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Ittraturc. PO ET R Y. REPLY TO A JESUITICAL, CANTING, WILY AND WHE ED. LING LYRIC, ADDRESSED To IRISH PROTESTANTS, BY THE DUBLIN NATION. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) MAIL- HAG MELODIES . " An open enemy's a curse. • But a le ended friend is worse."—GAY. We hate the - axon and the Dane, And the rude Norman men, — We curs'd their greed tor blood and ga'n, And we curse them now again. Yet start not, Irish born-man, If you're to Ireland true,- We heed not blood, nor creed, nor clan, — We have no curse for you " Nation, April 13, 1344. You need not rake such wondrous pains To make your different castes app !ar, 'Twixt "Irish born" and English " Danes," And •• Saxons" there, and " Saxons" here; We see your scorn behind your smile, You deep, deceitful Popish crew ! You hate us, one and oh! the while — But, God be praised, we know you do! Then welcome be your honest curse, You c ingirig, wheedling Gaelic Bard! We like your proffered blessings w rse— But both demand our just regard. We thank you for your hate professed— 'Tis genuine, and we'll prize it well. But for your love, jest now expressed. We doubt it—for it smacks of Mil! What ! think you that of all the lot One • ingle " Saxon" can he led, To trust you that you hate him not, Because he', Irish born and 'red ? No!—all your love, at twice its worth, . Is hardly value for a laugh ! And the tried game-cocks of the north Are tar too old to peck at chaff. Tor many a ely device you search. To rive our empires' triple parts— 'But 'tis the .oyal, twin-born church You aim at in your real hearts 1— 'What chances of success you have Let. Hillsbordsr cord-book attest— . And those who further knowledge crave From Henry Cooke may learn the rest! Vain ! vain is all your specious cant, Your quibbl ng about native earth ! "Tis not the "Dane"—but " Protestant" You ha a !—aud hate whe, e'er his birth, For, find his cradle where you Abroad—at home—on sea or sod— You hat? him !—and you've done so sill, To please your Po e—and he's your God ! Oh ! Rome. you show ioir inmost soul it bene'er we meet you face to face! We can discern your Jz•suit scowl Out through your Pharisaic grace I Ay, we can read upon your brow. And cut ling lip, and sbarpset tooth,* As plain as you do preach them no•v. The class-book lesson of blaynooth! vii. We know you. Rome ! in • eart and skin ! We see—we see your fine pretence, To draw the gaping patriot in. And work upon his passive sense I So do at once your artful mask — Your subt est tricks are understood ; And cease your nice distinctive task Of analysing British blood ! viii. From root to branch the Norman tree And every golden fruit it bears You hate ! because so fair and free To Heaven its outs,•read arms it rears 1 You hate our Bible hate our schools — You hate our clergy—hate our creed — And oath- bou d to your murderous rules Your hate, in word—you prove in deed! The stake—the scaffold—and the wheel Have witnessed it in many a clime And mahy an age—and now the steel Is ready—and you " bide your time I" Bide on ! bide on !—you treacherous baud, From month to month and year to year— Our eye is fixed upon your hand, And rest assured we'il keep it there ! Oh ! boast away your '• year of work"— Your "shoulder bared" and " gaded loin;" Your "groups" may line the Lee, at Cork, But will they dare to stem " the Boyne ?" No—no—they won't—the hue that lies In Munster shamrocks fresh and fair, In Ulster's climate fades and flies, Too puny for " the lily's" air l Yes you may hoist the flag of green ! We have the " Orange and the Blue !" A banner that sh H ne'er be seen, Unless to make you dearly rue ! And we have hearts, whe e'er you come, At broad noon-day or depth of night, 'To meet and chase your millions tome ! And God, we know, will guard the right I * " Dens" might properly enough be considered the very "eye-tooth" of Popery, which, as soon as the young priest has cut, he can see his way pretty plainly before him. CHAPTERS ON ADVERTISEMENTS. No. I. Amongst the thousands whose chief or only instructors are the columns of the daily or weakly press, it may with safety be asserted th it there is not one in a hundred who knows how to read a newspaper—how to gather, from that luminous record of the every day affairs of this strange world of ours, the lights and shadows of the picture which it holds up to our vision. The busy trader, wrapped up in his dream of avarice, glances over prices of st '; skims over the lists of bankrupts and insolvents; through the City article, and plunges into the whirl of life, with the conviction that he is fully informed of all its do ings. The politidan imbibes the editorial wisdom of leading articles—the mingled . " sound and fury", with which ministers are bombarded and oppositions bespat tered—and is happy in the conviction that his knowledge of the whys and wherefores of statesmar , ship is as exten sive as that of any dozen of the " ins", or " outs", of Downing-street. The votary of fashion runs over the court circular and the puffing " cards" of west-end yen ders of rnercery or bijouterie ; and has exhausted his or her anxiety to know " how the world wags" ; whilst vulgar and matter-of-fact people are content to be horrified or amused by " fatal accidents", police reports, or scanda lous on dits, according to their several tastes and stations. It is the foreground only of the varied panorama of life which such observers glance over—its well-marked lines and prominent figures—whilst the objects which lie dimly shadowed in the background—the wretchedness, the ro mance, the wild passion, the mute despair, the fierce hate and the crime, which inhibit the., dark places of the world—are to them the writing in a sealed book—the unevoked figures in an enchanter's mirror. It is not a mere glance over the surface of this terres trial ball, which we denominate earth, that can tell us what primeval fires are glowing in its womb—what floods heave in its dark cavities-what ores and gems lie hidden there which the avarice of man stall never drag up to the light. It is not a passing gaze into the night-heaven which can tell us of what order of beings are they, who inhabit the thousand stars bespangling its blue dome— whether passion and sin and death are there, as in our own fallen world. And the unenquiring reader of the do ings of his fellow men, as recorded in the columns of a newspaper, can as little expect thus to unravel the myste ries of every day. human life as, by such unieflecting and unenquiring observation. to fathom the globe, or to read the secrets of the heavens. The events which newspapers record are but the air bubbles which rise upon the ever working cauldron of human passion. They are but chance developments of the few wrongs and crimes and miseries which see the light, whilst countless thousands are hidden from all save the criminal, the victim, and the eye of Heaven. Do we wish to view, in the mirror which the press pre sents to us, a faithful reflection of the world, or one ap proaching to faittatilncss, we must seek it—not in its re cords of events, its police reports, its political disquisi tions, or its narratives of folly and depravity, hut—in the glimpses which it oflords us of unacted villanies and un ,developed sufferings : we must seek it in its crowded co lumns of advertisem .1 t-. There is more of the world in , any one of such columq. Clan whole volumes could con vey. What strife to ex,-t, what restless plotting, what ingenuity, what tortuous devices, are in those puffing an -nouncements ! What misery and unrequited toil—what wearing of human life, and sacrifice of health and enjoy ment and love—what pictures of gaunt and ghastly po verty—are associated with those parades of unparallelled cheapness! What startling evidences of fallen station— of pride dispelled by the vision of the near and yawning gulf of utter destitution—of hungry eyes watching the partition of the last morsel—of the uncomplaining gaze of attenuated loveliness, or the wolfish glare of selfish age—are in those "appeals to the charitable and humane! And, scattered through the miscellaneous advertisements, what a strange medley may we observe of human life—its varied ambitions, passions, and pursuits • and what les sons might the picture which it presents be made to con -icy, were the pencil of imagination permitted to fill up its broken shadows, and develope in distinct colours its half revealed figures ! Tell us not that such a picture would not be life—that it would not be our world, but the world of the novelist and the romance writer. It might have more of light and shadow—mere of startling incongruities of colouring—more of hideous contrast of objects—than what we are led to believe is our every-day world ; but it would, nevertheless, if we gave not an undue amount of licence to the painter—imagination—and the filling in was in good keeping, be that world itself! . We . propose, if the reader will g* ; us leave, to present bim with a few of these lessons, sketchily ne drawn, perhaps, but which may still serve to teachlizto read aright the of e take up at ran record which is daily in his hands. to columnarttsements— dom a file of that greatest purveyor second of the Times—and instinctively we turn and its front page, the locus in q uo of w hat may called be masquerade or anonymous announcements,occasion ally of assignations of a very questionable character. What have we first ? Me A. STSI-. Terse and mysterious! And yet, without greatly strain. ing our ingenuity, we might, perhaps, arrive very near its meaning and the characters of the parties, between whom it is meant to communicate. We can imagine ties which may bind together two human beings, not in love, but ra ther in hate and fear ; an outward and horrible friendship, cemented by the dread of witne nameless discovery of crime or folly, which is wielded by the one, the more hardened and shameless, to wring from his shrinking fellow the price of silence. With a blanched cheek and an agitated frame, in bosom of an unsuspecting family, or in his place of business, in the presence of a partner who confides in his integrity, or of dependents who reverence his virtues, the victim receives the notice of the fresh exactions of his tormentor : we see the struggle of his spirit, as lie hesi tates between submission to what may be ultimate ruin, and a resolve to dare all the world's censure in an effort to shake off the incubus which presses him to the earth : and--oh, weak and cowardly human nature !—too often do we see the keeping of the guilty secret bought at the price of present suffering and ultimate ruin. Not a seldom-re curring chapter in the blotted hi.tory of human life is this ! Not singular in his fate is he who has thus to " sa tisfy" the witness or the partner of his frailty or his un suspected guilt. Another announcement, in the same column of the same publication, is more explicit than the above : " THE FOLLY of an HOUR" will not only be your ruin, but the ruin and the death of many other people, if you persevere in your present conduct. If you are a man face your difficulties, and you shall be helped through them. If you hive the feelings of a man at any event write.—Address to your brother, Gray's-inn. The too common history of a ruined man is before us here in all its details. We see worldly embarrassment met by cowardly yielding to the dictates of pride, or perhaps to the more venial prompting of affection for those whom his ruin will bow to the earth. Step by step the spirit has been broken—perchance the habits and the moral rec. titude deteriorated as well—until at length, itt " the folly of an hour," the unfortunate has fled to escape from the pressure of his adversities and to hak his shame from the world—has added domestic mis, of the deepest and severest, description, to the other and lighter evils of the position of him and his. We will not intrude our gaze into the household, where a father's or a brother's folly has stricken the hearts of sor rowing and trembling relatives—where dark pictures of possible palamity, or, darker still, of infamy and crime, haunt each weary hour of absence and anxious expectation. But let us turn, in imagination, to the se cond or third rate tavern, to which the voluntary outcast has crept from his obscure lodging, to examine if, in the daily records of passing events in this wilderness of acted folly, his name is noted down and his flight commented upon. Mark the furtive glance and the pallid and down cast features of the man, who so lately stood erect and happy amongst his fellow men, on 'Change, or in the so cial circle! Watch the tremulous hand which raises the paper, to read the doom " He longs, yet dreads, to gaze upon !" He has read the mystic words, which sink into his heart. He has heard the warning, which will never cease to ring in his ears, until its behests are obeyed,—that "the folly of an . hour" has been already pregnant with ruin, and threatens the lives of many";—and the strong man is a child in his agony. Dare we speculate upon the after course of such a wretched being ? We dare not. We can only hope that the false step has, ere this, been re trieved ; that he has " faced his difficulties manfully," and received that sympathy, of which he was here kindly assured. Another and still darker history is conveyed in the fol PO the PARTY who POSTS his LETTERS in PRINCES-STREET, Leicester-square.-Your Family is now in a state of excitement unbearable. Your attention is called to an advertisement in Wednesday's Morning Advertiser, headed " A body found drowned at Deptford ;" after your avowal to your friend as to what you might do, he has been to see the decomposed remains, accompanied by others; the features are gone, but there are marks on the arm, so that unless they hear from you to-day it will satisry them that the remains are those of their misguided relative, and steps will be taken to place them in the family vault, as they cannot bear the idea of a pauper funeral. This, too, is a record of ruin; but, apparently, of ruin brought about by worse than mere folly or cowardly yield ing to misfortune. Here may be some noble intellect wrecked by dissipation; the hope of some distinguished circle, voluntarily embracing an outcast's lot, arid looking forward, at the end of the long vista of crime which he has entered, to a suicide's grave. Are they, indeed, his decomposed remains over which affection has vainly bent, in some river-side hovel, or parish charnel-house, in the effort to trace, so long after " Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers," the resemblance of the once loved brother or cherished son ? Is it over his corpse that the sable plumes have waved—that the church's prayers have been said, amidst the pomp of mourning, and the family vault has closed ; or does some nameless child of misery mingle his ashes there with those of the weal by, the proud, or the far descended? We know not. The world, which is not comprised within tha• now mourning family circle, will perhaps never know whether the erring one sleeps there, or has returned, a penitent, to his father's mansion. A privately-acted tragedy, this, upon which no public au dience shall sit in judgment. Enough, however, upon this class of advertisements. Turn we next to one of a more business-lise character, which contains, nevertheless, its own peculiar teachings. SELECTIONS. LORD WELLINGTON IN A BASKET.—Lord Wellington had ertered Salamanca with Sir Rowland Hill and our division, but when he found the right of the army well on, and everything satisfactory, he started for the left, to superintend its operations and hasten its movements. In this rapid journey he crossed the Douro under far more cl.nikerou9 eircUmSt ance, tL ss thome of Ala. - rope bridge at Alcantara, where I had the honour to meet him; for at Miranda he ventured into a small basket, hung upon a rope, stretched from one high rock to another, across on the boiling Stream, and thus, in this giddy seat, 300 feet above the water, did this tearless man traverse a river, which has derived the main part of its modern celebrity from his great dteds upon its banks.--Events of a Mili tary Life. VARIETY OF MEN'S FACES.—The great variety exist ing throughout the world of men's faces and voices is an admirable proof of the wisdom of the Creator of all things. litd men's faces been cast in the same, or not a ver} different mould, their organs of speech would have sounded neatly the same, and toe same exact structure of muscles and nerves would have given the hand the same direction in writing. In this case, what confuson, what disturbance, what mischiefs, would the world have eter nally laid under ! No security could have been given to our persons; no certainty, no enjoyment of our posses sions ' • no distinction between good and bad, bet w e en friends and foes; tint all would have been exposed to'ma lice, fraud, and violence. But.now, as it is ordered, every man's face can distinguish him in the light, and his voice in the dark ' • his hand-writing can speak for him though absent, and be his witness, and secure his contracts in future generations; a manifest as well as admirable indi cation of the divine superintendence and management.— Der ham. THE ELEPHANT IN THE REGENT'S PARK.—The daily rations of Jack, the male elephant, kept in the garden of the Zoological Society of London, and now about thirty years old, are a truss and a half of hay, forty•two pounds of Swedish turnips, a mash consisting of three pounds of boiled rice, a bushel of chaff, and half a bushel of bran, ten pounds of sea biscuit, a bundle of straw for his bed, weighing about thirty-six pounds, which he usually eats by the morning, and thirty-six pails of water. Be sides this he collects no small portion of savoury alms from the public. Formerly his allowance was larger, and he had oats and wangold-wurzel ; but at that time Sun day was a day of fasting with him (as it is still to the carnivori), only broken by a slight morning meal. Some four or five years ago he determined to stand this hebdo madal privation no longer, and for two or three succes sive Sabbath nights be I:m.(1e such a disturbance that the keepers had small repoie. Finding that this hint was not taken, he went a little further next time, and so be stirred himself that, like other agitators who have known how far to go, he carried his point; for he made an attack upon his den with such good will and effect, that they were fain to get up in the middle of the night to feed h'm. Since this demonstration of physical force he has enjoyed his full meals on Sunday.—New Monthly Magazine. TOE WORLD OF LosrnoN.—London overflows with talent. You may compare it for the purpose of illustra tion, to one of George Robin's patent filters, into which pour turbid torrents of Thames water, its sediment, mud, and dirt, weeds, and rottenness ; straining through the various strata, its grosser particles are arrested in their course, and nothing that is not pure, transparent, and limpid is transmitted. In the great filter of London life, conceit, pretension, small provincial abilities, pseudo talent, soi-disant intel'ect, are :tried, rejected, flung out again. True genious is tested by judgment, fastedious ness, emulation, difficulty, privation ; and passing through many ordeals, persevering, makes its way through all ; and at length, in the fulness of time flows forth, in ack nowledged purity and refinement uuon the town. There is a pet petual onward, upward tendency in the talent, both high and low, mechanical and intellectual, that abounds in London : " Emulation hath a thousand sons," who are ever and always following fast upon your heels. There ;is no time to daudle or linger on the road, no " stop, and go on again :" if you step aside to fasten your shoe-tie, your place is occupied—you are edged off, pushed out of the main cut rent, and are condemned to circle slowly in the lazy eddy of some complimentary clique. Thousands are to be found able and anxious to take your place ; while hardly one misses you, or turns his head, to look after you, should you lose your own; you live while you labour, and are no longer remembered than while you are reluc tant to repose.—Blackwood ENGLISH AGRICULTURE. —England presents at this time a more brilliant example than any age or country has before witnessed of the application, I will not say of science, for that would not comprehend the idea which I wish to express, but the application of mind to agriculture. The practice of agriculture, arid the philosophy of agri culture, are matters of universal interest. Men of all grades arid conditions ale labouring in this great cause, and are asking for the how, and the why, and the where fore. The brightest intellects are dirt cting their talents to agricultural inquiries; and the humblest in their humble, but not inefficient way, are seconding their efforts. So many minds concentrating their rays upon the same point, they must be sure to illuminate with an extraordinary brilliancy. Agriculture is now getting to be recognised RR the commanding interest of the state ; so it must ever be as lying at the foundation of all others. Few persons are apprised of their obligations to agriculture ; and it is difficult to estimate the extent of these obligations. E‘ery man's daily bread, his meat, his clothing, his shel ter, his luxuries, all come from the earth. The founda tion, or, as the French would say, the materiel of all influences are aarned innumerablemanufacture a s n , i d s m agriculture; ot Apricultural Tour. powerful.—Colman 's ANGLING.—We have often thought that the amuse- Merit of angling has been too much despised by those who are not anglers themselves. If all the pleasure - of the pur suit cons'sted in dragging a fish to the shore, or in watch ing a float, to see it go under water. we migat join in the ridicule which has been bestowed on " the brethren of the rod and line." The pleasure of angling, however, takes a much wider range; and we are convinced that the mere act of fishing is Only a secondary consideration with those who join with it a fondness for the charms of nature. The enjoyment of air and exercise, as the angler pursues his course through flowery meadows and fields covered with herds and flocks, listening to the unseen lark, or watch ing the varied 'movements of the swallows, as they glide around him in every direction, have charms which add a relish to his walk, and harmonize with every. kindly feel ing of his heart. Nor is this all. A reflective angler will devise many useful lessons of instruction from the visible objects of creation which surround him ; all of which serve to prove the infinite perfection and unbounded be nevolence of the great Creator.—Jesse's Scenes and Tales. A COMING STORM.—It was one of those hot, silent nights when people sit at windows, listening for the thun der which they know will shortly break; when they recal dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes, and of lonely travellers on open plans, and lonely ships ar sea struck by lightning. Lightning flashed and quivered on the black horizon even now ; and hollow murmurings were in the wind, as though it had been blowing where the thunder rolled and still was charged with its exhausted echoes. But the storm, though gather'ng swiftly, had not yet come up ; and the prevailing - stillness was the more solemn from the dull intelligence that seemed to hover in the air of noise and conflict afar off. It was very dark ; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace and were growing cold. These had been advancing steadily and slowly. but they were now motionless, or nearly so; and as the carriage clattered round the corners of the streets, it passed, at every one, a knot of persons, who had come there—many from their houses close .at hand, without hats—to look up to that quarter of the sky. And now a very few large drops of rain began cti gan h to zz f i a ew ll. i a t. and thunder rumbled in the distance.--- Martin WRITING.—It is not so easy to write for a newspaper as people suppose. A man may be a good scholar, a profound thinker, and a vigilant observer of passing events, without being able to write for a news paper. The power of writing a leading anicle for a news paper is a tact which few possess, and which I have known many, with all their learning and diligence, unable to ac quire. It requires a large amount of information on a variety of 'subjects, and a readiness of application that must never be at fault, or the writer will fail. Few re member the editor is always writing against time, and the inexorable printer must have his copy, so that there is no time to revise and amend ; but as slip after slip is written, the devil snatches it away, and one half is usually set up, in print before the ( 4 ).ther half is written. This ex a ct s a decision of thought and a facility of writing which, like poetry, seems rather a gift of nature than an acquired fa culty. And as to brevity, that/ is the most difficult task of all. Diffuseness in a leading article is like water added to brandy—what it gains in quantity it loses in quality.. It is comparatively easy to write a long article ; but to be able on the instant—without previous consideration— without having time to consult books, or dates, or autho rities—to concentrate the pith and marrow of an argument in a few sentences ; to grasp, as it were intuitively, the real question at issue, and to present in a striking point of view that particular truth or illustration which the public mind is prepared to receive, and would be disappointed to miss, is, in my opinion, one of the most difficult ope rations of the human mind.—Roracrofes " Man without a Profession." THE EMERALD MINES OF PERU.—The singular fact that a ship is at this moment afloat on salt water . .at an elevation •of 18,000 feet above the level of the sea, and there carrying on a lucrative traffic, is so little known, that we trust the following brief mention of it will be read with some interest. In the year 1826, the firm of Run dell and Bridge, of London, having entered upon arrange ments for the purchase of the gold mines of Tipuani and the emerald mines on the river Illimani in Upper Peru, sent a geatleman of the name of Page as their.agent, for the purpose of effecting the acquisition of this property. The speculation as regarded the gold mines was tolerably successful; but the emeralds found at Illimani proved of inferior quality to those of other parts, excepting in a fel rare instances. These mines are situated on the borders of the great salt-water lake of Chuquita, which is two hundred and forty-eight miles in length, and nearly one hundred and fifty miles in breadth, and elevated eighteen thousand feet above the level of the sea, on the Cordillera of the Andes; its depth in many parts is such that it cannot be sounded, and the peculiar blue colour of its waters resembles that of the sea. There are other mining establishments in the same vicinity as the Tipuani and' Illimani, belonging to two English gentlemen, General O'Brien and John Begg, Esq., who are also part owners of those above-named. Those of most importance are the copper mines of Corocoro, and the famous silvei mines of Salceda at Puno. The only vegetable produc tions found in this part of these high regions, are a small red potatoe, called chusma, and a few plants, one of which affords a seed, called quinaull, much used by the abori gines as an article of food ; but on the eastern side of the, lake, at a place called Copacavana, and in several of the; valleys of Bolivia, there is found an abundance of Indian corn, barley, potatoes, and a great variety of fruits. The difficulty of procuring provisions for the considerable number of Indians who were employed in the mines, suggested the idea of building a vessel for the purpose of communicating with the opposite shore of the great lake; and Mr. Page, General O'Brien, and Mr. Begg, deter mined to enter upon the attempt. Mr. Page, who was a man of enterprise and considerable ability, undertook to superintend the construction of a brig of 150 tons burther4 llc pr-,cecdcd, the to cue port of Arica, where he procured the necessary iron -work, rigging, sails, cables, and anchors, by purchasing a ship lying in that port condemned as unseaworthy. These materials he carried with vast trouble and expense to the mouth of the river Apolobambo, where he found timber of very fine quality, nearly resembling English oak (rale). At the apct where this river falls into the lake Mr. Page esta blished his dockyard, having engaged a few carpenters and shipwrights at Arica, and at the end of two years of indefatigable labour and perseverance, the brig Julia was launched on the waters of the great lake of Chuquita. The brig has subsequently become the property of a gen tleman of fortune residing at La Paz, and there is perhaps not a vessel of the same size employed in trade in any part of the world that brings an equal amount of profit to her owner. She is chiefly engaged in fulfilling the ori ginal object of her construction, that of bringing the agri cultural products of the valleys of Bolivia to the rich mining districts of Puna and Lampe& General O'Brien, when on his way from Lima to Buenos Ayres, sailed in. her all over the lake, and was nearly lost on the island of. Titicaca, in one of the heaviest gales he had ever encoun tered. She was then commanded by a Swede, and was in every way well found, except that her anchors were not of sufficient weight, owing to the impracticability of conveying such as her size required over the mountain tracks of the Andes. Most of these details have been communicated to us by a gentleman who has resided a long time at Puno, and who was present when General Gamarra, President of Peru, effected his escape from General Salaserri, when only a few hundred pods in ad vance of his pursuers, by embarking hurriedly on board the brig Julia and crossing the lake of Chuquita.—The Monte Video Britannia. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. --.--- VARIETIES. " Shall I have your hand 1" said a New York exquisite to a belle, as the dance was about commencing. " With all my heart," was the soft response. An editor in Michigan wishes himself in the middle of a pumpkin pie as big as Lake Superior, and obliged to eat his way out. The longest canal in the world extends from St. Pe tersburg to the frontiers of China, over a space of 4472 It has been computed that the elecampane produces 3,000 seeds, the sunflower 4,000, and the tobacco plant 40,320. Never trust with a secret a married man who loves his wife, for he wilt tell her—and she will tell her sister, and her sister will tell every body. JONATHAN OUTDONE--A writer in Fraser states that there is a village in Bohemia, the name of which is only pronounceable by sneezing three times, and adding the syllables ischki Religion is exalted reason, refined from the grosser parts of it: it is both the foundation and crown of all vir tues; it is morality improved and raised to its height by being carried nearer to heaven, the only place where per fection resides. LEARNED DICTION.—A contemporary speaks of a lady who astonished a party the other -day by asking for the loan of a diminutive argenteous truncated cone, con vex on its summit, and semiperforated with symmetrical indentations, or, in other wot ds, a t himble.— Quebec Gaz. A TENDER A DIE tr.—Sydney Smith is a factious fellow. On Bishop Selwisi leaving England for his dioceseof Can-, nibals, in New Z aland, Sydney took leaf of him with tears in his eyes, and in these terms :—" Good bye, Sel wyn ; I hope you will n o t di sagree w i t h the man that eats you ? " SOLUTION OF BONES IN SULPHURIC ACID FOR THE PURPOSE OF MANURE.- This practice seems likely to be attended with success. The Duke of Richmond tried one acre of a farm of a light sandy soil with the sulphuric acid, and obtained a heavier crop than froth an acre ma nured by guano, and another by stable-yard dung. It promises a great saving to farmers. AMERICAN MERCY.—Jonathan's heart of dollars has somewhat relented. The white man sentenced to be hanged in Louisiana for aiding the Quadroon slave in an attempt to escape from bondage is not, it seems, to be executed. He is only to be publicly whipped. Hence, the American flag may retain its significant stripes.— Punch. THE SWALLOW.—Few birds surpass the swallow in the rapidity o f fli g h t. I t i s ca l cu l ated that he o f te n skims the air at the rate of a mile a minute, and that in the con. se of a year he does not fly less than eight the circumference of our globe, which is more than 200,000 miles; to do this he must travel each day 600 miles, moving at the velocity of 25 mites per hour, or at an average rate of one mile a minute for twelve hours each day through the year. .TEST OF MESMERISM.—A strong proof of the infallibi- Wit): of this much disputed science was adduced the other evening at a lect ure on the subject. A boy b e i ng asked while in the mesmeric state, whether "The income tax would be discontinued atter the third year, as Sir R,. Peel had promised ?" replied " certainly not ?"This, upon being mentioned to the Premier, was declared to be the strongesti nstance of clairvoyance that could be brought forward in favour of the science.—Punch. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Her Majesty's accouchment may be expected about the beginning of July. Sunday la-t was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster. Swallows have made their appearance, and the cuckoo's notes have been heard in various parts of the country. The Marquis and M ,, rchioness of Westminster are not expected to visit London this season. The family will shortly leave Eaton Hull tor Halkin. IRON TRADE.—PRICES ON THE CLYDE, APRIL 20. Pig iron, No. 1, £3 10s. ; bar iron, £6; nail rods. £7 boiler plates and sheets, £9 : 10s. per ton. Mr. Sergeant Merewether, has been elected recorder of Devizes, vice Mr. Ludlow Bruges, now one of the members of parliament for that town. The dock company are canvassing the borough for sig natures to a petition in favour of their bill for making additional docks at this port.—Hull Herald. Carpenters' wages at the Cape of Good Hope, an f colony for emigrants, are 30s a w ee k.—Li mer i c k Chronie.e. The Poor-law Commissioners have appointed Colonel Thomas Francis Wade to be an assistant commissioner of poor-laws. The property sworn to under Sir Francis Burdett's will is under £160,000. The personal property under Lady Burdett's will is under £lO,OOO. Prince Albert has made a donation of £5OO to the funds of Christ's Hospital, and has become a governor of that noble institution. It is said the Poor Law Commissioners hive adopted a resolution that, wherever a union workhouse exists, a paid chaplain shall officiate, whether the guardians approve or not of the appointment. The Marquis of Bute wilt, we hear, be again requested to represent her Mjesty as Lord High Commissioner at the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, for the third time.—Edinburgh Evening Post. Mr. (lades Kemble had the honour, on Wednesday evening, of reading to her Majesty and the Court, at Buckingham Palace, Shakspeare's play of Cymbeline, slightly compressed.. DEAL.—The . atmosphere was, an Tuesday, so rarified that Calais was plainly discernible with the naked eye. The vessels could be seen leaving the harbour without the aid of a glass.—Dover Chronicle. It is said that a lady violinist is about to make her debut in the metropolis, her genius and talents are com pared by connoisseurs with those of a Paganini and a Sivori. The Board of Trade has intimated that it considers the statements of the Bristol• Dock Company, in reference to the Great Britain steamer, perfectly, satifacrory, awl that the Great Western Company ought to give the guarantee required. MORTALITY IN THE LINE.—Of nearly 600 young active men, who composed the gallant regiment of the 22nd Highlanders,.when it left this country for fore gn service nearly two years ago, only 143 have returned. — Fife Herald. ' • THE POTATO PANIC.—The GreenOck Advertiser al hules to the avidity with which potatoes were, some time sinCe, bought up, and announces, that after ali the out cry, it is found that potatoes are not scarce, in conse quence of which prices are rapidly filling. As a proof of the early season, and the effects of the beautiful weather during the last four weeks, it may be noticed that several broods of young thrushes were last week discovered to have left their nests in various parts of this neighbourhood.—Newcaalle Herald. CROP OF GRASS.—At Heaton Mersey, near this town, there is a field of Italian rve grass, of about an acre, be longing to John Thorniley. so extraordinary in its growth as to be at least two feet high at the present moment.— Stockport Advertiser. Out of the ten millowners at present in the House of Commons it is said that eight of them are in favour of the ten hours bill for regulating factory labour. This fact speaks volumes in favour of Lord Ashley's humane mea sure. The letters and despatches of Nelson are at length about to be collected and published, in a form corresponding with Colonel Gurwood's celebrated work, " The Welling ton Despatches." The teak has been undertaken by Sir Harris Nicolas. The soldier belonging to the 37th Regiment, who bad deserted his post in the barracks at Sunderland, and when in the guard-house committed a violent assault upon Ser geant M'Alligott, was tried by a general courtmartial in the barracks in this town, a few days ago, and sentenced ,o transportation for lite.—Newcaalle Herald. The Palace of Holyrood, so long tenantless and dreary, has for the last few weeks been in a Tense restored to its former grandeur by the presence and occupancy of Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton, the Marquis of Douglas and his amiable bride the Princess of Baden, the lovely Countess of Lincoln, and their respective attendants. Earl Howe gives a grand entertainment to-morrow at Curzon Hpuse, when the Queen Dowager and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to honour the noble earl with their company. The Archbishop of Y6rk, Duke of Wellington, and other distinguished personages are invited to join the circle. DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JAHLEEL BRENTON, BART., K.C.B.—It is with much regret that we announce the death of one of the most gallant and distinguished fin officers of the British navy, Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, Bart., K.C. 8., who died at Leamington Spa, on Sunday afternoon last, in the 74th year of his age. AN . ENORMOUS RAT.—One day this week„al d errier , -- tre Mtt dogtonging to r. nteara tim - t an,artier, k i l l e a rat in one of the stables of Mr. Bagot, of the old Sir Simon's Inn, which measured, from the snout to the tip of the tail, twenty-two and a half inches. As Dominic Sampson would have said—" Prodigious ! "—Lancaster Gazette. MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Monday last a man named Yeomans, living at Brlper, Derbyshire, chiubting his wife's fidelity, struck her several times on the head with a poker, from the effects of uhich she died on the following day. The murderer cut his own throat after wards, and expired in a few minutes. We understand that at a meeting of the Iron trade, held on Wednesday (17th inst.) it was unanimously re solved, unasked, to advance the wages of the colliers and miners in the NI onkland district sixpence per day, on con dition of the absurd restriction by the miners to two- rds of their output being given tip.—Glasyow Mail. THE WELSH 'COLLIERS. — The colliers who struck some time ago are now all at work, .and exhibit evident signs of their tolly, having suffered severely during the strike, and at Mold sessions two of ihe kingleaders, named Parry and Hopkins, were brought up to take their trial, but on their making a public apology and acknowledge ment of their error, they were discharged. EXTENSIVE Ronnamr.—On Sunday evening last the dwelling-house of Mr. James Dearlove, likartholo new terrace, London, was broken open/ and property to the amount of £lO,OOO, consisting of bonds, bank notes, leases, plate, &c. stolen. Daniel Dearlove, nephew of Mr. Dearlove, bas been apprehended, examined, and re manded. LORD ASHLEY'S NOTICE.—The last notice of the noble lord the member for Dorsetshire stands upon the order book exactly as follows :--" On the third reading of the Factories Regulation Bill (No. 2), to move the addition of clauses to limit the hours of labour, on and after the Ist day of October of the present year (1844), for ad young persons, to eleven in the day, or fifty-eight in the week." MEETING OF COLLIERS.-A meeting of the colliers of Wigan and its neighbourhood,. with a large number from Cborley, &e., took place on . Monday afternoon last on Amberswood Common. Several thousands were pre sent. Mr. Roberts, the attorney to the miners' a.socia tion, was present, and the principal speakers of the as sociation. They were very orderly, and quietly dispersed at the close of the meeting. CANDIDATES FOR THE BAR.—The Benchers of the Inner Temple having resolved upon a more ,-trict course of examination of its younger members. with a view of securing a greater degree of efficiency for the bar, have appointed, in addition to two of its previous examiners, several others. The present Lord Ahinger was one of the examiners at the same time with Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Bullock, but his lordship resigned - Upon his succes sion to the peerage. EXPORTATION OF COALS SUSPENDFD.—M. Dillon, the French Consul at Newcastle, has written to the Com missaire-General of Havre, to say, that, i i conseqnence of the turnout of the colliers in the Noith of England (Northumberland and Durham), there is every reason to believe that, for the next month or five weeks,. all ex- portation of coals from Nescastle-, Sunderland, Stockton, Hartlepool, Seaham, and Blyth must be of necessity sus pended. M. Dillon prays him to communicate this fact to the manufacturers of his arrondiisement. RELEASE OF CHARTIST PRISONERS.—Four Chartists, named William Moorhouse, John Fairhurst, Robt. Wild, and James Wild, were liberated from Knutsford House of Correction on Thursday week, about four months be fore the expiration of the term of their imprisoment. These parties were tried before Lord A hinger, at the Ches ter Assizes, 1842, on charges of sedition, &e., arising out of the part they took at various meetings near Hyde during the great turnout of factory operatives. Mnns Vanvolsum, from Belgium, has been staying at Darlington for th e ast few weeks, and has purchased 50 head of short-horned bulls and heifers from the eminent breeders, Messrs. Maynard, Crofton Wood, Shornton, Lawson and others. Mr. Thornton, of Stapleton, sold him two bulls and five heifers. The famous breeders in the county of Durham annually have a considerable de mand for their young stock, for exportation to Germany, Belgium, and France.—Newcastle Herald. PAPER-MAKING.—The Glocesler Journal says, " that a most important patent has been taken out for the manu facture of paper on a new principle, and from an entirely new material. If carried out to the full extent of the wishes and expectations of the patentee (one of the first engineers in the kingdom), there is little doubt that it will shortly supersede the use of rags, as the paper made from the new material will be quite equal to the finest Indian paper, and not so costly." C Fl ERSE.-A return of the quantities of cheese imported into the several ports of Great Britain in each month of the year 1813, distinguishing the European, United States, and Colonial produce, has been printed on the motion of Mr. Colvile, the member for Derbyshire. The aggregate importations from all parts during the year ending Jan. 5 , 1844, amounted to 179,389 cwt. From various countries in Europe, there were imported during the year, 136,998 cwt.: from the United States of America, (whence very rich, fine flavoured cheeses are now being constantly im ported), 48,312 cwt. ; and from the British possessions abroad only 79 cwt. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. THE DUBLIN TRIALS. Yesterday (Monday) the . Solicitor General resumed his address on the part of the crown, and was left speaking when the mail was despatched from Dublin last night. The learned gentleman commenced his arguments by re plying to the fourth ground of objection specified in Mr. O'Connell's notice of motion, viz., that no evidence had been given of any material or evident fact having taken place within the venue laid in the indictment. He then proceeded at great length to reply to the statements put forth about what was termed the " fraudulent" suppres sion of names from the jury list, and went through the objections of the traversers seriatim, and argued that there was not the slightest reason for granting a new trial on the grounds relied on. TIIE BUDGET. We have to acknowledge the kindness and promptitude of Mr. Aylward, news-agent, in enabling us to present the following information thus early to the public. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER the house then went into a committee of ways and means, Mr. Greene in the chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and said, — He thought it desirable to avail himself of this opportunity of bringing under the consideration of the house the view of the financial condition of the country which the house is entitled to expect, and which it must be atiiious to re ceive at the bands of her Majesty's government. He was happy—and he was sure those hon. gentlemen who differed from his views would be happy also—that the views which he had entertained of a speedy revival of industry and commercial enterprise had been realised, and that the alarming forebodings which were indulged in had turned out to be groundless. He called the attention of the house to the situation in which they stood when this question was last before them, touching more particularEy on the China opium debt. The balance sheet showed on one side £2,000,000 to have been received from the East India Company and the China opium claim. The estimate be had made of the public income during the course of last y ear, has undoubtedly been very greatly exceeded.' The amount that has been received from the Customs is £21,426,000, instead of the £19.000,000 at which he had estimated it. This included £350,000 arising from the duties on grain and wines, the importations of both of which were considerab'y greater than was expected. The duty on sugar had increased £200,000 and upon tea 0.£n30c0,0 cotton There w n. wool, oo amo a u s a nt n i n g a u t g o m x e 2 n o tio o at ,oo n also o,an indicationt e duties o t increased activity in the manufacturing districts. He es timated the excise re ,, enue at £13,000,000, and the amount it yeilded was 12,900,000. The taxes estimated at £4,200,000, produced 4,192,000. The increase from the Post-office, he was happy t.' announce, exceeded anticipa tion, the receipts were £628,000. The revenue from th e Crown lands, estimated at 130,000, produced 147,000. The miscellaneous estimates were £870,000, the receipts were £803,000. The total of the estimates on these several items were £50,150,000, and they had produced £52,138,840, being an increase of £2,700,000 beyond his calculations. The army expenditure last year was £6,188.000, being a redaction of £500,000! Taking the sums together he had calculated on a surplus of X 700,000, but it bad from the causes shown, and £650,000 less being required for the navy, produced a surplus of £4,165,000. (Loud cheering). At the close of last year there was a deficiency of £2,400,000. He however believed that deficiency to be rather appar ent than real, and recommended to the [louse to make no provision for the payment of that deficiency —not to raise means by loan for the purpose of getting rid of it, but that it should be detrayed out of the surplus of future years, as circumstances, from time to time, mi g ht allox ; and he was ha,ppy to'be able to announce to the House that the deficiency for 1843, which amounted altogether to £2,749,000, has been cl-ared off and discharged out of the produce of the revenue of .the present year, and after the disclarge of the debt incurred in the course of last year. it will enable us to present to the public a surplus of £1.400,000 on the Ist of April last passed.—(Cheers.) So far then as the past year is concerned he believed the House would agree with him that his statement was sa tisfactory. We will now proceed to consider the estimates and prospects for the year on which we have entered. Mr Coeearr (Athlone.)—W hat is the amount of the property-tax ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.—XS,3IS,OOO, which is somewhat larger than the estimate he had made last year, in consequence (as we understood) of there be ing a larger return from Scotland:than he had anticipated. Now, Sir, in making the estimate for the year on which we have entered, he would adhere to the rule he had laid laid down fur himself on a former occasion, that of not being betrayed into too sanguine expectati ns, which the, future would not bear out. He therefore contented him-, avaf deterterrner-tet lic,le Irllol, them the amount they have actually produced last year, viz., £21,500,000. £BOO,OOO of which was derived from corn; and as the slate of the harvest in this country was not yet ascer tained, he thought it prudent to estimate the Customs at no more than they had produced last year, viz., £21,54),(100. He also estimated the Excise as in the year gone by, at .Z 13,000,000. He took the Stamps at £7,000,000, the Assessed Taxes at £4,200,000, and the Property Tax at £5,100,000. To these he added the Post office at £600,000 only, and, for this reason, the revenue of the Post-office made some little progress in the course of last year, and he doubted not that in the course of next year it would make a certain progress also. The Crov.n buds he would take at £130,000, and the miscellaneous estimates at £250,000, making a total of £51,790,000. With regard to the National debt the payment for the last year was £29,300,000—f0r the present, £27,697,000. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") The deficiency of what must be paid in the present year, as compared with list, amounts to £1,400,000; but the House must not be led into the delusion that that is the real decrease. The real diminu tion of the debt, in the present year, was one-half of the benefit deriveable from the Three•and a-Half per cents., being £313,000. The charg es for the year on account o f the debt and consolidated fund amount to £3,097,000. This included the Exchequer-bills, and the interest there on. The estimate for the army amounted to £6,616,000. The estimate of the navy to £6,250,000 instead of £6,380,000, as in the preceding year ; and, in this expen diture, provision bad been mode for the gre.it national works. The ordnance to a sum of £1,842,000, and the miscellaneous estimates, he calculated would amount to somewhere about £3,000,000. tie then alluded to the beneficial working of the reduc tion of the Three. and-a- Hull per cents. The amount of dissentients in England amount to £60,994, and in Ire land to £13,280. He then alluded to the position of Go vernment with the South Sea Co. arid the payment of the grant by the 55th Ge .rge 111., for which a fund had been sunk which now produced about £300,000 ; and there was a deficit of £239,000, for which the public were paying £11,860 a year. He recommended an arrumetnent with the company. The total expenditure of the year for the ordinary service is £17,700,000, and for the extraordinary service £846,000, making a total of £lB 546.000. So that, if you add that sum to the debt, which is £30,097,170, the total expenditure of the year will be £48,643.170. Ii that be deducted from the gross amount of the revenue, that is £51,790,000, it would leave an apparent surplus.(subject to the reductions which he had before alluded to.) of £3,146,000, but if you make allowances for that portion of the debt which will be due next year, that will 1 ave the surplus £2,376,000. (" Hear, hear " and cheers.) The boo. gentleman-then referred - 15"ticeiiientne tax, which had produced in 1842, £5,100,000, and that this tax was imposed with the double objectof supplying, dur ing an interval, the previous deficiency of the regular re venue of the country, and for giving time for certain re pealed duties to recover. so as to be as productive as be fore the reduction was effected. As this question is in teresting and important, we will give the .Clianceilur's own words upon it. " The income tax was submitted by my right hon. friend to the house, and he stated his opi nion that if this tax were continued for five yeats. it would have the effect which he anticipated. (Cries of " Three years.") My right hon. friend took it for a shorter pe riod. My right hon. friend indeed took it for a shorter period—Tor three years—and he did so on this ground, that if at the expiration of that period the result which he had anticipated to occur at the end of five years should not occur; then the house would have an opportunity of considering whether they would continue that impost for the same period, or whether they would take another mode of supplying any deficiency which might exist. I have no hesitation in saying that, at the present moment, I cannot form any estimate of what those reductions may be. When I look at the list of articles in the tariff on which reductions of duty took place, and at the increased consumption which has takeu place of those—when I find that only on five has consumption decreased, while on all the rest consumption has increased—l must say, I enter tain, very sanguine feelings as to the ultimate success of the experiment. But the house will be good enough-to bear in mind that in some main articles—timber, 1 will especially mention—on which a reduction of the duty has taken place, that reduction did not come into operation until the middle of last year. The experiment, therefore, in these instances, has not had a fair ; and I am not therefore, prepared to say what course ought horeafier to be pursued in respect of them. In the course of the next year the property-tax must necessarily come under the consideration of the house, and .it will be for it to say what course it would pursue with respect to the continuance or discontinuance of that impost." The hon. gentleman then went on to state the reasons which had induced him to refuse to consent to any large reduction of taxation. He proposed, however, to effect some reductions, and the first was to remove the di,tinc tive duty between flint and bottle glass, the former paying a duty of 2d., and the latter of three farthings. This al teration is to take place on the sth July, and will only cruse a reduction of £45,000 a year. He also proposed to repeal the duty on vinegar, which produced last . year £23,000. He wished for this reduction, because manu facturers would be much benefited by its repeal, and also be..ause it was an article so generally in use by the public. He would however allow one year for the dealer to get rid April 30, ISII of the stock on hand. The next reduction was an import ant one—on marine assurance. "The present rate of duty," said the hon. gentleman, "is as follows :—For every £lOO, where the premium dues Jot exceed 15s. per cent., the duty levied amounts to ls. 3d. per cent : where the premium exceeds 155., but does not exceed 305., the duty is 2s. 6d. per cent.; and where it exceeds 305., the duty amounts to ss. per cent. This presses unduly upon small insurances. I therefore propose to reduce the duty and to vary the rates according to the following scale. For every £lOO insu rance , i n w hi c h t h e prem i um does not exceed 10s., 1 propose to l ev y a d u t y o f 3d. instead of of ls. 3d. ; where the premium does exceed 10 5 1 but does not exceed 205., a duty of 6d. instead of Is. 3d. ; and in some cases 2s. 6d., as at present ; where the premium exceeds 20s, but does not exceed 30s. a duty of Is. ; where it exceeds 30s. but does not exceed 40s. a duty of 2s. ; w h ere i t excee d s 40 s. b u t does not exceed 50s. a duty of 3s. • where ii exceed s 50s. but doe s not exceed 60s. a duty of4s. ; and where it is above 605. a duty of ss. I calculate that during the course of the present year the diminution of revenue conseque nt upori this reduction w ill amoun t t o £lOO , OOO . B ut I ca lculate that during the c ourse o f th e f o l low i ng two years a fter . t; change shall have been effected, ther e w ilt b e a sensib le increase in the di s p os iti on o f f ore i gners to come to tois country to effect their insurances, and that the contl t t 7, will reap the adva n t age even if no a d vantage s h ou ld ~ derived by the revenue in consequence of this reduction. He proposed the reduction of the duty on currants from 225. to 155., in cons equence o f th e great consumpt ion of the article by th e l ower or d ers. Th e duty on foreign coffee he proposed to reduce from Bd. to 6d. and he in tended to increase the duty on c hi cory root, whiclilo," been mixed with coffee to a great extent. The last ertil in which he intended to propose any alteration was WIT: and be proposed to take off this tax altogether. - In duty produced last year a b ou t £lOO , OOO . The WI" proposed reductions would amount, in round numbers' to £400,000. The hon. gentleman then said he was de; tsboier governmenta o br u r. )n g f sii p t a l e a vw c e ii saidtgi with ro b r weet respect p o ae r t e cs tut t hgt h oea e r tt p rhei u ena b ttl intoarticle this wtthhhiiecsohfd country n m t trl r i e. n yd a BVoaenar;oi expire in November next, and he intended, in 1 130/ * vitig the sugar duties, to recommend to the house , that from and after November next the duty upon sllq r produced in those countries which are exempt from th e taint of the slave-trade--that do not raise sugar by means of slave labour—shall be _reduced from their present amount. By this means we shall throw open, under certain r .gulations, to countries eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, a valuable trade, and shall most especially encour age the growing commerce with China, with which count'!' hitherto, our relations have been extremely eonfineo . ; In thus speaking o f countr i es eastward of the Cape 41 Good Hope, I must impress upon the house,thete; refer only to such with which we have relations, and wherein the sugar is not raised by means of slavery. Sire the differential duty which I shall propose to this house tf be imposed on sugars from countries free from the tarnish of slavery will be 108 per cwt.—that whereas British eo* lonial sugars pay a duty of 24s per cwt., the sugar from the countries I refer to shall pay 34s per cwt. lam edit aware it may be said th a t a l t h oug h t h e treaty w it" Brazil is brought to a conclusion there is a treat/ with America, which contains a similar clause to the other, entitles America to the rights extended by us to the most favoured nation. Nothing can be further front my intention than to infringe the letter of anrenactnien ! existing with that or any o t h er country , b ut I think the,: when we take the discussio n on t h e sugar duties I OA' be able to show tat the sugar produced in the soutbero states of North America is not calculated to be brough t into competition with the sugar, the produce of free la bour, I have now been speaking of. It would have been desirable to place the reduction of the duty on colonial so' gar on a solid and permanent foundation; but it is obvious that till November next it willbeutterly impossible to actuP; on any principle of that description, for the oing so wont° paralyseall the trade in the interior. I think d that the better course will be to admit foreign sugar at a discriminating duty, and continue it till that period shall arrive when th e sugar duties come again under consideration. I n doing this, far be it from me to entertain any ill feeling tower: those countries whose sugar willremain excluded. I thin: the reduction we have made in the coffee of those coup' tries proves sufficiently that no such feeling animates the Government. The hon. gentleman, at the close of hio luminous address, was loudly cheered ; and was conga °. lated even by Mr. Hume, on his clear and satisfacto rl statement. CUSTOMS' DUTIES.—An account of the gross and net receipts of the Customs' duties collected' at each custom house of the United Kingdom during the year ending th e sth of January, 1844, as compare d w i t h s i m il ar receip ts during the previous year, has been printed in the short?! a parliamentary paper, o n th e mot i on o f t h e hon. inem"—,, for Montrose. We find th a t th e t ota l amoun t o f the gross receipts collected in the port of London was, in 1843 , £11,354,702, against £11,422,251, collected in 1842. The total amount of the net receipts of the same port was in 1843 £10, 1 784,959, and in the.preceding year £10,836,02h5e. No grand total is given of the receipts through out kingdom, but only the total amount collecte d port; and hence it would require several long nad It some additions in order to arrive at a gen eral res ul t: is known, however, that the gross total is i ng re ceipts ar from our customs' duties amount to between £ 22,000,000 and £23,000,000 annually ; of which Lond on alone con tributes a proportion of 50 per cent. NrAl 4 ° - IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN WOOLLEN re FACTURE.—There is now in full operation, upon the las ,rises of Messrs. Kinghorn and Gill, engineers, • las hiels, a new wank mill or fulling machine, winch w " eventually supersede taose now in u s e. Th e mechanism is and complete , consisting of a revolving cylin- upon which move three rollers with compressing le vers attached to them. The web passes round with the cylinder, and if felted by being compressed between the rollers and it; being at the same time confined in a box with shifting sides, which expands or contracts, according as the piece or web may be heavy or light. The machine -- has been examined by all the manufacturers of the place, and they are unanimous in pronouncing it as a flrst-rate improvement. Its advantages are, that it only requires about one-third of the power required by the old mill' or stocks—that it can be placed in any part of the factory—' that it does not occupy one-half of the room which the present ones do—that one man can attend.to five or six, as the webs need no redding, and that in relt•ng the g oods; it can be done ether from the length or the breadth. and in one-ball of the time now required.—G/aNgow NEW GOVERNMENT POSTAGE STAMPED N O T E - PAPER.—We have h a d b roug h t to us , b y different hailed some of the new p ostage stampe d note paper just i , s tie which we understand is to be sold at the rate of 2s. 3d. for 24 sheets; o r 2 s . f or stamps an d 3d. per qu i r e for paper. This is the most convenient mode of using th e stamp we have yet seen, as, on the one hand, there is n° need of applying an adhesive stamp, and, on the oth er band, the stump bein g i mpresse d on the sheet itself, the re is no need of any envelope ; and the letter, when writtenci requires only to be folded, sealed, and superscribed, an is then ready for posting. The s'amp is the white en' bossed medallion bust of her majesty, on a pink g round; already in use for stamped env e l o p es . T wo f a i nt pa rallel lines (coloured threads) pass th r o ug h eac h s h eet a t a dis tance of about a qua'ter of an inch, the upper one btu; and the other red, which serve to id en tif y th e pa per a manufactured for the p ur p ose . A s t h e s h eets are sold unfolded, we may just state that all that is requisite 1) 0 1. e writing is t o f o ld eac h s h eet i n t h e f orm of a sheet of ri°'" paper. When written, the note is to be folded in three' in the usual manner, and the postage stamp will then be found in the top right corner of the space for snperscrir tion. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.-r-ThiS is a very inge nii ous contriva nce or i nvent i on of Mr. Bain, by means of which commu n i ca ti on can b e made most instantaneous');' at a distance of many miles, from one terminus t,t anothe' c i A sheet or pl a t e o f z i nc i s placed at one terminus, e.,!1 a sheet or pl a t e o f copper at another; the connection ye: tween them is by a copper wire. A voltaic battery 2' thus created, the electric currents being produced by th e earth and this simple apparatus. Toe currents are con stant, the vari a ti on d ur i ng eighteen months being 11'"d to be very small. The mechanical part of the aPPtratus consists of a c l oc k at eac h term i nus, with an index, and figures marked on a c i rcu l ar p l ate , from one to n i ne these fi g u res p o i n t ou t certa i n l etters or words, or senten ces, in a vocabul ar y, an d b y t h ese means intel!igenee o f various events can be com mun i cate d f rom one terminu s to another. The El ec t r i c fl u id o pe rates upon thee e clocks so as to stop the ind ex at t h e requ i red figures; the clocks themselves being p u t an d k ept i n motion by weights"' There are some other and more minute and more delicate, details in' the constructior of th ese eng i nes, b y me ans . ° which the accuracy is better secured than in former rl i ; ventions, and there is a contrivance by means of whlc r the numbers are printed, without loss of time, on a Pal c attached to a cylinder or drum. The telegraph has be! o at work at the terminus of the S ou th-E a -t ern Countiese Railway for several days, the pl a t e o f z i nc b e i ng a t 1" 41° 0 ( Elms, the plate of copper a t Wi m bl e d on — a di stan ce six miles. The results h ave prove d highly satisfacto r y' „.. y . and established the rapidit y \ an d accuracy o f comtnut tic% tion, and the simplicity o f th e means b y which i t is e c . complished. Mr. B a i n h as prove d h i msel f a most i n ge" .. . 1 „ , ous and meritorious i nven t or o f a very novel an d e f fi c" dons instrument.— Timer. THE GREAT BRITAIN. —There is an impression abroad that this ship is of such hu ge di mens i ons as to b e ' ot stand the only one of her cl ass f or many years. It just the public should be s e t r i g h t upon this point. Hie greatest beam is fifty-one feet, and her beam at thewst ~a s o line not more than forty-th ree f eet, so that she is u°;:.: wide as the ordinary p a ddl e-w h ee l steamers, w hi c h fro quest every large port o f th e emp i re except Bristol, s ' t he the width of the l oc k s requ i res that they should no t t o much over forty-th ree f eet, or a b out t h e water- li ne be'i s of the Great Britain. The Great Western's beam lye fifty-nine feet, and that of all the royal mail vessels is! tiot are informed, even more than that. It is the unneces46. height of wall above the float level which makes the i ? e ' ye , culty in the Great Britain's case, calculated, we belle ful. the high springs. If this were lowered about_ o ,ly feet, and what is called a quarter gate put over tb`., i ,,gb pair of gates which keep the tide out on high st , t t steamers of the largest class could u s e th e p or t, auc i :T e red for this purpose that the Great West er n CompanY_,.°l o of £lOOO. When the natural river was s opped up, !!: yen forty-five feet were considered ample for any trad l 3 o of sets that could be even anticipated, but a new f, holf,t t _ vess-ls has sprung into use since that time ( near ! ' t heir t heir century ago), and for these other ports have alt,,sr_ ap ort, entrances, and new ports, such as Cardiff and I ` ..e `' r b e ing was m et that have made provision, the width of lock of the 1t0.`., t he in: sixty feet !! At Liverpool the difficulty crease of the Clarence Dock to near 50 feet, and in rorra% was done of the Cobourg to 70 feet ; and we tr e d o cks ' 1 ; 1 , by a party interested. that the gates of the s" Pe e nticiP 7 not be far short of 100 feet; so they at any Great j3rits- " vessels of even larger dimensions than the —Bristol Mirror.