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It is one of the great -indirect advantages which we de rive'from the writings of men of splendid genius, that the excellence of their works rears itself as a barrier, prevent ing our being inundated with the emanation's of ordinary M inds, in any of the several departments of literature and tei cnee, consecrated by their undying presence. He must Possess an order of intellect towering above, or crawling b elow, the common level of humanity, who presumes to tread in the foot-prints of Milton, Shakspeare, Locke, or Ne wton ; and hence all the books which have been written the subjects, and after the manner of these illustrious authors, were either far above, or greatly below mediocrity. The cause of this is easily perceived. The writers of what are called tolerably good readable books, are commonly al enofsound sense and worldly prudence ; they see the ob stacles p resente d to the atta i nment o f wea l t h or f ame by followi ng in the track of great writers ; and they have the ,nnderstanding to know that they themselves want the abi lity to surmount them. Not so fools, however. They listen to nothing but the whisperings of their own vanity. They W rite, publish, are laughed at or scorned, and—forgotten. And here extremes meet ; for there are others besides fools who are not deterred from any undertaking on ac count of the most eminent previously acquired success. And such is the author of the work now before us, which, iw all that relates to the philosophy of government, will gain Y a compari so n w ith the hi g hly polished pages of Gibbon. I t is true that Sismondi's history is an abridged account of the fall of the Roman empire, and might with more pro- P ri etY be styled a history of the causes by which that great catastrophe was produced ; but in itself it is perfectly ori ginal, full of thought, and. rich in moral aphorisms and re flections, too which cannot be strongly impressed on the mind o f every statesman and writer on the science of social :elir: esmgeanm,t. It is not a record of wars, and triumphs, and and individual bravery, and licentiousness, and the hatred of persecuting and contending sects and factions ; but an elaborate investigation of the causes of PcPular discontent ; the sources of poverty and agrarian in surrection ' • the state of the public mind with respect to lit eracy knowledge ; and the mistaken policy of the empe rors and provincial governors. The style is neither so Measured, so elaborate, nor so sounding as Gibbon's, but • f ol ' all that, it is equal to some of our very best English authors. Sismondi's History will be of immense importance to the numerous class of readers who were shocked by the irre ligious spirit of Gibbon's " Decline and Fall." Perhaps it is llOt generally known that that great work of the elegant infidel is proscribed in all Roman Catholic seminaries of You th ; and that the finding of it in the dormitory of a student of Maynooth would subject the offending inmate to esPulsion. The world will smile at this illiberal narrow . minded severity, but such is the fact. Of the history be fore us, we can say that it contains not an expression which can, by any possibility, be construed into an indifference of teli gi° ll ; and that it does contain many passages, advocat nig the doctrines of the Sacred Scriptures. • The following passage will convey a correct impression o f the author' s s tyle, as well as of the condition of the b • 4 "mn people in the second and third centuries of the Christian sera : " The hi g h er c l asses o f a na ti on may i m p ress upon the Govern 14,riTt a character of wisdom and virtue, if themselves are wise and r ""us ; but they cannot give it strength, for strength must al ways come from the mass. But in imperial Rome this mass, so 'aried in i ts l anguage, i ts manners, i ts religion, its habits ; so sa vage in the midst of civilization ; so oppressed and brutified, was rare ,elt perceived by those who lived on its toils : it is hardly men "eli y historians ; it pined in wretchedness, it perished and dis appeared in some provinces, while no one condescended to notice Its extinction ; and it is only by a series of comparisons that we .T s a lt discover its fate. In the present state of Europe, the class of i_ l4 bandmert—tho se who live by the manual labour of agriculture— iins four -fifth s of the whole population, England alone excepted. e may conclude that, in the Roman empire, the agricultural po pulation was proportionally larger, since manufactures and com merce were in a less advanced state than with us. But, whatever were their numbers, they formed no part of the nation. They eregarded as scarcely superior to the domestic animals whose labours they shared. The higher classes would have dreaded to hear 'nem pronounce the name of country ; dreaded to call forth their night have turned against their oppressors. The peasantry were rigorously deprived of arms, and were incapacitated from contri buting to the defence of their country, or from opposing resistance to any enemy, enemy, for e i gn or d omes ti c . he rural population of the empire was divided into two classes, free colons and slaves • differing, however, far more in name than in any pos i t i ve rights. ' The former cultivated the earth for certain fixed wages, generally paid in kind ; but, as they were severed from their masters by an impassable distance ; as they were i mmediately dependent on some favourite slave or freeman ; as their complaints were unheard, and the law afforded them no security, their condition became more and more deplorable ; the Payment exacted from them more and more ruinous ; and if, ren dered desperate by misery, they abandoned their fields, their dwell ings, their family, and fled to take refuge under the protection of some other propnetor, the constitutions of the Emperors had pro 'tided a summary process by which they could be reclaimed, and seized wherever they were found. Such was the condition of the free cultivators of the soil. " The slaves were again subdivided into two classes ; those who . were born on their master's estate,--sand who, consequently having 510 other plac e o f a bode, no other home or country, inspired a la rger. share of con fid ence ,— an d those who had been purchased. The former lived in huts, in the farm-buildings or homesteads, under the eyes of their inspector or bailiff, nearly like the negroes deWest West Indi a es t a t e . B ut, as t h e i r num b ers were continually t . i ro creasing from bad treatment, from the avarice of their superiors, misery and d es p a i r , a con ti nua l an d ac tive trade was carried of throughout the empire to recruit them from among the prisoners r. The victories of the Roman arms,—frequently, also, the ‘' ) tylicts of th e b ar b ar i ans among eac h o th er , or th e p un i s h men t s inflicted by the Emperors or their Lieutenants on revolted cities or Provinces the whole population of which was sold under the spear the Prsetor,ept the market constantly supplied with slaves ; at the expense of all that would have been the most valuable I' l l of the population. These wretched beings worked almost r a Pstantly w i t h c h a i ns on t h e i r f eet : t h ey were worn d own w i t h s ‘lglie in order to crush their spirit, and were shut up nightly in übterraneous holes. I'll e frightful sufferings of so large a portion of the population, 't I 2 bitter hatred against its oppressors, produced their natural con ase_yences ; continual servile insurrections, plots, assassinations, .poisonings. In vain did a sanguinary law condemn to death .7,the slaves of a master who had been assassinated ; vengeance ' 4 i .la t? despair multiplied crime and violence. Those who had already u sfied their revenge, those who had failed in their attempt to do !O, but over whose head suspicion hung, fled to the forest, and lived by rapine and plunder." The hay harvest has become very general through out the whole of the West Riding during the past week, and should the weather continue fine ten days longer, the bulk will b e got in good condition. The yield is in some places much larger than in others, but on the whole we believe it will prove abov e an average crop.—Hull Packet. February, The ru Ceylon G o ve r nment Gazette, -cif the 15th of contains copies of letters from the first officer of the Z gaY Munro, and from the Colonial Secretary at Port Louis, accompanied with lists of various bills of exchange, public and Private, which were preserved from the wreck. They were tbu nd on, and delivered •up by, the surviving lascars ; and it ,rears that a number of Royal mails, lost-office packets, and ;L os e of the H on . E as t I n di a Company's service, were left on lisland, together with six of the most effective of the crew the General Jackson, and one lame man of the crew of the still YMunro. The convict, whose name is Forsythe, is also on the island, having disappeared when the rest were em er,4l‘'ing on the General Jackson. Captain Percival will, of t f o ur se, have returned for his six seamen, and some British au ..litY should dispatch a vessel for the two remaining survivors left Lady Munro, and for the mails and packets that were on the island.—East India Gazette.. A melan c h o ly i ns t ance o f t h e e ff ects of hydrophobia. li ? c urred i n C or k on W e d nes d ay. The subject of it was a fine ttle gi r l o f the name of Walsh, who, about four months since, was atta c k e d and bitten b y a d og, just as she left home on her wa s to school. The wound, however, healed ; the dog was the accident forgotten, and no symptom of the ultimate teesult was manifested until Wednesday last, when the child !r • merle melancholy and desperately mad. Medical aid was _nulediately sought for, and eminent physicians were promptly Lt;l:tqendance, but the poor creature was so excited and violent 13 o e it was dangerous to approach her, and no assistance could b encle red• She was secured and conveyed to the Asylum, clliletdthe malady was seated too deeply for removal, and she the next morning at one o'clock.—lrish Paper. iExtract of a letter, dated Madeira, June 10 : as T t here have been wonderful doings in Madeira since my to• Last W e d nesday week the Don Pedro, a 64-gun fri e, arrived here with dispatches for the Governor, (which ine refused to accept,) desiring him to give up the island fa vour' of Donna Maria. They put the island under a ;Prima state of blockade, and on the following Sunday a !l,T3oner of war a rr i ve d to ass i st them. T h e G ove rnor ist refused, and th ey i n f ormed us by signals that Mi gue l r a eftPle tely driven f ro m P ortuga l ; and' on Thursday, .a!te _ great many councils of war, the Governor quietly • ?- up the island, and hoisted Donna Maria's colours on the Me: and all the forts. The schooner left yesterday for then the and they will shortly send a new Governor here ; till r e n t . ne old one still holds his office. Amongst the first things : tre y lid was to make a regular gaol delivery,' and a very h ave sight it was to see the poor prisoners, many of whom ec:een confined for several years, and mostly for political s, but they made no distinction between them and the and crimin a l s . T hey have had for the last three days of itunside white flag s h anging out of all the windows, and bands befo r parading the s t reets . I never saw such enthusiasm e." —Morning Advertiser. TiNDSOR, .RLI ii . The King r;turned . to the Caste IVednevl' , .y evening, from St. James's Palace, accompanied by Sir Herbert Taylor. Sir Charles Thornton, Lord and Lady Fi•ed. Fitzclarence, and Mr. Davies, arrived at the Castle yesterday, Lord Fre derick and Mr. Davies having accompanied the Queen as far as Rotterdam, where they left her Majesty in the enjoyment of good health, after a very favourable voyage. The King, and her Royal Highness Princess Augusta enjoy a carriage airing together daily, either in the Great Park, or some of the beautiful drives adjacent to it. Lord A. Fitz'larence arrived this morning, but will leave the Castle again this evening for town. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester is daily ex pected on a visit to his Majesty, with whom she will remain until the Duke's return from his annual visit to Cheltenham. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove in the Parks yesterday. The Right }lon. E. G. Stanley, Viscount Melbourne, Vis count Althorp, Lord Holland, Messieurs Poulett Thomson, Ellice, and Abercromby, visited „Fad Grey yesterday. The Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Tavistock, Lord Jobn Russell, Lord Auckland, Messieurs Abercromby, and Ellice, had interviews yesterday with Viscount Althorp. The Earl of Ripon and Mr. Stanley, left town yesterday afternoon for Tunbridge-wells. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke of Grafton, in Clarges-street, from Newmarket • the Earl of Lichfield, from ditto ; Hon. Captain Pellew, in Grafton street, from the Continent ; Lord Carrington, in Whitehall-yard, from ditto ; Sir William and Lady Cooper, in Portland-place, from Twickenham-house ; Mrs. Dawkins, in ditto, from ditto ; Lady Sophia Sydney, in Bolton-street, from Windsor Castle ; Lord Sid ney Osborne, at the Dowager Duchess of Leeds, in Grosvenor street, from Newmarket ; Viscount Cole, in Jermyn-street, from Brighton ; the Earl of Enniskillen, in Albemarle-street, from Farnham, Surrey; Countess Beauchamp, in Portman-square, from Worthing ; Sir Edwin Sandys, at the Pulteney Hotel, from Mis senden Park ; the Earl of Pembroke, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Paris ; Messrs. Foster, and - Busby, Esq., at ditto, from Liverpool ; Lady R. Macdonald, at Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, from Warfield-house, Berks ; Lady and Miss Mal colm, at ditto, from ditto ; Sir Roger and Lady Gresley, in Hert ford-street, from their seat, Drakelow, Derbyshire ; the Rev. Mr. Morton and family, at the Carleton Hotel, Regent-street, from Ire land ; the Rev. Mr. Osborne, at ditto, from Devonshire ' • Mr. and Mrs. Coulston, in Grosvenor-street, from Leamington, War wickshire; Major Shaw, in Brook-street, from Brighton ; F. G. Probert, Esq., and Mts. Probert, at the Royal Hotel, Jermyn street, from ury St.--Edmunds ; the Hon. H. Yelverton, M. P., at ditto, from Llwistepham. DEPARTURES. Lord F. Fitzclarence, for Windsor Castle ; Sir John and Lady Maria Stanley from Audley-square, for their seat, Alderley Park, Cheshire ; Earl Talbot, and the Hon. Arthur Talbot, from the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Ingestrie Hall, Staffordshire ; Colin Campbell, Esq., from Gould's Hotel, Albemarle-street, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hodson, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover street, for their seat in Oxfordshire; Captain Malcolm, from ditto, for Worthing; the Earl and Countess Jermyn, from St. James's square, for Putney-heath; Lord and Lady Corry, from the Carle ton Hotel, Regent-street, for the Isle of Wight ; Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, from ditto, for Scotland : Lady Kent and Mr. Kent, from ditto, for Lincolnshire ; J. T. Ord, Esq., and Mrs. Ord, from the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, for their seat, Farnham ; H. Cock hedge, Esq., from ditto, for ditto ; Werden Bayntun, Esq., from ditto, for Bath. ROYAL MARRIAGE. On the 29th ultimo, at Kissingen, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Saxe Altenbourg, third son of the reign ing Duke, and brother to the Queen of Bavaria, was solemnly affianced to the Lady Mary Talbot, eldest daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, on which occasion her Ladyship was raised to the dignity of a Princess by the King of Bavaria, with title of Princess Talbot. The ceremony was performed in the presence of the Queen, her Royal Highness the Princess Paul of Wirtemburg, their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Darmstadt, the Prince and Princess George of Saxe Altenbourg, and his Serene High ness the Prince Edward of Saxe Altenbourg, &c. &c. Her Majesty gave a grand dinner, ball, and supper on the occa sion. The marriage is to take place in the month of Septem ber at the Castle of Altenbourg, after which their Serene Highnesses will come to reside some time in England. Prince Frederick is cousin to the Queen, and first cousin once re moved to his Majesty, his mother being a daughter of the late Grand Duke of. Mecklenburg Strelitz. PAGANINI AND MISS WATSON. Paganini, in a letter to the editor of a Paris paper, has en tered into an elaborate defence of his conduct and intentions with respect to Mr. Watson and his family, both of which he complains has been so grossly misrepresented in the London and Boulogne papers. After going—in a very bad spirit by the way—into a variety of details, referring to his pecuniary relations with the father, and boasting of the many munificent things he had done for him, which are wholly alien to the case, the Signor proceeds to the charge of abduction, with which he has more urgently to do. Upon that subject his own language is this—" I now come to the accusation of abduc tion, the burden of which is, that it was an anwurette which actuated Miss Watson to join me at Boulogne. Perceiving in that young person a great talent for music, which her father was not in a condition to cultivate, I proposed to him to make her my pupil, assuring him that after three years study she would be able, by her talents, not only to secure an independ ence for herself, but be the means of assisting her family, par ticularly her mother. My propositions, at one time rejected, at another accepted with warm expressions of gratitude, were still undetermined upon when I quitted England, again re newing to Watson my offers in favour of his daughter, Miss Watson, who, by the way, is 18, and not 16, as has been stated, and has already appeared upon the stage, and with every fair prospect of success, if it had not been marred. Not feeling happy at home, she fled the paternal roof, andrecollect ing the proposition which I had made to her father, came, of her own accord (so marked in the original), to claim protec tion from him whose counsels and kindness had encouraged her to hope for a better future. It is not true, then, that I have enleve Miss Watson, and if I had had any such intention the opportunities for carrying it into effect were numerous and seasonable enough, as she was often left alone in the house. But I have the courage to avow that Miss Watson was sure of finding in me the protection and assistance her father denied her. In this, Sir, I obeyed only an impulse of kindness and generosity which, instead of blame and false accusations, would merit the praise of all well-meaning persons, who are alone capable of appreciating a good action. As for those who see in it but libertinism and disgraceful sentiments, I treat them with pity and contempt. And to conclude upon this unpleasant affair, I protest strongly that my conduct has been without reproach, my intentions honest, disinterested, and conformable to the ideas of morality and religion, both of which inculcate the giving assistance and protection to the oppressed. Thus my conscience is free from any pang as to all that has passed respecting this young person, who deserves a better fate. In conclusion,' I may say that I still feel strong enough within myself to despise this fresh attack of bad faith and malice against a man for whose life some glory and false persecution appear still to dispute, without, how ever, at all shaking his courage.—NicoLo PAGANINI." The Rev. John S. Wagstaffe, M.A., Curate of Wycomb-cum-Chadwell, Lincolnshire, has been presented to the Wednesday Lectureship at Grantham, void by the decease of the Rev. W. P. Thackray. Patrons—the Mercers' Com pany of London. M. T. SADLER, ESQ.—This gentleman, formerly M.P. for Newark, and candidate for the representation of Leeds at the first borough election, is no longer an inhabitant of this town, having removed with his family to Ireland.— Leeds Times. We understand that while the Lord Chancellor was delivering his speech in the House of Lords on Wednes day, certain ultra-Tory females were assembled in the gal lery, and attracted much notice by the indecorum of their behaviour. In particular, one babbling Countess was heard to give vent to her rage in the most foul and outrageous slan ders, and these being reported to the Noble and Learned Lord, it is said that instructions have been given to com mence a prosecution. When females, whose chief ornament is modesty and quiet, and attention to the duties of private life, mix themselves in the fury of party, and become the propa gators of slander and falsehood, they lose the privilege of their sex, and must expect to be treated as men would be in the same circumstances.—Morning Chronicle. It is understood at the Horse Guards that Major- General Sir Frederick Mulcaster, K. C. H., will be appointed Inspector-General of Fortifications, vice the late Major-Gene ral Pilkington, and Colonel Sir Howard Elphinstone, now commanding the Engineers at Malta, will succeed to the vacant commandership. DEJEUNE AT WIMBLEDON PARK.—The Duke of Somerset and the Ladies St. Maur gave their second grand dejeune for the season the day before yesterday, to 250 of their Noble Friends. The grounds presented a most delightful scene in consequence of the late refreshing showers. The refreshments were laid in the four principal apartments on the ground floor. At five o'clock the company partook of a dejeune a la .fourchette ; and shortly after six o'clock dancing commenced to the music of Litolff and Adam's fine quadrille band. It was after midnight before the whole of the company had retired. SURGEON'S HALL, LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS. — Besides an enlargement by the addition of the site of the house to the eastward, lately occupied by Mr. Pollock, very exten sive alterations are designed in the interior of Surgeon's Hall, and for the effecting these it has been found necessary to re duce the edifice t o t h e condition of a ruin. It has been dis mantled of its roof, and the front reduced to a level with the portico, and of the interior nothing remains but the theatre, and an internal party wall behind the theatre which runs in a line parallel with the front. Even the poftico itself when the front is reconstructed, must either be removed, or extended eastward, in order to preserve the uniformity of the building. POOR LAWS AMENDMENT BILL—PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.—Yesterday foronoon a vestry meeting of the above parish was held, to receive the Report of the Committee respecting the proposed Act for altering the laws relative to the poor, and to consider and decide whether any and what measures shall be adopted by this parish relative ReportErsgec" the senior Ch urc h warden, took thethrecommended the inh a bi tants to pre ereto. Chair. Joseph Holl, _ . . scra a peti - c: -, 'he House cf Peers egainsttli.s., Poor La: s'.' Billtlrrml-thcs•rneetirt t•Tfti•afiriresscd by Messrs. Jon, -Edy, aitColher - gentlema, agaNiFi the Bill.; and Messrs. Bannister and Smith, in favour of it. Two - amendments to the :atop- -• tion of the Report were proposed and seconded, to the effect, that the vestry petition the House of Lords to pass the Bill, and that the further consideration of the Report be adjourned to the next vestry. After a long discussion, a petition to the House of Lords against the passing of the Bill was carried, and the vestry adjourned. The New English Opera House will be opened to the public on Monday next, which is within a few days of the time originally specified for its completion, though it was by many considered almost impossible that so large and elegant a building could be finished in so a short a period. It is some what singlar that an architect of Mr. Beazley's acknowledged skill and great experience should have made an omission in the plan of the Theatre, which occasioned some perplexity. It was not discovered until the building was nearly finished, that no provision had been made for access to the gallery ; and as the " gods" of the present day are not gifted with wings, it was found necessary at the eleventh hour to con struct a wooden staircase outside, and to break an entrance into the gallery through the outward wall. We understand that Mrs. Butler has come to the determination of remaining in this country, and will not, as anti cipated previously to her marriage, return to England. Mr. Kemble will, however, shortly proceed to England, but intends soon to return, to settle in this country.—New York Gazette, June 17. MRS. SIDDONS.—I was at Edinburgh one year when she was electrifying the northern metropolis with many characters, and with none more than this ( Queen Katherine). One of her fellow performers (Mr. Russell) told me an in stance of her power in the part; a poor fellow, who played the Surveyor in Henry VIII., was met by Mr. Russell com ing off the stage, having just received Queen Katharine's (Mrs. Siddons's) rebuke—" You were the Duke's surveyor, and lost your office on the complaint o' the tenants." The mimetic unjust steward was perspiring with agitation. "What is the matter with you?" said Mr. Russell. " The matter 1" quoth the other ; " that woman plays as if the thing were in earnest. She looked on me so through and through with her black eyes that I would not for the world meet her on the stage again."—Campbell's Life of Mrs. Siddons. MEETING OF THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADE. —A meeting of the gentlemen connected with the wine and spirit trade was held yesterday morning at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane. Mr. Hathorne took the chair about half-past one o'clock, and after a few remarks from him, urging the importance of forming an association to protect the trade, and to communicate with the public, Mr. Walton pro posed several resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting, and in the course of his address expressed the deter mination of the trade to resist the coalition which had been formed between the London Dock Company and the St. Ka tharine Dock Company. If the trade did not resist the en croachments of that company, he contended there would be nothing to prevent them from making a landing charge of 20s. the butt, and making a charge for rent of Is. per week. The resolutions were unanimously agreed to, and thanks having been voted to the chairman and other gentlemen connected with the trade, the meeting broke up. On Thursday afternoon, between 2 and 3 o'clock, the family of Holrop, Esq., of Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, was thrown into much 'consternation and alarm by the dis covery that Elizabeth Emmerson, a young woman between 23 and 24 years of age, who held the situation of upper house maid, had attempted to destroy herself by cutting her throat with a penknife. She was found by one of her fellow-servants lying on the floor in her bed-room, with a frightful incision inflicted across her windpipe, and her clothes saturated with her blood, which was still profusely flowing from the wound. She had but about half an hour previously sat down to dinner with the rest of the servants, and nothing particular was noticed in her manner or appearance. She had, however, been rather in a desponding state of mind, through hearing of the dangerous illness of her mother, who resides in the country. The wound has not separated any of the principal blood-vessels of the neck, and time is some hope of her sur viving. The knife with which she inflicted the wound she had taken from her master's writing-desk. What a curious thing it was, that all of a sudden the remotest nation of the East, otherwise unknown and foreign to all our habits, should convey to us a domestic custom, which changed the face of our morning refreshments; and that, in stead of ale and meat, or wine, all the polite part of England should be drinking a Chinese infusion, and setting up earthen ware in their houses, painted with preposterous scenery 1 We shall not speak contemptuously, for our parts, of any such changes in the history of a nation's habits, any more than of the changes of the wind, which now comes from the West, and now from the East, doubtless for some good purpose. It may be noted, that the introduction of tea-drinking followed the diffusion of books among us, and the growth of more sedentary modes of life. The breakfasters upon cold beef and cool tankards" were an active horse-riding generation. Tea-drink ing times are more domestic, given to reading, and are riders in carriages, or manufacturers at the loom or the steam-en gine. It may be taken as an axiom—the more sedentary, the more tea-drinking. The conjunction is not the best in the world ; but it is natural, till something better be found. Tea drinking is better than dram-drinking, a practice which, if our memory does not deceive us, was creeping in among the po litest and even the fairest circles, during the transition from ales to teas.—London Journal. On Sunday evening a young woman, twenty years of age, threw herself out of the window in the Rue de l'Egout. She fell upon a woman carrying a child, both of whom were seriously hurt, whilst she escaped without the slightest injury. —Paris Paper. UNHEARD-OF FEROCITY.—The day before yes terday the neighbourhood of the Rue St. Victor was horror struck by the commission of one of those atrocious crimes that make one ashamed of his species. A man (if such an inhuman fiend can be so called), residing in the Rue du Murier, tore out the eyes of a woman who lived with him, cut off her breasts, severed the head from the body, and cut the letters of her name on her neck. The monster was immediately arrested but not till a most determined resistance. He is said to have gained his livelihood by thieving. --French Paper. THE EMIGRATION COMMITTEE. --O n Thurs day upwards of 340 female emigrants, under the direction of the Emigration Committee, embarked in the Hero steamer, at St. Katharine's wharf. The great majority of th ese f ema les' are young persons whose ages vary from sixteen t 9 twenty-five, and among them were many whose personal appearance was certainly prepossessing. They are all young women of good character, and they are all obliged to furnish testimonials of their respectability befere they are allowed to embark. Among them were a mother and seven daughters, a father and mother, the.former of them a fine specimen of the old English yeoman, accompanied by ten daughters and two sons. Several whole families almost equally numerous. There were in the whole 15 agricultural families. These emigrants are to be conveyed to Sydney, in Australi;, at an expense to themselves of 5/. a head, the Government paying the additional expense of their passage, and in cases where they are not in a situation to pay the 5/. immediately, time is allowed them to make the payment after their arrival at the place of their destination. They were all in the best possible health, but showed great regret and sorrow at taking leave of their friends and relations. SWAN RIVER.—(From a Correspendent.)—Ac counts have been received to the 14th of February from Swan River. The natives continue on friendly terms, and at Free mantle, Perth, and Guildford, often receive provisions from the settlers. Some of the natives had caught the hooping cough from the soldiers, and suffered much from it. The co lony was going on favourably, but the settlers were very anxi ous for the return of the Governor, Sir James Stirling, in hopes that he might be enabled by Government to carry on further improvements. The barracks of Perth were nearly completed: they are built of red bricks, which cost on the spot 20s. per 1,000. A large building for a Government store house has been commenced. A wild herd of cattle, nearly to the amount of 200, had been discovered on the Murray River. The natives, on seeing a picture of a group of cattle, made known that they had seen these wild cattle, and Mr. Narcott, the superintendent of the native tribes; was conducted by them and found the herd grazing in a fine pasture. It consisted chiefly of cows and calves ; they are supposed to have sprung from some which strayed from the earliest settlers. Free mantle would soon be a fine town, but that labour is so dear, as most of the materials for.building are abundant and cheap. Stone is found two feet under the surface of the ground ; it is soft when first dug, and hardens when exposed to the ai r . Lime is from 9d. to Is. per bushel: timber also is cheap. The high price of labour holds out great inducements to labourers to emigrate to this settlement ; and some who had left the co lony have returned from Van Diemen's Land, and others would follow their example had they the means of paying for their transport thither. The settlement at York, on the river Avon, which is the most distant from the coast, is going on prospe rously, and is surrounded by an extensive tract of land, which proves suited both for grazing and culture. Last week Mr. Best held an inquest on the body of a man who was found dead in a coppice called Sling, or Heath Coppice, in the parish of Cropthorne. The discovery of the body caused much excitement in the neighbourhood; several scars and bruises observed on the head and neck of the de ceased, coupled with the circumstances of the body having been found in so private a situation, inducing a belief that he had been murdered. After, however, an inquiry lasting se ♦eral hours, with a jury of 21, an unanimous verdict of " Died by the visitation of God, from inflammation of the stomach and bowels," was returned. The head and body were most minutely and carefully examined by Mr. Haynes, surgeon, and his opinion being that the scars and bruises were not sufficient to cause his death, but that inflammation of the bowels was the immediate cause, the jury decided as above. The de ceased had the appearance of an Irish cloth-seller. The cloths, &c., are in the care of the constable of Cropthorne, who will show them to any friend of the deceased who may apply. One sovereign and eleven half-sovereigns, with some silver and copper, were found in his pocket. We subjoin a description of his person, &c. :—Apparently about fifty years of age, about five feet nine inches high, thin visage, prominent and good teeth, aquiline nose, dark brown hair, intermixed with a few gray ; shabby black hat, blue coat with gilt buttons, very much worn ; gray gambroon trousers, black and white checkered waistcoat, light shoes, and dark worsted stockings, with coloured neckerchief. Upon him were found a penny loaf, about half a pound of brown sugar, a comb, a razor, some cheese, map of England and Wales, tin cup, black holland purse with gilt clasp, small pencil, pocket knife, two blades ; large key, about the size of an inner-door key; and a pair of cotton socks stitched up in the waistband of his trousers__ Worcester Journal. THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1834 GERM N PAPERS. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Anvuleme arris'ed trls forenoon on a visit to the King and . Royal Family ; im mediately proceeded to Mintz, the summer residdnce of the Court. Private accounts from Toeplitz say that the Duke of Bordeaux left that place on the 26th, and the King, Charles X., and the Duke of Angouleme on the 28th, to return to Prague. ST. PETERSBURGH, JULY 2.—Seven men-of-war which were stationed at equal distances from each other, from Cron stadt to the open sea, had orders to communicate. to each, by signals, the appearance of the Ischo ra steam-boat, with their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, in order that the happy news might reach Petershof as soon as possible. The Emperor who on the day of the arrival of their Royal Highnesses was reviewing the guards here, as usual, in camp, for the summer, at Krasnoe Selo, has been to meet his august relations, and went on board their vessel, where the Em peror has already welcomed them. Yesterday we had the pleasure to witness the arrival of the imperial family of the Crown Prince and Prin cess of Russia, and the young Prince of the Netherlands in this city, where they came on board the Alexander steam boat from Petershof. All the ships in the Neva were adorned with flags, and immense multitudes covered the quays and Isaac's bridge, and loudly cheered the beloved imperial family and their august guests, while the guns of the fortress fired a salute. We hope they will stay several days here and in the island of Yelagin, but the Emperor's birth-day will be kept at Petershof. Several foreign journals speak of an approaching journey of the Emperor to the Crimea, and, as usual, manifold con jectures are founded on it ; we believe that we may positively deny that there is any truth in the report of this journey, and in like manner we assign a place among the fictions of the day to the statement made in other quarters of the recent oc cupation of a Persian province by our troops. Equally un founded is the report that an army of 6000 Polish national troops is to be formed. Captain Ross is arrived here. On Friday last the Colossal figure of an angel in bronze, cast in the foundry of Mr. Baird, after a model in the Imperial Academy of Sciences, was placed en the Alexander column, and in the course of next week the scaffolding round the column will be taken down. The solemn consecration of this incomparable monument will positively take place on the 30th of August, St. Alexander's day. According to an Imperial Ukase, a new gold coin is to be introduced for the purpose of facilitating the commercial trans actions with Poland. Its value is to be three rubles in gold, and it is to be called the three ruble-imperial or Russian ducat. The inscription on this coin is in Russian and in Polish "20 Stot." It is to be coined at Warsaw, and the mint at Warsaw will be allowed to coin the‘ Russian-Polish silver money of 15 cop., 75 cop. ; and 14- rubles, hitherto coined with the Polish inscription, 1. 5. mail 10 stot. ; and also a new one of 30 cop., or 2 stot. All these silver coins, as well al; the gold coin above men tioned, are to be current in the whole empire in Russia as well as in Poland. WARSAW, JUNE 30.—The wounds inflicted on the country by the late revolution are beginning slowly to heal. The Governor-General gains universal esteem by his prudent and vigorous conduct. The Emperor could not have chosen a man better qualified for this post. In Warsaw there are about 12,000 troops; in the whole littinidom of Poland scarcely 50,000. The citadel of Warsaw is planned on such a scale that several years will pass before it can be completed. The ramparts of Praga are being levelled, and the ground covered by them is sold, to be converted into gardens. The letters received from the Polish emigrants at e almost all filled with expressions of complaint respecting their situation in foreign countries, and regret at having left their own homes. HAMBURG, JUNE 7.—A letter having reached us from Gottenburg says :—" In consequence of the high prices of timber at Rio de Janeiro, cargoes intended for England have been ordered to go . from the Baltic to Brazil, which will doubtless tend to a rapid diminution of the prices." The Russian steam-boat arrived at Lubeck the day before yesterday in three days from Ri oa. o , EXCHANGES ON LONDON. PAsnitiao, JULY 8.-13 914 ; two , months, 138%. ST. PETERsatiacir, JULY L—Three months, 10 43-61. STOCKHOLM, JULY I.—Two months, 12-26. CHRISTIANA, JUNE 28.—Three months, S 1-28. BREMEN, JULY 4.—Two months, 606. Bunctiv, JULY s.—Three months, 6 2514. —Hamburg Papers, July 8. BRUSSELS, JULY 9.—The Union publishes a Mandement concerning the Catholic University, in which the Arch bishops and Bishops of Belgium announce, that the subscrip tion already received allow the opening of the establishment. An Antwerp Journal says, " We learn from Paris that M. Montalivet, Intendant of the Civil List, will accompany King Leopold to the Chateau d'Eu and to Brussels. It is even added that the Chateau of Eu will become the property of the King of the Belgians. The Chamber of Representativ es commenced yesterday the discussion of the project of law rel ative to the organization of ,the Communes.—Brussels Papers, July 10. ROME, JUNE 26.—The Holy Father decided to grant a general amnesty, which has been: recommended to him by a great friendly power. VIENNA, JULY I.—Five per Cent. Metalliques 991 ; Four per Cent. ditto, 90 ; Bank Shares, - without the dividend, 1,258. —Allgemeine Zeitung, July 6. BORSEN HALLE, JULY B.—Spanish Securities went down to-day, in consequence of their decline in Paris. Business was done in Portuguese, as well a:, , in Spanish Stock. Discount, 3)4 per cent. End of July. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 71% Anglo-Russian Russian Inscription, 5 per cent, — 18,4 95% Ditto, ditto, 1831 Ditto, ditto, 1830 Certificates 96% Polish Bonds 132 Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1287 Ditto Metalliques lOO Ditto 4 percent. *'" 9l ti Ditto 4 per Cent. (1834). ll5 Spanish 3 per Cents 46% Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldima nd and .ons) Ditto 4 per Cent. 57% Dutch 2 42 per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents Portuguese Regency —Hamburg Reporter, July 9. FALSE ACCUSATION OF POISONING. An inquisition which had beer ► adjourned from the pre ceding Monday, was yesterday brought to a conclusion, before Mr. PAYNE and a highly-respectable Jury, at No. 7, Billiter-square, Fenchurch-street, the residence of the deceased, Mr. W. Thompson; who, it had been falsely re ported, had died of poison, administered by a boy he had taken into his service. The deceased was a remarkably fine man, standing full six feet two inches high, and stout in proportion, with a floridness of complexion which continued long after death. He was a single man, and about 28 years old. About a year back, from feelings of hunu inky, he took into his ser vice, a friendless boy, whom he casually met with in the streets, and with whose intelligence and apparent ingenu ousness he was pleased. He educated him, so far as to have him taught reading and writing, and had continued him ever since in his service. On Saturday last the boy gave offence to Mr. Thompson's housekeeper, by refusing or neglecting to perform a household service to which she set him, which being reported to his master, he chas tised him, and threatened to discharge him on the Mon day. On Saturday morning Mr. Thompson was rather in disposed, and had his breakfast in bed, a thing very unusual with him. On the following morning he went to Graves end, and returned in the evening in good spirits, and appa rently quite well. He was perfectly sober, and went to bed about half-past ten o'clock. At seven o'clock on Monday morning, the boy, whose name is Peter M'Mnnomy, went into his room to call him, when deceased answered, and having looked at his watch, said it was all right, and told the boy to bring him up a mug of milk and water, for he was thirsty, and had been so all night. The boy obeyed him, and it was out of this simple act the cruel rumour took its rise. About eight o'clock the boy again entered the room, to take him a towel, and the deceased spoke to him, and was apparently quite well. At a little before nine o'clock he entered for the fourth time, to tell his master breakfast was ready, but receiving no answer to several repetitions of the call, he approached nearer to the bed, and on withdrawing the curtains, found that his master was a corpse. The boy instantly gave an alarm, and the housekeeper, Ann Blake, came up, but was so overpowered that she went into strong hysterics. Medical aid was ob tained almost immediately, but proved unavailing. The girl, Ann Blake, had repeated fits of an hysterical kind, and it was in the intervals of these fits that she made state ments imputing to the boy that he must have put poison of some kind into the milk and water, out of revenge, be cause he had been chastised on the Saturday, and threa tened with being sent about his business. On her exami nation yesterday, the girl, when challenged by the Jury, admitted that she had no ground for imputing so horrible a crime to the boy, and declared that at thp time she made the statements reflecting on him, she was in such a state that she hardly knew what she said. Mr. Little, of Billiter-street ; Mr. Rees, of Fenchurch street ; and Mr. Davis, of the Minories, surgeons, severally deposed that they had opened the body and subjected the contents of the stomach - to every possible test for the detec tion of poison ; but could not find the slightest trace of any. On opening the head they found all the vessels remarkably full of blood, and there was an indication on the brain of an old disease. Upon the whole, although the appearances were not so decisive as in some cases, it was their united opinion, looking to' all the facts of the case, that the deceased died from an attack of apoplexy. The surgeon who saw Ann Blake while labouring under the hysterical fits, gave it as his opinion that her nerves were then in so excited a state, that it was very likely she would be affected with delusions. Mr. George Mitchell, clerk to the deceased, spoke to an apoplectic fit which the deceased had about two years back, The boy Monomy was examined on the first day of the inquest, and gave his evidence in a clear, artless, and satis flctory manner. The Jury declared themselves perfectly satisfied that there was not the slightest ground for the rumours that had been propagated, and returned a verdict, finding that the death of the deceased was occasioned by a fit of apolexy BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, July 10. , Wheat, 621 b. . ' . 55.. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Barley, imperial quarter Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 391 b Old Beans, 66 1 A lb l5 6 17 0 New ditto New White Boiling Pease, 3 imp. bush. Ditto Grey ditto - 20 0 We mentioned a few days ago, says the Norfolk Herald, as a singular freak of nature, that. a female mule, be longing to a gentleman in Suffolk, had proved with foal, and had had actually brought forth. The fact being doubted by several gentlemen here, we have thought it worth the trouble to inquire more particularly about it, and we have now before us a letter from the proprietor of the mule (John T. Kilby, Esq.) fully confirming our statement.—American Paper. DOCILITY OF SHEEP.—A flock of sheep, on Friday last, passed through Taunton, following the shepherd, not being driven by him ; and which , notwithstanding all the intervening obstacles of carts and carriages, kept closely to the heels of their conductor. No dog was present ; so it ap pears certain, unless on widely-extended pastures, that the worrying and injudicious practice of beating and hunting these useful creatures is not necessary for their due management ; and it is consequently gratifying to find that the policy of the farmer, and the interests of humanity thus happily coincide.— Western Luminary. Several of the departmental Journals of France con tain accounts of most distressing ravages made by the late storms. At Bolancourt, in the department of the Oise, the rain fell in such abundance that the river overflowed its banks, and rose to the height of four feet in the streets, when it cracked the wall of the parsonage, and injured several private houses. At Flavacourt, the waters rose seven feet above the surface of the soil, and the chief altar of the church, in which there were 81 feet of water, was completely destroyed. At Droittecourt a third of the crops was swept away. Twelve communes of the department of La Chatre have been visited by violent hail -storms, which have seriously injured, if not al together destroyed, the fruit-trees and corn-fields. Near Clermont, Puy-de-Dome, on the 4th, a storm burst over the communes of Cebazat and Blauzat, which did immense injury to the crops. In the commune of Oldby, two men were killed by the lightning. On the sth of July, Lons-le-Saulnier had to suffer from a similar visitation. LONGEVITY AND STRENGTH. —On the 19th ultimo, a man named James Howie, a cobbler, in Kilwinning, and who has attained the patriarchal age of eighty-seven years and a half, walked from Kilwinning to Girvan, a distance of 35 miles (although during the afternoon rain fell heavily), without seeming much distressed by his extraordinary performance. On being asked by a friend if he did not consider such a f eat as something akin to a tempting of Providence, he replied, " Na, na ; he gies me the strength ; an' I'm very thankfu' sae muckle is vouchsafed t'me ;" and so confident wa s the old man of his locomotive powers being still unimpaired, that he added, c 4 Gin I had my supper and was reste d a wee, I think I could just rise an' step awa' back again." THE PROPOSED CO miNtsTAT4 - - thtrift4=--the- -propos& t 1; 1 4 . ; which has enabled the-people of Rilland men • to Parliament who will do duty to their country, and stand by those who will protect its liberties and pro mote its interests—certain Peers of the realm found their way by the back stairs to the closet of their Sovereign, and there whispered in his ear that which, had he given a favourable ear to it, might have produced evils which nothing could have repaired. Have the same parties found their way to St. James's or to Windsor? We presume that they have, for we find that Lord Melbourne has received the commands of his Ma jesty to see Mr. Stanley, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, and to endeavour to ascertain whether they, the bitter enemies of Reform—the eager vindicators of the corruptions and misappropriation of the Irish Church, and the English Corporation property—the revilers (at least the two first) of that great man whose course they have embarrassed to the utmost con ceivable extent by all manner of means, are willing - to co-operate with other parties in forming a coalition Ministry. It is understood that Lord Melbourne, in making such an inquiry, simply obeys the commands of his Sovereign. He must know too well the state of this country—the feelings of the Parliament—the honour and integrity of those with whom he has so long and so honourably laboured, to conceive that such an Administration could be formed, or that if formed it could last. But he acts minis terially, and will, therefore, without doubt, com municate the King's wishes to the Tory leaders. But suppose they should assent ; that for the sake of the emoluments of office, and the enjoyment of power, they should be willing to sit at the council board with the men they have denounced as the enemies of their country; will the authors of the Reform Bill, the pre servers of the peace of Europe, the allies of the repre sentative and reformed Governments of France, Spain. and Portugal, unite with the most determined foes of the first—the would-be disturbers of the second—and the friends of the usurpers, who did all in their power to prevent the establishment of the last ? Will the Spen cers, and the Russells, and the Foxes, join hands with these men ? For what purpose ? To ruin themselves, and to extinguish all the rising hopes of freemen, not in their own country alone, but in all countries in which their words and deeds have inspired mankindwith the love of freedom ? Oh no. The back-door adviser of the King is as ignorant as lie is weak and unprincipled. We know not who he is, and we care not. Not one of the members of Lord Grey's amended Cabinet will be parties to any such 'arrangement, and without them, there can be no coalition ; for we presume that Mr. Stanley will not coalesce with O'Connell, nor Sir Robert Peel with Mr. Hume. The House of Commons is sound. Lord Althorp enjoys their confidence. They will call on him to continue as their leader, and we should like to know how any Government, even though composed of firm Tories, such as 'Wellington, Peel, and Wetherell (which would be infinitely preferable to a Coalition Ministry), could in spite of them continue in office for a single week. The Parliament will be true to the people, and the people to themselves ; and they will carry out the principle of Reform as completely with respect to the Church and the Corporations, as they did in regard to that great measure, which will render them and its au thors famous in all coming times—the restoration of Representative Parliaments without a bloody revolu tion.—Morning Advertiser. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LANCASTER RACES. .7?ity 10. trio Ashton Stakar of 10 sovs. each; and 30 added. distance. 6 subs. . Mr. Crompton's Mayflower 1 Mr. Shepherd's Revolution 2 Mr. J. Smith's Miss Wilfred His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Heats, two miles Mr. Walker's Consol Mr. Crompton's Mayflower 3 2 Mr. Attwood's Scutore EPSOM RACES. A numerous meeting was held at the British Coffeehouse, Cock spur-street, on Wednesday, of the proprietors of the New Grand Stand on Epsom race course, when it was resolved unanimously, " That the Committee be empowered to issue 125 or 250 new shares, bearing an interesrof five per cent., and that they be fur ther empowered to pay such interest regularly out of the proceeds of the Stand. The shares to be redeemable at par, after the expi ration of five years." A subscription was then entered into by the noblemen and gentlemen in the room, with the amount of which, added to that then in the hands of the treasurer of the Association, it is said they will be enabled to exonerate the concern from one half of its present debt. PINNER RACES, NEAR HARR 0 IV. These races took place on Thursday, and, in the second race, the jockey who was riding one of Captain Mason's horses, having kept too close to some oak trees near the course, was knocked off his horse, when at full speed,• by running against one of the branches, and he was so seriously injured that little hope remains of his re covery. Another jockey, riding cne of Captain Mason's horses, was thrown ; and a third horse, belonging to the same gentleman, broke his fore leg in running, and was soon afterwards shot. THE . MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARI The supply of Fruit and Vegc morning, and the trade was som , the day, but subsequently dull. B. d. to s. d. Potatoes (cwt.) Ca.,bagcs, White (12) 1 0 3 0 Cauliflowers 1 0 2 0 Rhubarb 0 6 1 0 Brocoli 0 6 2 0 Endive 1 0 2 0 DEN MARKET. etables was moderately good this Lewhat brisk in the early part of s. d. to s. d. Spinach (half-sieve) 0 6 0 8 Cabbagt Lettuces 0 10 1 6 Green PeaSe 0 U 2 '0 Broad Beans 1 0 2 0 French Beans 1 6 2 0 Gooseberries ....... 2 0 3 6 Currants _ Horse Radish(bundle) 3 0 Celery 0 6 Carrots ,12bunehes) 4 0 Turnips Coleworts or Greens 1 6 Young Onions. 1 0 Turn ip Raddish es 0 10 ' Leeks. 0 9 5 0 1 0 7 0 4 0 2 6 1 6 1 6 1 6 Apples . Onions ,: 3 0 7 0 ~2 0 3 6 For. Grapes (per English, Forced Pine Apples (lb.) Cherries ..0 8 ~2 0 .. 6 2 „0 1 Sea Kail (punnet) Small Sallad Peaches (dozen) Nectarines ... 0 9 1 6 - 02 0 4 6 0 12 0 0 8 10 0 Cucumbers (brace) Melons (each) 1 - o 6 ~ 4 0 1. II Seville Oranges(loo) 8 0 14 0 Sweet Oranges 5 0 10 0 Lemfms 7 0 13 0 Walnuts 1 0 2 0 Asparagus Raddishes (12 hands) 0 3 0 6 Span._ Chesnuts (peck) 4 6 6 0 French ditto 'I 6 5 6 _ _ French Walnuts 3 6 5 6 Spanish Ilazlenuts Brazilian Nuts i 0 4 0 New Potatoes (lb.) 0 1 0 4 Cos Lettuces (per score) 1 0 1 6 Strawberries (pottle) 0 3 0 7 Raspberries 0 6 6 9 lIAY MARKETS At per Load of 36 Trusses:. CUMBERLAND. Coary heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 15 to £4 0 New Meadow Hay 4 5 4 I:. Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clover Hay 4 0 5 10 Oat Straw .......£ 1 12 to £1 14 1 Wheat Straw 1 16 1 .e SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£4 0 to £4 5 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto _ 4 15 5 .9 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clover Hay (extra fine a 5 15 . Generally 4 15 5 10 Oat Straw ..... ..C1 12 to -£l4 1 I Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16 lIUNGERFOED. . Coarse Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10 New Meadow Hay 3 15 4 Ip Useful Old Ditto 4 10 5 e, Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clover Hay 3 15 5 10 Oat Straw £1 El to X 1 14 I Wheat Straw PRICE OF SUGAR, The Average Price of Brown or Musco‘ado Sugar, cr mputed from the Returns made in the week ending the Bth day of July, 1534, is 295. G%d. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Imp Irtation thereof into Great Britain. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the MetzTii o7i; is S%d.. for the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from a half-penny to three half-pence below that rate. PRICE OF SI Per Cwt. New English Red Cloversos. 565. Cis Old Ditto Ditto New Foreign Ditto sos. 58s• 60s. Old nitio Ditto New White Clover ',Cs. 58s. G4s. 014 Ditto Ditto —s. —s. —s. -New Trefoil "4s. :Ns. 325. Ofid I)itto —s. —S. —S Rib Grass —s —s —s English Carraway —s. 70s. 745. Foreign Ditto —s. 68s. 72s Coriander —s. 16s. 20s. Rapeseed, English fine (per Las' PRICES OF 1 Kant Pockets (per cwt.) Choice ditto Kent Bags.... Sussex Pockets , Superfine ditto Duty rate, EDS.—July 11. Per Quarter. -- St. Foin — Rib Grass Pacey Grass Linseed, for feeding tos. —s. Ditto, frir sowing - —s. —s. —s. Ditto, for crushing —s 435. 525. Canary —s. 10s e:3s, Hemp —s. 385. 40s, Per Bushel White Mustard 13s Od. Iss. Od, Brown Ditto —s Od. —s. Oct Tares al li£3l. 40/. Foreign 3N. SOI :Ors —July 11 01 Os. 71. 10s. to 81 Cs. . Ol. Os. 91. Os to 101. Os. 71. Os. Of. O. to 81. 1/. Os. 1. Os. to 71. 10s. 81. Os. 01. Os. to 84 8s at 90,0001. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—JuIy 10. Hay "Os. td. to 100 s. I'd I Clover 7ss id. to 115 s Cd Straw 3.:s hi to Ms. Vd PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS New Ware O/. ss. to 0/. Os. per cwt. Middling O/. ‘2s. to 0/. Os. ditto Chats PRICE OF OIL Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 421. Os.—Refined, 43'. Cc —Linseed Oil, 274 10s. Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per 1000, 121.1 s —Rape Cake, per ton, 51.5 x. COAL MAR Per Ton. s. d Adair•s IS 3 Bensham Main l6 9 KET.—July I I. Per Ton. Walls End Newmarch IR 0 Walls End Perkins l7 6 Dean's Primrose l7 0 East Percy l6 0 Felling Main l6 6 Holywell lB 9 Ord's Redhugh l6 9 Pontop Windsor lB 0 Shipcote l6 3 Tanfield 2O 0 Wylam Walls End Bewicke and Co lB 6 Walls End Brown's l7 6 -- - Boll's Primrose l7 0 Lamb:on's Primrose Walls End Hetton 2O 3 Walls End Lambton Walls End Russel's Helton 2O 0 Walls End Stewart s Walls End Adelaide Wa'ls End Gordon lB 0 Walls End South I);rharn lB 6 Walls End Tees i'Fairs End Carr and Co l7 6 Howard's . kletherton Main ... 16 0 Hartley Ilangennech Coal. 24 0 Merthyr 2l 0 North Hartley l5 6 last market-day, 70. .. -.... Walls End' Ginforth Walls End Hilda lB 0 Walls End Haspur l7 9 Walls End Icillingworth ,'. Ships arrived since COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Yer vuarter. Wheat. I Isarley. 1 04ts. Beans. Pease Ashburn,.., 47 52 29 31 18 23 38 44 Basingstoke 4S 58 21 32 24 26 38 42 44 4S Bath 45 54 26 31 22 25 37 41 Bridgewater 48 56 22 26 20 25 32 34 42 46 48 56 23 32 16 20 34 38 Chesterfield 44 52 28 33 16 22 44 48 Derby •47 49 31 33 24 26 38 40 Doncaster 48 60 29 31 18 26 40 46 52 27 2.3 35 39 44 56 24 28 20 26 40 44 44 52 28 31 20 28 37 41 44 54 Hungerford 35 54 22 29 17 25 34 40 36 40 46 31 24 37 Newbury 42 56 30 31 24 32 38 40 34 28 Bomsey 52 58 24 29 20 24 36 39 Shaftesbury 54 25 :7 41 Shepton Mallet 44 54 24 30 20 26 32 40 Sherborne . 50 56 26 30 22 26 38 4Q Taunton 48 50 24 26 19 23 32 36 Yarmouth 47 51 21 28 20 23 32 33 48 50 26 28 22 26 36 38 Per Bushel. s. d. s.d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s.d. s d. Shrewsbury,........,. 68 74 40 4 6 5 6 6 0 0 0 001 0 0 00 DEVIZES CORN MARKETS—JuIy 10. Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. 8. d. Best Wheat. 26 oto 28 0 Barley 25 oto 31 0 Second 2l 0 23 6 Oats 2O 0 27 0 Thirds 2l 0 22 0 Beana (per sack)... 17 0 21 0 902 Sacks of Wheat sold o 4 , Hour (per bag) ..... :36 0 40 0 at the average of " Bread (per ga11.)... 1 1 I) 0 Per Sack. Best Wheat. Second Thirds . 902 Sacks of Vi at the average • • I Mile and• -.c.., ~1:-: 20' itv,rt'ent,. _ f'' <- MR. SHERIDAN. The late Mr. Green's posthumous " Diary of a Lover of Literature," published in the Gentleman's Magazine, contains the following curious notes of Mr. Sheridan's con versation during an evening spent in the society of that dis tinguished man : Jan. 15, 1808. Called on Pearson, and went with him to dinner to the Moore's ; brought hiM out after dinner. Spoke slightingly of Fox, pronounced him to possess no judgment, easily led away by man, woman, and child. Called his avowal of his marriage with Mrs. A. an epoch in the morals of the country. Exhibited and led away by her ; cold to his friends ; a gentleman who had strenuously supported him for twenty years in the country, wished to be introduced to the object of his idolatory on coming to town. Sheridan effected it, and was quite shocked at the cold and ungracious reception he met with. Reprobated his visit to Buonaparte. Began to disparage Burke. Spoke of his manner as so coarse, ungracious, and vulgar, that he could with difficulty listen to him, but al lowed that his speeches were delivered nearly as they were published, with very little after-polish ; not in general happy in reply, as he wanted preparation of matter ; but spoke of a most exquisite one, full of classic taste and allu sion, on the subject of the Board of Trade, when he " un caged those nighting a l es ." Called Parr versatile, once fierce against the Dissenters ; wrote a long letter to Fox on the subject, and a short one to him, begging him to get Fox to read his. Called on Fox some days after, who said that Parr had begun with so rea sonable a proposition, expecting him not to answer his letter, that he thought he might go a step further and dispense with reading it. Mentioned a confidential letter from Mackintosh to Parr, pressing on his feelings the state of banishment and solitude in which he lived, which Parr had_handed about. Gave a history of the conference of the heads of the party for the purpose of appointing a leader ; declined it himself as impatient of the fatigues of the office, and as desiring to be free. Wished no leader to be appointed, nor regular vexatious opposition formed. Said he reflected with most delight on those parts of his political conduct when he had departed from Mr. Fox's lead, and the old Opposition before, as in the Mutiny of the Fleet. Objected to a leader under the Grenvilles (T. Grenville), when Lord Grenville led above. Was much devoted to the Russells, Cavendishes, but did not feel quite the same respect and attachment for the Gren villes. Hoped, since the deed was done, and the national character committed, that Ministers would be able to jus tify their attack on Copenhagen, and instanced this dispo sition, as well as some other differences, as disqualifying him from the lead of the party. Derided in contrast, the violent conduct we had pursued with the Danes, as a mea sure demanded by the crisis in which we were placed, and our absurd squeamishness in obstinately refusing to strengthen and consolidate the Empire by doing only fair justice to the Irish Catholics. Spoke with much warmth on this topic. Resolved to devote the remnant of his days to this cause ; and though he should forfeit the good opinion of the King, who he understood was at present favourably disposed towards him, was resolved to push the measure of Emancipation with all vigour. Ridiculed with much humour the Allies to which we were reduced, the frantic King of Sweden, himself to death—the King of Naples expatriated—the King of Sardinia driven to a barren rock, and the mad Queen of Portugal. Played off his ridicule on General Whitelock, forced, as he believed, on Wind ham, to get rid of him, as a compromise for his appoint ment of Crauford, for which Windham will remain sad dled with the responsibility. His elections at Stafford, though without opposition, and indeed on that account, cost on an average 3,0001. a time. Proposals for a peace certainly made through Count Starenberg, which, though no basis was proposed, he thought ought to have been ac cepted. Strong opposition intended on this ground.— Corrected lately at Kelly's a copy of the Duenna, from which they were going to act, full of false grammar and nonsense. In conversation with Mr. Pearson on his Lotter to Perceval, of which he highly approved the style and merit of the argument, said he was a strong friend to esta blishments ; that were he a legislator organizing a State, he would institute an Established.' Church for the purpose of directing the superstitions of the people, but when there was an establishment ready formed, there could be no ques tion about retaining it ; but then he would reform, he would make the Clergy execute their duty as Ministers of the State ;no abominable pluralities, non - r esidences, &c. In the drawing-room, would not listen to Spence ' s pamphlet ; called his doctrine absurd and preposterous , unless we choose to revert to our ancient condition, feed on acorns and paint our bodies. Impossible to subsist on our internal resources, and support our army and navy. After expending our blood and treasure in extending our commerce , when in danger of losing it, now turning round and voting commerce a nui sance. Could not prevail on him to give such non sens e five minutes attention. Against Spence's g ran d argument , however, he had nothing to allege, and was manifestly vexed at being thus gravelled. He Mentioned Louis XVIII. as being a most enormous feeder, and apparent l y car i ng f or little else.r te, t his comp an y b egan a busing Buonaparte, spoke anin of him with mu c h gentleness and moderation, and turned the c o nv ersa ti on . Sp o ke of a iut ge Louisntle gentleman uoa silver cup present e d hi m b y the tobacconists for his exer tionsin their cause, exhibited as Hercules destroying one of the heads of the hydra. Spoke handsomely of Crabbe's Poems. Quit e easy, unaffected, and natural. Affected to muzziness with very little wine. Had much chat with Jones, the manager of the Dublin theatre. Spoke of La Rive, as far the finest actor he had ever seen. limbic' not to be named in the same breath with him. Ff:T: - 4 <,