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Z,ittrattirr. POETRY SONNET (For the Lirerpool Standard.) " In them bath he set a tabernacle for the sun ; which is as A bridegroom coming out of his chamber." The curtains of the east are drawn, and lie Who rules the day, and glorifies the earth, A bridegroom comes, in beauty's fulness, forth; The heavens rejoice, and joy is on the sea; Haste, Flora ! deck the bridal festival! Open, thou waving grove! a solemn bower For Hymen's rite; while the lark's weans swell. Oh, Nature ! thou art glad at thy heart's core, And deep delight is flashing from thine eye; Spring;laughs at youth, and beauty human-born; And summer—our magnificence to scorn : Truth claims thy smile ; renew'd is thy first joy: We, while thy balm from many a bud is shed, Mourn that our early flowers of hope lie dead. SAML. HUGGINS May 28th, 11347 NOTICES. Atlas to Alison's History of Europe. By _Alexander • Keith Johnson, F.R.G.S. - Edinburgh and London W. Blackicood and Sons. Part 1., decoy 6mo. . . The first part of this very neat publication contains six beautifully-finished maps, viz. :—Paris at the Outbreak of the Revolution, 1789 ; Map of the Netherlands, to illustrate the Campaigns of 1792 to 1795 ; Battle of Je mappes ; Battle of Neerwinden ; and Siege of Toulon. As a companion to the historian, it will be invaluable and almost indispensable. Brief Memoir of Joseph John Gurney, Esq. By John Alexander, Minister of Prince's-street Chapel, Norwich. Norwich : Josiah Fletcher, Upper Haymarket ; Lon don : Charles Gilpin. Bvo., pp. 72. This is the tenth thousand of a brief memoir of a gen tleman, whoge philanthropic and Christian labours for the benefit of his fellow-countrymen are well known, in con junction with those of his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, and with Clarkson, Fowell Buxton, and others, for the aboli tion of negro slavery. It is a most interesting and in structive record of a life well spent. History of the French Revolution. By J. Michelet Translated by C. Cocks, B.L. London : H. G. Bohn York-street, Covent- The first volume of this extraordinary and original work, in an' English dress, has just been published by Mr. Bohn, and will doubtless take its place as a standard work in our literature. Its style is marked with all the quaintness and force of Mr. Michelet's other works, with occasional obscurity and Germanism. Much research has been evidently employed ; and many incidents of the eventful times and scenes misrepresented by preceding historians, have been attempted to be truthfully brought before the public. New Brunswick; with Notes for Emigrants. By Abra ham Gesner, Esq., Surgeon. London : Simmonds and Ward, 6, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury. _ Svo., pp. 388. The author of this lucidly-written and instructive work was employed for five years by the Government of New Brunswick to make a geological survey of the province. The opportunities of personal observation thus afforded him, enabled him to make himself thoroughly acquainted with the cliniate and the general resources of the country, the manners'and habits of its population, and the claims which it possesses upon the notice of the British emigrant. He has introduced also an early history of the province, an account of the Indian tribes, and a large mass of topo graphical and statistical information, embracing its tim ber trade, commerce, manufactures, shipping, agriculture, fisheries, &c., and some valuable remarks upon its con templated railways. The work is one of great value to the emigrant, the merchant, and the statesman as well, who will find in it the observations of a practical man, who has had opportunities of arriving at a correct and intimate knowledge of the country, and leisure to form It is illustrated upon that knowledge with woodcuts, and vc neatly got up The Dublin U 9 Tagazine, this month, is an excellent number articles, amongst .nd contains some very interesting instance the beautiful Blind Girl's Love " ; ralleyrand", in which 'fist and statesman is rer light, and his principles of telligible ; " Irish Rivers—The le on Free Trade and Currency are put forward i we m itage, or th Life of Prim in open dayligto tude and bruti then our Ire Goliah city 1" Trattor Monza, tale, ' " Lem the charact€ action render Boyne Reforn Portrait Gallery contains a sketch of the Right Hon. John Doherty. upon t iEs- OF A TRIP ITALY, Al CHE CONTINENT, N BEET, ESQ r the Liverpool Standard.) 'ed by the visit of the ple, in their wine w seldom, if ever, beh ! ,Only a few ms carrying in a g were savagely murdered uch a deed of iugrati ve made had it occurred none d of Rollie are handsome atiful black glossy hair, fine oval faces ; very Idriac, dyspeptic, or asthmatic hs J was there I bad not one I for Napie: as to bind our bargain i it the dri uld my dear ddio to concerts, theatres, and balls—to sacred plays of Noah and the Deluge, danus played in the Irish Col- Can I ever forget Joseph and f Canna, so finely modelled by the head of Holofernes g locks, with the bal the world ! Addio Le mad Wall) tnd their fr the May-day of the to the rocky Caverns race, the Music, the . . exhibition untie from whence th Colissemil .et adorn the " eternal and so abundant Is, or imbibe again tranquil Roma ! 1 ffaste yo the hour, and luckless was the day, rest from Roma's walls I bent my way." lancholv feelings at leaving t kind friends, too, who hoa ition and sympathy. You may depart s, in the summer months, sing Ostia, the Isles of way is by VettUrino. I must say I was rather timid at going this route, as I had heard of the Neapolitan bandits, their thieving propensities, and unequalled recklessness of conduct and consequences ; and the conducteur, who had:bargained for the journey, and given me a t wo dollars in hand to bind the bargain, was not forthcoming, b u t h a d co nsigned_ me to a regular rough mountaineer-looking Hoviever, it is a good rule in travelling to bend to existing circumstances, and make the best of every thing—not to repine at the past, which- can never be re called, but to increase your stock of wisdom as much as possible for the future. Still, the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt, in the very route J was going—their robbery (they having X4OO in gold very imprudently with them,) by the treachery of their valet—and the miasma of the so exaggerated by travellers, weig spirits doggy with despondency ; and my hare-lipF we dro tt 1 conceited, haughtily-reserved American fillow ller lion) Boston tended in nowise to raise them. As slowly out of the Gate of San Giovanni, past antique Roman ! excavated baker's tomb into the so. Campagna, busy memory conjured up the painful remembrance of joys departed, never to return. Adieu to those Palace balls !—those sacred dramas of David and Goliah--sthe Deluge, with Noah and his sons !—those grand picturesque human tableaux ! those gorgeous pro cessions ! those solemn chantings ! those lively cafe con fabulations over Galignani's news !---we are, leaving Rome for ever! "'Seine natural tears we dropped, but wiped them soon : the world was all before us." From Rome to Naples is but 152 miles, yet by Vettu rino, so slowly winding your way, it is equal to two or three thousand miles by railway. In about three lours we arrived at the height of Albano, 14 miles from Rome; near this is the tomb of Ascanins or Clodius, with large shrubs a nd Young trees growing out of its ruined walls, and the mausoleum the sepulchre of the Curiatii. The view from the terrace and height of Albano is surpassingly 'eautiful ; on the top of the bill is the castle Gondolfo. "- kad just,time allowed us to walk down to the vast This lake used to be occasionally, in ileaiy rains or in the dissolving of the mountain snows, overflowed, doing much injury to the surrounding cultivated grounds ; but the ancient Romans constructed an emissario or sub terranean arched passage, one mile and a half long. Through this emissario so large a mass of water flows oc casionally as to reduce the height in the lake, which is five or six nines in circumference, seventeen feet. An other instance of Roman skill and power. mn() iS p o mpey's tomb, 45 feet square, and the ruins yet remain- ing, about 90 feet high. It is b uilt in three p la t f orms or stories, majdstic in - its decaying grandeur. Velletri has several fountains, and a bronze statue to Pope Urban VIII., by Bernini. The palace of Lancellotti is now an inn. Here we saw the remains of a grand display 4.1114 pope's visit; triumphal arches, garlands, and coronals of flowers and shrubs still ardorned the streets, churches, and principal houses, and the road for a considerable dis tance was sttewed with fragrant shrubs and leaves. From Velletri we reached through a pleasant country Torre de tre Ponti. Mere commences the much-talked of, and foolishly-dreaded Pontine marshes. Wearied with my first day's 1,7 hours' ride, and occasional walks during changeii of horses, I a t e th e we l come su pper, enjoyed the hle bed for only•the allowed six o r seven hour:. and at use a.m. entered the tit-tturino, but half-refreshed and annoyed by rising at so unusual an early hour. I soon found my cunning Bostonian had gone quietly down the street while the horses were being put to, and got himself a cup of coffee and some cigars to fortify himself against the miasma of the marshes. , Not dreaming any house would be open at so early a time of day, I proceeded, con trary to all rule, without any refreshment, the 25 miles of marshy route. These marshes are from six to twelve miles broad. If we take the average at nine miles, there are 225 square miles of this half-drained and halt-cultivated plat of land. The Romans made over it the Via Appia, and attempted to drain it. Many succeeding Roman Catholic pontiffs have also tried, and Pius VI. and VII. cut many canals, brought vast tracks into cultivation, constructed a new covering to the antient Roman road, and the much dreaded malific marshes appeared in many places to be rich meadow land, cattle grazing in herds here and there. The people were certainly pale and sickly-looking; one sturdy fellow was, however, beating a pool of transparent water lustily, to bring up leeches to carry to market. Altogether, the ride was an anexceedingly pleasant one, malgre the incessant cigar-smoker, and a Neapolitan wife and child constantly sucking at a wine-bottle. In about three hours we arrived at Terracina. I could but draw a comparison between our pleasant ride along this excellent road and the old mode, when travellers were drawn slowly by mules along the canal that intersected the stag nant lake and marsh. A good breakfast awaited us at Terracina, to which I did ample justice. This is the bor der town, last of the Roman, first of the Neapolitan states, The cathedral contains a sarcophagus inscribed to Theodoric, first king of Italy. The baldacchino is sup ported by four Parian marble Corinthian columns, taken from the temple of Apollo, the ruins of which, and the temple of Jupiter Anxur, as also the port of Antoninhs Pius may be seen at Terracina. This town, so beautifully situated, was called by the Volsci, Anxur, and by the Greeks Trakina. I soon, in my perambulations, disco vered that the heights were crowned by some curious arches, so determined to climb and inspect them. My Yankee companion, however, tired halfway up, and re treated. I found 12 arches, 24 feet high by 12 broad, 61 paces in width, fronting the sea, which, with the town and port, were at my feet. Wiping the perspiration from my brow, I sat down among the masses of stones of the arches, and pencilled this note : "Dear C. R. Smith,* by permission. —From the heights of Terracina I write this. The fires are not yet extinguished, kindled here to greet the arrival of Pope Gregory XVI ; the blue and boundless sea is before me ; in the distance the mount of Circe ; a lovely bay, like that figured of Naples. The grand and simple work of the Romans re main even here, and where are they not ? A bell now rings pealing up the mountain from yonder cathedral, which seems no larger.than a dove-cot. I wish you were here to enjoy the solitude and grandeur of the scene ; but, alas ! I am alone ; my only travelling companion has forsaken me. Addio, cars amico !" We arrived at Lago . di Fondi at 2 p.m. The antient stones of the Via Appia were still the paving of the street of this poor little town. It was plundered in 1534 by Barbarossa, a painting of which adorns the Church of the Annunciation. It is a beautiful coast, with the bays and ports of Mola and Gaeta. The ruins of Cicero's villa, and a monument upon the spot where he was overtaken and murdered, stands as a landmark for the traveller's notice. We slept at a delightful inn at Mola, the antient Formiee, built by the Lacedemonians, containing now about 10,000 inhabitants. Up a mountainous ascent we passed through the wild, savage, dirty town of Itri, amidst vast volcanic remains. Then came we to another dirty town, called St. Agata. The difference is marked, indeed, between the Roman and Neapolitan states. Here, having passed from the former, we soon discover the filth and vice of the lat ter. Pigs, with head-gear and harness, running about the filthy streets like dogs ; girls, ten years of age, with no thing but one ragged chemise to hide their dirty naked ness with a dirtier covering ; old beldams cracking vermin at their doors, and scratching themselves, by way of pas time, in the sun, make you walk quickly by them on tip toe. There is a curious tower here, the walls of an an cient theatre, and an octagonal altar fourfeet square ; and I copied this inscription in this filthy town, which Dickens designates, not inappropriately, a pig -stye near the castle: IMP C,ESARI CAROLO .V SVLEMANO TVRCORVM REGE PANONIA PVLSO S VESSANI We arrived on our third day's travel at Capua, by two p.m. There is a cathedral here, with large silver-gilt figures adorning the high altar. Capua is a large, but thinly-populated town, giving indications of military oc- cupaiio - n and strength ; but as we only stopped to re - fresh ourselves and . horses here, a passing glance of its wide empty streets was all we could obtain. The roads now gave us symptoms of richer cultivation, more people, horses, carriages, carts, & c. ; and the beautiful trellised suspended vines gave richness and luxuriousness to the scene. And now from an eminence we beheld the tower ing Vesuvius, with a light filmy cloud hanging over its } - apex ! The road from - Capua toNaples is by some con sidered the richest and most beautiful in Europe. About a mile from the town are the ruins of ancient Capua, once called a second Rome. The ruins of an amphitheatre, and a triumphal arch, are all that now remain. Amidst all the beauty of the road, and the novelty of the dresses of the Neapolitans, how weary and jaded with heat, dust, and fatigue, we entered the noisy, rattling, drumming and-fifing city of Naples ! After being jolted over miles of streets and rough pavements, we were put down at the New York Hotel, whither my Bostonian churl induced my next chapter, premising that nee os of s 1 VARIETIES ONE OF THE LATEST.-'W Tatefully than 1 Rome to &apl I not J The king of Ashantee is allowed by law 3 privilege of which every sable monarch of tht id to avail himself. - A PLEA FOR PLURAL possessed by one cl d make Many rail at the numero .spondent of the Manchester Guardian says, if ar down the crevices and , they would find crickets would pour a little N holes where they conceal themsel DAY IN NEW YORK The first of May ap- pears to be a general day for tenants changing their residences in New York. The New York Herald says that on that day in this year, no fewer than five thousand families quitted their houses, and calculates the expense of such removals at upwards of It has been very truly said by the late Dr. Arnold, in correct - opinions upon all important subjects are a neces sa7.part of honesty iii all who will exercise themselves in he whose religious opinions are not well defined and cannot be regarded in the light of an honest public nlai_ PROTEST AGAINST THE IRISH POOR BILL.—We hays seen a document thus headed in the columns of our contemporaries, but not believing in the correctness following, - which Dissentient.-1. some of [ay be relied upon for its autlienticit Because the law, giving to the dest a claim for relief, encourages a n, cif somebody to provide for them and extravag interference with national - habits cannot be desirable. 3. Because the tendency of the bill is to increase the distress the whole people. - -4. Be - cati;e the bill, having been framed under an urgent necessity, was framed in a hurry; and as nothing done in a hurry is done well, nothing ought to be done when an urgent necessity demands it. 5. Because it will ruin the independence of the poor in Ire land, by giving them something to depend upon. Radnor. Monteagle of Brandon, Fitzwilliam.—Punch, LORD A SHLEY AND 'LORD JOHN RUSSEL I should weary you by a specific enumeration of the social ills that beset our people, and of the remedies we propose for them ; it: will, perhaps, be enough to say that public men meta of mischief, believing that sufficient for the day . is the evil thered; for then it at last appears before them in all its gigantic proportions, and fills every one who contemplates it with despair. Statesmen must learn to search out these things, and nip them in the bud ; taking as the - text for their policy and their eloquence a zeal for the honour of God and a desire to do all imaginable good to the children of men. 'Whether we have such ministers at the present day, rulers of such a spirit and wisdom, remains to be seen. I confess I am greatly disposed to place much confidence in Lord John Russell (loud cheers), and one or two of his colleagues. (Loud cheers.) He has a fine understanding,'an honest, generous, and patri •• • . ••• • . • • • • - . • or sAI-seeking, but because he has misapprehended the sentiments of the country. (Lotid and continued chum) —Lord Ashley's Speech at Bath. A DAY IN THE EAST.—The = native of Damascus or Beyront rises very early, in the morning, by five o'clock. lip Christian, to his church. The Mahommedan must pray seven times a-day ; a Christian three times—morn ing, evening, and at bed-time ; the proverb being " Al taktca taken ala alrezek "-- i.e., "Piety helps the liveli hood." They•drink their coffee, go to their business, go home at noon to their meal ; they sit together, eat their kebabs and rice grapes and figs, drink their sharbet, iced water and coffee, take thtir siesta during the beat of the day, go again to their business, andretUrn home by sun set On his way home the father of the family brings the mutton, the grapes, the figs, &c., in his basket or hand kerchief, 'and takes' his supper, his chief meal, sitting cross-legged, with his wife and children round the table ; God !" He takei his coffee, lights his pipe, and is satis fied if what he has earned that day si d lice for that day's expense ; if not, he takes care that next day less expense shall be incurred." He takes his children to walk at any leizure time, and on festivals. If he is religious, he is very devout ; and though his religion is not free from su perstition, it is free f r o m infidelity. - If he makes money, the first thing he does is to furnish his house with cFpets, china, &c. He dresses his wife in cashmere shawls, jewels, and gold pieces : he makes her his savings-bank, and from her receives his property again, if he is in want of it, but only in case of absolute necessity. He marries his son at an early age, keeps him and his wife in his own house as long as he can, and does not part from them till the other sons are of an age to marry. The richest of the sons ge , nerally settles as near as possible to his parents' home; ' and thus the patriarch may be often seen with his children and grandchildren ruuud I LORD ASHLEY AND THE ENDOWMENT OF R O MANISM. I —Turning to the other suggestion , for the pacification of Ireland, there are few of you, I suspect, who will not take large exceptions to plans for encouraging the Roman Ca tholic religion (cheers), fostering—its colleges (cheers), and endowing its priesthood. (Cheers.) Such measures as these involve great concessions of principle without any compensation or proportional benefit ; those who argue them on the highest ground declare them to be sin-. ful : those who assume the lower maintain that they are useless in one respect and perilous in another. (Cheers.) That they are useless as a means of conciliation is mani fest from the events of the last twenty years (loud cheers), and especially in the late legislation for the College of Maynooth. (Cheers.) The fact is, our statesmen lie ' under a grievous mistake ; they seek to govern the people through the priests, whereas they should endeavour to control the priests through the people. (Cheers.) De pend upon it, the difficulty is not in the Irish nation, which is panting for spiritual emancipation ; but in the sacerdotal and monkish orders (loud cheers), who, re versing the piety of Aaron, stood between the living and the dead—the living word of God, and the dead congre gation. (Loud cheers.) Only protect life and limb, free discussion and Irish Bibles, and you will soon cease to be perplexed with inquiries how Ireland is to be governed.-- Great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea." —Lord Ashley's Speech at Bath. THE REV. BAPTIST NOEL. — The evening I attended St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, Mr. Noel preached up on the kingdom given to the Son of Man. (Daniel vii., 22.) He is certainly a most interesting and delightful preacher; altogether extemporaneous; mild and per suasive in his manner, yet sufficiently impressive, and sometimes powerful, having a very clear and consistent flow of thought ; decidedly evangelical in doctrine, though less deep and instructive in doctrine than I had expected. His great beauty of appearance, his soft, and gentle, and musical voice, and his dignity of manner in the pul pit, add also much to his power as a preacher. And with the single exception which I have made—which to me is not a small exception—he fulfilled all the expectations which I had formed of him as a preacher, both from pre vious information and from his address on Friday evening. There is no cause for wonder in the popularity of such a man, so devoted, humble, and faithful, among all who love the truth of the gospel. There is no clergyman in London, I think, who has greater influence in the religi ous community, and certainly no one whose ministry and character unite more valuable properties and qualifications. In the afternoon I attended a church in the neighbour hood of my dwelling; a strange contrast indeed it was to St. John's in everything but its equally unfurnished ap pearance, though it is a new church : a hundred poor people, perhaps, were scattered over it, to listen to a ser mon absurdly written, above their comprehension in its inflated style, and containing little indeed in sentiment which could benefit them had it been far more simple. It is a fact, in London and everywhere, that the preaching of the gospel gathers a congregation and makes a full church, and a veiled and darkened gospel empties it. And I re joice that it is so. It is one of the securities which God has provided for the preaching of his truth ; against the cold influence of mere formalism and self-righteousness in the church. From this church I went unedified, except in the increased delight with which I returned, for the evening service at St. John's. Here, again, I was ani mated and refreshed by divine truth faithfully proclaimed. Mr. Noel preached on the word of God, from Ephesians vi., 17, a bold and most interesting exhibition of the im portance and influence of the Holy Scriptures to the Chris tian and the Church, with an especial reference to the present efforts of the enemy to take from us the Bible, and to substitute some invention of man in its place. Like other evangelical brethren in England, he feels the vast danger of this hostility or indifference to the word of God, which the Oxford party have attempted so earnestly and so secretly to spread abroad, and which you find rather as the waters of a morass, than as the distinct flowing of any one stream; and like many others whom I heard afterwards, he lifted up his voice against them this night with great solemnity. The audience was very large. Every foot of room, from the outside step to the second gallery, seemed to be occupied. ' And though he was more than an hour in his sermon, the multitude stand ing throughout the chapel seemed unfatigued.—Dr. Tyng, of New York. LORD ASHBURTON AND THE CURRENCY BILL.—Lord Ashburton has published a pamphlet on the financial and commercial crisis from which the country is now suffering, in which he plainly and unequivocally declares his opinion that the Bank Charter Act of 1844 has proved a failure, and that it would be difficult to form an estimate of the im mense losses, both of the Exchequer and of individuals, which have ensued from its operation. With regard to the operation of the existing law, Lord Ashburton ob serves, that as the amount of bank-notes must at all times and under all circumstances be determined by the amount of bullion in the Bank, the reduction of the issues, when the necessity which the law determines shall arise, must be effected by withdrawing accommodation to the mer chants or to the Government; in the one case by refusing or diminishing discounts; or, in the other, by forcing public securities upon the market, and this is to be pe remptorily persevered in without any discretionary power to the directors to act according to peculiar circumstances, although it is well known by practical men that very sel dom two conditions of the money market exactly resem ble each other, and consequently require the same treat ment. This, indeed, is the palpable evil of the existing laws—an evil upon which we have so often insisted, that it leaves no power or opportunity for relief in peculiar cases of emergency,—that it is liable to such cases of trial as were foreseen by the bankers of London when they ad dressed their letter of warning and remonstrance to the Government in 1844—a warning which the Minister, in the absurdity of his vain reliance upon the perfection of his own abstract theories, deliberately refused to listen to. And now, when events have proved the apprehensions ex- pressed in 1844 to have been well-founded, and proved it as plainly as ever any theory or fact was proved by expe rience, the obstinate projectors of 1844 still cling to their maintained," says Lord Ashburton, "in the house Of Commons, by the leaders of both parties, and their nume- for the cause of our difficulties, the last charter of the - bank, with its whimsical restrictions and provisions, was an act of abso lute wisdom; and if it be hinted that it has failed upon the very first experiment, the answer is ready which, during nearly half a century, that I have now watched these questions, has invariably been given by every successive Minister, that the stupid Bank Directors—those scape goats so conveniently at hand—have spoiled the wisdom of the Legislature. But the promoters of this measure have disentitled themseves to even this excuse, for they maintained that such was its perfect machinerythat . it defied all mismanagement or neglect. Former difficulties had had their source in the incapacity of Bank directors, but such were to be no longer possible. It is, however, fair to add that this error was not confined to statesmen, but was common to some highly respectable authorities in the City, where, indeed, the scheme is said to have origi nated. Now, my object in ar---,rinv ' .g before the public is to endeavour to maintain, with as few words as the case will permit, the opinion I gave when the Charter Act was before the House of Lords, that the expectations enter tained of this infallible panacea were unfounded—that it would only work in fair weather, when restrictions of all sorts are inoperative and immaterial—that it could not fail to break down under the first difficulty—and that it is in fact a serious aggravation, if not indeed the actual cause of the distresses we now experience." This is indeed strong testimony, but it is a true testimony, the truth of which too many of our countrymen bitterly experience. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ihntral Altarllany. Hay-making began at &lllford on Thursday. The Bank of England advanced, on Thursday, a consi derable sum on Consols and Bills, at five per cent. Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of Bath. 0? Tuesdr cot' n —ay, Sour cottages were destroyed by fire in village of Throckmorton, near Evesham. The foundation stone of a new market in Doncaster, was laid last week with great ceremony. The Rev. H. Walmsley, Roman Catholic priest, of Park-row, Leeds, has died of typhus fever. The journeymen bakers have held meetings in Chester, Nottingham, &e., for bettering their condition. The Shakspere Society has very properly presented a copy of its publications to Mrs. Cowden Clarke, for her ample Concordance to the immortal bard's works. A correspondent of The Times proposes that the flour of the horse chesnut should be used for the stiffening of calico, &c., instead of flour obtained from wheat. Dr. Pusey, Mr. Keble, and two other leading tracta rians, have announced a " commentary on the holy scrip tures for the unlearned." The Driver, war steamer, which arrived at Portsmouth on Friday week, from New Zealand, is the first steamer which has ever sailed round the world. A boy, five years of age, died a few days ago in Scot land, from lock-jaw, arising from a wound inflicted on one of hig feet by a thorn. - - - MAGNETIC DISCOVERY.-It is said that a physician ih the south of England has discovered- the principle of magnetic force which explains the deviation anti dip of needle, Amongst the inventions 'registered last week is a venti lating pane of glass, wherein small holes are drilled ob.• liquely, an inch or an inch and a half apart, thus giving an inward direction to- the current of air No FAITH IN HIGH . PRIG ____Es.—At the Hull Corn Market, on Tuesday last; a gentleman, residing at Bar row, bought a quantity of wheat, now growing in Lincoln shire, to be delivered in August at £3 per quarter. Instead of rising the price of bread, the bakers of De vizes have entered into an agreement to make it of a coarser quality, and continue to sell it, as long as they poSsibly can, at ls. 9d. per gallon. A Scotch paper says that a field of oats, at a place called Borlands, has been nearly destroyed by an immense mul titude of small snails, which devoured the green blades. A farmer near Retford, Nottinghamshire, having seve ral corn-stacks in his farm-yard; has received an anony mous letter stating that unless he thrashes out the grain, and puts it. into market, it will be done for him. All the Southampton drapers, save one, consented to close their shops in the summer months at eight. The solitary disientient opposed the arrangement because " the • town would look so dull at nights to strangers !" PRICE OF FOOD.-It is calculated that, on the average, an advance of 45 per cent. has taken place on all the arti cles of food. Vegetables have risen 100, 150, and, in some instances, 400 per cent. 'CoNwA+.—On Thursday morning week, the son of Mr. R. Mactella.n, of Penmaen bath, aged eight years, was found a corpse under a tree, near Brynmor. He was supposed to have climbed up the tree in order to get at a nest, which was found lying near the body on the ground. Mr. Joseph Crossfield, and Mr. Howell, secretary to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, have con trafficted the statement in the Manchester Examiner, of paupers being sent to England by relief committees in Galway. A boy belonging to a Scottish fishing smack, was lately found floating on a ladder at the mouth of the river Tay. The vessel foundered, and all the crew were drowned, ex . cept•this lad, who clung to the ladder, upon which he passed several hours before he was descried by a boat. The fine old mansion ,Ragley Hall, the next neighbour almost to the archbishop's palace, and within sight of Littlemore, the late scene of Mr. Newman's transition state, has been taken, says the Oxford Chronicle, for the purpose of being converted into a monastery. The King of the Belgians has. done Mr. Weale, the scientific bookseller, of Holborn, the honour of presenting him with a splendid gold medal, in acknowledgment of his services, in publishing several scientific works, more espe cially the valuable papers of the Royal Engineers. Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier's squadron has com menced assembling at Spithead. The Howe, 120 ; the Terrible and Birkenhead steam frigates joined the St. Vin cent on Friday. The Queen and Caledonia are hourly ex pected from Plymouth. - The Bishop of Norwich, at a recent meeting to pro mote " ragged schools," observed that Mr. Peto, by edu cating the nevigators working on the railways in the county of Norfolk, had beaten the beer-shops out:of the field. ELOPEMENT.—Great distress has been occasioned in the family of a gallant M.P. residing in this county, by the clandestine departure of his daughter with a gay Lothario. To aggravate the calamity her husband is on a bed of sickness, and her young family will severely feel the loss of a mother.---Notts Review. Mr. Frederick Douglass, the negro-slavery abolitionist, has arrived out in the United States. He says that he was treated on the voyage with the greatest kindness by the Christian passengers, and obsrrves, " I left republican America a slave--I returned from monarchical England a freeman." A woman of the name of Anne Cleveland, and a man named Hill, alias "Dolly ," who cohabited together at a disreputable house in London, have been committed for trial at the next Central Criminal Court sessions, charged with the wilful murder of an infant son of the female pri soner. NOVEL EPITAPH.—On a grave-stone recently put down in a churchyard at Newchurch in Rossendale, is the fol lowing inscription :—" Here lies the body and soul of Ann Gill, the wife of John Gill, who died aged where she must sleep with the children of the resur rection." The Tablet, the organ of the Roman Catholics, says that when the Pope was informed of the defeat of Mr. Watson's bill for the removal of the remnant of the penal statutes, he said—" That puts an end to further ne gotiations for diplomatic relations with me. I will never receive an ambassador from England while there remains a vestige of those penal laws against the church." DISTRESS AND MORTALITY. — About six hundred Irish poor landed at Newport on Sunday week. Persons are dying there at the rate of five or six in a day. Fever is raging from one end of the town to the other amongst the poor, and some respectable parties have fallen victims. Captain Palfrey, of Dartmouth, who brought a great many Irish over in his vessel, died on Saturday. DEATH FROM THROWING ORANGE-PEEL UPON THE PAVEMENT.-A poor man died at Bristol last week from the effect of injury he had received in falling backwards from having trodden upon a piece of orange-peel when walking up Redcliff-hill. On Tuesday, Mr. Lorymer, of that city, also had a fall from a similar cause, and was se riously injured, so as to be confined to his bed. POOR-LAW MANAGEMENT.—An inquest was recently held at Deddington, on view of the body of Rose Davis, a poor woman, when the following_ verdict was recorded : -" That the deceased Rose Davis died from famine—that is, from the want of the common necessaries of life ; and that blame attaches to the medical and relieving officers for neglect of duty." A London surgeon, to whom the body of an extraordi nary dwarf, named Leech, had been sent for dissection, has died from an accident which occurred to him while engaged in that operation. He accidentally pricked his finger with a lancet, and the poison produced by animal putrefaction afterwards superinduced abscesses, which gradually spread, and put an end to his life within a few days. _ _ A Yorkshire paper states that a young lady, residing near Holme, was lately attacked with violent pains in the stomach, which afterwards transferred their seat to her shoulder and arm, and did not terminate until, after seve ral month's illness, six needles came out of her arm. It is presumed that she must have accidentally swallowed some needles, though she has no recollection of having done so. A HIGHWAY-WOMAN.-At noon, on Monday, as a labouring man, named Pineham, was passing through one of the streets in the neighbourhood of Wapping, a woman named Hannah Haley asked him to give her a glass of beer. He refused, on the plea that he had no money, and she immediately knocked him down. She took 19s. from his pocket, and she was captured by a policeman who arrived opportunely. On Tuesday, she was committed for trial from the Thames Police-court. The draughts of mackerel within the past week have been unprecedently abundant ; upwards of three hundred thousand have been landed on the beach between Port land and Burton,' Dorsetshire. Seven thousand were shipped on board one small craft on Monday evening, for Southampton, the owners hoping to be in time for the first morning train from that place to London. So large have been the quantities landed that spectators were per mitted to take with them as many as they chose gratui tously, the beach being strewed with fish. • TIRE PURE JUICE.--A city chemist in New York, not long since, analysed a bottle of imported champagne,' sold as'pure, and found in it one quarter of an ounce of sugar of lead. A writer in the Observer states that a liquor dealer admitted to him that on one occasion he purchased of n onrinfril rriProlumt a 1M of whiskey. mid before the factured into various kinds of wines, at from one to five dollars per gallon, taking care to supply his orders for " communion wine" at five dollars per gallon, to save appearances THE STOCK OE CORN AND THE CROPS.—A letter from Frome says—" The corn markets are coming down. All the corn rooms are full of wheat, and some of it has been in the London Inn for the last two years, and the sacks are rotten. There were 2,000 sacks left, unsold at Bath last Saturday, and the farmers in this part hold good stocks, and some of them are yet sanguine of getting 70s. or gq. ner sack. Potatoes look well. The blight is said to have commenced in the Isle of Wight. The Wheat and the grass crops look exceedingly well. Fruit is likely to be abundant. We shall be obliged to pluck off half the cherries to make room for the others to grow. The apples .e somewhat similar ROYAL DECREE EXTRAORDINARY I—Some few days ago, a respectable, but unsophisticated matron from Mad ley, made the most diligent inquiries, publicly and psi vately, in this city, respecting a supposed decree issued by the Queen, that in consequence of the high price of food all efilldren babbies" ) under five years old, and all grown-up persons above seventy, should be put to death ! It was difficult to convince her that it was a false report-- she seemed to have no doubt of the fact, observing, " This is just as King Herod did, but I thinks her Majesty should gie up her own " babbies" as well as the rest. I be only 60, and lie safe, but its a terrible business. There is plenty of corn in the country, but the rich men and the farmers hoards it all up, and keeps it from us poor critturs." Strange as it may seem, the notion of an order having been given for the massacre of superfluous infants and helpless old people, is prevalent. We know not whether there is an adult school at Madley, but it is clear that such esta blishments are necessary there and elsewhere.—Hereford Journal. - DISBUDDING FRUIT TREES.—The increasing attention to the cultivation of superior sorts of fruit, gives addi tional interest to such hints, as emanate from really prac tical men. In Maund's " Botanic Garden and Fruitist" for June, the subject of disbudding fruit trees at this sea son,.vmeit- must st ti 0 - ins be i so us sbe ef p itl r a tl e. c r al It than y i sc t uf r or e a ue.i tg e , d B t o h yn a dt t asebhurirdnidtni principle r go t ewt trees pema prer yt. in the summer, the growth of the superfluous wood is pre vented, and the whole power of the tree is thrown into that portion which is retained as useful for bearing. It will be clear, even to the unlearned in these matters, that this sys tem must be superior to permitting the tree to exhaust it- ' self on that which is to be cut away. Another evident advantage arises from the light being fully admitted to act on, and properly ripen the wood that is retained ; for it is stated, " light is more especially required, to act on the leaves belonging to the embryo buds, or spurs, which are ultimately to produce the fruit." We give one other ex tract from amongst these directions, very useful for those to remember who , cut, or direct the cutting of, trees, many of which' are pruned by those possessing no know ledge of the subject. " The plum, apricot, pear, apple, and the red and white currants are instances of fruit trees bearing principally on spurs ; whilst the raspberry, black currant, vine, peach, and morello cherry, produce the chief of their-crop on the young shoots." A YACHT CAPSIZED IN A SQUALL. — The greatest' consternation was produced at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on Whit-Monday last, a pleasure-boat with six persons on board, belonging to the town, having gone down, within sight of their relatives and friends, and at about half-pistol shot from the promenade. The party had gone out in the morning on a fishing excursion, in the direction of Aml wch, there being what sailors call a " capfull of wind and a bit of, sea on." With what success they plied their nets it is impossible to say at present, the sole survivbr being in too weak state to render any account of the day's proceedings. - Let it suffice that with the return tide and the coming on of night the vessel was homeward-bound, and had gained the Roads- about seven o'clock, by which time the wind had freshened to a gale, producing a heavy cross-sea, such as no small craft would •choose -to be abroad in, whet, on making a tack, and before.the vessel had way on, she was struck by the wind and sea at the same moment, Etnd went down by the stern. Some of the party were observed struggling with the waves, 'and before a boat could reach them, which it tried in vain to do, they were swept off by the tide. Another boat at the greatest possible risk, went up the Straits in the direction of the tide, and at a considerable distance picked up the body of a youth in whose arms an oar was firmly grasped. The rest of the party could not anywhere be met with, living or dead, all having perished miserably. The names,. &c., of the unfortunate party are, Mr. George Owen, druggist ; Mr. Thomas Lloyd, Mr. Sparkman, officer of Excise ; Mr. Jones, painter ; Hugh Tyrer, an ' old seaman, who b a d w e athered many a gale ; mid Heger L Hayes, aged 16 (saved), _ . . PHYSICAL VERSUS. MORAL.—Whether the Physical wants should be remedied through the Moral, or the Moral through the Physical, has been a question which has occupied the attention of philosophers and philanthro pists for centuries. Without attempting to decide the question, there can be no doubt that when the . Physical condition is impaired it demands the first attention. For instance ; a person whilst suffering from an acute attack of Gout would be unable to appreciate the sublimest lessons of philosophy, even though enunciated .by the divine Plato. How much more welcome to the sufferer would be a box of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, so efficacious in eradicating this distressing malady. A FORTUNATE SPORTSMAN.—Last month a person of the name of Macleod, residing at Rosehall, while out shosting,s was so fortunate as to kill twelve wild ducks with one shot! In 1846 the same person 4ccomplished a feat which, we dare say, few others have done—he killed two large eagles with one shot; and in March last, at one discharge, he shot two swans. Sixteen birds thus fell at three sho ts .I—lnverness Courier. CHEESE RETURNS. A return obtained by Sir P. Egerton, the member for Cheshire, shows that the total quantity of cheese imported into the United Kingdom from Europe during the year 1846, amounted to 249,663 cwt., and the quantity imp or t e d from the United States to 91,901 cwt. The aggregate of the importations of cheese amounted to 341,682 cwt. The different kinds of cheese are not specified, nor are the exports of British cheese adduced. 3,624 cwt. of foreign cheese were so ex ported in 1346. SUICIDE FROM LOSSES ON THE DERBY. Monday morning, 'Mr. Frederick Cruso, landlord of the Crown and Sceptre, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone, poisoned himself with prussic acid. He had latterly attended much more to sporting matters, races in particular, than to his buiiness, and from his irregularity of living it was sus pected that his mind was disordered. He was a loser'to a considerable amount on the last Derby, and was to have settled his bets on Tuesday evening, but it is supposed he was unable to meet them. After his death a razor was found in his pocket. COLOURED MINISTERS.—PubIic Interest was much ex cited on Sabbath by the preaching in town of two mini sters, both men of colour. The Rev. Mr. Clark, minister of a congregation at Washington, most of whom are slaves, preached in the afternoon in Dr. Candlish's church, and in the evening in the Music-hall. The Rev. Mr. Gloucester, from Philadelphia, preached in the forenoon and evening in Mr. Begg's church, Newington. We understand that both have been preaching much in England for the Metho dists and Independents there—the latter, especially, for Mr. James, of Birmingham.—Edinburgh paper. A strike for increased wages took place among the slaters and plasterers of Berwick, a few days ago, owing, it was understood, to the present high price of provisions. Their wages, when in regular employment, were 17s. per week, but from the nature of their occupation—their work being frequently stopped for weeks at a time from varia tions of the weather—their earnings did not average on the whole year more than 13s. 6d. per week. A meeting of the masters was held, when it was agreed to assent to their demand for 20s. weekly, and to charge the public 4s. per day, instead of 3s. 6d., as formerly. CONFLAGRATION AT CHELTENHAM.—A fire broke out, on Monday night week, in the manufactory of Mr. John Alder, upholsterer, Albion-street, Cheltenham, which destroyed property to the value of nearly £5OOO. Besides the very extensive workshops and warehouse, there was a large quantity of mahogany and other valuable timber, which was entirely consumed. Mr. Alder is stated to be insured in the Royal Exchange office to the full extent of his loss. The greatest sufferers, therefore, are the poor workmen, of whom there are between 40 and 50, whose valuable chests of tools fell a sacrifice to the flames. SNOW STORM.—The Perth Advertiser states that on Monday morning the whole Grampian range, as well as the Ochill and Sidlaw hills, were enveloped to their base in snow, and that even Kinnoull hill had clad its shoulders in an arctic mantle. The ,snow on the lesser elevations soon melted. The Kinross correspondent of the same paper states that so intense was the cold that numbers of swallows were found dead, in small clusters of six or eight, under the thatch of houses and other places where they had taken shelter. Many were observed, also, flying about in a weak and disabled state, and in various in stances were, without difficulty, killed by the hand. BREAD FROM WHEAT MEAL.—It is stated by a cor respondent of the Salisbury Journal, that bread is made and sold at Mere, containing the whole of the produce of the wheat without any dressing, and that the price is only 84d. the 41b. loaf, while the other bakers' bread is 10d. and 11d. It is a matter of surprise that the former de scription of bread is not made and sold in this city; but instead of such being the case, there is a difficulty in ob taining it, even if ordered, and the same price is charged as for other bread. Bread from wheat meal is recom mended as both wholesome and nutritious ; it is in fact highly conducive to health. THE MENACED DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSES OF SHARSPEARE AND OF BAXTER (the Author of the Saints' Best).—lt is already known that the house which Shakspeare was born in, is in the Sale-market; and we now learn, in addition, that the house of Richard Baxter, (the author of the Saints' Everlasting Best,) is about to be pulled down ; which has induced Mr. G. R. Withen Baxter to address a letter to Lord Morpeth on the sub ject; and his lordship's letter, in reply, simply asks what the Government can do, where the property does not belong to the state ?" Mr. Baxter as simply and briefly replies, "buy it ;"—and there the correspondence ends. THE JEWISH MEAT TAX.—The Jewish Chronicle, of Saturday, has a long article on this subject, and complains strongly of the great extra price which has to be paid by the Jews in consequence. Our contemporary says, "The laws of the Jewish faith demand that our meat is to be killed according to certain rules ;. the observance of .these laws necessarily entails a certain amount of expense on the congregational boards, who have to watch over their strict execution. That, therefore, meat, (lawful to eat,) must be somewhat higher in price than that generally sold, is but just and natural. No Jew, who feels consci entiously bound to eat lawful meat, can find fault with a trifling addition to the general price, required to defray the expenses incurred by the board, to pay the officers per forming the duties appertaining to our sacred observances. But we complain of the enormous abuse of this, to a cer tain extent, unavoidable taxation ; we complain of the un just increase of this tax by the congregation boards, who derive an annual profit from this heavy meat tax : we 25 per cent. h: ;her for our meat than the mar JEWISH ScnooLs.—There has been a most inefficient supply of inefficient masters ; there has not been, nor is there, any regular attendance at these schools ; and they have wanted a moral cleansing, which alone would have remedied all these defects. Let any one go to these schools, and see what impression is produced on them by the children there assembled. Dirty, wild, and unruly, the first principle of social life—cleanliness—utterly dis regarded ; and, from want of proper means and due regu lations, disorder reigning throughout. What Rirrnify proud public examinations, where children are previously ,• • - - n one or two of the higher sciences, while they are ignorant of the commonest principles a most ordinary education affords ? Do we not see the fruits of these in one fact—there is not a child educated in the commonest and cheapest twopence a-week school who is not better informed than any child who has followed the course of education adopted in our schools? Their best supporters and friends have acknow ledged this failure. And wherein lies the great secret of this' failure ? It is because the Jews, as a body, have taken no part in the education of their people—because those who, by their position and authority, have -been bound to examine all these things, and report on them, have given their donations, and remained satisfied with this paltry discharge . of their duties. It seems most strange and remarkable, that, with few exceptions, none of these children ever turn to any but roving trades, in which their fathers have laboured, and to which, for want of knowing better, they cling ; and such a thing would be impossible were their minds properly prepared and trained.—Jewish Chronicle. JENNY LIND.—From a little memoir of this interesting vocalist, we extract a few notabilia respe c ting her early career. It seems she was born in 1821, in Stockholm, where her parents kept a school. Her precocity appeared in its usual forms, and excited the usual attention, particularly that of Madame Dunfiberg, an actress, through whose instrumentality she was placed under the tuition of a local music master, and subsequently sus tained children's parts at the theatre with great liveliness and originality. The historian then tells a miraculous and pitiful tale of how Jenny lost her voice for four years, and how it came back again upon a certain occasion, when she was accidentally called upon to sing an "insignificant solo" in Robert la Diable,—leading to her debut at the Opera-house while " yet a maiden of sixteen summers," as the writer sweetly expresses it, and her performance of a round in the highest class characters. A narrative is then given of her desire to go to Paris, and the tender re sistance of her parents, and of her ultimate prosecution of the scheme. She had introductions to Garcia, the brother of Malibran, who told her she must not sing another note for three months. Unfortunate Jenny ! For three months, then, she " lived on the tears and the agony of the mal de pays ; " but she eventually secured the desired tuition from arcia, though that respectable individual seems to have had more faith in her intelli gence than in her power. But it was left for Meyerbeer to recognise " the pearl under the modest unpretending shell," and at Dresden, whither she went at his sugges tion in 1844, her German fame !id its earliest origin, leading to her subsequently visiting all the principal northern cities, crowning her repute at Vienna, where, in 1846, she sang before all the musical public, as well as the imperial court. THE TRIPLE MURDER AT MIRFIELD.—The examina , tion of the,two prisoners, Michael M'Cabe and Patrick Reid, apprehended a short time since on suspicion of being the perpetrators of this appalling crime, took place on Saturday at Dewsbury. The accused have been care fully watched since their arrest, and bare been kept in separate cells. M'Cabe is stated to have manifested con siderable uneasiness and restlestness since his removal to the station at Dewsbury, but on his being brought into court he maintained the same calm demeanour which he preserved at his first examination before the deputy .coroner. He was placed in the dock in the long brown overcoat which he wore at the time he was taken into cus tody, and on the left arm were placed several pins, to mark the place frgm which had been cut pieces of cloth, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the marks on his clothes were or were not really those of human blood, and which were submitted to the inspection of Mr. West, of Leeds. Reid, who is a much younger and more athletic man, was alsa dressed in the dark green coat and buff waistcoat which he was sworn to have had on on the morning of the murder: and on his left arm, immediately on the round of the shoulder, and the inner part of the wrist, were similar marks placed, to denote the spots •whence the cloth had been cut for the chymist's inspec tion. The most important witness was Benjamin Horton, a hawker and dealer in rags and pots, .who lived in Mab lane, Mirfield, and who said, that as he was passing down the road leading from M'Kinnell's house, by the Baptist Chapel, close to that of Mr. Wraith's he accidentally turned his head, and he then saw Patrick Reid at the lane end, near Mr. Wraith's house, and from which one im mediately faces into his dwelling by the back yard. He could not speak as to what distance was between them ; but he passed on; and a shower of rain almost immedi ately overtook him. In his cross-examination, he said he had known Reid personally for some time, but not his name before the murder.• and he kne w M'C a b e we ll. He did not see their faces, but he spoke to their dresses and person, and swore positively that they were' the two men he had seen in the locality he had described. • COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY. The improvement of the money market has now assumed a decided character ; and we may congratulate ourselves with safety that the severest point of the pressure, under which we have been labouring, is over. It is not at all likely, however, that commercial affairs can return to their ordinary activity, or that parties who have been suffering will be relieved at once. A few months of cautious and forbearing conduct will, no doubt, yet be required before everything is set right; and we must remember that the cause which has most contributed to restore us—the weather—is proverbially fickle. The crops throughout the country are thriving; but it ought to be borne in mind that they are not yet reaped and hound. The market for our leading staple—cotton—has been animated throughout the week, and a large business has been done at higher prices than last week. American was quoted on Friday, id. to id. higher; Surat, id. to id. ; and Brazils, about id. The sales for the week, ended Friday, were 39,000 bales—of which 10,300 American, and 700 Surat, were on speculation, and 3,370 American,:Bo Surat, and 890 Pernams, were for export. The imparts for the week were only 2,066 bales. By the arrival of the Caledonia, with dates from New York to the 15th instant, we have little that is decisive with respect to the produce of the cotton crop, the reports being conflicting, but on the whole not favourable. In Louisiana and Mississipi the low lands were flooded, and the season backward. From New Orleans, however, the accounts are more favourable. There was little doing in the market, prices being too high for the English buyers, and money plentiful. The receipts up to the 12th inst. (the 35th week of the season) had been 1,640,550 bales, against 1,847,284 in. 1846, and 2,233,451 in 1845. The exports to Great Britain were, respectively, 590,376 in 1847, 696,159 in 1846, and 1,104,000 in 1845. The stocks were, 1847, 537,808, 1846, 560,633, and 1845, 384,698 bales. There were loading for Great Britain 78 vessels, against the same number on the corresponding date of 1146, and 77 in 1845. Our corn market, during the week, has continued to decline, notwithstanding the arrivals were small, both foreign and coastwise. On Friday, wheat was 3d. to 4d. per 701bs. below the prices of the previous Tuesday, Stettin being offered at 12s. 9d., and American red at 12s. Western canal flour was Is. to 2s. per barrel cheaper, having been sold at 435. Oats were lower ; and yellow Indian corn, at 575. to 565., attracted no buyers. The advices from the continent of declining markets, with the favourable prospects of the next harvest, both at homd and' throughout Europe, seem to have paralyzed speculators, whilst they are inducing consumers to keep out of the market, except for such sparing supplies as are sufficient for their immediate wants. The opinion is becoming very general with all parties that much further reduction must be made, even before the harvest is over ; and that, should it prove anything like s favourable one, we shall have prices very low, as was anticipated, under our present free trade system. The advices per steamer state that the canal was opened on the Ist instant, but the arrivals of provisions of all kinds had, up to the last dates, been small, a portion of the cargoes sent forward having, it was supposed, been detained to supply the wants of the country along the hne of navigation. Prices were high, Al 81c. to 47 87c. being the ruling figures, and 447 for delivery in August. The shipments of bread stuffs from America, from Sep tember Ist, 1846 to May Bth, 1847, had been, flour, 1,685,724 brls, corn meal 455,666, wheat 1,570,614 bush., corn 11,245,775 bushels, rye 39,769 bushels, oats 294,935 bushels, barley 138,540 bushels.. At New Orleans, from which we have advices to the 7th inst., flour was quoted 6 124 c. for Illinois, and ,66 374 c. for St. Louis ; Indian corn 69c. per bushel. The advices from Montreal, up to the 12th inst., state that the season was very backward, and that the farmers had got little or no field work done. The last week—Whitsuntide--during which business in the cotton manufacturing districts is generally suspended, was an unfavourable one for testing fully the effect of the decline of the corn markets, and the relaxation of the money pressure upon manufacturin g ac ti v it y . A t Tues day's market,in Manchester, however, we observed a much improved feeling amongst both manufacturers and merchants, which has continued during the week. The rise in the cotton market, against which some of these parties protest as caused solely by speculation, and to put down which short time has been so freely resorted to, has interfered to prolong the present dulness. It is consi dered impossible, however, by parties of experience, that either buyers or manufacturers will be disposed to hold out long, in the face of the now ascertained fact of a short crop of cotton, their own decreased stocks, the wants of some foreign markets, and the orders already arrived for goods. So soon as ever prices can be established at a remunerative nature, and in conformity with the price of the raw material, we shall have, no doubt, a revival of activity, and our working classes regaining gradually their usual state of moderate comfort. IMPORT AND ENTRY FOR CONSUMPTION OF BREAD STUFFS, FOR THE MONTH ENDED STH MAY. The Government return, just published, gives the fol lowing as the imports during the month ended sth May : Corn and grain from foreign countries, 933,611 quarters 2 bushels ; from British possessions, 847 quarters 5 bphls.; total, 930,45 S quarters 7 bushels. Of this quantity 446,082 quarters 6 bushels was Indian corn. The meal and flour from foreign countries was 615,936 cw t. 19 qrs . 12 lb. ; colonial, - 15,090 cwt. 17 lb. : total, 628,026 cwt. 2 qrs. 1 lb. Of this quantity 138,771 cwt. 2 qrs. 25 lb. was In dian meal.—The entries for consumption were — corn and grain, 942,011 quarters ; colonial, 1112 quart, 6 bushels ; total, 943,123 quarters 6 bushels ; of which 446,082 bushels 6 quarters were Indian corn. The entry of copal and foreign also gives the quantities remaining in warehouse, which is very trivial, as, of course, it only refers to the quantity left over in the Queen's warehouses of imports made before the suspen sion of the corn laws. THE STEAM-SHIP SARAH SANDS At a meeting of the cabin passengers held on board the steam-ship " Sarah Sands," which arrived here yesterday morning from New York, Thomas EglegtnnF a n hniTio , ueiu called to the chair, and Mr. Yule requested to act as sec ret y, 1I J.Dviveu (Amu rapt. ti. Ur. Anderdon, Bri tish Army, Joseph Murdez, and Wm. A. Stokes, Esqrs., do form a committee to draw up an address to Captain Thompson. The committee reported the following letter, which, having been signed by all the passengers, was pre sented to that gentleman : Steam-ship Sarah Sands, off Liverpool, May 30, 1847 DEAR Sin,---The undersigned cabin passengers in the steam- ship Sarah Sands, on her bite passage from New York to Liver pool, beg to return their unanimous and cordial thanks for the attention, courtesy, and kindness, which have always marked your conduct. Your established reputation as a commander renders it unnecessary that we should speak of the prudence and energy with which you have sailed your ship ; but we . think it proper to say, that since the heavy easterly 'Pale or _ w w hi e ch a w y e e encountered during five days after leaving New York, (' proved under all circumstances a sale and run an average of 235 miles er daymisythvaetsstehle, agreeable, e has bl you and your splendid ship all the success you SO well! com fortable, and in every way worthy . of the most entire confidence. wishing we are very respectfully and truly your friends, — Thomas Egleston, New York; John Yule, Canada; Joseph Murdez, France ; William A. Stok es, Philadelphia ; H. G. An derdon, Capt. 23d Fusiliers, British Army, Canada J. F. Houghton, Madeira ; Chas. B. Loomis, New York ; J. J. Smith, Ditto ; Thos. W. Strong, Ditto ; Wm. Pichlay, Sheffield ; F. Junet, France; Phillips Kelhun, Liverpool; C. Agostini, France; F. Morton, Liverpool; Edward Wetherell Philadelphia Robt. Fletcher_ _t. ...zioutCllllsetts ; U. Armantz, New Orleans ; Samuel Hayward, Pennsylvania; Jeremiah Osier, Canada; John M. Bradbury, New York; S. H. Carrver, Brantford, Canada West; H. Simmons, Hamburg; R. C. Fidler, Cincinnati, Ohio. The Sarah Sands made a most excellent passage, having, during the first eight days, encountered heavy easterly winds, which drove her much to the south. She com pleted the voyage in eighteen days. NEW LIGHTS.—In a return of 285 licenses to preach, taken out at a sessions of the peace for the county of Mid dlesex, is appended a transcript of eighteen different ways in which the words dissenting, minister, preacher, and gospel had been mis-spelt by the applicants who signed the rolls. They are as follows :—Preacher of the Gopsel ; preacher of the Gosple ; precher of the Gospel; precher of the Gospell ; preacher of alp' ell: preach of the Gos pell; precher of the Gosple ; precher of Gospell ; mi niester of thr Gospel ; preacher of the Ghospel ; preacher or teacher of the Gospell of Jesus Christ ; a discenting teacher ; desenting teacher ; prashr of the Gospell ; preicher of the Gospel. Perhaps some of these learned pundits figured in Mr. Baines 's paper array of school masters.--Liverpool Mercury. 'BRITONFERRY. : —THE PORT OF NEATII.—The " Bri tonferry Iron Company" rolled their first bar of iron on Whit-Monday, amidst the acclamations of a multitude assembled to witness the commencement of " rolling," by these new and important works. The day was kept as a holiday in the neighbourhood. The vessels in the harbour were gaily decorated with flags, and throughout the day the rocks and mountains reverberated the roar of guns and the shouts of the people,—all was excitement and con gratulation and joyous anticipation. This company of spirited capitalists have judiciously selected, as the site for their works; a piece of ground which is the terminus both of the Neath canal and of a branch of. the South Wales railway. The river Neath flows on one side . , and the proposed docks bound it on the other. This position thus commands unequal facilities for the transmission of the raw materials from the adjacent native beds, and for the transport of the manufactured article to the market. Under the skilful management of an experienced gentle man, a powerful engine, numerous furnaces, large rolling mills, and all the apparatus for the manufacture of iron bars, rails, slates, &c., as well as comfortable cottages for the workmen, have been erected. FALL IN THE PRICE OF CORN. — The price of corn has come down sooner than was generally anticipated. On Monday it fell at Mark-lane fully Bs. per quarter, as coin pared-with previous rates. At Hull and Leeds on Tues day the decline was 9s. to 10s. on the prices,of the past week. , The glorious weather has, of course, had much to de with this agreeable change. But it is also apparent that there is a vast quantity of grain in the hands of spe culating capitalists, who have been greedily anticipating much higher prices. It would appear that they have been ," out " in:their calculations., We sincerely hope, they will prove still more so during the weeks now inter vening before harvest. From Russia and the Black Sea we learn that the supplies of grain were greater than freights could be found for ; whilst the Straights of Gi braltar are represented, by a late letter, as absolutely be sieged with corn-laden vessels. The rye in France will be ripe in a few days ; and in Britanny and Normandy it is ascertained that the grain on hand is fully equal to the •local consumption until harvest time. Prices are conse: quentiv falling in France ; and as the French demand may be expected shortly to cease, the English inarligt 3 will beCelne still more easy.. • June 1, 1847.