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el I. 41 , f' c„. trn - .; 4 ,11 ill ••••• , .A . fc . de" eft 1••••• , j; NUMBER, 88/8.1 VICYILiLLING-OFFIOE, Jan. 30, 1821. THE COMMISSIONERS for VIGTEI ilt,- Lisci His 111.1.TESTI"S NAM' do hereby give No tice, Tl'al on Tuesday, the 13th of February next/ley will be read y t o receive Tenders in tenting,. (sealed up), and treat ' 1 " 1 4 Persons as will nnlertahe to supply whatever BEvx ma y be required for the use of His MajCSIV ' S 84 i1 3 3 and Vessels at Brighton, to the 31st day of Decernh , r, next, indunve ; to' be paid for by Bills payable, without ,Interest, Si.rtu days after date. , 'te Conditions qt . the Contract may I,e seen at the Se- Ceice, at this Vice, or by applying to the Postmar -I'. at Brighton. • I V . ° re d arc( will be had In any Tender in which the Price •B . lott not be inserted in words at length, or that shall not he de 'Prred to the Hoard before Oae o'Clock on the said riles t Feb ruary next, nor nnless the Person who ?',/ehes the Tender, 07' SOMC Persm: on his behalf, attends, to r' , wer when chlleel for. Each render 'lns, also he accompanied by a Letter signed Aa two' responsibh• Persons, enzaging to &Tome bound with tlre Portz, tendering, in the Penal Sinn of SOOl. jiff the due perfurntanc e qt: the 'Contract. VICTIT e I LI, N C;.O FFICE, Feb. 9, 1 846 THE COMMISSIONERS' for VICIVAL; try • '- •• ?Putt G Ili v •. IFSIT'S NAVY do herrhy give No red" t °n Tuesday, the t3th Instant, they will be for • or Tender, writioz (sealed nO. and treat num ( . ) ne chunthyd Th . ortsand Go/lout of WEST INDIA o ' the, strenath of foe per cent. under proof, by •• 3 . hydrometer; to be derirtred into Iris Majesty Pi,tXoll to . g . Stores at Deotbrd, in, the spa , e sir weeps, d u .. " e Paid by payable, wilko:it Interest, slily 3-‘ after ( k te. t 7 11. 4 • 4 ' 5 e r"is of the Contract UMW he seen at the Secre- A'n r . `gurd will Le h a d to any Tender in which the Price 54411 "I L c inserted in Words at length, or that shall n o t h e delivered to the Board before One o'Cloek on the 4.(thi to the P r at!, the 12th ',wont ; nor 'in less ton who Makes th e T en d er , or some Person VII his behalf, att "'ds to answer when called for. ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET-HOUSE. 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Lo . 4 rat b.s-I.l.lge iii,„ Y„ ( 't At ticts-4)aths ; Corses—Philo4ophical I)iscovei les : . -tiilo,fiphi.,,, stone —Stone Showers f Stone Candle.: pr"tie Petii,,,ts Stony Animals ; Stone Eaters—Etiquette ; II:e"1,1-Ify--.1.;; yinol.gies-1 he Ruling Passion—lnsurance— li '',ll9us Tt.ings v• - cor(1,(1 by Ihe Ancients—A(lam 1 Ere; ~..L",:C ' rreit ; Paratlice—livpoehonthi:seA; Nerves—The Ass i',;," Ey , ; Long Sight; Sqiiiiiting—.lns inunt Thir -11,,4,u. "f • .I:ionisry---ioelsorys—False lingw.liels; F:tnaties I A, ! '"Z" fi 'um I Ile Lord= --Niationirned's 'romb—The Flair; *4'.,,t.skr.thi i I.Midutories; Wiss, tice. &c. &c. ike, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1821. CONTRACT FOR SHOES. IttiYAL HOSPITAL FOR SEAME,N AT GREENWICH, Feb. (3, 1891. QUCTT Persons as -map be - willing to Contract K. 3! in: Supplying this Hospital m•ith .HOES, fi,r the Pen- Si*crs foi Two Ycars'..nMy tirtel;', - er in their Proposals the Director's of the said Hosrlz.o, at this Place, on SATURDAY, the 17th Instant, at "i.leeeti o'Clock in the Forenoon: and in the .mean time be furnished with_Forras of Proposals, and actptainted with farther particulars, by inquiring at the Steward's Office here. be received. after the boor afore-. said, nor will any be attended to that are not agreeable to the said Forms; nor unless the Parties personally appear. CONTRACT FOP, GREY KERsEY AND BLANK.r.,.:N. Commissariat Department, T iertsm y Chambers, 7th February, 1821. SUCH Persons as are-desirous of Contraction w;ll, the Aunt for - Commissariat .titipplies, to sonply GREY KERSEY and BLANKETS, may receive particulars of the Contracts at this ()Thee bet wren the Hours of Eleven and Five, and deliver their Tenders sealed up and directed to the Aunt for COramissariat Slypplies, marking thetvon--" "'Tender fur Kersey, &c. on or before Saturday the 171 h instant; but .Oune Will be received oiler Twelve o'clock on that Day; 1,,q- will any Proposal be noticed unless made On or annexed to a printed Particular, and the Prices inserted in Words at leur.th: nr , t — unless a Letter be subjoined to such Proposal, siened by t Persons of.kuown Noperty, ing to gi hecok boongt . .will, the Party tenderin::, ju !he itoktifeg"sei! /IT thi:V:ii'friLiiVirs' fur the irriFFifiPin.i . tice of the • • Contract. CONTRACT TO DELIVtI: COAI, AT NIA I:1 . A. Conimissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, Feb, n, 1521. • SUCH Persons as are desirous of Contract i ng with the Agent 'for Commissariat SupplieS, 'to deliver Ficc Hundred Chaldruns of COALS at MALTA, may re ! . wive Particulars of the Contracts at this Offc., between the hours of Ten nod Four, and deliver their Tenderi, sealed op and irected to the. Agent fm Commissariat Supplies, marking thereon Tender for Coals," on or before Tuesday, the 20th Instant ; butt none will he received after Twelve o'clock on that day ; nor will any Proposal be noticed, unless made on or annexed to a. piloted Particular, and the. Prices inserted in words at length ; nor unless a Letter be soh joined to such Proposal signed by Two Persons of known Pro perty, engaging to become ()mind with the Patty tendering, in the Sum expressed in the Particulars for the due perform ance of the Contract. CLERGY ORPHAN CORPORATION, St. John's Wood, Mat y- le-hone. Patron—THE KING. President—The Bight Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of LONDON. Vice-Prrsident—Theltizht.lion. Lord KENYON. THE ANNIVERSkRY MEETING of tile SOCiErY for CLOIIIING. 'MAIN I'AINING,_ and EnucATING POOR ORPHAN CHILDREN of CI,F,IGY MEN of the ECI'ABLISHED CHURCH of ENCLAND, til of AGE to he pot APP.:ENTICE. Will he holden at FREE MASONS' HALL, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's lon-fields, on TUESDAY, the 27th inSt. 'file Chair will be 'alien at Two o'Clock precisely, for the purpose of ELECTI into the SOCIETY'S SCHOOLS at St.-John's Wood, a number of ORPHANS, not exceeding Twenty, and other general ness of the Day. Dinner on Table at . nye - o'Clock precisely. STEW AR OS. Right lice. John Kaye, D.D, Lord Bishop of Bristol Bev. George W. Hall, D.D. Vice Chaneellor of•tike I.lni , versity of Oxford . nes% C. Wordsworth. D. D. Vice-COancelior of the Elul - mersit y of Cantl;ri.dge Rev. R. D. Shaaleford, D. . F.R.S. ;tint F.A.S. Vicat of St. Sepulchre, Londott Dinner Tickets, 15s. tad), to be taken at the Bar. ttight lion. Earl.Batlinrst Hon. Earl Nl . .invers Right Hon. the Speaker 'Right Hon. Lord Chid Jus tice of England 1I; ht Hon. RIM. Peel, Nt.P, Sir Coarles }'lower. Thomas Esq- WI Esq Donations and Sithscliptions will in the mean time be thankfully received hetheTreasurers, Iter. Archdeacon Cam bridge and Joslina Watson, Esq. at their Bankers, Messrs. - Drunimunds, Charing*-cross, and lics , -rs. Sikes, Sitaillt, and Co. Mansion Iloose-si rect ; and t, the Secretary. At Ni. 2U, Great Knight Rider-street, DuctOr.' Commons. J. B. NIOR.GAN, Sec. EYTON, Stock-Broker, No. 0 Cornitill, anti LoMbard Street.—New and advantageowt mode of Adventure !—The chance of all the Capitals to be drawn on Valentine's Day, 14th inst. for a tridar; and the certainty of Three Prizes of 2,0001. •Consols, in the first Five Minutes !I! • EYTON has the pleasure of announcing to -the.Pnhlic, novel mode of adventure, possessing great and singular advan tages for all persons who purchase before Valentine's Day, 14th February. Whether their Tickets . or Shares are titaWfi‘ blanks, ot small prizes, on, remain in the whvel, they will receive hack the Purchase Money for the same, with the fol{ow ink trifling deductioos:provided they - iire leturned WI or. before Friday, the 2311 of February. ..... A TICKET may hive all !rid; except....lßs. A El A .. may have all hack except.... 11c. A QUARTER. ~. may have aH hack eAcept..... An EIGHTH may have ali hack except.... 4s. A SIXTEENTH.. may have all had: except.... 9s. Girimc-esttry Adventurer the Chance of :ill ;tie Capitals and other Prizes that may he draw,' that day, for as many shil lings as it has heretofore cost-pounds. The `theme is immensely rich, and contains in Motley and Consols, Sic Prizes of Moat)! , besides other Capitals, and nut Two Blanks to a Prize! All Business in the Public Pima,: transacted with fide lity and dispatch. AGR IC U LITRE. TO THE RIGHT HON. TH it EARL OF LIVERPOOL. Sow hover, Lewes, :lath , MY 'LORD—I am so fully aware of the charge of presumption. which attaches to so humble an individual, for attempting to controvert the argu ments of a person of your Lordship's great talents and high political situation, that it will be uselesS to deny its justice : I therefore plead guilty to the charge, and have only to request your Lord ship to look to the motives with Which this is written, not, like many letters of the present day, to bring your - .Lordship, and • the Govern ment, into contempt, but from a most ardent wish to see, the different classes Of society once more in possession : of the comforts they en joyed a few years since ; and on the regaining of which, in spite of all the machinations of the most factious demagogues, the Government of this country will be considered not only abroad, but at home, as the freest, mildest, and most equitable in the world. The astonishment and disappointment excited by the declaration of. your Lordship's sentiments on the subject of further Agricultural protection, as reported in the public papers, compels inc to come forward to defend the views of • myself and other Petitioners, and to endeavour to prove the justice of our case ; and.at the same time,bu t I trust temperately and respectfully, to show that your Lordship's sentiients have been founded °wan erroneous view of . the queStion. In oria j ,to make my arguments clearly understood, it be tiecesSary - to extract the whole of that part of your L'ordship's speech of the ‘23d instant, which refers to the state of Agriculture. In answer tO - Lord.Grey, your Lordship is rcported to have true it is, that our Agriculture is not al luded to by - name ; but the depression under which it:is labouring,if not expressly mentioned, is at least sufficiently hinted a \ t i_u the parazrapft of the speech which spoke of .the distress which still presses on a large porti - on of the King's subjects. I Would remind the Noble Earl of former discussions, and caution the House, and the public against forming any rash opinions on the cause of the . evil; ors proposing any plau sible remedies that might increase, instead of diminish its pressure. The matter is one of the most serious ipture ; it had engaged the at tention of. Parliament some years since, and a legislative enactment -was then gassed, to meet a state of things which did. not now exist. The exit, live years ago,. arose, frOm a causc diffe rent from that which was now complained of, a n d required - a different remedy :'3l:e prkes. had then fallen, from impnrtatirn, sts''di:4 to excite ',limn for our domestic agriculture ; and they bad fallen still lover . at the present moment, .oat to what was this fall, ,in the latter case, to be ascribed ? To - an increase in our home PrOtloction. This, if examined, would, I am convinced, be found a full emlanation of the fail of prices. - There has been no importation Tor the last two years, so that no part of our' agricultural distress can be ascribed to it compe tition of foreign grain in our . market. -There is nu ground for. -supposing, as some do, that our warehousing system has 'any share „ t in the effect that . is - complained of; and it noti then the in ference is irresistible, 'that we now sgrow enough for our home consumption ; that formerly we did not ; and that the low price of grain -is to be attributed to an abundance or excess of produc tion. , This is my settled opinion,,—an opinion which I am ready to discuss, and support, on any proper opportunity. What woul(4 patticularly caution the House against, is.; that. They should not enter on the inquiry with the :idea .of ,new legislative enactments ; no good could be• attain ed by such incessant legislative interference : things would find their own level, if allowed fo remain free." On the first sentence of your Lordship's speech, I will only say, lest it should - be thought to pro, ceed from any adverse political feeling, that should have thought - the universal distress of the agricultural interest would have been noticed in a more prominent manner, than merely by a hint, which not one in ten would understand to allude to agriculture ; and w4ich hint does not consti tute the leading part of the paragraph, but is merely brought forward to prove, what has ever been admitted, that the agricultural population are particularly nosed fOr The second sentence in. your' I..ordShip's' 'speech, cautioning persons against forming any. rash opinions on the cause of the evil, or pro , posing any plausible remedies that might in crease, instead of diminish, the pressure calls for a more .minute examination. It can only refer to the opinion, so universally held by the occu piers of laud, that their distresses have arisen from unequal foreign competition and can only be removed by placing the British and Foreign Farmer on ,a level in the British market. Your Lordship then goes on to attribute the present distress. to an _excess of home production ; and that experienced live years since..to foreign in►- portation. • With the greatest deference and re spect, I submit, that the case is exactly the re verse ; and that if agriculture ever suffered from an excess of hurtle production, it was in 181.5, rather than in 189.0 ; and for these reasons : An excess of prOduction, supposing the demand to continue the same, which one must do for the sake' of argument, can only arise from great in ducements having been held out to farmers to expend their capital in improving their land, in expectation of being well repaid by She sztk - of their produce at remunerating prices. Your Lordship must be aware, that agriculture has not had such inducements since 1813 ;-011 the con trary, it is well known, that ever since, with the single exception of a short period when the price. was high, owing entirely to the parali4ed.state of agriculture, and wet harvest of 1816, corn has . not sold at a remunerating price to the farmer. Unless, therefore, it can he supposed, that far triers would lay out their capital in raising corn, with a conviction on their own minds, that it must be sold at less than it cost them to produce it, the present agricultural distress cannot be ascribed to excess of production. • - The argument used by your Lordship is the same as that made is;e of by Lord Nugent', in his reply to Mr.ißaker, which has been publish ed in Most of the daily papers ; but even granting that not a bushel of foreign corn had been im ported for the last two years, the distress may still be ascribed to the import of, foreign corn, duty-free ; for so immense was the quantity im ported in 181'7 and 1818, and previous,:to 15th February 1819,, that the markets have-ever since been in one continued dull state ; no buyers ap pearing, except from hand to mouth, all specula tion (which must .be the case so long as the pre sent corn laws exist) being done in foreign corn. It is needle!-Iq to reniind your Lordship, that in a trade of such magnitUde as the corn trade of this kingdom, the supply must he, at particular seasons of the year, greater than the demand for imniedi , lte use, if the supply is to be equal to the demand for the whole year ; and at such times, unless there are purchasers to take off such extra supply, the natural consequence is, a fall in the price of the article; not jiz titied - by the growth of the whole year, .To suppose that merchants wiii speculate in iVritish or frish wheats, when foreign wheats of eqn - 11; Or soperior qualityonay be imported at any at,half the price, is to contemplate .thrt which rievr.4 happen; and which inny be satisfactorily settled by the practice of every considerable . cdrii fats,. for in Mark-lane. In the course of the last year; it is known, that , the instant the priCe at tempted to rise in Mark Lane, - such qnan'ities of foreign wheat, imported previous to Februark 1819, immediately made their appearance, as to depress the .ffiarket at once. The farmers having been.thus reduced, are compelled to send their corn to market, .let the price be what it , may ; and were the price to fall even to 40s. per quar ter for wheat, and other corn in proportion, tide gre,at majority, of them mast not only sell at that price,.but, in consequence of the price being so reduced, must sell the more to meet their never ceasing expences. Every (lay that the distress continues,-it must rather increase than diminish, owing to this very canse, as every day brings more sellers . into the market. is.it not obvious, my Lord, that the markets must eonsequently continue nil ? It was - obsetved vi•eekS since; in one of the dissertations in the " Englishman" on the funds, that they consider ed the price of farming produce lOok.ing down, at the, same time the Funds were rather looking up, to 'he owing to the farmers not Understanding the nature of accoMmodation bills so well as tbe'mer chants, and being thus compelled to sell at the present prices. The worthy writer -also lapghed at the folly of farmers selling their corn, rather than sell out of the Funds GC the vast sums df. money they had accumulated some years since." It is very kind to be told of our error ; but I 'believe very few of the unclaimed dividends be long to farmers, and nearly as few of those that are claimed. Those farmers who made anything from havhn their farms on long leases, granted . twenty or thirty years ago,' expended it either in purchasing land, or improving that in their oc cupation, for both of which -they nosy receive a very -low dividend. I trust, my Lord, that I have said enough to prove that the present distress has been - princi -pally caused by foreign corn,imported duty-free, even though not a bushel had been imported for the last two years ; hut when we .consider the immense supply of foreign oats, amoun.ing to four millions of bushels let loose on the mar'ke't, duty free, by the fraudulent returns of the averages in August last (the possibility even of which was scouted by persons in high official situations when pointed out to them the year before), together with the foreign barley 'and beans imported for Coosbuiption in 181, and the present Weekly im, pert of foreign : wheat, over loading those ware houses, which under a different system would be filled with the produce of British industry,. can vain' Lordship refuse to admit that our' present distress is occasioned by foreign corn-imported duty-free With regard to the cause of the distress of 1814 and 181.5, there may be a doubt whether it did not arise, in some-degree,,from an excess of production, combined with an overwhelming iw port of foreign corn, duty-free. Previous to this period, agriculture had rapidly improved : the price'or corn,. being so high, owing to the extra ordinary state of Europe, as to give a great sti mulus to .production. Every farmer was laying out his profits irr improving his farm. In every Session of Parliament, Inclosure Acts were ap plied for from every quarter. Your Lordship might easily inform yourself, by searching - the Journals of Parliament, of the difference between the number of Inclo:ure Acts passed six years previous to 1814, and Ahe last six years ; and if the number in the former period should be found, as I expect would be the case, ten times greater than in the latter,. your Lordship would, per haps; be inclined to 'doubt the correctness,of the opinion, that the distress now felt is owing to the excess of production, and that experienced in 1814 and 1815 to foreign importation only. It cannot be doubted that the population has increased considerably since 1814, in much greater proportion than any additional proddc- . tions from fresh 'enclosed lands, even had the land then in cultivation still continued in its then highly productive state : but when it is :,:narn that much has been laid down to grass in conse quence of the low' price of corn, and that farmers for the - last few. years, have. been lessening their .expenCes in every posSible. way, instead of expending money in -manuring and improving their farMS, it really perfectly astonishes me 'to hear, from such high authority as your Lordship, the present distress imputed to excess of produc tion. Your Lordship deprecates new legislati‘e enactments. I answer that we do not require new. All we 'ask is, that the spirit of the. R eport of the. CornM4tee of the House of Cumrndos of 1814 shoUld be passed into a a'sk' not hiiig'more. I have the Report now before - Me, and' will extract the part in which the Cornmittee Om up their Opinion in the following terms cc Your Committee, without venturing to suggest the Mode, cannot doubt that it will becOme the Wisdom-, and Will'consequei;tly be the poliCy, of Parliament on the one hand, by protecting British agriculture, to maintain, if not to extend, the present scale of its exertions - and prOduee ; and, on the Other, cousistentlY With thii first Objett,-to aiford the greatest possible facility and inducement to the import of toreign corn, whenever, from ad verse seasons, the'stociiOf our own gi:Owth shall be found inadequate to the consumption of the United'ltZingdom." Consistently ith this first object, namely,.the pretection of British agrktature, there cari . b4", no objection to give facility to the import of foreign corn when e reany stand in 'need of it. Let ()i7, 191( [PRICE 'S.EVItNPP.X€E. British agrienlture be PrOteaed, and 16i-eign . corn May'be 'Wong& in' at all one, and Mil V iii)e, -. 1,it"4 effecting' ith6"-td'ob ,r • vew , and that is, hY Tilting such a ditty on the import of foreign COni as Will prevent its being brought here when British corn is lieloW remunerating price to tbe grtiit . er titid wheti it cities to a price stall oppressive to the CODSLIMP_T, the importing merchant can well allOrd to paY.tht: dtity. erroneously thoUOt by s(;ine l batj am sure not by a person Of yotir J;drdship's en lightened titind, the dtity wotiP bean increase of price here, so much as a decrease of price abroad. When there is an expectatiOn of wheat being wanted, the price abroad initriediately fol lows the rise of the price here, leaving to the importing rnerchant a fair return for his capital and risk. .Fot instance, we're a duty of 40s. pek guar el to he laid on the import of foreign wheat, this would be the effect : that if on reachine: London it would sell at 80s., ihe price abroad would be as much below 3fis. (calculating the expellee clf convevatice at as it would be be. low 7.55. provided no 4t) , ,,tire're imposed. That suck,wpuld efieOne need only look at the gate of aglicultuf'eth: whetice.. the foreign wheat. principally cdrues, al!d where it is grown expressly for e*portation. The last - sentence of your Lordship is tittatiftit one indeed—" Things will find their Own leVet if allowed to remain free." , - Yes, my Loyd, they will find level ; but it will be at the ruin of the Agriculture, And nat only of the Agriculture, but of the Trade and Manufactures of the kingdom. Can it be stip posed that the taxes can continue to be paid, if thing, remain in their present sthte ? PSI i , Lord, I do conjure you, as you vallte the interest of every class of society, to pause before you irre vocably ,pass sentence in Parliament op the prayers of the Agricultural Petitioners, who are now looking to you for relief. Thousands of farmers are now merely holding on their farms. in. 'expectation of relief the present Session ; and ,when once told that none is to be granted, but that " things are to be permitted to find their own level," their farms will be given up, the laud tuttst remain uncultivated (for NN•here,can fresh tenants be found ?) and labourerS empl r oyea by them must be kept by the parish ; and the unavoirlat,de ruin which must ensue, will make this once frtrit , fui and happy land a barren waste of wretchedness and woe. And may I ask, my Lord, for what is this risk to be done ? but to throw the landed interest of this Country prostrate at the feet of the great capitalists, who, with specious profes sions of liberal principles of free' trade; are 'hiding the country to its ruin. My Lord, the most'valdable of all property is the labour of the industrious classes, on the appropriate, reward of which the happiness and security of States must always depend. To see thousands of able young men considered the burden instead of the strength of the Country, is heart-rending to any one who wishes that country well. It is impos sible that your Lordship can be acquainted with the extent of the Agricultural distress. Let me entreat your Lordship not to depend entirely on the professions of those who, be cause their rents may be paid, . consider the distress much exaggerated. Farmers will exert " every nerve to keep their rents paid. as they are to be sold up the instant it becomos due, tho , will leave every thing unpaid rather than rent. If distress for rent is issued, his other' creditors immediately come upon him, whom he might otherwise have kept at bay. They will, as to my knowledge is the case, borrow every shilling of the rent to keep their landlord quiet. I intreat your Lordship to have inquiries _made of the country traders, whether they have their bills paid by the farmers, and on their 'answer I am content to rest our case. iMy rd, unemployed population s peru , liarly liable to be wurked upon by the inciters of tniichief.• Let the peasantry have employ ment at appropriate•wages, and I defy the niost insidious demagogue 'to assail them with effect. Let them, as now the case in many litces, seek . emplOyMent without being able to find it; and it will be equally impossible for the severest laws to preeent irreparable mischief. M 5. Lord, this letter has extended much far flier thin , 1 'firEt intended, bu-t the subject must 'be'my excuse. I will only add, that yielding to no man in loyalty 'to my King and country, I again conjure your lA:Usti - 4) to pause ere yoil pronounce sentence on the agriculturists of the kingdom ; which, if. dictated by wisdom, will be the salvation, - tut, if otherwise, the ruin .01.1 he country. . I have the honour to -he i .Nyith great respect, your Lordship's nioLt obedient servant, ELLNtAN, SOMNOLENCY.— rile, housemaid .of an emilien banking-house in the City,. who lately arrived from,the country, was in the. nitiht of Sunday last seized kith a tit of siirmholenvy, which hr..•Evd every attempt of her fellow-servants to.awaken her fora considerable .. : part of , the following day, when medical assistance was caned in. After being copiously bled in — the :arra,..she gra dually awoke, .fist apparently in a fiery weak - state. .IViany Cases of a siMilarTnatiire have" oz.- curad at different, per;Ods.' SOtfie yftya•ts pgo, a „ young woman of the nair.e Ras el, wo . resfcled at'Stoke, near NO wiaitJe, -7 n `Siaift.pre.shire, knitting, .1•111 into a profthind . •sh 4 cp, is - vc . she' contitincd for sdrne .. U .eeroil4;, , ,Jv inseriiible the whole time, w-fueirshe -first word She'ST.forke;waS th•askher mother vrtiat she had done with the stOcking she was knitt.i7.4. In the Isle 'of•Thnete:l4 , faTirers have' com,- pletedthe grey-pea 'FeaSO:l., arid nearly thA for bean!, oats - , and .Canary 111 hia e tho Ike of nclimU er anti copied of tilt el 3 111 tYlliatl VC, plaiu e farcv 3rater3 fur. 6- i COITI- con- " was lau3e. 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