The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-01 00:00:00

ON THE IMPORTATION OF: FOREIGN CORN. By JOHN ROOK% AUTHOR Or " TAR MAW) IN CORN", ' AND " GEOLOGY AS A SCISCNCS, APPLIED TO ENGINEERING." The present crop of wheat in the southern counties of England, and beyond the great coal line, now properly secured, and making a dim allowance for a full breadth of that grain, may be confidently estimated at a bare average return. In the yield thereof, more inferior corn than ordinary is found, and no very abundant crop can be attended by such a defect. In most of the northern counties and midland districts of the kingdom, the elevation of which exceed 350 feet above the level of the sea, the present crop of wheat may with equal confidence be stated as deficient in yield, yet unsecured, and as having sustained considerable injury from recently wet weather. The sum of these incidents combined, together with the exhausted stores of grain in reference to the crop of the year gone by, make it now certain that the importation of foreign wheat must for the next twelve months continue unchecked by any rate of duty imposed thereon by the Corn Laws. Barley and oats may be estimated at a full average return for the present year. A comparatively high price for wheat in England during the ensuing twelve months being a settled matter, and thus much of the terms of currency decided, according to which a high price paid for the produce of the soil necessarily ab sorbs more circulating medium in its commercial distribu tion, the entire trading world now seems to ask, in doubtful anxiety, under these several contingencies combined, what shall the effect be on the foreign exchanges ? All decide that a pressure for money must consequently ensue. In whatever light the theory of money be taken, whether as an importation of foreign corn, producing an adverse ba lance of trade and corresponding effects on the foreign exchanges of money, or as a high price for corn, merely ab sorbing an augmented portion of the circulating medium, the anticipated effect is the same in its results. Every one looks, therefore, with intense anxiety to the steps which the direc tors of the Bank of England shall take. What ! do a clique of men work secretly, who have drawn the eye of the entire world of trade upon themselves, as well as the whole body of monied and banking interests, just as if those vital and widely-spread operations in commerce and currency depended upon the nod of a little band of men who act and conspire in secret ? So it is, however ; and on a re. view and summing of these highly subtile elements and com plicated materials, a very apt question lies on the surface thereof. Shall a balance of trade adverse to England occasion a corresponding adverse rate in the foreign exchanges of money absolutely ; or will the level of those exchanges wholly depend upon the steps taken by the directors of the Bank of England ? If there be any truth in ! principles of currency, as settled by Sir Robert Peel's bill, the directors of the Bank of England are not only bound to preserve the equilibrium of those exchanges—BUT—whencver they possess almost no treasure in their coffers ? and at such times only—they are bound to correct an adverse foreign exchange by the most strict of all laws whatever—self-inteiest, unto their very existence as a banking establishment. This is now their case. And however deficient the crop of wheat may be—however adverse the balance of trade—however much foreign wheat may be bought by gold, and however few articles of merchan dise may be exported in return, the directors of the Bank of England are bound by law, and by the power of law, to pre serve the equilibrium of the foreign exchanges inviolably and absolutely. Even close the ports against the importation of foreign corn, which cannot be otherwise than assumed, and would not the absorption of the circulating medium by a high price of corn in the home market nevertheless enforce the bank of England the necessity of preserving an equal level in the rate of the foreign exchanges inviolably and absolutely. Even close the ports against the importation of foreign corn, which cannot be otherwise than assumed, and would not the absorption of the circulating medium by a high price of corn in the home market nevertheless enforce on the Bank of Eng land the necessity of preserving an equal level in the rate of foreign exchanges? An adverse balance of trade does not, therefore, enforce an absolutely adverse rate in the level of the foreign exchanges necessarily ; and this is the very principle on which Sir Robert Peel's Currency Bill is based. The eye of the whole trading world is now intensely fixed on those vital operations in commerce and currency which this principle in - that bill embraces. Yet here lam con strained to close for the present. However much the peace or the happiness of mankind may have been disturbed by the influence of currency, as the grand instrument by which in dustrial products are distributed by indirect barter, or how ever much they may suffer in future from the false applica tion of that influence, I am sure that the involutions and sub tile complications of commerce and currency are still most imperfectly understood by those who occupy high places, and settle the happy or the evil destinies of our fellow-men. For this my sorrow is deep and abiding. In saying thus much, I am driven to an opinion—because I have investigated thi s influential question honestly and without prejudice, as a dis tinguished and right honourable , baronet can bea r! witness, and I have. I think, said enough, to show that the necessary and calm discussion of these vital topics is far from being ex hausted. THE CORN LAWS. Extract from Sir James Graham's Speech at Me Meeting of the Netherlby Agricultural Association on the 17th ult. We have met together under various circumstances, and on many trying occasions. Sometimes you have partaken of my exultation on success, and on other occasions you have met me to console me under defeat ; but whether we have met under circumstances of prosperity or adversity, this common tie has always united us—your prosperity is my prosperity, and your adversity is my adversity. At the present moment there is a most abundant crop upon the ground, but there is a great difficulty in securing it. 1 do not wish to moralize, but I should not be doing justice to my own feelings if I failed to draw yonr attention for a few moments to the awful circumstance in which we may possibly be placed. It is alwpys my wish to exclude politics from this meeting, because I think they are the bane of associations of this nature, and I trust that the tone of the remarks I am about to offer will not subject me to the charge of infringing the, rule, which I profess a desire to have observed, I must declare, that I have heard with the deepest regret sentiments of extreme violence uttered lately in many parts of the country. A declaration was made of an intention to hold what was called a " sacred month," during which *all labour was to be suspended. The time chosen for the execution of this project was the commencement of harvest, for the avowed purpose of de feating the bounty of Providence. Let me, my friends, call your attention to this remarkable circumstance —never, perhaps, was there a year of greater promise than the pre sent. I have traveitea through tne greater part of England and the South of Scotland, and never did I see more abundant crops on the ground. The declaration against working has been. rescinded ; the cultivator of the soil no longer fears that his crops will spoil for want of reapers—the foolish and wicked decree of man has prevailed not. But mark the stern decree of Providence. The crops are plenteous—the sickle is prepared, and the reapers are willing to work, but the elements prevent them from gather ing in the ripened harvest. This is a striking, an awful warning! I hope that irreparable injury is not yet done to the crops. I hope that the hand which can destroy as well as give increase may yet be stayed, but I have felt it my duty to avail myself of this opportunity of directing your attention to considerations which have weighed heavily with me. I look on the present state of the harvest as a striking warning which I hope will not be thrown away upon the people of the country. (Hear, hear.) There is another circumstance connected with this topic which I can not altogether overlook. It is frequently urged that the maintenance of our domestic agriculture is a landlord's and not a tenant's question. I have always endeavoured, in the face of those who are the most powerful advocates of that opinion, to combat it. (Cheers.) It is a mistake to suppose that a tenant would take land with the intention of being a permanent occupier of it without expending, on the faith of his confidence in the landlord, a large amount of private capital. It is vain to say that ft farmers might withdraw their capital from the land and ')..0.k it in other kinds of business. The capital sunk in ..griculture cannot be with drawn from it,- the more particularly at a moment when the very existence of - domestic agriculture was threatened. What farmer would lay out a capital on his farm if he believed his landlord would eject him from it at the end of two or three years ? And in like manner who would be found to give a fair equivalent for the capital invested in land if the legislature should pass an act which would diminish the value of the land's produce one-half ? (Hear, hear.) If by a rash and sudden act of the legislature all protection should be with drawn from the cultivators of the soil, and this great com munity rendered dependent on a supply of foreign grain, certain ruin would await the great body of landlords, but their ruin would be insignificant in point of numbers and wealth compared with that which would fall upon the mass of the occupiers of the soil, and not upon them alone, but upon the agricultural labourers. (Loud cheers.) You all know by practical experience how small a proportion rent bears to the outgoings necessary in the cultivation of land. (Hear, hear.) The larger proportion of these outgoings is expended in labour. Think what would become of those immediately dependent on the cultivators of the soil, if by a rash and sudden altera tion of the law you should be compelled to cease employing them. A convu lsi on of the whole soc i a l system won ld ensue if an immense number of agricultural labourers should be thrown into the market for manufacturing labour, thereby reducing the wages o f those work men now exclusively occu pied in that description of labour. Those who desired to try the experiment of depending upon a supply of foreign grain, have, to a certain extent, had their wish gratified. Last year there had been a great demand for foreign grain owing to the deficiency of home produce. The people of this country have, by immense exertions, been able to import, in the course of the last year, a larger quantity of foreign corn than has ever been imported in any previous year. I fear that in the pre sent year a deficiency of the home produce will occur and again occasion a great demani for foreign corn. Under these circumstances, therefore, those who like the experi ment to which I have just alluded will have seen it tried upon a large scale. (Hear, hear.) I fear that it will be found to be by no means consistent with national prosperity. But it may be said this it a sudden demand, and that a differ ent effect would follow if the demand were constant and per petual. We cannot command a 'erica of seasons of abun dance in this country. We know by fatal experience that we have constantly two or three seasons together of an adverse character. Suppose that, foreign corn being admitted, a much smaller quantity was grown in this country (as would certainly be the case), and that a succession -of bad seasons sliould render us wholly, dependent on, foreign, supply, what would be the situation of our immensepopulabon of twentyp four millio ns cro wd e d i n t o the space of two narrow islands, and looking for the supply of their daily bread, not only to Europe, but to all parts of the world ? (Hear, hear.) I be lieve that the whole civiliied world would be .inadequate to meet the extraordinary demand which would arise under such circumstances, and that history could afford, no parallel to the scene of distress—to the strife of angry passions, which would be called into play when twenty-four millions of people, confined within our narrow limits, should be reduced to the extremity of want and actual famine. (Cheers.) My strong impression, therefore, is, that to do mes ti c agriculture we must look for security against horrors which I cannot depict, but which must occur to every one a s th e necessar y resu lt o f a real famine being experienced in these islands. Such being my opinions, I have always, since I entered into public life, both from inclination and duty, done my utmost to favour domestic agriculture in every possible manner, and to defend it from all assaults. (Loud cheers.) These are my general opinions, and I have been aided by you in giving practical effects to them. I have had other objects of ambition which at times call me far away from you ; but to my native estate —to . my own home—l always return with the most heartfelt My. My chief pleasure is to improve the estate I have in herited, and in doing ao I am certainly materially assisted by the most industrious, the most true-spirited, and most honest body of cultivators of the soil it has ever been my happi ness to be acquainted with. PORT LINCOLN.—The settlement of this important har bour proceeds with great rapidity. The Abeona sailed on Monday with a large party of gentlemen interested in the en terprise. The Porter and the Dorset follow during the sours(' of next week, both fully loaded, by Mr. Porter and Mr. C. Smith. Dr. Imlay has contracted to land stock there at the same rate as at Glenelg ; and, not least in importance, a news paper—The Port Lincoln Herald, is to be published on Wed nesday week. Vigour of this description is not to be stifled by any set of monopolists ; and we are glad to say that apli cation has been already made through an influential quarter for the establishment of a branch bank of one of the Van Dieman's Land Companies.—South Australian Gazette. SWAN RIVER FLEAS.—The Australian fleas are half as large as a barleyco rn ; and in th e S wan Ri ver Region, the plan of gett in g rid of these pests is to carry the bed and bedding and spread them near an ant-hill, the denizens of which will seize the sleeping fleas and . carry them off.—.Re witting Travels in South Austral i a. •-• S • pp.re ;.' : • -"-'1 ~ ' . 'r' O'CONNELL LIES. (From the Oxford Herald.) If a solitary bird be put up from under the sportsman's feet, 'tis ten to one that his steady aim will bring it down ; but if a covey of six or eight brace rise, right and left, it is possible, unless he has tolerable command of nerve, that all may escape without a feather being touched. So it is when we have to deal with untruths, if a speaker or writer hazard an isolated falsehood, there is something obvious to mark and to bring down by a counter statement : whereas, if an indi vidual let fly his lies, right and left, here a dozen and there a score, the downright impudence of the deed is so startling as to operate very favourably for the escape of the delin quent, scot-free. . . There lives at Derrynane a man of undoubted mendacity, relying on the indulgences obtainable at the confessional for service of all work in the good cause, wherein the end sanc tifies the means. This man has been very emphatically and aptly characterised by a fellow-countryman, as " the man whose life is one huge living lie." He has lately, in follow ing up his vocation, penned several letters, to which we would call the attention of the Anti-Mendicity Society, as the main object of these precious epistolary effusions is to gull the public, and to transfer their pence, shillings, and pounds, to his own begging-box. Like the ordinary compositions of the mendicant fraternity, these are a tissue of falsehood from beginning to end ; but they have not been allowed to circu late without exposure and contradiction from more than one champion of the truths Just to show the brazen front with which this Milesian Yahoo asserts " the thing which is not," we will give a sin gle example of his inventive faculty—ex uno disce onmes : " First christianity was introduced into England and En glishmen were converted to that divine religion by St. Austin, who arrived in the isle of Thanet about the year 596. He was sent to this country by the then Pope St. Gregory the Great." Had he said " Popery was introduced into England and Anglo-Saxons were converted to that corrupt and idolatrous form of christianity by Austin the emissary of Pope Gre gory," he would have said the truth. As it stands, the as sertion is false. The Catholic Faith, pure and Apostolical Christianity, was planted in Britain, according to Gildas, (who died 570 A. D.) in the latter part of the reign of Tibe rius, five years after the death of Christ and five years be fore St. Peter came to Rome. Other authorities date the in troduction of christianity into the island as late as 60 A. D. St. Lucius, the first christened king of the world, founded St. Peter's Church in Thorney, (now Westminster) as the Cathedral of London, and established two other archiepisco pal sees at York and Caer-Leon upon Usk. He died 207 A.D. In the persecution under Diocletian, St. Alban suffered martyrdom by decapitation at Holmehurst, (now St. Alban's) 290 A. D. His instructor Amphibolus suffered at the same place : and at Lichfield so many Christians were put to death that the city arms are a field charged with martyrs, in com memoration of that bloody event. St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, was a British Princess and`resided in York, 300 A. D. Three British Bishops attended the council of Arles in France, 314 A. D. The see of Man, of which Amphibolus was first bishop, was founded 360 A. D. Mor gan a monk of Bangor, better known by the name of Pela gins, was living, 400 A. D. The Cathedral of Bangor is de dicated to St. Daniel, who was bishop of that see' 516 A.D. Early in the same century two Gallician bishops, Lupus and Germanus, came over to check the progress of Pelagianism ; they consecrated St. Dubritius, Archbishop of Caer-Leon. The see was removed to Menevia, in the time of his successor St. David, (whose name it afterwards bore, 519 A. D.) Ken tigern, Bishop of Glasgow, founded the Bishoprick of Llan delwy, 560 A. D., which was afterwards called St. Asaph, from Kentigern's successor in the see. Bertha the Kentsh Queen, daughter of Chilperic of France, was a Christian be fore Austin's arrival, and Luidhard, a learned Gallican Biskop, was resident at her Court. St. Austin only repaired and consccrated afresh the Cathedral of Canterbury, which had been a Church in the time of the Britons. When he arrived in England, the Metropolitan of St. David's had still seven suffragan Bishops under his jurisdiction, Worcester, Llan daff, Bangor, Hereford, St. Asaph, Llan-Bader, and Mor gan. A conference took place in 602 A. D., at which the Ro mish Prelate of Canterbury endeavoured, but in vain, to obtain the submission of the British Bishops ; and Dinothus, Abbot of Bangor, made it appear, by divers arguments, that the British Church neither followed the rites nor acknow ledged the authority, of the see of Rome. Now if any ene of all these particulars, in which we have names and places and dates be true, then is DANIEL O'CON NELL'S assertion false ; and he must have known it to be false, if he knew any thing either of the Martyrologies, or of the Saints in the Romish Calendar ; even if he had ever looked into Rapin, he must have known his own statement to be a wilful and deliberate falsehood. THE REPEALER. (From the Dublin Stateeman.) Another long epistle from old Daniel, and the theme Re peal! To the general reader for amusement, or instruction, this is an unsatisfactory production—there is nothing inter esting in it. We have no new light thrown on the subject— no new argument advanced—and at the end we are just left as wise as at the beginning. He tells us a great many good and sufficient reasons why the cause is not likely to prosper ; and, also, the reasons why he will not despair of it. Then, at the close„we are left in doubt which way the balance lies. The chief causes for not despairing are —first, that he (Daniel) is for Repeal himself ; and, 2dly, that seven mil lions of Irish men and women are so likewise. If this were true—but we are sceptical on the point. We do not believe that seven millions —no, nor five, nor two, nor one million of Irish are at all anxious about the matter. And as to Daniel O'Connell himself, we believe him to be quite unconcerned on the subject. There is an impress of humbug and delusion very discern able on the seal of this epistle—and in its details and parti culars it does not belie the mark. It is part of Mr. O'Con nell's vocation to write such letters. He has placed himself in such a position that he must go on with the jugglery which has brought him where he is. Simon Magus, we are warranted in supposing, gave up his trade in sorcery and witchcraft when converted by the preaching of Philip (see Acts, 10th chapter), but of O'Con nell's conversion by the preaching of any body, we have as yet the pleasing intelligence to receive. He therefore goes on writing those bamboozling letters so supremely contemptible to the eye of common sense—so worthy of a charlatan—so disgraceful to the writer—if any act he does, can further de grade or disgrace a man so justly despised by all that is esti mable and right minded in society. We feel very little disposed to dip into a production so luelTlibly stupid and ridiculous. Is It possible, we ask our selres, that there is a class of people whom this thinly disguised farce and humbug can impose upon—who really believe the man to be serious ? But we are forced to ac knowledge after a very little reflection, that such there may be, and very likely is—i ut they must be Papists. None other but Papists could be imposed upon. And Papists being men that worship a little flour and water as deity, and sub mit their understandings, souls, and bodies to the unrestricted management of a set of swindling priests, may believe in anything. And it is evident to us indeed from many little marks that might escape other and less attentive, or less practised readers, that this epistle was framed for Papists, addressed to Papists, and intended for Papists only. We trace the symbols in it. " There are, I pledge myself seven millions of repealers in Ireland (great cheering.) Breathe but the breath of hope, and their numbers will be increased and consolidated." Here is the true key to the repeal busi ness. It is a pure affair of Popery. Dan thus throws the wink, with the signs and pass-words of popery—and the yell is immediately raised. It is the war-cry against Pro testantism—and the savages whom the abominations of Peter Dens, and all the priests have properly educated for the response—shout in chorus. It is a cry of havoc to the dogs of war—and Ribbonrnen instinctively gnash their teeth, and whet their pikes. Protestants have nothing to do with what is called the repeal agitation, except to be on their guard. Thy Repealer indeed scarcely asks them to take part in it. All the encouragement be holds out to them is this —He says, " we are bound by every impulse of duty, to convince the Protestants that they have " nothing to lose as sectarians," whilst as Irishmen (viz., converts to Popery) they have everthing to gain." The Protestants of Ireland are not sectarians now, and will not become so under an O'Connell regime of Repeal. We trust they will never become " Irishmen" on Mr. O'Con nell's terms, of ceasing to be Protestants. That the Repealer does not consider Protestants as " Irish men" may be seen from a passage in this epistle wherein he says— " This party, under the denomination of ' the ascendancy,' or of ' Orangeism,' is ungenial to Ireland, and almost totally devoid of all sentiments of nationality, or of any love of fa ther-land—the spirit of patriotism and affection is stifled in their bosoms, by selfish and bigotted pursuits and objects. They have, in fact, no country, and in the secret cogitation of their minds, they look upon Ireland and the Irish people as materials for peculation and plunder, &c. They are of the land, but they belong not to it in feelings, in opinions, or affections." Such is the Repealer's description of Irish Protestants. They are men " without a country." Yet they may have one—how ? marry, by identifying themselves with the land in feelings and opinions, or in other words, by bowing the knee to Baal, and worshipping the idols that bring down the judg ments of Heaven upon us. " All these things, w ill I give thee," said the Devil to our Lord, "if thou wilt fall down and worship me." These are plainly the only terms on which the Repealer will allow Protestants to have any pos session in Ireland, or even bestow upon them the name of Irishmen. Let us beware of such Hibernicism. We have been very guilty in the sight of God, (a great many of us at least,) in degrading and compromising our most holy faith for the glozing and flattery of men who would call us Irish men forsooth, on such base terms. May they have reason to retract the title on such grounds from every one of us, and from our children's children ! Of true, Protestant patriotism towards Ireland, we shall take another opportunity of speak ing. We shall demonstrate what Protestants, if they would have a country of their feelings, opinions, and affections, ought to do. TRADE TO CHINA.—On Wednesday last a deputation, consisting of William Nicol., Harold Littledale, Thomas Ripley, William Potter, and George Armstrong, Esqrs., left Liverpool for London, to seek an interview with Lord Pal merston on the present state of our relations with China. The interview took place on Friday, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The deputation having stated to his lord ship the object of their visit, the Foreign Secretary admitted the great importance of the trade between Great Britain and China, and the necessity of placing it on a more secure foot ing than it had for some time stood. The subject, he assured the deputation, had engaged his anxious attention ; and, though, from the absence from town of several members of the government, he had not had an opportunity of conferring with his colleagues on it, he hoped, that in a few days, a cabinet council would be held, when the whole question should be considered with the attention which its importance demanded. The deputation left the Foreign-office highly pleased with the manner in which Lord Palmerston had re ceived them., and perfectly satisfied with the assurance he gave, that, in whatever mode the government might deem it necessary to interfere, that interference should be effectual for the protection of the liberties, the lives, and the property of British subjects in their intercourse with the Chinese. The Liverpool deputation, in conjunction with the deputa tions from Manchester, Glasgow, &c., appointed Messrs. Crawford, Larpent, and Abel Smith, of London, to watch over their interests, and to confer with the government on Chinese affairs. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The deck of the Erebus, 011 Wednesday, was nearly one-third occupied by casks con taining beef and pork, a four years' supply having been pro vided. It was on that day that the ship's company took up their abode in the vessel, havir , for some time previously occupied a hulk lying alongside. It was intended the same afternoon to drop down from Chatham Dock to Gillingham, to join the Terror; but it was found necessary to postpone doing so till the following day. Great ingenuity has been displayed in providing the means of taking and preserving whatever may be important to natural history. Walking sticks, not larger than those commonly in use, have been hollowed, so as to carry nets for catching insects. The ferrule at the bottom is removed, and the nets are drawn forth ready for instant use. Spirits of wine, in bottles of all sizes, have been furnished to preserve the insects. Small con servatories are on board, which can be kept at any tempera ture, with a view of bringing home living plants ; and long gauze bags, with mouths of common netting, will be drawn after the ship in certain latitudes, where small marine animals, not known to us at present, may possibly be found. An abundant store of warm clothing is on board, and, in a word, every comfort is intended to be afforded to the mariners. Mr. M'Cormick, the surgeon, has a small printing press with him. Should the vessels be icebound for a season, this will probably enable him to bring out the Erebus Time*, daily or weekly.—Court Gazette. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE (From the Orford Herald) Harrow School Chapel was consecrated on Tuesday, Sept. 24th, by the diocesan and visitor, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. The sermon was preached by the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, vicar of the parish, and one of the gover nors of the school. The altar piece was presented by Mr. Joseph Neeld, M. P., one of the governors, and a marble tablet and service b oo k s f or th e a lt ar b y Lord Dungannon. On the 18th inst. Mr. Sydney George Selwyn, from Win chester College, was admitted a Scholar of New College, in the University. The Rev. Lewis Walsh Owen, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, has been instituted, by the Lord bishop of London, to the Rectory of the Holy Trinity, Colchester, and to the Vicarage of Marks Tey, in the County of Essex. Patrons the Master and Fellows of Balliol College. The Rev. Benjamin Bradney Bockett, M. A., of Magda len Hall, has been presented to the Vicarage of Epsom, Surrey; patroness, Mrs. Pugh, of Bernard-street, and South borough, Kent. PROMOTIONS. Rev. Edward Hawkins, M. A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Dowell: patron, the Lord Bishop of Glou cester and Bristol. Rev. Giles Daubeny, to the Rectory of Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Miles : patroness, Mrs. Collins, of Betterton. Rev. Thos. Chambers, M. A. of St. John's Coll. Cam bridge, to be Head Master of the Royal Navy College. Rev. J. A. Body, B. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, to be Chaplain to the Manchester Poor House, vacant by the death of the Rev. Edward Hayes. Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner, M. A. to the Perpetual Curacy of St. James's, Clerkenwell, with Pentonville, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Shepherd, M. A. of St. Edmund's Hall. This living is in the patronage of the inhabitants of the parish. The candidates for it were—Mr. Faulkner, and the Rev. Robert Crawford Dillon, D. D. of St Edmund Hall. The poll continued three days ; at its close the numbers were —for Mr. Faulkner, 1576 ; Dr. Dillon, 1330 ; majority for Mr. Faulkner, 246. Rev. Mr. Bennett, of Dublin, to the Curacy of Knock breda, Belfast. Rev. Robert Bland, of King's College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Tutbury, Staffordshire ; patron, the Archdeacon of Derby. Rev. George Lardner Foxton, M. A. Curate of Martley, to the Vicarage of St. Peter's, Worcester, with the Chapeldry of Whittington annexed, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Wm. Smith, Vicar of Overbury ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. Rev. John Delmege, to the Curacy of Banagher, Ireland. Rev. Robt. Cage, to the united livings of Tessara, Diocese of Elphin, Ireland. Re;. Chatterly Bishop, to the Ministry of the Church of St. Catherine, Northampton. Rev. W. R. Mahony, to the District Curacy of Farnham, Ireland. BLOWING UP THE WRECK OF TIIE ROYAL GEORGE (From the Times.) We learn with great satisfaction that Colonel Pasley, with the usual success which attends well-directed perseverance, has at length succeeded in firing off one of his enormous sub marine mines of gunpowder against the wreck of the Royal George, at Spithead. At two o'clock on Monday afternoon, as we learn from our Portsmouth correspondent, a cylinder, containing 2,320 lb. of powder, was carefully lowered to the bottom, where it was placed alongside the most compact por tion of the wreck which has yet been discovered by the di vers. This operation was effected by means of hauling lines, rove through blocks attached to the bottom of the ship by the divers. When everything was ready, the vessel in which the voltaic battery was placed was drawn off to the distance of 500 feet, which is the length of the connecting wires, and in stantaneously on the circuit being completed the explosion took place, and the effects were very remarkable. At first the surface of the sea, which had before been perfectly smooth and calm, was violently agitated by a sort of tremulous mo tion, which threw it into small irregular waves, a few inches only in height. This lasted for three or four seconds, when a huge dome of water made its appearance, of a conical or ra ther beehive shape. At first it appeared to rise slowly, but rapidly increased in height and size till it reached the altitude of 21 or 30 feet, in a tolerably compact mass. It then fell down and produced a series of rings, which spread in all di rections. The first, or outer one of these, having the aspect of a wave several feet in height, curled and broke, as if it had been driven towards the shore. Neither the shock nor the sound was so great as had been expected by those who had witnessed the former explosions by Colonel Pasley, where the quantity of powder was only 551 b. ; but the effect produ ced on the water at the surface, considering that the depth was 90 feet, was truly astonishing. What the effect has been upon the wreck will not be fully ascertained by the divers till the present spring tides are over, and the long periods of slack water at the neaps enable the divers to remain for up wards of half an hour under water. In the mean time, it is highly satisfactory to know that Colonel Pasley has com pletely established his command over the application of the voltaic battery to sub-marine purposes, and that he can now with certainty explode his charges at any depth of water. This will give him the power of placing his cylinders against the most refractory parts of the wreck, and, by blowing these to pieces, and dislocating the knees, timbers, and beams, enable him to draw the whole up, bit-by-bit, to the surface. Any person who has seen the operation of breaking up a ship on land knows that this is the only way of going to work with a mass se firmly bound togather as a line-of-battle-ship, that even the action of 57 years of decay under water goes but a small way to disintegrate the parts. The manly per severance of Colonel Pasley, therefore, we are well convinced, will, in the end, effectually clear the noble anchorage of Spithead of this extremely troublesome obstruction. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From the Morning Herald.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 27.—1 t has been already stated that Col. Pasley succeeded on Monday in exploding, by the ap plication of the voltaic battery, 2,3201 b of gunpowder against the wreck of this unfortunate ship, but that the effect upon it will not be fully ascertained by the divers until the present spring tides are over. The divers have, however, since descended to explore, as far as was practicable, and they re port so favourably of its beneficial results as to leave no doubt whatever that by a repetition of two or three similar explo sions, every fragment of this hitherto serious im! ediment to the most important part of the anchorage at Spithead may be readily severed and brought up to the surface. It is well known that the Royal George originally carried none but brass guns, but that some time previously to her catastrophe, those on her lower deck were landed at Plymouth, and iron guns, 36 pounders, substituted for them, which were trans ferred from the Glory. About three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon the divers secured one of these and a brass 24- pounder, which were soon afterwards hauled up. The for mer came up, mounted on its carriage as it was found. It is much corroded, but the carriage, which is constructed of elm, has suffered no decay. The brass 24 pounder is a beau tiful piece of ordnance, and is in as perfect a state of pre servation as when it came from the foundry. These guns have been deposited in the dock-yard, and have excited the greatest curiosity, and the same may be said of the timbers that have been removed from her, much anxiety having been exhibited to obtain possession of any portion for the purpose of conversion into articles of use. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX'S MARRIAGE. The following extraordinary letter, from the brother of the late Lady Murray, appears in " The Naval and Mili tary Gazette:"— Frimley, Bayshot, Sept. 10, 1839. Sir,—From your journal of the 7th instant, which I have just read, I copy the following extract—" Sir Augustus D'Este, the son of the Duke of Sussex, by Lady Augusta Murray," &c. &c. Now, as the above would seem to imply that that lady was not the wife of the duke, I trust that you will give insertion to this, in which I beg to acquaint you, that it is a matter of history that the lady in question was twice married to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex —first at Rome, in the year 1793, and, secondly, in the parish church of St. George, in Hanover-square, agreeable to the forms of the established church, by the publishment of banns. It is true that, by the authorities that then were in this Christian land, a Christian Judge was found to set aside the validity of such second marriage, though no part of the divine law which would have justified such judgment was assigned as a cause for such divorcement by either of the parties ; on the contrary, they both protested against it. But be this as it may, it often happens to us short-minded mor tals, that when attempting to commit an act of injustice, the result turns out to be the contrary, as it did in the present case :—For, as the late Lord Chancellor Thurlow observed— " the fools (referring to the members composing the Privy Council, invited to investigate the subject of such last mar riage) have contrived to establish and prove the solemnization of the former one at Rome, of which they cannot take any cognizance." And the result was, that the parties conti nued to reside altogether, his Royal Highness always treat ing and calling her by the endearing appellation of ma femme, and presenting her as such to strangers, while giving to her the appellation of Princess in speaking of her, as well as that of Prince to their son, to whom your extract refers—or assure yourself, Sir, the person who now addresses you would never have been a second time a visiter at his Royal High ness's, where he was not unfrequently a guest when he was in town, though well assured at the time that no means, how ever justifiable, but were resorted to by a great majority of the members of the Royal Family, to induce his Royal High ness to forsake his wife and children (save and except his late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, w'io ever treated her with the greatest kindness and consideration) : but sub sequently his Royal Highness and his wife, being fully con vinced that there was no chance of his getting his establish ment so long as he resided with tier, such being the determi nation of the king, as signified to him from his Majesty, his Royal Highness made up his mind to proceed to Lisbon, where, not long after his arrival, he was created Duke of Sussex, with an allowance of £12,000 per annum ; and who subsequently executed a deed, in which was fully stated the two marriages before-mentioned, and then goes on to settle £4OOO per annum, out of the £12,000 so granted to himself, ai a proper separate provision for his wife, the Duchess of Sussex and their children. But from causes which it is not necessary to advert to, no part of the £4OOO. being forthcom ing for several years, a petition was presented to the Lord Chancellor praying that an injunction might be issued, that the £12,000 payable to the Duke of Sussex should be stopped in the Exchequer ; which prayer (notwithstanding the most powerful opposition to it) was acceded to, and there the money was supposed to be locked up, whilst the Duchess was left to struggle and contend, as she best might, with the most distressing pecuniary difficulties, and all the wanton perse cutions which power could inflict upon her—by getting her arrested and exposed to every species of contumely, doubt less with the hope that she would have sunk under the evil with which she was assailed. About this period it was that the Duke of Kent, having been acquainted with the difficulties under which she was labouring, had it intimated to her, through one of her friends, and there was no probability, from the determination of the King, that she would ever get any money which was locked up in the Exchequer until she ceased to designate herself as Duchess of Sussex, ceased to use the royal liveries, and ac cepted another title—a measure which his Royal Highness strongly urged her adoption of, as circumstances might ar rive at some future day which would justify her resumption of what might, in some measure, be considered as forced upon her; and notwithstanding my exertions to the contrary, she acceded to the recommendation of the Duke, and subse quently assumed the title of the Baroness D'Amelande—one derived from the House of Orange—her husband, the Duke of Sussex's progenitor, having intermarried with the eldest daughter of the illustrious Prince William of Nassau, while he, the Duchess's progenitor, had intermarried with a younger daughter. A. Al URRAY. The Great Western Cotton Company have subscribed £lOOO towards the erection of a church in the vicinity of their works.—Bristol Journal. It is rumoured that Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, the pre sent commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, will succeed the late Sir Thomas Hardy, as Governor of Greenwich Hos pital ; that the Hon. Admiral Fleming. the commander-in chief at Portsmouth, will succeed to the command of the Mediterranean. No officer is yet named as likely to be ap pointed to the command at Portsmouth, in the event of this change, which is confidently spoken of. It is in contemplation to form a railway between Monk- Wearmouth and the village of Whitburn, erect at the latter place warm and cold baths, and make this delightful little village one of the most attractive watering places on the coast. Newcastle Journal. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING. THIRD DAY.—FRIDAY. The attendance was scarcely so numerous as on Thursday, the day being somewhat gloomy and unpromising, though, as it turned out, no rain fell during the races. The ground presented a lively appearance, and there appeared to be a considerable accession to what may be termed the subsidiary sports of the race-ground. In addition to the Grand Stand and the other stands, there were numerous tents in the back ground, and all manner of inducements in the lighter variety of gambling, for the unwary to expend their cash. It is but justice, however, to the managers of the races and the ma gistrates, to state that the tolerated amusements were gene rally of much less exceptionable character than those " ex perienced" on the same ground some years ago; and the surveillance of the police at these recent meetings gives pro mise that the grand " national" sport of our country— " horse racing"—will become purified of the attainder that has of late years been attached to it, and that it may be blamelessly enjoyed by the most scrupulous in morals, the most delicate in feeling,—the wives and the daughters of the men of England. The following is a return of the day's sport : The KNOWSLEY STAKES of 30 sovs each, h ft, with 50 sovs added, for two-year-olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b. Sir T. Stanley's ch c Rabbitcatcher (Templeman) 1 Lord Stanley's b f Betsey Austin . Betting-3 to lon the winner. Won in a canter. The HEATON PARK STAKES, a Sweepstakes of 20 sous each 10 forfeit, and 5 only if declared on or before the Ist o . September, with 100 sows added. Once round and a dis• tance. Lord Milltown's ch in Cruiskeen, 5 yrs Mr. Ramsay's br c Lanercost, 4 yrs Lord Maidstone's br h St. Bennett, 5 yrs.. The following also started, but were not placed :—Light foot, Ole Bull, Harpurhey, Roscius, La Sage Femme, and Methea. Nine other horses were entered, but did not start. Epirus, Job Trotter, Hetnian Platoff, Opera, and St. An drew, entered for the same race, declared forfeit, and paid £5 each. This was the most important race of the three days' meet ing. There was an unusually fine " field," no fewer than nine crack horses coming to " the scratch," and all in apparently prime condition. The lead was taken at starting by Roscius. Medwa was second and Lanercost third. There was some little " dodging" at the go-off, through which Lanercost got, in a short time, rather jammed, and became the fifth or sixth horse. When near to the canal bridge, at the north end of the course, ttoscius gave up, and Madwa also dropped a little astern. It was scarcely possible for any single spectator to witness the whole contest, which was a keen one, with any thing like accuracy, except in the imme diate proximity of the running. We may state, however, that, throughout the race, Cruiskeen was upon the haunches of Lanercost, and at the bottom of the course, (a distance of half a mile from the winning post,) St. Bennett came up alongside of Lanercost. The whole of the " ruck" were all up at the time—except Medwa, who showed weakness in the concluding part of the contest. From the north end of the course " home," it became a slashing " doment." St. Bennett and Lanercost came up nearly abreast, and made a desperate rush to gain the goal ; but, in consequence of the great weight they had to carry, and the excellent riding of the youth who rode Cruiskeen, they were left in the rear. The horses came all well up, Cruiskeen winning by about a length ahead of Lanercost, who beat St. Bennett by about the same distance. We should here state, and we have much gratification in doing so, that the success of the winning horse, owned by Lord Milltown, was hailed by repeated and enthusiastic cheers, and that his Lordship (who is a liberal patron and supporter of the amusements of the turf) was greeted in his carriage by the warmest acclamations. The Earl of Sefton was on the ground, and his presence—driving four in hand with great adroitness, was also acknowledged in a manner that must have been gratifying to his feelings as a gentleman and a sportsman. The betting, at the starting of the Heaton Stakes was—G to 1 agst St. Bennett, 4 to 1 agst Lanercost, 10 to 1 agst Light foot, 4} to 1 agst Harpurhey, and 4 to 1 agst the winner. The winner was ridden by a smart youth named Stag, ap parently not above 14 years of age. The stake won by Lord Milltown on this occasion, including the betting, in which he participated, was very considerable. The betting, as we have stated, was 4 to 1 agst the winner. Cruiskeen had to carry only sst 101 b ; St. Bennett, only the same age, had to carry Bst 121 b ; and Lanercost Bst 71b. In appreciating the power of a horse, this fact is worthy of consideration. THE MEGGERNIE CASTLE STAKES Of 5 sovs each, with 50 sovs added by the Earl of Sefton. The owner of the last horse to pay 5 sovs to the owner of the second horse. The winner to be sold for £l5O. To pass saddled and mounted in front of the Grand Stand before starting. To start from the Bridge turn, and run in. Not less than 3 horses, the property of different owners, to start, or the £5O will not be given. Mr. Whitelock's Doctor.. , 3 yrs Lord Eglinton's br c Shark, 2 yrs 2 Lord Stanley's br c Charlatan, 3 yrs Sir James Boswell's b f Magdalen, 3 yrs 4 The betting, at starting, was 2to 1 on Charlatan. The Doctor won by about a length. The race was a good one, but was not such as to require particular comment. A MATCH for 200 sovs each, p. p. Bst 41b each, T.Y.C. Mr. Fowler's b f Lalla Rookh (Darling) 1 Sir James Boswell's ch c Queen Ann.. (Templeman) 2 This race, being for two-year-old colts, was necessarily brief. Both horses make good play and kept nearly a-pace till within a short distance of the winning post, when Lalla Rookh, which had throughout shown superior vigour, won earily. A HANDICAP of 5 sovs each, with 30 sovs added, for the beaten horses, of Wednesday and Thursday. Once round and a distance. Four horses to start or no race. This intended race, in consequence of the required num ber of competitors not coming forward, did not come off. THE OPTION STAKES of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 30 sovs added. Heats, one mile and a quarter. The winner to be sold for £l5O if demanded, with the option of not being sold for less than £2OO, £250, or £3OO, carrying, if for £2OO, 51b extra ; for 250, 101 b. ; and for £3OO, 141 b extra. 8 7 for £2OO Mr Speed's Aimwell, 4 yrs... (M. Jones) 2 1 1 7 9 for £l5O Moss' ch no Maid Marton, 5 yrs (Shepherd) 1 3 2 7 2 for £l5O Mr. Dawson's b c The Blue Pill 3 yrs... 32 3 This race excited considerable interest. The first round however, tame and feeble—the horses going at little more than a canter—Maid Marton taking the laid. In the second and third beat, some play was shown, and Aimwell established his superiority by winning by a feet lengths. The races concluded with the last noticed match for the Option Stakes. The day was, upon the whole, and particu larly towards evening, chilly and threatening, but, though the sky was cloudy, no downfall took place, and the return to town in vehicles and on foot was diversified and diverting. We cannot but express our acknowledgements to Mr Etty and Mr. Jackson, both located at the winning post, for their kindness and attention in furnishing us with infor mation respecting the races. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS.—The markets since onr last have, like the wea ther, undergone some improvement, so far as regards the ex tent of business transacted, but prices have not been mate rially, if at all, enhanced. The transactions in the ware houses are more extensive, chiefly for the winter domestic trade.—Leeds Intelligencer. BRADFORD MARKET.—Our market, on Thursday, was very inactive. There were very few new goods in the market, but those in stock were fully equal to the demand, and the transactions that took place were chiefly at former rates. The demand for yarn was limited but steady, and prices un derwent no material change. The supply of wool. was con sidered scanty, though more than equal to the requirements of the spinners, and prices manifested a tendency to decline. The business done in wools was fully equal to that of last week.—lbid. YORK WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 26.—T0 day being the society of friends meeting in York, there was a very thin attendance of buyers as compared with former occasions at prices somewhat lower than our last quotation.—lbid. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 27.—Notwithstand ing that we are still unable to report the least improvement in the value of deep combing wools, the demand is quite equal to the supply : middle wethers are heaviest in stock, and may be quoted a shade lower in price than was obtained on this day fortnight. All kinds of short wools are without variation.—lbid. DEWSBURY.—The demand for goods here on Monday was very limited, and the sales were still further contracted by the refusal of the manufacturers to accept the reduced prices offered by the merchants, who seemed desirous to take ad vantage of the slackness in the demand. CHESTERFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 24.—The wool market in this district still bears an inanimate and languid character. The buyers, however, are still purchasing, but we cannot quote any material difference in the prices, which at present scarcely remunerates the grower. The depression is mainly to be attributed to the low rates of manufactured goods ; hut it is conjectured, as the winter approaches, the Yorkshire trade will be subject to a revival, and the demand for wool will meet with more activity, and the prices will be upon a more liberal scale. There are still large stocks in the farmers' hands, waiting an opportunity of disposing of it, if possible, to a better advantage.—lbid. PROPOSED MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN. (From the Watchman.) The Coburg Family. have left for the continent, and it is very generally understood, that the arrangements are com pleted for the communication of a marriage between Prince Albert of that house, and Queen Victoria; and it is also rumoured, that he is a convert to the Romon catholic re ligion. This report gathers much confirmation from the fact, that although Prince Ferdinand attended St. George's chapel while on a visit, his children attended high mass at the Rowan catholic chapel at Clewer. This chapel is pri vate property ; but it seems to be generally understood, that a new Roman catholic chapel is to be built in Windsor which will be worthy of Romish visitors to the English court, and the increasing number of officials ; and perhaps of the queen's husband, and . " When James 11. went to mass, the Duke of Norfolk, carrying the sword of state, stopped at the chapel door, and let the king pass. Your father,' said James to him, would have yonefarther.'—' Your ma jesty's father, replied the duke, would not have gone so far.' " Her majesty once had a father, who, it is believed, " would not have gone so far" as her surviving parent has done in the arrangements. But what are his brothers doing, to leave an affair of this importance in the hands of a family, which, by matrimonial alliances, and juvenile conversions, is evidently degenerating into popery ; and to a ministry which is bound hand and foot to do the bidding of the infidel and popish agitators of the day ? Are they not to be consulted ? and if not, are they not going to interfere ? Are they going to look on quietly, while the Coburgs provide for their relatives at the expense of the re ligion of our beloved country ?—and while the protestant throne of their revered protestant parent, passes into popish hands ! lt is more than a question of mere curiosity, whether the Duke of Wellington's visit to Windsor had any connexion with these matrimonial preliminaries. The Duke and Sir R. Pei ought to see to it, that they and their pro protestant coadjutors do not sleep at their posts. If there are two men in the nation who are more bound than any others to make every effort to avert a popish alliance, they are the men : for they brought forth the Catholic relief bill of 1829, but for which, popery could not now have been in the posi tion which it occupies in all the councils of the state, and in all the movements of the court. The duke at that time was given to understand from the bishops, that the Wesleyans generally we opposed to this fatal measure ; and we well remember that he admonished their lordships to beware that they did not nourish the piper of Wesleyanism to their own destruction. Time, however, has shown the groundlessness of his fears in reference to the conduct of the Wesleyans towards the church of England ; and the correctness of their apprehensions as to th e 'tendency of their relief bill to in crease the influence of the papist beyond successful control ; and the Wesleyans have a right, above any other Christians, to remind him of the fears which his conduct then excited, and to call upon him to save the nation from the fruits of his own want of foresight, in laying the foundation of all that we now unite to deplore, by passing the popish relief bill of 1829. POWER ON STEAM.—The greatest load lifted by any en gine now at work in this country was by one in the consoli dated mines, which raised a load of 90001bs. every double stroke it made, and did this nine times a minute, amounting to 567,022 tons, lifted 7 ft. 6 in. in twenty-four hours ; and this astonishing machine could be started, stopped, or regu lated, by a little boy.—Mechanics' Magazine. V As , ,l V • \ 4‘,1 MISCELLANEOUS. In the city of London registratien there has been a gain to the conservatives of 587 votes. 'EXTRAOEDINAR— SHEEP.—There if_ now in the possession . of John Brown, I sq.., Robertson-s - roet, Glasgow, at his stables, a sheep of .he Cheviot breed, weighing 20 stone as it stands alive ! All the cotton Ili Is at Ashton, 11. de, Stayley-bridge, Newtown, Mottra; I, &c. have resuried the working full time. It is calculi t( 1 that the forts -f ye firms in question will pay £lO,OOO in ; di itional wages tin ; N eek, a circumstance that cannot fail to b therwise than most heartily welcomed by the many thous& d hands employed in these bee-hives of industry. A CHALLENGE TO THE FIELD.—T ,e editor of the Wor eester 'Ellis (the Hol. William Linc du) closes a contro versy, which has been somewhat disast, ors to the Worcester Palladium, by offering to the editor of i b: t print honourable satisfaction in the fief I; the weapons t( Le hoes, each party to dig one acre of pota oes, and he whos = •vork is done the best, and in shortest ti me, to be declared U. e victor. Should the challenge to mortal potato-digging b ; ccepted, the edi tor of the ~Egis will tz ti,smit the size of IL hoe by a friend who will arrange the preliminaries for ti .e settlement of all difficulties.—Salem G.7.l7ette. FRIENDLY ARREST 4. —ln the Insolve it Debtors' Court on Wednesday, a ques Tod arose respeetin, • a friendly arrest. The insolvent was opds;sed, and it was admitted that his brother-in-law, to whoa he owed £lB5, he I ued him for £l5 as a friendly creditor, to enable him to tali , - tie benefit of the Act : his schedule was 1 repared before hi N;ent to prison. The Learned Chief Con nissioner said the Court would only sustain a petition on a fi 2,ndly arrest when he creditors were benefitted, and not in a c se of this description. The petition was dismissed according. 1. THE SIMPLON.—Extr tct of a letter fre c Genoa, Sept. 19 :—" We left this last : londay with the ityt -t *ion of passing the Simplon-road into It and had procee led 200 miles on our-way when, with grew mortificatiot., we -wiled that, du ring a recent storm, an avalanche hle fa, en and so com pletely destroyed full hal; a mile of this bet ai iful road that for several weeks it wil hardly be pasf,abl.: for carriages. We had no choice, theret ire, but to retain - . here, and proceed by Mont Cenis and Twit:. This is a sau lo qi of time and money to us ; 'but we nitt t be thankful tc hi Vl' escaped all other inconveniences, sini e many of the Eu ;-lish who were pursuing the same route lound all the inns 'ail, and some were obliged to sleep in their carriages. On Prussian fa mily had a narrow escape while passing the Hnonlon during the storm ; for, having left their carriage to NVB k on, their servant saw the torrent falling, and took the hoars s from the vehicle, when immediate ;y the avalanche ove.-w.elmed the latter and left not a wreck behind." EARTHQUAKE IN AVA.--AMERPOORA, APRI:, 8, 1839. — You will have learned the awful visitation of an earthquake we have had in this city I n the morning of the 23d ultimo, and of the disastrous results which attended it. We continue to experience shocks ever since up to the present rooment, occuring at intervals of an hour, nay, even oftener, along with a rumbling sound like distant thunder. At ie . , ween 2 and 3 a.m. on the day in question, we were all of a ,udden shaken off our beds from the rocking of the house it. the most violent and frightful manner, with the doors and wi idows flapping about with some force, and a noise not us. file the discharge of distant artillery. At this time every light and moveable article in the house was being thrown in e - ery di rection, and it was not w .thout some difficulty we k, it our selves on our legs. In stiort, the motion of the hous • could only be compared to the t)8 sin g of a boat on the bil 3ws of the ocean in a tempest. The vibrations were from n rth to south, or vice versa, for the faces of the buildings ptiming to those quarters suffered note than the rest, and I she...lld think it lasted about two or , hree minutes. When the shocks with the noise ceased, torre. ts of water were heard ru •1:1 ag down in every direction, v. with the darkened ap tr ance of the clouds, the noise , birds, and the dismal hot hag of parish dogs, tended greatl increase the awfulness o .e event. But at daybreak wl, t iscene of horror and des .- tion presented itself to our v v ! • Every brick buildin the city and surrounding hil'i without a single except - , whether a pagoda, monastery, lwelling-house, &c., was eit te: razed to the ground or shiveflt to pieces, burying in tl. tir ruins men, women, and childr. n. Thus hurled into eterni y hundreds of our fellow-creatu..ts, and at one blow, fell tae labour of centuries. It was, ntieed, a most fortunate cir cumstance for the people, that he proportion of brick house.; with those of wood or bamboo was very inconsiderable, else the destruction of lives would have been lamentably great. The earth was rent in several 1 laces into wide chasms and fissures, from ten to twenty feet wide, from which deluges of water had gushed, and a large quantity of gray earth thrown up, covering the place around se, , eral feet deep, and emitting a sulphurous smell. The rapid cu :rent of the Irrawaddy was even reversed at the time of the shock, and ascended op its bed for a while. The old cities of Ave and Tsagain, with their numerous pagodas and other edifices, have also been reduced to heaps of ruins, and their walls scattered and thrown down. The towns and villages, above and below the capital, have likewise suff , re-1, and it is reported that some have even been swallowed ut and others desti oyed by inundation. The number of persona hat perished Mare, and the surrounding towns and villages, amount to between 200 and 300, which number will, of con se, be expected to swell as reports arrive from more distant r aces. An occurrence like this is not in the recollection of t ,e oldest , inhabit ants in this country, nor is there any mention in one of their historical records. FIRE DAMP. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. Professor Graham, at the meeting of the British Association, made an important practical suggestion, which may be the means of saving many lives. He observed that the qfter damp, or carbonic acid, left 'a the atmosphere of a mine after an ex plosion, is suppose ..to occasion in many instances a greater loss of life than tie explosion ; at the same time it renders assistance imPracic fble. In many cases the oxygen of the air is not exhaustcfl )5 , the explosion, although from the pre sence of five or test 1 'r cent. of carbonic acid it is rendered irrespirable. The it• iosphere will be rendered respirable by withdrawing carbo,.i. acid, and he suggested a method by which this might b, t fleeted. He found that a mixture of slaked lime and porn ded Glauber's salt: , in equal proportions, has a singular avidity for carbonic ac,c, and that air might he completely puritie from that deleta-ious gas by inhaling it through - a cushion I not more than an inch in thickness, filled with that mix u a, which could ba done without diffi culty. This lime til ar would be an a dditional source of security wherever the safety lamp is nectsiary, and it should be invariably employe,. by persons who descend into a mine to afford assistance to :he sufferers. FALSE ALARM IN GIBRALTAR. (Firma Correspon dent.)-0a the night ( t the 7th instant t: fire broke out in the Main-street, Gibi 3, tar, at a very late Imir. The military were, as usual, called cut, and the ex t ra dinary noise and bustle, e the sight of al, he regiments at tt at hour, blue lights burning at the signal :;t itions, officers gal ping through the streets, &c., caused the peaceful inhabitants to believe that Gibraltar had been tal ?,n by storm. Tj, panic that this alarm spread through t .e garrison was unparalleled ; rusty swords, and guns withc .t locks, were imn,ediately put into requisition, women ser amed louder than their affrighted children, doors and wit lows were barrict ded, and various Parties of soldiers who ttempted to asce •tlin the cause of the riot, were put to a s eedy retreat by 11,t , ing sundry arti cles of furniture throw'. on their heads. a was along time before the alarmed inha itants could be a .c.ared that a fire was the only foe to thei, rest, and on 4 ts b iag extinguished by the extraordinary e) trtions of ti e mi. t.try, under the superintendence of the k wernor, who time r ; d at the engines during the greater part c • the night, it el peared that, instead of the Russians or other enemies having take t possession of the Rock, a tailor's wife after an extraordinary allowance of gin and water, had set in i• bed on fire.---(vorteier. GRAND JUNCTION A: 'D CHESTER ANA CREWE RAIL WAYS.—We understand that the directot the Chester and Crewe Railway Cot tpany have made en arrangement with the directors of the ',rand Junction Rail , , , av Company, which will have the effect of merging the forever project into the latter, on terms highl3 advantageous, taking into account the depreciated value of tire shares of the one npany, and the enhanced value of ft.( shares of the other. It must be advantageous to Chester hat so powerful a can pany pos sesses a direct interest in he line of railway, by rhich it is brought into direct conne: lion, by means of the reading arte rial railways with the me ropolitan and manuft ctliring dis tricts. The Chester and Crewe directory have a, so not been unmindful of the city interests in other respects, tor one part of the arrangements embrace that great desidera 'ILI to our river trade, a branch railway to the Potteries. The in.nediate consequence of these arrangements has been the a lv..rnce of the Chester and Crewe Railway shares above par ; trrad the ultimate consequence will be, the realisation of all tire advan tages to this city primarily contemplated by the Choster and Crewe Railway Company, with the certainty of the most direct co-operation of the most powerful and influervial rail way company in the king lona, instead of the risk of it I active hostility.—Chester Chronicle. QUACK MEDICINES.— ‘,t the conclusion of an i !quest, held on Tuesday, Mr. NN -,dey, M.P., said that last ; es sion he had given notice of a notion for the purpose of suppress ing the sale of quack medicines, but had withdrawn , t be cause it was represented to him that there were so nytny Members who were obtuse • ignorant of medicine, at. 1 he cause he was told the Dover n tent were, from principle ead practice, so wound up in t ything that savoured of e le. r latanism, that it would be !ess to persevere. Next ie s sion, however, he should no ..e deterred from bringing 'or ward a similar motion. One the greatest disgraces to ti e intelligence of this country \ as the encouragement give: t quacks, who might be caller , egalized murderess, for h Government stamp on the T. eison they sold was a sor; o' sanction to them. Supposinp the medicines they sold we rt perfectly harmless, still, as the q were held forth as an m versal remedy, their very inertness did incalculable injut v, for they allowed disease to prof a ss to such a height that tie remedies that at first would hay s been efficacious became itt the end, when applied too late cf no avail. Thus, whether quacks sold deadly poisons or harmless nostrums, they de stroyed life ; in the one case die ertly and suddenly, in the other indirectly and slowly. A mason throwing off a house negligently a stone and killing tl ei ewith a passenger in the street would be ty of wilful n. it der; not for wilfully slay. ing the individual passenger, but to his wilful neglect of the lives of mankind in the aggreg tra.. How far more guilty were the invetto .s and vendors of patent poisons ! They knowingly and wilfully administer oil them to individual pur chasers, and by .e system of eNte nsive public puffing, and forged and fictit n s recommett l tory documents, their deadly compounds were widely dis:.?l tinated among all classes of the community. THE TOMATO, OF LOVE APPLE.—A physician at Cincin nati, in the United tates (Dr. M affirms that he has discovered a suhstiti to for calomel it the above named ve getable, and that " i the south-we :t the compound extract of tomato is by fare re most popular r qedicine in circulation, particularly for bi ions complaints It is said that it s power is decidedly "rown upon the ( r, ans of secretion and excretion, and that ;n bilious fevers u d other diseases con sequent upon a tor idity or conge s ti I. of the li ver , it s influ ence has prevailed xith happy effects. The medicine, it ap pear 4, is made frm the fruit. Mar v other physicians in America are pre:cr '.ring the use of 1 is addition to their pharmacoprala, whlch had been hithe .t ) always exhibited in the shape of it pill. EAST INDIA COITPANY.—At the rar eting of proprietors which took place on Wednesday, at h • India House, Sir Charles Forbes direct( l attention to th ct, that the a moun t of the secret service TT: me) , disbursed b - the directors has increased prodigious] r )f late. During ti e last year, no less a sum than £53,00( lad been expenc 2: under that head. Of the specific applic . ti in of this money n ) account has been furnished to the cour, c f proprieters. `ti Zile the amount of secret service money Is a gone on incret si ig, the amount of the dividends on Ind t stock has been ;:r dually lessening ; and worse than all, th ; ifluence of the I t India Company has been during the sv r. period, declinin In India as well as at home. The curse • t licapacity seem) t cling to the ad ministrators of our a: rs in the colon e: ,as well as in Downing-street. MIRAGE.—The Bo: ti n papers of Wel) esday mention, that, on the afternoon I ,r nous, a mirage distinctly visi ; ble in the harbour of 3, stop. Vessels, of which only the sails could be seen in ti distance, were n presented by a distinct image inverted it we the horison, e:.11 biting not only the sails, but the hull. i n some instances ,ails were seen, apparently of vessels bt y, nd the reach or direct vision.— New York paper. DEATH MR. JUSTICI VAUGHAN.—Died, nn Wednesday night, at Eastbury Loc near Watford, the Right Hon. Mr. Justice Vaughan, i. •he 71st year o f hiss ce. This ex cellent judge sat in thel 'riminal Court at ti e Old Bailey last week, and tried the p isoners wit . ), his usual clearness and dignity, and he app , a, ed pretty Nil,' unt 1 he went to bed on the night he died He had had some '” Inptoms of a malady of the heart, anc li id been subje t to se‘ ere rheuma tism, which is often trap Ferred to that vital organ. He expired almost without a glom 3•44,,j- A Honey Buzzard (Perris Apivorus, Cuv.) was allot on Tuesday last, within 100 yards of the University Museum, `Durham, by Mr. Greenwell, of the South Bailey. It, or one of the same species, bad been observed several days previ ously about the hills to the north west of Durham, but could not be approached. It is considered rare in England; but a year seldom passes without two or three individuals being taken in this neighbourhood.—Durham Advertiser. • THE EARL CP DERBY.—We are glad to state that the health of this t -teemed and amiable nobleman continues gradually to imp' ye. He has already recovered so much of his wonted vigour, that he is able to pursue without pain or difficulty, his favourite aviarian pursuits; and to superintend and direct the extensive improvements now in progress at Knowsley.—Preston Chronicle. We understand that when the recent changes were being made in the ministry, the Earl of Minto, first lord of the ad miralty, was offered the important appointment of Governor General of India, but his lordship thought proper to decline. It was circulated at the Admiralty that, should his lordship accept that office, the Earl of Clarendon would most probably be his successor.—Morning Herald. MORE SEIZURES OF BRITISH . MANUFACTURED GOODS. —The Philadelphia Inquirer states, that an extensive seizure of imported broad cloth s was effected, at Frankford, on Mon day, by the custom-house officer of Philadelphia. The goods had been removed from this city, and part were found con cealed under a quantity of potatoes, and the remainder in a private house. Some were also found concealed in the cellar of a tavern in Kensington, beneath a quantity of onions. The whole is estimated at 9000 or 10,000 dollars.—New York Paper. On Monday last, Mr. William Wain, gardener to Digby Cayley, Esq. of Ripon, took from an onion bed, , promiscu ously, six Tripoli onions, which weighed together eight pounds one ounce, and one of them alone weighed 294 ounces. He has been using from the beds some time, and has always been taking the best, therefore, had the first used been growing now, there is no doubt they would have been much larger than any on the bed at this time. The roots and tops were cut close off before they were weighed.—. Durham Advertiser. NORTHERN DIVISION OF LANCASHIRE.—We are given to understand, on authority which we deem to be worthy of implicit confidence, that in the event of a dissolution of parlia ment, Charles Towneley, Esq., of Towneley, will most cer tainly come forward as a candidate for this division of the county. We are further informed that in anticipation of the contest which Mr. Towneley's offering himself will involve, the conservatives have made every possible preparation for fighting a successful battle in the registration courts. —P res ton Chronicle. BIGOTRY.—In a market town in this country, the wife of a " gentleman" of the Baptist society, a few days ago, gave instructions to her surgeon to vaccinate her children for the small-pox. The surgeon accordingly proceeded to execute her commands, but when about to communicate the infectious matter to the arm of one child, the lady, out of curiosity, for women are always curious, inquired from whom he took it ? " A son of Mr. —," was the reply. " What the Church man !" vociferated the lady. The surgeon having replied in the affirmative, she declared most positively he should not proceed—" he should never make her children churchmen."— Lincolnshire Chronicle. PRESTON AND LONGRIDGE RAILWAY.—We are glad to state that the works on this railway are now in a very ad vanced state. Several workmen are engaged at this end Of the line, in preparing the site for the Preston terminus. We anticipate a speedy completion of the undertaking, and no exertion will be spared on the part of the directors and con tractors to effect an early opening. We understand that for several months past there has been a considerable demand for the Longridge stone, and it is fully expected that the fa cilities of the line, when completed for its transit, will be brought into ample requiiition, and that an extensive traffic may reasonably be calculated on. From the delay which has already taken place the subscribers are, we think, justified in requiring that the operations should henceforward be con ducted with all possible promptitude, and that the line should be made available for transit with all practicable dispatch.— Preston Paper. IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM ENGINES.--At the port of Toulon, preparations are at this moment being made for try ing an important modification of the crank of the steam engines for vessels, suggested by a naval officer. This modi fication consists in rendering the cranks fixed, or moveable at pleasure, by means of a curb (freni,) similar to those em ployed for trying the power of the engines. If the experi ment, which is to be tried on the Styx, succeed, the paddle wheels will become, at will, independent of the engines, with out the necessity for employing a complication of machinery, which hitherto has been more ingenious than useful.—lnven tore' Advocate. THE UNITED STATES BANK AND THE MESSRS. HOT TINGErrn.—It is rumoured, that the Havre packet, which left New York on the sth ult., brought remittances to the French bankers sufficient to cover the bills drawn by the iank of the United States which they had dishonoured, and the dishonouring of which has so seriously embarrassed Mr. .raudon. It is added, that these remittances will, most likely, render it unnecessary, at least for the present, for that gen tle nan to avail himself of the proferred assistance from the Bank of England. The particulars of Mr. Jaudon's success ful negotiation with the Bank Directors will be found under the Money Market head. The facetious Robert Greene, a writer in Queen Elizabeth's reign, relates a story of an apparition who was compelled to eat a citation, wax and all. Modern times can produce nothing liLe this, excel)t the contrivance of a noted game ster, who, being determined at all events to win a large sum of money, r e solved to destroy the evidence of a card against him, and caning for two slices of bread and butter, and clapping the obnoxious witness between them, he fairly de voured it, anu he won the game. HABITS OF rrlIE EAGLE. — That the eagle is extremely destructive to fish, and particularly salmon, many circum stances would prove. Eagles are oonstantly discovered watching the fords in the spawning season, and are seen to seize and carry acv ay fish. Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in . the month of July, while looking for a missing sheep, ob , ,E2rved an eagle posted on a bank that overhung s. pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued. When the herdsman reached the spot, he found the eagle pulled under water by the strength of the fish ! and the calmness of the day, joined to his drenched plumage, rendered him unable to extricate himself. With a stone the peasatit - broke the eagle's pinion, and actually secured the spoiler and his victim, for he found the salmon dying in his grasp. When shooting on Lord Sligo's mountains, near the Killeries, a gentleman says he he heard many particulars of the. eagle's habits and history from a grey-haired peasant who had passed a long life in these wilds. The scarcity of hares, which were here abun dant, he attributed to the rapacity of these birds and he affirmed, that, when in pursuit of these animals, the eagles evinced a degree of intelligence that appeared extraordinary. They coursed the hares, he said, with great judgment, and certain success ; one bird was the active follower, while the other remained in reserve, at the distance of forty or fifty yards. If the hare, by a sudden► turn, freed herself from her most pressing enemy, the second bird instantly took up the chase, and thus prevented the victim from having a moment's respite. He had remarked the eagles also while they were engaged in fishing. They choose a small ford upon a rivulet, which connects Glenculler► with Glandullah, and posted on either side, waited patiently for the salmon to pass over.—Saturday Magazine. POPISH DECENCY - AND TOLERANCE.—We give the fol lowing fact to our readers and leave them to make their own comments :—On Thursday evening last, when the Popish procession which had been parading the streets of Hudders field, passed by the residence of the Rev. J. C. Franks, the worthy and highly respected vicar, the band was directed to play the air of " See the Conquering Hero Comes," which was continued till the procession had passed the church also. We insert this as a specimen of what we must expect when by the helping hand of government, Popery gains the ascend ancy. The tune of " See the Conquering Hero Comes" will then be performed to the blazing fires of Smithfield. What would the Russell magistracy say to a procession of Orange men, merely walking through the town? A. prosecution would instantly ensue. But Popish processions under the patronage of Joseph and the Blessed Virgin," are not only tolerated but encouraged, and the Magistrates' Office at Hud dersfield, is let to aid the mummeries of the occasion.—Hali fax Guardian. IRISH STATISTICS.—Mr. O'Connell pledges his word, in his last letter, that there are seven millio ns o f re p ea l ers i n Ireland ; and, of course, no one doubts his word. A great deal of doubt, however, has long prevailed as to the actual population of Ireland ; but this little piece of niaiserie by Mr. O'Connell—bounce, we should call it in English—with a little mathematical help will settle the question. There are seven millions of repealers—all adults—men who have arri ved at the age of discretion. Well, it is a tolerably well ascertained fact, that the adults are only as one to five ; so that the population interested in the repeal must be five and thirty millions. Of those who are against the repeal, Mr. O'Connell makes no account just now ; but by a recent rough calculation of his own, the protestants of Ireland are to the catholics as one to six. So that the protestants must be nearly six millions, making the population of Ireland al together nearlyforty-one millions. Will this man never leave off talking nonsense? But the best of the joke is to come. We mentioned to a shrewd, waggish Irishman, yesterday, the ridiculous proposition of there being more than forty mil lions of people in Ireland, and his answer was, " There's forty millions of us, sure enough ; and, if Dan says so, we will be eighty ; though eight would be nearer the mark—that's the truth I mean."—Morning Herald. TEMPEST-TOSSED NOBILITY.—The Earl and Countess of Wilton, who arrived in London, on Sunday week, from Devonport, left on Monday morning for Walmer Castle, to visit the Duke of Wellington. The sudden return to town of the Earl and Countess was occasioned by the serious injury their yacht sustained during a storm, on Monday week, in the Bay of Biscay. We understand, that, after losing the topmast, and having the bowsprit carried away during the heavy sea, the mainyard sprung in two places. These losses obliged them to return and put into the first port. A few days since we announced the departure of Lord Francis Egerton with Viscount Emlyn, the Hon. Francis Egerton, and the Hon. Mr. Wortley, in his yacht, from Cowes.' It appears, that, after getting out to sea, they , !ncountered a storm, which lasted two day, during which their brigantine received such injuries as to oblige them to steer for the first port, to repair the damage, previous to proceeding to the Mediterranean. The noble lord arrived at Bridgewater House late on Tuesday night, but, on the following day, left to visit the Duke and Duchess of Suther land, at Lemington Spa. A LUCKY MAN.—Espartero is one of the luckiest men on record. General Alaix, who would have hung him two months ago, if he could have caught him, has now proposed to give this " waiting" traitor some few millions of 'Hal*" (according to the Morning Chronicle ; but, being rather touched with a commercial fit, we think the word ought to have been reals) for his immense service of having bought a scoundrel ! Aye, and he, the said Espartero, is to " have his choice of the national property." Pay your debts, gentlemen ! It is most excellent morality to pay Mr. Espartero before you think of paying your debts—pay the poor devils who are daily singing and starving before our doors ; and then pay Mr. Espartero ! Lord Palmerston, look to this ; and look to it quickly, or you will have some thing not very pleasant rung about your ears. Espartero is a lucky man ' • give some of these unlucky fellows a c h ance of being lucky too—that is of getting their own hard knocks. —Morning Herald. ACCIDENT AT AUST PASSAGE.—On Monday last a dead body was found floating in the river Severn, near to King road, by a Berkeley pilot boat, and on being taken on shore at Beachley Ferry, it was discovered, by a game certificate and other papers, to be the body of Mr. William Williams, of Redwick, Monmouthshire, one of the ill-fated passengers on board the ferry-boat which was swamped at Beachley on the Ist September. The body appeared to have been sanded, as it was not much changed till after exposure to the air. when decomposition came on very rapidly. Bills and cash were feund in the pockets of the deceased to the amount of £9O. It is now clearly ascertained that there were only six passen gers lost on the melancholy occasion instead of seven as was first supposed. Mr. Jones is the only person who has not been found. We think it reflects the highest credit on the boatmen on the severn, that, notwithstanding it was well known that many of the unfortunate persons lost on the ca lamitous occasion referred to had very considerable sums of money about them, there has not been the slightest suspi cion that any of the bodies have been plundered ; and that those of the crew of the boat for whose recovery no pe cuniary reward could be anticipated, have been as carefully and speedily restored to their afflicted families as any of the others, and this too at great personal inconveniences and loss. We are happy to hear that the subscription, com menced by some benevolent individuals for the bereaved wives and families of the boatmen, already amounts to a very considerable sum.—Gloucester Chronicle, 't NN.‘.4f,\ ~-~, u Tr\ ~' . . THEATRE ROYAL, LIVER IL' Vo te Second Week of Mr. and Mrs. WOOD, of the Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. roduceioli THIS present TUESDAY, Oct. 1, 1839, will be,Poperl for the first time here, Beethoven's celebrated FIDELIO, a t As performed with most distinguished 81)1 0bati°3 t Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane* re. Previous to the Opera, the Original wi rei al)°, Leonora.. (under the fictitious name of Fideliof Florestano) Mrs. Wood. w o o .4 Don Florestano.. (a State Prisoner). • • • Mr 'llornc .- Don Pizarro (Governor of the Prison).. Mr. G. R0cc0.... (the Jailor).... Mr. P. Cro4Re'arket. Jacquino.... (Porter of the Prison). • • • Mr ' Marcelline.... Mrs. P. Crowe. To conclude with the Melo-Drams °f ROBERT MACAIRE. Robert Macaire . Mr. W 11° Jacques Strop Mr. Baker. Marie. Miss Cleaver. oro,k, TO-MORROW (Wednesday) A POPUTAIt b e # l6. in which Mr. and Mrs. Wood rf Drama of the MILLER AND HIS MEN• Wit : li n:be e f; The Opera of the MAID O w F ill pJeUDorAll ceived last Night with distinguished approbati°°' repeated on THURSDAY. 'E The Opera of AMILIE ;OR THE LO N tt . °° (I' 6 be performed in the course of Mr. and Mrs . " gagement. -----"' NOW EXHIBITING , AT THE LYCEUM ROOMS, BOLD-SO., vriv- MARTIN'S PICTURE OF THE CO RON, (PAINTER OF BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST.) Open from Ten till Five o'Clock. 14 G. ADMISSION, ONE SHIL L Sep The Exhibition will be Open every Even i n g fro- 60 Nine, when the Room will be li g hted up with .- . - -• • ' .d- TO CORRESPONDENTS• Ria nda' 4 "H. S." will perceive, on referring to the c log' Tuesday last, that we have noticed the real° the political articles of the London Courier. ,r 0,40 The Address of " A Brother Editor" to the C_ ,. . n ° l ' - of St. Paul's Ward has been received. I'Ve l y " ever, promise to insert it until we have made 5o . m rics on th..uhjoot.ong the a e cturs of the rial 7, The lines by " C. J. C." will not suit our colurow " Midnight Reflections" shall appear in our ne,lite:b Re We have received several works for review wm. notice on Friday. of : h. ,1 r An extended notice of the Exhibition of th e p r st i o n6 dern Artists, which we have been forced to also appear in our next. / I .lberpool i-ttai Dat'D• I' s TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER " ob ° By the packet-ship Roscoe, Captain Gl°'er', feti arrived here on Sunday, we have received papers to the 7th ultimo, inclusive. The advie;ccegi, Canada are to the 3rd ultimo. The 10 1 0 pfished her passage in twenty days from .'cotscif bay. The news which she has brought is tively unimportant. •eirc „i e The commercial intelligence, both from the and Philadelphia, is rather favourable no 1 , 0 Money matters were becoming much ea sier f sa d °-„" were at the latter place, and the merchan ts a ot o difficulty in meeting their engageme nt 6 : 4 amount of money had been brought in by •0i,,11144 merchants, many of whom were engag ed 10 ,. ()li e purchases for fall sales. The amount of P a P e rea tlY at the banks or otherwise for discount had g, O , creased. The transactions in Stocks at 1 % 0 0 /1 ' were to a moderate extent, though at Pr ice . n s ss 9 11° !, showing a trifling improvement on P rey's ' to e; tions. The sales of sterling exchange, f°a sion by the Roscoe, were to a fair exten t, „, tb ° ` l o effected at from 81 to 9/ per cent. premiu m ' A p o in a few instances a higher rate was obtail ie gif e,f r° , o from Havana stated that the British Pack et , 01 1311 A Mexico to England, had on board 1,300,0 v“ fly de 1 ,4 specie. The accounts of the state ei " Arai Buffalo were very satisfactory. Business st, i 11 r dise presented a very brisk appearance. 31erell"', pouring in, and every conveyance was 1.11 4 , 11 : 1 th 14 ,, ,. gers. The number of emigrants Pas s ,7 o chiefly from Albany, was greatly en They were principally destined for CO Pnn Louis. h ° f The stock of cotton at Mobile on the 20t h r was 3,224 bales, against 836 bales at t he rece ir l lo last year, and the deficiency in this yea r is g 01 estimated at 56,429 bales. Sales were oeo to 14 cents. 6 0,4 The yellow fever was still prevalent in We dilpe states, but the number of deaths wa s a The disease was assuming a milder form` aut te ; 0 1$ Advices from Vera Cruz to August 8— der j ot fresh insurrection was likely to break etl/11 ill iyi g oi Anna's auspices. He is accused of haven tha t office of President to his own advantag e s° ministry. , fel Accounts had been received at New I ° to r the s o o paraiso to the 13th of June. According ' ee 4I quillity prevailed there and in the adi sce lis pe€ / 1 0 1 and business had assumed a more liealth)d tbe te it Lima also all was quiet, and it was believ e e cot " the Chilians would evacuate Peru in th dbe re° month. General Santa Cruz with his 0 1 at Guayaquil. De 9 V The news from Canada is unimportas' se at' 4 ,0 4 from the British army were becoming freq , persons had been indicted at Montr eal °r atis oi c o tY to entice the soldiery to desert. Sir John Harvey, Governor of New ilr d t tes: o , convened the legislature to meet at Fre defi 0 0 0 6 10th ultimo, for the despatch of b usiness '3O quence of a recent great public calm'a itYl was I weighty reasons. The calamity r eferred /I) cent fire at St. John's. ifi c ' tioo, tea A i The expences of the Aroostook exPe''t srlf those of the civil and military P° sse ' of t) , e , 400,600 dollars. This item creates a ild • dollar upon every m a n , wo man, and c li „)tta t of Maine, or about e i g ht times the a " -( annual state tax previous to its suspeo si° , ° l ; a t The Boston Daily Advertiser' states . 0 1 t Campbell, of Nova Scotia, has given 11° % o f ' 1 : ) , mation, that the government of the is' s/I ,h fe , will pay 25 dollars for the passage ef ea or a le 00 1 person of African descent, whether i n peir 4 j, from Nova Scotia or either of the the rarf; provinces to Trinidad, and the same f ni. year s „,ior two children between seven ands urte en of or for three from one to seven y° to °er clamation states, that according W the fa r f „i given on the island, a labourer, whe t he r s j' arld .t? may easily earn daily wages equal to 4, Scotia currency, together with eertsf free ft° cottage, and half an acre of group charge. fo beeo Since the above was written N ye have dO 4 Cg,,, •ag j em with a copy of the Morning Corterdire: 1, 7 0 , Sept. 9, which was b r ought by the A d o tic . " oo €4i Hackstaff. It does not, however, 3d Ol O, 0 11 j1 previous news. The commercial ne` v ,, state' 9rl vourable. A letter from New Orleaor A iffi ; ad .; shipment of 163,000 dollars-in specie to • by the ship Mississippi, from that Pe l l - 00; 0 10 Advices from Philadelphia to ,the-Bth f n a ae fe , e ll l ; 4 money matters were decidedly bettert7ool3lP.',/ banks had been discounting to alte r / r h ea to l e The news from Buenos .Ayres reac te recl July. On the 27th of June a mob ell .. 0 0 0 . 0 . 0 0 je I , Chamber, (it is supposed at the jus ti z' at to ( 11°,1 . whilst the House was in session, and P a c ol°, /1 President in the chair—shot his se° , ,t P r A eC l A bOL . army—and killed several others. had been arrested and thrown int o P li bee n s s o ,IP of these proceedings is said to hav e es eo t )6' D ir t p r r a e t m io a n t . urely discovered, to upset the P of r date " A letter from Monte Video, of the •.e relat iv s ti says—" We learn nothing further . ntlea o _ a ti ade, nor have we' any late news froM P o f t 1 3%, 0 . / The Buffalo papers give an a cc°tiri t t fl iest u rv e a f g,p fire, of the Lake Erie steam-ship —re o so w.. d ,.., e was valued at 100,000 dollars. f 10 gers had lost very large amou nts ° sa id ° gentlemanr . uO7 dolla f r r . m New Orleans isl/ De ifv - s h a d We ar :o 4 o i Accounts of short crop per Canada, but it is said that th er ra e ;ol. " believe that they are greatly exagg. e tie ta o s: ett ef , , , l l/1 0 The news from Havana is 0 : 001 1/ 0 /. recrehiaalsers' nde the following, taken from a Aug. 24 :—" In sugars there are Pi: ted. to o and 8 12 rs., for fair to g ood ass ° London 14 and 14/ j i cc , e (Da e to the heco°, Inferior in importance on.Y w - orf o t r ; iple" og the present weak and unP— ric es o ° , s i Cabinet from the places they li . a v tile pec cip ley . to the base purposes of party, 011 . 4 )0 t he c° curing a strong, a vigoro us, a non word, a PROTESTANT AdallOiStr