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AGRICULTURE$COMMERCE. LONDON MARKETS. GKNERAf. AVERAGE PRICKS OF CORN, per Quar. Coinputad from the I nsprctoi s' ltciums. I GENERAL AVERAGE—WEEK ENDING SEPT. 7th. II rl. I g. Wheat 71 IU Rye. 41 fi Wheat 71 IU Rye. 41 fi Bdrley 37 II Beans. 42 7 0;»<s 2tJ 8 Peas 40 7 j AGQKEGATK AVERAGE OF LAST SIX WEEKS, I »■ <1- s. d. Wheat 71 4 Rye 40 2 B.irley 38 1 Beam.. 41 t Oats 26 9 Peas 41 I DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN. ». <!• a. d. Wheat (j 8 Rje I 0 B'rley 4 10 Beans 8 0 Oat* 7 0 P,„5 8 o CORN EXCHANGL-,Ilonday, Sept. 7th. Wheat, Kent and Essex, l Peas, Willie, per qr. 32s&36j perqr.60.&,3. Grey 36, 38j Norfolk fii* fili, B,,ii,s 4ft» 44, Suttollc 57< 6. I Bean*. Tick 35.* 42s Kv.to. 42, Small. :,8. 42s Huity.. 32s 3('is Oats, Potutne :i.h line 40s Poland 3|s 34a M:lil ti5* 70s F^ed 24s HAY MAlxKI'M'S, Saturday—At per load of 36 Trusses. SMITILFIELD. W H ITECHA PEL, s. 8. ». g Coarse heavy Low- Coarse heavy Low. Uuil M aitow Hay. 80 to 85 land Me.idow H.iy 75 to 80 New Meadow Hay 70 to 90 Ne,v Mead-w Hay 60 to yo Us. t.il old < Itlo yy to 95 Useful ot.l ditto 85 ,o yo t.neUplanilMeadow KmeUulaiidMe .(low i and Ryenray.Uay i>S to 100 and Ry. graKS Hay 95 .o 100 New Ciover H,y KS to lo NtMV Cl()Vc| H >q ,0# Old ditto 110 to 120 Old ditto.. 100 to I2G Oat SIraiv 36 to 38 Oat Straw 34 t0 3$ Wheat .straw 38 to 42 | Wheat Straw 38 10 40 PRICES OF HOPS. Kent Pockets (1838) 50i to 60,-Fiue ditto. 63" to 65. Choice ililu) _s to —» Sn.sex I'ocU- 8.45, 10 50s—Snpei tine. 52» to 55*. t- a -1111)1111 (ti' e).. _s to— l»itio (seconds)., —s. to — g. Olii duty laid ai £ 2M',000. SMITIIFIELD MARKET.— MONDAY. Per stoue of 8lbs to sink the offal. Beef.. 3. 8:1 to 4s 0.1 to Is 4 1 j I'ork.. 4s 4 to 5. Od lo 5s 4.1 I iliori 4-. 2d to 4s 8d to 5.0,1 l.anib..4. 6d to 5« 4d to 0* Od veal.. 4H 4d to 5, 0J lo 5S 2J I Head of Cattle this day. 3,540 Calves 140 Sliet'i) and Lambs 24,760 Pigs 605 PRICES OF COALS, per Ton. Wiillsend—Helton's, Lamhion'sanrt Stewart's 22, 6d 1023. 3d Adair's HI. 6.1-Ht#lywell 21s Oc—Wvlam 20, tid—Seymour lees 21s 0 i— S„utb Durham -!j od- lees 22s 6J—Burdon —. Od-BLttt -8 Od. BRITISH AND FOREIGN WOOLS-Per lb. BK,t llinnkw, 9.! t<» 15d-Coinbing, 15,1 to 10d—Flannel 1401 to 19 I. —FLEECE WOOLS —N. and S. Down Hotels, Is 6d tù I, ,.I-Hó4lf [¡rcd, I. 6d to I. ïcl-Kent. Is ¡:, It.: -18 fi.t. UPm.TGormnanir' 3s y I to 5' Od—Lower qualities. Hta l SiVT1"0' best, 2s 4J ,o 2sl0d-.Hferior I~V;|" t>'f "JO'S LHH.I, c.eau, 2s 4d to 2s 10d

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POETRY. JACK THE GIANT KILLER. There too is he, by wizard power upheld, Jack, by whose arm the giant-brood were quelled His shoes of swiftness on his feet he placed His coat of darkness on his loins he braced His sword of sharpness in his hand he took, And off the heads of doughty Giants stroke 'I heir glaring eyes beheld no mortal near No sound of feet alarmed the drowsy ear; No English blood their pagan sense could smell, But heads dvopt headlong, wondering why they fell. -Crabbe's Description of a Cottager's Libtary. [We defy poet, historian, or painter to beat this description.]

L ITERD TURE. TheWork* of Mrs Hemans. Vol. 4. New Edition. Edinburgh: Blackwood. This volume opens with the Forest Sanctuary;" in which the departed poetess has described the mental conflicts, as well its the outward sufferings, of a Spaniard, who, flying from the religious perse- cutions of his country, in the sixteenth century, takes refuge, with his child, in a North American forest." To this succeeds a number of smaller poetical gems, published before under the title of Lays of many Lands." There are also a col- lection of miscellaneous pieces, as well as a series of Welsh Melodies, in which the doings of worthies of old time, and the pleasures of "the blue hirlas," are fittingly recounted. The volume contains also the prize poem, "Dartmoor," and the tragedy of De Chattillon. or the Crusaders." A very pretty vignette of Rhyllon, near St. Asaph," adorns the title page. From the miscellaneous poems we extract the following, which though already a favourite with very many readers, will probably be perused by many others, in this place, for the first time. The last stanza but two may furnish one reason why our selection has fallen on this, in preference to any other passage in the volume. THE HOUR OF DEATH. H 11 est dans la Nature d'aimer a se livrer a l'idee meme qu'on redoute."—Corinne. Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, And stars to set-but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death Day is for mortal care, Eve, for glad meetings round the joyous hearth, Night, for the dreams of sleep, the voice of prayer- But all fer thee, thou mightiest of the earth. The banquet hath its hour, Its feverish hour, of mirth, and song. and wine There comes a day for grief's o'crwhelming power, A time for softer tears—but all are thine. Youth and the opening rose May look like things too glorious for decay, And smile at thee-but thou art not of those That wait the ripened bloom to seize their prey. Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, And stars to set—but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death! We know when moons shall wane, When Summer-birds from far shall cross the sea, When autumn's hue shall tinge the golden grain- But who shall teach us when to look for thee Is it when Spring's first gale Comes forth to whisper where the violets lie ? hit when roses in our paths grow pale 1- They have one season-all are ours to die! Thou art where billows foam, Thou art where music melts upon the air; Thou art around us in our peaceful home, And the world calls us forth-and thou art there. Thou art where friend meets friend, Beneath the shadow of the elm to rest- Thou art where foe meets foe, and trumpets rend The skies, and swords beat down the princely crest. Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, And stars to set-but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death!

SCIENCE. LIST OF NEW PATENTS FOR AUGUST. Samuel Sydney Smith, Suffolk Place, Hackney Road, for certain improvements in machinery for raising water. William Miller, Clithero, Lancaster, engineer, for certain improvements in grates used in steam- engines or other furnaces or fire places. Matthew Uzielli, King William Street, London, merchant, for improvements in the modes of impreg- nating wood or timber with chemical materials, being a communication. George Augustus Kollman, organist, of her Majesty's German, chapel, St. James's for improve- ments in railways, and in locomotive and other carriages. Stephen Joyce, Croydon, in the county of Surrey artist, for certain improvements in stoves for warm- ing the air in buildings, which improvements are also applicable for cooking, or for communicating heat for other useful purposes. William Coles, Charing Cross, Esq. for improve ments in reducing friction of machinery used in propelling vessels, lathes, and other machines. John Augustus Tulk, Seaton Iron Works, Cum- berland, for improvements in the manufacture of iron. Henry Pinkus, Old Slaughters' Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane, (rentleman, for improvements in the methods of applying motive power to the impelling of machinery, which improvements are applicable to several useful purposes. James Borgardus, Trinity Square, Tower Hill, gentleman, for an improved means of applying labels, stamps, or marks to letters and such other documents. John Moore, Broad Weir, Bristol, gentleman, for an improvement or improvements in the steam- engine or steam engine apparatus. Joseph Whitworth, Manchester, engineer, for certain improvements in machinery, tools, or ap- paratus for planeing, boring, and cutting metals or other substances. Thomas Burr, Shrewsbury, lead merchant, for improvements in rolling lead and other soft metals. Miles Berry, of the Office for Patents, 66, Ctian- cery Lane, patent agent, for a new or improved method of obtaining the spontaneous reproduction of all the images received in the focus of the eamera obscura, being a communication. John Mason, Rochdale, Lancaster, machine- maker, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for boring and turning metals and other substances. William Bridges Adams, Porchester-terrace, Bayswater, gentleman, and John Buchanan, Glas- gow, for certain improvements in the construction of wheel carriages, parts of which improvements are also applicable to machinery for propelling, and also for the purpose of securing ships and other vessels, and for communicating motion be- tween different portions of machinery. RECENT AMERICAN PATENTS. (From the Mining Review.) Specification of a Patent for imparting to Articles of Iron and Steel an increase o f strength, granted to Walter R. Johnson, City of Philadelphia. To all to whom these presents shall come: be it known, that I, Walter H. Johnson, of the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful improvement in the manufacture of wrought or malleable iron and steel, and of articles formed thereof, being the im- parting to said materials of an increase of strength, by means of a process which I call thermo-tension, and that the following is a full and exact des- cription of carrying into effect my said improve- ment. The said process is founded on the principle that the strength of the said materials is increased by mean- of mechanical stretching, or straining, at a high temperature. I perform the said process in the following manner:—I first determine the usual manner by trial and calculation, what strain might, at the ordinary temperature of the air, and before my improvement has been applied to it, be sufficient to break the particular piece of metal, or manufactured article, intended to be improved by the process ot thermo-tension. I then, by means of any suitable apparatus for applying heat and measuring temperature, subject the piece or article to be strengthened, to a temper- ature not exceeding 700 deg. Fahrenheit, preferring that of 550 deg. for most kinds of iron, not restrict- ing myself, however, to the same temperature for all kinds of iron and steel, but varying to a higher or lower temperature, according as the same shall be found most serviceable for the particular kind which is undergoiug the process. When the proper temperature has been attained, I apply, by means of any suitable apparatus for applying and measuring mechanical strain, a force equal, or nearly so, to the calculated strength of the specimen or article under process, and continue to apply the same as long as the metal continues to be stretched by it. I contemplate the application of the improvement and process above described, herein called the process of thermo-tension, to the metals, wrought or malleable iron and steel of whatever form, in which an increase of direot cohesion may be found useful whether the same have been manufactured by rolling, hammering, drawing, or by any other process, as I do not confine my improvement to any particular form of materials, or of articles manu- factured therefrom. What I claim as my improvement in the art of manufacturing iron and steel, and of articles formed therefrom, is the submitting of them, while at high temperature, to mechnnical stretching or straining, a above specified, for the useful purpose of in- creasing their direct cohesion, by whatever means the necessary force shall be applied and measured, or the requisite tempera'ure communicated and regulated. Improvement in the Hearth of Blast Furnaces, granted to George Poe, Elkridge Landing, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The nature and object of my invention consists in conveying the melted iron into a reservoir placed oil the outside of the furnace hearth, by means of a channel cut entirely out of the bottom stone, the object of which is to leave the iron in such a situa- tion as to be accessible at all times for casting without interfering with the operation of the furnace. This channel may he differently formed, and the reservoirs be differently situated about the furnace hearth, as may beat suit the purposes for which the invention is intended. After the foiegoing, the patentee describes and represents the particular manner of procedure which he has adopted, and claims the invention generally, as above described. Improvements in the Furnace for lleflning Iron, granted to J. Sharp, Liverpool, York County, Pennsylvania. The claim will convey a good general idea of the nature of this invention; it is as follow, I claim the constructing of the arch near the throat of the chimney to receive the pig iron for a bloom, to be heated by the escape heat whilst the bloom is being melted in the chamber of combustion, as described."

STEAM NAVIGATION TO INDIA VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—DEPARTURE OF THE VERNON. On Saturday, at 12 o'clock, a large party of ladies and gentlemen, scientific nautical men, captains in the royal navy and of the Eall: India Company's ser- vice, were assembled on boild this magnificent new East Indiamau, to witness the tirst experiment ever tried to propel sailing vessele, of the largest class by means of steam. At the same time that the Vernon was departing, another large Indiaman, the Thomas Grenville, was also taking her departure for the same destination, Calcutta, by a steam tug of 100- horse power-a circumstance which proved highly satisfactory in the result, as proving most incontro- vertiblv the vast importance of the application of steam to vessels of the largest class as an auxiliary to sails. The voyage of the Vernon is the first prac. ticahle attempt to establish steam navigation between England and IlIdia by the way of the Cape of Good Hope. The voyages to and ft-m India, which are so tediously long, are rendered so from calms, currents, and adverse winds, in one latitude; whereas, if the vessel was provided with the means of propelling herself, eveu at ever so slow a rate, sometimes for only a mile or two, she might avoid a current or a calm, or when she lost one trade wind, pick up another. This great desideratum in navigation has at length been most successfully accomplished by the builders of the Vernon. Before we notice the result of the working of the steam power of the Vernon on Saturday, some de- scription of the ship is requisite as a preliminary. The Vernon is built upon an entire new construction, totally different from any other merchantman. This was requisite to the successful application of so small a power of steam to so large a ship for so long a voyage, as the space required to be allotted to the machinery and tonnage of coals had hitherto been considered an insurmountable drawback. One hun- dred and fifty tons now provide for the whole. The Vernon is 170 feet long, 36 feet beam, and but 22 feet deep, drawing but 15 feet 6 inches of water; of 1000 tons measurement, and has on board a cargo of 1000 tons. The Vernon is fitted with a steam-engine of 30 horse power. The engine is upon the low pressure principle, and calcolated to make in calm weather 30 revolutions in a minute, the boilers then consuming two hundred and a half weight of coals per hour. The paddles are small, and occupy a width of only four feet outside of the ship, fixed up- on a shaft projecting about two feet six inches through, and so supported as to require neither pad- dle-beams, spring-beams, or paddle boxes; and they can be unshipped in an hour by the yard-tackles of the ship. The engine is so simple in its construction that it requires but one engineer and one stoker. Besides these great and valuable improvements in navigating large ships, aided by steam, the very ap- paratus used in propelling them, when at work, tins the astonishing power of producing 30 gallons of good fresh water a day, and which quantity may, by an augmentation in the expenditure of three bushels of coal in about 24 hours, be easity increased to a 100 gallons a day. This water is sufficiently good for the stock, as also for all culinary purposes; and one of the most important and valuable consi- derations in long voyages. The day was most fortunate for the putting to the test the importance or value of the small steam power with which the Vernon was supplied. She left Blackwall at half-past 12, an hour and a half before high water, against a strong flood tide, with jib and driver set in the wind's eye, blowing very hard from the south sou h-west, the engines propelling her at the rate of three knots and a half the hour, the engine performing 1 revolutions in a minute. Upon turning the point euterinlg Woolwich Reach she went five and a half knots an hour, the wind blowing very fresh on her bearn, the engines performing 25 revo- lutions. She gradually increased her speed up to seven knot! the engines making 28 revolutions, which was her greatest speed. Upon turning into two or three reaches where she brought the wind right a-head, the power of the engine alone propelled her at the rate of four knots through the water, not- withstanding the immense power which the wiud had upon the masts and yards of the ship to impede its progress. The treat trial of strength of the engines took place at North Fleet Hope, when it blew so bard that it was feared the anchor must be let go. However, she cleared it in beautiful and gallant style. During the trip it was very remark- able that when the canvass was llet clo-e hauled, the power the lee-wheel had iu bringing the ship up to windward was so great that she stood four points to the wind's eye, so that she made a broad down three different reaches, when all others were obliged to tack. At 20 minutes palt three she passed the church at GraveMend, thus accomplishing the dis- tance iu 10 minute* less than three hours, leaving the Thomas Grenville nearly out of sight, and which took anchorage off Gravesend about 20 minutes afterwards. This successful experimental ship is likely to lead to the most important results. Indeed, it is self- appareut that in reducing a voyage at least 25 days, the saving to the owaers must be great, and to the passengers and merchants incalculable.

IMPORTANT TO SURTEYORS OF HIGHWAYS.— Such of our readers as happen to fill the office of parochial surveyor of highways, in their respective parishes, will learn (we suspect with very little satisfaction) that by an Act passed on the 17th ult., they will have to inake, on or before the SOth of November in the present year, a return to Govern- ment of the particular state and condition of the highways under their charge, including some items of inquiry which we expect will be found trouble- some in not a few eases. By this Act (2 and 3 Victoria, cap. 40) they are required to state, as re- gards the years ended in March 1837, 1838, and 1839. the following g)al.ticularig 1. Extent of public highways used for wheel car. riage. in statute miles," distinguishing streets or roads repaired under local Acts and turnpikes, from all other highways. 2. Amount of rates levied for the repair of these roads during each of these years. S. Sum expended in repairs. 4. Sum expended ill law and other expenses, not being: repairs. The clerks of turnpike-road trusts are also re- quired, within sixty days after the passing or the same Act to state as regai-d-i their respective trusts— 1. Extent of turnpike roads it, statille miles, with the number of gates and side bars in them. 2. Name of each parish or extra-parochial place through which the turnpike passes, and their extent in each parish. 3. Tue present state of their- roads, and whether wholly kept in repair by trustees, or in part by parishes, and if so, how far. 4 Effect, in their judgment upon the security held by the creditors of such roads arising from railroads, and by the abolition of statute labour. 5. An enumeration of all statues regulating their trusts. 6. Amount of debt on their trusts at 31st of De- cember, 1838; when borrowed; bow much of the debt consists of unpaid interest converted into prin- cipal; amount of interest paid to creditors ill each year from 1832, to 1838 rate per cent. of interest due 011, and rate per cent. actually paid on, such security. The penalty for neglecting to make these returns I is any sum not more than EIO or less than £ 5; aud for making a false return the penalty iill EbO. I

UKtSrOLFAlR. The business of our autumn fair commenced on Monday week. The Cattle Market was well at- tended by buyersand farmers. There wa* a smaller show of beasts on fit-, ground than on the I"t occa- sion full 2000 head of cattle were ther. for .,Ie, while on Monday not more than 1500 to 1800 wf-re offered. Last year there were 700 Devons; this year, speaking comparatively with previous years, there were but few of that breed the greater part of the beasts in the fair being Irish. There was notwithstanding some very fine fat beef for show; the whole of it found ready purchasers, and sold well, every thing almost being cleared off. The Devons hung on hand, owing to the high prices de- manded by the sellers, who having plenty or food for them do not care about sparing them, unless they can get their own prices. The show of sheep wa.. the largest ever penned since the sheep fair has been established. Not less than between 4000 and 5000 were offered for purchasers—more than last year by many hundreds- A great many were turned out unsold. The Pjiucipal part of the stock were Irish, some of tile., in very bad condition; the Eng'ish dealers would of course h.ne nothing to do with thern unless they were in pritue order. The English !»ti>ck consisted chiefly of South downs, with a rew Leicesters but out of the whole probably 3000 were Irish Some lew ol the English breed were left un- sold. There was no other stock in the market worth 1 speaking of. The horse fbirot, Monday and Tuesday was attended by about the usual number and quality of horse- of Itll descriptious. The space from Bath- bridge to Temple-street was nearly occupied by .I them, to the great annoyance of pedestrians who had to travel that way. THE LEATHER. FAIR commenced on Tuesday; the supply wns not abundant, but the short attend- ance of buyers, and the continued difficulty in money matters, caused the transactions generally to be limited. DRESSING LEATHER.—In best Saddlers' Hides, Common Hides, Shaved Hides, Pattern, Heavy and Light Skins, Horse Hides, Kips, Basils, and Seal Skins, no variation in price has taken place from the quotations previous to the Fair. SOLE LEATHER.—In Butts of all weights, and Bellies and Shoulders, considerable business ha3 been done at late prices. Crop Hides and Buffdlos were scarce, and in request. THE WOOL FAIR feels, as all large concerns do, the present depressed state of the money market, and there is a tendency to a fall of prices. Fine Somerset Fleeces may be quoted at 13d. to 15d. per lb. We should say that 14d. is about the average of good Wool.

CANALS A\D RAILWAYS COMBINED.—On Mon- day and Tuesday the following novel experiment of locomotive steam-power was tried on the Forth and Clyde Canal. Mr J. M'Niel, the civil engineer of the Clyde navigation, has had constructed on the banks of the canal a railway tipoit blocks, on which a locomotive engine has been put, %iiicti was used on the above-named days instead of horses, to draw the canal passage-boats, and succeded in taking them the whole distance of the line at the rate of eight miles an hour. The company having ascertained the full success of the experiment, will construct a tramway along the canal bank, and will be able to take their passage boats in future at the rate of IS miles all b on i-Stir ling Journal. [Would it not be less expensive to omit the tramway entirely, and employ steam tugs on the canal itself?—EDITOR.] MECHANICAL BRICK MAKING.—At the meeting of British Association,at Bii miitffham last week, Mr Cottam exhibited a model of a brick and tile waiting machine, invented by the Marquis of Tweedtle, by which it was stated 30 bricks a minute, or nearly 30,000 bricks a day might be made, whilst a good moulder could only mould from 5000 to 8000 a day. The clay was put into the machine at one end and passing between two rollers was rolled into a long bar, which was cut into the required length of the bricks by a cutter worked by the same wheel-work. The bricks on coming out at the opposide of the ma- chine were carried by it to a distance of 200 yard- thereby saving a great amount of time and money in carrying, an operation usually performed by boys and women. As a proof of the superiority of the machine-made brick it weighed S^'bs., while a com- mon brick weighed only 5ilbs.. and the machine- made brick carried eight times the weight which the common brick would sustain. POTATOES AND Bitocot,t.-It may be useful to country gardeners to be informed that after young potatoes are cleared from the rows, and the ground well dug in the form of shallow trenches, and manu- red, it will be advantageous to transplant spring bro- coli plants in the trenches. This vegetable flourishes greatly after the potatoe-as does also wheat upon a larger scale in farmiug. The excrementitious matter of the flax plant, and also that of pai-stiipw, is equally favourable, with the potrtoe, to a good crop of wheat, if 80n atter they are severally re- moved. INTERESTING TO BEE KEEPERS—A correspon dent at Redruth writes to us as follows :—" I beg to inform you that I have this week visited Mr Hock- ing, of G winear Church Town, and have seen in hi s garden 18 stocks of bees, the produce of four; that is to say 14 awarmg from four old stocks. This remarkable increase he attributes to his having pla- ced in the same garden with the bees a large quan- tity of the rurabago turnip plants, which having produced a. great quantity of blossom, are tupposed to have contributed very materially to their means of support.— Wtst Briton. SALT MANURE.—We have great pleasure in giv- ing publicity to the result of experiments made by Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart., on his estate ai West Grin- stead, with Mr Benett s combination of salt and lime. Having previously tried salt alone (on a consider- able breadth of land, and variously applied, without such a return as to induce perseverance), the hon. baronet was at length led by the representation of Mr John Benett, M.P. for Wilts, to try his plan of mixing salt with quick lime, as a manure for wheat. Procuring several tons of salt from Emsworth, the ro!lowillic process was followed. In September, 1838 quick lilfle was spread, about three inches deep, over a space of about 20 feet by 8 feet wide, on which salt one inch in depth was laid and these alternate layers were repeated till the bed was two feet high, and then left for JO dtys,-at the eud of which period, by the slacking aud expansion of the lime, the bed raised itself about a foot higher. It was then well turned together, which turnings, at intervllla ot seven days, should be repeated five, six, or llôeveO tiOlee (if convenient) in the whole, in order thoroughly to combine and mix the materials, and thereby convert it into a species of coarse sods, and increase the alkali. In summer, this may be best done iu the open air, (and on ground not wanted for culture afterwards), and iu the wet months, for spring use, it may be best done under a shed, and free frowi rain for it will not spread well when wet. I The quantity of 80 bushels per acre for wheat, ap- plied and stirred in like lime, is sufficient and for oats (according to Mr Ridge's practice) 40 bushels are enough, by which application (not having been able to prepare it in time for hit last wheat season), he has written to inform Sir Charles Burrell, with his thanks for the recommendation, that a crop of six acres of oats bearsample testimony to the good- negs of the manure. A letter from the hon. Baronet's bailiff, Mr John Laker, of the 9th inst., states as follows I am glad that Mr Ridge, of Stoueham, approves of the lime and salt manure for spring corn, und will try it more extensively on wheat. I can safely say that two out of three fields that you dres- sed with lime and salt are forwarder than auy on the farm, and the straw the brightest—one of these after a crop of beans, the other after tares, and the straw as stout and long, if not better, than aoy wheat you have. I think where the beans were there will be quite 10 sacks per acre; and that is a good field of wheat on the east side of Knepp Water, below Hill House Barn meadow. 1 much approve the nitrate of lIoda, which, as top dressing for white cattle car- rots, has answered better than the salt aDd lime mixlure.Brighton Gazette. In the cases of Howell and Roberts, uow under sentence of death in Warwick gaol, evidence has been taken to prove an alibi 10 favour of the prisoners. A memorial has been presented to Lord John Russell on behalf of Roberts, in whose case the evideui-e seems certainly convincing; and it is most likely that if he could have paid the expenses of the witnesses at Warwick, he would not have beeu con- victed. The evidence'iu Howell's case is decisive, if the credibility of the witnesses can be established but they are residents in Thomas-street, perhaps the lowest street in the town. There is, however, one circumstance rather extraordinary. The man so busy in the riot was described as one with a wooden leg; and it is attested that Howell never had a wooden leg--Birmitigham Advertiser. ELECTION CURING IN THE BACILWO oDs.-W lien you see me electioneering, I goes fixed for the purpose. I've a got a suit of deer-leather clothes, with two big pockets; so I puts a bottle of whiskey in one, and a twist of tobacco in t'other, and starts out then, if I meets a friend, why I pulls out my bottle, and gives him a drink;—he'll be mighty apt, before he drinks, to throw away his tobacco;— so when he's done, I pulls my twist out of t'other pocket, and gives him a chaw■ 1 never likes to leave a man worse off than when I found him. If I had given him a drink, and he had lost his tobacco, he would not have made much; but give him to- bacco and a drink too, and you are mighty apt to get lJis vote. ColQnel Crockttt. THE L-.TP-, 'l'OUR:v,IE:-¡T.Ve understand that it has been determined by the company assembled at the tournament at Eglintoun-cast'e, to subscribe for a piece o. plate, to b» presented to the Earl of E„'linloun, to remain in his family for ever, in com- memoration of this splendid and eminently success- ful entertainment. The following noblemen and gentlemen to form a committee of inanagement The king (the Marquis of Londonderry), the mar- shal (Sir Charles Lamb), and the judge of the lists (Lord Saltoon), the knights of the tournament, the Duke of Montrose, Lord Burghersh, Viscount Chel- sea Sir George Head, Honorary Secretary.— Glasgow Courier. APPROPRIATE ATTIRE FOR THE TOURNA- MENT.—When it was intimated that the Duke of Beaufort would not attend the tournament, at Eglintoun, the report reached the ears of Theodore Hook at a dinner tabe, not a hundred miles from Kensigton Gore. "How's that?" inquired Theo- dore, hastily Beaufort not go to the Tournament -nonsense; impossible Tarda, pod igra won't consent," was the rejoinder q(eei,,q I)ootu ire not very comfortable in the gout." "Pooh, pooh," said thi* wit, "the gout needn't baulk him; can't he wetir his LIST shoes ?" THE DoVtsR- BANQUET—The dinner service at the Duke's table was of the most magnificent de- scription, the knives having handles of gold. This service was the same which was u-ed at the civic banquet, when her present Majesty honoured the City of London with a visit. The tables for the c company were laid out in a very tasteful manner, and the following is the bill of fare :-26 lables, 2.5 each; 26 ditto, 23 each; I ditto, 124; Duke's table, 172; 29 quarters of lamb, 56 dishes roast veal, 56 ditto boiled beef, 28 ditto roast ditto, 120 couple chickens, 40 turkey poults, 28 hams, 56 tongues, 120 piceon pies, 240 venison ditto, ISO fruit ditto, 160 custard puddings, 200 lobsters, 200 salads, cucumbers, pickles, &c. Dessert, &o.— Kentish Observer. His GRACE THE DCKT: OF WELLINGTON gave a sumptuous dinner on Friday, at VValmer Castle, to the Speaker and the other Mayors of the Cinque Ports. The Marfjuis of Bute, Lord Maryborough, the Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, Mr Latham, Mr Pain, Captain Fisher, and Captain Watts were iuvited on the occasion. A grand ball took place in the Wet- lington Pavilion, at Dover, on Friday evening, which was honoured by the presence of the Duke of Wel- lington, and all the rank, beauty, and fashion of the place. All the decorations remained precisely in the same state as on the occasion of the banqHet, the btinds of the SfOth and 27th played alternately. Dancing was kept up with spirit until a late Vtour A REMARKABLE FACT.—We frequently hear persons boast of the health of their several neigh- bourhoods in very extravagent terms but we think a friend of ours living in Bayon Lafourche can beat all others. He insists that no person was ever sick in the neighbourhood, and very seldom any one dies. He says that when the vicinity where he lives was first settled, the emigrants were generally very young, and lived there so long without seeing any one die that they did not know what death was They did not travel much, or they might have been better iniormed in other places. He says that at !ast one old man, about 140 years old, died, and they could not imagine what the deuee was the matter with him, but kept him four days sitting in a chair, when some traveller passing told them the old man was defunct, and then they buried him.- Ymnhee Micellany. On Wednesday last a horse, which had been left standing in Castle Street, very deliberately walked into the shop of Mr Fisher, hair dresser, and, having looked quietly around, proceeded in the most orderly manner into the back parlour. Here its attention was taken by a large looking-glass against the wall, before which it stood surveying itself with evident satisfaction for some time, shaking i ts head and neighing as if in an ecstasy of delight at the figure it cut. Mr Fisher, though a 11 el first rate tonsor, was by no means inclined to operate upon such a customer, and quietly led him out again with as much politeness as if he had paid him the largest fce.-Carlisle Journal. BIRMINGHAM. Yesterday week, a numerous and most respectable company of gentlemen enter- taining Conservative principles assembled at dinner at the Union Hotel, in this town, for he purpose of presenting Mr J. B. Hebbert, solicitor, with a hand- some piece of plate and a weighty purse of sove- reigns, as a mark of personal esteem, and an ac- knowledgement of his long and disinterested services in the cause of Conservatism. THE QUKEN AND ROBERT OWEN.—About fifteen thousand of the ladies of Liverpool have "proved their regard for their characters" by signing the address at present in course of signature, expressive of the gross insult offered to the Queen by the pre. sentation of Robert Owen, and we anticipate that abont double that numbr- of names will he found attached to the sheets when the whole of them are returned. The ladies deserve the highest praise for the zealous anxiety they have evinced in this matter. ROBBERY.—A large quantity of valuable plate, in course of conveyance from London to the palace to the Lord Bishop of this city, was on Monday stolen from the van of an upholsterer, in which it was packed, with other goods ordered by the right rev. prelate frotll the metropolis. The case in which the plate was contained Was found empty lyiog in the public road, near interslow. No clue has yet been obtained to the deprf-,dators.-S(ilisbiiry Journal. A HINT TO THE TEMPERANCE FOLKS.—An old Dutchman, who kept an inn at Hohoken, had long resisted the attacks of the temperance societies, until one night he happened to get so very drunk, that he actually signed the paper and took the oath. The next morning he was informed what he had un- consciously done, and much to the surprise of his friends, he replied, Wet), if I have sigued and have sworn, as you tell me I have, I must keep to my word," and from that hour the old fellow abstained altogether from his favourite schnapps. But the leaving off a habit which had become necessary had the usual result. Tne old man took to his bed, and at last became seriously ill. medical man was called in, and, when he was informed of wbat had occurred, perceived the necessity of stimulants, and ordered that biM patient should take an ounce of French braudy every day. "An otitice of Fi-etioh b,-andy," said 'he old Dutchman, looking at the prescription, "Well, dat is goot; but how much is an ounce ? Nobody present could inform. I know what a quart, a pint, or a gill of brandy is," said the Dutchman, "but I never yet heard a customer call for an ouuce. V\ ell, my son, go to the schoolmaster, he is a learned man, and tell him I with to know how much is one ounce. The message was carried The schoolmaster, ccupled with his pupils, and not liking the interruption, havlily, and without further enquiries of tile itiesp;eiiger, turned over his Bony- castle, and arrivitig at the table of avoirdupoise weight, replied, 44 1 ell your father that sixteen drachms make an ounce. The boy took back the message correctly, and when the old Dutchman heard ir, his countenance brightened up-" A goot physician, a clever UIau.-I only have drink twelve drams a day, and he tells me to take sixteen. I have taken one oath when I was drunk, and 1 keep it now dat I am sober 1 take anoder, which is, I will be very sick for the remainder of my days, and never throw my physic out of the window. Captitin Marryat's Diary in America. USE AND ABCSE OF WHIP AND SPUR.-In order to urge the horse to his utmost speed, the whip and spur are made use of, and by the proper use or the improper abuse of these instruments the required effect or the reverse is produced but if the former object is not attained, an evil arises by the abuse of these weapons, which thoughtless person., never recognize, all act of cruelty is perpetrated, and a foundation laid for much future disappointment. Having obtained the horse's greatest efforts by the use of the whip and spur, they may sometimes be necessary to a certain degree to induce the animal to continue his exertions until the termination of the race; but in this the disposition and power of the animal must be consulted. It is one of the greatfeature, in a jockey's skill to be enabled to discriminate whether it is want of power or temper which prevents his horse from increasing his efforts when called upon; and if temper, whether that temper is the result of previous punishment. The instinct of the animal is such, that when his powers ot speed are maintained to their utmost, if he con- tinue to be goaded with the spur and lacerated with the whip, he naturally supposes he is being PUII- Ished for his exertions; consequently, he relaxes them. The ignorant and unmerciful rider too frequently continues to punish the already dis- tressed animal, who, from the effects of pain, torture, and defeat, ill ready to run anywhere to escape the unmerciful infliotion and is consequently condemned as bad tempered. So long ag the horse is found to improve his speed by their use, so long is a jockey justified in the moderate and necessary administra- tion of his whip or spur but the instant he finds that they fail to produce the required effect, that instant he ought to keep them still. It is by the continued application of them at such a time that horses are 10 often found to stop, or, as it is commonly termed in racing language, to shut up, the moment they are called upon, arising from nothing but the recollec- tion of the severe punishment which they have iustainedon former occasions, if it could be even allowable to pass over the cruelty of such treatment, interest alone should dicate the impropriety of punishing a horse at such a crisis.-Old Sporting Magazine for September,

CHI T CHAT. ————' —— THE PRIVILEGE QUESTION, — Mr Stockdale informs ns that lie has commenced another action against the M'-ssrs. Hansard, on the same ground as before. Post. VOLUTARY ABOLITION OF SPNOAY TRADING.— The churchwardens of the pat ish of St. Clement Danes have issued a notice, stating that, by the desire and concurrence of the greater part ot the tradesmen of that parish, no trading will be carried on on Sun- day* after the 8th inst., when all baskets, stalls, and goods exposed in the market, streets, and other places will be removed. HER MAJESTY'S NIARTIlArE.-Tlie principal feature in the cock and bull story told by the Morning Post, to which we before briefly referred, is that his Serene Highness the Prince Albert Francis, second son of Ernest, the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Saalfield, is said to he the happy man. A RcMouR has been prevalent at the west-end, that it was the intention of his Majesty the King of the Trench to visit London in the course of the autumn. merely give the report. I HE CONTRACT for supplying the navy is this year nearly double the ordinary amount A -STRILTctiF-R. I,tle Greenfield Mercury (an American paper) says, that a gentleman of that e cul'l()s!t town had the curiosity to measure a squash vine and ascertain its growth, and he found that ill 24 hour it stretched itself 11 inches and a half. A CoNsctKXTtous DOCTOR, ill. Bournichet, has just written to the French Royal Academy of Sci- ences 10 inform it that he has discovered a cei-titiii cure for hydrophobia. In support uf his assertiun he offers to submit in presence of the Academy to the bite of mad dogs. LAUCHLAN GALBRAITH, grnve digger for the Gaelic Chapel burying ground, Paisley, while engaged a few days sinctf at his vocation, and when pretty deep in a grave, was killed on the spot by the falling of a head stone into the grave where he was working. SOVEREIGNS IN AUDNDANCB.—There are now confined in the public and private establishments for the treatment of insanity in London and the neigh- bourhood, no less than sixty men and women who consider themselves the legitimate but unacknow- ledged sovereigns of the country. A STRONG CLAIM. At the last quarterly meet- ing of the Exeter Huinatie Society, a mail claimed a reward fcr saving the hte of his wife, a young woman from drowning. A YOUNG LADY, 18 years of age, has just made her debut at Messtna as an opera singer, who pos- sesses a bass voice, which for extent and power is said to rival that of Lablaehe. GENUINE LoYALTY.-As the Queen was coming to town from VVindsor, on Saturday, no higher a per-on than a dustman, standing in the crowd at Hyde-park-corner, exclaimed as her Majesty's car- riage passed, "There she goes, God biess her' I wish she was out of the handg 0f them 'ere Vis's — Atlas. s Miss NEWTON, daughter of the Rev. R. Newton the cetebratedWesteyau methodist minister, has fit is stated) embraced the Roman Catholic faith.— A rgus. SI!(GULA R SUICID E.-A lunatic named Shea suffo- cted himself in the cell in which he was confined in the Cork Lunatic Asylum, onThurgday, by secreting a piece of lime on his person, which he carried at night to his cell, and having placed it in his straw bed, saturated i t %v i th water.- Tipperary Free Press. MADAME CARADORI ALLAN has arrived in Lon- don, after completing a niogt successful tour of the North American cities. Her reception in the New World is described as having been everywhere cordially kind and flattering, and the pecuniary results to have exceeded her most sanguine expec- tations. THE POPE has just caused the fresco paintings of Raphael, in the Vatican, to be restored. They haG not been cleaned Slnee 1762, and were almost entirely concealed from the eye by a thick coatioig of dust. They have now recovered their original freshness and splendour. ° UMBRELLA NIANIA. -The Natchitoches Herald slates that an estimate has lately been made of the unbrellas stolen in and about town within the last 12 months, and it amounts to the enormous number of 517 ome gentlernpu losing- as many os a duzeD, and almost every one three or four. OLDIIAM.-Tlie are no fewer than 798 uninhabited houses iu the town of Oldham at present, partly owing to the entire stoppage of the machinery of some mills, and the consequent emigration of the hinds. The hands areobliged to emigrate when the mills are closed. Each labourer who has a family takes a house from his employer. GRATIFYING FACT.-At » recent annual meeting of the Loudon New Cemetery Company, the chair- man "had great pleasure in announcing to the meeting the gratifying fact, that the burials in the cemetery for the last year were double the number of those of the year preceding. A DRUNKEN DUCK.— A few days ago a duck, belonging to a Mr Marsland, was placed on a table at the Woodman Inn, Wakefield, when it drank off a glass of ale and sixpenny worth of brandy and water, and, afterwards, three sixpenny worth ill a neat state, to the astonishment of the company.— Preston Pilot. EMPLOYMENT OF Timg.The Chancellor Alfuessau wrote a work on jurisprudence, in five volumes, in the quarter of an hour each day his wife kept him waiting for dinner. PEN'HY POSTAGE.—It will, no doubt, be a matter of surprise to learn that the number of letters re- quired to make up the amount of the net Post Office revenue equal to 1838, amount to 561,537,120, the revenue for that year being X2,339,738.JJinis- terial paper. RASE COIN.-It has been mentioned by Mr Ser- jeant Alcherley, the Attorney General for I he county Palatine, in allu-ion to the importance of the Mint prosecutions, that not less than 3000 persons are at present engaged in counterfeiting and uttering base coin in the United Kingdom, and that the amount annually put in circulation is not less than £ 61)0,000. COMMITTEE OF ONE, OR A IINT TO REFORM- ING CHARTISTS.—It is proposed iu a Boston paper, that every man should constitute himself into a gelf- examiuing committee, to inquire into his conduct. It is believed that the business each committee would have to transact would keep it constantly and usefully employed. FORTUNATE IMPOSSIBILITY. An Italian, who was very poor, and very much addicted to play, used to apostrophise fortune thus:—Treacherous Goddess; thou canst make toe lose, but thou canst not make me pay." THE WEST PENNARD CfigFSO, intended as a present to the Queen and made on the unniversary of her majesty's corouation, weighs 10 cwt. A GENTLEMAN in the conutry lately addressed a passionate billet doux to a lady in the same town, adding this curious postcript—" Please to send a speedy answer, as I have somebody else in my eye." BETTER OBSKRVANCE OF THE SABBATII. The farmers in the neighbourhood of Egreinont have unanimously come to the resolution of effectually abolishing the disgraceful practice of Suuday hiring during the harvest. A NORFOLK HEN.—A ben of the Portugal breed in the possession of Mr Howes, in Sf. Faith's Lane laid an egg a short time since, which measures eight inches round, 9i the long way, and weighs 6 milieus Norfolk Chronicle. POTTS.- The Trowbridge Chartist, made an attempt to abscond to Am-erica a few days ago. He was overtaken by his bail, who lodged him safely in Salisbury gaol. THE LAMBETH SOAP-BOILER is, with much characteristic propriety, likely, at the next general election, to be cleaued out and mangled. "THREE ANI) THE DEUCE."—p00r Lord Nugent, who can joke upon his misfortunes, admits that his minority of three at Aylesbury has played the deuce with him. A MILLION OF MUMMIES have lately been dis- covered iu Mexico. OPIUM —It is estimated that in the year 1836, the quantity of smokable extract from opium pre- pared, was 33,000,000 taels weight, and this is supposed to have supplied about twelve and a half millions of smokers during that period. WHY are forged Bank of England notes like whispers I-Becausc they arc uttered, but not allow- ed (aloud). LIBERTy.-We sometimes claim to be the most moral and religious people upon earth and, to prove it, we poison our own people with gin, and claim the right to poison the whole Chinese nation with opium.—Argus. Mr LEEDS, of St. Edmund's, has uow upwards of 50,000 silkworms at work. He has been most successful in their treatment ttiiti yeat-, and is enga- ged in rdising mulberry trees from seed obtained for him by Sir R. J. Harvey, from abroiid.-Norwich Mcrcury. A WAG once observed that the hop grounds in Kent present more extensive views than any other place in the world; for there your prospect extends from pole to pole. PROFITS OF VAGRANCY. —In all ass mil case lately heard at Hatlun G irden Oiffce, in which complainant and defendant were sturdy female beggars, it calllp out that one of them was formerly in (he habit of making I'2s. a-day by her vocation, but that since she had ijot twins to exhibit, her income had daily reached El. CURE FOR A DYING MAN.—Some years since the worth V crier of the court at Knufsford felt onc morlling- in court rather worse for the previous night's debauch, and sent the following recipe to be com- pOllllded al a lIeil{hbollring hotel: Dear l\J ¡50S H. Sent me a quart of coffee, two muffins, and a duck for I am almost dead Yours, just alive, and that's' all,—M T As A PROOF of the value of greyhounds, and the cheap estimation of the humlln specie* in Russia, we may take an announcement of the Odessa Journal that an estate of 2000 acres, with 78 peasants, was recently ottei-ed by the marshal of the district of I" hksterynoslaw, in exchange for a while greyhound called Sultan, belonging to another nobleman! INDIA STKAM N A V[GATION,-A quotation from a Calcutta letter, ill the Morning Herald, informs II", that the steam subscriptions in that city are go- ing on well, and that they are in light spirii* as to the establishment of an efficient communication "i ll England. There are terrihle complainls of the acceleration of the mails by the Dawks, which ac- ceterationseeuts to answer to the definition of a witty friend of ours, who interpreted the French diligence into delai-geris. "SARVED HIM IWIGHT."—-A man entered the shop of a cotlon merchant in the Hue des Blances- Manteaux two mornings ago, with an empty bag, and Ksked for 1 *21 b. of cotton. Fanoyiug himself I unobserved, he slipped into his bag with the cotton ahum,which happened to lie on the counter and had struck his fancy. He had, however, been observed by « shopman, who, when he was going away asked him if he was sure he had jjot only 1211). ot cotton and at once putting his bag into the scales found that it weighed 191b. You see," said the shopman "you have got 71b. more to pay for and the lIIan, sooner than acknowledge that h" had taken the hail, paid for the additional weight at the price of cotlun 4f. per pound !-G(ilignani',v Messenger. Dit. CHOWNE mentions, in the current number of the Lnncel, the very viitigulat- case of a Swiss, who had undergone the process of hauling 13 times, and yet survived it all. When death at last had seized his prey, his body was examined to ascertain the cause of this strange tenacity of life, and it was found that the windpipe was turned to bone, a sufficient cause certainly for his not beingsuffocaied. THE SKA SERPENT was seen again yesterday off Fire Island, by a schooner bound in. This is a very strange coincidence. We are told by one who saw the monster, that he is about as lony as the British Queen and Great Western would be, if placed together stem to stern. The monster doubtless in. tends to try his speed with these two monstrous ships in a race across the Atlantic. It is the only chance he has had worthy his acceptance or powers of competition. And since this is the case we with- draw our bets oil the British Queen, and back the American Sea Serpent, tail and all.-Americatt Paper. THE DUKE OF NORFOLK is about to give up farming. His Grace has given instructions to his agent to sell oil all the live and dead stock at Mondel Park Farm, i ile luditig iii., Grace's Southdowti Hock. NEW CIVIL UNION.—[T JG a remarkable evidence of the unpopularity of the New Civil Union Act among Dissenteis, that in the district comprised in the Bridgnorth union, in the county of Salop, which includes 29 parishes, and above 14,000 inhabitants, only one solitary marriage has taken place otherwise than according to the rites and ceremonies of our venerable Church-though the act has been in opera- tion more than two years. MAD DOGS- -The new Metropolis Police Act provides that it shall be lawful for any constable to destroy any dog or other animal reasonably sus- pected to be in a rabid state, or which has been bitten by any dog or anllTJal reasonably suspected to be in a rabid state; and the owner of nny such dog or animal, who shall permit the same to go at large, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than ^5." It is a pity this clause should not extend to all those parts of her Majesty's dominions, called England, Scotland, and Ireland. LORD STANLEY'S CATTLR SHOW.—The oattle show established by Lord Stanley on his estates in this county has been attended with the most favour- able results. The emu'aiion created in the breeding and feeding or cattle has effected a very considerable improvement in that department of the farmer's pur- suits. It must be remembered that his Lordship, in order to bring rsbout this desirable end, expends large sums yearly as premiums to be distributed amongst such as produce the best description of stock. The sum announced for this year amounts to .03t Lbo. If other lunded proprietors would only follow the laudable example set by Lord Stanley on their several estates, the results, we have no doubt would be equally beneficial to the cotintry.-Tip. peravy paper. A GOOD BREEDER.-There is on the Old Hall farm, at Bilsby, near Alford, a celebrated mare, descended from O'd Golden Farmer, which has at her heels the eighteenth foal. Thirteen of these foals were colts, and were sold in some instances for .£100 each. She belongs to Captain Taylor, who resides on the above farm.—Cambridge Chron. THE CONFERENCE of the Wesleyan Methodists, which recently assembled at Liverpool, has ac- cepted and confirmed the proposel of the Committee of the VVesleyan Missions to send out nearly forty Missionaries in the course of the present autumn. Some of these are required to supply vacancies occasioned by the deaih or return to England of missionaries formerly appointed; but the greater part of the number are additional, for the enlarge- ment of existing missions or the formation of new ones, especially for Western and Sourthern Africa and in Australasia and Polynesia.-The Conference appointed the 25th of October for celebrating throughout the connexion by religious services the centenary of Wesleyan Methodism. THE VVESLEYAN MISSION SIHP-It is intended, we hear, to hold a valedictory service next week at one of the Wesleyan chapels in this city, on a novel and most interesting occasion. The mission ship Triton, recently purchased by a grant from the centenary fund, is intended to sail from this port next week. The Triton will bear to different stations 14 missionaries, 7 of whom have wives and families—some are for the Cape of Good Hope, some for New Zealand, and others for the Friendl y Islands, where the Triton will be statioiied.- Brie. tol Standard. THE NORTHERN STAR.—This luminary is now very much decried by its late dupes, the Chartists of Lancashire. One agent alone, at Heywood, has for some time been in the custom of selling 350 papers weekly. Last week he only ordered 100, and this week 60 copies. 11 How are the mighty fallen !"—.Manchester Chronicle. PERSONAL SECURITY.-It is not generally known that on the 19th of last month an act passed, inti- tuled, An Act for the better Protection of Parties dealing with Persons liable to the Bankrupt Laws," by which the law affecting debtor and creditor is materially changed, Before the passing of this act the security by warrant of attorney for repayment of money was always liable to be upset by an act of bankruptcy committed before the creditor availed himself of his security: but now all execution against the goods of such bankrupt levied before the date and issuing of the flat will be deemed valid, notwithstanding any previous act of bankruptcy committed by such bankrupt. CAUTION TO SEXTONS.—At the Bradford Court House, the other day, the Sexton of Shipley church was fined for having interred the bodies of two unbaptised twin children uithout having received a certificate of the registration of the baptism, and for having subsequently neglected to give notice to the registrar of deaths, &o., within seven days of the interment. As it is not the custom of the church to read the burial service over such bodies, or to make any record of the burial iu the church registers, the sexton was not aware that any such certificates or notices were required from him. PAPER DUTIES. CAUTION TO STATIONERS, PRINTERS, &C.—By an Act of Parliament passed on the 19th of July last, entitled An Act to consoli- date and amend the Laws forcollecting and securing the Duties of Excise on Paper made in the United Kingdom" (2 and 3 Win. IV., c. 23,) which comes into operation on the II th of October next, it is enacted (sec. SH,) "That every person shall, on opening any ream, half ream, or parcel of paper, buttonboard, millboard, pasteboard, or scaleboard, received into their possession, immediately write in large letters in ink upon the label attached to the wrapper the word 'opened,' or shall across such wrapper, with ink or otherwise, permanently cancr'i obliterate, and deface the same, so as to prevent the same label from being again made use of by any papermaker; and every person who shall not, on opening any such ream, half ream, or parcel, marked as aforesaid, immediately so wrote on, o, cross or otherwise cancel, ol) iterate, or deface such label or in whose possession any such labels, whether attached or not to any wrapper w/Ü(;h shall have been opened, shall be found not so written upon crossed, or otherwise cancelled^ shall forfeit lor each such label XIO., and every such label, with any wrapper to which the same may be attached, shall also be forfeited."