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THE LATE ANDREAS ROMBERG, i,E75 Fi OLIK7 ; ve rcl I v-11 1• b.) r Os: =7' ' 'cie .Idor. are,' Es'ip Al -0 5 rn oL , del?, )66te • ;‘, 110 , ton ' j ai t the ' Par- ,v4;;I übv:,) y i r7. ; ;. v . rICTUiIIAGING-OFFICE, Ja n . 16, 1822. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL-, LING His MAJESTY'S NAVY do hereby g lee No t'Ce, Tha t on Monday , the iBth instant , they will be ready t • ° recuite'remlers in writin g (sealed up), and treat for One Hundred Thousand Gallons of WEST INDIA of the stren g th of 5 per cent. under proof by Sikes's Hz,,drometer. One Moulted Tonss of MUSCOVADO SUGAR; Rifly Tons * of BLACK SINIYRNA. RAISINS; to he an 4-torrahle.to samples of not less than two pounds weight tach, to he produced with the Tenders ; 157 te Thousand. Quarters of New ENGLISH PEASE ; 47 'r: One Thousand Sachs of rAsKET MEAL; ;'° (Wirered into His Majesty's' Via:1..21415; Stores at * ) 'l'fArd, in the space ;it One Month (the Bidet Meal and P 04 6 y equal weekly proziortions), and to he paid for by 'Apayahre, intere.l.!, sixty days after dale. t ri ieCanditions of the Contracts may be Seen al the Secre gil re - regard Will he had to an,/ Tender in which the Pnce, 3 ' 41 / not be inserted in words at length, or that shall riefirered to the Board teAre One o'Cloch on the said the 28 th.inslant ; nor unless the Person who makes tl4' render, 'or same Perion on his Lehalf, attends to answer called f'or. BANK of ENGLAND, January3l,.lB?2. iIE COURT of DIRECTORS clo hereby That they will continue to REmiT any quantity of the GOLD COIN of the REALM to any of the Principal Towns W. England and Wales, free of expence, in Sums not less th " 13000, on application being-made to the Chief Cashier, Poor to the Ist March next, and . the Amount preciously laid into the Bank of England. R. BEST, !:,c. A RESPECTFUL Appeal is made by a So ciety of Gentlemen to the Amateurs of the Science of Music, and to the British Public in general, on behalf of the IVIDow and 'TEN CHILDREN of the above celebrated ( :nmPoSER, whose death . has left them in a state of entire Destitution. • The circumstance of the Amateurs of the City of Ham bargli having given a Concert for the Benefit of this unhappy I.4l nily, has suggested an idea of a similar nature to several Amateurs in London; this . has been communicated to somt o f the first Professors, who, with the greatest kindness and z 'al; ll'aV e offered their aid in promoting the object in view. Should the feelings of.a. generous Public coincide with the entl eavours of those who have undertaken the Management ( : 1 11 ' 4 affair, a BENEFIT CONCERT, at the ARGYLL I`OOAIS, will be ventured upon on-MONDAY,Feb. 11, Ifia, -01 whietypartieulars will be issued in due time. The followingeminent Vocal and Instrumental Pet formers have kindlrpromised their gratuitous Services on that ocea -309; and there is no'dabt that further important Additions made to the List . PRINCIPAL VOCAL PERFORMERS. Madame Camprese, Signor Curioni, : 1 / 4 1gdarne IMlnzi de Bednis, I Signor Cartoni, Miss M. Trye, and SignOr ITe Begnis. Miss Muri,ard Miss Stephens. PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMERS. Lindley, P117.2i, 'and Dniipinctli. • Leader At the 'Piano Folic Sir dEtIRGE SMART. .rieketß,Aog fid each, may he . had of Mr. Riei, 57, Upper N,orton. •street ; and atthe.lllusic Warehouses' , . of. tlke Roya l , li atmonic Institution, Regent-street ; i3irchall.and Co. and ei lar/ Pell and Co. New BOnd-street ; Cleinenti and CO:Cheap.: ' Il e; and at. Bette, RoyahExCliatit;e. • PRACTICAL ARCHITECTURE. This Day was pnblisbed, Corrected for 1622, Kiee 4s, sewed. A YLOWS BUILDER'S PRICE-BOOK ' 4 - containing a CORRE . C7 LIST •of the PRICES a! 3 'wed hy the, most eminent Snrveyors in London, with the rt "lrneytnen's Prides. To-which are added, a variety of Mf I :"Fandonts and Tables, .cfttl to every pel son emcerired i eliding, Estimating, or "Valtilng; also an Nl:tract of tl Act, with Plates, shewing the Thickness of Part Scc. By AN EMINENT SURVEYOR. Printerl for .1. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 5 4 411 Holborn. • Where may be had, lately published, • sr l. NICHOLSON'S CARPENTER and JOINER'S AS. ,'STANT, illustrated 'with 79:Plates, and , copious F.xplana , I °lls, the Fourth Edition, Corrected, 11, I'. bound. 2 . NICHOLSON'S CARPENTER'S NEW GUIDE. a coin tte Book of Lines for Carpentry and Jonety, %mit fates, the Seventh Edition, 11 is. bound. NICHOLSON'S STT..:DENT'S INSTRUCTOR ir nA• .WING and WORKING the FIVE ORDERS, 41 Plates • Gd• bound. C ASES NICHW-SON on the CONSTRUCTION of STAIF —SES and HAND-RAILS, 39 Plates, iSi. bound. THE LOTTERY. YT 0 N Steck-Broker, — 7 Cornhill, and Lombard-street. respectfully the Public to i nspect the Scheme of the New Year's Lottery, n d be is fti'lv or, • "vmced that it wilt tte viewed with univeral satisfaction; EVERY PRIZE is STERLING MONEY, and every Ticket Gilt be drawn singly, as there are NO CLASSES. This ,eketn e contains LESS than Two Blanks to a - Prize, an !ltitilil e the number of Capitals that were in the Last Lotter tt leltitlin £20,000 10 5 2,000 1,(TO 26th THIS' MONTH . ioa I)rawilig; .ra A.R.TIN and O. 8 Corahjllondjio, a ford-street, have much Pleasure in introducing to the 'notic e of their Fri,nds, and the Public in general, a-LOT TERS found ;.d on principles eaten Wed 'to give universal sa tisfaction. Its ;peculiar features consist in there being FIVE ,Prizes of 20,01)01. besides SEVENTY other CAPITALS— 'tee ry Ticket deCiding its own Fate—No ClaSses, nor Stock :Prizes, but all St erlio 2; Z\ioney, anti. not Two Blanks to a or, i ,i ; ; ;; - the FEBAATARY. MARTIN And Co. lairtictilai.lv beg leave to call the attest tion of the Pablic to the Insist extraoldioaay instance of §nr ovss ever known-- , M. and Co. having . Shared and Sold the Ticket N". '261, a Prize of 40,0n01. as First Drawn, was en titled to Both the Prizes of 20,00+11.—a circumstance unparal - in the An;:als of Lotteries; Also very lately, No. 2033, FOR THE'SUN. IRELAND. MR. EDITOR—I Mt myself highly obliged to . 1 you, for having. done me the favour to in sert my letter in your Paper of the 25th,of De .cember. I am indeed - sanguine enough to hope, with the. assistance Of ~your able pen, and with the further aid of the Gentleman, whose admir ably written letter under the signature of " 5.," appeared iu your Paper of the 26th ult., that the attention of Government may be directed to the state of the South of. Ireland, and that per manent as well as immediate relief may be afford ed to the miserable inhabitants of that part of the Kingdom. You say, that "S." traces the crimes and misery -of • the lower Irish to the ne glect of their intellectual improvement, and to the demoralizing - inthience . , vicious -example, criminal connivance, and cnlpable apathy, of„the. greater port of the Irish Gentry. In that part of the SOath which I am best acquainted with, I am happy to say, that . amongst the Gentry, drinking to excess is not now practised, and since this bad habit (as it appears) can be con quered, I trust, that a greater reformation has taken plaCe generally than " S." is aware of ; but if a further reform is required, I hope what he has said will be taken as a friendly admoni tion, and" produce all the good he aims at. I de cidedly agree with you, that " it is not enough " that plans of extensive improvement for the em " ployment of the people should be set on foot ; 44 regard must be paid to their moral culture, and " to the directing of their energies beneficially for " themselves and the public." 1 admit also, that -" a heavy respohsibility devolves upon the gentry 64 in every country, and that they are in a great ‘c measure accountable for- the improvement of. 44 those placed in the scale below them."—Unfor tunately, however, for theluterior of the South of Ireland, thereare scarcely any persons to be, found, who we'should in England consider to be of the middle rank ; for the cultivating classes, whether they pay rent for what are called farms, or are labourers, are not in any respect to be dis tinguished from each other. It is the want of that link in the chain - of society, which is so essential to good government, that has mainly contributed 'to give encouragement to that pro fligacy of manners, so much inveighed against by " SI" Were',there numbers of respectable far. mers and respectable shopkeepers settled in the interior, their integrity and moral worth, their example, would not only regulate the conduct of those in the scale below them, but would also be the means, in a great measure, of checking any. - thing unworthy in those in the scale above 'them. It -is scarcely necessary to obserw, that, in all poor. countries, there are but two classes in society, the high and low, the middle ranks are raised up by the accumulation of wealth. The Coal of England is certainly the great source of all the wealth she possesses : it is therefore quite clear, that, until coals are conveyed at a cheap I . :At:into the interior of Ireland, the people of that country will neither become industrious, nor wealthy ; , and as no middle class will.he raised up, I may therefore venture to predict that they will not acquire more peaceful habits. The-re marks made by " S." respecting illicit distilla, tion appear. to me perfectly just. It is by no means improbable that the people who .are cu gaged in this pernicious manufacture should be iamongst the - most active in disturbing the peace of ale country. I can easily imaginp, that even a few :of these having obtained arms, might by that system of terror lately put in practice, force the most innocent of the peasantry.to join them, and --to commit - .the most diabolical outrages. I am beyond measure surprized that Governmcnt should not lon, since hare thought it expMient to put a complete stop to the distillation of spirits in Ireland. WHY COULD NOT THE REVENUE BE UPHEL I D BY GIVING ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE CONSUMPTION ANT) EXPORTATION OF nEER ? " S." thinks, that " the degree in which ,the penal " code has been repealed, 'r. as operated in a " manner worse than radical Reform " opened the elective franchise to myriads of " beings in a state of the most brutal ignorance, " while• it has shut them out from aspiring after " those distinctions which would operate as a " spur to their improvement." " They are," he says; " driven like so many heads of cattle to " the hustings, and in hundreds of instances in duced to qualify themselves for voting by per " jury." With regard to myself, I have always made a point not to interfere with any tenant of mine'in respect to his vote., I have often been told that, ground is frequently parcelled out in small plots to, poor people, and lenses given to make them freeholders, and that immense num be-Fs are driven down from the mountains to vote at elections. ,In such a desperate case as this, there tan .be no .doubt that Government should interfere. • The note 'Which you were so kind as to attach to ;he letterof " A True Englishman," publish ed in your Paper of the 97th Dec., rendered an immediate reply from me unnecessary. The canal from Cork to Limerick; when finished, would, as you observe, " prove a source of further pro " fitable employment ;" but if this were not cer tain, I should be at no loss to point out'many useful public works, which, if carried into exe cution, could not fail of teing an immediate and lasting benefit to both countries ; but from the -miFery arising from the scarcity of NO in the line of country above alluded to. I thought it more proper merely to chew the advantage to be derived from Constructing a canal through that district, than to connect it Ivith any other na tional improvement ; for very great objections have been, and still made to the digging of, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1822. canals in Ireland, frOm the former losses sus, tained from such undertakings. I am, however,_ quite sure that the were disappointed, from these canals having been carried through districti which were abundantly supiilied with turf. In my opinion EVERY CANAL DUG 1N IRELAND SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTED WITH THE VIEW OF CHEAPLY SUPPLYING THE INTERIOR WITH THE BITUMINOUS COAL or Excl. IND. Canals which pass through or near to turf bogs (as is the case with the Dublin canals) cannot become advanta goons to the public, till the tuff bogs arc colonised. and cultivated. If that were done with judg ment, and instead of pursuing the Irish practice of swarming the land with a host of miserable potatoe planters,—if the English system of di viding and farming the land were adopted, these canals, so much inveighed against, would at length hVome highly useful 445 4 114 e., conveyance, not onlrof English coal into the interior, but ulti mately of every article usually conveyed by ca nals in England. In order to introduce the con sumption of coal, and to relieve Ireland from a dependence upon that worst of all kinds offuel— Nil; canals should be dug by Government in every possible direction throughout that country ; and after these canals are dug, and English coal can be supplied in sufficient quantities, if the ex tensive bog of Allen and other turf bugs cannot be immediately brought into cultivation, some means should be devised to prevent the making use of turf for fuel. No one who knows the dreadful distress that arises from the want of fuel in Ireland, will 'wonder at my anxiety to have that kind introduced into the interior of the country, not liable to fail from a wet season. Do but consider, Mr. Editor, to what a_wretched state the people of any country must be reduced, who subsist wholly upon potatoes,,and who can not obtain wherewithal) to prepare them for food; the total loss of the turf in Ireland, though potatoes were abundant; would certainly occa sion a famine, for when that failed (there being scarcely any wood) the mass of the people have nothing to resort to. In such cases the poor have been known to burn the few articles of fur niture they possessed, and even the rafters of their houses. It is quite clear that a people subsisting upon potatoes, and having no other fuel than turf, have every year two chances of being starved, either from a wet season, which would destroy their turf, or from a severe frost in November or earlier, which would destroy their potatoes. People who subsist upon grain or animal food, and who burn coal, are nearly exempt from so dreadful a calamity. But not withstanding the innumerable mischiefs which arise from permitting the labouring classes to have land, to enable them-to cultivate potatoes for their subsistence, Me; ARTHUR YOUNG, in 1799 and 1800, exerted himself to the utmost of his power to influence the people of England to take the agricultural labourers of every parish in the kingdom OFF TUE CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT, AND POT THEM UPON THE CONSUMPTION OF PO TATOES. A friend of mine in Bath, who was rather enthusiastic in favour of this measure, lent me some tracts, written with a view to point out the advantages to be derived from giving land to labourers for potatoes, and grass for cows. I had had too much experience of 'the , bad effects of this systentin Ireland, not to endeavour to con= Vince my friend, that if introduced into this country it would be found extremely injurious. wrofe down some questions for him to answer, and having been told that Mr. ARTHUR YOUNG was the great promoter of the system, I after wards ,sent the same questions to him, hoping, by directing his attention to some points that I supposed might have escaped his notice, it might cause him to change his opinion, and be the means of his preventing the, mischievous measure from being adopted, to the injury of England. , I had not the least expectation that the questions would have been printed, and as was not a reader of the Annals of Agriculture, f did not dis cover that they were so till about eight yearsafter I had sent them to Mi. YOUNG. They are pub lished in the 195th number of the Annals, vol. 34, p. 546, and are as follow : QUERI ES'S ÜBMITT ED TO MR. YOUNG. LAbrary, Batb, Jan. 24, 1400. Whether cultivating potatoes, !lax, and hemp, as has been recommended, will not occasion in future more poverty than there is at present ? Whether potatoes do not require much manure? Whether they do not lessen the number (I should have said prevent the increase) of sheep and cat tle, by occupying land where turnips anti cab bages might be raised ? Whether (by being ap plied to the feeding of man) they do not deprive the land of the manure of cattle and sheep, and consequently diminish the quantity of grain. ? Whether the raw materials for cloth and leather (I should have added many more materials for manufaCture) will not be more scarce 'by culti vating potatoes ? Whether they are not unfit to he brought to market from their weight ? Will not this induce people to settle upon , the spot where they are cultivated as in Ireland ? not this check the population of towns, front les sening the food brought to market ? Will not the lower classes probably become too numerous to be all employed in the country ? Will they not, as in Ireland, have food, but no money to purchase fuel or any thing else ? Will they not he driven to destroy the fences (as in Ireland), and to commit other thefts? tVill not the de struction of the fences make it more difficult to keep cattle or sheep, 'and consequently their numhers be lessened ? Will not the lower classes of the people, from being independent of towns' or markets for food, and habituated to commit thefts in order to procure fuel, become as barbarous in their manners, and as namanage tbie, as the common Irish? Whether also it is imt.unwise to cultivate hemp, inasmuch as it oc cupies and exhausts ground where food for man and cattle might be raised ? besides that it is substituting one raw material for three others, [many more] wool, hides, and tallow. Whether it would not be better to prohibit the growing of . • hemp, ,and give a boUnty upcn its importation as I a means of employing the poor ? Whether even this would relieve the distresses of the lower . classes ? Whether the population of England does not exceed what the lands at present in a state of cultivation can (if one may so say) con veniently feed, even in abundant ' seasons ? Whether any permanmt remedy can be applied to prevent future distress, but that of either diminishing the number of useless horses; en'cou raging or obliging farmers to breed cattle and sheep' nstead of those animals, or formiag. a society for cultivating Cie waste lands•?-. a society could not be formed, why might not Agricultural Societies set on foot a.subscription for purchasing, enclosing, and cultivating wastes ? -The profits arising from those lands might be laid out in foreign hemp, Which could be given to overseers of parishes to be distributed among the poor.—With the highest respect, I am, Sir, yotir obedient servant, It. C. The only reply which Mr. A.,YOUNG made to my questions was the following note : Note—l have inserted this to shew how little can he said against potatoes, even by gentlemen that are adverse to them. A. Y. Before I had seen the above note, I had read Mr. MALTHUS'S Essay on Population; mill upon comparing my queries with his opinions, I had the pleasure to find that, in opposing Mr. YOUNG'S theory, he had most ably and . completely esta blished the truth of my positions as well a his own. What 'he. says against the potatoe system, .is to be found in the second volume - of his Essay, 3d Edit. Bvo. Chap. 10 and 11, p. 444 to 480, and Appendix, from page 530 to 547. Much is written for and against the Potatoe System by. different persons, in Vol. 34, 35, 36, 39, and 41, of the Annals of Agriculture. Mr. A. YOUNG writes at considerable length in Vol. 36, where he seems to imagine he had completely triumphed over 'all his opponents. Ile also says - much in r e ply to Mr. MA LTUUS, HI VOL 41. Mr. MAL- Titus afterwards spewed, in his Appendix, that Mr. A. YOUNG'S plan of taking the labourers of I England from the consumption of wheat;, .and putting them ,upon the consumption potatoes, would have the effect of reducing th'eM to the mi serable state of the• lower class of Irish, and would be the most cruel and fatal blow iO their happiness They had ever experieneeel; it will be immediately seen by the perusal of my questions submitted to Mr. A. YOUNG, that I was of the same opinion.• Mr. lll.vriilrug say s, in a note to •p. 401, 2,—" In his (Mr. " YouNG's) Irish Tour, he seemed much struck - cc with the plenty of potatoes which they pos " sensed, and the absence of all apprehensions "of want. Had he travelled in 1800 and 1501, " his impressions would by all accounts have " been very different." lam myself, certain it would have been the case; for Ireland was to a great extent a pasture Country wh'en Mr. YOUNG travelled through it and resided there ; and then labourers had not only potatoegardens,;/mt ,rocs . . jiff their cows. The bounty upon the inland car riage of corn to Dublin (which Mr. Youxo with sá much ability exposed the folly - of) had only produced a partial effect in stimulatiog the' far•- mers pasture and dairy farms to' sell the . A. cattle, to break up their grass land's, and .let them to their herdsmen and labourers.. After Mr. A. Y.OuNG left the 'country this was done to a great extent ; and KS the population increased, those grass farms becamo nibre altd More divided ; and from This cause, within the last thir s ty years, the increase of the people has been, 1 believe, more rapid in Ireland than was .1 ever known in any other country :in the world.— Many of the grazing arid dairy farinerS, who fre-. quently rented their lands frOM 'Middlemen, (after plotting out the whole of their farms) re tired, perhaps, to some town to live upon their profit rents, which, from the high price of Corn during the war, in many instances became con6l - incomes. As to the cultivators under them (for they cannot :be called farmerS) they raised potatoes as a first crop, which they followed with corn generally, till the land, being quite exhaust ed, was obliged to be left to nature ; and _alma invariably pursuing this system over the whole of their ground, they could haVe few or no cattfe, and were obliged, in general, to subsist upon po tatoes alone, without milk, :.cinch they had in 60M paratiie plenty when Mr. .VouNG was in lretand. The.Potatoe y'stem is calculated to produce, in every tillage totintry, such mischievous effects.— In pasture countries, the system, as I have she wn, will not be found quite so injurious . ; but it ren ders man independent of society, which, in itself, is a great evil. It is man'sdependence Lipmi his felloW men which causes him to become civilized: As a consumer of bread and animal food, he must be dependent upon markets; but, as a con sumer of potatoes, upon almost any mountain Ind where he can find water and turf, he may subsist mith having - scarcely any in6rconrse with his fellow-creatures. The Freeholders that " S." speaks of are, it appears, often settled in mountainous districts, to save more valuable pro perty. I should suppose that, 'in a turf country, a thousand Freeholders, veldt their wives, bri•og placed upon a thousand acres of .ground, with about three or four shillings, or perhaps less, an acre, could sulisist themselves, without more land being given - to them, till their numbers in creased to several thousands. Besides having the pleasure of finding that so able a writer as Mr.:NIAL-, PRICE SLVEN?ENCE. THUS supported the opinions which I bad formed before he wrote upon the subject, with frespect to .the injurious effects of the Potatoe ,System; I was much pleased to perceive, upon reading' the Tours of Mr.WAKEFIELo.and Mr; Cuit.wr - x that they were also quite of my way of ' thinking.— Mr. CUR WEN, before he went to Ireland, was e-K treinely anxious to proutote the culture of pota toes, haiing feel at a, cheap rate • from his own coal-pits ;be found them, when steimM, a good. and economical subStitute; for hay ; and I really . think, near a co . al-pit, it might be advantageous To'cultivate them for cattle, if there were no danger of their becoming, to a great - extent,:the food of , Mr..CurtwEN says, 'in his Ili,i c .fi n Agri cultural Subjects,. page 94,.that " the-inhabitants " of the Northern Counties posess some advan " to es over those of the South, and in. none more "than in their 'taste for potatoes." And in page 95, he says, " the most important of all.the.ac , qnirements obtained by a'knowledge of —the " New World, are potatoes;and the comfort and " benefit of them is daily extending, as_well in 44 this as in every. other country." Ifilr. Cut:- :WEN, since his having visited Ireland, is quite of a contrary opinion, for he says, p. 31 and vo'. 9.d,•0f his Tour through Ireland, published in 1818, " I have formerly been an advocate for an " extended growth and use of the . potatoe ; but " have recently had cause to alter my opinion, " and must earnestly deprecate . their" becoming the staple article of food for the lewe'r clasSes cc in Great Britain, lest similar results which I " witness in this country shotild follow." For my part I am'of opinion, that ONE OF-THE GREAT EST MISFORTUNES THAT EVER OCCURRED TO GREAT BRITAIN. AND IRELAND WAS THE INTRO DUCTION OP _POTATOES INTO THESE KINGDOMS ruoi AMERICA ; for it would have been impos, sible for Ireland to • have been brought to her present state of misery, without the mass of her people being in the habit of depending upon that root for their subsistence. I shall now conclude this Leiter with observ ing, that the' means to he adopted to relieve Ire land from the •melancholy- effects produced, by having subsisted the labouring classes upon pota toes instead of upon wheat bread . and animal food, is, first, to dig canals through the interior, for the purpose, of supplying the inhabitants with coal ; and, nest, td draw off the :uperabundant people from the lands at .present in cultiatiotl, and coloni:e the tznf bogs; at the same time; gra dually to abolish the use of potatoes, and in their stead introduce the consureption of wheat. I trust in GOD that the. unhappy disturbances in Ireland will imniediately sObsilde,andThat theat tention of the Lergisliture-may be solely` directed 'tlnise alterations 'and improvements :Avhkb have pointed out, and which I am quite sure are calculated to promote the welfare and the.iappi. ness of the,:United Kingdom. • 2 I am,Sir,•with sincerity, Your obliged, obedient Servant, AN IRISII LANDLORD. .Tr.nuary 29. ATTEMT TO COMililT)lli TRDER, FOLLOWED BY SUICIDE. It has rarely fallen ,to our lot to. record' a greater and More deliberate act' of atrocity thatt the following,' for the authenticity of which we can vouch man of the name of Harris, re siding. in Queen-'street,':Bryanstone-square, and who formerlY:had been The- rk to an ironmonger in Circus-Street, New-road, suspected the fide lity. of his wife, to whoth he had been married filleytt years. We dealine, for very obvious re:- - sons, in- the present stage of the affair, to make any comments upon the prObahility of his suspi cions being either well or ill founded ; they had i.taken sufficient possession of his mind to excite him to the double crime of murder and suicide. lie had latterly been only an occasional visitor to his wife, and had 'not seen Tier some weeks-. On Friday evening het Called upon her in Queen street, and finding' that she was 'wiith,a. neigh bourmg friend in Seymour-place, he went . there, and requested her to come home,. as he wished to Speak to "her previous to his departure for Wales, which he said Was to take place on the ensuing morning. Mrs. Harris complied with his request, and went home with him. They sat down to tea, accompanied by a child of seven or eight years old, their atiopted son. In a short time he sent the child out upon an errand, and immediately drew out a pocket pistol,with %aid' he shot at the unfortunate- woman, and severely wounded her. She screamed and rushed to the door, and at the moment the people of the houSe came to her assistance, he presented another-pis tol to his own head, and inflicted a mortal wound. A neighbouring Surgeon, Mr. North, of Seymour place, immediately attended, and paid every proper attention -to the wpman. Her lower jaw dislocated on one side, and severely frac tured. She is now under the care of Mr. Guthrie and-Mr.:North, and it is confidently hoped will do well. She is unfortunately in the seventh month of her pregnancy. The nature of the wound which thethan himself had received, rendered it impossible to afford. him any assist ance, although he lingered for Many hours. Ott the morning of the saint' day, he gave to the child an accurate list of what was found'in Iris pockets, consiqin;; clf six soirreigns, a watch, &c. He was a fine stout man in the prinie cf life, and we understand bore a most excellent character. An Inquest will' sit _upon the body to-morrow morning at eleven o'clock.— . (Morning Paper.) The Earl of Junsry has, since his late return from the Continent, reduced the rents of tenantry 30 per cent., and allowed the reditctidn , to take place from Midsummer last. •