The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH AMERICA FALMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Her ma jesi; ; ;Tmeket Hope, Lieu tenant Rees, arrived to-day from Rio, July 11th; Bahia, 20th; Pernambuco, 29th; on freight 750,000 dollars. Among other passengers is Dr. Mora, Private Secretary to Gen. Santa Cruz, and now on a mission to England as Consul-General of the Peru-Polivian Confederation. From letters received by this packet it is learned that the visit of this gentleman, and the business connected therewith, is of the utmost im portance, and connected with the existing war between the confederation and Chili. From Valparaiso advices to the end of May are afforded, of an expedition of 2,500 men being in preparation to land in the north of Peru; the Chilian go vernment having refused its approbation to the treaty of peace marelsetween atrati fitanen and Santa Cruz on the lith of November. The new expedition was commanded by General Gartnara, and the supposition that it would meet with a warm reception iu that district would probably prove true. The rancour existing, between the two governments may be estimated from the fact, that Dr. Mora's arrival at the port of Valparaiso, on board her majesty's ship Fly, excited the loud- est expressions of dissatisfactionon the Dart of the Chilians, and many complaints were made to Admiral Ross against Captain Eliott for the service he had rendered, exemplifying, as they declared, partisanship on the part of the English. Dr. Mora, notwialitanding, was admitted as passenger on board the Stay, BWrsti frigate, Captain Sullivan, from thence for Rio de Janeiro. A Chilian squadron of four men-of-war was blockading Lima; and General Santa Cruz had officially no tified to the foreign consuls, that the ports of the enemy would be blockaded on August 20th. The government of the con federation had bought two beautiful sloop:4 of war at Balti more, which passed round Cape Horn in the beginning of June General Santa Cruz was, about the 15th of May, at Arequero, when a congress, composed of deputies of the three confederated states, was convened to introduce some reforms into the fundamental laws of the confederation; mean while, the state of trade in Peru is said to be prosperous, se veral large exportations of cotton being in preparation, also of wool. A considerable cargo of quicksilver had arrived at Arica, and it was generally calculated that during the six fol lowing months 5,000,000 of dollars would be coined in the mints of Lima, Cuzco, and Potosi. It was generally be lieved, that the Bolivian Congress, who were accused of not being very partial to the confederation, were anxious to afford a proof to General Santa Cruz of their unbounded confidence in him; and generally, the whole Bolivian nation is most en thusiastic in favour of their natural chief, who not only has exhibited the solidity of his political views by the complete pacification of Peru, but has fixed on himself the attention of the peninsula of South America as the only man capable of iutroducing stability and order in the country. From Buenos Ayres accounts state that General Rossas, the president, is at war not only with the French, but also with a very im portant and numerous party at Uruguay. General Ribeiro, who commands the insurgents, had completely beaten the troops of the government in the beginning of June; and it was believed that Rossas would be obliged to resign his place, or to expose himself to the vicissitudes of a bloody revolution. —Globe. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. JAMAICA. By the Velocity, Capt. Tatem, which arrived at this port on Tuesday, we have received Jamaica papers of the date the 31st of July inclusive. Had this vessel remained a few hours longer at Kingston she might have been the bearer of the tidings which should acquaint us whether the dreaded Ist of August had been disgraced by acts of outrage or disorder, which it was predicted the negroes would commit, or whether the conduct of the emancipated slaves had justified the lofty encomiums which their deliverers have lavished on them. Our knowledge of the issue must be furnished by a future arrival. In the meanwhile it may not be unimportant to append the statements with which the latest Jamaica journals supply us. In order that they may possess themselves of such funds as they may deem it necessary to expend on the festivities with which the Ist of August should be honoured, the black popu lation have denuded their applotmebts of land of every vestige of fruit and corn, whether it happened to be ripe or unripe. This produce they have exposed to sale, and the proceeds will, beyond all doubt, be most faithfully expended in maintenance of mirth, jolity and excess. In despite of the nervous appre hensions in which some of the Jamaica journalists indulge, there remains no faint nor ill-founded hope that the epoch of the abolition of slavery will only be remarkable as a season of warrantable conviviality and excusable carouse. THE UNITED STATES By the President, Captain More, which arrived at Ply, mouth on Saturday, New York papers to the 20th instan have been received, being four days later than those brough, by the Great Western. The accounts from Canada are per fectly satisfactory. There_appear to have been some seriou disturbances in the Spanish West India Islands, but the fol lowing extract from the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin contains probably an exaggerated statement :—" The .steam ship Natchez having been detained at Key West for want of fuel, a schooner was despatched to Havannah to procure a snpply of coal. The officer sent in command of the schooner stated, on his return to Key West, that there had been some serious disturbances among the troops at Havannah. The circumstances and particulars bad been kept a secret, as far as possible, by the public authorities, so that nothing certain had transpires as to the cause or origin of the affair. This much is ascertained : that a conspiracy was detected among the troops and officers of several regiments garrisoning the Moro Castle, through the treachery of one of the individuals implicated. They were, it is supposed, dissatisfied with the removal of General Tacon; but this is all conjecture. The discovery of the treason led to the most vigorous measures on the part of the new governor, Espeleta, to crush it in the bud. The gates were immediately shut upon the regiments in their barracks, and the fort which they garrisoned co verted into their prison. Eighty of the ringleaders seized.and executed on the spot, and as many more detas under arrest, awaiting a confirmation of their guilt. Fr the frequent and heavy firing heard from the fort, it was sup posed that a severe conflict took place between the conspi rators and the government force. In Havannah, the dis turbance produced among the inhabitants great agitation and excitement, heightened by the mystery with which it was shrouded. On the departare of the schooner, all was quiet, the insurrection having been effectually put down by the energy and promptitude of Governor Espeleta." The New York Morning Herald mentions a report, that the object of the conspiracy was to place the government of the island in the hands of the Carlist faction. The work of resumption goes on well. Every mail brings us news of some bank having returned to specie payments, in conformity to the general agreement. 'We learu to-day, that the Governor of New Jersey, having taken example from the success of Gonernor Ritner's proclamation, has also issued one, requiring all the banks in New Jersey to resume specie payments by the Ist day of September, under the penalty of the law.—New York Morning Herald. COTTON.—Tbe cotton crops in Mississippi are said to be in a promising condition, notwithstanding the late long drought.'The continuance of dry weather gave the planters ati opportunity to clear away the grass; and the recent rains found the fields thoroughly clean, with nothing to impede the rapid growth of the cotton.—New Orleans Bulletin' TOBACCO.—With regard to the tobacco crop, the Peters burgh Intelligencer of Friday says :—" The last letters from all the tobacco section of country south of James River re present the crop to be in a most deplorable state. We have no very late information from the north side of James River; but from the unusual drought, we believe, the same state of things exists all over the state of Virginia. The tobacco speculators must reap a good harvest this year." Tuesday, we have also received New York rapers to the 20th ult. inclusive, Montreal to the 18th, and Quebec to the 16th. We subjoin extracts:— ( From the Morning Cour ier.) Montreal, Wednesday, Aug. 15. We learn by the Quebec Gazette, that his Excellency the Governor General will leave Quebec on Saturday, in the John Bull, for Montreal. His Excellency, we understand, intends to be present at the races, which will take place on Monday. Friday, August 17. It is stated in the Quebec Gazette of Wednesday, that the Hon. J. Villers, A.D.C., to the Governor General, has been appointed Private Secretary to his Excellency, vice E. Ellice, Esq., who is about to be absent for some months on private business at Beauharnois. His Excellency the Governor General, Admiral Sir C. Paget, and a number of military and naval officers were pre sent at the Quebec Seminary on Wednesday afternoon. The prizes were delivered by his Excellency. The Upper Canada Gazette of the 9th inst., contains a pro clamation authorising and appointing justices of the peace, and civil magistrates to enlist and attest in Upper Canada, any soldiers or persons desirous of enlisting or re-enlisting into the service, in execution of the provisions contained in an act lately passed by the Imperial Parliament, entituled an " Act for the punishment of mutiny, desertion, Scc.” (From the New York Paper.) • THE FALKLAND ISLANDS.—The New London Gazette con tains a copy of a letter addressed to the master of the ship General Williams, of that place, by Captain W. J. Scott, master of H.B.M. ketch Sparrow, and Governor of the M al venas stating that the British governmen t h as t a k en posses sion of the whole of the Falkland Islands, and that all foreign vessels are prohibited fishing or sailing round or near them. The General Williams and her tender were warned to leave the coast as soon as possible, and informed that all foreign vessels found at any of the ports of the island after the Ist of June, 1838, would be proceeded against as trespassers. MONEY MARKET, &c. , AUG. 20.—A large business was transacted at the Stock Exchange on Saturday, and the closing quotations of nearly all description, shows an advance on previous sales. United States Bank closed at 1231; Dele ware and Hudson Canal Company at 841, being an improve ment of 4- per cent. on each; Farmer's and American Trust Company's, and Harlem and Paterson Railroads also ad vanced A ; Ohio Trust and New Jersey Railroad and Stonington Railroad 11 per cent. New Orleans advices to the 11th inst. state the continuance of inactivity in every branch of business in that city. The river above was at a very low stage of water, and the receipts of produce had consequently been light. In money matters no material change has occurred. Discounts were readily obtained at 10 per cent., but very little satisfactory paper was offering. Exchange on England 12 to 13, and on New York, at sight, 6 to 61 per cent. premium. United States Bank Bills and Treasury Notes very scarce, as also specie, for which there was little or no demand; and no change in rates. Natchez bank notes were at a discount of 14 to 15, and those of Mississippi River banks generally at 15 to 18; Interior ditto, 25 to 35; Brandon ditto, 40 to 45; Alabama notes, 71 to 81 per cent. discount.. The city continued very healthy, and frequent showers of rain had occurred during the week. REVIEW OF THE NEW YORK MARKET, New York Daily Express-office, Aug. 18. REMARKS.—We have no later intelligence from Europe since the arrival of the Great Western, nor have we reason to expect any for a week to come. This extraordinary vessel left on Thursday at four p.m., in the midst of a very heavy south-east gale. Inward she had about 6,000 letters. Out ward she must have had about 8,004). The packets that arrive are bringing assorted cargoes, which are now much wanted. There is evidently a considerable revival in trade. Pearl street exhibits more activity than it has done before in a year. The general resumption of specie payments by the eastern, middle, and western states, has given great confidence to the public. All our hotels are full, or filling up with great rapi dity, and some of the principal ones are running over. EXCHANGE.—DOMESTTC.—This has been the most impor tant weetwe have known in a year. Since our last so many banks ha - ve resumed specie payments, that exchange on all the states east of Virginia has come down to be less than one per cent. This is a new state of things. Ou the western states all exchanges have improved. Mississippi and Ala bama are the two worst states for exchange, and these are getting better rapidly. EXCHANGE.—FOREIGN.—By the Royal William, bills on London sold at 1071 Yesterday the Great Western sailed, and the bill holders were enabled to obtain 109, at which very large transactions were made. There is an evident re vival in trade, and very large ,orders went out in the Great Western. This is the cause of the increased demand for exchange. On France the bills stand at 522-1. MONEY. —The resumption of specie in all the banks in the eastern, middle, and some of the western states, is an event of no ordinary moment. It is a source of much gratification that the crisis has past without the least excitement or alarm. The rise of foreign exchange is a healthy feature; it shows an increasing trade; and even if i t shoul a b e so great as to induce some shipment s in specie, it would not be at all alarming. The improvement in domestic exchanges adds much to the facility of negociating inland bills, all of which assists in rendering money easy. A son of Braham, the celebrated vocalist, has entered the army, as an ensign in the 12th depot, at Tralee.—Limerick Chronicle. At a meeting held at Nottingham, on Tuesday, called for that purpose, a series of resolutions were entered into to con struct a canal from Gainsborough to Nottingham, at an ex pense of £200,000, and also to form a ship canal from Hull to Nottingham, at an expense of £.Mo,ooo.—Nottingh am Journal. In a street at Gravesend the public are struck with the novel announcement of "Tea made with shrimps, 9d a-head." We may henceforth hold ourselves perfectly independent of the hong merchants, or the closing of the gates of Canton. There is at the present moment in a window in the Trafal gar-road, Greenwich, the following quotation from the Pro phets, " 'Oh ! Lucifer, how art thou fallen!' Id. a box." The man sells Lucifer matches.—Greenwich Gazette. REMINISCENCE.—The Hon. Guillan C. Verplanck, at a dinner on board the Great Western, related the following:— " Looking over (said he) a number of old New York papers, I met with one published about the middle of last century, giving an account of the coronation of George 111., which bad been brought out in a vessel called the Sally Ann, from Bristol to this port, 80 days. I could not help being struck with the wonderf*N. ent in our day by the construe ion of such v • 'far ; tli (pi Western, which brought to his port f ro .. , • ";`4 1 account of the like event in the few holair coTdet s' :NV • 'Attt t .ria in 11 days and some . • 7.: I" • i„,fr•K i , 1•;-;s3a„, t ‘e i t i:2 ( -I%l+ '4 . • tff % 4 ° • • A „ di. t . rho grasp of his onqueror. At let - I=th llr. HALIFAX. By the Lady Paget, Capt. Lockett, which arrived at Liver pool on Tuesday, we have received Halifax papers of the date the 21st August. From these we learn, that Sir John Harvey, on the occasion of his assuming the government was compli mented by the mayor and corporation of St. John, with a con gratulatory address. In his reply his Excellency avows the confidence which he reposes in the !ovally of the inhabitants of the province —a confidence which their conduct during the recent tieing crisis warrants him to extend. From these papers we learn that the legislature of Tobago had determined to abolish slavery in that island on the Ist of August. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER.—Very few engagements of moment have taken place. On Saturday the Duke of Cleve land's filly was backed rather stougly, one gentleman taking the odds to £5O. The following are the odds:- 11 to 4 against Col. Peel's lon. (t) 4to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's Don John. (t) 15 to 2 „ Mr. Parkin's Lanercost. (t) 9to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Alzira. (t) 10 to 1 „ Mr. Coombe's Cobham. (t) 17 to 1 „ , Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle. (off) 25 to 1 „ Mr. S. L. Fox's Jemmy Jumps. (off) TATTERSALL'S, MONDAY. In the attendance this afternoon there was a marked im provement, and business, comparatively speaking, was tolera bly interesting. lon bad many friends, and at one time was booked as low as 20 to 9. The Alzira and Lanercost parties, however, came out in such force that he lost a little ground, the closing prices being 9to 4 (takers of sto 2.) Iwo or three persons laid 5 to 1 against Don John, but the takers were plentiful, and the "old stagers" offered only 4 to 1. Cobham was backed at 10 to 1 in good quarters, and a rouleau was laid out on Pucelle at 16 to 1, her final price being three points less. The "gallant Grey" and Albemarle were not in favour, and Appleton Lad had received a knock down blow. Saintfoin, who made his appearance on Thursday last, rose to 20 to 1 (or takers of 22 to 1.) The general odds at the close were:— 9 to 4 against Col. Peel's lon. (t 5 to 2) 4to 1 „ Lord Chesterfield's Don John. (t sto 1) 7to 1 „ Mr. Parkin's Lanercost. (t 15 to 2) 9to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Alzira. (t) 10 to 1 „ Mr. H. Coombes's Cobham, (t) 13 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle. (t 14 to 1) 14 to 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus. (off) 20 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's Sainifoin. (off) 30 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad. (t) 50 to 1 „ Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney. (off) 1000 to 15 „ Mr. Bowes's The Jagger. (t) 125 to 50 „ Don John and Lanercost. LIVERPOOL HURDLE RACES.—The day fixed for this Itmeeting is Monday, Oct. 8, when two Hurdle Sweepstakes pd a Handicap Race are to b e co nt en d e d f or . Th e fi rs t size is 50 soya. added to a subscription of 15 soya. each, soya. it.; two miles—to be run over hurdles. The second race is of the same character, but for a less amount; the subscription being only 7 sovs. each, with 20 sovs. added —once round and a distance. Tho last is a Handicap Stakes, of 10 sovs. each, with 50 sovs. added, the winner to be sold for 150 sovs., and will be run for in the legitimate way—that is, minus the hurdles. The conditions are, to close and name on the last day of the Heaton Park Meeting. The promoters of this annual treat to the sporting world are sanguine of an excellent muster of sound nags, and, we are certain, no ef forts will be spared by them to accomplish that object. Lord Molyneux honours the meeting by his stewardship, and Mr. Lynn appears in the capacity of secretary. We hope a good attendance will be the crowning result. TURF APPOINTMENTS FOR 1838. SEPTEMBER. OCTOBER. Doncaster.. Isle of Thanet l9 Northallerton Heaton Park Walsall 26 Caledonian Iluot Lincoln. 27 Stafford 9 n( I 0 II i. El. Welchpool Newmarket Wrexham 2 Hol)well Hunt Chesterfield 3 Newmarket JONATHANIANA. (Neat as impoiteci—by last arrivals.) SUMMER FASHIONS.—A slight squint over the left eye— ditto, curl of the lower lip. Right hand in the opening of the ve s t—thumb and forefinger delicately dallying with the watch-guard.—Hat slantingdicular to the right, standing enrner of a yellow ban dana just showing itself at the left temple. winsKers tong and biforked; ear-locks, half-way down the cheek, and tips tucking in. A light cane may be carried under the arm for flonrisbing when a dun is visible. Teeth, clean and white, for grinning when a lady is met. N.B.—Carry a pocket of pulverized pumice always with you, to fling in the eyes of the tailors' boys, if there is no other way of getting clear of 'em. APROPOS OF THE AnovE.—The Vice Queen of Canada, (My Lidy Durham,) like Queen Victoria of England, has issued an anathema against the old and bold black cravat, and an order that none of her loving subjects shall appear before her, upon pain of her high displeasure, otherwise than with their necks enveloped in while napery—that is to say, as the old song says—" with a yard or two of towelling wrapp'd round about their necks fast." VERY EXTRAORDINARY.--A young lady, intending to sue for a breach of promise, put her lover's billets doux into a bag, for theipurpose of producing them in court; when sad to tell, their own natural warmth produced spontaneous combustion, and, when the bag was opened, there was nothing in it but ashes. A SUFFICING REASON.—Colonel Dunlop, of the Huron and St. Clair militia, has published a letter complaining bit terly of certain commissariat officers, whom he charges with arrogance, and neglect of duty; but he exonerates them from all disrespect to himself personally—because, as he says, he is "six feet high and proportionably broad across the shoulders." DRAINING, DRINKING AND DUELLING.—Messrs. Thane arid Drinkins, of Madison Co. Ms., men of high courage and standing, fought a dual last Monday with double-bar relled guns, and both were killed. Good bye Messrs. Drane and Drinkins! MORE ABSENCE.—An actor at the Bowery in New York one night lately appeared for the first time in Othello, but by some strange tit of absence he had studied the Fourth Book of Euclid instead of the play, and stranger, still, no body found it out until he set about persuading poor Desde mona that she was an isosceles triangle. THE SUBLIME AND RIDICULOUS.—" Woman is most beautiful when in tears—like a rose wet with the chrystal dew."—Mobile Examiner. "We suppose the editor of the Examiner whips his wife every Sunday, to make her look beautiful."—Baltimore Sun. "Does the wife of the editor of the Sun whip him •to make him beautiful o' Sundays?' By the following from the Sun of Friday, we suppose the editor a real woman hater—a being, we had hoped, no longer ex isting in this country:—" A young woman, it is said, died in Connecticut of the typhus fever, in consequince of kissing a young man who was ill of the complaint. Don't believe it; the girl recovered of the kiss; the man it was who died.' Shame ! There is a spot on the Sun. We hope he will never be kissed by a lady as long as be lives, and that is the worst punishment that will befall him."—New York Whig. WANTS.—This is a wanting world, and these are wanting times. Some want a new governor and some want the old one: some want the new market house on the public square, and some want it away from there; but for our own part we (Erie Gazette) want our pay from all those who owe us any; and want will compel us to call upon 'em particular if they don't call and settle soon.—That's a fact. QUEER MISTAKE.—One of our exchange papers has got a totally queer blunder, for which the printer ought to be well scrubbed down.—The caption line "THROUGH BY DAY LIGHT," which ought to have been at the head of a steam boat advertisement, is stuck over the head of Braudreth's Pills. ANSWER TO BOND'S SPEECH.—The only answer we have as yet seen attempted to this unanswerable speech is the fol lowing official answer from the editor of the Washington Globe, who, it is pretty well agreed, is the ugliest-looking man in the world :—" Mr. Bond is the very make of a great bull frog. His rotundity of body is tagged round with sprad ling legs—half length arms—projecting snout and eyes—th e very creature to bellow blood-and-ouns." HORTICULTURE.—" If you throw up a pumpkin it will come down squash,' is one of the wisest of sayings, and re minds us that the Boston Courier has a 'cute column or two once a-week upon these matters; and we wish we could fol low the example. Perhaps we may, by and by. Assistant Alderman Crolius, why don't You cause the in tolerable nuisances existing in the streets intersecting Cen tre-street to be removed ? Your alderman and street inspec tor are not to be depended upon. We look to you. See to it. Brower has brought out a new-fashioned vis-d-ris reversed, upon two wheels, admirably calculated to soil ladies' dresses by throwing mud over them. It is a capital invention for " the trade," and cannot fail to drive a great deal of business in the dry goods line. Murders are on the increase. Good bacon barns are scarce. Inferior legs are on the rise. Middlings are rarely to be met with. Nineteen persons drowned in one boatat Little Falls, New Brunswick. Nineteen persons have no business in one boat. What could they expect? Mr. Rasoo killed his wife at Newstead, N. Y., by driving her in a carriage. He broke her neck three weeks after marriage. Hail, rain, thunder, and lightning, have been running all over the country like wildfire. We are told that Placide was not at John Clarke's funeral. We cannot believe it, if he was in the city. We should like to be informed fully on this head. Marble had a good benefit. Bathe often ! Remember the Bedouins at the Park to-night! Nothing like them, except the giraffes. Keep cool ! Keep sober! Talk little ! Eat less! * * *—lt is impossible to say what the readers of news papers expect of those who make them during this bot wea ther; but this we do know, if they expect much, newspaper readers are a more unreasonable class of people than we have always taken them to be. T. expect the editor of a daily journal to furnish long articles, or indeed articles of any sort, under such an atmosphere as is now roasting folks to death, is to expect ice out of the ashes of a furnace in full blast, or to require people to gather snowballs from a hot oven. How, in the name of fervent heat, can people be expected to write, or even think, in such weather? Politics would melt in a man's mouth, and, as for dissertatiats on other subjects, the matter is not to be mentioned ! Statistics would all run together like so many sperm candles in the sun, and as to dreadful accidents they would pass unheeded. What would be the use even of a steam-boat explosion ? Nobody would spare a particle of sympathy for so humdrum an occurrence, while they are themselves broiling into overdone steaks. The truth is, the weather is so hot you can see it, and we don't know that we are called , upon, under su c h circum stances, to be adding to the density of the caloric by any hot-headedness of our own. Let every virtuous citizen drink ice-water if he can get it, and not expect any thing so unrea sonable as a readable article in a newspaper. I r COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. WEDNESDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received Sydney papers to the Ist of May. 'The following are extracts:— "The Moffat, prison -ship, which has arrived at Hobart Town, brings despatches, we understand, from Lord Glenelg, conveying the' very unsatisfactory information that emigra tion is to cease to Van Diemen's Land, but that transporta tion is to be continued hither upon an extended scale. An emigrant ship laden for this colony has been countermanded. We suppose New South Wales is no longer a penal settle ment. " A letter received in town a few days ago from Kikg George's Sound, gives a pitiable account of the indolence of the residents of that settlement, and of the deplorable , state of the place in general." Letters from Valparaiso of the 30th of May state " that the blockade of Lima has been established, but on the other side General Santa Cruz has officially notified to the foreign con suls that the enemy's ports will be blockaded on the 20th of August, which will be undertaken with the ships purchased at Baltimore. On the 15th of May General Santa Cruz was at Auguero. The commerce of Peru was prosperous; they were going to export a considerable quantity of wool and cotton. A ship laden with mercury had arrived at Arica, and it was generally expected that in the following six months five millions of dultais would be coined in the mints of Lima, Cusco, and Potosi." New Brunswick papers to the 17th of August, and Hali fax to the 21st, have arrived. The former are barren of in telligence,. the' latter mention that his Excellency Lieut. General Sir Colin Campbell bad left Halifax to visit the Earl of Durham, and that the government of Nova Scotia, during his absence, would devolve upon Lieut. Colonel Snodgrass. During the whole of yesterday, Consols remained steady at 941 for Money, and 944 % for the Account. They opened this morning at the above prices; in fact we havelao news of any importance to cause an operation in the funds of any magnitude. Exchequer Bills, 71 73 pm. ; India Bonds, 71 73 pm.; Bank Stock shut for opening, 2081 91; India Stock, 2641 51. The Foreign Market continues in a stagnan t state; Spanish Active heavy at 19% %; Portugese, 35136; Brazilian, 831 SI; Mexican, 231 24; Colombian, 251 26; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 53i 43‘ ; Five per Cents. 1021 103. The above prices are as yet nominal. HALF-PAST ONE. The difference in the price of Consols during the morning has been from 941 to 94i buyers for the Account; Money 94h 1. Exchequer Bills, 74; India Bonds, 71 73. Bank Stock shut. India . Stock, 2641 2651. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 191 1;5, heavy; Portuguese, 351 36; Three per Cents. 231; Brazilian, 831 84; Mexican, 231 24; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. 34. There is a fair business doing in Shares • Great Western, 131 pm.; Brighton, 11 dis.; North Midland, 3 pm. FOUR O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 944 Spanish Bonds, 191 Por tagnese Five per Cents. 74. (Front the Times.) TUESDAY EVENING By the advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4363+ per mark, which, at the English Mint price of £3 17s 101 d the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 10, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 9. it follows that gold is 0.81 per cent. dearer at Ham purgh than in London. The premium on gold at Paris is 71 per raille, which, at the English Mint price of 1:3 lis 1034 d the ounce for standard gold,gives an exchange of 25. 31; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25. 42', it follows that g o ld i s 0.34 per cent. lower in Paris than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1091 per cent., and the par of exchange between En g l an d an d America being 109.23.40 per cent., it follows that the ex change is .07 per cents. against England. (From the official list, coot trans, BRITISH FUNDS THIS Bank Stock, 3 per Ct. Red., 3 per Ct. Con., 94 1 31 per Ct. Anns. 1818, 334 per Ct. Red., New 336 per Cents., 1011 2 Long Ans. 1860, Ditto, 30 yrs. 1859, Ditto, 30 yrs. 1860, raining the business actually acted.) DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock, 26.51 India Bonds, 73 pm Bank Stock for Open. Consols fur 16th Oct., 9-1 i £lOOO Ex. Bills, 73 71 pm £5OO do. 73 71 pin Small do. 74 72 pm Ditto Commercial, S HA (The quotations give the acts RES. ►1 price, without reference to discount.) London & Southampton, 481 London and Croydon Trunk, 161 ,London & Croydon Scrip, 81 Manchester and Birmingham, 11 North Midland, 48 Bahia Steam, 21 Galvanised Imo Company, premium or Brazilian Imperial, (issued at £5 pm.,) 18 Candonga Registered, 7 General Mining Association, Great Western, 791 8-1 9 8 London & Brighton, 9i I London and Blackwall, 54 Thames Oxford Steam low Company, 11 a COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday (Saturday) the Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and attended by most of the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal suite, rode in the Park on horseback. '1 he following personages w ere included in the royal dinner party yesterday evening :—Tbe King and Queen of Belgium, the Duchess of Kent, Lord and Lady Portman, Madame la Barroune d'Hongvorst, L a dy M. Stopford, Count and Countess Sebastiani, Hon. Miss Anson, Lady Forbes, Hon. Miss Paget, Baroness Lebzen, Viscount Melbourne, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Viscount Palmerston, Mona. Van de Weyer, Viscount and Viscountess Falkland, Count d'Arschot, Sir George Villiers, Sir Edward Codrington, Mons. Van Praet, Le General Goblet, Colonel Wemyss, Sir William Lumley, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Hon. C. A. Murray. Yesterday the Lord Chancellor took his departure. The Duchess of Gloucester paid a morning visit to her DJojo.tp. Lady Albemarle and Count and Countess Sebastiaui have arrived. Her Majesty attended Divine Service this morning at St. George's Chapel. The service was Boyce in C, and the Sanctus and responses from Handel, by Dr. Elvey. Anthem, "Lord of all power and might," Mason. Mr. Elvey, M. 8., presided at the organ. . At the communion service the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Proby, officiated. The sermon was preached by the latter from the 6th chapter of St. John, 67th and 68th verses. The following personages were with her Majesty in the Royal closet:—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the King and Queen of the Belgians, and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite. _ Sir James Clarke arrived at the Castle this morning. This afternoon her Majesty walked on the terrace and in the slopes. Lord Glenelg returned to town on Saturday, from a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. WINDSOR—MONDAY.—The Queen rode on horseback to Virginia Water this afternoon, accompanied by the Queen of the Belgians and most of the royal suite. The Duchess of Kent took an airing in an open pony phaeton. Prince Esterhazy and his son Prince Nicholas, and the Earl of Belfast, will arrive this evening. Lord Palmerston, Count and Countess Sebastiani, Sir C. Clerk, and Sir George Villiers took their departure. With the exception of the above arrivals and departures, the royal dinner party will be the same as yesterday. The Princess Augusta left Clarence House, St. James's, on Saturday afternoon, and returned to her residence, Frog more Lodge, near Windsor. _ _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Ba roness Ahlefeldt, and accompanied by Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, came to Cambrid ge House, Piccadilly, on Monday. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Kew in the afternoon. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Monday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. WINDSOR—TUESDAY.—Her Majesty rode out at four o'clock this afternoon, on horseback, accompanied by the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, Lord and Lady Portman, Viscount Falkland, Viscount -Mel bourne' Prince Esterhazy, Prince Nicholas E s t er h az y, Si r Wm. Lumley, Hon. CoL Cavendish, Baroness Lehzen, and others of the royal suite. Col. Wemys; took his departure this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt, of St. Leonards, Hon. Miss Caven dish, and Sir Wm. Henry Fremantle, will have the honour of joining the royal dinner party this evening. The Duchess of Gloucester left Gloucester House, Park lane, on Monday afternoon, fur her residence in Bagshot Park. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians paid a visit yesterday morning to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester. Their Majesties afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Her Majesty's steam-packet Widgeon, Capt. Hamilton, i s ordered round from Dover to Ramsgate, to take on board their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, Count d'Arschot, General Goblet, M. Van Fraet, arrd the rest of the royal suite. The King and Queen will make ashort so journ at Ostend ere they return to Brussels. PRINCE GEORGE OF CAAIBRIDGE.--fliS Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has purchased Coombe Wood, .near Kingston, the beautiful seat , of the late Earl of Liverpool, as a residence for the Prince George. Lands in the neigh bourhood of the seat have also been bought for the royal duke, who, it is stated, intends the prince to have an estab lishment of his own in the course of the autumn. The marriage between Lady Anne Wentworth Fitzwilliam and Mr. Mackenzie is to be solemnised about the middle of next month, at Wentworth House, the seat of the Earl Fitz william, in Yorkshire. There will not be any festivities in honour of Viscount Milton, M.P., as s t a t e d. The rumoured marriage of Miss Philips with Viscount Duncan, M.P., will not take place until early next season. We are sorry to hear that unfavourable accounts of the state of Lord Deerhurst were received yesterday. His lord ship is at his seat Burton-on-the-Hill, Worcestershire, sur rounded by his lady, daughter of the late Sir Charles Cockerell, and his nearest relatives.—Morning Herald. The grand tournament intended to be given by the Earl of Eglintoun, at Eglintoun Castle, his seat in Scotland, in the ensuing sprit*, is deferred until the following year, in consequence, it is said, of the vast preparations. ACCIDENT TO LORD ROLLE.-011 Tuesday last, Lord Rolle had attended the sessions at Woodbury, and was re turning to Bicton, driving himself in a four-wheel phaeton ; when about half way home the carriage broke, the fore part dislodging itself from the hind part, so that the horse was separated from the carriage —the body of the carriage over turning and fallin on Lord Rolle, by whi c h hi s l or d s hip dislocated his shoulder, and was otherwise bruised. A mes senger was immediately despatched to Bicton for the carriage (his lordship sitting on the bank the' while) when he pro ceeded home, and the dislocation was reduced. We may add that the servant, who was sitting on the dickey, was thrown a considerable distance. We are glad to be enabled to state that up to last night the noble lord was doing par ticularly well, without any fever or dangerous symptoms whatever.— Western Times of Friday. WALMER CASTLE, MONDAY.—The Marquis and Mar chioness of Salisbury, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset and Miss Somerset, and the Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot have arrived on a visit to the Duke of Wellington. Lieut.-Col. Garwood, editor of the published despatches of the illustrious duke. is expected to join the party to-morrow. General Lord Comberinere and Lord and Lady Mahon are also expected at Walmer ere the close of the season ; the latter are detained at their town residence, in Grosvenor-place, by the approaching accouchement of h er ladyship. His grace has directed that his magnificent mansion at Hyde-park Corner shall be thoroughly embellished during his absence. His grace and distinguished visitors avail themselves of the present delightful weather to take daily rides to Dover, Deal, and Walmer.—Morn. Her. TUNBRIDGE Wm..i.s.—Arrivals last week at the Mount Ephraim Hotel—the Marquis of Conyngham, the Earl of Ouslow, Lord Cranley, Lady Augusta Cranley, General Sir M. Peacock, Hon.W. Ashley, Major-Gen. Cope, Mrs. Cope, John Gurney, Esq. and family, Lynch Lynch, Esq., &c. RAMSGATE continues exceedingly full of visitors, and the town has never been more lively a n d prosperous than during the present season. The Princess Sophia takes her usual drives and walks upon the pier, which is also visited by the families of Lord Winchester and Lord Scarborough. The Right Hon. R. C. Fergusson, M.P., and Sir H. Parnell, M.P., have also paid visits to Ramsgate. Capt. Boldero, M.P., and family, remain, as do Gen. and Mrs. Newberry, Sir C. and Lady Coote, Sir J. Lambert, and Col. Cameron. d. womb . - ortion Co the tnereesing weakness of its position, Sim, MISCELLANEOUS. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are entertaining a party of friends at their seat Lilleshall, Staffordshire. Mr. Beaumont's (M.P.) new and magnificent pleasure yacht was brought into Scarborough on Saturday. This is the most superb vessel of its kind ever sent to sea, and cost £20,000. It is with sincere regret we state that the hopes entertain ed of Lord Deerhurst's recovery are not well founded. His, lordship is now lying in the greatest danger.— Worcester Journal. On Saturday week a fisherman at Parkgate, on hauling in his net, found in it a live turtle. It measured five inches wide, fourteen inches long, and weighed 131bs. - - Sin JOSIAH GUEST.—II, is rumoured that Sir Josiah. John Guest, Bart, M.P., is likely to become the purchaser of the large landed estates of Lord Moyston, in Montgomeryshire, which are shortly to be sold. —Monmouth Beacon. Lady Noel Byron has arrived at Havre from Rotterdam. The Duke of Wellington, it is confidently stated, intends being present at the approaching Gloucester music meeting. —Hereford Journal. REGISTRATION.—We understand that the Registration Court for the county of Aberdeen bas now closed its sittings, and that the results are highly favourable to the conserva tive interest.—Aberdeen Journal. The registrations throughout Scotland, we are rejoiced to state, are almost without exception largely in favour of the conservatives. We shall state the results •in a future num ber.--Edinburgh Evening Post. Steam navigtion was first introduced on the Danube not more than eight years ago, and there are at present thirteen steamers, whose united force amounts to 1,082 horse power, plying on that river as far as the Black Sea. The monument in the burying-ground of Laecken, near Brussels, to the memory of Madame Malibran, is now finished; it consists of a small circular chapel, in which is to be placed the statue, by Geefs, of this lamented cantatrice. The design is said to be remarkably elegant. • ROCHDALE LITERARY SOCIETY.-At a meeting of the members of this society on Thursday last, Mr. John Roby was unanimously elected an honorary member thereof. This gentleman has signified his intention to give a number of lectures •at some future period to the society, on the physi ology of plants. A Belgian journal states. that in consequence of the com pletion of the railroads in that country, 21 undertakings of public conveyance have been given up, 19 of which were o❑ the same lines as the railroads; but that, on the other hand, 54 new undertakings, communicating principally with the termini of the railroads have been set a going. EPISCOPALIAN ADULT BAPTISM:—On Wednesday even ing a young lady was publicly baptised by total immersion in a large tub, at St. Martin's Church, Leicester. The bap tism was performed in the tub in which was baptised the late. Mr. Butler. It is not generally known that persons of full age can demand this description of baptism.—Leicester Herald. In consequence of an Irishman, who was smoking his pipe in the farm yard of Warrington Lodge, on Monday morn ing, letting fall some fire near a stack of old oats, six value. able stacks of corn and clover were totally consumed, and it was with great difficulty that the house and outhouses were saved.--Jifurnin . y Herald. NOVEL PROJECT.—A large assembly of French and Bop lish capitalists is about to meet at M. Lafitte's, to discuss cer tain projects for turning t o a d van t age the Philippine Islands and other colonies belonging to Spain. This may give rise to a new kind of India Company, with a new flag, sheltered from the chances of war.—Journal de Paris. Four men in the employ of Mr. Wheeler, at Brom Park. near Cleobury, a few days since, while at harvest work, were taken ill with inflammation of the bowels, it is supposed from taking cold drinks too freely while heated with their work. Two of the four are since dead, and the others have been seriously ill.— Worcester Paper. A LARGE TROUT.—A fresh-water trout was exposed for sale at the fish-stall of Mr. Clark, on Tuesday morning week, which weighed 7J lbs., and measured from tip of snout to end of tail 264 inches; in girth, 151 inches, and was remarkably Itimp and well-grown. It w as caug ht a t L ow W oo d , near Ulverstone, on the preceding evening, and weighed, when taken out of the water, 74 lbs. On Sunday last, the people belonging to the brig Enter prise, Capt. Fletcher, caught six sharks, not more than a mile from our West Pier. l The bait which led to the capture of these monsters was a tempting one—pork steeped in brandy. Bathers along shore had better keep a sharp look out after this notice, lest they come out of the water minus a foot, after indulging in a dip.— Whitt/raven Herald. Mr. Manners, of Russell -street, had misled specimens of rare articles from his room repeatedly, and discovered that they vanished when he left his window open. Determined to discover the thief, he opened, his window and secreted himself, when he observed a magpie, the property of a neigh bour, seize a piece of amber, and fly off with it. On tracing the feathered Turpin to his hiding place, all the missing ar ticles were found.—Brighton Gazelle. GREAT BANKRUP:CY.—In the Bankruptcy Court, on Tues day week, General Palmer's affairs were the subject of in vestigation. It was stated that the liabilities of the estate were £150,000, while not a shilling in the shape of assets has been received. The official assignee said he had no means of scrutinizing any of the claims made, as General Palmer , had never kept books or accounts of his transactions as a wine merchant. An immense herring, was caught on the Skinburness coast on Saturday morning last, by John Beattie. It was of the extraordinary Length of 16 inches, SZ inches in girth , and weighed 191 ounces. The fish was presented to Mr. William Armstrong, maltster, Cockermouth, and the measurement and weight were taken after it had been broUght to that town, in the evening of the day on which it was captured, when it may be supposed to have wasted considerably. - . LIABILITY OF GENTLEMEN,PARK TO BE RATED.—In reply to the question—Are gentle Men's parks, where they feed their deer, liable to the poor rate?• the poor ' law boin , rnissioners have stated, " that under the , terms of the paro chial assessment act, all messuages, lands, 'and other heredi laments described in the 43d Eliz. are still subject to the rate, is and orie F t . ha a t re th a el v e a i r t . n 6 o c au n t , lp i r n i e ty ri n x oj ern r p e t a i s o o n n o , f t h g a e t n tle n c ,n o n in ,: parks from that liability." AFFECTING SUlClDE.—Thornas Williams, of Pencoyd, an old man, upwards of 80 years of age, committed :suicide on Sunday, the '26th ult., under the following circumstances : The unfortunate man had, by great frugality, saved nearly £7O, on which he was subsisting, when some miscreant broke into his cottage, and robbed him of every farthing -he pos sessed in the world. On applying to the g uardians - for re lief, he was offered the w or kh ouse, w hi c h he alfuseu, and went home and hung himself.—Hereford Paper. DARING AND INGENIOUS ROBBEI:Y.—A • most- daring robbery was committed towards the middle of last month in a diligence on the road from Vienna to Milan. The trunks and boies - containing the stolen articles, which consisted of jewellery, plate,.Cachemere shawls, pniforms, &c. addressed to different persons in Milan, and which are valued at about £16,000, had been placed on the imperial of the diligence, the interior of which was occupied by a family of most re spectable appearance, consisting of an elderly gentleman, Who was styled "the baron," -two young men of most pre possessing exterior, an attractive young female, who appear ed to be, about six months gone in the family-way, and a ;femmede-chambre. On arriving within a few miles of Milan, the young lady complained of illness, declared herself unable .to proceed further; and the whole party accordingly alighted, and sought Aecomthoriation in one of the villages bordering the road to Chiavenna, having first, taken their baggage from the rotonde, in which it had been placed at their express de sire. As soon as the diligence stopped at Milan, the im perial was inspected, and the trunks and boxes were found in their places, but emptied of their precious contents On further examination it was found that the interesting travel lers, who had so suddenly quitted the interior, had sawed the root* of the vehicle, and, through the aperture thus effected, had been enabled to rifle the valuable packages placed over their heads.—Galignani's Messenger. THE PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADE —The Jamaica Watch man contains an article relatiVe to unheard-of atrocitiescom mated on board one of the slavers, of which the capture was some time ago announced by her majesty's ship Snake, off the coast of that island. The narrative was obtained from two young neg.ro girls of 12 or 13 years of age, forming part of the cargo of 250 Africans. According to their account, the blacks were at . first " taken tolerable care of on board the slaver, but provisions became sh or t ; an d th en th e flesh of negroes who had died was corned and boiled for them; that subsequently live negros were kill e d f or t h e purpose on deck, part of their flesh being dressed, and part being corned for use; that snore than one or two people were killed for that special purpose; that the elder_ negroes, and not the young people, were taken ; that when selected, tbose who Were to be killed were kept on deck, the others were sent below; upon which the white 'people (the crew) felled them to the deck with sticks (their screams were heard by all), and then cut their throats, when, of course, the work of pickling and pre paration for food commenced ; that the slaves did not at first understand that they were eating human flesh, but afterwards when they did so, they revolted at it, and much was thrown overboard." Such were the ,horrible and disgusting atroci ties deposed to by these unhappy victims of a Portuguese slaver, who, with other of the survivors, were landed from th e captured vessel at Montego B a y, an d had been allotted as apprentices to the benevolent person who, by dint of repeat ed inquiries, had drawn from them these dreadful details. It was stated that he had, moreover, forwarded a relation of all the circumstances to the secretary for the colonies. TERMINUS TO THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAIL WAY.—If greatness of dimensions constitutes beauty of form, the entrance to the Birmingham railway, Boston-square, possesses this quality. Whin we stand at the foot of one of the columni, there appears a certain degree of vastness which astonishes and overawes us; but seen from a distance, this is not the case, for the whole effect is then poor and meagre. A mere screen of columns, without much depth, is almost sure to produce a poor effect, for the want of a background, which a building of greater depth gives. This building may be called a screen of double Doric columns in antis, surmounted with a triglyphed entablature and pediment. On each side are two plain square buildings (usid as offices), with coupled pilasters at the angles; and between these buildings -are elaborately ornamented gates.. On the apex of the pediment of the centre is acroterium; and the cymatia of the sides are ornamented with lions' heads, surmounted with antefixia. The roof is covered with stone, in imitation of the Greek temples; the columns are about 50 feet high. Such is the Colossiau entrance to the Birmingham railway. The stone of which it is erected is Yorkshire Bramley Fall.—Architec tural Magazine. WILL OF THE LATE PETER HOLFORD, ESQ.—The will of the late Peter Holford, Esq., a barrister,- and late of the Isle of Wight, had just passed under the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is in the hand-writing of the testator, who bequeaths the whole of his immense and princely fortune (with the exception of £5OO Which-is left to the executor), amounting to upwards of £1,000,000, exclusive of the freehold, leasehold, and copyhold estates of great value (including the magnificent mansion at the Isle of Wight), in different counties, to his nephew, Mr. Holford. The stamp on the probate was £15,000, and the further duty will be about £30,000 more, making a total payment to the govern ment of a sum of £45,000 out of a single estate. It is an extraordinary fact that the will is contained (a striking con trast with the will of the late Lord Eldon, which occupied 48 close-written skins of parchment) on one side of a sheet of letter paper. With the exception of the late Mr. Roths child and Mr. Rundell (of the well-known firm of Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell, goldsmiths, of Ludgate-hill), the stamp duty upon the upper value (a million) is seldom called into operation, £15,000 being the highest probate duty. THE BITER BIT.—On Sunday morning a railroad man named Jim, went into the inn at West Haddon, and leaving his basket in the kitchen, went into the tap to drink a pint of beer. The landlord, being tempted by curiosity, opened the basket, in which he found a leveret, and doubting Jim's either being licensed or allowed to shoot, he thought he ran no risk of being publicly complained of if he rung the changes upon his guest, which he did by abstracting the hare arid putting a dead cat in its place. On getting home, Jim soon discovered the fraud practised upon him, and returning with his basket to the inn he found mine host had gone to church, and it being past 11 the servant refused to draw him any ale. After much persuasion he induced her to leave the kitchen to get him some spring water, and in her absence he opened , a large pot on the tire, in which was a fine leg of mutton, and very ingeniously exchanged the tabby for it, carrying home the prize. Jim sent his brother there after church-time, making him fully acquainted with the facts, and the landlord,. wanting some broth, 'ordered a basin out of the pot; not liking either colour or flavour, he caused an examination, and instantly detected the cause and its author, on witnessing thicats mor tal remains. " Oh," said Jim's brother, " I deers for to say that there cat first eat the mutton, and then committed sui cide to avoid detection."—Northamptoh Herald. Messrs. Dean, ironfounders, of Bolton, are manufacturing an iron gate, twenty-seven feet high, for the grand seraglio of the Pacha of Egypt. SPREAD or ROMANISSI.—Three Roman Catholic chapels have recently been opened—one dedicated to St. John, at Warwick; the second at Banbury; and the third in the neighbourhood of Wellington, Salop. CIGAR SMOKING.—TWO persons of very moderate age have died within a short period of each other, at Cheltenham, of internal ulcers, brought on, in the opinion of an eminent medical practit►oner, by the excessive use of cigars. Last week a green-grocer at Manchester received no less than four tons of plums from Worcestershire by the railroad. Considering the alleged unwholesomeness of this fruit, this must be good news for the doctors. There is generally a precedent found for everything, and in proof of it some of the apologists of the premier, in excuse for his becoming a constant resident with his royal mistress, state that, in the time of Queen Anne, Lord Treasurer Har ley, according to Swift, did the same.—Morning Herald. HYDROPHOBIA.—A physician has discovered that a few drops of any mineral acid, applied to a wound occasioned by the bite of any rabid animal, will prevent hydrophobia in the patient. The acid will decompose the poisonous saliva, and consequently no bad effects will follow.—American Paper. BIRMINGHAM, Sept. B. Du ring the last few days iron has slightly advanced. All the works in the neighbourhood are fully employed, and some orders have been refused at present prices. A greater advance is talked of; and should the de mand continue good, as for the last few weeks, it will pro bably take place. At the last Oswestry fair a farmer intrusted a mare in the hands of a man of that town to sell, with instructions to " get a bank-note for her if he could, and sell her." The man, thinking one-pound notes were in circulation, asked a sove reign for the inure, and had a customer the first offer, and returned with the cash to the astonished farmer. ANOTHER WEALTHY CONVICT.—The late Mr. William Field of Launceston, the Sam Terry of Van Diemen's Land, has left properly to the amount of £300,000. The widow receives £5OO per annum for life. The remainder is to be equally divided amongst the four sons of the legatee. LEARNING. - -L earning , if rightly applied, makes a young man thinking, attentive, and industrious, confident, and wary; an old man v Cheerful and reserved. 'Tis an ornament in pros perity, a refuge in adversity, an entertainment at all times; it cheers in solitude, and moderates upon a throne. THE TOLERATION OF BLASPHEMOUS IDOLATRY.—In ad dition to the usual atrocities of the Churruck Poojah, which government allow to be openly exhibited in the metropolis of India, a new outrage on public morals had been perpe. trated during April. A portable stage was formed, on which one native personated a missionary, while others represented a group of native Christians listening to his discourse, a hich was filled with the most blasphemous allusions to our Divine Saviour. This exhibition was ostentatiously paraded through the streets of Calcutta, amidst the scoffs of its vagabond and meretricious population. The police appear to have taken no means to correct the nuisance; and no effort has since been made, as far as we can learn, to trace the authors of this transaction, and to prevent a repetition of it. It will, therefore, be established in the belief of the Bengalee Baboos, who get up the Churruck Poojah, and of the dissolute var lets who assist in it, that the Christian religion is henceforth to be considered as a legitimate subject of ridicule, upon every recurrence of this annual saturnalia.—Parbury's Oii entat Herald. CURRENT OF THE ATLANTIC.—A bottle was found on the 2d instant, at Iramore, near Dunfanaghy, county Donegal, which contained the following note, after traversing the At lantic from the banks of Newfoundland :—" On board the ship Heroules, Thomas Warth, of Chetteris, Cambridgeshire, and James Hatterpen, of Kingston, of Cambridgeshire, England, from London fdr New York, are on the banks of Newfound land. We have 198 passengers on board—they are all well. If this paper be found on any shore, by publishing it will oblige.—May 21, 1837." Thus after a voyage of 466 days, it crossed the Atlantic in safety ; and although it is to be hoped that the friends of the two individuals mentioned above have received tidings of them through some other channel, yet this brittle voyager is not without its use, as it shews that the prevailing current of the Western Ocean runs in a north easterly direction. A SINGULAR CO-PARTNERY.—A few weeks ago a servant of Mr. Gibson, of Gilchristland, on going over his master's farm, discovered a pheasant's nest, and, by accident, having approached too near, the hen shyed and fled. On looking into the nest, he was not a little astonished to observe, that the contents consisted of eleven partridge and five pheasant eggs. After the lapse of a few days, he had again occasion to pass the same spot, and, his curiosity being somewhat ex cited, be stole a cautious peep at the nest, and there observed a hen partridge upon the eggs. On his 'next visit, be found the pheasant occupying her former situation. On several subsequent visits he found the same alternate changes. He communicated this fact to Mr. Wright, gamekeeper, who studiously watched this procedure to the issue, and who was himself an eye-witness of the singular co-partnery, during four or five visits that he made to this respectable firm. After the term of incubation had passed, each brood took off its "several way"—the pheasant having only three live stock at her foot, the partridge eight. It would appear, however, that they have not made a decisive dissolution of partnership, as they have been seen frequently in each other's society since. —Dumfries Times. PREVENTION OF SMOKE FROM STEAM-SHIPS.—In our last pnhlication we took occasion to bring under the notice of the public the " Prevention of Smoke front Steam Engines, and 'Saving of Fuel," as now happily accomplished by means of 'an apparatus invented by Mr. lvison of the Castle Silk Mills, and for which he has obtained a patent. Since the notice al luded to, the apparatus is now being applied to the Furnaces of the Royal Adelaide steam-ship, preparatory to her sailing to-day for London. The enter prising proprietors of this ves sel, the London, Leith, Edinburgh, and Glasgow Shipping Co., deserve great credit for having been the first to introduce this improvement to steam-ships, and the result of its appli cation on this voyage will be looked forward to with consider able interest, not only as to its effects in entirely consuming the.stvoke, but in the more important one to the proprietors —the economising - of fuel. During the last ten days, great numbers of engineers, manufacturers, and men of science, from different parts of the country, have visited the Silk M ills to witness the apparatus in full operation, and one and all of them-4ntea_ expressed tbfonselves highly pleased with its effi ciency.—Edinburgh Evening Post. DUEL EXTRAORDINARY.—A few days two grisettes of the Quartier Latin, after exchanging blows for an inconstant student, who might have sung with Macheath, " How happy could I be with either," decided upon an appeal to the laws ' of honour. The fair belligerents fought with pistols, and were attended to the ground, in the neighbourhood of the Quarries of Montrouge, by two dress-makers. After the ex change of two shots, happily without effect, the seconds de clared that honour was fully satisfied; but the feminine corn batants, though obliged to submit to the fiat, quitted the ground unreconciled. Our informant assures us that the pistols were loaded with ball !—Paris Paper. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE—JUVENILE PASSION Foil TOBACCO. —On Wednesday last, a lad of the name of W. Downds, 12 years old, having asked his father for a smoke, was refused, in consequence o f hi s f at h er h av i ng, as he said, but a heel in the pipe; the boy got sulky at the refusal, and thought to persist in his request, but was again refused, and then swore he would finish himself. He rushed from his father's house, at Salt-hill, to the strand, and plunged into the tide, and but for the alarm given on the strand, and the prompt interfer ference of Mr. Michael Burke, of the hotel, he would have met with a watery grave.—Galway Advertiser. CRUEL. DECEPTION.—On Tuesday morning a villainous deception was practised upon a confiding fair one, by the man on whom she was willing to bestow both her hand and her heart. Not content With these gifts, the scoundrel per suaded his intended to let him take charge of her watch and some other valuables; and just before the hour fixed for the marriage ceremony, begged the loan of her mother's ring, that he might get one of the same size for his bride. It was agreed that he should purchase this himself and bring it to the church, where the party would await his coming. A considerable time having been wasted in fruitless expectation of his arrival, it was at length discovered that the fellow hail decamped, leaving his hapless bride-elect her heart and hand, but taking as a substitute, the property entrusted to his keeping. It has been since found out that the offender is a married man.—Cheltenham Chronicle. MOTHERS, LOOK TO YOUR CHILDREN number of the New York Medical Examiner contains the following, which may not be without its benefits on this side of the Atlantic: —A lady, with whom we are acquainted, gave birth lately to her first child. The little one was about a fortnight old, when we asked a lady how it and the young mother were. " The mother is doing well." she answered; " but the child is very cross: and, indeed, it is not to be wondered at; for they are all so pleased, they seem hardly to know what they are about. The mother feeds it, and then the sister feeds it; and then the grandmother feeds it, and then the nurse feeds it: and thus they make the child ill." Our friend was right. We should like to have shown the young lady the stomach of a new-born infant now in our museum. It would not hold more than three tablespoonful; and they were trying to cram food down the little innocent's throat by teacupsful. In a course of botanical lectures recently delivered, the attention of the audience was particularly directed to a new kind of live fence, which had been contrived by a Mr. Breese, and which t he lecturer considered to be one of the greatest improvement of late in the science of gardening. It consists of natural livin3 fence, formed by causing trees of ash, &c. (prepared and planted forthe purpose), to grow and unite to gether so as to form openings of any size of a lozenge or other shape. According to a letter from Berlin, a strict investigation of the circumstances relating to the burning of the Russian steamer Nicholas, which occured just before the coronation of the Queen of England, has been entered into. It is well known that she had a considerable sum in specie on board; and it is said that one of the barrels has been found, and on being opened was discovered to be filled with lead. This has created a suspicion that the vessel was set on fire wilfully, in execution of a plot concerted at St. Petersburg. NEW POOR LAW IN HUDDERSFIELD.—The effects of the firmness of the Huddersfield board of guardians, in refusing to act until their just commands had been complied with, has had the effect of inducing the commissioners, through As sistant Commissioner Mott, virtually to repeal the act with respect to this union. First, they have given permission for the guardians to form their own diet table, without regard to those promulgated from Somerset House; secondly, to give out-door relief at their discretion ; and lastly, to continue to employ the assistant over seers instead of appointing relieving officers.—Shejield Iris. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT. 10.— The market has been rather flat to-day, and fewer goods have been sold than on the previous Monday. The manu facturers are asking higher prices for their goods, but have not as yet succeeded. Flannels have not risen in proportion to the late advance in the price of wool. There has not been much doing in the wool market ; low and middling priced wools remain firm at last week's quotation, but fine wool is rather giving way.—Manchester Guardian. DREADFUL EVENT.—Hannah Howorth, a servant girl at at Braithwaite, near Doncaster, was dreadfully injured the other morning, by injudiciously resorting (being at the time without matches) to a powder flask, some of the contents of which she was pouring on ignited tinder, when an explosion took place, by which her left eye was blown out, ber jaw bone and teeth broken, the upper lip torn off, as well as her nose; the thumb and one finger of her right hand were also blown off, and her left hand dreadfully shattered. She has since been removed to her own home at Asksey, where she lies in a state of great suffering.—Leeds Mercury. A gentlemen, near Halifax, recently engaged, as a tem porary servant, a man who was to act in the capacity of a footman ; but who was so far from being initiated in the practices of his vocation, as to bring decanters, &c. in his hand, and place them upon the table. His master gave him directions to bring everything he wanted upon a tray, and shortly afterwards made an inquiry for a favourite dog, and and ordered the man to fetch it. Hearing a tremendous row in the house, caused by the " unmusical jargons" of the dog and the biped, he ran out of the room to ascertain the cause, and was surprised to see the animal endeavouring to escape f rom the grasp of his dutiful servant, who, obedient to orders, was hauling the animal along upon a large handboard ! •-•• H lifax Express. • NORTH UNION RAILWAY.—It gives us great pleasure to report the progress of this undertaking. On Saturday even ing, last week, the fifth arch of the Ribble bridge had the quoin keys inserted. 'l' he single line of road is likewise com pleted all through the Ribble contract, extending as far as Farington, with the exception of a short distance at the north and south sides of the Ribble viaduct. With the assistance of a second engine which has arrived from Wigan, the second line of road will be shortly !‘ballasted." This engine, draw ing a long train of empty waggons, came at a rapid rate on Wednesday along the entire line to Tardy Gate; and we are assured, that the contractors are using every effort to hasten the completion of the entire work. —Preston Chronicle. THE RgGISTRATION IN SCOTLAND.--The result of the re vision of the register lists in Dumbartonshire is a conserva tive majority of 28; in Lanarkshire, 63; and in Aberdeen, 125. "DEMOCRACY, AND NO MISTAKE."—Such is the declara tion made in large placards posted about the metropolis by the democracy. Illustrating this declaration is the figure of the Birmingham giant in the character of Hercules, armed with a tremendous sledge hammer, with which he is beating out the brains of monarchy, aristocracy, established church, and all such "corrupt and insignificant" portions of the constitution. GLASS CLOTH.--A new and curious fabric has been manu factured by Mr. Richard Baker, of Ossett, near Dew•esbury; it is a web of glass cloth, which has a very splendid appear ance. The ingenious manufacturer has so far succeeded in annealing this very brittle substance as to admit of its being wove like cloth. It is deposited for inspection in the North of England Society of Arts, together with a slipper made of the same material. MR. VAN AMBURGH AND HIS WlLDBEAsTs.—Wecopied from a Sunday paper a flaming account of a deadly struggle between Mr. Van Amburgh and one of his tigers on Wed nesday last at a rehearsal; but we hear that nothing more took place on the occasion than usual, and that neither Mr. Van Amburgh nor the tiger sustained any injury. The per formance has proceeded as usual every night.—Murning Herald. IMPORTANT TO INSOLVENTS.-(7th George IV. chap. 57.) —The following notice has just been issued by the Court:— " All persons who are desirous of availing themselves of the benefit of this act must be in actual custody, and have their petitions lodged the 27th of September, so that the same may be with the provisional assignee, on or before Thursday, signed and filed on the following Saturday, before the new act comes into operation." TEMPOR A MUTA NTUR.—In former times ministers used to possess villas near London. Messrs. Pitt and Dundas at Wimbledon; Mr. Fox. at St. Ann's Hill; others at Sheen, Richmond, &c.; from which, even after the prorogation of parliament, they could daily come to town to attend to the business of their offices, In our days of reform, however, the thing is quite altered; and no sooner are the members of the cabinet released from parliamentary attendance, than they one and all start off to distant places, absenting themselves from their offices for weeks, if not months together, while the most important foreign interests, and the lives of individuals at home, are left to the chance of some office messenger find ing out the minister in whose department the matter may rest.—Morning Herald. TIIF: GOLD COINAGE IN AMERICA.—We have the satisfac tion to. inform the public, and especially all the friends of the gold currency. that the golden eagle is about to make its ap pearance again in our land. Directions have been given by the treasury department to the director of the Mint at Phila delphia to have the dies prepared for this superb coin, and the stamping of it commenced with all convenient dispatch. It is now 31 years since any of this coin was struck at our Mint. The coinage of the cage ceased in 1804, because the errone. ous standard of our gold caused it to be exported almost a s fast as struck. The exhibits of the Mint show that upward s of 1,300,000 dollars of this coin were struck, —New York Globe, A MERMAID, AND NO MISTAKE.—A very general disbelief in the existence of the mermaid is likely to receive a severe shuck from the truth of the following statement:—A creature in every respect answering the usual description of the "sea woman" was caught yesterday in the salmon nets at Hunne raw Point, near Fahan, county Donegal. She is at present under the protection of a gentleman of that neighbourhood, who has kindly permitted the country people, who are flock ing in hundreds about the place, to "s ee an d believe." The members of the Londonderry Natural History Society, we understand, are to proceed to-day, at 12 o'clock, to investigate this extraordinary phenomenon, for the purpose of sending an immediate report of their observations to the British As sociation, now sitting at Newcastle. We understand that, if the novel monster should survive the sudden change in her situation, she will he sent to Viscount Melbourne as a present to the Queen—if not, the body will be preserved in spirits, and will grace the now-forming museum of our local society. A minute description shall be given in our next.—Derry paper. THE NEW MARE lAGE ACT.—In the large town of Leicesters with a population of upwards 0f50,000 souls, only 15 marriage under the new act have taken place, the inhabitants prefer ring the ceremonies of the church to the vaultinglevity of the broomstick. All right-minded dissenting then, and all modest dissenting women, eschew the vile thing as they would a pes tilence, and the registrars are consequently left "alone in their glory." In St. Margaret's church on 'Sunday morning last no less than 27 couple were asked by banns, besides a great number who can afford and do prefer a license. The act, in a very few years, will become completely obsolete.— Leicester Herald. THE COMET.-Mr. Arago has announced that M. Walsh has, within these few days, indistinctly perceived the comet which makes its return every three years, and is to be visible in the course of the present - month. The director of the ob servatory at Breslau was, however, enabled, as early as the 18th of August, to make some observations respecting this luminary. M. Arago suggests that it would be interesting to inquire, at this opportunity into the truth of the opinion of M. Walsh, that the diameters of comets diminish in proportion to their proximity to the sun. A BROTEI OF A Boy.—A Scotch paper annouces the death at Brewlin, in Sutherland, of one Donald M‘Kav, of Cora brach, "at the patriarchal age of 101," who, it prooeeds to say, " served in the Keay militia as far back as the year 1745, the memorable one of the rebellion, and was one of those en gaged in the capture of the money which had been forwarded from the continent forthe use of the unfortunate Prince Charles Stuart." At the period stated the doughty Donald must have Leen just eight years of age, a mere "infant in arms." No wonder that the cause of the young chevalier so disastrously sped when he had such formidable infantry to contend against. DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS OF THE Dui OF BUCK INGHANI, BEHEADED AT SALISBURY.—A correspondent of the Salisbury Journal has furnished that paper with a most interesting account of the recent discovery of the mutilated remains of the celebrated Henry Stafford, Duke of Bucking ham, who was beheaded in that efts, in 1483. History re cords, that Henry Stafford. Duke of Rockingham, the "cousin of Buckingham" of Shakspear's immortal page, having failed in his plan of insurrection a ga in s t Ri c h ar d 111, took refuge in the house of his servant Bannister, near Shrews bury; that be was "by that wretch betrayed" into the hands of the king, then at Salisbury, and suffered death at that city. without form of trial, according to the summary method of that age, by decollation and amputation of the right arm. Tradition assigns the court-yard of the Blue Boar Inn as the scene of this bloody tragedy. During the alterations and im provements which are still in progress at the Saracen's Head Inn, ( which there can be no (15ubt formed part of the prem ises originally attached to the Blue Boar,') it became necessary to remove the brick flooring of one of the rooms, and dig to some depth. In the course of this operation, about eight inches below the surface of the soil, they came to a human skeleton. The place here indicated can only be a few yards, possibly feet, from the very spot where Buckingham suffered decapitation. The remains so discovered were evidently those of a human being, and the skeleton was complete, save that it wanted the head and right arm. The first impression on the mind of the landlord, Nr. Shuker, was that the re mains thus discovered were those of some travelling pedlar; who had been murdered in the house, and for secrecy buried on the spot. The absence of the arm, it seems, suggested the idea that such might possibly have been the vocation of the deceased, and they accounted for the non-appearence of the head by supposingthat it had been cut off by the murder ers, on finding that the grave they had excavated was too small to contain the body. With this impression the land lord himself took up one of the ribs, and measured it by his own, averred that the deceased must have been of large di mensions. The servant maid had laid irreverent hands on the neck-bone, little suspecting that those same miserable relics had once been adorned with a jewelled collar, with the "George" thereto appended; and one " rude knaVe" actually seized the " reeky shanks" of the honoured left leg, once encompassed with the glittering insignia of the most noble order of the garter. The spinal column appeared completely imbedded in the clay; and on handling or taking tip some of the detached verterbrw, they crumbled into dust in their hands. As may be supposed, the whole remains were in a like friable condition; and acting on the uncomplimentary impression that what was once the most high and puissant Prince Henry of Buckingham, was no other than a mur dered pedlar, they actually, with their dirty shovels," knocked about his " noble dust," and in a few minutes com pounded it with the clay " whereto 'twas kin !" Those who would view the spot where lie the undoubted remains of the once "high reaching" Buckingham, the tyrant Richard's tool and victim, must &en visit the Saracen's Head, Salisbury. In the bar of that inn they may moralise over his uutionoured clay; and there, like Anacreon, mingling wisdom with their wine, and imbibing philosophy with their potations, with peculiar and significant emphasis ejaculate—" So much for Buckingham !"—Salopian Journal. THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG CONVICT.—At the late sessions, William Hurley, otherwise Beesley, a young man fashionably attired, aged 25, pleaded guilty to two separate indictments, charging him with stealing apparel and a va riety of other articles, belonging to gentlemen of the names of Gardner and Moore. The indictment also stated that he had before been convicted of felony. The acumen which the prisoner displayed, when called upon to plead, evinced that he was well versed in the knowledge of the punishments meted out by " the laws he had broken." Hence he in quired whether, if he pleaded guilty to the first charge, they would call upon him to answer the other? As the difference may not be known to the generality to the " fraternity" of which he was a member, between a sentence of f our t een years' transp or t at i on and twice seven years, we give them the information, and they may rely upon its correctness. When a convict is transported for fourteen years, supposing he be haves well during six probationary years of privation and severe labour, the governor is permitted to grant them a " ticket of leave," the effect of which is, not that they are to depart the colony, but that they may be allowed to follow their avocations for their own benefit, subject to certain re gulations, one of which is that a portion of their earnings shall be lodged in the Colonial Bank; which, with the interest, is paid to them at the expiration of their term of exile, or whenever they may obtain manumission. Supposing a pri soner is convicted upon two indictments, to which the law in flicts seven years' banishment, the form of the sentence is, that they be transported to hard labour for seven years, and that at the expiration of that term they commence de novo, and remain transported for another seven years. Four years of this latter period must be served without any relaxation of severity, so that they have actually eleven years' suffering, which is nearly double the term of a fourteen years' convict, and three years more than those who, in Botany Bay, are termed " lifers." But, without a further discussion, let us give a short sketch of W. Hurley. He is a native of L—, a county town, about eighty miles from London, where he received a decent education, and in due course was appren ticed to a hair-dresser. Fortune, in one of her vagaries, un luckily dropped him £4OO when lie reached his majority, and he " cut" the shop, and the " knight of the curling irons" became in a twinkling a man of fashion. During his appren ticeship he used to act as tonsor in the family of a clergyman in the vicinity, and, while acting professionally on one of the daughters of the divine, he whispered tales of love in her ears; and how could an artl ess ma id re f ra i n f rom li sten i ng to a well-favoured youth who was to have £4OO at the age of twenty-one? It could not be expected that a clergyman would bestow his daughter's hand upon a barber. The re sult was, that abduction followed, and the youthful pair found refuge in the metropolis, and in the giddy whirl of pleasure soon dissipated the ill-fated legacy. When poverty aroused the erring maid to a sense of her degradation, she turned her thoughts to the parental vicarage-house, but although she rut the resolution of the prodigal into practice she did not meet with his reception. The father was inexorable—the sins of her youth were deemed unpardonable —she was refused ad mittance into her natal abode, and became a sorrowing out cost. Fortunately for the young penitent, she was saved from further disgrace; she was taken by the hand by an aged lady of wealth and distinction, whose constant com panion she now is, or lately was, at a populous town on the other side of the channel. Hurley, being " out at elbows," was obliged once more to become " an operator on chins," and soon committed an unpardonable act of villainy. He ingratiated himself into the good graces of a young Barba tossa, who for his sake broke the marriage vow, by leaving her lawful spouse to live with Hurley, carrying away with her property worth £l2O. This sum being exhausted, the convict had recourse to a theft for a precarious subsistence, and abandoned the wife of his former friend. She sought forgiveness, but she found it not; and, as a dernier ressort, she applied to the parochial authorities, and the consequence was that the ill-fated husband is obliged to pay weekly the sum of eight shillings to his faithless rib. What misery has this youth, in four short years, brought into two respectable families beyond hi s own; and his personal suffering in a foreign land will cause him to know the startling truth of the prove, " The way of transgressors is hard." We think this little narrative is well calculated to " point a iroral" for the consideration of youth, and teach them to keep a steady eye upon the path of rPetitude.—Sunday Times. It is said that the working cl asses of H uddersfield are about to start a joint-stock newspaper, and that Mr. Richard O ut . ler is to be the editor, at the same salary as he had for the lest stewardship. STATE OF TRADE AT BLACKBURN.—Our market on Mee.. day was well attended with buyers, and a greater quantity of pieces sold than has been the case for many weeks back, and': an advance in the hand-loom weavers' wages of from 5 to 6: per cent. on some descriptions.—Blackburn Standard. THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—Her majesty the Queen dowager , on her voyage to Malta, is expected to honour Lisbon With a visit. We understand that her most faithful majesty has given directions for the palace at Belem to be forthwith fitted up for the reception of the Queen Dowager of England and suite, who are expected to remain a week in the Portuguese capital, The brig Clugas, of Guernsey, which arrived off Falmouth on Sunday morning, from Monte Video, sailed thence on the Bth of July, at which period Buenos Ayres continued block aded by the French squadron most strictly, but no other hos tile demonstration had been made. Captain Roberts reports, that the President of Monte Video had resigned his office on the day previous to his sailing. A Mrs. Lapworth has been elected presidentess of the " Women's Political Union," at Birmingham. It is not said whether she is to preside in male or female attire. Of course it is to be composed of matrons in whose families the gray mare is the better horse. If any thing were wanting to throw ridicule upon such associations here we have it. A malignant fever of an alarming kind prevails at Ashted, in the neighbourhood of Birmingham, occasioned, it is said, by the numerous stagnant pools and ditches in that vicinity. Surely it should be the business of the surveyors of highways to mitigate, if not remove,. this very prevalent cause of ill ness wherever it exists. A Cockney Sportsman being out one day amusing himielf with shooting, happened to fire through a hedge, on the other side of which was a man, standing or leaning, no matter which. The shot passed through' the man's hat, but missed the bird. " Did you fire at me, sir?" he hastily asked. , "' no, sir," said the shrewd sportsman, " I never hit what. I lire at," PoUTENEss,—Now, as to politeness, many have attempted definitions of it. I believe it is best to be-known by descrip tion; definition not being able to comprise it. I vonld, h9w ever, venture to call it benevolence in triftes,".or the pre ference of others to ourselves in - little, daily, hourlv,ocsttr rences in the commerce of life. * * •.* •*" Dow . ing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied, manly, noble. And what will give this but a mind benevolent - and perpetually attentive to exert that amiable distiositio - u trifles towards all you converse and live with? ,Benevolence in greater matters take a higher name, and is the queen of virtues.— The Earl atChalhain. . • - • ESCAPE OF A CONVICT.—On Monday, information .was given to the metropolitan- police of the escape . of Edward Oakes, who Contiived, while..being conveyed with " several other convicts in a van, from li.irkdele„ Liverpool, to Chat ham, to make his escape from the 'vehicle Unperceived. by the constable and the driver, who were sitting in:front; The fugitive was under sentence of transportation for seven 'years. Ile is described as being one of the "thimble-fir fra.t.ernity, and well known at Liverpool . and ManChester'.' . '"i'rewasd of fifty guineas is offered for his apprehension.—iin: SALFORD LOYALTY.—Another dinner was :given to 'Bro thertou of Salford, by about fifty wiseacres, at the Ebb 'Roy public-house, on Monday. 'the first toast on ,this 'occasion was, "The people, the source, of all legitiMate Power." "The Queen" came second. The people of Salford, as this clique arrogantly assume them Selves to be, wtll not have power sufficient in their hands to send the honourable mem ber to parliament again, though they can eat, drink, and are merry on the strength of their anticipation; unless, indeed, they would have as accommodating a returning officer as they had at the last election, which we expect the conserva tives will take care to prevent. • usic L FESTIVAI.S.—The benefit which meetings of thi kind diffuse are varied and extensive. First and foremost, they tend to exalt the mind through the influence of music, a language which speaks to the heart, above the things of the world, and give some faint idea of the choral worship of the Temple at Jerusalem, which being instituted under the im mediate command of God himielf, cannot be a bad example to follow. But musical festivals are also beneficial, by making the productions of the great masters of sacred song known to us, and diffusing a sound musical taste;:-and then again, the whole vicinity of the •place of meeting,is, vastly benefitted by the resort of large numbers to enjoy tbesinusical feast which these meetings afford.—Chelltnharnaournol. ' MORE HORRIBLE INDIAN MURDERS' IN GEORETIA.—A letter, dated Camp Wilds, July 31, describes the murder of a family named Wilds, 4 miles north of Centrevilles- 4 ' Of ail the scenes I ever saw, or wish to see, it-presented itself to view. On reaching the ground, a man, wife, and four of big own, and two of his sister's children, had fallen 4.y . the In dians. Three children of the six were alive when we reached the spot—one about three years old had beerfshatihroulih the abdomen, and lay asleep - on the dead mother.. ;put, 0, horrid to tell, 1 found a young lady of 18, shot in•two places and dirked in another, with about 20. hogs around her, and she yet alive, and had her senses perfectly', - Thi;=was the most trying time I had ever seen.. ,1 gave her:Cold w ater, which she wished very much, and remained with her as long as I could, till obliged to go in search of the Indians. We left a guard to protect them, and adminiiter to them all that they could, but they all expired' in less thin twealy minutes after we left." POWERFUL RAILWAY I%londav ' last, the largest locomotive engine made in Leeds, was tried on the Leeds and Selby Railway, by the makers, Fenton, - IMurrav , and Jackson, previous to its being sent to the Paris and Vet . " sailles Railway, in France. With only one carriage and the tender, this engine travelled at the rate of sixty miles 80 hour, and at the rate of twenty miles per hour with one hundred and forty tons, both on the level . part of the lin e. In consequence of some improvement in ttic 4re bo x , thi 6 engine seems to do its work with e ase , as, dui:ink-the trio it produced snore steam than was required, and'With the fir e door kept open. By good jndges, we believe this locomoti v ' c i engine is considered to he of the first rate Workmanship so, finish, and that it does great credit to 'the ma'kers..—Lee' s Mercury. • THE VETERAN VOCALIST, ISHERWOOD.—OR Friday ere n , • ing last, between 40 and 50 gentlemen sat doesn't° an exce'' lent supper at the Albion Hotel, Mancheiter; the occasi oo of their assembling being to present t o Mr. IsheiWood anex r cellent portrait of himself, by Bradley. M r . Lot Gartli", e r presided ; Mr. David Bellhouse was in the vice-chair. principal toasts given were the Queen, "as chi amily;ef m ag istrate ; 1.. the Queen Dowager and all the Royal F Mr. 'sh e , wood, who acknowledged the toast and th e g ift o f his frien us , in suitable terms; Mr. Bradley, the artist,',which was ac t knowledged by Mr. Bostock, in terms evincing the me' friendly feeling towards Mr. Bradley, and tfie - most generl appreciation of his professional talents. Various sung °? e ,. glees were sung, and toasts and sentiments given— , thelatt io expressive of an anxious desire for the prosperity of all ' a d musical institutions in the town, the promoters of musie,°4 the instructors in the art. The latter toast wa acknowledg',_ on behalf of the professors by Mr. Ward, in' an is pp ro prial; speech. The hilarity of the evening was Maintained f° late hour. THE GREAT NASSAU BALLOON.—LEWES it , SEPT. e • th About a quarter before eight Ledo& yesterday evening ;r attention of some of the inhabitants was. arrested by an o n d .mense object floating through the air over the:old castle P crossing the town, which turned-out to be the Nassau ball oo s o p , in which was Mr. Green and Mr. Rush:. The lighted in safety in a field adjoining the hearse of the e J Henry West, of Southover, and wh e t ) th e b a ll oo n teP i c re d terra - firma about a dozen per sons were present, w h o ren de r s immediate assistance to the en t erpr i sing _ tr a ve ll er s. short time the balloon was su rrouu d e d b y h un d reds ofper'ieif and Mr. Green and his friend were congra t u l ate d on the la Jett of their arrival. We understood from Mr. Green that h e i e s Vauxhall about half-past six o'clock, a n d th a t h e catne ho ur direct line about 50 miles, which he accompli s h e d in an 'JP and a quarter. They describe the_trip as delightful; e v „ e / the course of their voyage—which was an experimental 0 ,,„t0 they reached an altitude of about 27,000 , feet, which WO 7,4 1 than live miles—a greater altitute tban, we believe, h a s by ss ! been attained. The aeronauts paed through a conside', quantity of snow, and the cold was ..SO e'Ve're as to he r V Mr. Green's hands and feet. A-strong current of air!, just before the descent, which they were fearful would t d them to the Downs, where they Could , tidt'have rec eive") assistance; but fortunately the wind ellangtkii, and (twit, their descent easily at the tilace.abefe•inentiened, We i ' le stand that Mr. Green and his friend itentusit immediateo Brighton, where the family of Mr: Rinifils staying' ( 01 aeronauts experienced every kilidness.uvthe hands &if Lewes people, arid Mr. Green add 'Mr: - ush libera l oc warded some of • the men' whO Assiated'Ahant:in their riv e tto Mr Shoosmith.undertook to.. convey th tialloon to sp a by 'Wednesday, tilt!, 'is Mr. Green's intention to mak e , a ther ascent from Vau xhall on . Frillay.^ , .;•sifeininy Pori- • . ii to ' In April, 1745, wager for very mof innn a littf, laid, that a Mr. Cooper Thornhill', did t ridt" ride Ott e e s , between his house at. Stilton and Sbor6ditel, f A ndoa , o o o l , teen hours ,a distance of 213 miles . : he was allowed as horses to do it with as he pleased. 1111accomPli s b ly, t ot feat in eleven hours and a half; and unquestioria,„ i oL b e state of the roads at the perio d . being taken into ac' bll e t was a very remarkable' performance.' It will proh cb aagj under the estimate, including accidental del a y s front e , ct and casualties of passage through a long lin e o f con° a ' e'' those required for the purpose of refreshment, if wa t tle ' t er an hour and a half from the space actually spent in o r se p g dle. This would make the rate a continnous . speed clle o d than twenty-one miles an hour—probably as rapid. i c es by by animal conveyance as under Similar' circumst O ole . distance we should be able to match.-i—Sporting Mae rdi' CLOSE SHAVERS.—At the weekly Meeting of theg 00 . of St. George's, Southwark, heltlon Monday, a P" ° s - per named Cripps, applied for a gratnity of - one s hillilliktV e e , on theground that, being by trade'a bai•her, he 1 1° ) , , , s0“ er ol pointed to'shave about 300 fellow paupers per %tee wanted the shilling to keep hit i n due order,.' " 0 4 1 . of the guardians expressed their,astoniShibent at fl' e fe lie',: e ro of the man in making such a.petrittip, AS he had th e n, Ofr e ll being lodged and boarded at the eipenie 41 the tin but l o co of them, however, were more ie,herodifYdispose u .st far m l agreed that so extravagant d'proposiiion was quite „ f ief 'O,O l with the practice of the poor law . C.oliiiiirssioners , ' o o4 discussion one of the Solons met,tbe s ibs the applicant be at once discharged' froth the work ter °pat° pauper, and then be engaged' as the principal ~ boar' o rf, workhouse at a salary of is bd,per week, besides h'', t e lodging, and out of this salary tO keep his instruin e !' s , Ca' per order and pay his assistant. The propositio n ie and Cripps was installed accordin g ly. , e fres r me . BLOWING UP OF THE BRIG WILLIAM.-0 w ill „ roade•oci'j the public recollection that a great parade was nro id a e time ago in the newspapers, both metropolitan a h iT tc r bi i ng; g too:, that a mighty and important event was then d an(' that in a few days the world was to he, surpr ised ern e ished beyond measure by the development of at, 1 F e i ralleled in the history of the past and present ‘:‘) . . o thor of this bold and important undertaking Was s : l s oo le, I' son than Colonel Pasley, of the,royal enginef. lo w fh tually engaged, at great personal risk, 1 an, ( l, William, sunk in the Thames, so . high in the f e o f si b fectualty to complete her destruction, as to leay . , ‘r diro,l,iitt . „ tige of a " wreck behind." The_Plan was a i c r ' - :who , d i c ti' t ; mated to the consideration of the_ lord h i e jer is . e d proper regard to the interests of every part t i e ,_. c oil lb at long ~ ordered that the same should be, iMinedia 0t effect. The important day, " hitiwPh fate, t he "2"1 "„ s po , , r , rived, the government lighters were on the npow der 0 ,01' 4 and miners were actively employed, the gdnestructien cOvoi! ered, the train was fired, and the work of IA c urnn?, ° bo re trounced to he complete. 'file lord maYor r a , ( fay w ilt!, cil were delighted, and the gallant h er') blushing honours thick upon him, an" . _;,; ar d. ~„po contents was considered but too poor, a e t he g" - ,„re° , ,,r believed, after this., that the whole affair,,elltolwiug aidde:rii that was used, has ended in smOke.? ~,,int, of a provincial journal are very much to !ne o ut. __ o ', 0: 4 ving of attention :—"'The murder is at lees . l " it is f! - . William is still at the bottom of the Thanr ,o o f refo' ve d r. l l :, teas a pop, and a splash, and a bushel 0 .. . _ be rern.a, e 1 ,,„( into the air, but as to the brig herself , a t he . 7,t , where she was, or, if moved at all, it was, &P i e+ down the river. But the lighter was vale' s an d ta: rio oo o 4 pers anti ininers boxierurned to their quarter c, ov ere t he , fo o l" pocketed the After a little tianideostrt o. .be e t s h t e i r iga t e i" i b eld pertinent persons began to express lnv Baas (0,1 had really been accomplished; inquirY To ight , col(;. ,e 1 lowed, and, although a tree nail or tic3__ ve ssel c ol(;.,0: loosened, and a plank or two detached, ri l d u . 'has s - 00,, v e toj to be still snugly reposing - in • the m u rrb e re bosl: t 1 . 11- , astonishment may be easily co i n t ri,o o ve rk n ag 1 :1 !" 1 :a i n t a " r: o a I t o;; ‘ , however, to be done, but to set and, although the thing has been so snug , Y leo for a single line has until now of info ttie .• bo t te 01 0 ,1 colonel and his s a p pera-haire'beerCin t r i z s li ,":?..oip l , e , ,, two or three weeks in their endeitiout. Last week there were three puffy and e fa pon len t of the Iforning Herald.