The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

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RAIL NDERS N of 0 ES, over monger' is a boat I dialer mincer 0 iverpoOlt must be ;) o f the in con- surer. May 7, 1844. P ROSPECTUS OF THE ABERDEEN RAILWAY. CAPITAL, £1,000,000, in SHARES of X2O EACH. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. THOMAS BLAIKIE, Esq., Lord Provost of the City of Aberdeen, Chairman, The Right Honourable the Earl of Erroll, K.T., „ Lord- Lieutenant of Ab er deenshire, ,t ll ,e Right H onoura bl e th e E ar l o f Ki n tore, 'fle Right Honourable the Viscount Arbuthnott, Lord ,Lieutenant o f Kincardineshire, The Right Honourable the 14 , ,rd , Forbes, The Right Honourable the Lord Panmure, The Provost of Dundee, The Provost of Arbroath, The Provost of Montrose, The Provost of Forfar. The Provost of Brechin, A:doteuler Bannerman, Esq., M.P. for the City of Aber cu,dward Ellice, Esq., M.P. for the East Fifeshire Burghs, J Ge orge Duncan, Es., M.P. for Dundee, oh Count Leslie, of Balquhain, J Adam, Esq., of Scobhach, Captain Barclay, of Ury and Allardice, Blaikie, Esq , of the firm of John Blaikie and tSons Aberdeen, • jor-beneral Byres, of Tonley, p Burnett, Esq., Aberdeen, iratrick Chalmers, Esq., of Auldbar, "471.,eli.srtCprombie, Esq., one of the Baillies of Aberdeen, Imam F. L. Carnegie, Esq., of Spvnie and Boysack, Ro uff, Esq , of Cutter and Fetteresso, Thomas Abercromby Duff, Esq., of Haddo, JDuncan Davidson, Esq., of Tillychetly, ames Farquharson Esq., of Invercauld, Farquh ar , Esq.,. of Hallgreen, Kinrardinshire, one of the Directors of the Union Bank of London, Colon e l al" Par llnharson, Esq., Manufacturer, Auchinblae, Robert de n s hiZer: of Inverallochy and Castle Fraser, Grant of Tillyfour Convener of Aber- Colonel Gorden, Esq., ark, Convener ' of Banffshire. Alexander Gibbon, Esq., of Johnston. John Gordon, Esq., of Avochie and Drumlithie, Andrew Gammen, Esq., of Drumtocbty Castle, John Taylor Gordon, Esq.. of Nethermuir, James Hadden, jun., Esq., of the firm of Alexander Hadden and Sons, Frederick Holland, Esq., of the firm of Richards and _ Company, John Angus, Esq., City Clerk of Aberdeen, William lnnes, Esq., of Raemoir, Convener of Kincar dineshire, Alexander Jopp, Esq., Aberdeen, James Kilgour, Esq., of the firm of Gordon, Barron, and Company, Clements Lumsden, Esq., Aberdeen, Alexander Morrison, Esq., of Bognie and Montblairy, Isaac Macbray, Esq., Torry Farm, Mail Coach Contrac- tor ' Aberdeen, JohnMorice, Esq., of Tullos, Kincardineshire, Merchant in London, Alexander Pierie, jun., Esq., of the firm of Alexander Pierie and Sons, Henry Paterson, Esq., Manager of the North of Scot land Banki ng Company, _ jo r G eorge Thompson, C. 8., Bengal Engineers, of Ica.nleY, Aberdeenshire, residing in Liverpool, George Thompson, jun., Esq., Shipowner in Aberdeen, D avid Wyllie, Esq., Cashier of the Banking Company, Aberdeen. BANKERS. The Banking Company in Aberdeen and Branches, The North of Scotland Banking Company, Aberdeen and Branches, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Branches, The Union Bank of S cot l an d an d D o ., }Edinburgh, The C ommercial Bank of Scotland and Do., Sir Richard Carr Glynn and Co., Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., London, The - Union Bank of London, JJJ essrs. B ec k ett and Company, Leeds, The Commercial Banking Company, Liverpool. ENGINEERS. M essrs. Grainger Messr s . J ohn Gibband Miller, Edinburgh, , and Alexander Gibb, Aberdeen. RAILWAY, connecting the City of Aberdeen with Dundee, Perth, Abroath, Forfar, Brechin, Montrose, and („ tonehaven, and the numerous towns and villages in this !rnportant agricultural and manufacturing district, has Trig been anxiously desired, and the land was surveyed as far back as the year 1837. The execution of the under taking however, was deferred until .the chain of railway communication should be further advanced. This has now taken place. Railways have been completed or are proje cted from England and the south and west of Scot and tts the southern termini of the present line. A fresh P u rvey and estimate having been obtained, the undertak has si nce received the sanction of t h e N o bl emen and asentlemen Proprietor s of the greater part df the lands to b e traversed, and a large portion of the Capital has been subscribed within the district. kFrom a consideration of the route and length of the t,caitcill be seen that the whole traffic of the various throughout the south and west of Scotland tiaust, in its progress to Aberdeen and the northern coun ties, fall into and be, conveyed along this line. The length of the line is sixty-six miles, including branches. Commencing at the harbour and wet docks in the centre of Aberdeen, it proceeds by the villages of Cove, Portlethen, Skateraw, and others, to the county of Stonebaven : thence through the fertile district of the Mearns, near to the villages of Drumlithie, Auchinhlae, and Laurencekirk, by Marykirk to Brechin, and having a branch to th e d oc k s at M ontrose. From Brechin it is proposed that the line shall be continued to Friockheim on the one hand, forming there a junction with the rail ways already finished to Abroath and Dundee, and the Edinburgh and Northern, through Fife ; and, on the other hand, to be continued to Forfar, where it will meet the Northern Junction Railway from Perth through Strath more, thus connecting it with the Scottish Central line. No tunnel is required on the whole length of the line, the gradients are good, the value of the land is compara tively small, and the works are of a description which can be estimated with certainty. In addition to the experi ence of M essrs. G rainger and Miller and Messrs. Gibb, l a tt ita"wa y Engineers, the practical experience of the ... e r as Contractors, under the firm of John Gibb and o ur is wAI know n , an d w ill g i ve more t h an usua l confi dence in the e s t ma t e o f cost. A fter the most care f u l Co nsiderati on o f the w h o l e works on the main line and r anches, and including the plant, the capital has been bud at £ 1 ,000,000 sterling. The line traversed is very populous, and, besides the other large towns above mentioned, Aberdeen alone con tains 75,000 inhabitants, and is the depfit for the supply i vvi u tf t t, t i : hr e ele i si nl iti :ortant and . wealthy district north of that city 0 "" general merchandize. Aberdeen and the other towns wocrien are also important seats Theof ~t a h l e m l o i nn e na n, d co o t t t h o e n r , fiQh . and other manufactures. larg e ; are of great magnitude. These afford a very s,,t, 'tern i n the present carrying trade of the country, It h the adva n tage of a rapA transit so necessary to a can ntodity of a pe e rishable nature will largely increase. This trade, it is we lllnown, has in lines of railway sirrd rlY circumstanced, proved a source of great revenue. A Portion of the country traversed being deficient of stone for building purposes, while the other is abundantly atuespeprliipedti owZ a stone of the finest quality and of different large traffic will thence arise. I ts importa nce as an A gr i cu lt ura l district, in which the finest Cattle are reared and fed in great numbers, requires only to be mentioned to satisfy every one of the large revenue which the Railway will realize from the transit of. Live and Dead Stock to the southern markets, to which n they are at present driven by tedious and expensive medi ums of conveyance. The Grain Trade also forms an im portant item in the anticipated receipts. and cares of traffic have been prepared from the passenger s o.carrying ode,tra exhibiting a clear revenue of upwards without or per cent. on the capital of 11,000,000 , without reckoning called into existence an y new branch of trade to be , o r on any undue increase of that at present existing. It is proposed that the stock Shares, of £2O eac h ; ands,ack sthta til lt t all be divided into 50,00 0 Bouse of Com mo ns p rov i de I ;tanding orders of the subscribed shall be paid before a railway n i on the sums a second time, a deposit t o that amount will 7)aenre b qeurierael before applying to Parliament. A deposit of 20s. per share to be paid as the shares are awarded, and the re_ maining 20s. before the Ist February, 1845. The amount of future Calls to be payable at such time as the Commit tee may direct, and the shares of parties f a ili ng t o pay the Calls when required, will be forfeited, along with any s urris whi c h t h ey may h ave prev i ously paid. The act will prov ide that no su b scr ib er s h a ll b e liable beyond the am ount s of his su b scr i pt i on, t h at no more than ;£2. 10s. kwritseth the all Share shall be ca ll e d f or at any one time, and that be th e C s a l n ls. interval of not less th an th ree mont h s all ow s the act is obtained, 4 per cent. interest will be t he lin e l i rn the Calls, from the date of payment until th e Pay /lie :Yelled for traffic. If the act is not obtained, Appe cati. '-s, deducting expenses, will be returned. niade t r , A .'ns for Shares in the form annexed, may be and A . is'''uant and Anderson, Blakie and Smith, or P. wel`avidson, Advocates in Aberdeen ; to G. and T. and L ee u s,ter, Old Palace-yard, and Johnson, Farquhar, tary ", Moorgate-street London the Parlian,en tssexoolicitors ; to Clark, Davidson, ' and' Brown, 36, ton aallr,,ect, Arbroath; Shiell and Small, Dundee ; Lou- Ill a _ al `Donald, de r Brechin; Adam Burness, Montrose ; an d 11Z Za,rt and Kinnear and Mourn, Stonehaven ; Duncans f ° ll ow;2'eant and Gray and Jamieson, Perth ; or to the risaharg sha re h ro k ers,—name l y, Wil l i am Gordon, Ma ando Oswal R Gerge, an Co., nd James Black C u., 'treet Al ' ~ a )erdeen •Robert Allan, d John Robertson, and a o ll jt Pillans aLI Home, Edinburgh D. B. Niven rel.% "„n Sturrock, jun., Dundee ; W. H. Oliphant, . I ,Wats ' n ' l r .,,`Ewen and Auld, John C. Fonlds, and James Wal ker Moore George ' Heaps Co., Leeds '4441) and Son, Manchester ; B. and M. Boyd, 4, New stre et u T ilai Moorgate ,ondnogns,.arnd C. and J. „i n.. p l\l'Rre- A , 1 5 tD 7, ORSYTEI ILITCII D. D and J. ZN, or to RICHARD SCHOLES, Liverpool. --- To H O '''' lA, OP APPLICATION FOR SHARES . --L PaovlstorlAt. COMMITTEE OF THE ABERD EEN R Ct •Vrl p RAILWAY. "'hare s, :;14EN,—I request that you will allot to me way. on the .1 X2O each, In the proposed Aberdeen ' il p ay 6leteritis and couditions of the Prospectus. I shall r qu... d, de Posit and sign the necessary deeds when c maed at day of Narnl ............ Trade'Residence ....... . or Profesdon., 1844. GLASGOW, DUMFRIES. AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. _ _ THE Provisional Committee respectfully inform ap plicants for Shares in this Undertaking, that the Allocation has now been completed, and they regret that from the number of applications received beyond the amount of Capital required so many respectable par ies have been disappointed. Those parties who have not re ceived letters of Allotment will, therefore, understand that the Committee have been unable to comply with their wishes. The Subscribers' Deed of Agreement will lie for Sig nature in the hands of Mr. MATTHEW WOTHERSPOON, Sharebroker, No. 7, India-buildings, Liverpool, from the 3d tdl the 18th instant. By•order of the Committee, WILLIAM LOGIE, Interim Secretary. Glasgow, Ist May, 1844. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. CONVEYANCE DIRECT BETWEEN LONDON AND LIVERPOOL. T O prevent delay in transit, and counteract excessive charges which are still practised on the Public by common Carriers, parties should expressly direct all Merchandise from London for Liverpool to be delivered to CHAPLIN AND HORNE, HAMBRO'-WHARF, THAMES-STREET, LONDON. AGENTS FOR THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. or at either of their Receiving-offices, City or West : viz., Spread Eagle.. Gracecburch-street, Swan with Two Necks Lad-lane, Cross Keys Wood-street, George and Blue Boar Holborn, Golden Cross.... • • Charing-cross, Spread Eagle ..Regents'-circus, Griffin's, Green Man and Still ; and Euston-square, whose Rates throughout rre arranged according to the weight, value, and bulk of the Goods, but in no case ex ceeding 4s. per Cwt., including cartage in London. Goods are conveyed daily by the Grand Junction Rail way Company between London and Liverpool direct, without change of Waggon or loss of time. Apply to BRAITHWAII E POOLE. Liverpool, 24, Water-street, Ist May, 1844. GUARANTEE SOCIETY. ESTABLISHED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. CAPITAL £lOO,OOO TRUSTEES. Charles Rugce Price, Esq. Thomas Fowler, Esq. John Francis Maubert, Major - General Parlby, Esq. C.8.E.1.C. TO Officers of her Majesty's Service, both (Civil and Military,) Secretaries. Clerks, and all others hold ing, or about to hold, confidential and responsible situa tions, this Society presents immediate facilities for obtain ing Surety for Integrity, upon payment of a small annual premium, and by which relatives and friends are relieved from the various pecuniary responsibilities attendant o❑ private suretyships. The surety of this Society is accepted by the War-office, (for Paymasters of Regiments and of Out-Pensioners,) the Ordnance, East India Company, the Customs, the Bank of England, and numerous Banking, Mercantile, and Commercial Firms, both in London and in the country. Forms of application, and every information, may be obtained at the Offices, 28, Poultry, London. THOMAS DODGSON, Secretary. AGENTS FOR THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT, HUGHES AND RONALD, 1, Cook-street. T ROBERT BLACKHURST, at present and for two weeks past residing at number nineteen, Mill-street, in the parish or place of Toxteth-park and county of Lan caster, and for four years previously residing at number fourteen, in Mill-street aforesaid, and being an auctioneer and appraiser, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that I intend to present a petition to the LIVERPOOL DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, praying to be examined touching my debts, estate, and effects ; and to be protected from all process, upon making a full dis closure and surrender of such estate and effects, for pay ment of my just and lawful debts. AND I HEREBY FURTHER. GIVE NOTICE, that the time when the matter of the said petition shall be heard, is to be adver tised in the London Gazette, and the Liverpool Standard newspaper, one month at the least after the date hereof. As witness my hand this sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord o e thousand eight hundred and forty-four. ROBERT BLACKHURST. IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 30 , 00 0 , 000 fls. (of 18390-1 AUSTRIAN SCRIP for £3, 6 for £l5, and 13 for £5O ; reimbursable by Dividends of £30,000, £23,000, £20,000, £15,000, &z.c.—Smallest Dividend £5O sterling. IMPERIAL RUSSIAN-POLISH LOAN of 150,000,000 fls. (of 18350-1 RUSSIAV-POLISH SCRIP for £2 10s., 4 for £lO, and 9 for £2O. General and chief DISTRIBUTION Ist Ju.se, at Vienna. A few SCRIPS are yet on SALE. Dividends repaid at Paris, Frankfort, Vienna, and London. Apply for prospectuses, with full particulars, without delay, to A. JACOBS and Co., Bankers, Frankfort-on-Maine. Or, to save postages, letters may be sent to Mr. JACOB'S, 34, Wellclose-square, London, from whence they will promptly be forwarded. IMPERIAL RUSSIAN-POLISH LOAN of 1 50,000,000f15. (of 1835,) IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 30,000,000 11. (of 1839,) guaranteed by their Majesties the Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of Russia. GRAND DISTRIBUTIONS at Warsaw and Vienna. In the Russian-Polish Loan the following divi dends will be re-imbursed :—One of 1,000,000 fl., one of 300,000 11., two of 150,00018., six of 25,00011., eight of 14,000 fl., &c., together 7000 dividends, gaining7,97o,ooo Smallest dividend 750 fl., .largest 1.000,000 fl. In the Austrian Loan 700 bonds will obtain 701,700 11., in lots of 230,000 11., 50,000 fl., 15,000 fl., 10,000 fl., &c. Smallest dividend 500 fl. 10 floJins are equal to LI sterling, a trifle more or less, as per day's exchange. The prices are— 1 Russian-Polish Scrip for £2 10 1 Austrian Scrip for £3 4 Ditto 10 0 6 Ditto 15 9 Ditto 20 0 13 Ditto 30 Payable by bank notes, remittances, or drafts. Divi dends re-imbursable at Frankfort, Paris. London, or New York, at the option of the holders. The undersigned ge neral agent. in claiming the attention of the imperial and foreign public to these more important Loan Distributions, begs to state that, agreeably to the instructions with which he has been honoured, he is now receiving the orders of the public. To save postages, foreign subscribers may apply to his houses in Paris, New York, and London ; at Mr. A. Schwarzschild's, 1. Plough-court, Lombard street. Prospectuses, with full particulars, and Lists of the Distribution, promptly forwarded to every shar e h o ld er abroad. J. A. SCHWARZSCHILD, Banker and Receiver-General. Fraukfort-on-Maine, April, 1341. FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, Price ls. per box. THIS excellent Family PILL is a Medicine of long tried efficacy for correcting all disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, the common symptoms of which are Costiveness, Flatulency, Spasms, Loss of Appetite, Sick Head•ache, Giddiness, Sense of Fulness after meals, Dizziness of the Eves, Drowsiness and Pains in the Stomach and Bowels, Indigestion producing a Torpid State of the Liver, and a consequent Inactivity of the Bowels, causing a disorganization of every function of the doses s ve w r i a i n l c c e o , nv b i e nc e e ffe t c h t e ua a l ifi ly iet r e e d mo o vd it . s frame, will, in this mos t exce ll ent preparat i on, b y a li tt l e f salwutoar yor effects.thre The Stomach Kill speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pain, and jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, will be the quick result of taking this Medicine according to the directions accompanying each box. These Pills are particularly efficacious for Stomach Coughs, Colds, Agues, Shortness of Breath, and all Obstructions of the Urinary Passages; and if taken after too free an i n d u l g ence at table, they quickly restare the system to its natural state of repose. Persons of a FULL HABIT, who are subject to Head-ache,Blood to the Head, Giddiness, Drowsiness, and Singing in the Ears, ari s i ng from too great a fl ow of should ne ver b e without them. as many dangerous symp toms will he entirely carried off by their immediate use. For FEMALES, these Pills ar e most truly excellent, removing all obstructions, the distressing Head - ache so sir't very prevalent with the sex ; Depressio n of Sl3 1 , Dull ness of Sight, Nervous Affections , Blotch es, Pimples, and Sallowness of the Skin, and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the complexion. To MOTHERS. they are confidently recommended as the best medicine that can be taken during pregnancy and for children of all ages they are unequalled. As a pleasant, safe, easy Aperient, they unite the re commendation of a mild operation with the most success ful effect, and require no restraint of diet or confinement during their use. By regulating the dose according to the age and strength of the patient, they become suitable for every case, in either sex, that can be required ; and for elderly people they will be found to be the most comforta ble Medicine hitherto prepared. Sold by T. PROUT, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. I Id. and 2s. 9d. per box; also by Rennie, Wa g staff, Howell, Phillips, Aspinall, Fisher, Apothecaries' Company, G. Syers, J. Syers, Roberts, Johnson and Son, Lathbury, Scholefield, Smith, King, Bradford, Blake, Bird, Gerard, Watson, Mucklow, Lloyd, Carter, and Rowland, Liver pool ; Law, and Gaskell, Manchester ; and by the vendors of Medicines generally throughout the kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the Government Stamp. CHEAP TRIP To Lorrnox.—To those of our readers who have not visited the modern Babylon, an opportunity will present itself on the 18th and 20th instant, by which they will be enabled to go to the metropolis of the world, and gaze on its varied wonders, as the late contractor has again entered into arrangements with the railway com panies to carry passengers there and back, for the par trculars of which we beg to refer to the advertisement. EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.—ThE following extract from the journals kept at the Eye and Ear Infirmary of the operations performed by Mr. Hugh Neill and the other talented gentlemen connected with the establish ment, shows the extensive ust , futness of tiiis excellent charity :---" On the Bth April last Mr. Neill opeiated on nine persons for cataract, artificial pupil, &c. ; and on the IGth of the same month upon three for cataract. On the latter day eighty-two persons were also prescribed for and received medicines." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. VARIETIES. AN AGED FAMILY. —There is now residing at Husted Nook, in the township of Weardale and Wardle, an aged family of seven individuals, all in good health, — namely, James Matthews, 85 ; Robert, 75 • Thomas. 73 ; John, 77 ; Mary, 82; Betty, 71 ; Richard, 67. Their united ages amount to 530 years.—Blackburn Standard. FRENCH PURITY OF ELECTION.—OR Monday last, the French Chamber of Deputies decided that the third election of Mr. Charles Lafitte, for the borough of Lou viers, was not a good election, and ought to be annulled. The ground of his rejection was, that he had been guilty of " collective corruption," in having promised the elec tors to cause to be constructed a branch from the Rouen railroad to that town ! TRAVELLING IN SPAIN.—We read in a Madrid jour nal—" Mail-coaches with three places for passengers, like those of Fiance, have been established upon all our roads. It is difficult to give an idea of the multiplication of public carriages of all kinds in Spain. They are run ning in every direction, and there is so much opposition that the fares are extremely low, and travelling has become so greatly increased, that the inns and other establishments for their accommodation are as greatly improved. if our highways are but cleared of the brigands who infest them, foreigners will flock to explore our country and its inter esting curiosities, hitherto almost unknown to the rest of Europe."—Galignani's Messenger. A LIVELY PLACE.—They have a little town out west which appears to have been overlooked by Dickens, and other English travellers of his class, and which is all sorts of a stirring place. In one day they recently had two street fights, hung a man, rode three out of town on a rail, got up a quarter race, a turkey shooting, a gander pulling, a match dog fight, had preaching by a Methodist circuit rider, who afterwards run a foot-race for drinks all round; and, as if this was not enough, the judge of the court, after losing a year's salary at single-handed poker, and whipping a person who said he did not under stand the game, went out and helped to Lynch a man for hog-stealing.—Picayune. SOUND OF BELLS ON WATER.—Dr. Arnott relates a case where the sound of bells was heard on board a ship sailing along the coast of Brazil, far out of sight of land. The sound was heard during an hour or two, at a particular spot on deck, and it seemed to vary as in human rejoic ings. All on board came to listen, and were convinced as to the existence and nature of the sound, but to account for it was impossible. Months afterwards it was ascer tained, that at the time of the observation, the bells of the city of St. Salvador, on the Brazilian coast, had been ringing on the occasion of a festival; their sound, there fore, favoured by a gentle wind, had travelled over, per haps, a hundred miles of smooth water, and had been brought to a focus by the concave sail in the particular situation on the deck where it was listened to. ARRIVAL AT BEYROOT.—The traveller, whose good fortune it has been to make his first approach to Syria by sea, and to land at Beyroot, must always esteem it a happy coincidence that the most frequented port on all the coast is likewise precisely the point where a man of taste and quick feeling would choose to receive his first im presions of the country. Long before the vessel nears the shore, the sunlit peaks and wavy ridges of Lebanon arc seen marking the blue sky, while its sides are hid from sight by the haze upon the waters; by and by the craggy masses of the mountain come forth like airy promontories ; the eye gradually distinguishes the deep and dark valleys that cleave its flanks ; the rocky crests assume a bolder outline ; and you half discern villages sc Atered on the mountain sides, and monasteries like feudal fortresses crowning their summits. Each object caught sight of is hailed with delight ; all hands are on deck ; every eye is strained, and each gazer has continually tome new disco very to impart to his companions. It is always an ex citing thing to have a mountain land in view as the termi nation of a sea voyage; but here the charm is felt with tenfold strength, for the land before you is endeared by a host of associations linked with your earliest and most hallowed recollections. Meanwhile, the vessel holds on its course • the land grows beneath the eye ; the white walls of the country houses, spread all along the plain at the foot of the mountain, prep out with a look of welcome from between their clustering trees, and the air is loaded with the perfumed breath of orange and lemon blossoms. At last the anchor is dropped, and you are riding in the bay of Beyroot, in front of a long promontory, rising gradually from the water, above which are seen the mina rets and towers of the town, and beyond them the sum mits of the Jebel Sunnin, and the Jebel Kneese, and the long lines of the Jebel el Drus.—Library of Travel. DIVISIBILITY OF MATTER.—We not unfrequently speak of things as being "as fine as a hair." Now the human hair varies in thickness from the 1-2 . oth to the 1-600th part of an inch ; and it is a massive cable in com parison with the fibres produced by other animals. The thread of the silk-worm is many times finer, being from the 1-1700th to the 1-2 1 00th of an inch. This, however, is nothing to the slenderness of the spider's thread, which has been found in some instances to be no more than 1-30,000 th of an inch in diameter. It is difficult even to imagine quantities so small ; and the best way to realize them to the mind is to consider that 30,000 such threads laid side by side would make a riband only one inch broad. But this is by no means the entire wonder of the spider's thread. Each of these slender cords is composed of four or six twisted together; and every one of these is formed by the pressing out of a viscid fluid through a sort of teat or spinneret at the hinder part of the animal, the point of which, instead of having a single orifice, is perforated by not less than 1000 very minute apertures. The thread of each spinneret must be formed, therefore by the union of not less than 1000 fibrils ; and four or six of these threads go to form the cord of 1. 30,000 th of an inch in diameter, of which the spider's web is constructed. It has been calculated that two drachms (120 grains) of such thread would reach from Edinburgh to London. The fibres yielded by the vegetable kingdom are not so fine as these; yet their minuteness is most astonishing. Every fibre of been found to be about 1-2500th of an inch in diameter. flax is composed of a bundle of other fibrils, which have been ascertained to be no more than 1-5000 t h tw h is o te r d e i v n e t n o 1-7000th of an inch in diameter ; these h Similar fibres, obtained from the pine-apple plant, have form [fib "I which are drawn beauti ful texture. The glistening spin s cloth w of very out when the mum or a strawberry is apart, are not more than threads, abnyddwireoaavwf; leafstalk are llcthoe s f a e i an d dg t se o .r snapped l42,oooth of an inch in diameter.—Popular Cyclopcedia of Natural Science. A GOOD CRITIC'S OPINION OF ERNST . — Second coatioenta Concert of the Philharmonic Society.—A promine n t appear ancefeature of Herr Ernst. in this Much as it m concert was the fi rs t a bey the g artistsrn en t , of ft allis yfaesto unquestionably, toe a ffect a contempt t boaft theEn g greatest s e h a t judgment, u s t d countries seek from the Philharmonic audience the last and conclusive testimony to their powers. In the case of Herr Ernst, this was yielded on Monday evening in a manner too prompt and enthusiastic to be otherwise than gratifying to him. We have already spoken on several occasions of this extraordinary violinist. He has, assu redly, no superior as an executant, even among the most madly emulous of the fashionable gymnasts ; while in that deeper and less acquirable excellence, the genial in terpretation of musical poesy. no one but he has been able to sustain the all-passionate idola which Paganini created. He could not have made a better selection for the display of his prodigious capabilities than the Scene Cantanfe of Spohr. The recitatives, the can tabile, the I final allegro,—all were absolute perfec tion. We have heard Spohr execute this same com position, but, nevertheless, prefer its rendering at the hands of Ernst. Nothing, of course, can transcend Spohr's understanding of his oan work; but the youth of Ernst is yet hot and fresh with him, and be sings through his lovely gush of pathos, not as a cherished relic of by-gone feeling, but as the prompt exponent of pre sent and living passion. His solo in the second act, though less interesting to the musician, was, perhaps, necessary to substantiate his position among the wonder workers of the day. As a collection of miraculously achieved difficulties, we have heard nothing beyond it; one variation, indeed,—an overwhelming torrent of rapid thorns—was so obviously an all-but preternatural marvel as to compel a tremendous encore. Ernst was vociferously received throughout, and he deserves it. As a player he is certainly second to none; but his composer-I , ke feel ing and genial attachment to everything intrinsically excellent in music, place him above all comparison in his walk of art.—Atlas. A VETERAN.—The late Si r Jahleel Brenton o t he entered22n 22nd the service in 1777 ; was m a d e a Lieutenant n of November, 1790, and as suc h served on board the Barfleur in Lord Bridport's action off Cape St. Vincent's n 1697 (in which were also his gallant friends, two of the yof I.n Admirals at the present Board of Admiralty); was made a commander on the 3rd of sun brig,itdurin this fire of musk i v n e g s s month ei sin a h Gibraltar; July, t hl7t99y year threea a r nodf fought i t n h e e command nseveralemy ,s of the Speedy, 11- gun vesselsaGc Galt, t i o t, n us under in e t r h el, capturedh v e i cai heavy 'ws s of a fortificatieoanvytl,do musketry from r la a n r t m r y e En beating vesselse m be r bo; two October he destroyed hills.efourx poseefd l t n itloe t h teh e nee following surf, at the time himself , and in corn the beach, and in the next month of a dis played consummate skill and Spanish schooners, and ten ot g h a e l services he won his post rank, which is dated the; by these April, 1800. He was then selected by Sir 3- 2sth of wards Lord) de Samaurez as his flag captain, and in(after wards the severe action off Algesiras, of the 6th of July, 1831. s mand of the Caesar distinguished quently, in command of the Minerva, when that übse frigate got aground in a fog and was lost near Cherbourg, de fended her during a heav y fire of sev eral hours, for' le-- lwhich unsurpassa ble gallantry he r ecei v ed, the highest praise when acquitted at a cour t martial for the loss of his ship.aise In 18Q7, when in comm and of the S partan frigate, Sir Jableel assisted in, driving the French garrison out of Pezaro and destroying the castle; in the fullowing month he assisted in blowing up the. Castle of Cesaratico, destroy ing a neighbouring battery , and com p e lling the Isla n d Sussin to surrender; ass isted at the r eduction of Zante of and Cephalonia, and parti cularl y distin guished hims e lf at the capture of Cerigo, whe re he w as first in com man d . These and many other important services did this gallant officer render in the Adriatic . In the same ship in 1810, in concert with the Sussex, be fought a most gallant action with and defeated, a Frenc h s q uad r o n in the Bayof Naples, in which action he was severe ly wounded. The gallant deceased was created a Baronet on this occasion, and received other honours , a nd on th e B th of February,' 1811, had a pension conferre d u p o n him of £3OO p r annum for the wounds he ha d r ec e i v ed . He obtained hi s flag promotion as Rear-Admiral on the 22d of July 1830, and as Vice-Admiral on the I st o f July 1840 : , onct sub sequently bad another pension conferred upon him of £3OO per annum for good service : he also received a giant from the Patrivfc Fund. The gallant, deceased was the son of the late Rear-Admiral Brenton. He was twice married. His elde-t son, Mr. Laune.lot Charles Lee Brenton, who succeeds to the Baronetcy, w as h orn in 1807. INDIA AND CHINA. (From Yesterday's Times.) • We received on Saturday evening our despatches from India and China, which left Bombay on the Ist of April. The chief intelligence of the month relates to the con duct of a part of certain native regiments on the north west frontier, which refused to march to Scinde, in con sequence of some allowances granted to the troops on the banks of the Indus during the time of war being with drawn when that province was declared to be in peace and annexed to the British Empire in India. The pay of the native soldier is five rupees and a half (11s.) per month, besides which he receives subsstence money (called batta and half-batta) of one rupee and a half in cantonment, and, if marching in the Companys territo ries, an additional sum of the same amount called " extra batta," whereby his pay becomes eight rupees and a half Per month. If he is on a foreign station, and in peculiar cases of scarcity, he receives an additional sum called " ration money," as a compensation for the dearness of the articles of his use, such as grain, &C. Thus there were three indulgences to be considered, viz., Ist, the cantonment rate of half-batta ; 2d, the ranching rate of extra batta ; and 3d, the extraordinary indulgence of ra tion money. All cause for alarm had ceased, and the several regi ments ordered were proceeding to their stations on the Indus. Three regiments have been ordered to be dis banded,—viz., the 7th Light Cavalry, and the 4th and 34th regiments of Native Infantry. The 64th regiment, in which but a few began the mu tiny, having proved that the mass of the men k new nothing of it, and having volunteered to go to Scinde, had been allowed to proceed, and with the Foot Artillery, under Captain Graham, had embaiked at Ferozepore on the 18th of March. The 6th Irregular Cavalry, which had not, to its honour, shown the smallest symptom of dis affection, was also in progress there. The Artillery had also at first begun to march, but the Hindoo Brahmins and the Mussulman Mollahs had gone to tamper with the men, and produced for a time some disinclination, which ceased on explanations being given. The government, which has made the concessions to the troops, will take care to weed the disaffected out of all these corps. The propriety of an increase of the Bombay army had been admitted by the Governor-General, and lists had been prepared of the officers to be appointed to four new corps, from which it appeared that the colonels had served 40 years, the lieutenant-colonels upwards of 30 years, the majors more than 25, and the majority of the captains 19 and 20 years, while it would, leave the average of two brevet-captains to each regiment after 15 years' service. There was a great wi s h expresse d i n Bengal and Madras . that Scinde should be made' over to the Bombay Prssi dency as an appanage, and that its army should be aug mented to meet the demand on its service. In such cir cumstances the augmentation of 10 regiments would be necessary ; but the Bombay army has never yet been stained with mutiny on any occasion whatever. The 47th Madras Regiment, which had shown a muti nous spirit in Bombay, had been sent to garrison Aden. The cost of the grant to the Sepoys in Scinde is va riously estimated ; it has been calculated at £50,000 per annum, but the irnptovements going on in the districts on the borders of the Indus will soon repay it. Form nately for India the flourishing state of the revenue will not cause any pressure from the grant of the batta to the Scinde and Gwalior armies. Such is its prosperity. that the Governor-Goneral has issued a notification abolishing the transit duties in the Presidency of Madras. This is considered as a most useful measure, as introducing uni formity into the various provinces of India. The news from Scinde represents that district as tran quil and comparatively healthful. The Bombay troops there were satisfied to retain it, and an augmentation in that army was expected. From Lahore the news is of great importance. There a civil war is raging ; a chief called Cashmeera Singh, a bastard of Runjeet, is opposed to the new Prime Minis ter, Heer Singh, and, as Sikhs support him, it is proba ble there will be another revolution within a few months in the Punjaub. The notorious Affghan leader, Akbar Khan, had led his troops to invade Peshawar and he will, in all probability, force the Lahore Government into an application to the Governor-General for assistance. It is not improbable that there will be another conflict with the Affghans on the plains of the Panjaub, where the Indians, when not aided by the English, have almost always been routed by the hardy mountaineers. It seems that these mountaineers have an established right to overcome the people to the east of the Indus, and when they lately invaded Peshawar they were surprised at being beaten back by the Sikhs under foreign generals. The conquest of their country by the British army had surprised them ; yet now again they are to be seen moving to the Indus, and there the British army must again meet and defeat them. The Sikhs have lost their weight in the scale of India since the death of old Runjeet, and it is therefore imperative on the British government to be pre pared to conflict with the Shiks against the Affghans, and not to allow them to make a junction, which might lead to numberless invasions on the fertile north-western pro vinces of the Company's territories. The late rumours of a mutiny amongst the native troops had encouraged both the Sikhs and Affghans to exhibit a ho.tile spirit towards the British. The antipathy between the Affghans and the Sikhs is proverbial; they are continually quarrelling, and as the Sikhs have latterly, by means of foreign generals and British aid, been successful, the former now seek an opportunity of having another conflict, for they are anxious to become masters of Peshawur, and of Cash , Mere. The Governor-General arrived in Calcutta on the 28th of February, and was well received. In Gwalior tranquility prevails. The new contingent was arranged, and the people appeared satisfied. It is worthy of remark, that the neighbouring district of Bun delkund has been thoroughly pacified by the subjugation of Gwalior, and so far was that pacification effective that the whole of the Bundelkund contingent had volunteered to proceed for three years ro Scinde, thereby demonstrating that the late disaffection relative to money matters in the four regiments of Bengal had not any extensive ramifica tions. In all parts of India tranqu'llity prevailed when the mail I,ft. Amongst the late passengers from Bombay were Sir R. and Lady Sale, and their daughter, Mrs. Sturt ; they left in the ship True Briton, and are coming to England round the Cape. The news from China comes down to the 27th of Feb ruary, but presents nothing remarkable. Sir H. Pottin ger was at Hongkong, which island was healthy. He was, while waiting for his successor, engaged in regulating some of the buildings at Victoria, and also in making pro per arrangement. for the trade at the new ports. The Chinese were robbing houses and plundering the foreigners as well at Macao as at Hongkong. Great anxiety prevailed in India respecting Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, as the rumours on the sub ject were conflicting. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CHINA. The accounts received state that the Chinese new-year holidays had almost entirely put a stop to business, and few transactions either in imports or exports had been effected. The following report of the Cotton. market comes down to the Ist of January : Deliveries in Dec. Stock Ist Jan. American Bombay.... ...... 23.925 Bengal Madras.. Total bales .. 41,877 127,260 Cotton was quoted at T. 5i to T. 7 for Bombay ; Ben gal, 6.2 to 8 6 ; Madras, 6.4 to 8; American, 6 to 6.5. In the Cotton Piece Goods market there was a good deal of activity, and large sales had been made at the following quotations :—Grey Longcloths. 2.80 dols. to 3.20 dols. ; Bleached do., 3.60 dols. to 4.20 dols. ; Drills, 2.30 dols. to 2.35 dols. ; American Sheetings, 2.45 dols. to 2.60 dols. The demand for Cotton Yarn continued as before. Sales were with difficulty made at 22 dols. to 24 dols. for Nos. 16 to 32. There was no inquiry whatever for the higher numbers. The demand for Woollens had fallen off considerably. We give below the quotations at which large shipments of Tea had been bought : Congou Tea, 15 to 20 per pecul Hyson, 32 to 70 per pecul ; Young Hyson Tea, 25 to 36 per pecul: Hyson skin, 14 to 35 per pecul; Gunpowder and Imperial Tea. 38 to 70 per pecul. The export of Tea to Great Britain, in the month of December, in 12 vessels, was of black, 5,955,1031bs ; and of green, 592,4521b5. ; total, 6,547,645. The total exports in six months from July 1 to Feb. 22 was of black, 29,429,3351b5. : and of green, 5,770,9561b5. ; in all, 35,200,2911b5. Prices of Opium were quite nominal — namely, Malwa, 670 dols, to 680 dols.; and Patna, 595 to 600 dols. Exchange on London, six months' sight, 4s. 6d. ; with Bengal, 30 days' sight, 224 rs. per 100 dols. CALCUTTA, MARCH 23. Since the issue of last week our money market has been tranquil, and capital abundant for all commercial purposes of a sound character. In government securities there had been a good deal of business at advancing valuations for some days. The Four per Cents. at one time reached within 1 or 12 annas of par. They have since receded to 1 a 1.2. Exchange is dull, and few bills for sale. The rate may be quoted at Is. 100, to ls. 101 d. - at 10 months' date. Bank Stock is in demand, and the premium rising. INDIGo.—The imports of the season have now nearly closed, and the amount of, produce approximates to fy. mds. 1,70,000. The exports since our last issue of 17th ultimo, are 4393 chests or fy. mds. 16,992 to England, 2021 chests or fv. mds. 7111 to, France, and 2302 chests or fy. Inds. 7787 to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea ; which make the shipments of the season to the 15th instant, inclusive, as below. BOMBAY, APRIL 1. METALS.—Iron has been in limited request during the month, and nearly all kinds are rather lower, as our quo tations will show. Tile, Copper haa declined abaut 1 r. per cwt., and sheathing r to 1 r. ; but brazier's and raised bottoms are unaltered, and South American has advanced Rs. 3 per cwt. Spelter is nominal at Rs. 161 to R s . 17 per cwt. Lead is, very .dull of sale, particularly sheet, and only Rs. 10t for Pig, and Rs. 11 at 111 for Sheet, are now obtainable. Red Lead is steady at Rs. 11 to 111 per cwt. Tin Plates and Steel are unaltered in value. We subjoin a list of the sales that have been re ported to us.for publication : — Copper, 225 cwt. Sheath ing, at Rs. 52-12 as. per cwt, ; 900 cwt. Tile, at Rs. 51-12 as. per cwt. ; 145 cwt. do. a t Rs. 52; and 94 cwt. do. at Rs. 52-2 as. per cwt. ; 450 Cwt. Brazier's, at Rs. 56i per cwt. ; 140 Ingots, at. Rs. 52 ; 100 cwt. Rods, at Rs. 54 ' and 150 cwt. South A mer i can . at R s. 47 ; 120 tons British Bar, at Rs. 22 to 22-2 as. per ca ndy ; 308 tons do., at Rs. 22 per carnly ; 75 candles Nail Rod (round and square) at Rs. 25-12 as ; 398 candles Swedish Bar, at Rs. 50; 400 cwt. Hoop, at Re., 4-7 as. per cwt. COTTON MA NUFACTURE3.—ThefAries that have been in best demand have been grey and bleached jaeconets, and these have commanded an advance of about 1 to 2 annas per piece. Bleached long cloths and mad tpolams have also been in fair request at former rates. but grey madapollams arid long cluttis are rather steady, and only in moderate inquiry. Muslins are rather scarce and wanted, as also Turkey red goods of all kinds, but prints have been in the most limited request, and the prices ob tained are extremely low, and leave a heavy loss to im porters. Zrbra dresses are nearly unsaleable, and appear to have gone almost out of consumption. YARNS.—There has been a fair demand during the month, especially since the arrival of the mail, and the stocks in first hands being small prices have advanced to anna per lb. FREIGHTS. Freights have risen and may now be quoted at £3. 17s. 6d. to £4. for fir:A-class ships, to London and Liverpool ; and at £3. 15s. per ton for second class ships ; but there is little cargo offering at present. SPAIN. The following telegraphic despatch, dated Madrid, May 2d, appears in the 7'imes of yesterday : " The entire (Spanish) Ministry has resigned. The Queen has accepted their resignation, and has charted General Narvaez wtth the formation of another Ministry, of which M. Miraflores is to be a member. " M. Bravo and his colleagues have announced to the Queen that they will lend their support to their successors. " Madrid is tranquil." THE BRAZILS. Her Majesty's packet Penguin, Lieut. Leslie, with mails from the Brazils, Monte Videe, and Buenos Ayres, arrived at Falmouth on I', iday. She sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 13th of March, and has come home thence direct, consequently bringing 14 days' la'er advises than were received by the last packet. She brings on freight in gold, &c., about £20,000. The brief interval between the despatch of this packet and the Linnet appears to have b.-en devoid of both mer cantile and political interest. The exchange had ruled during this period from 25 to 244, with a tendency still further to recede. Coffee had slightly improved, owing mainly to the small quantities arriving to market through the demand not having been so brisk just previously. The prices were 3,000 reis to 3,200 reis for superior, 2,600 reis to 2,700 reis for good first, and 1,800 reis to 2,400 reis for good second. A good crop of this article was expected. Freights, which also bad been flat, had since recovered to their previous rates. Her Majesty's schooner Cockatrice brought up the Monte Videan and Buenos Ayrean mails to Rio, with dates from the former to the 19th, and from the latter to the 21st of February. From Monte Video we learn that Rivera, from the last accounts, was at a place on the frontiers called Taquerimbo, closely pursued by General Arquiza, with whom he bad a slight rencontre on the 24th of January, near the Rio Negro, and where Ise was obliged to abandon the only cart of ammunition which he pos sessed. From Buenos Ayres it was reported that Rosas was amply provided with money, and that the exchange kept advancing. There had recently been a rising in one of the adjacent provinces, but it was quelled immediately by General Garcon, who defeated the insurgents, and restored tranquility. MISCELLANEOUS. The meeting of tbe Royal Agricultural Society for Eng land for 1845 will be held in Shrewsbury. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting, left Buckingham Palace at a quarter before six o'clock on Saturday afternoon. in a carriage and four, escorted by a party of the Royal Horse Guards, for Claremont. A HOUSE OF MOURNING.—The typhus fever has been raging in the parish of Easthope, near Much Wenlock, since last Midsummer nearly to the present time. In one house seven persons were dangerously ill, three of them died, and tbe only child which escaped that dreadful malady was burnt to death. Few parishes in the country can exhibit such a house of mourning as this. COSTS IN CASES AT PETTY SESSIONS.—A labouring man, named Robert Lunnon, was summoned a few days since before the bench of magistrates sitting in petty ses sions at Marlow, to answer the charge of damaging the signboard and a window at the Black Lion public-house at Little Marlow. The defendantwas convictedin both cases as follows :—for damaging the signboard he was fined 25., and ordered to pay 13s. costs; and for damaging the win dow he was fined Is., and mulct in 15s. costs ! KING WILLIAM'S COLLEGE, ISLE OF MAN,—The restoration of King V% illiam's College is progressing ra pidly. The workmen are now engaged upon the roof, and the chapel is also in a state of forwardness. The patrons and friends of the institution are sanguine that the annual meeting for the distribution of prizes, on the 4th of June, will be held within the walls of the renovated building. It will be remembered, that the edifice was insured for £2,000, but the estimate of the necessary repairs was £3,100 ; the trustees, however, calculate on a gross ex penditure of £4,000, thns leaving a deficiency of £2,000 to be provided for.—Mona's Herald. Loss of THE SHIP PALESTINE BY FlRE.—lntelli gence has been received within the last few days of this disastrous event. Toe vessel was the property of Messrs. Ashley Brothers and Co., of this town. She was almost new, having bee❑ launched at Quebec in 1811, and was a very fine vessel of her class, her tonnage being between 700 and 800 tons. The vessel sailed from Gravesend in September, bound to Men, Bombay, and Calcutta, with a cargo consisting of several hundred tons of coals, tar, pitch, and pine deals, which was taken on board at New castle. The voyage was very favourable, and all went on well until the 4th of February, when, about half-past two o'clock in the morning, the ship being in lat. 26 15 S, long. 58 35 E, the watch on deck was alarmed at observ ing a strong smell of fire, which was discovered, after great difficulty, to proceed from nearly the bottom of the vessel. Every exertion was made to save the vessel, but without success, and eventually the captain and crew were compelled to take to the boats, and shortly after they had ltft the ship she suddenly gave a heavy lurch, and then disappeared, head foremost. After enduring the most se vere privations, Captain M`Lean, and the men in the boat with him, were picked up on the seventh day by the brig Solway, which landed them at the Cape of Good Hope. The other boat, contrary to the instructions of Captain M`Lean, parted company, and the party in her arrived safe at the Mauritius. The Palestine was partly insured. Loss OF THE BARQUE INTREPID.—Captain Stuart, commander of the barque Intrepid, has published the following account of the loss of this vessel :—" The bar que Intrepid left the Sand Heads on the sth of January. 1844, for Liverpool, and crossed the equator on the 19th of of the same month. From lat. 65t014 S we had very bad weather, with a high cross sea. On the 28th it blew a hur ricane. We brought the s lip to under a closed reefed main topsail, and main trysail, and sent down top-gallant royal yards. The ship began to make so much water that we could not play the pumps. The bulwarks being partly gone on both sides, the sea made a complete breach over the decks, washing the people from the pump, which now could not he left. At eight a.m. on the 21th, less wind but more sea if possible ; she was labouring to such a degree that I expected the masts to go overboard. On the 31st the weather was fine, but the leak increasing, 1 ordered cargo to be thrown overboard, which we continued at all the day ; three of my crew sick, arid the rest much fatigued. I plainly saw that we could not keep her up much louger, I therefore thought it prudent to turn back and make for the nearest land, and the next morning we saw a ship. She proved to be the Philopontos, from Liverpool to Bombay, Capt. Bell kindly came on board with the half of his crew, and his crew kept at the pumps, whilst ours sent up the topgallant yards and set the sails. At night they went on board, it being then calm : at 2 a.m, it began to blow from the northward and the water gained on the pumps fast ; at 7 p.m., we left her with the water up to the lower deck beams, expectin in a very short time she would go down; the jute kept her up, having on board five hundred bales, until next morning : we sent the boat on board to get some more provisions, the water then being up to her deck; at 2 o'clock the unfortunate ship went down head foremost, distance about two miles, latitude 17 13 south, longitude 83 34 east, on the 3d of February."—Bombay paper. THE GWALIOR BATTLES TRAVESTIED.—On the 22d of February, about 300 boys, of 10 to 12 years of age, collected on the hills, and divided themselves into two parties—and counterfeiting the English army, and the other the Mahratta. On the one side two of the boys were appointed to represent the Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief, a number more as generals and other officers, and the remainder appeared as soldiers. On the other side a boy represented the Maharajah Jyajee Rao, another Ram Rao Phalkeea, other General Baptist, Major Seconder and Bapoo Seetolia ; a girl of the Kachee tribe represented Tara Baee, and of the Koombar tribe Rookhma Baee. It was proclaimed, that whatever boy in the in,hkiir should refuse to come be should be counted as faithless as Jacob. A quantity . of otto and dal was collected to represent the Commissariat stores, and four boys were appointed to carry water as Bbeesties ; a mussuck was filled with cowries as a treasure chest, and the pay of the Sepoys fixed at 8 cowries, and that of the officers according to their rank. About 25 canons brass and iron, of a cubit long, with a quantity of gunpowder. were brought from the bazaar, and when all was ready the fight commenced. First the Maharajah's guns :commenced, and then the representatives of the English began to move onward : in this attack seven or boys were killed, and 10 or 12 wounded. wounded in boy wh o w represented Sewaee Secunder in the arm, and was conveyed away in a dhoolie. The Mahratta army then having seized on Ram Rao Phalkeea and Bapoo Seetalia beat them. In the evening this news was con veyed to Tara Baee. She sent to them to stop the fight, but the boys stoned the messenger; the latter began to explain that he came by order of the Baee, when both sides answered, that the Baee was the mistress of her own army and her own house, and they were their own masters, and would here fight and die. The messenger returned without being able to accomplish his errand, and soon after sunset the boys of themselves dispersed. Some boys of both sides homes, while some rema i n ed ea sentinels went an d to p rep t s h r e e i d r the food. O n th e nex t d a yir (24th) there was no.fighting till the afternoon, when about 4 o'clock 600 boys collected and made ready for a second edition, and thousands of people assembled to see the sport. At this moment another messenger came to forbid the fight, and offered them 300 rupes as a present.. They answered that they were not in want of money, but that they would fight for their salt and die fighting. Sewaee Secunder's representative, having had the ball extracted from his wound, again came on the field and mixed with his comrades. While thus parleying with the Baee's messengers the evening fell and no fighting took place. On the morning of the 25th about 300 to 400 boys were still collected, when the messengers of the Pace again came, and seizing some 21 or 25 boys, among the rest the mock Sewaee Secunder, put Ahem in the stocks; the others seeing this fled. Some people who went to see these betoes in their confinement were I.elscd by them with earth. The Durbar has reused a nrozlamation to be made in the lush!: ur forbidding such sports in future under pain of punishment. LOCAL NEWS. "THE QUEEN'S HOTEL,"—MANCHESTER.—Our well known and esteemed t. , witsman, Mr. Towers, of the Angel Hotel, has (as will be seen by an aivertisement) commenced an establishment under this name, in Man chester. The opening dinner is fixed for Tuesday next. and from past experience of " mine host's " taste and judgement, as a providore, we need scarcely say that the entertainment will be of the shoicest kind, whether as regards viands or wines. We have seen the new hotel, it is in Piccadilly, and is a superb and exceedingly spacious stone building, apparently as large as the Adelphi, in this town; elegantly fitted up, and unsurpassed in comfort and convenience by any in the kingdom. LIVERPOOL PORTER.—We have hitherto considered the flavour of the London, Dublin, and Cork Porter unapproachable, and have, in some way, been inclined to think that Liverpool brdwed porter was greatly inferior to that produced by its rival towns; but from the samples we have been shown by Messrs. Cross and Metge, who have opened extensive stores in Water-street, ve are now lead to believe that Liverpool is about to compete with these hitherto favoured places in the production of this popular summer beverage. The flavour of this porter is excellent, and it possesses those combined qualities of strength and mildness so much desired. Those who are about to lay in their summer stores would do well to try the article. FIRE IN CHAPEL-STREET.—About half-past se7en o'clock yesterday evening, a fire was discovered on the premises adjoining Adelaide Buildings, Chapel-street. The ground floor is occupied by Mr. Graves, a merchant, and the upper rooms are cecupiel by Messrs. T. and J. Connah, Mr. Thos. Sleddon, and Messrs. Bournes and Robinson, and in the office of the latter the fire originated, but was fortunately discovered and arrested before any material damage was effi cted. A large hole was burned in the floor, and a number of files of bills, the Telegraph, &c., consumed Mr. Miller, the chief superintendent, as also Mr. Hewitt, were speedily on the spot. The fire was first discovered by a man named Picker sgill, who rendered efficient service in preventing its progress by a few buckets of water. THE LATE EXPLOSION OF GAS IN A DWELLING- Houss.—We related a few weeks ago the particulars of an extraordinary explosion of gas in n large (and then luckily untenanted) dwelling-house in Islington, corner of Salisbury .street, which greatly shattered the building, blew out several of the windows, overturned the door steps, and did other damage. It was afterwards found necessary to remove the greater part of the walls, and have them rebuilt, which is just accomplished. The front wall to Islington is rebuilt almost entirely from the cel lars. The back wall to the yard had to be similarly re newed, and the frontage to Salisbury street (the largest) to about half the same proportionate extent. The attics had to be nearly all rebuilt. The only parts that appear to have stood the shock were the lower angles or corners. To effect the repairs, the floors and roof had to be sup ported with props all round ; and the building, thus opened out, presented the appearance of two large open galleries or verandas, one over the other. The cost to the, pro prietor must be very considerable, as the destruction would not be made good by the insurance office. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—We know of no place of summer recreation more worthy of the attendance of those who have a few hours to spare than Mr. Atkins's beautiful and picturesque gardens, which have all the ad vantages of rural air and brightness. though in the almost immediate proximity of the town. Those who have visited them will readily acknowledge that the comparatively small space of ground which they occupy is so tastefully and so scientifically laid out Ks to be almost interminable in new charms and vistas, rising up at every step to those who meander through the diversified walks, and along the peopled lakes. Formed upon ground of uneven surface, the spot, indeed, seems to be that from which Milton derived his beautiful idea of diversity, when he penned the lines,— _ _ _ " For earth has this variety from heaven " 01 pleasure situate in hill and dale. " In addition to the usual attractions of the gardens in themselves, the proprietor mindful of past encouracement, has in preparation on a scale of unprecedented splendour a series of "Fetes d' Ete, of a most novel and striking character which will shortly be completed, and of the com mencement of which due notice will be given. He has also in order to obviate the inconvenience to which visi tors, and particularly ladies, have hitherto been liable by viewing out-door exhibitions, after the dens of evening have begun to rise, erected a spacious saloon, which will be lighted by gas, and will afford a delightful promenade. He has in fine spared no expense during " the recess to render his little paradise more and more attractive; and purposes to enliven the season by a succession of unique and pleasing performances. A FEIM ALE FOUND DEAD IN HER HOUSE. — Yesterday an inquest was held before H. H. Statham, Esq., deputy borough coroner, on view of the body of Dinah Graf, aged 23, wife of Leopold Graf, formerly warehouseman to Messrs. Wilson and Dawson, and now interpreter to one of the partners on the continent. Police constable, Samuel Kirkpatrick, while on duty on Saturday after noon was informed by a female, that the shop kept by the deceased had been closed from Friday night up to that time, and that her mistress wished to see him. Witness went with her, and she stated that he was wanted about a woman who had been in the habit of drinking. Witaess went to the shop, No. 2, Crown-street, and found the doors and windows all fast. He went through Dr. Nigh tingall's house in Elizabeth -street behind, and succeeded i❑ opening the back window and then the door. Dr. Nightingall accompanied him into the house, and they first found an infant sitting in a bed up stairs, crying, and in a state as if it had not been seen for some time. They took the child to Dr. N's., where it was fed and attended to. They afterwards found the deceased, lying on her back on the floor of the cellar with her arms opened out, and her legs on the stairs. She was quite dead and cold. She had the handle of a jug in one hand and the remainder scattered about. There was some blood at the back of her head and on her shoulders. She was removed up stairs and placed on the bed. The servant girl (before alluded to) who lived in the neighbourhood, said that on Saturday last, as the shop kept by the deceased had been closed all day, her mistress sent her for the police-officer, as she was afraid something was the matter. Witness after wards saw deceased dead. She had last seen her alive on Friday night, when she called at the shop for bread, and she then appeared to be in drink. Deceased had been ob served for some days frequently sending for drink to the neighbouring public houses by girls and others passing. Deceased was married about twelve months last Christ mas. Her husband went abroad about five weeks ago. She was placed in the shop before be went. A servant of Dr. Nightingall said deceased sent for her on Friday night to put up the shop shutters. She went, and found her in quite a confused and stupified state. Anthony Bell, Joiner, said he knew deceased and her husband. At the request of her husband, a little girl of his, two-and a-half years old had been with the deceased since the hus hand went abroad. This was the child found in the house. The witness had often seen deceased during the last eigh teen months, and had never seen her otherwise than sober, and never saw her take any drink in the house. He had called every week except last week. Mr. Nightingall, surgeon, corroborated the officer's evidence as to finding the body. There was congealed blood about the bead, which had come from the left ear. After an examination, he found no external wounds. The scalp at the base of the skull behind was contused; upon reflecting the scalp, he fonnd an immence quantity of extrascated blood, and a fracture of the occiputal hone. There were also other injuries of that part of the head ; and all those would pro dnce instantaneous death. He afterwards found the liver much diseased, no doubt the effect of ardent spirits. A fall from the stairs to the flags below would produce the effects stated. Verdict—" Died from the effects of the wound, but how that was received there was no evidence to show" SINGULAR CASE OF BIGAMY : A WIFB LIVING WITS TWO HUSBANDS.—On Thursday last, Margaret M'Neal, with a child in her arms, was placed before Mr. Rushton, when Mr. Dowling said the prisoner was charged with bigamy under peculiar circumstances. She was living with her husband about three years ago, and there was a man lodging in the house at the same time. The man put the banns up, and was marri-d to the prisoner at St. Nicholas' Church, she being already married. The wo man still continued to live with her first husband, and the second had also lived with them, as a lodger, ever since, but the first marriage had only been discovered the day before. Mr. Dowling said they bad obtained a certificate of the second marriage, but had not been able to find the witnesses. Under these circumstances, the prisoner, who said she knew, nothing at all about it, was remanded. It is said that the prisoner was married to her first husband, k James M'Neal, about ten years ago, at the Old Church, Manchester, and that, on the 10th April, 1843, she was again married to Michael Devine, the lodger, at St. Nicholas' Church, in this town. At both marriages she gave her maiden name Margaret Hannah, and lately the parties have resided together in Thompson-street, Tox teth-park. As it is somewhat singular that the second marriage should have remained so long a secret, it may be interesting to know how the fact was revealed. On Tues day morning the second husband gave the prisoner into the custody of acting inspector Tuck for robbing him of an I 0 U for £3, a coat and vest, and ss. 6(1. in money. The officer, , on investigating the case, found there were no grounds for the charge of felony, but during the time he was in the house where the money was deposited, pri soner snatched a paper out of Michael Devine's band. On so doing a fight took place between the parties. Tuck interfered, and took the paper from them. This turned out to be the certificate of the second marriage. The pri soner then said, "O, God, d on ' t ta k e t h at; i t b elongs to him." The parties were then taken to Bridewell. On the road thither Tuck met M'Neal, the first husband, and having . asked him whether the prisoner was his wife, he answered in the affirmative, and thus the whole matter was brought to light.—Yesterday the prisoner was again placed at the bar, and some further evidence was again brought forward, though not yet final. William M'Neal said he was preseht at the marriage of his brother James to the prisoner, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, on the 22d July, 1834, Her previohs name was Margaret Hannah. He produced a certificate of the marriage from the.registry, and said that the prisoner had had six chil dren, five of whom were alive. John Lovett said he was assistant to his uncle, registrar at St. Nicholas's Church, in this town, and produced an extract from the registry, to the effect that Michael Devine and Margaret Flannah were there married, 10th April, 1813. John Madden, the next witness, said that at the request of ' Device, wh om he knew, he had attended the marriage, but he could not swear to the person of the prisoner as being the woman. Some other persons were present in the church at the time, as there were other marriages, but he did not know them. This was ail the further 'evidence that could be brought up, and Mr. Rushton said that some of the per sons married on the same day, or their friends who wr re present, must he inquired for, and that in the meantime the prisoner must to rmnanded. The probability appeb,rs to be that the case will fail to the ground.