other letters state that the Patriarch, not feeling himself secure, or perhaps anticipating a general outbreak, had retired to a remote part of the mountain, and that several sheiks had fol lowed his example. In short, the condition of the Lebanon is deplorable. The blame is of course cast upon the Turkish Government alone, and this most unjustly ; for half the evil results from the intrigues and machinations of foreign agents and emissaries, whose principal occupation is to provoke sedition and to foment misrule. The bad seed is now sown in the Lebanon, and come what will, the consequences must be prejudicial to the interests of the Porte, anti to those of Great Britain. . _ Letters from Salonica express astonishment that the British Government should exert itself so ardently in favour of the Marunites, with whom British subjects can have nothing in common, and at the same time apparently submit to direct violations of treaties that directly affect the inte rests of the latter ; these infractions ought to be noticed in a serious manner. Comparatively trilling he themselves, they serve as precedents, and, if allowed to exist, may be extended to every article of export. and thus render the commercial treaty completely nugatory. It appears that in addition to the monopoly of salt, farmed to M. Alleon, a French broker of Pera, the Porte has accorded the monopoly of the bone trade to another individual. Protes tations against both have, it is said, been made by the English Ambassador, but without success. The bone monopoliser shelters himself under the precedent of the salt farmer, and the latter is openly protected by the French Envoy, whose influ ence apparently overpowers that of England. M. Allcon is a French subject, having large claims upon the Porte, which claims the Ottoman Government finds it more convenient to get rid of, by sanctioning an abuse, than by paying its debt in hard money. Coercive measures are taled of for Syria, with the risk of civil war and bloodshed staring the coercers in the face. It would be more to the purpose if the Porte were in formed that England does not make conventions with excep tions for French subjects, and that unless the monopoly is abolished it must taise measures to prevent its continuance. Serious losses have, it is said, been inflicted upon British mer chants by this grant. Under any circumstances this abuse ought not to be permitted, nor can it without opening the door to other violations which, in the end, will render our commer cial treaty a mere dead letter. Recently it came to the know ledge of our Consul-General at this place that an lonian or Maltese British subject had obtained the monopoly of oil at Stangour. No time was lost in compelling this person to re nounce his contract. This example ought to be followed by the French Embassy. The Greek Patriarch, who has been sometime in a declining state, expired at the patriarchal Palace, in the Fanar, upon the 24th, and was buried with great pomp, at the church of our Lady of the Spring, at Balikli, on the following day. The demise of this Prelate, the first who, for a length of time, has terminated his earthly mission with the patriarchal mitre upon his brow, has set in activity all the intrigues of the contending parties at the Fanar. The Vogorides, Aristarkis, and other leading houses have their candidates and relatives, and are mov ing every art to turn the vote of the Synod, and the approba tion of the Porte upon the person of their choice. The Rus sian Embassy' is equally active, and the Greek Legation is not idle. It is probable that the selection will fall upon the person most agreeable to the former. Greek Bishops, with few ex ceptions the most venal and corrupt of any men of their holy cabins!, are not likely to resist the golden arguments of Russia, the most lavish anti expert of all nations in the art of corrup tion. A synod of Bishops has been convoked, and their selec tion will probably be made public in a day or two. It is a mat ter of little importance, however, to any but the Russian and Greek Governments, whose interests in this matter do not seem to coincide. • In consequence of the perpetual squabbles of British Con suls and Consular agents with the Porte's local authorities. Sir S. Canning has transmitted a circular to the former, calling upon them to use discretion in their relations with the Turkish authorities, to adopt conciliatory language and measures, to abstain from according protections to the Porte's subjects, and to endeavour to exert every effort to draw together more closely the bonds of amity that unite the Queen's Government with that of the Sultan. '1 his circular, couched in impressive and dignified language, reflects great credit upon Sir S. Can ning, and will, it is to he hoped, give satisfaction at the Porte. Her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus arrived here at eight A.M., on the 25th, with Lady Canning and suite. Her Lady ship proceeded at once to Buyukdtr, where the house hired for the summer residence of the Embassy has been prepared. The Internuncio is expected back from Brusa upon the 4th. His Excel'ency's health has somewhat improved, but his physicians have ucommended change of air, and it is understood that he will proceed to Italy in September, and there pass the winter. It is not improbable that his post may be tided during his ab sence by M. 1-fusar, who is at present at the head of the Oriental department in'the Foreign-office at Vienna, and was formerly first dragoman at this place. A Turkish corvette has been sent to Calymnos with orders to investigate the conduct of the commandant of the Sultan's schooner, to whom is attributed , the death of the Primate of the island. Different versions of this story are given, but his Excellency Tahir Pacha has commanded that the affair shall be rigorously scru tinised, and the captain of the schooner Gent here for judgment and punishment, if it should be proved that he has been any way accessory to the death of the unfortunate Primate. Ad miral Lasusse's squadron, consisting of the Inflexible and Santri Petri liners, the Fleche brig, and 'Acheron steamer, have reached Smyrna from Athens. The Aigle, Lord C. Pa get, has left Smyrna for Corfu. It appears that some misun derstanding touching the employment of the French flag took place recently between Lord Clarence and the commandant of the Fleche. The affair was, however, immediately explained, and it appears, from the admission of the French Admiral himself, that the commandant of the brig had no grounds far com plaint. The worthy officer commanding the Fleche is the last man, perhaps, in the French navy to seek a quarrel; the fault entirely rested with one of his subordinates. MALTA. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, JULY S.—SHIPS IN PORT—The Queen, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir E. W. C. R. Owen, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean; the Howe, 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir F. Mason, second in command ; Ceylon receiving-ship, bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Sir J. Louis, superintendent of Malta Dock-yard; Impregnable, 104 ; Radney, 92 ; Calcutta, 84 ; Indus, 78; Medea, Devastation, and Vesuvius war-steamers, and Poly phemus steam-packet. DISTRIBUTION OF THE REST OF THE FLEET.—The Thun derer, ; Belvidere, 38; and Lizard steam-tender, at Gib raltar. The Formidable, 84, and Jaseur, 16, on their way to Malta, from Gibraltar. L'Aigle, 24, on her way from Smyrna to Malta ; and the Magicienne, 24, on her way to Smyrna, from Malta.. The Stromboli war-steamer, at Constantinople ; the Cyclops war-steamer, at Alexandria ; the Monarch, 84, at the Pirius of Athens; and the Vanguard, 80, on her way thither from Malta, to relieve her; the Cambridge, 78, on her way to the Coast of Syria ; the Inconstant, 36, and Hecate war-steamer, at Beyrout ; the Vernon, 50; Snake, 16 ; and Locust steam.tender, at Tripoli, in Barbary ; the Savage, 10, at Athens; the Phoenix war-steamer, on special service ; the Prometheus steam-packet, on her way to the lonian Islands and Patras ; the Alecto, at Marseilles, awaiting the London over land mail of the 4th inst. ; the Beacon and Magpie, surveying vessels, at Poros ; the Scout, at Corfu. Moverkiesers OF Sines OF WAR SINCE JUNE 26. —The Alecto, with the overland India mail for England, left Malta for Marseilles on the afternoon of the 26th June ; and the Great Liverpool contract steamer proceeded on her voyage to Gibraltar and England with the ordinary mail on the morning of the 27th. The Phcenix, with the mails from Patras and the lonian Islands, arrived on the afternoon of the 26th, and after coaling was despatched on some special service, under sealed orders, on the 28th, on which day the Vanguard and Cambridge were also suddenly ordered away, the first, it is supposed, for the Pirreus, to relieve the Monarch, which owing to her late service off the river Zanthus, is very sickly, and has lost Major Alecch and Lieut. Burton, of the Royal Marines, from malaria fever, and several men. The officers were interred with military honours, the British Minister attending the funeral. A seaman of the Medea has also died at Malta from the same fever, and Assistant-Surgeon Webb continues in a very pre- - carious state in the Malta hospital. The Magicienne sailed for Smyrna to relieve L'Aigle on the 27th. The Cambridge has liroceeded, it is supposed to the coast of Syria. The Ve suvius returned from Marseilles after calling at Genoa and Leghorn on the 29th ult. ; the Indus from Lisbon, on the 2d instant; and on the same day the Polyphemus from Gib• mbar, with the London mails of the 18th ult. ; and the Prometheus from Constantinople, where she landed Lady Stratford Canning and family. She sailed again on the 14th for the lonian Islands and Patras with the mails. The Devas tation returned from Tripoli on the 2d, and was sent away again for the same place, with despatches for the Consul, brought from the Ambassador at Constantinople (by the Pro metheus) on the 3d, and she is this moment signalized as re turning ; but any .intelligence she may bring will not be in time for this post. Massacres of sheiks continue by wholesale, under the orders of Askar Ali, whose reign is near its close, as his successor is known to have left Constantinople on the 23th ultimo, in a Turkish frigate, direct for Tripoli. The Ottoman frigate, Chiaha Bahr i, and the Tunisian corvette Elelia have both left for Tunis, and the Egyptian storeship. Auserre ne, with coals (from Port Talbot, in Wales), sailed from Malta for Alexandria on the 30th ult. The qua rantine of merchant ships from Constantinople. has, by a regu lation of the Malta Board of Health, dated 27th ult., been re duced to eighteen days without susceptible cargoes, and twenty days with susceptible cargoes, in lieu of twenty-five, as heretofore, which is a step towards civilisation in sanitary mat ters. Ships of war and passengers are relieved after fifteen CANADA. LORD STANLEY AND SIR CHARLES BAGOT.—Al ready has Lord Stanley's happy conciliatory spirit exhibited its baneful influence in Canada; and unless his Lordship is removed, or Sir Charles recalled, there is every prospect of a renewal of confusion in this most invaluable possession of Great Britain, and at present this most prosperous colony. It appears that Lord Stanley is displeased with Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, for having forced the nomination of Sir Charles upon his Lordship, who re sisted for some time ; but at last the appointment was made a Cabinet question, and Lord S. was obliged re luctantly to yield, or to retire. Ever since Sir C.Bagot has arrived in Canada, his liberal statesmanlike measures have been thwarted in the most vexatious manner. Even his travelling allowances pruned in the most parsimonious style, which, if adhered to, must put Sir Charles to the greatest inconvenience, as the roads are bad, and there are no cabs in Canada. But Lord Stan ley;tell s his particular friends, "He is not my Governor." Sir Charles Bagot has been most anxious to retain the services of Air. Murdoch as chief secretary; but Lord Stanley says No! and has already selected a gentleman, a Mr. Rawson, who is to sail by the next packet for Canada. This gentleman is unknown, and has been actually prohibited from communicating with Mr. Stephen, and other gentlemen in the Colonial-office, competent to give him information. But he does not require it. This young statesman in embryo is going out as a kind of Generalissimo over the Go vernor-General and the Executive Council, and to communicate, every packet, privately, to Lord Stan ley. God help this young gen tl eman ! h e little knows the duties he is about to undertake ; but this he may be assured of, that he will be kept in hot water during the cold winter. Sir Charles Bagot, since his arrival in Canada, has adopted a most conciliatory course, and in every instance carried out the late Governor-General's views. Recently he has appointed one of the most distinguished French lawyers to the Chief Jus ticeship of Montreal ; and to another the Solicitor- Generalship of Lower Canada has been offered, with a seat in the Executive Council. In every way he has adopted a policy well calculated to unite the people, and cement the union of th e t wo p ro vinces. But Lord Stanley is Colonial Minister; and he is the nobleman who was chief Secretary in Ireland, and who received the severe castigation from his col league, the mild and gentle Lord Althorp, for his harsh and injudicious conduct in that unfortunate country. In the Mauritius there is a screw loose between the Governor and the autocrat of Downing street. Sir Charles Bagot is married to a niece of the Duke of Wellington, and is brother to the Bishop of Oxford.—Weekly Chronicle. SILK DUTIES. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The Petition of the undersigned Journeymen Silk Weavers of Macclesfield, in the County of Chester, HUMBLY SHOWETII,--That your petitioners were examined in the year 1832 before a Committee of the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom, appointed to inquire into the silk trade ; and the re sult of the voluminous evidence delivered decided the then President of the Board of Trade not to attempt any further changes in the protection given to the silk trade, although he might entertain great ideas of free trade in the abstract. That, as your Lordships' petitioners' subsistence depends upon the silk trade, they have collected many official returns in reference thereto, which they now respectfully submit for your Lordships' consideration. In 1824 the British silk manufacture had arrived at the highest point of prosperity, as by the Trade and Navigation Returns it took into home consumption—of raw and thrown silk, 3,877,7911b5.; and of knubs, husks, a nd waste, only 133,2571b 5 . The rapid advance of the silk trade from 4818 was remarkable ; but on the one hand a taste for the wearing of silk goods had arisen in the coun try ; and on the other the introduction of power looms in the cotton trade furnished an abundant sup ply of weavers, displaced by power machinery. From that time until 1826 the building of factories for the throwing of silk was extensive; this operation being chiefly dependent upon manipulation rather than steam or water power, silk coming from the worm in a thread, the integrity of which is not destroyed in any subsequent stage of its manufacture by any peculiar machinery, the same- easy process being as incapable of improvement then as to this day, both in this coun try and abroad, the whole produce finding a good and sure home market. That, in 1824, f ee-trade principles were tried as an experiment on this prosperous trade, by the reduc tion of duties on its raw material of manufacture ; and in 1826 foreign wrought silks were admitted to be brought into competition with the labour of your Lordships' petitioners, with a view to induce other nations to embark in reciprocal principles. From 1826 most disastrous results followed to the silk-trade, wages were immediately reduced from 40 to 60 per cent., as proved by the Reports of the Hand-Loom Weavers' Commission, and also the evidence delivered before the Committee appointed to inquire into the silk trade in 1832 ; inasmuch as the maximum price paid by the British manufacturer must be that which would enable him to meet the fo reigner in the home market. By official returns it appears that the revenue derived from raw and thrown silk, (it being an article of luxury), before it was in terfered with, during several years was about 750,0001. annually, which, with the duty on soap used, and the excise on silk printing, raised it to near 800,0001. on only about 2,400,0001b5. weight of the raw material. By the official returns it appears that since 1824 the annual consumption of raw and thrown silk, in some degree, has remained stationary at near 3,600,0001b5. That your Lordships' petitioners respectfully sub mit to your Lordships, that if the silk trade had not been interfered with the 3,600,0001b5. would have produced a probable revenue of from 1,000,000/. to 1,100,000/. annually, which demonstrates a national loss of revenue in eighteen years or upwards of 20,000,0001. sterling. Upon this importation of fo reign silk goods, however, a revenue of from 200,0001. to 240,0001. has annually been derived, but by the fall of wages a far greater loss in exciseable articles consumed by British artisans has accrued to the re venue, and the distressed condition of the hand •loom weavers and silk workers is proportionately aggra vated ; and, therefore, your Lordships' petitioners conceive themselves justified in stating that the re venue has sustained the loss before stated. That by the official returns there was taken into home consumption of raw and thrown 5i1ki3,477,2131b5., leaving a deficiency, as compared with 1824, of 400,5731b5., but of t knubs, husks, &c., 1,379,3141b5. Your Lordships' petitioners have to state that I,ooolbs of raw silk employ from 1 100 to 600 hands to prepare it for the weaver, and that only about fifty people suffice to prepare 1,00,01b5. of knubs, husks, &c., into yarn fit for the same purpose, which at the best is but a spurious article called spun silk. That, by the new tariff, it is proposed to reduce the 3s. 6d. on foreign thrown organzine, and the,2s. duty on foreign tram ; and is. 6d. on singles, to one uni form duty of Is. per lb., without any regard to their different cost of manufacture. That further, in the schedule of silk duties, it is proposed to reduce the 20 per cent. duty on India silk manufactures to 5 per cent. ad valorem. Until the new light of the political economist had arisen, it was held desireable to promote the growth of the raw material in the colonies, and that this country in exchange should supply them with manufactures. Seventy years since, when India began to reel silk, every encouragement was held out by the India Company and the Government, that factories should be raised, and that British in dustry should be trained to work up their silk pro duce ; yet, under the pretence of doing justice to India, it is now proposed to raise a new race of weavers in India, and bring them into competition with your Lordships' petitioners, with only five per cent. pro- t c o ., a and live upon lid. tection. - That your petitioners believe that great t e com petitorsenxetewnt,andsubsist e are still untaxed he l rice, e i n e , slavery sugar, Bz. or 2d. per day. Your Lordships hips' petitioners humbly statements,. drawn from submit for your Lordships' . gracious consideration, ing the inability of the whether it be a matter of justice to reduce the arti sans of this country to the same level, or to encou rage such an unequal competition... That your Lordships. petitioners were examined before the Select Committee on East India Produce re s d how thein lB4O, highest and del authority,ive 1 people of this country to compete with foreigners, under a system of free trade, until th ey were freed from the taxes which press op on t h e i r in dustry, and demonstrating the cause of the diff erence of wages from the area population, revenue, debt, and proportion of each , to each individual, in the various States of Europe., and British Indi a , f rom which it appears that, in the United Kingdom, the proportionate amount of the public debt to each individual was, in 18.34, 321. 10 s . 7 d., and the revenue to the population 21. Os. Bd. eac h . In France, the highest tax ed nation in continental Europe, the proportionate. amount of th e pu bli c debt to each individual is 51 . 19s. 7d., and th e revenue to population, 11 . 45. ; while in British India the revenue was, as compared to the population, 3s. 9d. each, and the public debt, i 9s. each.. Your L or d s hi ps will perceive the impolicy and injustice, in th e pre sent state of the country , , and the great number of unemployed artisans, of still further a ggravat i ng the public distress by bringing the impoverished ar ti sans of the silk trade in competition with the untaxed natives of India. That your petitioners entreat your Lordships to consider whether this be a wise occasion to int ro d uce infractions on the scanty protecti on to the labour of this country, when Mr. Clay, one of the ablest men amongst the American legislators, has lately laid down such opposite principles for the future guidance of his • own Country; when France has, notwithstanding our concessions in silk in 1826, so uniformly pursued a contrary course ; and when Prussia and the German League are meditating heavier duties on woollen goods. And justly did an experienced Commissioner, before his departure to America, enter his protest against the removal of essential protections, when all the surrounding countries were beginning to foster their own industry. That the follow'ing is a very brief summary of the injury which will be sustained by the silk trade, should the intended tariff become the law .of the country :-Ist. It will reduce the duties upon Euro pean silk goods exported to our colonies, from 30 to 15 per cent.-2d. By abolishing the debenture system, it operates against the exportation of silk goods from England.-3d. By reducing the duty upon foreign thrown silks to ls. per lb., without any reference to the various qualities, or the different cost of production, it will operate most injuriously to the throwing trade—although it formerly received the greatest encouragement.-4th. It%vvill reduce the duty upon India silk manufactures from 20 per cent. to 5. Your Lordships' justice and humanity, your petitioners trust, will avert these impending evils. Your Lordships' petitioners, therefore, at even the eleventh hour, implore your Lordships to rescue them from the pernicious principles of a system of policy, which, under the specious plea of free trade, by an anomalous fiat, encourages free dom in the superfluities, and restriction in the necessaries of life—cheapens manufacturing produc tions, but supports the price of food, encourages low wages and dear provisions, brings the competition of the Indian weaver in contact with the British arti san, with only 5 per cent. protection, when agricultural produce and manufacturing labour should be both placed upon equal terms, because equal justice should be the basis of all legislation. Your petitioners will not manifest such distrust of the wisdom, and kind disposition of your Lordships to attend to their prayer, as further to enlarge upon these various subjects, but, on behalf of their fellow-countrymen, humbly pray your Lordships to rescue the industrious classes from the evils which will result from the further reduction of the protective duties which are necessary under the present circum stances of the country, to retain many of the valuable handicraft trades that exist in the empire. And your Lordships' petitioners will ever pray, &c. JOHN PROUT, Water-street Macclesfield. THOMAS COPE, Fountain-street. Macclesfield, July 7th, 1842. DRAINAGE (IRELAND) BILL. We called attention to this subject a few days since, and are glad to find that some Noble Lords connected with Ireland have looked into the matter, and the Bill was yesterday postponed to give time for further consi deration and extensive change. We were of opinion that, as was at the time stated, the Shannon Act was not to form any precedent, and yet here it appears general ised, with all its arbitrary and taxing powers, extended over the whole of Ireland, and devised with an ingenuity which seems to have for its sole object the crushing pri vate enterprise, by the erection of a favoured rival in the shape of a well-paid and expensive Government Board. We thought better things of Lord Eliot than that he should have been so far imposed upon as to bring in this novel, incongruous, and expensive mode of draining lands, or, rather, draining the owners, whose good lands are to be responsible for any sum the Commissioners and their solicitor wish to expend upon the bad. Really people ought to be permitted to do their own business, and if Government go on this way we do not despair of the immediate creation of a board for sowing potatoes. . . . . . . . . [This article, by mistake, was beaded "Rivers," in stead of " Drainage," Bill, in our publication of Satur day night. The Rivers Bill is one of a very useful cha racter, permitting the owners of pro, erty to improve their own lands by deepening wnter-courses and rivers. under the sanction of the Lord-Lieutenant in large, and the Grand Juries in small drainages. This economical method of doing one's own business, as contrasted with the interminable expenses of a Board of Works, as in the Drainage Bill, is certainly creditable to Lord Eliot.] TRAGICAL DEATH IN THE PRISON OF DORNOCIL- 2 Mr. Robert Lesson, vintner and flesher in Helmsdale was, on Wednesday, the 29th ultimo, incarcerated in this gaol on a Crown Warrant from Exchequer for a penalty of 50L, which, it is understood, was incurred by him for resisting a constable, when in the act of ex ecuting a poinding of his goods for the sum of eight shillings, the tax or duty on a dog. Kesson, who was an illiterate man, and of a keen and sanguine tempe rament, could not be persuaded but that he had met with the grossest injustice, and from the hour of his entering his cell, his mind seemed a prey to the deepest vexation. His stomach having rejected the feed that was offered him, he was on Friday visited by the surgeon of the prison, who gave him some me dicine, but did not apprehend danger. The same evening, however, when the gaolers went to lock up for the night, he began talking incoherently ; his mind seemed to have assumed a deep colour of reli gious terror ; he said that his eleventh hour had come, and desired them to give his watch, almost his sole property, to a nephew whom he named, when ho should be no more. The gaolers seeing• him in this condition, remained by him for a considerable part of the night, and read from time to time portions of Scripture. They left him a good deal composed about two o'clock in the morning and retired to rest ; but scarcely had an hour elapsed when the unfortunate man appears to have become excited to a state of frenzy. About three o'clock they were roused by the crashing of the prison window, which he had smashed to atoms in the hind fury of his delirium. Upon returning to his apartment they found him stretched on the floor apparently lifeless. The nearest medical aid was procured, but every eGrt to restore animation was use less. Kesson was a native of Dunfermline, and resided in Helmsdale for the last twelve years. He was of gigantic stature, and of prodigious muscular strength, for which he has not left his equal in the north.—Ross-shire Advertiser. FlRE.—Shortly before four o'clock on Saturday morning a fire broke out on the premises belonging to Mr.E. Roffey, wheelwright, in an extensive way of business, situated in High-street, Camberwell, within a short distance of the " Green," and owing to the combustible nature of the stock upon the same, the place was in the course of five minutes com pletely enveloped in flames. In an incredibly short space of time, the powerful engine belonging to the West of hngland Company way on the spot, under the superintendence of Mr. Connorton, the foreman, and a strong body of men, followed by several others belonging to the London Brigade and parish, and owing to a plentiful supply of water being soon obtained, the engines were got into work; but notwithstanding that the firemen exerted themselves to the utmost, upwards of three hours elapsed before the fire was extinguished, and not until the premises, with the valuable contents belonging to Mr. Roffey were entirely consumed, and three other houses seriously damaged. THE HERRING TRADE.—On the west coast we hear the herring fishery is very successful. On the north and east coasts they are considerably behind. We had fresh her rings in town last week, which is, we think, somewhat earlier than usual.—lnverness Courier. A gentleman residing about four miles from Har borough, was recently angling with a friend on the banks of the Tees, in Yorkshire, when the waters suddenly rose to an alarming height; to avoid which they reached au eminence, but were speedily surrounded by the flood, and all possibility of escape was cut off. Persons at a distance soon discovered their situation, but could offer no assistance, and here they remained from Friday until Saturday morning, deluged with rain. The flood at length retiring, they gladly left their perilous situation. —Lincoln Mercury. _ RAILROADS ;OR • WAR PURPOSES.—The Berlin Gazette states that an experiment has been made on the Ber lin and Potsdam Railroad, as to the possibility of using the line in case of war, as the means of transporting artillery. For this purpose a park of guns, with all their articles, and the usual number of men and 'horses, was placed on the common car riages of the railroad, and was transported with the greatest safety, by a single locomotive, from one town to the other in twenty minutes. _ _ EXETER.—MORTALITY.—The Act lof Parliament appointing Land-tax Commissioners, passed in 1827, contains the names of about 140 gentlomen, who were authorised to act as Land-tax Commissioners for the city of Exeter, and of that number not forty are now living.— Somerset County Gazette. The Port Admiral has framed a code of signals, to be adopted at Mount Wise, in case of a fire occurring in any of the Government departments. In such case they will bring instantaneous and effective assistance to the required spot.— 'Western Tinies (Exeter). DEATH OF MR. RICHARD POTTER.—It is with feelings of no ordinary kind that we annoucce the death of Mr. Richard Potter, late M.P. for Wigan, a gentle man who—although from continued 'bodily affliction of the severest kind he has been recently lost sight of by the inhabitants of Manchester—will not soon be forgot ten by those who had to fight the battle of local and ge neral reform, under the adverse and discouraging cir cumstances which existed twenty or thirty years ago. Mr. Potter, who was in the Gsth year of his age, died on Wednesday last at Penzance, where he has been resid ing for some time past.—Manchester Guardian. Miss Hamblin, charged with the murder of Mr. Ewing, of the Theatre, in March last, gave herself up to the authorities on Tuesday, and was examined that evening before Judge Bragg. The result was, she was committed for trial at the next term of the circuit court, but admitted to b :i1 in the sum of 1,000 dollars. Coun sel for the prisoner, W. D. Dunn and Daniel Chandler, Esqrs.—for the State, the Solicitor, Percy Walker, Esq. —Mobile Register. ABSURD RUMOURS IN PARIS.—The following ap pears in the National of Thursday ; it is difficult to account for such an absurd and dangerous rumour:-- "There was a report at the Bourse that an insurrection had broken out in London, and that the Queen had been made prisoner in her Palace. The English journals, re ceived to-day, take no notice of such an affair." HAMBURG MARKETS. Gil AIN. Wheat, Marks 414 to 492 Barley, Mecklenbargh 165 to 189 -- Magdeburg :575 to 5041 Magdeburgh... 181 to 19/. Anhalt, White 432 to 510.--- Holstein . 165 to 199 red :475 to 504 -- Oderbruck 165 to 184 .---- Brunswick 414 to 492 Oats, Elder l6O to IP ~i --- Mecklenburg.. 375 to 495 -- Mecklenburg --- Polish 456 to 549 . - Holstein 1.9 tr. 901 Holstein . 375 to 4981 Rye, Mecklenburg 165 to 189 --- Marks lBO to 195 Eibing and Ko ' nigsburg lBO to 195 --- Pomeranian lBO to 195 Anhalt Con Carolina and Tennessee 7 %to 9% Georgia, Ist sort 7% 8 2d 6 6% 3d and 4th COE] 1-- U pland ------ 174 to 11)8 (Pease, Mecklenburg 225 to 284 I L Beans ee • . ••••••••••••••• 258 to 247 Buck Wheat.... 231 to 301 Rapeseed, Hanover Malt •••••••••• 165 t. 186 Tares ........................ 220 to 2W S ON. Marpnhani •••••••••••••••• 6 to 6% Madras •••••••••••••••••••••• 4 , c,i 5 SUZatg., ••• •«•••••••• 3% 4 % laming° ...... ..... ....... 5 6 Mocbs. 13 to 13% B3tavla Sumatra — Rio 2. 11 4 3% Bahia 2% 5% - .... Domingo 3% to 4% Ls 4 7 Porto 5% 6% Ilitvannah 00000 .1; 6% AJUAC.— Havannah, White...— 3 to N?: Brown •2!,i, Rio, White 2'S 3 4 Brawn , Manilla. Brow :h Ei?, Discount.) Bahia, White "44 to 2; Brown leg Perrambuco, White Urown ..,1% 3 rn i 2% to 2% NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16.—The Cleopatra, 26, Captain Wyvill, arrived yesterday from Sheerness, preparatory to her proceeding to the East Indies. She will be paid advance of wages on Monday. The Talbot, 26, Captain Sir Thomas Thompson, Bart., sailed on Thursday evening, for South America. The Geyser, steam frigate, Commander Carpenter, sailed on Sunday, for the Mediterranean, with about 10 officers and 100 seamen, to join the squadron on that station. The Satellite, 18, Commander Gambier, went out of harbour cn Tuesday; and the Albatross, 16, Commander Reginald Yorke, on Thursday. The former will proceed in a few days to South America, and the latter to Ber muda, and with the Sydenham's crew, -which she takes out, will be paid advance of wages on Monday. The Rhadamanthus, steam transport, arrived yester day from Plymouth, and came into harbour. The Tweed, 20, was at Barbadoes, on the 27th May ; the Ringdove, Scylla, and Gleaner (steamer), were at Bermuda, on the 24th June. Sir C. Adam had not then returned from Honduras. Her Majesty's steamer Styx arrived at Fayal on the 28th June. The Goliath, 80, and Virago, a large class steamer, will be launched from the Dockyard at Chatham, on Monday, the 25th instant. The Goliath is to mount sixty-eight 32-pounder long guns, and twelve 6-inch guns. The length of her gun-deck, 190 feet ; her breadth extreme, 56 feet ; and burden, in tons, 2,599. The Virago is to mount two long guns. 84-pounders, and four 32-pounders. Her le ng th on deck is 180 feet ; breadth extreme, 36 feet • and burden, in tons, 1,060. The ships Owen Glendower and Maidstone, having taken in stock and provisions, left Spithead yesterday for Bengal. The Meteor steamer was commissioned, yesterday, at Woolwich, by Lieut. George Buttler. The Avon steam vessel, at Woolwich, will be ready for sea next week. The Columbia, Lieut. Kortwright, is nearly ready, having received the surveying instruments, &c., required for her duties. The Dee and Salamander are nearly manned, and getting forward with their equip ments. A French man-of-war cutter arrived on Monday from I Cherbourg, and returned the following day. 1 The ships Lady Raffles and Madagascar, with pro visions, stores, &c., left Spithead yesterday, for the China expedition. The British Queen, Belgian steamer, finding the Southampton water inconveniently shallow, took her passengers in at Spithead, on Sunday evening last, and proceeded to New York. The Malabar, free trader, for Bombay, now at Spit head, will sail on Monday evening. The Childe Harold, for Boinbay, is hourly expected at this port to take in passengers and stock. The Quebec, New York packet, arrived on Sunday last, in 18 days. The Mediator, with a full cargo of passengers and loading, will leave Portsmouth for New York on Wednesday next. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Pique, Echo (steam-tug), Adventure (naval transport), Seaflower and Sylvia cutters. At Spithead—Cleopatra, Satellite, Albatross, Marquis of Hastings (convict ship), and Malabar (East India man). PLYMOUTH, JULY 14.—The steam transport Rhada manthus, M‘Laen, Commander, arrived on Friday, from New York ; and the Netley tender, from Liverpool with newly-raised men. A Dutch transport, named the Ma cassar, arrived on Saturday from Antwerp, bound to Singapore. The Actaeon, 26, Captain Robert Russell, arrived on Monday from Portsmouth, and came into har bour to be paid of The Volcano, steam-vessel, Lieut. Featherstone, also arrived the same day from Ports mouth, and sailed the next day for Bermuda. The Phi lomel, 10, Commander B. J. Sullivan, dropped dropped into Barnpool, on Tuesday; she will be paid wages in advance, in a day or two, and will proceed shortly to survey the Falkland Islands. In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Actaeon, Con. fiance and Rhadamanthus steamers. In Barnpool—Philomel, APPOINTINILNTS.—Commander —N. Robilliard to the Seaflower, when re-commissioned. Lieutenants—George Butler, to the Meteor steam vessel ; T. A. Alldride, to the Talbot, vice Harper ; J. A. Dunbar, to the Albatross, vice Heard; G. Lavie, to the Isis ; G. C. Fowler, D. H. M‘Neill, J. B. Massie, E. J. Napier, H. C. Toby, Henry Croft, and A. Hamilton (all additional), to the Queen, in the Mediterranean, Master—A. M. P. Mackey, to command the African, tug steamer. Second Master—Wm. Byford. to the Caledonia, for service in the Sylph tender ; D. G. C. Slaughter, to the Rhadamanthus ; G. J. Gibbon, to the Seaflower. Surgeon—J. Lardner, to the Jaseur. Chaplains —11. B. Illingworth, to the Madagascar ; Rev. J. Connolly, to the William and Mary. Mates—F. Shortt and C. A. Lodder, to the Excellent ; R. M. Sandom, to the Niagara ; A. C. Hobart, to the Excellent. Midshipmen—E. D. D. Aplin, to the St. Vincent ; %V. IL Budd, to the Iris ; H. V. A. Powlett, to the Howe ; G. S. Pullen, to the Columbia. Clerks—R. Kellard (in charge), to the Seaflower ; T. A. Teller, to the Salamander. Volunteer, Ist Class—W. 11. Neale, to the Albatross. COAST uAnn. Removals—Commander Jerning ham, from Newcastle to Harwich, vice Commander New ton, to Bridgewater ; Com. Spettig ue , f rom T r alee to Falmouth, vice Corn. John Morgan, resigned ; Mr. W. 11. Walters, chief officer, from Dungeness to Sizewell Gap, Nice IL F. Iligginson, to Lydd. Appointments— Lieut. V. H. Jones, in command at Ecclesbourne; Lient. Jonathan Hatcher, in command at Skegness. (From the Devonport Independent.) • PLYMOUTH, JULY 16.—Her Majesty's ship Actaeon, 26, Captain Robert Russell, arrived from Portsmouth on Monday, and was towed into harbour next day, by the Confiance, to be paid off. She is just returned from the Pacific, and has landed a large quantity of specie at Portsmouth. Her Majesty's surveying-vessel Philoael, 10, Commander Sulivan, was towed into Barn-pool on Tuesday, by the Con fiance. It is reported that she is to proceed to the Falkland Islands, and will sail very shortly. Her Majesty's steamer Volcano, Lieutenant Featherstone, arrived from Portsmouth on Monday : she took a supply of coals on board, and sailed the next day for Bermuda. Her Majesty's ship /Etna, 8, Lieut. Wilson, sailed on Tues day for Liverpool, to resume her station as receiving-vessel. Her Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus ' Master-Commander T. Laen, sailed on Thursday, for Woolwich. Docx-Yann.—Mr. W. Lunn, foreman of shipwrights, was superannuated on Tuesday, with 2001. per annum. The fol lowing persons were also superannuated on Wednesday : Peter Kingdom, leading-man of riggers, 341. per annum ; William Park, house-carpenter, and John Corry, and John Tremere, smiths, 241. ; Josiah Pain, joiner, 231. ; William Hooper, sawyer, 201. Ships in Harbour—Caledonia, 120, Capt. A. Milne; San Josef, 110, Capt. F. W. Burgoyne ; Actaeon, 26, Capt. Robert Russell ; Wolf, 18, Com. C. 0. Hayes ; Cenfiance, steam vessel. In Barnpool—Philomel, 10, Com. J. B. SuEvan. Her Majesty's ship Calcutta, 84, Capt. Sir S. Roberts, Knt. is ordered home from the Mediterranean, to be paid off. PROMOTlON.—Mate—Georga H. Richards, (late Mate of the Sulphur, surveying-ship, for six years) to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenants—G. H. Richards, to the Philomel ; W. C. Alexander, to the Agincourt. Mates - I F. H. Shorts, to the Excellent ; Robert M. San dom, to the Niagara. Surgeon—J. Lardner,to the Jaseur. Pilot—John Spraggs, to the Nautilus. Midshipmen—E. D. D. Applin, to the St. Vincent; W. H. Budd, to the Iris. Vol. Ist Class—W. H. Neste, to the Albatross. Warrant Officers—W. Atte il (from the Excellent) to the Griffon, brigantine; J. Flynn, boatswain (from the St. Vin cent) to the Sheer hulk at Chatham. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re ceived on the principal P, .ilwa3 s of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize Week Miles Total. Name of Railway. ended Opened. £. s. d. July 9 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 45 1,346 18 8 8 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,974 4 6 2 Brandling Junction 25 867 19 6 8 Chester and Birkenhead 10 Dundee and Arbroath ... ..... 16j 240 12 5 9 Edinburgh and Glasgow 10 Eastern Counties l7i 1,133 15 2 9 Glasgow and Ayr 40 1,059 13 2 9 Glasgow, Paisley, &Greenock 24 1,100 9 5 9 GrandJtuact.,Chester &Crewe 113 9 Great North of England 45 1,304 15 10 10 Great Western ... Hayle l6 9 Hull and Selby 9 Lancaster &I r est on Junction 20i 492 0 7 8 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,553 3 11 9 London and Birmingham...... 114 17,342 17 2 14 London and Blackwall . 3- 1,333 6 2 9 London and Brighton Ditto Shoreham Branch - 12 London and Croydon 144 463 2 4 14 London and Greenwich 3l 910 17 10 10 London and South Western 7 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 559 4 9 11 Manchester & Birmingham 9 Manchester and Leeds 9 Midland Counties 54 2,755 8 10 9 Newcastle and Carlisle 604 1,706 3 1 7 Newcastle and North Shields 7 430 18 11 10 Northern and Eastern ... 9 North Midland . 8 North Union 9 Preston and Wyre 11 Sheffield and Manchester 7 260 810 14 South Eastern 10 Ulster 9 York and North Midland 2B 1,596 18 0 THE ROSE OF ARRAGON." Enrtyptured gaze attentive hundreds there, For Ellen claims the night ; whose art combined W - ith Knowles shall charm the harder sex and fair. A rose of Arragon in pride entwined Around its parent " Tree," whose dulcet voice Will foster it more soft than zephyr's wing, When verdant hills and smiling plains rejoice, To hymn the coming of the blushing Spring ! Hor breath shall form the breeze to fan it now, Her syren tongue shall match its mystic song, Nor shall its smile distance her kindling brow, Tho' bloom a fadeless flower in fashion's throng, To grace the drama's bowers, and there be thee Admired in her, awarding credit, Knox ies to AI ! N. July 11, 1842. CIIALLES SW On Monday last the remains of the late Edward Henrynry Chadd, Esq., of Pinkney-ball, Iludham, Norfolk, son of Sir Charles Chadd, Bart., of Thursford, and the owner of the Thursford estates, were interred in the family vault. at Thurs ford. The deceased, who is said to have been an amiable young man, died of decline. He is the fourth Magistrate who, in this division of the county, within the last few days, has been " gathered to his fathers."—Norfolk Chrw side. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SO CIETY OF ENGLAND. BRISTOL, JULY 14.—The great dinner of the members and friends of this Society took place this afternoon at four o'clock. It was given in a pavilion expressly erected for the purpose, immediately in the rear of the Victoria-rooms. The assemblage was immense. Upwards of 2,000 per sons were present. The appearance of the pavilion (than which no building in the world was ever better constructed for the purpose for which it was eiesigned) was very. im posing. It was filled in every part ; but crowded no where. All the arrangements for the accommodation, as well as for the ingress and egress of so great a multitude, were perfect. The convenience of every one appeared to have been consulted—every one was at his ease, every one in the right place, every one pleased. A long and deep gallery at the back of the principal table afforded accommo dation to a host of ladies, who seemed throughout the even ing to enter into the spirit of the proceedings with true feminine earnestness. It was impossible to ascertain the names of a tenth-part of the eminent and distinguished persons who were present. A few of them, it is true, were conspicuous at the, chief table ; but the great bulk of them, Dukes and Lords, and Members of Parliament, were scattered indiscriminately amongst the mass of yeomanry. Where so many were unre blqbDcsAauleolcugek,iinidssknaa.,:enoiisdtfr(ectLhs,Df:teoh:BrdotHaihwniet. it eaEt )tnu r E.s i b, . s fhero a ar ir y rren at. Henryt.BehtnrEpheeEnuiite:)vi har dly tf)ueiirtreakre: ise3wet u alton d .mft i ip c srßA. i theo o i:Fc u fmh s :Wmpii t ir. ecas n kr cned a eu m : oeitE, Worcester, Minister), Earl hcslet any;Cambridge, mr pa rE) y be,ao e nr r t niteldhego i Ker t ei sn,zEmei the Duke Mr. G. Berkeley, M.P. e S s, ir M T . h P o . s ,.a p ncl . Henry Handley, Esq., the President of the Society, officiated as Chairman ; Mr. Miles, M.P., acted as Vice-Chairman. The dinner dispatched, the first toast was " The Queen." It was received and responded to with the liveliest enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN then in a short speech proposed the " Members of the Royal Family," and paid a high compliment to the Duke of Cambridge. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE returned thanks for the honour which had been done to him and to the Royal Family ; and in expressing an earnest wish for the prosperity of the Society, begged to thank the company for the honour they had done him.—( Cheers. ) The CHAIRMAN—The next toast I have to propose to you is the health of the Foreign Ministers present. lam aware. that in strict diplomatic language the name " Foreign Minister" must be applied to his Excellency on my right, the Minister of the United States of America; but in the reception you will give him lam sure you will show you do not forget that his ancestors are ours—that we are united by the ties of one com mon language and of blood—(Cheers)—that it was from these shores those enterprising men embarked, who in a wild, deso late waste, have in a comparatively brief period, raised up a mighty nation.—( Cheers.) In a word, to use the language peculiar to our class, it is the children of Old England who have taken the occupatica of the western continent under a lease which I trust they will find both advantageous and inter minabie.—( Great cheering.) lam sure you will allow me to .request his Excellency, when he communicates with our distant relatives on the other side of the Atlantic, to assure them how welcome they will always be to the shores of the mother country—( Continued cheering)— to remind them that our affections at least are based on peace— ( Cheers)—and that we earnestly pray they may long continue to be united with us in the bonds of goodwill and mutual ad vantage.—(Loud cheers.) I propose " the health of the Hon. Henry Everett, the Minister of the United States."—(Loud and long continued cheering. ) Mr. EVERETT, on rising, was hailed with a tumult of ap plause. He said, I beg you to believe me duly sensible of the kind feelings which you have been pleased to express towards me and my country.—( Applause. ) I assure you, without affectation, that I want words to do justice to my emotions. To be received with so much kindness so far from my home, by such a company as this, I confess almost overpowers me. And let me say that there is no part of this great and prosperous country where such a reception could be more welcome to me than it is here.—(Cheers.) It is a singu lar circumstance that the history of North America runs back to this very point. Its very first chapter was written in the chamber of the merchant adventurers of Bristol.— ( Great cheering.) lam not now alluding to the little coincidence which I mentioned the other day—that Co lumbus himself was once a resident here. That was a mere casual circurnstaxce. I refer now to the more strik ing fact that Sebastian Cabot, the great discoverer of North America, who, in 1497, sailed forth from these waters, dis covered Newfoundland, and ran down the coast of North America to the Gulf of Florida, was a native of Bristol, fitted out on his venturous voyage by the enterprise of Bristol merchants.—(Great cheering.) You all know that it was under the auspices of the Plymouth Company that the settle ment of my native New England began, and that the rock upon which the fathers of New England first set foot was from that circumstance called, and is to this day called, the Plymouth rock.--(Loud cheers.) The father of William Penn, the great founder of Pennsylvania, lies buried in the vaults of St. Mary, Redclitle, and although William Penn was not him. self a native of Bristol, I have no doubt that in his youth he was accustomed to hear the stories of the navigators of this port on coming back from their adventures in the wes tern world, and that it was thus that his thoughts were first directed to a settlement in those distant regions.— (Cheers.) It seems to be the purpose of the merchant ad venturers of Bristol at this day to keep up the communi cation, which they were the first to establish between the two coun tr ies. At an early hour this morning I went up to the tower of Blaize Castle—a lofty point, commanding a pano rama, than which one more beautiful my eye never rested upon. —( Cheers.) In that exquisite panorama there was one object, apart from all the beauties of nature, which particularly excited my attention. I could 'scarcely discern it; but yet, in the dis tance, I did distinguish the masts of the Great 'Western steam ship—(Cheers)—which the day after to-morrow is going again to launch upon the deep.—( Cheers.) Your Chairman has requested me, in my next communication with home, to let the people of North America know the kind feelings expressed to wards them at this table. Why, in 14 days from the time that vessel sails, she will carry the tidings, and almost before their cordial cheers have died away here, they will be re-echoed from beyond the waves of the Atlantic.—(Great cheering.) I assure you that this communion between us, resting upon common descent, cemented by common language, strengthened by kin dred feelings, is not confined to speculations of business or considerations of commercial advantage.—(Cheers.) No; that is the least important part of it. This com mon origin, this kindred blood, this revered and com mon ancestry makes us one people—( Great cheering)—one people for every purpose but that of political jurisdiction— (Cheers)—for every purpose social, literary, moral, intellectual.. —( Loud cheering.) Everything that emanates from your press is immediately received and welcomed by the reading public in our country, and most happy am Ito learn, as I do, that our authors are received with favour here.—( Applause.) We have kept our eye particularly upon what has been doing in this country for the improvement of agriculture. The climate of the New England Stales, although more severe than that of England—running into either extreme to a greater extent— is yet on the whole not greatly dissimilar; we are consequently enabled to derive instruction from all the works that issue from the British press relating to agriculture. None arc read by us with greater avidity.—(Cheers.) I wish the intelligent agri culturists of England to understand that the seeds of instruc tion which they scatter here are actually sown broad cast in North America.—(Great cheering.) You cannot, by your improvements, lessen the bone of a pig, or straighten the back of a cow, or render finer the fleece of a sheep, but in due time the advantage is felt across the Atlantic. —( Loud cheers.) I am glad that the prosecution of this most peaceful of pursuits has an effect far beyond the ma terial interest or material advantage. I believe that people and nations must be good friends with each other who are engaged together in the advancement of such pur suits ; and whil.t Mr. Smith is teaching us his system of thorough draining, I believe it will, at the same time, aid in drawing off the bitter waters of international jealousy.—( Great cheering.) I most cordially respond to the wish you have ex pressed for the perpetuation of peace between the two coun tries.—(Cheers.) I wish, from the bottom of my heart, far nothing else but the speedy and honourable adjustment of all the questions in discussion between us, and most happy am I to say, that from all the means of information at my command, such an effect is likely to take place.—(Loud and long-con tinued cheering.) These little clouds once blown over, I wish our two nations to engage, heart and hand together, in the pur suit of all the great objects which improve the condition and ennoble the character of man ; and England and America, once united, I believe, if necessary, they might bid defiance to the world in arms.—(Enthusiastic cheering.) I will add nothing nothing more than to renew my heartfelt thanks far this most unexpectedly kind and cordial reception from this great and respectable company. His Excellency resumed his seat amidst the most rapturous applause, the whole company rising and continuing to cheer for several minutes. Alter the lapse of a short time, Mr. EVERETT again rose and said—lt is unnecessary to say, Sir, that atter having so recently occupied the attention of the company, I should not rise again except by your special command. I have been honoered by your request to propose to the meeting a toast which I am sure will be received with the utmost enthusiasm, it is " Prosperity to the great Society under whose auspices we arc assembled this day,"—( Cheers. ) with luSd cheers.eocE proposed e n silencethe neatwa was restored, t . ore, h lie wasgreetedsaid, The agriculture, manufactures, and commerce of this country." — (Cheers.) It is the union of her agriculture, her manufac tures, and her commerce which renders this little island, which if you look upon it in a map of the world is scarce a spot before you, one of the most powerful of the nations of the earth.— ( Great cheering.) It is by the united energy of her people— by their exertions in these different branches of industry—by the wealth that their exertions have produced and accumulated, that England has become what she is, and what I hope in God she may long continue to be.—(Cheers.) These three great interests are intimately connected together, and depend upon it if any one of them fail the others will soon fail also. This being the case, although I know I might confidently ask you to drink success to -the other branches of industry besides that in which you are yourselves particularly engaged—although I know your good feeling to your fellow-countrymen would in duce you to do this, I led that I may with the greater boldness do so, because when I ask you to drink success to commerce and manufactures, I am, in fact, only inviting you to drink success to yourselves—success to the agriculture in which you are engaged.—( Cheers.) These three great branches of in dustry have run a race in this country. With regard to agri culture, although we have not hitherto applied to it, as I hope we shall, the advantage of scientific improvement, our practi cal knowledge has yet been such that I think at the present moment I may confidently venture to assert that in agricul tthueralveskryillhlsgehessttanamd indeed o zo st ng the th n e at h io i n g s he o s f t t „ he if vs There is, however, one thing that we, as farmers, want—we want the application of science to aid us in our et practical as : e t a —( Applause. ) It is for that object that this Society h that, confirm established—( Applause)—and 1 sincerelyi orl d.— world .—( Cheers. I 1 1 9 e e e r not ) t time will not be distant when we shall succeed operations of the farmer the same ad agriculture and to the ing to pursue that object as we have hitherto her t t r opnrs in uc g d iv i i t n , g th to e ) anu l fa e t e u l res ee : n_t a tib t (d ' e e cen, a h l eA r e e tr a ghsr d a.i y t). I beg to propose "Suc cess the rtheeo.l ties upon the Labourers."—(Cheers.) Interested as all classes of possessedv this ant w ag i e ll s b dt e ehr t ei h mv e esde resultlfvreosm of. —(Applause.) U e o l f t Manufactures, proposed ard r aid kn o a w n d °nooccupiers and owners of land am about to bring bodytehu youreilt'uch:rooeoamflADmmgueurknin notice.—(Cheers.) in n y t itachreei this country u t c h nh e t er yerwst h. welfareilathan the Without ootlnthhge their ir , under per sonal assistance, our lands could not he cultivated. We all know the advantage it is to us all to have skilful shepherds and herdsmen, clever shearers, good ploughmen, honest industrious labourer s. We know them to be a peaceful, orderly, and loyal cla,s.—(Cheers. ) We cannot di sguise from ourselves that upon many occasions they exhibit the greatest patience under privation.—( Applause.) We know also—and I speak to you, if you will permit me so to call myself, as an English country gentleman—we know a l so that they perform towards each other those offices of kindness and of true charity, which, flow ing from the purest source, ennoble alike the possessor of the proudest castle and the inmate of the humblest cottage. I trust I may, without presumption, be permitted to say but a vet y few words upon the subject of our meeting here to-day. I beg heartily to congratulate you upon the increased and in creasing prosperity of this great Society. I believe that its ex ertions have been productive of the greatest benefits; and I fondly anticipate that if it continues to be supported as it hitherto has been by the intelligent practical farmers of the country, its usefulness will be much farther Wended.— Li' I. in th e nA