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London, England, 1841-07-19 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JUL Y 19, 1811.

THE LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY
OF IRELAND.

(No. 450, West Strand, London. )
Capital, One Million Sterling; in Fifty Thousand Shares of
Twenty pounds each.
DIRECTORS.
John J. Keene, Esq.
Cornelius O'Brien, Esq.
Daniel O'Connell, Esq.
John Reynolde, Esq.
J. H. Talbot, Esq.,
Mmaging Director.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank.
The object of this Company is to purchase large estates
Ireland, end after having them surveyed and divided into plots
or farms, to dispose of them either by public auction or private
contract, to the highest or fairest bidder.
This project affords a most favourable opportunity for the in-
vestment of capital, because where large estates ..re sold in
bulk, the competitors are comparatively few, but when land in
Ireland is sold in small quantities, the anxiety of farmers am
others to possess it, will ensure prompt sales, with ample profits.
By this arrangement it will be perceived it is the intention
of the Directors to sell lands that may come into their posses-
sion as soon as possible, and not to act as landlords permanently.
The project must also work a great moral improvement in
the condition of the population of Ireland; be the means 61
creating a substantial resident yeomanry; and obviate thi
evils under -which a large portion of the agricultural classeE.
labour.

T. Arabin, Esq.
Thomas Edwards, Esq.
J. H. Elmore, Esq.
C. J. Hector, Esq.
J. Johnston, Esq.

The act profits of the Company will be divided half-yearly ;
and the liability of the Shareholders confined to the amount of
their. respective Shares.
A deposit of two pounds ten shillings per share, to be paid at
the time of snbscribing ; and further sums of two pounds ten
shillings each at the expiration of six, nine, and twelve months.
and five pounds each at the expiration of eighteen and twenty-
four months.
Application for Shares and Prospectuses to be made at the
office of the Company, 450, West Strand, London, or to John
Reynolds, Esq., Managing Director, 26, Dame-street, Dublin
JAMES JOHNSON, Secretary.

STEAM-LIVERPOOL TO GLASGOW,
by the PRINCESS ROYAL (fastest afloat), and
ROYAL GEORGE, Every TuEsnAst and FRIDAY: Per
Railway from London :
Prineess Royal ... Tuesday, 20th July, at 10 Evening
Royal George Friday, 23d do. at 4 Afternoon
Princess Royal Tuesday, 27th do. at 7 Evening
Royal Georg* Friday, 30th do. at 8 do.
Passengers leaving London by the Six Morning Train, will
be in time for the Four o'clock sailing, and those by the Quar-
ter to Ten Train in' time for the Seven o'clock sailing.
Apply at Liverpool, to James Brebner, 20, Water-street.

ROYAL HOTEL, NORWICH.
COMMERCIAL AM) POSTING-HOUSE.

'fflHE MANAGER of the ROYAL HOTEL
respectfully acquaints the Society of Commercial Tra-
vellers that the alterations and additions to this Establishment
are now completed, and that especial provision has been made
for their comfort and accommodation.

A spacious Business Room is devoted to their use, with a
separate Refreshment Room, and numerous small ones for the
display of their patterns.
The admitted superiority of the situation of this Hotel, com-
manding all the great thoroughfares of business, together with
the excellent Sleeping Apartments and Stabling, needs but a
trial to insure future patronage.
Post Horses, with superior Carriages of every description.

BLACK HORSE COMMERCIAL HOTEL,
SALISBURY.

THOMAS ROGERS, impressed with gra-
titude for the extensive patronage he has always re-
ceived, more particularly of late, begs to inform his friends
that the whole of his Establishment has been renovated and
alterations made as he trusts will add much to the comfort of
his guests. T. R. avails himself of this opportunity to an-
nounce that it will be his constant study to deserve that pa-
tronage which he now very respectfully solicits. He more par-
ticularly desires to express his sincere acknowledgements to
the numerons Commercial Gentlemen who have for so long a
period honoured him with their support, and earnestly assures
them that increased efforts will be constantly made to render
the above Inn worthy of the decided preference they have
shown it.

A genuine stock of good old Wines, and a well-stored Larder.
Excellent Post-horses, Flies, and Gigs, on reasonable terms.
Royal Mail and General Coach Office, Winchester-street,
July 17, 1841.

SURREY, ONE MILE FROM A RAILROAD STA-

TION.
MR. G. EYRE BROOKS will SELL by
AUCTION, at his Gallery, 28, Old Bond-street, To-
MORROW, July 20 (unless 8,000 guineas be in the mean time
offered by private treaty),
A spacious FREEHOLD MANSION, with entrance lodge
and carriage-drive through a small richly wooded park, inter-
sected by a river and surrounded by umbrageous walks, coach-
houses and stabling for eleven horses, truly beautiful flower
and pleasure gardens, walled kitchen garden, two hot. houses
with vines, orangery, melon-pits, mushroom-house, &c.
The Mansion is in excellent order, large sums having been
recently expended thereon. It contains entrance hall, or bil-
liard-room, 26 feet by 24, two staircases, library 20 feet by 13
feet 5, ante-room 15 feet 6bg 13 feet 6, drawing-room 30 feet
by 26, eating-room 24 feet by 17 feet 9, twelve bed-rooms and
three dressing .rooms, and extensive domestic offic.a: Thi
land-tax is redeemed.

Cards to view may be had of Mr. George Eyre Brooks, 28,
Old Bond-street.

MILL-HILL, WEST COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT, late

the Residence of Mrs. Admiral Osborne, deceased, only four
hours' journey from Lor.don.
To Members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Architects, and

Builders.

MR. G. EYRE BROOKS has received in-
structions from the Executors, to SELL by AUC-
TION, en TUESDAY, August 24, in One Lot, or, if bought
in Six Lots (unless in the mean time disposed of by private
treaty),
The highly improvable FREEHOLD ESTATE called
MILL-HILL ; consisting of a very richly ttmbered eminence
above West Cowes, commanding panoramic prospects of extra-
ordinary beauty and extent, including the Solent Sea, Cowes
harbour, the Medina, &c., a scene of scarcely-to-ha-equalled
interest and variety. The residence is calculated for a family
of rank. The shrubbery walks are extensive, encircling a park-
like paddock, on which is a stone-built prospect tower, a most
productive kitchen garden, green-house, coach-house, stabling,
farm yard and buildings, and several paddocks ; altogether 20
acres. Also a genteel thatched cottage ornee, and garden,
This estate, embracing so large an extent as 20 acres, im-
mediately adjoilng a most fashionable watering-place, has
claims to the notice of any person of high rank and fortune
who may wish to erect in part of its site a marine mansion of
the first class, but more especially the whole laid out as build-
ing ground, for the erection of from 20 to 40 villas, would
afford to families of rank and fashion the accommodation so
much required but not hitherto be obtained at West Cowes,
where no eligible building ground has been for sale. A spring
on the estate would supply West Cowes with water.
Particulars may be had of Mr. G. Eyre Brooks, surveyor,
28, Old Bond-street.

RAILROADS.—To improve communications is
to labour for real, positive, and practical liberty. It is
:o make all the members of the human family partici-

pate in the faculty of traversing and cultivating the
earth—their patrimony ; to extend the franchises of
the majority as widely and as well as it is possible by
laws of election. Improved communications reduce the
intervals not only from point to point, but from class to
class. Where the rich and powerful alone can travel,
where the poor man can only pass from village to village
with pain and difficulty, the word equality is a he.
In India and China, in the Mahometan countries, in
Spain and her America, it is of little consequence whe-
ther the Government call itself a republic, a despotism,
or a limited monarchy. For these reasons I should with
difficulty give credit to the charge of tyranny against a
Government strongly intent upon the improvement of
its communications. Ideas circulate with merchandize
along the road and the canal, and the commercial tra-
veller is a missionary. The men of retrograde convic-
tions know this well ! they dread an engineer worse
than an editor of Voltaire. It being incontestible that
one of the first 'railroads on the Continent was esta-
blished in the Austrian provinces, as that Government
has opened five roads throughout its possessions, and
encourages steam navigation on the Danube, I venture
to conclude that M. Metterninch deserves a better repu-
tation than that which he enjoys on this side of the
llhine.—Michel Chevalier. _

LEICESTERSHIRE (SOUTH).—At the election
for the division, a long string of voters came up from
Ilatby, a parish which is the property of the Earl of
Stamford. One of them, largely decorated with the
colours of the Tory candidates, when asked for whom he
voted, replied, "for Lord Stamford." The names of the
candidates were then read to him by the deputy-sheriff,
when he said, "It is of no use. I know nothing of the
gentleman. I vote for the two•as Lord Stapford sup-
ports." Mr. Martin (Lord Stamford's principal agent)
then appealed to Mr. Gisborne who was in the booth,
whether that was not a sufficient designation of Messrs.
Halford and Packe. Mr. Gisborne said, it was not his
province to determine that point, but suggested that it
would be much simpler if Mr. Martin would deliver in at
once a list of Lord Stamford's voters, and have them
placed on the poll, without giving the men the trouble of
exhibiting themselves in the booth, bound in blue fetters.
The Deputy-Sheriff rejected the vote. Colonel Cheney
and Mr. Gisborne did not canvass, nor employ any
agents. They merely allowed themselves to be put in
nomination, for the purpose of giving those electors who
were in favour of free trade and an alteration of the
Corn-laws an opportunity of recording their opinions.—
Manchester Paper.

The value' of Sight and Hearing ,can never be
truly estimated but by its loss. Sedentary occupations, close ap-
plication to business, continual reading and writing, Intense study,
the use of bad and improper Spectacles, and Ear Instruments, all
conspire to injure these best of nature's gifts, the Eyesight and
Hearing. It is, indeed, of vital importance that the adoption of
Spectacles to imperfect vision should be regulated on proper prin.
ciples. Messrs, S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle street, Pic-
cadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street,
City, have devoted their whole lives to this branch of science,
which has enabled them to invent Spectacle Lenses upon a new
construction; immediately they aro placed before imperfect vision,
either by day or candlelight, that mist and dulness which appear
before the eyes is at once removed, every object becomes clear and
distinct, so that the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright and
brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original
state. Their Invisible Operative Voice Conductor Sound Magni
fiers, for deaf persons, is not the least perceptible nor uncomfort-
able; they give immediate relief to old standing, extreme cases of
deafness. Persons can be suited at a distance; those who have
never made use of Spectacles, by stating the number of inches
they can see moderate sized print from the eye, and those who are
making use of Spectacles by sending them, and making the same
statement when in use. The Sound Magnifier Invisible Voice
Conductor and Spectacles are sent, daily, by post, to various parts
of the country.
_ _

The first stone of the Infant Orphan Asylum is
to be laid by Prince Albert, at Wanstead, on Tuesday next.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPX.RS OF THIS PAK,—
TIMES..-- ReekLiitle did we foresee, 'When,' in the Reek
elapsed, we recalled to the recollection cf the public the out-
ages of the Irish elections of 1832,
1835, and 1837, and
calmed onr Irish fellow-subjects, from that dire experience, of
:he necessity for preparing and protecting . themselves against
.he recurrence of similar intimidation during the present con-
tests-:-.litile did we even imagine it pos‘ible that the savage
enemies with whom the friend's of eonstitutional liberty have to
struggle in Ireland were about to cuter upon a system of terror
ind bloodshed, so far exceeding* the worst of their prev ions
,mtbrealis under the Reform 11,11, as to render those former
illainiis light in the .einirtrison,' and justify the assertion of
he Packet newspaper, that the like has not existed since the
rebellion of 1798. Rebellion is indeed the right word ; half
Ireland is in a state of rebellion—of rebellion against the con-
ititution in Church and State, for the ascendancy of Popery;
the ringleaders of that rebellion being the Popish
Priests. Perhaps we ought to .have been aware that this
would happen, for we needs mutt confess that there was warn-
ing. Mr. O'Connell, and many more of those leading patrons
and organs of the Whig Administration who value themselves
upon their exclusive loyalty, did, undoubtedly, give very fair
notice, that it was their virtuous intention, in the depth and
sincerity of their attachment to the British Crown, to get up a
rebellion in Ireland Whenever her Majesty should change her
servants. The change having now become obviously inevita-
ble, that high-minded party disdain to wait for its formal com-
p'etion, and proceed at once to fulfil their engagement in its
genuine spirit. Yes, in its genuine spirit, which is that of
cowardice and cruelty, as well as of treason. For let their
leagued thousands but have dropped the convenient cover which
an election, or any other ostensible object in itself legitimate, may
lend to their really lawless assemblage—let their traitorous forces
have once dare)to array themselves in fire field—and they
muste
mnt instantlyand
dismay, hvbeybtheeentrmoor
met .sanefc4
thatßoyal Mistress, whose
meted, with signal punish-
dignity they abuse and insult by their conditional attachment
and qualified allegiance.
CH RON ICI, E. —The boastal.. their relative in.
crease at the polls in the late election. In many places where
the Reformers polled as many as at former elections, the Tories
polled more than they ever did before. Putting the county
elections out of consideration, as there the voters merely repre-
sent their respective landlords, the increase of the Tories in
towns is in a great measure to be ascribed to a better organ-
ization for the conducting of the registration. The battle he-
tween the parties, said Sir Robert Peel, is to be fought in the
registration courts. But the Tories, who consider the end of
Government the rendering the many subservient to the advan-
tage of the few, saw that if the business of registration was to
be well done it must not be left to the people themselves. They
everywhere subscribed the money, and appointed agencies to
attend to the various details. The lealling Reformers, on the
other hand, conscious.of the purity of their principles, and the
honesty of their intentions, did not consider themselves
bound to attend to the registration of their neighbours.
If the people have been admitted to the franchise,
they said surely the least they can do is to take the trouble of
registering themselves. What reliance is to be placed on a
people who are so insensible to the value of the privilege con-
ferred on them as to be unwilling to put themselves to the
triflin! inconvenience of seeing that they are properly regis-
tered? This may be all very pretty, but it betrays great igno-
rance of human nature. We know that the mass of mankind,
except on extraordinary occasions, when their feelings are
strongly excited, will not give themselves the trouble which re-
gistration demands. We must take mankind as they are, and
be guided by experience in our expectations. We say, then,
it is the baseness of those who are possessed of property and
leisure, and who attach importance to the political doctrines
which they entertain, to contribute the necessary funds, and
employ an efficient organization for managing the business
of registration. They must either abandon all idea of re-
sistance to the Tories, and succumb to their domination,

or adopt the only means by which the resistance can
be male effectual. The battle must be fought in
the Registration Courts, and the rich must furnish the means
for carrying on the battle. It is useless now to lament the
perpetual recurrence of registration imposed by the Reform
Bill, and the trouble to which individuals are often subjected in
substantiating their claims. We must now take the Reform
Bill as it is, with all its inconveniences. As registration is no.
cessary, registration must be attended to. The Reform party
cannot avail itself of events, if the business of the registration
be neglected. The Tories have proved that they better under-
stand how to profit by the machinery of the Reform Bill than
their opponents. But the Reformers must take a leaf out of
the Tory book. They must not leave the business of registra-
tion to hap-hazard. - The election has now given to the Tories
such a majority as will enable them to carry on the govern-
ment. The opposition will no doubt be strong in numbers,
and strong in moral power, while Sir Robert Peel and his ad-
herents have so bad a cause to maintain that ere long they must
sink under it. The Reformers owe it to themselves and their
cause to neglect nothing which shall enable them to profit by
the bad cause and the embarrassments of their opponents.
HERALD.—As the general election rapidly approaches its
close, it becomes an object of great importance to calculate not
merely its numerical results, in then- bearing on the relative
strength of the parties which divide the Legislature ; but the
elementary characteristics of the constituencies which have
made the returns. This latter consideration is so important
to the object of ascertaining the probable permanency of the
re-action which is admitted, on all bands, to have taken place
in the political opinions of a vast majority of the electors of
Great Britain and Ireland, that we shall devote an article (in
to-morrow's Herald, probably); to a rapid analysis of the re-
turns, so far as they have yet I)ezn ascertained, for the various
boroughs and counties of the United Kingdom. The truth is
that the ouestion_of olero*nsetel.4,ltaractesisties 011.11 -
con slit uencies is not only determi4d; already, by the signal'
majority of Conservatives candidates whom they have elected,
but that fact is felt in all its intensity by the 'Whig-Radical sec-
tion of the community. Their accredited organs, accordingly, by
lie tone and Manner of their reluctant confessions on this head,
demonstate the deep anxiety with which they regard such an evi-
dence of the predominating influence of the political opinion re-
presented by the agricultural community in this country, in
their own favourite arithmetic of—nunzerrcal strength. his not

to be denied that the opinions of constituencies vihich are im-
mediately connected with the ownership and the cultivation
industry,—
the the land,—with the pursuits of agriculture and
the raising of that produce which is -the first necessary of life
and the primary element of subsistence demanded for the
highly civilised communities of western Europe—are of para-
mount importance in the Legislature itself. This superior in-
fluence is easily accounted for by reason (1) of the enormously
in
terest,
(in masses of the people employed by the landed
(in the most extended sense of that designations) than that
which is employed by the manufacturing or even the commer-
cial interest. (2) By reason of the superior intelligence and
observation which the farmer of land is now obliged to bring to
its cultivation, as necessary to the daily application of those im-
proved processes which our advances in the science, as well as
the practical arts of agriculture are constantly devising. In
these respects the farming tenantry of England and Scot-
land present a contrast to the same class in Ireland
and in the countries of the Continent. Of course, the evi-
dence of their electoral choice is proportionably important, in
appreciating the probable merits of particular measures to the
consideration of which the existing Government have formally
announced their intention of calling the immediate attention
of the coming Parliament. That there should have been so
large a preponderance of the English borough constituency,
also, recorded as voting in favour of Conservative candidates,
and principles, we regard as one of the most auspicious auguries
for the continued well-being and stability of the British con-
stitution and its establishments which it was possible for any
political exigency at this moment to have elicited. It is the
most cheering proof of the salutary conviction entertained by
the town and country electors of the community of their in-
terests; a conviction which we shall fully establish, in the ana-
lysis we propose to submit to the public in our next publication.
ADVERTISER.—To-morrow will be the last (lay on
which the qualification for the franchise can be perfected for
the ensuing year. Look, therefore, to the registries. Re-
formers, pay your rates due on the sth of last April, whether
demanded or not, without a moment's delay, and let all not
already enregistered, but otherwise qualified, immediately send
in their claim with their address, descriptive of their qualifica-
tion, and one shilling to tl:e overseer. Do this, and be ready
to repel the inroad which faction has in the late contest made
upon your independence. There is every probability of ano-
ther general election before the expiration of many months ;
but there is also the certainty, in case of a change of the
Ministry, that every member selected for the new Cabinet
must again present himself for the approbation of the elec-
toral body who has chosen him for its representative, or
at least resign the trust reposed in him. If the Reformers
now exert themselves, they will, even in the new elections
..aused by a change of Ministry, have abundant opportunity
of once more inclining the scales of the House of Commons to
the side of popular interests. Such a change, partial though
it be, in the representative body, and inefficient in itself for
alt extensive ameliorations, may be expected to produce a
most sensible effect in expeditiug the progress of those reforms,
without which it is folly to expect an intelligent people to rest
satisfied with the mockery of a representaion which has for
years plundered them of their dearest possessions. Look,
therefore, to the registries, Reformers, as you value your poll..
tical rights and your individual welfare—as you abhor slavery
and starvation, the portion which the Tories are preparing for
'you, look to the Registries.
POST.—The accounts from Ireland which it is our painful
task to publish daily show to demonstration that Irish loyalty
has achieved the great and glorious triumphs we have re-
rorded, although it has not had fair play ; and that with fair
play, or anything approaching to it, Irish loyalty would have
achieved ten times as much. We purposely abstain here from
the revolting recapitulation of outrage, or any attempt to de-
velop the atrocious machinery of intimidation. The readers
of our paper during the last few days must have been satiated
and disgusted by well-authenticated accounts of lay violence
and sacerdotal instigations and menaces directed to the com-
mon object of destroying all freedom of election in Ireland,
and reducing the franchise to a mere badge of abject
and irredeemable slavery to Mr. O'Connell and the
priests. But without rehearsing the offensive and brutal de-
tails, we may safely appeal to our British readers to say whether
they have not read More than enough to convince them that
the time is come at which thejusdteicineant:lorfe.:acnjdu.s”tirceeqtuoirlerselathnadt:
should spring with one accord from the lips and the heart of
feovreZelos)aakleEonfgelxisahmmpalne, adequate punishment in due course of
law shall be inflicted upon those who, whether they be laymen
or ecclesiastics, have sought to defeat and annul the elective
franchise by means of violenceor intimidation. " Justice to Ire-
land" requires that, inasmuch as the state of society in that
country presents obstacles to the due administration of justice
in the case of atrocious offenders of the character to which we
refer, provision should instantly be made to remedy this great
evil, and to secure alike to the criminals and to the community,
whose dearest interests they have audaciously attacked, that
the law shall be effectually and vigorously administered without
fear or favour. " Justice to Ireland,, requires that, while the
State affords the fullest protection to every class of its subjects
in the performance of religious observances according to their
several ceeeds, it should make manifest to all the world that it
will preserve the integrity of the law, secure the due administra-
tion of justice, protect the elective franchise at once from the
violence which would obstruct or prevent its exercise and the
frauds which seek to neutralise and defeat its effect. These
are objects of the highest importance, not to Ireland only, but
to the whole empire ; and, in reference to them, it is the inte-
rest and the duty of every subject of the British Crown, what-
ever part of the British dominions he may inhabit to join heart
and voice in the cry of " Justice to Ireland., '

have arrived from the Baltic
T I ------for flax
DUNDEE TRADE.— le market
iSiche"tend to keep up stocks in the
been in a very languid sate, with little prospect of immediate
improvement, owing to the dull state of the home trade. Seve-
rhdaualnridmiortfehoevuelr'sasiesmltsiwv‘ier'lettekhr'sji.awxh'Tows and cedillas are still inquired
after, and the late advance in prices is fully maintained. Hemp
is quite nominal, and hemp codilla is still neglected.—Edin-
burgh Courant.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—One of the points to he considered by the
Committee of Spanish bondholders, at the meeting to be held
i on Monday next, is " the right of the holders of the Passiv.
f Ponds, under the law of the 20th of February, 1836, to claim
the conversion of their stocks into Active Bonds, on the same
term; as those granted to the Interior Passive Debt, by one-
sixth art of their bonds annually from 1836."
A morning contemporary brings the subject before the public,
turning it, as usual, into abuse of persons and everything con-
Leered with Spain.
We understand, however, that the execution of that decree
was very properly suspended as soon as the payment of the di-
vidends on the Active Debt was stopped in November, 182 G,
anti that no conversion whatever took place in consequence.
We believe likewise that the Government has no intention
whatever of carrying on such conversion at resent, which
would only tend to complicate the difficulties of Spain to meet
the dividends due and accruing on her Active Debt.
POST. —The home securities left off yesterday evening
with indications of a further improvement, and these were this
morning very fully realised. The influx of 'money proceeding
from the distribution of the dividends at the Bank serves of
course in a material degree to promote that favourable action
of the market which had been some time in operation,
arising from political and other considerations calculated
to inspire capitalists with confldeece in the stability of things.
The supply for all purposes at the present moment is so
superabundant that it has become a matter of extreme diffi-
culty to find means of investment for it at what is deemed
a fair and reasonable return of interest, pr'oprr regard
being had to Security, nor is this difficulty at all di-
minished, but very Much the reverse, by the growing distrust
entertained by the public of foreign stocks of almost every de-
scription, and of those innumerable domestic schemes and pro-
jects which for a long time possessed so strong an attraction,
and so quickly absorbed the surplus moneys of annuitants.
That the distrust to which we allude now exists in a remarkable
degree is sufficiently evidenced by the fact,. that, simultane•
ously withLthe payment of the heavy dividend for the half-year,
shares of almost all sorts and foreign bonds, such of them at
least as are not in the highest credit, have fallen from day to
day in a manner that is almost unprecedented, for if there was
this morning a trifling reaction in any case, the circumstance is
to be ascribed, we kelieve, to nothing more than the improved
state of the weather, and the greater promise held out of an
abundant harvest.
HERALD.—The proceedings and financial policy -of
Toreno and Mendizabal have undoubtedly done more to bring
into disrepute the good name and the credit of Spain that,
perhaps all the Spanish finance of the last century of absolu-
tism. The former is loudly accused, and not without very
good cause to all appearance, of pepsonal corruption in the
conduct of Spanish, loans and finance. One of these days
some of his transactions with Ardoins, the Paris contractors,
may be exhibited in proof of insatiable venality, or, what is
scarcely credible- of so acute, accomplished and eloquent a
man, a degree of besotted ignorance and blind credulity which
would be inconceible in the veriest dolt of a tyro that ever at-
tempted the numeration table. The personal integrity of Men-
dizabal need notbe questioned, and has not been intended
in the course of these remarks, however justly his public
character and conduct may have been and is repro-
bated. Marliani says of him fairly that, "as Mi-
nister of Finance, he treated the affairs of the kingdom rather
as a banker (dealer in money) than as an able administrator.
The Stock Exchange was the fatal thermometer which his pa-
triotism sought only to make rise, as if the credit of a nation
could withstand the vicissitudes of the terrible game of revo-
lutions." He ever sought resources for Spain, not within her-
self, but in the stock house of Bartholomew-lane. It must be
said in his favour, however, that he has always otherwise been
the partisan of British intefests and alliance. He has been the
persevering advocate of an improved tariff for Spain and for the
removal of all prohibitions on the entry of British manufac-
tures. To him, among others, will be mainly owing whatever
improvements that tariff shall receive, although that such
changes should be made in it, as shall materially promote in-
ternational traffic to any extent, may be reasonably doubted
from all that has transpired or been accomplished so far. The
Catalonians will not hear of 50 per cent. protective duty, much
less of 25.
TlMES.—According to Mr. Stikeman's comparative state-
ment of the number of British ships with tonnage, &c., which
have entered inwards and cleared out wards from and to placer
within the limits of the East India Company's charter for the
quarter ending the 30th of June, 1841, it appears that the total
number of ships entered inwards was 402 ; with 1541,388 ton-
nage, and 8,249 men, showing, as compared with the same
period in 1840, an increase of 83 ships, 35,139 tonnage, and
1,602 men. Of this total amount, 278 ships, 111,423 tonnage,
and 6,056 men, entered at London ; 90 ships, 35,172 tonnage,
and 1,583 men, entered at Liverpool ; 9 ships, 3,208 tonnage,
and 166 men, entered at Bristol and Hull; and 25 ships, 8,583
tonnage, and 444 men, entered at Clyde, Leith, and other Br i-
tish ports. The arrivals were as follows :-135 ships from
Calcutta, 5 from Madras, 35 from Bombay, 14 from China,
9 from Ceylon, 28 from Singapore and Penang, 12 from the
Philippine Islands, 1 from Siam, 17 from Java and Sumatra,
32 from New South Wales, 75 from the Mauritius, 1 from
Madagascar, 27 from the Cape of Good Hope, and 11 from the
South Seas.
The clearanenoitcwards comprised a total of 480 ships,
194,791 tonnage, and 9,983 men, which, as compared with
the same period of 1840, gives an increase of 75 ships, 40,147
tonnage, and 1,418 men. • Of this total, 274 ships, 110,274
tonnage, and 6;045 men, cleared from London ; 138 ships,
59,610 tonnage, and 2,662 men, cleared from Liverpool;
14 ships, 4,670 tonnage, and 230 men, cleared from Bristol
and Hull ; and 54 ships, 20,237 tonnage, and 1,046 men, cleared
hors Ilse Clyde, Lgith. and other British ports. Their desti-
nations were as follows : —ries .I.:r_ e_. e.. nee-
deira, 59 for Bombay, 22 for China, 10 for Ceylon, 21 for
Singapore and Penang, 3 for Java and Sumatra, 1 for Arabia,
160 for New South Wales, 55 for the Mauritius, 16 for the
Cape of Good Hope, and 8 for the South Seas. The ships
which have left for China double in number those which left
for the same situation last 'year, and there is a great increase
in the number bound for Singapore and Penang, which goes
far to show that there is expected to be a revival in the trade
with those countries at no very distant period. The number of
ships cleared out for New South Wales is. we believe, beyond
a precedent, but the prosperity of the colony does not appear
to keep pace with the increase of traffic, and perhaps it would
be better if it were in a measure restricted.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
THE GOODWOOD CUP WEIGHTS.

The following are the weights for this event calculated up to
the close of the week :

St. Francis, 6 yrs, lOst : Beggarman, 6 yrs, lOst ; Caravan,
aged, 9st 7lb ; Corsair, 5 yrs, 9st 4lb ; Sleight-of. Hand, 5 yrs,
9st 41b; Little Wonder, 4 yrs, 9st 31b ; Black Beck, 4 yrs,
9st Ilb ; Hyllus, 5 yrs, Bst 1311); Chailes the Twelfth, 5 yrs,
Bst 131 b ; Bloomsbury, 5 yrs, Sit 131 b Zobrab, aged, Bit 12th ;
Domiuo, 5 yrs. Bst 111 b ; Wardan, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ; Kingston
Robin, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b; Deception, 5 yrs, Bst 91b ; Potentate, aged,
Bst 91b ; Doctor Caius, 4 yrs, Bst 81b ; Bulwark, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ;
Calypso, 4 yrs, Bst 6113 ; Confederate, 4 yrs, Sat 51b ; Ferry-
man, 5 yrs, Bit 51b; Maroon, 4 yrs, Bst 51b; Colwick, aged,
Bst 31b ; St. Andrew, 6 yrs, Bst 31b ; The Ruler, 4 yrs,
est lib ; Pathfinder, 4 yr=, Bst Ilb ; Caution, 4 yrs, Bst 11b ;
Zoroaster, 5 vrs, 7st• 131 b ; Galen, 4 yrs, 7st 1211 o: Poca-
hontas, 4 yrs, %t 1 Ilb ; Broadwath, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ; The Re-
corder, 5 yrs, 7st 51b ; Lantara, 5 yrs, 7st 51b ; Roquencou.-t,
5 yrs, 7st 51b ; Mobarek, 3 yis, ist 41b ; Vapour, 4 yrs,
7st 31b ; Antelope, 4 yrs, 7st 1lb; E. 0., 3 yrs, ist !lb ;
Oakstick, 6 yrs, 6st 14th; Vendredi, 6 yrs, Est 141 b; Nautilus ;
6 yrs, 7st 111 b. ; Belgrade, S yrs, Est 131 b; Tearaway, 3 yrs,
6st 131 b ; Mustapha 3luley, 3 yrs, 6tt 131 b ; Mustapha, 3 yrs,
Est 101 b ; Arundel, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ; Cesarewitch, 3 yrs,
6st 101 b ; Marius, 3 yrs, 6st 61b ; Palmyra, 3 yrs, Est 61b.

BRIDGNORTH RACES-FRIDAr.

The Members' Plate of 501. Heats, twice round and a distance.
Mr. Samwell's The Knight, 5 yrs ...(Darling) 2 1 1
Mr. Saunders's Frank, 5 yrs 1 3 2
Mr. T. Walter's Miss Whinney, 3 yrs
The Hunters' Stakes of 5 sore. each, with 10 added. Heats

as above.

Lord Lereson na Spangle, 6 yrs... ......... ...(Calloway) 1 1
Mr. E. Durant na Woodbine, 6 yrs ... 2 2

RAILWAY: OFFENCE.—At the meeting of the
County Magistrates at Stockport, on Thursday, Aaron
Hough, a stonemason, appeared to answer the complaint
against him, for having left a wheelbarrow on the line
of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, thereby
endangering- the lives of the passengers by the train.
Mr. W. Vaughan, the advocate for the Company, said
that this man, having been employed by the contractors
ti repair a wall, near Blackbrook, left his barrow in
such a situation, that when the afternoon train of Fri-
day last came to the place, the step of one of the car-
riages caught the barrow, and smashed it into a thou-
sand pieces. The Company thought it their duty to
bring the case before the Bench, as a caution to the
workmen employed ; but, in consideration of the po-
verty of the defendant, and also of the contrition he
expressed, he (Mr. Vaughan) did not press for the ex-
treme penalty of 101., but would leave the case with
the Bench. Although above 700,000 persons have
passed along the line since its opening, not a single acci-
dent has yet happened to any of the passengers, and the
Company were desirous of maintaining the same high
character. The. defendant was fined 1/.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—The following
anecdote of the Duke of Sussex adds another proof of
the " liberal " feelings of his Royal Highness, which are
not confined to his.xolitics, but pervade the whole of his
sentiments, and display themselves on every occasion.
The Rev. Dr. Robins having, by the advice of Mr.
Buckingham, addressed a letter from New Bradford, in
the United Statos, to leis Royal Highness, offering him
a duplicate copy, which he possessed, of Elliott's Indian
Bible, expressed a great desire to obtain from Europe a
copy of the old edition of Bishop's Bible. To this the
illustrious Duke returned a very prompt and gracious
answer, sending out Dr. Robins a copy of the Bible he
wished to procure, but at the same time declining to de-
prive him of the duplicate copy of the Indian translation
as he already poSsessed one in his collection at Kensing-
ton. This act of princely liberality to a distant and un-
known Republican .Minister of the Gospel of a Dissenting
body of Christians soon became known in the United
States, and was spoken of with great and deserved praise
in most of the papers of the Union.
GREAT DETERIORATION OF PROPERTY.
The mills, machinery, cottages, and land, late the pro-.
perty of Mr. Aaron Lees, and which cost 120,0001.,
have lately been sold for 35,000/. Some three years ago
80,000/. was offered for this identical property, but
which offer the assignees refused ; in some twelvemonths
afterwards, during which time the assignees worked the
machinery, and lost considerably by so doing, it was of-
fered for 65,000/., but no bidder came forward ; a private
offer was, however, made of 55,000/., but this was also
refused. It was again put up to auction, but still there
was no bidder. Some six months ago, on its being an-
nounced for auction a third time, a day or two before the
day of sale a bargain was concluded for 35,000/.—Leeds
Illercury.
PoRT OF GLOUCESTER.--The following
statement of the tonnage of goods inwards and outw4rds
at this port, showr that the imports have largely in-
creased since 1838 :
1838. 1839. 1840.
Tons of Goods Inwards 81,711 124,655 I 149,736
Ditto Outwards
Instructions, have been received for the erection
of a
new Custom-houSe Tor Gloucester on ground the
Albion e
Albion Hotel, near the Docks.

PRICE 511

LORD IVIORPETH AND LORD
HOWICK.
(From the Spectator.)
Crotchety Lord Howick was like himself to the last. His
speech consisted of a jeremiade over the " short notice" of
Nfr.'Baker Cresswell's having stolen a march upon him,
and over the corruption and tyranny of the county, and
the treachery of Northumberland's Duke, who first let
him understand that he meant to tolerate him still, and
then patronized Mr. Cresswell instead. Lord Howick,
in language peevish to a pitch of incontinence, exposed
the tactics of committee-rooms to vulgar gaze, chaffered
retrospectively for . individual votes which had been
filched from him, and betrayed himself into a squabble
about some letters of Lord Ossulston's which he had been
needing at a meeting of elsctors. All this hysterical
;ossip, the scandalmongering of the hustings, accounted
to Lord Howick for his defeat. Naturally enough, it
never struck him to seek the cause in the " Votes and
Proceedings," where his name figures so strangely : in
the divisions on the Irish question last Session, in which
he skipped from side to side like a pith-ball, between
the opposite poles of Lord Stanley's and Lord Morpeth's
electrics. IVith undoubted intelligence, much right
feeling, and more honesty of intent than consistency of
purpose, Lord Howick sometimes has done and said
things that have procured him to be rated as a states-
man ; yet, impatient of a certain sequacious dependence
of mind which reduces him to the second rank as a copy-
ist, his egotism has a morbid craving for originality ;
and that awkward condition of mind has placed him
more than once in a ludicrous where he sought a digni-
fied posture. To stick to the Irish Bills : he was then
seen to fly away from his friends in order to propound
certain inventions of his own, and was supported by the
Opposition, who used him as a blind tool to break up
his own party ; and again, when he had been used, was
Hung aside, nothing loth—for he courted rejection by
new allies whom lie in turn spurned as people with whom
lie differed in all things; he talked against the Whigs
and voted against the Tories, carried his own proposi-
tion yet refused to follow it up : he seemed to take plea-
sure in inscribing decrees in the Parliamentary book of
fate negativing all other things and themselves to boot.
And that was his last act in general statesmanship : yet
he can only account for his defeat in Northumberland by
Mr. Cresswell's cunningly surprising him as he was can-
vassing in all the ease of an uncontested county, or oy
the frowns of Lord Tankerville or the Duke at the
castle. In striking contrast with his brother-legislator
is Lord Morpeth's demeanour under defeat ; though he
did not affect to conceal his regret, it could not subdue
his manly temper. Casting aside all petty election-agent
cavil, he broadly admitted the extent of his discomfiture ;
delivered the conquered county with dignified fortitude
into the hands of his opponent, asking merely the privi-
lege of surrendering to the more worthy of his foes.
And if Lord Morpeth has won his meed of praise, it may
be observed in passing, perhaps his successful antago-
nist, Mr. Wortley, has scarcely received his for the ful-
ness of generous feeling which distinguished his bearing.
Adverse parties have vied with each other in rendering
honour to the manner in which the rejected Member for
IVest Yorkshire turned defeat into a victory over circum-
stance, and made his last act of surrender one of the
most imposing of his career. Turning from personal
considerations, with a statesmanlike glance at the future,
he asserted the damnatory effect which the conquest of
West Yorkshire would have for the time ; looking be-
yond to the reaction which must come hereafter. Thus
two of the most remarkable young Nobles who have
taken a part in public affairs retire for a while. Both
will be missed. Lord Morpeth's growing power of ge-
neralization, the habit of mastering his subjects, his force
of language and happy knack of illustrating, will be
wanting to the friends who have counted upon his sup-
port. Lord Howick, uncertain, perverse, and fantastical
in his impulses, still brought to bear upon most matters
which he handled great ingenuity, much solid informa-
tion, and, rare quality in the irresponsible legislator, per-
severing industry. Even antagonists will miss two men
who gave substance and soul to the party contests of the
day.

CONDITION OF THE LABOURING
POPULATION.—THE HAND -LOOM FANCY
WEAVERS.
[The following affecting description of the condition
of the inhabitants of a manufacturing village in the
West-Riding, may be taken as a specimen picture of the
state of the working classes generally at the present
time, Probably there never was a period when the con-
dition-of the mass of the labouring population remained
at so low a condition, and for so long a period consecu-
tively. It almost seems as if the stamina of the country
had been eaten out, and that industry lay prostrated
under the violent and repeated blows that have now been
inflicted on her.]
" If any reliance can be placed upon tradition, the
ancient, and now populous village of Almondbury, was
once a happy place. Only a few short years since,
if there was a cottage to let, there would have been
half n doze il -.-A:a• ts at resent_n
there are a dozen empty cottages, but no applicants.
A dozen empty houses in such a village as Al-
mondbury, may appear only trifling, but fancy-
weavers cannot, like some other trades, huddle
a number of families in one house—they must
have somewhere for their looms to stand, or
no doubt, there would be many more unoccupied cot-
tages. A
very short time ago a distraint for rent, or a
Court of Request execution, would have thrown the vil-
lage into a state of excitement and alarm ; now, dis-
traints for rent, and executions for debt, are of such
common occurrence that they pass almost unnoticed. At
this moment there are not fewer than thirty executions
out against thirty operatives ; as many more are liable
to be issued, five-sixths of th operatives of the place
are in a similar dilemma to those before described. It is
with difficulty that a sale of an operative's goods can be
effected : for instance, a fortnight since, a poor man was
distressed for rent, and notwithstanding that the sale of
his furniture was noticed by,printed placards, all the
muster at the should-have-been sale, was the auc-
tioneer, the bailiff, and four other individuals, who at-
tended merely for the purpose of killing an hour
or two, for want of • some more profitable employ-
ment. Last week a distraint for rent was made upon
the goods of an old woman named Hannah Thomas,
of Longley, in the township of Almondbury. The
sale was postponed from the Friday to the follow-
ing Tuesday, when the goods were removed from Long-
ley to the Cloth-hall door, Huddersfield, where one turn-
up bed, one half-headed bed, nearly new, bedding, tables,
chairs, and the remainder of goods and using utensils,
together with one good fancy loom, in excellent repair,
and other articles necessary for a fancy weaver, were
sold, or rather given away, for the sum of two pounds !
Not one shilling of this sum found its way unto the
owner of the cottage ; the poor woman, who is seventy-
four years of age, has, together with her deceased hus-
band, lived under, and paid rent to, her present landlord
and his direct predecessors of the same family, for the
last forty-eight years. She, with her son, a widower and
his fathily, are now cast destitute upon the world, for
the paltry sum of four pounds fifteen shillings. The
poor man is without work, and even if he could find
work, his loom is gone. The owner of the cottage
above alluded to, although he believes, as does the
Duke of Newcastle, " That every man has a right
to do what he will with his own," is no Tory of this earth
we inhabit ; no, he is a Chartist of another planet. The
other day a weaver, named Spivy, at Almondbury, while
repining at his fate, observed that " the rent day was
over, but no rent paid, and he was in daily expecta-
tion of his landlord taking his household stuff and
loom. The shopkeeper had a Court of Request exe-
cution against his body, the Vicar claimed two years'
Easter dues, and if the Rev. Gentleman had not already
taken a summons against him, he was about to do so."
The poor man continued, "Oh ! I think nobody is in
such a miserable state as I am in, short of work, with-
out food, without money, without credit, without friends,
my landlord will take all I have for rent, the shopkeeper
will take my almost naked body for debt, and I doex-
pect that our vicar will take my soul for Raster dp:ol:ostri;tfails..
of
foe
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t
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httotobescoonmie
qia:ujilYtae heavy enough to poor Spiry,. beespi
the state of thousands in the same district. The 81?PaenakdS•
sbtould they,
loom weavers cannot pay anythinget—aorihtflohowet
get sufficient
Ifio,lodien?wi3thranfuyllhaelmeplhoeye-nniegintretnhey
eurtytebnriefs
cies of their landlords, and the
bailiffs.
monthsl cet sketch of
prettyt h e
Court of Requests
fanTeyhe,%f,eoar
ve foregoing
resi,7l agf t ei is
aab No.state of
employment. Our trade is now in regularlde
pressed state ; wages are on the decline extreme
oyf the-,
master fancy manufacturers are at a deade; somed others
are doing' very little, consequently '
many hands are
totally unemployed, and -
many only very partially em ployed. The fancy weavers, together with their winders,
and those who prepar e the materials for the loom, and
those who finish the pieces when wove are not fewer
than 16,000. It will not be an exaggeration to state,
that 40,000 individuals are dependent upon this branch
of trade for their sustenance. There is only one firm
throughout the fancy weaving district whose workmen
are fully employed, viz., Messrs. Jacob Wood and Co.,
better known as Mr. Willan Norton's, Fenny Bridge,
near Almondbury. This firm employs about 350 weavers,
—Leeds Times.

A plan has been recently announced of a rail-
road froin Strasburg to Haguenau. It is said that the town of
Haguenau, which as one of the richest towns in France, which
is often at a loss to expend its revenue to advantage, seems to
concur in the execution of this undertaking. It is also said
that one of the principal manufacturing houses in the depart.
ment of Bas Rhin has advanced the necessary sums for survey-
ing the line of this railroad. The railroad from Strasburg to
Haguenau will only be the commencement of a railroad which
will extend to the left bank by Lauterburg, as far as Rein-
ehantz, opposite Illanheim, and, perhaps. aleo the commence-
ment of a railroad from strasburg. to Sarrelouis ; by means of
which the coals of Rhenish Prussia will be easily and quickly
conveyed into Alsace, for the supply of numerous manufactur-
ing establishments there.
SERIOUS OcoußßENcit....-On Saturday, the
6th ult, the butler at a highly-respectable house in this
vicinity, by mistake swallowed an ounce of laudanum. He
was found soon afterwards in his room, almost in a lifeless
state. Dr. Brands was immediately sent for, and by the
prompt application of emetics, Scc., succeeded in expelling
the deleterious drug from the stomach, and regoring the '
young man to consciousnes4 l pact of the poisonhoam extra.cl,how-
eyer, entered the system, and he is now suffering from
„Du, erysipelatic inflammation in various parts of his body.
—Forres Gazette.