The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

FOREU IS TELLIGENCE FRANC! miteur of Thursday contains a series of royal ordi- One of them calls into active service the reserves of of recruits of 1834 and 1835 ; and another declares iblic utility urgently requiring the executing of the of Paris, the Minister of Public Works was au with to the appropriation of the s of fortification were to be erected, at his disposal for the purpose of A third ordinance opens a credit ster of War to meet the expenses already commenced at Mont V:&- ac•. . , /s says, that " the publication of the d anti• new apprehension nor iy existed ; that its fears and timed, because the causes which excited full force. The third article of the treaty ✓entuality of the presence of the Russians in r Constantinople has been foreseen by the es. It concludes that there must be some in view by the English government, or it not permit the Russians to enter the Bosphorus, and sequence the French government are bound to watch Telv and not to Quit their attitude of defence." Univers announces, on the authority of its corre its in Lezhorn and Genoa, that the rate of commer ,ces for the East exceeded 20 per cent. A Leghorn who had a vessel ready to sail for Beyrout, sud her to be unloaded, so general was the opinion city that war was inevitable. same journal publishes the following extract of a I Rome, the Bth :—" We have hitherto ieceived ation or denial of the news I gave you in my pondence under date the 4th inst., but this been currently reported here that the English Lion with the Turks, seized on Tripoli, Tarsus, time points of Syria, and driven the Egyptians This intelligence is said to have arrived by Levant." the c Journal du Havre mentions a report current in that ~/bour for some dAys—namely, that communications had been exchanged between the governments of France and the United States, in the anticipation of a war. This journal advices the conclusion of an alliance, offensive and defensive, between the two countries. SPAIN News has been received from Madrid to the 10th instant. The tranquillity of Madrid continued undisturbed, though a died among the population, arising rdinary aspect of affairs. The pro eeling embarrassed by the want of cive measures to obtain the required of anxi from the present exteaur 1 Governrner had ack uecree had been passed requiring all state credi tor; to discharge their debts to the Treasury in the short , and in case of non-compliance with this !e was to be resorted to in order to compel apitalists of Madrid had also been called .ue an advance of 4,500,060 reals ; and a con)- . cne body had been formed to arrange with the pro- Government the terms upon which this loan was to .ry forc The adhesion of the following town to the insurrectionary movement had been officially announced by the provisional Government :—Toledo, Burgos, Saragossa, Salamanca, Avila, Caceres, Segovia, Soria, Huesca, Granada, Ciudad Real, Cadiz, Lerida, Carthagena, Malaga, Almeria, Alinagro, San tander, and Logrono. Intelligence of the espousal of the same cause by Calatayud, Palencia, and Valladolid had also arrived. Seville was declared in a state of siege. Marote, and several officers who signed the treaty of Bergara, had made an offer of their services to the provisional Government. The junta of Madrid, having learned that the Liberal Alcalde of Murcia had been arrested by the political chief of that pro vince, declared their resolution to adopt measures of reta liation. in case of necessity, against all functionaries who ;hall oppose the spread of the insurrection. The letter addressed by the Junta to the Queen-Regent, laving as our readers are already aware , b e en ret urne d un veiled' by the Queen's Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Junta have declared the functionary responsible for the act, and have forbidden ail persons to hold communication with ) long as he continues in the same official position. reached Madrid that the Baron del Solar de .d been proclaimed a traitor by the Junta of Bur military demonstration against the iven by him not to commence ,pits of a prom. EGYPT AND THE EAST. Alexandria, dated the 31st ult., communicated --lie de Toulon, state that the greatest enthu iled among the Egyptian population in favour of of the Pasha. In the event of an attack being i Alexandria, no doubt was entertained but that the opulation would unite in opposing it. Mehemet Ali ;ording to these accounts, more firmly resolved than resist the nronositinns of the four Powers. Another Advices fro siasm r r from the same place, of the date of the 29th, announces in a conference which Meheinet Ali had with Rifat Bey, esence of the Consuls of the four Powers, he ex -qtisfaction with the arrangement proposed by with respect to Egypt, and added that .t with Syria for life. ve order:s have been given to Ibrahim to Son Constantinople as soon as the first cannon shall and it is said that the Russians on their side are dy to advance. ;sed his tv of I t positi :omits brought by the Papin, which reached xandria on the 12th instant, it appears that 11 Las •.••• •• opford, being informed of the expected arrival of :ssel loaded with howitzers for the Pasha of Egypt, d issued orders for its capture. (From the Malawi Shark.) SMYRNA. AUGUST 29.—The Leonidas French Government tamer arrived on the 20th ; she had as passengers the vedish Ambassador to the Court of Greece, M. le Chevalier a, and his lady. are at present without any ship of war in the inn the Beacon, her Britannic Majesty's sur- In consequence of the anniversary of the birth the King of Holland. this vessel paid the cus ry honours, saluting the flag at mid-day with 21 guns. s Excellency the Prince of Samos quitted our roads on 3d inst., in the French government steamer Dante, for ftantinonle, where he arrived on the 2.5 th. inner Lavoisier arrived here on the 26th, on the 30th to join the French squadron, days . before on a cruise in the gulf. 22. —The Thunderer and Ganges ar 13th ; the Gorgon, from Alexandria, !ienne, from Malta, on the 21st. Turco-Egyptian brig, laden with ke stores. She and the Castor had vessels, all with warlike stores, one of yptian man-of-war cutter from Alexandria ; and on the 20th, a large Egyptian ship, formerly a ,ate, but no guns on hoard, with few men and like stores. The vessels generally were bound to The Ganges and Thunderer were anchored off the camp, all ready for action, as were the Powerful gh off the old castle and town. The Gorgon .ere keeping under sail looking out for captures. 2,000 men at ..Beyrout, under the command of ha. Abbas Pasha left that place on the 18th, en, to reinforce the garrison of St. Jean d'Acre. apwarkls of 4,000 Turks incorporated with the vho were anxious to return to Constantinople, ;satisfied that they had been disarmed, ers had escaped and got on board the ish consul, Mr. Moore, and family, s ship. Notwithstanding these events, Litenant Shadwell of the Castor passed hrough the country to Balbec and Da ml returned only on the 20th ult. lirntin Pa 4,000 I some c )REIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY _ _.. From a review of the commerce lf-year of 1810, it appears there has iports of materials for manufactures, ; while there had been an increase tbstances, with the exception of cast n the contrary, had decreased. —On the 26th, 27th, and 28th the Marquis imperiale Santo Angelo, accompanied by acted the ascent of Mont Blanc, from Cha zreatest success. The weather was remark party could be seen with the naked eye iu„ the whole time of the ascent. This t Italian who has led a party to the top id is the first who has been up since in 1838. COMMERCE OF FRNN BLANC ii, with the Swiss Observer of Berne relates the following laments ae Bth instant, Colonel Rowley, son of the mountain called the Harder, near ) daughters and his son, who was very prudently gone without a guide, the lG years of age, slipped, and fell over a he was killed on the spot. Her brother :(1, hut caught by some grass, and held could make a labourer hear his cries, . Some other persons also came, st Miss Rowley was carried back choly event has caused universal a till Col OF DEATn.—Mr. John Smith, ofTyron county, Pa., died on the 16th instant, was stung on the back of the neck by .fn : .;aged in making hay, and died of lock rwardi.—Nero York Herald. —At Stockholm it is said to be the f small fortune, who want to enjoy coon ,e of ground for the season, and pitch ~ Some of them are two sto liteen rooms. M. Blom hes a A.LWAYS AT 110.).11. ,C A LETTER.—The August No. inierican Journal of the Medical Sciences relates a mce of a small-pox contagion. Mr. Robert At- Ancater, Pa., was seized with the small-pox in ist, and after passing through a severe sickness ease, recovered. After his recovery, he wrote a brother, Richard Atkinson, of Wellsville, Ohio, ccount of his sickness. The letter was written on er, and sealed with a wafer in the usual manner. lined on the road by the great snows which fell 'erne, it did not reach Wellsville until two or three was written. After receiving the letter, Mr. , n opened it, and carried it in his vest pocket About one month afterwards he was taken and died. There had been no cases the place for two years, and no other could be assigned than the letter CONTAGION CO lgular i r.c-rultE.-It. is worthy of remark, that the Queen steam-ship, the last great chitecture that has interested the world, "oak's Ark, the first that was set afloat, Isainl years of practical science has done dimensions of floating boats first given f the universe; and if the criti ca l cha ,„ d u ly considered, it may afford )1 . the Scripture narrative. Th e ixth of the length ; the depth The British Queen is forty. :o stern-post, 243 feet aloft ; wire depth twenty-four feet as long as the Queen. 6NGLAND.—The directors aolding a certain amount of .;;cants of London, no bankers change is taking place. After if 35 years, and having my far es, I feel that I have still some icti what inay be expected of the ited ? They may have informs 'ey move ; but 1 do know, after -..,y were in great ignorance of the .ny late 'friend, Samuel Thornton, a good gentleman, the father of the directors, who iilnes, from Wakefield,' too, and who, besides ssian merchant had a sugar house at Hull, wrote osely to ask, if the notes of the country bankers in rkshire circulated from hand to hand by i n d orsemen t. tie a buy . exchanye.—Leatham's Letters on the Currency. PrtEtTiVING GKEEN PEASIC.—NOW is the time for those who like a goad thing in the winter, to ,lay up .a store of green pease. if :;'s , lleil and put into a dry bottle and corked be kept until W i n t er w i th perfectly tight (sea;ea) they may ease. They should be cooked as soon as the bottle is opened, as they will not keep well after the air comes to them. --New Genesee Farmer. of 1525, tE Tilt MAYORALTY OF LONDON. InCLAITATION OF THE LIVERY IN OPPOSITION TO THI ELECTION OF ALDERMAN HARMER, (From the Times of Yesterday) The undersigned Liverymen of London wish to apprise their fellow-citizens, that they shall feel it to be their duty, with whatever pain or reluctance, to oppose thaelection of Alderman Harmer as Lord Mayor of London. In taking a course so unusual, and, to their own feelings, so disagree able, they desire that the grounds of their opposition should be distinctly understood. Admitting the principle of rotation to be in the main a just and proper - one, h is clearly necessary, in attempting any deviation from it, to show that a valid and sufficient cause exists. The undersigned therefore desire to declare in the most emphatic manner — That they desire to bring no charge against Alderman liar mer's private character, nor to reflect in any manner on his discharge of his public duties ; still less would they rest their opposition on any consideration of his political views or con nexions ; all reference to which, in the present question, they holdsto be utterly inadmissible. Entirely repudiating all views or motives of the above de scriptions, the undersigned do most unreservedly declare, that their whole ground of opposition to Alderman Harmer concerns his well-known and publicly admitted connexion with the newspaper called the Weekly Dispatch. Of the fact of that connexion there can be no doubt, inas much as by Alderman Harmer himself, at two public meet ings in the present year, it was distinctly admitted. But that connexion, in the judgment of the undersigned, renders him entirely unfit to till the office of chief magistrate of the city. o The . paper in question can only be appropriately described as a public nuisance, and that of the most fearful character. It is a nuisance, not as opposing whig government or tory government, but all govein . tnentwhalever ; it is a nuisance, not as advocating any particular view of the constitution, but as ridiculing alike all systems and all views, and plainly counselling anarchy and confusion ; it is a nuisance, not as opposing the church or as preferring dissent, but as scoffing at all kinds and forms of religidn whatever. It has personally insulted the sovereign and her consort ; it has broadly and repeatedly recommended the overthrow of the monarchy ; it has extolled and encouraged every instance of rebellion ; and it has constantly and deliberately reviled the christian faith and its professors of every class and denomination, and given the preference to infidels and blasphemers of every description. Such is the publication of which Mr. Harmer is a chief proprietor, and such has it been through a series of years. In this course of conduct does Mr. Harmer maintain it, and so doing he utterly and unquestionably disqualifies himself, in our view, for holding the office of chief magistrate of this city, . . But these are weighty and grave accusations, and it is but fitting that evidence should be adduced to establish them. The undersigned say, then 1. That the Weekly Dispatch has repeatedly insulted, and that in the grossest terms, both her Majesty and her illus trious consort. Take the following instances : _ "The little Queen of nineteen tells the lords and gentlemen, that they are so well acquainted with the duties which de- volve upon them in their respective counties, that it is un necessary for her to remind them what they ought to do. What a mockery of common sense is this !__ The Queen knows no more of the subject than a ua.i• '—August 19, " In the speech delivered by Her Majesty, on Tuesday last, there is such a neutral character, that it ►s difficult to say whether the frilly or the falsehood predominates. These Royal speeches have an excellent moral effect; for they expose to the people the abominable impudence of Royal preten sions, as well as the folly of Royal institutions. We attach none of our observations to tier Majesty ; she, of course, is merely au automaton ; and if the people are fools enough to put up with a doll, they have no right to complain that the doll is not of the right gender, or that it has no intellect or anything else respectable. " The Queen is badly advised in appealing to the good sense of the people ; for, if they exercised their good sense, a throne would not exist for three months in this country." —September 1, 1839. " This paragraph in the Queen's speech might be thus put into common sense :—` I have chosen a husband, instead of a husband choosing me. And, as lie has neither clothes, nor any thing else, tit for his appearance as a gentleman, accord ing to his rank and station, I expect my faithful Commons to tax the distressed people of England, in order that this GERMAN PAUPER may appear decently in public. " This is the moment at which the Queen calls upon Par liament to tax, and severely tax, the people, to support this PAUPER object of her choice." " Are the people of England to support Royalty at such an enormous expense, and as such a DOLL OR PUPPET?"— Jan. 19, 1840. " A young girl of 18 governs about four-and-twenty mil lions of people at home, and about an hundred millions in the colonies and India. For this task the young lady takes £871,410 per annum ; and when she marries, she pleads po verty, and calls upon her people, who are in a great state of distress, to support her husband by a further allowance out of the taxes."—Feb. 2, 1840. Such is the language constantly employed in speaking of her Majesty. Even more disgusting, if possible, are the epithets applied to one whose memory the Queen is known to regard with peculiar veneration. King George HI. is spoken of, December 23, 1838, as " The HIDEOUS CANINE-MINDED BRUTE SAVAGE that was King of England ;" and, April 15, 1838, as— " That direful infliction upon humanity—that SCOURGE AND DISGRACE OF NATURE, George lII.' But, 11. It has unceasingly reviled the British Constitu tion as a whole, and more particularly the principle of a monarchical government. As, for instance— " The abstract, the monstrous absurdity of Royalty, can no longer be concealed from the public mind." "To make Royalty any longer respectable is out of the question ; but to render it for a short time longer endurable, it is necessary for all these impositions to be instantly abolished."—Nov. 12, 1837. . . . . " It is absolute nonsense to conceal the fact, that the ab surd principles of the British Constitution can no longer be brought into action, if they were ever made to act at all. The idea of three independent, coequal, and hostile branches of the Legislature, is absolute nonsense."—Dec. 30, 1838. " A mixed Monarchy like ours is always, and under every possible variety of circumstances, the most corrupt of all forms of government. —Oct. 7, 1838. " In the name of Heaven, let us either disclaim our title to rational beings, or get rid of coronations, as one step to getting rid of Royalty."—June 3, 1838. " A coronation is, at best, but a tom-foolery ; the bishops are scoundrels for proclaiming it sacred, and the nation ought to enjoy it as a Saturnalia—a sort of llockley-in-the-Hole, or Dog-and-Duck, or Chick-lane affair."—May 27, 1838. "The British constitution is the worst that ever existed." —March 11, 1838. "In all countries Royalty is the same—a mass of folly, falsehood, and fraud, maintained at an enormous expense, much to the disgrace as well as to the injury of the people." —Sept. 15, 1839. 111. The constitution and the monarchy being thus held up as things to be " got rid of," let us see by what means they are to be destroyed. And here we find that what is called " the right of rebellion" is constantly advocated : " The tyranny and injustice of the Government have at length driven the people from Lower Canada into a state of armed resistance, vulgarly called rebellion."—Dec. 24, 1837. " The Canadians have justifiably taken up arms." "An appeal to arms ought to be the last, and always must be a deplorable resource ; but where there is no other, and where grievances are so immense, is not rebellion the most sanctified species of warfare ?"—January 14, 1838. " We have always maintained that insurrection or rebellion is inherently a right possessed by the people." " Resistance to authority, and even an armed resistance, may be the first and most sacred duty of a citizen ; it is, however, a desperate remedy, and never to be resorted to but upon probabilities of success. —November, 10, 1839. " The peace of society has been violated by the Chartists, as a necessary consequence of bad government ; and our rulers, or rather their predecessors, are the persons that ought to be brought to punishment."—November 17, 1839. " The charges are, that these men (the Birmingham Chartists) attended large and tumultuous meetings, and used language calculated to excite the people to disaffection. There is no offence in this ; we should rather say it is a case of merit."—August 11, 1839. " The right of insurrection or rebellion is inherent in the people of every country ; and it is in the application of the doctrine, or the exercise of the, right, that consists the good or evil." " There is nothing criminal or meritorious in rebellion in the abstract."—January 26, 1840. " This infamous arrangement of the whigs will infallibly produce another revolution in Canada, and, let the rebellion come when it may, I heartily wish success to popular resis tance against such clerical spoliation and villany."—March 29, 1840. IV. A deadly hatred to christianity, however, is the most prominent feature and the chief crime of the Weekly Dis patch. And this is not sectarian, but universal. If, on August 12, 1838, the Bishop of London is reviled for his " hatefully blasphemous coronation sermon," and for " the absolute folly, the perplexities of absurdities and blasphe mies uttered from the pulpit in Westminster Abbey," in the very same paper it is averred that " field preaching and street preaching are abominable nuisances, and ought to be sup pressed by the police." In the same spirit of universal hostility are the following passages written : " The question is, whether the clergy of every denomina tion do not diminish the number and faith of religionists far beyond the proportion natural to the advance of civilization." " Individually and collectively, they make themselves odious in every point of view. They rob the people, not only to excess, but in modes, and under pretences, which render their voracious appetite for spoil more hateful than can well be imagined."—Dec. 16, 1838. " The dexterous manner in which the clergy of every de nomination throw religion to the dogs, exceeds all precedent. " The Christian religion in England is hardly better than another name for a set of dice or counters to be thrown upon a political gambling table. The people ought to buckle on their armour, and not suffer themselves to be so egregiously cheated out of all things rational and substantial by a set of knaves that make them pursue phantoms iu order to convert them into beasts of burden, or asses to be laughed at."— Dec. 9, 1838. " Protestantism, Catholicism, Methodism, or any other ism, is only a cant term to facilitate the impositions up on the mind, and which impositions are always tricks to arrive at the breeches pocket."—September 1, 1839. " Religion in England ought always to be allegorized by the figure of a devil incarnate, with a bloody sword in one hand, and a bunch of skeleton keys and implements of house -breaking in the other."—September 2, 1838. " Why cannot the people exercise a little intellect, and select or collate the Bible according to its intrinsic merits, rejecting those parts which are revolting to nature, and ab horrent to the human species in the present state of society ?" —November 23, 1838. V. Very naturally, therefore, infidelity is constantly exte nuated, or even held up to admiration. For instance : " There is no more moral depra . ity in being an infidel than in being a clergyman."Nlarch 15, 1840. " Socialism and Chartism are only the misdirected efforts to throw off the dreadfully intolerable curse of superstitious systems."—February 2, 1840. " Blasphemy is a word of no meaning ulha l l s e 4 v o. er. It is a cunning coinage of priestcraft."—March 1 5 , " The men most illustrious for genius, the most celebrated for reasoning powers and knowledge, and the most estimable for moral principles, as well as for exalted feelings and amiable natures, have, within the last century, been what are termed INFIDELS."—ApriI 19, 1840. " Whatever creeds Revelation may teach, the CHRISTIANS are invariably found to be among the most immoral of human 5 being s. „ r . lie moral virtues increase upon receding from the Chris tian, and approaching Mohammedan countries. • "An European does not reside in India a year without becoming an infidel. lie sees the infinitely superior morals and manners, habits and customs, of the natives ; he begins to reflect upon different faiths ; he generalizes his ideas, and ver y soon becomes of no faith at all. An Englishman in India always observes, that India is not in want of GutChris neil that or E at u io r n op e e ve is r terribly in want of Heathenism.' agreed upon what was or is the in word of God. What one country calls the word of God ano ther terms the word of the Devil, and vice versa : and there is no standard, no court of appeal, no House of Lords to determine which is right and which is wrong. Most certain it is, that nine-tenths of what we pious Christians call • the ' word of God,' the Devil would be ashamed cif. " According to the history of ages, and to the indisputable state of present relations, the Hindoo sect is by far the best. " He who is worthy of the name of man knows no distinc_ tiou of sect, whether Deist, Atheist, Christian, Mahometan, Jew, or Hindoo."—Sept. 8, 1839. The above lame - VS might be multiplied by hundred:, were it necessary, Nor are they merely the independent resnarks of casual correspondents, The whole are taken, either from the editorial articles, or from the papers of a regular contri butor, wbo signs himself " Public°la," and who continues a regular contributor to this hour. _ . Siich is the tone and character of that journal which boasts of a weekly circulation of 60,000 copies, and of which-Mr. Alderman Harmer is a principal proprietor. A greater moral pest or public nuisance it ►s impossible to conceive. And that a party acknowledging an intimate connexion with it should be elevated to the first official rank amo • • of London is, we trust, scarcely possible. At all events, in a view of its character, as opposed not only to every institu tion of the country, but even to religion itself, and to the sacred scriptures—the only source of divine truth—we fee.l that we have no course open to us but that of opposing the election of the chief proprietor of the Dispatch as Lord Mayor of London. In taking this course, many of us do violence to our personal feelings, having received courtesies or kind nesses at Mr. Harmer's hands; but the case appears to be one of such extreme criminality, so far as the paper is con cerned, as to compel us utterly to overrule all such considera tions. September IWa, 1840, SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE CHURCH. (From the Times of Yesterday,) The following important letter has come into our possession ; we have no doubt of its authenticity, and therefore publish it. " Whitehall Gardens, February 23, 1835. " My dear Bsshop of Durham ,—That public business must be of more than ordinary and pressing importance which I did not set aside for the purpose of reading with earnest at tention a letter from you, and that letter too on a subject of such vital importance as the one on which you have ad- dressed me " I will, with your permission, refer to the political and the religious considerations which it involves.. " It is a matter of extreme difficulty to determine when it is the duty of a Minister of the Crown to undertake the interference with ancient usages and venerable institutions, If he determines to do nothing, he may incur the risk of insuring interference by ruder and more hostile bands. if he advises and undertakes interference he appears to the un- thinking to be needlessly departing from principle, to be unsettling what it may be very dangerous to disturb, and to be establishing a precedent which may be appealed to against himself by those dangerous innovators whose intervention he wishes to avert. _ _ , . I know no other guide that he can take to regulate his course amid such difficulties but his deliberate and con scientious conviction of what may be ultimately the best for the security and permanent interests of ,the establishments he desires to protect and serve. " The important question connected with the church which was forced upon me, and which required immediate decision, was this : " Is it prudent and safe on the part of the Crown to de cline all interference with the state of the church, and to leave that question to be disposed of as may seem best to the House of Commons, trusting implicitly either to the forbear- ante and caution of that house, or to the power of the House of Lords to reject what may be injurious? " I cannot with a safe conscience answer that question in the affirmative. _ . " I entreat you to look with me at the constitution of the present House of Commons. We have a decided majority of the representatives of both Ireland and Scotland hostile to the church, and I fear no inconsiderable number of the re presentatives of England either unfriendly or indifferent to the interests of the church. " On the first discussion that takes place in the House of Commons, after my appointment as Prime Minister, on the proposal to replace in the chair the late Speaker, who has served the house for 18 years, and during seven ►successive Parliaments, I find myself in a minority of ten. " It is in vain for me to disguise from myself that very few of those who voted in that majority will prove themselves on the day of trial friends to the church. " The minority is composed in great part of members pro fessing the utmost attachnient to the church, but all, with few exceptions, requiring the correction of whatever can justly be called an abuse in the establishment. " In that minority Lord Stanley and his friends voted, in creasing of course to the extent of their numbers the force we could bring into the field. At his late election for Lan cashire, Lord Stanley, a declared friend of the church, who sacrificed his office in maintainance of the principle that church property in Ireland should not be applicable to secu lar purposes, delivered those opinions on the subject of church reform : " I know also that ecclesiastical reform must come, and that it is certain with regard to two great branches, namely, both as to the temporalities of the church, and also as to her internal discipline. I too, like my hon. friend, would not be a consenting party to abstracting one farthing from the revenues of the clergy, who I believe in my conscience are not overpaid, but as a body are hardly adequate to supply the religious wants of the people. But I do say that it is absolutely necessary to have a different distribution of the revenues of the church, to afford a more equal distribution of the means of religious instruction ; that the abuses of non residence, the abuses of pluralities, and the abuses of the present appropriation of chapter and cathedral property should be got rid of, and that the. revenues of the church should be so disposed of as to give the people of England the greatest amount of benefit from the exertion of competently, but not overpaid, ministers.' " Now, looking at the majority and at the constitution of the minority, what course is it prudent for us to take ? Shall we leave church reform in the hands of the House of Com mons, or shall we make an honest bond fide attempt to re serve to the Crown and to advisers selected by the Crown the cautious and deliberate review of a question of such ex treme delicacy and importance ? " Believe me, my dear Lord, that I am acting under the deepest impression that the effort I have made so to reserve that question affords the best (I had almost said the only) prospect of auy safe and satisfactory adjustment of it. " So much for the political considerations that are con nected with this subject, and their bearing, not on the poli tical prospects of an administration, but on the vital interests of the church. _ " May I presume now, with the utmost deference for your superior knowledge, and with unbounded respect for your high and venerable character, to say a word to you on much higher concerns—on the intrinsic merits of the measure I have advised, and its relation to the spiritual welfare of the establishment ? " I admit the force of your observations as to the advantage of cathedral dignities, their tendency to elevate the general character of the profession, their utility (if honestly applied) as retreats for, and encouragement to learning, and I should be the last person to propose any harsh measures of confis cation, or the sudden appropriation of the revenues of deans and chapters (in the absence of all friendly and confidential consultation with them) to objects foreign to their original destination. " But I do earnestly advise a comprehensive and impartial consideration of the whole position of the church, and that our anxiety for one branch of the establishment should not divert our care from other objects of most important and pressing concern. Ido earnestly ask, whether it be fit that the great manufacturing towns and districts of the country should be left, as to the means of spiritual instruction, in their present state ? Is it right (I ask the question on purely religious grounds) that such a place as Nottingham, for instance, should remain as it has hitherto remained, with no provision for the taaintenance of the ministers of the church of England, excepting the scanty means which they can collect from pew rents or Easter dues ? " Is it right that the two parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, with a population of 50,000 souls—pa rishes dependent on the Dean and Chapter of Westminster —in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral church—under the daily eye of parliament, should remain without, in either case, a decent provision for even a single minister of the Church of England ! In these parishes there are additional churches subscribed for, but not built, because there is no endowment; and dissent is increasing, not on account of hos tility to the church, but because there is a religious feeling which the Church of England will not conciliate towards herself. " Apart from all popular clamour, from all political con siderations, is it better for the Church of England, for the interest of that faith the propagation and maintenance of which is surely the primary object of her establishment, to continue the old method of disposing of all the prebends of Westminster as sinecure dignities, or to make a certain num ber of them instrumental in removing such a scandal from the church, as that which two great neglected parishes in the heart of the metropolis, and in immediate connexion with the chapter, are exhibiting at this hour ! " Let me take another case—that of Colne, a parish in Lancashire, the centre of a large manufacturing district. It contains about 18,000 inhabitants, has one minister with a stipend of about £l6O. a year, £lOO. of which is raised by Easter dues, paid with the utmost reluctance and ill will, each cottager having to pay sid. a head, and frequently re sisting payment until after an order of a magistrate, which increases the charge tenfold. " I have mentioned three examples of parishes—one in the metropolis, one in a large town, one in a great manufac turing district ; and they are not unfair instances of the miserable provision made for divine worship in very many parishes similarly circumstanced. Can we reconcile it to ourselves in a religious point of view that these things should remain as they are? If we cannot, if we must admit that they are wrong, is there the shadow of a hope that parliament will be content merely to supply the deficiency—will leave cathedral dignities and cathedral revenues precisely on their present footing, and make provision out of the public funds for the increase of all livings inadequately provided for? Suppose there were a vacancy to-morrow in the deanery of Durham, would it be prudent for me, either as a minister or as a conscientious friend of the church, to advise the king to fill up the appointment, leaving it with its present emolu of £9OOO a year, and with no other spiritual functions than those which belong properly to the dean? There would cer tainly be, on the one hand, the advantage of strict adherence to the letter at least of the statutes of the chapter, there would be the gain to the minister of a great aristocratic ap pointment which might possibly be well bestowed on some man of pre-eminent worth and extraordinary learning ; but would such advantages compensate for the alienation of thou sands from the church, who would witness this appointment, with all its emoluments intact, devolving on an individual, and at the same time populous districts in the neighbourhood of Durham overrun with dissent from no other cause than that there is no adequate provision for the performance of ' the rites of the church of England ? " If the deanery of Durham were retained with all its functions, and with ample emoluments for the station, and if at the same time some mode could be devised for making a portion of the revenues (surely the excessive revenues) now attached to the deanery instrumental in planting a new bishopric in the north of England, and relieving the see of Chester from some portion of labours above human strength, could it be truly said that this would be undermining the foundations of the church ? " Would a measure of this kind, or the attachment of a prebend of Durham to such a rectory as that of Newcastle upon-Tyne, or the application of the emoluments of a pre bend to the spiritual improVement of immense masses of population (selecting, if possible, those which are connected with the chapter by vicinage or local ties)—would such acts be any greater violation of rigid principle than the sale of the property of the chapter for the purpose of endowing an uni versity, or the attachment of prebends to the professorships in that university ? •‘ Does any reasonable man complain that a prebend of Lichfield has been attached to an unendowed parish in Birmingham, or doubt the advantage to the church, to the temporal as well as the spiritual interests of the church, of such an application of it ? " Under any circumstances, I should say not •, but under the present circumstances the practical question for decision is this,—shall these precedents be cautiously acted upon by friends of the church for the bona fide purpose of extending the influence of the church, or shall church reform be left to reckless innovators and undisguised enemies ? " I have written this letter amid so many interruptions, and so hastily, that I ought, perhaps, to apologize to you for an apparent abruptness and peremptoriness in the manner and tone of it—perhaps for its unconnectedness and want of clearness. " I have been obliged to have it re-copied, that I might not inflict upon you the double penalty of a tedious and an illegible letter.-1 have the honour to be, my dear Lord, " With the ea test esteem, "Most faithfully yours, " ROBERT PEEL. " P.S.—I omitted to state in my letter that I entirely con cur in your opinion that it could not be politic or just, under any circumstances,_ to contract the means of the ch apter of Durham to give effect in the fullest degree to their wise and liberal intentions in respect to the university which has been founded under their auspices." ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE (From the Oxford Herald.) PROMOTIONS. We have heard, with pleasure, that the Rev. T. Garrett, B.A. of Queen's College, Cambridge, a native of Shaftesbury, a gentleman of high literary attainments, has been resented to a church, value £4OO. per annum, in Jamaica, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of that Island.—Salisbury Herald. - ' Rev. Charles Nate, 8.D., Fellow of St. John's College, 1 Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Holme, in Spalding Moo, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Very key. Dr. Cal vert ; patrons, the Master and Fellows of St. John's College. Rev. John Booth, Perpetual Curate of Stanford Bishop and Wacton, Herefordshire, to be one of the Six Divinity Lecturers fo - unded in the Church of Bromyard, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Wood Duppa, M. A. of Christ Church. Rev. Mr. Penny, son of the Rev. Mr. Penny, of Fox Hall, Cubetsty, Essex, to the Curacy of Romford, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. J. Wix. _ Rev. Henry Nicht)lson Burrows, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and late Principal of Hull College, to be one of the Domestic Chaplains to the Duke of Sutherland. WORKING OF THE CORN AVERAGES TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCOTTISH STANDARD !Diistsuu.okt, Sept. 15, 1840, Sin,—l cannot but think it due to p . m to state, even through your own columni, that ever since you have come amongst us, you have distinguished yourself, by taking up and fully discussing every subject that you could consider of importance to the country. In the department of agricul ture you have been particularly assiduous—and I think not in vain ; nor do you seem to omit any opportunity of defend ing the outworks of the system you have endeavoured to establish. It is upon this subject I now wish to address you, and I shall endeavour to convey what I have to say iu as few words as possible. The last great operation of the corn importers for the year, has just been completed ; and it has been for them most triumphant—most disastrous for the country. In the port of Loudon alone about a million of quarters have been let loose upon the last occasion. Even in Leith seventy thousand quarters have been released, as you correctly state. Your contemporaries have stated it at twenty-six, but this is to content themselves with recording only the operations of one day. All the other ports included, the release cannot have been of less than two millions five hundred thousand quarters; and this, be it remembered, upon this single occasion. Now, what will be the conduct of the corn-importers ? They have not released all their stores—that might have caused a real fall of price. They have released what to the best of their judgment may be left free, without the risk of causing any considerable depression. But if auy considerable importations should be ventured on by INTRUDERS, they would immediately sink the averages, that by raising the duty they may have the market sealed against all releases capable of interrupting their profits. This is precisely the state of things pointed out seven years ago, by a writer who has since become one of your most in dustrious correspondents. He then spoke as follows : " Supposing the cheap corn of Poland introduced at a shil ling or two shillings a quarter, the merchant, after all charges, has probably a power of profit of from thirteen to fifteen shil lings, because the British farmer cannot produce at less than leaves this difference. To all this extent, therefore, the mer chant can dally with his subject, and by means of a very small stock of foreign corn, command the markets and the produce of the native farmer at his own price ; for the mer chant, so circumstanced, can sell with profit where the far mer'cannot ; and the fanner necessarily prefers selling to the merchant to competing with him in the market, because he cannot compete with him without ruin. Thus the fanner ris robbed because he fancies he has a protection. and acts ac cordingly, and he has no protection. The treasury is not enriched, for it receives in general only the lowest duty pos sible; yet the article is not lowered to the country, for the whole grain imported and native is kept us high as possible, so that the country is every way injured in its private as well as in its public capacity, in every one to whom the grain is kept dear, as well as in its treasury, to which the lowest pos sible duties are paid."—lmportance of Agriculture, by D. Bain. _ _ The state of things here so strongly depicted seven years ago, is in no single point altered at this moment, except that, instead of a gain of from 13s. to 15s. a quarter, it will this year be nearly of twice that amount ! Thus, supposing corn purchased on the continent at 20s. per quarter ; in many instances it is greatly less,—and if it is higher, (and in some places it is habitually double,) it is held by English capitalists for their certain London dupes ; and supposing 20s. to be added for charges, which is the highest ever estimated, the total expense of a quarter of this corn, including a duty of 2s. Bd. may safely be stated under And the price in the market, in order to reduce the average to the proper point, was lately 3 12 0 1 10 0 On 2,300.000 quarters for the merchants Loss to the country in purchasing 2,500,000 quarters at the supposed price of 20s. Shipping and other charges of import, duty, &c. being so much misapplied 3,750,000 0 0 2,500,000 0 0 2,750,000 0 0 Capital lost and misapplied by transactions to the amount of 2,500,000 quarters .... 9,000,000 0 0 . . . Of which directly lost to the country, the purchase price at 20s. 2,500,000 0 0 STATE OF TRADE If it is more (and it is often 485.) the loss is increased ac cordingly. That the purchase money of all corn imported, Is lost to the state, is now nearly universally admitted ; as foreigners es pecially want our money, and do not want our goods, and therefore receive money only in return for corn. The neces sity for this is indeed demonstrated in very few words by the authority from which I have already quoted. " It may be said that a new market would be opened (says Mr. 13.) by every cargo of grain received. But is this cer tain ? And if certain, then to what extent ? We know that no where is the raiser of grain the sole proprietor of the soil, He has rent to pay, and therefore at the utmost can only re ceive his own part in goods ; and that is everywhere more trivial than it is at home. In most of the corn countries, indeed, the peasant is a slave and can purchase little." And as he states elsewhere, (though 1 cannot at the moment find the passage) " the owners of these slaves have taste? for other than English goods ; for silks from Prance or Persia ; jewels and arms from other countries, often such as we cannot fur nish at all, or if we could furnish them, then never at such a price ; money for horses and useless attendants,—and even for a barbarous hospitality." See, then, the effect of diverting only nine millions annually (supposing that,to be equal to the transactions in corn for a whole year,) from our own agriculture and agriculturalists ! It is this—to repress by that much the cultivation of land, and the production of all the usual results of agriculture ' • not only corn and straw, but beef and mutton, bacon and poultry, tallow, wool, and leather, and above all, vegetables. It in^y almost be said to be a national loss to the whole extent of the misapplication ; for if the merchant applied his profits as the farmer would his, he merely receives and expends the money; he adds nothing to the national wealth as the farmer does. But the merchant does not so expend his profits. He uses many foreign luxuries, and in that way employs again a class, that instead of producing to the country, is like himself throwing its capital away ; and by far the greatest part of his profits, the importer of corn expends in conducting transac tions abroad ; in encouraging the agriculture of other coun tries instead of his own ; in building quays, harbours and warehouses there, for the convenience of their commerce ; and perhaps assisting their governments by loans, that are to be applied in combating his own country in other fields than even that of industry. In short, the importer of corn unne cessarily is in every light an antipatriot ; and the whole ten dency of his operations is, to render the import, at first un necessary, every year greater. It has therefore occurred to me—and this is the great point in this letter, and to which I beg leave to call the attention of all who may see it—it has occurred to me, that some such scheme as the following should be adopted First.—Corn at 60s. per quarter would, according to the best computations, give the four-pound loaf at 61d., including the baker's profit ; and sixpence half-penny is considered a moderate price. Second.—One million of pounds placed in the hands of government, would at any time produce one million of quar ters of corn, at the fair price where corn ought to be sought. Third.—Let the agricultural interest allow themselves to be assessed to the extent of raising a sum of one or two millions, to be placed in the hands of government for the following purpose—namely, of importing corn, as soon as corn shall rise above 60s. or 635. in the fair market ;—but except such importation in guarantee, LET ALL DEALING IN FOREIGN CORN CEASE. Of course there must then be no forestalling of markets, by corn merchants dabbling in corn. There could be no temptation, for the article must not be sold in the British market at a price exceeding 60s. or 63s.—and yet the farmer would receive a surer profit than he draws at present, high as the prices of corn occasionally at present go to. This, I believe, would give a steady price to corn—certainly a moderate one. Agriculturists being thus chargeable with the supply of the market, would of course be entitled to have the proceeds of their assessment managed by a board acting strictly for them. The supply of the deficiency could not by any chance cost the country, through the agriculturists, the sum it annually costs the country at present as a general matter ;—while the farmer has taken out of his pocket, not merely the actual price of the corn imported, but is Conti nually met in the market, and beat down in every direction, by the holder of foreign corn competing with him as a sys tem ;—and therefore he may be said to lose, not only the price of the foreign corn, but all the profits of the merchant. I am, sir, your obedient servant, AGRESTIS. LcEDa.—There was a considerable amount of business done in the cloth halls on Saturday., but on Tuesday, owing to the limited supply of fresh goods occasioned by the wetness of the preceding day, the purchases were far from extensive. The stocks of bale goods in both the halls are very limited ; scarcely ever were they known to be so low. BRADFORD MARKET.—The attendance of buyers at this market on Thursday was limited, occasioned by two causes, the wetness of the morning and the cup race at Doncaster. Nevertheless there was a fair business done, and prices were firm, the supply of manufactured goods principally in request being very limited. In the yarn market the sales were brisk at former rates. The wool market did not, however, partake of the general animation ; the transactions were few, and there was no improvement in prices. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The demand for heavy winter goods still continues brisk, and a fair general trade was done on Tuesday in most descriptions of woollens. Light fancies are not quite so much in request as is usually the case at this season. Prices remain firm, but do net improve. In wools there was a fair demand, at late prices. Business in the warehouses during the week has been satisfactory. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Sept. 18.—The trade still remains in a very dull state; it is, however, recovering from its late torpidity, though slowly. In the better sorts there is a slight improvement in price. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Sept. 14.—The flannel market has been quite as brisk to-day as on the preceding Mondays. The demand remains steady, but there is no advance in price. In the wool ma rket there is no change. LANCASHIRE.—The cotton spinning and power-loom weavers at Stockport have more work than they had a few weeks ago, and the machinery in nearly all the cotton mills is in full operation, but, on account of the late turn-outs, many factory operatives resident in the town have not yet been able to get employment ; strangers from other places have got their work, at wages from ten to fifteen per cent. lower than they were twelve months ago. The cotton trade at Hyde, Ashtbn-under-Lyne, Stayley-bridge, Newton- moor, &c., is much the same as we stated a few weeks since : the fancy . quiltings a t machinery in the mill s i s gen erally running full time. The hand-loom weavers of counterpanes and Bolton have for many months past been in distressed circum stances, both on account of the scarcity of work and low wages'paid to the operatives ; but things have now rather a better appearance. M any per sons are of opinion that the late Chartist agitations have injured the trade, both here and in other towns ; it is a fact that operatives have tad more work in those town s w h ere Ch ar tism has been regarded as a delusion. The woollen trade of Bury is in a moderately healthy state, but mechanics and machine makers are slack of work. The calic o bl oc k pr i n ting at two large shops is not so brisk ; operatives, likewise, have less work than they had last week. The various trades in those towns we mentioned in onr last are much the same, except stone-masons and house-carpenters, whose work is now becoming more scarce. COURT CIRCULAR The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Terese of Hohenlohe Schellingsfurst, came to town yesterday, from Windsor Castle, and visited the Princess Augusta, at Cla rence House, St. James's. The royal duchess had an inter view with the princess Her IV lajesty the Queen Dowager, and the Duchess of Gloucester, also paid visits, yesterday, to the Princess Au gusta, and spent some time With her royal highness. _ _ folloviing account of her royal fiighniss'a health wa. issued yesterday :—" The Princess Augusta, in the early part of the night, was restless, and suffered some pain ; but her royal highness has this morning had some refreshing sleep, and continues in the seine state as yesterday.—Cla rxice House, September 17." At intervals, during the day, the princess suffered from pain, but last evening her royal highness became composed. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Therese of Ho henlohe, on leaving Clarence House, yesterday, went to Marlborough House and partook of a dijeune with her Ma jesty the Queen Dowager. The royal duchess and the Prin cess Therese left Marlborough House soon after three o'clock, in a chariot and four horses with outriders, on their return to Windsor Castle. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Coun tess Brownlow and Lady Bedingfield, took an airing yester day afternoon, in the Regent's Park and Hyde Park, in an open barouche and four. The Duke of Cambridge spent the day yesterday, shooting at Coomb Wood, returning to Cambridge House in the afternoon. SATURDAY The Princess Augusta experienced a severe attack on Thur►day night. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager came to Clarence-house, and remained tiil 1 o'clock yesterday morning. The following account of the health of her Royal Highness was issued yesterday forenoon : " The Princess Augusta is not suffering so much pain this morning, but her Royal Highness'S symptoms have not im proved. " Clarence-house, Sept. 18." Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Cain bridge paid visits to the Princess yesterday morning, and re mained some time. Her Mbjesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester came several times to Clarence house in the course of the day, and had also interviews with her Royal Highness. _ _ _ Sir Henry rlalford attended the Princess again last even ing, and Mr. Moore is in constant attendance at Clarence house. Lady Mary Pelham and Miss Wynyard are both in close attendance on the Royal sufferer. MONDAY. The Princess Augusta is reduced to a very distressing state, and has become almost exhausted with pain and suffering. The members of the royal family, with affectionate solicitude, evince their anxiety by their frequent visits and attention to their afflicted relative. The Hon. Lieut.-Col. Grey, equerry in waiting on the Queen, came from Windsor Castle at an early hour yester day morning, by command of her Majesty, to learn the state of her royal highness ; and Capt. Seymour, by command of his royal highness Prince Albert, also came to Clarence House. Both gentlemen, after receiving from the medical gentlemen in attendance an account of the health of the princess, left town on their return to Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Gloucester, who throughout the long pe riod of the princess's illness, now extending to the term of several months, has constantly visited her royal highness daily, continued in attendance on the princess both yester day and on Saturday. The Queen Dowager also spent the greater part of both days at Clarence House. Yesterday forenoon, her Majesty and the Duchess of Gloucester attended prayers in the drawing-room of Clarence House.; the Rev. J. it. Wood, chaplain to the Queen Dowager officiating. Their royal highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge paid visits to her royal highness, yesterday, and on Saturday. Two accounts of the health of the princegs were issued yesterday ; one in the middle of the day, the other at five o'clock p.m. The former was as follows : " The Princess Augusta experienced a considerable return of pain early this morning, bnt there has since been a miti gation of her sufferings, and her royal highness, though very weak, is now in a more comfortable state. " Clarence House, Sept. 20, half-past 10." The account in the afternoon was as follows : " The Princess 'Augusta has continued tolerably easy and free from pain during the day. ' Five O'clock The following account was issued on Saturday : " The Princess Augusta continues in a weak and suffering state, but there is no material change in her royal highness's symptoms since yesterday. " Clarence House, Sept. 19 —half-past 12 o'clock JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET. • THURSDAY EVENING.—The unfavourable state of the weather last evening off Dover has prevented the arrival of any French mail to-day, but notwithstanding the absence of news so general appears to be the impression in favour of a pacific turn in affairs, so far as the disagreements with France, and so strong the confidence of speculators for the rise, that the funds continued to advance and the improved quotations were firmly maintained as they took place. Tqe rise in Con sols was 4 per cent. on the closing prices of yesterday. They left off at 884 to 3 for money and 884 to z for account. Ex chequer Bills ss. to 7s. for account. There was considerable animation also in the Foreign Market, with an almost general rally in prices. Spanish Active with the overdue Coupons were 224 to 3. Portuguese Five per Cents 324 to 3, the Three per Cents 22 to -4. Brazilian 78 to 80. Mexican Old Bonds 244 to 5, the New 254 to 64. Colombian 22 to"-4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 504 to 11, the Five per Cents 99 to 100. Belgian 97 to 9. Danish 76 to 8. Railway Sharys are still on the improving order. London and Bir mingham were 74 to 6, Great Western 18 to 19 premium. South Western 53 to 4 per share. North Midland Old Shares 17 to 15 discount, the New Ito 3 premium. Brighton 10 to 94. Blackwall 2to 11 discount. FRIDAY EVENING.—The consol market opened firm this morniez, with disposition to rise till nearly the latter part of the day. The opening price for the account was 864, and there was a purchase made at 89. Late in the afternoon the intelligence that Admiral Stopford had issued orders for the capture of a French ship gave a new turn to the market. Consols fell to 882 to 1, at which price they closed, and at 884 for immediate delivery. Exchequer-bills are Gs. to Bs. premium. The Spanish market was affected at the seine time as the English, having till then been firm. The Actives had been done as high as 24, but left off 234 to ; Dutch 24 per cents. are 50-4 to *; Portuguese stock has improved, the 5 per cents. being 334- to 4 ; also South American securities —Colombian being 23* to 4; Mexican, 254 to 6. The share-market is somewhat improving. Birmingham are quoted 75 to 7 premium ; Great Western, 19 to 20 premium ; Brighton, 104 to discount ; Blackwall, 21 to 2 discount. There was a considerable demand for bills upon Paris and Hamburgh to-day, and, the supply not being by any Means adequate to meet it, there was a consequent depression in the rates of exchange upon those places. Amsterdam may be considered much the same as last post. SATURDAY EVENlNG,—Compared with the closing prices of yesterday, the English funds arc rather higher, but never theless firmness is wanting in the market, and the fluctuation of the day seem to indicate a rather uneasy feeling amongst the speculators ; the bargains rnade.in consols at the opening of the market were at 884 for time, and afterwards the price advanced to 884 buyers, but an extensive operation made by a Bear, towards the shutting of the market, produced the lower quotation of 884 to or rather 884 buyers. The money price was 88* to 4. Exchequer bills have continued steady at 6to 8 premium. The only foreign security in which busi ness of any extent was transacted was Spanish stock, which closed at the advanced price 234 to 41. Dutch stock has been firm at 504 to 51 for the two-and-half per cents, and 994 for the five per cents. In the Transatlantic Securities there is more firmness, Mexican is quoted 254 to and the New Stock 274 to 284. Colombian is 24 to 3*. Portuguese five per cents. remain 334 to 4, and the three per cents 22 to 4. A slight advance in the quotations of the shares of the leading lines of railway in the market has taken place, and though the business was far from being extensive, public attention is somewhat occupied with them as a species of investment. Birmingham closed at 76 to 78 prem.; Black wall, 24 to 2 dis.; North Midland, 16 to 14 dis. ; ditto New, 2 to 3 prem. ; Great Western, 194 to 204 prem.; and Brigh ton, 104 to 10 dis. FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT NEWCASTLE (From the StaffordBhire Gazette.) The attention of the inhabitants of Church-street were aroused about ten o'clock on Thursday morning, by the shutter and door of the house occupied by an aged widow, who keeps a small cook shop, named Keeling, not being opened as usual. The police were informed, who proceeded to the house, and found her strangled in bed; she was lying with her head partly off the bed, with marks of violence on her skull. ' A box, which she was known to have money in, was broken open, and the contents gone. She lived by her self, with the exception of one lodger, a travelling shoemaker. The police shortly discovered that he had that morning, at four o'clock, called up g Mr. Jackson, a tailor and clothes dealer, and purchased from him a pilot cloth shooting-jacket, and had left behind him the coat he had worn the previous day. Wm. Mason, Esq., Mayor, and Robert Hall, Esq., attended at the police-office, to assist the police in investi gating the affair, and shortly sufficient evidence was adduced to leave no doubt but that the lodger was the murderer. A tramp passing through the town was interrogated, who stated that about six o'clock that morning, he had met a man on the Stafford road, answering the description. Mr. Cottrill, the chief officer of police, immediately pursued in that di rection ; on finding that the suspected person had ,not taken the railroad at Stafford, Mr. Cottrill proceeded to Wolver hampton, and giving the necessary instructions to the police there, proceeded to Wallsall to intercept the other line of road, while the mayor dispatched officers in other directions. The victim of this foul murder is about sixty years of age, and has been a widow about ten years ; she formerly kept an inn in Chester, since which time she was 'cook at the hotel, at Dr. M`Kenzies, and at the Castle, where she was known to have saved a little money, which has been the cause of this dreadful and atrocious murder. Sile had one daughter, the wife of the sergeant-major of the 67th Regiment of Foot, in Lower Canada, North America. The inquest will be holden this day, at four o'clock. The murderer is about 22 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, slender made, by trade a shoe maker; he stated be was a native of Northwich, Cheshire ; and has been in Newcastle about 14 days. He was dressed in a pilot cloth coat, baragon trousers, and a cloth cap. Four old fashioned silver tea-spoons, engraved all the length of the shanks, are missing from the house. (From another Correspondent.) The prevalence of the crime of murder has lately increased to a fearful extent ; scarcely a week elapses without some addition to the horrible calendar. This town has been the scene of a most cold-blooded offence of that character. On Thursday morning an aged female, named Martha Keeling, was discovered murdered in her house, in Church-street, having been strangled in bed. Her throat was fearfully dis coloured, the assassin gripe having completely broke through the flesh, which presented a horrid spectacle. All day long crowds gathered round the scene of the murder. Suspicion attaches to a man, aged 25 years, who is described as being 5 feet 8 inches high, rather light complexion, marked with the small pox, slender frame; was dressed in a blue pilot cloth shooting-coat, with large embossed horn buttons, bound with black worsted braid, much worn. He is supposed to be a native of Northwich, is a shoemaker by trade, and lodged with the murdered woman. The ruffian is supposed to have carried away £2O in money, and four old-fashioned silver tea-spoons, engraved the whole length of the shanks. The police are in active search, and little doubt is entertained of the speedy apprehension of the fellow. PUBLIC SPlRlT.—Joseph Strutt, Esq., has given a grant of land to the inhabitants of Derby, to be the ground for a public arboretum, for ever. Next Wednesday these grounds arc to be opened by a public procession of the corporation and inhabitants, the Mechanics Institute, the trades, &c. This retreat, consisting of eleven acres, and the walks ex tending to upwards, of 6,000 feet, will be invaluable to per sons living in confined sitnations, in the midst of a dense population, who are almost cut off from the enjoyment arising from walks through green fields, by the stoppage of all the foot-paths in the country, in the vicinity of the town. We understand that her majesty has been graciously pleased to issue a royal letter, ordering collections to be made in all churches throughout England and Wales, in behalf of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church.— Times. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE Itis understood that the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway will be ready for opening early in October. PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY.—The number of pas sengers conveyed on this line during the week ending on Wednesday, was—first class, 6821 ; second class, 918 ; third rlass, 23531 : making a total for a week of 3' HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.— tember 7 to September 13, inclusive Passengers (4044,) parcels, &c Goods, parcels, sheep, &c. Traffic returns from Sep- £482 253 7 £735 12 11 -Traffic returns for the NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY week ending 12th September. Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and mails £2792 0 101 Merchandise and Minerals previbus week .... 434 010 AYLESI4URY RA ILW AY:—On Thursday the half-yearly meeting of this company was held, when a dividend of Bs. per share for the half-year was declared. The traffic was said to be rapidly improving. Nothing else of interest transPited. GLASGOW AND PAISLEY JOINT RAILWAY.—We have received the following analysis of the traffic on this line during the first 50 working days, ending the Bth instant ; and as they resolve some interesting problems as to the effect of fares on the different classes, we readily give it a place in our columns : Passengers carried 101,192 Amount, including cash for small parcels £3,444 8 61 Average passengers per diem Ditto • cash ditto Receuts per mile per diem _ . . Of the passengers carried there were— First class, at is., 13,581, or about 13.42 per cent Second class, at 9d., 43,696, or about 43.18 per cent Third class, at 6d., 43,915 - , or about 43.38 per cent. The amount received, excluding small parcels and a few half fares, was—_ _ First class, £679 is Od, or about 19.73 per cent Second class, £1,63S 12s Od, or about 47.61 per cent Third class, £1,097 17s 6d, or about 31.88 per cent —lt will thus be seen that the first and second class passen gers equal 56.6 per cent., and the cash received from them 67.34 of the whole. These are high ratios compared with some of the returns on the English lines, and prove that in fixing the fares at the present rates, the directors have acted upon sound principles, both in accommodation and price. The second class appears to be the most productive, but, in considering the expense of conveyance, various important elements must be kept in view, which raise the profit on the better classes ; one of these need only be attended to at pre sent, viz., the tax, which is nearly 8 per cent. on the Ist, and 15 per cent. on the 3rd class.—Greenock Advertiser. RAILWAY FROM ENGLAND TO SCOTLAND.—Sir F. Smith, the government commisfioner, 'lifter inspecting the east coast line, arrived at .Newcastle on Tuesday. He has now completed his inspection ; for the propoSed west line not having been surveyed he could do nothing there, and the midland line he examined on his way to Edinburgh. He will shortly, therefore, make his report. The opinion he will offer as to the best line cannot, of course, be known yet, but it will be looked for with sonic anxiety by the projectors of the two competing lines. The engineer of the midland line, we understand, has proposed a branch to Glasgow from some point near Melrose; up the Tweed and down the Clyde, and measures are already being taken to have it surveyed ; but the commissioner had no opportunity of examining that part of their project, though he may probably do so on a future occasion.—Scottish Standard. The line of the Newcastle and North Shields Itailway was -'ay inspected by the crown commissioners, Sir Frede rick Smith and Professor Barlow, and by Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P. The directors, with marked courtesy, fitted out a special train for the occasion, and the distin guished strangers were pleased to express their unqualified approbation of the works, as well as with all the arrangements of the line.—Newcastle Journal. PLYMOUTH AND EXETER RAILWAY.—We have received an account of Mr. Rendel's plan for a railway from Plymouth to Exeter, to join the Bristol and Exeter. and thus commu nicate with the metropolis. The length of the line will be about 421' miles, and the estimate is £674,138. We need scarcely say that such a line would be of great importance, and likely to prove profitable ; while it must be advantageous to the intermediate lines. By the junction witi the Bristol and Exeter, the great port of Plymouth will be put in COM- . . munication with all the rest of the country, by Means of the Great Western, Bristol, and Gloucester.—Railway Times. OPENING OF THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAIL WAY.—On Tuesday, the 15th, this railway was opened to the public as far as Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire, nineteen miles and a quarter. It branches off from the eastern coun ties, at Stratford, and follows the course of the river Lea, passing through Lea Bridge, Tottenham, Edmonton, Pon der's End, and Waltham, at each of which places is a station. It is one of the most level lines out of London, and by the general agreement of all whb have been upon it, one of the easiest for travelling. The stations are pretty, without being expensive, and the works seem to have been carefully exe cuted. Some delay occurred in one. of the train - from the deficiency in the number of locomotives and car riages supplied by the contractors, so that the running of the evening train has been necessarily suspended for the present. RAILWAY INVENTION. — We understand that a very sim ple but very important invention is about to be patented by some eminent engineers, relative to the propulsion of railway carriages. LOAII3ARDO-VENETIAN RAILWAY.—This work is to com mence in Venice itself, by a viaduct 3800 yards, or above two miles long, over the lagoons. It is to consist of 252 arches, is to carry the railway, paths for foot-passengers, an aque duct, and the gas pipe. The expense is estimated at £lBO,OOO, and a large revenue is expected from it. Three short tunnels have to be made upon the line. RUSSIAN RAILWAYS. — GeneraI Tcheffkine, head of the mining engineering department in Russia, is now over - here on a special mission to inquire into the English railway sys tem. He is sure to meet with every facility in his inquiries, and we trust that the results will be beneficial to our manu facturing interest, as rails, locomotives, &c., will be wanted. The General is desirous of beink acquainted with our engi neers, as he has a commission to engage engineers for the great railway from St. Petersburgh to Moscow. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE DONCASTER RACES, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16 SWEEPSTAKES Of 200 soiis: each, h. ft. for two fillies, Bst Red-ho Col. Anson's bay, La Gitana, by Ish Lord Eglinton'sbay, Chivalry, by Muley ears-old subs.) Nat) 1 Moloch THE SELLING .STAKES GI 10 sovs. each, with 30 added by the Corporation ; three-year-olds, 6st. 121 b. ; four, list. ; five, Bst. 71b. ; six and aged, Bst. 101b.—St. Leger Course. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs. if demanded, &c. (8 subs.) . - Mr. Clark's b. c. Alonzo, by Mulatto, 3 yrs .... (Francis) 1 Mr. Fairlie's ch. h. Abraham Newland, by Malek, G yrs 2 THE DoNcisl'Eß STAKES of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added by the Corporation, for horses, &c. bona fide the property of the subscriber or hisconfederate ; three-year-olds, fist. 101 b. ; four, Bst. ; five, Bst. 91b. ; six and aged, 9st.—Two miles. (7 subs.) Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Sampson, Cetus, 4 yrs (T. Lye) 1 Mr. Bowes's ch. h. Epirus. by Langar, 6 . yrs 2 Mr. Orde's b. f. Queen Bee, by Liverpool, 3 yrs Mr. Stephenson's b. f. Panacea, by Physician, 3 yrs .. THE FOAL STAKES of 100 sous. each; h. ft. for three -year-olds, colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b.—Mile and a half.—(lo subs,) Mr. Bowes's br. c. Black Beck, by Mulatto .. (walked over) THE CORPORATION PLATE of £6O, for three-year-olds, 6st. 101 b. ; four, 7st. 12th. ; five, Bst. 51b. ; six and aged, Bst. 121 b. Mares allowed 31b. The second to receive 24gs. —Heats, two miles. Mr. Heseltine's b. f. The Shadow, 4 yrs... (Heseltine) 1 1 Mr. Milner's b. h. Humphrey, by Sandbeck, 5 yrs.... 6 2 Mr. Fairlie's ch. h. Abraham Newland, by Malek, 6 yrs 5 3 Mr. S. King's bl. c. Tom, by Tomboy, 3 yrs ... Mr. Osbaldeston's gr. c. by The Saddler, 3 yrs . Colonel Synge's b. c. Polydorus. by Priam, 3 yrs THURSDAY, SEPT. 17 The GASCOIGNE STARES of 100 sovs. each, 30 ft. for three year-olds, colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 21b. The winner of the St. Leger to carry 51b.' extra.—Leger Course. (3 subs.) Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, by Mulatto (walked over) A CCP, or PIECE OF PLATE, given by the Stewards, with 50 soya. added by the Corporation ; three-yr-elds, ist ; four, Bst. 31b. ; five, Bst. 101 b. ; six and aged, 9st. The winner of the St. Leger Stakes 31b. extra. From the Red House, and once round. Two miles five furlongs. Mr. Orde's Bee's-wing, by Dr. Syntax, aged (Cartwright) 1 Col. Cradock's b. c. The Provost, by The Saddirr, 4 yrs.. 2 Mr. Johnstone's br. c. Charles XII., by Voltaire, 4 yrs.. 3 Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon, by Mulatto, 3 yrs.... 4 Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Sampson, 4 yrs Mr. Thompson's ch. f. Vermillion, by Bedlamite, 3 yrs 6 Won cleverly by a length. SWEEPSTAKES of 200 sovs. each, h. ft., for three-year-olds, colts, Bst. 71b ; fillies, Bst. 31b. St. Leger Course. Mr. Bowes's br. c. Black Beck, by Mulatto 1 Lord Chesterfield'a br. c. Molineux, by Mulatto 2 Black Beck took the lead, was never headed, and won easy. SWEEPSTAKES of 20 sovs. each, for two-year-olds, colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41b. T.Y.C. Mr. Allen's ch. c. Belgrade, by Belshazzar, out of Alice.. 1 Col. Crauford's hr. f. Ermengardis, by Langar 2 Mr. Bell's b. c. Thirsk, by Voltaire, dam by Whisker 0 Lord Westminster's b. c. Satirist, by Pantaloon 0 Gen. Yate's br. c. Simoom, brother to Siroc, by Camel 0 Mr. Wrather's gr. I' l by Belshazzar, out of Hackfall's dam 0 Won by half a head BEE'S WING.—The performance of this extraordinary mare are equal to those of her celebrated sire, the " Old Doctor." Her winnings are as follow :—ln 1835, at two years old twice ; 1837, six ; 1838, -seven ; 1839, eleven ; and this year, nine—making thirty-seven times. Out of -this number, reckoning the Queen's Plates, Gold Shield, Silver Waggon, and Gold Cups, she has won an equivalent to 22 cups. Her sire (Dr. Syntax) from the year 1814 to 1823, started -49 times, won 36, lost 13, and out of the 36 times winning gained 20 gold cups. It is 62 years since a seven year old won the Doncaster Cup,.when it was carried away by Lord Rockingham's Phocion. FRIDAY We subjoin a list of the last day's sport : The SCARBOROUGH STAKES of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft., for three year old colts, Bst. 71b., and fillies Bst. 41b. ; the winner of the St, Leger to have carried 71b. extra. One .. ... mile. Sixteen subs. General Yates's Gibraltar, bro. to Tarick by Muley (Nat.) 1 Mr. Bowes's Black Beck, by Mulatto 2 The 11ORNBY CASTLE STAKES of 20 sovs. each, with 50 ad ded by the Corporation, three year olds, 7st. ; four, Bst. 116. ; five, Bst. 101 b. ; six and aged, 9st. ; three year old fillies allowed 31b., and the beaten horses of the meeting allowed 31b. ; the winner of the St. Leger to have carried 51b. extra. Two miles. Three subs. Lord Westminster's b. c. Maroon by Mulatto, 3 yrs. (Nat.) 1 Duke of Cleveland's ch. c. by L angar —Ernigrant's dam, 3 yrs. ................................. 2 The PARK HILL STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three year old fillies, Bst. 41b. each ; the second receives 100 sovs. out of the stakes. St. Leger Course. Twenty-four subs. Mr. St. Paul's Calypso by Liverpool .. (Templeman) 1 Mr. Orde's Queen Bee by Liverp00l Lord G. Bentinck's Rosa Bianca 3 Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph Lord Chesterfield's f. by Priam, out of Rowton's darn The TOWN PLATE of £100; for three year olds, 7st. 51b. ; four, Bst. 71b. ; five, 9st. ; six and aged, 9st, 31b. ; maiden colts allowed 21b., and maiden fillies'3lb. The second re ceives 39 guineas. Two miles, heats. Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Gambia, by The Colonel, 3 yrs. (Nat) Mr. Bowes's ch. t. Mickleto'n Maid, 4 yrs Mr. Bell's b. f. La Femme Sage, 4 yrs Colonel Synge's b. c. Polydorus, 3 yrs. 2 3 dr 3 4 dr PHRNomrN °N.—A very unusual phenomenon was ob served at Osuestry and Shrewsbury on the evening of Sun day last. About twenty minutes after sunset, a rainbow was seen extending from east to'south, that quarter of the heavens being set with dark clouds. Suddenly their hue was changed to a resplendent crimson, which Hashed as it were from the horizon to the zenith. The rainbow then assumed an appear ance most singularly beautiful from the high colouring of the atmosphere. Many persons who witnessed it, declared they had never before seen any thing so sublitne and imposing. It had a duration of eight or nine minutes ; and the western horizon was, during the time, slightly tinged with red.—[An appearance somewhat similar was visible, at the same time, from the neighbourhood of Liverpool.] DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCI Col. James Hamilton, the British vice consul, died at-An ustura, in South America, in the month of July last, after * The harvest of 1f 4 40 is acknowledged to be the finest with which Europe has been blessed for half a century.—S tamford Mercury The population in Upper Canada, which in 1820 ‘vAs 165,190, is now about 450,000. The population of Toronto is about 13,000. -lane theatre, *- I character of Mr. Hammond, the late lessee of Dru peared at the Strand last week in his celebrate Bill Buzzbottle, in the Bill Sticker. The handsome corporation hall at Stockton is expected to be opened on the Ist of October next. Trentham Hall, which, is now rebuil ill, when finish . The calcula it will take ano- ed, one of the most superb edifices in Euror tion is, that although 300 men are employed ther year to complete it. pt. Thorntbv :e, of Flimby, near Maryport, has a pea garden, which measures 5/ inches in cir- talk growing in cumference Thcre is at present growing in the garden of J. Jefferson , Esq., of Hawkrigg, near Wigton, seven holyoak plants, well- : . 0• . ~ . . surfing separately, . thirteen feet in length. The flowers on each are double, and of different colours on each plant. The Earl of Zetland, deputy grand master, has been AP pointed pro-grand master of the freemasons, in the place of the late Earl of Durham. The Marquis of Salisbury is to succeed to the office of Deputy grand master. AD TRADE.—We learn that ( received within the last fe lase of lead, the execution of whit Iderab days fro►n orders have _ France for the has already had the eftect of causing a rise in that article of nearly £2 per too, and some large orders remain unexecuted in consequence of the limits being too low. _ _ A requisition is now .n course of signature in this borough, and has received be tween 400 and 500 burgesses names, requesting Edmund Buckley, Esq., of Manchester, to offer himself as a candidate at the next vacancy. Mr. Buckley is a conservative.—Staf- SENTATION 0 NEWCASTLI ford Advertise HIGHWAY R 3BEILY.—About one o'clock on Tuesday lmed Leech, residing at Rcchdale, was re e was attacked at Buersill, y four men, who robbed him scape over the fields. turning fro between lOs and then made thei s :nary Smythe, who died at Deer Park, near Houiton, on Thursday last, was eldest daughter of the late and sister of the present Earl of Wicklow. The deceased was born on the 2d of November, 1791, and in August, 1815 , married Mr, William Meade Smythe, by whom she had no family. _ Lady Isabell EXTRAOLIDINAILLY- DRAUGHT CIF 'Fisses.-A few days ago, Mr. John Mounsey, of Buckholm Lodge, the well known dog slipper and gamekeeper to the Earl of Lousdale , t one draught, in the Lake 0 1 three dozen of perch, and four Carlisle Patriot. nts, captured 'eswater, dozen of trout LACONIC ADVlCE.—Mr.llyard, who for twenty-one years has been the president of the Northamptonshire Farm ing and Grazing Society, the annual meeting of which WO held on Wednesday, in presenting a prize cup to Mr. J. C• Elliott, gave him the following laconic piece of advice " Now, young man, take this cup, and remember always t° plough deep and drink shallow." • THE MILITIA.—it may not be unimportant to the persons composing this portion of the army to know that the staffs are about to be inspected for the purpose of removing those who are found unfit for active duty. This is a preparatory step to the consolidation and placing this force on the most efficient establishment, the clothing of which having been brought to one and the same period comes due next year. A gardener near Newbury has adopted the following hovel mode of protecting his fruit from the ravages of the wasp' He destroys the blackbirds by catching them in an ingeniou s little trap for the purpose, and hangs them up in rows in front of his fruit ; the wasp immediately fixes on them, and leaves the fruit untouched. This may be seen by the peach, apricot, and plum being without a bite.— Wilts Independent. • - NZWARK.—William Ewart Gladstone, Esq., and Frederic Thesiger, Esq., will be the conservative candidates for Newark at the next election. Mr. Gladstone has been visiting bi g constituents during the past week, and Mr. Thesiger is ex pected to arrive in the course of the coining week. It i S stated that the Solicitor-General, Sir Thomas Wilde, ( 106 not intend to offer again for the borough, as the recent exP° - sure of the hocussing system adopted by the leading member s of his committee has damaged him beyond redemption . There is no truth in ,the report that Mr. Gladstone intend to offer for Liverpool. Francis P. Smith, Esq., of Loudon, the patentee, has pub lished a challenge, for 1,000 guineas, to run the Archimecle6 against any paddle-wheel steamer in the kingdom, the power of which is not superior. The trial must take place on the, open sea, over a distance of one or tve hundred miles, 9 0 before the 15th of next month. NATURAL G ms Gas Company but withot ed pioject . , ay fuss) prosecuting their unprecu' are casting ; and, ere many wee k ' Newcastle and North Shields Rill; y, be lighted from the great flatus" end.—Gateshead Observer. MAJESTY'S MINISTERS. — " Tb d e patent aquatic life hat now exhibiting on the Serpentine, an daily at the Polytechnic Institution, is calculated to become extremely fashionable in the distressed manufacturing dig tricts, and not less so with her Majesty's ministers, as it pro' fesses to be an infallible remedy for keeping the head abo ve water IMPOr.TAN FAT AND FAIR.-There are now exhibiting at Bradford .wo children which are rodigies. The eldest is seven ye ah old, and weighs list. 91bs. His flesh is very muscular, Mi n ,' and fair ; for shoulders and legs he may compete with 1 10 2. man in the town. The other is three years old, and weig' upwards of veu stone weight. They are of Irish parentag e ' LONGEVITY.—One of those fine old specimens of " 9 healthier age," named Violet Harkness, at present residiag at Cleator, and whose venerable head has been whitened 1 1 the snows of one hundred and two winters, turned out int o the harvest field one day last week, and cat no less than 14 , stooks of grain, which, at three half-yence a stook, amoun ted to Is. 9cl.—Whitehaven Herald. A WELCOME INTRUDER.—On Friday night last, about seven o'clock, as Mr. Baxter, grocer, Netherby-street, Long' town, was, assisted by his wife, buoy scrwin g .EUSlOnierb g came flying I ....... shop and into a back room. I' Baxter immediately followed the self-invited guest, and „°1; covered it to be a good plump well-grown partridge. it a supposed that the partridge had been chased by a hawk, ew was attracted by the light from the candle burning in shop.—Carlisle Patriot. CURIOUS RACE.—On Thursday last, at a tavern in t his t town, a sovereign a-side was bet between a coal merchanf and a bricksetter, and a race was to decide the ownership 4) . the two sovereigns. The preliminaries were these, that the bricksetter should he allowed a yard at start, and that th ef should toss for choice of ground. The bricksetter won t b n toss, and immediately took up the chimney, and went to the top ; and as his antagonist, the coal merchant, did not c hoos e _ to follow him, it was decided by the company present deg' the bricksetter had won the race.—Preston Chronicle. STRANGE PHENOMENON.—Within the last four or fide months a rather strange phenomenon has occurred in t_ l36 Severn, close to the little harbour of Lydney, where a laT . sand-bank, of very many acres in extent, which interfere with the navigation of that side of the river, suddenly disar t peered, leaving the river deep enough for ships of the large n ,, burden, as it was some forty years before. This kernels' body of sand does not appear to have merely shifted to sorr y other part of the channel, but has been entirely swept all it is thought, by the violent storms and rain in January 813 February.— Wilts Standard. hop, to their great surprise sornethiu BILL SWINDLERS.—We have had sent to ns this week , circular from an apparently new firm of dealers in fictitio u ,' bills, calling themselves T. and W. Thornton, Free Sch oo _,'" street, Dock-head, London, who very kindly o ff er tempora l , assistance to persons in want of money, and at the same di ° tender their assistance in the sale of goods for ready one Of course, there are not many persons who need to b e tolu e ; that, if their goods, their money, or their bills, get into el hands of these people, there is very little chance that the. l . will see them again,—except, indeed, in the case of th,el e own bills, which will no doubt come back for payment. "„ find from another circular, that the old firm of bill-traffic: ars, originally established by John Kinnear, and carried 0 ' by other parties since he had the misfortune to be trao ported, is now called " A. and T. Smith, Albany-road, Lor don."—Manchester Guardian. A SOARING ARTIST.—On Wednesday last, much alari* and curiosity were excited in the neighbourhood of the Strand, and hundreds or persons were attracted to the 1 11 , e ; nue that leads to Hungerford Market and its vicinity, guZ with fear and wonder upon an adventurous wight, who lit contrived to mount into the belfry of St. Martin's churl and had lowered himself by means of a single rope, fasted jde from above, into the very narrow space between the two db: facing Pall-mall and the Strand ; and there he remained a t :, height of at least 150 feet from the ground, upwards of thry" hours, making sketches, with as much composure and apps; rent unconcern as it he had been using a crayon in his 0 * atelier. SUDDEN DEATH IN THE DONCASTER BETTING ROOS S i —On Wednesday evening last, Mr. William Tomlinson , this town, an individual well known on the turf, was plaYi ll 3 at hazard, in the upper betting room at Doncaster, and bt, just won £l5, and was again shaking the dice, when his ar m was observed to move slowly and feebly. He threw seed and, immediately turning to a friend, said he was ill, an o requested to be taken down stairs. This was done, a nd til t or three chairs were placed together for him to lie upon ; ba he expired in two or three minutes. His friend then es mined the deceased's pockets, and, finding the £l5, wraPP he it up in paper, and (somewhat indiscreetly) replaced it in " deceased's waistcoat pocket. As might be expected, the re o i port of Mr. Tomlinson's death soon attracted a crowd A persons round his body; and some dexterous thief contrive,: to abstract the £l5 from his. pocket, and the-deceased, ' " Macintosh " coat, with which booty he escaped undetect e d ' —Manchester Guardian. CURIOUS CASE OF BURGLART.—About two o'clock S ° Friday morning, a female servant to the house of Mr. R. v:1; Slack, No. 3, Cecil Terrace, Greenheys, was alarmed E, hearing, as she thought, some person coming up stairs. immediately called out " Who is there?" a nd, in a amulet, afterwards, a loud crash was heard on the staircase, and 14 the lobby at the bottom, as if some heavy bodies had fao °, 7 down stairs. This noise alarmed the family ; and aso o 4 Mr. Slack's sprung out of bed, and went down stairs. ti f his way he was conscious of some hurried movement parties in the sitting room below ; but before he could ren that room, they had succeeded in making their escape out ° the window, which stood open. When alight was procure d { it was found that the unbidden visitors, after packing up 3 ' the property they could lay their hands upon, had been pre paring to enjoy the mse l ves , f or t h ree c h a i rs h a d b ee n plac ed at the table, and a w hi s k y b o ttl e , w ith th ree g l asses partially filled, were sta n di ng u p on it. It wou ld seem th a t, in orck: to enjoy their carouse in security, they had placed chairs r e the landing of the stairs in such a manner, that if any of O n family had been alarmed, and had attempted to come door stairs, they would be sure to fall over the chairs, and there,by. give warning to the topers, and enable them to provide I° l . their own safety. But the wicked are often taken in tb e i l ie own snare • and so it proved on this Occasion, for one of t he robbers who had gone up stairs, and had been alarmed by calling out of the servant, had evidently tumbled over one the chairs in making his retreat, and rolled headlong to t, bottom, together with the chair, which was broken to Pie t i e by the fall. This had caused the loud noise that alarmed t r '' family, and which was considerably increased by the fall of ‘ poker with which the ma • had no doubt armed hi m self wb e n he went up stairs. Although a number of articles had bee , packed up in a table-cloth; and even the chimney-glass tak e n down, ready for removal, nothing had been actually tin e From away. Fro the appearance of the premises, no doubt, he entertained that one of the robbers had been concealed la 7 0 house prior to the family retiring to rest, and had afters admitted his accomplices at the cellar window, which 17 : 0 properly secured the preceding evening, and none of ,t' st fastenings had been broken or forced. It is quite clear tr}i, the robbers were no novices in their profession ; for, altb° l se Mr. Slack had an excellent little house-dog, it never lea it any noise during the night, and, after the robbers had tied' r, found shut up in one of the cellars, in a state of stoP ° l ; having evidently been drugged by some means ; and that w h o also the case with a dog belonging to Mr. Drummond , 1 °."„ resides at the next door. We understand, that several stances of patties endeavouring to secrete themselve s houses, during the evening, have recontly been detected; it therefore behoves all parties to be, on their pland ag —lgg!" that mode of committing robberiec —Manchester Guar--lis.