The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-14 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

(From the New York Journal of Commerce of April !
uWe understand, says the National Intelligencer, n,-,,
is determined.at the Treasury to pay off five millions of
principal of the public debt on the Ist of July next. '
A Bill has passed in the Legislature of Pe.unsylvaot"
prohibiting entirely the circulation of notes below fire dti''''
lass after the Ist of January neat.
A correspondent of the-Evening Post, says that "Sr''
Randolph is now dangerously and alarmingly ill." 4
The model of a printing press, which was leentioo°
some months since, is now in successful experiment `?,
the office of the Christian Advocate and Journal. It„,'
said to be capable of striking off on both sidee frog
Jim- to five thousand sheets in one hour. The sliet,r
is drawn through in a straight line between two set° s'd
cylinders, in one set of which the form of typos is eV,
to the upper cylinder and in the other to the lower. 'W-
are still other cylinders for the purpose of distrihntingt
ink to each of the type cylinders. The machine is',l,-,
contrived in such a manner as to feed itself and, lay off "s 1
paper, au that only one attendant is necessary. That it Wticiii
succeed well in stereotype printing is, we believe, dorlb
by none: ,
(Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.)
%V ASIJIX GT6IC, APRIL- 3, IB2B.—The House of Ref 4.
sentativea to-day continued the discussion of the Tarift,':
The third amendment reported by the Committee of o'''
Whole on the state of the Union being before the IleAtl'e,''
the House 'refused to concur by a vote of 36 to 132.
question was en imposing a duty of 30 cents. a gallon :0
foreign spirits. Mr. Buchanan then moved to insert
cents., which was alto negatived .by a vote of 102 ,to. ..,,i
;
Mr. Buchanan then moved to insert 15 cents., whichn
agreed to—ayes 106, noes 87. Mr. Mallarytheri rine%
the first amendment he had proposed in Committee of t',
Whole, which led to some discussion, but the amendloirer
was finally negatived—ayes 80, noes 115. No Oss
amendment was acted on.
' There is no doubt that the Bill will be finally acted,ea
this week. But whether the attempt will be made tor;
tarn the previous question on Thursday or Saturday, 't
impossible yet to tell. There is
.no prospect now of S.
modification of the Bill so as to meet the views of the 1;
risbUrgh Convention,, and to conform to the proposit
submitted by the Chairman 'of the Committee on SO"'
facture's. Consequently, the Bill will not be cherished
those who entertain these views, and who have deel,w-
that this Bill is worse than no Bill. The duty on 001°7,
if retained, will certainly alienate from the Bill all is. sit
i,
from New England, who might have been otherlf:i
disposed to vote for it. The Senate, it is well know,24
vote against the Bill, on constitutional grounds, so, ths,
fsom these facts, you may readily conceive the perilous Sitos
tion in 'which the Bill now stands. I will not venture °t
decided opinion, but my impression is that the Bill cans:,
pass., I think the vote on the amendment of Mr. Diana I
was the signal vote of its dissohitions, •
.61
As soon as the Bill shall be disposed of, a day will. be
CO"
en for the adjournment of Congress, and some of the n3l
important Bill lying on the table of the House, wail,
for its legislative action, will be taken up. With all' wail,
industry which the House can apply, it is not not likely ld'r
that, with nearly 250 Bills vet to be discussed and ,c
tided, ,a great mass of public and private business will ° '
as usual, driven oyer to the next Session. 't
TILE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.-The following is an estr3'.
of a.letter, to the Editor- of the Arkansas Gazette, fro -
gentleman at Helena, dated 9th inst. It
.t' The Mississippi has fallen about two inches here. t
is said to have been as high as it was ever known befuteo'r
any season of the year; you may judge, therefore, that OA
streets are not very dusts-. The amount of stock ilrOviP`i
by the overflow, in this neighbourhood, I am told, wall°c
be less than three or four thousand dollars' worth. 1-
wood merchants have also lost considerably.
„e.
..SAVAN,IIAIi, Arnie 2.—The valuable steam-mill, WI s
ther witlithe iron-foundry, On
,the river, abut two anu-,
half miles 419 town, belonging to W. H. WAlpitio t•
totally destroyedby fire yesterday morning, about ftv
o'clock, The 'leSs is contsiderable, exceeding., probw
15,000 dollars... ' Nothing was insured.
• 0. 0
SA LMON ntr.r o.—A fish of this species, weiglLtlhx the
pounds, caught in Schoodic Lake, which empties into , /
Piscataquis, at Kilmarnock, was salt in this town a let
weeks since. Immediately after, Mr. Colby and Alt,
Chick atiade.a lour to the Lake, and caught fifteen •Pf 1),
same species; , the largest of which, however, weigho°.",
10 pounds. Last week, Mr. Chick and others went Wts.
and caught-thirty, the lsrest„ of which weighed le Pcicit's i,
We have had the pleasi.tre of eating them, and think tiV*3
excellent. They are hard, - rich, and of fine flavour'
Bangor (Ate..,), Paper: , .
A •Fishery Society lies been established at Halifax, tO eIY
courage the Fisheries by preu.,iiurns, as Agriculfiugist Sr
cieties encourage Farming, , •
Te Legislature of New Brunswick has gratiiel
i 16,000 dollars to encourage the Fisheries of that Provilre '
' and 12,000 to encourage the raising of grain on new laret
...
By the. schooner, Tabasco, Crowell, arrived last eveui4
in .24 days from Tobasm, we, receive the following intol4'
gence : .
A brig and schooner had been cruising off that port f°r
ionie time—supposed to be manned by pirates—in con"'
quenee of which au embargo for three weeks was laid
all Mexican vessels. Corn. Porter had sent two unt°
war in pursuit of them, and the embargo bad been °lke?
off when the Tobacco sailed. The markets for Ar°,er,','
can produce .were dull. After the Ist of April a- 'it"
of 13. per cent. WO i to be laid on all kinds of Anlerie't"„
produce. On the evening of the 4th February, twee
nine and ten o'clock, a severe shock of an earthquake was
felt at Tobasco. The roofs of the church and jail fell
end about 80 feet on the bank of the river -disappeared. i
'small town, 30 miles from Tobasco, situated at the foot °
a motuStain, and. containing about 8000 inhabitants, "91
nearly destroyed. At the city of Teppa several building'
were destroyed,' and a number of persons perished.

BIRTHS. '
Oii the 12th instant, at Lowdbant-hall, Suffolk, the lade
of Charles Devon, Esq. of a daughter.
On the 13th instant, Mrs. Edward Willoughby, of Lin-
caster-place, of a son.
On the 13th instant, at Highbury-bill, the residence of
Joshua Wilson, rsq. the lady of Henry E 54. °
tuthhee Es
Ut gt k :1 daughter.
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On the 10th instant, in Upper Bedford-place, Rtiss4e'.-
square; the lady
of .I'. A. Raynsford, Esq. of a daughter'
still-bunt.