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CLOUDS. FROllI THE METROPOLITAN FOR SEPTEMBER. "I DOTE upon the skies, A book whose changing leaves contain Many a lesson for the wise, Whereon fools gaze in vain Nought they see but clouds, and blue Vacant spaces shining through,- But thou and I therein can see Beauty—love—eternity See yon little plumy isle Floating in a sea of light,- Gladden'd by the sun's last smile, Beautifully bright! See that lengthen'd purple throng Mingled in disorder, Wave-like, blazing all along With a golden border Countless severed pieces, lo Which appear to lie On the blue, like flakes of snow, Lovely to the eye! I dote upon the skies I love to watch the summer-cload, Now into a mountain rise, Now a palace proud Now a dome, and now a tower, Pyramid, or fairy-bower! O'er the skies my pleased eye ranges, Loving all their endless changes But mostly, when the lonely moon Along her quiet path is stealing, And sweetly bringing into tune Each jarring thought and feeling, Do I rejoice to gaze above, And take my fill of love Or when the little stars" are blinking, Or stilly looking down From skies without a frown, On lake beneath no night-breeze shrinking, Do I indulge my pensive thinking, Inspired by their soft beams 0 then I know the bliss of linking Melancholy dreams I love the jagged, crag-like heaps, Where the embryo hail-storm sleeps, And the arrowy, icy splinter With the drenching shower is mix'd In the days disputed 'twixt Rosy Spring and hoary Winter And I love the scudding rack, When the autumn winds blow shrill. And the spectre-shade glides black Along the ridgy hill I love the giant-forms Of the clouds in thunder-storms, Rolling in majestic motion Like the waves along the ocean; Awful are their sable masses, When the vivid lightning passes Through them with its zig-zag flash, Heralding the thunder-crash!

HOUSE OF LORDS, 30th August 1831, Blakemore v. Glamorganshire Canal Company. Judgment was moved for and delivered by Lord Lynd- Tiurst upon the defendants' writ of error. LORD LYNDHURST—My Lords, there was a case argued not a long time since, in which Mr. Blakemore was the plaintiff, and the Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation Company were the defendants, and in which I have to move your Lordships for judgment. It was an action which was brought upon a case by Mr. Blakemore for the purpose of recovering compensation in damages for certain injury which Mr. Blakemore alleged he had sustained in consequence of certain works that had been carried on by the Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal Company, the effect of which had been to diminish the usual and customary supply of water to two mills, of which Mr. Blakemore is the occupier. My Lords, the declaration consisted of a great number of counts. One half of those counts applied to certain works, known by the name of the Melin Griffith Works; the other half of those counts applied to the other works, known, I think, by the name of the Pentyrch Works. The counts with're- spect to the Melin Griffith Works are substantially the same as those that relate to the Pentyrch Works; therefore it is not necessary that I should trouble your Lordships by going over them, as they relate to both. The jury found a verdict in favour of Mr. Blakemore, the plaintiff, on many of the counts. In pursuance, my Lords, of that verdict, judgment was entered up in the Court of Exchequer in favour of Mt. Blakemore upon those counts, both as it related to the Melin Griffith Works, and as it related to the Pentyrch Works. A writ of error was brought from that judgment into the Court of Exche- quer Chamber; the case was argued before Lord Tenterden, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and also before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and the judgment of the Court of Exchequer was affirmed. From that judgment a writ of error was brought in Parliament, and it is for your Lordships now to say, whether the judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, preceded by the judgment of the Court of Exchequer, was or was not erroneous. My Lords, the verdict and the judgment were general, and it follows, therefore, that, as the verdict and judgment were general, if any one count is defective, of course the judg- ment cannot be sustained. The objections, therefore, that are made on the part of the defendants are made to some of the counts; and if those objections are valid-if any one of them, indeed, is valid, in that case the judgment ought to be reversed. Now, my Lords, in order to simplify the case, we must class the counts. There is one set which apply to the seven first counts; there is another set which apply to the eleventh—from the counts from the seventh to and including the eleventh there is another set which ap- ply to the twelfth, to the thirteenth, and to the fourteenth; and the same objections apply to the corresponding counts that relate to the other works—the Pentyrch Works. Now I shall begin by considering the objection as far as it applies to the twelfth count and after I liave'stated the observations I have to make to it, it will be unnecessary for ine to trouble your Lordships with anything as to the thir- teenth and fourteenth counts, for the principle which is applicable to the twelfth will equally apply to them; and I shall therefore afterwards direct the attention, of your Lordships to the seventh; and then, again, it will be unne- cessary for me to go into the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, for the principle that applies to the seventh will equally apply to the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh. Now, my Lords, in order to understand the twelfth count, which refers to a certain Act of Parliament, I must state to your Lordships the facts as they appear in the count and in the Act of Parliament, for that is the true way in which to present the qase to your Lordships' consideration. It appears that, previously to the passing of an Act of Parliament, as far back as the year 1790, the parties under whom Mr. Blakemore holds the Melin Griffith Works were in possession of the same works in the same state, and it is alleged in the declaration, and must be taken now, after the verdict, to have been proved, that at that time they were entitled to the benefit of the water from the Taff which passes through a certain cut or watercourse from the Taff for the use of those works-the works, in fact, were carried on by the water from the Taff—by water from and commu- nicating with the Taff through a certain cut or watercourse -they were entitled to that water at that time-it is so al- leged in the declaration, and, after the verdict, must be taken to have been so proved. At that period, my Lords, an Act of Parliament was passed, establishing a company, the object of which was to form a navigable canal from Merthyr Tydvil to a place called the Bank, near Cardiff. The canal so formed was to be supplied with water from the river Taff, and from other sources in the neighbourhood. It is quite obvious, therefore, that the water so drawn from the river Taff, considering the situation of the canal, would be water drawn from that source which supplied the works of Melin Griffith; and, indeed, it is so stated in the decla- ration, and must, after the verdict, be taken to have been pcoved. When the Act of Parliament was passed, therefore, a provision was made for the purpose of securing and pro- tecting the interests of the owners of those works. It was provided in the Act of Parliament that there should be a weir in the canal on that side of the canal coipinunicating with the cut or watercourse to which I have referred, and that care should be taken that the locks—the gates imme- diately below the weir, should be kept in good repair-a very effectual provision for that purpose was put into the act. The effect of this arrangement was, of course, this, that the water passing into the Taff would, with the exception of that which was necessary for the purposes of the canal, pass over the weir into the watercourse as before, and be made use of for the Melin Griffith Works. This was an arrangement made under the authority of the legislature, and probably with the consent of the parties-probably with the consent of the parties, but certainly with the authority of the legis- lature. After this Act of Parliament was passed the canal was completed and the weir constructed. The Act of Par- liament did not point out any particular dimensions for the canal. It seems to have been considered that the parties at the time understood what species of canal, and what size, and what form of canal was intended to be made. The Act of Parliament, however, pointed out no particular di- mensions, but it directed the works to be formed in the manner I have described. The canal, as the declaration states, was actually formed according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament and by the forming of that canal, which was formed by the com- pany of proprietors themselves, an apportionment of the water was made under the authority of the legislature. It was competent for the company of proprietors at the time to have made a larger canal; at least as there are no limits in the Act of Parliament to which the canal wss to be con- fined, we have no reason to suppose they might not have made a larger canal, but still they made such an one as they thought necessary and proper, and under the authority of the legislature. So that they made that canal under the au- thority of the Act—an Act containing a provision for the purpose of securing the owners of the Melin Griffith Works, and under it they apportioned the water as between them- selves, the proprietors of the Canal Company, and the owners of those works. My Lords, I conceive that, having done so, the rights of the parties were fixed and ascer- tained. The legislature gave the Company of Proprietors a power to do this—a power to make the canal, and to con- struct the watercourse in the manner I have described. The question is, whether, after these works have been so made and so completed under the authority of the Act of Parlia- ment-after the water for the Melin Griffith Works had been provided for as I have stated-after the apportion- ment of the water had been made, as it was made, in pursu- ance of the provision in the Act of Parliament,—whether the rights of the parties were not fixed, ascertained, and determined from that moment? My Lords, I am of opi- nion that they were, and I think your Lordships will be of that opinion also; and that the Company of Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal had no right afterwards to en- large, and extend, and widen, and deepen their canal, so as to draw a much larger quantity of water from the river Taff, as to interfere with the water which had been so ap- portioned to, the Melin Griffith Works, and so as injuri- ously to affect their use. My Lords, the declaration goes on to state, after stating the facts I have mentioned, in the seventh count, that after the weir had been constructed, and after the canal had been completed, it was their duty (the duty of the Com- pany of Proprietors of the Canal) to abstain from enlarging, widening, deepening, and varying, and altering the canal and that it was their duty to allow the proprietors of the Melin Griffith Works the fair and reasonable use of the weir that had been made, as I have stated. But that, not regarding their duty in that respect, they had at a subse- quent period varied, enlarged, widened, and deepened the canal, and drawn off thereby very large quantities of water, and had in a great measure thereby deprived the plaintiff of the benefit, of the full benefit, of the water which had been secured them under the authority of the Act of Par- liament. My Lords, I conceive that such a case proved is a just case for entitling Mr. Blakemore to damages against the Company of Proprietors and if your Lordships are also of that opinion, then, as far as relates to the twelfth count, your Lordships will be pleased to affirm the judgment of the court below. My Lords, I have already stated that the thirteenth and fourteenth counts depend upon the same principle. It is unnecessary, therefore, that I should trouble your Lordships with any observations on those counts, or on the corre- spondingcounts relating to the works known by the name of the Pentyrch Works; the question there is and the counts are precisely the same. Now, my Lords, as to the seventh count, that is in sub- stance the same as the twelfth count, which I have stated but in addition to what I have stated, it contains a most important fact, rendering the case stronger, if possible, than it is upon the twelfth count. It states, that in the year 1796, six years after the passing of the act to which I have referred, another Act of Parliament was passed relating to the same subject; that act stated that the money which had been raised under the former Act of Parliament was not sufficient to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Canal Navigation to complete all the works; and it further stated, that it was desirable the limits of the canal should be extended to a point beyond the original point, and it gave authority to raise the additional sum of £ 10,000, and a further sum of another £ 10,000, under other circum- stances, for the purpose of completing the works authorised under the original Bill, and for the purpose of making the extension which I have adverted to. But then, my Lords, that Act of Parliament states, by way of proviso, that all those works began under the former act, or under this act, shall be completed within two years, and that no part of the money shall be applied to any of those works that shall not be completed within the two years. Now, it is said that the meaning of that act is merely, not to prohibit the carrying on of the works after the expiration of the two years, but that if any of the works remain at the expiration of the two years unfinished, the further works shall not be paid for out of the £ l0,000 which was to be so raised. My Lords, I am not of that opinion. I think the Act of Parlia- ment means to say that no part of the £ 10,000 shall be ap- plied to any works that should not be completed, and that were not finished within the two years. And further, that it means to say, that no works should be carried on ad- versely to the interests of any individual after the expira- tion of those two years. Six years had already been occupied at the passing of this act in the carrying on of these works; and it was the object of the Act of Parliament to fix a time to which the parties adverse to the interests of the proprietors of other works should be confined in the prosecution of their further works. That is the reasonable and safe construction of the Act of Parliament, and it is the clear and intelligible mean- ing of it. Now, the seventh count states, as I have before mentioned to your Lordships, that the canal was completed at the ex- piration of the two years; and it states that it was the duty of the Company of Proprietors of the Canal Navigation, after the expiration of the two years, to abstain from making any enlargement to the canal which should interfere with the interests of Mr. Blakemore. And that, notwithstanding that, after the expiration of the two years they enlarged, widened, and deepened the canal, and thereby took great additional quantities of water from the Melin Griffith Works, to the great injury of Mr. Blakemore: and the question is, whether that seventh count contains a sufficient legal state- ment of the cause of action. My Lords, I think your Lordships will entertain no doubt that that is even a stronger case, to which I have just re- ferred, than the one of the twelfth count, and that it does contain a sufficient legal statement of the cause of action. The rights, as I have before stated, of Mr. Blakemore, the plaintiff, were fixed by the previous Act of Parliament had it not been for the intervention of this second Act of Parlia- ment The second Act of Parliament gives a certain further time to the Company of Proprietors of the Glamorganshire Canal Navigation to carry on, and alter, and make their works therefore it must reasonably be said that it was in- tended that within the two years any alteration that was to be made should be made by the Company of Proprietors, and that nobody can say that any alteration was to be made after the expiration of the two years. Taking into consi- deration the language of the clause and the construction of 171, the act which I have considered to apply to it, can we con- ceive in justice and propriety, that after the expiration of the two years the canal could be enlarged by the Company of Proprietors injuriously to Mr. Blakemore? My Lords, I should recommend your Lordships, there- fore, upon this seventh count, to affirm the judgment of the court below. The judgment then upon the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh counts, will also be affirmed and the judgment also o? the corresponding counts, and applying to the Pentyrch Works, will likewise be affirmed. The consequence on the whole will be, that I shall move your Lordships that in this case the judgment of the court below be affirmed. EARL SHAFTESBURY then declared from the Woolsack, the judgment of their Lordships to be affirmatory of the judgment of the court below.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR AUGUST. The weather of this month, from its commencement to the 21st inclusive, was, in the whole, unsettled and showery, in some degree baffling to the field labours connected with both the corn and second crop hay harvest; especially as many of the showers were heavy, and attended by strong squalls of wind, accompanied with thunder-storm but the harvest was not greatly impeded, nor the crop materially damaged, by it. We rejoice to be able to state, that, making allowance for casualties, the present year's corn crop, in particular, appears to be abundant throughout the United Kingdom nor does there appear to be a great deficiency in that of pulse, though, in some districts, particularly in Sussex and Kent, a scanty growth of beans and peas is complained of. The second crop of seed hay is represented to be decidedly better than the first; that of mea- dow hay good, and the pastures, sheep downs, &c., to be well storked with grass, and the stock depastured in them as doing well. There is also an abundant show of turnips and other winter pabulum. Most farmers have already carried their last load, or are on the point of so doing and even in our northern districts, another week or ten days of favourable weather will, it is anticipated, bring the harvest to a general and gratifying conclusion. Speaking generally, we consider that farmers have rather de- rived benefit than injury from the rains of the present month, as they afforded them an opportunity, while their crops were drying, to carry out manure, preparatory to their wheat seeding, to plough fallows, hoe turnips, &c. &c. Many farmers, too, in our midland districts, and on the south Downs of Sussex, are said to have finished harvest, and commenced wheat sowing. Hop picking has partially commenced in the whole of our hop districts, and a few pockets of this year's growth of hops have already reached the London market, from Kent and Sussex. The duty, of the probable amount of which some sort of opinion may be formed, is estimated at fl75,000 whence the crop, though it may be subject to partial deficiencies, must be, on the whole, a tolerably fair one. The prices of wheat and beans, as also old clover hay, store sheep, store beasts, and suckling calves, have, since the beginning of the month, looked a little upwards those of barley, malt, oats, peas, straw, milch cows, fine wools, and hops, considerably downwards. In the month's early part, the price of fat stock advanced from 4d to 6d per stone of 81bs, but are now evincing a disposition to decline those of meadow hay, coarse wools, and store pigs, have been about stationary. Good horses are still dear.

jUfH&rrllaiu>. WEST INDIA REBELLION.—The good people of Grenada have passed very strong' resolutions against what they de- signate the unjustifiable interference of Government with their property, in the contemplated Slave Regulations. They even talk of throwing off their allegiance, if the regu- lations are persisted in. We alluded to this fact last week in our second edition. The Island of St. Vincent, it ap- pears by the latest arrivals, is equally indignant, and has passed similar resolutions to those of Grenada,-Spectator. MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A person reading a quotation from the London Literary Gazette, respecting the consumption of oil, found the usual abbreviation, London Lit. Gaz. Upon asking the meaning of a neighbour, he replied, it means that London is lit with gas. MILK.-M. Kirchoff, the Russian chemist, has discovered a mode of keeping milk for an indefinite length of time, by the following process :-lie causes new milk to be evaporated over a very slow fire, until it is reduced to a dry powder. This powder is then put into a bottle hermetically sealed. When the milk is wanted for use, it is only to dissolve some of the powder in a reasonable quantity of water, and the mixture so dissolved will have all the qualities, as well as the taste, of milk. Laurel oil drives away flies, which will not come near the walls or wainscots which have been rubbed with it. A widow had the misfortune to labour under the double evils of a dangerous disease and a protracted law-suit. One day her medical and legal advisers happened to be both in the room, when her brother came in- Do you think," he inquired, mean- ing to address himself to the physician, that my poor sister is likely to recover?"—" I fear she will not," answered the doctor. j —" 1 am confident she will," answered the lawyer, both at the same instant. AN INCIDENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMOVS.—-Wednesday se'n- night, during the time Mr. Hume was uttering one of his many indignant philippics against the waste of the public money, the hon. member was interrupted by a peculiar noise from the side gallery, which was so strange, that for the moment the hon. member and those around him seemed puzzled to account for it. The hon. member, after a moment's pause, was again proceed- ing—"I say, sir, that is nothing but embezzlement," when a not-to-be mistaken snore from the side gallery, and laughter all through the house, including the strangers' gallery, made the hon. member pause again. The chairman called Order, order!" obviously directing his admonition to the unconscious cause of the disturbance. After a pause, Mr. Hume The house, sir, will sleep at its post" (loud snore, and convulsions of laughter throughout the house, in which the chairman appeared to join, while his half-stifled emotion broke out into a tittering "Or-or-der, or-or-der!" The snorer paused, the laughter ceased, and Mr. Hume proceeded). After what has been said, sir, it is indispensibly necessary that this strange matter should be investigated." A noise, almost as loud as the braying of a jack-ass, followed by irresistible laughter, put a con)pletul stop to the hon gentleman's harangue, till one of the door-keep- ers had roused the sleeping member from his uncomfortable siesta. This attentive legislator, a well-dressed gentleman, who was stretched out his whole length in the side gallery, was no sooner made aware of the interruption he had occasioned; than he assumed a more comfortable position, and again composed him- self to sleep, while the business of the house proceeded as usual. PAGANINI AT THE DUBLIN FESTIVAL.—It has been asserted in the daily papers that Paganini has, since his arrival in this country, realised more money by his performances, than during the whole of his former professional life. It is added, that the Signor is engaged at the grand Musical Festival at Dublin, for which he is to receive 1000 guineas. But it is not quite so bad as this; he is lo have only 500, a sum that would rescue at least eighty Irish families from the miseries of hunger during the whole of the ensuing winter ? And, let it be borne in mind, not a tenth part of this sum will be spent either in Ireland or England; it will not return in refreshing dews" here, but go to Italy to enrich those who have hardly any dealings with this country, ex- cept as receivers. It is argued, that the gold paid to the violin- ist will bring thrice as much to the charities. What, then, have the Irish gentry so little feeling for the sufferings of their coun- trymen, that they can only be brought to succour them in their dire distress, by means of a fiddle and a fiddlestick If so, the fabled power of Orpheus is indeed realized !—Dilettante in Har. monicon for September. 1. COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH FRANCE.—When, in Sep- tember 1786, a treaty of commerce was signed and confirmed between France and England, under which the importation of many of the productions of either country was permitted into the other, on principles of reciprocal liberality, and subject to only moderate ad volorem duties, no evil consequences resulted to our manufacturers. This treaty remained in force until the declara- tion of war by the French republic against this country in Feb. 1793, and during the entire six years of its continuance, although our shopkeepers were daily resorting to France for their purchases, and articles of French production were as commonly met with in our warehouses as were those of home manufacture, yet during no period of our commercial annals have our manufactures expe- rienced a more steadily progressive march of prosperity for if the taste of English consumers led many to prefer the fabrics of France, the tide of fashion in the latter country set with at least equal strength in favour of English goods, and the warehouses of London and Manchester became the resort of French merchants, to a degree which furnished constant and increasing employment to our artisans.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Vol. XXII. Treatise on the Silk Manufacture. CONSUMPTION OF SILK.-The quantity of this material used in England alone amounts in each year to more than four millions of pounds weight, for the production of which, myriads upon my- riads of insects are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated creatures annually live and die to supply this little cor- ner of the world with an article of luxury If astonishment be excited at this fact, let us extend our view into China, and sur- vey the dense population of its widely-spread region, whose in- habitants, from the emperor on his throne to the peasant in the lowly hut, are indebted for their clothing to the labours of the silkworm. The imagination, fatigued with the flight, is lost and bewildered in contemplating the countless numbers, which every successive year spin their slender threads for the service of man. ■—Ibid.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, SEPT. 5. Our supplies, since this day se'nnight, of English, Irish, and foreign wheat and flour, as also Irish and foreign oats, have been good of English and Scotch oats, with barley, rye, malt, beans, peas, and seeds, from all quarters limited. There was in this day's market an early and rather numerous assemblage of buyers, chiefly of London and its vicinity, but, owing to the sellers being stiff to their last week's position, the buyers to a reduction in prices, the trade, though perhaps a little renovated, was still dull with wheat generally (though the prices of a few small parcels of very fine might have been stationary), and peas at a depression, beans at an advance of from Is to 2s per quarter, with barley, oats, rye,malt, and flour, at last Monday's quotations. Seeds, to be sown in the autumn, looked a little upwards, most others considerably downwards. The lower quotations of new wheat have fallen to the position of those of the old, on account of much of it being soft, and otherwise out of condition. Current Prices of Grain, per imperial quarter.—English Wheat, 50s to 80s Rye, 36s to 40s Barley, 26s to 34s Malt, 64s to 72s; White boiling Peas, 36s to 48s Grey Peas, 38s to 43s; Small Beans, 00s to 00s Tick Beans, 38s to 40s Potatoe Oats, 27s to 29s Poland Oats, 24s to 27s; Feed Oats 22s to 24s Flour, 50s to 65s.—Rapeseed, new, 1,27 to £00 per last.—Lin- seed Oil-cake £10. 10s to 111. 00s per 1000.

Account of TVheat, fyc. arrived in the Port of London, during the IVeelc ending August 27. Wheat. [ Barley. Malt. Oats. Beans. Peas. Qrs. 17,344 185 1,916 | 21,010 479 | 761 Flour-5,253 sacks, and 6,918 barrels. Imperial Average Price of Corn and Grain, for theweek ending August 30. Wheat 61 9 Oats 26 6 Beans 40 2 Barley 26 6 j Rye 37 3 Peas 42 3 Aggregate Average of the Six Weeks, which regulates Duty. Wheat 64 1 Oats 26 1 Beans 40 0 Barley 31 0 Rye 36 6 j Peas 41 7 Duty on Foreign Corn. Wheat .22 8 Oats 7 9 Beans 9 6 Barley 15 4 Rye 15 6 j Peas 8 0

SM1THFIELD MARKET. Monday, Sept. 5.—This day's supply was, for that of a Saint Bartholomew fair day, throughout, moderately good, both as to numbers and quality; but the trade, owing to a great many buyers having to avoid the fair's confusion, &c., either purchased the greater part of their week's stock, in last week's markets, or by meeting the droves on Saturday, the day was, throughout, very dull. With beef at a depression of full 2d per stone with mutton, lamb, veal, and poik at barely Friday's quotations. (Per stone of 81b. sinking offal.) Inferior beef, from 2 2 to 2 4 Prime beef, from 3 6 to 4 0 Ditto mutton. 2 8 to 3 0 Ditto mutton 4 0 to 4 6 Middling beef ..2 6 to 2 10 Veal 3 10 to 5 2 Ditto mutton 3 2 to 3 6 Pork 3 6 to 4 6 Lamb 4s Od to 5s 4d. Suckling calves, from 12s to 42s and quarter old store pigs 12s to 18s each. Supply of Cattle at market:—Beasts, 2,515; sheep, 22,960; calves, 155 pigs, 130.

HOPS. Borough, Monday, Sept. 5.—A considerable quantity of new Mid-Kent, and Sussex hops, reached the market in pockets, and some few of them found purchasers, at from £6 to £8 per cwt. Old hops have, however, experienced a further depression of from 5s to 10s, in some instances 15s per cwt. The trade is still very dull. Currency East Kent, in pockets, 1830, S5. 10s to ;E8.8s; 1829, £5 Os to £ 5.10s Mid-Kent, 1830, J5. Os to £ 6.0s; 1829, £ 4. Os to 15. Os 1828, £ 3. 15s to £4. 10s Sussex, 1830, f4. 10s to £ 4. 15s; 1829, £ 4. 0s to £ 4. 10s; 1828, £ 3. 0s to £ 4. 4s; Essex, 1830, £ 5. 0s to £ 5. 10s.

MINING.—Sold August 25, at Redruth. Copper Ore 3266 tons. Amount of Money £ 19,619 16 O Average Price • • 6 1 0 Average Standard 96 10 O Average Produce per cent. 91 Quantity of Fine Copper 296 tons 8 cwts.

METALS. Iron, in Bars per ton £ 6 5 0 to £ 0 0 0 Pigs 4 15 0 to 5 0 0 lioops 9 10 0 to 0 0 0 Steel 30 0 0 to 0 0 0 Tins, in Bars per cwt. 3 18 0 to 0 0 0 ———— Ingots. 3 17 0 to 0 0 0 ——— Blocks 3 16 0 to 0 0 0 Quicksilver per lb. 0 1 lOjto 0 0 0 Copper, m Sheets 0 010 to 0 0 0 Cake. per ton 85 0 0 to 0 0 0 Lead, Pig 13 10 0 to 0 0 0 Milled or Sheet 14 10 0 to 0 0 0 Bars 14 0 Q to 0 0 0 MONMOUTH: Printed and Published by the sole Proprietor, REGINALD J AMES BLEWITT, at the Office, in Monnow-street. London Agents:—Messrs. Newton and Co., Warwick-square; Mr. R. Barker, Fleet-street and Mr. G. Reynell, Chancery- lane, where, as well as at the Colonial Coffee House, Skinner- street, this Paper is regularly filed.

HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1.—No business of a public na- ture was transacted.-Adjourned at half-past five. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.The Lord Chancellor asked to bring in a bill to give the same remedies to the Ecclesiastical Court, in cases of contempt, as the Court of Chancery possessed. Leave was given, and the bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. Lord Ellenborough presented a petition from the shipowners and merchants of London interested in the trade of the Cape of Good Hope. The noble lord expressed his satisfaction at the determination of his Majesty's government not to assimilate the duties on the Cape wines with the duties on French wines. The petitioners, although they protested against the original intention, acquiesced in the tax of 2s 9d a gallon on Cape wine. Viscount Goderich said that it was not the intention of his Ma- jesty's government to persevere m their original intention upon the subject, as they felt it their duty to listen and attend to the remonstrances of those interested in the trade. He considered, however, that the increase of the duty from 2s 6d to 2s 9d a gal- lon, left the whole question open to the future consideration of parliament. As head of the colonial department, he felt it his duty to afford every relief to the colony, if afflicted by external pressure.—Adjourned. SATURDAY, SEPT. 3.—No public business was entered into.