The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM CHINA. We have been favoured with copies of the Canton papers to the 28th of May, inclusive. They contain news of great importance. The Canton Reg' 'or of the 28th of May con tains a " Public Notice to He: '-nnic Majesty's subjects" from Captain Elliot, C• ~uperintendent of the British subjects in China. This document, after briefly recapitulat ing the events which had occurred at Canton, in reference to the surrender of British property, and describing the course which he had pursued in maintenance of the honour and dig nity of this country in its relations with China, proceeds as follows : " Thus situated, then, and once more referring to his pub lic notice dated at Macao, on the 23d day of March last, he has again to give notice to, and enjoin all her Majesty's sub jeets to make preparation for quitting Canton before, or, at the same time, with her Majesty's establishment ; which de parture will take place as soon as the Chief Superintendent has completed his public obligations to the government For the general convenience, he will afford the best information in his power, from time to time, concerning the probable period of that event. " And he has further to give notice, that British subjects, or others, thinking fit to make shipments of property on Bri tish account, on board of British, or any other foreign, ship ping actually in this river, will be pleased to regulate their proceedings, in these respects, upon the understanding, that such shipments must be made at their personal risk and re sponsibilit7 after the date of this notice. "And he again enjoins all her Majesty's subjects in Can ton to prepare sealed declarations and lists of all claims what ever against Chinese subjects, to be adjusted, as nearly as may te, to the period of their respective retirements from Canton, before him, or at the same time with him. " And whilst it is specially to be understood, that the proof of British property, and the value of all such claims handed in to him before his departure, will be determined upon principles and in a manner hereafter to be defined by her Majesty's Government, he has to recommend, with a view to uniformity and general clearness, that claims for British property left behind should be drawn up, as far as may be practicable on invoice cost. " And he has now to give notice to, and enjoin all her Ma jesty's subjects, either actually in China, or hereafter arri ving, merchants, supercargoes, commanders, commanding officers of ships, seamen, or others, having control over, or serving on board of, British ships or vessels, bound to the port of Canton, not to be requ i r i ng , a idi ng, or ass i st i ng in any way in the bringing into the said port of Canton any such British ship or vessel, to the great danger of British life, liberty, and property, and the prejudice of the interests and just claims of the crown, till a declaration shall be pub lished under his hand and seal of office, to the effect, that such bringing in of British property, in foreign shipping, is safe in the premises. " And the Chief Superintendent, making these solemn in junctions for the safety of British life, liberty, and property, and in the protection of the interests and just claims of the British Crown, reserves to her Majesty's Government, in the most complete manner, the power to cancel and disregard all future claims whatever, on the part of her Majesty's sub jects or others, preferring such claims on account of British property, either to be left behind or to be brought in, if any such British subjects or others preferring such claims shall disregard these injunctions now put forward, respecting the keeping out of British shipping and property, till the declaration aforesaid shall be duly published. " And he has once more to warn her Majesty's subjects in anxious terms, that such sudden and strong measures as it may be found necessary to adopt on the part of competent authorities, for the honour and interest of the British Crown cannot be prejudiced by th e i r cont i nue d res i dence in Canton,, beyond the period of his own stay, upon their own responsi bilities, and in spite of the solemn injunctions of her Ma jesty's officer. "Given, under my hand and seal of office, at Canton, in China, this 22d day of May, 1839. "L. S. (Signed) CHARLES ELLIOT. " Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China. " True copy, EDWARD ELMSLIE. " Secretary and Treasurer to the Superintendents." " Canton, 23d May, 1839. " The Chief Superintendent will leave Canton for Wham poa to-morrow forenoon at about eleven o'clock; and the persons lately detained by the commands of the Government are requested to be ready to accompany him. •• It is also particularly requested, that there may be no general assemblage of her 11Iajesty's subjects at the period indicated. " EDWARD ELMSLIE, " Secretary and Treasurer to the Superintendents." The same paper contains two long edicts issued by Lin, High Imperial Commissioner of the Two Keang, and Tang, Director of the board of War, &c. to the Hong merchants, giving them full instructions respecting the manner in which foreign vessels were to be received on their arrival in the Can ton river, and detailing the measures which were to be taken to prevent the importation of opium. These edicts had been circulated for the information of the American merchants. Another edict banishes by name, ten " original mer chants" who had been guilty of dealing in opium. These persons are Dababhoy, Framjee, Henry, Daniell, Stanford, Bomanjee, Inglis, Green, Keasze, and Ilberry, " natives of England and other countries," who had all been habitually accustomed to deal in opium. T y are never to return ; and if they should attempt t o —ider other names, they are to be punished v The edict concludes by calling upon the said original merchants " to proclaim the favour and majesty of the Emperor, and with earnestness to enjoin these commands." We subjoin an address to Lord Palmerston, on the late aggressive conduct of the Canton government, which had been signed by a great number of the resident merchants. The Canton Register states, that " the paucity of signatures is accounted for,by the fact of the retirement of many British and Parsee merchants from Canton." TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Sze. &c. &c. Wei the undersigned British merchants, tradingat Canton, consider it our duty to address your lordship_ regarding the recent acts of aggression on tl,t part of the Chinese govern ment. These acts of violence, which will be officially communi cated to your lordship by her Majesty's superintendent, consist :- 1. In the stoppage of the whole legal trade of the port, even of vessels fully laden, and waiting only their port clear ances, and against which no ground of complaint is alleged. 2. In the forcible detention in Canton of all foreigners, including her Majesty's superintendents, in order to compel the supposed holders of opium to the surrender of property belonging to themselves, and others in India and Europe, to the value of from two to three millions sterling. 3. In the open and undisguised threat to hold foreigners responsible with their lives for this surrender, and for any future infraction of the Chinese Custom Laws. 4. In the attempt to force foreigners to sign bonds, ren dering not only themselves, but all others coming to China, over whom they have no control, liable to the same penalties ; and on the refusal on the part of foreigners to sign such bonds, in the promulgation of an edict by the high commis sioner, declaratory of the determination of the government to enforce such penalty. We may be permitted to state that all foreigners reside in Canton on sufferance ; that they have no means of ascertain ing the laws except from the acts of the provincial govern ment ; and that the opium trade has steadily increased from an import of 4100 chests in 1796, to upwards of 30,000 chests in 1837, with the open and undisguised connivance of the local authorities. The importation of opium into China was at one time allowed on payment of a duty, but discontinued in 1796. Its admission was again strongly recommended to the im perial government in 1836. No penalties have ever been enforced against foreigners bringing it to China, and the pro hibitory laws have never been a rule to the functionaries of the Chinese Empire, who should have administered them, nor to the Chinese people on whom they were intended to operate, which facts are openly admitted in the recent edicts of the imperial commissioner, under the date the 18th March last, in which he states : " that the prohibitions formerly enacted by the Celestial Court against opium were compa ratively lax,'Y and that " th e f ore i gners are men from distant lands, and ha re not before been aware that the prohibition of opium is so severe." We may further state that the peculiar character of the opium trade was distinctly recognized in the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons in 1830, and that in the subsequent report in 1832, the committee express their opinion : " that it does not seem advisable to abandon so important a source of revenue as the East India Com pany's monopoly of opium in Bengal." We conceive it will therefore be admitted that British subjects have carried on this trade with the sanction, implied, if not openly expressed, of their own government; and at the same time with an advantage to th. 3 revenue of British India, varying of late years from one to one and a half mil lions sterling. We do not attempt to deny the unquestionable right of the Chinese government to put a stop to the importation of opium, and have readily signed an agreement to abstain from that trade at Canton on the first requisition of the government to that effect ; but we think your lordship will perceive that long pre.scription had hitherto given foreigners ample reason to question the sincerity of the Chinese government with re gard tt the discontinuance of the importation, and that under any circumstances, that government cannot be justified, by the lax observance of prohibitions, and open connivance of its officers, in at one time fostering a trade involving several millions sterling, and at a n o th er ren dering its pursuit a pre text for spoliation. There seems no reason to doubt, from the late proceedings of the local government, that they have always had the power most materially to check, if not totally to put a stop to, the importation of opium when disposed so to do ; but that power has seldom hitherto been exercised, except for the purpose of exacting higher fees for its introduction. The proceeding of the high commissioner since his arrival in Canton, will be fully reported to your lordship by her Majesty's superintend en t ; but we may observe that his de ;nand for the unconditional surrender of the whole of the opium in the depot ships, was one with which foreigners could not comply, the great bulk of that opium being the property of others in India, and elsewhere; and they were equally unable to give the bonds required. The high commissioner finding at the expiration of three days, the time within which he i; I ordered the whole of the opium to be delivered up, and' to be given, that his orders had not been oh d. 'he hong merchants in chains to the foreign f ~,,.eatening to put them to death before our doorz., and at the same time commenced other menacing preparatiels against the foreigners them selves. At this stage of the business her . , Majesty's chief superin tendent arrived in Canton. We feel it our duty to express to your lordship our deep sense of the public spirit which induced this officer, at no inconsiderable risk, to endeavour to rescue British life and property from a position of fearful jeopardy ; and we may as sure your lordship that but one feeling existed of the extreme peril of the whole community at the period when he suc ceeded in forcing his way to Canton, and took charge of all responsibility in the negociations with the Chinese govern ment. Although the measures of her Majesty's representative have relieved us from all responsibility in surrendering so large an amount of property, we may still be allowed respect fully but earnestly to entreat your lordship's mediation to obtain the earliest possible fulfilment of the guarantee given on behalf of her Majesty's government, and thus be the means of saving many of the owners of the property from 'nevileile ruin, and all of then, from heavy loss. We deem it also an imperative duty to assure your lordship most solemnly of our firm conviction, that the public ap proval, on the part of her Majesty's government, of the prompt' interposition of her Majesty's representative, and the early adoption of such measures as the wisdom of her Majesty's advisers may determine on with regard to our future relations with the Chinese Empire, can alone avert the occurrence of similar, or even more violent outrages. We beg further to state to your lordship that, independently of the opium now ♦iolently seized, there was at the same period British property of other kinds in Canton to the value of upwards of one million sterling, besides a large and valu able fleet of shipping lying at Whampoa, consigned to our care, but totally beyond our controul ; and although this pro perty was not alleged to have incurred any penalty, the high commissioner never attempted to distinguish the participators in the one trade, from those in the other, but placed both under one common suspension, and the whole body of foreign ers in arbitrary confinement. After the completion of the delivery of the opium sur rendered, the high commissioner has expressed an intention of opening the legal trade, under new regulations, but cir cumstances do not justify us in entertaining the expectation that these regulations will afford any security for our life or property. We therefore think your lordship will be convinced that some serious alterations in our relations with this Empire are indispensably necessary ; and that British commerce can never safely be carried on, and certainly can never flourish in a country where our persons and property are alike at the mercy of a capricious and corrupt government. In conclusion it only remains for us again to urge upon your lordship and her Majesty's government the great im portance of an early recognition of our claims on account of the opium surrendered for her Majesty's service ; and the pressing and paramount necessity of placing the general trade of British subjects upon a secure and permanent basis. Canton, 23d May, 1839. Dent and Co. Lindsay and Co. Bell and Co. Macvicar and Co. Dirom and Co. Gibb, Livingston and Co. Charles S. Compton, D. and M. Rustomjee, Jamieson and How, W. and T. Gemmell and Co. Bibby Adam and Co. Tuernr and Co. Robert Wise Holliday and Co. Heerjez,•bhoy Rustomjee, Hormasjee Framjee, Shawuxshaw Rustomjee, Cowasjee Pal lonjee, Bomanjee Hosongjee, Plaonjee Nesse r; anjee, Cowasjee Edulgee, Cowasjee Shapoorjee Taback, Burjorjee Manuck jee, Daniell and Co. Framjee Dadabhoy, Bomanjee Maneck jee, Sackhusson Budwoden, Burjorjee Sanabjee, Nesservan jee Dorabjee, Nesservanjee Bomanjee Mody, Dossabhoy Hormusjee, Pestonjee Ruttonjee Saroff, Abadin and Sum soodin, Framjee Jamsetjee, Cooverjee Jeevajee, Pestonjee Nowrojee, Jamsetjee Rustomjee, Hormusjee Byramjee, Cur setjee Shapoorjee, Jamsetjee Eduljee, Cowasjee Sapoorjee L. for myself and Partners. FRANCE. The Paris papers of Thursday have been received. Their contents are interesting. The disturbances occasioned at Mans by the export of corn recommenced on the 16th with redoubled violence. The au thorities, it appears, had taken no efficacious measures to prevent their recurrence, and when the disorders reached their height they evinced an unpardonable weakness. The Mayor, M. Besse, permitted the populace assembled on the market-place to divide among themselves a cartload of wheat, after, however, paying its value into his hands. The Monileur Parisien of Wednesday evening states, that in the morning of the 16th a Hussar, having strayed behind the patrol to which he belonged, was assailed and ill-treated by the crowd, and that a troop of horse charged and dispersed the aggressors, and took three of them prisoners. The peo ple immediately congregated in large numbers in the market square and in the adjoining streets, and erected barricades in different parts of the town. The first, placed near the bar racks of the Gendarmes, was shortly abandoned, and levelled by the soldiers, but the crowd succeeded in constructing a strong one near the Pont Royal, with the materials of some works going on at the river side, and intrenched themselves behind it. The King's attorney and his subst tute summoned them to disperse, but were received with vollies of stones, and compelled to retire, the rioters declaring that they would hold out until their friends who had been taken into custody should be liberated. The troops of the garrison were not employed to carry the barricade. At four o'clock the com mander of the National Guard presented himself at the head of thirty men, and after some parleying promised, upon his own responsibility, the release of the. prisoners. The rioters then left the barricade, followed the officer to the Palace of Jnstice, where the municipal council was sitting, and the pri soners were actually liberated on an order of that council. The mob, emboldened by this success, traversed the streets, pelting the Hussars with stones wherever they met them, and towards six o'clock a body of between 400 and 500 per sons marched out of town for the purpose of destroying a mill worked by machinery at Huisne ; but, finding there the perfect and the commander of the National Guard, with a detachment of troops of the line and armed citizens, they were unable to accomplish their object. Whilst these scenes of riot were going on at Mans similar disturbances were taking place at Mamers, in the same de partment. Upwards of 200 workmen collected in the mar ket, opposed the removal of the corn purchased by the millers of the neighbourhood, and then proceeded to the houses of all the bakers and innkeepers of the town, and obliged them to send all their corn to the public stores. The authorities of Mamers, having only a few Gendarmes at their disposal, vainly endeavoured to calm the mutineers by persuasion. The ministry, alarmed at these disturbances, and dreading the consequences of their impunity, held an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, to deliberate on the expediency of dismissing from office the prefect of the department, M. Bruley Desvarannes, M. Basse,' the mayor, and the king's attorney, and of dissolving the municipal council and national guard of Mans. It appears, however, that they only deter mined on sacrificing the prefect and the king's attorney, and that M. Basse, who, according to a letter published by the Courrier Francais, behaved with the greatest cowardice on the occasion, will escape unpunished. This individual has several times appeared before our readers. He was surprised two years ago in a clandestine gaming -house with a certain English lord, and because of his being a deputy, and support ing the Mole administration, was suffered to continue in his municipal functions. SPAIN. Private letters from Bayonne of the 16th instant, state that the civil war in Navarre and Guipuscoa might be con sidered at an end, the queen's troops being masters of the whole country and of the entire line of frontier of the two provinces. General Espartero had not yet left Urdax on that day. Don Carlos and his family were conveyed, immediately after their arrival on the frontier, to St. Pe, within four leagues of Bayonne, where they were lodged in the house of M. Goyeneche, the mayor of the village. Three carriages were sent to meet them at tistaritz, and they passed through Bayonne in a close carriage and under a strong escort. Some believed that they were to be removed to Limoges, and others to the fort of Ha. General Espartero reached thefrontier an hour after Don Carlos had crossed it. The Carlist refugees were in a state of the most absolute destitution. Their num ber amounted to nearly 4000. A commissary of police, ac companied by two agents, arrived i n B a y onne on t h e 16 t h , with the cure Echevarria and Basilia Garcia, whom they lodged in the city prison. CONSTANTINOPLE. A private letter from Tenedos says—" There is open dis cord among the diplomatists at Constantinople. The Russian Ambassador has been ordered to abstain from all participa tion in the conferences of the other Ambassadors, and we cannot be sure that those of Austria and Prussia, even should they not openly act with M. de Boutenieff, may not paralyze the efforts of the representatives of England and France. The cordial co-operation of the two last-named powers, therefore, wai never more necessary than now. The officers and sailors of the two fleets, I am happy to say, are upon the best terms." BRAZIL. Her Majesty's packet Magnet arrived at Falmouth, on Thursday, from Brazil. Her• dates are from Rio Janeiro to the 2 1 st of July, from Bahia to the 7th, and from Pernam buco to the 14th of August. The Magnet has brought home from Rio the mate, steward, and three seamen, lately belonging to the barque Sec:et, charged with the murder of their captain, while on a voyage from Guayaquil to Santander. From Rio, little information of any interest has been re ceived. The exchange had risen to 31 and 31k, and bills had even been drawn by the Brazilian government on this country at 32. Nothing new or favourable to report either from Bu enos Ayres or Rio Grande, affairs in those quarters remain ing in the same unsettled and disaffected state as they have been for a long time past. Just before the packet left Pernambuco, a steamer arrived from Maranham, with the news, that Caxias, the next city in the province, had been occupied by the insurrectionary force, said to amount to from 15 to 20,000 men. Some new police law, recently enacted, was said to be the cause of the out break. Troops were on their way to suppress the revolt, but, should their numbers prove to be so formidable as was represented, it was feared that they might give the govern ment some trouble, and that, at all events, the trade between the coast and the interior might suffer some check, Caxias being the great country mart. The Magnet has brought about £9,000 in specie. EAST INDIES. By the East India Company's steamer Zenobia, via Suez, overland despatches were received on Saturday morning, from Bombay, to the lst August, and from China to the 30th May. The Bombay despatches announce the important in telligence of the death of Runjeet Sing. This event, though for some time expected, may produce results throughout the dominions which he acquired by his personal prowess, and which he has kept together by the personal intelligence and vigour of his administration, of the highest importance to our East Indian government. We learn that the death of his Highness took place on the 27th June, at which time he was in the sixtieth year of his age. By an order of the Governor-General, dated Sinda, July the 4th, the obsequies of Runjeet Sing were observed by the English troops and residents with the utmost respect. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING. - The showers which have fallen during the whole of the day have prevented her Majesty taking her usual equestrian exercise in the Great Park. This afternoon, during a short period, the Queen, accom. panied by their Majesties the King and Queen of the Bel. gians, and her Majesty's distinguished visiters and suite, walked on the terrace. The Dowager Countess and Lady Fanny Cowper and Mr. Cowper left the castle, for London, this morning. Sir James Clark arrived at the castle this morning. - Lord and Lady Cowper are still remaining at the castle. The royal dinner party, this evening, will include the fol lowing royal and distinguished personages :—Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Sandwich, Viscount Melbourne, Lord and Lady Cowper, Mrs. Campbell, Madame d'Hoogh vorst, Hon. Misses Pitt, Paget, and Spring Rice, Monsieur Van de Weyer, Count Moerkerke, Mons. Van Praet, Count d'Arschot, Count Nesselrode, Earl of Surrey, Baron Bru now, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Col. Wemyss, Lord Byron, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Torrington, Lady Charlotte Dundas, and the Baroness Lehzen. The band of the 45th regiment will be in attendance at the castle during dinner. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians will take their departure from the castle at five o'clock to-mor row morning, proceeding direct to Woolwich, where their Majesties will embark for Ostend. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. --Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians left th e cast l e soon after five o'clock this morning, attended by Madame d'Hooghvorst, Count d'Aerschot, Count Moerkerke, and Mr. Van Praet, for the dock yard at Woolwich, where their majesties embarked for the continent. Viscount Torrington, one of the lords in waiting on the queen, and Colonel Wemyss, equerry in waiting, attended their majesties to Woolwich, and returned in the course of the day to the castle.- Their majesties went by route of Richmond and Kennington. Her Majesty rode out on horseback in the park at four o'clock this afternoon, attended by the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quen tin, Earl Cowper, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Byron, Col. Wemyss, Viscount Torrington, Earl of Surrey, Hon. Major Keppel, and Sir George Quentin. The Countess of Albe marle, and the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell followed the royal equestrian party in one of the royal carriages, and the Countesses Cowper and Sandwich in another. An empty carriage also followed. In addition to the visiters at the castle, the following will have the honour of joining the royal circle at dinner this evening :—the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the Ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget. A man of the name of Bond, by trade a shoe-maker, earned 15s. in 11 hours, by mowing 33 acres of barley, in that time, in the parish of Colerne. The crop was excellent, five quarters per acre. —Bath and Cheltenham Gazette. FLEETWOOD.—On Wednesday last, the contents of the custom house, at Poulton, were removed to the new custom house at Fleetwood, which will shortly be opened for business. Thirty new houses are about to be erected there, besides a large and s pl en did h ote l , t h e est i mated expence of which is, ten or twelve thousand pounds. THE MONEY MARKET, (From the Morning Herald of Friday.) CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.—The private letter of this journal from Paris appears to have afforded the best infor mation which' has transpired respecting the causes which induced the respectable firm of Hottinguer and Co. to dis honour the bills of the bank of. the United States ; but since the morning it has transpired that, by the exertions of Mr. Jaudon, arrangements have been made through the great house of Rothschild and Co., by which they will take up the agency, and honour all the drafts of the United States bank now in a temporary abeyance of credit. For the sake of public credit generally we are happy to be enabled to notice the great probability of such a result ; nevertheless, it cannot be denied that the United States bank has received a blow with regard to its public credit that must seriously re-act upon the credit of the commercial in terests of the United States at large. We are not disposed to be harsh in our remarks • but there is a strong i m p ress i on amongst most of our manufacturing and commercial interests that the Bank of the United States, under the administra tion of Mr. Biddle, has abused its true banking power by the reckless adoption of jobbing in produce, and its neglect of the true principles and action of banking, by directly, as well as indirectly, lending itself to unprofitable commercial speculations. The assurance of this great difficulty being finally settled we trust may be relied upon as certain ; else we cannot foresee what may be the result on either side of the Atlantic. Mr. Jaudon has returned from Paris to Lon don, and his arrival may lead to further satisfactory expla nations. - The state of the weather, and the subject to which we have already referred, coupled with the influence of the closing settlement of the foreign market, has thrown a great damp upon consols and the British funds generally. Since writing the above we have more reason to believe that the eminent firm of Rothschild and Co. have deter mined to undertake the agency of the United States bank under powerful guarantees. This act will, if confirmed to the full extent, tend much to appease the incidient appear ances of an uneasy state of our money markets, and it will strongly indicate their sagacity in foreseeing its immediate necessity. (From the Times of Saturday.) CITY.—FRIDAY EVENING.—The interference of Messrs. Rothschild on behalf of the United-States Bank is now posi tively affirmed, both among the connexions of that house, and among parties interested in the affairs of the bank itself; but, what is very unusual in any matter of business brought to a close, no details of the arrangement entered into be tween them are allowed to transpire. The information de sired by the monied interest is not merely as to the certainty of payment of the bills drawn in Paris when at maturity, but whether the acceptance of Messrs. Rothschild has. actually been put Upon them, absolutely, and for honour of the United States Bank, and on what security, and subject to what con ditions, that important additional guarantee has been ob tained: As much will depend, for the restoration of the credit of the United States Bank, upon the manner of the transac tion as upon the transaction itself. That the more immedi ate difficulty has been provided for need not now be doubted, and one construction put upon the silence still maintained with respect to the mode of meeting it is, that the future agency of the bank, both in Paris and in London, has be come a subject of some competition among different mercan tile firms, and that the conditions of interference are made in some degree dependent on the settlement of that question. At present, with the exception of the personal agency of Mr. Jaudon, which has been for some time repudiated, as not of the suitable description, however dexterously managed for such an institution, the bank has no re presentative among the commercial interests of London. It is true that a house of the first eminence, that of Baring Brothers, has been fixed upon for that purpose, with the full consent and at the solicitation of the board of directors; but the agency has not yet been taken up, on account of non compliance by the bank with conditions very properly at tached by the house in question—that the money-market should first be cleared of certain liabilities, the provision fcr which, however adequate it might be under other circum stances, was rendered uncertain by the general pressure for money produced by the late measures of the bank. The re fusal of Messrs. Hottinguer to accept the bills lately drawn upon Paris can scarcely have any other consequence than that of withdrawing from that house the f u t ure agency i n that capital, so th a t both the French and English agency for the United States Bank, heretofore without doubt, a very lucrative connexion, ma y b e sa id at this moment to be vacant. In the instance of Messrs. Hottinguer, it is said that the term " agency" is not recognized, being designated as tha correspondents only of the bank • but this is not the mate rial, since, by whatever name the French business is de scribed, whether as an agency, or as a correspondence, the increasing transactions of the bank on the continent, should it be restored to credit, will necessarily make it an object of competition. That there should exist such a competition now amidst the embarrasments by which the bank has re cently been beset, is as good an omen as can be referred to of its approaching recovery from them, were it not that in the eagerness for a large profit the future is so frequently overlooked. Some doubt has been felt whether there is any person or persons on this side of the Atlantic intrusted with sufficient powers from the board at Philadelphia to reconStruct the agency in England and France, should the state of the affairs of the bank make it necessary to do so. There is, however, reason to believe that Mr. Jaudon himself is duly empowered for such a purpose, and that one of the di r ect ors of the bank is now in London to advise him on the.most prudent course of proceeding. But their situation is one not of responsibility only, but of extreme difficulty, and it may still be requisite to take the opinion of the board, in which case the present uncertainty must continue for a considerable time longer. Nothing has been said for some days past of the arrange ment which the house of Hope and Co. of Amsterdam, by which large advances were stipulated to be made to the United States Bank, which is the most surprising, as it was thought likely enough, when the dishonour of the draughts on Paris was first known. that some influence might have been produced by it upon the arrangement with Hope and Co. Upon the final success of that arrangement, also, has been understood to depend the removal of the objections of the London house already referred to to undertake the agency. We have understood, since the subject was first mentioned, that the extent of the arrangement with Hope and Co. is very far below the sum stated of £2,000,000, and that the extent to which it has been acted on has also been much exaggerated, but that is not, perhaps, of much lin - portance, if it was sufficient to withdraw from the London market those liabilities which formed the impediment to the re-establishment of the London agency. No very immediate or pressing engagements on the part of the United States bank exist, it is said, at this moment, though the amount of outstanding obligations of all kinds must be very great. To provide for these, there are nomi nally abundant means, consisting chiefly of cotton and American state stocks and securities of various kinds, the conversion of which into money within the time required cannot but be uncertain. From the United States if any remittances are now sent, they must be in bullion • if the securities of the bank now i n E urope are valid, there are enough of them for the purpose ; if not, it will be useless to send more. The progress of the pending transactions is watched with great interest all over the city. GRAND DEVONSHIRE CONSERVATIVE FESTIVAL. (Abridged from the Morning Herald) COLLUMPTON, THURSDAY MORNIN G.—The long-expected conservative demonstration in the county of Devon took place yesterday evening at Collumpton. All the members for, and the elite of, the county were present. The proceedings ex cited the most extraordinary interest. Their object was two fold; first, to celebrate the recent triumph of conservatism, by which the whole county representation has been rescued from the grasp of the whigs : and, secondly, to adopt those measures of united and energetic action at the ensuing re gistration, and in preparation of the expected general elec tion, which, it is confidently anticipated, will enable almost every borough in Devon to sweep away the last remnants of whiggery from the representation of this large and important county. For this purpose it was thought desirable to concen trate at one great meeting all the leading electors and conser vatives in the eastern portion of the county, and a great num ber accordingly repaired to Collurnpton, from Exeter, Tiver ton, Honiton, Plymo u th, i n d epen d ent l y o f a large body of the electors of the eastern districts, both of North and South Devon. From the results of the inquiries which took place, it may be almost confidently predicted that Lord Palmerston will in future have to yield his seat for Tiverton to that ex cellent conservative Mr. Beere ; that Honiton will no longer be neutralised, but in future will return two conservatives instead of one ; that Exeter and Barnstaple are equally pre pared to vindicate the constitution ; and that even Plymouth, Devenport, and Totness, will use their utmost exertions to shake off their whig fetters in the next struggle. In order to complete all the ramifications of this spirited arrangement, a festival, to which upwards of a thousand electors of the western districts of the northern and southern divisions of the county have been invited, will take place on Friday, at Lifton Park, the seat cf Harris Arundel, Esq., who has issued invitations for this magnificent entertainment at his own expense, and thus set the conservatives of the kingdom a splendid example of spirit and munificence. The public proceedings of the day commenced with TRE PROCESSION. As early as eleven o'clock in the morning the electors and guests from Honiton, Tiverton, South Molton, Exeter, &c., began to pour into Collumpton, and it was speedily found that the spacious tent was not calculated to hold all those who sought to be present, and arrangements were accord ingly made to admit as many as possible after dinner of those who had secured ticket§ in sufficient time. By about twelve o'clock upwards of eighty carriages, most of them drawn by four horses decorated with the conservative ribbon4s, and filled with ladies and gentlemen, had arrived, and were mar shalled in procession. These were accompanied by between 500 and 600 mounted yeomanry wearing similar favours, with loyal banners and flags, band of music, &c., and a consider able number of persons on foot. The procession thus ar ranged, proceeded with flags flying and music playing to a field about two miles from Collumpton, where it was ar ranged to meet the members, and the more distinguished guests. When the procession arrived in the field they were formed in a circle, and very shortly after the four members .for the county, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., Lewis Wm. Buck, Esq., Sir John B. Yarde Buller, Esq., Bart., and N. E. M. Parker, Esq., accompanied by Sir John Ken away, Bart.,, Sir E. S. Prideaux, Bart., and a number of ladies and gentlemen rode into the circle amidst the most vociferous cheering, and received the congratulation of the assembled electors. The procession then re-formed, and escorted the members into the town, into which they passed under triumphal arches of evergreen, the bells ringing out a merry peal, every window filled with spectators, and the bands playing, " Hurrah for the Bonnets of Blue," blue being the conservative colour. THE BANQUET. An immense waterproof banqueting tent, about 150 feet by 40, was erected for the occasion, in which covers were laid for upwards of 700 persons; many more, however, than this number contrived to find admission. A gallery was also erected which accommodated from 100 to 150 ladies, most of whom wore blue dresses, and all of them blue favours. The tent was beautifully decorated under the tasteful superin tendence of Mr. Tuckett, one of the most active of the con servative agents of the county. From the centre of the tent was suspended a large crown, and two globes formed of dahlias, with which beautiful flowers, intermingled with laurel, &c., all the pillars of the tent and candelabra were enwreathed. Above the chair were two banners inscribed " Wellington and Waterloo," and " Church and State." Above the vice-chair was a banner inscribed " Peel." Above the ladies' gallery were the words " Church and State" in dahlias, and the banners of the various conservative mem bers and candidates, and electoral societies were 'hung around. Sir John Kenaway, Bart., took the chair; and Sir E. S. Prideaux, Bart., the vice-chair. On the right of 'the chairman sat Sir T. D. Acland, Bart., M.P., L. W. Buck, Esq., M.P., Sir Trevor Wheeler, Bart., Sir John Duntze, Bart., George S. Thursdon, T. H. Munro, Montague V. Beere, J. Beere, A. E. Gabriel, Esqrs. ; Revds. Wm. Sykes, R. St. Leger, W. Barnard, C. Ran dolph, W. Flood, G. T. Hall, M. Mules ; Col. Lutterell, Lieutenant Cull, R.N. On the left of the chairman sat M. E. N. Parker, Esq., M.P., Sir J. Y. Buller, M.P., Sir T. D. Duckworth, Bart., Lieut.-General Sir G. P. Adams, Baldwin, Fulford, R. Mules, J. Quicke, J. Garrett, W. Porter, Harris, Arundel, W. Gardiner, Esqrs. ; Revds. C. Sweet, R. M. Gardiner, G. Sweet, .&c; Mr: Smith Barry and Lord•Middletou are about eApeniing £lOO,OOO in the town of Cove. A crescent and ether orna mental buildings are about to be erected. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (Prom the Oxford Herald.) On Thursday se'nnight the Rev. John Warren Hayes, M.A., of Wadham College, was instituted. by the Very Rev. the Dean of Salisbury, to the Rectory of Arborfield, Berk shire, void by the death of the Rev. Henry Hodgkinson ; patron, Lord Braybrooke. On the 31st ult. the Rev. Edward Lowry Barnwell, M.A., of Jesus College, and late Curate of St. Peter's, Malvern Wells, was elected by the Bishop of Bangor, and the Rev. the Warden of Ruthin, to the Head Mastership of Ruthin School. On Monday last the Rev. John Perkins, M.A., of Christ Church, and Vicar of Lower Swell, Gloucestershire, was unanimously elected one of the City Lecturers in the room of the Rev. John Hyde, M.A., deceased. The electors are the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Corporation of this city. PROMOTION!. Rev. H. Jennings, M.A., late Curate of Rawmarsh, to the Perpetual Curacy of Watton, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Earle ; patron, Richard Bethell, Esq., M.P. Rev. R. Keningale Cook, 8.A., Head Master of Rochdale Grammar School, to the Incumbency of St. John's Church, Smallbridge ; patron, the Vicar of Rochdale. Rev. John Homfray, 8.A., to the Rectory of Sutton, Nor folk ; patron, the Earl of Abergavenny. Rev. Dr. Molesworth, late of Canterbury, to the Chap laincy of the Isle of Thanet Union Workhouse. Rev. Francis Thornburgh, M. A., - to the Perpetual Curacy of Kingswood, Wilts, vacant by the cession of the Rev. D. Jones ; patrons, the inhabitants of Kingswood. Rev. Mark Waters, 8.A., has been licensed, on his own petition, to the Ministership of St. George's Chapel, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, vaca n t by the cessi on o f the Rev. John Homfray. Rev. Thomas Paddon, M.A., of Caius College, Cambridge, Vicar of Mattishall, Norfolk, to be a domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Leeds. Rev. T. Harrison, M.A, to be Minister of Trinity, ,Church, Maidstone ; patron, the Rev. J. Reeve, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Maidstone. Rev. John Raven, 8.A., has been instituted to the Rec tory of Mundford, Norfolk, on the presentation of Sir Richard Sutton, Bart.. of Lynford, in that county. SCARCITY OF BRITISH SEAMEN. The scarcity of seamen proceeds from three causes —First, that whilst several line-of-battle-ships have been commis sioned this year, none have been paid off :—secondly, the progressive and fast increase of our trading ships, causing a more than ordinary demand, and, by raising the wages, in• clueing the generality to prefer the merchant service to the Royal Navy : and, thirdly, the numbers that desert from our shipping in the ports of British North America, and find their way into the United States, where they meet with ready em ployment, for the Americans appear to depend entirely upon British seamen for the majority of their crews. Tee working of our apprentice laws produces about 5000 seamen annually-- we mean that number emerge from boys to manhood, from apprentices to able seamen, every succeeding year, and this may be about double the number that go off in the ordinary course of events by death, old age, disability, shipwreck, &c. ; but this increase, great as it is, does not appear to keep pace with the demand, for the three causes we have stated. The scale of apprentices is regulated by act of parliament, and it can be extended, but the policy of this is doubtful, because the three causes may not always operate, and our shipping prosperity might, as has often been the case before, receive a check, and then thousands of seamen would be thrown out of employment. The same reasoning applies to increase of wages in the navy ; for if the pay is once increased, it will be difficult to reduce it. In merchant ships the men engage for the voyage only, and the wages are great or small according to the demand for seamen. Still we think, that under present circumstances, and even to a view to the future, the able seaman's pay should be 40s. per month in the Royal Navy, and increased on re newed terms. With the prospective advantages of pension, Greenwich, &c., this increase of pay, which should apply to able seamen and petty officers only, would have a great effect in inducing prime men to enter the navy. In war, when large numbers are required and when the pay rises with the demand in merchant ships, and generally becomes exorbitant, other means will be necessary. But extraordinary cases demand extraordinary measures ; we are only now arguing with reference to our present posi tion, supposing it necessary to maintain the naval force we have now afloat, and that our commercial marine continues to flourish and increase, as it has done for several years past. The difficulty of manning ships is, however, experienced by rival nations as well as ourselves. France, even with a system of coercion, obtains but indifferent crews, and that after con siderable delay. As for America, she cannot man her single vessels for ordinary reliefs, and they are detained for months, and even then made up by foreigners. RAILWAY BETWEEN LANCASTER & CARLISLE (From the Carlisle Patriot) Mr. Larmer, of this city, has prepared a report of a sur vey which he has made for a railway communication between Lancaster and Carlisle. As this report contains some very valuable and unexpected results, we are happy to have it i n our power to lay the substa nce fit before our readers. Mr. Larmer having formed an opinion that a good line might be found by Crosby Ravensworth Gill, Orton, and Tebay, down the Lune to Lancaster, surveyed the line, and the result of his labours may b e thus described : " The ground between Penrith and the summit level rises only about 20 feet in a mile, or 1 ft. in 264, and the greatest inclination on the north side of the tunnel will be 1 ft. in 140, and the greatest on the south side 1 ft. in 120 ; but the average only 19 feet in a mile, or 1 ft. in 278 ; and when we are aware that greater inclinations are found to answer on the Newcastle and Carlisle, and other railways, I think, so far from feeling any disappointment in their not being better, we should rather feel surprised at their being so good through (apparently to a casual observer) so difficult a country. The, tunnel will be about one mile arid nine chains in length, and, as the hill consists of good white freestone, there will be no difficulty to encounter, but a great part of the material will be useful in the different works on the railway." The greatest advantages offered by this line are its practi cability, and its not being of greater length than the present turnpike-road between Carlisle and Lancaster. As an erro neous opinion has been held by some persons, that in the inland lines there must necessarily belong tunnels and deep cuttings, we have great pleasure in stating, that there is only one cut of 50 feet, and th a t b u t f or a very s h ort distance, the generality varying from 10 to 30 feet ; whereas upon thef west coast line several are shewn exceeding 70 feet ! and, as there is an expensive viaduct over the town of Whitehaven; a tunnel three-quarters of a mile in length, and about 13 miles of sea to cross, the cost of one in comparison with the other would not require a moment's consideration ; and though the coast line has the advantage in levels, we think this is amply compensated for in the inland line by having .a shorter distance of 29 miles. The following is a comparative statement of the distances of the several lines : From Carlisle by Kendal to Lancaster, 65 miles, with 24- miles tunnel, and 2 miles further required to get into the Preston and Lancaster railway, making 67 miles. From Carlisle by Shap Wells to Lancaster, 67 miles, with mile tunnel. From Carlisle by Orton to Lancaster, 67 miles, with 1 mile and 9 chains tunnel. From Carlisle by Appleby to Lancaster,' 76 miles, with no tunnel. From Carlisle by Morecambe Bay to Lancaster, 96 miles, with of a mile tunnel. WORCESTER HOPS, SEPT. 18.—Picking has commenced in this district, and, the yield is generally found equal to ex pectation ; the quality is also good. The weather is unfavor able for the time of the year, and we are are afraid in some cases will affect the sample. Business is still very dull, and prices declining ; the duty is looking up. Weighed on Sat urday, 23 pockets ; during the week 4. We have but few sales, and those principally are effected under the auctioneer's hammer. " DOWN WITH THE BISHOPS."—Some very liberal dis senters at Bradford were heard to express their surprise, that a bishop should walk through the streets with " a lot o' young folk and factory bairns." It is -difficult to know how these religionists are to be pleased. If bishops ride in their carriages, they are proud—if they meekly walk with the poor of that flock over which they are appointed overseers, they are wrong still. Perhaps the death-knell of dissent is tolling whilst our bishops are thus mingling with the lowly of their charge, and Nine Wee lachryince—hence these dissenting groans.—Leeds . lntelligencer. A SAGACIOUS DOG.—A blind lady, resident in New York, has in her possession a small poodle dog, which, when or dered, will go into an adjoining shop, and, after looking up at the clock, will return and inform his mistress what time it is most correctly. His method of explaining himself is by barking the hours, howling the quarters, and striking his paw against the floor to denote the minutes. Thus, if it were 33 minutes past 12 o'clock, he w ill b ar k 12 times, howl twice, and strike his paw on the floor thrice. America n On Tuesday the whole of the officers of the North Devon yeomanry cavalry and a deputation from each troop of the re giment waited on their noble and venerable colonel, Lord Rolle, at Stevenstone, for the purpose of presenting to his lordship a splendid sword, value one hundred guineas, pur chased by subscription among the officers, non-coMmission ed officers, and privates, as a testimony of their esteem and regard.— Western Luminary. A BOAT LOAD OF PHILOSOPHERS.--A capital story has reached us, touching a recent aquatic excursion of certain distinguished savants from Birmingham to Dudley. having to pass through one of the canal locks, where boats are 'required to register certain particulars of the freight, &O. (to facilitate the collection of the proper dues) the following entry was made relative to one of the learning laden barks :—Draught, 13 inches ; weight, 34 tons ; cargo, philOsophers ! !---Staf fordshire Gazette. THE FLEET.—The abolition of this prison is contemplated. The expense of maintaining it is upwards of £lO,OOO, and that of the Marshalsea £3,000 per annum, whilst in the lat ter prison the average d e bt o f eac h o f th e 84 persous con fined was only £lO, thus showing that one year's expefises would pay the whole amount. It should also be observed that the change will not add one iota of expense in sending the prisoners to the Queen's Bench, as there has been the same establishment of gaolers kept up since the year 1814 and 1815, and will save at least £13,000 per year to the country. CAUTION TO INNKEEPERS, AND PROPRIETORS OF INNS. —At the Brewster Sessions for the division of Skyrack, the Rev. J. A. Rhodes, chairman, a complaint was made against John Smith, of the White Horse Inn, in Bingley, for having bought game of poachers, and after a severe reprimand from the bench, and a promise from him not to be guilty, of the same offence again, his license was renewed, but with a posi tive assurance that if either he or any other innkeeper was again proved to have bought game of any other person than those legally authorised to sell the same, his license would be withheld.—Leeds paper. The following rather incredible story has found its way into the papers :—When Mr. Plank, the officer, waited on Faunt leroy, who suffered for forgery, he was asked by the banker if he could not take his word for appearing to answer the charge. "It is impossible," was the reply. The banker then pointed to a box, and intimated that it contained £70,000, which he might call his own if he abandoned his duty. The answer and the result, need not be stated. • WHAT WILL Ma. MALTHUS SAY'?-There , is now living in the good town of Middlewich, an old lady of the name of Fairhurst, whose claims to the largest family in England, must, we should think, be undisputed. She can at this time muster-12 children! 111 grandchildren !! 78 great grand children! !! 1 great great grandchild !!!! A goodly progeny, truly ! Mrs. Fairhurst keeps a provision shop, and is still able to attend upon her customers. She may, we should think, venture to indulge a hope that her family at least will not soon become extinct.—Staffordshire Gazette. Sir James Clark :s deprived by the recent disclosures even of the miserable apology of ignorance and incapacity as a mode of escape from the more heinous charge of wilful and deliberate villainy. It is now evident that he knew the charge against the Lady Flora Hastings to be false, and that the course which he pursued convicts him alike of cruelty towards his guilty confederates. He would not refuse his . sanction to an opinio n Whi c h h a d t a k en " d eep root " among the ladies who had power at Court, although, as a physician, he had been treating his patient, and his and their victim, in a manner utterly irreconcilable with that opinion'. Yet Sir James Clark is still the physician of the Queen of England. —Morning Post. N - \ THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST. WIGAN.—We have had another week of very unfavourable weather for the harvest, the consequence is that a great por tion of the wheat is spoiled in this neighbourhood. The potato crop, which promised to be abundant, will turn out a failure, the rain having damaged them beyond recovery, i n the clay lands. An immense quantity of potatoes of an ex cellent kind, grown on the light sands of Scarisbrick, La thom &c., are now in the progress of being got up, and brought to Manchester market. As many as 15,000 bushels were passed along the canal last week, and 10,000 the pre vious week. Fears are entertained, that in addition to the badness of bread and a scarcity, we shall also have a scarcity of potatoes before another crop.—Wigan Gazette. POULTON-LE-FYLDE.-0 wing to an unparalleled season the present harvest has been much retarded, yet in this neigbour hood we are happy to state that a considerable portion of the white corn is cut, particularly wheat, nearly the whole of which is housed, and proves to be in a much better condition than was expected, after having been subjected to so much heavy and continued rain. The fallow lands, which should have been in a condition for sowing the autumnwheats, are in shocking plight, the farmers not having the slightest chance of cleaning them, as during the greatest part of the summer many have been literally covered with water. Should the wet weather much longer prevail, it is to be feared that the potato crop will be materially damaged.—Preston Pilot. LANCASTER.—Our report of the present week is some thing better than the last, but not much. There has been more of sunshine, and consequently more work done in the cornfields. On the whole, however, the weather has been very unfavourable. The wheat has suffered greatly, but we are informed that the barley and oats—the latter especially— have hitherto escaped injury. On looking around us here, we find that reaping is very general, though many fields re main untouched. Oversands they are cutting the wheat, wet or dry, and carrying it to the kiln.—Lancaster Gazette. HortNnY.—About Hornby and its vicinity the sickle has been kept very busy for this last week, whenever the grain assumes the appearance of verging fast to materity. The crops are, generally speaking, of an average description; but the wheat and barley, being very luxuriant on the richly cul tivated soili, have suffered from the successive rains, and will, it is much feared, but ill remunerate the farmer for his labour and expense.---Ibid. CARLISLE.—The long continuance of wet weather has spread glicen throughout this county. The grain has suffered materially and must to a considerable extent prove unsound, even if the weather should now be as favourable as possible ; but unfortunately we still continue to be visited with frequent and heavy rains.—Carlisle Patriot. LEEDS.—The weather, during the past week, has been very rainy, and remarkably cold. The latter circumstance, though rather unusual, has proved beneficial rather than otherwise, asit hag tended greatly to diminish the vegetative process, so common in hot and showery weather, and at the same time so distructive to the new grain. Thursday and yesterday were fine days, and we have no doubt that a con siderable quantity of the out-standing corn would be housed. Truth compels us to state, however, that the grain, in many places, has already sustained serious damage. The corn speculators calculate, confidently, that foreign wheat will be again imported at a shilling per quarter duty in the course of a fortnight or three weeks.—Leeds Intelligencer. YORKSHIRE AND LIN COLNSHlRE.—Operations in the field have been somewhat retarded during the past week, owing to the alterations of rainy and fair weather. The last three days have been favourable for every department of harvest work. From all parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire from which we have information it is of a very cheering character ; the farmers who have thrashed out find the yield to be greater in weight than they expected, and the quality in general very good. Upon the whole, we are inclined to think the produce of the country will be at least a full average, and the price of good during the coming winter within the reach of our industrious population.—lbid. WHITBY.—The torrents of rain which descended in this neighbourhood on Saturday and Sunday nights last, caused the rivulets to swell and an overflow of the river Eske, and on Sunday morning a great abundance of wheat sheafs were observed flowing down the harbour, and also two sheep. We are informed that a calf has been washed up on the sands north of the west pier. It is to be feared that the agriculturists adjoining the river will have suffered much in consequence of the flood, yet it is a matter of surprise as the farmers had so much forewarning, that they did not gather the corn which was reaped from the scope of the river. —lbid. RICHMOND.—We feel much pleasure in stating that not withstanding the long continued heavy rains, the crops in the neighbourhood of Richmond are yet in a good state, plen tiful, and uninjured by mildway. The growers anxious to take advantage of any interval of fine weather in order to secure crops now quite ripe, are giving very high wages to agricultural labourers. The samples of wheat brought to market last week, were remarkably fine, and even sold as high as 9s. 6d. per bushel.—lbid. DRIFFIELD.—The weather since Friday last has been most unfavourable to the progress of the harvest in this neighbourhood. All operations with the crops have been quite at a stand still.—Hull Times. BOSTON.—The wheat harvest is nearly over in this district, and notwithstanding the prevalence of wet weather, the condition of the crop is far better than was anticipated. In the low fen lands much corn has been damaged, but the greater breadth sown this year renders the aggregate yield much greater than the average produce of the cauntry. New wheat is arriving at market in considerable quantities, and commands good prices. A few oats are still out, but a very few fine days will suffice to clear the grcund of them.— Boston Herald. DURHAM.—During Saturday and Sunday night last, the rain descended in torrents, thereby causing the river and its tributary streams to swelLto a height unusual at this season. Several fields of corn and potatoes were under water for some hours, and of course aregreatly injured. Monday continued unfavourable, for harvesting. , operations, but since then the weather has become more settled, and we have had three delightful days. Much work has been done in consequence in reaping, though in our immediate neighbourhood, we re gret to say, we have not seen or heard of a single sheaf being secured. • Wages are extremely high, averaging from 3s. to -Is. per day.—Durhanz Advertiser. NMC A STLE.-IThe close of the last week was signalised by a change in the weather, which, had it continued without improvement, •would have severely injured the crops. The rain on Saturday,tlelmded all day with scarcely any inter rrOionLilfl 'in the evening it increased to a violent storm, .the wind blowing,. strongly from the East. The Tyne on Sunday rose to an unusual height, and large quantities of corn, and other produce, were swept down with the current. The various rivers in the district, and especially the streams issuing from, the Inftyzange of the Cheviots were s i m il ar l y swollen, and the flOods committed great destruction on all the low grounds:lc-To - enumerate all the cases of damage sus tained would extend over several columns, so numerous have been the casualties. Upon the whole the flood was not so great as that which occurred early in the year 1831, though its consequences, from the season, have been more generally deStructive. NOrham Bridge, in course of erection over the Tweed, wmi swept away with the flood on Sunday. Showers of rain fell at intervals on Monday. On Tuesday the wea ther took up and has continued exceedingly favourable for the Harvest ever since. > The Wheat Crops, which are now in course of being l eut in all directions in the north, we are assured, have sustained no material injury, whatever may have been-put forth to the contrary.—Newcastle Journal. DORCHESTER.—We are still suffering under the most un propitious weather, with scarcely an interval of sunshine. Since our last; indeed, we have not experienced six hours' continuance of dry weather ; and the consequence is, that the barley and oat crops have sustained great and irremedia ble damage. A great quantity of the former has not only been discoloured, but, within the last few days, has much sprouted ; and of the latter crop large breadths that have been cut will prove utterly useless. Many fields of wheat also yet remain with very little prospect that it will be housed in anything like even tolerable condition. So long a conti nuance of unfavourable weather, commencing in the very midst of the harvest, cannot, we fear, be without a general very prejudicial effect.—Dorset Chronicle. SALISBURY.—We deeply regret to state, that the extraor dinary prevalence of wet weather has placed the bulk of the barley and oat crops in this neighbourhood beyond rescue. One gentleman in the vicinity of this city had crops to the value of £l5OO, in barley and oats irrecoverably ruined. We also hear that in some parts of the country, where i the wheat was not housed early, the reapers have been set to work ankle deep in water, to get in the grain in the best manner they can. This melancholy state of affairs acted on our market to the extent of 4s. and ss. per quarter advance in the price of wheat, on Tuesday.—Dorset Chronicle. SussEx.—The harvest in the eastern division of this country is nearly over, the weather having been most pro pitious for wheat carrying. About the hill farms in the neighbourhood of Eastbourne a great quantity of barley is down, which, owing to the unsettled state of the weather for the last few days; the farmers have not been able to carry. Hop-picking has commenced, and in some few gardens is finished. Immense crops have rewarded the growers' ex ertions in the culture of this valuable plant.—Brighton Guardian. EASTBOURNE. —The wheat harvest has been completed here, and we believe in excellent order ; but the unsettled state of the weather during the last week, and at the preient time, has very much retarded the housing and stacking of the Lent corn: In some instances, we believe, the barley is sprouting ; and upon inquiry we find that the wheat is not likely to be so productive as had been generally expected, There appears to be a defieiency in the ear. BRIGHTON.--We never recollect such a continuance of very heavy showers in September, and the barley that is out is now very much discoloured, but we are happy to hear that it is not at all sprouted. A good deal of second-cut clover is quite spoiled.—Briyhlon Gazette. TAiNzoN.—The sad continuance of unfavourable weather has had a most prejudicial effect upon all the late crops. In some places in the neighbourhood considerable quantities of wheat are still outstanding, and though the grain is now ripe the sickle is riot applied, as in the present state of the weather there is little hope of it being carried. A great breadth of barleY and Oats have been spoiled by the continual soaking, and in some instances the late sown barley is yet quite green. —Taunton courier. ISLE OF MAN.-The weather still continues to be hostile to the interests of the farmer and agriculturalist : heavy showers with short intervals of sunshine, having succeeded each other"during the past week. The crops evince by their faded and siokisr colour, that they have received irremediable injury,7-111:_w„Liberal. . GLANNiCiuGANsinnE.-LTlif state of the crops is every where most deplorable ;- cut and uncut are bothbeginning to sprout : the barley ,tl)at is , cut lies in .pools of water, w hil s t w h at i s standing is beginning to shed. The farmers are quite puzzled how to act. It is to be hoped that the weather will soon change for. the better.—Merthyr Guardian. B RECONS HlRE.—Although the weather has been unfavour able to the crop of grain cut, we are happy to be able to state that a good deal of barley and wheat has been housed in good condition, in this ,county, and that very superior portable thrashing machine of Mr. Thomas Jones, Crickhowell, has been thrashing wheat and . barley ; in the neighbourhood of Tallybout it thrashed in one day upwards of 80 bushels of barley, which was immediately sold for Bs. per the 10 gallon bushel. It was allowed that the machine would have thrashed with ease 50 bushels more that day, only for the loss of time in loading and unloading—lbid. DUBLIN.—The .weather has continued since our last most favourable to the outstanding crops, and propitioui to the labours of the husbandman ; and as the mercury is slowly, but steadily, rising:in' the barometer, we may venture to anti cipate, that the change will bcpermanent. If so, the grumblers will have less reason to be unthankful than they hoped.-- Dublin" Ewing Mail. LON.noNuEuly.--We.have been deluged with rain during the week, and the appearance of the crops is, in consequence, deplorable the early vilie4t has'esPecially suffered very much. Towards the evening of Thursday, howe ver , t h e weather im proved, and yesterday there was a beautiful harvest day, till a little before -six- o'clock, when an exceedingly heavy shower fell, after which the sky cleared up again, and still continues most favourable in its aspect, giving promise of fair weather, which, we trust; may be realized. Were it such as we desire the oats, though late,. would be an average crop;. potatoeS promise well. ,A correspondent writes us that the farmers were engaged cutting down oats along the whole line of road between Strabane and Letterkenny, on Thursday, though it rained the greater part of the day.--Derry Sentinel. Mr. Wells, one of the Secretaries of the Company or Pro prietors of the Great Level of the Wash, established for re covering 200,000 acres of fertile land from the Sea, had an interview on Friday morning with . the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in Downing-"street, on the business of the company. Mr. Thomas Constable has been appointed Her Majesty's printer in Edinburgh, with the privillege of printing and pub lishing acts of Parliament, edicts, proclamations, and other papers to be 'printedlor Her Majdsty's public offices in Scotland.—Scotsman. MISCELLANEOUS. The cost of the registration, last year, exceeded £31,000. Mr. More o,Ferrall is, we understand, appointed to the office of secretary to the admiralty, vice Mr. C. Wood, re signed. • Several fine samples of new wheat have been exhibited in Ripon market, the crop being considerably above an average one. The inhabitants of Irvine have resolved on entering the Earl of Eglington at a splendid bagquet, to be given on the 24th of next month. It is reported that the Emperor of Russia intends purchase ing the splendid collection of pictures belonging to the late Cardinal Fesch. Mr. Van Amburgh is said to have just given six thousand francs for a wholly black tiger, which has lately arrived in England.—Paris paper. Sir George Grey has declined to accept a seat in the cabinet, conceiving that it is not compatible with the functions of Judge Advocate General. A Dublin paper, speaking of Robespierre, says :—" This extraordinary man left no children except his brother, who died at the same time." The Cheltenham Free Press, in deep indignation at the funeral of a suicide says—" They buried her like a dog, with all her clothes on." It has been resolved to establish a Zoological Institution at Hull, and several valuable specimens of wild animals from abroad have already been presented. It has been intimated that a "Black Book" will be kept in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, in which will be entered the names of persons rejected as notoriously bad bail. A short time since the following notice appeared in a shop window in Birmingham :—" A Sac and Flour to Lett Chicken and Carott." The meaning of which is a Second Floor to Let, Kitchen, and Garrett. DEATH OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF POMFRET.— , We regret to announce the demise of the above estimable lady, which took place on Tuesday last, at her residence at Richmond. Her ladyship was in hes 70th year. The celebrated French deputy, M. Odillon Barrot is in London. He intends to go through the principal manufac turing districts of England, to see and judge for himself. On Wednesday, a man empleyed in repairing of premises belonging to Messrs. Joule, brewers, Salford, fell from a three story ladder, and alighting on his back, his spine was so much injured that he instantly expired. An evening paper informs its readers that two fine bullocks were slaughtered on Wednesday last at Launceston—one of them an ox and the other a cow! Such a statement would have been called a bull. We understand that the late Captain Harvey Aston, of the Life Guards, has left his large estates in Cheshire to Mr. Arthur Aston, her Majesty's newly-appointed minister to the court of Madrid. Lord Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey, having been apprised of the intention of erecting a chapel of ease in that extensive parish, has met the design with a donation of £l,OOO towards the endowment. The Manchester Licensed Victualler's Society have ex pelled their chairman and vice-chairman, for having pledged themselves to vote at the late election for Sir George Murray, and subsequently forfeiting that pledge and voting for Mr. Greg. In the United States, with a population of about 16,000,000 souls, Nigger, Yankee, and Indian, the an nua l consumpt i on of tobacco is about 108,000,000 pounds, which is at the rate of nearly seven pounds for every man, woman, and child.—A Paper of Tobacco. The French people are, it seems, completely tired of play ing at soldiers. The National Guards are everywhere re fusing to perform their duty, and the government has resumed their firelocks ; thus virtually disbanding them ! A quantity of entertainments are preparing at Madrid, to celebrate the treason of Maroto. The economical court of France will take care not to adopt the practice of giving a banquet for each act of treason, on account of the culinary expenditure to which that might lead.—Charivari. THE MoNT-EAGLES.—There are now two English Ba rons, bearing this title, viz. Browne, Marquis of.Sligo, and the ci-devant Mr. Spring Rice! The only distinction that occurs to us is, to designate one the "Brown" Eagle and the other (Rice) the White! There is now living,at Idstone, near Shrieveham, Berks, a man who has been a shepherd for the principal part of his life, and is now in his 105th year, in perfect possession of his faculties, and still of an active disposition, and great-great grand-father to a numerous progeny.—Reading Paper. Sir Robert Peel has contributed the munificent sum of .£5OO towards the funds of the Litchfield and Coventry Diocesan Society for Building and Repairing Chapels of Ease through out that diocese. The Countess of Bridgewater has also sub scribed £5OO towards the same object. A GOOD CHANGE.—In a shop window in this city (Bris tol) is exhibited a whole-length engraving of her Majesty, in a splendid frame, ticketed with the somewhat equivocal no tice, "To be disposed of by way of chance !" Let Prince Albert look out. —Bristol Paper. Upon the best statistical researches it appears that in France the number of illegitimate births in every 100 is 7, 5 ; in Portugal 10 ; the Sicilies 4, 4 ; Prussia 7, 4 ; Hanover 8,4; Sweden 7, 4 ; Wurtemburg and Saxony above 13 ; Grand Duchy of Hesse 17, 5 ; and Bavaria even 20. A person, sent over by the Russian government, is at this time superintending the making of machinery in Yorkshire, to the extent of .£20,000, for the imperial manufactory of Alexandrosky, for the exportation of which an order in coun cil has been granted.—Morning Paper. THE PnoFf..waTx DUCK.—The wonderful duck which was spoken of last week as having drank three glasses of spirits, &c. at the Woodman Inn, at Wakefield, has caused no small sensation amongst the teetotallers, they have had a meeting, and one and all agreed never to eat duck again. RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The receipts of the Grand Junc tion Railway now average more than £lO,OOO per week, and on the London and Birmingham, more than £14,000, being at the rate of one million and a quarter sterling, for those means of connecting Liverpool, Manchester and Birming ham with the metropolis. An advertisement for a farming bailiff; in another column, contains the significant announcement, that " a man who can neither read nor write will be preferred;" We believe a similar feeling prevails amongst most employers of the agri cultural class.—Berks Chronicle. We are happy to state that the works of the Brighton Rail way are proceeding with vigour and despatch ; and we are glad at the same time to observe that the policy of a measure which has been much canvassed—we allude to the amount of the last call—has been amply justified by the improvement which has recently taken place in the share market. —Brighton Gazette. The ship Marie, just arrived at Bordeaux from Vera Cruz, is said by the journals of that city to have brought a bell from the fort of San Juan d'Ulloa, weighing 2001b5., which was perforated by an 181 b. ball fired by the Creole during the at tack. The bell is not splintered, and has sustained no othe r injury than m ere l y th e hole made by the shot. It is to be brought to Paris as a trophy.—Galignani. On Monday last, as two young gentlemen were amusing themselves with fishing for trout with minnow, a little below Kelso Bridge, a sea-gull, which bad been hovering near the place, after several attempts darted down and swallowed the bait, whereby it was instantly hooked. The bird, after flut tering for some time, was ultimately captured by the youth ful anglers.—Kelso Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY.—Mr. Weeks, of this city (Salisbury), by a judicious cross of the Creole.and Spanish fowls, to which he gives the name of " Prolific," has now in his possession 10 hens, hatched in 1838, which have already laid 1,270 eggs. Allowing these eggs to weigh oz. each, the weight of the above will amount to no less than 1401bs.— Salisbury Journal. MAIL. TO THE FYLDE.—We understand that a contract has been entered ipto with the post-office authorities to ran a mail from hence through Kirkham and Poulton to Fleet wood-on-Wyre. If any person had been bold enough to as sert, half a dozen years ago, that a mail would be running to Fleetwood, he would have been considered a fit subject for the county asylum. Such, however, is the fact, and it may be considered as one of the wonders of the day.—Preston Pilot. A Turkish pretender, who calls himself the son of Musta pha, who was succeeded by the late Sultan Mahmoud, has appeared at Malta, and it is said hopes soon to proceed to Constantinople. He is called Nadir Bey. The Duke of Somerset is now using his best influence to obtain the re-election of his son-in-law, Mr. W. Blount, for Totnes, where there was a double, and consequently a void, return last election.— Western Luminary. The heirs of Napoleon have been nonsuited in their attempt to recover a part of his vast property, and the sentence has been confirmed by the King, the Emperor having, by the treaty of Fontainebleau, made over his property to the state. —French paper. LARGE FISH.—On the morning of Sunday last an im mense fish was discovered upon the beach, near Flimby„ which had been left by the tide. It is well grown, and there seems little doubt from the marks on the sand, evidently occasioned by its struggles to escape after it had grounded, that it was alive and vigorous when it ran a-shore. It is supposed to be a bottle-snouted or pick-headed species of whale : measures nearly twenty feet in length, is ten and a half feet girth, and will weigh upwards of two tons ! The proprietors of the huge monster, previous_to converting it into oil, intend to exhibit it at Cockermouth, Keswick, and other neighbouring towns by way of making most of their somewhat unwieldy prize. —Carlisle Patriot. The last arrivals from Malta (to the 6th inst.) give the following list of the British and French squadrons then lying at Tenedos :—English—Ten ships of the line—namely, the Princess Charlotte, the Rodney, the Bellerophon, the Asia, the Minden, the Pembroke, the Vanguard, the Ganges, the Powerful, and the Implacable. Wench—Eight ships of the line—namely, l'lena, le Montebello, le Triton, I'Hercule, le Jupiter, le Trident, le Genereux, and le DiadCme. Besides the foregoing, there were at anchor off Tenedos, 14 frigates, brigs, sloops, and steamers, belonging to the two nations, making in all a force of 32 vessels. There were, moreover, an English sloop and two steamers at Constantinople, and another English sloop at Smyrna ; and the French had a brig in the Dardanelles, a steamer at Constantinople, a sloop at Beyout, and a brig at Alexandria. The Austrian Commo dore Baniera was at Smyrna, with a frigate and two smaller vessels, having detached a sloop to Alexandria. WOLVERHAMPTON NEW CHURCHES.—A deputation, con sisting of the Rev. H. Pountney, the Rev. W. Dalton, and the Rev. J. Boyle, wa it e d u p on the Bish o p o f Lichfield, at Eccleshall Castle, on Wednesday last, for the purpose of laying before his lordship the plans, &c., connected with the building of the new churches in this town. They met with the entire approval of the Bishop, who, although suffering from the effects of his late severe illness, paid the most marked attention to the statements of the deputation, to whom his lordship also gave many valuable suggestions. The interview, we understand, was a very gratifying one, and the Bishop at the close of it munificzntly requested to add fifty pounds to the building fund.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. SUDDEN DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOSEPH M'LE AN, C. 8., K. C. H.—An important and valuable civil appointment has become vacant by the demise of this la mented and much esteemed gallant officer, in the Royal Ar senal, Woolwich, this morning. Sir Joseph held the lucra tive and scientific post of inspector-general of the field train department of the royal artillery, and inspector -general of the brass-foundery establishments, which he succeeded to on the melancholy and extraordinary death of the late Lieuten ant-General William Millar, Sir Joseph at that time being commandent of Woolwich garrison, which command Lieuten ant-General Lord Bloomfield, G. C. B. and G. C. H., now holds. Sir Joseph M'Lean was one of the most dashing of ficers in the late campaigns, having performed distinguished services while acting as aid-de. camp to General Farrington, during the expedition at the Helder in 1799. He subse quently served in that capacity with the army under the com mand of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, until his royal highness's return to England, when the ship in which Sir Joseph was in passage was wrecked, and very nearly lost, in the Yarmouth Roads. Having shared also in several en gagements, he received the honourable distinction of being nominated a companion of the military order of the Bath, and on his being appointed to the command of Woolwich garrison, his Majesty William IV. was pleased to confer on him the honour of a knight bachelor of these realms, and the decorations of a knight companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic order. Sir Joseph has been several times severely wounded in the service of his country, and has left a son, now serving in the royal -artillery, a widow, and several al daughters, to deplore his loss.—M orn i ng Herald of Friday . The price of land, in New South Wales, is raised fr°l32. to 12s. per. acre. the e a. Covent-garden Theatre is expected to comme nce ear season the last day of this month, and Drury -lane in Ba o n October B . runow and Count Nesselrode have arrived i:fltb:e country on a mission, it is said, re l a tive to the affairs East. 11 b l 7, BIRTH EXTR AORDINARY .—O n Wednesd ay iVi wife of a frame wor k-k n itt er , res idi ng i n Red-street ,i l s d °t a tei bli ham, was co n fi ne d o f four living children. A yea r 3 ",, b ieirea ago, she had three, making her the mother of severe in 18 months. _,,,. Doe 1 $ PHENOMENON AT SEA.—On Wednesday ITlOrTame several Boston fishermen were oystering on BUrnbtin_ dol ed they were astonished by the appearance in the air 01 ar e th e mass of large flies, so thick and extensive as W obscil (l ee view of the clouds : the flies fell on the decks in Veil ;wig quantities, and those who settled on the men b it o retro; them so severely as to compel them to make a hast/ dist eoce below. Some of the bo a t s were a t a considerable a.totoo from the others, yet all were visited at the same o t y l ert els that, as the men believe, thi s " pl a gue of flies" space of more than a mile.—Boston Herald. as CHEPSTOW.—FATAL AC CIDENT .—On TuesdaYPt roek, Jeffery Pierce and his son were in the act of blast m g e r oat in consequence of its not exploding directly, the form so t a second time to ascertain the cause, when the Chair, frfle' off, shattering one of his hand s to pieces, and severe )stoecl• turing his skull, and breaking his thigh ; his little JOY sto ne ing close behind him, nits knocked down by a large one of sustaining a serious fracture of the skull, and hail pre' his eyes nearly blown out. The p o or little boy lie s. carious state, but the f a ther survived a few hours 01"),'„,rot ing a wife and six young children entirely destitute, tO his most melancholy fate.—Merlin. asseng ers FORTUNES OF AN EMIGRANT. —Among the p as, who left\ New York for England in the Great Wesl,',oriof a iche s perceive the name of Mr. Francis Hall, one of the ea" the Commercial Advertiser, who is the bearer of "' 6 P gea tle' to our ministers at London. The history of that 00 1 man's career is an admirable exemplification of the e r to ob: which sterling merit and persevering industry are o f la tarn in this country. He came to America, when a 0 " , o rot years of age, a steerage passenger, and obtained pl' on be as a carrier boy of the Advertiser. From that sital ro toe was promoted to the office of " packer." it he Mesh' a clerk, and afterwards a part proprietor of the ` hat ester ment. Now he is one of the p r i nc ipal owners of tqceoile blishment, and has amassed an independent fortun e. ' e of $ who came to America a poor boy, in the filthy steeralsoeo packet-ship, with honours and wealth acquired by industry.— Baltimore Sun. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE ON UNOFFENDING ANTS.—On the 19th ult., about sun set as two rt . ' r iolv gentlemen, in company with the Scripture readeramidriagst clerk of Dunnurlin, were returning to Dingle, aft er hey ter Ferritor's Cove with the Rev. George G, Gubbills, t ers ohej set upon, near Smerwick, by a mob of about 100 t i t ) pelteu, who collected for the purpose of assassination, a n "ole o‘ them with stones. The Scripture reader received r ely .bet blow on the hack, and one of the g e n tlemen was sere.eii,es in the ankle. The darkness of the night protected of these estimable gentlemen and their compani°ll;t3Co their savage and blood-thirsty assailants. Sitn il ar.copea have been frequently made, in open day, in this distr:ii the Protestant clergyman and his parishioners , 'lt a .hiell" when a party of police were stationed at Dunnunaes." in a great measure, checked such murderous pro ceed Kerry Evening Post. f the A VIPER'S BITE.—On Monday afternoon a h°,v,,, ° ,eigiv name of Wright had caught a viper somewhere in ni s tsp bourhood of Wimbledon Common, which he Put, l r n d 11 0 ° 1 e ,, and having placed it on his head went to the ' he le"', Battersea, and sold it to a person who was on t alo a:di, This man had the temerity to place it round his n u e`' is supposed that, from being so much handled, a '4 won hurt, the viper being irritated, and while round t o the throat was seen by a person named Ledger, sch? %l ode n lives a the cottage next the Red House, to turn its beau ta w &Ig ( man's neck for the purpose of biting. He inst an hold of it, when the reptile bit him on the second„ ei; the left hand before he could throw it on the ground . brother then tried to pick it up, when he also was wa r i osd the thumb of the left hand. A poker was proe,l e viper was destroyed. Ledger's hand and that o 1 t surge boy be stantly swelled to an immense size. They went to s ho uld b who applied leeches, but recommended that theY; / lbw t immediately taken . to the hospital, which was done cr o ,b 00 5 . ,, They are now in Guy's Hospital, The swellin g ; ' so tio (l. much reduced, is still very gr: at, but no danger s/ 0W pated. The viper was about 18 inches in length. al a oll i e ; RAILWAY FROM PLYMOUTH TO E X ETER.- - S eVer witb, t io men and large landed proprietors of the coin:OA"' w ith ` l ,i. leading merchants, and other gentlemen connee te " r atter s I port, are engaged in ascertaining, by survey, th e Pertee blef lit ye short t f a n e carrying r d y i t r n e g e t a rou r t a e ih‘ O a v y e r f ro m Pl y Dartmoor. n has been entrusted to Mr. Rendel, civil engineer, of ta a lected the vales of the Plym and Teign for the line p l yieo u t i 00 .1 —the former valley holding a direct course from ,00r , all o r • towards Exeter, and running deep and far in Da r w iles ) the latter extending form Dartmoor to within nr,„, o ced i t , Exeter, which five miles with eight miles over DarL;- a0,, t 0 the only parts of the line that present aof m il es orPoW' Plymouth etilslehrletbsos.,:s; The length of this line will be under forty four ir. flea rt . than the present turnpike road. As soon as iN hig a m n a t ke s measure,his rep toortesluwcei elucidate e ll s ooccasionallyrefer W t _„ ) its accomplishment will effect, and the P ar which this port will occupy when brought by theseter $ O O .t of the line, in connection with the Bristol and fora Great Western Railways—within ten hours journey f o r Metropolis. —Plymouth Herald. ted • 11' BALLOON ASCENT.—Tuesday night being apt time t. lighting the town of Barking, Essex, for the hrs ho bits a no t gas, the day was spent with much festivity by its " I , t ed 31)1 1,0 For some days previously large handbills, Were P, 3- 001 ,e , $ll the place, announcing that Mr. Gibson won l " ,be aY dinvcainptagal sous oleittl! jo r ascent on that evening in his " grand ballo°.fi'essing,,,q doubts on this head were removed by several wita_ 130 11 5 1 process of inflation at the works lately built by tif. v oriV,, Gas and Coke Company. Notwithstanding the unte's,bleoto'f state of the weather, vests crowds of persons 8 '; P ar e iot the course of the afternoon to witness a scene to b, tt the country perfectly novel. The work of inh i '' sta l $ r s e, completed, at four o'clock Mr. Gibson, a frie n i l' to th e Plows, a respectable tradesman in the Plaeef.g ° ' As the ponderous machine was gently swinging l oti giu - ate its sides struck against one of the poles fixed roa d sl u i ge h n t t l i; damaged it. bestit. Mr. Plows is P w lo a w y s e p a e t re , ins' ti"'6 . hso a eh' his companion called out to let the 17a h ll i o le o ' n 'M g rt j . e ; d 3n l b a ne tb i ,s: wishes were complied with, the machine asee, n hz df 1 10 $ to any great altitude. It proceeded for nhoto when it appeared evident to the spectators that. c cr o ., fast escaping. On approaching to the earth it ne tt vel° l lr. siderably collapsed, and ultimately fell with g re ' jog o '; 4 The balloon fortunately fell in a turnip field ben to r Hudsdon, at Uphall, and the aeronants manae e 45 e unhurt.—Standard. THE LATE EARL OF. LAUDERDALE.—"«,e regret e re t e at ta r°l- 11 ° ;,, r5 that intelligence of the demise of the above °„ ° f r een illness a u d er received in town by yesterday morning's P°s' f t er ~at e of Castle Thirlestane; N. 8., on Friday last, a , ViSC° .- 4 o jt1 0 .!„ the LdaTleh,evlaiseteeJnahmtesmiNaliatliatlnadndawadas tad ane um m aer county Berwick, and Baron Thirlestane and 131Ppirle4init peerage of Scotland, and Baron Lauderdale. 0 ' un ite', prof B a ron in the county of Berwick, in the peerage of th e pose" os s co o {alb ei t dom ; also a baronet of Nova S cotia. The de c e illo n b ee who was a knight of the thistle and a pro') d fth born the 26th of January, 1759, and suceeede th e I; c oV the 7th earl, the 17th of August, 1769. Vll o 4' o ' ll 'o' 11 1 August, 1782, the late lord married Miss E lea Wh.° the o / f daughter and heiress of Mr. Anthony To , ' lordship had issue nine children, five of svn°loow t . revered father—nanely, Vi scoun t Maitland , the 140ali'''t Lauderdale), bor n 12th o f F e b rua ry, 17 8 -1 ; eol, Maitland naval aide-de-camp to the late ging i d, anho'cl a o Eleanor Balfour. The late earl was Lady Mary Stanley ; the Hon. Colonel Maids'', t he )0 5 of Tweeddale and brother-in-law of Gen e Td . tion t te re n d Houston, G.C.B. The present ear!, in a- har l d h e !i l ev uncle °,' s ir 0 th j family title and estates, is the hereditary stamrwhiee marshal of the Queen's household of S c otlanti , he rd 0 0 inherits from his father, tho se high offices be i n g shoolcti for t !' POPERY.—We think it f or t una te—perhap s l o ve P a tc ri'll said providential—that Mr. O'Connell should res en. A , his Address to the people of England" a t the P or , al!l' ec tio ss l The registrations are just about to commence' ev il o r At tcV,, probably depend the issue of the next ge% a , is eh our " The Protestant Association" ha s j us t launch e of vi a l to the Queen," on the late official appointm at F u sg Sheil, Wyse, and O'Ferrall. It is pr eciselY tiOd! w it ° ment that we could have wished for this o , l;e: ry ais l o er c t a st i manifesto, of the projects and designs of r P, an e ; bo l e, Protestant constitution. The sanguine 11 °P e "lie h a to ro ll , r e tions of Daniel have overmatched the Jesuits ta w e, l , o 4' e f out the treason, and it now only remains that Fflgi_nce e' should give credit to the traitor. The peoP e , a bhor tes to now called upon to testify their unmitigateo e fr o g,' 0 ( Popery, and their unbroken attachment t° , , o i te d I / u s :jot/iv reformation. Whilst they express their de, her as o f . he the throne, they should respectfully rem its Protestant tenure. We think that the very pa s Protestant Association should go forth from e toF een r . t tes` o .ill kingdom. But it is of still more importance ' t tel ! j os „ e n terests of Protestantism in another parliarnellatogoeo„,,,aste to the approaching registration. That our a .a " tive t t - ,5 1: 0 00 , hl'iocalressrt of !p. strain every nerve, should be a su ffi cient m ve v i onh e , of r o d and augment our own exertions. Let ns 3 : 0 1e 0 all, that it is not so much a question of P,. 19 . 11 . re Wore science and religion ; that we should inserluce w ho r ro a d votes, not as factious partisans, but as tlm s at ico, rot taming the cause of Luther and the Ref° r , o m ,, g afte r gal t ie of Christ and the Holy Scriptures ; that , iater e eli%or feelings are forgotten, the civil and religioeu , re set., s o,;„ o f children and descendants may depend on!) tir ,P eof.o , These are the motives which should Pu l l fY ,,eedi og t i ri etl' o so endeavours to save our country from the 00!-tts °f p i a , , Popery. These are the best and truest grow' t tlil) el ° it ea o n • They elevate politics into piety, and c haste • .-us s s and prejudices by the enduring force of r eligiv o `,,e' 4 obligation.-7'he Watchman. e e c tile ll sol ll' YeSter"`r Oti At o r,l IMPORTANT TO ODD-FELLOWS. — of to r t ' _tr t a b of considerable importance to the members applicae. e " p l ee ship Societies was heard before the sitting ; lll o : l o is lL., o , Court-house, in Leeds ; being an Joseph Hargrave, a watchman, against Sr e l tiA c i; li, officer of the " Faithful Brothers" L° Ll g,. s of hao'..eol Order, to compel payment of certain arre_n due to : . at' 0 01, ance which the complainant alleged to t e ) ,e . h''he r e ly 4 r tit her said that on the 12th of May he fell 51 wne, e is e o tiTtli a , recommended him to go into the count Y 100 . 6 co sen," Llo. o o4 o l' l ' e g i e n t ef.resTh The surgeon's s l u ii r s ge c o o n m , splaceinrttirnecqauteirinvvgast sdyeatip i pr a il l .iej , s l sl ? fr ti complainant, after declaring on the T ae fa Pe, be fr ool defendant and another officer of the leave the town, and having obtained thetr i wee l,S , _ re el 5 for the sea-side, where he remained s on_e tteb: i P e pe ; to o thence went to Stockton, from which Pla"„f his _„ t sent to his lodge a certificate of the state xis s ari '0 r o li° lion dice, i fbe' - 0 1 0 , requested the payment of his sick mon e Y' he b e Di t6. not complied with ; and on his return Atte , . c ,. „r • application for what he considered to w hi any member, when sick, told that he had broken the eleventh n`tha:t flo . mote o ff i cer jel‘ the from gm 5, ~ the the je from home without the consent or _ea for, t'o e ~,t e lodge. Mr. Naylor, solicitor, who aPPen tic ts 1 0 : 0 I ‘ l r e I said, first, that the magistrates had n"J eo led n 'i lf , tX t .t 02, a matter, the complainant not having . I Y_. 5ec 0 i r o f tic a meeting, as required to do by the rlule,so:ige, h a to eet ie q o r had not complied with the rules of ti e tt l t he e° s ,con i tili ee'd town for more than three miles h is withot iot a four she 0, officers, be having only, according there l'6° 01'4 Stye tamed the consent of two of them, nclthirali'ol' officers and twelve inferior ones ; ! 4 , 001 , at 0 ot e (lex es o ,, been out, while sick, after nine o °' or o "t hortl e ' . o o o i s/ of had given the complainant leave 4,.'n a rr, t!;_hov,ek,,° out, in answer to questions put by ' ;lot the 11) i i e / 3 `,, " th e ~A good deal of squabbling as W whethearo f rom e wegi clerk, that the general rules, but n t F ice o ,,, lodge were enrolled and confirmed , a w arel' i t i ate contained any rules relating to the ,J ad ia oi! e ances, the magistrates could not legal') - t that C e .e ry iet l e e i ,e oll o l 3 case. Mr. Barr said it W as righ t , , iiit nar t s r ia e t/ A know the position in which this an r t r ee r ot "the t id o o r , for not having the whole of their mv d lease . ha ° 0 1 ' 1 •e' eturn , ` _ea oP" • claim nothing from the lodge in r wen:. r u les s e,;' members might pay in what they P ,d t ,ho d commend them to consolidate th e ir e'p r att,l'! o t receive what the officers chose to 1 0 9 r: ,theeraysq.. ere hu To Law art' laws, preps then apply to Jo r ehe co 'co quently dismissed, - and the paw' them ratory to enrolment. Parties 'e f t the Intelligencer. ' O il Mr B Co, • t ti ' I TS P„, (PA I ,