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To the dress-mart of MOSES I ever would cling, Add I heartily welcome my suit for the Spring. Right welcome ! ye samples of tasty attire ! Your make, and your style, and your fit I admire. I welcome you gladly, because you are made In a manner which rivals the whole of the trade. I welcome that vest for its novel design, And I welcome that coat for its cloth superfine. I welcome the trousers, whose fashions have won Such abundance of credit for MOSES and SON. I welcome that light Summer-wrapper, which shows That MOSES and SON sell the choicest of clothes. And I welcome that hat for its very light weight, And its stylish appearance while decking this pate. Yes, I welcome them all with a right hearty cheer, Since they all were obtain'd not by any means dear. I welcome them freely (as ever I've done), Because they were purchas'd of MOSES and SON. LIST OF PRICES. MADE TO MEA2II,RE. Cashmere Codriugton, from .... • • ••• • • • • • •• • • '• '• • 4 It Taglionis, silk collar and cuffs .. •••• • • • Cambridge Coat, lined throughout ••.•••••• • • • • • ' • ' 2 0 16 Tweed Coats . Sporting Coat ......... ...... .•• • • • Rest quality manufactured • . Frock Coat ...... ••• • • • .......... ...... ••••• • • • • • I 1$ Best quality manufactured ••••••• • • • " • ' • '••• • • • • 3 3 Rich pattern Vests ........ , ..... •• • • •... 0 8 Cashmere, or c10th........................ • • • • • • 0 8 Tweed Trousers .......... -... •••••• • • ' • ' • 0 t Single-milled Doeskin ditto .... •••••• • • • • " ••• • • • 1 2 Rest, sr Dress ditto ........ • Boys' Ilussar or Tunic Suits • • • • • READY MADE. Blouses, from . Cashmerette Codrington Cambridge's, Chesterfield Polka's, and all the newest patterns ...... ......... ......... ••••'•'• • • • • • • • • 0 IR 0 Tweed Coat ...... .• •••• '' • 'll'una • 8 6 Sporting dittto •::: ..... .•••••• • • • • • • • 6 6 Dress Coat I 15 0 Extra Supertine, a superior coat •• • • • ••• • • • • • • • • • Frock Coat •• • ••• •• •••• •• •"• ... from 1 4 0 Extra Superfine, • a superior eoat ....................2 2 80ll -Collar Vests .. • ............ ........ 0 1 0 0 6 6 •........ Cloth, or Casiri ere ••• • 0 4 6 Tweed Trousers.. • •• .. 0 4 6 ..... 0 10 6 Fancy Cassimere or Doeskin •• •• • . Boys Tunis and Hussar suits •••••••••••• • • ' • • • • • • • • 18 6 _ O bserve.—Any article purchased, ready made, or ma e d te mea nt e, If net app rove d o f, w ill b e exchanged, or if preferred, tke Money returned. E. 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S !f 1 4 44?6,. • _, 0 40 44 .1fiP c-, , - 1 4 I b, • A • • 40 r,,'„ 4, 1 5/ - '. ; .. k - •9,!!' . , . I A 4 4,4 AT • r - atko#7o,4 ol" \- Ar c - I).R T • I ) - ss -Qv IE ON THE MEANS OF ESCAPING THE RAVAGES OF THE POTATO DISEASE. (Translated from the German.) (From the IVorcestershire Chronicle.) This method was discovered by M. Zander, of Boit zenberg, and he has tried it for six years with the greatest success. The following extracts are made from his published letter:— " For many years a kind of dry rot and pock-mark has been observed amongst potatoes, in consequence of which many of them were quite unfit for food; this sug gested to me the idea of obtaining them from seed, and I directed my efforts to the procuring of fully-grown potatoes in one year, in which I have succeeded. The raising of potatoes from seed is nothing new—the attempt has often been made, but it required three, four, or five years before they came to perfection. "I first raised potatoes from seed six years ago. I sowed an eighth of an ounce, and obtained nearly seven sacks of fully-grown perfectly sound potatoes, although in the same year almost all the potatoes in my neigh bourhood were affected by pock-mark and dry-rot. pv i i n . " I have regularly raised potatoes fr om see d ever attained t th t c e e greatest s Nvhieh Ivirulence had re since, and they have remained sourd during the w h o l e time, and last year ( 1843 ), when the disease h a d sprea d ously raised from seed, as well as those of the preced ing year, continued perfectly exempt from di sease. I have also given potatoes raised from seed to rby friend s and acquaintances, and these have also remained per this over neighbourhood, Europe, and those pa fectly free from the universally prevailing disease. The Minister of the Interior took notice of my proceedings and sent two officers to investigate on the spot the facts I had communicated to the Government respecting my potatoes. These officers were present when I caused some potatoes to be dug out, which I had raised from seed the year before, and amongst them was a plant which produced 280 potatoes ; many stems produced from 100 to 130 ; the smallest produce from one plant was half a metz.,* and the majority of the plants pro duced from one to one and a half metze. Potatoes raisesi from seed tire very mealy, and have a peculiarly pleasant and fine flavour ; they produce a richer crop in the second year, and it increases in the third ; there is then no further increase, and they have attained their greatest perfection. " From an ounce of seed you may raise upwards of fifty sacks of potatoes; the smallest crop I ever had from half an ounce was twenty-four sacks. You will find the following description of the manner of raising potatoes from seed more complete than that which the Government has published, for in that everything is given too superficially. " My views of the potato disease, which has spread so universally for some years, are as follow:—With all plants, propagation by seed is most in accordance with nature. We have propagated the potato for a century in a mode that is unnatural, and in a climate which is cold and foreign to it. This has now caused a complete degeneracy—in one word, our potatoes have become weakened and degenerated by a long-continued and un natural mode of propagation, and they cannot, during their growth, bear any sudden change of temperature, drought, or moisture, and I have the firm conviction that the potato diseases which have now prevailed for some years, such as pock-marks and dry rot, and the disease of last year, which was formerly unknown, was caused amongst our weak and degenerate potatoes by sudden changes of temperature. A weak and nervous individual is very sensible of every change of weather or temperature, and so it has been for some years with potatoes, which have been weakened by an unnatural mode of propagation. I am in possession of the strongest proofs that vt e can only again raise h ea l t h y an d strong potatoes from seed. 'The potatoes which I have raised from seed the last six years have been free from the prevailing diseases, and surpass in quality all the old sorts. "The potato seed is saved in the following manner : The berries should be gathered in autumn before the frost sets in, and be preserved in a dry place, where frost cannot reach them, until the end of January or the be ginning of February. They are then to be broken by the hand, and placed in a tub or other vessel, where they must remain six or eight days to ferment a little ; then water is to be thrown on them, and well stirred, in order to separate the pulp and husks from the seed, which should then be cleansed and dried, and kept in a warm room until sown. " As the potato is a native of a tropical climate, it is impossible that it can form and produce perfect seed in the open air in our cold climate. It is therefore of the greatest importance that the berries should be perfectly healthy ; be gathered before the frost sets in, and be kept in a dry place where frost cannot approach them, in order that they may ripen and perfect the seeds. If the berries are collected and preserved as I have directed they will be as fair and fresh at the end of January or beginning of February as they were when gathered from the plant, and the seed as large again as that which was taken at once from the berries at autumn ; the latter is very light and imperfect, and only a very small portion of it is capable of growing ; imperfect seed only pro duces weak plants, and a weak plant bears but little fruit, and that is imperfect. " Formerly the great mistake was made of sowing un ripe and imperfect potato seed ; as a consequence it required three or four years before a tolerably large po tato was obtained. This was the cause which deterred many persons from cultivating potatoes from seed, but this difficulty I have now, thank God, overcome. " At the end of March or beginning of April the po tato seed should be sown in a hot-bed, the grains being sown a quarter of an inch asunder. If there are no sashes to put over the bed, it should be covered at night and in cold weather by mats or boards, as the young plants are very sensitive to frost. It is very important that the seed should be sown on a hot bed made of horse dung, as it sprouts with difficulty, and requires artificial heat to make it early productive in our climate. If the seed is sown in a cold bed it remains until the middle of May before it comes up, and the crop will be retarded and diminished ; but if it is sown as I have pointed out, there will be fine large plants by the middle of May, which may be planted out in the field. Until the plants are put out, the soil in which they were sown must be kept moderately moist, and when thsy are put out they must he freely watered if the weather be dry. "If the potato plants have advanced so far by the middle or end of May as to have attained the height of four inches, they may be planted out in a loose rich soil at about the same distance from one another as potatoes are usually planted, and this is best done on a cloudy day, or immediately after rain. It is of importance that they should be put down into the earth two inches lower than they stood in the seed bed; this will cause them to form fresh roots which produce the most nume rous and best tubers. "If the plants have not produced tubers, they may be left until they have attained a height of five or six inches, and may be planted three inches deeper in the ground than they stood in the seed bed; they will thus produce more roots; but care must be taken that the young plants do not produce tubers while they remain in the seed bed, and they should be often examined lest they sl-oald do so, as they will be very much weakened if al lowed to fo-rn tubers before they are put out. "The earthing up of the potatoes raised from seed should be done early, and not too much; for if the plants are put out in weather which is not very unfavourable, they soon begin to shoot up, and the entire soil is pene trated by very small fine fibres, which would be injured by a high or late earthing up, the production of tubers be delayed fur a fortnight or three weeks, and the pro duce diminished. I must remark that the potato plants thrive best in a rich sandy soil which has been deeply du. g" PRICE SD. The foregoing extracts contain two most important statements, and, if they should be confirmed by general experience, there is no estimating their importance. Ono is, that it is possible to raise an abundance of fully-grown potatoes from seed in one season ; and the other, that such potatoes will resist the generally prevailing disease for six years at least. I had an opportunity of testing the first proposition last summer, and can testify to its literal accuracy. I am promised a detailed account of the result of the experiment, the institution of which I witnessed, but it will require many and varied trials be fore the second proposition can be considered as oraised directs, in esta blished i in the meantime it seems h i g hl y p r obable that M. Zander's statement is correct , and one would natu rallyaseltdhy from than seed, th as those he would be expe m ct or th e a h t ardyand potatoes raised any other way. 1 had the pleasure - of spending last June at the baths of Itippoldzau, in the Black Forest, and my first informa tion was derived from M. Goringer, the owner of the baths, and of much surrounding property. He heard of the plan only on the preceding month, and lost no time in procuring and sowing some seed in a hot-bed ;it was sown on the 9th of May ; on the 9th of June the frame was removed in order to harden the plants, and on the 19th of June some fifty or sixty, of about four inches high, were planted out in my presence. I left on the 4th of July, and the plants were growing vigorously and promising well ; the single leaves of many were then larger than the plants themselves were fourteen days before, when they were planted out. M. Goringer has promised to send me a detailed and accurate report of the result, and also some other interesting experiments on the cultivation of potatoes, which he has instituted. On the 12th of August I was at Brukenau, in Bavaria, and having heard that the gardener o 1 Baron von Thungen (who resided at Zeitlofs, about five miles off ) had raised potatoes from seed this year, I went to see them . The gardener showed me several rows of fine promising potatoes, which he informed me he had raised from four potato apples in the manner • d pointed out; by M. Zander, whoso letter he had seen in a newspaper. The seed was s own i n M arch, in a hot-bed, and the plants were put out in May; the soil was very dry and hard, as the season had been very and very little rain had fallen for two months; they had never been watered, nor had any particular care been taken of them, but I never saw finer looking tops; they were fresh and full of sap,;while many in the neighbourhood were droop ing and withering. The potato crop was late in that part of the country, and it was only within the last preceding three weeks that we had new potatoes at the table d'hôte at his sengen. At my request the gardener examined one or two stools, and broke off a few of the potatoes under them, which he gave me. The ground was full of small tubers, which a few days' rain would swell into an extraordi nary crop; each plant seemed to rest on a little heap of potatoes. The specimens he gave me were larger and finer than any we had hitherto had at the table ifhote; they were clean-skinned and hard, though of course not fully grown or ripe. I was quite convinced that M. Zander's statement as to the crop was correct. I measured a few of the specimens ; one was 54 in. and 5 in. in circumference ; three others measured 5 in. by 41 in. It is to be recollected that this was on the 12th of August, and that these were by no means specimens of what the crop would be when come to maturity. I should mention that M. Giiiinger published the fore going letter as a pamphlet for distribution at his own ex pense and that I have omitted some passages which E did not think would be of importance in this country WILLIAM HOGAN. * The wetze bolds 3ilbs. of potsoo. No. 17,016. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING EYEBROWS, MuUSTACHIOS, and WHIS KERg produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and prevented ley the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE RATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers, a few drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a most delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only In triangular bottles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size. 7s. ; and double this size, I is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con taining testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes' Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the human Hair, &c." By post, 4s. Gd., is. 8d„ and 125., for money orders only. Sold wholesale only at Grimstone's Herhary, Highgate, near London ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farrlngdon-street ; Sanger, Oxford-street; Messrs. 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"Mrs. Weekley inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. G.'s Regenator, feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase an I Is. bottle if they were as certain of its virtues as she is, from ex perience, not only in the restoration and production of hair in abund ance, brit as a cure of nervous headache ; as a toilet perfume it is far beyond any to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any lady of respectability to the above fact,:.-3, Swan-street, Borough." In cases of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, a few drops on the crown of the head occasionally, every week, will pre vent the hair frorn coming away with the comb, make it strong, and lrevent it turning grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A few drops on your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the hair brilliancy, causing it to curl. 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The baneful effects of Indulgence, neglected Strictures, Se condary Symptoms, &c., are fully pointed out. Illustrated by En. gravisigs ; followed by observations on Marriage. By It. and L. PERRY find Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence. Sold by Strange, No. 11, Paternoster 'row ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhal:- street ; I'urkis, Compton-street, Soho ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford street, and 37, Ito) al Exchange , and all booksellers. Part I. of this Work is particularly addressed to those who are prevented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance, through fear of cer tain disqualifications, and will bef ouud an available introdaction to the means of perfect and secret restoration to manhood. Part 11. treats perspicuously upon those forms of diseases, either in their primary or secondary state, arising from infection, showing how numbers who neglect to obtain competent medical aid, entai , upon themselves years of misery and suflering. 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Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various Cases, &c. By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman street, Oxford-street, London. Member of the London College of Medicine, fte. &c, CONTENTS OF TDB WORE , C and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinat c i n h d:l , d h p g a . pej. 1 B i i_c 13 — o a f i t i o e h d i c u l I :l; t a e s s s u o l t tn s s of i 1 u aS s tercarteetd Viceih t on o t l h o e u r m e d in E d 11 g n r d a v i : od a g y s e : evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused by the practice of self-indulgence. 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Lucas and Co. are to be consnited from Ten till rwo, and from Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence, No. GO, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London, and country patients may be successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclos ing the usual fee of 11. for advice. -------- - __- POISONINGS AT TIBBENHAM, IN NORFOLK. Intense excitement has prevailed in the parish of Tib benham, in Norfolk, in consequence of the sudden deaths of several persons, under suspicious circumstances. Lately, Mr. Cann, a small farmer, fell suddenly ill and died in a few hours. A farmer's wife, Mrs. Self, fell ill at the King's Head public-house, and died soon after. On Sunday last, Mrs. Pearson and Mrs. Everett, both farmers' wives and relatives, died within a few hours of each other. Mrs. Pearson was taken suddenly ill be tween seven and eight o'clock in the morning while at breakfast. Her relative, Mrs. Everett, was sent for to attend upon her. The former died at twelve o'clock on the same day, and the latter became ill as soon as she went home, and died between three and four o'clock. Mr. Pilgrim, one of the county coroners, who investi gated the Happisburgh casts of poisoning, summoned a jury at the Greyhound public-house, Tibbenham, on Tuesday last, to ascertain whether the sudden death of the two women, last mentioned, was attributable to natural causes. The following evidence was given : Joseph Pearson deposed, that deceased was his wife, and 57 years of age. He had been married upwards of 20 years. Witness and deceased sat down to breakfast in the same room on Sunday morning. Their maid servant and lad were in the room, sitting at another table. Deceased took a piece of bread from a new loaf, made on the previous Saturday. She then poured out a cup of tea, and drank part of it. Atter drinking the tea, she ate two or three mouthfuls of dry break, observing that the bread had been made from some old flour that had been in the house for some time. Witness remarked a sudden change in her countenance. She said the new bread did not suit her stomach, and that she felt as if she could not draw her breath. Soon after she went out and vomited up all she had taken. Then she came in ag ain, and sat down by the fire. Soon after she was removed to bed. Mr. Howard, the surgeon, came, and attended her. She got worse, and died at 12 o'clock. Witness had eaten of the victuals since the death of his wife. He did not drink any tea at breakfast on Sunday morning. He was in the habit of drinking beer at breakfast. In cons , quence of some mice being upstairs, his wife had got some poison and stopped some of the holes up in a closet, to destroy the mice. Both his wife and his sister were quite well in health on the Sunday morning before breakfast time. The girl did not take any tea for breakfast that morning. Any person could have got into the closet where the poison was laid in the holes. The closet was not locked up. Witness and the servants had eaten from the same victuals since Sunday last with out any ill effects, but had not taken any of the tea since Sunday. lie had always lived on very good terms with his wife. Eliza Sage, 17 years of age, had lived as servant to Mrs. Pearson since Michaelmas last. She did not take any tea or breakfast on the Sunday morning. She had not been very well in health. She put the water into the kettle for breakfast, but did not pour the water into the teapot. Witness went for Mrs. Everett, who came and attended to Mrs. Pearson, and afterwards had some tea and breakfast, and went away before noon. Mrs. Pearson died about twelve o'clock. On the previous Thursday morning witness saw her mistress put some poison into the holes of the closet in her bed-room to destroy the mice, which were very troublesome. In accordance with the orders of her mistress, she swept the closet where the poison was laid, and afterwards threw the dust into the fire. Mr. Thomas Everett said that Mrs. Everett was his wile, that she had been in a very good state of health up to the previous Sunday morning, when she was sent for to go to Mrs. Pearson's house. Without getting her breakfast she went there immediately, and she returned in about two hours. She said that Mrs. Pearson was very ill indeed ; she then suddenly left the room. Wit ness followed her and heard her scream in the privy. He went to her and found her violently vomiting, and she continued to do so for about half an hour. She said, " I am dying," and continued vomiting. Witness had her carried upstairs, and sent for the surgeon, who came and gave her some brandy and other medicines. She be came worse, and died on the same afternoon about four o'clock. Witness was with her all the time. She was too ill to say anything. A quantity of what she had vomited up had been preserved—about two pints. 11. Howard, a surgeon, of New Buckenham, deposed that on the previous Sunday morning he was sent for to attend Mrs. Pearson and Mrs. Everett. lie arrived at Mrs. Everett's about twelve o'clock, and found her in a state of collapse, her pulse quite imperceptible, and she was evidently in a sinking state. Ile prescribed what he thought requisite for her, and proceeded to see Mrs. Pearson, whom he found quite insensible, and in a dying state. In about five minutes after he arrived she died. The Coroner considered an examination of the bodies necessary, and adjourned the inquest. A SKIBBEREEN IN ENGLAND.—We (Liverpool Journal) fear that there is at this moment suffering as great and undeserved in this town as can be witnessed even on the west coast of Ireland. Two or three cases in one court have come to our own knowledge. That court is Webster's court, Oriel-street. It was in this peat-place that the Rev. Mr. Nightingale caught the fever which deprived society of a most kind-hearted, pious clergyman. Last week a whole family were d,:,wn in fever ; there was no nurse, no doctor. An infant died, and the mother was only able to push the dead body from off the straw on which she herself was dying. No one came to remove the corpse until the daily call of the Rev. Mr. Newsham, of St. Anthony's. In the house, No. 1, are now lying in fever thirteen persons—four on one floor, five in another, some dying, some getting better. There is no one in attendance on them, and no medical ma❑ had seen them from Sunday to Thursday. The parish allows the two families Bs. a week, and the authorities will probably inquire why a medical man has not seen them. In another court all the family were down in fever, but a child, and that child was burnt to death in consequence of its clothes catching fire when going for a hot drink to the grate. • NATAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, MARCH 24.—0 n Friday last her Majesty's surveying ship Bonetta was inspected, and the highest compliments were paid to her Commander, officers, and men, for the state in which she was kept, and the ra pidity and correctness of her manoeuvres. Her Majesty's steamer Locust, which arrived here on the 20th inst. from Tunis, left port on Monday last for !.ante, and by permission carried a mail. She had on board General Kalergi and suite. Her Majesty's ship Spartan arrived in port on Sunday last from Beyrout, and is now performing quarantine. The Spartan, which left this port on the 28th ult., has made a very good passage to the coast of Syria and back. The Neapolitan steamer Ercolano, from Naples and ports of Sicily, arrived here on the 23d inst., and left port on the same evening on her return. Her Majesty's brig Mutine, whose departure from Gibraltar we announced last week, arrived here on Tuesday last. On reaching her moorings, the usual complimentary salutes were exchanged. By some acci dent the Mutine saluted under the white flag, till a sig nal from the flag ship set her on the proper point of etiquette. The French Government steamer Leonidas, from the Levant, arrived here on the 23d inst, and is performing her quarantine. The French Gover nmen t s t eame r Le Nil, from Bey rout and Alexandria, arrived here on Wednesday last, and pursued her trip to Marseilles direct on the same day. The French Government steamer Cairo, from Mar seilles direct, is expected to-morrow. She will proceed without loss of time to Alexandria and Beyrout. The French Government steamer Telienaque, from Marseilles and ports of Italy, will be due to-morrow. She will proceed to the Levant with the mails. The French Government steamer Mentor left port this morning with mails, touching at ports of Italy and Sicily. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Achilles, from the Levant, arrived here on the 23d inst. The Achilles proceeded, via Gibraltar, to England, with the mails and passengers brought by the Ariel, shortly after her arrival. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ariel, with mails and passengers from India, arrived on the night of the 23d inst., and is performing quarantine. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ri pon, with the London mails of the 20th inst., is expected here by the middle of next week. Her Majesty's steamer Spitfire, from the lonian Islands and Greece, is expected hourly with the mails. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL L—Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty inspected the various fitting stores in the dockyard, and about five o'clock left that establishment for the Gun-wharf, over which department their Lord ships were conducted by Mr. Alex. Stewart, the store keeper. From the Gun-wharf the Board proceeded to the George Hotel, to dress, and afterwards dined with Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., the Commander-in- Chief, in the dockyard. This morning their Lordships left their hotel at half past eight, and at about a quarter to nine embarked in their barge at the Sallyport-stairs, under a salute from the platform battery, and went on board the newly-pur chased steam-vessel Undine, Master• Commander Allen, which vessel carried the Admiralty flag at her main, and steamed off to the Sidon, Sir Charles Ogle accompany ing their Lordships, who were received on board by Captain Henderson, C. 8., with manned yards and a guard of honour on the quarter-deck; a salute of nine teen guns was also fired from the main deck guns of the steam-frigate, which, on their Lordships boarding, im mediately took their flag from the Undine and hoisted it at her main. At fifteen minutes past nine the frigate weighed and proceeded to the westward, followed by the Undine, with Sir Charles Ogle on board, and his flag (white at the main) fly ing. The steamers were to make the circuit of the Isle of Wight. The Sidon and Undine rounded Bembridge Ledge on their return to port, at four o'clock, and appear making for the anchorage with all speed ; but from the distance at which they appear at this time (a quarter to five), we do not think it possible their Lordships can be landed in time to avail themselves of the last train to London (half-past five). At five o'clock their Lordships left the Sidon and made for the harbour in the Undine, the former vessel saluting on their Lordships leaving her. Two Admiralty express messengers are waiting at the Sallyport with dispatches for the Board, which came down this afternoon from London. The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Milne, flag of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., was docked this afternoon to have her bottom examined. The new plan for fitting the lower rigging of ships exhibited on board the St. Vincent yesterday afternoon, to the Lords of the Ad miralty, and which their Lordships highly approved, is the invention of Lieutenant Rigmaiden, RN. (1812), not Lord Kielmansegge, as erroneously stated yesterday. The Dragon steam. frigate, Captain Ramsay, left this morning for Tralcc, Tarbert, and Kilrush, with seed corn and meal. The Fairy, Royal yacht, under the command of Com mander Crispin, went as far as Southampton Water this morning to try her screw, which led to the general sur mise that a trial was ordered to take place between her and the Undiae. If this was so, the Fairy is the first home by several hours, having left the Victoria pier at the same time as the Undine and returned to port at noon. The Victoria and Albert was undocked this afternoon. The Cygnet, 6, Commander P. IL Somerville, arrived at Spithead last evening from the coast of Africa station, where she has been employed during the past three years, aiding in the suppression of the slave trade. She left Sierra Leone on the 19th of February. She has captured 1,760 s l aves and nineteen vesse ls, fifteen of which were cond emne d , an d s h e has b e en healthy the whole ti me s h e h as b een upon the coast. D r . Alexander Lane, of t h e P ene l ope, has come home i nva lided in the Cygnet. On W e d nes d ay wee k l ast , w hen just past St. Michael's, a heavy gale from west to south-west came on and washed away her quarter-boat, struck the second , lieutenant w i t h f r i g h tful force and k noc ked him down upon th e t op of his head, by which ho susta i n ed very se. vere injuri es . T he Cygnet is leaky, hav i n g been ashore at Curivab a bar and it was thought necessaryto send a vessel home to attend upon her in case of need; and the Espoir, 10, Commander Hand, consequently sailed with the Cygnet from Sierra Leone, with orders to see the latter safe to the Eddystone, and then pu t into Ply mouth; but the Cy gnet gave her guardian the " go-by" on the night of the 23d of February during the " Har mattan" winds. Commander Somerville, it will be re membered, commissioned the Wanderer, 16, at this port, about eighteen months since, for the African service, but has been ill ever since he arrived un the coast, and ex changed Kith Commander Montresor, of the Cygnet, in order to come to England to recruit. His illness has been increased by haring his ship so poorly e q u ipped with efficient officers. All the officers who went out in the Cygnet have return e d t o E ng l a nd safely. The squadron on the coast was distributed as follows when the Cygnet left the station: — The Devastation steam-sloop, having on board the broad pendant of the Commodore commanding-in-chief, Sir Charles Hotham, K..C.8., was lying off the Bananas, in company with the Syren, 16, Commander Chaloner, which had arrived a few days prior from the Mediterra nean, and was ordered to remain; the Rolla, 10, Com mander Simpson, recently from the Cape de Verd Islands ; and the Wanderer, 16, clearing out after her sickness, and to be under the command of Commander Montriiser, late of the Cygnet. The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, was at Sierra Leone, having arrived on the 13th from Eng land. :qr. Cunningham, Acting , Master of her, and Mr. Pritchard, Midshipman, died on board on the passage from Madeira. The Commodore would turn over and shift his pendant into this vessel from the Devastation in a few days, when Commander Crouch would resume the command of the latter. The Actocon, 26, Captain Mausel, second in command, was at Cape Mount. The Favourite, 18, Commander Murray, was eruaing. The Flying Fish, 12, Commander Dyke; the Hanger, 10, Commander Anderson ; and the Styx steam-sloop, Commander Chads, were at the Bight of Benin. The Alert, 6, Commander Ellis, was at Grand Bassa, ordered home. The Pantaloon, 10, Commander Douglas, was detached from the station and gone to the West Indies. The Star, 6, Commander Hockin, was at the Gallinas, ordered home. The Kingfisher, 12, Commander Horton ; the Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane ; the Bittern, 16, Commander Hope ; the Rapid, 10, Commander n —a-- weY ; the 8, Commander Birch, was at Hound, 10, Commander Wood, and the Lily, 16, Com mander Newton, were at Benguela ; the Larne and Lily (the latter on her way) ordered home, The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, a n d H ecate, steam. sloop, Commander West, were at Congo. der Mc+ The Contest, 12, Comman altirdo, was at Cape Mount. The Wanderer had a trial of sailing with this Ka l b 'h en e da W . aterwitch, vessel and held her a tough race, so much so that it seemed difficult to decide which vessel land the better of it at the termination. The Sealark, 10, Acting - Commander White ; the Hydra steam-sloop , C ommander Morrell ; the Grappler, iron steamer, Lieutenant-Lieutenant -Commander Ly saug h t ; an d the Cacique steam prize , S econd-Master Ra ymond, were at Ascension. a t Sierra Theom Leone, us steam sloop, Com man d er hay; was The Albatross, 16, C ommander F arquhar, had not arrived on the coast from En g land. The coast was sickly. The Favour ite , Contest, Pro metheus, Ferret, and Star, of the northern division, were all well at the date of our advices ; th e F erre t, Star, Wanderer, and Styx had been sickly, onbsk and it was pretty Lieutenant Smith , of the Devastat ion , promoted, has come home in the Espo ir. i on cruizers, ril 3 7 , notwithstand ing broadly hinted that the A merican cr uizers favoured the slavers. When the Cyg net left there w as lying off Cape The ee slave vigilan tradece of w athse g g Mount a large barque, with the stripes and stars flying, commanded by a daring fellow named Canot. This vessel was a most su spicious-looking craft, fitted with three decks, capable of carrying 2,000 slaves! The Cygnet is the only vessel which has captured a slaver on the Sierra Leone station for eighteen months, and she was a rich prize, with 550 persons on board. 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Lord Frederick Fitz clarence, the new Lieutenant-Governor of this garrison, with Lady Augusta and daughter, arrived at the George Hotel this afternoon. CHATHAM, APRIL I.—The Samarang, 26 guns, fitted as a guard-ship at Gibraltar, having proved leaky after being undocked, was taken into dock again on Monday last; her copper has been partly stripped off to find out the leak. She is completed in all her rigging, and as soon as she is reported fit for her duty she will be taken to her destination by the Second Master Attendant, Mr. Northcoat. The Arab, 16 guns, built from the design of Sir W. Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, was launched on Wed nesday, the 31st ult., from the lower end of this dock yard. The ceremony of naming the vessel was per formed by Miss Ellen Laing, only daughter of Mr. F. J. Laing, Master Shipwright. She is acknowledged to be a very handsome vessel. The following are her dimensions :—Length between the perpendiculars, 105 feet ; length of keel for tonnage, 82 feet 21 inches ; breadth, extreme, 33 feet 6 inches ; breadth for tonnage, 33 feet 2 inches ; depth in hold, 14 feet 10 inches ; bur den, in tons, old rule, 481 11-941hs—new, 264. The Cleopatra, 26 guns, was paid off on Saturday l as t , having. a serious leak in her bottom, has nearly nine feet water in her. She goes into dock this day to ascertain the extent of her injury. The Aid, Smallman master, arrived from Plymouth with stores on the 29th ult. ; the Goodwill, Pledge mu ter, sailed with stores for Sheerness on the 31st ult. ; and the Charon, steam-vessel, is fitting for the service of this port. APPOINTMENT. Mr. Henry John Smith, son of the late Admiral Ed ward Tyrrel Smith, is appointed to this yard as a writer to the Metal Mills and Engineer Departments. THE NAVIGATION-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin, —I have read in The Sun of Tuesday evening last, a letter signed " C.," dated from Dundee, wherein the writer shows an eager desire, a very laudable one no doubt, to have the public mind set at rest,(i. e., the more ancient female portion of it), not in regard to "going off the hooks," but to " hooking on." I confess, however, that I am not under much apprehension that many of that interesting portion of the public can suppose that whales are captured by rod, kook and line, the error in the reports being too palpable to ordinary minds. I will, however, venture to be so indiscreet as to set in quiring minds at rest by stating that to the term of " hooking on," as well as to many other ♦ery peculiar phrases which have been set forth in the different papers as mine, I have not the honour of the slightest claim. " If " C." will take the trouble to procure the official report of what really was said upon the occasion to which he refers, I think it not at all improbable that he will therein discover that the theme of his erudite lucu bration: has never had existence. Whatever facts and opinions I have felt myself in duty called upon to give on whaling affairs have been the re sult of rather extensive and very close observation for many years, not only in the United States, but in all our southern colonies, and in the Pacific and Indian oceans, China seas, &c. ; it being also a branch of industry with which I am very extensively connected. I am, Sir, Sour most obedient servant, ' SAMUEL BROWNING. 4, New Bank-buildings, City, April 1, 1847. INSURRECTION IN PORTUGAL. The following letter, written by a Spanish officer of rank, who has been in Portugal from the commence ment of the present insurrection, gives the only intelli gible reason we have yet seen for the ill-success of the popular party:— Lisbon, March 18, 1847. My dear -, You desire me to mention something as to what is going on here. Alasl my dear -, it would be no easy matter to convey an idea of the present state of the country; at least, I must confess that al though it would not be difficult to discover the source of the present confusion, I could not equally succeed in showing why the contest has not been brought to a ter mination ere now. As soon as the coup d'etat of the 6th October was made public the whole of the country rose against the doctrines put forward by the new Administration; half the army joined in the insurrection, which had every ap pearance of a formidable and spontaneous movement, and shortly after the popular forces came to threaten the capital itself. And yet at the end of two months we saw the Constitutionalists shut up in Oporto. True it is that they met with some military reverses; but still, having, as they had, the resources of the country and the sup port of the population, they ought to have brought the contest to a speedy termination. How is it, then, that the strife has been protracted, contrary to all reasonable ex pectation? how is it that the popular movement, ir resistible as it appeared, has been so far checked as to have been confined to certain localities ? It would not he easy to answer these questions ; at least those who have watched events, and have a thorough knowledge of men and things here, cannot answer them satisfactorily. But I cannot help thinking there has been sad mis management on the part of the Liberals ; their means were abundant, their force far superior to that of the Government, whose influence at one time did not extend beyond the walls of Lisbon. The spirit of resistance shown by the population was truly remarkable, but their leaders, I fear, have not had the required tact to make use of these advantages. If you ask their partisans here what their friends are about, the answer is—" They are organising." But they ought to show some activity, move about the county, give signs of lifa. " Wait till they are ready, they are organising." Indeed, to hear them speak, one would suppose they are preparing a mighty armament for the conquest of the Holy Land, and after all it is little more than war in a bandbox. The fact is, strange as it may seem, that they are ashamed of being called guerrillas, and thus it is that as soon as the peasantry take up arms the first thing their leaders do is to set to work and or ganise, and they do not consider that they are ready to act until they have nice uniforms, shackos, cravats, &c. ; that is to say, that they transform what might be very good guerrillas into very indifferent soldiers. They do not admit here that the best uniform for a man who considers himself called upon to take up a musket to sustain his rights, is a rough zamarra,* and that he ought to be allowed to make short work of i t. No, ho must be organised; and the few guerillas they have, influenced by the general system, are perfectly useless. For my own part, it may be very naughty to think so, but I would not give a penny for guerillas when they don't stop couriers and intercept convoys; when they don't add to their rancho a fowl from the neighbouring yard and kiss the village lasses. Iu the army, order, discipline, severity; but with guerillas there must be a certain degree of laisser alter, otherwise you check their enterprising spirit and make monks of them. We have a pretty illus tration of it in Portugal. Has a single convoy been attacked ? Has the rear-guard of the army ever been harrassed ? Not a bit of it, they are organising. For tunately for them, the Government are also organising as hard as they can, and one is induced to believe that things will go on in this way while the contending par ties have resources, which means that it will be a ques tion d'argent. The fact is, there is no energy on either side, and I think it would require herculean efforts to make 'em come up to the scratch. Nevertheless, I must say that, according to the information we have, the Oporto gents are very firm; and, considering the present state of affairs, Mr. Saldanha and his followers will sooner or later bo oisliged to cut their sticks and trot out of the country, which I don't supposo would do much harm to its prosperity although it might injure theirs. Of course, all this is supposing that there is not to be Spanish intervention; which to me, at least, is not yet very clear, whatever guarantees the Madrid Cabinet may have given. As to the tincture of Miguelism of which the Oporto Junta has been accused, a great deal has been said, and in my opinion a great deal of nonsense. The Junta have said—" here is our programme; we accept the services of all the Portuguese who will come forward to defend it." Many Migu..lites have joined, but there has been no compact entered into. * Sheep-skin jacket. The following accident occurred on the evening of the 21st, at the Copenhagen theatre. The lustre, weigh ing about 3001b5., was drawn up after the second act of Don Cesar de Buzan. to have something done to the lights, when all of a sudden it descended with great ra pidity as far as the benches of the uncovered boxes and strunk nine persons with such violence, that they were all stunned. The utmost confusion at once prevailed, and the performance ceased. An investigation was im immediately instituted, from which it appeared, that when the moment for letting done the lustre arrived, only two men out of the four employed for that purpose were pre sent, and that not liking to delay, they ventured to move the machinery themselves. They found too late that the weight was more than they could manage, and the con sequence was that the lustre came down with a run, and did the injury mentioned above, some of the persons hurt are considered to be in a dangerous state. EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.—Mr. Taylor, of Roby, has suggested, and we believe communicated to our parochial authorities, an excellent expedient in connexion with the regulation of Irish immigration into this town. If the au thorities have the power of putting Mr. Taylor's plan into operation, it would not only have important sanatory results, but would gradually tend to check the lavish importation of Irish paupers. The suggestion is, that all steamers or other vessels bringing over this class of passengers should be com pelled to proceed rip the river, direct to the lazarette, where the whole of the passengers should be examined, and none permitted to land but those who were in good health. Such a regulation would check the influx of fever patients into an already too insalubrious town, and would at the same time render proprietors and masters of vessels cautious how they took on board a class of individuals who would subject them to so much trouble and detention.—Liverpool The enthusiasm of the Viennese public for the opera of The Camp of Silesia continues unabated. At each representation the Imperial Theatre, notwithstand ing the great increase of prices is filled to excess, and the receipts invariably amount to about 11,000 florins (about 6001.) Tho opera of Robert le Diable is about to be reproduced, in which Mdlle. J. Lind will fill the parts of Alice as well as that of the Princess. It is said that M. Meyerbeer has undertaken to set to music for the theatre, An-der- Weirr, a new opera, the words of which are by 2113aurenteld. GENERAL COUNT DROUOT. (From the Times.) There is something very striking in the intelligence , which we every now a nd th en rece i ve o f the death of some famous person whose life and deeds have already assumed a character as purely historical as those of Jobe Talbot or Ambrose Spinola. It was but the other day that one of the worst names of the National Convention was brought again before the public, and we were in formed that one of the chief and most villainous actors in those bloody days—a man who had seen the butche ries of the Abbaye and sat on the revolutionary tribu nal, a companion of Robespierre, and a compatriot of Santerre—had just expired in poverty and obscurity at Brussels. Occasionally we hear of the recent decease of a duke or general whose title appears to us as obsolete as that of the King of Westphalia, but who, after cast ing his imperial skin, had been quietly vegetating in unobtrusive retirement. It is true, as far as chronology is concerned, there is nothing strange in all this. The events, in reality, are but those of the other day. But our long peace, our altered politics, and our improved civilization, have all tended to throw back the last great war to an unreal distance, and to disable us from con necting its characters with those of the existing genera tion. Its tale has been written, too, so often and so well, and read so eagerly and so thoughtfully, that all its events seem emphatically the events of history, already out of the reach of tradition, and to be sought for only in books and records. When Si r W a l ter S cott fi rst b egan to write, "sixty years since" did not imply so strange a period as "forty years since" implies now. There are thousands of men in England, who can recollect when the French revolution was not yet prophesied. Its monuments are but monuments of yesterday. The man who wrote the " Siarseillaise"—both words and music— was alive in a garret a few years ago, and may perhaps be so still. Yet for all this, the actual result is as we have said. The younger amongst us can scarcely help fancy ing that the generation of the war is clean gone, and long ago ; for the truth is that many of its mighty men die a civil death at its conclusion, and retired like doubt ful characters of old times to the cloister, into a privacy which left their former lives to history, and withdrew their remaining days from all notice of a world, which was no longer a world for them. On Tuesday last we recorded the death of one of these singular characters, whose unequivocal reputation deserves a testimony which could hardly be accorded to the renown of many of his contemporaries. Count Drouot has just expired at Nancy, and it is a carious illustration of our remarks that this hero of history was only in his 73d year. In one sense it may be said that he was the Emperor's right hand, for Napoleon won his battles by his guard and his artillery, and Drouot was the general of the artillery of the guard. It is not a little remarkable that Napoleon, who had such abundant reason to know the value of a preponderating artillery, delayed so l ong to strengt h en hi s f avour i te corps w i t h this peculiar arm, but it is a fact that dragoons, chas sours, lancers, gendarmes, fusiliers, and almost every other denomination of force were naturalised in the ranks of the Imperial Guard before any guns beyond a few light pieces were attached to it. The circum stances may not be uninteresting to those who read or remember our own periodical debates on this point. In the first battles of the revolution the French had no horse-artillery, but the advantages derived by the Prus sians from this peculiar corps were so manifest, that in 1792, the Legislative Assembly decreed the organisa lion of a similar body. The corps at once sprang into that extraordinary favour which in all countries it seems equally to have maintained, and its popularity was increased years after its establishment, of the capture of the Dutch fleet, as it lay ice - bound off its own shores. Accordingly, when Napoleon, in 18 0 6, began to organise thre in o the present case by its strange achieve ment,his famous foundG a ras this force, though its strength scarcely reached 100 men; and this he contented himself with raising to three squa ialready attached e o d f to the it old a company Gard e Co n o drons of 200 each. Three years afterwards, however , ePac riale d he added eight companies of foot artillery under Colonel- Major Drouot, and so rapidly did his perceptions brighten concerning the importance of this arm of his force, that the artillery of the guard alone, by successive l n tteoosnrst oetaugmentations,mnhfdaeonetrd.l9 thetliet guns. fatehca adn Englishoa fc Thish t c u m a actually officer empires ev r sca e esb a rae c nt h h, eiwedsa,astti terrific the f al l possessed sfe l has B ael :Its3seoe,afpdpt king doms unesorco)t tremendously wielded by Drouot, of which the flashes far more truly than ever did the fiery tail of was to Napoleon what Dickson was to Welling haps of more original and extended military talents. But in abilities in his own particular sphere, in bravery and steadiness, and, above all, in single-minded honesty, stanch fidelity, and unimpeachable virtue, the Count had no superior, and but very few equals, in all that band of heroes who raised the Emperor to the throne of glory. In his per sonal habits he was most singular. lie—a Frenchman and a soldier, in the midst of the imperial staff, and under the reign of Napoleon—was actually a religious character, and did not scruple to avow the fact. Ile even carried about with Lim a small Bible—the only one, probably. that was ever to be found in the baggage of the Grand Army, except that placed by Napoleon in the mythological class of his travelling library, and this it was one of his c hi e f d e li g h ts to read. When - ordered to the front, it was usually at the most critical point of the field, and at the most hazardous moment of the day; and on these occasions he is said to have always dressed himself in a certain old coat, dismounted, and advanced on foot in the midst of his guns, and it did happen that, throughout all his perils, he never received a wound. Few readers will require to be reminded how often he and his cannoneers decided the fate of a well fought field. Those 50 or 60 guns, described by eye-witnesses t seemin; to be actually discharged as they galloped along, swept 'away the last relics of Russian obstinacy or Aus trian chivalry, and terminated the carnage of the day. Iu the manip u l a tian and direction of his pieces Drouut was unrivalled. Once, at the passage of the Elbe, in 1813, the Emperor, observing the enemy on the opposite bank, cane] out hastily for " a hundred pieces of can non !" The General was at his side in a moment with the guns in position, but so impatient was the Emperor for success, that on the effect of the fire not being so immediate as he expected, he jumped off his horse, took hs:d of Drouot's ears and shook him soundly. The Ge ne' al bore the operation with great patience, and then defied the Emperor to place the guns better—a challenge which Napoleon waived with the laugh of a pacified child. When reverses at length came, and the crea tures of the Emperor's bounty fell off from him on every side, Drouot still stood by his master and abandoned him not. Etsiomnes, ego non. With our Macdonald— that worthy descendant of the man of Moidart—with Bertrand and Fain, with Cambronne and Caulincourt— he awaited that last levee of Fountainbleau, and followed his sovereign to Elba with as much devotion as he had followed him to Dresden. We might long search that muster-roll of glittering names comprised in the livrad'or of the Empire before we found any so entirely worthy the pride of a countryman and the respect of an enemy as that of General Count DuouoT. FEVER IN THE WORKHOUSES OF NATO.-11l BA linrobe the workhouse is in the most awfully deplorable state, pestilence having attacked paupers, officers, and all. In fact, this building is one horrible charnel-house, the unfortunate paupers being nearly all the victims of a fearful fever—the dying and the dead, we might say, huddled together. The master has become the victim of this dread disease ; the clerk has been added to the victims ; the matron, too, is dead ; and the respected, and esteemed physician has fallen bfore the ravages of pestilence, in his constant attendance on the diseased inmates; the Roman Catholic Chaplain is also danger ously ill of the same epidemic. We have heard, also. of the inmates of the Westport workhouse, and several of the officers, being attacked by fever, but, fortunately, without any fatal results. Ballina and Swinford, too, have not escaped the dreadful contagion.—Mayo Con stitution, The Lord Mayor has appointed Monday, the 12th instant, for the further discussion of Mr. Bennoch's mo tion, respecting national education, in the Court of Com • mon Council. The subject, which was partly discussed at the last Court, and of which, when it shall have been finally disposed of, we shall give a report, embraces in effect the Ministerial measure. It is opposed principally upon the ground of the alleged injury it is calculated to inflict upon the independent spirit of the people. DETECTION OF FEIGNED DISEASES BY ETHER VAPOUR.-M. Baudens has employed ether vapour in two cases in which the individuals were suspected of feigning disease for the purpose of avoiding the con scription. In the first there was apparent defcrmity of the spine and projection of the back. The young re cruit, who was susp e ct e d t o b e an i m p os t or , had been subjected to various experiments, but without success. lie was finally made to inhale ether vapour ; in a few minutes there was complete relaxation of the limbs, and the supposed deformity entirely disappeared. Thus con victed, the man no longer denied that he had feigned ln the the deformity for the purpose of avoidingservice. second case the person was believed to been feign inhaled,aic h y . l o t shi the of the hip joint. When the ether had system m ain w e a d as strongly was produced ; sbut,am samerelaxation examination o f t , h t e h e m a u n i a e r s s s marked as before the experi ment ; thus p r oving that the disease was real. SALMON FisittriGs.—The salmon fishings on the Conon may, of late, be considered the most productive in the north. Since the commencement of the season, the average number taken is from ten t o f ourteen per day. On Saturday last as m any as twenty-one beauti- 1 ful fish were caught at the cruives, and on Tuesday the number was thirty-six. Ten were taken a few days ago at the Newhall stake -net. We learn that the Ness, 13eau1y, and Chanonry Point fishings are far behind.— Ross-shire Advertiser. FALMOUTH. :lIARBOUR.—The Trinity Board has just laid in Falmouth harbour a buoy on a flat rock, under water, called the Miss Lugos, about thirty-five yards from St. Mawes Castle Point, and in a line with the westermost part of St. Mawes town from the Black Rock Beacon. The spot buoyed has been attended ' with greater danger to boats than to vessels of any larger size, although, in the charts, two fathoms are given as the quantity of water thereon.— West Briton. lIERRINGS.—A number of herrings of a very superior quality, were taken at Shieldaig last week, and appearances indicate that there are more ou the oast. nil p lid Joie! le i r too