The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o' Clock, a.m. LATER FROM AMERICA. Arrival of the Steam-Ship Cambria. The British and North American Royal Mail Steam ship Cambria, Capt. Shannon, arrived here this morning before eleven o'clock, having been detained about two hours outside the bar. She left New York on the 27th ult., and Halifax on the 30th, at which latter place the Hibernia arrived on the 27th. She has brought the fol- lowing PASSENGERS. — From New York :—Madame R. R. Panuela and daughter, Misses Maury, Olymphe, and Chapin, Mr. P. Maxwell and lady, Mdlle. A. Mansay, Mr. Habicht, 8.D., lady, and servant, Mr. D. Haddan and lady, Mr. and Mrs. Davis, and son, His Excellency A. de Bodesco, Messrs. W. and D. Bodesco, Dr. A. Greig, Messrs. Bourne, J. De Teresa, Claude, G. H. Van Post, T. W. Rough, C. A. Batchelor, A. W. Baker, R. Maury, Riley, Phren, Blood, A. Thompson, T. D. Ferris, Hartzig, Goodeene, C. Drcssel, P. Paterson, M. L. Lion, Henry, Hecker, and Mr. G. Ortiz, Mr. B. Aguine, Mr. A. Bavand, Mr. Frederick, Mr. A. Levesque, Mr. a Manzine, Mr. B. Newton, Mr. M. Reid, Mr. Hood, Mr. D. Hauw, Mr. Holmes, Hon. A. Egerton, A.D. and 8.A., Mr. Kynaston, Mr. Boyd, Mr. James Wilder, Mr. Spence, Mr. W, C. Murray, and son, Mr. Stalknecht, Mr. Ramivas, Mr. Clerr, Mr. Forster, Mr. Twart, Rev. A. Amat, Rev. M. Maller, Mr. J. C. Capreol, Mr. J. Carus, Mr. A. Chisholme. Mr. H. Hyde, Mr. Moulor, Mr. Gamble, Mr. Jackson, Mr. J. Thomp son, Mr. Gutzner, Mr. Dangler, Mr. Richlar, Mr. Reed mailer, Mr. Schainngsr, Mr. C. Leake, Mr. Überhirst, Mr. Duucanson, Mr. J. M'lntee, Mr. A. Quntze, Mr. J. L. Ottmann, Mr, Brown, Mr. Neuvll, Mr. Schaaf, Mr. G. Winkler, Mr. E. Gassett, Mr. C. B. Bacon. From Halifax : Mr. and Mrs. Farratt. and son, Miss M. Muir head, Miss E. levluirhead. J. A. Black, J. Morrow, M'Queen, Mignouit, Haws, Frances Black. The business in foreign Exchanges was moderate, and the rates heavy. Sterling was selling, at 8i- to 9, Francs 5.35 to 5.30 and dull. The supply of Bills was considera ble. In freights there was a fair business doing, and the shipowners were asking higher rates. Engagements 40 or 50,000 bush. Corn, 61-cl. to 61d. ; and 5000 Wheat, 61d. The Carnatic was filled up at 6id. Flour was engaged at ls. 6d. ; heavy freights 225. 6d. • Cotton, id, The cholera was worse in the Western States, especially at St. Louis and Cincinnati. In the former city, which contains about some 60,000 persons, the number of deaths daily exceeded 100 ; at Cincinnati, with 100,000 inhabi tants, about 70 deaths daily. Gold continues to reach the United States from Cali fornia. The brig Ida arrived at Philadelphia on 25th ult. with 300,000 dollars, including some beautifullumpsof the precious metal, weighing above seven pounds each. Cassino Clay is not dead as was supposed, but is ex pected to recover. The provocation to the duel was a lie given in public meeting. Clay struck but once, his knife ripping open the belly of his antagonist; he was himselt stabbed, it is said, by a third party. Further skirmishes have taken place between the Cali fornian emigrants and the Indians. In one of these affrays 23 Mexicans were killed. In Canada nothing special has happened, except it be a battle in the Montreal City Council. One member, in a speech, averred that in three months they would be all Americans, whereupon another member crossed over and knocked him down. This was followed by a variety of hostile demonstrations, and finally the Council broke up in order to avoid a general mele'e. in Mexico, insurrections and other troubles are abun• dant. In Oaxaca an attempt to overturn the Government took place on the 29th May. It was put down with the loss of some 20 killed on the part of the insurgents. In Tampico the party aiming to repeat the Texan drama, and annex to the United States the entire country this side the Cordilleras, is still active. The region they desire to separate from Mexico includes part of the States of Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi, and the whole of Tampico, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila. The Congress of Venezuela has adjourned, after levying severe duties upon foreign products. This was done at the instance of Monagas, the President. It is said to make him very unpopular in the country, and to strengthen his rival, Pacz, to such a degree that his speedy triumph is anticipated. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 26. CorroN.—Tbe movement is moderate, and the quotations are scarcely so firm. The transactions reach 1500 bales. Upland. Mobile6.Florida. N. 0.6 Texas. nom. nom. nom. Inferior Ordinary to 74 to 7j to 74 Middling 71 to 7 - 1 lit to 8 72 to 8 Middling fair 8 to 8 ft to 81 84 to 81 Fair 84 to 84 84 to 82 to Good fair Fine nom. nom. nom. The accounts from the South are favourable to sustaining the market. Bales. Exports to Great Britain since Sept, 1, 1848 Corresponding dates last y ar 1,105,217 I. 5, year before Stock in Shipping Ports of Receipt 220,270 Corresponding dates last year 319,156 f 2 „ year before Receipts . Exports FLOUR AND MEAL.--In Flour the market is steady, and some descriptions are rather better than they were a day or two ago. The transactions add up 8,500 bbls., including 5,000 bbls for shipment. A considerable portion of the transactions were fine at 4 06 to 4 12i,. The t ange for Flour is 4 44 to 4 56 for common and good State, with little below 4 50; 4 56 to for straight State and good mixed Western; and 4 62a to 4 75 for good straight and favorite brands Western. Pure Genesee is 4 94 to 5 06. The supplies of Flour continue moderate. In Southern the market is firm, and the demand rather moderate. Sales 400 or 500 bbls. at 4 94 to 5 dols, mostly at 5 dols. Meal is 3 dols. for Jersey, with sales 700 bbls. ' • also, 200 bbls. Brandywine at 3 12t, and 200 do, State at 2 874. Sales 500 bbls. Rye Flour at 3 06, at which the market is firm. GRAIN.—For Wheat there is some milling and shipping in quiry ; and the sales are 9500 bushels Ohio at 102 to 105 cents for shipment, 11,000 ditto Upper Lake on private terms, and 2700 ditto Wisconsin at 75 to 76. The market is heavy for Ohio and Upper Lake descriptions. Corn is lower, and closes heavy. The sales of the day are 85,000 bushels at 50 to 53 cents for damaged, 54 to 55 for Western mixed, 56 to 57 for flat yel low, 55 for Southern white, 57 for Pennsylvania yellow, and 58 to 59 for Northern yellow, closing at 58. Sales 10,000 bushels Rye at 57 to 57t cents delivered. Oats are 35 to 36 cents and dull. SHIPPING NEWS. ARRIVED AT NEW YORK.—lsaac Wright, Colonist, London, De Witt Clinton, Margaret, E Z, Columbus, St. Lawrence, and Fletcher, all from Liverpool. CLEARED FROM NEW YORK.—Liberty, Constitution, A Z, N. H. Wolf, Albana, Garrick, and Shannon, all for Liverpool. From Apalachicola, cleared Waverley, Robertson, for Liver pool. In port—Trevillick. E arraturr. NOTICES. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, and 37, Paternoster-row, London. Our old favourite is himself again this month. The professor has thrown aside his love of indolent ease, and amines forth in a second series of " Christopher under Canvass," in all his pristine vigour, showering upon us rich bouquets of poetry and philosophy, inspired by the glorious scenery of highland lake and mountain. The ar ticles throughout are of the first-class. " The Caxtons," especially, is splendid in this number. The Man sn the Moon is now published in a more con venient form, under the editorship of the Brothers Brough. The last number contains several good illustra tions, and many good hits at passing events. Fraser and the Dublin University contain their usual amount of excellent articles ; the latter is more than com monly diversified in its critical reviews. VARIETIES. At the coronation of Edward 1., 300 horses were let loos?, to be the property of those who could catch them. " To make a man eligible to the Senate of South Caro lina," says the New Maryland Washingtonian, "he must own 500 acres of land and ten negroes.' A CLASSICAL QUESTION.—Master Tibbs, of the First Form : " Please, sir! if the Romans are destroyed, will there be any more Latin Grammar ?"—Punch. Oniony OF TUNNELS.—A. on one side of the hill re quires to communicate with B. on the other, but think ng it a bore, he hollows out to him.—Punch. IT RUNS BOTH HIGH AND Low.—There is no man, however high, but who is jealous of some one • and there is no man, however low, but has some one who is jealous of him 1 A. London beggar is said to have obtained a livelihood by counterfeiting a bowel complaint, and successively entering druggists' shops to beg pieces of ginger, which he afterwards sold to a maker of ginger-beer. Professsor Christison exhibited the other day a green powder, purchased at a confectioner's, in Edinburgh, de signed to colour jellies, blancmanges, &c., which he had found, by a process which he described, to consist of su gar mixed with verdigris and arsenite of copper. A DOMESTICATED PlKE.—There is now to be seen in a pond, at Wootton Bassett, the property of J. Neeld, Esq., a pike, apparently about three pounds weight, which, on food being presented, and " Jack" called, will rise to the surface of the water, and open his mouth to receive it. ANCIENT ALMANACK.—The following is the title of an almanack published one hundred and ninety years ago : " Goldsmith, 1660 an Almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1660. Wherein is contained many observa tions, pleasant, necessary, and useful. Amongst the rest you may behold the longitude, latitude, and aspects of the planets. As also a description of the highways and fairs. The like not extant by any other. Composed by John Goldsmith. London : printed by R. White, for the Company of Stationers, 1660." STARTLING INTELLIGENCE.—We understand that, in a certain village down east, there is a new society about to be established, which is to be established, which is to bear the name of the " Celebrity of Matrimony Society," the members to consist exclusively of ladies. We have been informed that one of the rules, a principal one, for the regulation of the society is to run thus,—" That the men do forfeit the privilege nitherte enjoyed I.)y them, of ' proposing' for the ladies, inasmuch as it has been so long allowed to remain a dead letter, and that it be con ferred exclusively on the ladies, who without the least feeling of vanity, flatter themselves that they will make at least a better use of it ; and the ladies hereby pledge themselves to put their privilege into operation on every available occasion." This is truly startling intelligence. American paper. A FIRE IN THE BACKWOODS. (From Fraser's Magazine.) I was awakened by a shout in the street below the win dows. Immediately after Frankland rushed into my room: he almost tore the door off its hinges. Get up !' he cried ; quick ! put your clothes on, the town's on fire !' He pulled me out of bed, and helped me to hurry on my things. In a few minutes we were standing in the street. It was dam ; numbers of people I heard, more than saw, were hurrying past, to and fro. I looked down the street ; there was a light, glowing and changing on the sky towards the back part of the house. In front we could not see from whence it came. A noise of a dull but strengthening roar of voices came from the same quarter. Suddenly a light, like a lurid star, appeared on the roof of a house far down at the end of a road on which we stood. Then a cloud of smoke ; then all the windows seemed suddenly illuminated from within ; then a burst of rose-red flame, and it fell; and the flames leapt onwards to the next house, and the next, and the next, and a glare of intolerable brightness began to fill all the space around. People were growing wilder and wilder with terror, answering at random any questions made to them as they flew past. Oh, the fire 's come from the woods !' No, it was old Wilcox's forge set all a-fire!' The barracks are blazing, and the wood-yards, too !' 0, good Lord ! what will be the end of this ?' Here, take charge of these children !' said one half distracted woman, mistress of a school, who had lost her house with every thing it contained, and was running about uncertain as to the fate of her mother and sister. In this country, happily, the fears of the consequences of a fire, however awful, have some bounds. There are open country, shipping on the rivers, and plenty of places to look to for shelter. How different the same calamity in a place where every thing on the face of the land acts as so much dry tinder, where the town is built of slight wooden buildings, where forests surround the house of every man, where all food, corn, cattle, and every kind of comfort, and possession, and life itself, all lie at the mercy of the most frightful of elements when roused to a pitch of fury, endowed with a vast power of destruction, and placed in a position of illimitable command,—at once the greatest engine of comfort, and the most cruel scourge for the settler in the New World ! I stood in the street, seated beside a heap of trunks and goods, that had been flung out of the doors and win dows of the house ; chairs, tables, boxes, books, clothes, were lying in a mass of strange confusion. Two brick houses made a stand against the fire ; they were com pletely burnt within, but retarded the progress of the fire on one side. On the other, the heat, the brightness, in creased rapidly ; while hoarse shrieks for Water ! water !' told the distress of the sufferers in that quarter. Frank land and Fairfax had both left the spot where I was. The wife and family of the latter were sitting on the trunks, boxes, or chairs and tables, volunteering themselve:s guardians of any stray children ' • and numbers flocked to our corner of women and poor, shivering, frightened little ones ; and so the dawn broke slowly upon us, huddled together speechless for the greater part of the time, un less some new-corner flew towards us to detail some ad ditional loss of life and property. At daylight Fairfax came back for a few moments. Be prepared,' he said, to make for the church. I believe it will be almost the only building left, from its situation and being of stone. come back when you 'll have to go. That or the river.' As he spoke he threw into a box clasped with steel some of his plate that he valued most. He and his eldest son carried it towards the water. A quarter of an hour, I suppose. after that, the first house in the street where we stood took fire ; it was the house of a merchant. He had refused to take out his things for fear of being robbed, and he lost every article that he possessed. His wile, poor woman, was screaming in hysterics, and Mrs. Fair fax ran to her assistance. As she did so the opposite house blazed up, a small grocer's shop : a rafter fell on the head of the poor man, who was attempting to save some of his books and bills; he could not be rescued from the furious burning of the roof above, which fell in a few minutes after. A party of soldiers was stationed at the river's edge to hand up buckets of water for the engines ; but it was, indeed, like a drop on an ocean of flame : the fire licked it up with a hiss, and flew on. And now our time drew nigh. The house next but one fell ; the shrieks, roars, and cries of the people became perfectly maddening. Fairfax was seen rushing along the street. At that moment fire burst out in another direction ; the smoke became suffocating, blackening even the ghastly glare of the furnace around us. Fairfax came, his eyes bloodshot, his brows singed, and his dress too, with the intense heat to which he had been subjected. He took hold of his wife and youngest child, telling us to follow. We ran along the street to the southwest. In. doing so we saw the line of the barracks burning fiercely; the en gines were playing no longer : it was hopeless. Above the river stood the wood-yard, with fuel laid up for the winter, blazing away like one huge pyre at once : all be hind lay in black ruins. The wind had sunk, but the fire was spreading,—whether from the woods, or from some accident in the town, could not then be known. On the whole bank of the river on which the town stood nothing was to be seen but fire, smoke, and ashes ; half-blackened heaps of houses and goods; ruin, and death, and fear, that bad become cowardice and ferocity in many. On the other side the morning sun was breaking through the smoke, and shining in broken gleams on the autumnal foliage ; the peace and security beyond us mocked our misery. Oh, for the opposite shores ! A boat ! a boat!! a canoe ! a raft !—anything ! But we were hurried to the church. Numbers followed and crowded in; it was soon filled ; but more yet poured to the two doors. Many sat on the gravestones without. A row of trees sur rounded the wooden paling of the grave-yard, connected by an avenue that led to another cemetery. We had not been long in the church when we saw the houses opposite burst into a fierce, strong blaze ; a shroud of smoke rushed through the building where we were ; it became quite dark ; there were shrieking women lying on the altar steps, crying out that it was the last day, that Christ was coming to judgment. One poor girl, who had lost her father and brother (their house had been the first de stroyed), was singing a hymn in a high, shrill voice, and waiving her arms to the Saviour, whom she saw, she cried out to us repeatedly, in a chariot of fire. The chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof !' she screamed out unceasingly; while others hid their faces, some sobbing in grief and horror, others silent and terror-stricken, others calmly awaiting another signal to fly to the river ; and still the flames swept on and on. A ring of fire en circled the church-yard as the trees took fire, and the grass was burnt up, and a hundred more tried to crush into the building ' • and great broad ribands of fire, crimson and yellow, glittered flashed along the windows like vivid lightning ; and then such a sense of suffocation fell on all, that the door at the opposite end was flung open, and numbers poured out and made their escape through a shower of sparks, and over burning grass and branches, out into the square. I made my way out too. I stood alone among a terrified and selfish crowd. My agony of horror had reached its climax, when I saw, hurrying through the smoke from one of the burning streets, Louis the Indian. He flew to me, took roe up in his arms, and ran quickly to the river. Here I saw Frankland ; he had pushed off from the flaming shores of the miserable place. He was in a canoe, waiting for me. Louis plunged into the water with me: it was hot with the reflection of the heat around. Louis placed me in the canoe, and Frank land made off with me. Louis swam till he reached a canoe lying floating bottom uppermost ; it had held some refugees, who had been drowned in crossing from over filling the bark, slight thing that it was. We left the shore, burning, blazing, lined with shrieking wretches, who were making the best of their way to rafts, sloops, boats and canoes. I lay shivering and speechless. God help them ! cried Frankland, as we threw our selves on the green and secure shores of the eastern bank. Opposite, for miles and miles along the river, the forest was blazing away to ashes. Frankland clasped his hands in silence as we looked over the water, and Louis joining us, we plunged into the thick woods before us,—all cool and lovely they looked. Yet the scent of burning was becoming stronger every moment as we hurried on. Still we trusted that the fire bad not reached this bank on which we stood. We walked more and more quickly, and, lo ! a sudden glimmer of flame shot through a rolling cloud of smoke to our right. The fire, the forest fire, was upon us ! We saw the horrible rapidity of its progress ; the woods, dry as dust with a burning long summer, lay like wool and timber beneath the broad wings of tha flame that swept rejoicing on its way. Brightening, roaring, reddening, whitening in its fury, it came upon us. We ran with all our speed along the narrow track in file. We looked back, the fire was circling about us; like fiery ser pents it flew from tree to tree, wreathing in glittering rings round the trunks, bursting into one oroad blaze in the foliage, then coursing along the ground fanning itself with its own fury, rolling along flaying the earth with its keen scimitar, leaving raw, blackening sods behind it. Hotter and hotter became the fiery breath as it blew more and more fiercely upon us. Our eyes were bloodshot, our tongues parched, our breathings were painful gasps for life. Yet we flew on, and when I fell at last Louis raised me up, flung me over his shoulders, and rushed along faster than before. I almost lost consciousness, except knowing that we had to change our course. The fire closed upon us ; it flew out here and there, encircling us in a death-clasp almost. Still the Indian posted on, faster and fasten—noble creature, faithful as a dog and swift as a deer ! My head was giddy, confused ; a dreamy sense of flying through clouds of smoke and lightnings I can now remember, but that is all, until I was again on the river in a canoe, and laid down on my back, smoke and fire still around us, Frankland and Louis urging the little bark on its way by every exertion ; and as we drew near the settlement I raised my head. Great heaven, what a scene of destruction was there ! Not a house was left standing ; all was black, deserted. A log-hut or two on the African Hill had escaped ; there some of the in habitants bad collected their families and their goods, — the very little, at least, that they had been able to save. My family were safe, and my father hurried down to the shore to receive me from Frankland. I lay on the bank, and saw Frankland push off again, away for the Oro nocktoo. In after days 1 heard from others what had been the fate of Frankland's home. He reached it, and made his way across from the river to the lake. Not a vestige of wood was left,—all level and blac k. The lod ge was gone , a heap of smouldering ruins lay on the spot where it h a d stood. Frankland searched the ashes ; nothing was found except a few things that would not burn to atoms. He searched further, with agony that no words of mine can describe, and close under the bank of what had been the chiefs' burial-place he found two half-burnt remains; one clasped in his blackened hand some steel beads that it had valued more than any other toy. The water had been no protection to them, as they bad no boat ; their only servant, it was supposed, was burnt in the house. There, alone, unprotected, victims to the most awful agonies of fear and torture, the two little children died,— ' Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. But poor Frankland never reco vered the horrors of his loss. He died a fortnight after wards, of grief, fatigue, and exhaustion. TIE iirtritleilL STANDAiti. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. The Quarterly Abstract of the Public Revenue has scarcely ever been a pleasing or satisfactory document since the introduction of Free-trade principles. In the present instance, while the large sums received as duty on corn, in the last six months of 1848, make the whole year wear a prosperous aspect,—the apparent increase being £726,483, —the darker side 'of the picture appears the moment we look at the quarters' account,—on which there is a decrease of £468,546. But comparisons with the last year, we are continually reminded, are unfair and delusive, inasmuch as the state of the Continent during 1848 very greatly injured trade. Let us then avoid this, and rather compare the quarter just closed with the same quarter of 1847,—in which period none of the continental troubles had broken out. The comparison between the two quarters,—that end ing on July 5, 1847, and that just closed, will exhibit the following results :- 1847. 1849. Customs.. .. £4,519,119 £4,128.777 Excise .. .. 3,291,052 .. 3,020,602 Stamps .. 1,869,464 .. 1,612,697 Taxes .. 2;075.101 2,054,730 Property-tax .. 1,036,517 .. .. 1,033,240 Post Office .. .. 215,000 .. .. 196,000 Crown Lands.. .. .. .. 40,000 Miscellaneous.. .. 7,461 .. .. 70,140 The result, then, is, that after the complete establish ment of the Free-trade principle, which, it was protested to us, would throw all branches of trade into the greatest activity, we now find that taking the account of 1847, and comparing it with that of the last quarter, there is a plain and considerable falling off. On the Customs we perceive a reduction, on the quarter, of nearly £lOO,OOO. On the Excise, of £270,000. On Stamps there is a falling off also of £270,000. On Property Tax, Crown Lands, &c., the reduction is scarcely perceptible. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. The following is a copy of a letter from Geelong, dated January 14 : " Dear Father, Mother, Sisters, and Brothers, and all inquiring Friends,—l hope these few lines will find you quite well, as it leaves me, thank God. After a most beautiful voyage of four months all but one day we drop ped anchor on the 7th of December. The commissioners came on board on the Bth and the masters on the 9th. There were masters enough to employ three times the number, if they had been there; they were offering from £2O to £25 a-year, and 121 b. of meat, 101 b. of flour, 21b. of sugar, and a quarter of a pound of tea weekly, for sin gle men ; and from £lO to £2O a-year for single women. Nearly all engaged on the Saturday, but I did not engage till the Monday following, for I was constable, so 1 could not get away, but I spoke to one gentleman, who said he would give me £23 a-year to be groom, which I took on Monday at £25 ; but I only engaged for three months, and he has offered me £36 a-year to stop, but I want £4O, and I dare say he will give me £3B sooner than lose me ; but I only want to stop six months longer, for I mean to set up in the milk business, for milk is 6d. a-quart and they only carry it out once a-day, and we think it a great favour for them to do that ; but let them stop till I get £lB or £20,—1 will show them the way to sell milk. I was at a sale the other day, and there was some as fine cows as any man need wish to have. I bid money for two that was half gone in calf. I bid as much as I had got. I bid £2 Ns. for the two, and they were sold for £2 12s. 6d. if they had been in Smithfield they would have fetched £lB each. People think more of fatting calves and making butter than they do of selling the milk, for they keep their cows on the runs, and pay the herdsmen Is. a week. They never tie any up in the house to feed them ; and grains are only Is. 6d. a quarter, and hay £4 a-ton ; the best of it is made out of green oats, cut down when it is coming into ear. There is plenty of sweeds brought in here at £1 a-ton ; they buy them for horses. I am living at the largest butcher's I ever saw ; they kill 6 bullocks every day, and about 100 sheep every week; the prime joints are 2d. per pound, and the other lid. All sorts of clothing and hardware is very dear, just about double the price they are at home; so anybody coming out ought to bring plenty with him. House-rent is very dear. If Joe comes over he will get plenty of work. People are as smartly dressed here as they are at home— they that live in the town. It is 60 miles further up the river than Melbourne; the first house was built seven years ago, and now they cannot build them fast enough. All sorts of beer and spirits are shocking dear; beer is Is. per pot, gin ls. 6d. per quartern, brandy 3s. per quartern ; but it is the landlords that have agreed not to sell it under. They get it very near as cheap as the landlords get it at home ; and the gingerbeer is 6d. per bottle. I have turned teetotaller, for I mean to have some cows, and tie them up, and go round with milk twice- a-day. It is a very fine country. I was made constable on the 17th of September; one of the others gave up the berth, for it is a very unthankful office. I got £2 for it. We bad a delightful passage; we did not have three days' rain all the way. We had five births and three deaths ; our captain and doctor were very kind to us. Who would stop in old England and starve, when they can come over here and make their fortunes in ten years, if they keep from drinking ? Do not hesitate one day, but go and get your papers, and come out here to the Land of Paradise. I wish I had come three or four years sooner; I should have been a gentleman ; it is not too late now, I hope, but I shall never go back again to stop. Bob has got a place near me at a public house ; he is quite well. I hope some of you will come over, if not all. Tell Allen not to stop in that country, and work hard, and at the end of 20 years not have a farthing more in his pocket than when he began ; let him come over as soon as he gets a chance ;—and all of you-come. It is a fine country; it is the height of summer now. On Christmas-day 1 had lamb and green peas for dinner, gooseberry pie and plumpudding. My master sent two bottles of brandy and two bottles of rum amongst four of us in the kitchen. When you come bring plenty of clothes with you, and remember to have your boxes lined with tin. " Should none of you come out persuade Allen and George to come• as soon as they are old enough, if I should not return before ; but if I were to return I should not stop three months before I should come back again. Thank God for bringing me here safe, and may He watch over you, and bring you as safe !" Omen! Itltsrrilam). The Ten Towns Messenger, a paper published at Kid derminster for thirteen years, has ceased to exist. On Friday week a young lady, Miss Davis, of: Ely Rise, near Cardiff, drowned herself in the Taff river. No cause is assigned for the rash act. The Patriot in alluding to the recent trial of " Nottidge v. Ripley," heads the article, " Agapemone'--Last New Offshoot from the Establishment." Madame Tussaud has cleared £lOOO by the exhibition of Rush in wax, in her " Chamber of Horrors." Green acre and Courvoisier did not realize one-fourth so much. A CURE FOR DEAFNESS.—Mr. T. H. Wakely reports in the Lancet several cases in which deafness has been cured or relieved by the use of glycerine. The first stone of the Olympic Theatre has been laid this week. The old house, it will be remembered, was burnt down a few months since. The Stamford Meacury mentions some really remark able rhubarb grown at Wythorpe, some of the stems being nearly six feet in length and of proportionate thickness. Two collectors of Land Tax, in the metropolis, have been arrested for defalcations—one for £782, and the other for £2OOO. A fire burst out at Arnold'S-farm, Shooter's-hill, on Friday. A cottage, barn, cart-shed, carts, and two pigs were consumed. The damage is estimated at £700 : Freights continue to be very much depressed in the northern and eastern ports, and the prospects for British shipping are far from encouraging. The magistrates of the county of Kent have, by an overwhelming majority, rejected a proposition for the ap pointment of a county constabulary ; out of 100 justices present, only 20 voted for the proposition. The Ban f fshire Jour3al mentions a lad of thirteen, named John Livingstone, of Sunderland, as preaching sermons, and conducting a regular service, and states that he preached his first sermon at 6-1 years of age ! On Tuesday week, a crew of six men, engaged in the herring fishing at the Lews, were drowned off the Butt of Lews, North Scotland. They belonged to the West Highlands. The Hermann, from New York, arrived on Wednesday at Cowes, with mails and 68 passengers. She brought one day's later news than the Europa, but none of much importance. On Saturday the Countess Rossi—now become once more Madame Sontag, the glorious artist—made her first appearance in Linda di Chamouni. Time, that has spared her beauty, has improved her voice. A farmer near Portantwn, Carmarthenshire, last week,. bad several men engaged in mowing a field when he ob served a crane pass over, and considering this a bad omen, he ordered the men to desist. The weather continued favourable notwithstanding. The life of the Rev. J. T. Symonds, vicar of Trevalga, Cornwall, has been nearly sacrificed. The rev. gentle man partook of some broth into which the servant had put an ounce of arsenic, intending, it is said, not to. poison the master but the mistress. Lord Fitzclarence has given orders for two statues, one of Nelson and the other of the Duke of Wellington, to be placed on Southsea common—the former on the spot Nliere the original trod his native land for the last time, and the latter upon the place where be first stepped again on British ground, after his last great triumph. The Tablet states that the Popish Bishop Wiseman has set the example of toasting the Pope's health, at public ' dinners, before the Queen's. At an entertainment given for the benefit of the Italians, says our contemporary, the bishop " broke through the unhappy custom into which we have unhappily fallen." Many tourists who have made a point of visiting the field of Waterloo since the battle, will be sorry to hear that the gallant old soldier who for so many years has been the guide over the field, Sergeant Major 'Cattan, late of the 7th Hussars, who had served in the memorable battle as a private in the 7th Hussars, died on Sunday week. A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The committee of the Bath General Hospital have come to a determination to dis continue the interments in the burialground belonging to the hospital, situated immediately opposite to the Com mercial Rooms on the north side of the old borough wall. The ground has been covered with a stratum of concrete five inches thick.—Lancet. FORCE OF CONSCIENCE.—Mr. Smith, fishmonger, in the Bath Market, has received the following letter with stamps enclosed :—`• Sir—Once I took an oyster from your fish-shop, in Green-street, in fun. Many years have since elapsed, and, as I do not consider the act altogether honest, I beg your acceptance of six postage stamps 14 payment. Yours, obdt., B. S." Mr. O'Connor has again become the purchaser of the estate at Worcester for £1,5,050, and paid a further deposit of £l5O. It is therefore presumed that he intendtto c2.p3- pieta the purchase, and to locate a Chartist settlement on that land. BRISTOL.—During the eight months ending the 30th ult., as compared with the corresponding period of last year, the increase in the number of ships arrived at the port of Bristol was 157, being 412 against 255. The in crease in the tonnage was 24,267 tons. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Wednesday the auction rooms of Messrs. Rushworth and Jarvis, Saville-row, Old Burlington-street, were burglariously entered, and a large quantity of silver plate, valued at upwards of £5OO, car ried off. SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—In the garden at Llandaff Court were lately grown two remarkably fine cucumbers, which were closely attached to each other from end to end. They were exactly of the same size, and distin guished by precisely the same peculiarities of structure. The lake districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland almost literally swarm with tourists, scores of whom have climbed to the summit of Skiddaw, and the " mighty Helvellyn." The principal inns at Ambleside, Keswick, and other places, are full of company. Several genial showers have fallen since our last and have so refreshed vegetation that the country every where looks luxuriant. A good deal of grass has been cut, and hay in some forward places gathered in. Potatoes 2ook well, and the general harvest promises to be abundant.— Newcastle Journal. Lord Palmerston had the gratification, on Thursday, of appearing at the Old Bailey. to give an account of his diplomatic dealings with the Sicilian Government. His lordship found the witness-box a less easy position than his usual place at Westminster. PURE CHARITY.—A short time since a gentleman called at Messrs. Hallett's, the bankers, London, and left £5O in aid of the funds of the Western Dispensary, simply leaving the title of an " Unknown Governor." A similar instance of unostentatious charity occurred in the spring of 1847, and was doubtless the act of the same benevolent person. The roof of Hutton Bouvillo Church, near Northaller ton, which had been in a precarious state for some time, fell down on Wednesday, with a tremendous-crash, break ing the pews to atoms. A man and a boy were injured. A number of men engaged in making a new roof had been in the church a few minutes before. The church was built about the middle of the fourteenth century. During the excavation of the South Docks, at Sunder land, a spring of water, strongly impregnated with sulphur and saline substances, has been discovered. It gushes out of the rock at the bottom of the dock, in three strong feeders, near the south-east corner, and may be distin guished from a number of small salt springs in its neigh bourhood, by a dark-coloured deposit which it leaves. THE CHOLERA IN SOUTH WALES AND THE WEST.—.. This scourge still exists in South Wales. Last week, the authorities of the little town of Hay called a public' meeting, with the purpose of taking all practical precau tions to prevent the threatened visitation to their com munity. Amongst other preventives, it was resolved to put in operation all the powers conferred by the Sanatory Act. THE IRON TRADE.—In the neighbourhood of Dudley, notice was generally given on Saturday last for a reduc tion on the thick coal colliers of 6d. per day, and on the thin mine 3d. per day, which will bring their wages to 3s. and 2s. 3d. per day. Many furnaces in the district are blown out, and others are being blown out. Pigs have been sold for £2 12s, 6d. The price of the best hot-air pigs is about £3.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—a fatal accident occurred on Sunday, at Lydney, Gloucestershire. Nine young men having taken a small boat, for the purpose of an ex cursion on the Severn, they had not proceeded far when the boat upset, the wind being very high, and precipi tated the whole of them into the water, only one of whom escaped a watery grave. We have not heard of more than two of the bodies being recovered. The deaths from the cholera in the metropolis during the past week have been rather numerous, but in almost every instance the cases have resulted from the abodes of the victims having been in unwholesome localities. Christ church parish, Blackfriar's-road, and the Penitentiary at Millbank. have exhibited special evidence of the cholera having been generated from the notorious unhealthiness of those parts of the town. MELANCHOLY EFFECT OF PASSION. — The Birming ham Journal mentions that, on Saturday week, at Lye Waste, a man named Brettell struck his son•- across the throat with a redhot iron, and inflicted so deep a wound that it was thought the youth would have died from loss of blood;, but a surgeon who was summoned succeeded in stopping the bleeding, and it is to "oe hoped that the sufferer will recover. _ _ DEATH FROM FIRE ARMS.—A few days since Mr. Wm. Watt, a yonng gentleman who had just completed his education in England, and whose father is possessed of a large property in the West Indies, where he resides, Lad been out at Farndon, near Chester, with a loaded double barrelled gun, and on attempting to get into a cart on the highway, he slipped backwards and the barrels went off, one of them lodgine its contents in his thigh. Mortifi— cation ensued, and Mr. Watt died on Monday. LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Saturday last, William Mor gan, aged 23, took arsenic, at Ystradowen, and died in thirty-six hours from its effects. Medical assistance was unavailing. The cause of this shocking act was his attach ment to a young woman, who would not accept of his love. He took the fatal draught to the door of her resi dence, where he swallowed it. He attempted some time ago to hang himself in her presence, but was cut down just in time to save his , life.—Cambrian. SUDDEN DEATH:—OG Monday Mr. Thomas Umbers, an extensive agriculturist at Wappenbury, in Warwick shire, expired from Cholera. The deceased had been to London on Tuesday week to attend the meeting of the Protectionists in Drury lane Theatre, and on his return on the following day complained of slight indisposition. He followed his usual occupations about his farm, how ever, without further notice being taken of the matter ; and on Sunday week he was seized with violent illness. SINGULAR DEATHS.—A man named Marriner, belong ing to Chatham dock-yard, while employed repairing a leather strap, pricked the forefinger of his left hand with an awl, which in three or four days caused mortification of the arm, and killed the , man. Two or three days pre vious to Marriner pricking his finger, his daughter pricked her finger with a neee le, and while in attendance on her father, the finger caught- the infection from him, which also turned to mortification, and she died the very day her father was buried. " PENNY BANK."—A% society under this designation has been recently adopted in Greenock, where, in a popu lation of 40,000, from 5000 depositors £llO6 17s. 4d. was collected in 191 days. The object of these institutions is to afford an opportunity for the weekly and daily deposit of the smaller sums of money, payable at the end of every year. The " penny" bank is open every evening, for the reception of sums from M. to is., and the cash is daily deposited in the Savings' Bank, in the names of five responsible persons. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—Two boys, Vaughan and Haines, had been to Alphington fair on Wendesday, and returned to Exeter early next morning in company with a girl. They went into a house in one of the back streets, and took a bottle from a shelf which they supposed con tained wine or spirits, but which was filled with a poi sonous mixture far gout. Each of them drank from the bottle, and Haines died from the effects of it the following morning, Vaughan is not expected to recover; but the girl sustained no injury. —Devon Luminary. DISTRESS IN HULL.—A, meeting convened by the mayor was held in Hull, last week, to adopt means to relieve the great distress existing in the town, in conse quence of the Danish blockade. In one part of the town only, 2,195 workmen were out of employment, and on, these were dependent 8,780 wives and children. One of the speakers said that he believed there were as many as 6,000 men in the town without permanent employment,. and that during forty years he had not known trade so bad. The mayor headed a subscription list with £5O. SUSPECTED MURDER,—Considerable interest has been created this week in the Isle of Man, by an inquest held at Castletown, Isle of Man, upon the body of Elizabeth Ferguson. The jury found that she died from violence, " and from the previous ill-treatment the deceased had received from her husband, we suspect him to be the cause of her death." A young woman, named Catherine Sayle, who was a witness at the inquest, has been committed to Castle Rushen, on a charge of perjury. It is alleged that the husband of the deceased had formed an improper intimacy with her. BEACON ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—During the last few days several men, under the direction of the, Trinity Board, have been employed on the Goodwin, about mid sand. It appears the object is to force, by means of atmospheric pressure, several lengths of cylindrical iron tubes into the sand until some solid material is arrived at ; each length of tube is about 10 feet long and 2* in diame ter ; but although six lengths securely fastened have been made to penetrate a depth of about 60 feet beneath the surface, no foundation has yet been reached. It is in con templation, as soon as a substratum sufficiently firm is found, to place several tubes of similar dimensions at approximate distances, and to erect a beacon thereupon. REMONSTRANCE COOLLY REMONSTRATED.—A gentle man residing not many miles from Exeter, finding that the diminution of his wood pile continued after his fires were out, he lay awake one night in order to obtain, if possible, some clue to the mystery. At an hour when all " honest folks should have been in bed," hearing an ope rator at work in the yard, he cautiously raised his chamber window, and saw a lazy neighbour endeavouring to get a large log into his wheelbarrow. " You're a pretty fellow," said the owner, " to come here and steal my wood while lam asleep." " Yes," replied the thief, " and I suppose you would stay up there and see me break my back with. lifting before you'd offer to come down and help me !" INTERESTING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS.—Some doubt having been entertained, whether the maize plant, which grows almost spontaneously in tropical climates, could be successfully cultivated in this country, an expe riment upon a small scale has been made within the orna mental enclosure in St. James's-park. The seed was put in on the 24th of May last, and,' though for some time retarded by easterly winds, the young shoots came up well. Host/ever, when the plants , began to feel the cheer ing influences of light and air and a hotter sun, the suc cess of the experiment was abundantly testified by the vigorous aspect of the little crop. It was inspected on Saturday, by several gentlemen interested in agriculture, all of whom expressed their astonishment at the rapid progress made within 45 days, the greater number of the plants having grown one inch every day since the present sultry weather set in. The spot selected was not favour able to the experiment, being close to a nursery of young trees and flowering shrubs, which, in a great degree, tended to deprive the plants of the benefits of light, sun, and air. It is calculated that 30 acres of maize would be worth £4OO, if the soil be of an average quality and pro perly drained. The cultivation of maize has been deemed of so much importance by the Council of the Royal Agri cultural Society of England, that two very able papers have already been published in the society's journal, explanatory of the properties of this plant, and pointing 1 out the best system of culture, SINGITSAR STORY OF A bba.—A shnit time ago, One collie-dog was sent by a shepherd, near Jeantown, to a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Inverness. One night last week, the dog was safely seen at his kennel at ten o'clock. and the next forenoon he was shot close by his old master's house, near Jeantown, on the West Coast, by a person who most unluckily thought the dog was mad, perhaps from its travel-stained aspect. The poor dog had thus travelled during the night and morning, over hills, dales, and rivers, a distance of fully sixty miles, in its eager anxiety to be once again at his old master's hearth. AN UNWELCOME STRANGER. —During the present season of incubation, a cuckoo deposited its egg in the nest of a water-wagtail, in a tree adjoining Walton Abbey. When the egg was hatched, the young cuckoo soon out grew the more tiny occupants of the nest - , whom it soon ejected. It was not long before the young cuckoo grew too big for the nest, and had to find shelter in the boughs of a tree. The old wagtails are found constantly em ployed in providing meat for their monster adopted off spring, and will have to continue so until it is able to join the parent birds, and take its flight to some warmer region. ALLEGED EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GOLD DUST. — A very long inquiry took place at the Lambeth Police office, on Friday, in reference to a charge preferred by a German, named William Degenhardt, who is suspected of having stolen gold dust and other property to the amount of £2,500, belonging to the Marmato Mining Company, in New Grenada, and other places, with which concern the defendant had been connected in a confidential capa city, for some years, at a very liberal salary. The principal witness was Mr. Poules, of Bank-buildings, one of the proprietors of the said company, whose suspicions had been raised against the defendant's honesty, after he had quitted his situation, from having discovered that he had paid duty at the custom-house in Carthagena, upon a large quantity of gold dust, of which it was alleged he could not have become honestly possessed. The police officer who visited the defendant's lodgings in West. square, found and took possession of property in English bank-notes and gold, and in gold dust, &c.,, to the value of more than £lOOO. The result of the inquiry was the holding the defendant to bail, in his own recognizance, to be in attendance' on a future day. A " BUSTLE."--We have often heard of ladies bustles being made of curious materials, but seldom of sitch ex traordinary stuff as the following incident discloses :—On Saturday, a female was preparing to leave for Liverpool by the steamer Tynwald, and at the same time was de sirous of conveying along with her a portion of the "elixir of life," hoping to exult on reaching her destine tion at the adroit manner in which she had done " the otherwise too vigilant officers. Being up to a " thing or two," a bladder or some such skin was procured to con-- tain the " fire water," as the Hotentots term it, which she intended to smuggle. The " apparatus " being pre pared and all ready, the operation of affixing it to its proper site was the next undertaking, and her ladyship submitted to the performance with the greatest "sang froid ; but ere the rearing of the tender thought " was completed an unlucky pin, intended to fasten the spirited article to the lady's under-clothes, strayed from its pre scribed limits and entered the distillery a /a Jack Shep pard, when lo ! mirabile dietu I " oh, horrible, horrible, most horrible !" Madame more resembled a gardener's watering can, or street besprinkling cart, than the help mate of man ; and continued spouting brandy until all was expended.—Manx Liberal. A MYSTERY SUPPOSED TO BE EXPLAINED.—Forty years ago,• a boy disappeared from the farm-house of Northrigg, parish of Shotts, Lanarkshire,- then occupied by a man named Alston ; and his whereabout has remained a mystery ever since. Suspicion, at the time, fell upon Alston, the boy's master, which led to an investigation by the proper authorities, but nothing to ciminate him was elicited. Time rolled on, and the affair was almost forgotten, but' received new light last week by, the dis covery of a human skeleton on the neighbouring farm of Stanhill. Some workmen, while cutting a drain in a moss on the above farm, came upon some bones; , at the depth of three feet, wrapped in a chequered blanket. Dr. Grossart, of Whitburn, visited the spot, and is of opinion that the skeleton is that of a person not come to maturity. The blanket that' enveloped the bones is just as fresh as the day it was laid in the moss. The bones are dark coloured, inclining to brown, and, from their lighthess and elasticity, must' have lost their earthy salts. Large pieces of adipocere were found adhering to several of the large bones. Although there is no direct evidence, this is probably the remains of the lost boy.—Correspondent: of Glasgow Citizen. GterrA PERCHA Tutritra,—A series of interesting ex , - periments has just been concluded at the Birmingham Water-works, relative to the strength of gutta percha tubing, with a view'to its applicability for the conveyance of water. The experiments were made, under the direc-' tion of Mr. H. Rofe, engineer, upon tubes of three quarters of an inch diameter, and one-eighth thick of gutta percha. These were-attached to the iron main, and subjected for two months to -a pressure of 200 feet head of water without being in the slightest degree deterio rated, In order to ascertain, if possible, the maximum strength of the tubes, they were connected with the water company's hydraulic proofing pump, the regular load of which is 2501b5. in the square inch. At this point they were unaffected, and the pump was worked up to 3371b5., but to the astonishment of evtry. one the tubes still re mained perfect. It was then proposed to work the pump up to 300, but it was found that the lever of the valve would bear no more weight. The utmost power of the hydraulic pump could not burst the tubes. The gutta percha being slightly elastic- allowed the tubes to become a little expanded by the extraordinary pressure which was applied, but on its withdrawal they resumed their former size. TRICKS CF A MONKEY.—On Saturday night last, when police-constable Jeffrey returned to his. dwelling in the Gallowgate, Glasgow, he found his children in a state of excessive alarm from the pranks of what they considered a vicious little old man, who had stealthily entered the house, and taken possession • of , the cupboard, in which he was smashing all the crockery. The policeman approached cautiously, with his stick in his hand, to de mand from the wicked old fellow the reason why he despoiled his goods and gear, but at this• moment a cup and saucer flew past his head. Making a vigorous charge, however, he dislodged the intruder, which was no other than a sportive monkey, and was only captured after in finite trouble, by being chased into a closet.. The officer having secured the monkey, carried him to the police office, where he preferred a charge against him of reckless and malicious conduct, and: claimed damages ; but while he was making the charge, the mischievous brute sprung from the table and rang the bell which alarms the fire man. In fact, it is long since any prisoner has created so- much stir in the police buildings. He still remains in custody, but whether or no he will be brought before the magistrate, we have not heard. No owner has 3et turned up ; but the policeman insists that the monkey's person he detained till he is paid for his broken crockery.— Glasgow Herald. INCREASE OF PAUPERISM.—The report of the English Poor Law Commissioners very plainly shows the state and condition of this country at this time, and in the year 1846. Within that time the increase of the able-bodied paupers generally, taking all classes, was-not less than 41 per cent. The report of the commissioners shows within that time an increase in the expenses of the poor amount ing to not less than 25 per cent., and the report further shows that the number of able-bodied poor relieved in the quarter ending Lady-day, 1846, was 382;487, while the number of able-bodied poor relieved in the quarter ending Lady-day, 1848, was 686,338, while the number of poor of all classes relieved in the quarter ending Lady-day, 1846, was 1,332,080, and that in the quarter ending Lady day, 1848, was 1,878.,531. From the same authentic statements it appears, that the expenditure for the relief of the poor for the year ending Lady-day, 1846, was £4,954,204, and that.for the year ending Lady-day, 1848, appears to be £6,110a64. I venture to think that, with such facts as these before me, I was excusable—nay, fully justified—in bringing such a motion as thin before the house. When we find that within the short period of three years the increase of the able bodied poor has arisen to the height of 74mer cent., I say That the state of the country does demand an inquiry by this house of Parlia ment.—Mr. Disraeli's Speech. JUDAISM. — The new West London Synagogue, in Margaret-street,.Cavendish-square, was consecrated on Monday week, according to the Jewish ceremonial law, by the Rev. W. Marks. It appears that the congre gation of this synagogue was formed about seven years. ago by some of the leading men of the Jewish persuasion, _ with the view.of introducing into the synagogue worship various ameliorations strenuously resisted by O..her syna gogues. From the year 1842 until the present period this new congregation met for divine service at a syna gogue in Burton-street, consecrated for that pnrpose. The increasing number of congregants, however, becom ing too large for the locality, a more spacious edifice has been erected, the foundation stone having been laid by Baron de Goldsmid, June sth, 1848. We are further in formed, that in the year 1841 a bull of excommunication was extorted by the late Chief Rabbi, Dr. Herschel,.then in hisaixty-sixth year and on his death-bed, against the West, of London Synagogue of British Jews. The grounds for this proceeding were, that the members of the new synagogue had expunged from their ritual such portions as owed their origin to scenes of persecution; that they had omitted all Talmudic and Mesnaic passages as being contrary to the sacred character of prayer ; and that they had determined to draw a line of demarcation between the festivals pronounced hallowed by the Scrip tures and those which were superadded by the Rabbins. WRITEHAVEN.—The port of Whitehaven seems to be rising rapidly. It has long enjoyed a high reputation for the export of its own abundant and valuable productions —coals, iron -ore, stone, and lime. Since the opening of the Whitehaven,Junction Railway it has gradually opened its extensive facilities to other and distant districts. The result is, that there are now sent hither weekly from New castle-upon-Tyne immense quantities of glass, to be for warded to Dublin and other Irish ports, and to places upon the western coast of England. This route has been found the, best between Holland and Ireland. During the past week, consequently, a large cargo of Dutch cheese, which had been landed at Leith, and brought by the Caledonian Railway to Carlisle, and thence sent on to this town, has been received here, and re-shipped, prin cipally for the Isle of Man, In return for the goods thus brought from the eastern coast for export, Whitehaven receives, by way of import, large numbers of cattle by almost every steam-ship that arrives from Ireland ; the hold and deck being generally as well stocked as they can be, consistent with safety. And towards the end of last week, we observed on the quay an enormous consignment of packed goods, sent hither from Liverpool, to be for warded by rail to Sunderland. We have also large quantities of greens and other fresh vegetables, sent from Ireland, which find a rapid, and, a profitable sale • thus maintaining an interchange of mutual advantages between the people of the two countries, One of the beneficial effects of this increase in the trade of Whitehaven has been a considerable improvement in the weekly receipts of the railway in connexion with the port.—Cumberland Fame(' DEFICIENCY OF MONEY TILE CAUSE °F 13Y TRADE. n tities "Whenever any addition takes place in the (1 0 01 , 0 1 , goods, without any addition to the quantity of W of p pi r e ic h e e f n a si l o tt n , aalnrdeaodfy,nietcmesasiytybeinrethnedeerxedact proPort i . evers simple case. Suppose the market to be dition which has been made. If this is not clear .e ddu cag o i bread on one side, and money on the other. SupPoile ,„, side , ordinary state of the market is a hundred loaves 04;00' and a hundred shillings on the other: the price of ' l ,OO cordingly a shilling a loaf. Suppose in these that the quantity of loaves is increased to two hanor.,rice that the,v,,,gr the money remains the same :it is obvious lost' "* bread must fall one-half, or to sixpence per Elements of Political Economy. lerit l6ll The cry of the Free Trader is, when food P„ t fo o palpable b 7 arro bi a w ge t : tv. food is cheap ; but I show them by the above e%tr%, the first political money;economis of the day, that pa ss ms! arise from scarcity of yso that it is their dutOwichich to promote free trade, but also to advocate a lu °ne l t ope o shall increase as wealth increases. The present I fr olil to trade given by the additions made to ours tock °,1 3 i1 from California, indicates that what the country more money. We have in this country raw 0367i0t abundance —an industrious popu l a ti on and an I Dim~ machinery for working up that raw ma terial...n i l, 6 9 b s : table demand or desire for good things iroPhin veu tops ° our very nature; and I cannot see that anythin g oda' healthy revolution of this circle of demand a nd 5.11. tion but want of money. FRENCH INTERVENTION AT 1 3 .-• M- O The French have entered Rome at last. W t. , k tbst thereprof iesss someto prophecy, ulterr io but jewce to a be re u o inclinedmptuos policy ; and that the world will yet see there ,ra 'r e pew the Italian expedition than the reseating of tlie_.„t for!, the protecting of the Roman people. It is "wow moment to be supposed, we think, that this w oo ss object of the expedition ; for we fear that f,rglait' darkness will be unveiled. and brought to 1 ° F etw' light of merid'an day in a short time ; that it o _,l tka t manifested that the blow aimed at Europe, O u , oe que t ' great object of the exhibition was Europese - e se m th e e n m t . instead of Roman protection. We are led to 0) 2 o on elusions from many reasons ; and from an intinistmoria altTolgieerteheirs rttetenhiinsgavnerYanionmcounlysisctoentrennvicnteienireititeriedattt!ijiVoaentiivi,ottbfoo.ornflf: ledge of the French people we are justified i 9 , be tPe ce .,i that cannot easily be comprehended. It is 11 , tif one Republic to attack another -for raising t e I S Republic, and thus make Republicanism a e n r,ing en; not ex'ictly right for France, who has hurled a I'; ‘ ,' - e ttac; the throne, and elected a FSepublicsm President, ' f ; Rome, who has only followed its eiample--dr i _ A le- for i t * from a throne, elected a triumvirate, and forntv - t e oP e a- Constitution. It is not right to force upon it a its• sovereign, as well as a spiritual head, agains t re °°e There orte snt motives, sg m a liri e ene t rasn h ytl:ir oi,ttnarayagnl and who ce w rhrwt r to o hhit n ehwoe g saoskpn h rnupk e ore r e prwi ns thoseo , ses e a cbe n our d et dt already i h f i therens. argn;:e : h.rib e a:s s b ro t 1 ! cause of this expedition, we think it never ~,oh e u Frel 3 . „' f sent to-Rome under the pretence of protecting '• , of the Alps which is stationed in th on e feew e rt s France, with those very mountains between it 7 , 5 - - a pnie t them Italyvvhich were triumphantly crossed by biros; half a century ago, and by which exploit he m ad pow master of the Italian states, and even King ° which title descended to his son. tbw, , The events- of the last year have shown tin, 1 1„, ( 10 10 °: little stability in the majority of European itur e , and the esent' osition of affairs between Au stri bine' sia, and Hungary; and the breach between the ca s cia_ A e f ' of Prussia and Anstria, which is daily beconn e g, D ezia' shows that but little territorial peace is to be e .if brer of out t i s in moreEu Europe e n probable be fore m a t u b y a t monthsan open h r a u r p e t rupture r e c iLls t f line ; and if the French arms are established at Re rn :ter''' v ia r French eagle waves from the towers of St. barev from the halls of the Triumvirate—France ve"'proP e . t ; its possession one of the best posts in Italy, or A Napoleon will only then be wanting to lead that....who-a people to the goal of' their —to 01 a O , expiring flame still animates theFreenschman's W:1500005 quickens and accelerates-his actions and his 1 0 1.,,g 1 ° t b° From Rome an onslaught can be made upon the . 1 ,, k of Naples—from Rome-a few days march will Austrian frontier--from Rome and Civita Vecchistr-see mand can be extended over the Mediterranean Preen Abe from Rome a speedy coalition can be effected bets' . goti, French and the warlike Hungarians—in fact, fre in ,tetict' the French can deluge Europe with blood and der, s ., and the cry of " Vine Luuie Napoleon" risn'elin the French in Rome, may extend itself from O l e of the Mediterranean to the shores of the Ds,i "iaas envelope the whole of central-and western Eur" - ue an common scene of blood and carnage. tha di If the summer with its malaria be passed, a n- 00 ),0 sets in upon the French at Rbme the time for arrive, and the successor of "Le'Petit CorPor e " e of li d elder Napoleon was called, may sit upon the 01' 0 .1 1 09, unole, and with what skill he can muster with r'..4 11 glory,. he may so light the flame of war in ..--e re fe rordi raise himself in importance, as -to require e tt won convention to curb his career, and to bind the ov er o f he may inflict upon continental powers. lie , in Fiance already; he disbands the Nationa l fip u el e g the departments on the slightest - appearanc e f m illiP A P n of to himself or government; the army from "'" eis - 10 the name of Napoleon has begun to worship the P fire es e the president, and from some voices the cry et. v Empereur," has arisen with a hearty reaPe ese t iota p t things speak volumes, and seem to be as the On ceding the reign of Napoleon 11. called fit think that some explanation should be Aeoso„ from the French government, and• hope that will be made by our Foreign secretary for n_r ic ie re ti ; upon the subject. England is now suffering , an e t he I', tinue to suffer for generations yet to come, from, pes he it took in the last wars ; and it is necessary for tt e n ulti..,`" e of thin- and other nations, that this subject non cleared up. We would tell the Whigs that enc' ea tse those made by the statesman-like Pitt in the firs t ki iec the present century, when war was stalking over , and France worshipped the blood-stained s worn !ay I V. poleon, cannot be made now, and hence the neees every attempt to avert an impending calamity. EXTRAORDINARY MIIRDER. — OnSMIcIBY st sb Cook, butler, of Mr. Buller, solicitor,Enfteld ,:esi t ' iol e . °llB4 ! by his wife in a paroxysm of jealousy. At the ~AbT. i s his entering the service of Mr. Ballerhe represen.`L`,-St self to be a single man. She had never visited br a 10 1 ,1 situation : but he was in the habit of commanica and hot her by letter. She was extremely jealous of b s s; been the cause of his losing several good situated bet o since the birth of their child she- had' beha ce rn be hen towards him, and appeared to haverecovered fr° to t 'be of jealousy. On Friday week he wrote a letter, ebse ., couched in the most affectionate terms, and statea,; 1 . °,1 1 of tines-`+ I was very glad to hear that she had got rid lies' 0' sions, which were the cause of so much unhaPPlnt to e to r begged of her, for the sake of the dear child, % v eil b 0 bitter-their uture happiness by entertainiag te ct 000 founded fears of his inconstancy. He also sta „awe; letter; in answer to an application for more Plis TO he was unable to send her a further sum , as t Fbeir s were not due, and that he was quite certain Oil e d or' t he not expended the last a, which she had recei l e tr e j bf short time since. He did not receive any en s ati- la lv , letter, but on the Sunday afternoon he was su,,, i t & his wife appearing at his master's' house, with "be g:,0 0 her arms. He had just finished his dinner, al l for t her-into the house. After conversing t o gethe ia r e wel l g er time in the oantry, and caressing the child, 001 f stairs and called the nurse-maid, w ho was th e c s vantin the house (the remainder of the don:l°4le retgO s gone to church), to come and see his child. „ s cartntrf' to the pantry, and in about five minutes oaltbe nurse-maid, in passing from the kitchen into 'door. saw the butler lying upon the ground near 0 1 ° 0 ,010 immediately exclaimed to the wife, who was $ t biOg his side, intently looking at him, "Is John so rof, be' r The wife replied, in a loud voice, "No , it iSD -rtOceo` worse than that—l have done it." The nuns ear`'! per came alarmed at the strange and peculiar aPP O 5 11v g fel the wife, and on looking at the prostrated ac i 0 4 1 ceived blood on the front of his shirt. She t l e aife it ilo' out of the house and raised an alarm , and of arrested. At the coroner's inquest a verche' s re murder was returned against her. retl rea der e PRIZE ESSAYS BY WORKING MEN.- ---00 to doubtless aware, that some time since a gn° 44 , tie e 're V 7 prizes for the three best essays upon - - c i a sse": s t l/ 0 , 4 .' Advantages of the Sabbath to the Working ti lt be written by working men, and that the re s b y th_ n joc; production of no less than 1,045 essays, wrlttellthe of toil. One of the. ineligible essays (being bas, ° OO or; tion of a female), published under the Patr,(,)los, 0 ,1 Majesty, and entitled " The Pearl of Day! , fl i e s, is oo derstand, circulated to an extent of 30,00 u nag c c) V e f sale continues. By a reference to our a dvert p rirft it will now be seen that the three principal tse„eo ) ,f just been issued, and that besides the ess". r f e f each contain a sketch of the lives of th e 0 Wei o f authors. The, first or £25 prize is entitl eu o tli e .os Antidote to the Curse of Labour," and is, f ,/he a printer. The second, or £l5 prize, is P'0„00, the Week,"' by a shoemaker ; the third, at wet' of ', i d b"oTotes possess s of a irre c r w ill ; 1 0f tb ,1 important subject on which they treat, an. t oceLbO s tli Ti cla m im e with deep interest by every Englishman , vitbe " a l VP his views upon the nature and obligations °_ or e f They: are unimpeachable witnesses to 4%, T u be Viol! moral capacity of our labouring populatioTeot.,,lo philanthropists, who, during the last gerblishPi, t o9g amidst considerable obloquy in the e s l c i i os ` o t 6 ; : o schools, mechanics' institutes, and lab bas a r for the working mark their labOT: i n C 4 ci l 10f • c le in value and they a new eP°"„ O - cide ,h rad ,'Lhiv)uarmsyamahpiantihstyor ens ectif.e. reol • history ; for hithezto literature has beell,. pour i,;os labouring classes—and we have witnessed s pa °~ r u monds and Hannah Mores, our Brougba ni n f the e pS, ners, catering to the appetites and tastes wr ite O re selves. One thousand and forty-five millions of our population—but now toes y i s ts v. OO O essa few wee r , V befor e ,go s ,lo,o l ,l up from their ranks at the notice of but f r i sc , l e is 5 ,1 they accomplish their task during a ', e w e 05 ; e o rr, s p n ro at d c u hed cea, fro b m ut t w oi e l: h a a n v d e n n o o t w oal n T e ' t l9- of a nd publication almost entirely sustained by viv o ing men—it is entitled "The' Working 4 . he ir 7.0 0 : 4 0 or, the Voice of the People: advocatingl:` oll ,, fr' s , e and spiritual Improvement." We eer';,, 00 4 b p' these essays to our readers. For tb? . ur y a l o e 00, • just stated, they should find a place in the' ite ,te well as upon eve drawing-room table , w • to . c ir " ul tifully "got up" and tastefully Inas ..„,fitab 1 Working Mares Charter" may be govangst IA clams of tho,conu.VitY.,- Jul" to , StetßE COI n E MINE 'llllE -RE