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July 4, 1848. Eittratu rt. POETRY. HIJZZA FOR THE RULE OF THE WHIGS ! AIR-" OLD ROSIN THE BEAU." (From Blackwood's Magazine.) All ye who are true to the altar and throne, Come join in this ditty with me; And you who don't like it may let it alone, Or listen a little and see. `How quietly now we may sleep in our beds, And waken as merry as griga I Though fears of rebellion hang over our heads, We're safe while we're ruled by the Whigs. In the 'nineties we saw (I remember the day) Revolution disguised as Reform But the country was saved in a different way, By the Hot that wewher'd the storm. • Our vessel was steer'd by the bravest and best, And, except a few quality sprigs, • The whole English nation had thought it a jest To propose being ruled by the Wings. But as matters now stand in this ill-fated realm, We old comra d es w ill g i ve us th e s li t) , We are strangely compeli'd to put men at the helm To prevent thmn from scuttling the ship. Only think, for a moment, if Russell were out, Hew wild he'd be running his rigs ! About popular rights he would make such a rout— 'tis lucky we're ruled by the Whigs. The Church—can you doubt what her danger would be Were Tories at p-esent in power? Lord John, or his friends, we should certainly see Attackin g her posts every hour. Rut as long as the Bishops may help out his lease. lie won't injure a hair of their wigs ; "ay, he even proposes the list to increase— So huzza for the rule of the Whigs! If Grey were at large, bow he'd lay down the law Oil the cures he for Ireland had found; And swear that he never would rest till he saw Her Establishment razed to the ground. Rut Grey, while in office, sits muffled and mum, Like a small bird asleep in the twigs; And Ward. in the Commons, is equally dumb— huzza for the rule of the higs ! I f any of us bad made war on Repeal With the weapons that Clarendon tries, "Chat slo ieks of indignant invective from Shiel n At the wrongs of Old Erin would rise. of noisy Mitesians back'd, r uin the peer to the peasant that digs— I/ "' would Monaghan murmur that juries were pack'd— Ni huzza for the rule of the Whigs ! On Aliens or Chartists to hear them declaim, You'd think Castlereagh came from the dead, Though the o•ixture of metaphors isn't the same, And the courage and coolness are fled. But the Wll igS are becoming respectable men As any that ever kept gigs. They are practising now all they preached against then— So huzza for the rule of the Whigs! -Go on, my good lads—never think of retreat, Though annoy'd by a squib or a squirt; `You're fulfilling the tate such impostors should meet, And eating your bushel of dirt. Then swallow it fast, for your hour may not last — We shall soon, if it pleases the pigs, Give your places to MPH of a different cast, And get rid of the rule of the Whigs! NOTICES. Blackwood's Ediaburgh Magazine. This magazine for the present month contains rather More than the ordinary proportion of reviews, which, however, are of works of a first-class character. The first -article, especially, a review of " A Treatise on the Suc celoCh, si° E q n s to . Property vacant by Death," by J. R. M'Cul. that , is , very interesting, as shewing the opinions of t very able man utterly opposed to the views of some of our modern liberals upon the subject of the law of en tail, Which he maintains to be not only essential to the present balanced state of British society, but advantageous I n an economical view. To the want of such a law, abro gated by th e fi rst revo l ut i on, h e traces, i n a great mea etire, the insecurity at tile time he wrote, before the events of the last few months, of the throne of France, standing as it did, deprived of an hereditary landed aristocracy, " in Solitary though not unenvied dignity, without the shelter of a single eminence, exposed to the full force of the fu rlolli blasts that sweep trot - it every point of the surround ing level." Another interesting review is that of a " Jour b,al,° nt. 1 an Expedition into the interior of Tropical Africa," 't Sir T. Alitchell. The political articles are an able review of the state of things in republican France, and a paper in defence of the Navigation Laws. we extract portion of a very striking letter from the ni ted States a entitled American Thoughts on European ne volutions:2- REPUHLICANIS7G IN AMERICA PARTAKES OF THE CHARACTER OF THE MIXED MONARCHICAL SYSTEM OF THIS COUNTRY. -Al fact, th e v i o l ent d emocrac y o f P a ris is exerti ng a benefi ' effect upon our people. We see the degrading spectacle, and learn to value ourselves for a love of law and order. There 1 , a reluctance to reduce ourselves tohe level of such a repub ie as sprung up like a mushroom in a night, and is likely to perish in the same way. Our own revolution was not one of drunkenni riot, and street-singing blouse men . our constitution cialicstt'-a mere stren poetical theory of liberty and equality, nor a so il dre am okipF ceirsen of brotherhood. We ne,w learn the secret of our r ate n and of that comparative durability which has almost es. We are, after all, a transplanted slip of even imagine. r e s i t re we so ssentially changed, my Basil, as The sl i' i rit of our people is indeed demo cratic : ut 11. e spirit of or constitutiotl is imbued with a stronger element. The facts concerning it will enable you to tee one secret of our comparative success, and to judge whether France can possibly come to anything as good. lie founders of this Republic were rot Frenchmen, but Englishmen ; I mean they were of English stock, anti had learned all their notions of liheraqty from the history of England. Each province of Ame rica had taken shape under the British constitution; and when the provinces became independent, the general government MfaS organiscd-in such wise s to sul p'y the place of that consti ' tal on. Its founders did not frame a new and untried constitution, a priori , according to their own schemes; t hey simply modified' the great principles of British c onstitutional law to suite a new state of things, and a peculiar People. A monarchy was out of the question ; but they did not idemenntocratimc s d to ake rit a d came in with Jefferso n emocracy. They only and mad French e a republic. The pi ties at the beginning of the present century. It has become 'dominant but by no means triumphant; and its great obsta cle has been the constitution. In the several stales it has anged the constitutions one after the other, introducing uni 'versal suffrage and other democratic features. But the national co nstitution has not been so easily reached; and it is the str ength of the great party with which Cloy and Webster are Inentified. and which is a constant check on the popular party. t is republican, but not simply democratic. The executive lila gistracy is elective ; but the electors are not the peop'e, directly, but electoral colleges, appointed by the several states ; and the office itself is endowed with prerogatives, some of which are more unlimited than the corresponding tights of the British crown Our senate is a mere modification of the House of Lords: it is a b o dy more s e l e ct than the lowe r ho u se, an d no t „ HoMediately responsible to constituents; and its practical 0 1. killg shows the great importancd of such a balance-wheel any government. here is no working without it, in spite i What your Roebucks may say. The House of Comnions r eappears„, in our House of Representatives, which, like its sonorous orininal, is the safety-valve of popular feeling, and gives V Th orou;Vent to a mighty pressure of steam and vapour, which tnild otherwise blow us to atoms, with a much less endurable der ived, red, with our blood, from England. Our new statre ii;"rill; up with emigrants from the continent of Europe, but t „7Y all adopt the law of their older sisters; ond thus the insti ,i'tions of the immortal Alfred may be found among the Swedes ad banes of Wisconsin. These, then, are the elements of our ; and you observe they partake of the strength of the riiish empire, which hes beeii legitimately and naturally Im- Parted,to us, like the mother's life blood to the daughter , of her ‘,.°,!nh• We have indeed characteristic peculiarities. AN e have some new experiments; but let not France suppose she Imitate them. We are a new country, a spare population, and our people have their heads full of, subduing the soil, and it t ing water-wheels in streams, and making roads and canals. have 'lave no natural taste for insurrection and confusion, for we it alnobody that is idle enough to want such work. Our new m r , then, h as b e e n p u t i n t o n ew bottle s; an d th e fool that t to decant it into tile old vessels of Europe, will ruin and th em together. The feeling with which the American people regard the r Publican f oo l ery go i ng on i n - E urope i s graphically .f Retched in the following passage A MERICAN OPINION OF EUROPEAN REPUBLICANS. T speak for myself, and for many, very many, of my country ,oen. Our mere populace are of course possessed with the idea s ti _ ia a universal •Yankeedoodle is the panacea for all the mi series of the world. It has been told them so often by demago n , that C h i n e se r ardonable. - But even they would probably i t i l b lo e l , r v t3 t r. hat the , for instance, are not yet !quite ready for notes and ballet-boxes, and by degrees might be brought .oTinfess as much for any country less remarkable and aston ishing, than our t wn. But there is a solid mass of good sense among us that -is not so deceived. It consists of those who Would rejoice to see a rational republic in France, or in any other country ; but who know that, with the exception perhaps Of Holland, such a thing is impossible, and that, in France, rea son is more likely to reappear as a divinitied harlot of Notre Dame than in any more resnectable form. As to Great Britain even our schoolboys have learned that, with all the stability of , empire, it unites the freedom of a republic ; and in spite of . some feeling against John Bull, I scarcely know the man who -would not be sorry to seelt - suddenly or violently revolution ised. On Irish affairs opinion is not so sane among us. Few -of us know anything about them ; and for the sake of the starv ing peasantry of Ireland, there is some sympathy with its tur bulent Gracchi. Believe it, the general tone of sentiment on -this side the Atlantic, among reflecting men, is far more con servative than you imagine. Indeed, •all classes stand amazed at the democracy of Europe. Our wildest enthusiasts are out done, even by some who sit in the House of Commons ; ana the rampant socialism of Paris is ar unlike the worst excesses of our elections, as the ferocity of a tiger is unlike the playful ness of a kitten. Young, as we are, we are better mannered ; and I must say, dear Basil, that when the old nations of the World are allowing the mse l ves suc h li cense, We have a right to ,gard ourselves as taking ne w ran k, an d d eserv i ngmore credit than has heretofore been given us, as, after all, a law-loving and law -maintaining people. • , The most gratifying feature of the letter, however, Is the writer's description of the anxiety with which the recent dangerous position of Old John Bull was regarded by his children in the new world : I NTEREST OF AMERICA IN THE SECURITY OF BRITISH I wish INSTITUTIONS. yOll could have watched, as I did, the feelings of our th uole people, while lately, between the arrival of two steamers, here was a solemn feeling of surprise as to what would be the rnits of the Chartist demonstration I Till the news came, the _,Ontest of us held our breath. I assure . you, Basil, the peril iit_Etigland was observed with a deep anxiety. During all that t i r I met not a respectable man who wished to see a revolu tr "an/ result. It was the talk of all circles. Onr merchants gentleman for England • our scholars hoped for her; a clerical ntlernan assured me that he daily played for her. The press 4 : r Y generally predicted a triumph of order,. but there were specimens of newspaper literature that ventured an oppo re:Jugury. I wish you could have seen this city . when the l ka :"t was known. The news was received with a thrill. There •b o " s °e lahin at the arturient mountain and the sti we'l mouse, but a g grave parturient mountain and the still. \9nniouse, but a grave cheerfulness was the reigning emotioll n. •sp ar d eenly felt th a t, by th e merc y o f God, the world had been . e ,,,,,e,(1 . fr0m a confla gra ti on w h i ch the m a tch of a madman For d light, but which only another deluge could extinguish. Of te ° ,„ne, I was as a watcher by the sea-side, who, after a night s ee t r!Pest, wait s f or th e f og to r i se, an d t h en th an k s G o d to st it ,, " 7 good old ship coming home, in season, her masts all 'ng, and her flag untorn. 44. w e . giv interest letter : g in another extract on another subject, from the ra — Yo u ENGLAND UNCHRISTIANIZED. firi qt speak.4_ of this J ew bill as th e fi rs t s t e p 1 i Why, yea, the itigi r "V in tragedy ; there was a former one n farce. There Jewise;_naes Montefiore t Who made him a knight? "A te ero ". 4 nlght," said I, at the time—" hear it, ye dry bones, • - ta-B,V I- leged effigies —ye Paladdins—ye Templars 1 Hear it, 4- Gdbert,—hear it, Richard Coeur-de-Lon! Yes, and thou, too, old Roger de Coverley ! Hear it, thou true old English knight; for they that bought thine old clothes now come for thine old spurs!" So said I—wo ndering that no one seemed to wonder. The nineteenth century had not time to stare. There was not even a London Punch to laugh at such a Judy, and so Moses was belted and spurred, no man gainsaying ; and knighthood, that was Sidney's once, is just the thing for Sir Peter Laurie now. And if a Jewish knight, why not a Jewish senator ? True, there is something grand in the idea of a nation that never, since the Wittenagemote, has seen a lawgiver unbaptised ; and then there is still a red cross in the flag of England ; and there has been a pleasing notion that the Christian faith was part and parcel with the British constitution ; and even we in America, averse to church and state, have long allowed ourselves to ad mire one exception to the rule, and to confess the majestic figure made among the nations by a Christian empire, shining forth in splendid contrast to surrounding kingdoms, some of them infidel and some of them superstitious, but she alone the witness to reasonable faith, and faithful reason. But who re gards it in this light ? Who among you stands up to warn his country of the glory that is departing ? Who has said anything in parliament at all adequate to the turning-point of a nation's religion. I have looked for some one to speak as Burke would have spoken, of " uncovering your nakedness, by throwing off that Christian religion which has hitherto been your boast and comfort." I have longed to see his promise made good,—" we shall never be such fools as to call in an enemy to the substance of any system, to remove its corruptions , to supply its defects, or to perfect its construction." I read The Times, but as yet I have looked in vain. A few honest remonstrances have indeed been ventured and cries of oh, oh ! and vociferations of buck toothed laughter from the bend es that support the honourable members frota Cottonburgh and Calicopolis. But who has stood up as for altars and fires ? I hope, ere this reaches you, the question will be creditably answered. I hope the Christia nity of England _will not die without a struggle. I suspect it will be of no use, but I look yet for some John of Gaunt in the House of Lords. Imagine him, my Basil: — "This sceptered isle, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, Renowned for her deeds as far from home (For Christian service and true chivalry) As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world's ran-om, blessed Mary's son ; This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now—pawn'd out to Jews!" This is what ought to be said ; and I look for it, if not from the Lords spiritual, then even from Lords temporal. But surely it would well become the primate's mouth 1 Of course, it would do little good ; but then the religion of England would fall at least dramatically. It would make a picture quite as . good as the death of Chatham. Do you remember the lawn sleeves in that picture? The bishops are "in at the death," — but nothing more. The story of " The Cartons" progresses favourably. We have only room for the following beautiful lesson on EARLY RISING. I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of _bloom. and purity, and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. I doubt if any man can be called " old" so long as he is an early riser, and an early walker. And oh, youth!—take my word for it,—youth in dressing gown and slippers, dawdling over breakfast at noon, is a very decre poi ghastly ima , ze of that youth which sees the sun blush over the mountains, and the dews sparkle upon blossoming hedge rows. SECOND EMIT )N. Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.-THIS DAY. The Share Market this morning is firm, and a fair business has been done at the quotations. By a private telegraph from London we have learnt that a further advance has taken place in Shares and. Consols there this morning. •Consols are 851, buyers, being the hi4hest point since the French revolution in Feuruary. London Stock, 124 to 126. buyers. The business of our Stuck Exchange this morning is quoted as follows i—Ambergates, 58/9 d; Cheshire Junctions, 71 d; Leeds sths. 1/ d; Do. preference, / p; Preston and Wyre, 34i ; Do. preference, 351; Lancaster and Carlisle, 51 ; London i's, I); Shf ftieid Bths, 51 d; Do. preference, p; Midland stock, 1021 ; Do. d ; Shrewsbury 8., 34 d ; Dover 1, 9(I •, Do. 2, 103 / d; Do. 4, 28 d; Newcastle preference, 13- p; Bank of Liverpool, 161. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—Trus DAY. There has been a fair demand for Wheat at Id. per 701 b. higher than this day week. There has been a moderate sale for Flour, at the full rates of Tuesday last. Malt dull, at the reduced rates of Friday. Beans and Pease steady, without alteration. Oats dull of sale at the quotations of Tuesday. Oatmeal 3d. to lid. per .otto cheaper. 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P. lod, Mt and Mr. of the ncashire rh, Mr. he Che nt were ershaw r mew !. Legit/ another ucle at- The among rristers Small I which person called named lot the lc, and Ind the maul ntiticd VARIETIES. The Puppet Show thinks it rather droll, that people who get their bones broken by railway collisions, over turnings, &c. &c., are not content without going to law for more " damages." FEARGIIS O'CONNOR AND THE PRESS.—In last week's Northern Star, Mr. O'Connor addresses a few words to " the Pressgang," commencing thus :—" Come on ye cripples! come on ye prostitutes! you villains! you mur derers ! you plunderers ! you beasts ! you haven't the merit of prostitutes ; they, poor souls, obey their pas sions, their natural passions ; you obey your unnatural lusts You poor drivelling sycophants, you hired slaves, you set of profligates ! You brutes ! ... Savages ! .... Hirelings !.... you monsters !. ... these ruffians !" Oh dear ! This boy will certainly be the death of us ! A HunsoN's BAY TOILET.—The manner of dressing ourselves to resist the cold was curious. We will describe C—, as a type of the rest. After donning a pair of deer-skin trowsers, he proceeded to put on three pair of blanket socks, and over these a pair of moose-skin mo cassias. Theu a pair of blue cloth leggius were hauled over his trowsers, partly to keep the snow from sucking to them, and partly for warmth. After this he put on a leather capote. edged with fur. This coat was very warm, being lined with flannel, and overlapped very much in front. It was fastened with a scarlet worsted belt round the waist, and with a loop at the throat. A pair of thick mittens made of deerskin hung round his shoulders by a worsted cord, and his neck was wrapped in a huge shawl. over the mighty folds of which his good-humoured visage beamed like the sun on the edge of a fog-bank. A fur cap with ear-pieces, completed his costume.—Ballantyre's Hudson Bay, " THE ARISTOCRACY."—Why talk about the yoke of the Aristocracy ? Who groans under the yoke of the Aristocracy ? Does Mr. Tomkins. the grocer, or Mr. Hopkins, the chandler, or Mr. Dobbins, the shoemaker ? How and in what way are Dobbins, Tomkins, and Hop kins oppressed ? Is the Peerage against them ? Is it the country gentlemen ? Again, whom do they mean by the Aristocracy ? To hear some speeches, and read some books one might imagine that we were living in Venice, under a narrow, inapproachable, unelastic Aristocracy—a class despotic in government, unpopular in character, and uncongenial in blood—a caste incapable of fusion or of access, and raised at once above the sympathies and the alliances of the commonality. Now, that the reverse of this is so every schoolgirl that has read a novel and every mother that has thumbed the " Peerage" knows. What, then, can be thought of the intelligence of persons clamouring about the tyranny of the Aristocracy ? Does not every man know that his children may—if they work hard enough, and have health, strength, and wit enough —sit in the august house the carving and gilding of which inspires their admiration? Or have they yet to learn that of the leading statesmen for the last 160 years, one half sprung from the untitled gentry of England, and one half from its commonalty ? Did Walpole belong to the Aristocracy of the day ? Did Hardwicke ? Did Chatham ? Did Clive ? Did Nelson ? Did Burke ? Did Sidmouth? Did Eldon ? Did Canning ? Did Wilberforce ? Did Brougham ? Does Peel ? Does Gladstone ? Do Hume and Cobden ? What was Lord Eldon's grandfather ? What Sir R. Peel's ? What Lord Melbourne's ? Why, the most superficial knowledge of the most recent history might inform a man that, so far from the Aristocracy oppressing or keeping down the people, no class since the brightest period of Roman policy has been so elastic, so adoptive, and so popular as the Aristocracy of England. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD: etntral Aitortllanv. Mr. Thomas Wood (late alderman) has been appointed chief clerk in the Guildhall Police-court, London. Her Majesty and Prince Albert have sent a donation of £lOO in aid of the funds of the Ragged School Union. On Wednesday Mr. Justice.Erle, in chambers, accepted bail on behalf of the Chartist prisoner Vernon. It is said that flour will be sent from New York in a few weeks at four dollars per barrel. One of the Paris journals states that about 1,000 Pari sian milliners have left for London, On Friday last seven quarrymen were crossing one of the lakes situate in the beautiful pass of Llanberis, when the boat was capsized, and six of them drowned. The office of Sheriff of London has been going a-beg ging. Several gentlemen have been proposed for thd honour, but declined. An old wedding ring, with some initials and the date, 1594, on the inside, has the following inscription :—" One quyet, both happy." The Irish ship Royal Sovereign, of London, from Ham burg to Quebec, foundered, on Friday morning, off Cas tlehaven ; captain and crew, 17 in number. were saved. THE NORWICH RIOTS.—One of the constables injured by the mob at Norwich, in an attempt to rescue some re fractory paupers from their custody, has died. The sale of the magnificent effects at Stowe, the Duke of Buckingham's seat, will positively take place next month. Mrs. Newlove, the old lady, who, with her son, was so brutally injures by some burglars at Warthill, near York, has since died of her wounds. The British brig Brothers was wrecked on Tampico Bar on the 3d of May, and it was feared would be a total loss. Her cargo was valued at 150,000 dollars. It has been remarked, that nearly all the Duke of Buckingham's farms, which have lately been sold, have been bought by the tenants who occupied them. Mr. Macready has been engaged at the Birmingham theatre for Thursday and Friday next, the 6th and 7th instant. A large fragment of an ancient canoe, measuring about 22 feet in length, and hollowed from the-trunk of a large oak, has been found in the bed of the river Tay, at•Sleey less island. A London cabman has been committed for trial, on a charge of having forged one of the plates furnished to hackney carriages by the officers of the hackney coach department of the excise office. The foundation stone of a new corn-market, in Min burgh, for. the erection of which a large space has been cleared on the south-west side of the Grassmarket, was laid on Wednesday. A desperate struggle took place on Tuesday at Ports mouth between some smugglers and two government officers, during which one of the latter was so severely beaten that he was left for dead. The Arbroath Guide mentions a boy of thirteen who goes about preaching in the open air. The close of the discourse is the most moving, as a collection is then made for funds to complete the callant's education ! _ _ The Gipsey steam-ship was lost on a voyage from Lon don to Bahia, during a severe storm. The crew escaped on board a pilot-boat belonging to the Scilly Isles, and the steamer was seen to go down in deep water soon after. DERBY SWEEPS.—I❑ the House of Commons, on Wed nesday, Sir G. Grey said that wha are called " Derby Sweeps" are illegal, and that the Excise had received instructions to put a stop to them for the future. J. R. E. Holmos, EQq., of Llangoed Castle, Breconshire, was drowned in the Wye on Friday week. It is supposed that whilst fishing he ventured too deep into the water and was carried away by-the stream. Mrs. Thom, widow of the late bard of Inverary, died on the 17th ult., of typhus fever, leaving her three chil dren, the eldest of whom is only four years old, now or phans indeed. Ann Thomas, a woman living at Peterchurch, Here ford, has been committed for trial for the murder of her illegitimate offspring, by burying it alive immediately after its birth. _ A manufacturer of Birmingham has received an order from Abbas Paella, grandson of Mehemet Ali, for chim_ neypieces, grates, tenders, ashpans, lireirons, &c., for several fireplaces. The Hull Packet mentions that during a thunder storm on Sunday week, the lightning entered a room in a farmhouse near Brantingham, split the bedposts, and burned part of the covering of the bed in which the farmer was lying, but luckily left him uninjured. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.— A man at Netherton, Worces tershire, took three horses, riding the foremost, to drink at a large pond ; the foremost horse walked out of his depth, and in his struggles dragged the others after him ; the man and all three horses were drowned. SHOCKING DEATH. —On Monday, Mrs. Betts, of Cainsby, destroyed herself by taking laudanum. The de ceased lady, who was greatly respected, is said to have been driven almost mad by the misconduct of one of her children.—Lineoln Chronicle. Mr. Busfield Ferranti has again committed several par ties on charges of unlawful training and drilling to the use of arms and military exercises. Both Keighley and Brad ford have been very peaceable since such decisive mea sures have been taken. _ On the 13th ultimo., six men disguised entered the house of Mr, W. Cunnington, Shelton, Bedfordshire, and whilst one stood sentry over that gentleman and the other inmates with a loaded pistol, the others ransacked the house, using the most awful threats. "J RECKLESS DRIVING.—In the Carlisle County-court, a few days ago, Mr. Gawthorp, grocer, of that town, ob tained £2O damages, besides costs, against the Rev. Mr. Huntley, vicar of Tharsby, who had driven over him while ~. - . THE IRON TRADE.—The iron trade of Rimingliatn - is at the present moment in an extremely depressed state. At the preliminary meeting of iron-masters, held at Stew poney on Friday, it was resolved to reduce the price of iron 30.3. per ton. The hi?:hest rate of interest charged on advances by the Bank of England, since its first establishment, was in October 1847, when it was.eight per cent. ; the lowest rate was in September 1844, and March 1845, when it was two and a-half per cent. ; it is now three and a-half per cent. BOAT RACE.—The great match between the Shakespere crew, of Manchester, and the Mazeppa, Durham crew, for 1100, came off yesterday week at York. The distance was tour miles on the river Ouse, from a little below the bridge to a little below Bishopthorpe. The Mazeppa won the race by a yard and,a half. Sir John-Barrow (late of the Admiralty) celebrated his 84th birthday on the 19th ult., by inviting the Town. Bank scholars, of whom when a boy he was one, to dine at Furness Abbey. The Sunday-school child r e n h a d a l so a share in the afternoon's festivities. A new infant school was opened at Ulverstone on the same day. An extraordinary instance of the rapidity with which news is now conveyed is given in the Sun of Thursday. The result of the race for the Northumberland Plate, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which was run at twelve minutes past four o'clock on Wednesday, was published by that paper before five o'clock. MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Tuesday, a meeting of the Free Church Presbytery of Dalkeith was held. Among the speakers at the meeting was Dr. John Browne, R.N., Musselburgh, who, on resuming his scat at the conclusion of his- address, suddenly fell off his chair upon the floor, and immediately expired. A FAMOUS DIVIDEND.—The Edinburgh correspondent of the Daily News writes that a . circular - has been issued to the creditors on the private estate of Mr. Allison; iron merchant and sole proprietor of the North British Mail, intimating that a dividend has been declared of 7 15-16 d. in the pound. If the rejected claims are appealed against, the dividend will be 2 1-15 per pound. Ati order in council has been issued, directing that all vessels arriving in the United Kingdom from ports and places in the Levant, not having foul bills of health, are to be cleared immediately on arrival, by the tide-survey ors, and not to be subjected to a quarantine of the inte rim of return of post from London, or of medical inspec tion. ` At a marriage which was solemnized at Christ Church, Bristol, a few days since, the officiating clergyman closed the ceremony by raising the veil of the bride, impressing a kiss on her forehead, and then blessing her from the altar. This, which is said to be a revival of an old custom in the church, excited some commotion among the nu merous persons in the body of the sacred edifice. INDIA RUBBER PAVEMENT.—The court-yard of the Admiralty, Whitehall, has been covered with a pavement of India rubber. It is laid down in pieces about twelve inches square and one in thickness. The quadrangle at Buckingham-palace, formed by the erection of the new wing, will also be covered with this material, which its projectors have named " Kamptolite." Its chief recom mendation ia that 46 dcodena•att -,mural.- - ' The barque Commerce, 267 tons, Alexander Halliday, master, of and from Galway, with 68 passengers, for St. John's, New Brunswick, was totally lost on Port Mouton Island, a little to the westward of Liverpool, Nova Scotia, on the morning of the 31st May, and we regret to state that eight of the passengers, and an apprentice belonging to the ship, were drowned. WASTE LANDS. — It is stated in " Fleming's Policy," that there are 14,700,000 acres of waste land in the United Kingdom, viz. :—ln England, 3,454,000; in Wales, 530,000; in Scotland, 5,250,000; in Ireland, 4,600,000;_ in the British Islands, 166,006. It is believed that one fourth might be reclaimed for wheat culture. [Other ac counts state 25 millions.] A lady has invented a new mode of teaching astronomy by means of a parasol, instead of a celestial globe, and terms this new instrument an astrorama. The silk of the parasol represents the firmament, upon which the con stellations are pourtrayed. while a plumb line hangs down, and when brought to the edge of the silk, shows that the axis of the heavens, represented by the parasol stick, is rightly inclined. On Sunday week, about one o'clock at noon, the mill of Messrs. Hirst, Day and Co. known as the Albion Mill, at Dewsbury, was burnt to the ground. The damage sus tained is supposed to be from £BOOO to £9OOO. The con. flagration is said to have originated iri' the spontaneous combustion of some waste material. UpWards of on e hundred mill hands will be thrown out of employment by this calamity. A CIIRIOSITY.—In the forge of Mr. Wyatt, at the Waterloo Inn, Oldswinford, there is, at the distance of about half a dozen yards from the hammer and fire of the forge, the nest of a robin, with young birds , being the second brood hatched in the same spot this season.— Singularly enough, the old bird remains in fearless security feeding and tending her brood, while the workmen, who are almost constantly employed, are at work quite close to the nest.—Binningham Journal. STEAM BOAT EXPLOSION..—The steamer Neptune, be longing to North Shields, was off the port, a distance of about six miles, on Wednesday in last week, when the boiler burst, and the captain, named Benjamin Baxter, was so severely scalded, that he died shortly after being landed at North Shields. The fireman also, named Wm. Robson, is not expected to survive the injuries he received from the same cause. The steamer, it appears, had been racing to secure the towing of a vessel into Shields. Nothing can show more clearly the extraordinary specu lative and flattering nature of mining, property than the changes which have taken place in the value of the Real del Monte shares, to possess which, some years since, was con?idered fortunate at £1,300 per £4OO share, and which are this day quoted at fifteen shillings !--Minngi Jour. Six INCENDIARY FIRES.—On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday se'nnight, there were no fewer than six incendiary fires in Hertfordshire. One of them was at Harlow, on a farm in the occupation of Mr. Wm. Barnard, belonging to the late Marquis of Bute. The value of the stock de stroyed is estimated at £3OO, and of the buildings £l7OO. Both are insured.—ln another case, that.of Mr. Squires, of Waterford-mill, the loss of the tenant is calculated at £2OO. A man is in custody on su.picion. IMPROVEMENT OF BILLINGSGATE MARKET.—The cor poration of London are about to remodel this market, and erect a structure, the architectural proportions of which shall harmonize with the new Coal Exchange now erecting opposite Billingsgate. The chain of houses known as Darkhouse-lane are to be removed.. The old dock, from the fish now being chiefly brought to market by railway, is to be filled up, and a commodious market-place formed on the entire site, being an area of about 15,000 square feet. _ _ _ A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against a man living in Sandgate, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the murder of his infant illegitimate child. The wretch went to the residence of its mother, took the child from the cradle and dashed it on the floor; he then took it by the legs and swung it about and then dashed it again to the ground, exclaiming, "There, it it wilt not need much after that." It only lived a few minutes. SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.—An Inquest was held, few days since, on view of the body of the Rev. H. Brad ridge, aged 62, for some years minister of the Parish Church at Slapton, Devon. Deceased had been out of his mind during the last five years, and had been constantly watched over by a keeper. Unfortunately. on Friday week, he found an opportunity of getting out at a private door. Search "as made for him, but without avail, till the next day, when he was discovered drowned in a quarry pit containing six feet of water. lie had a rope round his neck, with a stone attached to the end of it. SHOCKING PROFANENESS.-011 Friday an inquest was held at Hampstead-road, London, on the body of Mr. E. A. Ashford, aged twenty-five, a medical student of Uni versity College, who destroyed himself by taking prussic acid. The deceased left behind him the following letter to his mother :—" Dear Mamma,—Tell the twelve idiotic clieesemongers, grocers, &c., who will form the British jury, that the proper verdict to return is. that E. A. A. died because he could not live. By G—d, that's the truth. God bless you, my dear mother and sister.—E. A. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." THE SEVEREST REPRIMAND.—Ott Friday week, Mr. Davis, one of the clerks of her Majesty's ship Prince Re gent, 92 guns, was called upon the quarter-deck, and com pelled to read aloud, so that the whole of the officers and crew (about 900 in all) could hear distinctly, a series of letters, in which• he had slandered the captain, officers, and the ship in very unmeasured terms ; these letters were addressed to a friend on shore, but who liaving quar relled with the officer, sent the letters of the latter to Captain Martin, who reprimanded the author in the above manner. _ . . SUNDAY CRICKETING.—The minister of Horton, Oxon, and Studley, Bucks, has signified his intention of provid ing hats, balls, wickets, vickets &e., for the young men to pl a y a t cricket after service on Sundays, and also on other days. The scenes of " pitch and trustle," and other gambling tricks on Sundays, have been very annoying to many in the parish and to strangers ; and it is in a great measure with the view of preventing them that the rev. gentleman has determined on introducing the healthful recreative game of cricket amongst those who have hitherto spent their time in a much worse way.— Hereford Journal.— [This is only substituting one sin for another. On our contemporary's own showing. it is worse than "doing evil that good may come] CATTLE FROM PORTUGAL.—TWO large and powerful steamers are now plying between Oporto and Southamp ton, for the purpose of importing Portuguese oxen. The average cost in Portugal is about £ 8 per head, and they fet c h here about £2O per head, some of the 'finest £25. At-first they were sold in the Lyndon market, but a good market has now been found at Southampton and Portsmouth y in fact, the butchers of those towns have agreed with the shippers to purchase all that are brought over. The beasts are in excellent condition. A short time since Spanish cattle from Vigo and Corunna were imported, but they required fattening after they were landed, and the speculation faihyd. It appears that the cattle now brought over are reared by the Portuguese peasantry. They are brought to the coast to be shipped in pairs, generally by poor peasant women, and it is amu sing to see the beasts kissed by their drivers, and wi4hed a pleasant voyage to England- Each vessel brings over about 150 at a time. The deck is literally covered with them, and the sailors run along on their backs to manage the vessel.' • INTREPID CONDUCT OF A YOUNG LADY.—On Satur day, two young ladies were walking along the beach at the back of the Isle of Wight, near Black Gang Chine. It was blowing hard at the time, and the sea running very high, when a violent squall gave such a sudden impetus to the rising tide that t hey were overtaken by the waves, which, in their reflux, dragged in the younger female, and in a minute she was floating in deep water, at least twenty. yard from dry land. The first impulse of her friend to rush in to her rescue was checked by her self-possession, which told her t!.at to obey that impulse was certain death to both ; she, therefore, with heroic calmness awaited the returning wave. Twice she saw the bo!y sink beneath the surface.. As it rose the second time she watched it bo k ue on the crest of a tremendous sea towards the shore. Seizing the second of time that intervenes bet Ween the bUrsting of the surge and its fearful recoil, she advanced upto her waist-in the water, clutched hold of her exhausted and nearly insensible friend, and dragged her up the hutch. There was really so little time :to snare, that both were again submerged. Another desperate effort placed her out of the immediate reach of the waves; but she had, clinging to the bunches of grass and rushes, to climb with her burden up a steep bank of slippery green sand, the appearance of which almost belies the possibility of such an ascent, before they were in safety. THRASHING BY MACHINERY.—Last week we were on the farm of John Butter, Thorngumhold, and wit nessed, with several others in the neighbourhood, the operations of a portable steam thrashing machine; all the machinery was of the simplest kind, and, indeed, we could not see from whence, the first grand moving power proceeded, until a little door at the end of the engine was opened and disclosed to us the cylinder and working parts of the steam-engine; by being enclosed thus it was pre served from the chaff; dust, and weather, which would be injurious to its durability ; a gut ta percha strap (from the fiy-wheel, which was attached to the crank shalt), con veyed the motion to a detached part, where the corn is thrashed, this was fixed between two stacks of wheat, and thrashed them in seven hours, in a most perfect manner, without injury to the corn, and bringing the straw through this severe ordeal as straight and as unbroken as if it had not been through the process. We understand the cause of the latter improvement was in consequence of the ma chine being so contrived that the sheaves were put in the broad instead of the end way. From 25 to 30 hands were very busily employed in attending to its operations. Mr. Butter had no hesitation in saying that he could thrash off 'their long strewed wheat easily ten quarters per hour; indeed, so far as the machinery was concerned, the ques tion appeared to be, what can the men give the machiize •to do not what can the machine do, because that scarcely appeared to have a limit. The consumption of coal for the seven hours was not five hundred weight, or not more than three shillings in value, and the control of, the ma chinery so simple that any man on the farm might manage it.—Hull Packet. DREADFUL STORM.—Allendale, Northumberland, has been visited by a dreadful storm. At Bridge-end •Mill, which is situated at the confluence of the river Allen and Wooley Burn, the farm-yard was soon filled with water, and the pigs were floating about, and were with difficulty rescued by the neighbouring inhabitants. The dwelling house was filled with water, to a considerable height, and soon rendered tenantless. Another rivulet which flows into the Allen, at Allendale Town, came down in such fury as to choke up the bridge over which the turnpike road crosses, sweeping away a considerable portion of tha, arch and embankment along with it. The candle house at Allendale Town was filled with water within a few inches of the top, and the chandler, in attempting to save the life of his dog, narrowly-escaped through a window with his' own. At a house near the village of Catton the water ac cumulated to so great a depth behind the house, that it burst open the back door and rushed out at the front, carrying a portion of the furniture along with it down the road towards the tillage. At Mount Pleasant, a thunder bolt struck the chiniury top. brought down o part of the ' pelting, and made a small hole through the lintel of the chimney-piece, which is an immense block of freestone.— The water entered the horizontal flues at Langley Smelt Mill, and swept away lead fume of considerable value. At Slublick the lightning set a thatched cottage on fire, and burnt it down. The cottage was not inhabited. Two cows were killed, one at Old Town, and the other at Newfold House. Some persons were stunned and slightly injured; but, fortunately, no lives were lost. The grass and turnip fields have sustained more or less injury, accor ding to situation, and in some fields the soil has been com pletely swept away. DR. WISEMAN AND HIS -CHAPEL.—From the Ere Nouvelle (Paris paper) of the 20th instant, we translate the following fragment of a letter which had been addressed by " Mgr. Wiseman" to all the Bishops of Germany, Belgium, and France, inviting them to assist at the open ing of the Popish Chapel in St. George's-fields on Tues day next. Dr. Wiseman's object is to edify us, poor ignorant Protestants, with a " demonstration"—a not unusual thing in these exciting times. If any part of this demonstration take place in the public streets, we trust that' he attention of the police will be directed, thereto. Here is the portion of the letter" alluded . to :—" The 4th of duly is the day fixed for the. solemn opening of the -large church of St. George in . this. city, . and I ardently desire, not only that the ceremonies should be performed with all suitable pomp, but also that our holy religion should derive from thence a new Splencloutand a powerful impulse. Nothing can make us more surely attain this double object than the presence .of foreign . pontiffs. The presence of a great number of bishops will add much to the splendour of the solemnity ; it will prove, moreover, to Anglicans and other Protestants, that it is we, and not they, who are recognised abroad as the true Catholic Church of this country, and will give to all a visible proof of the unity of the faith and of worship which binds tope- the pastors of the universal Church. I need not add what consolation the presence of Your Greatness' (Votre Grandeur) would afford to. the Catholics themselves: I come then, in all cordiality and effusion (sic), to invite Your Greatness to do us the honour of assisting at this festival—the greatest, probably, and the most splendid that England may have seen since the period of the Refor illation.' Dr. Wiseman depends, then, upon a theatrical display to convince Protestants that the Romish Church is the true Catholic Church of this country.—Church and State Gazelle. EVIDENCE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON SUGAR AND COFFEE PLANTING- OF MR. BURN, THE COMPILER OF THE " COMMERCIAL GLANCE," AS TO'THE. EFFECT ON THE COTTON TRADE, OF THE DISTRESS IN OUR SUGAR GROWING COLONIES. We have had occasion to present to our readers abstracts of the vrluable labours of Mr. Burn, of Manchester ; and we have now the pleasure of laying before our readers a detail of some important evidence, on a subject upon which he, above most other men is well informed, given before the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Plant ing. We may mention that it is introduced in the Com mittee's Report in the most complimentary manner:— " Mr. Burn gave information to the Committee, derived from the most industrious research, of the deepest interest and the greatest value. He presented to the Committee a Table, by which he showed that the total value of cotton goods exported to the British West Indies, Mauritius, Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta, in the 19 months from the 22nd of January, 1845, to the 22nd of August. 1846, was £5,988,544; that in the same period the total value of goods exported to Cuba, Porto Rico, and Brazil, amounted to £2,490,776,• making a sum total of £8,479,320. That in the 19 corresponding* months after the passing the Act of 1846, from the 22nd of August to the 22nd of March, 1848, the total value of goods exported to the British Colonies was £4,856,286, showing a decrease of £1,132,268. To counterbalance which, the exports to the slave -holding countries increased to .t 1,946,151, showing an incense of £455,381 to *Mance against the larger decrease to the British Colonies; showing, as the general result, a decreasAl trade to the sugar-growing countries, slave holding and free, of £676,887. " But Mr. Burn did not stop here, having shown to the Com mittee that the weight of Cotton consumed in the goods ex ported in the first period was 114,224,977 lbs., and that the price in the former period was 41d. per lb. ; that the value of the raw material was but .€2,854,452, which would have to be deducted from the .€8,479.324, leaving £5,624,572 for wages, and profit, and working, in the period of 1845.46, while the price of Cotton having risen in the period between the 22nd August, 1846, and 22nd March, 1848, to 6d. a lb., the di minished weight of Cotton, amounting only to 121.768,590 lbs., constituted a value of .€3,119,214, which, deducted from .€7,802,437, the value of the manufactured goods exported in the latter period, left only £4,683,223, being a diminution of -€941,649 in the sum left for wages, and profit, and working, in the period of 1846-48, as compared with 1845-46; and whi:st thus he showed that instead of bringing wealth and pros perity, a diminished trade and diminished amount of wages to the extent of .€911,649 had followed upon the passing of the Act of 1848, he went into a calculation, by which, having shown that there were employed in 1846, 617,252 hands, in 1847 there were but 431,727 hands employed in the manufac ture of Cotton in England, leaving unemployed in 1847, as compared with 1856, 16i,527 hands. And thm he went on to show that, assuming even that the Act of 1846 had a right to take credit for the cheapening of sugar to the extent of 11 a'b., which your House is aware would be equal to £l4 a ton, and allowing that the whole 617,554 persons, employed and out of employment, had consumed 231 lbs. of Sugar per head per annum, they would only have gained by this reduction .€144,702 to set off against their loss in wages, and profit, and working, of .€941,619; so that upon the balance of gain and of loss, it would seem that the Cotton manufacturers of En gland, in wages, profit, and working, have lost .€796,947, simultaneously with the change of policy which was to confer such mighty benefits and such unbounded prosperity upon them. Now, taking the wag es of the operatives at 9s. a week upon the average, .€791,947w0u1d be equivalent to the wages of 18,533 operatives in full employment for 95 weeks, and for 34,976 operatives for one year. Asked if in the history of Lancashire a period had ever been known when for so very long a time so many operatives had been out of employment and working short time: he answered, he never recollected so many; that it was decidedly worse now than it was in 1840 and 1841 ; that they had decreased in quantity more Cotton in 1847 than they consumed altogether in 1826. That in 1826 there were only entered for home consumption 376,733 bags of Cot ton; - he decrease in 1847 was 441,053 bags of Cotton as com pared with 1846. 'The greatest decrease that had ever ap. ' , eared having occurred in 1839, when the decrease in the manufacture amounted to 221,605 bags of Cotton. And with respect to the state of Manchester he said, that in 1896 the casual and Irish poor amounted to but 72,3112 persons, and the cost of their maintenance to £10,475, whilst in 1847 their casual and Irish poor amounted to 149,504, and the cost of their maintenance to £45,218 lls. 2s. That the poor rate in 1826 amounted to ss. in the pound 't-ion assessment of 7-16ths only of the rental that the l 00r-rate in 1846 was ss. in the pound; in 1847, 4s. 6d. upon au asse , sment of 5-6ths of the rental. The practical result was this, that 4s. Ed. has raised in 1847, .€120,000, which the guardians have already had. The Corporation have had £37,000, which the overseers have bor rowed, and it will require a Is- 6d., rate to pay it back, which will make a sum equal - to something like 103. 6d. in the pound. If, therefore, the Brit'sh West Indies and Mauritius, and - the .sugar-growing interests in the British Fast Indies. present one dark picture of irrecoverable ruin. Your Committee has not the consolation of thinking that those, to benefit whom this law was passed, have reaped any profit from the change of policy which they so successfully advocated." SYSTEMATIC COLONIZATION. The Colonial Church Chronicle* for the present month contains an able article on this subject. The writer sets out with showing the advantages which would arise to " more than half the human race, crowding the empires of India and China and the islands of the Eastern Seas, if we could plant another England at the Antipodes." Here we are too far from them, but the colonization of Australia and New Zealand would furnish us with a lever, at the right end of which we could effectually work, for evangelising the millions of idalators in the East. 25,000 persons sent out annually would, at the ordinary colonial rate, increase the amount in sixty years to 5,000,000, nearly double the population of Scotland ; and the former number may be'sent out annually with great benefit to the erlony, to the mother country, acd to the emigrants themselves. It -is proved from official sources that in both the countries mentioned, employers suffer the very greatest inconvenience from the paucity of farm servants. female servants, mechanics, and that the demand for labour is daily increasing. So great is the distress experienced from this cause that the colonists have in some instances imported Coolies from India, and savage natives from the Polynesian Islands. New South Wales, with a population of 200,000 souls, contains 8,000,000 sheep and 1,400,000 head of horned cattle, (forty sheep and seven cows for each inhabitant,) and the colony pre sents the means of immediate employment during the ensuing twelve months for 20,000 souls. As to the eff,!ct of the projected emigration •on the mother country, we will let the writer speak for himself : .‘ The rate-payers are burthened with the maintenance of a very large number of men, who come upon the rates merely because they cannot find work. The sum expended for the relief of the poor in England and Wales in the year 1815-0, amounted, in round figures, to .e 5,000,000; and in the same year the number of adult and able-bodied paupersye:ieved was 375,5 n : and the population is increasing with a rapidity hi therto unexampled, having been at the rate of eighty per cent.. between 1801 and 1841 ; by this time it must have nearly dou bled; and it is to be borne in mind, that if we proceed in the same ratio for the next fifty years, the addition to the popula tion of England and Wales trill not be 9,000,00), as in the last fifty years, but 18,000,000. The burthen of the poor rates, though heavy every where, is not equally distributed. It is far • the heaviest in the agricultural districts. In ten counties, in cluding those most distinguished for manufacturing and mining industry, and the two metropolitan counties, namely, Cornwall, Warwick, Middlesex, Durham, the West Riding, Chester, Stafford, Surrey, Lancaster, and Monmouth, the poor-rates have been at the rate of 4s. 9d. a head only ; whereas, in ten which are strictly agricultural, namely, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridge, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, the average charge has been about 9s. 6d. a-head. It results, from a comparison of that charge on the ten most favoured counties with the rest of the kingdom, that the kingdom pays above £1,000,000 sterling a-year more in poor-rates than it would, if the average charge on it was no heavier than on those ten counties. But though still great anti alarming, the plethora of the agriculturists has been much re lieved by the manufacturers. Assuming the number of births per cent, in the agricultural counties to have been as great as in the kingdom at large, it results, from the greater increase of numbers which has taken place in the manufacturing districts, that between 1801 and 1841 they received from the former above 1,000,000 of their surplus population. It further appears, from the census of 1841 as compared with that of 1831, that the num ber of men employed in agriculture is not increasing at , all. And it is further probable that from the adoption of various sanitary measures, and the general improvement of medical science, the increase in future years will be in even a higher ratio than in times past.. If. then, there shoal be that increase which seems so highly probable, and if the land cannot employ them, what is to become of them, or of the land either ? espe cially if, as must some day happen, the manufacturers should come to a check, and not be able to receive the usual influx. It really seems as if they must tail back upon the land till they swamp all the rents, unless they be provided with a new home in the Colonies, where they would not only cease to be burthen some to the land, but would become even beneficial to it by their demand for manufactered goods, thus enabling the ma nufacturers to continue their usual drain of the waste water from the land. Our export trade is already greatly indebted to the Colonies, which, including the United States, take now twenty-eight per cent. of our whole exports. Let us once lodge a nation of 5,000,000 in New South Wales, which, by the operation of natural laws, would soon become 10,000,000 and 20.000.000 and imagination can scarcely set bounds to the demand which might arise for the products of our manufactur ing industry." _ _ . That the condition of the emigrants would be improved, we need only refer to the extracts which we gave a week or two since from Mr. Waghorn's pamphlet. The plenty which is proved to exist in those distant rezions contrasts tantalizingly with the want and misery from which too many of the inhabitants of this country are unfortunately suffering. * A monthly publication, which ought to be extensively cir culated. It affords a valuable digest of all intelligence eon nected with the colonies, especially of an ecclesiastical charac ter. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY AND THE SUP PRESSED AND GARBLED DESPATCHES. The London Times on Tuesday volunteered a defence of the officials of the Colonial-office from the charges brought against them by Lord George Bentinck ; and read a lecture to that nobleman for the alleged crime of accus ing men without proofs to support his accusations. The explanation (!) given on Tuesday night, however, in the House of Lords, and the able statement of the case by Lord Stanley, appears to have wrought a change in our 'contempary's opinions. Admitting the possibility of an accidental mistake, with respect to Sir C. Grey's despatch, he coincides with Lord Stanley in condemning the conti nued withholding of the despatch in question, after the error committed had been discovered, and the total sup pression of an important paragraph in Governor Higgin son's despatch. Upon the subject of the misrepresentation of the substance of the memorial from Jamaica our con temporary is rather severe ; and we give his view of that transaction at length, as confirmatory of those which we have ourselves already expressed : " With regard to the West Indian memorial—on which after all, the substantive charge against Earl Grey rests — the case is equally clear. The tendency of Earl Grey's statement was absolutely to lead the house into gross error. All the peers present, all who read Lord Grey's speech, must on the strength of this memorial, so ex pounded to them, have arrived at the conclusion that a number of planters were investing capital in Jamaica — and doing well." " The unhappy memorialists had but little idea of the use to which their complaints would be applied by the Colo nial Secretary. " Earl Grey at the time he addressed the house VW in possession of the following figures with which he had beers furnished by the memorialists. They did not expect any return for the £142,000 they had been foolish enough to expend upon a West Indian investment. The then price of sugar would only give them a gross return of .C 60.800 to be placed against an annual expenditure of £60,300,, leaving a balance over expenditure of only a'iout £5OO to go against the interest of the annual outlay, and preclud ing the recovery of a single shilling of the original invest ment. It was the memorial of these unfortunate persons that Earl Grey used for such a purpose as the one quoted above ! The answer of the English Secretary of State for the Colonies, when charged with this distortion of an im portant document to support his own views, is this—' I ac cepted the testimony of the memorial as to the facts of the case, but I did not abide by its authority in matters of opinion.' "The public must be left to form its own judgment ort this state of facts. It is deplorable to find an English statesman's name mixed up with such a transaction. Nothing, one should imagine, but an inborn sense of honesty and uprightness is needed in order to arrive at a. correct decision upon this case. Who amongst our read— ers would have taken a letter from his pocket and used its contents in the course of business as Earl G re y did thi s West Indian memorial ?" SUICIDE OF A LADY.—At Bideford, on Wednesday week, Mrs. Mary Madeline Bourmaster Douglas, aged 39, wife of Major Douglas, of the Royal Infantry, and daughter of the late Gen. Sir William Dixon, committed suicide by taking prussic acid. She had been married to Major Douglas about 21 years. and was the mother of ten children, seven of whom are living. The deceased, who had been in India with her husband almost ever since their marriage, returned to England about twelve months ago. Major Douglas landed at Southampton some three weeks since, and having joined the deceased at Exeter, they repaired to Bideford, where they were lodging when the fatal event occurred. The deceased had appeared as usual up to the afternoon of Wednesday, although the parsons with whom she lodged deposed that she was fre quently much dejected, and that her manner often sug gested to them doubts of her sanity. Major and Mrs. Douglas and three of their children dined together, and deceased seemed in good spi r it s , an d t a lk e d with het:hus band, with apparent pleasure, of their proposed embarka tion for India in October. Soon after dinner she sud denly rose from the table, and after the lapse of about half a minute returned hurriedly, and rushed into the drawing-room, where she fell senseless on the floor. Messengers were despatched for a surgeon, who arrived within five minutes, when he found life not suite extinct, but death occurred within a minute of his arrival. A bot tle was found on deceased's dressing table, which had con tained prussic acid, which it appears she had procured in two separate quantities under pretence of poisoning cats. A BILL STEALING AND THREATENING-LETTER Es- TADLISHMENT.—Mr. Robinson, the Superintendent of the P division of Police, waited on Wednesday on Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth-offiee, to report to the Magistrate the result of his inquiries respecting a gang of swindlers in the Albany-road and Kent-road, who appear to have carried on a system of fraud to a most incredible extent. The transactions being carried on in writing, the persons duped never saw the face of the sharpers by whom they were swindled, and cannot therefore identify them. From the amber of names assumed by the swindlers, it seems almost hopeless to bring home any specific charge to them. The " firm" had agents in various parts of the country, to ascertain who were the most, needy tradesmen ; to these circulars were sent, offering " good" bills in ex change for goods. One of the body, whuse name has been ascertained to be Roulledge, had a large warehouse in the Kent-road, and flour, furniture, and other property were frequently brought there, and immediately after re moved again. Money was also extorted by the gang from timid persons, particularly clergymen, by threats of exposure. In one case a baronet in a northern county had been duped to the amount of nearly one thousand pounds, without ever seeing the party by whom he had been swindled. The trades in the neighbourhood, though well acquainted with the practices of the swindlers, re fused to give the slightest information regarding them, on the ground that they were good customers, who paid re gularly, and that they had nothing to do with their private affairs. From documents forwarded to the officers, it ap pears that the parties were engaged in Loan Societ'es, and in railroad and other speculations. George Roulledge, or Captain Roulledge, is the registered promoter of the Great Anglo-China Railway and Dock Company ; his name is to the scrip of the Grant Southern of Madras Railway Company as a director. The co-register of Cap tain Roulledge in the first mentioned Company, kept a small butcher's shop in Hoxton sour) years ago, and at present rides in an elegant carriage, and has his country mansion, with a retinue of servants. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—There is no material chance in the market since Tuesday. There has been, however, a revival of purcha ses for Mexico, from whence the accounts are very favourable; and it is expected that the Mexican government will adopt a more liberal commercial system than that which existed before the late war. Orr the whole, there is still a moderately fair de mand for goods at the lowest rates previously current. In the yarn market, the decline indicated by some very tow sales of India qualities of yarn at the beginning of the week may he cons , dered as now fully established. We are glad to hear that the prospect of the revival of the trade to Germany is a little more promising; some of the Germa n ho uses a b roa d h av i ng established credts with London bankers, by which the diffi culties of negotiating which have hitherto existed, will be greatly diminished. LEkins.—The woollen trade has been very quiet this week: and there is nu change in it worth notice since our last report. IlaAnvoito.—Wool : The market is exceedingly dull, and the tram.actions are limited. The supply in. the market is very low, am] the spinners have 'lrn inducement to extend their pur chases. Yarns : We have no improvement to report in this department. The trade is duller than we ever remember. The shipping houses are scarcely doing anything, and as it is yet too early fur the mous:in-de-laine makers for the autumn, the demand is exceedingly . limited ; indeed the present cothump tion falls short of keeping one-half of the spinning machinery engaged. Prices are lower tuan ever !mown to be before. Pieces : The market was somewhat more numerously attended with strangers on Thursday, whose chief inquiry was for no velty in fancy goods. We do not hear of any more sales in plain goods, which are now by no means abundant, and very few are making. UDDERSFIELD.—We have had another very dull and lan guid market, and very little business has been done this week, although there have been a few buyers down, who have caused an inquiry after some classes of goods. Prices are lower and stocks generally small. KOCH DA LE FLANNEL MARKET.—We have had no improve ment whatever in the flannel market this week; all sorts of goods have been dull of sale, and sold at prices ruinous to the manufacturer. The wool market has been dull ; only small quantities have been disposed of, at rather lower prices. SGOW.—The slight improvement in this market noticed last week, has been well maintained since. Operations in plain fabrics for the eastern markets, have taken place to some ex tent, but without an improving effect upon prices, in the mean time. The settlement of affairs in Mexico, has induced buyers for that country to come more freely into the market ; and, should the new government established be able to maintain itself, there is every reason to bel'eve that our trade in-that direction may shortly become important. For the West Indies and the Spanish Main, there is also a fair amount of business done. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, ON THE isT JULY, 184 S. 'eel Service 3fagazine.) Dn ed ? the last-named is that at regiment is stationed.] 36t—(1st batt.) Corfu. (2d batt.) Cephalonia 37th—Ceylon, Chatham 38t11—Halifax, N.S., Boyle 39th—Preston 4 0th—Galway 41 st — Buttevant 42 d — Bermuda, Isle of Wight ; Reserve batt., Bermuda. 4 3d—Ternplemore 44th—(tst batt.) Malta (Reserve batt.) Malta 45th—Cape G. Hope, I.of Wight ; Res. batt., Cape G. Hope 46th—Dover 47th—Clonmel 48th—Dublin . 49th—Dublin 50th—Walmer 51st—Madras, Chatham 53d—Bengal, Chatham 54th—Antiva, Jersey 55th—Dublin 56th—(Ist batt.) Gibraltar (2d batt.) Gibraltar, I. of 57th—Enniskillen [Wight 58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 59th—Templemore 60th—(lst bt.)Bombay,Chathns (2d bt.) Bury 61st—Bengal, Chatham 62d—Portsmouth 63d—Manchester 64th—Limerick 65th—N. S. Wales. Chatham 66th—Barbadoes, Kinsale 117th—Gibraltar, Isle of Wight . 68th—Mullingar 39th—Malta; Reserve batt. Malta, Isle of Wight 70th—Cork 71st—Naas Reserve bait, Canada 72d—West Indies, Sheerness 73d—Cape G. Hope, Bizr 74th—Dublin 75th—Dublin 76th—Corfu, Isle of Wight 77th—Canada, Corfu 78th—Bombay, Chatham 79th—Gibraltar, Mullingar 80th—Bengal, Chatham 81st—Preston 82d—Devonport 83d—Kilkenny 34th—Madras, Chatham 85th—Dublin 86th —Bombay, Chatham 87th—Weedon 88th—Trinidad, Tralee 89th—Ashton th—Chatham 91st—Gosport ; Reserve batt., Cape of Good Hope 928—Limerick 93d—Canada, Aberdeen 94th—Madras, Chatham 95th—China, Londonderry 96th—N. S.Wales, Chatham 97 th — Jamaica,Isle of Wight Reserve batt, Jamaica. 98th—Bengal, Chatham 99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham Rifle Brigade— (lst batt.) Cape of G. Hope, Bristol (2d batt.) Canada, Isle if Wight Reserve batt., Quebec. COLONIAL CORPS. Ist West India Regiment—Jamaica 2d Ditto—Windward and Leeward Islands. 3d Ditto—Demerara, Sierra Leone, sze. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon and China Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Canada Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of Good Hope Royal Newfoundland Companies—Newfoundlaed Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta St. Helena Regiment—St. Helena (From Colburn'z Unit, [Where two places are mentic which the depOt of the Ist Life Guards—Hyde Park 2d Ditto—Windsor Royal El. Guards—Regent's Pk Ist Drag.Guards—Cahir 2d—Piershill 3d—Nottingham 4th—Mancaester sth—Birmingham 6th—Dundalk 7th—Brighton .Ist Dragoons—York 2d—Athlone 3d—Bengal, Maidstone 4th— Newbridge 6th—Dublin 7th Hussars—Dublin Bth—Ballincollig 9th Lancers—Bengal, Maid.tn. 10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid stone 11th Hussars—Hounslow 12th Lancers—York 13th Lt. Dragoons—Longford 14th—Bengal, Maiditone 15th Huss.—Madras, Maidston 16th Lancers—Norwich 17th—Dublin Grenadier Guards — (Ist batt.) Wellington Bar. (2d ['att.) Chichester (3d batt.) St: John's Wood Coldstream Guards— (lst batt.) The Tower • (2d batt.) Windsor Scotch Fusileer Guards— (lst batt.) St. George's Bar. (2d batt.) Portman-st. Bar. Ist Foot— (lst batt.) N. Scotia, Stirling' (2d batt.)—Birr 2d—Dublin 3d—Belfast 4th—Madras, Chatham sth—(lst bt ) Mauritius • (2d bt.) Maurit., I.Wight 6th—(lst bt.) Cape G. Hope; • Reserve halt., Hudson's Bay and Youghal. 7th—Halifax, N.S., Waterford Bth—Bombay, Chatham 9th—Camp; Reran!' Moor. 10th—Benolit, Chatham • llth—N..g. Wales, Chatham 12th—Weedon Reserve batt., Mauritius) 13th—Newry • 14th—Newport, South Wales 15th—Ceylon, Brecon 16th—Corfu, Guernsey 17th—Portsmouth • 18th—Bengal, Chatham 19th—Montreal Castlebar • 20th—Canada,Isle of Wight; Reserve batt., Canada 21st—Calcutta, Canterbury 22d—Bombay, Chatham • 23d—Halifax, Isle of Wight ; Reserve batt. Canada 24th—Bengal, Chatham 25th—Madras, Chatham 26th—Cork 27th —Glasgow 28th —Canterbury e 29th —Bengal, e 3 t e neh nf ac a nt: ct Chatham niaT ny n 33d—Edinburgh 34th—Gibraltar, Nenagh 35th—Plymouth of ito n -11, s- r r- to a-