The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

ap , " TO CORRESPONDENTS. Nre are obliged by the very courteous and modest letter of " T," but have not yet had time to peruse the lines which he has 'transmitted. We fear that at present we can give no satisfactory answer to "A. M." "Alf Northern Farmer" will order the second edition of our piper, which is forwarded by the Irish mail, he will obtain the information he is in quest of. '` Mger's Questions and Answers on the Bible" shall be noticed in our next, as also " The True Cure for Ireland." Does the writer of a letter about a question put to a contempo rary wish us to publish his communication? It appears on the face of it intended merely for our private perusal. •." Injustice and Oppression" ought to have furnished his name. The same remark applies to the writer of a paragraph relative to an alleged "infraction of public liberty." All our corre spondents ought to be aware by this time that we cannot publish such statements on anonymous authority. We are quite unable to answer the question of " A Subscriber to your paper," and we apprehend that our correspondent has quite as much facility for obtaining the information he seeks for as we have. Efir Etberpool &tanbarb. Yearly Rubscription : An /Advance, 15s. On Credit, 11s. TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 31, 1847. "THE straw is beginning to move," we are • nappy to say, in the right direction. The mann facturers throughout this district, amazed and aghast at the results which are flowingfrom the adop tion of free trade, without a currency sufficiently . expansive to work it, are beginning to examine the soundness of the reasons put forth to account for _their present severe suffering, with which they ap pear to be not at all satisfied. The Manchester • Gmardian, one of the most persevering advocates .ef Sir Robert Peel's currency measures, and a well known free trader, says that, " amongst other in timations" to this effect, he has received the fol lowing letter : " Burnley, August 25th, 1847. Sir,—A few of us who are regular subscribers to your -valuable paper, read with interest your remarks upon the -vast expenditure in railways ; yet at the same time we -really cannot see how it should bear so hard upon dis counts, and cause that scarcity of money which is repre sented to exist. Indeed, we frequently discuss the mat ter over. I really wish you would again refer to this most serious matter, and give us a little more insight into it. We know that money is scarce, and we also know that unless something is done, we must all sink. For this reason, I think that if you can call the attention of the public, it may tend to good results.—l am yours, " A CONSTANT READER." • -.Our contemporary's reply to this straightforward, home question we must content ourselves with giving in substance only, with the exception of a few por tions, with respect to which we shall have to adhere to the text. The Guardian attributes the difficulty experienced by the manufacturers in getting discounts, and the general stagnation of trade, to the fact of there having been too large an investment of the floating capital of the country in railway undertakings. "It is necessary," he says, "to recollect that a nation hag -only a limited income, and must, sooner or later, be content • with a limited expenditure. The income of an individual we commonly regard as so much money ; and although that is a loose mode of viewing the question, we need not here attempt to correct it. But when we come to regard the income of a nation, and to consider its distribution end its consumption, we must abandon the use of ordi -nary conventional terms, and look a little closer at the actual facts of the case. The annual income of a nation, —that is, the amount of valuable commodities created by the exercise of its labour and capital during one year,—is always applied to several different purposes ; the first and the most important of which is; to secure an equal or a greater amount of production during the next year. The farmer must retain in his possession, or at his command, the means of feeding and clothing himself and his la bourers, of keeping his horses, of mending and replacing damaged or worn-out implements, of purchasing cattle and sheep for eating his green crops, and meeting all the necessary expenditure for keeping up the cultivation of • his land. This is properly his floating capital,—a capital - which should always reproduce itself, with a profit, in each year : that is, at the end of each twelve months, the farmer should have at command as much of this capital, so applicable to the purposes of cultivation, as he had at the beginning ; or his farm will lack either labour, or im plements, or stock, and will be worse cultivated and less • productive than it had previously been. This, then, is the nature of floating capital, so essential to the due em ployment of industry, whether engaged in agriculture, manufactures, or by any other pursuit, and which cannot he greatly diminished, either by an individual or a whole country, without producing serious evils." We shall here examine only the main assumption which the above paragraph contains, that the nation, like an individual, having only a limited income, Which is the amount of valuable commodities azeated by the exercise of its labour and capital -during one year," should expend of that income -only so much as would leave a sufficient surplus to carry on its ordinary business—agricultural or commercial—which surplus he terms floating capi tal. The implication meant to be conveyed is that we have expended on railway works, which are not at present productive, more of that surplus than we ,guyht to have spent, and are suffering accordingly. Now, what is the nature of the expenditure in question, nationally considered ? It has been the exchange, by individuals amongst the people con stituting the nation, of one sort of capital for ano • ther—of land, houses, mills, mines, labour, and other valuable commodities for railways. Nation - idly, we are not poorer, and as individuals we are not poorer. But we are deprived of the ordinary means, by which such exchanges of valuable com modities are conducted. The currency laws tell us that because a large portion of the gold upon which our circulating medium is based, has gone out of the country to buy grain, the Bank of England must proportionately withdraw paper—'change—and re strict discounts. It is not because merchants and manufacturers have not security to offer to a hun -sired times the amount required, or that railway stock, although depreciated in nominal value by the arbitrary operation of those very laws, that dis counts are not granted ; but that the bank has not .-gold in its coffers, and dare not issue any other or the ordinary medium in its stead to supply the deficiency and keep the wheels of commerce and industry in motion. But the Guardian says that one great reason why discounts, where granted at all, are high, is that Railway Companies are scrambling with com mercial men for loans from the bank, and from capitalists. Of coursethey are ; and the scramble increases and decreases in proportion as the Bank is compelled to tighten or relax the screw; in.other -words, as gold goes out of or flows into the country. .Railway Companies are driven to borrow, not be cause their shareholders are not possessed of the capital required to fulfil their engagements, and to iiay their calls, but because the Bank, by its exer t it tupon the currency, has rendered their property unsaleable, except at ruinously depreciated rates ; because, in the face of pressing demand for manu factured goods for export, although those goods are stowed in the manufacturers' hands, the Bank, by its refusal to discount the best paper, prohibits _their being forwarded to the markets requiring them. It is surely not the Railways which are in fault here. Our contemporary admits, with some hesitation, that the present difficulties of the commercial world " have been, to some extent, aggravated by an un favourable state of the Foreign Exchanges ;" and if he will tell his Burnley correspondent when we .shall be able, with gold as the basis of our cur rency, to carry out our one-sided system of Free - rracte, and import largely of foreign grain, or any other foreign commodity, without producing an unfavourable state of our foreign exchanges, he will be conferring a favour upon the com munity-. The assertion with which he con cludes, that " if our harvests had been the most 'abundant that ever were known, so that we had ' , exported instead of importing grain, the pres :sure for loans, and the enhancement in the rate of interest, which now prevail, • though somewhat .diminished, would equally have existed," is one that was well qualified by the addition, "either at the - . present or at some future time." A few cases — perhaps many—of individual and merited calamity 'would probably have resulted; but we should cer tainly not have seen the whole machinery of manu factures and trade as at present, at a dead lock. 'The innocent and prudent would not have been -found, as now, suffering for the sins of the design ing and the reckless. IT is stated publicly, we presume upon good authority, that a nother bold movem en t' is about - to be made at Birkenhead ; that the Docks there are to be made free both for tonnage and carg oes , for a period of eighteen months or two years, "i n order to ascertain how far trade is likely, under the most favoured circumstances, to patronize the Cheshire side of the river." This step is said to be justified by the benefit which the opening of the Docks to an active business would confer upon the owners of land, buildings, warehouses, And rail ways in the locality, whose investments are stated to amount altogether to a sum little short of -..€1i,000,000 sterling. Of course we have no right to dictate to the , inanaissioners of Birkenhead the line of conduct THE LIVERPOOL gToloitl. which they ought to pursue in the disposal of their property. Like other people, however, we fancy that we have had quite as many "bold movements" in that locality as are likely to prove profitable movements ; and we much doubt whether this is likely to be a profitable one for the parties most interested, viz., the ratepayers of Birkenhead. •It may suit the owners of land, buildings, ware houses—especially Dock Warehouses—and rail ways, for the ratepayers to throw away, for their exclusive benefit, the interest of the large amount expended upon the construction of these Docks, upon the purchase of the land, and upon the fur ther amount to be expended in their working, for eighteen months or two years ; it may suit exceed ingly well the owners of plots of land abutting upon the Pool, and a few tradesmen in the neigh bourhood; but we submit that it will not benefit the holders of dock bonds to carry on an unprofit able trade. Such an imitation of Roman disin terestedness on the part of the Dock Commissioners may excite temporary admiration, and earn for these gettlemen a civic wreath ; but with the bulk of mankind it will fail in earning respect for their wisdom or their prudence. Like most bold move ments, we fear it is a hastily considered one: One good, however, is deducible from its pro mulgation. It infers an admission that the Docks, as worked by and in the hands of the Commissi oners of Birkenhead, "are not likely just now to be a paying property. It admits, too, that gentlemen on that side of the water have been getting on too fast ; providing too soon and too largely for a trade which has to be created, and a population which has to be born. It contains, in short, all the ad missions required to form a basis for the adoption of the only prudent and wise course—and, we may add, the only available course which the Commis sioners can pursue. The interests of the owners of thirteen millions worth of property are stated to hang upon the prompt completion and putting in operation of the works in the neighbourhood of the Pool. The conclusion is inevitable, that if this desideratum cannot be achieved by the Commissi oners themselves, a consideration for theowners of this large amount of capital, unwisely invested, ought to urge the Commissioners to resign the re sponsibilities which they have undertaken, and to hand over the task of completing their Docks to those who alone possess the capability of so doing, and of working them to the advantage of the inha bitants of Birkenhead, and of the public. We offer these remarks for the Consideration of our Birkenhead neighbours in the best spirit, We never begrudged them their temporary prosperity, and are guiltless of having deluded them as to its permanency.. Forgetting the past, however, we think that the time has now come in which the differences which have existed between themselves and us—the jealousies, the absurd spirit of rivalry, the "Birkenhead versus Liverpool" kind of feeling and talking—ought to be laid aside, and mutual efforts used to make the best of the present state of :things; to cement together the interests of the population on both sides of the Mersey, and to render our noble river, what it is destined to be, the leading mart of the commerce of the greatest commercial nation of the world. Nature assuredly never meant that the advantages for the pursuits of trade and induatry, which she conferred with almost equal lavishness upon the Cheshire strand and the Lancashire, should be pitted against each other ; but on the contrary, they are expressly fitted to be worked together. It was never in tended that the population on each side should be antagonistic in interests and in feeling. On the contrary,, both circumstances and science have been working to render them one—to bring them toge ther within the pale of one community. Why . should Liverpool and Birkenhead, with their steam boats for bridges, be in anything further apart than London and. Southwark, Manchester' and Salford, or Newcastle and Gateshead ? To bring about this union of interests we do not think would be at all difficult, if set about in a proper spirit by both parties-both conceding a point or two for peace's sake : and that it is the interest of the people of Birkenhead so to concede we shall briefly show. Let the Commissioners of Birkenhead, who are in possession of the required data, inform the public of the number of unte nanted houses and shops within the township, and the value of the property thuslying unproductive to its owners, and contributing no rates for the maintenance of the poor and other parochial pur poses. Let them show us the amount expended by them in paving, severing, flagging, the erection of public buildings, &c.; the annual interest of which, with the ordinary expenditure of a police force, and staff of parish and other officers, has to be paid by half the population for which it was to be designed. The statement, we admit, will be a disheartening one, sadly in contrast With the bright anticipations made two years ago ; but it will bring all parties to a sense of the magnitnde of the evil to be grap pled with, which is ,in a very great measure the in ability of the commissioners to complete those docks and vast works which were to have brought all this mass of property, now lying idle and in course of rapid dilapidation, into profitable opera tion. Birkenhead can never be restored to pros perity until it has trade. Its present buildings can never be occupied except by the class and the pur poses for which they were designed—a trading class and trading purposes. And it is not the mere completiOn of the docks which is required, but the certainty, as well, of their being capable of profitable working, both to the shipowner and merchant, and.to those whose property they are. The question, therefore, which will present itself to the mind of every thoughtful man is this :—by whom can the docks and property of the Birken head Commissioners be the most promptly com pleted and advantageously worked ? By whom, in' short, can the current of commercial enterprise be the most promptly and largely directed to the neighbourhood of Wallasey Pool ? We submit that this can be best effected by the Dock Com mittee of Liverpool. Let that body be induced to take into their own hands the property of the pool, with the existing dock. Let lem complete the whole, with such alteration in the present plans as may be required to work it in conjunction with, and as a useful auxiliary to, their own estate ; and the inhabitants of Birkenhead will speediy see their property resuming its value and enterprise, and population revisiting the lbcality. As a matter of course, to induce the Liverpool Dock Trust to enter upon this task, some little sa crifice must he made by the Birkenhead Commis sioners; and to reconcile them to this, we may re mind that they will be thus embracing the least of two evils. If their dock schemes fail in their hands, or are even seriously retarded, the loss accruing to the owners of the mass of property embarked in the township, and to the commissioners themselves from its non-occupation, must be ruinous. Better far, in a pecuniary view, for themselves, and infi nitely better for the community of Birkenhead, to purchase the prosperity of the entire locality by the abandonment of a portion of their pretensions as Dock Commissioners. With Wallasey Pool as part and parcel of the Liverpool Dock Estate, the ship ping entering it paying one uniform rate with Li verpool, one rate only whether using both sides of the river or one side, the views professed by the original projectors of thC Birkenhead Docks would indeed be carried out, and we should see the form ation of what might then be appropriately termed the Port of the Mersey, the population on both sides of the river sharing a common prosperity. We regret to state that Mr. Brocklebank, of the firm of Peek, Brothers and Winch, died at Blackburn on Satur day, in an awfully sudden manner. He was found dead in bed that morning, having expired in a fit during the night. - - QUICK SAILING. — The ship Lydia, 477 tons, Captain H. Jones, has made two voyages, out and home, from this port to Antigua in six months and two days. She will again sail for Antigua to-day. She belongs to the well known respectable firm of Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, who are the owners of several other first-class smart vessels. DEATH FROM FEVER OF ANOTHER ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN. -- We regret to have to state that another victim to his earnestness in contributing to the wants of his Roman Catholic brethren—theßev. Richard Gillow, of Copperas-hill chapel, died yesterday. The rev. gentleman was a member of a highly-respectable family from the neighbourhood of Preston, and was very much respected. THE SCHOOLMASTER WANTED.—Our contemporary the Journal, in an article addressed to speculators and importers generally, warning them of the consequences to be anticipated from over-trading, says :—" We presume on no superiority of knowledge ; with commercial details we profess no familiarity ; but we are sufficiently informed generally to be aware that not one man in fifty knows his own business As our contemporary is, of course, one of the fiftieth men who know their own business, it would be kind of him to i m p ar t to a few of the cra f t i n our t own a little of the knowledge in question. There are some we could point to who seem to know everybody else's business, but not the ir own, THE GREAT BRITAIN AGAIN AFLOAT. The Great Britain'has, by the perseverance and skill of. Mr. Bremner, been at length released from her rocky prison in Dundrum Bay. On Monday her Majesty's steamer Birkenhead returned from Kingstown to Dun drum Bay, and a steamer also arrived from Warrenpoint. On Tuesday her Majesty's steamer Scourge arrived and landed a number of men to assist in the operation. Two large lighters were made fast to the Great Britain, one on each side. On Friday night, when the highest tide of the month occurred, the weather being calm and favourable, and all the preparations complete, the great trial was made, and was fully successful. The huge structure was triumphantly drawn into deep water, and was towed by the Birkenhead to Belfast, where she arrived at four o'clock on. Saturday afternoon. She was rather leaky, but, after some slight repairs, she was again taken in tow and proceeded towards Liverpool at twelve at noon on Sunday. We may observe that the Great Britain left this port on the 22nd September last year, and got ashore in Dundrum Bay at nine the same evening. HER ARRIVAL IN LIVERPOOL A considerable sensation was excited yesterday morn ing by a telegraphic announcement to the effect that at seven o'clock, A.M., there had appeared off the Orms heads a large steamer, with five masts, in tow of a steamer, and that the former " appeared " to be the Great Britain. The caution observed in this notice almost defeated itself. What five-masted steamer was ever heard of or could be expected but the Great Britain ? and it was known before that she had been got off and, in due time, would be here from Belfast, and necessarily in tow, as she had no steam up ; but she was-not expected quite so soon, so that - the strange announcement assumed, to many, the appearance of a hoax. Others, however, were sanguine, and as the vessels, if they came at all, might be expected about noon, with the tide, or soon after, thousands of persons hurried to the quays and the landing stage, anxious to witness the re-arrival of the Great Leviathan, and with the most kindly feelings towards her. Nor were they to be disappointed. Our reporter pro ceeded by a river steamer, in which were a number of gentlemen interested, to meet her, shortly after twelve o'clock. At one o'clock she was seen looming largely, yet indistinctly, in the distance (during a squall with rain), as she came up the Victoria Channel, pre ceded by her Majesty's iron steam frigate Birkenhead, (built at Birkenhead by Mr. Laird,) which had her in tow with two hawsers. She very rapidly neared, until her magnificent hull came into full view when she reached a point off the Rock Battery, at half-past one o'clock. She was gaily decorated with flags on all her five masts, and it was a great delight to all who saw her, including several nautical gentlemen, to remark, even by minutely examin ing her by the eye, to find that, notwithstanding all the buifetings she has endured, over a hard winter in a wild bay, her lines are yet perfectly symmetrical ; and her sheer streaks above precisely in their original curviture, showing that her frame has undergone no mutation in form. There is no " hogging," or convex rise of the decks, and there is no central or concave depression, or anything indicating the slightest approach to a broken I back." It is impossible to conceive, after the severe ordeal to which she has been subjected, but that her plating and rivetting must here and there be slightly injured, bnt this can readily be renewed, and, in this point, under similar circumstances, rests the superiority of an iron over a wooden ship—that superiority being the toughness and elasticity of the metal. We have to add—and we do it to the satisfaction of the " Steam Navigation World," —that the Great Britain presents no more appearance of corrosion than if she had been only on an ordinary voy age to sea. She is by no means weather-beaten, and, with the exception of a little tarnished paint, looks as " slick" as ever. On a near approach our reporter ob served some slight contusions and indentions in the plates, but of no moment, as these little cutaneous in juries can speedily be remedied equal to new. 'She had projecting from her stern a huge spar, (her main yard, we believe,) acting as a temporary rudder, by means of ropes, one on each side, leading to the steering wheel through blocks affixed to the respective extremities of a huge balk placed along the taffrail, and projecting on either side, forming outriggers. This rudder appeared to be hung at an angle of about thirty-five degrees of declension from the higher deck, aud, under water, was planked at the outward end, forming a perpendicuilar blade or fin—moveable from side to side by the ropes—a capital, yet simple, contrivance in lieu of the usual rudder, which could not be attached, a portion of the after stern post,-astern of the "screw," being carried away in the stranding of the ship in Dundrum Bay. The vessel's deck appeared to be swarming with people. As the Great Britain proceeded up the river, her re appearance, or rather somewhat unexpected "resuscita tion," was welcomed by firing of guns on the Cheshire shore, beginning at New Brighton and ending at Sea combe. She was towed up, with a pilot-boat behind her, by the Birkenhead, at a speed which could scarcely be overcome by our smartest river steamers. The Birken head showed to great advantage, though thus employed in a subordinate service. She is a noble and powerful vessel, with a beautiful bow, but a rather unseemly-plain round stern, which would be greatly improved by some raised quarter-badges, or other decorations. She wore the flag of the royal navy at the pique, and the long grace ful pendant, or " whip " of England, at her main. It became immediately evident on seeing the Great Britain, that she leaked much. The water was pouring cut of three scupper or perforated holes on the port bow; the other side we had no opportunity of seeing, but we presume an equal number of holes were there for the same purpose. We have since learned -that the vessel had on board about 300 hands, and that much pumping was required in crossing the Irish Sea. There were pumps of many kinds kept agoing between decks inces santly by immense gangs of men, upwards of 100 (we have been told) at a time. We learn from the respected agents here that the vessel started quite dry from Belfast, but by the time she was half across, she made a great quantity of water. and there was great difficulty in keep ing her afloat. She was on the mud at Belfast, and this probably stopped the leaks for a time. As she passed the steamer in which our reporter was, and which was sent to attend her by the consignees of the ship here, she was loudly cheered by all on board. Steam-tug No. 3, was alongside of her to assist her in steering. The "screw" is still in the stern of the ship, disengaged from any ma chinery, and in its revolutions the tops of the huge blades occasionally appeared over the surface of the water like porpoises disporting and showing their backs. The mo tion, of the screw was, of course, produced by the mere traction of the vessel through the water. The dock quays, landing-stages, &c., were crowded with spectators as she neared the town, as were also the river steamers, all desirous to obtain a view of her, and she looked well and rakish, though her topmasts were struck. We observed four men at her wheel, and a number of others assisting in the steering department, by pulling at ropes connected with the temporary rudder. She reached opposite the Old Church shortly after half past one o'clock, and was towed round soon after high water, with her head to the northward, sheering alongside the north end of the Prince's Pier. Thence, with some difficulty, on account of her great length, she was taken into the Prince's Dock basin, and as the tide fell secured on the gridiron, where she will undergo a temporary tightening repair. She will thence be taken into the Co burg Dock, to await further orders from the directors. The ship was under the command of Captain Claxton, R.N., one of the directors, and we must say that the skill, tact, courage, and perseverance, which he has dis played in superintending the operations in Dundrum Bay to save the noble ship, and in afterwards bringing her here safely in a precarious, leaky, and somewhatunmanageable state, are beyond all praise. We subjoin a copy of a letter from this gallant officer, kindly handed to us by the consignees, (Messrs. Gibb, Bright, and C 0.,) relative to her escape from Dundrum, and her very leaky condi tion at Belfast, which will, we doubt not, be read with interest. With respect to Mr. Bremner, through whose practical talents she was got off, we need but say that his success, in engineer upon anal a mosdtefsoerrlyoerdnly nd hope, will rin p fo la u c n e da h t i i s o f n ame as an Great Britain, Belfast, August 28th. DEAR SIRS,—I have the pleasure to acquaint you that last night saw the last of the Great Britain in Dundrum Bay. It was intended after the morning's move to post pone that of the final quitting until this morning, but the ship floating with the tide, the temptation was too strong, so the signal was made as pre-arranged for fifty'men from her Majesty's ships for pumping. We were therefore put to our shifts, and the work re quired for anchors, cables, warps, boxes, and their appen dages, which were all cut adrift, by occupying our crew allowed the pumps to get behind hand, aad the water, which it was reputed required fewer pumps than before, speedily got ahead and at four she was to all appearance a water-logged ship, Fresh vigour was, however, infused, and before we got off Strangford, where I thought it best to go, a thick, a most dense fog came on, and obliged us to go to Belfast ; where having kept the water under, we arrived at about 4, p.m. lam now shipping labourers, and hope to be able to start to-morrow. A dry ship.—Your's truly, (Signed) C. C. CLAXTON. To Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. The Eastham regatta will take place to-day, and the sports will be first rate. A MAN FOUND DROWNED.—Art inquest was held yesterday at the coroner's office on view of the body of a man unknown, which was picked up in the river by one of the Eastham ferry boats. The body was in a state of decomposition, and the height was 5 feet 6 inches. CRICKET MATCHES. — We understand that a match will be played on Wednesday (to-morrow) morning between the first eleven of the Edge-hill and the Olympus Cricket Clubs, on the Edge-hill ground, Hall-lane. A match will also be played on Saturday next, at noon, be tween the second eleven of the Edge-hill and the first eleven of the Bark-hill Clubs, on the ground of the former. CAUTION. — We have authority for informing the public that a man who is going about the town and neighbour hood with a petition, apparen tly numerously and respect ably signed with donations for the widow and eight children of the late Lieutenant C. Loftus Robinson, is an impostor. He sends the petition into the house with a note, purporting to be from a highly-respectable clergy man at Walton, who knows nothing of the case. The same liberty is taken with the names of other clergymen ; and we can only repeat the caution which we have fre quently given, that no person should be induced to con tribute to any such applicant, without previous inquiry into the truth of his statement. SMOKE CONSUMPTION. —Mr. Joseph Williams received on Saturday a letter from Messrs. Jones, tobacco manu facturers, Chester, stating that " his smoke consuming apparatus, after being in operation some months, answered the purpose most effectually." Messrs. James Glover and Co., brewers, of Russell-street, in this town, have also written to Mr. Williams to say that his " apparatus completely destroys the smoke, except for a short time after making the first fire. We also find there is a saving of about twenty per cent. in coals, with the additional ad vantage of a greater regularity in the heat and despatch in boiling the worts : after being in constant use eight months, we do not find any injury done either to the coppers or steam boiler," FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUMMARY. The state of the money market has undergone no mate rial change 'during the week, although the prices of stock have shown a tendency towards an advance. Money has been in great demand ; and 6 to 7 per cent was paid on Friday for advances from the bank, a circumstance to which is attributed the fact of that body not having re duced the rate of discounts as was anticipated. The con tinued occurrence of extensive failures amongst the specu lators in grain, and houses connected with them, is caus ing considerable uneasiness in the mercantile and monied circles ; and, should confidence be further shaken, we must look forward to an additional scarcity of money for commercial purposes, by the withdrawal from circulation of a portion of the paper which is ordinarily available. The announcement of the refusal of Messrs. Gurney, Overend, and Co., to accept the drafts upon them of the extensive firm of Prime, Ward, and Co., (the same house to protect whose honour Messrs. Barings recently stepped forwird) until the arrival of the Hibernia, increased the prevailing dissatisfaction. Our cotton market has been dull throughout the week, the total sale being 20,710 hales, of which 1,900 were on speculation, and 1,680 for export, leaving only 17,000 for the trade. Bowed and American are quoted j,- lower ; Mobile at last week's rates. The accounts per Hibernia did not affect the market on Saturday or yesterday. From other causes, however, yesterday's market was a little firmer. The Manchester market for manufactured goods con tinues to decline, and a further reduction of the hours of working at some mills is announced. The same remarks apply to other branches of manufacture, some of which are represented as being in a deplorable state. It is a happy circumstance that the operative classes have the prospect of food at reduced prices, to make up in part for their reduced wages. The Corn Trade during tle week has presented some apparent anomalies. In the leading country markets prices have receded, without any pressure of supply being noticed ; but in Liverpool, notwithstanding the immense importations which we have been weekly receiving, prices, of Flour especially, were on Friday fully maintained. This is attributable to its being drawn off as it arrives to meet the consumption of the interior of the country, which has been almost cleared of last year's wheat. This will continue until the farmers have completed their field and stacking operations and begin to market the new crop, when we shall no doubt see prices come down with suffi cient alacrity. It is not thought that the stocks in Liver pool are so large as to excite any serious apprehension of the result to those by whom they are held. The princi pal losses will arise from the cargoes on the voyage and to come forward, and will in all probability fall upon the foreign shippers, being it is believed chiefly on consign ment, possibly some further inconvenience may arise from a portion of the bills drawn against them being re fused acceptance, as in the case of those of Messrs. Prime, Ward, and Co. A marked improvement occurred in the value of most of the English Securities, just prior to the termination of business on Fridays, the favourable adjustment of the ac count bringing forward buyers, who manifested an incli nation to close bargains for the October arrangement. In consequence of these operations, the money price of Consols went up to 87*, and the October price to 871, leaving off at these quotations, with a firm appearance. Three per Cents. Reduced closed 871 to ; Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents., 88i to 89 ; Long Annuities, 9 1-16 ; India Bonds, 7 to 2 dis. ; and Exchequer Bills, par. to 3 pm. The English Funds still remained firm on Saturday, and business was rather better, owing to the expectation I entertained among some parties out of doors that a chance exists of things generally taking an improving turn for the next week or so. On what foundation this opinion rests, more than the rumoured intention of the Bank to reduce the rate of discount, we are wholly at a loss to discover. Money was certainly tight, with every prospect of so continuing, as far as present appearances indicate. Bank Stock is 195 to 197 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 87+ ; Consols for Money, 87k to +, for the Account, 87t to I. According to the last advices from America, all parties at New York were looking with the greatest anxiety for • the accounts to be received during the next few weeks of the state of the weather on this side. Throughout the various states the crops (with the exception of Indian corn) were all in, and had proved most abundant. Re specting the condition of the money and stock market at the departure of Cie steamer, one of the papers remarks as follows : "Money is decidedly in better request since our last notice, and the rates on all descriptions of loans may be quoted at somewhat higher. The publication of the re ceipts and expenditure of the Government for the last quarter has much strengthened the conviction which was previously entertained by some individuals, that it would be necessary for Congress at the ensuing session to au thorise large additional loans, and hence, in connexion with other causes, the price of Government securities has declined. They have been maintained from their first issue rather by the facilities which the banks have ex tended to speculators than by any extensive demand-for actual investment." _ _ The receipts down the Hudson, from the opeliing of river navigation to the 14th instant, are — Wheat flour barrels 1,79-1,147 Corn mea 1.... Export from Ist to 10th August. Wheat flour Exports from the United States to Great Britain and Ireland, to the latest dates since the Ist of September last — Wheat flour barrels 2,992,319 Corn meal 826,536 Wheat Indian corn Rye Oats 436,881 Barley 308,324 The private letters prom Rio de Janeiro of the 23rd of July quoted the rate of exchange upon London as firmer at 271. Upon Paris the rate was 348 to 350, and upon Hamburg 645. The local six per cent stock under the pressure of sales, had declined to 83. The following is the report of Messrs. Holt, of Liver pool, of the cotton-market for the week :—" The pro ceedings in our cotton-market during the past week have brought about little or no change in prices of American descriptions, nor has there been any relief to the dulness and depression which have been so long in existence. Brazils, on account of their great scarcity, are rather higher." What matters of interest have occurred as bearing upon our market have been external to the cotton ques tion itself, such as the failures in London, and here also to a smaller extent, connected with the corn trade, and the often repeated difficulties of discount and dear money. Had we not been overlaid by questions of this kind, it can hardly be doubted that the firm tone of our holders, founded upon a light stock, would have given prices an upward tendency rather than th# reverse. As it is, our quotations remain very much as before, everything about us continuing very dull, and the spinners pursuing a pro fitless or losing business, the result of which is likely to drive them to a still more contracted consumption." ABUNDANCE .OF THE HARVESTS IN GERMANY. We have been favoured with a perusal of a letter ad dressed to a gentleman in this town from Bunder, in Ost Friesland, in the kingdom of Hanover, dated 23rd instant, the writer of which states that the price of Bibs. of bread (rye), which was a few months ago selling at equal to ls. 3d. of our money, is now (iid. ; and that potatoes and all other articles of food are similarly reduced. The har vest was all got in, and the crop was nearly double the average of past seasons. When it is borne in mind that the weekly pay of the artizan in that country ranges from 6s. to Bs., such a difference in the cost of living must be important indeed. ASSAULT.—Yesterday, a cripple, named Andrew Kelly was fined £5 for an assault on Henry Mistairn. The pri• soner, without any provocation, struck the complainant a very violent blow on the head with his crutch. He was committed to gaol for a month in default of paying the penalty. ROBBING A CAR DRlVER.—Yesterday, Thos. Parkin son was brought before the magistrates. charged with stealing a horse-cloth and whip from John Jones, a car driver. The complainant was at a house in Skelhorne street, on Saturday, taking up a fare, when the prisoner took away the horse-cloth and whip and was in the act of making off when he was taken into custody. He was an old offender. The magistrate ordered him to be commit ted for trial. INQUEST.—Yesterday, on view of the body of John Rourke, aged 55. He resided in a cellar in Stade-street, lay down before the fire on Wednesday night to sleep, and was found dead next morning. The surgeon attri buted death to disease of the lungs, and a verdict of " natural death" was accordingly returned. The only important fact elicited was that there were three persons sick of fever in the cellar at the time, and that six per sons lived in the same wretched place. The health com mittee will, no doubt, look to this. A DEATH UNACCOUNTED FOR.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Coroner's office on view of the body of Susan Kelly, aged 24, who lived with her husband in a cellar in Brick-street. It appeared from the evidence so far that she did not often drink, but that when she did so, as on Saturday last, she was extremely violent, and in a quarrel with her husband and others she fell down, or was thrown down the cellar stairs, but whether by her own act in struggling with her husband did not clearly appear, and the evidence being inconclusive the inquiry was ad journed. DEATH FROM DRINKING.—At the Coroner's office yes terday, an inquest was held on the body of Kilmer Gre gory, a seaman, who lodged in Simpson-street. On Wednesday evening he became stupified with drink, and staggered to bed. Soon after a noise was heard, and he was found on the landing of the stair with his feet up. He complained of his shoulder being stiff, and got worse until Saturday. when a doctor was sent for, but he died the same evening. He had been in the habit of drinking much. The surgeon ascribed his death to congestive apoplexy, arising from excessive drinking. STEALING WEARING A PPAREL.--Yesterday, an elderly woman named Margaret Burke, was brought before the magistrates on a charge of robbing Mary Bennett of some clothes. The complainant, a poor woman, residing in a court in Norfolk-street, left her home for a few moments to go to the grocers, on Saturday evening. • On her return she saw the prisoner at the bottom of the staircase with a candle, and on being asked what she was doing, replied that she had taken a pair of trowsers and a vest (which were in her possession), because she was hungry. In formation was given to the police, and the prisoner, who did not make any resistance, was taken into custody. She stated to the magistrates in her defence, that she was ' driven to the commission , of the crime by starvation. The prisoner was committed for trial. EXHIBITION OF THE LARGE PICTURES, BY MR. WM. ETTY, R. A., ILLUSTRATING THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF JOAN OF ARC, MAID OF ORLEANS. By the kindness of Messrs. Collis and Wass, of No. 8, Adam-street, Adelphi, London, the proprietors of the above splendid pictures, painted for them by Mr. Etty, the royal academician, at a cost of 2,500 guineas, we have been favoured with a private view, preparatory to their being engraved in the highest style of line and mezzotint by Mr. C. W. Wass, engraver to H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge. The subjects chosen—the most important events in the life of one of the greatest heroines of modern history, Joan of Arc—are peculiarly fitted for the ge nius of the distinguished artist employed, and are well worked out in th r e e l arge pi c t ures — a cen t re pi ec e, a nd two side pieces —the whole measuring in length, exclusive of the frames, from thirty to thirty-one feet. In height• they are, as near as we can guess, about fifteen to sixteen feet, or perhaps more. The left-hand picture—they are ranged alongside in the form of a large screen—represents Joan after she found the sword of which she had dreamt, in the Church of St. Catherine de Furbois, at the tomb of a knight. She is in a kneeling posture, and is represented as devoting herself and it to the task of rescuing her country. The figure of the young enthusiast is finely painted, and is of the cha racter, so far as regards strength and capability of enduring bodily exertion, which we naturally attribute to her. The face is fine, not unfeminine, but expressive of determina tion. The light is well managed, and the accessories of the picture most artistically executed. The colouring, we need not say, is in Mr. Etty's most gorgeous style. The centre picture, which is of larger size than the side pictures, is, in the words of the artist's own description, " an attempt to delineate her ( Joan of Arc) under the in fluence of inspiration riding on to victory ; she may be suppbsed to be breathing a short prayer.; her eyes cast down, believing herself imbued with inspiration from on high, she accomplishes more by that inspiration than the vulgar expression of those human passions which actuate more ordinary characters. She does nothing of herself; her arm is wielded by a power of which her very self is scarcely conscious. She had started from a short sleep on her couch, imagining that she heard her sacred vows urging her to combat ; she called for her armour, her banner, and her steed : ' then darting at full speed through the streets, until she reached the scene of action, Joan plunged headlong into the thickest of the fight : far from being daunted by danger when closely viewed, she seems invigorated, nay, almost inspired, by its presence, as one conscious of support from on high. Waving aloft the white banner, and calling aloud to those around her, she urged her countrymen to courage like her own. She had found them driven back and retreating—she at once led them on to a second onset.' The incident of carrying off Cie wounded man near the gate is the recollection of an incident witnessed by the painter in the late revolution in France, 1830, and accords with a similar incident which happened as she was passing the gate, when a wounded man being brought in, Ha!' she exclaimed, I never see the blood of a Frenchman, but my own boils with indigna tion.' The gate and cathedral are from the best authority that could be procured—by a visit to Orleans for the purpose, where the house in which Joan lived is still in existence, as well as the houses at Rouen, in the old market-place, existing at the time of her death." This picture is painted with a breadth and vigour of style which we have rarely seen exceeded. The horse upon which Joan rides is a splendid animal, beautifully painted, and the expression of her own countenance, be traying neither fear nor passion, but expressive of a con viction that she is fulfilling only a divine mission, is very fine. The composition throughout is worthy of the master. The third picture represents the tragic scene in her his tory—Joan herself at the stake—deserted by those who ought to have aided her, and surrounded only by craven hearts, or by her enemies. * The soldiers and officers of Henry the Sixth, of England, are seen in the balconies of the houses opposite the burning pile, watching the agony of her whom they have condemned as a sorceress. The figure and features of the enthusiastic girl are still noble, but the, expression of the latter is changed, and the dreamy air which it formerly wore has given place to one expressive of the sad reality Gf her condition. The figure of a monk in the fore-ground, holding up a crucifix, is a picture in itself. The series, engraved, as they are in tenled to be, in the first style art and upon a large scale—the centre plate 30 inches by 21, and the side plates 21 inches by 15—will be such as few lovers of historical painting would not be glad to be possessed of. The pic ture is on view at the gallery, 52, Bold-street. DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, three young gentlemen, Richard and John Long, (aged respectively 27 and 21 years, sons of George Long, Esq., Aghadown,) and Mr. M'Swiney, aged 22, went out sailing in a small boat in Roaring Water Bay, when, owing to some cause not yet known, the boat was upset, and all on board perished. the accident occurred within a short distance of the shore. The younger Mr. Long seized an oar, and drifted on it for more than two hours, when he was seen by a man on the beach, who went to rescue him. Unfortunately, how ever, instead of taking hold of Mr. L., he caught the oar, and, pulling it with too much violence, Mr. Long fell off and sunk. He was quickly got up, but life was extinct.— Cork Constitution. BAPTISM BY IMMERSION IN LLANELLY CHURCH.— On Sunday last, the parish church was the scene of a most interesting ceremony—the baptism by immersion of an adult. After the reading of the second lesson, the Rev. E. Morris, the vicar of the parish, and rural dean for the Deanery of Kidwelly, conducted the young per son to be baptised, to a font, specially provided for the purpose, and in his usual most impressive and solemn manner rehd the service proper for the occasion. The revival of this form of baptism, which was, in former years, generally adopted by the Church of England, and is still authorised by the Rubric, was an object of interest, and attracted many to witness the ceremony. The whole proceedings were devoutly conducted in the prescribed decency and order.—Carmarthen Journal. THE WEATHER.—CANTERBURY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28TH.—The late heavy rains have been succeeded by fine sunny weather, and the face of the country looks quite refreshed. A considerable quantity of corn has been housed in an inferior condition, and what little is now standing will speedily be ready for the granary. Wheat is more than an average crop, and all other descriptions of grain are abundant. The Markets are still going down. Very far best red wheat was sold at to-day's market for 50s. per quarter, 555. being a top price. Hops will be abundant. Within a fortnight picking will commence : where the line is strong the hops hang in luxuriant clusters. The accounts from all the districts are generally favourable, and a much higher duty than was expected is talked of. The quantity of walnuts and filberts this year is unusually large, and the quality excellent. - MELANCHOLY TRUTHS.—We have seen a nation with out the fear of God—a king without principle—a govern -ment without good faith—a people without loyalty. Those corner-stones, religion, honesty, justice, obedience, have long ceased to adorn the figurative edifice of France. Still, we hoped we had seen the worst, and that the crisis might end happily. In the midst of our hopes falls, like a bomb, the Praslin murder to crush them. The great crime was born of vice—a crime, too ; but both are crimes of a sort to which the filthy and infidel portion of the French press and French literature generally have given the name of virtues ! Where the stage and the novelists encourage lust and murder, and Where the law looks upon adultery and bloodshcdding as amiable weaknesses, no wonder that God is outraged, and hearths desolated, by such social crimes as that which has so lately awoke the public horror.—Church Gazette. FURTHER FALL IN THE PRICE OF CORN. — The highest price realized for wheat in Berks and the neigh bouring counties at the time it had reached its maximum, during the "scarcity," was £32 per load. Wheat of the same quality was offered in Windsor market on Saturday last, and only very small sales effected, the general im pression amongst the buyers being that in the course of another month it would be down to £l2 or £l3 per load. The following are the last prices of wheat per load at the market towns alluded to : —Reading, £l2 10s. to £l7 10s. ; Newbury, £l4 to £l7 ; Bicester, £l4 to £l4 10s. ; Ayles bury, £l4 to £l6 ; Thame, £l3 10s. to £l5 15s. ; Abing don, £l5 to £l6 ; Wallingford, £l3 to £l4 10s. ; and Maidenhead, £l3 10s. to £l7. There appears to be a general complaining throughout the provincial districts that the price of bread to the public has not been reduced in anything like proportion to the great fall in wheat and flour. EFFECTS OP FREE-TRADE.—ALARMING INCREASE OF PAUPERISM IN LANCASHIRE.—On this subject, says a free-trade journal of Saturday, such an alarm has been taken in Bolton, that the Mayor has convened a special meeting to consult as to what is best to be done. In Preston the increase upon the poors' rates has been very great. In the June quarter, 1846, the number of poor relieved in that town was 3,687, the cost being £1,130. In the June quarter of the present year the number re lieved has been 12,615, and the cost £3,795. The Preston Guardian in drawing attention to these facts, says :—" It will be ruinous to go on at the rate of fifteen thousand a year for poor-taxes alone ; and if the forebodings respect ing trade be realized, we may have that sum very greatly increased in the winter, frqm the vast numbers who are expected to be out of work. In addition to which, the county rates, instead of diminishing, are likely to increase upon us. What is done should be done instantly." MORE ABOUT POTATOES. — Of the state of the potato crops abroad, the editor of the Gardener's Chronicle, who has been at much pains to obtain authentic information, says, in that paper of Saturday, — " The season.is now so far advanced as to justify us in believing that the danger is over, and that the principa l p art of the European har vest of ' this root is sate ; and thus again are confirmed the opinions which we have this season ventured to express, that the symptoms were more favourable, and that the disease had lost its virulence. It is the same on the con tinent. Our Paris letter of last week will have removed all doubts as to the French crop ; potatoes at ls. 6d. a bushel, while the 41b. loaf is 10d.,indicate an enormous supply of the former, and a confidence that the supply will not diminish. We have similar information from Holland, and affairs appear to be equally satisfactory in Belgium.. There is nothing in the Belgian potatoe crop which can lead to a suspicion that it has been attacked by the disease of previous years. hi light land or heavy, clay, marl, or bog, ( the Polders,) the crops are universally safe, and promise twice as large a return as in common years. " THEATRE ROYAL, LIVER. This favourite theatre opened last night under a new management, with the play of Rid/lieu, the leading character being sustained by a young tragedian—Mr. George Owen, of whom high ex pectations had been raised, from notices of his acting in various provincial theatres. We have not had, upon the eve of a publication, a fair opportunity of forming a judg ment of his abilities ; and must, therefore, refrain from saying more at present than that many passages of his acting elicited hearty applause, and that some evinced great merit. The company generally is good. Thu house was moderately well filled. Aug. 31, 1847. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS. LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY. Our market was moderately supplied with English Wheat this morning, by land-carriage samples from the near counties, which met a slow demand, at a decline of from ss. to 6s. per quarter upon the quotations of Monday last. Good qualities of foreign Wheat were saleable, in a retail way, at a reduction of from 4s. to ss. per quarter upon that day's rates. Barrel Flour must be quoted is. cheaper. English Barley did not realise within 28. per quarter of its previous value. Oats were in better request than of late, at an abatement of Is. to 2s. per quarter. Peas of all sorts, being scarce, brought Is. to 28. more money. Beans were unaltered in value. - SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY. The supply of beasts is again large, and trade is not quite sCr good; the average price of the best qualities must be quoted 2d. per Sibs. lower, although some few of the choicest descrip tions make about the same as last week. From Leicester and Northampton we have about 1,600, from Lincolnshire 520, Holland and Germany nearly 700, and Ireland 100. A large proportion are of inferior quality ; this description makes less money. The number of Sheep is also increLsed, but we are not over-supplied with the best qualities, these, therefore, realised about the same price as on Monday last, but inferior are rather lower. A few good Lambs still make a good price, lint mid dling ones are very unsaleable. Trade is heavy for Calves, at reduced prices. Pigs are scarce and dear. From Holland and Germany there are 3,320 Sheep, and 176 Calves. MONEY MARKgr - Y ESTERDAY. We have a quiet market this morning in the funds, and prices ruling as equably and stationary as business is inactiVe. We quote Consols and stock values generally rather bettet than Saturday's closing rates. Consols 874 to -a money, 87; to 8 for account. Reduced Threes, at sn to 2. Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. 894 to f. Exchequer Bills, 2s. to ss. pre-- mium. Bank Stock, 195 to 7. Although Dutch stocks come lower from Amsterdam on the 27th instant, the Two-and-a-half per Cents. being down there to 56/, owing probably to the news received of their decline here, they have recovered partially this morning. The Two and-Half per Cents. are now quoted 56 to /; the Fours 89 to /. Spanish Fives, 192 to 204 ; the Threes 29/ to. 30; Passive, 41 to /. Portuguese 24 to 6. Mexican have receded to 181 to 191. Peruvian, 33 to 5. The transactions have been few and unim portant. The reports of the evacuation of the town' of Ferrara by the Austrians has not been confirmed ; on the contrary, letters from that town state that reinforcements were expected. A man named John Hutchings, a cooper, recently em ployed in her Maje s ty' s victualling yard,Deptford, has been committed for trial, charged with the wilful murder of his wife by giving her arsenic. Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's of the loss of the East Indiaman Robarts, of London, 1000 tons, by fire. The loss of the vessel and cargo is said to exceed £30,000, and there are suspicions existing that the ship was wilfully set on fire by some of the crew, who'were principally Lascars. The Pi;slin butchery is the last of a long and repulsive narrative of individual and national crimes. Of all hu man murder this is, perhaps, the worst ; and, in all pro bability, the proudest man of the p rou d es t race upo n earth, le old aristocracy of France, is the criminal and bloody actor. The duty payments on sugar at the five principal ports, up to the 21st instant, have exceeded those of last year by 31,200 tons. The London share market, on Saturday, was rather brisker, and this, coupled with the more favourable ap pearance of the consol market, caused prices to show an upward tendency. Her Majesty, and her royal suite will remain in Scot land for a fortnight or three weeks longer. Lord Palmer ston, who is now in town, will leave on Thursday to join the royal party, as Secretary of State in attendance, in succession to - Lord Grey. Sir George Grey is expected to arrive in London from the north on Thursday. THE IRISH CONFEDRATION.—Conciliation Hall bad better look sharply at its already tarnished laurels. Its rival establishment is doing a rapidly thriving business• Among the members enrolled in the latter body last week were Lord Wallscourt, and Mr. Chisholm Anstey, the member for Youghal. CommirrAL FOR ARSON.—On Saturday, Mr. Payne, the London coroner, and a jury were engaged in inquiring into the case of the late destructive fire at Beech-street, London, and the result was that the jury returned a ver dict " That the house was wilfully set on fire by the ten ant, Leopold Hail." The accused was at once commit ted by the coroner for trial. We regret to have to announce that at a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Lesley Alexander and Co., held to- • day, it appeared that the liabilities of the firm are mud , larger than was anticipated (the amount being £573,00 0 , instead of £400,000), and that the assets, which at the date of the failure it was hoped would realize 20s. in the pound, will not yield more than Bs.—London Times. e IMPROVEMENTS' IN WATCHES.—Mr. Summersgill, Preston, has lately registered under the Copyright De signs Act, a.very valuable improvement in lever watches, which consists in so arranging the works, that the chain and fuzee connected with the going barrel, or main-spring box, are entirely dispensed with—motion being imparted to the wheels and pinions direct, which are arranged ill such a way that the watch requires winding up only once in eight days. SUICIDE OF PROFESSOR ROGERS.—An inquest los held on Friday at the Marylebone workhouse, on Mr' Alexander Rogers, aged 40, profe.socrr of elocution in the Collegiate Institution of Liverpool. He had taken a bed at the Somerset Coffee-house, Marylebone-lane, and on the following morning b li e e en wa lo s w di s s p co ir v it e e red d fr t o o m ha d v n e:o7 mitted suicide in bed, having first stabbed himself in the side with a Spanish knife, and then destroyed him e gif with a razo'r. He had troubles. The jury returned a verdict of temporary in' sanity.—Morning Herald of yesterday. RAILWAY AFFAIRS,---A. company called the . Nosi t County Association, for promoting the formation of a di- _ I rect North Kent Railway from London to Dove r, has been formed. The real object is opposition to the South Eastern Company, and it proposes to get up a concern in £lO shares. The attempt, we think, will fail, as no one with any fairness could oppose a company that has made such sacrifices, and spent such an immense sum for the convenience of the population of that district as the Sout h Eastern Company, and they have expressed their desire still further to provide for the wants of the county. NORTH WALES : HALF-YEARLY.—A rather extract''' dinary scene occurred, in consequence of Messrs. Archer and Mott being anxious that the line should be made, while the directors were of opinion that it would be better 3 under present circumstances, to husband their resources; and, should they not be enabled to enter into engagements with other companies, to obtain a short act, and wind uP the company. After a long discussion, the recommenda tions of the directors were adopted, Mr. Archer only dis senting. NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION : HALF-YEARLY MEET: ING.—The directors' report Stated that the deviation bill had received the Royal assent, and by it the capital was reduced to £2;625,000, being a diminution of £375,000, or £6 ss. per share. An agreement had been entered into with the Stockton and Darlington Company for a gun: rantee on the expenditure from Bishop Auckland to 'Wes' Mill, and the meeting was made special for the purpose. The Chairman stated he believed there would be no fur' ther call during 1847, as they had sufficient funds to g o on to the end of the year ; only half the last call had been received, some parties were willing to pay the 5 pe r c ent. interest, rather than raise the money immediately. The number of directors was reduce,d from 18 to 12, an d the report was unanimously adopted. MARRTED. On the 23rd instant, at St. John the Baptist's Church, WIL LIAM, eldest son of JOHN TAYLOR, Esq., to MARY ANN' daughter of the late Mr. P. FLANAGAN, of Toxteth-park. 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