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SPIRIT O TUE MIMIC ,TOUPNALS.

Some facts which we lath-fished a fess days ago, on
the ainthority of official e,: svents, vosed, that, lo the
years 1823,•1824, 182,5 ,alssuesilse exports ni's
cetton-wool from this c. thr Continent of
Europe, had 'been in tl tiou e 4 9,000,0 W,
13,000,000, and 18,000,000 Of pounds respectively,
whilethe exports of :1826, so fie as correct informa-
tion could he got at, have proceeded after the rate of
30,000,000 pounds.. Our opinion that the manufac-
tUreS,of the Continent have undergone a steady and
unquestionable increase during the whole of the above
period, would, we think, be sufficiently established by
a reference to the table 'which, we have now twice
quoted ; and the truth of it is undoubtedly not 'im-
paired by the great and sudden stride which the con-
sumption of r, cotton in neighbouring countries has
exhibited, during the previous months of 1826. It
goes for nothing in the argument, to say that the ac-
cumulated stocks and reduced priees of the article, in
consequence of last year's extraordinary speculations,
have encouraged the foreign merchant. to more exten-
sive. piirchaseS than he would otherwise have attempt-
ed. Our doctiine will-not suffer from such a conces-
sion. The export of the raw material' to the Conti-
nent had been advancing rapidly before' this fall of
price. It had increased from 19,000,000 (the export
of 18'24), to 18,000,000 during the year 1825, while
the monopolizing mania was at the higheat pitch in
this country,: and in epite of the exorbitant prices to
which the article of cotton had been raised by that
wild course of speculation :r so that, at most, the re-
d Oced price of cotton, in consequence of the recent glut
of the raw material, has only strengthened a pre-existing
stimuli:is under which foreign purchasees had been al-
ready acting. The manufacturing movement has been
aecelerated, but its , direction has not been changed;
nor is it from a state of torpor that foreign
industry has .been thus excited--the impulse was
given ninny years ago. It was administered by the
extravagance. of the British Government—by the taxes
under which 'We laboured—by the price of bread and
meat in this country tinder the corn laws—ashich drove
our weavers and, other Workmen abroad, where they'
taught a new race of emPloyers to rival their former
masters, and to. ticker ;;advantage agaiiist England her-
self of thosesfluttuations. in the value of raw inerchan-
dine, which she had hitherto enjoyed,' excluSively the
power visiting upon other nations. No; notwith-
standing the conviction which possesses us, that Eng-
land would .siter a time become a happier country,
were she to display a more equal mixture of the agris
cultural habits and character with those which belong
to...manufactures, we should, perhaps, with no less
eagerness than some of our respectable cotemporaries,
lend our fancies to the delusive hope that the obstruc-
titin is but temporary, arid that the ascendancy of Bri-
tish capital, skill, and perseverance, will soon revive
avith more freshness 'aim brillianay than ever. Were
it possible that we could so deceive ourselves, we
slang. still he rejoiced to cherish the chimera,' be-
cause, let hereafter bring what good it 'may, we can-
' iot shut our eyes to the spectacle of so many tens of
thousands among our countrymen wasting in misery
froin'the want of present subsistence. If the future
consoles., the present hour appals us. . A full flow of
masustetose leads to the precarious condition of ever-
it,creasing utoltitudes, whom an efflux of employment
unatioldably stat'Ycs. In England, the sluices ar© now
all openned, and what she flutist endure in the interval,
before the ebbing manufacture drops' to its ultimate
leVel, is indeed that portion of the subject which no'
hOmane man can bear to meditate without flinching.
There exists no doubt whatever that the export of
cotton wool increases every day, and that its importa-
tion dimishes ; but there is no such increasing ex-
port of our manufaCtuwd cottons. If a glut of the
latter: could be truly affirmed upon the Continent,
there would be, of course, no purchases made of cot-
pm: cloths by foreigners ; but there would likewise be
no export of raw cotton from this country, unless the
stack were bought to be thrown aside or burned by
the eiVottitt Merchant. But the sales of our rnanu
factureu cottons, plain and printed, exhibit a falling
tag not lass remarkable than the progressive increase
in the sales o.fecdt.°ll wool—a falling off in the April
qoarter of 1826 ~ses compared with 1825, of 10,000,000
yards of plain eo,,`tons, out of 39,000,000 ; and, of
8,5110,000 of printed Ott°ns, out of 45,000,000 !
The first rational step towaiiils mitigating the wretched-
mess of which so marked a des7Une hi ow manutaa-
on
tures must inevitably be productiv,7, the' admissi
of corn .on easier terms to the British larket ;0.
thie, if the great body of consumers hang tone.
,
*.thall probably succeed in accomplishing. Tile fanners
about Andover have set a noble precedent of strong
good: sense, and contempt for humbug ; and the land-
lords, in consternation, have given up all further idea
s)f dictatorial meetings throughout the county of Hants.
This is a point of moment. in the mean time the
manufacturers and their partisans ought to be aware,
that if they want a repeal of, the corn-laws, it is uns
wise, as well as unprincipled,' to deceive the public by
unfounded statements of the returning prosperity of
their inanufactnres. The happiest immediate argil-
mem for a free trade in corn is its tendency to relieve
a depressed and ruined manufacture. What sort of a
joke would it be for the landlords, if their adversaries
were first to boast that the cotton business actually
flourishes, and thensolicit them, on the score of hos
inanity, to repeal the corn-law, as a protection to that
great manufacturing interest, which already prospers-
- .tn'sacrifice themselves, in fact (as the landkirds con-
eider it), for the sake of those who, cm their own
stowing, have no need of help ? 'imes.
It alipeara by the statement ofthe Chairman of the ,
Rio de la Plata Agricultural ,Association, of which,
n Meeting, -.composed of some twenty of the subscri-
. hers, took, place at the Crown and Anchor on Tuesday
that that SocietY had its rise at the most patriotic and
philantrophic motives that can be iniagined—thet the
of state of distress to winch the poor and labour-
of the community were reduced, which the
ing classeS him milkier mean '
projector litto more t Y of being ac-
(painted
toduced to turn his attention to
,
emigration as the II iost effectotual mode of relief—that
• was have shipped them all off
his original intention
good estates in South Aare--
and provided them with hie own ex
rice, by way of experiment, itt 8., ; but
ne Members, of
that the late Mr. Goldsmith, and go.
' Tot the stall, .PC Intn, he
the Stock Exchange! having ,
hernative but to sauna to
(file projector,) had no a
f dug Joint S;::.'ck'
a lotv himself to. be the founder o •
sersons were found
Comps )y • and a multitude of }
(overflown;;;, 110 doubt, e sympathising
with the settle
; shark; for the samc
spins?) to advance their money An •.
lauds le,purpose. The project has, however, unfor-
tunately failed ; but not till 560 people' have taken
their departure to the )ruid of promiee. Strange to
say, the tdomiinalde Press, insensible to the obvious
hurritinity and patrioti:au of tin thing, has had ;the
hardihood to revile even such is virtuous endeavour as
tins, and would have the world believe that the vapies

had really some view of self-interest at the bottom,
Really this liberty of the press must be put a stop to;--
N! s and Radicals, High and Low Churchmen,
d 0.% and Tories, all by turns experience its enor
when such exalted patriotism and unques-
tion.ffile self-denial as prompted the establishment of
such an instituticoi this, cannot escape its reproaches,
it is time at least that no man wrote or published any
thing, till it had been first submitted to those whose
motives it is intended to impugn. To be sure there
are people in the world silly and credulous enough to think
there is such a quality as humbug ; and that the Press
is not quite uselessly employed in unmasking the pos-
sessors of that same quality. There may be those who
may be illiberal enough to think that it is easy for a
man to crow upon his own dunghill ; to tell a plausible
story to a little packed meeting of his own ;—and
that to silence any intruding objector by calling him a
liar and something worse, is not exactly the way to
convince the world of the 'mirky and propriety of one's
own motives. But with this We have nothing to do
upon this occasion. The Proj'ector's own account of
his own Company is now before the world ; and the
public, with the materials before them, will, we have
no doubt, pass a judgment upon all parties.—Morn-
ing herald.
Another of those incoherent, bombastic rhapsodies,
fbr which the present Irish Catholic orators are dis-
tinguished above all other people, has just appeared,
in the form of a second edition of Mr. Shell's speech
on the illness of the Duke of York. We know not

which to admire most, the impolicy of such a speech,
or the manner in which it has been repeated. "On
reading the effusions poured forth at a dinner at Mul-
lingar, we were willing to believe that they were the
effects of wine, and not the sober, deliberate, and
sincere sentiments of the speaker. We thought that
the manner in which they were received by the com-
pany arose from the same cause, and that in their cool
moments 'they would express their regret. We have
been sadly disappointed in these suppositions. The
speaker takes the first opportunity of repeating the
same sentiments, in still more ofinsive language, not
to a drunken company, but to the Catholic Mso-
eiation—the organ of the Emancipators of Ireland
—and seemed only to regret that the, most offensive
parts of his speech had been omitted in the first edi-
tion. The hearers were not, « eerflown" with wine,
nor ignorant, credulous followers of the speaker, but
men who, we are _ bound to believe represent the set
_ .

4ments of the great body of the Irish yet they seem
ed animated by the same feelings, and by the most en
thusiastic and boisterous applause, gave assent to the,
we may almost say, treasonable words of the orator.—
Though we arc sorry that such sentiments. should ani-
mate any body of, people, we rejoice that Mr. Shiel
has spoken out. lite people of England will know
how to judge of him and .his followers for the future,
and, we are afraid, will be ' but too apt to associate
them with their arch-prototypes who rejoiced in the suf-
ferings of heretics, and who sacrificed so many thou-
sands of their fellow-creatures to the flames, merely be.
cause they conscientiously differed from them in reli-
gious opinions. What other feelings could make them.
rejoice over the sufferings of a fellow-creature in the
hour of sickness ? What but the most unrelenting
spirit could make them rake up errors and faults which
had been long forgotten and forgiven, and that at a
time whnu they supposed their victim on a death-bed.
There was no new provocation for this outrage. An
obnoxious toast bad been given merely as a matter of
form, yet this was laid hold of as a pretext for a scene
of exultation and merriment, which is disgraceful to
Mr. Sheil and his compeers. The only charitable
construction which we can put on such conduct is to
suppose that their object is not to obtain Catholic
emancipation, but to court notoriety and irritate the
people of England against those of Ireland, in order
that they may continue to refuse a hbon which would
deprive these men of their ephemeral fame. WhO but'
men entitled to such an appellation could have used
and applauded such expressions as " who had wallowed.
in the blackest sty of a base and profligate sensuality"
this sets 'me and every Irish Catholic on fire—ap-
plies a torch to our passions—blows our indignation
into flame ' " our, mouths are foaming with rabid
froth ;" there is poison; mixed with madness in our
tooth t" besides a great number equally absurd expres-
sions. The truth is, the system of these leaders, for
years, has been to throw every obstacle in the way of
emancipation; and we regret this for the sake of those
_well-ineaninq Catholics, who, in some manner, be-
come identified with them, and are subjected, in con-
sevence, to serious deprivations. We would re-
commen4.oein, therefore, to seize the earliest oppor-
tunity of.expressing their disapprobation of those sen-
timents which have fat4ed forth such applause at Mut-
lingar and Dublin. If they
.do not, we can tell them,
that; next time the quotion is discussed in' Parliament
their opponents will make use of this Catholic feeling
as a much more powerful weapon against them than
any that has yet been discovered. The man that exults
over the 51fierings even pf an enemy, is naturally
shunned by his fellow-creatures S and the sect that can
applaud such a Baling will never meet with success in
any civilized entninnuity.----Ibit4

There is now exhibiting here Miss Melins, a native
of South Carolina, who is no less than 6 feet 104
inches in height ; her age is only eighteen, and she is,
we understand, the youngest of fourteen children, none
of whom exceed 'the ordinary human stature ; lier pa-
rents were also short, her mother being fi feet 2 inches
high. She is well made, and the symmetry oilier
form presents a striking contrast to many individuals
who have been exhibited to the public she amuses
herself with reading, music, fie., ar.d enjoy perfect
health, the air of lirighton being found to agree with
her. An idea has gone abroad that sheh has been
can as-
ex,
hihited before, as the Swiss Giantess; tis we
sure our readers, na personal observation,
she hasnever
is not the
fact ; and we further understand that
been exhibited a all till within these tIMO months.—
Brighton Gazette.
Musa;-m AD.—Extract Qf a letter from Frankfort:
---" Miss Sonntag was, in a manner) carried ow from
Mentz by the amateurs of this city. Whenever she
went out, her progress resembled a triumphal proos.
Sim A few evenings since she was taken, to our
Vauxhall, where there is generally a great deal of
company. As soon as it was known that Miss Sonn-
taig Was in the gardens, 'a great tumult arose;
glasses, refreshMents tables, and spectators, were
thrown int it '
o The mass of confusion by the crowding of
bottles,
`brio who were curious to get a sight a her. The
ftirtL'r she advanced, the more dangerous was it to
proceed, rile people mounted on the tables, which
they upset,
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gardens."

PQLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—The young man who calls
himself Charles Wilmot, and says he is the son of the renowned
Princess Olive of Cumberland Pouiatowski, attended again yes-
terday at this office to have his case considered by the parish-officers
of St. Giles's, before the Magistrates.
One of the parish-officers said, that he bad taken the informa-
tion of the young man, and in consequence, bad waited upon the
Princess Olive in the rules of the King's Bench prison, and that
that lady, in the most solemn manner, declared, "so help her God,
the applicant was no son of lutes?'
The young man again repeated, that he was the arm of the
Princess Olive, as she called herself, and he would give his oath
of it ; for the Princess had told him so, and privately acknowledged
him as her son, although she now thought fit to deny him ; and
his father was Mr. Anthony Askew. Mrs. and Mrs. Bell, for-
merly living in Lincoln's Inn New-square, had brought him up
front infancy, and for some time he went by the name of Bell,
until they told him who his mother and father were, and he then
applied to his mother, who acknOwledged it ; and besides, the doc-
tor, who had delivered the Princess. Olive of him, had since iden-
tified him, and was ready to prove that he was the same. The
Magistrates then ordered that the young man should supply all
necessary information to, the parish-officers, and tell who this
doctor was that had brought him into the world.
A person here came forward with a bundle of papers in his hand
to speak, he said, on behalf of her Royal Highness the Princess,
but the Magistrates declined hearing hint.
TOWN-HALL, SOUTIIWARK.—A very lady-like female,
the wife of a surveyor of the roads, attended by her daughter, an
interesting girl of lb, appeared pursuant to a summons, to
answer the charge of assaulting a very ordinary and meanly
dressed woman, 'named Hannah Lakey, who stated, that on
Tuesday evening the was in company with a friend at the Brick-
layers' Arms Tavern, Kent-road, when the defendant's husband
entered the same box, and was invited to partake of a glass of
brandy and water—her friend shortly after left, and alms was about
to follow, the defendant's htishand havintrisen to let her pass,
when the defendant herself entered the room, flew at her' like a
tigress, and put the finale to a sound beating, by three vigorous
tweaks of her nose.
A young girl of her own condition, said she was the person
who had asked the defendant's husband to drink, and corro.
borated the story of her friend, who she was sure hail no evil
design. .
The defendant was then desired to enter upon her justification,
who, after some prefatory remark:l on her husband's neglect and
infidelity, said she was awaiting supper for him on the Tuesday
evening, surrounded by her children, the girl with her being one,
(and whom site took by the hand as she spoke, and drew more
within the Magistrate's view), and in want at the time of the
means of procuring them necessary comforts, which she well
knew he was squandering in the society of the complainant, of
which she had ocular i '‘nonstration the same evening. She con-
fessed that she was so seriously afflicted by it, that at the moment
she was incapable of repressing her indignation, and she did re-
venge her and her children's wrongs upon the author of them.
Mr. J. J. Salmi inquired if her husband was present?
The defendant—No, Sir; I wrung his nose afterwards, and he
refuses to appear.
Alderman SNUTII—Really, ma'am, you seem to be an adept at
nose-pulling, and in the absence of your husband to throw fur-
timer light on your accomplishments, I shall be, under the neces-
sity of holding you to bail, unless you can prevail on the com-
plainant to forgive you—
" Forgive! me—forgive ! me"—reiterated the lady, her voice
half stifled with emotion, " sooner, would I have a dagger plunged
into my heart than receive a favour at her hands."
In this extremity the usual securities were entered into, and the
parties dismissed.
UNION-HALL.--A respectable-looking man, named James
Edwards, was brought up to this office before the sitting magis-
trate, J. S. CALI/WILL, Esq., under the authority of an assault
warrant, which charged him with having threatened the life of a
Mr. Henry Jall, by presenting a pistol at his head.
The complainant stated, that a few days ago, while at home,
the defendant came to his house, and wanted to intrude himself,
on the ground that he bad an equal right to be there as the
occupier. Mr. Jail resisted the attempt to encroach epon his
premises, and was in the act of turning out the intruder, when, as
the complainant related, Mr. Edwards pulled a pistol out of his
pocket, and swore that he would shoot him through the head if
be offered any violence. The complainant added, that fearful the
threat would have been carried into execution, and that he should
be assassinated, he called for a constable ; but before one ban arrived
Mr. Edwards went away, and lie (complainant) accordingly
obtained a warrant against him fur an assault, with intent to
shoot him.
The Magistrate.—Did you see the pistol ?
Complainant.--Yes, sir, plain enough, for the muzzle of it was
close to' my head, and I expected nothing else but my brains
would have been blown out.
The defendant here said, 'with a smile, that the only weapon (as
it bad 'been. called by Mr. Jail) that he had in his possession, was
loaded with end:
The Magistrate asked the defendant whether Ile had used tin
threats and intimidations ascribed to him ?
.Mr. Edwards, in reply, said, that a dispute arose between him
and the complainant on the subject of a house, in the (vase of
which he (defendant) put his hand into his waistcoat, and drew
out his snufTsbox for the purpose of taking a pinch. The moment
the complainant saw the box, he was terribly alarmed, and ex-
claimed, " He'll shoot me, run for a constable." Now he (Mr.
Edwards) could assure the magistrate most solemnly, that be
never presented a pistol or any other weapon at the complainant ;
nothing, in fact, took place but the mere act of taking out his
box. Here the defendant produced the snuff-box which exched
so notch terror in the mind of Mr. Jail; it was in shape like a
pocket pistol.
A witness on the part of the deftmlant'corroborated the account
of the transaction, and he was accordingly discharged.
A fellow named Coleman was charged with a violent assault
upon his Wife,
It appeared that Coleman and his wife had been living apart
for some time in consequence of his barbarity towards her. The
defendant, on their separation, refused to allow the mother to
have her infant,- and consequently it was pining away for the
want of its natural nourishment. The poor woman sought
every means of having her child restored, but the defendant po-
sitively refused, and it' was while M. the act of supplicating
him to let her have the infant, that the alleged amok was Coin..
mitted. a
On the defendant's promise to restore the infant to its mother,
time magistrate permitted him to depart, and the fellow had scarcely
left the office before he attacked the poor woman, tore the child
away front her, and would 'in all probability have strangled it,
but for the intervention of a gentleman, who, witnessing his scan-
dalous conduct,
,insisted on his re-appearance before the magis-
trate. The facts of his brutal treatment to the wife as well as to
his child being corroborated by several persons, the defendant was
held to bail, in default of which he was committed to gaol.
In the course of the day, a gentleman attended before the Ma-
gistrate, and stated, that liming seen ate account of an examina-
tion that took place at tits °Mee in the rtesvaparmaa rerpeeting .ta
man pame4 Thoneum 'Wilson, who imposed on a great number of
individuals by representing that he had just arrived from India in
the Britannia, and was the bearer of intelligence front their -re-
latives, he (the applicant) perceiving that the imposter was com-
mitted for one month to gmtob pow came forward to apprise time
Alogivtracy that be had been defrauded of a sum of money by him
tinder the supposition that lie had actually seen his friends in
'lndia. Ile (applicant) however, discovered that the fellow had
invented the circumstances thair he related, for the purpose of de-
frauding persons of their money, and he was therefore most anxious
to prosecute him.
The Magistrate Warsaw the applicant, that he would have an
opportunity of doing ss when the term of his imprisomnent was
aspired,
'Me applicant eipresaed his determination of prosecuting Wil-
son the moment of his liberation.

It will be recollected by most of our readers, that at
the adjourned Middlesex Sessions last week, John
Taft was convicted of an outrageous assault on Char-
lotte Gunnell, by throwing her over Cowley-bridge into
the river. The contradictory statements made by the
prosecutrlx having attracted the notice of many of the
rheosopde t atll
they
b ydedia
tel it: fied t
oilb
institute
xr g and the n
a minute eigilnilogiuuirr-
3,
into the circumstances. The result of that inquiry is,
that the minds of the individuals are completely satis-
fied that the man is entirely innocent of the charge Of
which he has been ronounced atiilty by the verdict of
the jury. A petitipon will be forthwith presented, on
the poor man's behalf, to the Right Hon. the Beerf3^
e Q
tary u 4.t..Y? for the Home Department, accompanied
hi of