(From the Europe¢n’.Ti'ma.)

The splendid harvest weather continues, and in many parts of the country, harvest operations are general, the only difficulty in the case being the absence oflabour. As a substitute for manual power, the reaping machine is coming into pretty general use, and before many yeiii-s have elapsed, the beneﬁts of this excellent substitute will be fully appreciated. At present, the diﬂiculty with farmers of limited means is the first cost—the price ofthe instrument: and it is to be hoped, that this obstacle will vanish at no remote day. In the nieantiuie, to attract men to the ﬁelds, high wages have becn offered-in some districts high enough to induce “navvies” to abandon road- making and take to shearing. For years past, we have advocated the necessity of the executive Government, at ii time like the present, doing everything in its power to aid the ".-irmer to secure, in as fine con- dition as p ~sible, the produce oftlie earth; and the Government could do this eflec- tivcly by allowing the soldicry to work in the fields during harvest time. \’\''c are glad that this subject has been taken up by Sir S. Morton Pete. and we hope that through his iiistrumentality the “pressure from without” may succeed in wringing this concession from the Government. Sir Morton has it strong inducement to push the matter to a successful issue, foi- his “navvies" have left him, and joined the ' agriculturists. In France the soldiers inva- riably aid in securing the crops, and no reason that we know of exists why the same rule should not exist in this country. The extreme heat which prevailed du- ring the last fortnight has been without a parallel in this country of recent years. On some days, the temperature was higher by some degrees than has been known during the last ten years. This has ripened and mellowed the cereal crops rapidly, and pre- cipitated tliat demand for labor to which we have referred. lint the heat has l)t't"ﬂ attended with occasional thunder storms in various parts of the country. and these have (lone more or less injury in particular districts. Inﬂuenced by the tine weather the markets have given way, but the avera- ges show wheat to be still dear. The average struck this week, for example, makes the price of wheat 763. per quarter, barley -l3s. 3d., oats ‘Z35. ld., and rye 465. «ld.; but tlieso averages, struck on six weeks’ re- turn, will decrease with each succeeding

market, as the accounts from all parts of

the empire are most ﬂattering. In France also and onthe continent,thc price of wheat is declining, and the harvest prospects in anada and the United States are brilliant. But it is a singular anomaly in connec- tion with tliis promising state ofthings, that the condition of the money market is by no means satisfactory. The glorious sun- shine in which we have been rejoicing, and which has gladdened every heart, has not raised the price of the public securities, which are now lower than they were a month ago; and the scarcity of gold has been such, that the commercial world has been in the expectation every day that the Bank would raise the rate ofinterest,—the best possible proof, we apprehend, that the laws of nature, as exhibited in an early and auperubundant harvest, and the currency Kws, are diametrically and irreconcilably d. Under the old system of Protec- tion, this was alwu s a critical time of the year, especially w en the harvest was un- promising, for than gold left the country in enormous quantities for food purchase, and the Bank, in selfprotection, put on " the ucrow” to stop its egress. At resent we have daily arrivals of the “ recious me- tals." This week the Royal barter from Australia has brought nearly a million ster- ling, which has been principally purchased by the Bank of France; but the bullion in "the Bank of En land has declined, the reserve of notes has largely declined, and we witness nearly the same results as if we were on the eve of a famine, while the nation is actually on the point of enjoying one of the most bountiful harvests within die memory of man. Nothing can show -ere clearly the viciouuness of our mone- upy laws, and these cruelties to the produ- ggi-s of wealth will go on, until we have a .34.. less adapted to 3 ‘guy possible contingency of society.

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Archibald Alison, the historian, has been propounding some of those fanciful theories this week with which his name is associated. He found an audience the other day in the country ofDurham, where it marchioness and a nobleman stood spon- sors to his platitudes, and the speaker, be- lieving that no one liiid read history but himself, gave ll. new version ofcertain well- known facts which will indiupose many hereafter from trusting implicitly to his guidance, even in matters of opinion. Sir Archibald traced our disasters in the Cri- mea to an over-reduction of our naval and military establishments in time of peace, and to give an illustration, he cited the Afghan war, for the purpose of proving that a niggardly policy in that instance jeopardised our Indian supremacy, and en- tailed upon us a loss of twenty-five thou- sand lives and ten millions of money. The assumption and the inference fi-oiii it have been promptly knocked on the head by some of the ready writers in the daily papers—men who do not give big tomes to the world, it is true, but have learned the art, which Sir Archibald has not, of being at one concise and powerful It is quite consistent with the political creed which Sir Archibald holds to maintain the neces- ity of large standing armies and ﬂeets, but it is the most foolish thing in the world to ivc reasons for an enormous superﬂuous expenditure of this kind, when these rea- sons, duly analysed, prove the very con- verse of the pro osition. Every one not wilfully blind knows that the Crinieiin dis- asters were not owing to a want of men or material, but to the want of it sysl¢m—to that wretched thing called routine, as un- derstood in official life, of which the aris- tocracy, like their historic defender, have always been the advocates, and which wars constantly with that great principle that rules the world—commoii sense. The QlIt‘en and the Royal family have been eiijo_\iiig it plea.-‘ant cruise to the Channel Islands, and littvi‘ called, on their

they have been l'BCt'l\'1.'d with marked ontliusiasin. The weather has been favo- rable on the whole, lfll|'l't~‘p('l‘.'~lC(.l, liowever, with occasional squalls, which inust have tested the sailor-like capacity oftlie voy- agers. Her Majesty loves excitenieiit— must move about, and has become so liabi- tuated to the plaudits of her people that she cannot iipparently dispense with them. But it is innocent sport for a crowned head, which no one would wish to see curtailed. But, somehow or other, Prince Albert is not a general favorite. Perhaps the fact of his being a foreigner may slightly ope- rate; but the real cause, we suspect, is the parsimonious character which he has every- wjiere acquired. The Prince knows the value of money, knows how to provide for his family, and in the great art of cheese-

aring is said to be without a rival. Even this week, we hear of a transaction which will increase the disfavor with which he is viewed—the purchase of an enormous quan- tity oflaiid in Australia, the payinaster for wliicli,—so goes the story,—is to be the Marquis of Westminster.’ The fact of the last-mentioned nobleman opening his purse- strings to advance money to the Royal Con- sort gives an additional ﬂavour to the state- ment, as the Marquis has the reputation of being one of the greatest “ screws" living in these dominions.

The leading journal of yesterday has an article relative to the subscription which was recently opened in this country for the

“' b the inundations in France. The amount collected is said to exceed a million of francs, but the sum cannot be accurately named, in consequence of some of the towns havin sent the sums collected to Paris direct. iuiverpool and Birming- ham are named as amongst the places which have done this, and, it is added, “ Scotland, too, with some of the old feeling which has kept alive and warm to this day the memory of its French alliances, sent its offering in the same way. or the rest, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol, and the towns of England generally, added their subscriptions to the London list, which now exceeds £32,000." With due defe- rence to the authority from which we have taken this extract, we cannot hel thinking that this has been a very stupi arran q.

meat on the part ofthe “ towns of England ‘stood -—in the Parr: .

return, at roltlt: of the coast towns, where,

or to the Lord Mayor of London. As it is, the majority of the people of Franc are almost certain to labour under a miscon- ception about the subscriptions. They will give London credit for all the money col- lectrd in the "towns of England gene- rally" except those sent direct to the French metropolis. \'Ve must add, more- over, that we consider a million of francs an extremely paltry sum to be subscribed for such a purpose by the wealthiest coun- try in the world. But if our French neigh- bors are satisﬁed, we have no right to be otherwise, and that they are satisﬁed, we infer from another part of the same article from which we have already quoted. “Every day” continues our London contemporary "our relations are becoming more close. \Vc have always respected the literature of France; France has lately begun to study English literature. It is only three years since an exhibition of French pictures was first opened in London; it was only last year,that English pictures dawned upon the French; and now, at the Crystal Palace, both schools may be seen side by side in friendly rivalry. There has just been an agricultural show in Paris, and English farmers thronged to it, the French farmers eagerly buying their cattle. From day to day, the friendly intercourse gathers strength and takes new forms. The En- glish farmers in Paris, indeed, were amongst the first to come forward with their subscriptions, when the distressing disaster occurred which has elicited so much symynthy."

The Daily News of yesterday, in an arti- cle on Australia, mentions ii characteristic anecdote respecting the rapid rise ofa part ofthe world which now absorbs so much attention, and in which there is a great moral--“ One day, in the year I788,” sa s our contemporary, “ a thoughtless ' Middy’ was leaning over the bulwark of his ship, then anchored oﬂ' Spithead, listlessly gazing into the water. His captain who had been pacing the deck, all at once stopped short, tapped him on the shoulder, and pointing to some ship sailing past, said—‘ innrk those vessels, young man; they carry in them the germs of a mighty empire.’ The vessels the captain pointed to were the small squadron in which was embarked the first batch of convicts sent to ‘ Botan Bay." As a commentary on the foregoing, it may be added that, including New Zea- land, there are now six colonies in Austra- lia, and ii population of half a million of souls. Hnlfoftlie wool imported into Great Britain comes from Australia, and Mel- bourne exports annually a hundred tons of gold to England. An Adelaide commer- cinl circular with which we have been fa- vored, published by Messrs. M‘Dermott, Dutton and Co., contains the following remarkable paragraph respecting the colo- ny of South Australia,---and aiioit came to hand by the Royal Charter this week, it affords ii striking commentary on the " Middy" anecdote. According to this au- thority the exports from Adelaide during the season amounted to £l,l75,000. Rela- tive to population the circular says-

Our population has increased since In January, this year. by about 2846 souls, making a total esti- mate to date ofabout 93,000. The large and con- tinued success of the gold-diggings in Victoria. how- ever, _ssercise a very injurious affect on our colony, by withdrawing ab u-bodied laborers and skilled wovhmun from us. Just now the departures from Adelaide for the Victoria Gold-ﬁelds have become very aun_isro_us again, sud there seems to be a sort of contagion in this feeling, which induces people to give up a certain moderate competence here, for the uncertain lure of the gold-ﬁelds. Very rest dissu- tiafuction has been created in the colony by the min. appr iutisn of our Emigration Fund by the Com. missionars in England, by sending out to this colon a large proportion of unsuitable emigrants. We fin . also, that most of the able-bodied emigrants who are brought out at the expense of our Land Fund, ro- ceed on to Melbourne as fun as they arrive. his now become so serious in its effects. that we loolt forward to an surly cessation of employing the

roduce of our land salsa in introducing emigrants rum Europe, stlosst fora considerable time to come, and in lieu thereof to employ the money in the Colony by constructing rant public works of enduring utility. which would‘ have the curtain ul'ect of iittrsotiiig to our shores a full pr rtion of labor, without any expense to our funds or that purpose.

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generally." It would have been far better; if each district had sent its own contribu tions direct to one soiirce—-either to Paril

, News ritois Ciiiin.—. - .ceived from Rev. I. J.ARl.ie)liti:eiitsJusdai.¢.i “Canton. April, 1856,” states ,|eve[-ea] interesting facts. A list of foreign residents in China has been carefully pre ared There are 891 foreign residents of iivhorri 88 are missionaries. This nuiiiber onl included the males. The population oii‘ Hong Kong now amounts to 7-2 607 of whom, 57l are Europeans and Ariierjénng -—males 379, females 95, children 97 Mi- Roberts saw .35 rebels executed on the of March. 'l‘nc rebels have gained posses- sion of Han-yang, a large city. The Edi- tor of the North China Herald remark; it . . ’ i ch:rlIl that colmes to notice is Bllggegtiyg of I_ go in tie empire, and there is but ittle to augur, that any suppression ofihe rebellion will take place for a long time to come.”

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Saturday. August 80, 1856.

Wu have for some time iven u - noticeof the bombasticuffussions ihapt ii:.',°,‘,-,,,‘,,",{ time appear under the editorial head 0 5 aminer; all such self-gratulation and sel tion is, no doubt, very pleasant to the Edito convinces no one, and is, we think, dis us to the intelligent and well informed ofh u 0 party. Our attention. however, has been calls

the last Erorriinor under the title of “Another obstructive movement." it is there stated, that Mr. Robert Bruce Stewart has sought an interview with the Colonial Oﬁce for the pur- pose of preventing the Royal assent being given to the Act for increasing the re resentatives. Nothing can be farther from t e fact ; Mr. Bruce Stewart knows nothing of any such tition being in the progress of signature, nor id we ourselves until ll. day or two since. a arniner calls it a “ silly remonstrance," but, like most. of his assertions—directly opposite to the ti-utli.

It is ll simple detail of facts,not one of which can be disputed. As for instance, that twelve members voted for the Bill in opposition to nine, that two of the minority were absent, who if they had been present, would have made the division )2 to ll. ‘flint when it was moved. to have it printed and published, the division was 10 to 11. and had the two members been ,prescnt, it would have been 12 to II, so that, sin one sense, the bill has been carried by less

than one-half, and taken at the utmost, by only lone-half. Now, this is a vet important fact, iand one that will be very li ely to have due , weight with the Colonial Secretary of State. It [is stated also, and that fact cannot be dedied, ,'that it was introduced at a late period of the ' session, and that it \| as unsolicited by the co-

ple, which is another very important fact, lequally incapable of being controverted. and it ,might have gone further, and with perfect , truth have stated. that there was not one rsinglo good and aufiicient reason shown, why l the representation. (already greater in propor- ;tion to its population than in any other colony) ishould be increased. it states a very melan-

choly fnct, that while there is this attempt to {increase the number of representatives, the : population of the island is decreasing in a most in armin ratio, and this is no gratuitous as-

sertion, or it quotes the returns of the census I made by order of the Government.

i-orri.s-rioiv. iiicitnsu. ‘ 1327 23.266 6.46 per annum.

I833 ,292 do

I8-ll 47,034 6.52

1848 62.678 4.75

I855 71.490 2.01 I

There are other statements and conclusions from premises stated, and it would pus- zle the ' to prove either that the latter were false or the former inconsequential- ly deduced.

After all, the pra er of the petition is its modest as can possib y be. it merely re nests, “ that your Majesty will be pleased to ta e the foregoing particulars into your gracious con- sideration. and withhold your sanction from the said Act. in order that (lie opinion oftlie In- habitants of this Colon at large maybe ascertained be on Judi during: Malibu permitted to be made in t ‘ constitution." It does not request that the ltoyal assent should be but merely suspended in order to give tms for that to be done which ought to have pi-cor.-ded any

‘attempt of the kind ; via, whether such change

were called for by the people themselves or whether it was only a scheme of those is power to perpetuate the continuance of that war in themselves and thereby entail upon the people of this Island a compact inﬁnitely more tyrannical and overbearing than the family compact, which they boast of having de- stroyed, svur was or even sou ht to . Examiner has voluntarily on ad the public .sttcntion to this inodersts, constitutional and petition and the chances are, that it

On Tu esday last it

neoollar will be the more uuinsrously signed in conse-

to some misstatements which _have appeared in‘ .