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The final results of the harvest are still matter of doubtful conjecture and estimate: probably, however, this generalizing view, from the Times, is. not far wrong- " It was only two months ago that men were heard complaining of a too abundant harvest. Frightened by the immediate prospect of unwholesome plenty, they looked not forward. Low prices seemed to bound the horizon of the corn-market. There seemed no chance of dearness. The factor caught eagerly at the bait thrown by the wary speculations of foreign fears. He shipped to the prudent ports of Belgium and Holland the grain of which he could not stay to await the prospective value in England. Holland bought, Belgium bought, France bought, in the dread of an im- pending scarcity; and the English merchant sold, heedless of competing purchasers, but oppressed by the sad sayings of expiring protection. Two months have passed away, and already the desponding speculator finds that to supply the wants of foreign nations he neglected those of his own; and that now, to satisfy these last, he must begin to outbid the wants or the ava- rice of his earlier but provident customers. The proceeds of the last harvest have already been invaded. There is little old wheat in the kingdom. Nine months must elapse before a single blade can be ripened for our granaries; and already men are asking, whence is our bread to come during that time? The greater part of Europe is more straitened than ourselves. In many parts expor- tation is prohibited. We have been feeding the Continent. As we have at com- mand money, the fruit of labour both agricultural and manufacturing, we may buy back dearly from the Continent what we have sold cheaply. We shall thus lose only in one way. But this is sufficient to illustrate the operations of corn- merce and the rules of demand and supply. Had the converse been the case— had we been deficient in our harvest, and the rest of Europe overflowing—we should have bought early, and at our own prices; and, even bad we bought too. much for our own use, we could have held in our hands the scales of European wants, and have doled out the contents of our magazines to the manner necessi- ties of the Continent. But either case—that of our indigence no less than that of our abundance—sufficiently exhibits the natural workings of a trade in the first and most necessary article of life." The Morning Post calls attention to the discrepancy between the price of wheat and that of bread in London- " Very good wheat weighs from 621bs. to 641bs. the bushel; but take wheat at 601bs. the bushel, or 480Iba. the quarter, the produce at the mill may be taken as follows—

Of fine flour 31311,s.

Coarse seconds 40 Making 480 lbff.

" Let us give up the bran and the thirds flour, and 3lbs: of the seconds, end - say that 3501bs. of flour are left for making into bread. We believe that the sack, or 2801bs. of flour, is calculated to yield 86 four-pound loaves. Now, at this rate, a quarter of wheat, or 3501bs. of flour, will yield I071, loaves of four pounds each.; which, at 10d. each loaf, would be within a fraction of 90s., or fifty per cent u the present price of wheat, to say nothing of the 1141bs. of bran and coarse ur which the quarter of wheat yields over and above the loaves. "But if we take flour' which now sells for 60s. a sack, and multiply the 86 • four-pound loaves which it produces by 10d. for each loaf, we have 718. &I; which leaves a profit of rather less than twenty per cent. This is pretty well upon a ready-money trade, the capital involved in which may be turned fifty 'in a j'Wl" A ship has redently arrieeaat Livaitiool, from Calcutta, with it mime,- kJ:Jenne cargo, part of which consisted of a hundred bags of flour the pro.- duce of the East Indies, said to be a novel importation. A vessel has arrived at Liverpool from Quebec, part of the 'cargo of which consists of 9,530 barrels of flour, of Canadian produce.

The Augsburg Gazette quotes a letter from Ancona, stating that the. Duke of Devonshire was expected at Athens at the date of the last accounts. from that city, on a special mission, having for object the cession by the. Greek Government of the island of Egina, as a compensation for the Eng- lish guarantee of the Greek loan. This, however, is an old, and, we must. add, very improbable rumour.—Morning Post.

We are authorized to state that Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, did not arrived at Liverpool by the steamer Cambria. He is expected to arrive by the steamer Great Western, which was to leave New York on he 8th instant. —Globe.

The Globe is authorized to contradict the report circulated by a Dublin paper, that Mr. Tenny,:on D'Eyncourt and his family had embraced the Roman Catholic faith. "It is true that the eldest daughter of Mr. Tenny- son D'Eyncourt has entered the Roman Catholic Church, contrary to the- wishes and much to the regret of all her family; but for the statement that Mr. D'Eyncourt, or that any other members of his family, have en• tered the Roman Catholic Church, there is not the slightest foundation whatever."

It is understood that Captain Brandreth, R.E., F.R.S., now the Admi- ralty director of engineering and architectural works, is to be appointed a member of the new Government Railway Board.

Considerable changes in the constitution of the Coast Guard have for some time been talked of, but the reports have been for the most part inde- finite. We are now enabled to state, upon what we consider good author- ity, that that valuable body is about to be placed entirely under the Ad- miralty; and that Capain Mingaye, who formerly commanded the Coast Blockade, will be at the head of the force. By this alteration, a large body of useful seamen will always be available upon an emergency; and it will probably be made a rule to draft a certain number of men from that par- ticular service whenever ships are commissioned.—United Service Gazette. Another claimant of the merit of inventing "gun-cotton " has appeared, in Professor Forsteomam of Elberfold. In support of his pretensions; he has published, in the Cologne Gazette, a certificate by two inhabitants of

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Cologne, that two months ago the Professor pointed out to them a method of preparing the combustible, similar to that given by Professor Otto of Brunswick.

Under the bead of "Norton and Dunston, the Earl of Ripon and the Newtons," a correspondent of the Times furnishes a narrative of the antece- dents to the Crowther persecution. In 1842, the Reverend A. K. B. Gran- ville, being newly appointed Curate of Dunston, Mr. Bavin was desirous of having a Wesleyan school-feast in his own workshop; and Mrs. Newton, in the absence of her husband, was the medium through which a written application was made to Mr. Granville for the requisite permission; which was however refused, "with a hint of what would happen" if the room were so need. The feast wAs_tber_elgre ahemdoned. Soon afterwards, a Mr. Millington was shouldered and annoyed by Mr. Granville while de- livering a Teetotal lecture in the street; and the Vicar's son assisted at the disturbance then raised. At Michaelmas 1842, a Mr. Sharpe received notice by order of Lord Ripon, to quit his farm, because he was "a Methodist and a preacher." He left it at Lady-day 1843. Pre- viously to this, John Blow, a labourer, was discharged by Mr. Newton from his employ, by order of certain "higher powers "—the man had be- come a Teetotaller. Mr. Granville suddenly left the curacy in this year; and the Reverend A. A. Kempe was appointed. A gentleman named Dawson having declined to be at the expense of building a new chancel to Dunston church, when requested by Mr. Kempe, and desiring to bury his deceased father in a vault in the church, was forced to pay 161. to effect this object. A further demand of 301. being made by Mr. Ketnpe, 3Ir. Dawson refused to pay it, although warned by the reverend gentleman that, should he persist in his refusal, his occupation of Nocton Grange farm might soon cease. Mr. Dawson then complained that the Vicar's son and Mr. Kempe had sent for gin and drunk it in the vault with the workmen. "But this the Curate excuses, in a letter -published October 23, 1844, stating that to make the vault, fourteen bodies were disturbed, some with the scalp and hair yet adhering to their skulls, and with teeth yet embedded in their gums'; and the effluvium was so offensive that they were obliged to drink gin." These "spiritual" festivities' however, got to the ears of the Bishop, and Mr. Kempe left Dunston. Mr. Dawson's sins were likewise punished: he was dismissed from his farm; while his mother and a Mr. Howard were also sent from theirs. In June 1845, the Reverend Mr. Crowther succeeded the Reverend Mr. Kempe; and, as the reader will re- member, was soon after required not to know "the Newtons." [In a letter to the Times, Mr. Kempe denies the gin-drinking; though it is possible that the workpeople may have offered him the first taste of their cordial, out of civility; and he may have put it to his lips.] In the course of the narrative, the following ludicrous incident is men- tioned— "In September 1844, the Earl of Ripon wrote a letter to the local papers to state 'The Mr. Dawson alluded to has never been my tenant, nor was his father before him; and I am not the patron of the livings of either Nocton or Dunston.' In a Lincoln newspaper the word livings was printed • lioness': it read= I am not the patron of the lioness of either Nocton or Dunston.' Now, at Nocton resided a lady who supplied the hall' with information of the affairs of these pleasant vil- lages; and it was supposed by the villagers that the 'lioness' could be no other than the lady in question: the name took,and she has been known as the lioness' ever since."

Mr. James Stewart, the eminent writer on Conveyancing, has addressed through the Times "a few words" to landed proprietors on the advantages and necessity of a free trade in land. "If you can buy land more easily," he says, "or sell land more easily, or borrow money more easily on your land, this is a direct benefit to you; for persons interested in land usually wish to buy it, or to sell it, or to enjoy it and to render it available for their necessities." The laws relating to property should be few and simple; sale and mortgage should be readily performed. In Belgium, Prussia, and France, the transfer of land is as simple as that of stock-

" This has been brought out in a striking way in making purchases of laud for railways, of which the same persons are directors in England and in France or Belgium. Now, what is the result of this increased facility of transfer? We find that land is more valuable in France, in Belgium, and in Prussia, than in England: it fetches more in the market, and money can be borrowed on land at a much easier rate there than here."

Mr. Stewart refers to the feudal system as the origin of the difficulty- " Let it be remembered, that down to the end of the reign of Henry the Eighth no one could will his freehold lands, and that down to the 55th of George the Third no one could will his copyhold land without a previous surrender; and down to the first year of the Queen no one could will his customary lands with- out a previous surrender; that so late as the reign of King William the Fourth an entail could not be barred except by a fictitious suit called a floe or a re- covery; that down to the fourth year of the reign of her Majesty two deeds were usually employed instead of one in the most simple dealing with land; that down to the commencement of this year those useless phantoms termed outstanding terms for years' were in full activity; and that now, according to the established practiae, before an acre of land can be sold, its history for the last sixty years at least must be told."

The endeavour should now be to obtain—" 1. Simplicity and uniformity of tenure; 2. Easy, cheap, and expeditious modes of transfer; 8. Shorter and more simple deeds; 4. A greater certainty as to time in completing the sale and mortgage of land; 5. Some mode of shortening inquiry as to title." These desirable objects would be materially aided by a general official map of the country, and a general register of titles. Looking to the state of opinion in Scotland and Ireland, Mr. Stewart thinks that a vigorous effort is all that is now wanting to induce the present Ministry to attend to the subject. [The Times has followed up Mr. Stewart's com- munication with its own powerful support in the "leading article" de- partment.] The committee appointed at the recent meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in London, "to ascertain and convene the members of the Alliance in the United gdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in order to form the British organization at a time and place to be determined by them," have fixed upon Manchester as the place, and Wednesday the 4th of November as the time for that purpose.

The King of Prussia has, it is stated from Berlin, devoted no less a sum than 120,000/. to the formation of a covered garden in the centre of that city., to be need as a winter promenade by its inhabitants. A regulated temperature is to be maintained, and rare exotics of warmer climes cultivated in this truly royal de- sign.—Literary Gazette.

The railroad from Lucca to the Baths of Pisa was opened on the 9th Septem- ber, and in a few days would be carried on to the city. The opening of the third section of the Florence Railroad, between Pontedra and Empoli, is adjourned till the spring. The Drapers Company have built a large house and premises in Moneymore, Ireland, at great expense, for the purpose or a la, nung-I■upieuleut manufactory, as an accommodation to the tenants on their estates.—Globe.

The late Mr. Owens has tequeathed a large amount of property for the endow, malt of a college in Manchester, to be open to professors and pupils without the i aposition of any religious test.—Manchester Tomes.

Lord Ashburton has given his Sornersetshire tenants tle exclusive right to all the game on their respective farms.

Amidst the complaints of declining commerce which reach us from every quar- ter, it is gratifying to find that the port of Liverpool still keeps on the even tenour of her way, improving her position. The accounts for the present quarter, ended the 10th instant, give an increase over the corresponding three months of 1845 at 118,2951.—Liverpool Mail.

Snow has fallen very generally on the hills in the North. The Ochills in Scot land, Skiddaw, Helvellyn, and Scawfell, in Cumberland, and other places, are reported to have put on their winter clothing.

A remarkablephrenomenon in the vegetable world may be seen in a garden at Liege, where a vine, after having borne grapes twice, is now in blossom for the third time.

The recent continuous rains have caused floods in many places. In Warwick- shire, the water has been very deep; especially in the neighbourhoods of Rugby anl North Kilworth.

Among other damage done by the rain, there has been a large slip of earth.-- thirty thousand cubic yards—in a cutting of the Hastings and Brighton Railway, near Westham. The disaster has caused a good deal of inconvenience; passen- gers having been obliged to shift trains at the spot. The opening both of the Bedford branch railway and that of Margate has been postponed in consequence of the injury done to the works by the wet.

Duringthe latter part of last week, Keswick and the neighbourhood was visited by another flood, exceeding anything of the kind for the last fifteen years. It commenced raining about Tuesday, and continued with scarcely any intermission until Saturday evening. On Saturday morning the flood was at its height. The two lakes, Baesenthwaite and Derwentwater, were so swollen that they again formed one entire sheet of water of twelve miles in extent; and the water was higher by fifteen inches than it was in the flood about three months back. At Braithwaite, the flood came down the Grinsdale Pike resembling the whirlwind: it lifted a cart that was standing near Messrs. Simm's woollen manufactory, and set it down again about twenty yards distance.—Carlisle Patriot.

The boisterous weather which has recently prevailed is reported to have done much damage at sea: many disasters may be expected to be reported hereafter. The vessels plying between Holland and England have had great difficulty in making their passage.

The same hurricane that perilled the Great Western has committed havoc in Newfoundland. Many vessels were wrecked or damaged, boats swamped, trees uprooted, and houses blown from their foundations. The rivers rose in places fully ten feet above their ordinary levels. An unfinished building, the Natives Hall, which since the last fire had afforded shelter to several families, was blown down; two persons named Duggan were killed, and their mother and several others very dangerously injured. '1 he new church of St. Thomas was lifted front its foun- dations, and moved several inches from its original position. Every bridge cros- sing the river, from Quidi Vidi to Long Pond, Las .been either swept away by the flood or much damaged. The arch of the King's Bridge is entirely gone. The River-head bridges have also suffered, although not to the same extent. The centre part ef the long bridge leading to the South side was carried away; as were several smaller bridges in other directions.

The Wyoming, from Philadelphia, entered the Mersey on Tuesday, with loss of maintopmast. In the Atlantic, a heavy sea had struck the ship whilst twenty hands were in the yards; five men were knocked overboard and drowned, and three others were seriously hurt.

The splendid schooner yacht Wandering Spirit, the property of Viscount Eli- worth, while beating into Kinsale, on Saturday night, went on shore on the rocks at the entrance of that harbour. The Countess of lIountcashel and two of her daughters were on board at the time of the accident; but immediately after the vessel struck they were landed in one of the boats. The yacht has since become a total wreck.

The John Bull states that circumstances have recently transpired which lead to an expectation that the large sum of money stolen from Messrs. Rogers and Company's may yet be retrieved, at least the notes. "That the whole of thb notes to the amount of 40,0001., are still in existence has been satisfactorily proved by the fact, that a few days since a one-pound nete, the number of which. does not appear in the printed list published and circulated, but which was stolen at the time, was forwarded to the banking-house; the party sending it requesting the receipt of it to be acknowledged in the newspapers, and the whole of the notes would be restored upon the payment of 10,0001.; the acknowledgment to be H. F.' This request was accordingly complied with; but as to the compromise, that has not been entertained." "No doubts are now entertained but the whole of the stolen property will be recovered, and at the same time such evidence will be ad- duced as to lead to the conviction of the offender."

A strange misconviction has just been brought to light. On the 27th of Sep- tember last, Nott, a tailor, was convicted at the Clerkenwell Sessions of robbing a Mr. Still, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The chief testi- mony against him was that of Mary Ann Evans, a girl of fourteen, servant to Mr. Still. Evans deposed that she had seen Nott steal articles of clothing, and stated other particulars incriminating him; she also picked up a nightcap which belonged to Mr. Still, at Notes house. At the trial, a Mrs. Swift gave Nott a good character, and expressed her conviction that Evans had sworn falsely. The girl was enraged at this, and meditated revenge. Lately she came home several times with her clothes torn and with bruises on her person; which she declared to have been inflicted by Mrs. Swift. At length the truth of these stories was doubted; and inquiry led to the discovery that the girl had been lying: some clothes which Mr. Still had lost were found hung up a chimney where she had placed them. Evans now confessed that her charge against Nott was entirely a fabrication, and that she herself had dropped the nightcap in his house to insure his conviction. A memorial was sent to the Home Secretary to obtain Nott's release.

The man has been set at liberty He attended at the Thames Police-office, on Wednesday, to inquire by what means he might obtain redress for his wrongful imprisonment. The Magistrate told him, that all he could do was to indict the girl for perjury. Nott complained that he had been kept in prison a fortnight after the real state of the case had been made known at the Home Office. Some money which had been left for the applicant was given to him; a sovereign was from the Magistrate who had committed him for trial on the charge of theft.

The reported attack on Lord Rosse's telescope turns out to be not merely a mis- take, but altogether an idle hoax.

Among the Spanish officers transferred for safer keeping to the citadel of Blaye in consequence of the flight of the Count de Montemoliu, was the Marquis de Valdespina. The Cayenne mentions, that on bearing of the circumstance, the Marchioness, who was residing at Maquina, was struck with apoplexy, and died instantaneously. The death of his wife had a very injurious effect on the health of the aged Marquis.

Slumber of Autumn Annual deaths, average. average. Zymotle (or Epidenilc, Endemic, and Contagions) Diseases.— 188 ... 206 ... 188 Dropsy, Cancer, and other discs/ego( uncertain m variable seat 91 ... 104 Diseases of the Brain, spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses 130 ... 151 ... 167 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 230 ... 313 ... 294 Diseases of the Heart and Blood..vessels 40 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 83 ... 72 Ihseases of the Kidneys, fie 7 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, &a 10 ... 10 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, tte 4 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, fie. 1

Old Age as

Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 23 — — — Total (including unspecified ceases) 821 ... 1,000 ... 989

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 68.3° in the sun to 35.9° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the average mean temperature by 0.3°. The direction of the wind for the week was generally South, but it was variable.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last—