The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-16 00:00:00

On Friday. evemieg Use Grilishepper, 18, 'Captain
Henry Forbes, arrived at Portsmouth from Bermuda,
with his Excellency Sir James Cockburn, late Go-
vernor of that Island,' who has returned home in
consequence of his appointment to the office of Pay-
master of the Marines. Sir thIUICX is so eider bro-
ther of Sir George Cockburn-.
STATE OF COMMERCIL—Tr foreign arrivals at
Liverpool, have been unusual y numerous for some
days, and have brought us letters from Riq, Bahia,
Trinadarl, and Pernambuco; also from New-York,
also from other parts of the United States. The Coun-
ter of Bute sailed from Rio Janeiro on the 7th of
March, and arrived one day before the Diana packer,
which sailed from the same place no the 41st of February.
The commercial letters by each of these conveyances
are by no means of a gratifying description. They coin-
plain of an almost will want of specie, and represent
trade as extremely dull in e mseqtactice. One of the
letters had the following gloomy sentence:—" Tne
markets here for soft manufactured goods are worse than
ever." Letters from Pernambuco, of the date wf the
23th February, hinught by the Waterloo, which has
arrived at Liverpool, give the same unfavourable ac-
coon( as to the state of the commerce in that quarter;
where the markets are ale Bribed as glutted, both with
manufactured goods and the produce of the country.—
Cotton Is uncommonly plentiful, and idling at almost
any price. The letters from Liverpool represent the
arrivals or eouo:, and colonill produce generally, as
I user than at any former period of the greatest commer-
cial prosperity; and the demand for home consumption
greater than the (-living vale of trade would lead us to
eithect. A letter from Trinidad, dated the 10:h of
March, contain', the Mllowin7 paragraph:—'• We hate
been doing very little here in the way of business for
sante time past ; and I never r-col ret matters so flat
and 1113CII, Cas they have preen these last six months,
~i,r hive we any'prosm,ct of their becoming better.—
,t,.ai part of last yew's crops are on hand, and many of
roc planters will ion itably be ruined, if there be not a
favulrabie change hefore ihe commencement of the
r 'suing s.-asn.t. There has likewise beet a great rallipg
off to the shipping arrivals, particularly froonAmerica;
and, on the whole, commerce never core a worse
aspect than it does with us at present." In addition to
the above communications, a respectable cloth-house,
in Yorkshire, has received letters from Palermo, and
likewise from Konigsberg, which are quite in unison
with timse r.ceivrd from the other s'tle of the Atlantic.
Oneof the hovers from Konigsberg states, that the demand
fur British manufactured goods has almon ceased in
that (parer, and that there are many bales on hand
that have remained unpacked these two years.

Ten of the Judges on Saturday sat in private, in
the Exchequer Chamber, to deliberate upon Crown
cases, reseived at the bite Assizes, and Old Bailey
Sessions

Oa Friday morning a fine girl, about 10 years
of age, was run over by a waggon at the corner of
Dule-*treet, Manchester-square. It appears she was
endeavouring to reach at something in the waggon,
to make what the children call squaakers, when her
foot Flipping, she fell under the wheel, which going
over her neck, car.red her instant death.

SebterraneoMs Garden.—A curious account of a
subterraneous garden, formed at the bottom of the
Percy Main Pit, Newcastle, by the furnace keeper,
was communicated in the last quarterly meeting of
the Caledonian Horticultural Society. The plants
are formed in the bottom of the mine, by the light
and radient heat of an open stove, constantly main-
tained for the sake of ventilation. The same letter
communicated an account of an extensive natural
hot-bed, near Dudley, Staffordshire, which is heated
by means of the slow combustion of coal of some
tlepth below the surface. Prom this natural hotbed
a gardener raises annually crops of different kinds of
culinary vegetables, which are earlier by some weeks
than those in the surrounding gardens.

On Sunday, a young Woodcock, conjectured to
be about three weeks old, was caught alive by a boy
in Gosley Woorl, in the parish of Bridge. Two other
young ones, and the hen bird, were flushed at the
same time, but. got away. This is a very singular
instance in the history of this bird, as it relates to
our island.

A very singular custom at the marriages of the
Japanese is, that the teeth of the bride are made
black by some corrosive liquid. The teeth remain
bldc'x ever after, and serve to !,hew that a woman is
married, or a widow. Another circumstance is, at
the birth of every child, to plant a tree in the gar-
den or court-yard, which attains its full growth
in as many years as a man requires to be mature for
the duties of marriage. When he marries the tree
is cut. down, and the wood is made into chests and
boxes, to contain the clothes and other things which
are made fur the new-married couple
Saturday night, at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire,
a currier arid ano:her man quarrelled and" fought,
but afterwards made up their diff,rences ; shortly
after, as they were sitting side by side, the currier
stabbed his antagonist, so that he died; the murderer
is in custody,