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[4. ....•0_ 3RlN adinted taring. Church ON of lily in Is, Stz. , cseller, ;hop of S, by ti own or (erred• .street, ~ . . , . S. supprf .K, to 7welve ,1845, to the >plic.a- r, the S for itruC two er in 'eyorr h day entia 144. May 7, 1844. PROSPECTUS OF THE ABERDEEN RAILWAY. [PITAL, £1,000,000, in SHARES of £2O EACH. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. TH OMAS BLAIKIE, Esq., Lord Provost of the City of Aberdeen, Chairman, The Right Honourable the Earl of Erroll, K.T., Lord- T he Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, Right Honourable the Earl of Kintore, The Ri ght Honourable the Viscount Arbuthnott, Lord ,,,,"Lisutenant o f Ki ncard i nes hi re, - e Right Honourable the Lord Forbes, ' T he Right Ho noura bl e th e L or d P anmure , vost of Du n d e e, The r,, Provo s t o f Arbroath, The Ihe Provo s t o f M ontrose, _ P rovost of Forfar. The e Pr ovost of Br u chi n , Alexander Bannerman, Esq., M.P. for the City of Aber deen, .clivard Ellice, Esq., M.P. for the-East Fifeshire Burghs, George Duncan Es M Pam' Dundee, 4 1- , • , . John Count Leslie, of Balqnnain, c A dam, Esq., of Siobbach, D a a p v t i a d Esq., of IfrY and Allardice, Sons Esq , of the firm of ' John Blaikie and Aberdeen, • •;!?, !or-General Byres, of Tonley, - t,:e ell Burnett, Esq., Aberdeen, Ptrick Chalmers, Esq., of Auldbar, NJ-pis Crombie, Esq., ne of the Baillies of Aberdeen, Robert L. L. Carnegie, Esq., of Spvnie and Boysack, Zoo m "uff, Esq ,of her and Frtteresso, rnas Abercromby Duff, Esq., of Haddo, Duncan Davidson, Esq., of Tillychetly, James F4r quharson, Esq., of Invercauld, Ines p arquhai, of Hallgreen, Kincardinshire, one of the Directors of . th- Union Bank of London, Jameso Farquharson, Esq., Manufacturer, Anchinblae, Robert Grant' of Inveralloehy and Castle Fraser, ert Grant, E q of lour, Convener of Aber deensh. ire, Colonel Gorden, of Park, Convener of Banffshire. Alexande r Jo hn Gom u ' °f Esq., of Johnston. o n.dre2 . 7 iiat tn v- ei s i ci • of Avochie and Drumlithie, James Hadd Esq ,of Drumtochty Castle, ralhit Gordon • -q f Nethermuir, Frederick Hadciena n d er l- o •l n u s n :• ,E k;c;. o , of t e h firm of Alexander Fred • Holland, E of tire firm of Richards and y, C Ompun eq. ' tuhn Angus, Esq., City Clerk of Aberdeen, Withatu limes, Esq., of Raecuoir, Convener of Kincar dinettbire, Alexander Jopp, Esq., Aberdeen, James Kilgour, Esq., of the Inn of 'Gordon, Barron, and Company, `Clements Lumsden, Esq., Aberdeen, Alexander Morrison, Esq„ , of Bognie ane Monthlatry, Isaac Machray, Esq., Torry Farm, MuilCoach Contrac tor, Aberdeen, 'John Morice, Esq., of Ttillos, Kincardineshire, Merchant in London, •Vtlexander Pierie, jan., Esq., of the 'firm of Alexander Pierie and Sons, `Henry Paterson, Esq., Manager •of 'the North of Scot land Banking Company, Major George Thompson, C. 8., 'Bengal Engineers, of P airleY, Aberdeenshire, residing in Liverpool, IGeorgeidwThyountier 'Esq.,-Cashier jun., Esq., - Shipowner in Aberdeen, Aberdeen. q.,‘Cashier of the Banking Company, The Banking t in Aberdeen BANKERS. No rt hTheonapanyßranches, and of Scotland B an ki ng C ompany , Ab er d een an d The R oyal Bran c h es. The 13enic ofScotland and 'Branches, The Union Bank - of Scotland and Do., Edinburgh, Sir Csnumerciarltank of Scotland and Doe ..Richard Carr 'Glynn and Co. ; Messrs. Barclay, Bevan and Co., London, Th e Deism 'Batik of London, T ritton, Messrs.. Beckett nncl• Company, Leeds, JJJ The COTO inereat Banking Company, Liverpool. re_ssra!'Grate 'ENGINEERS. v ger and Miller,• EdinburghastsellOhn-Gibb, and Alexander Gibb, , Aberdeen. A ll a MCWAY, connecting the City of Aberdeen with Dundee,'the 'southern lines througb the populous towns Of e Porth .Abroath, Forfar, Brechin, Montrose, and ratonehaven, and the numerous towns and villages in this .noPortant agricultural and manufacturing district, has Ifong beeneanxiously desired, and the land was surveyedas far -track a s'the year 1837. The execution of the under 00_5 however, was deferred until the chain of railway 1107'llt,nication should be further advanced. This has .praroij_ected Iroal ta-611 Pla ce. Railways have been completed or are Engle. d and the south and west of Scot- P' dto th e s eithern termini of-the present line. A fresh rveY and estimate having been obtained, the undertak- Gentlemen soa, has-since received the sanction of the Noblemen and Loll:: , Proprietors of the ereater part of the lands travers-d, arid a large portion of the Capital has been ..,reribed within the district. h of the r -°m•ei c onsideration of the route and lengt , ious ,Lih , e, it will be seen that the whole traffic of the o f d !oust, in ita avan w es a). throughout the south and west of Sco.lan Progress to Aberdeen and the northern mum gles,. falliuto and be conveyedalong this line. , The , i the centr e of 'ength of the line -is sixty-six miles, including °Pooches. Commencing at the harbour and wet docks in Aberdeen, it proceeds by the villages of Cove, 'Tortlethen, Skateraw, end others, to the county cs ' t nnelrave n : thence through the fertile district of the Mearnssnear to the villages of Drumlithie, Atichinhlae, and L aurencekirk, by Marykirk to Brechin, and having a branch' to the docks at Montrose. From Brechin it IS proposed that the line shall be continued to Friockheim on the one hand, forming there-a junction with the rail ways already finished to Abroath and Dundee, and the Edinburgh and Northern, through Fite ; and, on the ether hand, to be continued to, , Forfar, where it will meet the Northern Junction Railwayirom Perth through Strath more, thns.eonnecting it with the Scottish Central Line. No tunnel is required on the whole length of the line, the gradients are good, the value of the land is compara tively small, and the works are of a description which can be estimated with certainty. In addition to the experi ence of Messrs. Grainger and Miller and Messrs. Gild), as Railway Engineers, the practical experience of the latter as Contractors, undcr the Arm of John Gibb and Son, is well known, and will give -more than usual confi dence in the est mate of cost. :AUr tha most careful co nkideration of the whole works s o i the rf ain 103 and br anches, and including the plait, the capital has been fixed at*Xlsooo,ooo sterling. The line traversed is very populous, and, besides the other largeftawns above mentioned, Aberdeen alone con tainshe 75,000 inhabitants, and i s th e d ep 6 t for the supply of t important and wealthy district north of that city with general merchandize. Aberdeen and the other towns on the line are also important seats of the linen, cotton, pwocilen, and other manufactures. The salmon and other sheries are of great magnitude. These afford a very lar ge i t , m in the present carrying trade of the country, Which the advantage of a rapid transit :so necessary to a 'l l,D br i° dita of a perishable nature will largely increase. 1 a tliade, it is well known, has in lines of railway simi ark elreur nstanrael,p roved a source of great revenue. " ti nt) of the c ountrytraversed being deficient of stone for buildi t oses while the other is abundantly rPPlied with stone of 'finest quality and of different esciprions, Its jot a large traffic will thence arise. Portance as an Agricultural district, in which the finest Cattle are reared and fed in great numbers , requires , only t° ' b e mentioried to satisfy every one a the large . LhLrevenue which the Railway will realize from the transit ive an d D ead Stock to the southern markets, to which ey are at present driven by tedious and expensive medi anis of conveyanc e . 'T he G rain Trade also forms an im- Portant item in the anticipated receipts. Tables of traffic have been prepared from the passenger and carrying trade, exhibiting a clear revenue of wards qp of £BO,OOO, or of 8 per cent. on the capital of .1.1,000,000, Without reckoning on any new branch of trade to be -called into existence, or on any undue increase of that at Present existing. It is propnsed that the stock shall be divided into 50,000 :Shares, o f £ 2O each ; and, as the st an di ng orders of the 'House of Commons provid e that 10 per cent. on the sums •subscribed shall be paid before a railway bill can be read a.second time, a deposit to that aAmoudnefowlll obiere‘luired before applyin g to Parliam e nt. share to be paid as the share s are awaprded, and2otrie. perr mainete 20s. before the Ist February, 1 845. The amome; of naive Calls to be payable at such tim e as the Commit tee may direct, and the shares of parties failing to pay the Call s when required, will be forfeited, along with any kola's which they may have previously paid. The act will l l 'nside -th a t no su b scr ib er s h a ll b e li a bl e b eyond the amount of his subscription, that nu more than £2. 10s. beer. Per share sh a ll b e ca ll e d f or a t any one ti me, an d that ur ibe an inte r v a l o f no t l ess th an th ree mont h s sbc i xtthe,Calls. 1 After the net is obtained, 4 per cent. interest will be t e h i nwed upon ?the Calls, from the date :of payment until th e li ne is opened for traffic. If the act is not obtained, loale. PaYmente, deducting expenses, will be 'returned. iPeplications for Shares in the form annexed, may be and A . t° ,Adaria and Anderson, Blakie ar,d Smith, or P. W. w e i, ia vidson, Advocates in Aberdeen; to G. and T. and 1 . , 'ler, Old 'Palace-yard, and Johnson, Farquhar, Lary et ch, 64 M Y Soli cit , , oorgate-street, London, the Parliamen- Ess ex-te ts : l T ; to Clark, Davidson, and Brown, 36, 7 , 8°)11 .,,ad Mlys n ndon ; Shiell and Small, Dundee; Lou ."• black, B "Old, Arbroath ; William Gordon, and D. der Smart een 'n; Adana Furness, Montr ose ; Alexan a M 4 Le: d Kinnear and Monro, Stonehaven ; Duncan 1044 -gtreet 0 110 1 , 4 „ , and Gray and Jamieson, Perth ;or to the r isch o l g sh arehrokers —namely, 'William Gordon, Ma- Os wald, ' George, and Co C' td een ; Co.,' and James Black e aud p- Hobert Allan, John Robertson, and and John aliens and Home. Edinburgh ; D. B. Niven tpti l t ill gturrock, jun., Dundee; W. H. Oliphant, at6 on ‘P s w en and Auld, John C. Foelds, and James W'll• ' Gla s li st ' • la to W s s 'i , e'w ; Moore and Gatliff, Huddersfield ; ti ikon an and and George Heaps anti Co., Leeds ; atli •isuit • S an, Manchester ; B. and M. Boyd, 4, New street a on, and C. and J. H. M'ltae, 57, B. N,' "eondos' gatets.ao -r F oy YTH and PRI CHARD, 13 1 , and J. li to RICHARD SCHOLES, Liverpool, F AR To 4 OF A PPLICATION FOR SHARES. ',OVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE ABERDEEN RAILWAY. 41.4t? ' T ren th. t you will allot to Te . !rlatrbees't:rf .20'each, in -u t e h g e t pr a oposed Aberdee ❑ Hallway, "al' the apd conditiohs of the Prospectu , s. _l n sh r a e l . ! %ire& "Point and sign the necessary deetis whe 1-lat ed at ............. Pe•idenct- ...... . .. • • • Trade or Professlon... day of 1841. GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CAULISLE RAILWAY. _ _ THE Provisional CoinnTitieerespectfully inform ap plicants for Shares in this Undertaking, that the Allocation has now been completed, and they regret that from the number of applications received beyond the amount of Capital required so many respectable parries have been disappointed. Those parties-WV w' not re ceived letters of Allotment will, therefore, understand that the Committee have been unable to comply with their wishes. The Subscribers' Deed of Agreement will lie for Sig nature in the hands of 11 , 1 r. MATTHEW WOTHERSPOON, Sharebroker, No. 7, India-buildings, Liverpool, from the 3d till the 18th instant. By order of the Committee, WILLIAM LOGIE, Interim Secretary. Glasgow, Ist May, 1844. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. CONVEYANCE DIRECT BETWEEN LONDON AND LIVERPOOL, TO prevent delay in transit, and counteract excessive charges which are still practised on the Public by common Carriers, parties should expressly direct all Merchandise from London for Liverpool to be delivered to CHAPLIN AND IIORNE, HAMBRO'-WHARF, THAMES-STREET, LONDON. AGENTS FOR THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. or at either of their Receiving-offices, City or West : viz., Spread Eagle. Swan with Two Necks —. Lad-lane, Cross Keys George and Blue Boar Holborn, Golden Cross.... Spread Eagle Griffin's, Green Man and Still ; and Euston-square, whose Rates throughout ore arranged according to the weight, value, and bulk of the Goods, but in no case ex ceeding 4s. per Cwt., including cartage in London. Goods are conveyed daily by the Grand Junction Rail way Company between London and Liverpool direct, without change of Waggon or loss of time. Apply to BRAITHWAIIE POOLE. Liverpool, 24, Wider-street, Ist May, 1844. GUARANTEE SOCIETY. .ESTABLISHED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. 'CAPITAL £lOO,OOO TRUSTEES. Charles Rugze Price, Esq. I Thomas Fowler, Esq. John Francis Uaubert, I Major - General Parlby, Esq. Officers'of her Majesty' s S erv i ce , b o th (Ci v il a n d Military,)*Secretari e s. Clerks, and all others hold ing, or about to hold, confidential and.Teamintble situa tions, this`Society presentsitrotedkitirfacnities for obtain ing Surety'for Integrity, upon payment of a small annual premium, and by which relatives and friends are relieved from the various pecuniary responsibilities attendant on private sdretyships. The t.tirety of this Society is accented by the War-office, (for , Payrnas:ers of Regiments and of Out-Pensioners,) the Ordnance, East India Company, the Customs, the Bank , of England, and nunterOns Banking, MO:•cantile. and Commercial Firms, both in London and in the country. Forms of application, and every information, may be obtained at the Offices, 28, Poultry, London. TH OMAS 'DO DGSON, - Secretary. AGENTS FOR THE 'LIVERPOOL TISTRICT, HUGHES AND RONALD, 1, .Cook street. ROBERT BLACKIMRST, atpresetit and for two 1:5 weeks past residing at number nineteen, Mill-street, in - the parish or place of Toxteth-park and county of Lan 'caster, and for four years previously residing at number fourteen, in Mill-street aforesaid, and being an auctioneer :.and appraiser, DO HEREBY GIVE 'NOTICE, that I intend to present a petition to the 'LIVERPOOL DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, praying to be examined touchingtny debts, estate, and effects ; and 'to be protected from all process, upoirmaking a full dis closure and surrenderof such estate and effects, for pay ment of my just and lawful debta.--NAND I HEREBY FURTHER GIVE NOTICE, that the time when the matter of the said petiti6n shall be heard, is to be adver— tised in the London-Gazette, and tbe-Liverpoot Standard newspaper, one month at the least after the date hereof. As witness my hand this sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord o e thousand eight hundred and forty-four. ROBERT BLACKHURST. IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 30,000,000 fls. (of 1839.)-1 .itI36TRTAN SCRIP for £3, 6 for £15,-and 13 for .£5O ; reimbursable by Dividends of £341;000, £23,000, £20,000,5£15,000, &c.—Smallest Dividend £5O sterling. IMPERIAL 'RUSSIAN-POTASH LOAN of 150,000,000 fls. (of 1835.)-1 Ru-esritra-PoLisu-Scrup for £2 10s., 4 for-XlO, and 9 for £2O. General and chief DISTRIBIiffiON Ist Juere, at Vienna. A few SCRIPS are - get on SALE. Dividends repaid at Paris; Fre.nkfort, - Vienria, and London. Apply for prospectuses, with fell particulars, 'without delay, to A.JACOBS and Co., Bankers, Frenkfort-on-Maine. Or, to save posteges, letters may. be sent to Mr. , JA•corts. 34, Wellclose-square, London, from whence they will promptly be forwarded. IMPERIAL RusslAN;roLisH LOAN of 150,000,000 P s. (of 1835,) IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 3000;000 fl. (of' 1839;) guarantccd' by .their Majesties the Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of Russia. GRAND DISTRIBUTIONS at Warsaw-and Vienna. In the. Russian-Polish Loan the following tlivi , sends will be re-irticnursed :—One of 1,000.00(1 11., one of 300,000 fl., two of '150,000 fl., six of 25,000 11., eight of .14,000 fl., &c., together 7000 dividends, gaining7,97o,oooll. Smallest dividendlOO fl., largest LOOO,OOO fl. In the , Austrian Loan 700 bonds will obtain '701,700 fl., in lots of 230,000 fl., 50;000-#1., 15,00(1 fl , 10,960 fl., &c. Smalle s t dividend 500 1 1. Itt'lloains are . equal to £1 sterling, a trifle more or less, as per day's exchange. The prices , are— DRussian-Polish S cr i p f or £ 2 10 1 A ustr i an Scr i p for £3 4 Ditto 10 0 6 Ditto 15 '9 Ditto 20 0 13 Ditto 30 Tayable by bank notes, remittances, -or drafts. Divi dends reimbursable at Frankfort, Paris, London, or New York, at the option of the holders. The undersigned ge neral agent, in claiming the attention of 'the imperial and foreign public to these more important Loan Distributions, begstO stite that, agreeably to the instructions with which he has been honoured, he is now receiving the orders of the -public. To save postages, foreign subscribers may apply to his houses in Paris, New York, and London ; at Mr. uk. Schwarzschild ' s, 1, Plough-court, Lombard i street. Prospectuses, with full particulars, and Lists o the Distribution, J. pr A. om s pt c l ll o w rw A a i rli z e s d c to il e i v ri ery ,, shareholder abroad. Banker and Receiver-General. FratAfort-on-Maint, "brit, 1 841. FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, Price ls. 12d. per box. THIS excellent Family PILL is a Medi c i ne o f long tried efficacy for correcting all disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, the common symptoms of which are Costiveness, Flatulency, Spasms, Loss of Appetite, Sick Head•ache, Giddiness, Sense of Fulness after meals, Dizziness of the Eyes, Drowsi ness an d P a i ns in the Stomach and Bowels, Indigestion producing a Torpid State of the Liver, and a conseque n t I nact i v i ty of the Bowels, causing a disorganization of every fu nc ti on o f t h e frame, will, in this most excellent preparation, by a little perseverance, be effectually removed. Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of its salutary effects. The Stomach a ill speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys will rapidly take place ; a n d i ns t ea d o f li st l essness, heat, pain, and jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, will be the quick result of taking this Medicine according to the directions accompanying each box. These Pills are particularly efficacious for Stomach Coughs, Colds, Agues. Shortness of Breath, and all Obstructions of the Urinary Passages; and if taken after too free an indulgence at table, they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose. Persons of a FULL HABIT, who are subject to Head-ache, Giddiness, Drowsiness, and Singing in the Ears, arising from too great a flow of Blood to the Head, should never be without them, as many dangerous symp toms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use. For FEMALES, these Pills are most truly e xce ll ent, removing all obstructions, the distressing Head-ach e so v e ry prevalent with the sex ; Depression of Spirits, Dull ness of Sight, Nervous Affections, Blotches, Pimples, and Sallowness of the Skin, and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the complexion. To MOTHERS. they are confidently recommended as the best medicine that can be taken during pregnancy : and for children of all ages they are unequalled. As a pleasant, safe, easy Aperient, they unite the re commendation of a mild operation with the most success ful effect, and require no restraint of diet or confinement during their use. By regulating the dose according to the age and strength of the patient, they become suitable for every case, in either sex, that can be required ; and for elderly people they will be found to be the most comforta ble Medicine hitherto prepared. Sold by T. Pitour,229, Strand, London. Price Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. per box; also by Rennie, Wagstaff, Howell, Phillips, Aspinall, Fisher, Apothecaries' Company, G. Syers, J. Syers, Roberts, Johnson and Son, Lathbury, Scholefield, Smith, King, Bradford, Blake, Bird, Gerard, Watson, Mucklow, Lloyd, Carter, and Rowland, Liver pool ; Law, and Gaskell, Manchester ; and by the vendors of Medicines generally throughout the kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the Government Stamp. EARLY CLOSING.—We are glad to - pereeive that the boot-makers are about to adopt the now almost general system of early closing. FIRE IN CHAPEL -STREET.—About half-past se7eu o'clock yesterday evening, a fire was discovered on the premises adjoining Adelaide Buildings, Chapel-street. The ground floor is occupied by Mr. Graves, a merchant, and the upper rooms are occupied by Messrs. T. and J. Connah, Mr. Thos. Sleddon, and Messrs. Bournes and Robinson, and in the office of the latter the fire originated, but was fortunately discovered and arrested before any material damage was effected. A laree hole was burned in the floor, and a number of files of hills, the Telpgraph. Sze., consumed Mr. Miller, the chief suncrintendenc, as also Mr. Ilewitt, were sneedily on the spot. The fire was fist di-covered by a roan narr•ed Piekersgill, who rendered efficient service in preventing its progress by a few buckets of water. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. VARIETIES. AN AGED FAMILY, — There i s now residing at Husted Nook, in the township of Weardale and Wardle, an aged family of seven individuals, all in good health, — namely, James Matthews, 85 ; Robert, 75 • Thomas. 73 ; John, 77 ; Mary, 82 ; Betty, 71 ; Richard, 67. Their united ages amount to 530 years.—Blackburn Standard. FRENCH PURITY OF ELECTION.—On Monday last, the French Chamber of Deputies decided that the third election of Mr. Charles Lafitte, for the borough of Lou viers, was not a good election, and ought to be annulled. The ground of his rejection was, that he had been guilty of " collective corruption," in having promised the elec tors to cause to be constructed a branch from the Rouen railroad to that town I TRAVELLING IN SPAIN.—We read in a Madrid jour nal—" Mail -coaches with three places for passengers, like those of France, have been established upon all our roads. It is difficult to give an idea of the multiplication of public carriages of all kinds in Spain. They are run ning in every direction, and there is so much opposition that the fares are extremely low, and travelling has become so greatly increased, that the inns and other establishments for their accommodation are as greatly improved. If our highways are but cleared of the brigands who infest them, foreigners will flock to explore our country and its inter esting curiosities, hitherto almost unknown to the rest of Europe."—Gatignani's Messenger. A LIVELY Peace.—They have a little town out west which appears to have been overlooked by Dickens, and other English travellers of his class, and which is all sorts of a stirring place. In one day they recently had two street fights, hung a man, rode three out of town on a rail, got up a quarter race, a turkey shooting, a gander pulling, a match dog fight, had preaching by a Methodist circuit rider, who afterwards run a foot-race for drinks all round; and, as if this was not enough, the judge of the court, after losing a year's salary at single-handed poker, and whipping a person who said he did not under stand the game, went out and helped to Lynch a man for hog-stealing.—Picayune. SOUND OF BELLS ON WATER.—Dr. Arnott relates a case where the sound of bells was heard on board a ship sailing along the coast of Brazil, far out of sight of land. The sound was heard during an hour or two, at a partiiplar spot on deck, and it seemed to vary as in human rejoic inge- All on board came to listen, and were convinced as to the existence and nature of the sound, but to account for it was impossible. Months afterwards it was ascer tained, that at the time of the observation, the bells of the -city of St. Salvador, on the Brazilian coast, had been ringing on the occasion of a festival ; their sound, there fore, favoured by a gentle wind, had travelled over. per haps, a hundred miles of smooth water, and lied been brought to a focus by the concave sail in the particular situation on the deck where it was listened to. ARRIVAL AT BEYROOT.—The traveller, whose good fortune it has been to make his first approach to Syria by sea, and to land at Beyroot, must always esteem it a happy coincidence that the most frequented port on all the coast is likewise precisely the point where a man df taste and quick feeling would choose to receive his first im pressions of the country. Long before the vessdl nears the sheire, the sunlit peaks and wavy ridges of Lebanon arc seen marking the blue sky, while its sides are hid from sight by the haze upon the waters ; by and by the craggy masses of the mountain come forth like airy promontories ; the tye gradually distinguishes the deep and dark valleys that •cleaveits flanks ; the rocky crests assume a bolder outline ; and you half discern villages sc ;ttered on the mountain -sides, and monasteries like feudal fortresses crowning their summits. Each object caught sight of is hailed -with delight ; all bands are on deck ; every eye is strained, and each gazer has continually some new disco very to impart to his companions. It is always an ex -citing thing to have a mountain land in view as the termi nation of a sea voyage; butbere the charm is felt with tenfold strength, for the land 'before you-is endeared by a host of associations linked 'with your earliest and most hallowed:recollections. Meanwhile, •the vessel holds on its course • the land grows beneath the .eye ; the white walls of the country houses, spread all along the plain at the foot of the mountain, peep out with a look of welcome from between their clustering trees, and the air is loaded with the perfumed breath of orange and lemon blossoms. At last the anchor is dropped, and you are riding in the bay of tßeyroot, in front of a long promontory, rising gradually from the water, above whichare seen the mina rets and towers of the town, and beyond them the sum mits of the Jebel Sunnin, and the Jebel Kneese, and the long lines of the Jebel el Drus.—Library of Travel. •DIVISIBILITY KATTER.—We not unfrequently speak of things as being ." as fine -ass a hair." Now the human hair varies in ;thickness from-the I-2 - Oth to the 1-600t1a part of an inch;-and it is a massive cable in com parison with the fibres produced by other animals. The thread of the silk-worm is many-times finer, being from the 14l 00th to the 1.2 1 00 th of an inch. This, however, is nothing to the slenderness of the spider's thread, which has been tound in some instances to .be no more than 1-30,0170 th of an inch in 'diameter. •It is difficult even to imagine quantities so small ; and the best way to realize them to the mind is to mnsider that 30,000 such threads laid side by side would make a ribandonly one inch broad. But this is by no means the entire wonder of the spider's thread. Each of these slender cords is composed of four or six- twisted together; and every one of these is formed by the-pressing out of a viscid fluid-through a sort of teat or spinneret at the hinder, part of the animal, the point of .which, , instead of having -a single orifice, is perforated by not less than 1000 very minute apertures. The thread of each spinneret must he- formed. therefore-by the union of not Jess, - than 1000 fibrils -,-and four or six.of these threads go to -form the cord of 1.• 30,000 th of an ineth in diameter, of which the spider's web is constructed. It has been calculated that two drachsys (120 grains) of such thread would reach from Edinburgh to London. The fibres yielded lay the vegetable kingdom are not se -fine as these ; yet their minuteness is most astonishing. Every fibre of flax is composed of a bundle of other fibrils, which have been found to be about 1-2560th of an inch in diameter. Similar fibres, obtained from the pine-apple plant, have been ascertained to be no more than .1-50011th or even 1-7000th of an inch in diameter • these when twisted into threads, and woven. are said t© form cloth of very beauti ful texture. The glistening spirit fibrils which.are drawn out when the leaf-stalk of a geranium or a strawberryt than snapped by drawing the ends apart, al - e not more h l-I2,o2 tu Ot r i a l l s of c a i n en i c n e. inch in diameter. — Popular Cy clo p cedia of N A GOOD CRITIC'S OPINION •.CIP ERNST. — Second 'feature in this concert Herr Ernst. Much as it may be the continental °e P i h e i f ltrr 'Philharmonic n prominentic appear ance judgment, it is ; C a o sh n i c oo e nrft: affecttHoofth e a p c h o i nlhtwea Englishmarrpttohneoifcrsl yet, unquestionably, a fact. that the greatest artists of all conutries seek from the Philharmonic audience the last and conclusive ,testimony to their powers. In the case of Herr Ernst, this was yielded on Monday evening in a wanner too prompt,and enthusiastic to be otherwise than y. annos superior o i f aoiolu t d h fs islmoefesuaxs musical extraordinary u r fe aipdxrsoicanheebiastlolryetny:eanvbxnticlo,oeeloli evennl gney i en s ne t b..eamnu,atsii among has,ghetwhan while genial e s e s ioe u nisnnit gratifying to him. We have already spoken on several e e occasions thatmadly deeper a ce r pm i e o ru n able to sustain the all-passionate idola which Paganini created. -He could not have made a better selection for the display of his prodigious capabilities than the Scene Cantante of Spohr. The recitatives, the can tabile, the 1 final allegro,—all were absolute perfec tion. We have heard Spohr execute this same com position, but, nevertheless, prefer its rendering at the hands of Ernst. Nothing, of course, can transcend Spohr's understanding of his .can work; but the youth of Ernst is yet hot and fresh with him, and he sings through his lovely gush of pathos, not as a cherished relic of by-gone feeling, but as the prompt exponent of pre sent and living passion. His solo in the second act, though less interesting to the musician, was, perhaps, necessary to substantiate his position among the wonder workers of the day, As a collection of miraculously achieved difficulties, we have heard nothing beyond it; one variation, indeed,—an overwhelming torrent of rap'd chorus—was so obviously an all-but preternatural marvel as to compel a tremendous encore. Ernst was vociferous'y received throughout, and he deserves it. As a player he is certainly second to none; but his composer-like fed ing and genial attachment to everything intrinsically excellent in music, place him above all comparison in his walk of art.—Allas A VETEsAN.—The late Sir Jahleel Brenton entered the service in 1777 ; was made a Lieutenant on the 22nd of November, 1790, and as such served on board the Barfleur in Lord Bridport's action off Cape St. Vincent's n 1697 (in which were also his gallant frienclq, two of the Admirals at the present Board of Admiralty); was made a commander on the .3rd of July, 1799; and in command of the Speedy, 14-gun brig, in that year fought several actions in the vicinity of Gibraltar; three of the enemy's vessels he captured during this command near Cape de Gatt, under a heavy fire of musketry from the surrounding bills. In the following month of October he destroyed four of the enemy's vessels in a heavy surf, at the time exposed to the guns of a fortification and musketry from the beach, and in the next month of November he dis played consummate skill and gallantry in beating off two Spanish schooners, and ten other armed vessels ; by these services he won his post rank, which is dated the 25th of April, 1800. He was then selected by Sir James (after wards Lord) de Samaurez as his flag captain, and in com mand of the Caesar distinguished himself in the severe action off Algesiras, of the Gth of July, 1831. Subse quently, in command of the Mi nerva, when that frigate got - aground in a fog and was lost near Cherbourg, he de fended her during a heavy fire of several hours, for which unsurpassable gallantry he received the highest praise when acquitted at a court martial for the loss of his ship. In 1807, when in command of the Spartan frigate, Sir Jableel assisted in driving the French garrison out of Pezaro and destroying the castle; in the following m ont h he assisted in blowing up the Castle of Cesaratico, destroy ing a neighbouring battery, and compelling the Island of Sussin to surrender; assisted at the reduction of Zante and Cephalonia, and particularly distinguished himself at the capture of Cerigo, where he was first in command. These and many other important services did this gallant officer render in the Adriatic. In the same ship in 1810, in concert with the Sussex, he fought a mostgallant action with and defeated, a French squadron in the Bay o f Naples, in which action he was severely wounded. The gallant deceased was created a Baronet on this occasion, and received other honours, and on the Bth of February, 1811, had a pension conferred upon him of X3OO per annum for the wounds he had received. He obtained hig andtla g a p s r o 0 0 0 t o A n d ro a ir ß a l e Rear-Admiral Adr the m s a t on h of July 22d l y of 1810, and July, IsBu3bo: also received a £3OO o en p t e ly r l a l o ad oo a m no f t o h r er go p o e d ns s i p o r n vio c e nn : fe i r l io t ed upon him of i p , ; „ tr ß io L t: l c r.. F l u d n a d i i.ralTßhreengtaoln.a.nt Hewdeceased a s tv, w i c a: elde•t son, Mr. Laune. lot Charles Lee married. ae a r n sr t oi eo f d r o .o m f r h ies e Brenton, who succeeds to the Baronetcy ; was born in 1807. INDIA AND CHINA. (From Yesterday's Times.) We received on Saturday evening our despatches from India and China, which left Bombay on the Ist of April. The chief intelligence of the month relates to the con duct of a part of certain native regiments on the north west frontier, which refused to march to Scinde, in con sequence of some allowances granted to the troops on the banks of the Indus during the time of war being with drawn when that province was declared to be in peace and annexed to the British Empire in India. The pay of the native soldier is five rupees and a half (11s.) per month, besides which he receives subsistence money (called batta and half-hatta) of one rupee and a half in cantonment, and, if marching in the Company's territo ries, an additional sum of the same amount called " extra batta," whereby his pay becomes eight rupees and a half Per month. If he is on a foreign station, and in peculiar cases of scarcity, he receives en additional sum called " ration money," as a compensation for the dearness of the articles of his use, such as grain, &c. Thus there were three indulgences to be considered, viz., Ist, the cantonment rate of half-batta ; 2d, the marching rate of extra batta ; and 3d, the extraordinary indulgence of ra tion money. _ . All cause for alarm had ceased, and the several regi ments ordered were proceeding to their stations on the Indus. Three regiments have been ordered to be dis banded,—viz., the 7th Light Cavalry, and the 4th and 34th regiments of Native Infantry. The 61th regiment, in which but a few began the mu tiny, having proved that the mass of the men 's new nothing of it, and having volunteered to go to Scinde, had been allowed to proceed, and with the Foot Artillery, under Captain Graham, had embarked at Ferozepore on the 18th of March. The 6th Irregular Cavalry, which had not, to its honour, shown the smallest symptom of dis affection, was also in progress there. The Artillery had also at first begun to march, but the Hindoo Brahmins and the Mussulman Mollabs had gone to tamper with the men, and produced for a time some disinclination, which ceased on explanations being given. The government, which has made the concessions to the troops, will take care to weed the disaffected out of all these corps. The propriety of an increase of the Bombay army had been admitted by the Governor-General, and lists bad been prepared of the officers to be appointed to four new corps, from which it appeared that the colonels had served 40 years, the lieutenant-colonels upwards of 30 years, the majors more than 25, and the majority of the captains 19 and 20 years, while it would leave the average of two brevet-captains to each regiment after 15 years' service. There was a great wish expressed in. Bengal and Madras that Scinde should be made over to the Bombay Prssi dency as an appanage, and that its army should be aug mented to meet the demand on its service. In such cir cumstances the augmentation of 10 regiments would be necessary ; but the Bombay army has never yet been stained with mutiny on anyoccasion whatever. The 47th Madras Reginaerlt, which had shown a muti nous spirit in Bombay, had been sent to garrison Aden. The cost of the grant to the Sepoys in Scinde is va riously estimated ; it 'has been calculated at £50,000 per annum, but the improvements going on in the districts on the borders of 'the Indus will soon repay it. Fortu nately for India the flourishing state of the revenue will not cause any pressure from the grant of the batta to the Scinde and 'Gwalior armies. Such is its prosperity. that the Governor. General has issued a notification abolishing the transit duties in the Presidency of Madras. This is considered as a most useful measure, as introducing uni formity into'the various provinces of India. The news from Scinde represents that district as tran quil and comparatively healthful. The Bombay troops there were satisfied to retain it, and an augmentation► in that army vas expected. From Lahore the news is of great importance. There a civil war is raging; a chief called Cashmeera Singh, a bastard of Runjeet, is opposed to the new Prime Minis ter, HeerSingh, and, as Sikhs support him, it is proba ble there will be another revolution within a few months in the Punjaub. The notorious Afghan leader, Akbar Khan, had led his troops to invade Pe-hawur and he will, in all-probability, force the Lahore Government into an application to the Governor-General for assistance. It is not improbable that there will be another conflict with the Affghans on the plains of the Panjaub, where the Indians, when not aided by the English, have almost always been routed by the hardy mountaineers. l t seems that these mountaineers have an established right to overcome the people to the east of the Indus, and when they lately invaded Peshawur they were surprised at being beaten back by the Sikhs tender foreign generals. The .conquest of their country by the British army bad surprised them; yet now again they are to be seen moving tothe Indus, and there the British army must again meet and defeat them. The Sikhs have lost their weight in the scale of India since the death of old Runjeet, and it is therefore imperative on the British government to be pre pared to conflict with the Shiks against the Affghans, and not to allow them to makes junction, which might lead to numberless invasions on the fertile north-western pro vinces of the Company'sterritories. The late rumours of a mutiny amongst the native troops had encouraged both the Sikhs and Affgbans to exhibit a bo.tile spirit towards the British. The antipathy between the Affghans and the Sikhs is proverbial; they are continually quarrelling, and as the Sikhs have latterly, by means of foreign generals and British aid, been successful, the former now seek an opportunity of having another conflict, for they are anxious to become masters of Peshawur, and of Cash inert. The Governor-General arrived in Calcutta on the 28th of February, and was well received. In Gwalior tranquility prevails. The new contingent was arranged, and the people appeared satisfied. It is worthy of remark, that the neighbouring district of Bun delkund has been thoroughly pacified by the subjugation of Gwalior, and so far was that pacification effective that the whole of the Bundelkund contingent had volunteered to proceed for three years to Scinde, thereby demonstrating that the late disaffection relative to money matters in the four regiments of Bengal had not any extensive ramifica tions. In all parts of India tranqu;llity prevailed when the mail • left Amongst the late passengers from Bo m b a y we r e Si r it and Lady Sale, and their daughter, Mrs. St a rt; they left in the ship True Briton, and are corning to England round the Cane. The news from China comes down to the 27th of Feb ruary, but presents nothing remarkable. Sir H. Pottin ger was at Hongkong, which island was healthy. He was, while waiting for his successor, engaged in regulating some of the buildings at Victoria, and also in making pro per arrangements for the trade at the new ports. The Chinese were robbing houses and plundering the foreigners as well at Macao as at Hongkong. Great anxiety prevailed in India respecting Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, as the rumours on the sub ject were conflicting. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CHINA. The accounts received state that the Chinese new-year holidays had almost entirely put a stop to business, and few transactions either in imports or exports had been effected. The following report of the Cotton. market comes down to the lsc of January : Deliveries in Dec. Stock Ist Jan. American Bombay.... Bengal Madras 10,915 .. 24,813 Total bales .... 41,877 127,260 Cotton was quoted at T. 54 to T. 7 for Bombay ; Ben gal, 6.2 to 8 6 ; Madras, 6.4 to 8; American, 6 to 6.5. In the Cotton Piece Goods market there was a good deal of activity, and large sales had been made at the following quotations :—Grey Longcloths, 2.80 dots. to 3.20 dots. ; Bleached do., 3.60 dots. to 4.20 dots. ; Drills, 2.30 dols. to 2.35 dots. ; American Sheetings, 2.45 dots. to 2.60 dots. The demand for Cotton Yarn continued as before. Sales were with difficulty made at 22 dots. to 24 dols. for Nos. 16 to 32. There was no inquiry whatever for the higher numbers. The demand for Woollens bad fallen off considerably. We give below the quotations at which large shipments of Tea had been bought : Congou Tea, 15 to 20 per pecul ; Hyson, 32 to 70 per pecul ; Young Hyson Tea, 25 to 36 per pecul: Hyson skin, 14 to 35 per pecul; Gunpowder and Imperial Tea. 38 to 70 per pecul. The export of Tea to Great Britain, in the month of December, in 12 vessels, was of black, 5,955,1031bs ; and of green, 592,4521b5. ; total, 6,547,645. The total exports in six months from July 1 to Feb. 22 was of black, 29,429,3351b5.: and of green, 5,770.9561b5. ; in all, 35,200,2911b5. Prices of Opium were quite nominal— namely, Malwa, 670 d o t s , t o 680 d o l s . ; an d P atna, 595 to 600 dots. Exchange on London, six months' sight, 4s. 6d. ; with Bengal, 30 days' sight, 224 rs. per 100 dots. CALCUTTA, MARCH 23. Since the issue of last week our money market has been tranquil, and capital abundant for all commercial purposes of a sound character. In government securities there had been a good deal of business at advancing valuations for some days. The Four per Cents. at one time reached within 1 or 12 annas of par. They have since receded to 1 a 1.2. Exchange is dull, and few bills for sale. The rate may be quoted at ls. 101 d. to ls. lOid. at 10 months' date. Bank Stock is in demand, and the premium rising. INDIGO.—The imports of the season have now nearly closed, and the amount of produce approximates to fy. mds. 1,70,000. The exports since our last issue of 17th ultimo, are 4393 chests or fy. mds. 16,992 to England, 2021 chests or fv. mds. 7111 to France, and 2302 chests or fy. mds. 7787 to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea ; which make the shipments of the season to the 15th instant, inclusive, as below. BOMBAY, APRIL 1. METALS.—Iron has been in limited request during the month, and nearly all kinds are rather lower, as our quo tations will show. Tile Copper has declined abaut Ir. per cwt., and sheathing rtol r. ; but brazier's and raised bottoms are unaltered, and South Ameri can h as advanced Rs. 3 per cwt. Spelter is nominal at Rs. 10 to Rs. 17 per cwt. Lead is very dull of sale, pa r ti cu l ar l y sheet, and only Rs. 101 for Pig, and Rs. 11 at 111 for Sheet, are now obtainable. Red Lead is steady at Rs. 11 to Ilt per cwt. Tin Plates and Steel are unaltered in value. We subjoin a list of the sales that have been re ported to us for publication :—Copper, 225 cwt. Sheath ing, at Rs. 52-12 as. per cwt, ; 900 cwt. Tile, at Rs. 51-12 as. per cwt. ; 145 cwt. do . at lis. 52 ; an d 9 4 cwt. do. at Rs. 52-2 as. per cwt. ; 4 50 cat. Brazier's, at Rs. 561 per cat. ; 140 Ingots, at Rs. 52 ; 100 cwt. R ods, at R. 54; end 150 cwt. South American, at Rs. 47; — Iron. 120 tons British Bar, at Rs. 22 to 22-2 as. per candy ; 308 tons do., at Rs. 22 per candy ; 75 can dl es Nail Rod (round and square) at Rs. 25-12 as ; 398 candles Swedish Bar, at Rs. 50; 400 cwt. Hoop, at R s ., 4-7 a s. per cwt. been Co nro y MANUFACTURES.—TL e f + b r i es t h at h ave been it7b-tdehmaavreid commanded mal e id een grey a n d 11, ac h e d ja,conets. an advance of a b out 1 to 2 a d these annas per piece. Bleached long cloths and madapollams have also been in fair request at former rates. but gre) madapollams and long curbs are rather steady, and only in mo,terate inqtnry. Muslins are rather scarce and wanted, as also Tu r k ey red goods of all kinds, but prints have been in the most limited request, and the prices ob tained are extremely low, and have a heavy loss to im porters. Z-bra dresses are nearly unsaleable, and appear to have gone almost out of consumption. YARNS.—There has been a fair demand during the month, especially since the arrival nf the mail, and the stocks in first hands being small prices have advanced to anna per lb. PREIGHTS. Freights have risen and may now be quoted at £3. 17s. bd. to £4. for first-class ships, to London and Liverpool ; and at .t 3. 15s. per ton for second class ships ; but there is little cargo offering at present. SPAIN. The following telegraphic des9atch, dated Madrid, May 2d, appears in the limes of yesterday : " The entire (Spanish) Ministry has resigned. The Queen has accepted their resignation, and has charged General Narvaez wtth the formation of another Ministry, of which M. Miraflores is to be a member. " M. Bravo and hi. colleagues have announced to the Queen that they will lend their support to their successors. " Madrid is tranquil." THE BRAZILS. Her Majesty's packet Penguin, Lieut. Leslie, with mails from the Brazils, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres, arrived at Falmouth on Friday. She sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 13th of March, and has come home thence direct, consequently bringing 14 days' later advises than were received by the last packet. She brings on freight in gold, &c., about £20,000. Tne brief interval between the despatch of this packet and the Linnet appears to have been devoid of both mer cantile and political interest. The exchange had ruled during this period from 25 to 241, with a tendency still further to recede. Coffee had slightly improved, owing mainly to the small quantities arriving to market through the demand not having been so brisk just previously. The prices were 3,000 reis to 3,200 reis for superior, 2,600 reis to 2,700 reis for good first, and 1,800 reis to 2,400 reis for good second. A good crop of this article was expected. Freights, which also had been flat, had since recovered to their previous rates. Her Majesty's schooner Cockatrice brought up the Monte Videan and Buenos. Ayrean mails to Rio, with dates from the former to the 19th, and from the latter to the 21st of February. From Monte Video we learn that Rivera, from the last accounts, was at a place on the frontiers called Taquerirribo, closely pursued by General Arquiza, with whom he had a slight rencontre on the 24th of January, near the Rio Negro, and where he was obliged to abandon the only cart of ammunition which he pos sessed. From Buenos Ayres it was reported that Rosas was amply provided with money, and that the exchange kept advancing. There had recently been a rising in one of the adjacent provinces, but it was quelled immediately by General Garcon, who defeated the insurgents, and restored tranquility. MISCELLANEOUS.. The meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society for Eng land for 1845 will be held in Shrewsbury. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal, and attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting, lett Buckingham Palace at a quarter before six o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in a carriage and four, escorted by a patty of the Royal Horse Guards, for Claremont. A House OF MouRNING.—The typhus fever has been raging in the parish of Easthope, near Much Wenlock, since last Midsummer nearly to the present time. In one house seven persons were dangerously ill, three of them died, and the only child which escaped that dreadful malady was burnt to death. Fevi parishes in the country can exhibit such a house of mourning as this. COSTS IN CASES AT PETTY SESSIONS.—A labouring man, tamed Robert Lunnon, was summoned a few days since before the bench of magistrates sitting in petty ses sions at Marlow, to answer the charge of damaging the signboard and a window at the Mack Lion public-house at Little Marlow. The defendantwas convictedin both cases as follows :—for damaging the signboard he was fined 25., and ordered to pay 13s costs ; and for damaging the win dow he was fined Is., and mulct in 15s. costs ! KING WILLIAM'S COLLEGE, ISLE OF MAN,—The restoration of King William's College is progressing ra pidly. The workmen are now engaged upon the roof, and the chapel is also in a state of forwardness.. The patrons and friends of the institution are sanguine that the annual meeting for the distribution of prizes, on the 4th of June, will be held within the walls of the renovated building. It will be remembered, that the edifice was insured for £2,000, but the estimate of the necessary repairs was £3,100 ; the trustees, however, calculate on, a gross ex penditure of £4,000. thns leaving a deficiency of £2,000 to be provided for.—Mona's Herald. Loss OF THE SHIP PALESTINE BY FlRE.—lntelli gence has been received within the last few days of this disastrous event. The vessel was the property of Messrs. Ashley Brothers and Co., of this town. She was almost new, having been launched at Quebec in 1841, and was a very fine vessel of her class, her tonnage being between 700 and 800 tons. The vessel sailed from Gravesend in Septembrr, bound to Aden, Bombay, and Calcutta, with a cargo consisting of several hundred tons of coals, tar, pitch, and pine deals, which was taken on board at New castle. The voyage was very favourable, and all went on well until the 4th of February, %hen, about half-past two o'clock in the morning, the ship being in lat. 26 15 S, long. 58 35 E, the watch on deck was alarmed at observ ing a strong smell of fire, which was discovered, after great difficulty, to proceed from nearly the bottom of the vessel. Every exertion was made to save the vessel, but without success, and eventually the captain and crew were compelled to take to the boats, and shortly after they had lift the ship she suddenly gave a heavy lurch, and then disappeared. head foremost. After enduring the most se vere privations, Captain M 'Lean, and the men in the boat with him, were picked up on the seventh day by the brig Solway, which landed them at the Cape of Good Hope. The other boat, contrary to the instructions of Captain M`Lean, parted company, and the party in her arrived safe at the Mauritius. The Palestine was partly insured. Loss OF THE BARQUE INTREPID.—Captain Stuart, commander of the barque Intrepid, has published the following account of the loss of this vessel :—" The bar que Intrepid left the Sand Heads on the sth of January. 1841, for Liverpool, and crossed the equator on the 19th of of the same month. From lat. 65t014 S we had very bad weather, with a high cross sea. On the 28th it blew a hur ricane. We brought the s tip to under a closed reefed main. topsail, and main trysail, and sent down top-gallant royal yards. The ship began to make so much water that we could not play the pumps. The bulwark being partly gone on both sides, tha sea made a complete breach over the decks, washing the people from the pump, which now could not be left. At eight a.m. on the 2lth, less wind but more sea if possible ; she was labouring to such a degree that I expected the masts to go overboard. On the 31st the weather was fire, but the leak increasing, I ordered ea go to be thrown overboard, which we continued at all t day ; three of my crew sick, and the rest much fatigued. I plainly saw that we could not keep her up much longer, I therefore thought it iludent to turn back and make for the nearest land, and the next morning we saw a ship. She proved to he the Philopontes, from Liverpool to Bombay, Capt. Bell kindly came on hoard with the half of his crew, and his crew kept at the pumps, whilst ours sent up the topgallant yards and set the sails. At night they went on board, it being then calm : at 2 a.m, it began to blow from the northward and the water gained on the pumps fast; at 7 p.m., we left her with the water up to the lower deck beams, expectin in a very short time she would go down; the jute kept her up, having on board five hundred bales, until next morning: we sent the boat on board to get some more provisions, the water then being up to her deck; at 2 o'clock the unfortunate ship went down head foremost, distance about two miles, latitude 17 13 south, longitude 83 34 east, on the 3d of February." —Bombay paper. THE GWALIOR. BATTLES TRAVESTIED.--011 the 22d of February, about 300 boys, of 10 to 12 years of age, collected on the hills, and divided themselves into two parties—and counterfeiting the English army, and the other the Mahratta. On the one side two of the boys were appointed to represent the Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief, a number more as generals and other officers, and the remainder appeared as soldiers. On the other side a boy represented the Maharajah Jvajee Rao, another Ram Rao Phalkeea, other General Baptist, Major Secunder and Bapoo Seetolia ; a girl of the Kachee tribe represented Tara Baee, and of the Koornbar tribe Rookhma Baee. It was proclaimed, that whate , er boy in the luslikur should refuse to come he should be counted as faithless as Jacob. A quantity of otto and dal was collected to represent the Commissariat stores, and four boys were appointed to carry water as Blieesties ; a mussuck was filled with cowries as a treasure chest, and the pay of the Sepoys fixed at 8 cowries, and that of the officers according to their rank. About 25 canons brass and iron, of a cubit long, with a quantity of gunpowder, were brought from the bazaar, and when all was ready the fight comme nce d. Fi rs t the Maharajah's guns commenced, and then the representatives of the English began to move onward : in this attack seven or boys were killed, and 10 or 12 wounded. The boy who represented Sewaee Seconder was wounded in the arm, and was conveyed away in a dboolie. The Mahratta army then having seized on Ram Rao Phalkeea and Bapoo Seetalia beat them. In the evening this news was con veyed to Tara Baee. She sent to them to stop the fight, but the boys stoned the messenger; the latter began to explain that he came by order of the Base, when both sides answered, that the Baee was the mistress of he r own army and he r own h ouse , an d they were their own masters, and would here fight and die. The messenger returned without b e i ng a bl e t o ac complish his errand, a n d soon after sunset the boys of themselves dispersed. S ome b oys of both side s wen t t o their hoer, while some rema i ned as sentinels and prepared their food. On th e next day (24th) there was no fighting till the aftern oon , when about 4 o'clock 600 boys collected and made ready fo r a second edition, and thousands of people assembl e d to see the sport. At this moment another messenge r came to forbid the fight, and offered them 300 rupes as a present. They answered that they were not in want of money, but that they would fight for their salt and die fightin g . S ewaee Secunder's representative, having had the ball extra c t e d from his wound, again came on th e fi e l c and mixed with his comrades. While thus parleying with the Baee's messengers the evening fell and no fighting took place. On the morning of the 25th about 300 to 400 boys were still collected, when the mes sengers of the Bare again came, and seizing some 24 or 25 boys, among the rest the mock Sewaee Secunder, put them i n t h e stoc k s ; t h e others seeing this fled. Some people who went to see these heroes in their confinement were vetted by them with earth. The Durhar has eau,eti a prozlawation to he made in the lushkur forbidding such sports in future under pain of punishment. LOCAL NEWS. EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.—The following extract from the journals kept at the Eve and Ear Infirmary of the operations perf irmed by Mr. Hugh nil' and the other talented gerrlemen connected with the establish ment, shows the extensive us , fulness of this excellent charity :—" On the Bth April last Mr. Neill operated on nine persons for cataract, artificial pupil, Sec. ; and on the 16th of the same month upon three for cataract. On the latter day eighty-tvio persons were also prescribed for and received medicines." CHEAP TRIP TO LONDON.—To those of our readers who have not visited the modern Babylon, an opportunity will present itself on the 18th and 20th instant, by which they will be enabled to go to the metropolis of the world, and gaze on its varied wonders, as the late contractor has again entered into arrangements with the railway com panies to carry passengers there and back, for the par. titulars of which we beg to refer to the advertisement. THE LATE EXPLOSION OF GAS IN A DWELLING HOUSE.—We related a few weeks ago the particulars of an extraordinary explosion of gas in a large (and then luckily untenanted) dwelling-houe in Islington, corner of Salisbury-street, which greatly shattered the building, blew out several of the windows, overturned the door steps, and did other damage. It was afterwards found necessary to remove the greater part of the walls, and have them rebuilt, which is just accomplished. The front wall to Islington is rebuilt almost entirely from the &l iars. The back wall to the yard had to be similarly re newed, and the frontage to Salishury st ,,, et (the largest to about half the same proportionate extent. The attics had to be nearly all rebuilt. The only parts that appear) to have stood the shock were the lower angles or corners. To effect the repairs, the floors and roof had to be sup ported with props all round; and the building, thus opened out, presented the 'appearance of two large open galleries or verandas, one over the other. The cost to the pro prietor must be very considerable, as the destruction would not be made goad by the insurance office. A FEMALE FOUND DEAD IN HER HOUSE.—Yesterday an inquest was held before H. H. Statham, Esq.. deputy borough coroner, on view of the body of Dinah Graf, aged 23, wife of Leopold Graf, formerly warehouseman to Messrs. Wilson and Dawson, and now interpreter to one of the partners on the continent. Police constable, Samuel Kirkpatrick, while on duty on Saturday after noon was informed by a female, that the shop kept by the deceased had been closed from Friday night up to that time, and that her mistress wished to see him. Witness went with her, and she stated that he was wanted about a woman who had been in the habit of drinking. Witaess went to the shop, No. 2, Crown-street, and found the doors and windows all fast. He went through Dr. Nigh tingall's house in Elizabeth -street behind, and succeeded in opening the back window and then the door. Dr. Nightingall accompanied him into the house, and they first found an infant sitting in a bed up stairs, crying, and in a state as if it had not been seen for some time. They, took the child to Dr. N's., where it was fed and attended to. They afterwards found the deceased, lying on her back on the floor of the cellar with her arms opened out, and her legs on the stairs. She was quite dead and cold. She had the handle of a jug in one hand and the remainder scattered about. There was some blood at the back of her head and on her shoulders. She was removed up stairs and placed on the bed. The servant girl (before alluded to) who lived in the neighbourhood, said that on Saturday last, as the shop kept by the deceased had been closed all dry, her mistress sent her for the police-officer, as she was afraid something was the matter. Witness after wards saw deceased dead. She had last seen her alive on Friday night, when she called at the shop fur bread, and she then appeared to be in drink. Deceased had been ob served for some days frequently sending for drink to the neighbouring public houses by girls and others passing. Deceased was married about twelve months last Christ mas. Her husband went abroad about five weeks ago. She was placed in the shop before be went. A servant of Dr. Nightingall said deceased sent for her on Friday night to put up the shop shutters. She went, and found. her in quite a confused and stupified state. Anthony . Bell, Joiner, said he knew deceased and her husband.' At the request of her husband, a little girl of his, two-and a-half years old had been with the deceased since the hus hand went abroad. This was the child found in the house. The witness had often seen deceased during the last eigh teen months, and had never seen her otherwise than sober, and never saw her take any drink in the house. He had called every week except last week. Mr. Nightingall, surgeon, corroborated the officer's evidence as to ficding the body. There was congealed blood about the bead, which had come from the left ear. After an examination, ha found no external wounds. The scalp at the base of the skull behind was contused; upon reflecting the scalp, he fonnd an immence quantity of extrascated blood, and a fracture of the occiputal bone. There were also other injuries of that part of the head ; and all those would pro duce instantaneous death. He afterwards found the liver much diseased, no doubt the effect of ardent spirits. A MI from the stairs to the flags below would produce the effects stated. Verdict —" Died from the effects of the wound, but bow that was received there was no evidence to show" SINGULAR CASE OF BIGAMY : A WIFE LIVING WITH TWO HUSBANDS.—On Thursday last, Margaret M'Neal, , with a child in her arms, was placed before Mr. Rushton, when Mr. Dowling said the prisoner was charged with bigamy under peculiar circumstances. She was living with her husband about three years ago, and there was a man lodging in the house at the same time. The man put the banns up, and was married to the prisoner at St.. Nicholas' Church, she being already married. The wo roan still continued to live with her first husband, and the second had also lived with them, as a lodger, ever since, but the first marriage had only been disco% ered the day before. Mr. Dowling said they had obtained a certificate of the second marriage, but had not been able to find the witnesses. Under these circumstances, the prisoner, who slid she knew nothing at all about it, was remanded. It is said that the prisoner was married to her first husband, James M'N ea l, a b out ten years ago, at the Old Church, Manchester, and that, on the 10th April, 1843. she was again married to Michael Devine, the lodger, at St. Nicholas' Church, in thi s town. t both marriages she gave her maiden name Margaret Hannah, and lately the parties have resided together in Thompson-street, Tox teth-park. As it is somewhat singular that the second marriage should have remained so longs secret, it may be interesting to know how the fact was revealed. On Tues day morning the second husband gave the prisoner into the custody of acting inspector Tuck for robbing him of an I 0 U for £3, a coat and vest, and ss. 6d.'in money. The officer, on investigating the case, found there were no grounds for the charge of felony, but during the time he was in the house where the money was deposited, pri soner snatched a paper out of Michael Devine's hand. On sq doing a fight took place between the parties. Tuck interfered, and took the paper from them. This turned out to be the certificate of the second marriage. The pri soner then said, " 0, God, don't take that ; it b e l ongs t o him." The parties were then taken to Bridewell. On the road thither Tuck met M'Neal, the first husband, and having asked Wm whether the prisoner was his wife, he answered in the affirmative, and thus the whole matter was brought to light.—Yesterday the prisoner was again placed at the bar, and some further evidence was again brought forward, though not yet final. 'William M`Neal said he was present at the marriage of his brother James to the prisoner, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, on the 22d July, 1834, Her previous name was Margaret Hannah. He produced a certificate of the marriage from the registry. and said that the prisoner had had six chil dren, five of whom were alive. John Lovatt said he was assistant to his uncle, registrar at St. Nicholas's Church, in this town, and produced an extract from the registry, to the effect that Michael Devine and Margaret Hannah were there married, 10th April, 1843. John Madden. the next witness, said that at the request of Devine, whom he knew, he had attended the marriage, but he could no t swear to the person of the priso ner as being the woman. Some other persons were p resen t i n the church at the time, as there were other marriages, but he did not know them. This was all the further evidence that could be brought up, and Mr. Rushton said that some of the per sons married on the same day, or their friends who were present, must be inquired for, and that in the meantime the prisoner must be remanded. The probability appears to be that the case will fall to the ground. 1 THE BRIDGEWATER AND THE OLD QUAY CANALS.. There has been much speculation of late respecting these canals, and many surmises afloat, as to what Lord Francis Egerton intends doing. One statement, which has gone the round of the public press, is, that the Bridgewater- Canal is to be drained dry, and then to be converted into a railway between Runcorn and Manchester, and another, that is to remain in its present state, and that the Old Quay Canal is to be made navigable for ships drawing not more than ten feet water, so that vessels might proceed Thisfrom w s eea believe direct to to N be I a n ehes impossible,t e r t o di as t s ela g theire Grand Junction cargoes. Railway passes over the Irwell at an insufficient elevation for vessels of any considerable size to pass uder. Besides, Manchester cannot be made a free port, though she might have the advantage of bonding warehouses. The most feasible and most likely project that we have heard of, and it has come from a source supposed to know, is, that the trustees of the Bridgewater Canal are waiting to see the issue of the bill before Parliament for the construction of docks at Wallasey Pool ; should that be granted, and on the terms expected by the Birkenhead commissioners, the trustees will themselves go to Parliament the next session for power to extend the docks at Runcorn, along the shore, and to join the Weaver Trust Canal at Weston Point, so as to afford every accommodation for that im mense traffic now carried on in connexion with these two canals, and which is expected to be much greater, as the salt brought down the Weaver, and at present conveyed to Liverpool for foreign shipment, will, it is affirmed, ere long proceed to Hull by railway after navigating the Bridgewater Canal to Manchester. Application will also be made to make Runcorn an independent port, as by far the greatest portion of foreign and coastwise merchan dise is brought direct to Runcorn, without the least ne cessity of calling at Liverpool, and thereby the desire pre vails of saviug the present charge of town dues, a grievance much felt and justly complained of. We hope, before long, to state something more positive on this great and useful undertaking. The distance from the entrance of the trustees' docks at Runcorn to Weston Point is rather better than half a mile, and, with the exception of some hundred yards, the land belongs to the trustees, by whom a large sum has been offered frequently for this small parcel, but without success ; hence arises the necessity of applying to parliament; otherwise, we believe, all o matters are available for the completion of the .. 5, . .... 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