The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-30 00:00:00

%ay 30, 1848. Etteraturr. POETRY. 0mm , ... on wi ll G• C' is elec. he con' 's 20; !ontena• auth7 i s 53.4 iorpetb ea(' of ery 31i" Dr a se s nan bas a sa tis. ,ve I°l3f ed cor t wing h arul ,mbettaks4 Ist thQ awn, (mitt ° 1 wo uld to the ding to es were to is lur havi% fficiottS politid ;punis h to of T e ction ved h$ Would Jule"' ?oreig° erii °l" "OUR GOOD OLD - ENGLISH PRINCIPLES." tr good old English Principletl've heard my father say, A. c le shap'd the country's destinies in many a stormy day. thus it was he answer'd, when I asked him what they were, ii ßo look into your Bible boy, you'll find them written there." Ar r, let a man sit calmly' down, his Bible on his knee, tell Inc what a country's creed, a country's code should be, What ttrhoitsh, Our should teach, or that forbid—and here I pledge my good n old English principles shall comprehend them both. rirst_t gland's King, is bound to swear he will maintain the Of _ocause tri d and true religion as the basis of his laws .I,._at . with the h um b lest workin man that toils within the land W!! mete out equ a l justice with a free unsparing hand. :pule, all the king can look for from his subjects, is, that they Now if as he rules righteously, like liegemen shall obey, Vavr, if the King is faithful to his Coronation Oath, gay that these are principles, that must be right, for both. next there's the Church of England, where, ev'ry Sabbath day, We poorest man in England is free to kneel and pray; Yet h ave e'sraxr. salv es Bible read aloud, his Maker's praises sung, have ion preached to him—in his native tongue. man in. England to 'worship God is free Th ou hilio conscience urges him—however that may be. Yet l oth, nigh arid low to act on them too oft, alas ! are Nexthere, again, are principles that must be right for both. T o 1, 1 the Laws of England, a man is free to do, i i _Veak, to write, to print, whate'er is honest, just, and true. -,i,.ncslltoose is occupation, may have, and hold, his own AT, e the proud est nobleman—aye, more, against the Throne, Is , 1 a all that's ask'd in turn of him, all that the law can claim, t he leaves another man as free to do the same. The wealth and honours like the rain, but on the few may fall. `,l Principles that leads ' to them, exist alike for all. For w. Th os . ; WrOnlfa man may do, for ev'ry evil deed, 'aws a ro rli have fram'd some punishment, or some redress _ ..de?reed; T hose p at may befal a man, age, sickness, or distress,. beneartivs do all that I aws can do, to make the suirrin,„ f- t hem we have fiourish'd, and have fill'd the world with It t ' a me, B ut, rue that other nations have, without them done the same; While w e ha ve , the world has seen those nations oyerth Xing "e stood triumphant, through our principles alone.' beclare s lZ°,n, the wisest man that on this earth e'er trod, _s Engi ond 'i " all is vanity !" except the fear of G od, r . own ,„'et her h " !o yes the welfare of her people, of her U wnen fa r c l d fast the maxim which King Solomon lays down. Ifie n net ;letch'd fine-spun theories, when diplomatic skill, when r i - Y Party politics, have wrought sufficient , Sho p Most vile expediency shall to the winds be driv n, Know the worth of pciples. which have their source in Heav,, VARIETIES. ,Among the many properties of human nature, which ii itiost exceed comprehension, come the parsimony of the rich and the extravagance or the poor. ....DOGS AND HORSES.—A wit recently said that " the rrench theatres are gone to the dogs, and the English theatres to the horses." Some sound beams formed of the wood of the mul berry tree have b een f oun d i n t h e co i ns o f Ninevah, where t hey are supposed to have been placed at least 7 hundred Years before Christ. ,i,ccording to Jones's Glasgow Directory for 1789, the morning, for Edinburgh started at nine o'clock in the " or any other hour that the first two passen telt might agree on." An Irishman being asked what he came to England for ir L d, " Is't what I came here for, you mean ? Arrah, by 1,"" Powers ! yo u m ay be sure that it was'nt for want, for the Plenty of that at home. A Poor poet having written some doggrel verses to a , e '',. °ll 4 lady, in which he repeats the phrase, " I saw thee she returned to him, for answer, that she would "Le care he never saw her again. It is a singular fact that a native of Morocco, who 5 0°3 1 3 anied Mr. Lancaster to Ireland, found the Irish I,nage perfectly intelligible, and was himself under /vi °Y the people. The same person could converse under- With the Welsh, but not so readily. ioi,Laleornedg SLIGHT DIFFERENCE. — The servant of a Prussian o fficer one day met a crony, who inquired of him how lie :vith his fiery master. " Oh, excellently !" he " we live on very friendly terms ; every morn e we beat eac h o th er ' s coa t s; the only difference is, 4Z it . e s his off to be beaten, and I keep mine on." at ot ijnost insignificant people are the most apt to sneer hop e Xs; They are safe from reprisals, and have no . :egeheli-itn-hi•ering in their own esteem but by lowering their hav e - " u rs• The severest critics are always those who o vosition n . ever attempted, or who have failed in original t a lk V ERsATILE CHARACTER.—A Yankee in the West , Y: the Sawville Gazette, advertises that he will mend mill lecture on phrenology. preach at camp meetings, a t d C Ovrs at the halves, keep . bar, lecture on temperance, he g.O clamming at low tide. He says during his leisure or edit have no objection to weave, rock babies to sleep, ,dit a newspaper. a iIii3GRNLINE DISSENTER.—The Manchester Examiner, „ it eral and dissenting paper, publishes the following e a etc h of a genuine dissenter :—" A genuine dissenter, t eh g,er for his principles, anxious for his cause, has a strong opleUey to become intolerant. He will have everything doubt his own mark. There must be no hesitation—no 4e ti t u_t,—no demurring : tbat's our principles, and if you do cid tiOt vocate these out and out, why you are either unde -0; eti, or weak, or vacillating, or inclined to be a turncoat, s omethin g or other that is equally as bad. There must ~110 admissions—no concessions—no ' give and take' in 114 111 „ Mt. We are absolutely right, and you are abso -. fi wrong —and that's the short and the long of it !" h as 11 a PLANET NEPTUNE.—This newly discovered planet ti a diameter of 43,000 miles, consequently it is about 200 ui es large r th an t h e eart h, an d ma y b e seen w ith a tele se(inPre o f moderate power; the motion is retrograde at pre- E el '' , and its m ean ve l oc ity of 12,000 miles anhour is six " slower than that of the earth, Being on the con ixlB of the knciwn system, and at the distaance of 3,000 p a ',., li ° ll miles from the sun, it can only have the 1-300th ti l , — ,nthe light and heat we receive from that body ; but 'tut. - tieney of light, at least, may, in some mfasure, be . hY moons, two of which have been . discove!ed , that ~e c s , like Saturn, it has a ring, whose diameter is to the planet as three to two, and consequently , 64,500 t he breadth of the ring is unknown. — Recent .d: - "cries in Astronomy," an able article in Frazer's lazi ne for the present month. CH RAILWAYS.—Ihave no hesitation in declaring first their record-class carriages are as comfortable as our c We found ourselves seated on thick cushions, hovered with soft leather, and stuffed either with wool or thh rse hair. No easy chair could be more delectable; ere was padding behind us, above the shoulder, and in b_e,Panel at the window. They are six feet across from mah`to front, and five feet eight inches high, holding out inconvenience five persons on each side ; let a before legs be ever so long, he can stretch them out him in these carriages, the fare by which to Amiens 7 i e l lrtY miles distant) is 2s. 11d. each. Our portmanteau, geheifecgiraietilg a e ts i p t , iit lo, y in - p f ; o t: u c r e. pounds, and two hat cases, were In three stations out of four, ticket di y s we found women officiating as the thepartition They are placed at a glass window in of the secured by wire- wor k waiting room (sane a'attente), well , • for the female clerk's in which a small hole is reserved his ticketand such cbanfigengaeirsh,e ma dyeblieverrecteoivtihnegtrafovrelhleisr piece of money.—Th e Parson P and Pencil. AUS TRALlA.—Mechanics RATE OF REMUNERATION. Fi e : , LABOUR IN SOUTH 4 a o US TßALlA. — Mechanies and art i sans are fully emp l oye d f or 'they have no broken days in summer here, and very ac, if any, i n th e w i n t er ) a t f rom 6s. and Bs. per day, C arding to ability ; but I m a y as well part i cu l ar ise. in repenters, bricklayers, and walling-masons, if employed e t cswn, are paid 425. per we ek ; if in the country, 48 s. eweek, the price for the labou r o n ly o f the wall-work ~.;g at the ra t e of ls. 10d. per yar d f or n i ne -i n ch brick a°llc, and 2s. 10d. per yard for ei g ht een -inch stone-work. ;l awyers get 10s. per 100 feet, superficial, for hard wood, s• per 100 feet for deals or cedar. Blacksmiths' 3 Zges are 365. per week. Tanners and curriers, 30s. to 4 2 3 ' Per week. Boot and shoe-makers earn from 30s. to s • Per week: end tailors from 355. to 425. Machinists, t sed to the making of agricultural implements, get 35 5. 13 ° 45 5. per w ee k ; founders, 30s. ; whitesmiths, 369.; fe thale domestic servants, with good board and lodging in d o e ho use, £l5 to £2O a-year, or ss. to Bs. a-week ; male enTestic servants, £2O to £25 a-year, with good board u l odging in the house ; and labourers, in town, earn fr °2 l l 20 8 . to 255. per week, and in the country they get in 10s. to 12 s . per wee k , b es id es rat i ons , cons i s ti ng o f tea u lbs. flour, 10 lbs. fresh meat, 2 lbs. sugar, and lb. not t o I am bound, however, in truth and justice, Ca" ' 0 include in my general invitation to the inductrious " s e whose only implement of industry is the pen, be bre „we nave too many of that class already. The num - so ee , ° ;_oupernumeraries who compete for office employ sta KeePs the ratio of salaries low, and, in some in bernee,.s, counting house services have a less weekly reniu 131,auon than those of the out-door labourer, even con - 04bullock-drivers frequently earning more than men ~oberal education ; indeed, many men qualified for e !' rdinate commercial or professional pursuits, are .e`friaPelled to engage themselves in pastoral occupations, (144_8 ordinary labourers, for hire. Scholars and quill tejters are the last ingredients in the elementary consti handi,_ a a new country ; men, like yourselves, who can thew spade, carry a hod, use a trowel, hew wood, „water, drive a plough and oxen, and plant and sow, j st.— Simmonds's Colonial Magazine. tall.lvr LlND. — lmagine a simple young woman, neither styl e n or short, but of a safe sort of middle height—plain in fh11 0 ,..7° to rusticity—soberly dressed—subdued,thought testifi'lng, and with an earnestness in the thought that j f es that the mood is habitual ;—such is Jenny Lind. a ve ) .l, l ! judge as the world judges—generally wrong—you d ail "...T set her down as a plain sort of clever shopkeeper's y ou 'l_ n ter• In a crowd of females, if you noted her at all, e yes, perhaps, be arrested by a pair of thoughtful interest seemed to ask, not answer ; gaze with more i r r a st into your thoughts than proffer any of her own. zittellrilretteraoetivcondsof beauties you would wonder what she did foe Innocence and simplicity (though mighty as the of the world) have no worldly attraction. Must educate us up to them. Society with its 111..e_retripous flambeaux lights us away. Place our sweet e rnY in a circle of gaily dressed belles, indeed would she uow, tho 'colour o f th ugh, coswith a corresponding alteration of the eir stom a Like a snowy dove trooping with—crows. " tibieslitY is the triumph of expression; the power which esoulbo.ass to make beauty—to create out of e n Lind's is a di v id e d being ; one part of pi er erthpro raising, the other of heaven. Never was there a hap 100:.:Pteresnsion than that the eyes are the windows of the and Jenny Lind's eyes are the windows through nieh her beautiful mind looks upon the world. Alas, must it retire disappointed and dissatisfied ! An d Yet If b e so barren —so and again does it return, and seem to ask lour _ u —so prosaically mean—so calculatingly hol fui —l ° immoveable to all high purposes, and yet so fret % ": -B , lsti ° gre . at to small incitements and so small to great, up on eyni4c.ti_v_e fear suggests. Such, called to pronounce buce, she must declare to be the case. In fresh springing hope, and reawakening trustful sympathy,. the world is timidly questioned ; and yet the same, not de pressing, but puzzling reply seems to be made. The wish to believe struggles with cold proofs. Lind is really too true for this false scheme of shows, —really too poetic for this wilderness of stubborn facts, over which we trip a dozen times a day. and yet arise again without teaching ourselves caution. "The world is not for her, nor the world's laws " —Hargrave Jennings. erntral It tttlann. The cost of carting a puncheon of rum from St. Katha rine's Dock to one of the London railway stations, ex ceeds the whole freight from London to Rotterdam. A railway parcel was received at Wellington, Somerset shire, containing a covey of partially fledged partridges, hatched by a new process. The accounts from all parts of the country are of the most cheering kind respecting the prospects of the har vest. Amongst the novelties of the season is advertised a pleasure voyage to the Eastern hemisphere, including India, China, Borneo, Australia, and New Zealand. A potter, named Wilson, of Hylton Ferry, near Sun derland, has been committed to prison, charged with the wilful murder of his wife. In Herefordshire there is an abundant prospect of apples and pears. Cider is selling there at threepence per gallon. Capt. Townshead, M. P., has announced to his tenants that he intends no longer to preserve his game, but gives it up entirely to them. A few days since, a man named Fisher, living at Badg worth, near Gloucester, poisoned himself by taking a dose of mercury, which he imagined was Epsom salts. FIRE IN HUNGERFORD MARKET. — On Tuesday, the hay stores 183 feet in length, were totally destroyed with their contents by an accidental fire. No clue has yec been discovered to the murderers of the child Henry Lazarus, in Spitalfields, but it remains involved in great mistery. John Lyng, who accompanied Captain Cook in his last voyage as boatswain's boy, and witnessed his being speared by the lances of the Indians, recently died in Greenwich Hospital, at the advanced age of 97. G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq. was on Monday unanimously elected the first Mayor of the Borough of Wolverhampton. Thomas Walker, Esq., solicitor, was elected the first Town Clerk. A solicitor hauled Moss has brought qui tam actions against 1,400 licensed victuallers in the metropolis, to re cover £lOO from each, for having Derby, and other sweeps in their houses. During the last year grants from the literary fund, amounting altogether to £1230, were made to thirty eight distressed writers, of whom twenty-six were authors, and twelve authoresses. Franconi's celebrated equestrian troupe of performers terminated their engagement at Drury-lane Theatre, London, on Tuesday night, and on Thursday morning embarked for Havre, en route to Paris. Mr. Green, the aeronaut, made his 395th ascent from Colchester, on Wednesday, at 4h. lm. p.m., and landed at Diss at half-past five, travelling the distance of fifty eight miles in one hour and twenty minutes. James Robertson, convicted at Perth Circuit Court of the murder of his illegitimate child, underwent the awful sentence of death, at Forfar, on Friday morning, in presence of about 5000 spectators. At the Central Criminal Court, last week, C. Abbott, aged 54, was convicted of several robberies on the Great Western Railway, and sentenced to fourteen years' trans portation. The first consignment of West Indian pine-apples that has arrived this year, was brought over by the Avon steamer, and it is stated that the crop of fruit will proba bly be good but late. Many of the mills at Bacup are stopped, and no less than 1,700 workmen are parading the streets. On Wed nesday a procession of 1,500, headed by a collecting-cart, passed the Institution-house, where upwards of 400 lbs. of bread, and other articles, were given to them. Several of the railway trains which conveyed from Lon don cockneys desirous of seeing the Derby race at Epsom, transported nearly two thousand persons each; and some notion of the number of these lovers of horse racing may be formed from the fact that the trains left London Bridge every quarter of an hour. A farmer, named Luke Bull, has been committed for trial, charged with the manslaughter ofan imbecile old man, named Barnes, at Chaceley, on the borders of Worcester shire. The deceased had taken a stake out of the farmer's hedge, and for doing this the latter struck him several times severely across the arms, legs, and belly. The Opera is just now anything but successful in London this season. At the Queen's Theatre, the lessee (Mr. Lumley) complains sadly, while at the other house (Covent Garden) they must lose terrific sums. Their expences are at an enormous rate, not less it is understood than £lOOO every night the curtain is drawn. Jenny Lind surpassed all her former efforts, in Lucia di Lammermoor, at her Majesty's Theatre, on Thursday. Since Mrs. Siddons's picture of the distraction of Belvi dera, nothing on the tragic stage has been so terrible and so mournful as Jenny Lind's representation of the mad ness of Lucy Ashton. The Daily News states that it has been informed that, from time to time, a bracelet or other article of jewellery, belonging to Louis Phillippe or his family, is offered for sale to the wealthy members of London fashionable so ciety, in order that more money may thus defray the ex penses of the royal exiles. Samuel Brown, aged 60, who was recently convicted at the Central Criminal Court of making a false statement on the registration of his 'marriage with Esther Field, a young lady of 20, entitled to £l2OO a-year, whom he had induced to elope with him, was on Friday sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. — A youth, the son of Mr. Edward Jowitt, steward of the Earl of Mexboro', and a companion of his, were both greatly injured last week, whilst loading an air gun, with which they were shooting rooks. The gun burst, and broke young Jowitt's arm in two places, and his companion's in one. PIECEMEAL INTERMENT !—The Tweedmouth sexton having been called upon, on Wednesday, the 9th instant, to bury an instalment of a body—a leg which had been amputated—remarked that he had already, that same week, given separate burial to a leg, an arm, and a foot ! What it is to hold a sextonship near a railway ! The Bishop of Durham, who has been paying the Ecde ciastical Commissioners, during the wholeof his episcopate, £11,200 a-year, under the act of 1836, has communicated his intention of paying a further voluntary annual sum of £2,000 for the remainder of his incumbency in the bishopric —leaving the mode of applying the money to the discretion of the commissioners. Among the medical students to whom the London Col lege of Surgeons has lately granted a diploma, is a Hindoo gentleman named Soorjoocomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty, of Calcutta, who is one of the four Hindoos sent by the Bengal Council of Education to study medicine and sur gery at the London University, and who has passed with honours after a very severe examination. On Saturday week, Mr. Henry Field gave a concert at Bath, which was numerously attended. His performances on the piano were warmly received, but in the second part there was a confusion observed in his playing, and it was soon found that he had been taken seriously ill. His attack proved to be congestion of the brain, which carried him off a few days after. An extraordinary excitement exists in Swaffhain and neighbourhood, in consequence of its having been disco vered that a burglary, committed on the premises of Mr. Thomas Spanton, of the Friars Thorn Farm, on the night of the 34th ult., was concocted by the rural police, under the management of superintendent Peglar, of the Castle acre district, Mr. Inspector John Law, and privates Smith and Haylett.—Bury Post. THOMAS DREWERY.—Our readers will rejoice to learn that the wife and children of the innocent convict, Thomas Drewery, are now on board the ship destined to convey them to Australia. They left Hull for London by the Foyle steamer, on Saturday last, and on Monday joined the ship Royal George, which left the London docks on that day, and will sail from Plymouth for Port Adelaide on the 30th instant.—Hull Packet. There has been an extensive land-slip at Culbone, in Somersetshire. About eight acres of Culbone Wood moved a hundred yards towards the sea, sinking several hundred feet ; the trees and shrubs on the land are stand ing, and the whole mass looks like an island on the beach. A road to the church was cut away by the falling land. Many years ago the caverns beneath the wood had been the resort of smugglers. THE IRON TRADE.—The iron trade of South Stafford shire, owing to the present disturbed and unsettled state of the continent, and the failure of many foreign houses to which goods were consigned, is now suffering very consi derably. The make of iron has in consequence been greatly reduced, and it is generally expected that at the next quarterly meeting there will be a fall in price to the extent of 20s. per ton. No reduction among the great houses has yet been submitted to, but that it will occur, unless matters change wonderfully, seems to be pretty generally understood in the iron districts. LORD FITZHARDINGE AND MRS. BARKER. — SaIter, a livery-stable-keeper, brought an action in the West minster County Court against Earl Fitzardinge for £l5. 155., the hire of a horse ridden by Mrs. Barker. The Earl hired the horse for Mrs. Barker, in 1846, and after wards bought it ' • and the question was whether the £ l5 . 15s. was not to have been included in the £65 paid for the horse. The plaintiff's books were produced, and the entry of the hiring was found to be interpolated writing. The Judge thought the item had been squeezed in" long since 1846, and gave judgment for the defendant. ANOTHER WOMAN SHOT BY A SOLDIER. — A soldier, named Relly, aged twenty-two, belonging to the 14th Regiment of Foot, stationed at Monmouth, has shot a young woman who lived with him in concubinage, He was out drinking with her on Thursday night, and was confined for absence from his barracks. The woman sent to him for money, and he returned her half-a-crown, which she expended in treating some other soldiers. On his release he loaded his gun with ball cartridge, called the woman to his room, and deliberately shot her through the body, near the groin. She is said to be mortally wounded. DANGEROUS CLASSES. — The Bishop of St. David's, at the meeting of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, reminded his hearers that, besides the section of society usually called " the dangerous class," there is another class equally dangerous. The dangerous class he had just been speaking of, and which was - better known under that description, consisted of those who, having nothing, desired all the enjoyments of property without any share of the labour by which it is produced. The other dangerous class consisted of those who had the property, but were insensible of the duties belonging to it —who made an irritating, ostentatious parade of all the luxurious enjoyments which that property placed within their reach, but who were negligent of the opportunity and means which it afforded them to improve the condition of those below them. That he held to be an equally dan gerous class, and one infinitely more culpable. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD:- M. Guizot moves about in Londounow as if completely naturalised. On Tuesday week he appeared on the plat form at the anniversary meeting of the Foreign Aid So ciety, established to assist the continental Protestant as sociations. INCREASING COST OF THE POOIL.—By the Uarnarvon Herald we learn that the parochial rates in Carnarvon shire have increased, between 1801: and 1839, from £5,431 to £34,410, being more than sixfold; while the population had not doubled in 1841, which is two years. later. In Anglesey, the rates, during the same period, have increased from £4,348 to £25,468 ; being within a trifle of sixfold ; whilst the population, in 1841, had been increased but by a little more than one-third. CHILDREN POISON ED.—Nearly ahundred children were poisoned at Bristol by eating some berries which were strewed upon the quay, having fallen there from a drug gists package. When the young creatures began to sicken, much consternation was created in the city. The infirmary was crowded with applicants for relief, and private surgeries were equally besieged. Although much suffering was caused, it appears that none of the cases are expected to terminate fatally. The grand jury of London have returned among the true bills one against the Marquis of Chandos for wilful perjury. It understood that the charge arose out of some proceedings in Chancery ; the Marquis having made an affidavit that he was not aware of the character of certain deeds executed by him, charging an annuity of £2,000 a year on estates in which he had a life interest. The indictment has been removed by certiorori into the Court of Queen's Bench. The congregation of the Rev. W. Marshall, of the Cal vinist Secession church, Leith, lately presented him with a gold watch, and appendages. The cost exceeded the subscriptions, and the watchmaker, who was himself a member of the subscription committee, commenced an ac tion against the committee for payment of the balance. — The sheriff held that the committee were liable, but that they in their turn could sue the flock which had appointed them ; and it is stated that they intend to avail themselves of this right. OPENING OT THE NEW STEAM BASIN, PORTSMOUTH Thursday was a great gala day at Portsmouth. The steam basin, which was commenced in 1845, was then formally opened by her Majesty in person. The basin occupies nine acres of ground ; and at its entrance was placed the Rolla 10-gun brig (manned by the young apprentices), the Excellent and a crowd of Barges. After witnessing the laying of the lasi stone, Her Majesty and Prince Albert re-embarked at 4 22 p.m.. and the Fairy having steamed slowly round the basin, returned to Osbourne House. The Royal children were on board the tender, and the Prince of Wales particularly was loudly cheered by the - spectators. THE SEAL FlSHERY.—Gratifying accounts of the seal fishery have been received at Lerwick. One vessel arrived on the 22nd instant with 125 tons. There were eight vessels reported, or supposed to be clean ; but a number of others had been successful. The following is a report of the fishery so far from a Hull paper :—Dublin, 10,000 seals-100 tons ; Eclipse, 10,000 seals-95 tons ; Hamil ton Ross, 10,000 seals-120 tons ; Resolution, 9,500 seals —ll4 tons. Hamilton Ross left the ice on the 3rd inst. Saw five vessels at a distance, supposed to be brigs ; seals very abundant all round. The Hamilton Ross was in company with the Hebe, and left that vessel beset in March, since which time she had not seen any other Hull vessel. An extraordinary judicial investigation commenced on Thursday week, when a commission was opened under the Great Seal, addressed to the Lords Commissioners of Jus ticiary, constituting them justices, and directing them to inquire, by the oath of a grand jury of the counties of Kincardine, Forfar, and Aberdeen, into all felonious for geries, and utterings of bills of exchange and promissory notes committed by John Viscount Arbuthnot within the said counties. The grand jury found true bills in each county. and the commission was adjourned to the 20th of June, when it is understood that a writ of certiorari will be issued by the House of Lords for the removal of the indictments for trial before their lordships. MR. SIMS REEVES.—We have already published the successful debut of this gentleman at the Opera House in " Linda di Chamoni." On Wednesday he was to have sung in the same opera, but a quarrel had, in the mean time, arisen between him and the manager, the cases being the refusal of Mr. Lumley to permit Mr. Reeves to take the part of Edgar, in the " Lucia di Lammermoor," with Jenny Lind on the following Thursday ; and as the tenor considered this a slight, and a denial of his proper position in the theatre, even though but engaged for a limited number of nights, he threw up the negociations, and left Mr. Lumley in the lurch. Mr. Reeves, it seems to us, acted right. LAND SLIP ON THE BANE OF TEES.—There is a hill or precipice at Cotherstone, - called the Hag, 95 feet high, at the junction of Tees and the Balder, a picturesque object much admired by tourists. After the heavy rains of April, there was an accumulation of water in a field behind the eminence, which passed by a natural filter into the river. The Hag, which had long been napped and undermined in this manner, has since slipped to the extent of 70 yards, by 15 in breadth. The rocks in front were hurled with a tremendous crash into the Tees below. One stone thrown down is estimated to weigh upwards of nine tons. The footpath round the hill and the road to a water-mill have disappeared—stopped, without the cere mony of an order from the justices. The noise of the fall was heard two miles off.—Local paper. SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OF A CLIMBING BOY.—On Tuesday last, at Hull, a master chimney-sweep, named Batty. was brought before the magistrates of Hull, on a charge of cruel treatment to a little boy, named Sullivan, nine years'of' age, who was serving him as a climbing boy, under an agreement for one year. The lad was unable to walk, and was placed upon the table. On removing a shawl that covered him, his appearance was horrifying. Both knees and the wrists were much swollen by his forced labour in chimneys and blogs inflicted by his master. He had been carried to sweep twelve chimneys in one day, and a number on other days. A surgeon had become acquainted with the case, and had given him medicine. He considered the lad's life in danger. The result of the examination was that the father, who had let' out his son (under age) to sweep, was fined £lO, and Batty was committed for trial at the sessions. DREADFUL BATTLE.—Of late, a series of well-con- tested engagements have raged in Renfrew-street. These skirmishes took place between a gallant and pugnacious, though diminutive cock, aided by the ladies of his estab lishment, and a number of thievish rats. which, with out any invitation, drop in when they feel inclined, and take pot-luck, at the expense of the feathered friends. The other day, a rat of large size coolly came forward to take a share of the good things just laid down for the comfortable support of the chuckies. Mr. Cock, irritated at such impudence, immediately showed fight. Mr. Rat, nothing loath, accepted the challenge, and to it they both went, teeth and wing. Cock advanced to the assault, and struck with beak, heel, and wing. Rat received the charge, standing on his hind feet, and repelled it like a pugilist, occasionally making effective use of his teeth. The dreadful strife raged for many minutes with varied success, but Cock was game ; his honour, his food, and the respect of his female followers, all were at stake, and he fought on only as a cock animated by the purest motives of cock honour can fight. At last Mr. Rat began to show symptoms of distress, and, without waiting to take re spectful leave of his adversary, sneaked off to his hole, pursued by the victorious bantam, which, when his pilfer ing enemy bad disappeared, set up as loud a crow as his little throat would permit, in token of his gallantry and success. — Glasgow Paper. PROPOSED GROWTH OF INDIAN CORN IN THIS COUN TRY.—Mr. H. Cansdell, a scientific American agricultu rist, has arrived here from Wisconsin, where he has been making many experiments with numerous varieties of Indian corn, in a climate the mean temperature of which, during the summer months, varies very little from that of England. In the hope of being able to raise a crop here, he has brought over one hundred varieties, and Prince Albert has given permission for the various experiments to be made on his domain at Windsor. Mr. Cansdell states, that admitting the grain should become acclimated, it will be possible fora poor man to raise, on one rood of land, from fifteen to twenty bushels of corn, in addition to, and without in any way interfering with, his ordinary growth of potatoes, cabbages, or beans, besides finding nearly enough of fodder to keep a cow in winter. Mr. Cansdell also says the usual plan with farmers in America is to plant an under crop of saccharine pumpkin, of which twenty tons an acre is frequently raised, (in addition to the usual crop of maize,) and which is considered to con tain a larger amount of fattening properties than either Swedes or mangold worzel. Should the issue of the expe riments be successful, it will be of incalculable benefit to farmers and the labouring classes in England, and parti cularly of Ireland, and will be the greatest agricultural achievement since the introduction of the potato. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A SCHOOL BOY.—A few, days since a young gentleman, aged 15, son of James Gilmour, Esq., of Polwren-lodge, Eaglesham, who has been long celerated for deeds of fearlessness, the exercise of which generated a contempt for the most imminent danger, determined to take a hawk's nest on the brow of a preci pice about a hundred feet high, overhanging the coast. At the time he was a pupil at Ayr Academy, and was 'cc companied by two of his schoolfellows, who attempted strongly to dissuade him from his purpose. He would not, however, s w erve, but proceeded to a farm in the neighbourhood, where his application for the loan of a rope was not granted, on which he went down to the cot tage on the shore, near which he found a piece of rope that had evidently beer. washed by the sea. With this he proposed that his companions should lower him down the face of the abrupt crag to the nest, which might be about eight feet from the brow of the bank. The rope he had found was, however, too short ; it would not pass round him and reach the nest. But, never at a loss for expedients, and determined not to be balked, he tied some tar nettle (a kind of rope used by gardeners) round his person, and to this he joined the thicker rope. His com panions are represented to have remonstrated to the last against the recklessness of the proceeding, and state that they all refused to seize the rope till he went out of sight over the brow of the hill, and they feared out o f be lost. The bold but ill-fated youth reached the cliff, plun dered the nest, while the old hawks kept whirling and screeching round his head; and having called to his com panions that he was bringing away three young hawks in his pocket. he proceeded to ascend. While in the act of doing so, however, he did not, as might be supposed, hang entirely on the rope ; indeed, it was sometimes tight and sometimes slack, as, in point of fact, he needed no assist ancewhere human foot couldtravel or hand hold. His com panions, therefore, had only to take in the slack of the rope as he ascended, holding hard when some tuft cheated his grasp, or his footing yielded. In this way they guessed he must be witnin eighteen inches of the summit, when the rope suddenly slacked, but little they thought of the fearful cause ; for although the rope had either given way or slipped at the tie, no cry escaped the hardy young sut• ferer, who was immediately afterwards discovered to have fallen from a height of not less than 90 feet. An alarm was instantly given and every attention was paid to hi m but he expired the same night, before his distracted pakents, could reach hiro.-44yr Advertiser. THE NAVIGATION LAWS. A meeting was held in the Sessions-house, on Friday, to consider the proposal recently made by her Majesty's ministers to repeal the Navigation Laws. The meeting was convened by his worship the Mayor, and was ap pointed for twelve o'clock. Before this time. however, a great number , of influential gentlemen, merchants, and others, arrived at the court. Among them were Messrs. Eyre Evans, H. Littledale, John North, T. Brocklebank, Josias Booker, A. Tobin, Thomas Moore, John Bibby, Alderman Chilton, Thomas Robinson, Alderman Hough ton, George Lonthean, Abraham Tapley,. Thomas Bold, W. R. Sandbach, Geo. Kendal, J. Tyrer, Robert Benn, Wm. Ashley, Robt. Ashley, T. Moss, Charles Cotes worth, Wynne, Richd. Sheil, A. H. Wylie, C. Raw lins, J. Aikin, J. Lockett, Sinclair, G. Grant, Laid law, Challinor, Dawson, Chas. Robertson, Z. Nelson Wood, J. Bramley-Moore, &c., &c. The pro ceedings were opened by the Town-clerk's assistant read ing the requisition calling the meeting. The MAYOR said he need not tell them the present meeting was a very important one—important as bearing on the interests of this town, and important as affecting the British navy. As he was aware that some difference of opinion prevailed on this subject, ho should refrain from offering any opinion of his own. He concluded by adverting to what transpired in the House of Commons when Mr. Cardwell was proposed to act on the slavery committee, and thought that the insinuations which had fallen from Lord Palmerston on that occasion were an insult to the country, and to the town of Liverpool and her merchants. Mr. JAMES ATKIN rose to propose the first resolution. He was provided with documents demonstrative of the fallacy of the measure now under the guidance of the President of the Board of Trade, and who he considered chargeable with incompetency in the mode in which he had collected his statistics, on which the reasons for re pealing the navigation laws were founded. Alluding to the loose system which characterised legislators of the present day, and the bungling way in which acts of par liament are framed, he quoted the words of an eminent Glasgow house, once possessing its thousands, but now become bankrupt :—" We have been ruined by acts of parliament." It was not a mere matter of pounds shil lings, and pence that they were met to discuss. They were met to prevent those laws which had been sanctified by great statesmen being expunged from the statute books. Mr. Aikin proceeded to take a review of the grounds on which the parties bringing forward the ob noxious measure founded their views, and showed that since the war British tonnage had increased from two and-a-half millions to four millions. This increase was gained under the operation of the present laws, and was an evidence of the soundness of their principle. Under these laws had existed a navy, which had been the means of saving England, whilst all other countries were em broiled in war. He left the opinion of a captain in the royal navy as given in Parliament, for the consideration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and especially those gentlemen present, who considered we were at present sinking under the burthen of taxation—the opinion in question amounted to this, that the royal navy was not supplied from the commercial marine, and that to be efficient it should he a permanent establishment. The speaker then went on to show the partial manner in which the question had been treated in the House of Commons. The first three witnesses examined before the committee were officials of the Board of Trade. Men were appointed to get up this measure who had previously expressed an opinion respecting it ; no jury in any other court would be allowed to sit under similar circumstances. Mr. Akin reviewed the evidence of the persons summoned before the committee ; on the question, one was a gentleman from Manchester, who deposed to his having been com pelled to allow two cargoes of sugar to remain at Java for want of British ships to bring them over. But the fact was that at that very time British ships were being taken up at £5 per ton ; Dutch charging £6. Referring to the great first cause of the measure, the intimation from Prussia, and the invitation from America, he said, the treaty with the first named power was about to expire ; the terms of renewal were very simple, Mr. Labouchere had merely to propose to continue a treaty under which 'Russian tonnage had increased more than British. He i vrent into many details to show that under the pre sent law the British commercial navy had flourished, and igiat free trade principles. however sound they might be in general, were not adapted to navigation ; that to apply them would be on our part a voluntary handing over of a benefit which we held full possession of to our niegh 'bours to share it. He rebutted the charge of incompe tency that had been brought against the masters of the commercial marine, and drunkenness of the crews, and proved the slander by showing that British ships could effect insurance at a less rate of premium than those of any other nation. MR. BROCKLEBANK, who expressed his opinion as a shipowner, that should the law be repealed, there would be an end to British prosperity, seconded the resolution. Mr. WYLIE rose to propose an amendment. He con sidered the principles of free trade applicable in the present case. There was no reason why the shipowner should enjoy a monopoly. He said it with no offensive intention ; but still he would remark that the gentlemen on the platform were shipowners. Mr. Aikin had alluded to the injury done by the advocacy by the government of the slave questions. He was not prepared to•cover the faults of ministers. He believed the West Indies had been ruined by a false philantrophy.—Whilst this gentle man was speaking, great uproar arose; but the Mayor de. sired he might be heard, and he continued, occasionally being interrupted by cries of " question,"—With respect to our commercial navy being the source whence the royal navy is manned, he said the latter consisted of 18,000 men, of which 12,000 are able seamen : not more than one-tenth of these came from the commercial marine. He then went on to paint the horrors of the press-gang, which he said was still the law, and appealed to the legal gentlemen present. (This was contradicted by some per son in the meeting.) As an instance of the injurious working of the navigation laws, he said he had a cargo lying at Marseilles, some time ago, from Africa ; but there being a better market for his goods in England , he di recte a French broker to bring them to this country. The Frenchman knew more of our laws than he did, and informed him that it could not be effected, and he was compelled to loose the choice of his market. He went on to say that he considered it was an artizans question, as the repeal of these laws would provide more employment. He agreed with Mr. Aikin that British ships excelled those of other countries, and read some statistics showing that in 1846, out of 3,779 entered in the port of Hamburg, 995 were Brititish, and only 455 belonged to port. He referred to the working of the reciprocity act, and adduced further statistics to show that a liberal policy in commer cial matters, as well as shipping or other interests, was at tended with beneficial results to all, and concluded by wishing the navigation laws were repealed, as the means of filling our docks with ships, and affording employment for our artizans. The amendment was to the following effect :—" That this meeting has learned, with much sa tisfaction, the intention of her Majesty's government to propose the total repeal of the navigation laws." It went on to state them to be a fruitful source of loss to shipown ers and others. Mr. BOULT seconded the amendment.; andin doing so, made a lengthy and eloquent speech, in which lie decried the effect of the Navigation Laws, and considered the fears as to the consequence of them being repealed, as cowardly in the extreme; he would liken them only to the imaginary alarms of the Duke of Richmond, who feared the consequences of the passing of the corn law would be to cause the land to go out of cultivation. The effect had been to compel the farmers to get a better knowledge of their business, and the shipowners must follow their example. With respect to what was said about our commercial navy being a guarantee for our de fence in case of a war, he could only say, he prayed to be delivered from war under all and, every circumstance. We had suffered more severely fram that than any other ill. Mr. L. HEYWORTH stpported the amendment. He was no shipowner, but he advocated the repeal of the laws referred to as the means of good to all. Mr. JOHN AIKIN rose in support of the motion, and was received with cheers. He said—Having been a Free trader, and, I trust, a consistent one, ever since' I paid attention to, or have been capable of thinking on political subjects, such as the great one which this day occupies your consideration, I rise as a Free-trader, to differ from and denounce the Free-trade principles ad vanced here. I will not call them Free-trade principles ; but as the word libel has already been used, I will call them libels upon Free-trade—libels upon the doctrines of Adam Smith, Huskisson, and those of the most enlight ened Free-traders, as well as practical statesmen. (Ap plause.) Let us consider for a moment how far Mr. Labouchere's proposal carries out the principles of Free trade, if it is not inviolationof every principle of Free-trade, and with what propriety any gentleman who is a Free-trader' can rise in this meeting and say that he approves of it.' He proposes to remove protection from British shipping, and yet to keep restrictions upon it. Now I have always thought that Free-traders objected to any interfmnce by government, and certainly not less to restrictions than to protection. By restrictions you violate the very princi ples of Free-trade, but by removing protection and re taining restrictions, I say you do more—you violate the principles of common justice. (Loud applause.) Mr. Labouchere proposes virtually to throw open the carrying trade to all foreign ships, but he proposes to retain and re-establish restrictions on British ships, which will to tally disable them from competition. (Applause.) Is it the language of a statesman to say that, thus fettered, we should enter into competition with the world for the carrying trade ? I don't know whether we should regard it as an insult to the mercantile interests of Great Britain, or as a proof of the ignorance and incapacity of the man who utters it. Mr. Boult has stated that English captains are not so well paid as they ought to be; and I would like to see every British captain and every British sailor better paid for the faithful discharge of their duties than they are at present. But it is the interest of a shipowner, under all circumstances, to secure the best master, and a difference of a few pounds per month is no comparative consideration. Is not this the case, whe ther the navigation laws are repealed or not ? (Hear, hear, and loud applause.) That is not a question affect ing the principle of the navigation laws ; and to come here occupying the time of the meeting by introducing irrelevant matter of this kind, is, I think, hardly justifia ble. (Applause.) Let us for a moment consider how it will or how it will not affect the wages of the British sea man. You impose restrictions upon the building of British ships—you tax the raw material of which they are composed, and yet propose to admit foreign-manufac tured ships, free of duty, to enter into open competition with them. A fine free-trade principle that ! A fine doctrine for free-traders to come here and advocate to day ! Who would build a ship where the materials are taxed, when he could build elsewhere with more advan tage ? Again you violate the principles of free-trade when you dictate to us the kind of labour with which we are to man our ships. If we are to get everything where it can be got cheapest, why should we not do the same with la bour ? (Applause.) If you are free traders, carry out your principles—Abolish, the duty on the raw material— remove all restrictions—allow us to employ what men we please—and then we may not complain. But, at present, you appeal to the British seamen by a trick. No; I will not call it a trick ; for I have too high a respect for the gentlemen to believe that they so intend it. But their measure would be destructive of the trade with British seamen and artizaris ; for, whatever would diminish Bri tish shipping, would so far diminish the demand for their services. It is quite evident that the tendency of the abo lition of the navigation laws would be , to transfer the building of ships to foreign nations, where they can be built cheaper, and to have those vessels sailed by foreign seamen, under a foreign flag, seeing that they have all the privileges which you enjoy, without the dis advantages which burden your own—without the inter ference of theories, which, however sound in themselves, become injurious when applied imperfectly, and irrespec tive of circumstances—(loud applause)—which would lead to results as wrong as that to which the astronomer would be exposed whose calculations might be right so far as they went, but erroneous by the omission of .any allowance for disturbing forces. (Loud ap plause.) Your application of free trade would be as erro neous as the calculation of such one-sided astronomer. (Loud applause.) Though Mr. Wylie appeared indignant at the imputation that he had come here with imperfect information, I have no hesitation in stating to him that I believe he h as come with imperfect information. (Ap plause.) I say so that there may not be attributed to him another motive. He is either deficient in information, or he has withheld so much of the truth as would have led you to a conclusion totally opposite to that which he en deavoured to establish. He said that the quantity of British tonnage entering the port of Hamburgh from other nations, was in excess of foreign tonnage. Does he intend by that to prove that the navigation laws should be altered ? I am at a loss to trace the connection between his facts and the inferences he would draw. Thecircumstance of British vessels thus preponderating in Hamburgh is in consequence of the operation of those laws he would so rashly repeal. Every one conversant with the trade to Hamburg knows this to be the case. I presume that he would wish to prove that English ships, under equal com petition, can beat foreigners ; and I am only surprised that Mr. Wylie, a gentleman of such great commercial experience, should have been led into error on this point. He ought to be aware that British vessels have a prefer ence in carrying to Hamburg, and to most other ports in Europe, in consequence of the navigation laws, which give to British vessels the option of the English and con tinental markets. whereas the foreign bottom can only carry to the continental. (Applause.) And it is on this account, as my father has shown, that the importers of sugar prefer British ships, although they may have to pay a higher rate of freight for them. As Mr. Huskisson's name has been mentioned, and referred to as a free-trader, I give you the following quotation from a speech of his : "Entertaining these opinions, I am as ready as any man can possibly be, that it is our duty, on all occasions, to look to the peculiar nature of this state necessity ;—and that. whenever the interests of commerce and navigation cannot be reconciled, the feeling which ought to be uppermost in our mind should be,—(l sir, have no hesitation in sta ting it to be my feeling)—that the interests of commerce, in all such instances, ought to give way, and those of navi gation have the preference." I, therefore, would call upon you, gentlemen, as consistent free-traders, as the admirers of Huskisson, whom Liverpool may be proud to have had as her representative—and whose monument stands amongst us—to carry out the principles of that great man. (Applause.) I would like to have questioned Mr. Wylie about the increase of British shipping in America between 1824 and 1844, because taking the year 1846, and compa ringlit with other years, there is a much larger increase of American than of British tonnage. (Hear and applause.) It is a most singular fact, that Mr. Wylie should have read the per centage increase, and not have given us the figures. I hope he won't lead you to suppose that there is an actual inceease, when there is a decrease. (Hear.) The return comes down to 1846, and as I have said, the comparison is largely in favour of American tonnage, though the per centage increase is larger on the British, being on a smaller quantity. But Mr. Boult asked the question, why are the principles of free-trade not to be applied to ships ? Why should the ship-owners have a monopoly ? I answer him also in the language of Mr. Huskisson, lest the ungracious and unmanly insinuation should be offered, that I am a ship-owner, and an inter ested party, I therefore quote one who was impartial, and whose opinion will have weight. Mr. Huskisson says : " The house, sir, is aware, that our navigation laws have a twofold object. First, to create and maintain in this country a great commercial marine ; and, secondly, (an object not less important in the eyes of statesmen,) to prevent any one other nation from engrossing too large a portion of the navigation of the rest of the world." I ask him if Mr. Labouchere's proposal would carry oui the principles of Mr. Huskisson or those of free trade ? (Ap plause.) Protectionists wili vote against it because it alarms them, and free-traders should vote against it be. cause it is unworthy of them to sacrifice their principles to this pandering concession. But, whatever difference of opinion exists on the navigation laws, there can be but one consistent course for all commercial men, and men of all parties to pursue, in reference to Mr. Labouchere's proposal, and that is—to reject it. That proposal is the matter we are now here to discuss. If our opponents have pointed out defects in the navigation laws, I will not enter upon them ; if they can prove these defects, let them be amended—(hear)—but every man inthis room, and every man who has thought on the subject, must con demn the measure of Mr. Labouchere as most unsatisfac tory. It is not a measure which the intelligent of either side would substitute for our present laws. I say, let the navigation laws rest upon their own merits ; if they are sound and politic, continue them ; if they want amending, amend them ; but whatever may be our differences re specting them, there is but one alternative left,—let all unite in rejecting Mr. Labouchere's measure. (Hear.) Let it go forth that free-traders denounce that measure as inconsistent with their principles. We have all a simple duty to perform : to tell the government that Mr. La bouchere's proposal will not do for us ; that we will not have it. (Loud applause.) The question embraces more than class interests, or the freight of sugar—it is our na tional defences. I believe it inconsistent with true policy to discuss this question upon the short-sighted and narrow ground upon which Mr. Wylie put it. Suppose that he gets his commodities a little cheaper, and that we place the question on that narrow ground, it is only sub siituting one interest for another; and perhaps Mr. Wylie can inform us what fractional part of a farthing per lb. he would thus save on his sugar. (Laughter.) If he and Mr. Boult had read Adam Smith, Deacon, Hume. or Mr. Huskisson, they would not have deemed it necessary o have to ask the question why shipping should be treated as an exception to the general rule of free-trade. Nor would it have been necessary for me to day to have risen to answer that question. (Loud heers.) Mr. C. RAWLINS rose in support of the amendment. He said the name of Adam Smith and other celebrated writers had been quoted for a special purpose ; but if that eminent man's writings were impartially consulted, it would be found that he did not approve of Navigation laws. Mr. R. then read a passage as a set off against one adduced en the other side from the same book. He did think that some men, generally liberal, allowed their judgment to be warped, when personal interest was con cernee.. He had worked with Mr. John Aikin for a period of five years in the cause of free trade, until Sir Robert Peel cane forward with his tariff to abolish the little mo nopolies. Mr. MACLEAN, the secretary to the Chartist Associa tion, here stood up in his place, in the centre of the court, and treated the free-traders to gentle castigation ; after which the amendment was put, when about a score of bands were held up in its favour. The original resolution was carried with an overwhelming majority. Mr. F. SHAND moved the next resolution. He, with allusion to what had fallen from Mr. Heyworth, said that the sugar colonies of Great Britain were utterly destroyed by an unjust act of Parliament, and he saw no reason why one interest being ruined, others should be pulled into the vortex. Mr. Labouchere seemed to think that as com mercial destruction was around him, and especially in one interest, he must complete the wreck of other interests, so as to produce a perfect level: If we went on upon this principle, we should soon become a nation of paupers, with a debt hanging over us of £800,000,000, and no chance of ever paying it. If Mr. Labouchere's measure meant anything, it meant the transfer of our shipbuilding yards to foreign shores, the destruction of our artisans, and of that preponderance in the commercial marine of the world which we had hitherto possessed. If that pre ponderance were lost, how could we preserve the pride of the " inviolate isle ? " (Cheers.) The legislation thrust upon them, affecting navigation, was confessedly experi mental. As they had been termed merchant-princes, though some of them, like other princes, were now poor, let them be true to their title of nobility, and, like the mailed barons at Merdun, exclaim, with one voice, " Nolumus leges Anglice mutari." (Loud cheer , .) The resolution was seconded by Mr. GEORGE GRANT, and was carried, with but five hands shown in opposition. Mr. JOSIAS BOOKER, in proposing the third resolution, said that the question involved the security of the nation. Ministers of the present day applied themselves more to theory than to facts. One of Mr. Labouchere's pretexts for treating our colonies as he had done was, that our sugar colonies had in some instances, in the recklessness of their despair, expressed a wish for the abolition of the navigation laws. The cost of producing sugar in our co lonies was four times as much as that incurred in slave labour countries. He was himself a genuine free trader; but he was only for free trade with reciprocity. But our free trade granted everything, and gained nothing. No one had been advantaged by it but the leader of the free traders. The system had reduced to beggary three-fourths of the East and West India proprietors—the result of the differential duties. Mr. Labouchere ascribed the evil to " over speculation • but hopes had been excited which had not been, and could not be realized, and most res pectable firms, worth, twelve months ago, their hundreds of thousands, and who never embarked a penny out of their own business, have been compelled, by the operation of an insensate legislation, to stop payment. (Hear, hear.) The speaker here quoted some of the evidence he had given before a committee of the House of Lords a few weeks ago, showing the advantages which the mercantile marine of the United States had over England under the present navigation laws. The Americans were not bur thened, as we were, with national and local taxation and rates. Our colonial empire had, in fact, cost us £800,000,000, (the amount of our national debt,) and we were now asked to give it up to other nations, and without any equivalent whatever. Let the Americans, if they wish to come into our colonies, pay a fair equivalent ; that is to say, one-half of the original cost. (Hear, hear.) We could run races with any nation with a given weight, but not beyond that weight, and he called upon them not to accept an unequal challenge. (Cheers.) It had been stated, and truly, that he who, by superior skill and in dustry, added to an acre of ground one bushel of wheat, became, in so much, a benefactor to mankind : but what was to be thought of those politico-economical adventurers who, after tampering with agriculture, would take away employment from 80,000 artificers and labourers engaged in connection with ships in this port? (Hear, hear.) Could any gentleman doubt the mischief of the govern— ment propositions ? Were they convinced of their safety —the safety of giving up that which cost them dearly— the exclusive right to their own colonies ? He concluded by the quotation from Canning—" The name you have established, the deeds you have achieved, and the part you have sustained, nreclude you from a second place among nations : unless you are the first, you are nothing." Mr. J. A. TOBIN seconded the resolution in a neat and forcible address. The resolution was then put, and carried. Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE, after some introductory re marks, which were enthusiastically received, said that there had been no fewer than 70 petitions against the repeal of these laws, and only two in favour. If they went to the expression of the feelings of the nation, they were de cidedly in favour of the existence of the present laws, or with such alterations in them as did not affect their great principle. They had been told that the gentlemen on the platform advocated the maintenance of these laws because they had a pecuniary individual interest in doing so as shipowners; but the question affected them (the ship owners) less than any other class of men in the country. (Hear, hear.) Repeal these laws, and, he would ask, what would become of your artisans—of your shipbuilder, of your rigger, of your block maker, and boatbuilder ? If they de stroyed the shipbuilding trade, clearly they destroyed the occupation of every one of these trades. No doubt British energy, upon a fair and equal footing, would not only compete with other countries, but would beat them out of the field. But here %Yes a premium offered for the ship building trade to leave the country altogether. (Hear, hear.) If they competed with the foreigner upon the Bal tic, Baltic timber ought to come here free. If not, every carpenter must emigrate to the Baltic, otherwise the trade would leave them. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") The na tion had greatly prospered under the workings of the pre sent laws, and so long as we continued to go on under the reciprocity system, there could be no doubt of con ti nuous prosperity ; but, if , they admitted a one-sided system to come into operation, the effect of which was to g i ve a ll away and to get nothing in return, it required no great de gree of fore-knowledge to see what would become of them. (Hear, hear.) Allusion had been made by Mr. Wylie to the policy adopted by their parliamentary representatives, whose sentiments were known to them upon many sub jects. Mr. Cardwell, when here, in addressing a meeting, had appealed to the company that, " Inasmuch as he had the chairman of the Dock Committee on the one side of him, and the chairman of the Shipowners' Association on the other, there was not much to be apprehended from the line of conduct which would be pursued by him." He (Mr. Moore) hoped to see that excellent representative— for a most admirable one he made—he hoped to see that honourable and worthy representative espousing the feel ings of that great meeting, and the town at large, upon this subject, and that they should have his able advo cacy in his place in the Commons House of Parliament.— (Hear, and applause.) He moved the next resolution. Mr. GEO. HORSFALL seconded the resolution, remark ing that it truly stated that the measure of ministers was altogether uncalled for. The nation disliked sweeping changes, and for one so momentous, the cause should be unusually great and manifest. (Cheers.) The voice of the President of the Board of Trade had found an echo in the hearts of this great people. The measure was not onlyuncalledfor, but absolutely unjust, not merely because hundreds and thousands of our fellow subjects have em barked their capital in enterprises, the successful realisa tion of which is dependent on the maintenance of our navigation laws, which laws they did expect, and had a right to expect, would be maintained in all their integrity ; but, Sir, because the arguments which have been adduced in support of the proposed measure are not merely . dis torted, not merely twisted and turned, as only political economists of the present day know how to turn and twist them ( laughter), but they are positively untrue. (Applause.) One of the recognised organs of the free trade party has the following,—speaking of the operation of the navigation laws, it says :—" Its practical effect is to compel an immense majority of foreign vessels to sail in ballast on their return from England, and an immense majority of English vessels to sail in ballast on their home ward voyage." Now, what was the fact ? The total amount in 1845, ending sth of January, of British vessels returning, fully laden was 2,805 ; the number in ballast 5. The same proportion applies, also, to 1846, when the number of vessels returning fully laden was 2,500 ; in bal last 5. In 1847, the number of British vessels laden re- - turning was 2,823, and in ballast 8, and of these eight, three were from the Channel Islands. ( Hear, hear. and cheers,) In 1845, there were 1096 foreign vessels left this port fully laden, in ballast 139. In 1846, the unmber of foreign vessels leaving laden was 961, and in ballast 126. In 1847. the number of foreign vessels leaving laden was 1,271, in ballast 95. (Applause.) This might be taken as a specimen of the fairness of their arguments. He called upon all parties interested to oppose the measure by every constitutional means, as unjust and fraught with danger to the trade and maritime power of Great Britain. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. W. Sandbach, Mr. S. Bright, Mr. C. Turner, Mr. Mann, I Mr. Thomas Moss, and Mr. Rankin. REMEDY FOR TOOTHACHE.—A mixture of two parts of the liquid ammonia of commerce, with one of some simple tincture, is recommended as a remedy for tooth ache, so often uncontrollable. A piece of lint is dipped into this mixture, and then introduced into the carious tooth, when the nerve is immediately cauterised and pain stopped. It is stated to be eminently successful, and, in some cases, is supposed to act by neutralizing an acid product in the decaying tooth.—Lancet. CITIZEN BROUGHAM, LORD BROUGHAM. — The chas seur will be as morose as Burger's wild huntsman when he reads the following intelligence, which appears in a paper published at Nice :—" The recent conduct of Lord Brougham, in which the people of Cannes have fancied there were indications of hostile feelings towards France and to their neighbouring friend Charles Albert, have nearly cost him his country seat. At one of the late meetings of the clubs of the canton, after hearing read his speeches in the House of Lords, a motion was made that the members of the clubs should immediately proceed —it being then nine o'clock at night—to his lordship's chateau with torches and combustibles. But one of the speakers rose and said No, citizens ! not now. If we go at this hour we shall be taken for robbers. If the house of this ungenerous citizen is to be burnt, let us do it in open day. This suggestion prevailed, and the chateau was saved. On the following day the idea of burning was abandoned, and, instead, a resolution was come to that a charivari should be given to his lordship if he ventured to set his fopt in Cannes." . _ _ _ THE SOLAR SYSTEM.—The number of known planets is now sixteen, which encircle the sun in the following order :—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Flora, Iris,Vesta, Hebe, Astrzea, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. There is reason to believe that other planets may be found beyond Neptune, and that more fragments may be discovered between Mars and Jupiter, since it may be presumed that the eight that we know of are the debris of a large one, the more so as it is probably not the only instance. The myriads of meteors that the earth annually meets with on the 12th of August and the 14th of November, are, no doubt, minute planetary bodies revolving round the sun, which, on entering the atmo sphere, take fire by its sudden and violent compression. Their origin, it may be presumed, is analogous to that of the small planets, but the explosive force must have been much more intense to tear the original mass into such minute fragments. Occasionally meteorites have fallen of considerable size • one which appeared in the year 1780 was supposed to have a diameter of a quarter of a mile.— Frazer's Magazine. THE MAD DOG.—" As you must hear the story of our dog Prince, I may as well tell it you. On Thursday morning, when I got on my horse at St. Hoare's, David told me that there was something the matter with Prince, that he had killed the cat, and almost killed the new dog, and had bit at him and Elizabeth. ordered him to be tied up and taken care of, and then rode off to town. When I got into Hampstead, I saw Prince covered with mud, and running furiously, and biting at everything. I saw him bite at least a dozen dogs, two boys and a man. Of course I was exceedingly alarmed, being persuaded he was mad. I tried every effort to stop or kill him, or drive him into some outhouse, but in vain. At last he sprang up at a boy, and seized him by the breast ; happily I was near him, and knocked him off with my whip. He then set off towards London, and I rode by his side, waiting for some opportunity of stopping him. I con tinually spoke to him, but he paid no regard to coaxing or scolding. You may suppose I was seriously alarmed, dreading the immense mischief he might do, having seen him do so much in the few preceding minutes. I was horri fied at the idea of his getting into Camden Town and Lon don, and at length considering thatlf ever there was an oc casion that justified a risk of life, this was it, I determined to catch him myself. Happily he ran up to Pryor's gate, and I threw myself from my horse upon him, and caught him by the neck, he bit at me and struggled, but without ,effect, and I succeeded in securing him without his biting me. He died yesterday raving mad. Was there ever a more merciful escape ? Think of the children been gone I I feel it most seriously, but I cannot now write more fully. I have not been at all nervous about it, though certainly rather low, occasioned partly by this, and partly some other things. Ido not feel much fit for our Bible meet ing, on Wednesday—but I must exert myself.—P.S. Write me word whether Powell has any wound on his fingers, and if he has one made by the dog, let it be cut out immediately ; mind, these are my positive orders." He afterwards mentioned some particulars which he had omitted in this hurried letter. "When I seized the dog," he said, " his struggles were so desperate that it seemed at first almost impossible to hold him, till I lifted him up in the air, when he was more easily managed, and I con trived to ring the bell. I was afraid that the foam, which was pouriug from his mouth in his furious efforts to bite me, might get into some scratch, and do me injury ; so with great diffiellty I held him with one h and, while 1 put the other info my pocket and forced on my glove ; then I did the same with the other hand, and at last the gardener opened the door, saying, 'What do you want ?' I've brought you a mad dog,' replied I ; and telling him to get a strong chain, I walked into the yard, carrying the dog by his neck. I was determined not to kill him, as I thought if he should prove not to be mad, it would be such a satisfaction to the three persons whom he had bit ten. I made the gardener (who was in a terrible fright) secure the collar round his neck and fix the other end of the chain to a tree, and then walking to its furthest range with all my force, which was nearly exhausted by his fran tic struggles, I flung him away from me, and sprang back. He made a desperate bound after me, but finding himself foiled, he uttered the most fearful yell I ever heard. All that day he did nothing but rush to and fro, champing the foam which gushed from his jaws ; we threw him meat, and he snatched at it with fury, but instantly dropped it again. The next day, when I went to see him, I thought the chain seemed worn, so I pinned him to the ground between the prongs of a pitchfork, and then fixed a chain round his neck ; when I pulled off the fork, he sprang out and made a dash at me, which snapped the old chain in two ! He died in 48 hours from the time ha went mad."—Life of Sir T. F. Buxton.