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TESTIMONIAL TO pURNELL BRANSBY PURNELL, ESQ. At a Meeting of Gentlemen connected with the County of GlouceStee, held at tiioucester on the 19th day of March, 1150; the RIRL FITZIIARDINGE, Lord Lieutenant and Citstos Rotulorum, In the Chair— It was unanimously Resolved — That a Subscription be opened for the purpose of preisnting PUR NELL BRANSBY PUltliEt.L, Esq., the County Chairman' with a Public Testimonial for his conduct on the su b j e c t of Private Luna- It At:flume, in the county of Gloucester, evincing great persever ance, unweariee, labour, ansPundsunted moral courage in repressing abuses and long-existing evils in such establishments, and reflecting the highest credit both en his public and private character. That ;he Gentlemen present do form a Committee for earrying into effe it the foregoing resolution, and to receive subzeripti o ns, with power 'to add to their numbers (any three of wh om to be a quorum), and that letters, with these resolutions, he forw arded to Gentlemen C°" .ected with this county, and to others who are presumed to feel an ',nterest in this subject. 'that the directory of the several banks i n the city an d county of Gloucester, and of the London Joint-Stoct Bant,Pall-inall, London, '.oe requested to receive subscriptions for the above purpose, payable So the account of W. Joyner Ellis, Esq , Treasurer ; and that Gilbert itoldsn, Esq., No. 44, Craven.street, Strand, London, he the lion°. earl Secretary for soliciting and reeelviug subscriptions in Lollies and elsewhere, out of the comity, for the same purpose. That the foregoing resolutions be published in the two Gloucester Demrapapees, and in the Times and Sun, London no_vrspepers IL . FITZL.RDINGE, Ck ai rumn. sums 5UNIICIIIIIT.1) AT TILE MEETING. XlO 0 0 The Earl Fitzhardinge - • • • • .10 0 0 The Duke of Beaufort . • • • .bbe The Earl Ducts • • • • ' 1 1 0 The Earl of Ellenborouili • • • • .1 1 0 The lion. li. S. Law 1 1 0 • . • . The lion. and Rev. W. T. Law • • • • 1 1 0 1 1 0 'The Lord Moret on .Sir Martin Crawley R oeve y , Bart. • • . John Curtis Hayw ard, Esq. . • • • 1 1 0 J ame s Francille Esq. 1 1 0 The Rev. Francis E. Witte . • • • 1 1 0 T. Gambier Parry. Esq. . • • • • 1 1 0 •1 1 0 Tke .Rey. Henry Cripps' • • • Colonel Browse • • • • • • 1 1 0 1 1 0 Jelin Frobyn, Esq. 1 1 1 Edmund H o pkinson, Esq. .. • . • • William Fripp, Esq. • - • • • 1 1 0 Richard Foley, Onslow, Esq, ' . ~. 1 1 0 . • 1 1 O X. John Purnell, Esq. . . . . T. Barwick L. Baker Esq. • . .• . . 1 1 0 ~ .1 1 0 W. Philip Price, Esq. . . . . •1 1 0 John Wsdlington, Esq. • • • • •1 1 0 Ansley Robinson, Esq. . • • • Edward Owen Jones, t 1 1 0 ag. • • " Bury Clifford Clifford, Esq. • • • • 1 1 0 • J. Fertesctie Briekdale, Esq: • 11 0 • • 1 1 1 C. Et isoke Hunt, Esq. . ; • • . W. Joyner Ellis, Esq. . • • • • 1 1 0 . L on don 10 10 0 The Alleged Lunatics' Frie nd Society, ..... __--.----------------------• LEASEHOLD ESTATE, SAINT GILES. TO be' SOLD, . pursuant -to .a DECREE of the HIGH COURT, of CHANCERY, made In p cause " LARGE v. COLLINS," with the approbation of RICYSLAD Toms Xixoxits- LIT, Esq., one of the Masters of th,. yourt, at the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane, London,' by Mr. FREDERICK CHINNOCK, the person appointed by the Master for the purpose, on W•DNESDAY, the 17th day of April next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon. A LEASEHOLD HOUSE,Dudley-street, formerly Mon mouth-street, Saint Giles, held for 2,000 years tram L a dy•day, 1754, at a ground-rest of 61. per annum, And now let on lease to a highly respectable tenant for twenty-one years, at the net rent of 451. per annum. Also a COACH-HOUSE, with 'Four-stall Stable, situate in Tavi stock-m ews, Itassell-square. Particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained (gratis) at the said Master's Office, in South am p ton -buildings, Chancery-lane, Lon don ; of Messrs. Powell and Thompson, Solicitors, Raymond-build- Jugs, Gray's Inn ; of Mr. Joseph Fallows, Solicitor, No: 195, Picca dilly ; and of Mr. Frederick Chinnock, Auctioneer, 211, Regent street, Waterloo-place, 'Anton ; and the Premises may bo seen on application to the tenants. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. SOCIETY FOR GENERAL ASSURANCE ON LIVES. TH E ROYAL NAVAL , M ILITARY, EAST INDIA, and GENERAL LIFE ISSURANCI SOCIETY, 13, WATERLOO -PLACE, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Colonel Sir FREDERIC SMITH, ICH., F.R.S., E.E., Chairman. JAMES NUGENT DANIELL, Esq., Deputy-Chairmen. Admiral the Right.llon. Sir G:.CocklournG .H. . ls. Major-General Sir J . Cockburn, Bart., G.C .O General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.11., G.C.11. . • Major -Generat Sir P. Reas, G.C.M.G., K.C.11. • „ Lieutenant -General Sir John Gardiner, Major-General Sir Hew D. Ross. K.C.1., B.A. Captain Sir George Back, R.N., F.M.S. Major-General Taylor. C. 8., E.I.C.S. Major-General Edward Wynyard, C.E. • •• Major-General Arnold. K.H., K.C. Archibald Hair, Esq., M.D. Captain William Lancey, R.E. William Chard, Esq., Navy Ageat •.; , Wilbraham Taylor, Esq. ..• • .. Major-General Sir John Rolt, K.C.B. Major F. S. Sotheby, C. 8., E.I.C.S. 1:- • • Maior-General Sir George Pollock G.C.E. Captain Willia m Cuppage. Captain Michael Quin, R.N. • Ilawnnas—Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand. PIITSICIAN.—Sir Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., Cowman-1. 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Sold by the Proprietors, amid by Chemists amid Perfhmers. , _ . THE BRAZILS. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.—The Priscilla:arrived here this morning from Pernambuco, from whence she sailed on the 15th of February, consequently bringing eigth days' later news than the Columbus, arrived here about a week ago. Business was going on with firmness. In cotton we learn that the small receipts of that article at Pernambuco,had prevented any amount of business being done, and we have only to report trifling sales. 547 bags had arrived the week pre ceding the Priscilla's departure, making 25,255 bags since the Ist of July last. In hides the business going forward was on a small scale. Prices, however, remained very firm. By the packet that arrived at Pernambuco on the 6th ult., better advises in sugar had been received from Muscovado, which promoted activity in that description. About 10,000 bags, nearly the entire stock, were soon bought at dolls. 1 620 to dolls 1 680, according to quality. White continued without any particular demand, but purchases were making daily to load Channel vessels. The business in sugeir daring the season had been a forced one, owing to the constant superabundance of tonnage. Parties from the interior report that the present crop will be less than the last. Exchange on London, at 60 days' sight was firm at 280. to 29d., and on Paris at 335 f. The amount negotiated for the Genevieve and the Columbus, that sailed on the 7th, was estimated at 40,0001. Butter continued heavy, and difficult of sale. Several holders of Irish were retailing at 240 to 540 rs., ac cording to quality, per lb. Freights were steady. The English ship Queen Victoria had obtained a charter to the Channel at 305., for sugar in bags. For orders we quote—Cot ton to Liverpool, id. per lb. ; sugar to Liverpool, 203., to London, 20s. to 255. The fever raged with unabated fury, and a number of vessels could not sail for want of hands. REDUCTION OF STAMP DUTIES. The Deputy- Registrar for the West Riding has pointed out the fact, that in the proposed reduction of the stamp duties payable on the transfer of pro perty on mortgages or bonds, Yorkshire and Mid dlesex will not obtain the same benefit as other counties. In those two counties there are Register offices, in which all deeds must be registered : but there is a stamp duty of 10s. on the Menwrialo of deeds for registry ; and unless that duty should be reduced in the same proportion as the duty on the deeds themselves, Yorkshire and Middlesex will not obtain the same advantage as all other parts of the kingdom. For instance :—ln a non•register county, where the money to be secured does not exceed 501., the present stamp duty is 11.; exceeding 50/., and not exceeding 1001, the duty is 1/. 103. It is proposed to reduce the duties to ss. and 10‘. respectively—which in one case is a re duction of three fourths and in the other of two third:. But in Yorkshire and Middlesex the duty of 10s. on the Memorial of registry, added to the duty on the deeds, will make the whole stamp duties payable 15s. and 20s. respectively, which are one-half of the aggregate duties formerly paid. So that, in comparison, Yorkshire and Middlesex will suffer; they will not obtain the relief granted to other counties. The equitable arrangement would seem to be, that the stamp duty on Memorials should be reduced in about the same proportion as the duties on deeds. It is to be hoped that the Members for the West Riding, and also the legal profession, will draw Sir Charles Wood's attention to this matter. If Register-offices should be established in other counties, the stamp duty on Memorials would of course become a general grievance. It ought to be known that for many years after the first establish ment of Register•oflices, there was no stamp duty at all on Memorials.—Leeds Mercury. deplored the great calamity which had be- I fallen the inhabitants of Limehouse, in the destruction of their magnificent parish church, and begged leave to offer to them St. James's Church for the solemnization of marriages, baptisms, and otber rites cf the established religion, until Lime house Church was rebuilt. The offer was accepted. The hell-ringer, fire-lighter, and other officers of the church, were then examined by the Rev. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Stock, and Mr. Bluck, magistrates of the county, as to the origin of the fire, but nothing material was elicited. Finally, it was agreed upon that Mr. Biker, the coroner, who was for many years the vestry-clerk of the parish, should be requested to hold an inquest to inquire into the origin of the fire, and the meeting adjourned sine die. The church w•as insured in November last by Mr. Adams and Mr. Hitch, the present churchwardens, in the Imperial Fire-office, for 5,0001. The following is a copy of a letter addressed by the curate to the Bishop of London, announcing the calamity : "Rectory, Limehouse. Good Friday morning, 1850. Ten minutes past 10 A.M "My Lord,—lt is with the greatest regret I have to inform your Lordship that our beautiful church is entirely destroyed by fire. The fire originated in a flue connected with the roof. The first alarm was given at five minutes to nine. I went on the roof; but found from the height, and from the want of hose, that little hope remained for the safety of the edifice. We saved all the parish docu ments ; but now, an hour from the time of the first outbreak, the roof is completely destroyed, and the interior gutted. The flames rose up through the tower; the stone-work seems uninjured, from its strength and massiveness. The shell remains. Most fortunately the churchwardens had insured the church for 5,000/. This is, indeed, a most grievous calamity, but happily, and by God's merciful providence, un attended with loss of life or personal injury. lam sure the parishioners will be certain of receiving your Lordship's sympathy. I must apologise for the ex treme haste in which I have written these few lines to give your Lordship authentic intelligence of the me lancholy disaster. I am, my Lord, your Lordship's most faithful and obedient servant, " GEORGE ROBERTS. "The Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London." We cannot close this account without stating that the most effectual assistance was rendered by Mr. Marquard, the superintendent, and Mr. Holmes and Mr. Smith, inspectors of the K division. THE COASTING TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. The following correspondence between Sir II L. Bulwer and Mr. Clayton, Secretary of State, had given rise to much remark in the Senate : " British Legation, Washington, Jan. 1, 1850. " Sir,—Her Majesty's Government saw with great satisfaction the decree published by the President of the United States conceding to British ,vessels in American ports the same privileges and advantages which are granted to American vessels in British ports by the recent modification of the British na vigation-laws ; and I was happy to assure you that the vessels of the United States would not be excluded by any order in Council from the full benefit of that change of system which Great Britain has adopted. There are, however, two or three matters to which I must call your atten tion, believing that the real object and spirit of your standing regulations is to confer on the vessels of foreign Powers those advantages which such foreign Powers may confer upon the Impels of the United States. As the coasting trade of the United Kingdom is strictly reserved to British vessels, I would not, of course, propose to the United States Government that British vessels should be admitted to trade to and fro between the several ports on the eastern coast of the United States, because such trade, being strictly a coasting trade, is, it may be presumed, confined to United States vessels ; but the trade be tween the ports on the east and those on the west coast of the United States, involving, as it does, the necessity of passing through seas, and along the coast far beyond the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, resembles in its nature and character the trade carried on between the United Kingdom and the transmarine possessions of the British Crown, into which trade the new Act autho rises the admissions of the vessels of all countries which may be disposed to meet the concession of Great Britain in a spirit of fair reciprocity ; and her Majesty's Government conceived that if the United States vessels are to be admitted to this privilege, the United States Government may be fairly expected in return to admit British vessels to trade between the Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United Stater. Moreover, you will be aware that American vessels becoming the property of British citizens are admitted to the privilege of British register, and I therefore deem it no more than reasonable and fair to expect that measures will be adopted by the United States Government for making British vessels becoming the property of American citizens admissible to the ad vantages of an American register. It will give me much pleasure to be able to satisfy her Majesty's Go vernment promptly in these particulars. " I avail myself of this occasion to render to you the assurances of my highest consideration. " 11. L. BULWBE. THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. ANN'S CHURCH, LIMEHOUSE, BY FIRE. This magnificent edifice was one of the fifty churches appointed to be erected in the reign of Queen Anne. It was commenced in 1712, but the building altogether was not completel until 1729. It was consecrated by the Bishop of London in 1730. The architect, Nicholas Hawksmoor, one of Sir Christo pher Wren's pupils, has in this, as well as in the church of St. George-in-the East, exhibited a style remarkable for its solidity of appearance and singu larity of design. The length of the church, from east to west, is 145 feet ; its breadth 78 feet ; height from the ground to the large cornice which runs round the church, 50 feet ; and the whole height, from the pavement to the top of the tower, 193 feet. The church is of Port land stone, and cost 38,000/. The vaults, the stone floor of which is but a few feet below the level of the churchyard, are formed by massive stone piers, and groined segmental and semi-elliptical arches ; the walls at this level are six feet in thickness. In the interior of the church there was nothing remarkable as to the general arrangement. The Roman style was preserved throughout. The stone columns standing upon square pedestals in the body of the church were of the composite order, support ing an enriched cornice, continued only over part of the side aisles and wall. Some columns of wood were placed as supports under either gallery, the en trances to which were equal in design with many other portions of this very remarkable and stupendous edifice. The most striking feature in Limehouse Church was the beautiful altar window, Christ preach ing on the Mount, executed in 1813 by Mr. Buckler (celebrated for painting the window in the Barons' Hall, at Arundel Castle), from a design in part by West. This window was entirely destroyed Yes terday. The pulpit, a fine specimen of carved work and very elaborately finished, is also consumed. The ex ecution of this beautiful work occupied upwards of two years and a half. Limehouse Church and steeple was a prominent feature in the eastern part of the metropolis, and seen to great advantage in the lower pool, the heights at Greenwich, and other places. The fire broke out in the roof, over the north western side of the sacred edifice, and there is very little doubt that the heat of the flues, communicating with the timbers of the roof, caused the destruc tion of the church. A man named William Rum. bold, who lighted the fires under the flues, lately erected for warming the church, was the first to give the alarm. He suspected ,the roof was on fire, and called upon Mr. Coningham, the beadle and engine keeper, who ascended the tower and got into the in terior of the roof, which was in flames. A few buckets of water would then have saved the building. They could not be procured, and Coningham rung the two bells! in the steeple in such a manner as to make known to the parishioners in the immediate vicinity that danger was impending over the sacred edifice. The destruction of the edifice, and the interior of the tower and spire, is complete. So great was the heat of the flames that the stone-work of the exterior is calcined in many places. The great organ, built by Richard Bridge, in 1741, is consumed. It cost 1,0001. The numerous marble tablets and monu ments in the interior of the church are also destroyed. Great alarm for some time prevailed respecting the tower and spire, and it was feared that it would give way, and add to the ruins. Mr. Morris, the parish surveyor, who was early on the spot, and who watched the progress of the fire with great anxiety, however, declared that the shell of the tower, though greatly damaged, was not likely to fall, and that no imme diate danger was to be apprehended. At one o clock in the afternoon a meeting of the churchwardens, overseers, guardians, and principal inhabitants was held in the Town-hall, Church-lane, and the Rev. Mr. Roberts, the curate, was unani mously called to the chair. Various suggestions were made, and there was but one feeling, that of deep re gret, at the lamentable calamity. Mr. Adams and Mr. Hatch wished that a most rigid inquiry should be instituted relating to the origin of the fire. It was resolved that application should be made to the trus tees of the National School-room, for the use of that building for the solemnization of divine service until the church was rebuilt. An answer was immedi ately made to the resolution on the part of the trus tees that the National School-house was at the service of the parishioners. The Rev. Mr. Williams, incum bent of St. James's district church, Butcher-row, i Ratcliffe, was introduced to the meeting, end said he " Hon. J. M. Clayton, &c." " Department of State, Washington, Jan. 14, 1850. " Sir,—l was honoured by the receipt of your note of the Ist . inst., assuring me that the vessels of the United States would not be excluded by any Order in Council from that change of system which Great Britain has adopted by the recent modifi• cation of her navigation-laws, and expressing the great satisfaction of her Majesty's Government with the decision of the President of the United States conceding to British ♦essels in American ports the same privileges and a dvantages which are now granted to American vessels in British ports. The question whether British vessels shall be admitted to trade as you propose between the Atlantic and Pacifica ports of the United States, and whether vessels of the British build shall be admitted to the advantages of an American register, are considered by the President as proper subjects for Legislative con sideration, and will be submitted to the judgment of Congress. I avail myself of this occasion to renew to you the assurance of my distinguished consi deration. " JOHN M. CLAYTON. "Right Hon. 11. L. Bul w et , icc." Sir Henry Bulwer writes as follows, in a letter, dated " British Legation, Wa s hington, Jan. 3,1850. "Sir,—lt having been represented to her Majesty's Government that there is some idea on the part of the Government of the United States to increase the duties upon British iron imported into the United States, I have been instructed by her Majesty's Government to ex press to the United States Government the hope that no addition will be made to the duties imposed by the present tariff of the United• States, which already weighs heavily upon British production, and I cannot but observe, for my own part, that an aug mentation of the duties on British products or manu factures, made at a moment when the Bristish Go vernment has by a series of measures been facilitating the commerce between the two countries would pro duce a very disagreeable effect upon public opinion in England.—l avail myself, Vic., Hartaz L. BuLwas." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TIMES.—Some of our contemporaries are dis• posed to take a very serious view of Mr. Ferrand's address to the Pontefract agriculturists. They ques tion the accuracy of his statistics and the feasibility of his plan., and accordingly they warn the public not to follow him too implicitly. Surely this is a waste of warning and of criticism. Mr. Ferrand is not a statesman, or a financier, or a statist, or any such high-and-dry commodity. He is not Member for Manchester, or Glasgow, or Westbury, or even for the important little borough of Tamworth. Happily for his comfort, he represents no place in particular, and is a gentleman at large. His address is redolent of freedom. Through a series of splendid myths there runs a vein of truth, which the wise will discover, and the rest may leave alone. But criticism is as much wasted on the address as it would be on the " Battle of the Frogs and the Mice," or the story of " Jack the Giant Killer, or Bombastes Furioso. Why should not we have our Ferrand ? We have our Stanhope, our sibthorp, and our Brougham, none of them always wise, and the last not always the same. Shiel is more brilliant than judicious ; Osborne is more humor ous than wise; Palmerston is more witty than safe. Let us cherish these pleasing diversities. May we never see the day when the 654 members of the Lower House shall all be machines for spinning statistics, embroidering budgets, and weaving returns. May Ferrand's shadow never be less ; and so long as his speeches are as amusing as that he spoke at Pontefract this day week, may they never be less either. The cotton lords, in Mr. Ferrand's mythology, are a race of giants, abounding in Lancashire, where, in horrid dens, called factories or mills, they torture and devour myriads of women and children. For many years they waged war with the people of this country, till at last, under the command of Cobden and Bright, they assumed such a bead that the people of England put themselves under Peel, and invited him to lead them to battle. Peel pro mised to lead them straight against the foe ; but familiar as he was with the sight of the cotton lords, his courage failed when he saw the principal of the two chiefs. Instead of fighting, he attempted to bribe the enemy into peace, and, among other weak compromises, gave the six hundred lords 1,0001. per annum each, by the surrender of a duty hitherto levied on a mysterious substance called cotton, the chief source of their power. This concession bad the usual fate of encouraging them to still greater ex-- cesses. About this time " a man who had hardened his heart by listening to Anti-Corn League advo cates " slew one of Peel's attendants in mistake for his master, and Cobden, so says our historian, inti mated that in case of further resistance Peel might expect to have such attempts repeated with better success. Then ensued a fight between the two chiefs, of so extraordinary a nature, and such incon sistent results, that even the hypothesis of the two Kilkenny cats furnishes but an inadeduate solution. Peel crushed Cobden. Mr. Ferrand saw bim flat tened and dismembered on the field of battle ; but there was, nevertheless, so much vitality and sub stance in his remains that he crushed his conqueror in return. The different weapons employed may, perhaps, have something to do with his divided suc cess. Peel crushed Cobden with his speech, and Cob den crushed Peel by compelling him to allow the cotton giants free quarter in this unfortunate island. This point was gained by the very piece of " un adorned eloquence" just mentioned, viz., the threat of assassination, which, though it met with a crushing reply, nevertheless rankled in the conqueror's vitals, and brought him on his knees to the cotton chief. Of course, on cool reflection, he was rather ashamed of his cowardice, and to cloak it in vented the story of a famine, which he said had rendered it impossible to supply the sinews of war and keep his army together. Mr. Ferrand then proceeds with a master band to describe the conse quences of this " base and unprincipled apostasy." As his impressions are vivid, and his numbers round, it costs little effort to follow, and almost to believe, his narrative. On the triumph of free trade, the war-cry of the cotton lords, the whole country im mediately passed from a state of the highest pros perity to the deepest depression. Ruin stalks through the land. The staff of life is everywhere turned into an unprofitable weed. Barley becomes a mere drug. Strriles dominantur avena. Timber rots to half its strength, and willows weep in vain the total ruin of their market. The cattle are smitten by cotton genie with foreign diseases, and tens of thousands of farmers throughout Great Britain and Ireland are ruined in consequence. "And, oh 1 what a sight has free trade made for Ireland I" exclaims the historian of these terrible incidents. " It is awful to contem plate it. '200,000 farmers have already fled to America; ],000,000 labourers have sought shelter in Great Britain, deprived of the means of existence at home, and ready to tear this cheap food out of our mouths." From East Lothian to Keighley it is the same story. The Irish, driven by the cotton lords out of Ireland, throng our roads, fill our very ditches, and huddle together in our lodging-houses—seventeen unmarried men and un married women, Mr. Fernand has been told, in one room. Before Peel's treachery, continues our in formant, there were only 3,000 needlewomen in Lon don. "Three years of heartless competition" have swelled them to exactly ten times their number, although they die ten times faster than ever they did before. The journeymen tailors are equally multi plied and impoverished. Half our farmers are coining to the parish, and in five years time that re source will be exhausted, and our labourers will have to tight for a day's work, or a penny loaf, with ten times their number of famished Irishmen. Already, " from the consequences of free trade, 150,000 Highlanders are starving to death." Why need we odd more ? It only remains to state the numbers of the brutal persecutors and their hapless victims in order to show how little chance the latter have against such fearful odds. We take the muster from Mr. Ferrand's narrative of this extraordinary campaign. The cotton lords number 600. They are aided by Sir Robert Peel, by two or three hired agi tators of the meanest possible character, by 20 politi cal parsons, and a few thousand factory slaves, who hate their masters most intensely, and therefore can not contribute much strength to the cause. The de feated party consists of 200,000 landed proprietors; 700,000 farmers, who, two years ago, possessed a capital of 250,000,000/. ; and 3,000,000 labourers regularly employed by them. This amounts to 3,900,000 stout able-bodied men, who have been betrayed, surrounded, ruined, and brought to the point of starvation by 600 cotton lords, 20 political parsons, a few operatives, some agitators receiving three guineas a day and their expenses, and Sir Ro bert Peel. At such a juncture it is that Mr. Ferrand offers himself for the salvation of his country. His suggestion is bold and ingenious. The 600 cotton lords have condemned their 3,900,000 victims to wear cotton as a badge of servitude, and as the means by which the cotton lords themselves levy their black mail. Mr. Ferrand proposes to the 3,900,000 to re nounce the use of cotton altogether, to live, die, and be buried in wool, after the manner of their fore fathers ; only, in case of necessity, accepting the as sistance of linen. Since Mr. Ferrand evidently con siders this necessary as contingent and remote, if not altogether improbable, we are left in some doubt as to the material he would recommend for immediate con tact w ith the natural integument. So far wo can only suppose that Mr. Ferrand advises us all, whether peers, farmers, or labourers, to wear woollen jerseys, woollen stockings, and the con nexion between these two articles, if any, also of wool • coats and waistcoats of broad cloth, and trousers of some lighter fabric, but still of wool. For ladies and children he recom mends stuffs, merinos, bombasines, and even silks and satins, but not a thread of cotton. Henceforth let calico shirting or sheeting, cotton stockings, fustians, moleskins, corduroys, cotton frocks, and the thousand and one shapes and forms of cottons, be anathema. Mr. Ferrand warns his lieges to form a great Wool League. A proclamation is made with Homeric pomp of language : " Now, farmers, and men of the Pontefract polling district, I advise you to convene a meeting in this town of all the landlords, clergy, freeholders, barristers, attor neys, physicians, surgeons, bankers, land surveyors, wine-merchants, spirit merchants, innkeepers, beer-sel lers, builders, joiners, masons, mercers, linen-drapers, tailor., butchers, bakers, grocers, druggists, veterinary surgeons, lime burners, saddlers, wheelwrights, cabinet makers, carpenters,: ironmongers, blacksmiths, nail makers, tinners, farm itnpletnent•inakers, corn-millers, tanners, shoemakers, horse-breakers, horse-dealers, cattle- dea'ers, seedsmen, gardners, clock and watch makers, glazier?, plumbers, brick-makers, tile-makers, hatters, bonnet-makers, glovers, dress-makers, basket makers, rope-makers, farm labourers, and every person depending upon agricalture." From so formidable a combination what results may not fairly be anticipated ? The South Down breeders of the South and the Highland breeders from Scotland will flock to the new standard. "Vales will come with you heart and hand, with all her mighty mountaineers, and you will have every sheep-breeder throughout Great Britain and Ireland crying, ' Hail, fellows, well met, but we are now striking home,' and further," continues Mr. Ferrand, " you will have the woollen manufacturers of the West Riding themselves—they will cease to wiz their BURIN'S PBEZALGI AND BAJLOXETAGP, rot' 1850. —" The New Edition of this valuable work has just ap peared, revised and corrected throughout to the present time, with 1,500 Engravings of Arms, &c. For the amazing quantity of personal and family history, admir able arrangement of details, and accuracy of informa tion, this genealogical and heraldic dictionary is without a rival. 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[ADVERTISEMENT.J—A lady cured of Asthma after twenty years' sufering by the use of Holloway's Pills.—The wholesale agent for the sale of Holloway's Pills in New South Wales alludes, in a letter to Professor Holloway, to several ex traordinary cures of asthma effected in that colony by the use of these invaluable pills, and to one case in particular, that of a lady residing near a hill named the " Razorback," who, after having for twenty years been affected with great difficulty of breathing, and unable in consequence to bear the slightest ex ertion, at last used this remedy, and is now, to use her own expression, able to run up to the top of that high hill.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment , 244, Strand Len dou. PRINTERS' TOASTS.—" The Press—it ex• presses truth_re-presses error—im-presses knowledge—and op presses none." We thought this too good to be sup-pressed, and therefore published it. " Woman, the fairest work of c reation—the edition being extensive, let no man be without a c opy." "Babies—miniature editions of humanity, issued 5 . periodicat U y, and displayed in small cops. 7 iiip.., . .____________ _ ______ _ ___ __ • - ... . .....- ar — l 1 's• ( #lllllll* P l i .•''. ; 6 . ' ' • ', , -lit ! ? -., , LL • x !k),, ~.-• ,_,, 4. • , , 4.! , ',l • `'‘iid -:` '' ('- f" 4 -- 1 - --,/ - t * 'k,. A V 1 (?,. ...... 4 .... _,A,—."`2,......„__—‘,. * . , • ' ' ~!•1,..c>,..., N • J,..., - iiii ",, ,:,-...7 J r .. l ' . lfi nir ' ''' ~ .....4:t l is -7 ,t 'lr; .-- li. • h •._ .„t 1...„;1_ , . 1 't •A ' . . ~ 0 11-ri i i i. ..„„ .:•,,,...:,.. ~, -SViimm- x .. . ~, . . t , , ' ...4' ..1..... iiho . • d ti r :'' , .. . ~ . -- __ VESUVIUS. ""Ge_ [PRICE SD. nasty cotton with the wool—they will have no occa sion to mix a million and a quarter of wheat in daub ing their nasty calico." The idea is splendid. We presume that Mr. Ferrand has begu❑ at home, and that neither he, nor a servant in his house, nor a coachman nor a gardener in his employ, allows a shred of calico to defile his person, or the person of his wife or child. If the 3,900,000 landlord•, f4r mers, and labourers, and their families, will take Mr. Ferrand's advice, we have little doubt of the success he promises. They will certainly ruin the cotton lords, but whether the ruin will stop there, it is quite unnecessary in the present stage of the project to inquire. INUTILITY OF THE AFRICAN BLOCKAD ING SQADRON. CIIRONICLE.—From; the Ifesi Indian journals which reached us by the last mails, we do not find any very sanguine feeling expressed in favour of our African Squadron. By long experience the colonists know that it is utterly powerless; and their intimate acquaintance with the resources of their rivals tells them that the supply of slaves has been, in spite of our blockade, always more than sufficient to enable them to compete favourably with the British planter. They have therefore no faith in the results so confi dently predicted by the supporters of the Government It is late in the day to talk of assisting the 'West In dians, whom the Government have, ever since their accession to office, been leaving to their own energy and enterprise." The fact is, that in the British sugar colonies a large portion of the capital invested in the production of that staple is irretrievably gone ; some• thing may be saved out of the wreck, and here after a different class of capitalists may find a profitable investment, but it is impossible to conceive that any perceptible relief can be afforded by our African blockade. In the colonies this is well I understood ; they are not imposed upon by the notion that we are doing them any real good by our efforts to repress the slave trade, whilst they see the undi minished activity of our trade with Brazil and Cuba. But it is not only in our own dependencies that our proceedings are viewed with suspicion and aversion. Even in the countries into which slaves ale imported it appears that our policy does more harm than good —that is to say, it is not only ineffectual in promot ing the object which we profess to desire, but it im pedes the advance of that civilisation which we are most anxious to encourage. In Brazil there has been for many years, and there still is, a large and well-organised party, opposed to the slave trade, and to slavery as a domestic insti tution. Our constant altercation with the Brazilian Government, which has enlisted the national feeling of the Brazilians on the side of the slave trade, has been most prejudicial in obstructing the growth of this party. Slavery is viewed by many persons in that country with dislike and fear, and it is probable that if they were neither solicited nor intimidated by the British Government, some steps would be taken in the right direction. But their national sensitive ness is such as to render it impossible for their Go vernment to adopt measures which have the appear ance of concession to extraneous dictation. Yet, with facts of this kind, which no one disputes, we are told that if this country persists but a little longer, our efforts will be crowned with success. On this, as on every former occasion, failure to a certain extent is admitted, but assurances are given that plans of approved infallibility will henceforth be adopted. But it is some consolation to reflect that this state of things is drawing to a close. The balance of opinion is undoubtedly against persevering in our African policy. No doubt the responsibilities of Members of Parliament are very great, yet we hope the time will come when it will appear to them less dangerous to contemplate the stultification of Lord Palmerston's measures than to persist in a course which they know tobe opposed to the real interests of the country. When parties are so constituted that this question may be decided on its merits, we are convinced that there will be hardly a voice raised in favour of the squa dron. The country is already decided against wasting on this unprofitable blockade energy and resources which might be employed so well at home. THE LATE ERUPTION OF MOUNT NAPLES, Fan. 24.—The insufferable dulness and gloom which have reigned in this fair city for some weeks past, ntilgr the Carnival and the usual balls and gaieties, have at last been dispelled by the ex citement caused by one of the finest eruptions of Mount Vesuvius ever known. For some twelve or fourteen days, the mountain has been in labour, giving manifest indications, by groans and wailing'', of bringine forth speedily something more than a mouse. On the Bth, volumes of smoke and vapour, with occasional sheets of flame, were succeeded, from time to time, by awful subterranean rum blings ; and on the morning of the 7th the lava made its appearance, running down the mountain, on the side of Torre Annunziata, in seven or eight distinct streams. On the evening of the latter day, a party of us ascended to the Hermitage, and thence, on foot, with guides and torches, to the cone, from whence a fine view was obtained of the lava at a white heat, as it was pumped out of the crater, and thence bent its way in the di rection of Pompeii and the Basco Reale. This ascent was very fatiguing and disagreeable, and one of the party had a narrow escape of fracturing a limb by a fell. During the night of the Bth the roaring and bellowing of the crater kept most people from enjoy ing their rest, and on the whole of the 9th volumes of smoke, lava, and vapour, together with huge stones and serria, were ejected without intermission. On the evening of this day a special train was announced to leave Naples at sic o'clock for Torre Annunziata, returning at eleven. About four hundred natives and foreigners availed themselves of this opportunity ; and a strong party of Inglesi, with guides and torches, and mules and donkeys, proceeded from the station at Torre Annunziata to the Bosco Reale, which is about five miles, through narrow lanes and country roads. There was no cause for appre hension, however, as the Government had taken care to send strong bodies of troops, both horse and foot, for the protection of life and property, and the pre servation of order. The sight that met our view on our arrival at the Bosco was grand in the extreme. The lava presented a frontage of about at least a mile and a half, and was advancing slowly but steadily and surely, and devouring everything in its way On the road we had met parties of poor peasants car rying beds, chairs, pots and pans, and other move able furniture, which they had been able to save from the devouring liquid—the women and children rending the air with their groans and cries and sup plications to the good San G-ennaro, the patron saint of these parts. These poor wretches were thrown on the world homeless, penniless. By the time of our arrival, which was about nine o'clock, the lava had taken complete possession of the wood, having de voured about half of it. At times a row of three or four hundred saplings caught fire simultaneously, producing a vivid flame that lighted up the country for miles around. Some splendid full-grown ilex, oak, and ash trees, offered in their ponderous trunks a momentary assistance ; but it was to no purpose ; the larger ones generally exploding with a loud re port and a leap of twelve or fourteen feet in the air, to be consumed like tinder on their descent. It was curious to observe, when, from a sudden rush of lava, which always occurred after a temporary obstruc tion, how the larger trees gave out tens of thousands of little jets of steam from the knees and elbows of the smaller branches. It was owing to the roots and trunks coming immediately and suddenly in ' contact with the lava, and before the whole tree had had a preparatory roasting previously to its final combustion. In these cases the tree gene rally exploded ; those, on the contrary, that had had their initiatory grilliag generally bowed their heads slowly and majestically, d y i ng, like Caesar, in their dignity. As thi s nove l and brilliant spectacle quite absorbed our attention, the majority of us lost the return train to Naples, and decided to pass the night on the spot. There was no moon, but the stars shone clearly, and the sky was cloudless; a cold tremontana, however, on one side, and the insupportable heat of the advancing furnace on the other, made it necessary for us to keep revolv ing from time to time like bottle jacks before the lava, to obviate being frozen on one side and baked on the other. At about three o'clock in the morning the eruption was at its height. The amount of lava was quintupled, and the masses of stones which shot up into the air descended with a reverberating crash. It was the discharge of these stones which caused a noise that rendered our voices inaudible. I can only compare it to the concussion produced by the broad side of a three-decker. 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Official rece'pts will, on the one hand, he given to customers for all sums paid in, and their cheques on the ether will preserved by the ' Bank till the succeeding half-yearly balance, when the accounts will be certified and the vouchers exchanged, except in cases where par • ties may specially wish for a different arrangement. Advances or L02.11$ Cal Promissory Notes with marketable securi ties readily convertible, will be made at the rates proportioned to hie nature and value of the security in each case. . Discounts of Bills of Exchange will be made at the rates of the day; but only to parties having drawing accounts, and keeping balances of not less than one•fourth of the amount of their discounts. All Bills for Discount must be lodged daily before 12 noon, and not called for till after 2 F.M. Remittances will he made to, and Bills collected in, any place in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or on the Continent of Europe, where as also in America , th e West Indies, India, and there is a bank er ; China. will be received for s hareholders or customers, Dividends, ite. , without charge. No charge will be made for keeping accounts; nor any fee nor gratuity allowed to be received from a customer or applicant by any one in the Bank's employment. Forms of application from shareholders or depositors for new shares, or from parties desirous to open accounts, will be supplied at the Bank, from sent by post to any who may require them. BI - order of the Court of Directors, I'lloll INNES CAMEXON, General Manager. 16, Tekenhoase-yard, March 1, 1850. -________ COMFOR'T in SHAVING depends on the proper use of a goociltasor, an efficient Strop, and a Taste to reaovate the surface of the Strop when it becomes black and chok h ed with the steel from the Raz or ; to these must be added a Soap at tic S w ill at aving not dry suddenly on th e face, and a smooth taper-pointed el brush, Unless all these points are attended to, and the Razor wiped and stropped after shaving, that operation must always be a troublesome, even if not a painftil one. These gentlemen whose shaving apparatrts is defective, are invited to I. where the J. MECIIPS Esta blishment, N 0..., L ea denhall-street, Londo n, y will not only obtain all they require for the toilet reasonable aid efficient, b troppingat may also procur e g ratis, his instructions for easy shaving, s, B[4.—A largo assortment of Papier-mache ananufa lesctur/cc s, dressing • e cases, work-boses , and writing-desks, bagatelle-ta, . TIIIRTY-FIRST EDITION. E ustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Esigravinm on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA- New Edition, PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE en larged to 196 pages. Just published. price 2s. 6d., or by Pest, direct from the Establishment, as. 6d. in postage stamps, a Medical Work on T HE SILENT FRIEND, th• infi rm i t ies and decay of the generati ve system, from ex cessive indulgence; infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks en Marriage, and the means of obviating certain elialificatlons. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox ford-street, London. Published by the Authors: sold by Strang et; e, 11, paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and 50 IN, Oxford-stre Stark, 23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall- street. PART 1. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. Past. It, treats of the consequences resulting from excessive In dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producig mental and Wily weakness, norvous excitement, and generative incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, e ither for in the primary or seconda r y form, and contains explicit direction their treatment. Title section is illustrated by ii•Yenteen Coloured Engravings. PAir IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's notice. PART V. it devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du ties. The causes-of unproductive union are also considered, and the wbole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. TIIE CORDIAL BALM OF STRIACUM is exclusively employed in treating nervous and, sexual debility, impotence, &c., I Is. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-eypbilittc remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 1 Is. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. stricture 6d., and I and Is. per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, , chronic, inflammation of the bladder. Consultatien fee, if by letter, U. A minute detail of the case is required: age, habits, and post , tion in society. 11. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Esta blishment oily, by which the fee, 11., Is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in attendance daily at 19, Berners-street, Oxford street, London, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight ; on Sun , days from Zlenn to Quo feet deep, speedily rose to aboi in • the bomb-shaped solid st, t and at the same .at the 0: 4, 0 s an. doors, caused a rarification and cop se sation of air, that made the whole concern soder with a terrific report. 'A very serious accident nearly occurred at the time, from the incautious curiosity of a "free-born" citizen of the states. When no traces of the farm or offices was any longer risible, being covered by a smooth surface of liquid fire, the poor agriculturist, the proprietor, together with his sposa, their children, and some half-a-dozen louts, set up a yell, and beat their breasts, and tore their hair in the true Neapolitan faskion. In stead of saying as m uc h as t h ey cou ld fro di destruc tion beyond their mere bedding, they did not at tempt to remove a single thing • thus all the doors and fittings, mangers, troughs, also about an acre of cabbages, carrots, and celery, together with various gates and farming utensils, were allowed to be de stroyed. There was ample time to move those things, but they preferred howling and calling on San Gennaro either to do it for them or stop the torrent of lava. A still more interesting and affecting spectacle was presented about an hour after by the destruction of a small church embosomed in this hapless wood. • The lava here, as at the farm, had a rather tough j e b from the extreme solidity of the edifice ; and with a sort of instinct and conscious pride in its own irre sistible power. it dashed forward to the attack, despite the moans and chants of a parcel of Fran ciscan friars connected with the church, and of the mute sorrow of the poor cure. The ornaments of the altar, together with the pictures, statues, and finery of the Virgin and the patron saints, and the parish records, had all been removed ; but the incessant entreaties of the cure failed to induce his parishioners to put their shoul ders to two fine doors, and lift them off their hinges to a place of security, which they could easily have done. The bells also might have been saved with little exertion. No; the Virgin or the patron saint would either appear corporeally, that is risibly, and atop the sacrilegious destroyer, or the edifice would resist and go scatheless. Troth time to time the bells were tolled mournfully, and cure, monks, and parishioners chanted the funeral dirge of the sacred edifice where most had been baptized, and which was associated with all the prominent parts of their little secluded lives. Thelaya here insinuated itself into the crypt of the building, thereby undermining it so that it was literally a " temple rent in twain," the two nearly equal portions of which rocked and tottered to their base, and then fell—belfry, bells, and all—into the burning gulf. Several passages of the " Inferno " of Dante were called to recollec tion this night, and the divine poet ably describes what here palpably and tangibly represented hell, though upon earth. For half an hour an intense dark green name played over where once stood the doomed edifice, caused perhaps by the fusion of the bell-metal below. In other parts blue flames of various degrees of intensity and depth of colour, played and flickered about. All night parties arrived from Naples, who had missed the train ; and the wood was glittering with torches ap proaching and receding in the distance. The arrival of a large body of priests, mounted on all the avail able jackasses and mules in the neighbourhood for miles round, caused an immense sensation among the rustics, as there was little doubt these worthy men would soon settle the business of the ruthless enemy, and put things to rights ; so to it they went—clergy and laity; and on our departure from this scene of desolation aad woe, the welkin resounded with the exertions of some hundreds of pairs of lungs. Much of the beauty of the effect faded on the ap proach of daylight, and when we left, which was at exactly half-past six in the morning, the lurid glare and vivid brilliancy of the lava was succeeded by a black carbonaceous dullness, with only here and there a deep red glow; the volume of lava had also diminished, and the crater was hushed. Nature seemed to have a alight inter mission of her pangs, to be resumed the following evening. On our return to Naples, we learned that a tragedy of another and a more sanguinarY,kifid had been enacting elsewhere during the Hundreds visited the crater itself, and the mountain was literally dotted with little bright star-like points, ascending and flitting like will-o'-the wisps. The effect was picturesque in the extreme. A party of American officers of the squadron here, with charac• teriatic and national rashness and curiosity, approached too near, and one of the officers, a fine handsome young fellow, received a mass of hot calcareous mat ter on the right shoulder, which stripped the flesh to the bone es far as the elbow. There was no actual fracture, but the hcemorrhege was so violent, and so long a time elapsed before he received proper medical aid, that he lies with little hope of recovery. All the Galenic skill of the place is tending him, he is only two-and-twenty, and remarkably amiable and handsome, and quite the pet of the squadron and of the ladies. Ile holds the position of Commo dore's naval aide-de-camp, and is a lieutenant in rank. Only a few nights since we had seen him at a ball, the gayest of the gay, his fine manly f een and features, making him almost " the observed of all observers.: But another accident, within ten yards of the same spot, and almost at the same time, terminated fatally. The victim of his rashness was a Polish officer, who re ceived a mass of stone of some tons weight on the left thigh, which caused a compound fracture ; and there he lay and bled to death, his blood running down into the very crater itself, where it boiled, and hissed, and steamed. 1 Neapolitan gentleman, who related the particulars to us, nearly lost his life in his exertions to bring the body down the side of the mountain, for at the time the lava and stones fell in all directions thick and fast. Another individual, a native, had the dexter side of his lower jaw com pletely removed by a stone, which was shot obliquely out of the crater while he was stretching over peer ing into its fiery depths. The catalogue of contu glom., abrasions, and lesions on that eventful night would nearly fill one of your columns. The ladies were everywhere in the van of danger and fatigue, and some have not come off scot free. The sex have a great deal more courage than we men are willing to give them credit for. This is proved here daily by the intrepidity small and delicate women show in their ascents ; true, it is to gratify curiosity— a strong in stinct on cid in their nature.—Chronicle. IMPORTANT APPLICATION OF HYDRAULIC PRESSURE. On Wednesday last a party of gentlemen connected with coal-mining in this district, assembled at Mur ton Colliery, belonging to the South Hetton Coal Company, for the purpose of witnessing the perform ance of a water pressure engine, recently erected in that colliery by Messrs. W. W. Armstrong and Co., and used for drawing waggons up an incline plane, situated at a considerable distance from the foot of the shaft. The object of this novel application of water pressure is to supersede the use of horses for underground traction, by a method which obviates the dangers and difficulties which are inseparable from the em ployment of s t eam - eng i nes i n the interior of coal mines, and the success of th e ex p er iment has been complete in every respect. The thanks of the Coal Trade are eminently due to the enterprising owners of the colliery where this new system has been put in practice, for the spirit they have displayed in adopting it, and we are in formed that the skilful and judicious arrangements which have been made by Mr. Edward Potter, the well-known viewer of the colliery, in connexion with the working of this engine, reflect the greatest credit upon that gentleman. As the principle promises to be of great import ance to coal raining, we gladly present the following particulars to our readers :—The engine has four small cylinders, the diameter of each being three inches, and the length of the stroke twelve inches. The water which supplies the power consists of the drain ings of the shaft, collected in a standage at a height 606 feet above the level of the engine, to which it is conveyed by means of pipes 4i inches in diameter. The bank up which the trains are drawn is 880 yards in length, and the gradient averages a rise of 1 in 30, but at certain parts it reaches lin IE. The numberof tubs dr awn lea each train varies from 18 to 21, and the time occupied on the journey is from 4i to 6 minutes. The average speed of the engine is about 100 revolutions of the crank shaft per minute, but a velocity of 130 strokes per minute is sometimes atttained, without producing the smallest shock upon the engine. The perfect smoothness of the action is the result of the peculiar arrangement of valves patented by the maker!, and which cannot be intelligibly explained without illustrations. The quantity of water expended during each journey is about 1,500 gallons, and the power of the engine is approximately estimated at 30-horse. The atandage cduolle,catnsdaass itnhuechwawteartehrasa,s underw•ill a draw ny 20citrs applicationuc trains lasta i e p e e ti r , to descend t o th e b ottom of the mine, its to the engine does not increase the quantity to be pumped. The supply cf water may be increased to tiny extent, but a n y extra quantity that may be required will involve addi t i onal pumping. The-en lone will ultimately draw 50 trains per day, but, even when used to this great extent, the additon to the work of the pumping engine will only amount to about 30 gallons per minute, throughout the 24 hours. The party assembled expressed their unqualified approval of the action of the engine, and particu larly noticed its adaptation for underground use, in respect of its small dimensions, and the absence of any fire in connexion with it. —Newt-male Chronicle. PRECOCIT2 OF THE SEABON,-.The earliness of the season has been evidenced on the animal creation, as welt as th , ! vegetable. Last week leverets ware running about the fields, and lamb-dropping on sheltered situations has cas ' meuced with the cross-breed&—rerriishireCovrisr, >ut thirt7• ; and attack tone,4oof of the main thWe running in at the AINSWORTH'S MAG-AZINII FOR APRIL No. XCIX. GUT FAWKES. By W. lIARRISON AINSWORTII, Esq. With Two Illustrations on Steel by George Cntikshank. 11. Common Con v e rsation By E. P. Rowsell, Eq.—III. Zig-zag to Paris and Straight Home.—lV. The Model Torva.—V. My First Day's Hunting at "A lma Mater."—Vl. Jacob Van der kess.—VConte 11. The Shadow Shower. By Thomas Roscoe, Esq.—VIII. The derates.—lX.Valdaino.—=X. Hughes's " Lays of Past Days." Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand.