The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

?Littraturr. THE MAGAZINES AND SERIALS, /for the p hs opens with an admi- nSmith, Esq., 2f (Warren n of his intimate friend, ife of a lawyer, and one, Mutely nothing of incident too, whose to interest, areer pi s have - been a dull hands it is made to anc*ecals forcibly to kneed in the perusal of his D. several c ❑ongst the best o. houses," and a revieN Second. " Mildred the story of the heroine is wo: Is some very views upon ..al approach to direc free trade led One, at month contain character, from r. Amongst ti my, by the aut Tolland Ifouse andlit the Wilds of Mexico," 2 and '3 of a A. review of runts of the British Poets," in tigation upon one of the most cks. The political article is, a a, and contains many sound ob- f parties In many of the opinions of th 'e cannot coincide Douglas JE the month contains t which perva ,gazine cont s, whilst the I with conceits, and stu 4itish Commerce in Ja ew to Jerrold's Maga- and St. Jam( le he continuation of the editor's s's" is postponed. This tale is ngthened Alexandrine, which Like a NI Lke, drags its slow length along." The public will inning before the appear likely to arrive at the conclusion 'fiht of Gicynne T contain in the narra their vovaxe volunteer in the r( giment of whiCh D Symozond's Colo Mayan cited b of propl preface to nth ---,‘ AT from ti essays, Mr. CI aspirat Books, not playtl At twelve, I was d, death a T 'eat deal of money m needn't lad the pl gone off a little which • , On Friday night, George Hampsou and Susan Morton, wt o had been betrothed for about three years, tied them gam, together with four handkerchiefs, threw themselves int& the Barnsley Canal, near Wakefield, and were drowiled, No reason is alleged for the wicked act, which has thr6l;Ytt two respectable families into a state of the deepest distnSS, Dr. Charles Henry Lovell and Mrs. Hope Betts, were tried on the coroet's inquisition, (the grand jury having ignored the bill preferred against them,) at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, for the manslaughter of Martha Hobbs by the hydropathic sys tem. The evidence was very weak against the prisoners, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. • The Duke of Cleveland is making extensive improve ments in the gardens at Raby Castle, Durham, and under the direction of Mr. Roberts, his grace's head gardener, a very spacious range of vineries have been erected, the bor ders of which embrace five thousand feet, imil which have been planted with the choicest A Tape vines, to be culti vated on the system so successfully practised by Mr. Roberts. On Wednesday, a remarkable accident occurred at the Tunbridge station of the South-eastern Railway. The Maidstone noon up-train had just arrived at the station, and the engine went forward to take in a supply of fuel ana water ; while the engine was passing over the turn table, the table split, and a large piece separated, throw ing the engine off the rails, and stopping all traffic for a time, but happily causing no personal injury. ELOPEMENT TO IiRETNA iiREEN.—Un the 23rd ult., Mr. William Hope, son of Lomax Hope, Esq., of Boholme Cannoby, was married, at the above place, to Miss Jane Donaldson, daughter of the Rev. James Donaldson, of Cannoby Manse. The fair lady, it would appear, had been narrowly watched, or rather confined to her room, for some weeks, but " love laughs at locksmiths," and she effected her escape.—Carlisle Patriot. A curious hoax was played on a farmer no last week, by some neighbours spreading a r had given le6e Bridgnorth to the - poor of the tow:to gather tt from one. of his fields. The consequence was, that a fine field of Swede turnips was densely thronged by parties OGI VCO l/1 Luc vpp ur bum ; anu 1G was LIM Llll full two acres had been cleared of the crops that the owner was apprised of what was going on, and enabled to stop the appropriation of his roots. nd valuable - matter this month. We shall e an opportunity to notice one or two of the articles in of interestit tz The Parish Choi or Cht sic Book. London y excellent Grego s," harmonised by Deum I The North of England Sketch Book and Magazine London : Flintoff. Liverpool : Philip. No. 1. The title of this Magazine almost sufficiently explain: acoln Cathedral, Lin )rthumberland. Eact on, exhibiting no in. considerab; Several pi( Lquarian research. and a few short It is in- ine only once a The Star of Jacob outh, incumbent of London : B. Wert} he Rev. Moses 1, Dublin. Nos . 1 and n. Dublin : Curry and Co. I Mr: AI e editor of this well -timed and im sown to our readers as defender of Christian cation specially of the ter the flesh. In the 7itical exposition, •der of the bible 3 original Hebrev hereof. But per. 1 beginning with ti being given for th( haps the best way editor's design wil plan, which we take from his prosp " It will contain critical expositions of prophecy, and at e time perverted constructions corrected. It is ine all the principal objections lekinst trust, and earnestly ;raciously keep and .ough strife or vain- in possession of th( ollowing outline of hi: intended to ex Christianity, ai is from ( will also contain inquiri text us not hn to be the.subj€ Up debased i that the Scribes and tl of none effect through thei Scriptural interpret. Church eibercromby War( i.iverpool Health Association FATIGUES AND FORTUNE OF I ;eurs, w telescopes, c emplate from be olutions of the 1: of the amount of labour and torture gone even an approach to perfection in the is accomplished. Alberic Second, the n. of a very amusing book (albeit in aste) " Les Petits Mysteres de l'Opera," s Mr. Hervey confesses himself largely in- any concept through. befor TerpsTellorea very witty thorough I to whose T curious details on this subject, tion immense amount of courage, patience, resig toil, is neces The poor chil learnt you! and kne ,ys an in tentious one. It sacred the agrt elements of tt me when ti of the commentator, who gra- duration. TI ary, to becOine even a middling dancer. idren—for dancing, above all things, must be .g—commence with the stocks, heel to heel outwards. Half an hour of this, and another species of martyrdom begins. One foot is placed upon a bar which is grasped by the contrary hand. This h called se casser, to break one's self. After this agreeabl, process come, the thousand and -ps, essential opera dancer " Such " laginary da right spirit within - ' whom M. Seco=-1 professes to receive his inform art of dancin It these rude fatigues are of-short are perpetual, and on that condition week's idleness must be atoned for liy two miiths' double labour. The opera-dancer realises the fable of Sisyphus and his rock. She resembles the horse, who pays with his repose, his flesh and his liberty, the rapid victories of _ the race-course. -I have seen Mademoiselle Taglioni after receiving a two hours' lesson from her father, fal ng by various steps, and at various an era, when our Lord declared Pharisees made the word of God The erroneous constructio: be many changes tion has undergone in the Jewish e birth of Christ, will also be noticed. hich the Seventy and St. xt, will now and then be of Jewish litera be no- valuable, wi. tain articles on the Old Their present state and captivity, will also be )f whit tice( Test Jews throne movements, clegeribfui_ The ma it cUspersift places of th Work as ti society for pi .s must form d valuable auxiliary to _ _ w ~inoting Christianity amongst the Jews, .nd every one ho feels a desire for the welfare of that remarkable and interesting people—and who does not -411 do all in his power to promote its circulation. The with Christian temper and well calculated to y among members of the House of that they are also adapted to -+ holy faith." ith great thereft t cons, ;ed, and again attired, without the )f what passed. The agility and v with which she, that evening; delighted the public, purchased at this price." Besides these terrible fati dancers often run serious personal risks. says the author of the " Petits Mvsteri( ues, So, at least, who, as a journalist and frequenter of the coulisses, is excellent au- He cannot resist a joke, but it is easy to sift the thority customs herself to real peril, .as a soldier comes habituated to murder and pillag herself from wires, sits upon pastebow pears through trap doors, comes in by goes out by t window. In the first act of the Peri rous a leap, that I consider Carlotta takes it. Let M. suspend; 1, disap. there is so dat Grisi risks her - life ev( elf and Forrester—on )road, the latter as a rcv is colonel. e is more than usually full THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. "lON AT THE PRESENT SEASON wears its dirtiest, THE SERVANT THAT WAS " SUCH A TREA ntst, and most disconsolate garb. The streets are SURE," AND THE CHERRY BRANDY. )Very with black mud or blacker ice, a yellow halo Tr-. (From " The Greatest PlaguißifLife,' or, the Adven tures of a Lady in Search of a Good Scrvent.") of I don't suppose I could have finished a quarter of 'an and hour before the first double-knock came at the door, and ; the that slut Mar not down stairs to answer it. So I rushed of Italian grinder-, c.areel y un herroom and bundled her down as quick as I could ; tattered children and half- {Bough she had been at her old tricks again, I could see, and tearful, pester the and wasn't really in a fit state to be trusted to go to the wares, and of winter door ; but what could Ido ? They had knocked again, The popu •,g-time are, and I had only just time to sit myself down, and take up one of the bo o ks o ff th e d raw i ng - room t a ble, when the and street door was opened. And then, to my great horror, I amps, even the ana uncomfortable. Cabmen, peevisn at tne pauc fares, curse with triple intensity the wood pavemen the luckless garrons that slide and stumble over it blue and benumbed finge turn the organ . handles, starved_ women, - pale, s pedestri nosegays meagre ar crie-erfulr .nd merry of yet 13( king of Christ le a rorld. London is aluandc s few thousands whose still on the list of absentee ; and demar Blackiimo THE M These two gentlemen ay - wouldn proprieti t ChambE wrote a numb which ha Those 31lowec d by o' Tlik TORY PARTY AND SIR ROBERT PEEL.—And ROW one word in reference to the position of the gentlemen who occupy what is called the opposition side of the house, and who, in point of numbers, as far exceed the strength of the ministerial party as, through their own misfortune or the faults of their leaders, they come short of it in moral power. Is the breach which has severed Lord George Bentinck from Sir Robert Peel quite irreconcilable ? We verily believe that it is. _We do not think that any con tingency can occur, that any pressure from without, any movement from within, can arise which shall be of suffi cient force to bring these gentlemen cordially together. The Protectionists will never forgive the man • who has twice betrayed them. Sir. Robert Peel can neither forgive t the many personal attacks to which he has, by ts, been subjected. Benjamin Disraeli is de. It would be very ridiculous to affect iorance of these truths, and %verse than absurd to un to their importance. They have broken the thorn in I party to pieces, —at least for the'preseut. They have cru elly, wantonly, and most wickedly dissolved a political alliance, more influential than any which has existed in this country since the era of the Revolution. Moreover, look at the thing as we may, we can discover no adequate reason for it. The country was at peace, the revenue was flourishing, trade was brisk, public feeling wasp quiescent, thout any previous warning given, Sir Robert Peel thought fit to declare himself friendly to the abolition of the corn-laws. He pleaded, as an excuse for so complete a change of opinion, his fear of a coming fa mine. His predictions were ridiculed, his statements dis puted and denied ;• yet let us not forget, that the very men who thus scouted the minister's reasoning went far before him in the measure which they proposed as the best wherewith to combat an impending calamity. It was the Protectionists who first suggested the propriety of suspending the operation of the corn-laws ; it was Sir Robert Peel, the newly converted enemy to their existence', Who rejected the proposal, and for the time actually ren dered them more stringent. Neither party can forget this.. The Protectionists have some right to affirm that other motives than those which he avowed must have swayed their then leader in his decisions. Sir Robert must feel that by resisting their proposal he has made himself, ill some sort, the cause of the distress which is desolating Ireland at this moment. And what is the con sequence ? As regards Peel, beyond all question that be has lost his status in the political world. He may affect, for a while, to play the part of Mentor, and advise both sides as calmly as if he took no personal interest in their discussions. But the leader of a great political party he can never again be, inasmuch as the Whigs themselves would distrust, were he openly to join them. it of the smallest use to speculate on the healin IMPROVED SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—At the weekly meeting of the board of guardians for the Nottingham Union, on Tuesday last, the returns showed a decrease of 70 inmates of the workhouse within the previous seven days, and the number of applications for relief much fewer than on the preceding Tnesd effect of I dropped 4s. per c ally employed, was Very not heal, and this is one of them. Had Peel acted with a little more of courtesy and candour ; had he reasoned with the members of the Conservative party in private ; had he given to their chiefs his confidence, and made out something like a case, we venture to say that there is hardly any measure towards the accomplishment of which he would have failed to command their cooperation ; none, at least, short of that which drove him out of office ; and which, seeing the results to which it would surely lead, he ought, at all hazards, to have abandoned.. For it is a 'lishment of any particular make amends fo - I signs of improvement were becoming evous error to suppose that the accomp' purpose, however important in itself, can nr the dislocation of a loyal and high- Such a party cannot fall without opening the doors of office and influence to men of arfar laxer code decidedly Manifest find that the Whigs of 1847 do not make use of the op poirtunity, which seems to have been created to their ue purpose e, during amid such an acerbation of feeling, it must be apparent to himself, and to the most devoted of his followers, that Sir Robert Peel's continued presence in the House of Commons can accomplish little good to any one. He can scarcely expect to be received by his late party as their chief any more. It is impossible that he should be con tent to play a secondary part under t' leaders THE LATE SEVERE WEATHER.--A correspondent at Harewood, in this county, informs us, that in carelessly looking at an old wall, at Harewood, he saw therein a small hole and drew from thence four tom-tits, one hedge sparrow, one robin, and one wren, which 'birds he sup posed were diiven into companionship by the severity of the weather, and had perished from the cold. The circumstance is the more remarkable, as the pugnacious disposition of the robin towards other birds is well known: —Hereford Times. An inquest was held laMweek in Middlesex, upon a lady named Potts, whose delight was not only to take all the medicines she could obtain, but to compel others to do the same. When she visited a sick friend shegwould empty --.1-wsic bottles and pillboxes. Aloes constituted her and , servative) shall give in their adhe ie nature of things that he should pass over to tht of the Whigs ; or that, passir over, he should be by them received in a manne of his acknowledged talents and undoubted habits of bu- Iney for the word ( ion. Neitt 3 Win t ranks Avourite physic, and a physician stated that he had pre pared in twelve months as much aloes for her as would have supplied the town of Uxbridge. Amongst those whom she induced to take medicine was a boy, to whom A more novel, lut equally , successful application of the inhalation of ether is recorded its the Edinburgh Journal. Professor Simpson had administered it in a case of difficult labour. The patient was deformed, and on a former oc casion had suffered dreadfully in labour during three or four days : on the present occasion the patient was deli vered in as' many minutes. A remarkable circumstance Simpson was, that, whilst s continued, and yet breathing the ether worthy The Whigs E Lot in want of leaders have T Juord John himself a host ; and, frilling him, many more aspiring youths than can be boasted of by the op posite party. And happy as they will always be to take advantage of Peel's assistance, and to profit by his speeches and his votes, when he shall be pleased to speak and vote in their favour, they will never push aside one of their own set to make way for him, or admit him, to the end of What, then, can he do Sit apart, and watch for his created to advise, but 'option of his recom- i the - House of ( country's welfare, like some or havinino power to compel the me.ndations ? Surely such some to himself—undoub will prove very it dly it will be . the source of much inconvenience to others. For influence he will have n2ne,except with some dozen or two of ancient colleagues ; , eing - moved by _memories of a happier sort, may , hrink from deserting him in his downfall. The rest of he house, be they called by what name they may, will ieglect him, and yet not altogether so his powers of peech must tell in any popular assembly, his intimate acquaintance with parliamentary law and usage will give him a thousand opportunities of damaging, if he cannot linost irresistible Let him retire into hich his sovereign is the h-lbour-thr unconscious of pain in inquest held on Saturda )ther St. Giles's, Mr Known to all t 'of the Journal Mr. Ro :1 the jury that he hadaiscovered a manufac ,ges, at which bad oranges could be made into the process pa— _a was the sub mitting of unripe and inferior oranges to the action of steam, or parboiling them. This made them swell, filled out their rinds, and made them thin, the usual external sign that the fruit was good. To give them the last po lish, and heighten the outward attraction, they wprp ~ursuec rubbedwith agreasy piece of flannel; or F t something more objectionable. On Tuesday last a most difficult ane ur i the femoral artery was performed by Mr. Litrhtfoot, sur- Teon, cf Newcastle and in the presence of Mr. Frost, _ —.die, whilst the patient waa.under the influence nen The incision was nearly two inches deep and ve inches long, and during the whqle of the operation 4 4 .nt did not evince the slightest sensation of pain ' Is , s since declared that site uncon. CHAMBEI ;entleman. ays of his e towards literature. hands in childhood , • - r "'" '''''Y ILL about, like a downright maniac, arid it was only by . 2tion, but in histories and encyclopedi a s. mising her some warm spirits and water in the evening, 3y day and night I read, and duties required by parents that I could in any way get her to keep her tongue to herself. --rudgerl if they ...nrirn tad rn r, A.'5.... ,4.....3.. Even my Y I was so upset, that instead of my friends congratulat ,ss determined inz me on my improved appearance, they did nothing but _ontrol at sixteen, tell me that they could perceive Mary was worrying me ,00ks to all ordinary dreadfully, and that they had neverseen me look so bad courses of _industry. It was but a proper sequel to such a before. And they kindly advised, me to get the jade out beginning, that I should have scarcely reached man- of the house as soon as possible, saying, that if she were a hood, when I had become an author." servant of theirs, they should expect to be burned alive in To THE WORKING CLASSES.—Towns are always more their hods, for that drunken people were always so care unhealthy than the country. In the country parts of England and Wales one person out of every 55 people dies less with'their candles. While dear mamma (who is na turally, a long-headed woman,) said, that every morning every year ; and in the towns, taken one with another, she confidently expected to find the place destr' one person dies out of every 38 people every year. If you fire, and that her dear children bad perished in the flames compare these numbers together, you will see the truth of All which took such a hold on my mind, that I couldn' what we have said. All towns are not equally unhealthy. act a wink of sleep for a week afterwards, and was alway One out of every 37 people dies every year in London ; ?ancying I could hear the boards crackling, and ker+ but in Liverpool one person out of every 28 people dies ting up and going over the house, shiveling, :- every year. London is not a very healthy town, but if dress, to satisfy myself that all was safe. Liverpool were as healthy as London there would be 1800 We were, at one time, as many as fourteen in the draw funerals less every year in Liverpool than there are. if ing-room, and all of them highly-desirable acquaintances, Liverpool were as , healthy as some other parts of Lanca- being peonle very well to do in the world : when mamma, shire, there would be 3600 lives saved every year. Th. - l of her cherry brandy, would persund very burying of these poor people costs .iIB,OOO a year to f,.;,,, , h: tri take SOME —if it was only a g l ass f,i - - nll the trouble and .--- :e from yed by m my nig who is so pro friends to talk ;4- 1, So (bother heir relatives, beside; caused by their deaths many burial clubs in Liverpool to help the poor to hem the expense. There is also a great deal of sickness more 't is no wond, tupid cherry br hick sure I couldn't see the of red and white wine on the than there ought to be. It is not so bad for the working men who live aiood deal in the open air, but their wives and children, o live at home, suffer 'prodigiously. It has been calcu ed that there are no fewer than 100,000 cases of illness every year in Liverpool more - than there oueh4 _ table ; and that was good enough for any one any day I should think. Besides, I had set - my mind upon keeping the cherry brandy quietly to myself, as there were only two bottles of it, and Edward had just laid in several dozen of port and sherry. However, I returned with one of the bottles and an agreeable smile on my countenance to the drawing-room, little thinking that I was about to present some of my best fi _ to.be. You will now be e there are so many bent le to nnderstand why t societies and sick clubs ; and you of that horrige wash the doctor's bill You are Some of you are iged to go to the that that tipsy, thieving• with. Then giving it to that she should fill the gla it to herself. So, the go , and handing them round, 7 had filled up the bottle nrna, I told her pleasantly and have all the credit of I said, know tha' nteel connexions, Auld like . her to try that; but in London, which is •ed heiself ti he would find it very fine nd not to be got everywhere, as she had ma ler own peculiar way; anc at she felt convinces astry cxx would g adly gig made a point of using mine but die very_l could be got for money, together with the finest Morella cherries that were to be Ricked up in Covent-garden mar- 'When they had all got their g s, clear sous mamma sat down with a self-c - ontented smile, wait ing for the approbation and eulogiums which she confi- y expectec T lm her wi the wash, all the res 'ollowed her example. Dear ma made a wry face after well the - poor thing r I'm afraid tl -- 1 ; but :u, Mr fraid of my de'ar hurt you, I can I think yot Mrs. L—ckl answered, " bottle of such as that would not a, Now, really, I shall begin to you don't finish it. On which n extremely well-bred woman) m sure.' another spoonful of the filth y good—it's very nice, ~..,)on poor, dear mamma (who was determined not to be baulked of the compliments she innocently thought'she was entitled to) tried to prevail on some of the other poor things (who really, considering all had borne it like martyr-' • - Rut 1W !he thot ) to go on with theirs ty excused herself by saying 1 , o rich as some of nioti ght s that she had tire of tasting before, and that's` aid that she was afraid the and so it had, with a venge ) On ward (lawyer like), fancying something wa wrong, and thinking it a good opportunity for teasing hi poor, dear, innocent mother-in-law, took a glass himsel and had no-sooner tasted it, than, instead of swallowin it, like a gentleman, be spit the whole into the fireplace declaring he had never in all his life tasted such beastl trash. Whereupon dear mamma, who believed that h only said as much to annoy her, took a glassfull likewise scream, and the mouth again, exclaiming— Mary I now it's her ! soul spluttered it all out of h€ " Oh that shameful minx of If she he bad( penses of illne of even able to pay that. fnr there am dispensm them eve v. Do Now, nearly all these calamities fall on you, the wor ing classes. People that live in the better parts of t town are far more healthy and longer lived than you az In proportion to the population, nearly h people die every year in Vauxhall Wai street and Abercromby Wards ice as many Le in Rodney axhall Ward, living eight years less than they have in ill this ,s and .—Address of the JET PERFORMERS r stall the agile. bounA is of the ballet ) things, ',muse tht nr, and looking at her as if I could ha;e eaten I her to go down stairs directly, and rememb nd what she was, and where she came fr g. I . [found it was poor Mrs. I :e . -that Mary had been insultint —yl—s in this c who were quite flurried at her strange goings-on. Luc Edward was up-stairs dressing, or there's no kno what he wouldn't have done. And I declare, there not a single person that came into the hou she didn t insult, in some way or otl ,nd her lovely girl la day that ind twice I had down to her ; for she would go t singing apddaneiz drunken hussy! up again with what I'd swear was nasty tilt unripe cherries." No sooner I m, win! rig wretch, Edward, rushed out of the room, an actually hear the:brute bursting with laughter on All the dears agreed with poor mamma—who ing over. (if I might be allowed the exuression was very shameful conduct on the pax hoped that mamma would not let it take ai her on their account, as re y they didn't mir And then taking a glass of sherry wine a-piece, just to take the taste out of their dear mouths, they all hurried away, and in less than ten minutes we were left alone in the Irawing,roam before our very eyes the whole of the other fiOttleful, (which we made up our minds she had, of course, served in the same manner,) and directly after she had- eaten it top of her voice, to . -ig to :lake hanth - • - So I ran down as fast ,ey would as not quit that he should expose himself to tl temptation of causing this damage priv - ate life, or accept It - will be the noblesi arty there is no feud which ides could not speedily, end, @rntral ,4 fitsrellanp. --._._....5..---- The King of Prussia.has forw ..,rewster, K.H.K.B Mr. James the Monday, much regretted celebiated toast-master, died on stop Lodge, Essex, the seat offtViscount Maynard, ' - nost wholly destroyed by ire nn Sunday week. sday, the price of the 41b loaf was lowered On Tv in London A wren's nest w M a cow. eleven eggs -was ( ,ouse, at Blencow, Cumb timer has been purchased by a Spa- The Fir r fc,:elir. ;cious of any such operation having taken place ; the only thought he had was that he had been attending a ecture.—Neweastle Courant. PROVI MINTS (IRELAND).—A return of the aggregate amount of provisions imported from Ireland into England in the lastthree years, ending January, 1847, shows that the quantity of corn (of Irish growth) so imported, amounted, in 1844, to 2,801,206 quarters ;• in 1845, to 3,251,901 quarters ; and in 1846, to 1;825,394 quarters. The quantity of heat, flour, and oatmeal amounted re to 839,567 cwt., and 1,150,976 cwt. ; and 1,15%976 cwt. ; and in 148 cwt. The number of i 79 cwt wt., and 55 1846, to Feb. 9, 1847. IMWilabMll l lM M Q ,Mll . 7l MMlNUMMinennep. , 4l.salensw.a...,.,,,.......ms. PLANTING POTATOES IN THE AUTUMN.--Mr. Jones, 4eedsman, of Shrewsbury, planted some potatoes in the autumn, called " Summer Manly," they have beenin the ground, four inches beneath the surfacc, , , uring the late severe frosts, and are perfectly souud. Those planted deeper are in good condition, but those nearer the surface were injured, and those just covered with soil were en tirely destroyed. We are informed that it is best to sow potatoes in November or Decembe!, nine inches deep, with a little dry straw placed over them, and then the earth to follow. Before planting, dust the seed with slack lime, finely powdered. SUBSTANTIAL SOUP AND PORRIDGE FROM A gentleman writing to the Cork Constitution says, that as beef and veal may become scarce, an excellent substi tute, one which would give vast employment and remu nerativb wages to thousands, may be found in the article of fish! Sonia years since past, he says, being wind bound in my yacht in the Clyde, I became the guest of a Scotch gentleman, who gave me every day for dinner capital soup of different kinds, in which a particle of meat was never used. It was made of all kinds of fish as they came to hand, The fish being washed, and the entrails removed, was cut into junks and boiled in a digester until) the bones were dissolved. The skin and oil being skimmed= off, salt, pepper, onions, peas, meal, Scotch Barley,, bruised carrots, or whatever pleased were added. And excellent soup of different kinds was the result. Fish boiled into mummy in a digester affords rich gelatine, which added to " beans' meal, bruised peas, rice, and a mall portion of commissariat biscuit," acco r di ng t o M r. Barry's receipt, would make Nutritive soup. A POET IN DISTRESS.-Off Saturday, a boot-closer, 70 years of age, preferred a complaint at the Mansion house, London, against a relieving officer. The applicant said his name was Thomas Mills, his age upwards of 70, and hisprofession, poetry. He had written a great deal of verse upon subjects moral, rural, and lyrical, and he had received the highest praise for his compositions, which so a p LlLAildr tar cumstances' which it was unnecessary to detail, b u t w hi c h arose from his attachment to the muse, he, had been yougea to leave, temporarily, in the possession of a sta tioner, at Bethnal-green, 1004 copies of verses, which he felt assured would make him independent. He applied to a relieving officer to advance - him £2 to release them, but the applicant was met by an exclamation of " such nonsense," and the offer of the Shoreditch Workhouse. Mills expressed to the lord mayor a strong conviction that if his verses were released, and he had a fair chance of writing, he couldin future make- £l5OO a:lrear. One of his pieces was on the uses and granite tin um uses or steam and gas: The lord mayor,•after, a conversation which only the more ex hibited the disorder of the applicant's mind, intimated that he could not interfere. ItIGHLAND• DESTIT I3 ;IO . N.-FrOrll tV report just issued by the committee in Scotland for the relief of the desti tute in that country, we'make the following extract;-- " It will be found, from the above statement of facts, and while some of the most distressed districts are not in cluded, such as both the Ijists, Harris and Barra, not to speak of the whole of Orkney and Shetland, that a popu lation of 145.33 l are involved in the destitntio.. -e unu 1/11 all of these, by far the greater _ ,r—indeed the whole, with but few exceptions—must now be suffering under the calamity. The number of cotter families in the same districts fall to be considered as already entirely destitute, being in number about 7000, and representing a popula 5. tion of nearly 3fino entll.2 -1- numbe .1. - 6 must also De , that in many of th e returns the number of these is considered not specifically given, and accordingly not included.in the above summation of the cotter class. The number of families reported as actually destitute of food, at the dates of the several returns, was nearly. 3000 ; and taking the ornissickis made in this department also in many of the returns, and where, at the same time, in accompanying communications they are represented as numerous, the extreme,- nreccur. _ . . be can, thousa pressure of destitution and actual famine must dered as now really endured by upwards of sixty souls, in these districts of the Highlands and• And it cannot fail to be observed, how near tho >sure of destitution, in most of the districti, is• Iriod to ho_" A. COACHMAN IN TROUBLE.—The coachman of Lord 'ngs, on Wedtiesday week, was o rected to drive a 'Melton Con- Havlet as a wifo 3y. vending in The old from Clerkenwell Workhouse, where she has con- a decent maintenan lions articles of confer aonary lady, wha is upwards of sixty, on Saturday received a let ter from a solicitor, announcing to her the death of an aged relative, who had resided near Aberdeen (of which place Mrs. M'Cermack is a native), and•also that she had been bequeathed property to the amount of less a sum than £30,000 given as tt OF HOME-GROWN WHEAT---The following are of home-growm wheat which have }~tantitii cans which fUrnish. Weekly aver as sev( ld desir punished as even We have noticed, 'or two weeks past, the large quantity of wheat held back n Wakefield. Accounts from most of the principal corn narkets concur in stating the same fa On Friday week a granary in Glasgo - W fell down with the enormous weight of its•contents. Persons whose business has called them to visit or pass through the agricultural districts, also describe the corn stacks as being more abundant than usual at this time of the year.. The farmers hav e been said, evert in some ket reports, that in , eics on hand i n l as t Satur han submit fr, th. Q1;04,4- holding back, it is 1845. And it many cases they left la. day's country markets ratht ;s the wheat of en by cur which then occurred. The subsequ of day, may be e anday, ant , eted to cha ling on Wednes _ At en 1 rhect.r rom his lordship's residence at he railway terminus at Norm e doachman, whose name is family living at Lenwad Melton to Norwich Having no, one to drive back, he determined to go to his wife'S cottage and stay there, putting up his horses at Lenwade-bridge Inn. tin Fortunately he did not keep sober in Norwich, and stu. From Norfah. , Hetel, in a somewhat questionable stat about eleven at night. On the road he appears to have ' , lien asleep. P- turned into a bye-lane, which the hor Here ti ith Haylett sl next nioniini tho*it way by i asleep upon-Ake box,,and when he the morning', he,foued himself in th ,eth the hO:. ie.hhid wt • nor Bes and carriage were got out. Hay •eatest distress, and would probably have le mischief but for the police, who strictly lie lone himself g - uarded him. 'e very N. 'Lig) caving a rew.clays before been offered £l5O for one. Foos PROSPECTS.—Com has evidently seen its top 'ice. The opening_ of the ports produced the first effect. But the reduction Was slight.. A falling market, however, s always best supplied. And. the quantities brought for rard at most markets during,theweek, seem to shoß• that seem to have w 211-101.1.6 the track of the wheels box, hat the ( 4 - e, on one ()ma thin.a few ,ge of a deep never, they found their / out of , the field ed to ford a. wide stream, and were carried t this time Haylett appears to have been of the ec awoke, about four in e midst of the water, severed, Pe . ...x... The ic got agro• apparent Earl o: 15th Jan Breeze January, of sails: ; Sir Jol nous. Circa& loss of b J9iiii - i nlainboo LIMEY Was fall( logged, a ult by tho of foretro Altura tirriore. f near this Ca rife, for this durin g a r came tfavanna. rk-L-A Antwe r p Carol i r Isabel" all at St Defen I ndii Anne, j Mils, btill Medem sails, spa , Marconi the Iltfi I Gulf. Oi went as on the 2 of Whitel Rutland 11 D IS_ AST ,Ora-laAa, on Cr-ar piii;lini tPlit.— Prestor !taYsail 'Falcon Pi `ballast' p 1 the wind 1, ~nb violent h ung over oon., n oon - the this Port or on the ..Wkitehav allance, There way t e, t ' ho a 4 nPio . l;a, LE ()dean! b g et THI earrr_ Wat4 e ,, Ca ! ,I !. R R IVE 1 Ca Pe T h 3l ' t OCtOn 1,11"ie throw kl i v, at /Ili , V,.4Y a le, PI 144(12!! II .P q bol -. i otl :J 01, ert Pt , erald ?haksplw Lord.s.n Idariairet; ditto. E mma, U..", —, uncLeroni Cuba Be f o , men of the ( it a thousand lay members, is at once ,' a cause," and be up and doing. We are loges before us, that during umentality of the society past year, t tioned, no less t re admi Ldred and sixty-four of Christ by the sa- ;o the C 1, 3, at Chester ,nkfort, 4, at H Amsterdatri, 12, at 1, at Copenhagen, 1, mburg, 2, at Jerusa iverpool, 8, London, 3sia, 17, Rhine Pro- lem, 1, 161i4h, ] 41, Nottingham vince, 1, Sile;ia, Warsaw, Le poor and ignorant Ised by the Jews in Russia and Sir J. L. Golds. ming candour, said coed at a rece " out of the c Berlin univez certainly converted ^he Greatest. Pla m the Adventures of a ant. London : David Lady in Searc good Ser Bogie, 80, Fh We have been killed with laud g at the odd mix turo of caricature and trut cation, of which the firs contained in this little publi ?art is just published. The nd the authoress is evidently s; and hits off in her banter- subject well pr mg way the weal s of servants, but We anti- from her further adventures The work is i Cruickshank, inimitable way by George subject rare scope for ketchir Te are unavoidably compelled to postpone notices of New Quarterly Review, Rowland Bradshaw, the Dublin Uni and some others, which: re nee T 1 the wee lETIES & bilic A a &ruler's dog point. ' in his arr The co: ied by his attitude, took him home, believing he had been seized with the cram " OLD CLOTHES.' - enerated into " Ogh C 1( The " Old Doublets" has dege y which teased Coleridge udicrous incident. " The for a time, and occasion other day." said Colerid, by a Jev woked The Jew I can you can ; but if you bad to say s, u would ' Oph Clo he marched off. Coler- i gave II , n Cries the only one he had Old Lona (of the Botanical (4 dens at Rio from the entrance, is plantei on each of ground about an ac this avenue, that the xterit, or the'left-hand siale 01 which were importk from China by the grandfathei of the present emperor It was thought that the climate and soil of 13razil woulc be suitable for its cultivation ; but the success of the ex. periment has not equalled the expectations which wen formed of it, notwithstanding that the growth of thi plants and the preparation of the leaves were managed h! ..tines of China accustomed to such occupations. In thi provinc been c tablished aulo a few large plantations of tea hay that belonging to the ex-regent Feij 3of twenty thousand trees. The pro shops of Rio, and in appearance i uished from that of Chinese maw] I in to scarcel' facture taste. , C d 1.511 , but the flavour is interior, being more of a herby It is sold at about the same price ; but it is now ascertained that it cannot be produced so as to give a suf ficient recompense to the grower, the price of labour being much rreat.v. Rraxil than in China; to remunerate, it LIEZZIL wawa a. • ilsms'a—ittl;7tr all tea ought to bring tire shillings per pound.—Garclner's Travels into the Interior of Brazil.. Petipa be once awkward, or even absent, and Carlotta will break her head upon the boards. I know an Englishman who attends every performance of this ballet. He is per suaded that it will be fatal to Carlotta, and would not for the world miss the catastrophe. It is the same man who, for three years, followed Carter and Van Amburgh, always hoping that a day would come when the animals would sup with their masters, and upon their masters."— Blackwood. THE CAMPHINE LAMP.—As soon as mother had gone, Edward retired to bed, and left me sitting up to finish my dress, and new cover my white satin shoes, which had got d rcadfully soiled with the mud in going to and from the ge on our wedding day. And besides, I had to clean my white kid gloves, and to let them hang up all night so as to get the filthy smell of the turpentine out of them before the morning. It was long past midnight before I had finishbd the better part of what I wanted to do ; and as I could hear Mary (who • had. been waiting up to clean the room overnight so that she might have nothing to do in the morning to prevent her being ready dressed long before the visitors came) knocking the things about below in a dreadful ill-humour at being kept up so late ; and as it wasn't worth while having a fresh candle put up just to do the few little odd jobs that remained, I rang the bell ; and lighting mamma's darling little pet of a 'amp, (drat the thing ! I wish it had never come ) went up stairs, taking my things with me, bridal robes for Mary camphin ntothe house When I got to my room, —ung my beautitui on the back of a chair, and put out Edward's nice clean white trousers ready for him in the morning. I could scarcely keep my ey open w ary was unc and was so glad to get into Bed, teat t quite torgot, ne fore doing so, to turn down the camphine lamp. But just as I was dozing off, I remembered it, and told Mary, who was hanging up my things, to be sure and turn it down before she left the room ; instead of which, th minx, (who I'm sure was half f a state of bl the world like the funnel of put stx els I IL )t all the n turned round and led at the time,) went L'al7- like stupid so ie filthy th thick of black, I really thought at first that I was in bed with a filthy negro. So I gave him a good shaking, and woke him directly ; and no sooner had he rubbed his eyes open and looked at me, than the brute burst out laughing, and declared that I looked just like a chimney sweep. I and jumped out of the bed just like light be allowed so strong an expression—and hole of the Place one mass of smuss : and gave a serer ning—if I r been d tually thh, s a •aggingillbrr he toilet cover and my face- white satin bridal robes )e evil-minded person had just for the pleasure of the thing— himney, and positively would have in, t first sight, to believe that a body had been ‘3l. in bombazeen. T declare the beastly sooty tuff was even there was a shovelful, at least,_ in Ind my white gloves were like black —and it had even got right up my and I do verily believe that a quantity had gone throat, for I generally sleep with my mouth open. But what annoye r il me so that I could hardly bear myself, was that Edward kept chuckling at all my distress, (just like a man—for of course he knew he wouldn't have the cleaning of it.) But when I showed him the grubby state that his ducks were in, I was glad to see how angry it made him. And then of course it was all his'mother in-law's fault bringing him her bothering twopenny-half- • - penny lamps ; and I really thought I should have been obliged to go into hysterics when I heard him say that the next time he caught my dear, respected mamma in his house, he'd pack her off with a flea in her ear ! A n d a life of me open my mouth, for fear that the hussy should leave me at a moment's notice, at such a time when, bad as she was, it was impossible to do without her ; and there were my bridal robes spoilt before my very eyes, and I didn't know how on earth I was ever to receive my friends, I - thing to put on.—From The . really hadn't a singi ureatest Plague in Life all up, to give her warning, of punishing her for her wicli as it would be the best way ed goings-on. So down- stairs we went, and having got the bottle out of:the store room closet, we made the wretch devour the whole of it on the spot—though from the ready way in which the minx resigned herself to her fate, and from the effect it had upon her shortly afterwards, (for it only: made-her more than befOre,) to our horror we folind -out that shehaallgever touched that bottle at all—and; indeed, she told us as much when she drunk up every drop, and had the impudence to say she should like to be punished again. So we immediately. lave her NI told her not to Rnt in think of sending to - us for a d the evening, the cherry brandy we had forced her to take, made her so dreadfully bad, that we had to carry. her up stairs and put her to bed again. All of which was a mere Edward. into ; who kept telling us, ;kith a nasty vulgar giggle, that we ought to be ashamed of our elves for driv ing the poor girl into another fit ; and he said he hoped that dear mamma would take care that the next servant she engaged for,hitn wasn't subject to epilepsy, (an aggra- Italians al and realise tl o th jan bodie course when tl. rush company, ant is being ()I, the Clyde for the Mediterranean prior to leaving quantity of barley made into malt for es last yeap, in Great Britain and Irel 247,375 quarter and, was ❑g boiledanil maslieci 'before mixing is said to be very ;fight, pleasant; and nutritious. A donkey, belonging to Mr. Gaudey, 68,, Upper' Bed ford-street, Brighton, died on,Monday week, at the ad awed age of 100 years ! The ( ;olonelcy of the 47th Foot,. vacant,by, the demise of the late Sir William Anson,. has been: conferred on Major General Sir Harry Smith, Bart.,. the hero of Aliwal. Lord Shrewy (the premier _Earl of England) is the English - Government are !onntryl IRISH SI Thames on. Mi provisions, whi doing nothing , for that :s.—Five vessels arrived in. the River day from• the. Irish ports, laden with fact wiLtanoear singular at the present A new stzam-tug boat has been plying on the Birming ham canal during the past, week, and the objection to the swell created against the banks, is said to be completely obviated by a very simple contrivance. The total amount contributed in Sunderland to the Irish to the present time is nearly sum ever raised in that town for and Scotch !Whet ru , £2OOO, Laing the large charitable object maul , sprat -revert" aye ,ts and plaice were landed at r wnrP rtstnilpti in Ternrityn ,3ad plaice of large size sold for one Darby anti Sim, of Colebrookdal who recenti vessel whia Richard Cobdeti, p on the stocks, which they intend In Ross has proposed to. the Admiralty and to 1 Astronomical Society a plan by which he ex- y Swed Lorses, to )e ena- d to reach the North Pole & meeting has been held at Calcutta in honour of the roury of the late Dwarkanauth Tagore ; and it has been resolved to raise a fund, to be called the liwarKanauLo gndowment Fund," for enabling the : . Hindoo youths to complete their education at the University College, London., The fifth subscription list for the relief of Ireland and Scotland 'amounts to £114.,000. The additional sums ap. pended to this list make the actual total above £120,000. Independently of this amount, the subscriptions through the National Club are nearly £12,000. at one of the of a most lamentablepature, and attended of six lives, occurred on Friday week, r)arley Main Coal Company's pit?, at -bout four miles from the town of Worsbrough Dale, Barnsley, and ten fr Virglff. ha .ressed a letter to the free- d, offering to , deliver nt towns of England, for the benefit rifted Kingdom. The reverend gen r.eturn except his expenses for tra- -Sir Peter Laurie state July to 1846. January to June. , July•to December end to the sheriffs of / 130,727 103,633 2,694,479 3,234,45 are to be baked in twenty-four pies delivered to the lord of the manor of 1 to.convey them to the Queen. AN• ENCYCLOP,EDIAN NEWSPArEft---A Project has been started by Mr. Luke Hansard, (a gentleman who has proposed many very benevolent,• schemes, but which pasties,, and then Fast Carlton, who is le extent have never, been carriedout, we apprehend, to t of his wishes,) to bring out a newspaper, which is very properly to be called The Spirit of the Times, for its con tents are to embrace no less than sixteen distinct heads of information; to each of which a whole page'is to be devoted. The publication, it seems, is first to appear in two sheets equal to the Times, and next in a separate form, in octavo. The price .for both forms is extremely. moderate ; and if the projector may only be enabled, to realise his vast con ceptions of the moral uses to which a newspaper may be made to subserve, there can be no.tioubt that a new era in journalism will take its date from .the appearance of his paper, FOOD' _RIOTS IN SCOTLAND. . -.--The north of Scotland is nearly in a state of insurrection. At Burghend, two vessels,laden with meal for exoort were deplived of their cargoes. At Lossiemouth anifFindhorn several carts were seized, and the ca pt ure d v i c t ua l s l odged in storehouses. The other places in th e ne i g hb our h oo d b e i ng i n a similar stateof excitement, forty soldiers from Fort George have been stationed at Elgin ; and_ a. company from Aberdeen has been sent to Port Gordon, into which the inhabitants of Keith, an inland town,. are said to be pouring in large numbers. Passing over intermediate districts, the food riot folly has also reached the south.. In Stranraer, dis turbance was raised because. two meal-dealers would not sell their meal at 2s. 6d. per stone. Carrots and loaves were also stolen, but the promptitude of the authorities prevented them reaching any great height. The Edinburgh Deputation Fund amounts to-day to £24,000 6s. 2d. The Scotsman's " commissioner" to the Highlands appears to think that the Highlanders are by far too indolent, and that the distress, been exaggerated .e, has in same instances DUE OBSERV fleeting to prom OF TIM SABBATH.—A numerous this important object was held at The evils resulting from the beer iunday traffic on canals, railroads, &c., it by the various speakers, and also house system fro: the injurious consequences to the working classes pro duced by late payments on Saturday evenings. A memo rial was read to the meeting, signed by 1,298 tradesmen of the town of Birmingham, (who had long opened their shops on Stuidays,) expressive or their desire that an end should be put to all trading on that 'sacred day : they asked protection, declaring " that they would gladly leave off trading on the Sabbath, and enjoy its rest, did they not fear being ruined by loss of custom, if others were al lowed to carry it on." This is, no doubt a very prevalent feeling inall towns ihroughout the kingdom, and calls for attention from the legislature, as well as the public in ge neral. We understand that some tradesmen in, a_ small way of business in this city incur loss rather than wound thew consciences by keeping their shops open on the Sun day; such persons claim protection.— Worcester Journal. liunnve AT DERBY. — On Tuesday evening last, a horrid an brutal murder was committed by a person named James Cross, a gardener, living up in a court in St. Peter's-street, Derby, upon his wife. It appears that Cross and his wife were in the house alone, and that, from some unexplained cause, probably the result of a quarrel, he attacked the woman m a furious manner, al most literally cutting off her head ; that being the condi tion of the unfortunate creature when the premises were entered. We deeply regret to state that the diabolical conduct of the man Cross was not confined to the murder of his wife. It appears that Mrs. Osborne, baker and flour dealer, in Peter's-street, who resides very near to Cross, hearing screaming, ran into the house, and that, on seeing her, Cross plunged a knife into her throat, and stabbed her in three different places. She now lies in an exceedingly dangerous state, with, we fear, but a slight chance of her recovery, Mr. Osborne, who was at home, immediately followed his wife, and was horror-stricken at the sight. The murderer , on an alar m being given, wiped his bloody knife and endeavoured to escape, but was taken into custody, VA! The avent vating - thOnster ! AN INCONSISTENCY.—" The horror which is evinced in the minds of us all by the death of one man by railway accident,, more than by other :means, I have often thought must result from the idea that at any time speciall it may be our own case ; yet here ar thousands annually destroyed around fatal, but, with common care, more s by means. as easily preve which at any moment may :e upon, t le strongest of us ; and this, until lately, with scarcely a wora or a. unkragin, upon the subject. Happily, however, we are now on. the eve of a great and glorious and irresistible change."— Report of Henry. Austin, Esq., C..E. THRESHING CORN IN SPAIN.—AII classes here gain their bread by ranking it, and the water-mills and mule- from ti At the out icts, a smooth L hard surface, era, ar Roman_ area. The sbeaves of corn are spread out on it, and four hones yoked most classically to a low crate or harrow, composed of planks armed with . hints, &c., which is called -a trill() : on this side, the driver is seated; who urges the beasts round and.round over the crushed heap Thus the grain is shaken out of the ears and the straw tur rl ; the latter becomes food for horses, as the former does 'fair men. When the, heap is sufficiently bruised, it is removed and winnowed by being thrown up in the 3:11 . ; the light winds carry o: falls to the ground. 'I X, while the I d v singul whole operation is truly pictu is a crowded one, as ind share in the around, clad in ainter, and falling.of them rer classes of Spaniards am either eating and drinking -lUitar is neve iorses dash over the prostrate sheaves, ndid simile of Homer, who likens them )f Achilles when driven, over the Tro- 0 weather is dry, and generally under s most terrile heat.. The work is often continued at night fall by torch-light. During the day the half-clad dusky reapers defy the suh and his rage, rejoicing rather in the heat like salamanders ; it is true that their devotions to the porous water-jar are unremitting, nor is a swill at a good passenger's beta ever rejected; all is life and action ; busy hands and feet, flashing eyes, and eager screams ; ttie light yellow chaff, which in the sun's rays glitters like ev. Dr vs in the di of the poor in the I tlenaan wishes for ill ;fling in third SOLITARY that, during the last ten years, forty lunatics have been sent from the Penitentiary to Bethlehem, while in the preceding ten years only fourteen were sent. Sir Peter attributes the increase to the adoption of the In a letter to the Jersey Times, Dr. Robert H. Collyer, of St. llelier's claims the merit of having first adopted the plan of producing unconsciousness by the inhalation of stimulating anal narcotic vapours,. and of having per- Ica operations without giving pain to formed many si; ients in that VALUE OF THE REFUSE OF TOWNS.—" Taking a ge neral view of the subject, we may assume a clear revenue gold 'lust, envelopes them in a halo, which by night, when from the Sewer Water of all towns of £1 for each in partially revealed by the tires and mingled with the torch habitant, either in a direct money return, or partly to the glare, is almost supernatural, as the phantom figures, inhabitants in a reduced price, from the increased abund now dark in shadows, now crimsoned by the fire flash, flit ante of produce."—Evidence of J. Smith, Esq., of to and fro in the vapourous mist. The scene never fails to Deanston. rivet and enchant the stranger, who, coming from the pale IN RE DONALD MACLEAN, M. P.— In the London north and the. commonplace in-door flail, seizes at once Court of Bankruptcy of the 27th of January, a further ad all the novelty of such doings. Eye dnd ear, open and journment for the surrender of this bankrupt was granted awake, become inlets of new sensations of attention and for three months, on the ground of continued ill health admiration, and convey to heart and mind the poetry, of the bankrupt, who is still in Italy. It was stated in the local colour, movement, gr ou pi ng , ac tion, and attitude.— course o f th e case th a t th e f un d s i n h an d were on ly £lOO, I Ford's Gatherings from Spain. and that the debts proved were £70,000, wheat has undergone a depression of 7s. a quarter ; and in Suffolk and Essex a fah of Bs., on barley is noticed. Ths spect of supplies from abroad is also much brighter. pro The relaxation of the navies use the Dutch ships in the ports of_Amsterdam America, Where they. can carry Ja the Bankers' Circular states, that - in the most prolific corn yielding district of Holland the farmers have sold scarcely any of their last crops. The arrivals of grain in Liverpool are already enormously great, exceeding in. the. two pr‘st weeks 580,000 barrels of flour ; 200.000 bushels and 10,000 quarters of wheat 390,000 bushels. 43.000 7 7 sac ks, and 12,000 quarters of Indian corn btrrels of Indian corn meal. CARRYING BUSINESS —MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM. A numerous and influential meeting of the m Id 45,000 -uers, aria manutacturers of Birmingham was held on Tuesday, at the public office in that town, for the purpose of considering whether any, and what, measures should be taken for averting the monopoly in the carriage of goods by railway companies, and for preserving and improving the means.oCeanal communication._ jr. J. Browne pre sided. In. stating the objects for which the meeting had. been convened, he commenced by observing, that on public groundsowhilst they were desirous of doing, away with railway conveyance, they wished that every facility should be given to- the conveyance of goods by canal or )therwise . At present, he believed, great imustice had been done to the carriers, a body of men to whom, it was. needless to say, the tradesmen and merchants of- Bir mingham were particularly indebted for the great consi deration they had ever given to their wants, wishes, and. convenience. It was then moved and carried unanimously, " That a .moitopoly in the carriage of goods by railway companies ought to be averted. —Mr. W it. Lloyd. said he well knew how the interests of the merchants, traders, and manufacturers of Birmingham were involved. in the question,—parties of greater influence than himself,. —but he might be allowed to say that freightage was a very important article in his trade. Having seen the im portance of railways in extending the trade and traffic of Birmingham, he was extremely anxious that they should be continued • but he was at the same time an advocate 1.411 CAMS for competition. lie need' not remind any gentleman present that many trades were fostered, if not absolutely created, in Birmingham, by the low price of freightage. Already, the cost of carrying some descriptions of heavy goods to the coast was greater than the cost of carriage across the Atlantic. The speaker proceeded to allude to the amicable arrangement likely to. take place between the London and North-Western Railway companies, by which he contended th a t, h av i ng " laid their heads toge ther," they would be enabled to divide the plunder be tween them, to the great injury of the carrying, trading, and manufacturing interests. When such a monopoly as this existed, or in all probability would exist,—,A mono , poly which over-rode Queen, Lords, and Commons,—it was then time that the public should interfere. After di lating on the injustice to the public of all railway mono= polies, he proposed the following resolution, which was carried unanimously, " That the serious attention of the Government should be directed to the fact of the enor mous amalgamations of railway companies with each other, which are, in the opinion of this meeting, matters of grave importance, not only to merchants, traders, and manufactuters, but to the public at large, inasmuch as such amalgamations tend to create an absolute monopoly, by placing under the absolute control of the few indivi duals composing the direction of a railway company the only existing means of support, both of passengers and goods, and without the possibility of competition." After a few words from Mr. Blewes and Mr. Whillock,, it was resolved, " That such being the opinion of this meeting, it is expedient that strenuous exertions be made to maintain the canals of the kingdom, and to prevent canal companies, amalgamating with railway companies, in all cases where the canal forms a link in a chain of canal communication.' The fourth, fifth, and sixth resolutions, all of which were carried nem. dis., condemned the ine quality of tolls carried by canal companies, as being inju rious to their interests, and recommended that the atten tion of canal ,proprietors should be directed to the consi deration of the best means by which the traffic and transit on their, lines might be improved ; and after deprecating the loss and, inconvenience incurred by the public, by the unsafe and irregular manner in which goods were con veyed on railways, pledged themselvei to encourage by every means in their power the einployment of water in preference to, railway carriage for such purposes, aIP arals o _ Beth, T , nem from --gt4.leo/ e q l b n oe' fr 6 Ac t° " lath j 11 , 1)11 anUar Pool, w Teton, AZ" NDA mCi MOT -41‘1,t',. *pil e dwith IZti, Ih Nt %.:Witll4 /4 14 i, 21 fro,nal k t 0 , 41., 11 0 ,,,uad, 11 ',bay • ...la. N a k il l ' o ll 4.14 At Crei)A. off ~i ~,,;i IH, ` 4 ? ankfi