The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-08 00:00:00

t0it;;;"....,,......„............ AT (1. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. ,s . I'll e to ' N IA A. kN L - D CHINA. ls telli Te es/1 rn • l e , ttte e ail . 1 19. of the 19th of June has arrived. The tetative, Wh ich it bring s is of interest, and in particu fd. the state of the newly -acquired province of at _itot en ?:t_ m ost fertile district, which, under a good li,„ ° .*tie or i e se ProPerlY cultivated, will become a garden, 111% oifll,Yresent l'ier '' ' Pacifie d hY the measures ' adopted by Sir C. be•we- Lot chi govrnor. He has made terms with . tba, refs, and even Meer Shere Mahomed is I t es .eltl h e e ffered to d tie hi s . to make his submission provided etti,,, ki t tt‘.. , priva property secured to him. There o!ryysoftbeuegE vnthin a short time the complete pacifi died t seh o h l etitl,etrY will be effected. Sickness prevailed tko;„°, d ir . ehor ie e s eP_llP at Hyderabad. Several officers ntei n . Th e e ,..'aPier . had an attack of fever,.but h d ‘ 0 134,,:1ed k y th "It' alurucations by sea with Scinde had eh. 'NJ a nd b , a Monsoon but the route via Omercote leilettl. uairoeer would, it was expected, be speedily P'oett,,PaTe'laillsce,:„of Scinde, which very much resembles 14 4 , t t oes° ,IY flooded by the rivers and canals du- Vet ""t to e "; theY will require little more than corn ar erePereadduce an extraordinary revenue. The 4 that it •ed 41,000,000 sterling, and it is to be i tioti e ;; l ! th e _ a Will Snn 't e - -n again reach that sum. The sub a4l;44tkiire takea ra . Gill, it is feared, unless proper pre etn... ~e geeerafi increase the sickness of the troops, t...docte4,l°ll that the B ,Fxperieneed, there is a well-founded ioieZthe mot due Precautions will be adopted. is laltilovitest ~ c ue of the arh ka officers events of monththe at _ Hydera therZilee,l; the calura_e_ of the army Times,which Na !''''At ''' the„! ''' 8 of the Bombay _ ,Ixe r heete. They'clf having dishonoured the Zenana of .4 QIN' p ra y ti f or protection against those calumnies, kale l ewa f e m a decided 1. t il ated !eta t , . reply fro their genera efsitordi toek4eB4,anore is that hex arm caused by the a..silld iP sa eio„; 1 ef Shere Singh bad ceased. That the eshirtilitdoes,:,llollYed. in traversing the . north-east part whi rr enek to oetr,, in e xamining his fortresses. The i liig t4 l4as; G etler j a h as Pacific, but the final departure of Avitabile, Ventura, and Court, illtelkodeearieto. Theex Pected, would, it was thought, lead to ioto eci t ! oil tbe,l_lons and brother of Shah Sooja were i' e s t k ,ob sho Wasu°llotY of the Sikh monarch. Dog heflatAffeilhe is in very bad health, had reached II l 'aite g ri li n ch4i s al to have resumed the government, o - th e rlo th e i! 8 are represented as very far from doereloolel!erior o'rfallegiance to him. i;tatto‘_lastorts__ India tranquility prevails. There tell4,tahei.`elet.ces at the capital of the late Scinchah's sot • tad di .of th e " e , Minister appointed to govern during w o illtepr chBp os . enild chosen to succeed him was at 10,‘Ild totersd, but of his power. The British had t t ,ereit4ht 04 i t was generally supposed that they leViNed, N . ge,i,l to send troops to protect the 3 theo h il 'soit of %oh re .be disturbances at Gualor will, A t 'e {a lt he staa ll ' r e the Hon. Company to take P9a,- eetil ltat ent Y e 0,84 formerly held by Scindiah, and which Of tl'aatld a t b, g ove ut ed the second power of the interior. till ti ll adio o t attrifruPoinent at Gualior is nothing h ttit a j t hlt i tie ltery! 7 and plots, and all other ingredients ot e , Me er ' still at ~,...'n Hundelkund the spirit of . dis ahi 'Os then t th e I; ° rlt, but there are active and inteyi thJh.thene. b eeau e s ad o.f 'he troops there. Disaffection . ii t h e i le atl ies do e it . is a mountainous district,. of theyth e :alty i e ,-,e of m a not like industry, and prefer having are " stleh „Pderiug their neighbours. The great eit k n el t et witiii:sl7B 18 not to rout the insurgents . if ki• t el, d- Elj e a , l , e s. u t to know where to find them in krti''' All . " cre egh 1 hi t , ,that It I labod , left Agra on the 30th May for Cawn he 4j ois as Nei:. route for Calcutta. Rumour a.s -tisllattled 4iis council had arrived from home ordering Of c l e . :‘,. I , b i r • Cla r k ' Prior to his departure from AgT 4 etric"re .4 ,gentle g "ernOr of the north-western pro the wiiich Was latterly envoy at the Court th e 14ito fo r had b. ee has been abolished. Successful Jo in 0. fkiiitp `carried on with the Rajah of Bhe thlht h e r . the Indus the navigation of the Sutlede, and h t k high,. UR touchi h . t *tories. 'te e rco Ls oft', og on is ern t t , on , rY , f e u -.e tnoonsoon was felt through India. th,:tal 4!'d eop.:verY much- A gale was dreaded ; it e til tiki h jp ! ‘,..v.atid its fury in the Bay of Bengal. bete 't A„'Prica te ' r e_ lost on the Coromandel coast. _A 11041 ; i t was felt at the Mauritius towards the VL II In A ui teak e.aesed severe losses. In Bombay the A l 4 th, ath i lim o was vo oti .str ooe D th e , resumed on the 6th of June, news e tte e , 4 nmas Grenville, was consume i d es . h etti s T r a with have.i,declined granting heavy polic i d , j,; e i r re e til d ,4 l l - 1 ci!-!_aas7sar crews, I,it. to tii I . earde o c f l Z He e n x r r v em_e o l t y t ritv Reports had P i s n ca gei's . sickness, but >l e ° t fect:,l,atest new s exaggerations He was said, accor tio. Ito, ,''',.e orri;"*. w i s of the beginning of May, to be I,tlert 4 e "110 p p , '' of the new Imperial Commissioner, 4'14 %S e at. a expected at Canton about the begin 'lleea ste atne t o ttio,tto i ti t , r has been ordered to get ready for teatl N iraagle : e th beginni ng of July. Some . of the p fs a(4,, i lait th is f at Lord Ellenborough is going back !lea t ' 4 Bl e4 t alo n ae t may be doubted in the middle o l o t t % ttl ett er f soon. o oitl ot I,tist oetrievena Hong Kong - it appeared that bu.si thttlaaSitlll:Txe_te!e the north. There were seven ships Oto t no t i t . Nish iiela_g, selling openly, at \Voosung, e ut ioo e T t ,,.h ot h°s.:',;'• They had been warned off b bltti o Ati er; geir oale;lng persisted, they were allowed bye " t so ' 44 ar' . itth, t stm ea ueht eo e busy in smuggling. Sir Henry Oh9seta'earea to de that trade but in vain. Captain ilqtlSylli to Y rel. ‘e ,detain ' ships, but they were iq at ( l t r s i a t !ea . , some 0)1. xteP I ' 1 V I Peas are selling at long prices at , Ili 'rr 'it -. aoundantly offered, but many arc 1, t a, t etch f • eS t it 6110 1 toi4lttr, 6 ( .t i e ritztte Lay= ad be too much alloyed. Cochin ti •'. toi rri4lltl gOlte is going to Nizon. in hi tfiSotolood atieZtisfaction for the persecution of the , 4 4_ ar e s _, for do t3ide;4 tO be scarce in China ; not a piece tor sole tl ll e 1 1 n hi ten d klig t 8 paper SPAIN. ItoaTithe'; e r l r p o ti e j ..4. 8 9rftiNeVf.driesday contain further details lei, o t uap a ti,,_ ,e _appears little doubt of the sur.- •64iel,,,eti .. 4 pri.'...`!eot Seville on the 23rd . ult. 't . N . :e e ...oirdTtoe7.e.rioa;_t_t.,.. letter from Madrid that t_h 10PtOf e .a In p,iping among themselves already, for o,c t .'ls t o ingdown Espartero, but for whom - :_ I, l :44 n elti res. de is,ePPort the pretensions of the son of I, it t l itat h e a ( t i da to . be the King Consort tet e . t6: e t, ab lat er drew bis sword in favour of Queen tio,',llVatio„° broke ,s the support of Gen. Serrano. otoi ~eir • , a1 G e tne convention he entered into h t :i4 e 'ret te i ' h als, i s tie rda of Madrid, to allow them to llo h ei 7 4 ef.his,teee,dingly unpopular. The excuse 1 11, 43 aretag t e 'ill e e ra was the success of the Duke . k t , o e 01 s th e & According to the telegraphic (Its e,NNootetille f, %Prier Francais), Espartero had oWlo t .,,at for three das A fire had broken out Ow ''Y Of linadawhich• ' ' e'er Blik ' had consumed an im 111141N t o i h 8 . lik' e eop ° ll4 ° be " ° e ii r nala of the 27th state that a Te 14. 11, 4 NI plid. aaated in commemoration of the le !lo ot Pp ov ro to b Ot k t ter a L liee n a ' p aYati l P r of the 30th, state that the toall4t tb s etoZ l atio li ' e I,ar fom being content with the th e i ll : : e a : 1 04 1 , 4 fro til ° jhe contest. Looking at the 1 04 i:4 4i:the eo 'Pain, there appears but little ty p , e ?km, 11,„0, ntest with Espartero is completely I tOtO nt a tit 1 1 1 18 Whietfaate fierce one will arise between to4ii tte ll of d'.'Pero :f have coalesced against him. al4 hl ali ht'io n _the subsequent days state that tq4l,, il. thin oieto;ete beginning to manifest them li e4 t , o a* The siege of Seville was still mitt tilkb "'tot. a2 aar of 4 t4i' 44 tl I h N% nt of Gr anada has b een d es t roye d b y tto i ? et , tt0,,P12,8 ~allll,,.Subscriptions in favour of the Il e .at h , oo 9t ' to ' re - "f• l ' a " e Of G uadeloupe, up to the 31st A at bee be apt kb]) rth k stio t 4 degrtehtitilt., 1' 'was condemned to . death at Nke l o k fr o ed b the murder of his nephew. P o st of al N Y the Pope and will be executed. O, of P t N. the e '' Zeal it't wie d i th e l Yach t ,atid have brought intelligence te e • baoo. sarothers, on a trading voyage 'toi tt lg s h e l4 tv eo '"e was capsized by a tremendous tht4 i 4% , it tkt 3),,,_, ehl'iZroen:on deck ere saved, but a ti;- ba 1. 0 ~. ‘ l OO. below perished. The loss 4Oki, 4 4et O l < Li o ,. Au 17 , ~ et a ,, e l ;,- te• a nc i r ~,- -Ityrtts OF BOTTLOONE.-011 4 "4 4 L et t the b k;orporation of Folkestone and thecililottlttiklatea the Dover and Southeastern Railway 1..1i e ath t h; l : a eltet s I`, 2 'P e ning of the communication h tt )-,1 4 N te. e ,etween the ports of Folkestone ( I t :li t ,(l er s\p, , 1 1 pavii, breakkst and other festivities, iiof:ey),lt.t.itilificia Tavern, at Folkestone. j4fie 4 t h i l t ti:!le8 re 4, the course At the last sitting of the te 0(, 44 0 4 1,1414 itiltP4Y4llf4eteurr4 i o n f t 11 conversat ion ndtwou o ld a h p - Pktr of : I ,p i - ( )at Z Made such st Progress, that ‘ •,. :tl t c o te : I lia a Dr all such of rapidveetables, and even i th ol k terop e a Mif itet ° °f of this is, that there are 200 0„,e,014 ft ,„. to t. Jllice ute d in Jersey annually without i t : , 4of h e et ',I t,;`• l _l le . T Iti', An' l l 4.411344b14 n7,jege journals give an account of ‘it l e i lS . to a t tlio l 4 ati a , - i 4 feW days hack in that town. tk. 10. l e ho„..Witb . 4 a garrison there, was corning 6 1'‘i 0 1.1frilred 4' eorarade when a M Dutelleux 0 114;1411714 re t• ri NV hY he I: • eked at him so inso- Ot'ks l N:i ”i t i e 11141 e-, th a t 4, a i n g at Ilt t ''i t , Oop t i P oic e, not even observed him." The S it t l ii S ii :ta„ ale h i ' etittlaentid seep:ling determined to insult ot:Nt l l l 6.M. NteA . whl ch ended in a challenge. ~,,,:gort ; *t O re,;a P t i aly,.having claimed the choice 14 NI I N t ie 44 4 fe w pi, aecided on. They met near 41 ; 114 4 41 46 ve raar y 4 ". e8 M. Kant having stretched IStOn t , ! A t ed thrt,.ta rushing in, tier ,I, i t 'l orb,. °ugh the right lung. He died came right . on V1, 1 . 1 t 0 I. ll ,‘',.,`‘Ant. " 4 41 t 1.114. vox ) p r osecution has been insti rlL n t 'att i sori /4 •11o 0 i.h,N Ihet Aeg a , ' 4 1.." -- T. C. Tupper, Esq., a -, t 91 ) l l ' mari - .1, alissiasi p*, killed a man kktlit Y tN. lt tle t -ttt Il d e the seggion i) ' f* court. The i :Yla z r il A - ea et . al l a the eircu o mstance of the \i h tfi tL I, lttiled 'tilltsti.tgi„wa! Pending ir . i which Mr. .?`,,j11, 11 1 , 0 .' Off etd Wit oes u s g . Lort was a witness. Tl - liVitOk l* ea r i e d th e wi t minutely, and dur t m o g_ 1 4 ;t 1 k q e „ t) tti e l l'e i ll ei t h i , e w otildillecsitll Tupper if e i;'te o m a f en lit 4 4 ,V t io kt . ti , eot-Z returned to the court-room h t lil ti\'K,,ll l ,_ ° the teed the so as to be convenient. a 4 %ilt my b estiroo,. argoinent of the case, and , eoootlioer ,Hued °"q, Errin.gton, who had taken 1 . 1 11 1 %11,4 t 4 , fell r_ , Stru c k a t IV?, rodoe wcraard Min several blows p_ ~ s it ,7,oi e ,„leh he e and as he recovered, laid q t . % i topir i .""Y t o L u ad Placed in front of him ; ';s ( ,,ko t i i llitgsed th e u'Y hold of his assailant by ' ct etit' i i tt 1 11.. ,srw:rd into his heart, killing e d by al l'Per, we understand, has examining court.-New BANKING AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. The Bank of Messrs. Dixon and Dalton, of Dudley, one of the oldest and wealthiest establishments in that part of the country, has suspended payment. At the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the London and County Bank, held on Thursday, a divi dend was declared at the rate of 5 per cent., free of income tax. At the meeting of the Australian Trust Company held on Monday a dividend of three per cent. for the half year was declared, leaving £1,685 to be carried to the re serve fund, which it appears now amounts to upwards of £5,000, and is invested in Government securities. The accounts received to-day from India and China, by the overland mail, are satisfactory ; goods of British ma nufacture are selling freely, and large shipments of pro duce were making for this country.—London New Price Current. IMPORT DUTY ON IRON IN GERMANY.—A London house has received the following intelligence from Ger many :—ln consequence of a request of the Rhenish " Lanntag," which has been held in Dusseldorf, the Zollcongress of the United States of Germany, assembled in Berlin, has concluded to charge the importation of all bar-iron and iron rails with £6 per ton, which will be put in force on the Ist of November. SCOTTISH INSURANCE COMPANIES.—The loss of the Columbia Steamer, and other vessels, has had the effect of furt:.,n• depressing the shares of our Marine Insurance Companies ; but a few buyers of Scottish Marine Shares having appeared, the Stock of that Company has rather rallied. The holders of Glasgow Marine Stock, previous to the meeting of to-day, were offering from £1 to £2 per share of bonus to be relieved of their obligations by re sponsible parties. The result of the meeting is, that the whole paid up capital, which amounted to £36,000, has been lost, and a further sum of £30,000 is required to liquidate their losses. £2 10s. per share is to be called up. The directors were instructed to take the steps pre scribed by the contract, for the purpose of determining whether the company shall be dissolved or carried on. — Brokers' Circular. BIRMINGHAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.-A meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce was held last night, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present com mercial depression of the country. Mr. R. Spooner oc cupied the chair. The meeting at first was thinly attended, but afterwards increased till the room was full. Con siderable discussion arose, but rather in the manner of conversation than debate. The general feeling seemed to be, that neither her Majesty's government nor the oppo sition were likely to do anything to relieve the accumu lated and still accumulating distress of the country; indeed, that nothing could give effectual relief except an expansion of the currency. Various resolutions were proposed, and, after discussion, withdrawn; and the fol lowing was at length unanimously passed, moved bp Mr. P. H. Muntz, and seconded by E. Barker :—" That her Majesty's ministers have repeatedly declared that the present distressed state of the country arises: from over production, and that there are no measures within their power to relieve the present commercial difficulties,—Re. solved, that a meeting of the bankers, merchants, manu facturers, and traders of this town and neighbourhood be called by circular, to take into consideration the long continued difficulties of trade, and to adopt such measures as the present alarming crisis may require, on Wednesday, the 16th of August, at the Waterloo-rooms."—Bir ',gingham Advertiser. COMPARATIVE EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURED GOODS IN 1842 AND 1842.—(From Sir Robert Peel's speech on Friday night.)—l hold in my hand a return of the exports of British produce from the united kingdom for the six months ending the 6th of July, 1842, and on com paring the declared value of the exports of the present with the declared value of the exports of the preceding year, though there has not been that improvement which I could wish, still there has been a manifest advance. In short, there has been a manifest improvement in the ex port of some of the great branches of our manufactures. In the year 1842 the declared value of the exports of our manufactured cotton goods was £7,087,000. The decla red value of our exported manufactures of the same des cription up to the sth of June, 1843, was 7,983,000. In the linen manufacture there has been a slight increase also. In 1842 the declared value was £1,294,000, while for the present year up to the sth of June last it amoun ted to £1,361,000. In the woollen manufactures, which in the course of the last year had been materially depressed! the declared value of exports in the first year was £2,226,000, and in the last £3,035,000. Not speaking with respect to the woollen manufactures, and their export to the United States and the Brazils, but to all countries, there has been a considerable increase in the amount of exports. (Hear, hear.) The improvement is still more marked, if I compare the exports in the last month with those of the month terminating on the sth of July, 1842. The declared amount of the value of cotton exported in July last year was £1,084,000; for the month of July in the present year it was .Z 1,445,000. The export of linen last year was £201,000 ; in the present year it was £271,000. As to the woollen manufactures, there had been a remarkable increase, for in June last year the de clared value of woollen manufactures exported was £408,000„ while in the present year it amounted to £790,000. Therefore, comparing the six months of last year with the six months of the present year, there has been an indication of a considerable improvement in the amount of the exports of the manufactures of this coun try. But now with respect to the cotton manufactures. It was stated last year that the cotton trade was so bad that we might make up our minds to a still greater de pression. Has that prediction been verified? (Hear.) The extent of consumption of cotton has been exceedingly great. I have in my hands a return showing the number of bags of cotton imported into England and Scotland, and taken for consumption for the first six months from the year 1835 to 1843, both included. From this return I find that in 1835 there were 451,984 bags of cotton taken for consumption; in 1836, 474,902 ; in 1847., 497,302; and in the present year, 1843, the number was 688,584 bags. (Hear, hear.) Look, then, at the declared value of our exports; in the first six months of the year 1842 our ex ports of cotton yarn amounted to 58,000,0001 b, and in the same period of the present year to 62,000,0001 b ; our exports of cotton thread in the first six months of last year amounted to 935,0001 b. and in this year to 1,324,0001 b. The exports of printed calicoes in the year 1842 was 123,781,000 yards, and in 1843, 145,295,000 yards. As to the exportations of plain calicoes, the increase had been enourinous, for in the first six months in the last year there had been exported from this country 152,827,000 yards, and in the same time of the present year there had been exported 253,318,000 yards. (Hear, hear.) Can it then with justice be said, that the measures taken last session, either with respect to the corn laws or the tariff, have been as fatal to the interests of the great and im portant branches of the manufactures of the country as was confidently predicted ? Intelligence has been received of the blowing up of the Diana, South Sea Whaler, while on her homeward voyaye and the death of Captain May, who commanded her. The Diana has since been brought into St. Helena, where a coroner's jury found a verdict of " Murder, against some persons unknown." THE TEA TRADE, July 31,—There has been a firm market for teas since the last auctions, and the quota tions are rather tending upwards, as the consumption is large. Last week the deliveries increased to 54-1,3601 b. the letters by the overland mail are not yet delivered, con sequently the position of the tea market at Canton re mains to be ascertained. IRON AND COAL TRADE.—We are sorry to learn that the iron and coal trade in Scotland never was so bad as it is at present, and no prospect of a change for the better. The prices are reported as not only to be without profit, but altogether ruinous to the masters. We learn to-day, from a valued correspondent, that half of the furnaces in Lanarkshire will very soon be thrown out of blast, and that one of the firms making malleable iron have given their men in that line their warning to quit, without even proposing a reduction of wages. The same is taking place in the collieries in different parts of the country.— Glasgow Post. THE CCSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS,—The report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the recent frau dulent proceedings by Custom-house officers has been published. It is very voluminous, consisting of about fifty pages. and it is, therefore, impossible to advert to all the branches of inquiry to which the commissioners di rected their attention ; but we subjoin an analysis of the chief points of information elicited. A long statement is given regarding the accusations that were made against Messrs. Burnby, Hastings, Poole, Berners, Foote, and Blake, landing-waiters, and also against Mr. LI omershaw, who is since deceased. The result of the inquiry estab lishes the startling fact that a well-organised system of fraud has been in operation for several years past at the port of London, attended with great loss to the revenue of Customs, by means of dishonest practices on the part of various officers of that department—some of them car ried on by means of dishonest practices by the officers in league together, but chiefly by their being in secret connexion witn dishonest traders. It is also established that this extensive and long-established system of fraud has been carried on with impunity, and without the know ledge of the Board of Customs, mainly in consequence of the disregard of their proper duties by the landing waiters, and other officers in the surveyor's department. The fraudulent transactions which have been investigated are classed in the report under the eight following heads : 1. The granting of false certificates by the export officers whose duty it is to ascertain what goods are ship ped. 2. By granting a false certificate of the quality, or existence of goods for exportation, to obtain an amount of drawback of duty far exceeding what is legally due, or a drawback for an imaginary exportation of articles. 3. The dummy system, or the substitution of a package of low duty goods for a package of high duty goods. 4. By the negligent or wilful undervaluation of goods where they are subjected to ad valorem duties, and the dishonest or careless and faulty enumeration of the goods when their amount is to be stated. 5. By the improper computation of the tares of packages. 6. An undervalua tion and under account of goods, so that an under duty is paid by means of making a proper entry in the rough books on examining the goods, and obliterating that entry so soon as they were safe in the warehouse of the impor ter, substituting, in place of the proper entry, a false and insufficient entry of the goods, denoting a low duty which was paid, instead of the proper duty to the crown. 7. The fraudulent entries of goods by the substitution of fresh leaves for the original leaves in the landing waiter's' Blue Books,' with imitations of the handwriting of the regis trar's clerks, with false entries, and with false seals. 8. The obliteration of the entry in the ' Blue Book,' by a chemical process, and the substitution of a false for a real account in it." Among the frauds may be noticed the introduction of cigars as marble, and large amounts had been obtained for drawbacks by means of a simulated shipment. THE LIYIEPOOL STANPAED. GENERAL MISCELLANY. In the Clifton Zoological Gardens, a pointer bitch is now suckling a young leopard. A field of wheat was cut in the neighbourhood of Ips wich last week. The price of whiskey at the several distilleries in Cork has been fixed at ss. 9d. per gallon. Lord J. Russell paired off with Sir H. Douglas against the Scotch Church Bill. THAMES TUNNEL.—Forty thousand four hundred and fifty-nine persons passed through last week. On Friday last a fine young woman leaped off Waterloo Bridge into the river Thames, and sank in a few minutes. The Government rum contract, for 100,000,000 gallons, half East and half West India, has been taken at ls. sd. per gallon. Professor Lee, of Edinburgh, the greatest of modern linguists, acquired his chief knowledge of languages whilst working at his trade as a carpenter. A contract has been entered into by two influential firms—one in London, the other at Liverpool—to con vey 5,000 poor emigrants to Australia. Within the last few days, between fifty and sixty lambs have been found dead upon the Sedbergh Fells, which had apparently been worried either by a dog or by foxes. On Thursday evening a dinner was given to Sir B. Brodie, at which a medal was presented to him in honour of his resigning the surgeoncy of St. George's Hospital. Government has made a grant of £l6O to each officer of the Canadian proNincial forces engaged in the war of 1812. We regret to hear that Mr. Matthew Paterson, dyer, of Halifax, has been obliged to suspend payment. The liabilities are stated to be above £20,000. A lady died the other day in one of the carriages on the Blackwall Railway, it was supposed from exertion in mounting the stairs to obtain her ticket. Mr. Black has retired from the editorship of the Morning Chronicle, which he conducted for many years with great talent, knowledge, industry, and success. The accounts from Staffordshire are rather more favour able ; iron may be quoted about ten shillings per ton better. A reward of £lOO has been offered by Government for the apprehension of Joseph Dobson, the murderer of his father, at Mount Tabor, near Halifax, The Fanny, a vessel belonging to Preston, was lost last week. The captain was saved, but two of the crew were lost. On Wednesday, a porter at the Stoke Prior Station was run over by a train on the Birmingham and Glocester Railway, and so much injured, that his death was occa sioned thereby. Last week, Mr. Cobbold, Broughton Park, Edinburgh, received from a friend in Colchester, through the post office, a couple of live snakes, being the second time such a fare has been conveyed through this medium. The small steamer lately placed on Loch Katrine, for the accomodation of tourists, was scuttled and sunk, a few nights ago, by the boatmen, with whose profits it interfered. Between the 21st and 27th ult. there entered France from England—at Boulogne, 1314 travellers and 5 car riages ; and at Calais, 634 travellers, 2 horses, and 10 carriages. Sir C. Nightingale, Bart., who died suddenly the other day, has left the whole of his property to his medical attendant, Dr. Greville, to the exclusion of his own family. On Friday week the wheels of the mail coach which runs between Andover and Southampton, took fire in conse quence of not being properly greased before starting. The coachman refused to continue the journey. THE OPERATIVE FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS. After much struggling, the poor framework-knitters have ob tained a government pledge for an inquiry into their alleged grievances.—Dublin Mercury. At a petty sessions, held at Morpeth, a few days ago, there were no less than forty shopkeepers, innkeepers, and others, summoned and fined for having in their pos session imperfect weights, measures, and balances. We understand that Mr. Banks Stanhope, of Revesby. Lincolnshire, gave 200 guineas to Mr. Parkinson of Ley Fields, near Newark, for his bull calf, Cramer, which won the prize at Doncaster on Wednesday. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—We understand that Mr. H. Wallack has become the lessee of Covent-garden Theatre, which will be opened under the new management in the latter end of September.—Morning Chronicle. At a special meeting of the Leeds town council, last week, Mr. John Arthur Ikin, solicitor, was appointed town-clerk and clerk of the council, at a salary of £650 per annum, vice Mr. Edwin Eddison, resigned. A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—At last weeks collection of rents upon the Perth estates, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby granted to all his tenantry, without distinction, an abate ment of 221 per cent. In the county of Cornwall there are 370,000 inhabi tants, 10,000 of whom are miners, and 70,000 teetotallers; and of this large body there were but five prisoners for trial at the last assizes Thus abstinence lessens crime and abates misery. We have to announce that Lord Stuart de Rothsay, the English Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh, is about to be recalled, and his Lordship's place in that capi tal is to be supplied by the Duke of Beaufort.--Cour4 Jonrnal.—[This is denied in a provincial paper.] _ A convict, in Cambridgeshire county gaol, committed suicide on Friday week in his cell, by suspenling himself from a bar above the door• with his braces and stockings. He was under sentence of transportation for fifteen years for an assault upon his wife with intent to murder her.. An insurance was effected at Lloyd's, last week. by Messrs. Cavan, Brothers, on behalf of the colony of De merara, on 24,783 dollars, being the savings during five years of 230 Hill Coolies, who are on their return from Guiana to Calcutta. The Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, which numbers upwards of 1600 members of thelegally-qualified of the medical profession in every locality of the kingdom, held its eleventh anniversary on Wednesday and Thursday last, at Leeds. A SINGING MOUSE.—A mouse has been recently caught that possesses the surprising faculty of imitating the notes of the nightingale and various other birds with perfect ease and fluency. It is in the possession of parties in London. A BAPTIST BISHOP.—A contemporary records that at the annual meeting of the Baptist College, held on Wed nesday, in Westgate Chapel, Bradford, "Mr. Thomson, Bishop of the first Baptist'Church, Hull, read the Scrip tures and prayed !" A public meeting was held in Ulverstone, last week, for the purpose of effecting a reduction in the price of milk. The object has been accomplished, and the farmers have agreed to charge for skim milk, Id. and new milk 2id per quart. Several thrifty wives, on the occasion of a recent bank failure in Leicestershire, wished to " prove" for notes of the broken bank, which they bad hoarded unknown to their husbands ; but the commissioner told them they must send their liege lords. Mr. Escott gave notice in the House of Commons, on Monday last, of his intention to move that it be an in struction to the Committee of the Turnpike Bill to ex empt from the payment of toll all vehicles conveying ma nure. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, a horse drawing a chaise in Southwark started off at full gallop and jumped on an iron post at the corner of a street with such force as to rip its stomach completely open. The animal died in a few minutes. The troop-ship Alert, belonging to the Admiralty, was wrecked on the 4th ult. off County Harbour, near Goose Island, about 80 miles from Halifax, whilst ou a voyage from that port to England. She had 25 seamen, along with 200 soldiers and 95 women and children, all of whom were saved. The total loss is said to exceed £20,000. The Standard, alluding to the fact of the Anti-corn law League having been in habit of ordering thousands of copies of their favourite newspapers, says, " this is the way in which some of the Liberal journals have contrived for some time past to increase their circulation : the fact, however, has been long known in London. PROSPECTS OF THE HARVEST.—" One who has whis tled at the Plough," says, in an article in the Morning Chronicle, of Thursday last, that judging from the ap. pearance of the crops, as seen from the line of railway from London to Liverpool, there is a prospect of penny loaves being bigger than ever. A man of the name of Henry Hendery, and a young woman named Hannah Sancto, threw themselves into the river Medway ' near Rochester, the week before last. It appeared at the inquest dull the parties were to have been married, but that some obstacle was raised. They were found clasped in each others arms. The carpet trade of Kidderminster is now, and has been for some months past, in a most excellent state. There is scarcely a loom unemployed, and the men are now pressed by their masters for work, instead of, as at this time last year, when the masters were pressed by their men to give them work. DEATH ON DARTMOOR.—Last Tuesday week, a far mer's boy went to look for some cattle on Dartmoor ; he was overtaken with sudden rain and tempest, and the mist was so thick that he could not find his way home. It was not until Saturday last that he was found, and then he was quite dead.— West of England Conservative. It is said that the head of an eminent fancy goods' firm in the city, recently exchequered for participation in the custom house frauds, has absconded, after many futile attempts to obtain a compromise from the government, and for which he is said to have offered a very considerable sum.—Globe. EDUCATION.—A committee of the Wesleyan Metho dists' conference has been appointed to report upon the means of diffusing " sound Scriptural and useful " know ledge by the establishment of additional week-day schools. The Rev. R. Newstead, J. Dixon, C. Prest, and J. New ton, with Mr. T. Farmer, are among the members of the committee. The number of children at present educated at the day schools of the Wesleyan body is 20,804; at the Sunday schools, 401,383; at an expense for the whole of £24,167 7s. 2d. FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.—At midnight, on Satur day week, the Concord of Teignmouth, bound from Newport (Wales) to that place, was run down of Padstow, in a storm of hail and rain, by the John Esdaile, 660 tons burthen, from Quebec, bound to Bristol. Captain Reeves of the Concord, and a seamen were below asleep at the time, and both perished ; the remainder of the crew, five in number, saved themselves by getting on board the John Esdaile. A SIGNIFICANT SIGN.—The present workhouse in Sheffield, formerly an extensive cotton mill, is to be con siderably enlarged ; the estimated expense is £lO,OOO, which will be advanced by the treasury in Exchequer Bills at 4 per cent. The loan is to be repaid by annual instalments. The body of a gamekeeper, in the employ of George Wilbraham, Esq., of Delamere House, Cheshire, was found in a lonely road near Chester, on Friday week, in such a mutilated condition as to leave no doubt that he had been murdered. The name of the unfortunate man was Matthias Bailey, and he has left a wife and four chil dren. At Durham assizes Thomas Lawson was indicted for the murder of his brother William Lawson ; it appeared they had quarrelled about some money matters, and the prisoner struck deceased three or four times on the back of the head with a stone, from which he died. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and Mr. Jus tice Wightman sentenced him to transportation for life. An unfortunate child, at Colmar, staked himself on a hay-hook, and died on Wednesday. For two days he re mained in a complete state of somnolency, till he made one sudden turn, uttered one cry, and expired. On the autopsy being made, it was found that the instrument had entered his body to the length of ten inches, and that it would have been impossbile to extract it without causing his instant death. An influx of water, involving the destruction of pro perty to the value of fifty thousand pounds, and the total deprivation of employment to several hundreds of work people, took place on Tuesday evening, at the colliery of Mr. J. Fitzgerald, situate in the township of Pendleton, near Manchester, which supplied nearly 1,000 tons of coal a day to the Manchester market. WINDOW DUTY.—The following is a parliamentary return of the duty on windows, for the year 1841, asses sed for the twelve towns in England paying the largest amount ; Bath 21,898, Birmingham 11,093, Brighton 15,216, Bristol 15,056, Cheltenham 6,755, Clifton 7,850, Leeds 7,514, Liverpool 30,790, Manchester 19,157, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 5,710, Norwich 7,141, Plymouth 11,391. On Tuesday evening, Mr. C. Green made his 286th ascent in his Albion Balloon, from the gardens attached to Cremorne House, King's-road, Chelsea, accompanied by Captain Currie, this being his 41st ascent. The greatest elevation attained was about 7,500 feet. The landing was accomplished about seven miles from Chelms ford, the distance gone over being about 37 miles. HERRING TRADE.—The herring fishing is going on prosperously in all quarters of the west coast, but more especially in the sound of Kilbrannan, near Campbletown. The fish are of a superior quality, are extremely moderate in price, they are purchased by the curers at 2s. 6d. per long hundred. The price per barrel at the Glasgow mar ket is from £2 to £2. 55., but it is expected that the price will soon be considerably lower.—Ayr Observer. Dennis John Blake, the late landing-waiter, who was so deeply implicated in the late Custom-house frauds, and whose name has been repeatedly mentioned in the legal proceedings adopted by the Commissioners of Customs against Messrs. Candy and Dean, and other parties, was attached in London the other day, and is detained by the crown for £B,OOO, the amount of which he defrauded the government. He has a fine estate near Dublin. WINDSOR BRIDGE TOLI.S.—The tolls of this bridge, which cost nearly £20,000 in its erection, dividing the two towns of Windsor and Eton, were let for several years previously to 1841 at £BOO and £9OO a-year. In that year they were, for the first time, put up by auction, when the former lessee gave £l,lOO for them ; and last year the sum obtained by the trustees of the bridge was £1,500. On Friday they were again let by public competition, when they were knocked down for £1,400. A subscription is raising in London for the orphan family of the late Mr. Elton, who was lost in the fatal wreck of the Pegasus. Amongst the donors we observe the Queen, £25 ; Miss Bourdett Coutts, £ lO ; Mr. Mac ready, £2l ; Proprietors of Punch, £lO ; and Mr. Charles Kean, £lO. A benefit is shortly to take place at Drury Lane Theatre for the same object. It is said that the expenses of Van Amburgh's exhi bition are upwards of £3OO a day. His tour in the North has been very profitable, and he is reported to have netted the following sums :—At Alnwick, £370 ; Belford, £150; Kelso, £300; Coldstream, £200; Dunse, £150; and at Berwick, £250; whilst at Blyth, Morpeth, Wooler, and other minor places, his receipts were very satisfactory. STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES, AUG. 2.—This evening four colliers were killed at the Bapilan Deep Ash Pit by what seems to be an act of great and criminal carelessness. They were being lowered into the pit and they had nearly reached the bottom, the action of the sawney (small en gine) instantaneously reversed, by which they were drawn up again with such frightful velocity, that they were pro pelled a height of 40 yards into the air. MAMMOTH ENGINE.—On Thursday week the enor mous cylinder of 144 inches in diameter for the great engine designed to drain the Haarlem Lake, was cast at the foundry of Messrs. Harvey and Co., at Hayle, Corn wall. It is Ly far the largest cylinder ever cast entire for any purpose. The operation was completely successful. More than twenty five tons of iron were melted for the occasion ! EXTRAORDINABY GROWTH OF MUSHROOMS. - Of the morning of Friday week, Mr. Taylor, of Golcar, went out early.to search fot mushrooms, and to one field in particular, but could not see the least vestige of one. On the same evening he repaired to the field again, where to his surprise he gathered two, each of which measured 21 inches in circumference, and must have sprung up and attained that size in less than 12 hours. A very destructive fire occurred at Abington, in Cam bridgeshire, on Thursday last, by which the fine buildings of the very extensive farm of Thomas Mortlock, Esq., were entirely consumed. One part of the premises con sisted of a large barn, 380 feet in length, which along with 140,quarters of wheat, threshed and dressed, was destroyed. The amount of damage is £2,000 but the property was insured in the' un office. On Tuesday, whilst Mr. O'Connor was addressing a chartist meeting at Frome, about fourteen miles from Bath, in the loft of a large warehouse, the floor suddenly gave way and the whole assembly was precipitated to the floor beneath. One young woman had her leg broken, and Mr. O'Conner had his left leg ane hip inlured ; his coat was torn from his back, his trowsers were reduced to shreds, and the sole of his hoot was actually split in two. No life was lost. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—In May, 1838, the society was formed with about 250 members. In Decem ber 1838, they had increased to 600, and its income to £1,128. The following data indicate its progress since then :—Dec. 1839, members 2,oo7—income, £2,226.; Dec. 1840, members 4,262—income, £3,598 ' • Dec. 1841, members s,2B2—income, £4,794; Dec. 1842, members 6,soo—income for last halfyear only, £,450. The meet ing for 1844 is to be held at Southampton. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—At the Marylebone police office, London, last week, a long inquiry was gone into before the sitting magistrate relative to a charge of attempting to extort money from a highly respectable gentleman, by bringing forward the most indecent charges against his dsughters , which be threatened, unless renu merated, to make public in court of justice in certain pro ceedings which he asserted he was instituting against the keeper of a brothel. ALLEGED MURDER.—On Saturday afternoon, an in vestigation, which lasted several hours, was gone into at Spitalfields, London, before Mr. Baker and a respectable jury, touching tha death of Eliza Slater, aged 18 years, who, it was alleged, had come by her death in consequence of the brutal treatment she had received from a man named Facey, with whom she cohabited. The coroner said that prima facie the evidence amounted to wilful murder, but he should adjourn the case for a post mortem examination. The man had absconded since the morning of her death, and has not since been heard of. "THE LEAGUE."—We understand that one means adopted by the league of furthering the anti-corn• law agi tation is this. They offer to the " liberal " journalists of the district a report prepared by their own reporters, agreeing, at the same time, to purchase 1000 copies of his paper, of which number 500 are sent to the league, and 500 are left for distribution with the printer. If this statement be true—as we believe it to be—it throws con siderable light on the vaunted " success "—such as it is— which has attended Mr. Cobden's proceedings.—Cam bridge Chronicle. THE MINING DISTRICTS.—The state of the mining districts does not improve. While works are successively thrown out of employment in South Staffnrdshire poor rates increase enormously : one colliery is mentioned on which the rate is £4OO ; on a single pit it is £25 ! There is an extensive miners association, which was originally established at Wakefield ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne is now its head quarters ; and it is said to number between thirty and forty thousand enrolled members, and to extend to extend to Scotland and Ireland. A general strike for wa ges is contemplated. The Socinians have induced Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham to introduce a bill into parliament for the purpose of quieting their possession to those extensive trust estates, of which they have so long held unrighteous possession. The consequences of the solemn affirmation by the House of Lords, assisted by the judges, of the Lord Chancellor's decision in Lady Hewley's case are in tended to be neutralised by this monstrous enactment—an enactment so monstrous, that we marvel that either Sir James Graham or Sir Robert Peel could have listened to it for a moment. ESCAFE OF TWO PRISONERS.—Wm. Osborn, charged with shooting at his wife with a pistol, with intent to murder her, and Richard Petchell, charged with swindling a farmer named Budds, of Little Clacton, in Essex, of a valuable mare, at Colchester fair, on the sth ult., effected their escape last week from the prison in Colchester. The prisoners contrived to steal a chisel, with which they cut away the window sills of the apartment where they were confined, so that they removed the iron bars and let themselves down into the new market-place by their bed clothes, leaving their hats and boots behind. LARGE SEIZURES.—It having come to the knowledge of the Commissioners of Excise that large quantities of grain, purported to be high-dried malt, but which was in fact. but " scorched barley" (having never been sub jected to the malting process,) were to he found upon the market, they issued instructions to several officers to in vestigate the subject. The result was, that several large tnalsters and corn-dealers had extensive stocks of grain of this description which was seized by the officers, and amounts to between 400 and 500 quarters. A consider able portion of it was brought from the neighbourhood of Croydon, where this illegal article had been dirr3sed of for some time. The effect of the sale of this article was to produce beer from it havng the appearance of real stout, without its strength or virtues, and to defraud the Crown. The whole has been condemned nol in the course of the week it will be thrown into the sea. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN LONDON.—Within twenty four hours (from six on Saturday morning to six on Sunday morning) four of the most destructive fires that have for a long time occurred in the metropolis took place ;—the first in Fore-street, Limehouse, destroying property to the amount of £4OOO ; the second at Green bank, Wapping, which entails a loss of £12,000; a third in New-street, causing a loss of £12,000 ; and a fourth in Great George-street, Westminster, destroying property amounting to £BOOO. THE FIRST DAY OF OYSTERS.—On Friday, at six o'clock, the sale of oysters fur the season commenced at Billingsgate, which was crowded with vendors of shell fish, and, when the hatches were opened, there was a tremendous rush to obtain the first supply. The supply was below the average, and the demand was not so brisk as usual. The inferior oysters, which had not been laid on the beds to fatten, produced from Bs. to 10s. per bushel ; the " Commons, an oyster generally vended by the retail dealers at the stalls, 14s. per bushel • the pearls, £1 125.; the Kelly's, 16s. ; and Scotch, £1 10s. LORD STANHOPE TAKING THE PLEDGE.—At one of the London meetings, held by Father Mathew, for the purpose of administering the teetotal pledge, a semi circle was formed, and 300 men and women knelt and received it. Amongst the number was Earl Stanhope, who la boured under considerable agitation, and was directly afterwards embraced by Father Mathew, who, in the en thusiasm of the moment, ,kissed his cheek. The noble Earl smiled, and grasped Father Mathew's hands, ex claiming, " God bless you, Sir." The delivery of speeches and the administering of the pledge was proceeded with until dnsk, when Father Mathew left the ground. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Frederick Ancona, a draughtsman in the office of the Patent Elastic Pavement Company, London, attended the meeting of scientific per sons at the w rks near Waterloo-bridge, on Thursday af ternoon, and on returning, in company with two gentle men, he observed, " I will bet you a shilling that I will walk along the parapet wall," and immediately jumped np in the recess of the bridge, and in getting on the wall it is imagined he was seized with vertigo. He fell over and was never seen after. So sudden was it, that his friends had not moment to prevent this perilous attempt. Loss OF THE PEGASUS.—The following is a statement of the number of passengers and crew of the Pegasus, according to the latest estimate in the best informed quar ters : Cabin passengers ....... . Steerage Crew, including fireman Total . Saved . Drowned . .• • • :• The National Society appears to have abondoned its intention of holding a public Meeting on occasion of the defeat of the Factories Education Bill. A list of contri butions is being privately circulated, which already gives a total of £32,082. Her Majesty subscribes £l,OOO. The Queen-Dowager and Prince Albert £5OO each. The Dukes of Northumberland and Portland, and Sir Robert Peel, £lOOO each. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the Chapter of Durham, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Francis Egerton, the Hon. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Abel Smith, and Mr. Holford, £5OO each. There are also two contributors of £3OO each; nine, of £250 each; twenty eight, of £2OO each ; and 115, of £lOO each. EXTRAORDINARY DISSIPATION.-At the Exeter As sizes, on the Ist inst., an action was brought by a gentle man at Exeter, named Strong, against a solicitor in Tiver ton, to recover between £5O and £6O for money lent. It appeared that in January, 1842, the two started for Ply mouth, and though they remained there but one day and two nights spent £ll2. They had teams of four horses cn the road, and plenty of champagne at breakfast, lun cheon, dinner, and supper, and tea to qualify the wine. The bill at the hotel was £2B, and they were driven about in flies all day. Twelve pounds were paid for the horses; and there was a breakfast for seven people, which cost £7. The action was brought to recover one-half of these expenses, the plaintiff having found originally the whole amount, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £56. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—The public and private services at the Wesleyan Conference, held at Sheffield, have been well attended during the week. An influential committee has been appointed to consider the affairs and prospects of Wesleyan Methodism in Scotland. The list of candidates for the ministry is very conriderable ; and the friends of missions will rejoice to hear that fourteen of these have been raised up on the Foreign stations. In several districts, the Conference regret to find a defalca tion in the New Auxiliary Fund. In an interesting con versation, it was stated, that the conduct of the Wesley ans, during the disturbances of last summer and autumn, was, without a known exception, loyal and peaceful. To the question—What preachers have died since the last Conference, the names were called over, when it appeared that thirteen have died in Great Britain, three in Ireland, and eight upon Foreign missionary stations. CAUTION TO EMIGRAN TS.—A short time ago a lad named Moffat, who was anxious to emigrate to America, made application at the office of the emigration agent in this town, and paid four guineas as the amount of his pas sage money to New York. He was, in return for the money, furnished with a ticket, purporting to be an au thority for securing him a berth in the ship Elizabeth Stewart, which was to sail in one or two days from Li verpool to New York. Armed with the document. the lad proceeded to Liverpool; but on his arrival there, found it was of no value whatever—the paper was repu diated, and the poor fellow found, when too late that he had been cheated out of his four guineas—his all, as it would appear, for he was indebted to the captain of one of the Liverpool steamers for a free passage back to Glas gow. The Government emigration agent in Liverpool wrote to Glasgow on the subject, and the man who com mitted the fraud is now in custody.— Glasgow Paper. HORRIBLE STORY.—One of the most dreadful and cruel means ever heard of to destroy the life of a child, and get the body eaten up by pigs, Las just come under the notice of the parish authorities of Bermondsey. It appears that on Monday night a woman was observed to go into one of the secluded meadows in the Grange-road. It was discovered next morning that she had left a child about eight weeks old on the grass, and in the meadow there were about 30 or 40 ravenous hogs turned out. How it is they did not scent the body of the poor child is astonishing, for if they had death must have been the almost instantaneous result. The child, when found in the morning, was in a dreadfully emaciated state, ap parently from the want of the ordinary nourishment of an infant, and is expected to die. The parish officers have offered a large reward for the apprehension of the woman, as there is no doubt, if the child dies, it will be a case of wilful murder. REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—On Monday afternoon, as one of the trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was returning to Glasgow, a boy, the son of a gentleman connected with this city, who had been leaning on the door of one of the carriages, fell out—the door flying open —and was precipitated over a steep embankment, about two miles beyond Linlithgow, into a hayfield below, where a number of haymakers were at work. Of course, no one in the train who witnessed the accident had any other idea but the boy was killed on the spot. Judge of their sur prise, however, on stopping at Linlithgow, and the grati fication of the parent,—who could scarcely be prevented from leaping out of the carriage,—to be informed that his son was in the hands of the haymakers, altogether unin jured, with the exception of a scratch on the face, caused by rolling down the embankment. We believe that no blame is attributable to any of the guards, as the door had been left unfastened by a lady who had gone out at some of the stations on this side of Ediuburgh.—Glasyow Chronicle. The Durham Advertiser of Friday last states that it is "convinced against its will" that the late radical victory in that city is to be ascribed to the unwarrantable inter ference of the Marquis of Londonderry. It concludes a long article on the subject as follows. " Though 45 electors of the Marquis of Londonderry have on this oc casion voted for a Chartist, it was not from their own wishes, but upon compulsion. Several were willingito go to the poll even at the eleventh hour, :in favour of Mr. Purvis, but as their votes could not then turn the scale, the agents of the learned gentleman would not endanger the loss of their employment, merely for the purpose of diminishing Bright's majority. Many of those in the in fluence of Lord Londonderry.refused peremptorily to vote for Bright, and were left unpolled. One hundred and sixty one voters remained unpolled, either through threats or blandishments, and had the election remained free— had there been no bribery on the one side or intimidation on the other, Mr. Purvis would have been returned by a large majority." PREMATURE INTERMENTS.—We have more than onee called the attention of our readers to the hurried manner in which interments are gone about in the north, amongst the poorer and middle classes especially. The following case which occurred a few days ago, in the church yard of Wick, shows pretty clearly that an interment of this kind had taken place, and that, too, while the person was alive. On the grave-digger removing part of the lid of a coffin, whilst digging a grave, he was struck with the strange manner in which the bones and skull were placed, and calling another person to look at it, they removed gently the whole top of the coffin, the arm-bones stretched up over the head, and the latter turned on its side near the thigh-bones. The chips and shavings, too, which are usually placed under or about the head, appeared to be all pushed dow❑ towards the legs. From inquiry, it was ascertained to be the remains of a man who was buried about twenty years ago, and said to have died of a faint ing fit, and from the attendant circumstances, no doubt is left in our mind that:he was interred while in a state of syncope.—John o' Groat Journal. THE SALMONID2E.—Every fact that tends to elucidate the obscurity in which the natural history of the salmon is involved will be read with interest, and therefore we have great pleasure in announcing to our readers that the extensive experiments made by the lessees of the lower fisheries of the .den have been so far successful that a gilse weighing about 51b. was caught at the Stainton fish ery on Thursday morning which had been marked when a fry in 1842. The back tin was taken off, but as that was a common expedient in other rivers a small portion of the caudal fin was also cut off. In the specimen taken the back fin is gone, but nature has evidently made an effort to supply the portion of the tail which was cut away. A new growth has taken place, but the mark is plain where the granulc.tion commenced, and the side of the fin that had been injured is less perfect in shape than the other. This is conclusive of the fact, that the salmon tribe visit their native rivers, but it is singular that out of nearly 5,009 that were marked so very few have been retaken. Dining the present week the take of fish in the Solway am' its tributaries has been enormous, and for the last two days splendid salmon have been selling at the rate of 4d. per pound, and even at that price dealers appear to have a great difficulty in getting rid of their supply.—Car lisle Patriot. "THE GREAT BRITAIN" STEAM SHIP. We recently, in our account of the " floating " of this magnificent ship gave some particulars of her di mensions, &c., and as she has become an object of considerable interest in this port—the probability being that her destination eventually, if not a priori, will be to run hetwecu it and New York—we now furnish some additional statistics. _ _ _ The bottom (under water when loaded) is clencher built and double rivetted in the longitudinal laps, and singly, but sufficiently strongly, in the buts of the plates— the joints being flush (to maintain the smoothness of the streaks), with a jointing fillet. The keel plates are from inch thick in the middle to 1 inch at the ends ; and all the plates under water are from ath to 2 inch at the top, except the higher plate, or streak, which is Wis. To wards the extremities, and quite aloft, the thickness is reduced gradually to 7-16ths. She has no projecting keel, as wooden ships have, under the main or middle portion of the hull, the first lengths of plates on either side being rivetted on the upper edges of the keel plates. Towards the extremities, however, she has ample depth of keel, and is withal so fine and sharp, - that she will, no doubt, be found to have sufficient hob; of the water for all ractical purposes, particularly as the edges of the plats, or laps, will, as in a clencher-built boat, greatly coduce to this purpose. The ribs are of angle iron, 6 inches by 3i. They are about 14 inches apart in the middle, and gradually increase in distance to 18 and 21 inches at the extremities, by inch thick at the bottom of the vessel, and 7-16ths at the top. In the part forming the engine-room, for the purpose of giving additional strength, 9 additional ribs are introduced, and 16 ad ditional reverse ribs rivetted to the original framing, renderng them double, or backed. The boiler platform is of plate iron, resting on ten iron kelsons formed of iron plates placed on edge. The centre kelsons are 3 feet 3 inches deep. The hull is divided into five compartments by substantial water-tight bulkheads — a plan first introduced, and still continued, by our towns man, Mr. J. Laird, iron shipbuilder. The decks, of which there are four, consist of the upper deck, two cabin decks, and a cargo deck. The first, only, runs the full length of the ship, 308 feet ; the others being of course cut off in the middle by the intervention of the engine and boiler rooms. The second deck consists of two promenade saloons, of which the after or first class one is 1104 feet by 22 feet, and the forward or second class one 67 feet by 21 feet 9 inches. There are sleeping rooms on each side ;—these are well lighted and ventilated. On the third deck are the dining saloons. The grand saloon aft is 98i feet in length by 30, and the second class one forward 61 feet by 21 feet 9 inches. They are both feet 3 inches in height, and there are sleeping rooms along the sides of each, of which there are 26 with one bed, and 113 with two beds—making 252 berths. The fourth deck is for cargo. The beams for the support of the several decks are of 3 inch angle iron, with a joint bar of 5 inches by inch, rivetted on the side. They are about 21 feet apart. The deck planks are fastened to the angle iron by screws from below, and firmly secured to the vertical ribs. To prevent the hull from springing hori zontally there are diagonal tension bars between the angle iron bars and the deck planks. The engines were constructed under the superinten dence of Mr. Brunel, and are stupendous pieces of mechanism. The main wrought-iron shaft (from the Mersey Iron Works), the largest ever yet made, weighs about 18 tons. The diameter of the screw will be 16 feet, and the shaft will be turned by a chain belt passing round two drums, by which the speed of the first motion will be nearly quadrupled. Of the screw, Mr. Hall, the cele brated engineer, in an able article on the vessel, published in the Mechanics' Magazine, remarks : " Taking all circumstances into consideration, it does appear that if by the use of an equal weight of fuel the " duty " performance of the screw be nearly equal to that of the paddle-wheel, and that the whole of the machinery be so constructed as to be lasting, and not unpleasant to passengers, it has the merit of being free from some serious inconveniences of the paddle-wheel, such as great topheaviness, opposition of the paddle-boxes to the wind, &c., and possesses these advantages besides, namely, that strength in the upper part of the ship is not required to support machinery, and that the deck is clear—a great comfort to passengers, and of great convenience in manage ment of sails and working the ship." The principal promenade saloon is lighted by ten sky lights, and a deck or dome light. The walls are painted in delicate tints, and along the sides are oaken chairs. A row of pillars, supporting the deck, runs down the middle. Besides the state rooms on each side, there are, adjoining those to be devoted to the ladies, two neat private cabins, or boudoirs, for their use. The dining saloon below is a fine and very large apartment, elegantly, but not gaudily, fitted up. There are twelve columns of white and gold running down the centre, with ornamental capitals richly carved in the Arabesque style. Twelve similar columns range on each side, some distance from the walls. The walls are ornamented by pilasters and panels, beauti fully painted like enamel, with oriental birds, flowers, &c. On either side are seven doors, opening into as many passages, each of which communicates with four sleeping rooms. There will be three rows of dining tables, capable of accommodating 360 persons. The Great Britain will be rigged with iron wire shrouds, stays, &c. which is remarked upon by the Bristol journals as if were a novelty. It has been in use in many of the large steam-ships of this port—the Liverpool, the Ori ental, &c., for some years, and is found to meet every expectation, requiring less displacement, with greater strength, and so maintaining its tension, that when once well set up, it stands for years. The mainmast is 74 feet above the deck and 34 inches in diameter. The main tdpmast is 55 feet high. The funnel is 24 feet in circum ference and 39 feet high. The boiler (in three divisions) is 34 long by 22 feet high. The cost of the Great Britain was last year estimated at £79,116; but it is probable that before she is com pleted for sea, in every point, (which will be some months to come,) it will be about £lOO,OOO. It is expected by several scientific gentlemen connected with her, that her rate of going, by means of the screw, (which has already been successfully applied to many vessels,) will be from 14 to 15 knots an hour. All her masts, with the exception of the mainmast, (the second from the how,) are made with joints on deck, similar to those of our river flats, so that they may be lowered down during head winds or in storms. As a whole, the Great Britain is certainly a very noble ship, and in every respect an ho nour to the good people of Bristol. FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASTYRES.—Under this title the Mercury of Friday week has the following paragraph " On Friday last, a great number of tradesmen, including bakers, grocers, publicans, and others, were fi n ed i n h eavy penalties, at the Mansion-house, Loudon, for using defec tive and fraudulent weights and measures. It must be highly gratifying to the inhabitants of Liverpool to know, that there is no such thing as a . false weight or detective measure amongst them. We take take it for granted that they enjoy this exemption because, wtili a regularly-ap pointed staff of inspectors and assistant inspectors, such a thing as an information is seldom or never heard of." We wish it were in our power to subscribe to the opinions expressed by our cotemporary, (in the passages marked in italics,) who considers himself " the best local as well as political instructor" in the town; but in this instance he exhibits a woeful lack of information, and jumps at a gratuitous conclusion, unhappily unfounded on facts, with the greatest self-complacency imaginable. We are not quite so immaculate in " the good old town" as he assumes in his sapient imaginings. How stands the case? Why, no later than the Ist of June last, no fewer than twenty-eight persons—including market-people, shop keepers, coal, provision, and potatoe dealers, &c., were brought before his Worship the Mayor, at the Sessions House, for having defective or false weights, or measures, or scales, and for other practices by which their customers were defrauded. Most of the delinquents belonged to the market, and only two of them were acquitted, the whole of the others being fined in various sums of is., 2s. 6d., 55., 9s. 6d., 205., and £5 ! These were proceeded against by one inspector only ; and we can add, for the informa tion of our cotemporary, (though the task is necessarily a painful one) that one tenth part of those who resort to such practises are, from circumstances, placed beyond the reach of detection. It is a notorious fact that the poor in particular, and small housekeepers in general, who have to purchase in small quantities. in the markets (often when they are crowded) and in small shops and coal yards in their own localities, have continual cause to complain. The butchers' meat, soap, sugar, &c., are oftener defective in weight than otherwise ; and coals and potatoes by retail are, if possible worse. Few persons :have weights and scales to detect the fraud ; but that it exists no onefwho looks into " the annals of the poor " can deny, and our contemporary may readily satisfy himself of the truth of this assertion. The rich do not feel the injustice done to them so much, and rarely put their purchases to the test, but they, too, are often wronged. We by no means deny that they ate not many exceptions amongst shopkeepers and others,—many who are just and true in all their deal ings. These also are sufferers, for low prices are submit ted to by their dishonest competitors in the trade, who make up for the difference by short weight. In the public markets, particularly on Saturday nights, the practice is common, and many are obliged to submit for want of time and opportunity to bring the offenders to justice com plaint, too, is often only met by abuse. Besides have we not recently had numbers brought before the magis trate for blowing calves' heads, stuffinc , lean legs of lamb with mutton suet, &c. ; and is not chiccory mixed with coffee and sold at the high price of the latter ? A more strict surveillance is certainly called for, though we are not prepared to point out an effective plan, so nians are the modes of evasion. But let us hear no more of the people of Liverpool gratifying themselves that they are not exposed to be cheated as are the Londoners. Like our contemporary in his politics, too many of our dealers if put in the balance would be found to be wanting. REGISTERED PLACES OF WORSHIP FOR CELEBRA TION OF MARRIAGES.—By a recent parliamentary return, we find that the number of places of worship in England registered for the celebration of marriage, up to the 30th June, 1842, was 1,992 ; of which 117 in Lancashire, 171 in Yorkshire, and 115 in Aliddlesex. In Cheshire there were 38 places registered. The 187 in this county are thus classified according to their religious denomination : Presbyterians : 3 church of Scotland ; 3 united secession church ; 13 English presbyterians and unitarians ; 11 pres byterians, not otherwise defined. Independents: 52 inde pendents or congregationalists. Baptists: 7 particular or Calvinistic new connection, defined. ; 1 Methodists 3 ; general Am r primitive, i o u a ; n a l i association, (Arminian)lci h a a t .i. p o t i n s , t s n 4 Wesleyan,; o i n t other wisedeindepen- dent n _ dent methodists, 1. Calvinistic methodists: English and Welsh, 0 ; Lady Huntingdon's connection, 3. Runzan, catholics: 63. Foreign churches: 0; Miscellaneous. New Jerusalem or Swedenborgian, 5 ; Christian Israelites, 1 ; evangelical friends, 1 ; and scribed or belonging to no specific denomination, s.—ln England and Wales, the places classed as presbyterian are 178; independent, 798; baptist, 461 ; methodists (Armenian), 135 ; do. (Calvinis tic), 42; Roman catholics, 263 ; foreign churches, 4; and miscellaneous, 41.