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Brow ' ning, at Mrs. Jerrit's, 10, Pritchard street Portland e , Bristol, will meet with respectful attention. 1 111 ,,E QUARTER LY JOURNAL of AGRICUL TR*/ T UBE ; and the PRIZE ESSAYS and TRANSAC. of SCO S of th TLA e ND HIG HLAND and AGRICULTURAL S OCIETY No XX will be published on Saturday, the 30th. fbankrur"' 01-1 and o ll f o c i .ther P N „t nr'lie ba iototh, in fi a t °L loal, r ` he d e bts d e rable' eons. i for e r a el a tv for The Pl f r y (° le o ter, - los:we..e, to 113° r, , time suretry.,, :.!base 010 , ter to aceoll'r ;E sion w ` l , l ' ty the N ` pg e ter [r. C" rl3 , ts te. 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' it af oll ll' l'' cr 1139 Sri of $ 33311 of r; hier t J riq A P This day is published, price One Shilli ng , LEA _ Sub m FOR IRELAND. itting the uine o a Poson for Cow and Parliament at oO cca tl sional f intervals in iti Dublin.holding the B y ..., ortdon THO MAS BISH, E sq . , M . P . for Leominster. . : Published b yßichardson, Cornhill ; J. Cum /441g, Dublin ; and may be had of all Booksellers. I.oii -- -----___________ uN AND GREENWICH RAILWAY COMPANY, 26, Cornhill, NThirdlncorporated by Act of Parliament, 1833. Cali of 31. per Share, on each 20/. Share. OTICE is hereby given that the Directors of the PE R abc've Company have made a CALL of THREE POUNDS Es Q SATR,ARE, to be paid to the Treasurer Matthias Attwood, GIV 'l, l-1- • at Messrs. Spooners, Attwood, and Co., No. 27, Igan-eZllech!.street, London; or at the Bank of Manchester, at " t er, on or before the sth day of October next. N R GEORGE WALTER, Secretary. co d ~---The Proprietors are informed that the above call will ptete the t he A et _. sur . rt of 101. on each Share, when, in conformeirtyanto zuni gill Parliament , interest at the rate of per cent . p lintil t h e Wokyable half yearly, on the sth April and sth October, ris opened to the public.-20th August, 1834. POSITIVELY ON THE 28TH INSTANT. -LOTTERY. W9,.,11GE WEBB informs the Public that on THURS- Lt te 'JY NEXT, the 23th of THIS MONTH, the present ry will be all drawn, and that it is the "ST AND ONLY ONE AUTHORIZED BY I.€lol6.lolvders PARLIAMENT. The Scheme contains Prizes of th e , RlO,OOO, £3,000 £2,000, £ 1,600, £1,500, &c. &c.. ; of which will, as heretofore, receive the value in Sehe n ; ' DEMAND, accordin to the diti of e Stran,e, ifONrchase pud at GEORGE g con WEBB'S Office ons , No the . 1, "", adjoining Northumberland House, CHARING CROSS. nalp Present Price of a Ticket, £l3 13 0 . 0 ......... . - .C7 60 I Eighth £1 18 6 Vfl- -i larter .....3 15 6 1 Sixteenth Ol9 6 h i s particularly necessary to observe, that GEORGE %I'd , 8, 1,110, formerly at Cornhill and Ludgate-street, Shared, Re v ., , a nd Paid Capital Prizes in State Lotteries amounting to Opyra,' H Tsand Poun, HAS NOW ONLY ONE IIA7R , and that is neat es t Northumberland House, ' RING CROSS. PROSPECTUS.--NAT: ONAL BANK of IRE D. Capital 1,000,000 L, ir l il ' Y yZ h . ,) l3t, ekt „ cum m' John eli a , , -num, Esq., M. P. - rieury calvert. EN. (Ito. ..i.itrie, k:sq. - .1. C. R. tl;ans, Esq., M P. ~i t, e• p or n s ? e r r e, p: sq. C. ft',,tet,)et: F ;r 1 ;A 1 1. 1) & q m P . f. P -6;e4,4,n, Esq., M.P -" ' ' '4' °trakil:lse.. M.P. Th:l"2l.lovving are the terms an the betle‘,..Celnpany shall be forme T hat at of a sound banking sys .by la,, a tank be formed in each town in Ireland, where practicable the C olt ' a nd which o ff ers a prospect of success to the operations of '4, r''. *it), s , e Object of the London Company shall be to connect itself astabilarreholders exclusivelyinterested in the success of each local T hat tTeent.. ' 4 Ol 44 Principle of the Bank shall be the division of profits of 'sel l h r , Ninth suclelocal shareholders in Ireland. The capital of tatl t h ar 'eh to be subscribed equally, by shareholders on the spot Nte C° be in London. bir n , each Local Bank shall be managed by a Board , of r L o o ba ca_l ti,,,, `o,,°?*,s, elected by the local shareholders, subject N the app Thaltq,,,e Directors in London.. N e °,: per share shall be paid on. sn . tseribing ? and further Calls hat no i the a proceeds, of wb.'.",:n timely notice will be given ; pb_ll. nstalreent to exceed 1 .`.,i. per cent. rlters--Messrs. Lkliarokes Kingscote, and Co. the per wishing b cribe' may apply by letter, addressed to iti Offiern.iTii!tet fol. 'Co Co o n s s u titu s ting the National Bank of Ireland, at tt.Prosie'et°3. Old Broad-street, London. tAe'srs Slitls may be obtained at Messrs. Ladbroke and Ce.'s ; -" Old •nt°ll, Son, and Gribble's; and at the Company's office, ."--.... -uroad-street, Loncicn. kEssi ts. R. EXTENSIVE SALE. e d s t abl Upholders,i sh ed n m t_ „Isl o r ? e . te.,43r4,B4l)rOtxrajfll;llll.s,ll.e.,stti,be-aeettn,ty years), Cabinet Makers and an ( Opposite to Dean-street, Soho, beg resp.c fllly their -., t, be ~ in consequence of their Premises having been SELLING OFF the whole of O. lir unriv,.,,:built, they are now jirallwards',l);ll,Assortimecenst o at f splendid CHINTZES, C HINTZES, consisting 6d per yard ; their superb oeg'astetls Carpeting, pieces, more than 1,200 yards, of most el'ai_34. • Pedesrig,ll,..s,i' and arranted of the best manufacture,. at Ewell .;,,iiiatecl t . 4 1.7 t some short lengths of the same quality, '"k ler'e - N eu t °ems, at 3s. 6d. per yard ; their much-admired LeafashionelL- ,"amasks' consisting of 800 pieces, of a variety l _of setlm Le°?o,3 at from 2s. the whole of th t ei ss will whichguarantee -e "gti t r , -- i'" the entir e of their Cabinet Stock, universally acknow- Tn ° l lnti - u e the most extensive and select in the Metropolis, 'irlve.etioll,yaivalue.N. upwards of 20,000/. comprising every late n11 1 . e.,., 3 ". eonsisting of every requisite 9 -for the drawing-room, 251. 14 ".I ' libr arY, boudoir, and bedchamber, at a reduction toa o il f 3 t hoet to"ferY 100/. from its original cost, thus presenting , 1 '5,.. 1 5 , w I ., 4 „ . 'riish, one of the most favourable opportunities for ftelicthits ',lie e ung taste, fashien, and economy, ever yet offered • .., h,tlit, RTEAM CONVEYANCE TO ITALY. W E . ' P ast-Failing English Steam-Packet SAINT ekezand , OEFREDE, of LIVERPOOL, JOHN OLIVE, Com- Z/Vas been established as a regular trader between sails from e A ItsV, 4 .LEGHORN for the last six months, and . qte O , 4LLES for LEGHORN every SUNDAY Morning, at 0 1 3A-v"k, and from thence to MARSEILLES every WID .• the., ' Alrnin at Seven o'clock. Zl:4LIle geenPas between the two ports is generally made in tticaenntyce 8' is decidedly the best conve . yance be . tw - Z w ' 4 Passengers are only at sea one night, which e rs n not the ,„41: - • any of the other steamers on that station. -"ads ace°llmodations are excellent, and a Female Steward por°"l,the Ladies. - I,, l age apply to Atel iI'eiIARDSON and MECKLENBURG, Marseilles, 4,,"1-kItRISON and RAE, Leghorn. `dufor further particulars at 112, Strand, London. o ges and Horses are conveyed by that Packet. GEN ERAL AT REDUCED FARES. 1 'JAI STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. tt_lt GEJlA:Tp?ratecy STEAM tof loa AAist,„, "-mitaL ParIiament .NAVIGATION CO- M- I , lv' th s c,,,' S FIR.ST-RATE and SUPERIOR PACKETS kl,`,AAjett",,steln House for ' %.t i , ,i'''‘G (carryi g his Majesty's Mails), every Wednesday -4 ,,b, 51"4Y; returnlnng ever Wednesday and Saturday. Chief ,klll3TT,%re ditto, 4/. y sj t k tkl •5'3.713AN1 (carrying his Majesty's Mails), every Wednes tlitt7 Wetttleu:,,day morning, at Seven o'clock precisely; returning A,, uaY and Saturday. Chief cabin, 21. 10s. ; fore , „, , rw t .,,,, . 1,, Y 5t,,,-- , - (with a Bag of Letters from the Po . st-office), 1 0 4 sy a , ~I Y and Wednesday morning, at Ten ; returning every . I :l l ! r t k. n 2j " , Suil daY, at the' same hour. Chief cabin, 21. 101. , 41 ehe t llb, Cs Chief every Saturday morning urn httaL4...kis Cabin, 1/ . 161. ; fore ditto, ret 1/. ss ing:every Tuesday. • , io ll irig ev rejeZ'Sunday, Wednesday, and Saturday morn ch ing ie ; f iitgo,„.l/. 4 J yvednesday, Thursday, and Sunday night. t eyeutt.eisipfore ditto, 11. 4 ' dittY l'harsdeverY Tuesday even T . hursday morning ; return- Chief cabin, 1/. ss• ; 1 )10, 1/. and Monday ing. *i". 41( ( „Illle ~ kit t qi i ' -terY Thursday morning; returning every Sunday ' t i ' t erb l i t ?llT e o N ' t h f n, 1/. s s , ; fore ditto, 1/. 4, ,ditto e 'er eir DIEPPE, every Wednesday . and . Saturday ; 4, ii 1!. Se. • Y Thursday and Monday. Chief cabin, , ,ATl et i fr . L lith i. ' everynl-t• Katharine's Steam Packet Wharf to RAMSs 'ire ( ti t ,' ettek ii ° r/ling, at half-past Nine o'clock, except tinday , /44 1 1°, I.„."•eket on Saturdays, at twelve. Chief cabin, Ss• an s ~ q A . t 4 4(4 E, dit,„)3, et l'rery morning, at Nine o'clock ; an extra Packet 4 Ppl'''' 8 8. 'lle, returning the same day. Chief cabin, 9s. ; t o be 'esti r „ ~ !a th e ode ' tc,),,9 1. F r inf o on the Rotterdam and Antwerp . stations C 44,f°l ;a.; t i llets stations De Bi e and Rahn, Crescent, Minories ; and A ge to ,en Ilia to Alr. Norman, 1, Water-lane, Tower -street. kt/lt .j,llte Morse-quay be obtained from Messrs. Hall, wharfingers, 'ark ' Alar sl'aY 'Ur• S t Agent, Ramsgate; Mr. Carter, et ;at kale; i ir • , N,Nt e .. color • Plac e lt a , es Agent, Brighton •at 56, Hay ti ''etis pa s, 61, Charing Cross ; aeMr. Cho lin t s, seetttstioe e ' ieeatiilly • and at the Office of the General Ste am Sti:::: (IrnParl:::e9ts, L ombard -street, where Berths can be s w 'trel s t ' to , 1,-, • may be engaged for towing and Excur. 41 S ei , C HARLES BESSELL, S ecre t ary. Ra .... jAILVi LombardanY -'s Office, --' D,OOO Shares of 50/. each. ITTEE: D. O'Connell, Esq., M.P. 31. O'Ccnrell, Esq., M.P. C. O'Brien, Esq., M.l'. D. Roche, Esq. Robert Sutton, Esq. J. R. Todd, Esq.. M.P. Thomas Vigne, Esq N. A. Vi; ors, Esq., .M.P. Wrn. Wilkinson, Esq. id conditions of subscribing : ml in London, to extend to Ireland stern. IS (-12- ‘,th}) Itioto,tr.Slo-4‘NanEd SpSr;v--AND R . Eyrs efficacious remedy qi: 81ifferIN'tant disco en and to voyagers ~t.kre, , r 1 ro il , tk , s ,r verte s of the present day , IA It is admi- Sea Sickness e justly ranks as one of Zzli e h `, th e his o eadful malady it is mvalua . 70 1 , 1 is rapid frn of a pleasant V s ing draught, the effect_of lit; his and a .,_ ... e erve c tr,. that,clelieveu v sL.onish.ing. By the use of this remedy the 1 , ss t i s d r , ,t the acid matter, and by the restorative gua itto4, sfstey:e„totnsusgulibtspidsses,se!i, nausea and the wholetrain th o e f n d e i r s .. - v e riiii k , 4 5404 recovers prevented, its harmony, and nature, when relieved, ,i, ar ,... tid no ~.!ell to the action produced by the motion of the war;llSohd, "geasant effects are again experienced during t . he , 63, N e f ±s: 6 d., at Hannay and Co.'s Patent Medicine urn-street, the corner of Wells -street, London. 11'sj WITH ES N and FILLING m. tti,11101) I BLI ---- -- t , --ripICIAL TEETH _FixED -31(1 1) 4 1 :1171111.E8 or OTHER LIGATURE_tic \li,Sll;7l.lllAtill.ATNaEndl'Al4sl4, SurgAeoDnILLY, Iticilo t -ts, No. 9, HALF MOON-STREET, PICC —,-,y grate -0 AISBUts ~ ~ CEDANEIVen ftIi `'G s, RUSSELL-STREET, EL . 0 so emineP.,„iy disti 'O,"Le high km • patronage which has kitiAlstiled their preoYesnil nd the arrival. in the ttiblie n;etropolis, begE'lesa°ve to announce to they_Fq.,..lStsE DE_ al ea no since their 14t11,'itl) ;,1%1, that tey. still conttinueAloN.E' I RILuSUCCE- Kia, 131.4, ..-,0 ti. with their celebrae bY 'he."Faculty of Lon : ( ~ is . . A e„;. tyi.iveraly commended. ERFOitIIED in a FEW SE the 'Bl5O •411_ t he operation is . h as i pressure and all at htest fain, -at, or p p4,;117, eeriltoilail. the slig d astir f man years. They also ~.!,glect, orII).LCIOSIEg4rPTTI, wl'.etfie)railiir sing front Ae' MINERALN .".-NAI'ITLI,"„ in the Gums. iRRODYBLE which --e io e. . - ...Ai, q". 1... r, to a complete Set, i),,,,, 94%! of et. 4C. ou r ~ . OM ono . d ti-ed without lb, L,- nbranee or 1;,,SA01at1,•11 or corros.ion, an 'iti answer vil:, • silose op . ~ires, or ti- other Lirrat , ures, ai • Articulatio and 111ilastication.—Gharges as in Paris. All operra'tions performed on the Teeth. POST-OFFICE STEAM-PACKETS. Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commissioners of Re venue Inquiry, at their Office in London, 19th June, 1828. The Right Hon. Lord WALLACE in the chair. Matthias Attwood, Esq., M. P., and Thomas Brockelbank, Esq., called in and examined as follows: (To Mr. Attn ood.)—Have you any communication t o make on the subject of the packets to Ostend?—We desire to com plain of the opposition we have experienced by the establishment of Government packets from Margate to Ostend ; our agents at Ostend, Messrs. Samuel Amour and Co., write to us, under date of 13th June, 1828: " It is with regret we inform you that the new establishment of mails do the Company's packets some injury; for notwithstanding our departures are so ar ranged as to precede the mails, their average number of pas sengers is full twenty both ways; nor do I conceive it would be beneficial to the General Steam Navigation Company to use any extraordinary exertion in opposition to them, knowing that the captains have cartes blanches to take passengers at any price." The General Steam Navigation Company ,has been established there three years, and after establishing the trade at a great cost, finds this opposition and reduction of passen,- gers would render ii doubtful if they can continue their boats on that station. What is the average number of your -passengers ?—The average number is about forty. (To Mr. Brockelbank) Taking the whole number of voyages, what has been the average number of passengers ? —Forty. (By Mr. Attwood)—The Company is desirous to propose to carry the mails to Ostend; to go twice a week for that purpose, and to go throughout the year. Their vessels go - from London to Ostend in 16 hours on an average ; they have performed that voyage in 134 hours. (To Mr. Brockelbank)—Where would you deliver them? —4t Ostend. Have you been in the habit of running to Ostend? —.Th e vessels I am with have been running there for three years past. (By Mr. Att Nood)—The Company would undertake to deliver the mail twice a week; for which they would either give in terms now to the Board, or would undertake to say that they will carry the mails at 50 per cent, reduction from what it has hitherto cost the Government, or is now costing them. (To Mr. Brockelbank)—Do you sail from the Tower in the river ?--From the Custom-house. What is the time of sailing ?—lt depends on the proper time of tide for getting into Ostend. We set our tide tables as soon as we get into harbour. Supposing you were to sail by a tide table, do you sail in differently by day as well as by night? We sail in the night, according to the tide, or early in the morning. What time are you in getting down the river ?—To Graves end, or to the Nore ? The Nore?--We get to the Nore in four hours and a half. Have you never found a difficulty in going by night down the river ?—I think in many instances it is better to go by night than by day, so long as it is a clear night ; we are not exposed to so many vessels passing and repassing at that time. I have so arranged it that I have got our Hamburgh boats to go then. And they go indifferently all hours of the night ?—Yes. At whatever time the tide serves ?—Yes. Have you had many accidents on the river ?—No. Have you had many stoppages ?—No. You have not got aground ?—Once or so ; I do not know if the Ostend boat has been ever aground; the Hamburgh has been once. •Is that the only one?—l do not know of any other. How long have they been running ?—These three years past. What is the size of the vessels ?—About the same size, 250 tons, builders measurement. That is the size of the vessels that go to Ostend ?—Yes. Are they larger vessels that go to Rotterdam ?--They are the same size, each of them has two 40-horse engines. Have you any vessels that go to Hamburgh ?—We have. How many ?—Two ;we carry the letter-bags from the post office : the Sir William Jollifire and the Sir Edward Bankes go every Saturday and return on Monday. Have you any that go to Cuxhaven ?—No ; we go right up to Hamburgh ; we go at two or three o'clock in the morning.— (By Mr. Attwood. )--We have only gone once a week in the winter to Ostend, and probably should not go oftener, except by arrangement for the mail. (To Mr. Brockelbank. )—Do your vessels carry goods ?-- Not to Ostend; we should not carry goods if we carried the mail; we do not now ; we take goods for Calais in one of our vessels, in the other we do not. I think we could undertake to get the Calais mail from London to Calais in ten hours; I would go at the proper time of the tide, and I should get to the Nore before daylight ; if I get there by daylight, I can see the buoys ; I think there is not a question upon it ; I have no doubt. We have two vessels that make the passage from London to Calais in nine hours, the Harlequin and the Colum bine; I have no question about it; it might happen so that the fog might stop us ; but taking the weather through, there would be no difficulty in it. What chances would there be on that voyage of being de layed from one to three or four or six hours on any given time longer than nine hours ?—Such chances as might interrupt the packets going over from Dover ; and many times from Dover, when the sea is on the bars, they cannot get out; nothing could hinder us from getting out of the river. Would the fog affect you more than it would affect a boat sailing from the coast and crossing the Channel ; on your passage down the river, should you be affected by a fog?--No doubt of it. How often have you found a fog affect your arrival or depar ture ?—lt might be so once or twice in a year. Not more than that ?.--No ; I have never known that we have missed a passage without there has been a gale of wind, and we have gone into the Medway river. Ido not know if we ever missed a passage from a fog. How long have you been acquainted with steam-boats?— Ever since they began on the river Thames. You have been acquainted with them from the first, time of their sailing ?—The first time in the Thames ; about six or seven years. You have never known one to be stopped by a fog? I have never known that they have lost their passage by it ; I think we could guard against that. If we undertook to carry the mails, it would be our duty to have everything ready for per forming the voyage, wherever it may be ; and we should cer tainly have the vessel stationed below, in case of a fog, so as always to get to it ; supposing we were likely to have a foggy night, we should have the vessel stationed down the river, where it would not affect us, and get the mail down part of the way by land. (To Mr. Attwood)—How would you do with respect to ice ? If there were ice in the river, which in winter there is occasionally, and the passage to the town could not in conse quence be depended upon, the vessel would be stationed lower down the river, and the mail would be carried by land beyond the reach of the ice. (By Mr. Brockelbank)—We can al ways get away from Gravesend. (To Mr. Brockelbank)—Have you any boats now going to Calais ? Yes. How many ?—Two. Do they go from London ?—Yes. Do they all go from London ?—Yes. How often do they go ?—Three times a week. Have you ever had any of them lose their passage ?—I do not know that we have ' we have lost som e h ours in waiting ; but I am not a ware of losing a passage, except when there was a gale of wind ; we have been obliged to go under the Foreland, wh en th ere h as b een a gale of wind. Would the gale of wind that produced that delay, with re spect to your vessel, have equally produced the delay in the vessel sailing from Dover ?—I think there is no doubt of that; an easterly wind would operate very much against us, and the same easterly wind would operate against them. You already carry the mail to Rotterdam ?—To Rotterdam and Hamburgh. What is the number of hours that each voyage takes during any given period between the receipt and the delivery of the mail ?—The average number to Hamburgh is somewhere about 52. And to Rotterdam how many ?—About 27. Do you know what is the duration of the voyage from Har wich to Helvoetslup ?—I do not know. If Government were to employ us, in winter time, it would be better for us to sta tion a boat, in case of anything happening, so as always to have a boat to run athwart. In case of Government coming to an arrangement with you for the purpose of carrying the mails you would carry them by t, steam less it was b y ste Cam of course ?—ertainly; we cou ld ma k e no certa i nty o f i u . You take the mails regularly to Hamburgh ?—Yes. Be so good as to state under what regulations you are, as to taking the mail to Ilamburgh ?—They pay us so much a letter. A ship-letter ?—Yes. Supposing the mails to Ostend and Calais were to be corn tr.:ittea to your Company, and a contract made for the purpose, of course, with a view to the regularity of the delivery and sending, you must be under some regulations ?—Government of course would bind us to our duty. (To Mr. Attwood.)—So that you should always have your regularity of pr ocee di ng connected with the boats ready to sail at a given time, and be r ea d y to sail at should o umledmenrso that apply to your con veyance of correspondence, as at this moment is tho ug h t pro per to be applied to the beats of the Post-office? We should undertake to deliver the mails with equal regularity, and be bound by any reasonable condition or penalty to do so. Would you act similarly with respect to Hamburgh Then, in fact, these are ship-letters that you take to Ham.. burgh ?—Yes. (To Mr. Brockelbank.)—You are under no regulation or J''4 O. 10,091 LO:'; DON, MOI\DAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1834. restriction of any kind, but you merely receive letters as a ves sel going from one place to another, and receive a payment upon those letters?—Ye,, and forward them as quick as we can. Are the letters you carry very numerous ?—Yes, I suppose 2,000 letters at a time . ; we very frequently receive 1001. and odd for them. Have you carried them every voyage ?—Every voyage. You went every week through the winter ?—No, but we certainly should. What months did you go ?—We generally leave off in No vember and begin again in March,,to Hamburgh ; to Ostend all the winter, and to Calais all through the winter. Why do you leave off going to Hamburgh ; on account of the want of passengers ?—From the want of passengers. You are going to Hamburgh now ?—Yes. Suppose a general agreement were made with you for the purpose of delivering letters at all the points where they are delivered on the opposite coast, could you bind yourselves then, or would you undertake to bind yourselves, to sail regu larly through all periods of the year?—Surely we would; you know packets cannot sail when there is a gale of wind, but we should be bound under the same restrictions as the others. Taking Hamburgh for instance, upon what terms would it answer for you to enter into such an agreement with respect to Hamburgh, so as to force yourselves to sail twice a week ?-11 would want a little calculation. Suppose you were to go as often as the Hamhurgh mail goes ?—lt would be impossible to sit down and tell that ; I am not prepared to answer the question. Are you prepared to state what is the amount you have re ceived monthly or annually for letters, sine you have carried the, maiL to Harnburgh ?—No ; I was not :•.zre 4.1 a, or I might have made myself master of it. Now you carry letters also to Rotterdam?—Yes. Could you slate what is the amount you have received for carrying letters to Rotterdam ?—No, I could not state that. How far do the mail-packets that sail from Harwich to Hel voeisluys affect you in going to Rotterdam ?—ln point of pas sengers ? In every way ?—I rather think they do not take so many passengers as they used. You get all the passengers ?—We get a great share of the passengers. You go to Rotterdam in 27 hours from London 2—Yes. They do not go from Harwich to Hamburgh ?—No, to Cux haven. What is the distance from Cuxhaven to Hamburgh ?—Fifty miles. What number of hours does it take, five or six ?—lt takes about six hours ; it all depends upon the tide ; about six or seven hours. Have you any idea of the average of your voyages to Ham burgh ?—I think it averages from 52 to 54 ; I went from there myself in 50 hours ; one of our vessels did it in 46, the William Jolliffe. What is your number of hours ?—I average it from 52 to 54 hours ; we have made one voyage in 46 hours. You have no vessels that go to Gottenburgh ?—No, we have not. The Company would undertake to take the whole of the mails in all directions from London. What number of vessels have you ?—Seventeen. What is the largest, and what is the smallest size you have? —The smallest size, I think, is about 130 tons, and the largest is 400 tons. How are they distributed ; what are the services in which they are engaged ?—One goes to Newcastle ; we have two to Hamburgh, and one to Rotterdam ; two to Ostend ; two to Calais ; two from Brighton to Dieppe. How often do your vessels go to Calais ?—Three times a week.. Does the malgo every day to Calais ?—No, twice a week ; we shall run fol. the next two months.every day. Of the re mainder of our vessels, there is one goes to Boulogne, two to Margate, two to Ramsgate, and we have onto gone out to Por tugal, and we have one down the river, which we have not stationed at present. You do not happen to know if the letters are intended for the whole of Holland, to Amsterdam, and all other parts, which you take to Hamburgh ?-1 shouldthink so, being a merchant upon 'Change myself. If Government wish to have an engagement for this pur pose, you would have no difficulty in accepting it ?—None at all. Now, with respect t.) the other side of the island, have you any communication with Ireland? --No, we have none; but I think we should have no objection in taking the whole contract for running to the other side. Would you be equal to that ?--There is no question of it. Have you any connexion with any of the Irish companies ? We have not. Is there any other steam-packet company in. London b,9.. sides you ?—Yes, the Margate Company. They have no sea_ going vessels; they go up and down the RiderßiderThames.—(B y Mr. Attwood.)—There is another Company, the .Rotterd am Steam Packet Company conducted by Messrs. Wig.. ram's, with Bolton and Watt's engines. They have two to Rotterdam . They sail regularly. They go alternately with us to Rotterdam. That is, you go one week and they go another ?—Yes ; they go to Scotland, I think. I think there is a gentleman in London connected with the vessels going between Dublin and Liverpool ; it is Mr. Williams, he was in town a few days ago. (By Mr. Brockelbank)—l think also the company I am engaged with would have no objection to take the vessels belonging to Government off their hands, and buy them ; it would be a great relief to Government. I have been forty years on the river myself, and I see no difficulty in navigating the river by night, as a practical man ; a great many of the Government captains are too idle to navigate in the night. I would sooner go down with these vessels on a good clear night, than I would attempt it in the day, for there are very few people whose vessels break loose of a night, and you have got the whole of the thing to yourself, and you are not im_ peded by boats at all. (By Mr. Attwood)—l take the navi gation of the river Thames and its entrance to be one that requires much practice, and a very intimate and peculiar know . ledge. I understand that the captains employed by the gene ral Steam Navigation Company are men who have been brought up in the coasting trade—fishing; or perhaps smug -gling, on the Sussex and Kent Coast ; they must be men who are accustomed to the shoals on those coasts from their childhood. All their captains are of that description, and with this sort of captains the navigation is perfectly secure. It would be dangerous to a person merely of nautical skill, but who had not been long accustomed to these shoals. (To Mr. Brockelbank.)--Should you have power to secure efficient discipline among the crew ?—We take care to give the authority entirely to the captain; we do not say take this man and the other; we look to the captain, and make him responsible for every body's acts on board.—(By Mr. Att wood. )—The Company would experience difficulty from smuggling, if they did not preserve discipline. Their vessels would be detained upon their voyages, and would be stopped for bringing tobacco and all sorts of things over. A perfect discipline is established. You have never had stoppages ?—No ; things have been taken from the men at times, chiefly from the engineers. That has been an act of your own displeasure ?—Yes. You have not been stopped by the revenue vessels ?—The Company, keeping upon the best understanding with the Com missioners of Customs, endeavour to convince them that they are anxious to adopt every sort of regulation to prevent smug gling being carried on, and that has made them very conside rate with regard 'to the Company's vessels. When they have found a bundle of tobacco under the coals, they might stop the vessel, but they give what facility and accommodation they can : but this imposes the necessity of using a great deal of care in the sort of men employed. You have found, in point of fact, that your captains have been able to enforce these regulations ?—Yes • the captains are a respectable set of men ; it is very essen ti a l they should be so ; for' passengers are unwilling to sail, unless they see in the captain a steady, capable, and judicious person ; they put confidence in the captain ; and the captains of these vessels are a kind of men much to be depended upon. (To Mr. Brockelbank.) In speaking of the discipline and the precautions that are taken with respect to smuggling, does any search take place on the part of your captain or any of your officers ?—lnvariably ; and also by the Custom House. We have found sometimes little things suspected, and we have desired them to come on board and see ; invariably so. In passing to Rotterdam or Hamburgh with the ship-letters, do you happen to know if any number of letters are clandes tinely conveyed by the crew ?—No ; not by the crew ; I have every reason to believe that they are sent in parcels, but I am not able to say from my own knowledge. Would it be possible to have a precaution against that ? We do take parcels, and if we suspect them we take and tear them open ; we have found letters and sent them to the post office. We carry a great number of parcels. In a parcel of goods, where there is a letter sent explana tory of what it contains, it would be wrong to throw impedi ments, but when for the purpose of fraud, it is done expressly by collecting a certain number of letters, putting them into one parcel and paying for a single parcel, and so escaping the payment for letters generally, how would you prevent that ? We have found them so in some instances, and we have, taken them to the post-office. We lose the money. In or two instances we have found it so; if even a letter is sent, we carry it to the post-office directly. Then it is thrown into the bag and goes with yours ?—lf we find it coming in any parcel we send it. When was your Company established as a Company ?—We began in 1824. Are you incorporated ?—( By Mr. Attwood.) We are not incorporated. (To Mr. Attwood.) You are a joint-stock Company?—Yes. Of how many do yott consist ?—I should judge it to be 400 or 500 ; I have not the number in my mind. It consists of a great number?—Ye s . Are they chiefly persons residing in London ?_Almost all of them. Are there any incorporated steam companies ?—I do not know. Will you tell the Commissioners, taking each vessel from 250 to 300 tons which you employ, what have you them gene rally built for per ton ?—(By Mr. Brockelbank.) We built the Harlequin and the Columbine, which, without exception, are the two finest vessels in the kingdom. They stood the Com pany in 471. per ton. That is exclusive of the machinery ?—Yes ; the Attwood stood us in 191. per ton. Was she larger ?—Not so large. What occasioned that difference ?—The Company built the two themselves ; the other was built by another party, con tracted for. Do you build your own vessels now ?—We have built four. Of the seventeen, four have been built by yourselves ? Yes, in your own yard. Has there prevailed that difference between the comparative cost of vessels built by you and built in the yards ?—.We have built seven vessels. You have yourselves ?—Yes ; we have built three by con tract, and four in our own yard. You have stated that those you built by yourselves cost T 7/. per ton, and those you built by contract cost 191. per ton ; was there any reason for that which you could mention ?—We got the builder's profit, and we got better vessels for less money. I say the Government have not such vessels built. The others you purchased ?—Yes. Is it not essentially necessary that a vessel which goes by steam should be built expressly for that purpose ; that is, you cannot apply it advantageously to another ?—I should certainly say it could not. Have all these vessels you have purchased been built ex pressly for the purpose?—Expressly. In what state did you buy them, new ?—There are about four or five of them. You purchased them at a very early period of their existence, probably ?—Yes ; they were almost all new. What service have they hew; built ff-e?—Some,afAhern that - - we have went to Ireland. (By Mr. Attwood. )—The two Calais vessels, the Lord Melville and the Lord Liverpool, we purchased from Joliffe and Bankes ; they employed them previously upon that sta tion. The two Ramsgate vessels had been employed on the Ramsgate station ; these four were built for these stations. (To Mr. Attwood.)—Did you purchase any for Govern ment ?—No. What is the difference in the price per tonnage, of those you have built or contracted for, between the largest and the smallest ?—The Brockelbank is the smallest • it would cost as much per ton as the larger vessel.—( By Mr. Brockelbank.) If you are building a large vessel and a small one in your own yard, the small vessel might not cost you more, because the parts that came out of the large vessel would go to build the small vessel ; but if you were to go to build a small vessel by herself, she would not cost as much per ton as the large vessel would. I have superintended the building of seven steam boats under my directions. Have they differed much in size?—Yes, the Brockelbank is about 172 tons. What is the largest ? What did she cost ?. cost 19/.per ton. How large is she ?—Seven hundred tons. Did you build that ?--No ; we built her, but by contract. Who built her ?—A man of the name of Wallace, in the river.—(By Mr. Attwood.) The George the Fourth and the Duke of York were sold to Jolliffe and Bankes : they go to Lisbon and Petersburg. - You have no vessels of your own that go to Petersburg ? None. '—Three hundred and fifty. '-171. per ton ; the George the Fourth (To Mr. Brockelbank.)—Were those vessels that you super intended lined ?—Yes. Do you include that, when you estimate the amount at 171. per ton ?—What we call futling ; that is, a skinning inside. Were they fastened diagonally?—Yes, they were ; I would rather they had not been so. Which is most expensive ?—The diagonal mode is the most expensive ; but it is not the best adapted, for it soon gets loose; for this very reason—the wood shrinks up, and then you may shove your fingers in between the diagonal wood, and then all the fastenings are gone; I do not believe the diagonal system is any way so good to a vessel, and I will tell you why—l do not find that any of the first-rate builders attempt to do it : they certainly could do it cheaper than what they could do it the other way; for this very reason,—they must have long timber to make long planks, and they must have short timber to make short planks, and long timber is of more value. I find neither Barnard nor the first-rate builders do it in steam boats ; it is quite wrong entirely : the engine-room soon gets dried up, it loses all its hold ; I believe the Liverpool is built in that way: I could pull out the diagonal pieces with my fingers. _ _ What is the power of the boats that go to Ostend and Ham. burgh ?—The one to Hamburgh has two 40-horse engines ; the William Jolliffe has two 40-horse engines; the Attivcod, two 40-horse engines, to Rotterdam ; the Liverpool has two 40-horse engines, to Ostend. Are they not very small powers?—lt depends entirely how the vessel is built ; a great deal depends as to the vessel ; there is a wrong notion in steam-boats by giving too much hold of the water. The Harlequin and Columbine, belonging to Go vernment, were built by Wigram's people; they have only two 40-horse engines in each of them. Should you hav • $ objection to give an account of the steam-vessels tha have ; the service in which they are employed ; their tonnage and their powers ?—Certainly not. Whose engines do you use 7—We have the Butterfly Corn pany's engines, of Derby. What are the names of the persons ?—Wright and Jessop ; they are considered equal to Bolton and Watt ; we do more execution with our forty-horse engines, than some do with their fifty. (To Mr. Brockelbank)—Are you able to say which have stood best ? I contracted for the engines in the Royal Sove reign myself, and also the City of London ; and their engines are equally good as when they were first put in, about six or eight years ago. You have engineers regularly appointed to each vessel 7—Yes. Is it the same as to Government vessels ?—Yes, an engineer and two firemen ; if we are going on a foreign station, we must make it different; they are obliged to take watch and watch. What number of persons have you on board ; what is the establishment for each steam-vessel ?—There is the captain, the mate, the second mate ; it is in a vessel of forty-horse engines ; the captain, the mate, the carpenter, and four men and a boy ; the engineer arid firemen are distinct altogether ; that is, going to Hamburgh ; if going a shorter voyage, we should have two men less. MATTHIAS ATTWOOD. THOMAS BROCKELBANK. THE ARMY. (From the Limerick Chronicle.) Lieut.-General Sir Hussey Vivian, commanding the forces in Ireland, will arrive in this garrison next Saturday, and inspect the troops on Monday. Report names Sir Hussey Vivian for a command in India, after the Lieut.-General's term expires in this country. The principal Barrack districts in Ireland to be enlarged under the coming arrangements of the Master-General of the Ordnance, are, it is understood, Naas, Templemore, Limerick, Fermoy, Galway, and Cork. Three private soldiers in this garrison have been sentenced by Courtmartial, for breach of military discipline, to solitary confinement for six weeks, three weeks, and a fortnight, re spectively, according to the magnitude of the offence. The following number of Lieutenants of 1816, on full pay, will benefit by the intended Brevet promotion—viz. Dragoons and Infantry, 129 ; Artillery and Engineers, 32. The entire 93d regiment are stationed at Canterbury. Great competition prevails among General Officers for the vacant command of the 87th, or Royal Irish Fusileers. Lieut.-Colonel Fuller, C. 8., retires from the command of the 59th regiment, and will be succeeded by his relative, the junior Major of the 59th. The veteran General, Lord Lynecloch, Colonel of the 14th regiment, stationed at Athlone, has arrived in Dublin, and will inspect the 14th before returning to the sister country. The depot companies of the 23d, or Royal Welsh Fusileers, at Fermoy, are under orders to embark for Portsmouth to join the service companies of the regiment shortly expected home from the Mediterranean. Captain Mayes, of the 95th, who recently returned from the service companies of his regiment at Cephalonia, has joined the depot at Templemore. Lieut. Blake, of the 47th has been appointed acting Ad jutant, and Lieut. M'Nally, Acting Paymaster, to the depot companies of that regiment. Major Lord Charles Wellesley, of the sth Foot, has joined the depot companies at Templemore, and assumed the com mand in the room of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Tovey, who is under orders to join the service companies at Gibraltar. The old gosling -green facings of the regiment are to be changed to grass-green. IRISH CHURCH COMMISSION.—The new and in creased commission has issued, and we lay the list before our readers :--Lord Brougham, Viscount Duncannon, Rgiht E. J. Littleton, Sergeant D'Oyl e y, Th omas H enr y iln. Lister,o William Henry Curran, George Barrett Lennard, Edward Carlton Tuffnell, Daniel Maude, George Cornwall Lewis, William Tighe Hamilton, Acheson Lyle, William Newport, Denis George Lube, John Fox Strangways, Neill O'Donnell Browne, Rowley Lascelles, Thomas P. Luscombe, John Gibson, Anthony Austin, William M'Dermott, James Moody, William Gibson Craig, and Anthony Wills, Esqrs. ; Matthew Barrington, secretary. SHOCKING DEATH OF A CHILD.—On Friday an inquest was held at the sign of the Comet, in Christian-street, St. George's in the East, on the body of George Forsyth, an infant aged 12 months. It appeared that the child was taken ill a few days ago, and the mother therefore determined to bathe it. She, however, put it into such scalding hot water that the skin of one of the legs, from the ankle downwards rolled off, and floated on the surface of the water like a place of leather. The other leg and foot were also dreadfully scalded, from about four inches above the ankle downwards. The child died after a few days, suffering much. The Jury, after hearing a number of witnesses as to the facts of the case, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against the mother, and she was taken on the Coroner's warrant to Newgate, to await her trial. PRICE 7D. PORTUGAL. EXPRESS FROM FALMOUTH. (From a Private Correspondent of the Times. LISBON, Ana. 16. The opening of the Chambers took place yesterday, and a most memorable day it will be for this nation. During the whole of the day, there seemed to be throughout the town but one feeling of happiness and content at the event; nothing occurred to disturb it. Long before 1 o'clock, the Hall of the Deputies (a most magnificent and commodious place) was crowded by all such as were fortunate enough to obtain a ticket. I should think that there were near 1,000 persons present. The British, Spanish, French, Swedish, and Belgian Minis ters, with their Secretaries, as well as Admiral Gage, occu pied the tribune set apart from them, on the left of the throne. the corresponding one on the right being intended for the Queen, the Empress, and th e I n f anta Donna Isabel Maria, with their suites. There was a gallery destined for peeresses and other ladies, which was filled with elegantly dressed fe males. At a quarter past 1 o'clock, the orchestra within the Chamber commenced playing the national hymn, thereby an nouncing that the Regent had arrived at the Palace of the Cortes, and was proceeding to the hall of meeting, which he reached immediately after, and placing himself under the throne, after bowing to the Peers and Deputies, he sat on the Royal chair, and said, "My Peers, pray be seated." " Gen tlemen Deputies, you may take your seats." After which, he proceeded in a very firm and audible voice, as well as with great emphasis, to read the speech, which was very long, as you will perceive by the annexed copy ; its tenour was to some extent anticipated by mine of the 13th instant, and the other matters which principally require your notice are those wherein he Teaks of theiettlZinent of the reget&cy question, and g the Queen's marriage. The number of Peers present was 10 out of 14, which is the actual number of those who never acknowledged the Usurper as king ; of the deputies there were only 50. The reason in both cases, that all of them did not attend, is simply this— their robes and court-suits were not yet finished by their re spective tailors. Upon their return home Don Pedro and the Royal family were most enthusiastically received by the popu lace. The Chambers were adjourned until next Monday, when presidents and secretaries will be elected, and the an swer to the Royal speech will be framed and discussed. The Royal family were attended to the tribune by all the Ladies of Honour, the Regent's Aides-de-Camp and Cham berlains, the Count Cape St. Vincent (Napier), the Arch bishop of Lacedwmonia„ the Bishop of Coimbra, General Stubbs, and a great number of other personages. Their re ception at the Italian Opera-house in the evening, particularly that of Don Pedro, was most cheering, and considering that the 2,000 persons therein assembled were the elite of the po pulation of Lisbon, this spontaneous burst of feeling must have been highly gratifying to him. There was some mistake about firing the usual salutes; the French ships did so, but ours did not, which so much surprised Don Pedro, that he desired Lord Howard de Walden to be informed of it ; the letter was brought to his Lordship in the hall of the Cortes, a few minutes before the Regent's arrival, and upon consultation with Ad miral Gage, orders were sent to his Britannic Majesty's fleet in the Tagus to hoist the standard of Portugal in its usual place which was done by all our ships, b u t no sa l ute was fired. The reading of the Ministerial statements will occupy some time in the Chambers ; the Minister of Finance amongst other things will be able, it is said, to show that the last loan of 2,000,0001. sterling, effected in London through their agent M. Mendizabel, has realized a net average price of 73 1 t, the interest on one half of it commencing in December last, and on the other half in June last. No Government in the world similarly placed could ever show the same result. You may well remember that the French loan in 1815 was con tracted at a price which, deducting commissions, was hardly equivalent to 46. A very interesting statement, 1 understand, will also be presented to the Cortes, detailing the labours of the Portuguese finance committee established in London at the commencement of the year 1831, for the purpose of raising supplies and men, purchasing ships, arms, clothing, &c. for the expedition. I have just had an opportunity of reading and give you the following short outlinel'of its contents The said Committee employed since Ist of September. 183, ..o-Jutie, 1833, the sum of 500,000/. thus :—Three frigates, one corvette, and one schooner, were bought and equipped, carrying tog ether 175 guns. 7,084 tons o f transport sh i ps were paid for a period of from four to eight months. 6,306 men, infantry and cavalry, engaged, organized, and equipped. Seventeen steam-vessels were hired, two of them were con stantly kept employed. Transport ships of 10,566 tons were employed and paid for the purpose of conveying to Belle Isle, Azores, and Oporto, provisions and military stores, gunpow der, muskets, uniforms, guns, horses, &c., and the purchase money of the same. The high premiums of insurance which were paid on account of the extraordinary risks on all the pro perty shipped, and the first few months even on the ships of war. Independent of money paid in Paris, and credits opened to the Government at Terceira, and subsequently at Oporto. The committee only received towards the whole 396,404/. 1 Os. (the accounts are given), so that the house of Carbonell, who had the charge of all the pecuniary transactions, shipments, &c., became at last under a liability of about 195,000/. for the Government, which was afterwards cancelled by this Go vernment on very favourable terms to this country. I should mention to you that the army and navy estimates will not be reduced quite so much as was intended, owing to the present state of affairs in Spain, and the, however distant, possibility that this Government may be called upon by that of the Queen Regent to send some forces to his assistance ; yet we may hope that the necessity for these precautions will not last many months. Count Farrobo (Baron Quintella), Bacon Sobral, Messrs. Barrados and Trigoso, Councillors of State, and M. Rodrigo Ribeiro, a Perfect, are, it is reported, about to be raised to the Peerage. Admiral Napier is said to be very angry with these Ministers because they refuse to make him a Peer, but if the report be correct, I should conceive that he ought rather to be glad that they did not think of him for the Peerage, because, in the first place, unless he made his speeches in English, he could never state his opinions in the house ; and in the next, he would soon become connected, or supposed to be connected, with one of the two parties, and consequently would have many and great enemies, whilst now, as the hero to whom the country is very essentially indebted for the triumph of the good cause, he is generally and deservedly esteemed and respected by the whole nation. . The Bank of Lisbon has, to a certain extent, followed the example set by Government offering to receive on or before the'3lst inst. in currency the amount of such bills as it holds falling due after that day. as well as the amount of all loans which it has made to individuals on certain securities, but as it declines to allow on the anticipated payments, general dis pleasure has been expressed by all the parties interested, and it will be a wonder, in my opinion, if the bank has not very shortly solid reasons for regretting this proceeding, because the public may take it into their heads to prefer cash to bank notes ; it is the more foolish on the part of the Bank, as it is supposed the amount of interest which it would have to give up would not exceed 1,0001. sterling—a trifling sum for such an establishment. Great and almost universal discontent is manifested by all persons connected with trade because the Government has, after all, declined to direct some general rule respecting this measure, and I myself conceive that the Government is wrong. Some of the merchants and traders are agreeing amongst themselves to make an abatement of 10 per cent. upon all their outstanding transactions falling due within three months, but unless the Government so order it, the measure will never be general, and not binding for those who do not subscribe to this sort of friendly understanding. The tobacco contractors, who have the contr ac t f or e l even years, and to whom the difference between paying the Go vernment in currency as heretofore, or all in cash as by the new order of things, amounts in that period to upwards of 1,300 contos, or about 300,000/., threaten to throw it up ; but I should question their doing so, because there are already some parties who have signified to the Minister that in such an event they are willing not only to take it on the same terms, paying cash for the whole, but to give 4 per cent. more into the bargain, which shows that the business is a good one. The new British Consul called a meeting of the British merchants on the 13th instant, for the purpose of' considering whether it was advisable to agree to the wishes of the Custom house Directors, viz., that hereafter, within eight days after the arrival of any kind of merchandise, a declaration of its value should be sent into the Custom-house, on which the duty should be payable whenever the effects were taken out of the Custom-house, unless the Government thought them under valued, and preferred taking them at the increase of 10 per cent. on the value : it was attended by 17 or 18 merchants, tn whoio at g the generally expressed arrangement, exopressedonvari and nothing definitive hasusgroundstheirdissatisfac- been agreed upon. Captain Mins of this navy, who wrote a book last year, in which Admiral Sartorius was not spared in any manner what ever—l believe his real name is Bingham, and that he is a son of Admiral Bingham, and a Commander in our own service— was arrested upon the evening of the 13th, by Admiral Na pier's orders, and conveyed to the Don Pedro hulk, where he is closely watched. He is accused of being a deserter, but as it is generally believed that Captain Mins is in possession of a certificate from M. Silva Carvalhd, the Minister, to the effect that he was present when the Marquis Louie, the then Mini ster of Marine, granted the Captain the necessary leave to go to England, some people consider that the gallant Admiral has been precipitate and extremely harsh on this occasion, and that a fellow-feeling for a British officer should have induced him to treat the Captain more leniently, and not suffer him to be on board that hulk with a parcel of thieves and murderers. I have no time to add another line. LISBON, AUG. 17. His Majesty's steamer Confiance having been detained until this morning by Lord Howard de Walden, I take the oppor tunity of stating to you that the following are some of the cur rent reports of the day :-- That before the 31st instant church and other public property will be advertised for public sale in September and October next, to the amount of 1,800,0001. sterling ' • and in the follow ing months th e G overnmen t i s suppose d to be prepared to ad vertise much more ; so that the public creditors of Portugal have nothing to fear on account of any want of assets to meet AUG. 17, 3 O'CLOCK P. M. Since I wrote my letter of this morning, I have ascertained beyond a doubt that M. Mendizabal, in connexion with a great capitalist, has made a proposal to the Government respecting the establishment of four agricultural banks at Lisbon, Oporto, Coimbra, and Beja, for the purpose of giving every kind of assistance to the farmers and all persons connected with them, and lam sure that the thing is nearly arranged. The law of mortgages is required by the proposing partie's to undergo some slight alteration, and it is also required that it shall be ordained that no mortgage shall hold good unless it is regis tered in an office to be established for that purpose in the ca pital of every province within two days of its being granted. There can be no doubt that if these banks are properly and equitably conducted, they will give a most wonderful impulse to every kind of industry here. A. 0. " LISBON, AUG. 14. SPEECH FROM THE THRONE, IN THE ROYAL SESSION OF THE EXTRAORDINARY CORTES OF THB PORTUGUESE NATION IN 1834. " Worthy Pears of the kingdom, Gentlem en D e p ut i es of the Portuguese nation— " The day which I have so anxiously and ardently desired has at length arrived—a day of glory and happiness, in which, after having passed through a vast circle of events nearly mi raculous—having extinguished the fury of civil war, over come the monster of tyranny, and restored to the throne of the Queen, my beloved daughter, I see assembled round me the representatives of the nation—rich in wisdom, in prudence, in firmness, and patriotism, and nobly eager to promote by the observance of the charter and the enlightened development of its principles, the stability and splendour of the throne, the consolidation of the constitutional system, and the prosperity and happiness of this honoured and generous nation. On so happy a day I must not present to your eyes the sad and gloomy picture of six years of public and private misfortunes ; but I cannot avoid alluding in general terms to the principal events of that period, because they belong to history and must guide your deliberations. " You know, and all Europe knows, that as soon as I was called to the throne of Portugal on the lamented death of my august father, it was my first, I may say my only thought, to fulfil the important mission which Providence was pleased to confide to me, by laying down a secure foundation for public happiness, and endeavouring to restore the ancient glory and national greatness, by means of institutions suited to the ge nius, character, manners, and wants of the people, and con formable to the progressive state of European civilization ; and aiming, at the same time, to conform to the interests of policy and the relative situation of the several states which obeyed my Government, I spontaneously abdicated the throne of Portugal in favour of the Queen, my beloved daughter, thus giving to Europe a new and secure pledge of the since rity of my intentions, and to the Portuguese the fullest proof of the ardent desire which animated me to promote their fu ture prosperity. " The Constitutional Charter, which I granted on the 29th of April, 1826, and which entirely fulfilled my inefficient views, and the measures which accompanied it, were viewed by the nation not only with applause and gratitude, but with extraordinary enthusiasm. " All the orders of the state swore to obey it. All the Princes who then constituted my Imperial and Royal Family gave positive and manifest testimonies of their approbation. All foreign nations recognized the legitimacy of my succession and abdication, and the measures which I had adopted for the benefit of the Portuguese. In that all sensible and sincere persons conceived the flattering and grateful hopes that with this precious gift there could be obtained, besides its principal effects, the cessation of discord, and of the divergency of opinion which had before been excited and artfully promoted. " Meantime, a rebellious and fanatical faction, directed by secret and powerful forces, and perhaps relying on some fo reign co-operation, deserted the country, declared itself the enemy of liberal institutions and the happiness of its fellow citizens, and undertook the base task of supporting the empire of abuses and privileges, of destroying the charter, of restoring the infamous and abominable regimen of absolute power, and even of calling into question my incontestable and acknow ledged right to the Portuguese thrtme. " This faction was repressed by the noble efforts of the na tional army, assisted by the energetic and patriotic union of the people. But the declared enemies of liberty and public happiness did not suspend their dark machinations, but, ac tuated by mad rage, armed with fanaticism, imposture, atro cious calumny and all the base and perfidious means which desperation a rage suggested to them, they saw in the end the failure of the system of ferocity which for six whole years oppressed the Portuguese, and gave to the world examples such as never were seen in the most calamitous times of this or other monarchies. GC was a prince of my family (I cannot record this circum stance.without the most sensible grief, but I am obliged to say it)—it was a prince of my august family, an ungrateful and degenerate brother, who encouraged and promoted the efforts of the rebels, in order to seat himself upon a throne erected upon treason, disloyalty, and perjury. The intimate ties by which this prince bound himself to observe the consti tutional charter, and to acknowledge and obey the legitimate sovereign by his oath and promises made and repeated at Vi enna, Paris, London, and Lisbon ; by the solemn acceptance of the hand of the Queen who was destined to be his consort —by the confidence which I placed in him in appointing him Regent of the kingdom and my Lieutenant—lastly, by the very acts of the Government which he exercised under that honourable title—all this, I say, was despised by him with the most scandalous immorality, and convoking a vain and illegal phantom of the very national representation which he wished t. 9 see annihilated", he caused it to decide a question which in reality did not exist, to declare him King, when he already exercised in fact the'authority and power of Royalty, and he pretended to justify the enormous irregularity of this rash act by the most notorious falsehoods and gross sophisms. " In this manner the work of iniquity was completed, and by these steps the Usurper ascended to the occupation of a throne which had never been stained by such black and scandalous perfidy. - IC Thousands of illustrious victims were then sacrificed to tyranny, either on the scaffold, or in the horrors of prison, or in exile to remote climates, without any crime but their loyalty, without any trial but the will of the Government and of the in famous satellites of its barbarity. " Consternation and dread, sometimes more cruel than death itself, continually haunted those who still appeared to enjoy some degree of individual liberty. " Meritorious and respectable persons were everywhere per secuted with the injuries and insults, reproaches and sarcasms, of a mad populace, who, animated by example, and certain of impunity, perhaps of reward, committed all kinds of violence. The asylum of the house of the citizen was every moment vio lated. Robberies and murders were continually committed with impunity, not only with the acquiescence, but with the approbation of the Government. "In the pulpits (I shudder to say it)—but you know, and everybody knows, that I say the truth,—in the pulpits, in face of the holy altars, in the midst of sacred and august mysteries, the ministers of the God of Peace and Charity preached assassi nation as a service due to religion, and announced to the asto nished people a new gospel of persecution, blood, and death. " In short, there was no crime that was not committed, no error that was not defended, no virtue that was not insulted. There was no security or protection, e xcept for the wi c k e d , who distinguished themselves by their ferocity and sanguinary zea- I refrain from continuing this horrible picture. Th e f acts are notorious, and were reVe ated in all parts of these king doms. There are few honourable citizens who have not. ex ioeu perienced them, or witnessed and l amented them in their neighbours, relatives,spdleerapanlbd frn n d d s ed and affli cte d by the con si n iltliy ohe o heart r hed deeply we situation o f my country and fellow citizens and subjects, whose felicity has been, and ever will be, the constant object of my most anxious care ; and though I assisted as far as was possible those whom honour and loyalty had driven far from their country, and scattered in different points of Europe and America, all this was not sufficient' for my personal sentiments, nor for the honour of my exalted dignity, nor for the rights and honour of the Queen, my be loved daughter. " Events certainly inspired, bUt arising from the inflexible more than the total of their demands, provided however that here is good faith on the part of these Ministers or such as may succeed them. A law is to be submitted to the Cortes respecting the in demnities promised to all such patriots as were injured in their properties by the Usurper ; and although it is connected with the church and other property of the state, I am told that things are so well arranged and provided for, that it will rather benefit than injure the public interest. Another law, to be submitted for the sanction of the Cortes, will be to the effect of providing for the higher clergy out of the funds of the State, and directing that the parish priests shall be supported by their respective parishoners, the Govern went, however, fixing a maximum, as well as a minimum. M. Mendizabal has concluded his arrangement with Go. vernment for the construction of roads and canals, &c., cording to the plan, the particulars of which I sent you in one of my former letters. The Gaceta do Governo, No. 39, contains an account of the public debt, which has been bought up and cancelled by this Government, amounting to 2,058,542,000 reis, of the in terior debt of the country, equal to more than 400,0001. sten, ling, and I am told that there is a plan in contemplation to be submitted to the Cortes for the entire liquidation of the whble of this debt, which amounts to a nominal sum of about 6,000,0001. sterling, but could all be bought in upon an average for one half. I regret that I have to call your attention to a subject which interests us all more than anything that may be done for or be come of Portugal. I mean the dreadful state of want and misery in which our poor countrymen are allowed to remain by this Government, at least as far as 200 and upwards of such of them as are anxious to return home,are concerned. I have in my letters of the 9th and 13th instant spoken of them. The Government, in consequence of my strong appeal in their behalf, sent me a communication to the effect that they would all be paid and sent home in the course of three or four days ; the time expired yesterday, and upon inquiry I find that no thing has been done yet ; they are still in a state of nudity for the most part, and in almost actual starvation, and al though M. Mendizabal has assured me that they will be sent home next week, as I am well assured that although he has the sincere wish of doing so, and is exerting himself with Government to that effect, he may not have the power of com pelling M. Freire, the Minister of War, to act in this just and honourable manner, I have deemed it right once more to call your attention and that of the British public to this business, and I trust that until all our countrymen are paid and have justice done to them in every respect, every kind of discourage 4/tent will be thrown in England on the financial operations of these people : there never was so rfitich ingratitude exhibited by any nation of the world towards men who have not only fought and bled like these gallant fellows, but actually led the way to victory wherever it has been obtained. A. 0. EAST INDIA HORSE , Awe. 20, 1834. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, That, in consequence of the arrangements which, with the con currence of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, have been made for giving effect to the East India Charter Act, it is not intended that the Company should resume the Warehousing and Management of Private Trade Goods under the authority given by the Customs Act lately passed. PETER AUBER, Secretary. p o