The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCI. STAIN. EXTRAORDINARY — EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (From the Times, of yesterday.) TOTAL BREAK-UP OF THE COURT AND MINISTRY OF DON CARLOS. We have received, by an extraordinary express, the Mon iteur Parisien of Saturday night, containing the following : "TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. "THE GIEN'ERAL COMMANDING THE `LOTH MILITARY DIVISION TO TILE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Don Carlos has dismissed the whole of his Court and his Ministers. He has returned to Lecumbery. " MM. de la Piscina, Erro, &c. have taken refuge in France. _ " The Navarrese battalions cortmi': every species of ex cess. General Moreno was shot yesterday at Urdax." " To this despatch," says our Paris correspondent, (whose letter is dated " Saturday night, 11 o ' c l oc k,") " it would be unnecesary, indeed useless, to add a single word. The ex cesses committed by the Nayarrese battalions are, of course, the consequences, or at least, the immediate precursors, of their dissolution. " Regarding the whole affair as virtually at an end, I shall not trouble you with any further expresses respecting it, even to announce the arrival of Don Carlos in France. Cabrera may still occasion trouble to the Christinos, and, possibly, obtain temporary advantages over them, or successfully re sist them for yet some time; but it is not deemed possible that he can change the fate of the conflict, which, I repeat, seems already decided." The same paper states that Captain De La Gondu and Major (chl' d'eseadron) Sargoza left Paris on Saturday. " These officers," says the Moniteur, "are sent in quality of commissioners of the French Government to the head quaaters of Generals O'Donnell, Valdez, and Espartero, commanding the (Queen's) armies of Catalonia, of the Cen tre, and of Navarre." The Moniteur Parisien also announces that the King of the French had received from the Duke of Nassau the noti fication of the demise of his father, his Serene Highness Duke William of Nassau. _ . M. De Lagrene, resident Minister of France at Athens, arrived at Marseilles on the 31st ult. NEW YORK COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the New York Morning Herald of Aug. 24.) FILID AY, AUG. 23-6, P. rt.—This has been bill day for the Steamer Liverpool, which takes her departure to-morrow, there has been a fair amount of bills offering, and the sales have been as large as the condition of the Money Market would permit. The rate is 81 per cent, or 4 dollars 82 cents the pound sterling. Very few sales have been made on time, and the United States Bank has done the principal business, notwithstanding a prevailing impression that the bills of that institution are not so readily discounted in London as those of some private houses, by reason of the objection which ex ists there to the acceptance of Mr. Jaudon as agent—On France the rate is f 5 221 a 5 25. At the Stock Exchange the business done has not been large, and prices have evin ced no marked change since yesterday—Bank of Commerce declined per cent : North American Trust and Banking im proved-1 per cent—Kentucky Bank per cent ; Canton per cent; Harlem Rail Road -1 per cent. There are in circulation counterfeit 20 dollar bills of the U. S. Bank, payable at New Orleans, dated Philadelphia, July 4, 1826, letter T. No. 3910, execution and paper bad ; also, counterfeit 20 dollar bills of the Commercial Bank of Albany are in circulation in the lake country. It is stated is a western paper that all the public works of Illinois will have to stop for want of funds. The hands near Springfield left work on the Bth with two months wages due. It has been proposed to pay the contractors in State bonds. The same paper sta'es that some runs have been made on the State Bank of Illinois for specie, not from a want of confi dence in the bank, but on account of the high rates of ex change. The assignee of the Philadelphia Loan Company has effected an arrangement for the payment of the special depositors of the company. 200,000 dollars are said to be deposited with the Guard Bank for that purpose. The commercial relations of this country with Great Bri tain, are, at this moment in so singular a position, that our leading merchants are seemingly at a loss for some rule of action by which to regulate their future movements. With the changed prospects of cotton, and the gloomy appearances which surround the affairs of England, many fears are in dulged that the goods ordered by importers, who in common vith most dealers, partook in the confidence of the cotton dealers, and ordered largely, will prove more than our ex ports, at the diminished price, wil! furnish the means of pay ing for ; and, as stocks are no longer available as a basis of exchange, the demand for specie maybe more than our banks can sustain, snore especially if the crop is short in England. There are many reasons to suppose that the imports will be large. It is an undoubted fact, that our importers have or dered largely, and it is highly probable the spinners will send over on their own account some of the large stocks of mer chandise they have on hand to seek a market. The returns which we recently gave of the duties received at the New York Custom-house, for half the present year, corroborate this fact. We are not however, of opinion that the supply will greatly exceed the demand for merchandise, although the excess may be fifty per cent over the amount of last year ; in which case it may reach nearly as much as was imported in 1836. The following is a table of imports in the United States for a period embracing eight years : Ti.IPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES. 1832 101,029,266 dols. 1836 189,980,035 dols 1833 108,118,311 1837 140,989,217 1834 126,521,332 1838 113,717,401 1835 149,895,742 1839 170,000,000 The amount for 1839 is estimated from the above data. I we look back to the four years preceding 1836, which was at a period before overtrading commenced in any great degree, or before more goods were imported thanthe demand actually required, we find that the increase, keeping pace with the in creasing population and the growing wants of the community, averaged about 12,009,000 dols. in each year. It is therefore evident that had there been no period of speculation and subsequent revulsion, but had trade gone on in the same ratio, the imports this year would have been2oo,ooo,oooclols. instead of 170,000,000 dots. In 1836 the amount went much above - the average and fell off for the two years in a much greater ratio. It is therefore evident that a supply of 170,000,000 dots. is not more than is required by the increas ing want of the community, especially at a season when our crops promise a greater abundance than was ever before realized. The question of payment for the fall imports then neces sarily arises. In lobking round on the means which we possess for that purpose, we find that by taking the state of exchange as an index of the balance of trade, that balance is slightly in our favour at this moment. There is an amount of cotton on hand in Liverpool equal to about 22,250,000 dollars at present prices ; on this probably one half has been already advanced, leaving about 11,000,000 dollars available ; en amount which will be nearly sufficient to meet the demands until the new crop of cotton is in the market. The sale of that crop depends however in a great measure upon the state of the corn crops of England. Should the fears entertained at our latest dates fur its safety be realized, a great revolution will no doubt take place in the channel of trade. The con sumption of cotton will be greatly decreased, but the granaries of Europe are nearly exhausted by the heavy demands upon them during the past year, while the growing crops, parti cularly that of France, is represented to be in as bad or worse condition than that of England. The deficiency of England must then necessarily be supplied from this country, That we are amply able to meet the demand to the extent of 15,000,000 dollars, our article of to-day headed corn trade fully proves. This operation of buying corn from us will be doubly bene ficial to England, inasmuch as we do not demand the pro ceeds in coin but in goods, while we, at the same time, supply the raw material to manufacture. The demand from this country for manufactured goods is constantly increasing with the increased population, while the demand from the Continent is gradually decreasing, as is shown by the follow ing table of exports of yarn from Liverpool for the first six months of this year and last : Exports of Yarn from Liverpool, for six months. 53,273,467 lbs. 37,239,615 " 1838 1839 Decrease 30 per cent. or 16,033,852 ' 1 The decrease is principally to the North of Europe as fa lows : Decrease to H011and....... 5,435,093 lbs. Russia.. Naples & Sicily 2,086,813 India . Austria.... The decrease in the exports of England arises in a great measure from the increase of manufactories on the conti nent, and the fact that the wants of the population do not keep pace with such increase. Such being the case, England must henceforth look to this country as her best customer. The export of corn to a large amount is a new feature in our export trade, and one which more than all others will tend to promote the consumption of manufactured goods, for the reason that the producers of grain, who are the largest consumers of merchandise, will thereby be put in possession of more means for their purchase, and an export of 15,000,000 dollars of breadstuffs will tend to the direct increase of the imports of the country to the same amount. This would in turn create a demand for cotton, which will nearly counter balance the decrease in the exports from England to the continent. Therefore should nothing of a political nature intervene, even should the crop fall short in England, there is every prospect that our exports to England will fully equal our imports from there. The balance which has hitherto apparently been in favour of England and against us, arose from the fact that on London as the great commercial cen tre, all bills duc for our continental debts have been drawn. The actual balance of trade has been rather in favour of this country, but the financial balance, growing out of the Ame rican paper drawn on London, and floating on the continent, has been against us. This fact is evident from the compa rative table of imports, which we published last week. showing that the decrease of aggregate imports during the year 1838, was 8,922,760 dollars, while the decrease from 'Great Britain was 23,225 only. . _ Nearly the whole of the aggregate imports is-trade payable in London, and a decrease to the extent of near 9,000,000 dollars is a sensible relief to the market. The decrease in this particular will probably be still greater this year, from the fact, that as commerce increases in the European States, their cotnmunication with the South American States becomes more direct, and therefore requiring less intervention on the part of American merchants. _ From these data we conclude that our consumption of English merchandise will be large for the ensuing year, but at necessary low prices by reason of the derangement of our money system. We have, however, amply the means of paying for them. The great difficulty will be in making those means available at the worhent when the demand will be greatest, or during the press of the fall importations. That point safely passed we shall stand on firm ground and have time to reconstruct a currency more uniform than that which we now possess. If necessary %ve can easily spare 8 or 9,000,000 for a few months, if the regular calls of trade require, without cre ating any unnecessary alarm. THE " QUEEN OF BEAUTY."—Lady Seymour is young est daughter of the late Thomas Sheridan, Esq., was married on 10th June, 1830, to Edward Adolphus Lord Seymour, a Lord of the Treasury, M. P., eldest son of Edward Adol phus St. Maur, Duke of Somerset, and Baron Seymour, in the Peerage of England, and a Baronet ; Vice-Admiral of the Coast of Somersetehire, President of the Royal Insti tution, &c. The Duke of Somerset was born 24th February, 1775, succeeded 15th December, 1793, married, first, 1800, Lady Charlotte Hamilton, second daughter of Archibald, ninth Duke of Hamilton, who died 10th June, 1827 ; his Grace married, secondly, on 28th July, 1836, Margaret, el dest daughter of the late Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart. Lady Seymour is a grand-daughter of the celebrated Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and a sister to Mrs. Norton.—Scottish Guardian. SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF CARP IN A WOOD.—A short time since, a lad on going from Chilworth to Baddesley, in Hampshire, to shorten the course he was pursuing, made his w<<y through a wood, and, whilst cutting a stick therein, heard something resembling a splash in the water near him. On progressing a few paces onwards, he came to a small pool, which, on examination, was found to be literally swarming with carp. On his mentioning the circumstance to the neigh bours, they spoke to the keeper of the manor, who ordered some men to go down, and cut away the dam of the pool, when, strange to relate, some hundreds of very large carp and eel were taken out, weighing three and eight pounds re spectively. There is an old ruin at Baddesley, called the Priory, near the spot ; and there is little doubt but that some five h'undred years ago, before the wood and weeds encroached on the area allotted for the propagation of the fish it con tained, it wag a preserve attached to the estate; of the priory. REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.-,NO REACTION ! (From the Manchester Courier.) So ; the sick and absent Mr. Robert Hyde Greg has been elected member for Manchester, and another blot has been cast upon the political annals of the town. No doubt the papers on the liberal interest will proclaim this a signal and brilliant victory. We wish the party many such. To have a majority of nearly two thousand (which was the case at the last election) reduced to within an ace of defeat, is a circum stance on which our opponents have little reason to congra tulate themselves. They may now hug themselves with the reflection that in a borough which has been proclaimed irre vocably wedded to the whig party, their candidate has nar rowly escaped a defeat. It behoves them to make the most of their victory; for without any extraordinary effort at vaticination, we have a shrewd suspicion that Mr. Greg will never warm the seat to which he has been elected. • Cam bridge has been lost to the government, and their memorable majority has been reduced to a unit ! The conservatives, on the other hand, have every reason to be satisfied with the result of the late contest. For the first time since the elective franchise was conferred upon Manchester has the conservative candidate been elected by the voice of the people, whilst the friends of his opponent have been hissed and mouthed at wherever they presented themselves. At the first nomination, on Wednesday, the show of hands was decidedly in favour of Sir George Mur ray, and at the mock nomination on Thursday, the sense of the meeting was ten to one in his favour. If there be no re action here, we despair of ever seeing a practical illustration of the term. Apropos of " his worship, the mayor." At his own particular nomination, on Thursday, we really could not help pitying him. There he sat, surrounded by his minions, almost tongue-tied. Whenever he attempted to address the people, he was assailed with the most discordant groans and yells, and he was positively compelled to call upon Mr. Elijah Dixon to propitiate the multitude, whilst he took the show of hands. In point of time Mr. Greg's friends had every advantage over their opponents. They were prepared for a contest several days before the conservatives had even a suspicion of a vacancy ; for we find by an article, which we quote from the Wolverhampton Chronicle, that a deputation applied to Mr. Villiers, before they danced attendance on Mr. Samuel Jones Lloyd, in London. The interval was, of course, em ployded in an active canvass, in favour of the whig candi date, whoever he may chance to be ; all the whig machinery was set in motion, and before the conservatives could have any idea of a contest, their opponents were in possession of the outposts. Indeed, so sensible were our opponents of their advantage, that Mr. Villiers, in the letter to one of his constituents, which we print elsewhere, says—" Reasonable grounds were shown me, not only for. anticipating success in the event of my becoming a. candidate, but, indeed, for ex picting that no opposition would be'rnade to me!" With these facts before us, are we not then fully justified in main taining that the conservatives have achieved a triumph? At the last election, the account between the parties stood thus : Thomson . 4158 Phillips. Gladstone Majority for Mr. Philipsover Mr. Gladstone 1879 On the present occasion (we adopt the Boroughreeve's re turn) the account stands thus— Greg..... Murray... 3096 2969 Majority for Greg.. So that Sir George Murray has polled 688 more votes than Mr. Gladstone did at the last election ! Mr. Greg has polled 1062 votes less than Mr. Thomson !! And the whig majority (comparing Mr. Greg's advantage with Mr. Thomson's), has been reduced by 1752 votes ! From a return of the polling yesterday, under the auspices of " his worship the Mayor,' we find (adopting the statement of the whig committee, which fixes Mr. Greg's- numbers at 3424 and Sir George Murray's at 3174), that the conservatives polled 205 votes more than on the previous day. So that if all Sir George's friends had polled on Thursday, he would, have been returned. We are aware that the same argument may be employed in Mr. Greg's case ; but when we state that many persons, through accident and other causes, did not poll for Sir George yesterday who voted for him on Thursday, and that numerous individuals who voted for Mr. Greg, had no more right to exercise that privilege than the artizans of Geneva or any other class of Mr. Greg's continental friends, we think we have a right tomain tain that Sir George Murray owes his temporary failure (for we are convinced it is only temporary) to unforeseen casual ties, and not to the unfavourable opinion of the constituency. The truth is, that the whig party in Manchester have sus tained what is tantamount to a defeat. They are conscious of it, and view it as a prestige of future disaster. If there be a man amongst them who doubts the position of the party, let him read the account of Sir George Murray's reception at the Royal Hotel last night. He will there learn how the vast multitude chef r A him, aud with their cheers mingled prayers for his safe and speedy return amongst them. Every one cried " God bless him ;" and when he was about to depart, if the people had not been restrained, they would have borne him on their shoulders through the streets. Yes, men of Manchester, the blow has been struck,and at the next gene ral election, come when it may, (and it is not far distant,) the conservatives will carry not only Sir George, but another "good man and true" also. In the meantime all the energies of the Borough Conservative Association (an admirable institution by the way) must be put forth. We have had a most gratify ing example of what the friends of good order and good go vernment can accomplish when they unite and " put their shoulders to the wheel ;" let not the lesson be lost upon them. We now know the value of the liberal taunt " No reaction," be it our duty to improve it at the expense of our opponents. By the way, we are reminded that a public entertainment to Sir George Murray would be very desirable at this junc. ture. In our judgment such an event would have a very sa lutary effect upon the whole conservative party, whilst it would be but a just acknowledgment of the heavy obligations under which Sir George has laid the cause, in coming forward so promptly to fight its battle in Manchester. THE MORECAMBE BAY SCHEME. A prospectus of the proposed company entitled " The West Cumberland Railway and Morecambe Bay Enclosure Company," has been issued, by,which it is proposed to raise a capital of £1,500,000 in 30,000 shares of £5O each. The prospectus, after speaking of the importance of connecting by railway the capital of England' with the manufacturing districts of the, north, gocs on to point oat the advantages which must result from the construction of the nraposed line across Morecambe Bay. The West Cumberland Railway, says the prospectus, " will be in reality a continuation of the Lancaster and Preston, the North Union, the Grand Junc tion, and London and Birmingham lines, thus completing a perfect chain of railways, from the Metropolis to the border of Scotland, through the principal manufacturing districts of Cumberland. On the Scotch side, the line of communi cation is almost equally perfect. The Maryport and Carlisle railway is in a very advanced stage. Surveys of a very fa vourable character have already been made from Carlisle to Kilmarnock. The line from Kilmarnock to Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the important towns of Paisley and Ayr, as well as the not less important districts in which they are situated, and the improving port of Greenock, may be said to be already secured by means of the Glasgow, Kilmarnock and,Ayr, the Glasgow Paisley and Greenock, and the Glas gow and Edinburgh Railways. The circumstance that the whole of these important lines, must of necessity contribute greatly to the traffic of the West Cumberland Railway, places the success of it beyond question, for it will be seen that without such intermediate link, these lines cannot receive the full measure of revenue which they would otherwise com mand—a consideration sufficient to secure the cordial co operation of their respectable and influential proprietors, in carrying this line into execution, and which has already to some extent been manifested by six of the communicating railway boards having contributed towards the preliminary expenses. Moreover, the line passing through the town of Whitehaven and Maryport, will supply the easiest, cheapest, and most expeditious means of communicating with the port of Belfast and the whole of the north of Ireland." Some idea of the probable traffic on the intended line of railway is then given.l The traffic has been estimated as carefully as the relative position of the line will allow, a small part of the passengers, and no part of the goods at present conveyed by steam being included, and is found to be as follows : Passengers by Coaches passing between the Termini. 104,775 0 0 Part of the passengers by steamers bet ween Liverpool and Glasgow, White haven, Ulverston, and Belfast Posting and short passengers.. Mail bags, iron ore, copper, coals, lead, lime, freestone, cattle, and agricul tural produce, fish, groceries, and small parcels 42,887 10 0 14,600 0 0 23,177 10 0 £185,429 0 0 Deduct for maintenance of way and cur rent expenses, 45 per cent, which considering the unusally favourable gradients must be regard6d as quite ample.... 77,919 0 0 Leaving a nett income 0f... £107,501 0 0 It is also proposed to reclaim 52,000 acres of land from the sea, and upon this point the prospectus speaks as follows : " The nature of the soil is acknowledged to be of a loamy and most productive character, and capable of being render ed, at a very trifling outlay, fit for tillage. Its value is well known to many persons in the neighbourhood, who have at various times reclaimed considerable quantities. Terms have been agreed upon with her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and with the Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of Lancaster for surrendering to this Company the rights of the Crown to the reclaimed land in these Bays, and their sanction to the application to Parliament is insured on one sixteenth of the land to be recovered being reserved to her Majesty. Taking the value at £25 per acre, which to all conversant with it is extremely low, the whole reclaimed land would produce £1,300,000." From this £200.000 is deduct ed for the rights of the Crown and other expenses, still leav ing " £1,100,000 applicable for the general purposes of the Company : thus getting a Railway of sixty-six miles in length, constructed for the comparatively small sum of £400,000, on which there will be a surplus revenue of at least £lOO,OOO per annum." The above are the chief points adverted to in the prospectus. [We cannot, even to please our numerous readers in the " 1 far west," who, we are glad to hear, are steadily increasing in number, advo ca t e t h e pro j ect to which the above prospec tus refers until it shall be proved that it is impossible, or poi sible only by the expenditure of a sum too enormous to be seriously thought of, to form a railway inland from Lancaster to Carlisle ; and it will be found that when the matter comes before Parliament, unless one of the two points just men tioned be established beyond dispute, the legislature will ne ver listen to the project. We throw out of consideration the question of the difficulty of the Morecambe Bay scheme, be cause if the railway could be constructed on dry and sound land along the coast the objection would still exist that it was a coast line. It is singular that the promoters of this under taking do not at once see the host of objections to their pro ject which are comprised in those two words, " coast line." When the project com es b e f ore P ar li amen t this objection is raised in limine—that as regards the inland tract of country there might just as well be no railway at all as the More cambe Bay one. This fact is undisputed. Well then, what are the advantages which are to outweigh this overpowering objection. They all resolve themselves into the single cir cumstance, that goods and passengers would reach White haven a little sooner by the projected railway than they could by an inland line. There is an end of the case at once, and we venture to say, that not even the member who may bring the project before the committee of the House of Commons will venture to vote in its favour. Of course, as we said be fore, the whole aspect of the question will be changed if it can be proved either that it is impossible to form an inland line, or that the expense of forming it would be so great that no persons could be found to incur it. Then Parliament will pass a bill for the Morecambe Bay railway, and then we will zealously advocate it. We entirely agree with a correspondent that whether the Morecambe Bay, or the inland line be adopted, the Maryport and Carlisle Railway must become an important and valuable undertaking.] --Carlisle Patriot. Large importations of sheep continue to arrive at South Australia. A new site, supposed to be more elegible for a port to the infant settlement, had been fixed on. at Boston Bay, to be named Port Lincoln. Lord Cantalupe has offered himself as a candidate for the representation of the borough of Lewes at the next election, in the tory interest.—Brighton Guardian. USEFUL.—There is a finger-post on the road. near Lake Erie, which bears the following inscription :—" When this post is six feet under water, this road will be impassable." THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST. LANCASTER.-Till yesterday the weather since our last has been very unpropitious indedd. Rain has fallen in tor rents, and the wheats have suffered considerably. Yesterday was a fine day, and- the reapers were buSy.—Lancaster Gaz. The Harvest is general in the East-Riding. Operations havebeen occasionally suspended by heavy but partial showers. It is yet too soon to speak decisively a; to the yield, but we believe it will not be below average. In Lincolnshire the har vest is fast progressing, and the corn uncut is ripening very fast ; but there is a great scarcity of hands. The produce of Lincolnshire will, we believe, be very good, both as to quan tity and quality.--Lee4a Intelligencer. The Weather during the week has been very showery and unsettled, and the progress of the harvest has, thereby, been considerably impeded. Still, however, a good deal of corn has been cut, and not a little housed; and it would seem from the course of dealing at the principal corn markets, that those connected with th trade consider the harvest to be upon the whole a favourable one. Though we had had two or three wet days before la. t Tuesday, the price of corn at Leeds did not improve, and yesterday, at Wakefield, the ad vance was comparatively trifliug.—lbid. We regret to learn that the crops in and around Otley have suffered very much from the late wet weather.—lbid. HULL.—The extraordinary changes in the weather within the last few days have had a very prejudicial effect on the growing crops in many parts of the county, and should the present rainy weather continue but a few days longer, the ef fect will become extremely serious. Fortunately the rain has been accompanied by cold, which has prevented the mischief being so extensive as it otherwise would have been. Much of the corn is cut, but the prevalence of wet presents an in surmountable obstable to the stacking of it in satisfactory condition ; several farmers in.the neighbourhood of Boston have, however, preferred leading it in a damp state to leav ing it exposed in the fields. The statements as to the proba ble yield are, of course, various, but, allowing much 'or the defective condition of the wheat in some situations, the very large quantity grown this year must cause the crop to be more than an average one.—Hull Times. CARLISLE.—The accounts of the harvest from all parts, except this district, are highly gratifying. Here, during a great part of the last fortnight the weather has been very un favourable, heavy rains accompanied by a strong wind having too frequently prevailed. During the last four or five days the weather has taken up, and there is a fair prospect before the farmer. Wheat will be a short crop, and it is feared has suffered considerably from mildew ; but oats and barley still promise to be abundant. The shearers were being hired to day (Friday) at our cross at from ls. 9d. to 2s. without victuals.—Carlisle Patriot. KEswrcx.—The weather continues very unfavourable for the crops. A good deal of hay is still remaining out. Reap ing is going on when the weather permits. Wednesday after noon was tine with barometer rising • at night there was an aurora and rain next morning. —Carlisle Patriot. NEWCASTLE.—The weather has been exceedingly variable during the past week throughout the County of Northum berland, and along the Scotch Border ; and alternate rain and sunshine have, to some extent, interfered with the operations of the Corn Harvest. In a general way it may be said that it will be yet a week or ten days before the Wheat, in these parts, is ready for the sickle. It stands, however, well upon the ground, and promiies to be a fair average crop of excel lent quality. In. the cutting of Barley and Oath, extensive progress has been made in Tynedale, Coquetdale, and both sides of the Tweed, throughout Bamburghshire, North Dur ham, and in all parts of Glendale, and the Wooler Country, and both of these descriptions of grain promise to he good and abundant. From all that we can learn, there is little oc casion to indulge in despondent feelings upon the all-impor tant question of the Corn .Harvest. Whilst we write, the sun is bright, and the glass is rising, and there is every pros pect that the coming weather will be propitious.—Newrasile Journal. Du RHAM.—During the past week the weather has bebn exceedingly variable, and harvesting has made bUt little pro gress. From the'information gathered during an extensive ride through the southern port of this county and the north of Yorkshire, we learn that the crops are exceedingly pro- mising sho - uld the weather prove fine for a few weeks. beat is very heavy in the ear and above an average crop ; and though laid iu some few instances has received a very trifling degree of injury through the unfavourable, season. On the Ties from 'Viiiston to Its mouth, and throughout Cleveland considerable quantities have been cut, and all is nearly ready for the sickle. The yield will be very heavy. In this city and to the West the crops will be late. Barley is nearly ripe in all quarters, and the crop is good. Oats are also ripening fast, and the yield will be very heavy. The green crops are all exceedingly promising. Should the weather prove favour able, and the crops be well got, , of which the prospect is not very promising, this will be by far the most abundant har vest we have had for many years.—Durham Advertiser. On Wednesday last, a boll ofnew wheat was shewn in Stock ton Market. It was, however, of a very inferior quality, and should the present unfavourable weather continue, it is to be feared we shall have much more of this descriptitin.-1 - bid. GtouCEsTEß..—The weather has very much retarded the progress of the harvest in this neighbourhood, but as the rains have been generally but of short duration the injury to the corn is only trifling. A great portion of the wheat, we may say to the extent of nearly one half the crop, has been carried in a state quite satisfactory to the farmer, and a considerable part in good marketable condition, and the few samples that have appeared at market have been of a fair 'average quality. A great portion of th@ barley has been housed, particularly on the early soils, without being injured so as to prevent it making good malt. Should the weather take up for the next week or nine days very little wheat cr barley will be seen in the fields at the end of that period. The wheat crop is generally estimated a fair average one, but the crop of barley, will be far above that quantity. Beaus are very late and very little progress has been made towards harvesting this crop. We may add to the above communi cation from our correspondent, which chiefly applies to the vale country, that we have heard that the crops on the Colts wolds have been a good deal injured.—Gloucester Chronicle. STAFFORD.—III the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton the harvest is progressing rapidly, but it will require a long con tinuance of fine weather to fit the grain for the barn, as (especially where the land is low) the recentrains have caused a quantity of what is, called •" green stuff " to raise amongst the crops, which of course, make " sun-shine and field room" equally necessary for drying. The crops are gene rally good.—Staffordshire Gazette: MAIDSTONE.—The showers tve have experienced during Saturday and Sunday have caused considerable apprehensions respecting the harvest. There is a considerable breath of wheat both in East and West Kent still uncut, and if this un favourable 'heather should continue, there will be some ground for uneasiness. At present, however, we are happy to be able to state, on good authority, no material injury has been done.—Maidstone Journal. CAEN ARVON.—SmaII intermitting rain, with occasional heavy showers, continue to be the order of the day. This state of the atmosphere is 'most tinfavoul'able to the carrying of barley and other grain, large quantities of which yet remain in the field, and a good share of which has re cently been cut. The growing crops appear, however, to have sustained but little injury ; wind, and occasional sun shine, having modified the wetness of the season, and the former having been of so stormy a character as to cause much devastation.. We are sangeibe as to the realization of at least an average crop.‘—t'arnarvon Herald. Hot , / BEAD.--The harvest has partially commenced in this neighboitrhood. The weather is still variable, the operations of the harvest are consequently greatly interrupted.. At the beginning of this week, the weather proved very favourable, and in several instances, quantities of wheat and barley have been secured. On Thursday, the weather was very unfavour able, wind S.W. heavy, and showers of rain. Notwithstand ing the wetness of the season the crop may be considered a fair average.---/bid. MERIONETHMIRE.—The harvest in this county has been considerably retarded, owing to the heavy and unexpected showers during the last fortnight, and the hay and corn har vests are unseasonably blended, rendering it a difficult task for the farmer to pay the attention rtquired for both. The bar ley crops are generally good, as are also the oats ; but it is to be feared that there is a slight blight of the wheat, and it has a darker shade than the golden tints of well-ripened wheat. However, with the dry gleams of a mid-day sun, accompanied by a stiff breeze from the south, no inconsiderable quantity of barley was housed in excellent condition.—/bid. NEW WHEAT.—Last week 50 bushels of new wheat were sold in our market at Os. Gd: imperial. The sample was very good, but the wheat small in grain.—Hereford Journal. ISLE OF MAN.—The weather for the last eight days has been any thing but favourable to the crops of grain now upon the ground, the ripening of which is doubtless greatly retarded by the scarcity of sunshine. In the course of the present week a considerable quantity of rain has fallen, there having been no more than two really dry days since yesterday se'nnight. At present, however, the atmosphere presents a promising aspect for fair tveather ; and as the moon changes this day at what the alinanack seers call a propitious hour, it is probable we shall have a benign after season for gathering in the har vest.—Manx Liberal. KILMARNOCK.—Since Monday the weather has been fine, and as much of the grain is perfectly ripened, reaping has ge nerally commenced, and several fields in the vicinity are now in sheaf; but from an early hour this morning a continuous fall of rain has put a complete stop to harvest labour. ,For some time past, the atmosphere, as indicated by electric phe nomena, has been in a very disturbed state. Lightning and streamers have been frequently visible—the last very brilliant and beautiful on the nights of Tuesday and Wednesday. These indications of unsettled weather are dreaded, as a few dry weeks are now of the greatest importance.—Kilmarnock Journal. PERTIISHIRE.—The weather was very unfavourable for harvest during the greater part of last week, still an occasional field of oats and barley was cut down. A few fields of wheat have also been cut down, the most of which had been lodged for nearly two months, and the sample must be inferior ; in deed, the character of that crop generally throughout this county is expected to be inferior in quality. All the green crops, as well as oats in late situations, have benefitted by the warm and moist weather of late • potatoes will be highly pro ductive, and turnips promise better than for many seasons past.—Perth Courier. LIMERICK.—Most serious fears are entertained throughout the country, for the diastrons effects of - the late heavy' rain on the crops. In several instances, wheat is malting on the fields, while the oats, particularly on the low lands, is still quite green and has no appearance of filling ; the hay is in a precarious state, and will prove very deficient both in quality and quantity. The rain of Sunday and Monday last did im mense damage. The weather, we are happy to add, took up again yesterday, and continues fair this day, with every pros pect of further improvement. The mercury gave early indi cation of the favourable change yesterday morning. All is bustle this day in the corn fields, and every reaper to be had is at work.—Limerick Chronicle. GALWAY.—We regret to state that the weather, since Thursday, has been extremely severe. • Torrents of rain have fallen in this and the surrounding neighbourhood, and we are almost certain its effects will prove in some measure de structive to the forthcoming crops. We understand the wheat crop in general, through the county, looks very well —in many places, one side of the ear is in some measure blighted. Barley is tolerably fertile. The oat crop is very backward, and is in many places still green ; a great deal of ground has been laid down under oats in this county, and, should the weather, henceforward, prove auspicious, we may expect an average crop. .Since last night the weather has become settled, and there is every appearance of its continu ing fair for some thne.—Galway Patriot. LIMERICK.—The weather, since our last, has been very . fine. The sun has not shone out brilliantly, but it has con tinued dry. Yesterday the farmers took advantage of the fineness of the weather, and were hard at work getting in the harvest. Hundreds are employed in the same way to-day. Should it hold up for.another fortnight or three weeks, vast service will have been rendered the crops now in ground and a vast portion of the harvest work completed.—Limerick Standard; NENAGB.—The unfavourable state of the weather has been very injurious to the wheat and hay crops. The extensive agriculturist will, we fear, sustain great loss, and the humble husbandman will be almost ruined ; and thus a scarce pro duce will raise prices disheartening to the poor. The oat crop has suffered less than any other, and we are informed that in some instances fields of wheat, comprising 15 and 20 acres, are completely destroyed. The upland meadows are cnmparatively safe, but the lowland are covered with sand.— Nenagh Guardian. ORTHOGRAPHY.—The following rich specimen we see ex hibiting in the window of a respectable house in this town : " A partents to leet en quier within." We regret that our types cannot give this production its proper effect, certain incomprehensible scratches being used to connect the letters in the original. Not far from a neighbouring town the fol lowing very alarming notice is given:—" persons comiting nonsense here will be persecuted to thfa utmost vigor of the lor.—Monmouth Merlin, MISCELLANEOUS. The magnesian lime-stone, or dolomite of Bolsover-moor is the stone recommended for the new houses of parliament. Ellen Tree has appeared at the Haymarket Theatre in lon, with unequivocal success. Mr. Wise, the new lord of the treasgry, is married to a niece of Napoleon, by whom he has two children. Mr. D. Urquhart has been invited by the Conservatives of Marylebone to become a candidate for its representation. WIGAN BAZAAR.—The receipts up to Thursday evening amounted to £396. 9s. 9d.—Wigan Gazette. We learn that army officers of thirty years' full pay service will be allowed to retire on the full pay of their regimental rank. The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of knight hood upon John Gardner Wilkinson. Esq. Fellow of the Royal Society. The representative Prelates for the ensuing Session, are the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bishops of Down, Ossory, and Cork. The sales of Irish copper' ore for one year from the 30th June last, at Swansea, amounted to £243,447. 12s. 9d. in value. The importation of pictures from the Continent annually is stated to be 800 in number : most of them are the produc tions of German artists. The Bank of Bolton has declared a dividend of 6 per cent. and a balance o.' £lOO5. to be appropriated towards the sur plusfund. In consequence of the lateness of the harvest, the Cheshire farmers have requested that the partridge shooting should be postponed until the•lst of OctOber. A rumour has prevailed for some days that if the pressure in the money market does not abate speedily, there will be an issue of one-pound notes.—Sun. There has been a great seizure of fire arms made by the authorities in Sligo, and even the Yeomanry arms were taken up, besides many who had registeted.—Limerick Chronicle. It is computed that 1,000,000 of emigrants have landed in the United States since 1819. From that year to 1838, inclu sive, 486,036 arrived in the single port of New York. How TO STOP A NEWSPAPER.—CaII at the office and fork up the arrearages, and order it stopped, like a man; and not refuse to take it out of the post-office, and sneak away like a puppy.--Fort Wayne Sentinel. TEE-TOLAL ELOQUENCE.—A Mr. Mumford, at a tee total meeting at Boston, on Manday, exclaimed, " Tee totalitm is the great noral fulcrum with which I, like De mbstherteS , will raise the debased world."—LincolnMercury. A NORFOLK EGG.—A hen of the Portugal breed, in the possession of. Mr. Howei, in St. Faith's-lane, laid an egg on Monday last, which measures 8 inches round, 91 the long way, and weighs 64 ounces.—Norfolk Chronicle. THE ONION BUSINESS.—Bermuda is rivalling Connecti cut. She has shipped this spring to the West Indies half a million pounds of onions and 200. barrels of potatoes. In Bermuda half a bottle .of seed produced 8,000 lbs. onions -160 of which weighed 280 pounds ! A MOUTHFUL.—The Sud, of Marseilles, asserts that a few days back, while a woman of Canet, near that city, was watching a display of fireworks at a fete in that place, a squib entered her mouth, exploded in it, and so severely burnt her, that her life is despaired of ! A physician, enjoying an extensive practice in a western county, advertises that lie has removed from his old resi dence to a newhouse within a few yards of the thiirehyard, and expresses a hope that his removal *ill Prove an accom modation to many of hit. patient's. The Pope has just caused the fresco paintings of Raphael, In the Vatican, to be restored. They had not been cleaned since 1762, and were almost entirely concealed from the eye by a thick coating of dust.. They have now recovered their original freshness and splendour. UMBRELLA MANIA.—The Natchitoches Herald states that an estimate has lately been made of the umbrellas stolen in and about town within the last 12 months, and it amounts to the enormous number of 517 ; some gentlemen losing as many as a dozen, and almost every one three or four. There are no fewer than 798 nninhaliited libuses in the town of Oldham at prcSent, partly owing to the entire stoppage of the Machinery of some mills, and the consequent emigration of the hands. The hands are obliged to emigrate when the mills are closed. Each labourer who has a family takes a house from his employer. The hops are looking well about Hastings ; the poles are generally well covered with bine, and in several gardens which we have inspected the hops hang as thick at the tops of the poles as we have ever vritnetsett 'Nothing but fine sunny weather appears,. now ivnekted to produce flavour and eondition.'=-14riyh'tqn appears,, the Prussian government is about to erect statues to all the celebrated professors of the University of Berlin. They are to be placed in a park in the rear of theuniversity, where the garden and alleys formerly stood. The professors who are already spoken of are Fichte, Hufeland, Hegel, Schieier macher, and Gaus. • The postman who is the medium of coMmtinic:',tibrk tween the coasts of the Parifit Ocean Add the provinces on the East of the And twlras for two days down the river Charhava-, b.nt through a part of the Amazon, carrying the bag of letters wrapped about his head like a turban. There is scarcely an instance of the letters having been lost or even wetted. PARTRIDGE NEST.—Last week, as Mr. Thomas Harper of Thorganby, farmer, was passing a heap of manure, close to his outhouses, he perceived a partridge imbedded in the manure, which flying off, presented. 'to Ins view 13 eggs. Since then she has brought forth 13 birds; the whole of which are now fledged and down.-- , Leeds Intelligences% ACCIbEN'T TO LIM HON. E. M. L. MOS'TYN, OF MOSTYN. —This gentleman sustained a severe accident on Monday evening last. He was superintending the felling of some timber on his estate, when . one of the trees fell anon hifil and knoaked him down : the consequence *al the fracture of his left thigh; just above the knee. He is going on as favourably as can be expected.—Chester Chronicle. MUNIFICENT DONATION.— A benevolent individual, whose name has not transpired, has offered .£1,500 to the Vicar of Leeds for the erection of a church in his parish, on condition that a similar sum be raised in other quarters. It is understood to be the Vicar's intention, if the additional sum be raised, to build the church on the Wellington-road, and to assign to it part of the district now attached to St. George's. THE fiallob.ving nobility and gentry aie expected on n visit to the Marquis and Mar= chioness of Westminster, at Moor-park :—The Earl and Countess of Albemarle, General and Mrs. Grosvenor, Mr. and Mrs. George Byng, (from : Wrotham-park. Barnet), and the Rev. Mr. Haristone. Our noble neighbours *ill receive company until Doncaster rare week, when the Marchioness will leave for Eaton Hall. The Marquis intends to visit Doncaster, to see his horse run, and then will join the Mar chioness. THE YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL ExitinrrioN.---The premiums offered by the society at the late exhibition, amounted to £6OO, which sum was apportioned as follows £175 as premiunis for short-horned cattier £97 for Leicester sheep ; £2B for pigs ; £124 fcr hottes ; fOr an approved shepherd ; £9.3 for Wool ; £55 for implements, &e. ; £lO for drainage; and £BO for reports connected with agricul ture. These sums being a total of £lOO more than the pre miums Of last year. MUNICIPAL ELECTION.CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPH IN LANCASTER:=We have to congratulate oar fead'ers on another triumph fOr the conservative cause in Lancaster. . In consequence of the death of Mr. Councilman Parkinson, a vacancy occurred in the council for the representation of St. Anne's ward, and yesterday was fixed for the poll. The can didates were, Mr. W. Threlfall, on the conservative side, and Mr. R. Charnley for the radicals. The result was as follows at the close :—Threlfall, 139 ; Charnley, 119. The conservatives thus winning by 20 votes ! This triumph is the greater because St. Anne's has been considered the radical strong-hold, most of the factories lying in it. — Lancaster Gazette. AURORA BOREALIS. — This singular phenomenon which has so frequently appeared during the last few years, was wit nessed at Kendal, on the evenings of Tuesday and . Wedne sday last, in great brilliancy, especially on the former even ing ;it commenced about half-past eight with a full blue light in the north, similar to the light seen a few hours after sunset in the height of summer, during fine weather, afterwards ri= sing in single bright pillars to the zenith; and, gradually in creasing, comprehended a large space of the heavens, rushed about from place to place with incredible velocity, and some times Covering the whole sky up to the zenith. We never saw a stronger light given by the Aurora; it being equal to that of the moon in her second quarter: Oh Wednesday evening it commenced in a similar manner as on the evening previous, but was Of short duration, the sky being overcast about half-past nine.—Carlisle Patriot. FALSE TEETH versus MATRIMONIAL PLEDGES.—At a trial which recently took place in Kendal county, Ohio, a Miss Lasher recovered some 139 dollars from a Mr. Smith, for refusing to marry her according to agreement. The de fendant insisted, as his excuse, that hi s i nam o ra t a wore f a l s e teeth, and false curls, to boot, of a different colour from her own natural hair; and that, with all due deference to the court, he did not agree to marry any such things as these. But the jury gallantly decided, that false teeth and false curls were very good things in their, place, and that even if the plaintiff wore them; " a gal's a gal for a' that," and so mulcted the defendant in damages. So Johnny Smith had to walk up and pay over his sovereign " cure all" for wounded affections and broken hearts. We advise all ardent beaux to profit by the example of John Sthith, and inspect their future wives as they would the horses that they wished to buy, by looking at their teeth. The law settled above renders it incumbent for one to do so at the outset, or suffer the consequences.—Rochester.Advertiser. AURORA BOREALIS, OR NORTHERN LIGIITS.—This beau tiful meteoric phenomenon, occurred with peculiar brilliancy on the evening of Wednesday last. Luminous streamers began to make their appearance in the north at about nine 'o'clock, and they continued to increase in intensity until nearly ten. Commencing below the horizon, they appeared to pierce almost into the vault of heaven, and exhibited those rapid changes and flick rings, attended with occasional coruscations, with which these phenomena are usually ac companied. Uthough never witnessed, except in the clearest and calmest evenings, northern lights ace almost invariably the precursors of heavy gales from the south or south-west within a period of 24 hours from their appearance. We per ceive from the London papers, that the same phenomena which were noticed in this neighbourhood on the Wednes day occurred in the metropolis on Tuesday night ; indeed the frequency of the appearapee of these meteors of late years is in itself a most remarkable fact. Every autumn now presents US 'with several instances, whereas almost half of the last century elapsed without even one. When so rare they naturally created a good deal of alarm amongst the un educated classes, who looked upon them as the forerunners of pestilence or war—but now we do not hear of their being regarded with any sort of superstitious terror, even amongst the least enlightened of our countrymen. The phenomenon itself has never been fully explained, not even by Captain Ross's ingenious new theory, and we are half inclined to think that a careful investigation of all the circumstances attending it—its connection with magnetism and electricity —with meteorology, &c. would be a matter far more de serving of a grant from the funds of the British Assciciation, than any other objects to which we perceive large sums of money were voted last week.--Staffordshire Gazette. A SAGACIOUS ELEPHANT. —The magnificent elephant Bolivar, who arrived in this country a short time since in the New York liner the President, is one of the most sagacious, docile, and intellectual animals of his species ever seen. His gentle behaviour on the voyage rendered him a great favourite with the passengers ; and it was the general practice with the ladies after dinner to feed him with fruit and biscuits. He was sometimes, too, indulged with a bowl of wine or brandy and water, which he always drank with extraordinary avidity. Upon one occasion a little boy, about four years of age, be longing to one of the passengers, wandered to that part of the deck where the elephant's shed was erected ; he at length contrived to creep into the shed. The child's mother be coming alarmed at his absence commenced searching for him about the ship. She at last proceeded to the elephant's shed, and was horrorstruck on perceiving her child very compo sedly endeavouring to encircle with his little arms one of the ponderous legs of this gigantic animal, and expected every instant he would be crushed to atoms by the elephant moving his foot. Bolivar, however, stood still until his little uncon cerned companion came forward, when he lifted him care fully up with his trunk and placed him unharmed on the deck, to the infinite joy of the distracted mother. The ele phant was formerly in the Tower menagerie ; but when that was broken up he was taken to New York, and has since been exhibited all over the union.—Times. ADHESIVENESS OF TIMDER.—At one of the sectional meetings of the British Association, last week, Mr. Eaton Hodgkinson read a table of different species of woods, and the power which they possess to resist a force tending to crush them. The following are a few of the principal woods mid the number of pounds which they would sustain bn the squape inch without sinking under the pressure. The weight was applied in all the instances in the direction of the fibres. Yellow Pine, 53751b5, ; cedar, 5674105. ; red deal, 57481b5. ; poplar, not quite dry, 43071b5. ; green larch, wet, 23311b5. ; green larch dry, 53681b5. ; plumb tree, green, 53641b5. ; beech, rather green, 77331b5. ' • beech, dry, 23631b5. ; dry ash, 93631b5. ; English oak, 53641b5. ; Spanish mahogany, 5198 lbs. •, elm, 10,3311b5. ; box from 9365 to 10,0001bs. : king wood, 12,6451b5. We have been asked the question from Liverpool—What is the shortest passage that has been made between Halifax and any port in the British Channel? We will thank our Naval Friends to furnish us with answer. The shortest we have heard of is the Tenedos frigate, in 11 days and 12 nights, to Portsmouth ' • of other short as sages across the Atlantic, we hear the IVa rspile 74, came from the Brandy Pots , near Quebec, in 14 days 6 hours ; and the Niger, from Sunday to the following Saturday, from St. John's, Newfoundland, both to Portsmouth. The Revolulionnaire, we are told, ran from Sandy Hook Light to the Lizard Light, in 11 days.— Hampshire Telegraph. CHESTER GAREISOI4.-Sir Hussey Vivian, master gene ral of the ordnances, accompanied by Major . Rivers, com manding royal engineer of the Manchester district, paid an official visit to this garrison on Saturday last. Sir Hussey minutely inspected both the officers' and soldiers barracks, also the stores and magazines at the castle. We understand Sir Hussey expressed himself highly satisfied with the good order and efficient state of this establishment. After passing through the government portion of the castle, Sir Hussey, accompanied by Lady Vivian, visited the and dif ferent apartments of the County Gaol, and were greatly pleased with the internal arrangements and general appearance of this truly beautiful pile of buildings.—Chester Chronicle. A novel operation took place in Chatham Dock-yard last week, that of lengthening the Gleaner steam-vessel, which had been taken into the dock for that purpose. She was sawn in two a little more than one-third of her length from her stern, and ways were laid from the fore part of her to tread on, the purchase falls were rove, and brought to two capstans, and the order being given by the master shipwright; the men hove away, and in five minutet the fore section was separated from the after part a distance of 18 feet. The space between will now be filled up by new timber. There is no record of any ship or vessel having been lengthened in this dockyard before the Gleaner. INSOLVENTS' ADVERTISEMENTS.—By the first section of the Act (2 and 3 Vict. c. 39) to amend the Imprisonthent for Debt Act of the previous session, it is 'enacted " that from and after the passing of the Act all printers and proprietors of newspapers shall, and arc hereby required hi insert any ad vertisement or adveftiteinents by the said recited act directed to be inserted in any.newspaper, on payment of a reasonable compensation for the insertion thereof, in such form as the said Court, or any Commissioner thereof, shall from time to time direct." In future, therefore, all such advertisements will be charged according to the scale of prices of the news papers in which they appear. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-011 Thursday, at Whitehall Chapel, by the Rev. Charles Cotes, Mr. John Cotes, of Wocote Hall, Shropshire, to Lady Louika JentinSoii, youngest daughter of the Earl of Literiso6h After the cere mony the Earl of. tiveiptiel gave an elegant dejeuntr at Fife House' ' 05 the idea family circle present at the solemniza tion. The happy bride and bridegroom started shortly before two for Buckstead Park, near Uckfield, Sussex, where they purpose spending the honeymoon. ELECTION FOR TIPPERARY.—A CONSERVATIVE IN THE FIELD.—Mr. Vice-president Sheil, we are glad to find, will not be allowed to walk over the course of Tipperary. An address in the Clonmel Constitution and Nenagh Guardian to the freeholders of that county, assures them that a gen tleman in every way qualified to represent this county in parliament—one who will command the resPett andeonfiden'ce of all partiesand whose object in going to parliament will be to attend to th'e ini'6le - sis of his conitituents, and not to gratify his own avaricious disposition and selfish ambition, will be ready at the day of election. • LONDON AND HOLYHEAD ROAD.—From the 15th report of the London and Holyhead road, which is just published, it appears that the tolls on the trusts from St. Alban's to Birmingham had been diminished about one half for the half year ending 29th of March, 1830, _compared with the year 1836 ; but notwithstanding, the amount was little IeSS than that received in rat 1817'. The railway, it is therefore stattd, liar not produced any great injury to turnpike trusts. Its most pernicious effect is that of reducing in value, or of wholly destroying an immense amount of property vested by innkeepers, coach proprietors, and other persons in the great traffic which existed in 1837. A porter of .La Rochelle, says a letter from that town, named Jacques Supet, and who was born on the 4th August, 1739, having been attacked, when already at an advanced age, with a severe illnees t •Made a vow that if 11e. reenVered, and attained the age of 100; . be Woad go to OntriAi batefoOted, tend his bOtIY covered with no other clothing than a pair ,of linen dtawers. On the 13th August, being then 100 years and nine days old, he literally performed his vow, walking through the streets, which were wet and cold, supported by two friends, the youngest of whom was past 98, and attended mass in the church of Saint Sauveur. VAN AMBURGH. — The most absurd statements al?Otit M. Van Amburgh are making, the round of the French press. In a Sort of biography of Ilia . gentleman; we are told that his irob - rite amusement in America was to walk into the woods and tame bears, which he left at liberty, and visited from time to time as old acquaintances. One bear which he called Job, was, however, his travellinr , companion.. Being at sea with this bear,. M. Vaii Andmirg7li Sm. Si shark, and jumped overboard With an iron bar in hiS hand; NJ tame the Monster . . The . shark, hOtkrever, got hold of the bar, and br,,i. , ing let it drop to .the bottom, was about to make a meal Of the man who had volunteered the task of civilising him, when, in despair, Van 'Amburgh called to Job, who was qui etly looking on, confident of his' master's power, and expecting to see the shark come on board as a docile pupil. Job obeyed the call, and jumped overboard to assist the shark-tamer. .He immediately, says the biographer, caught the monster round the waist, and with one fraternal hug, squeesed the breath out of his body. The shark Alra9 drawn into the ship by means of a hobk and 'JO, reward of hiS yaloht, was ,p . ertnittbd to partake of the soup which the 'ere* iiitide'rtaiii his fins. . MonnEn.—A most cruel murder has been perpetrated by a party of Irishmen working at the SponAane works, west Bromwich, on the body of an inoffensive and resFeetable man. It appears `thrit there are two beer-sh Ops in Spon lane,. in ; one of which the Irishmen hak - e it.stied an Order that no one shall enici. tinder .fear of their resentment.. On Saturday night, a highly"-respectable man, named Thomas Barrett, in the employ of Messrs. Chance, of Spon-lane, took a friend into the interdicted house for the purpose of giving him a glass of ale ; they stayed talking there for • some time, and on leaving to go home a party of about forty Irishmen met them, and attacked them with relentless fury ; poor Barrett was soon killed, and the . monsters then beat his friend uptil be became insensible, when their left him a SUppoSed bort* beside the dead body of Barrett: On the Irishmen retreating, the Wounded man was removed to a plaCe of- safety, but no hopes are entertained of his surviving. As many as twenty. of the gang have been apprehended as being caenNted with the murder, and a coroner's jury has been summoned to inquire into the foul deed: Since the perpetration of, this diabolical outrage; the Englishmen in MessrsA Chance's employ have refused - to' continua in their employ unless the IriShnien in the Works are immedi ately discharged.—Stafford Examiner. ENOUGH OF THE Wittos.—The imposter vehemently pro claims to the people of Ireland that " nothing has been done for Ireland." What ! nothing done for Ireland during nine years of whig rule — for one half of which period he himself was lord protector over those Whigs, and lord parathount over a reformed House of Commons ? Nothing done for Ireland by those ministers who, by the talismanic touch of this wlEard, were metamorphosed .from " base, brutal, and bloody whigs" into the only friends to " justice, impartial justice," for Ireland !—the " only good government that - ever existed for Ireland "—the " best possible government ?" How comes - this most saddening announcement ? He sus tained thOse whigs ; he. coerced those whigs ; he urged the catholic, peasantry to oppoSe their best landlords by acts of sanguary violence, and the catholid prelates and clergy to violate their most solemn engagements, in supporting those whigs ; and praCtised, and he still practi ses , th e mos t v il e extortions upon all for' his own maintenance, as patron of those whigs. - He had whigs in the cabinet and whigs in the Court, whigs in the palace, whigs in the castle, whig govern ment in Ireland, whig ministers exercisin g p ower through out the entire united kingdom, Whig appointments to every department in the state, whigs in the courts, whi g s in the customs, whigs in the excise, Whigs in treasury, whigs in the Home-office', whigs in the Foreignoffice, whigs in the Colo nial-office, whigs in the India-board, whig law officers, whig representatives from Ireland, whig majorities in the House of Commons, whig legislators, whig laws, whig commis sions, whig commissioners, whig reports, whig sheriffs, whig justice, whig journals, whig organization, whig agita tion, whig associations; whig societies, whig meetings, whig dinners, whig toasts, Whig speeches, whig resolutions, whig petitions, whig letters, whig trade unions whig political unions, whig repeaters, whig pacificators, whig precursors, whig justice-rent, whig sacred fund, and, though last not least in his estimation, whig tribute for the imposter —yet " nothing has been done for Ireland."—Eneas M`Donnell's Letter to the Times. A SMATTERING OF GERMAN.—I remember some years ago going into the Chapel Royal, where a gentleman w as preaching away with much fervour andenction. Of course, I listened with the most profound attention, but was not lucky enough to catch the thread of his discourse. I could gather up a word here and there. He spoke much of David in Psalmen, Jeremy Prophetic, Paulus in Epistola, and so forth ; but though I tasked my patience to the utmost, I could not get on. Ile was to me the most unintelligible old divine I had ever met—the inscriptions on the parymids were easy compared - to So 'I gave it 'up at last, and left the chapel rather more annoyed than became a man of my known piety. Well, I met out side the door a beadle, a verger, or some other official of that kind ; and wishing to obtain from him the name of the preacher,l approached the inquiry in an insinuating wanner. Pray, sir, (said I) what is the name of that very clever gentleman who is preaching inside at present ?" " Dat fary clever man, sare, (said the function ary of the doorway) his name's Kruger. Do you think him fary clever, sare ?" " Decidedly, (rreplied, with all the ill faith of a reviewer puffing a book of which he has read but the title page) decidedly, one of the cleverest preachers I ever heard." On which the man in office, with eyes beaming with joy, extended his hand as to an old acquaintance, and grunted forth something like S'prach en. sie Deutsch ? I was obliged to confess that I had not studied the language of the H o unlniyms with all the attention that perhaps it deserved, and could not offer any reply to the question. " 'Och, den, (said he) you ton't understand Sherman. Den how der teuful do you know dat Toctor Kruger is a clever man, when his preaching was all Sherman ?" I was thus discovered •, and on beating my retreat~ vowed that I never would pretend to know any thing about German again, let it sound ever so like English.—Dr. Ill' Ginn. VEGETATIVE POWER OF SEA SAND.—A few days since a quantity of sea sand was carried out of Morecambe Bay, about a mile from the Furness shore. It had been less than an hour previously, covered a considerable depth in the tide, and contained several cockles and other shell-fish. It was immediately placed in pits or beds, 15 inches in depth, and sown without manure or admixture of any kind—just in the state it was when taken from the bay—with wheat, barley, peas, mustard, cress, and raddish seed. In five days the mus tard, cress, and raddish seed had sprouted, and began to ve getate, having thrown out a considerable length of root, whilst (what is most extraordinary) the shell-fish were even then quite alive ! Thus we have wheat, barley, peas, mustard, and cress, raddishes, all growing, and cockles and other shell fish in a-living state, in one and the same bed of sea-sand! Should any one be at all incredulous as to the truth of this statement he can easily try the experiment himself ; an ordi nary flower pot filled with sea-sand, sown in with almost any kind of seeds, would at once put the matter to the test. Common hay seeds, sown in October last in beds of sand similar to the above, and treated exactly in the same way, have grown to the extraordinary height of 3 feet 64 inches. Some wheat sown about Christmas last (now in ear), 3 feet 9 inches; barley do., 3 feet 3 inches; peas sown about April last (in full flower), 3 feet; peas sown about April last (pods completely formed), 3 feet 2 inches. • The farmers all around the Bay of Morecambe, in forming composts for their wheat and barley crops, use of sea-sand about 26 carts (small one horse carts), lime about four carli, manure ten carts, per statute acre. Why use so great Rilluantity of sea-sand if it does not possess very considerable vegetative power ? London Paper. A severe hail-storm was experienced at Milan on the 20th t. Many of the stones weighed two ounces and a half. HINT to GARRENERS.—At a meeting of the Entomologi cal Society on Tuesday evening, Mr. T. Fennell communi cated a new method of preventing the destructive ravages of caterpillers and earwigs on fruit trees, which he had prac tised with much success. He employs Indian-rubber sub mitted to the action of heat till it has lost all its solidity and becomes a viscid juice. With this he saturates twine, which is twined round the stem of the tree in various parts, and ef fectually prevents the insects getting up. The value of three pence is sufficient for the protection of twenty fruit trees. We understand ‘a singular wedding took place at Boden ham, in this county, during the late deep floods. Arrange ments had been made by a worthy couple to get married ; the day was fixed and everything ready, when unfortunately the river Lug overflowed, and the spot where the church stood , was deeply inundated on the very morning the happy cere mony was to take place. Determined, however, not to be disappointed, a cart was hired, which conveyed the party to the doors of the church, where they found the water was very deep inside'; they, however, procured benches, upon which they stood whilst the clergyman tied the nuptial knot in water proof boots.—Herqford Journal. THE BOLTON CHARTISTS.—John Warden, member of the convention, and Geo. Lloyd, the two chartist leaders, who were first apprehended and have traversed until the next as sizes, have found bail, it appears, for their appearance when required. As they arrived, per railway, at home, on Mon day last, it is stated that the chartists intend to give them a public dinner. The late arrests have had a powerful effect upon the Working Men's Association of Bolton ; for, last week, eight or ten of the members of the committee sailed for New York in the .Silas Richards, and others have left the town. Manchester Guardian. It was determined that the next meeting of the British As sociation should be held at Glasgow on the 17th of Septem ber, 1840, and the Marquis of Breadalbane was elected the • president. In addition to this appointment, Principal Mac farlan, the president of the Glasgow University, Sir David Brewster, and Sir Thomas Brisbane, were chosen vice-presi dents ; Mr. Murchison, and M a j or Sabine, general secreta ries ; and Professor Phillips, assistant general secretary for the ensuing year. Singe the domineneeinent of the meeting in this plade a very considerable addition has been made to the list of members, and the contributions to the funds have been liberal. The report of the concluding meeting of the society, held at the Town-hall, on Saturday, closed the pro ceedings, and nearly all the members of the association have left the town.—Birmingham Gazette. IMPORTANT TO PUBLICANS.—AI the Brewster Sessions for the Lower Division of Strafforth and Tickhill, last week, W. B. Wrightson, Esq. M. P., the chairman, called the at tention of the publicans prepent to a clause in an Act of Par: liameot 57th Geo. - 111. C. 11, which, although not generally known, is still in force, prohibiting persons who keep licensed houses from allowing illegal meetings and clubs assembling therein. The act gave the Magistrates the power of taking away the license, on proof being given of the holding of such meetings, providing the landlord encouraged them ; and the Magistrates thought it their duty, in consequence of late pro ceedings in different parts of the country, to caution the pub licans as to their future conduct with regard to them. DINNER TO MR. H. R. BISHOP, M.8.--'-PRESENTATION OF A TOKEN OF BE spEcT. Werlnesay lest, tht itentl= men Of thb 'Cori - eeit committee and their friends gave a dinner to Mr. Bishop, at the Albion hotel ; Mr. D. Belhouse, jun. in the chair. In the course of the evening, Mr. Brandt, the barrister, in a very neat and feeling address, presented to Mr. Bishop, in the name of his friends, a very handsome gold snuff-box, with an inscription indicative of their esteem for his genius and talent. Mr. Bishop made a suitable reply, acknowledging the high gratification and deep obligations which the kindness of his friends ih Manchester had cons ferred upon him, and assuring them of his lasting and grate ful remembrance of the happy hours and flattering reception he had enjoyed in Manchester: A very delightful evening was spent.—Manchester Gaqi•digh. C.oriqiu Oid to record the success of anr speculation that may tate Plait in Mir immediate neighbour hood, and more particularly when it is likely to prove advan tageous to the public as well as to the. parties concerned. The copper mines at Coniston are well known to be in a thri ving and prosperous state, and the late discovery at Bampton is now so far developed, that very sanguine expectations are entertained by practical and experienced miners of the Burn bank being likely to prove a powerful rival. The . quantity and the quality of the. ore found at i ,Burnbaiik) far, ceesied thp expectations of iha •silirited ciMipaily, who under took the concern, and the benefit to the immediate neigh bourhood has already been felt and duly appreciated by the district. —Westmorland Gazette. THE MALT DISTILLERY AT WORCESTER.—The great malt distillery at Worcester, which originated in 1729, is at length to exchange hands, through Mr. Robins's instrumen tality. It is a singular instance of extraordinary and unde viating good fortune progressing . through a long line of an cestry, during a period, of lio,years; that It has never Had to dread a rival; and has remained in the same family through . - . out generation after generation followed; and in every case, retired with a splendid independence. Mr. Williams, the present opulent and venerable proprietor (who, by the way; is the oldest Magistrate in the county), is retiring with an immense fortune, leaving to a successor (if he follow in the same honourable course of dealing and be equally assiduous) a prospect most inviting. It will not yield in its importance, nor its gains, to 0 - 1 y i emitempprart,, and it is a §ingttlar fart b that thi'Otighbiit Ennland there are only tWelve malt distille ries, nothing nearer to Worcester than Liverpool and Bris tol. It is placed on the bank of the River Severn, close to the bridge, in Worcester, and the railroxd; which is nearly arrived at completion, from Worcester to London and to Bristol, will rerider.the task of getting rich; at a railway pace," beyond the possibility of dotibt; The Capital rentiired will ne c essarily be considerable ; however, lots of the pur chase money, it is stated, may remain on solid security.— Worcestershire Paper. TUE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE'S JOBS.—It was announ ced last week, that on Sunday the 18th the Marquis of Lans downe had taken his departure from Dover for Ostend. The Lord President of the Council left much unfinished public business to the .care of his colleagues. The Slave-Trade, Bank of Ireland, and the provincial Police Bills, remained for discussion and enactment. Mr. Spring Rice was in tilt very crisis of his financial throes. " odds and ends" were to be ttilitit tip ; And iritelligenee of the utmost Impor tance might haVe arrived from India, Syria; and Turkey. Common decency, respect to his Sovereign and to Parlia- Ment, ought to have kept the President of the Council at his post at least till the Queen's prorogation speech had been settled. But Lord Lansdowne cared for none .of these things. He waited till the Shannon. Bill was safe; :arid Off hb went.,,,Tery particular paint did hit Lordship take to pilot this bill through Parliament—and pour cause. Lord Mont eagle has suffered the brunt of public censure ; but had we been aware of Lord Lansdowne's paramount interest in the job, we should have taken care to direct a portion of it to wards that noble and graspin g personage. The Marquis of Lansdowne is, we understand, the real father of the project ; having in 1834 put forward his late, son, the Earl of Kerry, to moot it to the Housb of COminons. A Committee was appointed; of which Lord Kerry was Oidirmari ; and the re , . port was drawn up at Lanstlliwne Hoitiie. The reeult of this movement—cautiously etnidiieted—is the ,Shannon grant of £6,000,000 ; no small portion of which will go to - enrich the Lansdown family. That this must happen, is evident from the fact that the land on the west side of the Shannon, at Wellesley Bridge, and thence stretching westward for a con siderable, distance, belongs to the Marquis. The enhance ment of his property by the building of Wellesley Bridge, which cost the public XlOO,OOO, must hare been enormous. It is the principal highway from the city of Limerick, With its 60,000 inhabitants, into the very heart of an estate, pre viously not connected directly with the city. His Lordship understands the management of these affairs. The Kenmare and Bantry road and bridge was one of his smaller recreations. This road cuts through another of his estates, and, at an ex pense to the public of about £30,000, brings an immense tract of country to the very park-gates of Lansdowne Lodge.— Should the Railway scheme for this part of Ireland succeed— and we may be sure it has only been postponed, not aban doned—another immense outlay of English money will be made on the property of this indefatigable jobber. The fa shion is to praise the personal disinterestedness of modern statesmen. Bribes and peculation are nuknown in our day. Men in office feel a lofty disdain of pelf ; and it has been gi ven out that the Marquis of Lansdowne declines the receipt of salary. But he can well afford to despise a paltry £2,000 or £3,000 a year; who tises the influence of high office to carry Shannon Bills. The Marquis belongs to a wiser gene ration than Harry Dundas. He keeps on the right side of the law, and moves not except as ` t the Act directs." Therein lies the difference between old peculators and modetri jobbers. The former were coarse practitioners, as inferior to their suc cessors, as the burglar or footpad is to the accomplished and plausible gentleman who ruins you at ecart6.—Spectator. CHURCH BUILDING Commissto..---=-The annual Report of the Commissioners for Building New Churches has been just issued. At the time of printing their last report, the commissioners state that 225 churches and chapels had been completed, in which accommodation had been provided for 297,912 persons, including 164,495 free seats, appropriated to the use of the poor. Since that time, they report that 18 churches have been completed, affording accommodation for 16,000 persons, including 9,775 free seats for the poor, making in the whole 243 churches and chapels, affording ac commodation for 314,412 persons, including 174,270 free seats for the poor. In addition to these, 18 other new churches are now building, and in a very forward state. The number to be accommodated in pews is 7,207, and in free seats 9,949: total 17,156. Plans for eight other churches have been ap proved of, and it is in contemplaticin to build eight others, at various places. Conditional grants of money have been made to 38 parishes, townships, or places, in aid of building churches and chapels •, as also for providing sites for churches and chapels in 46 other different places, interspersedly through out England. Applications for further church accommoda tion hate been made by the inhabitants of 47 districts, situate respectively either in England or Wales. London, long here tofore designated "the city of churches," will soon, it is to be hoped, better deserve that name, for as yet the wants in this respect of its immense population are but half supplied. It is most gratifying to observe, that so large a portion of the "new buildings is set apart for the free use of the poor. The more constrained habits of the people of this country do not permit of the same description of accommodation being pro vided for all ; we are not sure that, under regulations, it would not be betterjf it were otherwise, though undoubtedly the pre servation of order and decency in the conduct of Divine wor ship is more effectually secured by our system. Those who have been in the Popish churches on the Continent; where the distinction of pews is not generally adopted, cannot fail to have observed, that on this account, as well as others, the service is much less reverently conducted than with us, and surely there is no place in which the strictest order and quiet are so imperatively required. There, at certain parts of the service, particularly upon the feast of the saints, nearly every one in the church is in motion, and it presents more the appearance of an exhibition room Ilan that of a place of public worship. Still, important as it is to maintain a becoming order, as little distinction as possible should be made, amounting, it seems to us, to no more than giving a proper place and room to every one. Nothing more conduces to soothe the minds of the poor, to wean them from discontent, than to let them perceive that here, at least, they are cared for, and that every suitable accommodation is afforded them in a place where, for the time, there is no inequality. It is surpritiro• that, till within these few years, this momentous point should have been so much overlooked. An observer, to be convinced of this great error of the National Establishment, has only to enter some of the old churches in London, in which he will see the old body of the church choked up with pews, and the seats for the poor stuck in nooks and corners, or huddled together most sparingly and uncomfortably in the main aisle. The same erroneous arrangement prevails in very many of the older country churches, and it behoves every minister of the Establishment to be strenuous in appropriating, in every place of worship belonging to it, as large a portion as possi ble for the accommodation of the humbler classes. T'nere is no fear that they will not avail themselves of it. It is ob servable, that in all the new churches and chapels, where this object has been kept in view, the seats of the poor are even crowded at every service, while in the older churches, where they can scarcely either see or hear from the still incommodi ous position of the places set apart for them, they are com paratively abandoned. We rejoice to see that this untoward and injurious error has been fully redeemed by . the commis sioners, and that as the poor form the majority in the com munity, the largest part of every new church and chapel is freely devoted to them. Most heartily do we invoke success upon such a course of acting ; it must and will come to good. _f b .te• total, t m naagl rtpxhi paid d:4 2 1b 5 62 t y h ,55t65h 0 .5e f 2i dMco charity March, r firt c idi The expenses xtainlleld2ltsaut of seiv.s t i, h 4ax e dr .c9hploa,lrltB43t sh 9 commission:eBar ceithereof commissioners for rent, taxes, &c., they being in joint occu pation of the premises, leaving the expenses of the church building commission £3,364 13s. 10 d.—Country Paper. LOLICE IN7'ELLIGENCE.-FRi DAV' rt.STO CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE r-- On Friday John Molt was again p l ace d at the b at i d amination. Sir John Tobin, Mr. Wm. Rathbone, an Edward Rushton, were on the bench. 'There were: about fifteen or twenty poor persons that the prisoner had culled upon them, principally, if not altogether females, ready to glye. e e d them small sums of money as subscriptions to.tbe v, Junction Fund for the relief of the poor. Only tour, ever, were . examined. They stated that on TucsdaY the . prisoner called upon them at their houses , ail . ; sentlng that the coming winter was likely to be a v is e i) one, induced them to become members of wha t ue this very excellent institution , " The Grand Junetvr which, he said, had been fouded under the sanction the principal ,. gentlemen of Liverpool, mentioning Sir John Tobin, Mr. Hadwen , the quaker, Mr. e who owned Edge-hill, Mr. 13;ancker, Mr. Gladstonas, Cropper,, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Rathbone , wh° ` 1 0, nected with Parli , lane school. He also informo thrb and obtain for their subsCription of one penny per week ea r 0 ,4 would receive all the articles mentioned in the, car; b , ger! the funds for supplying which were to be furni e ," o 'TO tlemen, and he stated one woman that Sir Jcw ref et tonsy subscribed 16s. Induced bv these rep, „ 01 the witnesses became members, aria received Iry so-called treasurer one of the cards. The prisoner cross-examined one or two of the but not at much length. From one woman, narneci, he demanded—" Did I use the name of Ra thbone• Housey i " 'es." Prisoner : " Thou art wrong. one half of you have perjured yourselves , and th' genteelly, too." A man of the name of Samuel Smith , aP g ens's ne now labourin at the docks, having been sworn, ":o',e, That on Tuesday week the prisoner came to Ins h ss having made a similar representation to him previous witnesses, induced him to become Sul er The witness then went on to say—He (the Pr's'°ss me that he wanted a number of young Ine n • • character to be collectors for the fund. Itold was Out Of employment that day, and should be g, engaged. I Showed him my papers of character, and charge from the army, and he said that he would gisrlres tuation as collector, at 15s. a-week to begi n with. 1' to hold myself in readiness, and that he would call did not know how soon. He said that he would hasl sf dred collectors, and would allow them 15s. „les, first instance, and that in the course of a short tig_ fund grew strong, the salary should be seised tb s ';' n 22s a-week. On Saturday last, he called again , w i t i, out and left e blue-eoseered bbok; and fifty-two th e lb those produeed. I satin him at six o'clock in L"',,, e csr u ",, t He said that he had left me a collecting book ands°-,stte`. and that I was to commence on Monday, in Ariel , e sse i, and Chisenhale-street. He said that there would bo o ll e cte", in which would be entered all the money that svasetios!; On Monday I went to collect according to his , w ", el oo c s and collected 5s 2d. In the evening I w ent with O e d sr, to his house, No. 5, Anson-street, as h e had in` lie, to do. When I counted out the money tod td that I had done very well, and he hoped that 1. ,c) myself iU collecting for the benefit bf to ti le him for the ledger, duel he stated that he had c°', e htcg house from Mill-street that day, and had not br e ' t fo lloo t !d ledger with him, but he would have it there on tl e ie cols loot day, along with other things. I told him that that ail,ol, great doubts respecting his intentions, and think it right to collect without seeing Some authonse of the gentlemen's names. He said that 1 iniguLas s ot ' if name of Mr. Gladstone. I suspected that be ' ne e honest man ; but I thought that if I took the 0 1 - t iot t i o the ,eft he might take the alarm, and escape. lb °l st l ...et , f ulej Would go to the house of Harris, in Rathbone-"',esst a' is a mile or better from his house, I would get r ia sou, l 44 which the collectors were allowed, after the (1 j s t ot went 0 far as the,end of the street; but I fDanswbt brs e i t Was no Such a 'linage ai he had described: I t h te 0 110 teen playing a trick upon Me to get diVOY scith b it s SO I went back to his house, under a pretence that stor6tlp my pencil. When I got there, two other cos e es; there ; one had obtained 6s 7d, and the other 3 5. cc eeiP jo ! seen no gentleman's name, I made him give n ie c' ule ,it'ef the money I had handed to him. A third colie e s , t soa s iftli and the prisoner said to him, " Well, hew aov e its; and he refused to give up the money ceeded ?" The man replied that the peoiAr `,,'" e ied• u he saw the name bf some gentleman conneciebe priv) fund. He refused to collect any longer; but, t he pt' Fill persuaded him to give up the money, 3s. Il s e fl t .,s, he hail toed to told the man that he was too bashful, an d : 1 1 s'ale - 1, (1 ", show you how you ought to do. Suppose , n ° "' 1 B ' .- j what the society is, and then you show man, and you come in to ask me to subscribee._,(ssa.nse book, and say, . Och, here is the seal of the Gran oacess Lion. Fund Soviet:.' The collecting books. hale Cover a seal Wearin this tinimessibri Intlia tt thst ea rather smaller than a halfpenny.] He told we t i e re rather cost £3, and that it was the seal of the society a_s, all that was on the card, and the writing of the t : g a oe the collecting book.; and said that was the waY, d a p h et gave information at the police-office on the ne % `i e eti e l ltr The witness produced his receipt and his col s On the top of the blue cover of the book was s. th i e jistri c ti t 'sil e i ; society, and underneath was written—" I"n rtu a COCite r e SaMuet Smithi collector: Arley-street An „ 5 / 11 , iittfeet." On the first leaf of the the beok w'reistitl'ess " Supported by the gentlemen of Liverpool, 11 1 01°50' others. Each member will receive what is sol is ); card. Soon as the winter closes in, it is tw t nt me Oh easio member only receives according to the e11i° 1 . 1 , 7 0 0 svisdo, fund, but receives their weekly provision. 11e,"4 rund every clay Visit the istiors A Cl!'-ek 1 !. 1 0 5t 00, 0 0 .,t gO to the funil and from the fund to the previ"_ l° o seti lic 111 Samuel Lloyd, cenateblte s deposed that in c ( , ) ,,,, e ssit, ll oe ; ; ; the information given by Smith, he we nt on ~ours 160,•1the prisoner, whom he found, after about seVerl jog (1 1 3 , 11 in Midghall-street, collecting money, and car i liest s i'it ,4 his hand. In the bag there were five Pac k ' °et . similar to those produced, and sixpence in ect. asked him by whose authority he went rouncl _ept he replied, " By the authority of no person el, rs He stated that be was goitig,tb have solve pos;',`' s g oil e ce inform the public what a grand iitstittOM it 'l', t ee e oP 1 „ Lind that he was going to -have a meeting ' l '4 o o - 10'; Arms. Ori sealiching him, Lloyd found the c i e ti' nio tot coin which had been used as the seal of the; g t e th e t set• ply to a question, " What have. you donor I ted 10 1 .1 E ta t which you have colletted?" The prison rd aee • n tl , - had gone to a great expense in printine eee pr; had given brders for a ledger at Mr. V;'-lor 6 . s oici , o ,e said, had absorbed the whole of the ti' that Jo se collected. I.lldyd stated, in corieltision, th 3t : Cb ie r sl ' l ;re prehension of the prisoner he had been round,oh!, street, Midghall-street, and that neighbowaresidly" Irts ascertained that there was scarcely a ,ion re. from whom the prisoner had not eollecteLs s bea 50 0 witness produced eight or nine of the ebllect;!re'sdhig,o°,oS were put in. They were siMilar to that pra r u, be f e s of s s Mr. Dowling said that he had looked os'e produced, and found that they contained th? persons from whom the prisimer had received i - o .tv r e j, to t The sum received was .t 1 lie. Ild. Ta d i ° 5 01 1i ,41 nothing like the nfireber of hookl that, had del they had no knOwledge of the risner , Sir John Tobin and Mr. William liatbbcflsori' sore or f olio the Grand Junction Fund, for then elief of the WO 0 0 they ever given the prisoner authority to n's per ° , Mr. Rathbone said that there was no oth e i se eth evol, name connected with the Park-lane sc. b o o • t L.,, tion.) He was one of the visitors of that - e be is tsa"p, The prisoner having been asked w hether ola o eis s i to say, replied, " Well, sir, I speak as thl ls. o r ;, 0 , ,,, 00 case still. I say . it is for the support a the, j r to o ot o il 4 said before, I commenced it at my own, the think it would be good for the support 0 ' ensuing winter. I also thought; by conun o pli r ` li st • stitution, that every poor person would be it µ!= re (- 10 0 P and raiment for the winter coming. A ls°1 110 , " °C a 1 / . i • tention to run away out of t as that fe. n e steses s •to, own, co" t ees has stated, otherwise 1 should not have . te as, 0 1 '01 And the bills also which I ordered to be Pr i t tt aa es' s ' i ts l , tl, lor's, would have informed the public tha, be *'6e p e; of the sort--at least that a fund was aben s ' t be to Keeitets:t for the poor: And Ido declare and Pr° te g o of t;',o as 01101, it was not my intention to defraud any Pe r ': I.iic e if; but I wished, sir, for a < lace to he taken In o. w iet _ tb r te, to have a provision store against the ensuionrsders t s a e garments, and so forth, Also, I ga ve dto litt tbr i : ( 4l l Taylor to have a ledger printed aiso, an„d s ee f le ts V,l soon, so that any member might come ar eine e 0 ,0 6 6, enrolled in the ledger. And if the gen t ° sea, s , t' thinks proper to give me their patronageeotioa, ~ still; and I think it would he ft fin e peV er thing against the ensuing winter. Also, th e , .1 or a blemish on my character. • s tria l " es t t o ' The prisoner was committed to take In °f r e e t The magistrate informed him that, as his bite ° e lf a' he should require would be—the liar one, he should feel justified in bailing bites and two sureties (householders) in °t) hour's notice of the bail to be given s ,' o'oo'o' YgSTERD A ( i i , s ei s ell/ EXTENSIVE ROBERT BY A S.—,d seielea„loss Mary Finnelly, a young Irish girl , ?I's 011 °; c itcgA , prisoneericii r were charged with stealing a considerantirdose,D'orte,o4, Atkinson, a button maker, property of the girl's master. MarY.! in C "07 an d resio!il ss iea ti el • Dale-street, said, the prisoner (the g, l a bsed vice in the month of May last, and ren t l i eO t 'ils oo- 0 • the 27th August. About two o'clock 0A ,, , ea d tlO r iog r wrad a paper containing 49 sovereis,ssnpe , s t ss iot taming 50 sovereign.. I afterwards 4,:r,hlsocr'eerill, brown papers, and tied them up, one wi dl er e ilio';l lt r l the other with a light coloured string.t.„ o f es 4 je c f two papers into a box. There was a . 10w,. 1 0 yf os t0;e0 o , box, and I put the sovereigns upon it, a• the vista,:isge, ite• tit and put the key in my pocket, and Pasl i t i ta e. t bed. The prisoner was below at the sen t oa e ' e s' p etY, and eleven o'clock in the forenoon 1 P lea sol o sso o ple l prisoner in care of the house. I non, th e c t fc' d e o es. tore twelve and found the doors °Pen , 7 bs es 6° ,0 0 ; 15 - 010 . 1 4 ; away. 1 - in conseqeence went to n l s,. vt i it s a se sr e siese, der the bed. It was locked. I u nloe se ` beec,l!,etlftiie sib papers containing the sovereigns and , es , ":, 0f. 0 p," (13) OAP sent information to the police. Ne"' a sisliettsist ip ,„ e r ,1 penny pieces, some twopenny P,iec es ' e her of George 11., one foreign coin , °_' dra ire r brooches, and a pair of earrings, froin c e, tis t, I have not seen any of the propertYoll4l Aegsesos,e, John Atkinson said that, on the a/ Ott s trw74,le t s, up the 49 sovereigns in a brovvn b s i qs j; ,,,,l l o , t l 4 ; in anther. One of them was tied vo• , . e f o r r;ip i v t v` ( ' ' them, n the box upon a bill of exchant_e; myself. It was a second bill of excb3j,'welit,,ete 11; paid. Witness added that he afterwar who t s sree- e ores o to Ireland in search of the prisoners:, n ee o f custody. Ile saw two tvvopenny 0 1 0 1 ', piece, a small crooked sixpence, a 5 - o `bjet ' i d 0 1 0 e. s s!!' t , • e sns r i o t , be s tir &c., in the possession of the Irish „ ga te h er 4 5 , 4,5 Ann Coady, a widow residing inrlstas ter be eo! se se, the 29th August the female prisone,f velirs_cettii ness had known her for about twla y s 'a' bet" in est'„„srv t :Q to England. Soine convervation pa,afhiesire_sarLifvtedo ness said " You seem to baits eonaforTe't a br i u t he r ncl h ej , e the wi t° r, said " Yes," and took from her Poe'npenet'eigtOe'atiiiie'd tied with a black string. Prisoner,f_severtop ?fob counted £49 in sovereigns a and the other small money noticed• v ,„ s , s our' Or r io , t• • the y 0 1 them up again, and then FllotVed Il t s b .l fol,i,g b e ; 4, got them from a captain's son who " go.ot 0 0° brought them from abroad. i‘ s a terfo r ., d ,i'tii 0 4 :0 0 4 ' ;I? Joseph Kenroy, a the of `: it a t t. came to his house on the 31st of I ha rp ed i sti .0 The male prisoner said to the inen ,1 stas oss of that amount. The male , p ro jace n t it e t "Va ti t ior ness said, "Itis an extraordinar_s'onne'r th i e f rl ts rA , P . l to ness waistcoat, took out a pin a - 1 l' o.w cil3 e bill of exchange. I toolc it, atn„s ,ialesl,saser,usc„, bill for se72 at 61 day's sigh" prre Atkinson - . I returned it to hiln• „ e, A nd is. i se" ' wa s t a i '," l /1 ‘ bet you five pounds it is a cash not ; atij hay of her of sovereigns. They drunk ' ll O O tb 3, 2itl! rt i t l i;0 1° Lawrence Freeman, a po rteri , fbcoobold, nth. the William Penn steana the Clarence Dock. The prisolle „ o s cine se s The male prisoner left the fern At lien vesse e rs ca ille s 0 0 w ro t 1 11 . Alr. ashore. to Ireland. The male erisq o e n slacr a y Y e j6 Constable Ainsworth said he s t: ofiv o - •,,to e ile rj e . 0 1 . constabulary of Ireland on vjr , 0 0.- o e 4 4; female was apprehended . the male prisoner what ma ra il •• e , 0 1-10 he heard that his daughter , ; l e _ll _ • ear e r let! sl3s be de°lliiin a y Se " I s" tks i ""t r s t and I came to Ireland in s a d e le sai d go - asked Mary Finnelly, IS Shes,„esa ce. • service without giv i ng s iott orie to ...- her father and mother had tk . ,,„'e is hp thi getic left N-tta tl z••-1"Y 111 Said V. • and rcsN cEs aMr. • a ranfor e%' '°fre ''4'fohr°s in c ool , t; • A I se eci.e • Gi l ,. jninantitp ea fro 71 ran• fortoi g ht s hand rare' ery 5 0'1 ' h tell e o , d aci e o n Fun'' A , kP , ion a tb , _ vf i,z4ti t nam es .. k; dea rel ,a 1 is 1 a 1 ,ertealstbidlydfreol.,ienhlir,rnastb i rnoetip,: l :oll.e:,;,,,:togrtlo3osl i 9 hteb,bi:t_r,:es s .riiiifo. th at Pr e` bee -en ionen,„ ere cleP°'-.ta house , "3e •, the as t . t r• , re ki 5 01 ?:timab 1• 171 e x it;4l o :.l'n: : (letha y, h 'tsi:rtt o llett c l l :ll , ( i i' reek i n , t he ' 4 3 j 4 e f re iS itoe , tita,