The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-13 00:00:00

THE FOG.

The fog of yesterday has seldom been exceeded in
opacity in the metropolis and its neighbourhood, and
many accidents may be expected to be heard of in
consequence. It began to thicken very much about
half-past twelve o'clock, from which time, till near
two, the effect was most distressing, making the ,
eyes smart, and almost suffocating those who were
in the street, particularly asthmatic persons. In
the City all the bankers, and offices of different de-
scriptions, as well in the principal Thops, were
obliged to have lights. To see with any distinct-
ness further than across the street was impossible;
all the narrow lanes, beyond the perspective of a few
yards, were absolutely in state of darkness,
and in the great thoroughfares the hallooing
'of coachmen and drivers to avoid each other,
seemingly issuing from the opaque mass in
which they were enveloped, was calculated to
awake all the caution of riders, as well as of pedes-
trians who had to cross ie streets. On the
Thames, as on land, the tendency which fog has to
enlarge distant objects, was strikingly illustrated;
the smallest vessels on their approach seemed mag-
nified to thrice their usual dimensions. St. Paul's

had a prodigious effect through the mist, though
neither that nor the Monument were visible above
the height of the houses. This optical allusion is
said to arise from the fog diminishing the brightness
of objects, and, consequently, suL-gNiting a greater
distance ; whereas, when the visw/l angle remains
the same, the greater the distance the greater the
magnitude ; hence objects at a moderate distance
appear to be magnified. It cleared off a little about
a quarter, est two, but returned with all its density
in the evening.
Lord Bacon defines these perioeical mists to be
imperfect condensations of the air, consisting of a
large proportion of the air, and a small one of the
aqueous vapour, and to happen most in winter,
about the change of the weather horn frost to thaw,
or from thaw to frost; others describe them as
clouds resting on the ground. These are on most
occasions considerably elevated in the air; but in
all countries they are sometimes found on the surface
of the earth, causing a degree of opacity in the air,
which is greater or lesser according to circumstances.
Mr. Boyle observes, that upon the coast of Coro-
mandel, and most maritime parts of the East Indies,
there are, notwithstanding the heat of the climate,
annual fogs so thick, as to occasion people of other
nations, who reside there, and even the more tender
part of the natives, to keep their houses close shut up.
A principal reason for fogs being more frequent
in winter than in summer, and more particularly on
the sea coasts, and in the vicinity of great rivers, it
said to arise from the greater capacity of water for
heat than earth ; consequently the former is more
slowly brought to the temperature of the atmosphere
upon any change. In winter, sometimes a sudden
cold is induced by a change of wind : the air then is
coldest; next to it the land, and last the water;
which is but slowly reduced to temperature for the
reason mentioned. Many instances occur of great
fogs in summer. In July, 1783, a letter from Dover
states a fog to have then continued at that port
longer than had ever been known in the oldest me-
mory, and in consequence of which they had not
been able to descry the coast of France for three
weeks. When fogs stink, the vapours are mixed
with sulpureous exhalations.
The extreme density of fogs in places in watery
situations, on the sea coast, and on great rivers, is
evidenced in various notices of them in the periodi-
cals of former years.

In 1744, at the Hague, so great a fog overspread
the town at noon day, that they were forced to
carry torches before the coaches, and the coachmen
to lead their horses. People in the churches were
obliged to stay till it cleared up before they could
return home.

Dublin has frequently felt the effect of great fogs.
Several accidents are stated to have happened from
them there in the winter of 1798 and 1813. In the
former year so dense a fog happened, that the like
had not been remembered by tha oldest man living;
the streets were at one time so dark, that people
could hardly distinguish one another's faces. At
night it was not possible to see without lighted
flambeaux. This fog was attended by a faint easterly
wind.
The great fog preceding the hard frost. of 1813-14,
when the Thames was frozen over, was remarked for
its density and the numerous accidents it occasioned.
His present Majesty, then Prince Regent, had left
town December 27, say the papers, for Belvoir
Castle, but at a little distance was forced to return.
Lord Lowther was in one carriage with the Prince,
and General Turner in a second. They had not gone
far, when an outrider was thrown into r ditch.—
It is observed, that no instance of such a fog had
been known since the earthquake at Lisbon, in 1755;
when the country was visited by a greater fog than
had been known for a century before. The December
of 1818 was also distinguished by an intense fog.

Ijitu'tC.2.3..ALLAElete;tEing.BoarutiNiesGlVraic:iuKatoes edicascaTteld-
College, was held on Friday, Pt Mouttison's,
ItaetutTTarlill°:.iejNnliiinNyLio consideration the propriety of forming a Bruns-
wick Constitutional Club, to be composA solely of the '
Graduates of that University. Tue Meeting was very hu-
merously attended. It was expected that the Vice-Provost
would take the Chair, but the Rev. Doctor was obliged, by
pressing and indispensible business, to absent himself. His
place was, however, admirably supplied by Viscount CAS-
TLIMAINE, who came into the roam accidentally. The
Meeting was rather numerously attended,
A SOP FOR ANTIQUARIES.—A resident at
Blackball, a small village about two miles from this city,
who dues not, however, favour us with his name, commu-
nicates the following discovery. A labs' user, while digging
a trench behind a house possessed by Mr. JA2,I3S NAPIER,
innkeeper, at Blackball, struck his spade upon a hollow_
sounding substance, about fors; feat from the surface. Oa
during away the monid lie discover N.l a coffin. which,
with the aid of Mr. NAPIER, he eomF.2tely uncovered after
an hour and a half's work. It measures seven feet three
inches in length, and two feet six inclu:s in breadth. It is
formed of very black oak, two inches in thickness. With
some difficulty the discoverers wrenched off the lid, when
it was found to contain a body, wrapped in a brown sort of
elotb, covered with something very liki! wax. On the face
being exposed; it appeared in good preservation. Mr.
NArIER has secured the coffin and its contents in an out-
house, for the inspection of the curious.._ So saith our aue
nymons correspondent, whose story we ~!an neither authen-
ticate nor contradict; but we recumtn.nd the admirers of
mummies to inquire into the matter..—,Edinburgh
Observer,

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

The silk people are determined to visit on us

the crimes of Mr. Huskisson and his conntier-
cial reform. These gentlemen have taken rather

a shoppish way of arguing the merits of the
question which they have clamoured hard to re-

yive, but for which we are well convinced they
will fail to procure a re-hearing by the Legisla-
ture,
so long as one branch of it has any claim

and 40
to be a representative of public opinion,
long as the nation in general retains its reason-
ing faculties. A meeting of silk-weavers, not
many weeks ago, came forward with resolutions

consequence,
enormous _
declaratory of the distress by which the trade
as they said, of
who substituted
(for.es pro-
tectingafflicted,
f le i
treasuresdpetureetd;i oaoigfunasel prohibition)r. seukieg: sst manufactured silks.
The arguments a priori in favour of Mr. Hus-
kisson's measure, derived from general principles
of commerce, have been strikingly enforced and
illustrated by subsequent and almost uniform ex-
perience of the condition of the trade. The
British manufacturer enjoyed, under the old
system, a legal monopoly of the British market .
This was, according to common sense and Mr.
Huskisson, not only a grievous oppression to tie
consumer, but a positive injury, looking at final
consequences, to the quality of the home ar-
ticle, and to the extension and prosperity of
the trade itself. We hare frequently stated
these grounds of decided approbation on
behalf of the measures of Mr. Huskisson.

—ln speaking the other day on this subject,
and enumerating the advantages of which the
new law had been productive, we mentioned
one, which, in the present condition of the,
trade, was of very inconsiderable comparative
importance, but which could be justly stated as
existing in reference only to the year 1827,—we
mean the export of British manufactured silks to
foreign countries. Now this 4eing a weak, and,
as we shall prove presently, a most insignificant
part of the subject, is the solitary point to which
the Milk-street malcontents apply 'themselves in
noticing our views upon the general merits of
the question'.- 'Upon
.the,rightis of the consumer
to protection,' T they say --not-°a-Word ; upon the
extinction of -the silk-= itianufacture throughout
the country,—upon the increase in the importa-
tion of raw silk,—upon the great increase in
the home consumption of British manufactured
lilks,-.--upod the 'Sensityle improvement in the
quality of the goods, arising from the 'downfall of
the monopoly", and'Ote:fOundation "which it lays
fora future "expo & `trade ''to- foieign countries,
theSe • candid and enlightened persons are abso-
lutely silent-:„. With dogged diScretion they stand
Upon the single narrow spot that we have afforded
them, viz. that the export trade has not vet
progressively increased. Well, we give it to
them ; and now see how much they get by it. The
value of manufactured silk exported in 1823,
the year before the change of the system, was
181,000/. ; it fell progressively—in 1824, to
159,0001. ; in 1825, to 150,0001.; in 1826
(a6ftle,rootlolel . 13 ;
a n
justie ) , 12006;0000001/. short . ;in l 8
02f7,
theit
yearroseto
1823. There are two thing's to be 'observed
1
here: ISt, the ridicule of attempting to trace a
fall in the export to that reduction of duties on
the raw material which must, on every principle,
be considered as the natural means of lowering
the price of the manufactured article, and there-
by, one day or other, facilitating an export
trade. 2d. The absurdity of dwelling, as of pri-
mary importance, upon a fact which is altogether
subordinate or insignificant in its relation to the
substance of the subject, as we shall now demon-
strate. - The increase -in the importation of raw
silk entered for hoine consumption, during - the
years aboVe referred to, Was as followS, taken in
lbs. and in round numbers :-
1823 (before the change) . • £2,432,000
1824 (year of the change) . 3,993,000
1825 year of cotton bubble) . 3,589,000
1826 year of universal re-action) 2,244,000
1827 year of recovery)
. 4,209,000
. .

wlk
,_
Now, compare the quaidity entered last year for
home consumption, with that of the year before
the new law took place, and see what is the dif-
ference in pounds . avoirdupois, and next in
pounds sterling. The increase in. pounds of
raw silk is_ above 1,770,000. Taking each
pound of raw silk at Ms., will givee think, us,it for the
am to
increased value of, the rate material only, im-
ported for home-consumption, above .1,400,000 L,
but if the value of the labour employed upon it,
and of the profit which. it, brings, be added,
(which, indeed, we -cannot venture to calculate),
the case is pretty well settled,
the balance of good and evil, where the home-
market has almost doubled its demands, making
an addition, in point of raw silk , , g
I only, of near
a million and a half sterling, while the export
trade has lost—and lost, very manifestly, not
because of the new
of it, 20,0001. at the most. We can carry
on this debate no farther, and we must request
of Milk-street to pour out its exuberance
through some other channel. The country is
not made for a prey to any set of manufacturers,
whatever may be their inclinations. If the price
of silks have fallen and their quality improved, it
is a benefit which the public ought to rejoice at,
and a proof that competition has been at work
to repair the .evils of an obstinate and oppressive
monopoly, during which no manufacturer would
have vouchsafed to disturb his invention, or call
forth his capital, for the satisfaction of purchasers
over whom the law had made him (to what ex-
tent he pleased) a tyrant. Our numerous cor-
respondents on this subject (we have received
above a dozen long letters since Tuesday even-
Mg) must excuse us for not publishing their
communications. They will see that we have
read them, and not inattentively.W e positively
will read no more, unless they come warranted
by persons of the highest respeclabilitv.—Times.
For the poor Spaniards, perishing by hun-
dreds, we once more appeal to the mercy of
Christian countrymen. The Duke of Welling-
ton aloes '
nothing, and will, or can, do nothing ;
yet are there about 300 families—the pride of
Spain, men, women, and children—actually
starving : neither food, nor clothing, nor
-hence-
forth house-room, for - the Committee's funds
are gone ! And at what a season ! and in what
A cause! To bid them go back to Spain, and
trust the faith of Ferdinand, is a barbarous
mockery. How can they pay their passage ?
creatures who have not the price of a penny loaf
a piece ! Set them down in Spain, and who is
to support them ? Their properties are confis-
cated—their household goods are sold—the
wolves of the Camarillo are hungry for the blood
of the " Negroes !" In what language shall
we address the people of England for these for-
lorn fellow ehristians—shall we set before them
a single group of sufferers? We could do it ;
but it would break any human heart to behold
them. A few thousand pounds a year would

save them, one and all, from destruction. Oh !
when the budget comes before Parliament, who
is there that would refuse such a pittance to the
helpless, hopeless, prostrate, famished exile ?
Ibid.

The question of the liquidation of the Portuguese
bonds is one which deeply involves the credit arid
the character of the Brazilian Monarch. Nothing
can be more unjust than the refusid to pay the inte-
rest due upon them after its being so solemnly gua-
ranteed, and nothing assuredly can be more flimsy
than the pretexts that have been assigned for so ex-
traordinary a refusal. On the Treaty by which the
burthen of those bonds was transferred from Portu-
gal to Brazil—transferred, be it observed, not only
by a fair bargain, but by one in which the latter
country was clearly the gainer—no imputation has
been attempted to be thrown. It is no spurious nor
equivocal document. The rights of the British cre•
ditor under it are as legal as they are indisputable.
One article declares the obligation of Brazil; an-
other declares the intended mode of its
What is that mode ? To release Portugal from
the charge of paying the bonds in question, and to
substitute Brazil as the creditor of the holders. The
debt which had been incurred by Portugal, there-
fore, became part and parcel the debt of Brazil, and
in honour and in justice the payment of the princi-
pal and interest is as much incumbent on that
country as is the payment of the Brazilian bonds of
1824eand 1825. To the arrangement made by this
Treaty it- is true the bondholders were not parties;
but what of that ? It did but give to them a double
guarantee for full and regular payment. With-
out the Treaty they had Portugal to look to ;
with it they had Portugal and Brazil united, so !Ong
as one or both were solvent. So far as regards
Brazil, Portugal may be considered to be released
from obligation—that is, if Brazil fulfil the treaty ;
but so far as regards the English creditor, both are
fully and legally bound—Portugal as the party to
whom the loan was made ; Brazil as the party by
whom its payment was voluntarily undertaken. The
Lill was accepted by Portugal, and indorsed by
Brazil; and either party or both are clearly liable to
the drawer to the utmost extent of their means.
We shall not dwell at present on the way in which
the sums that ought to have paid the dividends have
been appropriated. Yet that is no unimportant in-
quiry. We may pity a debtor,who has not means
of discharging his obligations—we may make allow-
ances where the money that ought to have been ap-
propriated to that purpose has 'been applied to the
purchase of necessaries ; but what is to be said of
him who, in such circumstances, lavishes his assets
on idle follies, or worse ? Brazil, for certain advan-
tages received from Portugal, undertakes to pay cer-
tain bills ; and, having, for reasons that will not bear
a moment's consideration, seen meet to quarrel with
the mother country, she not only violates her en-
gagements, but employs the funds destined for their
fulfilment to insult and injure the Government to
whom the innocent creditor might otherwise have
had recourse. Not only does she refuse to pay, but
she has the baseness and dishonesty to do all in her
power to prevent any one else from doing so.-
41Iorning Journal.

Among all the effusions of bigotry and intolerance
that have yet issued from the Brunswickers, none
have surpassed in cant, hypocrisy and folly, the Decl-
aration of a portion of the Clergy of the Diocese
.of
Rochester, published yesterday in a provincial paper.
In the space of a few sentences it contains all the
exploded calumnies that malice has invented, or
silly credulity believed. It is consolatory, however,
to the friends of civil and religious liberty to observe,
that not a single name is to be found in the list that
is known either to the walks of theology or litera-
ture. The opinions, therefore, of such a descrip-
tion of persons (if sincere) can have no weight; but
it is to be feared that many of them have to answer
for a much more serious imputation than mere igno-
rance. It is impossible that, at the present day,
when improvement has become 4o general, any con-
siderable numbers can be found above the rank of
hoors and hinds, and especially in a profession the
members of which ought to be learned, who con-
scientiously can echo the sentiments of a Winehel-
sea and a Newcastle.—Morning Chronicle.

Jean Jaques Rousseau, in a letter to Mirabeau,
the Economist, observes, with regard to the hopes
entertained of the improvement of our species—
" The Abbe de St. Pierre conceived that human
reason was in a course of perpetual improvement,
because every age adds its stores of knowledge to
those of preceding ages. He did not see that the
human understanding has always the same measure,
alai that a very narrow one—that it loses on the
one hand as much as it gains on the other—and that
prejudices, constantly reviving, deprive us of
as much acquired knowledge as cultivated in-
tellect can supply the place of." The opinion
of the Genovese Philsopher is still occa-
sionally expressed, and many more entertain it,
perhaps, than choose to give expression to their
thoughts. And yet there is no opinion which all
history inure triumphantly refutes. Look at the
Bushman of the Cape of Good Hope, the miserable
native of New Holland, and then look at the most
neglected of the inhabitants of St, Giles, and the
distance between them will perhaps be found as
peat as that between the denizen of St. Giles and
the most astute Counsel, who daily labour to en.
lighten or perplex 'Judges or Jurors in our Law
C?urtC The position that our ancestors were as
wise as!VI a are appears most absurd, when we take
. society its rudest state, and observe the savage, a
prey to dm grossest.superstitions, constantly in dread
of the wrath of souse malevolent deity, and exerting
his mental powers exclusively in obtaining the means
of
siti..4fying his most urgent wants. At what period
in civilization, from the state of this savage, are we
to stop and say—here we have reached the limits of
- wisdom and experience.? If we take every century
we shall find that experience has added to the stores'
of knowledge, and reduced the mass of error. Then
why are we to suppose that the course of improve-
ment ; 3 terminated, and that errors and prejudices
of all sorts will still be as prevalent as ever; and
that the idea which is fondly entertained by the
well-disposed, that by their labours the lot of their
fellow creatures will be benefited, is a rnietseable de -
lusion ? No man who has passed the middle of life will
hesitate to admit that intelligence is now much more
generally diffused than it was thirty years ago,and that
the people are much less liable to be carried away by
prejudice and delusion. '1 his improvement has
taken place in spite of the deteriorated cenditi.on
of the working classes, and the tendency of excessive
lat.= to unfit the mind for reading, s.nd to drive
men to the public-house to recruit their essh3Ost,(l
spirits by stimulants. We need not say that the nie
creased intelligence of the lower orders improves the
morality of their superiors, for the temptation to
work on ignorance is often too great for the virtue
of those who think they can turn it to account, All
who
are in the lsast familiar with history know that
the morality of Europe, three or four hundred years
ago, was beyond measure depraved, and that false-
hood and treachery of all sorts were deemed allow-
able resources. It has been shewn by candid
writers, that the morality of the Jesuits vas the mo-
istlity of the age, and that the Jesuits werc singled
out, because their writers had displayed more talent
than others in illustrating. it. But the currency of a
detestable morality pre-supposes a large mass of
ignorance and credulity; for where the gem, i,,'
seen through the skill is no longer of value. We see
yet, wherever -there is a certainty that fraud can he
practised with impunity, it is practised. Hence it
has been observed, that all men who deal in horses
are knaves, and that a Bishop, in selling a horse,
will cheat his best friend as readily as any other man
will. The knavery always rises with the strength of
the hope that it will not be detected. To the same
rause we may attribute the gross attempts at delu-
sion, on the part of the Clergy, in the parts of the
country where ignorance most abounds. We
would not be understood to say, tl•at, all the
Clergy who oppose concession to file Catholics
are interested knaves; there are some, no doubt,
who are themselves under the iafiuence of de-

lusion. But we have no hesitation in avow-
ing our belief, that most of them are insin-
cere, and that they would have recourse to any other
cry as readily as that of "No Napery," if they
thought it would go down with their dupes. Thirty
years ago, the Brunswickers of Leeds would not
have been under the necessity of skulking into a
corner, to escape the disapprobation of the great
body of their fellow-citizens. Thirty years ago, we
should have had Clergymen in this metropolis vying
with their brethren at Maidstone and in Newton
Abbott in the grossness of their insults to common
sense. But the dread of the ridicule of detection in
an attempt to delude, will preserve the Clergy of
the metropolis from an imitation of the .conduct of
their country brethren. 'Filet the people are less
liable to be carried away by absurd reasoning than
formerly, may be proved in a variety of ways. To
take one instance—during the time of the fever oc-
casioned by the attempt to naturalise the .Jews, a
pamphlet was thought so highly of by die citizens of
London, that it was printed several times at their
expence. 'We have in this pamphlet tie very same
arguments urged against the Jews, which the Parsons
urge against the Catholics to the poor creatures
whom they can cozen. " Our Constitution in
Church and State," says the sage of 1753, " is at
present Christian—(it was then " Christian ;" it is
now" Protestant")—founded upon the principles of
Christianity ; and whatever openly and avowedly op-
poses these principles must endanger the Constitu-
tion, so far as its opposition has power. But there
-are no two religions 1,1 the world more opposite than
the infidelity of the ,Jews and the faith of the Chris-
tians; for the Jews are the open and avowed oppo-
sers of those principles of Christianity upon which
our Constitution is founded, and the present Act
in their favour cannot be carried into execution
without increasing the power of their opposition, and
consequently it musts° far endanger the Constitution
as it increases the power of its opposers. No un-
prejudiced person can resist the force of these
truths ; for what can be more self-evident than that
the Jews are the enemies of our Constitution, and,
that putting power into their bands must endanger
the Constitution ? . we have always
apprehended that the Protestant religion was more
dissimilar to the Jewish than any other, the Jewish
being all infidelity and blasphemy, and the Protes-
tant all soundness and tsiith Do
we essentially *Mir concerning the promised Mes-
siah ? Their Messiah is not yet come—they look
for him daily, and are always praying for his coming.
And suppose they should set up Mr. G—n for
their Messiah, for they have often set up a more-
unlikely ppson ; and suppose they should raise a
rebellion, and take up arms to support, his title,
would not this endanger the Constitution ? Most
certainly it would. Our fears of a false Messiah are
not so ridiculous. False Messiahs have certainly
arisen in other parts, and why then may they not
arise in England ? And if they should set up such
an one, would-not our Constitution then be in dan-
ger ? Was it not in danger in the year 1745 ? And
will it not be more in danger, when all the rich
Jews in the world, and their Jure Divine Messiah
at the head of them, shall take up arms on purpose
'to overthrow our Constitution ? By what aye can
the State secure their obedience to its laws ? There
is absolutely none:; for an oath, which is the greatest
security the State can have, lays them under no
obligation; and must not the admission of such per--
sons prove. dangerous to the Constitution ? Do we
not exclude the Papists for this very reason, because
they will keep no faith with us, and are the Jews,
who hold the same doctrine, worthy to be admitted ?
Certainly, the Papists are not quite so bad as the
Jews, and why, then, should admitting the Jews be
supposed not to endanger the State, and yet admit-
ting the Papists to endanger it ? The very prayers
which are daily offered up to God in the Synagogue,
and thrice a day in private by every Jew, implore
the total extirpation of Christianity and of all Chris-
tians; with which they beg the Almighty would
destroy us in the most dreadful manner, that we
may live without hope, mid die without mercy."
Poor Constitution—at one time at death's door from
the Dissenters, at another threatened by the Ales-
slid', and again by the Pope ! Our Protestant Con-
stitution ought to be dear to us, ireleed, have pre-
served
it safe in the teeth of such dreadful perils!
We do etot mean to say that reasoning like this
would not be as successful on Penenden Heath, as
it was in London in 1753. What we mean to say
is, that the Magistracy and citizens of London would
hardly be led away by the fear of a Messiah throw-
ing down the British Christian Constitution, in
1828, as they were in 1753. There are, PO doubt,
knaves now, as there were then, who, for a
would swear that the Protestant Constitution was
ict imminent danger from Prester John; but we are -
speaking of the class of the disinterested, without
prevailing with which, nothing can be done. Knaves
cannot get on without fools.—lbid.

As the dull season of the year proceeds in its
course, the complaints, so usual during its existence,
of the dullness of trade begin to be reiterated from
all quarters. We alluded the other day to the la-
mentations of the Spitalfields manufacturers; and
those who have embarked their capital in other
branches of iedustry,• though not so veheinent in
their complaints, declare flq-t they have equally just
grounds. It would be difficult to say, without a
fuller knowledge of the real facts of the use than
we at present possess, how far these complaints are
well or ill-founded—whether they are merely the
product of the season of the year, or caused by any
unusual deficiency of demand ; but of one fact there
can be DO doubt, for every one can bear testimony to
it, and that is the extreme scarcity of money. Every
tr&ideswan knows that the difficulty of procuring pay-
ments has seldom been greater than at the present
moment; and, on the other hand, that, although he
has plenty of money's worth, and there is also plenty
of imemployed capital in the country, discounts are
at a higher premium than they have been known
for some time past. The primary cause of the
distrust from which these difficulties date their
origin, is undeubteTy the gradual withdrawing, and
approaching suppression, of the small note currency-
-a suppression which we have never failed to depre-
cate as equally incompatible with our national en-
gagements, and injurioas to the trade and com-
merce of the country—as increasiu the amount of
the debt,which is already too heavy—augmenting the
amount and severity
ing from the circulati°nfgthmeestliaittleintaxoefs,tialendvxoyuitlllitdryraaw,-,
artificial capital, which, however, liable to be abused,
has been rendered necessary by the circumstances
of the country, and will eantinue to be necessary
until we have surmounted the dill' l which we
have entailed on ourselves by our continental follies.
ice ties
What the present Administration means to do on ,1
this subject is not yet keevrte The abetters of a
papa eerreney entertain strong hopes that the Duke
recollectedthe
of Wellington will be inclined to a partial repeal of
of the Cabinet
the Bill of 18'26, or at least a suspension of it for a
two; but it ought to be r
year or that
n was a_ member
wings that Pill was introduced and
under whose
Duke of Wellingto
passed into a law;
and, on the other, that the leader
of the house of Commons is as much pledged to
see it carried into effect as he, is to olipose any fur-
ther concessions to the Carbon •
cs Whether, how_
the law
in
carrying
ever, they relax or netinto
effect, it is certaiely of
great importance hto the
tr couny that it shouldi be early apprised
eir de-
termination. The uncertainty Lich the public
mind is kept at the present moment, consequence
of the adverse hopes and fears which are enter-
tained on the subject, is, to say the least of it, most
mischievous, and little short of being as Juntol4
to trade as a resolution to carry the law into I'llll and
complete operation.—erning Advertiser.

The Stamp Duty upon Almanacks for IS2S,
amounts to the .nin of 50,1061. 3.. 9,1., wilicL, it 151.
each, exhibits a circulation of 451,593.

RARA Avis.--A curious specimen of the
grouse was I,;st Iced( 3IETeaLr, gamekeeper
to L. ToenAnt: Esq. of Middlehani. Its be:;y was (2n-
tirely white, its eyes and legs a beautiful pink, and the
Tat Of its body of a delicate fawn-colour,— Chester Cour.

ANGLO-MEXICAN MINING COMPANY.

A special general Meeting of the Proprietors of
Shares in the above undertaking was holden yester-
day at the City of London Tavern. J. B. SCHNEIDER,
Esq., in the chair.

Mr. J. D. POWLES read a very voluminous report,
embracing the transactions at the mines, from which
it appeared that in the mines Valencittua, Serina,
and Menatio, the operations were proceeding.
The CHAIRMAN read a series of resolutions for
adoption. By them it was proposed to raise a Anther
capital of 100,0001., by the issue of 40,000 shares,

In answer to questions, the CHAIRMAN stated that,
on the 19th call, all had been paid; that the last call
had been nearly wholly paid; that the balance now
in the Company's hands was 16,0001. at the bankers;
due in shares, 2,2811. The Company was under
acceptances for 21,718/. ; and about 15,000/. was
required for new credits.

The resolutions passed, thanks were given to the
chairman, and the meeting separated.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

LivErtrooL, Nov. 11.—Wind E.N.R.—High water
17 minutes past one.—Arrived the Lord Kinnaird,
Martin, from Dundee ; Ariel, Dixon, from ditto; Luna,
Fife, from Leith ; Enterprise, Crawford, from ditto ;
Sheffield, Richards, from Dublin; Huskisson, Lindsay,
from Glasgow. . _

CLEARYiII OUTWARDR,—The Goole Verwagting,
Stades, for Dordt ; Rambler, Luke, for Tunis; Pan-
dora, Corry, for Barbadoes ; Flora, Rooderkirk, for Rot-
terdam ; Catherine, McDonald, Williamson, for Mobile ;
James and Margaret, Sims, for ditto; Yarmouth, Har-
rison, for Rio Janeiro.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE:

GUILDHALL.

Mr, Dennis Lines and Mrs. Anne Watson, natives
of "the Gem," and recently imported therefrom in
a Limerick butther-boat, were brought before Sir
PETER LAURIE, with their noses well patched, with
adhesive plaister, and charged with having broken
the King's peace by mutually assaulting each other.
" Last night, please your Worship," said the
accusing constable, " there was a great cry of mur-
der among the Irish, in King's Head-court, Fleet-
market; and in the house where the cry was, I
"found this little man (Mr. Dennis Lines) and this
big woman (Mrs. Anne Watson) hard at it, screech-
" ing and pelting away at each other, and both of
them covered with blood. I never saw two people
in such a bloody condition; and as I could not pre-
vail upon them to be quiet, I took them to the
Compter, where, after-they had been washed, and
bad their noses patched, as you see, they were
locked up apart from each other, to be dealt with as
your Worship may think proper."
" Sir," said Mr. Dennis Lines, as soon as the
constable had said his say—" Sir, it's meself shall
just be afther telling ye the rights of it, if ye'll hear to
me kindly ; and not a word of a lie shall I bring to
the fore this day, plase God."
" Then you are not so particular about telling the
truth every day ?" asked the Alderman.
" Oh, indeed, but the truth's the truth any day,"
replied Mr. Dennis Lines, rather equivocally; and
then he proceeded with his narration :—" Last night
as ever was, blessed be the Lord for that same please
your Honour, after I com'd home from my work, 1
was sitting by the fire wid me own wife, thinking
about the supper we'd be afther gettin to us—and
little enough it 'u'd be no doubt—two penn'orth of
trotters, may be, and a hot p'taty or two; but divel
a bit of supper I got that night at all ; for, just as
we was thinking of it, this lady, Misthress Watson
here, comes into me place, and takes up the candle,
and looks into me face wid it, and says, ' If I mar-
ried a man wid such ugly eyes as your',, I'd take
him down stairs, and shove him into the dust-hole P
says she to me.—" Very well," said I, " you might
do that," said 1.7-mighty quiet it was I said it ; by
which means idle took the candle into her hand and
split my nose into two pieces wid the candlestick !
Indeed she did ;—and here's my nose to the fore to
testify the truth of it to your Honour." And so
saying, ho suddenly plucked off the plaister, and
submitted his cloven snout to the inspection of the
Court, adding, as he fumblingly replaced the plait.-
ter, " I know no rason in life she had to use me
so disrespectfully ; far I'd no call to her at all ;
only onst, afore I was married, I happened upon a
little bit of misfortune by the sister of her."
" What do you mean by a little bit of a misfor-
fortune?" demanded the Alderman.
" A small child, your Honour," replied Mr. Den-
nis Lines, and in a very small voice, thereby show-
ing that he bad the grace to be a little bit ashamed
of himself.

Mrs. Watson, in reply, denied that she " went
into his place with any ill-blood to him in regard of
the small child at all ;" but only to ask " would
she get lave to put her basket in till morning ?"
and that he took that opprirtunity to call her a -,
though he well knew she was "as lawful a married
woman as ever walked upon two legs. Of coorse I
made at him for a pelt wid the candlestick," she
added, " but he got from me, and kill and tutted me
all over entirely wid it, as your Honour may plainly
persave."
And thereupon she began stripping the plaisters
off her close and forehead, in order that his Honour
might judge who had got the worst of it. But his
Honour refused to inspect the premises, and dis-
missed them both, with a promise that if they were
brought before him again lie would send them to
work together in Bridewell.