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London, England, 1834-02-07 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mercut ti, 5° die February, 1834.)
Resolved,—That this House will not receive any petition for
Private Bills, after Friday, the 21st day of this inst. February.
Resolved,—That no Private Bill be read the first time after
Monday, the 24th day of March next.
Resolved,—That this House will not receive any report of
such Private Bill, after Monday, the 26th day of May next.
Ordered,—That the said resolutions be printed.
J. H. LEY, CL Dom. Com.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, FEB. 6.—Wind W.S. W., light —Arrived from the
River and sailed, with others outward-bound, the Ernaad, Gil.
lett, for Bengal ; and Sarah, Barry, for the South Seas. Sailed
the Barossa, Achilles, Justina, and others outward-bound.
Poirrsmomu, FEB. 6. Wind N.W. to S.W.—Sailed the
Samson, Chadwick, for New York. Arrived off port the
Orynthia, Cox, from Honduras.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. s.—Wind S.S.E. to W.—Arrived the Lon-
don, Picher, from Riga; and Julie, Rape, from Charente.
FALMOUTH, FEB. s.—Wind S.S.W. to W., fresh gales and
squally.—Arrived from London the Prince, Harris, for the
Mauritius.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. s.—Arrived the Hibernia, Smith, from
Singapore—sailed the 26th Sept. ; and Blakely, Jackson, from
Bengal—sailed the 13th October, and St. Helena the 19th De.
cember. Sailed the Aliquis, M‘Fee, for Bombay ; Hindoo,
Askew, for Bengal; and Elizabeth, Moore, for Singapore.
BRISTOL, FEB. 6.—Arrived the Prince Eugene, Cook, from
Palermo; and Diana, Wakeham, from Lisbon.
GLOUCESTER, FEB. s.—Arrived the Danube, Dymond, from
*larva.

TORBAY, FEB. s.—Arrived the Mariner, Gilbert, from
Charente.

STANGATE CREEK, FEW 6.—Arrived the Judith and Esther,
Deslandes, from Denia.
Dual" FEB. s.—Arrived the Sylvia transport, from Ports.
mouth, with troops.

The Pontiff; Hathaway, from New Orleans to Havre, was
wrecked on Cat Keys on the 19th of December—cargo and ma-
terials saved.

The Elizabeth, McNiell, from Antegonist to Newfoundland,
is lost near Cape St. Frances—crew saved.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

In the subjoined quotations it will be seen that two or three
alterations have taken place since our last report :—Bubastes is
at 6 to 1, two or three parties having offered to take half a
point more-1,050 to 150 was taken about Bentley, by the
same gentleman who backed him on Monday. Delirium was
backed at 16 and 17 to 1 in three or four quarters, and an offer
was made by an influential speculator to take 18 to 1 about
Olympic. Glencoe, who stood for some time at 40 to 1, with-
out any apparent probability of advancing, was backed at 30 to
1, the offers, at the closing of the room, not having exceeded
25 to 1. Lord Burlington's Barrosa colt was backed for a small
sum ; 550 to 100 was taken about Cotillon for the Oaks, the
taker offering to go on at the same price ; 2,000 to 100 was
taken about Pickle, for the same stakes. Closing prices :

THE DERBY.
to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Bubastes
7 to 1 agst Mr. Yates's Bentley (taken)
17 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Delirium (taken)
17 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Olympic
25 to 1 agst Lord Jerset's Glencoe
40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's t reedom
50 to 1 agst Lord Burlington's Barrosacolt (taken)
No others mentioned.
OAKS.
11 to 2 agst Mr. Walker's Cotillon7(taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Pickle (taken)
Lord Chesterfield's and Mr. Walker's horses reached New.
market on Wednesday, from the north.
Mr. Ridsdale has sold St. Giles, winner of the Derby in 1832,
to Mr. Kirby, for 1,200 guineas.
The St. Alban's Steeple Chase is fixed for the 13th of March
he entry closes on the previous Saturday.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.— Consi-
derable sensation has been excited by the sudden and mys-
terious disappearance of Mr. Thomas George Dawson, col-
lecting clerk to Mr. Stevens, salesman, residing in Lead-
enhall Market. It appears that on Monday, the 27th
ult., the young man left his employer for the purpose of
collecting money round Oxford•street and the squares ad-
jacent, and on the afternoon of the same day he called at
Mr. Jolley's, poulterer, Charing.cross, to whom he stated
that be had for some time been follewed by several suspi-
cious looking persons, who he considered designed to rob
him. He then left with Mr. Jolley a large sum of money,
and stated that he was going to Mr. Mezer's, High.street,
St. Giles's. Since, then, however, ite has not been heard
of, and it is stated that Le never called upon the above-
named gentleman. Every exertion has been made to
ascertain the fate of the young man, but hitherto without
effec. He is upwards of SO years of age, about 5 ft. 5 in.
in height, and has the appearance of being in a consump-
tion, which is attended by a violent cough.
DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND SERINGA-
PATAM.—The British Army was tin a fine state of equip:
went, and had in its ranks one who ever after carried
with him the fortune of the day, and who now in his very
first attack on Tippoo's right wing evinced well merited
confidence in the British bayonets, which he has always
proudly boasted won him every victory. Colonel
Wellesley led the attack on the Sultan's army which lay
encamped within thirty miles of Seringapatim ; a large
column of Tippuo's brat disciplined troops advanced to
meet him in noble style; the English infantry under
Wellesley stood fast, receiving their opponents' fire until
they arrived within sixty yards, when the Engli,h rushed
to the charge with an impetus which it was impossible
for the Mysoreans to withstand ; they quivered under the
dreadful shock for a moment, then broke their ranks and
were completely routed by General Floyd with the cavalry.
Tippoo made little further resistance in the field, but threw
himself into his strong capital with the elite of his forces;
and on the sth of April the British encamped on the
western side of Seringapatam, the siege of which went
forward with determined rapidity, though peace was
offered to Tippoo when he solicited terms on the 26th of
April, which, however, he subsequently rejected. On the
4 h of May, at I p. m., the breach being completed in the
curtain, a storming party of lour thousand British, led by
the gallant Baird, moved to the attack; the parapet was
speedily gained,—" Come my brave fellows," said their
heroic leader in the presence of both armies—" follow
me and prove yourselves worthy the name of British
soldiers !" The appeal was nobly answered : after a des-
perate but useless resistance, the Mysoreans were totally
routed ; and when the territde conflict had ceased, the
lifeless hotly of Tippoo Sail) was found buried beneath a
piled heap of wounded, dead and dying men ,nd horses,
and the dynasty of Hyder Ali had ceased to reign. •
INDIA PRIOR TO THE BRITISH OCCUPA-
Ttorr.—Timour was Justly denominated the " firebrand of
the universe"—the greatest wholesale butcher that huma-
nity ever heard of: he plundered and massacred without
distinction of religion or sex, and his track was matksd
by blood, desolation, famine, and pestilence. Aurunez -be
was little better towards the undoes ; Tippoo Seib cir-
cumcised all the Brahmins he could get hold of, and it is
said sixty thousand Christians were subjected by him to
the same operation. After Alaialleh captured Delhi in
1761, I e ordered a general massacre which lasted seven
day. ! His guards were not even then glutted with elaugh-
tsr, but the stench of dead bodies drove them out of the
coy ; a great part of the imildings were reduced to ashes,
and thousands who escaped the sword sufferk d a lingering
death by famine, sitting upon the ruins of their smokine
tenements. Thus a city extending thirty f air miles in
length, and containing two millions of inhabitants, be-
cime almost a heap ef ruins. The historians of the day
Ihave handed down to posterity the most appalling descrip-
tions of human suffering, of women and men whipped
naked through the streets with wanton tortures,--citizens
INDIA OR DACCA MUSLINS.—.The divi- fleeing from their dearest friends as from leetst, of prey for
sion of labour was carried to a great extent in the menu- fear of being devoured amidst general starvation ; women
facture of fine muslins. In spinning the very fine thread, feeding on their own children, and infants sucking at the
more espcially, a great degree of skill was attained. It breasts of their deceased mothers ; fire and sword seemed
was spun with the fingers on a tukwah, or fine steel to contend for pre-eminence in the work of havoc and de-
spindle, by young women, who could only work during structiun; the work of war and blood was perpetual, hu-
the early part of the morning, while the dew wee on the man heads piled in pyr mids, and the streets of cities and
ground ; for such was the extreme tenuity of the fibre, towns rendered impass ".ale by heaps of el tin; the country
that it would nut bear manipulation after the sun had in many places exhibiting tew sie,ns of being inhabited,
risen. One, ruttee of cotton could thus be spun save in the hones of murdered bodies, and the smouldering
into a thread eighty cubits long ; which was sold by the ruins of villages and temples ; all law and religion trodden
spinners at one rupee eight sonar per sicca weight. The under foot, bonds of private friendship as well as of society
ruffuoghurs, darnels were also particularly skilful.
broken, and every individual as is amidst a forest of wild
Tirey could remove an entire thread from a piece of mus- beasts could rely upon nothing but the strength of his own
lin, and replace it try one of a finer texture. The cotton arm, or the deep villany of his nature.
used for the finest thread was grown in the immediate HINDOO SHARK FIGHTER.—" The boat
neighbourhood of Dacca ; more especially about Suner- was on its progress down the Houghly, when a huge shark
gong. Its fibre is too short, however, to admit of its was seen swimming round it : the combatant, on the offer
being worked up by any except th tt most wonderful of all of a small reward for Iris dexterity,—holding the rope, on
machines—the hutnan band. The art of making the very which be had made a sort of running'knot, in one band,
fine muslin fabrics is now lost—and pity it is that it and stretching out the other arm, as if already in the act
should be so. jof swimming, stood in an attitude, truly picturesque,

leaking the re-appearance of the shark. At about six or
eight yards from the boat the animal rose near the sur-
face, when the native instantly plunged into the water a
short distance from the very jaws of the monster. The
shark immediately turned round, and swam slowly to•
wards the man, who, in his turn, nothing daunted, struck
out the arm that was at liberty, and approached his fee.
When within a foot or two of the shark, the native diOed
beneath him—the animal going down almost at the same
instant. The bold assailant in this frightful contest soon
re-appeared on the oppo-ite side of the shark, switntninz
fearlessly with the hand be had at liberty, and holding the
rope behind his back with the other. The shark, which
had also by this time made his appearance again, imme-
diately swam towards him ; and while the animal was
ipparently in the act of lifting himself over the lower
part of the native's body, that he might seize upon his
prey, the man making a strong effort, threw himself up
p,rpendicuiarly, and went down with his feet f t.etnost—
the shark following him so simultaneously that we were
fully impressed with the idea that they had gone dawn
grappling together. As far as could be judged, they re-
tnained nearly twenty seconds out of sight, while we
stood in breathless anxiety, and it may be added horror,
waiting the result of this fearful encounter. Suddenly
the native made his appearance holding up both his hands
over his bead, and calling out with a voice that proclaimed
the victory he bad won, while underneath the wave,—
' tan—tan I' The people in the boat were all prepared—
the rope was instantly drawn tight, and the struggling
victim, lashing the water in his wrath, was dragged to the
shore and despatched. This truly intrepid man receiv,d
only a cut on the left.arm, apparently from the fin of his
formidable enemy."

ENGLAND'S COLONIAL COMMERCE AND
FUTURE PaoseFers.—Our colonial commerce, is capable
of rendering us independent of the whole world,—of giv-
ing profitable employment to our half-starved population,
thus renovating the social fabric at its base, and making
England mere secure in her dominion over the ocean,—
more powerful for the protection of the oppressed,—more
wealthy fur the relief of the poor,—more thoroughly effi-
cient for disseminating the boundless blessings of religion.
Btsylon, Nineveh, and Rome, fell from their high estate,
leaving no traces of their past glory but in the name ;
their empire was territorial,—their Government that of
the " few,"—their knowledge unaided by the Press,- their
precepts unguided by the Gospel; not thus is it with fie
British empire; her dominion is maritime,her govern •
went that of the " many,"—her pople's voice heard iie
every corner of the earth through the press, and her en-
deavours for the spread of the Gospel every where crowned
with propitious prospects. Have we then cause to think
the British empire has pissed its meridian, and now
hastens towards the twilight of existence ? No! unless
freedom,—unless knowledge,—unless Christianity be the
stepping stones to annihilation; on our empire the sable
curtain of night is never complete, for while the bright
luminary of the heavens is temporarily unilluining the sales
of Albion, it is but to shed light and life on another sec-
tion of our wondrous social frame ; may this astronomical
phenomenon be typically that of our national history,—
may the sun of Britain's glory never set in eternity till
the great globe itself shall have passed away,—and may
our maritime dominion (under the auspices of Him alone
to whom power and dominion belong) become more and
more consolidated, forming unto Christianity that prophe-
sied kingdom, whose branches and roots will extend over
the habitable earth for the exaltation and happiness of man.
COMMERCE BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA.
—The commerce between Europe and India has ever been
considered one of the most important subjects which could
engage the attention of a mercantile statesman ; and the
fertile regions of the eastern hemisphere, are now anxiously
looked forward to as a rich field for the employment of
British capita', industry and skill ; the re-ult depends on
the justice of England towards Hindoostan. No two
countries could be better adapted by Providence for the
blessings of commerce than the parent (or governing) and
dependent states : the one a small and insulated kingdom
in the western ocean, teeming with a hardy, industrious,
and ingenious population, two-thirds of whom are engaged
in manipulating and vending the produce of more genial
climes, and from their numbers, compared with the area
of habitation, pressing close on national subsistence, while
peace and foreign competition is daily excluding them
rom the monopolized commerce heretofore pos,essed : the
other an almost illimitable territory in the eastern world,
connected, though separated by the navigable ocean, rich
to overflowing with every bounty with which na,ure has
enriched the earth, and peculiarly so in those agricultural
products necessary to the manufactures, comforts, and
luxuries of the more civilized nation. Heretofore the in-
calculable blessings to be derived from two countries Volt
favourably situate, have been wantonly or wickedly or in•
advertently neglected; let me hope that a better era is now
dawning for England as well as for India,—that the
former has now begun'to perceive the suicidal folly of beg-
garing the latter,—the temporary advantages of which are
as nought compared with the permanent irijury received as
well as inflicted; and that the merciful dispensations of an
all and ever-wise Being who has made the interchange of
superfluous or indigenous commodities one of the most
powerful instruments for exciting and sharpening the in-
ventive industry of man, and uniting the whole human
race in bonds of fraternal connection and cbristian charity,
will no longer be spurned`with an apathy or impiety which
sooner or later will receive its merited punishment,

THE COCOA NUT TREE OF CEYLON) ITS
TA RIOUS USES —From Columbo to Tangafle, a dis.
tance of one hundred miles along the sea shore, planta-
tions of cinnamon amidst groves of cocoa nut trees, ski:t
the whole coast for ten miles from the bordering of the
tide, which laves the very roots of those graceful and io-
dispensable palms, the cocoa nut, being in reality the
most valuable product of the island; I recoil, ct he tritity,
in Ceylon an enumeration of ninety-nine distinct stacks
made from this tree, among the principal were-1. Ar-
rack (the spirit under this name, made from the cocoa nut
blossom, is far superior to the Batavian arrack made from
rice) which is distilled from the sweet juice of the incised
flower stock, termed, 2. " Toddy," in itself a delicion
wholesome beverage, when drank fresh drawn before the
morning sun has caused fermentation to commence. 3.
Jaghery, a course, strong grained, but peculiar flavoured
sugar (well adapted for crystilization, or refining in Eng-
land), made in abundance from toddy. 4. Vinegar, equal
to any made from white wine, also prepared from the
toddy, and used in making exquisite 5. pickles, from the
young shoots, 6. Cuir or ropes, so strong and elasric, and
having the peculiar property of being best preserved for
use in sea water (hence their adaptation for mooring
and other purposes, to which they are now applied in
Mauritius harbour and elsewlttre, as also for running
rigeing in the Indian shipping). '7. Brushes and brooms
of various descriptions. 8. Matting of excellent quality.

9. Miters for houses. 10. Oil of much value, ant mew
used in England for candles as well as lamps. 11. Gut-
ters or water spouts or conveyances for which the 61147-

stem or trunk is so well adapted. 12. Thatching fir 04t,
peasantry, the shady broad leaf being admirably sorters foe
the purpose. To particularise further would, however,
e tedious, suffice it to say, that the natives of the Maldive
island send an annual embassy to Ceylon, the boats e„,n.
crying whom are entirely prepared from this tr:ee, the
persons composing the embassy, clothed and on its pro,
ducts, and the numerous presents for the Governor of
Ceylon, are all manufactured from this queen of the palms.
SINGAPORE. -- PHYSICAL ASPECT.--The

i•land is on the north, separated front the main land of the
Malayan peninsula, by a very small strait, which in its
narrowest part is not more than one quarter of a mile
wire. On the front, and distant abiut nine to i it an

exte,sive chain of almost desert isles, the channel between
which and Singapore is the grand rotate of commerce be-
tween eastern ~nd w. stern Asia. The aspect is low and level,
with an extensive chain of saline and fresh water mar-hey,
in several parts covered whit lofty timber and luxuriant
vegetation,—here and there low rounded landed 11.11,
spersed with spots of level ground, formed of a ferroginoaa
clay with a sandy substance. The principal rock is red
sand-stone, which changes in some parts to a breccia or
conglomerate, containing large fragments and crystals of
quartz. The whole contiguous group of isles, about thirty
is number, as will as Singapore, are evidently of a sub-
marine origin, and their evulsion probably of ho very dis-
tnt date. The town stands on the south coast, on a point
of laws near the west end of a bay where there is a salt

creek or river navigable for lighters nearly a mire from the
sea; on the east side of the town is a de-p inlet for the
shelter of native boats. Tne town consists generally of
stone houses of two stories high, but in the suburbs, called
Campong-g!am, Campong-Malacca, and Campong-China,
bamboo huts are erected on posts, most of them standing is
the at igultit water. Oa the east side of the harbour en-
terprising British merchants are erecting substantial and

ornamental houses fronting the sea, and presenting a strong
contrast to the wretched tenements of the Malays. The
ground is generally raised three feet, and the mansions
have a superb entrance by an riscrnt of granite stairs, then
an elegant portico supported by magnificent Grecian co—
lumns of every order of architecture: the rooms are lofty,
with IT,,ne,ian windows down to the floor, and furnished
in a luxurious manner; each tenement provid, d with its
baths, billiard tables, &c., while the grounds are t istefully
out wida shrubs of beautiful foliage, the tout ensemble
(fording a most picturesque prospect from the shipping ill
the roadstead.