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fioin his M a j e sty on this most important ques=:l lion, and whether that promise was graciously . Canning excites strong feel- given, are points which it is probable that a little' We hinted, and we repeat the time will explain ; but the deep and irremovable Ise and calumny which have anxiety of Mr. Canning, on topics which could never more affect his worldly fortunes, bears ho him may have had some share talth, and aggravating his ma- nourabi- evidence to the sincerity of his pa- It is replied, " that calumny trictism, and to the lofty character of that ambi must in 's i ng case have had an undue power upon 'lion which possessed and sustained him to the ct his mind : Mr. Peel, Lord Eldon, and the Duke, last.—/bi . of Wellington have been as bitterly abused as' On this regretful occasion we cannot help ob that every man whose feelings Mr. Canning, and yet they have survived with serving, ings are not constitutions unbroken." Now, even were the . altogether brutalized, must be sensible that upon facts as here stated, is the - re no difference, we'. the stroke of mortal disease or of death, political ask, between Men of proverbially strong n erves hostility ought to cease. Such has been and is and unfeeling natures, and one who, when first .. the maxim by which our conduct has been rebau lated ever since the disease o f Mr. C • constrained, through respect for his deserted, aiming was Master, to accept of the high responsibility of r known to threaten a fatal termination. We the Preeniership, brought with him, no doubt, would at the present moment recall to recollec to the arduous task, a mind of transcendent ' s tion only the splendour o f hi s t a l en ts, an d f org et rowers, but a body enfeebled by previous' the clouds by which that splendour has been too • -: 'disease, and therefore but too liable to become frequently obscured ; and we will do this, not the victim of acute mental sensations ? H ow _ withstanding the efforts made by many of our ever, the truth is, that the perscr e s e'sove-men- ! cotereperanes to distort the creditable expression tioned were never subjected to a twentieth part of humane sympathy for an a ic es fir t I, perhaps an of the abuse which has been lavished upon Mr. expiring individual, and his immediate connec- Canning, and therefore their feelings are not to i tions, into a manifestation of political o ; i p_n_on.— be compared with his, even were their organs' We shall deeply and sincerely lament the loss o. of perception equally sensible. Mr. peel, l' Mr. Canning, even politically, since we are indeed, may be almost said to have had a driven by the conduct of others thus prema privileged exemption from those freedoms turely to speak of that too probable event in of remark to which busy-politicians are ge _ • connection with polities. It is not however as nerally exposed ; for which the chief eause', a Minister that we shall lament his loss ; for we to be assigned is, that his talents are not off know that a Minister of the King of England that first-rate quality which excite the dread -he could not 'Ong have been. The glory and of opponents, and perhaps even the envy of the welfare of the country forbad it. But we friends. Such, also, it may be observed, has lament his loss, if he is to be lost to us, as that. been the secure and stable success in life which sof a man whose talents were eminentt • • y calcu-' the other two have been enabled to attain, that lated to shed lustre and to confer importance it may well support them under much more viru- upon the future Opposition in the British Par lent attacks than any with which they have been t liament. A Parliamentary Opposition is in a assailed. But the writer to whom the reason .. certain sense essential to the due working of the which we have assigned for the aggravation e s' British Constitution ; and the whole world were Mr. Canning's sufferings appears so unsatisfac-; agreed that the degradation of the Whig Opposi-'i tory, must needs himself hazard a solution of the ' tion was so complete as to constitute it a stain and' cause of that gentleman's unhappy malady and . an opprote ism upon the national character. From dangerous situation ;•—, He is the victim, it is this stain arid opprobrium the country would said, of that mortal alliance with the refuse of have been redeemed in a great degree when society in morals and in rank, which none dis- e ever Mr. Canning was, as inevitably he tingsnished by rank or talent ever vet embraced ", would have been at no distant p • emsl , swept without expiating their error by a broken heart." away along with his new confederates to " Fatal contact," to be sure, " with the refuse the only position which is natural to the of society," to have accepted of a situation which latter. Our English feelings revolt at the idea brings the possessor into almost daily personal . of any English party being so thoroughly con intercourse with the Sovereign ! Unhappy con- - temptable as the Opposition will once more be tamination, resulting from a league and union , come, now that it is destined apparently to be with the canaille faction, composed of Lord led by a Lansdowne in the Lords, and by a Lansdowne, Lord Harrowby, Lord Dudley, the Brougham in the Commons. It is in this point Duke of Devonshire, Earl Fitzwilliam! How of view that the loss of Mr. Canning is really a could Mr. Canning hope to exist, when exposed , national calamity. It extinguishes the last hope to so mortal a contagion ? Perhaps while we -of a respectable Parliamentary Opposition. Ati write this he sinks under it. If so, we pray that ' such a moment as the present, we are most de the spirit of the leader may be transfused into ' sirous to spare the character of Mr. Canning ; the surviving members of the faction, if such it nor would we be needlessly severe upon the cha be, and that they direct the councils of the So- ratters of those who, fatally for him, have been vereign with equal zeal and talents, and a hap- recently his colleagues. If he mistook the true pier issue.-- Times. road of ambition, and allied himself with men A few brief sentences will henceforth suffice, only fit to be impediments and obstacles in his we fear, to bring to a conclusion the melancholy career, he has paid a heavy penalty for his error, narrative of which the Prime Minister of Great in his spirit broken and his frame destroyed ; Britain has for some da •ys past been the subject ; while they are to be adequately punished by re ceiving mortification and discomfiture, as the and these supplements to the hist o ry of his disease and its progress will be found in the bid- merited consequences of their political tergiver letins as they are successively issued. That Mr. sation. But we cannot remain silent when we Canning terminates the bright career of policy hear the foulest calumnies cast upon men incom on which he entceed, not until, its principles, ma- parably superior as statesmen to Mr. Canning tured as they had long been in his own mind, and the whole of his colleagues. A paper of y were fully developed and defined for the general yesterday insinuates, amidst a torrent of coarse meditation of his countrymen—that he has not and brutal invective, with a repetition of which! inatin mere' achieved the honour of owe cannot pollute our columns, that all the late noble plans on of national, and further of Eu ig ropean Ministers have been drawn to town by the g policy, and further still of a p he most nagolic influencing 1 alarming indisposition of the Premier. It is l evert nation in the world, ty true that most of those distinguished statesmen' - • are now in town ; but it is equally true that they nific'ent, and the most beneficent in its character and results, but of putting them either have not yet left town for the season, or - into a course of action, and of obtainin as well were i n town long before the illness of the Pre g'mier was publicly known ; and we may safely for the conception as for the prospective execu venture to assert, that the insinuations thus Lion of them, the grateful applauses of all gene- rudely expressed are at once utterly unfounded , rous and enlightened statesmen, is to say that he atrociously calumnious, and infamously unjust. — has lived long enough for the fulness of his own Morning Post. fame. But in the' exact proportion in which a life so prolonged and so distinguished affords Judging by the violence of the principal of consolation to the friends who loved him, and the Whig organs at the present moment, we whose interest in the object of their tenderness should imagine that the serious and lamentable, state of Mr. Carmine - has thrown the whole of was of a personal and domestic nature, in the same degree must be the sorrow of his Sovereign that part of the Administration into despair. and cc,untry, for a loss which, to them at least, Those who use the language of bitterness on the is leremature—for the departure from this earth ' one hand, and of fawning obsequiousness on the of a liberal statesman, who, in witnessing the other, judge erroneously of the power which in accomplishment of his patriotic enterprises, fluences public opinion, if they think it is to be would have lived to place the fruits of them be- led away, or in any material degree influenced gond the reach of hazard, and to exempt those by such appeals as those to which we allude. for whose welfare they were designed from the We have not been ourselves among the admirers fear that, in hands less resolute and skilful, Mr, of the way in which Mr. Canning has obtained Canning's policy may serve no cause but that of ' his last station in the Government, nor of the its author's reputation. This mingled sentiment principles upon which his Administration has of rief and alarm must now inevi ta bl y s p read it hitherto been conducted, if it can as yet be said self throughout the empire , a nd affect, in ever y to have assumed any fixed principles at all ; but quarter of the globe, the friends of freedom—we our opposition has been carried on upon public grounds alone, and we should blush for ourselves ought to say of legal aovernment, as contradis- t o and for the press of England, could we, now that tinguished from despotic power. That collateral . . life is parting from a man of acknowledged ta. circumstances may, for a short time, tend to ag- , lent, like Mr. Canning, degrade our pages by gravate such apprehensions, time present as pect of parties in England furnishes some' one unkind remark towards him. But sickness and death, which level all distinctions, should cause to suspect. The moment of Imr. , likewise close the avenues of wrath, on the part Canning's decease will be caug ht at, as . of those who profess to be admirers of departing the proper crisis for a new, and (since we _ any must, therefore, more than doubt his appointment to the Ministry) an unexpected talent ; and the attachment of • Canning, or man to Mr. effort to replace the beaten faction in power.— - The heads of it will doubtless beset the King, to his fame and memory personally , who prosti tutes that supposed attachment to a base and de and by a d ue a d m ixture of threats and insinua- • Lions, mak e one m or e attempt upon his Majest y ' t , grading attack upon those who were till yesterday prejudices or teaks. On the other hand, from .. as it were, the colleagues and friends of the very( the unremitting attention and generous and touch- , man whose sad fate they, we will venture to say,l ing kindness which his Majesty is known to have as sincerely deplore as any of his present new and evinced towards . Mr. Canning throughout the . ardent eulogists. What effect the too certain whole of this last distressing scene, it may b e loss of Mr. Canning to the Government may conjectured that so much personal regard could produce, we are unwilling at the present moment ' not have existed in behalf of a Minister se p arate to anticipate. There is a sacredness about mis-' from a great political confidence and concord, • fortune, which should close the curtains of the No friend or brother the most attached, could bed of death, against the unhallowed approach anxiety than the have manifested more earnest of mundane objects. We wish this feeling in- King condescended to demonstrate for his dying fluenced those who have called forth those re-' Minister. An individual much esteemed by his : marks ; but it does not follow that heartless in- Fonsideraemeess should not be allowed to triumph Majesty was the repeated messenger of' his Royal in ,. its own ii,:artlessness, or presume on the better inquiries and solicitudes to the sick man's chain- . , eelings of others to scatter firebrands either in ben. In some of those intervals, when the sus- t :, earnestness or in n s port.—Morning Heald. pension of pain, or of the insensibility produced by the narcotic remedies resorted to, left the Should Mr. Canning be now torn from his. mind of the sufferer at liberty, not merely did he t family, when time shall have mitigated theirl recall with diligent recollection the subjects of , grief, it must be highly gratifying to them to re-1 public interest which had habitually occupied ' fleet on the, feeling entertained by the nation to him, but he recommended the prosecution of the wards this distinguished Minister. His brilliant present system of British policy at home ; talents, his virtues, and' the liberal and enlarged and abroad, with eloquent and affecting i views on which he has constantly acted,, from' solemnity, to be conveyed as a dying prayer." his accession to the late Ministry up to the pre to hi* : ~. Royal Master. Nothing could cx-sent hour, obtain for him a fervency of regard ,, teed' die exemplary and manly composure with ,which to mere rank and power would have been which Mr. Canning regarded his own approach...! denied. Mr. Canning is beloved by the people, ing end. He has regretted nothing but the pos- because he had the welfare of the people sincerely, sible misfortune of a change in the Royal Coun- .at heart, and because they know that he posses- ; eils, and the consequent sacrifice of a train of sed too much elevation of mind to regard power ' measures which he had himself deliberately as valuable, except as affording the means of beE adopted, as those which involv e d th e honour and nefitting mankind. If we turn to the period o.H happiness of England. with the well-being of •,7 fierce political hostility and party bitterness, Mr.' Europe. Whether he supplicated a pronuseiCanning's speeches will always be found.to be, • 1 HE PUBLIC ;iotklqALS. , - TH Mr, :1 li abom t "'l' upon airing .us 'es. To this it 'advantageously distinguished from those of the men who were ranged on the same side with him.: No -traces will be found in them of the cold in difference to the fortunes of mankind, which was so characteristic of the effusions of the late Lord', Londonderry ; but, on the contrary, when ana lysed, the same generosity of purpose and mag nanimity which he has been enabled to display = more conspicuously of late, will be found in all of them. He might differ with some of those:. who have lately been associated with him, as to: the means of promoting the improvement of mankind, but he had that object always in view. The sentiments he delivered at Liverpool, in 1812, may be truly said to have been characte-!, ristic of his disposition—" We have stepped for ward to raise the fallen—to sustain the oppres sed—to interpose between the prostrate victim anti the descending sword of the conqueror. In all this I see nothing that impoverishes or impairs' the national hope. I see much that exalts the national character. But, in truth, our interest is not at variance with our character ; for scarcely is the commercial prosperity of Liverpool more closely interwoven with the greatness of the country, than is the permanent greatness and the safety of England connected with the peace and freedom of Europe." What could there be ". in common between this man and those by whom he has of late been so foully calumniated—nar row-minded creatures, alive only to the most sordid self-interest ! We fear, however, that i the same warmth of disposition which elevatect him so high above them, was, as usual, united to a sensibility which left him but too open to the shafts of their malice.—Morning Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • MANSION-HOUSE.— William Corp, the son of Mr. Corp, of Great Tower-street, was charged with having robbed his father of three or four shillings. Mr. Alderman TuomrsoN, before whom the lad was brought, endeavoured to persuade Mr. Corp not to prose cute his son, but 31r. Corp said his son had promised him so often to reform, that he was now determined to send him to the Old Bailey. The prosecutor then stated, that his son had in his absence broken open the till or drawer where some silver Ilay, and taken three or four shillings, with which he de camped. His son had acted very improperly before, and soon after his departure with the money sent him a letter acknowledging and lamenting the robbery, but assuring him that he had got a birth before the mast in the Isis, which is lying at Chatham, and requesting that money should forthwith be transmitted to him for equipment for the ser- vice. To this letter no answer was sent, whereupon the! prisoner became impatient, and threatened to return to town. No notice having been taken of the second or even of n third communication, the prisoner sent for the witness from a neighbouring public-house, but an officer visited him there instead of his father, and took him into custody. The prisoner made no defence. Alderman TLIOMFSON.—Then, Mr. Corp, your son is fully committed to Newgate for trial for robbing you. Mr. Corp signed his deposition, bowed to the Alderman, thanked him, and departed. The prisoner did not say a word, but he looked at his parent as he passed off to New gate in such a manner as cannot easily bd forgotten. BOW-STREET.—An elderly man, named Wm. Ed-1 wards, a schoolmaster at Derby, was brought to this office' for the purpose of having an order of affiliation made upon him; to compel him to maintain his female bastard child. The mother of the child was a remarkably pretty and very delicate small-sized woman, apparently about 14 years of Wage, and had her infant in her arms. She said, that when she was ten years and a half old, her mother died, leaving her and two younger children with her father. Her father was acquainted with Mr. Edwards, who keeps a school at Derby, and sent her to his house to be educated and taken care of. On the 29th of April last she was delivered of the female child which she held in her arms, and of whicl the defendant was the true and only father. She was 141 years of age in June last. In reply to the Magistrate's' question, she said it was about a year and a half ago when the defendant fi rst began to behave improperly to her. The defendant had nothing to tay against the statemen t . of the mother, and the Magistrates made the order of affi liation, adjudging him to - pay all expences that had been incurred by the parish, and 7s. per week for the support of the child. The defendant said, the amount ordered to be paid weekly was too much, and more than he could afford. Mr. MiNsuum. said, it should not be lessened one farthing. In the whole course of his experience as a Ma gistrate he never had so scandalous a case before him. The defendant was locked up until he paid the money. George Boskin, driver of the hackney chariot 173, was charged with a gross assault upon a married woman, named Brown. The complainant was returning home on Sunday evening, and engaged the defendant's coach at the r end of Sloane-street, to drive her to Brompton. On the road, however, the defendant took a strange man up into the coach, who began to take liberties with her, and when she insisted upon leaving the coach, the defendant demand ed 3s. for his fare, and insulted her because she refused to pay it.—He was ordered to find bail. HATTON-GARDEN.—John Taylor and Mary Dea kin were yesterday morning finally examined on the charges of starving and cruelly ill-treating the male infant of Taylor. For the purpose of preventing the concourse of persons who had assembled on the former hearings, Lee, the jailor, brought the prisoners from the New Prison at ten o'clock, and placed them in the lock-up room of the office. Not withstanding this precaution, some hundreds assembled round the office, anxious to know the result. At twelve o'clock they were again placed at the bar, and the child not being considered in any immediate danger, though in a most precarious state, both prisoners were committed to take tkeir trial for the misdemeanor at the ensuing Middle sex Sessions. Their progress back to the New Prison, in a hackney, coach, was marked by the hootings and execrations of the , assembled hundreds. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.---Yesterday, Willi" Taylor, a shabby-looking artisan, was charged by William Gibson, of 29, Ogle-street, with seducing and robbing his daughter. It appeared that the defendant, who is a married man, having at the present two wives, according to the evidenceof the accuser, occupied for two years part of the same house with William Gibson and his family, and by that means became acquainted with the complainant's daughter, Cathe rine, a creditable-looking girl, 18 years of age. A short time ago the prisoner persuaded thisgirl to leave a situation which she held in a gentleman's family, and live with him in a lodging at No. 2, East-street, Finsbury-square, under the assumed names of William and Catherine Watson,' where she was discovered on Friday by her father, and brought home, robbed, as he said, and naked (meaning that, excepting a few rags upon her back, her clothes ware all at the pawnbroker's.) The girl answered questions put to her by Mr. Gitirmu • with great reluctance ; she said the prisoner promised to marry her, and persuaded her to pawn her clothes, when he wanted colours (he is a painter and japanner), and he had repeatedly threatened to run her father through, or do him some personal injury, if he endeavoured to take her from him. Mr. GRIFFITH regretted that he could do no more than require the prisoner to find good bail to keep the peace.-- The charge of seduction must be tried elsewhere ' • and that of robbery was not supported ; for it app eared that the girl herself had pledged the clothes, in her assumed name of.: Catherine Watson. TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.—On the pauper cases being called on, a r eputable-looking man from among them presented himself to the Magistrate's notice, and re ' quested to be passed to his native country, Ireland. This unfortunate person's case is singular. About six weeks ago, he rushed wildly into a house in Mill-lane, Tooley-street, and requested to be saved from assassination by being taken either to a guard-house or police-office, as several persons in the street had fired at and wounded him ; and exhibited such unequivocal proofs of a disordered , mind, that he was conveyed to the Borough-compter oppo site, where coercion was necessary to prevent his commit ting mischief; from whence he was removed by the parish officers the same day to their asylum, Lower Edmonton, and now returned with a certificate of perfect recovery. The Magistrate, Alderman J. J. SMITH, questioning him as to his claims for consideration, received for answer, that for 13 years he held the situation of a revenue officer, in Ireland, during which period he received, in the dis charge of his duty, in detecting illicit stills, numerous a n sabre, ,d gun-shot wound s in every part of his body ; and on', on e occasion was passing from Dublin with his party, when' 'they were attacked and fired at by two footpads, whom they secured, after a severe conflict, and took before the Mayor, who committed them for trial; and that in cone queue of otteudipg to give evideuce WWI thew 4or eight, 'days, without thinking it necessary to obtain leave of ab-' Isenee, he was dismissed from his employment, and came to London to petition for his restoration ; but his endea vours had proved unsuccessful, and all the money he had was exhausted. His name and connexions were then asked ; but he de -1 dined mentioning them, unless to the Magistrate in private, to whom he handed several letters from Noblemen! and gentlemen, in reply to applications for their interest in, getting him restored to his situation, to some of whom it was stated lie is related. _ . The Alderman, on this showing, granted him a pass, for which he expressed his thanks ; but on learning that he must travel as a pauper, seemed much shocked, and pressed the Magistrate to interfere with the parish foe his being conveyed to Bristol by the coach ; but this the Alderman told him he had no power to do. We afterwards under stood his name was Kirwan. . UNION-HALL—Two young women, named Mardi Jones and Emily Jenkins, WC re brought up, charged with 9 !robbing one Mr. Elias Wilson, a man advanced in years, of a silver watch and 18s. in silver. The complainant, in a melancholy tone, stated his case as follows :—" I am truly sorry a man at my time of life should have been compelled to appear in this public place, but I have a duty to perform, and it must be done. Well, Sir, as I was going home last night I met with the two young women inside those bars, and they prevailed on me • to go into a gin-shop, from whence we all three went to gether to a house in Frying-pan-alley." Here the com plainant paused for a time, and then asked whether he was bound to state every thing that passed while in the society of the ladies in Frying-pan -alley. The Magistrate informed him, that all he wanted to hear was the manner in which Le had been robbed. The complainant then resumed—" Well, Sir, there was a fatality attending me last night, as I &Lid before. I went home with the women, and, indeed, went to bed with th e m both ; but had not been long there, when, on waking out •of a nap, I found both my bedfellows had left me. I got up, poked about the room in the dark for my clothes, but found they were gone also. I then called cloud for the landlady to bring a light, when I discovered that my 1 breeches, containing my watch and money, were missing. Those are the two women," added the old man, " who took my breeches and money; I'll swear to them." He , then, looking towards the magistrate very gravely, said,l " Your Worship, you know the frailty of us poor mortals ;" adding, with peculiar emphasis, " human nature will be human nature still." The two sentences were pronounced in such a manner as to excite roars of laughter. . . - _ • The Magistrate—Were you drunk at the time ? Com plainant—l can't say I was sober. A constable proved that he was very much intoxicated ;1 in contradiction to whose statement the complainant ad..l duced as a proof of his sobriety, that he only had taken two' glasses of rum, two glasses of gin, and a pot of porter. Mr. CILIMBERS-What became of your breeches? Cotaplainant—The landlady lent me a pair to go home with. Mr. CiIAMBERS-I shall not hear any more of this case : you have disgraced yourself by accompanying those women to a brothel ; besides, you were drunk, and therefore ren dered incapable of identifying who robbed you. GERMAN AND HAMBURGH PAPERS. BERLIN, J ULY 81. On the 2.6 th of this month, the marriage of her High-1 ness the Princess Augusta of Satins Braunfels, daughter of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland, with his Highness Prince Albert of Schwatzbarg, was solemnized in the Royal Palace of Schonhansen, in a very private manner, only the Royal Family being present, because the death of the Prince of Tour and Taxis, brother-in-law of the Duchess of Cumberland, prevented e.ny display of pomp on the occasion. HANOVIR, JULY 31. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge returned yesterday from Pyrmout to Montbrillant, but will go the day after to-morrow to Rumpelheirn. A Convention has been concluded between our Govern ment and that of Brunswick, for the regulation of several points relative to commerce. STOCKHOLM, JUNE 27. M. Von Ihre, our Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople, .ias set out on his return to that city with his Majesty's ratification of the Treaty of Navigation concluded with the Porte. The Norwegian Storthing has applied for his Majesty's permission to prolong its session till the 9th of August, if it should be necessary to complete its labours. It is un derstood that his Majesty hue complied with this request. naEsostr, JOLT 24. The ceremony of taking the oaths and doing homage' to the King, will take place next month. His Majesty will receive it in person here, at Leipsic, Freiburg, and Bautzen; commissioners will be appointed to receive it in the other towns. It is thought the ceremony will take' place at Leipsic, on the 13th August. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DI ARY.—.PRIDAIr. Am. 0. 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Haines, J., Grove-street, Corn. mercial-road Hepworth, J., Leyton Killerby, J., White-st., South. wark Marston, S., Pimlico THE THAMES TUNNEL.—Yesterday morn ing the usual weekly meeting of the Directors was held at the Company's Offices, in Walbrook, for the purpose of (receiving a report from the engineer on the state of the (works, and of the measures adopted to clear the Tunnel of the loose soil collected i❑ it. The report was satisfactory in every point of view, and up to yesterday morning, every thing had proceeded favourably. Upwards of 800 tons of soil, gravel, &c. have been taken out of the archways ; and it is confidently expected that before the day on which a general meeting of the shareholders is to be held, the ex tension of the Tunnel will have been commenced. The visitors to inspect the Tunnel average about 150 daily.— Before the accident occurred, as much as 501. and 601. a-day was frequently taken from visitors. Some years ago William Duncan, gardener, • near Ayr, formed a plan by which he watched his bees through the day and his garden at night. This was taken notice of in the Ayr Advertiser at the time it happened, and many people came from a great distance in Scotland and in Eng land to see it. All who saw it acknowledged the method for watching the garden was good, and the plan for watching the bees was consider•• ed both sure and very curious. By this method it was clearly discovered how many bees went out to work, and, when swarming, what number was in the swarm. As this may appear to those unacquainted with the method very improba!le, some explanation is necessary. It is all done by weight. The hive is placed upon a weigh ing -beam, about three feet eight inches long, with a board on the other end on which stones of the weight of the hive are put. When the bees begin to cast (an ordinary top-swarm is between 41b. and 51b. weight), and when the first pound weight of bees have left the hive, the beam will turn back a little the same as a mer chant's scale does on the counter. But, before 0 the scale rest, it forces out a trigger, like the pin, id a mole-trap, which lets off a small iron wire tto a bell in the house that gives sufficient warn ing to the bee mother to go and take care of the swarm. The above method has been practised ifor several years by Mr. Duncan. 1 LONDON MARKETS. (From the New London Pries Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The shoiv of Sugars last week was very li mited, notwithstanding the late extensive imports ; the', buyers, however, evinced no inclination to purchase. The. speculators were not seen at Market, and the Refiners, on account of the low prices of manufactured goods compared with raw Sugars, were rather inclined to work cut their stocks, or reduce the quantity refined. The wholesale' Grocers bought for the home trade on the most limited scale. The whole of the purchases for the week did not exceed 1,500 blols., the prices were about Is. per cwt. lower. _ _ V The deliveries last week are 860 casks less than the cor.l responding one of last year, which shows the consumptionl is already in some measure checked by the late advance : the comparative stock is about 11,500 casks less than last year. There was a better show of Sugar this morning, but as the great proportion of the holders will not submit to any reduction, scarcely any business was done on the, opening of the Market this morning. At the conclusion of the day all the purchases by private contract do not ex ceed 300 casks.—The sales are Is. a ls. 6d. lower t.ian the highest point of the Market about ten days ago.—The Barbadoes sale went off at the same reduction. The Refined Market last week declined about Is. per cwt. and the sales at the reduction were trivial. I v At - a late hour to-day the Refined Market continuedl !heavy ; with the exception of a large parcel fair quality, I Lumps at 84s.—Scarcely any business has been done : a considerable parcel of Molasses sold at 275. FOREIGN SuoAn.—The inquiries after white Havannah Sugar last week were general, but the quantity offeringl was inconsiderable. Some sales of yellow were reported , 375. 6d. a 395. 6d. ; about 800 chests sold. EAST INDIA Sunau.—Mauritins Sugars supported the previous prices, but the sales were inconsiderable.—The India Company have declared for sale 21st inst. 11,176 bags, which is understood to be all their stock. The pur ichases last week were quite inconsiderable. " " Cos-I'm—The public sales last week were considerable,l but a great proportion was taken in ; the coloury descrip tions British Plantation supported the previous prices, the ord. declined Is. a 2s. good to fine ord. Havannah sold in large parcels at 445. a 455. 6d. fine ord. St. Domingo 46e. The Foreign Coffee sold at a reduction of Is. a is. 6d. last week, and generally the Market had a very heavy ap pearance. There were two public sales this forenoon, consisting of 206 casks and 737 bags,.)f which 737 begs were ord. mixed St. Domingo, the remainder chiefly Dominica Coffee. For the St. Domingo 425. 6d. was offered and refused ; all taken in.—The Dominica also went off verr heavily, but at full prices. Generally. Coffee is heavy at the reduction f we have stated, but the Market is rather more firm to-day. RUM, BaArmy, and Ilou.anns.—The Rum Market is heavy on account of the recent arrivals, but we believe there are no sales at any reduction.—Brandy is still in a very languid and depressed state.—Geneva has been inquired after, pale at 21. 7d., but the supplies are considerable. New Brandy, to arrive, on board 3s. 4d. ; 1825, do. 38. 6d. EAST 'lima Goons.—The Commissioners of the Board of Customs have sent a communication to the India Board, stating that many of the overtime goods sold under autho rity of the Treasury order 23d July, 1823, still remain in the Company's warehouses, and *l,l request that the ne cessary measures may be taken for their disposal, ae well as Camphor, Lac Lake, Lac Dye, and Red Wood or Red. Sanders imported up to Slat Dec. 1815, and all other goods imported up to the sth July, 1821, which have continued warehoused longer than allowed by law. I The India Directors have given notice that all goods coming under the above description will forthwith be brought to sale. - • PROYISIONS.-The only sales reported are some parcels l lof India Pork.—Beef is without alteration.—Bacon is still in some demand at the inserted rates.—Butters have again rather given way; the latest sales are at the inserted prices. HEMI, FLAX, AND TALLOW.-The accounts from St. Petcrsburgh are to the 20th ult. Exchange 10 6-16.—, Tallow 99 rubies and about 3,000 casks purchased since') the last post, '71,000 casks shipped.—The Tallow Market' last week continued languid ; there were, however, con siderable small country orders executed about 365. 6d., , i and the deliveries last week are in consequence about 1,600 casks ' • the market generally however had a heavy appear ance, owing as reported to the anticipated supplies. The late small purchases of Hemp and Flax are at the insetted prices. FOR DELIVERY. (Tallow, delivery la.t 3 months 0 36 6 to per cwt. Shipment on or before Aug. 81, 0 36 0 to fice on board $0 0 0 to per ton. . - Hemp, Shipment on or before Aug. 31 AMER.—A public sale of Ashes was brought forward last week, hot the great proportion was taken ; some Pearls 295. 6d. a 80e., Pots, 275. 6d. Hors.—The accounts from the Hop districts state that the strong plants are fast going into burr, and promise an abundant crop; the very fine weather has also had some effect on the weak Hops, but they appear generally too far gone to recover to any extent. The estimated duty is now 120,0001. TURPENTlNl.—Considerable sales of the new arrivals are reported at 18e. 6d. Ea low tln e d r i pric India Spices would haveheavyceswere been last week, and accepted : it rathergenSeerarcllays. is probable there will be little business till the result of the East India Company's sale is ascertained. Pimento con tinues in good request; for a fine parcel I id. has been realized. °rte.—There are further accounts of the Fisheries, but they produce little effect ; the prices of common Oils are fully supported. Spermaceti has again advanced, and se veral sales are reported at our advanced currency ; there is also an improvement in the demand for Seed Oils. Rape has been in demand, and considerable parcels are taken on speculation. FRUlT.—There is no alteration in Fruit; the season is nearly ever. Some sales of Valeatia Raisins are reported I at lower prices. COTTON.-The purchases of Cotton for the week ending last night inclusive, do not exceed 1500 bags; the prices ' are without alteration. WEST INDI♦ MoLassEs.—The sales have been Deme rara and St. Vincent's of good quality 81s. and 325. TOBACCO.—The only purchases of Tobacco are two parcels of ordinary Virginia at Lid., and good Leafy under 34d. TEA.—The demand for Boheas is large chests conti nues, some parcels of former sales have been brought out, and meet ready buyers at ss. 1d..--Contmon Hylton* are required and bear Id. and Ild. profit on last sale's cost. IxDroo.—There is no alteration in Indigo ; the market generally may be stated heavy. To-day's sale 97 chests Oude sold Is. per lb. lower than India sale ; 30 chests Bengal at sale prices. Coco.—By Public Sale on Friday 1384 bags Brasil Cocoa SU, bought in. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Boston Canterbury Grantham Grimsby Lincoln Maidstone Spilsby s. to s 5. to 5. SO 65 61 6$ $9 62 SS 62 56 co 49 62 56 59 $5 63 39 45 2.3 40 40 48 40 42 a. to 5. 31 39 28 38 28 SO 28 32 32 38 28 30 1 88 COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Beans. Y. to S. Liverpool London Glasgow 4t 50 ',!` . .8 62 57 59 58 60 58 58 EXPORTED- Previous ly this yQar. Bags, &c. Bags, &C. 242 14,441 1;750 21,420 00 43,943. IMPORTED. Same pc- This lriod last year. year. 1 Bags, Etc. Bags, &C. 551,551 351;756 45 : 4131 50,136 , 47,036 17,387 Total exported in li The body of a youth was picked up on Monday! morning near Blackfriars.bridge, and as it wa s com p letel y naked, it is supposed that he met his death while bathing. THE SKELETON OF O'BRIEN, THE IRISH GIANT.—A paragraph in the Times of Thursday states, (that the skeleton of the celebrated O'Brien, who exhibited !himself many years ago as the Irish giant, is in the Ana ! tomical Museum, belonging to the College of Surgeons, !in Lincoln's-Inn -Fields. We feel no hesitation in contra dicting this statement. O'Brien was buried in the porch of the Catholic Chapel, in this city, and as he had expres sed an a pprehension that an attempt would be made to disturb his remains, the most effective means were adopted /for its prevention. The grave was dug out of a rock, and lat an unusual depth, in which the coffin was secured by ikon bars. The spot is under the same roof as the chapel, protected by the same doors, and surrounded by inhabited houses, one of which is the residence of the Catholic, 1 , Priest ; so that the removal of the corpse could only be effected by treachery, which will not readily be imputed to t he parties concerned by those to whom their characters are kiEllOWnir.P.Uristagirctsry. - I THE RATTLESNAKE and the SQUIRREL. Rattlesnakeshu»t and secure for their prey with ease grey squirrels that abound in our woods ; therefore they must be possessed of swiftness to 'obtain them. Having enjoyed the pleasure of ,beholding such a abase in full view in the year 1821, 1 ;hall detail its circumstances. Whilst lying on the ground, to watch the habits of a bird which was new to me, previous to shooting it, I heard a smart rustling not far from me, and turning my head that way, saw at the same moment a grey squirrel full grown issuing from the thicket, and bouncing off in a strait direction, in leaps of several feet at a time, and not more than twenty feet behind, a rattlesnake of ordinary size pursuing, drawn apparently out to its full length, and sliding over the ground so ;rapidly that, as they both moved away from me, I was at no loss to observe the snake gain upon [the squirrel. The squirrel made for a tree, and ascended to its topmast branches as nimble as !squirrels are known to do. The snake per formed the same task considerably more slowly, yet so fast, that the squirrel never raised kits tail nor barked, but eyed the enemy lattentively as he mounted and approached.— 'hen within a few yards, the squirrel leaped Ito another branch, and the snake followed iby stretching out full two-thirds of its body, whilst the remainder held it securely from falling, Passing thus from branch to branch, with a ' ra .l pidity that astonished me, the squirrel went in and out of several holes but remained in none, knowing well that, wherever its head could enter, the body of its antagonist would follow ; and at last, much exhausted and terrified, took a despe rate leap, and came to the earth with legs and tail spread to the utmost to ease the fall. That instant the snake dropt also, and was within a few yards of the squirrel before it had begun making off. The chace on land again took place, and ere the squirrel could reach another tree, the snake had seized it by the back near the occiput, and soon rolled itself about in such a way that, although I heard the cries of the vic tim, I scarcely saw any portion of its body. So full of its ultimate object was the snake, that it paid no attention to me, and I approached it to see in what manner it would dispose of its prey. A few minutes elapsed, when I saw the reptile loosening gradually, and opening its folded coils, until the squirrel was left entirely disengaged, ;having been killed by suffocation. The snake then raised a few inches of its body from the ground, and passed its head over the dead ani mal in various ways to assure itself that life had , departed ; it then took the end of the squirrel's 'tail, swallowed it gradually, bringing first one and then the other of the hind legs parallel with it, and sucked with difficulty, and for some time, at them and the rump of the animal, until its jaws became so expanded, that, after this, it swallowed the whole remaining parts with apparent ease. This mass of food was removed several inches from the head in the stomach of the snake, .and gave it the appearance of a rouleau of money brought from both ends of a purse towards its centre ; for, immediately after the operation of swallowing was completed, the jaws and beck re sumed their former appearance. The snake then attempted to move off, but this was next to im possible ; when having cut a twig;4-went up to it, and tapped it on the head, which it raised, au well as its tail, and began for the first time to rattle. I wa3 satisfied that for some lapse of (time it could not remove far, and that the woods being here rather thin, it would soon become the victim of a vulture. I then' killed it, and cut it open to see how the squirrel lay within. I had remarked, that, after the process of swallowing was completed, singular movements of the whole body had taken place,—a kind of going to and fro for a while, not unlike the convulsive motions of a sick animal, as a dog, for instance, about to vomit. I concluded that some internal and ne cessary operation was going on. This was proved when I found the squirrel lying perfectly smooth, even as to its hair, from its nose to the tip of its tail. I noted all this on the spot. This over, I sought my game again, and felt a great satisfac tion ; but having met my friend Mr. James Perry, on whose lands in the State of Louisiana I was then hunting, and having related what had just happened, he laughingly said, " Why, my dear Sir, I could have told you this long ago, it being Inothing new to me." These facts, I trust, are Ignite sufficient to exemplify the faculties of swift ness, and the powers of extension and diminu tion, in the rattlesnake.—Edinburgh Philoso phical Journal. BIRTHS. On the sth instant, at Bosworth-hall, in the county of Leicester, the lady of G. Fortescue Turvile, Eeq., of a daughter. On the 4th instant, at Bath-terrace, Kennington, the wife of Adam Burn, Esq., of a still-born male child. On the 6th instant, at 1, Fluyder.street, Westminster, the lady of Henry Hyndman, Esq. of a daughter. On the 25th ult., at Luc, near Caen, in Normandy, Mts. Robert Williamson, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the sth instant, Captain Thomas Pakenham Vande leur (31st nisileers), to Mary, youngest daughter of Sir Fitswilliam Barrington, Bart. On the 7th instant, at Epping Church, by the Bev. H. Nceve, Mr. Patman, of Epping . , to Mary Ann, third daughter of the late Mr. T. Carrington, of Aidersgate-st. On the 7th instant, W. F. Johnson, Esq., of Connaught square, to Isabella, youngest daughter of the late Alexander of power -street. Hawthorn, Esq. DIED. victualling-onice, Deptford. On the 3 d ins tant, at kis son-in-law's, the Retreat, South Lambeth, age d 76, Mr. John Roach, late of His Majesty's On the sth instant, Eli za , w if e o f Mr. W. Buckmaster, of Old Bond-street, an d e ld es t daughter of Mr. Samuel , Addams, of Holf or d, near B r id ge w a ter, Somerset. On th s : 7th i ns t an t, age d 10 years, Lucy, youngest V da i u ir ter n of Mr. Tileon, of Brixton-hill. On the 6th instant, at the South Sea House, Barbara Gould, wife of Nathaniel Simpson, Esq. On the 6th instant, at his Chambers in Crown-office row, Francis Bushell Reaston, Esq., a Bencher of the Middle Temple, in his 71st year. On the 2d instant, at Pentonville, is her 62d year, Esther, widow of the late Mr. Henry Parry, of Leaden hall-street. 1 On the sth inst., in her 74 th year , Catherine , widow of !the late Harden Burnley, of Brunswick-square, and mother in law of Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P. On Friday evening, at Portland-place, Clapham-road, Dionysia, wife of Mr. John Ansted, aged 80. On the 6th inst. at Fortis-green, Finchley, Martha, relict of the late Mr. Wm. Davis, Giltspur-street, London, having survived him only three days. On the 6th inst. at Brighton, John William, only eon of Robert Colmer, Esq. of the Temple. On tke Ist inst. at Wroxliam Hall, Norfolk, Sigismond Trafford Sonthwell, Esq. On the 23d ult. at Carshellach, parish of Inveraven, Banffshire, Margaret Grant, aged upwards of one hundred ,t , years. Margaret's old age was rendered comfortable by‘the E bounty of Sir Charles Forbes and Mrs. Mitchell, Ashgrove, to whom she had the honour of being related, and who al / lowed her a considerable annuity for many years past, t through the hands of Capt. Chas. Grant, Tambreekachie. Nunn) and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at the ktr-Orrics, O. 112; Otrands 1 'r u to re yr h Viet Cus , and cSil LU kin, it is to the ack tba' per: add hot to 1 to € Bel !ac W; Alt Wi chi Ar Rh]