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The Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to continue the inquiry undertaken last year concerning the best means which Great Britain can adopt for the final extinction of the slave-trade, has agreed to a report embodying these conclusions—That the suppression of the slave-trade by a naval force is shown by a long and large ex- perience to be impracticable; that supposing this country had an actual title, or could by negotiation acquire a title, to use such measures auxiliary to the present preventive system as the destruc- tion of baracoons, the punishment of pirates, and the liberation of all slaves imported to Brazil and the Spanish colonies, such measures would be attended with imminent risk of very serious calamities, and would scarcely be sooner commenced than abandoned. Therefore, that the Com- mittee cannot recommend the continuance of our system of force. How- ever, it does not recommend that Great Britain should immediately and unconditionally withdraw her naval contingent, but that communications should be opened with other countries to release her from such treaty arrangements as place her squadron beyond her free and exclusive control. It needs not follow that Great Britain become neutral or indifferent; it would still be her duty to avow unabated hostility to the African slave- trade, to employ all means compatible with a just regard to the inde- pendence of other states for mitigating its evils and accelerating its extinc- tion; and to shrink from no further pacific efforts, or even further sacrifices, to attain so happy a consummation.

The uniform tenour of the accounts concerning the crops in all quarters is highly favourable. The hay crop in the South of England is unpre- cedentedly heavy, and has been already to a great extent secured. If the present representations be fully borne out, the crops of all sorts—potatoes, wheat, oats, and hay, throughout Great Britain and Ireland—will be of remarkable bulk and forwardness.

Tuesday's Gazette announced that on the 30th January the remains of the Princess Sophia had been removed from the catacomb under the chapel in which they were placed after the funeral, and deposited in the winaprepared for their reception. in the general cemetery at Kemal Green. Mr. John Philpotts, brother to the Bishop of Exeter, and formerly the liberal and intelligent Member for Gloucester, has died suddenly in an omnibus. He got into an omnibus at the corner of Devonshire Street; when it stopped at the Re- gent's Circus, the conductor saw Mr. Philpotts fall upon his side along the seat; he was carried to a chemist's, and it was found that life was extinct. A post- mortem examination showed that the heart was greatly diseased—double the usual size. Mr. Philpotts was in his seventy-fourth year.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick English, commanding the Royal Engineers at Woolwich, died there on Saturday, in consequence ot an accident on the 16th May. On that day, Colonel English, who had previously been in good health, was present while a new asphalts composition for forming batteries was tested; a cannon-ball shivered the composition, and a fragment struck Colonel English on the arm, and it was necessary to convey him home. He suffered much; but it was not discovered for a long time that a bone had been broken by the blow. Colonel English never rallied from the effects of the fracture.

Daring the last few days, several men under the direction of the Trinity Board have been employed on the Goodwin, about mid-sand. It appears the object is to force, by means of atmospheric pressure, several lengths of cylindrical iron tubes into the sand until some solid material is arrived at: each length of tube is about 10 feet long and 211 in diameter; but although six lengths securely fastened have been made to penetrate a depth of about 60 feet beneath the surface, no founda- tion has yet been reached. It is in contemplation, as soon as a substratum suf- ficiently firm is found, to place several tubes of similar dimensions at approximate distances, and to erect a beacon thereupon.—Dover Telegraph.

The Olympic Theatre, in Wych Street, is to be rebuilt. The first stone of the new building was laid on Saturday last, by Miss Cavell, the daughter of the pro- prietor, in the presence of a party of dramatic and literary friends.

The Committee of the Bath General Hospital have come to a determination to discontinue the interments in the burial-ground belonging to the Hospital, situated immediately opposite the Commercial Rooms on the North side of the old borough wall. The ground has been covered with a stratum of concrete five inches tbick.—Lancet.

Commander Lewis de Teisaer Prevost has been tried by court-martial at Ports- mouth, for leaving her Majesty's sloop Ranger in distress, in the Porto Grande of the island of St. Vincent, on the 10th September 1848, without rendering all the assistance in his power as Commander of her Majesty's sloop Pantaloon. The charge was adjudged to be folly proved, and Commander Prevost was sentenced to be dismissed from the command of her Majesty's sloop Pantaloon.

Sir Richard Moore, Bart., the eldest son of the late Sir Emanuel Moore, has, we are informed, just been appointed one of our city Bridewell guard by the High Sheriff. This is indeed a strange position for the representative of one of our oldest baronetcies to occupy. What makes it the more distressing is, that his poverty has not come of his own folly, but has been entailed on him by the indis- cretion of others.—Province of Munster. (Cork paper.) The son of a farmer at Caddesden, who had been amusing himself with shoot- ing rats, fell down with his gun, and the contents of both barrels were lodged in his body ; causing death soon after.

An American paper has the following piece of news, brought to Boston by the Jasper whaling-bark. " On the 23d ot March 1849, arrived at St. Helena a schooner, called the Zenobia, of Baltimore. (for adjudication in the Vice-Ad-

miralty Court,) which vessel had been captured by her Britannic Majesty's sloop Philomel on the West coast of Africa, with a cargo of slaves, numbering 550, (33 of whom are women,) the vessel not being over 100 tons burden. She was eleven days on her passage to St. Helena, and lost ten or eleven of them. These poor creatures were in a perfect state of nudity, and many of them (the women in particular) had the brands of a hot iron recently impressed on their breast. The vessel was so small, and the number of slaves so great, that it was next lc an impossibility to go from one end of the vessel to the other."

A correspondent at Lochcarron describes a land-slip which he witnessed on the summit of one of the Torridon mountains as peculiarly grand. It occurred on the morning of Friday the 15th Jane, at four o'clock. There had been heavy rain during the night, by which a stone or rock, which could not be less than a thousand tons weight, was detached, and came thundering down the rocky hill, driving everything before it.—Ross-shire Advertiser.

On Thursday last week, as eight or nine haymakers, with their employer, were at work in an adjoining parish, a cock partridge suddenly flew out of a hedge in the meadow and assailed successively the whole of the party; pecking at them as a game-cock might do, repeating the attack, and then returning to its nest, where it was supposed the ben bird was hatching. On his attacking the master, he picked the bird up and smoothed his ruffled feathers; observing, he was a gallant fellow to defend his family in so determined a manner; but on the inspection of the nest on the following morning, the appearance of the shells in- dicated that the young ones had recently left them.—Cambrian (of Swansea).

Some of the mountain streams of High Farness, in which the sheep that pas- ture there are annually washed, have this season exhibited a large number of trout lying dead beside the brink; in heaps of five or six together. This is attributed by parties resident in the district to the poisonous effect of the new material which is used for dipping the sheep, and which passing from the wool in process of washing impregnates the water.

A whirlwind at Glasgow, last week, played havock with an old-clothes market. "Paddy's Market" is held in Jail Square, and here all kinds of ancient clothing are displayed: in a moment the air was darkened by a cloud of garments which were carried in every direction, and over the roofs of houses. The loss to the dealers was considerable.

A Mormon orator, while haranguing a crowd at Montrose, alleged that the blessings of his creed were so great that a true believer might swallow poison with impunity. The mob took him at his word, or rather resolved to test it; and some prussic acid having been produced, he was strongly pressed to swallow a little. A policeman rescued the disconcerted boaster from his persecutors.

To make a man eligible to the Senate of South Carolina, he must own five hundred acres of land and ten Negroes I—New England Washingtonian.

The Legislature of New York forbids the use of law Latin. A writ "Ne exeat," says some wag, is now an order of "No go."

The accounts of the Bank of England for the week ending the 30th June exhibit, when compered with those of the preceding week, the following results-

B4N6ING DEPARTMEIVr. Increase. Decrease.

Rest

£2,032 —

Public Deposits

210,514 --- Other Depusits

£110,2841

Seven-day and other Bills 17,672 -- Government Securities, including Dead-weight 36,599 — Other Securities 217,803 — Notes unissued

71,080 Actual Circulation 67,160 — Imam DEPIZTXanT.

Notes Issued

3,920 Bullion

67,312

This meek. Last week.

Total Bullion in both Departments 16,120,811 15048,123 Actual Circulation 17.934,395 17,867,235