The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1838.

" CONSOLATION UNDER. STE.AiiI

It is a reflection which will appear to different persons, ac-
cording as their dispositions are for peace or contention, either
a mitigation or an aggravation of circumstances, that in all
great questions which divids public opinion there is usually a
self-motive power which drives them to an end in a manner
beyond the contreul either of favour or oppositien. While
two rppes!te parties are striving to settle, in too opposite
ways, a question cf this kin', it generally turns out that the
question has settled itself. Steam power is see of those
powers which has proved itself sufficient to its own eqablish-
ine.nt. The principle of the thing, like the thing itself, ear.
ries all before it. There is no resisting steam either a; a
power or as a principle; and it may be accounted as impos-
sible for steam companies to help extending themselves, as for
the piston of a steam-engine to avoid rising out of the cylin-
der. It is, therefore, too late now, if it was ever advisable,
to oppose the universal application of steam power to the at.
fairs of the social economy.
We remember embarking in one of the earliest of the vessels
constructed on the steam principle—a low, angular, most an.
seamanlike object, and more resembling a raft than a pro ter
boat—or you might perhaps have taken it for a large dining_
table afloat. All the associations with the character
()e -
British tar were shaken ; the indignant shade of Nelson seemed
a
to rise from the grave; and even the voice of Dibdin was
audible to poet's ears, protesting eith a sailor's oath against
the lubberly innovation. Public convenience, however, tri
umphed over every other consideration—as we suspect it al:
ways will ; and it was found that a vessel which could go out
of port during flood-tide, and hold its course right in the teeth
of the wind--.which could traverse the seas and come home
again, and start again and again return, while more scientific
sailors were tossing about in sight of land or unable to leave
their moorings—might be a lubber& innovation, but at any
rate it was a very good one. What has been the feeling of
the public with regard to steam-goats, may be gathered from
a comparison between the Great Western steamer, now ply_
ing between Bristol and New York, and its " rude forefather"
the floating dinner-table above described; remembering at the
same time, that a space of twenty years embraces all the im-
provements implied in the contrast.
If the Nereidcs of the poets were shocked by the first plash-
ing of a steam-paddle, what must have been the sensations of
the Dryades and Ilamadryades at sight of a colony of people
flying through their woods and plains in a cloud of fire and
smoke ! We are by no means indifferent to the claims of sen-
timent and of beauty, whether by land or sea; and we confess
we are unable at present to defend steam-boats or railways on
either of these grounds.
Let it stand confessed, then, that they are full of ugliness;
that West and East longitude are not more at variance than
they and the poets. But as hat avail such complaint; or what
wisdom is there in making them ? An agent of unlimited
human convenience is discovered : if we were ungrateful enough
to desire its rejection, yet should we be unable to effect it, for
it has become already implicated beyond redemption with all
the necessities of our life. What then remains to do, but to ac-
cept it wish a good grace, and turn it to all the account we ean.
Whenever nature gives us an instrument of such extraordinary
effieacy as this, and we find ourselves distressed by any of its
effects in our first use of it, let us rather believe that we have
not arrived at the perfect handling and application, titan that
she has forgotten to make it better.
There are many comforts for the poets in this business,
which they do not choose to EC: ; we will therefore endeavour
to point them out. In the first place, it is to be remembered
that all true sentiment is a thing of growth and association;
and that to say that a perfect nos elty is destitute of sentiment,
is no more reasonable a complaint than to say that the seed of
the rose-tree is without scent, or that the acorn wants the pro-
portions of the oak. Nothing is poetical, nothing sentimental,
itself, but only in its circumstances. If certain sentiments
are connected with ships and sailors, these sentiments are en-
tirely due to the memories of the past, to the association with
victories and tales of other times, and to circumstances of chit
racter and incident which will arise again and again, under
all varieties of change, as long as men are men. If a country.
road and a mail-coach are objects of sentiment, any other road
and any other coach may become so. Philosophers they cer-
tainly are not, and we can hardly admit them to be poets, who
do not perceive that the springs of sentiment are all in the
human heart, and none in the forms of things. It is indeed
surprisingen toonethat
setof circumstances the fallacy which
and r
attributes
efse
übesauitty
toand
anothersetiti
itt
should not be more readily seen through, since a little reflec-
tion will easily impress the fact, that the very order of things
which is now dwelt upon pathetically under prospect of a
change, was once itself the change under prospect of which
a previous order of things was similarly bewailed. It is not
necessary to be disgracefully old, to remember the time when
the mail-bags were carried by a courier on horseback; nor to
be very recondite historians, to discover the period when there
were no stage- coaches, or the period when there we: e no coaches
at all. All travelling associations, two hur.dred.and fifty years
ago, were confined to horses ; sentiments turned on pack-
saddles and knapsacks—to say nothing here abut heaths and
highwaymen. The first stage-coach ran over, these senti-
ments, of course ; but substituted others, it seems. So it will
ever be. Why, time was when a ship itself was a novelty, and
a grave disturber of association. The acme of profane im-
pertinence was reached, and the tie plus ultra of vulgar Utili-
tarianism already achieved, in the eyes of Conservatives, some
four or five thousand years ago, when some one—furnished,
we are assured, " with triple brass about his heart"---launched
the first boat.
Again, if steam-boats and railways present certain appear-
ances which shock our sense of the beautiful, it does not fol-
low they will always do so. Utility is the first object aimed
at in all new undertakings—fitness to an end ; consequently,
it rarely happens that a new invention is at orce useful and
beautiful: but efficiency being once fully rs:ablished, pains are
then, very properly, bestowed on the dictates of taste. We
should form a very poor idea of the elegance of a mansion if
we judged of it in the while in the course of erection;
and yet bricks and beams must come first. The improve-
ments already made in the build of stelm-v; ssels, if we only
recall the unseemly appearance of the early speci Tens,
such as to war,-ant the belief that the utmost elegance of
structure is compatible with die principle of their propulsion.
With respect to railways, it may appear more dlficult to
win favour for them from the sentimental, r.ho will probably
be at a loss to conceive how any associations can arise to place
them in the number of cherished things. We have nothing to
say, abstractedly, in favour of long, straight, lead lines of
road : they are not beautiful in themselves, and never can be-
come so. Yet are there several facts overlooked in connec-
tion with this subject, of wh'cli we desire to remind the
reader. Let it be remembered, then, that if railways present
a greater number and length of straight lines than ordinary
roads, these lines are not associated in the minds of travellers
(and we shall all be travellers soon) with tbe same sense of
weariness—they arc less long in fact than shorter lengths on
other roads. The speed of railway travelling is already such
as to have established a new criterion of distance : and if, of
which we entertain no dubt, such improvements come into
operation as that about to be attempted on the Great Western
Railway (the ten-eeet wheel), it is hardly po-sible to predict
the paint at which the speed attainable on these roads may
culminate. If so, we shall come to look upon leagues as,
formerly, on miles; and the eye will travel over a line of
straight road, extending almost into the horizon, with the
same freedom froM fatigue as the body itself.
hd icohto ratihle-
We will freely confess, that we have spoken here more from
t.ul philosophyl
in tile thanai
ta
cfrhomme
nt feeling
th
;elo)aldrtircuipiltinob
jgeascts w,e,
reads threaten to displace. But when a great and unquestion-
able blessing is given to man, such as steam is, we cannot
but feel, all other considerations apart, that it is his duty, and
must become his pleasure, to follow it through all its opera-
tions. In the meantime, it sce.ns desirable to find such fair
and reasonable arguments as may reconcile the public to a
course which indeed it cannot avoid if it would. Those
which we have advanced appear to us of this nature.—
Spectator.

Total, Ulster ... X. 2,066,119 X:2,1:27,528 X 1,968,177 £•2,109,305

'rola% Ireland... £•2,538,001 £2,677,335 £2,411,861 £2,580,697
Number of Aeres sown in Flax, in the Province of Ulster, ACRES.
in the year 1823
Ditto ditto in the whole of Ireland, in the year 1823 122,242
We regret that no authentic information showing the state
of the linen trade can be obtained subsequent to the year
1824, when the Linen Board was discontinued ; but the Re-
turns by the Collectors of Customs indicate a large increase
of the quantity of linen exported in 1835, as compared with
the exports of 1825 ; and Mr. Stanley reports, on the autho-
rity of the most experienced persons concerned in the trade at
Delfast, that the manufacturing of linen throughout Ulster has
increased within the last five years.
The only to:s n in Ireland, in which the cotton trade has
been established to any extent, is Belfast ; and it is repre-
sented as declining even there. Several of the mills originally
designed for the spinning of cotton are now employed in spin-
flex, and there are at present only six mills in Belfast.
With regard to the woollen trade a considerable diminution ap-
pears to have taken place since 1822. A statement of its extent
and value at that period is to be found in the Appendix to the
Fourth Repert of the Parliamentary Commissioners, who
were then engaged in an inquiry on the state of the Revenue
in Ireland. Wc have reason to believe that the estimate
therein given, both as to the quantity and value of the woollens
stated to be then manufactured, is too high. • There existed
at that time 45 manufacturers in and about Dublin, and the
value of the cloth annually produced by them, if estimated at the
present prkes would probably be about 200,000/. The value
of the woollens now manufactured within the same district is
stated by Mr. W. ‘Villans, to be about 00,000/. The manu-
facture has also declined in the districts of Cork, Kilkenny,
Monte, and Carrick-on. Suir ; and at the present time the
value of the woollens produced within all these districts is
supposed not to amount to 20,000/.
With regard to the flannel trade of Wicklow and 'Wexford,
the annual value of its produce is estimated, in the document
above referrei to at 56,000/. This was probably much above
its actual value at that time, but it may now be considered as
extinct.

One branch cf the woollen trade, the manufacture of
worsted and stuff articles, has greatly increased since 1822, and
is now carried on t:.) a considerable extent at Mounmellick and
Abbe) lei x.

With respect to the wool grown in Ireland, its annual
value, at the present prices, may amount to 300,000/. The
great bulk is exported to England, and a part to France.
Irish wuol is not suitable fur the manufacture of any cloths
but those of very low price, but it is well adapted to any
article of worsted manufacture, and hence one of the principal
causes of the recent extension of that branch of the woollen
trade. The consumption of woollens in Ireland is much
below that of an equal population in England. Mr. \Villans
calculates that the annual value of woollens sold ita Ireland
does not exceed 1.400,000/., being about 3s. 3d. per head on
the population; whereits the total consumption &f England
cannot be less in value than from 18,000,000/. to 20,000,0001.,
which would aniount to 20;. per bead,.

the
and
they
have
generally
affinntudhfe,
eitioirnoeal, Irekr.tesir cionnfisuitueh e s 0 u t
h 0 I
Ire-
landpublilbiciaarge of Enconsumed
o
proportionl;:g lispt
omo
England. Among the many and striking effects of steam navi-
gation are the changes which it is effecting in the commercial
The great
relations of different parts of the country. NVliiie many dis-
tricts of Ireland are brought, for the purposes of trade, nearer
to England and Scotland than to Dublin, a more immediate
and less expensive communication is established between that
city and many important parts of England than now exists
between it and the counties of Mayo, Sligo, Donegal, and
The manufacturer of Dublin can now send his goo's
Derry.
to Devonshire, Cornwall, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire,
MI lc, the woollen trade of Ireland, though
with more dil atch than the manufacturer of Yorkshire.
much less than what it formerly was, is now in a sounder
and healthier state than when existing under the Upon
para-
lyzing influence of protecting duties. The manufacturers,
though few ill number. carry on their business with activity
and intelligence ; they have adopted every new improvement in
paid for similar works in England ;-1- and Liver.
machinery, an rbundant supply of
water potter. The wages ehich they pay ate less
water and
pool and London, the great marts for foreign wool, dyes, and
than those
oil, arc fully as accessible to the Irish as to the English ma-
nufdeturer t they are, in consequence, able to produce an ar-
ticle capable of sit4aining competition with the best specimens
of Yorksliive cloth.
these grounds," observes MI. Willans, "
•, Oct I look fo”-
ward with confidence to the yearly advance of the woollen trado
of Ireland."
Beside; these, it ran scarcely be said that there is any
other manufacture in Ireland conducted on so great a scal
as to he of much national importance. Under the now
exploded syitem of bounties and protecting duties, several ma-
nuf4clories sprang up ; but not. being the natural growth of
circumstances favourableto their establishment, most of them
gradually disappeared as soon as the undue encouragement,
which bad created and stimulated them, was withdrawn.
Still, there are to be found, in every district, establishments
of various kinds, conducted in the most creditable manner ; but
they do not exist to such)e an extent as to claim especial notice
in a general view of t employment of the people. If it
Here neees6arY
to show that there is no inaptitude among the
I tion for manufactures, even es require v ,pu for such a the
greatest ingenuity, neatness, and skill, we would select the
damask of Lisburn and the tabinets of Dublin : the worked
muslins produced in many parts of Ireland, and very often
frcm the poorest cabins, rival those of France, and are sold at
half the price ; embreidery on silks and satins is also carried
to great perfection, and'sehouls have ben established in many
pl,,ces for the instruction of the female peasantry in this
beautiful art.
13at while the manufactures which were formed under the
system of bounties have been sinking into decay, the various
processes to which agricultural produce is subjected have been
graduary ex:coded and-improved. Grinding,
malting, brew.
log, end distilling have
made great progress within these few
years. Until lately, the mills cf Bristol and Liverpool en-
lyed almost ther exlc!rire advantage of converting the Irish
jwheat into flour. tlrerroexehsseeisi now performed in Ireland.
The construction of water-wheels s and other machinery, has
been much impr.;ved, and -I'.
.t the use of them,. under favourable
circumstances, has
mills
in
which s greatly increased ; but there are few large
steam is not united with water power, in
order that the
wellsupplyas may be constant and regular during the
summer as the winter months—a proof of a better
system of trading and of more enlarged means.
The process of malting was one of the first in which im-
provement 'became
manifest
; and this has gradually led to
greater perfection in the quality of the beer produced. Great
breweries have been established in Dublin and Cork. Irish
porter is it
largely exported to England, and the Dublin
bottled porter successfully rivals the London porter, even in
London itself.
The quality Gf Trisha improved :
produce has also considerably Irish butter, Irish pork, and Irish beef bring greater prices in
the English •
maAct, than they did some few 'ears ago ; while
the quantityn_ produced. and exported has much increased. The
districts i
those
of Cc
these improvements are the most mealiest,
Waterford, Limerick, and Belfast.
arc From north to so tl. indications of )ro,ress;ve improve-
mentu i .
are every
where
moat 1 in !aces which are
accessible to iji.e ' 'ere,rv•isribl'e ;1
and
f Sienain Peavir alien ; but
initniusa.e tv,aence q .
these signs of 1 jnot so dis
growing proyeritylbare oohsppt y,e,
cernible in the l as in thr;
the conditioa of the
labour.houring
~,rhoep
amount of proportion of
producer of their
e
the latter tele' velfrall to be consistent
with a heaith , their tre •is
Thetos
pressure of a super-
abundant and Ly,
xcc Mate . of society.,ilton
(~
lease,
with respect to
the resources as yet diveyeello)°pPeud‘for their maintenance and occu-
pation) is t:e Ti-powerfully
rpetua y and actingto
depress them.

TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES DURING A RESt-

Dr.NCE IN NEW ZEALAND FROM THE YEAR 1831 TO 1837. BY J. S.
PuLACK, Esc.—The• author of this work resided in New Zealand for
seven years, and his sojourn has not been without advantage in a literary
view. With sonic reading, a good deal at practical knowledge, very

CIL and consideratne inr iver • 4.. f arbocrveat wel, qiA :in ei.

tiousness, be has bzen able to make most advantageous use of his oppor-
utilities, and has produced one of the most complete accounts of a b3lf-
savage count ry we bare lately met with. The attention just now (Erected
towards New Zealand, as a field for colonization, gives great interest to

:r. Polack's work. It furnishes a very good idea of the present con.q.

tion acct capability of Ne v Zelland; inclu ling its extent, productions,
harbours, rivers, ct:mate, &:c. The vo7umcs also eanvey a living picture
of the customs, manners, morals, and character of the natives; ineltulin!
their aptitude for c:vilization and amalgamating with European blool
The na:rat:veof one journey, uncle, t tken by the autism' into the interior
of the country, pments one of. the Wst pictures of savage life and cha-
racter that we ever remember to have read ; while, by its distinct truth,

it enables the reader to form a very capital notion of the native society
of New Zealand, and the general features of the country.—Spectator.
THE WOMAN OF THE. WORLD.—This new 110Vel
of fashionable life, by the author of " The Diary of a Desennuyee," is at-
tracting considerable attention. At the period of the pi.blication of the
" Desennuy ee" much curiosity was shown to discover the real author, but
without success. Some persons hare fancied thA they have chscovered
in these productions a semblance to the style of Mrs. Gore, but we un-
derstand there is no just ground fur attributing them to the pen of that
lady. Whoever may be the author, " The Woman of the World" is
production of too personal and satirical a kind ever to be avowed—the
character of the heroine and most of the other personages who figure
io
its pages being evidently drawn from the life.

Mn. URQUIIA RT'S SPIRIT OF THE EAST.--
We arc requested to state that this work will be published on Saturday
next, the 11 tit in,t., by Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough.strrel,
who has also just ready, Lord Lindsay's Travels in the Holy Land, fa.,
in 9. vols. post Svo., with illustrations, and Captain Alexander
live of an Expedition into the Interior of Maui, in 1837, under the
auspices of the British Government, in 0 volt., small Sen., with trap and
numerous illustra'hns. Agents : for Scotland, Messrs Bell and Brad..
Wal fide, burg!) ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin, Orders re'
ceived by all booksellers. 's Narra.

A WELL-ORDERED GARDEN.—Alluding to the
Emperor of Austria's garden at Sclionbrun, Mrs. Trollope rta:es that
one part " is laid out with such old-fashioned skill, and such scrupu-
lous attention to regularity, that it sterns as if every leaf took orders
from the gardener before it ventured to sprout"
The hell of the Town Hall at Avignon was taken
down a few days since. Cast in the year 1470, when Charles of Bur-
gunday was Legate, and shortly after the tumultuous meeting of the cor-
poration, at which the abolition of the Cotaulate was resolved on, tlus
bell was sung in token of rejoicing at all elections aLd promotions
which have taken place for the advantage of the good people of Avig-
nopt. Legates, vice-legates, consuls, municipal officers, mayors, &C,
have 1): en proclaimed by it. But now its occupation's gone, and, in-
its own clapper, it is about to be struck by the
smith's hammer to sound no more, and one yore apt Pi Ygndll!'m I
isvtiel:lldboef being struck by
added to the long list'that disgraces some of the provincial Yu-
nieipalities of Fran Ne.. When down, the following inscription was to
tie /
Ken on'tt 4 agursla Campona.a fact faire la villa d'dviguidn,
esseng consuls Clot nobles kommq. Anthoni Spitre, Jaco; Disquiri et
,a.
'an mil ccc lx§C."
joti

8%1f:3:47n:it. the proprietor of the Ifil!eriiiao
iSiillB. "ear I)tib;iii, a.tid the most exte:iiive wool!en manufacturer in
Jnland.—Ahpcndix p, No.
Irishl,,',l,l)erkfomileo,
ivy ttriswtimho.n,yi
otfo
;it hic,igc:ltyldruec,tpaccntdiirlicialiiiiri:is
of
h.
sea iu
l::erlwstea;;;Qi‘ri:LkYhtvei:jaril;,,,lo4;y: .goimottumrpfilisciitnoo,npr,:foivoqc:fidr.l y three mi Jct! hly o r
Itf!ie't),-voi4+l;:ftrisi?s,l,,:intgertF,aytot:t..o.mlicr of them in my empluymeot froin two
s
as worknum, ft,lll
wit 2strranig,liitrtt,),•.eftivaercyeaasiso,•,,tiveerilyikeasthaenmy:
;17.0ELtrdic4thoNfviall la.nestitoeft*Leidt o th3e.

- .
EMPLOYMENT of the POPULA.TION. SL AITE TRADE.
• • ______.....-
• . : .-:%#,..
(From the ul sport of the Rail,..vay C0wint.4:94.414..z.t. The following is the motion propo;ed bs Lori Brougham
Inland.) ' - `felative :to the slave trade, en Monday, ani egreed to n'ntine
With rrspset to the employment of the people-sit is essen_ • dissentience :-
tially agricultural ; but in the northern distric', besides. their " That an humble address be presentsd to her Msjesty,
rural occupations. numbers of the peasantry are engaged in . dutifully to submit to her Majesty, that the slave trade, which
the linen trade. The culture of flax, its preparation and ma- the Congress of Vienna most justly described as having de-
nusaetore, oreepy a considerable portion of the time and la.. graded Europe, des/dated Africa, and efil.cted humanity, no-
Lour of the • populatimi of the comities of Armagh, Antrim, vertbelcss still continues with great intensi:y ; that, notwith.
Down, Tyrone, Lomloi.deiry, and part of Monaghan. standing the various treaties and conventions which have Been
If sgisulAuse were more perfect in these districts, the entered into by her Majesty and her Royal predecess)is with
farms larger, end the distinction Letwsen the farmer and the different po:scrs fir the suppression of this ttaffic, and not-
labourer mole in..ricd. such a combination of trades would withstanding all the endeavours of successive Administrations
probably be found 'wisher convenient nor conducive to pro- at home and of her Majesty's ministers and agents in foreign
lit ; but the farmers being also, for the most part, labourers, countries, and of her Majesty's naval force employed in this
and the labourers small landholders, the spare time not re- service abroad, the trade has been aggravated in all its her-
spired for the cultivation of their land, and which, in other rors ; and that it is the opinion of this Ilouse, that a general
districts, is so often given up to idleness, intemperance, or concurrence of the great Powers professing Christianity in a
crime, is here devoted to a profitable and useful employment, declaration that the slave trade, by whomsoever carried on, is
which rewards industry with a fair return, and promotes habits piracy, and ought to bs ponished as such, is, under the bless.
of peace and order. The variety of occupation afforded by ing of God, one of the mast probable means of effecting the
this system of domestic manufacture, to the different members abolition of that trade.
of the family, is its chief recommendation. While the men " That this House is further of opinion, that, in all treaties
are engaged in weaving the yarn, the task of preparing it for to be contracted between her Majesty and her Allies, the con-
the loom by breaking, hackling, and spinning, is performed cession of a mutual right of search of their commercial vessels
by the females, who find such a mode of industry congenial respectively, would bt) another of the means likely to attain
to the habits of their sex, and compatible with their household this most important object ; and that this House most respect-
duties. • fully implores her
.Majesty to represent these their opinions,
The number of weavers who manufacture on their own ac- and wishes and hopes, in' such manner as to her Majesty shall
count is diminishing • but as the power-loom has not yet been seem most likely to be effectual to her Majesty's several Allies.
so extensively applied to the manufacture of the linen, as " That this House cannot refrain from expressing to her Ma-
machinery is to the spinning of the yarn, the hand-loom iestY the deep concern with which they have observed, from
weaver is still enabled to stand his ground. the papers which her Majesty has caused to be laid before
There are in Belfast and its immediate vicinity fifteen them, that Portugal has not yet fulfilled the engagements
mills for the spinning of linen yarn ; and four at places not far which she has taken towards this country, by concluding with
distant. The largest of these mills employs 800 persons, Great Britain an ad.quate treaty for the suppression of the
and its annual consumption of flax amounts to 720 tons. slave trade."
According, to the Returns of the Seal officers and Inspectors
of. the late Linen Board, the value of unbleached linen, sold
in the several counties of Ulster, during the years 1821, 1822,
1823, 1824, was as follows :-
1821. 1822. 1823. 1824.
Antrim £345,504 £332,496 £351,912 £323,767
Arma,gh 570,348 608,842 557,341 568,799
Down 214,199 204,828 197,943 238,514
Tyrone
Londonderry
anitgal 33,076 39,954 35,986 20,432
',vim:magi'
tlon ag 11 an - 131,485 112,330 125,959
Cavan

THE PRINCE OF ORANGE.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ST. lIELENA, DATED JUNE 18.

On Friday last, the Bth inst., his Netherlands Majesty's
ship Bellona, with his Royal Highness Prince Frederick Wil-
liam of Orange on board, arrived in these road-% Immedi-
ately after .coming to an anchor, the Town Major and the
Governor's Aide-de-Camp, as well as Mr Solomon, went on
board, the two former on are part of his Excellency, to offer
his Royal Highness the we of the Castle during his stay at
till island, the latter to pay his respects in his official capacity
of agent for his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, and to
tender his services. They were most kindly received by
Captain Amiens, and introduced by him to the Prince.
Oa Saturday morning, at nine o'clock, the Prince landed
under a salute of twenty-one guns from Ladderliiil, being re-
ceil ed on the wharf by Colonels Trelawney and Anderson, the
Town Major, and a guard of honour, and by Mr. Solomon,
who had the honour of conducting his Royal Highness to his
residence in town, where Captain Arriens and the officers of
the frigate who had accompanied him sat down to a handsome
breakfast, to which several of the principal civil and military
officers on the island had been invited by Mr. Solomon, and
who had the honour of being respectively presented to his
Royal Highness.
Some time after breakfast, the Prince, accompanied by Mr.
Solomon, in the first carriage, and followed by two other car-
riages, in which were Capt. Arriens and the offi,:ers of the ship,
left town for Plantation-house, where they were introduced to
his Excellency the Governor, his lady, and the Misses Middle-
more, when it was arranged that his Royal Highness and suite
should dine with his Excellency on Sunday, and remain at
Plantation-house until Monday. The party, having quitted
the Government-house, proceeded towards Longwood by the
road across Sandy-bay-ridge, calling on their way at Rose-
cottage, the residence of his Honour the Chief Justice, where
they were very kindly received by his lady. At Longwood
the Prince visited both the old and the new house, and saw
cverthing that is to he seen, and thence proceeded to the
tomb, where he remained for some time, taking a sketch of it,
so that the party did not return to town until- about 6 o'clock
in the evening, after having spent a most pleasant and delight-
ful day. At half-past six, his Royal Highness, Carain
Arriens, the officers of the frigate, and Mr. Salomon pro-
ceeded to the Mess-house of the 91st Regiment, where they
sat down to a superb dinner, upon which occasion the whole
of the handsome plate belonging to the officers of this dis-
tinguished corps was exhibited. After removal of the cloth
many loyal toasts were given, the band of the regiment at-
tending and playing appropriate tunes, amongst which were
many English and Dutch national airs. The evening passed
off very agreeably, and His Royal Highness seemed highly
gratified, nor did he leave until about eleven o'clock, when he
returned on board the. frigate. On Sunday the Prince again
landed, and according to the arrangements made the previous
day, proceeded to Plantation-house, where he met a select
party at dinner, and remained . until Monday, when he re-
turned to Mr. Solomon's house in town, who in the mean-
time had issued cards of invitation to a ball and supper in
honour of his Royal Highness's arrival at the island. At
8 o'clock the Prince entered the ball-room, where he met a
party, consisting of the civil and military officers and their
ladies, and the greatest part of the principal inhabitants of
St. Helena. Dancing commenced at 9 o'clock, and continued
until 12, when the supper room was thrown open and the party
sat down to a repast consisting of all the delicacies of the
season. Dancing recommenced at 2 o'clock, and waltzes,
galoppades, and quadrilles were kept tip with great spirit
until 4 o'clock, when his Royal Highness, although appa-
rently, loth to quit the festive scene' took his departure, and
proceeded on board the frigate, which immediately after got
under weigh, and bade adieu to the hospitable island of St.
Helena.

Several fanners have begun their wheat in this
neighbourhood ; but reaping is by no means general yet, nor will it be,
for at least a week. The weather lately has been very :bowery, and the
wind has done cowsiderable damage, we fear, to the wheat, particularly
where it is nearly ripe. The peas that have been cut for some time have
opened very much, and we fear a great many have been lost. We ste
several pieces of outs cut, particularly the winter oats, which this year
seem to promise an abundant crap. The turnips are growing very fast,
and the heavy showers seem to have driven away the caterpillar; but
the graaiers complain every where of the shortness of the grass.—
Brighton Gazette.

At a sale of Mr. Pearson's effects in Notting.
lam, a lock of Napoleon Buothiparte's hair fetched the ►um of seven•
c•en shillings!

The Dutufries Courier, speaking of the state of
the crops, shrewdly suggests the necessity of a little caution, lest a too
implcit confidence in the reports put forth mislead. We should not
forget that " in seasons such us the present, there are numbers who wish
to sell as well as buy.

BEES.—The unpropitious nature of the season has
affected the bees, as well as tho different kinds of crops; for many

hives, instead of as usual throwing off two, three, or four swarms
respectively, have thrown off only one, while the great ploportipn have
not reared any oMpring, and of course the skeps that had been erepared
for the accommodation of the young remain, with comparatively few
exceptions, untenanted. As the season is far advanced, it is hardly to
be expected that many additional swarms will come away; and even in
those instances Ist which they might be thrown off, the probability'
is, that they would not arrive at such a degree of strength as would
qualify them for enduring the rigours of the approaching winter.—
Dumfries Courier.

BEER ACT.—The petition from the town of
NVal rington and its vicinity was signed by nearly two thousand persons.
It prayed that the Legislature would not alter the present Act without
taking the case of the common brewers, who had vested their capital
upon the faith of its provision 4, into consideration ; and that some
compensatim: msy also be provided for the beer-sellers.—Liverpool
Standard.

OYSTERS.—honour and gratitude to the late
Duchess of St. Alban's, who, even at her most sumptu,nis banquets, in.
variably had a little barrel of natives placed upon a table of its own,
with a skilful opener at its side, and goodly slices of brown bread and
butter in its front ; nor was that little cook of the proud saloon by any
means the least prolific of

.1 Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,
Ncds, end becks, and wreathed smiles ;"
and of accompanying bursts of laughter, that consigned the tiny mol.
luscte to their last home with a triumphant epicedium. %Veil does the
writer re:co:lea her Grace's look of flaiVfh% when, in reply to the
simple question of one of tier noble guests, wht ther oysters could feel,
site replied, "To be sure they ran—do yon not bear them constantly
crying about the streets ?" Of the dial,rent aljnltleations of the ve:b
" to cry" our jesters have liberally availed themselves ; but even our
standard serious writers, spi'e of the numerous blunders it occasions,
the Duchess iu the use of the active huttad of the passive
• " Oh! reform it altogether :."—Fasay en Oysters.—New

participle.

xomly.
•
• 'the Ami de la Religion gives the following por-
tion, of the act of retractlon of Prince Talleyrand, which it says it has
occasion from my great age to
obta ned from Florence:—"
anl as
opinion upon a revolution which took place 50) years ago,
hive heen ab'e to judge of the evils which have fallas on the Roman
Catholic and In which I have had the misfortune to take part.
Though reavt d by Pope Pius VII. from ec.:losia,tical functions, I have
always. nevertheless, looked on myself as a child of the church, and I
have sought for opportunities of se, ving, and have on all occasions,
done ifs, ecclesiastics of honourable character. I lament the errors into
which I have f.llen, and am desirous that ray wishes for the prosperity
of the church and its supreme head may not be unknown." To this
we may subjoin a mot of the deceased Prince, related by the Temps,
on the occasion of his being elected a member of the Institut Hist( rique ;
witt f.sund in a letter addre*sed by the Prince to the Presid,nt of ilia
body I sin very desirous my dear Mr. President of belonging to
the Instit ut flistorique ; it is a society that will make its way in the
world. Be p:cased to stand godfather for me on this occasion; I sub.
snit to all the formalities required by the regulations. Pray say to your
colleagues, that although I have written but little in the way of history,
I have done much for it, &c."
STATE OF TR AD E.—The activity and the increased
firmness observable in the Liverpool Cotton Market have produced some
eif.ct here. There was an extensive demand for most descriptions of
yarn yesterday, and an advance of std. per pound was pretty g, morally
realized; but the spinners could:Ml.oW this advance does not compen.
sate them fur the increased plce which they must pay for Cotton, The
demand for hoods was also to!erably brisk, especially for printing clothe,
which were rather se,rce, and cesium's:led an advance of I id. to 3J. per
piece on the rates of last week.—Manchester Guardian.
NAVAL FETE AT VAUXHALL GARDENS.--
This fete took place yesterday evening. The concert was adapted to Ho
occasion, and embraced the most popular naval pieces of the day, amongst
which was a grand naval ode, written expressly fur the fete by Mr. E. L.
Blowhard, and composed by Blewitt, which was most rapturously to.
ceired and encored. A sculptured group, representing the monument
of Nelson in St. Paul's Cathedral, also tlicited match approbation. The
gardens were attended by upwards of 9,000 persons. 'l'ne fircworkl
the illuminations were on the usual scale.

The number of visitors to the
Lakes has been and continues greater than in any previous year. The
accommodations in Ambleside and Bow:less a: c stated to be quite full.
Fuur carriages with parties who intended sojourning a feu: cloys ill the
first.inentioned Waco; Prri "‘I nri V,';':,4oesday, and were obliged to
'IC driven ou to' lics.wiek:— There are upwards or an collegian, with
',tors now in Ambleside and its immediate vicinity.—Lawaa''''

Guardian.

. .
" It is understood," s4l* iliqui/cor
`lthat the kmy of Witte.) di: '1'411(w:old will be removed to Va!enesz
toward* the cud of this week."