The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-10-13 00:00:00

LORD GIFFORD.

We noticed in our publication of Thursday that the
freedom of the city have been unanimously voted by the
Town Council to Lord Gifford, and we mentioned in our
last paper that the Lord Provost gave an elegant entertain-
ment to that distinguished nobleman, at his house in
Abercromby-place, on Friday.
'l,die burgess ticket, which contains the following pa..
sage—" In testimony of their respect for 'a person, who,
in his distinguished professional career, has been select( d
by his Sovereign successively to fill some of the melt im-
portant legal and judicial situations in the empire"—was
presented by the Lord Provost to Lord Giford before din-
ner in nearly the following terms:—
" I have now, my Lord Giffbrd, to perform • very pleasant
duty, whieb, to myself personally, I feel most gratifying, and to
my public diameter I feel myself particularly honoured by being
the medium of transmitting, to a character so distinguished as
youraelf, the freedom of the ancient metropolis of Scotland. It is,
my Lord, one of the most beautiful features of the British cothu.
mien, that merit is the surest road to preferment, and of tine we
have a noble instance in your Lordship. Long may you enjoy the
honours your Sovereign has bestowed on you, and may you yet be
raised to a situation still more exalted, and so be enabled to benefit
In • still higher degree the great interests of the public."
To which his Lordship made a very elegant and impres-
sive reply, stating
" That he felt very sensibly the honour paid to him by the Cot-
potation of Edinburgh, in conferring on him the Freedom of the
City; and he begged to return also his sincere acknowledgments
to the .Lord Provost, fur the polite and friendly terms in which he
had communicated to him the vote of the Town Council conferring
that honcur. That the highest reward, as well as the most power-
ful stimulus, which any individual filling an official situation could
receive, was the epprobation of the public ; and It was peculiarly
gratifying to him, if any of the official duties it had fallen to Hat
to discharge, as connected with Scotland in particular, had given
satisfaction. That the kind reception he had met with, and the
hospitality he had experienced on his visit to this country, had
made a deep impression on his mind, and that it was impassible
that he should not in future take a lively interest in all that con-
cerned its affairs, or tended to promote its prosperity, either in his
official or private character. In his visit to this country he had
been equally delighted with the romantic magnificence of its wild
scenery, and with the splendour of the buildings of its metropolis.
Thew, and every thirg that he had met with during his residence
among us, should ever afford the most pleasing subjects of re-
collection to his mind, and upon his return to London to resume
his official labours, he should have a special pride io exhibiting his
title as a citizen of such a distinguished city as Edinburgh."
Amongst the company on the occasion were the Lord
Chief Baron, the Lord Register and his Lady, Sir Peter
Murray, Sir George Leith and his Ladthe Solicitor-Ge-
neral, General Sir John Hope, Mr. Wood, Sir William
Arbuthnot, and several Members of the Magistracy and
Council. The. band of the 17th regiment played appro-
priate airs during dinner, and the whole company appeared
much gratified by this testimony of respect to an intlividusl
whose character and talents are to highly appreciated.—
Caledonian Mercury.

Accounts from Calcutta state, that Mr. and Mrs, Jud-
son, who had been taken prisoners by the Burmese, had
been liberated.

One of the letters received lately from Calcutta. enter;
into lengthened details respecting the merchant ship Al-
morab, seized at New South Wales by his Majesty's shi;t
Slancy. She arrived on the 12th at Madras, remained till
the 11th May, and then sailed for Calcutta. The captors
have not brought forward any of the usual proceedings in
the legal Courts, for the condemnation of the Almorslt.
The letter asserts that the Captain of the Slancy,
the case likely to go against him at Sydney, carried her
of port in resistance to the civil authorities. It then f.a.;
forward to state, that the cause of detention is futile in filo
extreme ; that the vessel was chartered by the gore:lin-Ant
authorities at Sydney, for the purpose of bringing MO.
sarics from Batavia, and for that purpose a Deputy Com-
missary was put on board, who had the direction of the
whole affair of purchase, shipping on board, &e. &c. and
that it certainly is the custom to have a certificate from the
Agents of the Company in shipping tea on board vessels
trading within the Company's charter, but that it is a
mere matter of form, and never refused. On this ques-
tion the case rests.
1. •llsitcaa MI N IS.—Thefollowing is an extract of a pr!..
vale letter dated Guanaxuato, August S:—
" I have just returned from paying a visit to the trine of Valcr-
Ideas, and whether it be from me not being accustomed to see mines.
or from what cause, I cannot say, but 1 never was so struck with
the sight of any work of human labour before. It is on the most
stupendous scale imaginable. I went down 270 yards, which was
as far as we could get for the water. The whole depth of the
mine Is 600 yards. They are &mining It now at the rate of about
four yards a-week, as I learnt from the superintendent of themine,
a Cornish miner in the service of the Anglo-Mexican compare.
The mine is yielding now about ND to l,!00 cargon of ore a-week,
each cargo 300 pounds weight. It would yield more if they had
more hands. Fifteen hundred Indians are at resent at wotkl°
Im
this mine, and the Company are iking out for more. The .
dins are now flocking fast to this neighlstiamhood. Gusnawn.,
formerly contained a population of eighty to ninety thousand souls:
it is not now more than 34,000, and of this number one half h .1
been added to it since the establishment of the Anglo-Mesit-21
Company here. The climate is heavenly ; thermometer 70 to ,"
deg. in the summer, in the winter cold enough for English ,on"'
The resources of Mexico arc fast coming into activity, and th...y
will be found enormous when they come into full play. ThethaT
in this town from what 1 am told it was • year ago, is co:
agreeable to contemplate. Shall I be ashamed to Own the sr..:
faction I feel at seeing all this done by Englishmen ?—though soTt•
I see, on your side the water, affecting to be " wise in their gent'
ration," talk of these undertakings, noble and usead as they setae
to me to be, as mere bubbles and delusions."
Lew.—The Lord Chief Justice will sit, pursuant to I,
journment, at Guildhall on the 20th. The Special Jeri,"
are appointed for the 2tth. There are no causes on
paper at present which are likely to afford any extraorm•
nary interest. His Lordship is expected to continue tryirg
causes in London until the commencement of the Ter.:
when the new Court of King's Bench at Id'sWestmiaste
is said, will he ready for the occupation of the Judges.
Honour the Vice-Chancellor has appointed the Ist 04N°
vember for a sitting is Lincohis-Inn.
A company has been formed at Lancaster fbr the Fur'
pose of supplying the town with gas, and upwards of or.'
thousand pounds beyond the estimated eget of the Woqi
has been subscribed.

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No. XLV. •e t ..,n

ON THE MERIT OF ItIcHARDSON'S 'NO
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you have wit, taste, sense, and sentiment, 'and you
don't like Rtenaaosow. %Veil, that is to me astonish-
iag. He bas but one great fetal', and unfortunately every
body feels it. The defect might be cum! ; and it is, iu
my opinion. an object well worthy the attention of the na-
tion to have it remedied.
" Richardson's views were grand. His semi was noble,
and his heart was excellent. He formed a plan that em-
braced all human nature. His object was to benefit man-
kind. His knowledge of the world showed him that hap-
piness was to be attained by man, only in proportion as he
practised virtue. His gtood sense then showed him that no
practical System of morality existed ; anti the same good
sense told him that nothing but a body of morality, put
into action, could work with efßeacy on the minds of
nth. Sermons and caviar, experience showed him, were
vo •
ineffectual. The manner of them was dry and uninterest-
jag to young people ; and arguments addressed to what is
weakest in youth, to their understandings, be dearly per-
ceived were without effect. He saw farther, that example
was the great point which formed the young ; and he saw
that man was composed of passions and imagination as well
as of understanding.
" These were his general principles ; and upon these
principle' he reasoned thus: Mankind is naturally good :
for it is rare to meet young people with bail hearts. A
young man, then, coming into the world, wishes to be
perf c' But how shall he learn ? The world is a bad
school ; and precepts scattered up and down in books of
morality ore of little use. An example would (twin him ;
but where is it to be found? None exists. I will then
create one for him. I will set before him a model of per-
fection. The more he imitates it, the more perfect he,
will be ; the more perfect he ie, the happier he will be.
" As he reasoned upon man, do he reasoned upon wo-
man. He aimed at no less than bestowing felicity on the
generation he saw riving aefore him, and on every one that
was to succeed it. Avid had be not had powers to accom-
plish this aim, his wish was so grand, so noble, and of
such a superior order of benevolence, that that alone would
have entitled him to Immortality: I had almost said ca-
nonization.
" But such is the peverseness and weakness of man-
kind, that what constitutes Richardson's greatest merit, is
considered by many as a capital defect in his conception.
They Aject that such a woman as CLantssa, and such a
roan as Sir CHAILES GRANDISON, having never existed,
the author bas created palpable chimeras, and conse-
quently his crr - Lions are usek so and unat'ecting. How
consistent are the reasonings of men ! Century after cen-
tury, rid country after country, have vied with each other
in praising the work and the author of the Venus of Me.
diei. Yet this work must be universally alloyed to be
farther from nature than Richardson's CL/AISSA. No
woman ever came near the beauty of this wattle ; yet,
has that diminished the merits 'of the author ? Has he
rot always been, and is he not licrurly and justly admired
fur the ingenuity of his idea, though this idea is totally
barren of profit to the world ?
" Not so with Clarioia: she must profit every female
that beholds her. Though the whole of these two ima-
ginary beluga did evidently never exist, yet so great has
been the mastery of these uncommon artists, that there is
not a particle in the composition of the statue, nor a trait
in the character or conduct of the heroine, that can be said
to deviate in the minutest degree from the precise line of
nature and of truth. _

" Riih:rdson has done no more than animate the Vertu
of Medici. The Grecian scu'ptor bad created of every
cr;ature's best, a marble body : the English writer
created equally of every creature's best a soul, a mind,
a genius for that body. Can any man pretend to
he consistent with himself, who admire, the one, and con-
demns the other ? Suppose the two the work of the
Greek, and I will venture to say, this would have been
the language of the world : ' hen the sculptor created
that form, he surpassed men ; but whtn he created that
genius Sod that soul, he rivalled the gods.'
" The writers of England excel those of all other na-
tions in the pathetic ; end Richardson in this point is, I
think, superior to all his countrymen. He makes one
cry too much : and by a very singular talent, peculiar to
himself alone, he fills our eyes alinost as often by elevated
sentiments, as he does by tender ones, He abounds with
strokes of greatness, sometimes in the actions, and some-
times in the sentiments of his characters, which raise
the reader's soul, and make the tear of generosity spring
into his eye he knows not whence.
" Here are three strokes of pathos; tell me which of
them you like best.
" When the tyrannical Capulet says to his daughter:
.• Thursday is near ;
If you be mine, I'll give yos to my friend:
If you be not, haves, beg. starve, die i'Lle streets,
Fa by my soul, I'll ns'er acknowledge thee."
" Then Juliet ;
" Is there no pity sitting in the elrudv.
That sees into the bottom of my grief'
0 sweet my mother, cut me not away."
" Is rot that earnest types' to Heaven most solemnly
moving ? and then that passionate address to her mother,
as her only resource after Providence, is exceedingly af-
leering. The confusion too in placing her words, " 0
sweet my mother," for " 0 my sweet mother," is infinite-
ly beautiful: it is somewhat like Virgil's Me, me odsum
qui foci.
" The next is from Otway. When Jaffier gives Belvi-
dere to Renault, and gives hint with leer a dagger, Ile-
siring him, when he proves unworthy, to strike it to her
heart ; Belvidera's answer is inimitably fine.
" 0 thou unkind one!
Have I deserr'd this from you'
Lnok on me, tell me,
Why am I separated Amu thy love
If I am false, accuve me, but If true,
peythee don't in poverty forsake me,
But pity the sad bean that's torn with paring."
" No man can write better than this. 'that line, " Don;
peythee, don't in yurerty forsake me," is above praise.
Every word of it i.. a beauty. The words " but if true,"
introduce this afilcting close with peculiar happiness, be-
cause the audience, knowing that she is true, feels more
deeply for her sorrows.
'f he third is from Clarissa. After she has escaped
front Lovelace, and is lodged at a glove-shop, King-street,
Covent-garden, aim writes a letter to her nurse, Mrs. Nor-
ton, in which are these words: " I am afraid my poor, as
I used to all the good creatures to whose necessities I was
wool to administer by your faithful hands, have missed me
of late. But now, alas ! lam poor myself." When Cla-
rissa's story is known, and the whole of her character, and
her present situation considered, "But now, alas! I am
poor myself," is irresistible.
" I do not believe any language, ancient or modern, can
show three traits equal to these. —Sherlock's I.etters.
Dr. Jonesom says of Richardson, that he was "an
author from whom the age has received great favours,
who has enlarged the knowledge of' human nature, and
taught the passions to move at the command of virtue."
In hi: preface to Rowe in his Lives of the Poets, he ob-
serves, " The character of LOTHARIO seems to have been
expanded by Richardson into Lovelace ; but he has ex-
celled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lo-
thario, with gayety which cannot be hated, and bravery
which cannot be despised, retains too much of the specta-
tor's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone
to teach us at once esteem and detestation ; to make virtu-
ous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit,
and elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lose at
last the hero in the villain."

" Of all the rein esentations of madness," says Dr. IVAa.
ray, " that of Cltmentina, in the history of Sir Charles
t;randison, is the most deeply interesting. I know not
whether even the madness of LEAR is wrought up and
expressed by ao many touches of nature and genuine
passion."
Dr. Yoono was long and intimately acquainted with
him, and had always the highest esteem for him on account
of the many excelkweics, natural and moral, which he dis-
ct.rned in him. Mr. Richardson having not had the ad-
vantage of a complete education, Dr. Young, to whom he
was recounting the various difficulties he had passed
through, asking him, " How he came to be en author?"
lie answered,," When I was about twelve years of age, I
drew up a short character of a certain gentlewoman in te
who was reputed a great Saint; but I looked upon

bet to be a great hypocrite. The
so exactly drawn, that when it came t.
about amongst some select friends, ever,
the features, and appropriate the picture
fria, though no name was affixed to
oft /rat setting-out did, you will not , suppose,
meat different times to employ my pen yet farther in some
amusements or other for my own diversion, till at
ietigth, though many years after, I sat down to write in
good earnest, going upon subjects that took my fancy most,
and following the bent of my natural inclination, &c." Dr.
'Yining made this pertinent and just observation, that this
man, erith the advantages only or chiefly of mere nature,
improved by a very moderate progress in education, struck
silt et once, and of his own accord, into a new province of
writing, and succeeded therein to admiration. Nay, what
is more remarkable, and selde.m seen in any other writers,
he both began and finished the plan on which he set out,
leaving no room for any one after him to make it more,
complete, or even to come near him ; and it is certain,
that not one of the various writers that soon after, and
ever since, attempted to imitate him, have any way
equelled him, or even come within a thousand paces of
him. That kind of Romance was and is peculiarly his
own, and seems likely to continue so. " I consider
mid Dr. Young, " as a truly great natural genius; asgreat
and super-eminent in kis way, as were Shakspeare and
Milton in theirs."
DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE.
That form how resistless, those features how fair, •
Each look is a whisper the heart springs to hear
And fond to interpret.— too roguishly given,
Conceives a soft meaning that lifts it to Heaven
And yet those dear features, I'd readily swear,
'1 he meaning which innocence gives, only wear.
—0 bow ye tranagresAors, in penitence bend ;
Against such perfection, slim sin to offend !
Yet see--hi the brightness which darts from her eyes,
With beanies mild lustre her clemency flies !
That smile just disphiy'd, to the soul has ezprest
The tranquil composure that reigns in her breast.
May those eyes, and that bosom, fir erer blest Fait,
De uudarken'd by sorrow, unruffled by care;
Or If a tear stet, or a sigh gently move,
May the tear be of rapture, the sigh be of love !
May your moments all fly on the wings of delight,
And pleasure's wide regions be still in your sight ;
And while you are temp.e3 to ramble the ground,
Let the music of gladness still echo around !
The Bcvy of Beauties.
DUCHESS OF RUTLAND.
Scene, the Vicinity of Delvoir Csstee.
rest in these shades, remembered with delight,
The gentle Rutland struck my dazzled sight I
As on she came her eyes diffused afar
The peerless lustre of the morning star !
Upon her beauteous cheek a blush was spread,
Superior to the loveliest day-beech red ;
Her waving locks were twiaed with flow'ry braid ;
Her vest was with the bloom of Springarray'd ;
And to the breese, the vest displayed the form
Of limbs, which must to !ocean hermit warm !
Her panting bosom—to the wind Ind/raced,
• Showed more of heaven than zealot ever traced !
An air supreme in every step was seen !
The nymphs and shepherds bailed their rural quiets :
Are: as the graceful beauty passed along,
The village minstrel greeted her in song;
At intervals, a choral strain arose,
And Hutla.-ides name was heard in ev'ry close!
/Lid.

ROYAL ACADEMY OF YCIENCES AT PARIS.
CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD, &c.
We mentioned some time since that Dr. Barry, an
English physician resident at Paris. had read before the
Academy of Sciences in that city, a Memoir of the Motion
of Me Blood in the Veils,; and that Messrs. Cuvier and
humeri!, whose names arc so well known to the lavers
of natural history, had been appointed by the Academy to
investigate the subject, and draw up a Report upon the
same.

We have now to state, that these gentlemen lately pre-
sented their Report to the Academy ; and have the satis-
faction to add, that it is highly creditable to our country-
man, as will appear from the following details, which we
extract from one of the Paris joyrnala.
The Report commences by alluding to the various opi-
nions which hare hitherto been entertained by the phy-
siologists with respect to the cause of the motion of the
blood in the veins. Thus some have attributed this motion
to the action of the heart, others to the pressure of the
muscles, and others, again, to an absorbing power in the
♦eins themselves.

Amidst this diversity of opinion, however, with respect
to the cause of this motion, authors have, in general,
agreed in recognising a certain connexion between the
motion itself and the act of inspiration ; but this c ninexion
was merely looked upon as a coincidence, or, at most, the
act of inspiration was esteemed nothing more than an ac-
cessory cause of the motion Outlet] to.
In the Memoir presented to the Academy by Dr. Barry
a very different view is taken of these facts, which, in the
opinion of this gentleman, are much more intimately con-
nected as cause and (fleet than has hitherto been supposed.
" And, in truth," the Report proceeds, " he has shown, by
means of experiments entirely new, very ingenious, and
perfectly conclusive, first, that the blood in the veins is
never moved towards the heart but during the act of in-
spiration ; and, secondly, that all the facts known with
respect to this motion, in man, and the animals which re-
semble him in structure, may be.explained by considering
it as the dict of rimospheric pressure."
In cotialusion, the Report recommends to the Aeat:emy—
I. To have the Memoir of Dr. Barry inserted among
those of distinguished foreign literati; and,
2. To invite the author to prosecute his researches with
respect to the absorption of poisonous matters applied to
the surface of the body; researches, it is added, which flow
a.s:a corollary from his theory, which possess so much in-
terest, and which admit of so many useful applications to
the animal economy.

The Tyne Mercury says—" We are happy to learn
that Mr. Telford, ‘oliose eminence as an engineer is well
known, and who has particularly devoted his attention to
suspension bridges, is expected in Newcastle in the course
of a week, when we understand he will examine the site
of the proposed suspension bridge at Shields, and give his
opinion of this great design."
The silk weavers of Manchester arc making from nine
to even thirty shillings a week, according to the nature of
the work ' • but then they have frequently to stand three or
four weeks for want of work or for chute. Power-loom

weavers—persons who manage the looms which are worked
with steam, will get from twelve to fifteen shillings a week,
and those who are allowed to attend three looms will make
a pound: women can do this work. Power-loom dressers
male about thirty shillings a week; spinners, in some in-
stances, rather more; and cotton printers considerably
more.
ELTCTIONEERING Tatcc—The Bury Gazette says—
" We have heard with astonishment that the Mayor of
Sudbury, one day last week, sent the public crier round
that town to caution and forbid its inhabitants from having
any communication with Bury, in consequence of the
small-pox being so prevalent here. We are unwilling to
credit this report, but feel rather inclined to consider the
whole an electioneering joke; as several of the worthy
freemen of Sudbury being resident here, it may be sup-
posed that this bugbear will scare the new candidate, Mr.
Wilk., from making personal application. For whatever
purpose the report may have been spread, we can attest its
being utterly false, as, after the most minute inquiry, we
find that there are not now more than six or seven cases of
small-pox within the bounds of this town ; and that there
has not been one death from that disease during the last
three weeks. We believe this is more than can be said for
the town of Sudbury, or for most towns in this or the neigh-
bouring counties."
Farmers labourers in the vicinity of manufacturing
towns are better off than in other districts. Their wages
appear to be about nine shillings a week for the winter
quarter, and twelve all the rest of the year. During liar-
vrst time they make something more.
The FAQ India Company's quarterly sale of indigo took
place on Tuesday ; 5759 chests were put up, and the whole
were sold. It will be seen that the price of indigo has ad-
vanced considerably. The highest price (we understand)
bid was Its. tit., and the average price, exceeding that of
►he last sale, was from 2s. to sits. 6d. per pound. The
whole quantity having been sold, and the price exceeding
what was expected by many, we have deemed it worthy of
notice.

rage are
beginning to manifest Hi various qua., Some
instances of this kind will be found detailed in another
place. these, coupled with the accounts already publish-
ed in the Evening Past, would serve to prove, not indeed
that there is any combination, but that there is a spirit
among the peasantry, which will require, on the part of the
Government and of the local authorities, measures the-
most prompt, as well a 3 the most unremitting vigilance.
The state of the farming and landed interc.st bring so pro-
sperous, and the potato-crop having turned out very nearly
an average one, we do not apprehend that these symptoms
will eventuate in any thing more serious than the ordinary
class of offences with which Chit country has been periodi-
cally4akited. The farmers and the landlords (such of the
latter as happen to be resident) will, no doubt, act a part
different from that which they pursued in the winter of
1821-22. 'fhe former are able to pay their rents, and the
latter are in the re. espt of their income. There is also a
tolerably well organiscil police ; and, in short, the machine
of the local administration works with ease and smooth-
netts. We repeat it, then, that we have no apprehensions.
for the general Peace of the country dulitiz the approaching
winter ; but activity, we see, will be indispensable.'
Dublin Evening Part.
We sincerely regret to have to add to the atrocities that
have been so very recently perpetrated, the following cam,
of murder, which occurred on last Wednesday night, at
Rexborough, near Knocklofty. A girl of the name Or
Condon having preferred a charge of rape against a man of
the name of Connolly, a judicial inquiry was set on foot,
when, on Wednesday, the accused and a friend of his, of the.
mare of John Looby, came to tow n'to abide the inquiry. On
their return home they were met by the father and brother!
of the girl, when Looby made use of some indelicate ex';!.,
pression respecting the alleged crime; on which young.
Condon struck him a violent blow of a stick, which felled
him to the ground, and from the effects of which he fell
several times after. As soon as he had given the blow,
young Condon made off across the fields. As soon as he
departed, Conolly and Looby seized old Condon, and in-
sisted on taking him before a Magistrate, the Rev. Mr.
Hill, to answer for the outrage committed by his son ;
when they had proceeded as far as the cross at Roxborough,
they were met by two countrymen, who insisted on and
effected the liberation .of old Condon, who instantly drew
a knife, and with it stabbed Looby a little above the groin,
the wound being carried to the navel, where, on the re-
moval of the knife, the incision took a short direction
towards the hip ; the unfortunate man immediately fell,
and his bowels protruded. In this state he was found
about t n o'clock by some of the police, who brought him
to their station at Ballybeg. The unhappy man lived till
next day, when he expired in much pain ; but a little he-
fore his death be lodged informations before the Rev. Mr.
Hill, and on Thursday on the inquest, a verdict of" Wil-
ful Murder" was returned. Though the police at every
neighbouring station were very active all Wednesday night,
and Thursday, yet the murderer has eluded their search.—
C'onmel Herald.

Tits lIEVENUF.—Since the transfer of a portion of the
Excise Duties to the Customs, no detailed account of the
produce of the several exciseable articles has been pub-
lished we learn however that there is an increase on the
Beer Duties to the amount•of 1.50,0001. on the year, and
125,0001. on the Quiver. The following articles also
exhibit increase to the amounts stated:—
On the Year. On the Quarter.
Auctions . . £54,000 . £15.1100
Bricks . 144.000 - 84,000
Malt - 330.000 . . 10,000
Parer 51,N0 . 21,000
In British Spirits there is an increase amounting to
200,0001., and in several other articles the increase is pro-
portionate. There is some decrease on Printed Goods,
which may be attributed to the large drawback paid on
goods of that description, and the next Quarter will pro-
bably make up that deficiency.
The London Dock Company have nearly completed a
wall round fourteen acres of ground in Fawdon-fields, ad-
joining their present dock, and the excavation of seven
acres of ground for additional water-room is about one-
third finished. From the number of persons employed,
and the exertions which are making, it is computed that
the whole of this work will be finished in the course of the
year 1826: and that when completed, with the buildings,
a•lditiunal accommodation will be afforded for seventy
ships, of the average burden of 300 tons ; for upwards of
10,000 tons of general merchandise, and vault room for
10,000 pipes of wine and spirits. The Company are also
proceeding rapidly in the formation of vaults within the
present dock, capable of housing 8,500 pipes of wine or
spirits.
IRISH STEAM•ENGIN ES.—The Duhlin Freeman's Jour-
nal says :—" IVe are happy to find that a Company is on
the point of being established, of which the intentions are
most highly patriotic. It will afford employment to many
of our countrymen; and, as its prospectus truly states,
make them comfortable and useful mechanics instead of
semi-mendicant labourers. It is calculated to assist our
several mining companies, as it proposes to use only our
native metals. Its object is the manufacturing of steam-
engines
in Ireland, to supply, in the first instance, the'
home demand, though there can be little doubt of its also
coming in for a share of the profits of exportation, as there
is every reason to suppose that the present most urgent de-
mand for steam-engines, at home and abroad, will be in-
creasing every hour."
I NTANT SCHOOl.ll.—The establishment of infant schools,
we are happy to observe, is becoming general throughout
the country. Mr. Goyden, from Bristol, delivered a Lec-
ture last Wednesfiny, at the Royal Institution, in which
he advocated this system of education, and strongly re-
commended it to the support of the public. The Bishop
of Chester, we are gratified to find, also takes warm inte-
rest in the promotion of such institutions. In delivering
his charge to the clergy, at Manchester, on Friday, the
23d ult., his Lordship, we understand, remarked (on the
subject of infant schools), that, notwithstanding the pre-
judices of many, no doubt good and pious men, against
them, he was frilly persuaded that such institutions, if
properly established and superintended, would, through
the blessing of Gad, not only prove highly beneficial to
the infant poor, but be found to be admirable nurseries for
our other daily and Sunday schools. His Lordship, we
learn, has already himself founded and patronised an in-
fant school, in Liverpool-street, London, which is gene-
rally known by the name of " the Bishop of Chester's
School," and which may, it is stated, with much propriety
be recommended as an excellent model fur similar institu-
tions.—Billiege's Liverpool Advertiser.
In the course of Mr. Abernethy's late Lectures at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, he took occasion to exemplify the
doctrine of sensations not residing in the part where they
were supposed to be felt, but in. the brain itself ; and in-
stanced the case of a man who fancied he felt an itching in
his ankle, and actually scratched the extremity of his
wooden leg, to appease the supposed irritation. •It is on
the same principle that when patients' limbs undergo am-
putation, they often fancy they feel sensations in their tots
and fingers, although those parts are removed: so great is
the delusion at times, that they are not satisfied the limb is
off until they have ocular proof given them by the removal
of the bandage from their eyes, when they become con-
vinced of the fact.

A farmer in Moravia has lately invented a new plough,
which, although drawn by only one horse, produces four
furrow& The Agricultural Society of that country have
presented him with a gold medal.
NON-ATTENDANCE OF ALDERMEN...-011 Tuesday
Court of Aldermen could not be made until half-past two o'clock,
although it was appointed for one, in consequence of the absence
of the Aldermen, to compel whose attendance there is unfortunately
ro tine. In consequence of the great inconvenience arising front
the non-attendance of the Aldermen. some years ago, it was agreed
amongst them that the line of a guinea should be inflicted for every
breach of punctuality on occasions of the kind, and this regulation
had for a time the effect of doing away the very frequent neglect or
abandonment of duty. Sr! Claudius S. Hunter, however, who was
the collector of the tines, found it very difficult in some curs, and
impossible in others. to get hold of the penalties, as the payment
merely depended upon the honour of the Court, and gave up the
office for ever. Since this renunciation took place the penalties
have not been revived, and now, whenever a Court of Aldermen is
to he hell, the marshals, marslialmen. street-keepers, officers.
beadles. Ste. &c. are to be seen running in all eirect:ons after the
members of the Court.

LIVERPOOL COJIMICRCIAL
• TUESDAY, OCT. 11.
COTTON-311RXET.....TRITS Iru 10.4111y,„11 good demand for
Cotton, both fist export and home trade, and prices improved •
little.
(Et'?Sat.! TlOlll A DEW OILLEADA TAPER, AUG. it)
FRAkCISTILLE, AUG. 13.
TIIE.CRDY.-110t planters are busily engaged 'ln gathering In
the cotton crop, and we teen to Ay thtir fears are realised, At
relater to ita abOndance ; It will be generally shoil of what it *as
last year. This, as we here said In former numbers, is owirfg to
the season, which, while it has been avouratie to the growth of the
plant, has been unfavourable to the production of bolls. The rot.
too, is progressing, and Increasing as tt progresses. Yet, notwith-
standing all this, one or more steam-boats will soon find ample em-
plovrnent at our landing.
The Alvarado cotton begins at length to promise some reward to
the toils of the planter. I orma are beginning to be abandant, and
there Is yet time for those forms to mature. As soon as it begins to
open we will state Its appearance and quallty.—Journel.
The same paper nutters also having received advices from Llver •
pool of a fall of three-pence per lb. on cotton.
CORN MARKET, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11.
Our Corn Exchange was this day as dull or more no than It has
been for some time, and • decline Is the consequence of from
2d. • 3d. per bushel on new Wheat, and on Oats about 14.-lower.
All other articles also on the decline. Grain and Flour in very
limited demand.
GRAIN. s. d. s. d.
Wheat per Bushel 701b.—nglish (old) . 9 6 a 10 $
Dive (now) - 9 0 a 9 9
Scotch
ss . 8 S a 9 6

i;is1;(old) . . 73 a 9
Ditto New . . 8 6 a 11
IC' Canadian re - 86
39
aa
0
Oats pee Bushel of 4510.—Irish Potato (old) - 31 a 5
Ditto (new) - 3 ♦ a 3 6
English,SeotchltWalsb 3 5 • 3 7
Barley pee 841b.—English . . 5 6 a 6 .0
Iriah . .• • - 5 3 a 6 6
Malt per 9 galls. - . . . fi 6 a 10 3
Oatmeal per 24015.—English - . 30 0 a 32 0
Irish . . . 25 0 a 37 0
Ditto (new) - 29 0 a 32 0
Flour per 2001b.—English . - 52 0 a 85 0
Irish . _ . - 52 3a54 0

• American per I hitt. - 24 0 a 20 0
Beane per Quarter—English . - 48 0 a 60
Insh • 46 0 • 48 0
IMPORTED TAO* Tilt 4TH TO TEE lotu OCTOBER
isrctusivic.
Peas:
Foreign
Coastwise
Total
Oatmeal :
Ireland
Coastwise
Total -
Flour :

%Ykeat :

Foreign • 2.462 qrs.
Ireland - 6,656
Coastwise . 100
Total - 0,217 qrs.
Oats:
Ireland - - 5,565 qrs.
Coastwise - 210

. 54) qrs.
. 20

Total - 6,775
Barley :
Coastwise . CZ qrs.
Beans :
Foreign . 870 qrs.
Ireland . . 50
Coaatways . 440
Total . 1,340 qrs.

_ .
Ireland .
Coutorisi

70 qrs.

561 lde.
- 149

Flour

712 Ids.

- 2,123 ski.
. 16

THE FBA'. PRESS.
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character it seems was STATETIF IRELA ND.
le to be privately banded
every one could discern We regrviaraod from the Provincial Journals, as w
iicture to the true origi- as froin abme communications, which have reached us fn
o it. This little success different parts of the country, that symptoms of outrage z
isturally suppose, tempt beginning to manifest themselves in various quarters. Sot