The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN Z - COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA.-IMPORTANT NEWS FROM AMERICA AND MEXICO The royal mail steam-ship Caledonia, Captain Lott, ar rived in the Mersey about half-past ten o'clock on Tues day night, with American papers to the 16th instant. The Britannia reached Halifax Just as the Caledonia was leaving, but there was no intellieence of the arrival of the Sarah Sands. The following highly important telegraphic despatch from Washington gives particulars of a dreadful battle fought between the Americans and Mexicans, in which about 1000 of the former and 5000 of the latter were killed. The following is a copy of the despatch : " Washington, Sept, 14. p. m. " Despatches for the government have this moment been received. Ori the 20th ult. the American forces, consisting of 7000 men, met the enemy at Charbuzes, three or four miles from the capital. The Mexicans were 32,000 strong, and posted behind an immense battery of heavy artillery. After two hours' bloody conflict, our gallant troops swept everything before them. mainly at the point of the bayonet. The American loss was less than a thousand, while that of the Mexican is estimated at five thousand, and amongst the killed are many distin guished men, both generals and civilians. The armistice was agreed upon, and five commissioners appointed on the Mexican side, at the head of whom was Herrera. The commissioners had two meetings, and were to hold an other on Monday, the 30th. Valencia escaped with two companies to Taluca, and has since pronounced against Santa Anna and peace. The engagement commenced about one o'clock in the afternoon. It lasted over two hours. The enemy was completely routed from every point, and those who were not killed or wounded were in full flight for the city. At Churubusco the Mexicans say Santa Anna commanded in person, but that he retired early. The young men of the capital, from whom so much was expected, nearly all fled, without firing a gun. The loss on our side has fallen most heavily upon the South Carolina and New York volunteers—the 6th Infan try and Smith's Battallion, and the batteries of Capts. Magruder and Taylor. The South Carolina regiment was nearly cut to pieces. Thirteen Mexican generals were killed and wounded. More amunition was captured than Gen. Scott has used since he has been in the country. The following are the terms of the armistice agreed upon while the commissioners of the two governments shall ne gociate terms of peace : " Neither army is to be reinforced, nor build new de fences during the armistice, nor go beyond its present ling ; in short, the two armies are in no way to interfere with each other, without 48 hours notice." CorroN.—There has been a speculative feeling since our last, and on Saturday and Monday prices advanced to cents per pound. The market was steady: The sales of the last days amount to 5,600 bales. The rates of freight are, to Liverpool, for cotton, g to 3-16 per lb.: flour and turpentine, 1-8 to 1-6 per barrel; grain, 6d. to 7d. per bushel.. To London, 2-6 per barrel for flour, and other articles in proportion. To Havre, nominally, for cotton, Id. per lb. ; flour 70 cents per barrel ; ashes, 8 to 10 dollars per ton ; rice, 10 dollars per ton. Several A destructive fire has occurred at Quebec. houses and stores were burnt. A St. Petersburg letter states that the amount in value of the corn exported from Russia since the last harvest is 32,891,622 roubles, equalling about 132,000,000 francs. GOVERNORSHIP OF MALTA. — The Hon. Edward Fitz gerald, son to Lord William Fitzgerald, and nephew to the Duke of Leinster, •is the secretary to Mr. More O'Ferrall the new Governor of Malta. In a New York letter it is remarked, " The potato disease has made its appearance all over this country, and bids fair to be more extensive than we have ever had it before." It must be mentioned, however, that this state ment proceeds from a considerable holder of breadstuffs. A dreadful fire broke out at Constantinople on the 13th ult., which destroyed 250 large houses. including sixteen stone mansions and the British Chapel. Three villains, caught in the act of plunder, while the fires were ranging, were thrown into the flames and burnt to death, by order of Ahmet Pacha. The ship on board which the guns taken at the battle of Meeanee were shipped for England has been wrecked at Sangor, and the guns are now lying under water, but the Indian government is making great efforts to recover these trophies, and it is hoped that many, if not all, of them will be saved. The appointment of the Duke d'Aumale to the gover norship of Algeria, the nomination of Marshal Soult to the honorary rank of marshal general of France, the reform agitation by which the departments are excited, and eu logies of M. Coletti, prime minister of France, are the en grossing topics of the Paris journals of Thursday. The King and royal family left St. Cloud on Wednesday for La Ferte Vidame. The King and Queen of the Belgians are expected at St. Cloud on Tuesday. CANADA.—We are happy to say that the mortality at the emigrant sheds is abated. The inmates at the hospi tals are now a little over 1000 ; the daily rate of mortality varies from 12 to 24. The serious fall in breadstuffs in Britain will produce very heavy losses here. The mer chants of this country are serious sufferers by the panic in the money market on the other side. Much gloom, of course, pervades the commercial atmosphere ; and it is to be apprehended that many who, a short time since, were possessed of considerable wealth, may find their wealth crumble away. The harvest in this country is most abundant • but our prices do not keep pace in the down ward tendency with those iu Britain. THE LATE COL. STODDART AND CAPT. CONOLLY.— The Friend of India of the 29th of July says, on the subject of these two unfortunate gentlemen—" For some time past there has been a rumour that the King of Bokhara had put to death the infamous Abdool Sumud Khan, who has been rendered so notorious by Dr. Wolff's narrative. It has now been confirmed in a letter of a merchant at Bokhara to his correspondent at Cabul. The King struck him on the head himself with a small axe, upbraiding him with having instigated him (the King) to slay Stoddart and Conolly. This information gives additional confirmation to that which was indeed too evident previously—that those unfortunate officers were positively put to death by the Commander of the Faithful. Their relatives are, we fear, still buoyed up with hopes of their existence, which it is natural for them to cherish, but the present intelligence places the report of their death beyond all doubt." The New Zealand papers of the latter end of March mention, in terms of satisfaction, the return of Governor Grey to Auckland from his trip to Mellington and Nelson, where it appeared he had succeeded in terminating and adjusting the various unsettled land claims which for years past have been such a fertile source of complaint among the emigrants. His interviews with the aborigines have, it is alleged, done much to restore confidence, as they find that his determination will not permit them to cajole him or treat his proceedings with disrespect. The coasting trade of the settlement has latterly improved, and the revenue is also represented as exhibiting symp toms of increase. The quality of the surface coal dis covered at Nelson has been tested by use on board the Inflexible steamer, and the results of the experiment give it a slight advantage over the Newcastle, (Australian) coal. The state of affairs at Auckland was, at the date of these accounts, rather encouraging. REPUBLICAN FREEDOM.—John C. Pulley, a free co loured man, has been arrested, says the Baltimore Patriot of the sth instant, " on the charge of receiving abolition papers, knowing them to be such, in violation of section Ist of the act of 1841, which provides that any free negro or mulatto who shall knowingly call for, receive, or de mand from any post-office in this State, or have in his possession, any abolition handbill, pamphlet, newspaper, or pictorial representation of an inflammatory character, having a tendency to create discontent among or stir up to insurrection the people of this State, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the Penitentiary of this State for a period of not less than ten nor more than twenty years." The specific charge in this case was the receiving through the post-office the Ram's Horn. [The paper of which Frederick Douglass has become assistant editor.] The accused was held to bail in the sum of 500 dollars for his appearance at the next term of the Balti more City Court. He can scarcely read, it is said, and the paper was sent to him by a friend in this city.—New York Anti-slavery Standard, August 12, 1847. THE EMIGRANT FEVER IN CANADA.—The Montreal papers, from the 2nd to the 6th of September, contain afflicting accounts of the ravages of fever amongst emigrants, chiefly Irish, not only on the passage out, but on shore in the hospitals. The ship Julius Caesar, from Liverpool, had lost on the passage 83 out of 471 passengers, and 60 were sick on board. The Canada and Caledonia, from Glasgow, had been proportionately unfortunate. New emigrant hospitals and sheds had been constructed near Montreal and elsewhere, and precautions had been taken to conserve the public health as far as possible. The num ber of deaths had been alarmingly great. During the week ending 28th August the deaths at Montreal had been 198 emigrants and 110 citizens, and in the following week 152 emigrants and 98 citizens. The inmates of the hos pitals there, on the 11th ult., were about 1,000, and the daily mortality 12 to 20. The health of the city was im proving a little, but the rate of deaths was still inordi nately high. It was hoped that the temperature, which which has become cooler, would mitigate the ravages of the disease. Meantime, according to a presentment of the grand jury of Toronto, no provision was made for the support or employment of the poor patients on their dis charge from the hospitals, and they were allowed to roam at large, and either beg or starve. Private bounty had been extended, but was inadequate to meet the emer gency, and the home government were blamed for suffer ing the country to he inundated with thousands of poor creatures who had no means of support. The jury re spectfully present that the necessary funds should be sup plied by the home government. Boards of Health had been established, and had acted with great energy ; but without pecuniary aid from England great distress and mor t a lity were to be apprehended during the ensuing winter. THE MINES OF AUSTRALIA.—These mines are, upon a special survey, of 20,000 acres, distance about 96 miles from Adelaide. This survey was taken in consequence of large masses of copper ore which were discovered upon the extremities of the survey. The proprietors of this survey have secured to themselves the full extent of mineral land, inasmuch as the lodes run longitudinally through the survey. This has been proved by the work • ings which have been carried on, more especially in the northern half, where the principal lode shows a course of north about 35 degrees west. The general and almost unparalleled richness, as well as extent, of this mineral property is partly proved in the fact, that during the first year's operations 7,200 tons of ore were extracted. Some portions of these being the first shipments, have already been sold in the Swansea market, and realised from £lO 16s. to £3l 3s. per ton. As these, however, were principally surface ores, and as there existed, during; the first year, no available means for their due prepara tion, such as cleansing and classifying for exportation, the average return has proved more favourable than was ex pected. Tho last accounts from Swansea state, that the . Burra ores are in great favour, "in consequence of their great docility in the process of smelting. From the essays which have been made here of the generality of ore, the quality has varied considerably; and since the shipment of surface ores had been from 25 to 80. Red oxides, grey ore, blue and green carbonates, and malachite, are the different descriptions of ore which have been ex tracted ; and some specimens of native copper have re cently ben found. As the workings in the southern half have not been formally carried on to the same extent as in the northern half, the amount of extraction has not been very considerable. All experienced miners who have visited this district conclude that, judging from the sur face indications, which are very numerous, and the many east and west branches, which join the main lode, some of which are from one to two feet and upwards wide, and contain copper ore, which, if well cleaned, would be a good marketable article, this district is the richest that has yet been discovered, and will eventually prove as valuable as the Burra or Monster Mine. —Sout h Austra lian Register. THE BORNEO PIRATES. The following sequel to the account of the above action of the Nemesis with the piratical fleet, off the Borneo river, is extracted from the Singapore Free Press, of August 5 Nine captives arrived here a day or two ago from Bruni, part of those who were on board the fleet of pirates attacked by the Nemesis. Their depositions had been taken by the marine magistrate, and we shall give the substance of the statements made by some of them. One of them, named Muda, states that he is a native of Lingen, from which he sailed about four month ago in a prahu, of which he was nacodah, along with seven other men, for Pulo Sahassan. They fell in with a fleet of pirates one day's sail from Lingin, by whom they were seized. They took the men out of the boat and shared them amongst the different prahus, tying their hands and feet, plundered the boat, and cut her adrift. They then proceeded to Sianta, where they seized several persons; at Pulo Soobie they took seven men and women, and at Pulo Tambelan they seized three or four more. During their passage they saw a large schooner with raking masts, and also cited a brig of Sarawak. At Pulo Sahassan they were fired upon by the inhabitants, on which they thought it best to sheer off. They then debated whether they should touch at Sarawak river, but it was finally determined to proceed to Borneo Proper as it was said a steamer was in Sarawak river. They anchored off Moara river at eight o'clock at night, and next morning seized two fishermen on the shore. Between eight and nine P.M., they descried the steamer coming down the Bruni river, and at noon the action commenced. The prahu, in which this person was confined, was the first that was sunk, after ten out of the crew of thirty had been killed and wounded. Of the captives a woman and a boy were shot, the prisoners being made to sit on deck during the action. The pirates and their captives swam on shore, where they were attacked by the Kadyan Dyaks, who, however, on ascertaining the captives, treated them well, and took them to the Sultan at Bruni. About forty pirates were brought in alive, and the captives were desired by the Sultan to take their revenge and •cut them up. This they declined, saying, " God is great and will punish the wicked." The sultan's people then tied the hands of the pirates, and about 200 fell on them, and cut them to pieces, the Sultan undertaking to dispatch half the number, while the other half were handed over to Pangeran Moormein. The captives, about fifty in all, were treated with kindness by the Sultan and his people. This man relates, that while they were at Pulo Siantan the boats were hauled on shore to have their bottoms charred. One of the Chinese captives being sick and unable to work, they hanged him up to a tree, and then all fell on him and cut him to pieces. Another person of the name of Buwang states that he is a native of Columboo, a small island to the southward of Lingin. About four months ago. at three o'clock in the morning, their village was attacked by pirates. He, his mother, and two sisters, made their es cape in a small boat, and directed their course to Lingin, but were overtaken by the pirates and brought back. They were put on board a large prahu, their bands and feet being tied. The pirates then coasted along to the eastward, touching at several islands, such as the Tambe lane, Siantan, Soobie, Sahassan, &c. They took several people at these places —men, women, and children. They several times threatened to throw his little sister, a child of ten months old, overboard, because she cried, but at Buwang's entreaty they did not do so. Another of the captives says that he saw the sick Chinaman hung up and cut to pieces after a feast. There seems to have been from seven to ten captives in each of the pirate pradus, and it is probable, therefore, as only about fifty have been collected, that a number must still be in the jungle, or have been killed in the engagement, or afterwards by the Dyaks on landing, being confounded with the pirates. Every fresh detail we receive only adds a new horror to the picture of pirate life, and here we find it in the pirates amusing themselves, after a feast, by hanging up and cut ing a poor Chinaman to pieces." IRELAND. Dr. Curran, whose statistics respecting fever in Dublin caused much discussion a few months since, fell a victim to that malady last Sunday. On Wednesday the annual exhibition of the Ballinasloe Agricultural Society was held on the fair green. The articles of farm produce exhibited was very fine. The spe cimens of linen and frieze were excellent, and proved suf ficiently that if proper encouragement were extended to the poor people an important and useful branch of trade might be introduced throughout this part of the country, THE NEW IRISH PARLIAMENT.—ANOTHER MEETING OF FIVE M.P.'s.---There was another assemblage of the new Liberator's tail in the smoking-room at Radley's Tavern on Thursday, and they resolved to do that which they resolved upon at the previous meeting, and nothing more, viz., adjourn. There were present, John O'Con nell, Henry Grattan, James Fegan, John Reynolds, and Daniel O'Connell, Esqrs. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The meeting on Monday was well attended. A Mr. Edward Murphy occupied the chair. The principal speakers were Mr. John Reynolds and Mr. John O'Connell, the latter of whom designated the landlords as " murderers of the Irish people," and demanded of the government at once to call parliament together, otherwise they would be participators in their guilt. The rent was £35 Bs. 4d. The majority of the Hon. Edward Stanley—Lord Stan ley's eldest son—was celebrated at Ballykisteen, his lord ship's Tipperary residence, on a scale and in a manner to which the inhabitants of Ireland have been too little ac customed. For three successive days the tenants and labourers shared the hospitality of their noble landlord, and nearly six hundred persons testified, by their joyous countenances and happy demeanour, their enjoyment of the scene. HERRING FISHERY—IRELAND.—Off the Irish coasts the herrings have appeared in enormous shoals, although peculiar in their range, for the Penzance and St. Ives boats failed for more than ten days in meeting them in the usual tracks. Last week incredible quantities have been taken in Dungarvan bay, and several large vessels are there saving them en masse on board, and taking them to Liverpool. Herrings never were finer nor in such num bers as this season in Greatman's and Costello bays, Galway. AGRIC ULTURAL IMPROVEMENT. —A correspondence has taken place between the Lord Lieutenant and the Duke of Leinster, relative to the proposal of his Excel lency to send out experienced agricultural lecturers to in struct the peasantry in the best and most approved systems of husbandry. In furtherance of that admirable project, the Lord-Lieutenant and the Duke of Leinster have each contributed £5O, and a special meeting of the Council of the Agricultural Society of Ireland has been held to com plete the arrangements. A MODEL laISH M.P.—Mr. Guinness, member for Kinsale, has taken an extensive dock and stores, with the intention of building a patent slip and dry dock for vessels frequenting that port, or passing the harbour and requiring repairs. Mr. Guinness also contemplates building a num ber of substantial dwellings for the use of workmen who will be employed. He has assured his constituents that the profits of these undertakings shall be expended exclu sively for the benefit of the working population of the borough. BREACH OF THE SABBATH.—At the Ardglass petty sessions, held on Wednesday, the miller of Sheepland was fined in the mitigated penalty of half-a-crown, for work ing his mill on the Sabbath day. This should serve as a caution to others not to transgress in a similar way. But is it not a sad and humbling thought that we are obliged to go back to the reign of William the Third for a statute to enforce the decent external observance of the Lord's day ! Such is the fact, and all we can boast of is, that the law under which the above desecration of the Sabbath was punished has, as yet, escaped the repealing process of these enlightened times.—Downpatrick Recorder. OPPOSITION TO THE PAYMENT OF RENTS. — The com bination against the payment of rents, already mentioned, is spreading rapidly in Ireland. Now that the corn is in the haggards the landlords solicit something on account of the two or three years' rent due, to enable them to meet the increased poor-rates and their own liabilities ; but no, the word has gone forth that the tenant must be fortified against all risks of scarcity before he part with a bushel of wheat or a pound note to any creditor. In the mean time, the landlord is harassed by claimants who are as heartless as the writers in the government newspapers or the Irish poor-law commissioners. Let him serve an ejectment—and then prepare his coffin or fly from the country, if he value his life. Let him remain at home, and trust to the honour of his tenantry and the mercy of the commissioners, and the poor-house must become his residence. THE CORN MARKETS.—It is rather a curious circum stance in the price of breadstuffs that, while native grown wheat has fallen fully ss. per Quarter from the 20th to Monday the 26th, Indian corn should have advanced 3s. per qr. It is not easy to explain this difference, unless it may be attributed to the arrivals of foreign wheat into the English markets. Yet stranger still, large cargoes of I Indian corn continue to arrive in our port. Last week there could not be fewer than 60 cargoes heavily laden maize, arrived in our harbour from foreign ports. The price of wheat in the Cork market has fallen ls. 6d. per barrel. Good oats were purchased yesterday at 10s. per barrel. The Ocean steamer, for the greater part laden with corn, leaves Cork this day for Liverpool. While the price of wheat continues at from 255. to 265. per barrel, it will be a remunerating one to the farmer, that being the price of any good wheat offering for sale.—Cork Consti tution. AN INCORRUPTIBLE REPEALER.—Mr. Chisholm Ansty, the repeal member for Youghal, having been solicited by one of his constituents to obtain a situation for his son, writes a reply which would have astonished Daniel O'Con nell. He says in the course of it—" When I asked for Your vote it was not for myself, but fLr the cause which you and I professed to serve. If you ' voted for me against your interest' I sacrificed mine by becoming your candi date. lam more odious to the Minister and to Lord Ponsonby, and to the Duke of Devonshire, than you can be. And yet, if I consulted my interest, I should try to stand on good terms with all these ; for I am a poor man THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. and necessarily 'dependent upon my personal-labour for my support. Other men have got into Parliament to push their fortunes. It is right that such people should hold them Selves under a per onal obligation to the electors whose votes enabled them to get there. - I - got into Par liament to serve the country, and particularly the borough town which sent me there. I not only do not seek place, but, if place be offered to me, I mean to refuse it—so long, at least, as Repeal fails to command the support of Administrations: To this I Stand publicly pledged. But, pledged or not, such is my resolution. Every year, there fore, that i am a Member of Parliament, I may,—and probably 1 shall—become much poorer than I am now. But I cannot by any_ possibility become a farthing richer by my seat. It is clear, then, that owe no personal obligation to my constituents, who elected me only on the public grounds on which alone I sought their confidence." A ROMISH PntEsT,—Among the cases tried at the ses sions on Saturday was that of a man named Buckley against a priest named M`Cartliy, for assault. Buckley is employed by the Rev. Mr. Cotter, of Donoughmore, to carry about bibles and tracts for sale, and, these being in no favour with the priest, his reverence, according to the evidence, set to and horsewhipped him, flinging his books at him, collaring and dragging him about the road be tween the acts, and pummelling him, by way of Variety, with the butt end of his whip about the face and. head. The first thing that appears to have aroused his reverence's wrath was a tract on purgatory. That profitable impos ture is a sore subject with the papacy, and this•worldly son of the church militant was naturally indignant that profane hands should presume to meddle with it. He therefore laid on with all his might, and to the fleetness of his limbs Buckley probably owes it that he was not car ried home with broken bones. The jury, however, did not agree, and his reverence is restored to his parish to resume with invigorated ardour his practical illustrations of apostolic rule. Where the jury found their difficulty we do not inquire ; but we hope they discovered it in some thing stronger than the very unsatisfactory defence. The cho fence satisfied some of the jury, and Mr. M`Carthy has their sanction to assault and horsewhip every man who hawks a bible through his parish. Nor have his flock been slow to profit by it. What's good for the priest must be good for the people, and the latter, taking license fro 'a the non-agreement of the jury, and stimulated, it is said, by some savoury exhortations, assembled in great numbers round Mr. Cotter's Church, on Sunday night, with lighted barrels, and celebrated his reverence's triumph by hooting and shouting, and terrifying the congregation. —Cork Constitution. EXTRAORDINARY ROMANCE IN CORK.—In Cork, twelve months since, a young gentlenian, a Roman Catholic, stu dying for a profession, was in the habit of visiting the house of a tradesman, a Unitarian, who had a handsome daughter. Having to pro:=eente his studies in Dublin, he took his leave, was absent eleven months, never wrote to the lady. and on his return to Cork did not renew the in timacy. One morning, last week, the lady's brother called oh him, and demanded what his intentions were. The student disclaimed having ever promised marriage, or intended marriage. His visitor asked him to confront the lady. He consented. On entering his father's drawing room he found her in a bridal dress, her family dressed for a marriage feast, and a Unitarian clergyman prepared to perform the ceremony. A brace of loaded pistols lay on the sideboard, and the student, in fear, consented, and was married ! As one of the party was a Catholic, a priest was in attendance, and he performed the ceremony ac cording to the rites of his church. At the conclusion the student claimed the protection of the priest, who obtained for him permission to depart. He left the house and did not return. The double marriage was announced, on the 17th ultimo, in the Cork Examiner, which paper, last Monday, vouched, for the fidelity of the facts, but stated, " there bad been an engagement, as we are informed, but the engagement was broken off formally, on the part of the gentleman, a day or two before the circumstances which ended in an unwilline marriage taking place. Let ters written by the lady and her sister are in the possession of the gentleman ; and as the whole affair is under the consideration of eminent legal advisers, preparatory to proceedings at law, these letters must, ere long, become the property of a curious public. We shall only say that they will have a very decided influence upon the case. The lady, it is rumoured, loved " not wisely, but too well; and the gentleman pointedly denies he could have been the individual so loved." RAILWAY AFFAIRS. A fatal accident occurred on the London and Brighton and South Coast Railway on Thursday afternoon. As the Portsmouth train was going from Portsmouth to Brigh ton, one of the guards, named Hart, was adjusting some luggage on one of the carriages as the train was going under an archway near Angmering, when his bead came in contact with the arch, and the poor fellow was killed on the spot. From official returns it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on upwards of 3,152 miles of rail way, was £206,848, thus accounted for :—X111,094 for the conveyance of passengers only, £47,550 for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of £48,204 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an in crease of £24,225 over the corresponding week of last year, when the mileage was about 2,525. At a special meeting of the Wear Valley, Middles borough and Redcar, and Stockton and Darlington Rail way Companies, it was resolved to lease the Wear Valley (which now includes the Bishop Auckland and Weardale, the Wear and Derwent, the Weardale 'extension, and the Shildon tunnel) and the Middlesborough and Redcar line to the Stockton and Darlington, at a rent equivalent to 6 per cent. on the capital. COLLISION ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A collision took place near the Reading station on Tuesday morning last, by the up and down train coming in contact with each other. The accident is attributed to the " switchman," or " pointsman," having given the wrong signal, and thus caused the train to pass on to the impro per rail. Several of the trucks were destroyed, and pro perty to a large amount damaged and destroyed ; but no personal injury was sustained. INCREASE OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The Great Western traffic returns during the last thirteen weeks have, without the opening of a single additional mile of railway by the company during the last twelve months, exceeded those for the corresponding thirteen weeks of last year by no less a sum than £11,500, or nearly £lOOO per week. A remarkable fact connected with this increase of receipt is, that, notwithstanding the depressed condition of the mer cantile world, the Great Western Company have, during the last two weeks, carried more goods of a general de scription than they had ever previously conveyed in the same period. The goods' receipts for the last week, amounted to £5,280. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—We are happy to learn that in the course of about six weeks from the present time the electric telegraph will be completed between Lon don and the North. The delay which has occurred in completing the line of communication, by the fixing of wires between London and Rugby, is anything rather than creditable to the greatest of railway companies. We re joice that the reproach which it involved is to be so soon removed. At the present moment the telegraph from Liverpool can communicate with York, Hull, Newcastle, Berwick, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Lincoln, and Rugby, and when the chain is completed between the latter station and London, all the towns at present connected with the me tropolis will, of course, be also in communication with the north. DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. — On Tuesday morn ing, a luggage train on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way, on coming down the incline from Cowlairs station, acquired such a velocity while passing through the tunnel, that the men stationed at the breaks had not sufficient power to arrest its progress. The train was heard by seve ral persons coming down the incline at such a rapid pace as to excite alarm, when, almost immediately after, a tre mendous crash was heard, which shook the neighbourhood. The train, with the fearful momentum it had acquired, penetrated above fifty feet into one of the railway com pany's stores, situated above the Star Hotel, bringing down in its headlong career a thick stone gable and two stone partitions, and entering into two of the offices con nected with the stores. The scene of ruin here presenting itself was most appalling ; three breaks, with a number of trucks lying piled above one another, and covered with the stones of the gables and partitions, and the beams, rafters, and flooring of the storehouse, were lying together in one mingled mass. There were four or five men on the trucks at the time; three have escaped with their lives, although two of them are severly injured, and two are still missing, one of whom, James Macarthur, a married man, was seen on the foremost break immediately before the collision took place, and there can be little doubt that he has met his death among the rubbish. One of the guards leaped off the train as it emerged from the tunnel, and es caped with a slight cut on the head and a few bruises; the other two who have been found were lying among the ruins senseless, covered with large stones, but recovered in about twenty minutes after, so far as to be able to speak. They are both very severely bruised. FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER. (From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") The autumnal dresses are frequently ornamented with velvet of contrasting colour, and the demilongue sleeve pointed cuffs, fixed by a velvet nceud, and on the flounces several rows of narrow velvet. The form of dresses varies but little : corsages are always tight, ornamented in a va riety of ways, revers brandenbourgs formed of chefs in guimpe, with buttons ; a new style of guimpe trimming forms a series of leaves, imitating oak, &c., placed con trariwise from the throat to the bottom of the skirt, in creasing gradually in size. Among the newest materials for travelling dresses and robes de chambre is the chatoy ante. It is of grey worsted Chene, with large check of red, orange, or blue silk, made with a single deep flounce, en biais, and corsage guimpe also en biais. The skirts seem to be increasing still in length, and are worn shorter in front. A pretty novelty for walking dresses are those of cachemire, with application of cachemire on the front of the corsage, and chatelaine in rich rosaces, pines, &c. Redingotes are very much worn, and generally in the amazone style, but shorter, sometimes of the waistcoat form, showing the muslin chemisette. Bonnets begin to assume an autumnal appearance, capotes of crape are often ornamented with velours epingle. Capotes of taffetas are made with pinked trim Tings, and noeuds of velvet inside, the deep colour of which forms contrast to the light bonnet. Neglige bonnets of fancy straw are lined with gros de Naples, and ornamented in side by poppies and tulle of paille color, with double ba volette of taffetas, pinked and simple nmuds and brides of pinked taffetas. Cock's feathers will be again fashion able, one half black, the other green, blue, or any con trasting colour. Another novelty are the marabouts and follettes glaces, with the natural wings of insects, the varied tints having much effect both by candle-light and in the sun. New mantelets are in preparation for the autumn ; the prettiest are of cashmere satin, and satin de Chine. Many new styles of trimming will also be introduced in manteaux ; the Girondins of black, or very dark coloured satin, the reine Marguerite of velvet, and the Marie Stuart, are spoken of, CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. SODOR AND MAN. - Sodor is from Sundery, (or Southern) Hebrides, the diocese having once 'included them, together with the Isle of Man. The Perthshire Advertiser says, " We understand that it has been determined to erect in Perth, connected with the Episcopal Church in Scotland, a Cathedral, on a grand and magnificent scale." On the 12th ult. ten , of the bishops ordained sixty-eight deacons and seventy-four priests. Of these twenty-two deacons and twenty-nine priests belonged to Cambridge, and twenty-seven deacons and twenty-nine priests to Ox ford ; the rest were from Durham, St. Bees, &c. THE CLERGY IN IRELAND.—" A Connaught Rector" writes to the newspapers to call attention to the condi tion of the Irish clergy. He says :—" In illustration of the present total confiscation of church property in some parts of Ireland, I beg to state my own case. The gross income of my benefice amounts to £658 per annum. The net income which I derive from the living is £420, out of which the poor-rates are to be paid ; 6s. in the pound sterling, the present poor-rate, on the gross income, will amount to £250, to be stopped from my half-year's net income of £2lO, payable at November; and there can be no doubt that, between the poor-rates and the charges for the Labour-rate Act, there will be a similar deduction femn my income in May next. Such is the reward which the clergy are to receive, after having devoted themselves in ' mind, body, and estate,' to the cause of the poor ne glected tenants of, for the most part, absentee landlords during the last sixteen months of ' plague, pestilence, and famine,' in this unhappy land." CHURCH EXTENSION.—It is with sincere pleasure that we announce the determination of a large proportion of the bishops to appoint in their several dioceses a class of Bible readers to assist the parochial clergy in the discharge of their pastoral duties. The wise restrictions and regu lations under which the appointments are to be made, the examination and license required of the candidates for this honourable employment, the recommendation of the in cumbent in . the first instance. and his continued approval throughout, both of the general proceedings of the reader, and also of the tracts or books which he will be allowed to distribute, are a sufficient guarantee for the maintenance of that wholesome order, discipline, and subordination, which our admirable parochial system is so well calculated to ensure ; and will be found, we trust, an ample security against those serious inconveniences which have been ap prehended or experienced in similar schemes, not so deeply considered, nor so well digested, as this appears to be. Yet, it is rather as an admission of the inadequacy of the present resources of the church, than as an attempt to supply them, that this concession is to be hailed with sa tisfaction. The measure, per se, will meet the exigencies of the case just as little as the appointment of one addi tional Bishop of Manchester. But both are valuable. WELSH AND ENGLISH.—It seems hard to say why Parliament should make fish of St. Asaph and Bangor, and flesh of Gloucester and Bristol. It has been dis covered that Sir Robert Peel's commission was, on one side of the Severn, a lamentable fatuity ;—on the other, its most signal exhibition of principle is perpetuated. Why? Only because, in the latter case, the thing was dene before the Commission was found out. If St. Asaph and Bangor was a mistake, Gloucester and Bristol is a lunacy. The union of St. Asaph with Bangor would have given a total of 253 benefices in the united diocese. The union of Gloucester with Bristol gives a total of 535. The average number of benefices in the present English dio ceses is 418. Thus, the united diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, if measured by the number of its benefices, ex ceeds the average by upwards of one fifth ; and is nearly DOUBLE the united dioceses of Bangor and St. .Asaph, And each of the two dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol, ALONE, exceeds, if estimated in the same way, the two Welsh dioceses put together. More than this ; the bene fices of the dioceses of Gloucester and Bristol are some thing larger than those of Wales. The cities of Gloucester and Bristol have no counterpart in the-Welsh dioceses. Even the towns of Stroud, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Malmsbury, Hawkesbury, Wotton, and Dursley, to say nothing of the mining population in the forest of Dean, are far more than pendent to the two cities of St. Asaph and Bangor. The 116 benefices of the dioceses of St. Asaph, all put together, would hardly equal the 30 which form the city of Bristol alone. If Bangor and St. Asaph are two, then much more ought Gloucester and Bristol not to be one. If Gloucester and Bristol are one, much less ought Bangor and St. Asaph to be two.—Guardian. DIOCESE OFRIPON.—In answer to the call now so ur gently made for an increase of the number of Bishops in this country, it is often objected that it is not more Bishops that we want, but an increase of parochial minis ters—the working Clergy, as they are specially called. It is, perhaps, possible, that some of the hardest workers of the whole clerical body are to be found amongst the Bishops themselves ; and another thing is pretty certain, " Give us more Bishops, and we shall soon have an in crease-of parochial Clergy also." We have a practical il lustration of this in the diocese of Ripon. The Bishop of that diocese has just been delivering a Charge to his Clergy, in which, after having commenced by stating, that ten years had now elapsed since his appointment to the Episcopal office ; he afterwards gives a brief statistical ac count of the progress which the Church has made in the diocese of Ripon during that period. "In 1836, there ap pear to have been in this diocese 295 incumbents, 80 cu rates, 300 churches and chapels, and 180 glebe-houses, with 47 of the clergy non-resident. In 1846, we find 370 churches and chapels, and 225 glebe-houses, 360 incum bents and 120 curates, and only 27 non-resident clergy, showing an increase of 70 churches and chapels, besides 36 fresh school-rooms licensed for Divine Worship in remote hamlets, containing accommodation for 6000 persons ; 100 additional clergy, with 45 new parsonage-houses built, while there has been a decrease in the number of non-re sident clergy by about one-half. As regards the erection of schools, the advance has been still more striking. For, although the number of them does not exceed 76, yet, as they afford accommodation for nearly 30,000 children, it is clear that in this department we are gaining on the in crease of our population ; for this number will represent a population of at least 240,000, an amount far exceeding any addition which can have accrued during that period. ' —Colonial Church Chronicle. A DIVIDED PARISH. - The parish of Leigh, in Essex, is in a state of considerable agitation in consequence of Lady Olivia Sparrow having withdrawn her schools at Leigh from the pastoral care of the rector, the Rev. Robert Eden. Lady Olivia, moreover, has published her reasons. These are, she says, her "conviction of the unscriptural character of Mr. Eden's religious views, now further confirmed by the mode of conducting the cere mony of laying the first stone of his new schools. And yet more, the tone of the addresses on that occasion, and on the following Sunday, at church, wherein the Church's voice was described as God's voice '—thus, in reality, setting aside the authority of the word of God, which, in the Articles of the Church of England, to which Church Mr. Eden belongs, is held as supreme. ' And whatever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not required of any man that it should be be lieved as an Article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.'—(Art. vi.) " Lady Olivia fears, nay, on good authority believes, that Mr. Eden's views are essentially the same with those which have led so many from the Church of England to that of Rome. " Truly thankful," adds her ladyship, " should she be, were Mr. Eden to enable her, by a return to the genuine principles of Protestantism, to replace her schools under the superintendence of the pastor of the parish." To this Mr. Eden replies, also in print. He says :—" If her ladyship would kindly state to Mr. Eden what she means by the genuine principles of Protestantism, a return to which on Mr. Eden's part would enable her (as she is good enough to say) to replace her schools under the sunerintendence of the pastor of the parish, Mr. Eden would weigh with the deepest respect and attention any such statement from her ladyship. Will it not satisfy her ladyship on this head, when Mr. Eden says that he re joices in the ' Reformation of the Church of England,' and that he gives his full ' assent and consent to every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer' as set ' forth by the Church of England ? As a member of that Church, her ladyship can scarcely desire a stronger decla ration from one of its ministers. Or, if she wishes him to express his abhorrence of the errors of the Church of Rome,' she has her wish before it is expressed." COURT AND FASHION. -4- The Court still remains in the Isle of Wight, but it is expected that her Majesty will very shortly command a removal to Windsor Castle. On Thursday, the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, The Duchess Ida, of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, arrived at Osborne on a visit to the Queen. The Queen Dowager returned from visiting her Majesty at Osborne on Friday. On Monday, La Duquesa de la Victoria (the wife of General Espartero, Duke of Victory), arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, from the north. The Duchess and party left Manchester for London by the express train on Tuesday night. The Marquis of Kildare, eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, led to the hymeneal altar at Trentham New Church, on Thursday, the Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, third daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Suth erland. The noble bridegroom elect is in his 27th year. Lady Caroline is a few years his lordship's junior. The Queen Dowager, according to present arrange ments, will leave for Portsmouth, to embark on board the Howe, for Madeira, on Saturday next, the 9th instant. Her Majesty will be accompanied by her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Edward and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, who will remain with her Majesty during her residence abroad. The Queen Dowager will be absent from England about six months. The royal retinue will be limited to not more than twenty persons. On Friday, the marriage of Mr. George Granville Ver non Harcourt, M.P. eldest son of the Archbishop of York, and the Countess (Dowager) Waldegrave, daughter of Mr. Braham, the celebrated vocalist, took place, by spe cial license, at the village church, about a mile distant from Belhus-house, the seat of Sir Thomas Lennard, near Ockendon, Essex. It is the third matrimonial contract the lady has entered into since 1839. The hon. bride groom is in his 63d year, and had been a widower during the last nine years, his first wife being a daughter of the late Earl of Lucan, by whom he had an only child, Lady Norreys. FESTIVITIES AT DRAYTON MANOR.-Sir Robert Peel has been entertaining at Drayton Manor a select party of gentlemen, interested in agricultural pursuits. Among the visitors were Earl Talbot, Lords Hatherton and For ester, Sir Francis Lawley, the Dean of Westminster (Dr. Buckland), Captain Dilke ' Mr. Edmund Peel, Sir Hen r y Delabeche, Dr. Lindley, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Professor Wheatstone, Mr. George Stephenson, the Rev. Mr. Huxtable, Mr Josiah Pashy, Mr. Mechi, and Mr. F. Woodward. On Friday, the surrounding tenantry were invited to meet them at dinner, when some admirable speeches were delivered upon most important agricultural subjects. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUMMARY. The pressure upon the money market has increased during the week; and the occurrence of failure after failure has completely banished confidence from amongst commercial men. Meanwhile, to add to our difficulties and to profit by them seems to be the only object with the directors of our national establishment, whose con duct is attracting a large share of public attention. The 'announcement last week of their determination to refuse all advances upon Exchequer Bills, is regarded as equiva lent to a proclamation of its impotence for all useful pur poses, and is more calculated to do injury than any pre vious step of that incompetent body. The writer of the City article of the Times, of Saturday, remarks, with justice, of the harrassing course pursued by the Bank : " The natural results of the measure adopted by the Bank of England on the 2nd of September have taken place to-day, and the city has witnessed another panic, consequent on the proceedings of that institution. Four weeks back, in the face of a steady decrease of their re serve of notes, notice was given that advances would be made on stock, Exchequer-bills, and bills of exchange, at 5 per cent., being a reduction of full one-half per cent., upon the rate then current in the market. The inevitable consequences of this plan of reducing the price of their commodity in proportion as the demand for it was increas ing, was pointed out at the time in the same way as it was pointed out previously to the Bank-made panic of April last. In both cases, however, experience was neces nary to enlighten the directors, and in both cases also the penalty arising out of this necessity has been paid by the public. Instead of husbanding its resources at the time when, owing to the absence of absolute alarm in the money market, a quiet opportunity is presented for it to do so, with a view of securing the means of offering aid when a time of emergency shall arise, and of thus checking the evil of momentary fear, the Bank of England is always the first in the field to add to the terrors of any existing crisis. At periods when the slightest show of liberality, even for four and twenty hours, would at once serve to check the vague apprehensions which the occurrence of two or three large failures is sure to create (and which apprehensions in their effect are far more dangerous than any real event that could possibly happen), the Bank is always in embarrassment, and, so far from protecting others, is seen to be engaged in sudden and desperate efforts to protect itself; thti giving the tone to every minor establishment, and causing universal timidity to ensue when everything depends upon the boldness of self-possession. Up to yesterday there was an all per vading cautiousness in the money-market, but there was no panic. Toe Bank, however, have begun to act, and now there is general contusion. " For these evils, however, the public have only to thank themselves. The Gazette returns are published once a week, and in these there is no deception. At the time when the Bank volunteered to cheapen its advances, the returns in question gave a warning which the public were not bound to disregard merely because it was lost upon the Bank directors. Week by week since that time the sarnewarning has been repeated, and withgrowing urgency, and, had these been attended to, the steps to which the Bank has been driven to-day would have been regarded only as the wholesome result of an attempt to regulate business in total defiance of its commonest principle. When the Bank returns in the Gazette shall be taken at their true value, and be adopted as the guides of all com mercial men, and when the shifting measures of the Bank Court shall also be taken at their true value, and be utterly disregarded, the money-market will then be wholly freed from the danger of violent convulsions. Each weekly change will be noticed, and a gradual course will be foreseen ; there may be pressure of the severest kind, but it will never be coupled with: the fatal, and, to a people priding themselves upon their mercantile sobriety, humiliating exhibition of helpless fright." Under these circumstances it was to be anticipated that a serious reduction in the prices of public securities would be experienced ; and accordingly, on Friday, consols were down at 841 sellers. In other descriptions of property, however, the depreciation is still greater, if indeed it can be said that such a thing as a fixed price exists. Shares are almost unsaleable; and in every branch of commerce transactions are altogether of a retail character, the most substantial houses hesitating to incur liabilities. It is re marked, in justification of this caution, and as evidence that there is something rotten in our monetary system, that the majority of the houses which have been driven to suspend payments ought never to have been under such a necessity, being perfectly solvent, and previously un tainted in credit. The return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 25th of September, gives the following results when compared with the previons week : Public Deposits £9,447,851 Increase .. £698,673 Other Deposits .. 7,484,042 Increase .. 298,969 Rest On the other side of the account Government securities£ll,636,343 thesameasbefore. Other securities 20,007,232 1ncrea5e1,266,747 Notes unemployed .. 4,112,290 Decrease 16050 The amount of notes in circulation is £18,078,585, being an increase of £146,120; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £8,782,703, showing a decrease of £97,787 when compared with the preceding return. The movement to arrest the reckless course which is being pursued by the railway companies, has been greatly advanced by a most influential meeting held in Manches ter on Thursday, at which a very judicious media via was suggested. The stoppage, by legislative interference or otherwise, of all railway construction, is felt to be impos sible, as calculated to plunge a large portion of our work ing classes into difficulty. But works not as yet com menced with, and for which calls are making, may be postponed without any difficulty, and their various boards of direction, engineers, lawyers, and secretaries, furnished with a year's otium cum dignitate, with or without their pay, as the subscribers may determine. That some such course should be taken, is clear from the astounding fact that in the:face of the present unprecedented pressure upon the money market, and of the total inability of share holders to transfer their property to parties capable of meeting them without enormous sacrifices, the calls an nounced in the present month amount to the enormous sum of X 3,493,717. Our cotton market is operated upon by the pressure for money and the decreasing consumption ; and not withstanding the rather unfavourable account of the state of the crop. brought by the Caledonia, we have to notice a further decline of one farthing per lb. on all descrip tions. The sales for the week were 21,160 bales, of which 800 were on speculation, and 2,024 for exportation. The imports for the week were 12,705 bales. The stock is now 399,690 bales, against 653,190 last year, showing a decrease of 253,800. This is, however, a more favoura ble statement than was shown a few weeks ago. The total crop of the United States for the past year is now made up at 1,778,651 bales, which, with the stocks on hand, at the ports at the commencement of the year, 107,122 bales, makes an available supply of 1,885,773 bales. Of this quantity the American consumption was 427,967 bales, having nearly doubled itself within the last ten years. _ _ _ _ _ _ The market for manufactured goods is almost at a stand-still, and further reduction of working is going on. We take the following description from the circular of Messrs. Mc. Nair, Greenough, and Co.. dated Septem ber 30 : " The gloomy and unfavourable condition of business matters, as indicated in our last circular, bseomes com paratively unimportant, when viewed in reference to the actual position of affairs during this month,—a period which, for its intense severity, will be long remembered. We may endeavour, but it is utterly impossible, to make parties at a distance intelligibly acquainted with the influ ence which a series of disastrous tidings has had upon this locality. Failures, we believe, exceeding £5,000,000, and many of them bearing directly or indirectly upon the cotton trade, could not be expected to happen without aggravating very materially the state of the money market, and consequently rendering discount facilities more dif ficult of attainment. But for a perceptible improvement in our home trade, and the existence of a very good de mand consequent upon that improvement, during the last three weeks, we should have had to report something approaching very near to a suspension of operations in cloth. As it is, the business done is of a limited extent. Some descriptions of yarns have, however, experienced a fair demand. Stocks of both cloth and yarns are gene rally heavier than they were a month ago, though to no material extent. Prices of both must, in many cases, be considered perfectly nominal, and be determinable only .by the situation of the producer, and the character and extent of the operation submitted to him. Though cot ton has declined about lid. per pound, from the highest point, the position of spinners and manufacturers is not essentially improved by it. Yarns and goods having also given way, with a certainty of a further downward ten dency. The accounts by the overland mail, though far from favourable, are considered to be as good as might have been expected. We believe that we were amongst the first to predict that bad consequences would result from the immense and indiscriminate shipments which were being made to India and China. No regard appears to have been paid to the legitimate wants of these impor- Aant markets ; on the contrary, supplies have been sent forward as if consumption were boundless, and the sources of payment in return inexhaustibly valuable. The last intelligence is painfully confirmatory of our views. We may notice in conclusion, that the last American steamer, which arrived in Liverpool yesterday, has brought a fair amount of orders, and with them the agreeable intelli gence that the matters in dispute between the United States and Mexico may now reasonably be expected to be soon adjusted. Such, we hope, will be the case ; if so, a valuable market will again be open to us. The Corn Markets continue to exhibit a downward progress in prices, Liverpool exhibiting the greatest amount of firmness, which is accounted for by the fact of no heavy importations being announced as on the way to this country. With respect to the prospect for the coming year ' we quote the following remarks from the circular of Mr. Robert Proctor, of Liverpool : " Assuming the year to terminate, as regards the Corn trade, with the month of September, the following tabular statements of the imports and exports of grain, &c., into and from this port may not be without interest;— Average Yearly Import of Grain, Sze., into Liverpoo Years, ending— f, for 12 WHEAT. FLOUR. Coast wise & Ireland Col. For. Brit. For. Col Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks. Qrs. Qrs. 1841292054 23400 170442 192087 175019 36022 1842172365 24384 653637, 65947 180505 221939 1 8 43 125847 8934 768521155507 10931 79680 1844223502 22083 2402271259556 155200 226833 1845295179 3413 65972 416903 41886 136086 1146194501 49038 287451 264983 877659 246276 1847130761 55006 519159 79948 1979491 410806, Exports for 1 I. ,CORN Aug. 31, Sep. 30, do. 37918 192026 11171608 1 Months, ending 301 h Sept. 1845, 1846, and 1847. Wheat. Flour. I Indian Corn. Cat. & Irel. For. Coast & Irel. For. Irel. & Coast Ending 30th1 Qrs. Qrs. Sacks. Bris. Brls. Qrs. Sept. 1845., 15627 8367 17508 30510 45636 16102 Ditto, 1846. 1 30510 .. 16603 159712 11671 144106 Ditto, 1847.; 33115 4901,43887 641278 47611 539667 Oct. 5, 1847. Imports of Indian corn meal, during this year, 430, 545 ' barrels ; and exports 161,999 barrels.—On reference te„ the above details it will be seen that the great excess of importation has been in American flour and Indian corm Comparatively large as the quantities of these articles ma t demand upon this port, and within the last two months there has been very little accumulation of stock. Lat terly, however, the supplies from abroad have been uncoul' monly heavy. There are no available means of correctly ascertaining the stocks held here, and in offering the.v fol lowing quantities, I believe them to be a fair approals' tiou at the present time :—Wheat, 120,000 qrs. ; flour , 400,000 brls. ; Indian corn, 300,000 qrs. ; Indian mea l ' 200,000 brls. Of oats, barley, beans and peas, the quail' tities are very moderate, and altogether are probably under 100,000 qrs. Of sack flour and oatmeal w e have scarcely any here. The fluctuation in value, within the last twelve months, has been important. Selecting three of th e i principal articles import, American wheat, Western cane' flour, and Indian corn, I find the maximum and m i ni ma of price of the best samples to be as follow .—Wheat, Per 701bs, May 18, 14s 6d ; September 3, is 6d. W. C. Finer per barrel, May 18, 49s Od ; September 3,25 s 6d ; Indian Corn per 4801bs. Feb. 9,75 s ; Aug. 17, 30s.—There seems to be very little difference of opinion as to the productive' ness of the harvest in -the United Kingdom. Barley is probably the greatest crop we ever grew. Wheat, on the whole, has been good, and something better than last year, but the quality is not generally so fine. Oats prove a good fair crop. Beans and peas are deficient pro babli fully one-third. The p o t a t o di sease i s aga i n s p o ken el' but as of a less destructive character than the last tul years. There is, however, only one general opinion that a considerably less breadth of land was planted with Om esculent last season ; the present price is about 100 Pe r cent. over that of ordinary seasons. Notwithstanding that a satisfactory result may be anticipated from the late harvest, the present and prospective rate of consumpl is evidently greater than it is calculated to supply, there can be little doubt that in the course of the nel'" twelve months large importations of bread-stuffs foto abroad will be required, and obtained at moderate rates; as the Continental and American harvests are reported °I even more favourably than our own." FAMILIES OF CHOISEUL, PRASLIN, AND SEBASTIANI. (From Fraser's Magazine.) Scarcely a name is better known in the capital, of Europe than that of Horace Sebastiani ; but few tiler° are in England, though he was for a considerable time ambassador in London, acquainted with the details of his particular biography. Sebastiani was born some 72 or 73 years ago, in Corsic a ' where his father exercised the very useful, but not van distinguished trade qf a cooper. The Sebastiani's alleg that they were allied to the family of Buonaparte but this as it may, young Horace entered the army in his id,' year, in 1792. By his brilliant conduct at Arcola, he obtained the rank of chef d'escadron, and at Verona th at of colonel, from Moreau. Buonaparte, on his return frau! Egypt, was powerfully seconded by Sebastiaui. With t h e regiment of dragoons he commanded he greatly influenc e the fortunate issue of the 18th Brumaire, and from t' moment did not cease to enjoy the favour of the Emperor; His master was prompt to see that he possessed not th e 'science for, a great tactician, such as Davoust, Suche t Soult, or St. Cyr ;—the genius or coup d'eeil of a grea t captain, such as Massena, Hoche, or Ney. He was al so aware that he was as little likely to shine as a grea t politician, like Cambaceres or Talleyraud. But ther.e was a sort of middle career—half military, half diplomsog —in which, he wisely judged, that he might do g° ° , service. Endo we d w i t h c l everness and Corsican .fine' Horace received f rom nature a handsome face , a well shaped and graceful figure. His gestures and attitude were dignified and graceful ' • and, though not ex ceeding the middle size, he had the air and look of parfait cavalier. The malicious wits of that day use, to say he would preserve his graceful dignity if smile', up in a sack, and his agility if chained to a wash-tub. gis' long air gave a poetic harmony to his Raphaeleque hea d ' and it was impossible for women to resist so sentimen ta ' and seducing a dragoon. The Bishop of Malines,rzentalt the Abbe de Pradt, used to say, that if Buonaparte weof the Jupiter, Massena the Mars, and Soult the Vulcan, i • the revolution, Sebastiani was assuredly the Cupid. P r , countryman, and, as Sebastiani says, his relative, de te tr mined to turn this Corsican comeliness to account. . n „ first, it was necessary to marry the envied, but unsP, Colonel ; and a rich heiress of one of the most illustn° houses of Normandy, which had given two marshalls ° t a ct numerous lieutenant-general to France, the only daug il de of the Duke of Coigny was selected. Mademoisell e qt, Coigny was woed and won after the battle of Austen ay. and soon after their nuptials, General and Madame Se a te tiani set out for Constantinople. where the fortullor, countryman'of the Emperor was appointed ambassa e r At Constantinople, Madame Sebastiani died, in the o , a - di of her age, in 1807, in giving birth to the unfortuna te Ain whose sad fate has been recently deplored. Depri ve her early life of the fond care of a mother—deprived eighth year of even the superintending care of he tern sire- Modemoiselle Sebastiani was plaCed with her ma can e an latives. But these, however kind and considerayo,wing never supply the mental aliment and instructil s o fan af with such eloquent force fm the lips and beaorrld, fectio nate mother. Of na g sg to enter into theriase pos ition. Sebastiani perceived herself completely in a • A n the grand In the year 1823, when she first appetite , . 1— ,• l_ we ntS monde, she found, notwithstanding her aceompasu _ons and grace of mind, but a lukewarm reception lathe SO th e of the Fanbourg St. Germain. N o twithstandinfi rits , position and rank of her mother's family, her own I' the grace, youth, and fortune, the great dames who ga ve de law in the rue de Bourbon, de Grenelle, de Babylon e fo r , St. Daminique, de Varennes, &c., looked coldly on The because of the legislative career of her father. Duchess de Berry, who was then in the ascendant, rod her clique, detested and despised the Sebastianis, considered them in the light of personal enemies• Of was this wonderful. For some time before the death „4 Foy—indeed from the beginning of 1824 Seba s t4 sought to rival that military tribune, not with the de7 se of benefiting his country and France, but for the purP of serving the interests of the House of Orleans. Mdlle. Sebastiani is understood to have earlY , f el P attachment to a gentleman of the Royalist opinions. Royalist "par sang ; " but this predilection is sato,, have been combatted. The cupid of the consulate! ,P4 t Adonis of the empire, though born in the hum sphere, always aped the airs of a grand seigneur, and_wric desirous that his daughter should marry into an his u ;: e , family. The young heir of the house of Choiseul Pras e , intimate with the house of Orleans, whose interests. Tot bastiana was serving, was chosen, and the nuptials t ° place in 1825. As Sebastiani's opposition to the ministers and sYs is te e r it of Charles X. was fiercer in that year than it had eve r " t he —as the " Comedie de 15 Ans," which was to end tragedy of 1830, was drawing nearer to a close, the t he bourg St. Germain, then the arbiter of fashion, tookeiress, note of the marriage of a great heir and a great 11 ,, is:- both considered "des etre.? mal pensants," to use to, ' e vir gon of the time. Those, however, who intimately Ni'syss the bridegroom, lamented the fate of the bride, for he .0 then considered, by those who had been b roug ht up . Wl , him, to be a contemptible profligate and degraded belnet; From the period of 1825 till 1830 M. and Mde. Ch°': seul-Praslin were certainly little seen in the society o f th' Faubourg St. Germain. The political conduct and ass°;• ciations of the father of the duchess, and of the father 0 : the duke, effectually shut against them the doors of yr, the select set then called, la bonne compagnie.” 4 ,4 m. father of the duchess is said to have felt this acird; but Madame de Praslin felt it not t o an y extent:eafgy-in had become the mother of a numerous and y daily oc creasing family, lived in a small circle, and wa s ~,,Ave on cupied in the minute yet engrossing duties that de' ,b a nd, maternity even in the highest rank. As to the h a ir ' core he must have felt that, under no combination of c stances, could he have been a favourite in any, c the Without any of the natural cleverness of the roues aisia, Regency, he was distinguished by all their moral tieroutt,, tion. He was vain, avaricious, sensual, susrit c L e et haughty, narrow-minded, ignorant of the value, indinci,l 3 , to the existence, and neglectful of the practice of tru_' lo In all the ramifications of his private affairs, no 1 11111 :,iii being could depend upon him ; and while he was entrie profligate and promiscuous, he was penurious eve n of meanness. Neither of sentiment, nor romance, n o ds, moral truth, did he possess a particle. He had no frienv for he was gloomy, morose, and unsocial ; and with t o p instruments of his degraded pleasures he did not, acc ° o l e ing to report, unbend or compensate by generosity .for. suspicion and arrogant haughtiness which were his 0 ' characteristics. Though at one time austere and apparently superstit.ii°o,ti: in the practice of the ceremonies of religion, he was %g -out religious or moral principle of any kind, without I" rality, and without propriety. Such a man could not comprehend the exalted f e o pt the enthusiastic devotion, the excess of virtuous pas the the ecstatic joy, the excruciating so rrow , th e polg" i4 .o grief, of his doating and distracted w if e . All tha t th . ,t good and gentle in her nature was un k nown t o the excess of deprivation renders men insensible tOter 01, enjoyment. It is well said by th e au th or o f th e Consi',, ations sur les Mceurs, that thi s excess i s t o b e deprec*, even in the interest of unlawful pleasures : "Car it aPPV tient a, l'exes de la depravation de detruire toils plaisirs." nl Much may be, no do u bt, par d one d t o th e ar dent 3 0 tuosity of youth, but there is not one redeeming tr sJ otti S the errors and crimes of Choiseul-Praslin. The IV Of of pleasure may, perhaps, to a certain extent, be papl o iS,', in a young man o f n i ne t een or t wen t y ; b u t the pro hot cuous pursuit of debasing amours in a man close upc, cire fit forty-fourth or forty-fifth year, the father of ten chub the six of them daughters, is infamous, and shows thal, delinquent was deprived of all the purer feelings of h a ( 11i 5 nature. To have made his own house the scene a to ir t profligacy, and the instructress of his children his ~is tress, is a turpitude nearly unparalleled in the ant";tife France. We must go back to the friend of his r e 'D 4 and kinsman, the prime minister of France, for S te ve 0 ' exemplar, and we find him in the person of that Da‘ie, Chartres, afterwards Egalite, who visited Choiseul, - .°oor, villa in his exile, and who subsequently installed Nla a Geniis Sillery simultaneously as his own mistress e„, s son's instructor. Fortunately the virtuous disposit t fLtfr," the youth were proof against the contagion of 1•7 0 0" example and governess practice ; for the prince ,' O O/ 1 ' Louis-Philippe) was an incarnation of virtue hi ) 0/ 0 " and is a model of innocence, simplicity, generosity , lessness, and purity in old age. an se Madame de Praslin was not a singular wife in thei a tor; in which our clever weekly contemporary, the SPe c , oli as calls her so. She had Corsican blood in her veins ,10e• side, and on the side of her mother some of the, ',. e fot e ' and best blood in France. That she was, ther e I> e De ' warm, impassioned, sensitive, and high-minded , n ' e d h e ot conceded ; but these qualities ought to have sec ar , o te, the affection and esteem, and not the murderous her monster husband. Oct.