Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA: The British and North American Royal Mail Steamer Persia, Captain Judkins, arrived here yes terday afternoon with one week's later news from the United States. She left New York at 820 a.m., on the Bth, and arrived off the Bell Buoy at 1.20 p.m. ysterday, and reached the Mersey at 4.40 p.m., making the run in about nine days. She brings 225 passengers and 831 885 dols. in specie. The Ericsson which sailed from New York on the 4th, and arrived here about the same time as the Persia, brought thirty passengers and 50,000 dols, in specie on freight. The Arabia arrived at New York on the evening of the 7th. As previously intimated, the news to hand is one Week later. The following is an ample summary 'of the same : The Hon W. L. Marcy, late Secretary of State, 'was found dead in his room, at Albany, on. Satur day, the 4th inst. Death appears to have been 'occasioned by heart disease. The Albany Atlas states that he visted Albany on the day previous, and was then apparently in excellent health and buoyant spirits. It was only within a short time of his death that he became conscious of a palpitation of the heart, and the symptoms of that disorder had not been such as to oc casion alarm to himself or his friends. Mr. Marcy was born in 1786, in Masachusetts, and was conse quently seventy-one years of age at his death. In 1823 he removed to Albany, which had been his residence ever since. In the year 1829 he was appointed one of the associate Judges of the Supreme Court, but resigned his seat on the bench on his election to the United States Senate in 1831. This place he also resigned on taking the oath of office as Governor of this State in January, 1833. He was twice re-elected Governor, but was defeated on a fourth nomination by Mr. Seward, in 1838. From this time until the election of Mr. Polk he filled no political office, but on the acces sion of Mr. Polk to the Presidency he accepted the post of Secretary of War, and discharged its duties With distinguished ability. It was during his administration of the affairs of the departmedt that the war with Mexico occurred. On the accession of General Taylor to the Presidency, Mr Marcy again retired to private life, from which he was called to fill the post of,Secretary of State during the administration of President Pierce. "His conduct in this trying position," says the New York Times, " gained the respect of all parties. His manage ment of the many difficult and perplexing ques tions arising out of our relations with Great Britain in the Central American affair, was distinguished by firmness and patriotism, while it was believed that his strong conservative tendencies saved the country from many domestic dangers which the less discreet members of the Administration might have plunged us into the midst of. He was scholarly in his habits, fond of old books, and, in his manners abrupt even to rudeness. Simple and unostentatious in his tastes, he was always ready to retire to the quiet of private life. Since his re turn from Washington ho had been preparing to go to Europe, and had gone to Ballston to remain Until he was ready to leave. Mr. Marcy was large in person, of a naturally strong and healthy consti tution, and apparently still vigorous and hearty When he was struck down." From Washington we learn that as soon as an interview is had with Mr. James Bowlin, U. S I Minister from Bogota, the government will im mediately decide on the course to be pursued with New Granada, which will be of the most deter- Mined and summary character, if an amicable ad justment is not entertained. In relation to affairs in Venezuela, concerning" Bird Island," the course of the U.S. Minister, Mr. Charles Eames, is ap proved of, and if the communication to be received from that Government be not of a satisfactory character, the ultimatum of the American Govern tnent will be conveyed by a vessel of war, as there is n o resident Minister in. Washington from Venezuela to communicate with. At New York the decision of the Court of Appeals on the Metropolitan Police Bill (which had caused so much rioting and bloodshed in New York) sustaining the constitutionality of the law, had been delivered. The Court stood six in favour of the constitutionality of the law, and two against it —the dissenting Judges being Messrs. Brown and Comstock. Judge Denio, in his opinion, ex amines the question as to the direct constitution ality of the district, and of the methods of the appointments adopted in the bill, and declares that there is nothing adverse to the letter of the 'Constitution in either. The true remedy for un wise legislation is provided for in the Constitution by the frequent renewal of legislators. There is nothing in the Constitution prohibiting the aboli tion of the local police arrangements of the City by the Legislature, or the remodelling of the force in any manner that the Legislature sees fit. The judgment of the Supreme Court is therefore affirmed. The opinion also says that other points have been argued, but as the judgment confirms the constitutionality of the law, it is not necessary to consider them. Judge Shankland also delivered an opinion. He sustains the constitutionality of the bill on all points, and elso goes into a discus sion to show that there was a necessity of some reform in the police arrangements of the city, prior to the enactment of the law, thus justifying the passage of the bill from motives of public good. Judge Brown delivered the dissenting opinion. He dissents from the view which declares the bill constitutional, and recognises the division of cities and counties as existing. He says : " Although their limits can be altered or modified by agree ment, and cities can be consolidated, yet the Legislature have no power to join cities and coun ties into one district for purposes of police or any other local government." He declares that by article 10, section 2, of the Constitution, the method Of electing or appointing city and county officers is distinctly set forth, and he maintains that as regards the police and city officers the court must either construe the Constitution so that local rights and privileges expressly mentioned, and never till now questioned, shall remain to be exercised and enjoyed by the local communities or else sanction a construction which may, and indi .rectly can, hardly fail to exclude them altogether. The judgment of the Supreme Court should there fore be reversed: This decision shows that the Mayor of New York was acting illegally when he opposed the Act recently passed by the Sta'e Legislature. William Warnack, James Williams, John Web :W Bt er. William Wilson, Isaac Stoddard. and William illiams, indicted for being engaged in the Wash logton election riot, on the Ist of June, were put on trial on the 6th inst., in the Criminal Court in that city. Judge Crawford presiding. The testi 14°nY, which was very conclusive as to the c omplicity of those on trial, was closed the same 'day, and the case was argued 7,0 n the 7th, and submitted to the jury, who found them guilty, and judge Crawford sentenced them to fine and ina sonnient. Somemonths since an association was for roT. A among the proprietors of sailor's b,oar-aing houses, with the view, not only of rcsifo,ci o g the movement of the merchants against paying ad vanced wages to seamen, but also, ' o f putting down the " boarding cribs," princiln.P and South-streets, New Yor' which, through the located in Water agency . of runners, A'' . h the legitimate inter' with business. The Socip:c nu ts rut c ) :l l .. s e the "Sailors' Landlords' AssociaP, on, T about d 190 mem bers, and has a regular constitution and by-laws. Another rP: eeting of shipowners and agents of New York had been held, concerning advance Wagesyo seamen. A. series of resolutions was offerek' d by Mr. P. Perit and adopted. The im- PcPftant ones are as follows :--- As the opinion of this meeting, that it is desirable to in crease largely the number of native American seamen, and that this can only be accomplished by rendering the service comfortable and respectable, so that young men of character and enterprise may find motives to choose the seafaring life as a profession. That in order to remove hindrances to entering the service, it is indispensable that all brutal and violent treatment in the government of men, which have in many cases been exhibited, should be abandoned, and that commanders and officers convictel of using such violence, should be considered as thereby dis qualified for further service. That it be recommended to shipowners, in selecting commanders and officers of ships, to look carefully t 4 the moral character of those who offer themselves, as well as to their general qualifications, and that by their instructions to their commanders, by personal attention to the subject, and by every practicable influence they endeavour to secure the good treatment of the crews of ships sailing under their orders. That to meet the cases which may arise in the absence of advance wages, of men who may be without means to pay their board, it be re commended to shipowners to arrange that crews may live on shipboard after signing the shipping articles. The movement for abolishing advance wages to seamen, has been adopted in Philadelphia with great unanimity. Forty of the principal ship. owners have become obligated to adhere to the system. The net amount in the United States Treasury subject to draft, is twenty millions of dollars. _ The marine losses for the month of June amount to 819 500 dols. This does not include damages to vessels not amounting to total loss, or partial losses of carp. There were totally lost: two steam-ships, three ships, eight barques, three brigs, and ten schooners; total, 26—a smaller number than in any other month since January. The losses for every other month have exceeded a million of dollars. The total marine losses for the year thus far are 10,232,500. We take the following curious paragraph from the New York Times:— Mayor Wood has appointed John McLeod Murphy, who lately chastised Hon. Daniel Sidles while in undress and in his bed room, and formerly constructing engineer of the Navy Yard, head of the Bureau of Snrvayors of the city of New York. The office is worth 5,000 donate per annum. The same paper says : Another awful poisoning ease has occurrel in Massa chusetts. The entire family of Mr. John Jones, living at Randolph, were made very sick with arsenic, but by the intervention of prompt measures of relief their lives were saved. Miss Lucinda Ann Hunt, 22 years of age, was arrested on the charge of administering the poison. Saturday the 4 , 11 of July—lndependence day— was, as usual, celebrated throughout the Union with great ceremony. The New York Times of the following Monday says:— The City,—particula - ly that portion of it embraced within the Sixth Ward—has been in a state of riot since Saturday morning. An organised gang of ruffians, residing in and about Mulberry-street, and known as the " Roach Guards," began an affray which has ended in the loss of six lives and the wounding c f over one hundred men. They began by making an onslaught, with knives and pistols, upon the Metropolitan Policemen, who were on duty near the Bowery Theatre. The officers were forced to fly. The same gang being reinforced, assailed the drinking saloon No. 40 Bowery, the fixtures of which they demolished after assaulting the inmates, nhom they suspected of being members of another antagonistic Club, known as the " Atlantic Guards." By great exertions on the part of the police, and private citizens who aided the police, this dfficulty was temporarily quelled, but not until nearly a dozen persons had been more or less injured by bludgeons and pistol balls. The riot broke out afresh later in the day, and with such violence that the police in attempting to suppress it were badly beaten, being assailed from the house-tops and windows all along Bayard and Mulberry streets, where the rival " Guards" were met fighting from behind barricades. Fire arms were brought into requisition by the rioters, six of whom were killed and seventy or eighty wounded. Not any of the police were killed but one, a special officer, named Jenkins, is lying at the City Hospital, mortally wounded, it is feared. Some others, it is thought, will die of their injuries. The fight was ended about nightfall—about the time that three regiments were called out to maintain order. Comparative quiet reigned the remainder of the night. A large number of the rioters were captured by the police. Elsewhere the day was celebrated in a spirited manner, with the usual accompaniments of military parades, civic processions, ora tions, and fireworks. A fatal accident, as we learn by telegraph, occurred at Boston during the pyrotechnic dis play. The mortar used in projecting shell rockets and other fireworks, accidentally exploded, killing and wound ing several citizens, among them George F. Tewksbury, Esq., formerly harbour-master. This sad disaster abruptly terminated the display. On Sunday there was not much fighting until near seven o'clock, when a riot broke out in Centre and Anthony streets, in which sticks, stones, bricks from the chimneys of the houses, and guns and pistols were freely used, and with effect. Nine men were seriously wounded, and taken to the City Hospital. Finally the military were marched up and down through the ward, and the rioters dispersed. There were lesser riots in other parts of the city. In Bayard-street barricades were again erected, bat after the military appeared, they were re moved without violence. At midnight all was quiet, and only one regiment was to remain under arms till morning. Otherwise and elsewhere the celebration of the National Independence was as quiet as usual. The weather was damp and cl , rty. There was less explosion of fireworks in the city and in the suburbs than for several years before, owing, it was said, to the very high prices charged There was no display of fireworks at the City Hall or in the parks. The barque Panchita, owned in New York, has been captured in the Congo River, by the British sloop-of-war Sappho, under suspicion of being engaged in the Slave-trade, and on the 6th was handed over to the United States Marshal at Quarantine. She was brought to New York by two officers and twelve men belonging to the S ippho. This is the same barque which last October was seized upon suspicion, and her owners got her off after an examination before Judge Betts, because there was a lack of evidence to convict. It now remains to be seen whether the evidence, which was sufficient to cause her arrest in the Congo River, with the proof of her character on board, will be enough to condemn her. The owner, on hearing of her arrival in the custody of British offi leis, hastened down the Bay, and, it is reported, carrried off her papers A correspondent in Kansas' telegraphs the results of the Democratic Convention held at Lecompton, for the nomination of a delegate to Congress. After much confusion, in the course of which Dr. Stringfellow was incontinently dropped, the Convention nominated Ex-Governor Ranson, of Michigan. Resolutions approbatory of the course pursued by Governor Walker, were adopted, and the Convention adjourned. It is reported that one hundred troops and fifty teamsters, commanded by Col. Summers, were attacked by a large body of the Arapache and Cheyenne Indians, two hundred miles west of Fort. Kearney, a short time since, and all slain The number of bodies recovered from the wreck of the Montreal in the St Lawrence was 242. The wreck had been advertised for sale. Robbery of the dead was practised to a dreadful degree by the inhuman fellows who assisted in recovering the bodies. The effected authorities had not eected the arrest of any of the parties engaged in such proceedings. An arrival from Pori - au Prince reports a dis astrous fire at that place. It broke out at mid night on June 12, and destroyed one hundred houses and stores. Loss estimated at orte million Spanish dollars. Three persons weve burned to death. COMKERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE NORTHERN TIMES. , .-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1857. time have been—to Havre, 968 bales ; Riga, 679 ; Antwerp, 206. Total, 1,853 bales. COTTON IN TRANKTU : Nothing of moment has been done in floating cotton, holders asking prices much in advance of the ideas of buyers for Liverpool. Several lots have been sent forward by this mail on owner's account. I consider the business for the season as closed, and shall omit quoting " transit cotton" until receipt of the new crop. SOUTHERN MARKETS have all advanced during the week under review, as will be found by reference to the reports from each, given elsewhere. By telegraph for a week later a further advance is reported, the business being principally for France and the Continent. On the 27th June, at New Orleans, the stock of cotton was 65,000 bales. The following is the distribution of the bulk of it as far as known Purchased and Loadlngjor Great Britain, . do „ France, .... 19,( 00 do „ Continent Europe, 1,090 do Spa , do „ U. S. Coastwise, 2,300 41,400 Leaving unsold in New Orleans on 27th Jun-, .. The bulk of which consists either of the higher or the very inferior qualities, and chiefly the latter. The quan tity of Middling is very small. NEW CamasNs, July lst.—Receipts to-day 230 bales, sales 1,200; market firm at 14 to 141 e. for middling;. Freights dull; Sterling 1101- per cent. 2nd July—Sales to day 2,500 bales, prices have advancei ec. ; middling, 141 to 14p. Freight to Havre, ie. Sterling, 1098 to 1101 per cent. 3rd July—Receipts for the week, 1,400 bales; same week last year, 2,011. Sales for the week, 12,500 bales ; to-day, 600; market firm at unchanged prices. Exports to Liverpool for the week, 5,000 bales ; Havre, 8,000. Decreased receipts at this port compared with last year, 245,500 bales. Decrease in receipts at all the southern ports, 583,000. Stock on hand, 55,500. Freight to Liverpool, 7,d. 6th July—Market very firm at Mac. for middling. 7th July—Cotton buoyant, good demand. Middling, 140. Stock un.old reduced to. 15,000 bales. The bulk of the business last week, and so far this week, has been done for France. The weather is unfavourable for the growing crop. MOBILE, July 4th —Receipts for the week, 80 bales ; same week last year, 494 bales; market firm at 14c. per lb. for Middling. Weather cool and unseasonable. GROWING CROP. —The accounts of the growing crops received during the past week from the various sections of the cotton region, aro somewhat chequered in their character; from some points they are favorahle, from others the reverse; they all agree, however, in the one imp , rtant fact. that thi crop is fully three weeks later than an average. Blooming will be general during the present week, whereas in an ordinary season it ought to be uni versal by 10th to 15th June. The stand for the new crop is good, and with genial weather to the end of the season, and a late frost, we may yet make an average crop. Before this can be done, we have to encounter the chances of disasters; the whole question is in the future, and upon the state of the weather, and the date of frost will depend the extent of the next crop. RECE+PTS, EXPOUTS, &c,—The receipts for the week are 7,000 bales, and next week will be still - more moderate, as by telegraph we learn that at New Orleans and Mobile together they were only 1,500 bales. The total receipts at the ports amount to 2,880,000 bales, and the evidences are daily increased that the country is almost entirely cleared of cotton, and that the receipts up to first Sept must be on the smallest scale. The export to Great Britain for the week is 8 000 bales, and to France and other foreign ports 11,000 bales So much of our remaining stock is already bought for France, Spain, and the Continent of Europe, that only a very moderate portion will go to Great Britain, and her total supply for the year will probably fall short of my estimate of 1,450,000 bales. The following is a statement of the movement in cotton since the Ist Septe.uber last, as compared with the pre vious three years : Receipts at the P0rt5........ Exports toG Britain Fra - tce " other F. Ports • ...... Total Exports stock on hand Of which daring the past Receipts at the Ports Exports to G. Britain " France. .... •••• • • " other For. Pts. Total Exports. 1857. 1856. 2,880,000 3,443,000 1,364 000 1,558,0 381,000 478,000 399,000 496,000 2,;44,009]2,832,000 1855. 1854. 2,669,000 2,801,000 1,389,000 1,451,000 405,000 306,000 252,4100 308,000 2,016,00012 065 000 2 , )0,000! 316,000 in the above :- 1 49,000 11,000 10,000 26,000 2,0001 11,000 2,000 26,000 14,000 41,00 170,000 'l6 ),000' week, included i 7,000, 16,0001 B,ooo' 2G 000 , 1,000 6,000 10,000 9,000 19,0001 41,000 SUMNlARY.—Receipts — Decrease at the ports, compared with last year, 563,000 bales ; compared with 1853, 298,000. Exports—decrease to Great Britain, 494,000; compared with 183. 277,000 bales, Decrease to France, 97,000; compared with 1853, 32,000; decrease to other foreign ports, 97,000 bales. W. P. Wltimur. BREADSTUFFS, FLOUR : The market has been steady with a fair demand since the date of our last circular. The supplies continue light and without anything doing for export ; prices re main unchanged. Western Canal and State, Good Shipping, 6 dols 40c to 7 dole per brl. Ohio, Indiana, &a , 6 dots 85c to 7 dols 50c. Canada, 6 dols 75c to 8 dole 50c. Southern, 7 dole 50e to 8 dole. Fancies and High Extras, 8 dole to 0 dols 500 and 10 dole. WHEAT : The receipts continue very limite 3, and prices remain firm There have been a few small arrivals of new Wheat from Georgia, which have been taken by the millers at 2 dols for red, and 2 dole 25c for white. The quality is very goxl. Southern white, new, 2 dole 25c per 60 lbs. Genesee and Western, 190 c to 195 e. Canadian, 180 c to 195 c. Western red and mixed, 152 c to 170 c. Southern red, new, 2, dols. INDIAN' CORN has been without change, the market closing du'l, owing to increased supplies. Yellow, 87c to 88c par 56 lbs. White none. Western old mixed, 82c to 83c. Hors—We hear it rumoured to-day that a speculative ho - use, who have full as much sugar on hand as they can conveniently carry in these tight times, bays disposed of their stock of hops, about 1,700 bales, mostly old, at about 4c to 41c; they were purchased on speculation, and are not now on the market. We have not learned of auy other transactions. IRON—Scotch pig iron is firm at 31 dols to 32 dols, six months. NAVAL STORES.—Crude turpentine is firm, with sales on the spot and to arrive at 3 dols 80c per 280 lbs. Spirits turpentine continues in active demand for export, and we notice sales at 47c to 47 Common rosin is firm and wantod at 1 dol 93e per 310 lbs. Fine rosins are more - plenty, and are scarcely so firm. Tar continues dull and heavy. 01Lg.—Whale and sper m o il s are qu i e t a nd uncharged. Linseed oil is lower, and is dull at 78c to 79c. PRovisioNs.—Pork is irregular at 22 dols, 35c to 22 dols 50c for mess, and 19 dols'lsc to 19 dols 20c for prime. Beef is steady and firm, at 14 dols to 15 dols for country mess, 13 dols to 13 (lois 50c for railroad mess, and l 6 dots 50c to 17 dols for repacked Western. Prime mess beef and beef hams are dull. Bacon is dull at 121 c to 13c for Western smoked sides. Cat meats are steady at 10ic to 11 for hams, and 910 to 911 for shoulders. Lard is un changed at 14c to Hie. Butter is active at 17c to 22c for Ohio, and 18c to 23c for State. Cheese is firm, at 6c to lOic forfordinary to prime dairies. FREIGUT3.—We notice engagements to London of 500 brls flour at ls 6d ; 2,000 brls Turpentine, Is 6d to is 9d ; 600 brls spirits turpentine, 4s to 4s 6d ; 20 tierces beef, 38; and 30 hhdB tobacco, 15s. To Liverpool, 8,000 bushels wheat at about 3d, in ship's bags ; 1,200 brls rosin, 4iel ; 40 tons tallow, ss; and 150 tierces beef at P.N.T. To Glas gow, 480 brls rosin,"at 28 ; there were also rumours of considerable:engagements for grain to Glasgow, but we could not trace them to a reliable source. NEW ORLEANS, July 7. COTTON.—There has been an improvement in the mid dling qualities to-day, prices advancing an ie. The sales to -day add up only 1,600 bales at 14ic. to 14ic. for mid dling. The receipts for the last three days have been 660 bales. The receipts at this port up to the present time as compared with those of last year fall short 247,000 bales. The receipts at all the Southern ports up to this date less than those of last year are 579,000 bales. Freights—Stacnant. Cotton to Liverpool, 13, and to Havre, id. Sterling Exchange, 91 per cent. premium. PROTECTION FOR THE KOORIA.MOORIA. ISLANDS. — With respect to these islands we may state positively tha! her Majesty's screw sloop Cordelia, 11, Commander C. H Vernon, is on her way thither to protect the British vessels loading with guano at those isl7nds, and she is to remain there so long as it is absolutely necessary for the protection of trade, and is then to proceed to Sydney, New South Wales.—ltforning Herald. THE GREAT COLCLOUGEI WILL CASE.—The proceedings of this extraordinary case (says the Dublin Evening Mail) have been brought to a close in a way satisfactory to both parties. The only wonder is that some arrangement had not been come to long ago. At the close of Mr. White side's speech on Tuesday, we understand that a compromise was entered into between the contending parties. The following is an outline of the terms :—Mrs. Bovse gets the money lodged in court, amounting to £20,000, and her jointure; Mr. Rossborough Colclough gets Tintern Abbey and the estates. ARREST OF ITALIANS IN FRANCE.---" The French police," says a Paris letter in the Nord of Brussels, " continue to display the greatest activity in their, researches after all the Italians suspected of having V.lten part in the late plot. COTTON. About thirty Italians have been already arrested at Marseilles, and on the frontiers of the Var, of the Jura, Since the 29th June we have had a moderate demand a nd of Switvrland. At the time of the arrest of Bonaldi for Cotton in this market , at steadily improving prices, and Liprandi in Paris, not long since, the policy discovered until at the close lam obliged to raise my quotations of th'.; cipher, by the aid of which they corresponded with last we e k id t o d per lb. ;at these increased figures it is Mazzini ; and, thanks to that discovery, tha French difficult to purchase even running qualities. The businep,a Government was able to follow, day by day, the march of has be en c hi e fl y f or t h e Continent of Europe and Fmnce. the conspiracy which broke out at Genoa, at Lept orn, with some parcels on s p e culation. There is *Wiling of a n d i n the Neapolitan States ; a nd it is said • tht the mome n t d o i ng f or G reat Br i ta i n. The sales for the week I Sardinian police seized at Genoa the special I . Y astructions of estimate at 6,000 bales, and the 04 1 1.TanO 0 A during same Mazzini relative to the Emperor g the Fr.eiich. Maw Yorx, July 8. MONETARY AFFAIRS: The Money market is again corn fortable, and the street demand on call readily supplied at 7 per cent. Some firmness was shown in sterling bills in making up repittancesc for the Persia's mail, but before the close of 'Change hour the demand was fully met at 1091 to 1091 per cent, most of the large transactions being done at tto R. Continental also closed tame. Messrs. De Coppit, in their circular just issued, remark, " Since our last advices of the 29th ulto., there has been a decided improve ment in the tone of the market, and prices have very generally advanced. The unexoected ease in the Money Market since the Ist inst, when the new tariff went into operation, and the prompt payment of all the interest fall ing due July 1, have had the effect of restoring confidence to a certain extent. The low prices which have ruled for some time have also attracted buyers, and a great deal of stock has been taken, in small lots, out of the market. There is a little more doing for investment, but the orders continne to be for small amounts At the close the market is very firm, with an upward tendency. Money is easy on call at 7. We quote paper from Bto 12 per cent, according to class and length." WEST I/ IDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. In our improsiox of yesterday we gays a telegraphic outline of the news received by the arrival of the Orinoco, which reached Soul haimpton at a late hour on Thursday night. Seventy case's of yellow fever had occurred on board, of which twenty- stght, were fatal. Not one pas senger had taken the disetoie, and all of the crew - who died were new hands, excepting the chief engineer. THE WEST' INDIES. The proceedings of the Cota'on Supply Association of Manchester had attracted consider able attention in Jamaica where the facilities of producing this important raw material are at least equal to those enjoyed by any other colony of the British Empire, were an adequate supply of labour available. The Caonial Standard says :—" The cotton shrub is, we believe, indigenous; and we have our selves seen plants in full bearing, the age of which has been stated to be upwards of twenty years. The eotton wool produced from this native plant is of excellent staple ;- and, could it be cultivated and prepared for market in quantity, there is scarcely a limit to the extent to which it might be produced. But in Jamaita, as in Demerara, the conclusive obstacle to the cultivation of cotton as an article cif export is the want of labour. We possess in this island the smallest population, compared with the geographical area of the island, of any Colony in the West Thaw, and, from some unhappy but unexplainel causes, we have been less fortunate in supplying this want than any other Colony of the British Empire. Still there can be no doubt that Jamaica might, with a due adjuetment of population, contribute very largely to the supply of this important element of British manufacturing industry, and that, were the legitimate influence of the manufacturing interest employed in urging upon Government the expediency of either providing, at the national cost, an increased labouring population for the Colonies, which, like Jamaica, British Guiina, and Trinidad, could of themselves, were they adequately populated, supply all the Cotton for which Great Britain is now dependent wholly on the United States ; or, at any rate, of opening to us new labour markets, which are at present closed against us, whilst they are open, with little or no practical restriction, to the Cuban slave trader ; the objects of the Manchester Supply Association might be in a groat measure attained. The slave trade in Cuba continues to excite a large amount of attention throughout the island. An attempt by the Hon. James Porteous to invoke the joint action of the two lower branches of the legislature on this question failed, in consequence ,of the absence from the journals of the Board of Council of all precedent for the motion offered by Mr. Porteous. The Upper House of Jamaica, it would seem, does not condescend to petition the Lower House of Great Britain and Ireland. In consequence of this, says a Kingston paper, "it has been resolved to call public meetings throughout the island, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament on this subject, and simultaneous efferts will be made, through the agency of religious bodies in the colonies and in England, to bring this question home to the hearts of the British people, ere the petitions from this country shall have been presented to parliament. The island was healthy and business somewhat slack. the Sugar crop was over, and the greater part of the pro duce shipped, a considerable quantity of which had been coasigeed to the United St ,tes. Abundant rains had fallen, and the canes promised well for text year. Mining operations were being steadily conducted and progressing favourably. The ore at the Clarendon and the Wheal was greatly improved in quality, and becomes richer in proportion to the depth obtained. The lode at the first named mine was upwards of twelve feet wide. Governor Darling was expected out in the packet of the 7th inst. From Barbadoes there is very little news. The Water Works Company's Bill had been somewhat modified as far as the guarantee clause was coccerned, The weather had continued favourable for reaping, and very little sugar remained to be made. The young crops presented a healthy and luxuriant appearance. The health of the island was good. From St. Thomas's on the Ist inst., we learn that the yellow fever was on the increase, and was making great ravages among the shipping in the harbour. The amount of fatal cases was beyond the usual average. The ba rque Kingfisher, bound to Jamaica, had lost the captain, mate, and nearly all hands by this dreadful malady. Advices from Demerara state that the contract for steam communication between Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice had been taken by Captain Spotton and Mr. G. Watson, an enterprising merchant in Water-street. Her Majesty's steam transport Perseverance arrived on the 22nd with 180 men of the 2d West India Regiment, and had left again with the remaining companies of the regiment. Business was dull. The weather had been showery and favourable for the growing canes, which were thriving well. The •colony was healthy at the departure of the packet. There had been no late cases of cholera. The Court of Policy was sitting, engaged in giving legal form to the intentions of the Combined Court, which had concluded its session. The report of the great success of the gold diggers at Upata, situate at the head waters on the Cayun, a river of this colony, had excited little sensation. The labourers of Guiana have a fear of the Yankees, and would be chary in going beyond the shadow of the British flag. Mr. Drysdale, the newly-appointed Governor of Tobago, had assumed office, and was gaining the favourable opinion of all classes. The crops were nearly reaped, and 3,000 hogsheads of sugar already shipped. Several vessels were loading and waiting to load. Tee rainy season had set in mildly, and the island was healthy. The canes were look ing well for next year. • Grenada continued healthy, and business was dull in consequence of the completion and shipment of the sugar clop, which exceeds that of last year by about 3,000 hogs heads, making the year's shipment 6,500 hogsheads. The encouraging state of the sugar market had led to con siderable patches of land being brought into cultivation, the weather was also favourable and the young canes were in a most healthy condition, and sanguine hopes were entertained that the next year's crop will produce about 9,000 hogsheads. There is no political news at Martinique. Plenty of rain had fallen, and the crops were looking well for next year. Sugars had been selling from 52f to 55f, notwithstand ing the falling off of prices in the European markets. The yellow fever was making fearful havoc among the shipping. The town of St. Pierre was also afneted, but not to any extent. In other French islands the crops had increased, and still promised better. In all the West India islands the planters had reaped good crops, and were using every exertion to increase the quantity of produce next year to meet the demand for the staple. CHILE. From Chile, we find, as usual, little new, beyond the excitement consequent on the trial of the political revolu tionists, on whom it was expected sentence of death would soon be passed. Congress was to have met on the day of the sailing of the steamer, the Ist of June. We have no clue as to what the President's message is likely to contain. Government was about raising a loan of four millions of dollars to complete the Valparaiso and Santiago Railroad. The Santiago and Tecna Railway advances rapidly. Two engines, sent from Valparaiso, had reached the capital in safety; each engine was drawn in a cart by twenty yoke of oxen. The little "Yankee steamboat, built at Valparaiso, had reached the Maule river in safety, and promis.s to do well. The Valparaiso floating dock has already received several vessels with ease and security, some of them of 700 tons register. Heavy rains were experienced, which interfered with public improvements. The copper mines continue to yield abundantly, and Copiapo is witnessing the renewal of its activity during the brilliant days of Chanarcillo. New and very rich mines have been discovered near Pabellon, which promise to yield very abundantly. The attempt of the Peruvian Consul to confiscate the cargoes of guano arriving at Valparaiso under Vivanco contracts will, in all proba bility, be unsuccessful. It is said that the government and clergy have made up their quarrel, the former finding the latter rather too strong political opponents. A Frenchman, named Louis Pujo, has made an arrangement with the municipality of Santiago to present it with 40,001 dols, in consideration for which he is to receive during his lifetime and that of his wife an annual pension of 4,800 dols. _ _ ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WALIII RAILWAY.-1 gentle man connected with our city informs us of his having had a very narrow escape, in common with the other passen gers, on the above line on Friday last. It appears that the express train, which left Loudon on that morning at 9.40, when within a mile of Carmarthen station, ran off the rails whilst travelling at a speed of from fifty to sixty miles per hour. At the spot in question the line stands on a single embankment, and the engine, after leaving the rails, travelled upwards of 100 yards before it left the ballast. It then took a slanting direction, knocking down the rail-fencing for some distance, and ultimately embed ded itself in the soft earth. The tank of the tender was detached from the frame and thrown over the engine. The coupling connecting the train with the eneine fortu nately snapped, otherwise the oeuenssion by the sudden stoppage might have been attended with very serious con sequences to the passengers ; owing, however, to the break .___e age of the coupling, the carriages passed clear on and PERU. beyond the engine, and ultimately stopped, buried up to Our Iquique Correspondent, under date. of June 6th, the axles in the soil of the embankment. The passengers+, states that stocks of Nitrate of Soda, ea plaza, were low, and officials fortunately escaped uninjured, with the excep the make el present considerable, and large parcels daily thn of the fireman, who was cut about the head, and brought down, price nominal at 21 reels. Ten vessels, appeared to ha v e sus tained some internal in j ur y . Several taking about 84,000 qqls., were loading on 31st May. of the passengers had to be extricated from the carriages In Africa everything was quiet, nothing new having through the windows. The guard of the train evinced transpired since our last advices. Two ships were loading great presence of mind in immediately despatching men ores and one discharging assorted cargo—date, June 6th with signals, in both directions, to stop any approachine From Islay > June 7, our correspondent writes that train. The gentlemen passengers rendered the most active I r ivanc o g t .;:t holds out at Arequipa, but the town was and prompt assistance in removing the ladies from ' the C surr'bunded by the troops of General San Ramou and 1 re carriages, and appeasing their fears ; and after a detention ...reyre, about three thousand in number. Irivanco's of about half an hour, another engine and carriages was troops are very enthusiastic, but the others will doubtless defeat them in ten or twelve days, when all will be over. Nothing of interest from the interior beyond this. Two vessels in port loading wool. obtained from Carmarthen. At the part the accident occurred, there is a sha:p yards beyond the line is in close, p rox i m ite t o Callao dates are to the 16th ult. A. petition from some Twqy.--Ifilkentiy Moderator. `,,i the line h v.; er, curve, and a. few i Vie river Our Valparaiso correspondent, says the Panama Star and Herald. is so taken up with fox hunting that he can write about little else. The hounds, he says, throw off twice a week, and his horse as regularly throws him off fortunately there is at present conslderable mud and water in the hunting districts, so that no necks have yet been broken. Business in Valparaiso is resorted as unusually dull ; exportation of agricultural products has been most trifl ing ; the scarcity of silver currency continues to be much felt. Exchange—On Lonslon, 60 days, 45i per cent. Freight to England, 44. pr.ir ton, English. of the leading men had been presented to Gen. Castilla and received by him with great favour, having for its object the direct sale of guano in Callao. The following is the body of the project:—That depots for guano be established in Callao, and that all foreign vessels be sup plied therefrom, paying for it cash on delivery, the guano to be sold by weight; and that after a sufficient number of vessels have been obtained to be under the Peruvian flag, no foreign vessel to be allowed to load at the islands. The government to load the vessels at so much per ton for its delivery on the moles or alongside the vessels purchas ing. Should this project succeed, it will be one of the greatest benefits ever conferred on the country. In place of the government only receiving 15 dols per ton for the guano, it will get 25 dots per ton clear, say 5 dots per ton for digging and freighting to Callao, selling it at 30 dols per ton, and at the same time giving to a large num ber of vessels and men employment and keeping the money in the country. As yet the matter is only on the first step. AMA FOWNTEI DROWNED.—Yesterday the body of a man, at present name, or anything connected with him, un known, was found in the river. An inquest will in held on the body this day. TAINTED P H OTOGRAPH PORTRAITS.—Our readers will be =eh gratified with an inspection of some very excellent portraits taken by Mr. Callow, 79, Lord-street, which are now exhibited at his gallery there, The use of the oil-- colouring impart to them all the faithfulness of life, while their execution reflects the highest credit upon the artist. As gems of arefstie manupalation they are unsurpassed, and deserve every recognition. LIST"' OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. PERSIA, ritors New Yoax.—Messrs. H. Carr, Edward Power, Oliver Slate, and John A. Dunlop, Mr. Jesamine and lady, Mr. M. Ayllon and enan servant, Mr. J. S. Gibbs,. lady, and child, Miss Leekleert, Mr, C. C. Beehet and lady, Mr. Pickers_ gill and son, Mrs. Von Hoffman and nurse, Mr. P. Wright and lady, Messrs. W. M. Neill, Izord, Harrison, J. • a Wilson, and George Nathan, Mr. A. E. D mglas, lady, and servant, Mean s. J. V, Smedley, B, Ryle, and D. C. B arker,, Cap ain APWilliams, Mr. C. Stirling and lady, Mr. Smith wad lady, Mr. Juan Fasquez de Novoo, Mr. George Fisher, lady, child, and servant, Mrs. Thornbarne three children, and maid - servant, Mr. I Alexander Daman and man servant, Mr. Charles A. Gisborne, Messrs. F. Abras, A. P. Pillot, jun., T. Montale y Caloos, R. Hoffman, Arthur . Wilson, John Malconsean, H. T. Roberts, A. B. Carnnu, Gs T. Doswell, Von Hoffman, Mrs. Pillot and daughter, Messrs. J. Bowman, H. Geurden, Lewis G. Young, Joan de Calyude, Dr.- Edward Gstierez, Messrs: A. Keboe, J. T. D ivies, A. C. Morton, Robert Shallon, W. H. Trapman, P. Reinhart, Samuel Whitney, Shreve, E. Howe, jnn, Miss Shreve, Mr, Echever ria, Mr. Mendes-one, Mr. Mendine and two children, Messrs. T. Connolly, H. Hervey, Mr. Sampson, lady, nurse, and two children, Messrs. C. Reeked, C. Lennig, T. Kerak, J. W. Wallace, Miss Ward, Miss Slater, Mr. F. Schmidt, Miss H. Newell, Mrs. E. Mathews% Mrs. Laura and brie :d, Messrs. W. Hayes, J. A. Pesant sod lady, Miss Rosannah Hayes, Miss Martha Hayes, Mr. M. Halpin and lady, Miss Mary Pettibone, Miss C. Chimand, Nessre. Kelley, Thompson, Manua, H. M'innes, 11. Moore, J. L. Kelly. F. Von Rsidt, William Whitfield, Samuel Norris, Joan Ford. del Cuetoo, lady, child, and three servants, William Smith, Rev. Vincent Noveea, Messes. Jose Perry, John Jockmis, Miguel Puig, Felix Cubamees, Nicolas Font, Jscob Elorya, Mrs. Charles Lennig, son, and nurse, Mr. A, L. Barbier and lady, Mrs. L W. Wallace, child, and nurse, Mr. Charles Le C.sne and lady, Mr. P. A. de. Aguerre and lady, Messrs. Samuel Hayes, W. Mure and lady, H. C. Drayton and lady, George Moke and lady, child and nurse, Miss Julia Norrie, Mr. Perkins and friend, Messrs. Russell Murdoch, Charles Shuter, H. W. Morcure, Cyrus W. Field, R. Ctibazae, George Mann, jun., Don Romon St. Pala ze, four children, and servant, and Mr. Tess, Messrs. G. W. Bennell, Theo. B. Bowning, John Bishop, Ruis, W. C. Morrison, three children, and nurse, Thomp son Kings'urd and lady, Count de Rottenmend and lady, Mr Altroechi, lady, end three children, Mrs. Hunmencary and servant, Mr. E P. Griffin, F. L. Hibbery, Miss Baldwin, Messrs. Brown, A. Codman, and Phillips, Mrs. Caroline Willing, Mester R. Willing, Mrs. M'Farland and two children, Messrs. G. Paris, Geo. Von Lan gerke, W. W. Montgomery, James Mitchell, Jose,h Stanbury, J. M'Farland, John Marsden and lady, Robert Sherwell and lady, Otto Winekelman, Robert Dyas, Ormsrod, R. T. Tipton, and The Hon. John Ross. PASSENGERS PER U. S• MAIL STEAMSHIP ERICSSON.— Rev. Dr. Stone and lady, Miss M'Culloh, Miss Stanton, Mrs. R. Stuart and two children, Professor A. Greenleaf, Messrs. Uren, Tanava, Lafor, Tarnava, Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Wilkinson and two children, Messrs. Novello, Behm, Hall, Benoit, Dunn, Pavy Bach, Mnrscheid, Miguire, Mrs• A, B. Lowber, Sibroy, and D. C. Osborn. CHARGE OF INDECENT ASSAULT.—INIT. William Samuel Willey, residing in Stanley-street, Pimlico, was charg , d with indecently assaulting Emma Jolly, his servant, a pretty and innocent-locking girl, fifteen years of age, who had the appearance of being much older. Complainant said she had been in defendant's service only six days when he behaved improperly to her. The first time was Monday evening. She had been out for something and be let her in ; directly he had done so, he put his arm round her in the passage, and asked her to kiss him, which she refused to do. Her mistress was playing the piano at the time in the parlour, and defendant followed complainant down stairs into the kitchen, and conducted himself towards her in a very indelicate way. Oa Tuesday evening her mistress went out for a walk, and during her absence defendant followed complainant into one of the bedrooms, and, pulling her by the hand, wished her to submit to his unlawful desires, at the same time repeating his indelicate conduct towards her. Complainant was examined by the magistrate, but her evidence was of such an unsatisf letory nature as to call forth the remark from Mr. Paynter, that he was satisfied no jury would convict, and for him to do so upon such an incredible and improbable story w°s out of the question. Defendant was, therefore, discharged. LOCAL MANUFACTIME.—A beautiful double-barrelled gun has been made at the establishment of Mr. A.llport, 67, Old George's-street, which is, perhaps, the largest double-barrelled fowling-piece ever manufactured. The gun is made en an entirely new construction, a brief des cription of which may be understood by those acquainted with the manufacture of firearms. The barrels, instead of being soldered together, with a" rile" at top and bottom, as double guns almost invariably are, are bolted together through the patent breeches, top and bottom, and about three feet six inches from the breeches the barrels are " elipt" together with a strong double ring. Attached to this is the frame of the spring swivel, and the other end is screwed to the stock. The gun can be taken asunder in five minutes, and converted into two single guns, by attach ing a second stock. The barrels are constructed of the best twisted iron, the stock is made of gun metal, and the locks are as nicely adjusted and as exactly fitted as mechanical ingeauity could accomplish. Although the gun weighs 372 lbs., it is so evenly balanced that a child might work it in any direction, and disgbarge it with the most perfect ease. Those who are fondf strand shooting may feel some interest in learning the dimensions. The barrels are nine feet long, and the weight of both amounts to 224 lbs., the weight of the patent breeches is 36 lbs., of the stock 56,1 be., and the spring swivel and frame also weigh 56 lbs. The charge is intended to be a half pound of powder and two you❑ds of shot for each barrel, and as the gun is expected to kill at a range of nearly four hundred yards, wild duck and other water fowl will be apt to find a nearer location an exceedingly uncomfortable position. The gun, which has been manufactured for a gentleman residing near this city, reflects great credit on the estab lishment of Mr. Allport ; and we understand those who desire to witness a highly interesting specimen of mechanical skill and ingenuity, will be affor'el the oppor tunity for a few days at the establishment of Mr. Allport. —Cork Examiner. MURDER OF A FENALE AT CASIBERWELL. At the Lambeth police-court, on Thursday, Alice Williams, 33, of No. 3, Wibrow'e-cottages, Camberwell, was, just as the Hon. G. C. Norton was abut to leave the bench, brought up in the custody of police-officer Man ge y, of the P division. charged with killing teed shying Henry Rix, of No. 1, Cobourg-cottages, Neat -street Camberwell. Samuel P. Mungay, police-constable 41 P, said that that morning, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Rix (the deceased), came to the station-house and cowl lined of the treatment of the prisoner towards him. He proceeded with him to his house, No. 1, Cobonrg-cottages, Neat-street, Camberwell. where he remained some time without seeing the prisoner, and, after the lapse of au hour, he left ; but upon reaching the Albany-road s some boys called him , back again, and upon reaching the house the second time- he found Mr. Rix dead. The Magistrate: Where was - the prisoner at that time? Witness : She had gone to her' own house, and I found her lying on her bed. The Magistrate: Was she asleep ? Witness: No sir; but she pretended to be. The Magistrate : Did you say anything to her ? Witness : Yes; I charged her with having murdered Mr. Rix, and I told her that I must take her into custody, when she laughed and said, " Well, it is a' good job too." The Magistrate : Did she say anything else? Witness : Yes ; on the way to the station she said if she could only have five minutes with Mrs. Rix she would not mind going to Horsemonger-lane, and be hanged. The Magistrate : In what stare did she appear? Witness : Slightly under the influence of liver ; but she appeared to know perfectly well what she was doing. The Magis trate :In what state is she now, Jok ? Mr,. Cook : Oh, she. is quite sober, oir ; she has been, however. frequently charged here for being drunk. Mary Ann' ,Tenninga, 4 :e Burnham-place, Camberwell, said, that inertniag, about one o'clock, whilst in her garden, her little boy came to her and said that there was a great disturbance in the stress. She went out atra saw the prieoner on the ground, and Mr. Rix holding her by each wrist,. and Mrs. Rix was leaning over a paling nearly fainting. The prisoner, at the same time, was trying' to throw a s'one at the deceased, who went inside his shop; as she thought, to get sense vinegar, when she heard a fall, and she went to see what was the mat ter, and she toned the deoensed' lying on the floor. The Magistrate : Where Ives the prisoner at that time ? Witness:: I don't know where she then was. I had prevenusly heard her making a great nrese, and using eery bad language. The Maeietaate : Did she say any thing particular? Witness :' I heard her say that she would do. for Mr. Rix, but nothing else. Eliza beth Brewer, of ti, Neat-street, said that at half-past eight that morning she beard the prisoner go into Mr. Rifi3 shop, and she- heard the prisoner say that she would do for him. She then bad genes in her hand which she wanted to throw at him. Th. Magistrate: Die she say anything ? Witness : Yes, she said, " Come out and I will do for yen. I don't mind being hanged for you," and after threatening him for some time said, " I will have your life." The Magistrat a : What next neeurred ? Witness : She remained there ,half an hour and tried to incite some boys to call after his 1, and Mr. Rix went to the police station, and while he was gone she struck Mrs. Rix. The deceased returned with a policeman, who remained some time, and when he left, she r etarned, and f ;reel open the door, when he ran and laid hol d of her hand, but she flaw ale him. The Magistrate :. Do you know whether she threw a stone at him ? Witness : I do not. The Magis trate: Did you notice any inj4lry on his penal ? Witness: I assisted to lay him out, and I foun 1 a deep cut which was bleeding on the right side of the cheek just below the eye. The Magistrate: What sort 0, f a wound was it? Witness A very deep one, this under I etrt of the eye being cut open. The Magistrate : Did eel t notice any other injury ? Witness : Only a' few sligh t scratches ? Mr. Inspector Worrell, who has the case in I land, informed the magistrate that that was ail the evidence he had been able o get at present, so the prisoner was rem ended. THE EXPENSE 07 LORD GRANVILLI MISSION TO RUSSIA.—The expense of Lord Granvi lie's mission to Russia for the Coronation, as paid, was A 12 773 Ss. 10d. BERANO3E.—The dying poet is mue h worse. The bulletin of Tuesday morning is :—" Xi. 132 ranger has passed a worse night than ever. He is extr ernAy agitated and altogether very ill." At a late hour t hat afternoon the answer to inquiries was that M. Bera: nger was in a very alarming state. ErTRAORDINARY Brit7ll.—A - f B!ackhorse, lane, Phonix Park, on Saturday last, the wife of a lab curer named Lynch gave birth to three daughters, all o f whom are . doing well, the mother being also in a satin; ' a et or y s t a t e On three former occasions Mrs. Lynch gave b; irth to twins► and the three now introduced into this work I of vicissi tudes make the total number of twelve children born to those happy parents in the course of a fe w years, all of whom are living except one.—Sawnder's .21 :ewe Lette r . TEE MOORS.—Reports of the present al )pearanee of some of the principal moors in the counties of Aberdeen,. Banff,' Moray, Inverness, and Ross, are u nan;mous• in representing the old birds left on the Moor s at the end of last season as necessarily much smaller in number than usual ; but agree in stating that the favour able hatching time this year has covered the moors with, c 3rmideritr , tha small number of breeders, a fair stock or grouse, which are as yet healthy, and will be strong by the 12th of August. The reports from the Scotch deer forests are even more favourable than the accounts as) to the =oars. " STRAINING AT A GNAT," &c —Ogle 0 f the worthiestof our nothern cotemporarics refuses to pulJlish, Without an incredulous protest, a story told by the Z iumfries Seanclarct of the discovery of a horse-bean in an egg ; ye t reprints without remark a romance-from the If 'ashinglan Union of a Central African tribe whose tallest 'men are 'but a yard. high. They are cunning workmen in iron, ani live in; towns with iron walls. They have reig'abotirs who are: human unicorns ; others. who have four eyes ; a third. community living subterraneously ; arol r:,..fovirth, the Al a biru, who have a caudal appendage, the stiffness of wit; Loh is unfriendly too taking a seat ;" so " eiery man carrif 3S a sharp-pointed stick, with which hr; drilk; a hole in the earth to receive his tail while sitting." ' A greater eh 3ker than a horse-bean ! A FRAUDULENT BANERUM—In Re Gtzcow y.—lt having been ascertained that no clue has, been ohtai ned to the place of concealment of John G:egee y, wholev le and retail oil and pickle merchants, of No. 1 , 85 and . l94 t, High street, Borough, and , Beckford-row, Walwort h, wh o absconded from his creditors on ttee 23rd• to st May, carrying with him a large amount of money,. including £2,000 in gold, and a number of d ocumenta 7 'elating. to his accounts, the assignees have. dcicided forth , sith to sell by auction the immense stock-in-tra de, some id ea of which may be formed, that it, amongst of her artieler comprises no less than 500 half hogsheads of pickles, ( 200 gallons of ditto, and 100- dozen of ditto in jars al d bottles, for supplying the vegetables used in . the T manu f ac t ure o f which, a market-gardener has pmt IA. a claim for nearly £7OO. The bankrupt's effects are not xpeCted to cover one-tenth part of the debts, which are 'Y ,timated at nearly £17,000. Messrs. Linklater, th e oißr ial assignees, have employed the na7st active and efficient detective officers in the case; and Mr. Johnstone, Om esseeiger to the Court of Bankruptcy, is most persevering ; is his exertions to bring the defaulter to.justice. Thal WEATHER. IN PARIS. ---A. 'Correspondent writes : The heat here is really tropical. The sun pours down a volume of fire on. the boielevar ds and open places, and tieneforms the pavements into smoking ovens. The few foot passengers trip along with that nervous jump peculiar to young bears. that are. being t night to duce on heated iron plates. The consremption of ices at the cafes is fear ful • but the- restraera nts are d eser t e d, f or i t i s too hot either to cook or to ee,t. The thousands of workmen em ployed in embellish Ag Paris sneak int o s h a d y corners an d i lie down to sleep. 'ffben the lazy Englishman slumbers on the ground, he r /clines on his back, throws his legs into curious shapes, rind covers his face with his cap. The Frenchman, on the other hand, lies flat on his nose, and always appears., suffering from incipient stomach-ache. Even the drivers of the water carts, who have the supreme happiness of /tieing partially deluged by every jerk of their vehicles. are disgusted with the sun,_ which defies all their efforts to lay the dust. But the morality of the capital has ga'ined by the heat. Murders are rare, for it is too hot, to get into a passion. The very rogues and pickpockets are too lazy to dash, at the heaps of bank notes contained in the windows ef the money changers ; yet I. am sure they might do so with impunity, for the owners would not give thems.lves the trouble to cry "stop thief," even if the police would dream of giving chase in such matters. Suicides also ate unheard of ; who could stand the heat of charcoal brazier, while it is too great a bore to leg the parapets of the bridges in order to roach the tepid Seine. The fleas, the intrepid Hebrews who brave sunstrokes at the Berirse in order to turn a dishonest penny, and the flocks of 'roving Englishmen and English women alone display sie,ns of activity. Our dear country men are this year more ridiculously dressed than ever, and they appear utterly insensible to the fact that their stupid want of taste and goad breeding is a reproach to England. With costumes more calculated for Bartholomew Fair, if that veaereble institution still existi, than for the capital of Freace, they rush about with perspiring faces from 'eight to sight ; and it might be imagined that the safety of the British empire, and their own persone2i existence, depended on " doing " the Louvre, the Invalides, and the " Boys of Bulong " in one hour wed thew-quarters. I could continue for hours to ex par;,ato on the terrible heat that overwhelms us, but it 'would be labour thrown away. This letter will never reach you—it can never reach you; the postman will drop down with the bags from fatigue, or he will sell the letters for waste paper, and rush off to the econoe mical baths ; or invest the proceeds ill cheap icetle