The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-10 00:00:00

matic of every thing here below, people are not 1 without apprehension that the tranquillity which the nation has so long enjoyed may be succeeded by the prevalence of animosity and rancour among the different classes of the community. We have enjoyed a repose of several years—a repose which has been favourable to the development of many improvements, and how few are the periods in our annals in which the Government and the people have not been in fierce col lision ! And yet alittle reflection might, we think, be sufficient to dispel this uneasiness. His Ma jesty is neither an inattentive nor an inaccurate observer of what is passing in the world ; and the causes of the satisfaction of his own subjects, and of the respect manifested by the people in every part of the world for his Government, can no more have escaped him, than he can have for gotten the signs of the times which preceded the present. It would be to libel the Sovereign to uppose that he could wish to see his Govern ment deviate from the course which it has held with so much advantage to the nation and lustre to the throne ; and, therefore, so long as his :Majesty's life is spared to us, we may rely on the continuance of the present system. All the men of any talent or reputation in the late Ad ministration, with the illustrious exception of the departed Premier, are still in the service of his Majesty ; find it is idle to suppose that the So vereign would hazard his own peace of mind, and the well-being of the country, by the withdrawal of his confidence from men who have been tried, and not found wanting, to bestow it on men who with all their exaggerated notions of self-impor tance, durst not dare to hold the reins of Govern ment themselves, and were thus forced to pro 110111Ce their own condemnation, whom it would be impossible for the country ever to respect or to held in regard. No ! regard for his people, respect for the memory of the highly accom plished Staegolan, who reflected such lustre on his Councils, the anticipation of . the calamities which would. inevitably result from governing in oosition to the inclZgtions, and without the approbationp of the great bod,u of the nation, will prevent our enlightened and ami,"ble Sovereign from meditating even for a moment, substi tution to the present Ministers, of men chai":,c terised by narrow-mindedness and incapacity, by hatred of every thing truly deserving of respect and regard—who look with an evil eye on all that has been productive of so much good and so much satisfaction of late years—and who would seek to punish the people, as well for their satisfaction with that on which they themselves have looked on with so evil an eye, as for the :contempt which imbecility in authority could not fail to excite. Of course, any thing like an amalgamation of the present Administration and the Outs, is impossible. When the late puri fication took place, the dross alone was thrown out, and with the men of kindred views of the late Administration and the Whigs, no part of the Outs can coalesce.—Morning Chronicle. It has become the custom of late years, and one in bringing about which the Press has had but too large a share, to view events, from the highest to the lowest, through a false and mag nified medium ; so that, instead of viewing and treating things as they are, w.e may be said to be living actors in a perpetual drams, or in a state, at least, of fiditious society. In further ance of this, new names ai:d epithets are bestow ed upon the commonest ocClirrences ; a crowd is called " an assembled multittici; ;"—a break fast or dinner is described as " a sumptuous banquet ;"—if an actor obtain a decent staiT of attention, it is call " intense interest ; "—and even the funeral train at an Irish wake, is desig nated as " the melancholy group." Minor af fairs being thus thrust from their proper level , those of more importance have a still higher tone of hyperbole assigned them ; every hew event is described as " the most striking and extraordinary that ever happened," and the stores of language are ransacked, to the very confines of the ridiculous and of bad taste, to give an air of unparalleled importance to what truth and reflection in the end bring down to a very different level. Of this description are the comments which are now issuing from a part of the Press on the death of iMr. Canning—an event which these writers would have us believe lays prostrate the Consti tution and liberties of the country, and was never , e qualled in importance by any thing which has h a p l ;ned in our own or past times. It is with no view of throwing the slightest slur upon Mr. Canning's memory, or of undervaluing the true importance of his life or death, that we declare that we approach such diatribes with disgust. At any time, and under any circumstances, ;the loss o' splendid talents to the 'world must be an object of regret ; and in our time, when stoes m inlike qualities are unfortunately so rare, such talents can be the :ass spared. But qualities of the mind, however apparently dazzling and splen did, can only be fairly judged of by their utility. Mr. Canning's public life, like that of other men, suust be tried by this criterion. In the ample us crnoir which we published of him yesterday, we have shown, we trust, no disposition to de preciate either his talents or his services—but truth compels us at the same time to declare, that much of"Oeir utility was, of late especially, neutralised, if not destroyed, by the too frequent want of that presiciiN quality which the Roman Poet tells us brings it:: it , the presence of most others. Discretion, the quality which we allude to, is rarely the attribute of ardent minds, and seems at no period of Mr. Canning's public life to have been the accompaniment of his genius. We will not advert, as we might do, to numerous in stances illustrating this, but content ourselves by remarking that this very circumstance led to, and should have prevented the last error of Mr. Can ning's lif e —we mean his ambition to attain the nominal head of the Government, when he was in virtual possession of the fame attached to it,' both in the eyes of Europe and at home. -If _report speak truly, Mr. Canning, in some of his *weak habits, exhibited the same want of pm „knee, and thus accelerated an event which die cretiL N 1 might have averted. The inevitable state o f hi s I :sealth for some time (for some years, we might say ,\ past, seems to have been apparent to all but to hi:it-self; and therefore, when, among the other ficti.lra of the day, we see it stated that Mr. Canning' fell a martyr to the calumnies of the Press, we feet hound tf) repel so evident an untruth, though in no way afecting ourselves. Tho ug h opposed to the !atter part of Mr. Can ning sp u bli c car eer, we have not publisii4ld cue word in personal anger, or which, " dying, we would wi s h to blot - ;" and though part of the Press may have expressed itself more strongly, it surely cannot he laid to its charge that it has done so wantonly or without provoCation, or that even Mr. Cannin g himself has not iz't the example of warmth, of language, which it be difficult for any writer to surpass. Even in announcing his decease, one of his admirers could not refrain from loading his colleagues in :he late Ministry with the mint opprobrious epi. :bets; and the terms " monsters in human 'orrn ," " titled ruffians," " mean and vindictive nen," are applied to persons of the highest rank tricl most amiable manners in the state. It is a common saying, that " bard words break no bones," and though they are better abstained from on all occasions, we do not believe that they have had any such effect as is imputed to them. The seeds of Mr. Canning's dissolution were evidently sown long before any such terms of censure had reached him ; and though we could wish that all parties had abstained from every appearance of rancour, yet it must be clear that it had no effect on the one hand, in produc ing the result imputed to it ; while, on the other, it has been met, if not provoked, by a much greater share of the same quality on the part of those who now complain of it, and who, in ut tering their complaints, indulge still more largely in the practice which they condemn. Whatever change Mr. Canning's death may produce in the Ministry, will, we trust, be speedily deter mined upon, if it is not in fact done already. We do not believe that any attempt to form an exclusively Whig Government can succeed ; on the contrary, we feel persuaded that an Admi nistration which comprised the Duke of Wel lington, Mr. Huskisson, Lord Goderich, and Mr. Peel, among its members, would be most likely to enjoy the confidence and approbation of the country.—Morning Herald. The actual condition of the Ministry, now that the effect of the shock given to the nation by the sudden decease of Mr. Canning is abated, begins to occupy all minds, and a thou sand conflicting rumours and speculations are afloat as to the mode in which the Administra tion is most likely to be, or may be best remo delled. The conjectures of individuals upon such an occasion, where the facts upon which conjecture should be built are so scanty, can be considered in hardly any other light than as an intimation of their wishes ; but even in this point of view it would be well worth while, if it were possible by any means, to ascertain the re lative degree of prevalence which belongs at the present moment to each, in order thereby to correct or confirm our previous impressions as to the state of the national mind. We have often e iTressed our conviction that the loyal and in telligeti± part of the community are dissatisfied with the constitution of the present Ministry ; that the principle of union which holds its mem bers together is obscure, unintelligible, and sus picious to the nation at large ; that the myste rious nature of their connexion is repugnant to the frank and manly spirit of the country, and alien to that temper of straight-forward and tm bending integrity upon which all ranks and classes of Englishmen pride themselves as one of their peculiar characteristics. Nor have the busy rumours and the fervent aspirations which we hourly hear at this critical period failed to strengthen very considerably our antecedent con victions. We venture, without the least hesitation, to say, that the general and earnest wish of the country at the present moment is for the forma tion of a Cabinet in which the superiority of in fluence, as well as the numerical majority, may be devoted to the maintenance of the Protestant Ascendancy. This is the cardinal point to which the nation looks ; for after all the efforts of flat tery and of vituperation to exalt some and to'de preciate others, have been exhausted, the nation has the good sense and candour to perceive and acknowledge, that among the Statesmen now living, and qualified for seats in the Cabinet of the King, there is really no very considerable disparity in any other of the essential qualifica tions for office—that they are all, without excep tion, upon a high level in respect to talent, to personal integrity, to patriotic zeal. The Pro testant Ascendancy is the one thing needful ; it must he the key-stone of any Administration which can satisfy the country ; it is the only na tional interest which manly appears to he exposed to danger, however the Ministry may be formed. We are not now disposed to argue the merits, or any part of the merits, of the Catholic Question ; they have been already argued too often, and the nation has too fully made up its mind upon the subject, for this to be requisite. We are entitled to refer to the national sentiment as a fact esta blished and ineontestible, since it has been made the apology of a Cabinet consisting almost exclusively of Catholic advocates, for attempt ing nothing to advance the Catholic Claims. It would, however, he a great error to sup pose that the opponents of the Catholic Claims, although they form an iinmense ma jority .of the nation, are the only persons who now wish to see an Administration constituted upon the principle of securing the Protestant Ascendancy. All who are zealously attached to the interests of the British Monarchy, and whose perceptionsi are izot in some degree clouded by being enlisted as active. partizans to the Catholic cause, would wish to see the rel i gning Sovereign rescued from the position in which he now stgeds naked and exposed, as the obstacle, personally and individually the obstacle, to its complete suc cess. The friends of the British Monarchy feel that this is a position in which the King of Eng land ought not to stand towards any considerable portion of his subjects—the ostensible cause of our disappointment—the prominent mark for their resentment. The friends of the British Monarchy fear that this is a position in which the King of England cannot constitutionally stand towards the majority of his responsible ad visers. What, it is naturally asked, becomes in this case of Ministerial responsibility ? Happen what may, is not the King bound to shield - the Ministers whom he has confessedly obstructed ? Let us have a rebellion in Ireland with Lord Lansdowne as Prime Minister, and who does not see that it would be impossible to attach ef fective responsibility to Lord Lansdowne ? Where then, in popular estimation, Avould the responsibility rest ? Certainly where it ought not to rest. With an Administration, the in fluential members of which concurred in opinion with the King and the nation upon this para mount question, the same dangerous anomaly would not exist. The moral and the constitu tional responsibility would then be, as they ought to be—united.----Morning Post. The greater number of our contemporaries, with a haste commensurate to their wishes rather than to the necessity of the case, have been amusing their readers with the arrangements which may be expected in consequence of that decease which we shall long hare to lament. We will not so far insult the understanding of our readers as to reply to announcements which h av e not awn a plausible conjecture to rest upon. All the facts which, by the remotest analogy, can be supposed to bear on the question of a future Ministry, we co m m unicattid'yg4tersiay. Laying aside, .however, all conjecture of what ,v);11 be done, we mar, without impropriety, from the known materials otO of which the Sovereign has to aPose, say what Inv be done. The late Cabinet consisted of two parts, of which Mr. Cctnning and -his private friends . constituted the ; - one, and the Marquis -of Lansdowne and his private friends constituted the other. The va cancies which his decease has created may be tilled up by the friends of the one part, or by the friends of the other. The Chancellorship of the Exchequer is by no means a more important nor a more influential office than many others, unless when associated with that of the First Lord Commissionership of the Treasury, and, there fore, it is unnecessary to take it into our calcu lation. The latter, supposing no change in the constituent remains of the Cabinet, might be filled by Lord Goderich on the one hand, or by Lord Lansdowne on the other. This arrange ment proceeds on the supposition, that neither part of the Cabinet quits office. If Lord Goderich and the late Premier's friends were to quit office, their places could only be supplied from those, who, previous to the political death of Lord Liverpool, formed what was termed the Opposition, and the Cabinet would be, in fact, the same, very nearly, as in 1807. If, on the contrary, Lord Lansdowne and his friends retired, we might reasonably expect to see Mr. Peel, and the Duke of Wellington, and the Earl of Eldon, once more Members of the Ca binet, which, in all but the change of its head, would be essentially the same as during the Ad ministration of Lord Liverpool. In this case, Mr. Peel or Lord Goderich would be the First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. Lastly, the whole of the present Cabinet might quit office, and in that case we should have a Mi ni:-try to select from the Members of what, after Mr. Canning's elevation, constituted the Opposi tion ; among whom, for that purpose, Mr. Peel would, of course, be included. There are, there fore, four modifications of Administration; one of which we may expect-1. The Cabinet, as at present constituted.-2. A pure Whig Cabinet. 3. A Cabinet formed of the same materials as that of Lord Liverpool.-4. A pure Tory Ca binet. Of the first, Lord Goderich or the Marquis of Lansdowne might be the head indifferently ; of the second, the Marquis would be the head, of necessity ; over the third, either Mr. Peel or Lord Goderich might preside ; and of the fourth, only Mr. Peel could be th e l ea d e r. We think that the general feeling of the people is averse from extremes ; that setting aside pre judices on particular questions, the distinguish ing feature of the public mind at the present moment is moderation. Looking to this feature merely, and weighing the probabilities of one with another, we should sav that the second and fourth arrangements which we have indicated, are less likely to be made than the first or third. To a nearer approximation of the truth, we have not, nor have any of our contemporaries, any means, in the absence of all positive data whereon to ground a judgment, or pretence, for coming. All beyond this, however confidently put forth, is unfounded supposition.—Netu Times. FOREIGN COMPETITION. ABBEVILLE, AUG. 3.—We have heard that the English growers of wool entertain much apprehen sion, lest the great number of sheep of the Leices tershire breed, that have been recently imported into France, may, ere long, prove a serious injury to the English agriculturist, and that, unless a heavy protect ing duty is laid upon the importation of wool into Great Britain, the owners of flocks will be ruined. Now, we can assure those who have these fears, that there is not the least reason for them. The English landed proprietor is calling for a protecting duty on the importation of wool. If the Government were to add 100 per cent. to the present duty, the same quantity of foreign wool would come into England, as that of native growth cannot be employed in the manufacturing of cloth, unless mixed with the finer sort of Saxon or Spanish wool. The English grower would derive no benefit from the augmentation in the duty ; the wearer of the cloth would be the only sufferer—unless, index d, he consented to clothe him self in apparel of no finer texture than a coachman's box-coat. — We are acquainted with several gentlemen-farmers in this department, who for more than eighteen months have had sheep of the Leicestershire breed in their possession ; and it is their opinion that, in the course of a few years, the wool will degenerate, become short, thick, and coarse, instead of being long and silky ; they already perceive a great difference in the fleece of those sheep which have been bred in France, and the change they attribute to the dryness of the atmosphere, the bad quality of the grass upon which they feed, and the neglect of the French farmers, who are pot acquainted with the peculiar nature of these animals. Four years ago, the above-mentioned gentlemen imported several English pigs, and knowing them to be superior to the long-legged French swine, they intended to get rid of those they had, and re place them with the English ones; they were per fectly successful in their attempt, 24 of these ani mals were sent to the same market of Amiens, and were disposed of to the butchers at a greater price than that obtained for the French ones. A few months after this, a similar number was sent to the same, market, when not a single purchaser was to be found; the following curious reason was given by the butchers why they would not bey the pigs of Ynglish breed —thy pork, they said, was infinitely superior in flavour to their own, but being of a much more compact nature than the French meat, a pound of the former appeared of less magnitude than the same weight of native pork, which is stringy and porous, and the consequence was, that their cus tomers could not be persuaded but that they were cheated, or that at all events, meat of so dense a nature must be unwholesome. The gentlemen, therefore, were reluctantly compelled to destroy the English breed, and take to the long-legged French pigs. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.—MONDAY, ADO. 13. Clarke, W., Northampton—Office of Mr. Jeyee, North. ampton ......................... .............................. Leaver, J., Reading—Ship inn, Reading Robinson and CO., Manchester Star Manchester . AUGUST IC Bardsley, E., Crompton-..Palace inn, Manchester Bill, T., Upton—Crown, Worcester Chadwick, J., Smalibridge, near Rochdale—White Lion, Halifax .............................................................. .. Clarke, W., Northampton —Office of Mr. Je . anapton Coupiand, T., Kingston, Jamaica—Clarendon-buildings, Li verpooi .... , .................................. . Field, J. and Co., Skelmanthorpe, Yorksh.—Court of Re quests, Huddersfield ..... . Gerrish, J., Bradford—Angel, Bath Green, J., Drayton-in-Hales—Corbet Arms inn, Drayton in Hales Hiles, 0. M anc h es ter—White's, Manchester Hiscock, , J., Blandford Forum—Crown, Sturrninster New ton ,Castle Hunt, J., Bagillt, H o lywell—King's Arms, Holywell Lawton, E, Darlastone, Staffordshire—Mwan inn, Bi t , mingham Martin, W., Nottingh a m—Queen's Head, Nottingham North, J., Wibsey in Bradford—Office of Mess. Alexander, Halifax Riley, E., Huddersfield—Court-house, Huddersfield Serjeant, J., Weston-super-Mare, Somerset—White Lion, Bristol Skyrine, W., Worcester—Rummer, Bristol I—Mr. Frest, Liverpool . . , •• Spencer, R.:Liverpool—Mr. t est, Thomas, F., Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol Whittle, J., Rochdale—White's, Manchester INSOLVENTS APPLYIN( Petitions to be heard at Portug AuGun 15, Clarke, J., Long-lane, Ber mondsey Coxe, J., Windsor-terrace, City road J., South wark-brL4:e Crick, W., Cy - la-lane, Saint George's Eirerston, J., Ilford ;eraser, J. Chelse a D r u o r a ra d n t, GlBings, J., commercial-road East Hendre, J., Croydon Hole, J., Bath Hull, W., Compton-at., Bruns wick-square W., Lambeth 3 TO BE DISCHARGED, al-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, , AT NINE. Lee, J., Thomas-street, Horse iwydown Mackay, T., High-street, Bo rough Minter, J., William-street, Spa fields llichardon, A., Great Coram -•-oet Senior, J., Leicester Sharp, J. Flashy, Yorksh. Streek, W., Tottenham-conrt- , road Taylor, J., Clifton-street, Fins- bury-s quare Thropp, J., Coburg-street, Spit field* POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—BURGLARIES AND ROBHIRIfiII lii Tue CITV.-21farianne Dove and Elizabeth Dove were charged on suspicion of being connected with a gang of thieves who have committed Some robberies in the City. The officers having received information that some stolen property was concealed in the house of the prisoners, in Paradise-street, Windmill-street, Finsbury, went there under pretence of looking at some lodgings, and in a room which was locked up, and which the prisoner, Marianne Dove, said was let to a man who had the key in his posses sion, they found a considerable quantity of broad cloth, the corners of whick had been cut off, evidently for the purpose of preventing the property from being recog nized. In a 'closet in the same house, they found about three hundred and a half of cochineal. In another room was found a quantity of new buttons. The property which had been found is supposed to be worth between 3001. and 4001. Mr. Hobson, of Cornbill, elaitned the cloth and buttons, and said they had been stolen from his warehouse between Saturday night and Monday morning last. The amount of the property which was then stolen was between 2001. and 300/. Mr. Smith, of St. Mary Axe, drysalter, stated, that be tween Saturday night and Monday morning, his warehouse in St. Mary Axe was broken open, and robbed of nearly 800 weight of cochineal, worth about 6001. The prisoners were remanded for a further examination. HATTON-GARDEN.—John Stroud, a sturdy men dicant, was brought before Mr. Sergeant Sxm.ox, on a charge of begging. Chiswill, one of the Mendicity officers, said that he found Stroud begging in Dean-street, Holborn. He observed him going from house to house in that neighbourhood, annoy ing the inhabitants for money. He followed him into a greengrocer's shop, where he gave impudence to the woman who was attending her customers, because she would not attend to him ; and when he found that lie had nothing to expect, lie said to the woman, " you are like a good many more of yous, yous gets your money easy enough. Look there, yous buys them there cucumbers for a -halfpenny a piece, and you sells them for three-halfpence a piece."— The fellow looked very significantly at the woman's cus tomers, and shook his head, and shrugging his shoulders, he left the shop with rapidity, and darted into the next house. The officer followed him and took him into cus tody, searched him, and found on his person six shillings in silver, and fourpence-halfpenny in coppers. The fel low's appearance was disgusting ; he wore no shirt, and his bosom, which was quite black with hair, was purposely exposed. The officer said Stroud was an old offender. Mr. Sergeant SELLON said it was evident he was not in distress, from the money found upon him by the Mendi city officer. He should therefore send him to the House of Correction for one month. A man of colour, a native of Bombay, was brought up also for begging. The Mendicity officer said he found the black begging in Chancery-lane ; and, from what he could understand from him, he was sure that he (the black) ran away from his ship, as many of those people do when they come to this country. Mr. LAING asked him to what ship he belonged. The man of colour could not be distinctly understood, but it was supposed that he meant the Lady Flora. The Mendicity officer said a gentleman spoke to the black in his native language, and understood from him that his Captain ran away from him; but the most probable story was that he ran away from the Captain. Mr. Sergeant SELLON said the best thing that could be done was to have the poor fellow taken to the India-house, in Leadenball-street, and ascertain to what ship he belonged, which would be a better course than to send him to prison, particularly as poor creatures like him were not aware that it was an offence in this country to beg. The Mendicity officer promised to attend to the humane suggestions of the Worthy Magistrate, and left the office. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A man, named James Hall, was charged with having stolen a tine black New foundland dog, belonging to Mr. Wynn, M.P. It ap peared from the evidence of several of the Right Hon. Gen tleman's servants, that the dog, upon which Mr. Wynn set a high value, was missed in the course of Wednesday from Mr. Wynn's residence in Whitehall-place, and in con sequence of information which Mr. Wynn's coachman re ceived, on the same day the dog was missed, he proceeded to the house, No. 2, King-street, Drury-lane, where he found a collection of dogs of various kinds, and among them he discovered his master's. The man who appeared to be the owner of the dogs seemed greatly alarmed on the coachman claiming the dog, and disclosed the name of the man from whom he purchased it, and who, on further in quiry, proved to be the prisoner. Sir G. FARRANT convicted the prisoner under the Act of Parliament, in the penalty of 51., which the prisoner being unable to pay, he was committed to the House of Correction for two mouths anti hard labour. MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.—Aug. 8. At per lb. sinking the offal. 3,281 Sheep 4d. to 6d. I "13 sd. to 60, 375 Cattle 31. 6 150 Pigs —.... 1 5 5,732 Lambs at 4d. to 6d. CHARACTER of the IRISH PEASANTRY, They are far more generally submissive and respectful to their superiors, more disposed to honour and obey a gentleman because he is a gentleman, more resigned when favours are denied, more grateful for favours given, more obliging, flexible, and anxious to please, than the peasantry of England. There is, however, greater giddiness and unevenness of character amongst them than amongst the English. It is a common saying with themselves, that they are honest with good looking after. They do not scruple to tell lies to screen themselves when they commit a fault, and when detected, to pass off the lie with a jest. When they labour for others, they are apt to idle or get into mischief, if they be not well watched ; they are prone to gossip and dawdle over their task ; whether from an innate indolence or a love of sociality, I will not pretend to determine, certain it is they have a special aversion to working alone, and you will see three trooping off with facks in hand to perform a job which one man would set about at once in England, nor will these three accomplish more in the day than two of them selves would do, if you could employ them sepa rately or apart, so that they should lose no time in talking. In passing th: v o o t r i k g i l n i g the in co t u h l e ary fie h ld er s e , you frequently see numerous groups of men , women, and children, while in England you would almost suppose the ground were cultivated by magic, or in the night, so rarely do you see people at work. They cer tainly, with us, do not, in general, labour so hard as the English ; it is to be remembered, how ever, that this is chiefly when they are badly paid and insufficiently fed. They do not even hesi tate to urge this reason for their insufficiency, nor is it unreasonable they should. I have been assured by practical men—Mr. Nimmo, the en gineer, for example—that a given piece of ma nual labour cannot be executed more cheaply in Ireland than in England or Scotland, where wages are treble their amount with us. My own expe rience would not go the length of justifying this assertion, but in any case it does not disprove the capability and willingness, of the Irish la bourer to exert himself with as much industry and effect as others, when placed under the like cir cumstances, because it is notorious that Ireland supplies every part of the King's dominions with the hardest-working labourers they have. In their dealings one with another, our people are hard and over-reaching ; they are so little accus tomed to the possession of money, that they greatly overate its value, and, on the other hand, they have such a superabundance of unoccupied time, that they can scarcely be made to under stand that time is at all valuable. Two men will travel four or five miles and wrangle half a day before a Magistrate for some trumpery affair that does not matter sixpence to either ; and what is most strange, they will appear at drawn dag gers, whilst addressing the Justice, and will use the worst and most abusive language towards each other, but the moment he dismisses the case, (which he very often does by telling them they are a pair of great fools, and to go home And mind their business, and not pester them selve or him with nonsense,) they walk away on --/ Mate Iceland in io T s e i e bl it e e, :l7 . tting about their the d n b a e r s y t a t fr er a m4 irs. 1827. MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET.—Aug. B. Potatoes, ss. 6d., —s., Os., and Cs. Od. per load of 12 score and 121bs. ; New ditto, ss. 6d.; 6s. 6d., and 78. per ditto; Turnips, Os. Od., 9s. Od. and 10s. Od. per load of 16 pecks ; Onions, small, Od. per lb. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Aug. 9. V. T.UCAS...—A WARD. Mr. CHINA stated, that the Registrar had found a . . . difficulty in drawing up the order his Lordship had made yesterday in this case. The order distinctly was, that Lucas should be committed to the Fleet, for having run off with the girl, but that the execution of the order should be in the mean time suspended. In consequence of the draw ing up of the order being delayed, the parties had been unable to proceed with proposals in the Master's Office. His Loansnir directed the Registrar to wait on him at the rising of the Court. THE MARKETS. SOUTFIALL MARKET.-Aug. B. This day's market was moderately well supplied, but the buyers having been numerous, owing perhaps to the harvest having increased the country consumption, each kind of meat sold, with some degree of briskness, at the following prices per stone of 81h. to sink theo ff als:— Beef 9e. Bd. to 4e. Bd. I Veal 4e. 2d. to ss. 4d Mutton 3 6 4 6 Pork 4 0 5 2 Lamb 4s. Od. to ss. Od The foregoing quotations are, Beef, Mutton, the best Veal, and best Pork, 9d. per stone higher than on this day se'nuight. In prices of Lamb, and the inferior kinds of Veal and Pork, no al teration. Some, though not a great number, of the Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, left the market unsold. LEWES MARKET.—Aug. '7. Beet 4s. Od. to 4a. Sd. 4s. 6d. to ss. Od, Mutton 4 I 4 S Pork 0 0 0 0 Lamb 4s. Od. to 4s. 10d. RUMFORD MA I. d. toe. d. Beef 3 6 4 8 Mutton 3 4 4 4 Ltunb Suckling Calves from 14a, to 36s `; .RKET.-Aug. 8. s. d. toe.d. Veal Pork 4 0 5 2 4.4. Od. to ss. Od. tYtaitetOltii'ilisTiOs. to lis. each COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK Wheat. Barley. °AU. I Beans. Per Quarter. a. to a. a. to 6. a. to 6. a. to a. Blandford 85 40 Brigg— 55 60 34 38 26 B'2 42 48 Cambridge.—.— 56 22 47 Chard 56 76 38 44 24 32 45 48 Huntingdon—.-- 25 33 47 50 Louth 54 58 34 40 2(5 30 49 56 56 60 39 44 22 29 52 48 Newark 60 63 39 48 SO 37 53 64 Norwich 55 6 2 36 40 24 28 40 41 Nottingham 58 65 40 47 30 40 54 59 Peterborough 59 60 30 34 Plymouth 56 66 37 28 25 28 Sherborne 5 7 36 63 Uppingham Wisbech 52 60 29 30 48 50 York 54 62 33 42 21 30 54 56 LEE. , 3 CORN MARKKT.-Aug. 7. There was a large supply of Wheat, Barley, and Oats ; fine fresh Wheat was nearly is. per quarter lower, and other descriptions were entirely neglected. In all other Grain there was very little doing, and prices were rather lower. Rapeseed was held at more money, but no sales effected. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lineolit. 6011). Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, Foreign 14d. to M.—English 16d. to 164 d. per st• Shelling 34s. to 36e. per load. Rapeseed, English. 201. to 241. MANCHESTER YA No. d. d. N AI ARK T.—Aug. '7. ' 30....,...11 to 12 40 12 13 50 16 17 60 17/ 18. 70 -- 201 22 80 -- 24 26 100 30 32 .120 34 36 'lO 8 3 14 9 18 10 10/ .24 10 1 1 'brostle Twist, 20.., !li to lit 90 - 13' 40.., 18 19 1 Mule Cop Mule copTwistl 30 _ lll for warp,,,.,.. .S _ _ . 1211 Weft 40.-14 15 50 -11 19 60 - 20 21 70 —24 26 Weft from 90 ..28 81 waste _' HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, Ana. B.—All the accounts from our Plantation agree in the statement, that the cold nights have much checked the burr ; if this continues, the Hops cannot be flue. The Worcester Duty is between 7,0001. and 8,0001. without backers. Prices, 4/. 15s. to 5/. ; fine, Si. 6s. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.--Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a distressing accident occurred in New ington Causeway, which is likely to prove fatal to a very respectable female. A widow lady named Stopford, re siding in the Kennington road, accompanied by her little boy, about eight years old, was proceeding to the City in a small low constructed chaise, when on arriving in New ington Causeway, her progress was obstructed by a dray which was crossing the road ; a stage at this moment driving up close behind, prevented her front backing to get clear of the hind wheel of the dray; in turn ing round, the little vehicle was dragged over, and both the lady and her child thrown into the road. Mrs. Stopford was taken up perfectly insensible, bleeding profusely front the head ; the little boy escaped, with the exception of the fright and some slight bruises. The lady was taken to a surgeon, where every possible assistanc e was given : having pitched on her head, great fears are enter tained that the brain is materially affected. No blame can be attached to the driver of the dray, as he was merely turning at the time. The inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Vaux hall and South Lambeth have, for some time past, been much anaoyed with house-breakers, robbers of gardens, orchards, &c. The house of Mr. Pratt, surgeon, in Up per Kennington-lane, was broken into about a fortnight ago, but the thieves being disturbed, got off without detec tion. On the night of Friday last, or early on Saturday morning, three thieves were again detected in attempting to break into one of the houses in Cobourg-place, near to the house of Mr. Pratt ; by the vigilance and activity of two of the watchmen, named Martin and West, and by the assistance and determined spirit of Mr. Pratt, Mr. Lonulale, and some of the neighbours, the three fellows were se cured, with the various implements for house-breaking in their possession, viz. crow-bars, centre-bits, phosphorus box, &c., and were safely conveyed to the watchhouse, near the Vauxhall-bridge, but by the most unpardonable conduct and culpable negligence of one of the constables, who is a superintendent of the watchmen employed by the Trustees on that road, two of these burglars were permitted to escape, and have not since been retaken. The alarm of the inhabitants has, consequently, been thus increased by the misconduct of one of their own guardians, and the ends of justice have been defeated. A curious instance of that mysterious intelli gence in the lower animals, which we usually term instinct, occurred some days ago. A grocer in the Overgate, Dundee, presented a farmer in the vicinity of Blairgowrie with a young pup only two months old. It was carried thence in a sack, and was thus excluded from all possible observation of the road—if we shall suppose a pup of its tender age sufficiently precocious to take memoranda of such a long line of road. The little fellow was no sooner released, however, titan lie set out with all speed on his return, and actually reached Dundee in twelve hours from the time he was tied up, a distance of 21 miles. —Dundee Courier. ANTIQUITY OF THE GAME OF MARBLIS. —I will tell you all I know upon the subject. It appears to be a very ancient tame ; for it is stated, by Suetonius, that ,Augustus , when a youth, spent many hours in the day in playing, with little Moo r i s h boys, "cunt nucibus," th a t is, with nuts, which appear to have been then used in the very way m which you now play with your marbles. In later times, round stones picked out of gravel, were introduced for this purpose. The marbles which you now hold in your hand, are substitutes of still more modern invention. The best of them are imported from Holland, where, as I hare been informed, they are manufactured, by grinding fragments of alabaster and of other stones, in an iron mill of a peculiar construction, in which there are severaf partitions furnished with rasps, which turn with great velocity, by means of a stream of water; and thus, having rounded the stones, project them out of different holes for which their size may adapt them. Thus manufactured, they are brought down the Rhine, and from thence dis persed throughout Europe. There are, however, as you well know, inferior kinds, which are of home manufacture, and consist of baked clay, or vitrified earth..-Philosophy in Sport. THE BURNING CLIFF. AUGUST s.—The Burning Cliff near Wey mouth has lately assumed a more grand and in teresting appearance than on any previous occa sion. Yesterday the heat was so great, that it was difficult to stand within six yards of the cavern. An excavation was made on Wednes day last for an experimental research by Mr. T. Harvey, of this town, and the material extracted from the cavity on being thrown undesignedly into a heap, and exposed to the atmospheric air, ignited without any artificial application of fire, and burnt the greater part of the night with the brilliancy of a light-house, so as to attract a vast concourse of persons on our esplanade to wit ness it. The late spring tides produced an in creased fermentation, added to which, a strong current of air from the easterly gale has ignited the stratum to a considerable extent, and the fire at the mouth of the cavern is now seen to burn more fierce than that of a malt kiln or large furnace. From the crowds of persons attracted by curiosity, it has now excited the attention of the scientific. Two gentlemen are expected here to-day from Oxford to examine it. The artists also have been busy with their pencils, " to whose imagination," as the celebrated Opie says, " whatever is great, whatever is beautiful, what ever is interesting, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar." It is very probable that at some future period perhaps not very distant, after the partial consump tion of the materials feeding this immense body of fire, the present crust or surface may sink down, and exhibit all the incidental peculiarities of an ex tinct volcano ; or possibly astonish with the more awful characteristics of one existing in active operation. There are not, at this time, any in dications to warrant the expectation of any violent eruption ; nor are the peculiar local pro perties of the soil of such a description as to excite any alarming apprehension. After a time, it is very probable the vapour may partially sub side. That there is an extensive body of subter raneous fire accumulated here, is too evident to be doubted. It being ascertained that the Cliff contains a mixture of pyrites, sulphur, and iron ore, the effect to be produced on such a combination of materials by the action of salt water must be precisely that which has happened. There are instances on record of similar effects from the like causes, viz.: in the month of August, 1751, at Charrnouth, in this county ; and at the mouth of the river Shannon, in Ireland, in 1793 ; and in the Philosophical Transactions, mention is made of a like cirettmstance in Caernarvonshire. There is no doubt of the communication of salt water with the interior of this cliff. As a proof of it, it has been observed that the spring tides, and more particularly the equinoctial tides, have invariably produced very visible effects on the discharge of vapour from this cavern. At these pe►iods, a much larger quantity issues, and a far stronger effluvium is emitted, than at any other time ; an instance of which was experienced on Monday—as the promenaders on the espla nade could plainly perceive, with the naked eye, clouds of it issuing therefrom. On Tuesday fire was again seen below the interstices of the rocks ; and the next evening it was seen here, for the first time, by hm3greds of spectators, in. brilliant fire issuing from the surface of the cliff. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. It is now ascertained that this Cliff is prin cipally composed of pyrites, • bituminous coal, alum-stone, and cornu-ammonis ; and that there are streams of water running into these mixed materials. It is well known that these materials invariably generate subterraneous fire, by their own spontaneous action. A short time since some men were employed in excavating the south side of the Cliff, about forty feet above the sea-beach ; they removed a frontage of about seven feet in width, averaging four feet in height, and six feet in length inward ; the contents con sisted of lime and alum stones, intermixed with the dark bituminous earth, which was smoking at the time of removal. The men then came to stone and stone-coal, and quarried about four feet inwards, three feet high, and two feet wide ; a few sparks of fire fell from the stones, &c., on being shook with the tools ; the men lighted their pipes, and several gentle men their cigars, from the same. On the fol lowing day the excavators resumed their work, about three feet to the westward of the previous day's work, leaving a stone partition or pillar of about three feet square between the two excava tions ; the extent of this opening was about seven feet in height, and the width of frontage five feet ; length inwards about nine feet. At the inner part of the first five feet, they came to fire, which blazed at the top, bottom, and sides. The excation was continued in the fiery substances for the last four feet, when, after removing about five cubical yards of red-hot materials, they were obliged to desist in the presence of many bystanders. The fire from the mass of materials removed out of the cavern was seen blazing from the esplanade by a great concourse of people, which produced a striking and singular effect. BIRTHS. At Brighton, on the 4th inst. the lady of Captain Bid, well Edwards, of a daughter. On the Bth inst. in Russell-place, the lady of the Rev. Wadham Knatchbull, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the Sth inst., at Lexden, Essex, by the Rev. G. Preston, Mr. Edward Warmington, of Colchester, to Miss Payne, of the former place. On Wednesday, the Sth inst. at St. Sepulchre's, London. Mr. Thomas Hunt, of Clapton, surgeon, to Martha Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. Jas. Co!am, of Charterhouse-street. On Thursday, the 9th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, by the Rey. Mr. Brackenbury, Alfred Brooks, Esq., of Hamilton -place, New-road, to Jane, daughter of 'William Nott, Esq., of Pentonville. Yesterday, at St. John's, Westminster, John Hastings, Esq., surgeon, of Vauxhall Bridge-road, to Emily, only daughter of the late Mr. Rowland Griffith, of the Island of Guernsey. At Croydon, Surrey, on the let inst., William Albert Walls, Esq., of Hart-street, .Bloonisbury, to Louisa Caro line, third daughter of Captain Furness, of the Park Cot tage, Croydon. On the 9th inst. Captain Robert Lucas, of Edmonton, to Lucy Frances, relict of Lewis Vulliatny, Esq. DIED. Of a sudden attack of the liver complaint, brought on by a severe and harassing march, on the 12th of January last, at the cantonment, Secunderabad, in the Presidency of Madras, William Mallet, Esq. Captain in his Majesty's 46th Regiment. On the 7th inst., Mr. John Miller, of Harbledown, Can terbury, late of Glasgow, pianoforte-maker, in his 45th year, in consequence of the rupture of a blood-vessel in raising the brig Jubilee, Cooper; from Charente, sunk off Margate, in September, 1825. On the Bth inst., Louisa Emma, daughter of Joseph Wilson, Esq., of Battersea-rise, Surrey, aged 18 months. On the Ist inst., in Long-acre, Miss Grizel Whigam, aged 74. On the 2d inst. at Margate, 21 years of age, Thomas , the second eon of J. L. Simmond, of Holborn-hill, On the Ist inst., at Croydon, Rebecca, wife of Thema James, Esq., of that place. On the 28th ult., at Edinburgh, in her 97th year, Mrs. Janet Beckwith, relict of the late Major-General John Beckwith. PbUf ana PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at the rfei !N I grand, GENTI NEW SOM Breakfast frot Excellent Wi or 2a. per pit reasonable. don, Irish, k Coffee-room. Observe—ls IELL' SPOI can be purel FOUR O'CI Holmes and all at the Ro: Newspapers t W. B. HUE THE e: in meC an object of more conveni this highly C preparation by long keep of persons tr Prepared R4yrnarket, hold also by Bath ; Rosa son, Liverpc ASYLI TIC CORNHILI The Nc Foster Reyn Thomas Mei John Kyinsi Francis is Capt. G. 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