The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-22 00:00:00

SHREWSBURY RACES.—W EDNE3a4r.

The Column Stakes of 25 sovs. each, and' 23' added by the Com-
mittee. for two yrs old. Three quarters of a mile. 4 Subs.
Mr. E. Peel's b. c. Alzdorf, Bst. bib ' ... Whitehouse 1
Mr. Fowler's ch. f. Concordia,. Bst. 21b
Mr. W. Jones's ch. c. Cannock, est.!blb
Captain Lamb's br. c. Speed, Bst. 21b
The Gold Cup (in specie) by Subs. of 10 Boys, each. Three miles.

13 6'ubs.

- -
, . .
Mr. Fowler's br.'h. Heron; 5 yrs, t'st..l3lb Darling 1
Mr. W. 0.: Gore's eh c. by The Duke, 3yrs
The Shropshire Stakes of 26 sow,. each, h. ft., with 25 stirs. added
by the Committee. Two miles. 3 Subs.
Mr. Fowler's ch. c. Gilbert Gurney, 3 yrs, 6st. l'Zlb...Dodgson 1
Mr. E. Peel's gr. c. Saul,.3 yrs, 6st. 121 b
.-. 2
.... - . —. .._ . . . . .

The Borough Siembers' Plate of 60 sovs. Weights same as for the
Cdunty Members' Plate. Heats, twice round and a distance.
Mr. Tomes's gr. g. Isaac, aged Darling l I
Mr. T. 11. Price's Ludford, 6 vrs 2 2
Mr. W. 0. Gore's ch. c. by The Duke, 3 yrs

ISLE. OF THANET RACES.—Tuumnir.
The Margate Plate of 50 sous. ; the winner to be sold for 150, &c.

Two mile heats.
Mr. Paeon's ch. g. Sir Felix, 6 yrs, lOst. 31b ... walked over
The Visitor's Plate of 50 sovs.
Mr. Shepherd's gr. g. Jim Crow, 4 yrs... Hornsby 1 1
Mr. Leith's Cottager, 5 yrs 2 2
Mr. Bacon's b. m. Elizabeth, 5 yrs
Mr. Dockcray's b. c. Guardsman, 3 yrs

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 21.—1 n Harbour—Britaapia, 120,
flag ship ; Victory, 104, ordinary guard ship ; Excellent, gun-
nery ship; Royal George yacht ; Pantaloon, 10; Hastings,
s7i4lip;
;AeNtresosne,n2gBer;
steam
agicienne' 24 ; Orestes, 18; Apollo troop
transport ; and tenders Fanny, Gos-
samer, and Gipsy.
In Dock—Not any thing in commission.
In Basin—Racer, 16, ready to be commissioned.
At Spithead—Edinhurgh, 74.
ARRIVALS, SAILINGS, Sze. DURING THE WEEK.
On Saturday, the 156, sailed the Horatio transport, for the
Mediterranean, with detachments of the sth, 24th, and 60th
on board. On Sunday, the 16th, arrived the Apollo troop-ship,
with the 18th Royal Irish on board, from Dublin ; the Gipsy
tender, from the river, with chronometers for the ships and
vessels at Plymouth, which on being transhipped to the
Gossamer were forwarded on the same evening in that vessel.
On Monday, the 17th, the Apollo came into harbour, and dis-
embarked
the 18th ; and the Hastings and Orestes came out
of basin. On Wednesday, the 19th, the ActmJn came out of
basin ; and to-day the Messenger steam transpo,l tried her
engines, and the Gossamer returned from Plymouth.
We have had a little doing here during the past week ;
Magicienne, after having been inspected and unbent sails, re-
ceived unexpected orders to keep all fast : she has been corn-
pleted to three months provisions, and now awaits orders in
harbour. The probability is that she, together with the Rover,
Orestes, Pilot, and Modesto, will accompany the Hastings
clear of the Channel, if not to Lisbon, and then gambol
among themselves in the shape of experimental cruizing. The
Actaeon, 28, has received orders to get ready for sea with all
possible dispatch, and assistance is being rendered by the
Britannia: she is reported ready for Tuesday next, and her
destination is said to be Mexico. The Orestes will go out of
harbour en the Ist of October. The Apollo will sail on
Wednesday next for Cork, to embark the 94th, for Ceylon ;
and the Hastings will commence fitting her cabins next week :
the furniture, and in fact every thing is. very plain and simple,
and is the same as used by the Earl of Durham. Her Ma-:
jesty's arrival-Will not be before the 10th.

THE SIJN, LONtION, SATVItnAV, SEPTEMBER 22, 1838.

WEST INDIES.

EMIGRATION TO JAMAICA.
(From the Colonial it eeman.)
And now that freedom is to be established on, the Ist of
F' August, many persons of capital may be induced to come to
-this country, 'to settle: either as the lessees or purchasers of
estates. • h is to a large importation of intelligent,,,virtuous,
-and induStribus fathilies that we look with. confidence, as the
most effeitnal means of improving the condition-of the popula-
-tioti,- white -as. *ell as black, and of securing to all thelnha-
bitsnts, the blessings of good example and good government.
We want an intelligent ,middle class, who would .strengthen
aft good, and might possibly moderate, ,regulate, or lieu.
tralize,• the opinions and Conduct of the bad. • They-Would be
hailed by the labouring poptilation..and from them 'Magis-
trates, Members of Assembly and Council, and Publie Offi-
cers who would really* Promote the ,ends; of good Govern-
ment, • instea'd of lending themselves. to ,the purposes; of
factions adierse to
,the English Nation and Go-
.
• vernmight, . , be selected. A -new—spirit- might
thus be • infused into the old institutions of the -
which would he far.h.2.t.ter t•han,.c.reating new ones. On the
score of health We Can express with :confidence: out conviction,
that the drained, cleared, and elevated parts 01.111e:country'
fact tkiin 'half ofit),,,,are far more favourable to health
than the Mother couotry, of which our family affords', proof,
for large as it is. (and we sneak, of, it .with. thankfulness), •we
have not hadlo pay a doubloon, to.medjcal men or for medi-
cines, for the three yeazs.alid a-half that we have lived in' it ;
- and as to the security ofproperty, we .play mention a fact which
speaks volumes as 4o the honesty of the peasantry. ' We
lived for three years and five . months in a lone house, and
on giving it-up the other. day, the I;andlord complained that
tve•frad'ntitibne to:bire the keys of the front or beck doors.
Our reply was, That.wc toundno locks on
,the. doors, and we
never saw the tieeeisity"fOr putting on any. , In fact .we slept
.in perfect
.aecuilly:.and confidence, without, any fastening
-
that would
keep out a dog. Before we ,had removed from
the ship:in .which we , eitmfi from. En;laucl, :several per-
sons
ild -Us the. honour cif Making .acquaintanee and .one •of
• t
them (a Justice,sine.. dismissed) told us that-hey did
!not heli
man to the island who was: not
eve Sp tlibie-was a' black ew
•either a thief Our, ezperience has, proved: the colt-
. • we' tielkve tfte
,negroes l)e as honest, and to speak
colt-
•t
truly,
j.
as tfre:l-,ite population, and to be fully equal in these
re,pects to 'the flglish or Irish ,peasantry. ~We see reason,
therefore, "to Bole, that • great numbers of English settlers
Wi
nta es, fewer es ll come out here, as ,we conceive they will find many ad.
vaineonvenienc , and• far greater prospects of
g
health. „maid), Ord peace, than they can hope for -either in
Canada, the• United States, or Australia, to ,which tens of
thousands atitlually emigrate From Great 1.3.-itain or Ireland,
capital, machinery, and skilful. 'and induci: taking with them
trions-aervants. . , •
The
soil of thiS country %-ott (11 support at least, five millions'
of inhabitants. , --
_ •

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY BY -FRANCE. •
( From the Jamaica Gazette.) • •
The French Government -are proceeding very faithfully in
a series of statistical inquiries preparatory to measures Tor the
emancipation
of the slaves in their Colonies.` These are some
. .
of the facts disclosed in these inquiries;.,
32,056-
si,vss have been enfranchised in the colonies of
oiartio, .que, Guadaloupe, Guiana, and' the Isle of Bourbon.
collectiyelYs within a period of seven years. Of these 2,100
Were released in the year 1837.
The result gives one in eight of the entire slave population
set free. If, in this proportion, the system of enfranchisement
were continued to be followed out, without the intervention of
any d
legislative enactment to accelerate the march of fee om
e
the'entire slave population of the French Colonies would be
liberated in fifty-seven years.
-Independent of these circumstances, there is a very material
disproportion between the births and deaths, which would
go to annihilate the slave population by natural means, if it
were not that the lota is compensated by the surreptitious im•
portation of slaves from the coast of Africa, particularly into
the island of Bourbon.
In 1835, the number of births of both sexes were 5,714, or
I in 46, :while the number of deaths amounted to 7,337, o
I iri 35 ;
.consequently, the unrepaired lota in twelve month.,
was 1,625, or 11,000 in seven years. These added to the 32,000
enfranchised slaves, makes within this number of years a dimi-
nution of 43,000 persons.
The slave population by the annual censuses, however gives
a different result, and instead of this progressive decrease, in
the case of the Isle. of Bourbon at least, there appears a
constant augmentation in the number of slaves. In 1834, the
population of this colony, so conveniently situated on the cast
aenoadstin Africal63of.___
traffic for
.an illicit .in negroes, was 69,238,
0, ultilou,,h tit.: deaths exceeded the births -
hy
1,2
1 0.7;2,323 slaves,, therefore, were introduced into that
colony
that one year.
We have a right to suppose, that the French Government arc
proceeding in the work of abolition in sincerity, when they take
all these pains to arrive et the truth.
A

MUS EM Ni FOR ALL CLASSES.—Mr. Colburn
has just added to his highly popular collection, " The Modern
Novelists," Mr. ' Hook's second series of " Sayings and
Doings:" The whole of the original three volumes is now
comprised in one, containing, nearly 600 pages with Plates, for
six shillings I The following celebrated woika have appeared
in the present series;— E
Sir E. L..Bulwer's Pelham, Devereux,
and Disowned—Capt. Marryat's admired naval stßry, Frank
Mildmay—Mr. Ward's Tremaine—Mr. Horace Smith's Bram-
bletyc_llr.Gisler's Granby—Lady Morgan's O'Dell-
nel—aral the First ,SeribS of Mr. Hook's Sayings and Doings.
We must not omit to add that en of the above may be pur-
chased separately. To obtain the'prodUctions of such master
spirits of the age at so cheap a rate as six shillings: is indeed,
a pheilornenon in' the' history of literature.. A store of into',
lcctual ontertaitiment and instruction is thus placed within the
re:tch of all classes of readers.
A SINGULAR NcT.—About six weeks ago, Mr.
Oliphant, of Stonegravels, near Chesterfield, lost three liens.
supposed they were stolen ; but a neighbour called on him
to s.iv, " If he did not keen his'fowls out of his corn, he should
shoot them.". Mr. Oliphant replied, " I have got none ; xny
last were stolen six weeks ago:" But hie neighbour insisting
the fowls were leis, and if he did not take them out, he would
fetch his
.gun, and top them from feeding upon his earn, Mr.'
Oliphant went to look at them, and to his astonishment he
found his three. hens with ten chicken; each, which they
,hatched in the-itariding eorii.Derbq • Reporter.
DRATII BY LIGHTNING.—Dr. Thos. H. Bond,
of Cslvert county, Maryland, was instantaneously struck dca-I
by lightning, on .S.iturday night, 11 Co inst., at the residence of
his uncle, Dr. Duke. Two of his brothers, his sister, and
some other friends were pesent when this melancholy event
took place, and several of them narrowly escaped death. The
house was much shattered, aid a young lady struck senseless,
who remained so far some time before she recovered.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

SLAVE TRADE. . (From the Bath and Clieltenham Gazette.)
(From the Liqmaka Gazette.) The Wiltshire Independent of the 13th inst., in com-
. Pettnlng_efecet. :`....ft' 23, 1838.
menting on the late execution of Maslen at Devivs, has
SireL-I have the honour to ti fait .fo r ker 70u: 1110 -
oe, the following striking remarks. They fully confirm what
!nation, the copy of a letter, and enclosurs, actilfris.,e'd 40 one 1 ba, `''nn been said by the opponents of capital punishmeie
of my Under Secretaries of State, by direction of Viscount 1 „,:::7-• - '-utalizing and indurating effect on the mass
re..,„431.;Ti ..
Palmerston, pointing out the liability to seiiure and condom- 4 17 anything h•id been wanted to con-
nation, under certain circumstances, of vessels carrying on °fa P°Pu'-'!" ---; '-- • inefficiency ow public execu-
the slave trade between Africa and Brazil, under the Portu firm our opinion o. the total .
gurse flag.. .
tionv, as beneficial examples, ts •,,,,,e,..ereuees.of last Thurs-
. .
I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble day would have been amply sufficient _to: that purpose.
servant, GLENELG. That Maslen was a roost 'atrocious criminal, ees Jfully de.
Lieutenant- Cleneral Sir Lionel Smith. served the severest Punishment, we do not deny, lint we,
Itoreign-office, April 30, 1838. are cenvineed, that that awarded—Death, is altogether
Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to transmit to inefficacious for the purpiise intended, and is calcullited
you the accompanying copy of an instruction, which his Lord- to impress the m'n Is of those who witness such scenes,
sltip leis addressed to her Majesty's Commissioners at Rio de and who, we are sorry to say, aup treacly delight in wit-
Janeiro, relative to vessels which may be brought before them, nessii e them, with any, rather than salutary feelings.
1.
on account of carrying slaves for exile from Africa to Brazil,
. .
and which, though sailing under the Portuguese flag, have From all that we have observed, and from
been built in ports not in the Portuguese dominions, W.I
are all. that we have beard, as well on the late occasion as
owned by Brazilian subjects, or by Portuguese subjects, resi-
Oa ethers; we ore decidedly led to the conclusion, not
dent in Brazil,
only that isitnessing the punishment of Death wholly fails
lam directed-bv Lord Palmerstoa to request that you will to generate in. The minds and hearts of the lookers-on
lay these papers before" Lord Gleneig, for his Lordship's in. those feeling; which it is intended to produce, but. that it
formation, and for such instructions as his Lordship may see has the effect of hardening their hearts and brutalizing
fit to give thereupon to her Majesty's*colonial authorities. their dispositions, while the publicity of
.the act, and the
I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, , ' congregating together cf thousands to witness it, deprives
(Signed) J. BACKHOUSE. the sudden and violent transition from life to death of
James Stephen, Esq., &c. &c.
the greafer part of its terrors, and causes it to be von-
Foreign Office, April 30, 1838.
commonGentlemen,—l have had under my consideration comMuni- sidered more in the light of a occurrence, than
cations which I liaise recently received from various quarters, of one to be feared and dreaded ; more as an exciting
n
showing that the slave trade is carried on in .Brazil to a great exhibition,
••xtent undcr the Portuguese flag, by vessels which are not We mentioned last week, that during the morning of
PortegUese built; ,that many'pf these vessels have previously Thursday crowds of people from all parts of the country,
been navigated under the Brazilian flag; 'and that most of the, majority of them, we grieve to say, females, had been
them are owned by Brazilian subjects, er by Portuguese sub- flocking' in, to witness the execution of Maslen ; we also
jests resident in Brazil. • • noticed- the levity of their conduct, and the glee with
I Observe by the Portuguese Decree of, the 16th January, which 'to all appearance they were crowding towards the
.1837, that the only vessels which arc te.be considered Pont'. fatal ,pe*.e-hut we were unable, at the time we went to
guese, arc those which had been navigated under the Per- ' state
the scenes with which the town was dis-
press, to • it '
tuguese flag, up to the cli.te pf.thc issue of that decree those
which should thei:cartei- be built in ports belonging to the do- graced during to,: afternoon and evening : is generally
minions of Portugal ; and steamboats purchased within three- a!lowed that more drum.
s-fnness, quarrelling, and fighting,
years from the date of the decree, belonging to Portuguese were witnessed here last Thurs.:"v, than were ever seen
subjects, and navigated according to Portuguese law. b - at any Fair, or even during the- boa: of a ' contested
.1 observe further, by a despatch of the 2d of March, Election. And towards -the close of the
clan,
the roads
1838, from the Portuguese Secretary of State; to the were thronged with parties of
Portuguese
Minister of Marine, enclosing a circular to• the town, a great number of whom were in - '
a disgusting the several ' Portuguese
Government _ thereby expressly declared, . for . the -special - obscene and b esphemous language
n oxica on. : obscene and .
was heard on all sides, and, in some instances, the btu- 1
purpose of presenting the slave trade; find' With special re. •
retaut) of the parties exhibited itself in a way likely to
mice to the'decree issued .for that purpose on the--.loth of
Decernber 1836, that no vessels but those which are described •
lead to a repetition of the event whit:l i they had so cc-.
in the decree of the 16th January 1837 are to be considered cendY "witriessed' We had the following on good uutho-
.as Portuguese vessels.. , - . •.- ' . rity :—One 'fellow having knocked another doWII en the
. . Having referred' the several papers here quoted to her Ma. Green, kicked him in a cruel manner on the head, and;
-,i4Yr-'a 'Lair' AdviSei, for his opinion as to the instructions on 'being remonstrated with and told that if he conti.-
1 which. it would be proper to give to her Majesty's Commis- nued (loin;' so, he would kill the Mint, and shale the
moaners, and to the Commanders of her '
Majesty's cruisers, upon fate of -Maslen', he exclaimed', 'with' an, oath, that he did
this •SUlaject, I have.now to instruct you, that vetsell owned by. not care, he could die only onte,• and his time was not
Brazilian stibject., or by Portuguese subjects residentin Br
a- come. NeVer in the remembrance of the oldest inhabit-
zil, and Which shall be foundb •
carrying slaves for sale from
Africa to Bra;it, ants were such brutal and demoralizing scenes witnessed
;it, may, notwithstanding thstthey sailing
. arc
under the Portu, flag" be on any former occasion, and it is believed that the injury
guese, properly bronola before the
Court of which you are met ibers, and maybe condemned by done to the morals of the people ky this one, disgusting ex-
that Court, under "the treaty of the 23d of November 1826, hibilion WILL NOT BE COUNTERACTED
FOGFOGMANY YEARS
between
have
Great
trade': unless such vessels shall have been built in a credence the report has obtained that it is true,—that the
port
belonging to the, dominions of Portugal ; or shall have brother of the wretched man who was executed, and who had
borne the.flag of Portugal, and no other ' • *to the issue ofthe
, prior
'the decree of the'l6th of Janua 1837 ; or united. they shall day in drunkennes, and that he exposed the body, as he
be steam-boatepurchasedwithin
ifi oil .- - ~-, three years from the date of was conveying it borne, to those persons whose curios;ty
oine,
e eeree, and belonging to Portuguese subjects, eind'inavi-
prompted them to desire a sight of it ! May the inhabitants
hated according to the
You of' Portugal.
Yeti. will
. .take care to abide byethis instruction, in the cases
• of Devizes net er again behold such scenes as' were wit-
of vesselwhich netsed hereon Thutsdtty last !"
s may be brought before you for adjudication.
'PALNEUSTON.

EDINBURGH 'MAlL:,—We..nnd that the report
we alluded to on Satin-day, respecting the short postponement
of the earlier arrivals of the London mail, is quite correct. The
arran,temefs of the Post-office, it appears, cannot conveniently
be altered until the end of the current quarter—till which time
(10th Oetob,,t) the mail will continue to arrive at the same
hour aslorrnerly We have reason to believe also, that even
then it will.not reach Edinburgh sooner than six o'clock in the
morning.- • A portion of the line of rail Way on this sidiof Man-
chester, which! was -expec!ed.to open on the 17th; at the same
time with the Londownnd Birmingham 'Railroad, is, it ay:pears,
stir in an unfinished state, •and will not be' oPened, it is be-
lieied, till December next, —Scotsman. •••• •
EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF Two 'MAID-
SERVANTS.—A:t the Braintree, Petty Sessions, on Wednesday
last, two young women, named Eliza Lpdge!and Sarah Bass,
in the,serviee of Mr.,JaMei Skill, of Felted, were.brought up
to answer' for a Wilful trespasS, in daniaging the donr!el.their
master's linuse'.` The 'case was' of
,a very singular, and extra-
ordinary -nature: It appeared from the statement of Mr. Skill,
that for, the last three- years his family had Leenannoyed in
various ways,-by stonea-throWn at'the door and wincows, by
which sometimes as many as four 'or five squares of glass
were broken, .and at the time of the incendiary fires in the
neighbourhood, :he, one morning • found- some 'matches and
gampowl-r placed at his hall door, which, of course, created
some alarm. V.*rions means were made use of to put an end
to this system of wanton mischief.- Persons from a distance
were introduced, upon the premises' to keep watch, so that. it
should not be known they were there, and Mr. Skill slid he
had paid as much as-'2Ol. for this purpose, but without cll c:
—the annoyance Mill continued, and aSMrS.- Skill was In a Ce-
.licate state: of health, and had been direeted by the physician t
. be kept free from all excitement and alarin, it was very pre-
jedicial., to her,. On Saturday. night last theie as some shot
thrown'nt the.,parlonr. window, and 'on the following' night
a large stone was thrown at the door at the 'back of the house.
On Monday 'morning he found a large indentation. in
.the
tlore.and ' from the mark boing , downwards, he suspected
that the;ratona. was throne from the prisoners' bedroom
window. elle then searched about. the parlour window, and
found 50111 ff. of theilielthroWn un the iSattirday • night, 'Which
had evidently-been taken from .his drawer, as it consisted of
dust, wild-foWl, and swan shot, which anotherecerson Was not
I.kcly to have mixed ire that way. He also found some of the
shot in the prisoners' bed-room. Th!s' confirmed hiS suspiL
ciens, and on the. two prisoners being taxed with the offence
they confessed it. Mr. Skill aided that Eliza Lodge had beer:
living Vrith.him "three years and: a half; she had the care of
two chil le n, and they thought her quite a confidential ser-
vant. The other, who was the cook, had been with' him about
six ;-'and it appeared thaithefore slue csnae the.annoy-
ance had been carried °Why Lodge, and another servant who
ha.; left.. Mr. Skill said. after the stone was thrown on the
Sunday night he' went into the kitchen and found the cook
aeparently going into hysterics, and the other looking as white
as if she was going to faint, though he did not know by what
means she made herself look so. The prisoners now admitted
they Were guilty; but, on, being-questioned by the Bench as
to their motives, Lodge said nothing. The damage to the
door by throwing the stcne any estimated at; Is. The Bench
convicted them an the damage and costs, not having the power
to inflict n penalty. The_ damage arid costs amounted to
2/. Is. 6-1.• • The prisoners said they had not the money with
then), and the Bench thinking it a case in , which no lenity
ought to be shown, immediately committed them to Halstead
House of Corection for a nionth.— Chelmsford Chronicle.
On. Saturday last,- as Mr. James I3right, surgeon,
of Wimbledon, and.his three children and their nursemaid,
were proceeding in a phaeton on the Brighton-road, between
Reigate and Crawley, they were suddenly beset by an unusually
large swarm of wasp% which literally covered them, together
with the carriage and horses. The horses -plunged violently,
upset the carriage into
.the ditch, and broke the pie, when
providentially the Era coach drove up, the coachman of which
and the passengers bshaved with the greatest kindness in as-
sisting to drive off the enemy, which eventually they'succeeded
in doing, hut not before the party were ell severely stung, and
the poor horses so much so, tha. their throats became much
inflamed, i n t tl ey are still suffering from the offsets.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.---At,
Glasgow, on Tuesday night, the Committee held their weekly
Meeting.. It appeared from ibe conversation that there was a
necessity fur pubic meetings and lectures in the different
towns and districts, to rouse Vac slumbering energies of the
people. Mr. Moir and Mr. Purdie, it was stated, were invited
to Hamilton, and had accepted the invitation. The publica-
tion of the address was delayed until the Directors were an-
pointed. Mr. Moir then cautioned them against being l'ed
away by the Corn-law agitat'On. He had met Mr. Weir on
the subject and had told him they differed only as to the like-
lihood of success. The. Radicas, he said, had no confidence
in the profesaions and schemes Of theWhie,i,s.— Glasgow Chro- I
nick.; ~ • • .

EXPLOSION OF STEAM-130ILERS.—(From the
-Edinburgh,•Courent.)—The deplorable frequency of acc:d:nts
to steam- vessels, suggasts more than ever the necessity of ob-
taining some guarantee fur the safety of the numerous passen-
gers who now travel by this cheap aol expeditious conveyance.
I s advantages are. too obvious to require enumeration. But.ii o
it he not safe—if they who embark on board those vesselsa
jaunts of pleasure or of business, cannot be sure of their lives
for a moment, of what moment arc the hoisted advantages of
cheapness or speed, by which they are in a manner decoyed to
their destruction ? Our last contained an account of another in-
stance of earelesaness in those who have the management
these vessels, which might have b !en attended with the most
fatal connsequeeces. ,We allude to the burning of the
Tweedside steamer, in which were many passengers, wha
would undoubtedly have lost their 1v s but for the humanity
of Captain Allan, of the Royal Adelaide, Leith, whose vessel
happened to pass at the time, and who rescued them from the
burning wreck. Now, the loss of this vessel, in the name•
manner as the Fwfarshire. was occasioned by carelessness,
and by the miserable state of the machinery. The boiler, it
appears, burst, after which the. vessel took fire. Such scan-
dalous naglienee is scarcely credible, were it not too fatally
attested by fats, and it will tertaiLly tend to bring into
merited diireolte all but the first class of steamers. There is no
doubt that if the machinery of the Forfizrs',ire had been in
good order, she would have reached her destined port in safe-
ty. Other vessels which sailed at the same time, the Inni.!fail
and another steamer, arrived safely in Leith, having encoun-
tered the same storm. The scenes of misery which the recent
accounts of this deplerahle wreck have disclosed arc
heart-
rending, and are well ealeubted to aggravate the public indig-
nation against those who could peril on 06 deep so rn_acnty_o,.s
va-
luable lives on such frail security; and whaltiar
the noble generosity and heroic courage of •
Such a
his daughter present to the conduct of the unfeeling and Cow-
cl3'a'rtiri'ng dues
the
artily crew, who left the passengers to their fate.
example of intrepidity,
scenes of waritinac aril, w
scarcely.
e trust,paralleled
passeven u inar
etlhv
ae r
a daring.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS

........_ .
Yesterday (Wednesday) was unfavourable. In the vicinity
of Dublin and the metropolitan counties the rain descended in
abundance. But, as three-fourths—perlial s four-tiPbs—of
the corn is already seemed, we do not colculate that mas'e;ial
injury will be done.—Dublin ,Ecenirg Pest.
Harvesting is rapidly proceeding•under favourable auspices ;
the crops on gond las.d in the neighbourhood are generally
cut, at:el many of them secured. -After a severe winter and
spring, with a late cold summer, every heart ought to be filled
with gratitude ti Divine Providence for this beautiful season
of autumn, which is filling our stores with the produce of an
abundant harvest, and which •at one time excited so much
appr,:hersion.—Doncaster Gazette.
The harvest Las at length fairly and fully commenced in ae
neighbourhood of Maitci, a great number of harvesters hay.
ing reeenily passed th.o‘.;:rb Norton to the %Voids. The
wheat crop is generally thotti,:ht to be light and deficien`, but
oats and barley are expected ; o be abundant. Should tho
present favourable weather hold, ai; will be well gqt in, and,
under the blessing of a benign Providence, We tiust this may
be the case.—York Courant.

Another week of the most favourable weaoer possible has
crowned the hopes of the husbandman, and tit, farmers have
been unremitting in their labour to secure the pree2oUs fruits of
Coe earth. Very little indeed now remains out in this county.
--Notiingham Review.

Shearing is now universal over all the northern counties,
and the barley crop is nearly all gathered in. The oats an-
more backward, but some fine fields in the neighbourhood of
Forres have bees, reaped, and a field in Kilmarnock has also
been cut in good conci;:ion. In the
.Highland district of Kto-
tail, hr.rvest is earlier than about Inverness ; and a gentlemat•
who left there last week informs us that most of bis-crop had
been previously secured. We were in Morayshire a few days
since, and the general remark of the farmers was—we never
had better crops in this country. Some of tit: fields were par.
tially lodged by the heavy rains, but the grain is full. Oats
are a weighty, crop ; wheat is thin on the ground but full in
the car,, and, if well got in. will be of excellent quality.
There will be no cutting of wheat for eight days. ghe lo-
tatoe crop is very luxuriant, but in parts of Morayshire the
produce is not proportioned to the appearance. Indeed, po-
tatoes are seldom a prolific crop in a more than ordinary wet
season. The weather continues dry and sunny, but the nights
and mornings are froqj,; on Monday night the sky was
lighted up by the aurora borea;.7, a 'flirt indication of frost.
Invet:ness C'ourier.