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• Mafia, ahaafd have timed a gnat owl painful sensation. It
w 1 ~l lily ant tot sinlieroas (11.111 of. inhabitants of the
tientrTs who am at the Mao date fareners‘und weavers.
If we tonsillar that the Bing of Frame bas issued this Gaon-
name of his own mord, or rather by the orrice of the COuneil of
Ministers, during the interval between one Session and the neat, so
that the Ordoonance has not been laid before the Chambers, we
should be tempted to.think that his Most Christian- Majesty had,
in a lit of ill-humour and injustice, forgotten both thellundred Days
and the asylum which Flanders hospitably offergd him and_ his au-
gust brother i in fact., this -measuiewlti *birth. affect Fast Flan-
ders and the markets of its principal towns, Ghent, Ain't, and Oude-
narde. However this be, as the ordonnanee left a term of 15 days for
the importation of linens, on payment of the old and inoreModerate
duty, advantage has been taken of this circumstance to import into
France an immense quantity of these goods ; and it is calculated,
that within these few days, 35,000 to 40,000 pieces have entered
Lille and the Department of the North, which were bought up by
French dealers, who hastened to our markets. This has, of clone,
raised the prices in the warehouses of our Merchants in the country,
and the markets. But after next week, there will be a sensible
decline. Let us hope that our Government, in its wisdom and
justice, will take measures to remedy the and, if possible, to
remove it.

BRUSSELS, JULY 14.
A Deputation of the Chamber of Commerce, Courtray. consist-
ing of Messrs. Van Ituymbeeket President ; Cocke Van de Veldt,
and Venue, waited, on Thursday, on his Excellency the i‘linister
of the Interior, to petition him to use reprisals against France,
which has laid a stew import duty on our manufactures, especially
linen. This Deputation was very well received.

The Paris journals of Monday contain some reports
of successes obtained by the Greeks, the farther confirmation of
which would.be desirable. The .lfoxiteise gives a letter from V.
tit .s alt, ts..nclng that the Emperor and Empress e.f Actress were
expected these on the 20th of this month. Grand fete were pro.
paring for the arrival of their Majesties.

Private advices, received from India, still continue
to give chiming accounts of t►e progress of our military operations
there. Sir Asteumatz Cassesest. was to quit Rangoon, and com-
mence his march upon Umerapoora, the enemy's capital, on the
oth February. He was merely detained at Rangoon until the
arrival of the troops to whom it was his intention to confide the
custody of that important post in his absence. The gallant General
was represented as entertaining the most sanguine expectations as
to the result of his intended advance, and impatient once again to
put the grand army in motion. On his route into the interior, be
would be joined by a large body of Siamese. We look eagerly for
the neat intelligence, which may be especial to be decisive.

With all the boasted refinements of the present age,
many of our sports are of a very barbarous character,
and a disgrace to civilized society : such are bull-baiting,
cock-fighting, and many other amusements, as they are
termed, which are not only sanctioned, but patronised
by men of fortune, rank, and education. A more dis-
gusting instance of cruelty than usual we have this day
to record, in the lion-fight which took place: Ist War-
wick. It has long been a question with naturalists,
Iwbether animals are savage by nature or by circum-
stance? The issue of the comb it at'Warwick is a strong
instance in favour of the latter. In his native wilds, the
Kingof the Forest is invincible,and when h.unted,has been
known to turn upon his assailants, in defiance of a shower
of balls from musketry. An instance of ibis sore, oc-
curred at Baroda, in the Bast Indies, in
.1816, . when, a
lion, after receiving four shots, rushed out, and dobly
charged his assailants, thoual; saluted in Ms advance
with several balls from the Gentlemen, as well as from
ten Sepoys : he sprung upon one of the Sepoys, whom he
grappled with and threw to the ground ; and it was not
until the party rushed cn him with their swords and
bayonets, that he relinquished his prey.
In the fight at Warwick, such was the effect of do-
mestication, that the lion was tattle and even cowardly ;
he seemed quite unconscious of his strength,or the force
of his paws, and never once attempted to use his teeth,
thus giving a contradiction to the assertion of Pores that
" Its power to harm each creature feels." .

The exhibition was extremely revolting; there was
a noble and generous animal, whose nature had been
subdued, exposed to the attacks of three animals at a
time, whose instinctive ferocity had keen increased by
exercise, and was stimulated by their masters. For the
sake of humanity, we wish the brutal exhibition had
been prevented by t':e Magistrates, who are not always
so squeamish; but if the law is not sufficient to pre-
vent such cruelties,we trust it will be made so, though,
as the exhibition failed as a sr eculation, it is probable
we shall not be insulted by a repetition of it.

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