The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-21 00:00:00

Err, whieh est throng It the , dhe I • be mountain from logs of blood. limb A sa young 1"w"...- o o rlic was strock in the um, which hung ..red.al-bverirbi: of flesh. On his arrival in Naples lw k " much blood that an ampatatien et eo co ld not take place, and as no rese tioahasup to this lieu t'ta ° place, it is not expected t ha t he r can li ve. SsrM i s also reported killed, and two men s. Aito j had folks s secritice to the eruption were said h a ve ban buried yesterday at Pottici. Some „. h i , been felt for an Englishman and his wife I : ! n i ed . ' not returned fetes a visit to the mountain; d vet the crowds roll on night and day to see this wes ,, e rfsl pheuo menoo . From the eeighbourhood of the outunhun all the inhabitants have fled, and the ▪ r from the nigger ne at Torte has been removed. 's I conetweesd this. let`:: I have again seen I,‘ adman ors whom I have depended for inform informs. . Jr, ob I „ pi i affairs, and have gleaned the following pa . e.eulors. on , A:hich you may . eertainly depend. My • h as been in commonicatrea with Cardinal Dn. et. In he represeets as a sincere, well-meaning t ,,,. without that capanty and spirit of intrigue o iry to unravel and overthrow a conspiracy frail against the rope. The propositions made by colisal Dupont to the Pope were, that he should room t,' }tome immediately under French protec t:, ; that he should be restored triumphantly; left rhely free in the government of his states ; and that t h. French troops should be withdrawn immediately f• ormstioa of an independent papal force —it • added however, as a finale, that France would lc:rites! certain desires sis to the particular form of F . v. rnment to be adopter. As yet no definite answer I v !lan returned. Dupont is to have another inter • w with his holiness to-day or to-morrow. The re „:: h o wever I can anticipate—the mission of the can n ,l will be unsuccessful, far e. variety of reasons, into • the private wishes of 'aim betimes do not enter, - I repeat that he in the strongest manner has an , eva hie intention and desire to return, but parties T • woven a net about. Pio IL frum which he cannot tth regard to S.cily, nothing can subdue or tran .ise it. The very same day that the unfortunate - Were soot in Palermo, highly respectable ele went round the city making subscriptions to ,:rov the ex:l:senses of masses to be said for the re et the souls of the poor fellows, and the money • .eat off to Genos, where the ceremonies are to be ie-orined. The policy of government is, as I have ....rd. to patiently, month after month, trace out all a;sraents of the _late revolution, and sacrifice in iii all persons of whom they may have any su ,,ioe, and there is too much that is passing around to mtiblish the truth of such a report. F;re per Cents., 03, and sinking; Exchange on Laudon, MS. OMAN STATES.—Letters from our Roman " mil ky dent, dated the 12th icstant, hare oome to hr.d. The cowardly attack made on Prince Ills:pato had led to the arrest of 160 liberal. An notification of the Section the Coro, interlarded th fierce attacks on the late republic, had been p.a.azicd ak,at Rome by the police. the murder of a French soldier hu induced a pt—limatiun from General Barsguey d'llilliers pro ing the currying of dagger poignards ander pain if being 'hot. GERMANY. BERLIN, FEB. 16. The bill for an extraordinary vote of money to c ;c: military expenditire is now printed. The sum required is 1 . 2 mllions of thole!". The Minister of FILMIC* is empowered to raise the money by a loan bearicv interest, and to be liquidated within a proper term. An a:count is to be rendered to the Chambers in the nest session. The bill is accompanied by a memoria. which begins by stating that darn; 1830, l'ruse.a sill probably be compelled to mamtain a military force eveilliw the peace establishment, partly to be prepared Iv external eventualities, and portly to preserve o: to restore tranquillity and order, it rose they should be oirurbed. The peace establish mem amounts to about 121,000 men, out of which garri eats tor 2.t. fortresses end the chief cities have to be fur : so that these is no surplus applicable to other nrpooes. The troops employed in foreign countries, as Buses. th..le-wig, and Hamburg, amount to 28.300 sec :Auer the necessity el making good this sub :mead force even to keep up a peace establishment. 1 are existed also, it must be remembered, a party, me irreconcilable foes of all political order, which, a.thaugh cooquered, was still undermining the settled rstrueure of the state, and could only be kept don. by arms. The parliament at Erfurt must also Foiected against the possibility of all voi:ts: interruption, an attempt facilitated by earner, of a variety of frontiers [why was Erfurt chosen ?] ; at the seine time troops must be disposable to send to the assistance of .esgatel governments upon requisition, in cam of ...cretne breaking out. All Mete circumstances made impissib.e for the government to reduce its arma r-sira, ems if the state of Europe generally were as to admit of such reduction. But if the inter- of things as regarded Prussia and her imme t.re coafederatts was threatening. foreign politics «may Alarming appearance. For these rtai,te it was for the present to continue prepi rations which had been made fur a speedy itereave of the arms, and to senor* the pecuniary sear.. indiernaable lon this purpose. These means cx• eet el of such monies as were necessary for the maintenance of troops above the peace ime,n4, which amounted to 8,000,000 of thiders tte year, cr 1;60,000 &shire monthly ; and mit, of such monies as were necessary for siohlsatioa of the army, which could not be es tmeed at less than ten millions yearly. The go vernment conceived itself bound, before the conism.eion of the First Chamber was expired, to Gritg forward a bill far this voting of these means, and wou.l lull with joyful satisfaction such a state 'hinge as would enable it to dispense, u far as I.Arb.r. with these extraordinary supplies. Finally, •t.e govei agent declared that the tan millions nen:a wry for the mobilisation of the anny were asked as a providential measure, and without the con •6e chambers would be applied to no other porpose. Fan 17. A &potation of twenty SchleswirHolsteiners, from have arrived this evening at Hotel Nleyn- Lard., and, ater bolding counsel, they proceeded to Tut 4p)L M. NlanteoffeL The common people here are ro exclttd about the Schleswig- Holstein question, tie c cAviderable crowd gathered about the door of ti.c boa I',...erday several clauses of the Club Bill were car t... 4 it. the Second Chamber. Nlantauffa declared, is cumin of the debate, that a rising of the demo cr.t't party in Breslau and in Magdeburg had been 'ed for the £th of April. Nothing, it appears,—oat try: the figure which the government cut in the trial ut laidech,—ean Pure klanteutfel of his infatuated in the reports of his 'beryl. 17. Weil has retired from the editorship of the ' ••:t d6,aele Zeittin9. As she comfit-baker, Met:, in Being-Grist-street, Ind six other persons, consisting his family and a irk. 3 or two, were pitting together, on the evening of i•b, a policeman made his appearance in the dges,,c.c circle, and warned the members instantly to doper*. FEB. 18. go-Ultimo on the Schleswig-Holstein ques tiOu kn: n idiitg a critical phase. It is expected that the e wit , er - propositioce to the Danish will be pre * rated h 3 tat Prussian plenipotentiary to-morrow. Thv main feature, I understand, in these is, that the None sort of union. sbou:d exist between Denmark et'. the Isuchies xi-ts between Sweden and Nor u sy. The 114f -fence between this and the Danish kopo,iti , ,a of January 17 is, that the latter proposes Er.ineial union, the suns army, nav y, an d ir ` rt ign representation ; whereas, Prussia admits a ur.eit which extends only to common administra -I.dr. of foreign affairs, and common sovereign. Mean vi.iie it is an absurd misrepresentation to accuse of refusing to negotiate on the basis of the rot•4!otic r o of July In, which exp ress ly s tip u l a t e d t h e d. renitence of Schleswig u far as compatible with under the same sovereign. If the most import ant afliirs, such as the budget, were discussed ' Iprohagen it is clear that independence Is to what is called the internal adniinistra tion is of the least possible im The grind condition of independence, with every consmu- MitY tot well se individual, is the rai s ing an d spend iof its own money. The Schleswig-Holstein dem- Los. art seeking an interview with the king. The c N'ef of their visit to Berlin is the removal of the crninistrstive commission and the ro-installation of !km 4.ooAdierscAttfe. A moths was brought forward tray ente use V' of the Seemed Chamber is the of the peen to to the sort Miss. A sat,- bee of the Left hoped thee • the adeittese, it this nodes were passed, wesidalelak homed:ey ing daring the recess say aftesslam is the poem law, which is their ems albums. Mos= weal set pledge himself as sae shatineses, bet treated that se emotes yea be by ley petty ik the swain see powers ma ligned is the sonstitatioa. He *ea about the enbeidhd ihsses which the democratic peels had and in dismissing the mend day of Feb. 8 ; Count Schlegel'', with mach happiness, w ressitis e l li C minister that the organ of the Right, the Kea* Ze itweg, had treated the same occasion with still less ceremony. Count Arnim-Beetsanbere thou"; got no and posipesely disclaimed the sewspater it question of as expressing the opinions the Rig t, for Arnim, who really stands alone, professes to lead the Right, bat has nothing to do with the extreme Right, vitas opinions are represented by the paper in gasation. %aux. Tom. 19.—Valankavy Las. 107 j. National Dabt, Bank Kum 110 j. Am& dad drays lave "gala talana. Vona*, lika. 17.—Pine per OW. Metaniquaa 93. MOLDAVIA.—JASSY, JAN. 25.—A1l doubts as to the pod& solution of the refugees question must now cease, as the matter has been already settled. The refugees who have embraced Wan are to go to Aleppo, or, according to others, to Diarbekir ; the others to %ankh. Fuad Effendi has been appointed paths and presented with 2,0001., Reschid Puha has received 20,00 W., and Ali Pacha 10,0001. M. Titoff has formally renewed diplomatic intercourse with the Porte, bat the dispute with Austria still remain■ un settled. It is confidently affirmed that the great coo 'piracy discovered in %vela has contributed potently to the setting of this question at rest. Prince Ohiks has received the order of St. Anne of the first chums, with an extremely flattering letter from the Russian cabinet. DENNIARIL—The Borsenhalle has a letter from Copenhagen of the 13th inst., stating that in answer to a question put in the lower assembly on that day, the minister for foreign affairs had declared that, "though a prolongation of the armistice had been talked of in diplomatic circles, no negotiations on the subject were being carried on nor had any taken place." BELGIUM.—The Independence says, it is assure that • treaty of commerce and navigation has just been concluded bttween Belgium and Russia, and that the treaty was signed at Berlin at the latter end of last week. ALGlnas.—A letter from Oran of the 101 instant says: --•• An important expedition has just R ken place to the south ot the sub division of Litman, under tie com mand of General WMahon, and has been attended with complete enema Stine fractions of the tribe of Aoedisa, in a state of revolt, had crossed the frontier. General Mldahon, at the head of his column, overtook and inflicted a severe chastisement on them, bringing back the greater part of the tribe, and taking from them 14,000 sheep. The troops have just returned to Hemeen with their booty. The most parfeet:tralottillity seisms in every part of the province." SENZGAL—The Governor ot Senegal, in a despatch to the French Minister of Marine, dated the 16th October, gives as account at an expedition sgainst a chief, named Bourake, and oaten, for having stopped and pillared some French baats, and raised the pretension ot compelling every one who might pass through thar villages to pay a tax. The expedition resulted in the destruction of two villages of Lan. nel, and in the restitution of the pillaged things. This exploit had tattled a peat impression on the neighbouring _popula tions, sad a abler, the Alm tray of the Fouts, who had shown some hostility to the French, hastened to make afters of pest-. Although the expedition took place in the bad wagon in a temperature of from 35 deg. to 40 deg., and in an un wholesome climate, the French not only lost no men, but had not even sine sick—an unexampled circumstance. COLONIAL -THE EXPRESS, THIIBBDAY EVENING.. FEBRUARY 21, 1850. I ildtedßiliiiiiita Wade nay bas 8, bid* MOIL ThesibieB a =les a l vi er y t is le b e Ile ealltira el the rep, ear ha fame dr *aka &slimy, madam eitergamients de see ese aay areealty si te amain Mitt eplaireta Weed, nay oue we have net with ewer la dr paid that Grope evelywkere us shut et their =moil rairdty, but way h. are wines le via that thdr quantity egia the per fir slant. • revapeadeat whir bus great ties Ismulagihe general ham as se reps says :—" The rearel ingarden Is that they will be died of let year, WI sea lad as wry weber add mesa ter that, drat air is drat silk odory bat then we brow what Abbe estresene et wept mies e t n adh lad although setae dilater ere illesdeilly a ere in weir, sad then roar he a geed dad et New had giving Ni year he der imp rep. It is weary elastics that there see al kiedbusialauss km ~46 se dr* shire is as ham*/ he a earaisty Mot quality se may therresil bash* And hr. In fest eadl to orop it really as board, it is haperible w ruin aS city thing lilts $ Gamut idsa of 1 11 as pfe! al ," V i tro that it wiLl wit cur , year. ' .11s to stun kinds, tars rase eludes is entertained ; but there h no possibility of luswarg wash about it wadi it is ell in, for it is still nabs is swell quaatidia hue way places which Itaimmas never go to, anisquently all is rinerrtainty yst as to otters. BnIP. ABIRIVID AT CATLO/11.—The Blanche OR 4th Dr., 1849 ; the Bsvern, 27th Dee., 1849. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES—NEW SOUTH LABUAN. From the above colony we have no later acoounte than notieed on the arrival of the reading overland India maiL The sale of the land at Victoria wee ad vertimed to take place on Dec. 81, the result of whisk we have yet to be made acquainted with: nothing favourable can be expected, as the land to be pat up at auction consists of plots near the sea, which the executive bad been forced to abandon for the higher ground, in consequence of the swamps and the fever incidental to the marshy locality. Her Majesty'. ship Amason bad sailed from Singapore for the colony, m bad also her Malady's ship Albatross; and from Sarawak we learn that Sir James Brooke had proceeded to the island of labium to be present at the land sake, after hating been absent from the mittzest for me.; month s , lie contemplated a stay of a few days only, and was then to matt' te., Pinang, with a view to recruit his health by a mei dame there. CAPE OF 000 D HOPE. We have letters and papers from Cape Town to the 23rd of December. The case of " Letterstedt v. Morgan and others" stood for trial on Friday, the 14th of December. The defendants wire accused of having conspired to libel the plaintiff. The Attorney-'3eneral and Mr. Ebden appeared for the plaintiff ; Messrs. Brand (eon. and jun.) and Mr. Watenneyer were present to watch the proceedings for the defendants. Mr. Ebien read the declaration, and said he wished to h-ar the defendants' counsel read their own ez- ceptions. With the permission of the court the three counsel for the defendants stated the reason why they de clined the jur:sdiction of the court. Two of the judges, they said, had " remised" by emitting extra judicial opinions on the question at issue, and the re maining judge could not act alone, two being a quorum. The Chief Justice declared hat the time of the court had been wasted; there was nothing in the exceptions. Mr. Justice Menzies thought " there was nothing out of the way in hearing the ingenious statements of the three gentlemen." It was agreed that the Attorney General should be heard in reply next day. On Saturday the counsel for the defendants for- Maly tendered the following protest, which was received by the Registrar : As we consider that the mums of recitation, u alleged in the libel of exceptions, are according to the laws of the land, end that th e e c td e g d es who ha+. been remised therein are te incompent to ad udge on th e same; and u the judges so resumed have that they will sit and determine thereon, we feel ourse:ves In duty bound, for the protection of the rights of our clients, to protest against any farther proceedings on the exceptions or action, until the superior court, being her Majesty the Queen in council, shall have determined on the application to be made on behalf of our clients for relief in the Enmity. Cape Town, Dee. 15, 1849. —C..3. BRAND, E. B. WAlllllllllllh, J. 11. BPIAND.. The Attorney-General was then heard, and the judges gave their opinions at length. The Chief Jos um and Mr. Justice Menzies arrived at the condo sion that the exception was untenable. Mr. Justice Musgrave held it to be valid, and left the bench. The Chief Justice intimated that the cane would be called the first on Monday. On Monday, however, the Attorney-General inti mated that he was instructed by his client not to proceed farther "at present." Thereupon the Chief Justice declared the case postponed, adding that due notice must be given before the prcceedings could be resumed. Mr. Fairbairn gave notice next day in the Anti- Convict Association that at the next meeting he would move the following resolution : That the thanks of the people of the Cape of Good Hope, and the gratitude of the present and succeeding generations, are due te C. J. Brand, Esq., and to the junior csunsel, E. B. Hateineyer, Esq., and J. Brand, Esq., and to the attorneys in toe we of Letteretedt versus Morgan, Fair bairn, Sutherland, Van Rumen, Bergh, and others, mem bers of the Anti Convict Association, fur the magnanimity, independence, prudence, and zeal displayed by them in vindicating the pure administration of justice in this colony. Mr. Merrington gave notice of the following reso lution : That this !nesting has °hearted with grief and Indigna tion, in the governor's notification published in Lut Gazette, the intend/is of Earl Gray to send " final insuuetions" re meeting the convicts by the Neptune only when he shall have heard of the arrival of that vessel; and this muting, conceiving that Earl Grey was bound by every principle of Integrity and of statesmanship to forward that Instruction immediately on the receipt of the petitions from the jabs hitants of this colony, regard hie failure to do so as an act Of unjustifiable indiffuenee to the wounded feelings of the colonists, and also as an act unbecoming the character of a British statesman. A vote of thanks to Mr. Adderley, " for his generous, disinterested, and persevering efforts in defence of their rights and liberties," had been pre. viously passed by the meeting. It is worthy of notioe, that the Attorney-General felt himself called upon to declare in court that Mr. Letterstedt, his client, was u hostile to the admission of the convicts as any man in the colony. Indeed, the only parties who pretend to be satisfied with the course pursued by the governor are a few gentlemen in Lower Albany, will are notoriously animated by personal pique towards Mr. Fairbairn. JAVA. BATAVIA, DEC. 31.—The month has been wholly barren of any stirring intelligence. The Governor General Is still seriously indisposed, and, although present at Batavia, his excellency is incapable of taking a leading part in public affairs, which still devolve on the vice-president of the council. Several storms have occurred in the provinces, but not attended with loss of life. There have also been terrace convulsions : on Dee. 1 a shower of saes fell in the Tagal residency, which continued for two hours, supposed to have been thrown out by some of the volcanoes in the neighbourhood, but not Jo such an extent as to injure the standing crops. The graving docks at flourabaya have at length been completed, on a scale sufficiently large to receive large steam-vessels. Several vessels belonging to the government have been repaired moat effectually, and a tariff is about to be published, detailing the rates at which private vessels will be docked and repaired. The constrnotion of these docks will be a great boon to the shipping in these seas, and soon repay govern ment for the outlay and expenses incurred in their erection. It is currently reported, and very generally believed, that Governor-General Rochtunen will shortly proceed home; illness, and some misunder standing with the Hague authorities, is said to be the cause of his Excellency's intended departure, if so, it is highlr probable the arrival of the next mail from Europe will determine the matter. BURNING OF THE SHIP "DARTMOUTH." The Bombay Time Op: "We glee the following particulars of the destructions by fire of the ship Dartmouth, just as she was ready to save port with a valuable cargo for England—the work, as there is every reason to believe, of incendiaries. This is now the ninth ship belonging to Beim bay that has been wilfully destroyed by are within these eight yam, via., the Vansittart, Cornwallis, Adelaide, Eleanor, Belvidere, Thomas Grenville, Futtay Lowjee Family, end Dartmouth. Of these, the Belvidere was burnt at Singapore, the Eleanor at Aleppee ; the ether seven were destroyed in our harbour. The lass of property in all thus destroyed was considerably upwards of a quarter of a million sterling, or twenty-five lass of rupees. Yet with this frightful amount of mischief continually being perpe trated, we take no steps to protect ourselves against deoger or to affright the incendiary from his detestable pursuits. The Ohaut Syraer combine—the savage miscreants who execute their diabolical purposes concert measures with each other and keep their own counsel; the law member of council draws his ten thousand pounds year —the shipowners sacrifice their twenties and thirties of thousands, and each look at the others is stupid and apathetic wonderment, and submit in stolid apathy to be victimized ! The Dartmouth was of the berth= of 733 tons, owned by Kr. John Pennington, of Liverpool, and commanded by Capt. W. H. Lawton, well known here as having formerly commanded the ship Mount Stewart Elphinstone, was load. log for London, for which port she was to have sailed about the 15th inst., with the invalids of her Majesty's and the Hon. Company's services. Her meets in Bombay are Messrs. Leckie and Co. Up to 11 o'clock on Sunday night no suspicion of the impending danger existed, and shortly after that hour the captain, who had been walking the deck till then, retired to rest in his own cabin. About twelve o'clock the ooed mate was aroused from his sleep by the stifling fumes of somethiog burning, which he discovered to proceed from the after part of the ship, and, on raising the hatch, found the ship was on fire. He instantly gave the alarm by causing the fire bell to be rung, which was answered by the other vessels in his neighbourhood, and shortly afterwards the Hastings., commodore's flag ship, tired a gun. By this time the alarm became general, and boats' crews were de spatched to the burning weed as speedily as possible. The first t 3 render assistance was Captain Kingeombe, and a portion of the crew of the H. Co.'s steamer Berenice, accom panied by Captain St. Amour, of the B. S. N. Co.'s steamer Victoria, who did all they c mid, aided by a ship's engine from the former vessel, to keep down the flames ; and atlone time they so fir succeeded as to have checked the progress of the fire ; but there being only one engine at first available, their efforts proved ineffectual, and the con flagration rapidly gained head. Tim crew of the M isted vessel responded nobly to the calls of their captain and officers, as is the wont of British seamen in any and every danger or emergency that may overtake them in the path of duty ; and an eye-witness describes their conduct throughout the trying scenes of the nest few hours as highly praiseworthy and characteristic of these brave fellows. There was no contusion whatever, and orders were obeyed as cheer fully and deliberately as if the men were performing mere harbour duty. Finding that it was impossible to gain upon the fire, the captain determined, as he was berthed clue in amongst the other shipping, to run the vessel ashore ; but at the time it broke out a dead calm prevailed, and he had to wait for two hours for the setting in of the land breeze, afew puffs of which came off about 2 cm. la the mean time all the hatches were battened down, except where it was neces sary to leave an opening to admit of the water being con veyed through the hose-pipes of the Berenice's and Medusa's engines—an engine from the latter vessel had been sent on board about an hour after that from the Berenice—as well as by buckets. The latter vessel and the Medusa got their steam up, but were too bee in doing so to render any 'sentence. Parties of men from the steamers Auckland and Sesestris ; from the Hastings, and the mer chant vessels Owen Olendower, Amide, and John Bull, were employed in pouring down water into the atter parts of the ship but to no purpose, and by the time the breeze was strong enough to get weigh on the vowel the whole of the cabins and after part of the lower deck were a burning mass, Before this the Master• Attendant's Department arrived on board, )headed by N. W. Oliver, Bcq., aided by Captain Ethers)-, 1.N., Messrs. Atkinson and Lauchlan, and the whole of the pilot establishment residing in the fort. With their approval the burning ship was run ashore quite close to the Apollo Bender, Weide the spot where the wreck of the Adelaide is lying. and within 16 or 20 yards of where the Louie* Family, since broken up, was list year towed under similar disastrous circumstances. The Dartmouth touched the ground about 3 o'clock A.M., and very shortly afterwards became fixed in the position which her wreck now oc. copies. The vessel was then scuttled, and about half-put 4 o'clock am. the flames suddenly found vent in consequence, and burst though the upper deck, reaching to the mast heads, and enveloping the whole fabric in a sheet of fire, which formed a very greed, and at the same time most awful spectacle. The course of destruction was now extremely rapid, and by ten o'clock a.m. there was nothing left of this once noble vessel but a shapeless mass of blackened and chared timbers, vomiting forth smoke and flame in immense volumes. At five a.m. the mu' en mast went by the board; the maintop mast at tie • and at seven the fore-topmast fell over the bows. The main and the fore, masts fell between eight and nine, sad shortly after noon the bowsprit and head separated from the fore part of the vessel and fell into the sea, thus transforming the once beau tiful hull into a shap.less hulk. The greatest praise is due to every person who went to the assistance of the vessel in her distressed condition, and none more perhaps than to Mr. Clare, the chief mate of the John Bull, who is spoken of by all who witnessed the catastrophe as having exerted himself to an extraordinary degree on this occa sion. The captain and officers of the ship have lost everything they possessed. The crew have been more fortunate, however, as, from the circumstance of :their being berthed in the fore part of the ves sel, they had ample time to save a good deal, If not the whole, of their property, whereas the cabins of the officers were destroyed by the devouring element immediately after the fire broke out. The value of the block of the vessel, which is insured in England, is estimated at about 7,0001., or 70,000 rupees. The cargo was composed of got ten, gums, ivory, coffee, and cocoanut oil (19 casks), aspen woad, &o. &c. The cot ton' alone, of which there were about 1,270 bales shipped by Messrs. W. Nicol and Co., is valued at between 70,000 and 80,000 rupees, and the remainder of the cargo at 47,000 rupees, or 127,000 rupees for the whole. The total loss of the vessel and cargo toge ther may therefore be roughly estimated at about 1,97,00) rupees, or nearly 20,0001. The cargo was all Insured with different insurance companies here. The wreck is now burnt down to the water's edge, with ex 'option of about twelve or thirteen feet of the stern, which 111 Ira yet burnt through. Many boats are along side, the crews of which are bailing water on to the fiery mar, with what object is not very clear, as it is quite evident that the devastating element cannot now be subdued until nothing is left of the cargo for it to feed upon. As many of the crews as chose to go there, have been provided for in that admire able institution for seamen, the &ikon' Home • and the officers of the 111-fated vassal have all bee n . hos p itably re ceived by their brethren of the merchant service now in port. —gazette, Jan. 8. NEW YORK, Fes. 6. Of public affairs at Waabiogton continue to be melt amfased. There sppe to be a detemainatbra on the part et a large aotar of the southern members of =4to delay defidifm meths a matters, 11111ismill• al gamy s hag and motives thi quieten In elm shop or other be their In of the meonalma Hie teemeny department Reda itself, for mat the 11 • 11 _ iffinfloqtme bg law, unable to meet the =slli ...OM OMBION• ths revenue, compelled to i u to enponemare Tags uneepeetedly, and, as there is n ot of alteraatiztdiseitarge item employment a large num he In this city 172 moons have been dismissed by the collector of the port, and orders have been Lased to lay up all the revenue cutters, tone_dinbirge ihtlr crews. It happens nevertheless U l ote lVaesse business gate an as well hue as andll In the dismissed dick& were still at work ; if„enionfmnos shall teach that their envies. are unneoas uri, w. .a. there will be no change from the present mho don. The hours of business at the Cutemkouee ham It:Marto been between 10 o'clock to the morning sad three is the afternoon, Now they •re Weeded from 9 am. to 4 and this earn labour is supposed to be equivalent to the duties to he performed by them that remain. We have had acme strange manors from Washington within a few days past, which are sot, however, generally cement as yet. Ifthey were, the would attract muck at tention. It is nmildently assn by some persons whops*. Mad to have direst Information on the 'abject, that Mr. Clayton, our Beentary of Mate, and your minister, Sir Hoary Balmy, are arranging the affairs of the two countries, so far as they are connected, by • grand scheme of recipread sa make. !". - -- fib said that the Canada are to be permitted to annex themselves to the United States, and that, in consideration thereof. we are to allow Ragland to tabs possession of Cuba by way of payment of the Spanish debt. he United States are to be allowed to hold Tigre Island, in the Bay of Fowles. In the face of all this, however, we have the despatch of Earl Grey to Lord Elgin, dated London, Jan. 9, which shows that it is the determination of the British government to put down the annesationists with a strong hand. The effect of this dispatch, It is not yet time to appreciate. It may be, that it will at ones put down everything like annexation, or it may drive the ultra annexationist& to such desperation as to induce them to take up arms. Of one thing you may be sure, that our government will not suffer our peaceful relations with yours to be disturbed by any die. play of sympathy upon oar frontiers. I have bairn said, there exists an entire indifference to the fate of the Canadas on our part, except, perhaps, in the south, where tht re would be foucd a sturdy opposition to their coming into the Union. The south does not desire to add any more free states to the Union. Our local intelligence is more than usually interesting. You remember I alluded to the supposed appearance of spirits in the western part of this state, who had established • method of conversation with the living, through the agency of some females, whose citations to the vasty deep of another world appeared to be answered by their immediate coming. The subject began to assume an important cha racter. Many people certified that they had been present when the unearthly sounds were heard, and apparently without any human intervention, and when, by the use of the key of the established knock-alphabet, answers were tTell to many interesting questions. A certain class of wedenborgians, as well as of infidels, began to declare that a new revelation was at hand from the other world, more important than any we have yet had; and in order to verify this opinion the questions addressed to the spirits were of such • character as to lead to the formation of • theory of the other world, not exactly such as Christians have been in the habit of entertaining. Several laboured sad ingenious essays in favour of the spirits made their appear ance in the tribune of this city. Even the London Spectator devoted an editorial column to the subject, and asked for further information as to these " Rappists." I am now prepared to give it. A few days since some intelligent gentlemen of Rochester were determiaed to investigate for themselves. The young women alluded to were accordingly invited to renew their intercourse with the dead. They were planed on a table, and while there, their ankles were tied together, and • strong ligature was passed over their clothes around " the upper part of their legs." A gentle man also firmly held their feet together. The spirits were then invoked in the usual way, but ne knockings were heard in reply. Indeed since the investigation has taken place, no more have been heard at all, and at a public meeting of citizens the com mittee of investigation has declared the whole thing to be an imposture, expressing also the belief that if ajury of matrons could have been impannelled to make a more thorough exa mination, they would have found attached to the limbs of these women something in the shape of bones or castanets, from which these unnatural noises proceeded. The bubble has burst, and the new light philoeophers have received a disgraceful overthrow. It is certainly a curious circum stance, that such follies should find dupes in so enlightened an age as this, and in such a country as ours. I Lave observed, however, that such men as Oreely and Davis, who may be ct.nsidend the head of the school, are men without regular and systematic education—totally ignorant of natural or exact science. They have talent, but no sound knowledge ; they have, therefore, no standard by wbicb to test reported facts. These are the sort of men who believe in the discovery of perpetual motion, and the possible and entire renovation of human affairs, while the passible, habits, and evil propensities of men are unchanged Their great field of research te in the unknown and untried ; mental philosophy is their passion, ;and the lowest senses their chief agents of reform. Some interesting facts have been made known officially to Congress in relation to the Willie of the United States. During the past year there hays been struck at Philadelphia 9,519,513 pieces of gold ono silver, of which upwards of seven millions were in gold. There are alsothree other mints, at New Orleans, at Charlotte, and at Dahlonega. The whole value of the coinage for the year was 11,164,696 dole., of which upwards of six millions were from California gold. A singular spectacle was presented to the eye of the public in this city last week. Three large steamers were launched at once (rum a single dockyard. One of more than 3.000 tons burthen, belongs to the New York and Liverpool line, another of somewhat less dimensions, is intended for the coast trade, and a third is designed for the navigation of the Bay of San Francisco and the Sacramento River. The latter left the ways tally equipped for sea, her engine was on board, her steam was up, and as soon as she was fairly afloat she piddled off at a very high velocity, recognising her " native element," as some have it, with the apparent instinct of a seagull. Not the smallest derangement of the machinery was observed, and she was even then ready for her departure. She sails in a few days for the Pacific. I belive this is the first at tempt of the kind ever made, and it was perfectly successful. Our ship yards, like those of England, show an increased activity. Steamers of every size, and packet-ships of enor mous burthen, are being everywhere built. There seems to be a wondrous impetus given to our commerce, and it will not be long baron we shall have large fleets of merchantmen in the Northern Pacific seeking new outlets for our pro ducts. There are hundreds of islands in that ocean we have never yet visited for the purposes of trade that will soon re cognise our flag. The discovery of the mineral wealth of ICZifornia has already led to an astonishing in crease in our manufactures of a certain description. Pre pared food, blankets, woollen cloths, boots, hats, and shoes, gold and silver ware, paper, iron safes or boxes to hold papers and money, scales for weighing-gold, hammers, nails and axes are sent out in large quantities. A new market is also found there for our flour, beef and pork, dried apples and peaches ; cider and ale are also sent off by the ship load. Ihe emigration thence continues to be large, and supplies will be wanted for years to come to an almost unlimited extent. The discovery of gold in the quartz rock has given a new impetus to the existing impulses, and we look for the arrival of our richly laden steamers from Chagas with an interest that throws our European connexions into the shade. AMERIC US. WALES. Sydney avian have reached us by the India over land mail to middle of October last. Mr. Low's mo tion for the abolition of the Sydney corporation was negatived by a large majority, there being 8 &pissed 16 nose. A Captain Heoenden, a trader between Sydney and Portland Ray, had levsnted in one of his vessels, having swir.dled the Sydney folk out of 18,0001. In the legielative council the question of re emigration to California had been brought forward by Mr. Dangar, woo suggested that on all future occa sions emigrants provided with a passage at the pub lic expense should refund the cost of their peerage to the public treatury upon their quitting the colony without having remained a suffi cient time to confer a proportionate benefit for the expenditure incurred by the colonists ; the time re stricted being five years, and that no mechanics ought in future to be assisted with colonial funds to enable them to emigrate. Oa a division the motion was lost by 13 to 5. The Railway Bill had passed the legis lative council, end that body was busily occupied about the establishment of a university of a purely secular character, to be endowed with an annual grant of 5,0001., and a further grant of 30,0001. for building purposes. The scale on which the institu tion is to be erected and conducted is thus stated by the select committee in their report: The professors whom it is considered desirable the senate should be empowered to engage at once are— lit. A professor of classic. and msthensatics, who shall be considered the principal of the university, and have a salary of 8001. a year. 2nd. A professor of chemistry, at 4001. a year. 3rd. A professor of natural history, including the animal, vegetable, sad mineral kingdoms, at 4001. a year. 4th. A professor of experimental philosophy and civil ea gineeriag, at 4001. a year. sth. A professor of anatomy, physiology, and medicine, at 3001. a year. It is the opinion of your coma ittee that these professors will be sufficient to begin with; but, as education progresses and a mor • minute subdivision of knowledge become. expe dient, a different distribution of the departments of literature and science assigned to each professor will be required u well as the appointment of other professors, to open out new fields. Among these latter probably a professor of modern history and political economy, and a protium of modern languages, will soon be found iadispensable. In addition to toe salaries or stipends which it is thus proposed to snips to the several professors, out of which it is intended that they shall provide all necessary apparatus for the elucidation of their leaturee, your committee consider it just to allow to each of them 1001. to defray the coat of their passage to the colony, and 1001. a year also for house rent. until apartments can berovided for them in the uni versity. It is farther propose d to give them the whole of their clue feee, with an understanding, however, that a sub division of the subjects allotted to each may be made from time to time, as the senate may deem expedient. This arrangement, it is obvious, will gin the professors a direct interest in making their lectures as instructive and agreeable as possible ; and it is hoped that by means of this twofold stimulue, men of fleet rat, attainments in literature, science, and arts, will be found to compete eagerly for those offices. The colonists complain bitterly of the conduct of the home government in delaying the arrangements for opening a steam communication with Europe by way of Singapore. The Legislative Council, after narrating the various unsuccessful steps of the executive to consummate the grt at object, passed the following resolutions : That notwithstanding the foregoing facts, and the expecta tions raised by the Secretary of State in the despatch of the date above referred to. this council sea no preapect of re ceiving the benefit of steam communication with the mother country within a rusonable time. That this council, therefore. in common with the whole community of New South Wales, entertains a feeling of die. appointment and mortification that a measure of such vital importance to the colony should have been so long delayed, and that so little apparent earn• stases should nave been evinced by the home authorities for its accomplishment. That a petition be forwarded to her Most Gracious Ma jesty, the Queen, embodying the foregoing resolutions, and prying that her Majesty will graciously direct that steps be taken to accomplish this great object ; and that an address be presented to his excellency the governor, requesting that he will forward the same to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for presentation to her Majesty. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By way of Singapore we have received Adelaide journals to the beginning of November. The columns of our colonial contemporaries are chiefly occupied in discussing and reporting proceedings in the Supreme Court, arising out of libellous and scandalous sneer miens on the characters of some of the colonists moving in the higher circle. Political matters appear to have yielded to the all-absorbing social quarrels. The revenue for the quarter, ending Sept. 30th, is set down at 42,0131. reeeipte,and 39,3021.f0r expenditure, exhibiting a steady and healthful progress of the colony, as compared with the corresponding quarter of previous years, es under : In the year 1845 Quarterly (General) Revenue for September £B93 „ 1846 11,32/5 „ 1847 t/ 14,055 „ 1848 23.836 ~ 1849 " 24,401 On October 17, the direc tors of the far-famed Bum Barra mine held their ninth half-yearly meet ing. Since the opening of the mines to Sept. 29th, the copper ore had realised a sum largely exceeding half a million sterling clear of freight and charges. A dividend of 100 per cent. had recently been paid. The heavy amount of business in the civil court, and the continued indisposition of the judge, has been the source of load complaint, minor cases being thrown into arrears by the various actions brought to sustain reputation of so bubble a nature that the damages awarded in seven cases aggregated but ls. lid., al though the total amount claimed by plaintiffs was 1%9504 The colonists complain of the class of emigrants sent out from England by the Emigration Commissioners. A local committee had been appointed to remedy the evil. SHIPS AJUUVED AT PORT AXMLAIDII,—ThO Isabella Heron on the 31st Oct., 1849; the Senator, do.; the Navarino, 4th Nov., 1849 ; the Benjamin Elkin, do. ; the Constance, 6th Nov., 1819, in 77 days from Plymouth. NEW ZEALAND. Accounts have reac Auckland to the end of September. All was quiet, and the colony favourably reported of. At a meeting held by the Maori population a memorial was adopted, and on August 23, presented to the Governor by a number of native chiefs appointed for the purpose. The Settlers' Constitutional Association at Wel lington was actively canvassing all measures origi nating with the government, affecting the interests of the community, and means were taken to prevent as far as possible improper or injurious measures passing into law. The trustees of the savings bank, at Wellington, have been placed in an awkward dilemma, want of funds having forced the managers to reform payment of the interest (501.) due on the government deben tures in which the funds of the bank are invested. The trustees have in consequence addressed a memo rial to Lord Grey, praying payment of the amount. The Rev. Mr. Taylor, of Wanganui, has recently dis covered, about 170 miles up the Wanganui river, several caves of great extent, resembling the cele brated caves at K,rkdale , in Yorkshire, and having embedded in the stalagnutic deposit the bones of the Mos, and other extinct animal, of what geologists call the Pleistioene period. CEYLON. Our dates from this colony are to the 15th of Ja nuary. Lord Torrington was absent from the seat of government, attending an "elephant kraal" at Bauxite, a locality celebrated for its abundance of game. The temporary (!) absence of Sir Emerson Tennent CITY Comm' OF Sawaits.—At the met held on from the colony . had led to a conaiderablo shifting Tuesday the eheirman read a report from Mr. Ha wood, the among the o ffi cials, a round dozen of them, from top survffar of andth ettniatn.e.weruthedgre the cowl"' f the s to bottom, having been set mach to do some other daring the past year. Then port landed statements of man's business. **improvements effected in the City slaughtering houses The accounts of the coffee crop are unfavourable. and churchyards, and contained copious details of the steps The Afunthly Examiner mays : token to racers the abatement of nuisances, and the carry- Except in the very highest estates oropt *thawing will be lag out of various remediel o?euures enumerated. The well over, end weeding sad pruning hr is most Instances coin expressed their approbation of the report, and di taken the place of gathering sad store work; despatching rested that copier should be sent to AU the ambers of the crop from estates is, however, the principal business Pad the mxperstlon. CALIFORNIA. SAN Famscroco, Nov. 15,1849. Under this date a correspondent says :—" Eleven of us left the States, but three turned back soon: eight pushed on through all difficulties, till at length we got to San Francisco. We took only two de's' rest, for we had only 17 dollars left; for everything is so dear that it was not enough to pay for a day's beard. So we started off to work next day, and before night we were in cash again. We continued to work tegether about a mouth, and shared every night, and the average was very nearly an ounce and a half of gold a day. But we worked like slaves. and none of us were ill, bnause we would not drink any of their vile brandy. We fell out about working on a Sunday. Some would work, and some would not ; and I was one that would not; so I and three others worked together, and they I called us the Sunday Simons, which was not pleasant. Hearing that gold was discovered on the other side of the Sierra Nevsda Mountains, and that a great number of dig gers were going there, we packed up and joined a party of miners. One of them was an Englishman. As we arrived at the Calaveries River we began digging, and our success was indeed wonderful. There had been some very heavy rains, which had washed the small scales of gold from the crevices of the rocks into the hollows below, and there we met with it in surprising quantities. In October and No Timber I got more gold then all the time before. I will tell yin how it happened. I found that 1 had a sort of knack at finding it, or else I worked harder than my mates; so I proposed that we should work together, but keep what we got, for up to this time we shared it every night. We were sow digging on the Celanese, and close to the Santa Vega Mines; and here I made more gold in 61 days than 1 had found for the eight months before. Alter some tune we straggled from one another, and I continued to work alone. lam now again in Sea Francisco, and have tuned my digging into dollars. I mean to stop here till spnng, and then go back to the very tame spot that I left, and if I am as lucky nut year as I have been this, I shall return home with a very large sum in my pockets." SUPPLY OP WATER TO THEMETROPOLIS.-Yi - terdsy evening, a public meeting of the inhabitants of St. ST. LUXE'S HOSPITAL.—The annual court of Denstan'e.inthe•West, was held at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet the governors was held yesterday at the George and Vulture, street, fee the purpose of adopting measures to obtain 'con stant supply or pure water at a cheap rata throughout th e Lomberd.street, H. F. Slum Lefevre, Reg., treasurer, in the whole of the metropolitan districts. Resolutions in accordance choir. It appeared from the report et the general committee that, in addition to 101 incurable patients permanently with the objects of the meetings were adopted. maintained and provided for is the hospital, 286 patients FIRE NEAR THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY deemed curable have been under treatment during the year, TiliSlNTlS.—Lest night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, a fire of whom, in 167 cams, the treatment was oompleted, and broke out in the Globe Tavern, at the corner of Drummond 118 remained in the ho s pit a l on eke Ist January last. Of the and Seymour streets, and nearly facing the No r th-Western above 187 cases, 101 were disc harged *Undo WAR cured , equal to Bnilway Terminus, Euston-eguare. It ori g i na t e d i n th e or 601 per cent., 62 w e &soh emend, being equal to second floor front, and was decorated bye gentleman who '3l 1.7 per cent. and 14 (Wag equal to 8 2.3 per cent) died was sleeping in the room where it occurred. In consequence in the hospital, four of whom, out of 12 severe cams, died at of the denseness of the smoke he was unable to find the door the time of the cholera from typhoid fever and cholera. The of the room, and was nearly exhausted b e f or e he cou ld be receipts, including a former Waage of 1,8824., amounted to assisted from the apartment. The fire was extinguished by B,BOM I and the dhbureemmie 10 6,8221. Ms neighboum without the aid of the fits brigsds. Vbe Court. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent visited the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday morning at Bucking ham Palace previous to her departure for Frogmore. The Royal Duchess left town at half put 1 o'clock, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Cooper, for her resi dent* at Frogmen. Her Majesty had a dinner party yesterday evening at Buckingham' Palace. The company included his Exoellency M. Drouyn de Pliuys, their Excellencies the Baron and Baroness de Brunnow, the Marchioness of Nonnauby, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the Earl and Counter of Mardwielte, the Earl and Counter Granville, the Right Hon. William S. and the Lody Caroline Lumina, Lerd George Lennox, the Right Sm. Sir James and Lady Gra ham, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Wylde. The royal children took pony and walking exercise yester day in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Sir William C. Ross, R.A., had the honour of tak lag the first sitting yesterday, for a miniature of her Royal Highness the Princess 1.311i91, to be painted by command of her Majesty. A deputation from the Quebac and Melbourne Railway Company, consisting of Mr. W. J. C. Benson, Mr. George Pemberton, Mr. Edward Bursted, Mr. Edward Ryan, Mr . George Beswick, and Mr. Edmond Mackie, of Quebec; and Mr. William Chapman and Mr. Robert Carter, of London, had an interview with Earl Grey, yester day, at the Colonial Office. A deputation with reference to the bonding in Manchester, consisting of Sir Elkanah Armitage, Mr. Alder man Watkins, Mr. Alderman Biacide, Mr. Councillor Gibbs, and the Town Clerk of Manchester ; and also Mr. Ashen= (on behalf of the Manchester Commercial Ataxia. doe), accompanied by the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P. and Mr. Bright, M.P., and also by Mr. W. Tatton Reeriou, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P. and Mr. Renfrew, M.P., had an Interview with the Right Hon. It. Lsb3uchere, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is going on favourably towards recovery. The Finance Committee of the Commission for the Exhibition of 1861 consisting of Earl Granville, Sir Alex ander Spesrman , lir. Jones Loyd, Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Colonel Reid, mat at the Board of Trade yesterday. Mr. Francis Fuller, of the Executive Committee, had an interview with the Finance Committee. The Judicial Committee of ti:e Privy Council sat yesterday, and resumed and concluded the t eariag of an appeal from Bengal " Grant v. the Chief Justice of Bengal ' (part heard). Her Msjes'y and Prince Albert will, it is stated, honour the Lyceum Theatre with their presence this even ing, to witness " He would be an Actot" and the " Island of Jewels." THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. EFFECTS OF THE PAPER DUTY ON SILK AND FANCY MANUFACTURES. MANCHESTER, Fee. 19. In addition to the tax which the paper duty is felt to be upon knowledge, there is a new and rising branch of our textile manufactures upon which it is found to inflict "a heavy blow end sad discourage ment." The reader has probably seen, in shop windows or elsewhere, some of those beautiful fabrics of figured silk, cr silk and cotton, and silk and worsted, manufactured by the tailor into gentlemen's vests. Ladies' dresses, shawls, and ribbons, of a similar fabric, commend themselves to the eye. They are amongst the most elegant and tasteful produc tions of modern art. These fabrics are the production of the Jacquard loom. Their manufacture was, for a tine, confined to France; but twelve to fifteen years ago English artisans and capitalists began to turn their attention to the Jacquard loom, and so rapidly has it found favour that it may now he seen at work in the factories of Manchester, Middleton, Bolton, Macclesfield, London, Coventry, Huddersfield, Brad ford, Leeds, Paisley, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Derby, and Norwich. A trade that has found such favour in the country, and which has spread so rapidly, it might well be supposed would deserve the attention and fostering care of the state. Let us see how it is bestowed. In connexion with this branch of manufactures, and absolutely necessary to it, is a sped'a of paper or card manufacture. To these cards have to be transferred the patterns and beautiful designs which have to be interwoven with, and delineated upon the silken fabric by the Jacquard weaver. The quantity of cards used in the trade is enormous. In some of the fabrics for waiatcoatings now produced in Man chester, there are as many es ninety picks of cotton and ninety picks of silk in every inch of cloth, and some patterns will require the weaver to be furnished with 900 or 1,200 cards. A pattern was exhibited to the writer, which was far from one of the most elaborate, that had required 1,088 cards. The weight cf the cards is 411bs. per hundred, so that the total weight of the 1,088 would be something Ike 491 be. The duty paid to government on 491 be. weight of cardboard at lid. per lb. gives a total of 6s. lid. This is inde pendent of a farther per tentage, making the total duty about Os. 43d. Thus, when the manufacturer has produced a new design, before he can weave a single piece of goods, he has to make an expenditure in cardboard on which the duty to government alone is Os. 4ld. And observe, this set of cards will only serve one weaver ; if the design is one which takes, and he has to put a thousand weavers upon it, a thousand times Os. 43d. has to be paid in duty. Each weaver will be three weeks in ptoducieg his piece of 20 to 30 yards of waistcoating, and the duty on the cards is estimated as absorbing the whole of the profits on each of the first pieces Produced by the weavers from each set of cards. But this is not the worst part of the case. It is not every pattern that does " take" (to use the phrase adopted in the trade for descriptions of goods that become favourites) ; many patterns take but very partially, and some are dead failures. Still the duty has been paid, and the manufacturer has ne remedy. The idea of getting bade his money from the excise man, and that of "extracting butter from a dog's throat," are somewhat identical ; they are not to be entertained. Aud let it not be supposed that an isolated CABO has been selected for showing the discouragement which the paper duty offers in this branch of manu factures. The number of cards used is in propor tion to the number of colours introduced into a pat tern, or the extent of it ; and cases occur in which the proportion far exceeds the instance given above. In bed furniture and figured window curtains produced by a large manufacturer in Manchester, it was esti mated that the patterns, which were huge ones, took in the one case 7,000 to 8,000, and in the other 12,000 to 14,000 cards for the weaver. A dress piece woven for her Majesty, with exceedingly deep border, by a late manufitcturer, is said to have required some thing like 6,500 cards, and the duty paid upon them would be nearly 2/. Now, in France and Germany there is no duty on paper, and in some cf the figured velvets, and more elaborate designs for silk goods, the manufacturer in this coun try cannot compete with them owing to the great number of cards required, and the serious obstacle a w g h a ich the duty upon rn tm e he in throws mind, th i a n t h t i h s a w d a u y t . y lh fa ' nn en a , a cost upon these cards beyond the nominal amount. The annoyances from the excise operated to prevent the ordinary paper makers from troubling themselves with the manufacture of them in the infancy of the trade, when the demand was small, and they had to be procured from a distance. With the increase of demand cardmakcre have established themselves in the manu facturing districts, but the delays and obstacles thrown in their way to suit the convenience of excise men are a source of expense, independent of the duty charged upon the article; and but for this our silk manufacturers, therefore, would be in an infinitely better position to compete with our continental neigh bolero. The case is one of great hardship upon them, and when the question of a repeal of the paper duty comes before the House of Commons it is to be hoped that this branch of the subject will be pressed upon ministers as by no means one of the least important or the least entitled to their attentiou. Tnn SALE AT 111Annorteeos-House.—The sale of the Queen Dowager's effects, which was discontinued yesterday, recommences this morning and is fully expected to close this week. The matron begins to bear a somewhat dismantled appearance, but there is a large quantity of valuable property still remaining to be disposed of. A set of crimson and gold sofas and chairs, in Aboyaa wood, have exhibited their gorgeousnem in vain up to the present time, and there are several large sideboards ann consoles which have not u yet found purchasers. The full length portraits of their late Majesties, George 111. wid Queen Charlotte, formerly occupying positions in the grand al o e dieing-room, awl ticketed at M. each, have found favour ' the sight of Madame Tussaud, in whine saloon the g hesceforth be associated with their prototypes in w -.1.. model of Jerusalem has been *old to a clergyman also purchased a favourite chair belonging to the I \ • . i l e 1 ...Al A 4 '.- i i t, , cr.. ti 74 ~' • fi t. ix )", , o I