The Cambrian

GLEANINGS. INDUSTRY WITHOUT REWARD.—The saddest aspect the decay of civic society can exhibit, has always appeared to me to be this, when honourable, honour-loving, conscien- tious diligence cannot, by the utmost efforts of toil, obtain the necessaries of life; or when the working man cannot even find work, but must stand with folded arms, lamenting his forced idleness, through which himself and his family are verging to starvation, or, it may be, actually suffering the pClins of hii iige r.- Thomas Carlyle's new work. ON DOING GooD.-Are yon to gain good, so you are to do good. This is enforced by the fewness of yonr days. Life is yours; and it affords you one privilege above the saints in light: it is, the opportunity of beneficence-of relieving the poor, of instructing the ignorant, of converting the sinner. But remember two things. Their days are few; and you will soon be placed beyond the possibility of receiving relief. And your days are few and yon will soon be placed beyond the possibility of affording it. Wing your zeal, therefore, with the thought—"The night cometh wherein no man can work." There is a way of lengthening life: it is—not by duration, but by diligence; it is by filling our days it is by doing much business in a little time. Some live longer in a week than others do in a year.—Rev. W. Jay. HEUGION ENHANCES EVJOYMFNT.—Wemayseehow completely religion is adapted to the nature of man, by ob- serving that even the elements of enjoyments (and they are many, though fleeting) which this world contains, are never fully tasted but by religions persons. Those abundant sources of pure delight which are to be found in the heart, the intellect, and the imagination, are never received in their fulness but by them and why ? because they are the germs of their future and more glorious being, and can only flourish in a soil akin to that ultimately destined for them. In a wordlv mind, like plants removed from their oiignal soil and climate, they exist, indeed, but with a blighted existence; and produce—but how degenerate is the produc- tion Every thing that wants religion wants vitality. Phi. losophy without religion is crippled and impotent; poetry without religion has no heart-stirring powers life without religion is a complex and unsatisfactory riddle the very arts which address themselves to the senses never proceed so far towards perfection as when employed on religious subjects. Religion, then, can be no obstacle to enjoyment, since the sources of it which are confessedly pure are all enhanced by its possession. Even in the ordinary commerce with the world what a blessing awaits an exemption from the low and sordid spirit, the petty passions and paltry feelings which abound in it! — Woman's Mission. CONTENTMENT WITH LITTLE. The necessitv of na- ture are few, and simple, and easily satisfied. For we should distinguish between-real and artificial wants. Civi- lization has rendered the latter far more numerous than the former; and more of onr fellow-creatures are employed in providing for the one than the other. We are inspired with false maxims of living we deem a thousand things indis- pensable which our welfare does not require. The trial is often made there are manv who pass through life destitute of those things which are commonly supposed to be requi- site to ou wellbeing: but do they not live as long, as healthily, and as happiiy as the heirs of abundance? Yea, do they not in general live longer, and hfaltliier, and happier ? Especially are they not free from those maladies which arise from indulgence, variety, repletion, ease, and the want of labour? Hence you will find that the rich, if wise, live as much as possible like the poor, confining them- selves to the simplicity of nature, and doing many things voluntarily, which the lower classes are constrained to do from necessity.—In reference to happiness, a man only has what he can use It he possesses a thousand pounds which he use, it matters n t, as to the benefit he derives from it, whether it be in his coffer or in the bowels of the earth. When his wants are supplied, all that remains is only to keep or to give away. but not to enjoy. What is more than serviceable is superfluous and needless and the man is only rich in fancy. Nature is satisfied with little it is v?n!ty, it is avarice, it is luxury, it is independence, it is "the god of this world," that urges us to demand more. -Rev. William Jay. HAPPINESS.—When we see men dissatisfied with what they have, and all anxiety and exelt;on to amass an abundance of this" world's goods," we should imagine that there was a superlative excellency in these things, and that our happiness absolutely depended upon them. But it is not only our Saviour who has told us that, maa's life con- sisteth not in the abundance of the things which he posses- seth." Happiness is an internal thing. A good man shall be satisfied from himself." He has a source of pleasure, in- dependent of external events, and which shali survive the dissolution of the globe. It is not the water without the vessel that sinks it, but that which is admitted in. Paul and Silas could sing praises at midnight in the inner prison, when their feet were made fast in the stocks, and their backs brnised with the scourge. The world promises only to deceive, and fails us when we most need its aid. People have ri»en to affluence and splendour-bnt their desires in- creased wi,h indulgence; and they found themselves no nearer satisfaction than before. Yea, they learned what common sense would have told them before, that hills were more exposed than valleys-that the larger space we occupy, the wider mark are we for the arrows of disappointment- that the longer our robes are, the more likely thev are to be torn or soiled. Care is an evil spirit that haunts fine houses and large estates: in the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits." Solomon had more*than food and raiment. A thousand streams emptied themselves into his cup of pros- perity. He withheld his heart from no joy. And what is his conclusion ? Vanity of vanities all is vanity, and vexa- tion of spirit!" What can the greatest abundance do for a man ? A pain in the foot or tooth will destroy all the sense of pleasure the good things of this world can afford. None of them can calm the conscience; purify the passions; fill the desires. None of them can raise us above the fears of death, nor the dread of eternity. Riches profit not in the day of wrath."—Rev. IV. Jay. WHIT IS KNOWLEDGE.'—Books are not knowledge, otherwise, the attainments of individuals would be measured by the extent of their libraries. And hence, what an im- mensely nise man the Duke of Devonshire must be, whom I had the good luck to see, last summer, in his library the extent of which would astonish a stranger. No; books are only common instruments for obtaining knowledge, and, therefore, a man may attend every book sale, and collect standard works all his life time, and yet have less knowledge than the weaver in his cellar, who never handles a book beyond what he can borrow. Real knowledge is acquired by observation, study, and perseverance, and, like virtue and happiness, can be purchased without money. It is also a treasure, not exposed to the ordinary vicissitudes of Hfe once enjoyed, no man can deprive us "of the possession. It may be good to get books, but it is better to get knowledge. When von meet with a fine s ntiment, do not content your- self with knowing that, as it is to be found in one of'yonr books, you can at any time refer to it. Never rest short of transmitting it to the mind, and then, like stereotype plates, it is ready for use whenever you want it. If the leaf should afterwards be torn, or the book or paper lost, the contents recorded upon the mind are preserved upon imperishable tablets. We should always guard against substituting book and library knowledge for that infinitely more valuable at. tainment, self-knowledge. Great readers are not aiways wise men, and, therefore, while we listen to the advice of Solomon, with all thy getting, get knowledge," it is im- portant to know how to acquire the greatest amount with the least loss of time and labour. Profitable reading requires e I care and in general it will bj found that more knowledge will be acquired by perusing half-a-dozen pages with strict attention, than rambling over many volumes in the ordinary way. But after all that can be said as to the diffusion of knowledge by means of books, and fairly conceded in favour of habitual reading, I should sty, speaking from experience, that the amount of real information obtained by attending good lectures would far exceed what is usually derived in the same time from reading books. Many will attend, and pay tor theatrical exhibitions, who would not go fifty yards to hClr a free lecture on useful knowledge; and there are many who would devour volumes of fiction and romance, that couid not sit an hour reading the most valuable philo- sopliicaj publication. Young men should try to tutor their inclinations; and, instead of dissipating their time and in- tellects by empty pleasures, they ought, in their e irlv davs, to lay up a stock of information noon every useful subject, What a mighty change a general disposition like this would produce upon the character of the people of this Countrv —Livesey's floral Reformer. j THE SABBATH.—Bat blessings, and tea thousand blessings, be upon that day! and let myriads of thanks stream up to the throne of God, for this divine and rege- nerating gift to man. As I have sat in some flowery dale, with the sweetness of May around me, on a week day, I have thonght of the millions of immortal creatures, toiling for their daily life in factories and shops, amid the whirl of machinery, and the greedy craving of mercantile gain; and, suddenly, that golden interval of time has lain before me in all its brightness—a time, and a perpetually recur- ring time, in which the iron grasp of .earthly tyranny is loosed, and Peace, Faith, and Freedom, the Angels of God, come down and walk once more among men! Ten thousand blessings on this day,—the friend of man and beast The bigot would rob it of its healthful free- dom, on the one hand, and coop man up in his work- day dungeons, and cause him to walk with downcast eves and demure steps; and the libertine would desecrate ail its sober decorum on the other. God, and the sound heart and sterling sense of Englishmen, preserve it, from both these evils! Let us still avoid Puritan rigidity and French dissipation. Let our children and our ser- vants, and those who toil for us in vaults, and shops, and factories, between the intervals of solemn worship have freedom to walk in the face of Heaven and the beauty of earth; for, in the great temple of Nature, stand together Health and Piety. For myself I speak from experience; it has always been my delight to go out on a Sunday, and, like Isaac, meditate in the fields; and, especially in the sweet tranquillity, and amid the gathering shadows of even- ing and never, in temple or in closet, did more hallowed influence fall upon my heart. With the twilight and the hush of earth, a tenderness has stolen upon me-a desire for everything pure and holy-a love for every creature on which God has stamped the wonder of his handi work-hnt, especially, for every child of humanity; and then I have been made to feel, that there is no oratory like that which has Heaven itself for its roof, and no teaching like the teaching of the Spirit which created, and still overshadows the world with its infinite wing.- William Howitt.

CHARACTER OF LUTHER. (From Mr. Carlisle's Lectures.) Martin Lnther presides yet over modern history. Great he was, not only in the actions he did, but in his own intrinsic qualities. And in all manner of contradictions did he seem to have been born. The son of the very poorest people-his father a miserable miner, his grandfather and all his ancestors peasants of like sort—he was reared in the depths of poverty, and struggled forward to the light out of an extremity of vilest baidship. He "bore the bag" at school, and he sang there, and in the streets, for assistance and support. Bnt what of that! Truth did not desert him for it. "There was no formality in my frienrJ Martin Luther." He conld stand alone in the middle of the world. Law student he was at the first, but an event very sudden and full of awe withdrew him from worldly studies. While yet only twenty years old he was walking with a friend in the University of Erfurt, when a thunder bolt darted out of Heaven and struck down his companion dead at his feet. This seemed as it were to Lother to have borne a mission from above; and from that instant in which he thus saw eternity lying at his feet, law and all its matters, and indeed all other proceedings of the world, looked poor and mean, and insufficient for the cravings of his soul. He entered the order of Augustines, and became a pious and laborious monk. At the first, as he expresses it, he was in a sort of state of reprobation. But he began to study the Bible, and it'happened to him to see the Pope! This was on a mission to Rome, when, just as the natural loveliness of religion had broken in upon him, he beheld in this way the worst vices and corruptions of her ministers in the world. Yet he was silent. In truth, he now felt he had another concern to look after, for was there not his own soul to save. Now, nothing was so admirable as the entire sim- plicity and modesty of him! The idea of reforming the Church never entered his head. The living the life of a true man—that was his notion-and all else flowed naturally out of that. He saw that penance", and trails, and the like would not, and conld not, work out salvation. It must be more hope in the Bible-it must be more faith in the Bible. At this very time—in the memorable year 1517—Tetzel came to Wirtembnrg with a very famous set of indulgences for sale. Luther sav* him enter his own church, and offer sa in exchange for sundry pieces of monev what were called "indulgences," from "Christ's holy lord the Pope," for the total remission of sins—pieces of paper with a red cross upon them, by which, for a consideration, the gates of hell were closed, and those of heaven and glory eternally opened Luther saw these things publicly sold in his own church to his own people, and then spoke out and said, "That shall not be." This was the beginning of the Reformation. Again observe the modesty of Luther. He set forward no grand plea or pretence of reforming the church. He shouted out nothing in big words about what he would do. There was no vanity in him. All he did was to deny, and refuse to tolerate, a falsehood—and so the Reformation began. Four years went on in this way, and then he was summoned to the Diet of Worms to appear before all the princes and chiefs of the Roman Catholic faith. It was on the 17th of April, 1521—a day to be remembered for ever—that he ar- rived at the old city of Worms, to testify eternally to the truth, or to give it up utterly. A fearful enterpiise! More than two thousand good people had gone out, on horse or foot, to meet hirn, and dissuade him from advancing further. He said lie had the safe conduct of the Emperor. Well, they answer ed, Husshad it too, but it turned out to be safe conduct into a prison six feet long, seven feet wide, and two fer-t eight inches high, from which he was carried out to be burned. I cannot help it," Luther remarked, I must go on..To Worms will I go, though the gatee nf hell, and the powers of air were against me. Yea, to Worms will I go, though there are as many devils in the city as there are tries on the roofs of the houses." He went ac- cordingly, and was asked to recant what he had written, and he answered that he could not. Whatever there was of intemperate expression in his writings he would indeed, re. cant but the doctrine of them was God's truth, and he durst not do it. Here I stand," he said. "I can do no other. It is impossible tn admit any thing that is against the conscience, God be my help. Amen." And there and then, upon that very spot, was the Reformation consum- mated. A poor man stood up before the princes of the world and said that and all the world rose up aud said, Yes; it is right, that thing which you have said." And never-Mr. Carlyle continued, in affectionate eu- logium on the personal character of Luther—never stood j up a truer-hearted, a better, or a greater man than he who stood before the Diet of the German empire. In his face might be read the various elements of his character. A course, tigged, plebeian face it was, with great crags of cheek-bones—a wild amount of passionate energy and ap- petite! But in his dark eyes were floods of sorrow; and deepest mehnchoty, sweetness, and mystery were ail there. Often did there seem to meet in Lnther the very opposite poles in man's character. He, for example, of whom Richter had said that his words were half battles, he, when he began first to preach, suffered unheard-of agony Oh, Dr. Stanplitz, Dr. Stauplitz," said he to the Vicar-General of his order, I cannot do it! I shall die in three months. Indeed, I cannot do it!" Dr. Stauplitz, a wise and consi- derate man, said upon this, "Well Sir Martin, if yon must die, you must—but remember that they need good heads up yonder too. So preach man, preach—and then live or die as it happens." So Luther preached and lived-and lie became indeed one great whirlwind of energy, to work without resting in this world-and also before he died he wrote four hundred hooks} books in which the true man j was!—for in the midst ot all they denounced or cursed, what touches of tenderness lay Look at the Table Talk, for example. We see in it that a little bird having alighted at sunset on the light bough of the pear tree that grew in Luther's garden, Luther looked up at it, and said, "That little bird, how it cowers dovin its little wings, and will sleep there, so still and fearless, though over it are the in- finite starry spaces and great blue depths of immensity! Yet it fears not; it is at home. The God that made it too is there." The same gentle spirit of lyrical admiration is in other passages of his books. Come home from Leipsic in the autumn season, he breaks forth into loving wonder at the fields of corn. « How it stands there," he says, "erect on its beautiful taper stem, and bending its golden head, with bread in it—the bread of man sent to him yet another year Such thoughts as these are as little windows, through which we gaze into the interior of the serene depths. of Martin Luther's soul, and see visible -across its tempests and clouds—a whole heaven of light and love. He might have painted—he might have sung—could have been beau- tifu) tike Raphael, great like Michael Angelo. As it was, the extremes of eneriry and modesty met in his active spiiit. Perhaps, indeed, in all men of genius one great quality strongly developed might force out other qua- lities no less. Here was Lnther—a savage kind of man as people thought him—a Wild Orson of a man—a man whose speech was ordinarily a wild torrent that went tearing down rocks and trees —and behold him speaking like a woman or a child. But no sentimentalist was he A tolerant man, but nothing of sentimental tolerance. He went to the real heart of that matter. When his reforming associates made vast fuss about some surplice that somebody or other wanted to wear, he ended the matter with a VVhat ill can a surplice do to us? Let liini have three surplices if he will. That is not our religion, nor interferes with it at all. Domine mis- erere mei. That is what we have to think of. That is what we must think the essential of Christianity." Nothing of what is commonlv called cant, or pride, or ambition, was in Luther. In his modestv, certainly, there was an indomi- table pride. It was this that made him not higher than the lowest man with a soul, nor yet lower than the highest. Thus, when he was threatened with the anger of Duke George" if he went to Leipsic, he made answer that he had no business at Leipsic, but if he had, nothing on earth should prevent him. Hit rained Duke Georges for nine days run- ning, there he wonld »o. Well, and this man who thought and acted in this way passed a whole life of suffering He p was a deeply melancholy man. More labour had fallen upon him than he could lightly bear, and it was in vain that he prayed to be released he toiled aud sorrowed on. Even with Satan himself—the evil principle of the world—was he destined to hold high argument. Men would laugh at that, and a cheap game° indeed, was ridicule; bur be it recol- lected that in Luther's days God and the Devil were equally real; and that he thought he was from the first, as when he had that vision of the crowded house-tiles of the old city of Worms, a man specially selected to fight with devils. Well then, he sat alone one ni-Wit; he was translating the twenty- third psalm, and, pondering on its deep significance he had sate fasting for two days? when the Devil rose and stood before him, and opened the famous dialogue, accusing Luther in- him of crimes, and threatening him with hell, ami terrifying him to recant all which the Christian hero put an end to at last by taking np his ink bottle and flinging it at the Devil. The mark made bv the ink on the wall is shown to this day; —and a memorable spot truly, is that!—a spot that may mark at once the greatness and the poverty of man —tiie record of a delusion which any doctor's or apothecary's 'prentice conld explain now-a-davs bet also of a courage that could rise against what seemed to be the bodily imper- sonation of darkness and despair, and of enmity to do good. No braver man than Lnther ever appeared in Europe.

TOURNAMENTS IN SMITHFIELD. Smithfield, at this moment the scene of the degene- rate Bartholomew Fair, was in oldenf times the theatre of some wet! contested tournaments, with all, their; attendant pomp and chivalry. A brief record of them may not be ? uninteresting to those who see Smithfield in its fallen state. Though tournaments existed previously to the Norman Conquest in England, yet it was in the reign of Richard I, that they assumed in this country any thing like an important rank. That monarch made them a source of increasing his revenue, and obliged those who chose to attend them to takeout and pay for licenses for that purpose. They were held at various times in val ions parts of England, but as the general history is well kuown we shall only make a selection of those which took place in Smithfield. Edward the Third, in- 1374, had a grand tournament in Smithfield for the grati- fication of his mistress, Alice Piers, whom, on the occasion, he designated by a title even more lofty than that with which Lady Seymour lately was invested. He called her the Lady of the Sun. In a procession which took place from the Tower, she appeared by the King's side in a magnificent chariot, in a gorgeons dress, accompanied by a large train of I;t tlies and knights of the highest rank, and the lists were kept open for seven successive days. In the reign of Richard the Second, who was a voluptuous Prince, and by no means emulated the fame of his father, the passion for tournaments still existed. In 1394 he held a great tourna- ment in Smithfield, which proved fatal to the Earl of Mar, who, with certain other Lords of Scotland came into England to get worship by force of arms, wasoverthrowu by the Earl of Nottingham, and ha\ ing had two of his ribs broken by the fall, he died on his return homeward. At those tourna- ments the custom of the procession was, that the ladies, by a chain of silver attached to the knights, should lead them, encased in armour as they were, to the scene of action. Amid the sound of clarions and trumpets, they were wont to proceen tiiroiign tne streets ot London, the exterior ot the houses of which were richly decorated, until thev reached Smithfield, where the Queen of England and many mations and damsels were already seated. Henry V., according to Mills, was the last of our chivalric Kings. Though he revived the tame of Edward III. and the Black Prince, yet im- mediately after his reign the glories of English chivalry began to wane. In the reign of Edward IV., a joust took place between the Bastard of Burgnndy (who, with his father, the Duke of Burgundy, had landed at Billingsgate, and was domiciled in the Palace of the Bishop of Salisbury, Fleet-street) and Lord Scales, the brother of the Queen of Edward. This joust took place in Smithfield, and was wit- nessed by the King and Queen, and all the chivalry of the land. On the first day the combat was conducted on foot, with sharp spears, and they parted with equal honour. On the next day they fought on horseback, with swords, and the Bastard's horse having fallen under him, the King ordered the combat to cease. On the third day the point of Lord Scale's weapon entered the helmet of the Burgundian, when the King suddenly threw down his warder, and then the Marshal severed them. The combat was not resumed. That was the last joust of a Knightly nature which took place in Smithfield. Other places were selected as the locality of them. The Tower, London-bridge, Westminster, and Windsor, have been rendered,as it were, classic ground, by the celebration of splendid tournaments. The magnifi- cent tournament of the Cloth of Gold, in the reign of Henry the Eighth, may be said to have been the dying blaze of chivalry. It took place in an open plain between Guisnes and Ardres, in France, in June, 1520, on the occasion of a treaty between Francis the First of Fiance and Henry. All the arrangements were made under the superintendence of Wolsey, and the affair surpassed in splendour anything seen before or since. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth there took place several pleasing, though less pompous exhibitions of a similar nature. Greenwich was the locality in which the majority of them took place. With Queen Elizabeth's death they may be said to have died in England and in the reign of another maiden Monarch, likely to prove as long and as prosperous a reign, they have given symptoms of revival.

DESCRIPTION OF NEW ZEALAND BY DR. LANG. The group of islands known under the general name of New Zealand is situated a little to the westward of the 180th degree of East or West longitude, and between the 34th and 48th parallels of South latitude; extending from North to South upwards of eight hundred geographical miles, with an average breadth of upwards of one hundred miles, and containing an extent of surface equal to that of the British islands. The coast line, following the various indentations of the land, extends considerably upwards of three thousand miles, and probably comprises a greater number of eligible harbours, bays, and roadsteads, than is to be fotin I along an equal extent of coast in any other part of the world. In the winter season—from May to Sep- tember inclusive-these bays are the resort of the Black or Right Whale; and at a moderate distance from the Ianrl, Sperm Whale is found, occasionally in vast herds, in the surrounding ocean. Indeed, it is a fact worthy of special notice, as indicative of the superior eligibility of New Zealand as a whaling station, that the whale caught on the New Zealand ground yields a third more oil than an animal of the same size and species caught in any other part of the world. I am indebted for this fact to a whaling captain of great experience in the South Sea fisheries, and of un- doubted veracity. It cannot be denied, however, that this branch of trade, so peculiarly important to a maritime nation, as a grand nursery for seamen, is fast passing out of the hands of Great Britain and her colonies. Of the whalers at present, on the coast of New Zealand, about one hundred are Ame- rican, thirty British, and thirty French. The French ves- sels, most of which belong to a company ot naturalized Swiss merchants at Havre de Grace, are beyond all comparison the finest and best equipped in the trade; their crews are also the most orderly and the best conducted. They are consequently the most persevering and the most successful; the Swiss Company having actually realized not less than thirty-five per cent. on their capital invested, according to the information I received from a gentleman at the Bay of Islands, who had abundant means of ascertaining the fact. Everything that enlightened policy could dictate has in the mean time been done by the French Government to extend and to render popular this important branch of the extend and to render popular this important branch of the national industry. A bounty, amounting to 41. per ton, is allowed in France on all whale-oil procured by French whalers; and every eocouragement is judiciously held out to those citizens of the United States, who are at all ac- quainted with the whale fishery, to settle in the kingdom. A considerable, number of the French whaling vessels have hitherto been commanded by naturalized Ameiicans; one of whom, so early as the year 1834, was made a chevalier of the legion of honour by Louis Philippe, as a reward for his eminent services in that capacity, and as an inducement to his enterprising countrymen to become citizens of France. Nay, the attentions of their truly paternal Government fol- low the French whalers even to the distant Pacific; where a frigate and two other French ships of war have recently been cruising for their protection, as well as to conciliate the natives of the different islands they visit. In short, Great Britain has seldom had a more formidable rival on own her element and in her own peculiar walk than she has now in the Southern Pacific under the fla» of the i Citizen King. ° Whether the French have any ulterior views-I mean in regard to the formation of a permanent settlement either in New Zealand or in some of the other islands—I cannot tell: the general impression, however, both in New South Wales and in New Zealand, is, that they have; and that impres- sion seems by no means unwarranted from various circum- stances which it is unnecessary to particularize Theie is reason to feai that unless the requisite preventive measures are speedily taken, this most important branch of maritime industry (the whale fisherv) wiil ere long be wrested entirely out of the hands of Great Britian and her colonie,; by the Americans and the French. The climate of New Zealand is decidedly one of the finest ill the wori(I-like that of Italy and the South of Fiance to- wards the north, and like that of England and the South of I Scotland towards the south the winter, however being milder than that of Great Biitain. I was particularly struck with the glow of health exhibited on the cheeks of the children of Europeans at the Bay of Islands, compared with the pale faces of children of the sune age at Sydney, in milch the same latitude. It was quite remai kable. At all events the climate of New Zealand is undeniably superior to that of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land in one most important particular, viz., in being free from droughts and hot winds; its insular character, its chain of lofty mountains running from north to south along the whole extent of the islands, and its distance from any large con- tinent, ensuring it a constant and copious supply of rain. Indeed this most favourable circumstance renders New Zealand decidedly more eligible for the settlement of in- dnstrioits families of the humbler classes, intending to earn their subsistence by the cultivation of the soil, than either of these two great pastoral cotonics for there has never yet been a crop lost in New Zealand from want of rain, which I am sorry to say. is not the case in New South Wales. The northern parts of the northern island are certainly less adapted for sheep and cattle than the open pastoral country in the vicinity of Cook's Straits. Towards the north the country is more covered with timber and more moist; and the improvable land, instead of being coated over with good pasture, in its natural state, as is tile case generally in New South Wales, is for the most part over- grown with fern. The fern, however, never grows on bad land in New Zealand, and the quality of the soil is generally indicated by the size and strength of the fern inferior land producing only a stunted and puny vegetation. When sown with English grasses, the New Zealand fern-land pro- duces excellent pasture. The English clover in particular grows luxuriantly. The localities in which an agricultural population could be settled in the first instance with greatest facility and with the best prospect of success, are the banks of the River Thames on the east coast and those of the Hokian"a Kaiparra, and Munakau rivers on the west. On these rivers which are all navigable for vessels of considerable burden, and especially for steam-boats, there is a vast ex- tent of alluvial land, of the first quality, which would pr0- duce in the greatest abundance all the roots, fruits, vegeta- bles, and grains of Europe, including wheat, maize and potatoes, tobacco, the olive. aud the vine. The potatoes of New Zealand are proverbially excellent, I mean in New South Wales; they are cultivated most successfully by the natives, without manure of any kind they come to maturity in fourteen weeks, and two crops of them are obtained in the year. Wheat yields at the rate of forty bushels per acre, and I have seen maize grown by the natives with very indifferent culture near the Bay of Islands, equal to any in New South Wales. In short, all the necessaries of life and many of its luxuries could be raised with very moderate in- dustry by an agricultural population in all the localities I have enumerated. Oil the banks of all the New Zealand rivers I have enu- merated, there are splendid forests of native limber, and there is already a considerable trade carried on in the island, in the euttinu of that limber for exportation. At the time I was in the Bay of Islands iu January and February last, 'here were not fewer than four large vessels loading timber at Hokianp-one for London, one for Launeeston, in Van Diemen's Land, one for Adelaide, in Southern Australia, and one for Port Phillip, In New South Wales. It is singular indeed, that all these three colonies should thus have to send for timber to New Zealand. Such, however, is the fact. Of the naturil productions of New Zealand the most remarkable is the phormium tenax, or New Zealand flax. This valuable plant resembles in appearance the common nag. It affects moist situations, but is by no means fas- tidious as to the quality of the soil in other respects. Whe- ther it would improve by cultivation I do not know, but it is found in sufficient quantity in its wild state to afford con- slant and remunerating employment to a large European population. It is evident, therefore, that the island will eventually be the Baltic of the Southern Hemisphere, supplying the great desiderata of commerce—timber and flax—and affording support and employment to a numerous and industrious European population Iron ore of superior quality abounds U1 the island, and coal is said to have been found at the surface in Cook's Straits. There are indications of copper in the mountains of the inteijor; and on White's Island, on the east coast, which is still under volcanic agency, sulphur can be procured in great quantity. Limestone abounds in the interior, and excellent marble. In one word, whether we regard the situation, the soil, the climate, or the natural productions and inhabitants of the. country, I am confident, my Lord, there never has been a more favourable locality for the settlement of a ntish Colony than the New Zealand group of islands at this moment affords. It may be supposed, indeed, that in a country of which the natives have so long been represented in Europe as erocious cannibals, Europeans would run considerable risk in attempting to form a permanent settlement. But the ciicumstance of there being at present a very considerable European population living in perfect security in various parts of the island, is a sufficient answer to such an objection. CanOlbalism has entirely disappeared in the neighbouihood th >; '^e settlements and in their native wars, e New Zealanders uniformly respect the Europeans who are settled among them, unless the latter, which, indeed is seldom the case, take part with one or other of the hos. tile tribes.

MISCELLANEOUS. BA\K OF ENGLAND.—About three o'clock on Thurs- day afternoon, the following announcement was made at the Bank :—" The Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng- land are ready, until further notice, to receive applications for loans upon the deposit of approved Bills of Exchange, not having more than six months to run, such loans to be repaid on or before the 18th of October next, with interest, at the rate of 61. per cent. per annum, and to be for sums of not less than 20001. each."—By this notice it will be seen that the accommodation to the public on this occasion, con- trary to custom, is confined to the deposit of approved Bills; Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, and other approved Secu- rities," which are generally inserted, being rendered of no utility as guarantee for loans from the Bank of England. MEHEMET ALl AND HIS FAMILY.The following account of the Viceroy of Egypt and his family is given by a correspondent at Alexandria of the Sud of Marseilles:— "Mehemet Ali is aged 71; Ibrahim Pacha, his son, 48; Said Bey, his second son, 20; Hussein Bey, his third son 17 Ali Bey, is fourth son, 15. The grandsons of the Vice- roy, sons of Ibrahim Pacha, now with their father are Mahmoud Bey, aged 18 Hnsta Bey, 13 and Ismael Bev 12. His grandson by his deceased son Toussoun Pacha, is Ahbas Pacha, Governor of Cairo, aged 30. His brother's and sister's children are Ahmet Pacha, aged 36; Ibrahim Pacha, 34 and Hussein Pacha, 33. These three Princes have the rank of General in his army, and command divi- sions in Arabia awl Syria. The sons of Ahmet Pacha are Mehemet Bey, aged 16; and Ibrahim Bey, 13. The other nephews of the Viceroy are Sherif Pacha, Governor of Syria, aged 43; Ismael Bey, General and son-in-law of Ibrahim Pacha, 35; Hussein Bev, 38; Ali Bey, 18 Said Bey, who is destined to reign after Ibrahim, will in all pro- bability be the next to hold the reins of Government, as Ibrahim Pacua is suffering under an inflammatory com- plaint, which keeps his family in constant fear for his life. Said Bey was born in Egypt of a Circassian woman, who, having no other son, devoted herself with the utmost care and anxiety to his education. Said can speak and write French, and has even studied English. He has great love for the sciences, but is not studious. His constitntion his good and, as lie is inclined to corpulency, he uses active occupations. His appointment to the navy is by no means to his taste, and he submits to it only out of obedience to his father. He is kind and benevolent to all who are at- tached so him. Hussein Bey, the Viceroy's third son, shows much more taste for study than his brother Said, but as yet has not been placed in any situation to display either his talents or inclinations. ""T lïlE NEW L,H WCEL.LOH OF THE EXCH EQUEK. — Mr. Francis Thornhill Baring, the New Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, is the eldest son of Sir Thomas Barin", Bart., and nephew of Lord Ashburton. Mr. Baring has alwaysdiffeied in politics with his relatives, three of whom have seats in the House. At Oxford Mr. Baring obtained distinguished 9 honours, and during Lord Grey's administration held the office of Lord of the Treasury. He has sat in six Parlia- ments. Mr. Baring married a niece of Earl Grey's, sister of the present Sir G. Grey. ESPAKTKKO AND LOJ(D CLARENDON.—A gratulatory letter has been addressed to the Earl of Clarendon by the Dnke of Victoria. The following is an extract:—"The masterly manner in which yonr lordship has analyzed and reduced to nothing the eriors entertained of our political situation, ihe favourable ant) honourable notion your lord- ship has formed of the Spanish character, the exactness with which the Pretender and the principal personages of his party are described, and the generous incentive your lord. ship offers to England to increase her aid in order to secure to us more rapidly the triumph of the noble cause which we defend, are so many sublime acts of generosity, which snail eternise your lordship's memory, and the people's gra- titude 01 this ill-fated land, in the pages of history-a feeling now universal amongst us, and the only tribute worthy of the noble and generous Clarendon, to whom this feeling is consecrated." THE NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA.—The publication of the correspondence between the chairman of the committee of the North American Colonial Associa- tion of London and Lord Melbourne has brought into the field the o'J¡er great towns of the empire. A resolution has been agreed :o at a meeting of the British North American Association of Liverpool, held the 3d of September, charac- terised by the good sense and prudence which British traders usually display, hut to which, unfortunately, the committee of the North American Colonial Association of London can lay little claim. The Liverpool merchants trust that Mr. Poulett Thomas will devote himself to the calm consideration of the varied interests of the Canadas, and will act in such a manner as most effectually to promote the interests of the colonies and parent state. Having a deep interest in the tranquillity and prosperity of these colonies, they know better than to follow the example of the rabid Tones of the committee of the Colonial Association of London, who have done all they possibly could to prepossess the Ca- nadians against Mr. Poulett Thompson before his arrival, and to stimulate them to impede his government. In this, no doubt, the committee of the London Association will be disapp inted; for the colonists, with the exception of those who live by furnishing supplies to the soldiery, have suffered too much from the interruption of their agricultural and commercial pursuits to allow them to fly in the face of the representative of her Majesty, and refuse to benefit by his endeavours to tranquillize the provinces, in order merely to gratify a set of men in London who have suffered themselves to be blinded by faction. THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.—On Thursday week one of the most numerous and respectable meetings we ever witnessed," says the TVIte,ford Mail, a violent Tory paper, was held in the Town Hall, to address the Lord Lieutenant on his intended visit to this city. The chair was taken by the Mayor of Waterford, who, having read the requisition, said he felt much gratified in calling a meeting to present an address to a nobleman so eminently distinguished for anxiety for the improvement of the country. When Lord Ebrington first came to take possession of his estate in this country, he did not find it in the order he ex- pected. He is a benefactor to his country who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before and Lord Ebrington had made a garden of what he found a desert, and entitled himself to the blessings of his country. He is pe- culiarly fitted for the office of chief Governor, from his inti- mate knowledge of the wants and wishes of the peasantry; and his government has been marked by the prominent and equal administration of justice to all classes of her Majesty's subjects." Alderman Pools and Alcock re-echoed these sentimeuts, which were embodied in an address, prepared bv a committee, of which Lord Ciirew and Huntingdon werf members.—On Saturday morning letters were received in Waterford from Captain Romilly, his Excellency's Private Secretary, by the Mayor and Lotd Bishop, stating that in consequence of temporary indisposition, the visit of the Lord Lieutenant to Waterford was necessarily postponed for a few days.— Waterford Chronicle. THE WELLINGTON BANQUET.-—Many of the Hastings burgesses now regret that they did not adopt the same line of conduct as the Mayor of Faversham they find, when it is too late, that, despite their smooth and plausible profes- sions. "Tories will be Tories still." It is true that by the compromise agreed upon, the obnoxious toast of I- Church and State," in which the priesthood affect to take prece- dence ever, of the civil power, was got rid of; but in its stead, there was "the Archbishop 0f Canterbury and the Clergy of the Diocese," that is, of Kent exclusively, though the Cinque Ports extend into Sussex, the intention clearly being to avoid all mention of the upright Bishop of Chiches- ter, because he happens to be a liberal in his politics. Then, again, that o!d renegade, Sir Francis Burdett, was allowed to propose a toast, that he might have an opportunity of as- sailing the ministry. Sir Edward Knatchbull (another Tory) had two speeches assigned to him; Sir John Rae Reid was allowed to speak; and even that rabid Tory, Mr. Factor, though not representing either of the Cinqne Ports, had a toast put into his hands, while the representatives of Hastings, the head of the Cinque Ports, were passed by unnoticed The Liberals were, in truth, delivered over, bound hand and foot, to their illiberal opponents, who did not fail to make the. most of the occasion for political pur- poses, though like dishonest men, they had previously pro- fessed the single object of doing honour to the great captain of the age. Those, however, who see beneath the surface, are not surprised at the complaints now heard in several quarters, for the very proposal of making the Marquis of Winchilsea chairman stamped in their estimation the true object ofth" originators of the banquet.— Brighlon Guardian. .——Sam Slick says, "It's human nature and soft sawder." This was never hetter exemplified than in Lord Brougham's soaping the Duke of Wellington at the banquet at Dover. Of the fertility of the noble lord's mind no one can entertain a doubt; hut that he should subject the" gellcral of an hundred battles" to Mich fulsome adulation, was equally dis- creditable to Lord Brougham as it was insulting to the noble duke.—Lincoln Gazette. CHURCH BUILDING COMMISSION.—The 19th annual report of the Commissioners for Building New Churches has been just issued. At the time of printing their last report the Commissioners state that 225 churches and chapels had been completed, in which accommodation had been provided for 297,912 persons, including 164,495 free seats, appropri- ated to the use of the poor. Since that time they report that 18 churches have been completed, affording accommo- dation for 16,000 persons, including 9775 seats for the poor, making in the whole 243 churches and chapels, affording accommodation for 314,412 persons, including 174,270 free seats for the poor. In addition to these, 18 other new churches are now building, and in a very forward state. The number to be accommodated in pews is 7207, and in free seats 9949: total, 17,156. Plans for eight other chinches have been approved of, and it is in contemplation to build eight others, at various places. Conditional grants of money have been made to 38 parishes, townships, or places, in aid of building churches and chapels; as also for providing sites for churches and chapels in 46 other different places, interspersedly throughout England. Applications for further church accommodation have been made by the inhabitants of 47 districts, situate respectively either in England or Wales. SHOOTING STARS.—This year the shooting stars have again fulfilled the expectations of observers. Letters from various parts of France inform the Academy of Sciences that the phenomenon exhibited itself with more or less splendour on the nights of the 9th and 11th of August. Everywhere the same direction from the north-east to the south-west has been remarked. At Paris, for instance, astronomers have ascertained that the average number of shooting stars which on other days scarcely exceeds eight in an hour, amounts to twenty.five, thirty, forty, and even fifty in the same lapse of time. The height at which they are is considerable; calculations combined with observation carrying it sometimes to sixty leagues as for their rapidity it is between eight and twenty-two leagues per second. Several of those fine meteors, after kindling in their fall, re- ascended as if they had been driven back by a fluid of a cer- tain density.-Paris Paper. TUNNEL UNDER THE MHRSKY.—On Monday evening week a meeting was held at Birkenhead, which was attended by a number of the leading gentlemen of the place, when the projected tunnel under the bed of the Mersey, which is intended to form a communication betwixt Liverpool and the Cheshire shores, came under consideration. The meet- ing was a ded in their deliberations upon this interesting and important subject, by the opinions of three eminent civil engineers, which were embodied in reports from Mr. Vigneles, Mr. Stephenson, and Mr. Giles. These gentle- men all concurred as to the practicability of the measure. A deputation was then appointed to wait upon the mayor, with a view to obtain the co-operation of the corporation in a project so intimately connected with the interests of both sides the river .Chester Chronicle. WOODEN BLOCKS PAVEMENT.—The Experimental Paving in Oxford-street was tested on Tuesday, when it was proved beyond dispute that the wooden blocks were as smooth and even as when first laid down. The Committee then adjpurned to the Court House, when the following re- solution was agreed to:—" That it appears to this Committee that the wooden block paving has proved itself equal to the traffic and paving of the whole of Oxford-street, and it is, therefore, resolved to recommend to the Vestry to adopt the wooden block paving for that thoroughfare, subject to certain conditions and regulations." The greatest interest is manifested on this subject in Marylebone, and although it is expected through it the Vestry will, when the subject comes fairly before them again, become the arena of con. flicting parties, yet it may be fairly assumed that the in- habitants of Oxford-street will not figure among them, from the fact that a petition is in progress which is understood already to have received, in favour of the wood experiment, nearly 400 signatures. INTERESTING DISCOVERY.—A short time ago, in a field adjoining the road leading from Rudston to Kilham, a tesselated pavement, about six inches from the surface, was uncovered the tesserae differing in size from one and a half inchtohatfan inch; colours white, red, and blue, white prevailing; laid in lines and forming diamonds, extending over a surface of about four yards by three yards, walled round on three sides with large rough stones, similar to the chalk stones of the Wolds. A great part of the pavement had been destroyed at a former period by some labourers who had dug it up in the lupe of finding treasure, and the place filled up agaiu promiscuously it contained red bricks of a square form 9-L inch by 81 inch, and lj inch thick pieces of plaster, smooth on one side and painted, some red all over, some in lines, and some in dashes of red and green, apparently water colours. The size of each tile is about 15 inches by 11§, and about f of an inch in thickness. Imme- diately nnder these was another layer of the same sort of tiles, laid in the same manner, but travel sely with the other. Below these was a small quantity of exceedingly black ashes, and near were some pieces of a rather bony-like substance, porous, and haviitg a great semblance to the encrusted moss from the Dropping Well at Knaresborongh. Still lower, was a layer of fine rich earth, a few inches in thickness, and then a bed of fine natural red clay, probably the matpflal similar to that of which the bricks and tiles had been formed. York Courunt. EXTRAORDINARY EXPEDITION.—Her Majesty's new packet-steamer Medusa, intended for the morning line of the packets between Liverpool and Dublin, proceeded on an experimental trip to Kingstown, under the command of Lieut. Philips, who has been appointed to her from the Lucifer, accompanied by Captain Bevis, her Majesty's agent in Liverpool. She accomplished her return passage in the unparallelled short time of nine hours and thirty-eight minutes, from pier to pier, and this under many disadvan- tageous circumstances, having to contend with a very heavy beam-sea, and her engines being new and stiff, and falling short by nearly a revolution per minute of their proper speed. We understand she was frequently going thirteen knots per log, and had she been favoured by a spring tide her passage would scarcely have exceeded nine hours. She, and her sister ship, the Merlin, was modelled by Sir W. Symonds, and their machinery, which has proved to be of. the very first order, was constructed at the celebrated foundry of Fawcett, Preston, and Co., Liverpool. They are of about 900 tons burden, and 320 horse power, and, owinO" to their great beam, have admirable accommodations. The size and strength of those vessels-their power, whether under canvass or steam-and the circumstances of their passing the perilous navigation at the entrance of our river by daylight, a matter of great consideration at all seasons, but particularly in the winter, have left the public nothing to d eiire. Lit,-erpont pripei-. DREADFUL COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE OFF DOVER. -Iotpllig;ence was received iu this Citv on Wednesday of a most tinfortiiiiatt, disaster, attended with loss of life and property to a great extent, which occurred during the dreadful gale on Sunday night off Dover. The particulars are briefly as followAbout half past eleven o'clock on Sunday night, the large powerful steam ship the Royal Adelaide, the property of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company, on her voyage across the North Foreland to Belfast, came in collision with a schooner, called the Gil Bias, of London, with such tremendous violence that the latter sunk almost immediately. The night was excessively dark, and a good look-out was on board the Royal Adelaide, but the schooner was not observed till within a few yards of her bows, consequently no human power could prevent the collision. The shock was terrible, the bow of the steamer was driven in, and the schooner is supposed to be almost cut in two. The crew of the latter fortunately at the time were on deck, and saved themselves by jumping on board of the steamer, with the exception of a Black boy, who was asleep in the fore cabin, who perished. The Cap- tain of the Royal Adelaide, fearing that his vessel would go to pieces, not knowning the extent of the damage, took possession of the helm, and steered her to Cowes, which they succeeded in gaininu; in a few hours. An examination then took place, and it was discovered that the vessel had not sustained such injury as to prevent her from proceeding on her voyage across the Channel. A great many of the passengers refused to go further and came back to London. The Mastei of the Gil Bias, Captain Herbert, and the crew, landed at the same time. The vessel was from the coast of Africa, and had a most valuable cargo, consisting of chests of gold dust, elephants' teeth, and palm oil. The cargo is reported to be worth 40,0001. and is the property of Mr. J. C. Redmond, residing in the City. The cargo and vessel are insured at Lloyd's. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE AT HERNE BAY.-—On Saturday afternoon this now fashionable watering-place was ttuown" into consternation by the cir- cumstance of the bodies of three persons being b: ought on shore, who had met their death by the upsetting of a boat in which they were sailing for pleasure. The sufferers were Miss Wade, Miss Fielder, and Mr. Binks. It appeared that these unfortunate persons, with a young brother of Miss Wade, had taken a boat and been to Recnlver, having on board a boatman named Presley, and were returning to Heme Bay, with close-reefed mainsail, and foresail set. when the foresheet broke adrift, and Presley imme- diately made fast the mainsheet, whilst he got an oar to prevent the boat from coming up in the wind but the boat immediately upset on the water. They had just been passed by a Margate boat, in which were some ladies and gentlemen, and a boatman named Hammond Maxted, who, looking back, missed the boat in which the deceased were, and believing some accident had occurred, immediately put his boat about and made for the place where he had last seen her, and soon perceived the hands of a person held up out of the water, who, on being taken on board, proved to be Presley, much exhausted. He however, directed Maxted to the spot where the other sufferers were, and he first saw the young lad, whom he took on board, and whose life was thus saved lie next caught the clothes of Miss Wade, which tore asunder and the boat passed her, but he imme- diately saw Miss Fielder, whom he succeeded in getting on board, as also, subsequently. Miss Wade and Mr. Binks, all of whom he believed to have been alive at the time, but they almost instantlv expired. An inquest was held by Mr. De Lassanx on the bodies on Monday when the fore- going facts being given in evidence, a verdict of Acci- dental Death" was returned in each case. The conduct of Maxted, the Margate boatman, was beyond all praise, to reward which a iiberal subscription was made for him at Herne Bay. It appeared also that he received great assis- tance from one of the ladies he had on board the boat. A STRONG CLAtM.—At the last quarterly meeting of the Exeter Humane Society, a man claimed a reward for saving his own 'wife, a young woman, about twenty-three years, of age, from drowning. AN UNFAIR ATTACK.. — Amcng Mr Whitfield's fre- quent hearers at the Tabernacle was Shuter the comedian, then in the height of his reputation as the representative of Ramble. On one occasion lie was seated in the pew exactly oppo-ite the pulpit,and while Mr. Whitfield, in his energetic address, was inviting sinners to the Saviour, he fixed his eyes on Shuter, saying,—"And thou poor Ramble, who hast long rambled from him, come thou also. 0, end thy ramblings by coming to Jesus." Shuter was exceedingly struck, and afterwards coming to Mr. Whitfield, said "I thonght T should have fainted—how could you serve me so?" -Countess of Huntingdon's Life and Times, Vol. II.

BANKRUPTS from Friday's Gazette. To Surrender in Basinghall-street. JOHN BAKER and GEORGE WILLIS, farriers, Edward-street rotrCdon?"' °C'- 18' A' W' "d C" row, London. GEORCE LANGRIDGE WILLIAMS, builder, Portland-road Marv- 18 Au- Ed™"lU- Frede™&pE, Old Jqwry, Loidon. To Surrender in the Country. jOHN ROBINSON, cheese-factor, Shavington-cum-Grastv Ches- hire, Sept. 17, Oct. 18, at the Castle Inn, NewcastlLnfw lyne, Staffordshire. Atts. Pinniger and Weslmatfott Grav's-" inn-square, London, or Warren, Market-Drayton, Shropshire GEORGE RYALL CORRY, glove manufacturer, Yeovil Somer setshire Sept. 17, Oct 18, at the Antelope Inn, DorcheTter Atts. Douglass and Cragg, Verulam-buildings, Grav's-inn" London, or J. T. Vining, Yeovil. 8 y lDD' WILLIAM RABEY leather-seller and ironmonger, Redruth Cornwall, Sept. 11, Oct. 18, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro Atts' sSs,Trura,,qUeraJ' Bish°Pgate Cf"yard, Londoner' Stokes, Truro. WILLIAM EDWARDS and THOMAS HENRY BLACKRHUM Vr NOUR, builders, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire SeDt ^0 and 23, OK. 18, u the lido™ Hotel. l2 IX? Warwickshire. Atts. Swain, and Co., Frederick^ nla™ om Jewry, London, or Whately, Birmingham. P 0W WILLIAM PREEDY, grocer, Oxford, Sept. 20, Oct. 18 at thp Mitre Inn, Oxford. Att. Amory, Throgmorton-street London THOMAS ROGERS TAYLOR, bill-broker, Portsea, Hampshire' Pnn l RCt th,e,.F°Untain Hotel> Portsmouth. Atts! and PmTsea SS' Gra*'S-inn> London> Minchin and Oake, Portsea.

COPPER ORE Sold at POOL, September 5, 1839. MINES. 21 CWT. PURCHASERS. PRICE Consols. Mines.. 114 Freeman and Co. 10 (I Bitto 105 Vivian ami Sons '? D.tto .104 Ditto and English Copper Co I « D; to .103 Sims, Willyams, Nevill, Druce," & Co" 311 » Ditto. 92 Freeman and Co. t0, 0 Ditto S9 Ditto. aCO Di'tlo II n'o"31' a?'1" Co'ar'd & Co. 5 12 0 802 ?SIR^Z:B?.V,V,:?MD8A« North Roakear.. 92 Ditto ## •• lo 13 0 Ditto. 87 P. Grenfelt and Sons 2 2 Ditto. 83 Williams, Foster, and Co. £ Ditto. 81 Vivian and Sons o Ditto. 80 Williams, Foster, and Co. .1 « Ditto 75 Ditto £ Ditto. 65 English Co., & Sims, WiVlyams.Nevill" ° Dnice.andCo „ „ Ditto. 59 P. Urenfelt and Sons 4 a A United Hills 83 English Copper Co., and Si.n, Wil' ni,,„ Q„ Nevill, Dmce, and Co.' 3 7 « D) to 80 Willumi, Foster, and Co.. „ Ditto .59 English Copper Co., and Sims, Wi'f- 040 Dittn i. lyam8, Nevill, Drnce, and Co. 2 11 6 Duto:: 33 etw,'lya,n8,Nevili'D,ruce.&co. 4 Hi II Ditto. 26 English Copper Co. and\vilIiamS( F^- 3 '° ° South Roskear.. 90 English Conner Co 1 10 « Ditto. 59 Williams, Foster and Co 1 11 0 Wh. Chance 7(5 Ditto anrt Co Ditto 74 Mines Royal"Co. 18 6 Ditto 31 English Conner Co" 6 14 0 Dolcoath 108 P. Grenfell and Son* 2 13 8 Ditto 77 Mines Royal Co. -.100 Ditto 61 P. Grenfell and Sons 5 8 8 Ditto 50 English Copper Co. •• 4 1 O Ditto 34 Sims, Willyams, Nevilt n • 116 8 Fowey Consols.. 108 Freeman and Co. rU • 1 IS 0 Ditto .101 Ditto '• ..SO 8 Ditto 30 P. Grenfell and Sons 5 13 t> East Wh. Crofty 61 English Copper Co. 13 12 8 Ditto 50 Vivian ami Sons •• 4 11 6 Longclose 63 English Copper Co. '2 Ditto 51 Ditto *• -.510 Wh. Lydia 83 Williams, Foster, and Co* "50 0 Ditto 62 Mines Royal Co. "• H Ditto. 29 Sims, Willyams, Nevill* *Drn^l" a /■>" 466 S<>n(h Tosvan 3!> Mines Royn| Co. e'& Co- 2 17 6 Tincroft. 67 Sims, Willyams, Nevill/brncp"* r" 4 19 0 and Williams, Foster, and Ditto. 50 English Copper Co. •• 4 8 0 Ditto 30 English Copper Co., p 'OrenV^ii "j 2 3 6 Sons, andjsims, VVuiya^e:^ Druce, and Co. «e»nif Ditto 29 P. Grenfell and Sons 2 15 6 S. Wh. Basset.. 80 Williams, Foster, and Co* •• 1 4 6 Ditto 46 Ditto 3 19 O Wh. Spnrrow 16 Vivian and Sons 490 Wh. Tolga9 11 P. Grenfell aud Sons ••460 Total 3415 Average Produce, 7f.—Q.iantlty of fine Copper, 252 ton, T „ Amount of Sale, £ 16,359 Us. tid-Average Standard! i'ln"V qr'~

Hiyh Water on Swansea Bar at tlte passrtgp" FOR TIIE ENSUING WEEK. uisrlf/fS, i Swansea BAR, THR P,«. DAYS. r*ssAans. Morn- E°en- Heights.' Morn. H. M. II. M. p.. ~Tj Saturday Sept. 14 i 9 18 9 35 14 0 I lo "3 ?• «• Sunday 15; 9 54 10 15 i4 f lft 55 Monday 16 10 39 11 7 10 7 11 59 35 Tuesday 171 11 42 12 0 9 <5 1 12 Wednesday. 18 1 16 2 4! 9 4! 2 W Thursday 19 a 51 3 25 10 2 4 n 3 21 FH.U, »l 3 SO 4 IMS }| } !5| J « Moo\ s ABE —Full Moon, 23d day, 6h. 58m. morn.

:írt+ta rttttø. MARK LANE, LONDON, Monday, Sept. O.-The supply of E,w. tish wheat, last week teas by no means larqe, though there has been a very good arrival of foreign. This morning we had about the usual show of samplesfrollL Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, and the ipiality art( £ condition of many of the new samples still continuing to be dump and illfaior, for this description we cannot make sales without submitting to a decline of about 2s. per quarter; but fine dry samples of old support the quotations of this day se'nivght. Barley obtains Quite good prices, whilst beans and pease are about Is. per quarter dear In other articles no alteration. er' PKICb OF GRAIN. —Per Imperial Quarter. #. s. Wheat, n*.| 69 h> 01 Maple •' Fi'ie (i i 65 White 1?'"42 °J?. Boiiers. i! 40 <* J,V,lltc 60 Small Beans 38 40 •• OS 70 Ditto, old 42 jT Superfine 70 74 Ticks TZ New — Harrow 10 4.» 40 43 Feed Oats 21 23 Barley 23 32 Fine 24 26 Ditto, line malting 38 42 Poland 25 28 <i(l 03 Fine 28 3n ,,ne, *• •• 63 OU Potato Hog l'ease 40 Fine „ taotm, per Sack of28(l/i. "i:3t •« •• •• 5i>a. to bit. | Second 50s. 53s. AVERAGE PRfCE OF CORN, per Qr. For the Week en.lins; August 17, 133;), and by which importation is regulated. ^1 .?,< £ 1 d Wheat 7i( U Oats 2d 9 Beans 41 1 i Barley 38 4 Rye 46 9 Pease 41 1 PRICE OF HOPS, in the Borough, per Cwt. jackets 4 10ton 12 Farnham,Pockets 0 ntod #o 11/ 11 !s • • 3 15 4 10 Veal ling Kent 2 10 33 Weald of Kent 3 10 4 10 Ditto Sussex 0 0 0 0 Sussex ditto 3 3 4 4 Kent&Susses- 0 0 0 0 Old Olds j I. is. to 11. 10s. PRICR OF SEEDS. I uinip, White, per bush. 22/0 25 {Clover, Bed, per cwt. 66 S\ Bed and Green M 3a 'white 4S 62 Mustard, 17 Foreign Red White 13; Foreign White Ca ary, per quarter .73 76 Trefoil.. Hye Grass 42 Ca'»w'ay 40 55 °'a8s 42 Coriander is 2l PRICE OF MEAT.-SMiTHFtELD, Sept. 9. Weliay a very large market of beasts this morning. For oood qualities there is no lack of buyers, and therefore last week's top price of 4s. bd ,s supported bnt middling things are rather heavy in sale and at corresponding figures The demand for sheep is very fair, and for choice sorts a r^ng advance is obtained, but ice cannot fairly q,wle ove, 5s Calo.sare not so high as on Friday by 2d, the fullest terms being 5s. 2d. P'gsare plentiful, but there is no reduc ion ia .( th the value of the delicate. The trade in lambs is now arettf/rJltT- aud, therefore, the prices are little, better than nominal. Tttsioktheoffat—perStb: Ileef 3s. 6d. to 4s. (id. IVeal. 4,. 0 Mutton 3s. Ittd. to 5s. Od. Pork 3s. gd. lo 3 • 4s. 10d. to 5s. 8<1. Head of Cattle this day. Beasts, 3,555; Sheep, 26,630; Calves, 133; Pigs, 460. Head of Cattle on Frirlay. Beasts, 614; Sheep, 8,520 Calves, 383; Pit; 413. NKWGATF. and LEA DEN H A LL.-By the Carcase. Beef. 3s. 2d. to 3s. 10(1. Veal 3<. 4t|. ((> Mutton 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. Pork. 3s. nd. lu 4,1 Lamb 4s. 4d. to a. 4d. PRICE OF TALLOW AND SOAP, per Cwt". S. d- ». d. I'oivn Tallow 4!l 0 Melted Stuff ..38 0 Vellow Snap Yellow Russia.. 50 0i Rough Ditto 21 0 Mottled ili'n,. While Ditto ..— 0 Greaves 14 0 CM d dii to.. I700 PRfCE OF IRON! T\ d. £ T,7V British Bars, Staffordshire !) 15 0 to In 0 0 Welsh 9 10 0 to 0 o it Piis, Staffordshire 6 6 0 to 0 0 n ■ Welsh 4 15 0 to 5 J;) u BRISTOL PRICE CURRENT.—Sept. 6. The show of sugars is so very indifferent that little business has been transacted, and prices remain stationary. The falling off in the import to Bristol is increasingly felt as a most serious evil; and the quantity brought here is so totally inadequate to th" wants of pur- chasers, that, if no remedy can be found, we shall gradually sink to be mere agents for the disposal of sugarsfrom other ports. SUGAR. 1. II. COFI,E R. T. Muse, very Brown (per c.; —to— r me <1111.1 132^14-) Dry 05 Very line j j.j Middling 66 03 RUM. s. d s d Good ditto f,S fi!> Jamaica (per gal.) 5 0 o Good 69 70 Leeward Isle ,.3 g J. Fillc. 71 73 l.oowonn. r 8. Molasses 35 J,lInaic] .Iper Ion.) ..II 0 12 i COI'PKK. St. Domingo .u q Jamaica, triage (per cwt.) 80 90 Campeachy fl. Ordinary 92 >00 Fustic, Jamaica 8 0 o « Good ditto 102 1U6 Cuba .12 0 n n Pine ditto 108 112 oil.. 0 Middling H I 11S 1 Gallipoli (per tun) 55 0 .560 Good ditto 120 130 1 Sicily 0 j Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Su;;ar, to,- the week ending Aug. 27, 40.?. lljd.'per cwt. PRICE OF LEATHER.. lb. lb. d. d. |b. lb. a <] Crop Hides 30#»35 .IIJ/0I2J German Horse Hides to— Ditto ditto 40 45..13 14 Horse Rutts 0 Ditto ditto 50 60..14 17 Calf Skins, BeslP. 56 7o!4 ■>7 Foreign Hides 30 45.. 11 14 Ditio(cnmmon).. "t,, Middlings .12 14 Ditto ditto 80 100 *|- 10 Butts, English Iti 20..14 13 Ditto ditto 100 12n"ii T Ditto ditto 21 2d..15 10 Ditto ditto 3o in 10 \l mtto ditto 28 30..15 17 Irish Skins "• Ditto ditto (extra) 34 31..I7 10 Welsh Skins 3a „ Ditto, Foreign 16 20..14 15 Ditto ditto 4l) V, Ditto ditto 22 25..14 16 Ditto ditto 5> Ditto ditto 28 30..15 17 Dii to ditto 2f f? Ditto ditto (e.-i!ra)34 3li..I7 19 Kips, English and VVel.h"i* !2 B. Saddlers'Hides .17 40..1.5 Ifi Ditto, Petersburg!! (5 « Common ditto 35 40.. 12 13 Ditto ditto o Shaved Hides 18 22..15 10 Ditto, East India I Shoe ditto 20 23.. 12 13 Seal Skins, Small 7. Common ditto 27 34..1 1 121; Diti., Miridlin? "IJ 1f) 1'2 8 11 Hull ditto .10 12 Shoulders, English "if, !•» Knglish Horse Hides ..13 14 Ditto, Foiei'n o 11 Welsh ditto.1] is Bellies, Enuli-di I Spanish ditto ,.|3 is Di:to, Forei"n « o Do without Bults,123. to Itis. Od. ea. a Printed and Published by WILLIAM COURT FN AY MURRAY AND DWII) REES At No. Si. \VIND-STRKKT, SWANSEA. SATURDAY, September 14, lb39.