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branch of business. On the bobbin-net machine wire
for blinds, bonnets: bed curtains for hot climates, shades,
safes, and a thousand other things, may b 9 wrought
almost with the same facility a; c Mon thread, and be
made to present every variety of pattern. The. idea is
understood to have been suggested by a Birmingham
house, who required a metallic lace for electro-plating.
It is impossible to calculate the importance of this adap-
tation, as it will, no doubt, lead to the establishment of
several new branches of manufactures in connexion
with it.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.'
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—Atter duly contemplating the life and ser-
vices, the admirable characteristics,
and the unexam-
pled position of the man England has just lost, ono
may venture at last to speak of that immense crop of
honoure, titles, offices, and guerdons of every imagina-
ble sort which have been heaped upon him. It may
truly be said that not only kings and princes, but ell
ranks, all classes, every age and sex
whom, as all
er. in this country,
have delighted to honour the man t
believed, Heaven had given it deliverance.o tos kind,
u
Whatever
f i
was rare and precious, the first the very
cream of honour and the flower of consideration, has
national been accumulated on the object of our regard,
like the glittering arms and decorations on an
trophy. Distinction, each of them, in its way, theob-
ancient
-a
ject of ardent ambition and jealous rivalry, have been
piled upon him in almost wasteful profusion. The prize
that had long fed the hopes of twenty suitors has, in this
instance, been only thrown into the heap. So long and
so splendid is the mere catalogue of honours, that, for
a whole generation, young men, and their elders too
have repeatedly opened the Peerage for the express'
purpose of rekindling their admiration with the
splendid recital; and this was, in all sane and ordinary
minds, without a particle of envy, and without even a
hope of imitation. The trophies of our Miltiades have
robbed no man of his sleep. Even they who were pitted
against the Duke of Wellington in his Indian services
and his earlier Peninsular campaigns, and who might feel
themselves aggrieved at his forwardness, his favour, or
his fortune, uniformly lived to justify all these three ac-
cessories to his success. Indeed all of us, though ever
so far or ever so nearee-if any were near him in the race
of honour—have felt only pleasure in the reflection that
we had so great a man in our age and our country; and,
more than all, that the man thus ours by the accident of
birth was, to the very heart's core, and to the very mar-
row of his bones—an Englishman. We will not quarrel
with the traditionary John Bull which political humour-
ists make the type of our race; but we must say that it
has always struck us moat forcibly that the perfect ideal
of the Englishman was to be found in the Duke of Wel-
lington. All such personal admiration, philosophers
tell us, is only a sabtle form of self-worship, and cer-
tainly we should never all agree to like a man who was
not singularly like ourselves. That deep community of
feeling we believe to be at the bottom of the un-
bounded homage we have paid to this name.
In this country the peerage is the most coveted
of all possessions. It is given charily, and never with-
out raising a national controversy as to the merits and
claims of the new Peer. The successive steps of nobility
are scarcely less coveted, scarcely less disputed, and the
man who from a viscount becomes an earl, or from a
marquis a duke, is thought to have done as much for
one life as could bo expected. He is accounted
the second founder of his family. The Duke of Wel-
lington, as the Peerage loves to tell, and as we all love to
read, scaled all the steps of the nobility at one bound.
Ile left England plain Sir Arthur, and came back a Duke.
When he took his seat all the patents of nobility were
read at once. But the British Peerage itself, with its
manifold steps, proved insufficient, and when Water-
loo had eclipsed the Peninsula, there remained no
other rank, title, or addition that England could
bestow, and the Duke was Duke because he could
be nothing higher. Thus the highest rank of our
uncl
•e's t nobility was at the same time ennobled
and diminished by the gigantic proportions of its
new member. To proceed, we know not how many
times the Duke of Wellington has received the thanks
of both Houses of Parliament, and there is hardly an
educated person who has not read over and over again
with emotion those few wonderful words which the
Speaker of the House of Commons addressed to the
Duke when at last he appeared in person on that floor.
Some of our nobility have also foreign titles, and are
not a little proud of them, though their origin is long
since forgotten. The Duke had the highest titles that
could be given by three considerable Sovereigns from
whose territories be bad driven the legions of the
Emperor. The Duke was a Field-Marshal—the only
real Field-Marshal—and when Englishmen are asked,
" West is a Field-Marshal? they will answer, " The
Duke of Wellington." He was also Field-Marshal in
three other of the greatest armies in the world,
where Field-Marshals are as few as in our
service. To pass on. The Order of the Garter
is unspeakably precious to the eyes of rank
in this country. A man without heirs would rather be
a K.G. than a Duke. It is so mixed up with royalty,
that the collar, the badge. the mantle, and the motto all
decorate our coinage. When a stall falls vacant at least
a dozen dukes and earls, the proprietors of counties, and
the holders of great offices, are thrown into agonies of
suspense. With two or three such baits a Minister
could purchase or pacify support enough to save or to
ruin his country. The highest honours of foreign knight-
hood are not less prizsd, and every admission to the
order of the Golden Fleece is an historical event, cer-
tain to provoke angry discussion in the English and
French journals. The Duke of Wellington was in the
first class of all the principal orders of Europe. Be-
sides these honours on the scale and stage of the world,
universally recognized" and current, there are others
that are only known at home, but not the less
valued. The Wardenship of the Cinque Ports has
been highly appreciated by our most distinguished Mi-
nisters, and probably at this moment would be gladly
accepted by Royalty itself. Of course this has long
been in the hands of the Duke, and tens of thousands,
in passing from North to South Foreland, have thought
of him as they passed by Weimer Castle. To be Con-
stable of the Tower of London is enough of itself to give
importance to any military name. That has long been
thrown in among other dignities. The Chancellorship
of the University of Oxford has always been so stoutly
contested, that friendships, antipathies, promotions, and
even schools of opinion have dated from the elections.
At the first vacancy after the Duke's exploits it was
conferred upon him without opposition, though not an
academical man. The Duke was for many years stand-
ing Commander-in-Chief, under changing Cabinets, and
rival Premiers equally bowed to his authority. He
was also for a long time Master of the Trinity-house,
a post hardly less responsible and important. Be-
sides these, he bad colonelcies, commissionershipe,
and governorships without end, the Lord-
Lieutenancy of his county, and a multitude
of smaller offices and honours which it is imposeiele to
remember and not easy to learn. We have omitted im-
mense Parliamentary grants, pensions, Strathfieldeaye,
prize-money, silver-shields, plateaus, services in gold
and china, diamond stars, poured in upon him by
emperors, kings, armies, corporations, ladies, and every
possible donor. We have omitted statues of all sorts
and sizes. Our limits compel us to take things in the
gross; but, even with this rapid and wholesals mode of
enumeration, we are omitting various heads and modes
of acknowledgment. It is not our present purpose to
notice the gigantic powers of the man who could dis-
charge with credit such a multitude of offices, almost
any ono of them sufficient to occupy an ordinary.
mind. We are only noticing the extraordinary accu-
mulation of honours heaped by the gratitude, the ad-
miration, and the confidence of this country, and the
greater part of the civiliz'd world, on a man who
never rose or wished to rise above the rank of a
subject or obedience to the laws, and whose sole prin-
ciple through life was that which we teach the children
in our Sunday schools, viz., to do their duty in that
state of life unto which it shall please God to call them.
But the most exhaustive enumeration of honours
that memory could reach, after all, fails of describing
the position of this man for the last forty years. It
does not include that personal interest, that reverential
regard, and that respectful curiosity which all have felt
for a person to whom they were so much indebted, and
who hardly fell short of the most romantic ideal of
heroism. No one in this country ever received so much
of that popular testimony, monslrari digits pretereuntinm,
excepting that the spectators were not always content
with a passing glance. For many years he was daily
watched from Apsley House to the Horse Guards, and.
as he always arrived at the House of Lords exactly at
a quarter to five o'clock, ho had always a tail of modest
admirers behind him, and a species of reception by a
circle, often including well-drest people from the country,
at the street entrance of the House of Lords. Latterly,
as be came in his phaeton or on horseback, this opportu-
nity of a deliberate survey was more extensively used.
No parade or spectacle wascomplete without him, and his
presence everywhere secured all the success that was
desired. Whenever he appeared in the Exhibition last
year he was soon oppressed, and sometimes driven
away, by the redundant enthusiasm of his provincial
admirers. In the fashionable world he was everything
and everywhere, and at everybody's call, yet never lost
his value; though, in some instances, he certainly appro.
ciated himself at a lower rate than his sensitive friends
could have wished. For many years he has been the
universal father at weddings and Godfather at baptisms;
yet, so little had his philanthropy been cheapened by the
multitude of its objects, that when a Royal Prince was
born on his birthday he was put in requisition; and, for
his sake, we have a Prince Arthur once more in Britain.
Beginning with her Majesty and Prince Albert, there is
not a family in the fashionable world that has not shown
as much interest and curiosity about the Duke as any
middle class household that had heard of his 'battle!, but
had no hope or chance of a nearer acquaintance. Ttee
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Duke was everywhere a favourite of children, andibkuetp
store of shillings fresh from the Mint to distarny
such
keepsakes among his juvenile admirers; and
mementoes were kept till the possessor weeeanmu?
young. There is no man, and nevers hanisabuy a mioinngeinr
interesting
this country, of whom there were
0y
rough, but em-
end characteristic anecdotes; so
an"
Every day of his
phatic and pithy
life, up to the last, sayings and letters.
ds store of these, and,
has
Inipplolioeuld soon lose ourseves.
were we once to begin,
The relish with which we
s bave been caught upland
theyhave afforded, oven when they
even agreeable, proves the
the amusement they
were not complimentary or
estimation of the
who could say and do what ho
wit ever left so many
sayings. S
liked. No
wtfhumwo
Juaronihs
ntso or
Johnson, Voltaire himself, had
not more ePp-rte'ciating hearers, and did not issue
of sterling mother wit. World-
so large a coinagenraltifarions in offices, übiquitous
in per-
wide in glory,
.duty, aiways in his place, on every sub-
son, incessant
ject bitting the rig nail on the head, knowing at least
two whole generations of public men, with a memory
and an historical career reaching far beyond the
lives of most men, lie attained a greater universality

than any man ever did in this country; a greater univer-
sality as of services and knowledge, so also of estima-
tion and affection. Though he made his own fortune,
he was idolized by the aristocracy; though an aristocrat
by birth, habits and opinions, be was reverenced and
loved by the commonalty; though a soldier, he was
chosen the princo of academicians and churchmen;
though almost overtopping royalty in his name and in-
fluence, he was the cherished friend of three sovereigns.
As he had triumphed over every obstacle in his mili-
tary, and every prejudice in his civil career, so, in spite
of every difficulty, he secured an abiding-place in the
esteem und affection of all eta:sea.

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CHRONICLE.—Having reviewed the great character
of the Duke of Wellington, both in his military and civil
capacities—as a general and as a statesman—it remains
but to show that his public virtues wore not factitious,
but sprang naturally out of the true man, Arthur Wel-
lesley. In other words, we may learn something from
the spectacle of his simple, real, inner mind. We may.
view him apart from robes and uniform—no longer the
leading spirit of the camp and Cabinet, but in private,
in his individuality, as he was in himself. Cesar has
left his military papers, but they betray few traces
of character; Frederick the Great was at least great in
the amount of his literary performances, though very
small in the moral impression which he leaves • and Na-
poleon was an author after a fashion, though' his fame
these most honourably
54
-CC-1.8 from his written picture of himself. But the col-
lected Dispatches and military Memoirs of the Duke of
Wellington actually fill nine large octavo volumes, and
not known till they-
have a test of venu
the parallel Dispatch: appeared. In this collection we
Y reveal the man. The Duke was
Nel-
son survive to sot truly was; and, curiously enough,
contrast. The the
offs both of Marlborough and
and artificial—probablydelineation in the lights of
Marlboroughthey Dispatches are cold, dull,
ries. If they are authentic, were composed by secrete-
s, we'ththeey”show that the hero of
Blenheim, like Pope's
all." The Nelson papers display°9
had "no character at
enthusiastic being, half feminine in
warm, passionate,
m
his susceptibilities, a
half Birserkar is his thirst for the
—they show the inconsistent elements of the fight
which were so
singularly mingled in the slave of
great publication
Hamilton and
the conqueror of Trafalgar. The publication of
Colonel Gurwood. reveals a very different type
if " hero," in its old sense, can ever be the of
hero--
pellation of Wellington. He bad, indeed, properinr ap-
pellation true
heroism than either his predecessor or his contemporary,
but it was because he had less of the conventionere,
He never made fine speeches—never did dazzling thea-
trical things—seldom or never furnished subjects for
sentimental pictures. His correspondence with the
Ministry and the War-office is simple, but it is the
very reverse of tedious; for every intelligent reader of
the " Wellington Dispatches," though unacquainted
with, or uninterested is, the details, feels that the
writer is ssying exactly what the occasion demanded,
and no more. The penny post has had its value in de-
stroying the type of letters written as epistolary exer-
cise ; but the Dulto anticipated the condensed style of
our own days! lie was never a master of composition ;
but, through mac a occasional uncouthness, his meaning
was always perceptible and clear. This applies to his
speeches as well as his writiugs. That the Duke was
no Suidas, everybody knows; bat though he sometimes
hit the nail roughly, and too hard, and too often, the
nail was always :hit. Nis speeches were more verbose
than his dispatches, but in the least effective of them
there was ever a core of sense—a clear note of truth,
earnestness, and reason, which told both on the House
of Lords and ot, the people. The Duke's speeches
were often widely at variance with the rules of rheto-
rical art, but they invariably told. Whether as a
writer or a speaker, there was no possibility of mis-
taking Wellington. His calmness of temperament
saved his letters from the more obvious failings of his
oratory ; but the defects in his speeches are attributable
partly to a sort of nervousness inseparable from
en effort in which he knew that he was not
successful, and partly—perhaps chiefly—to his intense
desire to be understood. Hence the exaggerations, the
repetitions, and the false metaphors which a small criti-
cism has not unfrequently detected in his oratory. All
these were but the signs of an earnest, anxious vehe-
mence to say his say in such a way as to tell. The Duke
evidently felt that, if it were his business to speak, he
must take care to speak so that the dullest auditor
should understand him. " F.M. the Duke of Welling-
ton's" private letters have become proverbial; and yet,
though we have all smiled at their quaintness, we can-
not roost one which did not, after all, say just what the
writer meant, whilst it also showed that he meant what
he said. And seldom was his brief, pointed, extem-
poraneous judgment or answer misapplied. The Duke
scarcely did more by minding his own business than
by making it known, in choice, pithy English, that
it was best for everybody else likewise to
mind his own business—a lesson worthy and signifi-
cant of the teacher. Multifarious enough, certainly,
were those opportunities of interference or co-opera-
tion which the good Duke did not exclude from
his acknowledged sphere of duty. All the common
haunts of fashion, as well as society's worst bores, he
faced with a manly resolution which grew at length
into a liking—duty became a pleasure, and a customary
form and mode of life. Wellington felt that he was
common property ; and such ho was. Smaller' men
would have grown vain or sulky upon being challenged
in this way; but ii all came as a matter of course to the
Duke. It was right and kind to be at people's parties—
to give them his mime—to give away their duaghters—
and to eat their dinners. In doing this every day in
the season, the Duke made no parade of himself) He
was the first subject of the Crown; in his person, were
concentrated many of the offices, and most of the
honours and dignities of the State; these things, were
his country's gifts to him, and the country had a Corre-
sponding share in its Great Duke. The country bad a
right to him and to his services, to his presence, his
blue ribbon, and all the rest of it; and frankly and
cheerfully, like an honest, earnest man, the Duke ad-
mitted this. And so he was always to be seen in " ball
and bower"—to the very last he reared, with feeble
hands, the great sword of Estate—to the very last
he was punctual in his customary ride from Apsley
House to the Horse Guards. The people loved
to have their Great Captain ever before them ; and
the Duke of Wellington was too wise to deny the claim.
All this shows a cheerful, sympathising, truthful temper;
and it was so felt and understood by his countrymen.
Without being a courtier, there have been very few who
have ever done so much by personal weight. It was not
owing to a more fashion or prejudice that " the counsel
which he counselled in those days was as if a man had
inquired at the oracle of God." There was always that
in the Duke's advice which would have given it intrinsic
importance. Its character was that of perfect common
sense. It was not the mere result of experience—there
was an intuitive quickness with which the Duke stripped
a subject of its accidents. When the Queen, on any
great emergency, sent for the Duke, she might not only
depend upon thorough honesty, entire disinterestedness,
a sound judgment, and an opinion dictated by perfect
loyalty—but, yet more, the advice offered to the Crown
under difficulties was generally a faithful reftees
tion of the sound opinions of the people. What
the Duke recommended never differed much
from the wishes of the majority of right-thinking
minds. In listening to him the Sovereign listened to a
true interpreter of public opinion; and that Wellington,
sy
in his declining years, with all his antecedents, should
have come in this sense to represent the popular send-
meet,i
lnghis
erhaitei n the honours. Pf
ersonally—of
coursement, wi s m
we
area
not
Duke's character ex-
cept from public sources—Wellington
the details of social life his habitual .carried out into
reotness. He was, perhaps. -simplinitY and di"
constitutionally of inexpen-
sive and frugal h9.hits: but Rn
when occasion required it—notone '4, "“'"
mt" 7-0.:
taste as from a sense of propriety.so much, howeveor, t.Ban-
quets, and his state concerts His Waterlo
were
rivalled; anti his annual and receptionts.,ownr.n",eus
was dictated by a senseentertainment
hof9 the Judges
of duty. In his I
delighted to honour his °P
country rather
Sovereign and his
ion.
than to gratify either serial predilect
In
vanity or any per
1 his own habits he retained the manners of the camdpi—o
its simplicity of fare, its rude accommodation, and
thrift of time. Punctual, exact, and orderly i
diligenceet in
of business, he required obedience &heft
If rough in
others, because he was the first to.
; A shove•land if ho ever
speech, he never willingly inflict" Psaionl life it was be-
seemed to undervalue the arhenitigerosp
of the practical
cause his austere and unbending p
the roprieties of an age
led him to set the duties
o above
ble, and chiefly to those mili-
taryof compromise.
Charicalike who he thought had peen-
connexions and thtehnugh
he was seldom seen on
liar claims up eerboilred—on subscription lists—he always
platforms, or en
_store
..,
and
generally relieved, private
methodically rengi a
4 a recent instance, in which it appeared
applications; a
impostor had profited long and largely by his
that some ---
ved that the Iron Duke was far from be•
t alms, pro
seer°
ing unsusceptibia of the tenderer and higher emotions.
In all that we know of his religion it was in accordance
with his character—simple, regular, and unostentatious.
But in such a mind formality was one of the conditions
of earnestness. And in the highest matters he had at
least the good sense and feeling never to interfere In dis-
putes which he did not understand. Of pretence he wee
incapable—of all men of his age, he bad the least tinge of
unreality. If wanting in what is called affability, none
ever yet charged the Duke with being insincere. These
are high elements of personal character. Wellington's
virtues, if of the hard, were of the enduring and
resol'ld
kind. The Duke was emphatically a great man—great
not only in what he achieved, but great in himself. He
was born to lead and to influence. England is eta • l
not the field for dynastio changes, nor does it aln
y
favourable chances to an adventurer; but if, to his off r
great
powers and successes, the Duke of Wellington had
added
i
personal ambition, there have been periods of history
and there are yet spheres, in which he might have reya'
dangerous as a subject. Were another Warwick been,
siute, Arthur Wellesley had the stuff in him tobe a iking-
maker,
or even king. But a noble and affectionate,e
delicate and chivalrous loyalty, fully worthy of other
days, with an earnest patriotism, kept • incheck, and
made beautiful, qualities which • - -
might else have become
formidable to State, Crown, and country. Throughout
his whole career, duty and Obedience
personal passion. inspiredbi him, un-
alloyed by any ignoble or
~,e was
the time at the drudgery of the Horse Guards as in the
splendid vicissitudes of siege and battle; and he carried
out, in fading years and with faltering powers. the great
purpose of his manhood and his prime. To the very

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NAVAL INT-pILLIOENCE.
APPOINTMENTS. -
Assistant-Surgeons-Daniel J. Dnigan (1844), to
the Encounter, 14, screw-corvette. Portsmouth; Frede-
rick V. Sandford to the Victory, nt aghe Termagant, 24, screw-frigate, Portsmouth.
Naval Cadet-Alexander T. Collier.
First-Lieutenant Searle, R.M.A., has been appointed
to the Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, at Portsmouth, vice
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Midshipmen-John. P. Wilson and Cs
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Hp .
Portsmouth.
Carpenter
to
Hewett, gone to hospital.
Lieutenant J. P. Wells (1828) one of the secretaries
of the Royal Naval and Military Free School, Devon-
port, has died. He entered the navy 'July 23, 1807, as
Captainfirst - c as a
Rich.volunteer
p Dulling
II
toeng board the Royal George, 100,
Dunn, Whom he followed, as
midshipman, into the San Josef, 110, Hibernia, 120,
1 Armide, 38, and Dublin, 74. In those ships he was
employed, at first under the flag of Sir John Thomas
Duckworth, in the Channel, off Cadiz, and Gibraltar, in
the Bay of Biscay, and among the Western
the gun-boats daring the operations in the Scheldt
in 1809. From the Dublin, which ship had been
be
nrvedwith
While on the books of the Situ Josef Islands.
commanded latterly by Captain Thomas Elphinstone,
he removed, in September, 1814, to the Centaur, 74,
Captains John Chambers White and Thomas Gordon
Caulfeild. On his return in her from a voyage to Brazil
and the Cape of Good Hope (he had for some time per-
formed the duties of
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Anthony Maitland and Arthur Fanshawe, and Berwick,
74, and Impregnable, 104, flag-ahips of Sir J. T. Duck-
worth, Lord Exmouth, and Hon. Sir Alexander Coch-
rane, until prumoted to the rank of lieutenant, July 19,
1821. He cruised, while thus attached, in different
tenders for the suppression of smuggling, and had
command for some time of the admiral's tender. From
November 1839, until the spring of 1843, he was again
stationed at Plymouth in the San Josef, under the flags
of Rear-Admirals Frederick Warren and Sir Samuel
Pym, admiral-superintendents.
The screw-ship Ajax, 58, Captain Quin, ordered from
Queenstown to Spithead to bo paid wages, is to have
her defects made goad. She is not to be " paid off," as
stated by a Cork paper.
LAUNCH or THE WINDSOR CASTLE.-The leviathan
screw
Dockyard, at five o'clock, on
launchedt ll re e dee k
from
Pembrokesteam-ship Windsor Castle, was
Wednesday evening. The weather being remarkably
fine, some 30,000 persons had assembled from the neigh-
bouring towns to witness the interesting spectacle of the
launching of the largest ship-of-war in the world. The
ceremony of naming her was performed in the u.ual
way by the lady of Sir Thomas Pasley, the Captain
Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard. The Windsor
sor Castle was originally intended for a 120-gun ship, but
was afterwards lengthened midships, for the purpose of
giving the necessary increase of displacement for the
engines, boilers, coils &a., and abaft for the accommoda-
tion of the screw propeller. The following are her
dimensions :- Feet in.
Length from fore part of figure-head to aft
Length between the perpendiculars
part of taffrail ... ... ... ......
„ for keel for tonnage ••• ••• 201 111
Breadth extreme .„,
...
~„ „,. 60 0
224708 6
6
9, for tonnage
••• .•• ••• 59 2
II moulded
• ••• ••• ... 58 4
Height from keel to taffrail ..• ••• 65 0
Depth in hold ••• ••• -•• 24 8
Burden in tons, old measuremsnt... 3,759'94
. -- 4
t, new measurement... 3,153
Engines, 700 horse-power.
The steam-frigates Sinsoom, Desperate, and Inflexible
are at Pembroke, and will accompany the Windsor
Castle (jury-rigged) to Portsmouth, where she will be
fitted for immediate service.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE PEGANIx, SostEsy-SLoop.-
Ommanney, Son, and Co., have given notice to the
,
hceaix officers and crew of her Majesty's steam-sloop,
entitled to share for a launch, name unknown, captured
Dec. 22, 1850, and for a launch, name unknown,
eb
.ounty
cap-
tured Oct. 31, 1850, that en account of
th
money granted for the said captures will be delivered
into the registry of the High Court of Admiralty
forthwith.
The Encounter, screw vessel,
than the Archer, Wasp, or Niger, is commandedtioned are
captain, whereas the three vessels last men
commanded by commanders.
has been taken
The screw 90 gun ship Agamemnonl ted by the en-
out of dock at Woolwich, will be conlP-e •
on the
gineers on the 24th inst., and hy the shipwrights
0„d,
25th, when she will be immediately
"1312-skflen into the
Gladiat ir, 6, steam-frigate, has been
into on the
sea-basin at Portsmouth, and will go in-°
of not moretonnbaygae
20th inst.
Mercury, cutter, fitting for the Channelvice, will be ready on the 21st inst. to relieve
Sea-
flower. When the vessel arrives her crew will bonel Isltahned
sse ser-
vice,
turned over to the Mercury.
Rolla, apprentices' brig, Lieut. Commander
rt. of from Brighton and Hastings, with a ulna
arrived at Portsmouth, and went into harbour yesterday.
from Brighton and Hastings, with a nuwbe
newly-
entered boys for the navy.
Indiaman, ar-
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.--The Tudor, saws ors and
rived at Spithead this morning to embark p
Vernon, India •
take on board stock for Calcutta. The
Bombay and
yFeseteverdiacky.,
for .
man, arrived at Spithead this morning
Madras. We understand this ship
will
commander
heavy luggage of Lord F. Fitzelarence,
weather.
of the forces at Bombay. Wind, N.E., fine
at screw
SHEERNESS, SEPT. 16 -Her Mak-issope, Assistant-
sloop Miranda, 14, in charge of Mr•
h s returned from
Master-Attendant of the dockyard,
inB44 hours. She
Leith, having performed the voyage - the eheers to
I take out the
has been placed in the basin underneath
receive her proper masts and spare, and to
be completely
fitted as one of the advanced steam
squadron _ -esterday.
Her jurytnasts and yards were sent down 3'
acket Vivid, Mr.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel stearn-packet g
in undergens
Luke Snaithett Master-Commanding, having
bete on Tues-
extensive repairs at Woolwich, passed by
me her duties et
resume day evening, en route to Dover, to
that port.
Commander Vansit-
Her Majesty's brig Bittern, 12,
d will be able to
tart, is nearly complete in her rig, an of reserve.
leave the fitting basin next week. Adder, Lizard, and
Her Majesty's stearo.vesaa
African are employ
ed at the Nor on service connected
with the trials of anchors, which commenced on Tuesday.
WooLWlell, SEPT. 17.-'The
Greenock screw steam-
ship was taken out of the basin to-day, preparatory to
going down the river on trial.
eam-packet, Lieut.-Com-
The Garland Dover mail 8t -
l
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mender
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detects ort to-day to have some

AP.MVALB.
Qrs.
Wheat ... ... ... 5,612
Barley ... ... ••• 554
Oats ... ... ... ••• 164
Beans... ... ... ... 657
Peas ... ... •• • ...

Rapeseed
-- ---

••• owe •••
Shelling ... ... ...
Linseed ... ..

Malt ... ... . • ... --
Flour ... ... ... ...

Tares ... ... ... ...

NEWBURY, SEPT. 16.—T0-day's market has been
largely supplied with Wheat, a small proportion of
which was old, which met a good sale at full rates. The
finest selected parcels of new realised nearly late rates,
whilst secondary and inferior descriptions, of which the
bulk consisted, were quite a drug, and although offered
at fully 2e per quarter decline, much remained unsold.
In Spring corn we are but moderately supplied, and,
with a dull sale, we have no alteration to note in value.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 17.—Though the harvest may be
considered as mostly secured the very fino weather we
are now having exercises a certain degree of influence
on the corn trade, by causing the condition of what is
brought to market of the new crop to be better than was
anticipated, and, as well, curtailing the demand. Busi-
ness generally has been inactive this week, and at our
Corn Exchange this morning we had a small attendance
of buyers. There was no change observed in prices of
good quality of wheat and flour, and as regards choice
samples of American barrels of the latter they are ex-
ceedingly scarce. Other artieles remain as quoted on
Tuesday last.
EXETER, SEPT. 17.—Cattle—The supply of cattle and
sheep, although large, was not so extensive as last week.
The attendance of dealers was tolerably numerous, and a
good stroke of business was done, Beef maintains the
recent advance in price, and the quotations for prime
quality were from 8a to 9s per score; inferior not much
in demand at from 7. to 7s 6d; cows and calves, Si 8s
to 121 12s; barreners, 43 fid to 5s 6d per score; butchers'
calves, sti to sid per lb; sheep sold at about last week's
quotations. For prime small wethere, sid per lb; large
ditto, sd: ewes, 4id to 5d per lb; lamb, 6d—a small
supply. Pigs as last week. Pork Carcases—The sup-
ply was about the same as last week, and no alteration
in price—quotations • varying from 6s 64 to 7s 9d per
score. Pannier—Turkeys, 55 6d to 61 61; geese, 5s to
6. each; ducks, 4s to ss; fowls, 3s to 4s; pigeons, is 9d
per couple; partridges, 2s 6d to 33 per brace; roasters,
4s to 5s each; butter, 11d to Is per lb; eggs, 18 for a
shilling. Wool—The price remains firm. at Bid per lb.
Corn Exchange—Prides were about the same as last
week for wheat-6s to 6s 3d being about the range of
quotations for old. The price of new varied from 4s 9d
to 5s 6d per bushel; barley, 3. 6d to 3s 9d; oats, 2s to 2.
64. Flour, 33. to 35s per sack.
LLANGENNI. SEPT. 16.—Wheat, 40s; barley, 265;
oats, 16s to 17s per quarter. Beef, 4id to sd; mutton,
51d to 6d; veal, 4cl to 5d per lb. Fowls, is 8d per couple;
fresh butter, 10d to 10i1 per Ib; eggs, twelve for 6d.
Store pigs, 25. to 30s; small pigs, 108 to 12s each. The
market was very thinly attended, owing to the fair yes-
terday.
DENBIGH, SEPT. 15.—New wheat, 13s to 145.; old
ditto, 13s 6d to 14s 6d per 1681bs; barley, 93 to 10s per
1471b5.; oats, 6s to 63 9d per 1051bs. Butter in tubs, 8d
to 9d; ditto in pounds, lid to Is; eggs, twelve for 6d.
Apples, is to 2s 6d per hundred; damsons, 2d per quart;
common black ditto, Id per quart.
WREXHAM, SEPT. 16.—Wheat 5s 6d to 5s 9d for
prime dry samples; barley, 43 to 4s 4d much enquired
for; oats. 2s to 3s 2d per measure. Potatoes in large
supply, at 2s 4d to 2s 7d per measure of 9 Olbs. Com-
plain's still increase as to the great extent of the failure
of this valuable root. Ducks, 2s to 3s; fowls, Is 61 to
23 per couple. Butter, 10d to lid per lb. Plums in
large supply, at id to Id per quart; pears, 6d to is per
one hundred and twenty; apples, 2s to 2s 6d per ditto.
MOLD, SEPT. 15.—Wheat, new. 13s 6d to 14s per
1681b8.; barley, 93 to 93 6d per 1471b5; oats, 6s to 6s 6d
per 1041bs. Fresh butter, lld to is per lb.
SCARBOROUGH, SEPT. 16.—Red wheat 41. Od to 44s Od ' •
white ditto 47s to 50s per qr. of 40 stones; black oats 10d to
10Id; white ditto 104 d to lld per stone ; barley, malting Os to
Os, grinding ditto 23s to 25s per qr. of 32 stones; superfine
flout 308 to 355, seconds ditto, 27s to 30s per sack of 20 stones.
WITHEKBY, Seer. 16.—White wheat, 17s Od to 18s Od, red
ditto 15s Od to I6s Od per load ; barley 29s Od to 31s Od per qr.;
beans 15s 6d to 00s Od per load ; oats Ild to Is per atone.
RIPON, SEPT. 16.—01 d wheat 5s 6d to 6s Od, new ditto 5s Od
to 5s 7id ; beans Os Od to Os per bushel; barley 28s to 30s;
oats 20s Od to 24s Od per qr.
KNRCSBORUGH, Sen. 15.—Wheat ss6d to 650 d; beans
Os Od to Os Od per bushel ; barley 28s to 32.; oats, 19. to 2ls
per qr.
Itivaarass, Sier.l4.—Wheat, per qr, weighing 621 b
per bushel, 38s Od to 41s Od; ditto, old, weighing 621 b per
bushel, 00s Od to 00a Od.; barley, per quarter, weighing
541 b per bushel, 25s 6d to 26s 6d ; oats, per quarter, weighing
421 b per bushel, 18s Od to 0 Od. Oatmeal, per imperial
boll 15s Od to Os Od ; ditto second, 14s 6d to 00s Od ; barley-
meal, lie 6d to Os Od; peasemeal, 15s Od to Os Od; bran, per
stone, Os 7d to Os Od ; first flour, per 2801 b., 348 Od to 35s Od ;
second ditto, 270 Od to 2850 d; oatmeal, best, per stone of 141 b
t3todnt,o4dodto; beef,
d; per pound, 4d
imperial, is 6d to Os Od; ditto second, Is 5d to Os Od ; barley-
, per pair, 10(1 to 12d ; ducks,
meal, Is 44:1 to Os 01 peasemeal,
.1s 6d to Os Od ; first flour,
2s 6d cash, 2s 9d credit ; second ditto, 2s Od cash, 2s 4d cre-
dit.er dozen, 6d to Od;
. butter, fresh,
Potatoes, per stonerneht.i'mkens
pork, 3cl to 4d ;
each,
fowls,
we6hl ds: ,•
eovadce
ha
tl
040
0 ddd
to 12d;
eggs,ls2ddt p
9d to 10d per lb ; ditto, salt, 8d to 10d ; croudie (curds), 2d to
Od; four-pound loaf, line, 5d to d; ditto, seams!, 4d to sd;
coals, per cwt, 9d; bay, per stone, 8d to 10d.

TEIE CLOTHING MANUFACTURES.
ENGLISH WOOL, LEEDS, SEPT. 17.—Some kinds of
wool aro very scarce and much inquired for, and all
kinds are lighter stock than in former years at this
season. Prices are firm, and have an upward tendency.
LIVERPOOL WooL, SEPT. 16.—Business is steady
at late prices. The imports the past week have been
237 from Petersburg, 2 New York, 80 Gibraltar, 15
Egyptian, and 27 Naples.
TRADE OF LEEDS.—There was considerable briskness
and activity in the Cloth Halls both last Saturday and
Tuesday, and a better business was done. Cloths of
good marketable character were readily sold. Prices are
firm. Stocks continue low. We believe the mills in the
out-townships and adjacent manufacturing villages are
all well employed, doing a sound healthy trade both to
order and for the markets. There have been a few Scotch
and Irish buyers in the town during the week, and a few
houses that principally cultivate these branches of the
trade have been rather brisk, but on the whole business
in the warehouses has been rather quieter this week.
The shipping houses generally are doing less, the season
being now over for the American market.
TRADE of LEICESTER.—This being now the height of
the season for the winter demand, all branches are very
active, more particularly the fancy hosiery branch.
Stocks of yarns are accumulating in the spinners' hands,
who complain that whilst on the one hand they cannot
get the advance they require from the hosier, on the
other they cannot buy wools to go on with to obtain
prime cost at their present prices. If the present demand
continues, the hosier must purchase at the advance, as
old stocks are nearly all cunsumed. Wools are firm,
and more business doing. Nulls and brokes are in great
request.
BRADFORD, SEPT. 16.—The trade this day has been
very much what it has been during the last few weeks.
There is a brisk demand for lower qualities of Coburgs,
but finer qualities are less sought atter. We hear of no
alteration in worsted yarns and cotton warps.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, SEPT. 16.:—We have had
a very firm market, and a fair amount of business is
doing in both cotton yarn and cloth. The attempt made
on Tuesday to obtain the advance in price, in conse-
quence of the American advices to the effect that storms
and the worm had injured the growing crops of cotton,
was not persevered in, and the result has been that
buyers have come rather more freely into the market.
In some descriptions of goods, in fact, more business
could not have been done, only because sellers were not
reasonableable to supply
prices
tho. goodsc op in
yarna reasonablefor
manufacturers
is a time, and at
good deal inquired for, and fetches full prices. There
has been a fair demand also for export, and 20's to 30's
water twist for Germany are hardening in price. Some
of the spinners of repute of these yarns are under con-
tract for the whole of October, November, and Decem-
ber. For the Levant there is much business doing.
Printing cloths are very scarce, and the market fully
takes off the supply. In domestics and 'l' cloths there is
a good deal doing, but manufacturers complain that it
hss not been sufficient' to enable them to command re-
munerative prices.
TRADE OF NOTTINGHAM.—It is satisfactory to state
that the c )tton hose trade continues in rather a flourish-
ing condid, n. The drawer and pantaloon hands have in
general full employment. A considerable quantity of
warp silk gloves are being made; they are exquisitely
shaped in Worcestershire, and are now sown in that
county. The bobbin net trade, for good patterns and
superi r net, is gradually improving, but the slop trade
is evidently on the decline. The lace trade has been

The Right 11---'-2----'-------on. J. W--• HenleY left town for a few
days,
yesterday, for his seat, Waterperry, county
D
Oxon.
r. J. K. Mitchell, of the
A BROKEN lisAnT.—
Jefferson College, Philadelphia, in lecturing to his pupils
upon the diseases of the heart, narrated an anecdote in proof
that the expression " broken-hearted" was not merely figu-
rative. On one occasion, in the early part of his life, he
accompanied, as surgeon, a packet that sailed from Liverpool
to one of the American ports. The captain frequently con-
verse
comed with him respectin
return a
from that lawho had pge.romiUpoto sed
his bridenthis
subject he evinced great warmth of feeling, and showed Dr.
Mitchell some costly jewels'
Iwiiasshtaankdentouhpisanbarect , which he in-
ornaments, &c.
t 0
00n board the ves-
sel- to present as bridal presents. On reaching his desti-
nation he was abruptly inforrned that the lady had married
some one else. Instantly the captain was observed to clap
set- Dr. Mitchell was immediately summoned, but before
he reached the poor captain he was dead. A post mortem
examination revealed the cause of his unfortunate decease.
His heart was found literally torn in twain 1 The tre-
mendous propulsioa or blood, consequent upon such a
violent nervous shock, forced the powerful muscular tissues
asunder,
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DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN,—JaMeS O'Neil died
on Thursday, in Salford, Manchester, at the advanced age
of 107 years. He was born on the 2d of March, 174%,
entered the army in 1774, served 38 years, and was dis-
charged in 1812. lie has, therefore, been 40 years a
pensioner.