The Sun. — London, England, 1827-05-21 00:00:00

, • • . - - • THE FUNDS —(THIS DAY). - • CITY, Twelve o' Clock. The fir s t pr i ce of Console at thecommencement of busi ness this morning was 82i 3, and they continued at this rate for some time without any variation and very little busi ne 6l ; the m ar k et, however, has since improved, and luoks better than it did in the first instance, having ad vanced t o 83 for mon ey , an d t h e 2 5 t h i nst., and 83i buyers, for the next time. The Brokers, in the - abience of any imp ortant business, are winding up and preparing their accounts for Friday. India Bonds are 76 7, and E xchequer Bills, 49 50 pin. The littl e var i at i on w hi c h has t a k en place to-dav in the Foreign Funds has been in Mexican and Colombian Bonds, both these Securities may be quoted a shade higher than the earlie?t price, the former being 67-a and the latt er 31-3- 2 ; Brazili an B on d s con tinue ex tremely heavy at 58 ; P eruv i an are also flat at 28 30 - Every thing in Shares wears the same gloomy ap pearance, nor does there appear any better prospect for the 'Peculators in these uncertain concerns, at least for the Present. Three p er Cent. Consols, 83 A.-; Ditto for account, 83 ; and for July, 83i, buyers ; India Bonds, 76 7 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 49 50 pm. 1'014.7E1 ° 1 .. 4 —Brazilian, 58 • Buenos Ayres, 56 7 ; ~1 131j an, 30 2 ; Colombian, 311 ; Danish, 61 ; Greek, 97iNiexican, Five per Cent., E,5 ; Ditto, Six per Cent., ; Peru v i an, 28 SO ; Portuirese, 77i ; Russian, 4 4 1 ; Spanish, 123 Mmes.—A ng l o M ex i can, 47;2 dis. ; Brazili an , 1 di s . P,ar ; Colombian, 10 12 per Sh are ; R ea l del Monte, 20 u Par; Colombian, ; -Tlalpuxalm a , 20 di s. ; U n i ted Mexican, 15 14 ' 3 . ; Bolanos, 80 60 dis. Consols are improvi ng , an d are 83i Two o' Cl oc k. - for acc re ount, and 82• for July, looking stro ng ; 3 per Cent.duced, ; pet. Cent. 99i. In the Foreign Funds scarcely any variation, with the exception of Mexican Bonds, which have suddenly gone up to 68k. 32. THREE OCL 0 CS. Consol s , 83 i; Mexicanßonds, 4 ' GBI • Co- FOUR O'CLOCK —CLOSING PRICES. Consols 83 i Danish Bonds Do. for Ac. i Greek Do. 1825, Brazilian Bonds 58t Mexican Do. 1825 6Si Buenos Ayres Do Peruvian Do. Chil ian Do. -- * Russian Do. 904 Columbian 1824 311 Spanish Do. 12i , SHIPP INTELLIGENCE -(THIS DAY: • FROM LLOYD'S. Daa;l 4 , 4131 19, Wi n d S. —Arr i ve d , the Ruth, Rose, from ;clLarca ; the Lively, Ford, from Smyrna; the Eliza, John ' fr°a, Jamaica. Arrived from London the Anne and ii ! i ggart, for St: Andrews ; and the Salacia, Hearn, or Jan:Utlert. 20 . —The Harmony, &c. sailed this morning. A I)o•Tastourti, MAY 20, Wind variable—Arrived, the stre a , 0 , feur, from Leghorn the Jupiter transport, from Z a ; T a 'ca ; aod the Lord Cochrane transport, from .Malta, Lied 31st of March, and from Gibralter Ist of May.-- p a o t: l f bia Majesty's ship the Romney, and the Arab trans- Cork and Quebec. 'lLYstourn, MAY 18-.—Wind S.—Arrived, the Ex 'te", Hite from Smyrna, with loss of sails, and want of Proviaj ous. th .R tikOUTH, MAY 18 and 19.—Wind S.--Off Port, Protheroe, Tursley, from St. Vincent's; Echo, o, from Malaga ; Mary, Malony, from Havannah ; 'f r - ; Brookm an , f rom T arragona; P aragon, Ross, Q 4 , 1 1 ,1 ''t• Domingo ; and the Three Sisters, Le Bas, from altar. Sailed, the Lavinia, Cowar, for Hamburgh ; dat?Susattuall, Carpenter, for St. Petersburgh. aAveszlin, MAY 20.—Arrived, the Tamar, Drys na• 'from St. Vincent's ; Water Lily, Bruce, Ruth, lore, MarY) Jackson, from Jamaica ; Cumberland, Cle :ttts, from Lisbon ; and Lady Combermere, Sandford, .t_aTrittidad. Sailed, the London, Purvis, for Deme ir, Catharine Stewart Forbes, Chapman, for Bombay ; i'li.Worh Cl, for Vera Cruz ; Eliza, —, for ', I111 ; and waterloo„ for New South Wales. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. r' t F __,, ? :I* °-' 9 !PY I'' ' 5 From Whence. . r: = '..: ' r ' :. 2 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Aldborough 273 7 -- -- -- -- 90 Clay d Colchester 1756 - 6 - 75 1374 :: 1 7 4 7; ITi Leigh Gainsborough - -- -- -- -- -- 60 Hastings 3O Ipswich lB5 75 810 -- 20 14 41;7 2009 87 150 71 161 98 1350 Lynn Poole - 20 -- -- -- 85 Portsmouth Rye Shoreham Southampton ”. -- -- -- -- -- -- 76 Southwold - -- -- -- 4 -- Stockton - -- -- -- -- -- 580 Wells 6 250 -- -- -- 20 3 Weymouth - -- -- -- -- -- 350 Woodbridge...— 320 13 -- -- 25 -- 188 Yarmouth - 3315 -- -- ._ 1780 Arbroath - -- -- 170 -- -- -- Berwick Dundee 4576 499 5949 441 544 162 9433 IRISH. Galway Limerick Youghall - -- 712 -- -- -- FOREIGN. Aalborg - -- -- 670 -- -- -- Altona - -- -- -- -- -- -- Ansterdana - 80 -- 450 -- -- -- Antwerp Brake - -- -- 74 217 -- Bremen - -- -- 1370 40 -- -- Carohenziel - 65 -- 806 155 -- Dantzic __ -- -- 1200 -- -- Dunkirk Emden Grief , ,wald 373 -- 2640 -- -- -- Hamburgh - -- -- 4418 31 17 Harlingen __ -- -- 1710 -- -- -- Hookziel Huston __ -- 415 -- -- -- Innhausersiel.— ,-- 500 -- -- -- -- -- Kiel .._ -- -- -- -- -- -- Leer - 1600 -- 8 1 5 -- -- Lubeck - -- 1080 -- -- __ Bledemblik - -- -- -- -- -- Memel - -- -- 1467 -- -- __ Novharlingenie -- -- -- I 380 -- -- -- alenzee . - -- -- 447 -- -- -- Ostend - -- -- 352 12 -- -- Pißau lOO 1111 -- 7085 -- 45 Pont L'Abbe - -- -- .626 -- -- -- Ilanders - -- -- 410 -- -- -- Rostock 3523 -- 6086 -- 458 -- Rotterdam - 200 -- 1280 335 -- -- Ftustersiel Stettin - 1086 -- 1281 -- 146 -- Stralsund - 117 I -- 5580 -- 26 -- Swinnemunde - ISO -- 370 -- -- -- Tanningen - -- -- 166 -- -- -- Wismar 290 1560 -- 4792 -- 58 -- Wolgast 2OO -- -- 221 -- -- -- ---- Total—. 5365 10894 5819 50016 1334 012 9533 AGGREGATE rtYo,o—TareS, ISI QUAZ iCl—Liru [ustard, irrry 0 tseed, 20 27—Hi 1 50016 ER XL weseed )F Off )12—Rai 'em)), 1334 I iDS OF 1592-7 F PULS] •Brank, ;E. 064- SMITHFIELD MARKET. At the market of this day, which, the time of year considered, was moderately well supplied, each kind of stock, except lambs, which were in rather brisk demand, met with a very sluggish sale, Beef at about 2d., Mutton from 2d. to 4d., and Veal 4d. to Bd. per stone beneath Friday's quotations ; in prices of Lamb and Polk no alteration. PRICES PER STONE OP BLBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. S. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 3 2 3 6 Large Lambs Second quality ditto 3 6' 4 2 Prime small ditto 5 6 6 8 Primelarge Oxen... 4 6 410 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 8 Prime Scots, 410 5 0 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 4 Inferior Sheep 3 4 3 8 Large H0g5........,, 4 0 4 4 Second quality ditto 3 8 4 0 Small Porkers 4 8 5 0 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 4 4 8 Suckling Calves 12s to 4 Os. each. South downWethers 4 8 S 0 Quarter old Pigs 10s to 16s. each. SUPPLY, As PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. 1 Pigs. 2,014 I 19,780 15'l 110 About 1650 of the beasts came from Norfolk and Suffolk ; about 70 from Sussex and Kent; about 200 up the great North Road; about 70 from the western and midland di s t r i c t s; and most of the remainder from the stall feeders, &c., in the neigh_ bourhood of London. PLYMOUTH. -------- 1,, Mont the Plymouth Journal of Saturday.) viitV e jePort that his Majesty intends to honour Plymouth . with tlel.li, presence, gains ground. His Royal Highness "oke of Clar enceisexeced here very shortly ; the ritennia is ordered to be got P ready for his reception ; as 53e1144 Possible. The C. Commissioners of the Victualling Board, Major- Brown.sta'th e lion. G. C. Stapylton, Chairman, Nicholas f e a N. F.R.S., and Dr. John Weir, arrived here a itl:yaits since, on an official visit. They . inspected the at so,,,f:_tal Hospital, Bovey and Reservoir, the Brewery G teaat-7p Hospital, the Victualling Office, and the ovetn th „ - ,.ka at Cremil-Point, &c. ; and having concluded e l r a,,:'e'd duties, they left this place on Thursday. Po ri 4lll Lord Northesk, Commander-in-Chief at this few yo se a di nner at t h e R oyal Hotel, i n this town, a -...3 L Bin ee, to th e h ea d s o f th e D e p ar t men t s . 14 4 ;17 44 * ill beint cut from Cann Quarry to Longbritlge, - " e Purpose of affording a more easy conveyance for the I,l.ent slate which is procured from that place. tlit -m •i— e ell gineer of the Government steam-packet Meteor ...a th in fit of despondency . ; the ~,,.._ roat on Wednesday last, a lia,„"" 1 is still living, though we understand but faint r''rh 4 , e , ente rtained of his recovery. thane •YsV onport colum n , erec t e d to commemorate t h e A lje of n ame of th a t t own , i s near l y completed. h e l d a Common Hall of the Mayor and Commonalty, Nte utt Thursday last, we understand that a resolution was 11 5 , 17 r !ct into, to extend forthwith iron pipes for the con pit — et of Water through all the streets; and that every wea ' of the town should be well supplied with water, .1 ski_elso determined to form another reservoir, equal in , o siot to the one already in use, near the same spot. inh a r e ,, k irigi which will be of such great advantage to the Ak."`luti generally, will cost the Corporation 10,0001. oekii`!•---A detachment of the 94th Foot sailed on Wed of th Y in the Nightingale cutter, to relieve a det p ac e hm ot en of t the 71st 71st Light Infantry at Falmouth. The 1 im o t ,, s ß egiment of Infantry has received orders to P p cep ir e t hil garrison to Hull. We hear that the pro -441POtta-I°llereii here from . Hull, to replace some of the A.— Present stationed in this garrison. . forth --eW 6tst-rate to be called the Nile, is to be built co * ith at this Dock- yard. j. Hawker, who has for several years etimai,,_, C. 8., . toy no Is highly 'uttl 1 4 7, (1 the Royal Artillery in the Western District respected here, will shortly leave this rlo ll°ll for Woolwich. Lieut.-Colonel P. Durnford is ' Z t t'd to succeed him. th, re4'AL ItlA umxs.--Th e fine body of men composing sp eett Poooth Division of the above, were yesterday in hod 'bY Major-General James Campbell, Deputy-Adju- It i e _°l that Co rps, who arrived in this town a few days 8 ,..ve ?or that purpose. In the morning the appointments, parade' the regiment was narrowly examined into on the revie2_:b3nehouse ; and in the afternoon, the men were Ri tu . e ; t e on the H oe . Sh ortly after two o'clock, the re the .. 0 being dr a w n up i n line, the Gene ra l appeare d on , t he b Utid, w h en h e was saluted with the usual honours. e qps th en went through the var i ous evolutions in the at 1%114 the and plat oon exercises, with grea t prec i s i on ; and, himself t e l raulion, we understand, the General expressed general ditipYlipleased at the soldier -like appearance, and Ile ot.the regiment. A great body of spec tators were p On Saturds------M,. C anning of the Kneo. Y --• ‘ - anning had an audience Yesterday his MAJEScaI'Yn gave an audience to the Lord Chancellor and Mr. The Duke ofClarence audth g i. . Visited the KIND yesterday. e r inceßsAugusta Yesterday the Duke and Duches s of Clarence Itett the Princess Augusta attended Divine Servic e at the , C t l tPel Royal, and heard an excellent * 'fte Rev. Sir Edward Kynaston, from then all3rched by , an the m St• Matthew's Gospel, and the 13th verse. Church Thed chaptereo of Service Was read by the Rev. Mr. Cmnon rewunioa Service by the Sub-Dean. The Anthem was _r ys glad (Purcell), which was sung by Messrs. Salm, ._aughan, and J. 13. Sale. The Chapel was very nrnoenr, °2Bly attended by Nobility. Among the Peers present Zre---the by of Worcester, the Earls cf Clarendon, Ha rr --t rrowbyi and Westmorland • Lord De Dunstanville, Lord , Arden, & c. Bce Yesterday. , at three o'clock, the Duke of Cl ~. ce and the Duke of Sussex were admitted to a pri -0 view of the Exhibition of the Royal Academy. Their inn;lvr_" Illghnesses were received and conducted by Sir ual.Lawrence, the President, and the other officers of "'wirel stitution. The Royal Dukes left the Academy at four o'clock. PUbli_.li. LIPE.---The new novel announced for cation to-morrow under this title, seems likely even to rival theyppular novel of Alrnacks. I t is from the pen of a lad o and is said ' to contain one of the most brilliant'ictures that hki yet bean gives ,9f fashimable oclety, NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. d. toe. d. Reef 3 4 4 8 Veal 3 6 5 2 Mutton .3 4 4 8 Pork 3 8 5 4 Lamb 4s. 10d. to 6s. 6d. THE TRAMS TUNNEL-(THIS DAY.) FARTHER PARTICULARS. At low water this morning, Mr. Brunel], sen., Mr. Brunel!, jun., and Mr. Gravatt, descended in the diving bell to the bed of the river, in order to ascertain theeffi cacy of the measures which have been adopted to remedy the difficulty which has arisen in the prosecution of this important undertaking. In addition to large quantities of strong clay, some bags, filled with the same composition, have, with the help of long spikes, been lowered into the river, and laid in such a position as would best answer the purpose intended. Messrs. Brunell this morning descended principally to ascertain whether these bags had been pro perly placed. On the bell being hoisted sip, the engineer declared that every thing had been done in the most proper manner, and ordered additional quantities of clay in bags to be lowered on the place where the aperture previously was. So sanguine is Mr. Brunell now that the evil will be re medied, that he has given orders that the steam-engine should this morning be got ready, in order that at low water this evening the pumping out the water contained in the tunnel and shaft may be commenced. This after noon, at about low water, the diving-bell will be again lowered, and Mr. Brunell will then have the opportunity of ascertaining, while the engine is at work, whether his endeavours have been successful. The men are in good spirits, and have expressed themselves ready again to work if the tunnel is cleared. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCLIANGE. Last week furnished the market with tolerably good supplies of most kinds of Grain, and a considerable quantity of Flour, both from the westward and coastwise. This morning there is a better shew of Wheat samples from Essex and Kent than for some weeks past, but very little spring Corn fresh up. All idea of advancing the top price of Flour being abandoned, the Wheat trade is in consequence very heavy this morning, and to effect sales, Is. to 2s. per quarter abatement from last Monday's prices must be submitted to on most descriptions. Barley continues very scarce, with little doing in the trade at last week's prices. Beans and Pease are unaltered. The Foreign Oats . being al. lowed to enter at the low duty of 4d. per quarter, there is now a large quantity exhibited for sale, and notwithstanding a good at tendance of country buyers, this article may be quoted is. per quarter lower than thi,, day se'nnight for feeding qualities. In the Flour trade there is no alteration. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) —s. —s. Beans, Small (new)... 535. 56s --White (old) —s. —s. Red (1826) ... 525. 565. -- Tick (new).— 465. 4! - Fine s6s. 58s. . (old) —s. - Superfine.. 60s. 625. Harrow (new) 50s. 1 —White (1826). 525. 575. (old).. —s. Fine 6os. 625. Brank Oats, Feed --- Superfine 64s. 665. Rye (new) 368. 40s. Barley 36s. 395. --- Fine (new) - Superfine 42s. 448. Malt 49s. 535. - Fine 575. 655. Pease, Grey (new) 48s. 50s. --- Maple (new) Ms. 525. - White (new) 43s. 48s. - Boilers - Fine - Poland Fine... - Potatoe Fine ... 28s. .... 335. ~. 325. ... 345. .... 455. .... 425. try 408. .... I6s. - Scotch Flour (per sack) , - Seconds - North Count Bran FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE. There were very few arrivals of fish this morning, and the market prices were exceedingly high ; but a quantity of Saturday's fish, which was on hand, sold low. Mackerel there were none in the market—the fishermen had not been successful in taking them, in consequence of the contrary winds. Small Turbots sold from Ss. to 10s. each ; prime large ones, 1.55. to 20s. do. Salmon had advanced con siderably, and sold from 2s. 6d. to 2s. 8(1. per lb. ; Salmon Trout, 11. 6d. to Is. Bd. ; large grey Mullets, 7s. each ; Flounders, 3s. per basket ; fine lively Eels, per five lbs. 3s. Soles were more plentiful than any other description of fish, three pair of good size, 35.. Lobsters were rather numerous, small ones from Bs. to 10s. per score ; large do. 12s. to 188. ; Prawns, 4s. per lb. ; Shrimps, I's. per gal. There were no other kinds of fish offered for sale worthy of notice. It is very probable that a large supply of Mackerel will arrive by fe , lr o'clock this afternoon. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT ST. JAMES'S. By the following statement of the odds up to last night, it will be seen that the most important alterations have taken place : 9 to 1 agst Turcoman 9 to 1 agst Roderick 10 to 1 agst Defence 10 to 1 agst Trumpeter 12 to 1 agst Spondee DERRY. 15 to 1 agst Glenartney 15 to 1 agst Gaberlunzie 20 to 1 agst Eliza Twazle 25 to 1 agst Espagnolle (taken' 30 to 1 agst Maresfield OAIIII. 5 to 1 agst Scheherazade 7 to 1 agst Tippitywitchet 7 to 1 agst Donna Clara 10 to 1 agst Toso 12 to 2 agst Brocard 15 to 1 agst Translation 15 to 1 agst Calyp>o 16 to 1 agst Gulnare DOVER, MAY 18.—Arrived from Calais his Majesty's packet Crusader, Captain Lyne, with his High ness the Princess Borghese, his Secretary the Chevalier Gozzani St. George, and a numerous suite. This Prince, whose great hospitality and splendid entertainments at Florence have been so much spoken of by the English tra vellers in Italy, proposes to remain a few months in Eng land. He proceeded this afternoon for Sittingbourne, on his way to Mivart's Hotel, Upper Brook street, where , a l i gn men t; are provided for kitu- EXnIBITION of his MAJESTY'S PICTURES, PALL MALL. We were much gratified with aprivate view of these celebrated pictures, which have been munificently lent by his Majesty to the British Institution. Most of them are of the Flemish school—a school that, if it do no not exhibit nature or character in their very highest attributes, yet is ever attractive, from the versatility and social vivacity of its subjects. Our glance was necessarily a hurried one; but neverthe less we have seen sufficient to justify us in bearing testimony to the exquisite beauty of many of the leading pictures ; and what, though of minor im portance, is still material to the effect of the whole —the skilful manner in which they are arranged. No. 5.—A Hay Cart, by Wouvermans, will bear the most rigid scrutiny. The subject is Hay-making : in the foreground, a laden waggon, with two countrymen on the top,, is slowly advancing, into which a man is throwing hay with his pitchfork. The idea is simple, and it is really astonishing how much is made of it. The damp, dull look of the hay; the groupes enjoying themselves in the midst of it, together with the sultry and leaden appear ance of the atmosphere, flash on the eye with the force of realities. The colouring is in character with the subject —chaste, natural, and unassuming. 13.—" The Wise Men's offering to the Infant Saviour." This is truly a magnificent production. It is by Rem brandt, and is well worthy that master of light and shade. The kneeling sages in the foreground,especially deserve notice ; an intense awful and breathless devotion, as if the spirit of prayer had descended in all its impressiveness upon them, characterizes each individual figure, contrasting delight fully with the sleeping Deity before them. To increase the effect, a sort of " dim religious light" is thrown over the picture, through which its beauties are seen, softened, like the music of village bells, by distance. As a whole it is, we think, the finest picture in the Exhibition. 17.—" Lot and his Daughters," by Vander-werf, is very richly and voluptuously coloured. The subject, however, is objectionable and appeals too grossly to the senses. Such inci dents, no matter how historically correct, are better left in obscurity. 29. A Landscape, by Rubens, is remarkable for the arrangement of its cattle. In the distance are seen some bin's hovering over a cottage ; these deserve particular notice; they are not painted heavily in a substantial at mosphere of muddy yellow, but appear light-winged and joyous, the spirit of the summer is on them, and the sky in which they float is rich, transparent, and varied. 42.—Landscape, by Paul Potter. This, though not equal, we think, to the last, is yet not far behind it. It has a quiet arch humour, too, in which the other is defi cient. The cock slinking off, is Nature itself, as we have witnessed it a hundred times. It may not .be generally known, but there is nothing in creation so richly or hu mourously foolish as the look of a cock when in the act of self-transportation. He is naturally a' proud animal ; and his flight gives always the appearance of a desperate struggle between his dignity and his apprehensions. The drooping outstretched head ; the long thin legs, the sunken suspicious eye—all tell a tale in this picture that Hogarth would have envied (we wonder, by the bye, that he has never attempted it), and which prove how accurate an ob server P. Potter was of Nature. 55.--- ,, A Horse Fair," by Wovermans, is chiefly to be admired on the score of its exquisite propriety of grouping. The colouring of the flesh, too, is rich but not exaggerated, particularly the muscles of the horses, which are brought out with striking effect. 66.—" A sleeping Venus." A very rich and voluptuous piece of colouring, impregnated with all Sir Joshua's warmth of imagination. The flesh of the Venus is exqui sitely beautiful ; the symmetry of her limbs graceful and harmonious ; while a certain indescribable glow, half passion, half purity, pervades her countenance, giving it a seductive, but not an immodest character. We recommend this portrait as a study to susceptible young artists. 69.—A Landscape and Cattle, by Vandervelde. Very correct and simple, as a whole ; but more especially remarkable for the exquisite softness of the down on the heads of the young heifers. This last will bear the Strict est examination ; it has a silky richness about it, truly asto nithing ; but, indeed, the whole picture is wrought up with the most elaborate care. 82.—The Ale House Door, by Teniers,•is in that mas ter's very best and most social style. A knot of peasants are represented as clustered outside the door at dinner : in the fore-ground, is a drunkard, whose look• is the very spirit of arch jollity; and near him stands it woman, who half by entreaty and half by threats, is leading away her reluctant husband. The natural simplicity of these two figures is preserved to the life ; and the painting itself, though crowded with subjects, is yet so skilfully covered that it wears an appearance of lightness ; whereas a mo dern artist (with the exception, perhaps, of. Wilkie) would have lumbered his canvas with only half the number of cha racters. But Teniers---whose comedy, by the bye, is not unlike Shakspeare's--improves upon acquaintance, even in the humblest trait of his genius. 86. A Fair in a Village, by the same Master, is cha racterized by equal bustle, vivacity, and graceful simplicity of grouping. 93. Cattle, by Paul Potter, is a striking and spirited specimen of animal anatomy; a bull stands boldly out in the foreground, with a cow lying down beside him. The colouring of both is perfect. LORD REDESDALE. We know no individual who has collected more facts than his Lordship, or who is more liberal in communicat ing them. His speech on moving his Economical Resolu tions was quite a storehouse. The great astonishment is, how he contrived to string his facts together; for the con nection certainly was not obvious. His Lordship kindly informed us that, when there were no roads, there was little travelling; and that, since the roads have been excel lent, people are constantly on the move. The number of similar shrewd remarks be made almost surpasses belief. In Sir Jonah Barrington's amusing Sketches of his Own Times, Lord Redesdale is not forgotten. It seems the Irish Bar and his Lordship were equally puzzled with each other. Sir Jonah is giving an account of a dinner to the Judges and King's Counsel. The Chancellor (Redesdale) " sat, for a while silent, until skating became a subject of con versation, when his Lordship rallied, and, with an air •of triumph, said that, in his boyhood, all danger was avoided, for, before they began to skait, they always put blown bladders under their arms ; and so, if the ice happened to break, they were buoyant, and saved. "Ay, my Lord," said Toler (now Lord Norbury) "that's what we call blatheram-skate in Ireland, (an Irish vulgar idiom for nonsense.) "His Lordship did 'not understand the sort of thing at all ; and (though extremely courteous) seemed to wish us all at our respective homes. Having failed with Toler, in order to say a civil thing or two, he addressed himself to Mr. Garratt O'Farrell, a jolly Irish Barrister, who always carried a parcel of coarse national humour about with him ; a broad squat ruddy-faced fellow, with a great aquiline nose, and a humourous eye. Independent in mind and property, he generally said whatever came upper most. ' Mr. Garratt O'Farrell,' said the Chancellor so lemnly, ' I believe your name and family were very re spectable and numerous in county 'Wicklow. I think I was introduced to some of them during my late tour there?' "' Yes, my Lord,'" said O'Farrell, we were very nu merous; but so many of us have been lately hanged for sheep-stealing, that the name is getting rather scarce in that connty.' " His Lordship said no more • " I never saw Lord Redesdale more puzzled than at one of Plunkett's best jeux d'esprits. A cause was argued in Chancery, wherein the plaintiff prayed that the defendant should be restrained from suing him on certain Bills of Exchange, as they were nothing but kites. Kites (ex claimed Lord Redesdale), Kites, Mr. Plunkett? Kites never could amount to the value of those securities; I don't understand this statement at all, Mr. Plunkett.' • " ' It is not to be expected that you should, my Lord,' answered Mr. Plunkett. In England and in Ireland kites are quite different things. In England the wind raises the kites ; but in Ireland the kites raise the wind.' " 'I do not feel any way better informed yet, Mr. Plunkett,' said the matter of fact Chancellor. " ' Well, my Lord, I'll explain the thing, without men tioning these birds of prey, and therewith he elucidated the difficulty. ' " The Lady who was so nobly distinguished in the Highland garb at the Caledonian Ball on Monday, was Lady Gordon Cumming. Her Ladyship wore a superb velvet dress of the Cumming tartan, with a satin drapery of the Gordon, richly finished with steel, and a Scotch cap of black velvet and steel, with diamonds and black feathers, surmounted with three eagles' plumes, the badge of Chief tanry. It was much to be regretted that so few Ladies appeared in the full Highland costume, as, excepting her Ladyship, there was not another Lady dressed in the full national garb. Her sisters, the beautiful Misses Campbell, exited universal admiration, one in the character of Mary Queen of Scots, another 45 an Italian Peasant, and the third as a Scotch Lassie. BATH. CONSPIRACY FOR A COUNTER REVOLUTION. " England expects every man to do his duty." Whereas, the most alarming indication has been pre sented of the formation of a horrible conspiracy for reduc tion of bite United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the political state of Legislation and Government preced ing the Revolution of 1688, and patronage, influence, and power of unprecedented extent, heti' recently been extorted for promotion of the cause of Popery, and meditated sub version of the existing free Constitution, and can only be counteracted by local association of its attached friends, Notice is hereby given, that a meeting will be held on Thursday next, at seven o'clock in the evening, at the White Plart, Bath ; first, for the formation of a collateral Protestant• Union Society, in aid of the London Protestant Union ; secondly, for a petition to the King to dismiss from his Councils the present Prime Minister and his Col leagues ; thirdly, to petition both Houses of Parliament to diminish the influence of the First Lord of the Treasury, by restoring to the Clergy their ancient right of rejecting the nominee of the Crown to Bishoprics, Deaneries, and other Dignities, anti to terminate concession of unconstitu tional privileges to Papists. The Chair will be taken at seven o'clock in the evening, by one of the Honorary Members of the Protestant Union, Mr. Prebendary Dennis, 8.C.L." In consequence of this Advertisement, a large and very respectable meeting took place as above, when the Rev. Prebendary Dennis rose, and after complimenting the meeting for their respectability, stated that he had called them• together for the purpose of creating alarm, and rousing them from that apathy that appeared to pervade the ma jority of the people of this country at the present important crisis; he then read a long correspondence from the London Protestant Union Society, of which he declared himself a member, and a petition he had sent to his Majesty remind ing him of his Coronation Oath ; and, after compliment ing himself for his loyalty to his King, his duty to his God, and love for his country, he began a most violent attack on the Catholic Church, from the conversion of Constantine to the present day, and, after indulging in the most ridi culous strain relative to christening Saints' bones, and sub stituting those of slaves and malefactors when there was a scarcity of Saints, the murder of the Emperor by Phocas, &c. &c., the Reverend Gentleman, with much gravity, stated, that it was the practice at present for the College at Stonyhurst to grant indulgence and relaxation from re ligious discipline for one year to young handsome females, for the avowed purpose of mixing with the Protestant male population to gain proselytes, knowing the influence of the fair sex. The patience of the meeting was now completely exhausted, and much laughter, hissing, and great confusion, ensued, with loud cries of "Question." A Gentleman rose and observed, the only question that appeared was, whe ther Dr. Dennis or his Majesty; should choose the King's Ministers.—(Loud laughter.) Another Gentleman pro posed that the Rev. Prebendary Dennis should be banded over to the civil power.—(Much cheering.) The Meeting, indignant at the intolerant bigotry of the Learned Prebend, expressed their disapprobation and con tempt by hisses and laughter, upon which the Reverend Chairman grossly insulted the company by calling them geese and other opprobrious epithets, which produced a scene of confusion and noise which cannot be described, in the midst of which the Rev. Chairman made his escape. The greatest indignation was universally &pressed at this arrogant attempt to dictate to his Gracious Majesty as to the choice of his confidential servants and advisers, and the utmost contempt was showered upon the Rev. Prebend for his personal abuse of Lord Plunkett and Mr. Canning. After the agitation of the meeting had partly subsided, three loyal cheers were given for his Majesty, and three direful groans for Mr. Prebendary Dennis**. This is the same person who, after preaching a Ser mon at Walcot Church on Sunday afternoon, commenced a furious tirade from the pulpit against Mr. Canning and his coadjutors, finishing his anathemas by stating, that all (men, women, and children,) who did not oppose his Ma jesty's present Government were Papists and Idolaters. THE WELCH LANDOWNERS. On Saturday evening a highly respectable meeting of Gentlemen born in the principality of Wales, and others friendly to the cause of poor cottagers whose rights are in volved in the Bill of Enclosure now before Parliament, was held to receive the Report of the Committee appointed at a former meeting, as to the proceedings which had sub sequently taken place. HENRY HuanEs, Esq., the Chairman, congratulated the meeting on the favourable feeling which now existed in the public mind towards the cause of the poor cottagers. Since they laq met, Mr. Bettis, the agent of Lord NeW barough and the principal instigator of the Bill, had been to them with offers to negotiate ; but after the abandon ment by the agent of the other offers made, if not with the intent, with the effect of treacherously lulling resistance to the measure, the Committee thought themselves bound at once, and decidedly, to }•eject all overtures from ti land owners.—(Applause.) He had now to communicate a circumstance which might excite astonishment in the me tropolis, but which would excite none in the minds of those who were aware of the mode of action of those local despots, whose proceeding had not hitherto been submitted to any thing like a public opinion. The Committee had received information that a petition had . been got up by the agents of the landowners, arid sent to the tenantry under their power, for signature, impugning the character of the cot tagers, calling them sheep-stealers, and attempting to im plicate the whole body, upon complaints made against in dividuals amongst them.—(Shane.)—Those who knew the 'Welch peasantry must feel how abominably false were such accusations. He would not attempt to characterize the use of such matter, even if true, as a pretext to justify the landowners in seizing the produce of the labours of the cottagers ; but that the Legislature might not by such means be prejudiced, a cou❑:•2r petition had been signed by those who were disenthralled—who were free from the influence of the landowners—attesting the innocence and general deserving character of the cottagers.—(Applause.) —One inducement held out to the Crown to divide the common lands amongst the neighbouring landowners, was a promise on their part that they would deal kindly and equitably with all the cottagers or others whose rights were comprised. But no faith was to be given to such promises : all experience and testimony was against them. In several letters which had been sent with subscriptions from kind friends, they were cautioned not to be deceived by such language. His Lordship, it proceeded to de scribe, got on this occasion half the Galigfa common, with the roads through it ; and the effect of the measure was, to send the farmers three miles out of their way to get lime, an article without which they could not cultivate their lands, as in that country lime was the usual dressing of a wheat crop. The setting out of the public roads was loudly exclaimed against, but in vain : the Parliamentary interest of the few prevailed against the right and coinve nien,es of the many, as it always would where the voice of the public could not interpose.—(Hear•) Mr. GRIFFITH DAVIES, begged, in addition, to state to the meeting, as illustrative of the character of the men with whom they had to deal, that the agent had declared to them, that if the landowners were exasperated by the opposition to the hill, they would bring actions of ejectment against the cottagers, and otherwise pursue them at law.—(Hear, hear. )_Mr. Davies then read to the meeting a long and interesting letter, which lie had received from one of the most active and intelligent of the cottagers. Alluding to the conduct of the landowners' agents, the writer said, " We are informed that 0. Griffith-ap-Tryfan keeps, a regular journal of all faults he can find, and employs others to do the same, and carry him every information. Our fair was held yesterday, and I heard Owen Grigith should boast that the cottages should very shortly be levelled to the ground on Cilgyn Mountain.—(Hear, hear.)—We intend to !ewe a regular watch at Caernarvon Post-office, and whatever you may want you may rely on receiving by return of post." (Mr. Davies observed, that letters were not delivered in those districts, and were only exhibited in the post-office window, that they might be seen on market-days by those to whom they were addressed. The cottager was posted to watch this window for a packet.) " Enclosed you'll find 51., being the amount you paid for us ; and if any more should be wanting, every man, women, and children are ready to sell their clothes,—yes, their y das faun ! to support you ; so work away, my dear boys."—(Cheers. Mr. GRIFFITH JONES was most anxious that, as public attention had been drawn to this case, one honourable ex ception should throughout be made in favour of one of the greatest landowners in Wales—Colonel Hughes. That gentleman, who himself possessed lands in the district, had declared but the day before, that he was desirous that justice should be done to the cottagers, and that in all the en closures they should have a fee simple in the land which they had been allowed to cultivate.—(Applause.)—He de clared that he did not believe that the profit to be derived by the Landowners from the ground allotted after the cot tagers had been ejected, would repay them for the expellee of obtaining the Bill. The lawyer would have the oyster, and give to them the shell. He then proceeded to defend the character of the peasantry from the attack made upon it by the Landowners. Mr. Jones concluded by moving a resolution, expressive of the satisfaction of the Meeting at the report, and the communications submitted to them by the Committee. This was seconded by Mr. JoHN LLOYD, who declared, that in charity to the landowners themselves, who knew not what they did, he should pray them to stay their pro ceedings. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. llEwrrr, one of the gentlemen who have come for ward to give their honorary professional assistance in aid of the cottagers, moved a resolution, reprobating the at tempt made by the landowners to impugn their characters. He happened to have a letter in his pocket from a friend who had recently been on a grand jury—" We had had," said he, in concluding his letter, " our Assizes at Mold this week, and, -as usual, little more for the grand juries to do than receive the Judge's compliments on the honesty of our country, and to eat our dinners and return home." —(Cheers.)—They should not abandon these poor people to Welch judges, or such men as Mr. Kenrick. The landowners, he should be ready to prove, if the question was entered into, were the greatest encroachers. The resolution was carried unanimously, after a very spirited speech from Mr. J. MITCHELL, in which he ap plied the anecdote of Caractacus, who, when led in chains through the streets of Rome, dazzled with its splendid magnificence, lifted up his arms with astonishment, and exclaimed—" Strange, that a people possessed of so much wealth and luxury should envy me a cabin on my native mountains." A Welch peasant, when hereafter wander ing for bread, might exclaim with equal astonishment, on viewing the princely mansion of Lord Nevvborough— " Strange, that a man possessed of so much wealth and luxury should envy me a little cottage on Cilgwyn Moun tain." Mr. LLOYD moved a resolution expressive of the deter mination of the meeting to come forward to aid to the utmost of their power their poor countrymen in resisting an act of oppression that might hereafter be attempted by the local agents of the landowners. He was but a borderer, yet he ftlt with Terence, .Homo sum : humani nihil a me alienum put°. The resolution was carried with great enthusiasm. Mr. TlMmurrr said, that he had'come a stranger amongst them, anxious even in the smallest degree to lend assist ance in favour of the weak and oppressed against the strong and the oppressor. In rising to move the thanks of the meeting to the editor of the TilileS for the support he had afforded them, he could not but feel pride in being the inhabitant of a metropolis whose public journals wielded such a power to redress or prevent injures, and that while in London comparatively but few acts of oppression could be committed, yet such had now become the energy and intelligence of its inhabitants, that they were no longer satisfied with defending their own or their neighbours' in terests, but were ready to defend and protect their fellow countrymen in the most remote parts of the island.— They had been told that the instigators of these measures were lawyers. No wonder that such men should be en raged at the repose of the principality. It was by crime that such men as these got their bread. It was by peace and honesty that such men as these starved. For a gaol to have its doors open—for an Assizes to have no business, might be fun for all other people, but for such men it was starvation and death.—(Applause and laughter.)—No crime, no cause; no pauper, no two parishes to quarrel which should maintain him.—(Hear, hear.)—Very differ rent was that part of the country which he had some ac • quaintance with (Norfolk), where half the business of a Quarter Sessions was appeals about paupers ; not a little in the punishment of poachers and petty thieves; all, how ever, bringing grist to the lawyers' mill. Mr. HEWITT, the Solicitor, here rose, and said he had many legal friends in Wales, and that it would be the highest injustice, if he were to sit by and admit by his si lence that their general character was such as was now de scribed. He implored the Meeting to believe him, when he assured them, that those described by the speakers were exceptions. Mr. GRIFFITH JONES, the other solicitor, concurred in the declaration. Mr. HELLtoTT.—I do not mean to inelude even the greater part of the profession in this censure, but only such men as the agents of these measures and their adherents. I see, in the legal gentlemen who have given their noble as sistance to the Welch cottagers, an example of disinterested ness refreshing to the soul, amid a scene which presents every thing to appal the heart, and to make him blush for the species to which he belongs. Such, then, is this transaction, unjust on every point, defensible on none; embodying in it all that can dishonour the actors, with no one redeeming quality, save that sordid gain which will poorly repay the moral sacrifice by which it has been ob tained. That the cottage system works well in Wales, is evident from the peaceful and honest character of the pea sants. What name, then, is too bad, what condemnation too awful, for that man who has a head to plan the destruc tion of so much peace, but no heart to feel for its conse quences ? If the agents of this measure retract, they may yet, even at the eleventh hour, save something of their:re putation: they may show, at least, that a spark of moral sense is yet remaining, which the loud and solemn voice of their fellow-countrymen has at last roused from its long and shameful repose.—(Loud and enthusiastic applause.) The vote of thanks to the Editor of the Times was carried unanimously. Several other gentlemen addressed the Meeting. It was stated in the course of the proceedings, that no opposition was contemplated by the friends of the cottagers to the general principle of the enclosure of waste lands, or to the exercise of manorial rights. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, when the Meeting adjourned. RATTLE-SNAKES. A report was lately read to the Academie des Sciences at Paris, from a Committee ap pointed to examine into the circumstances which attended the death of Mr. Drake, at Rouen, on the Bth of last February. Mr. Drake was an Englishman, of about fifty years of age, and was conveying from London to Paris three rattle snakes and several young crocodiles. Notwith standing the precautions which he had taken to defend them from cold on the road, he found after his arrival that the finest of the rattle-snakes was dead. The two others, which seemed in a languishing condition, were carried in their cage into the dining-room, and placed near the stove. On exciting them with a small stick, one of them did not give any signs of life. To assure himself of the fact, Mr. Drake was so im prudent as to open the cage, to take hold of the reptile by the head and the tail, and ap proaching the window, to handle it for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not it was dead ; when the snake suddenly turned its head a quarter round, and plunged one of its fangs into the back of Mr. Drake's hand. The poor man cried out, pronounced several words in English, and to pre vent any further accident, did not let go the snake, but was putting it again into the cage, when he received another bite in the palm of the same hand. He then ran into the yard—ear nestly desired that a physician might be sent for —looked for water, and not finding it fast enough rubbed his hand upon sonic ice at the door. Two minutes afterwards, he took a cord and bound it round his arm below the wrist. His agitation and anxiety were continually increasing, when the arrival of the physician in some degree tran quillised him. Ihe wounds were immediately cauterised ; and the patient drank half a glass of olive oil. He then appeared perfectly com posed ; but in the course of a few minutes the most fatal symptoms manifested themselves, and destroyed all hope of saving the unhappy victim. His death took place in eight hours and three quarters after the accident. On ex amining the body, the outside presented nothing remarkable. In the inside, the organs were all healthy. It was observed with astonishment, that neither the brain nor the spinal marrow had experienced any change, except that the mem brane which covered it was slightly tinged with red. The veins did not seem to be inflamed ; and the only morbid appearance which the corpse exhibited, was a great number of clots of blood in the veins of the bitten side. It is a curious fact, and one which shews the activity and power of the venom, that the rattle-snake which bit Mr. Drake having been - sent to the Museum of Natural History, and there dissected, one of the operators pricking himself eight days afterwards with the scalpel which had been employed in the ' dissection, was immediately attacked with a swelling in the hand, violent pains in the glands of the arm, &c. The Princess Augusta had a select party at dinner on Friday, at her residence in the King's Palace, James's. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. An interesting account of a meeting held last Saturday, for the purpose of opposing effectually the nefarious and cruel plan of enclosure, by which 700 families of poor Welch cottagers were to be pauperized and ruined, will be found in another portion of our journal. On the scheme alluded to, The Times has already remarked ; and its interference has not passed unnoticed by by the friends of those threatened sufferers in whose behalf it was exerted. The fact is, that these barbarities must be checked, and the spirit which engenders them rebuked and crushed, or there exists no hope of saving us, as a people, from the most humiliating destruction. Enclo sure Bills have already, in numberless cases, proved themselves but expedients for sacrificing the poor Englishman to . the rich one—for ex tinguishing the peasantry and yeomanry of Eng land—for robbing them of all those little subsi diary comforts and indulgences arising from the various uses of common lands, which helped to diversify the sameness of a life of local drudgery, to sweeten its irksome toils, and to eke out its scanty remunerations. It has often shocked our reason, while the consequences of the doctrine shave filled our hearts with dread, to witness the stern, but complacent and supercilious coolness, with which every moral attribute and excellence of a country is set at naught by the technical sophistry which resolves the living man and his enjoyments into the greater or less quantum of production on a given spot. Because a cer tain monied capital, vested by an individual in what is termed the " scientific" improvement of a particular surface, may show up a longer string of loaded waggons, bearing produce to a market-town ten miles off, than if the same sum were dispersed into 20 hands, and its several por tions employed at the will, and after the taste; and to the health, and gratification, and well-being, moral as well as natural, of as many separate families, all these families of independent, inoffensive, con tented people, are to be unroofed, and offered up to the unclean beast of " production." More may be produced, we deny it not—more food may be sold ; but to whom ? To the manufacturing inhabitants of cities. And at what expence ? By the conver sion of yeomen into weavers ! This is not accord ing to our unlearned feeling. We wish to see fewer sickly manufacturers, uncertain of their next week's work and food, and a restored majority of robust, and simple, hearty, and well-nourished peasants. There is not a cottage in England to which there ought not to be at least half an acre of garden ground appended. For reasons which relate to domestic industry, sobriety, and enjoyment, this ought to be, if by no other means attainable, the care and object of the Legislature. When men talk about capital in machinery and money, let them reflect that such things are but means to an end, and the most fruitful and enduring capital of all is in the individual excellence and happiness of mankind.-- Conceiving, from what has been represented to that the enclosure above referred to is a direct blow at the moral existence of a large cottage population in the Principality, we earnestly hope that the per nicious attempt may be defeated.—Times. We would suggest with all deference and good-will to Mr. Huskisson, as not unworthy his serious attention, a letter addressed to that Right Hon. Gentleman by name in The Times of this morning, on the subject of the arbitrary; narrow, tormenting, and mind-shackling system under which the Excise Laws, in their actual operation, are made a very powerful instrument for checking the growth of British art, and giving to countries where they are unknown a sensible advantage over Great Britain, in the career of manufacturing and commercial im provement. The short statement which illus trates the eagerness of an officer—the author might say with truth, a Board—of Excise to pounce upon every new invention, in the mode of describing or designating which recourse must be had to certain words, such as " spirits," " stills," &c. &c., although the thing signified by any of such words may be altogether remote from that which was in contemplation of Parlia ment when the laws were enacted, is at once amusing and provoking to every man who can relish an absurdity and lament a national misfor tune. We believe that a gentle application of that talent for simplifying the complex, and generalizing the minute, which has already dis tinguished Mr. Huskisson's treatment of the Customs branch of the law of England, would materially add to the public benefit, and to the fame of the Right Honourable Gentleman if he would extend it to the Excise. TO THE RIGIITHON. WM. HUSKISSON, Sir,—ln your admirable exposure of the fallacy of the opinions entertained by the opponents to the removal of restrictions on trade, I find the following passage,---" Will honourable members please to declare whether they woultt have the House revive the 1500 statutes which I hav e within these few years had the good fortune to persuazde Parliament to repeal ?—(Hear, hear.)—Would they have the complex, and oppressive, and vexatious code of laws re-enacted, that formerly regulated the customs and naviga tion of the country ?—laws so absurd and intricate, that it has well been said, that the most astute anil experienced merchant always required to have his lawyer at his elbow for fear of contravening them, and that even with that as sistance he could not get on even without feeing the custom house-officer, not so much with any sinister views in exer cising that species of bribery, as with the view of preserving himself from those difficulties and embarrassments into which, under such a system, he must have been every trio ment in danger of being unwittingly. entrapped." Now, Sir, I beg leave most respectfully to remind you; that the excise laws place the manufacturer precisely—at this moment—even at the present enlightened period—in the state in which you have truly described the British merchant to have been before you so ably advocated his cause. Whilst all other branches of the commerce of the country have had their fetters taken off, trid, thus eman.. cipated, have bounded forward in the career of improve.. went (perhaps rather too fast), that part of tha arts of life subject to the excise laws is still surrounded by torpedos whose touch withers and paralyses all attempts at improve nient. In France, not only have manufactures been brought to perfection to rival the West Indies in the pre, paration of sugar, but brandy is obtained from indigeneus roots and vegetables which enter into competition, with that obtained from grapes. Emulation there, unfettered by any excise restraints, is every day exts nding the empire of chemistry applied to the arts--every sort of vegetable is made a Proteus in the variety of shapes which it is caused to assume--as a beverage, old productions are drawn from new sources, and vegetable chymistry is much better known than in any other country. Here the public manufacturers are circumscribed in all their operations, the excise laws are perpetually interfering to check every improvement : they are the incubus which subdues the genius and superior industry of an Englishman, and permits his neighbour of France to excel him in draw in, from the vegetable kingdom especially, new resources of riches. I beg to adduce a few instances, among hundreds which can be pointed out, of the injurious tendency of these laws as they are at present interpreted. A new mode of refining sugar is proposed, with the aid - of rectified spirits; but the word " spirits" is a talisman which, in an instant, would " call from the vasty deep" of the excise laws, penalties and forfeitures innumerable, upon any one who ventures to use the article in the man ner required• Stills have been invented and put in practice in Franre which completes the whole process of distillation in one operation, requiring no more fuel than the quantity neces sary to raise the liquor to the boiling heat : here they are stilled by the Excise laws. Starch is a substance which differs from sugar in ED slight a degree, that a simple chymical process will convert the former into the latter, in a liquid state of great purity, and thence form the basis of wines and brandies of British manufacture scarcely inferior to the foreign ; but " starch" i s another stiffener Ohms which would bring spies and in..