MONEY MARKET.

CITY, SATURDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.

Since our report of last week, there have been considerable business and some fluctuations in the Money-market. The account, which was settled on Tuesday, terminated rather adversely to the Bulls, or horders of stock, and towards the afternoon, prices fell (from SOL the price of Monday) to 861. Three defaulters were declared, but none of them were of much importance. On Wednesday the price again advanced to 86, from whence it has since been depressed to 86, by a preponderance of sellers, whose fears or views have been influenced by the unpromising aspect of the weather, and a variety of unfavourable reports, which it would be idle to notice here more particularly.—There have been some heavy sales of money stock, but purchases to the same or nearly the same extent have been made ; and as these bona fide transactions continue to balance each other, as they did last week, the fall in price must be attributed to speculative sales, for time, which will probably work their own cure next week, especially if a change of weather should improve the prospects of the harvest.—But however this may prove, so long as money shall continue so abundant (and the supply is increasing rather than diminishing), we do not see how any material fall in the price of the funds is to be apprehended, unless, indeed, some unforeseen change

should occur in public affairs. No stronger proof of this superabund- ance of money can be adduced than the almost absurdly high and in- creasing prices of Exchequer Bills and India Bonds, which are now 73 and 113 p. m.

There is nothing material to report of the foreign market, excepting the failure of the last of the New South American States—the Guatemala. No reflecting man could ever have doubted of this result, which indeed has surprised nobody. In fact, the debt is very small, for the loan " came out too late to deceive the Public, and a very inconsiderable part of it was subscribed for. There had been no dealings in it since June, when the price was 31. It is now spoken of as about.25, but no buyers. Portu. guese Bonds have fallen from 56 to en, but there is little or no business doing in them. There is nothing new in the Share Market.

BRITISH F17N OS.

Bank 2111 Austrian FOREIGN FUNIII4g; I

Consols for Account 861 buyers Brazil Stock 62 to 621 Three per Cent Con. 861 to / Buenos Ayres Three per Cent R Brazilian

ed. 863 to 7 431 toNew Four per Cents.1011- to Ex. Div. Colombian 241

Four per Cents.1826 1041 to French Three per Cents. 72 50Ex. 25.30

Long Annuities in 13-16 Alex lean

Exchequer Bills 72 to 73 Prem. Portuguese 311¢ to 40 531 to 54 India Stock 243 Russian India Bonds 112 to 113 041 to

SHARES.

Anglo Mexican 951. paid 30 31 Price.

Brazil Imperial 20 71 73 National 5 62 Colombian 25 22 Dalpuxahua 320 40 United 38 20 121 British Bowie 4,5 8

Parliament will be prorogued on Monday. There seems to be a notion about the West end of the town, that it will meet again early in November. The Lord High Admiral has been at Dartmouth and every- where.

Earl Amherst has arrived from India in the ship Herald. He sailed from Calcutta on the 81-1) March. At the Cape of Good Hope, where he landed, he met his successor, Lord William Ben- thick.

The Right Honourable Robert Gordon, front the Brazils, is to be Ambassador from this Court, to the Court of Madrid.

The late Secretary for Ireland is now Lord Melbourne. The death of his father is in the week's obituary. The subscriptions to the King's College, including shares, amount to nearly 80,000i. The Regent's Park has been suggested as a site for the building. The total amount of the estimate for the new post-office, in- cluding the purchase of the ground, is 528,996/. 10s. 4d. ; but it is thought that the expense will considerably exceed the estimate. The Select Committee on Public Buildings condemn the foun- tain proposed to be erected on the site of Carlton Palace ; and recommend a spacious and handsome flight of steps in the centre of the terrace leading into the Mall, and forming the communica lion between Regent leading Street and the Park. Mr. Nash in his evi- dence admits that there is no intention of having any entrance there for foot-passengers, but he " supposes it would" be of great advantage to the public. The following are a few of the Estimates of the Expenses of the ornamental parts of the new Palace :- Ornamental Water, gardens, &c. . £22,290

External Sculpture to house • . 16,4ee Marble chimney pieces . . 18,e70 Parquette floors, inlaid floors, &c. . • 12,631 State-room doors, and doors in the King's apartments 4,400 Marble floors in hall, grand stairs, and gallery, exclusive of marble 2,967 i The cost of marble, imported and on the sea • 19,800 Brass gates and railing instead of iron . • 6,900 Brass handrails to great staircase instead of iron gilt 3,000 Enriching cicling to kitchen and state apartments 13,600 Ditto to eight private rooms in flower garden Ditto to picture gallery • Ditto to hall and staircase

Ditto to two galleries ▪ 3,000 Mahogany shutters and plate glas▪ s to all t▪ he state-rooms, to

answer doors • 4,200 Scagliola Dado to all the state-rooms 3,000

Scagliola walls to staircase, hall, and lower ga▪ llery 4,000

Framed wainscoting for hangings in all the State rooms, &c. 3,353

For new lodges and entrance arch to the Palace gardens, from Piccadilly, with sculpture, &c.34,982 g A meeting of silk-manufacturers was 'held on Wednesday, at the Old London Tavern, in effect to counteract the proposed in- troduction, next year, of foreign-wrought silks at a rated duty of 30 per cent. The manufacturers resolved, that the silk trade is " very important ;" that " there has continued up to the present period an unprecedented consumption of silk goods ;" that the manufacture is nevertheless becoming less active, capital is de- preciated, the rate of wages is reduced, artisans are unemployed ; and that these consequences have sprung from the encouragement given to foreign competition under the act of 1826. The meeting, however, was not unanimous in regard either to the facts stated in the resolutions, or to the conclusions attempted to be established. Mr. Moore particularly distinguished himself by his opposition to the views of the majority ; am?Mr. Beckford said that the present committee was a packed one, composed of persons opposed to the true interests of the manufacturers.

Meetings to establish auxiliary branches of the Society for Pro- moting the Principles of the Reformation, have been held at Bath and Birmingham. At the latter an adjournment was moved by Mr. M‘Donnell, a Catholic clergyman ; who boldly atttacked the morality of Protestants, and accused this Society of breaking the bonds of peace. The champion of the Society, and of the Pro- testants, was Captain Gordon. The controversy was maintained with great spirit for some time, and the Catholics were worsted in the vote.

Fortunes have been made at Limerick and Ennis by the sale of " O'Connell handkerchiefs."

The Duke of San Carlos, Ambassador from Spain to France, died at

Paris on Thursday last, of an aneurism of the heart. He was sixty-five years old. The Duke is succeeded by his eldest son, the Count del Puerto, an officer in the Royal Guards of Spain.

The herring fishery in the Moray Frith has commenced under very pro- mising appearances. Ireland, that for the last two years exported only paupers to the Brommie- law, is now exporting salmon, which a Glasgow journalist allows " to he

equal, if not superior, to the Clyde salmon," and which is so plentiful as to he " sold throughout the streets or hurley.," at 611. and 7d. the pound. "Wherever there is a mouth there is a mouthful," was the proverb: for the present, the proverb is again in credit. Malthus forgotten, and Scotland delivered from her fear of being eaten up by the wild Irish.

The Highland lairds have taken a fit of castle-building. "The Duke of Athol! has commenced preparations for rearing a new residence. at Donkeld, which, it is said, will cost not less than 100.000/. The site, it is understood, will be about fifty or sixty yards west of the present house. Sir John A. Stewart, of Grandttilly, is also about to commence the erection of a new family residence at Monthly, upon a very splendid scale:• The present Castle is a well-known and admired object to travellers, and is one of the few old mansions on the borders of the Perthshire Highlands, which dispute the honour of having furnished the author of Waverley with the original of Tally- Veolan."—Glasgote Chronicle.

▪ 1,800 • 900 22,300 • 3,000

FASHIONABLE Paarias.—On Saturday, Mr. Peel gave a dinner to a large party. On Monday, Prince Leopold dined with Viscount Sidmouth. The Duchess of Kent partook of a Jejune with the Duchess of Clarence at Bushy Park. On Tuesday, Lady Barbara Ponsonby gave a grand rout. Sir Charles Wetherall had a grand dinner party. On Wednesday, Lord Ellenborough gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers at Roehampton ; the Princess Sophia entertained Prince Leopold at dinner ; the Duke of Grafton gave a dinner party ; the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury had an assembly ; the last ball but one for the season took place at Almacks. On Thursday, the Duke of Cumberland dined with Air. Greenwood. Prince Esterhazy gave a grand dinner to Prince Leopold. On Friday Prince Leopold gave a dinner to a large Party. The Countess of Essex had a card party. The Honourable Mr. Musgrove entertained Lord Amherst at dinner. Miss Johnes gave a din- ner and evening party.

The Marquis of Hertford has been confined the last three weeks, at his Villa in the Regent's Park, by a severe attack of the gout.

The Marquis of Stafford has had two attacks which have brought him to a very infirm state, and caused him to resign the Lord Lieutenancy of Stat.- fordsh ire.

The Earl of Harrington is confined to his house by very serious indis- position. Sir W. Hoste, the Captain of the Royal Sovereign yacht, lies dangerously ill at his house at Cobham.

Lady Granville and family are staying at Dieppe, for the benefit of sea- bathing. His Lordship visited them last week on his return from his em- bassy to the Court of France, and then proceeded to Calais, where he em- barked for England.

A few days ago, as Dr. Upton, a physician residing at Dulwich, was stepping from one of the Camberwell stages, opposite the poulterer's, Fleet- market, he unfortunately lost his balance, and, falling into the street, the wheels of a hackney chariot passed over him, and broke his leg. The Doctor was immediately conveyed to a surgeon's in New Bridge Street, but he is not pronounced out of danger. On Sunday evening, Captain Bridges, of Manor Place, Chelsea, who is well known in the sporting circles, was thrown from his horse, at Millbank, and was conveyed in an insensible state to the Swan public-house. Frna.—At one o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Gardner, a butcher, in Bagnig,ge-wells-road, and which in a short time communicated to the houses of Messrs. Galliard, a blind-maker, and Devon, a baker, and in less than two hours the whole of the premises and furniture were consumed.

Several members of the family of a labourer of Corby, near Stamford, were almost poisoned last week by eating a hare which the man had picked up. The hare was made into a pie by the labourer's wife, and it is supposed that it had died of poison just before it was found. Mr. Alfred Pocock, who is now inn Liverpool, has been the subject of sonic most, extraordinary experiments with his father's kites, by which lie has been repeatedly carried aloft to a considerable height in the air, and landed again with perfect safety.

On Sunday afternoon, the shop of Mr. Hatton, watchmaker, at the foot of London Bridge, was broken open and robbed of upwards of 150 gold and silver watches, besides snuff-boxes, foreign and English coins, and jewellery, altogether to the value of 1,0004 Depredations on the Sunday afternoons have, of late,- rapidly increased in the city.

Another robbery, of equal extent, was committed on Tuesday night 411 the house of Mr. Foster, a jeweller in Alalgate.

About 800/.5 chiefly in gold and silver, was carried off by robbers, from the connoting-house of Mr. Houldsworth, of Manchester, on the evening of Friday week.

Thomas Dorman, an old bone-collector, in Westminster, has died in the hospital of bites and kicks inflicted by his own vicious donkey.

The extensive granaries of Mr. Dean, High-street, Shoreditch, were burnt down on Thursday morning. The loss is supposed to he very great. The house of John Slater, a farmer inn the West of Scotland, was robbed on Tuesday last of many valuable articles, including bills and bonds to the amount of 1000/.

A plumber, swung out in a wicker basket from the iron railings that surround the dome of St. Paul's cathedral, has for some days been occupied in repairing injuries which the heat of the sun has occasioned to the lead of the roof. A machine, containing fire and melted lead, is swung out along- side of the plumber. At first, the smoke that issued from this moving furnace gave rise to an apprehension that the Cathedral was on fire.

In consequence of the want of employment, arising from a redundancy of population, and other causes, hundreds of our poorer countrymen on the western coast are now quitting their native shores for North America. A brig went off lately from the Isle of Harris, freighted with passengers for Upper Canada; and on the 4th instant, two vessels sailed from Loch Maddy, in North Uist, with no less than six hundred souls on board. Another is daily expected to sail from Canna ; and as fresh exportations will follow whenever opportunities occur, a check will be given, for at least some time, to the effects of our rapidly increasing population. The emigrants who have sailed from North Uist left it under pitiable circumstances. The way in which they accomplish their departure is as follows :—A person who is styled the Emigrant Agent goes about soliciting the natives to sign a paper, by which they bind themselves to sail in his ship. Those who have not money to defray the expenses of the passage, give up their all to the agent, and in this way cows, sheep, horses, and other moveables, are converted into cash. Having got a sufficient number of passengers, the agent charters a vessel. The whole of the vessel is fitted up with berths on each side, one above the other, and five adults are crammed into one bed. The charges are, for a passage to Quebec, Pictou, or Miramichi, three guineas, exclusive of pro- visions, for all persons above fourteen years of age. Two children, of from seven to fourteen years old, count as one adult, and three are taken when they are below the age of seven. Four guineas and a half are charged when provisions are found by the ship. Of the misery and distress to which these departures give rise, the anguish attending the sundering of families, and the breaking up of old ties and affections, it would be vain to attempt a description. No man who has seen an emigrant ship weigh anchor, or heard a Highland family take leave of their native glens in the pathetic Gaelic air.-..." Cha till mi tuille," (We return no more)—but must lament that circumstances of state policy or national misfortune should ever compel our poor countrymen to leave the shores to which they are so strongly attached.

—Inverness paper. The silk manufacture is taking up many of the best cotton-weavers. So rapid is the substitution, that there are already in Strathaven 300 silk-looms. The wages are nearly double what can be earned at cotton goods. It is flat- tering for the enterprise of our manufacturers that they have so soon got a firm hold of this trade.—Glasgow Chronicle.

A farmer on Thursday last, who brought a bag of potatoes into Monaster- even for sale, was so much annoyed at the low price offered for them, that he

threw them into the carnal. For this act he was immediately summoned be- fore Mr. Cassidy, a magistrate, and tinned 10s.—Corh Reporter. (The fine was probably inflicted under an Act of Parliament, not because the farmer made a bad use of his own property, but for injuring the canal.) Poor LAWS.—The Committee on the Poor Laws have made a report, in which they recommend the discontinuance of the system of paying wages out of the poor-rates. They propose that " it should be declared unlawful for any overseer or other officer of any parish to make or pay to any labourer or person engaged or employed in any work, any allowance or relief whatever on account of himself, herself, or his or her family, inn addition to the wages or emoluments earned from such work or emPloy- ment ; that this restriction shall not apply, 1st, to prevent parochial relief, or allowance in cases of temporary illness of such labourer or person, or any part of his or her family ; 2d, nor to prevent parochial relief or allowance being given to any widow or wife deserted by her husband, left with a family which she is by her or their labour unable to support ; 3d, nor to prevent parochial relief or allowance to those who, through old age or any infirmity, are unable by their labour wholly to mainrain themselves and their families ; 4th, nor to prevant parochial allowance to any labourer or person employed by the parish-officers wholly on account of the parish."

A young man, named Cocker, has been killed at Kentish Town, in a pugilistic combat. His antagonist, Morgan, has been committed for manslaughter on the Coroner's warrant.

THE CALEDONIAN CANAL—We have glanced at a Report on a subject which most readers of Parliamentary papers must have been sick of looking at—' The Twenty-fourth Report of the Commissioners of the Caledonian Canal; The result of their wise enterprise has not before been plainly visible, and it is instructive as to undertakings of the kind, conducted with the discretion of a government and the money of the people. The total expenditure on this Canal up to the 1st of May, 1828, has been 977,5244 15s. 31d., not reek- oning, of course, the interest of the money borrowed to meet it ; and it was out of the loans made during the last war that the expense of this work was in great part carried on. Now for the returns of this great expendi- ture:—`The Caledonian Canal,' say the Commissioners, 'has been in use without interruption since the date of our last report, in May, 1827 ; but the income (stated in that report at 2,4-151.) not being sufficient to meet the ordinary expenditure (stated at 4,100/.) it became requisite to apply to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury for authority to borrow any further moderate sum which might become necessary. In the last year the Commissioners reduced the rates of tonnage, and the rates have not much diminished. The deficiency in the last twelve months is 1,300/. The num- ber of ships which passed through in that time was greater than in the pre- vious twelve months, but less than in 1825-0. The sum of tine transaction is this :—After spending 977,000/. in making a canal, the ships, even at a farthing per ton per mile, will not use it ; and the return for the capital is from 1,3001. to 1,700/. a year less than the expense of keeping up the works and collecting the tolls. That every other part of the concerns of the Go- vernment, except those of which the results can be exhibited in Arabic nu- merals, should, as the most competent judges inform us, be most successfully conducted, while its mercantile enterprises always fail,- is a fact remarkable in itself, and surely ought to form a warning against its engaging in any schemes, the allurement to which is a promise of mercantile profit. What is to be done with the Canal we do not know ; selling it of course is out of the question, and so is giving it ;—for not even a Scotsman will voluntarily take a loss of 1,500/. a-year. It would be the most prudent plan to set it up to Dutch auction, in order to ascertain for what sum. now paid by the Government, individuals would be willing to relieve us of the burden which it has purchased for a million sterling.—Globe. EAST INDIA TRADE.—A Parliamentary paper, recently printed, respect 7sFg our commercial intercourse with the East Indies, shows the growth and im- portance °four Asiatic trade. It appears that in the year ending Jan. 5, 1824, there entered inwards at the several ports of Great Britain, from the East Indies, 89 ships, the tonnage of which was 49,378 ; and there cleared outwards to the East Indies, 102 ships, the tonnage of which was 50,016 ; —and in the year ending Jan. 5, 1828, 140 ships, of 61,270 for o .•erecl inwards ; and 176 ships, of 73,890 tons, cleared outwards. Also, in the five years preceding Jan. 5, 1828, the declared value of the exports front this country (as well by the East 'India. Company as by private traders) to the East Indies, together with China, taken severally,was 4,228,948/, 4,070,718/., 3,918,0711., 4,468,883/., and 5,201,509/. The principle increase was in the article of British manufactured cottons. During the same period, the aggre- gate value of the several articles imported into this country from the East. Indies and China was 10,437,1701.,10,373;8921., 10,554,417/.,10,688,869/., and 10,669,738/. ; and in the five years severally there was re-exported 2,599,9054,- 3,006,7034, 3,233,6364, 2.892,446/., and 2,454,802/. The-

principal increase took place in the article of Cinnamon : in the year ending- 5th January, 1824, 899,3731bs. were imported, and in the last, 1,267,443Ibs ; of this, in 1824, 418,3551bs. was re-exported, and last year 359,6920)s. Of Coffee, 4,114,2891bs in 1824, and 5,872,3811bs. in 1828; in the former year, 2,129.1111bs. was re-exported, and in the latter 4,655,1041bs. Of Cotton Wool, in 1824, 14,839,1171bs; and in 1828, 21,364,8041bs.; of this, 6,144,016Ibs was re-exported in the year ending January 5th, 1824, and 13,836,4151bs. in the year ending Jan. 5th, 1828. Of Pepper, 5,955,3261bs. in 1824, and 9,067,778Ibs. last year ; in the former year 5,229,3271bs., and last year 4,089,3111bs. was re-exported. Of Bandannoes, &c. in the former year, 162,103 pieces, and in the latter 224,696 pieces; of these were re-

exported, 131,388 and 117,718 pieces. Of Sugar, in the former year 219,580 cwts., and inn the latter 379,867 cwts. Of Tea, in the former year 29' 046,8851bs., and in the latter 39,746,14711)5. Of some articles there has

been a diminution : for instance, of Indigo (which varies, i

as is well known, greatly according to the nature of the season) the quantity imported in the year ending Jan. 5th, 1824, was 6,553,354Ibs., and in the year ending Jan. 5th, 1828, 5,405,2121bs. Of raw and waste silk from the East Indies, 1 r)26 6401bs. in the year ending Jan. 5th, 1824, and 1,042,3401bs. in the year ending Jan. 5th, 1828. Of China raw Silk in the former year 392,7171bs.,

and last year 208,2871bs. Mr. W. Ewart, barrister-at-law, is returned member for Bletchingley. A few days ago a young Baronet, who not long since came into the pos- session of his title and large family estates, put a period to his own existence,

by firing the contents of a loaded pistol into his right side. The ball pene- trated the heart. Although in possession of the causes which led to this melancholy event, we decline mentioning them from obvious reasons.—Dublin Freeman's Journal

A person calling himself Captain King, and who says he has just come from the East Indies, is charged with having on Saturday last, stolen 39 yards of silk, 32 yards of printed cotton, 8 pair of cotton stockings, 4 pair df silk stockings, and 8 silk handkerchiefs, from Mr. Brown, a linen-draper, in Ratcliffe-highway.

DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK FROM THE SHOCK OF AN ICEBERG.—The brig Catherine and Hannah, of and from Sunderland, Captain Lumsden, arrived in Cork harbour on Thursday night. The captain states, that on the 4th of May, in lat. 45° I l' N. 560 0' W. at one o'clock, p. m., he picked up a boat belonging to the Superb, of and from Bristol for Quebec, which ran foul of an iceberg, on the 21st of April, which stove her forward. This unfortunate occurrence obliged all hands to take to the pumps, at which they continued without intermission for two days and a night, when a schooner hove in sight; and the captain proceeded in the jolly-boat, to treat with them to take the crew. While the captain was so engaged, the vessel being quite in a sinking state, the crew left the pumps to get the boats out to leave her; they succeeded in getting a boat, (the one subsequently picked up,) and seven men got into her; on which they unhooked the tackle, slipped the ship, but could not again regain her ; and it corning on thick, they could not find the schooner, and the unfortunate men were left to the mercy of an all-wise God —without provisions, water, masts, sails, or anything that would enable them to struggle for existence, save two oars. In this state they were buffeted about for eleven days, not knowing in what direction they were moving, and with feelings it is totally impossible to describe; when they were fallen in with by the Catherine and Hannah. The scene that presented itself was sufficient to appal the stoutest heart. Of the seven men, only two were alive. Two of them died about twenty-four hours after leaving the ship, from their previous sufferings ; and on their bodies the others subsisted for some time. Three others were also dead in the boat, whose blood afforded drink ; and their bodies sustenance to the wretched men, who lived to narrate the heart- rending tale—in a word, they were endeavouring to prolong a wretched ex- istence by eating and drinking each other's blood. They had all been dread- fully frost-bitten before death had terminated their sufferings. Captain Lurnsden instantly took the living men on board, but one only of them sur- vived about twenty-four hours. The other survivor is so much frost-bitten, that it is supposed his legs must be amputated, and from all he has suffered his recovery is considered doubtful—it seems that his being able to sustain himself longer than his companions in misery, was owing to tobacco. He states that the mate, second mate, and eight of the crew, were left on board the Superb, and when they parted her the carpenter was engaged in cutting away the stauncheons to get the long boat over the side, it being washed to leeward against them. It is to be hoped that Captain Keane remained on hoard the schooner, and lives to give a more authentic and detailed account, and that we shall hear of the safety of those on board the Superb.—Cork Constitution.

EFFECTS OF TUE FLOODS AND TIDINDERSTORMS.—During the heavy thun-

derstorm of Friday week, tire lightning struck a strong wall in Ordsall-lane, Manchester ; which it razed to the ground. Further on, it entered on one side down the chimney of a cottage into a lower room, where several people were sitting, and forced the head of a woman against the window ; on the other side, down the water-spout into an out-house, where a youth was

amusing himself with his rabbits, and where he was by chance discovered, apparently lifeless. By immediate assistance, in the course of half an hour he showed symptoms of returning animation. 'fhe stroke had been so gentle, that he had scarcely changed his position ; and his first notion on re- covering was, that he had dropped asleep.

The rain which continued to fall from Friday till Tuesday, did consider- able damage at Manchester. On Sunday evening a lad, who was looking at the hay coming down the river, fell in and was carried away : a man rushed in to save him, but could only lay hold of the lad's hat, as he sank. A mouse was seen attempting to navigate a tuft of hay, in vain ! The body of a man was thrown up by the flood on Monday. Potatoes, corn, gardens, and meadows, were alike covered by the over-spreading waters. The Duke's Bridge gave way, and part of the wing wall had fallen. A passenger in one of the coaches from Liverpool to Manchester, on Tuesday, says—" Just beyond Warrington, hundreds of acres appeared to be completely deluged. Vessels were at anchor in places where it was im- possible to trace the line between rivers and fields, for the hedges were co- vered with water. The extensive soapery was entirely insulated, the water rising to nearly the top of the first panes of the parlour-windows. A boat was moving between the trees and haystacks ; and it is hoped they were use- ful in securing fuel and food, for the inhabitants of many houses which were cut off from all communication with more favoured spots. Near Hollin's Green, at the bridge, the water appeared to be highest : six horses were re- quisite to draw the coach over the bridge, which, and even its parapet walls, were covered—the horses almost swam. Much damage is done to hay and potatoes, but the growing crops will suffer little." No very serious results have been felt in the vicinity of Liverpool, thought meadows and other grounds have been entirely overflowed. Near Stamford Bridge all the meadows were under water; and men were seen wading up to their middle with ropes, endeavouring to secure the cattle. A part of Crosford bridge was washed away. The horses of the Chester coach were up to their bellies in water for the distance of a mile on the turnpike-road. On the banks of the Mersey, an immense quantity of hay, together with many fields of corn and potatoes, are entirely destroyed. A boat crossing the river was upset by running foul of the hawser of a flat, and four persons were drowned.

The Carlisle paper states that the new bridge at Cockermouth has been washed away. In the neighbourhood of one of the lakes, a man and one or more of his children were drowned while lying in bed. The Tyne, on Mon-

day, overflowed its banks. The quantity of grass, stumps of trees, &c. which were borne down, showed but too well the injury done. 'fhe Der- went was raised to a greater height than any old resident ever remembered ; considerable injury was done to Mr. Annandale's new paper-mills. The Team was so much swollen as to give the vale of Ravensworth the appearance of a large river. Very great quantities of hay have been washed away, or de stroyed from being mixed with sand and gravel. One farm in the neighbour- hood of Sunderland bridge is entirely destroyed. Mr. Hooper and his assis- tants had nearly lost their lives in endeavouring- to secure a crop of hay, by being surrounded by the waters. Boats were brought overland to rescue them, and one of time boats afterwards navigated ever the fields which form the race-ground. In the neighbourhood of Durham, by the overflowing of the river Wear, whole fields of hay were either totally carried off, or so in- jured as to be of little or no value ; and it is feared the crops of turnips, po- tatoes, and corn, will be much damaged. Mr. Cook and three other persons, returning to Newbottle, in the county of Durham, on Sunday evening, near Chester new bridge, found themselves suddenly surrounded by water, which continued rto rise with such rapidity, that the horse was soon deprived of life, and they experienced great difficulty in maintaining their position in the cart, from the depth and rapidity of the current. Seven men stripped and endeavoured to approach them, but were unsuccessful in their efforts ; at length a man named Ferguson and a Ni'. Briggs succeeded in reaching them in a boat, and bringing them safely to land, after they had remained in their perilous situation for upwards of three hours. The horse and part of the shafts of the cart were found next morning in the river at Sunderland. A gentleman near Beverly, who is a great sufferer, says a boat might have been rowed in the water for nearly twenty miles. Iv the Lameths in the neighbourhood of Withernwick, the water on Monday was seven feet deep ; the growing corn, especially where the crops were heavy, was beat flat to the ground ; and where left standing, was two or three feet in water. In the neighbourhood of Leeds, quantities of hay had been washed away : corn crops and potatoes had suffered considerably. At Yarns, boats plied in the streets, removing the inhabitants and their property. A gentleman at Stokesley had invited a large party to dinner : when the company had assembled, it was to witness the dining-room flooded to the depth of three feet, and it would have been impossible to descend to the cellar without a diving-bell.

The neighbourhood of Nantwich and Norwich have suffered greatly front the swelling of the Weaver. In the latter town, the water undertnined the warehouse of Mr. Hanfield, salt-merchant, and the greater part of it fell. The lower stories of the houses were filled, and the stocks in the shops floating about. Many of the inhabitants in Witton-street got into boats from the second stories, by means of ladders. A new vessel, lately launched, broke from her moorings and ran foul of the bridge, with such tremendous force, that it is feared the abutments will give way. None of the coaches could pass. On Sunday the scaffolding erected for repairing the steeple of Davenham. church was blown down, and materially injured the roof.

At Norton-by-Goulby, Stratton, and other villages in Leicestershire, whole crops were washed off the ground. The furniture in the houses in some parts was swimming about, and the inhabitants were obliged to go to the upper story. The Nottingham coach, on its way to Leicester, had in many places found the road a yard deep in water. At Market Harborough, the inhabitants were obliged to go about the town in boats.

The Boston Gazette describes a monstrous form, which revealed itself in the hemisphere on Friday, at noon, to some labourers at work in a field in Wyberton Fen. " A small cloud seemed suddenly to descend in the shape of a column, and as suddenly a similar cloud appeared to rise from the earth; the two joined, and formed a vast column, forty yards fu breadth, reaching from the earth to the clouds. When the colunm was perfectly formed, the magnificent body advanced rapidly in a direction from the south towards the north-east, accompanied by a loud rushing sound, which, as it approached our informants, nearly resembled the discharge of artillery. It was seen thus advancing for several miles until it reached Wyberton Fen, which is only a short distance from Boston ; there its power and ravages were dis- tinctly visible." The manure which had been spread in two lines was taken up by the whirlwind—for it was a whir/mind after all, and nut a themon. A forty-foot drain then interposed, " but it speedily swept across ; and from the quantity of water it deposited, there can be little doubt but that it drew up the entire body of water which spread across its track. The column drew into its vortex a very heavy cart from tire farm of Mr. Horsewood. It also took bp an amazingly heavy roller, which required four horses to draw it." A labourer escaped only by a violent effort from the " terrible engine," but it laid hold of his dress, " which it immediately set in motion." Lastly, it tore up a large apple-tree by the roots, and killed fifteen geese and a flock of pigeons by a process which the humane Yorkshire butcher might have ap- plauded—it carried thee. up, sucked out their breath, and returned there

in a moment quite dead." In the greater part of Oxfordshire and Worcestershire, the wheat and barley have sufffired considerably. In the neighbourhood of Pershore the meadows are underwater, and the hay floating about. In the vicinity of Tewkesbury, the lightning destroyed a valuable wheat- rick belonging to Mr. Edwards ; and but for the timely arrival of fire-engines, a very considerable number of hay-ricks, &c. must have been destroyed. A cow and three sheep were killed. Two of four horses in a team were killed,. A dog sitting between his master's knees was struck dead, though the man received no injury ; and a cottage was completely rent asunder. During the sterna on Tuesday, the lightning set tire to a barn near Ware. The fire communicated to the buildings, valued at 12001., which were entirely destroyed.