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' .' ,iiou ' . 1, ' ----.S____)__Z r_r: ' '---"--'-- FAMILY ENDOWMENT SOCIETY.- Provide n t parties may assure to their kindred or Friends erovision for every contingency of life at a small cost. Full particulars, and an Explanatory Pamphlet, may be had gratis at the Society's Office, No. 12, Chatham Place, Black friars. EDINBURGH VETERINARY COLLEGE. PROFESSOR DICK will commence his COURSE of LECTURES on VETERINARY ME DICINE, on MoNoAv, the 11th :November, at Seven r.m. The Course embraces the Anatomy, Physiology, and Patho logy of the Domestic Animals, and will be illustrated by Prac tical Demonstrations, and Preparations of Morbid Anatomy. Those Students who obtain Diplomas are eligible to serve as 'Veterinary Surgeons in her Majesty's Army, and in that of the Hon. East India Company. Clyde-street, Oct. 10, 1839. , TUESDA or a copy thereof to be taken, or refusing to declare his true name and place of residence, also incurs a penalty of 20/. Gamekeepers are desired to take notice that a Certificate at the rate of 11. 55., will not authorise any person to kill Game beyond the limits of the Manor for which he is deputed; and ; in order that a Certificate at such rate of Duty may protect a Gamekeep er , it i s requ i site, not only that he should e deputed by some Lord or Lady of the Manor or reputed Manor, but also that smell deputation should be registered with the Clerk of the Peace, or the Gamekeeper will be liable to be surcharged in double the Duty of 31. 13s. 6d., and also to be prosecuted by any common informer for the penalty of 201. It is the intention of the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes to publish in a separate List the names and residences of all persons surcharged in double Duty for sporting without Certi ficates. RUSSELL HOTEL, PIAZZA, COVENT.GARDPN. Bed, 2s. ; Plain Breakfast, ls. 6d. p SALTER respectfully submits the above • scale of Charges to Gentlemen making a short stay in the Metropolis either for business or pleasure; and begs to assure them they will not be subjected to any additional outlay for tavern expenses, except ls. 6d. per day for Waiters, Boots, Chamber Maid, &c. —Admittance at any hour of the Night. Warm and Cold Baths always ready. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. PRICE OF SUGAR. ~y'S 'N'-~. GAME DUTY, 18419. LONDON, WESTMINSTER, AND MIDDLESEX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY, (From the Courier.) It may be gathered, from an occasional pompous pro gress down the Thames, of Lord !!Tinto, attended by his satellite Lords of the Board, all splendidly stowed in the Admiralty barge, with their improvements ostentati ously chronicled in the Court Circular, relieved by a land tour to the more distant ports of Portsmouth and Ply mouth, so as to save the mat de mer and other perils of the sea, that the state of the arsenals has actually en gaged some portion of their Lordships' attention. The results indeed have been paraded in Parliament, and the stock-taking of spars and masts, and ropes and canvass, flourished about with a fluency enough to provoke the admiration of a ship-builder or a ship's-husband. There was, moreover, a whisper of some intended survey of ports and coast defences, preliminary to plans for repairs, or perhaps the construction of fresh works. We learn now that such a survey is actually in progress, and that latterly those to whom the task has been committed have been excited to greater diligence, so that time may be af forded,after the presentation of reports, for the preparation of the necessary estimates to be laid before the Legislature in the coming Session. These precautions and this show of vigour, so late in the day, would seem to indicate a sense of danger, in one or more quarters, from without, which, coupled with the ominous transfer of Admiral Fleming from active service to Greenwich Hospital, has attracted public attention if not treated uneasiness. For this we are bound to declare that sufficient grounds are not wanting ; but the strongest of all perhaps may be found in the " pompous tale" of that Gazette by which the Gatlant Admiral has been proclaimed unfit for service afloat or in port, dismantled and laid up in ordinary for the remainder of his days. Most of our Contemporaries are, no doubt, justified in de nouncing this flagrant abuse of patronage by the Government ; but on more full consideration we are in clined to credit the Cabinet for a policy more refined than at first sight would appear, and that the next best thing to superannuating the Admiral, or permanently placing him on half-pay, which in the face of all the embattled clan of all the official Elliotts, was ❑ot to be thought of, was to buy him off even at the costly charge of that noble Hospital, where all around and about may tell of battles he never witnessed, and point out their wounds to him who never felt a scar. For with danger growing more imminent and the foe creeping into light, it was necessary to clear the decks and prepare the vessel of the State for action. (From the Globe.) London, Oct. 21, 1839. Sib—ln an article under the head of the Price of Sugar, inserted in your excellent Journal of the 17th instant, I perceive, after contrasting the prices of West Indian and Foreign Sugars, you proceed to state th at " it is utterly impost ble to suppose that an honest and Liberal Administratio n will continue to permit the pub lic at large to be defrauded in the price of sugar as they have been, for the mere purpose of enriching the co lonists." Relying on your well-known impartiality for the insertion, in your valuable columns, of this letter, which is written with a view to clear myself and my brother proprietors from the imputation which the latter part of the above quoted sentence conveys—and to demonstrate to your numerous readers, that although the excess of price paid by this nation in favour of West India Sugar over all other sorts, is undeniably ♦ery considerable, as is proved by the Gazelle and by the state of the mar kets—yet, that we unfortunate proprietors derive no benefit whatever from the fruits of a monopoly which flings nothing but odium on the colonists—while its effects are so costly to the British people. My estate, communibus minis, yields about two hundred hogsheads of sugar, which taken at 38s. per cwt. (the ex duty price) would give me a most profitable re turn, if it so happened that the charges arising out of of the island taxation, direct and indirect, as well as the costs for management and sales of the sugar in this country, were at all on an equality with those which re late to foreign sugars. You will, however, Mr. Editor, perceive, as I proceed with my statement, that the whole of the 16s. per cwt., which you show to he the excess, are swallowed up by charges over which I can exercise no control, and that the showers ofgold which fall from the sugar monopoly enrich particular classes, amongst which the ordinary proprietor is not to be found. I will, in the first place, take the direct taxa tion, namely, money raised for the purposes of paying exorbitant salaries, and other immoderate ex penses of the civil government of the island ; of keep ing in repair the Governor's house, &c., of forming canals and roads ,and otherwise improving the estates of a few of the influential colonial proprietors : the amount so raised, I find, on a calculation, to be equivalent to ss. per cwt. on the sugar exported. The second item, indi rect taxation, is difficult to trace, because the expenses accruing from it assail the pockets of the unfortunate proprietors in such a variety of shapes—it may, in fact, be taken as an increased change, more or less, upon every article they or their labourers require —whether for the agricultural uses and mercan tile transactions of the estate, or for their food, clothing, &c. It is a system of taxation peculiarly vexatious, from the knowledge we have that the imposts are entirely for the benefit of parties who have really no interests in the island beyond the money which pro tective laws enable them to drain from the colonial com munity ; besides, it enters into the question of wages to our labourers ; for it is fair to assume that if this favouritism towards the shipping interest of the mother country and towards the merchants of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, had no existence, that we hould not only procure lumber, food, and clothing at half the prices we now pay for them, but that the negro population, being able to supply their wants at easy rates, would be satisfied with MANSION-ROUSE. FLYING PUBLIC-HOUSES.—A young man, named Israel Abrahams, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, by Policeman Hall, No. 14, under the follow ing circumstances : The policeman stated that on Sunday morning, in consequence of directions which he had received, he kept his eye upon the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane. He soon noticed the prisoner going along towards Pet ticoat-square, and concealing something. Another per son, who appeared to be acting as a blind to screen him from observation, was heard to say, " All right ; cut along, Izzy," when witness bore down, and collared the prisoner, and took two bottles, apparently filled with spirits, from under his coat. " Take the bottles," said the defendant, "and let me cut my lucky." " Not at all," said witness, " you must come to the station-house, and prove that you are licensed to sell spirits," and lodged him safely there. He could get no sale for the commodity. The LORD Mavoa—You suspect that he was going to sell the contents in consequence of the closing of the public-houses ? Witness—Yes, my Lord ; he was provided with a glass too, and when I apprt headed him he broke it, and flung it away. The LORD MAYOR—WeII prisoner, what have you to say_? Who gave you leave to turn publican ? Pri soner—Why, my Lord, you see there was a party of gentlemen, and we was going up the river to spend the day, and I bought a bottle of rum and a bottle of gin on Saturday night for to take with the wittles. I wa'nt a going to sell it. The LORD MAYOR—Why, then, did you offer the bottles to the officer if he would let you go ? Prisoner —Me offer the bottles ! Its no sich a thing—quite the rewerse. It was he that said, I say says he, all I wants is the bottle—you may cut your stick ; but I would'nt, please you, my Lord, cos I wa'nt doing no harm, and I knowed it.—(A laugh.) Inspector Brake said that the attention of the police had been attracted to Petticoat-square, on account of the numbers of persons who were seen coming from that direction on Sunday morning in a state of drunken ness. The sale of spirits, or rather spirits and water, had been carried on there, he had heard, in a curious manner. A hackney coach with both doors open stood in the square, and there stood in it a flying publican, who served customers as they entered at one door and showed them out at the other. Witness put on plain clothes for the purpose of detecting the landlord, but the waterman, who was on the look out, cried aloud the moment he walked over to the coach, " Ah, Mr. Brake, how do you do ? I hope you'll find my coach in good order." That was a signal to shut up shop, and accordingly the landlord began to show respect for the Act of Parliament, and no more liquor was served to the customers who crowded the neighbourhood. Inspector Marchant stated that the barbers' shops in Petticoat-lane, no doubt, sold gin, or rather gin and water, to their customers on Sunday mornin g . Num bers of half-drunken people were seen coming from that r q a u l r t t h e a r t , y w e p l a l i shaved, dtl and, he w threepen ce p ene ee each in hs foraf or informed shave, b a s n e d v e a glass of Jacky was thrown in to confirm the bargain. The LORD MAYOR desired that the bottles should be opened and tasted. SECOND PUBLICATION. LIST OF PERSONS who have t a k en ou t GENERAL GAME CERTIFICATES at 31. 13s. 6d. each. __ TO COAL MERCHANTS, DEALERS, and OTHERS.—THREE HUNDRED TONS of COALS, Four powerful young Cart-Horses, two Wag gons, three Carts, Spring Van, Headed Chaise, four Barges, and a variety of useful articles suitable for a wharfinger, to be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. NORMAN, on the premi ses, Chester Wharf, No. 30, Lower Belgrave-place, Pimlico, at One o'clock precisely, on TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 1839. The above are offered under circumstances that will not admit -A any reserve. May be viewed the morning of sale, where Catalogues may be had; and of the auctioneer, 7, Cloak-lane, Queen -street, and 31, Edgware-road. Aldred, S. 8., Holborn-hill Aldridge, John, Mid dle Temple Allman, John, jun., Staines Anderson, James, Seymour place Appack, Thomas, Clapton Ashburnham, Hon. Charles, Traveller's Club, Pall-mall Jones, John, Islington .Juggins, W., James-street, Covent-garden Keats, J. H., Fulham Keppel, Major E. C., Kensing ton Kincard, John, 20, St. James's square With the Authority of his Majesty the EMPEROR et' AUSTRIA. Barnes, William, Esq., Bond street Battye, John, Newington-green Baugh, E., Brunswick-place Beard, Henry, Cannen-street and of the parish of Benen• den, Kent Bell, T. 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Finney, J. D., Furnival's-inn Fish, W. C., Goswell-r oad Fitzgerald, T. R., 18, Great Portland-street Fleming, J. W., Esq. , Chapel street Freake, P. A., Esq., :Belgrave square Fosbury, John, Esq., Hatchard Hotel Foster, F. J., Esq., Grosvenor place Fullager, Edwin, Great Carter lane Just published, T HE BRITISH AND FOREIGN RE VIEW, No, XVIII. less wages than those they at present demand for their labour. Taking one cost under this head with another, I am certain I am under the mark in setting the charge on the Sugar exported at Bs. per cwt. The third item of expense which exceeds that of the Foreign Colonist, consists in the charges paid to the West India merchants in this country. Since my arrival in Eng land, I have investigated these charges, and compared them with those made for the management and sale of Foreign Sugars, and I discover that the charge of Ds. 6d. per cwt. made on various pretences, by the West India merchants or consignees, just exceeds the total costs of disposing of Foreign Sugar (Brazil) by .ss. tid per cwt. The City Marshal, who is an excellent judge, will ingly undertook the office of taster, and upon whirling a couple of mouthfuls through his gums, he declared, with a grin that spoke volumes on the subject of adul teration, that it was all weak and bad. CONTENTS. I. Life of Joseph Brant Thayendenegea. 2. The State and the Church. 8. The African Slave Trave. 4. The Corn Trade.--. Neapolitan Agriculture. 5. The Confessions of a Thug. 6. The Dismemberment of Belgium. 7. Tytler's Reigns of Edward and Mary. 8. Remedial Measures for Ireland. 9. The Poems of Homer. The LORD MAYOR—Ay, they impose any wretched stuff upon the poor people. Inspector Merchant declared that he never saw so many well shaved people in his life come out of Petti coat-lane. The LORD MAYOR—No wonder that they should be well shaved, for some of them must have been shaved, according to what has been stated, a great many times.—(Laughter.) The prisoner said that he never handled a razor in his life. Sammey, James, John-street Portland Town Shelley, Sir John, Bart., Bel grave-square Sheppard, C. D., Hampstead• heath London : R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet• street :—Edinburgh: A. and C, Black :—Dublin : J. Cum. ming. Smith, William, Dowgate-hill Smith, Capt. Tim., Edmonton Smith, H. S., New-square, Lincoln's-inn The LORD MAYOR—WeII, you may take your gin and water. I have no proof before me that you were selling it, but the Excise I hope will be a match for your barbers' shops and your flying gin shops. Gage, :Admiral Sir William, Eaton-place Gage, John. Esq., Eaton-place Godfrey, George, Hanwell Goler, Henry, 106, Regent-st. Goodwin, William, Esq., Royal Mews Gordon, J. 8., Poplar Grove, Christopher, Esq., Bond-street South, Sir James, Kensington Southee, John, Kensington Southey, Alfred, Mincing-lane Steele, George, Carey-street Strachan, D., Esq., 100, Bond- Raines, W. C., Hampstead. heath Harding, William, 3, Johnson strFet Westminster Harrison, R. M. Fleet-street, H and Walvrorth asw e ll, Charles-street Hawkins, Col. ' Henry, 33, St. Jamees-place Hawkins, John, South-street Hayes, Frederick, Sunbury 'Terries, Right Hon. J. C., Albemarle-street Hicks, Francis, Esq., 7, Henri etta-street Hilder, Henry, Cheapside Holland, J., jun. , Fenchurch street, andClapham-common, Surrey Hood, Viscount Lord, 37, Not tingham -place Hood, the Hon. Captain, 37, Not tingh am- place Hooper, R. D., Queenhithe Hopegood, Andrew, GrosveHadley Howard, Hon. W., nor-1 street street Tappin, T. T., Hoxton Thorn, James, 2, Earl-street, Westminster Tilson, C• Furnival's-inn Toker, P. C., Doctor's-com- mons IToulmin, Henry, Clapton Tubb, Daniel, Esq., 9, Chapel street Vaughan, Sir John, Baron, illanchester-street Vere, John, Esq., Piccadilly Vyse, T. A. Hornsey Walker, R. 8., Esq. 27, Cur son-street Wanklyn, E., Esq., 36, Here ford-street Warburton, Henry, Chelsea Warburton, Dr. John, 5, Clif ford-street (Watts, William, Esq., South street Weekly, John, Hayes Wigram, William, 56, Upper Harley-street Wilde, W. J., 43, Carnaby street Williams, W. , Esq., 287, Ox ford-street I Wood, Richard, Lombard-st. Wood, Colonel, 4, Cavendish square Woodhouse, J., juo., Hackney Woolley, Benjamin, Clapton ngrara, James, 9, Vere-street Jackson, E. 8., Gracechurch street Jackson, G. C., Bath Hotel, Piccadilly James, Thomas, Cheapside Jervis, H. Z., Queen-street,, Cheapside joddrell, Col. , 7, Rryanston-st. Johnson, Roderick, Wapping LIST OF PERSONS LI CENSED TO DEAL IN GAME. NAME. RESIDENCE. it , l eY, William `'Ws, Charles Half-moon-passage, Grace " • church-street. i Bull Head-passage, Grace church. street. Ship Tavern-passage, Leaden 13aYs, Henry, an d Alf r ed ... t Borerhall-market. 48, Cambridge-st., Paddington. V'er , Y, Charl L Aaron wer 4.,yrne, Henry Cr o oss- street street. . 9 1 aple, John Hunwerford-market. ;juke, George 5O, Albany-st., Regent's-park. Clark e J. M. Cl aYworth, Robert Whitechapel-road. Clifford, Francis l5, John-street. Daniels, Benjamin High-street, Camden-town .I) ean, Charles, and Hatton, i Thomas Newgate-street. Deering, John, Abraham; I Ship Tavern-passage, Leaden, and Josh ua ( ivrard, James Newgate-street. G rover, Joseph ...Poultry-market, Leadenhall. Harris, Daniel Ho gg, William Lee, - ee, Joseph .... Baker, and Baker taker, J. G. John .Chelsea. I t ' iv ing, W. H. Poultry-market, Leadenhall. Atrsh, Walter Poultry-market, Leadenhall. 4 3'zoyer, James Hungerford-market. p acker, J ames 129, Crawford-street. r uttock, James ••••.:.... 3B, High-street. Ric hardson, Samuel . . 70, New Church-street. S hank s t er , Ch ar les Quebec -street, Marylebone. ,_ ". 11 Y, William Ch ar i ng - cross . ,3 weeting, John S. Milk -street. . T r aylor, J o h n 2, T y l er ' s-court, St. James ' s. rr sby, G eorge lO4, St. J o h n-street-road. t readaway, Richard l5, Portman -market. Watling Phili p James . 5, Glasshouse- s t reet. u .,. - " Inter wßi h d , car Harrow. ° "reY, Robert Newgate-street. LIS T of PERSONS w ho have taken out GAME CERTI FICATES at 3/. 13s. 6d. each, such Persons not being Assessed Servants. APPOINTED By, AND FOR WHAT PLACES. ale % J ames Ridge, Herts Captain Trotte r , f or Old Fold, South Mimms. l icit, Wi lliam Hanwell Col. Leister, for Ma nor of Greenford. Brewers Company, • for Williott's,South NA,ILE. 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Hunt, 65, Great Pulteney-street, Bath, are engraved upon the tamp, as such alone are genuine. At a meeting of Garstang Farming Society, on Tues day, the 15th inst., a Mr. Wilson France gave the fol lowing description of his mode of draining, a knowledge of which will be acceptable we think to most of.our agri cultural readers :—Sir James Graham recommended tile draining, the cost of which for draining and going through with th e su b so il p l oug h , was 6 / . 18s. 4d • per statute acre. At the request of his friend, Mr. Lamb, he would, with the permission of the meeting, describe his way of draining. Instead of using tiles, he drained with turf, which cost him 2s. 9d. per thou sand --viz., 2s. for cutting, 3d. for whins to dry, and 6d. for stacking. The next quettion was how many turfs he should take to drain a rood. He cut them a foot long, and 28 turfs would drain a rood of seven yards. If 1,000 turfs cost him 2s. 9d., 28 would cost him ld. He would now calculate the cost of draining an acre of land, or thereabouts, to avoid decimals. Suppose he said, 70 yards, and he put the drains at 10 yards distance. Seven drains at 70 yards would give 490 yards of drainage, at 4d. per rood. But the material cost him Id. per rood only, and there was an important feature in the expense, the cartage of turf; as compared to that of tiles, which he would al lude to presently. At present let him recommend to the farmer not to put back his clay into the drain, but to cart it to the next marl pit. There was then the expense of cutting the drain, &c. 4d., of the turf, id., and of carting the turf to the field, and the clay from the field, Id.—making 6d. a rood, and 70 sixpences gave 1/. 15s. In the drains which had been executed upon his property, he had joined with his tenant in the expense. He gave the material, Id. ; his tenant did the cartage of the turf and the clay, and of the remaining fourpence he paid one half and the tenant the other. And he had the pleasure to state, that he had not met with a single tenant who had not seen the benefit to himself of such an ar rangement. There was another point. He Mr. (W.F.) liked to drain when labour was not only cheap, but when employment for the labourer was most wanted. He began therefore in November and finished in April, and between November 1838 and April 1839, he had drained 4,340 roods, or rather more than sixty acres on his estate. The expense was a mere trifle, amounting to nothing like 1001. If landlords would execute such a portion of work every year they might soon drain the whole of an estate of very respectable extent. He had drained a meadow belonging to one of his tenants, which gained the drainage prize at Preston, and the first year after the work was executed, although he had never obtained more than ten loads of hay, the very next year he got twenty-nine loads. He did not mean to say that in the generality of cases such striking advantages would follow so soon, but that the tenant would obtain an adequate return in seven years he was fully persuaded. With respect to the formation of his drains, he might state that they were 11 inches in breadth at the top, and tapered off to the bottom to 21 inches. The turf was 4 inches thick, and was cut to 6 inches, but it dried up a little. The drains were 30 inches deep, viz., 6 inches of swallow, 4 inches depth of turf, and full 20 inches between the surface of the field, and the top of the draining turf. Some persons adopted the shouldering in a turf drain, but he did not, and made it taper from 11 inches to 21 inches, in a regular slope. The turf used was put in dry, and when the wet came the turf extended and squeezed itself into a firm position. Those wlio had not seen them could have no idea of the difficulty of disturbing them. A cart wheel would go over them without the slightest displacement. Sir H. Fleetwood and Col. Rawstorne recently examined some turf drains so executed, and on coming down to the turf with the spade they found it impossible to open the drain without breaking the turf, so tightly did it adhere to the sides of the drain. Neither were any of the drains filled up, as had been supposed from the narrowness of the drains at the bottom. The fact was, two and a-half inches was quite wide enough ; it com pelled the water to run in a continuous stream, whereas if spread over a greater surface it would run in eddies, made deposits, and choke up the drain. Compare the expense, too, of his material with that of Sir James Graham's. His turf for draining one statute acre cost him ss. 6d., whereas Sir James Graham's 1,500 tiles per acre, at 30s. per 1,000, cost him 2/..55. Here was a difference in the expense of material alone of 2/. an acre —a very serious affair. If he were asked "Is the turf drain as permanent as the tile ?,' he should say it was, and rather more. Some turf drains, executed sixty years ago, on the Rawcliffe estate were just as perfect as if they had only been executed six days.—(Cheers). Then with respect to the saving, in point of cart age, of turf over tiles. A double cart load of tiles would not contain more than 400, whereas two horses and a cart would carry 1,000 turf. The turf drain, too, had its advantages over tile draining in the supposition that each would he followed up by the sub• soil plough. If, through any inequality of surface, you hit your draining tile while subsoil ploughing, you spoil your drain, whilst if, from the same cause of inequality of surface, you pared off an inch from your turf, you could spare it, for the turf would still be 3 inch thick, which was sufficient to bear the pressure upon it. The bene fit of subsoil ploughing was, that substratum being removed and broken, they became pervious to air and moisture, and they all knew that plants would not grow without being subjected to atmospheric influences. The subsoil having been stirred and rendered pervious to air and moisture, the superfluous water being removed, the character of the soil was entirely changed ; it be came mellow and friable, and might, after a rotation of crops, or five years, be brought to the top by deep ploughing, and mixed with the surface soil to great ad vantage.—(Cheers.) Why had he laid so much stress upon turf-draining ? Because, having the turf close at hand, we were only doing right in availing ourselves of these natural advantages. Sir James Graham himself said, " It has always appeared to me that skill in agri culture does not so much consist in the discovery of principles of universal application, as in the adaptation of acknowledged principles to local circumstances." The present was a case in point. He (Mr. Wilson France) did not speak without knowing something of tile drain ing ; he had seen a good deal of it in Warwickshire, and he had seen many a tile broken down, and many a drain spoiled. While on this subject he might mention that there was a Bill now before Parliament for facilitating the drainage of England and Wales, which contained an excellent clause compelling landlords to deepen their water-courses ; at present you could not call upon them to do more than score them, This Bill was brought in by Mr. Handley, a Lincoln shire Member, whose acquaintance he (Mr. W. F.) had recently made, and with whom he had a good deal of conversation on the subject. Whether it was through him (Mr. W. France) or something be had said he did not know, but a very important clause had been introduced into the Bill, for the improvement of entailed land. The recent alteration of the law re garding the improvement of entailed property in Scot land had worked so beneficially that it was proposed to introduce it into England. Such estates would then be charged, as they ought to be, with the cost of their im provement. The Chairman concluded by giving a de scription of the spade used by him in cutting turf. THE HARVEST.—We are now glad to announce that the harvest in the district surrounding us is in a great measure, if not entirely, at l ast b roug h t to a con clusion. The oats will prove much better than was at one time expected, but the accounts which have so far reached us respecting the wheat crop, fully bear out what we have previously said regarding its being sadly spoiled by the late heavy and almost incessant rains, which continued the greater part of the time when that crop should have been brought to the barn or stack-yard. Barley is somewhat complained of as being light, and brought home in a softer condition than what is thought conducive to its good quality, but we hope that the damage done in each case will be found less than has been for some time conjectured.— WestmorelandGazette. CAPTURE OF TWO BOATS ENGAGED IN SMUGGLING.—As the Harpy, revenue-cutter, Lieut. G. Drew commander, was cruizing off the French coast, on the 10th instant, she discovered two boats belonging to Cawsand, the Union and Three Brothers, laden with contraband spirits ; the Union having large temporary wash streaks round her to enable her to carry a greater cargo. Chase was given and both boats captured, but not before the smugglers had sunk all the tubs and thrown everything overboard, even their anchors, to sink the cargo. The empty boats have been brought to the Plymouth Custom House for being out of the limits of their license.—Devonport Independent. I trust I h ave now sat i s f actor i ly demonstrated that the sixteen shillings per cwt. paid by the nation more for West India Sugar than would purchase other sugar, does in no way enrich the colonial proprietors. Re move the charges inflicted by restrictive laws, permit us to do what we please with our produce, and I am confident many proprietors would unite with me, in pro moting the admission of foreign sugars to home use ; but it cannot be expected that the British colonist will voluntarily enter the field of competition while his hands are tied and fettered as they now are by bad laws. I am, Sir, your Constant Reader, A JAMAICA PROPRIETOR. THE HARVEST. In our own provinces the harvest has been brought to a close, with but here and there an exception in the far north. The Wheat, it is said, will turn out badly, but both Barley and Oats much better. In some parts of Scotland corn is still out, and even a little standing. With regard to Ireland, the Dublin Evening Post of last Saturday says, the two last days, as well as this, have been extremely favourable. Tf..3 Oats, we should think, will recover under the cheering influence, and as there was a great breadth of this grain laid down, we may confidently hope that there will be not only a sufficiency for our own consumption, but something to spare. As yet, however, no impression has been made on our Corn Exchange. The Southern Reporter from Cork of the same date has the following intelligence :—During Tuesday night and a part of Wednesday was boisterous and unpropi tious in the extreme. During the whole of Tuesday night we were visited by a violent storm of wind and rain, which continued without intermission up to yester day afternoon. Calamitous as this must prove to the standing crops throughout the country, we fear that the accounts from sea will prove still more disastrous. The extent of the damage done has not, of course, been yet ascertained ; but we are happy to add, that the Bristol and London packets have arrived in safety ; and the improved weather of last night and of this day gives us reason to hope that such crops as have not been irrepvrably injured by the devastating elements, may yet be partially preserved. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.— The success of this railway is beyond example. It, ap pears by a remark made by Captain Laws, R.N., the general superintendant of the line, at a special meeting of proprietors at Manchester, that they are actually car rying more passengers upon that part of the line already opened (thirteen miles), than are carried upon the Liver pool and Manchester line. On Sunday last, the num ber of passengers upon the line was 3,520. We under stand that Mr. Edmondson's system of tickets works admirably, and appears to meet every contingency. The directors and proprietary are fortunate in having secured the services of Captain Laws, R.N., who is a consider able shareholder. This gentleman, on a tour of ob servation to the North some months previous to the opening of the railway, saw on the Newcastle and Car lisle Railway, how admirably the then imperfect ticket system of Mr. Edmondson could be adapted to the im mense business which he anticipated upon the new line. He immediately engaged Mr. E.'s services ; and by allowing him every facility for perfecting his plans, has got into operation a system immeasurably superior to anything hitherto in use. The system is no less remark able for the rapidity and correctness with which it enables the clerks to dispatch the business, than it i s for the great saving its economical management has effected for the company. Captain L. also recom mended a low class of fares (somewhere about Id. per mile) to be adopted, and standing carriages for the reception of this class of passengers. The result has shown how correct he was in his anticipations of success ; and this will, we trust, be considered conclusive as to the policy of adopting a low rate of fares upon other lines.—.Carlisle Journal. THE DIFFICULTIES OF AN EDITORe—AII editor cannot step without treading on somebody's toes. If he expresses his opinion fearlessly and frankly, he is arrogant and presumptuous. If he states facts without comment, he dares not avow his sentiments. If he con scientiously refuses to advocate the claims of an indi vidual to office, he is accused of personal hostility. A jack-an-apes who measures off words into verse as a clerk does tape—by the yard—hands him a parcel of stuff that jingles like a handful of rusty nails and a gim let, and if the editor is not fool enough to print the non sense—" Stop m y paper! , I wont pat ron i se a man that's no better judge of poetry. One murmurs because his paper is too literary—another that it is not lite rary enough. One grumbles because the advertise ments engross too much room —another complains that the paper is too large ; he can't find time to read it all. One wants the type so small that a microscope would please hen all. be indi s p ensa bl e in every family—another th reatens to disconti nue th e paper unless the letters ar e h a lf an i nch long. O ne o ld l a dy actually offered to giv e an a d d i t i onal price f or a paper that should be printed with such types as are u se d f or handbills. In fact everycosumbpsacrreibderwhitahs a pla n o f hi s own for conducting a jou rna l ; and the thatlabour f of an e Sisyphus ditorw h w o a u s n dake recreation ert s w to TEETOTALISM.—A teetotal harvest supper was provided on the Bth instant, at Bodmin, for labourers who had kept their pledge. About 150 persons sat down to a sumptuous repast, after dispatching which a public meeting was held. Thirteen speakers (who would have been followed by thirteen more, had time permitted) bore testimony to the good effects of total abstinence from intoxicating .liquors during harvest.— Cornwall Advertiser. Sir Robert Peel's disclaimer of the opinions erro neously attributed to him in the columns of the Ob server, is seized upon by the Tory journals with an avidity which bespeaks the general dearth of import ant topics. Nothing but the absence of really inte resting matter of debate could have occasioned this simultaneous movement of the press, on one of the most common-place and constantly-recurrin g circum stances which can be conceived. This " much ado about nothing" affair may be briefly explained as fol lows :—The Observer of yesterday week asserted with sufficient pomp and circumstance —" That certain Protestants in Ireland had demanded to know in plain terms whether the advent of Toryism was in reality to be the signal for civil war in Ireland. That the answer given on behalf of Sir Robert Peel was to this effect—that it was required for the sustenance of the Tory party to keep up and enforce the No Popery feeling in England, but that there was no design of pushing the exterminating principle in Ireland so far as actually to excite rebellion. That it was added, that the necessities of the party required such expedients, and that in fact the end must be taken to justify the means of deceit and falsehood by which it was brought about. The Observer gave this statement, as it is said, " upon the authority of persons who speak the sentiments of Sir Robert Peel." Sir Robert Peel has in a letter to the Observer positively disclaimed having had such a question referred t o hi m as i s asser t e d in the statement ; or that, " with his sanction or cogni zance, any such communications have been made, any such explanations given, or language held," as are given, on the authority stated, in the columns of that journal. And here the matter might have rested, but for the necessity which exists for the Tory party to catch at any straw which floats accidentally on the surface, and to cling to it with the tenacity of desperation. Haply some more effectual aid may reach them, ere they sink in the gulph which yawns be neath. A straw, though but a straw, is better than nothing, And Sir Robert Peers letter, though in it self a trifle light, as air, may, by dint of puffing and blowing, be raised into importance ; serve as an occasion for employing some of those choice flowers of Tory culture which are most abundantly used when the subjects around which they are hung are either too insignificant to attract attention, or too repul sive for the public eye to rcst upon them, without some such veil, without exciting disgust. Sir Robert Peel's letter, with the occasion which called it forth, is of the former class, Sir Robert had an undoubted •right to disclaim the matters imputed ; hut he had no right to demand that the Observer should " declare publicly" the authority on which the statement was given. The Observer was bound to publish the disclaimer . it has done so ; and declares " most solemnly" that the state ment was made on the authority asserted. (From the Standard.) A letter of Sir Robert Peel appeared in the Observer of yesterday. The letter will itself explain the chal lenge that has called it forth ; but it may be proper to premise, that the Observer is in an eminent de gree a Ministerial organ, being more frequently than any other journal employed to forward the views, and develope the purposes, of the Minis ters, as far as these purposes can be safely communicated to the public. It may seem at the first read ing, that the falsehood of the Observer's statement was too gross and absurd to deserve the contradiction with which Sir Robert Peel has honoured it ; and certainly nothing more grossly, more absurdly, or more self evidently false, was ever put into print, (of this, how ever, presently), but palpable and transparent as the falsehood must appear, to any prudent and experienced mind, Sir R. Peel nevertheless exer cised a sound discretion in branding it by the distinct and manly contradiction which•bas just been read. It is always unwise to pass by unheeded a circumstantial and specific lie, such as that which the ministerial organ was instructed by " authority" to promulgate ; however clumsy the lie may be, many who can appre cate the rankness of the fabrication as a whole, may still believe that there is something in the statement which a party whom it seriously implicates hesitates to explode by an absolute and unequivocal denial ; while others—the young, the inexperienced, and the guilele.,s, who, being pure themselves, are infidels to such monstrous wickedness as calumnies like this—will take the unre futed falsehood for indisputable truth. We know not upo n what minds, or single mind, this lie was intended to act ; credited anywhere it must work mischief—re ceived within the walls of the Palace, it would aid to continue a delusion which the country has already had so much reason to lament. AN AWKWARD CUSTOMER.—On Wednesday evening last, about seven o'clock, it a bull, which was pro ceeding along Lord-street, took into his head to walk into the shop of Mr. Rennie, hair-dresser, perfumer &c., whether With the intention to have his natural locks dressed, secundum artem, or to procure an arti ficial substitute for them, must remain a mystery, as the gentleman himself did not vouchsafe any very ex plicit information as to the object of his visit. He, however, walked into the parlour,iin which Mr. Rennie adonizes his human customers, but before he had time to take a chair or even to look about him, he was fol lowed by his driver, and shown to the door, without having done th e s li g ht est i n j ury, —a fact which deserves recording for the honour of the Taurine species, inas much as the saying " a bull in a China shop" would seem to throw an indiscriminate censure on the whole body. It appears that a bull can behave himself like a gentle man in a hair-dresser's.—Livopool Chronicle. NARROW ESCAPE OF A MAN AND HORSE —Between twelve and one o'clock on Thursday night, as a horse and cart, belonging to Mr. Oliver, of Fare ham, were on their way home from Salisbury, the driver fell asleep, when the horse wandered from the main road at Alderbury Shoot, and got into the River Avon, down which it proceeded a distance of four hundred yards till it reached Longford Castle. Here the coldness of the water awoke the man, who, as may be readily imagined, was in a great fright. Seeing a light at the Castle, he called out lustily for help, and hi s cries reaching Lord Folkstone's ears, his Lordship obtained the assistance of some of the domestics, and, placing himself at their head, procured a boat, and rescued the man and horse from their perilous situation. The river in that spot is full of holes, and the water was, owing to the late heavy rains, unusually high, so that it is almost a miracle that they escaped drowning, since the horse had got entangled under one of the arches of the bridge. Nothing could exceed Lord Folkstone's zeal and anxiety to render every assistance. He was the first to enter the water, nor did he leave it till all was safe. The man and horse were taken care of at the Castle till the morning, when the poor carter departed, expressing a grateful sense of the kindness shown, and wondering at his narrow escape.—Salisbury Journal. Yesterday was the anniversary of the brilliant vic tory of Trafalgar, and of the lamented death of Lord Nel son, who was killed on board his ship, 1806. It was also . the anniversary of the d ea th o f S mo ll ett, i n 17 71 , one o f our best novel writers, whose felicitous description of those naval characters which he pourtrayed, was never equalled by any other writer. A LABOURER'S CHILD STARVED TO DEATH• —An inquest was held on Monday week, at Stanton St. Bernard, Wilts, on the body of Samuel Cox, a lad about 10 years of age. It appeared that, very early on the previous Friday morning, the lad, accompanied by his father, left Broughton with a flock of lambs, for the purpose of going to Shaw farm, In Overton. It rained during the greater part of the day, so that they were soon completely drenched. They had no refreshment before starting. On arriving at Melksham, they shared a small quantity of bread between them ; and at Shep herd's Shore, 11 miles further on the road, they had half-a-pint of beer. This was all they had during the day. Within a mile or two of Shaw farm the rain in creased so much that the poor boy begged his father to take shelter a little while in a skilling on the down. This the father consented to do ; but after remaining for some time he was desirous of going on. Not so the poor boy, who continually said—" A little longer father !" till at last the parent, yielding to his entreaties, stopped in the skilling all night. At break of day he repeatedly called to the boy, to prepare to go on, but without effect ; th e b oy rep li e d, " I am very unwe ll I" At length the father took him in his arms, and discovered that he was dying; and after holding him for two hours he breathed his last. The body presented a miserable ap pearance—the bones of the poor lad almost protruding through the skin. He was quite emaciated, and ap tPheraoruegdhatshief h in e cl h e a m d en b c e y en of h t a h l e f weather,an V d er t d h i e ct— wa p nt iw o l f the proper necessaries of life ! Si: Francis Chantry visited his native place, Norton, last week. During his stay, we understai d Sir Francis selected a place in the village Chureli-yard for a family mousoleum. The ringers, as usual, wel. coined the distinguished sculptorlby a merry peal on the Church bells.—Shejield Iris. An attempt to establish a Flannel Market in this _town was successfully made on Tuesday, when from 400 to 500 pieces of flannel, of all qualities we re offered for sale in Mr. N ewton ' s Circus-yard, and t h e greater part sold, at p r i ces equal to any else where. The Flannels were chiefly supplied from Llan gollen, Newtown, Glynn, Weston, Pool, Llanfair, and Church Stretton, and formed a very fair assort men t ; and purchase s were extensively made by dealers and drapers from London, Birmingham, and the chief towns around.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. DUEL IN RUSSIA. The Gazette des TriCunaux publishes, on the authority of a letter from Russia, a romantic ac . count of a recent duel, near Moscow, in which both the combatants were killed :—A Russian ' Count, named Norvosilino, had seduced, under promise of marriage, the daughter of an old Gene ral, and really intended, it appears, to marry her, but his mother objected to the marriage, on the ground of the Ge n eral not being of noble blood, and compelled her son to remain with her at Mos cow, so as to prevent all chance of his carrying his promise into effect, the young lady living at a con siderable distance from that place. When the old General discovered the seduction of his daughter, he called together his five sons, who were all officers of the 20th Regiment of Cossacks, and, re vealing to them the shame of their sister, it was resolved to take vengeance of the se ducer, or to compel him to fulfil his promise. For this purpose, the five sons obtained leave of absence from their regiment, and arrived in Mos cow. The Countess, having ascertained the object of their visit, applied to the Governor of Moscow, who arrested them, and had them confined in pri son fAr three months, at the expiration of which period of imprisonment they were sent back to their regiment, the Colonel of which received orders not to give any of them leave of absence even fur a single day. They now cast lots as to which of the ' five should give in his resignation, in order that one at least might be able to take ven geance upon the seducer. The son on whom the lot fell immediately resigned his commission, and set off for Moscow, accompanied by a servant. On the road he accidentally met the seducer on horseback, and having challenged him, the Count alighted from his horse to which he gave a shake of the whip, in order that he might return without the rider, and thus announce the accident that had befallen him, " for," said he to the brother of the young lady, " both of us must die." They fought with pistols, at a distance of only three paces, and both fell mortally wounded, but lived sufficiently long to relate what had passed, and for the young Count to entreat his mother to adopt the child of the female whom he had betrayed. They were found by the police im mediately after the duel, and the servant was ar rested, but upon the declaration of the Count and his master he was released. The account adds that the Countess is nearly heartbroken at the con sequences of her own pride, and has adopted her grandchild as some atonement for the calamity which she has caused. The following address from the Editor of the True Colonist to the people of Van Dicoen's Land, discloses a case of judicial oppression in re gard to the liberty of the Press, which calls for the prompt interference of the Noble Colonial Secre tary. We have too much confidence in Lord John Russell's administration to doubt that he will hesi tate for a moment to remit a fine which, unless paid by the public, would subject a morally guilt less man to imprisonment for life. We trust, more over, that this case will impress upon the Govern ment the necessity of providing for the greater free dom of the Press in the Australian Colonie— TO THE PEOPLE OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Fellow Colonists,—l address= y.ou from a prison, where I am confined by a sentence: passed by the Chief Justice, as a cr i mina l f or two ma'.nths, a n d until I have paid a fine of 601., for the oft - Otee of having published a statement of an occurrence the recital of which, his Honour said, was enough ta. l " to excite horror and indignation in the mind of any person of human feeling." The publication by me of this statement, subjected me to punishment, because I had not proved to the satisfaction of the Judge and Military Jury that I had before publica tion niatif sufficient inquiry to give me what they considered reasonable grounds for believing the , truth of what was proved on the trial by the oaths of the very persons of whom I made inquiry. I was tried and convicted of defaming and turning into ridicule Mr. Robert Jacomb, by publishing in the True Colonist of the 'ith of December, a sim ple statement of the fact, that on Tuesday, the 4th of December, a distraint for rent was, by Mr. James Wood, as broker for Mr. Jacomb, put into a house in \Vatchorn-street, where the wife of the occupant, a poor imbecile old man, was lying dead,..ia....the—bouse, and that the corpse and the bailiff were to be seen in the same room. I did not state that Mr. Jacomb put in the distraint—l did not even directly or indi rectly insinuate that he knew there was a corpse in the house. But the above is the gist of the offence for which I am now suffering as a breaker of the Queen's peace. I produced on the trial the person who gave me the first information of the horrible fact. Iproduced two witnesses who were present when it was communicated to me, and who swore that they believed it from the authority on which I first received it. Was not this of itself rea sonable grounds for my believing it ? But the Chief Justice said it was not. That I had it only from hearsay, and that before I pub lished a statement charging any man with so gross an outrage on humanity, I was bound to have it from persons who had seen it and could speak from their own knowledge of the fact. I proved that after the printing, but before the publication of the article, I heard that Mr. John Dobson had declared it to be false, and I produced two witnesses who swore, that in consequence of Mr. Dobson's denial of the fact, I had made inquiries of them, and that they told me that they had seen Death and the Bailiff (that is, the corpse and the man in charge), in the same room ; in which room they took a copy of the warrant signed " Robert Jacomb," authoring James Wood to distrain for 50s. arrears of rent. Mr. Wintle swore that he gave me this information on the day, but previous to the hour of publication. Yet the Judge says that I had not reasonable grounds to believe the truth of the statement. But 1 beg you to ob serve, that the principle of law on which the Chief Justice laid so much stress, has reference to cases where the statement published is false. But the communication which I made was proved to be true I to the letter. And if I had stated, which I again say I did not, either directly or by insinua tion, and I never intended so to state, that Mr. Ja comb was knowingly a principal or an accessary in the matter, surely the sight of his own warrant, and the knowledge of the fact that the bailiff was in the house under that warrant with the corpse, was such a sufficient and reasonable cause of belief that he authorised the proceeding; yet the Judge, in the face of these facts, decides that I am justly pun ished because I did not, in his Honour's opinion, make sufficient inquiry into the facts. But was I not equally entitled to assume that Mr. Ja comb, before issuing a distress warrant for the pal try sum of fifty shillings, would have made. every inquiry into the circumstance of the poor man who would suffer a distress to be levied on him, for the non-payment of so small a sum ? Was I not entitled to assume that he had made a demand for rent, and that his agent in making that demand had fully acquainted him with the miserable condi tion of the party on whom the demand was made ; am I justly punished by the privation of my liberty and a heavy pecuniary penalty for publishin g a statement of an act which the Chief Justice de scribed, and most truly, as calculated to excite horror and indignation in the breast of every man possessing the common feelings of humanity. And is Mr. Jacomb to be exempt from the censure of public opinion for having " without sufficient in quiry," issued his warrant for doing that which led to the perpetration of an act meriting the designation given to it by the Chief Justice ? In the article charged as a libel in the second count of the infor mation, on which I am found guilty, which article appeared in the very first paper after the statement was published, there is the following passage : " We have since heard that Mr. Jacomb was not aware that there was death in the house before his distress was entered; if this be true, Mr. Jacomb is indebted to his bailiff Mr. James Wood 'for not having returned and made him aware of the fact, and sought his instructions." Yet lam convicted of having published both articles for the purpose of defaming Mr. Jacomb by making it appear that he had acted harshly and cruelly. But it is not un worthy of notice that the bailiff remained a week in possession, five days with the corpse in the house, and that the bailiff was threatened with an action to he brought against all concerned for making an illegal distraint. Mr. John Dobson in the witness box swore that we were not worth one shilling. The Chief Jus tice's attention was directed to it by me, but his Honour ruled that the witness had a right to make such a statement, and in the face of that statement solemnly sworn to by an attorney of the Court, the Chief Justice sentenced me to pay a fine of srxtY POUNDS, and, after suffering two months' imprison ment, to be further imprisoned until the said fine was paid. Fellow-colonists, if the Chief Justice did then believe Mr. John Dobson on his solemn oath, then has his Honour deliberately, in the dis charge of that awful attribute of the Almighty, justice tempered with mercy, sentenced me, the father of six unprovided children, to imprisonment FOR LIFE I! ! I leave it to you to reconcile the sentence passed upon me by Sir John Pedder, with the credibility of Mr. John Dobson's oath, and the humane administration of justice. But looking at my sentence in its mildest light, I ask you, did my conduct merit it ? Did justice demand it ? In my address to the Jury, I stated that it would be a most deplorable state of affairs, should the law or their administration be opposed to' the sympathies and general opinions and feelings of the community, for whose protection and whole some control they are supposed to be framed; when a man, for actions which were approved by his fellow-citizens, as tending to the moral good of society, would be subjected to punishment as a criminal, while the public sympathy and approval were with him. I ask of you, if you consider the sentence passed upon me calculated to increase the reverence that ought to be felt for the law and administration of justice, as " a terror to evil doers, and a protection to them that do well ?" By me personally, imprisonment is perhaps less felt than by most men, while it does not affect my bodily health. I can employ my mind in a prison to more advantage than 1 could in a palace. I chiefly feel it on account of the unprotected state of my young family ; but supported by the conscious ness that I am not suffering as a wrong doer, I can with confidence and resignation cast them on the care of that Judge who cannot err—either in dis cerning facts, or in passing judgment. It is not the Government that is now attempting to put down the Press. It is the self-constituted auto cracy of usurers, that have now taken up the wea pon which the Government has thrown aside I Permit me, Fellow Colonists, to recommend to your compassion and benevolence, the poor infirm old man, James Day, the double victim of death and the bailiff—he is destitute and not able to work. GILBERT ROBERTSON. Hobart Town Gaol, June 10, 1839. ANIMAL SPIRITS.—AnimaI sp i r i ts are conti nually ete andaken jn m fo d r g wi e tnat._Hn nd fancy ; an d t h © want of them tfitt. ferns ti HOUSES, &c., to be LET, by JACKSON and CO., in various situations, in the following Trades, and many others :—Tea, Coffee, Chop, and Eating Houses ; Public Houses ; Beer Houses ; Brewery ; Bakei s ; Tobacco nists ; Grocers ; General Dealers ; Green Grocers ; Coal and Potato Dealers ; Oil, Colour, and Italian Business ; Cow keepers, Dairy, and Milkwalks ; Private Houses ; Lodging Houses, &e Particulars may be had at the Offices of Messrs. Jackson and Co., Auctioneers, 26, Brydges-street, Covent-garden. N.B. Letters to be paid.