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LEEDS RAILWAY.—The mournful account of the death
of Mr. Weston, Surveyor-General of her Majesty's
Customs, by the accident on the Manchester and Lees
Railway, the particulars of which was announced in our
Third Edition of last night, was received at the Custom
House with deep regret. Mr. We.ston's long connexion
with the service, together with his bland and gentle-
manly deportment, had caused him to be highly esteemed
by the officers of all departments. The deceased was
senior Surveyor-General, we believe, and was in his
64th year. His only surviving brother is collector of
Weymouth. This shocking event will plunge two
amiable and excellent families in deep affliction. Mr.
Weston was married, but has left no family.
RETURN OF HEX MAJESTY VIA FLEETWOOD.—It
is now confidently expected that her Majesty will not
arrive at Fleetwood, on her return from the north, until
Monday next. Tho directors of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company aro making suitable pre.
parations for the conveyance and accommodation of sucl
of the lieges as are anxious to witness the royal debarks
tion, and due notice will be given of the time when it
may be expected to take place. At present nothing is
officially certain on the subject. For our own part. we
right loyally hope that her Majesty, stout sailor as she
is, will not put to sea until the equinoctial gales aro over.
—Liverpool Mercury.
The firm of Exels and Co., of Venice, which
were largely engaged in the corn trade, has failed for
1,000,000 f.
We regret to announce the death of Mr. Charles
Ta) for, fur many years a member of the Theatre Royal
Covent-garden, and for a lengthened period one of the
most popular comic singers of his day. He expired
after a long illness on Thursday last, at Greenhithe,
Kent.
Madlle. Deluzy was interrogated on Wednesday
by M. Broussais, Juge d'lnstruction. It is said it was
only then that she learned from that magistrate the
death of the Duke de Praslin by poison. The intelli-
gence caused her a violent nervous attack.
The King of the French, on the report of the
Minister of Justice, has been graciously pleased to grant
a free pardon to nearly 500 parsons, condemned to
various terms of imprisonment for haring been columned
in the bread riots of last year.

HER MAJESTY'S TOUR TO THE
HIGHLANDS.
(From the North British Mail.)
LOCH LAGGAN, WEDNESDAY NOON.
Yesterday Prince Albert went to Corryarder, and
after enjoying excellent sport returned to- the Lodge
with five brace of ptarmigan, eight hares, and a golden
plover. His Royal Highness wore a philabeg of
shepherd tartan. Her Majesty and the royal children
walked in the grounds during the day.
In the evening a servants' ball took place at the
Lodge. The people residing in the vicinity of the
Loch were invited generally to attend. The Queen
and the Prince graciously honoured the company
with their presence. Her Majesty wore a white
crape dress, and a plaid of the Macpherson tartan.
His Royal Highness wore a Highland dress of Royal
Stuart tartan. The royal couple were spectators of
the ball for a considerable time ; and af,er they had
retired, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn,
the Marchioness of Douro, the Duke of Norfolk, and
other members of the Court, returned to the ball-
room, and mingled with great affability in the dance.
The festivity continued to a late hour.
Prince Albert proceeds early to-morrow morning
to Loch Lochy, where the Fairy will be in waiting to
convey his Royal Highness up the Caledonian Canal.
The Northern Meeting holds its annual games this
week in Inverness; and as a great number of noble-
men and gentlemen connected with the Highlands
are present, it is said that a grand reception will be
given to the Prince on his arrival in the capital of the
north. Several messengers have travelled between
Inverness and Ardverikie during the last two days.
His Royal Highness will return down the canal on
Friday, and join her Majesty and the royal squadron at
Fort William. Her Majesty will leave Ardverikie
about midday on Friday, and proceed direct to Fort
William through Glen Spean. The Black Eagle,
the Undine, and the Garland, will sail round the
Mull of Cantyre to Ardrishaig on Friday, in order to
be in readiness to take the Queen on board when her
Majesty passes through the Crinan Canal on Satur-
day. The royal yacht, the Fairy, and the Scourge,
after conveying the royal party to Loch Crinan on
Saturday, will move thence round the Mull to Camp-
belton, where, as I stated yesterday, the whole
squadron will rendezvous on Saturday night.
FORT WILLIAM, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
Preparations are going on here for the embarkation
of her Majesty on Friday. A large luggage van,
drawn by four horses, and several carts loaded with
trunks and boxes, arrived to-day from Ardverikie,
and their contents have been conveyed on board the
vessels composing the royal squadron. The towns-
people are also making arrangements for a demon-
stration on the occasion of her Majesty's de-
parture from the Highlands. The arches of
evergreens are in course of re-erection ; and no
practical efforts will be spared by the populace to
demonstrate their loyal attachment to the first So-
vereign of the Hanoverian line who has evinced a
warm admiration of the country and traditional cus-
toms of the Celts.
The Fairy has moved up to the mouth of the canal,
to be in readiness to receive Prince Albert at an early
hour to-morrow morning. The magistrates, council,
trades, and inhabitants generally of Inverness have
resolved to walk in procession when his Royal High-
ness enters the town; and the county has been sum-
moned by the convener to meet to-morrow at twelve,
for the purpose of framing an address to his Royal
Highness. lam sorry to say that the weather to-
night is wet and stormy, and threatens to destroy the
pleasure of the Prince's voyage along the Canal unless
a favourable change takes place ere the morning.
I mentioned in a previous letter that a steamer
would sail this week for the first time between Fort
William and Liverpool. The Finn MacCoul, which
has plied for some years between Galloway and Lan-
cashire, is the vessel which has the honour of opening
this new communication between the Highlands and
the manufacturing districts of England. She sailed
to-day with a cargo, the principal item of which is
70 scores of sheep, which have been purchased in Glen
Spean, by Mr. Rodger, an extensive farmer in Wig-
tonshire. This fine flock will be fed for some time on
turnips, on Mr. Rodgers's farm of Penkhill, near Gar-
liestown, and, when fattened, will be conveyed to Li-
verpool market. The Finn MacCoul has not succeeded
in getting a cargo direct to Liverpool on this, her
first trip ; and any one who takes the trouble to travel
through the extensive tract of country between Fort
William and Loch Laggan, will have little difficulty
in finding the real secret of the failure. Thousands of
acres are lying in moss, or in a state of sheer waste,
or in almost equally unprofitable pasture, which, if
cultivated, would grow as luxuriant crops of turnips
as any other part of Scotland. Were these wastes
turned to proper account, a great proportion
of the sheep reared on the mountains might
be fattened in the valleys immediately adja-
cent, and as a necessary consequence the
Highland farmers would receive an addition to their
present returns equivalent to the difference between
the price of lean and that of fat sheep. The in-
crease of money which would thus he brought into
the Highlands, would be divided among labourers,
farmers, and proprietors ; and a nation of consumers
would also partake largely in the common benefit ; for
the supply of mutton and other farm produce offered
for their use would be greatly augmented. But the
Highland landlords prevent all this circula-
tion of money and interchange of advantages.
To please their fancies, the land must lie in a state of
waste—the sheep must grow lean on grass and
heather, and at last be sold at lean prices to some
south country farmer, who pockets as much for two
or three months of turnip feeding as the Highland
farmer gets for the trouble of as many years ! Is
there any wonder that under such a state of things
there should be no circulation of money in the High-
lands, and that the people should be poor and famine-
stricken ?
This ruinous system has a fatal influence on the
prosperity of the Highland towns, and no place suffers
more acutely from it than Fort William. Situated
in the centre of a vast sheep and cattle country, and
commanding, by means of the Caledonian Canal
and the western ocean, direct and rapid commu-
nication with the most secluded valleys on the
one hand, and the most crowded seats of popula-
tion and manufactures on the other, this village
might soon become a vast depot for the ex-
change and transmission of the produce
peculiar to both. But as there is little stock
prepared for the market in the neighbourhood, there
is no demand for vessels to convey it, or for mer-
chants and agents to effect the exchange. The
flocks of lean sheep reared on the surrounding hills
are sent to the south in droves, and the most retired
routes are preferred. No labourers are employed in
reclaiming the adjoining tracts of waste land. There
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is, consequently, no expenditure of wages, and no de •
wand for goods of local manufacture. Every channel
of prosperity is cut off, and, instead of increasing daily
in wealth and population, Fort William pines in the
middle of an artificial wilderness. It is not even al-
lowed room enough for the small trade which it pos-
sesses. The village is the property of Sir Duncan
Cameron, of Fassifern. This old gentleman went to
bed one night a Whig, and rose next morning a
Tory ; and because the feuars in the village could
not undergo an equally rapid metamorphosis, he
has subjected them to petty annoyance ever since.
No new feus can be obtained for love or money.
When a person wishes to build, he must expend as
much in purchasing old houses as would nearly
suffice to put up the new erection ; and, of course,
as old houses are thus demolished, the lower classes
of the population are crammed into murkier and
more crowded dens. From this suffocating pro-
cess there is no escape ; for while Sir Dun-
can pinches the unfortunate villagers in the centre,
the Government and Lochiel enclose them on each
flank. The former refuses to yield an inch of its
ground, though the necessity of a fort does not seem
in these days very urgent ; and the latter cannot give
a foot of his, because it is fettered under a law of en-
tail. Both have a certain excuse, but Sir Duncan has
none : and with an admirable consciousness that he
will leave behind him no affectionate memorial in the
hearts of the people, this provident old chieftain is em-
ployed, like Absalom of old, in erecting for himself a
monument of stone.
Let us hope that Parliament will afford a speedy
remedy for some, at least, of these manifold evils. In
the meantime, the opening of a steam communication
with Liverpool is an auspicious event; and if pursued
with adequate perseverance, it may arouse proprietors
and farmers to a more enlightened and energetic
development of their resources.
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EXPECTED DEBARKATION OF THE
QUEEN AT FLEETWOOD.
(From the Manchester Times of this day.)
LATEST PARTICULARS.
It is now definitively arranged that the Queen shall
arrive at Fleetwood to-morrow (Sunday) night. She
would leave Ardverikie with the two royal children
yesterday afternoon, and was expected to arrive at Fort
William about six o'clock. Her Majesty would embark
either in the royal yacht or the Fairy, but the officers
did not expect that a distance further than Lismore or
Oban could be accomplished the same evening. This
morning the royal party proceed to the Crinan Canal,
and will move through the artificial water in the royal
barge, as upon the occasion of the arrival. In the
meantime, the Black Eagle and Undine steamers
will have proceeded round the mull of Kintyre to
await the arrival of the royal party at Lough-
ghilphead, on the other side of the canal, from which
the Black Eagle will convey them that day as far
as Campbell-town, in Argyleshire, where anchor will
be cast for the night. Although her Majesty is not
desirous of proceeding on Sunday the officers are of
opinion that in order to reach Fleetwood in a favour-

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO LANCASHIRE.
(From the Lancaster Guardian of this day.)
Official intimation reached Fleetwood on Thursday,
that the royal squadron might be expected to arrive
in the Wyre, about six o'clock on Sunday evening.
Our Fleetwood correspondent, to whom we are in-
debted for this intelligence, further states that her
Majesty's debarkation will not take place until the
following morning, when she will proceed direct to
London by special train.
All the steamers belonging to Fleetwood that are
in port will sail to meet and accompany the royal
yacht. Amongst these, by a happy coincidence, will
be, " Her Majesty," and " The Prince of Wales," the
former plying regularly to Ardrossan, the latter to
Belfast.
At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Fleetwood,
on Monday last, an address to the Queen was unani-
mously adopted, and Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart.
appointed to present it. The gentlemen deputed
to accompany Sir Hesketh, are the Rev. St. Yin-
cent Beechy ; Frederick Kemp, Esq. Daniel Elliot-
son, Esq., and James Crombleholme, Esq. The High
Sheriff of the county palatine, William Gale, Esq., of
Lightburne House, Ulverston, proceeded to Fleet-
wood on Tuesday, to attend upon her Majesty during
her stay in the duchy.
The preparations waking by the railway com-
pany, and the authorities, for the reception of the
illustrious visitor, are on a very comprehensive
scale.

STATE OF TRADE.
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, SEPT. 17.
Transactions in foreign wools have been on a very
moderate scale during the past week, prices being
stationary.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, SEPT. 17.—
We cannot notice any alteration in this branch of
business since our last report ; the late failures have,
if possible, induced a greater degree of caution on
the part of buyers.
LEEDS.—At the Cloth-halls there has been less
business done both on Saturday and Tuesday, than
has been known for the last few weeks. The heavy
failures which have lately taken place in London have
had the effect of preventing speculation for the winter
demand. Prices still remain steady, and the stocks
unusually low for the season. In the warehouses
there has been rather more doing ; many country
drapers have been in the town purchasing their winter
stocks, and they have operated more freely than for
some time past.
HECKMONDWIKE BLANKET MARKET, THURSDAY,
SEPT. 16.—The attendance of buyers on Monday
was better than it has been for the last few market
days, and more business transacted, but to-day's
market was flat.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is no
alteration either in demand or price for combing
wool. The staplers are unable to replace their stocks
at lower rates, and therefore hold for prices firmly,
and the spinners, with present prospects, only pur-
chase for immediate consumption. There being less
produce in clothing wools, these are in good request.
Owing to the export houses doing more business,
there has been somewhat of an increase in demand
for yarns, but higher rates are not generally obtained.
The spinners are mostly employed to order, but with
present prices it is seriously contemplated, instead of
emplo3 ing additional machinery, to curtail the hours
of labour with that already in use to improve prices.
There was a slight improvement in the piece market.
Many merchants were present, and the home mer-
chants purchased more freely.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING. —We have
had an unusual depression in our market this week,
caused by the great prostration of credit, and by the
continued stoppage of long-established firms in
London, Glasgow, &c. Prices are all but nominal,
as no large purchases can be effected. More mills
are going to work short time, but we hear nothing of
an entire cessation of labour ; indeed the thing is not
entertained. A little more is doing for Ireland; and
dyers are fully as well employed, but this it is under-
stood can only last for a few weeks. In yarns there
is almost a dead stand still, so little is doing, but
buyers have the advantage.
LEICESTER.—A moderate business continues doing
in the warehouses. The recent large failures, with
the apprehension that more will follow, added to the
previous tightness of the money market, produces
very great caution amongst both purchasers and
manufacturers. The yarn market continues dull, and
to force sales a great sacrifice must be submitted to.
~Vools continue in fair demand, without alteration in
>rice.—Leicester Journal.

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BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 17.—The raw
sugar-market continues extremely firm, notwithstanding
the heavy failures again unfortunately announced this
week of houses of the first standing in the int rcantile
world, both in London and Liverpool. In our own
market a good business has been done since our last in
all descriptions of sugar, at a slight advance on rates
current here last week. Rum continues firm, but the
transactions arc unimportant.—Bristol Mercury.
MUIR'S CHEAP EXCURSION TRAIN FROM LONDON

TO EDINBURGH.—It will be observed by an advertise-
ment in this day's Sun, that a cheap excursion train
starts from Euston-square for Edinburgh on Tuesday
morning first. When the Government trains started at
a penny per mile it was hailed as a boon by the public,
but the rates of the cheap trains I, ave them far behind
in price, while they are equally comfortable. Computing
the distance going and returning, the third-class (covered
carriages) is, within a fraction, five-sevenths of a farthing
per mile! second-class a fraction over a halfpenny per
mile ! ! and the first-class within the merest fraction of
three farthings and a half !! ! Vcrily, these are the
days of cheap fares, and we would venture to aver that,
by this; ime twelvemonths many will have seen the
Scottish metropolis and Scottish lochs and scenery, who,
had fares continued as in days of yore, would never

have thought of it.
SOUTHAMPTON.—The old and highly-respectable
firm of Westlake and Co., corn-merchants, of this town,
has been obliged to suspend payment. They were
always considered very wealthy, and belonged' to the
Society of Friends. They have issued a circular to
their creditors. Their liabilities are variously estimated,
100,0001. being the lowest.
MALT AND SUGAR.—The ale and porter brewed
from two-thirds malt and one-third sugar is very supe-
rior to that brewed from all malt ; it is stronger, finer,
and keeps better; no weather affects it, and the flavour
is very superior. Some brewers still brew entirely
from malt, but they will not be able long to compete
with those who use sugar; they can brew cheaper, and
produce a better article, and one which is as fine as sherry
when a fortnight old.—From one who knows how to brew.
TIIE BISHOP or RIPON.—The Right Rev. the
Bishop of Ripon is now on a triennial visitation of his
diocese. His Lordship observed that he was aware that
many pious young men of the middle classes, who had
not the means or opportunity of studying for the
ministry, were, for want of a proper sphere of action in
the Church, driven to join the Dissenters. Ile therefore
recommended every incumbent to look round in his owe
neighbourhood among such pious young men, and to
propose to him the one who appeared the best qualified
for the work. He (the Bishop) would then examine
him, and, if approved of, would appoint him a Scripture
reader. The duty of such parties would be to visit from
house to house, hold meetings. read the Bible to the
wo
people, and also the Common Prayers; but they would
be required to abstain from preaching. After two years
of a
ulzdea enjoyou s
of being admitted to ordina-
tion as deacons, after a second examination by himself.
l and
the efficient
privilege discharge of these duties, they
THE FOUR NEW BISHOPRICS.—It has been ar-
rar ged that as soon as the new Bishop of Manchester is
consecrated, which will take place in October, three new
episcopal sees will be forraed, namely, the bishopric of
Southwell, comprising part of the present see of Lin-
coln; the bishopric of Bodmin, comprising the whole of
Cornwall, now under the episcopal supervision of the
Bishop of Exeter ; and the bishopric of St. Alban's
comprising the whole of Hertfordshire, at present coin-
, prised within the see of Rochester.
RUGBY SCHoOL.— In consequence of the death of
the Rev. G. G. J. Kennedy, there is a vacancy in one o
the masterships of this school.
GAME.—A. GOOD ExAMPLE.—Mrs. 11. N. Per.
guson. of Dirleton, in her usual kind and liberal spirit,
has this season intimated to all her tenants on her estates
in East Lothian, that they are at liberty to shoot over
their farms. If the same course were taken by other
proprietors in East Lothian and elsewhere, the mischiev-
ousness of the game laws, as a public evil, would be much
lessened, and an end be put to the heart-burnings which
on so many estates exist between the landlords and te-
usute.--Caledonian Mercury.,