The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-03 00:00:00

BUTTER TRADE.

6' You are aware the price of butter has been consi-
derab:y advanced, by the enormous speculation of one
individual in this market, who is reported to have
purchased 35,000 firkins, bat who his now ceased to
buy, and who, being entirely out of the l:ne, will be
obliged to send them again into the trade. Ile no
doubt considers he has the whole winter before bins
f3r the disposal thereof, and having the means, he will
not be under the necessity of forcing them on the mar-
ket at en early period ; bat those cannot be his sin•
cere friends who recommended sods proceedings
at the commencement of the season; it being well
known to the experienced part of the trade, that early
Butters are unfit to held, for having been made and
shipped in hot weather they loose their quality ; a few
such warm mornings as thin was, will cause other
holders, who bad boeght previous to the advance, to
effect sales at Is: or 2s. per cwt, ender the market
price, which with the arrival of some vessels, now on
their passage with large quantities on board, will very
seriously Oleo the price; in addition to which every
individual in the trade is aware of the abundance of
this article in Holland; and all parts of the United
Kingdom, as well as'a considerable quantity of last
sus Itjaleft. Oge 'deign to yogi is not to purchase
tingle rikiiiPrringlis it?trti bus orders for.—
quaniity of Hatch arriving weekly is very great,
which frArn the mildness of the Season mnst continue;
and the trade here will run on that article until severe
weather prevents Its arrival."

Extract of a letter from Crawley, in Sosser, Oct
2, 1822 fuo:" 1 am just retuned from the sale of D.'s
effects, a'few miles from hence. Horses, cows, sheep,
furatiag tatlc'e, furniture, almost every thing, was
sold /for an old song. 1). entered upon his farm iu
the year 1810, having purchased the freehold fur
20,5004—mortgaging it, however, at the same tune.
fur 11,0001. Three years ago things went so bad
with him that the mortgage money was called in, and
the farm was sold at Oarraway's for 10,5701. which
was considered a great price. The purchaser offered
it to L. at an annual rent of 300/.,orlciedt. as he had
no other prospect, be accepted, and now, such is the
state of the times, he is completely ruined, and even
the bad upon which he lay is sold away from him.—
The Grillers hereabouts are in a terrible condition—
what with rents, tidies, and taxes, they will soon find
an end of their capital. Lanlords boast of having
reduced their rents 25 per cent., but they seem so for
get that when things were at the highest (wheat at
' 331. to 451. per load), they fixed the rents wi.4h they
have reduced 23 per cent., and now wheat is only 10!.
to 126 per load. Ilesides, is not an income of
15,0001. per annum mach better to a landholder now
than 20,000/. during the war? At the present price
of produce to pay the grower, rents must come down
one half at least, and so meat tithes—the taxes might
be provided for if that were done. Some of the
Clergy, however, hold out bard for their tenths. In
as adjoining parish the tithes were compounded for,
for throe years, for 8001. per annum, but the agree.
meutexpired yesterday—the parson now wants 1,000!.
and the parish are resolved to give no more than
6001. A hop grower, who has upwards of 250
tete% of hop plankation in this county, declared, at
the last Lewes market, that he had lost in the last year
upwards of 4,0001., and that he expects to lose still
more this year."
In 1791, a pound of fine cotton, which cost 7s. 64.
was spna Into yarn, measuring 97 post miles, of the
value of 221. It was sent to tilasguiv, and there made
into muslin, which was presented to her Majesty
Queen Charlotte.
To such a pitch of perfection has almost every
article of machinery obtained, that those only can
believe who witness its wonderful effects. A FOgellitle
fir the dressing of cloth has recently been erected in
this place, which does as much in forty five minutes
as two men could do in two days.--(Leeds Paper.)
Eennem Dearsi.—Abort half past one o'clock in
tbd afternoon of Tuesday lest, Mr. Deo. Pace, Inspector
of the Telegraphic and Semiphoric Establishment at
the Admiralty, while engaged in the dis-harge of his
duty, nos seized by an apoplectic attack, and immedi
ately fell from his chair. Three medical gentlemeo
were sent for, who made every exertion, hut ineffectu-
ally, to save him. After remaining in estate of learn-
sibility for some hours, he expired at ultdoight.
vas a Lieutenant of the Navy of 30 years standing.
and was 56 years of age.

SPOIL i INII IN I ELLILIENCE.

NEWMARKET RACES.—WLDNICqoair, OCT. 1.
Fifty °Woes', free for any horse. &c.; 4-yr olds to car y
7st. 41b.; &yr olds, Sit. 61b.; 0-yr olds, Sat. I ilb.; a . I

aged, 9si.
Mr. W)ndham's b.c.Centaar, .. • • .. I
Mr. Batson's b. m. Lass, .. • . • • . V
Dlr. Cooper's b. e. Lory.... • • • • .. 3
Ld C arendon's b. e. A lase., • • • • .. .. 4e r
Woo by a length-9 to 4on Centaur—l to 1 apt Luss—d
to I apt Lory.

PEDESTRIANIEu.—The match between Betteridge, t'te
Berkshire runner, and West, the Canterbary rants':,
took place on Tuesday, for one hundred Ones., a shart
distance from that city. It was a match which attracted
much company. The pedestrians ran ten miles against
each other, and Betteridge won it, by doing the tea
miles within an hour.
Annther match, whirls exceeds any pedestrian feat on
record, took place yesterday morning, in Cranbourn
dirove, Windsor Forest. 13umstead, a gentleman's
groom, was matched by
.his master, for one hundred
guineas, to ran ten tulles to fifty-six minutes, which, we
believe, was n,rer beiore attempted. The pedestrian
211 years of age, and the follawiliz is an accara:e ac-
, count of the time each mile was done in:—

---...—.
N. set; M. sre.
First mile . . . 5 Di I Sixth mile . . 5 34
Second 5 22 Seventh . . . 5 37
Third . . . . 5 31 rightli . . . 5 -i.!,
Fon' th . . . . 5 32 Ninth 1 4t
Fifth
Total, 55 minutes, 51 seconds.
The fire miles were done in twenty-seven minutes and
twenty-five seconds, without visible fatigue, bit in th •
ninth mile there seemed something amiss, and I:e..tin.;
was 2to 100 time. It was a momentary loss of wind
which the pot:testes° recovered. The perforni.r is a
Yorkahiremon.

Dr. Chalmers, it appears, has already left London.
He remained in town only a few days; but during.
his short stay, be preached four sermons, which were
attended by overflowing rongregatious. Among his
bearers on Sunday evening last, were Messrs Car:•
nine, Vansittnrt, and Wilberforce.
A hendrome m,nument bas been erected in the Ab•
bry Church, 11 Ith, at the eapence of the medical men
of that city, •to the memory of Dr. Parry, father of
Cip'ain Parry.
On Tuesday het, a richly embossed silver snuff•boc,
inlaid with gold (in a case), value 121. was presented
by Colonel Lewis to Mr. Ashweelt, in the presence el
la large assemblage of officers, at the mess-room, n•itlr
I the following inscription on the lid :—" From the
Officers of the Plymouth Division of Royal Mnrine.,
to Mr. Ashweek, late Master of their Hand, io token
of their admiration of his musical talents, during the
period of fifty-two years. Anno 1822." Mr. G. Ash•
week, late Master of the South Devon Band, has sac.
ceeded his father.

A beautiful Lunar Iris, or rainbow, was seen on S
turilay evening last, in a northern direction from Bos-
ton, in Lincolnshire. It was every way cempletf, the
curvature entire, and its apex about 20 degrees.
CROYDON Fat*.—Yesterday morning this raj: c ,m-
-meeciAl with great spirit, and was much erw% ded.
The theatrical booths of Richardson, Gyngel, Cook,
and Brydges, and other itinerants of the suds and
buskin, as usual, excited much attention, and met
with due support. All the slight of hand tal,:nt from
London attended numerously, and the joskina in that
neighbourhood sulfered materially from this wide of
performance by the light fingered gentry. Life
London was not forgotteen mod it was played oft' in
prime style.
A singular and melancholy circumstance occur:e.l
yesterday at the General Meeting of the Pensiok Su•
ciety, City of London Tavern, far the election cf
male and four female aged pensioners. One of tie
randidates, B. Gray, aged 73 years; was s2d.lenly
taken ill in the room ; a method gentleman was iii-
rected by the Chairman (Dr. Budge) to be sent fur;
hut before he arrived, the poor man had expired.
On Thursday last, the son of a respectable merchant,
named Nixon, made an attempt upon his own life in
Moorfields. He was in a state of mental derange-
ment at 6,1 time, and had been confined at a privste
madhouse, in Bethnal Green, from which he made his

escape in a singular manner. ❑e had marked the
hoer at which the locking up took place, and observed
that immediately before that time the .superintendants
were more busily employed than at any other. Oa the day
of his escape he conducted himself with mere than Or.
divary discretion and coolnese under the eye of the
0 wernor, mad retired when all were most deeply en-
g4ged to his rootn, where he deliberately took the cord
from his bedstead, and fastening it to a window bar,
let himself down, and walked to a coach stand, where

he hired • chariot, and ordered the coachman to drive to
the Nlosument. Upon arriving the Monument. he
alighted and purchased • bract of pistols, and povekkr
and ball. and then ramming his scat in the chariot, or.
tiered the cii.telman t drive w Moorfield.., to the Loose
of tho iL v. Mr. Pevdr-ox, the Catholic clergyman.—
. _

Ilaring recesed that destination, he loft a lettar for M.
Devereux, begging that a spot in the burial ground in
which the Rev. Gentleman usually officiated, shonlitke
given up, fur the reception of the body of the unfortu•
nate writer. The chariot was out of sight before the
letter was read, and tine poor maniac had discharged
one of the pistols at his own body. The ball entered
between the ribs. He was taken back to the madhouse.,
where every possible attention has been paid to him,
bat it is apprehended tbat he cannot recover. lit Ins
been is the army and navy, but some years ago be was
attacked with brain fever, which permanently affected
his mind.

SZLP-DERTRVCTION.—Yesterday aftersom abort
five o'clock, a man in a fustian jacket, very leisurely
took it off nn Blackfriars'-bridge, deliberately hung to
un the watch-box, and then precipitated himself intu
the river. /to alarm was instantly given and a
waterman rowed ulf to the spot : but the body teas not
I seen tO rise; his hat, however, was picked tt?, and

the jacket was thrown from the bridge intense bust,
by a person, who seemed under great agitation. The
drag nets belonging to the tinlivie Society were ern•
played till dark, without success, in timiing the bo•t.
There wss nothing in his riches that eoold le'd to
any discovery, either of the rause which induced him
to commit the rash act, or of his identity. The bridge
was crowded by passengers, who aoetned horrified at
witnessing the deliberate and dre.ulUil catsstrophe.
It is not true, it appears, that the poor man, a ser-
vant in the employment of ;Messrs. I:41, of the
try, who was bittrn by a cat, died of the hydrophobia ;
but it is true, that he died of inflammation, and thst
he has left a wile Ind four children. His widow is
far advanced in pregnancy.

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