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PRESENTATION OF THE LORD
MAYOR ELECT FOR THE APPROVAL
OF HER MAJESTY.

GREAT WESFERN SIEAM-SHIP.
(From the Bristol Mirror.)
The Great Western Steam-ship Company, from:the
best information we can collect, lost a sum conside-
rably above 3,0001., through the statements of the
press in September last. An article in the Liverpool
Albion on that occasion informed the public, that
" there was every probability of the Great Western's
being obliged to discontinue running bet Ween this '
country and America." The London Times adopted
this paragraph, and the newspapers of the United
States, in a variety of forms, with all dispatch, re-
peated the statement after the Boston boat arrived.
In October, just previously to the steamer's starting
from Liverpool, on the 19th instant, the Liverpool
Albion has another paragraph, which no unprejudiced
person can read without admitting that its inferences
are, that the Boston boat, which followed the Great
Western in eighteen hours from Liverpool, in Sep-
tember, and in forty-eight hours from' Boston, in
October, made shorter passageS than the Great West-
ern. Capt. Claxton having, as is most likely, the fear
of the further consequences in the United States be-
fore his eyes, and being aware, as most people
are, that our "go a-head friends there. prefer the
fastest vessels, very properly comes out with- a
statement to show that injustice was done to the
Great Western. The Times adds a long note to this
letter of Captain Claxton's, and there the matter would
possibly have rested, Captain Claxton's object having
probably been to disseminate, as quickly as possible
through the United -States, 114.1#4(50 to tll P9IIIPAY
taken out by the mail-boat, through that Widelpcir-
culating and far-spreading journal. The Liverpool
Albi.on, whose editor is the agent of the Times, has
since. come forward to eulogise that journal, and
somewhat coarsely to attack Captain Claxton, and
hence it is that we are induced to say a few words if
only for our local readers, and particularly such as are
in the habit of reading the Times.

THE AFFAIRS OF GERMANY.

FRANKFORT, OCT. 23.—The meeting of the Stand•
ing Com:nittees of the Prussian Provincial:Estates at
Berlin could not but excite the serious attention of
neighbouring lands, more especially if it assumed the
form, for which the nation has long been clamorous, of
a virtual representation of the people. Such a step
taken on the part of the King of Prussia would raise
the power of the nation, by the necessary infusion of
public spirit which it would cause, to a height formi-
dable for all rivals, but especially for those who retail'
despotic forms. Indeed, as a consequence of the ne-
cessity Austria would be under to follow, if not to an-
ticipate, such a measure, it is worthy of remark that
this year, for the first time, the fact of the assembling
of the Austrian provincial diets (which meet for one
day to hear the list of taxes decreed by the Crown
read to them, and then dissolve without making com-
ment) was pompously announced in the newspapers.
It would seem from this, that if the great Chancellor
did not think it necessary to take any more decided
step to counteract the innovations at Berlin, he yet
thought it advisable to be prepared for consequences
which those innovations, however, unexpectedly, might
bring with them or lead to.
The Committees have been assembled since the
18th inst. Their meeting was not opened by the
King in person, and although the rescript ordering
them to be summoned is couched in terms of con-
siderable latitude, yet it neith-r fixes a right nor pro-
mises a periodical term for their assembling in future.
_The King declares his wish to consult thorn when the
opinions or the provincial Diets differ bn points-of,ge-
neral interest; when in the drawing up of laws new
points of difficulty occur that were not submitted to
the provincial Diets in the original discussions ; further,
when new laws are projected, the opinion of the Com-
mittees will be taken on their necessity and tendency;
and, lastly, measures of general interest, which were
hitherto not submitted to the provincial Diets, will
be laid before them. This declaration affords a wide
scope for the operations of a body of Representatives,
if the whole were not neutralized by the condition
,that they are only to be consulted on these points
when the King shall think it necessary, which, of
course, means that they will only be assembled as long
as they behave well, and give the Crown no trouble.
The introduction of such a clause, and the strict pre-
scription of the subjects to which they are to confine their
discussions, or rather deliberations, were naturally
sufficient guarantees both to Russia and Austria, that
little or no moral influence would be gained by this
mode of developing the representative institutions of
Prussia. It is notorious that although the late King
bound himself by the most sacred promises not to
break his compact with the Provincial Estates re-
specting the enlargement of the national debt, as
guardians to which men in high office were sworn in
1820, no scruple was felt at adopting the subterfuge
of the " sea company," in whose name a loan was con-
tracted of a large amount. It has recently been
shown that the amount of crown lands sold annually
far exceeded the sum which it was then agreed should
be appropriated to the yearly redemption of the na-
tional debt ; while the budgets published by the Mi-
nistry of the Finances have been shown to be falsified
for the purpose of concealing these and other prac-
tices from the nation. Lastly, the want of an effi-
cient control has been glaringly evinced by the
detection of most extensive frauds committed on
the State by the public servants in certain depart-
ments, which were carried on through a series of
years without detection, and in which men of rank
and of high standing in the service are said to be im-
plicated. That under these circumstances a mere
promise to consult such a body as is now assembled at
the convenience of the Crown should be considered
as an empty show of liberality, of as little advantage
to the King as to the nation, is natural, and I am
sorry to say that this is here the general opinion.
The manner in which the Assembly is constituted

Yesterday the Lord Mayor Elect was presented
by the Recorder of the City of London to the Lord
Chamberlain, for the purpose of being approved of as
Chief Magistrate, by the Queen. The Lord Mayor
Elect was accompanied by Alderman Gibbs, Sir
George Carroll, Sir Chapman Marshall, Sheriffs
Hooper and Pilcher, the Comptroller, the Solicitor,
and several other of the principal officers of the Cor:
poration. They were received in the most polite
manner by the Lord Chancellor.
The RECORDER in introducing the Lord Mayor
Elect, said, "My Lord, I Ime the honour to present
to your Lordship John Humphery, Esq., elected by
the citizens of London to fill the office of Lord Mayor
for the ensuing year. I hereby certify toyour Lordship
that the laws, customs, and charter of the City, have
been duly observed in the election of this gentleman.
Mr. Humphery was born and has parsed the greater
portion of his life within the borough of Southwark,
and, consequently, in the immediate ,vicinity of the
City of London. He is directly descended, in the
female line, from Sir William Webbe, Lord Mayor of
London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, his an-
cestor having filled the office is the year 1591.
Mr. Humphery had attracted the attention of the •
citizens of London in the diligent and successful care
of his business and mercantile pursuits, and was
elected one of the Sheriffs of London in 1832, and in
the same year became one of the -representativesin
Parliament for the borough of Southwark. At the
close of his Shrievalty Mr. Humphery received the
marked approbation of his fellow-citizens conveyed
in the unanimous vote of thanks of the Livery of
London in Common Hall assembled, and, upon a
vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Alderman
Thorpe, Mr. Humphery was elected by the inhabitant
householders of the Ward of Aldgate into the office
of Alderman of the Ward, a post which he has occu-
pied to the present time. Fronk the year 1832 he has
enjoyed the distinction of representing his native place
in four successive Parliaments. The citizens oflon-
don entertain the confident expectation that the ex-
perience and habits of business he has acquired as a
merchant, a Magistrate, and a Member of Parlia- •
ment, will enable him to discharge, with honour to
himself and with advantage to the community, the
important duties of Chief Magistrate of their ancient
city. They have elected him in the full persuasion
that he whom they have chosen will set an example in
his person of loyalty to his Sovereign, will piously
and faithfully administer the laws of his country, and
preserve the peace of the metropolis; that he will up •
hold the dignity of his statioL, and zealously maintain
the privileges of his fellow-citizens, and upon these
grounds, in their name, and in their behalf, I now
humbly crave her Majesty's most gracious approbation
of the choice the citizens have made of Mr. Hum-
phery, their Lord Mayor Elect." ..
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he felt much grati-
fication in announcing her Majesty's approbation of
the choice made by the citizens of London of a Lord
Mayor for the year ensuing, and her perfect convic-
tion that Mr. Humphery would satisfactorily perform
the duties of the office to which his fellow-citizens
had elected him.

tIOTOGRAPIIY. PORTRAITS by M.
CLAUDET'S INSTANTANEOUS DAGUER-
REOTYPE PROCESS, under the patronage of her Ma-
jesty, are taken daily at the Royal Adelaide Gallery, Lowther
Arcade, Charing-cross. The weather is•no impediment to' the
operation, which varies only from one to twenty seconds, ac-
cording to the intensity of light. The process is now so per-
fect, that likeoesses as true as nature are fixed upon plates, of
various dimensions, from that of a fourpenny piece to one-fifth
of the natural size. The sitter has the choice either of a bust
or full-length portrait, and many persons, or entire families,
may be grouped on the same plate. The Daguerreotype-room
is Open at Nine o'Clock in the Morning, and parties are re-
commended during the short days to come at as early an hour
as possible..

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VATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE A6bUlt-
ANCE SOCIETY,

That paper tells us that " a Shareholder," believing
the whole concern to be going to the dogs, furnished
his agent with the article. A wise measure' truly,
of advancing his interest, unless the said "Share-
holder" were paid more for the article than his stake
in the Company was worth, from the small amount of
that interest. The Times is greatly praised by the
Liverpool Albion, and its remarks called " complete."
We wonder whether that " completeness" applies to
the following passage, which we extract under the
hope that some one may help us to its meaning—"
If
the Great Western lost passengers by the inference of
the Shareholders, that she would not probably sail
again to New York, there was not and could not be
the slightest wish to injure the Great Western !! !"
We do not understand it, notwithstanding it is so clear
to our Contemporary of Liverpool.
We wrote (says the Albion) as historians, not as
partisans. We tell him the simple comparison of a
place off Liverpool " equal to the run to Bristol"
proves the case to have been otherwise, or lets out the .
secret. Captain Claxton, if he takes our advice, will
not attempt to argue the matter further. He can
have no chance against a principal in London and a
Contemporary at Liverpool, the one commanding a
daily (and such a daily !) and the other a weekly
journal. The Great Western's performances speak
for themselves, and we sincerely hope a good round
sthe
sum may be obtained for her through her excellen-
cies, which this very attack has rendered more appa-
rent. We cannot conclude our remarks without
stating
to competing this
vessels,thi and at the expense of
third time that inferences
favourable
the Great Western, have been drawn through the
London journals, and that it is, in our opinion, the
duty of Captain Claxton to be watchful. It is cer-
tainly extremely hard that the only Atlantic steamer
and that, too, the one whose success led the way to
the establishment of the several lines now steaming),
which up to this moment is ploughing the Atlantic
unsupplied by public money in the form of Govern-
ment grants, should not meet with fair support from
the public Press.

FOR OR ANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, fcc.
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE 'MURRAY, Eq., Chairman.
J. Elliotsnn, M. D., F. R. S. I John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John diddle Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
I
Gsorge Lungiey, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

The Lord Mayor Elect gave a splendid entertain-
ment in the evening at the Bridge Hotel, in the
Borough.

ROYAL HOSPITAL,
STREET.

GREVILLE-

The Lord Mayor took occasion, in the course of
yesterday, to mention in the Justice-room that he had
called public attention to the letter of a benevolent
individual, inclosing Si. for the use of the admirable
institution in Greville-street, which was soon to be
transferred to the spacious building in Gray's Inn-
lane, in which Messrs. Seddon formerly carried on
their business. He had ascertained through innu•
merable channels that the amount of good accom-
plished by that charity, although confined and fettered
in its resources, was incalculable, and he should feel
the greatest pride in rendering service to it now that
a grand experiment was about to be made by the Di-
rectors to extend its benefits. It.was, therefore, with
the most earnest anticipation of a bountiful subscrip-
tion in aid of the noble efforts of those who had
nourished the hospital into an existence which pro-
mi..ed to be durable, he appealed to the friends of
diseased and prostrate indigence. It was at the close
of a year of office, during which Providence had been
pleased to grant him health, that he solicited the as-
sistance of those beneficent persons with whom the
metropolis abounded, to advance the objects of an in-
stitution calculated and intended to bestow upon mul-
titudes that greatest of blessings. He called upon
those who were capable of estimating the value of an
establishment, the doors of which were open to the
most miserable outcast every hour in the twenty-four,
and in which skill and humanity were combined
in the most powerful manner to arrest and con-
quer the progress of disease. His Lordship felt
convinced that the publication of two letters which
he just laid his hands upon, would be followed by a
flourishing announcement of subscriptions, and thus
enable him to congratulate himself upon closing the
painful labours of his magisterial office by rendering
a benefit to the masses of his fellow creatures who
were in want of medical aid and humane treatment in
every part of the metropolis. It was with genuine
pride he looked at the glorious results produced by
the great hospitals, so long established in London, and
that feeling as increased when he beheld the labo-
rious exertions made in Greville-street Hospital, to
soothe those agonies which " stay upon the body long
to the surprise and grief of nature.
The following are the letters to which his Lord-
ship alluded. That subscribed " M." had been sent to
the Times newspaper, accompanied with a request
that it might be transmitted to the Lord Mayor:—
" Mr LORD—Havini read the letter addressed to
your Lordship by riend in Need,' describing the
prompt and spirited conduct of the Governors of the
Greville-street Hospital, and feeling they deserve the
support of all who are blessed with the means, I follow
the example of your former Correspondent, and inclose
a 51. note in aid of that charity, in full assurance that
many have done and will do likewise.—l am, my Lord,
your Lordship's obedient servant. Ci M.
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
"Mr LORD--I so heartily respond to the senti-
ments of A Friend in Need,' whose letter, through
your Lordship's notice, has met publicity, on the in-
calculable benefits arising from the Royal Free Hos-
pital, in Greville-street, that I heg to make your
Lordship a medium of the inclosed 51., as much with
a view to favour his appeal in its behalf, as with an
earnest desire that the example may influence others;
also from the facility of making a contribution direct
to the Hospital, it might be justly argued 4 how un-
necessary to trouble your Lordship.' Receive this as
my apology, and my sincere wish that your influence
may greatly benefit this admirable Institution,
" From your Lordship's obedient servant,
" A. K. GIFFORD, of 121, Holborn-hill.
" Cheltenham, Oct. 28, 1842."
His Lordship, on reading the second letter, observed
that he hoped he should, between that day and the last
day of his Mayoralty (the Bth inst.), have a great deal
of the " unnecessary trouble" alluded to by his chari-
table correspondent.

is worthy of a better destiny. The commons are re-
presented in towns and country districts in equal 1
numbers with the nobles, which of course gives them
an advantage in general discussion. Even while this
body is convened legislative measures of the highest
impost are in progress, of which nothing is said in the
rescript by which' they are assembled. the new law of
censorship, the, law of divorce, which' I mentioned in
former letters, are on the eve of promulgation, but
the representatives of the national diet are not
expected to express an opinion on matters of
such moment. Even the fact of whether the re-
venue can bear the reduction in taxation which

DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT SPANKIB.---.Nlr. Spankie
has long been known as one of the leading barristers
in the Court of Common Pleas. He commenced his 1
career on the Morning Chronicle (then the property
of Mr. Perry) nearly half a century since, and wasm
considered one of the best Parliamentary reporters of
his day. He was for some years the editor of the
Morning.; Chronicle, and in that capacity
wrote some
of the most masterly articles which ever appeared in
the columns of a newspaper. He resigned that situa-
tion on his being called to the bar in 1808.
'Having
strong interest at the India House (through his mar-
riage) he was appointed Attorney-General of Bengal,
and repaired to India, where he practised with the
greatest success, and was rapidly snaking
a fortune,
when he was seized with an affection of the liver, and
compelled to return to England to save his life.
Having recovered his health at home he was appointed
standing-counsel to the East India Company, a situa-
tion of a very lucrative nature. He was a powerful
and clever speaker, but though his elocution was clear
and distinct, his Scotch accent was disagreeably harsh.
As a lawyer he was not considered of the first order.
On the passing of the Reform Bill, Mr. Spankie con-
tested the representation of Finsbury, on which occa-
sion he was returned with the Right Hon. R. Grant,
the unsuccessful candidates being Messrs. Babbage,
Wakley, and Temple. Mr. Spankie wrote one of the
very best pamphlets in favour of Parliamentary Re-
form, and entered the House of Commons as a Re-
former, but occasionally voted with the Opposition.
On the dissolution, in 1835, he was ejected by the
present Member, T. S. Duncomb e, + E sq. The deceased
married a daughter of Mr. Manning, a London mer-
chant, by whom be has left a large family. Mr.
Spankie possessed strong natural abilities, and in
every situation of life must have distinguished him -
self. When a Parliamentary reporter he possessed
the greatest influence with his associates, and displayed
a strong leaning towards Conservatism.—Morning
Chronicle.
tEaIcAN TARIFF.—The Government of the
.States is beginning to feel the effects of the
aUnnatiiitielcd E Aomnereial tariff which the friends of " protec-
tion to domestic industry" have forced upon it. That
measure, introduced and passed under the pretence of
providing for an alarming deficiency in the revenue,
enough
At
the
date
o c u
cut up
the recent advices, jin-
ni) the customs' revenue
ports of all those articles on which heavy duties had
been laid, were entirely at a stand ; and it seemed
seems
int
hse l i k
roots.L'likely
highly probable that the deficiency in the revenue,
instead of being made up, by the new duties, would
be greatly increased. new, under these circum-
stances, and in the present state of its credit, at home
and abroad, the American Government is to provide
for the payment of its annual expenses, is a ques-
tion not easily answered; and, unless we are very
greatly mistaken, the proceedings of the next ses-
sion of Congress will evince a considerable change
of opinion in reference to this subject. Even
those American writers who' had most warmly
advocated the tariff, seem to admit its failure
as a measure of revenue; and they now suggest that
the deficiency in the public income shall be made up
by additional taxes on the import of tea, coffee,
sugar, and other necessaries of life; and, if necessary,
by internal taxation. We have reason to know that
preparations have already been made for carrying on
a considerable smuggling trade through Canada; and
nothing but the great probability of --‘ an early modi-
fication of the tariff prevents those preparations from'
being very greatly extended. Men will not readily
embark in a business which may be very soon broken
up by a change of circumstances.
But once let it
be generally believed that the tariff is likely to be
lers will beset
permanent, and smugg
.... the country on
possible Way.
To protect
such a frontier and such a coast against their opera-
tions, is utterly beyond the power the0 American
Government; ,onerican
indeed, we may say, would be alto-
gether impossible for any Government.—Mancheder
Paper. -
•
An active canvass is going on g in the City for the
vacant situation of housekeeper to the Old Bailey ;
and there are no less than five candidates, namely,
Mr. Day, Mr. Hoard, Mr, Roberts, Mr. Leech, and
Mr. Harker. The first three named were for some
Common
time members of the Council ' • Mr. Leech
was the proprietor of the London Coffee House,
Ludgate-hill; and the last-named candidate is Mr.
Harker, the crier of the Old Court at the Old Bailey,
so well known for his clear and sonorous voice. The
election takes place on Friday.
ARMORIAL BesrieNs.--
, The Americans are fond
of blazoning heraldic insignia on the panels of their
carriages, though their notions of what such things
really are ,and mean appear to be meagre enough.
An Eng;kish diplematist, not long ago, carried out a
Londott, carriage and harness to New York ; some
accident shortly after his arrival required that he
shogld send it to a coachmakees ; arid, on calling
after Wards, what was his astonishment to find the
people imitating his sWeld and crest on half a dozen
gigs and dog-carts Anging he knew not to whom!
Ihe coachmaker, 0, ~ asking some explanation,_
made answer, " le.
that,;
~.. pattern seemed to be much.
admired."—Tableau , .' , Ctilt3 Americaines, par Gus-
tare da Beaunwnt.: . : '''' •

the King proposes to make next year, and the
distribution of which this Assembly is called upon
to approve of, is not submitted to their ap-
proval, nor will a single member leave Berlin
informed of the real amount of the revenue of the
country, unless a very different spirit should happen
to animate the majority from that which the Crown
evidently expects to meet. The sore feeling of the
Germans at thus being held up to their neighbours to
be scoffed at cannot be described, but of course will
have its due influence in encouraging the French to
pursue their intriguing aggressive commercial policy
towards Belgium, which, although the violent advo-
cates of commercial policy in the German press first
chalked out the proceeding, is felt now to be virtually
a move upon the Rhine. Russia, too, will of course
use little ceremony with a rival so circumstanced;
and a report is already abroad that orders have been
given on the Polish frontier to act as if no cartel
Convention had been concluded, and to refuse re-ad-
mission into,the empire to all deserters or criminals
who might be seized and sent back by the Prussian
police. Prussia has long been in the position of being
obliged to go forward if it would stand. The crisis
has been hastened by the acts of the present King.
lie must throw himself into the arms of his people,
or await a direful alternative.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR
OCTOBER.
(From the Farmer's Magazine.)
This has proved one of the finest months for farm
labours recollected at any corresponding period of the
year. In its early part, and up to the 20th, scarcely
any rain fell in England, which gave the farmers an
excellent opportunity for ploughing the land destined
to be sown with autumn wheat, while, in some instan-
ces, the process of seeding was much retarded in high
situations, in consequence of the soil becoming too dry
for that purpose. However, the fine rains which have
fallen since the above day, have enabled our when
growers to proceed rapidly with that operation, and it
may, we think, be fairly presumed, that at least three- I
fourths of the winter wheats have been already sown
under the most favourable auspices, and no doubt ap-
pears to be entertained that a general conclusion will
be arrived at in the course of the next fortnight. The
plants which have appeared above ground exhibit a
very strong and healthy appearance, and we hail the
present position of things—i.e. in relation to culture—
the harbinger of good crops for the ensuing season. So
es
occasions,
n ale
form the
much time having been occupied in the fields, the flail
and thrashing-machine have not been in quite so much
quantity of wheat, barley, and oats thrashed out has
sufficientlyrbeeqeunisitiona
as on
so
lamrege pre
to previous
enable
something like an adequate opinion of the
actual produce of this years' 3 cro . We
statement have all along given our t 2
to the
effect that those of wheat have amounted to nearly a
fair average ; and that those of other kinds of
grain have proved great, and now we see no reason
whatever to alter that which we have before ad-
vanced. Of course, it will be understoOd that we are
speaking in reference to the whole of England, since,
otherwise, two or three counties might be pointed out
in which a considerable defficiency of supply is found
to exist. Eor instance, in Essex, the yield of wheat is
much less than usual ; but take England as a whole
we think it will be found about equal to what we have
stated. As to the quality of the grain, this is fine in
the extreme, which circumstance cannot fail to be of
vast importance to our growers..
The early time at which harvest commenced this
year hiving prevented the total exhaustion of the
stocks of old grain, samples of it are still to be met
with not only at Mark-lane, but also in most of our
large country markets, the quality of which is repre-
sented as fine, yet we do not consider there is any
abundance of it, and that it will be worked off in the
ensuing month appears pretty certain.
Notwithstandinw the pressure of the times, we un-
derstand the breadth of land under wheat culture this
season, is much larger, on a comparison, than was that
of last year; and the fortunate circumstance of get-
ting it finished early, and in the best possible condi-
tion, renders future prospects, in this particular,
cheering.
Although the turnip crop this season is large, we
find the quality to be unusually inferior, caused, in a
areat measure, by the dryness of the summer months.
'As to the other available supges of winter food for
fattening stock we learn that it is good, with the exs
ception of hay. The epidemic has been again raging
to some extent in our grazing districts, yet the losses
sustained have not been of any great moment.
The potato crop in the United Kin gdom, including
the_chaaapkisisads, iejePresented as great almost be.

SUMMONS FOR "CALLS."-At the Stockport Police
Court, on SatUrday, the overseers of the poor for that
township appeared, by Mr. Tate, the poor-rate col-
lector, to answer the complaint of the Board of Guar-
dians, and to show cause why an order should not be
made upon them for the payment of the sum of 2,6091.
1 ls. 4d., being arrears of " calls" made upon them for
the relief of the poor. Mr. Tate informed the Bench
that the neglect arose from a want of funds ; but he
thought the amount could be Taised in the course of a
fortnight or three weeks, as a new rate of two shillings
in the pound had recently been granted. An order
was made for payment within twenty-one
.days.--
Manchester Guardian.

Mr. Higgs held an inquest yesterday evening upon
the body of Thomas Kimber, aged 48, formerly tailor
and draper, but latterly a commercial agent, in Tot-
tenham-court-road. Thomas Jones Rowe, 55 Thames
Police, said that he found the deceased yesterday
morning, about half-past three o'clock, lying athwart
the chain of the police barge Investigator, which is
moored between Strand-19e and Arundel stairs. He
towed the deceased ashore to the latter place, and, on
examination, found only a pocket-book, some loose
papers, a comb, and some tobacco upon him. From
the addresses upon the papers the deceased's friends
and relatives were traced. Mr. Burrows, of 15,
Fludyer-street, Westminster, said that deceased and
himself had been drinking till a few minutes before
twelve the preceding evening, in the Hampshire Hog,
Charles-street, and he accompanied him as far as
Whitehall, when he left him, after making an appoint..
ment to see him early in the firming. He (deceased)
was then a little tipsy, but not much so. Deceased
appeared in good spirits. Mr. Fox, of the Hampshire
Hog, confirmed the preceding witness. The Jury,
after a lengthened consultation, returned a verdict,
" Found drowned, but how he came into the water,
there is no eyidenoo to ohm"

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pond recollected precedent,'while the fineness of the
summer months has caused the quality to be ex-
tremely good. The supplies that have come to hand
have met a dull sale, in consequence of their abun-
dance and the immense supplies of vegetables on offer,
while the prices realised have been very unremune-
rative.
This has proved a most abundant hop season, both
as regards quantity and quality. This abundance has
had a serious effect upon prices, both in the Borough
and at the provincial fairs and markets. The growth
being pretty well ascertained, the duty is freely
backed at 160,0001., which stun will, we think, be re.
alised. The official announcement is expected to be
made in a few days.
Our advices from Scotland are satisfactory. Most
of the autumn wheat has been already sown, while
the fine frosty weather has greatly improved the con-
dition of the new grain. Increased supplies of corn
have been on sale in the principal markets, while the
general demand has ruled heavy, at drooping cur-
rencies.

In Ireland, even in its most northern part, harvest
has been brought to a close. The abundance of the
crops this year leads us to suppose that that will be
an exporting, instead of an importing country, during
the next seaaon. In the different markets the demand
has ruled dull at lower figures.