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July 23, 1844. eburation. HE Rev. T. L. PAIN'S SCHOOL, 50, FALKNER e 29th instant th "ItERT, will be RE-OPENED on MONDAY next, 8 ' CATHERINE-STREET. lIAMILTON-SQUARE ACADEMY, BEAD. MR. 'WILLIA M IRKENH STEWART bees to intimate that win the d u ti es of this well-known ESTABLISHM EN 1' to b be R ESUMED on the Ist of August. It continues Prede c onducted o n th e pl an sucers ,f u lly p ursue d by his the "e"°C the Rev. Patrick Miss, and with the aid of A;si s t ant Masters whom he employed. Birkenhead, July 13, 18 11. - NORTHE RN CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL, SO/slc FOR THE -.' OP CLERGYMEN & OTHER GENTLEMEN. Rev n HEAD MASTER: ' —r. WOOLLEY, late Fellow of University College, .„ Oxford. lI T E Ru S CHOOLwiII . be O . PENED, Deo volente, on T asnAY, the 22d of August next. ST. VINCENT BEECHEY, A.M., honorary Secretary pro tem., All ho • Thornton Parsonage, near Preston. Secre tar cations for Pro. pectuses, &c. to be made to the CLASSICAL MATHEMATICAL. AND COMMER CIAL. . EDUCATION. FISFIER, will RE-OPEN his ACA- Zitliritit.i ;39, Great George-street, on MONDAY, the Atha A E stablishment young Gentlemen are instructed CotsmerTicient and Modern Languages. Mathematics, for any and General Literature, so as to qualify them Class es a ' liv eraity, or for Mercantile Pursuits. All the the s c i enc re e Practised in French Conversation, and have tics, Elect a °f Astronomy, Chemistry, Optics, Pneunia- APParatus rici tY, Galvanism, &c. illustrated bY extensive an/hthe_S,ullo. 01-room.is a handsome and spacious building. • u vnanasium, for exercise and recreation, is fitted uP with e • very convenience. The Boarders are treated in ever respect as members of the family. They hive the, Aoc of an excellent Juvenile Library, and each, yonUg Gentleman has a separate bed. Particular-attention is Paid to the study of the_ Holy Scriptures so that every requisite is provided for the lie=ilth and comfort, as well as the religious, moral, and intellectual improvement of the Pupils. P.S.—For qualifications, experience, and success in communicating instruction Mr. F. has the honour of re ferring to numerous Clergymen, Merchants, and Profes sional Gentlemen, of the hghest respectabi:ity, who have entrusted him with the educatian of their sons, and whose names may be seen in his Prospectus. BRUNSWICK VILLA ACADEMY, BI RKEN H EA D. CONDUCTED BY MR. JOHN SORLEY. AT this Ac a d em y Y oung G ent l emen are p r epared for the Universities, and instructed in the various branches connected with the mercantile profession. The number of the Boarders is limited to fifteen, and each has l!separsite bed. The strictest attention is paid to their domestic c om f ort, and to the i r re li g i ous an d mora l im provement. Their private studies are carefully superin u.ed, and a Select Library has been provided for their Brunswick Villa is admirably adapted for a scholastic establishment, not only from the salubtity of its situation. but also from its proxiit to Liverpool, where the ablest Professors of the Moder y n Languages, and the -Jarious ttccomplishments, can easly be obtained. Tae House is detached, molehe Play-ground, Gymnasium, and Gar dens, are a and strictly private. !The SCHOOL will be RE-OPENED on MONDAY test, the 29th instant. Prospectuses may be obtained !Nom Messrs. TURICE R and ROSE, 7, South Castie-street, '-iTP001; or from Mr. SORLEY, at the Academy. aide ' July, 1844. _ - - --- CLASii C AL, COMMERCIAL, AND MATHEMA -2' --- 4' ry xr,„ eon TicAL ACADEMY, ALLIS STREET, CORNER OF DUKE MR. STREE7', LIVERPOOL. - RICHARD HOUGHTON, M.A. (Successor to IttoMr.oho Sorl f y) re, cifully intimates that he will instan t I 1 EN the SCHOOL THURSDAY next, the 2.)th to cam an d hopes, by continuing diligently and faithfully y oth - fll ursued by Mr. •., to same plans so success u y P h . .11 has bee n c "eure the y on of the SUpport w it. 11,: .° 11 °n g and liberally extended to the Establishment. Li• will receive into his Family a limited number of ..,Boarder w i th tin :, to whose best interests he will apply himself . Rill , emitting attention. The domestic arrangements tosee superintended by Mrs. and Miss Houghton. The th v !.! in an °Pen and healthy situation, and is replete Li t cf--a.y convenience which can contribute to the corn strictly private, tensiv e j am ily; and in the Play-around, which is ex been, erej l t`L an excellent Gymnasium has rro sne • th e Aci;ri'etses and Printed Testimonials may be had at followi n r - ,, e 'rl; and Reference is kindly permitted to the Re p. J• bj,,,CiergYrnPri :—The Rev. T. Tattershall, D.D. ; T,DriffiZsLM-A.L Rev. F. Ould, M.A. ; Rev. C. G. ' 1) . Ll:i' - `"..A.., Vicar of Prescot ; Rey. T. Raffles, -----::3.; Rev. Joseph R. Welsh, A.M. EDUCATION. A. GENTLEMAN, who has been accustomed to study ltand trav el, is desirous of receiving - Four c . a. Sixn S °JNG GENTLEM EN . to EDUCATE witlhise usi , In addition to the general Course of Education,. ° Pi's will rece INt iction in the following De trtzents of Le' i i t i v.e. —Ro n inan and English Literature, De- And and PrdeTeh' Languages, the Fine Arts, Poetr i T s , three rtn" sentrdito Y outh •oupes tnesy,s Ge, e..,. e. e ve l - ;T:t e r , vvill be delivered to the P H . in the-)- graph y, the u :--- istory, Biography, "I" i ing A ß st r r a o n n c o b Physic a l m n 8- cif the Globes, Elocution, the Moral and " It h o fNationm of the Person, Polilical Economy, advantage of en . ° ,• The Pupils will have the in Gr I ung exercise fre street inconvenience,._ eat G. eorge -s quare, 10from where all applications will Ine_et with immediate a t'en ' ti B onfrom Mr. RANsomE. _e . Mr. R. gives Private Lectures in Families that may d t sire so advanta e Education, or he will ac as Private Tu. g ous a mode of or. Gentlemen clreadwith Mr. Ransome at any hour of the day, ill all t r , t ts of Literature. . Eve • ran g I h above Departmen who w4;h to im e,:tures given to Gentlemen prove their leisure hours, at No. 8, Great George-square, _ r e-square, on eallio 4 on m r . R, or addressing a note h rost. kl t o e sken, Esq. Cart fere nces—llugi; Price, E , q• ; J. • Snell, R.N.; Sir W. Martin. The follo w i ng F am ili es h ave b een under the care of Mr. ltanotne :—The Hon. Mr. Crui "khank's, the Hon. C a pt. - ~ e M'Cauley's. tahl w i n ' s, Count Shotten's, Judge TARVIN HALL SCHOOL, NEAR CHESTER. PRINCIPAL.—JOHN BRINDLEY, cf Maizrlalenof Col lege, Cambridge; M.A., D r . Ph. o f the University tal Endowed School, Worcestershire. ASSISTANT,—CharIes Jones, iT elifumAT Tr : ict e y A C L o :N l i le A g s e t , ,E D ß n ,— bli E n . . PiasT CLASSICAL AND _A S. CROOK, 8.A., of Pembroke ColLge, Cambridge, in „ double h onours . rRENCII MASTER,—Nlonsieur Boiu, 8.A., of the Uni versity of Paris. G " ) 4 1/, DRAWING, AND MUSIC M A S TER ,—II err ju ltuiel l hurst, a native of Hanover. ‘MASTER'NI r. H. K. Browne, Ser geant SUPERINTENDENT DRILL MASTER AND PLAYGROUND , "-- Cox, late of the 46th regiment. TE A et r !SITING (The ab ove M asters are resident.) V T-R n' D ANCING,—Mr. E. Webs+er, Chester. SURGEON,—Mr. George Harrison, Chester. THE Objects a i med at in this ESTABLISHMENT re .'" - Ed ° inu re a tho roug hl y Scriptural and Gentlemanly. th,.,.. ue _ a . t .lon, und er M asters of high Classical and Ma 2 . ,...Fr 0 ',Li c a' attai nments. g fo r tiVPare Pupils for the highest University honours, tary coll?arned Professions, and the Naval and Mili- S ehol 4l 'ges; or to make them first-rate pusin ia e n ss . , uag e r s, With a sound knowledge of the modern ----T o • , ,n e , , . . i . maintain in every department the strictest disci abse,,„:ll,ted with kindness and moderat" ,n,,and the 4, absence °I corporeal punishment. dteinac httrilileeaat iliar Conversational Lectures, to Rno e Principles as well as the common facts of 5...„-ow edge. n t s he ° P vi talg pupils as members of the family, pro e hem liberally with domestic comforts at the same in with the Principal and Masters. in the n Tl ude under one charge every expense, both th ere _ ducltional extras or Department that try , i nY be no extra s for Accomplishments, St ion oet, ~nintd il ' , goer an B oo k s, Washing, 'Medical Attendance, Y pretext whatever. Abkot l'w elve Y TERMS. t - :. r -welv e _ e n _s of age..... Forty Guineas per annum. tib ( e ) % i e z ,ri s efl:e under .Sin Forty Guineas per annum. 4ur Ye nn Lee r ,n 'Y ears .... ''' Sixty y Guineas per annum.. One .„ allowe,a -•.en are received e . ' un d -- "Para Studies and Bed-rooms.— and are g kreatieh"- age • • as Private Pupils, PAYMENT", ilineas Yearly. e r Annum. S 'II AnvAl•rceE, either Quarterly or Half of the of th• E c lose of the is stabli nts to the Plan a . shment Pr.esent vacation the arrangements In originally p re , will be completed according . h i I c onsist of a i:esed. The School premises alone will 4o Nth. co • suite ne f eet b , r nPrisios• a 5 L H 11 and Readicg-room, ecture a apartments upwards of 160 feet a tii ii; / ou feet . f by 2 .ng. i . c , 00) ,i our three '-' feet ; ') 40 feet Class-rooms, each 20 feet square; i 5 feet by 25 feet ; a Gymnasium, 40 w... ofs et , a Plunging Bath, 30 feet by 12 fee , I .til of differe bormitories and Dressing-rooms, for pupils rit ages, soperinte d d by the Masters, and the The p with e the Principals Bed-room. gutireepettiriber 13r°PortiY-ground, Gardens, and Cricket Field are on a The onate scale. of Resident Masters engaged is a sufficient cottore'he that the course of instruction will be sound and ereasedln that fro " I mre ; and Mr. Brindley has much confidence Peet .ro his time he shall be able to carry out his Pros all its integrity and earn for the School au in , Th e Ifeli.iltation and so ' port zLE " Il es and Masters expected to RE-ASSEM requestfVYURDAY, the 27th instant. It is particularly TI he , that all will be punctual in their attendance. 7./oil .E.stablishment will be OPEN to the INSPEC 25th _ of the ÜBLIC Orl THURSDAY and FRIDAY, the i x "' t,‘nd 26th mstant, between the hours of Twelve and n clo c k prospe ct. 1441011.4,5 es may be obtained on application to Mr. 2'art'in N all, July Sth, 1844. BIRKENHEAD HOUSE, BIRKENHEAD, CIMSHIRE. THE MISSES GOLDING'S SCHOOL will be BE-OPENED on TUESDAY next, the 30th of July instant. MOST' IMPORTANT TO SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP- OWNERS, &e. PATENT WINDLASSES. 104ETTELEY and ROBERTS, Patentees of the latest improvement in PATENT WINDLASSES, beg to call the attention of those Gentlemen connected with Shipping to the importance of supplying their Vessels with a Patent purchase of some description or other. The Prices are now within the compass of every Shipowner ; and B. and R. have numerous testimonials and PROOFS showing the gr6t saving of Money from their adoption. Also. _Agents for Pow and FA.u.cns' NIPPING LE.. VEIL PURCHASE. PATENT WINDLASSES REPAIRED. BRUNSWICK ANCHOR AND CHAIN CABLE MANUFACTORY, EAST SIDE UNION DOCK. WM. GROVES. Dep6t, SCHOOL-LANE, LIVERPOOL, SOLE AGENT FOR GRIMBLE & CO., OF LONDON, DISTILLERS of the ROYAL COGNAC BRANDY, Equal to Foreign at half the price. BOOTH'S LONDON GIN, GRDIBLE'S B. RUM, PURE SPIRITS OF WINE, SCOTCH & WISH, MALT & GRAIN WHISKEY, Peppermint, Clove's, Ginger and all other Cordials. GRIMBLE & CO.'S LONDON VINEGAR, AND ACETIC ACID. , . WINE and BEER FININGS of superior quality, requiring a less quantity, and warranted to keep sweet any length of time, PARCEL CONVEYANCE. D. B. SMITH sthd SONS, PAPER MANUFACTURERS • AND WHOLESALE STATIONERS, 44, DALE-STREET, ITto,ring made arrangement.: with Messrs. Saddler and Co., of London, for CONVEYANCE of PARCELS to and from all the Manufacturing Districts, and the prin cipal Towns in the kingdom, they invite the attention of all whom it may concern. To the Legal Profession, Merchants, Manufacfnrers, -Booksellers, Stationers, Factors, and Tradesmen gene rally, this conveyance cfrers a cheap and ready means of transmitting Deeds, Drafts. Prints, Samples, and Smal Orders of all kinds with safety, punctuality, and despatch, which they trust will insure for them the patronage of the Public. P.S.-Several good OFFICES to be LET, at moderate rents.—Apply on the Premises. ( One concern.) JEWELLERY. "LI L. HAUSBURG respectfully solicits the attention 1: • of his Friends and Patrons to his Stock of BRACELETS, NECKLACES, CHAINS, RINGS, PINS, BROOCHES, &c., _ _ 'of the most superior Workmanship an I quality, combin ing the very latest novelties that have been produced in the metropolis, with those which have been manufactured under his own direction, upon the Premiseb. He also begs to submit to them the following list of GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, All warranted correct Timekeepers, or immediately ex. changed. Gold Lever, with Seconds, Capped, and Jewel led in two boles and five actions, maintaining power, and improved detached Lever Escape ment Gold Skeleton Levers, Jewelled in two holes and five actions.. . Patent Lever Silver Watches, Jewelled in two holes and five actions Patent Lever Silver Watches, Hunting Cases, Jewelled in two holes and five actions.. Geneva Watches, S lver, Jewelled in four holes . 4 0 0 Ditto Gold, Ditto 7 10 0 He further solicits the favour of an inspection of his Stock of ELECTRO PLATE, Which has been re-assorted, and comprises every Article requ;site for domestic use. DISH COVERS. Plated on Yellow Metal. Plated on White Metal. Inches. Inches. Inches. Inches. 12...2 5 0 18.. .C 3 7 6 12.. £3 6 18...C4 19 0 14.. 212 6 20.. 315 t 14... 317 20.. 510 0 16.. 3 0 0 22,. 4 2 6 16... 4 8 22.. 6 1 0 F. L. H. begs to intimate, that whether it may he the pleasure of Visitors to make purchases or otherwise, their reception will be marked with equal politeness and atten- tion: The German and French Lane.onees spoken. F. L. HAUSBURG, OLD POSTOFFICE BUILDINGS. T HE LIVERPOOL FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. TRUSTEES. Sir Thomas Brancker. - William Brown, Esq. I Adam Hodgson, Esq. DIRECTORS. Thomas Booth, Esq., Chairman. Richard Edwards, Esq., and George Holt, Esq., Deputy- . . . . .. . - chairmen. _ Thomas Brocklehank, Esq. James Moon, Esq. William Dixon, Esq. Lewin Mozley, Esq. William Earle, Esq. James Alulleneox, Esq. Joseph C. Ewart, Esq. William Nicol, Esq. Thomas S. Gladstone, Esq. Charles S. Parker, Esq. Joseph Bornby, Esq. John Pennington, Esq. George 11. Lawrence, Esq. James Powell, Esq. Andrew Low, Esq. Nit:llo'as Boskell, Esq. William Lowe, Esq. 11. Stolterfuht, Esq. AUDITORS. Thomas Buddicom Blackburne, Esq., Daniel James, Esq The Directors htive determined to REDUCE the PREMIUMS on the Insurance against Fire of Mercan tile Property in Liver ncol, and, in important resp,cts, to CHANGE THE SYSTEM of Insurance which has lat terly prevailed. The Rates, and other particulars, may be known on application at the Office. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary. Water-street, llth July, 1844. BUENOS AYRES AND IIONIE VIDEO. article from the Britannia, We insert the following it contains with the observation qualifying the intelligence Video : publishes a ' h i o in s e t an " The British Packet,. of I bulletin under which General llosas has that the Britannia ts -e p n u c h e lish t e i d e a l t 3 l% ,. translation of t attempted to disguise the signal defeat of his troops in the battle fought on the 28th of last month at the ' Mount.' This account has been got up with so little tact, and ex hibits such palpable absurdity, that the Buetios Ayrean writers have been deterred from attempting to raise any plausible representation upon it that can at all serve to cover the shame and lo.s whicil the besieging army actually suffered in the affair. " The action m:s fully and fairly described:in the litter* written from the enemy's head-quarters by the Minister of War who commanded the Monte Videan forces on the occasion, and although we are accustomed to the system of audacious lying constantly resorted to by the ltusista partisans, All as the ha'tle was fought under the eyes of all the inhabitants of this city, no one ever imagined that so foolish a distortion of facts would have been fabricated by the humbled enemy. The substance of the bulletin, as it appears in the British Packet, is contained in the following sentences; all the rest, and it is some what lengthy, is vamped up with mere repetHon and ridiculous bombast in the usual strain of Buenos Ayrean documents : " ' Observing from the manoeuvres of the enemy that they bad in view to surround us, their right wing being 600 in'antry, supported by two squadrons of cavalry, their centre 1000 infantry, and their lett 400 sharpshooters, the whole flanked by 500 infantry and 300 cavalry, 1 gave orders to 'retreat, which was effected with the greatest order, although' under the fire of the enemy's numerous infantry, and our force altogether of both battalions only amounting to 530 brave fellows' * * * The whole of the enemy's infantry continued vigorously to assail ours, until at last we had no ammunition left, and the firing ceased throughout our line after we had expended 30,000 musket ball cartridge. We were yet 15 squares (1500 yards) from the rivulet, and our fine fellows, without any other defence than their own breasts, continned their re treat. ** * Eternal honour, excellent sir to those brave men, who being pursued in an open country by forces so numerous, and without any cartridge, could yet, by their intrepidity alone, keep those wretches in awe. The brave Lieut. Ramon Marquez, of the battalion inde pendencia, who was ill at Cerito, come with a small skir mishing party to support the infantry, and this too with out ammunition. _ • " After thus retreating 1500 yards, without one cart ridge, without any other defence than their breasts, from before 2500 infantry and 300 or 400 cavalry, the list of casualities, as given in the bulletin, shows only three officers and eighteen men kilted, two officers and thirty five men wounded, and seven missing ! It is well ascer tained, however, that the real loss to the enemy, in killed. wounded, and prisoners, fell very little short of 300 men, nor could it well be less from the nature of the defeat, even according to their own description of it. '' The whole affair consisted in a bold and resolute attack, before which the enemy gave way, and fled in the utmost route and confusion. Their principal loss was Inflicted in the close and unrelenting pursuit by lancers and infantry which followed. As to the cessation of the enemy's fire from want of ammunition, after having ex pended 30,000 rounds of ball cartridge, the statement is partly true, but the expenditure consisted in the fugitives throwing away their muskets and cartridge boxes, which on being collected afterwards by the victors were found to be well stored with the said cartridges." * See "Britannia" of the 30th of March. BAZAARS or DAMASCUS.—The bazaars, like the Palais Royal of Paris, have their restaurants, where the mer chants or the loungers may find dinner. Tables and covers are, of course, out of the question. The pur chaser provides himself with one of the cakes we have mentioned, which serves him at once for bread, plate, and napkin, and the cook supplies him with little pieces of baked mutton about the size of nuts, stuck on a skewer, somewhat in the fashion of our cat's meat. A man, says Lamartine, might fare of the best in Damascus for two piastres a day ; the common people live for less than half that sum. He might hire a very pretty house for two or three hundred piastres a year; so that, all expenses in cluded, he might live at his ease upon an income of fifteen or sixteen pounds a year. It is the same all over Syria.—Library of Travel. THE LATE REGATTA AT EASTHAM. We would rather encourage regattas than horse races. With the sports of the turf a spirit of reckless gambling, and other kinds of demoralization, affecting both rich and poor—notwithstanding all magisterial eff;rts—appear to be the inseparable concomitants ; and the only ostensible advantage they claim, namely, the promotion of a fine breed of horses, becomes daily more questionable,—first, from the fraud practised on courses; secondly, from the general knowledge of horses possessed by our country men, of which, from motives of gain, they will avail themselves under any circumstances; and thirdly, that from the establishment of railways over the kingdom, and the comparatively diminished demand for those animals, useful as they are, we need be under no apprehension of the requisite supply, either as regards number or quality. egattas (especially as regards sailing vessels) are not only free, or nearly so, from the objections stated of horsing. but besides being equally healthful and truly national, the 3 may conduce (and it is acknowledged have conduced) in a high degree to our ascendancy on the ocean, by in ducing- new experiments in the modelling and delicate handling of vessels which, though comparatively small, are the very germs of that perfection, in construction and management, which it is desirable to attain, not only in our ships of war, but, as far as possible, in bur mercantile marine. With these opinions, we should exceedingly regret that the unfortunate accident that occurred on Tuesday last at the Eastham Regatta—and which naturally threw a gloom over the proceedings, which has not yet dispersed— should he the means of arresting the progress of aquatic amusements on our noble river; and we would, therefore, point out what in our opinion (bating those occasional ac cidents that occur in race or no race, and which cannot always be averted even in our streets) would prevent the recurrence of a casualty such as that we have now to de plore. " A Yachtman, 'in his letter to a contemporary, has so hit the nail on the head, that we need do little more than second his laudable protest—adding, however, a few statistics. It is but a few years since racing-gigs were introduced on our river. They were originally, and are still, for the most part, built in London, after the fashion used on the narrower, more placid, and landlocked Thames. Our Mersey is more properly an " estuary" than a " river", and is subject, withal, to a short heavy sea when the wind blows against the tide—often extremely dangerous f• l. open boats at certain places, both in mid-channel and in the bights and bays. They may sail in comparatively smooth water ior a time on one shore or the other, and in a moment get into (to them) an angry and treacherous sea way, which a stout boat only can stand. The first gigs we here observed were pretty good of their class, but still not sufficiently safe in genera construction and bearing. Since then, it appears to us that they have been gradually dwindling down finer, and lighter, and weaker,—and so cut away between the rollocks, that they have but little side left to resist a wave. It was said of the two Kil kenny cats, that after their fight there was nothing left but a bit of the tail of each ; and (though the subject is really serious) we cannot help thinking that the rowers in our river, in their anxiety for light and sleek craft, have, before they contend at all, cut down their boats so that there is little left but the keel. We have measured some of them since the unfortunate accident alluded to; and the safest we could find was about 45 feet long, 141 inches only(!) in depth of hold, and but 3 feet 3 inches in extreme team for all that length, and as sharp fore and aft as a needle. Her limbers (if we may so call them) were scarcely equal in thiOkness to our little finger ; and it was deemed prudent—and prudent it was —to stretch upon her a forecastle of waterproof calico, to keep her from going down by the nose. Her planks are of deal, about one-eighth of an inch thick, and less at the rivets. We put it to any nautical man whether he would venture his carcase in such a veneer-built shell, which would scarcely stand a puff of wind on dry land, much less the trying, though small, cross.seas of the river Mersey. As an instance of the shallowness of these boats, we may state that the height from the real level of the gunnel amidships to the top of the rollock-pins is ten incites. So slender, indeed, is their scantling, that re course is had to bits of brass wire (we cannot say rods) to keep them from falling asunder. We would say of such boats that they may be very well as race-gigs in a smooth lake or canal, two feet deep, where the parties may, in a misadventure, wade out ; but they ought not to be en couraged on the Mersey. We have ourselves no desire to report the coroners' inquests that will inevitably be the consequence of their further use here. In April, 1842, we had a lamentable instance of their inefficiency. On that occasion, while some young gentlemen were crossing our river from the villa of a highly respected townsman in Aigburth, to the Cheshire side, the I)MA—though they were not running a race and doing the best for them selves—went to pieces from under them near the Sloyne, and three of them were drowned. We then entered our protest against them, and our opinion is confirmed. We will venture as far as any man in a good boat, but we must have something substantial to bear us up, so that we may trim our sails or pull our oars without the constant dread of being swamped, or finding our vessel's back broken by a bit of a sea. To avoid all these misadventures we have only at re gattas to have boats of sufficient strength and bearing. We saw a skiffat the regatta much better adapted for our river than the best gig there; and though she did not run a race, she proved herself—having a fine bottom and ample bearings above—swifter than any skiff that ran, and per fectly safe. We also observed a larger captain's gig, which ran in the women's race, and another fine boat calcula'ed for almost any sea-why in which an open boat can live, and she sprang from her cars like an eagle. The general depth of our river (or boatmen's) gigs is two feet four inches; and they are withal sharp, strong, and finely proportioned. We should say that a racing gig foe the Mersey should be at least two feet in depth ; and if she be proportionately and strongly built, we shall have no accidents in regatta weather. It would be an easy matter, too, to insist on every rower taking with him, appended . or attached to his person, a life-belle in case of accident by collision or otherwise. These life-preservers are now made so that they may be used as cushions to sit upon, and if attached to the person by a string , no would fatality arise. Besides, if all parties pulled in goiou ren.nanUYdsea. the s p ec t a t o rs (in place of being worthy boats, all would have an equal te alc rr ) a a r nc . of an acci dent) would enjoy glad to pay the intended Mersey he the sport in with c m st :Pe satisfaction. We wilt Yacht Club (noticed elsewhere) are no t permit row-boats to join in their days' proceedings that are not built and regulated in a safe and prover manner. We shall probably return to the subject, and furnish the dimens!ons, &c., of gigs that may be considered suitable for our river, after consulting some of our better versed nautical friends. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. CUMBERLAND.—Duting the week the weather has been all the ferwers could desire, as we have had a most agreeable sucussion of rain and sunshine. On Saturday and Sunday several heavy sh - .wets fell, and on Monday, St. Swithin duly " kept up his charter" by a copious downfall ; but the ta'n, although heavy, has not been sufficient to lay the wheat crop to any noticeable ex tent, while all other vegeta:i,m has derived the most palpable benefit from it. In this district, it is expected that wheat will exceed the average, and the other grain crops will not he far short, if at all. Potatoes have suffered most, but I.ss actual harm has been done by the drought than was at first anticipated, and some fields equal in promise to any that we have noticed in former ye , rs. Turnips look well ,m most soils, and as a con siderable breadth of land ha been sown with them this year, it is expected they will be cheep and plentiful. The prices of stock have been favourably influenced by the prospects of the harvest ; and we hear little or none of the habitual "grumbling" of the farmers now.—Carlisle Patriot. WEST YORKSHIRE.—The fine genial alternations of rain and sunshine by which the present week has been dis tinguished have tended materially to improve the pros pects of the approaching harvest. Much of the bay has been already secured, but in passing along the country few bay-stacks are to be seen; the barns have been found generally sufficient to receive the scanty produce, but the year's growth of gracs is not exhausted, and the second cut of clover, as well as the after-grass of the meadows, will, in some degree, supply the deficiency. The turnip seed that had remained dormant in the ground during the drought now begins to show itself in vigorous plants, though the crop will be small, from many fields turning out total or partial failures. There will also be a defici ency of straw from the spring sown corn, and the fodder to cattle in the approaching winter will be scarce and dear. The wheat crops continue to look very flourishing ; they are already " white to harvest," and they will, according to present prospects, soon fill the granaries. In the bean and potato crops we see little difference since last week.-- Leeds Mercury. EAST YORKS HIRE.—Th e wea th er i s as reasona bl e as the most sanguine farmer could wish it. Wheat-cutting is likely to be commenced much earlier than usual. The reports respecting the probable yield of wheat are, with few exceptions, favourable. Barley, though greatly im proved within the last few weeks, can scarcely be ex pected to produce well, the previous drought having had a very injurious effect on this plant. Beans have reco vered wonderfully; and peas and oats will, we t rus t, y i eld a better return than was earlier in the season deemed possible. On the whole, therefore, our prospects are en couraging ; and the apprehensions of scarcity have given place to well-grounded hopes of a fair, if not a good, yield of most of the productions of the earth. E ven the shortness of the hay crop is likely to be compensated by a good second crop of grass ; and instead of a dear winter, of which at one time there was reason to be f ear f u l , w e think that some decline in prices of grain is not impro bable. From Lincolnshire and Norfolk our reports are favourable. Happily the rain came just in time to save the turnip crop, and at this moment the ground is well covered with plant.—Hull Packet, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. — Finer weather could not possibly be than has prevailed for some weeks for filling and ripen ing the crops of wheat, which, although generally short in the straw, are remarkably kind and perfect in the ear, and likely to prove a good average crop ; and, should the weather prove fine for the harvest, will be of excellent quality. Should no untoward weather occur, the harvest will commence in about a fortnight. The barley crops are of various kinds : the early planted is generally a good crop, and on early soils nearly fit to harvest ; but where the planting was deferred too long, a considerable portion of the seed remained dry in the ground until the late rain before it appeared, whilst the first un was shot into ear. In other instances planting was deferred till there was sufficient rain to bring the barley up, some of which is but just breaking the ground. This, although so late sown, may with a fine autumn, come to perfection. The crops of beans are generally very short i❑ the straw, but are tolerably well podded, and, although much improved by the late rains, will be far below an average crop.— Glouceeter Chronicle. THE AMENDED RAILWAY BILL. The amended Railway Bill has just come out, with alterations in some manner anticipated by the result of the interview of the railway deputation with Mr. Glad stone on Wednesday, which has oeen rumoured. By the bill as amended, the enactments are limited to new rail ways, the old lines being expressly exempted. The re vision of rates is to take place in twenty-one years (in the original bill it was fifteen) on the new lines, that clear an annual profit of 10 per cent. on paid-up capital, sueb profit of 10 per cent. to be guaranteed, and no further revision is to take place till the end of a further period of twenty-one years. The modified clause relating to pur chases, with the additions by the committee, we give entire. The latter are marked A and B. " 2. That whatever may be the rate of divisible profits in any such railway, it shall be lawful for the said Lords Commissioners, if they shall think fit, at any time after the expiration of the said term of 21 years, to purchase any such railway, with all its hereditaments, stock, and appurtenances, in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, upon giving to the said company three calendar months' notice in writing of their intention, and upon payment of a sum equal to 25 )ears' purchase of the said annual divisible profits, estimated on the average of the three then next preceding years : Provided always, that if the average rate of profit for the said three years shall exceed the rate of XlO in the hundred, it shall be taken at only £lO in the hundred, for the purpose of calculating thereon the amount of such purchase-money : Provided also, that if the average rate of profits for the said three years shall l b a e w f l cutsr for t h a n t e t he eo r m a t r e of a ny, f l t O h i e n y t s h h e h a l ü b n e d red of , i t shall opinionthat the said rate of 25 years' purchase of the said average profits is an inadequate rate of purchase of such railway, reference being had to the prospects thereof, to require that the rate of purchase, instead of being calculated upon such average rate of profit, shall be taken at a valuation, to be determined, in case of difference, by arbitration. "3. (A.) That nothing herein contained shall be con strued to subject to the same option of revision or pur chase any railway made or authorised to be made by any act previous to the present session ; and that no branch or extension of less than five miles in length of any exist ing line of railway shall be taken to be a new railway within the piovisions of this act; and that the said option of purchase shall not be exercised as regards any branch or extension of any existing railway, withont including in the purchase the existing railway ; also in case the com pany of proprietors of the same shall require that the same be so included. " 4. (B) And whereas it is expedient that the policy of calling into exercise the powers of revision or purchase hereby reserved, or either of them, should in no manner be prejudged by the provisions of this act, and should re main for the future consideration of the Legislature, upon grounds of general and national policy ; and whereas it is not the intention of this act, that under the said powers of revision or purchase, if called into use, the public resources should be employed to sustain an undue competition against any independent company or compa nies ; be it enacted, that no such notice as hereinbetore mentioned, whether of revision or purchase, shall be given until provision shall have been made by Parliament, by an act or acts to be passed in that behalf, for authorizing the guarantee or the levy of the purchase money herein before mentioned, as the case may be, and for determin ing, subject to the conditions hereinbefore mentioned, the manner in which the said options, or either of them, shall be exercised : Provided always, that before any ap plication is made to Parliament for the powers to exercise the sad options, or either of them, three months' notice shall be given by the said Lords Commissioners to the company or companies to be affected thereby, of the in tention so to apply." THEATRE ROYAL. During the past week, the first of the new season, the .management have favoured us with a succession of pieces, some of them stock pieces, and all of a higher order than we have of late been accustomed to see upon our Liver pool boards ; and from the arrangements made, and the additional talent engaged, we may venture to hope for an increased degree of efficiency throughout this establish ment. The star of the week has been that clever and popular actress Mrs. Nisbett, who has won golden opinions from her audiences by her racy impersonations of her pe culiar line of characters, and has been nightly called be fore the curtain to receive their congratulations and ap plause. On Tuesday evening the popular play of " Lon don Assurance" was presented, in which Mrs. Nisbett personated the lively and dashing Lady Gay Spanker to perfection. The other characters were ably supported by the members of the regular company, especially that of Sir Harcourt Courtley by Mr. Lambert, and Mark Med dle, which was inimitably performed by Mr. Compton. Miss Coveney was a sprightly Grace Harkaway, and Mrs. Clarke pourtrayed Mrs. Pert in that racy and lively style so peculiarly her own. A newly engaged member of the company, Mr. Frazer, supported the character of a valet Cool in a very creditable style. On Wednesday the comedy of the " Love Chase" was performed, Mrs. Nisbett personating Constance. This piece was excellently cast, with the exception of the cha racter of Master Wildrake, by Mr, Hield, a member of the American boards, which was not in good hands. The Widow Green by Mrs. Clarke was an excellent piece of acting. Mr. Frazer also, in the character of Master Wal ler, improved upon our acquaintance. The Lydia of Miss Tslbin (a new face) was very well sustained. On Thursday evening Goldsmith's play of " She Stoops to Conquer" was performed, the only feature of which calling for attire was the amusing impersonation of Tony Lunipkin by Mr. Compton. Mrs. Nisbett we were sorry to observe was not in her usual spirits, and appeared unwell. The afterpiece was a lively farce, "The :Spitfire," which was received throughout with up roarious mirth. On Friday evening the performances were " Much ado about Nothing" and " A Dead Shot." upon which, not having been present, we cannot remark. On Saturday evening the announcement of the prize comedy, " Quid pro Quo," drew together a numerous, and rather a critical audience. We believe we may state that a strong inclination exis'ed in the house to reverse the decision come to by the London critics with respect to the merits of this play. Certainly a fair and uninter rupted hearing was afforded ; and, for the credit of the fair authoress, we should have been glad to have it in our power to say that an approving verdict had been recorded. We have not, however, that pleasure; for, notvvithstandiug the evident inclination of the house to apn'aud whenever applause could be honestly given, the final sentence, we are compelled to say, was one of dis appointment and dislike. We think, too, it was justly so. Whatever may be the merits of the piece as a literary effort, it is evidently wanting in plot, and in dramatic interest. It wants the continual stir anti liveliness which practised playwrights lied indispensable in catering for the taste of the public ; and hence its numerous good things fall unheeded upon the ear, or, at the most, only relieve the tedium of interveni ng dulness. But, apart from mere mechanical or artistic failure, there is a sad lack of materials in the piece for the attraction of our sympathies. There is scarcely one genuine flesh-and. blood character introduced, and those most approaching the description are wretched caricatures. We are bound to say for the management, that it was well put upon the stage. Indeed we may almost go the length of asserting, that, but for the superior acting ( , f some of the company, (Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Nisbett, Mr. Compton, and Mr. Lambert,) it would have been unequivocally damned. Such a result is a poor encouragement for the spirited effort made by the management to obtain a good acting play ; but the truth must be told ; aid we are confident that Mr. Webster himself is quite prepared to sanction with his own opinion the judgment of the public. When he next off, rs a £5OO premium for a drama, he will, no doubt, be himself the arbiter of its merits. Last night Shakspeace's play of " Romeo and Juliet " was performed, the part of Romeo being sustained by Mr. C. Pitt, late of the Theatre-Royal, Manchester; and Juliet by Miss Montague, from the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden. We regret that our avocations prevented our being present, as we are thus deprived of the oppor tunity of remarking upon the acting of these newly-intro duced members of our regular company. CAPTAIN WARNER'S EXPERIMENT. The great interest which has been excited, not only amongst naval men but amongst the public at large, by the declaration of Capt. 'Warner that he was prepared to prove by experiment his discovery of a new power which would instantaneously destroy the largest vessel afloat, naturally caused an enormous attendance in Brighton on Saturday. After several delays it had finally been deter mined that the great event should come off that afternoon. Mr. Somes, the eminent shipbuilder, having generously made a present of the barque John o'Gaunt, a vessel of between 300 and 400 tons, tor the purpose of testing the new power, the devoted vessel was brought to Shoreham on 'Wednesday last, and remained moored off that town, within sight of the promenaders on the Brighton Chain Pier. Between 30,000 and 40,000 persons were present, in cluding a very large number of the nobility, and other highly respectable and scientific persons. It had been agreed by Lord Ingestre, other officers, and Captain Warner that the latter should hoist a Union Jack at the mast-head of the steamer when be was ready to operate, and keep that signal flying until those on shore should hoist a Union Jack from the flagstaff on the bat tery, at any time which they chose to select, which would be replied to by Captain Warner hauling down his signal, and then immediately the operation would take place. The Sir William Wallace having let go the tow line, re turned-abreast of the John O'Gaunt for a few moments, but for what purpose we could not discover ; she then took up her position about a quarter of a mile ahead of the ship, while the Tees went rather further astern. Cap. tain Warner's signal had been flying some time before it was answered from the battery, and then arose another delay in consequence of some adventurous persons in a small cutter, in spite of the presence of the Tees, and of two armed revenue cutters besides, to keep off intruders, going close alongside the ship. Captain Warner hauled the Union Jack half-way down only when the cutter and its foolhardy occupants were out of danger. The Union Jack was then hauled down entirely. Every one now felt that the grand cr i s i s h ad arrived. Every eye was directed to the scene of operations, and in less than five minutes afterwards the expl os i on took place. The instrument of destruction, whateve r i t was. seemed to strike the vessel amidships; for, from that point a huge column of water, in which was intermingled some of the shingle of which her ballast was composed, s h o t up per pendicularly into the air higher than her highest topmast; her mizen went by the board, her mainmast, a new one, was shot clean out of her like a rocket ; she heeled over to port to an angle of 45 dedegrees, and her ma i n h atc h way being open, daylight was visible through her bottom tim bers on her starboard side, and probably her larboard also, having been blown away, and she seemed to part asunder as she went down, leaving nothing perceptible but the top of her foremast. The time which passed from her being struck and her sinking could not h •ve exceeded two mi nutes and a half. Some few of the more enthusiastic spec tators, chiefly professional men, raised a cheer, but with the mass all was mute astonishment. The eyes were rivet ted on the last observable fragment of the large object that but the moment bef4 re floated gallant on the waters "like a thing of life." The expression on the counte nances of the multitude generally seemed to say—What was it? An illusion ? A dream ? A magical trick? A work of destruction so sudden, so frightful, so stupendous, appeared impossible for a moment even to the thousands and tens of thousands that witnessed it. I: was like an awful mystery. There were none of the ordinary ciretun stances which accompany simtlar catastrophes. There was no smoke, there was no fire, there was no noise, save the low groan of the rending timbers, and the succeeding hush of the waters as they rolled over the instantaneous wreck, and then arose a melancholy feeling, for it was impossible to prevent the imagination depicting the ter rible effects of such an explosion upon a peopled ship, thus silently and suddenly perishing. , To convey the effect in words is difficult —extremely difficult. Language is inadequate for the description ; it cannot flow last enough, and a single sentence is too long to tell the tale. It was like a dissolving view. At one instant you see the tall ship riding proudly on the waves ; at the next she is enveloped in the elements of her perdition ; ano ther moment only, and her shattered limbs are engulphed in the deep! Many a one loitered on the shore pondering over a sight more wonderful than any they had beheld before, how ever strange. It was the only topic of conversation with high and low, gentle and rude. Several persons went off in boats to have a closer inspection of the grave of the luckless vessel. The boatmen picked up fragments of the de'bris, which they hawked about the town and sold as relics to the curious. During the night the greater portion of the wreck was carried away; and on the follow ing morning nothing could be ,seen, , but the, foremast standing a little above the water, the only niottument of the lost ship. The depth of the water where she sank was 1 about 35 feet. Captain Warner was asked to permit a few gentlemen to be with him,.but they were not permitted; the answer was, that if one were permitted ten would. desire the same favour; and if ten, a thousand; that would be most con venient.. Again, it was said, " Were you to go, you might come away as wise as you went; for, if any agent of de:trection were hidden in the ship, it might be under the ballast, or in fifty places, of which you and a hundred other persons would never dream." But the experiment itself is esteemed by the captain's friends as Itic best an swer, for say they, the agent of des ruction was palrably applied externally; had there been a magazine on bard or within her, the effects would have been very different, and her deck would have been blown up, which was not the case; her deck did not burst until she wa sinking, and then in the usual manner when ships. are I suddenly submerged. Some persons conjectured that. the instrument of de straction was conveyed from the Wapner to the ship by means of a rope. We used a strong telescope, but saw no rope but the tow-line, a hick, when let go, hung loosely over her larboard bow. Others thought that the agent being attached to aline was suffered to float with. the tide against the ship, and that then the line being pulled let off a trigur and produced the exolosvon. More sAentific individuals imagine an eetrical battery to have been used; others, an air-gun ; others, that a substance is put to fl 'at without any guide on the water;, others, that a subma rine shell is sent in the direction of the ship's bottom. But though every body was watching, and watching nar rowly, with all the aid that optical instruments could afford them, the mode of operation is, we believe, still as profound a secret to the world as before this public expe riment. It is useless, therefore, to attempt to tell what we do not know. But one thing is clear,—Captain Warner is in possession of a marvellous engine of clestiuction ; and though it may be regarded by some persons as a horrible invention, if it become known it may be taken as a har binger of universal peace. A war carried on with such agency would be indeed a war of extermination—a war of extermination to both parties, and therefore useless. Of necessity, then, men should appeal to reason and not to. violence. MISCELLANEOUS. A CURIOUS RELIC.—The Prussian Gazelle states that a young woman of Kaina, who was travelling with her master's family. found on the road to Bautzen a ring set in rubies, which had on one side a representation, in relief, of Christ on the Cross, and on the other the in struments of punishment. The ring bears this inscrip tion :—" Martino Luther, Caberina V. Boren, die 31 October, 1525." The ring, which is well preserved, is a perfect model of art. THE LEGION or frosroua IN FRANCE. — The Univers states, that "the little value attached by the Government to the decoration of the Legion of Honour may be seen by the number conferred in the year 1843 alone, viz., grand crosses, 9; great officers, 18 : commanders, 54; officers, 212 ; knights, 1,439 ; total, 1,732. This number is more than were granted by Napoleon during the whole period which elapsed between the victories of Austerlitz and Wagram—a period which was marked by the conquest of Prussia and the victories of Jena and Friedland." A SINGLE MAN WlTHOUTENcmannANcE.—Yester day evening," says the Messager, " a person mounted into a hackney cabriolet stationed on the Boulevard St. Denis and shook the driver by the arm, who appeared to be asleep; but it was soon discovered that he was dead. The Commissary of police baying arrived to ascertain the cause of the driver's death, it appeared that it was the result of apoplexy. This man had no family, and on ex amining his body the following inscription was found tatcoed on his arm :—John Joseph, a foundling,abandoned at the egc of 2 years, on the Place de I'Hotel de Ville in 1806.' John Joseph had no place of dwelling. He passed 20 hours of the day in his cabriolet, and when he wished to rest he lay down in his master's stable. THE CASE OF RICHARD DADD.— It will be in the recollection of our readers that this unfortunate young man, who, some months since, in a fit of insanity, mur dered his father, near Gravesend, and escaped to France, was apprehended in that country, on a charge of injuring a person with whom he travelled in a diligence. For that offence he was, by the French authorities, committed to custody for a certain period ; and that period having now expired, Mr. May, of the K division, has been, by Sir J. Graham, dispatched to claim his person, and to bring him over to this country: We understand that he will, on his arrival, be bronglit to trial, pro furtnii, for the murder, with a view to his being confind in a lunatic asylum.— Britannia. PORT AND TRADE OF lIULL.—The utmost activity prevails at the docks and wharfs. The Customs' receipts of the quarter have increased, we understand, in a very satisfactory manner, and additional hands have been re quired in the revenue departments. Another steamer, the William Dailey, is placed upon the Hull and Elam burgh station ; and the Gazelle steamer is to be added to the numerous list of vessels now sailing between this port and London. To-morrow, a fine vessel, the Charlotte, belonging to Messrs. Egginton, departs hence for Bom bay, with one of the largest general cargoes that ever was despatched from Hull. The business on the railway is greatly on the increase; on Monday, no less than 1,000 bales arrived here from Manchester alone; and one of the trains, since then, conisted of as many as 106 car riages! A luggrze train of 107 waggons, all heavily laden with goods, left Hull last evening.—Hull Packet. WILL OF THE EARL OF LONSDALE.—The will of the late Earl of Lonsdale has ju.t been proved in Doctors' Commons, by the Right Hon. William, Earl of Lonsdale, the Hon. Henry Cecil Lowther, sons of the deceased, and Sir John Beckett. The deceased gives a very large portion of his property to his wife, who died in his gr. time. To his cousin, Mary Francis Thompson,El o gives her an but by his codicil he revokes this legacy and h . friend annuity of £ lOOO per annum instead. T o the Hon. G. O'Callagh a n, £2OOO. By the codicil to his son Cecil and family (in addition to the benefit they may re ceive by the will), £30,000. His lordship observes, "My domestics and servants are so numerous, that it would be next to impossible to name them separately ; and desires his executors to compensate them, leaving the amounts to their discretion. He desires to be buried at Lowther, in a "private manner." The will is very long, and dated in 1836. The personal property is sworn under the large sum of £lOO,OOO. MR. MACREADY.—The American papers inform us that Mr. Macready has la'ely closed a brilliant engage ment in New York with the following address to th e au dience :—" According to my original intention, this even ing was to have terminated my theatrical engagements in America, and the few words which custom exacts on these occasions, were to have conveyed to you my part ing acknowledgements; but I have yielded to influences, difficult to resist, and have changed my purpose. The increasing fervour of my audiences—their cordial sympa thy with, and liberal appreciation of, my professional efforts—the kind and friendly attentions so lavishly heaped on me, and the desire of extending still further my acquaintance with a country so full of interest to me, —these are the considerations which have actuated me in prolonging the term of my visit here. In the latter part of September I shall have the honour of presenting to you once more, and I fear for the last time, those charac ters of Shakspeare in which you have so repeatedly an d so indulgently welcomed me, and with the close of th at month I shall take my regretful and reluctant leave." TERRIFIC THUNDER.STO.RM.7On Saturday afternoon an awful storm of thunder, l ig htning, and rain burst over the towns of Rochester and Chatham. About two o'clock, p.m., the wind, which had been south-west, shifted to north-east, when the gathering of heavy clouds indicated the approach of a thunder-storm. At three o'clock the wind 1)lew a perfect hurricane, and the small craft in the river Medway were forced to have their sails down, to prevent their being blown over. Shortly after three o'clock the storm was at i t s hi g hest, the rain appearing to be literally pouring down in so many streams,rather than falling in rapidly succe ssive drops, together with repeated flashes of lightning, accompanied with peals of thunder. When the storm burst forth, upwards of 400 recruits were on Chatham Lines at drill, and before they could get to places for shelter they were completely drenched. The lightning ran about the ranks of the troops with awful vividness, and produced an effect of stupour on several of the men. The storm lasted upwards of an hour, and was accompanied by a severe hail-storm. The torrents of water that ran in the High-street of Chatham, which lies low, made parts of the road impassable. The parade ground at Chatham barracks has suffered considerable injury from the quantity of water that poured down from the terrace. The dockyard school for the apprentices suffered considerably by the storm, the water having broken the roof of the building. Such a violent storm has not visited these towns since that awful one in August last year, when the damage amounted to several thousand pounds. The storm took the southerly direction, and when it cleared up the atmosphere was intensely cold. Tne wheat fields have sustained some injury. BEET-ROOT SUGAR IN FRANCE.—The Moniteur pub lishes a table showing the production and consumption of beet-root sugar in Prance, and the state of its manufac tories at the end of June last, as compared with the cor responding period of last year. The number of manu factories at the end of the last month was 325; at the end of June, 1843, it was 384 • a decrease f or the p resen t time of 59. The num b er of manufactories which had ceased working in June last, but which retained stocks of sugar, was 50 ; in 1843, it was 43 ; an increase of 27. The quantity manu'artured up to June, 1844, was 21,104,523 kilos.; up to June. 1843, it was 29,143,013 kilos.; decrease 1,038.490 kilos. The quaryity delivered for consumption un to June, 1844, was 28.996.248 kilos. ; up to June, 1843, it was 28,580,981 kilos. ; increase 445,237 kilos. Tile quantity ia stock at the end ofJune last was 2.970,619 kilos. ; at the end of June, 1843, it was 4,900,696 kilos.; decrease, 1,924,077 kilos. The duties paid up to the end of Julie last amounted to 4,869.893 f. ; up to June, 1843, they were 4,179,344 f. Increase, 690,576 f. 'fur; GoLD DUST DISCOVERY.—A good deal of jocular gossip is being bandied about here on account of a con siderable quantity of glittering sand, which the officers and seamen of several of the guano ships have brought home in bags in high hopes that it is gold dust, It was discovered by a party of sailors on the African coast op.. posite Ichaboe, a few miles inland, and of course Jack saw that his fortune was made at once, if he bad but as much spare canvass as would make sufficient bags for the treasure, and the belief that that part of Africa was once called the " gold coast " instantly confirmed the fact. The "golden opportunity" was immediately seized upon, and every " palm" and " sail-needle " set to work at bag_ making. The ore has actually arrived, and it is r. ported officially ; and in the import list of last week we see noted the "Clansman of Glasgow, Peck, from Ichaboe, with 530 tons guano to A. and J. Downie, arid 21 bags supposed gold ore to the master." Since its appearance here all our amateur chymists and alchymists have been experiment.. ing on it with crucibles and blowpipes, but unfortunately none of them having " a philosopher's stone," all the experiments ended in smoke. However, we learn that properly qualified chymists from Edinburgh, who pos sess the secret, and who have some recollection of the method used by George Hetiot in assaying the sands he procured from the Leith shipmaster, are to be in Glasgow with their entire aparatus, and we wait the result with considerable anxiety ; meanwhile we may remind them of the sound orthodoxy of the Scottish proverb—"lt's no a' good that glitters."—Glasgow Chronicle. IRREGULAR RESULTS FROM THE APPLICATION OF GUANO.—There is, however, no doubt, that much has yet to be learned in this country regarding the proper manner of, and time fur, applying guano to the land. Some of our early experimenters, unaware of the burn ing nature of this strange substance, incautiously drilled it in its pure state along with the seed, to the almost entire destruction of the latter. Subsequent practice, however, has decided that guano should be well mixed with ashes, soil, &c., before being passed through the drill; while another method consists in putting the guano alone on the land, ploughing it in, then harrowing, so that it shall be thoroughly commingled with the soil be fore the seed be sown. Both these ways may be well enough, but cannot a hint be t.,ken from the Peruvian method, and put into practice in Europe ? The Peruvi ans apply guano to the grov.ing crops at three different times : first, as soon , as the seed has germinated ; secondly, when the plant comes into flower; and, thirdly, when it is forming its seed ; and after each application the land is duly irrigated. Now of all the experiments 1 have seen recorded, not one states that the guano was applied in the Peruvian manner; and which seems most extraordinary indeed. Why is this the case? Irrigation might not often be needed with us, as we so frequently have rain; but what is there to hinder the application of guano to the three different stages of the growingcrops? Perhaps it may be considered too expensive: why not try twice, then, on a small plot, after the germination and at the flowering, while the remainder shall have been' guanoed in the usual way ; and let the result determine the prac tice which shall be followed in future ?—British Partneri' Magazine. FRIGHTFUL ATTEMPT AT MURDER.-011 Thursday morning, the utmost alarm prevailed in High-street, in consequence of a report to the effect that a man, named Hogan, had cut the throats of his three brothers with a razor. The particulars, we find to be as follow ;--Michael, John, Patrick, and Jeremiah Hogan (brothers,) shoe makers by trade, all resided on the second floor of the t h r o a u d s e e . , N s o o . m 3 e 6, t g e h - a s i t o r e e e e . twhereere , , they tbe c a c arriede l dest on eat br, t t h h e e r i r , became ill, and was attended by a medical gentleman, who brought him over the attack, at the same time telling him not to drink, for, in case be did, he would be liable to relapse into hts. On Wednesday, Hogan did not feel well, end lie went to his medical adviser, from whom he procured some medicine. The doctor gave him particular caution not to take drink after, and to stop at home ; but, disregarding this advice, the man went out in the evening, and had some liquor. He was very much excited during the night ; and, about six o'clock in the morning, while his brothers were asleep, the wretched man got up, took a razor, and, approaching the bed where his brothers lay, he, before they had timeito arrest his murderous intention, succeeded in inflicting several severe wounds on the necks of each. They grappled with him ; and, the police being called, the unfortunate man was, after a dreadful scuffle. taken into custody. Attention was then turned to the wounded persons, when it was discovered that Jeremiah was most severely injured, as the trachea was partially cut through. Ile, with his brother Patrick, were at once removed to Stephen's Hospital, where they were instantly admitted, and every attention paid to them. The wounds were dressed, examined, &c. The patients were greatly exhausted from loss of blood, but the medical gentlemen state that at present it is their opinicn that no vital part of the neck has been touched.—Dublin Freeman. MILITARY RIOT AT MANCHESTER.—AO affray of a most serious character took place, on Friday night, about eight o'clock, in Deansgate, between a numerous party of soldiers at presentin barracks in Manchester. Toe tarts are as follow :—The 53d Regiment of Foot, which has only last week arrived in Manchester, is under orders for India, and instructions have been issued from the Horse Guards that the regiment shall be increased to double the ordireu-y effective strength of regiments on home service, and that its numbers shall be raised to 1400 men. In order that the regiment shall be completed as soon as pos sible without tidying to wait for recruits, and the trouble of drilling them, permission has been given to soldiers in infantry regiments to volunteer to serve in the 53d, and a bounty has been promised to every man who shall join the regiment. The consequence has been that soldiers from a great many regiments have volunteered, and there are now in the Salford barracks parties of the 53d, 44th, 41st, 16th, 19th, 27th, 18th, &c. The 88th are generally bet ter known by the name of the " Connaught Rangers." A. night or two ago a party of the Connaught Rangers were drinking at a place in Jackson's-row, Deansgate, when a quarrel arose, and, as a matter of course, a fight took glace. Several of the soldiers took part with their friend., and the result was that the police were called in to quell the row. But the matter did not end here. It was talked over in the barrack-yard, and it was resolved to have a party fight. The Connaught "boys" armed themselves with short cudgels, not much unlike " Irish sprigs," whilst the others had canes and walking-sticks. The parties came to a collision near the end of Jackson's row. On one side were a party of the 88th, whilst on the other there was a medley of the 19th, 27th, 48th, and "i3rd Foot. They occupied the whole breadth of the street for several yards deep, and it was impossible for any one to go past without the risk of being knocked down. On information being sent to the Town-hall, it happerlied very fortunately that the A division of police, of which Mr. Sawley is the superintendent, were just mustered for night duty, and Mr. Sawley instantly marched them down to the scene of the riot. When they got there matters wore a most alarming aspect. There was a mob of several thousand people, and upwards of a hundred soldiers fight ing. Some. soldiers had been knocked down and sadly cut, and were bleeding in a frightful manner. The uproar was tremendous. Forcing his way through the crowd, Mr. Sawley marched his men into the centre of the rioters, and, dividing them into separate groups, gave orders to disperse the soldiers. This was done most effectively, and without any violence on the part of the police, who, it is worthy of remark, neither struck a blow nor were struck in the affray. A number of the rioters were taken to the barracks, where Mr. Sawley delivered them into the keeping of the sergeant of the guard, who immediately sent out pickets to patrol the streets and clear them of soldiers, who were reeling about making all sorts of noises, some of them having lost their caps and stocks, and in a state of beastly intoxication. THE DEBUT OF MRS. NISBETT.—It is customary with those struggling members of the theatrical profession who have young families, to endeavour to make them useful at as early a period as possible, and thereby win on the public boards that money which is often too much wanted at home. Such was• the case with the father of our heroine ; or, as we should rather say, her mother, who was a most estimable woman in all her domestic relations, and fortunately possessed that quality which her gay husband had not—namely, prudence. Pretty little Louisa Mordaunt evinced mix% of that precocious talent which is usually admired in children •, and she studied, was tutored, and acted a variety of the juvenile characters in tragedy, comedy, farce, and interlude. After a few years, we find her at the then Lyceum Theatre, in the Strand, acting, for some person's benefit, the part of Jane Shore, and advertised as a sort of theatrical wonder, she being but ten years of a g e. " A ten years old Jane Shore I " Can absurdity go further? yet it was what might be termed a clever absurdity. The child was clever, the absurdity was in those who placed her in so unnatural a position , and we presume their reply to our assertion will be, like that of Shakspeare's starving apothecary, " my poverty, not my will, consented ! " And as John Bull paid for it, he made no nice distinction between the will and the deed. About six years after this (during which time she bad studied hard, and practised incessantly, and in a great measure contributed to the support of her numerous family,) Miss Mordaunt made her curtsey as a " woman," on the boards of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, under the management of Mr. Stephen Price. She was in her sixteenth year, although in personal appearance she might have passed as a splendid woman of three-and-twenty. The play selected for her abid was poor Cherry's comedy, of rather doubtful excellence, "The Soldier's Daughter in which s h e susta i ned the part of the Widow Cheerly. Much interest had been excited in certain quarters, and amongst her aristocratic relatives there seemed every in clination to promote the prosessional welfare of the young and dashing dibidante. She was in reality the character she represented, "The Soldier's Daughter;" and it was also one exactly snited to her powers, for they had not then sufficiently developed themselves. She appeared, and was loudly cheered by a most brilliant house ; and when the curtain fell upon an epilogue (many lines of which strongly bore upon her own peculiar situation), her success as an actress was decided, and her engagement with the management was secured. Amongst those e7r l her aristrocratic relatives who were active in patronage of her efforts, and visited the green room to con_ -r grattilate her on her success, was her aunt, the once splen did beauty, Lady Cranstoun.—.Anecdoles of Acitres sa o r ;11 1 ' for