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a.ttrrattirt. POETRY. FIRST LOVE. (From Poems and Baaads of Goethe, in Blackwood.) Oh, who will bring me back the days, So beautiful, so bright ! Those days \\ hen love first bore my heart Aloft on pinions fght? Oh, who will bring me but an hour Or that de ightful time, And wake in me again the power That fired my golden prime? I nurse my wound in solitude, 1 sigh the livelong day, And mourn the joys, in wayward mood, That now are passed away. Oh, who will bring me back the days Of that delightful time, And wake in me again the blaze That fired my golden prime ? POETS. BY T. J. OUSELEY. Poets are Passion flowers, That turn where'er the sun Brightest shines--".he showers And shadows they will shun ; Hear s of gold they offer, At Beauty's chrystal shrine, Hands of faith they proffer— Sweet words that sound divine. Once the sun departed, The flower its leaves will close, And the golden-hearted No more with brightness glows. Poets are things of earth, With minds of varied dyes, Like birds that float to birth In oriental skies ; 'What though their thoughts ascend, On light and gorgeous wing, O'er earth and heaven wend. And Love, immortal sing? They are but dust, and all Their beau' y they enfold, Like birds 'neatti Lutia's thrall, Pruning their wings of gold. Poets are rainbows crowning Earth with their glorious hues ; Hearts mid tears are drowning— Smiles lonely grief subdues. Words of guile may banish Young Sorrow from her night; Smiles, like rainbows, vanish, Their memory is but bright— Trust not thin their luring With light, not heat, they burn, Pangs are past enduring, When hope may not return. Poets have treasures rare; Their thoughts are silver stars, Wand'ring, in ambient air, Beyond heaven's sapphire bars ; They form from unseen things, Creations of delight, And quaff from hidden springs Nectar ambrosial blight. Like deep rich laden ships, Thoughts undulating rise ; There's music on their lips, And magic in their eyes. NOTICES. Tweddell's Yorkshire Miscellany, No. 1. London : T. Miller, Newgate-street ; and Brittain, Paternoster row. Stokesley : G. Tweddell. The number before us is the commencement of an effort to get up in the lovely vale of Cleveland a quarcerly publication, to be supported by native talent and pa tronized by Yorkshire liberality. The editor has com menced well; and we are glad to recognise amongst his contributors several whose names are familiar with the public, and associated in our own mind with many happy memories. We cannot but think, however, that he has found rather too low an estimate of the disposition of his county to encourage such an effort as he is now making. Yorkshire could surely afford a shilling a quarter, for which more matter could bs given, instead of sixpence, the price of the present number. The British Farmer's Magazine. London : J. Ridgway, There is much valuable information of a practical and scientific character in the present nnmber of this periodical. We cannot, however, agree with the tone of some of the articles—that for instance at page 189. If politics are prohibited at agricultural associations, surely contributors to such a work as the one before us should shun their dis cussion. The paper entitled "Agricultural Facts" is a valuable one ; and that " On the Southampton Meeting," by C. W. Johnson, Esq., possesses the merit of. being generally interesting to the public as well as to the agri culturist. Simmond's Colonial Magazine. London : Foreign and Colonial-office, 18, Cornhill. The number before us contains some valuable and inte resting papers, amongst which we may particularize al Sketches of Cape Breton," an article on the agriculture of Hindostan, by G. W. Johnson, Esq., continued from a former number, a graphic description of that unfortu nate piece of humbug, the Niger expedition, by R. Mouat, Esq., late of her Majesty's steamer Albert, and an excel. lent letter on the sugar duties question, by Dr. Binns. The most important paper in the numbcr, however, is the " Information for emigrants and intending settlers, com piled from the most recent official sources." The publi cation of this article in a cheap form, for distribution, by the government emigration agents, at our various ports, would be indeed an effort of true philanthropy towards those industrious classes of our fellow countrymen who are yearly transporting their surplus labour, and small modicum of capital, too often with little discrimination as to the best market for them, and encountering, as the result, disappointment and ruin. The extract below we recommend to the attention of our emigrating friends : " HINTS TO EMIGRANTS TO THE NORTH AMERICAN PROVINCES. "1. Caution toprovide means for subsistence and trans port after arrival. —Many emigrants having latterly been found to rely on public funds for their assistance in the colonies, they are hereby warned that they have no claim of right on such fund, and that they should provide them selves with sufficient means of their own for their sub sistence and conveyance into the interior from the port where they land. " 2. Tools. —lt is not generally considered desirable that agricultural labourers should take out implements of husbandry, as these can be easily procured in the colo nies ; but artisans are recommended to take such tools as they may possess, if not very bulky. " 3. Time to arrive in the colony.—The best period is early in May, so as to be in time to take advantage of the spring and summer work, and to get settled before the winter sets in. " 4. Length of Passage.—The average to Quebec is 46 days, and to the other North American Colonies rather less : but by the Passengers' Act (5 and 6 Vic., cap. 107) provisions are required to he laid in for 70 days, to which period passages are sometimes protracted. "5. Maintenance on arrival, Sec.—Passengers are en titled by law to be maintained on board in the same man ner as during the passage for 48 hours after arrival, unless within that time the ship should quit the port in the pro secution of her voyage. The water of the river St. Lawrence is stated to have a strong tendency to produce bowel complaints in strangers. It should at first, there fore, be drunk as sparingly as possible. " 6. Colonial Tax on Emigrants.—The only British Colonies in which a capitation tax is levied in respect of emigrants, are Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island. The tax is one dollar, or ss. currency (equal to about 4s. 2d. sterling), payable by the master of the ship on each adult coming from the United Kingdom, reckoning every person above fourteen, and two children between seven and fourteen, and three children under seven years of age, as an adult. No charge is made on children under one year of age. " 7. Caution not to refuse good wages.—Until emi grants become acquainted with the labour of the country, their services are of comparatively small value to their employers. They should, therefore, be careful not to fall into the common error of refusing reasonable wages on their first arrival." SELECTIONS. THE " MARINE OF THE GUARD'S" STORY. From Tom Burke of " Ou rs. " The Blanche' was un d er or d ers for St. Domingo, and was no way anxious to have our company ; and before a week was over, we were drafted into a small sloop of war, carrying eight guns, and called the ' Fawn.' She was bound for England with despatches fro m Nelson, of their English admirals they're always talkingabout. This little craft could sail like the wind, but she was crowded with sick and invalided men from some foreign station, and there was not a place the size of a dog-kennel on board of her that was not occupied. As for us, we were only prisoners; and you may think they wern't very particular about our comforts, and so they ranged us along under the bulwarks to leeward, for they wouldn't spoil her sailing trim by suffering us to sit to windward ; and there we were, drenched to the skin, and shivering from day to dark. " Four _dayswent over in this way, when, on the fifth, about eight o'clock in the morning, the look-out an nounced several strange sail in sight, and the same instant we perceived the d officers r setting the glasses to observe much,etaark that the sight did not seem to please thornup,ut more we knew not, for we were not allowed to standnor look over the bulwarks. The lieutenant of the watch the commander, and when he came on deck he ordered the the men to cram on more sail, and hold her head point rusi or so off the wind and, as soon as it was done, the making'tTgr noise at the cut water told the speed she was a g ,: h oie t e he eu s r e l a. fro l m t was a fine day, with a fresh breeze, and the water ; and it was a handsome thing see how the bent to the gale and rose again, her canvass white as snow and steady as a board ; and we soon knew from the er of the officers, and the anxious looks they'd give ward from time to time, that another vessel was in chase of the Fawn. Not a man stirred on the deck, save the lieutenant of the watch, who walked the quarter deck, with his glass in his hand, now lifting it to his eye, and now throwing a glance aloft to see how the sails were drawing. " She's gaining on us, sir,' cried the boatswain, as he went aloft to the lieutenant. Shall we ease her off a little more? " No, no,' said he impatiently, She's coming over-hand now. Clear the deck, and prepare for ac tion.' " My heart jumped to my throat as I beard the words; and waiting until the lieutenant's back was turned, I stole my eyes above the bulwark, arid beheld the tall masts and taper spars of a frigate, all covered with canvas, about two miles astern of us. She was a good sized craft, appa rently of thirty-eight guns; but what I liked best about her was the broad tricolor that fluttered from her mast head. Every curl that floated on the breeze whispered liberty to my heart. "`You know her,' said the lieutenant, laying his hand on my shoulder, before I was aware he was behind me. What is she ?' " ' Lend me your glass, lieutenant, and perhaps I can tell you,' said I, and with that he gave the telescope into my hands, and leaned on the bulwark beside me. Ha !' said I, as soon as I caught the side of her hull, " I ought to know her well. I sailed in her for two years and a half. She's the " Creole," of thirty-eight guns, the fast est frigate in our navy. She has six carronades on her quarter deck, and never goes to sea without three hun dred and twenty men.' " ' If she had three tiers of them we'd not flinch from her,' said a voice from behind. It was the commander himself, who was now in full uniform, and wore a belt with four pistols stuck around it. "There is no use in denying it, the English prepared for action like brave fellows, and soon cleared the deck of everything in the way of the guys, but what use was it. In less than an hour the " Creole" worked to windward, and opened a fire from her long guns, to which the other could make no reply. There they came plumping in, some into the hull, some splintering through the bulwarks, and some crashing away through the rigging, and all the crew could do, was to repair the mischief the distant can nonade was making. `" It's a cowardly way your countrymen come into action after all,' said the lieutenant, as he watched the shot hopping and skipping along the water to leeward. ' With four times our strength, they don't bear down and engage us.' " As he spoke, a shot cut the peak halyards in two, and down came the spars with a crash, carrying with it in its fall that ensign they're so proud of. It was all we could do, prisoners as we were, not to cheer at this ; but the faces around us did not encourage us to such a course, and we sat silently watching them. " The moment the accident happened, twenty stout fel lows were clambering up the rigging, and as many more engaged to repair the mischief; but suddenly tie com mander whispered something to the lieutenant—the men were called down again, and the craft was let fall off the wind, trailing the sails and the tangled rigging over her sides. "`And the prisoners, sir,' said the lieutenant, at the close of something I could not hear. " Send them below,' was the short reply. "' We cannot, the space between decks is crowded to suffocation, but here she comes.' And, as he spoke, the frigate came bearing down, in gallant style, her whole deck swarming with men. " Down —men, down'—whispered the lieutenant, and he dropped on his knee, behind the bulwark, and motioned to the rest to kneel—and I now perceived that every sailor had a drawn cutlass in his hand, and pistols in his belt, as he lay crouching on the deck. The frigate was now so close, I could hear the commands of the officers on the quarter-deck, and the word Bas les bra,les,' the signal to board, passed from mouth to mouth. The next instant she closed on us, and showed her tall sides, towering above us. " ' Now, men,' cried the commander of the Fawn,' now, forward. All who care to live, there's your ground,' said he, pointing to the frigate. ' Such as I.ke to die on a British deck, remain with me.' The boarders sprang up the side of the • Creole' before the crew could fasten the grapples. Tonnerre de Dieu, what a moment it was. The fellows cheered like madmen, as they poured in to certain death—the lieutenant himself was one of the first on board, and fell back the same instant, dead upon his own deck. The struggle was a bloody, but a brief one— for a few minutes th e E ng li s h press ed ou r m en b ac k, an d gained a footing on the quarter deck, but a murderous fire from the tops cut them down in numbers, and they now fought, not for victory, but vengeance. " Now, captain, now,' screamed a youth, in a lieuten ant's uniform, but all covered with blood—and his face gashed with a cutlass wound, as he leaned over the bul wark of the Creole,' and waved his cap in the air. " • I'm ready,' replied the English commander, and sprang down the main hatchway, as he spoke, with a pistol in his hand. At the same instant, a fearful cry burst forth from the prisoners, for, with the instinct of despair, they guessed his desperate resolve was to blow up th e vessel. We were tied, wrist to wrist, and the rope run through the blocks in such a way, as to prevent our mov ing more than a few inches—but what will not the fear of a dreadful death do ? With one unanimous effort we tore the lashings in pieces, and got free. I was myself the first at liberty, and sprang towards the Creole.' Alas ! they had divined the awful doom awaiting us, and were endea. vouring to shove off at once. Already there were some ten or twelve feet between the vessels. I rushed forward to gain the bowsprit, a vague hope of escape suggesting the effort. As I did so, my eyes caught sight of a book, which, with his hat, the captain threw from him as he hastened below. I stooped down, and put it in my bosom —why, 1 knew not. Life, and life only, was my thought at that moment. Then, with lightning's speed, I ran along the deck, and out on the bowsprit. At this instant the frigate shot ahead of us—l made a leap, the last effort of despair, and caught theflue of the anchor—a friendly hand threw me a rope, and dragged me on the deck—as I gained it, a thunder clap, louder than ten broadsides, broke forth, and the frigate fell over on one side, as if sir,king—w bile over her rigging and masts flew spars and timbers, blazing and burning, amid a black smoke, that filled the air on every side. Every man about dropped wounded, or ter rified, on the deck—where they lay, amid the falling fire of the wreck, and the terrible carnage. 1 wiped the blood from my eyes, for 1 was bleeding profusely from a splinter cut, and looked about me. The deck was a mass of dead and dying; their piercing cries and groans were mad dening to hear. The frigate, however, was flying fast through the water—the Fawn' was gone !" " Tele bleu ! he blew her up," said three or four in a breath. Paul nodded, and resumed—" Ay, comrades, and the half-dozen of her crew who stood alive on her quarter deck cheered the explosion as if it was a victory ; and one fellow, as he lay bleeding on the planks, cried out, ' See there; look if our gay flag is not high above yours, as it always will be,' and that time he was right, for the spar that bore it was nigh the clouds." WELLINGTON AMONG THE PEERS FOR THE FIRST TIME.—It happened to be my duty, when I was Chancel lor. upon the Duke of Wellington's first coming into the House of Lords, to return him the thlnks of the house for his great services to his country. lam not aware of any other instance in the peerage of an individual being, at his first entrance into the li use. a harm, a viscount, an earl, a marquis, and a duke, hiving I ad from time to time each title conferred upon him for distinct services to his country. 1 made tip: fay t a distinct and leading topic in my address to him. Individuals of the royal family may have been introdtu'ed, having by patent all the dignities of one moment conferred upon them by royal favour. But this nohlem in rose, from time to time, from one dignity to another, until lie had every dignity, each conferred by distinct grAhts. and upon different oc casions for different services, and all those rendered to the country before he could return to it to take his seat after the grant of the dignities.—Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon. EARLY PRINTING PRESSES.—A famous printer, Jodo cus Badius Ascensianus, has exhibited his press in the title-page of a book printed by him in 1498. Up to the middle of the last century this rude press was in use in England ; although the press of an ingenious Dutch me chanic, Blaew,—in which the pressure was rapidly com municated from the screw to the types, and all the parts of the press were yielding so as to produce a sharp but not a crushing impression,—was gradually superseding it. The early printers manufactured their own ink, so that Caxton had to learn the art of ink-making. The ink was applied to the types by balls, or dabbers, such as one of the men holds who is working the press of Badius. Such dabbers were universally used in printing thirty years ago. As the ancient weaver was expected to make his own loom, so, even this short time since, the division of labour was so imperfectly applied to printing, that the pressman was expected to make his own balls. A very rude and nasty process this was. The sheep-skins, called pelts, were prepared in the printing-of f ice, where the wool with which they were stuffed was also carded; and these balls, thus manufactured by a man whose general work was entirely of a different nature, required the expendi ture of at least half an hour's labour every day in a very disagreeable operation, by which they were kept soft.— Biography of William Caxton. VALUE OF SALT AS A MANURE.-At a recent meeting of the Broomsgrove Farmers' Club, reported in the British Farmers' Magazine, the following letter was read from Mr. Mathews, of Park Hall, near Kidderminster, addressed to Mr. H. F. Fardon :—" If salt were found only on the shores of South America, and imported here at the price of guano, I think it would be in more general use than it is at present. Its value no one attempts to question, but nevertheless its application is very limited. My experience of its effects is confined to light soils ; and upon such, I know of no article so greatly and so gene rally beneficial. Its copious use to every description of stock I regard as indispensible. For turnips, barley, clover, and wheat, it is equally beneficial, used either as a top-dressing or worked into and incorporated with the soil. Nor is it of value only as regards an increase of produce, for I have always found the quality greatly i n] _ proved where it has been used largely. The fold-yard should have an abundant supply ; it should be applied at the least once in every week. Upon grass lands, whether upland pastures or watered meadows, I have found its use alike advantageous. I have generally applied it in the form of a compost with soils, but I do not consider this as ne cessary. Last spring I dressed a meadow of five acres with salt and soil, putting on about 30 cwt. per acre of salt ; and the effect was most convincing both in the hay crop and aftermath. The sheep and cattle I turned into it had access to an adjoining meadow, and their preference for that which had been salted was really ludicrous ; they could not be induced to leave it when it was as bare as a common, while the other meadow had abundance of grass into l (s)tofh eaboedfin benefit t upon it. Pray do the community the good service of urging the more general use of salt, especially in the rye land district. I am satisfied that every man whom you can prevail upon to adopt its use largely, will ultimately thank you for the good you confer upon him." These letters, Mr. Farndon said, afford practical evidence of try valueit. Salt of maysalt, operateand l in hope fix farmers iug a m m o u n u i a light by land will convert ingm u r the iat e volatile being e un v e rcarbonateconverted itself of manure. ammo nia Salt may soda, valuable consistent carbonateayn light dry soils by its attraction for water, and it has the effect of rendering herbage more palatable to stock. — British Farmers' Magazine. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CHINESE GARDENS.—The Chinese Gardens are of a peculiar character, and differ altogether from ours in their arrangements; while the care bestowed on them by their possessors exceeds any thing of which we could have formed an idea. To each branch, often even to each leaf of a tree or a shrub, the utmost pains are taken to give appropriate turn; and the gardenersmay be seen sitting con stantly beside the plants, and employed in binding and pruning them, in order to accomplish the desired form. The production of the greatest variety and contrast of colours is the chief object of the Chinese flower-gardeners. Strangers to refinement and tender emotions, the Chinese have no taste for pure and tranquil enjoyment which the perfumes of sweet-scented flowers yield. It is only in gaudy colours, and by a marvellous skill in developing singular growths that the Chinese gardener excels. Long and straight alleys run directly through their gardens. and are bordered by low trees of one and the same species. Citrons and Shaddocks are cultivated assiduously, not only for the adornment of the gardens, but also for the well-known Chinese preserved citron. For this purpose they use chiefly the smaller fruits, three or four inches long, which are boiled in refined sugar. The larger fruits of monstrous shape are of the shaddock kind, and are from six to seven inches long, while the several seg ments extend singly in all directions. In the gardens these odd-shaped fruits, as well as the sweet oranges, with which whole plots are planted, have a neat appearance, as they do not allow any trunk to form, but force them at once to spread into branches. Large borders are to be seen planted with camellia japonica, and others with cock combs, some with white, others with yellow or red flowers. —Coplain Pidding's Chinese Olio. LORD ELDON As A WOOER.—After taking his degree young Scott (afterwards Lord Eldon) continued to reside as fellow, meaning at the proper age to take holy orders, and looking to a college living as his ultimate provision for life; but during the long vacation in the north he saw at Sedgefield Church a Miss Elizabeth Surtees, and the sight appears to have determined his career. The lady was just then of the perilous age—susceptible seventeen— and reciprocated the tenderness with which she was re garded by the embryo Chancellor. Her father, however, (a banker,) ►ittle foreseeing the fortunes of the suitor, became alarmed, and to put her out of reach of danger, , sent her to a relation at Henley-upon-Thames. From that she did not return until after the vacation had expired, and Oxford (as the reviewer remarks) " is within an easy lover's journey of Henley." The following summer John again visited Newcastle. Among the aspirants for the lady's hand was a rich old widower, whose suit was se conded by the father. It was now John's time to be alarmed. " Whatever accelerated the romance it galloped to a conclusion ; for on a moonless night in September, 1772, Miss Bessy trusted herself to a ladder : a postchaise was ready—the fugitives were safe across the border before either of them was missed, and married early next day at Blackshields—not, however, by a blacksmith, nor even by a justice of peace, but by an episcopal minister." Both fathers were displeased, but ultimately relented, the gen tleman's first, and a small provision made for them, Mr. Surtees agreeing to pay £lOOO as his daughter's portion, and Mr. Scott settling £2OOO on his son. They were then remarried, " in facie ecclesice, in presence of both families, and set off for the soutb."—Life of Lord Eldon. BRUMMELL'S TAILOR. Brummell's tailors were Schweitzer and Davidson, in Cork-street, Weston, and a German of the name of Meyer, who lived in Conduit street. The Stultzes and Nugees, &c., did, 1 believe, exist in those days; b u t th ey were not hen held in the same estimation as their more fortunate brethren of the shears. Schweitzer and Meyer worked for the Prince; and the latter had a page's livery, and on great occasions superintended the adornment of his Royal Highness's person. The trouser, which opens at the bottom of the leg, and was closed by buttons aid loops, was invented either by Meyer or Brummell—the beau, at any rate, was the first who wore them, and they immediately became quite the fashion, and continued so for some years. A good-humoured baronet, and brother Etonian of his, wbo followed him at a humble distance in his dress, told me that he went to Schweitzer's one morning to get properly rigged out, and that while this talented purveyor of habi liments was measuring him, he asked him what cloth he recommended ? " Why, Sir," said the artiste, " the Prince wears superfine, and Mr. Brummell the Bath coating; but it is immaterial which you choose, Sir John, you must be right; suppose, Sir, we say Bath coating— I think Mr. Brummell has a trifle the preference." Brummell's good taste in dress was not his least recom mendation in the eyes of the Prince of Wales, by whom his advice on this important subject was constantly sought, and, for a long time, studiously followed. Mr. Thomas Raikes says, in his " France,' that his Royal Highness would go of a morning to Chesterfield-street to watch the progress of his friend's toilet, and remain till so late an hour that he sometimes sent away his horses, and insisted on Brummell's giving him a quiet dinner, which generally ended in a deep potion.—Brummell's Life. THE COD FISHERIES OF NEWFOUNDLAND.— The discovery of North America, and the commencement of the cod fishery on its coast, were nearly contemporane ous. As early as the year 1515, numbers of French, Spanish, and Portuguese ships frequented the banks of Newfoundland. The English, already engaged in the fisheries along the shores of Iceland, had not as yet made a push into those more distant western seas. In the early part of the 17th century, England began to estimate the exhaustless fisheries of North America at their real value, as matter for great national consideration ; and thus, during the successive reigns of Edward IV., Eliza beth, James, and William and Mary, various Acts of Parliament were passed. and regulations made for their encouragement and protection. But, notwithstanding the increased value of the fisheries thus fostered by the parent state, and carried on by the colonists of New Eng land and Newfoundland, both, together, were in magni tude less than those followed by the French before the conquest of Cape-Breton. France, by these fisheries alone, increased her navy to an extent that rendered it formidable to all Europe. From the journal of Sir \'.'m. Pepperell, who commanded the New England troops at the capture of Louisburg, in 1745, it appears that the value of one year's fishery in the North American seas, which depended on France possessing Cape-Breton, was £1,000,000 sterling. Compared with this, the most pro mising phases which the fisheries of the island have as sumed, at any time since its colonization by England, are but melancholy and deplorable. At the present moment they have reached the very lowest point of depression. Can nothing be done to breathe into them new life and vigour ? Are croakers ever to be listened to, and their lazy, self-seeking, self-indulging policy to be adopted ? We trust not. A scheme for forming a Joint-Stock Company to carry on the cod and seal-fisheries from Louisburg, will shortly be brought under the considera tion of our mercantile men, by N. H. Martin, Esq., a gentleman intimately conversant with the trade of the Wand ; and we entertain no doubt of its practicability.— Simrnond's Colonial Magazine. EARLY IMPRESSIONS.—" I have seen it remarked," says Lord Eldon in his Anecdotes Book, (1837,) " that something which in early youth captivates attention, in fluences future life in all stages. I came up from New castle in a coach then denominated, on account of its quick travelling. as travelling was then estimated, a fly; being, as well as I remember, nevertheless, three or four days and nights on the road. There was no such velocity as to endanger overturning, or other mischief. On the panels of the carriage were painted the words Sat cito, si sat bene, [i. e. quick enough, if well enough.] —words which made a most lasting impression on my mind, and have had their influence upon my conduct in all subse quent life. Their effect was heightened by circumstances during and immediately after the journey. A Quaker, who was a fellow-traveller, stopped the coach at the inn at Tuxford, desired the chambermaid to come to the coach door, and gave her a sixpence, telling her that he forgot to give it her when he slept there two years before. I was a very saucy boy, and said to him, Friend, have you seen the motto on this coach ?'—` No.'—` Then look at it ; for I think giving her only sixpence now is neither sat ell° nor sal bene.' After I got to town, my brother met me at the White Horse in Fetter-lane, Holborn, then the great Oxford-house. He took me to see the play at Drury-lane. Love played Jobson in the farce, and Miss Pope played Nell. When we came out of the house it rained hard. There were then a few hackney coaches, and we got both into one sedan chair. Turning out of Fleet-street into Fetter-lane, there was a sort of contest between chairmen. Our sedan chair was overset with us in it. This, thought I, is more than sal cito, and it cer tainly is not sat bene.—ln short, in all that I have had to do in future life, professional and judicial, I have always felt the effect of this early admonition on the panels of the vehicle which conveyed me from school. Sat eito, si sat bene. It was the impression of this which made me that deliberative judge—as some have said, too deliberative ; and reflection upon all that is past will not authorise me to deny that, whilst I have been thinking sat cilo, si sat bene, I may not have sufficiently recollected sat bene, si sat cito." APPROACH TO CALCUTTA.—The first view of Bengal- India gives the longing voyager a dreary pang of disap. pointment owing to the low, ugly, and inhospitable shores of Saugor Island, with scarcely a sign o f c h eer i ng civiliz ation, or any tokens of a thickly-populated land. This desolating appearance, and the corresponding sensation which it excites in the stranger's breast, arises from the peculiar circumstance of there being no town at the mouth of the river, nor any mark of one as far as the eye can reach. Ariving at Madras, for instance, the city, forti fications, and all oppidan appurtenances, burst upon you while you are yet at sea, and you at once feel that you are cast among a civilized community ; but Bengal frowns upon you, and you experience no temptation to explore her farther. Sail on, however, in the true hope which should always sustain those adventurous spirits who go down to th e sea i n grea t s hip s , an d you will be richly re warded for your primary disappointment. Viewed from the magnificent bend of the river, denominated Garden Reach, where the town just opens on the approaching vessel, the coup d'ecil is one of various and enchanting beauty. Houses like palaces are studding the bank on the proper left of the river, and a verdure like that of an eter nal summer, renovates the eye so long accustomed to the glitter of the ocean. Anon, on your left appears the semi-gothic Bishop's College ; and in front of you, every moment growing more distant, are beheld a forest of stately masts, a noble fortress, a thousand small boats new and undreamt of by the visitant, skimming over the stream ; the larger vessels of the country, pleasant to look upon even for th e i r s t range di ssymme t ry an d th e i r consequent unwieldiness ; the green and goose-shaped budgerow lying idle for hire, and th e a i r y littl e b au l ea h s , with ther light venetian rooms, which seemed fitted for the water-bowers of lovers in some of the lakes of those sunny isles which poets are wont to sing of, and where the breezes are never stronger than can be borne by silken sails. There cannot be a scene so beautiful, connected with the business and bustle of life, and the heart of the traveller feels light within him as he views it. He experiences indefinable emotions of joy, and he imagines he is in a country in which he could dwell unrepiningly for ever, voluntarily debarred from the prospect of ever again beholding the gloomier shores of England.—Stocqueler's COFFEE HOUSES IN DAMASCUS.—llarnascus is cele brated for the number and elegance of its coffee-houses; they are for the most part built in the kiosk fashion, of wood painted different colours, green and blue predomi nating, and open on the sides, except where partially closed with plants coiling up the slender columns that support the roof. The softened light that makes its way through the leafy walls forms a charming contrast with the intense glare of the sun glancing upon the waters, or reflected from the whitened walls of the houses of the town. Nor are they mote remarkable for their pictures que appearance than for their happily-chosen position, being generally situated on the border of some running stream, the view opening out on a pretty cascade, with gardens and orchards lying on the opposite bank. At night, when the limps. suspended from the slender pillars, are lighted, the Turks of different ranks, in all the varieties of their rich costume, cover the platform, just above the surface of the river, on which and its foaming cataracts the moonlight rests, and the sound of music is heard, you fancy that if ever the enchantments of eastern romance are to be realised, it is here. THE OPIUM QUESTION IN CHlNA.—Memorials were presented to the emperor on both sides of the question : and his majesty Taouk-wang. being old, and personally of feeble character, halted for a time "between the opinions," alternately yielding both to the one and the other, until he at length settled down into the old bigotry against change, and felt all the native prejudices of a true son of Han revive more strongly than ever within his bosom. * The question of the opium trade, or opium laws, which, for some time. had been really a party matter, like the corn-laws in our own country, became at length a question of interest and importance to the whole nation, and was magnified in its relations by the very dis cussion of the points which it involved. It is said that the head of th e re f ormer party (if i t can so be called) in China was a Tartar lady, belonging to the emperor's court, remarkable for her abilities no less than her personal attractions, and possessed of certain very strong points of character, which made her as much feared by some as she was loved by others. She was soon raised even to the throne itself, as the emperor's wife, but lived only a few years to enjoy her power. Her influence soon came to be felt throughont the whole of that vast empire : it was the means of rewarding talent, and of detecting inability. She seemed to possess, in a marked degree, that intuitive dis cernment which sometimes bursts upon the female mind as if by inspiration. She was blessed with a tone and energy of character in advance of her age and of her country. She had many grateful friends, but she Lad raised up for herself many bitter enemies; party feeling ran high, and became at length too powerful even for an empress. Gradually her influence diminished : the favour of the emperor declined, her opponents again got the upper hand, and at length she pined away under the effects of disappointment and perhaps injustice, and died. But her influence, so long as it lasted, was unbounded, and was felt through every province. Her principal adherents and dependents naturally lost their power when that of their mistress was gone. The question of more extended trade with foreigners was now again set aside ; the old feelings of bigotry and national pride resumed even more than their former vigour. Opium at once became the in strument, but ostensibly patriotism became the ground work of their measures. The old national feeling against foreigners throughout the empire was revived ; and, in the midst of it all, as if ordained to hasten on the momentous crisis which waited for its fulfilment, the son of the em peror himself died in his very palace, from the effects of the excessive use of opium.—Voyage of the Nemeis. IMPROVED SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.—The Euro pean, by which we more particularly mean the native of Great Britain, may not change his soul with his skies, but his manners assuredly undergo, in India, a remarkable metamorphosis. Accustomed in youth to habits of obe dience to authority, deference to superiors, and civility to equals, he cannot support with becoming equanimity the comparatively elevated position in which be finds himself placed. Invested at once with difficulty, or treated by his personal domestics, and the traders with whom he may traffic, with abject humility, he naturally conceives a much higher opinion of his own merits than he ever en tertained before, and hence is begotton an overweening amour propre, which thenceforth, more or less, influences his character through life. With this difference, however, and the adoption of a costume and habits peculiar to the climate, the European is much the same as we find him elsewhere. Energetic and active, courageous and specu lative, he performs the duties intrusted to him, or carries out his own plans of personal advantage, in a manner which excites the admiration and confidence of the people around him, and serves the country of his adoption. He is the upright and inflexible judge, the brave and adven turous soldier, the dauntless and skilful navigator, and the calculating and enterprising merchant. Even his pastimes partake of the loftiness of his character, for he fearlessly encounters the tiger in his lair, does battle with the wild boar, the bison, and even the untamed elephant, and, " witching the world with noble" equitation, ardently en courages every pursuit that serves to improve the horse, and render him more serviceable to the purposes of man. All that the Englishman might do, or might have done, for the benefit and advancement of the people who have fallen under British rule, has not, however, been accom plished. For more than one half of the period of our do minion, the natives were treated as a people who existed only as rninstrants to temporary British interests; we drained the country of its wealth, and offered no compen sation for the heavy appropriation. But a better spirit has arisen of late years, and a sound and liberal policy is gradually taking the place of the narrow system of govern ment which erst rendered British rule in the East a bye word and reproach. The lights of European science are spreading themselves over the Eastern world. Colleges and schools upon a considerable scale are established at all the great towns; offices of trust are rendered accessi ble to the intelligent and the upright native ; Englishmen have unlimited permission to settle in the towns and agri cultural districts, and introduce improvements in machi nery and culture ; the science of medicine is freely taught, and the qualified practitioner in the healing art distributed over the country. But we have elsewhere touched on these matters already, and need not allude to them here, further than to express a hope that es ery man whose for tune may carry him to India will consider it personally incumbent upon him to return, in some degree, the hless ings of ease and competence, which the residence in the country may ultimately confer upon him, by an endeavour to improve the condition of its interesting population.— Stocqueler's THE DESCENT OF THE PRECIPICE.—By this time I had grasped the chain firmly with both hands, and with the resolve of one who felt life depend on his own firm ness, I began the descent. The old man's voice, as he muttered a prayer for my safety, grew fainter and fainter, till at length it ceased to reach my ears altogether. Then for the first time did my heart sink within me. The words of one human being, faint and broken by distance, sug gested a sense of sympathy, which nerved my courage and braced my arm i • but the dreary silence that followed, only broken by the booming of the sea below, was awful beyond measure. Hand below hand I went, the space seeming never to lessen, as I strained my eyes to catch the cliff where the first rope ended. Time, as in some fearful dream, seemed protracted to years long; and I already anticipated the moment when, my strength failing, my hands would relinquish their hold, and I should be dashed upon the dark rocks below. The very sea-birds which I startled in my descent, wheeled round my head, piercing the air with their shrill cries, and as if impatient for a prey. Above my head, the frowning cliff beetled darkly; below, a depth unfathomable seemed to stretch, from whose black abyss arose the wild sounds of beating waves. More than once, too, I thought that the rope had given way above, and that I was actually falling through the air, and held my breath in horror ; then, again, the idea flashed upon me that death inevitable awaited me, and I fancied in the singing billows I could hear the wild shouts of demons rejoicing over my doom. Through all these maddening visions, the instinct to preserve my lif e h e ld its strong sway, and I clutched the knotted rope with the eager grasp of a drowning man, when suddenly I felt my foot strike a rock beneath, and then discovered I was on the cliff of which the sailor had told me. In a few seconds the sense of security imparted a thrill of pleasure to my heart, and 1 uttered a prayer of thankfulness for my safety ; but the fearful conviction of greater danger as suddenly succeeded. The rope I had so long trusted ter minated here: the end hung listlessly on the rock ; and from thence to the brow of the cliff nothing remained to afford a grip, save the short moss and the dried ferns, withered with the sun. The surface of this frightful ledge sloped rapidly towards the edge, where was the rock around which the rope was tied. Fatigued by my pre vious exertion, I sat down on that moss-grown cliff, and gazed out upon the sea, along which the cutter came, proudly dashing the spray from her bows, and bending gracefully with every wave. She was standing fearlessly in, for the wind was off the land ; and, as she swept along, I could have fancied her directly beneath my very feet. Arousing myself from the momentary stupor of my faculties, I began to creep down the cliff ; but so slippery had the verdure become by the heat, that I could barely sustain myself by grasping the very earth by my fingers. A loud " Holloa !" was shouted from the craft, and arose in many an echo around me. I tried to reply, but could not. A second cheer saluted me, but I did nut endeavour to answer it. The moment was full of peril: I had come to the last spot which offered a hold, and below me, at some feet, lay the rock, hanging, as it were, over the pre cipice. It seemed to me as though a sea-bird's weight might have sent it thundering into the depth beneath. The moon was on it, and 1 could see the rope coiled twice around it, and knotted carefully. What would I have given in that terrible minute for one tuft of grass, one slender bough, even enough to have sustained my weight for a second or two, until I should grasp the cord ! But none was there. A louder cry from the cutter now rang in my ears, and the dreadful thought of destruction now flashed on me. I fixed my eyes on the rock to mea sure the place, and then, turning with my face towards the cliff, 1 suffered myself to slip downwards. At first I went slowly, then faster and faster. At last my legs passed over the brow of the precipice. I was falling ! My head reeled. I uttered a cry, and, in an agony of despair, threw out my hands. They caught the rope. Knot after knot slipped past my fingers in the descent ere my senses became sufficiently clear to know what was occurring; but even then, the instinct of self-preservation was stronger than reason, for I afterwards learned from the boat's crew with what skill I guided myself along the face of the cliff, avoiding every difficulty of the jaggeedlirm climber. and tracking my way like the most experienced stood f l oam w e upon d a a s h b i r n o g a . d flat o r n o o c w k over love whichloved n bright water, on on my feet ! I could have kissed tehe m oment of danger was passed. The shadow of which the moonbeams sported, for t d h I. The dangers of the that toiled and fretted about me from my soul. What cared that I escaped from, and when deep were as nothing to dreadful death had moved e I dr no en w for the boiling surf se whi tet em shee t s eurl curling towards her on a retreating in, I dashed towa wave, and was dragged on board almost from my struggles. , lifeless -- notthe tho cutter's oft-repeated boat e ame warnings e towards sailors, plunging minded Tom Burke of " Ours. AN INDIAN TEMDEFLANCE 0 R ATOR.—The Arka na Intelligencer, an American paper, published a speech of sterling eloquence, as having been recently delivered by Cilly M'lntosh, a Creek Indian, at a recent council meet ing of his tribe. The fellowing passages are admirable— the genuine oratory of nature : " The strength of our people is like the oak in the forest ; the limbs, the leaves, and the fruit, are green and rich ; its branches are heavy and fine, and under its shade the wild animals rest, and the birds sit upon its boughs. So with our young men : their limbs are strong ; they are swift, and their hearts are very brave and wise; they are a shelter and protection to their wives, and their children sit in their arms. " But the lightning of the storm, when it opens a bright path through the black cloud, can strike the oak, and lay its beauty in the dust—bring low its strength and grandeur. _ _ " So the lightning from the evil fire-water strikes my people ; then they reel, stagger, and fall ; they stab their friends, and are no longer a protection to their lodges ; they cannot stand in the might of manhood, but they wallow in the mud like a beast. " Warriors ! who of you is not brave ?—who of you is not wise ?—who of you is not swift ?—who of you would fear to strike a foe? Your arm is long—you may reach your enemy ; your cunning is great, and can hide you from him ; but the evil spirit is strong, and eats the heart. Who can stand, and the fire-water burning his veins ? Can the warrior touch him, and not fear ?—can he take him into his bosom, and not fall? The warrior has love for his home, his people, and his honour—the evil spirit has none, and seeks to destroy the warrior's. Who will suffer it? Who will be tamed by the hot liquor till he is like a kicked dog ? ho will not lift his arm and say, This enemy—this fire-water—shall be gone, and shall destroy no more ? ' Warriors! your strength, your wis dom, your cunning, say, Touch no whisky.' Husbands, fathers, and brothers! your love, your happiness, your homes, cry against the evil spirit, and your young chil dren are fearful. Who shall teach them bravery, wisdom, and love, if the father be dead in liquor ? " Brothers ! our brave and great brethren, the Chero kees and Choctaws, have passed laws prohibiting the traffic in fire-water. They are wise; their chiefs are cun ning, and they scent the enemy. The law is doing them good : their lodge hearths and their fields are green ; they sit down in peace, and rise refreshed. Let us follow their example. If we make a good law on this subject, and carry it into effect, our people will also smile, our chil dren will laugh, our women be strong, and our nation will be happy." CLEVER EXPLOIT OF MEXICAN THIEVES.—The fol lowing instance of prigging is worthy the particular atten tion of the London swell mob ; and I question if it has been surpassed in adroitness, for some time past, in that notorious city, where boys are regularly taught the sci ence of thieving, from the simple pilfer of a handkerchief, to the compound abstraction of a gold watch and guard chain .—As a certain learned judge in Mexico, some time since, walked one morning into court, he thought he would examine whether he was in time for business ; and, feel ing for his repeater—found it was not in his pocket. "As usual," said he to a friend who accompanied him, as he passed through the crowd near the door—" As usual, I have again left my watch at home under my pillow." He went Ow the bench and thought no more of it. The court adjourned, and les returned home. As soon as he was quietly seated in his parlour, he bethought him of his timepiece, and turning to his wife, requested her to send for it to their chamber. " But, my dear judge," said she, " I sent it to you three hours ago !" " Sent it to me, my dear ? Certainly not." " Unquestionably." replied the lady, " and by the person you sent for it . 1 " " The person I sent for it !" echoed the judge. " Precisely, my dear, the very person you sent for it ! You had not left home more than an hour, when a well-dressed man knocked at the door and asked to see me. He brought one of the finest turkies I ever saw ; and said, that on your way to court, you met an Indian with a number of fowls, and having bought this one, quite a bargain, you had given him a couple of reals to bring it home; with the request that I would have it killed, picked, and pat to cool, as you intended to invite your brother judges to a dish of molle - with you to-morrow. And, ' Oh ! by the way, senorita," said he, his excellency, the judge, re quested me to ask you to give yourself the trouble to go to your chamber and take his watch from under the pillow, where he says he left it, as usual, this morning, and send it to him by me.' And, of course, rni querido, I did so." " You did ?" said the judge. " Certainly," said the lady. " Well," replied his honour, " all 1 car, say to you, my dear, is, that you are as great a goose, as the bird is a turkey. You've been robbed, madam ; the man was a thief ;—I never sent for my watch ;—you've been imposed necessary consequence, the confounded watch is lost for ever ! The trick was a cunning one ; and, after a laugh, and the restoration of the judge's good hu mour by a good dinner, it was resolved actually to have the turkey for to-morrow's dinner, and his honour's brothers of the bench to enjoy so dear a morsel. Ac cordingly, after the adjournment of the court next day, they all repaired to his dwelling, with appetites sharpened by the expectation of a rare repast. Scarcely had they entered the sala and exchanged the ordinary salutations, when the lady broke forth with congratulations to his honour upon the recovery of his stolen watch. " HMV happy am I," exclaimed she, " that the villain was ap prehended." " Apprehended !" said the judge with sur prise. " Yes ; and doubtless convicted, too, by this time," said his wife. " You are always talking riddles," replied he. " Explain yourself, my dear. I know nothing of thief, watch, or conviction." "It can't be possible that I have been again deceived." quoth the lady ; " but this is the story :—About one o'clock to-day, a pale and rather interesting young gentleman, dressed in a seedy suit of black, came to the house in great haste—almost out of breath. He said that he was just from court ; that he was one of the clerks ; that the great villain who had had the audacity to steal your honour's watch had just been arrested, that the evidence was nearly perfect to convict him, and all that was required to complete it was ' the turkey,' which must be brought into court, and for that he had been sent with a porter by your express orders." " And you gave it to him ;" "Of course 1 did ; who could have doubted him, or resisted the orders of a judge 7" " Watch and turkey—both gone ! pray, what the devil, madam, are we to do for a dinner ?" But the lady had taken care of her guests, notwithstanding her simplicity, and the party enjoyed both the joke and their viands.—Mailer's Mexico. GENERAL MISCELLANY. For the Taunton Theatre, which was offered for sale by auction last week, there was not asinele bidder. Dalmas has been removed to the Penitentiary, prepa ratory to being transported for life. Lord Northland's valet was apprehended on Tuesday, in London, on a charge of having stolen from his lordship a £lO note. During the night he hanged himself. The House of Lords have decided unanimously that Sir Brooke William Brydges, Bart., had establish e d hi s claim to the vacant barony of Fitzwter. IRON.—At the Ironmasters' Quarterly Meetings, held last week, it was resolved not to alter the present price of iron, the state of trade warranting its continuance. SINGTTLAR TURN-OUT.—The singers and musicians at St. Michael's Church, Tonge, near Middleton, have turned out for an advance of wages. At Winchester Assizes, a few days ago, in a case of manslaughter, the learned Judge Wightman) decided that for a man to beat his wife, even with a small stick, was an illegal act. BRAZIL—Her Majesty's packet Crane, Lieut. Lewis, R.N., from Brazil, arrivrd at Falmouth, on Friday last, bringing a freight of gold and diamonds to the value of £34,000. TIIE LATE MURDER IN SALFORD.—TIIOMaS Stew, the man who is charged with the wilful murder of Alice Nolan, appears to be recovering from the wound he inflicted on himself, but slowly. EARLY CORN HARVEST.—A fine crop of rye, perfectly ripe, was cut on Thursday, on Mr. Baines's farm, at Barton, in the parish of Eccles, near the line of the Li verpool and Manchester Railway. The number of vessels which have gone to the African coast in search of guano is not less than 600 at the lowest estimate; and some persons even estimate it as high as 800, a great number of them being very large ships. COMMENCEMENT OF HARVEST.—A parcel of forty quarters of new oats was sold on Friday in Wakefield market. They were grown in the immediate neighbour hood of that town. The quality was very fine, and the price 13d. per stone. In the Bankruptcy Court, London, last week, the cer flcate of Mr. Palmer, a person who had purchased large quantities of colonial coffee, after he was insolvent, and sold them again immediately, at a loss of between £2OOO and £3OOO, was suspended for twelve months. Collins Brodie, Bart., was elected president, and S a muel su A rg t e a an m s e a etg f in Eo o g f the land, o C n ou T n h ci o l rs o d f ay th l e as ß t, oy s al ir Collegeßenjamin of jam jo Cooper and William Lawrence, Esqrs., were elected vice presidents of the college for the ensuing year. On Saturday week, as one of the Manchester anodcil,3..trinY coaches was on its way to the latter town, the i c i ame off, of the off hind wheel fell out, and the the top of the coach. One woman was killed be s ister-in-law A lady of the name of Sigrnond, tosaiddoo proay last, of Mr. Muntz, M.P. who left Lon dam , peeded to her and four passengers and the coachman wewreneeoo th by the Ocean steamer for Rotterdam, dinner, locked herself cabin while the passengers v ve f re of a portion of her dress, in, and after divesting hearset!ow nett• throwne spot.fron' ci d n Sunday last, there were pre sentfinfa at Woodchester Church, at the baptisi d n °other, great-grandmotber, and great his mother, an jumped d E gr that is his grandmother's grand great-grandmother, last walked no small distance twice to mother ; which h day, hale and strong, gdicfaalvoguenratbielmy.eo who o e and had attended church on that ie_ Glocester Chronicle. m su i p th pos is ed p b r y og t r h e e ss m in e the Lord's tab overboard GEs ER A T :d r s w a. n a y Of coat which was carried into the wound by the The Hon. W. R. Touchett stands remanded till next forced itself out. The bullet has not yet been dis covered,attend him, that it is lodged between the fangs of the r3Fuireli;at ' . t i S s vertebrae, having been stopped there in its progress and prevented from injuring the spinal cord. AWFUL CIRCUMSTANCE. —D EATH BY LIGHTNING. — The violent storm that passed over Mansfield, on Mon day morning, although of short duration, was fatal in its effects. A poor woman, named Elizabeth Oscroft, nearly 70 years of age, in the act of gathering bilberries, in Has low Wood, a mile south of Mansfield, in company with her grandson and several other persons, was struck by the electric fluid and instantly expired ; another female, Mary Hind, also far advanced in years, was severely in jured by the same shock, and is not expected to survive. The children were on another spot adjoining, and escaped unhurt. July 23, ig44 SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Three o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Mrs DAY• <From Messrs. R. Makin Sons' Circular.) We have rather more Wheat in from Ireland since Tuesday last than for several weeks past, but of other articles thence the supplies fresh in are comparative/ limited, and those coastwise extremely light. Froth abroad, however, we have to note a fair import of Wheat' Beans, Pease, and Indian Corn, with further large arri vals of Canadian and States Flour, which, added to those during the preceding week, amount to 67,440 barrels. The copious showers which fell here in the course ° I last week, and fine summer weather since, are now foreleg the crops rapidly towards maturity ; and in a few earl/ situations around us, reaping will com menc e partiavi before the end of the present week ; which, with favour' able reports of the Wheat crop coming from various Pe rt/ of the kingdom, and the decline in London yesterdal" have produced a very depressing effect generally upo n the trade here. At this day's market, therefore, it was only by accedig to an abatement of 3d. to 4d. per 701 b. from the cur' rency of Tuesday last, that sales of any description 01 Wheat, even upon a very moderate scale, could be ac• complished. Flour, in consequence, was taken sparingif by consumers at a decline of 6d. per sack, and Canadian at 6d. per barrel, under previous quotations. Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease,appeared to be scarcell noticed, and each of these articles may be considered nominally ls. per qr. cheaper. Oat 3 likewise, were very difficult of sale, on terms ld• per 451bs. below the range of last week's prices ; and Oat meal, although in moderate demand, receded in value fully 6d. per 2401b5. The sales in bond reported to-day comprise merelf about 2000 barrels of New Orleans sour Flour, at 17s. 6c l ' to 183. per barrel. 2 L 2 S n d O I C y I R:L. , inclusive. From the 16th Ail t ß o l eA IRE. i COAST. „ER. CANADA REIGN. PO LAND. TO _ ____......0 0 Wheat .. Ors. 23P1 I 11 2003 ; 4010 6325 Barley Qrs. 577 26 700 130 3 Malt 1 561 Oats Qrs. 2736 153 288 D Rye Beans Qrs. g 4 1 1350 136 3 Pease Qrs. 4 4016 402 0 Shelled BarleyQrs. Indian Corn. Qrs. 1 ' 24;3 245 3 Rapeseed Qrs. Oatmeal .. Loads 1296 7 , 2 13 05 Flour. Sacks 1734 162 ! 189 6 Ditto Brls. 25560 2926 28486 In'o Runcorn, Ireland a qrs.; Oatmeal, loads; vi Cons' Flour, ise.—Malt, qrs. ; OstSt sacks. EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Malt, qrs. ; ClatS , qrs. ; Pease, qrs.; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads ; Flour, 15 brls.--Ireland. Wheat, qrs. ; Bar' ley, qrs. ; Oats, qrs ; Rye, qrs ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids ; Flour, sks, 10 b r l s .—C o astwise; Wheat, 95 qrs.; Barley, 87 qrs.; Malt, qrs.; Oats, I', qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 7 qrs.; Oatmeal, 297 loads Flour, 366 sacks 464 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending July 13, 19 44 ; Wheat 54s.lid. I Barley 34s 10d I Oats ..225 . 3d I R ye 345 .2°' Beans.. 375. Bd. I Pease.. 375. 3d. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat 55s 6d I Barley 335 2d Oats 22s 6d. Rye 345 l a ' Beans.. 375. sd. j Pease.. 355. 6d. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c.this week. Wheatl7s od I Barley 5s Od Oats .. • . 6s od Rye.. ss 6 1 4 Beans Ls 6a I Pease.. I6d Ind. Corn Os Od I Flour 108 2S" Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe. 6d Wheat.. Is. Od. I Barley.. Os. 6d. I Oats .. Is. 61. I Rye.. 05 ,,d Beans Os. 6d I Pease os. 6d. I Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Fl our .. Os l• Liverpool Averages, week ending 16th July, 1844. , Wheat, 1459 qrs., price, 475. lcd.; Barley, qrs., price, os. O.' Oats, 4g2 qrs., price 2 !s. 2d. ; Beans, 109 qrs., price 395. ld '' Pease, qr., price us td. Duties paid in Liverpool, for week ending 18th July, Foreign—Wheat, 5901 qrs. ; Barley, 27 qrs.; Beans, 253 Cl'" Pease, 148 qrs. ; Flour, 82 brls. Flour, Colonial—Wheat, Wheat, 2000 qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads; 18,453 brls. WEAR VEND OF COALS.—The usual statement of the River Wear vend of coals for the half-year ending c,n the 30th of June last, as sworn to by the straithmen of t he several collieries, has just been published, from which it appears that the total vend of coal in the period referred to was 175,974 chaldrons ; being 19,850 chaldrons than in the corresponding period of 1843. On Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the premiSeg of Messrs. George 'Wilson and Co., lathe an_l tool makers, Salford, which ended in the destruction of a great portiott of those premises, as well as adjoining premises, in the occupation of Messrs. J. G. Lavino and Co., sizers, stiffeners, &c., and the property contained therein. The loss is about £5,000. TimPs.—Great damage has been done to the plan' tations in this district by the gale on Saturday night On Sunday morning. Poles hive been thrown down in 21 directions, and an experienced planter sates that not less than twenty thousand of duty has been blown away. 111 one plantation of between 30 ;:nd 40 acres the damage, is estimated at four tons. This added to the shortness 0 bine in Kent, and the extensive blight in Sussex, mu° make the crop a short one.—Maidstone Inlelligencer. TILE WESTMORELAND LAKES.--The company at the lakes during the last few weeks has been very numerous. The inns and lodging-houses at Bowness,Ambleside, Loot Wood, and the Ferry, have been crowded. Amongst the anglers to be seen on Windermere, is a lady, who, by the bye, is no novice with the rod and line, busily engaged from morn till night trolling for pike, spinning minnoor for char, or bobbing for perch. She one day hooked no less than twenty-six fine pike. PROVISIONING THE NAVY.—Some idea may be formed of the vast expense of provisioning the navy, from al, annexed statement of the stores taken by the Albion, 9 ' guns, when proceeding on her voyage to Gibraltar: — 3,385 gallons of rum, I,ooolb. tea, B.ooBlb. sugar, 4, 9981 . i chocol , te, 1,90016. peas, 4.8001 b. pork, 2,9901 b. be 10.801. b. flour, 903 bags of bread, 89 gallons of vinega r ' and 619 b. soap. The quantity of live stock, and frog l , l provi•ions, poultry, &c., was large in proportion.-- 0 " Examiner. sow h hhi ni fei odrgAr.weecs; ..__............. ST. KATHARINE'S DOCKS.—At the half-yearly meet of thi, . ompany, last week, the dividend of 24 per ten' was declared. The statement of ships entered inwar d e for the last six months showed, compared with the sat il period of last year, an increase of 60 ships and 6930 tong' th- rest ectire numbers being 375 ships and 75,997 tu,nt and 435 ships and 82,927 tons. The gods landed duri," the same period showed an increase of 424 tons, the oei li tet it's an increase of 1569 tons, and the goods warehous e an increase of 354 tons. 21) rdoaee"amgssdete;pAstrl shhvedTeaat uetEnetdßteh' Ili another time to fetch a load of clouds to litter t.e4 THE SHIPPING INTEREST.—There are at present - c vessels (exclusive of steam-packets) entered outwards v s s the London Custom-House, for foreign ports. Artl° 4; these are—For Alwa Bay, 7; Bombay, 9 ; Calcutta. Ivo Ceylon, 4 ; Cape of Good Hope and lehaboe, 8 • Hoh,,, Town, Pott Philip, and Sydney, 10; Madras, 4; ' Vic,„` b s ria, Macao, and Canton, &c., 3; West Indies, 16.- - " ‘s number of ships of all nations that passed the Sound,e, June was—From the North Sea, 1633; from the 13alt fr i be 984 ; total, 2617. The English ships were—From ' North Sea, 373 ; from the Baltic, 249 ; total, 622. bf ROYAL ASSENT.—The royal assent was given , , e , commission, to the following bills :—The Batik Cber' re . ' Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Exemption, Dissen te lo Chapels, Isle of Man Customs Duties, Education of o, Poor, &c., County Rates, Militia Ballot Suspeno l° o : Stock. in-Trade Assessment, Vagrants' Removal, Via pike Acts Continuance, Parishes in Scotland, Prise ns ike Scotland, Loan Societies in Ireland, arid the TuroP 1 ,. Acts Continuance in Ireland Bills; also to the Edinbrtrcg; Leith, and Granton, Ashton-under-Lyrae, master, Mr. and Liverpool, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and iv'''. 4 , n SoU:i, e a , nd a d t.e: Chester, , T G aff ar, V )k a i l i e k , , E G as l t a e s r g n ow U , n a io n n d , j. oa on t d b o ri n d . g Delahole and Rock Railway Bills; and several other miii latelyA E D complained TO PLE AsE . against h °in t h a e s n L o Litchfield, c ,. h pll fi a y e e ro l i d sa t e , yi to whitewash the moon with a pot of 11111- ,11 0 e s it,h h e ad no right to pay the complainant 10 4, 4 jobs," said Litchfield, " such as stain. Mr. Chambers coll c om e ne l I a a s n u e c o i, u gatepostf s u b n bills. l Chambers, d me the other Sunday, when I vli/n s - tld of pio d Wellingborough , o f his engagement. Thomas for turn su to o c 1 his pE . work. oi to the time he left. my dinner, to cut a Bath brick into mutton choos.: r iot fry them in a four-wheel waggon at Vishuvious ;, 1 ' it e likely I can do them there conjuration tricks.' re , complaint was discharged, and Litchfield ordered to otbi the evening of Tuesday last, Dorm, Straken, an age d w id ow res idi ng at B arnar d Castle, 'cre ham, subject to a despondency of mind, after heL r r itil% vious attemut at suicide, received an order for en: obe the Union Workhouse at Barnard Castle. bu t 9- be e seemed so much better her friends delayed takie o g e d 0 there. About the time above mentioned she P e n d 011 party of hay makers in a field by the river Tees , a 5 0 0 1 e. being questioned, stated she was going for a walk: ,r, A b p suspicion was excited, and a boy sent to watch n' t . o ie IP, just came up to witness her leaping into a deep 0., the Old Boat pool, opposite Eggliston Abbey. 74 0 ou t dragged to land with a net hook, and when tne. VP moved a little. Means were used to restor e be ' jobs fruitlessly. A NOBLEMAN DONE.—A well-dressed rue n li e ltbfl Alves, of 24, Piccadilly, was brought before Mr• le 'd Lord Marlborough -street, charged with having svii" h . / 13 , Charles Fitzroy out of two bills for £lOOO es% Leto" prisoner had introduced himself to his lordship i?,YoreuS i t ; dated in January last, to the following effect :---. _ . . e 03 e , e stances having come to my knowledge which ino u !',.pt!P, imagine that your lordship would be willing to a o u:; er itil?! loan of £lOOO or £2OOO, I take this opportunity l ow er c! , to your lordship on the subject, as it is in mU en sl Of,, procure for your lordship that amount, onpe2 u " su algv t gotiations followed. Mr. Alves received curity, at a reasonable rate of interest." t bills cf ~,, his lordship never got the cash, although the_ then 1 OF negotiated bills,—Alves receiving for one of cash and a picture. Theh bills , ere I Ip -p Reli Iliad Irr e Deal