Letters, dated Dec. 19, have been received from Port-au-Prince, by way of Havre, but they mention no fact of public interest, except that the discontent among the natives at the subserviency to France was on the increase, particularly in the northern part of the island.

The Bolton Chronicle sa ys, a dreadful accident occurred on Monday last, at the factory of Messrs. E. and W. Bolling, in Bridge-street, Little Bolton. To Eliz. Kenworthy, a child only eight years and eight months old. She had been engaged rather more than a week in the factory, and was putting some rovings into the creel, when her clothes were caught by the shaft, and she was instantly twisted up to the creel, with such velocity that her head was entirely separated from her body.

We understand that a petition from the silk weavers in this town, for the continuation of the prohibition of foreign manufactured silk, will in a few days be presented to the House of Commons, by our worthy and excellent representative, Mr. Monck. Our readers are aware, that in July next it is proposed to admit the importation of foreign-wrought silk, at a protecting duty of thirty per cent. This was part of the arrangement in the Session of 1824, when the duty on raw silk was repealed ; and the measure was supported by both the Members for this borough, because, in common with a large majority in both Houses of Parliament, they considered it as the beginning of a new system of free trade, that would of course speedily abolish those odious restrictions and monopolies which are the bane of commerce in every quarter of the globe.