The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-27 00:00:00

SURREY THEATRE. Ou Thursday evening last, a new Vaudeville entitled the Prisoner of .Rochelle was produced. The plot is simple, but the situations are most effective, and produced much applause. The story is shortly this —Captain Survalle (Mr. OSBALDISTONE) a young officer, having been guilty of a supposed insult to his Colonel, is confined 4 close prisoner in the prison of Rochelle, which adjoins the house in which his favoured fair one (Miss VINCENT) and licr sister (Miss SOMERVILLE) are domiciled. By means of a sliding pannel, which the prisoner discovers, lie is enabled to visit the ohject of his love, and in the course of one of their tete a fetes they are sur prised by a visiter, who proves to be no other a personage than the Governor of the prison General Gerarde (Mr. D. PIT T ) who, as might be expected, recognizes his prisoner, though his suspicions are partially removed by the as surance that the officer was Captain La Blanche, a cousin of the lady. The General, however, completely to remove his doubts proceeds to examine the prison, to Which also the officer through the pannel repairs, and re sumes his situation in his cell just as the General enters. After a variety of hairbreadth escapes the arrival of the real Captain La Blanche (Mr. EDWIN) discovers the whole trick, but as he also is the bearer of a free pardon, all parties are made happy, and the curtain falls. The suc cess of the piece was assisted by some very music (by JOLLY), and by the highly effective singing of Miss SOMERVILLE, Miss VINCENT, and Mr. EDWIN. The other characters were well sustained by Messrs. OSBALDIS. TONE, 1). PITT, VALE, and MAITLAND. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of the past week were tolerably good of most descriptions of Corn, and of Flour the quantity was consider able. There was no variation in the trade throughout the week. This morning there was a fair fresh supply of Grain in general. The weather continues boisterous and wet, which prevents our buyers from purchasing freely. Fine dry parcels of Wheat maintain last quotations; other kinds are so very dull, that to effect sales less prices have been taken. Barley for malting is unvaried ; grinding and very difficult to sell. Beai tations. Pease of both kinds terms last stated. Oats cont at hardly so good prices as lasl for the best Flour; but other q parcels are Is. per quarter lower, ns met a heavy sale at last quo_ meet very little demand at the moue plentiful, and sell slowly, t quoted. There is a fair trade tualities are dull at former terms PRICES ON 80, Wheat, Red (old) —s. —s ----White (old) —s. —s. Red ;1833) ... 425. 465. --- Fine 483 50s. --- Superfine s2s. 545. ----White (1833) 4ss. 50s. --- Fine 52.5. 545. Superfine.. 565. 58s. Foreign free —s. —s. Rye Barley Grinding --- Malting Malt line New Pease, Grey Nov --- Maple NI - White ---- Boilers 325. 365. 21s 265. 30s. 325. 445. 50s. 50s. Ms. v '3os. :Pas. ew.... 335. 355. 38s. 40s. 41s. 435 , TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. send you the amount of duties received for the five last years at the Custom House here:- 1829 X 57,000 1830 90,000 1831 94,000 1832 109,000 1833 106,000 The decrease in the last year is to be attributed to the high gales, which prevented the arrival of several vessels with valuable cargoes until after the making up the yearly account at the customhouse. One of these vessels is laden with brandy, and ought to have discharged her cargo here early in December, but was detained in a French port for nearly six weeks by the violence of the gales of wind. Had she arrived in the last month there is no doubt but there would have been an increase of receipt over the former year. The vessel alluded to brings here two car goes of brandy annually, but last year, from the circum stance abovementioned, only one. The duty payable upon such cargo is about 25,0001.—1 am, Sir, yours, &c. Gloucester, Jan. 24, 1834. A. H. GLOUCESTER AND BERKELEY CANAL.— The following statement of tonnage and receipts upon the Cabal, from the period of its opening up to the close of the last year, will afford a good criterion of the steadily in creasing traffic to this port:— Tons. Duties. 1828..... 1827 ......... 106 ' 996 223574 1829......... , .... 236'467 um. ........ 29556.1 1831 ......... 323'344 1. ........ 321 , 854 346,773 ....Gloucester Journal. BRIGHTON, JAN. 26.—Several pieces of timber, evidently part of the wreck of some vessel, have been picked up on the beach within the last two days, and also four hats. It is likewise stated here, this morning, that the bodies of six men have been washed on shore near Worthing. MR. DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY.--Nine teen out of the twenty-four Benchers of the Middle Temple are slid to have assembled in conclave upon this gentle man's case, and delivered their opinions seriatim, but una nimously against his admission to the Bar. Dn. DOYLE.—We had the gratification of stating, some time ago, that a great improvement bad taken place in the health of this renowned and venerated Prelate, though at one time there were scarcely the slenderest hopes of his recovery. 'We have now the plea sure of announcing that all unfavourable symptoms are removed, and that no doubt whatever is entertained of his final and complete recovery... 7 D üblin Morning Register. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAIL WAY.— The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this railway was held on Thursday last, in the cotton sale-room. The Treasurer read the report of the Direc tors, from which it appeared, that for the last half year the receipts Were 97,2341., and the disbursements 56,3501. ; leaving a profit of 40,8841. A dividend of 41. 10s. per share was then declared. The sum of 4,0881. was set apart as a reserved fund, leaving 1,3001. surplus towards the expenditure of the ensuing half year. SEEING IS BELIEVING.—The celebrated Boyle mentions a gentleman, who, during :a distemper he had in his eyes, had his organs of sight so sensible, that when he waked in the night, he could, for awhile, plainly see and distinguish colours and other objects ; and the same author gives an instance of another person, who after getting fuddled with claret, if he waked in the night could see for some time to read moderately-sized print. Grimaldi tells that some women of Megara were able, by their eyes alone, to distinguish between eggs laid by black hens and those by white ones. —Mirror. CHILDERMAS, OR HOLY INNOCENTS' DAY. , --December 28, was, in the calendar of superstition, of most unlucky omen. On this day, none ever married, it was not lucky to put on new clothes, &c., and the corona tion of Edward IV. was put off till the Monday, because the preceding Sunday was Childermas Day. To the poor children it was indeed unlucky, for they were whipped on Cliildermas morning, that the memory of Herod's murder of the Innocents might stick the closer, and in a moderate proportion to 'act over the cruelty again in kind. But we hope " th e ' schoolmaster" has whipped such follies out of our happy country, —Mirror. MONOPOLIES IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZAUETII.--The grievance of monopolies had gone on continually increasing ; scarce any article was exempt from these o p pressive patents. When the list of them was read ver in the House, a Member exclaimed, " Is not bread among the number ?" The House seemed amazed. NaYs" said h e , " i f no remedy is found for these, bread will be there before the next Parliament."— Hallam's Constitutional History, vol. i. , p. 282. HOTEL S IN LISBON.—An English tra veller, visiting Lisbon for the first time, writes thus:— " If any hotel -keeper in London who is not thrivin4 over. much should chanc e to see this, let me recommend him to come over here, and start an hotel on reasonable yet safe terms, and I can venture to say be will have every reason to congratulate himself on having done so. I have tra velled a great deal in the course of my life, but I never was in a place where a man is so much at a loss to find everything that can i n any way lead to his comfort. Even inhear t of the Sierra Morena of S ain you are not so badly off a s to filthy streets and filth in every shape ; nothing to equal it is to be met with an where else; S 5 much to so, that if all the Eau in de Cologne that is required were be consumed, Fara could not produce t fast enough." i On ' an inq uest was held at St. George s Hospital, on th e b ody of David Boyd, a Chels ea pensioner, aged . 59. The deceased was extremely fond of and noted in. Chelsea as a Abe good things of this life, tax dinner ate an regular gormandizer . " On Tanhdurspdoaryk of greens enoruaous quantity then went out fora walk. About four in the afte: and he was fonnd by another , pensioner, sitting on th e d n ,Z r n . Steps of Lord Rivers 's . house, in Grosvenor -place. He said, " Oh ! I am very ill; I have got a violent p a i n i . 1113 Y stomach, and I wish you" He was conveyed to the would assist me to th e H os _ Pi t a', as I am going to die." H•ispital, where he expired in a few minutes. Mr. Hut chinson, the apothecary to the Hospita l, said that on a Post mortem examination he found aconsidis insideerabl hadequa n . tity . of un di gested food i n t h e tau been gr eat l y i njured by excessive drinking . H rinking. Verdict— Died from Natural Causes." DREADFUL FIRE AND SUPPOSED N- I on Tuesday CENRIARIsM, NEAR SUNDERLAND . —EarIy farm of Mr. morning last, a serious fire took place on the,which has Thoroas Elliot, near Offerton, near this town, . a. consumed twenty entire stacks of wheat, oats, and fir n e . ) y "Jr. Elliot was apprised of his stack-yard being on ble tinwoomminegn. knocking at his door abort four o'clock in li He immediately arose, and found the whole of thent, with the exception of one stack at a little dis tan ce an in ftrhoernsathe others , in . ii . am . es; and from their being all h ave me degree of tion, it is evident they must ' it is ta ken fire at the same time, and from this tact suspected to have been the work of incendiaries. The engines fisoo arrived, and so reduced the fire as to prevent uncl e om municatin with the house. The property i t s h , e n,deanrstand, insured, g but not near the amount of ge• respected i n thi Mr. Elliot is a man of property, and much ne" ; and h ' n eighbourhood for his integrity in busi "e prid e d himself much on his stack-yard, 17o h u i n c t h was ry w ,... S ce n r ,.4 ta a i e nl icinci Herald. oneofthe best in this part (f the ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. t el 4 P ..t From Whence P; ;;` , 7 1" Qrs. Qrt. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Aldboroligh llO 382 22 12 Bridport Clay . . - 410 Dartmouth ~., Colchester — 500 11 409 Harwich r, • Leigh 229 179 30 193 91 k Blaldon :1602 288 152 20 655 471 2825 Exeter Hastings lO3 33 25 39 142 Hull llO 210 220 100 Ipswich 499 956 1043 16 50 046 Kent B3O 359 529 C 3 242 251 497 Lowestoft 2l 510 245 Lyme — 506 Lynn 27 2i 70 45 1130 Newport 55 101 Plymouth 243 166 Poole 764 234 Portsmouth Southampton ' 50 Southwold lO9 275 36 S'ockton — 610 Wells 905 120 Weymouth Wisbeach 3lO 967 Woodbridge 63 366 15 15 35 Yarmouth BlB 1531 43 1811 Aberdeen lO 330 Arbroath Banff lB 300 3 -- Berwick Dundee 7 ' 105 113 Inverness Kirkaldy — 71 Leith — 30 12 5360 7269 5775 3644 1502 1069 10633 IRISH. Cork 6O I 763 Limerick 55 422 9173 Sligo — 1200 : Waterford 502 I 1945 125 FOREIGN. Hamburg — 870 Total Total ...I 3.175 I 8253 I 5775 115966 I 1502 AGGREGATE QUANTITY OF OTHER KINDS 0 Rye, 0--Tares, 189—Linseed, 1806—Rapeseed, 0- Mustard, 0--Seeds, 212. ' PULS •Brank, SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's supply of Beasts and Sheep was moderately good, of Calves and Porkers limited, and the trade was somewhat dull, at the following prices :- -- -- PRICES PER STONE OF SLR& TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. a. d. s.d inferior Beasts 2O 2 2 Large Lambs 0 0 0 C Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Prime large Oxen... 310 4 0 Large coarse Calves 310 4 4 Prime Scots, &c..... 4 0 4 2 Prime small ditto 5 2 5 8 Inferior Sheep 2:B 3 0 Large Hogs Second quality ditto 3 6 4 2 Small Porkers 3lO 4 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 416 418 Suckling Calves 1 03. to 28e. each. SouthdownWethers 410 5 0 Quarter old Pigs 12.5. to 18r.each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. I I 2,389 I 16,100 85 210 About 700 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road; about 620 up the other northern roads; about 950 (including Irish) from the western' and midland districts; about 150 from Nor folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about FO from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c in the neighbourhood of London. NEW GALE ANI) LEA At per stone, 1 s. d. to s. d. Beet, inferior 2 4 2 6 - middling 2 6 2 8 -- prime large 3 4 3 6 -- prime small 3 6 3 8 Veal 3 4 5 4 DENHALL MAIMETS, by the Carcass. Mutton, inferior middling prime Pork, large s. d.tos. d. 24 2 8 30 3 2 3 6 310 30 3 2 , 3 4 4 4 NEWCASTLE CORN MA RKET.—Jan. 25. The bulk of the Wheat at market to.day was again in poor condition, and though a few picked samples supported last week's prices, yet the trade on the whole was extremely dull, at a decline of Is. to :is. Per quarter. Oats went off more readily than of late, without any change in value. The best samples of Barley are in fair demand, and supported their late prices, but it is difficult to find a buyer for anything or inferior quality. In Beans, Peas, and Rye little doing. Flour heavy sale. _ New. Old. Whint, Northumberland 40s. 50s. ..—s —B.' Norfolk and Suffolk.— ....... ...ASA. 50s —s. —s. Berwick and Scotch.— ...........425. 46s —s. —B. Foreign —s. —s ....5. .....11. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk .375. 40s —s. —s. Foreign 30s. 34s —s. —6. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk...26s. 31s Grinding and Feeding 245. 265...... —s. —B. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 50s. 56s —s. —s. Beans, Small 30s. 32s —s. —s. Tick Ds. 31s —s —s Pease, ‘N hite --- Gray ... „„ „. ` , 7s. 30s —s. —s. Oats, Northumberland, Fotatoe 16s 19s l9s. Ds. Feed 14s 16s Foreign —s. —s Flour, Fine (per sack) —s. —s. 3ls. 378. FLOODED STATE OF THE COUNTRY.- Alarming accounts continue to be received from various parts of Munster and Connaught, respecting the injurious effects of the unprecedenredly severe weather during the last two months. Wheat sowing has been much more limited than usual, and it is feared that a considerable portion of the seed will be unproductive. Agricultural operations have been nearly suspended, in consequence of the flooded state of the country. A great portion of the potatoe crop of last year, left in the pits, has been de• stroyed or deteriorated in quality, and the ground is totally unfit for the reception of seed for early potatoes. We are told that in Galway, Roscommon, and other grazing counties, the sheep are suffering from the " rot," and great numbers of them have died. This has caused a still further rise in the price of wool, which, owing to various causes pointed out in this Journal in August last, bad been in very brisk demand, and at a much higher rate, than for many years past. We may also add, that fodder for black cattle having become scarce and dear, many graziers have found it most difficult to sustain their stock. Altogether, the accounts which have reached us afford ground for serious alarm ; but we trust that a favourable change in the weather will soon dispel the apprehensions now so generally entertained.—Dublin Morn. Register. _ _ .., , Monday, the Rev. Hugh Hunter and Mr Wm. Howitt, the gentlemen appointed by the Nottingham Dissenters to present their memorial on Church Reform to Earl Grey, were introduced to the Premier by Lord Duncannon, and a conversation of about a quarter of an hour took place. Mr. Howitt said the memorialists prayed for the separation of Church and State. Earl Grey was sorry for it. The expression of such sweeping desires as the destruction of the establishment would em barrass Ministers, would alarm both Houses of Parliament, and startle the country. He wished they bad confined themselves to the removal of those disabilities connected for, marriage, burials, registration, and such matters, &c., coorileon these heads, there existed, both in himself and his press u pon o pa v i e ils r s y en d t i e s r p s o . sition to relieve them. What, in reality, did they ask ? He could not conceive, if these disabilities were removed, what actual grievance would ilvta:ied aI.;YH. Hunter said Did they want entirely to do edwpirthecisel establishments of religion ? Mr. Howitt Dissenters were kr' precisely, that was what they desired. The Rev. Lordship need not wonder that the time the Ministe r pathi ' se e d u against the Bishops. At the y mig House of Peers, tkiey h,, e d caarrying the Reform Bill in the hty torrent to stem, which torrent was vastl increased as the friends of civil prelates ; and just in proportion the influence of the and religious freedom sym same proportion their indi gnviot with vit I r Ministers, i n th e those men. Earl Grey thought that s raised a ga i ns t greatest cause to complain of this. Rut i Ministers had the decidedly, he should give his strenuous opposi t t e io w n ould say attempt to remove the e stablishmen t. He belonnetdo teovery the church, and he would stand b y it t o the best o f hi ability. He considered it the sacred duty of every go vernment to maintain an e stablishment of religion. -i f the Nottinghau. Dissenters thought the country at large, nay, that the Dissenters in general, would go along with them, he believed they were deceived. He believed the country desired an establishment, and that many Dissen_ tern were favourable to it. By going too far, they would probably have their claims thrown out by Parliament, as the Sabbath Bill had been. After the conversation ended, the deputation withdrew,.—Nottingham Review. , IA RD 01. SHIP. Beans, Small (new) —s. —s. (old)., —s. —s - Tick (new) 2Bs 325. • (old) 22 5. 34s Harrow (new) 325. :34s (old).. 355. 365. Brank —s. —s. Oats, Feed 16s. 20s. New Poland lBs. 225. New --s. —s. Potatoe 29.5. 245. - New — s. —s. 225. 245. 17s. 19s 21s. (per sack) 453 50s. nos 425. 455. h Country 38s. 40s. Bs. Ps. - Scotcli - Irish Flour Town - Seca - Non Bran . COURT CIRCULAR: His Majesty held a Cow t on Friday afternoon at the Palace at Brighton, which was attended by the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the Postmaster-General, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colonial De pirtmenta, the Lord Steward, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Buster of the Horse to the Queen, the Marquis of Sligo, Lord Howard de Walden, and the Right Hon. Sir \V. Alexander. The Marquis of Sligo was presented to his Majesty by Mr. Secretary Stanley, and kissed hands on being appointed Governor of Jamaica. _ _ Lord Howard de Walden bad an audience of the King, to which he was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which the Mar quis of Sligo was introduced, sworn in a Privy Councillor, and took his seat at the Board. _ The Hon. William thtbuist attendtd as Cleik of the Council. _ _ Lord Byron was the Lord in Waiting. The noblemen and gentlemen attending the Court, dined with their Majesties in the evening at the Palace. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Ripon, the Duke of Richmond, Viscount Palmerston, and Mr. Se cretary Stanley, returned to town on Saturday, from Brighton. In the evening Sir James Graham gave a Cabinet din. ner at his residence, in the Admiralty. The Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Grey, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Ripon, the Duke of Rich mond, the Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Mr. Secretary Stanley, Viscount Althorp, the Right Hon. Charles Grant, and Lord John Russell. The Duke of Cumberland left town about one o'clock on Saturday, for the Palace at Brighton, on a visit to their Majesties. Divine service was performed yesti-rday before the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their Royal Highnesses' Household. The Dean of Chester officiated. The Russian Ambassador and Princess Lieven enter tained the Duke of Cumberland and a select party at dinner on Friday evening, at Ashburnham-house; • The Duke of Sussex - visited the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria yesterday afternoon. The Spanish Minister visited Viscount Palmerston on Saturday, at the Foreign-office. Mr. Burge, the Agent for Jamaica, transacted business on Saturday at the Colonial office. The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Richmond, and Sir James Graham, visited Earl Grey yesterday. BRIGHTON, JAN. 26. Their Majesties, the Princess Augusta, and the Duke of Cumberland, heard divine service this morning in the pal,ce chapel. The Earl and Countess of Mayo, Lord Byron, and the suite, occupied the pews adjoining their Majesties. The Rev. J. Anderson preached a very able sermon, taking his text from the sth and 6th verses of the 52d chapter of Job ; the Rev. Dr. Everard read prayers, and the Rev. Mr. Wagner assisted at the com munion table. Mr. Gutteridge presided at the organ, and t he choir sang two psalms. The Council held by his Majesty on Friday was at tended by most of the Ministers of the Crown, together with several other members of the Privy Council. Amongst those present were the Dukes of Richmond and Argyll, the Marquises of Lansdowne, Sligo, and Chol mondeley, the Earls of Belfast, Errol, and Rippon, Vis count Palmerston, Lord Howard de Walden, Right Hon. E. G. Stanley, Sir James Graham, and Sir W. Alex ander. Lord Byron attended as Lord in Waiting, and Mr. Bathurst as Clerk of the Council. The above men tioned distinguished persons, together with the suite and household, formed the Royal dinner party on Friday evening. _ . Yesterday their Majesties took a carriage airing together to Shoreham, and continued their exercise along the cliffs till nearly five o'clock in the evening, when they reached the Palace. The Princess Augusta accompanied the Duchess of Gloucester in her drive for the greater part of the after noon. The Duke of Cumberland arrived last evening at the Palace, on a visit to their Majesties. Captain Woolmore came shortly after, and forms one of the Royal guests. The following persons are amongst those who paid their respects to their Majesties :—The Dowager Lady Brown low, the Earl of Kerry, Lady Burgherhh, Sir W. and Lady Middleton, General Sir John Elley, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Windsor, Major-General K?arney, the Marquis and M irchioness of Cholmondeley. Sir W. Alexander, Countess of Winterton and the Ladies Tumour, the Coun tess of Chichester, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lady A. Pelham, &e. Their Majesties entertained at dinner last evening, the Duke of Cumberland, the Marquis and Marchioness Co nyngham, the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Mr. and Lady Sarah Bayley, Miss B iyley and Mr. C. Biyley, the Earl and Coantess of Errol, Lord and Lady Falkland, Sir Charles Thornton, Hon. Miss Bagot, the Earl and Countess of Mayo, Sir Andrew Barnard, &c. The Marquis of Sligo has taken leave of their Majesties, preparatory to his departure for Jamaica, as Governor of that island. WINDSOR, JAN. 25. (From the Windsor Express.) The King will leave the Pavilion on the 3d of February, and proceed to St. James's Palace, for the purpose of opening the approaching Session of Parliament in person on the following day ; and, as we have before stated, his Majesty will remain four days in town, and then return to Brighton, where the Court will remain till its final depar ture for the season, which is stated to be the 20th of next month. Their Majesties will then proceed to London, and will take up their residence at Windsor Castle on the lst of March. Both the King and Queen are in excellent health, and, notwithstanding the bad weather of late, they have almost daily taken their accustomed rides. Our Royal neighbours, the Princess Augusta and Du chess of Gloucester, who are still at Brighton, are, we feel pleasure in stating, in the enjoyment of good health. THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle.) Detachments of the 58th, 60th, 86th, 89th, 95th, and 2d West India regiments, embarked on Wednesday on board the Athol troop ship, lying in Plymouth, for a con. veyance to Cork ; she will sail from thence for the West Indies. Ten or twelve privates of the 76th regiment, which arrived in Cork from Buttevant last week for embarkation for the West Indies, deserted—some of them during the march, and some after their arrival. Five of them have been retaken. A troop of the 6th Dragoon Guards has been detached from head-quarters at Dundalk to Monaghan. On Wednesday last the detachment of the 27th Regi ment stationed in Ardara, under the command of Captain Macpherson, marched into Ballyshannon ; the barracks in Ardara being unroofed by the late storm, they could not any longer remain there. _ _ _ A subaltern's detachment of the 27th has been ordered from Omagh to Lifford. This morning at eight o'clock the troops in garrison as sembled at the Castle barracks to witness the punishment of two privates of the Royal Artillery, who received 200 lashes for a breach of the Articles of War. This day Major-General Sir J. Douglas, K.C.8., made a full inspection of that fine corps, the 85th King's Light Infantry, and was pleased to express himself in terms of approbation of the discipline and state in which he found the Regiment. On Saturday morning at eleven o'clock, Major-General Sir John Buchan, K.C.8., accompanied by Major-General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, and a considerable staff, inspected the troops in Cork garrison, in the barrack-square. The troops, consisting of the 15th or King's Hussars, com manded by Lieut.-Colonel Lord Brudenell, the 70th, Col. Evans, the 89th, Colonel Basden, and the 56th depot, Major Mitchel, took up their position, and shortly after the Gallant General entered, and was received with the Royal salute, the bands striking up " God save the King." He then went through the respective lines, which he scru. tinized most minutely, after which the entire formed in squares and passed the General in slow and quick time. Lieut. Sandes has been appointed Acting Paymaster, and Ensign Robinson, Acting Adjutant, to the depot com panies of the 9th Foot, now stationed at Youghal. FItENCII SIGNS.-When folk now wish to indicate that a thing is to be sold, they attach to it either a bunch of straw or a cross of honour.—Le Corsaire. A morning paper announces that " the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas has appointed Mr. Harcourt Firmin to be one of the perpetual commis sioners f.r the counties of Essex and Suffolk, for the taking acknowledgments of the deeds of marriel women :"—this assurance of prolonged life must be very satisfactory to the gentlema n i n question, though somewhat alloyed, by re flection on th e nature of the very difficult and delicate duties he will be called to perform. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and family, on Satur. day, at Bridgewater House, from Trentham Hall, Staffordshire; the Marquis of Sligo, in Mansfield-street, from Brighton; Right Hon. Edward J. Littleton, in Grosvenor-place, from the Phcenix Park, Dublin ; Sir George and Lady Pocock, in York_ street, Portman-square, from a tour ; Count Louis Noailles, at the French Embassy, in Hanover square, from Paris ; Count Jenison Walworth, in Harley-street, from Brighton ; Captain and Lady Georgiana Fullarton, at Devonshire House, from Bedminster, Gloucestershire; the Speaker of the House of Commons and Lady Manners Sutton, in Palace-yard, from St. Osyth Priory, near Colchester; Mr. H. Manners Sutton, at ditto, from ditto; Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley and family, in Portland-place, from Rollestan Hall, Warwickshire ; Lord Hill, at Westbourne House, from a tour; Lord Lyndhurst and family, in Hyde-park-terrace, from Paris ; Gen. and Mrs. Spencer, in Regent's-park, from Kemp-town, Brighton. DEPARTURES. The Earl and Countess of Cork, from Marston House, Somerset, for Bath ; Earl and Countess Waldegrave, for ditto; the Marquis of Worcester, from Park-place, St. James's, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminton Park, Gloucestershire; Lieutenant-Colonel and Lady Georgiana Cathcart, for Brighton ; Viscount Decies and the Hon. Misses Beresford, from Curzon street, fof ditto; Mr. Massey Stanley, from Hill street, for Melton Mowbray ; the Earl and Countess of Albemarle and Lady Caroline Keppel, from Bath, on a visit to the Rev. Thos. Gamier, at Bishopstowe, near Winchester; Sir Augustus and Lady Cliflbrd, from Eaton-square, for Hastings, and thence to Brighton; Counts Frederick and Christian Thun Hohenstein, for the Continent ; Sir William Templer Pole, Bart., from Spring-gardens, for Devonshire; Right Hon. G. R. Dawson, from Upper Grosvenor street, on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor, Tamworth. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 25.—Thursday the following Degrees were conferred:— MASTERS OF ARTS.—William Boyd, Fellow of University ; George Clark, Scholar of University ; Rev. John Smith Dolby, Lincoln ; Rev. Erskine William Holland, Worcester ; Edward Massie, Wadham. BACHELORS OF ARTS.—George Day, Henry Montagu Villiers, George Barnes, William Cother, students of Christ Church ; Henry Stormont Murray, Christ Church ; John Bright, Wadham; George Wingrove Cooke, Jesus; Joseph Hamilton, Pembroke; John Chapman Bell, Trinity ; John Saltwell Pinkerton, Fellow of St. John's; Edward Pidsley, Worcester; Francis Orpen Morris, Worcester. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. James Bullock, Fellow of Worcester College, has been appointed Chaplain to the Viscount Massereene. The Rev. Samuel Long to the Living of Woodman sterne, Surrey, vacant by the death of the late Dr. Buchanan, who had held it more than 50 years. The Rev. Edward Francis Beynon to the Rectory of Creaton, Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Jone. The Rev. Thomas Scott, Chaplain of Bromley College, Kent, to the Rectory of Onehouse, Suffolk. The Rev. G. Allwood, M.A., to the Vicarage of Sax thorpe, Norfolk ; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. The Rectory of Fladbury, Worcestershire, void by the death of the Rev. Martin Stafford Smith, B.D. which was taken as an option by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the promotion of Dr. Carr to the See of Worcester, has been presented by his Grace to the Rev. Frederick Gaun tlett, M.A. The Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen has appointed the Rev. Thomas Bisset, M.A. Chaplain of the East India Military School, Addiscombe, to be one of his Lordship's domestic chaplains. At Ballyshannon fair a man recommended his almanacks by crying out—" They contain the fairs, &c., with a correct list of the Members of Parliament, chosen and returned by Daniel O'Connell, Esq., King of Ireland, and Repealer of the Legislative Union—who granted Emancipation, and abolished Tithes for ever— with the rising and setting of the sun and moon." AIR. BARRETT AND MR. O'CONNELL.— Mr. Barrett has addressed the public in an article in the Pilot of Wednesday on his prosecution. He concludes the explanation of his motives for not giving up the author of the publication for which he suffers, as follows : " There is a stronger reason than all these—the common struggle we are both making for Ireland. Inferior, far inferior, as we are in talents to O'Connell, our object is the same—the regeneration of our native land. The ques tion really to be asked is, which would Ireland be served most by, O'Connell standing now in our place, or as he is? If the answer could he that Ireland would be served by Daniel O'Connell occupying the dungeon we now in habit, the answer should be—O'Connell you ought to be there. Nay, he might be here; for at the very outset of the prosecution the author of the publication, whoever he be/ offered to stand in our place. But as (if it were O'Connell and he imprisoned,) the right arm of Irish liberty would be manacled ; and as we are equally, nay, more effective here than if our person were free, the an swer of Ireland, the answer of our own conscience, is, Richard Barrett. you should not have surrendered Daniel O'Connell! ! ! We do not pretend to deny the sacrifice of health, tranquillity, and fortune we make. But the solace of our own heart, of sympathy and support of the public, will alleviate much of these. We are imprisoned, not by O'Connell, but for Ireland ; and he does not deserve the name of a public servant who is not ready to encounter and suffer for his principles and his country."—Dublin Morning Register. At about twenty minutes before three o'clock on Thursday morning last a sudden and rather violent trembling of the earth was felt at this place (Portsmouth), which produced feelings of awe in many persons. Its effects were more visible at Chichester, Emsworth, Havant, and Purbrook, where i❑ many of the houses the convulsive motion shook the furniture, and appeared to threaten de struction to the premises, the inmates becoming so greatly alarmed as to run to and from each other's bed-rooms for aid and shelter. A shock of similar violence and duration was felt at this place about 20 years since, in the afternoon of a fine day. The dreadful consequences which have attended sudden and violent tremblings of the earth, re sembling earthquakes, have naturally excited a desire to account for their cause, but as from the nature of them it is utterly impossible to ascertain this accurately, rational conjecture must be accepted in place of actual observation. They have been ascribed by some to the effect of the waters, which appear to moisten the earth, in passages similar to the veins of living bodies, which, either by dis solving the salt scattered through the earth, or by pene trating through porous lands, mixed with stones, which they insensibly loosen, the fall or removal thereof must cause a stroke or shock, such as is felt in earthquakes. But as this, like many other phenomena of nature with which we are surroundA, cannot rest upon the doubtful evidence of man, it must be referred to the wisdom of the Creator, and that order of nature which he bath established coeval with the creation.—Hampshire Telegraph. Throughout the whole of Saturday last, the neighbourhood of Berwick -street, St. James's, was in a state of considerable excitement in consequence of Mr. Henry Ford, a baker, residing at No. 11 in that street, having placarded the whole front of his house with large posting bills, stating that " his goods had been seized on Friday, by a broker, named Pollard, of Tyler-street, Carnaby Market, by order of Mr. Denham, of Regent street, the collector for that district." At an early hour on Saturday evening, a considerable crowd was collected, but a body of police of the C division being in attendance under the direction of Superintendent Baker, order was preserved ; soon after 12 o'clock, when the mob had dis persed, they were withdrawn, with the exception of one man, named Jarvis, who was left on duty, and about a quarter past one o'clock on Sunday morning, hearing cries of " Murder" proceeding from the shop, and observing the gas turned off at the same moment, he sprung his rattle, and with another constable who immediately came to his assistance, broke open the door and rushed in. On entering the shop they found about twelve or fourteen men dragging John Scattergood (the man left in possession) into the back parlour, amid cries of " Finish the —." "Do his business." A sack was thrown over his head, from which Le was bleeding profusely. Several of the inhabitants immediately came to the assistance of the po lice, and aided them in capturing seve❑ of the cowardly assailants, who fled on the door being broken open ; one man got into bed with a lodger and his wife, another was pulled from under the bed, and the others were taken from off the roofs of the adjoining houses. On being taken to the stationhouse they gave their names as J. Johnson, Richard Neal, Edward Langley, Johu Penfield, William Edgenton, George Bolton, Samuel Drab!e. Scattergood has been much cut about the head with, it is supposed, a clasp knife, one cut being from the left eye, right through the nose, down to the lip, but he is ❑ot considered in im mediate danger. Mr. Ford had had three quarters of his rates remitted, and the collector had paid another quarter out of his own pocket, to enable him to clear his book up to Lady Day last year. Knowing Mr. Ford's ability to pay, he keeping four shops about town, he sent to him, and requested him to pay the amount of that quarter, 2/. Bs. 2d., but he refused to pay anything, and the col lector was, in consequence, compelled to seize for the whole sum due at Michaelmas last, amounting to 61. 15s. 9d. Everything was quiet during yesterday, a party of police being again mu attendance. GERMAN PAPERS. AUGSNURG, JAN. I9.—The Alioniteur Ottoman of the 7th December announces that a change has taken place in the command of the fortresses of the Dardanelles. Hitherto Etnin Aga held the post, but as it is intended to fortify the Dardanelles snore acconling to the rules of art, and Emin Aga seemed not to be sufficiently versed in that branch of science, the place has been given to Colonel Hafis Bay, of the corps of Miners, who lately published in the Turkish language, an essay on Minesand Pontoon.. Tne Greek Ministerial journals entrain atnong se veral decrees, one which orders that all Captains of ships must repair to Naples, in order to receive from the G vernment new licenses, to be in force from the beginning of 1834. The smallest vessels are not exempt from this regulation, the object of which is to check the piracy by which the Archipelago is so often rendered unssfe. VIENNA, Jaw. 13.—The Ministerial conferences be an to,lay. A French courier has passed throue.h on his way to Constantinople. An Austrian courier has been .spatched to Italy. The accounts from Turkey are very satisfactory. Great attention continues to he paid to the tneans of rendering the communications with the Ea-t, specially with Greece, more safe and expeditious. Spe cial communications are to be sent to Corfu, Greece, and to s Smyrna,pla places. An o ffic e n ordert rorof make thelmperial Postw acquainted asn ee with , to Napoli some weeks ago. (From the Austrian Observer.) CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 24.—General Butenieff, the Russian Ambassador, paid his farewell visits to the Turkish Ministers yesterday and the day before, and in ands to return to Russia by way of Bucharest. Sever changes have taken place in the household of the Sultan, of which the p irtictilars are given in the Turkish Ga zette of ac. 19. The same Gazette gives the following particulate of the capture of the rebel Kadi Kiran. In the preceding number of this journal it was stated that Kadi Kiran, for whose arrest an Imperial firman was issued, had fled to Irun. The reports from Esta Pacha, Governor of Erz 'rum and Seraskier, announce that when the rebel chief approached the province of Er zerum, Essaad Pacha detached the regular troops to the part of the country where he was, and went in person in search of him. But Kadi Kiran fl d into the neighbour ing province of Kars, and the Commissaries being sent thither after him, he sought refuge in the Russian quaran. tine establishment at Tiflis. Encouraged by the harmony that now prevails between the Porte and the Court of Russia, the Riche sent word to Baron Von Roser, the Russian General commanding at Tiflis. This G neral sent the rebel, with between six and seven hundred of his adherents, accompanied by Russian Commissaries, to the Seraskier. The Pacha himself made about 100 of this band, who had dispersed, prisoners, and has sent word to Constantinople that he, conformably to the Sultan's orders, keeps Kadi Kiran, with all Ira adherents confined in the prisons of Erzerum. The Porte will send the necessary instructions to the Pacha of Ergezum. The messenger who brought the news has been richly rewarded. The latest accounts from Candia say that the Govern ment had been obliged to adopt rigorous measures to keep the Candiots in obedience. Notwithstanding the repeated assurances given both by the Seraskier Mustapha Pacha, and by Osman Pacha, Commander of the Egyptian squa dron, that the complaints of the inhabitants respecting the heavy contributions laid on them should be attended to, and that those who wished to emigrate should receive the required permission, nothing has been done, but the great vigilance that is employed cuts off the means of escape. Several executions had taken place in Rettino, Candia, Splackia, and the district of Apocorona, which had caused universal terror, and induced a great portion of the inhabitants to fly into the mountains, whither they were pursued by the Egyptian troops. Two rich Turkish landowners in Candia, named Schekir Bey and Mehemed Aga, had been sentenced to banishment, and were on the point of embarking from Smyrna. —Allgemeine Zeitunq, Jan. 21. WINDSOR CASTLE.—There is note of preparation for the return of the King and Queen and Court from Brighton to Windsor Cistle, which is expected to take place between the 20th and 25th of February. All the Royal galleries and state apartments, as wed as those for domestic use, are ready. Adelaide Cottage, in the Little Park, to which her Majesty is so much attached, has been newly decorated. Virginia Water will receive the beautiful yacht Adelaide, constructed at Sheerness Dockyard, from a plan suggested by his Majesty, and which has been built so as to take to pieces, and put together again on the banks of Virginia Water, previously to its being launched upon that fine lake. —Court Journ. CORPORATION COMMISSION, JAN. 25. The Commissioners were occupied the whole of the day in inquiries as to the nature and duties of several minor offices in many of the parishes, wards, and precincts of the city. There was nothing elicited on these points of any general nterest. Adjourned at 4 o'clock to Monday. A QUICK ANSWER.—At the battle of Tra• falgar, two Scotchmen, messmates and bosom cronies, from the same little clachan, happened to be stationed near each other, when the celebrated intimation was displayed from the Admiral's ship. "Look up, and read yon, Jock," said the one to the other—" England expects every man to do his duty"—not a word frse puir old Scotland on this occasion." Jack cocked his eye at the object for a moment, and, turning to his companion, thus addressed him :—" Mon, Geordie, is that a' your sense? Scotland kens weel enough that her:bairns width) th,lr duty—that's ju,t a hint to the Engliehers."—Montreal Gazette. A fortnight since we stated the amount of the woollen exports to different countries of Europe in the year 1831, according to the declared value; but that year was one of extreme depression, owing to the political com motions on the continent, and therefore the statement may lead to the inference of the trade being underrated. We now subjoin our woollen exports for 1832 : DECLARED VALUE OF BRITISH WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES EXPORTED IN 1832 TO THE PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES IN EUROPE. Germany... ...... £816,718 Spain .. £62,472 Netherlands 389,910 Fiance .. 43,186 Italy 191,081 Turkey 27,829 Russia 141,997 Prussia 626 Portugal 96,625 —Leeds Mercury. LIBRARY OF IRISH ROMANCE.—Mr. Ba nim's celebrated story of "The Croppy," we understand, will form the February number of the " Irish National Tales," a collection of the most celebrated works of modern Irish authors, publishing at only 4s. per volume, bound, and intended to accomplish, as far as possible, for Irish story, what Sir Walter Soott has done for Scottish na tional history. The Edinburgh Review, in speaking of Mr. Banim's tales, justly says, " that the genius of the writer, like that irregular offspring of fire, the potheen his native land, has not only a strength, but a wildness of flavour about it, which it would be in vain to look for in productions more amenable to the gauge of criticism. The author is one of the most masterly painters of national character that have yet appeared in Ireland." DEMORALISING EFFECTS OF OPIUM IN CHINA.—Our Indian subjects will he more likely to suc ceed in conquering China by the demoralising effect of opium than we should by force of arms. The horrible scenes described by M. Gutzlaff are most appalling. Mr. Marjoribanks says the palace of the Viceroy of Canton was burned down by the opium pipe of his secretary ; that the Emperor's eldest son died from excessive indulgence in the use of it ; and that all persons of wealth are addicted to it. To such a pitch has the smuggling trade arrived, that one of the Viceroy 3 recommended it should be legalized. It is said that the amount paid for this deleterious drug is nearly four millions sterling a year, mostly from Bengal. If once legalised, the poppy, like tobacco, will be univer sally cultivated, all ranks will become enervated and reck less, and the western mountaineers, recently and perhaps still in a state of rebellion, will once more conquer and overcome China.— Quarterly Review, No. 100. DOVER HARBOUR.—It is not in the re membrance of any one that the bar of shingle, at the entrance of our harbour, has ever accumulated to the extent it is at present. For the sake of record, it has been measured, and ascertained to be 740 feet in length from the South Pier—the width 170 feet, and in depth 11 feet, from the South to the North Pier. Some little idea may thus be formed of the amazing bulk of beach which invariably collects at this spot whenever the wind blows strong between the south and west point; but whence it comes, or whither it goes, no one cin positively ascertain. As a proof, however, that it does not come from I)ungeness, nor go beyond the South Foreland, we are told that, at these plac e s, the beach differs in quality from that which is on our shore ; and if, as some suppose, it is a complete vortex, from Shakspeare Cliff to the South Foreland—thence to sea—and returning again, by the effect of the tides—beach would have been found en sounding; but, strange to say, none can be discovered below low water mark. We have the satisfaction, how ever, of knowing, that his Grace the Duke of W e lli ngton, as Lord W ar d en an d Chief Commissioner of the Harbour, will not fail to use his best endeavours in employing the most effective means for remedying the disadvantage 80 long prevailing.—Kentish Observer. WRECK OF THE LORD AMHERST. The following particulars of the wreck of the Lord Amherst, and of the dreadful hurricane which occasioned that and other calamities at Calcutta, have been just received by a respect dde commercial house in the ~Caleut city ta,i‘, : 725, 1833. _ - " It is with extreme regret I have to acquaint you with the loss of the Hon. Company's ship Lord Amherst, under my command, the particulars of which disastrous e'ent have been sadly aggravated by tie vexatious delays, on the parr of the Honour ible Company at this place, in detaining our cargo for neatly two months, in which time our ship might have been half way on her passage to En g - I md. However, we left this port on the 18th inst. in charge of Mr. M‘Dormand, branch pilot, in tow if the Enterprise steamer, a very pleasant party of sassengers on board, with several additions, and every prospect of a happy voyage. On the 19 , h, from the defective state of the steamer's machinery, we were compelled to cast her off and make sail down the river. On the 20th it came on to blow with considerable violence from the N.E. Came to with the best bower about three miles below Kede seree ; veered to a whole cable; sent the top-gal lant-yards and royal masts on deck; bent the sheet cable, and get everything ready to meet the weather, w! ich the rapid sinking of the barometer indicated. At d tylight strong gales and dark squally weather, with heavy rain and much lightning ; struck top-gallant-masts. At nine, the gale increasing, the ship swung to the flood or weather-tide, with a heavy cross-sea, labouring much, and shipping great quantities of water over all. At 9, 30., in a heavy lee-lurch, the starboard quarter boat was washed away, taking the davits with her. At 9. 40e, in a severe gust, the gaskets of the main-topsail gave way, and the sail getting loose it blew to rig bands ; the severe jerks before the sail split, carried away most of the weather topmast rigging, and shortly afterwards the maintop-m a st went offby the cap, which in its fall sprung the main-yard. About ten o'clock, from the increasing violence of the hurricane, the foretop-mast and jib-boom went also; and at 16. 30., the mizen-mast went over board ; the ship at this time riding well, with 120 fathoms of chain out, the same soundings, 10 fathoms and perfectly safe, but the most tremendous hurricane and foul sea I ever beheld ; the barometer 27.60., and sinking, with much lightning, and the sea breaking over the gunwales,when engulphed between the two seas, which led me to apprehend the ship foundering from the immense seas she took on board, which were literally filling the between decks, the in valids at this time being washed out from below. At 10.40. the hurricane suddenly chopped round to the S E , and blew with increased fury ; the sea terrifies making a clear breach over the ship fore and aft, wash ing every thing overboard,irnmense quantities of water finding its way down the hatchways, &c. Got all the deadlights in, sounded in ten fathoms, the ship holding on. At 10. 55, with great difficulty (it being nearly impossible to keep the deck), let go the starboard anchor; shortly afterwards the ship brought her anchors home, and struck the ground vey heavily abaft, unshipped her rudder, which be gan ripping up the stern frame until it broke off at the shoulder, the horrors of which mo ment no pen can possibly describe, the ship striking the ground heavily, and from the undu lation of her decks, to all appearance overwhelmed and breaking up, touching her berm-ends in the sand, and the sea breaking into her fore and aft. The fore-yard, about this time, was broke in two by striking the sand. The pilot now informed me, he imagined the ship had struck on the mizen sand, therefore, in order to prevent her lower masts froth going through her bottom, I gave directions to cut the landyards of the weather rigging, and the fore and mainmasts went overboard a few feet above the deck; ordered the wreck of the masts to be kept alongside to save as many lives as possible. The ship now lay totally dismasted,and striking with more or less violence, the sea breaking over her, the cuddy and most of the cabins full of water; hove the guns over board, and stove all the water casks to lighten her upper works. At 11. 10. she became perfectly set tled ; sounded the well, and found four feet water in the ship, all hands employed pumping and clear ing the wreck. During the whole of the morning the deep sea and hand leads were kept going, and the soundings reported, as well as the ship holding on, but impossible to see ten yards from the ship. I am happy to add, with the blessing of the Al mighty, that all hands are saved, although many are severely bruised. Towards evening strong gales, it clearing a little, we discovered the ship was stranded high and dry abreast of the lighthouse. Got the steam-anchor on shore, and brought the cables to the capstan through the afterport, to keep up a com munication should the ship separate during the nght's tide. Sent three Lascars to the lighthouse, to ascertain what protection they could afford the la dis, who, I am proud to say, conducted themselves nobly. Although eleven in number, including the children, in one of the poop cabins, and that half full of water, with the sea rushing through it, yet amid all the terrors of this trying scene not a cly was heard. The whole of the country as far as the eye could reach being one scene of desolation, and many feet under water, they made up their minds to remain by the ship while there was a chance of her holding together. At day-light employed all hands sparring the ship with her btoken spars ; dis covered the Hon. Company's ship Duke of York stranded, six miles to the south, with the foremast standing, neatly as complete a wreck as ourselves; other ships on shore to the northward ; two on their beam ends, and the sea breaking over them. These proved to be the General Gascoyne, Robert, and Eamont ; the sands around us covered with large quantities of drift, evidently part of a vessel, among which we fished up part of a chest of a Captain Mitchell, and the lid of his pilot's chest, also with the wheel, &c., the remainder being the upper works of a ship, we therefore can only conclude that the ship Sultan, Capt. Mitchell, outward bound, has broken up on the Long Island, and all hands perished. The loss of life on shore has been dread tul, and the dead bodies around the ship are truly appalling. The alling. Lord Amherst lies on her starboard bilge, with her anchors in sight at low water. The hull is completely broken-backed, being both bagged and sagged, and her decks set up at least twenty inches on the starboard-side, from the bilge up wards. She appears to have gone out in board, particularly from - the lower deck and the plank sheer; several of her butts, from the bilge upwards, started out, and most of ber hanging and lodging knees on the upper deck broken. The damage on her bottom cannot at present be ascertained, as she lies buried about five feet in the quicksand ; her gripe and forefoot are knocked off, and lie about 30 yards from the ship; her rudder is un shipped and broken off close to the lower counter, with most of the pintles gone ; all her pumps (pa tent) are broken, likewise the seams and butts show the vessel to have worked very much; indeed she is completely deformed, and shows every symp tom of a break-up. The distress on shore is incon ceivable; the whole of the villages are washed away, thousands are lying dead in every direction, and so g w r a e r a d t has been sof 2fee t t he of in th u e n d h a g t h io t n h , thouseat wasat one under ld timeer water.up- I received several of the poor natives (men, women, and children) on board the Lord Amherst, after the hurricane, and am now supplying hundreds around me with rice and water. The whole of the cultiva tion on the island of Saugor is destroyed, and the loss of life is estimated at seven thousand souls." THE WESLEYA N METHODISTS.—The Wes leyan Methodists of the Shepton Mallet Circuit (com prising eighteen congregations), at their last quarterly meeting of ministers and stewards, unanimously resolved o petition Parliament to be relieved from the c,mpultory payment of church rates ; for the e stablishment of a general registry of births, marriages, and deaths ; and that their Omen ministers may be enabled to perform the maniage seremony. or b f ne' yoti Ot t ced thi -,, 0 Ivo T he :iO O5 ori