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rous hostess’s larder, and to the taste with which she|cases where death and utter extermination are actually

can dispense them. We give the following list from a memoranda of the prizes awarded by the Judges :— First Crass.—Nine PLovueis.

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threatened. State necessity and expediency must out- ride even the harsh theories of political economy.—Eu- ropean T'imes.

FAILURES OF MERCANTILE FIRMS IN ENGLAND

RE Ist Prize—Chester W oolner £] 10 Gg i A ID OTHER PARTS OF KUROPE SINCE THE 5TH : a. ‘ : | OCTOBER Yd do. Robert Moffatt, 1 aaa 3d do. Andrew Clarke, 017 6 Andrew, I. & J., calico printers Manchester. Ath do. John McNeill, 012 6 | Barclay, brotiers, & Co., merchants London. 5th do. Robert Laird, 010 0 Barnes, F., & Co.,hardwaremen, London, Birmingham,

. , ae ee } our unsuccessfal Ploughs were aw arded 6s. 9d. each. |

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: . | Bernouilli, F., merchant London. Seconp Crass.—Five Provans. ‘Bradley & Parker, stock brokers Manchester. ist Prize—William ‘Toombs, £1 0 0 | Brown, Todd, & Co., provision merchants, Liverpool. 94 do. George Harker, 015 0 |Clagett, W. 'T., American merchant London. 3d do. David Clarke, 010 0 |Cornthwaite, P., wholesale grocer Liverpool. Two unsuccessful Ploughs were awarded 5s. 3d. each, | de Jersey & Co., merchants Manchester. i aieleeneeineeipeneenenialiotn ' Geisler, Weber, & Co., merchants Manchester. ARRIVAL OF THE ‘NGLISH MAIL. | Hadlow, S. os Stock Exchange London.

Yesterday morning the Steam Packet arrived from Pictou bringing the English Mail. We have no space for the insertion of any lengthy extracts from our files. We devote, however, a column or two to the most im- portant matters.

The Commercial panic still, unhappily prevails. Since the last Mail there have been forty extensive failures, and an alarming decrease in the prices of cotton, bread- stuffs, sugar, coffee, &c. Ali the Mercantile and Ma- nufacturing Districts of the United Kingdom are experiencing the most unparalleled distress and em- barrassment. Under this extraordinary pressure of the times, the Royal Bank of Liverpool has suspended all operations, and, as an English paper observes, “no one believes that the mischief is even yet over.”

On this subject the “ European Times” remarks :—

“Confidence in every branch of trade seems extinct; the proceedings of the Bank of England, in one day offering increased accommodation to the mercantile world, and the next shutting off all relief, has, with other

causes, scattered ruin far and wide; and the deprecia-

tion of stock is, at the moment we are writing, no less than five per cent. under the lowest prices quoted during the panic of April last. In cotton, wool, sugar, coffee, and breadstuffs, the decline has been equally ruinous:

and the alarm which such a state of things naturally,

engenders is aggravated by the uncertainty which hangs over the future, no rational proposition having yet been euy gested for the removal of the distress which prevails.”

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DISTRESS IN IRELAND. The increasing difficulties undér which the people of Ireland appear to be suffering, as the season advances,

claim the most painful attention. Two appeals, the one,

from Mr. Trevylian, and the other from Sir John Bur- coyne, addressed to the British people, have been pub- lished. We are implored to extend once more the hand of charity to the sufferers on the west coast of Ireland ;

and the statements made of the already existing distess, |

by two gentlemen so well acquainted with the case cannot, we regret to say, be impeached. a most melancholy prospect for the winter. With daily increasing distress in our own manufacturing districts, arising from the stoppage of mills, and the present derangement of trade, it is grievous to find that tie poor of [reland will again become suppliants for relief from the affluent and the humane, both in this country and in our colonies, and, indeed, wherever the English iangu- age is spoken. It is a further aggravation of this national

a at erime is alarmingly on the increase i: . Srey ws calamity that crime is alarmingly o1 I) nent. said. ‘How soon it might commence, and to what}

many districts in the sistercountry. A Mr. Roe, a ma- gistrate of Rockwell, in Tipperary, has been murderod in broad noon day under circumstances of frightful atro- city. Little or no doubt can be entertained that t murderer was one of his tenants, whom he proper! -victed, after having shewn towards him the great liberality andlenity. Ina late Dublin Gazelle no fewe than five proclamations appeared offering rewards for the perpetrators of murders and other outrages. The

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enforce the payment of poor-rates, even in the most dis- tressed western unions; but it is hardly to be expected that the sudden change can be made, without very great privation and suffering, from an idle, barbarous, isolated potato cultivation to corncultivation, which will, necessarily bring down, at the commencement of the system, a large class of cottiers just above pauperisin to be themselves dependent upon the rates. As it requires) three times the quantity of land lald out in corn, to what would be necessary in potatoes, to feed for the year any given number of persons, it is plainly evident that, with | only one-sixth of the usual quantity of potatoes planted, the position of great numbers of the people of Ireland | must be truly distressing. A great outcry is being raised by some of the London journals against any future contribution on the part of the English in favor of Ire- land; but whilst we perfectly agree with them in the absolute necessity of refusing eleemosynary aid, witha view to stimulate exertion, in all cases where the smallest doubt may exist respecting the utter destitution of the suppliant ; nevertheless, we are not prepared “to turn

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London. Manchester.

| Howell, James, & Co., warehousemen James, Nephew, & Co., merchants Knapp, Henry, banker Abingdon. |Legrelle & Co., bankers Brussels.

| Mitchell A., & Co., American merchants, Liverpool. Mocatta & Son, merchants Liverpool.

| Moeatta, 8. & J. L., West India merchants, Liverpool. | Morley, J. & W., warehousemen London. Nash, William, Manchester warehouseman, London.

Oakley, R. R., Stock Exchange London. ‘Pearce, W., & Co., merchants Liverpool. 'Pehmoller & Toller, merchants Hamburgh. ‘Rickards, Little, & Co., merchants London. |Rosing & Co., merchants Bremen.

| Royal Bank Liverpool. Soares, M. J., Portuguese merchant London.

‘Steele, M., & Son, soap manufacturers Liverpool. Synnot, M. 8., shipowner Liverpool. Tebbutt, I. i., soapboiler Manchester. ‘Thomas, J., Son, & Lefevre, merchants, London.

| Vanzeller, F'. L., Portuguese merchants, London.

| White & Co., timber and corn merchants, Waterford. Wingate, A. & J., catico printers Glasgow. 'Wittenstein & Co., spinners, Lurman, near Elberfield.

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ApporntTmMENts.—Sir W. Colebrook, late Governor of New Brunswick, has been appointed to that of Bri- tish tiuiana, succeeding Mr. Light, who retires, After ‘nine years service in that tropical climate, Mr. Light re- turns to his native country, leaving improved institutions, ‘an orderly and easily governed community, and a \fourishing revenue, and bearing with him the best ‘wishes of the inhabitants of British Guiana, to receive, |as we trust he shall, through our colonial minister, the approbation of his sovereign for his faithful and useful iserviees. Sir Edmund Head assumes the Governorship lof New Brnaswick. Sir Edmund is but distantly allied to Sir Francis Bond Head, late jieut.-governor of Upper Canada. Sir Edmund has lately been taking a tour

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The Central Board for the Relief ofthe Distress in the Highlands of Scotland have determined to restrict themselves to their original intentions of relieving Celtic penury. ‘They h

1,5] OF cciinsilied ‘ ¢ rn al meat? » } vb mele was Gaduly Ccscusst data general me eung held yesterday, |

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vte} : at } ‘ ia ieee but that. sooner or iater, tuere would be a famine he} ; ' l il i ies : riechf « “mad ae could not doubt, because, where it might be assumed as} in that the means of subsistence In former years cons sted y

Tar Sysrem or Fraupunent Trapinc.—Some of| he Glasoow merchants are wrath at the conviction and} itence of Mr. Bannatyne, and dwell on the hardship of the peceadilloes of one branch of trade being exposed and punished, while like usages prevail in other profes-| sions. and which are notoriously suffered to pass with impunity. ‘Thus bakers sophisticate their flour, sugar- refiners adulterate their staple commodity; and so on, ad infinitum, it might be said with truth that the monster; public is extensively cozened with fraudulent mixtures. Nor are humble traders alone guilty. ‘ Early this year,’ says the Mail, ‘a noble duke negotiating with a shipown- er for the transfer of so many human beings to a distant land, endeavoured to beat down the price, by suggest- ing several articles as substitutes for ordinary food of

so inferior a character that the shipowner declined the arrangement.’—Daily News.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MEXICO.

; Te} a t ror wt »>hiph have issued an elaborate report, which!

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war. We have neither time nor inclination to dwell upon the heart-sickening details. We give below the most important items :—

_ Letters from Jalapa and Orizaba, received yesterday in this city, says Ei Arco fris, gives the most positive information that the City of Mexico has been the theatre ofthe most horrible and lamentable scenes.

The momertt that Gen. Santa Anna abandoned the Capital, the disorders commenced, and as soon as the | populace considered themselves free from the bayonets |which might have controlled them, the Leporas coin- menced to sack the city, and committed every manner of excess, pilaging and robbing the houses, without making apy distinction between natives and forcign- ers.

It is said that during the pillage an American divi- sion attempted to penetrate the city, but became in- volved in a dreadful conflict with the people and was repulsed, one part to the sentry and citadel, while an- other succeeded in getting possession of the Convent of San Francisco, where it made itself secure against the multitude, having abandoned two pieces of ar- tillery.

To these horrors, in order that nothine might be | wanting to complete the picture of death and destruc- jtlon, prepared for the Capital by the shadow of resis- jtance of the army of the Republic, succeeded the bom- | bardment of the city by the American army, which was jin possession of the citadel and other fortified points } jthe suburbs. We regret that we are unable to give our readers more detailed information, as everything leads us to believe that the losses and misfortunes | which the unhappy inhabitants of the City of Mexico have suffered have been immense, induced as wel! by a soulless mob, as by the bombs of the enemy. ;

Letters from Puebla also inform us that Gen. Rea en- tered Puebla, and that that city suffered a horrible bombardment by the Americans from the fortified height; thatGen. Herrera marched towards Queretaro with the remainder of the army which left Mexico, and that Santa Anna, with 2000 cavalry, was in Tlasca\a, with the intention of proceeding to Puebla, to unite hus forces with these of Gen. Rea, and cut off the comm ini- cation of the American army with the sea coast.

While writing these lines, we have received a mani- festo issued by Gen, Santa Anna, on the I6th, in the City of Gaudalupe de Hidalgo. In it he renounces the Presidency of the Republic, and appointed in his place the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Senor Penaly Pena, who, with two colleagues, sliall be the depository of the Supreme Power until Congress shal! meet and make an election.—He also promises anew to combat, even to the last drop of blood, for the liberty of the nation.

La Patria states that Senta Anna had left his quarters at Gaudalupe, and returned to the Capital at the head of an army of ten thousand regular troops, and that fighting (had been resumed and was going on desperately ‘at the

jlast accounts. ‘Therumour of Santa Anna’s resignation

-e and Spain, with a view to a history of|is confirmed by these accounts, but the Mexican people

were not disposed to receive it, and ayain placed him at ithe head of the army.

. Vera Cruz correspondent of the .V. O. National, |focates Gen, Santa Anna in the vicinity of Puebla, with | 2,000 men, for what particular purpose is not known.

| The Mexicans, it seems, ] t out of prison about the time }of theirevacuation of t! they gave arms. Between them and the Americans, street fights anda sort of a duel begun, which led to all (kinds of disorders, and to the killing and wounding of Imany on bot sides. This went on till the 16th. The | greater part of the houses, situated in the suburbs of the icity, were sacked.

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THE NEW GOVERNOR.

The public news from England tells us that Sin Do- [NALD CampBELL, Baronet of Dunstaffnage—a cousin of Lady Huntley’s—is appointed to relieve Sir Henry

Tere Huntley in the Government of this Island. The

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| Despatch, we are informed, speaks of his leaving Kng- - >

land by the Mail of the 4th December, but our private

advices make it more than likely that he will not do so until the Spring. Sir Donald, we are told, is a liberal

in his politics, and will come to this Colony possessed of some useful and important information respecting its public affairs—information not, however, obtained from the Delegates.

We regret to hear that Mr. Edward Palmer, who was duly directed and had his passage taken for this Mail, has not arrived. We are sorry that he should incur the ad- ditional delay and expense.

We were in hopes that—although there was not much chance of such a thing—the Gentlemen of the Delega tion would have been allowed an interview with Earl Grey, in order that they might dilate on the necessity of keeping the country under the rule of the Compact party. As they have been denied that opportunity, we

Our Colonial Papers, received by yesterday’s Mail, gives us information of the sacking of the City of Mexico, and of further butcheries committed on

mr faces utterly from the poor,” and refuse relief in

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both sides—the painful progeny of this disastrous

fear the eclipse under which they Jabour will not be re- moved, even when the atmosphere is purified of the |presence of Sir H. V. Huntley. It really is a pity that iso much money has heen spent for nothing