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lhe richest man Of the age.-The late Richard
Arkwright, of Derbyshire, was the most ponder
Gus capitalist in all England, if not in the whole
world. His personal property alone is estimated
at the enormous sum of seren millions sterling
his landed estate at ono two millions more.
Il is said that with the exception of Mr.. Solomon
Heyne, OF Hamburger. there is no person in Eu-
rope whose possessions approach to within half
the amount of this mans wealth in personal pro.
perty. AS for the Barings, the Hopes, and the
Rothchilds of Europe-the As,ors and Girurds OF
Amer!ca-immensely wealthy they are, and
were they become, in Comparison with this leva.
than of Derbyshire third or fourth capitalists.


And yet, it is now history, that the men who
contributed most by their inventions, improve
ments or enterprise, to the progress or success o
the cotton spinning and manufacturing system
out OF which this immense heap Of wealth was
accumulated, died in extreme poverty. Har
greaves, the inventor of the "spnnng jenny
Crompton. tho inventor Of the "mule" frame
and Radcliffe, the inventor Of the "lressing ma
chines,' were reduced in advanced ago to squalid
po'orty.-AD. Argus.