The Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette and Merthyr Guardian

SCIENCE. A new and improved Map, showing the Geology, Mineralogy, Inland Navigation, Railways, and Principal Roads of England and Wales, and a larr/o portion of Scotland, as far north as Dun- dee and Forfar. On a Scule of Si Miles to an inclt. By J. and C. Walker. We have been favoured with a sight of this beautiful map, so interesting in this locality espe- cially and of which we here give a brief descrip- tion, chiefly taken from the printed prospectus. The geological features are clearly defined by colours; the site of the various mineral produc- tions, as ironstone, copper, tin, lead ore, coal, salt &c. &c., are particularly marked; as well as the channels, sand banks, soundings, and light- bouses. The theory of the tides round (he coast of England and Wales is clearly demonstrated-two geological sections across the kingdom are also given, and the different formations and rocki are made perfectly intelligible, by a copious esplana- tion of their mineral characters and subdivisions, The internal communication of the kingdom, by navigable rivers, canals, railways, forms a promi- nent feature of this map; their elevation above the level of the sea is correctly determined. Pro- jected Railways are likewise distinguished; thus exhibiting at one view the means by which the agricultural, mining, and manufacturing produce are increased in value, from the facilities afforded by these several lines of carriage and intercourse, and showing where similar works may be judi- ciously constructed. In this age of speculation and improvement, a work of this description has become absolutely necessary, and the want of it has often been attended with much inconvenience, The dimensions are sufficient to comprehend every particular of agri- cultural, manufacturing, or commercial utility, and it combines a mass of valuable and important in- formation, not to be found in any work hitherto published, at such a moderate expense, as to render it accessible to all. The compilers have availed themselves of every work that has been published on the subject, among the most prominent of which are the trans- actions of the Geological Societies of London and Cornwall, the Philosophical Societies of Newcastle- upon-Tyne, Worcester, and Cambridge; and the ordnance geological survey has also been used, as far as it has proceeded. Considerable additions have been made in Yorkshire, and in the contiguous counties of Durham, Cumberland, and Lancaster, from the recent work by Mr John Phillips, Pro- fessor of Geolozy at King's College, London and in Norfolk and Suffolk, from the works of Mr Charleswortb, Mr Woodward, and Dr Fitton. From the papers of the last-named gentleman, great im. provements have also been made in the geology of the counties of Cambridge, Northampton, Bedford, Bucks, Berks, and Wilts, and a large portion of North and South Wales, Salop, Hereford, Wor- cester, Stafford, and Gloucester, have been laid down from the splendid surveys by Mr Murchison Valuable assistance has also been rendered by Mr Frederick Burr, who, in addition to many important corrections, has laid down upon the map the metallifertJtis tracts in England and Wales, eluci- dated by explanatory notes. Mr Sopwith, Mr Hutton, and Mr Buddie of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, have contributed numerous improvements in the geology of the Northern counties: the former gentleman has also furnished a section from the St. George's Channel to the German Ocean. The coal fields of Lancashire have been examined and col- lected by Mr Ettas Hall ofCastleton. Scotland has been laid down from the Survey of that country by Dr M'Culloch, but with numerous local corrections by several scientific gentlemen who have lent their aid in improving this portion of the Map. Messrs. Bald and Geddes, Mr Alexander Rose, Mr John Maclaren, and Messrs. Grainger and Miller of Edinburgh, and Professor Thompson and Mr B. Neilson, of Glasgow, have also lent their valuable aid towards the correctness of this important work. And in addition to all these, in order to render this map as complete as possible, proof sheets were sent to almost every part of the kingdom, to be revised on the spot, by gentlemen conversant with the subject. A new and interesting feature has also been introduced into thi,. map, by distinguishing the position and probable extent of those metalliferous tracts, which contain the mineral wealth, and con- sequently form the mining districts of this country. These tracts are shown by a stronger tint than the the general colouring of the map, so as to indicate at a glance the relative situation and extent of those important localities which are known to con- tain metalliferous or mineral productions; and hence fanning, in most oases, the seat3 of mining and manufacturing industry. The direction of the great tidal waves, with the time of high water at new and full moon, is another new and interesting feature in this map, as is also the introduction of an anchor to define the extent to which rivers are navigable. Lines of 10 and 20 fathoms of depp water, and numerous sound- ings round the coast, give value to it as a chart of the shores of Great Britain. Great industry has been employed in collecting the information contained in this map, and much taste has been displayed in arranging that infor- mation in a highly explanatory and useful, as well as ornamental form. A wo'k presenting at a glance stich valuable and various species of information on many subjects of the highest importance, as connected both with scier.ce and with some of the most important in- terests of this country, must carry with it its own recommendation; and we sincerely hope that the spirited exertions of the proprietors may be duly estimated by the public, and rewarded by that ex- tensive sale of the map, which can alone repay them for the labour and expense bestowed on its compilation.

THE PROPRIETORS of the .1 lining Review have offered a premium of Ten Guineas for the most ap- proved paper on Iron, historically, chemically and mefalltirgically considered, as well as in the economical manipulation or smelting of the ores, and its general application, with the comparative results arising from the processes observed in the various districts of England, Scotland, and Wales —stating the quantity and nature of materials used, the respective modes of extraction, the various metallurgical treatments to which they are sub- jected, and the results attendant thereon. The several forms of furnace, application of hot or cold blast, quality and description of the coal, and na- ture of the ores and the quantities used, being de- fined. Those papers which are not approved will be returned to the respective authors; the property of that obtaining the premium being vested in the proprietor of the Mining journal. All papers should be furnished not later than the 1st of Decem- ber next; and such papers as may require illustra- tions must be accompanied by drawings,—And a fur- ther premium of 5 Guineas will be presented for the most approved paper on the use and application of anthracite or stone coal, giving the results of ex- periments made in this country and in the United States. NEWLY INVENTED LIFE BUOY.—We have at all times great pleasure in being the channel of communication to the public of discoveries or in- ventions calculated to relieve the sufferings of our fellow-men; and in this spirit we have on many occasions called the attention of such of our rea- ders as reside at those parts of our sea-coast, to the importance of Captain Manby's apparatus for saving the lives of mariners. It is not, however, of that admirable contrivance that we wish now to speak, but of a very clever invention of Captain Henvey, of the Royal Navy, which, if used along with Captain Manby's, may be of the greatest ser- vice. It is a life buoy of the simplest but most efficacious description, and one which, as we have been assured by competent authority, has already proved useful in practice. This life buoy consists of a light wooden frame, and in shape of a horse- shoe, but sufficiently wide to admit of a man's body, and rendered buoyant by plates and discs of cork attached to it. The hinder part is open, but the front is fashioned into the shape of a beak, for more readily cutting the water. The "Lincoln- shire Association for the Preservation of Lives in Shipwreck," having satisfied themselves of the utility of Captain Ilenvey's invention by trying one which 'hat officer presented to them, lost no time in ordering three more; and we understand they have it in contemplation to combine the use of these life buoys with Captain Manby's apparatus in such a way that the lives of mariners, and of passen- gers o board stranded ships, they hope, may be saved, when, by all the means heretofore used, no- thing could be done to relieve them.— Times. NATURAL FLOWERS IS IVI.NTLR.-To produce these, some of the most perfect buds of the flowers it is wished to preserve, such as are latest in blow- ing and ready to open, must be chosen. Cut them Off with a pair of scissors, leaving the stem about three inches long; cover the end immediately with Spanish wax, and when the buds are a little shrunk and wrinkled, wrap them up separately in paper and place them in a dry box. When it is desired to have the flower to blow, take the buds overnight, out off the sealed end of the stem, and put the buds into water wherein has been infused a little nitre or salt, and the next day you will have the pleasure of seeing the buds open and expand themselves, and the flowers display their most lively colours, ane-breatbe their agreeable odour around.,

NEW SYSTEM OF INLAND TRANSPORT. ♦ An experiment has just been made on the Forth and Clyde Canal, in Scotland, which seems likely to be followed by very important consequences, in a scientific as well as commercial view, and to affect seriously the relative value of property in canals and railways. It is well known, that there is a system of canal navigation practised on some canals in Scotland, in which light iron vesselscapa- ble of carry ing from 60 to 100 passengers,are towed along by a couple of horses, at the rate of ten miles an hour; and this is affected by what is called riding on the wave. This new system of wave navigation, the theory of which has been fully ex- plained in the reports of the meetings of the British Association, given annually in the Athenaeum, has hitherto been limited in its use by the speed of horses, and been thrown back into comparative ob- scurity by the brilliant feats of the locomotive engine, whirling its ponderous burden along the iron railway with the speed of the winds. The experiment, however, to which we now allude shows that the same mighty machine is capa- ble of performing feats equally astonishing in water as in land-carriage. A locomotive engine, running along the banks of the Canal, drew a boat loaded with sixty or scrent.,i passengerat a ra te of more than nineteen miles an hour and this speed was not exceeded, only because the engine is an old-fashioned coal-engine, whose maximum speed, without any load, does not exceed twenty miles an hour; so that there is every reason to infer that, with an engine of the usual construction employed on railways, thirty, forty, or fifty miles an hour will become as practicable on a canal as on a railway. Thus the wave theory, which was formerly a beati- tiful speca'ation of science, becomes the basis of a new system of inland water transport, and abstract science receives new illustrations from the practi cal application of its principles. The experiments to which we refer, were performed in the presence of a number of men of science, and gentlemen in- terested in the improvement of canals and naviga- tion, under the direction of Mr. Macneill. The predictions of science never received more perfect accomplishment, or more beautiful illustra- tion, than on this occasion. It is well knolln to those who have studied what has been written on this subject, that the wave of the Forth and Clyde canal, from its great depth, travels at the rate of about eleven or twelve miles an honr, and that, consequently, in order to "ride on the wave," it would be necessary to draw the boat at fourteen or fifteen miles an hour—a speed hitherto impractica- ble, beoause above the available speed of horses but it had been confidently predicted, that these high velocities, the violent surges usual at veloci- ties of eight or nine miles an hour, would wholly disappear, and the vessel ride the summit of a smooth undulating wave, exciting comparatively little commotion in the waters of the canal. Two of the experiments performed set this truth in a remarkable light-Experiment No. 3 being per- formed with an ill-shaped passage-boat, which the engine had not power to drag 1, over the wave," and Experiment No. 1, with a boat suited to higher velocities. Now, it happened as predicted, that the boat moved at a less velocity than that of the wave, raised a high and powerful wave at the bow, which overspread the banks of the canal, and threw up behind it a foaming and most injurious surge; while, on the other hand, the vessel which moved at the higher velocity rode smooth and even on the top of the placid and gentle wave, leaving behind it no commotion but the sudden collapse of the .parted waters. These experiments are as follows: EXPERIMENT I.—A passage boat filled with passengers, drawn by the Locomotive Engine, passed over Yards. Seconds. 110 in 12.4 } 220 24.5 Being a velocity of above 19 miles an 330.. 36.8 hour. riding the wave, with very slight 440 49.2 { commotion of the water. 550 61.8 ) EXPERIMENT III.-A passage boat, containing passengers and baggage, but uusuited to high velo- cities, drawn by the Locomotive Engine, passed over Yards. Seconds. 2-?0 6" 0 1 Eein<» a velocity of about 7 miles an W) Qfi 2 hour only, with a large wave raided 440 197 R I up at the bow and rolling over the VJ) I bank' and an after S"rg:e tearin? 660 1.90 8 along the side, the boat being behind 770 221.8 J tke tCaVe' Besides these experiments, there were others highly interesting in a practical view. A large fleet, consisting of three schooners, three sloops, two canal traders, and one small boat, forming a gross weight of about 800 tons, were dragged along the canal simultaneously, with no other force than the simple adhesion of the wheel of the carriage to the surface of the rail. In another experiment, a train of five boats, capable of carrying 400 to 500 pas- sengers, was taken along at the rate of fifteen miles an hour. The results of the day's experiments appear to us most promising: phenomena in the motion of fluids, and of vessels on the water, hithertounseen, will be brought to light, and applications of mechanical power and mercantile resources, hi- therto unheard of, will be called forth.-Athenaunt.

CLEARING OF MINES OF CAltBURETTED HYDROGEN. loo. To ths Editor of the Mining Journal. SIR.—My attention having^been casually directed to the subject of clearing mines of carburetted hydrogen, when much accumulated, a plan occurred to me, which seems to my inexperienced view likely to be effective, safe, and economical. I give the idea crudely as it has occurred, trusting that some of the experienced miners who read your valuable and widely circulated publication, may be able to turn it to practical use. The plan is to have an iron chamber,or box of thin sheet iron, made air tight, all but two apertures, one at each end—the one to he covered with wire gauze, the other closed by a pipe connected with an air cylin- der-a small fire to be placed in the chamber close to the wire gauze. The cylinder to be worked by two men with a fly-wheel, a pipe leading from the cylinder to be immersed in a reservoir of caustic lime and water, made into a puddle. The gas being drawn through the 6re by the action of the cylin- der, would burn in the chamber without communi- cating an explosion to the gas outside, while the deleterious prod uct-carbon ic acid or choke-damp -being forced into the lime, would be retained by it. To prevent the iron chamber getting too hot it might be made double, with a small space to be filled with water, and the wire gauze placed in a short piece of pipe, with two or more divisions. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Llaneily, Oct. 15. T. H. LEIGHTON.

THE PORT OF PERTH.—The customs levied for the year made up to Monday last amount to twenty thousand two hundred pounds, having been at least quintupled within the last six or seven years Constitutional. We had recently an opportunity of witnessing what we have no doubt will prove a valuable in- vention ia the application of water-power. Some of our readers, no doubt, are acquainted with the machine called Dr. Barker's mill. To such of them as are not, it may be sufficient, perhaps, to explain that it operates by the reaction of the water, and is of nearly the same construction as the rotatory steam engine,of which so much has been said lately. The common water-wtreel is"&Tet ert upon either simply by the gravity or by the impulse of the stream— the weight of the water falling on float boards, or its force rushing agaiMt them. Barker mill is moved by the reaction of the impulse which the water has acquired at the bottom of a fall. It 19 exceed- ingly simple in its structure. The water is con. veyed in a pipe from the highest elevation at which it can conveniently be collected to a horizontal pipe, of the proper leoth, made to move round a shaft. The horizontal pipe is perforated at the two ends, on opposite sides, and the reaction of the water rushing out, drives these arms rapidly round in a retrogade direction. The improvement on Barkers mill, which we have seen lately, and for which a patent has been taken out by Mr Stirrat, of inethercra-g, .,e near Paisley, consists (besides an igenious water- joint and the application of something like the steam engine governor) in a beautiful contrivance for pre- venting the friction which arose from the centrifugal action of the water on the revolving arms of hit; machine. To remedy this, the patentee has had the arms of his machiue made with an eccenluc curve, calculated according to the height of the fall, so that when the machine is io operation, the water rushes out, at its full speed,in a straight line from the centre to the extremity of the arm, where its power is wholly exhausted by -aetioB oivthe^ides opposite the orifices by which it runs off. The advantages of this machine are said to be very great.. 1° '^e first place, while, by the common water-wheel, In some circum- stances, only a small portion of the water power can be used, and under the most favourablecircumstances, not more than 65 per cent., it is calculated that by this new machine not leas than 95 per cent. of the motive power of the water is rendered available. Secondly, the most trifling rivulet, provided it have a good fall, can be taken advantage of by the new machine; and, thirdly, the expense of the improved Barker mill is not more than one-fifth of the expense of a water-wheel, to work in the same stream,— Aberdeen Herald, If

PRIVATE AND JOINT STOCK BANKS. An account of the aggregate amount of notes cir- culated, in England and Wales, by private banks, and by joint-stock banks and their branches, dis- tinguishing private from joint-stock banks, between culated, in England and Wales, by private banks, and by joint-stock banks aud their branches, dis- tinguishing private from joint-stock banks, between the" 29th June, and the 28th of September, 1839 —From returns directed by 3 aud 4 William IV. c. 83. c.83. Private Banks £ 6,917,657 Joiut-Stock Bauks 4,167,313 X 11,084,970 H. L. WlCKHAM. Stamps and Taxes, October, 28, 1939.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. --440- London, Friday, Oct, 25. INSOLVENT. William Gardiner, Wokingham, Berkshire, grocer. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Samuel Kent, Salford, Lancashire, victualler. BANKRUPTS. Nathaniel Davis, Westcrham, Kent, innkeeper. John Mtcha d David Kieffur, Southampton Street and Charles Street, Covent Garden, Berkeley Street, Clerken- wel!, and Fetter Lane, baker. Robert Archer, Queen Street, Cheapsidc, wine mer- chant. Joseph Lasalle, Muscovy Court, Trinity Square, mer- chant. London, Tuesday, Oct. 29. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. William Roam, Buxton, Derbyshire, draper. BANKRUPTS. John Harrison Curtis, Soho Square, bookseller. William Francis. Dirminghntu, woollen dra; er. William Phillips. Stanford Rivers, Essex, dealer. lloberi Richardson, Judd Street, boot maker. Charles Burch. Barnstatde, Devonshire, auctioneer. Joseph Hamilton and William Henry Hamilton, Man- chester, calico printers. John Haxworth, Sheffield, surgeon. Thomas Johnston, Jun. Lewes, Sussex, horse dealer. John Sheppard, lidgbaston, Warwickshire, manufac. turer of plated wares. Jam s Truscoit, late of Devonport, Devonshire, but now of Manchester, share broker. DIVIDEND. J. Griffith, Swansea, Glamorganshire,victualler,Nov. 20

LONDON MONEY MARKET. (From the official list, containing the business actually transacted. ) CLOSING PIUCES OF BRITISH STOCKS-WEDNESJMV. Bank Stock, 179 I India Stock, I per ceiit Ited. 8911 India Bonds, '2 dis par 3 per cent. Cons" 90 S per Cents. Ann*. 1751, — 3 pr ct. Anns, IblH Bank Stock for Acc. 180 3.1 pr et. 1-tei, 971 7 South Sea New Ann S8 £ Mew 3i per els.$Consols for acct. 90j Long Anns, i860, Idg 11-16 £ 1000 finch. Bills 4 dis Do, 30 yrs, 1059,13 9-16 1500 do. 1 3 dis Do, 30 yrs I860,— Small do. 1 pm 2 dis PRICES OF FOREIGN STOCKS.—WEDSESOAY. Austrian, lOci, Portuguese 3 pr Ct., 24$3| 4 lielgiaii, Ditto Accoutit, thdzillan, 726 Russian. Ditto Ace., Ditto Metallic. 106j Columbian, 6 lier Cent. Spait, 5 pr cis. -291 1 !)o. Bonds, 1821. Do Acct., 0-9.3 Ditto Account, 32 Ditto Passive, Danish, 731 Ditto Deferred, 131 Dutch 2i per Cent. Fr. lte ntes, 3 pr ct.- .Niexicatl 5 per ceiit lixchange, Mexican 6 per cent. 3)1, Dutch, 2k pro ct. 52! It Neapolitan, 100 Ditto Account, — Portuguese 5 per cent Dutch 5 per ct., 991 9 Ditto New 5 per cent 36-5 New Loan, 5 pr Ct., 96. Ditto Account, SHAttna- [ The quotations give the actual price, without reference to premium or discount.] United Mex. Scrip.— Canada, Ditto New, 4 Manchester & Birm. — London aud Bright >n,— D°* Intension London & Birmingham, — Steam Navigation, Do., New Shares, — 24$ Lon ion & Soutliainp. — London and Blackwall, — London Ioint Stock Bank, North Midiarid, London & S. Western,— V;ta,b, men's Land Agri- York and North Midland, el cultural Compy. Eastern Counties, National Prov. Bank of British N. American Bank. England, New, London & Greenwich, 16J Bristol & Exeter,

LATEST PRICES OF MKTALS. -lifo- Col)per-Blit. Cale, ton 92 0 0 Tite, do 90 0 0 Sheets, v:er lb 9 0 11 Bottoms 0 1 0 Foreign—S. American (dy 3/s cwt) bd..t,[u. 80 0 0 rin British—Blocks ..ewt'. 4 0 0 Ban ..cwt 4 2 0 l'lates,common i l c .I 10 0 to I 12 0 to best, per X 16 0 to 1 IS 0 box. I X X. 2 2 0 to24 0 Wasters of the above Mks 3s Icis$ all others 6* less. (Others in proportion.) Foreign— f Banca, bd. cwt 3 is 0 duty 5t»s.< Straits, bit. ewe 3 Itfj 0 per cwi. (. Bars# bJ. cwt 4 4 o Lead, British Pig .ton 19 0 Sheet ton 20 0j 0 Shot 21 0 o White (dry) ton 27 0 Do. (gd in oil) ton 3. 0 "J Litharge 20 0 is 180 <) lr,,ti British, pig,NO. I-L." 60 B.ir—ton 0 0 0 lo 10 0 O I)t). Cargo in %Vale$ I 9 5 0 Bolts ton 10 10 0 Nail ton It 0 0 Huopø toi 12 10 0 Sheets, single ton 13 10 0 (Others in proportion.) Forelgn- Swedeg, cii bd to., II 0 0 L for Sicel, (var mks) Duty 30s. for to" CI6 0 0 to 350 0 per tOil) Russia com.tOtl 1.10 o p s I. ton 15 0 0 CCND ton 19 0 0 Steel, Brit.—Blistered, (various qualit. t.11 5 0 0 to 45 0 0 Sliear ditto ditto 45 0 0 to St 0 0 Cast ditto ditio 45 0 0 to 84 0 0 Foreign—( Swede* in ks;s bd ton 19 0 0 Duiv20 < Ditto F.i^got* bd ion 19 10 0 percent. (, Milan bd Ion 30 0 0 Spelter, For-—Cakes do 21. per ton bdtoo 19 10 0 English Sheets 33 0 0 QucLwiivcf-(Iy ld per. lb. lb.0 3 10

AGRICULTURE$COMMERCE. LONDON MARKETS. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN, per Quar. Couiputud from the Inspcctoi s' Returns. GKNTAAI. AVERAGE—WEEK. ESDING Oer. 19.11. a. d. i. d. Wheat Ci 6 Rye. 38 7 llar'ey 41 0 Beans. 45 6 Oats 25 5 Peas 45 0 AGGREGATE AVERAGE OF LAST SIX WEEKS. s. (I. s. d. Wheat t>8 11 Rye. 38 5 Barley 40 5 Beam 44 10 Oats SO 9 Peas 43 8 DUTY ON FOREIGN CORN. s. d. s. d Vheat 10 8 Rye 12 6 Btr.ey 1 10 Beans. 3 6 Oats 7 9 Peas 5 0 CORN EXCHANGE—Monday, Oct. 28th. Wheat, Kent and Esmer, 1 Pea., White, per gr. 41s&43' per >ir 62. &75s Grey 38s 41* Norfolk 52s 06s Boilem 46s 50s ——.— Sutrolk 5ts 70s Beans, Tick, 011 4us 43' It-ye 10s 42s ———— New Z's 40i Barky. 3:>s 40* Outs, Potutoe 35s 361 Fine 12s 46s Poland 32s 34s Wall tios 72s Feed. 25s 30s HAY IA RK ErS, Saturday-At per load of 36 Trussu. SMlTHFIELD. WHITECRAIIEL, 8. B* I. Coarse heavy Low- I Coarse heavy Low. land Meadow Hay. 80 to 85 1 land Meadow Hay 75 to 80 New Meadow Hay 70 to 911 New Meatldw Hay 70 to 90 Useful ol-I ditto. 90 to 95, Useful 01.1 ditto. 85 to 90 FineUplandMeadow I FineUolandMe idow and Ryegrass Hay 95 to 100 I an t Ryegrass Hay 9510 100 Ntt\v Clover Hay 80 to 110 Ne%v Clowt!r Hay 80 to 105 ° d ditto 100 to 120 Old ditto Ill) tu 130 Oat Slraw 36 t 38 OatStraw 38 to 4" Wheat Straw 40 to 42 Wheat 40 io 42 PRICES OF HOPS. Kent Pockets (New) 48s to 50a—Fine ditto. 6<'g to 70s. Choice -lino /(is to 84s. bast Kent 60s to iO,Choice ditto. 80s to 90s. Sussex Pockets.45s io 50s—Saperfine. 54ti to 60s. SMlTHFIELD VlAllKET.—Monday^ Per stone of Bib& to sink the olfal. Beef.. 3.-4d to 4s Od to 4s 4 I Pork.. 4s 61 to 5s Od to 5s 41 Mutton 4* Od to 4s Gd to Sftd (is gt to Oi Od to Od 01 Veal.. h 2d to 4s 8J to 5s 2.1 ) Head of Cattle this day. Beasts 3.C26 | Calves 110 Stieev 23,690 | Pigs 669 PRICES OF COALS, per TOll. WalUend—H.-tton's, L,ambton'»anit StewaTt'a 21- 3d to 2. 6d Adair's lgd oA-H,)Iywt!ii -s Oif—Wvlam 20, Od-Seymour Tees Od—"Towntey's 19.< 0 1—Sootb Durham 23. 3d— Tees 23s Gd—Burdon —. Oil-Blyth -s Od. BRITISH AND FOREIGN WOOLS-Per lb. BiLIT.-Illailkitt, 9,1 to ISd-Combing, 15,¡ to I9d—FUonel 14,110 19d. FLKECE WooLs-N. and S.Down Hoggets, la Gd o —Half.bred, is 6d to Is 7d—Kent, Is 5-1 t» Is 6t1. FOR-G-rinany, Electoral, 3s 9>1 to 5. Od—Lower qualities, i to —Australian, beat, 2a 2d io 2a 7d— Inferior, Is Idto 1». 6 I—Van Diemen's Land, ciean, 2s 2d to 2s 7d

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INCREASED MEANS OF SPIRITUAL IN. STRUCTION. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) The most important, beyond all comparison, of the petitions presented to Parliament during the last Session are they which were presented on behalf of the Church of England, for increased means of spiritual instruction. Among the fore- most petitioners, as might justly have been ex- pected, are found the inhabitants of the city of London, and the Chancellors, Masters, and scholars of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. "It belongs," says the Oxford perition, to the very essence of a national church, that her spiritual ministrations should be co extensive with the spiri- tual wants of the whole community, offered freely to all, though not enforced upon It then refers to documents which show how vastly our population has outgrown the resources of the national church, and how large a proportion of our fellow creatures are thus left, without their own consent or their own fault, unprovided with the means of public worship, religious instruction, or pastoral super- intendence. The London petitioners estimate the addition to the population of England and Wales since the commencement of the present century at 6,000,000 of souls. The University of Cambridge represents that "the resources of the church, cal- culated as they original!y were, for the more con- tracted wants of an earlier period, and diminished as they have been by the alienations of former times, are now wholly inadequate for l he dlle fulfil- ment of their object." The Oxford petition proceeds to sav-11 That this spiritual destitution, which is ever least regarded by those to whom it is most pernicious, has chiefly befallen districts the least capable, even if they felt the want, of supplying the remedy. That its im- mediate consequences (not to advert to future and higher interests) are ignorance, vice, and disunion. Divine Providence has intrusted the nation with unexampled resources, and your petitioners believe that it is the duty of the Government and the Le- gislature to direct them to this end and the people at large, they do not doubt, will rejoice to see a portionof the national wealth devoted to the honour of Him who gave it, and employed in relieving the spiritual necessities of those by whose industry it has been developed." To these important truths, and- to the considera- tions which now from them, we earnestly invite the notice of our readers—to the end that each, within his sphere, may contribute his utmost exertions, not only toward impressing the prayers of these petitions on the attention of his representatives, but toward increasing, from private and voluntary funds, the resources of the national church; and that means may be found, both for dispelling the general ignorance of large classes of our poorer brethren upon all religious subjects, and for rescu- ing the half informed from the widely spread snares of false doctrine, heresy, and schism." Inasmuch as the discontinuance of those direct interpositions, by which the designs of Heaven were brought about in the earlier times of revela- tion, has now rendered man himself the immediate instrument of the Divine dispensations to his race, it no longer consists with the duty of the state, or with the profession of any sincere adherent of its establishment, to neglect auy lawful means of maintaining his religion,on the indolent and selfish plea that the care of the true fai'h belongs only to Heaven, while Popery and Dissent are striving to gain over the poor, and to keep them, by all the forces, engines, and devices of terror, of fraud, and of cajolery, it behoves the Reformed Church to counteract, by an opposite class of agencies, the progress which, without a constant and controlling care, religious error is but too sure to make amidst the ignorance, passion, and self-interest of the world. It is not enough to say, truth is mighty and will prevail. To secure its progress, the shoulders of its friends must be set to its wheels. If abstract principles were left free to work ac- cording to their natural tendencies, those two great antagonists of the established religion, Popery and Dissent, would operate against, and perhaps in some decree neutralize, one another's doctrine. But political causes have wrought to gether to unite these heretofore conflicting forces in one fierce compiracy against the Church of Eng- land. The Whig faction, wanting strength of their own, had long leaned for support in their elections on the party of the Dissenters; but, while the balance of power remained with the friends of the church, no serious danger threatened her. When the Whigs came into office, the excitement of Par- liamentary reform kept back religious agitation; and when the achievement of the Reform Bill gave the Whigs an overwhelming majority in the Lower House, there was so little temptation to their leaders to retain the Dissenters at the risk of an- noying the church, that Lord John Russell himself took the tone of a staunch Churchman but when the general election which accompanied the forma- tion of Sir Robert Peel's Government had reduced the Whig party, properly so called, to a mere e minority, their friendship for their old coadjutors, the Dissenters, began to resume its pristine warmth and for the purpose of keeping that warmth alive, there was the most liberal readiness on both sides to make a bonfire of the church. Still, however, something more was wanted: the Whigs, with all the strength which the Dissenters could contribute, would at last be but a minority in the House of Commons, unless thesaintsof the Romish calendar could be successfully invoked. A union, indeed, of Papists with Dissenters did certainly, at the first view, seem a very unpromising conjunction; and probably, if their had been no intermediate faction, their constitutional repugnance to each other, and the natural jealousy subsisting between them, would have prevented any co-operation which should have placed either the one or the other in ,o the seat of government. But the action of a third power—that is, of the Whig party—surmounted that difficulty, and served, like quicksilver, to blend two substances scarce otherwise interfusible- It is only from this subsisting union between part ieslw iiiell, however originally and intrinsically hostile to each other, have merged all their mutual and minor enmities in their common hatred to the Church of England, that her present danger has arisen. The ulterior objects of each of the con- spirators may be separate and selfish; but the immediate, the present purpose of them all, is the demolition of the Church. I'or this, the Dissenters endure the Papist"* and the Papists the Dissenters; for this they both make an instrument of the Whig p'acemen and in this the Whig placemen, with eyes wide open, allow themselves to be used, con- tent to play at cat's paw by reciprocation. In England and Scotland, probably, this unholy alliance has yet been able to effect but little of the projected evil. Against 0 the spread of noxious dissent, a powerful and cordial antidote has been administered by the ever wakeful enthusiasm of the Wesleyan nuin«»j, <■»«; great out.watch of the church. And among the reflecting, classes of the people there is very little probability that Popery will ever advance itself upon the ground of its in- trinsic merits. But when we consider the springs and influences which affect human resolves-on one side the recklessness iuduced by high health and spirits, the scepticism resulting from indolence, and the hardness of heart which grows from pre- sumption and pride of thought—and on the other side the visible glare and outward show of Popery, its gross and tangible materiality, and the absolu- tions and indulgencies with which it bribes a timid and superstitious mind-it is impossible altogether to avoid the apprehension that, if the efforts of Sec- tarianism and Popery are allowed to proceed un- checked among the poor,—if Radicalism and the plausible rights-of man are to be associated with Deistical and Socinian doctrines, —if charitable gifts are to be made conditional upon attendance at a Roman Catholic place of vvorship,-if all theie incitements to desertion are to be supplied by the enemies of the establishment. and the Church of England to be left unfurnished with any adequate means of worldly counteraction, we shall find that the power even of truth itself will flag and fail, and that the number of stragglers. cut off from the main body, will startle the public mind when the defal- cation has become irreparable.

Mr. Leigh Hunt has written a playi which has been accepted at Co vent Garden. MR NOTES'S NEW LIFE-BOAT.—(From a Corre- spoodent.)-IVe have the gratification of being able to inform our readers, that the public will s lortly be put in possession of a very important invention for the preservation of life at sea. The inventor, who is actuated by no other than philaothropic motives, is determined to lay its merits before the public, for the especial benefit of our maritime brethren. Jt is constructed upon a very novel principle (not pneu- matic), and possesses the great advantages of sim- plicity and portability. A ship with a complement °f 1,200 men may with ease carry a sufficient number of boats to save every individual, without the least interfering with the navigation or working of the vessel. The cost of them will be comparatively small, and so easy of construction as to be made on board from printed instructions; and in case of of danger, may be applied (even a boat capabte of sustaining 25 persons) in less than a mlllute and a half, It is the result of some years anxiously spent in maturing a series of experiments, directed towards the perfecting of an object of such paramount and national importance. MrNoyes proposes to exhibit the model and arrange the description into the form of a lecture, to be delivered at one of the metro. politan scientific institutions.

CHIT CHAT. A NEW SORT of harp and violin strings have been introduced as more sonorous than the Roman strings, while at the same time they are more dura- ble, and capable of resisting all atmospheric influ- ences, which have often proved fatal to harmony in theatres aud rooms. BY A RA (N-GAuor- kept at the hall of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, it appears that, in the Month of September this year, there has fallen sixteen times as much rain as in the same month last year. THE VINTAGE has been GOT in throughout the Moselle district. The weather has not been favour. able, and the grapes, though rather abundant, are not expected to produce wine of as good a quality as usual. THE INVERNESS HARRIERS lately found a hare in the neighbourhood of Fort George, which, after a beautiful run, was seen to take to the sea under the walh of tLe Fort. The hounds were hallooed for- ward, and reached the strand ere their gatne got out above 60 yards The pack gallantly taking the water, a most interesting ea hunt took place, when one of the dotts, Old flimbo, maintaining his leading character by sea as well as by lat,d, swam into poor puss, and bore her ashore in triumph. THE ELDEST SO of Prince Polignac has entered the Bavarian army. ANOTHER SUICIDE AT LONDON MOXOMENT.— Last week, a lad, about 16, precipitated him- self from the Monument, in Fish-street Hill. On his being taken up it was found life was Extinct. THE MYSTERY UNRAVELLEO.—A lady of rank complained to her fashionable shoemaker, that her shoes had burst on the first day of wearing them. Upon which, taking them up, and glancing his eye at the sole, he exclaimed, Oh, I don't wonder; I see clearly how it has happened! Why, yo"r ladyship has walked in them." PHYSICIANS OF THE HOUSEHOLD.—A gentleman who was aecustomed to take his regular exercise on horse-back, and whose chief drink was asses-milk, was asked by an invt)i|^ friend, to whom a doctor was daily administering pil!and draughts, How he contrived to keep always in such excellent' heabh, and what medical man lie employed?" To which the other gravely replièd," jUy physician is a horse, and my apothecary is an ass." WHAT flower is emblematic of a fop addicted to fighting ?—The dandy-lion. EPIGRAM. I'll laugh at them that laugh at me," Dick cries You'l be for ever laughing," Will replies. MARCH OF INTELLIGENCE.—"Jim, How does the thermometer stand to-day "-I- ours siondi% on the mantel-piece, right agin the plasterin.New York Paper. COMFORT for the Gloofny:-Affixed to a cottage in Cook's-grounds, Chelsea, is a printed notice that the inmate goes out cheering THE NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS which have occurred in the Old Bailey since it has been paved with wood have at length awakened the City authorities to the expediency of making some alteration, and workmen have been employed in "nolchillg" the wooden blocks. IMMIGRANTS AT QUEBEC.—The number or pas- i-esiger- arrived at Quebec, to the 8th of September, this year, was 70C,0. In the same time last year, 2605. CHATHAM RACES.—A new species of race is to come on between two zebras, that have been training for the purpose for some time past. PATRICK," said an employer, the other morning to one of his workmen, "yoo came too, late this morning; the other men were at work an hour before you." 11 Sure, and I'll be even with 'em to night, then." '• How, Patrick ?" Why faith, I'll quit an hour before them all, sure." A PROPERTY OP STONE.—A Mr. John Malcott, in a letter to the Times newspaper repecting. stone for public buildings, mentions a property which we do not remember to have seen noticed before, viz., that all stone made uxe of in the immediate neigh- bourhood of its own quarries is more likely to endure the atmosphere than if it be removed therefrom, though only 30 or 40 miles. FEMALE CO-,dPoSITOR!The New York Evening Post states, that the practice of employing women at the compositor's case, is gradually making its way in America, in spite of the opposition which it has experienced. LONG POALMS—At a meeting of the Perth Town Council, held 011 Monday week, Mr Kiunoch, pre. centor in the Wet Church, gave in his resignation, which was accepted. Councillor Menzies remarked, that, according to teport, Mr Kinnoch had been in- duced to resign from the enormously "long psalms he had to sing on Sunday. No human lungs could stand it.-Perth Chronicle. KILLIVG THE I)gVIL.-A country girl- attending a Qtiakei- meeting, asked by a friend how she liked it. 's Like it! why I see no sense in sitting for hours, without saying a word it is enough to kill the devil." YeF., my dear," replied he, that is just what we want."—American Paper. Are your city ordinances strictly kept ? asked a stranger, in reference to the ordinance prohibiting the selling and firing of backers, torpedos, &c. Oil yes, sir, they arc kept in the clerk's office." That seems to be the only Place where they are kept. A CORRECT ANTW5".—Madam, do you think frock coats are becor)si)tg garments ?—" No, sir, they are garments already." —-American Paper. SMELL OF THE SHOP.—-A field preicher, who had been a printer, observed, in the usual harrangue, "that youth might be compared to a comma, man- hood to a semicolon, Old a.-e to a Olon to which death puts a period or full stop, A SruMP OnATOIl, who wished to conciliate some Germans previous to an Section, observed, that though he was not a German himself, yet he had a brother who was I-einarkably fond of German sausa- ges.-American paper. NOT LOST.-A gentIcmao crossing a narrow bridge, asked a countryman whom he met, if it was not dangerous, and whether people were not lost there sometimes?—" No,' he replied, "I never knew auy body lost here in my life; several have been drowned, but they were all found again." EITHER WAY wlL1, Do.—«< Will you have me, Sarah ? said a young man to a modest girl. I- No, John, said she, y°° may have me if yo" will." RAILWAY CARRIAGES V. CLOUDS.—"That there cloud," said a Yankee, pointing to one, the shadow of which was passing rapidly over the ground, "is trying to go ahead of the engine. I g-uess it'-Il be behind UIi and 20 minutes to. spare. We can get a- head of the fastest cloud going now, and give it time to take in water.Ainerican Paper. QUITE HANDY.—There's a gentleman in New York whose face has become so wrinkled by his constant exposure, that his wife uses it to grind nut- megs on. WHBTTUG A RAZOR.—A young fop, who had just begun to shave ior beard, went into a barber's shop, and after a grand swagger, desired to be shaved. The barber went through the usual movement, and the young sprig jumped up with a flourish, exclaim- ing, U Maw foine fellow, what's your chawge?" "Oh, no charge," was the reply. No chawge! how's that?" -1 Why, \ve iu-e always very thankful when we can get soft oaK fkva (to whet our razors on.-American Paper, -< What town was Chahlrey like'when he was making a bust of a celebrated authoress?— Chipping— Norton." Dr. John Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln, was married four times, the motto, or poesy, 011 the wedding ring, on his fourth marriage, was- if I sarvive, I'll make them five." PLEBEIAN PLEASANTRY.—A French Abbe, who was ex'remely corpulent coming late one evening to a fortified town, asked a countryman whom he met, If lie could get in at the gate?" I should think you might," said the peasant, looking at him jocosely, for I saw a wagon of hay go III tllli morning." RATHER LANGUID. A friend of ours," say. the editor of an American paper, "is growing weaker and weaker every day; he has got so weak now that he can't raise five dollars." THE MARQUIS OF HUNTLEY'S FAILURE has ex- cited considerable sensation. His debts are said to average 9600,000, whilst, from the schedule of funds, it appears there are not 1.. 6cl. per pound likely to be realized to pay the debts. This tOWII suffers only d £ l0,000 Dundee, £ 20,000 5 Montrose, £ 30,000 and Aberdeen, £ 100,000. The noble marquis has gone ad interim to Paris.-Arbroath Herald. There is a man down east, rather a facetious chap, whose name is New. He named his first child Some- thing, as it was Something NeW. His next child was christened Nothingtil beillg Nothing New. CUTTING A SON OFF.—Sheridao, having threat- ened his son Tom to cut him off with a shilling, re- ceived this retort-16 Where will you get it." CHARLES KEAN, we regret to say is dangerously ill in New York, and totally unable to fulfil^ his en- gagement at the National Theatre. The local journal., entertain very alarming apprehensions for his speedy recovery.

LOCAL MARKETS. BRECON. Wheat Imp bu.lOs 4d to 0» 0,1. Beef (per lb.) 7d,tl10d ]|"rley 6s. Od. Os. Od. Muttou 64«1. Od Oats 3s. 21. 0s. i»d. Veal. «,i. od Walt 10s. 4d. 0s. 0d. Pork 7d, oj Grey Pea* 0s. 0.1. 0j. Od. ( Lamb 64.1 04 Preah butter It (I. to Od. Salt butter 12a. toUd. Skim Cheese 5J t. to Od. BRISTOL. CORN EXCHANGE Per Quarter. per Quarter. s. d. s. d. s. d. m. d Wheat, Red. 60 o to 72 o Rye 44 o to 48 While 76 o to »8 o Beam, New 42 o to 44 Parley .Grinding 40 o to 42 o Old.. 48 o to 54 Malting 50 o to 53 a Peas, Hog.. 42 o to 44 Oats, Feed. 24 o to 25 o Boilers.. 50 o to 58 Potatoe 28 o to 32,Malt 78ato 82 Flour, Fine per •ack280lba. 60 o to 62 a Seconds 55 o to 57 I) Thirds o 40 o to 44 a Pollard, per ton 135 o to 140 o Bran 120 o to 125 o PRICES CCRRENT OF LEATHER d. d. d. tI Crop Hides, per lb. 11 to IS Horse Butts per lb.. 9tottt Foreign Hides Hi 13 Calf Skins, best 26 28 Light Foreign Mid. 12 13 Calf Skins, common.. 23 36 Heavy ditto 13 14 Irish Skins 13 15, English Butts 14 19 Welsh Skins. 13 24 Foreign Butts 14 17 Kips, Englisli&Welsb 14 iti Best Saddlers' Hides 14 16 Foreign Kips, Peters Common ditto 13 15 burgh, 16 Igl Shaved ditto 14 16 Foreign Kips, East Shoeditti 12 13 India 14 19 Cominon ditto Ilk IlIi Small Seal Skins 17 19 Welsh ditto lli t3! Middling ditto 12 16 Best Bull ditto Ili 124 Large ditto 12 14 Common ditto. II ll £ Basils. 8 II Horse do. (English).. 12 15 OFFAL. .Velsii ditto .r. II 14 Foreign Bellies 7 8 Jeruian ditto 13 16 Shoulders 8 10$ Spanish ditto ,.14 21 DressiugHide Bellies.. 8 8 £ Sliaved do. without ■ ■ Shoulders., 10 104 butts, I 2s. tol 6s. Od. eac It. CARDIFF. Z. a. d I s 4 Wheat, per Imp. qr. 3 17 6 Beans 2 5 0 Barley 2 3 01 Feus 1 18 8 Oats 1 7 U [ Kay, per ton 5 0 0 CARMARTHEN. Wheat, aver, per Mail lOsOJtoll 0 bushel 9 llJtoO 0 I Salt Butter, per lb 0 0 0 9- 'larley. o >J 0 0 | Fresh, ditto, 13 17 I 1010 0 I Cheese, ditto 0 40 ? COWBRIDGE. Wilettt (Imp.b.)10, Od. lis Od. Veal 0.6,1. Os. 6id. Barley .5^6d Os. Oil. Pork. Os. 6<f 0s. od 0aU 4s. Od 0s. Od. Lamb. 0.. Od. 0. 74 Clover,per lb.. (id Oil. Butter Is 3d. Oti, Oli Beet, per lb 0s. 6..1. Os. 7d. Clieeselbt-st) 01. Od. 0s. 7d Mutton (per lb.) 0s. 7d. os. Od. Cheese (com.)0s. Cd. o. 0" MERTHYR. „ ™ d~ *• d' >• <*■ '■ £ me Floor 6 fitoO 0 Beef, per lb 0 ?to« # Best Seconds 6 3 0 0 Mutton 0 6& • O Butter,fresh, per lb 1 2 0 0 Lamb 0 0 • » I)itto,salt. I) II 0 i) Veal 0 7 0 0 Fowls, percaiiple 2 6 3 0 I Pork 0 6 0 li Ducks,ditto 3 0 4 0 Cheese 0 8 0 9 (Jtfese, per lb. 0 9 0 0 Bacoo per score..8 II 9 0 Eggs, perhund. 6 0 0 0 MONMOUTH. Wheat per qr. imp. i6$. 5,t, I Beans -5. 0d Barley .51s. 2,i. Peas 0.. fJ" Oats.—»- Od. J

HIGH WATER AT BRISTOL. (From Bunt's Tide Table.) .HIGH WATiiti. Cumb. Bathurst Morn. Even. Gates. Gates. NOVEMBER. H, M H. M FT. INC. FT. INC. Sunday 3 5 10 5 21 '27 8 16 Jr M°nd,ay 5 55 6 4 29 2 17 II' r'iesday 5 6 30 (j 39 29 9 18 6 Wednesday 6 7 2 7 It 30 3 19 0. "hursday 7 7 29 7 39 '29 11 18 8 Ilriday 8 7 58 8 9 29 2 17 11 Saturday 9 8 29 8 40 28 1 16 10