The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

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Had the wet continued son, ° di s e r .., much of the corn remaining out in the backward ttia L t lets would been been whoy desstroyed, and still great 'nisch! of has done tote hgrs .in by so lon , . Itti _ • posure in the fields is unquestionable:. As it will ru t take some tine to finish the harvest, no very accu wthiere,yieesliltima'zlidle van yet be formed of the result; but that qiiality of the wheat of this. year's growth I be Much inferior to the produce of any previous sea tsi°44,ft'r --rnway . years past, appears to be the almost has srsal opinion. Fromm all quarters where thrailung quin t a„ade pro,gress, the report; agree elescribiug the "tY its much short of exp-ctation prt leered as farm ea we s • s • th„ re for an iadifferent yield. Regard tag the qesality ises ace°ll ete are not so universally bad ; rate early-saved 415;4Pbit carted after the weather becaser, broken, was the ..LY oarried in damp condition, anti a great deal e„_lleor, is iadesd wretened stuff ; a fair proportion was, th an got in under more favourahlo auspices, and o ' f ° 4 gb. far from flue, is of tolerable quali fir. The weight welirelegthe best seeared is light, vevy few samples over 601 b. per bushel. ki) 1 1. c are at all times unwilling to crtiate unnecessary ae tt . ta, but we cannot shut our eyes to the somewhat 1 84 1 ,eal position of affairs. That the wheat harvest of eto ,' is decidedly below that of usual average years is ~h 4 i i sPuted ; the stoeks of old are closeily worked up qu an s , t , foreium wheat, whether free .er in bond, the se .t rtYin thelingdom is so iasifenificen t as to be wholly da cQ 9utte to make good the deficiency iin the home pro - th it • In addi t i on to t h ese f acts i t must; b e reco ll ecte d Potato, s o use f u l an aux ili ar y i n supplying food gratk'arge Proportion o f th e commun ity, h as f a il e d t o a te rla ' . er or less extent in all parts of the United King dee,' al district appears to freve entirely escaped the :" ; and it is even doubtful whether the potatoes, ehi%reatly sound when dug up, will keep through the ter' On the whole, therefore, there are ample rea itte to fear th at the value of bread stuffs may rise to an l ti ll e t .. to occasion s ome inconvenience to th e po orer Already wheat has risen from 15s. to 20s. guar Already from the lowest point ; and the up war d ttu e lltent seems at present likely to continue,. Very lo th q the wh ea t lately secured men be in a fit state ke tti P a i sh until next March ; send from the corn -1,01e..,"'Y smell quantity of fine, farmers are not likely qtle a ,:a, a hurry to part with the lat ter. Only moderate ttel, t 4 'es from the growers can therefore be expected ; qu a k e m erchants and millers art by no means largely of th e ", there is some chance of the supplies falling short lsty . 91. tantity required for cou9,umption. Under ()Hi- Nicheireumstances, a similar auspicious change to that i lsv e ita aas this w ee k t a k en place in the weather would ‘ 4 elit r netliately checked dee rise in prices; but so con *sat,,ate holders at presisnt that all they have will be le' that littl e e ff ec t h as b een pro d uce d on t h e tra d e ° l ) Pe e i t alt eration from very wet weeeher to that of an A t - character. 1 4 1 a q e t ve ral of the leading provincial markets held sleets coesitierable eagerness has been displayed to hei,tairesetnents in wheat, which has enabled sellers to The n furthe r enhancement. '" tre e „Liverpo o l mar k et was en Tuesday visited by ,44 t h u s buyers from different parts of %eland, which, ,Atte v e increasingly unfave urable reports from that l teli;', r !garding the failure in the potato crop, caused i, l l ari,: e ltement. Not only was wheat in lively request, 0 1 41 ",, O , f 3 d. per 70Ib. on free, and 3d. to 4d. on bonded, te ' 4 fe,Tier descriptions of corn and pulse, as well as e% - a `:,.?atiate a l were bought up at greatly enhanced 40 . "4 0 11 the whole, a large amount of business was ttlkte,rtLheaater. in the week the excitement increased melt, diminished., and on Friday red Lower Baltic melt e o. w a aa n. sold in boo d at Bs. per 701 b., United States u 3. per b arxe l, w hil e 35 5 . p er b arre l was p a id f o r R ai sed ;° ll uts from Yorkshire are of a somewhat more k: d eat t °ne, pearehasers having apparently deemed it li e eti va n' Pause ere entering into fresh engaiements at e;:tie r tl eed rates demanded by sellers. Isteither , at I, ' 4 11 4 a t Leeds were the transactions of much im ftil)tr ` 34 Tuesday. At the fir s t-named town a . rise of t b t,et etiaarter was, in partial instances, establisued on Tat Leeds buy e rs declined paying enhanced St tt r lles r t advices from Wakefield, of Friday, are by ejee e tt oimated ; and though the best qualities of L-letbi'll:landed full terms, ordinary sorts were scarcely th a as on that day week. 'N!lt,4otV e stern and north-western markets, the value S t :ree te 4 la this w ee k r i sen materially. At Bristol, on Wh ii 2 s.;',' the best qu a li t ies of old were quoted ~ es.? and k p lttr i l quarter higher than on that day se nnight ; 114 4 tr ruingham„ the advance amounted to quite 2s. . On all kinds. kt; t , to .o l icultural districts prices have also moved and it Is now evident, that in spite of the Lo b " of the new wheat, the averages must shortly t ) ( l h aty: ex tent to cause a considerable reduction in 4 t S gr,e,°teas letters give a very sad account this week Il Oth a r t : e4 cl of potato disease in that country, and. of k r4l6 g the rather quiet tone of the Mark-lane re klear4reiday last, much excitement prevailed et k'tett2B on Wednesday, Wheat was readily gat to 4 s. per quarter above the rates of that day ill r, te,whilst barley rose 35., and oats fully ls. per t a e; e zhis rise in prices was attributed entirely to l el " , the failure its the crop of potatoes. Satre the same causes have been productive of t t k „: I;esults. The conviction that potatoes will be deficient has become so general on the '',d 41 1 5 , - ,of the Channel, that m e a s ures h a ve alre a dy Ykitjrd to guard against the anticipated scarcity of s e itt , , sti t l t view to this end purchases of grain, flour, et aye lately been making on Irish account in th English e markets; it is probable, therefore, iNsPPlies from that country will fall off materially, Oi i t , t ieitl x t , h ave an influemie on the value of corn—oats ',,arr i‘ , - ; 01 1 this side. .tlt t ,E s tef." t t,,la of wheat coastwise into London have 1 .4 IL`ne greater I iroportion of the 10,536 qrs. - 1; gone direct to millers. The show at lia s Y. land-carri age samples from the home q s d deal ' o k ' f lace I‘ . louda y, been very small; and though th e th Canton be,s been displayed by millers in F ur l`'se eir ope ra tions, prices were fully as high A t t i ßti ft .", in the cc mmencement of the week. . k Na rtl te wheat having been required for mixing 1 Parcels anew English, the former has met h t " e be llu i , 4l 'e atli.ntion and the recently establish "` -t 'le,:as not. o been ' supportett, but in many 6.017 ,Liav began to realize terms for the 11 t ti t '4 Pre vio'usly obtainable. t e •• . 'leal of local speculation in bonded lI wN eY•erienced rather a livelt: d At b eer , • s p aceount, and theoperauons h emand ave for on kcie t 4y 44 , !N rortant. The sales made both on k ov 'e isriday were at an advance of ls. per t ,111 1 „,. , (l a. y's currency, and many holders were wing to part with their property. Mode ,vie,lttaities of red brought 525., whilst superior t,i'qe44,4roAl at 555. to 565. A cargo of Dantztc, s eiea -It t / eti, fine sold at 57e • per quarter on Friday, • ( t) N yi n is 7 l gl mixed could not have been secured ( Ar es -Isle s e 0 3. to 60s. per quarter. t ottnt position of the averages it is scarcely t„ ae e F,ge duty to fall materially this month, but tit4 te ° . f . . November wheat will be admissible at I,` , ll o oty r— a rate, however, few . importers are VOt L hai l a a further decline is certain to occur in I,; l tttop p r .'"onth. t , t t p d, tp lee of town-made flour must be regarded as k t :qe" r) s. „-1410 millers calling it 565., whilst other,' ioq4k/Iti tint 'lack. Ship flour has commanded full 4, at h; „of colonial and foreign manufacture has r iv,, tl Poli,gu rates. c4Am i tity ; s e of. barley have slightly increased ; still 14 , 41 4 _ t,cetved has been small. Maltmg sorts have hr o Z advance of Monday, and feeding quali ktitkji 111 14 (1 ,, 1 1 . 1t per quarter more than was obtain le as E , e . • Vtlave e ,, 4 much sought after, and prices of the lh i : 4 tirlUed to tend upwards. 1 44 4 tf t 1 of (l l.eoteh oats have come to hand very eb r t iah 1 6,113 quarters have been received, 'kr t N k . 4 . Ih e .°4 4 the supply has consisted of 15,680 apt belief that the failure of the potato crop P"?atly increased consumption of meal tn p h Np.' t rit s ,''''and, and th a t the arrivals of oats from It o e ke4ree, a rill therefore be very small, has led to lot ahead get into stock. On Wednesday fac- M t eer r; :o difficulty in selling at 6d. per quarter . Ito „7 1, and at the close of the week the rise a:Lticisi't 5 4 1° 1 ' quarter. Bonded oats have also been h°r .44 3 much as 2 Os. to 21s. per quarter had mit.,Nve p ar ,,Ettlgel under lock. l? 4 i;i 4Tii ttly is."elPated in the general advance, and t, 1%. 11 g of „Per quarter dearer at the close than in tqC th e "Le Week. k d 4)l e , ~.41e "laud has again revived, and both 44, 4 % ,Llttv % „ve commanded enhanced prices. Gray "ere tlev t excited so much attention ; the lat ertheless held with greater firmness on Ort ), THE ARMY. r l sh ,:li ' l ilc Y 'l li*o rt , _ CAVALRY. •%"- , 4 4 kit s t, British D (Scots Greys). 1 4,„tk i ., et..o uhr,„ „ Dragoons f., , A,'a veletlei ,-----officers present at head-quarters tt Nettit h !e,le tr d k`-'irke, commanding ; Major . ice s, Porto e qt.." Recd, i';',ll!lvan, Clarke, and Grant ; Lieutenant r 1 1 :, (,'' it. 6 "WiPs, R iding -master Robertson, Pigott, b 1 1:, (1 p„!,°rge Francis liampson, Bart., and Sco -4 ts;'_ es, C..""neert, dozier, Amphlett, G.H., Earl of , 11ZterlsZ?, ,onattd Buchanan. ; Paymaster . Crawford, t 3. 4 1 1: i „f:;4., Neellrlitr°l I.l7 interscalP, e A x q - J ssistrecstive 14i sin..serget,'ll.lentalt ser geLt-r u n r ajo en 6 tro . op sergeant s e b" er ", 7 trumpeters, 6 farriers, ' 283 rank and •44 -At ch z ar , e, and 266 troop horses. Recruiting: q t .fil e , and ain : 4 privates sick. At Maidstone : 1 4 141 18 2 troop horses Officers on leave : 4 i t l t li e "4 `a troop to Nov. 80. / k4 k th, 4 413 , 1 Ist Batt 'PANTRY. -/ V dtvilie 711lartr. a 1,;9' 1 . ; Depot, cp,iy !ii,,',t 4.e4tenz;4Bjor Deane, R.H., Captains Ormsby rj .4 1 / 4 . 1it 4 ' . . 4 ; &, j4 tant • Ensignsne, deputy paymaster, G0r .0,,, i e.ti, ..r geon , Sharpe Coles Gillum and o i of. , t 4 4NC-1 acting ntebison. 2 r 4 ,4 j;445 asergeanti J ai ff o e r, ct , , ive strenh of ' three sergeants, 4 &Ma j./ kl, it aNi t l Mei n l an d .Me ; at Borrisokane, 1 company, l e t,,i),, 4 file. ,/t enetgll. 2 sergeants 1 drummer, and i i4:11,,11 Qa file, n ec ii "V i ling, 10 rank ;nd file. Sick at t, t 7? t o tt T•, to a ij "'e- Officer s on leave of absence, 4 R , tisi t :`ev. 1 5 e c; 31; Lieuts. Poole, to Nov. 1 ; 1,,,!r. to-Apetrit-lert, I:nsiktCo.rk, a draught, consisting of \ tl, ei4l,_erit,,, Penhrieton, 1 sergeant, 50 rank and i l 1 1; 1 'l. f°l-.rtheNVe's7 Ivai!ing' and 7 boys, under .x,!.1,,,,,er14411,J0r beoe, ~....,n_dies, to join their service sotcktiie,en_lzatirdicre.swine‘ta ciosmomrdanerdedoftothperdoceepeodt eforornm. ~t tft, ("t the vt,.ton of this offic • h the draught toy tzili I,44iii est Indies is weer for the hel4reh r 3, ...PePot, ,were parties are 4944,141414 d, °I. uublin, th ere t ca en ?:oute to Bath, and L em ew b Z k in p S e Sussex, to 1441 4 i, i 9r4tl roti to embark with the draft ._., THE SyN,_LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1815. at Spike Island, fur the West Indie.s. A recruiting party has marched from Naas for Beggar's Bush Barracks, recruiting depot, Dublin, to embark at ne North wall per steam-vessel for Liverpool, en route to Norwich, there to be stationed. 11th Foot—The head-quarters of this corps, on board the Castle Eclat, crossed the Una on 19th August, all well on board ; the only casualty on board up to that time was the death or a child. 32d (o,rawall) Regiment, Athlone—The detachment sta tinned at Elphin, county of Roscommon, under the command of Captain W. D. Lowe, is ordered to remove front their presen: ha!f-billet premises to another house, as the detach ment is to be reinforced, so as to be completed to a full com pany. Officers present at head-quarters. Major Hill com mainline, Captains Gardener and Kyrie, Lieutenant King, Ensigns Phillips, Birtwhistle, Boissier; Paymaster Moore, Quari.ermaster Garforth, Surgeon Scott, M.D. Strength, 1 company with tic band and colours. Stall; regimental ser geant-major, 13 sergeants, S drummers, and 283 rank and for the mysterious phenomenon. The wise saws, who are great, in the magic of the marvellous, consider the potato disease as in some sort a sign that the world is nearly as old as it ever will be, and that the present crop of tubers, though a bad one, is the last reaping we shall have. What neces sary connexion there is between the en.d of the world and the potato epidemic, or whether this said cs.tamity is any proof that the aforesaid globe is nearly worn out, we are not able to say, nor on this point do the mystery-mongers inform us. The physi cal philosophers say electricity is at the bottom ask all, or rather that it is not at the bottom; in other words, that the potatoes had not been electrified enough. Without telling us to whose measurement, calculation, or instinctive sagacity they are indebted for the fact, they gravely give us to under stand (if we had sufficient sagacity of belief for the feat), that in those parts of the island and continent, not forgetting America, in which the electricity above lie", behaved better to the territories below, and, to use a monied phrase, " has come down handsomely," that in those said spots the potatoes are in their usual health and F:crength, and looking " very much like themselves." If Tv were in the mood for joking, as unfortunately we rare not, we should say that this sublime enunciation " kooks very much like a whale." Taking advantage of the experience of that stupid old man who tried to pelt a lad out of an apple-tree with tufts of grass, they suggest (the philosophers we mean) that we should compel the electricity, whether it chose or not, to coma down to the dust and to do its work as quick as light ning, instead of idling away its time in visiting amongst the clouds, and doing no good at all. Some propose to disturb and displace the said fluid by the erection of multitudes of iron rods, well spiked, bristling like bay :,nets, and seeming to say that it shallh , e3d obne'tm invited ean to u to bsietiri:Lry A ifl with; others sug gest iron pots, made at tractive by being permanently elr,etritied; and others pro metallic culverts for the "In the nine of the p e p l r o e o s c p e t i t i i t e c o t iL t ; fi - a g v to s el.s f r , e un t T i u ' h e p es ea a e tZo: sm ,u ' . :in i g n. enuities, these vast crea tions of fancy, these P;aghty minds in travail with mighty project. 7, which file. At 1 Coeipany under the cainmand cf Lieute. Iran t-Colouel Frederick Markham, Captain Baines, Lieutenant Bellingham, Ensign Hedly, Assistant Surgeon Moorhead, M.D. Strength, 6 sergeants, 2 drummers, and 68 rank and file. At Carrick-on Shannon, IA company, under Major Brooke, Captain Smyth, Lieutenants Pigott, Vavasour ; Ensign Kyrie, 8 sergeants, t drummer, and 90 rank and file. At Drumeliambo, 1 company, consisting of Brevet Major Browne, Lieutenant. Weare, '2 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 50 rank and file. At, Roscommon, 1 company, under Captain Eveegh, Lieutenant Cunningham, Ensign Davies, 3 ser geants, 1 drummer, and 70 rank, and file. At Elphin, half a company, Captain Lowe, Lieutenant Maunsell, 2 sergeants 1 drummer, and '3B rank and file. At Castlerea, 1 company, Captain Robyns, Lieutenant Duberly, 3 sergeants, 1 drum mer, and GO rank and file. At. Ballygar, 1 ensign, 2 ser geants, and 26 rank and file. Recruiting, 6 sergeants, and 12 rank and file, Lieutenant and Adjutant Kelly, on leave till Oct. 31; Lieutenant-General Sir John Buchan, K.C.B, is colonel of the regiment. 34th (Cumberland) Regiment—Two of the service com panies march from Fermoy to Cork October 17, and arrive ' same day. 4 companies and head-quarters, under the com mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Airey, march from Fermoy for Cork October 21, and arrive same day, to embark on board the Java, freight-ship, 1,175 tens, for conveyance to Corfu. Lieutenant-Colonel Airey, Major Brown, Captains Simpson • and Schreiber, have joined at Fermoy from leave of absence. 38th Regiment; Depot, Londonderry—The draught, con sisting of Captain Cam, Lieutenant Heckett, 1 sergeant, 1 drummer, and 40 rank and file, 1 sergeant, and 5 rank and file, supernumerary men in waiting, disembarked from the steam-vessel Rhadainanthus on the 16th October, at Spike Island, Cove of Cork, for further conveyance to the West Indies, to join the service companies. 41st (Welsh) Regiment,Voyal Barracks, Dublin—Officers present, Lieutenant-Colonel Gore Browne, C. 8., command ing; Majors Carpenter and Montizambert, Captain and Brevet Major Dempster, Captains Donaldson, Seton, Maydwell, Butler, Downes, and Sadlier ; Lieutenants Lawrence, Eman, Adjutant Pratt, Farmer, Tuckoy, Rawlins, Wells, llicks, Wethercd, Neville, Taylor, Goodwyn, and Arkwright ; En signs Page, Wilson, Greathead, Jenner, Clark, and Meredith; Paymaster Dickson, Quartermaster Gillon, Surgeon 'Wilkins (sick), Assistant-Surgeon Hart, M.D. Effective strength, 46, sergeants,. 17 drummers, and 782 rank and file. Recruit ing, 1 sergeant, and 10 rank and file. At Fort Pitt, Chat ham, 1 sergeant, 10 rank and file. Officers en leave of ab sence, Lieutenant Stewart, to NOV. 25; Ensigns Lennox and Rawlins, to Nov. 25; 1 company is stationed at Portobello Barracks, and 3 companies at Beggar's Bush Barracks. Honorary distinctions, the Prince of Wales's plume, " Gwell augau neu Chwilydcl," " Detroit," " Queenstown," " Miami," " Niagara," " A.ya," " Candahar," " Ghuznee," " Cabool." Sir A. Darling, G.C.8., is colonel commanding. 433 Regiment—On Tuesday the 433 depot - had a field day on the extensive drill-wounds at the 'Western Heights, in ;the presence of General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, who expressed his high approbation to Mr. Fitzroy Frazer, of the celerity and precision of litany difficult mancenvias which this fine corps were put through, and which they executed in a very superior style.—Dover Chronicle. 44th (East Essex) Regiment, Richmond Barracks,Dublin— Officers present, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. A. Spencer, Majors Ferryman and Gray, Captains Turner, Browne, Rodon, Staveley, McMahon ' and Carey ; Lieuts. Mossy, Mol ler, Robinson,J. Le Merchant Carey, Walter, Daubeney, Faucett, Fenwick, Noake, Greene, and Howard; Ensigns Hanmer, .Dunkin, Parker, Ho n . Charles' Welbore Herbert Agar, opland, Hotham, and Cooper; Paymaster Captain Kennedy, Quartermaster Walsh, Assistant-Surgeon Pratt. Effective strength, 1 sergeant-major, 43 sergeants, 17 drum mers, and 779 rank and file. Officers on leave of absenCe— Captains, Gardiner, to 20th Novemb er • Owen, to Ist No vember; Lieut. Fielden, to 10th November; Ensign Dunkin joined from leave of absence; Ensign Ottley, to 30th Novem ber; Lieutenant and Adjutant Phillips, on leave to 30th No vember. Recruiting, 3 sergeants and 6 rank and file. Cap tain Stevens is doing duty with theist West India Regiment. 70th. ( Surrey) Regiment; Great Ship-street Barracks, Dublin—Two companies, under the command of Major Reed, consisting of Brevet Major Paschal, Captain Edwards, Lieut. Pilling, Ensigns Ryan and Willis, 6 sergeants, 2 drum mers, and 118 rank and file, marched from Naas for Island Bridge Barracks on the 20th October, and arrived same after noon, there to he stationed, having been relieved by the depot of the 7th Royal Fusiliers. Seem as 'twere An ocean in labour an ocean to bear, all tend to the solemn secret of growing potatoes ! Would that as much talent were brought to bear upon the more hidden and important secret of cooking them ! The physical philosophers aver, and they may safely do so for any practical disproof they are likely to meet with, that if only means be employed which any one ofthern proposes, we may always cal culate upon an immunity from potato disease. We don't doubt it for a moment; we feel as certain of it as of catching sparrows by throwing salt upon their tails ! Less sublime and speculative than the physical philoso phers, but far more practical and minute, come the micro scopists to settle the question of the potato epidemic. They see deeply into the depths of things, and of course are ex pected to draw therefrom much valuable matter that un aided optics must always be strangers to. In fact, a man with a microscope may see anything ; and, as "seeing is believing," we see no just cause why be should be expected to doubt anything. We antici pate, consequently, that the time is not very far distant when credulity, properly so called, will be regularly defunct, and such people as our forefathe r s wou ld h ave ca ll e d " easy o f belie, " will be hone; fide matter of fact men under the irre sistable persuasion and proof of the microscope. This instru ment, as we have said, has been brought to bear, with artil lery-like precision, though with less point, upon the " potato murrain," and wonderful have been the discoveries in conse quence ! Fungi of all sorts, sizes, and shapes, and colours, have been foutid fattening themselves, cormorant like, upon the poor potato; sporules, granules, cells, and dust that de served no better name, all have been found upon the potato; and many a discoverer has been obliged to rub up his Greek to furnish technicals for the unknown objects that have tum bled in the way of his observation. Talk of special trains, they go nothing so fast as discovery has lately gone along the line of damaged potatoes! Next come the chemists, with their prodigal paraphernalia of apparatus and tests, to acquaint us with the malady of the potato. They find alkalies where acids ought to be, and the converse'; they state, to a shadow of a shade, the particular blush of blue which iodine gives the sickly potato, in con trast with what it gives the potato that is sound; they tell us, precisely, what the former has lost in mealiness and gained ' in waxiness—what is due to the condition of the starch, the mucilage, and other such things—that good potatoes lose 75 per cent. by drying at a gentle heat, whilst the bad ones lose 77 !—and, finally, the man with a chafing dish, glass tubing, oxide of copper, caustic potash, and other like simples, waves his wand, and, lo ! an ultimate analysis settles the point at once, by proving that some delicate decimal is wanting tc make up the due amount of a certain constituent which has been most rascally robbed of " its fair proportions" by another certain one ! "So much for Buckingham !" After this amount of detail, to say nothing of the amount of trouble we have had in practically getting it ready, we may perhaps claim a hearing for ourselves. We, " the plural nominative aingular," in our triumph of tripod, feel that it is our right to state both what we know, and what we think, upon the inattei' at issue. We have looked at the electricity with "our mind's eye, and, like Mathews in the play, can "see nothing at all in it." We have f looked through the microscope, and have seen ten thousand, curious sights in the morbid potatoe, but no thing equoa to what we have seen in a pinch of musty horse manure, We have tortured the p' or potatoe in retorts, cru cible% and tubes of glass, but products and educts have told us nothing more than we knew aforetime. Amidst this Babel of investigation and discovery, it occurred to us to think that there_ might be something "rotten in the state of "—the potatoe ! And after wiping from our eyes the films created by philosophy and fancy, we saw a clear evidence of a simple decomposition in this said tuber! And what is there that philosophers cannot find worthy to talk about, microscopists to stare at, and chemists to analyse, in rottenness! We have always thought it a wonderful field for minute investigation, and such it has proved to be, as the present condition of the potatoe crops can testify. To close this part of our subject, for we shall take occasion to complete it finally in another article, we give it as our de. cided opinion that " potato disease" and " potato murrain' are merely idle terms' that bear no relation whatever to existent things. There is no " disease," no "murrain, properly so called ; the potatoes are just rotten, and that is the long and the short of it. The discolouration, corn. mencing in this spot, and extending to that, the soft ness, the waxiness, the fetor, all these things, and many more such like, We have seen a score time in potatoes that•have spontaneously rotted in a damp dark cellar. We can confirm what the microscopists and che mists say about appearances and reactions, and tell them plenty of untold truths besides; but not potatoes only, any vegetable of similar composition will give like results when in a state of decay. These acids, alkalies, atomic defects, sporules, granules, ruptured cells, dust, dirt, &c., are in con. sequence of the potato mischief, and not a cause of it. There is nothing new in the circumstance; we have been familiar with it from childhood, and so have many simple observers who are older in the art of taking notice than ourselves are. It is no novelty in this country, any more than elsewhere; it attracts attention because of the almost universality of its prevalence. And has not the cause been as universal? Cold water is theibuntain head ! Take our word for it, there is no mystery in the affair; cloudy skies and drenching rain have done it all! 72th (Cameron Highlanders) Depot, Belturbet—Officers present at head-quarters, Major Elliott, Captain Clepham, Lieut. Hunt, under orders for embarkation for Gibraltar; M'Neal, 'cif-pot paymaster; Reeve Forrest, depot adjutant. ; Ensigns, Farrer, sick ; S. M. Ferguson, Robertson, Maitland. Effective strength—Two companies, 1 acting sergeant major,Captain T a yl or , 4 sergeants, 3 pipers, and 88 rank and file. At t 9 C s a er v g a e n a fr s, wo s c d o r m in p n a m n e ie rs s: and 107 rank and file; total, 195 rank and file. At Chat ham-1 sergeant, and 3 rank and file. Recruiting -2 ser geants, and 14 rank and file. Draught at Cork—Captain Napier, 1 sergeant, and 50 rank and file. 5 supernumeraries, and 6 boys. Captain Gaisford is in Dub . lin till embarkation, on leave to the 31st October. 82d (Prince of Wales's Volunteer's) ' • Depot, Kinsale— A recruiting party is ordered to march for Cork,_ there to embark for Liverpool, en route to Birmingham, there to be stationed. Captain Watson's company is quartered at Dun manway. Major Wm. Slater is commanding. 85th Light Infantry; Depot, Newry—Ensign the Hon. W. Stewart Knox has joined head-quarters from leave of absence. Ensign the Hon. P. R. Fielden is on leave to the 28th February, 1846. 88th (Connaught Rangers); Depot, Boyle._Officers pre sent at head quarters ;—Major Shiny (commanding); Capt. Walker; Lieutenants—Depot Paymaster Brow n , M axwe ll, Burke; Depot Adjutants—Ensigns Mauleverer and Steere ; Assistant Surgeon St. Croix Cooper. Elective strength of three companies acting sergeant-raajor, 9 sergeants, 5 drummers, and 192 rank and file. At Sligo-1 company, consisting of Captain Maxwell, Ensign Conyngham, 2 ser geants, 1 drummer, and 60 raTak and file; recruiting 7 rank and file. Draught at Cork, for e m b ar k a ti on for Malta to join their service compani‘.A—Captain Mackie, Ensign Gore, 1 sergeant, 60 rank and file, 6 boys, and 6 supernumerary men. Captain Adams % 88th, has joined the depot at Boyle, from Malta. ORDNANCE CORPS. Royal Horse Artillery, Portobello-barracks, Dublin-4 troop, consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel Cobbe, commanding Captain P.estor, Second Captain Taylor, First Lieutenants Cator and Pack. • Strength, 2 staff. sergeants, 3 sergeants, 3 corporals, 2 bombardiers, 59 gunners; 19 drivers, 1 trumpeter, 1 farrier, 1 shoeing-smith, 1 wheeler, 1 collar-maker, 13 officers' chargers, ;0 troop horses. A troop, consisting of Lieut. Colonel Cobbe commanding, Brevet Lieut, Colonel Higgins, Lieuts. Hon. F. Saville, Goodenough, and Brandling, 2 staff serjeants, 3 corporals, 1 bombardier, 48 gunners, 20 drivers, 1 farrier, 1 trumpeter, 1 shoeing-smith, 1 wheeler, I collar-maker, 15 officers' horses, 8 riding horses, 39 draught horses, with field battery. Rifle Brigade, Depot Ist Battalion, Pigeon House Fort, Dublin—The draught consisting of 1 serjeant, and 30 rank and file at Cork, are ordered to embark on board of the Java freight ship, 1,175 tons, for conveyance to Corfu. Captain Murray is ordered to proieed out to the service companies at his own expense, he having exchanged with Captain Reynard, who is reported sick in quarters. A general court-martial will assemble at Limerick, on the 23d instant, at the Castle Barracks, for - the trial of such prisoners as shall be brought before it. Lieut. Colonel B. Trydell, 83d Regiment. President. Fourteen members, to be composed of officers serving in the Limeri c k district. Major Stoyte, 24th Regiment, Acting Deputy Judge Advocate. INSPECTION OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT OF PENSIONERS. —Tuesday morning No. 1 company of the Woolwi c h di s t r i c t of pensioners was inspected by Captain Forbes, the com manding officer, in the Royal Artillery barrack field, where they went through their military manoeuvres with the utmost precision and regularity, and the body of men presented a very soldier-like appearance. A great number of spectators assembled to witness the military evolutions of the pensioners, who evidently showed that they were ready and willing to resume arms in the cause of their beloved Sovereign, should their services be required. The two battalions consist of 350 men, selected from the whole body o f p ens i oners o f t h e Woolwich district. How TO SELL GAME WITHOUT A LICENSE.—It is stated in the London, and some of the local papers, that the Duke of Buckingham has given to his tenants on the Avington estate, near this city, the right to kill game on their respective farms. Our contemporaries, when heralding forth his Grace's excessive liberality, should nct forget to m-ntion that an increased rent is charged for, the game boon. However much the tenants may gain by the permission to kill the game they feed, his Grace can be no loser. Suppose that his estate at Avington and Easton consists of two thousand acres of land, which is let to four farmers—and that every farmer pays an additional rent of 20/. each for the permission to shoot over his farm. His Grace, would thus receive 80/. per annum for his game on these four farms, a sum much more than he could have ob tained under the old system of keeping hired keepers, and supplying licensed dealers in game—to say nothing of the expense of keepers and the occasional prosecution of a poacher. The Duke"of Buckingham had made a good bargain, and sells his game to much greater advantage than heretofore.—Hampshire Inclefriendent. Tun POTATOES. — Potato-raising is now being pro secuted in our district, and we regret to state that the reForts which have reached us respecting the crop are very unfavourable. The black potatoes are decidedly a failure, and being the kind more generally planted here are likely to cause a serious loss and deprivation to that class of the community which is least able to bear it. The amount of the crop is not only deficient, but the distemper which has been detected in the south country and has caused considerable discussion in the journals, is also found to exist in the crops here. After being raised from the ground they early show symptoms of rotting and going to decay ; when boiled, a portion of them is unwholesome, and consequently wasted. These are the complaints which for some time have been before the public in reference to the crops raised in the earlier districts in the south, and which have at tracted the consideration of the professors in agricul ture without the cause or a protection against a re currence having been discovered. The white or long potatoes are supposed to be of good quality, but the quantity planted of these is much short of the black kind, and the yield of the crop does not exceed if it amounts to an average. There is every reason to fear that potatoes during the winter will be in short supply ; buyers from other quarters have already been here, and we have been told that one merchant in ;his town has soli two thousand bolls to a purchater from Belgium.— Berwick Adve tiser. THE LATE GE'NEE:4.T. NOTT.—The neglected and disordered condition in which, the grave of General Nott is suffered to remain in St. Peter's Churchyard, has recently called forth from strangers 'who had been to visit the spot expressions by no means complimentary to the inhabitants. A. stranger of some distinction, and apparently of military rank, visited the grave a few days since, and was not a little shocked and chagrined at the absence of the slightest memento that could have distinguished it from the humble memorials of mortality around. It is said of Voltaire that he built God a church, and laughed his word to scorn. A splendid monu ment is projected to the memory of Nott, while the remains of the hero lie neglected, and only rescued from obscurity by the hallowed association of the soldier's grave.—Carmarthen Journal. THE POTATO MURRAIN. (From the Medical Times.) " Quid qutsque vitet, nunquam hernial satls : Cautum est in heras."—HoascE, " Latet angels in herba."—Viam. We make no doubt that our readers will readily hear what we have to say upon a matter very important at this time both to the public and the profession—the present " disease" amongst potatoes. It concerns us to inquire into the subject, as well from an interest which we feel in the fate of the poor, who will be the chief sufferers by the calamity, as from a de sire we have to aid the wise working of an efficient system of hygiene, by stating the bad effects which we have known to follow the use of this depraved food. The "potato murrain," as it has been ridiculously called, is said to be comparatively new in this country, but 'has been known in America for many years past. During the present season it has visited us to so serious an extent as to CA' considerable anxiety for the physical welfare of that e' • d " people who are in a great measure sustained by Mato-food. „.• ..ass of The "disease" has prevailed more or le s r - throughout the land ; the salubrious atmoast country from the,- extensively ; soil of Ireland have not exempted were and kindly visitation, and it has swept with v the continent, but purticularly i arious sev er it y t h rough Holland. Belgium, Germany, an d As the matter interests .erybody, so we find that almost t as upon it. In the mid s t o f t h e massof everybodyB speculation, has cu la t g io o n t is not to be wondered at that a goo d deal of folly as Frei'. as falsehood shold be let loose upon one's credulity and - wonderment. There are a certain class of People YeleP,".. philosophers, and we fear we must include in that vet- . large class another scarcely less capacious, we mean the , :ai-discint sect of chemists, who are able to see and ready to swear anything. Give them a subject with a crotchet in it, and they will have an explanation ready in no time. The one will prove, by a series of reasoning as difficult to refute as to comprehend, that such and such causes are at work, and, ergo, that such and such consequences must follow; the other will prove the precise opposite, and confirm the truth of his theory by chemical analysis, carried out with such de cimal minuteness, that, like the lote tree in Mahomet's seventh heaven, there is no going beyond it. The one silences you with an awful profundity that neither himself nor anybody else can fathom ; the other knocks you down, or rather tries to do, with ultimate analysis and the talismanic name of Liebig. There are some people with whom this system of illustrious humbug operates like mesmerism, but we old fashioned folks don't belong to the class of greedy gnllibles, and we feel little inclined to trust either the words or the figures of one-half of the Giessen-bitten boys of the present clay, without'snmething more than their own proue.• se, of the fili Integrity of what they utter. To return to our subject, as one upon which philosophic, microscopic, and chemical speculation are magnificently rife just WWI we And all oda of Om* proPoßuclO t 9 MOM REPRESENTATION OF S'eXTll WARWICK, SUNDAY. — Tht Writ 113 r the return of a Mem ber for the represer !..ation of the southern divisien of this county is '.:xpected to arrive oli Tuesday next, and the elect.lon to take plar.c in the early part of the ensuing . week. Lord Brooke, the only candidate s a h n i n p o , u b n u e t ed ii,y (a h n i.. ! UP :L. anuouneement made not by , his Lord. ship, far aa he w ; 1 :1 remain absent even at the election. This ) however. pubt i c en ar d e s et informed e s d ti , l i i t o i n s not the im pr ob a Continent,b l 0 and,th that i: r i d n s - h o p a n matterm unpleasant u much, except, catechismp e perhaps, that som e it of ill t a h y e savehis L agricul tural discontents of the county. Absent or present, Lord Brooke will be duly proposed and seconded, and it is said that his return to Parliament may bo deemed certain. The election creates the leitst possible degree of interest in the di vision ; but it is not improbable, seeing the near contiguity of Warwick to Birmingham and Coventry, that before the day of nomination something may arise to impart life, and spirit to the proceedings. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE EARL or ALDBOROUGII AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—An astounding cure by this mi raculous medicine, after every other means bad failed.—See extract of his lordship's letter, dated Villa Messina, Leghorn. February 21, 1845.—." To Professor Holloway; Sir,—/ to acquaint you that your pills have effected S Cure of a disorder i n my liver and stomach, which alt the most eminent of the faculty at home, and all over the continent, had not been able to effect—nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDBOROUGH." These wonderful pills will cure. any disease of the liver and stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand; and by all medicine venders throughout the civilized world. A Stock Exchange was opened in Leicester on The tio Wednesday, at the saloon of the theatre. The assoc i ation consists of eight firms, comprising thirteen individ ua l s . T he subscription bu i n s es 2o s / a . r p e er fr a o n m nu el m ev , eanndtotlhiealsfe-pcuasrtit,yauld,ooot fromtwo to hours o f business to half-past. The dealings are for cash on delivery of scrip or_transfer. The average number of British shipwrecks in a year is 600 ; the value of the property destroyed about two and a half millions sterling; and the number of lives lost about 1,560. LIMEILICE.—DEFEAT OP A REPEAL CANDIDATE. —Oll Friday au election took place in the Richmond ward of the city of Limerick. The candidates we're Mr. • kelly, a repealer, and Mr. Hall, an anti-repealer. At the close of the poll Mr. Hall waa 109, Jilld Mr. Kelly 98. Majority against the repealer, 11. COAL FIELDS OF CH L_441.. ON THE ANTIIARACITE AND BITUMINOUS COAL FIELDS OF CHINA ; T/IE SYSTEM OF MINING, AN6 :HE PRICES OF COAL, AND LABOUR IN ITS PRODUCTION, ANI3 TRANSPOR TATION TO PEKIN. BY RICHARD C. TAYLOR, PHILADEL PHIA. We have seen the recent announcement of the sailing of a vessel containing 308 tons of PennsylVania anthracite, des. tined for Hong-Kong, in China. Some very natural specu lations have arisen from this circumstance, as to the proba bility of that country furnishing a market for American an thracite. As no details accompany the statement alluded to, we are cot in possession of material facts whereby an estimate can be termed of the probable success of the under • taking, in a commercial sense; and we are not sure but the coal may have been employed for convenience merely, as ballast. In the East Indies various depots of European coal have been establi'hed, for the service of the British government steamers. This fuel, for the most part, it is understood, con sists of the anthracitous and partially bituminous coals of South Wales, of course obtained at great expense. It appears that 5,000 tons cf English coal at a freightage of 21 per ton, are annually imported into Bombay for the Company's steamers. Bituminous coals have been derived from much less distant sources; among which the Burdwan coal field, in .the vicinity of Calcutta, may be named. Mergui Island, also, in the Bay of Bengal, has lately furnished some steam coal to Singapore. The steam-ships on the China seas, during the war with that vast country, were supplied from these various sources. I do not propose to discuss the profitableness, or other wise, of a Chinese market for our American anthra cite. But as during the process of collecting statis tical information f or a propose d vo l ume on "the geo logical and geographical distribution of coaland other mineral combustibles," some notes reached me of an- interesting cha racter; which are not generally accessible to the majority of readers with relation to the Chinese coal fields, it has struck me that a portion of these details, in an abridged form, might be just now acceptable, particularly as the intercourse with that country is on the increase. I venture even to omit, for the present, the authorities for the facts I shall have to coin muuicate, reserving them in detail for the volume ad verted to. It must, nevertheless, be premised that to the Jesuit fathers, the French missionaries, who were permitted to reside at Pekin during the 18th and pre ceding centuries, we are indebted for details of the highest interest - , not clone on this subject, but on many other objects of philosophical inquiry in that little-known region. It is probable that coal was discovered, and was in corn . ... mon us.; in China, long before it was known in the western world. It is mentioned by a noble traveller of the 13th century, as abounding throughout the whole province of Cathay, of which Pekin is the capital, " where certain black stones are dug out of the which stones burn when kindled, and keep alive for a long time, and are used by many persons, notwithstanding the abundance of wood." The good missionaries were fully capable of describ ing the coals which were supplied to Pekin, since they there erected a furnace or stove, in which they experimented on the properties of those combus tibles, particularly with reference to the ordinary domestic uses, and for the warming of apartments and the purposes of their laboratot v. Among the peOple of Pekin, three kinds are in use : I. That employed by the blacksmiths. It yields more flame than the other qualities; is more fierce, but is sub ject to d- crepitate in the fire; on which account, probably, the blacksmiths use it pounded in minute particles. 2. A harder and stronger coal used for culinary purposes, giving out more flame than the other sorts so employed ; it is less quickly consumed, and leaves a residuum of gray ashes. There are several gradations of these. The best are hard to break, of a fine grain, a deep black colour, soiling the hands less than the others. It sometimes is sufficiently siliceous to give fire with steel. Others have a very coarse grain, are easily broken, and make a bright fire, leaving a reddish ash. Another species crackles, or decrepitates, when first placed on the fire; and falls down, almost entirely, in scales, which close the passage of the air, and stifle the fire. 3. A soft, feebly-burning coal, giving out less heat than the second-class ; consuming more quickly, it breaks with greater facility, and in general is of deeper black than the sorts previously mentioned. It is commonly this description which, being mixed with coal dust and a fourth part of clay, is employed to form an artificial and economical fuel. This being moulded in the form of bricks and balls are sold in the shops of Pekin. Waggon loads of coal dust are brought to that city for this sole purpose. The coal merchants have also an intermediate quality be tween the classes two and three. THE WEATHER. STORM IN INVERNESS-SHIRE. The weather continues wet and story—very uncon genial for the completion of harvest. Wednesday last was fair, and both shearing and leading were carried on with spirit. On the two following days the constant, rain prevented the cutting and in-gathering of the crops. On Saturday we had a strong gale of wind, which, ere night, penetrated to the heart of the wet sheaves, and rendered the crop tolerably dry ; but, we regret to add, only to be exposed to a thorough soaking next day. The river Ness has been in full flood all the week. On Saturday a few sheep were observed strug gling in the midst of the current, but they got safe to land. Monday will not be readily forgotten. All day it blew a hurricane, until towards evening, when the violence of the wind greatly abated, and a good deal of corn was housed overnight. Throughout the day it rained heavily, and the river continued to rise. About ten o'clock a large tree, which had been torn up by the roots, rolled down the stream, and shortly afterwards another followed. On the Castle Hill it was impossible to stand or walk, unless under cover of the building. Several of the windows were shattered ; chimney-cans and slates were thrown down into the streets ; and in the country, trees, fences, and other_ materials, were dislodged and scattered about. At sea, we are afraid the results would be more serious ; for the storm was as general as it was severe. Fears were entertained for the stack yards about town, and we observe that in.some of them portions of the thatch have been carried away on the sides most exposed. Stooks are also laid level wherever they stood. On a field of barley near the Thornsbush Pier not one sheaf stood erect—they were all blown over. At Kessock the tempest prevented the ferry boats from crossing. The Maid of Morven, steamer, lay at anchor in the roads, her owner deeming it unsafe for her to undertake the customary trip. The Duke of Wellington was also anchored at the ferry ; her cargo could not be got on board until yesterday forenoon, when she proceeded on her voyage southwards. A boat which lay at anchor a short way above the pier broke her cable, and drifted down into shallow water, near the mouth of the river, when she was secured. A gentle man from this town who was in Ross shire on Saturday, states that the Conan and the Orrib were swollen to a large sizo—the former extending its waters where corn had stood but shortly before. On the west coast the hurricane commenced on Sunday evening about 9 o'clock and continued till 12 the following day. Nothing so severe has been experienced for at least 30 years about Fort William and the neighbouring district. On Loch Ness the blast was terrific ; the spray blew on the land like a snow-drift. The three lochs—Ness, Oich, and Lochy—were higher on Monday, in consequence of he rains, than they have been since the great flood in November, 1834, when they rose to an unprecedented height. We are glad to learn that the operations on the canal, though much retarded, have not been damaged by this storm, owing to the judicious arrangements and exertions of the contractors ; and the Culloden steamer nobly breasted the gale on Loch Ness, making the dis tance from Dochgarroch to Fort-Augustus in three hours and five minutes. The roads beyond Leterfinlay are cut up by the flood, and several large trees were floated down froth Lbck Arkaig to the east end of Loch Loehy. The late boisterous winds and rains have rapidly stript our woods of great part of their variegated foliage. Some of the birch plantations on the hill-sides, however, still wear a picturesque appearance, and in some sheltered situations the leaves and verdure continue fresh and green. It was curious last week to note the moorfowl congregate in the cornfields, to escape the stormy blasts of the hills. Throngs of grouse and blackeock had descended from the heights, and literally blackened the stooks that still stand exposed in some of the fields. A correspondent writing from Strathspey, on Satur day, reports as follows :—" The weather is singularly changeable and unsteady, and at this date, October 18, there is not above one-fourth of the crops secured in Strathspey. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last, were goAl days, with a strong, steady breeze from the west, very favourable for drying the corn, cut and uncut. Fields were rapidly clearing, and stack-yards filling apace ; but this happy state of things was sud denly overturned yesterday, when a perfect deluge of rain fell. To-day it blows a hard gale from the north west."—lnverness Courier. We cannot in this place recite the numerous details which are furnished by these intelligent fathers. Suffice it to add, that nearly the whole of the properties and applications are now in every-day use in the United States, and are familiar to all. They are, in fact, the natural results suggested by qualities possessed in common by the combustibles of remote parts of the same globe. Even the modern method of warm ing all the apartments of our dwellings, which we view as the result of superior practical and scientific investigation, was in use, with very little deviation, centuries ago by the Chinese. Many a patented artificial fuel compound, both in Europe and America, has been in practical operation in China at least a thousand years. 4. Anthracite—Another description of coal abounding about thirty leagues from Pekin, but which was not then in such general use there as the other kinds, is called by the Chinese Che-tan. Che means a stone, but tan is the name they give to wood charcoal. Therefore, according to the genius of the Chinese language, this compound word signi fies a substance resembling or having the common properties of stone and charcoal. There can be little difficulty here, in recognising the variety of coal which, in our day, has been denominated anthracite, a compound word of similar meaning. The Chinese glance coal forms a remarkable exception to the unfavourable conclusion prevailing against Oriental coal; and, according to more recent authority than those we be fore cited, deserves to rank at the head of the list, in respect of its purity as a coke; although in specific gravity it does net come up to the character of the Pennsylvania or Welsh fuel; neither has it the spongy texture which contributes much to the glowing combustion of the latter. So late as 1840 a Russian officer has described the coal formations of the interior as occupying the western moun tain range of ChinX - in - Yuchsanunciance that -- a - s - pite - CorhalT a league cannot be traversed without meeting with rich strata. The art of mining is yet in its infancy among the Chinese ; notwithstanding which, coal is thought to be at a moderate ' price in the capital. Anthracite occurs in the western range of mountains at about a day's journey, or about thirty miles, only from Pekin. The coal formation is largely developed, in which thick beds of coal occur. They appear to be of various qualities. Some of this coal, occurring in . shale beds, is singularly decomposed, and its particles have so little cohesion, that they are almost reduced to a state of powder. Beneath these coal shales are beds of ferruginous sandstone, and below those occur another series, consisting of much richer seams of coal than the upper group. In this range are seen also both horizontal and vertical beds of conglomerate, accompanied by seams of coal, which have the conglomerate for the roof, and diorite or greenstone for the floor. As might be expected, this coal very much re sembles anthracite. It is shining, of compact texture, diffi cult to ignite, does not flame in burning, or give out any smoke. Its substance is entirely homogenious. Everything respecting it leads to the belief that there had been a great de velopment of heat at th e per i o d o f it s 'formation, or subsequently. The horizontal coal beds are the most important and valuable, and are denominated large; but no greater thickness than three and a half feet is quoted. The blacksmiths, and those who work in copper, prefer this coal, on account of the intense heat which it gives otit. Throughout the whole of this mountain range may be con tinually seen the outcrops of this combustible, where they have never, as yet, been touched by the hand of man. In those parts of China where wood is very dear, coal is worked on a great scale for the Pekin market; but the process of mining is very little understood by those people, whoexcel in the preparation of charcoal. Coal in other parts of China—The missionaries and others inform us that coal is so abundant in every pro vince of China that there is, perhaps, no country of the world in which it is so common. The quays at Nankin are stored with the finest native coal. Some of the coal which was brought down to th e coas t, f rom th e Pekin country, to the Gulf of Pe-tepee-lee, was anthracite, partaking of the character of plumbago or graphite. Coal, apparently of the brown coal species, exists extensively in the di rection of Canton; while all the coals seen on the Yang-tse-k-iang river, south of Nankin, resembled cannel coal. Near to Canton it possessed the comparatively mo dern character of brown coal. It was abundantly offered for sale in the different cities through which Lord Amhurst's embassy passed ) between Lake Po-yang-how and Canton, and the boats were largely supplied with it. It is there obtained by means of pits, like wells ; and we infer that, like nearly all the brown coal deposites, the beds were hori zontal, and at no great depth. A sulphurous coal, inter stratified with slate, and in the vicinity of red sandstone, also prevails towards Canton. Thus, therefore, we possess evidence, the main object which this communication was designed to exhibit, that ex tending over large areas in China are beds of tertiary or brown coal, of cannel coal, a dozen varieties of bituminous coal, of anthracite, glance coal, and graphitic anthracite ; all of which, rot ages, have been in common Use in this remark able country; and have been there employed for every do mestic purpose known to civilised nations of all times, in cluding gas lighting, and the manufacture of iron, copper, and other metals; COURSE OF EXCHAI Amsterdam CF. 12 1O Ditto, at sight l2 7 Rotterdam 2U. 12 11 Antwerp 26 15 Hamburgh M.B. 13 13/ Altona Mode Of bulling` Coal iti china —lt might be. ex pected that in China, where- most of the practical arts have, from ,time inntemorial, been carried on with all tbe llerSeverande of that industrious people, the opera tions of mining coal would be conducted with some regard to science, in relation to sinking, draining, and ex traction. We have, however, good atithority, especially in regard to the environs of Pekin, for stating that the process is still in a very imperfect states Machinery there to lighten Inelir is unknown. They have not eVen tin idea of the pumps indiSpensable to draw off the water. If local dream stances tif6j , cut dfairigge galleries • if not, they aban don the work whenever the inundation has gaitted too far upon them. The mattock and shovel, the pick and the hammer, are the mining instruments —the only ones, in facts which the, chinesp etinpley in Working the coal. the wafer Of the mine is emptied by the slew process of filling small casks, which ate brought up to the surface by manual labour. 'Vertical shafts are net used. In working lioiliental coal seams, the timber is expensive, and the materials cost 2 copecs per pound, = 8 dollars 50 cents per ton, Engliall wood being sold by weight in Ohitia. The Coal, When mined, is put into baskets, and drawn upon sledges, which are raised to the Surface by nittnual strength. Each basket contains about three Bounds of goal, and one man can raise abaft eight baskets in a day. This is equi valent to 1,032 Russian pounds, or to 12 Cwts. English, per day. The miners' wages are at the rate of 80 c6PedS basket, which is equal to 240 copecs (copper currency), or 46 cents of United States currency per day, being 70 gents . U. S. per ton, rates at Pekin—At the pit's mouths this coal is sold for 60 copecs per lir., = 4 dollarti tents per ton OF 20 cwt. It is then Oonveyed on the backs of mules through the moun tains, and thence on camels to Pekin, where the price is rouble, = 1 „ franc.% = 29c. United S'ates per pound; which, if our calculation be correct, is equal to 11 dollars 60 cents United States,, or 21. 8s Bd. per ton of 2,240 pounds English, much lower , s u h is s i h t c e o s a which We perceive, thererore, - Chat the best fuel is expensive at d is, however, a kind of coal sold in that city at a t c° l 7 f li o e r °ru c e o ll a ds l dust. r'n ortifcial Pekin, and hence ' the necessity for resorting to n e sold briefly for o a n l e l u r d e e n d b , le per ~a_ price, particularly when it is mixed with one , Pound, which is at the rate of 7 dollars 11. 12s. 3d. per t on . I t is of indifferet i 5 l i nts, equal to giving ou t b ut li ttle heat, and is quickly consumed.cua ty, however, The compound fu e l, cons i st i ng of coal dustad clay, is still prepared afte r th e mode described by th e missionaries last century, but its use is chiefly confined to the indi gen t Coal Ga. , l Lighting in China—Whether, or to what extent the Chinese artificially produce illu m i na ti ng gas fronibitu, minous coal, we are uncer t a i n. B ut i t is a fact that spon taneous jets of gas, deri ve d f rom b or i ng i nto coal beds,ha ve for centuries been burning, and turned to that and other :econornidal purposes. If the Chinese are not Manufacturers, they are, nevertheless, gas consumers and employers on a large scale, and have evidently been so ages before the know ledge of its application was acquired by Europeans. Beds of coal are frequently pierced by the borers for salt wider, -aria, 3 days' sight 25 75 Ditto, 3 months 26 5 Marseilles 26 10 Bonrdeaux 26 10 Frankfort on Maine 1221 Petersbnrgh, 3 Us Berlin Vienna, effee. flo. .... 10 6 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36* Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona .... Seville IGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar.....•• ell • Leghorn Genoa 26 5 Milan ...... . Venice .... ...,......... Naples 391 Palermo, per oz ll9l Lisbon .. 53f Oporto Rio Janeiro .... 24 Bahia ...... Buenos A yres NewYork , 2ldyssight -- Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PEE OZ Foreign Gold,bars...f.3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons.... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 101 Silver in Bars 0 4.111 DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY.—It was expected that the shares in this Company would have been distributed by this time, but we understand the allotment has not yet been completed. The applications for shares from persons along the projected line have greatly preponderated over those from other parts; and as the Directors very naturally , wish to give preference to the former, without entirely ex cluding the latter, their office of allocation involves both time and difficulty. We are informed that the shares may not be expected before the end of next week, as the lists of allotment are undergoing a scrupulous revision.—The Railway King. PILCHARD FISHERY.—On Wednesda morning general fi ne shoals of fish were seen off the Lizar & and during the forenoon they came in shore. The seiners at the Lizard missed them, but at Cadgwith a fine shoal was enclosed and taken up, of about 400 hhds. ; and at a cove near Cadg with, two other seine.c shot, and took together 150 hhds., all of which have been cellared. They are remarkably fine flab, and very fat.—Plymoteh Journal. GOLDEN PLOVER.—WiThin the last four days the downs in the vicinity of Andover Ltve been visited by several strong flocks Gf that highly-esteemed Lira the golden plover. Whenever the Migratory visitors make i.l'eir appearance on these sheep-walks, we may be certain that th;, October frosts are close at hand. In the company of these wa.liderers have been noticed a sprinkling of dotterel, a very rare biz in these peep ! which are greatly prized by the sportsman.—She rborne Journal. We are requested to caution the public, and more espedially that portion of it who are in the habit of bestowing alms indiscriminately upon vagrants, against the deception practising by a female who is travelling through this edunty, and presenting fiCtitiotts notes of recommendation, purporting to be addressed from respectable individuals one in one parish to others in an adjoining, one. The plea, in instance brought under our notice, is rot assistance to get a child into an institution for the blind, and it well-written note, falsely alleged to be from a clergyman at NTrittle to a lady at Great Beddow, was presented b y the appiif.lant.— 4 '^vd Chronicle. Clielnis.,— - -4,-idges, five in number, settled on -- y i .,_ - ,- ^nd of Bridlesmith - g ate, in this A cove Oz 4 e unusual scene ensued. the paren,leilt or the tipp.. I, is prize home in town, on Friday afternoon last. ...-.. '-ulty, were One was captured by a iti*oe, Who bore --ant, trhimph ; arid . the others, after some little dui.— also secured bY ." uneertifieuted sportsmen." Such an ... in the :very centre of a large manufacturing tow n, is de cidedly n0ve1...-. ()Hingham &eta), FORTUNATP SPECIMATION.—On the `itli instant, a person bought 40 tons of oatmeal for 131. per ton in Armagh market. Naxt week he sold the saute in Portaclown for 101. per ton.-1)46/in Evening Mail. We are, glad to find that the Directors of the London and Brightor, Railway have adopted the plan of setting apart a carit a is an instance ofge in every train for ladies only. This experience on to the comfort and—as recent attention females tree-• some othox lines has shown—to the safety of Ecte4 a . ., ening alone, which cannot be too highly corn ^l —,Brighten Gaeta" . • . • . ' and the inflammable gas is forced up in jets, twenty PUBLIC DINNER to MR. HUDSON, . or thirty feet in height From these fountains the vapour has been conveyed to the salt works' in pies,SUNDERLAND. and there used for the boiling and evaporation of the salt; SUNDERLAND, WEDNESDAY, Om 22.—Yesterday evening other tubes convey the gas intended for lighting the streets a public dinner, in honour of Mr. Hudson's return for this and the larger apartments and kitchens. As there is still borough, took place in the Polytechnic-hall, Fawcett-street, more gas than is required, the excess is conducted beyond which had been fitted up and decorated for the purpcse. the limits of the salt works, and there forms separate chim- The walls were covered with banners used at the election, neva or columns of flame. and opposite the chair was placed a likeness of the Hon. One cannot but be struck with the singular counterpart of Member, taken by an art i st i n N ewcastle. Upwards of 350 gentlemen sat down to dinner, the room thereby being in logical employment of natural gas, which may be daily wit nessed in the valley of the Kanawha, in Virginia. The geo- i sonveniently crowded. J. J. Wright Esq., was in the chair. a his right were G. Hudson, Esq., M,P. ; Lord Adolphus logical origin, the means of supply, the application to all the processes of manufacturing salt, and of the appro- Vane, the Hon. IL T. Liddell, M.P., Alderman Richardson, priation of the surplus for the purposes of illumi- of Yolk : the Sheriff ef York ; R. Pemberton, Esq., < f the nation, are remarkably alike at such distant points Barnes; and C. Bramwell, Esq. On his left, Lord Seahain ; as China and the United States. Those who have SirJ. H. Lowther, M.P. ; Colonel Wood, M.P. ; Hodgson . read, even within the present month, the account Hindo, Esq., M.P. ; Matthew B e ll, Esq., 3f.P. • the Rev. Dr. of the recent extraordinary additional supply of gas, Webster, Esq., &c. &c. Townsend, Prebendal) , of Durham ; Re v . It. Skipsey, R. • and the service it is made to perform at the Kanawha The principal vice-chair was filled by R. S porn, E sq. salt-works, must be impressed with the coincidence of all the circumstances with those which are very briefly stated in the dinner was a very sumptuous entertainment, with a lentiful of champagne previous paragraph in relation to China. In fact, the parallel • n supply and other wines. is complete. On the withdrawal of the cloth, To the coals and combustible minerals of China I cannot The CHAIR3fAN gave, in succession, "the Queen," "the further advert here. But what a conviction irresistibly Queen Dowager," "Prince Albert," "the Pri nce o f W a l es, and presses upon the mind, as to the incalculable utility of the rest of the Royal Family," and " the Na v y an d Army." In proposing the latter toast (which was acknow railroad system and coal mining improvements in such an ledged by Colonel Wood) the Chairman adverted to the fact empire. If ever there were concentrated at one point all the that on that day, forty years ago, the hero Nelson fought his circumstances especially and unequivocally favourable to that last battle in defence of England—the battle of Trafalgar-- system, and imperiously calling for improvements of the and uttered his memorable saying, " England exp ec t s that character suggested, it seems to be presented in the case of every man will do his duty." the city of Pekin. Here, with its enormous populati on o f The CHAIRMAN next gave " the Bishop and Clergy of the 1,500,000 souls, it is situated only at a day's journey— Diocese," and in doing so, remarked that the venerable computed at thirty miles—from an immense region of Bishop, although he conscientiously differed from them in coal, comprising several varieties. Yet its inhabitants political sentiment, yet, it must be admitted, by the exem cannot purchase the best qualities of this coal, brought from the mountains on the hacks of mules and camels, un d er 11 platy discharge of the duties of his exalted office, by his mu nificent contributions to public charities, and by the manifes dollars 60 cents per ton, and the very worst for less than 7 dollars 75 cents per ton. tation of much kind feeling, had secured for himself the un- Without making unnecessary or invidious comp ar i sons , it feigned respect of the inhabitants of the county, a n d es p ec i a lly might not unreasonably be suggested that a Pekin railroad, the inhabitants of Sunderland.—(Applause.) ad in connexion with the coal mines, would be a f ar m ore pro- The Rev. Dr. TOWNSEND, in responding to the toast, verted to the beneficial effects of railways, and expatiated on fitable enterprise in its results than the transportation of American coals to China. the public and private character of their guest, which he I will onlyadd one circumstance, which had nearly escaped stated was in every respect highly commendable. me. Borneo, " the largest island in the world," which is The CHAU:MIN then said—We now come to the leading only twenty degrees due north of Canton, has lately come toast of the evening—the health of the esteemed and distin into repute fur the great quantity of coal which it contains, guished gentleman in whose honour we are assembled at this not only accessible to ships along the coast, but extensively oc- fcstive board—(Applause)—in order to proclaim the h igli curling in the mountains of the interior. Much information estimation in which we hold his talents, the unqualified re has also been acquired from the natives; and the facts which spect we entertain for his character, the satisfaction with are already elicited are regarded as of considerable import- which we have the honour to see him our representative in once, in respect to the facilitating the steam navigation of the Parliament, and our confidence that he will discharge the China seas. duties of that sacred trust with honour to himself, credit to Philadelphia will, of course, have her share in the enlarged this borough, and advantage to the countrv.—(Applause.) commercial intercourse with China. Would it, then, be asking So much has been said in eulogium of Mr. Hudson's abilities too much of those who are personally interested in this im- and high reputation, both on previous occasions in this proving trade, to communicate any additional facts which_ borough and by the newspaper press throughout the country, are either unknown to, or have been omitted by, the author that I cannot but feel it is impossible for me to advance of these scanty notes? anything new or interesting upon the present occa- Philadelphia, April 28, 1845. sion. There are three lights in which I should desire to [No'rß.—The prices and a.dmeasurements which are quoted place Mr. Hudson before you, in every one of which he in the foregoing article, were reduced to the United States shines with a brightne's of character of which lie may and English currencies and measures, from the Russian, as justly be proud, which does him infinite credit, and reflects furnished by the engineer Kovanko, who, in like manner, honour upon his name—l mean as a man of business, as a converted them into the Russian from the Chinese standards_ politician, and as a private gentleman.—(Applause). The In consequence of this triple conversion of standards, addi- reputation of Mr. Hudson as a man of business and enter prise stands unrivalled in the present day. As the great ac tional care has been taken to avoid error in these calcula complisher of railway undertakings, the public spirit and the tions.l—Franklin Journal. indomitable perseverance which have marked all his opera tions, the astonishing rapidity with which all his great works have been executed, and the signal success which has at tended all his effort., have become matters of national record, and the theme of wonder throughout Europe. So strongly, gentlemen, is his fame felt, that you cannot take up any newspaper, whether Tory, Whig, or Radical—whether local or metropolitan—nay, whether English or continental, without finding some article to his praise or observations to his honour.—(Applause.) He has identified his name with the national character by the works he has already accomplished; and such is the opinion formed of his power, and such the reliance placed in his judgment and integrity, that he wields at command and presides over an amount of pecuniary capital exceeding that of any other man in this empire. He may be said to be a sort of Chancellor of the Exchequer in railway matters, whose duties, however, are more to give than to receive; for he has founded a national stock which has not only provided for the security of the investments, but returned to the possessors their capi tal doubled, trebled, or quadrupled in premiums and divi dends, and opened a new fountain of prosperity which has flowed in copious and refreshing streams *rough the coun try.—(Applause.) There is another peculiarity attending Mr. Hudson's enterp r i se — w hil s t it h as benefited the rich, it has disseminated advantages through every class of society in this great commercial community. He has provided en gagements for the artisan, employment for the labourer, a field of operation for the skill of engineers, trade for the shopkeeper, a market for the manufacturer, channels for in dustry, and oceans of business unequalled in the history of this empire.—(Great applause.) Having conferred benefit upon every claseof the community, he has raised a pyramid to his fame which statesmen may envy, and which has called forth a spontaneous testimonial of gratitude which does honour to the national character, and confers splendour upon the age.—(Applause.) As a politician, Mr. Hudson is known to cherish, and, on all fitting occasions, he is ready to uphold those great Conservative principles of devotion to the Church, love to the altar, attachment to that unrivalled Constitution which constitutes the glory and security of the British nation. Especially do I feel justified in stating to this meeting, from all the addresses Mr. Hudson made to this constituency, that he will be always ready to maintain the necessity and enforce the justice of fair protection to the agricaltural, manufacturing, and shipping interests of this great country, in opposition to those mischievous prin ciples of unlimited free trade, which would break down the barriers raised to protect native industry and give up all na tional advantages, without any just return or equivalent con sideration.—(Applause.) The electors of this borough owe Mr. Hudson a debt of gratitude for the noble stand he made in support of protective principles on the recent arduous struggle in. this borough, and for having defeated the ma chinations of the Anti-Corn-law League, that modern mon ster of political violence, and vanquished one of the most talented and experienced, and one of their original advocates, and scattered all their hired lecturers in confusion.—(Great. applause.) That contest and victory was expressly a Con servative contest and victory. The issue joined between the parties, which I expressly put to the electors on the hustings, and which was confirmed by my honour able friend the candidate, was this—a Conservative Government on the one hand, Whig policy on the other ; just protection to the interests of the country on one hand, and unlimited free trade on the other ; and the comstituency decided these questions by the vic tory that we won.—(Applause.) I say it was the triumph of Oonservat ive principles, and so it has been received and understood throughout the country—it was the voice of Conservative feeling, expressed in accents not to be misun derstood, and which has rung the death-knell of the Anti- Corn-law tLeague in all their future attempts to domineer Over the constituency.—(Applause.) Mr. Wright then eulogised 7tilr. Hudson as a private gentleman, and concluded, I will not detain you, for I see the feeling is rising in your bosoms re: icly to burst in peals of enthusiastic applause.— (The toast- was drunk with repeated cheers.) Mr. HLCDSON, on rising, was again loudly cheered. He said, in rising on this occassion to offer to you my best thanks for the compliment which has just been paid me by drinking my health, I feel under difficulty to find words to give expression to'the grateful feelings of a warm and affec tionate' heart. lam deeply sensible of the obligations which I owe to the electors of Sunderland for the man ner in which. they returned me to Parliament ; but I felt that in applring before them I was not fighting my own battle, but the battle of the Constitution, and seeking to promote the welfare of this great country.(Applause.) The gentlemen who waited upon me to solicit me to come forward will do me the justice to say that at first I shrunk from the offer with some alarm, but on explanation I felt, as every Englishman I hope will always feel, that a fair and proper call being made upon me by my fellow-countrymen, I had no right to consider my own feelings and convenience. —(Applause.) I also told them, that if at the eleventh hour .any gentleman with whom they were acquainted came for ward, who could fight the battle, which they considered great zod important, with an equal probability of success, they were at ;liberty to reject' me and take him.—(Applause.) Hawing accepted your invitation to stand as a candidate for Sunderland, I did my best, and I am gratified in knowing that 'best succeeded in defeating a body of gentlemen who have been so admirably characterised by your Chairman this even i RP (Renewed applause.) I came here upon prin. ciple, relying for success solely upon those great Conservative -which I have held ever since I took a part in Pf . e l lrairs. It is true I came here a stranger, only a a two or three gentlemen, but before I had been p pr u i b n l c ie i our hours in your borough, I found that I was k or n e o n w t n y-t among a body of Englishmen who had hearts to feel for the well-being of their country. This soon won my affections, a nd it would be the severest trial which has ever tried me to lose' your regard. Gentlemen, we triumphed over a body of men who tl 'ought they could carry enslaved at their shrine the co 'Witt Lenny of Sunderland. We have shown that when . fairly aid openly met they are easy to defeat—that their principleir ti.re not sound, that their views are selfish, and that they endeavour to carry away the minds of the people by specuaas• arguments.—(Applause.) Having now, how ever, obtah led a victory, let us endeavour to appropriate it to the promotion. of local and national advantage. I do not hold lightly those great principles which ought to govern this free counts '—l think they ought to be paramount on all occasions, bit t having maintained them fearlessly, let us unite with all pat ties in promoting the local and social ad vantage of the town and port of Sunderland.—( Great ap plause). Peaceful times are those in which only we can take a calm and judicious view as to what will promote the welfare of a town. Political agitators, who are constantly peo ple, in season and out of season , are not the w tin is g the Gentlemen,hers as Cans of the country. Let us,er vatives, s how a bright example to t h ose agitators , and to laical demagogues who exist in every town, by using w ex e c ll i the political advantageously the victory we have obtained by promoting the local interests of the port—let us endeavour to cultivate good feeling towards those who are politically opp ose d t o us, an d prevent political feeling from interfering with our en deavours to promote the local advantage of the town. I am satisfied if you act thus, you will win over to us those who will strengthen us, the party will grow stronger and stronger, and the time will soon come when Mr. Liddell and myself wi ll n ot be the only two Conservative Members for this great coun ty.--(Applause). I again thank you : all I ca n say i s, I a m deepl ; sensible of the kind manner in which the Chairman and my my. Friend have spoken of me, and I trust their eulogiums induce me never to forget the duties of the position to which I have attained, and act as incentives to my endeavours to some my country, Your Chairman has ad verted to matters which were the subject of discussion during my election. I am sure you will do me the justice to say, that on that occasion I studiously abstained from any re ferencss to them. On this point I can appeal with confi dence even to my political opponents; but I was not un whims eof the position which this important port holds in the counts ", and although I then thought it unfair to give any pledges, or even refer to it in my speeches, my views were then fca'med, and I was quite ready to have developed them, had i t b een prudent to do so, in the same manner that I did the other slay, and which I am happy to say met with the approbation not only of gentlemen who supported nee, but of some who felt it their duty to oppose me.—(Applause.) This district is, periaaps, one of the mostimportantSunder land he the ki ng dom, and if its resou r ce s were fully developed i d Manchester.— and Newcastle might rival Liverpool m (L ou d applause.) interfere; to accomplish this we must not suffer m ust not allow politics to p o litical feeling to we a ement of these affairs, and by avoid intermix in the ma g n overmany to the principles we duct we shall e iflg. this c" show a bright contrast to those trading politi profe:.s, u and • d everybody's business but their own.—(Ap cians vime men 11 go to• Parliament with an ambition to follow elause.) I s3a my right (Mr. Liddell), and the gentleman on n . en s re. -.. i i.lernen connected with the district, whose prin - --t I admire; and I trust, by doing so, I shall a manner satisfactory to you and the "as honour to represent.—(Cheers ) gave " The healths of the wank with cheers. `Mowed, and the the b.. of other g— ciples and coml._ discharge my duties IL. gentlemen whom ,I have Mr.. gunsoN 'again ro,e, ant. electori, :Sunderland;" which was %A. , A. great many complimentary tOasta 4. company broke up at midnight. ~. .~~ THE AFFRAY IN NEW ZEALAND. The following description, from the pen of an Ame rican officer, Captain M.Keever, of the disastrous affray. at Russell, will be read with interest. It is dated front on board the frigate Brandywine : "On the 3d of March we anchored at the Bay of Islands. Here I found affairs in a very disturbed an-1 critical state, open hostilities having just commenced be 4 tween the natives under their celebrated chief lieki and the English authorities at Kororarika, a town of 500 inhabitants. Her Britannic Majesty's sloop of war Hazard was lying off the town to protect it, and a flag staff was erected on a neighbouring hill, which had been cut down several times by lieki. I anchored the St. Louis above the town, and opposite a place called the Wahapo, where is situated a large American mercantile establishment, and whose buildings at this time con tained some 60,000 dolls, worth of property owned in the United States. " In these difficulties between the English on the one hand, and the native-born men of the soil on the other, I determined to pursue a course of impartial neutrality, and at the same time to evince, practically, my anxiety to prevent the usual barbarity of savage warfare. To this end, I succeeded in obtaining an interview with the chief Ileki, and making him to understand the course I intended to pursue. I obtained from him a pledge that he would inflict no injury upon women or children, upon the missionary establishments at the Bay, nor upon the American property at the Wahapo—a pledge which he faithfully kept. "It was reported to me that Ileki was making im proper use of an American flag, which by some means he had obtained possession of ; and, having seen it fly ing shortly after in one of his war canoes as he passed the ship, I proceeded on shore, and obtaining another in terview with him, inquired his object in displaying the flag of the United States ; he informed me that he had done so purely in compliment to the ship, and in token of friendship to all Americans. After explaining to him the nature of a national flag, and that my country being at peace with England he must not hoist it, as none but Americans were entitled to its protection, he desisted from using it. "On the 11th of March, at daylight, the natives, feigning a general attack upon the town, carried the blockhouse erected for its protection, took the signal station, and cut down the flagstaff. At meridian, to add to the misfortunes of the day, the depot of powder he longing to the inhabitants by accident blew up, killing and wounding many. The town was now hastily aban doned, and in the course of that and the following day sacked and destroyed, with the exception of the churches and mission-houses. Our boats during the morning of the action were actively engaged in bringing off the wounded and the women and children to vessels in the harbour. The commander of the Hazard was mortally wounded, and I believe in all fifteen or sixteen Europeans were killed in the conflict, and about the same number wounded. The loss on the part of the natives is sup posed to be greater. " A request having csrne from the Hazard for the medical officers of the ship to assist in dressing the wounded, they promptly repaired on board, and to carry out my neutral views, upon a similar. request from the camp of Heki, they were directed to proceed on shore the following day, and offer the same services, which were as kindly received. "Feeling called upon to afford all the aid in my power to the housL less inhabitants, I at once offered a passage to Auckland (the seat of government of New Zealand) to as many as might wish to go. Accordingly, on the 13th, about 150 persons —men, women, and children— were received on board, and in company with the sloop of war Hazard and an English whale-ship, having on board the remainder of the inhabitants, we proceeded to Auckland, and landed them there on the 16th. It was my intention to have sailed thence direct Ito Otalmite ; but, on the eve of our departure from the bay, such strong and urgent representations were made to me by the agents of the American property, of the great dan ger to which it would be exposed in the absence of the ship, that I contented to return immediately ; and sub sequent events have proved the propriety of that course. On the 18th we left Auckland, where we met with great kindness from Governor Fitzroy and the authorities, and on the following day anchored again in the bay. ' All the American property was shipped aboard the American whalers, of which several were there, and whom I induced to receive and proceed with it to the United States. By these opportunities I communicated with the Navy Department, copies of which letters are enclosed. " The opportune arrival, on the 31st of March, of her Majesty's frigate North Star, Captain Sir Eve rar d Home, relieved me from a delicate position, and left me at liberty to proceed on my cruise. The documents from him, in relation to an intended blockade of the bay, together with the copy of a letter from Governor Fitzroy, of New Zealand, are herewith enclosed. * " The Bay of Islands has heretofore been the chief resort in these seas for our whalers ; but the present difficulties between the English and natives must effec tually close it against them for some time. It is com puted that there are generally not less than 150 American whale ships cruising off the coasts of New Zealand. " At this season of the year the sperm whalers proceed to the north-west coasts of America and the seas con tiguous to Japan. I have met several who were destined there. " At the Bay of Islands we have had no properly commissioned Consul for some years. This, I found, had been a source of regret to all parties concerned. " In the general desertion of the place, I directed the records, seals, flags, &c., of the Consulate to be dispatched to the care of the United States Consul at Sydney. " I may here remark, that, in our intercourse with the various authorities of the ports we have visited, and with the American Consuls, the courtesies of the former, with the attention, kindness, and high stand ing of the latter, have afforded me much gratification and pride. " I have received on board, at Hobart Town, Sydney, and the Bay of Islands, several sick and destitute Ame rican seamen, some of whom are now able to do duty, and serve partially , to make up the deficiency in the ship's complement.' In connexion with the preceding letter of. Captain M‘Keever, we lay before our readers the *following letter from the British Minister to the Secretary of State, furnished to the Navy Department, by which we have been favoured with a copy : " Washington, Sept. 6, 1845. " Sir,—The enclosed extract of a dispatch, lately re ceived by her Majesty's Government from the Governor of New Zealand, will inform you of the friendly and ge nerous.assistance afforded by an officer of the United States navy, Captain ril`Keever, of the St. Louis, to the local authorities and the European inhabitants of that settlement, in a case of great emergency. "In making this communication to you, I am com manded to express to the Government of the United States the high sense which her Majesty entertains of the services rendered by Captain M'Keever on the occa sion referred to. " I have the honour to be, with high consideration, " Sir, your obedient servant, " R. PAKENHAM. " The lion. James Buchanan, &c." EXTRACT OF A DISPATCH FROM GOVERNOR FITZROY TO LORD STANLEY. " Auckland, March 26, 1845. "The Captain of the United States frigate St. Louis, Captain D. M'Keever, did everything that a humane and brave officer of a foreign but friendly power could do under such circumstances. "He could not interfere hostilely ; but he sent his un armed boats, and went himself, undr frequent fire, to succour the women and children, and convey them safely to his frigate. "He afterwards brought 125 souls to Ackland ; and he is now at anchor in the Bay of Islands, ready to afford a refuge to our missionaries and their families, should they require such friendly assistance' TEE LATE MRS. FRY. ACCIDENT ON THE RICHMt. Wednesday afternoon, about two the works of the Richmond railway - , of his aucles crushed in a frightful" ri wheels of a truck slipping off the raft laid upon some straw, at the bottoe his Excellency M. Dedel had an interview wp 4riven to Guy'g Aberdeen ye§terday, at, the foreign-office. - The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry were interred on Mon day in the Friends' burying-ground at Barking, in this county. The funeral was conducted in a strictly unosten tatious style, in conformity with the recognised custom of the Society of Friends. The body did not arrive at the late residence of the deceased lady, at Upton, from Ramsgate, till seven o'clock on the morning of the interment. About a quarter before eleven o'clock the funeral cortege proceeded on route to Barking, under the superintendence of Mr. Smee, of Finsbury-pavement, in the following order :—The hearse, containing the body, drawn by two horses, and preceded by four men walking, who officiated as undertakers, followed by the carriages belonging to the respective members of the de ceased's family, their personal friends and acquaintances, be sides others belonging to several distinguished individuals„ resident in that and the immediate neighbourhood, number ing in the whole thirty-nine. The cortege, which extended more than half a mile in length, moved at a very slow pace, and, added to the thousands who had assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to departed worth, gave a solemnity to the proceedings which can be better conceived than de scribed. Among :the mourners we observed, in addition to the sons and daughters of Mrs. Fry, Messrs. Samuel Gur ney, sen. and jun., Mr. J. Masterman, M.P., Sir E. Buxton, Sir J, H. Pelly, Mr. John Joseph Gurney, a great number of the members of the Society of Friends, and other persons of distinction. Between fifty and sixty carriages from various parts were observed at Barking, waiting the arrival of the body, which reached there about one o'clock. After the ne cessary preliminaries had been arranged, the body was re moved from the hearse and consigned to its last resting place, and the death-like silence that prevailed for several minutes was broken by appropriate addresses from two female Friends, and one from Mr. John Joseph Gurney. The de livery of the addresses occupied more than two hours, and they were listened to with the most intense interest, but from the concourse of persons assembled many were pre vented from hearing. We may observe, no funeral ever created so great a sensation in that neighbourhood. From an early hour in the morning carriages of various descrip tions might be seen proceeding to Upton, in addition to hun dreds of pedestrians of all classes and both sexes, anxious to witness the funeral obsequies of one whose life was marked by every virtue which could tend to render her name illus trious, not only to the present, but succeeding generations. We cannot close without offering our humble tribute of re spect to the memory of one so eminent for her philanthropy and benevolence as Mrs. Elizabeth Fry. By her death so ciety has lost one of its greatest ornaments—the poor and destitute one who could sympathise with their condition and alleviate their wants. She sought out the abodes of vice and thep ove o r n ty e , h in an o d, rdearndthsautpsphi3e. themightnraivnings instil porpheiupnle:erofanvairtue ondesti tution on the other. In her the sons and daughters of mis fortune, crime, and suffering, found a friend whom they could procure without money and without price. Surely a long life wholly devoted to humane and benevolent actions, and promoting the happiness of her fellow-creatures, will en title Mrs. Fry to be ranked as one of the greatest philan thropists (of her own sex) which this country ever pro duced.—Chelmsford Chronicle. . ' ' l -(:44, [OFD Rgr pa t,''' A 'cl Q ckfi l =l :l o on L t ilitianer . by but i o l f a rti ilf:', tile was itam ' sly 41 1 a eb.aisoweatt, and #1.,.....t....1ij.... ea's•