The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS, We will do our best to comply with the wishes of " A Constant Reader," but there are many important matters requiring our attention at present. "An Old Sailor" fs highly indignant at the remarks contained in a letter in our last, signed " A Sailors' Friend." Our former correspondent contends that " the allowance to use fires on shipboard would turn out of employment a number of persons who gain a livelihood by supplying the foreigners with meat, fires." &c. The report in our last, of the presentation to Mr. Smith, would leai to an inference that some imputation had been made on the character of that much-respected gentleman, by a letter in the Mercury. We learn, however, that the letter in ques tion reflected merely on the conduct of one or two of the parties who interested themselves in getting up the testimo nial, as to the method they adopted in doing so. We do not think the lines headed "Arbor Vim" sufficiently finished for publication. , ebt Eibtrpoot gPtanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 5, 1850 THE inquiry before Mr. Stephenson, so far as regards the receiving of evidence in open court, has at length concluded ; and we are happy to have it in our power once more to compliment the gentle men who have conducted the case in behalf of local supply, upon the satisfactory mode in which they have performed their arduous duty to their fellow townsmen. Whatever may be the impression upon the mind of the arbitrator, and whatever may be his ultimate decision as to the important ques tion of water supply, the people of Liverpool must feel satisfied that the local capabilities have been fully and fairly stated ; and that gentleman him self, we have no doubt, will he prepared to admit that the advocates of home supply, with such a mass of evidence before them, cannot be accused, with any fairness, of having been actuated by a factious spirit in opposing the Rivington project. No man knows better than Mr. Stephenson that committees of Parliament, and even Government commissions are fallible tribunals; and that many a decision pronounced by them might be recon sidered with great advantage to the public. We have no wish to press hardly upon the advocates of the Pike scheme, who appear already . . sufficiently downcast. It must be confessed, how ever, that after all the vapouring of their organ, the Times, and the high and mighty way in which some of themselves have comported themselves upon the subject, that we expected something rather better from them than the small dribble of inconclusive evidence which they have been, with apparent difficulty, enabled to adduce. Perhaps, however, this may in part be accounted for by the circumstance as suggested on Saturday by Mr. Stephenson, that, beyond offering a negative to the advocates of local supply, they have no facts to adduce, their own project being in nubibus, and consisting of nothing tangible " except a few iron pipes rusting at Birkenhead." With respect to the feasibility and advantages of that scheme the arbitrator will judge for himself from personal inquiry and calculation ; and we can readily believe him when he says that neither Mr. Hawksley nor any one else will be able to throw dust in his eyes, or to warp his independent judgment. Two objects be tells us will alone be borne in mind by him in forming that judgment : one the hope of settling finally a question which has so long agi tated and divided the town of Liverpool, and the other a care for his own reputation. The latter is an ample guarantee; and, whatever his final de cision may be, will assure its being received as setting the question at rest for ever. We shall very briefly refer to a few of the most salient points in the evidence of the two days' inquiry; and first we turn to that of Mr. Binney. "That gentleman, it must be borne in mind, appeared before the court under very disadvantageous cir cumstances. He was perfectly unprepared as to the particular points,to which his geological know ledge was required to be directed, and had not had any opportunity of examining the district near Liverpool for himself. Yet the facts which he stated with respect to other districts in the county, with which he is practically acquainted, were most forcible, and were rendered the more striking from the great caution and modesty with which they were delivered. The town of Manchester is now constructing works for bringing a supply of surface water from the hills in the neighbourhood of Glossop; yet a local supply in abundance exists in the strata underneath. In reply to a question from Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Binney says:— " I don't think that the - Manchester people knew that the sandstone would yield any water at all, before they went to the hills. (Hear, hear.) I have been positively surprised at the quantity of water that has been raised in Manchester from the rock. By dipping through the strata, and going into the sandstone below, the water rapidly came up to the level of the river Irwell. I have not made a calculation of the water at Manchester, but it must be a very large quantity indeed." We can fully - corroborate this fact; for we re member quoting in this paper the circumstances attending the deepening the Gorton Well, from which a supply was obtained four times greater titan was anticipated. The greatest quantity in Manchester is procured from the old sandstone rock, which is covered by beds of limestone and marl ; and this strata Mr. Binney had traced west wardto Chatmoss, Astley, and Edge-green. Further than this, he had not personally investigated ; and would not, without such investigation, express an opinion as to the existence of the same strata be neath Liverpool ; but he took the opportunity of reminding Mr. Stephenson that it had been put in evidence that the lower sandstone rock had been penetrated at Clockhouse-bridge. "He had no doubt that if magnesia and marl were there, the sandstone below would be there too." Mr. Bin ney's experience in Manchester disposes of the fact urged by Mr. Hawksley and others, that, for the water supply under our feet, we have to depend upon the area of rainfall in the immediate district. In Manchester the supply is immense; yet "they had not any one area of ten miles in extent." And, notwithstanding the theoretical opinion of Dr. Buckland, before which he preferred practical ex perience, "he thought it impossible for any geo logist to say how far it would extend, or how much water there would be in the porous sandstone said to be under Liverpool and the neighbourhood." The object of the people of Manchester in going to the hills for water, notwithstanding the abund ant sources beneath their feet, is obvious : they want the purest soft water, for calico printing, bleaching, &c.; and this witness tells us that they would pay any amount for such water—some of the millowners would consent to pay as much as £l,OOO per annum water rent. Liverpool can scarcely be said to be similarly situated. An important fact, as to the alleged drying up of private wells, and strongly illustrating the remarks which we made upon the subject last week, was elicited during the examination of a well-sinker, named Leather, with respect to a well at the cattle market, reported by Mr. Bold to have been dried by the pumps at Green-lane. The well in question was dried, so far at least that no water could be got from it; and Leather contracted to deepen it, and to provide seven feet of water. On descend ing, however, for the purpose, they found that it merely wanted cleaning out, the bore-hole and the pump being choked with sand. The witness re marked—"if we had gone on sinking that well deeper, two or three of us would certainly have been killed. The well is 18 yards deep; and as soon as we had cleaned it out and opened the bore hole, the water came all at once in upon us." It is most probable that many others of the wells in the neighbourhood said to be dried by Green-lane, are in the same situation, and want cleaning. We pass over, without comment, the evidence of Mr. Thomas Spencer, on the part of the Pike pro ject. further than expressing an opinion, in which most of those present will agree with us, that a little modesty, and a less display of partizan spirit, would have rendered it more impressive. There was a little too much of "Professor Ansted and myself," " Doctor Buckland and myself,"—too much parade of chemical knowledge and geological knowledge, and too much assumption of the advo cate, such as we did this, and we did that, to pass current with a Liverpool auditory. Mr. Spencer may be a very clever person, and have been very well paid for the enquiries which he has made, and the evidence which he has given ; but we should have valued more the opinions and conclusions of a scientific man better known as such, less committed to a party, and delivered with somewhat less zeal ous eagerness. Mr. Spencer should remember also that attempting to prove too much is dangerous in a witness. The statement of Mr. Thomas Murray Gladstone was a very important one ; and his opinion that the district, and geological formation for water purposes, may be presumed to be comprised in the basin formed by the chain of hills from Noah Lancashire as far eastward as the Yorkshire and Cheshire hills, is, we conceive, a far more rational one than that of Mr. Hawksley and others, who contend that it is of more circumscribed extent. The fact that no streams of any magnitude are found i ssuing within the extensive water-shed thus formed, would lead to the conclusion that a vast supply is pent up in the strata beneath it, and that it has only to be tapped to afford us any quantity which we require. We come now to the evidence of Mr. Hawksley, which closed the inquiry, and we must say, has produced upon our mind no impression beyond dislike of its casuistry and flttigue occasioned by its wearisome length. The first hour and a half of his speech was occupied by a history of the question of water supply, from its first agitation by the Highway Board until the present time, in the course of which he displayed a very evident morti fication at the fact that the advantages of his pro ject had ever been questioned. At the outset, however, he made an admission, or rather an assertion, for which we were not at all prepared. He had never, he said, expressed any doubt that Liverpool possessed in the strata underneath our feet an ample supply of water for the wants of her population for years to come. If this he the case, we have, in common with the public, been labour ing under a strange delusion. We have imagined all along that Mr. Hawksley advocated the Riving ton project because he entertained an idea that a supply was not procurable in the locality to the amount required ; that, in fact, the rock was nearly exhausted, and the water was rapidly going from us. The evidence and the arguments adduced by the advocates of the Pike were, that the depth of water, not only in the public, but the private wells of the town and district, was decreasing daily, and that new borings would only temporarily add to the total yield, whilst they would deprive the existing private wells of their supply altogether. We are told now, however, that Mr. Hawksley bases his adoption of the Pike scheme upon entirely different grounds, and resorts to a surface supply as being cheaper and better in quality. We shall not comment at any length upon that portion of his long speech in which he at last approached the question at issue. We say ap proached, for in reality he never grappled with it fairly. His observations were little better than a critique upon the plan suggested in Messrs. Simpson and Newland's report, accompanied by some speculative opinions of his own, as to the general question of water supply. Upon these points Mr. Stephenson had already expressed his intention of judging for himself ; and Mr. Hawksley's speech will therefore exercise no more influence upon him than that of any other pro fessional advocate of the same standing would have done. Upon one point, however, he made an admission which is worthy of being borne in mind. He was influenced in going to Rivington for water, he says, by a desire to provide for a population of 800,000, or more than double the present population. The limited area from which he considers the existing supply is drawn is not sufficient to afford a supply for this large increase in prospectu ; and he thinks it right to tax this generation for the benefit of posterity. But is it at all certain that any such increase of the popu lation residing within that area is likely to take place within any reasonable period ? We think not. The tendency of population just now is not to concentrate itself into dense masses, but rather to diffuse itself, by the aid of railways and other facilities for travelling, over a wider surface. Our merchants and our middle classes, by means of omnibuses, have already spread themselves over the distant suburbs of the town. Cheap railway fares will shortly take them to greater distances. The great number of town houses to let shows such a movement to be going on, and it will in crease as further facilities are provided. A few years will probably render a residence at ten or twenty miles from the town as convenient and as economical as West Derby, ,Wavertree, and our other suburban villages are now. Under such circumstances we cannot but regard the provision of a supply of water for a prospective population of 800,000 in the immediate neighbourhood of the town as extravagant and gigantic folly. THE proceedings of the Protectionists thus far, since the commencement of the session, have been attended with no other result than a lamentable exhibition of a party with no recognised leaders, and without any definite policy in behalf of which their whole strength could be induced to rally. The leading organ of Government—the renegade Times—was cunning when he invited, and even taunted, such a party into the step of an amend ment to the address. True, the acknowledgment required, of widely-spread distress existing amongst the agricultural portion of the community, was a small matter. It was but the acknowledgment, in somewhat stronger terms, of a truth already acknow ledged in the speech from the throne. It invited a discussion, and nothing more. But unless the agricultural party had been prepared with a policy to announce by which they were prepared to stand, a division, or any amendment at all, was, we submit, unwise and premature. It resulted only in exhi biting their disorganised condition, and in nega tiving, we fear for the present session, the important question the success of which they thus hazarded. They had within their reach a strong case of injury from the working of the present policy of the Government. It hag been literally and empha tically thrown away. This unfortunate result of divided councils and the absence of mutual confidence amongst the leaders of the country party inspires us, we must confess, with little hope of an auspicious result of the deliberations of the ensuing six months; and this is the more lamentable when we look at the present threatening position of affairs and the excited state of opinion amongst the various classes now, unhappily, arrayed in hostility against each other. We have, on the one hand, the entire agri cultural community in a state of ferment, sinking •in the social scale and embittered in feeling by the insults levelled against them by the dominant manufacturing classes. We have the tradesmen, shopkeepers, and artisans, undeniably suffering from the effect of recent changes, and more than all from the monetary disturbance of 1846 and 1847. These classes are being hurried by dema goguism into a demand for violent changes in the constitution of the country, and taught that their salvation from impending insolvency and ruin is to be achieved only, or mainly, by denuding royalty and aristocracy of their splendours, and casting off at once every institution of the state and every safeguard and source of strength of the empire which does not exhibit a present and easily osten sible source of profit and relief. Such men, or at least the bulk of them, looking no further than to the present moment and to their limited sphere of action, are ready to abandon at once both colonies and colonisation, national defences and national honour. They live and breathe only within the circle of their immediate interests. Any policy which is truly progressive —which looks beyond the mere wants of to-day—is regarded by them as an extravagant sacrifice to the interests of posterity. They are ready to cavil at a penny of expenditure directly paid, but are willing to endure systems which are robbing them, indirectly, of a hundred times the amount. A little more pressure is all that is required, in their present frame of mind, to drive them to an agitation for revolutions in the constitution of the realm which are undoubtedly dangerous, as transferring the power of action upon the constitution to classes whose means of arriving at correct conclusions are inferior to their own. On the other hand we have the agricultural clas ses—we do not say ill-affected, but at all events, ill satisfied, advocating a return to a policy, which the opinion of the masses of the large towns has declared shall not be adopted. How these conflict ing opinions are to he reconciled, harmoniously, we are at a loss to find out from the opinions ex pressed by the parties themselves. It is clear, however, to ourselves that all parties are at sea, as to the remedy for their grievances, and will remain so until they direct their attention to a quarter in which they may perhaps find it. Upon this we shall take a further opportunity to express our opinions. When we first heard that his worship the Mayor had consented to call a public meeting, for the pur pose of petitioning parliament for a reduction of the duty on tea, timber, and other duties which press upon the consuming classes, we were under the impression that the movement was one pro moted by the leading men of all classes in this im portant metropolis of commerce; and we concluded that the voice of such a meeting might exercise an important influence upon the minds of the public and the legislature. The peculiar reasons which render a reduction of the tea duty desirable had been lately enforced upon the government by a deputation from this district. The demand for the total abolition of the duty on timber used for ship building purposes could, we thought, scarcely be resisted with any decency ; and the =policy of the excise upon bricks, and paper, and of the window duties, is fully admitted by all parties. The whole of these, we knew, of course, could not be at once dealt with ; but the desirableness of impressing upon the legislature their importance, as entitled to a precedence whenever remission became practica ble, seemed worthy of the attention of such a meet ing. And it appeared to us that, at a period when every class of the community are preparing to reduce expenditure; when the agriculturist is told that he must submit to smaller profits, and the landlord to less rental ; with food and every neces sary of life greatly cheapened, and with commerce represented as in a state of increasing prosperity ; government would shortly be enabled to decrease largely its expenditure, and thus secure a surplus revenue sufficient to enable it to dispense with a portion at least of these taxes. Alas, for our expectations ! Instead of such a meeting as we had pictured to ourselves, composed of the gentry, merchants, shipowners, and trades men of Liverpool, we beheld, on Thursday last, only a repetition of the farce of the three tailors of Tooley-street. A small fraction of the Financial Association, with some three or four score of un employed porters from the Exchange flags, consti tuted the great demonstration that was to have been. A more miserable failure we never remember to have witnessed. A more chilly audience, speak ers, even of the calibre of those that were present, never addressed ; and could the Chancellor of the Exchequer have looked in for five minutes, he would have gone away thoroughly warranted in expressing his conviction that the people of Liver pool were a truly happy people, perfectly willing to endure the hurthen of taxation, to any indefinite period, and in any shape in which aWhig ministry chooses to inflict it. Is it possible that the Financial Association of Liverpool—for it seems that this meeting was one of their promotion —cannot see that the great bulk of the public scout their interference, and refuse to dance to their piping ? That public have no sym pathy with men who niggle at petty abuses—at small pickings in royal kitchens and other dripping and lard affairs—and seem to possess no enlarged views of statesmanship whatever. The meeting of Thursday, we tell them, has done more to retard its professed object than all the monopolists, tax eaters, placemen, and other similar parties, once obnoxious to whiggery, could have accomplished in years of agitation. Sir Charles Wood is already chuckling in his sleeve over the abortion ; and Liverpool is blotted out from the list of his tor mentors. He will take William Rathbone at his word, and say to them, "when you are willing to adopt his suggestion ; to put your hands in your pockets, and give me an additional Income Tax, you shall have the reductions you ask for." But he will afterwards whisper to his own sleeve,— " When the sky falls we shall catch larks." THE LitkftPOOL STANDAR% .sit. ;Zl7 MR. MACREADY'S FAREWELL PERFORMANCES. The play selected by Mr. Macready on Tuesday night was " Richelieu," Zone in which itihas always been thought, and justly too, that he was unapproachable. His concep tion of the character of that astute statesman is histori cally correct; .and the impersonation is one peculiarly suited to his figure, his present reduced physical powers, and his style of acting. On the present occasion we ima gined that he outshone his previous efforts ; and imparted a more even and natural tone to the character than in his earlier days, when his manner was frequently somewhat over boisterous. The indomitable will, supporting the decaying frame, was finely displayed, with the fertile conception in emergencies of danger, and the self deceiving delusion that, as the moving cause of his struggle with the enemies by whom he is sur rounded, the love of France in his breast is stronger than the love of power and wealth. The scene in which he consents to the marriage of his ward to .De Mauprat was a masterly one, as was that in which he confronts the sword of De Mauprat, when lifted to mur der him, and by the majesty of a superior mind converts him into his guard and preserver. The last scene, how ever, in which—havin g defeated the machinations of his enemies—he starts up from apparently a state of utter ex haustion and approaching death—to the possession of all his wonted energy, on being again invested with the reins of authority, was, as it has ever been, Macready's most splendid effort. Nothing can be imagined more grand in conception and striking in execution. Mrs. Warner played Julie de Mortimer very finely in the later scenes in which she appears ; but the opening ones do not suit her voice or her powers. The whirl and tempest of passion, the portraiture of ambition, or remorse, are more her forte than gentle passages of love. Mr. Chamberlain, we can not omit observing, played De Mauprat with considerable judgement, and without ranting to catch the applause of the gallery. The other characters, with a few exceptions, were well sustained. On Wednesday, the piece was " The Merchant of Ve nice," a play in which we cannot remember having pre viously heard Mr. Macready, and cannot, therefore, com pare the Shylock of his closing career as an actor with that of his earlier days. His conception of the character is one of a very high order; and some of his renderings strike us as differing somewhat from his contemporaries on the boards. The scene in which he makes his com pact with Antonio is one of these. The laughing tone in which he proposes the terms of forfeiture is truly diabo lical, as is his demeanour when informed of the loss of his debtor's argosies. The whole performance was one of striking power ; and the Jew of Macready is far removed above the old clothes-bag character depicted by some of our inferior actors, as Shakspere himself is above the per petrators of second-rate melodramas. Mrs. Warner's Portia was a correct and clever piece of acting; but the character is not of the class in which she is seen to most advantage. On Thursday Mr. Macready played lago, to Mr. Barry Sullivan's Othello, Mrs. Warner undertaking the charac of Emilia, which she rendered most striking and effective. This performance was one of the greatest treats of the series, and will be remembered with gratification by every one who witnessed it. Mr. Macready's lago is in many points different from that of the most eminent actors who have preceded him. The jealous and crafty ancient in his hands is a more subtle fiend than he appears as depicted by some actors ; gifted with power to command, as well as to betray his victims to destruction. The scene in which he finally succeeds in implanting distrust of the fidelity of his wife into the breast of the credulous moor was a magnificent piece of acting. Not the plausibility of the tongue alone seems to effect the object of the remorse less plotter; but the eye as well discourses, and a shrug, an attitude, a pause in the devilish suggestions of evil seem effective as words. " I think he is honest," says as much or more than would "I know him to be false." The closing scene, in which his perfidy and its consequences are disclosed, is one of fearful power, and realizes in the person of lago the concentration and sublimity of wicked ness which Shalcapere evidently intended to paint. The , mode of his very exit puts the finishing touch to the cha racter. The effectiveness of the play, and the beauty and effect of Mr. Macready's acting, were materially enhanced by the fine portraiture of Othello by Mr. Sullivan. We are scarcely saying too much when we express our opinion that the character of the moor, confiding and generous, and yet revengeful, was ever more truthfully or finely given on our boards. There was not in the whole por traiture the least straining after points, or dwelling upon hacknied passages, to catch the ear of his audience. The character was developed gradually and naturally, as the poet meant it to be. The unhappy man fell into the snares of his fiendish betrayer, and his nature changed impercep tibly, and not with the abruptness which we have seen in some impersonations. But, :when at length fully per suaded of the guilt of his Desdemona, the intensity of his passion was fearful, and, as given by Mr. Sullivan, drew down enthusiastic applause from a discriminating audience. The scene in the bedchamber, after the discovery of his rashness and lago's baseness, was one of the finest pieces of acting we ever remember to have seen. Although we have said that Mr. Sullivan never seemed to dwell upon well-known passages in the play, it must not be inferred that he did them less than full justice. His delivery of the address " Most potent, grave, and reverend seigneurs," was a most graceful and dignified piece of elocution. We have not space to remark upon any other of the characters ; but may state that, throughout this engage ment, the casts have been most creditable to the manage ment. POLICE COURT YESTERDAY. UTTERING BASE COIN.—A Stollt man, wearing a smock frock, named Patrick Casey, was placed at the bar, he having been apprehended on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. This minor charge was, however, abandoned, his apprehension (on Sunday morning) hav ing led to the discovery of several parties to whom he had, during the last few weeks, been uttering base coin. Within the last few days he has thrice passed off bad half-crowns, and he had been twice taken up for the same offence, but in each case there was but a single utterance only, so that he was discharged. The combination of the three cases now brought against him within ten days of each other, placed him within the statute, and he was committed fur trial at the assizes. On being asked, with the usual caution, if he had anything to say, he implor ingly said—" If you'll spare me this time, I'll not be guilty of the like again !" THEFT IN A LODGING-HOUSE, BY A BLACK BC:11% A young little •` darkie," who gave his name as William Henry Thompson, was charged with having stolen a large quantity of wearing apparel, &c., :in the house of a Mr. Lennan, a temperance hotel keeper, in Houghton-street. It appeared that some time on Saturday evening, the prisoner had got into th e h ouse unseen . A female be longing to the house, and who had gone to one of the bedrooms, was heard to scream, and on parties going up to see what was the matter, the prisoner was found in the room, where he had concealed himself under the bed. He made a desperate effort to escape, but was secured. Upon him were found a number of articles of clothing, &c., and under the bed more were found, as well as some boxes, &c., which had been removed from their places, and packed up, in readiness to be carried off. All the articles were identified as the property of three lodgers, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the present sessions. JUVENILE CRIME.—A very small boy, apparently not more than nine years of age, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a cup from a shop. It appeared that he had before been brought up for theft, and from his youth was sent to the workhouse, from which he was taken away by his brother, who is but eleven years old, and is an incorrigible thief. Mr. Rushton directed Mr. Parkinson to enquire fully into the case, with a view to the child being again taken to the workhouse and put to school. ROBBERY OF CLOTHES FROM A 'WASHERWOMAN.— A man named George Roberts was charged with stealing a huge basketful of clothes from an old woman, named Ellen Barnford, of Meadow-lane, West Derby. Com plainant said she had, on Saturday, come into town with her cart, to deliver these and other clothes which she had washed. The cart was stopped in Duke-street, on Satur day night, at eight o'clock, to deliver some things, and then moved on; the basket stolen being left at the back of the cart, without being strongly roped to it, as the whole had to be delivered a short distance further on. When she stopped to get the basket out, she found it had disappeared, and gave the alarm. A youth had met a man carrying a large basket, and through his information the prisoner was found at a warehouse in Fleet-street, with the valuable property beside him. He said in his defence that he found the basket in the middle of the street, and intended to put it in a place of safety until he could find a police-officer to hand it to. This story did not, however, satisfy the magistrate, as the bottom of the basket was not soiled (though rain had that day fallen), and it had also been opened and some of the articles hauled out. The prisoner, though not before known to the police, was committed for trial at the sessions. ROBBERY FROM AN EMPLOYER.—A:genteel-looking young man named Davies, was charged with stealing from his master's till various sums of money amounting to about £lO. The master had from time to time missed consider able sums, but only lately suspected the prisoner, and he marked several half-crowns and shillings. On Sunday, his suspicions being strengthened, he had the prisoner's box searched, and there were found in it £7 10s. in gold, and about £2 10s. in silver. Amongst the latter were many of the marked coins. He was committed for trial. STABBING.—A man whose name we did not learn was fined £5, or to be imprisoned for two months, and to find sureties for his good behaviour, for stabbing Mr. Liver sedge in the arm with a clasp knife. STEALING WlNE.—James Fagan, for stealing six bot ties of wine from the Neptune Hotel, was sent to prison for two months. BIRKENIIEAD HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY. The a e againstthe heavy debt due at the beginning of the last year has been treasurer's s o a a ee c u o u m u p t s a comparatively iv a e p l p y e triflingappears that tte amount. bae From the institution only amounts to £26 10s. 6d. ; the debt due by the institution having been upwards of £163. SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.—On Sunday last, after sermons by the Rev. T. Nolan, the sum of £47 2s 6d was collected in St. Michael's Church, and the sum of £62 6s 5d in St. Paul's Church, Prince's Park, in aid of the funds of the Southern Hospital. The churches on both occasions were crowded to excess, and the collection at St. Mi c h ael ' s is considered larger, we believe, than was ever rece i ved at that church. The text in the morning was part of the 10th verse of the Ist chap. of Colossians, " Bein g f ru itf u l in every good work." That in the evening was the latter part of the 35th verse of the 10th c h ap. of St. Luke, " Take care of him, and whatsoeve r th ou spendest more, when I come again I will repay thee." The rev. gentle man has now preached on twelve occasions for this excel ent charity, and no less a sum than £BOO has been the result of his powerful and scriptural appeals. OVERLAND MAIL. The Overland Mail supplies news from Bombay to the 3d ult. Colonel Lester had been ordered out with the Sylhet Light Infantry, against a tribe called the Kooks, inhabiting the frontier, who had been ravaging the plains. They are supposed to have been in search of prisoners to sacrifice over the remains of their departed chief, their custom being to immolate an individual for every year the chief had lived.—Colonel Bradshaw, with a force of 2,500 men, as stated in last mail, proceeded from Penshawur to bring some refractory villages, who had refused to pay tribute, to older. On the 10th November they came in sight of the village of Sunghao, situate in a deep gorge, and flanked by two large spurs from the mountains. The enemy were believed to be about 2000 strong. They were ' attacked on the morning of the 11th ; and offered a stout resistance of five hours' duration, when they were com pelled to retire. They were seen like goats winding up a covered path in the escarpment of the hills, where no shot could reach them. The village was then set on fire. The Biitish had 5 killed and 17 wounded, chiefly by large stones thrown from the heights with wonderful force and precision. The enemy are said to have lost above a hundred ; they were seen returning to the ruins of the village after the departure of the troops. On the 12th the head man came in and sued for pardon, paying the revenue of the past year, and promising good conduct for the future. On the 13th the force again moved on to punish some other refractory villages. On approaching the villages, which seemed determined to hold out, the villagers came near the camp during the darkness, and stoned and reviled the sentries. On the morning of the 14th three villages, which were of great natural strength, were attacked. After a stout resistance the enemy was driven out and the buildings set fire to and razed. A general submission was expected to ensue.—Sir Charles Napier was at Lahore, where Sir W. Gilbert and Sir H. Elliott had been invested with the insignia of a Grand Companion and Civil Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. Madras was suffering from drought and fear of famine.—At Bombay very little business was doing, either in imports or exports. At Calcutta trade was im proving, particularly in indigo. Exchange at the latter had risen, and was quoted at is. 11 d. for first class bills at six months' sight. CALIFORNIA The steamer Cherokee, from Chagres, arrived at New York on the 13th ult., bringing the mails and part of the passengers who had arrived from the gold regions at Pa nama on the 28th Dec. She brought advices from San Francisco to the Ist Dec. She had on board 320,000 dol lars gold dust on freight, and about as much more was in the possession of passengers, amounting to 650,000 dollars in all. The Unicorn brought on freight to Panama about 600,000 dollars, a portion of which, however, is reported as having come forward by the Cherokee. The news from Alta California is to the Ist Dec. The rains had set in, and the digging was almost suspended, in part from the wretched condition of the roads, which rendered com munication with the markets for food impracticable. Pro visions and necessaries were very dear in the neighbour hood of the placer. The yield of gold continued ample; and the prospects of next season were considered most promising. A discovery had been made of extensive veins of gold in the Quartz Rocks, which it was thought ex tended over the whole of the Sierra Novada, and were likely to produce important results. It will be seen that we have referred more at length to this subject in another part of our publication. EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.—At a meet ing: of a Board of Examiners held on Saturday, Captain William Stubbs, master of the " Maria," of Liverpool, was found qualified for a second-class master's certificate. Mr. Ellis, the celebrated Welsh harpist, will give an excellent series of performances at the Concert-hall, on Monday evening, conjointly with a youthful girl of un usual powers. A very rich treat may be expected. A very valuable horse, the property of Mr. Abrahams, of Islington, was drowned while being disembarked from one of the ferry steamers to the landing stage, on Wed nesday night last. As this is not a singular case, proper convenience should be at once provided for landing cattle. A bov and girl were drowned in the Severn on Thurs day. The boy fell in the water whilst playing on the banks of the river, and it is supposed the girl fell in whilst endeavouring to save him. A new writ having been moved for a representative of the borough of Windsor, in consequence of the resigna tion of Lord John Hay, Air. Hatchell, the Solicitor- General for Ireland, has issued an address to the electors soliciting their suffrages. SHORT TRIP TO INDIA AND BACK.—Lieut. R. Maxie Taylor, of her Majesty's 25th regiment, embarked on board one of the Peninsular and Oriental steamers on the 20th of October last, and, after remaining twelve days at Madras, reached Southampton by the same steamer on the 25th ultimo. Loss OF THE BARQUE CANOPUS.—On the 11th Dec. the barque Canopus, of Liverpool, and bound to that port, was burnt at the Sandheads. The fire was caused by an accident, the captain, while attempting to exhibit a signal light, having dropped ignited turpentine down the com panion hatch upon some jute. The crew took to the boats, one of which, with the pilot, the second mate, and eleven of the crew, was picked up ; and a private letter states that Captain Rowett and the rest of the crew had arrived at False Point Light-house, where they landed three days after the destruction of the vessel, during which time they had lived on the pumpkins which were in the boat. TRANSMISSION OF THE QUEEN'S SPEECH BY TELE GRAPH.—On Thursday the speech from the throne was telegraphed from the station, in Lothbury, to all the principal towns and newspapers in the kingdom. There was a great demand for it in the agricultural districts, owing to its expected political allusion to the vexed ques tion of protection. The multiple time taken in streaming off its contents of 954 words occupied about half an hour, being at the rate of about 31 words in a minute. Between Liverpool and Manchester it was transmitted by the printing process, being at the rate of 15 words per minute. Altogether, the speech was distributed over 2,000 miles of wire; the extreme speed attained by the ordinary process being at the rate of 45 words per minute, and by the newly introduced printing process, 37 words per minute. CONCERT-HALL.--On Saturday evening, Mr. George Buckland made his first appearance at the Saturday evening concert, and achieved a triumph such as is seldom obtained. He introduced some of his most popular songs, and, to satisfy the cravings of a delighted audience, had frequently to sing a second time. Mr. Buckland is not only a vocalist but an instrumentalist, and accompanies himself upon the piano forte, with a brilliancy of playing rarely to be met with, even in those who make this in strument their sole study. There was a large audience, and the songs were received with decided approbation throughout. The last illustration, " Mrs. Watkin's evening party," was unanimously encored when the singer substituted " Matrimony;" and retired, receiving not the common applause, but a complete volley of cheers from the working men assembled in the body of the hall. The success was so decided, that this vocalist will never want an audience, when he may appear at the Saturday Evening Concerts ; and he will have reason to be satisfied on his part with the unusual favour accorded to him. Mr. Buckland laboured under a considerable disadvantage from the shaking of the windows, caused by the high wind, which spoiled many of the piano passages. Some mode of fastening the windows should be adopted, as it is a common thing for performances to be injured by the rumbling noise they make. BOROUGH SESSIONS The Quarter Sessions for the Borough were opened yesterday, by T. Leicester Adolphus, Esq., in the absence of the Recorder, who is at present suffering from indispo sition. The Calendar presents a longer list of criminals than usual, there being one hundred and twenty-five in dictments for felony, and eleven for misdemeanour. The following gentlemen were sworn of the GRAND JURY. Thomas Crichlow Molyneuk, iron merchant, Oxford-street, Foreman. John Beckwith, broker, Huskisson-street. T. R. Bolton, merchant, Brunswick-street. C. F. Carne, merchant, Everton-road. E. Humble, gentleman, Blackburn-terrace. R. Hutchinson, merchant, Old Church-yard. John Harnett, corn broker, Fenwick-street. William Imrie, merchant, Rumford-street. E. T. Kearsley, coal ag ent, Shaw-street. Jos. Myers, merchant, Exchange-alley North. John Stringer, merchant, Tower-buildings. Horatio J. Webster, broker. Rumford-street. Thos. Sleigh, the younger, sharebroker, Exchange-alley East. John Golding, the younger, sharebroker, Exchange-alley East. John Lilley, merch an t, Old Church-yard. W. A. Keene, broker, Dale-street. John Hammond Garston, merchant, Rumford-place. Newman Swainson, broker, Stafford-street. James Little, rectifier, Vernon-street. James Gordon, hide broker, Percy-street. The Learned CHAIRMAN then proceeded to address the Grand Jury. He said it devolved on him, in the absence of the Recorder, whom they probably knew was suffering from illness,-to address to them a few words on the duty they were about to enter upon. He was sorry to say the calendar presented a long list of cases, but whether it was longer in proportion to what was usual he was not able to say ; though long, it was not one he apprehended that would cause them much difficulty. It was grievous to see so many of our fellow-subjects, and fellow-Christians, continually passing their lives in committing crime, suffer ing punishment, returning to their evil course, and again suffering for their offences. Such a state of things called upon society, and the whole community, to institute some means of effectually suppressing the growth of crime at the outset, but until that could be done, their duty was to administer the law as it stood. There was not anything he need dwell upon ; he doubted not some of them had performed that duty before, indeed if they had not their intelligence and experience as men of the world and men of business, would be quite adequate to meet the cases which would come before them. The great majo rity of the cases would be found to turn upon circum stantial evidence ; now the law was, that when a person is found in possession of property, very recently after its being stolen, and the possessor is not able to give an ac count of the way in which he came by it, that person must be deemed to have become dishonestly by it. There was one instance in which the driver of a public carriage was concerned ; goods had been left in his carriage, and upon search was found in his possession; now, it was the driver's duty to h ave f oun d th e owner, although if he had been remiss in doing that, it did not immediately follow that he was guilty ; but when it was known that after a time he bad made use of the property, the case became more serious. There was also a case in which an accom plice would be called to give evidence; the law was not so clear in such cases, and he did not think it necessary to perplex them with the points for consideration ; the better course would be, to allow the case to come before the court where it would be dealt with as the evidence deserved. There was another case in which from the depositions, it appeared a woman was charged with having committed a very barbarous act upon a child while in a state of intoxication. Intoxication, they knew, was no excuse for crime ; persons in a state of intoxication were , not as might be supposed to be excused on the same plea as a brute animal, unconscious of consequences ; they were simply in a state of brutality of their own nature. With these observations the grand jury were dismissed to commence their duties COURT OF PASSAGE. CHARLES CROMPTON, Esq. the assessor, presided in the court. There were seventy issues for hearing. A QUESTION ANSWERED BY ITSELF In remarking ution the debate on the address, the Times affects to ridicule the assertion of Mr. Disraeli, that the difference in prices under the operation of free trade has abstracted from the agricultural classes a sum of £90,000,000, which our contemporary says rivals in absurdity the complaint of the late Mr. O'Corinell, that the union had lost to Ireland £60,000,000; and adds,— " We really did not know that either had so much money to lose. At all events, so enormous a displacement of money must be visible. When the crest of a mountain falls into a valley, it leaves a visible gap, and in its new place it attracts double attention. Where is the gaping void left by the £90,000,000 ? Where is its substantial and palpable presence ?" We will just remind the Times of the fact that Mr. Villiers, the mover of the address, claims for free-trade the credit of having saved for the people this precise amount of £90,000,000. We repeat, therefore, the ques tion of our contemporary,—" Where is its substantial and palpable presence ?" It is not in the pockets of the labourers. The shopkeepers do not admit the receipt of any portion of it. If the agriculturists have not lost it, other classes cannot have gained it. Where is it then ? Has it sunk into the earth, or where has it gone ! COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT, Monday Night. The Share Market has been quiet all week, not suffi cient business having been done to affect prices : their tendency, however, has been slightly to recede. The dealers are quite inactive—at present prices they will not bear, while the meetings are so near at hand, and the pub lic doing so little, that they dare not buy. Our local stocks are in good demand, a decided preference is now given to them over railway shares. The meeting of the Exchange Buildings has passed over satisfactorily, and a dividend of £8 10s. declared ; Royal Banks are asked for, both old and preference, at an advance. It is said the Fire and Life meeting next week will be a very good one, and that their old dividend of 101. and 7s. 6d. will be paid ; these shares have ad vance d, th e o ld to 33 5. 4d., and the new to 4 prem. The market to-day has been rather unfavourably influenced by the advance in cotton, and prices generally are lower ; the quotations of the day are—East Lancashire, ilk ; Great Western, *s 16 ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 56 ; ditto Fifths, £7 lls. 3d. dis. : ditto £32 s, 91 dis. • ditto West Ridings, 64- dis. ; Lon don Stock, 115 1 1 15 ; ditto Quarte r s, 11/2 8/9 3/8 6/3 3/8 8/9 1/2 ; ditto C Quarters, I+ : Midland Stock, 431 44 3+; ditto Halves, £23 13s. 9d. 5/8 13/9; Birmingham and Derby, 21 •, St. Helens Preference, 31 dis. ; Dover No. 4, 61 11/3 ; Newcastle Preference, 5} dis. ; Union Bank, 10/ dis. ; Gas, Quarters, 43; Pacific Steam, 50 1. The American steamer Canada arrived early this morn ing. The accounts by her of the cotton trade, as we fully expected they would be, are highly exciting. The re ceipts for the fortnight were only 110,000 bales, and the shipments 36,000. Prices were on the advance, and the estimates of the crop were again reduced. At our market to-day 10,000 bales have changed hands, half to specu lators, at an advance of Ad. to ld. per lb. The letters were not received in Manchester till late, or, doubtless, the business would have been much larger. On Saturday 8,000 bales were sold at firm prices. There has been more inquiry for Produce generally the last day or two, and since the circular on Friday 150 hhds. Porto Rico Sugar have been sold at full rates. 3,000 bags of white Brazil have also been taken by the grocers at rather easier rates. In Tea little has occurred ; but Coffee has been in more favour, and native Ceylon is worth 645. Rice and Saltpetre are flat; 500 bags of the latter sold to-day at 295. for E. I. refined. Rum is inquired for at higher prices... We quote the following remarks on the Silk trade from the Eatt India circular of Messrs. T. and H. Littledale, published this morning :—The arrivals of China Silk for the past month are 2,800 bales, which has produced no effect on this description of Silk. Prices are very firm, and a steady demand from our own manufacturers, who show great caution in all their purchases. In Bengal Silks there has been more in qniry, and several parcels of inferior quality (of which the present stock mostly con sists) have been disposed of at an advance of 6d. per lb. ; and where the quality was in any way superior, is per lb. has been obtained. In Italian, Brussa, and Persia Silk there is no change in prices, all of which are low in stock. Waste Silk continues scarce, and finds ready sale. Silk Piece Goods, both East India and China, are in good de mand, and in most transactions at improved prices. We mentioned, a week or two back, under this head, the desirableness of modifying the duty on tea, by which we contended that a two-fold purpose would be served, — the encouragement of our Chinese trade, and the fur therance of a cheaper supply of that article to the large class of consumers in this country. But we were not prepared to go " the whole hog," with Messrs. Rathbone and Co., and, for ourselves, would rather be without such left-handed assistance as that afforded by these gentlemen at the meeting, last week, at the Sessions house. What a medley do they intend to place before the British Legis lature ! And while they go no farther than ourselves for the modification of the duty on tea, they want the entire duty taken off timber, soap, bricks, paper, and win dows. We have not time to enter into the relative claims of these different items; and we think, when this petition is laid before Parliament, the conglome ration of ideas which such a presentation must suggest will be quite sufficient to send the useless parchment to oblivion. Soap and timber ! Bricks and paper ! Tea and windows ! Heaven help the dullards. A Saturday contemporary appears to have become unusually bright on the occasion ; but as he generally uses his pen as a blind man would a flail, he falls foul of the most innocent item of the budget with unmitigated violence. He denounces tea as a " fanciful article," the consump tion of which " depends upon fashion," and tells us that, if you remove the duty, our merchants will import "trash, rubbish, vegetable manure, the dried leaves of every hedge and tree in China." That is to say, that those numerous employes of our merchant houses, who follow almost exclusively the occupation of judging teas, would lose their senses, and declare their occupation gone. Now, we hold that, so far from " trash," &c., being imported, the comparative cheapness of an article of a superior quality would render the importation of inferior descriptions of much rarer occurrence than at the present time. And with regard to the " fashion " of the thing : ask the toil-worn sempstress, whose weary hours of labour are supported by " the cup which cheers," &c., if she drinks it for fashion sake ; ask the multitudes of the poorest of our population, whose only luxury consists of the smallest modicum of tea which their scanty means can procure, if they drink it because it is the fashion. The answer need not be recorded. All parties interested in the Grain markets appear to have become perfectly resigned to the still predominant feature of that department of trade, both English an d Irish markets continuing to decli ne . We have perused a large collection of circulars, of the latest date, arrived in Liverpool this morning, and in not one of them is there to be found anything like a speculative opinion as to fu ture prospects. In our local trade, no quotable change in Feb. 5/t priees has taken place since Friday, and tbo_L l iclittp, its branches remains in the same da m:o n us ; n o d x _,,i7 7oos ,9;:i te4 l l , E T . ra ll agil o ier : rwweahgriadcrhdoshn continentalaas l c i h b a e r r a a ct l secraislee.d supplies, Although h r toh s ue o gy m hs e rt t e tl eb r before the Baltic navigation will be opened , e ffer il, ftrt aape arni tUM, the quantities Bla ck Sea of W an h d e at the e an d Mediterranean,la di a n are o. b At h mia ncevrr Eve ' already on the way and for shipment°ft:l9lrc`ftril4tintgrelf,7tlLteerSilli,e The arrivals into Liverpool and Ritucon. o °ll ,l, 411, ~, 'gimp/lent Saturday amount to 2630 qrs. Wheat, o•,'.:colopit t 'RERi q m :st 473 qrs. Malt, 812 qrs. Oats, 1750 qrs. Inu:•l,.not, den loads Oatmeal, and 3057 sacks 8166 barrels x" - t y et Di ve , ls i re-ei Pine D eals, a e rri als v: x lio 3 f p v e es r a s t e a l n s, d t a i r na d b . timber-laden , d p exi arti ll t g eo, .e : , s consist of two, 1,799 tons. Prices continue previous quotations. St. John Pine IBd to 1 9 °Y) e `psf li ,, 4l ' IN( XS, Ce f Quebec Pine, 14d per foot; S rue; Peale,. 0 0 t are T fi h_ fi rm, with w o i o t l h amnairnkceltincaotinotnintuoesadbvrainscke, and pnari ' ll f; nne ~, Mrs. looking up : the sales of Colonial, &C., wil l 6 11 be i Tfit , London on the 14th instant • the continue taL cl'a 12,000 bales. The manufactu'rers welletc ihle De` and doing a good business. Imports for the I "tr. ent 4th February :—Foreign, 284 ; Irish, 75; S c ree ''' * There is little ch ange i n th e p r ice of Irish ,1 1 ' 4 10 0 „„‘ top quotations are—fo r W a t er ford (new) , °5 11 t 7AX( Kilkenny, Carlow, an d Cl onme l, 68s. to 723' a„ehilf nal R e, more asked for, La r d i s 6d. c h ea per. Our market for Scotch pig iron is fir , # SII QP xt n f)th ;18aieav numbers may be quoted at 50s. f. o. b m . , Some sales have been made at 495. 6d• and open time. Bars hav e b een sold at £ 5 2 s• vi r e The accounts from the Statesper s teamer , . K itt , ERp able to a good s p r i ng t ra d e, a nd a n advance or tit uOL expected. - til t —ONN, _A tri — soov T; l "`''' vv7 I % I VD DISCOVERY OF THE PROBABLE. on sIIS Il e 'rn Epp ' a ke THE CALIFORNIA GOLD DB I- "' , foIIN `-•A7A-i t he ''. 1 (14,, t Nin e , ...._ a 4 vp. To most people who have reflected IW, t he ~• 4 1e_ MA astounding discoveries of gold in the beds °` col s t " i gile,l SI mento river, and its various tributories , th e , fa tit' senseinust o h f ay su e c s h u a gg m es in te e d ral it i s n el s f u t c h h at io t c o ali a ti c e c s o;u: d. i t o i r o p rttlittll vi o l?: „ g et' ,1 ~t , . it , lumps and flakes, its existence in large q— fie ~ 4 Pi e - , 01 1 mountainous strata from which these Water-i fr i i, S ie.:DtitZ t ilte:lfo? have been pre-supposed. By the last arrlTl/0 , t l rei k Wili rer illiee l United States we learn that such natural sePrto ' . "N 41 4. el l* been proved, by accurate and diligent rese,arch, t o . 4 1 ,.. 1 4 ,ig -' eari , etC4 n rect. In the middle of last summer it aPP s , 1 0 ,41 1 ,_forN er - i Hon. J. Butler King devoted two months t° tents,cicketripri4l4l)Pro exploration of the whole region, the result t - rini, z to r the ors ar , shortly to be laid before the Department of St a n oi° l o ' ll l ,-•Nt, s 4 or ington, accompanied by a collection of sP e . e 'ctbeg, , 'Yor e t) , 4l ', Ti c v, gold formation, both pure and in union Wu',. be tt" ' '' which will fully illustrate and demonstrate '' PH/ the gold region of California. jt' 1.11% ed T ito h r e o e f p t e h e e im A e l u ta s C in a/if q small pieces of quartz rock, generally of a b r° ,' eo f ,4 ILI h ° th e ' b Oitrs o u r e n st i iz e , o w ns e ist ar fo e r ill h f e °Ss is t i r, i ? t \l, ?lci r , s i r tg and in some instances exhibiting the apPea f ra-c tte,"o ' 44 llo,.'irat G i decomposition or decay, thus accounting I ,° r oje ts',(ll e 4 4 ,,,1e ft , 4 upon them of mountain streamsdetaching W e 'ffie l '' '' , 46 / W they contain. The gold points are in most 9 °, 4 , 1 0 0 t e e ' iT- t•t 6 • ' II slightly visible by the naked eye; but the ral c d , : ' 1 ge , 04•4'ng h 9 to vests them clearly. Our contemporary prose ; ifs I 11 D " Beside these pieces, which Mr. Wright has Ili tb e , f• i) . ''), 14, with great care, as the fairest average sattiPiq a - , orl, i pit,''Ac t ,7 4 .tiAl appearance of enormous and very numerous ‘' el be ' s'',l!. til r 'nph c hti" °, 49 of quartz, there is also one larger fragment of t o n k t ‘ b rin e to , weighing, we should suppose, some ten or twelvel gatt4 ' l l'iN'q A;NcEs c all parts of which the gold protrudes plainly, ir i Lv , 0 ,1 ' Itt"etSBE pure. This simple fragment of quartz, which 0 ~,or'y , i.,p,,5 5 4 no means regards as an average sample of the roil , pliedw seen, hich ti os h pronouncesfeiotubnyd,mbry. tWright,e to m o b s e t t t co h a erceorfntiictlahsienpse specific pure i rock g graft. o s i I , . . the ' kih ill c h, ~ it i , , e tt , .vAL of about six hundred dollars." • th ~ i' V Ilit • 'IAN ' The important question, however, is not vg 0 . 'IN kil l 'Ne tt . -I such isolated specimens, but rather to those 0 0: 61. It re ceiv ln d q tl 4 4, '2(1,, t r ,42.1 sent the fairest average of whole veins an thri ''''kte are td creep visibly in sinuous and broken lines , l f r , 14 1 , re et, St whole western slope of the Sierra Nevada. . g qtp has spent much of the past season in collectiefit, i t Oo 0114 L Sul of the veins and testing them, aided by a scie °tl I si I N4 of and the result is as follows : 1 , Ni , 4 (1 w ill b ~ I n a particular and very extensive vein four P°A li ti t o L ed( rock toeyieldd, ounce;th average, 811 worth of Ptr,,ir, ~, ,, , t,,Ttake , , at 816 the that is to say, the yielo y a i s t. ' 4 0 kt rai " aacl these average samples of the rock in this P.art te dv' ' 11, Pil e i ' Bo lon nearly .s 3 for each pound of quartz. Mr. Wright asr , 1,0, 0 th e Iptitn us two small masses of gold, each about the size til i teil, %;!1:11,, nbli( large musket ball, and both presenting the gran'', „ d ie 1 ,0 I, ance of gold extracted and collected by the and T i s: t be tqt ) Pr ße. -0-11, One of these contains about 812 of pure gold, and idle L ~,,mE s. ,re et yield which has been obtained from four pounds () tile s' 14 4 11, '! II 'N. question. The other contains about .810, and is o pt; ttl ii rcli,,:;;` l at yield which has been obtained from any of t he , ii tP4 1 I. It4e li kr . upon the rock of this vein. -We understand t' As il'i •.or4 /a. applied have been sometimes the operation of,4 ll , l ,: a viti tiq' Els ol ,'""Mo sometimes the test of the comparative specific ' , ‘ jiretli4 -Street pure quartz and the gold-bearing quartz. to te ti :lttli 8 t o. " The samples of the rock which Mr. Wright hs s ole , 11,1t4I'Prd I s is*- 1 WE ] been taken from many di fferent veins. In n°t'cl ( )I 4 11 1 ltili' tl ite e 'r" has the yield b een l ess than one dollar to the PO' det . ,p - : - Itl- t lop; Will The average yield of the different veins has been,%nsr" , Ore m . ' 3 , ~,Dicl by the samples, from one dollar and half to tire' ' t4'; i t tl"Lu of " t* C S u pound of rock." 0 P 1T1T,,, rE 01 1,0, The overwhelming importance of these r e ' 0' .TE , opera L e l o ie o : 'AZ Ri • ess i 5 V P , .114041 t 141 ' 0 itl t parent from the fact, vouched by a gentlento ' 'ON been extensively engaged in mining quartz veins of Georgia, " that a 15-horse s te le t, Ap, AND g w o o l r d k i i s ng yi t e w ld e e l d ve fr s o tr m ap e s a , c w h i b ll u s s t h a e rn i pb "—we pre - iv i p • Ik ', i ;lai si, CI: ize—" about a thousand bushels of quartz e°'" ts sO i d . N sukif i l t leript each bushel weighing about 801bs. If 25 a n eu'''' . l,l i ' l ' l (ikli - I°l ' 4l the Limn ~f f j t , be .. G EN a good one in Georgia. If the yield is 50 conitr id eet' (Zi Vt,tl l . are large. Now the yield of the rock WhiclAjt r 3 1 qx,m kt - 14 has collected and tested, instead of being ;s . :, 6 0. ,,.. 6 ef , tig i the ,- 4h9,, per 751b5., is in one great vein, nearly thf' got; k: 1 :4 4, i' 11b P each pound !" Say that it be only half, or s , o ll , t r o, n t") . ,, 1 14111'u 1 ,, even a tenth of this, the influence exercised tt r o p , i tt‘tt ii kb lxo a .' ' lue of the metal throughout the world will be ,° 0., el o`,,qljilia lr azin e ° . in importance by any discovery in modern ti'7, o o o ,i 4lt''.6:•lt',44tion f,, As a proof that the discoverers are fullY 'i t illiw ti;,lig k NiAP 3 ; am the truth of their conclusions, and of the alin i °; e for e eif , liit ii k ) ITIZ A REA extent of the field of mineralwealth opened „t 11 1.4 I , L ' tit P l4l , v v r Mr. Wright and his partners have alreadl , ,,;(6 ki t 4,4l.otle nlo 'r! expense, set to work a large number of men :a too' Zt & t :A.fO Ie R A rock for additional specimens to be forwsr"',ide ' O , it,t , 'e 11 0 .: o f ington, and has sent orders to the Atlantic -iiose, Ft 'G$ of machinery required to prosecute mining °P eri' bi.i fj ( Cit' l l(4, b rkt t , Tb extensive scale. Our contemporary conclude s 1 ku t ,'er`„ 4 W: -1 , " ) ' "If these facts turn out to have been accurate l y ' r 1 2, of these startling facts as follows : . o r i d •4 4 , pa rti - n 8 , pile 1 rlllat' ue h a d and accurately stated, it seems to us that nelt b till"o diggings, nor yet in the dry diggings, are the t otA operations of thi s state to go on ; but, on the co n s feiv primeval masses of rock in which the gold 1 1 v olicd which it still lies imbedded and inexhaustible, 01,. 0e sg io gold, in a ll it s forms, scattered through the ra` j ,v ll l of the rivers, is only the inconsiderable chance.. 931 abrasions, and which th e h an d even o f the tu°s'ochq? and intrepid mi ner among us has yet scarcely te„,.e. information, so derived an d so vouc h ed f or , we r our duty to lay b e f ore t h e pu b l i c without delal. t F We leave the subject without further rein ° readers to reflect upon. ' iAki i k V Qt tlis! • b_ h ALI itkGejj • 104._ in t ►9 1471; 4-I AL: 1.11 4 1)41' Skrhkily 1 • 4 ;:,„ , I ,,,tb s es 3rl N i g,t M 1 -nme, n titir l) ( rod 4, 1 1 It is generally understood that the S o l ie t i VeVi (Maitland) will rece i ve t h e vacant gown ie iiia Session, Edi n b urg h , vacant by the deat h of 1- I,et r Mr. Moncrieff, son o f L ord Moncrieff, i t is el' be named Solicitor-General. _The 11 '; BANKRUPTCY COURT.--RE OLNEY . . "11 1 tv..) of the Bankruptcy Court has proceeded to 1' 6 04 he found and arrested the bankrupt, W ile ligV right as an American born subject to be di se yreo, having committed any offence against the 0 1 . 4 . denied any right to give up his person or Pr br authorities ordered Olney's discharge, and hotbed for America.—Re TV. Lawton.—On Thursday o p rupt came up for his certificate, which w e 5, 00 r the ground of want of circumspection in the, J os ii of his affairs, of having vexationsly defen.c o ri l and of his having purchased goods when on ', solvency. Hip honour postponed his dec ce isie" o re THE BURGLARIES IN CHESHIRE. -- " e n oa , hear that the inhabitants of Claught ol .lo I, it head Park, adjoining, have taken most dre ls o , 0 1 ; for stopping the depredations of the ga e „;itfiV vagabonds who have recently been ee re "bab' outrageous attacks on some of the peacefu l je M gae the neighbourhood of Birkenhead, for the i r o rif'' fished a most e ffi c i en t po li ce f orce, armed thei,A and cutlasses, who go on duty before dusk Ll .„itio or and traverse their beat every ten or fifteen li,eir t o as they have positive instructions to use i t iel‘iB, case of need, we hope they may have th e ,. dist r ) across those scoundrels. If the adjoirqn:oe,,,i v i only adopt similar prompt measures, wh ie ".e v"," will do, we shall soon hear no more of t h .°;ao;l l4 THE DIVISION IN THE COMMONS ON .1%-. .jor, r it' Among the members who voted in the n i i,"; v . . the names of E. Cardwell, Sir T. B. Th re ,i,l' . A. Henry, G. C. Legh, W. Ewart, J. Erig",, ly ton, Lord Castlereagh, Sir E. N. Eux t rq W. E. Gladstone, H. Goulburn, Sir ''' J. Greenall, J. Greene, Lord R. Grosvenonsit it' ft L. Heyworth, W. Jackson, J. Kershaw', s ilt' Sandars, T. Thorneley, and Sir J. T re /11110 ,, 0r minority we find Sir P. Egerton, ..„• prn - i u', Bailey, J. Bailey, jun.. B. Disraeli, ri• l i orleP l Hudson Sir R. Inglis, Lord C. Manners. pogo ners, J. ' Napier, J. P. Plumptre, Lord . 5, , 5 1,,, , 1 Sibthorp, R. Spooner, E. Stanley, and eri (lie' r „r" The following ten Whigs voted for the ate co lel4r; 11. Barron, Ho.l. G. Berkeley, E. S. c ,, ila e ,,, i c Chomley, Col. Dunne, H. Grattan, G,.„.,. rj.ty• i d u e ou Heathcote, P. 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