The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

August 13, 1844. Co br kloth, ON SALE, a handsome well-bred HORSE, 15 hands ma , high, perfectly steady in Harness, and a fast goer. Y oe seen at Davies's Livery Stables, No. 71, Vine street, Abercromby-square. ON SALE, OLD BUILDING MATERIALS of Houses in Crosbie-street, now pulling down, con- VV~ing of B r i c k s, S tones, Sl ates, J o i s t s , S pars , D oors , n dows, Boards, &c. V auxhal'PplY lt-ro JOSEPU JONES, on the Premises, or at 131, oad. TVALI/A.I3LE CHEMICAL WORKS, IN FLINT. o be SOLD, by PRIVATE CONRACT, all that Piece c h . s3 r Parcel of LAND, w ith th e M anu f a cto r ies, Office, 4- 9 bers Iran 's's. Bla c k an d Whi te A s h, F urnaces , L ea d Ch am - Evapo ~-r, der -ground Flues, Cast-iron Vats, Boilers, sit uate ' a upg Pans, and other Fixtures thereon erected, near ant Mill, in the parish of Meliden, in the said county of Flint, and now in the occupation of Mr. .td°2ll2llo.Ford, a s Alkali Works, at the annual rental of situate Land contains two acres, or thereabouts, and is vihuate about a quarter of a mile from the sea shore, It:ire there is a Wharf connected with the Works by a and .ia Y , by means whereof Coal is obtained with facility, ..tit o a moderate price. of li t l l 3 l ut fifty yards from the Works is the proposed line Nvor Chester and Holyhead Railway, from which the s will derive increased advantages. t„,..sTqll.,eLrand is held under a Lease from John Dawson, be fo ion- the term of 63 years, from the 29th of Septem ' - ° 6 i, at the yearly rent of £5, payable half-yearly, ald subject to the covenants, &c. therein contained, (in ci tling a covenant for renewal.) The Premises may be viewed on application to the Te taut. a..P_pr further particulars, and to treat for the purchase, u P o t l ,: to JOH N r , ~ ..ORNTRWAITE, Esq., Solicitor, Liver -1; ut, tO ~ CHARLES CORSER, Esq., Solicitor, Wolver- IM°R ; to Messrs. W. and E. DYNE, Solicitors, 61, and n's-inn-field s, London ; or to Messrs.. SURRAGE 44ERSON, Solicitors, Sandwich, Kent. ....._______ Ci 3 be olbi or Ed 76 be SOLD or LET, an excellent well-b ant HOUSE, 1----- . wi n .ch earlyßedford-street South, h Abercromby-square, of possession may be ad. A 1, PPly ale-st to reet Mr. LATHAM HAMMER, Jun., Solicitor, No. D. Ea be Ret. TO YOUNG GENTLEMEN ATTENDING THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION. ONE or two YOUNG GENTLEMEN can be accom modated with genteel APARTMENTS, in Bruns wick-road, within five minutes' walk of the Collegiate In stitution. For cards of address apply at the Standard-office. TO be LET, in Prince's-buildings, west side North 4 - John-street, Lord-street, commodious suites of OFFICES, with Spacious Double Entrance, Fire-proof Safes, Gas, Water, and every convenience. Likewise, Two WAREHOUSES, in Harrington-street, and Two Suites of OFFICES, i n L or d- s t ree t- c h am b ers . PPly to JOSEPH CROSSLEY, Lord-street-chambers. ROYAL ROCK FERRY. T ° b e4e SliT . LE, a WELL-FURNISHED:HOUSE, c l ose ' . e t P, and overlooking the River:: contains (two IpTer Dr awing -room, and four Bed-chambers, (two eurble-bedded,) two Kitchens, Pantries, and Garden. X 1 rnlOss'. £ 2 Per week ; if t a k en f or e i g h t or t we l ve mont h s, per week. Fey, (firstlane et M r. GREENWOOD'S, 3w Terrace, to th e right fr o m , the the Ferry Gate. Rock ) ~, --- DIN ` 3I 4E MOUNT, TOXTETH-PARK. . TO be Lye --T, an excellent FAMILY HOUSE, with ,„,. Garden, Coach -house, Stable, and Harness-room. The House contains large Dining-room, Drawing-room, toeoakr fast Parlour, and Butler's Pantry on the Ground and A,.elght Bed-rooms and Dressing-room, with B ~.. n'aer Closet, on the Chamber Floors, and good Aatchens, Cellars, Store-room, and Servant Man's Bed rooAit on the Basement Floors. Rent £l5O per annum. r _.n,Pply to Messrs. HARMOOD BANNER and SON, Ha r +l4ton-chambers, Morth John-street. li r A vbe 11 LET, and may be entered upon immediately, roily, HALL, a comfortable Residence fora small rocro,sf naa prising Entra nce , Di n ing-room, D Offic es, "nIY, co nven i ent Kitchens, and other suitable tw o Dr On . the a Coa'chand ground floor • five good Lodging-rooms, floor • essing-raoms, and a 'Water-closet, on the first spacious Attics. There are also good Cellars,. in v . house. Stables, and other convenient Outbuill i n n and Gardens ; and any quantity of Land not excee - orgsmurteen acres may be had, as also the exclusive Right r e 7ing over about 800 Acres, if desired. int o ,_ °use and Outbuildins have recently been put pleas'autnplete .repair, and the situation is very healthy and of NOt , and two miles from the market and post town Gra ..itch ur , -", and twelve from the Crewe Station on the A ild i; Junction Railway. and pi..cation „„ may be made to Alessrs. BROOKES, LEE, MeSSrlt°l7ES, S O ' liCltOrS, Whitemrch, Shropshire ; or hur e r a nd SONS, Land Agents, Redbtook, near opti.6.44rCENTR 10 A L RAILWAY OF FRANCE.NB V IERZON, CHATEAUROU x and IVE VERS. I° 6C44111T AL 32,000,000 FRANCS, (El, h 2Bo lf ,oo f o ; ) hich .000 S hares, of 500 Francs, (£20.) one " --a- ° to be subscribed in France. D Eposir £2 PER SHARE. M"liell,:e.4324:enet DIRECTORS; M ang or) aa.rnie Leconte (Original Lessee of the Paris Moosieu eaus Railw ) i,_ ," des „ vjo esie t ratre c a ,.' (4nker, - Director, of the Company, Y er , n3 P a a a n r - is, ° . Corti na r A o : 13 8 11 :f o u rn x , p ) Paris, '" ons'e' a i n, Director of the Urbaine Insurance , aris, , ILvadodr Ejtin" Lsq" on on, street, London. J ill : lii b street,ll a :t ' - 11 Great Winchester- Nicholas-lane, Lombard sq., Pinner's-ha , Monsieur radon. (Administrator of the " Messageries Mathew Uzieilli, Esq, enerales",) Paris , 62, King William-street, London, With Power to add to their number. In London— BANKERS. Mrssrs. Mast erman an d C o. In Paris —Messrs. L. D'Eichtlial and Co. In Liv erpool —Messrs. Moss and Co. SOLICITORS IN LONDON. Messrs. Bircham and Dalrymple, 15, Bedford -row. London, August 2. 1844. THIS Railway, which is one othose comprised under the law of the 11th June, 1842, . has the great advan tage of being brought before the P u bli c after the law au thorizing the Fren c h Governme n t t o const ru c t i t , and also to grant it t o a pu bl ic C ompany on leasejor working, has passed both the French Chambers. The Minister or Public Works is required to grant the lease within two months from the passing of th e law, and, under all these favourable circumstances, n the Subscribers c an experi ence neither th e di sappo intment nor the delay whi c h has 40 freq uently attended similar undertakings. ti o This Line is i n t en d e d t o f urnis h R a ilway accommoda n It - 'etolarge a portion of the Central Provinces of France. Xlll commence at r ans, direction nem ly of the Pari Orleansßailway, in a d ue 8 and . will - diverge I and will form a co . ntinuatiu . n fromVierzon, south, to Vierzon ;it i ,in a south outhwesterly direction to Chateauroux, and 4w conte mp , t ~ f • T b it the easterly direction to Bourges and Nevers. he Line 1,... only to be constructed thus far at present, 1 , . to Li me , la es its utuie ex en Toulouse, and fro Never'es and, ultimately, from thence to t sion from Chateauroux ms to Cl that.A. due. ermont. that this beensideration of the Map of France will show, i - ".ailwaY will have the whole traffic of the vast parisgitl.a.' district, bounded by the intended Railraty from Pari s t ° L yons and Marseilles on the east ; by 2 and 43 thrleans, Bordeaux, and Bayonne,on t th a e west; and Marseilles on the.Bo4t.frorn Bordeaux to Toulouse Whole of Francel' d c omprising almost one-fifth in this dis trict irn pro A It Will be seen, also, thatare part of the doubly ne cessar, and th at of communication ar develop tuent of the t i e n a ilea? unsae,qiue n.reaefe at they must cause an immense of the country, of river or t,„,, 0 . the almost entire absence ,and natural resources d Orans ItailWa ga --"' Ihe.opening of the . Paris an 0 1 Y h air Li and :erz portion of the ne f rom 0 , on 40 per cent., and the r eans V• eaaY increased the intercourse betw een ? ° l,_ tit iatie t 1 all Pro r earls to Vierzon (fifty ls an must IT:rieentra3 engreat route for the traffic between.. Lin e B. At Vierz h of the .Li (thi rt ysev e Branch es of Prance and the North, including on,. the South western and situate on ttenrPtlx, norltainrniles) will lead tn Issoud n and Cha- Thi: lel re ad to rig 25,500 inhabitants, an fro to LIM is knowflioges, Toulouse, and the ntrv, suppcuenn e l n to traverse a most fertile cot _ .. s I,,f act es,. and joie rnsropolis draws a large P V ierzo ort'on t of m i a t . Pyrenees. bra /101 ° ring tat tillich are situated many important el the 4'4"Al:tents and coal-fields.other The _ m will Barr tour; takes a south-easterly direction fr s o n . toot'cientoY all th e r and Nevers, (fifty-four miles,) an r! Thf. and 0, .4rge traffic of Nevers, Moulins, . , c! -wn of .„,.,• ..he nr- , d Bourbonnais.. the chi ef t ,Never, vsent Route u 000 and is * Welt a • owlt °F the as a Population of 18, . , e ,, i n 14414, are situate the ea department of " La Nievr c . am_ !•°Rether°s!le, Imply, 4,stensive iron works of F eo o a ur . h coal -fields, la 5180 placed the rio niee ' o • , and their adjacent fD uze. Nevers NIB frL aced th e ca the gre us glass-works o which °5ll, from --. " Atiant• at Line of communication . that is to 1.104 Nant le to the Mediterranean , thet o l i and A v . es, by Tours, Orleans, Nevers, Roanne, co - /4 11 ~ tgnon, to Marseilles. Within a few :years il ltotipi ' t4eubtless bh hin of railway oniyi ttik eati ou f . O , un-roken c . a h as the the not pr . r thts entire distance, inasmuc b short po ' is ovided for by Railway Acts already passed _ Z d anne kaiirtwton between Nevers and the Andresleux and cle.ila the fieft.3".• Clermont contains 40.000 inhabitants,_ uy i nci it e, 0w of the important department 9_l F am i P "es the Which the population exceeds 600,000 Id of rao c . , , . thriving towns of Thiers, (the SheffiF . cent, ' ' 411lbert Elio h, eof C. R* & Clermont is the ''re great trade, and of a district which exports o ther 'quantities of wool', leather hardware, cattle, and eight Zr°ductions, and i on the ' route through which c oloni al t on of the adjoinsin de artments import their allrtiptio Produce and other g prin p eipal articles of con- The li ' '' at o ,, e .,linefrom Orlean s to Vierzon is intended to be laid of th ' with a dcuPeei ofrails. The other portions e Li, . . ne litim the eit is posed to furnish with a single line Y are respectively carried on to Limoges and TO THE RATEPAYERS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST DERBY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING of the RATEPAYERS of the Township of West Derby will be held on THURSDAY, the 15th instant, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, in the Public Office, Harper-street, Low-hill, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the recommendation of the Overseers, that an additional Collector of Rates and Taxes be appointed for the Municipal Division of the Township. THOMAS HARRISON, 1 Overseers of the Poor of the PETER YOUD, I Township of West Derby. THOMAS AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE DOLLING, Assistant Overseer of the Poor. Public Office, Low-hill, 3 d Aug., 1844. LIVERPOOL. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, AND STEEL YARDS, OR OTHER WEIGHING-MACHINES: AATH ERuEse REAS, of AS, eat complaint is made of Frauds in FALSE and DECEITFUL WEIGHTS and MEASURES, and Steel-yards and other Weighing machines. In consequence whereof, it is determined to enforce the law strictly against all offenders. NOW, IT IS ORDERED BY THE MAYOR, that, to do away with any pretext for excuse on the ground of ignorance of the provisions heretofore made and notified for the Adjustment of Weights and Mea sures, that Notice be, and is hereby given, that the fol lowing Inspectors attend from nine in the Forenoon to Six in the Afternoon daily, (except on Sunday, or other holyday allowed by law,) at the places under-mentioned, for the Adjustment of Weights and Measures for this Borough : that is to say, Mr. JAMES WALTHEW, 2, Blundell-street. Mr. SAMUEL ROUNTHWAITE, 1, Hoe-street. Mr. THOMAS ARSTALL. 115, Scotland-road. And, by order of the Mayor, Notice is further given, that, after this Public Notice, the Inspectors will be re quired to lodge information against all Persons offending, and that all such parties will be prosecuted for the full penalty of £5 for every offence thereby incurred, besides such forfeitures of the Fraudulent Articles as by Act of Parliament is provided. RD. RADCLIFFE Town-Clerk. Town-ball, August 5, 18 44. , TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AVACANCY having o ccurre d i n th e NORTHERN DISPENSARY, by the decease of Mr. Tetlow, late one of the Honorary Surgeons of that Institution, I beg to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for that Situation. Having been for eight years a Student of St. George's Hospital, and during the last year of that period Resident House Surgeon to that Institution, I have had great op portunities of studying and treating Disease. In conclusion, I can only assure yon that should I be thought worthy of your support on the present occasion, it shall be the highest object of my ambition to prove my self deserving of the confidence reposed in me. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, E. DICKINSON. 14, Rodney-street, 30M July, 1844. TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE NORTHERN DISPENSARY. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, T BEG to announce my se lf a CANDIDATE f or th e I Office of HONORARY SURGEON to the NORTHERN DISPENSARY, now vacant by the de cease of Mr. Tetlow ; and should vou do me the honour to elect me as his successor, the duties devolving upon that office shall be zealously and faithfully discharged. I trust, in consideration of my numerous professional engagements, you will kindly excuse the formality of a personal canvass. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant. THOMAS BALMAN. 2, Oxford-street, _August 9, 1814. CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY. PRESIDENT—Lord ASHLEY. SECRETARY: Rev. E. F. CHAMPNEYS, Falcon court, Fleet-street, London. RANKERS: WILLIAMS, DEACON, and Co., Birchin-lane. TREASURER FUR LIVERPOOL: A. W. POW LES, Esq., 4, Water-street. AT the Monthly Gener a l C omm itt ee , en Th urs d ay, t h e Bth instant, 19 grants were renewed and 8 fresh ones made, 3 of the latter being to the Diocese of Chester. The aggregate population in charge of the 8 Incumbents thus aided, is 59,727 the amount of the new grants, £7lO ; the average income of the Incumbents, £l5O each. There are still 26 applications before the Committee, most of them of a painfully urgent character, but which cannot be relieved for want of funds, the income of the Society being scarcely sufficient to maintain its existing grants. These at present provide stipends for 230 Clergymen and 30 Scripture Readers. The Incumbents aided by the Society have an aggregate charge of about two million souls, or each on an average 8,475 ; while the average amount of their incomes is only £172 each per annum, and 127 of them are without parsonage houses. Twenty-four of the Society's grants are towards the maintenance of Clergymen for Churches without endow ment, or sufficient means for the support of a resident Clergyman. These have been found most beneficial in preventing the frequent change of Ministers, which too often acts so prejudicially to the success of the pastoral work in poor districts. In addition to the direct operations of this Society upon the large population above stated, it has been the first to call public attention to the actual state of such populations, and showing, by the results of its own la bours, the most effectual means for their amelioration, has thus led to the institution of a similar Society in this country, of one in Ireland, and another in India, while the example has been followed on the Continent of Eu rope, by the evangelical Christians of Prussia. The mere statement of these facts, it is hoped, will be sufficient to stimulate the friends of pure religion and of the public good to increased exertions and contribu tions on the Society's behalf, so as to enable it to main tain its present grants, and, if possible, to relieve some of the pressing cases now urged upon the attention of the Committee. The Society is supported by ten of the Bishops best acquainted with its operations (including the Bishop of this diocese), and by upwards of two thousaad of the most laborious of the Clergy. The grants to the Diocese of Chester are for 74 addi tional Clergymen and 7 Scripture Readers, to the annual amount of £6,740. Of these, 11 are to the town and im mediate neighbourhood of Liverpool, viz., 10 for Clergy men and 1 for a Scripture Reader, amounting to £930 annually. Liverpool, August 12, 1844. Fr AND H. SMITH'S FLUID EXTRACT OF I • SENNA, prepared in Vacuo, sold in Bottles at 2s. 6d., 55., and 10s. each. This is a pure Extract of Senna, in a high state of perfection, prepared in Vacuo. It is an efficient and easy purgative, in small doses ; these for adults even seldom exceeding one or two teaspoonfulls, and produces no sickness or griping in its operation. Not only are the nauseous taste and smell corrected, but the taste is ren dered positively agreeable and inviting ; consequently, with this preparation, the difficulty attending the giving of Senna to children is entirely removed. Instead of the loathing which the bulky dose of the ordinary Senna Tea produces, the Fluid Extract of Senna is taken by them with the greatest readiness, and even with a relish. The following complimentary testimonial has bee vo luntarily published by Dr. Christison, the distinguished Professor of illateria Medica in the Edinburgh University : •"1' he Fluid Extract of Senna is now used very largely in this city, (Edinburgh.) and by many medical practi tioners, as well as myself, almost to the exclusion of every other preparation. I have no doubt it is the best form, in every respect, which has yet been proposed." Observe, the actual signature of the Inventors, on an engraved label, is attached to the wrapper on each Bottle. Prepared only by T. and H. Satires, Chemists 21, Duke-street, Edinburgh; and sold Wh o l esa l e by JOHN CLERK, 30, Mersey-street, Liverpool ; BARCLAY and SoNs, Farringdon-street, London ; and may be had retail of all respectable Druggists, by asking for T. & H. SMITH'S FLUID EXTRACT OF SENNA. Clermont. The gradients of the Line are favourable, and the cost of its maintenance and working will be moder ate, from the absence of heavy works, and from its prox imity to coal-fields. Coal is got on the southern parts of the Line at half the price it costs at Orleans, and at one third of the price paid at Paris. The important portion of this Railway between Orleans and Vierzon is already so nearly completed, that it may be opened and in working within twelve months ; but the term of the lease to be granted by the Government is only to date from the opening of the whole undertaking : consequently, exclusive of the term of lease ; the Corn pany will have, besides, all profits arising from the partial working of the Vierzon and other sections until the final completion of the Railway. The law authorizes the Government to treat with a competent Company for a term not exceeding 40 years, to date from such final completion. The State is to provide the land, to construct the earth works, masonry, stations, workshops, and all other buildings; to uphold the earthworks for one year, the masonry on the Line for two years, and the buildings for five, after they shall have been respectively delivered in a complete state to the Company. The Company will only have to ballast the Line, to provide and lay the rails, chairs, &c., to fence the Railway, to maintain it and the works during their lease, and to find the locomotive carriages and other stock for working the Line. At the expiration of the lease, unless it be renewed by the Government, the Company will be reimbursed the value of their stock, materials, stores, &c. The State will participate with the Company in the nett profits of the Railway whenever they shall exceed 8 per cent. per annum on the capital expended ; but this is not to take place until after the expiration of the first five years from the opening of the entire Line, nor until all the previous years shall have averaged a nett annual profit of 7 per cent. on the capital expended by the Company. The rate of charge, or " tariff," for the conveyance of passengers and goods is to be nearly the same as that of the Paris and Orleans Company, except an increase of 10 per cent. in the rate for third-class passengers, in consequence of hav ing to cover and put curtains to the third-class carriages. By the constitution of the Company in " Societe Anonyme," the liability of each Shareholder will be limited to his own shares, as in the incorporated Com panies of England. The original Subscribers will, also, after transfer, be liable for the first three-tenths, or £6 per share only. In other respects the statutes will be as similated as nearly as possible to those of the Rouen and Havre Railway Company. On the 32,000,000 francs (X 1,280,0001 which form the whole capital of the Company, it is considered that it will only be necessary to raise or call 24,000,000 francs, or £960,000, until the second line of rails, from Vierzon to Chateauroux and Nevers, shall be laid. The Company will be constituted as soon as shares to the amount of 24,000,000 francs shall have been subscribed for, if the Directors shall think fit; and in that case the remaining capital will be raised by the future issue of the remaining shares, or taken up by way of loan, as the Directors shall hereafter find expedient. One-half of the capital is to be raised in France. A deposit of 50 francs (£2 per share) is to be paid on allotment, and the remainder in instal ments not exceeding £2, with one month's previous notice. The bankers will give to each Subscriber, on payment of his deposit, an accountable receipt, and (on pain of for feiture of the deposit) each Subscriber must execute such deed of contract as the Directors may require, and must exchange his deposit receipt for a certificate or certificates of Shares at the London Office of the Company, within twenty-one days from the first appearance of an ad vertisement requiring him to do so. This advertisement will appear three times in two daily morning Lon don newspapers. When the Shares are fully paid up, certificates to bearer, transferable like English Exchequer Bills will be given. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum will be allowed on the deposits and calls paid up, from the date of the final concession or grant of the Line to the Company, or from the subsequent payment of each call until after the opening of the whole Line. No trans fer of Shares can be made before the Company shall have been finally constituted. It has been already stated, that this Railway will very shortly be adjudicated, or given on lease to a Company, and the law states within two months from its promulga tion. In the event of failure to secure the grant of this Company, the projectors will bear all the expenses, and the deposits will, immediately after the return of the caution money by the French Government, be restored to the subscribers without any deduction. The affairs of the Company will be managed by a Board of not less than seven, nor more than twelve, Directors, who will meet in Paris. It is proposed that one English Director of experience shall reside in Paris, or on the Line, and shall take au active part in the management of the Company. The proceedings of the Board will be regularly com municated to the London Directors, who wilt meet when ever the affairs of the Company render it advisable. The English Shareholders will always be able to obtain full information at the office which the Company is to have in London. _ The English Directors will have the power to appoint an English Engineer, if they should deem it necessary. After the opening of the whole Line, the profits of the Company will be appropriated as follows, upon the prin ciple now generally adopted in the French Railway Go vernment : namely, 100,000 francs (X 4000), or the pro portion of the profits mentioned below shall be paid to the Directors, including the English resident Director; after which the Shereholders shall receive 5 per cent., and 1 per cent. per annum shall be retained as a sinking fund and reserve. Of the remainder, the Directors may, at their own option, claim one-twentieth for their remu neration, instead of the £4OOO above mentioned. The surplus will then be again divided into twentieths, of which eighteen-twentieths will be given to the Share holders, and the other two-twentieths to the projectors. The allowance to the Directors, including the English resident Director, shall be fixed at £4OOO per annum until the opening of the entire railway. A close and careful calculation of the receipts and ex penses of the Line has been made in the first instance by the French Government officers, and, subsequently, by the projectors. The details of these estimates and cal culations, which are two voluminous for publication, may be seen at No. 62, King William-street, London, and they are such as have induced the Directors to conclude that there are no lines of railway ha existence, or projected in France, to which the line now proposed will prove in ferior, both on account of its traffic, and from the peculiar advantages granted by the Government. In conclusion, the Directors have only to add, that, although they have endeavoured in the above statement faithfully to represent the undertaking, and the advantages which it is believed will accrue to those who, subscribe to wards it, they can by no means pledge theinselve n s tie to , secure any particular set of conditions , and must, on o contrary, ask of the subscribers Itiibenrst wide discretion in their negociao Govern ment. The subscribers may re st assured Directors a vryy to with e exercise will conduct the negociations with thecare n t d t he the fidelity, and r esponsibility which not without a deep s ense of thaa necessarily attaches to the exercise of power so nearly unrestricted, but the Directors cannot too fully state, that it,hoewnerastuarbesoofluttheelyennteercpersissaeurenders the t de t l h e e gat s i u o b n s o c f ri s b u e c r l s i must enter upon the undertaking, not in redance that they shall obtain the particular advantages now antici patd, but in confidence that the Directors have sufficient knowledge, zeal, and integrity not to commit them by the acceptance of inadequate terms. Application fort he shares to be made to the SECRETARY, at the Office, 12, King William-street, London or in o intghs Messrs. PARSONS and TOWNLEY', Royal 13' k b 'r to Li ß ve y rp a o n o .d l. dvertisernent which has just ap:ear - Moniteur, this Railway will be adjudged to a Company on the 5M of October. The list will be closed on Thurs day, the 15th instant. FORM OF APPLICATION. TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE ORLEANS, VIERZON, AND CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY, 62, King William-street, London. GENTLEMEN,-1 request that you will insert my name as a subscriber for shares in the above Company, upon the terms and conditions of the prospectus, dated 2d August, 1844 ; and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, to pay the deposit, and to sign all required deeds as and when I shall be called upon so to do. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name Trade or profession Residence Date 1844. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. ALTERATION and ACCELERATION of TRAINS. BY ORDER OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL. THE Public are requested to tak e NOTICE, th a t on and after the 15th AUGUST, the Trains of this Com pany will be despatched as follows : FROM AND ARRIVE AT LIVERPOOL, BIRMINGHAM. 4 0 A.M. Mail 6 0 ~ Third Class 9 0 First Class .... 11 30 „ Mail 4 45 P.M. Second Class.. 8 15 „ Mail (Mixed) FROM BIRMINGHAM. ARRIVAL AT LIVERPOOL. 1 10 A.M. Mail (Mixed) . 6 0 „ Second Class ... 11 15 „ Mail 215 P.M. Mail 415 „ First Class 6 0 „ Third Class Note.—The Clocks are set according to the Longitude of each Station. New Time Bills may be had at any of the Company's Stations on and after the 13th instant. _ _ _ Arrangements are in progress for attaching Second class Carriages to the Fast Trains, for Reducing the Fares, and for adding a Cheap Train for the Poorer Classes, of which due Notice will be given in a future Advertisement. By order, MARK HUISH, Secretary. Liverpool, 9th August, 1844. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. I N consequence of the acceleration of the London Trains, by ordeorofßoTfthnteheLlTlPostmasterß-G.,:Nnni est m ra , l o , n t A h a e Nn r d after there will be an ALTERATItONe DEPAR TUREcoinrretchteTTimllllEßSilloofnandafte H CE T S n T n Eo n fa s s n ae Ali, the vne l raNl 15th instant. The following will be the the 15th instant : __ __ FROM LIVERPOOL FROM MANCHESTER TO MANCHESTER. TO LIVERPOOL. First Class. Second Class. First Class. Second Class. 845 A.M. 7 0 A.M. 9 0 A.M. 715 A.M. 12 0 NOON. 945 „ 12 15 P.M. 10 0 „ 2 0 P.M. 11 0 „ 20 „ 11 15* 11 4 0„ 2 30 P.M. 5 0„ 245 P.M. 515 „ 530 „ 7 45 „ 7 45* „ 8 20 „ 8 20* „ * Stopping at Dayton Gate, Rainliill, St. Helens Junction Newton, Parkside, Kenyon Junction, Bury Lane, and Patricroft ON SUNDAYS. First Class. Second Class. 4 40 P.M. 7 30 A.M. 5 30 P.M. 745 ~ 745 „ Stopping as on other (lays. First Class. Second Class. 5 0 P.M. 7 30 A.M. 5 30 P.M. 820 „ 820 „ Stopping ason otherdays. I NORTH UNION TRAINS. TO PRESTON AND WIGAN. FROM LIVERPOOL. FROM MANCHESTER. 8 45 A.M. Mixed Train. 9 0 A.M. Mixed Train. 12 0 NOON, First-class do. 12 15 P.M. First-class do. 230 P.m. Mixed do. 245 „ Mixed do. 440 „ Mixed do. I 5 " First. class do. 745 „ Mixed do. 820 „ Mixed do. ON SUNDAYS. 7 30 A.M. Mixed Train. 7 30 A.M. Mixed Train. 4 40 P.M. Do. 5 0 P.M. Do. 7 45 „ Do. 820 „ Do. Lime-street Station, Liverpool, 12th August, 1844. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. AGENTIieiEMEETING of the GOVERNORS of this INSTITUTION will be holden in the Board room, Parish-offices, No. 1, Fenwick-street, on WED NESDAY the 21st instant, between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock, for the purpose of ELECTING an HONORARY SURGEON to the NORTH DISPEN SARY, which office is now vacant by the decease of Mr. Tetlow. _ _ _ No Surgeon is eligible wiless he has taken his Diploma as Surgeon, in London, ifublin, Edinburgh, or Glasgow. Gentlemen intending to offer themselves as Candidates are requested to send their certificates to the Dispensa ries'-office, Fenwick-street, on or before TUESDAY, the 20th instant, at Twelve o'clock, addressed " To the Pre sident of the Dispensaries." To prevent any misunder standing on the day of election, the Governors will please to observe, that no votes can be received by proxy, ex cepting from Ladies, and th ose on l y i n their own "hand writing, presented by:a Governor; nor can any Subscri ber vote if his or her subscription be unpaid. Subscriptions received at the Office, No. 1, Fenwick street, daily, from Three to Four o'clock ; or at the North Dispensary, Vauxhall-road ;or the South Dispensary, No. 1, Upper Parliament-street, at all hours. By order of the General Committee, J. WHITBY WILLIAMS, Secretary. Dispensaries'-office, Fenwick-street, th August, 1844. The Treasurer begs to acknowledge the receipt of the following Contributions, received towards liquidating the heavy debt of 01800. DONATIONS. David Mac her, Esq., per James Mullenenx, - - Esq. ... Miss Mather... .... Miss Jane Mather Mrs. Moore (Paddington) Robert Clay, Esq. Misses Chaffers ... . A Friend, per Messrs. Jonathan Banks and Co. 5 0 0 Mr. Thomas Smith, per Mr. George Ashlin.. 1 0 0 INCREASE ON SUBSCRIPTIONS. Misses Colquitt, Green-bank, fromX3 0 oto £4 0 0 Robert Hutchison, Esq. .•.• . • • • 2 2 0.. 3 3 0 William Reynolds, Esq., M,D. ll O.. 22 0 Rev. Thomas lipid, M.A. .. 1 1 0.. 22 0 Richard Alison, Esq. Thomas Harvey, Esq. . 1 1 0.. 2 2 0 NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS. Macmurdo, Rathbone, and Martin . Joseph Dickinson, Esq., M.D. .... Charles Thomson, Esq. James Price. Esq., India-buildings TO EXCAVATORS, BUILDERS, AND OTHERS. THE COMMISSIONERS for the better PAVING and SEWERAGE of the town of Liverpool, HERE BY GIVE NOTICE that they are ready to receive TEN DERS of CONTRACT for EXCAVATING, PUD DLING, and RAISING the EMBANKMENTS ; also, for BUILDING TANKS and CULVERTS, and PAV_ ING the BOTTOM and SLOPES, and executing other WORKS required in the constructionof a RESERVOIR intended to be made on land situate on the so u th s id e of the turupike road leading from Liverpool to Prescot, and nearly opposite to Gilead-house, at Kensington, agreeably to Plans, Specifications, and Requisitions, prepared by J ames Simpson, Esq., the Engineer of the Works, and deposited in the Office of the said Commissioners, N o . 1, Parish-offices. Fenwick-street, Liverpool. Sealed Tenders, a form of which may be had on appli cation at the Office, to be sent in, addressed " To the Commissioners for the better Paving and Sewerage of the Town of Liverpool, on or before WEDNESDAY, the 21st instant. The Commissioners do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tender, and further reserve to themselves the right of rejecting all Tenders which are not deemed satis factory. Two approved Sureties, at the least, will be required for the due performance of the Works ; and the names and designations of such Sureties must be given in with the Tenders. By order of the Commissioners, EDWARD G. DEANE, Clerk. Liverpool, Bth August, 1844. 5,000 SHOOTING COATS ARE KEPT READY MADE, THE MOST NOVEL PATTERNS, FOR ONE POUND EACH, AT B. II YAM'S MAGNIFICENT TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, No. 63, LORD-STREET. OBSERVE THE NAME. DUBLIN PORTER. THE SUBSCRIBERS, having beenappointed SOLE AGENTS for the Sale of Messrs. JAMESON, PIM, and Co.'s celebrated DUBLIN STOUT, MILD ALE, AND INDIA BEER, are prepared to supply the Trade upon the most moderate terms. These articles will be found very excellent, both in quality and flavour ; and the Bitter Beer has long been recommended by the Faculty for the use of Invalids. Their WELSH ALE continues to be much prized by Connoisseurs; and their BURTON ALE is in the high est possible condition. Orders for the Co lsumption of this district, or for Exportation, executively attended to. JOHN EVANS and CO., Ale, Porter, and Provision Merchants, Mersey-court, Old ChurCh-yard, Liverpool. Ontration. EDUCATION. AGENTLEMAN, who has been accustomed to study and travel, is desirous of receiving Four or Six YOUNG GENTLEMEN to EDUCATE with his own Sons. In addition to the general Course of Education, his Pupils will receive Instruction in the following De partments of Learning :—Roman and English Literature, the Latin and French Languages, the Fine Arts, Poetry, and Music. Lectures will be delivered to the Pupils three times every week, in the following Branches so es sential to Youth :—History, Biography, Astronomy, Geo graphy, the Use of the Globes, Elocution, the Moral and Physical Management of the Person, Political Economy, Wealth of Nations. The Pupils will have the advantage of enjoying exercise free from street inconvenience, in Great George-square. No. 8, where all applications will meet with immediate attention from Mr. RANSOME. Mr. R. gives Private Lectures in Families that may de sire so advantageous a mode of Education, or he will act as Private Tutor. _ Gentlemen can read with Mr. Ransome at any hour of the day, in all the above Departments of Literature. Evening Lectures given to Gentlemen who wish to im prove their leisure hours, at No. 8, Great George-square, on calling on Mr. R., or addressing a note to the Post. References—Hugh Price, Esq. ; J. Hosken, Esq. ; Capt. Snell, R.N. ; Sir W. Martin. The following Families have been under the care of Mr. Ransome :—The Hon. Mr. Cruikshank's, the Hon. Capt. Baldwin's, Count Shotten's, Judge M'Cauley's. Contrarts. TO EXCAVATORS AND BRICKLAYERS. THE COMMISSIONERS for better PAVING and SEW ERAGE of TOXTETH-PARK, will receive TENDERS of CONTRACT for EXCAVATING and for BRICK WORK, &c., required for the Construction of a SEWER in Warwick-street, Plans and Specifications of which may be seen at the Office of their Surveyors, Messrs. H. EDWARDS and Sox, 27, Hanover-street. Sealed Tenders, addressed to the Commissioners. marked " Tender for Warwick-street Sewer," and giving the Names of Two Sureties for the due performance of the work, to be left at the Public Office, 22, Park-place. Toxteth-park, on or before THURSDAY. the 22d instant. The Commissioners do not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender, By order of the Commissioners. P. MACAULIFFE, Clerk. _ _ . 91h August, 1844. TO IRONMASTERS Fr HE LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER RAIL '. WAY COMPANY are desirous to CONTRACT for the PURCHASE of Five Hundred Tons of best RAILWAY BARS, of the Parallel Double T, form: weight, about 751bs. per yard. Each rail to be made exactly 15 feet in length, and in strict conformity with a template, the cross section of which may be seen at the Company's Office, and which will bo delivered to the Contractor for his pattern : each end of every Rail to be cut square and smooth to the precise sectional form. The rails to be made i❑ a work manlike manner, of the best No. 2. Mine Iron, free from cinder, constituting the Rails, when made, No. 3 best Bar Iron. To be delivered at the Company's Yard. in Wapping, Liverpool, straight and free from warp or twist; and the Railway Company to be at liberty to put every Rail to such test, in proof of its strength and quality, by bending or breaking, as they shall think expedient, with power to reject all defective Rails, the cost and charges on the rails not accepted to be borne by the Munufacturer. One Hundred Tons to be delivered in three months from the date when the Tender shall be accepted, and the re mainder within four months from the same date. Payment to be made by a Banker's Bill, at three months' date, when the Rails shall have been delivered and approved. Tenders to be addressed to the Treasurer, and trans mitted to the Lime-street office, on or before WEDNES DAY, the 21st instant. By order of the Directors, HENRY BOOTH, Treasurer. Railway-office, Liverpool, 7th August, 1844. TO ENGINEERS AND IRONFOUNDERS. THE COMMISSIONERS for the better PAVING and SEWERAGE of the town of Liverpool HERE BY GIVE NOTICE that they are ready to receive TEN DERS of CONTRACT' for the furnishing, delivering, and fixing certain CAST IRON PIPES, SLUICES, and other Works required in the construction of a RESER VOIR, about to be formed on land situate on the south side of the turnpike road leading from Liverpool to Pres cot, and nearly opposite to Gilead-house, at Kensington, agreeably to Plans, Specifications, and Requisitions pre pared by James Simpson, Esq., the Engineer of the Works, and deposited in the Office of the said Commis sioners, No. 1, Parish-offices, Fenwick-street, Liverpool. Sealed Tenders, with the names and designations tlf two approved Sureties, at the least, to be delivered at the Office of the said Commissioners, addresssed " To the Commissioners for the better Paving and Sewerage of the Town of Liverpool," on or before WEDNESDAY, the 21st day of August instant. _ The Commissioners do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tender; and further reserve to themselves the right of rejecting all Tenders which are not deemed satis factory. _ _ _ By order of the Commissioners, EDWD. G. DEANE, Clerk. Liverpool, Bth August, 1844. HYDROPATHIC ESTABLISHMENT, SUDBROOK. PARK. _ fIAPTAIN CLARIDGE, Author of " Hydropatby," " Guide along the Danube, to Turkey, Greece, &c.," instigated by a desire to secure to secure to the British Public the eminent services of Dr. WEISS, formerly the associate of VINCENT PRIESSNITZ, and who is renowned throughout Europe for the wonderful cures he has for many years past effected by the Water Treatment, has, contrary to his previous intention, taken upon himself the arduous duty of forming a HYDROPATH IC ESTA BLISHMENT, in order to satisfy the public mind that drugs, so highly injurious to the human system, may be altogether dispensed with in the cure of diease. For this purpose he has taken of the Crown that beautiful domain, Sudbrook Park, for centuries the residence of the Dukes of Argyles, forming part of the Richmond Park, Surrey. The Establishment is now in full opera tion. The Terms vary from three guineas and upwards, according to the apa►tments. This sum includes Dr. WEISS'S fee, board and lodging, &c. Dr. WEISS may be consulted daily at Sudbrook Park, except on Fridays, when he attends at 28, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. from Eleven till Four. Captain CLARIDGE'S New Work, entitled " FACTS AND EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF HYDROPA THY," will he Published in a few days, by Messrs. NlAnnox and Co., and may be had of all Booksellers. Price ls. 6d. IMPORTANT TO LADIES. T EARSLEY'S ORIGINAL WIDOW WELCH'S 11- FEMALE PILLS, so long and justly celebrated for their peculiar virtues, are strongly recommended to the notice of every lady, having obtained the sanction and approbation of most gentlemen of the Medical Profession, as a safe and valuable Medicine in effectually removing obstructions, and relieving all other inconveniences to which the female frame is liable, especially those which, at an early period of life, frequently arise from want of exercise and general debility of the system : they create an appetite, correct indigestion, remove giddiness and nerv ous headache, and are eminently useful in windy disorders, pains in the stomach, shortness of breath, and palpitation of the heart : being perfectly innocent, may be used with safety in all seasons and climates. *** It is necessary, owing to the numerous imitations, to inform the Public that KEARSLEY'S is the only ORIGINAL and GENUINE MEDICINE of this de scription ever made, and has been prepared by them for more than FIFTY YEARS ! ! Purchasers are particulrrly requested to remark, that as a"testitnony of authenticity, each Bill of Directions contains an affidavit, and bears the signature of " C. KEARSLEY," in writing, also en graved on the Government stamp, and each is wrapped in white paper. Sold, Wholesale and Retail, by J. SANGER, 150, Ox ford-street, London ; and all respectable Medicine Ven dors throughout the Country. yORSDELL'S PILLS—By JOHN KAYE. The above celebrated Family Medicine continues to effect Cures the most astonishing. The following Tes timonials are selected from the many thousands that we have received from parties of known intelligence and espectability. CURE OF CONSUMPTION. W. WILSON, of Driffield, was afflicted for eight months with the above complaint, reduced to a state of excessive weakness, so that the last four months of the time he was compelled to keep his bed half of each day. Medical aid, as usual, was re sorted to without deriving benefit to ground a hope of ever being restored, so much debilitated, and without appetite, he was given up by two doctors. Hearing of the benefits resulting from the use of Worsdell's Pills, he obtained a box, and gave them a trial. While taking the first few doses he felt ill. When he had taken a box in daily doses of from four to eight pills he felt a little better; the use of two boxes he went to work, three boxes quite restored him to the enjoyment of what he despaired of ever obtaining, good health. All inquiries will be duly an swered. CASE OF ASTHMA AND DROPSY ON A WOMAN AGED SEVENTY. MR. WORSDELL, SIR,-1 have been afflicted for a great length of time with difficulty of breathing and water in my chest. So distressing was my situation that, on arising in the morning, I frequently thought I could not survive many minutes. My daughter has wept by my side on observing my painful and afflicted state : my mouth gushing with blood, and the difficulty I had in breathing, brought floods of tears into her eyes. I have spent large sums of money in obtaining carious kinds of medicines, but seldom realised any benefit from their use. A pamphlet of yours describing the nature of disease, and bow it must be re moved, was left at our house, and I felt resolved to give your Vegetable Pills a trial, and after taking a few boxes, I am happy in stating that my health and strength are so far restored that I can work in my garden, and sometimes go with my husband to Doncaster market.—Yours, sincerely. ANN BELDAN, Nutwell, near Doncaster. CURE OF A VERY SORE LEG. ERASMUS VIANT, of Redruth, Cornwall, had an inflammation in his leg about fifteen years since, which lett a large running wound that has been continually discharging for the last four teen years; several times during this period he has been obliged (owing to his wound) to leave his employment, andlist summer he was confined to his house for ten weeks, and had a doctor to attend him ; at the same time his other leg was dreadfully afflicted with the scurvy, which was so irritated at times that (as the man expresses it) it looked like a piece of raw flesh ; and he declared, with all the medical attendance he received, that it proved quite ineffectual in eradicating this dreadful com plaint. At last, having heard so much of " Worsdell's Vegetable Restorative Pills," and of the wonderful cures that had resulted from the steady use of them, I was induced to obtain a box of them ; I had not taken more than one-half of them before I saw a great change in both my legs ; I continued to take them till I finished one box, and am thankful to Almighty God (and to Mr. Worsdel!, as the inventor of these invaluable purifiers) to be able to state, that the benefit I derived from their use is be yond my most sanguine expectations; the wound on my leg is completely healed, the pain quite removed, and the scurvy en tirely eradicated, and both my legs are as sound now as ever they have been at any period of my life. WORSDELL'S PILLS are prepared only by JOHN KAYS, Esq. Dalton Hall, near Huddersfield, to whom has been transferred from W. Worsdel, Esq., late of Myton Hall, Hull, the sole right and interest in compound ing the said Worsdell's Pills ; and to prevent fraud, the Honourable Commissioners of Stamps have ordered the words Worsdell's Pills, Ly John Kaye to be engraved on the Governmsnt Stamp, and as a further protection, pur chasers are requested to observe that a fac simile of the proprietor's signature is printed on the direction, wrapped round each box, without which none are genuine, and to imitate which is felony. Sold in Boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. N.B. As there are still many Country Towns in which no Agent has been appointed for the sale of the Pills, we shall be happy to forward, from our whol esa l e D epot i n London, by Post, and free of expense, a single box, on the receipt of Is. 2d. in postage stamps, or the larger box on receiving 2s. 9d. in stamps. Address, KAYE'S WHOLESALE DEPOT, 44 Coleman. street, near the Bank, London. Agents for Liverpool—J. Banks, 37, Copperas-hill ; Dunsford, 4, South Castle - street; rnold, Stationer, 93, Scotland-road ; Shepherd, Stationer, 173, Vauxhall-road ; Hafemeir, Provision Dealer, 2, Pownall-square ; Mrs. Glesdale, 111, Pitt.street ; Brown, Cooper, Market, Bir kenhead ; Baxter, Queen-street, Lower Tranmere. MISCELLANEOUS. WESLEY'S BIBLE.—At the Wesleyan Conference re cently held at Birmingham, it was announced, that the late Rev. H. Moore, the surviving executor of John Wesley, had bequeathed to the Conference the pocket bible used by the founder of Methodism in field-preaching, and pre sented to him by Mr. Wesley. RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—On the return of the Cabi net Ministers to London, after visiting the Queen, on the birth of the Prince, they traversed the distance from Slough to Paddington, eighteen miles and a quarter, by the Great Western Railway, in fifteen minutes and ten seconds, being at the rate of upwards of seventy miles an hour 1 CONSERVATIVE Titrumett. The Anti-Corn-Law League has sustained another severe defeat, in the rejec tion of its treasurer, Mr. Wm. Rawson, of Manchester, as a candidate for the representation of Dudley, by a large majority. The polling took place on Thursday, and the numbers at the close were—For Mr. Benbow, con servative, 388; for Mr. Rawson, leaguer, 175 ; majority for the conservative, 213. A majority which, considering the numbers on the register is larger than any that the conservatives have before achieved in this borough. At the election in 1841. Mr. Hawkes, the retired member, h a d a majority of 247 over Mr. Adams Smith ; but on that occasion there were 921 names on the register, and at present there are only 729. Dudley did itself h onour in 1834, by the rejection of Sir John Campbell, on his a p_ pointment to the Attorney-Generalship, and it has now done itself still further honour by the rejection of the league's nominee. LONDON WOOL SALES.—The sales of sheep's w ool, which commenced on th e 16th u lt., i n London, ha ve been brought to a close. The quantity brought forward amount ed to 29,557 bales, and the interest was pretty regularly supported throughout, The expe r i ence d b ro k ers g i ve their opinion that the prices have averaged very nearly the same as at the last sale. It mus t, h owever , b e re membered, that the prices with which this comparison is made, were in advance of those at the beginning of last year, not less than from 35 to 40 rer cent. Our colonial wools are evidently in a regular course of improvement, but, as far as preparation is involved, the improvement made in the Cape wools was the most conspicuous. Our colonial production is rapidly throwing the German wools into the shade, and as the quantity can yet be almost in definitely increased, in a few years more we shall be' independent of all foreigners, except for a comparatively small quantity of the finest qualities.' There was a small quantity of :Spanish wool in. the sale, and nothing can more clearly exhibit the change of circumstances than the fact that it sold from ls. 6d. to ls. 9d. per lb., whilst the best Cape wool fetched 2s. 3d. to 2s. 10d. per lb. SUGAR.—Sugar is characterized by its solubility in water and alcohol, by its sweet taste, by being soluble in alkalies, and by its crystallizing readily. There are several varieties of sugar, but the two principal are cane and grape sugars, the latter being that which gives the sweetness to fruits, as to grapes, plums, pears, apples, figs, &c. Although the difference between cane and grape sugar in composition is merely that the latter contains one atom more water, yet the former possesses sweeten ing properties in a much more eminent degree. Un fortunately for domestic economy the sweeter sugar can be artificially converted into the one less sweet, but not vice versa. These sugars can be distinguished from each other by the action of acids and alkalies. Sulphuric acid completely decomposes cane sugar, leaving nothing but a carbonaceous mass, whilst it but slightly colours grape sugar. Honey, which consists principally of grape sugar, is merely rendered into a fluid like treacle, whilst a so lution of sugar candy is acted on very strongly, little else but .a mass of cha rcoal bein g left. Alkalies have a con trary effect, acting strongly upon grape suga r , an d but slightly on cane. There are several other means of dis distinguishing between various sugars, and among st th e best is their action on sulphate of copper.—Arch itect's Journal. CHINESE DWELLINGS.—In all China the houses are built upon the ground ; i. e. without any cellar under them. The apartments are paved with flat square bricks —a thing very agreeable in warm weather, but very little suitable to the severe season of the year. To defend them from the piercing cold which they experience in the nor thern parts of the empire, the Chinese have devised sub terraneous furnaces in every direction under the bricks of the floors, and on a kind of platforms on which the Chinese sleep. They even pass through the walls which divide the different rooms, so that the heat diffused by the tubes produces in the apartments the temparature desired. The fire is kept up night and day in the outer stove or furnace, without the slightest danger to the buildings, because a coat of bricks closely confines that destructive element, and opposes its disastrous effects.— Chineae Olio. MILITARY AITTHORS.—It is a curious fact, formerly stated in this magazine, that the private soldiers of Eng laad, though taken from the humblest classes of society, all few in number when compared to the hundreds of thousands forced by conscriptions into the ranks of Con tinental armies, have yet surpassed all foreigners as much in letters as in arms. We have several highly-interesting books of military adventure written by private soldiers, and conveying vivid pictures of their habits, feelings, and opinions; as well as the dangers and terrible hardships to which they are exposed in the field. No work of this kind, deserving of notice, has been produced by either French or Germans, for the memoir of the French Serjeant Guille ruard is a poor and paltry fabrication ; and though the Germans have two works of military adventures edited by Goethe, even they were both written by soldiers who had served in the British army, and only convey to German readers pictures o f Engli s h military life. This literary triumph of our countrymen is not, indeed, likely to silence the liberal and patriotic persons who so constantly tell us of the brutality of English soldiers ; but, as an established fact, it may be successfully urged by the unbiassed against the mere declamations of party orators.—Fraser's Maga zine. THE ROMAN ARCH.—I agree with Mr. It. C. Long, of Baltimore, Maryland, in his very judicious remarks relative to the capabilities of the Roman arch, which he considers has not yet been fully developed as a beautiful feature in architectural composition. What in the archi tectural world can exceed in sublimity and grandeur the long unbroken line of arches in the Roman wilderness? But there must be no higgling, sniggling, paring, frost ing, tinkering, and the rest of the little ings and things with which our modern arches are ornamented. I verily believe that the man who spoils an arch with a dropping keystone could be guilty of inserting a ring in the nose of the Venus de Medici, and though it might be merely his own bright idea, he might think all the while, persuading himself that others thought so too, that it had been se lected by the fair hand of science to set off the Queen of Beauty to advantage. 1 have seen, or perhaps only think I have seen, sculptured keystones which had a good effect, the sculpture alone being in relief. By the bye, sculp ture is too seldom called in aid by architects to embellish their works. I do not mean the Paul Pry intruding or protruding keystone with mere glyphs, but something like what is to be found in nature relieved on a smooth ground appearing like a single star in the firmament, or to speak of things terrestial, a single and well selected ornament on the arched and unwrinkled brow of beauty.—Civil Engineer. A PLEASANT BEDFELLOW.—I was awakened last night at midnight by a violent storm of thunder and lightning, and wind and rain. Hard dreaming as I was, I had sense enough left to feel something moving in bed, and, by the light from a flash of lightning, to my unspeakable horror, I saw crawling over the mattrass a cobra de capello. He reared his head when he came to my body, and slowly crawled on my legs ; and, as tbere was nothing over me but a thin cotton sheet, I could distinctly feel the cold, clammy body of the venomous reptile, through the sheet, the heat of my body seemed agreeable to the monster, as he coiled himself up there. I lay dead still ; I knew my life depended upon my remaining motionless, for had I moved a leg or an arm he would instantly have bitten me, after which I could not have lived many minutes. A cold sweat ran in a stream down my back ; I was in an agony of terror ; home and friends, and all that was dear, rushed to my memory ; my whole life passeclin review before me. I saw no way of escape, and considered my doom sealed; every flash of lightning showed me my new bedfellow in all its loathsomeness. When I had lain in one position about three hours, my legs became sore and stiff, from having been kept so long motionless ; and at this time I gave an involuntary shudder, which attracted the notice of the reptile. He raised his head about a foot high, thrust out his forked tongue, looked around him, as if for some living object to prey upon. I now thought it was all over with me. 1 prayed mentally (for I dared not move my lips, for fear of attracting notice) for the forgive ness of my sins, when—heaven be praised—the reptile unfolded his coils, and crawled slowly away from off my limbs, on to the bed, down by the bedpost to the floor, and left me. It has been said that poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows ; it might be added, so does wandering in foreign climes.—Journey of a Wanderer. A PLEA FOR SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN.—However praiseworthy the efforts of those may be—and none can impugn their motives—who have waged war upon fer mented liquors, we think that they would eventually do more good, and be more likely to carry out their inten tions farther, if they would insert some saving clauses in favour of the grape and John Barleycorn. We cannot imagine that the English people can forego the use of malt liquor consistent with their nationality, and that, when they awake from this play which is now acting be fore them, they will say, with Christopher Sly, " And once again a cup of the smallest ale ! " It is worthy of remark, that the increase of dyspeptic complaints has been very great of late years ; and such hosts of these affec tions, if we may judge from medical records, were not to be found among, the same class of people in the good old days when John Barleycorn reigned autocratically. This is due to that great change which has taken place in the march of society—to that restlessness of mind which has engendered so much uneasy feeling—that desire of "going ' ahead," which has pervaded all classes of people to such a degree, as to leave it a query whether any one class is particularly adapted to any one station in life. The ex citement attendant upon that species of education, which has only taught so many to be what they are not, rather than what they are, has unhinged the lower orders. If happiness be not compatible with profound ignorance, neither is it with that spirit of dissatisfaction, disquietude, disloyalty, which are the result of having placed the means of education in the people's way without securing to them its real advantages. Where is the yeoman with his twenty acres of land, his sons following the plough, his daughters in the dairy or at the spinning -wheel ? Contented with their means, to them reward enough to tap the Christmas barrel, are they happier that they have quitted their sphere to be wrecked on a sea of adventures ?—Fraser's Magazine. TRIUMPHS OF PITT IN PUTTING DOWN JACORINISM. In January, 1793, the cruel murder of the innocent and unfortunate Louis XVI. had been perpetrated by the National Convention—an act which Napoleon long after wards pronounced " a grand political error, sufficient to stamp the government not merely with guilt, but with in fatuation." The French minister at the Court of St. James's was ordered to leave the country, and war was proclaimed. The revolutionary committees in England now assumed increased activity. Communications were established between them and the Jacobin government; and while France prepared for war, English republicanism prepared for revolution. The time of the struggle was fully come. The English minister now buckled on his armour. A succession of vigorous measures employed the legislature during the whole period ; they were fiercely combated, but they were all ultimately carried. Opposi tion never exhibited more brilliant parliamentary powers. Fox was matchless in declamation; alternately solemn and touching; Sheridan, Grey, and a long list of prac tised and indefatigable talent, were in perpetual debate ; but Pitt, " with huge two-handed sway, , finally crushed them all. The classic illustration of Hercules destroying the Hydra, was frequently used to express the solitary prowess of this extraordinary man in resisting the multi plied, wily, and envenomed attacks of his opponents; and he realized the fable to the full—he not merely crushed the heads, but be seared them. lie extinguished that principle of evil increase, by which all the efforts of fop reign governments had been baffled in their contests with Jacobinism ; and in the midst of an empire at all times inclined to look with jealousy on power, and at that mo ment nervous for the suspended privileges of its constitu tion, Pitt utterly extinguished the Whigs. Fox was de feated so hopelessly, that he gave up Parliament altoge ther, and his party followed his example. Pitt had not merely cut down the statelier trunks of Opposition, but he had swept away the brushwood, and smote the ground with sterility. His bold enterprise had not merely taken the citadel of faction by storm, and driven its defenders, faint-hearted and fugitive, over the face of the land, but he had sown the foundations with salt. The total soli tude of the Opposition benches, during the greater part of the minister's political life, was the most unequivocal and striking evidence ever given to ministerial supremacy. —Blackwood's Magazine. DRAPERY.—it will be seen by reference to an adver tisement in another column, that the remaining portion of Mr. M'Connell's excellent stock is now selling at Mr. Kerr's, by whom he has been succeeded, at half the origi nal cost. NEW FANCY REPOSITORY.—It will be seen by an ad vertisement in our paper of to-day, that Mr. E. Flower, who is meritoriously known to the public as having been one of the most strenuous advocates of early closing, ha s opened a shop in Renshaw-street. Amongst the stock are many novelties. We wish him every success. ICE.—AMERICAN REFRIGERATORS .—Having already said so much in favour of American i ce, to dwell fur tber on its excellent and sanatory qualities at this ti me , would be a work of supererogation. But we owe ano th er duty to the first spirited importer, Mr. Dean ; and that is, to state that his American Refrigerators, repositories for the preservation of th e i ce, and of anv perishable article of food, the most delicate, are being constantly constructed by him, at a mo d erate price, and will be found most serviceable and econo m i ca l for house-keepers. They theare viaintuhd, the form of a doubl e c h es t, w ith t h e i ce b e l ow , an d &c., on a latticed shelf above them—the whole being so contrived, with a nonconducting substance be tween the double sides, &c., that not only the ice, but the meat is preserved for a long time, even in the warmest weather. We have since writing the foregoing to add the name of another competitor for public favour in the same line,—namely, our respected townsman, Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, who is also an importer of pure Ameri can ice, and has a supply on hand of the same refrigera tors. Mr. L.'s long standing in the town as a purveyor of all the good things of this life to his customers, gives him also a strong claim to support in this department, and there is ample room for both. The ice trade isonem i which it s scarcely possible to suppose that one will keep the other in hot water." ritb [ at rig- me- Jegp ests Tea zed pet, ire- ES, arth !or feet el and and ad -01 , be ,iiia ci?' tboi , a ble i ad; s 0' will' 0 0 0 1 fr° air°.