The Sun. — London, England, 1832-09-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of CUMBERLAND visited his MAJESTY on Friday afternoon, at the Palace at St. James's. The KING, attended by Sir ANDREW BARNARD, left town at twenty minutes before six o'clock, in his carriage and four, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, for the Palace at Windsor. The Princess Sorxia honoured the Beulah Spa, Nor. wood, with her presence on Friday, and after drinking the water and promenading the grounds, ascended the Terrace to enjoy the beautiful and extensive prospect which it affords of the surrounding country. Her Royal Highness was graciously pleased to express herself highly delighted with this romantic and fashionable watering place. Despatches from Sir WILIIOT HORTON, the Governor of Ceylon, and from Sir T. COCHRANE, the Lieutenant- Governor of Newfoundland, were received on Saturday at the Colonial Office. Viscount MELBOURNE left South-street on Saturday for Holland House, Kensington. Mr. Under Secretary BACKMOUSE and family left Hans place for Tunbridge Wells. THEIR MAJESTIES. (From the 'Windsor Express of Saturday). The KING and QUEEN remain in good health, and con tinue to enjoy their daily rides and drives, except when prevented by the state of the weather. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER is in a very delicate state. Her Royal Highness appears to be low and dejected, and although there is no immediate danger, the family ar.a not without apprehension. The statement of the Princess AUGUSTA being indisposed is incorrect, her Royal Highness was never in better health. On Monday their AIAJESTIES go to Kew, where they dine and pass the day ; returning to Windsor in the evening. On Wednesday the KING goes to London, for the pur pose of holding a Levee at St. James's, and will return to the Castle to dinner. There have been no dinner or evening parties at the Castle for some days, and little or no company ; and we do not hear that, for the present, any more grand enter tainments are in prospective. The workmen are now engaged in restoring the front of Queen Elizabeth's Gallery, the interior of which is being converted into a library. CHELTENHAM, AUGUST 31. The weather, which had been unfavourable during the last ten days, raining with scarcely any intermission, cleared up yesterday afternoon, and the sun has shone strong durin g t h e d ay . Th e lib rar i es d ur i ng this period hav e all been thronged with company. A ball was given last night at the Rotunda, the ladies to appear in fancy h a t s —th e gen tl emen i n f u ll d ress . Th e .ball-rooxn was chalked for four sets of quadrilles ; sixteen In each set stood up. Two sets of waltzing and galk . ip- Pading followed after each set had concluded. Dancing commenced about nine o'clock and continued till near 12. The Hunchback fills the Theatre every night. It is to be repeated this evening. Mr. WA RDE, as Walter, Mr. MEAnows, as Fathom, and Miss JARMAN, as Julia. The after-piece is Blue Devils; Meagrim, by Mr. WARD. The p romena d e at the Montpellier Spa was thronged this morning with elegant company, s o man y morn i ngs having elapsed since they were able to leave the house on account of the continued rain. A numerou s b o d y of pol i cemen have been lately esta blished here, similar in dress to those in the metropolis ; the regulations exactly the same. Among ou r l ate arrivals are. Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, Lady CHETWY ND, W. WI C RAM Es q. M.P. , Sir BETHEL CODRINGTON and daughters, 11I; CODRING TON, q &C. The Earl of LONSDALE visited Carlisle on Wednesday week. We have not heard of what new poli tical movement this is to be deemed the forerunner.-- Kendal Chronicle. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF ARRAN.— An express arrived in Dover-street, on Saturday afternoon, announcing the sudden death of the Couutess of ARRAN; her Ladyship died at Bognor, on Friday, of a paralytic stroke, and not of cholera, as at first reported. Her Ladyship was eldest daughter and heiress to the late Sir Joan TYRRELL, Bart., of Heron Hall, Essex, and was married to the Earl of ARRAN in 1787. She gave nu merous parties last season, and was a distinguished leader in the fashionable world. 'file parsimony of Lord KENYON was notori ous, and his want of all hospitality the theme of general ani madversion. The subject being once started in con versation, in a company of which COWPER was one, some of them observed, that Lord KENYON had never been k nown to gi ve a s i ng l e b o t t l e o f w i ne to a fr i end. " But I have (says CowrEß) known him to give one to a dozen." ---. Fraser's Magazine. LATE DR. itOBERTSON.—It is this week our melancholy duty to announce that cholera has numbered a mongst its victims one who was long known and de• servedly esteemed as an able preacher, and a zealous and affectionate pastor. We allude to the Rev. Dr. ROBERT- S", one of the slinisteys of South Leith, who was carried off by it last Frid ay , a ft er an ill ness o f 24 h ours, i n t h e 7 5th year of his age, and 50th of his ministry.—Scotsman. A Signor JACOBoWITcH, a Pole, last week announced a subscription concert at the Town-hall, Sud bury ; he avowed " that of music, as a science, he knew nothing ; but the volume of his voice was so immense that if he put forth all its strength, it would cause such a vibration of the windows as to break them into little pieces, not bigger than sixpences. Its sweetness was equal to its strength ; and their union made him some times fancy that he had an angel within him. He had the honour of being patronised by the King of PRUSSIA, Laudgravine of Hese Cassel," &c. A respectable audience attended at five shillings each, but were mise rably disappointed. The Signor's voice was certainly strong, but wholly devoid of sweetness, and instead of feel ing any inclination to his own opinion of angelic assist ance, the audience felt horrified at "the barbarian's voice." A PRINCESS'S PUN.--The Princess VIC TORIA the other day was reading the Roman History to her Noble Preceptress, the Duchess of NORTHUMB ER - LAND. It happened to be the passage where a Noble Lady, having visited CORNELIA, " the mother of the Gracchi," after the custom of the time displayed her casket of precious stones, and called upon the Roman matron to produce her jewels in return, when CORNELIA handed forth her children, exclaiming, with maternal pride," There are my jewels !" The little Princess here laid down the book, and, looking up in the face of the Duchess, said, " Jewels ! now I think they must have been C ornelians." ANCIENT ENGLISH CUSTOM.—A singular Custom prevailed among the Celtic Franks, and perhaps, says the Edinburgh Review, in Eneland, by which any one might divest himself of the liabilities to which, under the Celtic system of mutual respon , ibility, the kindred of a criminal were subject, being rendered accountable for the composition due from him if they omitted to produce him in order to stand his trial. Entering the Mallus (a particular Court) in the presence of the Centenarius (hun dred man), he broke five elm wands over his head, and, casting the fragments around, declared that he renounced all share in the inheritance, and of course all responsibility for the offences of his kindred. EARLY ItisEns.--Among eminent early risers might have been mentioned FREDERICK the Great, King of Prussia, who, having found himself otherwise incapable of overcoming his natural repugnance to get out of bed, ordered one of his domestics to rouse him every morning a t f our o'clock, and to apply a wet towel to Ilia Le, • Cas e ; necessary, to e n f orce hi s gett i ng up ,— on pain, i n of neglecting this duty, of heing condemned to sever as a private soldier for life ! This expedient completely succeeded, and the practice of . rising early soon acquired the force of a habit, to whi c h the extraordinary exploits of this most eminent person _ son may in a great measure be attributed. —Medical Gazette. The public will learn, perhaps not without interest, that the fine young lioness of M. MARTIN, who so distin gu i s h e d h erself combat, conjointly with her noble spo use , d e f ending Sadhusing from his enemies, in the spectacle of Hyder Ali, at the Theatre Royal, Drury lane, an d more recently at the Coburg, hasproved her obedience to the universal liw of nature, by the production of three fine cubs, which circumstance, together with the fat e o f t h e royal offspring, occurred as follows :—The pre• i itninary indications of such an event with A lioness are not very decisive as to the fact, and are still more uncer tain with respect to the time when the consummation may be expected. In the present instance, suspicion had for some time been entertained as to the situation of the august female, and the result had been anxiously looked fo r ; when, in the middle of one of the nights of last week, such symptoms evinced themselves as seemed to demand the utmost attention Expectation was gratified by the birth of three fine young cubs.-.- a number rather unusual, and especially in the first instance of parturition. Oppo site to the cage of the regal matron, stood that of a hyena, whose terribly brillant eye gleamed awfully through the surrounding darkness. This awakened the mother's fears for the security of her so recently produced offspring, in tremulous agitation she folded them to her, In the eager- neon to preserve one, she overlooked another, her strength failed her, she sunk down, and with a mistaken affection, endeavouring to shelter all, she extended a fatal protection —for all three perished fro•n suffocation. This is an event deeply deplored by the interesting artist, who. from this progeny, had undoubtedly calculated on presenting to the public some remarkable phenomena in the science of rearing and educating animals fern nature. PICKERING, the bookseller, in Chancery lane, is in the possession of nearly two hundred original Autograph Letters and Poems of ROBERT BURNS, many of which have never been published. The whole were evidently unknown to Dr. CURIE, Mr. CROMEK, Mr. LOCKHART, or any of the biographers or editors of the works of BURNS. Several of the poems appear to have been written towards the close of life. They are full of genius and eccentricity. WARWICK RACES.—These races com menced on Tuesday; the following horses have arrived : iEneas, Manchester, Jasper, Agitator, Gratis, Lady Fly, Lindley, Jocko, Graceful, Eleanor, Delight, Device, Dangerous, Achilles, Mr. Hick's grey colt, bay colt, by Fyldener, Lord WARWICK'S ch. colt, by Rubens, Lord WARWICK'S two year old colt, Burgess, Port, Mr. TOMES'S two year old colt, bay filly, by Sir Gray, d. by Pioneer, Bobadil colt, Thorngrove. Mr. BEARDSWORTH'S, Mr. WEST'S, and other lots are expected. At the Westminster Sessions held on Friday, Aug. 31, a prisoner was put to the bar charged with stealing two wine-glasses from a gin-shop in Picket-street. Policeman—He was very tipsy at the time he did it. CIIAIRMAN—It seems he bad a glass too much ! The Wigan Branch Railway will be opened this day. The inter-communication in Lancashire by means of the railways is rendered more complete every day. —Carlisle Journal. BY DESCENT.—A legal gentleman, who had a beautiful horse, presented it to a friend, because it was restive, and had thrown him frequently, and he thought his friend was a better 'equestrian than himself. G. R. met the friend a few days after, and having admired the animal, inquired where he bought it? " No," was the reply; " I had it given me, because it threw its former master. "" Oh," replied the querist, " then you surely ac quired it by descent."—World of Fashion. THE HARVEST.—The heavy rains during the past week have much retarded the progress of the har vest in this neighbourhood, but we do not hear that the corn is likely to sustain any material injury should the weather clear up in a few days.—Halifax Express. BRADFORD.—On Thursday this market was unusually brisk ; there was a great demand for fine goods, and for lower fabrics : the supply was insufficient. Prices are looking a little up, and our stuff merchants have had a very busy week.--Manchester Guardian. At the fair at Carlow, on Monday, fat cattle fell from 51. to 41. a beast, owing, it is supposed, to the clause in the Customs Act admitting the importation of foreign beef. STATE OF TRADE.—The present condition of trade in general is languid. The woollen trade has been very much so for some months past, and there is no appearance of a speedy revival. The cloth markets at Leeds and Huddersfield last Tuesday were perhaps a shade better, but still there was comparatively very little busi ness done, and the prices realized prevent us from noting an improvement. Bradford market too, last Thursday, was pretty well attended by stuff merchants, but they were evidently not much disposed to become purchasers; on the contrary, we are assured that their attendance lately has been more for the sake of observation, than for the purpose of transacting business. The cotton trade in Liverpool and Manchester during the last week has been very fluctuating, but the aggregate of the sales effected may be estimated at more than an average.—Halifax Express. Partridge shooting commences on Saturday next. The present is considered to have been one of the finest breeding seasons ever remembered. In those parts of the country where there was a stock of old birds left, the covies are very large, and the birds uncommonly strong on the wing. Excellent sport is therefore anticipated. Hares and pheasants are also very numerous this year.— Newcastle Courant. The result of our inquiries respecting game has been that partridges seem to he more plentiful than they have been for years. The breed of hares is good.— Pheasants had given a good promise some weeks ago, but have been rapidly declining in several preserves, owing to some disorder, in which whole nides appear to have been the victims. The reports from the grouse country are un satisfactory, at least from several of the districts from which we have received information. A terrible mortality has for some time prevailed, in two or three districts, so as to alarm the gamekeepers for the preservation of the stock. Leicester Herald. DESTRUCTION OF GAME IN THE METRO- PoLIs.—A correspondent informs us that within these few weeks there bas been a general and enormous decrease of all descriptions of game in the Regent's Park, which, a short time ago, abounded in it, particularly hares and pheasants. The keepers belonging to the Park attribute the sudden disappearance to some of the numerous persons who, at break of day, bring in milking cows, belonging to several cowkeepers in the vicinity, to graze in the Park, and who return for them late in the evening. At these periods great facility is, of course, afforded for the capture or destruction of the game. The present scarcity is a great disappointment to the visitors of the Park, who ex perienced much amusement from witnessing so great a novelty as game scampering about, it may be said, in the heart of the metropolis. The keepers have received strict orders from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to endeavour to detect the offenders, against whom, if ap prehended, the highest penalties of the Game Laws will be enforced. The wool trade at Leeds, we understand, is in a very curi ous state at present, and shows that operation is going on which does not precisely meet the eye. Wools are actually selling for more money in London than in the West Riding of Yorkshir e; yet the manufacturers here complain, and justly, we believe, that they cannot make any profit by their goods, and that the raw material must come down ; of this, however, there appears to be no prospect, f or t h e i mports i nto London are certainly not two-thirds of wh a t t h ey were l ast year up to themiddle of the present mon th o f A ugust ; so that if the demand for goods should increase prices must also increase. THE WOOL TRADE.—This being the sea son for the commencement of the arrival of new colonial and foreign wools, a good deal of interest is attached to the wool trade. During the past week there have been two public sales of wools, forming the commencement of a series of declarations. The wools already received from Australia and Van Diemen's Land, exhibit marked symp toms of rapid improvement in the quality and condition of the produce of our colonies, and a strong desire was ma nifested by the manufacturers to purchase. On Thursday and Friday the sales took place, and in the whole 1,700 bales were offered, and the whole were sold. The attend ance of the manufacturers from various parts of Yorkshire, the West of England, &c., was numerous. The New South Wales wools offered on Ti ursday were the frnest samples, and a portion was sold at the high price of 2s. 7.1. per lb. The lower sorts went from Is. 2d. up to 2s, sd. per lb., according to quality. At the sale on Friday the advance of the previous day was maintained, and the quotations obtained averaged from 2d. to 3d. per lb. higher than at those obtained at the last public sales in July. In the whole, 1,523 bales of New South Wales wools, 164 bales of Van Diemen's Land,3l bales of Ger man, 26 bales of Portuguese, and a few bales of Smyrna wools were disposed of. The arrivals from Australia and Van Diemen's Land, as well as from Germany, have been large, and further sales have been declared, amounting al ready to nearly 2,000 bales. From Germany the import of wools has not been very large this season. An im provement in the woollen trade is generally anticipated. MURDER IN TIPPERARY.—DUBLIN, AUG. 30.—A man named Wituasr SHEA was murdered in a most barbarous manner on Saturday afternoon in a public house at the Cross of Ardmayle, about three miles distant from Cashel. The unfortunate man had been employed on that day in distraining for rent on part of the lands of Ardmayle, and met with no opposition, as the form of law merely was gone through, and no stock or. furniture w a s removed. SHEA, accompanied by the bailiff, afterwards proceeded to the public-house, where they were joined by one of the distrained tenants, named CHEACII, and were sitting over some whisky when two persons in disguise appeared in the appartment. One of them was attired as a female, with the face marked with black lines, and the other had hay-ropes twisted round his head, neck, and body. One of the assassins called upon SHEA to kneel. The instant be did so both fired at his heart. He never uttered a word after. The monsters then applied the butts of their guns to his head, which they broke in pieces. There is a forge within a few perches of the public-house in which it is stated there were seven men at the time of the murder; but neither they nor RYAN'S family were willing to give any information to the police, who soon came from their barracks, a short distance from the scene of the murder, as to the route of the assassins. An inquest was held upon the mutil a t e d b o dy on S un d ay, w h en t h e following verdict was given The deceased came by his death in conseque nce o f two gun-shot wounds and °tilt r injuries,inflicted by persons unknown." AGRICULTURAL REPORT for AUGUST, The produce of the harvest, according to appearances, and accounts from various quarters, must be huge. The quality of the wheat is generally good, as is likewise the case with oats. Barley, on the richer and stronger learns, may probably be found coarse in the sample; on the thin and light uplands the dry weather has caused the straw to be short, but the quality will be kinder and better. The young clovers and grass seeds are not over gross, but the plant in general good. Since the first coming of the showers considerable change has been effected in the ap pearance of the turnip crop. Those that were hoed out, but lingering and unable to advance themselves, have made a rapid start, and are covering the surface of the soil with broad and vigorous leaves ; the weaker and smaller plants have acquired strength to bear the hoe. A large breadth of stubble turnips has also been sown, which the rains cannot fail to bring forward in warm and suitable situations. With all this, however, many and vast defi ciences must inevitably occur. Rye and winter barley, the water meadows of the uplands, will this year be largely resorted to ; the latter seems to be the favourite. Not withstanding the dry weather, and the apparent failure of the turnip crop, sheep and lambs have not been de pressed, as might have been expected. There has been a short supply at most of our cattle fairs, and the demand has been steady ; for ewes, in particular, it has lately been brisk. Hop picking has commenced in unfavour able weather. The accounts from various quarters are somewhat confused and contradictory, but the summary of the whole seem, to be that the produce will not be de ficent in quantity, but too frequently inferior in quality and condition. CHOLERA-INVERNESS. The pestilence which has for some time hovered around us has at length entered Inverness. Its first effects were extremely fatal, but we are happy to say that the disease, though it is every day extending more widely, appears to have already assumed a milder character. The following are the official reports made to the Board of Health by the medical gentlemen in attendance : New Cases. Died. Recovered. Remaining. August 24. 6 4 0 2 25. 3 2 0 3 26. 7 2 2 6 27. 16 3 2 17 28. 16 0 2 31 29. 32 6 7 50 Total cases from commencement, 80; total number of deaths, 17; recoveries, 13; remaining, 50. ROB. SMITH, Secretary. The above numbers include all cases of incipient cholera, diarrhoea, &c., at present under medical treatment. It is obvious, therefore, that a considerable deduction should be made to comprise only cases of actual cholera. The disease has been confined chiefly to unfavourable situations in Church-street, the Glebe, Al iggot, and Cha pel-street. The first cases occurred simultaneously in the same line, and cannot be traced to any communication with infected districts or persons. One of the deaths is that of Skene Morrison, guard of the north mad, who was a cor rect, healthy, and respectable individual. He was seized on his road from Tain, when within a few miles of In verness, but kept his seat till the coach arrived here, a little before 9 o'clock in the evening, when, after deliver ing the mail-bags, he staggered home and expired in about four hours. Three cases having occurred here the same afternoon, an alarm was created, and the most prompt and vigorous measures were resorted by the medical gentle men, i❑ the case of poor Morrison, as well as in those of the other patients. The Board of Health sits daily, chlo ride of lime has been copiously distributed, and as the me dical authorities are in constant attendance, we trust the disease will be kept under. At the meeting of the Board this day, it was agreed that tar-barrels should be burned throughout the town, as the adoption of this plan was found to be highly beneficial at Musselburgh and Fisher row.—lnverness Courier. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. ISLE OF WIGHT. RYDE ROYAL REGATTA. The grand Regatta and Fet., in honour of h is Majesty's birth-day, which had been several times postponed, in con quence of the unsettled state of the weather, took place at Ryde, Isle of Wight, on Friday. The town displayed or, the occasion many fashionables—Earl Spencer, the Earl of Roden and family, the Dean of Chester, and a long list of distinguished naval and military officers, were among the numerous admirers of this aquatic spectacle. Lord Althorp was at Rye a few days since, but the Noble financier, harassed, no doubt, by the affairs of State, and particularly by the machinery of the Reform Bill, did not mix in the gay circle. Every preparation was made to give eclat to the several sailing matches. The Pier displayed a brilliant assemblage of company. It was ornamented with flags, and furnished with an excellent band of music. The vessels, decorated with sign ils, and the splendid arrangements made at the Pier Hotel, and the other houses along the beach, formed a scene of gaiety seldom surpassed. The Regatta commenced off the pier at ten o'clock.— The first match was for the Binstead purse. All the con tending parties sailed in vessels belonging to Ryde, Bin stead, Wootton, and Seaview. Sixteen fishing vessels, distinguished by flags at their mast-heads, were entered for the first match. They took their stations in a line with the pier, and remained with sails close down and booms topped until a gun was fired for starting. The course of the vessels was round a flag-boat placed to the northward o f the starting point, then to the westward, round the flag-boat off Appley, and to return between the pier and the starting vessel. This course was to be sailed twice in all the matches. In the first contest two of the vessels ran aground, and lost all chance of success. The others were soon headed by the Eagle, belonging to John Wheeler, which preserved the advantage to the end of the race, and won the first prize of six sovereigns. Several other matches took place, and particularly one by a class of young sailors, who displayed much tact in the management of their boats. All the prizes were to be presented by J. Fleming►, Esq. Under the excellent regulations adopted, the Re gatta throughout afforded a rich treat to the admirers of nautical sports. A .shower of rain, in the early part of the day, threatened some inconvenience to the ladies, but it did not continue. A party in the Admiralty yacht, consisting of Admiral Rowley and several officers, came from Portsmouth to be spectators of the scene. At half-past 7 in the evening, a brilliant display of fireworks was exhibited by Mr. Jones, on the pier, and at nine the Regatta Ball took place, at the Town-hall. Barnet has opened the Theatre for a short period, but does not appear to receive the encouracement which his dramatic exertions demand. Earl Spencer has patro nized the performance for to-morrow (Saturday) even ing, when it is expected there will be a fashionable at• tendance. In addition to the distinguished persons already men tioned, the following are amongst the arrivals :—Lady C. Fitzroy, the Hon. R. Charlton, the Hon. Captain Clifford, Sir J. Graham, and Sir J. Walsh. Ryde is full of company from Portsmouth and South ampton, and may be said to be at this time a favourite place of resort. The steam vessels are passing every hour to and from Ryde to Point. Several opulent fami lies have made the town and its environs places of sum mer residence. Houses and rural villas are building, and this once small but delightful village extends its bounda ries daily. Sir R. Simeon is a popular candidate for the Island. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The past week's arrivals were moderate of nearly all descrip. tions of Grain, and the weather having been showery, there was an evident improvement in the trade, especially for Wheat. This morning the fresh supply of Wheat is tolerably good, but the condition is chiefly tender. The best parcels sold freely at 2s. per quarter advance on former prices, but other qualities are not dearer. Barley for malting is rather higher ; grinding par_ eels are unaltered. Beans and Pease remain as last quoted. Oats remain firm at last week's rates, with a fair demand for such as are sweet. The supply of Flour is small, and prices are firmly maintained. PRICKS ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) —White (old) S2C. 645. —Red 1832.) ... 48s. 545. Tick (new)... —s —B. Fine s6s. 58s. Superfine.. —s. —s. Harrow (new) —a. —s. —White (1832). 5os. 565. Fine s3s. 60s Brank Lne 60s. 63s free 46i. 64s 325. 34s 275. 32s ..... 325. 34s New 365. 38s, 50s. 62s 60s. 645 , C 16s 38s , ew 37s. 40s, 325. 345, 36s 42s Oats, Feed lss. 16s. New Poland New —s. —5. Potatoe 21s. 265. New ...235. 255. Scotch —s. —s. Irish l6s. 20s 22.5. Flour Town (per sack) 50s 555. Seconds 46s 48s. North Country 425. 469. Bran CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, TVIIITEIIALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. COUNTRY. Remaining at last Report, 2611—New Cases, 1800—Deaths,419— Recovered, 812—Remaining, 2480. Total Cases since the com mencement, 45,454—Deaths, 16,860. (Signed) AVM. 111 ACLE A N, Secretary. The total number of burials in London within the week ending Aug. 21, was 983, of which 274 were from cholera; an average of nearly 40 deaths a day by that disease. The cholera has undergone a decided and very considerable increase during the last ten days in Lon don—the cases are not only more numerous, but are upon thy whole more rapidly fatal. Even the bills of mortality give us 274 deaths last week, being an increase of 158, while the increase during the week, of burials, is so great as 477.—Medical Gazette. SHEFFIELD, AUG. 31.--(From OUT Corre spondent.).—JouN BLAKE, Esq., the mister cutler, died this morning of cholera. He was only attacked yesterday evening. In the course of three or four weeks his term of office (a year) would have expired. CHEPSTOW.-SHAMMI NG THE CHOLERA. —Last week, a crafty mendicant, well skilled in his art, feigned a fit of the " Blue Cholera," on Tutehill, near this town. He had stained his hands with indigo; but after he had swallowed a basin of gruel, pocketed a shil ling, and beard a hint of a berth at the tread mill, the cholera gentleman became convalescent, and beat a double quick retreat.—Hereford Times. Bristol, once the second city in England for commercial intercourse and prosperity, now alas ! looks like a ruinous and " deserted village." The awful ravages recently committed on her Cathedrals, Towers, Institutions, and trade are still remaining —melancholy and unrepaired testimonials of a conflagration which, in its progress, spread death and desolation around !! Many of the humbler tredesmen, finding a great and miserable falling off in their business, have proceeded to Gloucester, Cheltenham, &c., in quest of better days and brighter prospects; and the wealthy, awed by the fear of con tracting the malignant distemper now prevailing, shun the multitude fur the marine breezes of Swansea and Weston super-Mare, so that at present few are to be found in this once proud and populous city, who are not retained by their avocations, or compelled by necessity to remain stationary. The Wolverhampton Chronicle contains an extraordinary affidavit of a nail-weigher of Dudley, named BENJAMIN HARRIS, rel a ti ve t o hi s w if e , w h o was seized with malignant cholera oa Thursday morning s!'nnight. She was visited by gentlemen of the profes sfjorlio.vvgniii,fitgftook morningh pills, ue n sheahn rb a , q am u a e n t vit appearance. o y rs o e f , H b w r e a ar n s d y vhe . ursyb O awn n eda t k h e fo I taatneds that he left her in order to buy some more brandy for her, and that when he came back with it he observed a still greater change: she was in a dying state: her eyes were closed, her mouth wide open ; she became motion less, and her head hung over the back of her chair. The husband was dreadfully alarmed, and quitted the room ; shortly after which the attendants came to him, anti said she was dead. Afterwards she was laid out, and placed on the floor. At three in the afternoon, whilst sittirw over the fire, he heard groans: full of astonishment, he rushe I up stairs, where his wife had been laid out and placed upon the floor, and was horror-struck at seeing her upon the bed. She opened her eyes, and waved her band. He ran out of the house to a neighbour, who re turned with him. A Inedical gentleman, who had pre• viously attended on her, was sent for ; he came and applied fresh remedies; she became sensible, the powers of speech returned, but she was unable to explain how she got from the floor to th e b e d. S' e was a li ve on S atur d ay evening, when the husband signed his account of the case; but a note is added to it by the editor of the Chronicle, stating she died on Sunday at five o'clock. LIVERPOOL.—The Silas Richards, from New York, which place she left on the Sth ult., arrived at Liverpool on Saturday. The passengers give a most deplorable description of New York in consequence of the cholera, and of the situation of the English. They state that upwards of 100 persons died each day, and that the natives were hastening out of the city and residing in camps and buildings situated at a considerable distance from any other building. Business was completely at a stand-still, and many of the English who bad gone from this country, and emir irked the whole of their money in some speculation which they hoped would have tended to their benefit, were compelled to discontinue it at a very great loss, and those who had the means intended to lose no time in returning to England. When the Silas Richards left New York, the cholera was increasing to a very alarming extent in Troy and Albany, and many deaths oc curred daily. The Magistrates of Liverpool, b a yi n g re ceived a communication from the Board of Health that dissipation and intoxication will promote the spread of the cholera, have issued a notice requiring the publicans to close their houses at ten o'clock each night. On Sunday they were not to open their houses till half•past four o'clock in the afternoon, and to close at eight. This re gulation has given great dissatisfaction to the publicans, and they complain that it will injure them materially in their business. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. 5 ed .... c? gl n 'l .T 1 From Whence el, p 5 z 4 : 1 Qrs. Qrr. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. A lemouth — 28 306 A Idboroligh 49 60 Bridport Bridlington — 310 Boston Clay Dartmouth Colchester 146 180 50 403 1 Harwich A Leigh 842 46 49 -.1 Maldon 6OB 60 58 440 Exeter — 56 32 Hull — 40 1845 Ipswich 144 75 1213 --- 60 15 343 Kent 705 17 170 56 30 272 565 Lowestoft — 131 Lynn — 140 Newport — I 100 Poole — 100 Rye Woodbridge 763 18 80 165 Yarmouth — 50 614 Aberdeen — 530 Banff — 1148 Fraserburgh — 260 30 Inverness Leith — 20 Montrose ...... 3637 110 2703 4937 639 4-14 3627 I RIM. Coleraine Dublin Londonderry Sligo Waterford — 839 .—•-•• 296 Wexford — 1408 _ _ FOREIGN. Dantzic Gravenstein— 330 Hamburg Montreal .. ,8.1 350 Quebec — 770 Coastways Total AGGREGATE Rye, 3--Tares, QUANI 42—Li' M us t 2 1F OTH 4510-1 TITY 0 mseed, ER All Rapesee ds. 311. DS 0 1, 10• PULS] •Brank, Superi Foreign Rye Barley —o Fine Superfine Malt Fine New Pease, Grey Nee Maple NI - White Boilers SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of Beasts was the most numerous one recol lected to have been exhibited on a St. Bartholomew Fair day ; that of calves was guuti, but of each hind of small stock rather limited. The trade was somewhat brisk throughout, at trmay's quotations. PRICIS FIR STONR OF BIAS. TO SINK THZ OFFAL!. s. d. to s. d. inferior Beasts 2 2 2 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Prime largo oxen 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots, Sic 3 10 4 2 i Inferior Sheep 2 2 2 6' Second quality ditto 2 10 3 2 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 6 3 10 1 So uthdownWethers 4 0 4 4 s. d. to s. d. Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Prime small ditto... 310 5 6 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 2 Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Large Flogs Small Porkers 4 4 410 Suckling Calves 12s. to 265. each. Quarter old Pigs 12s. to 18s. each. SUPPLY, AS FER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. ISheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs. 2,490 I 22,950 161 210 About 1350 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road; about 1000 up the other northern roads; about 140 (including Irish) from the We s t ern and midland districts ; about 170 from Nor folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire • about 20 from Kent and Sussex ; an d most of the remainder ' from the marshes, &c. in the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. I s. d.tos. d. /lee', inferi or 2 0 2 2 Hutton, inferior ... 2 2 2 4 - middling 2 2 2 4 -- middling.. 2 6 3 0 -- prime large 2 6 3 0 - prime 3 6 4 0 - prhne small... 3 4 3 8 Pork, large 3 0 4 2 Vea1.......... t ) 6 4 4 -small 3 6 5 0 Lamb - 3s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET.—Sept. 1. The heavy and almost incessant rains since last Saturday have completely stopped all harvest operations, and prevented our having any, ex cep t one samp l e , o f our new 'Wheat at market to day. The little offering by the farmers was sold at an advance of 6s. to B s . per quarter; and a good deal has been sold by the merchants during the week at an advance of 4s. to 6s. per quar ter. Thougli there were few Oats at market, yet we note little change on that Grain. No Barley yet offeri i,g. Malt, except fine, slow sale. Rye in demand at an advance of 2s. per quarter. Beans and P eas as our last. Flour higher 2s. per sack. New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 70s. 78s 7 0 3. 785 .1 - Norfolk and Suflblk 68s. 72s - Berwick and Scotch s. —s — s. —5 . - Foreign —s. —s --s. —s. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk - Foreign 325. 35s —s. —s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk...—S. —s - Grinding and Feeding .7s. 32s —s. —5. .4 Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 565. 62s —s. —B. ?.2 Beans, Small 31s. 335 —s. —s. a - Tick 0 5s. 31s —s. —s. Pease, White .—s. —s --s. —4. a --- Gray S. —s —s. -8. Oats, Northumbe r l an d l'otatoe ...... ...228, 26s 23s. 255. , Feed .0s s --s. —s. Foreign —s. —s —s. —s, Flour, Fi ne (per sack) —,.....e. 495. mi. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. I.—His Majesty's ship Blossom, 16 (surveying vessel),Commander Richard Owen, arrived on Thursday from Halifax, after I, passage of seventeen days, having sailed thence on the 12th ult. She left there his Majesty's ship Winchester, 52 (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir E. G. Colpoys, K.C.8.), Captain the Right Hon. Lord William Paget; Columbine, 18, Com mander H. 0. Love ; and Monkey, tender to the Blossom, commanded by Lieut. S. Mercer. The Winchester was to sail on the 15th ult. for St. John's, New Brunswick, with the 34th Regiment. The Blossom left England in December, 1829, and has been employed, together with her tender, in surveying in the West Indies, chiefly of late the Bahamah's Bank, a great portion of which still re quires examination. She has been ordered home, owing to the bad state of her hull. The Blossom brings passengers, Captain Ed. Bailey, of the 34th Regiment; Mr. C. W. Plummer, Midshipman, to join his Majesty's ship Isis; Mr. P. Cracroft, Mid shipman, to join his Majesty's ship Columbine; Mr. R. V. Rawlings, Clerk of the Winchester ; and seven invalided seamen and marines from the Nest India squadron, besides Mr. Jeremiah Carey, late Gunner of his Majesty's ship Gannet, and Mr. James Wilson, Boatswain of his Majesty's ship Blanche, both invalided. His Majesty's gun-brig Plumper, 10, Lieut. T. Creser, arrived on Sunday from the Western Coast of Africa. She left the River Gambia on the 16th of June, and Sierra Leone on the 10th of July, at which latter place was his Majesty's ship Favorite, 18, Com. J. Harrison. The Plumper brings pas sengers, Lieut. Smithers and the other officers and crew of the Conflict, gun-brig, which vessel has Seen laid up at Sierra Leone. She brings also Mr. James Hawker, Mate of the Charibdis, nine inva lids from the African squadron, and one distressed British subject. The Plumper, owing to a long prevalence of calms, was obliged to touch at Fayal on the 15th ult. for supplies. She has sprung her foremast, and is leaky. On the 4th ult. in lat. 29. 17. N. and long. 33. 27. W. she picked up about fifteen feet of the heel of a merchant ship's lower mast, which did not appear to have been long in the water. On the 27th of July, there was a total eclipse of the sun for the space of twelve minutes, being totally dark and the stars shining in their fullest lustre. The re-appearance of the sun was extremely beautiful, being instantaneous. The Plumper came into harbour on Tuesday, under orders to be paid off into ordinary. His Majesty's steamer Lightning, Mr. J. Allen, Master, having embarked the Board of Admiralty, together with Rear Admirals Sir F. L. Maitland and the Hon. Sir C. Paget, proceeded on Sunday on an official visit to Plymouth, where she arrived about two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. The Board visited the rope and hemp houses of the Dock-yard immediately after their arrival, and on the following day (Wednesday) they mustered the men in the Dock-yard and Ordinary, with a view to the super annuation of any of the former, who from old age or sickness might be incapable of further service. Their Lordships afterwards inspected the Break water. It was expected they would proceed to sea with Sir P. Malcolm's fleet, to witness the trials between the new vessels about which such a general interest has been excited. His Majesty's ship Lightning, JB, Commander T. Dickinson, arrived on Tuesday from the South American station, and anchored at St. Helens, whence she came up to Spithead on the following day. She left Rio de Janeiro on the 4th of July, and has brought home a small freight of 6,000 dol lars. She called off Terceira on the 17th ult. for supplies. His Majesty's ship Warspite, 76, hearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir T. Baker, K.C.8., was at Rio, all well, when the Lightning sailed.— She came into harbour yesterday, preparatory to be ing paid off. _ His Majesty's revenue brig Shamrock, 16, Lieut. W. Aldred, arrived at Spithead from Cowes on Tuesday. The Amphitrite transport, Lieut. Cooley, agent, sailed on Thursday with Government stores for Deptford. The Wasp was docked on Monday, to undergo a thorough repair. The Medina and the Seaflower were docked on the same day. The Princess Char lotte was undocked on Wednesday, and remains in the Basin. The Java has been taken out of the Basin and remains alongside the Dock-yard, and the Prince Regent was docked on Friday. His Majesty's ship Dryad, 42, Commodore John Hayes, C. 8., arrived on Wednesday from Cork, last from Torbay, and anchored at St. Helens, whence she came up to Spithead on the same day. She came into harbour on Friday, to prepare for paying off. She will, it is said, be commissioned immedi ately by Capt. Paton. His Majesty's cutter Cracker, 1, Lieut. John Morgan, was paid off into the ordinary of this port on Friday. His Majesty's cutter Seaflower was commissioned yesterday by Lieutenant John Morgan, late of the Cracker cutter. The Seaflower is intended for the Portsmouth and Jersey station, and not as a tender to his Majesty's ship Victory, as has been recently reported. His Majesty's cutter Raven, Lieut. Wm. Arlett, will sail in about ten days for Gibraltar and the western coast of Africa with despatches for Rear. Admiral Warren, C. 8., and for Com. Belcher, of his Majesty's ship 'Etna, Surveying vessel. His Majesty's steamer Alban, Lieut. H. 'Walker, was paid off on Friday, and recommissioned on the following day. She will proceed to Woolwich on Friday next to have her engines repaired. His Majesty's steamer Dee, Lieut. Oliver, an chored at St. Helens on Monday night from Sheer ness, and proceeded for Plymouth on the follow. ing day. At Spithead—Blossom. In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, Excellent, Alban, Dryad, Lightning, Cracker, Raven, and Plumper. PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &C.—Lieut. John Morgan, late of his Majesty's cutter Cracker, is ap pointed to command his Majesty's cutter Seaflower. —Mr. W. C. Pettigruo, Second Master, and Mr. Wm. Cotsell, Clerk, are re-appointed to his Majesty's steamer Alban.—Mr. W. C. Lamb, Assistant-Sur geon, and Mr. Cornelius Dealy, Clerk, late of his Majesty's cutter Cracker, are appointed to the Sea flower.—Th. Luke Kent, Carpenter of the Carnatic, is appointed to the Prince's Charlotte, vice At waters.—Mr. George Simpson, Carpenter of the Vindictive, is appointed to the Carnatic, vice Kent. —Mr. Wm. Reynolds, late Carpenter of the Mada gascar, is appointed from the Cheque to the Vin dictive, vice Simpson.—Mr. Joseph Morrison, As sistant-Surgeon of the Tremendous, cholera hospital ship, is appointed to the Columbia, steamer—Mr. Bailey, Carpenter, late of the Dartmouth, is ap pointed to the Conquestador.—Mr. E. Williams, Second Master and Pilot of the Cracker, is ap pointed to the Seaflower.—The Hon. G. F. Has- bogs, Mate, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Ex cellent.—Messrs. G. F. Rowe and J. Wiley, are appointed Supernumerary Assistant-Surgeons of his Majesty's ship Victory, vice Walker and Thompson, appointed to Plymouth Hoital. ROYAL MARINES.—Second Lieut. H. G. Mit ford, of the Woolwich Division, is promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant and appointed to the Ports mouth Division, vice Chaproniere, deceased.—Se cond Lieutenant James Buchanan, of the Ports mouth Division, is promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant, and appointed to the Woolwich Divi sion, vice Missing, deceased.—Mr. Tucker, As sistant-Surgeon of the Ordinary at Sheerness, is ap pointed to the Woolwich Division. Our readers are aware that by the late alterations in the Civil Departments of the Navy, the Navy Board has been abolished, and is now blended with the Admiralty. A modification of this plan has lately taken place. A Board, or Committee, is formed, consisting of three Naval Officers, of whom Ad miral Stopford is chairman; Captains Bochsa and Chambers, members; and Mr. Brenton, secretary. We understand their duty is to consist in receiving and reporting on all schemes and inventions which may be submitted to them. We thus see that the present surveyor, Captain Symonds, is relieved from the individual responsibility which was attached to former Surveyors, inasmuch as on subjects of prac tical difficulty he must, of course, obtain professional assistance; and on all suggestions of a questionable nature, the above-named Committee are to decide. Hence the principal duty which will devolve on the Surveyor will be the planning of ships. An order was received from the Admiralty on Thursday last, for the discharge of the ninety-eight men, whom we mentioned last week, as having been selected for superannuation. The name of the 16-gun brig to be built in this Dock-yard, on the plan of Captain Symonds, to which we alluded some time since, is Racer. (From the Devonport Telegraph.) His Majesty's ship Orestes sailed from Cork, for Oporto, on Sunday se'nnight. The Diadem, 64, receiving-ship, is in dock, taking to pieces. The Echo (steamer) left yesterday, for Falmouth, from whence she will take out the next Lisbon mail. The Roslyn Castle, convict-ship, put in yesterday, from the River, bound to Cork, to embark convicts for New South Wales. Remaining in Hamoaze—San Josef, Champion, Cockatrice, Royalist, Lapwing, Dee, and Lightning, steam-vessels. At the Island—Prince of Wales, revenue cruiser. In the Sound—Donegal, Vernon, Stag, Castor, Tyne, Nimrod, Trinculo, Snake, York, and Roslyn Castle, convict ships. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) We would give un account of the relative quali ties of the new ships in Sir Pulteney - Malcolm's squadron, if we could at all reconcile the contradic tions of at least half-a-dozen letters lying before us. On Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday, the weather admitted of very good short trials; the wind each day blowing very fresh ; that on Monday was in the presence of Sir James Graham, and the Admiralty Board. It appears pretty clear, that the Snake, 16, is the most weatherly and best sailing ship of the squadron, and that the Vernon is the next, but her superiority over the Castor is not great; on Monday last, when the ships were under courses, single reefed topsails, and top-gallant sails, with a stiff breeze, neither of these ships could boast of going through the water more than eight and a half knots ; and this rate of sailing they signified to the Admiral by signal. In running large, the Snake could not keep way with the two frigates. The Campeadora schooner yacht, however, is more weatherly than all the squadron; and the Prince of Wales, Revenue brig, is a remarkably five vessel. Lord Belfast's vessel had not joined the squadron on Thursday, but was expected. On Wednesday, Hr Pulteney put into Plymouth Sound, having then with him the Donegal, Vernon, Castor, Tytie, Snake, Trinculo, Nimrod, and Prince of Wales ; and on Thursday morning he was joined by the Stag, 46, Captain Sir T. Trowbridge, from off Oporto. The Vernon lost a man off her fore-yard as she was going into Torbay on Monday last, and although every exertion was made to save him, he went down and was lost. One of our informants states, that the midshipmen of the Vernon sent a challenge to their brother tnids. of the Castor, to try which ship sailed best, for fifty guineas, but the bet was not accepted. The Donegal, 78, Vice-Admiral Sir P. Malcolm, Capt. A. Fanshawe, with the Castor, 36. Capt. Sir R. Grant, came into the Sound on Thursday morn ing, from Torbay, the Vernon, 50; Tyne, 28; Nimrod, 18; Snake, 16; and Trinculo, 18; having anchored the evening before. The Stak, 46, Capt. Sir T. Trowbridge, brought up on Thursday fore noon, distinct from the squadron, having come in from off Lisbon. The Dryad, 48, Commodore Hayes, we understand, had gone on to Portsmouth to be paid off. The Dee, (steam-vessel) \*,, Com mander R. Oliver, also arrived on Thursday morn ing, and ran into Hamoaze; she is to be attached to Sir P. Malcolm's squadron. The Tyne has come up harbour to refit for the South American station. The squadron has been cruising for several days off the Start, in fine breezes and some blowing weather. The general result of these trials is not yet satisfac tory as to the relative merits of the different vessels, though as far as they go we understand that on the first two days the Castor beat the Vernon at most points ; on the third, in strong gales, the Ver non distanced the Castor. The latter fetches best to windward, but the Vernon forereaches consider. ably. The little Snake had the advantage of both, but the Prince of Wales revenue brig took the lead of the whole squadron. SHEATHING FOR SHIPS' BOTTOMS. A new metallic sheathing, the invention of Baron Wet tersdett, has recently been introduced for covering ships' bottoms, -and which possesses many practical advantages tar this purpose over copper. To prevent the rapid cor rosion and decay of this metal, when in contact with the sea-water, has long presented itself as a desideratum in practical inquiry, and it was for this purpose that Sir Humphrey Davy proposed the use of protectors, or the contact of some more easily oxidisable metal, as zinc.— Although the practice founded upon his ingenious theory proved unsuccessful, yet it was satisfactory to the in.. goiter, as it pointed out the course of remedy necessary to tie adopted; as by the electric influence of certain metals when in contact, it is only that chemical action can be prevented' Alloys of copper have been proposed ; and are not so susceptible of being acted upon by chemical agents is pure copper ; but they are destitute of that tenacity and elasticity which is necessary to adapt them to the cir cular forms of the bottom of the vessel. All these defects in practice are found to be Ovived in th's ne,v invention, which possesses some peculiar advantages for this and many other purposes, to which its use may be extended. Whilst the surface is perfectly clean, there is no adhesion of barnacles, shells, or other marine produc tions, which proved so seriously detrimental to the success of the experimental trials with the protectors. This, new compound is highly tenacious and elastic, and posses-es a peculiar and advantageous power of adapting itself to surface, so much so, that by a violent strain or blow, it, readily yields to the force of the percussion. This power of adapting itself to surface, will not only be found advans tageous on first sheathing the vessel, but will also prevent the evil effects of any subsegnent strain or blow, and even tend to preserve it from any external injury. The price i 3 considerably less than that of ordinary copper sheathing, whilst it is found to be far mare durable. NEW REGULATIONS FOR THE DOCK YARD.—As stated in a previous publication, the present system of work in the Dock-yards is to he completely abo lished, and the old plan of day.work reverted to. By this management, the men will he divided into divisions, under the superintendence of a quarterman awl two leading men ; the quartermen to have 7s. I Id., and the leading. men 6s. and 53. 6d. per day, It is also stated that the office of Store-receiver is to bo surperseded by a Timber master, as formerly—the job -note office abolished, and the measurers to have the option of accepting the offices of quartermen, or retire upon superannuation, the number of quartermen from the divisions of working men. Tbitt latter arrangement is one which cannot fail to be of consi derable advantage to the service, as it will produce emuts. tion in that class which has the means of combining a sound practical with a theoretical knowledge of ship, building, and will be a reward for steady and good con duct, which must have a beneficial effect. The black smiths in the several yards will, in future, work the same hours only as other artificers,-Devomport Telegraph. The horse of the Queen of BELGIUM tOOk fright on Tuesday last, as her MAJESTY rode out near Lreken, and tan away with her. LEOPOLD, through fear of doing more harm than good, did not pursue her very quickly, and it remained for a poor waggoner to probably save her MAJESTY'S life, by drawing his vehicle across thet road as the furi o us hors e a pp roac hed, and thus stopping him. SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.-011 the after noon of Sunday last, some boys found, in the reighbour hood of Aries Well, wrapped up in a piece of cuar,e bag ging, the body of a female child, applri ntly about nine months old. Its head bore the marks of several wounds; and a piece of cord was firmly bound round irs neck, with which it had evidently been strangled. The hod ) was ,a cried to the Humane Society House, aid from thence it was conveyed by the keeper to the Police-office.— talus. you: Herald,