The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-30 00:00:00

SUN, DECEMBER 30, 1846.

BIRMINGH ‘M INSTITUTION FOR.
THE RELIEF OF DEAFNESS.
(From the Midland Counties Herald, Dec. 24.)
The subscribers to the Institution for the Relief of
Deafness, held their annual meeting on Tuesday, at the
Public Office, in this town. Lord Calthorpe presided.
In opening the proceedings, his LonnsulP remarked
that, under any circumstances, deafness must be a se-
rious privation, and often a very great affliction, but par-
ticularly so in a state of society such as that in which we
live, which offered so many opportunities of action and
employment, and so many means of rendering the power
of hearing a channel of instruction, improvement, and
enjoyment to its possessors. In such a state of society,
of course, deafness or deficiency of bearing must be felt
as a peculiarly aggravated affliction ; but, happily, the
very circumstances which aggravated its pressure brought
with them the means of alleviation ; since it was in ex-
actly such a state of society that there was the
highest advancement of skill and medical science,
and of that humane and patient attention which was
instrumental in alleviating the infirmity. The object
of that institution, he need not say, was to promote
that species of benefit to the poor ; and it was, there-
fore, with great satisfaction he was able to say,
not merely that a benefit such as that was contem-
plated by the institution, but that it had to a certain ex-
tent been realised by it. Within the last few days, he
had himself seen some of the patients under the care of
%Ir. Dufton, and certainly the degree of benefit which
they derived spoke strongly in favour of the claims of
the institution, restricted as its operations had neces-
sarily been. In the cases of two or three females in sei-
vice, whose hearing had been seriously affected, he had
been gratified to find that they had become fitted again
for services for which they must have continued other-
wise to be totally disqualiffed. In the case of one per-
son, 55 years of age, who had been for several years suf
fering from deafness, a complete cure had been efiected.
Several very young children, too, had derived very great
benefit from the institution. In the case of one child,
which from its infancy had been quite deaf, the power
of hearing had been, he would not say restored, but
conferred : and as a consequence it had since obtained
the power of speech. Instances Qr this kind were
calculated in the highest degree to recommend the in-
stitution, since they proved most strongly what
immense advantages were obtained through the
means used by those who were already under the care of
the institution. Those means were the more satisfactory
to himself, because they did not involve painful or distress-
ing operations, or the use of remedies which might be
trying or injurious to the constitution of the patient, but
consisted in the careful and patient attention of the sur-
geon, and the use of those remedies which his experi-
ence had approved as most conducive to the relief of
deafness, and which, therefore, offered the strongest
ground of hope that the recovery would not be tempo-
rary but permanent and effectual. After the great satis-
faction which he had felt in having had the opportunity,
of judging for himself as to the operation of the institu-
tion, he felt quite strongly called upon to state the re-
sult of his inquiries. Those facts showed that not only
in its object, but in its management, that institution de-
served the support of every humane and philanthropic
person. If in its very infancy and dawn those benefits
had been realised, there was every ground to hope that,
when its claims on the public were more generally under-
ally understood, its sphere of operation would be en-
larged, and it would receive a greater degree of public
support.
The report was then read by Mr. SARGANT, in the
absence of Mr. W. Chance, jun. It appeared that
the number of patients during the year had reached
241 ; of whom 110 were males, and 131 females ; that
229 had been deaf in both ears, and 22 in one ear
only; and that in 18 cases the deafness had been here-
ditary. Of the 94 cases cured, 22 had been deaf less
than one year, 36 between one and five years, 25 between
five and ten ditto, 6 between ten and fifteen ditto, 4
between fifteen and twenty ditto, and 1 had been deaf
for thirty years. Of the 83 cases relieved, 20 had been
deaf under five years, 26 between five and ten ditto,
21 between ten and fifteen ditto, 6 between fifteen and
twenty ditto, and 10 between twenty and thirty ditto.
Of the 41 incurable cases, 24 had been deaf under twenty
years, and 17 between twenty and sixty ditto. There
were 23 cases still under treatment, making a total of
241 cases. The statement of accounts showed a balance
in hand of 504 16s. 7i-d.
The report was unanimously adopted, and various
resolutions moved and seconded by the Rev. Isaac
Spooner, Alderman Geach, Mr. Sargent, &c.; the
speakers narrating various instances in which the insti-
tution had conferred much benefit, and passing the
hiehest eulogiutes on the skill and kindness of Mr.
Dufton.
Thanks having been oted to the Chairman, and
suitably acknowledged, the proceedings terminated.

TUNNELLING THE ALN.—The ilioniteur Beige
announces that experiments have been made within the
last few days, in order to test the efficacy of a machine
just invented, for the purpose of effecting a new and
speedy method of boring tunnels. It is proposed to
apply this machine to the construction of the great tun-
nel about to be commenced in connexion with one of the
Italian lines. The machine was placed in front of the
web, and effected a bore to the depth of 18i centimetres
in 35 minutes. At this rate the new invention will com-
plete upwards of five metres of bore, per day, and the
proposed tunnel through Mount Cents will be finished
in the space of three years. The experiments have been
repeated twice before several of the first engineers of
France, and with the most complete success..
THE ACTOR AND THE AUTHOR.—After continu-
ing his dramatic apprenticeship at the Odeon, where he
was still condemned to play the confidants, though in
tragedy instead of in spectacle, Frederick offered his ser-
vices to the manager of the Ambigu, who had just ac-
cepted l'Auberye des Adrets, a melodrama which appeared
to him (and was in reality) sufficiently commonplace to
admit of the principal character being entrusted to a
debutant. He did not, therefore, scruple to admit
the young actor into his company, and gave him
the part of Redmond to study. The eventful
night came, and the two first acts of the piece
having gone off Very heavily, l'Auberge des Adreis
was generally regarded as a failure; FiCierick, how-
ever, suddenly hit upon the ingenious idea of making
Redmond a comic instead of a melodramatic rascal, and
began to introduce all kinds of drolleries into his part,
which, backed by the equally laughable acting of Serres,
put the audience into an ecstasy of delight, and decided
the triumphant success of piece and performer. One of
the authors had sent his bonne to see the first represen
tation, and was waiting anxiously for her return in order
to know the result, when, to his surprise, she came back
hardly able to speak fer laughing. " Ah, sir," she ex-
claimed, as soon as she had recovered her breath, " what
an excellent piece ! how funny it is ! lam sure I never
laughed so much in my life !" " What !" cried the
amazed and indignant author, "laugh at my melodratne !
This comes of entrusting the leading character to an
actor .sans conscience I" However, on going himself to
see the piece, he laughed like the rest, and following the
example of his collaborateur, pocketed his author's dues
with great good humour.—llervey's Theatres of Paris.
TRAGICAL SUICIDE AT LEWISHAM.—A suicide of a
melancholy chat acter was committed on Saturday after-
won by a youth named Sandon, aged 18, the son of a
person in independent circumstances, residing in King's-
place, Lewisham. In the course of the evening he had
been playing at cards with a younger brother, and during
the progress of the game he seized a knife, which be
flourished about frantically, declaring that he would cut
his throat. The threat was treated with carelessness,
being viewed in the light of a joke. Having repaired to
the garden, his prolonged absence excited some ap-
prehension, and it was discovered by those who went to
seek him, that he had inflicted a wound of so deadly a
character upon his throat that his head was severed from
his body, with the exception of being connected by a
small piece of skin. The medical assistance of Mr.
Steele, a neighbouring surgeon, was called in, but it was,
of course, unavailing.
WICKED HoAx.—A hoax, doubtless in imitation
of, and prompted by, that practised on a tradesman in
London lately, was played off here this week, with con-
siderable effect. On Tuesday morningnumerous trades-
men received, through the post, letters (unpaid) dated
" George Inn, Snargate-street," containing orders of
various kinds, and purporting to be written by the
worthy landlord, Mr. Philpott, or Mrs. Philpott. The
parties were generally required to be at the " George "
at haltpast ten o'clock, A.m. Accordingly, punctually
at that hour an undertaker was in attendance, to take
the measure of a gentleman, just dead, for a coffin, and
to do the other requisites appertaining to his calling
on the solemn occasion ; nor had snfficient time
elapsed for explanation as to the hoax when
up came a carriage to drive out a party for a
morning ride. Presently there came two butchers' men
with legs of mutton, two grocers' lads with each a huge
cheese, a tobacconist with a box of the best Havannahs,
and other such like necessaries, as per order. Mean-
while, also, a fashionable hair-dresser, "kit in band,'
entered to shave the dead man ; and apace the chimney-
sweepers were seen to enter, shouldering the implements
of their craft ; while the dustman called in to ascertain
"further particulars" about fetching the night-cart. In
the midst of the hubbub, a gentleman, from the upper
end of the town, dropped in to inquire what it was "to
his interest" that Mr. Philpott had to tell him. The
perpetrators of this wicked hoax, who, as yet, remain un-
discovered, are doubtless chuckling over the success of
their project ; but it is not unlikely they may soon be
brought to light, and made to answer for their wanton
cruelty.—Dover Chronicle.
SINGULAR DEATH.—The death of a young woman
was lately occasioned in a somewhat curious manner,
near Charleroy. Two dogs were fighting near the mouth
of a coal-mine, in the vicinity of that town, when, in
their struggles, they approached the brink of the pit and
rolled over, to the great mirth of the spectators of the
combat. Lamentable cries, however, were immediately
heard issuing from the mine. The dogs, in their fall,
had alighted on, and broken, the cover of the basket
which was ascending the shaft, and the pieces falling on
the young girl who was coming up in it, fractured her
skull in so shocking a manner that she died on the spot.
THE CONDE DE AIONTEMOLIN.—The Conde de
Blontemolin was engaged du:ing the greater part of the
day in giving audiences to several of the Spanish officers
of distinction now in London. The Conde also received
visits from some of the English nobility and gentry in
town, and afterwards walked in the parks.

TUESDAY _NIGHT'S GAZETTP.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Georgo Grey, Esq.,
to be Governor-in-Chief of and over the islands of Ne-w Zea-
land, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and cyer
each of the two separate provinces of New Ulster and Nel%
Munster..
Her Majesty has further been pleased to 'appoint Edward
John Eyre, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of each of the
two said separate provinces of New Ulster and New Munster.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 28.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir John Gaspard
Le Marchant, Knt., Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, to be
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the island of
Newfoundland and its dependencies.
WAR OFFICE, DEC. 29.
Ist Regiment of Life Guards-Lieutenant the Honourable
'Wellington Henry Stapleton Cotton to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Anderton, who retires; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant. Hugh William Boulton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Cotton; Edward John Cornwallis Lord Eliot to be Cornet
and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Boulton, Dec. 29.
3d Light Dragoons-Cornet Edward Joseph Thackwell to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ireland, who retires ;
Thomas Clement Belrnore St. George, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Thackwell, Dec. 29.
4th Light Dragoons-Major Lord George 'Augustus Frede
rick Paget to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Van-
deleur, who retires; Captain Henry Fane to be Major, by
purchase, vice Lord George Paget; Lieutenant Fenwick
Boyce Barron to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fane; Cornet
Conrad Montgomery to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Barron; Henry Astley Sparke, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur-
chase, vice Montgomery, Dec. 29.
9th Light Dragoons-Surgeon Robert Joynt Gordon
Grant, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice
Wood, who exchanges, Dec. 29.
16th Light Dragoons-Stirgeon Arthur Wood, M.D., from
9th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Grant, who ex-
change a, Dec. 29.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards-Lieutenant-Colonel
Lord Thomas Cecil, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain
and Lieutenant-Colonel (repaying the difference), vice John
Henry Pringle, who exchanges ; Brevet Major Lieutenant
and Captain Charles Ash Windham to be Captain and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Lord Thomas
Cecil, who retires, December 29. Ensign and
Lieutenant (Adjutant) Poulett George Henry
Somerset to have the rank of Lieutenant and Captain, Dec.
28; Ensign and Lieutenant George John Whyte Melville to
be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Windham ;
William Henry Reeve, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Melville, Dec. 29.
'lst Regiment of Foot-Bingham Henry Edward Muller,
Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Rivers, pro-
moted in the 36th Foot, Dec. 29.
sth Foot-Captain Samuel Barton Jeffries, from half-pay
25th Light Dragoons, to be Captain ; Lieutenant William
Chester Master to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jeffries, who
retires; Second Lieutenant William Robert Crawford Potter
to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Master; George
Bennett, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Potter, Dec. 29.
13th Foot-Assistant Surgeon Frederick William Tupper,
from 57th Feet, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Prout, ap-
pointed to the Staff, Dec. 29.
19th Foot-Ensign James Cole Taylor, from the 74th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Palmer, who exchanges, Dec. 29.
27th Foot-Acting Sergeant Major William Crozier to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Dickson, appointed to the sth
Foot, Dec. 29.
30th Foot-Ensign James Rose to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Whitmore, appointed Adjutant, Dec. 28 ;
Ensign Frederick Augustus Edwardes to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Shunt, promoted, Dec. 29; Gentleman Cadet
Thomas William Cator, from Royal Military College, to be
Ensign, vice Rose; William Warren Hastings Greene, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edwardes, Dec. 30; Lieu-
tenant Edmund Augustus Whitmore to be Adjutant, vice
Macdonald, promoted, Dec. 28.
36th Foot-Ensign Cecil Rivers, from Ist Foot, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Carew, promoted, De-
cember 29.
48th Foot-Staff Assistant Surgeon James Dickson to be
Assistant Surgeon, vice Johnston, promoted on the Staff,
Dec. 29.
56th Foot-Lieutenant Richardson Anderson to beCaptain,
by purchase, vice Barclay, who retires; Ensign Henry John
Tolclser to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Anderson ;
Frederick John Gothleipe Saunders, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Tolcher, Dec. 29.
61st Foot-Captain George Fitzßoy, from half-pay Royal
West India Rangers, to be Captain, vice William Ward,
who exchanges; Lieutenant John Fortescue Brickdale to be
Captain, by purchase, vice lritzßoy, who retires, Dec.
'29 • Ensign Edward Shawe Powys to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Maher, deceased, Oct. 3 ;
Ensign Richard Gunn Brackenbury to be Lieutenant by
purchase, vice Brickdale; Gentleman Cadet John Nagel,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Powys,
Dec. 29. Thomas Harrison Harrison, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Brackenbury, Dec. 30.
64th Foot-Ensign Robert Bickerstaff to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Maddi-on, who retires; Edward William
Armstrong. Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bicker-
staff, Dec. 29.
66th Foot-Joseph Thomas La Presle, Gent., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Cowper, promoted in the 56th Foot,
Dec. 22.
67th Foot-To be Captains without purchase-Lieutenant
Capel Coape, Dec. 29 ; Lieutenant Stonehouse George Bun-
bury, Dec 30.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase-Lieutenant William
Du Vernet, from 50th Fbot ; Ensign James Graham; En-
sign Fiztmanrice Pratt, vice Coape, Dec. 29.
To he Ensigns, without purchase-Gentleman Cadet Ed-
ward Daubeney, from Royal Military College ; Gentleman
Cadet Alfred Addington Jones, from Royal Military College,
Dec. 29 ; William Wallace Davy, Gent., vice Graham, Dec.
30; William Cumming Shells, Gent., vice Pratt, Dec. 31.
74th Foot-Ensign Henry Wellington Palmer, from 19th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Taylor, who exchanges, Dec. 29.
77th Foot-Ensign Robert Mostyn to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Walpole, who retires ; William Ronalds,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mostyn, Dec. 29.
85th Foot, Brevet Colonel Benjamin Chapman Browne,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Sir J. G. Le Marchant, who exchanges; Major Brook Taylor
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Browne, who
retires; Captain John Blackburn to be Major, by purchase,
vice Taylor, Dec. 29 ; Lieutenant Evelyn Latimer Parrett to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Patterson, who retires, Dec. 28 ;
Lieut. Lord Spencer Scott Compton to be Captain by pur-
chase, vice Blackburn, Dec. 22 ; Ensign William Alexander
Filder to be Lieutenant :by purchase, vice Parrett, Dec. 28;
Ensign the Hon. William Stuart Knox to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Lord S. Compton, Sir Henry Hope, Edwards,
Baronet, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fit*, Dec. 28 ;
Frederick Tbistlethwaite, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Knox, Dec. 29.
94th Foot-Lieut. William Henry Dore to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Deere, deceased; Ensign Herbert
Taylor M'Crea to be Lieutenant, vice Dore. Dee. 17 ; Richard
Hull Lewis, Gent., to be Ensign, vice M'Crea. D .c. 29.
2d West India Itegitnent-Ensign Archibald W. Dickson
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hill, who retires ;
Charles De Blaquiere, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Dickson, Dec. 29.
BREVET.-Lieutenant Colonel Lord Thomas Cecil, of the
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Colonel in the
Army, Nov. 9; Captain Samuel Barton Jeffries, of the sth
Foot, to be Major, in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837; Captain
George Fitzroy, of 61st Foot, to be Major in the Army, June
28, 1838.
Unattached.-Lieutenant Henry Capadose, from Bth Foot,
to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 29.
Chaplain.-The Reverend William Walrond Jackson,
M.A., to be Chaplain to the Forces, Dec. 21.
HOSPITAL STAFF.-Assistant-Surgeon James Townsend
Oswald Johnston, M.D ' from the 48th Foot, to be Staff-
surgeon of the Second Class, Dec. 29; Assistant-surgeon
Alexander Adam Prout, from 13th Foot, to be Assistant
surgeon to the Forces, Oct I.
OFFLCE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 28.

Errata in Gazette of the 22d instant.—For Gentleman
Cadet the Honourable John James Bury, to be Second Lieut-
enant, in the " Royalißegiment of Artillery," read, to be
Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers, vice De
Butts, promoted.
And for Gentleman Cadet Alexander Mackenzie, to be
Second Lieutenant, in the Corps of Royal Engineers, vice De
Butts, promoted, read vice Stace, promoted.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire.

Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia—Thomas Kemp Story
Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Gardiner, promoted, Dec. 3.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
Frederick Marcus Callaghan, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice
Haythorne, resigned, Dec. 14.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Thomas William Clark, brewer, Strood, Kent
BANKRUPTS.
Mary Ann Shenston, scale manufacturer, Brewer-street,
Somers-town, to surrender Jan. 15, at half-past twelve, and
Feb. 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official
assignee, Abchurch lane, Lombard-street; Kell and Chaffers,
Bedford-row.

William Whitsed Coleman, provision merchant, South-
ampton, Jan. 5, at two, and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Messrs. Free-
man, Bothamley, and Benthall, Coleman-street.
Henry Brewer, draper, Great Waltham, Essex, Jan. 9, at
twelve, and 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fol-
lett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ;
Soles and Turner, Aldermanbury.
John Beddleton Morris, shoemaker, Hull, Jan. 13 and
Feb. 3, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Kvnaston official
assignee, Hull; Hicks, Gray's Inn, London ; -Bell, or Levett
and Champney, Hull.
John Percy Moore, chemist, Plymouth, Jan. 14, and Feb.
4, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzell, official
assignee, Exeter; Cross, Plymouth ; Gregory and Co., Bed-
ford-row, London ; Terrell, Exeter.
Thomas Norton, builder, Birmingham, Jan. 9, and Feb. 6,
at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham; Chest...lure, Birmingham.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
W. Croser, merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--first and
final div. of Bs. 1 Id. in the pound, on any Saturday, at
the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
G. S. Coxwell, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—first and
final div. of is 6,1. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the
office of Mr. IVakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
G. Nelson, farmer, Lazonby, Cumberland—first and final
div. of 53. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of
Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
T. Langston, share broker, Manchester—first div. of 9d.
in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser,
Manchester.

J. Gray, upholsterer, Manchester—first div. of Is. in the
pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Man-
chester.

W. Dunnett, auctioneer, Manchester—second div. of 3d.
in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser,
Manchester.
T. Oxton, cart owner, Liverpool—first div. of 114 d. in the
pound, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, or any subsequent Wednes-
dwr, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
i. Brown, printer, Pemberton-row, Gough-square—first
div. of 3s. 414 d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
W. M‘Dowall, printer, Pemberton-row, Gough-square—
first div. of 4s. 3d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Whitmore, Basingb all • street.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Bashighall-street.
R. Beckley, grocer, North Andley-street, Hanover-square,
Jan. 19, at half-past eleven.

..e . sources of Ireland are nut sufficientpota tto crop, the reo rupport her people, further supplies will have to be drawn from this
side of the Channel. In this state of affairs, we feel no
surprise that the somewhat dull advices tram Mark, lane,
of Monday, should have failed to produce much t fleet
on quotations in the provincial markets ; indeed, it ap-
pears clear to us that the upward movement has not yet
reached its height. Those wins are of an opposite
opinion seem to ground their hopes solely on the sup-
plies from America ; they do not attempt to deny that
the potato crop has almost wholly failed in Ireland—
that the produce in England has hardly come tip to half
a crop ; neither is it disputed that the extraordinary
heat and the want of moisture, by which the summer
was characterised, caused the yield of all kinds of spring
corn to fall materially short of what is usually grown in
these islands ; but all these drawbacks are to be made
good by overwhelming supplies of American produce.
We have, on former occasions, asserted over and over
again our conviction that the supplies likely to reach us
from the other side of the Atlantic had been exaggerated
and we see no reason to retract this opinion. During
the two months terminating November 30th (all shipped
previous to that peri. d has, of course, long ere this
reached our shores and been mostly consumed) the ex-
ports of Flour from New York scarcely amounted to
200,000 brls.; and we qua stion whether all the other
ports of the United States together, shipped an equal
quantity. For argument's sake we will say that 500.000
brls. have been despatched in October and November,
from the American ports. How much of this unimpor-
tant quantity (unimportant when our necessities are
taken into Consideration ilgo to France ? how much
to Newfoundland and the West Indian Islands ? and what
quantity are we likely to receive ? If the whole were
intended for Great Britain, and there were no French
buyers of bonded flour ready to take all they can get, it
would still be a mere trifle, but in our actual position we
have no hesitation in saying, that to expect the arrivals
of bread-stuffs from America to stop the rise in prices
in the British markets is perfectly ridiculous.
REVIEW OF FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
In consequence of the non arival of the Ilstubtirg
mails of 19th and 22d, we are without our usual advices
from the north of Europe. We have, however, Pam-
burg papers up to the 19th instant by way of Holland,
but very little information respecting the grain trade
can be collected from these. The frost appears to have
partially given way, but the chief rivers and harbours
were still closed by ice ; nor was it do erred probable that
the navigation would again be practicable until sprit)...
Letters frcm Dantzic, of the 12th inst., inform us that
the receipts of wheat from Upper and Lower Poland had
fallen materially short of expectation, a large number
of the barges having been froz, n up on their passage
down the Vistula. This circumstance had assisted to
give confidence to holders ; and the advices ham Great
Britain, France, and Belgium being of a character calcu-
lated to lead to the impression that buyers from all
those countries will in spring appear in the Baltic, few
holders of the article at Dantzic had manifested inclina-
tion to enter into contracts for sprins shipment. The
only-sale reported as having taken place since the pre-
vious post-day had been that of a parcel of ordinary
wheat, about 50 last, weighing per bushel 591b5., for
which equal to 525. per qr., free on board, had been ob-
tained. Fine mixed, of 601bs. weight, had been held at
545., and fine high-mixed parer Is, weighing 611b5., at
565. per qr., with charges and interest till spring.
From Rostock and Stettin we have no advices ; and
the reports from Hamburgh, of the 19th, are of so
meagre a character as to afford little real information
relative to the state of affairs there. Thus much is,
however, certain, that tire Elbe was then effictually
blocked up by ice, and that it was deemed very impro-
bable that further shipments of grain would be made
either from thence or from Danisli pons till spring.
Stocks of wheat were ex:remely small, and for local use
good qualities of red had brought what would be equal
to 565. per (palter in English mosey.
At all the Dutch and B, Igisn rnarlests quotations of
wheat have lately risen cwai krably; an I though there is
hardly a margin at present for pis .fit= en shipnnn•s from
this country, to the Netherlands, still there is a I roba-
bility of buyers from thence visiting our markets.
In France 'cheat also continues to rise in value; and
whilst Marseilles affords so much better a market for
wheat than is to be met with in Great Britain tht re is
no prospect of supplies reaching this country from any
of the ports lying east of the Straits of Gibraltar.
Since writing the above, we have received Hamburgh
letters of the 22d, and advices from Dantzic of the 19th
inst. At the latter place the weather was then still
severe, but at Ilarnbuegh a rapid thaw at in; the Elbe
hencefrom nevs
had
rthelt.y et frez-n up. The lively accounts
as,cused an advance of 2s. per quarter, as
kwielnldsinoftliseprßaingltic coraisi abt Hamburgh, on
adHarmisbulinh, all
Express.

AMELIORATED CORN-LAW AT ROME.—An edict
was published the let of the month, signed by the Sec-
retary Cardinal Gizz;, in reference to the cereal com-
merce of the States of the Church, to the purport that
the limits of the price of grain established by the tariff
of 1823, shall be lowered at the rate of 2 scudi fur
every article, whither xportation or importation.
That the extraction of grain from the INleditt.rranean
shores shall be free, and its importation forbidden,
till the price arrives at 12 scudi the rubbie
(6401 b. Italian), from which suns shall commence the
ancient gradations and taxes, up to the value of 14 scudi,
when shall be in force the prohibition against the ex-
portation of indigenous grain, and the importation of fo-
, rei,n shall be free. Likewise that for the coast of the
Adriatic the exportation shall b, free, and the importa-
tion forbidden, till the price shall arrive at 10 scudi the
rubbio; from which sum the ancient gradations and
taxes shall come into force, up to the value of 12
scudi, when the exportation of corn is forbidden, and
the importation is to be free. That for Turkish corn,
the exportation shall be free, and the importation for-
de' till the price shall arrive at 7 scudi, SO bajocchi
the rubbio ; and arriving at the cost of 9 scudi, 50
bajocchi, the exportation is prohibited, and the impor-
tation rendered free. This ultrrior proof of his paternal
care, in removing all occasion for disquietude from his
subjects, his Holiness trusts will be corresponded to by
submission and confidence on their part.—Roman Ad-
vertiser, Dec. 5.

ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A very remarkable
scene occurred on the beach at Musselburgh on Monday
last, in which a small dog signalised himself in a manner
well worthy of record. It appears he had been in the
practice of swimming occasionally for any unfortunate
bird which may have come under the range of his
master's gun, and upon the occasion alluded to to was in
waiting for this purpose. An ineffectual shot at a bird
was followed by a sudden rush of the dog into the water,
which at this particular spot is rather deep, and in which,
to his master's astonishment, he almost immediste'y dis-
. appeared. In a few moments he again came to the sur-
face, and got footing on terra firma ; but this time he was
not alone, for struggling fiercely with him was (as was
at first supposed) semo monster which he had caught,
and by which he appeared about to be overcome. Once
or twice he was fairly overturned, but still he fought
bravely, and at length he sueceetled in proving victor.
The mor.mlr, when landed, turned out to be nothing less
—a capture rarely,
than a salmon of about Sibs. weight
if ever before, made hy a.clog.—Edinhurgh Witaess.
A LITERARY CONSCIENCE.—The following note,
enclosing 5/., was lately received by Captain Ducane,
R.N., of Braxted Lodge, and we Publish it, not merely
as a curiosity, but as disproving the general belief that
book borrowers and book plunderers are never troubled
with touches of conscience:—" Ilonered sir The hin-
closed Five pound note his
yours for Books taiken from
the libraery at braxsted lodge A long wile agoe A ser-
vant."—The writer has certainly not profited much by
the books whatsoever they were ; and if ever he return
to his old habits, it would be advisable to begirt with
Guy and Murray.—Essex Ilercad.