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London, England, 1841-09-11 00:00:00

THEE D E St N, LON ON , SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1841.

statutes. The conclusion he comes to on
!,this point _ is for us remarkable and pleas-
ing. He recommends the Legislature to let
the land alone, and cultivation will soon follow.
The following extracts, on a different subject, will
give an idea of the pamphlet, and of the author's
mode of handling his subject : -
It must be indifferent to the agricultural interests,
whether payment for manufactures exported be made in
other manufactures, in gold and silver, or in the direct
products of foreign land. If payment be made in foreign
manufactures, then so many British workmen are put
out of employment, and the market their supplies would
have opened to landlords and cultivators is lost to them,
just as much as it would have been by the direct impor-
tation of theproductS of foreign land. If payment be
made in gold and silver, they will be necessarily re-
exported, as:soon as in excess above the demand. It is,
-as if payment were made for German goods, by means o
Spanish goods re-exported : the Spanish goods must
have been previously obtained in exchange for British
goods exported, but which are replaced by the German
goods imported, to the detriment of some British ma-
nufacture in the , same degree that the exportation of
come other had been advantageous; and the home-market
-for aglicultUralproducts is as much cut off in one case, as
it,had been promoted in the other. Gold and silver are
,only, valuable merchandise in a small bulk, serving the
purpose of
,ipternational money. What really takes
place in foreign commerce is, that it makes foreign land
a kind of conquest in favour of our manufactures, in
the same manner as the extension of our colonies ; or
as would do, the more productive culture of the land
of the United Kingdom. The power of the empire is
strengthened by an increased manufacturing population,
without either detriment or advantage to the agricultu-
ral interests.

This inevitable order of things may be rendered con-
fused and difficult to trace, but cannot be prevented un-
less by the destruction of all commerce ; for while any
portion is allowed to exist, the results, in so much,
cannot be defeated by any device of legal enactments.
Mistaken laws, made in the intention ofprotecting landed
interest, may cripple and even destroy trade and manu-
facturing industry dependent on foreign relations, but
cannot enable landlords to seize upon their profits ; if
they could,- these sources of wealth would long since
have ceased to exist.

There are other passages of ate work, which are
as good as the one we quote, but we cannot also
quote them, and must conclude by recommend-
ing the pamphlet to public notice.

THE PEER-SLAYER. 3 Vas.
Bentley, London, 1841.
The Deer-Slayer is no other than our old friend
Natty Bumps, who has already figured in so
many of Mr. Cooper's American tales, as Hawk-
eye, the Path-finder, Lung-stocking, and Pale-
face. He is here pourtrayed in his freshest and
earliest manhood, when he has but just betaken
himself to the wilderness, and is known only by
his skill in shooting the forest-game. His cha-
raeter is sustained with remarkable spirit, and
with a degree of freshness that we must confess
surprises us, considering how often the author
has delineated it. There is but little incident in
the story, which is too much an echo of Mr.
Cooper's former tale, the Path-finder; but what
there is, is skilfully wrought up, and in one
or two instances, with startling dramatic ef-
fect. The principal scenes are laid, as usual,,
in the depths of American forests, and
by the side of hushed, secluded lakes, rarely tra-
versed but by the canoe of the prowling Indian—
in order, of course, to bring out the prominent
features of the Deer-Slayer's idiosynocracy. The
mingled shrewdness and simplicity of this volun-
tary dweller in the woods; his innate sense of
right, and almost romantic notions of honour,
are finely developed; but unfortunately the in-
terest of the story centres exclusively in him ;
when he is away from the scene of action, it
flags; for we care little for the subordinate per-
sonages; we have met with most of them before,
in Mr. Cooper's " Prairie," and they were
scarcely worth re-producing. Judith Hutter
may, perhaps, be deemed an exception ; but
however true to nature this portrait may be, it
is by no means one calculated to rivet attention.
The descriptive portions of the story are admi-
rable throughout.

UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCE.—It is a curious
fact that there are at the present moment two boroughs
in England, both seats for which are vacated in conse-
quence of the ex-Members having accepted office under
the new Government of Sir R. Peel. These are-1.
The borough of Huntingdon, whose late members, Sir
F. Pollock and Colonel J. Peel, have respectively been
appointed Attorney-General and Surveyor-General of
the Ordnance. The other borough is Marlborough, the
late Members for which, Lord Ernest Bruce and the
Hon. IL.B. Baring, have respectively been, made Vice-
Chamberlain and a Lord of the Treasury. Marlbo-
rough and Huntingdon are, therefore, for a brief inter-
val, virtually placed in schedule A.

A new mode of communication at sea, by a
trumpet called the Telephonic, or far-sounding system,
invented by M. Sudre, instead of the ordinary system of
signals, has recently been tried by the squadron of Ad-
miral Hugon, and found to answer completely. 'The
sound may, it is said, be distinctly heard, in- favourable
weather, at a distance of 2,2oo.toises—about twoi azul.ar
half English miles.
Thursday
SUDDEN DEATH AT SEA.-- 0n
.
morning an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the
Queen's Head, High-street, Poplar, on the body of Cap-
tain Henry Howell, aged 41, late commanding the ship
Favourite, of London, now lying in the West India
Import Dock. Richard Peters, chief mate of the Fa-
vourite, said that the ship arrived the previous day
from Cronstadt, with a load of deals. On the 30th ult ,
about half-past two r.m., the deceased, who had through-
out the voyage complained of illness consequent upon
a fever with which he had been attacked whilst in the
Havannah, having hold of the topsail brace, said to him,
" Peter, I'm going to have a fainting fit" He took him
in his arms, and having called up the steward to his as-
sistance, they succeeded in lowering him on to the deck.
He never spoke again, and shortly after became insen-
sible. Vinegar was applied to his head, but with no
effect ; he died in a few minutes after. The deceased
had had four fits during the voyage, two between Ha-
vannah and Honduras, and the last about twenty-five
miles south of the Maze of Norway. The deceased had
taken his dinner, but had ate very little. There was no
surgeon on board. Verdict---" Natural death."
HYDROPHOBIA.—A child, son of Mr. M.
Meehan, who a fortnight ago was bitten by a mad 'dog at
Mariansleigh, which had also bitten several cows, sheep,
and pigs, which died in a rabid state, has been overtaken
by the symptoms of this horrible malady, and his death
is expected every hour. Three bullocks of Mr. Mechan's
have since died from the same cause. About a month
since 21 sheep belonging to Mr. John Walker, of Brad-
worthy, were bitten in the night, some of them being
lacerated in a most shocking manner, by a dog of the
Newfoundland species, and the animal exhibiting symp-
toms of madness, was shortly afterwards destroyed. On
Monday last one of the sheep died mad, and on Tuesday
three of them showing symptoms of 'the same disease,
were shot, and it has since been found necessary to de-
stroy nearly the whole number that were bitten.—
Western Luminary.

THE EAST ESSEX FARMERS AND SIR R.
PEEL.—The announcement'of Sir Robert Peel of his in-
tention to propose an alteration in the sliding scale of
duties for the importation of foreign corn, was the sub-
ject of much conversation amongst the farmers in this
market on Saturday, and some alarm was excited by it;
but much reliance was placed on the ten Members ' for
the county and its boroughs opposing any alteration in
the Corn-laws, without regarding the quarter from which
it might emanate."—Chelmsford Chroni(l%
CHATSWORTH.—A Correspondent who had
last week the pleasure of visiting the interior of that
princely mansion, Chatsworth, truly designated the
" palace of the peak," informs us that amongst other ar-
ticles of vertu was particularly noticed a feather carved
in wood, from the inimitable tool of the celebrated Gib-
bons. This finely executed.,^noreeau is pre; erred in a
glass case placed over a closet door, and not dis-
tinguishable from a real feather. The other
carvings in wood by this eminent master con-
sist of representations of dead game fish, •
shells, and trophies, which are in the highest state of
excellence, being variously composed and distri-
buted. We may observe with 'Horace Walpole,
" that there is no instance of a man before Gibbons who
gave to wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers,
" Alalmeshury,'"
and
and chained together the various productions. of the
elements with a free disorder, natural to each species."
which " Mirabilibus
lch were i
It was at this magnificent mansion of the Cavendishes,
and under the patronage of their proprietor, that the
hisp acelebratedssieudcti ab greatra t irolno psb.abr et s
o,
f Duringdenominatedhis
,lo gs lr life,
ofu was the seat of
domicile
at
this place he
wroteec his
andLoatthin i
~ con-
sidered at that time as effusions of a mind pregnant with
,erpoem, superior under tlie
productions, v
both extensive learning and the most brilliaj4,wlL'
STATE OF TRADE AT N0TT1N04146}.:....We
are sorry to say that there is no perceptible improve.
ment in the hosiery trade ; many of the senior houses
declining to make stock, employ their work-peuple.only;
upon orders. This_ may be sound,'butit-is a very dis-
tressing policy to, the artisan : it is generally ptactised
upon the Continent, but has not been found by expe-
rience the way to prosperity. The warp blonde trade is
much in the same state it has been for some time past ;
the question of the wages is not yet settled. The warp
tatting trade is slowly improving, but the hands are suf-
fering great privations from inadequate wages.: The
bobbin-net trade, such as fancytaltings, is yet very dull,
but plat nets are at fever height, particularly in Calais,
the French machine owners being extremely active in
seducing plat workmen from this vicinity. No less than
five went last 'week. Their wages are 31.
per week.
The agents state to the workmen that the English
patenteelniA no centroul in France over the ;nanufacture.
of plat net, as the French manufacturers obtained their.
patents for making the manufacture three days before
the English patentee obtained his French patent. How-
ever this may be, it is a great inducement, in conjunc-
tion with the high wages, for the workmen to emigrate.
—Nottingham Review.
It seems that the Wiltshire Membere have found
favour in the eyes of Sir Robert Pe:al, and that they are
among the shining lights whom he deli
giiteta to honor,
Of course Lord Ernest Bruce's and. Mr. 13aiiiio''s' se*
are safe ; and we suppose the influence and
Neeld will make all right at ChippEnharii
; but; whether
the independent electors of South Wilts will .Suffer
Herbert to walk over the course with Out opposition re-
mains to bo seeu.—Wikshirelndependant.