The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. (From the Private Correspondent of the Standard.) PARIS, AUG. 27. THE FESTIVALS AT PARIS. The present of a "sword" to the young Count of Paris by the municipality of this city might have passed unperceived, but for the very extraordinary speech of the prefect of the department. According to his speech, it would have been much better to have presented the baby boy with a popgun, a rabbit skin, or a bag of marbles: Or, if the municipal authorities of Paris would lay out 35,000 francs, it would have been better to have purchased a model of a steam ena:ne, or of steam carriages, or of looms, mer chant brigs, and so forth. But to present a sword of 35,000 francs value to the Count de Paris, at the same time telling him that it is never to be used, and that he is to maintain peace at all prices, is too absurd and flagrant a contradiction not to be noticed by so witty a _people as the French. The 7ournat clesllthcits feels indeed the ludicrous nature of such a gift upon such terms, and, therefore, although the good bur gesses of Paris did tell the young Count de Paris and his grandfather that his sword from the city of Paris was not to be used by the infant heir, either as Charlemagne or as Na poleon used theirs, yet the Debats contains the following ex planation of it, supposes the municipal authorities meant to say; at the same time admitting that they did not very clearly express their meaning. The Debats gives the mean ing as follows : " Gardons la paix, mais soyons prets a la. guerre! Point de paix a tout prix ! Voici uue arine; c'est pour combattre ! et si jamais vous tries oblige de marcher a la frontiers, oubliez la harangue rnuuicipale de 1838; mais rappelez-vows Charle magne et tachez d'imiter Napoleon!" The Journal des Debats contains to-day the following war like conclusion to this pacific harangue of the municipality of Paris. it is important, as it is the language of the go vernment, and as it indicates the possibility of a war with Switzerland and Russia:— France has drawn the sword ten times since the revolu tion of July—at Ancona, at Antwerp, at Lisbon, at Maskara, at the Shikak, at Constantine ; and to-day it draws its sword in Mexico, and perhaps to-morrow it wilt do so in the East, or on the Alps. We wish for peace, and vet in the situation apparently the calmest in which the world was ever placed, we encounter some eleinents or war everywhere. The reason is, that war is at the bottom of most of the questions which• still divide the world, and which is agitating iu the silence of the cabinet. We desire- that it may not break out; and we desire that. France shall not provoke the conquerors of 1815, that the treaties of that epoch may be respected, and that the limits of the Rhine may not be passed. But the present moment contains germs of political misunderstanding which the future may of a sudden develope. Watch, then ministers of the King ! Soldiers, generals, be ready ! Heirs to the throne, forget not that the army is the only defence of a country which has no longer . a northern frontieri! Count of Paris, remember in twenty years that when the city of l'aris presented you with a sword, it was that, some day or other, if necessary, you should show its point." This warlike apostrophe to the young Count of Paris is ill in harmony with the " peace at all prices" opinions which surrounded his royal cradle. The King of the French yesterday received the peers who were not presented to him on the previous day; the deputies present at Paris, about 100; a great number of generals and functionaries and officers of various grades. The King, see ing amongst those present a lieutenant of the chasseurs of Africa, with a leg ainputated, presented him to the minister of finance and said, " He is a brave man who has lost his military prospects. I recommend him to you ; he can still serve his country usefully." The Prefect of the department of Seine and Oise was ad mitted at the head of the municipal council, officers of the National Guards, and mayors of the department. At two o'clock the Marshal Lobau, Commandant of the National Guards of Paris and of the Department of the Seine, had the honour of being admitted to the King with his staff,- the General Jacqueminot at its head. The Marshal made a speech, and the King replied. Then followed the officers of the 13 legions of Paris and of four legions of the environs, and the deputations were so numerous that they took till half-past three in the afternoon before they had ceased tu file off. The Municipal Council of Paris has voted 175,000 f. for the files, which are to he celebrated in Paris. The Minister of War has ordered 33,000 f. to be distributed' among oid worn-out soldiers, and. the widows of soldiers, de priced of tho means of existence. The Archbishop of Paris addressed the following letter to the curates of his diocese, which is the .best reply to the qnodlibets and diatribes of the Quotidienne . . ` Paris, Aug. 23. " Monsieur le Crue.—By his letter, dated the 25th August, the King has expressed to me his desire that a solemn Te Deum should be sung, as in the metropolitan church, as in other parishes of the diocese, to render thanks for the birth of a prince, his grandson, who has received with state the title of Count of Paris, and in the Catholic Church, by holy baptism, that of a Christian, a child of God, and an in heritor of the kingdom of heaven. Consequently, the Te Deum will be chauuted on Tuesday next, the 28th inst., •at two o'clock in the afternoon, and in the other parochical churches of the city and country on the Sunday following, at the close of the grand mass. On that day will be recited at the parochial mass the orations indicated below. " Receive, M. le Cure, the assurance of my sincere attachment, HYACINTHS, Archbishop of Paris." The Ban Sen.t says, the official notification of the birth of the Count de Paris has been sent to the Duke d'Angouleine and the Duchess de Berri, through the medium of the Aus trian and Neapolitan Ambassadors, and that the former of these diplomatists, iu consenting to undertake the task of ma kieg this notification, declared, at the same time, that he did not consider himself as performing an act of diplomacy in so doing, hut only one of respectful deference to the person ages concerned in it. The King has ordered two days' pay to he distributer) to all the sub-officers, soldiers, and sailors of the army and navy, from the privy purse, on occasion of the birth of the Count de Paris. A decree for liberating all members of the National Guard confined for offences of discipline committed previous to the birth-day of the Count de Paris is, it is said, about to be issued. COURT CIRCULAR. Wtrinsoa, SUNDAY.—Yesterday, Lord and Lady Barham and Lord and Lady Albemarle took their departure. This morning the Queen attended divine service at St. George's Chapel. Her Majesty was accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and attended by the Marchioness of Normanby, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Torring ton, Hon. Col. Cavendish, Lady Gardener, the How. Misses Murray and Pitt, Major Keppell, and the Hon. Mr. Murray. The service, Boyce in C, was chaunted by the Rev. H. But terfield; the " Sanctua" and responses, Jomelli; Creed, King, in C; the anthem, " Oh, where shall wisdom be found," Dr. Boyce, was well sung by Masters Rode and Brian, and Messrs. Harris, Hill, and Mitchell. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Proby, officiated at the altar. The former preached an admirable sermon from the 13th psalm, Ist verse. Mr. Elvey (Mus. Bac.) presided at the organ. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta at Frogmore this morning. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta attended morning service at the Windsor parish church. The Terrace was crowded with fashionables. The bands of the royal blues and life guards were present. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge paid a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday, in Bushy Park. Their royal highnesses dined with her Majesty. WIN mos, MONDAY. —This afternoon the Queen gave an audience to Viscount Melbourne, who arrived at the Castle at half-past four o'clock. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, rode i❑ the park on horseback, and was attended by all the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite. - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr, Col. Schluter, Col. Jones, and Col. Cornwall, came to town on Monday morning from Kew. Their royal highnesses ashamed to Kew in the afternoon. Lord and Lady Wharucii;;;e staying on a visit to her Miliesty the Queen Dowager, at Bushy Park. WIND3okt, TCESDAY.—The royal dinner party last even ing included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Viscount Melbourne, Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt (of St. Leo nard's-hill). the Marchioness of Normanbv, Lady Mary Stopford, Hon. Miss H. Pitt, Hon. Miss Murray, Lady Gardiner, Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Torrington, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and the Hon. Major Keppel. Her Majesty, it is expected, will ride out this evening. The Duchess of Kent took an airing in a phaeton yesterday a ft ernoo n. Viscount Melbourne joined the equestrian party with the Queen yesterday. The Prince of ()tide has left his residence in the Regent's Park on a tour to the manufacturing districts. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Schluter, and Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Co!. Cornwall, came to Cambridge-house on Tuesday morning from Kew. Their royal highnesses returned to Kew in the afternoon. The Bishop of Nova Scotia, Sir Dudley Hill, Sir Richard Bourke, Dr. Berry, from St. Helena, Mr. Thornelaw, and 'Mr. Browne, had interviews with Lord Glenelg on Tuesday at the Colonial-office. T.lDrummond, Assistant Secretary for Ireland, ar rived in town on Tuesday morning from Dublin. Mr. Drum mond had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche quer in Downing-street. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—TUES DAY, A uc. 28. (Before Mr. Justice Bosanqnet.) Tag_ CASE. OF MYERS AND POW. _ • Angeline Pow, a female dressed in•wiciow's weeds, was in dicted, with one, Henry Myers, for the murder of Thomas Davison Pow,.by administering- to him while in a weak and • distempered state of . body, certain large quantities of a spirituous liquor called gin, and also by causing to be taken . from him divers excessive quantities of blood, Myers did not surrender. The case appeared to excite the most intense interest. Mr. Prendergast applied to have the trial postponed until Myers should .surrender, but the court 'declined to accede to the request. Mr. Prendergast then addressed the jury. He said, the ' ease which he was about to lay before them was one of consider -Id& iinportance—the indictment imputed to the prisoner the `Murder of her husband; he was certain therefore, that the .ltity would give the case the calmest consideration, and that dido, would dismiss from their minds all prejudice that might rile/front reports upon the subject that they bad heard out of izemik 'lt would appear that the prisoner and the deceased had Use* Eving in a very unhappy manner for some time be fore * *occurrence took place that would be brought before their nettee4-The deceased had been in the habit of drinking ardent . spitite 'to excess; and be had been attacked with a disorder called. d e li, uns tremens, and had been treated for that disorder at the Middlesex Hospital, but he was discharged • from that. establishment in the month of July in a tolerably rood state - of health. • &bout this time it would appear that lite other Person (Myers bad taken a house in London-street, Fitzroy-square, and thither be, the deceased and the prisoner went together to live. Soon afterwards it was observed that considerable quantities of gin were brought into the house ; so much so as to attract attention.- The deceased was soon el , to andattend upon him; he r allied the afterwards again taken ill , and a nurse was hired d ir a little, but ultima ei 'jury would have to consider under what circumstances that death had taken place. Mr. Justice Bosanquet, after consultin g with Mr. Ju stice I t' Coleridge, expressed an opinion th at upon the Stat st e a m n e d. n " 'the counsel for the prosecution, the case c o uld not Mr. Prendergast said that be felt the di fficulty of the case. Mr. Justice Bosanquet then told the jury that the prisoner .• mild not be convicted upon the indictment preferred against her. • A; verdict of not guilty was accordingly returned. The prisoner was again arrainged upon the coroner's in quisition, and a verdict of not guilty was recorded. -'- MARCH or MIND.—An honest farmer in the state of Pennsylvania married a Miss from a fashionable boarding school for his second wife. He was struck dumb with her elognence, and gaped wonders at his cit'e's learning. " You InueV i said be, bore a bole through the solid girth, and chuck &millstone, and she'll tell you to a shaving how long the • - stone wilibe going clean threw. She has larnt kimistry and '' , eockneyolngy, and talks a heap about ox hides- and comical infinities. I used to think that it was air that I sucked in 'lively time that I expired; howsorndevar, she felled me that knave& better—she told me that I had been sucking in ' 4100 -kinds of-gin! ox gin and high gin! Mr stars! I'm a tumbledown tee towtal temperance manouid yet bayelieen drinking ox gin and-high gin all my.life.” .•. .• ' COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE WEDNESDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.—The settling of Consols passed off well yesterday, and this being pay-day for all differ ences; there is no doubt that the various drafts will be duly honoured. Consols opened this morning, 237 f 24 foriMoney ; and for the Account 94k, with little business doing to the present hour. Exchequer Bills are 72 74 pm. ; India Bonds 72 74 pm.; Bank Stock 2071208; India Stock 264 k 265. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active continues heavy, owing to the unfavourable accounts from Madrid of financial affairs, and may be quoted at 201 a; Portug uese also heavy at 351 1 ; Three per Cents. 23h 1 ; Brazili a n 83i 41 ; Mexican 231 4; Colombian 261; Belgian 102 2 ; Dutch Two-and-Half 5441 ; Five per Cents. 1021 I. HALF-PAST ONE.—Since the early part of llte•morning the Consol Market has become very heavy, and at one period Consols for Money were done at. 9;;, and. 94 for the Account, at which prices they continue at present. Exchequer Bills, 72 to 74 pm.; India Bonds, 72 pm.• Bank Stock, 2071 to 2081; India Stock nothing done. ICI the Foreign Market most of the funds are also heavy, Spanish receded to 201 with coupons; Portuguese receded to 35; Three per Cents. down to 231; Brazilian lower, 831 ; Dutch also heavy, re ceded to 53-1; Five per Cents. 1021. QUARTER BEFORE THREE.—Cousols fur the Account, 16th Oct., 94i (From the Times.) TUESDAY EVENING.—By the advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 436 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 13175. 10111, the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.81, it follows that gold i 5•0.93 per cent. dearer at Hamburgh than in London. The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of £3l7s. 10Id. the ounce for stand ard 2 gold, gives an exchange of 25.36; ; and the exchange at Pans on London at short being 2545, it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. lower at Paris than in London. BRITISH FUNDS 'I HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, 207: S. India Stock, 3 per Ct: Red., 9-1: : I . ndia Bonds, 72 pm 3 per Ct. Con.; 94141: Bank Stock for Acct. :31 per Ct. Amis. 1818,, Consols fo r A cc t., 94 4 33,, per Ct. Red: 102,1 a India Stock f o r d o . 255 New 334 per Cents.. 1011 a a £lOOO Ex. Bills, 72 74 pm Long Ans. 1860, 15 11-lo £5OO do. 72 74 pm Ditto,.3o yrs-1859,, 151, Snialf do: 72 74 pin Ditto, 30 yrs. 18.50, Ditto Commercial, 21d., 12 pm RES. al price, without reference to discount.) Manchester and Birmingham, North Midland, 44 General Steam Navigation, 22 4 Galvanised Iron Company, 211 Manchester and Leeds, Thames Omnibus Packet and Pier Company, S HA (The quotations give the actui premium or Candonga, 71 Great Western, 711 701 London & i3righton, 71 London & Birmingham, Birmingham I Shares, 27% London and Blackwall, 51 London and Greenwich, 161 London & Southampton, 45 London and Croydon Trunk, 151 THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT HEMEL HEMPSTEAD. (From Me Standard of Wednesday.) In the Standard of yesterday was inserted an account of a most destructive fire which occurred on the morning of Sun day last in the town of Hemel-Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in which it was asserted that property to, the amount of up wards of £20,000 had been destroyed, none of which was in sured, and that three lives had been lost—viz., Thomas Jack son, whose remains had been dug out of the ruins, and Mary Sharp, the servant girl, and the son of Dr. Hallett, about six years of age, both of whom were still missing. The above statement was incorrect in most o f the particu lars, the facts being as follow :—The fire was first discovered at about half-past one o'clock in the morning, at which time the flames were bursting through the windows of the first floor of the extensive premises of Dr. Hallett, a - physician of considerable practice, situated at the further extremity of the town, on - the right band side, a short distance below the Sun Inn. The alarm was immediately given throughout the neighbourhood in the customary manner—viz., by the ringing of a haod-bell, and in a short tune hundreds of persons flocked towards the spot from all directions. These first in attend ance dieected their exertions to the awakening of the inmates, ( who, it appears, consisted of Dr. Hallet, a woman servant, and a footboy, Mrs. Hallet, there being no children, having a few days previously gone on a visit to her relations in Nor folk,) in which they had great difficulity, Dr. Hallet having been dragged from the flames from an upper window, while endeavouring to save property of value. The first engine which reached the fire was that under the care of Mr. Cran stone,. the agent of the Phoenix-office, which was soon fol lowed by the town engine, and that belonging to the Sun Fire-office, while mounted expresses were sent off to St. Albans and Watford, for the engines of those places. For full half an hour after the discovery of the Sre there was a scarcity of water, and the flames having extended themselves to the premises f Mr. Pedley, a gentleman residing on the upper side, and to those of Mr. Rolph, an extensive linen draper and mercer, on the lower side, that portion of the town was in a state of the greatest consternation, it being feared the whole of the surrounding buildings would fall a prey to the flames. Water was, however, at that juncture fortunately soon procured, and the engines got into opera tion, upwards of forty persons with pails and buckets being placed in various directions leading to the engines, which kept pouring a coutinued stream upon the devouring element. Shortly before three o'clock the St. Alban's engine reached the spot with four post horses, and soon commenced playing, when by the united exertions of the above engines, and that from Watford, which subsequently arrived, the flames were confined to the premises of Dr. Wallet, and Messrs. Pedley, Rolph, and Smith. Those of Dr. Hallet and Mr. Pedley are entirely , destroyed, while_ those of Messrs. Rolph and Smith are much damaged, and great loss sustained by the hasty removal of the stuck and furniture. Dr. Hallet had, within the last six weeks, insured his furniture, plate, &c., inthe Sun ?ire-o ffi ce for £lOOO, £3OO of which w as f or th e ptate alone, while among the ruins there have been found only two tea and two saltspoons. The premises, which, as • well as those of Messrs. Pedley and Smith, are the property of Mr. (Joplin, of that town, are insured in the Phcenix Fire . office. Mr. Rolph is insured for £l4OO in the Sun Fire-office. There is no truth in the report that three lives were lost, Dr. Hallet having no servants of the names mentioned, nor any son or family whatever. . Various rumours are afloat as to the origin of the fire, which at present we abstain from mentioning, from their contradictory nature. THE PORT OF LONDON COMPARED WITH THOSE OF LIVERPOOL GLASGOW, AND BRISTOL, AND WITH THE WHOLE COMMERCIAL NAVY OF FRANCE. (From Elmes's Survey qf the Port and Harbour of London.) To show the amazing commercial trade of the port of London, and its pre-eminence over its great rivals Liverpool, Glasgow, and Bristol, the following returns from the Cus• turns, published in "M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce," is cited as incontrovertible evidence : " The returns are for one year,emiing December 31,1835, and the four larger ports only are selected. Ships belonging to the following ports, namely— _ __ Ships. Tons. Men. London 2,828 566,152 32,392 Liverpool. 996 207,838 11,511 Glasgow Bristol " So that the port of London has nearly three times more vessels belonging to her than Liverpool, nine times more than Glasgow, upwards of ten times more than Bristol, and pos sessing nearly one-fifth of the whole shipping belonging to all the ports of England and Wales together, which amounts to 14,823 ships. " Again, in forming an estimate of the value of the com mercial property which floats on the waters of the port of London in the course of one year, let us ref.or to the Parlia mentary papers published by the Board of Trade for the year ending December 31, 1835, when we shall find that the amount of British ships that entered the port of London in that year was 3,780 740,263 tons. Foreign ditto Forming a grand total of .... 4,837 929,158 which, valued at only £2SU per ton for ship and cargo, amounts to the enormous sum of £232,289,500. Well may Mr. M'Culloch exclaim, after reviewing his valuable tables and calculations, and this extraordinary amount of commerce of the port of London, so vast an amount of shipping and commerce was never previously concentrated in any single port. London may truly be said to be, universi orbis terrarum emporium —may her prosperity be as lasting as it is great ! Another comparison between the navy of France and England, particularly in reference to the port of London, may be appropriately introduced in this place. The entire commercial navy of France in the year ending December 31, 1836, as published by the government of that country, is as follows : _ Tons. 800 and upwards. 700 co 800 600-700 500 —600.. Vessels, 1 2 2 12 Tops. 1,0(X) 1,442 1.247 6,308 400-500 6B 28,902 '3oo 400 213 73,401 200-300 575 • • 141,166 100 —2OO 1,251 - 181,395 60-100 1,447 - - 116,68.3 30 -- 60 1,014 • 45,603 30 and downwards 15,249 865,011 Whereas the number of ships and tonnage belonging to the British empire in the year ending the 31st of December, 1835, was, for England alone, 14,893 vessels, 1,853,112 tons, exceeding the whole French empire by 1,168,1(X) tons of ship ping, and the port of London is only 118,859 tons short of all France Vessels. Tons. Add for Scotland Ireland The British Islands of Jersey Guernsey, and Man S 536 Total of the United Kingdom 20 .( ,300 2,360,500 and British Islands Add for theß ritish Plantations 5,211 25,511 Since the preceding parts of this work went to press, the following important communication, relative to the still in creasing commerce of the port of London over the gratifying statement in pages 32 and 31, was laid before the St Katha rine Dock Company, by their Chairman, Mr. Thomas Tooke, at the annual meeting of proprietors ou Wednesday, the 16th of January, 1838 : SHIPS WITH CARGOES THAT ENTERED THE PORT OF LONDON FROM FOREIGN PORTS DURING THE YEARS 1836 AND 1837. BRITISH. Vesssls. 'fons. 1836 1837 Increase FOREIGN. Vessels. Tons. 1836 1837. 12,412 less. Increase TOTAL. Vessels. Tons. 1836 acreage......... 639 COASTING TRADE WITH LONDON. . . . .. RITISH. Vessels. Tons. 1836 1837.. 21.320 .......... 2,811,520 Increase in 18 36 Add increase in Fol 639 39,761 reign Trade _ 39,751 Total increase The aggregate tonnage of British ships that entered the port of London in 1837 amounted to no less than 3,629,699 register tons, which exeeeds considerably in amount any pre vious year in history, and affords additional reasons, if any were required, for extending the accommodation of the port for colliers, and for the removal of shoals and other obstru6 tioni to the navigation, as beforp alluded to in pages 22, 24' and 25. THE LATE FATAL DUEL ON WIMBLEDON COMMON. FURTHER PARTICULARS, AND INQUEST ON THE' BODY, A duel was fought on Wimbhdon Common; on Wednesday week, in a ravine, about two hundred yards -from the mill, The result was fatal to one of the parties. There were six persons present, besides a surgeon ;_ two of these were young men who kept at some distance. The name of the unfortu nate gentleman who lost his life was Charles Flower Mir.fin.' He resided in Pleasant-place, West-square, Lambeth. His opponent is understood to be a Mr. Elliott, the son of a major-general in the army. The parties fired ata distance of twelve paces. At the first shot,. the ball of. Mr. Elliott went through the hat of Mr. Mirfin. The seconds immedi ately interfered; but the deceased objected, and insisted on having a second shot. The pistols being re-loaded, the par ties again fired, when Mr. Mirtin fell. Ile was instantly attended by his second and Dr. Scott. D ea th was instanta neous. The body was then taken - from the ground, and placed in the gig, when, at the dusk or the evening, it was taken to his residence in Pleasant-place. The seconds have gone to the contident. The deceased was a very fine young man, and most respectably connected. On Saturday, an inquest was held on the deceased, at which several witnesses spoke to the circumstances of the duel. Thomas Hunt Dann, the owner of the mill on. Wimbledon Common, examined :—I witnessed the occurrence on Wed nesday last. I was about thirty yards off. I first saw the carriages drive up close to my premises. There were four carriages, from which seven persons alighted.. They all had the appearance of gentlemen. After they had got out, they all went towards a button,, or hollow, about four hundred yards distant from 41se mill ; and from their manner, I con sidered it probable that a duel was contemplated. I accord ingly followed them down till within forty yards of them,' where I stopped occasionally afterwards, varying my position about five yards. The first thing I saw was a carpet bag, from which was taken a box, and from thence some pistols. At that time I should say five persons were standing toge ther, and another alone on my left, and a second one about two hundred yards more to the left, on the While the pistols were being loaded, the one on my left, who wifSlhe person who shot the deceased, came up to me and said, " Good morning." I returned the compliment, and' dded, " It appears to- me those gentlemen have, some little slifferehee • to decide," meaning the parties who.were loading the pistols. He answered, " Oh, d—d nonsense,; it's only a bet for Ella" I replied, "That will. up . t do (ovine ;" on which he passed on whistling. In a minute or trigs he_again passed me, onwhich I remarked, it was allity gentlemen could not settle their differences in a better way,; when he said, "*Oh, d—d nonsense ! I'm too used (or -practised) to it, and I am one who is• going to fight." The ,one the furthermost to my left at that time was st an di ng with the man whom I now know was the cabman.- He was the person who was shot. During that time the others were loading and measuring the. ground ; two gentlemen stepped it side by side; the distance was thirty-seven steps. A half-penny or penny-piece was then tossed up, as I suppose, either for the choice , of pistols or the ground. After that the gentleman on the hill was beckoned to, and _he, as well as the one to whom I had spoken, went down to' the hollow. They then took their stations without any conversation passing that I heard, except that, as the one who shot the other was going to the place, a gentleman of the party went up to him and said, " You are all right—you hive nothing to fear." The pistols were then handed to them, and it was said by some person, "The word will be—Gentlemen, are you ready ?" That was said to the principals. I then drew back a few paces, and almost immediately heard something said, among which I could only distinguish " Gentlemen," and almost momentarily I saw both parties present their pistols, and heard two reports, one immediately after the other. Those who had been assisting had at that time retired to the spot where the carpet-bag was, and they then came forward, and the pistol was handed to the gentleman I had spoken to, and I believe one was handed to the other gentleman also, but I cannot speak positively; the seconds then drew back, and I again heard the word given, and the pistols discharged. The pistols were not pointed upwards, but at each other. Be tween the two firings I heard no conversation, nor did I see the parties move from their positions. Directly after the firing, the gentleman who had spoken to me came towards me and said, " I have done for the —." I said to him, "Are you hurt ?" to which he said " No;" he then went past me, and I at that moment saw the deceaSed falling.' By the Coroner: Had he any thing in his hand ?—Wit ness: Not as I saw. By the Coroner : What, then, became of the pistol?— Witness: I cannot say: I then went to tke deceased, and saw him stripped, when 1 observed a wound resembling that from a ball; it was on the right side, under the arm. The inquest was adjourned until Wednesday. Most of the papers have stated that the quarrel which pro duced this fatal affair arose out of a difference about an in famous woman, at the saloon; but from the followingaccount contained in the Observer of Sunday, this does not seem to have been the case : The circumstances which led to this unhappy event, we have been informed, upon sufficient authority, were these:— During last Epsom Races, on the Derby day we believe, Mr. Elliott, with a friend, was driving towards London in a phaeton, while Mr. Mirfin was driving in a gig; by some ac cident the two vehicles came in contact, and Mr. Mirth, was overturned. In the fall some of his ribs were fractured; an altercation then arose, and offensive language passed, which ended in Mr. Elliott striking Mr. Mirtin a blow on his al ready injured side, of which injury, however, it is due to say, Mr. Elliott was ignorant. The pain at the moment was ex cessive, and Mr. Mirfin had only a faint recollection that the name of the party with whom he had come in contact was Elliott; but he had been unable to obtain his name and address, and consequently had no due to his discovery, although extremely anxious to call him to an account. — Months rolled on, and only on ooe occasion, till Tuesday night last, had he obtained a transient view of Mr. Elliott, in a cigar shop, but .ahnost Instantly lost . sight of him. On Tuesday night last, in company with two friends, he entered the saloon in Piccadilly; and while there, he heard the name Elliot mentioned. The name. struck him; and on looking at the party by whom it was acknowledged, he recognised hint as the person WhOrti'he'hiid long sought, and from whom he had received a blow. 'lie immediately requested one of his friends, Mr. Brothertun we believe, to address Mr. Elliott, and call the matter to his recollection. Mr. Elliott at once admitted the fact, and we are informed offered to make an apology. It would, seem however, that neither was in a situation to enter upon .the subject then, and it was agreed that ,mutual friends should meet at the Opera Colon nade Hotel, at twelve o'clock to discuss the matter. Mr. Mirfin then proceeded to his residence, No. 2, Pleasant place, West-square, Lambeth, where he retired to rest. At the time appointed, the friends met, when, we are informed, an objection was made, on the part of Mr. Elliott tot meet Mr. Mirfin. A firm determination having been expressed, how ever, that such a meeting must take place, on a second 'ap plication to Mr. Elliott, he acceded to the proposition, and a hostile meeting was arranged for the same evening on Wimbledon Common. ADDITIONAL PARTICI:LA RS. Much surprise is expressed that the occurrence should have been permitted to take place in the presence of full a dozen persons, without their having adopted sonic measures to prevent it; and also that, after the fatal result was ascer tained, the body should have beets alloWed to be reiridved, without the mounted patrols, whose station is not more than half a mile from the spot, being made acquainted with the circumstances, although, from the first appearance ()rifle parties on the ground to the deParture of the cab with Mr; Mirlin's corpse, nearly three quarters of an hour is said to have elapsed. The spot is situated on the common, about three quarters of a mile, in a triangular direction, n o rth-west of the en trance of the village of _Wimbledon, and north-east • of the workhouse of that parish. It is about half a mile distant from the high road, and close to the windmill, which is visible from all parts of the common. It is on the west side of the residence of Mr. Dann, the miller, about a hundred feet distant from which is the ravine in which the fatal duel took place. In a conversation with Mrs. Dann, she stated that the parties first came upon the ground as 'near a quarter past six o'clock as possible. She first saw a private cab draw up, from which two gentlemeo alighted • then - an open carriage drawn by twin liaises, with a post Coy in, a blue jacket and white hat (believed t o belong to Mr. R. Newman, the post master of Regent-street); in which were three gentlemen; next a gig with a cane back,.in which was one gentleman; then another gig . in 'Willa was another gentleman, who was dressed In mourning, with a crape hat-band on ; and lastly a public *cabriolet, belonging to Mr. Voller, the cab-master of the 'London Roail, containing , an eighth indi vidual. All - tbe parties having alighted, two of them shook hands together, when they all proceeded towards the hollow. From the position in which she stood, she was un able to see what was passing within it; hilt in her opinion full five minutes elapsed between the first and second dis charges of the 'Pistols. Directly after the second discharge, she saw a young gentleman, about 23 years *of age, hastily emerge from the holloW, and jump into the open carriage, in which he stood up, apparently very much alarmed.. In a minute or two afterwards, his friends also made their appear-; ance, when the gentleman asked if the wound. was danger ous, on which they lifted up their hands as if to indicate that it was all over, when he turned very pale. The other parties then jumped into their respective carriages, - and drove off towards town at a most rapid pace. The horse of the la s t gig was seized , by Voller'S cabtnan, who said, " Why do you leave me with a dead Man? I know nothing of him, what am Ito do With" him?"' To which the gentleman replied, "Be quiet—it will be all right." The surgeon (Mi. Scott) then came up,.and said to the cabman, "Can.'t you drive down there?' pointing to tbe'hollow, to.which be replied, "No, it is too steep." The surgeon then hired two men to help him up with the body, which wai dragged along more like that of an animal then of a human being; and - it:baying been placed in the cab, they were each paid:a shilling for their assistance. Mr. Scott then got into the cabriolet, and having closed the blue curtains in front to hide the. body, the vehicle was driven off. From the appearance of the deceased's hat, which was exhibited at the inquest to the inspection .of the coroner and jury, it is evident the deceased had at the first fire a most narrow escape from having his brains blown pitt,,the ball having entered the hat at the right side, abOut two inches from the crown, th ro u g h w hi c h It escaped about half an inch from the rim; the wadding having struck the inside of the hat on the opposite side, and burned the lining. It is understood that the police have a clue to the retreat of the whole of the parties concerned in the affair. The paper found on the gronnd, and produced by the witness Dann, has led to the discovery of the place where the pistols were procured, and the hotels from whence the deceased, antagonist, &c. started. The pistols produced were most murderous instruments; they werestared bycompetentjudg,!s in the inquest room, to be able to carry with deadly effect ft.ll 30 yards. ADJOURNED INQUEST. ( From the Standard of Wednesday.) An adjourned inquest was held this morning at the Tan kard Tavern, Brook -street. Latnbeth, upon the body of the unfortunate Mr. Mirth]. The only important facts disclosed in evidence were given by Mr. Smith, surgeon, of Marlb,- rough-street, Watworth, Mr. Wagstaff, the parochial surgeon, and Richard Cowling, the post-boy, the first of whom deposed that he had examined the body at the request of Mr. Scott, the medical gentleman who had attended the deceased on Wimbledon Common, and that there was a wound between the fifth and sixth ribs on the right side, evidently the result of a pistol shot, which must have produced almost instan taneous death. Mr. Smith further said, that Mr. Scott hod told him that though personally acquainted with Mr. Mirfin, he had been merely called upon professionally to attend the deceased in his late conflict, and that he (Scott) was present when the pistols of both parties were loaded, and considered that the affair was conducted on the fairest terms. A gen tleman named Broughton, acted as the second to, the deceased. Mr. Wagstaff produced a bullet which he had extracted from the body of the deceased ; it was flattened to a great extent, and did not fit the barrels of the pistols lett on the ground. Richard Gowling, post-boy in the service of Mr. C. Newman, postmaster, of Regent-street, stated that his master ordered him to take a barouche and two horses on Wednesday last to the Colonnade Hotel, Charles-street, Haymarket, where he took up three gentlemen, whom he conveyed to Wimbledon Common, where the duel took place. When the deceased fell the three gentlemen got again into the carriage, and ordered him to drive to town. The survivor in the contest wished to return to the spot where the wounded gentleman was, but one of the others said, "By God, you shall not." One of them got out at Knightsbridge, another at Piccadilly, and the third, who fought the duel, left the carriage in the Edgeware-road. When he (the post-boy) left the common, he was not aware that Mr. Mirfin was dead. At the moment of going to press, we learnt that the inquiry was again adjourned. BAD NEWS FOR THE SEVEN THOUSAND EXPECTANTS.— It is now quite certain that it is not the intention of the government to appoint an additional member to the Board of Poo; Law Commissioners.-Qbierver: - •-• • THE FIRE. AT MANCHESTER, FURTHER PARTICULARS. ( From the Manchester Guardian.) We regret to record the occurrence of a•serious fire, in its consequences occasioning the loss of at least three, but pro bably of four or five lives, and destructive of property to the amount of several thousand pounds; besides throwing out of employ, for a short time at least, many workpeople of both sexes. This alarming and fatal fire was discovered in what is called "The Old Mill" of Messrs. Charles Macintosh and Co. the well-known manufacturers of india-rubber water proof and airproof cloth, which is situated on the westerly side of Cambridge-street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, exactly op posite to the large cotton mills on the other side of the street, called the Chorlton Mills, belonging to Messrs. Birley and Co. cotton spinners, &c., - and divided only by-the river from the site of the " Medlock Mills" of Messrs. Llttlewood and Co.,.whieh were-burned down in Jantuirr-1601, when 2E. persons perished in the flames. The premises of Messrs. Macintosh and Co. cover a spacious area of ground; the buildings which consist of the new mill, in which upwards of 400 hands, chiefly" females, are employed, and which has not suffered from the fire. About fifty yards from this build ing, and one end abutting on the south bank of the Medlock, stands the old mill, a smaller edifice, which was originally about 54 feet in len g th by ab ou t 40 feet wide, all fireproof, and internally consisting of seven stories (numbered from one to seven inclusive,) the southern end having the engine house in the basement story, or No. 1 floor. Subsequently, however, an addition was-made to that en d o f a b u ildi ng , about 35 feet in length, used for the purpose of a drying stove; but this was not of fireproof construction. It was not quite so high as the remainder of the mill, and, instead of being divided into six or seven doors, had only three divi sions, being filled with rafters for the, suspending of the pieces of waterproofed "cloth. 'The whole of .the building, then, at the time of the fire, was about 90 feet in. length, ra.allel to Peinbridge-street, and about 42 feet iii width. At a quarter before twelve o'clock, on Saturday night, a . man named Patrick Shelton, who was stationed to watch the yard,—a fencehaving been removed during some alters tions,—observecla light in the No: 6 floor, (the riPpermOst . bin one,) on the westeiu side of the .building in the centre ins Compartment, small room (A)used as a workshop by the mechanics- He initnediately s spruiig "lila. rattle, giving the alarm to, two private watchmen .of Messrs. Birley and Cu:. 'inside the cotton mills on the other side of Cambridge-street, and to their outside watchman. Mr. Gaskell-, the manager of the cotton mills, and other persons in the employ of 'the' tivo firms, who reside in the immediate neighbourhood, were called up , : the-large bell of the cotton mill was rung; and, at first, efforts ivereanade to extinguish the flames by means of theforce puMp and hose-pipes kept on th e premises for the pia poSe, and worked by one. of the steam-engines of the Chorltott mills. These attempts failed, as will he seen by theevidehee adduced at the inquest; and information having iu the mean time been transmitted to the police yard, aitsd received there about half-past twelve o'clock, Mr. Rose, superintendent of the police fire department, and a body of firemen, imme diately set out thence with the Niagara engine, promptly' followed by the remainder of the fire police with the Water Witch. By this time the flames had communicated from the small rosin in which they were first seen, through a door on., the sixth floor to sthe drying-stove; and a bystander has de scribed to us the appearance of the flames rushing, as resem bling a flash of lightning from the top to the bottom of this building; this appearance being doubtless produced by the ignition of the highly inflammable vapour arising from the naptha, or spirit of coal tar, used for making the solution of caoutchouc with which the cloth is made waterproof. With these inflammable materials (for the stove was filled with pieces of cloth and garments,) affording fresh fuel to the flames, it is nut at all surprising that they should rage with great fury, till the whole of the drying-stove (the express use of which was the " purifying" of the water-proofed cloth, by means of heat conveyed in steam-pipes from the lowest to the highest part of the stove) was completely gutted. Thence by the doors of communication, with the central compartment , of the building, the flames were spreading thither when the police firemen arrived; and accordingly their first efforts were directed to prevent the extension of the flames in that direction, to do which the hose and branch from the Niagara were conveyed up the staircase to the sixth floor; it being found impossible, from the , great heat and dense smoke, to penetrate with them into the se v ent h fl oor, to w hi c h the fife had ascended from the sixth room. The branch and hose from the Water Witch engine were hoisted up to the fifth floor, and there taken in at the window; and the men were beginning to play, when an iron cistern in the room No. 5, contatning. probably about 10001bs. weight of the water proofing material, exploded with a noise louder. than that of a large piece of artillery, and which_ was heard distinctly at Greenheys and other places at some distance. It appears that there was a communication from this cistern in No. b . room, through No. 6 into No. 7, by means of pipes, provided with valves. The fire was ragingin N 0.7 ; but the engineer, knowing that the valves were shut, was not apprehensive of any communication from above with the cistern. ,Unfortu nately, a man-hole had been left open at one end of the cistern, for the purpose of cleaning it; and the air rushing through this aperture found its way into the pipes, and these becoming red hot from the fire above, it is supposed the va pour became ignited in the cistern, and, exploding the ins flammab:e gas generated from the spirituous mixture at the bottom, caused the bursting of the vessel, which' was tOrii open from top to bottom, along the line of a course of rivets, in the centre of a plate of the best iron. The explosion, which drove out all the windows on that floor, and, amongst other persons then in the room, blew off the hat of Mr. Joseph Ewart, occurred probably about one o'clock; and long be fore that timethe roof and part of the walls of the s drying s .stove had fallen in, and a r e p ort i nstant l y arose .that some one was killed thereby; but how far this suppOSition was well founded, we have not been able to ascertain. The fire men continued in this room, playing on the hlaiing liquid that covered the floor, till all the flame was extinguished, and then they conveyed the branch through a hole in - .the ceiling, and endeavoured to extinguish the fire in the twts uppermost flows of the building. Shortly before the falling is of the roof and walls cif.the drying stove, Mr. Fletcher, the foreman of the inershanieS of Messrs. Macintosh and Co., observed eight of the firemea with one of the.engines stationed in a situation of considera ble danger, near_ one of the brickwork pillars of that build . ing ; and he had scarcely called Mr. Rose's atteution to it, and thus had the men removed, when, the pillar fell, an I covered the place where they had beed standing With brick., pipes, beams, and rubbish. Some time after the explosion in No. 5, "the flames .being raging in No., 7 at a furious rate, as may he iinegiried lions . the circumstance that there was not less than 7,000"lbs:of the waterproofing material on this floor, they received fresh fuel from the following circumstance.. In this room was a , large iron cylindrical cistern, about ten feet in length, and four, feet and a half in diameter, weighing frond-three to three .and a half tons, and containiug, a.large quantity of naphtha. This cistern was placed on a bed, consisting of two piers of bricks, so as to stand about two a.nd a half feet s froni the floor. The flames meltiug the leaden pipes .of the cistern, the.lignor ran upon the floor, and, mixing : with time caoutchouc, &c., caused. the bursting forth of art. immense ,volume of flame. Some time after this, at fro m a qtiarter to half-past two o'clock, the engineer of Macintosh and Co. suddenly starled the engine of-the waterproof mill, one of fifty horses' power, for the purpose, as we understand, of working the force pump; but, in tbe.hurry, and confusion of the, moment, he forgot to throw out of gee!: a line of vertical.shafthig which ran up the wall to-, the isighest.story, very near the cistern. As the two uppermestromus were at that time enveloped its flames, the geering no doubt much expanded by heat, and probably ersc.unthered hy. fallen.machinery, beams, and pipes, the effect-of setting the .shafting in motion was most disas trous. The whole building began to shake in the most alarming manner. Several persons in the upper rooms felt the floors, as .they describe, shaking under them, and Mr. Rose- hastily ran from No. 6, calling, in his way, to the firemen in various rooms to make fur the staircase, as there was danger of the building falling; and, when lie reached the bottom, he hastened, with a person named Wray, who is in the service of Macintosh and Co., to the engineers. They found, iu the engine-house, the head engineer and two others ; and Mr. Rose earnestly requested them to stop the engine, which was thine, after,a short d e l a y ; an d almost imediately _afterwards the large m cylindrical cistern above described was distinctly heard falling upon and through the floor of No. 7, and next through that of No. 6, and every lower floor suc cessively, to the bottom, carrying with it, at the same time, the wall which separated the fireproof building from the stove. Mr Fletcher, on first hearing the noise, rushed towards a strong wall in the bay of the eng i ne -h ouse window, and, near the door; and, the place being quite dark, he called to the Others to make their escape. As they passed him, he pulled them forward to the door-way. Mr. Rose was thelast, or last but one; and Fletcher pulled him with such force as to bring . him down upon his face; 'and about that moment, the cistern broke the ceding into the engine -house, and part of the beicks and rubbish fell over Mr. Rose, and held hint down. The dust, heat, and smoke, from the falling rubbish, were so piffling, that, with his right hand, Mr. Rose brek.e a pane "of glass in the window to obtain air; and, at - that moment, some one,. esceptng, Stepped on his head, and he, exclaimed, " For God's sake, keep off rnY head.". In a short time he succeeded in extricating himself from the mass _of `rubbiea - s Which_ had sfallen chiefly on his right side; and, with no greater injuries than 'some severe bruises and con tusions on various pees of his limbs and body; and his fingers being laeerataby the broken glass, ' herniae his. escape. _ Each - floor ifilbe ceritral part of the building in which this disaster occurred, was'composed of four bays or arches, sup ported on three large iron beams, running 'longitudinally along the building. As . the cistern in its fall had brought . down the centre beam, and the Iced middle • arches of each floor from the top downwards, leavlng only those portions of each floor neatest the outer walls, and as it was knoWn that .a number of firemen and other persons were in various rooms on the different floors, considerable apprehensions prevailed 1 ihat several of these had been borne' dotvis by the ponderous cistern, or had been swept down by' the machinery.: &c., which it dragged after it. These apprehensions were but too speedily and fully realised. - - - Some time before the starting of the steam-engine, . a man named James Watson, who was what is called assistant branch-man to the first company of firemen, was-tstationeel in the No. 6 room, together with- several other firemen, in., eluding one named Henry Pollitt, When the steam-engine was started, one of the firemen, feeling the floor of the • room shake under him, exclaimed to Watson, " Oh, James, it's like to be all up with us." He hastened towards the stair case, and thus was saved from the fate of at least one of his companions; for the crash came immediately afterwards, and the beam struck down Pollitt and Watson' with one blow. They were within half a yard of each other, Watson holding the branch, and Pollitt acting as attend ant branch-man, when they were struck. Watson, as he was falling, seized Pollitt's coat-shirt; but the beam sepa rated them otherwise Pollitt must have shared Watson's fate. Pollitt then either fell or jumped through 'the chasm upon the floor below, and became insensible.; some portion of the failing floor and machinery came upon- him, and his right arm and leg were much crushed, and his body strained 'and shaken by the rubbish. When he recovered, he found himself in the situation described; and he had no doubt that Watson, not being able to recov e r him se lf, h a d f a ll en th roug h !'the chasm in the floors to the bottom. As soon as he could be got out, Pollit was conveyed to the Infirmary, where lie still lies; but we are glad to hear that he is doing well, and is likely soon'to recover. Another person, a salesman, named Hugh Faulkner, re siding in Cambridge-street, but in no way connected with the premises, was assisting a young man in the employ of Messrs. Macintosh and Co., named Newsam, to pull the waterproof cloths from the rollers in No. 3; a work of some considerableinconvennc ie d e e , g f r o e r e i o n th fh a room ea t t,_w the hen cl in o o t r h d s had erto ob tainac- quiredpelo a n l aa i l ttle air, one of them opened four squares on a swivel, in the middle of a window; and immediately on the air entering, the cloth burst into flames, and Faulkner, finding himself almost enveloped, rushed to the window, and leaped out. Just as h e h ad got to it, b e i ng without his coat, his calico shirt sleeves caught fire, and his trowers, which were ' of kersevmere, also took fire; by which his arms, hack, and and the back part of his legs and thighs, were severely and extensively burned. He fell without suffering further injury than some bruises on his right hand, and sevem contusions about his body. He was immediately taken up, and we be lieve, was conveyed to the house of Mr. James Muir, surgeon, Medlock-street, - Hulme, who was'at home, a nd was t o ld that Faulkner h a d b een very severely hurt at the fire. Faulkner states that, notwithstanding this; Mr. Muir positively refused to admit him, and said that he would not open the door to any one. Ile was taken to Mr. Owen's, surgeon, 'Aan-ren dered every assistance necessary at the time; and thence Faulkner was conveyed to the' infirmary, whete• he-is now lying, and we regret that we cannot speak of his condition in terms as favourable as that of . his . fellow-sufferer However, he is at present doing well, though his bad: is very dreadfully burned. He states that he and a friend (Mr. Newsam, we believe) were returning, - tionre"On Saturday - night, alittle before twelve o'clock, nd when nearAll'Saitits* Church, - they tiearriihe alarm of fire , ,lind:raff.l6Wardeatn , ;' bridge-street; and thenliewsam, who was in the employ of Messrs. Macintosh and Co., or Messrs. Birley and Co., went to assist in getting away the property, and Faulkner accom panied him. The fire being got under, the attention of the numerous body of labourers, artisans, and operatives about the premises, was at once directed to ascertaining whether any unfortunate sufferers lay buried beneath the mass of rubbish which filled the engine-house. Shortly after three o'clock, one of the Manchester police firemen, named James Johnson; hearing some groaning from a heap of burning materials, called attention to the spot; and a portion of the rubbish being quickly removed, the head and shoulders of a poor man, named John Morgan (a labourer who bad volunteered his assistance to the firemen,) were ex burned ; but he still remained covered up to the shoulders by the fallen rubbish, machinery, &c. He feebly exclaimed— " Give me a drop of water ! Water ! 0 Lord ! my poor wife and children!" Johnson procured him souse water, and then turned round to speak to another firemen at a few yards dis tant,- when another mass of rubbish fell, completely covering, ind doubtless killing the unfortunate man already half buried, and otherwise injure a by the falling masses of burning ma terials, &c. After this, the labourers redoubled their arduous and perilous exertions; and about six oc:ock on Sunday morning, they came to a body which proved to be that of the unfortunate fireman, James Watson. He was lying nearly opposite the door of the engine -house. The face and head were frightfully . swollen and burned, and there were several other severe injuries to the limbs and body. His remains, as soon as they were extricated, were conveyed to the King's Arms inn, Clarendon -street, Chorlton-on-Medlock. The men immediately resumed their search, which, from the un safe, and indeed highly dangerous * position of several walls, as well of a large quantity of machinery in the sixth and seventh floors, overhanging the spot, was indeed a perilous task; and they soon afterwards came to another body, which proved to be that of the unfortunate man already mentioned, •,is half exhumed, : John Morgan, a labourer, who had offered his services and assistance at an early hour after the discovery of the fire. Immediately afterwards, a third body was fouud, which proved to be that of William Marsh, a person employed in the waterproof mill, in that process of it which is conducted in a-portion of the seventh floor, and which is termed the "secret" room: These two'bodies were also conveyed to the King's Arms inn. MOrgan•was-much injured about the fin v,ers And hands, and much crushed about the body, and, judging from external appearance, seemed to have met his , death from a' fall,' or fronrrubbish, &c. falling upon and crush him•beneath it. Marsh was a good deal bruised about the fare' arid 'tread _but did not seem to have suffered so se , verely from fire as Watson, who inust - have fallen into a large inaSs of,blazing, ,naptha. It is believed that Marsh, at the tithe he was swept down, was in the room No. 2, the one next over the engine -house, were it is known he was, shortly before, endeavouring to break the steam-pipe, so as to let the steam issie upon the - tire. The cause of the fire which—led to this melancholy catastrophe, is altogether unknoivn. The room in which the fire originated, as has been already noticed„ was used as a mechanics' shop. It- is stated- that the greater parts of the hands employed in the whole of the building, probably about sixty, left work at four o'clock, being Saturday, but that • some joiners - or carpenters. remained in this room, working till between seven and eight o'clock, though without using either fire or candle, or, as far as is known, smoking a pipe, or having any light whatever. The great bulk of the shavings made during the week had been swept away, and it is said there was nu known circumstance likely to create a risk from fire. We must, however, express our surprise that none of the workmen in this room, ssho, it appears, were certainly the last on the premises, were callad to give evidence on the inquest. The extent of the loss cannot, of course, be very accurately estimated at present; but horn inquiries we have made, we believe we are warranted- in stating that the actual amount of damage by fire to the building, machinery, materials, and manufactured goods, cannot be much, if at all short of .E 20,000, of which, we believe, not more than 1;5,000 is in sured on the building and stock, in the York and London fire insurance offices. As the, whole of the sewers and makers-up, in the other building on the premises, are kept in employment by the hands at work in the manufacture of the waterproof material, and in its application to cloth, in the old mill, two portions of which have been destroyed, it was at first feared that from 4(X) to 500 hands would thus for some time be thrown out of work. As, however; nearly the whole of the northern end of the old mill has escaped material damage, it is anticipated that the manufacture will be at least partially resumed within a fortnight, and that Messrs. Macintosh and Co. will be enabled again to supply the trade in about a month. Iu the meantime, with a view to keep most of those persons em ployed who would otherwise be thrown out of work, we are glad to learn, that the firm has detumined not to sell any more of the cloth in the shape of what are called " piece goods" till they shall obtain a fresh supply, on the resump tion of the manufacture; but to use up their present stock of cloth, by employing the makers-up to convert it into garments and the other articles for which it is in such extensive use and demand. There was a report very current during yesterday after noon and evening, that another body had been found during the af,ernoon in the ruins; but upon causing inquiry to be made, last evening, we learned that there was no foundation for this report. Indeed, there has very little further dorie,in the way of search for the other bodies supposed to lie beneath the ruins; and, in fact, until several portions of wall and flooring, loaded with fragments . of beams, machinery, and rubbish, shall have been removed from above, the danger of such a search would be very imminent. There seems too much reason to fear, that the man above described as NI'M inn or Macnainara, is: -entombed in the ruins; but, as we have Said, there,is a less degree of apprehension about the othe'r man, Jones, The following, then, so far is now known, pre sents a full list of the sufferers. KILLED James Watson, aged 40, police fireman; and also employed regularly at 4he police yard, in fltting.gas-pines, and ex cavating for street lamps. He has been in the employ of .the Manchester, Police Commissioners twelve or thirteen years, and was esteemed one of the most active men in the • establiShrnent. He has left a widow and two children Bootle-street. John Morgan, 37, a fine athletic man, a labourer and exca vator, was not connected with the snill, but went to assist. He has left a wid o w and five childr e n (our of them unable .to work), living in./se. 5 Court, liobson's-huildings, Duke .stteei, Hulme.„ William Marsh, 32, was a ntan employed on the premises, as we have already stated, in one of the processes of prepar ing or applying the Waterproof material. He was a mar ' vied man, but separated froni his wife. MISSING. M•M inn, alias Macnamara, a joiner. Jones, stated to be a labouier: BURNED, OR OTHERWISE INJURED Henryyollitt, fireman, much bitdied and hurt. Hugh. Faulkner, salesman, severely burned about the arms, back, and back part of the thighs; and bruised on the right - hand and arm. Molyneux, the head engineer, who, in the fall of the cis tern and flooring, received a severe contusion on one arm. Mr. Ostler, a conductor of the Salford fire police, who was bruised. Mr. W. Rose,superintendent of the Manchester fire police, who received some severe contusions about the body. Besides these, many other persons were more or less hurt. Several of them had their bruises and wounds dressed at the Infirmary, and afterwaids proceeded home.—Amongst other sufferers, though not directly by the fire, is a superintendent of the Chothon-on-Medlock police watchmen; who states, that being stationed at one of the entrances to the premises, and denying ingreSs to a number of men who were intoxi cated, and,who said they were men in•the employ of Birley & Co. or Macintosh & Co. he was much beaten by them, espe cially about the arms. THE MODEL REPUBLIC! (Abridged from the New York Herald of the 4th inst.) SCENE AT THE POLICE-OFFICE.—A decent-looking, but evidently poor, man, softly approached the desk of the ma gistrate, and pointing to his own face, all bruised and swollen, said--"-See how I've been ill-used, sir!—l am come for a warrant-for the arrest of the two men who have beaten me thus." The Magistrate—with both legs stud: over the desk, his bead reclining upon his breast, his spectacles shoved up on the summit of his cranium, and his whole material man absorbed in a soft siesta—slowly half-opened his maudlin eyes, and said or growl: l—" Ha ve you got six shillings?" "No, sir," was the reply—" I hav'nt got So mtich to spare." "Then you can't have a warrant—and you may go about your business as soon as ever you please, mister ;"—said the great man, again closing - his half-shut eyes and settling down again into his snooze. " But, sir," said the poor man— . . . " But, sir!" exclaitned the somniferous magistrate, open ing both his eyes and taking down his. legs—" But, sir ! — don't stand butibw me all the afternoon;—go about your business, I tell you." " Sir," said the poor man, " I was born anti bred in New York, and always paid my taxes regular to the state; surely I am to.be protected against violence?" "No! !—roared the now infuriated magistrate—" not with out you've got 6s. for a warrant. So go !—Be off with you, I say !—Don't you hear me?" The poor man left the presence muttering something about "a d—d hog!" and the great man lifting his legs upon the desk again, interlaced his fingers across his breast, dropp'd his double chin upon his bosom again : and again slided off into his siesta, murmuring—" A pretty story y—that I must be troubled and disturbed at all hours of the day by a parcel of fellows that can't pay for a warrant !" SCENE THE SECOND.—Soon afterwards the great man was roused again, and in .earnest. Jones, of sixth ward, was dragging in a poor creature by the hair of her head, and the whole place re-echoed with her• shrieks. She was an Irish. woman, charged by another Irishwoman with making a noise! She• struggled bard with her conductor to get his clutches out of her hair, which the gentleman resisted by striking the poor , wretch's• knuckles and fingers with his rattan. She shrieked for mercy, and implored the protection of the magistrate.—.". I am innocent, your honour; I was °wily speaking up for my poor bits 6' babes. Oh, have mercy on tne for the childer's sake," &c. " Take that woman to the cells! roared the magistrate, waking up. • " Your honour, I was ounly"— • " Away with her, officers, and stop her infernal yelling in the cells!" reiterated !the magistrate; and the officers set about obeying his orders. As they were dragging her to the cells, another woman en tered the office with two of the prisoner's children—one of them about three years old, and the other an infant of a few days' existence, which she carried in the folds of her apron. • . The agonised mother upon seeing !herd, broke from the arms of the officers and - again ingdored forgiveness for her children's sake, protesting that her accuser runs alone to blame. Her pleadings and her protests were all in vain ;—she and her screaming babes were consigned to the same cell by the same soul-less, heartless, and arbitrary tyrant, who had not eve❑ heard the charge preferred against her. And the editor of the New York paper thereupon indig nantly•exclaims—" If such tyrannical miscreants are to be tolerated in this land of liberty, give us Tartary for a coun try, Khans for magistrates, and Cossacks for constables!" GEORGE °SBA LDESTON, ESQ.—This gentleman, so cele brated some years ago as a fox-hunter, and as master of the Quorndon establishment, in particular, has announced his intention of retiring from the turf at the close of the present season.—Maidstone Journal. We understand that Mr. C. Ogle's challenge to ride from Doncaster winning -chair to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, imme diately after the termination of the ensuing St. Leger in eight hours, for £2OO. a side, upon hack horses, has been accepted, and that £5O. a side has been deposited with Mr. Radford.— Tyne Mercury. SOUTH EASTERN AND DOVER RAILIVAY.—The extensive works of this national undertaking at the Shakspeare Cliff and Gallery are progressing in a manner that must be highly gratifying to their numerous well-wishers in Dover and the sharelioldeis generally. A few months more and this classic height will be completely honeycombed by the tunnels; the galleries' and shafts are already formed, and the driftways connecting the shafts have been commenced. Beyond the Shakspeare, the benches on the rare 01 the cliff are finished; and it now only remains to cut out the angular masses be tween them. when the line will be complete for three miles of Most difficult part of thi s un d erta ki ng. D uring t h e cutting of the upper bench, nearly above Lyilden Spout, the workmen found a splendid and unique specimen of the jaw of the Mososaurus. It was, when first discovered, nearly per fect, and measured 3 feet 6 inches in length, but through the carelessness of the labourers who found it, it was broken to pieces, and a general scramble ensued for the fragments. Some Of. these have, however, been collected, consisting of 'masses Of bone and several - teeth, and it is intended to present them to the Dover Museum.—Dover Chronicle; August 25, MISCELLANEOUS. The same year (1592) saw. Coke, afterwards Chief Justice, appointed Solicitor-general, reader of the Inner Temple, and Speaker of the House of Commons. The aceouchement of the Marchioness of Abercorn took place on Friday morning at Byam House, Brighton. Her ladyship was delivered of a son, who, with its high-born mere is doing welt. Sir Robert Peel, Bart. M.P., and Lady Peel, arrived at Drayton Manor, their seat in Staffordshire, on Monday, from a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Longshawe Lodge, Derb) - shire. The Prince of Canino (Lucien Bonaparte) has arrived from Italy. The statues, busts, and vases, excavated on his estate at Canino, have also been brought over, and a part sold to the British Museum. Mr. Lushington, of Cambridge, has been unanimously appointed Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow, in the room of the late Sir Daniel Sandford. General Palmer, late member for Bath. made bankrupt as a wine -merchant, is at present in the Fleet Prison for debt, and in a bad state of health. His debts amount to £150,000. GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR OF STEAnI VESSELS.—We are glad to understand that the appointment of an authorized Inspector of steam vessels is under the serious consideration of government. The Admiralty gold medal has been awarded to Dr. C. WArthur, surgeon of the Rodney, for having kept the best medical journal in the service. We-have authority to state that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has signified his intention of tesigning the president's chair of the Royal Society at the close of the year.—Ailienceuni. Sir John Herschel, it is said, is to be the president, of the Royal Society, in the room of the Duke of Sussex, resigned, Sir John and the royal duke were rival candidates for the honours when the last vacancy occurred. The Inverness Herald states that the result of the county registrations had resulted in a Conservative majority of four; and the burgh registrations in a Coniervative majority of forty-five ! GIANT HERRING.—An enormous herring was caught by one of the boats belonging to Wick last week. It weighed within a fraction of a pound; and measured 15 inches in' length, with a proportionate circumference.—Scotsman. The directors_ of. the. London and Birmingham Railway Company have, it is said, borrowed a sum of £500,000, for the completion of that undertaking, by the issue of bonds bearing interest at five per cent. — Tines. PERTIISHIRE.—FIom a tabular view of the results given by the Perth Courier, it appears tint the additional Conser vative claims admitted (exclusive of re-inrolmeots, ,&c.) amount to 184; the additional Whig claims admitted to 32; making a clear gain for the Conservatives of 152. Lord Brougham, in one •othis late speeches, openly avowed his opinion of the inconvenience which has arisen from the annihilation of close boroughs, and suggesting as a remedy that members of the cabinet should he entitled toseats in the House of Cointnons]ex officio. PHENOMENON.—On Thursday week the people ofJedhurgh were astonished during the storm of rain which occurred on that day, by the fall of a large quantity of salmon fry from the clouds some of which are yet alive It is conjectures; that they must have been caught up into the clouds by a whirl wind; and this is the more probable as, about that tune, this neighbourhood experienced several very severe storms.—Glas yow Chi onicle. The Honourable Captain Osborne, of the 26th foot, mili tary sect etary to his uncle, Lord Godolphin, Governor-Gene ral of India, had a most narrow escape in April last. When out tiger shooting in the Dhoon three tigers got up suddenly under the very feet of his elephant, which so affrighted the animal that he actually shook his rider off his back Captain Osborne is said to have fallen on one of the tigers, and, strange to say, the whole three tigers took fright and ran away. A very amiable young man about nineteen years of age, named Flintoff, left the house of his parents, who reside at Skiddaw Cotsage, near Keswick, about nine days ago; and although the strictest search had been made for him every day since he left home, he was not discovered till Sunday last, when his body was found by three men who had been con stantly searching for him,' in a deep part of the river net . far from the head of Bassenthwaite Lake. It is rather singular that, about nine years ago, the body of a person similarly lost was found exactly in the same place.—Kendal Mercury. SHIP LETTERS.—Some idea may be formed of the extent of communication between the United States, England, and France, from the followingfacts:—The number of letters for warded through the New York Post Office, by the packets for Liverpool. London, and Havre, from the . 16th of April last, to the 19th July, was. 61,307—f0r other ports, 4,360 — total, 65,667. The number received at the Upper Post Office, from Ist January to June 30th, was 230,548—f0r city delivery, 101,819. There can be no doubt, that, but for the embarrass ment of the times; the number ofletters would have been much greater.—New York Evening Post. ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY WORKS.—On Saturday morning last, between nine and ten o'clock, as a labourer; named John Rammil, was driving a waggon l oa d of soil t o a slope at Newton Heath, called the Battery Head, the horse which he was leading suddenly drag ged him forward, so as to throw him down. The waggon wheel passed over his foot, ankle, and leg, crushing the ankle joint to pieces. The man was instantly conveyed to the Man chester Royal Infirmary, where he underwent amputation of the limb, just below the knee, between eleven and twelve o'clock the same forenoon: and we believe is now doing well . GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—We understand, that in consequence. of remonstrance made by the Grand Junction Railway Company upon the subject of charges on forward parcels through th e - coach offices at Birmingham, directions have been issued by Mr. Chorley, the treasurer and chief agent at Liverpool, that all such parcels shall in future be delivered by the company at the offices of the forward con veyances to Birmingham. It seems that the three principal coach proprietors jointly have a clerk at the railway-station, and the parcels have probably been delivered to such clerk ; an intermediate charge, however, has sprung up of 44. or 61 upon each parcel, claimed by the coach proprietors a:, a re muneration for bringing them from the station by their own conveyance, but stated by the Railway Compauy to be a mere office charge, and independent of -the manner of de livery. The correspondent from whom Ite received our in formation thinks that the public are suffering very extensively from this evil, and wishes us to point out that the railway companies engaging to deliver their parcels are bound to de liver them at the proper forwarding offices, without any expense beyond the railway charge, and that in such case there is no Other charge for passing through the coach-office than the customary 24. for booking, to be added to the usual forward carriage.—Correspondent of the Times. , HYDROPHOBIA.—The death of Mr. John Wilson, of Barnstown, county of Kildare, on Thursday week, is as severe a domestic calamity as has ever come under our notice. Mr. Wilson had, it appears, a favourite dog, which was missing for some days in May last; at length he received in formation that it was in an adjoining field, and on going out two of his labourers warned him not to approach the dog, as they believed it was mad; but the dOg, when he saw his master, ran towards him and frisked about his feet in a most friendly manner. Mr. Wilson concluded from this that the animal was not mad, took it up in his arms, and unfortunately allowed it to lick his hands, on one of which there was a small and unhealed cut or sore. The circumstance escaped from Mr. Wilson's mind, and nothing more was thought of the matter until,Sunday before last, when, after prayers, he felt a pain in one of his arms (that on which the sore was), which continued to increase in violence until the evening, when hydrophobia set in with dreadful malignity. He died on Thursday, the 16th, after four days of unremitting and most severe suffering. Mr. Wilson was a fine young man, in the prime of life, possessing a good property, and the affectionate esteem of all his neighbours.—Leinster Express. DREADFUL. FIRE AT HEMEL HEMPSTEAD—THREE LIVES LOST.—On Saturday night a dreadful fire occurred at the beautiful little town of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. It appears that on Saturday night, about 11 o'clock, the ser• vant of Dr. Hallet, a physician in the town, retired as usual to rest. It is supposed that be fell asleep before be got into bed, and that he knocked the candle off the table, which set fire to the bed furniture. In a little time the conflagration burst out in an alarming manner, and the greater portion of the inhabitants were soon on the spot to render assistance, but their efforts were unable to check the progress of the flames, and the mansion was soon a heap of ruins. Engines were sent for frcim Arlindge Castle, Sir Astley Cooper's, and and General Montague's, but they arrived too late to be of much service. It is impossible, at present, to give an exact account of the damage done, but it is supposed, on a rough calculation, that property to the amount of £20,000 is de stroyed. None of the property is insured. The body of Thomas Jackson, the servant, has been dug out of the ruins. He was quite dead. A servant girl, named Mary Sharp, and the son of Dr. Hallett, a fine youth, six years of age, are missing. It is greatly feared that they, too, have perished.— Courier. IMPORTANT TO SEAMEN.—At the meeting, last week, of the British Association, Lieut.-Col. Reed, of the Royal En gineers, read an interesting paper on the progress made to wards developing the law of storms, and what seems further desirable to be dune to advance a knowledge of it. He be gan by stating, that his attention had been more particularly directed to the subject in the year 1831, when he was em ployed as an engineer officer at Barbados, immediately after the great hurricane of that Year, which, in the short space of seven years, killed upwards of 1400 persons on that island alone. Since that time he had made numerous searches into the logs of vessels which had been exposed to great storms, and, combining their information with what he could obtain on land, he had been led to the conclusion, that storms have a revolving motion in a course opposite to that of the hands of a watch. Hence, he was led to believe, that, in accord. ance with the order of nature, they would be found, in south ern latitudes, to revolve in a precisely contrary direction to that which they took in the northern hemisphere. They might thus expect that the problem so long desired to be scilved, viz. on which side to lay . a ship in a storm, would now he explained. By watching the mode of veering off the wind, the portion of a storm into which a ship was falling might be ascertained. The object required was, that the wind, in veering, sh o uld ve e r aft, in s t ea d o f a -h ea d, and that a vessel should come up, instead of breaking off; to accom plish which, the ship must be laid on opposite tacks, on op posite sides of a storm. IMPORTANT TO TOLL KEEPERS.—A case of general im portance was tried before a•bench of justices in Glasgow last week, which we think should receive all manner of publicity. Mr. Walter Parlane is taxman of the toll or pontage dues exigible at the bar at the 'south end of the Glasgow bridge over the Clyde; and, on the occasion libelled, it appeared that the orderly servant of Sir Waiter Scott, Bart., the major -commandant of the 15th regiment of hussars, at present stationed in Port Eglington barracks, was passing the bridge, riding his own horse, and leading that of Sir Walter to Blythswood-square, from whence his master was to proceed to a review of the troops, which was to take place on the Green'. of Glasgow that day, under the inspection of Lord Greenock, the general officer of the district. Parlane demanded and took toll from the servant, in the face of his re monstrances; and it appeared in the course of the proceed ings, that Parlane was continuing the practice; and to have the question settled, Sir W. Scott and his brother officers caused a complaint to be brought before the justices, at the nominal instance of his orderly, against Parlane the toll keeper, for recovery of the statutory penalty of £5 for exact ing toll from a soldier. Mr. 'A. Gemmell appeared for Mr. Parlane the toll-keeper, and pleaded that Sir Walter Scott's servant did not fall under the description of persons who are exempted from the payment of tolls under the 37th section of the general turnpike act, Ist and 2d William IV. cap. 43: —" Nor shall any toll be demanded or taken for the horse of any officer or soldier "on march or, duty." See also Barclay on the Law of the Road, page 9; and Blair's Manual, pag e 325. And Mr. Gemmell pleaded that as Sir Walter's ser vant was not in full regimental uniform, hut merely in a stable or undress, the toll-keeper was not bound to know that he was a soldier at all; and even although he did, that being neither "on match or duty," he was not entitled to exemption ; and be also made reference to the Glasgow Bridge act. Mr. William Jaffrey, jun., appeared fof Sir Walter, and contended that neither the general turnpike act, nor the bridge acts, could be held to regulate the present question; and he read the 61st section of the mutiny act, Ist Victoria, cap. 17, (passed llth April, 1838.) whereby it is declared, " That all her Majesty's officers and soldiers, being in proper staff or regimental or military uniform, dress or un dress, and their horses, &c., shall be exempted from payment of any duties and tolls, &c., on passing turnpike roads or bridges, otherwise demandable by virtue of auy act already passed, or hereafter to be passed," &c. Penalty, £5 each offence. After a patient hearing, the _justices (under the able assessorship of their clerk, Mr. John Douglas) found the exaction .of the toll or pontage in question was illegal, and they accordingly convicted the toll-keeper in the miti gated penalty of 205., besides expenses.--,Scotsman. SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Three o'Clock. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. The Great Western arrived at 13ristol yesterday, at 12 o'clock—sailed 16th instant, at 6 P. Zof.,, with 88 passengers. NEW ORLEANS, Auo. 7.—The United States sloop of war Ontario, arrived off the S.W. Pass. 2d instant, sailed from Tampico 20th July, Vera Cruz 23d, and Metamoras . 28th July. The port Soto Marina was opened by the Mexican gov: r.iment and three A rheri, can vessels had arrived, two from New Orleans with valuable car goes. There is no probability of Mexican - government acced ing to the demands of the French, and the blockade is carried On with great vigour, particularly towards Anierican vessels. LIVERPOOL MARKETS.. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, AUGCST 31. We have upwards of 4,000 quarters or foreign Wbeat arp rived since Tuesday, and about 3,000 quarters of Oats fresh" •"" in from Ireland, with which exceptions, the supply generally . ' is to a trifling extent. , Some heavy rain fell on Tuesday evening,: end continued ••• during the greater pact of the night; the Weather linsi.iince • been very favourable, and some early fields-of Whe4.„havel been reaped in tl..e neighbourhood, but at least a week omen- days must elapse before any great breadth of this grain *la be ready for the sickle. Little business was done in any kind'of. drain within Ow past two days ; but at this thenninfs Market :the Millersr•frl , showed more disposition to.. purchase Wheat,, moderate" . ; e sales were made at about 3d to 4d decline from the enireie - Y a Tuesday in the value of English-samples; several parcels of foreign also found buyer's at a similar depression for de. livery on next Friday, When the duty" will fay:at /east anti; • they stage, namely, to 2s. Bd. per guarter. lii - tqprospect of • the Continental Flour so scot cumin; into competiti on till'` Irish, sales of the latter are with difficulty made, evem•by,sub mitting to a reduction of 2s. to 3s. per sack. Barley is' again someibit cheaper, and Beans barely'sup. port former quotations. Malt and rpaikin slow request, with little ..s little change in value. • • We note Oats, which were exceeding_dull, 2d. per 45lbs. lower; but some lots of OatmeaLwere cleared offiiy: - kou.ntry buyers at 255. to 275., being a fall of t 0.28. per.:VAl*4 the top price for new was 30s. to 31s. . , :Gar„l. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, • FRIDAY, Anourr 31. • - • SAlLED.—Pactolus, liar:dog, for. Philadelphia—Revel ition. For- rest, for Miramichi,—Mary. Gunton. Hambro'—Elizabeth, Aken.; ' " wall for Elsineur—Wilberforce. Jackson, for Africa—Colon.bian,.. Watkin. for Sidney. N. S. W.—Georgia, Daiies. for New . Orleans Robertson, Neil', 'or Quebec—Naiad, B uttL for Messina and Pa lermo—Amelia, Lester, for Genoa and Legborn---Colonist, Cow- , man, for Sidney—Diana, Daniels, for St. Pefersiturg:- . :4llnry : Ann Halton. Gale, lor Pictou, -N. &.—Tremont, Hall. for N.atchis • —Norfolk, Curbe, for Revel. 2 -Arethusa, Turner, for Demerara aid ' Cayenne—Turbo, Beaucham, for Boston—Holipett Raneherit, Revel—Funchal, Picken. for Newfoundland—Sidney, Cowen, for . New Orleans—Thomas, Richardson, Trinidad.. , • Montreal, Griffin, and Gladiator, Briton, froth LontlonONo4.l., York . „ Charlemagne, Richardson ; Ville Dedezon, Stoddrd, and at ditto • • - :: • ,r j . - Seaman. Howes, and Exchange, Atkins, hence at Boston • Rose. Flanders, and Cyrus, Woodside, hence at Portland. , , Grampus. Sayward. hence Gloucester Caspian, Paten, and Gerard, Lambert; hence . atiUth • • Acadian, James, hence at Halifax ' • t „ . Margaret. Chalmers ; Chieftain,. Heaves •, lSamffslirre , MAIM ; Margaret, Blythe; Elizabeth- Bentley, Robertion• ; Hfiare.--, and Cur de Lion, Robinson, hence at Quebec •. , • • • Triumph, hence to New Orleans, Wilt spokenfith - Adgnst; in lat. 35, long. 73 Helen Mar:Ed,r,n, hence at Neic 6rleani ~, .e; Liverpool, Bant)W, hence at Cherlestott • • Hilah. Hammond. and Amelia. Remington. hence at PhiladelpWit Richard Andersor, Lucas. hence at Baltiinthett . e Atij, •: Hope, Pearce, hence at Narraganset Bay. Trenton, Bennett, hence at New York, 7tli Aug. ; 1 07e-10'a Ocmulgee, Leavett, hence at ditto,,Ath Au. • ; H. Thompson. Watkins. hence at ditto. 9th Aug. -f, • a 4 ' Europe, Marshall ; Sarah, Glover ;'Robert Morris. Thornal, and. Colchester, M'Lean. hence at ditto, 12th Aug. ' • W. C. Nye, Sturtevant; Louisville, Palmer, and Aricatiesv.niller: hence at ditto, 14th Aug. Lorena. Urquhart, and Sheffield, Allen, Frances Ann, Hay, hence for Calcutta, wai,spoken 28th July..in lat 12 N. long. 26 W. • • - • Cognac Packet. hence, to Pernambuco was spoken 29th..Ju11,. lat. 14 N. long 27 W. Euphemia, was spoken 25th instant, tat. 47 long. &. : • • : Norval, Murray, from Odessa, at Falmouth, and proceeded to Liverpool. The Ajax, from Philadelphia. for this port, was taken into Halt fax, 4th Aug. after being abandoned Bruxellois, Delvies, hence at Schelde Charles Ferdinand, Klenck, from Monte Video at Antwerp . Alpha. Turner. from Buenos Ayres at Helvoet Lord Althorp, from Hambro' for this port, off St. Alban's Heitd. Australia, English, from Buenos Ayres and Rio Janeiro; at Dina, Louisa, hence for Arichat. was spoken 26 inst. lat. 5Z Runk:JO:: Sophia, Petrel!, from Uleaborg, for this port, or Dartinouth . . The Emperor of Russia has gone froin . Kreuth to meet at Munich the King of Bavaria coming froni Brucketran, , Augsburg Gazelle. , The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by his friend Air. Arbuthnot, left Apsley House on Saturday morning - for Wal mer Castle, where the elite of his grace's political friends have been invited to pass sometime after the fatigue of .a labour ing session of parliament. Lord and Lady Jersey . and Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, who ate on theeve of departureto.pass the autumn and winter abroad, will visit the gallant duke, it is expected, on their way to Paris. We have heard that at the present moment Lord Broughant has no intention of visiting Scotland this year, and- we.he lieve. we may at all events safely pronounc e th a t h e w ill - nut dine with those who call themselves, on the present ocea sion, " the Radicals of Glasgow."—Scotsman. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MO.NDAY, AL -9. W.- - The market has been but thinly attended to-clay; and busi ness rather more languid. The low and middlinrquhlitiee of flannels were the goods chiefly inquired after4-while finer descriptions have met with a heavy sale. The're is no Chaiige in the priers either of wool or flannels to-clay. , r The officers of the 45th regiment, stationed at, Canterbury Barracks, have placed a tablet in the Cathedral,;inje membrance of their brave companion in arms,. Lientenant Bennett, who fell in the strict and manly disvharge.!of his duty in Bossenden Wood, yille.of, Dunkirk,. 31st of by a pistol shot from the maniac Courtenay. - :7 Our fair equestrians, whom her Majesty's dailf•eittirrple has so much increased- in number, will perhaps be :interested in learning that her Majesty avails herself of a newly,dis covered cloth, which, while it is impervious - to I rain, idlOws the escape of that perspiration which-is theneccessary effect of all,healthy exercise.—Observer. IRON STEAMERS.—The iron steam-vessel, Toador, his, we understand, arrived at Pernambuco after a passage of actual steaming of only four and a half days from Maranharn. Sailing vessels are generally, we believe, twenty to thirty days .making this passage, and a fait-sailing 'vessel` atrivea at 'Pernambuco. two days before the Vnador,.that had.heen forty-five days on the voyage from Maranham. This proves the great advantage to be derived from theintrotfuCfibri of steam-vessels on a coast where, the current.and ,vitatiVevail so as to prevent sailing vessels accomplishing their passage in a reasonable time, and Must' shortly lead tp - theirdolition of steam-vessels both on ,the east, and.,west ,cuast uf, out America. • • BANuorc NATIONAL SCHOOL.—The claitits of t e ea mt rably-conducted establishments were -thicitieriTly;pleadid in the Cathedral on Suuday last, by. the Rey,.44ert Davies, M.A., minister of St. David's church, LiVerpool,.before a very crowded congregation; among - 'whoin "Were'tbsitMest Rev. Dr, Whateley, Lord Archbishop of ..Dubliti„fire„:.Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, the VetYReY. the Dean. Sir John Williams, Bart., and the 'gentry of The sur rounding neighbourhood.. „The impressive, apikeal ,of the able preacher was successful; a liberal collection of £26 105. BMd. having been obtained. The Subject of the sertnnir we! "The indispensable, necessity of a scriptural education.' The services ofthe choir were. most admirably performed. VENTILATION AND LIGHTING OF THEIIOUSE OF COMMONS —A return of the expenses incurred by the recent experi ments in ventilating and lighting the 71-lousellof Cominoto bas just been printed, from' which it appears the ventilating and warming experiments cost £6545- 9s, experi ment in lighting with gas cost £lOl3 17s. JOO., and the cart' die lighting experiments amounted to . £514 iBS. Bd. The, improved mod e o f li g hti ng by can dl es , w hi c h was . c on tinue°, to the end of the session, causes a n increa se d. expense o' £2 15s. lid. per night, the number of candles employed be; ing 276, whilst in the old plan, of 'lighting the titimlik used pet...night was 150. The amount paid to Dr. Reid ; for.his at' tendance and expenses, including a gratuity of £50(1 for th e application of his system of• vent - Retied 'anificenstics, £1012155. RAILWAY FROM NEWCASTLE T0..k.: raNap 116,11.—A LINE PROJECTED,—The project Of.arailway from Newcast le to Edinburgh, by way otWooler and the midland districts ° I the Tweed, is seriously .in contertmlatigniand an,explanatol survey of the line is now ntoceeding through Narthuroberlao but particularly between the rivers Watisbeek the latter of which is the most diflicult,to, pass,. it, is a po'f e that requires considerable elevation,, iri order to., Meet tb more elevated parts north• of viraßimsid,e - -Mtioi: Fe u different lines are in course of suryeypetwee&th,eaeAo ri/ er ! —two east and two west Of the g r eat no rth' oads; the weste rn ' most, where the greatest difficulliektshe eal"„ has been carried as far as Wooler, &c. The greatest joeh n- 1 lion will not exceed 25 feet per mile, or l'in 2114 • a tuo" e is unavoidable throu g h Itimside Meer: ibbuf , two miles ri length. The great e st depth of cutting will oat-exceed 70 fe t e te and the greatest height of e m b an k men t (the, valley "of ,i 0 Mu) 100 feet; the extreme length of the se two. places is chains. The length of the viaduct ever the Waosbeck, chains or 1980 feet, and it s h e i g ht 148 f ee t, th a t i s i mni ediat e n vd over the bed of the riv e r (th e w idth of w hi c h Vs 70 . feet ;) A u tbe the viaduct over the Coquet i s 6Q chains 01.'3960 feet, an • -• ich height 180 feet over th e b e d o f th e r i ver ( t h e w idth Of be is 60 feet.) It is exp ec t e d th a t thelatter diMensions W' ll bu t greatly reduced by a line proposed : l a , cross nearFeltorl...o, which will naturally i ncrease th e l eng th o f th e ' tunne l abe u it s quarter of a mile; but this again, is cininterbalanCed V i be i having the effect of reducing the h e i g ht en d lettgtll t embankment over the valley o f the Ai n , The derh °' res ling at either end of the tunnel,' as at 'present "proposed , r ' not exceed 34 feet, and the extreme length G. chattea“ -- wick warder. ANIMAL MAGNETISM IN FRANCE.—M. Bunclin, Ine fiere a of the Royal Academy of Medecine,.sontetime sines °tied, a reward of 3000 francs to ,any one I,vhpi xyhen..rnagi. )e e „,ie, could read without the assistan ce o f th e eves. M. Pig 7bel a physician of Montpellier, inunediatet y-acte . pted: , the; ( ag e, lenge on the part of his daughter, a child 0f.1 n 3 years °i di ot, who, he o f asserted, wh en i n a stare magnetie'sonimbLeveet could see to read, ate. with. her eves ea covered us to r io ted the transtnisssion of the rays of light. A committee, pool' he - by the royal academy, was. appointed to investigate til e Poet' nomena said to be presented • by Mdlle. Pigeaire;,4""loaoq a due examination, came to the conclusion that the ° l ,, c e. ought not to be awarded, becauSe the. precautions ettlP .. ; were not such as to prevent the success-of trickerY,:)„, bs Pig,eaire, refused to allow various innocent precaationeose tried, which the committee thought ne cessa ry, ar beed her they were convinced that the girl could not read•with u.. rs ys gers. unless the bandages were so placed .that ltoning..!eairrt could pass between its lower edge and the nose• M. l l_ h " positively refused to allow any band age to beuse a dore own, unless he were to regulate its si ze and form, en d m . i3 O he r P. might have it in her possession a few' da)s - to car e ' d a u a hter with it, it being d ur i ng t h at t i meun der M..„ me et; M. Castel excited touch laughter,at artunusually foLtstrate° ing of the academy, by the manner in which be denn7 i‘ t c llte; the distortion of the muscles 'of the face, br d ,ge, D tb shePigeai couldre manag ed never readto d b e u t t a l c c h he t i lle til lu e w b eLp k ur v, tn as i t p h i e a , c . h ; a r sh b e eo u e s 3 et ,i ; , her nose. M. Gerdy examined the banilage'shi ch • g . lig h be and found a few small holes kapable, of. transto,ii" ° ,,, s b t ee and M. Velpeau, who tried it on, Was.able disi! ° _ o g ira nitt ace of dianionds with it: The , conetusions , of the' were almost unanimously adoptedAy- 1 04014C44 er • • ; •••• agrlti