The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

‘- FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA. The royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain Ryrie, arrived in the Mersey from Boston and Halifax shortly after seven o'clock on Saturday morning, after a fine run from the former port of about eleven-and-a half days. The news brought by this packet have principalli a re lation to the Mexican quarrel. Brother Jonathan appears to he ins fighting mood—ready to " catawampously thaw up" not only Mexico, but any other country which dares to interfere in his course of aggressi n. From Mexico itself the latest dates give evidence of preparation for a coming struggle. Her troops are ordered to proceed to the frontiers of Texas, and take up a position on the Rio Grande. A project of a loan of fifteen millions has been passed by Congress (which, we presume, she expects to get honoured), and her conciliatory arrangements are completed. It is even doubted whether she should wait to promulgate a formal declaration of war, the " annexa tion" being considered by her statesmen as an overt act of hostility. In the meantime, all Yankee land is in a furore. anxious to distinguish itself in fight. Volunteers are " plenty as blackberries." every state contributing its quota; and, not content with basing Mexico as their an tagonist, they seem disposed to challe ge, not only their legitimate foe, but England herself. We ate said to have encouraged Mexico to fight; and are to be extinguished for our provoking interference. For ourselves, the most material question which re. mains to be solved, and which is not solved by the last arrivals, is, whether we are to have a war or not—whether America is to fight Mexico or not. We incline to the opinion that the affair will blow over. At all events, we cannot allow ourselves to be interfered with seriously by their fighting propensities. These are not days in which nations can afford to be deprived of valuable commercial relations, because this or that country or cabinet chiioses to indulge in ita combative propensities ; and certainly we shall not submit to lose the commerce of Mexico. be cause Brother Jonathan is wishful to annex a revolted portion of her territories. Fairplay is all well ; but our brother must not embroil a hemisphere to our disadvan tage, The New York Courier and Inquirer says—" We are informed, on what we believe to be reliable authori'y, that the steamer Acadia, which left B *ton on the 16th of July, took out extensive orders (and other enavesunces will, no doubt, take out similar orders) to England to purchase and ship to Throe foreign merchandise, to arrive and enter there at the existing reduced rare of duties, and there await the action of Congress on annexation. We have files of the Montreal Gazette to the 28th ult Limo inclusive. The only political intelligence is the appointment of Mr. Cayley as Inspector of Public Ac count., an office which was resigned by Mr. Robinson at the close of the last session. The Ministry was thus rendered complete. The accounts of the subscrislions made in this country, more particularly in Liverpool, had disappointed the expectations which had been formed. Liverpool is spoken ofas hay ng "behaved most shabbily." and in marked contrast to Manchester. Meanwhile, the sufferers had been much di-teased by heavy rains and oo preasive hear, against which their tents formed but slight protection. These ills would soon change to falls of snow and the severe rigour of a Canadian winter. From the New Brunswick papers we learn that the pro ps* et of making a railway from Halifax to Quebec and Montreal was seriously entertained , and the co - operation of the British government sought. Rio accounts of the 10th July are published in the New York papers. but tht y are entirely uninteresting. Advices from the Havana report the construction of a splendid dry dock, capable of receiving vessels of the largest dimensions. The Havana editors grumble freely against the refusal of the British c3hinet to admit the slave-grown sugar of Cuba and Porto !tiro at the lower rates of duty. They call fondly upon their own govern ment to retaliate by the immediate imtnsition of high dotes upon nur manufactures. New buildings were ris ing with rapidity upon the sites of those destroyed by the great fire at Mantanzas. Accounts from San Juan, Central America. state, that, in Costa Rica, Oredmuna, who was elected chief last year, had resigned. In San S lvador. Molespine, the former president, was trying to recover his office by force. Callao accounts of the 4th July do not contain anything worth extractincr. The warm and general execration excited by the Dahra massacre has prevented a repetition of the act in a late siege of the Shichos grottoes. The Emperor Nicholas has just grant.d an amnesty to eleten Polish emigrants who had been condemned to punishments involving civil death and confiscation of property. It is reported that no less than 400 compositors will be thrown out of employment in Madr-d, in consequence of the new law relating to the post-office, which, as far as the journals are concerned, will come into operation on the Ist of October. THE HAND OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.—The Me morial Bordelais say•, " It seems certain tha' Queen Isabella will marry Prince Leopold, of Saxe Coburg. France will consent to this marriage, provided the sister of the Queen marries the Duke de Montpensier, and all Europe is agreeable to an arrangement so lung desired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert." The Monileur of the rat instant, announces the sale by auction at Antwerp, on the 15th instant, of the magnifi cent steamer. Briti-tk Queen, as well as all the material. The purchaser has the option to take also at a valuation the furniture, linen, plate. &c., in the vessel; should he decline doing so they will be disposed of by auction on the 25r h. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KING OF WURT EMBURG.—A letter from Friourgh of the sth, in the Fraukjurter Journal, states that two shots were fired at Meran, in the Tyrol, at the King of Wurtemhurg, but fortunately without hitting him. The Carlsruhe Gazelle mikes mention of a report of the same kind. The Je-uits ars considered, it says, as the authors of this attack, in co sequence of the King's having spoken, when in Switz erland, openly against the influence of that society. His language to M. Swiegwart Muller, the bead of the Jesuit party at Lucerne, produced a great sensation. A STRANGE STORY —The following strange story appears in the Presxe :—" Madame C—. wife of a me. cer, who has lately been successful in railway oper ations. has been for a length of time enamoured of play, and, during the past winter, she lost almost constantly. Her husband at last refused to pay a sou of her play debts, so that the lady gambler was often in difficulties. She returned home a few nights since, after having lost a large sum at lansquinet, and remained up pondering by what means she could contrive to discharge her obligaVons. Whilst thus occupied she beard a noise in an adjoining closet. She rose at once, and opening the door, found the oldest servant o f the family endeavouring to tuck the lock of an armoire a-glace, in which she kept her jewels. The man was thunderstruck "at the appearance of his mistress, and prayed her most earnestly not to inform against him. An idea soddenly occurred to Madame C—. Listen to me, said she, 'lt is you who have already robbed me on several occ sions : the act I have caught you in proves it. You will be sent to the galleys if I inform against you. There is one way of escaping. 1 want 10,000 francs. 'You have a quantity of p•cklocl:s in your hand, If you open your master's sale and take Out that sum fir me. and no more, I shall say nothing toout what I have seen to-night.' The conditions were bird. but the man consented. Scarcely, however, had he introduced one of the instruments into the lock of the safe, when a loud detonation was heard, and the man tell to the ground dreadfully wounded by a ball from a pistol, which M. C. had got fixed inside to prevent robbery. M. C. arrived in a minute after, and was the first to lift up toe man. who still had the picklocks in his hand. The Commissary of Police being sent for, received from the thief a full statement of what had tak n place. He was removed to the Hospital St. Louis, where he lies in the utmost danger. Madame C., who deities moat strongly the truth of the man's declaration, has withdrawn to her family." IRA LAND. REPEAL LOYALTY.—At a repeal meeting last week, held at Bruff, the following specimens of exquisite loyalty enlivened the proceedings. Atter sonic preliminary $W eager. we have : " A Voice—We mon fight for Repeal. " Mr. Raleigh—We will fight if he wants ft, and no mistake about it. But O'Connell does not want any fighting. " A Voice—But we do." So :mach for loyalty; and now for Irish gratitude to Sir Robert Peel and the ministry IA hen Si Robert Peel failed to put them down by persecu tion. he resorted to stratagem. by giving them what they never asked for. Who asked him for the bequests act ? Who asked him for the academical institutions? •1 A Voic :—Who Raked him for tit, grant to Maynooth ? '• Mr. Kaleigb—Yes; who i.skedhim'' - iortiiat tted to say that the people of Ireland were betrayed by the Irish members of their own faith—such as Wyse and sheil—(gr ans ) —when Proter ant patriots like Mr. Powell stood up for their cot:nifty in the House of Commons. But the people of Ireland would soon teich them a lessen, for the traitors wonld never be permitted to represent them again." Truly their ezvectrd fruit has a rather bitter taste! THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON.—At 6 A.M.. on Sa turday morning the St. Vincent, 120. bearing the flag of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, C. 8., and the Superb. 80, ar rived in Cove and dropped anchor. The St. Vincent painted the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Pigott, K.C.H., on hoard the Crocodile, which was reform-,d by the latter. The Rattler, steam-sloop, screw propeller, accompanied h-r. Sunday morning the Trafalgar, 120 arrived in harbour, with the Tartarus steamer, and yester day at 2 o'clock, the Vanguard, 84. The entire of the experimental squadron are now in harbour, and it is ge nerally believed that they will remain for a fortnight.-- Cork Constitution. THE COURT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD. lIER MAJESTY'S VI:%1 r TO TIIE KING OF THE F A. we intimated at the close of our notice of her Ma jesty's movements in Germany last week, the royal party proceeded to pay a visit to the King of the French, at his Chateau D'ru, where they or ived on the Bth instant, having landed at Treport. They were received by the King and Queen of the French, M. Guixot, and several other persons of distinction. The Queen is reported to have been in excellent health and spirits, and was much gratified with the warmth of her reception. On the fol lowing afternoon the royal pirtv set out on their return, and embarked on board the Victoria and Albert, every demonstration of respect and honour being pad them on their route from Eu to Treport. As the royal carriages drove up, preceded by an escort of dragoons, the church bells rang a merry peal, and salutes were fired. A bind stationed at the loiding-place struck up God save the Queen." and in to: few momenta more the King of the French handed Queen Victoria into a barge lying along side, and which immediately pulled out to 'isa. In the same ba n gs w i th Qace n were the Prince de Joinville, The Bishop of Chichester and family have arrived at the episcopal palace. at Chichester, fur the season. Mr. Hudson, M.P. for Sunderland, has presented the munificent donation of £2OO, towards the e , eclion of the new district church of AU Saints. Monkwearmouth. We are happy to state that the Very Rev. the Dean of Exeter is not likely to sustain any permanent inconven ience from the accident ghich hapuened to him at Culm stock, nn Frid•iy week.— Western Luminary. ELECTAL H ESSE.—The Bishop ot Fulda has issued an episcopal brief, in which excommunication is declared against the Ronge and Czerskish dissidents, and all who follim their example. The chicument is dated August 15. —Ober Postamls Zeilung. ORDINATIONS TO BE HOLDEN.—Sunday, Sep. 21 : Bishop ot Peterborough, :4 Peterborough ; Bishop of Ripon, at Ripon; Bishop of Lincoln. at Lincoln; Bishop of Lichfield, at Eccleshall ; Bishop of Chichester, at Chichester ; Bishop of Durham, at Durham ; Bishop of Exeter, at Exeter ; Bishop of Salisbury, at Salisbury ; Sunday, Oct. 19 :—Bishop of Ely, at Ely ;—Sunday, Dec. 21 :—Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, at Bristol ; Bishop of Winchester, at Winchester : Bishop of Salis bury, for Bishop of Bath and Wells, at Wells. . PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Lord Bishop of London has licensed the Hey. J. Kell, M.A , late rector of Stillorgan, Dublin, to the ministry of Char lotte-street Chapel, Pimlico, 'vacant by the resignation of of the 11ev. Edward Thompson, M.A., uho has been pre sented to the ministry of the new church at St. John's Wood. The Lord Bishop of Durham has presented the Rev. Robert Gray, M.A., incumbent of Whitworth. son of the late Bishop ot Bristol, to the vicarage of Stockton on-Tees. The Shrifteld Mercury announces that satisfactory ar rangements have been entered into between the Sheffield and Manchester, the Groat Grimsby, the Grimsby Decks, 'he Sheffield and Lincolnshire, and East Lincolusnire Ra;lwar Cotrnan'es. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAYS.—A depntari•nn of the tatter company:will meet the London and 3irmitigham Board next week, when there is every reason to believe that the good sense of the i.arties will lead to an amicable arrangement. MARRIED gegPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Zirtbs, Aciarrfages ant laratbg. On the 13th instant, in Camden-street, Birkenhead, Mrs. F. C. Morphew, of a daughter On the 7th instant, at St. Silas's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Cordeaux, Mr. Wm. Woodman, foreman of Naylor street, Mill, to Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, of the Black Bull Inn, Scotland-road. On the 9th instant, at St. George's Church, Hanover square, London, W. Bruce Sangster. Eel., to Sarah Ann, Youngest daughter of R. Swift, Esq., of Stanley, West Derby. Saine day, at St. Phillip's Church, Mr. G. H. Newell of Brixham, Devonshire, to Alice, daughter of Mr. J Gorstige. Same day, at St. Michael's Church, T'xteth-park, Mr. John Maginnis to Miss Catherine Vaughan. On the 10. h instant, at Lydiate. by the Bev. George Heap, Mr. W. P. England, of Huildersfi-hl, to Caroline, daughter of the late Rev. Robert Kell, of Birmingham. On the 1 .th inst., at the Parish Church, Leeds, by the Rev. Mr. Slatter, George Blundell, second son of J. Thompson, Esq., of Seafield, New Brighton, to Mary Rosa eldest daughter of J. Holdforth, Esq., of Burley, near Leeds. Same day, at the Parish Church, Ulverstone, by the Mitchell, M.A., John Cunliffe, Esq., of Preston, to Jane Hall, youngtr daughter of the late J. Woodburn, Esq., of Thurstoncille, in this county. Same day, at Huyton Church, Joseph Kilbee, Esq., of Moor-hill, county Kildare, to Sarah, third daughter of the late Moses Sclesinger, Esq.. Fox grove, Lancaster. Same day, at St. John's Church, Chester, Mr. G. Strafford to Miss Mary Hon!brook, both of Chester. Same day, at Manchester, Henry Lomax ' only son of H. Gaskell, Esq., of Wi g a n , t o Ali ce , t hi r d daughter of Sam. Brooks, Esq.anker, Whalley-house. On the 11th inst., at St. John the Baptist's Church, Mr. C. Broad to Ann, daughter of Mr. J. Turner, of Duffield, Derbyshire. Same day, at St. Phillip's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Townsend, Mr. E. E. Wehbe, architect, of this town, to Ann, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Scotson. of Aigburth. Prince Albert, Lord Aberdeen, M. Gulzot, and Lord Li. verpool. The other members of the suite followed in other boats. The vessels in the offing manned their yard-, en lutes were fired from the batteries, and the cheers of the people were deafening. By half-past six o'clock the royal party were onboard, and under way, and the King of the Freneb, and the other members of the French royal family, recur. ed. to Eu. The royal party passed Spitheai on We dnesday morning, and arrived at Osborne a little before twelve. THE SOVEREIGN OF ENGLAND LANDED IN A FRENCH BATHING MACHINE!—The correspondent of the London Times, describing the disembarkation of the Queen at the Chateau d'Eu, says—" I took up a position on a little pier, under the impression that, as on the present occa sion, her Majesty would pass beneath it towards the basin. It bring nearly low water, that proceeding was not prac ticable. and the strand was distant from the road. A cu rious but simple expedient to obviate this difficulty sug gested itself to the fruitful mind of the King. His Ma jesty ordered that the horse be attached to one of the nu merous large bathing machines on the strand, and by aid of it the Queen was enabled to reach the shore from the Royal barge. I understand that the incident very much amused the illustrious visiter." Her Majesty and Prince Albert are expected, shortly after their return from Germany, to honour the Marquis of Salisbury with a wit at Hatfield House. The King of the Belgians, after leaving Coburg. gave 3,000 flirins to be distributed among the poor of that town. The Queen of England gave £lOO for the same purpose. The Hon. Georgiana Liddell, youneest daughter of Lord and Lady Ravensworlh, was m .rried on Thursday, the 4th instant, to the Hon. John Arthur Douglas Bloom fi Id, only son of Lord and Lady Bloomfield. and Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of St. Petersburgh, the cere mony was performed at Latresley Church, near Ravens worth Castle, the service being conducted by the brother of the fair bride. the Hon. and Rev. Hobert L ddell. CLERICAL AEIVN. THE HARVEST AND THE CROPS, KENT.—We are happy to say that the crops are looking uncommonly well in every part of our neighbourhood, and in but few instances do we bear of any complaints. This is not the case, however, with the potatoes ; tor we believe there is scarcely a bound bushel in the Marsh, and most of them appear likely to rot long betore the winter shall have passed.—Kentish Observer. SOMERSETSHIRE. — The fine weather has been so fa. vouratde tur ban eating, that not only has the when crop been almost everywhere carried, but much progress has also been o ade w.th the barley, a large portion of which has been stacked in excellent condition.—Taunton Cou rier, Sept tuber 10. H ER;FORDSH I RE.—A large breadth of grain has been housed in excellent condition, but in the less forward ti u tions there is still a good deal out, some of it not being yet cut even. The weather has been all that could be desired, and a continual ion of it fur a shot t time would find the whole of this district of the country gladdened with the shouts of the " harvest hunxe."—Hereford Journal, September NORTHUMB6RLAND.—The weather throughout this district continues highly favourable for the harvest, which is now in active operation, and affords promise of a much more smisf,ctory result than was anticipated a few weeks ago.—Newcastle Journal. DURHAM, SEM'. 12.—The weather since our last, though nut so blight and " sunny" as could have been wished, has nevertheless been tavourable to the cutting tit such of the crops as were ready for the sickle, and a c.n siderable quantity of bo h wheat and burl , y, as well as a portion of oats, have been reaped. The unripe corn, from the want of sunshine, approaches rather slowly towards perfection, but it is gratifying to knoN that it daily improves, and promises a mote abundant yield than that which is in a more forward state.—Lurham Adver tiser. GLASGOW.—The weather continues favourable for the harvest, and every heart feels gratetul. On all hands the fields are now covered with cut grain, in excellent con dition, and in every favourable situation what remains standing seems ready for the sickle. We have just seen a gentleman aho has been travelling in Perthshire. and anutner who has been in Galloway, and they both de scribe the crops in these districts as being everything that the heart of man could wish. PERTHSHIRE.—We are still favoured with most aus picious weather, and the harvest gets on rapidly. Every where the reaper is at work. and so fast has been the ripening process within the last fortnight. that the scythe in many instances uiust be employed to supply the lack of hands. Upon the whole — notwithstanding the en genial backwardness of Au,:ust—we believe the harvest is nut above a week later than last year. ABERDEEN.—Harvest is now general, and is not later than the average period of the last five years. Ihe damage sustained by the heavy and protracted wet and stormy weather has been greatly exaggerated, as acounts from all quarters speak of the (Top as most abundant, and being gut in lair condition.—Montrose Standard. The reports are of a similar character from Caithness shire and Elainshire. IRELAND.—The harvesting of the wheat and barley crops is vet y far advanced, and also to a 1-age extent in a state of co.n partitive safety. The reaping of oats up to the present date is only partial. The wheat crop presents de cidedly above an average bulk upon the ground ; but in ref- rence to the article of grain, it is neither so good nor so bad as was expected at different periods of the season. The oat and ball, y crops present a tull average, with the last few years, both in quantity and quality. The greater portiva of the corn crop in our vicinity has been cut. The chief complaints we hear of are relative to the wht at crop. It is aileged the ear is of a very interior description, and the straw poor and bad. Potatoes are a most abundant crop, and are now selling at a very low price.—Tepperary Conelitution. The weather is delightful —more beautiful harvest wea ther we have never seen. If blessed with a continuance of it we will have average crops. Oats we believe to be thin, and think tnis grain will be high the ensuing season. Many complaints are made of the produce of Potatoes on guano manure, as not being equal to the appearance of the tops when growing. —Athlone Sentinel. The weather bas been delightfully fine for some time past, and favourable for the op:rations of the sickle, which has been pliantly at work in the last week; harvest cutting has MY, how. ver, become genetal as yet, but by Monday next, if the weather bolds fine, the corn crop will be vi gorously attacked and laid prostrate. The hay crop is saved throughout the country, and in the majority of cases is matte up in the haggard or in field ricks. There will be an abundant crop of farm produce this year.— Westmeath Guardian FAILURE OF THE POTATOE CROP.—We regret to have to record a failure of the crop of this important vegetable, which appears to pervade the whole of the southern coun ties of England. In Ireland and in the north of England, at present, happily, we hear nothing of it. We h-ive in this immediate neighbourhood no indications of such a cala:nity ; and the Irish papers do not notice any indica tions of it in that country. GRAIN CROPS AND ItOOTS.--Whilst we are promised fruits in abundance for mankind, throughout every dis trict of tire kinedotn, it is gratifying to find that we are likely to have ford for catce in qual abundance. The dripping season, which almost sent our Anti-Corn-Law men into fits of extasy. has made every field a good pas ture, and made the " lean kine" fat beasts. A southern contemporary rays, " last year the difficulty was to find food for cattle; this year it is to find stock to eat the food." Happily our prosperity enables us to find men, women, and children to eat the stock. We shall have bu chers' meat at a price which will enable our working classes to eat beef, instead of vegetating upon cabbag , with the new poor law food of bacon to eke out their ne cessities. RAILWAY INTELLIGEACE. It is intended to alter into the narrow the present wide gauge between Gloucester and Bristol. The formation of three distinct electric telegraph com panies is projected. It is stated that " in future no subordinate is to be taken into the Grand Junction Railway service whose ttature does not reach five feet eight inches." A Railway Club House is about to be established, where persons of all ranks connected with railways may meet for the interchange of information. The Grand Junction have very judiciously determined that after the 15'h of this month a conipaitment of a first class carti.ge will be reserved for ladies le yelling alone. There is some talk of leasing the North Union lin e to the Grand Junction at 10 per cent. for stock A, and 7 per cent. for sti ck B. and of the Preston and Wyre to the Manchester and Leeds. Sunderland has got Mr. Hudson as its representative. and, what is perhaps of no l ess import ancend a to 4 a consequence, it.thirclass carriages running to Newcastle at 9 , 1.. and to Shields at 4d. THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.—It is probable, if the experiments now taking place on the Exeter line should be perfectly successful, that the atmospheric prin. cipla may be adopted op all the pew lines of ra ilway. in cou4szion.With ths.Maacheateraad.Leado. , . In the construction of railways, the importance of the religious instruction of the labourers seems to be gene rally felt and acknowledged. The Leeds and BrAf,:rd Railway Company have recently voted £2OO to the " missionaries" who have been ministering to the spiri tual wants of the navigators and their families. The reduction of fares on the Manchest , r an I Leeds has increased the number of travellers twenty-six per cent. during the last. halt-year. The charge for a late excursion from Nottingham, through Liverpool, to the Menai straits. upwards of 500 miles, was only 14s Pas roomers are now carried on the Liverpool and Manchester between the latter place and Patiicroft, the first class at Id. and the second class at 1:d. per mile. AMALGAMATION OF REMINGTON'S AND RASTRICK'S DIRECT MANCHESTER RAILWAYS. — We have heard. from a quarter on which we can rely, that deputations have been appointed to arrange a meeting for an amalga mation of these two companies. If each partyis deter- mined to proceed with his project, amalgamation is the proper course. It has also been stated, that, if the above two companies unite, the Leicester and Bedford will fol low in the wake, and that this will lead to an arrangement with the London and York —Hero/Pi/h. A HINT FOR THE COASTING TRADE.—A. correspon dent of the Hull Packet points out that a new feature in the transit of goods is now taking place between London and the outpor s; goods which used to be borne coastwise are now carried by railway. 140 che-ts of tea were sent hence on Tuesday last, in bond, and would reach London by return of post. The shareholders of the Direct Northern line have ag eed to re-organise their company, and again to appear before Parliament. Mr. Miller, the new engineer, pro poses a railway which will be ten miles shorter than the London and York. The capital of the new company is to be £4 000,000, divided into 160.000 shares of £25 each. The contest of the last session cost about 304. per share. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MIDLAND JUNC- TtoN RAILWAY.—This Company and the North Derby shire Union Company have now been formally amal gamated. The first rneetiog of the Provisional Direc tors took place on Tuesday last, when Wilson Overend, Esq.. the active and intelligent magistrate of this district was unanimously elected Chairman of the Consolidated Committee. AMALGAMATION OF LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAYS.— The Leeds In elligencer says, " We learn, from un doubted authority, that the Great Grimsby, the Sheffield and Lincolnshire, and the East Lincolnshire railways, on Thursday last amalgamated, at par with the Sheffield and Manchester Railway; the last-mentioned railway pay ing 5 per cent. on all calls upon the three railways until they are made, which will he within two years." COMPARATIVE COST OF RAILWAYS IN GREAT BRI TAIN AND IRELAND.—On examining the return of the number of new railways for which arts were obtained last session, it appears that the difference in the cost of con struction is very considerahly in favour of Ireland. For example : acts were obtained for the construction of 1895/ miles in England and Wales, at an estimated ex pense of £28.342,047. being at the rate of £14,561 parr mile. Scotland obtained acts for 4384 miles, and the estimated expense of £6,549 500, being an average cost of £14,913 per mile. Ireland obtained acts for 6141 miles of new railway, and the estimated expense is £7,598,035, which gives an average of only £11,790 per mile. Capitalists, who desire permanent investment, should not overlook the important fact of cheavess in the construction of our Irish railways. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—On Wednesday, a special general meeting of this company was held at the Cotton Sales' Room, in the Exchange-buildings, for the purpose of rais'ng further capital,consolidating the paid-up shares, and on other special affairs. The meeting was most numerously attended. Mr: Charles Lawrence pre sided. Mr. Booth read the report. The directors con gratulated the proprietors on the successful issue of their application to Parliament for an Act to consolidate the Rdron and Leigh, Liverpool and Manchester;and Grand Junction Railways ; and they announced their intention to recommend Junction Stock to the favour of the raetlic, by abolishing all charges on the registering of transfers, or on the issue of endorsement of certificates. They propose, for the future, to discontinue the payment of intermediate quarterly dividends, and immediately to issue new quarter shares, to be allotted in the pro portion of one new 'quarter to the holder of each £lOO Grand Junction share, or of shares amounting in the ag gregate to .£ICO With a view to proportion the respective capitals of the Grand Junction and Manchester Compa nies, a surplus balance of £29,613 will he carried to the credit of the amalgamated company. Tt , e directors pro posed a bonus of ..t2 per share to the holders of the 22,033 Grand Junction shares, and to the holders of the 22,033 eighths shares a bonus of Is. fir each one-eighth share, making together .E. 45.167, and leaving a balance of .£306 to the debit of profit and loss account. It was also stated, that the contiug"nt claim to a residue of back interest on the Liverpool and Manchester old •hares, must be considered to cease and determine ; as, in future, there will be but one common turd appli calle to the purposes and for the benefit of the pro prietors indiscriminafrly, of the Amalgamated Grand Junction Company. The Chairman, having thanked the proprietors for electing him as president, announced, that the directors had entered into a satisfactory ari augment with the Birkenhead, Lancashire. and Cheshire, and also with 'he Birkenh ad and Manchester compani-s. Fle then moved that this company subscribe £277.780 to wards the capital authorised to be raised by the Trent Valley Railway Act, and that such sum be raised by the creation of 13,889 new shares in the Grand Junction Railway, of the v lue of £2O each. The next resolution consolidated into stock the shares of the company. The third created for general puruoses 21,787 new shares of £25 each. The res-ilutions were passed. It was agreed that in future the dividends be p gable arty, and that the remuneration of the directors hence'orwaret be £l.BOO per annum. It was further agreed, that the directors should endow the new church at Crewe, to such an amount as would satisfy the bishop. (the minimum being stated at £1,000.) and to give to the clergyman such ad ditional sum as would make the salary £2llO per annum ; and the directors were authorized to consider the best form of presenting John Moss, Esq., the late chairman, with some testimonial, either in the shape of a full. length Portrait of himself, or otherwise, for his valuable services. The meeting then separated. A novel but excellent drinking•cup, manufactured from Mackin's waterproof fabrick, is advertised in our paper to-day.—lt is perfectly pliable and an excellent thing for a pic-nic party._ . . - DRAPERY.-It will be seen by an advertisement in another pare, that the valuable and well-assorted stock of Messrs. Martindale. Brothers, of Ranekgh street, ha s been purchased by Mr. John Briscoe, at such prices as must offer to purchasers decided advantages. An exceedingly light and ingenious scalp, which, unlike ordinary wigs. is manufactured without a stitch, has been invented by Mr. Fox, of Bold• street, and bids fair to surpass anyt hing t hat has preceded it. It will, no doubt, be exten4vely used. . Intelligent as most certain!y the community now are, comparatively with the state of society io former times, still there appears to have been one essential ove►looked in the search for intelligence and happiness How often do medical men recommend exercise to their pa•ients for Indigesoion, Liver Complaints. Costiveness, Sick Head aches, &c. Females leading an inactive life, and thou sands of both sexes are, through their sundry avocations, debarred from that exercise in a pure atmosphese which is essential to health ; to all such, therefore, we wooli recommend the occasional use of that excellent Family Medicine, " Frampton's Pill of Health," which, as a re storative, a gentle aperient, and a promoter of a healthy action of the system, stands unequalled in public estima tion. • PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIA TION AND BENEVOLENT FUND.—It will be perceived by our advertising columns that our esteemed townsman, Mr. John Jones, who conducted the Exchange News rooms so many years, has been appointed agent to this excellent assi.ciation. On its first formation some five years ago, when a deputation of the managers visited Li verpool, we took occasion to point out the benefits likely to be derived from such an association. Of course we could only speak of what correct principles, carried nut by superior judgment and supported by influence, might ac complish. The society was then comparatively untried, and our antcupations in perspective. But now the case is d fferent. The transactions of the society have long ceased to be mere matters of supposition or anticipation, and have become subjects for the historian. The table itt Hercules and the Waggoner was perhaps never more for cibly illustrated than in the rise and pr.( gress of this .4,- ciety, found, d in 1840, by a few individuals employed in mercantile and banking pursuits, for their mutual benefit. The little band who first rallied round the standard felt that while they were scrupul-usiy attending to the inter• eats of their employers there was still a duty they owed to themselves ; and that instead of trusting to the uncertain resources of eleemosinary charity, there was a mode by which those contingencies, to which all are liable, might be met by their own individual prudence. The plan of mutual assurance was broached, and the principals, to mark the sense in which they estimated uhe exeitions of their clerks to become independent, magnificently sub scribed upwards of £lO,OOO to form a benevolent fund to meet those cases which were not embraced by the benefit department, thus affording to all who enrol themselves members advantages of. the most superior kind. Such has been the success of the benefit or assurance depart ment, that since its formation, five years ago, only one m i death has occurred, and th e w h o l e o f the preums re ceived, minus some £3OO for management, expenses, and the XlOO paid on the death alluded to, have . been invested in goverrinient securities in the names of some of the first commercial men in London as ti asters. To mark the sense of approbation :end confidepc,-, bestowed upon this society by cl , rks and principals, many hundreds have al ready joined its ranks; and at the elec'ion of two addi tional widows t,f c l er k s , as annu i tants o f £l5 e ach, in May last, the liberal sum of £lOOO was subs , ribed at the din ner the same evening. We are informed that very shortly a deputation will vis t us again, and we sincerely hope t . hat in the meantime th e p ru d ent an d care f u l w ill lose no time in making themselies acquainted, through Mr Jones, with the rules, & c ., th at when t h e d eputa ti on arrive- they may have the pleasure of reporting that there is a Inrge number in this tow n w h o are d e t ermine d to proyide against a rainy day. and avail thttenselves of those leg•titnat, means which this association, affords. The Batik of England, and a vast majority of the joint-stock banks, have unhe. sitatingly afforded their support and patrou!tge, and we most heartily tender our beet wishes for its prosperity. Same dav, at Christ's Church, by the Rev. F. Ould, Mr. John Knowles, merchant, of Dundalk, Ireland, to Mary, third daughter of the late R. Holliday. Esq., of Woodplumpton. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. Abraham Thomas to Emma, eldest daughter of Mr. Morris, coach proprietor, Oldhall-street. Same day, at Blackburn, H. J. Hollinshead, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, to Margaret, eldest daughter of J. Neville, Esq.. Beard wood, near Blackburn. On the 12th inst., at Walton•on-the-Hill, by the Rev. G. R. Moncrieff, Leo Schuster, Esq., of Manchester, to Mary, second daughter of J. Howard, Esq., of Brook house, Walton. On the 13th inst., at St. Anne's Church, Mr. Henry M'Coy, stationer, to Miss Mary Elen Abbott, youngest daughter of the late John Abbott, E•q., both of this town. On the 13th instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. James North, Mr. Arthur Grindrod, auctioneer, second son of the late Mr. Arthur Grindrod, stone ma• son, of this town, to Elizabeth Harrison Milne, only daughter of the late Mr. Jiiseph Milers, of L-ndon, and niece. to Mr. Edmund Platt, of the Blind Asylum. DIED At New York, John Augustus Shea, Fsq., late of Cork, author of s..veral poems of grrar m• rit. _ Lately, at Agra, of small-pox. lieutenant ar.d adjutant Harry Mainwaring, of the 2nd G , enmd , ers. On the 24th June, drowned, at New Orleans, aged 43, Joseph John-ton Warder, the steward on board the Eu ropean, Captain Gay, now in this port. On the 4th July, at Maranham, Richard, third son of the late Mr. G. Owen, of this town. On the 28th ult., 0..1 his residence, in New Jersey, aged 69 years, Mr. John Blackburne, of New Yolk, formerly of this town. On the 29th ult., at the Manse of Penninghame, New ton Stewart, aged 22, James Black, enly son of the Bee. S. Richardson, Minister of Pennioghanie. Th, deceased was for some years in the office of Mr. N. Waterhouse and Sons, in this town. On the 4 , h instant, on board the barque Adriana, on her passage from Calcutta to this port, Captain William Dodd, aged 30 years. On the 7th inst., in his 68th year, Mr. William Hors man, brewer. Same day, aged 19, Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr. M. Stuart. Same day, Thomas Boyes, infant son of Mr. Keene, of Seaford). Same day, Mr. John Hepherd, malAer,Warrington On Monday 1,-t, need 82. Cuthbert Simpson; Esq., Hilifout-villa, Much Woolton. Same day, at his residence, Brixton-hill, Middlesex, aged 68. Mr. Thomas Davis, sen., or Lloyd's. On Thursday last, at his residence, York square, Step fl y, ailed 67, Mr. John Humble, much and deservedly respected. Same day, at Prineethoroe, near Coventry, Edward, infant son of Mr. John Mann, of Manchester, and nephew of Mr. MAcin, of this town. _ Same day, in his 90th year, Alexander Gray. Esq., Up per Marylehone-street, Fitzroy-squire, Lnodon. On the 13. h instant, aged 51, Ann Elizabeth, the be loved wife of Mr. Win. Neale, yeont..n. Altcar. MISCELLANEOUS The number of visitors at the Lakes were never so great. Nuts and filberts are very plentiful this season, parti cularly n-ar Hereford, Ross, and Chepstow. Winterbottorn, late of Stockport, has had reprieved that part of his sentence which condemns him to Norfolk Island, and he will now be left at a less pen +l settlement. Chug- s Dickens is at present in town, and pays fre quent visits to Paternoster-row. Buz looks as brown as a berry with the :gin and air of Genoa. Two iron war steamers. the Megara and the Pegasus both to be propelled by the screw, are building fur the navy. The wife of the Newport convict, Mr. Frost, has gone out as a matron in a fema'e convict ship from Woolwich to Hobart Town, Van Diecnan's Land. The Prince de Joinville has been vis'ting the break water off Brighton, and other points of the English coast, during the last week. The Queen Dowager has given a donation of £lO to the fund established at Ya rmouth for the reward of the iutrepid seamen who man the life-boats at that district. THE GUANO TRADE.—The government have declined to prevent the sale by the government of the Cape of Good Hope of the guano found in places within the limits of that colony. The Inverness courier states that no less than £4,000 has been paid by Messrs. Oliver and Boyd, of Edinburgh, for the copyright of the fourth volume of D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation. For a wager of £5. two pigeons were flown the other day from D , ver to London. The winning bird perform ed the distance (about 78 miles) in 76 minutes ; the other was 12 minutes longer on the way home. GOING-A-H EAD.—By a careful computation, made a few days ago, it appears, that not less than a quarter of a million sterling is now in process of investment in the different building societies in Lancaster.--Lancaster Guardian. SOUTHWARK ELFCTION.—The official declaration ot the Poll was made on Friday, and the following wss the result:— For Sir W. Molesworth .... 1943. Mr. Filcher .. 1 iB2. Mr. Miall Sir Wm. was, of course, declared duly elected THE NEW THEATRE ROYAL, MANCHFSTER.—BOth the exterior and interior of this temide of the drama are approaching to completion, and the lrldt-rs state that the stone facade in Peter street will certainly he fi , oished by the opening day, Monday, the 29h instant. The marble statue of Shakspere has not yet air veil from Italy, but i , expected next week, and will occupy the niche in front of the building. The inside work i 5 progres4ing most rapidly. The stage is certainly one of the Lirce,t, and espec'ally the deepest, we remember to have seen. There are in all 77 stalls, of which by far the gr,a'er part are already let, and all the private boxes have been taken for the st ason. FLERTWOOD-UPON-WYRE. Considerable improve ments are going on at this port ; a large amount is about to he imrnedhtely expended in the erection of storage warehouses, and the construction of a dock is determined noon. The improved condition of this port may be in ferred from the fact of more than five-fold increase of it s railway receipts; and such has been the influx of visitors to this increasingly favourite summer resort that not a house is at the present time untenanted, and the North Euston, one of the largest hotels in the United Kingdom, has been full to overflowing, its visitors' book showing the names of some of the first families in the county and at a distance. In addition to the improvements about to be commenced, a direct line of railway to Lanca ter is contemplated, opening an important communication to the northern districts of the country.—Manchester Times. EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION OF GENERAL TOM THUMB.—A great sensation has been created at Nantes by the sudden disappearance of General Torn Thumb. The pigmy eeneral wishing to attend the 'aces at Quito perle, left Vannes, with his suite, at sic o'clock, and was exvected to have soon returned. His carriage broke down near Roasse. After waiting a considerable time the repairs were completed, and General Tom Thumb mounted the carriage. Scarcely had they driven a league, when the horses stopped suddenly, the c'lnductor de scended, and perceived an immen s e heap of billets of wood ; at the same instant four men, masked, seized and bound the driver, and threatened, if he tittered a cry, to shoot bim. During this scene, the General and his suite were locked in the arms of Morpheus. One of the four masks mounted the seat of the carriage, and drove rapidly to St. Tinier). It was only at this place that the Geue ral learnt his misfortune. The Gr:neral has not been seen or heard of since. THE STAGS.-A DRAMA OF TO-DAY. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. Tom STAG, a Retired l'hin,blerizger. JIM STAG, an Unfortunate Cosrerinonger. (TOM dictates to Jim.) Name in full.. " V , ctor Wellesley. Delancey." Residence " St4ggslands. Bucks." Profession ....'• Major-G;neral. K C B. K.T.S. K S.W. f "His Grace the Duke of Wellin g t on . Reference • 1. Sir Robert Peel. Coutts and Co." " That'll do. Now, Mary, a vafer ; and JIM, 1 d on ' t mind standing a pint f alf and alf!"—Punch. LEFT-HANDED PLEA.—A prisoner at the Mayor's court, Philadelphia. being called upon to plead to an indictment, was told by the c:eik to hold up his r;yle hand. The man immediately held up his kit hand. " Hold your right hand," said the clerk. " Please your worship," said the culpi it, "1 am left-handed. ,, THE SAGE AND THE SIMPLETON.—AS Professor Hamilton was one day walking near Aberdeen, he suet a well-known individual of weak intellect. " Pray," said the Protessor, accosting him, " how long can a per-on live without b , ains ?'"• I dinna ken," replied Jemmy, scratching his head, " how au d are ye youisei ?" A young poet in Cleveland (Ohio) has fallen in love for the second time. It may be true that " true love never did run smooth." but this can't be said of his poetry— " 0 wunst i luvd a nuttier girl bu i t i s i b e 4 e r s t n s t y: m i le e e s a i r:r i ‘ n o tlo m h ‘ i - g e u l l :t l e 'u th i r . ie u r (Maria) SUCCESS OF SIR W. FOLI.LTT.—Twenty years ago he was an unknown man. In 1825 he probably had not re alized from his profession so much as £lOOO ; In 1845 he had acquired, by his personal ex, rzions, from £300,000 to £3t.W.000. And, in voint of staion, it was fully un derstood that the Chancellorship was his own the moment it was vacant. 1 - lad Lord Lyndhurst's indisposition, two ear since, ended in his resignation, Sir W. Follett could have become the Lord Chancellor of England, amidst the acclamations of all parties, before he had corn ; feted his forty-firth year.—Record. THOUGHTS IN BED.—happy is the man who can say " peace-giving bed." For, oh, whet a rack to the spirit of man may be found in goose down ! You are in bed, peace giving bed, you say ; it is deep night, and in that solemn pause you seem to fet-1 the pulse—to hear the very heart of time. You try to think of many things, but the seirit or demon of the bed sets up yourself before yourself—brings up your doings to the bar of your own conscience; and what a set of scurvy gaol-birds may be found among then.. They peep in at your curtains, crowd in at the foot of your bed, and though you have no rushlight, you see their leering, sneaking users.—Jerrold. EARLY DEVELOPMEI:4T OF MOZART'S GENIUS.—The wonderful musical genius of Leopold Mozart's family came to light almost accidentally. When the girl had reached seven years of age she became her father's pupil on the clavier, at which her progress was gnat and uniform, ant finally made her mistress of the highest reputation that any temaie perfoimer had ever acquired on a keyed instrument. tier brother (the great musician), at this time three years old, was a constant attendant on her lessons, and already showed, by his fondness for striking thirds, and pleasing his ear by the discovery of other harmonious intervals, a lively interest in music. At four, he could always retain in memory the brilliant solos in the concertos which he heard ; and now his father began, half in sport, to give him lessons. The musical faculty appears to have been intui tive in him, for in learning ti y lay he learned to compose at the same time own nature discovering to hun some important secrets in melody. rhythm, symmetry, and the art of setting a bass. To learn a minuet, he re quired half-an-hour; for a long r piece, an hour; and having once mas ered them, he played them with perfect neatness and in exact time. His progress was so great, that at four years of age, or earlier, he composed little pieces whoh his father wrote down for of Mo zart, in Chapnrin's Monthly Series. RItSOtJRCES FOR ROMANCE AMONG THE ANCIENTS We believe that the vein of aocient file, if opened, would flow freely. In the hands of a master we should expect to have an Arcadian Dendie Dio moot ; while a Meg Merri lies—" the ancient sybil engrafted on the coarser stock of a gipsy of the last centurv u —might he readily found in some vehement Grecian priestess. With regard to the want of s. ci I affections in the domestic lite of the Greeks, we will hear no slander of that kind while we can read the Orestes of Euripides. Female characters might be found, and an Aspasia midit he made scarcely less dramatic or effective than Rebecca snatched from the burning castle upon the steed of the impetuous Templar, or kneeling at the feet of Rowena. Why, then, have we no Greek or I atin fiction? Why does the poet forget the legend of Pericles or Virgil in his evening entertainment ? " At night, when all assembling row , d the fire, Clos r and closer draw till they rt tire ; A tale is t Id or India or Japan ; Of merchants iron, Golcond or stracan; Of some Norwegian. while the icy gale Rings in her shrouds and heats her iron sail; Or some great caravan. from well to well Wig as darkness on the deceit fell. wiling. a, —l,n, And in the instant lost—a hollow wave Of Lurniu sane their everlasting grave." —Fraser's Magazine. LEGAL EXCLUSiVENESS. — There is one class whose avoca.iou, once foliowed, is declared to cause a perpetual disqualification for admi•sion, like that of the clergy This is composed of persons who have held th Jerk of c. .s of barristers, conveyancers, special pleaders. or equity draughtsmen, and actually received the perquisites ot such service. (The son of a hart ister's clerk is not un d-r the same ban as his father, as a present eminent Queen's Counsel can testify.) Let an individual have successfully emerged from any other lay empluyn3ent, though the most humble, he may freely traverse the road to the highest distinctions and dignities attainable by a lawyer ; but the clerk of a barrister, or other certificated practitioner of an Inn of Court, is as much forbidden the hope of rearhing the level of his master as a Elindoo swine herd of becoming a priest. There is room to suspect, that this harsh provision has been evaded in one or two in stances ; but the mys!ery often attend ng the origin of for tunate barristers, who have risen from love beginnings, prevents our ascertaining whether our suspicions be really well grounded. This regulation is said to be founded on a supposed improptiety of the servant ever meeting his master in the same circle. However little regarded in other walks of life, the bar carefully repel it. Tne clerks aed other servants of merchants, attorneys, tradesmen, &c., may meet their masters in the sacred halls—these may salute each other—" da jungere dextrane"—but the pretence of barristers' clerks is profanation. Their com pany at a " Bar mess" is spoken of as forming an intole r,:be ii,congruity, only to be co. templated to he guarded against. A barrister (and no one else) would feel it diffi cult to reciprocate compliments and familiarities over the bottle, in the Hall, with a man woo, perhaps, but a few short years, in the memory of all, had received his gratui ties. run his errands, and, i might have been, served as his groom. lacquey, or sboeblack, as well as clerk. Then, how coul.l e. former master call his quondam servant in court, " My learned friend?" Itnp , ssible ! " Confusion worse confounded" could not equal that which would fol low the admission of such persons to the honour of the bar ; the treasure Of "ature's germens tumbling altogether, E'en till destruction sicken," would aff,rd only a taint comearisen to it.—lfood's Mag. ARE THE AMERICAN INDIANS THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TEN LOST TLIIBES?—it will naturally be asked what 1 think of that extraordinary question lately so much mooted in Europe and America. and so much con nected with my own researches : " Whether the Indians swing from the ten tripes of the Dispersion ?" With respect to ancient tradition, the rule of Vicentius Liri nensts, though not infallible, is one of the best criteti.t. "What has always been believed by all and everywhere." This is no , trace , ble in the Indians. They have not at all times, and in all places, and all conjointly affirmed, "We are the ten lost tribes of the Dispersion." On the contrary, they know nothing of any such tradition. I trace no remarkable affinities in their language to lead to such a ctinclusi.m. Nor are the rises among them. quoted as analagous to the Jewish, sufficient to justify this ctinclusion. lam sure all nations will be found connected with the Jewish, vs the great centre of spiritual worship, all rites will be found in their uses and abuse-s, to maintain somewhat of the great principles in culcated in tLe Jewish law ; but I am not prepared, frosa such grounds, the result of a common origin from the first parents, to affirm all to be necessarily descendants from the lost tribes, because, in south, no other hypothe sis suits the reigning taste. People have a oreconceived favourite system, try to maintain it ad entrance, and think they see it realised when nothing of the kind in reality ex . sts. Worthy people in America desired me to travel about with them, in order that I might convince the Indians of their extraction from the Jews ; hut this was putting the argurnen , the wrone way. I wanted the Indians to convince tee of their origin, and not to aid in deluding them into this notion, as I perceived many well intentioned people did. I came among the Mohican tribes near New York, and asked then, " Whose de scendants are you ?" They replied, "We are of Israel." I asked, " Who told you so ?" and expected to learn much ancient tradition. To my great surprise, they said, " Mr. and Mrs. Sirn-ns, of Scotland." I asked. " What did your ancestors telt you about it ?" " All our ancestors told us that we wire horn under the earth, and a woman among us looking out of the earth was taken hold of by a spirit ; and that spirit led us up to the sur face-of the earth ; and there we lived in peace until the white men came, by whom we were subdued."—.Dr. Wore Minion to Bokkara. Etteraturr. ---er.----- P 0 E 'l' lt Y. A MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD. BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. (From the New London Magazine.) [These lines were sugges' ed by a view of NorWich, in Con,nect cut, my waive place.—L H. S.] Sweetly wild, sweetly wild, Were the scenes that chi , rme,l die when a child Rocks, gray reeks. with their caverns dark, Leaping rills, like the diamond spark • Torrent vi 'es, thunder; -- g by. When the pride ~t the vt.rnal floods swelled high; And quiet 0 ols, like the hanging ne t, 'Mid clitis. by the feathery foliage Brest. Beyond, in those woods, did the wild rose grow. . . , And the lily gleam out where the lakelets flow, And the trai•ing arbutus shrouded its grace, Till its fragrance bewrayeu its hiding p ace, And the woodbnie held to the dews its cup, And the vine. with its clustering grapes, went up,— Up, to the crest of the ailest there. with the humming-birds and bees, On a seat of turf, embroidered fair, With the violet blue and the columbine rare, It was sweet t sit. till the sun threw down, At the gate ,I the West his golden crown. Sweetly wild, sweetly wild, scenes that charmed me when a Were the VARIETIES Wherefore did God create passions within us, pleasures around us, but that these, rightly tetopered, are the very ingredients of virtue.—Millon, READY.—A young man st:pwd into a book -store, and said he ‘Nan'ed to get " A Young Man's Companiun." " Well," sa , d the bookseller, " Here's my daughter." Ni w LINE OF BUSINESS —We unders.tand that me dical students, instead of walking the hospitals, intend to apply for permission to walk the tliffi rent railways, as, from the number of accidents that occur on each line, they expect to finish thiiir surgical education in one halt the usual period.—Punch. Sept. 16 M z+nT to T —lt ha i been torrtold by Grim vih.oint tiesei composition vcNp N u7do,sl i ,, v uos,),.. y4 t es ti j a ii l t ie:i, P r a roc .4 1 ;, 1 1 , esen: s f ,,f A .t t ld now acknowledges . neither would dispute the possession of Nioz,rt, 8 1 t t b l But W i ll done: wouht ( 1 0 90 were they of his mind. the child ; and h e ta'sified by the e‘ en t ;ed d, like ;:lo,rrtil:ltel'hiseg mare :lr'ielierar't:calgees?ittf"AelslP„9-crOi:le:rCilit for himse f, nor became art object for the g 611' 6 1' 1 l e 1 1 of Salzburg was the first plnce in ohle"11,5 ret. his labours treated as of slight imp, rt,.rce. ume,',° „ ,„ber;, roll sitions for the church, the theatre, anel ' brilliant performance on the clavier. orP t!vals of the church, and most expres,o P rC ,l may oe tnougtit to have neon 01 •ciiiu -- lf trr bishop, as he did not scruplP t o avail himse,il( yovin. man's services: hut - his munificence !tt,is surprise all that Mozart received fro ;tr G: being a nominal salary of wont. ls EPo,l,,Ztrie s ': of Mo: n Ch 7 :F:r e f , n r ‘ ci l e: . l —: l 4 ; Ai h i f , e Ye i lc u c 1 2 s t . ? a En e n a o — o n t :l 'i ; '' k e 'e , rg'‘ >cl of he ag nd r f . a , c r u i t o e u 9 , - pith Lou t L t e o r u ld ' s e d !Lo s e ..!L, . 4 o . k7 l 7,c e i n i r t p , : and conspicuous figure. It' not a native of P c was, at no distant date, a " navie there c ' Clk ll n°,g'd no !lame to him—in highdows, anti clay, at the dockg. Tin, gentleman, edwared, tind of brusque niarnrts ❑ 2 ; and this 1 , 3 t,;; ti i s e,,no!tu fel 7 the rrpc praciical knowledge of r-ngii the flattering fact, that Nl•Kenzt, vernment authorit es ot France touclin, 0 u, of the various ralway lines either in prog'! s ',: g r , t plated,—and this in preference to the engtneei;p:r ki who have so long been justly celebrated tor t j o f t ledge in the science or art—for it Pa' lmkes he"! IVl'Kenzie has a partner named Barry, unc e--- Attir; so still—a gentleman connected with the newspaper press. Tnese facts are h;t4hlY 110°(' d '.1 °' all parties. M'Ketizir's oddity of manner anp,,,isi anee presents a cur'ous contrast to that of th' ; t s,itt Mato, ihe carries all before him, whether 0 " L , e be Elyse - es, where the railway shareholders. i" most do co.irezate," hiss the gldeilsatottsc'f o, Jeri M.K,llzie, as name indicates, i5,13005e origin ; and he is peculiar for the indoaiitablebrroad. ance of Sciitchmen, especially when they ar e ,„%rig° stirred to emulati-n by the exertions of those they live. 7 Edinburgh Register. " 19 S c ekucTo RE OF PLANTS.—PLITItS vary g' -gt bran . ' structure, but the generality have roots, sternstuorionr leaves, blossoms, and receptacles for the 9 u their seeds. Pervading th.: roots and stein. ti,sithrot series of minute hollow tubes and spiral ve' se 'i,al", which the sap passes upwards from the earth, st l ' o or ing to the leaves. there combines with the gas' s o utri te , T ev h e e ry ou p t a e r i t b o a f rk th o e f plant for t;o 1, r t i mosphere, and thus becomes converted into ° 41 . 10 110, - , juice, which again descends, and is dist ibutrdurjel,til somewhat like the skirt of animals, and serveske s ir purpose, to protect the parts beneathconsists from t 1 " c ft , m external injury ; serving also for thee r absorption of moistute through its numerou,' I)°,l,et'e,c„: sir ue' re g' mediately wider the skin is a soft pulpy sisting of innumerable cells, and which is uf Ira° u i r il lour in almost all veg , tables, Of this kind 0' s h - i s cc', too, the leaves of plants are composed. V" der t a WI"; : lar substance, we find in woody plants the "11: Isjigbtl liber, composed 01 numerous fibres running in ; dinal direction, and having the appearance. , vb e : o , of `4 w t o t; a tt n i d b macerated, of a fine net-work. this r wrt' f ' S°l ~ p re dr bark the peculiar virtues of plants principally on as gums, resins, essental oils, as cinnarrOfn PrP ' h i, mint, turpentine, and the astringent tannin , o r de l'he wood is found immediately underth e 'e circle, extending to the pith, which is situated 01 . 5 0 4 .. 1 ire. The outer circle of wood next to the 1) 10 ' j oe s'o and jucier than those in the centre, being th i e tr t°s n and as a circle is formed each year, the now be r Pote.; verse section, near the runt, will commonierrg age of the tree, at least all those trees of teruP er " .-- nurC rv i i. Throughout the woody fibres, but especially the 6 st ~r j,re r;e lo r t ; , cis, there are numerous tubes and cell. sided, through which sap arid air freely flo w • on d 0 13 !, of Lints are most imirtant appeodages.tot It compared to the lungs of animals. Plants wi" " C ceii‘.4 deprived of their leave or or if they have not free:bileit/ the sun and air. During the day, and to s tU t..sci (l9ll , ue leaves of plants continually absorb the ear""' in t o u"-i, of rogen gases of the atmosphere, whi.h enter ~oif with their juices. while oxygen gas is as c (in : I Ce ti r l ; haled. In the darkness of the night thts " r"-5.5 is th r- tl and a portion of the carbonic acid of their juices off. Now, this daily action of plan , s is jus t the of the breathing process of animals—the latter c o;e acl, tne oxygen of the atmosphere and • ear l° . I c l give out war' bf so that in processof come vitiated, were its oxygen not cont i n uallYr e ' t hea ja !pre i y the operatis ot the vegetable kitidoth• perceive an o o n ter providential adju g , tm ent ; plants contribute food for animals, but they a r ' o f ted great regenerators of the atmosphere, the P uritY 11° 1/ ' is equally subservie n t to a nimal existen ce."' Weekly Instructor. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER —LaSt week we were unav'oid from Living our usual rep , rt te cl .th and yarn .. " 1 - t ,rarfrev we are g atified to he enal.l d to stare, that, in e Ve b vt.ta te l)6 * this district, trade continues to be in he most i ,, lof t, sible. Yarns are higher than they were, and contrac'; re pt 5 A made th s week at an advance upon the prices ca nt. o'o o night ago. The cloth market is also more baoYa.aoce wid ha in printing cloth are s, !ling freely at an 51'.0eit " to 3d per piece. The domestic m , nufacturer s are a': er y st , busy, arid mo-t of them are working. to order at e tory rates. The printers are also better off than y e 5 , ` both machine and . lock printers are fu'lot wor k "' l et °est from every part of the country respecting the har V o gs ,01 encouraging, and, in spite of all the awful f0ret0,,,ve...00 speculators and alarmist, our opinion is, that the be 00 3 f r ip prove above an average crop, and the quaiitY at er Upon the whole, the country is in a gr d pr 51 ., 1 0 - rte . , l people are full of emi,l yment at higher wages , . 4 ,'IlCw A are I ke'y to he kept low stocks beirg li ' te tt. IP and 7 :'s. 5s top to tis do; 43-inch skirtings a ptie ,i t o 5 5 0 0 and mantrarturer... hands, the . cople may pl , yment for some time to come. 2'-inch titi's, 35 in g re are st' m ark quest, at advan ed rates. rope m Roc/It/ALE FLANNEL MARKET, there SHP.oii- o l b, has been quite equal to that of e •edi'l g , Itt demand for iiiec s remains brisk, and all has r) ,,', lc ierg" . • I 8 at former week s prices. The wool m:irket has rtl^ s. ° or no cliange either in price or demand. al s, much ,(1.1;h,E of business. — w p l W i i n h: ac ) O ts dhot done theilno w n r i e ir s n s ,ci sloooft cloth h t ao S n t i T a ;; : r o i ae c t t u ll pr re , r i v i - nrsi. : s :e Tuesday last. In the warehouses, howeier. ~ n tf irP• have been made by the London and other buyers.% _a W P oats continue to in high rates. 0u... _ maintain in BRADFORD.—niAI on nol 'Thursday,average i n a w m n or t e t d oh g b u tr e, i sd ;s e , Merinos. Coburg and Orleans Cloths are a g ° `, cr y 1 0 i , for, awl the staple Jade of the town is in a, y arn', ,; condition. The demand for both wools 10' hig'" increase, and for some descrip• ions of the 'a t ' s ' ,. have been obtained. „„ r on ;:be . „ HUDDERSFIELD.—Our market was a shee of ; P i oe more particilla , ly in the Warehouse,. The mau`n,,iola, ,6" still occupied in making to order, th re wa s consequence lit in the cloth hall L'verYtl' il ''fi.e i g ;e s and quality has gene, ll' as usual. Prices mrcl, here . WL M DONCASTER OoAREEP. SEPT. a• —• T attendance of buyers. and wool eenerally man' i t:)4 e ve , " pea current on last August fair. Locks were in lea' tra` ti r ; dg' per stone lower. t- 0 1 7 "t :e. F. ' 6 ' ‘ ,oa ft osi Env AND LACE T2Ar,us.—The cotton c , "„ e is still extremely depressed, an : the cotton P",' ',eV , ',au , i f' much the same state of depression as they bac`., c pt:l, if V 43 time. The Leavers fancy lace trade is still ye': tr ade. liaf i lic tress prevails in many quarters. The ware lace bovi 113 1 ,6 10 thing, gets gradually worse. It is :stonishiiig o t • en ob o t, subsist, who have been CO 'Ong out of emPicl a ni s in t llO O ,Ol hranches still continue het`er than the cotton ; ', ~itc „,e l ' net trade, invention and improvement sertn bay. tO , " Low pr ces and low watres, act ng as a c mocte and speculation.—. Nottingham Jortrnal. __..... . (Fr ß om Al l L li N e V ß A a Y ilw T ay ll i A if F afj F a l z Cr n l e t o E f ig a ft :rd s .. „4-, - ; vif. NAME Passen gers. I A 239 I Arbroath and Forfar Birmingham and Gloucester Chester and Birkenhead Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dicidee a d Arbroath. . . Durham and Sunderland Edinburgh and Glasgow Eastern Counties Glasgow and Ayr Glasgow and Greenock Grand J unction Gra% esend and Rochester Great North of England Great Western Hull and , elby Hartlepool Dock and Bail Liverpool and Manchester London and Birmingham., London and Biackwall London and Brighton London and Croydon London and Greenwich Southwestern Manchester, Bolton. and Bury Manchester and Birmingham. Manchester and Leeds and Hull and •e•by Midland Counties Newcastle and Darlington Newcastle and Carlisle Newcastle and North Shields 2851 3 North Union l7 8 9 North Midland Par s and Orleans Paris and Rotten Preston and Vyre Sheffield and Manchester South Eastern Taff Vale Ulster 7 217 4 I o P 7. Yarmouth and Norwich York and North Midland GRANTING LICI•NCES. -------- eu . ' ,41 , • ed to Mr. Dowling, special sessions of the .1 1 - 1 .,, fell ~ ,,5e peace will be Ittld in the Sessions hou,e on t t he O i r eto i ________________„/ days, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for. 0 the, d e o of beensing such persons as intend 10 ' , eel' l e . ll' fro ll) ,,,b tr ' fore kept by Other persqos about to reln°- Nove'pOr' inns, namely. the 16th Octiber and the 2 5 " i. OLD 1845, the Bth linuary. 19 it Febtuirv, 2,1 A.P r ' 25th June, and the Gti4 August, 1846. —Parsuant to aC. ,diet• oriP At T N U: 4 :DA TUE SDAY, =TEM R 16 ' 16.15 ., Of PRINTED N NI I EVERY TUESDAY gol JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 33,Grove,..rtreeeet.:° E, V LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orfor a ;we' . ST. GB OAGS'S CRESciors, LI! Tiii wa 1 1P°