The Couríer.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1832.

Arrived on Tuesday the 14th instant, the     transport ship Elisabeth, Capt. John Craigie, from Portsmouth 18th October, with 220

male prisoners and commissariat stores. The guard consists of Lieut. Nayle 17th regt. & Ensign Adamson, of the 63d. with 39 rank and file. Passengers, Mrs. Nayle, 3 wives of the military, and 3 children.

Arrived on Tuesday the 14th inst., the bark Merope, 311 tons, Capt. Briggs, from the Mauritius 17th Dec. with a cargo of   sugar and other goods.-Passengers Lieut. Robertson, Mrs. Robertson, Mr. C. Innes, Master Robison, Mrs. Briggs and servant.

Arrived yesterday afternoon, from   Sydney, 7th inst. the Research, Capt. Ogilvie. —Passengers Dr. Sherwin, Mr. Hope, Mr., Babington and 7 others.

Sailed on Thursday the l6th instant the   ship Vibilia, Capt. R. Stephenson, with 211 casks oil, 204 bales wool, 49 tons bark, 15 bundles whalebone, 3 pieces cedar, shipped by Messrs. Hewitt, Gore, & Co.; 122 bales wool, Mr. Orr, 128 casks oil, 52 bales wool by Captain Bunster; 10 bales wool by Mr.   J. Clark and 31 bales New Zealand flax by

Mr, S. R. Dawson.

The Mary is not expected to sail until day-light to-morrow morning.

The Wave, John Woodhall, and Arab, had sailed previous to the Elisabeth. The London for this port and Sydney was at the Cape when the Science left that port.

There is no alteration in the price of colo- nial produce since our last. Wheat remains at 5s. 6d. a bushel, Cape barley is plentiful at 4s , English ditto 6s. 6d. Wool continues to be brought to town and is sold from 6d.

to 10d. a lb.

Both corn and butcher's meat have un-

dergone a considerable rise at Sydney, good wheat is up to 5s. 3d. per bushel, beef and mutton 4d. to5d. per lb.

We have been favoured with the following copy of a letter from Messrs. Buckles, Bag- ster, & Buckles, to a mercantile house in town, dated London, Sept. 27: -

** GENTLEMEN,-We have now the plea- sure to wait upon you with a statement of the highest, lowest, and average prices ob-

tained for each mark at the recent wool

sales, comprising nearly 3000 bales, and which will enable you to form a correct judgment of the present state of our mar- ket for this article. In the middling and better qualities there is little or no variation of price as compared with previous sales of this season, but all wools under Is. 6d. and 1s 8d. have suffered a decline of fully 2d. per lb., which is to be accounted for in some measure by these extensive importa- tions following closely the sales of last month, added to which, our woollen manu- factories generally are not in such full ope- ration as they have lately been, and we are this year deprived in a great measure of the competitions of the Americans who bought largely in our market last season, but who are now making their principal purchases in Germany and Spain. The Australian wools in general shew much improvement in washing and getting up, but many of those from Van Diemen's land do not de- serve in these respects the same praise which was bestowed upon them last year, and   the comparatively low prices at which such have sold clearly prove that the purchasers tully appreciate the difference.

From the circumstance of our being some- what later than usual without accounts from

the Davis's straits fishery, common oils ge- nerally have assumed a firmer appearance in our market, but in southern oil no actual ad- vance can be said to have yet taken place; and sperm is dull at L76 per tun. Whale- bone is still a drug. In bark nothing is doing, although there is more than 500 tons still in the hands of the importers, and the highest offer at a public sale last week for a parcel of fine quality was L10 5s., this de- pression is attributable however to the pre- sent low value of leather, and not to any change in the opinion of tanners as to the good qualities of the bark ; the same cause operates in some measure upon the value of hides, which are still rather dull, although a few prime ones we lately received from Sydney fetched 4½d. per lb. ; and for seal- skins of fair quality we last week got 20s. & 30s, each. Flax has improved a little, and some small parcels of very good quality have produced L27 and L30 a ton Cedar plank is in fair demand at 6d. per foot, but for blue gum wood there is no sale,"

The great mass of interesting and import- ant intelligence with which our columns of this day are crowded, leave us only room without opportunity to offer any comment of our own, to recommend them both local and foreign to the attentive perusal of the

reader.

The second reading of the Reform bill came on in the House of Lords on Friday, the 7th of October, when it was lost by a  

majority of 41-the numbers being contents   158, non contents 199. Lord Wynford and    

the Earl of Eldon were the principal Lords who spoke against the bill. The Lord Chan-  

cellor and Earl Grey replied to them with the most powerful eloquence. The Duke

of Sussex said it was impossible that the   bill should not pass. Whether it should   pass now depended upon their lordships,   but if it did not, something else would pass,    

and that something would be less favourable,   because it would be proposed under less fa- vourable circumstances. The vote he should give he considered of vital importance, and one in which his character as a member of Hanover and as a Peer of England, was deeply implicated. If the bill was thrown out to the people be would say; be firm but   peaceable, you will carry your measure at the last." In hiss latter sentiment His Royal   Highness was joined by the whole of Parlia- ment, in both houses and on both sides of the question, no one doubting but on the next introduction of the measure it would pass triumphantly.

Earl Grey concluded his very eloquent speech with these words-" if your Lord- ships throw out the bill it will rest with my- self and my conscience bow I shall shape my future conduct, but I will not abandon the helm of affairs so long as I can be useful to my King or my country." The speech was received with immense cheering, which last- ed a considerable time, the ladies in the gal- leries enthusiastically clapping their hands.

On the Monday following in the House of Commons Lord Ebrington moved a resolu- tion expressing the deep regret of the House at the reception the bill had met with in the Lords, and its "unabated confidence in the   integrity, perseverance and ability of those ministers who in introducing and conduct- ing it had so well consulted the best inte- rests of the country," which was carried by a majority of 329 against 198.

The majority in the Lords which threw out the reform bill was not expected to have exceeded 25, but the Bishops en masse to- wards the close of the sitting rose against it and swelled the list, no fewer than 21 of them voting against it.

Within six hours of the division in the Lords, a meeting of between 2 and 300 of the members of the House of Commons met at Willis's rooms, and came to Ihe resolution to support ministers to the utmost, on which Lord Ebrington's motion was grounded.

The excitement in London when the fate of the reform bill ill the House of Lords was known, is described as altogether unprece- dented. Most of the daily papers Were sur- rounded with a black bonier, the bells of most of the parishes kept tolling at intervals during the day as for some national calami- ty, many ofthe shops had their shutters up, with flags trimmed wilh crape. In the pro- vincial towns as soon as the intelligence reached them, the effect was the same. In Birmingham, the walls were speedily pla- carded willi an address with a mourning border, dud the funeral bells muffled were tolled all Ihe day.

The pel it ious front the several parishes of London were presented by 70,000 persons on the 12th of Oct. wearing oak and laurel leaves in tlieir hats as badges of reform. The Lord Mayor presented the address lo which his MajeMy returned a most gracious answer. There were upwards of ¿00,000 in- dividuals assembled on the occasion. They broke some ofthe vriudows of Lord Bristol's and the Duke of Wellington's houses and pelted Lord Londonderry and the Duke of Cumberland whom Uley met in the street.

On the defeat of Ihe reform bill His Ma-

jesty is said to have told Lord Brougham " stand by Ihe people, and 1 will stand by you."

A great feeling exists at Brookes's that the Bishops must be excluded from the House of Lords, an event which they say must shortly come on, or it will be confessed that the Church establishment is one thing and religion another.

The ¡Morning Post, exulting in the fall of the reform bill, which it calls the revolution- ary bill, says it met its doom lit half past six o'clock on the Saturday morning, and uses the following language:-"Upon this important and happy event we most cordially congratulate the nation. The Lords have nobly and manfully done their duty, des pising the seditious and even murderous threats of the ministerial press, tbey have been attentive only to the fulfilment of what they truly and conscientiously felt was due from them to the country ; and triumphant- ly successful in the good fight, they have the proud and heartfelt consolation of know- ing that in their victory, so fairly and ho- nourably gained, tbey have achieved the sal- vation of the constitution, and the conse- quent safety ofthe stale."

, It was not to, be expected that such a re- verse as Hie defeat of the Reform bill would pass off throughout England without some outrages among the mob. The only cases however which wc find mentioned in ihe pa- pers are the burning of Nottingham Castle, now the property of the Duke of Newcastle, which the rioters burned to the ground, and at Derby they broke the windows of Mr. Mozley the printer, who corresponded with Lord Londonderry, anti several other houses.

The third reading of the Reform bill took place on Ihe 21st. Sept. when it was passed by a majority of 345 over 236 against it. Sir C. Wetherell said upon the occasion in his usual jeering way, that the month of September was doomed to be fatal to both the French and the British Constitutions. In his conscience he said he believed that

Cromwell's republic was less revolutionary

and less radical than this new comlitution

proposed by Ministers,

Tlieir Majesties were enjoying the au- tumn in excellent health at Windsor where s they were to remain unlit (he end of Odo ti ber, spending a few days al Si. James's, when Is they were to sojourn lo Brighton for two

i- months.

h Ou the 22d Sept. the King arid Queen e with an immense assemblage of company

i attended the launch nf the Thunderer a Í Woolwich, a ship of the line of the firs

,. class. > ,

;] The-Guette of the lath Sept. contain! Í 'the anntfunceifient of the creation of 36 new

. baronet's* \ '

Alderman Thorpe,- who was'ejected Lord Mayor of London, refused to hold the office, and the former Mayor, Sir J. Key, was re.

elected.

Nicholas has appointed Paskewitsch (nour called Warsawski since the fall of that capi tal to the Russians]! Governor General «f the Kingdom of Poland. The Poles Hanged Robynski their own General after his defeat by the Russians. Their cause, we fear, is

now desperate.

' ThV tié'wá 6f trie plague at Bagdad had reached England;,but the real extent-of its horrors as de'I ai led in our journal some

weeks since wai not known.

The disttiihaiices continued in Switzerland. The whole ¿anton ol Neiifcbatel had risen in arms again.it Prussia.

An array of 50,000 Bedouins had carried

terror io I life gates of Algiers and strong rein,

forcements were arriving frort» Frailee .to strengthen the garrison and ships of war.

The great St. Leger stakes at Doncaster .

were won by Lord Cleveland's Chorister, a S young horse1, being his first race.

The Pope has'refused \o cóntfrmjhe ap- pointment of the Abbe tfillou to the see of Beauvais by the French King.

The Gazette of the 26th of September contains á long list of the new creation of officers of the army and navy ás Knights Companions of the Bath'.

Mr. North, M. P. for Drogheda,' died io!

October.

The funeral of the Countess o'/ Morning- ton (mother of the Duke of Wellington) took plaie early on Sunday morning the 18th of Sept The Countess had been a widow 47 years.

, The 111. Hon. J. Calcraft, M. P. for Wareham, killed himself by cutting his throat on Sunday 11th Sept. The unfortu- nate gentleman was aged 67, and lud for some time been in a desponding state.

Died at Cheltenham, 2nd Oct., Maj'otf Robert Sholto Douglas, of the Royal Artilj lery.

-When the new Sheriffs were introduced to' His Majesty by the Secretary of State, say- ing, " this please your Majesty is a large ship- owner at Wapping." " A large ship owner at Wapping ! replied the King, is he, so am I, we are therefore both of a trade."

The armistice still continued between

Holland and Belgium, until the result of the

conference was known;

The cholera continued to rage with increas- ed virulence throughout the north of Europe, effecting especially the higher classes of so- ciety, in Vienna the Governor, 4 Aulic Councillors, and a nuuibrjr of ladies of high

rank had fallen victims to it.

Another dreadful fire, the work of iuceu- ^ diaries, had occurred at Constantinople, des- troying several palaces and mosques, and among other property the house of the Hon.* Mr. Gordon, brother of Lord Aberdeen, the

British Consul.

Lofd Despenser, the premier barun of England, died hi Lo.idou on the 3d Octo-

ber.

The speech of Earl Grey on the 1st read- ing of the reform bill, in the House of Lords on Monday the 3d Oct. was one of the most affecting and eloquent ever delivered in parliament. That of Lord Brougham on! the Friday following, on the 2"d reading, was rio less brilliant andelccttic in its effect.

The building committee of the House of

Conrmoiis hav'e declared that the erection of a new House of Commons is a necessary

measure for the accommodation and health of the members.

It is with much regret we announce the fall of Warsaw to the Russians, and the con- sequent glimmering of the star of Polish in- dependence The uews created a powerful

sensation in Palis.

' The Glasgow petition to the House of Lords, praying for reform in parliament, had 45,000 names and weighed 82lbs.

Lord Lilford is the new lord of the be"d

chamber in the room of Lord Waldegrave turned out for his opposition to the reforrii'

bill.

Another fatal" duel was fought at St. Louis; in America, on the 26lh of August, between Major Biddle, paymaster of the United States army, and Mr. Spencer Pettes.

They fought at 5 paces and killed each ^ other on the ground. When will reason ba- nish this relic of barbarism from the earth 1

Lord Al'horp informed the House of Commons, that the revenue for the quarter ending 5th Oct. had fallen off two millions' and a half, bringing it nearly on a par willi the expenditure.

An immense multitude of 150,000 persons assembled at Birmingham on Monday the 3d October, to demonstrate to the House of Lords the enthusiasm they took in the re- form question. The meeting passed off ia the greatest peace and order.

The county of Pembroke was actively canvassing by Sir John Owen and Captain

Greville.

The hurricane at Barhadoes extended to St« Vincent's, where damage was done to the antount of more than 500,0001, and many lives were, lost.. Thirty-six vessels were stranded. The accounts from St. Lucuand Cuba are equally distressing»

Dr. Whately is the New Archbishop of

Dublin.

Parliament it was expected would be im] mediately prorogued, to afford ministers lime and opportunity to concert the best means of carrying the reform billi

The Lords W ha mc I iffe, Harrowby and Haddington,, have made a partial recanta- tion of their anti-reform principles.

Mr. Milroy, master of H..M.S. Succès«,

has been dismissed the service for allowing' ti that vessel to get ashore at Swan river. J w

The new 84 gun «hip,.the Calcutta, late-1 qi ly built at Bombay^ arrived«-«! Plymouth on fe the 12h Oct.-Passengers -Cap!. Pridliam, bi ofthe Zebra, and Capt. Colpoys of the M Cruizer. , I su

The Asia, with male prisoners from the'of hulks at Portsmouth, was ready to sail when the Elizabeth left -lhat port. . ;

The lohg debated, question in Prance an- nulling hereditary beerpges had no**, been decided. The general impression was, that Ihe power to create would be invested in the King, but that the selection must be made from lists of candidates to be present- ed by the Electoral colleges. , , ,

The Marquis of Anglesea was to succeed* Lord Hill at the Horse Guards, and to be succeeded as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by

his son in-law the Duke of Richmond.

Mr. John H. Plunkett, an Irish Catholic

barrister, is appointed Solicitor General at Sydney.

Mr. Shaw aud Lord Ingesttie are elected for Dublin.

f? Sir Walter Scott was going to Italy after

his tour in Scotland for the winter. The

King ordered a frigate lo convey him, and be at his command during his stay.

By the kindness of our mercantile friend in town, we have had the pleasure to peruse the Sydney Monitor of the 1st of this month, (a paper which ne would no1 otherwise have an opportunity of seeing). It is however al together barren of news with the exception .f the following interesting but singular me- morandum, which as the old women say, Bp'-aks -volumes or pulls up the curtain of the political stage of Sydney, viz.-the'de bate oh the second reading ofthe Jurv bill Was very wann. The Governor and Chief justice were among the suppotters of trial hy jury» Messrs. M'Leay, J. M'Arlíitir, H. H. M'Arthur, Campbell, jones and Ber ty Were among the dissentients.'

We bave the pleasure to announce to the Members of the Hobart town Book Society the arrival hythe Science of a selection of the most valuable and popular productions

of Ihe dav. vi> .- Mitford's sioriet? of Ame- rican life, At borne and abroad. The hicogui to. The Water Wilth, The Heiress of Bru- ges, Moore's Byron, vol 2 ; Destiny, Ober 1 ill's memoirs, Gilley's Waldensian researches A year in Spain, Hall's fragments of Amen ca, Soiithfy's British poets, Paris's life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Seaward's narrative of his shipwreck, BeaUie's tour in Germany, The life of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Tyer man and Bennett's missionary travels, Gait's Bogle Corbet, Condet's history of Ital\, Darnel's life and correspondence, Social liff, The young Duke, Burkhard('s Bedouins, The remaining volumes of Doddridge's diary 'Godwin's thoughts <»n man, The anatomy of society, Keppel's Balean, Montgomery's ^Oxford, Sir John Sinclair's correspondence, 1 Tndd's life of Cranmer, Wedded life, Sotith

ey's uneducated poets. The annual obituary H o wilt's book of Ihe Seasons, The Siamese «twins, Italian poets, Tune's telescope, Life of Giovani Finati, Howdler's Pen Tamar, Rectory of Valeliead, Hamilton's progress of socieU, Persian AdVinturer, Kotzebhe's vojages, IS oil he tile's lilian, F.lwond's India, Sandford'* remains, Buckingham's Media, Crotchet ("asile, The historical traveller, Rodnev's life. Boswell'* life ol Dr. Johnson, bv Croker. Aturáis of ihe «tage, Fletcher's " Poland, Philip Augustus Hope's essaj on

mau, Moore's life of F tzger.tlri, S oil's tales of a Grandfather; and ibe continuation oi Lardner's Cyclopaedia, Family classical li ' brary, Simulan! hovels, -Huiday library,and

other periodicals.

No« a week is allowed to pass over our heads in this Scene of drunkenness without some one or other appalling instance of its mehukholy effects. On Monday, john Lislier a private of the 57*h regiment had indulged in the accustomed orgies of Ihe demon lo such a degree that on the follow- ing morning he was found a corpse in his drunken bed. An inquest was held on view of Ihe body on Wednesday, at Mr. Whita kers, Free mason's Tavern, Harrington street before Joseph Henry Moore, esq , Coroner, «when a verdict was returned by a most re spectable jury of "died of apoplexy ofcea sioiiüd by drunkenness."

On Friday evening last, three of the wretthed men in the hulk at the new Wharf managed either to file or slip off their irons, and slide softly info the water.-, and swim on shore. They then Jiiade their Way ''.down to Sandy bay where they stole the

boat of Thomas Smith, esq., of the Cus- toms' department, and sailed for South Arm, where, having landed they put the boat adrift. It was observed from fbeSig «nal station, and recovered by one of Ihe ?parties sent by Captain Forster in quest of ' Ihe runaways. It is impossible wilh our

present active police and the sharp look out -maintained at the various stations that any Buch attempts at escape can be successful. The nanles of the runaways are Henry Sin- clair. Thomas Rigby, and John Lightollers.

Nsw NORFOLK, Feb. Ii, 1832.-On last Tuesday evening six blacks were disco- vered by a man ob horseback in search of callie, lying on the side of a hill within a

short mile of Elizabeth town. One of I hem who was very athletic and appeared to direct the others, carried n waddy, and had a string of feathers round his neck. On seeing the hvin ihey arose aud ran hastily up the bill.

Arrived on Tuesday the 14th, the sloop Liberty, about 20 tons burthen. Peter Peter-

son, master, from the Isle of Desolation, willi 13*0 seal skins, navigated by 14 of the crew of the South sea whaler Betsey and Sophia.

This vessel sailed from London on the 3d of June 18ä0. Her misfortunes commenced

in an early part of the voyage, the master of

i toe ship Capt. Fotheringham, having died '

¡ while off the west coast of Africa, in conse- |

. quence of a fall he received on the deck a

i few days before in a severe gale. He was

, buried in Johnson's bay. The chief officer > s Mr. Peterson then took command of the

j ship atid steered in prosecution of the objects 5 of the voyage for Nightingale and Prince 1 Edward's islands, where he succeeded in ob-

taining about 40 lons of Elephant oil. They had here, however, the misfortune to lose an anchor and cable, being suddenly obliged to put to sea in a storm for the safety of the ship, leaving par! of the crew on shore, whom it was several da>s after before they succeeded in again returning to take on bdard. At this place also they rescued two sailors who had heen left on shore from a former vessel.. They then proceeded to Crozet's islands and thence to Desolation island or Kerguelen's land, in lat. 49 S. and long. 70 E. After remaining some time at that dreary place .and .making several at- tempts to sail out of Rocky bay, where they had been at anchor, on the loth' of March 183!, being their fifth attempt, the vessel got entangled in a thick bed of sea weed, missed stays, lost her rudder and in spite ofetery exertion of the whole strength of the crew in the whale boats drifted to leeward, until forced between Ù. rocks iii Very deep water, she stuck immoveably, bruising io piece» at

the same time «ne of the whale boats tliut lay along side. She remained in this situa- tion 3 days until broken by the force of the waves she went to pieces, the hull sink- ing in 60 fathoms water. Fortunately dur- ing this interval they contrived with the re- maining whale boats to get the bulk of the provisions and other necessary articles safe on shore, but upwards of 100 tons of oil be- sides a number of seal skins went to the bottom. Here they remained for a considerable time in hopes that some ves- sel on a similar voyage would call and res- cue them from their perilous situation, un- til the scanty remains of the Earopean provi- sions being neatly exhausted and depending almost wholly for support on the precarious chance of meeting with birds, shell fish, or sea-elephants, Captain Peterson induced

his crew to make an effort to save themselves by collecting such pieces of the 'wreck as they 'could find and constructing the little sloop which has now arrived. In these en- deavours they had carefully to watch when the sea was smooth in the places where the planks lay at the bottom, And then diving with a pointed steel or chisel in their hand, struck it into the wood, io be pulled up with á cord attached to it by a person in the boat above. By unequalled perseverance they at last succeeded in completing the little bark, which they launched on the 2d of last Octo- ber, and| fourteen of the crew finally took their departure in her on the 6'lh of De- cember, 5 preferring to ieznain behind to lake the chance of a vessel calling rather than risk 'Uie apparently greater danger of perishing in the long expanse of tractless oceau between Kerguelen's land (about 1000 miles south-west of the island of St. Paul's, so frequently touched at bj tessels between this and the Cape), They made the land on the lath of last month, and two days after, being reduced at the time to the last extremity, having Oiily a quarter of a biscuit as il.e allowance of each per da>, they en tered Macquarie haibour, where the Com- mandant, Major Has lee, of the 63d. regt,

rece i veil and cohiforted them with the hu-

manity and hospitality for Hhich that gentle

man is distinguished. _ v .^»» "~~Wê*"fàtcly recorded in our columns the expulsion at the List General Assembly of the Church of Scotland of no less than four clergymen who had preached or promulga- ted heterodox opinion*. Ainohg them was the Rev. Edward Irving so celebrated for a time in London. Although the church was built for him fiom the subscriptions of his own hearers, >et by a certain stipulation it belonged to the National Kirk, and the ex- pulsion of Mr. Irving extended also to the depriving him of the very pulpit in which he first obtained his popularity. The removal it appears has had such an effect upon bis mind, at all limes rather eccentric that we regret to a'dd it has deprived bim of reason. Just before the calamity 12 of the pretended gifted women at Row, near Glasgow, who pave out that they were inspired with a tongue not known in Eng- land, and consequently bad determined on travelling round the globe until they met with a nation of people speaking the tongue with which they pretend they are so miracu- lously gifted. Whether their researches will lead them to tills island in order to dis- cover if the language of the Blacks is the unknown tongue of not We canndt say, but ou their arrival ia Loudon Mr. Irving received them into his house and entertained them at his own private expanse, and soon after be was declared to be insane*

POSTSCRIPT.

Arrived last night the John Woodhall and the Arab from London, and the Lady of the

Lake from China.

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