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ayirl nb Gwilym, in one of his descriptions of his o .in aoduction, in an unlucky mist, says- 1 Yr ydoedd, yn mhob gobant, Eliyllon mingeimion gant." EPIGRAM. The paint is on her check. The tear is on her eye What does such state bespeak ? Lo»t beauty's hue and cry. J. S.

The death of Rear-Admiral Joshua Sydney Horton, who died at Boulogne-sur-Mer, on the 24th aged sixty-seven years, makes the twelth Admiral of various ranks, viz.—Six Admirals, two Vice-Admirals, and four Rear-Admirals (including three from the retired list), who have died since the 1st of January of the present year, besides twenty Post-Captains. Lord Crewe, who died near Brussels within | Ie last few days, is the sixth Peer whose death ias been announced within the last month, viz. — T E> IT ,of Beaufort, the Earl of G'harleville, Lord Hartland, Lord Ward, Lord Vernon, and Lord The last-named Peer was married to a dau^h er of G. Walker Hungerford, Esq. and is succeeded in his title and estates by the Hon. hungenord Crewe, now in his 24th year. Lord Y'e;ve was a Goneral in our service since July, >t^' ^e *ast Prornotion. He was appointed i'njor in the 85th Foot in August, 1779; Lieut.- t-o onel in the army in November. 1794; Lieut.- ?ne J1 'he 126th Foot, receiving full pay, July, jJ; tosonel in the army, the 1st of January, 1801; "y -^enera!, April, 1808: and Lieut.-General, the •»tn ot .kine, 1813. fo-"merS]V\T pjtf S'^TS—%Tr Fonntayne Wilson, j0r Yorkshire.—This eccentric, but n<rp °riisp.rar A gentleman, a few years nrH Ia body of Yeomanry, for whom he ordered a quantity of grey cloth overalls. Govern- ment reused to sanction the formation of the corps, and SO pairof rather coarsish trowserswere thrown on;\Ií,"ilson's hands What will you do with t,.ie;n -all was the enquiry of a friend. Do with then. answered he—"why wear them ont myself to be sure!" And he has done so; for winter and summer in the country and in the House of Commons, was lountayne Wilson seen in his grey overalls. We believe he has nearly arrived at the last pair \—Agc. POST LORSE DUTIES.—Several influential Members of the House of Commons having in- iraated to the Chancellor of the Exchequer their wishes th at the post-horse duties might no longer e let to farm, but it being too late this year to ina .e the necessary arrangements for Government to collect them, they are now to be let for one year only instead of three years, with the perfect under- standing that this is the last time they are to belet. SIN RUFIKLD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.—The 37th ani. aa adjudication of prizes, and of gold and silver ie. a > for fat cattle, sheep, and pigs, took place 1a81 week iii the Repository yard, in Goswell-street. )<)se agriculturists who were favoured by a view of »he exhibition staled that this was one of the best Iliat had taken place. Earl Spencer obtained the piemiam of 20 sovereigns and a silver medal, forthe ox in class No. l. The other premiums and niedaib for oxen and sheep were awarded to different compel iters from various parts of the country. An immense pi(z was exhibited at Smithfield, its weight upwards of a hundred stone, length more thau three yards, and height exceeding a yard. A tetter from Dublin says, "Mr O'Connell, ■wb:le he denounces tithes as a public man, pays most punctually as a private individual, con- ,-in1¡\1y exhorting others to resistance, and never •jfi.ing any himself." Daniel always takes care to k^p himself out ot the clutches of the law, though he has introduced many otRers into them. GOING THE HOLE ffOG. I was amused ton, v. ith some of the placards which appeared on tiio walls. Many of these were political, and one in particular was so unintelligible as to impose the task of a somewhat prolix commentary on my lri.°n'js. It ran thus, in sesquipedalian charac- tersJackson for ever. Go the whole hog!' V, nen the sphere of my intelligence became en- larged with regard to this (iffichel I learned that the whole hog' is the American popular piirn e for radical reform,and is used by the Demo- cratic party to distinguish them from the Federalists, who are supposed to prefer less sweeping measures, and consequently to'go only a part of the interest- ing quadruped in question. The go-the-whole- ho -<■< r berefore, are politicians determined to follow out democratic principles to their utmost extent, and with this party General Jackson is at present an especial favourite. The expression, ) am told, is of Virginian origin. In that state, when a butcher kills a pig, it is usual to demand of e"h customer whether he will 'go the whole hog,' as, by sv.ch extensive traffic, a purchaser may supply hi j table at a lower price than is demanded of him whose imagination revels among prime pieces, to the exclusion of baser matter.glen and lJanners in America, TaE CELEBRATED SANcy DIAMOND.—HAM- BMtaii, Drc. 2.—It is a known fact that the Grand Veneurot the Emperor of Russia has bought the lamous diamond, known by the name of "Sancy," for the sum of 500,000 roubles, and that the mer- chant, Jean Friedlin, has been the Duchess of ~TS agent in this affair. The history of this p.scions stone is not generally known. The dia- mond originally came from India, and has remained 'I ir°pe ior the last four centuries. The Duke !v""5l>n-y, Charles the Bold, was its first owner, i, ;vo[e l\ °n his helmet at the battle of Nancy, it nnj1"11 !°. 1 A Swiss soldier found it, aid it to apriest for a florin. In 1489, it who i -° h? Possession of the King of Portugal, <rentlem'nSFin "Vant of m°ney, sold it t9 a French Sar.cv w-n 10°'0,)0 franc». Nicholas Harley s"cces'sion° SA? h-is name' had [t afterwards by ^enrv'tho Vu- i".me ^1S embassy at Soleure, iiiond i>i enjoined him to send him the dia- ill orccr. to pled,e it; the servant that had rubbers swan .Wj"? having been attacked by ordered the r °We II' anc' was murdered. Sancy found in°rfke to °Pened, and the diamond England n0-s 6j sl0.mach. James the Second of came to Fra^6-* 113 ^'amond in 1688, when he session of Loui'S VM/™* afterwards into the pos- bis crown at hia a.nd Louis XV. uore it in ^he.shape of a ^oron.at\on- The diamond has water, and weia-h« U *8 Iaost beautiful than half a Hiiill^of V^ubVes" 8UrCly W°rth gamekeeper'd07 Peter18^' T',0lT'as Mewth, head C-vertonHoule n?a.B^wrthW,C\E9<1- M'P- dss^M-ate 'feUowf vvh 1 b* °ne belonn-in- ° WerC Poach"'»K in the Jumes Trttin"an3 Jam^ T?'&te' Two of lhe fellows, ivlewth, asRi8ted Hajes, were appreheuded by fc'.low Who gred t|1B „ »tbe undel keeper, but the "e g«u has made his escape.

CHIT CHAT. It is related of Charles Lamb, that one night he wanted to demonstrate, after the manner of Swift, that the Man t chou Tartars were cannibals and the Chinese were identical with the Celtes, (sell-' teas). A chemist explaining the different kinds of acid, Lamb stopped him by saying, the best acid was assid-uity. 11 appears that we are paying interest, in the case of the West India compensa- tion on'ten-millions of unemployed borrowed capi- tal— Risum tencntis—or, *do you hold with Rice? Though the joke is stale the subject is a serious one,_f_—The growers of fat meat held their anni- versary last week, in Goswell-street Yard, mon- sters of obesity, in oxen, sheep, and pigs, were exhibited; we shall rejoice in the completion of rail-roads', among other reasons, for the sake of prize cattle. The Secretaryship of the Post Oflice, a lucrative pos", will speedily be vacant by the resignation of Sir Francis Freeling. 'We sus- pect that the Postmaster-General will not be long in office; but we do not give him credit for losing it with or bv Lord Gifford, son of the late Noble Master of the Rolls, who died in 1826, leaving a numerous family, has entered the army as an ensign, in the 52d or Oxfordshire Light Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel Fergus- son, C.B.- it has been generally understood that Mr Hale would be the Conservative candidate for West Gloucestershire but it is now said that Lord Edward Somerset will come forward. The writ will be sued on the 23d.-The next anni- versary meeting of what is called the British Association is fixed to take place at Bristol in August next-the Marquess of Lansdowne, Prei The marriage contract between the youn^ Queen of Portugal and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe°Coburg is stated by the Frankfort Journal to have been signed on the 25th ult. Amongst the recent murders in Portugal is that of a high Church dfgnitary. -THE GREAT SOI.AR ECLIPSE OF 1836 On the IfJth of May, the sun will be eclipsed to an unusual visible extent in this coun- try, it being what is termed annular, the sun ap- pearing like a ring at Greenwich, and to the whole of the south of England, 10 degrees will be eclipsed out of the 12; at three o'clock in the afternoon it will be dark enough to discern many of the stars-Montreal papers of the 6th ult. state that the House of Assembly had awarded to that disinterested patriot, Mr Roebuck, a salary of X600 a year, and E500 to meet contingencies. No trade would seem to be so profitable at present as that of agitation. A new instrument has lately been presented to the Academie des Sciences, at Paris, by M. Isrard; it resembles the common violin, with the strings extended between two wooden or metal blades it is made to vibrate at one end by a current of air, while at the other the player shortens the strings by the pressure of his fingers-it is called the Air Violin. -Brabant has built a Theatre, and called it St. lames." What absurdities will not these player folks com- mit the Saint, whose name is thus profaned, had other remedies for the a fllicted," and other re- sources for the "merry," than the mummery of a theatre.-The bourne from which the present travelling Cabinet will not return, is Mel-bourne. The grave to which O'Connell's paths of glory are leading, is Mnl-fjrave. The ff^en °f indolence, is Glen-Elg. The House of Correction for the out- ward bound Governors, is fjob-tlouse. We have authority to say that there is no truth what- ever in a rumour which has been put in circulation, that Lord William Bentinct was expected to take the place of Lord Howard de Walden at Lisbon.— Evening paper. In consequence of the de- cease of Lord Ward, the great estates of the family are again annexed to the title, the late Lord Dudley having bequeathed them to the deceased nobleman's eldest son.- LAWYER'S FEE:- Fee conditional and simple tee, And all the fees in tail, Are nothing when compared with thee, Thou best of fees-female."

PUNISHMENT OF DEATH IN BELGIUM. ABSTRACT OF RETURNS PRINTED FOR THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. Ln i t. Cap. Convictions. Total E.re-j PERIODS. culed for Mur- Other cap. Iv»r. crimes.! der. crimes. .'1 5 Years end. with IS01 235 150 203 5 1809 88 8'2 70 5 1814 71 64 49 5 Isl9 26 42 29 5 1S24 23 38 23 5 1829 22 34 40 5 1834 None* 20 23 In the lastfire years, during wliich no execution took place, the sentences of those who had been condemned to death, were commuted to imprisonment at hard labour. From these returns it appears that the diminution and ultimately the discontinuance of capital punish- ments was attended with a diminution in the number of atrocious offences, and particularly that of murder, a result observed in TUSCANY, PRUSSIA, and other countries, where the effert of aboiishingr capital punish- ments, or greatly ameliorating the criminal laws, has been tried.—Society for Diffusing Information on Capital Punishments, 40, Trinity Square, Tower Hill, London.

It is a fact, not less true than astounding1, that out of the eleven thousand livings in England and Wales, seven thousand of them are in the hands of lay-impropriators; and a sum, not less than 150,0001. a year of Church property, is possessed by Lord John Russe! I's father !Tvtltchittayt. We understand that Major Barret of the 8Gth Royals, who died about a fortnight since at Chelten- ham, has left legacies of X500 each to the Worcester and Gloucester Infirmaries, and of £70a to the Cheltenham Dispen-ary.- Gloucester Chronicle. A VENERABLE TOIIY-ONE OF A THOUSAND — An old freeman of this town, named John Highwood, is now living at Staplehurst, who was admitted to the freedom in 1760, since which period 1890 free- men have been admitted, and 105d have died.- ,WIaiditone Journal. SCHISM AMONG THE WHIGS.—Extract from Mr Beaumont's speech at the Edinburgh Polish dinner When assembled in the cause of freedom no word should be uttered which might offend. Sometimes it was disagreeable to proclaim openly the truth, yet, when it was necessary to do so, he Mr Beaumont) would never shrink, at any personal risk, from boldly and unreservedly announcing it. He shrunk not, therefore, from saying, the greatest enemy of liberty was the Agitatoi. He shrunk not from naming hi^i-—'he greatest enemy of liberty was Daniel O'Connell." (The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst a few cheers, which were drowned by overpowering hisses.) MEETING OF HIGH PERSONAGES AT DOVER.— On Tuesday se'nnigilt Qve persons accidentally met in the parlour of the Packet Boat Inn, Dover, whose heights averaged each npwards of six feet nintf inches. It is the more remarkable as they were the only individuals present. One was a French- man, M.Louis, seven feet six inches; a lady and gentleman from Norfolk, the first seven feet, the latter seven feet two inches a gentleman from Eastbourne, half-pay, R.A. six feet; and, though last not least, the respected landlord, Mr Joseph Hoad, six feet two inches. The first, M. Louis, is is the well-known French giant, who has been ex- hibiting in England long enough to secure a com- fortable competence, and has retired he embarked, and his private carriage and one horse were shipped, on Wednesday, on his way to Brussels, to win 100 guineas of a tall Belgian, respecting his stature. The second and third are now exhibiting |Vjr ^a'r" Lonjjp has buried his wife in gland, t0 which he has formed some solid at- tachments, and returning to settle here.-— Kentish Chronicle. Kentish Chronicle. COAL FIFLDs OF ENGLAND.—The coal fields of England appear to have been formed at the time of the Noachian Deluge, by the tides, (then first oc- casioned,) of the vast body of waters bringing down flom those regions, now called Tropical, immense groves of plants of Coniferse, like the Norfolk Island jand Arancarian pines, of bananas, tree- ferns, huge cacti, palms, rush-like plants, fifteen or twenty feet high, and ferns like the under- growth of a West India Island, and lodging; them in, and filling many valleys between high hill s, whence our coal-seams nearly assume the form ofaa bowl. From the line of the coal formations. as they are found in England, the Diluvian tides m y be assumed to have run from South-west to North- east, or nearly in that direction, as may be gathered by tracing the pits from Paulton, in Somersetshire, to Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire, Durham, and to Newcastle. We may here observe that the immense pressure of the over-lying stony strata above these forests-Df vegetable matter has precipitated the bituminous part into a solid mass, which, by the decay of the woody fibre of the plant, is now that body which is denominated "Coal." Those who are curious in collecting vegetable fossil remains are well acquainted with the proof- stratum of a coal seam, in the under side of which are found the most beautiful specimens of tropical plants, and it is remarkuble that among those di- luvial remains there are not found any plants which are now known to be growing naturally in Europe, but all of which are still found in great quantities in Tropical countries. The collector of Fossil specimens of our coal formation will meet with a and in sreat and beautiful variety, at tne pits Camerton, near Bath.

THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. It having been deemed advisable that the various Agricultural Associations now scattered throughout the king-dam, and hitherto powerless from want of union, should concentrate their forces and form a Grand Central Society or Board of Agriculture in London, a numerous Meeting to carry this object into effect, was on Tuesday held at the Freemjsou's Tavern, Great Queen Street. The busi;;e«s of the day commenced by the Marquis of Chaodos proposing that Ormshy Gore, Esq. M.P- should take the Chair, which was soconded, and carried unanimously. Mr Ormsby Gore returned thanks for the honor done hien by the Icetit:, He hoped the procsed- ings ofihe day would be marked with unanimity. He considered the interests of the Agriculturists to be the staple interests of the country and hoped the proceedings of the Meeting would add strength to their cause. Whatever individul opinions on minor points might be held by any pertoti present, he trusted that, for the sake of that unanimity, which alone could make them strong, such person would sink them, and unite for the great object in view. They had many enemies, and any disunion amongst themselves would be advantageous to those enemies. If any man present thought himself wiser in his generation than his fellows, he hoped what he had mentioned would induce that man to refrain from pressing-, on the present occasion, his peculiar notions. The Hon. Gentleman having concluded amidst great applause, Mr M. Martin read the circular letter convening the Meeting; after which- Mr Spooner, of Worcestershire, dwelt at some length on the necessity of forming the present As- sociation, and having recommended unanimity as the bond of union, proposed a series of resolutions for the creation and government of the Society about to be formed. Mr Thurnal!, chairman of the Cambridge Agri- cultural Society, seconded the resolutions, which were duly put to the Meeting by the Chairman, and carried by acclamation. The Chairman then proceeded to congratulate the company on the formation of the Society; the Society being now formed, the next thing to be done was for them to consider what was the cause of the distress of the Agriculturists, and what was the remedy to be adopted, and he would beg to call their attention to what Earl Stanhope was about to address to them. Earl Stanhope then rose.—The Noble Earl felt great satisfaction at beholding so numerous and respectable an assemblage collected together from all parts of the United Kingdom, and convened to sup- port the interests of Agriculture. After what had been said by the Chairman, he thought he (Lord Stanhope) would not be out of order in saying a a few words on the subject of Agricultural Distress —a sl Ie of distress which could not be allowed to continue without throwing the whole country into convulsions. Nobody was more impressed than he was with theadvantage8 of unity. It was by union alone that they could obtain redress. Having, that day, formed themselves into a central society, it would not be right to separate without expressing an opinion on the cause of the distress. No one had been more opposed than he (Lord Stanhope) had been to the late alterations in the Corn Laws, founded as those laws had been, on the total exclu- siou of all foreign corn, until the price should be such as would shew there was not a sufficient supply in the country. The Act which altered the Corn Law, and which allowed the introduction and bond- ing of foreign corn—an Act which operated by erro- neous averages—must, it would be admitted, and had in effect, lowered prices; nevertheless, it was not to that Act alone that they were to attribute the present distress, because the prices were at present so low as to amount to a total exclusion of foreign corn. To what, then, were they to attribute the present Agri- cultural Distress? He did not hesitate to say it was to that edict of confiscation, passed by the Legisla- ture, generally called 14 Peel's Bill,to that Bill which was framed in total ignorance of the subject to which it referred, to that measure which was built on false hopes and false expectations it was owing that many persons had been compelled to sell their inheritance. (Cheers.) This mighty robbery was de- signated by the gentle name of a transfer of property from one person to another; but upon the saitie prin- ciple a highway robbery might be called a forcible transfer from one person to another. The Noble Earl then went on to observe, that in the year 1819 there had been an increase of 3,000,0001. in the taxation. Let any Minister now propose such an increase, would it be practicable? The effect of 4- Peel's Bill" had enhanced the distresses of the Agriculturists. In the same year, on the motion on the address, in reply to the speech from the Throne, he (Lord Stanhope) had moved an amendment, that the House of Lords should plede themselves to consider Agricultural Distress, and he had been in a midority of three. He was aware that to the alteration made by the Minister of that day, to Peel's Bill," was to be attributed that short period of prosperity of which the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer had boasted in 1825 but sillfe that Bill had been carried into full operation the distresses of the Agriculturists had increased. He did not mean to assert that distress was caused by low prices. Prices were immaterial provided they were propor- tioned to the burdens they had to bear, It wits file disproportion of prices to burdens which caused dis- tress, and unless it was removed by bringing prices up to burdens, or bringingburdens down toprices, no remedycolltd be found. Nootherway existed but the •educing the interest,of the National Debt, so as to bring the burdens to the prices, or by bringing the prices up to the burdens. On looking at the average °f six weeks, he found the price of wheat to be 36s. the imperial quarter, which was equal to 34., by the old measure. He had also looked back to the price of corn in the ten years subsequent to the American War, and previous to the French Revolution; the average then was 50s. the Winchester quarter. In 1735 the average was 4s. higher than at present. If you factitiously lowered prices, it would be impos- sible to pay the interest of the National Debt, as at present. (Loud cheers.) It might possibly be the desire of the country not to afford relief; in that case you must stop the interest of the National Debt, suspend payments to saving-banks, and then you might realize that free trade in corn which some luminaries of the age advocated. His Lordship after proceeding in this strain for some time, said that "Pel'}' Bill" and the Poor Law Amendment Bill had received the support of the reigning fac- tions. He had been told sftme time ago by a Cabinet Minister, that if the vote by ballot had been in- troduced into the Houses of Lords and Commons, "Peel's Bill" would have been repealed. (Cheers.) He had never proposed an alteration in the standard, to make a half-sovereign pass for a sovereign—a course convenient to all debtors wishing to pay only li's, in the pound. He would rather adopt the equitable adjustment of the late Mr Cobbett. He would propose to replenish the country with paper, until it should be brought to a healthy standard. He would have a wholesome paper currency, and he would suggest the issue of small Exchequer-bills, which, it would be impossible, should not always remain at par. In the change of currency he would suggest, he would change the nominal and not the real price of corn, the primary effect of which would be an importation of Foreign Corn, unless the Corn Laws should be so altered as to prevent it. He had prepared a set of resolutions on this subject, which it was his intention to mote in Parliament when he found he had such support in or out ot the House of Lords as would give him a chance of success. He had also prepared a set of resolutions for the pro- vision of the poor, which he thought would be ac- ceptable to the poor and to the country but to carry them into effect, it would be necessary to repeal the odious law, the Poor Law Amendment Act, which had placed the whole poor of the country in the power of an arbitrary and unconstitutional triumvirate. The PO"IO had not all the advantages from corn being cheap which they ought to have. Bread was not proportionably cheap. Theie was a necessity for an assize of bread. In a moraiia., paper, in which a late article had advocated the cause of the Agriculturists, it had been shown that the quartern loaf was, in proportion to the pi ice of wheat, twice as dear as it ought to be. His Lord- ship professed himself the friend of the labourers. He did not approve of another Select Committee ot the House of Lords but he would submit his resolu- tions to a Committee of the whole House, 0 Lord Grey had stated the cure of Agricultural Distress to be the reduction of rents, but he (Lord Sti-ttihopel had been assured by the owner of all estate that in some districts iu which no rent was paid the far- mers could not keep their farms. Relit or no rent made only a difference of three farthings in the price of the quartern loaf. What would become of annuitants, of rent charges, and mortgages, J hey must go with the landowners, and have recourse to the tender mercies of the Poor Law Commissioners, who were covering the land with those prisons called poor-houses to> (Loud cheers, and cries of "No, no.") His Lordship concluded a speech of considerable length by a powerful appeal ,n faJW of the labourers,and moved a resolution to the effect, that, "No measure would be efficient tor the relief of Agricultural Distress, but a measure which should either raise the price of Agricultural produce to the weight of the burdens by which it was pressed, or bring down the burdens to the price of the produce." Mr E Wodeliouse seconded the motion. Lord Teynham supported the resolution in a short speech, in which he strongly condemned the New Poor Law Amendment Act. In the conrse of his Lordship's address, he was called to order by Mr Curteis, the member for Sussex, and after some slight contusion, arising from cries for Lord Wyn- ford, Lord Teynham sat down; and Lord Wynford addressed the Meeting from his chair, being unable to stand. His Lordship spoke in so ow a voice that the greater part of his speech was inaudible to all persons not closc to him. His Lordship was understood io say, he hoped the pre- sent would not be made a party question he was sick of parties. He would not object to the reso- lution; but if it had adopted a specific course, he would have opposed it, because he did not wish to go fettered to Parliament. He admitted that the alteration of the Currency and of the Corn Laws was amongst the causes of Agricultural Distress; but there were also other causes. It would be expedient to have Committees of both Houses of Parliament on the subject. He thought, it they had closed the business of that day with the forma tion of the Society, and not gone on to state any particular opinions, it would have been better. They were not strong in the House of Commons, as they had been formerly, and it wou'd not be desir- able to increase the number of their enemies, The Marquis of Chandos would not, by any per- tinacious expression ot his own opinion, throw dis- credit on the Meeting. He had the cause of the Agriculturists too much at heart to disunite them. (Cheers.) They had been united up to that moment. and he believed their unanimity would have the happiest effects. (Hear, hear.) After, however, the defeat he had experienced in bringing forward their claims, he had since determined to move, as early as possible next Session, for a Select Com- mittee to inquire into the causes of the depression and distress of the Agricultural Interests, and to report them to the House of Commons, with a view of settling the remedies that should be considered most efficient. (Hear, hear.) It was on this ground alone that he implored the Meeting to pause, and not to go further in the expression of their opinion as to any particular course, but to leave that en- tirely to a Committee of the House of Commons. (Hear.) On this account he could not vote for the motion of the Noble Earl, though it was not his intention to offer any oppo-ition. Mr Maule, as we understood, of the Worcester Association, spoke in favour of the resolution, and said there could not be a stronger proof of the fact, that the Currency question was the cause of their distress, than the fact mentioned by the Noble Earl. Mr Cayley, M.P. for Yorkshire, said, that al- though he had recommended the nobie Marquis (Chandos) to pursue the course he had prescribed, he must support the motion of the Noble Earl. Mr Cayley then went at some length into a history of his own Parliamentary career in connexion with the question of Agricultural Distress, and concluded by congratulating them on the success of this Meet- ing, and expressing his confidence in the ultimate success of their wishes. Mr Spooner then addressed the Meeting, and was followed by Mr Curteis, M.P. for Sussex, Me-srs. Robinson, M. P. for Worcester, Colonel Sibthorp, &c. After which the resolution was put, and csrried, only one hand being held up against it. Earl Stanhope then moved the thanks of the Meeting to the Chairman, which was seconded by the Marquis of Chandos and carried with acclama- tion. Mr Ormsby Gore returned thanks, and shortly after 4 o'clock the Meeting broke up. At 5 o'clock a great number of the company sat down to an excellent dinner in the same room. Mr Cayley presided. The usual loyal and appro- priate toasts were drunk, and several speeches delivered, in which the speakers congratulated the company on the unanimity of the proceedings of that day, and pledged themselves for the support of the interests of Agriculture.

CONSER V A TIV E ME E Tl NG V. Our space is quite insufficient to give any thing like a report of the speeches delivered at several Conservative meetings, held during the pat week, and therefore we must be content with a brief allu- sion to them and the proceedings. It is a singular coincidence that no less than three meetings were celebrated on Thursday alone; namely, at Welling- borough, in Northamptonshire, at Sheffield, and at Bath; all of which were very numerously attended by individuals highly respectable, who afforded con- vincing evidence of the gradual return of the country to sound and unerring constitutional opinions. The general prevalence 01 Conservative principles is, in- deed, a most undoubted fact, not to be dettied and one well calculated to cheer the spirits of those who had sufficient acumen to descrimiuate and dread the destructive and dangerous policy of the Whigs. When we see the rank, the wealth, and the intelli- gence of the upper classes, the quiet good sense of the middle ranks, and the ingenuity and industry of the productive population, all represented -as was the fact-at these various assemblies-it is as un- cnudid to doubt the generalness of Conservative patriotism, as it is unworthy to substitute vulvar abuse for argument, in noticing their proceeding. From the Baih papers we learn, "that such was the eagerness of the inhabitants to participate in t ie public deinonstation 01 feeling, that after tickets had been disposed "t for as large a number as could be accommodated, the demand for admission even increased, and ten guineas would have been cheer- fully given for a ticket, it it could have been pro- cured. The principal apartment in the Assembly Rooms, which is capable of accommodating up- wards of five hundred guests, was completely filled, and from 200 to 3UO gentlemen dined in another spacious apartment adjoining. The rooms were tastefully and appropriately decorated, and every- thing connected with the arrangements was done in a style which reflected credit upon the taste, liber- ality, and courtesy of the Committee. The pro- ceedings of the evening were conducted with the utmost decorum and regularity, and the whole ailair presented, in cveiy respect, a most striking contrast to the Radical dinner, which took place in Bath a few weeks back. The only incouveuiellcp. arose from the vast crowd; the company in the principal room uei"g increased after dinner by the accession of their neighbours fV0m the adjoining apartment. The toa-ts were loyal, and the speeches animated and patriotic and the immense company separated highly delighted and fully determined to do their utmost to suppoit the Constitutional prin- ciples of their ancestors, and cherWdi with their heart's blood the union of Church and State. The Sheffield Banquet though not so numerously, was as respectably attended as the above and that too, in a place as the leporter observes, where, two years ago, if such a festival were announced, few besides the parlies calling it together could be found to partake of it. S" rapidly, however, have Con- servative principles progressed in this quarter of the world, that thetickeis tor the dinner met with rapid sale, and it was quickly found that more were dis- posed of than could be accommodated in the Music Hall. An adjoining apartment was, therefore, placed in requisition, and the numbers who dined in both rooms could have been little short of 400.— Henry Walker, Esq., of Clifton House, in the Chair. Lord WharncHtle, sat on the right hand of the Chaii-man, and John S. Wortley, 9-iq. (late candidate for the county), on his left. The Northamptonshire Meeting, celebrated at Wellingborough, afforded a fine display of Conserva live principles and loyalty on the part of gentlemen of the highest honor and respectability. Among- the many disti-guished members was Thomas Phi- lip Maunsell, Esq. the candidate for the vacancy i,1 the county, occasioned by the lamented death of Lo: d Milton. The Chairman gave the Bishop and Clergy in a capital speech, aud observed, he would take the liberty of saving, that the Protestant Clergy were a body of men whom the people ot E iglaud ought to stand by, because to them they were under the greatest possible obligatiOn, (Cheers.) Perhaps there never was a time when the Clergy of this country were beiter qualified for the holy office which they fillled. (Cheers.) They were all men of accomplished education and high moral feeling aud conduct, and yet these were the men who were made the object of constant and merciless attacks by the enemies of the Church, and the opponents of the Couservaiive cause. The Rev. John Wetherall said that it was from no feeling of arrogance, but at the request of the Reverend Friends around him, that he assumed thu task of returning thanks on behalf of the Clergy, for the kind and favourable manner in which their health had been proposed and drunk. (Loud cheers.) His heart was elated at the sound of the cheers which had been uttered on this occasion, and he was convinced that the Clergy would experience the utmost delight when they learned that a body of men, so respectable and deservedly influential, had thus strongly evinced their fixed determination not only to uphold the Church, but to give protec- tion to the Ministers of the Protestant f(eligion' by maintaining their just rights agams the. itas !*too numerous enemies by whom those rig its-were assailed. (Cheers.) Their .excellent Chairman had descanted with great eloquence on the situa- tion in which theCergy found themselves placed, the many difficulties with which they had to con- tend, and the obloquy which had been cast upon them; but he woutd ask whether such conduct was not altogether undeserved on their part and it the attacks which were made upon them, day after day, were not totally uncalled for? (" Yes, yes," and loud cheering.) He had seen a placard, a few days since, which had been sent forth and widely circu- lated by Mr Hanbury, or his supporters, in which the Church was represented as a 1, mammon. loving Church—a Church that was foul even to the heart s core of corruption; but lie, without any fear of transgressing the bounds of Christian meekness, did not hesitate to hurl back an imputation that was as disgraceful to those fi-oiii xn-lioli, it proceeded as it was foul, unfounded, and basely calumnious. (Loud cheers.) There was another topic on which he would touch, and that was the arduous and "a ed. glorious contest in which they were engaged. He gloried to be one of that body of Clergy who stood forward on the present occasion, and he was happy to say that their exertions, in favour of his Hon. Friend (Mr Maunsell) bore no affinity to the con- duct exhibited by the Roman Catholic Priesthood of Ireland. They did not act the part of dema- gogues they did not mix themselves up in secular affairs until an imperious necessity rendered it their bounden duty to do so; and above all, they used any influence they might possess as country gentle- men, with gentleness and kindness, because they knew that they would thereby best secure the real interests of the country, and promote the cause of the pure Religion which they taught. (Great cheering.) He was truly happy to say that they were now joined in their struggle by Clergymen who were formerly opposed to them. He alluded, particularly, to Sir George Robinson. (Loud cheers.) The Rev. Gentleman also said, that by a very little additional exertion on the part of the Conservatives of this division of the county, the bark of his Hon. Friend, like the ship of the glorious and immortal Nelson, would glide through the torrents by which its progress was impeded, and reach at length the harbour of victory. If every man (the Rev.Gentle- man in conclusion said) does his duty, I, High on his rock shall Britain's genius stand, Scatter ttie assembled hosts, ar.d vindicate the latid Several other speeches were then delivered, but we regret that from want of space we are compelled to omit them.

GLEANINGS. NEW GAME.—PRAIKIE Loo.—" The cold wind setting in from the west indicated that the 12 miles we had yet to travel, before we could reach the first house over this arm of the prairie, would be anything but agreeable I was contented to wrap myself as closely as possible in my buffalo robe, and join my companion in a gae ofprairie loo. Lest you might search Hoyle in vain for this pastime, I must inform you that the game consists merely in betting upon the number of wild animals seen by either party towards the side of the vehicle on which he is riding, a wolf or deer counting ten, and a grouse one. The game is a [iliiitired; and you may judge of the abundance of these animals, from our getting through several games before dinner, my companion looing me with eleven wolves. Some of these fellows would stand looking at us within half gun-shot, as we rode by them while the grouse rose continually under the very horses Icet"d Winter in the Far West, by C. F. Hoffman. If you wish to be happy, have a small house and a large balance at your banker's if yon wish to be un- happy, adopt the opposite plan. But this rule is to be taken with reference to means. The principle applies, but not the degree, to the man of thousands, and the man of two hundred a year. To be over- housed and underbalanced is an evil in all conditions, and disturbs both sound sleep and good digestion.— Original. STATESMAVCIKE RELAXATION..—Tt may not be un- satisfactory to such as admire splendid talents, like tlIosc,(lisplayul by Mr Pitt, to have an instance given how his great mind could amuse itself by jocularity. As I was one day passing through the rooms after my accustomed avocations, I met with Mr Pitt and Lady Charlotte Gordon conversing together in the drawing- room. Lady Charlotte having some order to give me, commenced as usual, Mr D'Amour" Mr Pitt purposely interrupting her speech by taking the sentence from her lips, added, You arc desired to bring one of the Shetland ponies up stairs imme- diately." I smiled, aud bowed acquiescence; bnt stood a moment or two, to give the lady time to finish what she intended to have said. What Mr Pitt had proposed, however, in jest, she determined to surprise him with in earnest; and while they were mutually laughing, she stepped towards me, and in a low tone of voice, bade me do as he had said. I hastened down stairs, being always well pleased to fulfil a good-hu- moured command, sought the groom, got the pony saddled, and had him led np stairs; the easy ascent of which he mounted very gracefully. When I opened the door and announced the arrival, (and surely it was the first announcement of the kind ever made,) Mr Pitt's powerful voice, exercised in abundant laughter, resounded through a great part of the mansion. After parading the pony round, the Prime Minister, to finish the joke, tied a white handkerchief to the bit of the bridle, and led him down stairs with his own h;ind,— not, however, till the animal had deposited upon the floor of the drawing-room an indubitable proof of his ahving made himself quite at home. THE RATIONALE OF A CIIACE.-Amon"t the va- rious trying and peculiar situations in which a true son of the ocean may be placed, there is perhaps none that produces more mental excitement than chasing or being chased. A gale of wind demands both skill and vigilance-skill in reducing the sail to a correct balance, so as to keep the ship as steady as possible without endangering the sticks or straining the tim- 0, s bers; vigilance in watching the seas, easing her to them, jogging the pumps, and other necessary duties after the sail has been reduced. In an engagement, one main object is to attain the point of impunity,- and then for a keen eye, a steady hand, and hard hammering; no one is idle, it is downright heavy labour—there is no time to think. Gun-tackle falls, sponges and rammers, small -arm men, sail-trimmers, boarders, and firemen, from the first captain down to the powder-monkey of each piece of ordnance, all is rattle and thunder and noise, yet without the slightest approach to confusion. In a storm or in a battle one master-spirit directs the whole but in the former, when under snug canvass, half-a-dozen pair o wa ci- ful eyes will suffice to look out for squals, in ie latter, everv eye must be open and vigilant, every limb must be active and supple, every ear must be quiek, every heart bo!d to achieve the vie ory. In chasing, however, there must be a combination of nautical talent, an incessant application of practical knowledge without noise or bustle; and e vU„„es tions of tried experience, though coming rom. e ore the mast are never desoised and where the senior is trie mast, ait never desp seu, a Wfaen t{je a thorough seaman, seldom neglects • sails are set and well-trimmed, there is p cn y o ti- sure for active thought, and the mind become occu- pied instead of the body. The sportsman can well underctand the distinctions here attempted to be drawn. In matches against time, the running horse attracts undivided attention; in a race w ere there are two or more horses, each has its snare o notice according to the efforts made to take the lead. Against time, the jockey has onlyto keep up one uniform but fleet pace; in racing, the jokies are pressed by each other, and the cleverest generally wins. CROCKETT'S FIGHT WITH A CAT Fisti.-There is one of my young scrapes that has never yet appeared in print, and I think I might as well give it to the reader in this place:—I cut out one morning to go over the Mississippi on business that concerns nobody but myself. I shoved off my canoe, and had paddled into the middle of the stream, when a monstratious great cat fish, better known by the name of the Mis- sissippi lawyer, came swimming along close under the bows of my boat. I tied a rope around my middle, at one end of it was a fishing spear, and I soon got a chance to dart it into the varmint. He run and I hauled, and it whirled my canoe round and round, like a car wheel on a railroad. I concluded to stand up to my rack, and I couldn't very well help it, seeing that one end of the rope was made fast to my middle. At last, on account of his giving one end of the line a tremendous kick with his tail, and partly on account of the canoe slipping away from under me, I went souse into the water. The cit flsli, at the same time, seized the slack of my breeches with his teeth, and tore them clear off me. I didn't care much for that, a it was easier swimming without them. So I drew out my knife, and when the fish came up and made a pass at my throat with open mouth, I stabbed out one of his eyes. That made him plunge, but as he was going down I grabbed him by the tail,and wcntdown with him till I touched thebottom with one foot. All this time the spear remained in the plaguy varmint, and while underwater, I come across a sawyer that was sticking up; I took a turn with my line around this sawyer, and the fish was brought up all standing. So he come at me again, and I manoeuvred to get on the blind side of him—but he could see better under water than I could, though he had but one eye left, -L and he turned short upon me just as I was about stab- bing him to the heart. I then clinched right round his body, and rammed one arm down his throat, while I tried to stab him with the other hand—then, I tell you, the fire flew. I never see a felld>w kick, bite, and s ratch as he did. I had been under water a pretty good long while, and there was a ringing in my ears that warned me to finish my job as soon as I could. I tell you there's no quarter to be given," said I to the fish, perceiving him to grow a little faintish. With that he fell to fighting again, and I believe lie would have scratched my bones bare, if I had not got a chance to shove my knife, to the hilt, in his belly. I then cut my line, and rose to the surface pretty well fagged out. Arter I had rested a spell, I dove down and tied a line to the fish and hauled up his corpse, ft measured twelve feet in length.—From Davy Crockett's Almanack. To a person in full vigour a good walk in the country, before breakfast, may be highly beneficial and ex- hilirating, while to an invalid or delicate person it will prove more detrimental than useful, and will induce a sense of weariness which -will spoil the pleasures of the whole day. Many are deceived by the current practical praises of the freshness of the morning, and hurt themselves in summer by seek n-f healtu in untimely pro!llen:ldcs.-Coombe's Physiology. [A walk at seven or eigat o'clock on a foggy drizzly December morning is no doubt very benificial to the —undertaker.] A SAILOH'S CLASSICALITV.—" Ah! I thought we should come to it at last," said Ben. Young eyes are soon dazzled by female beauty, and then away their hearts are whirled into the eddies and races between the Silly and Cribdish of love; and, then they founder amongst the Syringes who will not so much as throw them a coil of their long hair to hold on by and keep them from sinkillg. Well done, Ben!" exclaimed the Lieutenant, after indulging in a hearty laugh; why, you are quite poetic-ill. Pray, wiiere did you learn any thing of Seylla and Charybdis ?" Why, Mr Hamilton," answered the veteran, with solemnity, the counsel of gray hairs is not to be despised and respecting them there places, our parson—it was was when I was a boy in the ould Billy-roughun, up the Mediter- ranean—our parson used to compare the temptations of the world to the wtiarlpools off Messina and that way; and he tould us the rocks on each side were the Silly and Cribdish of the ancients. And then he used to spin a long yarn about loose women, whom he de- clared were like the beautiful Syringes that floated on the green sea like a cork, but which I takes to be marmaids and they sung Tom Tough' and Poor Tom Bowline,' and other sich like songs, with so much sweetness that they 'ticed men to destruction." MOUNTAIN OF FOUTY DAYS.—The path by which you ascend to it is terrific. It rises with a winding course between two abysses, which the eye dares scarcely behold. This path is at first pretty broad, but it at length becomes so confined that one can with difficulty place both feet upon it at the same time. When we had ascended a little higher, we found an Arab stretched out on the path, who made us pay a certain toll for our passage. Here the traveller requires courage. One of the parapets of the patli being broken, we clung to the part which remained, until we had reached a small grotto, situated very commodiously, as it gave us an opportunity of re- covering our breath. When we had rested a little, we pursued our course, which became still more dangerous. Suspended almost from the rock, and having before our eyes aU the horrors of the precipice, we could advance onlv by dragging one foot after the other; so that had the smallest fragment given way under us, we should have been hurried to the bottom. Puis mountain, which is one of the highest in the province, takes its name from the fast which Christ observed here, after having triumphed over the vani- ties of the world and the power of hell. Here we enjoyed the most beautiful prospects imaginable. We saw the mountains of Arabia, the country of Gilead, the country of the Ammonites, the plains of Moab, the plain of Jericho, the river Jordan, and the whole extent of the Dead Sea. It was here that the devil said unto the Son of God, All these kingdoms will I give to thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me." -Abbé Marili PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE. It is now (Said Von Wyhk) more than two years since, in the very place where we now stand, I ventured to take one of the most daring shots that ever was hazarded. I had been amusing myselfin giving transcendant polish and mirror-like reflection to a pair of boots, and having left them outside my cottage, proceeded for a few minutes to the garden, my wife sitting in the house near the door, and the children playing about her, when suddenly, though it was inid-day, an enormous lion appeared, came up, and attracted evidently by the lustre of the boots, for he fixed his glaring eyes intently upon them, laid himself quietly down in the 0 shade on the very threshold of the door. My wife, either frozen with fear, or aware of the danger at- tending any attempt to fly, remained motionless in her place, while the children took refuge in her lap. The lion still gazing intensely on the boots, I glided gently by the side of the house up to the window of my chamber, where I knew my loaded gun was standing, which, by a happy chance, I had set in a corner, so that I could reach it with my hand, for the opening is too small, as you may perceive, to admit of my having got in and still more fortunately the door of the room was open, so that I could see the whole danger of the scene. The lion wa3 beginniug to move, perhaps with an intention of making a spring; there was no time any longer to think;. I called softly to the mother not to be afraid, and, in- voking the aid of Heaven, fired my piece. The ball passed directly over my boy's head, and lodged in the forehead of the lion immediately above his eyes, which shot forth, as it were, sparks of fire, and stretched him on the ground, so that he never stirred more. Next to Providence who guided this mira- culous shot, WARREN'S celebrated Blacking, 30, Strand, London, by diverting the lion from imme- diate attack, was certainly the means of preserving the lives of a whole family!"—Recollections of the Cape of Good Hope.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. London, Friday, Devember 11, 1835. BANKRUPTS. I Lcvi, Old Broad Street, merchant. M. Charles and T. Burrows, Duke S:rcet, St. James's, tailon. ':I G. Jones, Shad Thames, Horsloyown, wharfinger. G. Lewis and \V. Garrard, Haverfordwest, linen diaper- n n\ ^rown Haverfordwest, linen d'-aper. T I "^ew Broad Sireet, merchant. • Johnson. High street, Blootnsbury, bookseller, j" p<dby. Fleet Street, boot maker. • ^A'latids, Hereford, draper. J- C- livi),!r,, Liverpool, commission agent. T. Walker, Darlmiton, Durham, tailor. London, Tuesday, December 15. C immisiion signed hy the Lord-Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Cliester. 1 be King's Regiment of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel Wilhrahatn Egerton, to be Lieu- tenant-Colonel Commandant, vice Lord Grey, of Groby, deceased. INSOLVENT. Edward Keymer, Wellington Street, Strand, book- seller. inNKRUPTS. Willian!1 Jj|ln Moggridge, Trinity Street, Rotherhithe, hrewer. Frederick John West Strand, bookseller. Samuel Heap Buckley, S iJ^lewoilh. Yorkshire, dyer. Frederick Potter, Manchester, merchant. James Richardson. Leeds, money scrivener. Benjamin John Wetherell. Osmotherley, Yorkshire, bleacher. Alfred Davis, Arundel, Sussex, chymist. Thomas Dudley, Sedgley, Staffordshire, grocer. William Potter, Wotton under Edge, Glocestershire, watchmaker. «

EXTINCT COItPI)RITIONs.-By the decision of the Court of King's Bench in a case of the Corpor- ation of Lyme Regis, it appears that the Corpora- tions of Cambridge and Huntingdon have become extinct before their time, in consequence of their chief magistrate, elected prior to the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, not hf ving been sworn into office on the day prescribed by the charters. The following was addressed to the governor of the workhouse at Aldington, the other day, by a pauper, as terms for going into the house:—For the azement of my mind, I have set down the principle part of what" I subzisi upon. Tee for breckfust, a little tozt well buttered. For dinner, a little mutton and bred, and a half a point of good hale. In the evenning tee and a boiled eg. I always B'ceps in blankits. In this way 1 hav contrived to live tienrly eighteen months. Without these trifetx I cannot do." On Thursday se'nnight a Mr Edivar(I Sykes, a gentleman aged 62 years, residing in Bath-street, City-road, in a moment of temporary derangement, made a desperate attempt to destroy himself by jumping head foremost into a waterbntt. It appears that he formerly belonged to a body calling them- selves the Amicable Christian Society," and punc tnally attended their meetings. It should seem that a belief in the Devil is a main feat lire of their creed and accordingly Mr Sykes's nervous system was so worked upon, that when alone he declared he had repeated visits from Belzehub, who, he says, mounts his bedstead, sils upon his stomach, and breathen down his throat with such violence as frequently to deprive him of breath. Despair has lung takell possession of the unfortunate gentleman, in a fit of po, which, it is supposed, he made the attempt to destroy himself, hut was prevented by an inmate of the house observing from the window of the first floor his legs protruding from the top of the water. All mho value their Health and require, occa- sionally, a safe and tfficaceons Aperient, would do well to take "SYDENHf\M',¡ APEHIENT ANTI- BILIOUS PILLS, a medicine of lontf-eftablished reputation, and adapted to both sexes. They speed- ily remove the irritation and feverish state of the stomach; correct the morbid condition of the liver and other organs stibsel-v iciit to digestion, promote healthy secieiions, cleanse lhe stomach and boweN from noxious accumulations, and the blood from all impurities, and, being a vegetable preparation, they require no (.Otifillelikelit ()I- altet-.Liioti ,f (liet.-May be purchased in boxes at ls. 9d, 4s. 6d. lis. at J. Rees's, 31, College Green: Bristol, and at most of the respectable Chemists,tatiouers, and dealers in patent medicines in the United Kingdom.

I SCtilPTURE ILLUSTRATIONS— NO. 116. I DANIEL, xi. 5.—"And the Kingof the aootb be strong, and one of his princes; and he strong above hitn and have dominion; his dot"'0 shall be a great dominion." The "three Kings'' named in fiie second v( £ were Cyrus, who was then on 'he throlle of fof sia—his son Canibyses—aud Darius tl'e s0.'[!j,e Hystaspes. The "fourth" was Ztrxes- 1 mighty King" (v. 3) was Alexander the Gte The f,,tii- kingdoms" were as t'oli()%Vs'- Ptolemy had -Egypt, Libya, Arabia, CseIosyr and Palestine. Cassaudtr had Macedonia and Greece. Lgsimachm had Thrace, Bythinia, &c. And Seleiicus, all the rest of'ksiii. tile t',aiiiel m the 5th & 6!h verses, and thrlIgh the rest of the 1 Ith chapter confines himself y re Kings of iEg-ypt and Syria, because they the only Princes who engaged in wars f thr people of God. "The King of the Sof was i tolemy tiie son of Lag.ust King of J and the King of the •BJbjrth" was ^^l,('i)S Nicator, King of Syria: and indeed, their exact situation with respect to J" which has Syria to the north, aud yEgypt 10 south. t "He shall be strong"—Ptolemy Sotef master of jEgypt. Libya, Cyrenaica, Palestine, Cselosyria, aud most of the nnai"1 provinces of Asia Minor: the isl nd of CyP'1' most of what is now called the Archipe'8^' Sicyon, Corinth, &c.. t The King of the Nortti shall be more pot»er." than the King of the South, and his more extensive, i. e. "he shall be strong him and have dominion Seleucus Nicator vV. master of all tlie East from Mount Taurus river Indus, also of several provinces in A 0 vlinor between Mount Taurus and the sea, to which he added Thrace aud Mace'10" a little before his death. NEWTON ON THE PROPHESIES-

SALISBURY PLAIN.—At a meeting of the ARCBIF^ tural Society, held on Tuesday se'nnight, the Presi" stated tliat ou the recent inspection of the Salisbury Plain, he discovered that the large' 0 are of pure white foreign marble, regularly wr°3f» in priinatic block the discolouration was only ficial, produced, like the irregularities of shape, t.ie weather, aud the granuar character within closely analagous to that of Carrara, obviously thelic. This opens a wide field of conjecture pecting the means by wiiich they arrived at destination. Mr Clarke is of opinion that they have been brought by the Phoenicians from the sho^ of Greece, and introced into this country by ampton water, from the upper navigable p0*0 which there only remained a distance of 2S °r miles of land carriage to be overcome in I them to their present position. The expense labour undergone to obtain stones of a wliitt? for the great Druidical circle, teuds much to stren^T^j the hypothesis that the arrangement was conn< with the worship of the moon, in which such » pondent combination of altars might be concei* be peculiarly appropriate. The small stoueS pondent combination of altars might be cojjcelv be peculiarly appropriate. The small stoueS Clarke believes to be green basalt.— Watchman 1

AGRICULTURE, CQMMERC& AND LONDON MARKETS. ¡ JL LONDON CORN EXCHANGE. *• *■ Inferior Red Wheat., 34 a 40 White 3* >1 dill ng do 35 a 37 Boilurs To « 4^ Fine 40 a 42 Bearu, Small InlV-ri. r White 3t> a 46 Ticks.. 30 Fine 3<i a 38 Harrow jO Siipeniitc 43 a 45 Oats, Feed Mailing Barley 2t> a 36 Fine Or n<ling ito 25 ;i 2(i Poland K-ye 3i> a 32 Fine j9 Malt 44 a 45 l'otatoe Fine 56 a 61 Fine -» Peas,Hog 32 a 34 -ran Maple 31 a 3i Pollard, fin# PRICE OF HOPS IN LONDON, PER cWT. 6' New Pockets. 4:. 4:. New Bags. £ • » Farnliam a Kent # • f Kent. 5 5 a 6 2 East Kent. 0 <* "a M .a. Kent. a—■*— Yearlings # Sussex 3 I a 4 — Old Hops 0 — M.,I, Kent -Yearlings Sussex 3 I a 4 — Old Hops 0 — 3 3a 40 SMITHFIELD MARKET. Per stone of Slbsto mnk the offal*. J sdsd » d 0 Inferior Beef. 2 0 to 2 2 P. ime Beef 3 ■D ito Muti >». 2 4 to 2 6 D.ttoMutlon 3 4* |t> M (t. iing B. tf 2 6 to 2 8 Wat 3<M°* 6 Dili.. Muiton 2 6 .«> 3 0 Pork 3 0 to • j, suikin.g calves, 12* io32n } qr. old store pigs 10s to I** Supply at Maiket. -j# Beast* 3.2S0 Calves S3 Sucrj) ai:d Lambs 21 230 | Pigs .»i LONDON COAL EXCHANGE. ill 9 Hetton's 23 9 Pont"p gi L mbton's 23 9 Tanh< l'l Mo 03 •-nvi.ri'i 23 9 W. 'la i Tres. W E 23 6 l.yons, U. Dixon's Biitlf kuoiVie — 0 Northumberland ■ ••• I

LOC.4L JIARKETS. I CARDIFF. 0.1 Wheat, 1081b.s. 12 OdtolS.. 0d. [ Butter 1 Barley 9». 0<t. 10*. o.l. I Salt do '"L 6& Oats 2> 6il. 2s. 9il. I G»t'se, per !'• • Beef, per lb. 0s. 5d. 0s. 6d. I Fowls,pr couple2s 0d P ,rk Os 3Jd. 0s. 4d. I l)u k» 0d «" J jpi Mutton Os, 5<1 Os- fid. Eggs doz to MERTHYR. J d. s. d. > f. f 6 Fine Flour (281b)..— Uto4 6 Beef, perlb. # f Best Seconds 0 0 4 0 Mutton. # f I Butter, fresh, per lb 0 0 10 Veal.— # I 'Ditto, salt 0 9 0 111 Pork, per lb..■» 5 f Fowls, per couple 2 6 0 0 Lamb, per lb.. — I | Ducks, ditto 3 <> 4 0 Cheese # 0 8 Egj;s, per hundred 4 2to0 0 Bacon pet score..f» | COWBRIDGE. Wheat (New Impe.bush.)6i Oil. j Veal Ot Harley ditto .4s, od s. otf. | Pork .1*- a*. I Oats os. Od. Os. Oil. I Lamb .0». Gd. Mutton (perlb.) 0s 5d. os. 6d. 1 Fresh butter.. 0s. /«• Beef.0s. Oil. on. Oil. I Eggs (per iloz) »■ 1 SWANSEA. j.l J Wheat (Winch, b.).. 5s. 9<1. j Oats ng.) Barley 3s. 0J. | Beans .« I MONMOUTH. i* 1 Wheat(per bush. 801b) 6s. Od. | Beans | Barley 4s. 6d. 1 Pease Oats 3a. 9ii. | I ABERGAVENNY. # 6 1 Wheat, (per quar) £ 2 4 I | Barley e I Oats — 0 0 I Beans 9 Pease 0 0 o| CHEPSTOW. 9t ) ClI EPSTO\V..6 Wheat (per qnar) 46s. 4d. j Oats.» Barley 29s. 9d. | Beans BRECON. _Y Wheat (pr. bl. 801b) to7s. 9d. 1 Beef (per lb<f .•• ) Barley 3». fld. 4s. ftd. 1 TJT Oats 4s. Od. 4s. 3d. I Veal Malt 9s. 0<1. 0s. 0d. I Pork J3>. Pease Os. Od. Os. Od- Fine Flour(per CRtCKHOWIM.. fA W rat, Stllb bushel.. 7s. 6d. | Vetches •* Barley 4s. 6d. I Pease •• I' I Qats 3s. 9d. | Batter, per lb. BRISTOL CORN EXCHANGE. J FEftqUAItTEa. » £ *«* i' s. d. s. d. t. 4- Wheat, Red. 34 o to 36 o Rye — o '9 /># I White 38 o to 40 o Beans 3« o to Barley,Grinding24 o to 26 o Tirxs 41 1 t0 4* Malting 30 o to 32 o Peas, White 40 » 10 tA Oats, Feed. 15 o to 16 o Malt. 4€ <* Pot aloe.. 18 o to 20 o PER SACK OF 2801V. Flour, Fine 30 o to 3S 0> Flour, Fine 30 o to 3S Øo I Seconds 27 o to 2!t. ? Thirds 20 o to 23. Go Ilollard, per ton 70oto. 73 A I Bran 60 o to 65 o PRICK OF LKATHKR AT BRISTOL- I d. d. I* Crop Hides, per lb. 11A to 17 Horse Butts. ¡9 Foreign 13 CaV Skins, best *1 *» Li, in Foreign Mid. 18 13J Cy^Skias, common •» :« '? Heavy dilto 13 14 tri.fc Skins -• h E Jish Butts Ui 2d Welsh Jf V Foci^n IJutts 17 £ Kips, English&Welsb jl I BestSaddlers* Hides,. 14 15 Foreign Krps, Prteis- lw J Common ditto 19 13 burgh » Shavi d dittu 14 17 Foie gn Kip». Ea-t 1. Shoe hides 12 13 I,U|M 'J I7* Common ditto ,i.. 12 Small Seal Skins L IT Welsh Hides. 12 13 Mi.i.llir g ditto B st Bull ditto II 12 l.aree <lilto C >tnm o (linn— 10 11 Basils.. Horse d. (English), 15 18.J OFFAI., f J W< l>li ditto 15 17 Foreign Bellies Germandiito 16 21 — Shoulders ».»• 'ei Spanish ditto IS 23 Dressing Hide,Bellirf*' ,« I' Shaved do. without -shoul4ors-1, butts, 12s. to 17s. Od. each.

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