The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-04-14


without melting. The Peaches, pears,
piuiHbs appies, eariierCheries, stra wberries
gooscberr1es &c. are in full bloom.-ln
three days, we have embraced almost every
vicssitude of climate.
Scrahs from a file of British Pahers nj
me CNce Of tie Enquirer to Me 13th
March
The Returns on the table of the III. Of c.
snow s, a great increase IN the number Of
Criminals in the metropolis in 1906. they
where 800; in z, 1O17 in IS, ITO %
1912 IN 10, 1424.-Sir 5. Romiliy ascribes
tne increase to three causes 1st, the pm
ishment of labor on board the hil1te
were the youngest and oldest villains
are Kept together 2nd the practice of
giving rewards for the detection of mar
ticuiar criminals, Sd the lotteries which re :
oucea thousands to poverty, the mother of
all crimes. ~ VI
The population of Great Britain in 1901
was io,S4z .o1o the census for 1911, makes
A bill is before the H. of c. for erecI;,o.
a Pententiary for the City of London and
County OF Middlesex for the, confinement of
persons under sentence of TRANSPORTATION.
ne experience of America attests its wiz
dom. "'
MIR. Brougham has moved in vain for
revision OF the system of Droits (or rights
Of .4dmiraLy. All ships detained hreni,
DUSTY TO a declaration Of zuar /: all coming
INTO port from ignorance of hostilties he,
tween other countries and G. Britain A: all
taken before the issuing of the proclama-
ti0n, ana those taken by non. commission
GU CaPeors' are sold, and the profits consti-
.u.e .heSe Drots. In 1910, the sum paid
INTO this fund, was 1854, 900 and at this
time it is millions sterling. The King
CLAIMS 1T i'll character of Lord HIGH ADM,
raj Mr.. Il. commended that an interest of
thiS sort might lead the king to Commence
hostlhtieS before the declaration of war-S-
that at alievents 1t vests him with funds. not
granted by nor accountable to, Parliament
III tile very teeth of the British Const,tu,
ton. The motion failed, Is to %.
meeting was held by the inhabitants in
the Staifordshire Potterics to petition tbc
Regent against the Orders in Council-the
Iet''lon states that more than one fifth Of
the manufactures were unoccupied, and the
remainder employed to little more tban
MAJ" their usual extent. GREAT numbers of
"oikmen are without employment and
most OF theirfamily dependent on the pcor.
Rates FOR bread.
IN act has passed the Commons to pro-
h'nit the aistRfqiioH Of Grain. But il viii
IAN snort OF IT'S obIects--the agriculture of
". o. IS not sufficiently productive. while
,nat OF the Colonies is so even TO overnov;t,r,
ne last yield infinitely greater propoT-
portion OF sugar than the former does of
grain. ~' VI
The Liverpool prints give one Of tho
strongest cases of the repeal of the frencb
DEGREES. An American vessel, the Jupiter
was chartered by Liverpool merchant !:
she was boarded in the channel bya Frenc5
privateer of IL guns. and not molestrd
though treighted, as her bills of ladine tese
yard.
he Pr0testanfs Of Ireland move heart
and hand with the Catholics. In mac .,
meetings they express their senti,pents y,
petition. Before it is transmitted 80 ! -,
don, 1t IS computed that it will reach an E -
lish mile in length. Il" i''S
The Board Of Trade has Determined >.
enforce the 5th article of the Porn y
treaty, viz; to let no vessel into B}itisS
port, as a Portuguese, unless it shall have
zen built in Portuguese port, or taken NV
some Portuguese ship having letters of Of 4, s r
que from the Portuguese government {; con-