The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

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Geore ° Wain , o f Sal t ; riornint ti° 0 f a show' - e Mr. Legb,; ire s hirasT: promises l.u. n as w e y e progress! to anytlll" Jane 6, 1848. THE RESULT OF FREE TRADE AS REGARDS OUR COLONIES. (From Fraser's Magazine.) - England sent out certain of her people to take posses sion of outlying territories in the West. These people re tained the character of English subjects, and their pro ceedings were governed by the English parliament, and regulated, checked, and circumscribed with the intent of Promoting English interests. They were not permitted to trade with other nations, and were made peculiarly ame nable to the p rov i s i ons of our navigation code. The West Indies feel these restrictions severely. They are close to the continent of America. The natural trade of these islands would be with the United States ; but this trade Ilas been prevented flowing into this, which we term its „natural channel, and has been forcibly brought to Eng - Land. In return, however, England said, We will make You our exclusive suppliers of sugar. All other nations who can produce it shall be subject to a duty on its impor ation, which will amount to a protective duty. We shall thus forward our own interests as respects our marine, r make a sacrifice for that benefit, by paying higher for ▪ sugar we use than we should do were the trade open. while the restrictions and advantages were thus recipro yid, the system at least was just. But the moment that °ne-half of the old system is changed, the remainder be eOnles a gross injustice. For example, if we determine to have a free trade in sugar (to say nothing of the element of injustice resulting from our legislation on -ttery), all the restrictions which then remain upon west Indian trade are violations of every principla of fairness and honesty. We hope, therefore, that every man who seeks for free trade in sugar is prepared at he same time to throw open the ports of the West Indies to the world at ,large, and to allow the West Indian the whole benefit of the rule of " buying in the cheapest, _ g elling in the dearest market.' Our colonial dominion will then be a thing wholly different in its nature from that which it is at present. That which is just and neces sary as regards the West Indies, is just and necessary also as regards the East, and Canada and the whole of British North America, Australasia, and the Cape of Good Hope; in fact, of all our colonies and outlying possessions. They c ease , in fact, to be colonies in the old acceptation of the rrrn, and England can derive one only benefit from them "Y retaining her dominion over them. She will be able to P r event any adoption by them of a restrictive commercial 't. She will have free access to her colonial ports , °°" n el er manufactures will not be subject to any exclusive tax, or in fact to any tax not sanctioned by herself. But '?"e will have to meet the most complete competition in every branch of commerce. Her fabrics, her ships, her capital in every shape, will have to meerforeign fabrics, ips, and capital on terms of perfect equality ; and if the doctrine of free trade be fair and true as regards corn in England, this large consequence from it is also true. Our colonial empire goes to the ground—for who can say that Canada, trading with the United States as she pleases for all her cotton, woollen, iron ; with France direct for her wines ; with the Brazils for her sugar and her rum ; who will say that Canada is English ? True, she may be just as profitable to u s a s a t p re sent. But if there be any use in the possession of colonies, such as we have hitherto held, we shall have them no longer; and again and again We must warn all who are the advocates of a free trade, that this is the fair and necessary deduction from the new theory which has found supporters in the leaders of both the great parties of the State. There are persons, indeed, Who will accept the consequence we have here set forth without shrinking—who, so far from lamenting over this result, will openly avow that such is the very end of all their present endeavours; that the description we have liven of the condition of our present colonies under this new legislation, is precisely that which they desire to see. With these hardy, unflinching reasoners, we have no guar .l—we understand them—differ, indeed, from their opi nions, but admire their honest, open speaking. But we ,are curious to know whether such a result is contemplated how Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell; and if not , nom do they draw the line ? and how can they deny the Onsequences we have described as that which is the fair deduction from the celebrated rule laid down by Sir Ro ,oe, rt Peel himself, of " buying in the cheapest, selling in o dearest market." He at least must have seen that „T axiom destroyed with one blow our whole ancient co lonial system, and brought as a necessary result the utter annihilation of our old and dearly-maintained Navigation -111/r. But the die is cast, and we must stand the hazard of the throw ; and all that remains for truly Conservative statesmen is at once to accept the new doctrine as a triumphant, though erroneous, creed ; and by insisting Upon its being consistently applied, to lessen its mischie vous effects. This statement may at first appear a para dox, but upon reflection, we think, will be found accurate. Uncertainty is the greatest evil which can visit the corn tnerce of any country. A long-protracted period of tran sition is but a prolongation of misery. Half free trade, if such a thing can be, is worse than the complete application of the principle. A PLEA FOR THE MOLES.—The Essex Herald pub lishes the following letter from the Rev. G. Wilkins to a farmer, who wrote to him inquiring how the wireworm had been exterminated in the rev. gentleman's land. It contains much sound, though, we dare say, unpalatable doctrine, to the owners of smooth lawns and trim-bedded gardens :—" Some 10 years since, when I came to my living, and commenced cultivating the little land I hold, it was, I may say, full of wireworms. Nothing could have been worse, for my crops were in some places ruined by them entirely. What, then, did Ido ? I adopted a plan Which I recommended and published in periodicals many years since, viz., encouragine moles and partridges on my lands. Instead of permitting a mole to be caught, I bought all I could and turned them down alive ; and soon toy fields, one after another, were full of molehills, to The amusement of all my neighbours, who at first set me down for half a lunatic ; but now several adopt my plan, and are strenuous advocates of it. My fields became exactly like a honeycomb ; and this continued even among my standing and growing and ripening crops ; not a mole Was molested, e but I still bought more. This summer I bad 14 brought, which I turned down, but they were not Wanted ; I have nothing for them to eat—all that moles live upon is destroyed, and so, poor things, they must ,starve, or emigrate to some distant land, and thus get bowstringed by savage men whom they aim to serve. Adopt my plan, and it will be sure to answer. If you have a nest of partridges, also encourage them; all the Summer they live upon insects, wireworms, &c., and con sider how many millions a covey will destroy in a single summer! Again, always remember that moles feed upon Insects, and of which the wireworm is the chief ; if you doubt this, open a mole and peep into his stomach. Again, do not fear that moles injure your crops, either in a field or in a garden ; it is a low and vulgar error to sup- Pose that they root up young corn,—they never go any- Where untill the wireworms have first destroyed the plants, and then, innocent things, they are punished for others' faults. If you do not like to see their hills, knock them about with a hoe, as I did ; in is a healthful amusement, and they will do your lands good. Do not despise any plan because the farmers will not ad o pt it i n y our neigh ourhood ; farmers will adopt nothing till driven to it, and nothing that is new and good." WHAT AUSTRIA HAS DONE FOR HER ITALIAN PRO VINCES.—Burke, in one of his prophetic anticipations, pronounced that the first ruin of Europe would be in its finance, and that every kingdom was, even in his day, Wading into a boundless ocean of debt. Austria, of -course, had felt its share ; and after the desperate wars of 1805 and 1809, nothing is more wonderful in the history of finance, or more honourable to the great statesman Who for forty years presided over her fate, than that she should have escaped bankruptcy. But her liberalty to her Italian provinces never failed. Some of the details, Which have already reached the public, give an extraor dinary conception of the almost prodigality with which Austria has lavished her means upon the bridges, roads, and general public communications of Lombardy. We give those items in francs. Five millions spent in repair ing and constructing dikes in the Mantuan province. rour millions in completing the canal of the Naviglio. A million and a half for roads in the mountains of the tergamesque. A million and a half for the great com mercial road of the Splugen. Two millions and a half for the road over the Hiffer Jock. Three millions for Continuing it along the shore of the lake Como. Three Millions and a quarter for completing the cathedral of Milan. A million for improvements in the city. Half a Million for the fine bridge over the Ticino. Twenty four millions for cross-roads, between 1814 and 1831, besides miscellaneous expenditure ;—the whole being not lass than sixty-six millions in the fifteen years preceding 48 34, in the mere matter of keeping up the means of intercourse in a country where, half a century ago, the Foss-roads were little more than goat tracks ; besides the annual expense of about a million and a quarter on the repair of the roads since. And this munificent liberality „.‘vas expended in Lombardy alone. The expenditure in venice in the latter period of its possession has been nearly equal. The first French conquest had given it the name of constitution, and nothing else. The famous 'republic was plundered to the last coin. On its second seizure its treasury was again emptied by its French !Inancipators ; and when it was restored to Austria in 1814, its population presented a pauper list of fifty-four 'thousand individuals. Its commerce was in a state of t d ain ; its palaces and public buildings were in a state of Y ; its charitable establishments were without funds ; a nd a few years more must have filled its canals with the !reeks of its houses. Within the next twenty years the re parations cost the Austrian treasury not less than fifty three millions of francs ! Thus Venice rose from a eon which which all our travellers, immediately after the Peace of 1815, pronounced to be irreparable ruin, and is 2w - one of the first commercial cities in Italy. But the Istrian overnment had not been contented with a mere 141iproverngent of he soil or the modes of communication --- q had employed extraordinary efforts in giving edu ea,wi`,!°n to the people. We are to remember the difficulties impede all such efforts in Romish countries. j " here the priest regulates the faith, he must always be : 41 °Ils of the education. But the German habits of the 1 1 4ci erninent predominated over the superstition of' Rome, co _ a sPecies of military discipline was introduced, to l e '"Pel the young Italians to learn the use of their indo ofritiosinderstandings. Within a few years after the peace t h e a national school system was put in action in th e ardy.o Within a few more years it had spread over sear whole country, with such effect, that there was Th e c e_ly a commune without its public place of education. s ato schools for boys amounted to upwards of two thou otuelki.'ee hundred, and for girls to upwards of twelve tz to „,7 o . Nearly a hundred of the schools for boys very extensive course of practical knowledge. g rit , y lgher classes learned architecture, mechanics, geo %Jul , drawing, and natural history, in the vigorous, Still 1 ,9' for which German education is distinguished. Pa et i l r. e,r schools, or portions of the former, were of th e k `_ chief towns, for the practical acquirement offic es. naWledge most important for servants of public Mat There the chief studies were history, commerce, IJodes this, chemistry, and French, German, and Italian. abl e .s system, it is evident that very solid and vain the "euirern,pts might be made •. and those were solely Work of Lae Austrian sovereignty.—Blackwood. MY UNCLE, ROLA.ND'S DISCOURSE UPON HONOUR. (From " The Caxton," in Blackwood's Magazine.) " Gentlemen," began the Captain, at this distinct ap peal thus made to him—" Gentlemen, God made the earth, but man made the garden. God made man, but man recreates himself." " True, by knowledge," said my father. " By industry," said Uncle Jack. " By the physical condition of his body," said Mr. Squills. " He could not have made himself other than he was at first in the woods and wilds if he had had fins like a fish, or could only chatter gibberish like a monkey. Hands and a tongue, sir ; these are the instruments of progress." " Mr. Squills," said my father, nodding, " Anaxagoras said very much the same thing before you, touching the hands." _ _ _ " I can't help that," answered Mr. Squills ; " one could not open one's lips if one were bound to say what nobody else had said.. But, after all, our superiority is less in our hands than in the greatness of our thumbs." " Albinus, De Sceleto, and our own learned William Lawrence, have made a similar remark," again put in my father. _ _ " Haw. it, sir !" exclaimed Squills, have you to know everything ?" " Everything ! No; but thumbs furnish subjects for in vestigation to the simplest understanding." said my fa ther, modestly. " Gentlemen," recommended my Uncle Roland, " thumbs and hands are given to the Esquimaux, as well as to scholars and surgeons—and what the deuce are they the wiser for them ? Sirs, you cannot reduce us thus into mechanism. Look within. Man, I say, recreates himself. How ? BY THE PRINCIPLE OF HONOUR. His first desire is to excel some one else—his first impulse is distinction above his fellows. Heaven places in his soul, as if it were a compass, a needle that always points to one end,—viz., to honour in that which those around him consider honourable. Therefore, as man at first is ex posed to all dangers from wild beasts, and from men as savage as himself, COURAGE becomes the first quality mankind must honour ; therefore the savage is coura geous; therefore he covets - praise for courage ; therefore he decorates himself with the skins of the beasts he has subdued, or the scalps of the foes he has slain. Sirs, don't tell me that the skins and the scalps are only hide and leather : they are trophies of honour. Don't tell me they are ridiculous and disgusting ; they become glorious as proofs that the savage has emerged out of the first brute-like egotism, and attached price to the praise which men never give except for works that secure or advance their welfare. By-and-by, sirs, our savages discover that they cannot live in safety among themselves unless they agree to speak the truth to each other ; therefore TRUTH becomes valued, and grows into a principle of honour; so brother Augustine will tell us that, in the primitive times, truth was always the attribute of a hero." " flight," said my father : " Homer emphatically gives it to Achilles." " what business " Out of truth comes the necessity for some kind of rude justice and law. Therefore men, after courage in the warrior, and truth in all, begin to attach honour to the elder, whom they intrust with preserving justice amongst them. So, sirs, LAW is born—" " But the first lawgivers were priests," quoth my father. _ _ _ " Sirs, lam coming to that. Whence arises the desire of honour, but from man's necessity of excelling—in other words, of improving his faculties for the benefit of others,—though, unconscious of that consequence, man only strives for their praise? But that desire for honour is unextinguishable, and man is naturally anxious to carry its rewards beyond the grave. Therefore, he who has slain most lions or enemies, is naturally prone to believe that he shall have the best hunting fields in. the country beyond, and take the best place at the banquet. Nature, in all its operations, impresses him with the idea of an invisible Power; and the principle of honour, — that is, the desire of praise and reward,—makes him anxious for the approval which that Power can bestow. Thence comes the first rude idea of RELIGION ; and in the death-hymn at the stake, the savage chants songs prophetic of the distinctions he is about to receive. Society goes on ' • hamlets are built; property is estab lished. He who has more than another has more power than another. Power is honoured. Man covets the honour attached to the power which is attached to pos session. Thus the soil is cultivated ; thus the rafts are constructed ; thus tribe trades with tribe ; thus COM MERCE is founded and CIVILIZATION commenced. Sirs, all that seems least connected with honour, as we ap proach the vulgar days of the present, has its origin in honour, and is but an abuse of its principles. If men now-a-days are hucksters and traders—if even military honours are purchased. and a rogue buys his way to a peerage—still all arise from the desire for honour, which society, as it grows old, gives to the outward signs of titles and gold, instead of as once, to its inward essentials, —courage, truth, justice, enterprise. Therefore, I say, sirs, that honour is the foundation of all improvement in mankind." " You have argued like a schoolman, brother," said Mr. Caxton admiringly ; " but still, as to this round piece of silvei,—don't we go back to the most barbarous ages in estimating so highly such things as have no real value in themselves—as could not give us one opportunity for instructing our minds." " Could not pay for a pair of boots," added Uncle Jack. " Or," said Mr. Squills, " save you one twinge of the cursed rheumatism you have got for life from that night's bivouac in the Portuguese marshes—to say nothing of the bullet in your cranium, and that cork leg, which must mush diminish the salutary effects of your constitutional walk." " Gentlemen," resumed the Captain, nothing abashed, "in going back to these barbarous ages, I go back to the true principles of honour. It is precisely because this round piece of silver has no value in the market that it is priceless, for thus it is only a proof of desert. Where would he the sense of service if it could buy back my leg, or if I could bargain it away for forty thousand a-year ? No, sirs, its value is this—that when I wear it on my breast men shall say, ` that formal old fellow is not so useless as he seems. He was one of those who saved England and freed Europe.' And even wh"n I conceal it here," (and devoutly kissing the medal, Uncle Roland restored it to its ribbon and its resting-place,) " and no eye sees it, its value is yet greater in the thought that my country has not degraded the old and true principles of honour by paying the soldier who fought for her in the same coin as that in which you Mr. Jack, sir, pay your bootmaker's bill. No, no, gentlemen. As courage was the first virtue that honour called forth—the first virtue from which all safety and civilization proceed, so we do right to keep that one virtue at least clear and unsullied from all the money-making, mercenary, pay-me-in-cash abominations which are the vices, not the virtues, of the civilisation it has produced." My Uncle Roland here came to a full stop ; and, filling his glass, rose and said solemnly—" A last bumper, gentlemen.—' To the dead who died for England ! ' " ANECDOTE OF THE FAR-FAMED MR. ROBT, BAKEWELL. The celebrated Mr. Robert Bakewell, of Dishley, in Leicestershire, and the founder of the New Leicester Sheep, used to tell an anecdote with exceedingly high glee, of a farmer not only of the olden school, but of the golden times. This farmer, who owned and occupied 1,000 acres of land, had three daughters. When his eldest daughter married, he gave her one quarter of his land for her portion, but no money; and he found, by a little more speed and little better management, the pro duce of his farm did not decrease. When his second daughter married, he gave her one-third of the remaining land for her portion, but no money. He then set to work and began to grub up his furze and fern, and ploughed up what he called his poor dry furze land ; nay, and when the furze covered in some closes nearly half the land. After giving half his land away to two of his daughters, to his great surprise he found that the produce increased ; he made more money because his new broken up furze land brought excessive crops, and at the same time he farmed the whole of his land better, for he employed three times more labourers upon it; he rose two hours sooner in the morning, had no more dead follows once in three years, instead of which he got two green crops in one year, and ate them upon the land. A garden never re quires a dead fallow. But the great advantage was, that he had got the same money to manage 500 acres as he had to manage 1000 acres ; therefore he laid out double the money upon the land. When his third and last daughter married, he gave her 250 acres, or the half which remained, for her portion, and no money. He then found that he had the same money to farm one quarter of the land as he had first to farm the whole. He began to ask himself a few questions, and set his wits to work how he was to make as much of 250 as he had done of 1,000 acres. He then paid off his bailiff, who weighed twenty stone; rose with the lark in the long days, and went to bed with the lamb : he got as much more work done for his money : he made his servants, labourers, and horses move faster; broke them from their snail's pace, and found the eye of the master quickened the pace of the ser vant. He saw the beginning and the ending of everything; and to his servants and labourers, instead of saying—" Go and do it," he said to them—" Let us go, my boys, and do it." Between come and go, he soon found out a great difference. He grubbed up the whole of his furze and ferns, and ploughed the whole of his poor grass land up, and converted a great deal of corn into meat for the sake of the manure, and he preserved his blackwater (the essence of manure); cut his hedges down, which had not been plashed for forty or fiffy years ; straightened his zig zag fences ; cut his watercourses straight, and gained a deal of land by doing so ; made dams and sluices, and ir rigated all the land he could ; he grubbed up many of his hedges and borders covered with bushes, in some places from ten to fourteen yards in width, some more in his small closes, some not wider than streets ; and threw three, four, five, and six closes into one. He found out, instead of growing whitethorn hedges and haws to feed foreign birds in the winter, he could grow food for man, instead of migratory birds. After all this improvement, he grew more, and made more of 250 acres than lie did from 1,000; at the same time, he found out that half England at that time was not cultivated from the want of the means to cultivate it with. I let him rams, and sold him long-horned bulls (said Mr. Bakewell), and told him the value of labour, both in-doors and out, and what ought to be done with a certain number of men, oxen, and horses within a given time. I taught him to sow less and plough better ; that there were limits and measures to all things ; and that the husbandman ought to be stronger than the farm. I told him how to make hot land colder, and cold land hotter; light land stiffer, and stiff land lighter. I soon caused him to shake off his old deep rooted prejudices, and I grafted new ones in their places. I told him not to breed inferior cattle, sheep, or horses, but the best of each kind, for the best consumed no more than the worst. My friend became a new man in his old age, and died rich : whilst I bred cattle, sheep, and black THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. horses for the good of the public, nay,. to enrich the pub lic, instead of growing rich myself; for my house was an open one. I made more of my land than any man. 1 let for the season in 1789 three rams at one birth• of one ewe at 1,200 gs. and seven for 2000 ; and of one ram, with taking in ewes, reckoning my own ewes at the same price, I made 1,200 gs. in one season. When shall we see the like again ! SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Twelve o'clock. ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA. This morning about eleven o'clock the Cambria steam ship, Captain Harrison, came up the river. She has brought £73,000 on freight and sixty-seven passengers. On the 27th ult. spoke the steam-ship Hibernia, sixty hours sail from New York. The Cambria left New York on the 24th ult., and Halifax on Saturday, May 27th, at two p.m. The steam-ship Caledonia reached Boston on the 210 ultimo. The commercial intelligence from Great Britain was considered rather favourable than otherwise. The general intelligence is unimportant. A letter from Washington, in the New York Herald, states that the Mexican Congress had rejected the treaty of peace. General Twiggs left New York on the 21st for the South. The new Government loan of sixteen millions of dollars was exciting much interest in financial circles at New York. It was the impression that the whole of it would be taken in that country. General Scott was to make a grand entrance into New York on the 24th ult., and the greatest demonstrations were in progress to welcome him. A democratic National Convention was sitting at Balti more in reference to the Presidency, and from the mass of people gathered into the town the most extraordinary enthusiasm prevailed. Delegates from the other 'States were present, but nothing definite had been agreed upon. In the Herald it is said that trade between Mexico and the States had been partially resumed, and that the occu pation of Mexico by the American troops was nearly as effective as if the process of annexation had been consum mated. From all that can be learned it is supposed that Yucatan is in the possession of the Indians. The taking of Bacalar by them has filled Belize with refugees; and indeed fears were entertained that they would attack that place, in fulfilment of their threats. In the attack on Bacalar only five of the inhabitants were killed, but at Valladolid every male inhabitant was massacred. At New York there are eleven steamers on the stocks, making an aggregate of more than 15,000 tons. They are all ocean vessels, and range from 1000 to 3000 tons burthen. Two of them—each measuring nearly 3000 tons burthen—are intended for Mr. E. K. Collins' Liver verpool line. There had been a fair demand for sterling exchange for remittance by the Cambria, and the rates were firm at 101 to 11 premium. The supply of first-rate bills was small. _ _ The Caledonia's advices being considered favourable, caused the cotton market to advance se. to lc. on the 23d, but at the close the market had a dull aspect. NEW YORK. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 6 P.M.—There were larger sales of flour to-day, but on terms which showed no further decline on prices current yesterday. The lots disposed of embraced the usual assortment of Western brands, including Genesee, &c., at rates showing a wide range in prices, which indicated a feverish state of the market. From the quantity sold, it is likely some lotswere taken for export. There was very little wheatoffering, and no sales were reported. Corn remained about the same, with moderate sales. Rve, if anything, was a little firmer. Oats were dull. From Buffalo, by telegraph, we learn that re ceipts were fair, while flour was dull. At Albany receipts of flour moderate, and grain not large • flour dull, with moderate transactions in grain. At ioston the market for flour was steady, with free sales of corn at previous rates. Sales of lead and seed were also made. In this market prices were sather heavy for mess pork. while sales of prime were made at previous rates.—There continued to be a good inquiry for lard. Moderate sales of sugar were made, without change of moment in prices. FREIGHTS.—Cotton to Liverpool was rather dull at 5-32 d. ; 120 tons heavy freight was taken at 17s. 6d. • and some lard was taken, it was said at 155., and barrels of pork at 2s. Some heavy goods were taken to Glasgow at 20s. The last engagement of cotton was made at id. for the same port ; to London 255. was asked. NEW ORLEANS, Mav 17.—Cotton, middling advanced ie. Sugar, fair 2c. to lc. ; Molasses, no change. Flour, quiet. Freights, one engagement. Exchange, no im provement. LIST OF PASSENGERS.—Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Lamont, Miss Scharfenberg, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Weston and servant, Mr. and Mrs. A. Borrowman, Mr. and Mrs. Philips, Mr. Hersent, Mr. Alexandre, Mr. Malezieux, Mr. A. L. Montant, Mr. Anstice, Mr. Anstice, jun., Mr. Wanklyn, Mr. James Owen, Mr. W. Scharfenberg, Mr. John Samuels, Mr. T. Ennis, Mr. S. M. Buckingham, Mr. S. T. Dand, Mr. W. E. Cock, Mr. Thos. Radonich, Mr. J. A. Merle (bearer of despatches from the United States), Dr. Thomas, Mr. A. Peyehand, Mr. Brusbane, Mr. A. L. Barbar, Mr. E. Martineau, Mr. E. Chauret, Mr. J. Still, Mr. Stanhope Smart, Mr. D. Murray, Mr. G. W. Suttle, Mr. Garean, Mr. Ducatel, Capt. Wilder, Mr. Young, Mr. S. De Vere, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Maule, Mr. Adolph Ahrens, Mr. Allan Wallis, Mr. Robert J. Walker, Mr. A. T. Stewart, Mr. James Meyers, Mr. Colin Russel, Mr. Frois, Mr. Monassot, Mr. Antoni Aree, Mr. Thomas Rawlings, Mr. R. 0. Anderson, Mr. Abrahams, Mr. John M`Kewan, Mr. C. W. Moore, Mr. Casey, Captain Wynn, Mr. John Gauche, Mrs. R. P. Dand, Mr. M. A. Hagc, Mr. Charles Lucke, Mr. Gan , zales Echeveria, Mrs. and Miss Filder and servant, Mr. J. P. Code, Mr. C. A. Langdon. From Halffax.—lion. Joseph Pope, Mrs. Cranet and daughter, Mr. Brierly. NORTH CHESHIRE ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLL—FIRST DAY. Legh . Astley THIRD EDITION. LATEST FROM IRELAND. YOUNG AND OLD IRELAND. - At a meeting of the Repeal Association yesterday, it was announced that that Association and the Confederation had agreed to fraternise and unite into one conspiracy. A General National Assembly is to be organised, where Old and Young I re _ landers will meet in amity on the understanding that nei ther moral nor physical force is to be mentioned by either party. What then are they to discuss ?. What is the only intermediate point ? Nothing but Fudge. o 5.), Standard-office, Two o'clock, p.m. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.-THIS DAY. The Share Market this morning has not improved, but there is not any material change in prices. The following is a list of business done :—Great Northern, 91 dis. Leeds Sixths, 12 dis. West Riding, 2 1-16 21 dis. London Stock, 1241; 2-Shares, 1 prern. Sheffield No 1, 4 dis.; *-Shares, 51 dis. Midland, 101 ; k-Shares, 62 62 dis. Newcastle and Carlisle, 110. North Union A, 201 ; Ditto B, 140. Oswestrys, 7j dis. Old lovers, 242 ; No. 2, 102 dis. ; No. 4, 331 dis. Newcastle Preference, pm. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE-THIS DAY. Including some further arrivals into this port since Friday, those of the entire week furnish a moderate supply of Grain and Flour, coastwise and from Ireland; with a liberal accession of Egyptian Beans, and a fair import of Indian Corn and Meal from the American States, against a much larger export of the two last named articles to Ireland, as enumerated below. 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Two men at Bradford, charged with illegally training and drilling in that neighbourhood, have been committed for trial. _ A shepherd, named Macquat, was killed a few days since, at Leadhill, Lanarkshire, during a thunder-storm. A female at Bath, named Mrs. Gurriott, has died from the effects of the bite of a cat which was ill at the time the poor woman was bitten. By a notice in the Gazette of Tuesday, BerwiCh-upon- Tweed is appointed an English port, from and after this day. The Duke of Sutherland subscribed the noble sum of £70,000 for the relief of the suffering people during the famine in the Highlands. The annual ball in aid of the funds of the Polish Asso ciation, took place at Willis's-rooms, on Monday night. There were upwards of 700 persons present. Potatoes and bread are the same price per gallon in Salisbury at the present time, namely, 10d.—a circum stance probably without parallel within memory. The John Bull says that Mrs. Mitchel is not only not. the niece of Sir W. Verner, but that she has no claim whatever to relationship with him. Some asparagus, grown by Mr. Hasell, gardener, Bar near Bristol, measures four inches and a half in girth, and is twelve inches in length ! The first premium of £lOO has been unanimously awarded to Messrs. Tnompsom and Johnstone, Ecelestori. square, London, for their plan of the County Infirmary about to be built in the city of Durham. Cheltenham is at present inundated with Irish paupers. Scores are arriving daily, and a committee has been formed to provide a building in the outskirts of the town, for the reception of the casual poor. MODEL LODGING-ROUSES FOR FAMILIES.—The Queen Dowager has forwarded to the committee of the above so ciety £l5O, the Duchess of Kent £lOO, and the Duchess of Gloucester £5O. At Birmingham, on Monday, there was an attempted demonstration on behalf of the Irish confederate Mitchell, but only fifty persons made their appearance, and these were soon dispersed by a sharp shower of rain. DISINFECTING FLUIDS.—The Literary Gazette lately stated that the cesspools of Westminster had been opened to prove the efficacy of disinfecting fluids ; and that a dangerous typhus was the result. A GOOD . EXAMPLE.—The East London Waterworks Company and the British Gaslight Company have gene rously afforded gratuitous supplies of water and gas to the model establishment, Goulston-square, Whitechapel. SINGULAR CIRCUSTANCE.—Last week, while some men were getting gravel in the river Trent, between Torksey and Dunham, a fine salmon leaped into the boat, and was captured. It weighed 181b.—Notts Journal. In several towns in Yorkshire, a dramatic performance, entitled "John Barleycorn," has been represented in aid of the temperenee movement. The scene is a court of justice, and John is tried and found guilty of many crimes and offences. Haymaking operations were commenced in the neigh bourhood of Bath a week ago, and the market was last week well supplied with green peas and other garden pro ductions. The former were reduced in price within a day or two from 2s. to 9d. and Bd. per peck. A day or two ago, Mr. Kent, a baker, of Mold, and his journeyman, died in consequence of eating some poison ous herb, while gathering hop-top in the fields. M r . Kent's apprentice, who likewise ate some of the herb, is also dangerously ill, ansl not likely to recover. Standard Office, 1-past Two, p.m. Failure of the Negociations far the Purchase of the Birkenhead Docks.] A special meeting of the Dock Committee was held this day, at one o'clock, Mr. J. Bramley-Moore in the chair, for the purpose of having placed before the committee that gentleman's account of the course of the negociations for the purchase of the Birkenhead dock estate. He stated that the first communication upon the subject was made by letter from Mr. Barnett to himself, in reply to which he informed that gentleman that he was reads , to receive any overtures, and submit them to the Dock Committee. The next was to Mr. Lace and himself from Mr. Gold smidth and other bondholders, expressing their wish to negotiate. They had several meetings, subsequently, at which the full amount of the Bonded Debt was demanded, but it was not until the Monday—the day preceding the meeting of the Committee—that they had a definite offer which they could entertain. That offer was to take £341,960 for the Estate, or 15s. in the pound upon £455,000, made up as follows — Subscribed by bond £422,950 Other sources £455,950 The estate had due to it—from the Birkenhead Warehouse Company £50,000 Birkenhead Commissioners They had expended in law expenses £30,000, and £63,000 was due for interest. In all this made a sum of £198,000 which the chairman thought he was justified in striking out, leaving it to the parties to realise the money so ap plied. There was then £257,000 left. No credit, how ever, was taken for the money spent upon Woodside Pier ; and the cost of the plant was now to be deducted. Tak ing Mr. Rendel's figures, which gave the extreme case, £225,588 had been expended in works ; and, including the plant, £286,385 was the utmost for which they could ne gociate. Upon this sum the chairman had offered 6s. Bd. in the pound, which, presuming the amount lent should be recovered, would make about 9s. 10d. in the pound for the bondholders. The payment was to be 'n Liver pool Dock Bonds bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent. The offer was made by letter ; and the bondholders, met in the City to receive it, returned for answer a refusal. Here, therefore, the negotiation ended. Mr. Bramley-Moore's statement was listened to with great attention ; and his conduct throughout the negocia tion was highly approved by the Committee, who left with him full powers to entertain any further proposal that might be made on the subject. At the commencement of the proceedings the Chair man announced that the Liverpool Dock Bill had passed the House of Lords. Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge have signified their intention of becoming members of the committee of public baths and wash-houses in the north-west district of London ; and the Queen and Prince Albert have deter mined to contribute £lOO in aid of the establishment. The body of a young man, named Young, has been found at Kilmarnock, with a deep gash in his throat. It is supposed that he has been murdered, as he was robbed of his watch and money. An Irishman has been appre hended on suspicion, in consequence of his having em ployed an acquaintance to pawn the watch. Tom Steele, Ireland's Pacificator, is lingering under severe illness at Peele's Coffee-house, Fleet-street. This unfortunate gentleman will be removed to Ireland with out delay, if he recover sufficient strength to enable him to bear the fatigue of the journey. At present his imme diate friends are under great apprehensions as to the state of his health. IMPORTATION OF ARMS.--A vessel arrived in the river from Gibraltar has brought several packages of muskets, consigned to a foreign house in the metropolis. As the importation of foieign arms into this country is totally prohibited they have not been delivered to the parties, but have been landed under detention, subject to the directions of the government authorities. SALE OF POLICIES OF ASSURANCE.—A policy of as surance for £l,OOO, in the Union Life Office, on the life of a gentleman, aged 71, annual premium £3B 19s. 2d., was sold at Garraway's, on Wednesday, for.Xsoo ; also, one in the Kent Life Assurance Office for £7OO, annual payment £2O Bs. 6d., £3BO ; and one in the London Life Assurance Office for £l,OOO, annual payment £37 10s., £270. - _ _ _ _ _ _ The manufacturing operatives have forwarded to the Queen a gold medal and an address of thanks for the royal assent given to the Ten Hours' Bill, now in full operation. Sir George Grey, in reply to Lord Ashley, assures the operatives of " Her Majesty's deep interest in all that concerns the happiness, comfort, and permanent welfare of her faithful and loyal subjects, of whom they form so important a Dart. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—On Saturday, whilst the workmen were engaged in an excavation in Union street, Southwark, they came upon an immense mass of human skeletons, which were lying piled with the great est regularity, without any admixture of earth or the remnant of coffins. It is calculated that at the very least there are the remains of from five to six hundred persons. Considerable excitement prevails in the neigh bourhood, it having been discovered that this spot was used to bury the dead during the great plague of London. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—Few persons are aware of the extensive emigration which is going on from the port of London to the Cape and all the Australian colo nies. Ships, freighted with men, women. and children, sail daily from Gravesend to all parts of South Australia or the Cape of Good Hope, and numerous others are being taken up to supply the constant demand for accommoda tion for conveyance to those colonial possessions. On Thursday we visited a remarkably fine ship at Deptford, engaged to convey emigrants to Sydney. She is named • the Castle Eden, and is of about 900 tons new, with ac commodation for 230 men, women, and-children. FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. — On Friday morning early, a boiler connected with a puddling engine of the iron works of Mr. Jeffries ' Harts-hill, near Dudley, burst with a tremendous explosion, which was heard two miles off. The men who had been working during the night had just left, and fortunately compara tively few of the day-men had arrived, when the accident occurred. The brickwork in which the boiler was encased was torn asunder, and propelled in every direction. The roof of the works was blown completely away ; several large furnace chimneys were smashed to atoms ; and the ruins of the whole fell upon the unfortunate men who were at work in the premises, or who were about to begin work. Por tions of the boiler and brickwork were thrown immense dis tances; and, some of them falling into the neighbouring workshops, rendered the whole premises a complete ruin. A portion of the boiler, weighing not less than 26 cwt., was blown a diatance of ! a quarter of a mile. Up to Fri day night ten bodies had been extricated. Several of them have left wives and families. Amongst the persons injured was a girl who was 150 yards from the spot, when a brick alighted on her head, and hurt her very severely. THE DIORAMA. REGENT'S PARK, LONDON. — The new picture (for this season) is a view of Mount Etna, painted by M. Diosse, pupil of M. Dagurre, and is designed to show the various effects of light and shade by which dioramic views are distinguished. The point of view appears to have been remarkably well chosen, being a spot near the ruins of the Theatre at Taormina. The picture is seen under three different aspects—evening with moon light effects, sunrise, and night, or in comparative dark ness, and under the representation of an eruption of the mountain. The picture appears almost the place it rep resents, the pictorial illusion producing an apparent reality. The perfect representation of interiors of build ings had been before obtained, and is an easier task. The evening view is remarkably beautiful as regards the sky and clouds, and is worthy of great praise. The view by sunlight is brilliant and well toned, the coloring being subdued by the tints of nature, and having less of the gaudy glare by which some pictures of this class have been disfigured. The view of the eruption is also well managed ; there is no scenic effect and nothing is exag gerated.—Times. ATTEMPTED DISTURBANCES BY THE IRISH IN LONDON. —On the arrival in London of the inteiligence of Mitchel's conviction, various clubs of Irish assembled, partly armed with muskets and pikes, in Clerkenivell green, where they were harangued by a Mr. Williams, with other speakers, by whom they were requested to follow him four abreast where he would lead them. The procession moved through the city to Finsbury-square, where the word was given "to the west." They then proceeded by Leicester-square to Trafalgar-square, increasing in numbers as they went along, and encouraged by exhortations to "be firm," " the time has now arrived," &c. Here, however, they were stopped by a strong body of police, when they were addressed by the leaders, who said that they had been disappointed in their expectations, and advised them to disperse, and meet again on Wednesday evening. —On Tuesday a similar demonstration was attempted, but the police were prepared, and being ordered to clear the streets, they were obliged to resort to violent measures. Several persons were knocked down and severely injured. —On Wednesday a third attempt of the same kind was made ; but a large police and military force, particularly a troop of Life Guards, caused the crowds instantly to disperse. AN INNOCENT MAN IMPRISONED.—The Doncaster I Gazette notices a singular disclosnre which has recently been made at Gainsbro'. On Easter Monday, an alarm was created by the continued ringing of the bell at the Grammar School. Numbers of persons hastened to the spot, and found the servants greatly alarmed, in conse quence of an attack which they stated had been made on the house-burglars. From the description given of one of them, a man was taken into custody, examined before the magistrates, and the girls swearing positively to his dress and voice, he was committed to Kirton gaol. All these facts were made public at the time. From state ments made, it appears that, on the Monday evening allu ded.to, two young gentlemen made a call on Mr. Willan, and as the servant girls were alone in the house, as a matter of precaution they asked the names of the persons who demanded admittance; this was twice refused, and the girls naturally enough became alarmed, rang the bell, and the visitors becoming perplexed in return walked away, and actually met several persons coming to render assistance. Some days elapsed before they became aware that a man had been sent to Kirton on the charge of at tempting a burglary ; and they put themselves in commu nication with the magistrates' clerk, who at once wrote to the secretary of state, detailing the above facts. No reply was received, and the poor fellow had been in gaol since the 26th of April last, suffering for a crime of which he was-innocent, until Sunday last, when the clerk received a communication from the secretary of state, granting the man a free pardon. DOUBLE MURDER IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE. — On the 30th ult. a lengthened investigation took place into the death of Harriet Burton, wife of Charles Burton, huckster, and Mary Ann, his daughter, both of whom were found with their throats cut at Stilton, in the morning of Mon day last. At the close of the proceedings a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against Charles Burton, then in custody. Since Monday the miserable man has confessed to the surgeon who attended him the particulars of the sanguinary deed. He said, " I first cut my wife's throat, when she was between asleep and awake, but find ing herself wounded, she jumped out of bed and rushed towards the window, whence she shrieked ' Murder!' I then immediately cut the throat of my little girl, and hav ing done so, I rushed at my wife, and, clasping her round the waist, I repeated the stroke across her neck. She then fell dead at my feet. I then made an attempt upon my own throat, but I was seized before I accomplished my purpose." Upon being questioned as to the cause which induced him to commit the rash act, he said, trouble caused me to contemplate suicide. I intended to destroy myself; but, knowing that I should leave my wife and children in penury, I thought it best that we should all die together." It appears that, on Saturday night, when the unhappy man went to the razor grinder's for the purpose of getting his razor sharpened, he was disap pointed in the rtceipt of a sum of money left him by a de ceased relative, and, having contracted a few debts, he was fearful he should not be able to discharge them ; hence the awful occurrence. On Wednesday he made a will, leaving the whole of his property to his son George, who was absent from home at the time the fatal deed was com mitted. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF Two SISTERS.—Two young females, sisters, named Ellen and Jane Hughes, aged re spectively 19 and 15, were recently in the service of a gentleman named Cooper, at Southampton, when the elder girl was dismissed for impertinence, and her sister refused to remain without her. They were seen by seve ral persons during the two or three following days, and seemed in good spirits, though they said that rather than go home to their mother, who was cohabiting with a man to whom she was not married, they would throw them selves over the quay. They had both complained of ill treatment from their mother, and the younger girl had been severely beaten by the man, previous to their going to service. On Monday, the Bth ultimo, according to the evidence of their mother, they called at her house at Horton Heath, and told her of their having left their place, and said they were going to another situation. She accompanied them back into Southampton, when they gave an address as the place they were going to. On Sa turday morning, the 13th ultimo, between seven and nine o'clock, they were again at Horton Heath in their mo ther's garden. She asked them the reason of their being there, when they told her they had got a holiday, and come to see her; that they had arrived at ten o'clock the night before, but as she was gone to bed they did not like to disturb her, and they had been lying there all night. They went in and had breakfast with her, and remained till two o'clock, when they left, as they alleged, to go back to their place in Southampton. Ellen said, " Mo ther, go down to the bottom of the garden with us." She went, and they then kissed her, and said, " Good bye, God bless you," after which she saw them no more. On Tuesday, the 16th, having suspected that something was wrong, she went to Southampton and inquired for the address they gave her, when she found there was no such person or place, nor could she hear anything of them. The last that was seen of the unhappy and un fortunate girls, after this, was by a person named Wm. Purkiss, who saw them sitting on the rails of the bridge, over the brook in which they were found, at six o'clock on the same evening of the 13th. Their death occurred, no doubt, very shortly after this time, as they were not seen afterwards alive. The bodies were found several yards from the bridge, and had probably floated down the stream. They were lying clasped in each other's arms, their arms being round each other's waists ; and they appeared to have been in the water seven or oight days.— Hampshire Independent. DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CAPTAIN AND C REW OF A BRIG BELONGING TO HULL.—For some months past great anxiety has been felt by many parties in Hull in consequence of the non-arrival, in due time, of the brig " Viatka." She was commanded by Captain Chambers, and left Archangel on the 30th of September, bound for Hull. All the other vessels from that port arrived suc cessively, though late, but the Viatka did not appear, and after a lapse of time was given up for lost. Nothing was heard of her until the 30th of March, when intelligence reached this country that she had put back into Jokan Harbour, in Cape Sweetnose Bay, on the 20th of Decem ber, with her cargo much heated, but the crew all safe. Information was subsequently received of her arrival at Berwick on the 26th ult., and on Wednesday last she ar rived at Hull. She had on board a cargo of linseed co dilla. Off Cape North she encountered a succeesion of hurricanes from the S.W. The linseed, in consequence, became so much heated that great fears were entertained that she would take fire. The captain bore up for Ham merfest, but, through stress of weather, she did not reach it, and, after other hardships, rea.thed Jokan Harbour. There the frost set in, and the island, as described, is one of the most dreary which the imagination can depict. Not a single human being was to be seen anywhere around, and the whole landscape was a vast ridge of mountains, covered with snow. The state of the weather and the cargo precluded all possibility of reaching Archangel or any other port, and they were th ere f ore o bli ge d t o rema i n in this desolate region. On their arriv a l their provisions became so diminished that they were constrained to put themselves on a most limited allowance. Their fresh water also failed them, but of this they supplied themselves from the snow. In this miserable position they continued for six weeks without seeing a single inhabitant. On the 25th of January they at last descried some Laplanders who had come down to procure food. The captain succeeded in making them understand that he and his crew were on the brink of starvation ; but they were little better off them selves. They took the captain4o Ponoi, sixty miles up the country. He spent one night with the natives on his way, but suffered dreadfully from the cold, not having necessary clothing. On the following morning he started with them in a sledge, drawn by rein-deer, for Ponoi. He reached Ponoi in eight days, but his sufferings during the journey from the cold were indescribable. During the time that Capt. Chambers was away the crew were re duced to such a condition that they actually cut up all the spars they could spare, and even the warps, to make fires. It is utterly impossible to describe:their miserable position. On arriving at Ponoi, Capt. Chambers succeeded in for warding letters to time British consul at Archangel, and obtained money from that place, which enabled him to purchase food for himself and crew from the natives. He also bought a winter dress, such as is worn by the natives, as he had experienced the most excruciating sufferings from the cold. Capt. Chambers, on returning, found his crew all safe, and with the money he had got he obtained about three weeks provisions, with which scanty supply they set sail. They received some assistance from several vessels on their howeward trip, and arrived at Berwick on the 26th ult. The crew are now quite recovered after their great sufferin g s. The case of the " Queen v. Sugden," which remained over for judgment since last term, was decided on Tues day in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dablin. Sir Edwd. Sugden had appointed his son to the Assistant Registrar_ ship of the Court of Chancery, which appointment was impugned by the head clerk, Mr. Kelly, who 'claimed the appointment under Lord Plunket's Act, which regulated, inter alia, the promotion in the Chancery Court. The case came before the Queen's Bench by quo warranto, and judgment was given in favour of Mr. Kelly. Thus, the appointment of the ex-Chancellor in favour of his son has been set aside. It is likely the matter will come be fore the House of Lords. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, ON THE IST JUNE, 1848. (From Co!bane.' United &rvice Magazine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the depot of the regiment is stationed.] Ist Life Guards—Regent's Prk 36111—(1st batt.) Corfu. 2(1 Ditto—Hyde Park . (2d. batt.) Cephalonia Royal H. Guards—Windsor 37th—Ceylon, Chatham Ist Drag.Guards—Chatham 38th—Halifax, N.S., Boyle 2d—Piershill 39th—Hull 3d—Nottingham 40th—Galway 4th—Nottingham 41st-13uttevant sth—York 42d—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ; 6th—Dundalk Reserve batt., Bermuda. 7th—C. Good Hope, Maidstone,43d—Templemore Ist Dragoons—Cahir 44th—(lst batt.) Malta 2d—Athlone (Reserve batt.) Cork 3d—Bengal, Maidstone 45th—CapeG.Hope,1.of Wight; 4th— Newbridge Res. batt., Cape G. Hope 6th—Dablin ' 46th—Halifax, N.S., Dover 7th Hussars—Dubli 47th—Clonniel Bth—Ballincollig 48th—Dublin 9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidatn.,49th—Dublin 10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid-'soth—liengal, Walmer stone 51st—Madras, Chatham 11th Hussars—Coventry 52d—Ashton-uinter-Lyne 12th Lancers—Hounslow 53d—Bengal, Chatham 13th Lt. Dragoons—Longford 54th—Barbadoes, Jersey 14th—Bengal, Maidstone 55th—Dublin 15th Huss.—Madras, Maidston 56th—(ist batt.) Gibraltar 16th Lancers—Norwich (2d batt.) Gibraltar, I. of 17th—Dublin 57th—Enniskillen [Wight Grenadier Guards— 58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham (Ist batt.) Wellington Bar. 59th—Templemore (2d batt.) Winchester 60th—(1st bt.) Bornbay,Chathm (3d batt.) St. John's Wood (2d bt.) Bury Coldstream Guards— 61st—Bengal, Chatham (Ist batt.) The 'lower 62d—Winchester (2d batt.) Windsor 6 3d—Manchester Scotch Fusileer Guards— 6 4th—Limerick (Ist batt.) St. George's Bar. 65th—N. S. Wales. Chatham (2d batt.) Portman-st. Bar. 66 th—Barbadoes, Kinsale Ist Foot— 1 6 7th—Gibraltar, Isle of Wight (Ist batt.) N. Scotia, Stirling!6Bth—Mullingar (2d batt.)—Birr 69th—Malta; Reserve batt. 2d—Athlone Malta, Isle of Wight 3d—Belfast 70th—Cork 4th—Madras, Chatham 71st—Naas sth—(lst bt ) Mauritius Reserve batt., Canada (2d bt.) Maurit., I.Wight,72d—West Indies, Sheerness 6th—(lst ht.) Cape G. Hope ;!73d —Cape G. Hope, Bier Reserve batt., Hudson't4th—Dublin Bay and Youghal. 75th—Dublin 7th—Halifax, N.S., Waterford 76th—Corfu, Isle of Wight Bth—Bombay, Chatham 77th—Canada, Fermoy 9th—Portsmouth 78th—Bombay, Chatham 10th—Bengal, Chatham 79th—Gibraltar, Mullingar 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 80th—Bengal, Chatham 12th—Weedon 81st—Preston Reserve batt., Mauritius 82d—Halifax, N.S., Devonport 13th—Newry 83d—Kilkenny 14th—Newport, South Wales 84th—Madras, Chatham 15th—Ceylon, Chester 85th—Dublin 16th—Corfu, Guernsey 86th—Bombay, Chatham 17th—Portsmouth 87th—Weedon 18th—Bengal, Chatham 88th—Trinidad, Tralee 19th—Quebec, Castlebar 89th—Preston • 20th—Canada, Isle of Wight; 90th—Chatham Reserve batt., Canada 91st—Gosport ; Reserve batt., 21st—Calcutta, Canterbury Cape of Good Hope 22d—Bombay, Chatham 92d—Limerick 23d—Halifax, Isle of Wight ;,93d—Canada, Aberdeen Reserve batt., Canada 94th—Madras, Chatham 24th—Bengal, Chatham 95th—China, Naas 25th—Madras, Chatham 96th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 26th—Cork 97th—Jamaica,Isle of Wight 27th—Glasgow Reserve batt, Jamaica. 28th —Canterbury 98th—Bengal, Chatham 29th—Bengal, Chatham 99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham 30th—Newcastle-on -Tyne Rifle Brigade 31st—Dublin (Ist batt.) Cape of G. Hope, 32d—Bengal, Chatham Bristol 33d —Edinburgh (2d batt.) Canada, Isle of 34t h—Gib ra ltar, Nenagh Wight 35th—Plymouth Reserve batt., Quebec. c(fLO NIA L CORPS. -Ist West India Regiment—Jamaica 2d Ditto—Windward and Leeward Islands. 3d Ditto—Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon and China Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Canada Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of Good Hope Royal Newfoundland Veteran Company—Newfoundland Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta St. Helena Regiment —St. Helena RAILWAY RECEIPTS. The following are the receipts of railways for the past week; that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made:— Week • 1848. 1847 RAILWAYS. ending Amount. Am t X s. d. X Aberdeen May 0 0 0 .. Amiens and Boulogne —2B 1299 0 0 536 -Arbroath and Forfar Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire —27 703 0 0 839 Caledonian —27 3942 0 0 .. Chester and Holyhead —27 601 0 0 .. Cockermouth and Workington —27 165 0 0 .. Dublin and Drogheda — 0 0 0 993 Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian —2B 498 0 0 .. Edinburgh and Glasgow —27 3524 0 0 3655 Edinburgh and Northern —27 1528 0 0 .. Eastern Counties and N. Eastern —23 • 14846 0 0 12040 East Lancashire Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury —2l 1216 0 0 1133 Glasgow, Ganikirk, and Ctbrg —— I 0 0 0 .. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr. —27 2175 0 0 2709 Glasgow and Greenock Great Southern and Western Great Western Kendal and Windermere — 27 150 0 0 .. Lancashire and Yorkshire...... —27 9342 0 0 11463 Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Thirsk — 0 0 0 .. Londonderry and Enniskillen —27 145 0 0 188 London and North-Western —2B 42092 0 0 47246 London and Blackwall London& Brighton, South Coast —27 12907 0 0 10240 London and South-Western Al 'chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln —27 2525 0 0 3186 Maryport and Carlisle —2B 547 0 0 633 Midland, Bristol, and Birming ham Midland Great Western (Ireland) —2l 1041 0 0 . „ Newmarket — 0 0 0 .. Newcastle and Carlisle Norfolk North British —27 2069 • 0 0 1940 Paris and Rouen Itouen and Havre ——: 0 0 0 2980 Scottish Central — 0 0 0 .. Shrewsbury and Chester South-Eastern and Branches South Devon Taff Vale 27 1660 0 0 1607 Ulster Whitehaven Junction 2B 207 0 0 284 Wishaw and Coltness York, Newcastle, and Berwick —27 12603 C 0 9362 York and North Midland, &c —27 8178 0 0 6430 2343 2148 1940 8067 2980 \ I STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER,—There has been scarcely any change in the market during the week as regards either demand or prices. No activity is visible in any dep:.rtment of our export trade, the prevalent feeling being to abstain from all operations beyond what are necessary for the supply of immediate and urgent wants. The uneasiness and apprehension experienced during the middle of the week regarding local disturbances have, in a great measure, passed away. LEEDS.—The woollen trade of this town and district, is with out material alteration since our last. A fair amount of busi ness continues to be done, and during the week some purchases have been made tor the American market ; but by the conti nental houses little is doing. Prices are considered very low, and stocks are not heavy. _ HALIFAX--Pieces We have had more business doing on Saturday than we have had for some time back, but still at very low prices. Yarns still remain in a very dull state, the demand being extremely limited. Wool is Only in small demand, owing to many of the mink running two and three days per week. BRADFORB.—WooI: The absence of bdciness, during the turmoil of the week, has not only, affected the consumption, but also the purchase of all kinds of combing wools, which have been very dull. There is no material increase in stocks, or alteration in l races. Noils and brokes in steady request, at former 'rates. Yarns: We cannot note any improvement in this branch of the trade. The demand continues dull, and the prices so unremunerating as to retard any increase in the pro duction. Pieces : There is about the same doing in piece goods as for some time past. The quantity coming to market is limited, and stocks on the decrease. The current prices for paramattas and orleans forbid their manufacture; and fancy goods, unless they are new in style, will not realize prime cost. But the policy of the manufacturers, in making only to order, has prevented losses which would otherwise have occurred. HUDDERSFIELD.—We have had very little doing in our market this week, no one buying anything but what they want for immediate use, and that is not a great deal at this season. We arc still of opinion that our prospects for the autumn trade are very favourable. Prices are still very low. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The flannel market this week has been in a languid state; very little business has bee n done, and pieces of some sorts of goods were sold at lower prices than last week. The wool market was flat, and manu facturers would only purchase for present use. Prices rather lower than last week. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The cut-up stocking branch still continues brisk, and the bands have made a slight attempt at an advance of wages ; but this was only partially acceded to, and the hosiers, feeling it as a check. gave out materials with a very sparing hand.—The drawer. pantaloon, and shirt branch has not improved in the same ratio as the stocking branches, many of the frames beins still short of employment. The cotton glove trade is still in a very improved condition, but this is attributed to the glove hands having turned out, to avoid an abatement in their wages. The plain silk glove branch is still in a very fair condition, the bands in general having em ployment; but the other silk branches are in a most depressed condition.—The cotton lace trade is certainly improved, not only in demand, but what is of greater importance, in the me thod of conducting it. The pusher trade has so far improved, that we have heard of a few pusher machines being actually in the course of construction. Two years since this would have been thought an impossibility.—A considerable trade is carried on in making bobbin lace from white bleached cotto,i, in which bleached iflax-thread is introduced in various patterns.—The silk bobbin trade is still pretty good, and, if anything, increas ing. —The muslin laces still keep their ground. Several lace• workmen have arrived from Lyons; they give a very sorry de scription of the Lyonnese manufacturers, who have reduced wages even beneath. the Nottingham prices. They describe the Lyonnese workmen as a body of resolute, tall, powerful men, who feel keenly the injuries to which they have been subjected. The lace-workmen from Vienna are now on their way home. — Nottingham Journal.