COMMERCIAL REPORT, LIVERPOOL, 25th MAY, 1822. THERE exists considerable dulness in our market; and the variations since our last have been of little moment. In time of peace, the fluctuations of commerce are few-still the demand for the consumption of the country continues; and notwithstanding the importations of many arti cles have been heavy, the present moderate stocks evince the extent of the wants of this em pire. Speculative operations are very unfrequent, as capitalists shew little inclination to invest their money, in consequence of the many disappointments they have experienced. Still there are other circumstances which may have tended to increase the dulness pervading most of the lines of commerce. The bills now before the legislature relative to a free trade, and the ascertainty of war in the eastern part of Europe, naturally keep men aloof from enterprises. It is, perhaps, not too sanguine to say, that the prospect appears to brighten, and we anticipate an improved state of commerce, which the intended removal of restrictions will render more enlarged, and secure. The sales of Cotton Wool, since our last, have been 29,323 packages-large supplies are just now arriving at Market; when these are brought forward, it is probable that buyers will come forward more freely, the more so, as the demand for some weeks past has been languid, and our prices have gradually given way. The sales of the present week are 5023 packages, as follows: 101 to 10% 10% to 10% 8 to S 6 to 6 The result of this week's operations, is a further reduction in the prices of Upland and Orleans, and a heavy sale: Sea Islands move off slowly and at lower rates. Brazils are in very limited demand, and continue rather to give way in price. During the present week little confidence has been shewn either by buyers or sellers. The late brisk inquiry for Tobacco has in a great measure subsided, and the demand is at present limited to supplying the wants of consumers, for there is not, at present, any sale of moment for shipment. Sugars. The stock of B. P. Sugars with the importers is very low, so that the parcels arriving find a ready sale. This week about 460 hogsheads of Demarara and St. Vincent's, have been taken by the grocers, at an advance of 1s. per cwt. The quotations are, browns 536. to 58. middling 60s. to 68s.: good 69s. 71s. 1600 bags of low white Bengal Sugar, at auction, brought 71s. 3d. to 71s. 6d. per cwt. 90 puncheons of good St. Vincent Molasses brought 28s. per cwt. Coffee. There have been no publie sales this week: the business done by private treaty consists of a few casks of Jamaica to the grocers, at 117s. to 130s. per cwt. for middling to good middling qualities. Rum. The sales this week have been limited to 60 puncheons of strong Demeraras, at 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per gallon, for 28 to 36 O. P. and 20 puncheons of common Leewards, at 1s. 3d. per gallon. There continues a steady sale for Rice, and the price improves: this week about 350 casks of good Carolina sold for export at 14s. 6d. to 15s. 6d. per cwt. with 50 tierces of old at 12s. The market for Hides is still flat, in consequence of the uncertainty there remains respecting the duty being reduced. Several cargoes of Dutch Oak Bark have been sold at £8. per ton. Dry Salteries, &c.-Montreal Pot-Ashes have sold at 36s. 6d. to 37s.: Pearls 45s.: New York Pearls 48s. Dye-Woods are in fair demand. Honduras and Campeachy Logwood £10. 10s. to £11. Nicaragua Wood £28. Cuba Fustic £12. to £13. per ton. 40 tons of Brimstone have been sold at £22. per ton. Fish Oils decline in price: 20 tuns of Cod Oil have been disposed of at £20. per tun: and 20 tuns of Whale Oil at £21. per tun. Seed Oils move off slowly. Palm Oil is difficult of sale at £27. per tun. The prices of Tallow are in a great measure nominal, the inquiry just now being limited to the immediate wants of the consumers: however, 100 casks have been sold to arrive at 40s. per cwt. St. Petersburg clean Hemp is now offering at £43. per ton. For Pine Timber the demand is steady: the dealers have taken four or five cargoes of Miramichi at 214d. per foot. Grain. There is not any improvement in our Corn Market, and it continues much depressed. Irish Wheat, except for the finer qualities, is lower. Oats go off tolerably well. Barley is of heavy sale. For bonded Grain there is not any demand; several exports are now making on owners' account. 140 hhds of American Flax Seed have sold at ship, at 36s. per hhd. ERRATA. Col. 339, note, for Coleridge's Sybilline leaves, read Coleridge's Poems, 2d Edition. Col. 341, last line, for least sorry writer, read best song writer. Col. 367, 4th line from the bottom, for Ripton read Skipton. Col. 292, line 13 from the bottom, for Mr. Brown read Mr. Bowden of the Royal Navy. LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H. FISHER. THE Emperial Magazine ; OR, COMPENDIUM OF RELIGIOUS, MORAL, & PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEdge. JULY.] "SOCIAL REFINEMENT HAS NO EXISTENCE WHERE LITERATURE IS UNKNOWN." [1822. THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL WORLD. No. 8.-Examination of the chief Phenomena of the right or spiritual side of the Scale, in relation to mere animated nature. And, 1, Of animated being in general, and the external senses. Having, in our preceding papers, traced the analogy between this world and the visible universe, particularly in the three central steps of the scale; and taken a glance of the inscrutable state of eternity which surrounds it on all sides, we return to the point whence we set out, in order to trace the analogy in another line. threefold state. There is, first, the nutritive function of plants; which is the lowest of the order of functions, and it may be compared with the chemical solar radiance, because this function operates without exciting heat in plants, and these rays have no heat; and, moreover, it is from this kingdom principally, that plants derive their nourishment. There is, secondly, the nutritive function of animals; which stands higher in the order of functions, and may correspond with the central rays of light, in as much as this kind of function is more apparent than that of plants; the gross aliments being taken into the stomach, The chief phenomena of the right or and there digested in a more conspispiritual side of the scale, is, accord-cuous manner than can be traced in ingly, the subject we are now to treat. And it is only because the septenary arrangements of our author seem to throw some additional glimmerings on this abstruse subject, that we would think of touching it at all; so completely has it baffled the attempts, even of the most ingenious, to illustrate it thoroughly. The Animal, Intellectual, and Moral are the three steps on the right or spiritual side of the scale; and with the first of these we shall begin. 1. The Animal. plants; and, moreover, in as much as it is stationed, by nature, in a middle state between two, viz. the nutritive function of plants and the sensitive function of animals, as the rays of light are in the sun-beam. There is, thirdly, the sensitive function of animals; which is the highest in the order of functions, and may correspond with the rays of heat, or caloric, because these stand highest in the solar radiance, and are the most powerful and penetrating of all the three; and the most nearly assimilated to the animal functions of sensation, which become perfectly_benumbed, and even languish and die without heat. In the animal kingdom, it is evident that there is a certain something, we know not what it is, nor can we know, for in the scale of its existence it is Thus have we reasoned out by anaanalogous to matter in its elementary logy, the nutritive and sensitive funcstate, which evolves the phenomena of tions to be threefold, like the threelife, by means of a double set of or-fold radiance of the sun; and in this gans, the one performing functions of nutrition, the other those functions of sensation which are peculiar to animation. The Stomach, and the Brain, with its elongation in the spinal marrow, are the principal organs concerned in these functions. respect, in a general view, they may represent the material universe in the following manner. The two functions of nutrition and sensation in animals, answer to the two first perceivable objects in the universe, namely, Matter and Mind: and accordingly hold a similar place Like the threefold radiance of the with them in the scale, animal Sun, the nutritive and sensitive func-nutrition on the left, and animal sentions seem to exist in nature in a sation on the right, thus, Left. Animal Nutrition. No 42 VOL. IV. Central state. Right. 2 P But the nutritive function exists in the Vegetable, no less than in the animal kingdom, but under very different circumstances, and which, in some cases, approaches to a sort of weak sensation; and therefore the station assigned it by nature, is in the middle between the other two; the digestion of plants, on the one hand, not being so gross as that of animal digestion; and their sensation, on the other, not being so exquisite and refined as that of animal sensation. This scale therefore stands thus, Left. Nutritive function of Animals. Central state. Organic or Nutritive function of Plants. Right. Sensitive function of Animals. Thus, by the phenomena of the animal and organic functions, we have arrived at the scale of three; from which another scale will immediately issue, which will give us the scale of five; and this scale of five will be of such a nature in its various operations, as to comprehend the perfect scale of seven. Having proved the above scale of three to be complete in its nature, like the three-fold radiance of the Sun; it must therefore stand entire, as it requires nothing to be added to its right or left. But from the two extremities of this, proceed the five senses of animals; by the exercise of which, from their wonderful nature, they are conversant with all the sevenfold phenomena of the great scale of the universe. The five senses of animals in the straight line, are, Smell, Touch, Taste, The order of the scale of the senses is as follows: the undermost figures represent the straight line as above; the uppermost, their situation in the Septenary Scale. 3 Smell, 1 4 Touch, 2 5 Taste. 3 These three, are senses which are conversant with matter, and with matter only when in a state of juxtaposition with their respective organs. And in this respect they appear to be allied to the three central steps of the great scale: not that each sense corresponds to each respective step of that scale; but the three senses, as a whole, represent the three steps as a whole, in as much as both in the one and in the other, are the objects of them within our reach as it were, and may be examined without the deductions of reasoning. But the other two senses, namely, Vision and Hearing, are not thus restricted in their operations, but converse with objects at a distance; so that the whole five senses, though they do not exceed this number, yet from the very nature of their operations, do most aptly correspond to the whole sevenfold scale of the universe. The three first, as conversant with matter only when in a state of juxtaposition, 3 Smell, 2 Vision, 4 fitly represent the three central steps of the scale. But the sense of Vision, which is the fourth of the order, counting in a straight line, conversing with objects at a distance, is the proper organ to be exercised in observing the mechanical phenomena of the heavenly and other bodies, where such phenomena are to be seen, which are the second of the scale; and by contrast, the intellectual phenomena, as expressed by the countenance, which are the sixth of the scale; these two respective steps in all the scales, amalgamating with, and sliding into each other. Thus, therefore, by adding the sense of Vision to each extremity of the above scale of three of the senses, we shall have a scale of five, answering in the manner of their operations to the five corresponding steps of the scale of the universe, viz. in the three central conversing only with present objects, and the other with objects at a distance. Thus, Touch, |