The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

Sept. 8, 1816. ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH. ON SUNDAY next, the 13th instant, Two SER MONS will be preached in ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH, Key-street, by the Rev. JOHN BIRKETT, Incumbent of the Watermen's Church, Winsford ; and on TUESDAY EVENING next, the 15th instant, a SERMON "iiill be preached by the Rev. ALFRED HEWLETT,ArA. ' Incumbent of Astley. A Collection will be made affer each Sermon towards defraying the expenses of condjieting Divine Service. • Service to commence, in the Morning, at a Quarter before Eleven o'clock, and in the Evening, at Half-past Six o'clock ; and on Tuesday Evening, at Seven o'clock. LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S LOAN COMPANY. Completely Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic. c. 110, • for granting Loans from to £5OO. NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on and after ..L the Election of Directors, on THURSDAY next, the 10th instant, this Company will he in FULL OPERATION, for the purpose of GRANTING LOANS fro ,'5O to £5OO, on Bills of Exchange,_ Promissory Noteb,Deposit of Title Deeds, Shares in Railway or other Companies (in actual operation) or other approved personal security. Applications to be made at the Office of the Company, Lord street Chambers, Lord-street, Liverpool, after the 10th instant. Dated this 3d day of September, 1816. By order of the Provisional Directors, J. JONES, Eldon-chambers, South John-street, Liverpool, Solicitor to the Company; PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. A-SCOMPANY is in course of formation for CON TRACTING with the CORPORATION to REMOVE an d SESS the MANURE of the TOWN under the new Sana tory Bill, and for its preparation and application to the sur rounding Agricultural Districts. From a careful calculation it can confidently . be stated, that a Profit of fifteen per Cent will be realised on the Capital engaged. ..-- A detached Prospectusivilrbe issued in a few day s . Communications, in tile meantime, to be addressed to Messrs. ROGERSON and RADCLIFFE, Solicitors, Chapel-street, Liver pool. On behalf of the Promoters, W. MURRAY ROSS, Manager, pro tern. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE of CAlion GRAND JUNCTION .425 SHARES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Directors, in execution Of the Acts of Parliament relating to the said Company, have, pursuant to the provisions thereof, made a CALL of FIVE POUNDS in respect of each of the 425 Shares which were created by the Grand Junction Railway Company on the 10th day of September, 1815, and have ordered that such Call be paid to one of the undermention6d Bankers, namely : London Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, and Co.; Birmingham .The Birmingham Banking Company, or, Messrs. Molllet and Son ; Liverpool—. Messra.Koss and Co; or The Kink of Liverpool; Manchester Sir Benj. Heywood and Co. ; or, The Manchester and Salford Bank, on or before the 15th day of September next. And the several Proprietors of such .425 Shares are required to pay such Call accordingly. GEO. CARR GLYN, Chairman. CHAS. LAWRENCE, Deputy Chairman. By order, RICHARD CREED, } Secretaries. HENRY BOOTH, Euston Station, London, August 20, 1846. BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY. INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 8 and 9 VICTORIA, Session 1845. Capital One Million, in 10,000 Shares of £lOO each. DIRECTORS. Dets . Joseph Bailey, Jun., Esq., M. , airman. Wm. Potter, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. John Laird, Esq.' e- J. T. Clay, Esq. M. F. Brownrigg, E5 . ! . ... v .." Augustus Radcliffe, Fsq. John Macvicar, Esq Henry Winch, Esq., Robert Barbour, Esq. I Wm. Whitwell, Esq., Ambrose Lace, Esq. Win. Laird, Esq. MACGREGOR LAIRD, Esq., Secretary, Offices, Argyle-street, Birkenhead. TO MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, AND OTHERS. GENTLEMEN, TN consequence of the great demand for increased _L accommodation to the trade of the Mersey, Parliament sanctioned, in 1844, the construction of Dock Works on the west bank of the river, by the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners ,an exempted vessels entering their works from the payment of th Liverpool dock rates. In 1845, a second act empowered the Commissioners to deepen and wall in Wallasey Pool, cone ing it into a Floating Dock of 150 acres—making, with • works authorised under the act of 1844, an area of 2071 acres dock accommodation. In 1845, the Birkenhead Dock Company was incorporated, with a capital of one million, for the purpose of constructing warehouses and other conveniences for trade, on the plan of the London Dock Companies, upon the south side of the Bir kenhead Dock; This company has purchased the ground co loured'red on the accompanying plan, from the railway station to Ilchester road, having a fronta,ge to the Birkenhead Dock of 2500. yards, which form its northern boundary, while on the south side t is bounded by a railway, communicating via Ches ter with the general railway system of the kingdom. By this arrangement the owners of all goods warehoused on the premises of the Birkenhead Dock Company will save in ex penses Ist. The cartage to and from the ship and warehouse. 2nd. At least one-third the present expense of porterage. 3rd. One-half the present rate of tire insurance. 4th. All dock dues, no rates being levied on produce of an y description entering the Birkenhead Docks. . sth. All pilferage. 6th. Damage from exposure to the weather, the goods being under cover from the time they leave the ship's hold until de livered into the river craft or upon the railway truck. The annexed plan of the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks shows the relative position and dimensions of the dock works on both sides of the Mersey, and the distances from the Ex change, which may be considered the common centre of busi ness, The Birkenhead Dock Commissioners are a public body, created in 1844 by the Act of Parliament which authorised the construction of the docks ; to them the crown has granted an area of wharfage and water space of 2721 acres, which form the site of the works ; on the security of this property and the rates which are to be levied on the shipping making use of the docks, they have borrowed money for their construction. The maximum rate they are allowed by the act to charge is one shilling and sixpence per register ton (or such less rate as • may be sufficient to pay the interest of the money borrowed for the construction of the works on the shipping entering their docks, but they have no power to charge dock rates upon goods or produce from any part of the world ; all cargoes. therefore, discharged in these docks are free of dock-rates. In Liverpool the dock rates are levied upon all goods entering the docks, and the statement, No. 1 annexed, will show the saving that would accrue in thick dues alone to each trade by making use of the Birkenhead docks. In addition to dock dues, the Corporation of Liverpool levy a rate, called Town's dues, on all goods landed and shipped. In 1845 these dues amounted to £BO,OOO. It is believed that they cannot be enforced on goods landed or shipped at Birk enhead. The Commissioners of Birkenhead, having their first dock nearly completed, expect to open for general trade in the course of the present year, and the Birkenhead Dock Company will . have warehouses for a considerable quantity of produce ready at the same time. I, therefore, beg to call your attention to the advantages they offer, particularly for bulky goods, in the saving of charges, and to suggest that in any shipments made to this pore, the bills of lading may be filled up to Liverpool or Birkenhead, at the option of the consignee. —I remain, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, MACGREGGOR LAIRD, Secretary. • Birkenhead Dock Company's Offices, Birkenheaa, Ist Sept., 1846. No.l.—Statement of Dock Rates received at the Port of Liver pool, on Goods and Shipping, in the Year ending 24th June, 1845. WHERE FROM. ON GOODS. ON SHIPPING. • East Indies . £11,041 16 4 ...t•10,281 18 8 New S. Wales and New Zealand 389 17 10 .. 355 7 3 West Coast of South America 1,429 17 5.. 2,584 13 3 Brazils . West Indies and Gulf of Mexico 6,156 19 4.. 5,901 16 g . United States of America 55,166 16 9.. 44,121 15 0 Brit. America & Newfoundland 9,787 7 8.. 18,451 ID 0 West Coast of Africa 2,022 2 3.. 7,259 8 3 • Mediterranean 7,046 12 4.. 6,994 3 4 • Ports in the Baltic European Ports Coasters 0 0 0.. 21,174 16 6 £103,032 3 2 .t 127,447 7 7 In a ddition to the sum of .e 105,932 3s. 2d. l ev i e d upon the Cargoes of Ships entering and leaving the Liverp oo l D ocks, a further sum of .4 80,000 was paid as Town Due s , ma ki ng a total sum of £185,032 3s. 241., which, if the same q uan tity of Goods bad entered the Birkenhead Docks, would have been saved to the proprietors. No. 2.—Edimated comparative statement attending the Import, into Liverpool, of 1,000 bales New Orleans Cotton, fair qua lily, Liverpool clarification, supposing the Cotton to be IVarehoused and held for &V Months in Warehouses on Dock Quays and in the Town Warehouses. Value of cotton, say 420,0001b5. at 4td. per lb., ~e 8,093 15s. Rate of charges Charges. per cent. on value Town dues, 2d. per bale . £8 6 8 of Cotton. Dock dues, 3d. per 1001bs., less Is. 3d 35 0 0 Weighing on quay loading, lighting, and stowing in Warehouse, sd. per bale 2O 16 8 Cartage, first length, 2id. per bale 9 7 6 Mending, canvas and twine, say in good order, 44,, per bale l6 13 4 Warehouse rent, 6 months at id. per bale per week ' 67 14 2 Re.weighing in Wkrehouse and delivering, lid. per bale 6 5 0 Removing scales and weights, if only once 0 3 0 Fire Insurance in certified Warehouses, (10s. 6d. per cent., is. 6d. duty,) 12s. per cent.. Cartage from Warehouse to Railway, or Duke's Dock, 3rd length, at 3d. per bale 12 10 0 LIVERPOOL. ..€225 7 6 £2 15 8 Rate of charges BIRKENHEAD. Charges. per cent. on value Town dues, None 0 0 of Cotton. Dock dues, None Weighing on quay, and stowing in Ware house, at 3d. per bale—(No loading or lighting) Cartage to Warehouse, None 0 0 0 Mending, canvas and twine, say in good order, 4d. per bale Warehouse rent, 6 months, at ad. per bale per week 54 3 4 Re-weighing in Warehouse and delivering, lad. per bale 6 5 0 Removing weights and scales 0 0 0 Fire Insurance (at ss. prem., duty Is. 6d.), 6s. 6d. per cent.t 26 6 1 Cartage to Railway or Water conveyance, None required 0 0 0 £1517 9 41 1 7 Charges by the present system, -€225 7s. 6d. By Birkenhead Dock Warehouses, .ell 5 17s. 9d. Saving by proposed plan on every 1,000 bales of cotton, 109 9s. 9d. * This rate is on Floating Policies, under which most of the cotton in Liverpool is charged ; in warehouses not certified, the rate should by 17s. 6d. per cent. t The rate of Insurance being only 2s. 6d. per cent. on simi lar dock warehouses in London, it is expected this rate will be reduced. No. 3.—Comparative statement of charges on Timber dis charged in Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks. Per 1000 feet. Li. n head. Dock dues, 6d. per load of 50 feet ve 0 10 rpo ol Birke 0 .4'o 0 0 Town dues, 6d. per do. Go. Drawing timber from ship to quay, 12s. per 1000 feet Carting to yard per ditto Loading and piling per ditto Piling only in Birkenhead per ditto Loading for delivery Bd. per 250 feet .. 02 8 00 0 lid to Carrier, 35 . • 23 0 feet per team of 0 14 0 0 0 0 Cranage at wharf, 10d. per 50 feet Ol6 8 016 8 .t'4 11 Difference in f avour of B i rkenhead per 1000 feet 4 117 8 .....e2 13 8 No. 4 . —Amount of Dock and Town Dues charged to Liverpool upon the cargo of a ship of 1000 tons from New York. Dock Rates on 526 0 b arrels Flour, averaging each M em 7 11 lbs., 9205 cwt. at Id, per cwt. Town Dues on Ditto, ditto, at Id. per barrel 2l 18 4 60 Dock Rates on 206 0 b ales Cotton, averaging each 4 cwt. 922,8801bs at 2d. per 1001b5..e76 18 2 Town Duties on ditto ditto, at Id. per bale 17 3 4 Saving on the cargo by entering the Birkenh ___ 94 1 6 ead Docks.el 54 6 11 On Flour, grain, provisions, turpentine, oils, and all articles of great bulk, and comparatively small value, the saving in charges will be proportionately as great as in the example • given. N.B.—Ships in the Birkenhead Docks will be allowed under proper reulations, the use of fire and lights ; the heavy charge for boarding the crew on shore, at present iAcurred in Liver pool, may therefore be saved. LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. PATRON. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DERBY. PAESI DENT. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD STANLEY. VICE-PRESIDENTS. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SEFTON, RICHARD WILLIS, ESq., DAVID HODGSON, Esq., JAMES LAWRENCE, Esq., I THOS. WELD BLUNDELL, Esq. THE SHOW of LIVE STOCK, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, SEEDS, ROOTS, &c., will take place on THURSDAY, the 24th instant, in the NORTH HAYMARKET. The Prizes are open to competition of all parties residing in the district of the Society (viz., 40 miles round Liverpool), whether Subscribers or not, but Non-subscribers will be charged Two Shillings for each ?iffy. The Entry must be made at the NEPTUNE Ho , Clayton-square, on the day before the Show, betwee e hours of Ten and Three. The Cattle must bgi the Show-yard before Eight o'clock in the Morning, or thq will be excluded. The Exhibition will open at Half-past Twelve, and close at Four. Admittance to Non-subscribers until Two o'clock, 2s. 6d., and afterwards One Shilling. The DINNER will be held at Messrs. LUCAS' REPOSITORY, at Five o'clock. Tickets, 4s. 6d. each, to be had at Mr. CAN NELL'S, Slater-court, Castle-street. Members are requested to apply for their Tickets on or before the 22nd instant, as there will only be a limited number issued, and if all are not taken by Members, they will be sold to the Public on the 23rd and 24th. After Dinner the Prizes will be distributed. Lists of the Premiums, &c., may be had by applying to Mr. CANNELL, or to the Secretaries, Mr. H. WHITE, Warrington, and Mr. LEDGER, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCAS TLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, (Late Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction and Lancashire and North Yorkshire _Railway Companies, now amalgamated.) THE Register of Shares in this ,undertaking being now nearly completed, all holdertlf Scrip who have not yet forwarded the same for Regitrittion are requested to do so without delay, as the Share Re ter will be absolutely closed on the first day of Octobe eat, after which time all Shares not transmitted for that p ose will be registered in the names of the original Allottees: It is requested that the Scrip in the original Liverpool, Man chester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company may be forwarded to the Secretary, at 22, Parliament-street, London; and the Scrip in the original Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Company to the Secretary, at 31, Princess street, Manchester, who will send an acknowledgment for the same. The Certificates under the Common Seal of the Company will be ready for delivery in a short time, of which due notice will be given to the Shareholders. • By order, (Signed,) THOS. ROBERT WILSON FRANCE, Chairman. W. K. INGRAM, Secretaries. C. MOORE WILSON, August 11th, 1846. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. THE POTATO CROP.—The letters from all districts of Ireland continue to report the complete destruction of the potato crop. It is stated that there is hardly in any part of the country a sufficiency of supply up to Christmas, and in most places the crop fit for human consumption will not last to the middle of November. A REMEDY FOR 'IRE POTATO DISEASE.—Take a three pronged fork, put it in just sufficient to raise the root and soil surrounding it, and I wilt guarantee it answering. This will cost ss. 9th per acre, which 1 am now paying. I found this out last year by pulling up a few roots, as every one is apt to do, to see how they go on ; the disease did not touch them, although the remainder were as bad as poss'ble.—J. vans, Newton Abbot.—Agricultural Gazette. _ _ The Downpatrick Recorder says: " we have had as fine a week of glorious weather as the anxious husband man could desire for the securing of his crops. A great breadth of ground has been cleared in consequence, and in the finest order. The wheat crop is not only abundant, but of superior quality. Oats are not so favourably spoken of; they are represented as being light and small in the pickle. Batley is an average crop and of fair qua lity. Should this fine weather continue another week, the harvest would be well nigh completed in this neigh bourhood. SCARCITY OF FRUIT.—We believe the price now paid in London for good ripe fruit is much above what it has been for the last twenty years. The following compara tive statement shews how scarce and dear good apples, pears, and stone-fruit are : 1845 1846 Pears, per pot . Plums, ditto ........ 4s. to 58.-18 s. to 225. Damascenes, ditto ' Apricots, per dozen .... 44. to Is.-Is. 6d. to 31. Peaches, ditto ls to Is. 6d.-2s. to 3s. 6d. CUCUMBERS.—The very warm weather with which we have been favoured this summer, seems to Lave been favourable to the growth of cucumbers; no less than two tons of which (a novel way of reckoning this fruit) were brought to Norwich on Tuesday night last. They were taken to the market the next morning, an:l in a few hours nearly the whole of them were disposed of. Two or three small heaps remained about one o'clock; which were being retailed at four-a-penny. They were brought from Bed fordshire, where they were grown in the open air in great quantities. Though small and not very inviting in ap pearance, they were by no means ill-flavoured, and were well adapted for pickling.—Norfolk Chronicle. IMPROVED CENTRAL FIRE GUN--There can be no thing more important to our sporting friends, the shoot ing season having commenced, than to observe the im provement that has recently been made by our townsman, Mr. Bentley (whose advertisement appears in our paper of to-day) in the construction of the ordinary fowling pieces. By the ordinary principle, combustion is com municated to the charge in the barrel by an angle or el boar, and is consequently slow ; but, by the new principle, it is direct, the nipple being placed angularly at the breach of the gun. The only objection that could ever be urged against this principle was the probability of the rapid:explosion blowing off the nipple; but this is now so arranged (fitting with a cone into the interior of the part), that three or four threads of screws are beyond the reach of the explosive power, and the powder cannot exert any force upon it. To use the words of the circular, " the patent guns have given satisfaction to every sportsman that have tried them ; they shot quicker, stronger, and are considered safer to use than the usual gun. They can be made with back or fore action locks, and old guns can be altered to the patent principle. PRESERVATION OF FLOWERS.—Aar you are fond of having flowers in your room, and as your present garden is so far from your house, you will perhaps be glad to know how to preserve cut flowers as long as possible. The most simple rules are, not to put too many flowers in a glass, to change the water every morning, and to remove every decayed leaf as soon as it appears, cutting off the ends of the stems occasionally, as soon as they show any symptoms to decay. A more efficacious way, however, is to put nitrate of soda in the water ; as much as can be easily taken up between the forefinger and the thumb, put into the glass every time the water is changed, will pre serve cut flowers in all their beauty for above a fortnight. Nitrate of potash (that is, common salt petre), in powder, has nearly the same effect, but it is not quite so effi cacious.—Mre. Loudon's Lady's Country Companion. THE ERRORS OF Romu.—The Romish Church is in fallible and contradictory to herself ; she reduces the whole sacrament to one half ; scripture is veiled by hor own traditions; prayer is made in public in an unknown tongue ; fasting is elevated to the rank of a meritorious performance for salvation, and not retained as a mere dis cipline of the soul; reliance is placed too often in crea tures, and not exclusively in God ; dependance on outward acts of religious worship and alms is substituted for in ward acts of thought and grace ; the intention of the priest is made the cause of withholding the presence of Christ in the holy sacrament ; salvation is denied in the most posi tive terms to all who do not unite with these peculiarerrors, and adopt them as a standard of true religion. Is not this catalogue of practices error ? and are they not additions to the Apostles' Nicene and Athanasian creeds? Where will you find them binding on the conscience, even in the Roman communion before the Council of Trent? At that fatal assembly Rome committed an act of religious sui cide. She bound the millstone of changeless additions in the creeds of her triple crown, and it must sink, and is doomed at last never to rise again. This impolitic Council rivetted the chains of infallibility upon those subject to her community. It is equally fatal to break and to bear the chain. She - lost in that city her freedom, and wrote anathemas against her throne.—Hollinsarvorth's Folly of going to Rome for a Religion. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE OXEN.—The sagacity and do cility of the Cape ox, when properly trained, is amazing : good cattle, without any guide, and on the darkest night, will adhere to a road, and never leave it whilst in harness; should they by any accident lose their way, they will stop. On these occasions the two leading oxen, always the best in the span, carry their heads close to the ground, and seem to be exercising all their powers of discernment. They . obey the voice of the driver, when desired to go to the right or left, with great readiness. I have even heard of a trader to Port Natal, whose oxen would bring an empty waggon across narrow but deep rivers, if they only saw their master wave a white handkerchief on the oppo site bank; the leaders appeared to watch for this signal, and, on beholding it, at once dashed in and swam in its direction. This story may appear incredible, but I had it from a very respectable person. It may assist the reader to give him a slight description of the Cape ox-waggon it is clumsy and uncouth in its appearance, but never was any vehicle more admirably adapted for contending with bad roads, upsets, and other vicissitudes of South African travelling. Should an overturn occur, it is so constructed that the sides, roof, and other portions, easily clench themselves from the bed, and in half an hour all may be replaced; or if a fracture have taken place, excepting in the wheels, which con rarely happen, it may be mended or supplied on the path, by the aid of a few tools and some green wood.—Wanderings in South Africa. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE SANATORY INFLUENCE OF THE ATMOSPHERE. (From the Edinburgh Weekly Register.) Our constant warnings of the malignant effects of un genial climate and vitiated air are received by some with indifference, as built only upon theory. The statist, in deed, is well aware that the alarm is warranted by every species of fact within his observation, and enforced by every fresh research into the condition of man in respect to things about him ; but the many still jog on in the ways of their fathers, unheeding or unbelieving. It be comes the more our duty to ring the unwelcome truth continually in their ears, to dun them to their own good, to repeat and repeat again, till the lesson is learned. We will, therefore, now avail ourselves of a report of the sickness among the Edinburgh police, drawn up by Dr. Tait, to which our attention has been called by some re marks in a contemporary. The extraordinary effect of the atmosphere on the human frame is written in striking characters on every page of this document. The first general fact to which we advert is the result of exposure to the vicissitudes of the weather which the watching force are compelled to undergo. The whole force consists of 304. The annual per tentage of sick ness is 248.49 ; that is, every man passgs through the hands of the physician twice, and 48 out of every 100, or about 145, three times a year. This is almost unparalleled. The ratio per cent. of sickness among the scavengers is only 46.39, and among the friendly societies 21.70. The severity of police disease is also greater. The average number of days' sickness among them is 10.31 ; among the benefit societies 5.74; among the males of families in the wynds of Edinburgh, 8.3 ; and among males in prison of Edinburgh, 2.72. Among 755 cases of disease, we find 264 of the respi ratory organs, and 180 of the stomach and bowels ; the latter being chiefly diarrhoea, traceable to cold or wet. The amount of disease also differs greatly among„„The different classes of police. The ratio per cent. of sicklSess among the day face is 170'26. Among the night force— who do duty fur nine weary hours between nine at night and six in the morning—it is much higher, 260 95. Among a third class, the supernumeraries, it is enormously higher, 52516. This is owing to the fact, that when a day watch man falls sick, a night one is put in his place, and a su pernumerary, without any previous gradual prepa ration, is exposed all at once to the cold winds of mid night. Every two months two-thirds of the day force are shifted to night duty ; and the bad effects of these shifts, when the weather is severe, are very striking. For in stance, the shift in May, 1845, raised the ratio of sickness among the force from 20.72 to 26'31 ; but while the, ratio varied little among the day-force and supernumeraries, it rose among the night force from 22.22 to 30 15. The ad ditional number of patients at the next shift in July was 24, of whom 17 were in the night-force. Another curious fact is the effect of locality upon the health; for it is manifest upon the face of the report that every part of Edinburgh is not equally unhealthy. The city is divided into twelve sections ; and the ratio per cent. of sickness in these is very different. The most healthy appear to have been the twelfth, eighth, and fifth sections, the per centage in the first being 168-75; in the second, 192-30; in the last, 194-11. The first includes Canon mills, lnverleitb-row, Stockbridge, Comely Bank, Scot land-street, &c. The second includes Lothian.road, Water of Leith, Queensferry street, &c. The last in cludes Newington, Grange Loan to Canaan, Sylvan place to Sciennes, &c. The most unhealthy appear to have been the fourth and sixth sections, the percentage in the former being 393-33, in the latter 333,33. The one includes the Cowgate from South Bridge to George IV Midge, Bristo-street, &c. ; the other the Grassmarket, Cowfeeder-row, &c. This is the more striking, as no part of this excess can be due to the filth and ill-ventilation of the houses, but simply to the pes , ilent malaria that must be hovering over the streets. It will astonish many to be told that the next in order of unhealthiness is the ninth section, being Royal Institution to Great King-street, west to Donne -terrace, Moray-place to Queen's Ferry-street, East Prinee's street, and all within. The percentage is no less than 305. This appears to be owing to exposure to the north and east winds, for it is in the spring and winter months that the excess of sickness prevails. The percentage in January is as high as 720. For the first three 'spring months it is 252 per cent. higher than the fourth or Cow gate section. The thing is reversed, however, as the warm weather sets in. Then these pestilent winds miti gate, while the malaria thickens and intensifies, and the sickness of the Cowgate is then 360 per cent. over that of the Moray-place and East Prince's-street district. The last point which we notice is the effect upon the health of an ill-ventilated section-house, in which part of the police are boarded. We may premise that the section house men were the best and youngest in the force. The ratio of sickness among the men out of the section-house was 205.59, and amongst those in it 351.35, being a diffe rence in favour of the former of 145.76. Out of the 37 men boarded in it only one was found free of functional disorder, the prominent symptoms of which were great sensibility to cold, copious cold perspirations, constant sense of fatigue, pain in the eye-balls, loss of appetite, &c. It is thus manifest that the malignant influence of foul or ungenial air is no dream of enthusiastic journalists or physicians, but a terrible reality, decimating society, which cannot be ignored or contemned without striking and formidable avengement. SUITABLE TREAT.—On Saturday last, Mr. Bishop, of St. Helen's, gave the workmen and women employed at his glassworks an excellent dinner at Birkenhead. He provided them with a gratuitous trip to Liverpool by rail way ; and from the station here they walked in procession with a band of music and banners to the Pier-head, where a steam-boat was ready to convey them to Birkenhead, at which place they enjoyed themselves to the utmost. A SKELETON.—The bodies of a human body were, on Friday night, found by some boys in an old quarry in Preseot•street. At first there was a considerable sensa tion in the neighbourhood, the gossips insisting that some deed of blood had been perpetrated, but it was ultimately discovered that the bones were connected by wires, and it was evident that the skeleton had belonged to some student of anatomy. It was then remembered that a sur geon, who was largely indebted to his landlord and others, had suddenly decamped some time since, from the conti guous premises, and it is believed that he had thrown the skeleton into the quarry. SPLIT IN THE LEAGUE.—There is a very palpable split in the Manchester League, or rather amongst the survi vors of the League. Many members of the defunct com bination are for putting forward Mr. Cobden for Man chester, notwithstanding his refusal to stand ; the other members are for introducing Mr. John Bright. There have been several meetings, but there has been a wonderful absence of unanimity. In point of position and talents Mr. Cobden is incomparably the better man, but Mr. Bright is a busy demagogue of the first water, who makes up for the higher qualities of which he is deficient by un measured assurance and loud talking. Such is the posi tion of the parties to this difference. Of course we, says the Manchester Courier, look upon the squabble with un concern. It is of very little consequence to us, and can only become of consequence in the event of the Conserva tives and Moderate party so far forgetting their duty to the borough, as to allow it to be ridden over roughshod by the worst remnant of the League. Then, if common de cency is to be regarded, it will become of consequence to ensure the return of the more respectable of the rival candidates amongst our opponents. Not that we shall do more than look on : but, apart from party considerations, every man's local pride will make him anxious not to see the borough represented in Parliament by a roan who can reflect no honour upon the community, but quite the con trary. Besides, the going to Rochdale for a candidate, argues a poverty of talent and competency in this vast town, which we should think and hope cannot be tolerated for a moment. We happen to know that the recent move ment in favour of Mr. John Bright has disgusted the most respectable members of the defunct League, and that the leaders of the Liberal party set their face against his nomination. However, as we have just said, we have nothing to do with this. We look on. CHARGE OF ASSAULT. —On Friday, a porter of the name of Barnes, was brought before Mr. Rushton to an swer the complaint of Thomas Todd. Esq. The com plainant said he was going the day before along the land ing stage to the New Brighton boat, and on crossing a narrow gangway for the Princess Royal, (Glasgow boat,) was rudely pushed by the defendant, who, on being re monstrated with, pushed against him a second time, thrust his elbow into his (complainant's) side, and broke the glass of his watch, and afterwards assailed him with foul language. Mr. Todd said he would not have brought the case forward, only that he wished the authorities to be informed of the inconvenience of permitting sea-going steamers to land or embark passengers at the same places at which the ferry steamers land and embark theirs. No body can have an idea of the indiscribable confusion which sometimes occurs. "There is danger that persons going to New Brighton may be conveyed to Glasgow. It was only the other day, that a lady going to \Vales was taken across to Egremont ; and she had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing, whilst crossing, the Mostyn boat going out of the harbour, with her luggage on board. Mr. Rushton admitted the inconvenience, but asked how it was to be dealt with. The defendant said he had a very heavy hamper on his shoulder, and that in his endeavour to push through, when the complainant was purposely stopping up the passage, three dozen of his bottles were smashed. Mr. Rushton said that heavy hampers ought not to be carried on board under such circumstances. The defendant had behaved very improperly—first, in taking the hamper on board in such a crowd, and next, in not waiting with propriety when he was requested to do so. He was ordered to pay a fine of 10s. and costs. Mr. Todd begged that the fine might be mitigated, because the only reason for which he had brought it before the court was to expose the thing on public grounds. Mr. Rushton said the fine was a very moderate one, and that the public must be protected, particularly as unprotected ladies were constantly in the habit of going on board these boats. Extra officers should be placed there when sea-going steamers were alongside, and every means ought to be used to prevent hampers from being taken along the the crowded and dangerous gangway. He promised to take a note of Mr. Todd's objections. SERIOUS AFFRAY AMONGST SHIPWRIGHTS.—On Tuesday, three men, named David Beggs, 'William Tol lock, and John Hamilton, were brought up charged with assaulting John Haspy and John Lough, all shipwrights. It appears that for some time back there has existed a great jealousy on the part of the Liverpool shipwrights against certain men who have not served their time in this town. Some contention has consequently arisen. and on the 19th ult., while Haspy, who served his time at Ches ter, was getting his dinner at the Brunswick Graving Dock, the prisoner Beggs threw several stones at him, one of them striking him on his back. Whilst endeavour. ing to ascertain the name of the party who had struck him 20 or thirty others attacked him. He was knocked down and kicked in the mouth, and afterwards kicked into the Graving Dock, and, had it nut been for a gangway I,latik which lie caught hold of in his descent, he would have fallen to the bottom of the dock. Hamilton and Tollhck were recognised among the parties who had com mitted the outrage. On the following day, an assault, by the same parties, was committed upon John Lough. This case was next heard. The complainant stated that he had worked in the town fifteen years, but had not served his time here. On the day in question, Beggs entered the Graving Dock and struck him. Beggs then asked a fellow workman for an axe which he had in his hand, that he might " cut the old b 's head off," pointing to the complainant. On being refused, he struck the complainant, seized bold of his coat collar, and was about throwing him down, when ten or a dozen men came up and beat him (complainant) violently. Thomas Samson, master shipwright, deposed to having seen both the assaults; and said, further, that when the assault was being committed, bodies of from twenty to thirty men, making about 150 in all, moved from all parts of the Graving Dock to aid and assist the assaulters. The poor men who were beaten were driven on shipboard, and prevented from working further. During the as sault a man wawstaticaed at the dock gates, which were closed in order to keep out the police. Haspy and Lough were laid up for several days from the violent usage they met with. Mr. Rushton commented on the extreme folly and wickedness of the prisoners' conduct, observing, that, if none were allowed to work for a living in this town but those who had served their time in it, two-thirds of the adult population would have to leave the place; and they themselves, if they went to work at Woolwich or other dockyards, would be the first to complain of any such regulations there as should drive them from employ ment. The case was so serious that he should send the prisoners for trial at the session. They were committed, but bail was accepted for their appearance. THE COTTON BROKERS AND THE ALBERT WARE HOUSES.—The notice, by the council, of the rates for por terage and warehousing, framed by the Dock Committee, will be read with interest. On Friday the cotton brokers held a special meeting on the subject, Mr. Thomas Haigh in the chair, wren an animated discussion, in which there was but one feeling, took place upon the general manage ment of the new warehouses with regard to cotton. The objections of the associated cotton brokers do not, as in fhe case of the African Association and some others, ley so much against the rate of rents, as to points which indi rectly affect their customers in Manchester and the menu facturieg districts. One of their objections is to the re gulation which prohibits the buyers of cotton lodged in these warehouses, from sending their own men to sample, the Dock Committee claiming to exercise the power of sampling, by means of their own servants. The conces sion from this rule offered to the Brokers is, that the sampling shall still be made by the dock servants, but in the presence of an agent from the brokers. It was re solved to give this system, which is altogether novel here, a fair trial, but, at the same time, doubts were expressed whether it would work satisfactorily. Another regulation objected to was one which requires any given delivery of cotton from the dock to be removed at one and the same time, also an entirely new practice, and one likely to be' productive of unnecessary expense. The case of the bro kers, as to this regulation, is thus put :—lf 100 bales were to be delivered out of dock, it is required they must all be removed at once, whereby at least five carts would be ne cessary. At present two carts do the s-me work, by each going a second or a third " length, as it is called, by which a saving is effected, as, under any circumstances, if the five carts are on the spot at once, two or three must ne cessarily be idle, whilst the others are loading. A third objection seems to us very forcible. According to the new regulation tickets for the delivery of cotton, or other produce, from the warehouses, will be available only for the day on which they are dated, whilst by the present system at private warehouses, they may stand over for se veral days, even a week—in fact, until the whole of the delivery order is completed. Much inconvenience is an ticipated if this rule be persisted in, because the ticket must then be renewed from day to day, until the whole of the delivery order is completed. The opinion was general that in these three points much hinderance will be thrown in the way of trade, and that some comprehensive and less objectionable plan must be adopted. It was not, however, thought advisable to make any formal representation on the subject, until the new system had been tried a short time, when it was considered the objections to it would be much more effectively urged. It was also unanimourly resolved, that for the future the ticket attached to each sample of cotton should state where the bulk lay. This is an arrangement between the brokers themselves, and has been adopted in order to obviate the complaints of purchasers who object to cotton that has been stored in cellars, because it loses weight. It must be acknowledged that in framing the schedule of warehouse rates, the Dock Committee have had to discharge a most difficult task ; but much regret is felt that they have not, by more liberal terms in the first instance, superseded all grounds for dis satisfaction, as such a feeling must long operate to the prejudice of this noble dock, and its magnificent pile of warehouses. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Last night the Foresters had an extra grand gala at this fashionable resort. To-mor row evening, and on Friday and Monday night next, Madame Rosena will make her extraordinary and daring ascent on a rope 300 fee t long, at an elevati on o f 70 f ee t, completely enveloped in splendid changeable coloured fires. The ease and confidence with which this wonderful lady accomplishes this unusual feat, divests it of terror in the beholder, who witnesses it only with surprise. The other attractions will of course be added, and no one can complain, at this place of amusement, that he has not "enough for his money. LOCAL NEWS. The royal-mail steam-ship, Cambria, sailed on Friday for Boston. She had a full complement of passengers, including Mr. Washington Irving. The Rev. W. E. Jones, M.A., curate of Trinity Church, Birkenhead, has been licensed by the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph to the incumbency of St. Mary's Church, Bagillt, Flintshire. The Earl of Lincoln has let his splendid seat Ranby Hall, near East Retford, which his lordship inherited from the late Dowager Duchess of Newcastle, to Horsfall, Esq., of Liverpool, the noble lord, it is under stood, having determined to break up his establishment in that county. WoouroN FLORAL HORTICULTURAL AND AGB,ICUL TURAL EXHIBITION —This meeting, the second and last of the season, took place on Thursday last, and was well attended. There was a brisk competition, especially for stove and greenhouse plants, of which some splendid spe cimens were exhibited. The fineness of the weather caused a numerous and fashionable attendance. PROSPEROUS TOWNSHIP.—There is not a single case of pauperism in the township of Childwall, and the sur geon's salary last year did not exceed thirty shillings. A warrant was applied for, at the last Board of Guardians held at West Derby Workhouse, for a person deserting his wife, which was the first case of the kind brought be fore the board, for that place, during the last two years. WHEN A MAN IS DRUNK !—On Wednesday a coarse looking Irishman was brought up at the Police -court, charged with being drunk and forcing his way into a penny show without paying. On the prisoner hearing the charge, he indignantly denied the statement, and said, I was not drunk, for I do not consider a man drunk tiil he is deprived of the senses which God gave him." Mr. Rushton said in reply, " I fear we do not agree in the definition of a man when he is drunk. You must pay ss. and costs." ABS EN CE OF MIND.—A butcher of Garstang, on re turning last Tuesday from Hornby fair, seems to have got so be-mused on his journey as to mistake his pony for a fine Scots' heifer, and be accordingly led it to the slaughter-house, knocked it down in a business-like man ner, stuck it in due form, and began skinning it; nor would he then have discovered his mistake bad not some neighbours, in passing, . perceived what he was about, and caused him, by force as well as by entreaty, to desist from his wild adventure.—Preston Chronicle. MR. ROWLINSON'S LECTURES AT THE LORI/ NELSON-STREET ASSEMBLY Rooms.— We observe that this gentleman, with whose lectures on music and song, with the illustrations given by him, the public were so highly gratified on the occasion of his first appearance at these concerts, will next Satcrday give a similar treat. Mr. Rowlinson is more than an every day lecturer upon the subject which he has undertaken to handle ; and moreover a chaste and correct singer. The lovers of song may. therefore rely confidently upon receiving both grati fication and instruction from his lecture. DISMISSAL or A POLICEMAN.—On Saturday, Police officer Wade, No. 220, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having committed an assault upon his su perior officer, Acting-Inspector Yates. It appeared that the prisoner, who bad been in the force six years, went to lodge some time since at the house of a man named Mor gan. The female who lived with him he continued to re present to be his wife until a day or two ago, when he brought in another woman, and said that she, and not the other female, was, in reality, his better half. Mor gan, in a fit of rage at his impudence and immorality, threw him and the two women into the street, and there the prisoner, who was in liquor at the time, assaulted Yates on the latter making his appearance to quell the affray. Mr. Rushton ordered him to pay a fine of ..£5 for the assault, and to be dismissed the force for his gross impropriety of conduct, as manifested by his cohabiting with a female during the life-time of his wife. MODEL OF JERUSALEM.—We have rarely been more gratified than by a view of this model, now exhibited at No. 100, Bold-street, accompanied, as it is, by the lucid description of the various interesting scenes pourtrayed upon it • which is given by Mr.' Dumatti.' the gentleman entrusted with its exhibition. As a Work of art it is in ferior to no similar one which we have seen ; and, when its sacred character is taken into consideration, it challenges eminently the notice of all interested in the history of those events of which Jer,ls4lcm was tbe ordained scene. Illustrative, as it ir, life and suffering of the Sa viour of mankind, it ought to be inspected by every reader of his bible, as calculated to verify and explain many passages in scripture, otherwise' not clearly intelligible; and, as well, to fortify the history of the events handed down to us by scripture, by the evidence of cotemporary writers. CHINESE BRICKS.—We noticed some time since the arrival of a cargo of bricks from China, and commented on the singularity of the importation, and of the evidently advancing state of commercial enterprise and speculation when such a description of article of merchandize should of the vessel a s ae (China), whi c h be brought to this country from so unusual a q uar t er and so great a distance. We find that a parcel o f b r i cks which had been imported into the port of Liverp oo l b y a we re vesse originally called the r e p A o n r t n e i d e , b f y r from the masterS han gh be ing for exportation, are to be landed. The parcel com prises the large number of 15,000, and bears good our former remarks on the subject with respect to the impor tation of bricks from China for actual use in this co untry for the general pu r po ses to which they are applied. The importations which now take place from foreign, and fre quently from distant parts of the world, are . so varied an d rem arkable as continually to call for especTl notice, and it is their frequency alone, and the manner in which the enterprising spirit of the age prepares the public mind for the great revolution which has taken plac e in corn the sur mpreisreciwalhiacefhaoirtsia,crwahiisechwopureldvennattsurtalleymbe theexci ctinagse. THE PERILS OF PROTESTANTISM. The committee of the National Cub have just issued a second address to the Protestants of the empire, urging them to unite aeainst the dangers that threaten their faith and institutions : SECOND ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL CLUB. We are asked why we think our national institutions are in danger, and what the danger is ? Does any states man move in Parliament that our Church be abolished? Does any Government threaten to invade our colleges and schools? Da they tell us that they will commit our Protestant rights to the will of a hostile priesthood? These are not the quarters to which, if well advised, we shall turn our eyes to read the signs of events that are at hand. . It is in the thoughts and opinions of a nation that the seeds of their future actions are sown. That is the field to which men must look for the promise either of good or evil. It is true, statesmen profess to respect our church ; they affect regard for our religious scruples; they base not yet openly assailed our schools. But, turn from their pro fessions to the real field of action—the influence sought to be exercised over the public mind. Observe the march of hostile opinions; see their progress, their force, the mus ter of their army ; mark with whet vigour they ply their work, and with what weapons. Do they address our con sciences ? Do they appeal to our calmer judgments ? Do they warn us to prize our religious rights, and to cherish the principles which are the basis occur national greatness? _ They ridicule, they slander, they decry them. They brand the Church as an instrument of i igotry, and the provision for her teachers as a public wbbery. They treat our schools as nurseries of ignorance, and decry our religious instructions as the lessons of fools. And what is the remedy they propose? A racPcal change, casting down the institutions which uphold religion, and setting up those which deify reason ; declaring that human wisdom alone should govern a nation, and that faith should be barred from senates and from schools. These are the lessons of our would-be teachers—these they seek to instil into the public mind ! With what result ? Do we think that their influence is slight ; We deceive ourselves. Their advance is steady ; each day marks its progress. Does this danger rouse us to exertion ? Have we laid aside our petty differences, and rallied in defence of those vital principles on which we are all agreed ? On the con trary : while our opponents bring to the attack courage and constancy, we are listless and irresolute, neglecting to combat their maxims, and turning with unconcern from subjects which do not touch our selfish interests. What has been the consequence ? The steady progress of their opinions, and the ebb of ours. Our national church indeed stands ; our colleges are yet entire ; our schools are not supplanted : but the ground is hollow below them. The mines are driven, cut deep into the public sentiment. A moment, a popular cry, a turn of parties, a pressure on government, the signal will be given, the attack will come, and the insti•utions which now seem to stand secure, must fall without a struggle. Where, therefore, we are asked, where is the danger ? we reply, that is not the question. Danger there is ; but we would rather ask, what are the means of escape? What forces have we to rally ? What materials for a defence ? He that admits in argument that religion has no place in politics has abandoned the ground of a national church. He that allows that our colleges and schools may be con ducted without religion has given up the basis of scriptural education. He that argues that Popery and Protestant ism alike deserve the favour of Government tears up by the roots our Protestant constitution. He that declares that Christianity may be taught without its peculiar doc trines betra3s oar faith. Where these maxims run cur rent among politicians, they will soon be acted on by the people. Admitted in the debates of Parliament, they will speedily find their place in the Statute-Book. This is the evil which we fear. It is at hand. It presses upon us. The'moment for action is come. Not an hour remains for delay. Doubt, division, are mad ness. What the danger is, is clear. How to meet it, and with whom—these are the only questions for earnest men. Signed, by order of the committee, RICHARD NUGENT, Honorary Secretary. 13, Cockspur- s•treef, Are 26, 1816. LORD LYNDHURST'S POLICY. (From the Church and State Gazelle.) What we have long asserted as being the case is making itself manifest and appearing before the public in its proper form. If the eyes of the country be not now opened to the danger which threatens its institutions, through the political depravity and treachery of their rulers, our destruction as a great and mighty nation is sealed. For ourselves we cannot find words to express our indignation at their dissimulation and hypocrisy. Lord Lyndhurst, once an honoured name, after assisting the late administration to carry every measure abhorrent to the spirit of Conservatism, having discovered, by their last act, the spirit of the Conservative body roust d to a determined opposition, and "the party," as he says, split to pieces, with honied lips sues to Lord George Bentinck for his assistance in reconstructing it. What party is that ? The party which undertook to " walk in the light of the constitution"—to conserve our institutions in "Church and State," and to act upon the principle of national protection; the professed leaders of which have in every point deceived and deserted the nation. 0 God t if Thou abhorrent perjury and treachery, pity a wronged insulted, and oppressed nation, and raise up one honest nian,faithful and true to the interests of his country. Such we are persuaded is the prayer, if we may judge from our own hearts, offered up by hundreds and thou sands of cur fellow-countrymen at this distressing junc ture ; and we trust the prayer wiil prevail. Reconstruct the Conservative party ! With what de sign does Lord Lyndhurst sue for its reconstruction ? For the purpose of retracing his steps, and carrying out those great principles to which he and his associates pledged themselves when they accepted office ? Does he imagine that be can induce the public to believe such to be his motives ? Certainly not : we hate the very name of Conservatism ; and it will be a bye-word and a re proach to them upon whom the title was conferred to the latest generation. We tell Lord Lyndhurst his stratagem will not take. He has exposed his own treachery and that of all who have acted with him. He has supported a measure of which he did not approve, for the purpose, we suppose, of keep ing together his party; and now, when that measure has broken down, he wishes to reconstruct his party—not for the purpose of preserving the institutions of his country— but for supporting his party. Surely, we shall not suffer ourselves to be again deluded by a name : we have already suffered too much, and shall not permit ourselves to be ruled a second time by men who can play a double game, like Lord Lyndhurst. They have now been fairly de tected. We reject the name of Conservatism and cast it from us, as we would the mask we had torn from the face of an intimate friend in his attempt to violate the sacred ness of our houseliclo. We again tt it Lord Lyndhurst it will not do. The eyes of the people of this country are wife open. if Lord Lynyhurst did not approve of the projects of Sir Robert Peel,.why did he assist him in carrying his measures ? and, if he did approve of them, why does he attempt by a wily manceuure, to circumvent the honest remnant who now indignantly denounce the treachery of the leaders whom they so lately supported. AN OLD HAT.—John Smith, of Heywood Newroad, Heap, near Bury, is wearing a hat which he purchased for half-a-crown, in Rochdale, in 1799, and has had it in regular wear ever since, a period of forty-seven years.— Cambridge Advertiser.. A VALUABLE MONKEY.—Some time ago, a monkey kept in the stable-yard of the hotel at Launceston, was observed to be scrutinising the inside of an old glove, with an air of unusual mystery and importance. Upon ex amining the glove it was found to contain a £lO note, and the pieces of about five £1 notes of the old Tamar Bank, dated ten years since. This became the property of " boots," who sold his bargain for £3 10s., and the pieces were secured by the ostler. The monkey must have se lected the glove from a quantity of rubbish which had been lying in the yard for seven or eight years. The Tamar Bank had merged into the Union, which latter gave £l2 for the notes. GUN AND PISTOL STOCKS.—We have on a former occasion noticed the extensive arrivals, at times, of stocks for guns and pistols from Belgium, made of the wood of the walnut tree, and we recently mentioned that the some description of article had latterly been brought. to a lesser extent, from Holland, which was not formerly the case. Au arrival of the kiod has just taken place from the latter mentioned state, to an extent which has not before come under our observation, by a vessel named the Alkmaar, which has arrived at one of the quays near London-bridge from Rotterdam, having on board, in addition to a variety of other articles of Dutch produce, the large number of 12,281 of these gun and 499 pistol stocks, consigned to the British government. DISTRESS IN CORK.—" We," saysthe Cork Examiner of Friday, " devote about eleven columns to reports of public meetings held in Fermoy, Middleton, Mallow, Kinsale, Bantry, and in other parts of this county, all con vened for the purpose of taking into consideration the failure of the potato crop, and the consequences which that failure is certain to entail on all classes in the country. There is no attempt to make the blight less destructive than it really is, nor to exaggerate the distress and misery which are certain to flow from a calamity so dreadful and so universal. All is alarm and apprehension. The land lord trembles for the consequences; so does the middle. man; so does the tenant-farmer. And well they may if some decisive step be not taken by the government, and prompt exertion be made by individuals. It is time for each man to set his own house in order." AMUSING CORRESPONDENCE.—There is a curious COY respondence in the Dublin Nation, of Saturday, which holds out some hope that the dull monotony of .the dog days may be broken by an action at law, between the re doubtable Fathec Kenyon, of Limerick, and the magnates of Conciliation Hall. We may remind our readers that his reverence is the writer of the warlike letter which ap peared in the Herald, about a month ago—in which he said he would rather be shot than starved to death — and the whole policy of Young Ireland upheld as the acme of Irish policy. This correspondence may be briefly described thus—" As you have stopped the Nation, give me back my subscription." To which Tom Ray replies— " Rev. sir, according to our rules, no money is ever re turned. His reverence rejoins—" I don't care ~a pin about your rules, the money I must have." Another and another letter follows, but the gist of the whole is to be found in the postcript to Father Kenyon's laJt. " P.S.-1 think it as well to state if you refuse to return the money, it is my intentibn to hand over my c laim to a solicitor." Bravo ! Father Kenyon, and should your solicitor ex press any doubt of your being able to succeed at law, why not try a prosecution of Mr. O'Connell himself, for obtaining money under false pretences, and retaining it I after he was "found out ? ' LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS. THE FRENCH IN TAHITI. The Boston Advertiser publishes the following im 'portant intelligence from Tahiti. The latest accounts we have previously seen reported the fact of a collision having occurred between the natives and the ' 7 ; I,llt the statement now given adds, it will be cbserved, that the town bad been evacuated alike by English and French : "FROM THE SOCIETY ISLANDS. " By a recent arrival at New Bedford, advices have been received from Tahiti to April 15th. The natives had made a vigorous assault upon the French garrison, and had driven them from the land. The European resi dents bad been compelled to flee with their effects on board the French vessels of war. After the evacuation of the town the French vessels opened a fire upon it." T _HE .-AFFRE WAR. —The South African Commercial Advertiser of the 20th of June, received by the Guard, Captain Paine, arrived at Liverpool, which on her voyage from Zanziber called at the Cape, contains the following official despatches relative to the late engagements with the Caffres on the frontier. This paper, which is five days later than previous advices, gives no other intelligence of consequence than special reports from the chief districts. THE CANADIAN TRADE. — Considerable anxiety if; evinced by some of the Canadian papers as to the great and growing disproportion between the exports and the imports of the province. The Toronto Globe of a recent date has an article upon the subj ct, from which it ap pears that in 1841 the aggregate imparts of Canada fell not far short of X 5,000,000, as follows : At Montreal £2,153,520 At Quebec.. At other ports ... £4,015,666 In 1845 they were still greater, amounting to about £5,300,000. This does not include the freights, charges, interest, &c., a small portion only of which remains in the country. and it is stated that at least £7,000,000 must be annually paid to the foreign creditor. But on the other band the exports of the province by which this large sum should be paid, have not, in either of the two years mentioned, reached £2,000,000. The value of produce exported from Canada in those two years is set down,:in 1844, at £850,000; in 1845, at £550,000. In this way a large deficit has annually accrued against Canada—a por tion of which, the Globe says, has not been paid, but it is still standing on the account current between the English merchant and the colonial trader. The business of the country is mainly done upon credit, and the settlement of the account, which must come ere bin, is looked forward to with no little apprehension. This is certainly a most unpromising- presentation of commercial affairs in Canada, but the best authorities agree in deeming it accurate. The next ten years will offer many problems, political and commercial, for the Canadian authorities and people to solve.—American Paper. A SECOND BERNARD CAVANAGIT.—Lord J. Man ners visited at the workhouse John Harden, a pauper of diseased mind, who is now for thirty-three days without tasting a particle of solid, food. The unfortunate man is little altered in person, except about the regions of the stomach, which is sunk in, and quite reduced. He is compelled, with great difficulty, to take a noggin or two of broth in the twenty-four hours.—Limerick Chronicle. 1101 V TO MARE GUANo.—A gentleman walking on the beach in the vicinity of Harwich observed a man busily engaged with a pickaxe, raising a material from the lower part of the cliff, and on asking the man his employment, was told "he was raising stones for manure." This rather puzzled our friend, who became more minute in his in quiries. The man observed, " These, which look like stones, are crystallized fish, and, although very hard now, will, when put through a mill, crumble to powder. My master ships a great quantity of it to London, there to be ground, and then mixed with guano to give it weight."— Bury Post. _ " HATS OFF !"—At the Spittlegage (near Grantham) petty sessions, a few days ago, the question about " hats off" for " God save the Queen" came before the magis trates. It seems the Foresters Court of Woolsthorp (the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton) had assembled in a tent to celebrate their anniversary, and, when the band played tee national anthem, the chairman called for all parties to be uncovered ; this request three visitors (not members of the fraternity) refused to comply with. One man's hat wits taken off. and he put it on again. The order was given to turn them out, which they resisted, and in the scuffle the disloyal guests had their clothes torn. As sault warrants were taken out, which, however, the ma gistrates dismissed, deciding that visitors at a festival of that kind are bound to comply with the reasonable re quirements of the chairman. Ma. ISAAC'S CONCERT.—This recherche" affair came off on Tuesday night, and seldom have we seen the walls of our Amphi!beetre so respectably encircled as on this occasion. The orchestra was good, but not powerful; excellent in talent, but not great in number. It was most effective, however; and the overtures, Beethoven's Fidelio and Rosini's William Tell, were very finely played. The first part of the concert was very pleasing, although not very striking, Mr. Isaac's fantasia on the piano -forte being the most attractive performance. We notice considerably greater proficiency in this gentleman's performance than when last we had the pleasure to Lear him. It would be a work of supererogation to remark upon the singing of such artistes as Grisi, Lablache, John Parry, and others. The latter gentleman, we were sorry to observe, was out of sorts; and had to apologize for what he imagined was a shortcoming. His memory, in fact, failed him. But when memory fails John Parry, he is sure to remember something which delights us even more than what he for gets would have dane. As a whole, we have rarely at tended so delightful a concert as this with which Mr. Isaacs has presented us. Tun HARVEST Mousa.—The smallest of British quadrupeds is supposed to be the harvest mouse, hitherto found only in Hampshire, and which is so diminutive that two of them put into a scale just weighed down one cop per half-penny. One of the nests of these little animals rw,laasitepdro,cuarne(di c b o y mp A o lr se . a W o h r ite ;ke l at t b w l e a si de m s, ost round, about the si ze o f a musket ball. It andw was i:er o f eo ec m tly . pact and well filed that it would roll across a table. with out being discomposed, though it contained eight young ones. This wonderful cradle was found iu a wheat field suspended in the head of a thistle. gbuyi S at P thi n ey N i T alln a ue N site r- i i tt u siN s ,oe fSoof thet( hNens much-disputed ut ia d i IRONdiu emitted t ela p t D r s o u S p n T e:r i t s N y e L . b — y affirmedS; the°- statue of Memnon in Lower Egypt is the singular phe nomenon of sound occasioned by the vibration of soft iron produced by a galvanic current. It was first disco vered by Mr. Sage, and since verified by the observations of a French philosopher, M. Marian. The experiments were made on a bar of iron which was fixed at the middle in a horizontal position, each half being enclosed in a large glass tube, around which were wound spirals of cop per wire. A cord of copper wire was afterwards substi tuted for the two helices, and placed with its axis coinci dent with the axis of the bar. On completing the circuit, longitudinal sound, although feeble, could be distinguish ed, the bar of iron being a little lengthened or expanded in the direction of its axis. The origin of the sound has, therefore, been attributed to a vibration in the interior of the iron bar, or a new arrangement of the molecules, an explanation which has been more than once advanced for the mysterious phenomenon of the same kind connected with the history of the Mernnonian statue. ORIGIN OF THE QUARREL BETWEEN FRANCE AND ALGIERS.—In relating the well-known incident that gave rise to hostilities between France and the Day of Algeirs, Count St. Marie goes back to the remote cause, which, by his account, was a lady. In the time of Napoleon the Bey of Tunis had a favourite female slave, for whom he ordered, of an Algerine Jew, a costly and magnificent head-dress. The Jew, unable to get it manufactured its the country, wrote to Paris ; the nead-dress was made, at the expense of twelve thousand francs, and the modest Israelite charged it thirty thousand to the Bey. The latter was too much pleased with the bauble to demur at the price, but not being in cash, he paid for it in corn. There chanced just then to be a scarcity in France; the Jew sold his grain to the army contractors, and managed so well that be became a creditor of the French govern ment for upwards of a million of francs. Napoleon fell, and the Bourbons declined to pay ; but the Jew contrived to interest the Dey of Algiers in his cause, and remon strances were addressed to the French government. The affair dragged on for years, and at last, in 1829, on the eve of a festival, when the diplomatic corps were ad mitted to pay their recpects to the Dey, the latter ex postulated with the French consul on the subject of the long delay. Tho answer was unsatisfactory, and the con sequence was the celebrated rap with a fan or fly-trap, which sent its giver into exile, a , ,d converted Algeria into a French province. On visiting the Kasha, or citadel, at Algiers, Captain Kennedy was shown the little room in which the insult was offered to the representative of France. It is now used as a poultry-yard. " Singularly enough," says the captain, "as we entered, a cock, strutt ing on the deserted divan, proclaimed his victory over some feebler rival by a triumphant crow—an appropriate emblem of the real state of affairs." But the conquered cock is game ; and although sorely punished by his ad versary's spurs, he returns again and again to the charge. —Blackwood's Maga:ine. INTERESTING CONFLICT.—A singular circumstance connected with a kestrel occurred at Dover some time since. The common guillemot (uria /roue) breeds in considerable quantities in the cliffs to the eastward of the town, where they are rarely disturbed, excepting by some adventurer lowering himself from above to take eggs, or by some gunner, anxious to try his dexterity, from below. In the present instance a kestrel, soaring along the surface of cliff, bore off a squab guillemot trom its nest in one of the ridges. This, from the weight of the young bird , was a matter of some difficulty , and enabled the old one , which had taken the alarm and become desperate in defence of its young, to come up to the kestrel, when a sharp con test began between them. The hawk , burdened as he was, and determined to keep his prey , was bent on retreat; the guillemot, therefore, notwithstanding the awkwardness of its flight, was enabled to push him hard and annoy him so much, that, in self-defence, he was compelled to drop the h its s s ha mastership , s t bill,ers iap, sad by apparentlycharging withth e young one, which fell unhurt ou the beach belo w . Th en b eg an the battle in good earne s t : i n a stra i ght line the somegu hawkiguillemot e in?ot success,ha posteriori dtheas s the w decidedit flying feathers indicat e d. B ut th ese attacks always finished by the hawk soaring upward and then stooping at its opponent. The watchfulness with which the guillemot avoided these charges and availed it self of the hawk b e i ng aga i n undermost to renew the en gagement, was hi g hl y i nteresting, and, from the vigour with which it p us h e d t h e foe on these occasions , the v i c tory seemed to he s a f e ; b ut , at l ast, one un l uc ky stoop made by the hawk, f rom a cons id era bl e he i g h t . struck the poor guillemot with suc h v i o l ence t h at it could not reco ver its flight, and came t um bli ng to the beach alive a nd unhurt, but so m uc h ex h aus t e d that it was picked u p , and now, with its ytune one, forms a por tion of my cabinet. — .Noit Book of a Naturalist. (_ •