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Ditto Account 4i) Ditto, 6 per cent 14 1 4 j Ditto, sp. c ' 43 % Ditto Account 344 i Ditto Account 1)314 Nemolitan...... ....... ........ 39 French Scrip 414 pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE o'cLocr. Paid. Per Share Alien Mining Company £4 4 Atigio Mex. Min. u. kiss. at 5,. pin ) X PIO £ll4 Bolanos Mining Company £l 5O 127% Brazilian Mining Company £s IX Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (ies. at 54m.) £2O 62% pi tto National 2O 17 Ditto St. John Del Rey . lO r; 634 I .to Cocaes 5 174 Cata h..nea Mining Company ...... l 4 4 British Ito. Mining , C0n,....ny £so 2SX ColumbiLn Mini s co. Ills at 51. Inn.) 1. .;114 1214 English Mming Company general Mining 28 1 4 eneral Mining Associati on .... 12 10 Hibernian Mining Co. £lo 4 Mexican Mining C 0.... " £4B 1134 Real del Monte Mir'United Mex. n , - —,ng Co....(unreg.) Co.-- 52% Ditto Ne - ''n. (iss. at 1. pm.) 40 11 % Alliance -vi Scii) '' 5 14 1 4 10 11% Pre' ..e lire Insurance Comp - .sector 1 nsiurance Conm. Australian Co. Canada Company l7 48% 8 I . *•.anaral Stcam Navigation Co. l3 I I National Provincial Bank of England 5 • 4N Tg, Rio Doce Provincial Rank of Ireland 25 4014 NIGN HATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 31orning ...10 minutes after 1. 1 Evening...:34 minutes after 1. ke t Ts . • e * WM. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1833, We have received the Paris Papers of Sun day. They give the details of the battle be tween SAARSYJELD and MERINO, from which it appears that the right wing of SAARSFIELD'S army alone was engaged, and that the result, although important to the QUEEN'S forces, was by no means decisive, MERINO having fallen back on Vittoria for the purpose of forming a junction with the insurgent army, commanded by an ex-General Officer of the Guard. Several reinforcements had, however, been forwarded to SAARSFIELD, and the defeat of the main body of the insurgents at Vittoria was confidently anticipated. Several of the Spanish Constitutionalists now in Paris have, it is stated, applied for passports to return to Spain, and met with a refusal. This does not look like a desire on the part of the French Government to promote a Constitutional feeling in Spain, and confirms us in our first suspicion, that the truckling party in the French Cabinet have the complete ascendancy. These persons seem much more afraid of giving offence to the Northern despots than of the success of Don 0 ,„. -L ., • • • of put Ate,P i nwn Carlism without appealing to the Constitutionalists remains, they will throw every obstacle in the way of Spanish patriotism. They will soon, however, be compelled to take a dif ferent course ; for the triumph of liberal prin ciples in Spain cannot be prevented, although it may be retarded, and the patriots will, thanks to the movement of the Cariists, have an op portunity of asserting not only their intellectual but also their physical superiority. It is stated in one of the Paris Papers that M. AGUADO is to be appointed either Minister of Finance in Spain, or Ambassador from that country at the French Court. The latter is the most probable, as M. AGUADO, from his great , wealth and generosity, has much influence in the French capital. This gentleman was formerly a merchant in Spain, of liberal sentiments, and for some years had to contend, as a refugee in France, against the frowns of the world, but by industry in a small way of trade, he acquired the means of speculating rather extensively - , and is now one of the richest men on the Continent. M. GoDo Y (the Prince of Peace) has asked leave to return to Spain, under the late amnesty. Marshal JOURDAN died on Saturday, at the age of seventy-one. We have received Frankfort Papers to the 20th instant. An article, dated the frontiers of Poland, states, that General PASKEWITSCH is likely to be recalled from Poland, and a civil Governor to be appointed. It is added, how ever, that sufficient confidence is not yet placed in the Poles for the EMPEROR to restore the Government of Poland to i7s former footing, until better assured that the Poles will meet with no encouragement. It is a high compliment to this noble-minded people to confess that, even in their degradation, their complete submission to the will of the tyrant cannot be relied upon. One of the German papers states that a railway between Amsterdam and, Cologne has been determined upon. It is stated in a letter from Rome, that the rumoured intention of Austria to sanction an Italian Confederation, has so alarmed the French Cabinet as to elicit from it a notification to the Holy See, that in such an event the French Government would deem it expedient to increase the number of troops in Ancona, and occupy Civita Vecchia. It is said that our own Cabinet would, in such case, acquiesce in the course alluded to. We hope the British and French Cabinets will be firm in their denunciation of the rumoured intention of the Austrian Cabinet. The Tories are industriously spreading a re port that the young Quee❑ Of PORTUGAL i s both mentally and bodily ill, and that the REGENT intends to declare her incapable of reigning, in order that he may become King of PORTUGAL. We would remark on this report, first, that the young QUEEN is not seriously ill ; and, secondly, that Don PEDRO would gain nothing G, by establishing ber incapacity to reign, as hMas two daughters besides Donna MARIA, on the eldest of whom the succession would devolve in the event of the decease or dethronement of the present QUEEN. Don PEDRO may be an ambitious man, and his ambition, like that of his brother, may at times have a criminal tendency ; but persons who know him thoroughly say he is not a fool. Now, who but a fool would think of acting as Don PEDRO is said to be desirous of acting in the present state of Portugal ? The whole country, with the exception of two large towns and their immediate vicinity is held by his brother chiefly through the effect of the calum nies which represent PEDRO as being actuated by criminal as well as violent passions, and would he, at such a moment, by his own conduct, stamp authenticity upon these statements, and not only confirm the suspicions which are entertained in the province, but also raise against himself a powerful party among the honest and independent por tion of the inhabitants of Lisbon and Oporto ? 1 The malice of the report is hardly so great as its absurdity. It is right to add that it has reached our Government through a demi-official source not of the purest character, and that the Tories, having become acquainted with this fact, have not hesitated to assert that Ministers have ob tained the full assurance that Don PEDRO really contemplates the dethronement of his daughter. When Lord PALMERSTON shall make up his mind to send no more Tory am bassadors abroad, he and his colleagues will be no longer misled by such ridiculous communica tions. We understand that the Earl of DURHAM will, in consequence of ill health, leave England, in the course of a fortnight, for the Continent. His departure will set at rest the rumours of his being about to join the Ministry. Indeed, if the Noble Earl were willing to take office, we do not see how, after his recent liberal declara tions, he could do so without some material modifications of the Cabinet. The accession of the Noble Earl to the more liberal portion of the Ministry, may not, however, be very distant, notwithstanding his intended departure for the Continent. The Spanish mail arrived this morning. The accounts from Gibraltar, from Cadiz, and from the principal places of the south of Spain, con tinue to state that tranquillity exists, and that there is not even the appearance of any rising in favour of Don CARLOS. The QUEEN'S Government has become very popular in the southern provinces, on account of remission of duties on commerce ; particularly at Cadiz, in , abolishing the gate duties, which were very heavy upon goods imported. Some sensation has, it seems, been created in the City by a paragraph in one of the Morning Papers of this day, announcing that most of the Ministers were gone on a visit to the Duke of BEDFORD, at Woburn Abbey. The specula tors are at a loss to conceive what important circumstance have led to this visit. They will find on reference to The Run of vpstprd.v. that tliscussing politics at Woburn, are on a shooting party, and that they will discuss nothing in the country but pheasants and partridges. Of all the exquisite pieces of doltish absurdity it can WI to the lot of a journalist of the nine teenth century to record, none can excel a dis play made last week by certain landowners of the county of Bucks. It is indeed so rich of its kind, that the idea has once or twice passed through our minds that the Windsor Express, which narrates it, has been hoaxed by some clever rascal who owes the gentlemen of Bucks a grudge, and has taken this mode of bringing them into contempt. The object and motives of the meeting to which we allude, are thus detailed by our provincial contemporary : " On Tuesday last, according to notice, a public meet ing of the owners and occupiers of land in the counties of Bucks and Berks was held at the Windmill Inn, Salthill, to consider the expediency of the proposed railroads from London to Bristol, and from London to Windsor. " The knowledge of its beim!, the intention of the directors of these roads to apply to Parliament at the next se , sion, for an Act to carry into execution their intended plans, had caused great sensation among the owners and occupiers of land through whose Grounds it was the in tention of the Company to direct their line of road. The farmers imagined that no great advantages could be rendered them through the introduction of such a plan, for this neighbourhood being an agricultural district had, therefore, no manufactut, a to export, as Manchester had ; and, as to the imports, it was likely that the produce of Ireland would be largely sent to the metropolis, by the cheap facility of carriage afforded to the Irish farmer, and could be nn other than injurious to the agriculturists in these counties, besides the peat havoc and destruction it must naturally commit upon their estates and lands." This is no libel, except in so far as it is true ; or it actually appears, by the proceedings of the meeting, that there are things having the faculty of speech, and therefore complimented as be. longing to the rational part of the creation, who, i❑ the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, talked of the injury that would result to them from facility of communication between the metropolis and the remoter parts of the empire ! The meeting, we are told, was numerously attended by the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. Lord ORKNEY, who has property in the county, and who takes in this matter an enlightened view of his own interest, stated to them the advantages that would accrue to the whole line :of country through which the railway was to pass. He represented to them that many hands in his neighbourhood were now out of employment, from mills having ceased to work ; that the mills might possibly be set to work again, if they could get coals carried to Maidet;- head for 2s. per ton, instead of 125., the sum now paid ; that, at any rate, they would have the benefit of employing their idle hands in the construction of the railway ; that they should get all commodities at a cheaper rate ; that it would enable them to take their produce to market cheaper and quicker ; that poor rates would he lessened, that the rents would be raised, &c. But all would not do; the farmers of Buckinghamshire have got it into their wise heads that they will be injured by facilitating the arrival of provisions from Ireland to the London market, and a mathematical demonstration to the contrary would not, probably, move the com posed ignorance upon which they rest. Some days back we referred to the opposition which landowners in the neighbourhood of London raised to the improvement of the communications with the metropolis years ago ; but we referred to it as to a matter of history, as to a matter with respect to which the eyes of ever) one were now open. We acknowledge that this was a capital blunder, for it requires but a second thought to show that the men who oppose the introduction of corn from abroad under the idea of being in jured by the prosperity it would occasion in our manufactures, must in like manner oppose its introduction from any where else. Accord. ingly, the farmers of Bucks, by their good will, would deny every part of the country, except Buckinghamshire, the power of supplying the metropolis with provisions. A philosopher of antiquity, whom the Bucks farmers certainly do not resemble, has said, " Bray a fool in a mortar, and he will still turn out a fool." We should have said that the case of these gentlemen was equally hopeless, that even grinding them tinder the wheels of a steam-carriage would not convince them of its power, did we not see that the landowners near London, at least, are convinced that they have not suffered by the free introduction of food into the metro polis, and that the people of Bridgewater,—as Mr. ROBARTS on Tuesday told his incredulous, because ignorant hearers,—who, when the Man chester and Liverpool Railroad Bill was intro duced into Pa:Ex:lc:sat, oppo;Gd the measure most strenuously, on account of the line o►` road passing through the town, are now strongly in its favour. But although these are proofs that the peculiar•minded race who oppose all the improvements which reason suggests, have really some ideas in common with those around them, have some glimmering of what is their interest when put within an inch of their noses, although invisible to them at a distance of two inches, — although we say these striking facts do present themselves to us, it is clear that the advocates of a free trade in food will have a hard task in their attempts to enlighten their opponents. A specimen of some of the balderdash swallowed by the Salthill meeting, will serve to show the deplorable ignorance both of the utterer and the audience which could hear it with patience. A. Mr. MAURICE SWABEY has the honour of fathering the following select bits:— " The people of Bristol tv, re not to blame for thus en deavouring to get up a railroad. It was no mere than the county of Bucks would do, under similar circum stances. He had resided at Clifton, near Bristol, and was nit unacquainted with their views. He bad some know ledge of the county of Gloucester, and could speak of her grievances. Bristol was anxious to get her trade back again, which she now had so little of, and this road would be the means of relieving her of her burdens. Many gentlemen in Gloucestershire would assist in the forma tion of the road, but under present circumstances, that assistance could be but little. Bucks would thus confer more benefits on Gloucestershire, than Gloucestershire could grant to Bucks. Some gentlemen argue that the railroad would confer great benefits upon Bueks, by the employment of those out of work. It might employ many in want of something to do, but the evil would be very great ultimately. The general accounts re specting the rates in Bucks state them to be very high ; but do they expect that, in return, Bristol will come forward to assist them ? Instead of to the expenses. Not only would those unemployed in the neighbourhood be put to work, but there would be a large influx of labourers from different parts cf England, nay, even Ireland ! Beer-shops would be increased, and, instead of giving assistance to the different tradesmen round the neighbourhood, they would resort to the beer houses, where their morals and habits would become depraved, to the great injury of the neighbourhood around. Gen tlemen in that room would soon perceive the dif. ferenee. It would be giving employment to a num ber of persons of the lowest class, such as navigators, Irish labourers, and others, who would flock to these counties. One class of persons would, he thought, benefit by the road—the innkeepers. The railroad going through Slough, Colnbrook, &c., would enable the tradesmen to send to town much quicker, but that, he considered, was no particular advantage. The principal advantage, again, might be urged—that it would afford the produce of Ireland, which is freighted across to Bristol in the num berless vessels, to proceed from that port to London much quicker. But the farmers of this county had the produce of their own land. It might cause the produce of Ire land to be sold cheaper, but what assistance would that be to the farmer? Even if Parliament should grant the Act, he could see nothing beneficial in the plan, but could view it in no other light than as a visionary scheme. It was benefiting Bristol at the expense of Bucks and Berks. It was regaining for Bristol what she had already lost. He had no hesitation in coming to these conclu sions, for what was benefiting Bristol was destructive to them. Buckinghamshire was an agricultural county, and not a manufacturing county, and for that reason he ob. jected to it." The trash is too sickening for us to go on fur ther. The meeting concluded by a subscription being made to defray the expenses of a committee, which should oppose the Bill, and the expression of a wish for the county Members to aid it. Phrenologists propose to discover the capacities of men by examining and comparing the degree of development in certain parts of the skull, but . . the Bucks farmers have a much readier method of discovering the fitness of candidates to re- present them. They have only to put them in a row, take a yard rule, measure off the length of their ears, and the question is resolved to a icety. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY M A RKETS.—(A t per Load of 36 Trusses.) C UM BERL AND. A limited supply, and a steady trade; prices as last quoted. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 5 to .t 3 10 Vew Meadow Hay 3 15 4 10 Useful Old Ditto 3 13 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 5 4 10 Clover Hay 4 5 4 10 Oat Straw......£l 6to £1 8 I Wheat Straw , 1 8 1 10 SMITHFIELD. Supply tolerably good, trade dull, and prices stationary. Coarse neavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5 qew Meadow Hay 3 10 4 5 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fi n e Upland Meadow and Rye-gra ss H ay ..... Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 0 ..Generally ,„ 3 5 4 10 oat Straw ... XI 4to X 1 6 1 Wheat Straw 1 8 1 10 We are concerned to state that on Monday evening last some miscreant set fire to a large bean rick, standing in the rick yard of Mr. William Phillip., at Bicester, in this county. A reward of 501. has been offered by the inhabitants of Bicester, on conviction of the diabolical incendiary.— Oxford Journal. An immense shoal of pilchards passed within a quarter of a mile of St. Ives Head, on Sunday last, sup posed to extend not less than two miles in length, and being of considerable depth. There were not many of the scans in readiness, and but three catches were made ; had the pilchards appeared on any other day, it is be- lieved that a quantity would have been taken sufficient to fill all the cellars in the place.—The Mount's Bay seans were put out, and have been on the alert ever since; but though large shoals of fish were seen off the coast, they did not approach sufficiently near to enable the seans to shoot. One of the driving-boats took ten, and another took five hogsheads of pilchards on Tuesday night; some of the other boats took smaller quantities.—Devonport Telegraph. FINE ARTS. HEATH'S BOOK OF BEAUTY FOR 1834. LONDON, 1833. If a good name be half the secret of success in books, paintit gs, or engravings, then may :Tr. Heath congratulate himself on the title of his present illustrations. A better could not have been chosen. The Book of Beauty ! The very name disarms criticism. Who could sit coldly and seriously down to hunt out the defects of such a work ? The great merit of the illus trations before us, is, that they wear all the appearance of being portraits. There is no fanciful exaggeration—no angelic perfection, with all its coldness and insipidity, about them. They are " of the earth, earthly," containing just enough of the ideal to elevate without injuring the truth of nature. They abound in blonde and brunette beauties, and between the two specimens our judgment is in such a state of perplexity, that we may exclaim with Macheath, when puzzled to divide between the claims of Lucy and Polly— " How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." Among the loveliest gems we may mention the " Portrait of Lady Blessington," which is that of a gorgeous, queenlike beauty, with a black, flashing eye of fire, a superb forehead, and a neck such as Canova loved to model from. As a work of art, this engraving deserves high praise. Nothing can be more transparent than the rich lace veil, through which the finely rounded arm peeps out. " Francesca," also, and " Ro salie," are full of ease and simplicity. The for„►er, which we believe is a portrait, breathes the soul of tenderness and sensibility. The re maining engravings are of average merit. PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. Mr. Lockhart, whose authority no man can question, has pronounced this portrait, by Si r Thomas Lawrence, of his illustrious relative, to be by far the best he has yet met with. Of its fidelity, as a likeness, we cannot speak; but it is full of a certain calm, thoughtful, intellectua expression, such as we have always understood was the predominant character of Sir Walter's countenance. He is represented sitting in his easy chair, absorbed in reverie, shaping out pos sibly some such delightful creation as Jeannie Deans. The upper part of the countenance, the grizzled eye-brows overhanging the small thoughtful eye ; the towering, dome-like fore head, with the silver hairs scattered over it, are in Lawrence's most expressive manner. The eye is especially characteristic. The portrait, without being so poetic or bold as one of Land seer's, is full of ease and grace, and that quiet gentlemanlike dignity which belongs more or less to all the male likenesses of the late Pre sident. The engraving is worthily executed by Robinson. MISS PEEL. Another of Sir Thomas Lawrence's por traits. A lovely little girl is seated on the foreground of a landscape, patting a favourite dog. Her countenance is full of childhood in its restless, inquisitive character, and speaks of hour after hour hurrying by with sunshine on its winaq. A marriar 04V , * There is something also of a wild gipsey look about it, which greatly enhances its charm. In this delightful portrait, Sir Thomas gives us more landscape than is his wont. We have a peep at some distant hills ; a half-seen brooklet tvimp/ing along through meadows ; and a bit of an old ruin, looking very solemn and mysterious —as all respectable ruins should do. In a word, our late President has here ambitioned, and suc ceeded in, the picturesque. The engraving is by Cousins. It is not in his best manner, be traying, here and there, marks of haste and slovenliness, especially in the handling of the perspective, which is confused and undefined, and conveys neither an idea of nearness nor remoteness. Cousins has evidently restricted his attention to the portrait, which is admirably executed. The rest of the picture he has left to shift for itself. LITERATURE. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. LONDON, 1833. Another of Miss Austen's admirable tales, which needs no helping hand of ours to uplift into popularity. It forms the thirtieth volume of the " Standard Novels," and we much ques tion whether a more perfect one is to be found in th e whole series. Miss Austen is our best, because our most scrupulous, domestic annalist. There is more truth in her „fictions than in half theficts of Hume. They constitute a sort of history of the private habits and peculiarities of the middle classes, to which Miss Austen exclu sively confines herself. She never sacrifices pro priety to point, or allows fancy to get the better of judgment. Her dialogues, which are her main excellence, seem transcripts taken verbatim from life, and strike the reader by their rigid, unswerving verisimilitude. Not a speech, not a sentence, but is in perfect keeping with the character that utters it. What for instance can be more appropriate than the pompous inanities put into the mouth of Mr. Collins the toad eater, or the sententious, epigrammatic language of Mr. Bennett the shrewd cynic ? The reader might almost fancy that at one time or other he had overheard their conversation. Yet though i\liss Austen's dialogues have quite a matter-of fact air, there is nothing dull or trite about them. e lends freshness even to a common-place. She has also a fine conception of an oddity ; delights in showing him up—in turning him inside out. And all this she does in the quietest and most unconscious manner possible, as if s h e were the very soul of innocence and simpli city ! It is infinitely to her credit, that with a talent for caricature, little, if at all, inferior to Madame D'Arblay, she has yet had the good sense to make it the slave, not the master, of her judgment. It is the fashion of the present day— one of the dullest, thanks to political economy, since the Deluge—to underrate the intellect of the novelist, just as if Pope's aphorism " the noblest study of mankind is man," were worth nothing. To those who thus ignorantly or wilfully depreciate one of the rarest tnenta faculties, whose high object it is to show forth " the very age and substance of the time, its form and pressure," for the amusement of the present, and the benefit of future, generations, we would recommend the works of Miss Austen. A few years hence, when the age shall have slept off the composing draughts administered to it by Macculloch and the disciples of his school—who by their writings evidently think it impossible that a man may be prosed to death—such con summate works of art, as "Pride and Prejudice" will be more highly appreciated than ever. The body of a respectably dressed middle aged female was last evening taken nut of the ornamental piece of water in the Regent's Park, by Sergeant Hooker, 3 D., and policeman Saunders, 111 D., and conveyed to the St. Marylebone Infirmary, where it now lies awaiting the Coroner's Inquisition. On her person was found 18 shillings and a few halfpence. It has since been ascertained the unfortunate female resided in East-street, Manchester-square. SPAIN.—The Royal Calendar for next year announces the eldest daughter of the late King Ferdinand, Isabella IL, horn the 10th of October, 1838, having suc ceeded, according to this record to the throne of her father, who died 20th of last March. Maria Louisa, her sister, was born the 30th January, 1832. As some men were clearing a cesspool in Wellington-street, St. Benedict's, they found at the bottom three chamber lamps, which appeared of great antiquity. Not supposing them of any value, they were sold at a small price. One of them being sent to a jeweller's to be cleaned, it was discovered to be silver, of curious workmanship, and at least 300 years old. ^ Norwich Mercury. EXTRAORDINARY HOPPING.—On Tuesday last, in the Castle-green, a fine young man, for a wager of a sovereign, covered the length of a hundred and one yards in twenty-nine bops. The wager was a hundred yards in thirty-two hops. The first twelve hops averaged full four yards each. The feat is, we believe, without a parallel.—Hereford Times. Mr. Phipps, Mr. Scott, and other Magis trates of the Devizes Division, assisted by Mr. Ludlow, one of the Magistrates of the Melksham division, have been busily engaged in examining evidence relat ng to the four men who are in custody, on suspicion of setting fire to the ricks of Mr. Compton of Urchfont ; and from what was elicited, they thought it necessary, on Wedtb s day, to proceed to Urchfont, where they examined some witnesses on the spot. In short, they are acting with a vigilance and promptitude in this business which do them infinite honour, and entitle them to the gratitude of the whole neighbourhood. But such is the lawless state of Ureb font, that—notwithsanding the wretches of that parish must be aware that they are narrowly watched, and that a most awful punishment awaits them in case of convic tion,—on Siturday night last they had the temerity to set fire to another barley tick, the produce of about twelve a.-res, the property of Mr. Butler; and whilst the flames were raging, they gave evident symptoms of the delieht they took in the scene ; and early on Sunday morning, actually danced in triumph around the expiring embers ! I About a load of the barley had, by great exertions, been preserved from the fire, and was placed a short distance from where it formerly stood, and it is a fact, th it while the better portion of the parish were engaged in their devotions on the Sunday forenoon, an attempt was made to consign this remaining part of the rick t, the fl mes. Perceiving, however, that they were observed, they went off without accomplishing their pur pose.--A great number of the labourers of this parish appear to be in the last stage of demoralization ; and some of the women would di-grace either St.G les's or Billings• gate . their threats and imprecations, on the apprehension of the men now in custody, were truly horrid. The pay masters, although very severely burthened, are in general kind and attentive to the sick and necessitous ; and i high rate of wages is given to the labourer ; but,--and this is one way of accounting for the state of the parish, nearly the whole of the wages is spent at the a!e-house ! Salisbury Herald. A PARISIAN DANDY IN 1790.—The Ladies' Magazine for the above year contains the follow. ing Paris Fashions for June for Gentlemen. The coat of velvet cloth, with sky blue cape, buttons of goat's hair. The hair one plain curl, en ailes de pigeon. The cravat of fine cambric, as well as the ruffles and frill, which are in large plaits. Waistcoat of orange casimir, trimmed with D....A.,,, also or orange casitnir, with ribbands of the same colour as gaiters, white silk stockings, and shoes tied with black ribbands, forming roses. A large made up stick, ornamented, and concraiing a tuck. [How have 44 years changed the costume in Paris. A dandy of 1790 would now attract a greater crowd in the Boulevards than a mountebank !] SUPPLIES FOR PORTUGAL.—Since the Ist instant, the following vessels have been fitted out for Lisbon by the agents of Donna Maria in this country : March. Captain James Adams, with 2,500 muskets, 1,000 sets of clothing, accoutrements, &c. ; Osprey, William Payne, 700 muskets, 1,800 great coats, 3,500 shirts ; Isabel, Captain Stone, 1,500 muskets, 3,000 pairs of boots, 2,000 great coats, 6,000 shirts; from Dublin per Castor and Union, 1,000 muskets, 1,000 sets of accoutrements.-- Glasgow Courier. DARING ROBBERY.----EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.-At the Stockport Police Court, on Wednesday last, Charles Wilson was charged with stealing a truss, containing 21 pieces of spun silk handkerchiefs, the pro perty of Mr. John Legh Newton, silk.tnanufacturer, Waeerleo-road. He was secured and taken to the Wel. lington Bridge Inn and a constable sent for. On being placed in the tap-room, with Bell for his keeper, who for an instant only had turned his back to the prisoner, he threw up the window sash, and had the daring to leap a distance of 38 feet to the ground ! Bell could hardly be lieve that his bird had so instantaneously flown ; but, nevertheless, Wilson was again secured before he had well recovered from the shock given to the system, occa sioned by the fall. Fears, however, being entertained that the prisoner must have received some injury, he was c trried to the Dispensary, which is close by, when it was found that he was "all right," and a removal to the town's prison would not be attended with any danger. On his way to the New Bailey, Wilson told E Want, the officer, that he did not jump through the window because he hail committed or knew anything about the theft, but that lie disliked to be scandalized by being placed in the lock-ups; nd when before the Magistrate he denied also any know ledge of the felony. He was committed to Knutsford for trial.—Macclesfield Herald. CORONER'S INQUEST.—MURDER.— Yes terday afternoon an inquest was held at the Rose and Crown Tavern, Union-street, before Mr. R. Carter, coroner for Surrey, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Bed well, aged sixty-three, late of Southwark-square, whose death was occasioned by a stab on the left side, infi cted by the band of her husband. Since the dreadful occur rence took place, the husband of the deceased has been confined in the county gaol, where it was found necessary to kt ep a strict watch upon him, owing to the excessive state of Irritation of mind under which he has laboured ever since. We gave the particulars of the murder at full length, in our paper last week. After hearing evidence, in which there was little or no novelty, the Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against the deceased's husband, who will be tried at the next Surrey Assizes, which commence at Kingston on the 9th of December. A fact was mentioned i❑ the room, which, however, did not come out in the course of the investiga tion, confirmatory of Mr. Bedwell'a insane state of mind. He has been for a great number of years master of a merchant ship, and recently on a homeward bound voyage from Constantinople to England, he betrayed suAt decided symptoms of insanity, that it was found necessary to take the command of the vessel out of his hands, he being totally unfit to manage it, and place it in those of the chief mate. The parish authorities were bound over to prosecute. MANIFESTATION OF THE SPIRIT.--WC have heard much of late of manifestations of the spirit in the south; an I perhaps, if rightly named, they should have rather been called manifestations of madness or fanaticism ; but in the chapel of the Rev. Hugh Hart, on Sabbath even ing last, a manifestation of the spirit, to the very spirit and letter of the word, did occur. " People," said the Rev. Hugh Hart, " psople need not, to get to hell, abuse themselves with drink, and ruin their constitution as well as their soul—they may go to hell fast enough, and yet attend church three times every Sunday," and then went on with a tirade against hypocrisy, which was descrilwd as worse than open drinking. I don't like to contradict you, Sir, but you are fairly wrong," roared out a man standing up in the body of the chapel; " you are wrong, I assure you, Sir." The audience were astounded—the Rev. Hugh Hart maintained his equilibrium and intona tion, and went on, when two of his officials speedily ejected this candidate for the " tongues," who turned out to be a quack, whose name bespatters the walls of the city.—Aberdeen Observer. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE -(T DAY•) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Nov. 25. —Wind S. W., light breezee.- 110 outward-bound remain. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind W. to N. FALMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.' fresh breezes and squally.—Arri#ed the Hope, Hicks, foul Labradore. FOWEY, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Royal Adelaide, from Quehee. BRIDPORT, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Calypso, Grosso' from Miramiehi. BRISTOL, Nov. 25.—Arrived the Rokeby, and Ci ( g r cord, Johns, from Quebec; Good Hope, Skymer, fog ° Naples ; and Freedom, from Smyrna. GLOUCESTEk, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Triton, Foster' from Deni 4. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Warsawi from N.tv Orleans ; Nautilus, Copeland, from New York; Pekin, Hutchinson, and Egyptian, Mortimer, from Q ue. bee ; R. W. Harris, Feny, from St. John's, New Brun?' wick . Alexander, Russell, and Rye, from Mirarnichl,; Jo n Atkins, Wilson, from B a y Ch a l eur ; Marv, Pipe t 'rom Crania; and Ad e l a id e , R et f or d , from Lisb on. port t le Harkaway, from Virginia ; and Charlotte, Slos°' fro n Quebec. SrANGATE CREEK, Nov. 25 —Arrived the Bdellietal Nebolson, from Odessa; Sceptre, Howes, from Zinte; Starling, Annard, and Amethyst, Thompson, from Pd: lermo ; Martha, Robson, from Messina; St. JoseP" A legro, from Genoa; James, Cole, and Superb, Williaaol from Denia ; Hermanos, Echevarria, from Salon ; 3 ' l ' 4 N ptune, Ygerthe, from Barcelona. RAMSGATE, Nov. 25.—Arrived off port the SprigbtlP Newton, from Lisbon. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Arrived off port the Wilva rart, Winter, from Berbice; and Ruchera, from Que"ec• AMSTERDAM, Nov. 21.—The Henrich , Visser, from Norway to Carolinzyl, was stranded on the 2d inst. The Orion, Waysund, from Hawburgh to Naatz, irs l stranded on the 2d inst., at Guist. The Mary Ann, M'D mn-11, at Exeter, was driven oa shore near Brideford, on Sunday, and, it was feared, would be wrecked. The Catherine, Brune, from Ghent to Leca, was abaa• (loped on the 4th inst., off the Weser. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Cleveland, Morley, from Bombay, has arrived jo the Downs; sailed 26:h June, and from St. Helena, 29th Septejnb-r. The Helen Man, Benson, from Launceston, has arrive! in the Downs; sailed 13th July. HOBART TowN.—Arrivals.—The Tamar, f ro m Por . t Arthur, 24th May, and sailed 2d June, for Macros:ll e Harbour ; the Harlequin, from Sydney, 17th June ; t" Defiance, from Sydney, 19th; the Prince Regent, fro'' , unceston, 22d. Departure.—The Blackbird, for Sydney, 19th June. LAUNCESTON.—Arrivals.—Th e Freak, from Hober t Town, a nd P r i nce R egent, from Sydney, 9th June; the E izabeth, from Sydney, on the 11th, and sailed the 19th , for whaling ; the Leslie, Ogilvie, for the Cape, 18th. BOSIBA r. —Departut es.—The Runnymede, for Trinco• m +lee, sth June; and the John, Craig, for the MauritiUS 22d June. j We regret to learn that in the neighbourhood of Winchester, Alton, and other parts of Hampshir e ' highway robbery is becoming extremely prevalent. LIVERPOOL CORPORATION INQUIRY. ---. This investigation, which commenced three weeks lig ° l still continues. The inquiry into the constitution and in tnigement of the Dock Estate has occupied nearly MI" half the time of the Commissioners. The I:st three or f air days have been devoted to the hearing of the con plaints of individuals against the corporation, and sugge P tons for the better government of the town. The CA n " missieeners expect to close their labours this day. The execution of John S , allan, convicted at the last assizes of setting fire to premises at Great Sli d ' ford, in this county, and respited till the 7th of Decemb er next, will take place that day.—Cambridge Paper. A farther advance has taken place of three pence per day in the wages of workmen in the collier/6 and ironworks in this vicinity.—Sh rews b ury ch ro niele• Dr. Cartwright, D ean of Ripon, preac hing 01 H m a sermon of King Jun es .'s promisesmade to Pal le ment, which were then the common aibject of discos 6e _ and complaint, said, " th at t h e King's promises were fir . donations, and not to b e t oo str i ct l y exam i ne d or urged, and that they must leave his Majesty to explain his ow" meaning in them." The King was so delighted with ‘lsai he rewarded the author with the bishopric of Chester, as an encouragement to 'ether clergymen. JUNIUS FURTHER IDENTIFIED. —li is imp .ssible from circumstantial evidence to establish stronger pro ifs that Sir Philip Francis was the author of "Junieja Letters" than Mr. T•iylor has already done, in a n i t interesting volu me p u bli s h e d some years ago, and wh ica was further confirm e d by an exten d e d art i cle on t h e su bjec t in the Edinburgh Review, said to be written by the late Sir Jimes Macinto s h. U n l ess the ce'ebrated COPY ° " Junius's Letters," bound in vellum expressly for the author, and sent to him by Mr. Woodfall, the publish er ' could he produced, in the possession of any other pe rso° ' Mr. Taylor, however, with additional industry a nd to in this long cont es t e d cause , i s preparing to Po bli : further identiti e s, t en di ng to prove that John C a lcrtot; Esq., the well-kno tvn army agent, was the colleague 0' Sir Philip Francis in the concoction of these letters. I I Mr. Watts (erroneously designated W a tt in a lu the Journals), the pr o p r i e t or o f B y fi eld House Acadetoi,,4 t , Barnes, whose only d aug ht er recent l y met her death PI swallowing in a moment of excitement a too copit . draft of Eau de C o l ogne , i s t h e b rot h er of Mr. Al° A. Watts. A most daring attack was made on th e , Keepers of J. E. A. Starkey, Esq., of Spye Park, on the night of Wednesd a y l as t. Th e K eeper b eing on the 10 out for poachers, soon discovered a man whom be 'V I ' about to t a k e i n t o custo d y, w h en he was immed i ate 'l surrounded by about twenty others, all armed with s word' , bayonets, bludgeons, &c. They rescued their companil and then to o k th e K eeper ' s r ifl e from him, which one ° them had the hardihood to snap at him, but fortunate l y it missed fire. They then proceeded to tie his blin d ! behind hi m , an d a f ter h av i ng h ound him to a tree, him all night in that deplorable condition. Mr. StarkeY has offered the following very handsome reward, viz. 50 guineas on the conviction of the man who seized the ride; 50 on the conviction of him who snapped it at the Keeper ; and 10 guineas for each conviction of any of the other parties present.—Salisbury Herald. TRICKS IN ALL TRADES.—A young aspv rant to the ministry of the Church of Scotland was called upon to hold forth, in a neighbouring parish church so frequently and unexpectedly, that be at length began to find some difficulty in causing the work of composition to furnish a supply equal to the dem Ind. But although he was lacking in sermons, it will be seen he lacked nothing in wit. Accordingly, that the produce might ke e p pace with the consumption, he came to the conclusion, that there could he no harm in borrowing from wiser heads; and in due time began, among others to quote more than largely from Blair. All this might have passed off very well, had it not turned ou: that, among his most a , tentive auditors was an " auld Judas o' a wife," who had hap pened to get hold of a stray volume of Blair—with the contents of which she was as familiar as her name.—Ale got smoothly enough over matters fur the first Sabbath ; but on the second—horribile dictu—what was hi s sur prise, on giving out his text, to behold, with a side glance of his eye, the old woman sitting in a sly corner, and with most provoking composure, open up the very volume which contained, at least, the gist of his discourse. " What did you do in such a critical dilemma ?" inquired a sympathizing reverend brother, to whom the preacher (now a most respectable miniver of the Church) had many years afterwards been telling the story. " What did do?" he replied, " why I quietly stole a march on the old woman—l just turned over twa leaves, and after that she coudna cast saut on my tail."—Stirling Journal. 1 EXTRAORDINARY TURNIP.—A turnip of the globe species, of extraordinary size and symmetry, was pulled about ten days ago from a field on the farm of Mr. James Hood, Kirkland Hill, E ist Lothian. When pulled it weighed, shaw and all, 27 others lea. I t of t extraordi nary 37 inches in circumference, 12k inches in diameter, and 10 inches in depth. From there measurements, the beau tiful symmetry of the turnip may be easily conceived. dimensions taken from the same field, although none le t i lie m m de s r o st l a :L i e t o hl :w t e b l e l fe p ‘ r v o e pl in tio a n n e y d as the one we have described.— Scotsman. BLACK GAME IN WALES.—His Grace the Duke of Newcastle very lately received from Scotland several brace of black grouse, which have been turned out at Haford. They were brought into Wales by a Highlander, and it is hoped the breed will be allowed to increase, that Cerdiganshire may once more be stocked with so fine a description of game. The immortal Locke was a first-rate piquet player, being fir more distinguished for that taiimt in Oxford than for his metaphysics. VII