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i,ltteraturr. P 0 E 'l' R V. REPLY TO A JESUITIC ‘L. CANTING, WILY AND WHEED. =LING LYRIC, A DUKE-;‘:ED TO IRISH PROTESTANTS, BY THE DUBLIN NATION. (From the Lublin Evening Mail.). MAIL-BAG M ELODIES . " An open enemy's a curse, But a , to ended friend is worse."—GAr. We hate the Saxon and the Dane, And the rude Norman men, — We cur,'d their greed for blood and gap, And we curse them now again. Yet start not. Irish born-mau, If you're to Ireland true, We Deed not blood, nor tree', nor clan, — We have no curse for you " Nation, April 13, 1944. You need not take such wondrous pains To make your diff,?rent castes app. ar, 'Twist " Irish born" and English '• Danes," And '• Saxons" there, and " Saxons" here; We see your se. -, :n behind your smile; You deep, dece, - ,:al Popish crew I You hate us, one and al ! the %, bile— nut, God be praised, we know you do! Then welcome be your honest curse, You c inging, wheedling Gaelic Bard ! We like your proffered blessings w rse— But both demand our just regard. We thank you for yuur hate professed - 'Tis genuine, and we'll prize it well. But for your love. j .st now expressed, We doubt it—ior it ,macks of El 11! •What ! think you that of all the lot One ingle " Saxon" can be led. To trust you that you hate him not, Because he' Irish born and tared ? No!—all your love, at twice its worth, Is hardly value for a laugh ! And the tiled game-coms of the north Are far too old to peck at chaff. For many a sly device you search To rive our empires' triple parts — But 'tis th, royal, twin-born church You aim at iu your real hearts! — What chances of success you have Lei. Hillsboro's r cord-bmil , attest— And those who further knoW;edge crave From' Hen! y Looke may team the rest t Vain ! vain is all your specious cant, Your quinbl ng about native earth! rTis not the "Dane"—but '• Protestant" You ha e !—and hate whe e'er his birth, For, find his crattle where y u wi 1 — Abroad—at home—on sea or sod— - You hat him I—and you've done so sill, To please your Po e—and he's your God ! Oh! Rome. you show yo,r inmost soul hene'er we meet you face to face We can discern your .1 suit scowl Out through your Pharisai6vrace I- Ay, we can read upon your brow, And cu ling lip, and sharpset tooth,* As plain as you do preach them now, The class-book lesson • of Maynooth! - • • • • Weknow you. Rome! in cart and skin! . We see—we see your fine pretence, To draw the gaping patriot Anu work upon.his passive _sense, ! So do at once your artful mask Your shbt est tricks are understood ; And cease your nice distinctive task Of analysing British blood! • vitt. From root to branch the Norman - tree And every golden fruit it hears You hate ! because so fair and free To Heaven its outs - read antis it rears Ycu hate our Bible hate our schools — You hate our clergy, hate our . ereed— And oath-bon d to your murderous rules Your hate, in word—you prove in deed! The stake—the scaffold—and the wheel; Have witnessed it in many a clime And ma. y an age—and now the steel Is ready—and you .‘ tide your time 1" di Bide on ! bide on !-- 7 ynu treacherous hand, From month to month and year to year— Our eye is fixed upon your -hand, And rest assured we'll keep it there ! • Oh ! boast away your " year of work"— Your "shoulder bared" and ." g ided loin; " Your "groups" may line the Lee, at Cork, But will they dale to stein "the Boyne ?" No—no--they won't—the i on that lies - In Munster shamrocks fresh and fair, In Ulster's climate fades and flies, - . Too puny for " the lily's" dil• 1' Yes 1 you may hoist the flag of green ! We have the "Grange and the Blue !" A banner that sh .11 ne'er he seen, - tYrsieSS to make you'deley rue ! And we have hearts, whe e'et you come, At broad loon-day or depth of night, To meet and chase your miliions tome ! And God, we know, will guard the right! *`" Dens", might properly enough be considered the very "eye-tooth" of Popery. which, as soon as the young priest has cut, he can see his way pretty plainly before him. CHAPTERS ON ADVERTISEMENTS. No. I. . . . Amongst the thousands whose chief or only instructors are the columns of the dsily or weekly press, it may with safety be asserted that there is not one - In a hundred who knows bow to read a newspaper—how to gather, from that luminous record of the every day affairs of this strange world of ours, the lights and shadows of the picture which it holds up to our vision. The busy trader, wrapped up in his dream of 'avarice, glances over prices of stocks ; skims over the lists of bankrupts and insolvents; wades through the City article, and plunges into the whirl oflife, with the conviction that-he -is fully informed of all its do ings. The politician imhibes_ the editorial wisdom of leading articles—the mingled " &qail end fury", with which ministers are bornbarded and oppositions bespat tered—and is happy in the conviction that - his knowledge of the whys and wherefores of-stAtesina ,, ship is as exten sive as that of any dozen of the „ ins", or " outs"; of Downing-street. The votary of fashion runs over the court circular and the puffing " cards" of west-end ven ders of inercery or blouterie ; and has exhausted his or her anxiety to know " how the world wags" ' • whilst vulgar and matter-of-fact people we content to be horrified or amused by " fatal accidents", police reports, or scanda lous on Bits, according to their several tastes and stations. •It is the foregr , und only of the varied panorama of life which such observers glance over—,its well-marked lines and prominent figures—whilst the objects which lie dimly shadowed in the background—the wretchedness, the ro mance, the wild passion, the mute despair, the fierce hate • and the crime, which inhibit the dark places of the world—are to them the writing in a sealed book—the unevoked figures in an enchanter's mirror. It is not a mere glance over the surface of this terres trial ball, which we denominate earth, that can tell us what primeval fires are glowing in its womb—what floods heave in its dark cavities—what ores and gems lie bidden there which the avarice of man shall never drag up to the light. It is not a passing gaze into the night-heaven which can tell us of what order of beings are they, who inhabit the thousand stars bespangling its blue dome — whether passion and sin and death are there, as in our own fallen world. • And.the unenquiring reader of the do ings of his fellow men, as recorded in the columns of a newspaper, can as little expect thus to unravel the mysts , ries of every day human life ss, by such uni diming and unenquiting observation, to fathom the globe, or to read the secrets of the heavens. The events which newspapers record are but the - air bobbles which rise upon the ever working cauldron of human passion. They are but chance developments of the few wrongs and crimes and miseries which see the I;ght, whilst countless thousands are hidden from all save the criminal, the victim, and the eye of Heaven. ' Do we wish to view, in the mirror which the press pre sents to us, a faithful reflection of the world, or one ap proaching to fait If ss, we must seek it—not in its re cords of events, is ptai a reports, its political disquisi tions, or it's narratives of folly'and depravity, but—in the glimpses which it affords us of unacted villanies and un developed sufferings : we most seek it in its crowded co lumns of advertisements. There is more of the world in any one of such colunitis than whole volumes could con vey. What strife• to exist, what restless plotting, what ingenuity, what tortuous devices, are in those puffing an nouncements ! What misery and unrequited toil—what wearing of human life, and sacrifice of health and enjoy ment and love—what pictures of gaunt and ghastly po verty—are associated with those parades of unparallelled cheapness! What startling evidences of fallen station — of pride dispelled by the vision of the near and yawning gulf of utter destitution—of hungry eyes watching the partition of the last morsel—of the uncomplaining gaze of attenuated loveliness, or the wolfish glare of selfish age—are in those "appeals to the charitable and humane!" And, scattered through the miscellaneous advertisements, what a strange medley may we observe of human life—its varied ambitions, passions, and pursuits ; and what les sons might the picture which it presents b made to con vey, were the pencil of imagination permitted to fill up its broken shadows, and develope in distinct colours its-half revealed figures ! Tell us not that such a picture would not be life—that it would not be our world, but the world of the novelist and the romance writer. It might h ave more of light and shadow—more of startling incongruiti es of colouring —more of hideous contrast of objects—th an what we are led to believe is our every-day world ; but it would, nevertheless, if we gave not an undue amount of licence to the painter—imagination—and the filling in was in good keeping, be that world itself! We propose, if the reader will give us leave, to p resen t him with a few of these lessons, sketchily drawn, pe r hap s , but which may still serve to teach him to read aright the record which is daily in his hands. We take up at ran dom a file of that greatest purveyor of advertisements— the Times—and instinctively we turn to column second of its front page, the locus in quo of what may be called masquerade or anonymous announcements, and occasion ally of assignations of a very questionable character. What have we first? Ma A. E.-DISSA • TISFIED. Terse and mysterious ! And yet, without greatly strain jug our ingenuity, we might, perhaps, arrive very near its meaning and the characters of the parties, between whom it is meant to communicate. We can imagine ties which may bind together two human beings, not in love, but ra ther in hate and fear ; an outward and horrible friendship, cemented by the dread of s me nameless discovery of crime or folly, which is wielded by the one, the more hardened and shameless. to wring from his shrinking fellow the price of silence. With a blanched cheek and an a"eit yt- , d frame, in the bosom of an unsuspecting family, or in Ira p!ace of business, in the presence of a partner who confides in his integrity, or of dependents who reverence his virtues, the victim receives the notice of the fresh exactions of his tormentor: we see the struggle of his spirit, as he hesi tates between submission to what may be ultimate ruin, and a resolve to dare all the world's censure. in an effort to shake off the incubus which presses him to the earth : and—oh, weak and cowardly human nature !—too often do we see the keeping of the auilty secret bought at the price of present suffering anti ultimate ruin. Not a seldom-re curring chapter in the blotted hiatory of human life is this! Not singular in his fate is he who has thus to " sa tisry” the witness or the partner of his frailty or his un suspected guilt. Another 'announcement, in the same column of the same•pUblication, is more explicit tnan the above : THE FOLLY of an HOUK" will not only be your ruin, but tha ruin and the death of many other people, if you persevere in your present conduct. If you are a man face your d.fficulties, and you shall be helped through them. If you have the feelings of a man at any event write.—Address to your brother, Gray'a-iiin. The too common history of a ruined man is before us here in all its details. We see worldly embarrassment met by cowardly yielding to the dictates of pride, or perhaps to the more venial prompting of affection for those whom his rain will bow to the earth. Step by step the spirit has been broken—perchance the habits and the moral rec. titude deteriorated as well—until at length, in " the folly of an hour," the unfortunate has fled to escape from the pressure o his adversities and to hide his shame from the world—has added domestic misery, of the deepest and severest description, to the other and lighter evils of the position of him and his. We will not intrude our gaze into the household, where a father's or a brother's folly has stricken the hearts of sor rowing and trembling relatives—where dark pictures of possible calamity, or, darker still, of infamy and crime, haunt each weary hour of absence and anxious expectation. But let us turn, in imagination, to the se cond or third rate tavern, to which the voiun'ary out , ast has crept from his obscure lodging, to examine if, in the daily records of passing events in this wilderness of acted folly, his name is niited down and his flight commented upon. Mark the furtive glance and the nallid and down east features of the man, woo so lately stood erect and happy amongst his frllow men, on 'Change, or in the so 'cial circle! Watch the tremulous hand which raises the paper, to read the doom " He longs, yet dreads, to gaze upon !" . . . He has read the mystic word, which sink into his heart. He has heard she warning, which will never cease to ring in his ears,: until its behests are obeyed,,—that "the folly of an hour" has been already pregnant with ruin, and threatens "the lives of many" ;—and the' strong man is a child in his agony. Dare we speculate upon the after course of such a wretched being ? We dare .not. We can only hope that the false step has. ere this, been re-. trieved ; that he has " faced his difficulties manfully," and received that sympathy, of ..which be was here kindly assured. . Another and still darker history is conveyed in the fol lowing:— MO the PARTY who POSTS his LETTERS in PRINC ES-ST RE ET, Leicester-square -Your Family is now 'in a state of excitement unbearable. Your attention is called to 'an advertisement in Wednesday's Morning Advertiser, headed " A body found drowned at Depttord ;" after your avowal to your friend as to what you,might do, he has been to see the deconiposed remains, accompanied by others; the Va•ures are hone, but there are marks on the arm, so that unless they hear from you to-day it wilt satisfy therh that the remains are those of their misguided relative, and steps wilt be taken to plaCe them - in the family vault, as they cannot bear the idea of a pauper funeral. This, too, is a record of ruin ; but, apparently, of ruin brought about by worse than mere folly or cowardly yield iog to misfortune. Here may be some noble intellect wrecked by dissipation; the hope of some distiognisheil circle, voluntarily embracing an outcast's lot, and looking forward, at the end of the long vista of crime which he has entered, to a suicide's grave. Are they, indeed, his decomposed remains over which affection has vainly bent, in some river-side hovel, or parish charnel-house, in the effort to trace, so long aPer " Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers," the resemblance of the once loved brother or cherished son Is it over his corpse that the sable plumes have waved—that the church's prayers have been said, amidst the 'pomp of mourning, and the family vault has closed ; or does some nameless child of misery mingle his ashes there with those of the wealthy, the proud, or the far descended ? We know not. The world, which is not comprised ~within tha now mourning family circle, will perhaps never know whether the erring one sleeps there, or has returned, a penitent, to his father's mansion. A privately-acted tragedy, this, upon which no public au dience shall sit in judgment. Enough, bovrever, upon this class of advertisements. Turn we next to one of a mote business-li.e character, which contains, nevertheless, its own peculiar teachings. SELECTIONS. LORD WELLINGTON IN A BASKET.—Lord Wellington had entered Salamanca with Sir Rowland Lilt and our division, but when he found the right of the army well on, and everything sati , factory, he started for the left, to superintend its operations and hasten its movements. In this raid iourney he el.:alai:ea the Douro under far more dangerous circumstances than those of the rope bridge at Alcantara, where I had the honour to meet him; for at Miranda he ventUr.d into a small basket, Lung upon a rope, stretched from one high rock to another, across on the boiling stream, and thus, in this giddy seat, 300 feet above the water, did this tearless man traverse a river, which has thrived the main part of its modern celebrity from his great deeds upon its banks.- . --Ereitti of a Mili tary Life. VARIETY OF MEN'S FACES.—The great variety exist in., throughout the world of men's faces and voices is an admirab!e proof of the wisdom of the Creator of all things. Had meh''s faces been cast in the same, or rot a very Affere:tt mould, their organs of speech would have sounded neatly the same, and tie same exact structure of muscles and nerves would have given the hand the same direction in writing. In this case, what confuson what disturbance, what tni=chiefs, would the world have eter nally laid under! No security could have been given to our persons; no certainty, no enjoyment of our posses sions ; no distinction between good and bad, between friends and fops; bnt,all would have been exposed to ma lice, fraud, and violence. But now, as it is ordered, every man's face can distinguish him in the light, and his voice in the dark ' • his hand-writing can speak for him though ahSent, and be his witnes:, ,and secure his contracts in future cenerations ; a manifest as well as admirable cation of tile divine superintendence and management.— Derham. _ _ _ THE ELEPFIANT•IN THE REGENT'S PARK.—The daily rations of Jack. the male elephant, kept in the garden of the Zoological Society of London, and now about thirty years old, area truss and, a half of hay, forty-two pounds of Swedish turnips, a mash consisting of three pounds of holA, rice, a bushel of chaff, and half a bushel of bran, ten pounds of sea biscuit, a bundle of straw for his bed, weighing about thirty-six pounds, which he usually eats by the morning, and thirty-six pails of water. Be-, sides this h~ collects no small portion of savoury alms from the public. Forinetly his allowance was larger, and be had oats and wangold-wurzel ; but at that time Sun day was a day of fasting wi h him (as it is still to the carnivori), only broken by a slight morning meal. Some four or five years ago he determined to stand this hebdo madal privation no longer, and for two or three succes sive Sabbath nights he made such a disturbance that the keepers had small repose. Finding that this hint was not taken, he went a little further next rime, and so be stirred himself that, like other agitators who have known how far to .go, he carried his point; for he made an attack upon- his den with such -good will and effect, that. they u ere fain to get up in the middle of the night to feed h'ru. Since this demonstration of physical force he has enjoyed his full meals on Sunday.—New Monthly Magazine. THE WORLD OF LONDON.—Loudon overflows with talent. .You may compare it for the purpose of illustfa lion, to one of George Robin's patent filters, into which pour turbid torrents of Thames water, its sediment, n.ud, and dirt, weeds, and rottenness ; straining through the various strata, its grosser particles are arrested in their course, and nothing that is not pure, transparent, and limpid is transmitted. In the great filter of London life, conceit, pretension, small provincial abilities,' pseudo talent, soi-disant intellect, are ',tried, rejected,.flung out again. True genious is tested by judgment, fastedious ness, emulation, difficulty, privation ; and passing through many ordeals, persevering, makes its way 'through all ; and at length, in the fulness of time flows forth, in ack nowledged purity and refinement upon the town. There is a perpetual onward, upward tendency in the talent, both high and low, mechanical and intellectual, that abounds in London : " Emulation hath a thousand sons," who are ever and always following fast upon your heels. There :is no time to daudle or linger on the road, no " stop, and go on again :" if you step aside to fasten your shoe-tie, your place is occupied—you are edged off, pushed out of the main current, and are condemned to circle slowly in the lazy eddy of some complimentary clique. Thousands are to be found able and anxious to take your place; while hardly one misses you, or turns his head, to look after you, should you lose your own; you live while you labour, and are no longer remembered than while you are reluc tant to repose.—Blackwoo d E NGLISH AGRICULTURE. —England presents at this time a more brilliant example than any age or conntry has before witnessed of the application, I will not say of science, for that would not comprehend the idea which I wish to express, but the application of mind to agriculture. The practice of agriculture, an d the pin!osophY of agri culture, are matters of universal interest. Men of all grades and conditions ate labouring in this great cause, and are asking for the how, and the why, and the where fore.. The brightest intellects are directing their talents to agricultural inquiries ; and the humblest in their humble, but not inefficient way, are seconding their alerts. So many minds concentrating their rays upon the same point, - they must be sure to illuminate with an extraordinary brilliancy. Agriculture is now getting to be recognised as the commanding interest of .the state ; so it must ever be as lying at. the toundation of all others. Few persons are apprised of. their obligations to agriculture; and it is difficult to estimate the extent of these obligations: Every man's daily bread, his meat, his clothing, his shel ter, his luxuries, all come from the earth. The founda tion, or, us the French would say, the materiel of all commerce a. , al manufactures, is agriculture; and its motel influences are innumerable and most powertul.—Colftiart ' a Agricultural Tour. ANGLING.—We have often thought that the amuse ment of angling has been too much despised by those who are not anglers themselves If all the pleasure of the pur suit cons.sted in dragging a fish to the shore, or in watch ing a float, to see it go under water. we migot join in the, ridicule which has b een b es t owe d on " t h e brethren of the rod and line." The pl easure o f ang li nz , however, takes a much wider ran ee; an d we are conv i nce d that the mere act of fishing i s on l y a secon d ary cons id era tion with those who join with it a fondness for the charms of nattire. The enjoyment of air and exercise, as the angler pursues his course through flowery meadows and fields covered with herds and flocks, listening to the unseen lark, or watch ing the varied movements of the swallows, they glide around him in every direction, have charms which add a relish to his walk, and harmonize with every kindly feel ing of his heart. Nor is this all. A reflective angler will devise many useful lessons of instruction from the visible objects of creation which surround him ; all of which serve to prove the infinite perfection and unbounded be nevolence of the great Creator.—Jesse's Scenes and Tales. A COMING STORM.—It was one of those hot, silent nights when people sit at windows, listening for the thun der which they know will shortly break ; when they recal dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes, and of lonely travellers on open plans, and lonely ships at sea struck by lightning. Lightning flashed and quivered on the black horizon even now ; and hollow murmurings were in the wind, as though it had been blowing where the thunder rolled and still was charged with its exhausted echoes. But the storm, though gathering swiftly, had not yet come up ; and the prevailinr , stillness was the more solemn from the dull intelligence that seemed to hover in the air of noise and conflict afar off. It was very dark ; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace and were growing cold. These had been advancing steadily and slowly. but they were now motionless, or nearly so ; and as the carriage clattered round the corners of the streets, it passed, at every one, a'knot of persons, who had come there—many from their houses close at hand, without hats—to look up to that quarter of the sky. And now a very few large drops of rain began to fall, and thunder rumbled in the distance.— Martin Chuzzlewit. NEWSPAPER WRITING.—It is not so easy to write for a newspaper as people suppose. A man may be a good scholar, a profound thinker, and a vigilant observer of passing events, without being able to write for a news paper. The power of writing a leadng article for a news paper is a tact which few possess, and which I have known many, with all their learning and diligence, unable to ac quire. It requires a large amount of information on a variety of subjects, and a readiness of application that must never be at fault, or the writer will fail. Few re-. member the editor is always writing against time, and the inexorable.printer must have his copy, so that there is no time to revise and amend ; but as slip after slip is written, the devil snatches it away, and one half is 'usually set up in print before the ether half is written. This exacts a decision of thought and a facility of writing which, like poetry, seems rather a gift of nature than an acquired fa catty. And as toeerevity, that is the most difficult task of all. Diffuseness in a leading article is like water added. to brandy—what it gains in quantity it loses in quality. It is cOmparatively easy to write a long article; but to be able on the instant—without previous consideration— without having time to consult books, or dates, or author rities—to concentrate the pith and marrow of an argument in a few sentences ; to grasp, as it were intuitively, the real question at issue, and to present in a striking point of view that particular truth or illustration which the public mind is prepared to receive, and would be disappointed to miss, is, in my opinion, one of the most difficult ope rations of the human mind.—Rowcroft's " Man without a Profession." THE EMERALD MINES OF PERU.—The singular fact that a ship is at this moment afloat on salt water at an elevation of 18,000 feet above the level of the sea, and there earrying on a lucrative traffic, is so little known, that we trust the following brief mention of it will be read with tome interest. In the year-1826, the firm of Run-' dell and Bridge, of London, having entered upon arrange= ments for the purchase of the gold mines of Tipuani and the emerald mines on the river Illimani. in Upper Peru, sent a gentleman of the name of Page as their agent, for the purpose of effecting the acquisition of this property. he speculation as regarded the gold mines was tolerably successful; but the emeralds found at 111itnarti proved of inferior quality to those of other parts, excepting in a few rare instances. These mines are situated on the borders of the great salt-water lake of Chuquita, which is two hundred and forty-eight miles in length, and nearly one hundred and fifty miles in breadth, and elevated eighteen thousand feet above the level of the sea, on the Cordillera of the Andes; its depth in many parts is such that it cannot be souuded, and the peculiar .blue colour of its waters resembles that of the sea. There are other mining establishments in the same vicinity as the.Tipuani and Illirnani, belonging to two English gentlemen, General O'Brien and John Begg, Eaq., who are also part owners of those above-named. Those of most importance are the copper mines of CoroCoro, and the famous silver mines of Salceda at Puno. The only vegetable produce tions found in this part of these high regions, are a small red potatoe, called chusma, and a few plants, one of which affords a seed, called quiriaug, much used by the abode gines as an article of food ; but on the eastern side of the lake, at a place called Copacavana, and in several of the valleys of Bolivia, there is found an abundance of Indian corn, barley, potatoes, and a great variety of fruits. The difficulty of procuring provisions for the considerable number of Indians who were employed in the mines, s ,ggested the idea of building a vessel for the purpose of communicating with the opposite shore of the great lake; and Mr. Page, General O'Brien, and Mr. Begg, deter mined to enter upon the attempt. Mr. Page, who was a man of enterprise and considerable ability, undertook to superintend the ormetr.ok‘ors.f .‘riA uf lac , tuns nurtnen. He proceeded, in the first place, to the port of Arica, where he procured the necessary iron-work, rigging, sails, cables, and anchors, by purchasing a ship lying in that port condemned as unseaworthy. These materials be carried with vast trouble and expense to the mouth of the river Apolobambo, where he found timber of very fine quality, nearly resembling English oak (roble). At the oat where this river falls into the lake Mr. Page esta blished his dockyard, having engaged a few carpenters and shipwrights at Arica; and at the end of two years of indefatigable labour and perseverance, the brig Julia was launched on the waters of the great lake of Chuquita. The brig has subsequently become the property of a gen tleman of fortune residing at La Paz,end there is perhaps not a vessel of the same size employed in trade in any part of the world that brings an equal amount of profit to her owner. She is chiefly engaged in fulfilling the ori ginal object of her construction, that of bringing the agri cultural products, of the valleys of Bolivia to the rich mining districts of Puna and Lampas. General O'Brien, when on his way from Lima to Buenos Ayres, sailed in her all over the lake, and was nearly lost on the island of Titicaca, in one of the heaviest gates he had ever encoun tered. She was then commanded by a Swede, and was in every way well found, except that her anchors were not of sufficient weight, owing to the impracticability of conveying such as her size required over the mountain tracks of the Andese Most of these details have been ' communicated to us by a gentleman who has resided a long time at Puno, and who was present when General Gwearra, President of Peru, effected his escape from General Salaverri, when only a few hundred yards in ad vance of his pursuers, by embarking hurriedly on board the brig Julia and crossing the lake of Chuquita.—The Monte Video Britannia. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. VARIETIES. " Shall I have your hand 1" said a New York exqui , ite to a belle, as the dance was about commencing. " With all my heart," was the soft response. An editor in Michigan wishes himself in the middle of a pumpkin pie as big as Lake Superior, and obliged to eat his way out. ' - - The longest canal in the wo , ld extends from St. Pe tersburg to the frontiers of China, over a space of 4172 miles. It has been computed that the elecampane produces 3,000 seeds, the sunflower 4,000, and the tobacco plant 40,320. - - • • • Never trust with a secret a married man who loves his wife, for he will tell.her—and she will tell her sister, and her sister will tell every body. JONATHAN OUTDONE--A writer in Fraser states that there is a village in Bc•hemia, the name of which is only pronounceable by sneezing three times, and adding the s}llHbles ischki ! • - Religion is exalted reason, refined from the grosser parts of it: it is both the foundation and crown of all vir tues; it is morality improved and raised to its height by being carried nearer to heaven, the only place where per fection resides. t LEARNED DICTION.—A contemporary speaks of a lady who astonished a party the other day by asking for the loan of a diminutive argenteons truncated cone, con vex on its summit, and semiperforated with symmetrical indentations, or, in other words, a thimble.—Quebec Gaz. A TENDER ADlEU.—Sydney Smith is a factious felloW. On Bishop Selwin leaving England for his diocese of Can: nibals, in New Zealand, Sydney took leaf of him with tears in his eyes, and in these terms :—" Good bye, Sel wyn ; I hope you will not disagree with the man that eats you ? " SOLUTION OF BONES IN SULPHURIC ACID FOR THE PURPOSE OF MANURE.- -This practice seems likely to be attended with success. The Duke of Richmond tried one acre of a farm of a light sandy soil with the sulphuric acid, and obtained a heavier crop than from an acre ma nured by guano, and another by stable-yard dung. It promises a great saving to farmers. AMERICAN MERCY.—Jonathan ' s heart of dollars bas somewhat relented. The white man sentenced to be hanged in Louisiana for aidire , he Quadroon slave in an t attempt to escape from bond eis not, it seems , to be executed. He is only to be olicly whipped. Hence, the AmeriCan flag may retain its significant stripes.— Punch. THE SWALLOW.—Few birds surpass the swallow in the rapidity of flight. It is calculated that he often skims the air at the r at e o f a m il e a m inu t e , an d that in the cow se of ayeoaurr globe,hecloes not fly ilsessmothreantheaignh2toothooe circumferencenjiles;to do of this he must travel each day 600 miles, moving at tbe velocity of 25 miles per hour, or at an average rate of one mile a minute for twelve hours each day through the year. TEST OF MESMERISM.—A strong proof of the infallibi bility of this much-dispuled scie!lce was adduced the other evening at a lecture on the subject. A boy being asked while in the mesmeric state, whether " The income tax would be discontinued a f ter the third year, as Sir R. Peel had promised ?" replied " certainly not ?" This, upon being mentioned to the Premier, was declared to be the 'strongest instance of clairvoyance that could be brought foraard in favour of the science.—Pwsch. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Her Majesty's accouchment may be expected about the beginning of July. Sunday last was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of the MarqUis and Marchilness of Westminster. Swallows have made their appearance, and the cuckoo's notes have been hea r d i n var i ous parts o f the country. The Marquis and M rchinness of Westminster are not expected to visit London this season. The family will shortly leave Eaton Hall tor Halkin. IRON TRADE.—PRICES ON THE CLYDE, APRIL 20. — Pig iron, No.-1, £3 10s.; bar iron, £6; nail rods, £7 : boiler plates and sheets, £9 : 10s. per ton. Mr. Sergeant Merewether, bas been elected recorder of Devizes, vice Mr. Ludlow firops, now one of the memb,rs of parliament for that town. The dock company are canvassing the borough for sig natures to a petition in favour of their hill for making additional docks at this port.—Hull Herald. Cirpenters' wages at the Cape of Good Hope, an f lig,iole colony for emigrants, are 30s a week.—Lirnerick Chronicle. The Poor-law Commissioners have appointed Colonel Thomas Francis Wade to be an assistant commissioner of poor-laws. The property sworn to under Sir Francis Burdett's will is under £160,000. The personal property under Lady Burdett's will is under £lO,OOO. Prince Albert has made a donation of £5OO to the funds of Christ's Hospital, and has become a governor of that noble institution. It is said the Poor Law Commissioners have adopted a resolution that, wherever a union workhouse exi,ts, a paid chaplain shall officiate, whether the guardians approve or not of the appointment. The Marquis of Bute wil', we hear, be again requested to represent her Mjesty as Lord High Commissioner at the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of Sootland, for the third time.—Edinburgh Evening Post. Mr. Charles Kemble. had the honour, on Wednesday evening, of reading to her Majesty and the Court, at Buckingham Palace, Shakspeare's play of Cymbeline, slightly compressed.. DEAL.—The atmosphere was, on Tuesday, so rarified that. Calais was plainly discernible with the naked eye. vessels could be seen leaving the harbour without the aid -of a glasi.—Dover Chioniele. It is said, that a hair violinist is about to make her debut in the metropolis, her genius and talents are com pared by connoisseurs with those of a Paganini and a Sivori. The Board of Tiade . has intimated that it considers the statements or the Bristol Dock Company, in reference to the Great. Britain steamer, perfectly, sati-factory, an , l that the Great Western Company ought to give the guarantee required. MORTALITY IN THE LINE.—Of nearly 600 young active men, who composed the gallant regiment of the 22nd High landers, when it left this country for fore gn service nearly two years ago, only 143 have returned.— Fife Herald. THE PoTATo Patifle.—The Greenock Advertiser al ludes to the avidity with which potatoes were, some time since, boughrup, and announces, that after all the out cry, it is found that potatoes are not scarce, in conse quence of which prices are rapidly fal:ing. As a proof of the early season, and the effects of the beautiful weather during the last four weeks, it may be noticed that several broods of young thrushes were last week discovered to have left their nests in various parts of this neighbourhood.—Neu;castle Herald. CROP OF GRASS.—At Heaton Mersey, near this town, there is a field of Italian rve grass, of about an acre, be longing to John Moroiley. so extraordinary in its growth as to be at least two feet high at the present moment.— Stockport Advertiser. Out of the ten millowners at .present in the House of Commons it is said that eight of them are in favour of the ten hours bill for regulating factory labour. This fact speaks volumes in favour of Lord Ashley's humane mea sure. . . The letters and despatches of Nelson areat length about to be collected and published, in a form corresponding with Colonel Gurwood's celebrated work, " The Welling ton Despatches." The task has been undertaken by Sir Harris Nicolas. The soldier belonging to the 37th Regiment, who bad deserted his post in the barracks at Sunderland, and when in the guard-house committed a violent assault upon Ser geant M'Alligott, was tried by a general courtmartial in the barracks in this town, a few days ago, and sentenced to transportation for life.-Netvcastle,Herald. The Palace of Holyrood, so long tenantless and dreary, has for the last few weeks been in a sense restored to its former grandeur by the presence and occupancy of Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton, the Marquis of Douglas and his amiable bride the Princess of Baden, the lovely Countess of Lincoln, and their respective attendants. Earl Howe gives a grand entertainment to-morrow at Curzon House, when the Queen Dowager and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to honour the noble earl with their company. The Archbishop of York, Duke of Wellington, and other distinguished personages are invited to join the circle. DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JAHLEEL BRENTON. BART., K.C.B.—It is with much regret that we announce the death of one of the most gallant and distinguished flag officers of the British navy, Viee-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, .Bart., K.C.8., who died at. Leamington Spa, on _Sunday afternoon last, in the 74th year of his age. fkr, a yerrlcy dog, belonging to Mr. Richard Dixon, farrier, killed a rat in one of the stables of Mr. Bagot, of the old Sir Simon's Inn, which measured, from the .snout . to . the tip of the tail, twenty-two and a half inches, As Dominic Sampson would have said—" Prodigious! "—Lancaster Gazette. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—Ori Monday last a man named Yeomans, living at Belper, Derbyshire, doubting his wife's fidelity, struck her several "fillies on the head with a poker, from the effects of which she died on the following day. The murderer cut his own throat after wards, and expired in a few minutes. We understand that at a meeting of the Iron trade, held on Wednesday (17th inst.) it was unanimously re solved, unasked, to advance the wages of the colliers and miners in the Monkland district sixpence per day, on con dition of the absurd restriction by the miners to two thirds of their output being given up.— Glasgow Mail. THE WELSH COLLIERS.—The - colliers who struck some time ago are now all at. work, and exhibit evident signs of their folly, having 'suffered severely during the strike, and at Mold sessions two of the ringleaders, named Parry and Hopkins, were brought up to take their trial, but on their tusking a public apology and acknowledge ment of their error, they were discharged. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Sunday evening last the dwelling=houie of Mr. James Dearlove, Bar holomew terrace, London, was broken open, and property to the amount of £lO,OOO, consisting of bonds, bank notes, leases, plate, &c. stolen. Daniel Dearlove, nephew of Mr. Dearlove, hes been apprehended, examined, and re manded. _ LORD ASHLEY'S NOTICE.—The last notice of the noble lord the member for Dorsetshire stands upon the order book exactly as follows :--" On the third te3ding of the Factories Regulation Bill (No. 2), to move the addition of clauses to limit the hours of labour, on and after the Ist day of October of the priisent year (1844), for al young persons, to eleven in the day, or fifty-eight in the week." MEETING OF COLLIERS,--A. meeting of the colliers of Wigan and its rieighbourhooe, with a large number from Chorley, &c., took place on Monday afternoon last on Amberswood Common. Several thousands were pre sent. Mr. Roberts, the attorney to the miners' m•socia lion, was present, and the principal sp,akers of the as sociation. They were very orderly, and quietly disperSed at the close of the meeting. CANDIDATES FOR THE BAR.—Tbe Benchers of the Inner Temple having resolved upon "a more strict course of examination of its younger mernhers. with a view of securing a greater degree of efficiency for the bar, have appointed, in addition to two of its previnus examiners, several others. The present Lord A hingvr was one of the examiners at the same time with Mr. Molphus and Mr. Bullock, but his lordship resigned upon his succes sion to the peerage. EXPORTATION OF COALS SUSPENDED. — M. Dillon, the French Consul at Newcastle, has written to the Com missaire-Geneqd of Havre, to say, that, in consequence of the turnout of the collieri in the . North of England (Northumberland and Durham), there is every, reason to believe that, for the next month or five weeks, all ex portation of coals from Newcastle, Sunderland, Stockton, Hartlepool, Seaham, and Blyth must be of necessity sus pended. M. Dillon prays him to communicate this fact to the manufactPrers of his arrondissement. RELEASE OF CHARTIST PRISONERS.—Four Chartists, named William Moorhouse, John Fairhurst, Robt. and James Wild, were liberated from Knutsford House of Correction on Thursday week, about four months be fore the expiration of the term of their imptisoment. These parties were tried before Lord A binger, at the Ches ter Assizes, 1842, on charges of sedition, &c., arising out of the part they took at various meetings near Hyde during the great turnout of factory operatives. Mons Vanvolsum, from Belgium, has been staying a t Darlington for the last few weeks, and has purchased 50 head of short-horned bulls and heifers from the eminent breeders, Messrs. Maynard, Crofton Wood, Shornton, Lawson and others. Mr. Thornton, of Stapleton, sold him two bulls and five heifers. The famous breeders in the county of Durham annually have a considerable de mand for their young stock, for exportation to Germany, Belgium, and France.—Newcastle Herald. PAPER-MARING. — The Glocester Journal says, "that a most important patent has been taken out for the manu facture of paper on Anew principle, and from an entirely new material. If carried out to the full extent of the wishes and expectations of the patentee (one of the first engineers in the kingdom), there is little doubt that it will shortly supersede the use of rags, as the paper made from the new material will be quite equal to the finest Indian paper, and not so costly." CHEESE.—A return of the quantitiesof cheese imported into the several ports of Great Britain in reach month of the year 1843, distinguishing the European, United Stites, and Colonial produce, has been printed on the motion of Mr. Colvile, the member for Derbyshire. The aggregate importations from all parts during the year ending Jan. 5, 1844, amounted to 179,389 cwt. From various countrie., in Europe, there were imported during the year, 136,998 cwt.'froonmilly 79 cwt. United t States of America, (whence ver y rich, fine fl av oured cheeses are now being constant l y im ported), 48,312 cwt. ; and from the Britis h possessions abroad Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. THE DUBLIN TRIALS. Yesterday (Monday) the Solicitor General resumed his address on the part of the crown, and was left speaking when the mail was despatched from Dublin last night. The learned gentleman commenced his arguments by re plying to the fourth ground of objection specified in Mr. O'Connell's notice of motion, viz., that no evidence bad been given of any material or evident fact having taken place within the venue laid in the indictment. He then proceeded at great length to reply to the statements put forth about what was termed the "fraudulent" suppres sion of names from the jury list, and went through the objections of the traversers seriatim, and argued that there was not the slightest reason for granting a new trial on the grounds relied on. SECOND EDITION. THE BUDGET. We have to acknowledge the kindness and promptitude of Mr. Aylward, news-agent, in enabling us to present the following information thus early to the public. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MO N DAY. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER the house then went into a committee of ways and means, Mr. Greene in the chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and said, — He thought it desirable to avail himself of this opportunity of bringing under the consideration of the house the view of the financial condition of the country which the house is entitled to expect, and which it must be anxious to re ceive at the bands of her Majesty's government. He was happy—and be was sure those hon. gentlemen who differed from his views would be happy also—that theviews which he had entertained of a speedy revival of industry and commercial enterprise had been realised,_ and that the alarming forebodings which were indulged in had turned out to be groundless. He called the attention of the hottse to the situation in which they stood when this question was last before them, touching more particularly on the China opium debt. The balance sheet showed on one side £2,000,000 to have been received from the East India Company and - the China 'opium claim. The estimate he had made of the public income during the course of last year, has undoubtedly been very greatly exceeded. Toe amount that has been received from the Customs is £21,426,000, instead of the £19.000,000 at which he had estimated it. This included £350,000 arising from the duties on grain and wines, the importations of both of which were consideralq greater than was expected. The duty on sugar had increased £200,000 and upon tea £300,000. There was an tow:Dentition also in the duties on cotton wool, amounting to £200,000, an indication of increased activity in the manufacturing districts. He es timated the excise revenue at £13,000,000, and the amount it yeilded was .12,900,000. _. The taxes estimated at £4,200,000, produced 4,192,000. The increase from the Post-office, he was happy to announce, exceeded anticipa tion, the receipts were £628,000. The revenue from the Crown lands, estimated at 130,000, produced 147,000. The miscellaneous estimates were £870,000, the receipts were £803,000. The total of the estimates op these several items were £50,150,000, and they had produced £52.138,840, in-ing an increase of £2,700,000 beyond his calculations. The army expenditure last year was £6,188.000, beir ' , a redaction of £300,000! Taking the sums tOgetherhehad calculated en a surplus of £700,000, but it had from the causes shown, and £650,090 less being _required for the navy, produced a surplus of £4,165,000. (Loud cheering). At the close of last year there was a deficiency of £2,400,000. He however believed That deficiency to be rather appar ent theta real, and reeommended to the House. to make no provision for the payment of that deficiency—not to raise means by lOan for the . purpose' Of - getting rid of it, but that it should be defrayed out of the surplus of 'future years, as circumstances, from tithe to time, might alto v ; and he was happy to be able to announce .to the House that the deficiency for 1843, which amounted altogether to £2,749,000, has . been clsared off and discharged out of the produce of the revenue of the present year, and after the discsarge of the debt incurred in, the course of last year, it will enable*US to present to the public a surplus of £1,400,000 on the Ist of April last passed.—(Cheers.) So far then as the past year is concerned he believed the House would agree with him that his statement was .sa 7 tisfactory. We will now proceed to consider the estimates and prdspects for the year on which we have entered. 111 r CO L LETT (Athlone.)—What is the amount of the property-tax ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.—£S,3IS,OOO, which is somewhat larger than the estimate he bad made last year, in consernienee (as we understood) of there be ing a larger return from ScatlandAlian he had anticipated. Now, Sir, in making the estimate for the year on which we have entered, he would adhere to the rule he had laid • laid down fur tlimself on a former orea.,ioo, that of not being betrayed into too sanguine expectati :ns, which the fut.mru A vould not bear out. He therefolmeuptend laim selt wan taking the Customs at little more fban time aniount they have actually produced last year, viz., £21,500,000. £830,000 of whieh was 'deriVed from corn; and as the state of the harvest in this country was not yet ascer tained, he thought it prudent to estimate tie Customs at no more' than they had produced last year, viz., £21,500,008. He also estimated the Excise as in the year gone by, at £13,000,000. lie took the Stamps at £7,000,900, the Assessed Taxes at £4,200,000, and the Property Tax at £5,100,000. To these he added the Post office at £600,000 only, and, for this reason, tie revenue of the Post-office made some little progress in the course of last year, and he doutted riot that in the coarse of next year it wi.uld make a certain progress also. The Cro,n both' he would take at £130,000, and the miscellaneous estimates at £250,000, making' a - total of £51,793,000. With regard to the Natiotial ilea the payritent for the last year wr.s £29,300,000—f0r the present, £27,697,000: — (Cries of " Hear, hear.") The deficiency of what must be paid in the present year, as comeared with last, amounts to £1,400,000; but the House must not he led into the delusion that that is the real decrease. The real diminu tion of the debt, in the present year, was one-half of the • benefit deri, eable from the Three-and. a- Half per cents:,. being £313,000. The charges for the year on account of the debt and consolidated fund amount to £3,097,000. This included the Exchequer-bills, and the interest taere- On. The estimate for the army amounted to £6,616,000. The estimate of the navy to £6,250,003 instead of £6,380,000, as in the piteceoing year ; and, in this expen diture, provision had beeil m ide for the great national works. The orditatice to a 'Sum of £1,812,000, and the miscellaneous estimates, he eaculated would amount to somewhere about £3,000,000. lie then filliided to the beneficial working of the reduc tion of the Three and-a-Half per cents. The amount of dissentients in England amount to £60,994, and in Ire land to £13.280. He ih , n alluded to the, position of Go vernment with the South Sea Co. and the payment of the grant by the 55th Ge roe 111., for which a fluid had been sunk which now produced about £300,000 ' • and there was a deficit of £239,000, fo which the public were paying the Company. The total £30,097,170, the £11,860 a year. He recommended an arrangement ordinary service is £17,700,000, and o f f or th t e he re e v ii n r u a e m:d u i ) r:a t r i y s service £816,000 , makingowyuoilidul leave ea a avk t de u e t t iaa a enl l o oa fwp next£pa anlreBeyetess:4rf6so,l surplus that will that swt i bt foetyadol deducted expenditure that neddi ft.ru ors,e,u, of sum to ) et. h ge t r h yo e es asdre willh amountt , ( portioni .s o l u Ibt withhj a e a y c l e ; X xof3 sl ill , l4 7 e6 9o re ,ooo bot, to the reductions which he had before alluded to) of ' b but if iwhichwf the surplus £2,376,000.. ("_ficar.....b.ear," and cheers.) The hon. 'gentleman then referred to the income tax, which had produced in 1842, £5,100,000, and that this tax was imposed with the double object of supplying, dur ing an interval, the previous deficiency of the regular re venue of the country, and for giving time for certain re pealed duties to recover, so as to be as productive as be foie the reduction was effected. As this question is in teresting and important, we will give the Chancellor's own words upon it. "The income tax was siibmir.ed by my right hon. friend to the house and he stated his opi nion that if this tax were continued for five years. it would have the effect which he anticipated. (Cries of " Three years.") My right hon. friend took it for a shorter pe riod. My right hon. friend indeed took it for a shorter period—for three years—and he did so on this ground, that if at the expiration of that period the result which he had anticipated to occur at the end of five years should not occur; then the house would have an opportunity of considering whether they would continue that impost for the same period, or whether they would take another mode of supplying any deficiency which might exist.. I have no hesitation in saying that, at the present moment, I cannot form any estimate of what those reductions may be. When I look at the list of articles in the tariff on which reductions of duty took place, and at the increased consumption which has takeu place of those—when I find that only on five has consumption decreased, while on all the rest consumption has increased—l must say, I enter tain, very sanguine feelings as to the ultimate success of the experiment. But the house will be good enough to bear in mind that in some main articles—timber, I will especially mention—on which a reduction of the duty has taken place, that reduction did not come into operation until the middle of last )ear. The experiment, therefore, in these instances, has not had a fair trial; and 1 ani not therefore, prepared to say what course ought hereafter to be pursued in respect of them. In the course of the next year the property-tax must necessarily come under the consideration of the house, and it will be for it to say what course it would pursue with respect to the continuance or discontinuance of that in:post." The hon. gentleman then went on to state the reasons which had induced him to refuse to consent to any large reduction of taxation. He proposed, however, to effect some reductions, and the first was to remove the distinc tive duty between flint and bottle glass, the former paling a duty of 2c1., and the ;atter of three farthings. This al teration is to take place on the sth July, and will only cause a reduction of £45,000 a year. He also proposed to repeal the duty on vinegar, which produced last year £23.000. He wished for this n duction, because manu facturers would be much b- nefited by its repeal. and also because it was an article so generally in use by the publ!c. He would however allow one year or the dealer to get rid April :30, 1841. of the :lock oo hand. The next reduction was an import ant one—on marine assurance. "The present rate of duty," said the hon. gentleman, "is as follows:—For every Lion, there the premium does .tot exceed 15s. per cent., the they levied amounts to Is. 3d. per cent : where the premium exceeds 155., but does not exceed 305., the d ety is 2s. 6d. per cent.; and where it exceeds 305., the d uty amou-ts to ss. per cent. This presses unduly upon small insurances. I therefore propose to reduce the duty and to very the rates according to the following scale. For every £lOO insurance, in which the premium does not exceed 10s., .1 propose to levy a duty of 3d. instead of of ls.. 3d. ; where the premium does exceed Ms•• but does not exceed 205., a duty of 6d. instead of 3,1. ; and in some cases 2s. 6d., as at present ; where the premium exceeds 20s, but does not exceed 303. a duty of is. ; win re it exceeds 30s. but does not exceed 40s. a duty of 2s. ; a here it exceeds 40s. but does not exceed 50s. a duty of 3s ; where it exceeds 50s. but does not exceed 60s. a duty of 4s. ; and where it is above 6 0 s• a duty of ss. I calculate that during the course of the present year the diminution of revenue consequent upon this reduction will amount to £lOO,OOO. But I calculate. that during the course of the following two years after the change shall have been effected, there will be a sensible increase in the disposition of foreigners to come to this country to effect their insurances, and that the country will reap the advantage even if no advantage should 1),1 derived by the revenue in consequence of this reduction. He proposed the reduction of the duty on currants froth 225. to 155., in consequence of the great consumption of the article by the lower orders. The duty on foreign coffee he proposed to reduce from Bd. to 6d., and he in tended to increase the duty on chicory root, which had been mixed with coffee to a great extent. The last article in which he intended to propose any alteration was Woolf and he proposed to take 'off this tax altogether. That duty produced last year about £lOO,OOO. The total proposed reductiOns would amount, in round numbers, to £400,000. The hon. gentleman then said he was de sirous of placieg before the public the d e t erm i n ation of government with respect to the article of sugar. (Hear. hear.) He said that the treaty which enabled Brasil to bring slave grown sugar into this country won't', expire in November next, and he intended, in root" ving the sugar duties, to recommend to the Isoneee that from and after November next the duty upon sugar produced in those countries which are exempt from the' taint of the slave-trade—that do not raise sugar by means of slave labour—shall be reduced from their preset t amount. By this means we s h a ll t h row open, un d er c ert,in r , gulations, to countries eastward of the Cape of Good 1 - I , pe, a valuable trade, and shall most especially encour age the growing commerce with China, with which country, hitherto, our relations have been extremely confined. In thus speaking of countries eastward of the Cape. of. Good Hope, I must impress upon the house that I. refer only to such with which we have relations, an& wherein the sugar is not raised by means of slavery. Sir, the differential duty which I shall propose to this house to be imposed on sugars from countries free from the tarnish of slavery will be 10s per cwt.—that whereas British co lonial sugars pay a duty of 24s per cwt., the sugar fromi the countries I refer to shall pay 34s per cwt. lam quite aware it may he said that although the treaty with Brazil is brought to a conclusion there is a treaty with America, which contains a similar clause to the other, entitles AmeriCa to , the rights extended by us to the most favoured nation. Nothing can be further from my intention than to infringe the letter of any enactment - . existing with that or any other count r y, b u t I think that when we take the diseussion on the sugar duties I s hall, be able to show that the sugar produced in the southern states of North America is not calculated to be brougq. into competition with the sugar,. the produce of free Pk'. bonr, I have now been speaking of. It would hale - bees desirable to place the reduction of the duty on colonialstl' gar cn a solid and permanent foundation but it is obvious that till November next it will be utterly impossible to act uP; on any principle of that description, for the doing so woulU paralyses!l the trade hi the interior, I think that the better course will be to admit foreign sugar at a discriminating duty, and continue it till that period shall arrive when the sugar duties come again under consideration. In doini this, far be it from m e t o en t er t a i n an y ill f ee li ng tower,' those countries whose su g ar will r e ma i n exc l u d e d. 1 thin" the reduction we have made in the coffee of those cowl' tries proves sufficiently that no such feeling animates t! 1 Goverunient. The hon. gentleman, at the close of n' s, luminous address, was - loudly cheered ; and was anagrat tx- . lated even by Mr. Hume,. on his clear and satistaeto r r: statement. THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Three o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, Tais DAY.' • (From Messrs. R. Makin & Sons' Circular.) d The supplies of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal, receive into this port, Coastwise and from Ireland, during the week, are collectively rather limited, and of the last named article smaller than usual ; beyond a cargo or two of "Wheat and Beans from Egypt, with 1928 barrels of United States Flour, we have also little in from abroad. This day's market being tolerably well attended by, town and country millers, and several further sa!es hav ing been made for shipment to Ireland, the trade for Wheat exhibited a firmer appearance than for some weeli past, and the demand being readily met by the holders, a fair - e,wtent of business was transacted, chiefly in good descriptions, and all sorts of English, Irish, and foreign realised the full currency of last week. Flour also experienced an improved demand, and was the turn dearer. Barley was neglected, and Malt in slow request at late prices. Beans and Pease, upon a limited inquiry, were unaltered in value. Oats, being in short supply and more saleable. ob tained id. to a ld. per Xilbs over the turms of last week. Oatmeal, the consumption of which was latterly dimi nished in the manufacturing districts, by the m°r e neral substitution of Irjour, appeared to move off racier more freely to-day, and recovered the rates of thi3 day se'onight. • In the bonded market nothing doing. Anal V&I,S OF CORN. From the 23d to ,the 29th April, 1844, inclusire. ! IRE- ,COAET• PO LAND. j Wis .. CANADA REIGN 3 230 715 177 g. 2552 Wheat .. ... Qrs. i 427 Barley .. Qrs. 34 Malt Qis. 51 ' Oats Qrs. 169) Rye Qrs. Beans Qrs. Pease Qrs. Shelled Barley Cal s. Indian Corn. Qrs.i Rapeseed Qrs. : 0151, Oatmeal .. Loads 2131 5 I . Flour. ....Sacks 1956 50 1 ' s 1928 l'" me ; tOCr Ditto Brls. ' , In' o Runcorn, !viand and Coastwise, Wheat, 262 col.; Oa, meal, loads . Flour, sacks. 14( , 3 2400 640 172$ 241 EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Malt, nrs ; 0a tip 45 ors. ; Pease, qrs.; Indian Coy , . ors.; Oatale a i l i a r. loads ; Flour, 50 b,•1:,.--Ireland qrs.: l ,; 7 ley, 9 qrs ; Ovts, qrs ; Rye, UM qrs.; Indian Co n. . rs. ; Oatmeal, 0 loads ; Flour, 9 4 sacks, —brls.--Coa,twtse, Wheat, 161 qrs. ; Barley. 122 qrs.; Malt, qrs.; O ats ' qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 35 q rs. ; Oatmeal, 253105d5 ; Flour, 481 sacks II; brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending' Ac T. , -; 1 ,, 3 202 1814 s 3d. Wheat 555. id. Barley 325. 10. I Oats ..20 s . 2• Beans.. 315. 9d. I Pease.. 31s. 3d. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat 5551 d I Barley 32s lid Oats 29s nd. Rye 335 3d• _ . beans:. 31-6. 2d. j Peaze.. 31s. 2d. Duty on Foreign Grain, Sze. this week. a s 6, Wheatris od I Barley 6s Od I Oatsßye.• 2i° Beans lOs 6a I Pease Os 6d I Ind. Corn Os od Flour Ditto from B,'itish Colonies out of Europe Wheat.. Is. Od. I Parley.. Os. M. I Oats .. 2s. od. ttye.. 7 1d Beans 2s. td I Pease 2s. td. I Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour • • Os Liverpool Averages, week ending 23rd April, 18! 4 . o g. Wheat, 656 qrs., price, 525. d.; Barley. 52 qrs., pr icer," ud.; Oats, 938 qrs., price 18s. 3d.; Beans, 8 qrs., 3:,s eu• CUSTOMS' DUTIES.—An account of the gross en in gatonet receipts of the Customs' duties collected at each en - , t he house of the United Kingdom during the year enel lni •.tS sth of January, 1844, as compared with similar Mae! e r o f during the previous year, has been printed iu the siltber a parliamentary paper, on the motion of the hon. ffl e : r ose for Montrose. We find that the total amount of the Ti 343, rereipts collected in the port of London was, io 'The £11,354,702, against £11,422,251, collected in 1842. in total amount of the net receipts of the same por t `", 'TAP* 1843 £10,781,959, and iu the preceding year £ 10,0 "' the No grand total is given of the receipts througion'escb kingdom, but only the total amount collected e, port; and hence it would require several long soul It some additions in order to arrive at a general re,ll:3l.•sin6 is known, however, that the gross total receipts ,00t1 from our customs' duties amount to between £2 2, "; con and £23,000,000 annually; of which London el ° tributes a proportion of 50 per cent. I he 0 14 C. IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN WOOLLEN t ore - FACTURE.—There is now in full operation, upon Goltifi,; wises of Messrs. Kinghorn and Gill, engi neer teb l hiels, a new wauk mill or lulling machine , vill on isel eventually supersede those now in use. T he or' alio'. ' is simple and complete, consisting of a revolvilling le der, upon which move three rollers with c0t0Pr," 0 ,313 tb vers attached to them. The web passes routia_en, the cylinder, and if felted by being compressed old rollrrs and it ; being at the same time colifinee'ng_ with shifting sides, which expands or contracitl?...94achin° as the piece or web may be heavy or light. Tr,; place! - has been examined by all the manufacturers OI j a i n rp i r t o h v e e y w a e r o e t . una i n t i s m a o d u v s an in tag p e r i onanc th in a g t it n li d about one-third of the power required by h tethe .otory--; stocks—that it can be placed in any pdrt 0 000 , whi ch t or ill, that it does not occupy one-half of the to five s j; present ones do—that one mail can atten,f n , the and b w e eb d s oi n w ee e d it n h o w s:e f d io d rn ing t , i r i d ei tha ,h t it 116 0 2 ,2' 1 ; m ' o irej . t . aS it can be in one-halt of the time now required. 0 "` " 19 °4 I