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began earnestly to wish that this might win, amid that
might lose. • I examined- both with the Microscope, and
thereby easilydistingaished the source of theie passions.
As the 'men were extremely 'heated with. tbeir exercise
they perspired strongly, so that clouds of. the ,matter
`fl' wing from %hem reached us: my nie glass showed dis-
tinctly, that the'matter perspired by him for whom I kit
ati inclination, w4l:;' exactly similar to what was perspired
by'rnyself, hereas the matter flowing from -the other
person was absolutely.unlike to mine in all 'respects, and
so jagged and bParded, that it seemed to wound and pierce
me like so many arrows ; he ace I discerned that the true
cause of our sudden inclinations and aversions consists in
'the figures of the matter perspiring froth us and from
others, and in the similarity or contrariety of these in-
sensible vapours. We went out of the city, and at some
-Miles 'distance; we saw some gentlemen diverting them-
selves in coursing a hare. As the poor creature passed
, almost close by us, I had just time to catch a glance of
tier With my glass ; she .appeared to me like a hall of
fire moving with prodigious rapidity, and leaving a
mighty smoke behind her. This was the muter per-
spired by the animal, and I saw that the degs !Wowed
exactly the track of that smoke, and' were never at all at
a loss except when the wind iSsipated the cloud that
issued from the flying hare..":—Melanges d'llistoire et de
Literature, tom. ii. p. Ilernaippus Redivivus, p. 85.

THE HONG- MERCHANTS OF
• . CANTON,. •
(From the Hong K.ng Regi.ster, May 6.) •
We are indebted to a friend for the following infor-
thation from Canton.. ,When Canton was ransomed, and
the money for , that. purpose drawn from the .provincial
treasury, a report .was, atade.to.the Emperor that it was
a debt due to the foreigners •by the Hon.naerchanta;
who were unable to pay it, and• these latter vvelle induct d
to sign a document to that effect; on the' assurance being
.given them that:it should not be used against them.
• However, after the affair was terminated, various attempts
were made to extort tl,e, amount from them,.but without
success. Headed by Howqua'S eldest son, who has taken
a literary degree, and who threatened to lay the matter
before the Emperor
.they refused to pay more • than
2,006,000.d011are, wh "refused
they 'admitted to be due by, the
merchants to the Ernperor. The local authorities have
at last agreed to accept this amount ; and thua.has ter-
minated am affair Which" has 'been a source' of great-un-
easiness to the Hong merchants, and was considered suf-
ficiently important to the foreign trade to induce Mr.
Cushing, the American Plenipotentiary, to address Key.:
ing on the subject. The followingis the amount paid
by oach Hong merchant : . .„ .

HONG NERO:TANTS. PAY.'
, , Howqua 4.., 550,000 taels.- •
Poookfq qua , ' 200,000 do:
Samqua
. Gowqua
Kingqua- 6O 000 do.
- Peon boy-quit ,
Mowqua 50.000 do. -
Footaye
Miugqua , . . . . 50,000 do.
Sowqua
One-third to beipaid in fodr months, and the remainder
in ten annual instalments.

In reference to the recent communications respecting
the receiving ships at Whampoa, Mr. Macgregor has
written to the Chinese auth4ities, that unless the ex-
tensive smuggling in Portuguese loran and other river
craft be put a stop to, he wilt not feel it his duty to• in-
terfere with English iessels, should they again enter the
port for the sale of opium. This very sensible view of
the subject is producing its effects.' Two Portuguese
have.been seized and•carried into the city.

THE CONDEMNED AT •ExErEn.-L-When the tidings
of their respite was communicated to the prisoners, they all
received it with gratitude and delight' except the imperturb-
able Serra. This man (the captain of the Echo, a schooner
of seventy tons only,' With 434 'slaves stowed and packed in it)
has stood alike unmoved by the terrors of this world and the
world to come: Per three' days,- though smitten
.with. a. foul
and loathsome disease, .he' underwent the ordeal of the trial
without manifesting the' slightest sign of uneasiness. He re-
ceived, the doom of death withoist• emotion, and be has since
rejected the consolations of religion and the holy officei of the
priest, with a cold and.bittei Sneer. He says his own heart is
the depository of its own' secrets, and no mortal man shall
wrest them from him. ' He received unmoved the merciful de.
claration of the high sheriff, and turned away with t.s much
apathy as if the message of, ptolonged life and rekindling hope
had been the most ordinary matter which a heedless man could
impart LCI an indifferent one.

We cannot fully- accord our credence to the reports
afloat concerning the origin_ and. _nature of Mrs. Gore's new
novel of " The Roal Favourite." Though a Writer as fear-
less as she is popul'a'r, slve(ligna are 'putt° be treated with im-
punity, with the freidom stud to have-bemused id the present
instance.

' tlra private letter which has reached us fl•om
'Gibraltar, we are informed, upon good authority, that 20,000
slave shackles, for men, women, and children—in all, fourteen
• cart-loadt—hare been
,fished up from the wreck of the
American war-steamer, lately burnt at that port !—Ship-
ping Gazette.

THE RECENT MAGISTERIAL FRACAS AT Ro-
CHESTER.—In consequence of the painful scene which took
place between the magistrates on the bench at the County
Police Court on Monday,' the: 21st ult„ William Henry
Bodkin, one of the Members of the city and borough, has been
called upon by some ••friends ;to intercede between the parties,
and that Learned Gentleman, after some considerable pains,
has brought the Rev. George Davies and the Rev. Mr. Formby
to an amicable understanding. • It • is, however,` stated that
another obstacle has since exhibited itself, which is that Captain
Baker and Mr. James Stitith feetthat an apology is due from
the Rev. Mr. Formby to them, as they constituted a portion of
the bench on the occasion when the insult was offered, which
Mr. Formby declines doing.• f3everal special meetings of the
magistrates of this division have been held on the subject,
which have been private. his; however, reported that the
matter has been laid betore the Secretary of State. The cir-
cumstance creates considerable public interest, and the wonder
is how matters are to end.

INSOLVENCIES (SCOTLAND).—It appears from a
return just issued by order of the' House of Commons;that the
number of insolvencies, bankruptcies, and sequestrations in
Scotland in each year, from 1815 to the present time, has been
5,450. The highest number in any one year was in 1841-4 J,
when there were no fewer than 566 sequestrations awarded in
the Court of Session (and there are no records of insolvencies
and bankruptcies that do not result in sequestration) ; and the
ewest were in 1838 -39, when there were only 59.
IMPORTATION Or SPANISH CATTLE.—Another lot
of Spanish cattle (30 in number) arrived here (Plymouth) on
Monday last from Cornnna, and were landed at the Commer-
cial Wharf, ex the schooner Isabella. They were sold by
auction yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. On the Saturday
previous a lot of 32 were landed at the Commercial Wharf, ex
the Turk, from Corunna, and were sold by public auction on
the Monday following. The butchers of Plymouth and the
adjoining towns were the chief purchasers.—Plymouth Journal.
THE STEAM SHIP lIIBERNIA.—On Tuesday, the
royal mail steam ship, Captain Ryrie, sailed from Liverpool,
carrying with her the usual semi-monthly nails, and a large
number of passengers to Halifax and Boston, including the ce-
lebrated dramatic actors Mr. and Mrs. Kean, and Mr.
Hackett.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.-MADEIRA, BRAZIL, AND
BUENOS AY ams.----On Tuesday a notice was posted at the Post.
office, stating that letters would be in time, if posted this evening
( Wednesday), for her Majesty's brig Swift, which will sail
from Falmouth with the mails of the sth.

REPRESENTATION OF THE STEWARTRY OF KIRK-
cUDBRIGHT.—The gentleman mentioned as candidate to suc-
ceed the late Mr. Murray, is Mr. Marmaduke Constable Max-
well, a gentleman possessing large estates both in Scotland
and England. He is, we believe, the representative of the
noble border family of Maxwell, Earl of Nithsdale, the last pos-
sessor of which title, in the year 1716, had his life preserved by
his Countess changing clothes with him in the Tower of Lon-
don the night before his intended execution. The present
Mr. Maxwell, unlike his ancestor, who was a Tory and a
Jacobite, is a good Whig; he is also a Roman Catholic ; and,
if elected, as we believe there is no doubt that he will, will be
the first Roman Catholie returned by a Scotch constituency
ince the time of the Reformation. —Aorthern Whig.
EXTRAORDINARY FATAL CAB ACCIDENT.-011
Monday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Prince's Head,
Prince's-street, Westminster, on the body of Richard Knowl-
den, aged five years. The parents of the deceased reside in
Regent-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road, and on the afternoon of
the 19th July last, the deceased was riding on the hind springs
of a cab, unknown to the driver, when a piece of string,
which was fastened round his left arm, became entangled in
the hind wheel, and eventually his head was drawn between
the wheel and body of the cab. The screams of a female
drew the attention of the driver, who stopped his cab imme-
diately, and with some difficulty the head of the child was ex-
tricated, bleeding from a severe wound in the temple. The
deceased was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, in which
he expired un AlondaT Last, from inflammation of the windpipe,
resulting from the injuries he had received. Verdict, " Acci-
dental death."

A SERIES OF MURDERS.— AWFULDEEDS OF BLOOD.
—A gentleman who arrived in Cincinnati lately gave the editor
of the Commercial the following particulars of dreadful deeds of
blood committed on the Wachitta river, in Louisiana, a few
days since. He stated that two planters, living on adjoining
plantations, had a difficulty. An unruly horse belonging to
one jumped into a lot belonging to the other, and was shot.
Soon after, a negro, belonging to the owner of the horse, went
over to the said plantation, and he too was shot. The same
evening the planter, who owned the horse and negro, took his
gun, and went over to the planter's house who ha-'d shot his
horse and negro, and, as he stood in his yard, deliberately shot
him dead. The son of the dead planter, hearing the retort,
cams out of the house, when he was commanded to stand. As
soon as the gun was reloaded the son was shot and immediately
expired. The daughter of the planter then came to the door,
when the monster took his bowie-knife and cut her throat from
ear to ear, and then fled. The slaves on the plantation raised
the alarm, and the fiend was pursued and taken, and committed
to the nearest gaol to await a trial. These awful terrific details
are said to be from a reliable source, but we feel inclined to
doubt them.—American paper.
DEATH FROM DRINKING THE CONTENTS OF A
GINGER-BEER BOTTLE.—On Saturday an inquest was held
in Liverpool, before the Coroner, on view of the body of
Ruth Goldsmith, a child of two years of age, who met her
death under the following singular circumstances :—Thomas
Holdsmith deposed that he was a joiner, and kept a beer-
house in Craven-street. The deceased was his
edaughter;
On Thursday afternoon last he went into his cellar for the
purpose of shifting a quantity of empty ginger-beer bottlesem,e
out of his way, and, finding a full one amongh
opened it to see if it were good, as it had been seven t
or
eight
months in the house. He took a little himself,s
and gave
at
some to his wjfe, which she tasted. Se
partook of it, and deceased had two dritiksv.er other persons
In about five or
ten minutes after, all those who bad partaken of the contents
of the bottle became sick and vomited.
getting better and worse untilabout The deceased kel t
nine o'clock the same night,
he n she fell asleep and appeared be somewhat better. On
awaking the following morning she called for a drink, and
was given some mint tea, which she had had before. She
kept getting worse from
that time until about four o'clock,
when a surgeon was sent for. but before his arrival she breathed
her last. The contents of the bottle, so far as taste
and appearance went, appeared to be ginger beer,•
whichhe (witness) had purchased from Messrs.
Evans and Matthews, ginger-beer manufacturers, of Queen
Anne-street. The cork in the bottle was secured in the usual
manner by a wire, but whether it was iron or copper wire it
was impossible to say. When the wire was taken off the cork
flew out. When the bottle was opened witness poured its
contents iato a tumbler glass, out of which the parties drank,
and when they had all drank of it a white sediment was ob-
served in the bottom of the glass. The glass was quite clean
' before the contents of the bottle vvere. put into it. Othels ksit
nesses confirmed the statement of this witness. The surgeon
could not state the cause of death, and the inquest was ad-
journed that the contentsaf the stomach might be analysed.