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ettrraturr. IN 0 'l' I C E . New ; London y in parl ) have been principle of a new however ing on the F aland, in February, 184 G. By ' and 11. White, 24, 71 to remark upon the irs of this colony —a have been managed the press of New any, as an especial has never re- es of the British was enabled so long so many impedi- r in New - Zeidand hich his remon- have been work in both ring the removal of xpectation of hear- immediate measure enables our readers, we ,ositian of affairs n Fitz-Roy en- nature of the diffi- T during his period Company is probably husiasts of land from the privilege of pur- ind, in return, they ,e it without expense ;x t parcelled the tide of emigration 7 ', it was .nta was rather ad been purchased professing the right le quite indisposed d up possession f broil and dissen- th compelled the se of procuring an ndingparties,and body of the settlers. Ac leclared an appanage of the 3ed upOn between the called the treaty of idered their fealty to ndertook to see jus and claims equitably ain Hobson, Captain korship, and entered his office, fixing his nd. In doing so, be the Company and its her part of r own These are de- ise and disappointment wn of Wellington were , o large to be sheltered, rrow entrance and appears to 'diate neighbour. 'posed, and inde ; prospect for the nt generation, D - prevent a collision 1 the natives, which ing. Of the state of s visit to Wellington • to allay t e hostile 'hite and !e settle- would prove fatally prosperit :e of, peace r ight principle, ed at that time aeans of r ther of .ger for then so e , reed to have patience would I ess to cultivate the They would not he could work in the interior while continually le of the native ; neither would they believe the land could pay for cultivation at the point vaured to bring on tiost entirely dil the permanent give the ety for a partly with the —partly Leir neighbour of all the land round for the general good at,ted by the vicinity of • the market with their by native cc interested in I so for ions with which inte g others. Had their ful, there cannot now !heck 1 Tered a fate worse s would have been cl in their ha• fe feelings by ws of Government, and would be detached to more t , ns also without re was, the commence to all his measures." ,ally unprepared with at of an outbreak of Captain Fitz-Roy's 1 known that it remained k of the rebel chiefs, Heki eumstances, and consider zting amongst the natives %Used by the unruly rapacity of Roy, very pro s he could a conciliatory po- chiefs, rather than attempt coercion with ble and very insufficient force under his e position of the colony, in the event of s thus described of February And and was near being the - night have precipitated the A native prisoner w couit hou rescued from the military went in • the town carried off wn son Most havoilY to effect a peaceable ad turn of the prisoner and would to mee ht have d then what would have been rt hou e vveat boarded 4ription been the first in 1 all the public docu the late governor appears to have of notes or debentures, for the pur -1 affairs of the colony until he could ds from Great Britain. At the be- Fitz'- " the local govern- y says, nt was £24,630 in debt, the revenue being then esti ted at about £20,000. All salaries and ordinary cnt= a payments were several months in arrear ; there was prospect of the revenue amounting even to two-thirds the estimated indispensible expenditure; the establish lit was reduced to that which was authorized by the 2retary of State in a despatch received at the close of previous year (18-13); the governor was strictly pro fited from drawing on the British treasury, and no loan se circumstances, ry on the ernment until assistance and as copld be received from England, to relieve the cre. and to keep numerous from actually starving— tes, or debentures, bearing five per piration of one year; and as these at first refused by several speculators, and likely to be much depreciated, they were _ ender. It should be noticed that this paper cur s not intended to be permanent: it was intended to tead of coin, daring a very limited period, not exceed ) years—before which it was from extreme privation—s after the exp bable that some arrange _ , you'd be made by the home Government for their with al from circulation. These debentures enabled the rnment to carry on its functions, and saved an extremity sorder and distress which can hardly be appreciated by mis in an old country." Me practical effect of these debentures was not only the vat of all actual want, but the promotion of much industry, general Improvement. Instead of a complete stagnation, the beginning of 1844, activity and abundant employment prevailed. Auckland and its vicinity improved rapidly, au export trade began. ne necessity under which the principal holders of deben lay to employ them in the colony, and as speedily as pos *here should be any deterioration of value, induced persons to buy up gum, flax, timber, or copper, or other lye produce, to be exported as remittances to their corre mdents instead of money. Some built small vessels : others proved their landed prope rt y b y fences a nd better buildings. e results were conspicuously beneficial." ble,lest _... This resort of necessity appears to have been one of the : aptain's most heinous offences. , The impression produced by the whole of the pamphlet s one of complete exculpation of the gallant officer, who as performed his duties in a most critical position with ' exemplary firmness and judgment; and displayed an amount of moral courage which it would be well if some of his revilers possessed. We shall d , ubtless bear the re ply of some of those parties shortly after parliament meets. In the meantime we cannot but compliment Captain Fitz-Roy upon the excellent taste displayed throughout his whole pamphlet. Some men, circumstanced like himself, would have displayed considerable and natural soreness, and perhaps acrimony of tone. The gallant captain, however, has preferred laying before the public a plain unvarnished statement of the whole circumstances of his late position in the colony, and leaving that public to form its own judgment upon his conduct therefrom. months. per. VARIETIES. ng a smashing business by letting post run over him, and then commencing suits for da- He has cleared 1,172 dollars in the last nine —3OO dollars on an ankle alone.—American Pa- ke left one of his infidel r xt by Mallet, a brother unbelieve ked his opinion of thiQ 1 ! who spent his lif acy, exc tions to be against Christianity, and a coy port of his own gun, left half- Dr. Johnson in charging a pop-gun rd! who ad of the re- hungry Scotch- MODERN L gger after his ATURE.—FeeI they write men now think before The consequenc is that a great proportion Bern literature is of the very flirosiest cies —vivid sometimes, and not without sparkles of genuine humour; but so ill constructed as to preclude the p bility of its long existence. No one is entitled t models, unless he has studied them and detected their faults; but this is considered by far too tedious a process for modern ingenuity. We are thus inundated with a host of clever writers, each relying upon his peculiar and native ability, jesting—for that is the humour of the time —against each other, and all of them forsaking nature, and running deplorably into caricature.—Blaekwood. VINEGAR EELS.—The little eels found occasionally in negar are well known. Some persons suppose that they e to be found at all times in that liuuid. when soueht for with a microscope. This, however, is not the case. It is only vinegar that has been kept some time, and which has become bad, that gives birth to them. • What is more, they will not live lone in good vinegar. This I ascertained on one occasion, when, on adding fresh vine gar to some 'hat had been given me by a friend full of these eels, their motions from that day became more and more languid, and in a fortnight's time they were all dead. m several had been brought to m are immersed in sweet oil, or pro I had kept same vinegar in which th e little ee' ks in ti When the: _ spirits, their motions are much impeded, but vitality is not immediately destroyed.—Jenyn. TEMPERANCE IN CANADA to find at this remote pos anything stronger than t little of the for was to be had. drink to excess —I was agreeably surprised hat only one soldier drank water; and of course very , owing to the expense of transport, soldier that did drink spirits did not where drunkenness had been proverbial ? The soldiers, who were of the 82nd regiment, had been selected for the station as married men. Their young commanding offi cer patronised gardening, cricketing, boating; and every manly amusement„ but permitted no gambling. He formed a school for the soldiers and their families, and, in short, he knew how to manage them, and to keep their minds engaged ; for they worked and played, read and reasoned; and so whisky, which is as cheap as dirt there, was not a temptation which they could not resist. In winter he had sleighing, snow-shoeing, and every exer cise compatible with the severe weather and the very deep snow incident to the station. 1 feel persuaded that, now government has provided such handsome garrison libra ries of choice and well-selected books for the soldiers, if a ball-alley, or racket-court, and a cricket-ground, were attached tO'everylarge barrack, there wourd_not only be less drinking in the army, but that vice would ultimately be scorned, as it has been within the last twenty years by the officers. A hard-drinking officer will scarcely be tolerated in a regiment now, simply because excessive drinking is a low, mean vice, being the indulgence of self for unworthy motives, and beneath the character of a gen tleman. To be brought to a court-martial for drunken ness is now as disgraceful and injurious to the reputation of an officer, as it was to be tried for cowardice, and, therefore, seldom occurs in the British army. The vice of Canada is, however, drink ; and temperance societies will not mend it. Their good is very equivocal, unless combined with religion, as there is only one Father Ma thew in the world, nor is it probable there will be ano ther.—Bonnycaatle's Canada and the Canadians. SIR WILLIAM FOLLETT ON MASONRY.—TiIe future Attorney-General had been for many months called to the Bar when we again met. This was early in 1826. He then spoke calmly, but feelingly, of the professional jealousy which existed among those to whom he was now ---- - " Players' rivalry," said he, "is a joke to it. affiliated ception of its extent or strength, un less you yourself belonged to the profess'on." He then reverted to past scenes and mutual friends; and in the You can have no c on, I Inferred, from a passing remark, that 1-e had become a Mason. I asked if my conclusion was correct. "It is," was his reply : " I was initiated at Cambridge." Light had not then beamed upon myself; and I expressed in scoffing terms m course of astonis be, with quiet earnestness, " you require something to reconcile you to your kind. You see so much of bitter ness, and rivalry, and jealousy, and hatred, that you are thankful to call into active agency a system which creates in all its varieties kindly sympathy, cordial and wide- spread tienevotence; and - 1)i utbc.tricv...- I ?—if_ said I, " you don't co the length of asserting that Ma sonry does all this ?" " And more ! The true Mason thinks no evil of his brother, and cherishes no designs The system itself annihilates parties. And against him as to censoriousness 1 calumny, most irb which Ma! y and uly carried ' Well! well! you out, 'applies to an unbridled tongu or do as cannot connect it with religion : you cannot, you will, affirm of it that Masonry is a religious system." ' By-and-by, you will know better," was his reply. 'Now I will only say this, that the Bible is never closed in a Mason's lodge; that Masons habitually use prayer in their lodges; and, in point of fact, never assemble for any purpose without performing acts of religion :—I gave you credit,' continued be with a smile, " for being more thoroughly emancipated from nursery trammels and slavish prejudice."—Slray Leaves from a Free-mason's Note-Book. CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS OF CANADA.—Canada is, as I have written two former volumes to prove, a mag nificent country. I doubt very much if Nature has created a finer country on the whole earth: The soil is generally good, as that made by the decay of forests for thousands of years upon substrata, chiefly formed of allu vium or diluvium, the deposit from waters, must be. It is, moreover, from Quebec to the Falls of St. Mary, al flat surface, intersected and interlaced by number less streams, and studded with small lakes, whilst its lit toral is a river unparallelled in the world, expanding into enormous fresh-water seas ; abounding with fish. If the tropical luxuries are absent, if its winters are long and ex cessively severe, yet it yields all the European fruits abun dantly, and even some of the tropical ones, owing to the richness of the soil and the great heat of the summer. Maize, or Indian corn, flourishes, and is more wholesome and better than that produced in the warm south. The crops of potato, that apple of the earth, as the French so justly term it, are equal, if not superior, to those of any other climate ; whilst all the vegetables of the temperate regions of the old world grow with greater luxuriance than in their original fields. I have successively and success- fully cultivated the tomata, the melon, and the capsicum, in the open air, for several seasons, at Kingston and To ronto, which are not the richest or the best parts of Wes tern Canada, as far as vegetation is concerned. Tobacco grows well in the western district ; and where is finer wheat harvested than in western Canada ? whilst hay, and that beauty of a landscape, the rich green sod, the velvet carpet of the earth, are abundant, and luxuriant. If the majesty of vegetation is called in question, and intertropi cal plants brought forward in contrast, even the woods and trackless forests of Guiana, where the rankest of luxu riance prevails, will not do more than compete with the glory of the primaeval woods of Canada. I know of no thing in this world capable of exciting emotions of wonder and adoration more direct than to travel alone through its forests Pines, lifting their hoary heads beyond Man's vision, unless he inclines his head so far backwards as to be painful to his organisation, with trunks which require fathoms of line to span them ; oaks of the most gigantic form ; the immense and graceful weeping elm ; enormous poplars, whose magnitude must be seen to be conceived ; lindens, equally vast • walnut trees, of immense size; the beautiful birch, and the wild cherry, large enough to make tab'es and furniture of. — Sir B. H. Bonnycastle's Canada and the Canadians in 1846. HANWELL ASYLUM.—The Hanwell Asylum is one of the noblest instances of wisdom-tempered zeal and hu mane skill which our age can boast of. The building and its appurtenances occupy upwards of fifty-three acres ; the several patients, sometimes nearly a thousand in num ber, are treated according to the intensity of their afflic tion ; but in no case is unnecessary restraint practised. Working upon the proverbial association of idleness and vice, in all cases where practicable,employment is re sorted to as a remedy; and nearly all the operations of this vast establishment are conducted with the utmost order by lunatics; shops of lunatic tailors and shoemakers may be seen here at work, and the bakery, the laundry, and other domestic offices, are worked by the same " pa tient" classes. The out-door arrangements are upon the same system of non-restraint. The gardens and shrub beries are neatly kept by the inmates, and are allowed to enjoy their health-giving air with the most indirect sur veillance, and various pastimes are allowed to minister to the " mind diseased." Within doors, reading of an in teresting and attractive, though not exciting, character, is provided ; the tables are strewn with cheap periodicals, in the hope that their good seel may not invariably fall upon the mind, as it were lying fallow. Here, as in the sane world, outside of the Hanwell domain, society has its pets and butts, and men are prone to sport with each other's weaknesses ; but this is no new phase of humanity. We, who remember but too distinctly the clanking fetters and the horrifying gaze of the inmates of the old Bethlehem, have inspected Hanwell with very different feelings ; and as we walked, almost unattended, through crowds of " lu natics," were indeed gratified to find them so far sane as to be sensible of their humane treatment. From the wall of one of their dormitories we copied the following lines : " Behold ! No gloomy cells where sullen madness pines In chains and woe, where no glad sunlight shines; But here kind sympathy for fallen reason reigns; Our rule is gentleness, not force or galling chains." On the south side of the garden lies the burial-ground, wherein all patients not removed by their friends or pa rishes are buried ; and here sleeps the individual who planned the asylum, and eventually became one of its in mates for a long period previous to his death—one of those extraordinary coincidences which belong to the category of popular fatalism.—Sharpe* London Magazine. SIERRA LEONE. (Further extracts from Mr. Shreeve's work on the above Cotiny, ready for the press.) FREETOWN. LIBERATED APRICANISEPARTMENT.—This depart ment is situated on the edge of the harbour, near the watering tank at King Jemmy. It consists of two large yards, with a residence for the assistant-superintendent, and good storehouses for the service of the Africans on their release from the slave-hold. One yard is for the males, the other for the females, with every convenience for cooking and other comforts. On the arrival of a slave vessel, with a cargo of these unfortunates, the mar steal of the Mixed Commission Courts proceeds on board, and, having made his inspection, forwards his reporc to the Commissioners. The medical officer examines their condition, and, if no disease be on board, they are imme diately landed from the crammed and pestilential slave hold, and placed in the yard of the department. The emaciated and infirm are sorted out, and sent to the Co lonial Hospital, at Kissey ; and in cases of contagious diseases raging on board—a very common visitation, from the fact of 300 or 400 being packed within a small com pass—the vessel is sent to quarantine. The arrival of a cargo of slaves is a peculiar and affecting sight. Before their capture it is the policy of the dealers to impress them with a terror of the English, persuading them to believe that they are the most cruel masters, and will exercise unheard-of tyranny over them should they fall into their hands ; but how thoroughly is the illusion dis pelled, when one of our cruizers carries them into port, where every appliance for their comfort, crowned by free dom, proclaims them to be men and brothers! The sud denness of the change is bewildering, and these children of nature are obliged to refer to superstition for an expla nation. Some are literally stupified by the transition, whilst others abandon themselves to the wildest enjoy ments—shouting, dancing, and singing, until the hills and shores re-echo the gratitude of their hearts for Old England's benefactions. This celebration of freedom lasts many days, and is humanely indulged by the officers of the department. This department, and the treatment of the newly arrived Africans, have lately undergone a material change. Under the old arrangement, after having been a due time in the yard, the youths were located in the v"lage schools, where, receiving a certain amount of education, they were apprenticed as domestic servants, or to trades. The adults were sent to the villages, where they received an allotment for a farm, implements of agriculture, with provision and clothing for one year, all found by govern ment, in which time it was supposed that they would be able to support themselves under the guidance and ma nagement of the managers of their respective districts. This system, however, after a long trial, with every faci lity given to them, was found not to have answered, — retrogression instead of progression l'eing the result. The department is now discontinued, managers re duced, and only such retained as are necessary to govern the district, under the new arrangement. This original experiment has been succeeded by emigration to the West Indian colonies (an admirable plan of Lord Stanley). The emancipated are, as heretofore, landed at the depart ment, food and clothing supplied to them, and, after a preparatory period, the uncontrolled choice of emigration in large and comfortable ships provided by government, where every attention is provided for them on the pas sage, and a provision upon their landing. In case they do not wish to emigrate, they are at liberty, by associa ting with their own countrymen, to remain in the colony and follow their own desires. Emigration, however, is gladly accepted by many,—relying so fully upon British sympathy, that all destinations and propositions are faithfully trusted. Several, on the other hand, prefer entering the army, captivated by the allurements of mar tial pageantry, and in a very short rime, from good usage, become perfectly contented, and look upon the freeman of the town with an amusing sang froid and contempt, saying, " Me no freeman ; me Queenman !"—a compli ment to the Majesty of England, which probably has never reached St. James's. Many grave objections and censures have been urged against the emigration of the newly-emancipated African, and the measures of govern ment for carrying it out ; but this opposition emanates from interested parties in the colony, especially the 'Wes leyan missionaries, who spare neither time nor exertion to defeat the project, in their exclusive register the Watchman, nominally but not really their own, it having been established with far more liberal intentions, and for much more general purposes, than the subscribers are allowed to enjoy. Other opposition comes from parties in England, from a want of local knowledge and experi ence, so requisite to form a correct judgment of the powers and condition of the African upon his own soil. As to the question of the inalienable rights of freedom, there can be no doubt; nor does emigration control it. The African at home, from nature, strengthened by habit and example, is of an indolent disposition ; but by a change to another country, where industry is the order of society, he readily devotes his energies to that which he sees adds to the respectability and comfort of others, and gradu ally, and often immediately, becomes a regenerated being, in which improved condition he is sustained by the encou ragement and advice of superior morality, education, and experience, to any that his most ingenious inquiries can obtain at home.: In Africa such advantages are more confined, a mis sionary or a teacher here or there, being all that is afford ed; and even were they more numerous, the climate is so inimical to the exertions of the European. Whatever good may be imparted, it is comparatively moderate, nay many who have been converted to christianity, have re verted to their former habits and belief, and exercised within the very precincts of the missionary's house, their motatr , aus ceremonies. There are the Ako and Ei:43, - atad many other notions of the liberated, who have embraced the false religion of the prophet, which being more con genial to their dispositions, from approximating more closely to their original superstitious impressions, are more easily comprehended, and consequently more readily believed than Christianity; and I am satisfied, whatever their professions may be, and notwithstanding the self flattering reports of our labourers in the vineyard, that a great number of the liberated lip-christians are heart mahomedans—and no stronger argument can be possibly adduced to prove that emigration must ultimately be bene ficial, by transporting the fanatic and superstitious child of nature far from scenes, connexions, and influences which it is but reasonable to expect, must have, an almost insurmountable preponderance, and if there be any chance of overcoming this, it must be by a more general inter course with total strangers of superior minds and better customs. If Africa if to he regenerated by her own sons, it is only to be accomplished by themselves, their sons, and sons' sons, becoming the chief agents in the great work of salvation, both in soul and body ; one well-in formed, and true native christian, would do more towards reformation amongst his brethren, than all the missionary Doves, that ever took wing to feather their nests in the colony, can accomplish. -crown t -tenth THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. LORD ASHLEY.—The Sun of Thursday, in a sanitary article, very appositely alludes to Lord Ashley as .‘ the Wilberforce of the present day." Several sermons have recently been preached in the Town-hall of Kelso, by a boy only ten years of age. The reason given for his thus appearing before the public is, that money may be obtained to further his education. On Monday, there were several dishes of raspberries exhibited in London, at Covent-garden Market. They were not the produce of forcing, but were natural crops, grown in the open air in a garden near Turnham Green, being the second supply this season. In consequence of the competition existing on the river Thames, the fares of nearly all the steamers have under gone a very extensive reduction. Boats are now running between London and Westminster Bridge, at the extra ordinarily low•fare of one halfpenny each person. AN AGED BIRD.—A magpie died on the sth of this month, which has been in the possession of Mr. James Hagger, of Great Chesterford, for 19 years. It was taken from the nest when young, and it would call all the neigh bours and children by their names.—Cambridge Chron. The Town Council of Sunderland have ordered a rate of one halfpenny in the pound on the property in the bo rough, to sustain the expenses connected with the forma tion of a public museum, which is placed under the direction of a committee of the council. A HINT FOR ASTLEY'S—The directors of all the the atres at Berlin have resolved to substitute the explosive cotton for gunpowder, in their representations, because the cotton makes little or no smoke, which is not only annoying to the public, but has an injurious effect upon the voices of the actors. The Tablet (Roman Catholic paper) announces the conversion to Romanism of Mr. Toogood, late editor of the Cambridge and Oxford Review. The Daily News says that i junior fellowship has become vacant at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in consequence of the secession of Mr. Thomas Caswall. REAL DISTRESS.—As a convincing proof of the dreadful state of the trade in Kidderminster, we have only to men tion that during the last fortnight, no less than eighty-six wedding rings have been purchased, chiefly from the wives of weavers, by one jeweller residing in the Bull Ring in that town. Last week a vessel of 120 tons, named the Albion, one of the Woodbridge traders, was run down off the Essex coast, near Wotton, by the city of London steam-ship. The crew of the Albion were saved with difficulty by the steamer, except a young man, the son of the master, Mr. Smith, who sank with the vessel. On Friday, a meeting was held in Birmingham, convened by the clergy for the purpose of an immediate extension of the infant schools in that town. There are seven thousand infants there for whom no means of instruction are pro vided. The Queen Dowager has contaibuted £5O for the good work. An accident of nearly a fatal nature occurred at Stony Stratford, on Tuesday, the 3d instant. A firework maker, named Holloway, put some damp gunpowder into the oven to dry, and proceeding to work, the gunpowder was forgotten. It very soon, however, made its owner aware of its presence by exploding, and causing very great de struction ; hut, fortunately, no lives were lost. _ SHORT TIME MEETING.—A short time meeting was held in favour of the ten hours' bill, in the Working Men's Hall, Keighley, on Wednesday evening last. A dense crowd attended, and hundreds were unable to obtain admission. Mr. W. B. Ferrand, M.P., Mr Oastler, and a number of other speakers, addressed the meeting, which seemed unanimous and enthusiastic iu attachment to the ten hours' bill. On Monday evening last, as the driver of a cart and two horses, belonging to Mr. Stone, of Winwick, was returning home, his horses were frightened by the noise of empty milk-cans in some carts which were passing on their way from Newton Railway Station to Winwick. He ran to the head of one of his horses, was thrown down, and the wheel passed over his body. He died soon after. MILITARY APPOINTMENTS. — Lieutenant-general Sir Benjamin D'Urban will, it is said, proceed to Canada as commander-in chief, in the room of the Earl of Cathcart, who held that appointment with the governor-generalship. Major-general Brotherton, formerly of the 16th Dragoons, will receive the appointment of inspector-general of caval ry, in the room of Lieutenant-general Lygon, lately pro moted. The Morning Post revives the tale of a split in the Cabinet, arising from the dislike of Earl Grey to Lord Palmerston. The Spanish marriage is said to be the question at issue. The Post hints that the Earl of Cla rendon is also opposed to the Secretary of Foreign Af fairs, and adds that if rumour do not err, the question of opening the ports and of Irish policy has only been de cided upon by a division of the Council. THE WINGATE COLLIERY CLERK.—The fugitive clerk who absconded from Wingate colliery, with nearly £6OO belonging to his employer, Lord Howden, and who was apprehended in Ghent, in Flanders, is said to be again at liberty. Nearly the whole of the money, with the excep tion of his " travelling expenses," and the cost of his " gentlemanly" outfit—his gold watch and ring, wig, im perial, and moustaches—having been recovered, "it has not been considered worth while to bring him to Durham for prosecution." PENAL DISCIPLINE OF CONVICTS.—We believe that this interesting subject is at present under the serious con sideration of the Government, with a view to relieve New South Wales from its redundant convict population. It is proposed that the transportation of males to the colonies should cease, but that the deportation of women should be carried to its fullest extent, in order to diminish the existing disproportion between the two sexes. It is also under consideration to establish a convict home colony in the Isle of Portland, where a proportion of the prisoners sentenced to transportation would be submitted to a com bined moral and physical discipline, and employed in hewing and preparing stone.—Literary Gazette. THE DURATION OF MARRIED LIFE.—The tables of the mean joint lifetime of males and females show, that in this country husbands and wives married at the age of 26 live, on an average, 27 years together, the widows living rather more than 10 years (10.4) after their husbands' deaths, and the widowers nearly 9 years (9.3) after their wives' deaths. Where the husband is 40; and the wife 30, the mean term of marred life is 21 years, the widows living 13 years after their husbands, and the widowers 5 years after the deaths of their wives. The tables furnish ready' answers to a great number of questions of this kind, and others in which two lives are concerned.—Re gisrrar-General's Reports. INGENIOUS SMUGGLING. — On Monday morning, a seizure of an extraordinary description took place at the St. Katherine's Dock Steam Packet Wharf, by a Custom house weigher. A case of live geese, brought over from Harlingen in the Magnet steamer, had been landed from the vessel, and was being examined by the officer, when he thought the geese appeared unusually tall. He made a more careful scrutiny, and ascertained that a quantity of hay, forming a false bottom, had been made, on which the geese were standing, and on removing that, he dis covered beneath a quantity of very thin deal boards. These were also removed, and a quantity of cigars, weigh ing 441b5., were exposed to view. The case, geese,-28 in number—and the cigars, were immediately seized. SERIOUS EFFECTS OF A " LARIC."—On the sth in stant a young man about 18 years of age, who had been employed on the railway near Deal, for a spree dressed himself as a Guy Fawkes. This he did by stuffing a ga bardine or large jacket he had on with straw, till, for ro tundity, he resembled more a Sir John Falstaff than a Guy. It was in the evening when the young man was so amusing himself. He had a great many squibs about him. Some of these got ignited, and in a moment he was inla complete blaze; and as the squibs continued to go off in all directions about him, it was impossible for any one to approach to render him any assistance. He now lies in a deplorable state, with no hopes of recovery.—Dover Chronicle. NEW COIN.—FIVE SOVEREIGN PIECES.—Some five sovereign pieces have lately been struck by Mr. Wyon; and though as yetbut in the hands of a few of the authori ties, they stand as portion of the coin of the realm ; but whether they will be called out for general use, the Go vernment have not decided. This gold piece is considered to be the most perfect of coins. In point of size it bears resemblance to a crown piece, but otherwise it is much neater in detail. The obverse displays a representation of her Majesty, and the reverse the figure of her Majesty as Una, guarded by the lion (standard of England), and holding the sceptre. It may be well, perhaps, to inform the public, who must for some time back have noticed the absence of the figure of St. George from the new crown pieces, that such emblem has been entirely discontinued. A WOMAN FOUND WlLD.—About three weeks ago, a young woman, 22 years of age, and of the name of Ca therine Stewart, living in Brown-street, in the Merkinch, left home, and nobody knew where she had gone, until a day or two ago she was discovered in the woods of Lea ohdin, some herds having been attracted to where she lay by her shrieking or singing. She had rolled herself up in moss till- she had -made herself as round as a ball. She bad thus lived for seventeen days, subsisting, it is sup posed, on nothing but moss. She was taken home imme diately, almost reduced to a skeleton. She is recovering, but on account of the great shake such an unexampled state of existence, for so long a time, must have given ,the constitution, the progress is naturally slow. It was never thought she was wrong in the mind, though she was ob served duller than usual for some time back.—lnverness Journal. __..._._ A BRITISH FRIGATE FIRED ON BY THE PORTUGUESE. —ln the intelligence given in another column, brought from Lisbon by the Marys, "The American frigate" is said to have been dismasted by the batteries of Oporto. We copied the statement as we found it ; but we think that the America, British frigate, must be meant, as she had just been ordered by Admiral Parker to Corunna, with instructions, as she passed Oporto, to demand satis faction for an insult recently offered to a Mr. Noble, a British merchant, and, if our memory do not deceive us, consular agent, in that city. This would satisfactorily account for her attempt to enter, and for the hostile reception she met with. The America is a raz6ed 74 ; it will be recollected that she recently returned from the Pacific, and that her captain, the Hon. John Gordon, youngest brother of Lord Aberdeen, was tried by a court martial for having quitted that station without permission from the admiral commanding.—Britannia. THREE THOUSAND POUNDS SUPPOSED LOST, AND FOUND..—On Wednesday night last, a person from one of our city banks was despatched to the agency in Falkirk with a parcel containing a large sum of money, amounting, it is said, to £3OOO in notes. The man, on alighting at his destination, found himself minus the parcel. and gave in timation accordingly, to the alarm of the agent, who too k measures to apprise the police anthorities here and in Edinburgh by the train which arrives at either end shortly after midnight. The Glasgow superintendent of police started in search on Thursday by the earliest morning train ; but, on his arrival at Falkirk, the cheering news was, communicated that the parcel had been found in safety in the carriage which the messenger Left at Fal!cirk, on its arrival at the Edinburgh terminus. It is likely that the man had fallen asleep, and left the parcel behind him on the confusion of a sudden awakening.--Glasgow paper. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Ten o'clock. THE STORM OF FRIDAY.-FLTRTIIER PARTICULARS. From a letter received this morning at the Underwri ters'-rooms, dated Boulogne-sur-Mere, 21st November, we learn the total loss of the American ship Helen, of New York, Capt. Hoyt, from New York to Antwerp, with a cargo of rye and cotton, a few miles west of that place. Out of a crew of seventeen, only six are saved. The captain and officers are of the number lost. The vessel has gone to pieces. The English schooner Devon, Beer, from Plymouth, bound to London, with a cargo of lead, hemp, ore, &c., is also stranded near the same place. Crew saved. She is still upright. Damage not known. During Friday Dublin presented a most depressing spectacle. The day being set apart for general humilia tion and prayer, on account of the fearful state of the country. and the apprehended famine, the shops and offices were for the most part closed, and the streets and thorough fares presented a most dreary appearance. In the sub urbs considerable damage has been done to property. At Rathgar trees were blown down, and houses com pletely unroofed. At Ringsend the river Dodder was swollen to. an im mense extent, but we are happy to say there was no loss of life. Throughout the early part of the day several boats were engaged in carrying provisions, &c., &c., to the oc cupants of those houses the lower storys of which were completely inundated. The Jessie Torrens, William Skead, master, went on shore on Friday morning, near the coast-guard station at Dunny Cove, near the Galley Head, and will be a total wreck ; 11 or 12 men are saved out of a crew of 20. This vessel was timber laden, and bound from Quebec to Liverpool. Another vessel was seen near Clonakilty, at the west side of the entrance to that harbour, and is supposed to have gone down. The Sea Lark, in putting back into Limerick, was seen to disappear immediately off Loop-head, and is supposed to have foundered with all hands. The Senator, in run ning back, was driven into Ballybunnon bay, dashed ashore, and it is feared will become a wreck. A large ship, with Indian corn was wrecked at Bally- cotton on Friday morning, name as yet unknown. The police went from Middleton to protect the wreck—crew saved. IMMENSE Loss OF PROPERTY ON BOARD THE AJAX STEAMER.—This noble ship returned to Cork on Friday morning, after experiencing the gale of Thursday night, and suffering much from its severity. The Ajax left the above port at four o'clock on Thursday for London, with a very large cargo, principally consisting of live stock and previsions. Until she had well cleared the harbour there were no indications of its coming on to blow hard, but about eleven o'clock at night, when she was forty miles from the land, the storm rose with tremendous fury, and heavy seas struck the vessel with such force as to tear away the bowsprit and smash in the forecastle deck. The stairs on the paddle boxes were at once carried away, and the flooring of the deck under the mate's berth also stove in. The vessel having a very heavy deck load of cattle, &c., it was found necessary that she should be lightened as much as possible, and accordingly out of 120 sheep on deck, all but nine were thrown overboard—the pigs were next thrown over to the number of ninety, and then as many as could be of the bullocks and cattle ; but from the terror and confusion of the deck passengers, of whom there was an immense number, sufficient assistance could not be had to throw them overboard, and the poor ani mals were killed or smothered. Out of 93 head of cattle on board, only twenty this morning were landed alive. The fury or the gale continued until day break, and the ship behaving nobly all through, when the cap tain put back, and, laying too off the harbour all night, in consequence of the number of ships in Cove and the river, he arrived at the quays on Friday, with all on board in a miserable plight. The violence of the storm, and the force with which the seas struck the vessel, may be judged from the fact that one of the chain boxes, weigh ing six tons, was carried off the rail it is usually moved upon from one side of the deck to the other, and thrown on two pigs, which were literally crushed to atoms under its weight. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. — The regular meeting of this body was held yesterday in the Conciliation Hall. There was a most numerous attendance in every part of the building. After a little parliamentary business, Mr. O'Connell said he was prepared to bring up his report upon the disunion existing amongst Repealers, and in doing so, wished to say that no man was more anxious than be was that the friends of Ireland should be joined hand in hand to restore to her her parliament ; but he believed it was impossible, for it would be seen by the report he was about reading that the question between the Old and 1 oung Ireland parties was, in point of fact, should the Association adopt the doctrine of " physical force" or not ?—(cheers.). The learned gentleman then proceeded to read the report, which was of great length, and by no means interesting, and set forth the various points at issue between the Old and Young Ireland par ties.—The rent was announced as £54 18s. 9d. Foul o'CLocx.—The Association has just adjourned. Mr. O'Connell did not at all allude to the exhausted state of the treasury. FRIGHTFUL CASE OF STABBING We are are sorry to have to record another of those unfortunate collisions in whi, h the use of the knife has been resorted to, with, we fear, too great a probability, of a fatal result. The particulars of the ease, so far as we have been able to learn, are as follows :—At about one o'clock this morning the attention of the police was drawn to a squabble between two seafaring men in South Cas tle-street. When they came up it was found that one of the men was stabbed in the belly. The other was imme diately arrested, and on him was found a large broad pointed clasp-knife. The injured man was conveyed to the Northern Hospi tal, where he now lies in a most precarious state. The wound, from which his bowels were protruding, is a little below the navel, and about two inches long, His name is Charles Wimslow, and he resides at a boarding-house in Barton-street, having recently arrived from St. John, N. 8., in the Champion, of this port. The prisoner will, we understand, be brought up at the Police-court this morning. POPERY IN BRISTOL.—For some time past, six sisters of mercy, living in a small house in Pritchard-street, St. Paul's, have exerted themselves, we are afraid, too successfully amongst the poor of this city. Encouraged, undoubtedly, by their success, they have lately removed to Harford-house, Dighton-street where they have been trebled in number by fresh arrival% from Belgium. We hear also that the sisters of penance of St. Dominic, " whose labours embrace the whole works of mery, cor poral and spiritual," are about to settle in another por tion of this city.—Bristol Journal. YANKEE NOTIONS OF FREE TRADE WITH ENGLAND. —The New York Journal of Commerce calculates on the United States driving the Britishers out of their own pro vision market. It says :—" An Etiglish merchant, who is here buying bread stuff's, says that American flour bar rels are effecting a great revolution in the trade there. The practice from time immemorial, has been to sell flour in very large and inconvenient bags, and the trade has been confined to the millers and the mealmen. But the great beauty and convenience of the American barrels has brought grocers to take up the business ; and he says that now he has orders for fifty barrels a-week from dealers who never before sold flour at all. The English cannot contradict this ; for they have no free-splitting ash or other timber from which to make these beautiful barrels. So we think the repeal of the English corn laws will be something to us—yes, everything to us—a home market for the supply of 18,000,000 of barrels." THE HOMICIDE PARDONED.—The Home-office is pro ceeding in the course of liberating convicts, and in some respects with injustice to the accused themselves. At the York Assizes in 1844 a man named Daniel Donovan was found guilty of homicide in having killed a person during a riot arising out of religious differences, in the streets of Bradford, and was sentenced to transportation for life. Ever since that time the friends of Donovan have ex erted themselves to prove an atibi,—that is, that he was in another place at the time of the offence, and they suc ceeded in interesting Lord Morpeth in the cause. Now, this plea must have been established or not. It is possible, though highly improbable, that the witnesses. jury, and judge were all mistaken, and if Lord Morpeth and Sir G. Grey were satisfied upon the point, a free pardon ought at once to have been granted ; if not, the pro priety of such an excercise of the royal prerogative of mercy on their part, may be doubted. What, however, is the course taken ? The Home Secretary has sent out a pardon provided that the man's conduct has been good since his transportation, and upon condition that he does not return to Great Britain, thus perpetuating the sen tence of banishment. The alibi, then, which would of course be a complete exoneration, is apparently made the ground of annulling the sentence, and yet the man is treated as a criminal! We never remember to have read of anything so absurd and at the same time so mischievous —it is as much as saying that a man may be half guilty and half innocent—a proposition which, we suspect, will receive no countenance from the law-officers of the crown, or any lawyer in the kingdom. ATTEMPTED MURDER IN LONDON. —* On Saturday evening, a brutal attempt was made by a man named George Wilmot to murder a Mrs. Haines, residing in an alley called Paradise-terrace, in the Liverpool-road, Is lington. On the evening in question, Wilmot, who was well acquainted with Mrs. Haines and her husband, called at her house, where he fou n d h er b us i e d i n pre paring supper, and quite alone. After some conversation, Mrs. Haines turned towards the fire, when Wilmot availed himself of the opportunity to extinguish the can dle burning on the table in an iron candlestick, with which he then struck Mrs. Haines several tremendous blows on the head. A d es p era t e s t rugg l e ensue d ; b a t Mrs. Haines succeeded in dragging her assailant to the door, which she opened. She then uttered loud cries of " Murder!" when Wilmot took to flight ; but he was subsequently apprehended, and brought before the magis trates at Clerkenwell Police Court. From inquiries which he had previously made, there can be little doubt that he had attacked Mrs. Haines with the view of ob taining possession of the money which he had learned that she was in the habit of carrying about her person. To add to the atrocity of his crime, it appears that he is indebted to Mrs. Haines and her husband for repeated services, and that they have frequently lent him money. Mrs. Haines is now lying in a very dangerous state, and her deposition has been taken„ in case her wounds should cause her death. Nov. 24, 1846. ALLEGED POISONING AT SUTTON.—The adjourned in quiry into the death of George Taylor, whose body was disinterred after being in the grave two years, to ascertain whether he had been poisoned with arsenic by Elizabeth Smith, his housekeeper, who gave him some doses on the recommendation of Sarah Taylor, stepmother of the de. ceased, was resumed at the Volunteer Inn, at Sutton upon-Trent. It appeared that the deceased died from ulceration of the stomach, which the surgeon who at tended him in his last illness said, after hearing the evi dence, was caused by doses of arsenic. No trace of ar senic was found in the stomach and 'viscera, which had been sent to London for analysis. The jury returned:a verdict of manslaughter against Elizabeth Smit'a and Sarah Taylor. A ROMANCE.-A Colonel of Dragoons is on friendly relations with a family in the neighbourhood of his quar ters. In the interchange of civilities an orderly is often employed. The orderly, being a fine-looking soldier, finds favour in the eyes of the fair daughter of the house, as he gallops up to the door each day. Stolen glances are exchanged. The young lady now herself brings down the answers to the notes, messages, &c. Little conversations ensue—the conversations lead to interviews —interviews to confessions and vows—and the confessions and vows to elopement and marriage. The Colonel is astonished— the parents storm—and the orderly-corporal is deprived of his "stripes" for prolonged absence. Denouement : The orderly appears in his real character; he is the son of a gentleman of high respectability in England ; the young couple will be possessed of a competency-a com mission is to be procured for the soldier-husband—parents are reconciled—all parties are pleased—and true love is rewarded ! Our readers will wonder why we have been giving these extracts from the note-book of some writer of vaudeville or comedietta ; but, unless we are misin formed, the play has recently been acted in real life—the scene, Edinburgh ; and the time, October, 1846.--Edin burgh Journal. MORE WORK FOR LORD PALMERSTON.--The Morning Post announces that the Russell ministry is by no means at one on the subject of Lord Palmerston's policy. Whether this be so or not, we cannot tell. But the country is already pretty unanimous against it. Mean while the clouds are thickening around the diplomatic horizon. The Northern Powers (taking advantage of the disruption of the entente cordiale between France and England) have, it is said, decreed the destruction of the neutrality of Cracow. And it is alleged that in this step France is not an unwilling witness. Indeed the French Government has already resorted to a puerile persecution nr the. P _I • rs . . ..a. ~ /11311 jour oars puonsnea in raris, with an evident view to procure their suppression. It may be interesting to copy the two solemn articles of the Treaty of Vienna guaranteeing theindependence of Cracow. They are as follow Article 6.—The city of Cracow, with its terri tory, is declared in perpetuity a free, independent, and strictly neutral city, under the protection of Russia, Prussia, and Aus'ria." " Article 9.—The Courts of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, engage to respect, and to cause to be respected for ever, the neutrality of the free city of Cracow, and of its entire territory. No armed force can ever be introd uce d i n t o i t, under any pretence whatever." To this Treaty France and England are parties, as well as the Three Northern Powers. And they, therefore, are bound to remonstrate against the guilt of its intended violation. The continental kings are playing a desperate game. But they may rest assured that a terrible retribution will follow the achievement of so infamous a breach of faith and honesty. Mr. Grantley Berkeley has written another letter of three columns in length, exposing the terms upon which he became Lord Fitzhardinge's nominee for West Glou cestershire, viz., £2OO a-year and a room in a house in town. The money does not appear to have been punctu ally paid. The letter goes at length into family matters and private arrangements. The Times very properly de. dined to publish it except as an advertisement; where upon Mr. B. waxes wrath, and sends a bullying letter to the editor, which the Ti mes remar k s i s worth inserting, as a confession, under his own hand, of the scurrility, falsehood, and detraction,' contained in the effusion to which we refused publicity. He says, 'lf I desired to indulge in scurrility and abuse, falsehood and detraction, judging from your remarks on my correspondence with Mr. Harman Visgar, &e., I must hire a space in your paper, but not otherwise.' Surely he cannot think it un reasonable that if he ' desires to indulge in scurrility, &c., he should be at least obliged to pay for it. We have ad mitted his scurrility gratis quite long enough, and he has no right to complain of his being compelled, as he says, to ' hire a space' for any more of the same stuff he is anxious to put forward. We acknowledge that we did not fear even our advertising columns being degraded by Mr. Grantley Berkeley's scurrility —as he confesses it to be—when we made its being paid for as an advertisement the condition of its being inserted. We fully anticipated that we should thus exclude it from our paper altogether, and our anticipations have been realised. We should per haps have spared him the humiliation of declining his let ter on the ground of its being made up of ' scurrility and abuse, falsehood and detraction ;' but as he has given this description of it, we are for once not ashamed to own that we are of the same opinion as Mr.,Grantley Berkeley." GENERAL MISCELLANY. Government are about to settle £l,OOO a-year on the Duchess of Inverness. Last week omnibuses commenced running between the Bank, London, and Brompton for two pence. A ewe, the property of Mr. Scott, Corncockle ' parish of Leeds, dropped a fine healthy lamb on Wednesday. Mr. Swinnerton, proprietor of the Macclesfield Courier, has been unanimously elected mayor of that borough. Fifty boys have been expelled from Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, for insubordination. George Hudson, Esq., M.P., was on a visit last week, we understand, to the Duke of Cleveland, at Raby Castle. The South-Eastern and Continental Steam-Packet Company have put a stop to the sailing of their packets on the Lord's Day between Folkston and Boulogne. A member of the Independent congregation at Brom yard, near Worcester, has been excommunicated by the church for " slandering his pastor." Admiral Sir Davidge Gould, G.C.8., is appointed Vice-Admiral of England, in the place of Sir G. Martin, made Admiral of the Fleet. The Times says that Parliament will meet on the 10th January, only a week beyond the time to which it is pro rogued. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In the Police Court at Dundee, the other day, it was decided that a tenant cropping his land with potatoes which were an entire failure, was not liable for rent. A correspondent of the Times, states that it is intended to place the Wellington statue on a pedestal, in the area opposite the Horse Guards. Venison, imported whole from Hamburgh, was offering in Hull shambles, on Tuesday, at 6d. per lb. for the fore parts, and Is. for haunches. Owing to the recent dulness in the grain markets the bakers of Greenock have reduced the price of bread ; the 41b. fine loaf now sells at Bd., coarse 7d. On Thursday the price of potatoes fell in onr market from 2s. 4d. to 2s. per peck (of two stones), with a pro spect of a further fall in the price.—Greenock Advertiser. At Southampton, on Thursday, a fire destroyed entirely the extensive range of workshops, being the coach reposi tory of Mr. Jones, extending from Above-bar-street to the Spa-road. Professor Schonbien has been experimenting with his explosive cotton in mines in Wales, and it is said with tremendous effect, one ounce of the cotton proving equal to a pound of gunpowder. WHEAT SOWlNG.—Throughout the fens of Lincoln shire, the seed wheat has been got in, and with few excep. tions in a most promising manner, there never having been known a finer seed-time. On Monday evening a masked ball was giyen at Black heath-hill, near London, in a cavern 180 feet below the surface. In this ball-room 1500 persons assembled, an d kept up their amusements with spirit until day-break. The market for iron continues firm for cargoes in Wales, extensive contracts being offered for railway companies at home and abroad ; and in the Clyde prices are equally firm for pig iron, for the opening, in December, of the great markets of the United States. A bill will be introduced in the ensuing session of par liament for placing the tidal harbours of the kingdom un der a greatly altered and uniform management, as recom mended in the repor:s of the Tidal Harbours Commission. Copies of the proposed measure will be early distributed. THE LADY POACHER.—We hear that the information for poaching against the Duchess of Marlborough has been defeated on a technical noint of law. The statute, not looking to a violation of its provisions by females, only introduces the masculine gender " he," and therefore " she," the duchess, escapes its operation. SINKING OF A SCHOONER.—On Friday morning, a large schooner that bad arrived in the Thames offGravesend, by some accident stove a hole in her bottom, and bega❑ instantly to sink. The master and mate took to the boat and made for the shore, but the schooner and her contents sank. AN OLD FIAT.—A case is now before Mr. Commis sioner Fane's court in which the fiat is dated so far back as 1801. The bankrupts were merchants in the City. Most of the creditors are dead, but those who survive, as well as the representatives of the deceased, now claim a dividend, which has not yet been declared. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE Sir F. Goodricke killed last week, at Claremont, Nor folk, 2458 head of game, 1000 of which were pheasants. SALE OF LORD HOWTH'S HUNTERS.—The following hunters were sold last week at Tattereall's :—Albert, by Recovery, 710 guineas ; Glaucus, by Glaucus, 161 guineas ; Dahlia, by New Fashion, 155 guineas ; Jessy, by Felt, 125 guineas; The Abbot, by Young Sir Hercules, 60 guineas; 3 L 3 1 ver guineasnna n ; I) , iThe Prince,Liverpool, by y 0 Tyrantguineas , ; 32 0 g 1 invienre,aba . by Ishmael, TARLETON COURSING MEETING. This meeting came off on Wednesday and Thursday last. The follow ing are the returns of the deciding courses:—The Bank Hall Cup, for all-aged d ogs, was won by Mr. Craven's Clarina, beating Sir T. G. Hesketh's Hope; the Tarleton Puppy Cup was won by Mr. Smith's Smash'em, heating Mr. Banks's Fancy; the Hesketh Cup, for all-aced dogs, was won by Mr. Swift's Smuggler, beating Sir T. G. Hesketh's Herdman ; th e Bi rt hd ay S takes, for puppies, was won by Sir T. G. Hesketh's Hector, beating Mr. Wi Eames Cambridgeshire; and the Rufford Stakes, for all aged dogs, was won by Mr. Coupe's Clara, beating Sir T. G. Hesketh's Alice Hawthorn. THE CHASE Sir W. M. STANLEY'S - HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday), (to-morrow,) Nov. 25, at Friday, 27, at .. Gay ton Mill At Eleven o'clock The CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, (to-morrow), Nov. 25, at . Tatton Thursday, 26, at Saturday, 28, at Each day at Half-past Ten, except on Thursday, the 26th, when they will meet at Eleven. The WYNNSTAY HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, (to-morrow), Nov. 25, at Friday, 27, at . Saturday, 28, at At Half-past Ten o'clock STATE OF TRADE, Pradoe Halston Gate Malpas Moor MANCHESTER.—The business done during the past week has been very limited, much less than in any similar period since the beginning of October. An attempt has been made to effect a decline in prices, by giving currency to an averment that such had already taken place ; but beyond the fact that, since Wednesday last, there has been less done, and a feeling of dis quietude and apprehension produced, we believe no other con sequence has yet resulted from the effort used to break down the confidence of manufacturers. There has been only a very limited demand for printing cloth this week ; prices, however, have not been materially affected. Skirtings have continued to be in quiet and steady demand, at former prices. Yarns have been dull, and rates a shade lower have been taken to force sales. Those large orders for U.S., America, said to have been brought by the Britannia, have not yet found their way into this market. We quote to-day's currency as follows :-26-inch printing cloths, 64 reeds, at 48 4 d; 66 reeds at 43 6d to 4s 73d1 7-inch ditto, 66 reeds, at 4s Sd to ss; 72 reed ditto, at 5s 4irt to 2s 100; 36-inch shillings, 66 reeds, at 8s to 8s 6d; 62 reeds, at s gs to los ; 40-inch C 3. E. India Longcloths, 66 reeds, at 8s gd to 9s 3d ; and 72 reed ditto, gs lid to l).s p p..; good seconds, water twist. No. 20's, at Bd, No. Ws at gid, No. 40's at I2id per lb.; mule yarn, good seconds, No. 20's, at Bd, No. 30's at Sid, and No. 40's at gid per lb. The probability of a tighter money mar ket, combined with tiv. "short time" movement has had the market, effect of keeping speculators out of the Cotton which has exhibited symptoms of weakness, and holders have offered stocks more freely. ROCHDALE —We have had no improvement in the Flannel market today, either as regards prices or demand. The busi- ress done has been Very limited, and there is very little prospect of a speedy change for the better. On Wednesday last, the most extensive purchaser of Flannels in the Backwater market (Mr. Adam Livesey, of Manchester,) died. The absence of this gentleman was always regarded as a certain omen of a ba d market. Lases.—Tho Woollen trade still continues dull in this town and district; but there is little despondency felt by either mer chants gtehneeraselltytinegntienTfinthede that t o we e s h a ll i - have arevival onfotradepe are o n new year. The demand at this period of the year is generally very slack. BRADFORD.—WooI Market.—There has been more inquiry for Wool during the past week, which clearly indicates the diminished supply in the consumers' hands; and although there have been more lookers, we do not learn that any exten sive purchases have been made. The stock in the market is considerably reduc, d within the last two months, and the staplers find it impossible to replace their stocks with advan- tage to themselves. The country dealers are by no means free to sell at present rates, their stocks being bought by them at such prices as would Only entail a certain loss. Prices keep firm here. Yarn Market —The demand for this article continues to he of the same sluggish character as reported for some time past. The spinners have met this by very great curtailments in their productions, as most houses have either large quantities of machinery totally idle, or are runnin.; short time. Prices are so ruinously low, that spinners will not accumulate stocks, and present prices are firmly maintained. Piece Market.— We have no improvement to notice to-day; a general dulness prevails. The trade is far from being remunerative, and most part of the manufacturers are acting on the defensive. Heavy goods are in most request, but at such low prices as offer no inducement to increase the supplies. Prices remain steady. H UDDERS elEl.b. — The7e has been but little doing in the Cloth Hall to-day, and although there have been a good many buyers in the town there has not been mu..h doing in the warehouses. We do not think, however, that trade is worse, if so bad, as it was this time last year. HA LIFAX .—The general dulness of trade continues, and we have no change to report. Fewer merchants have been iu the hall to-day than for the last two or three Saturdays, and the amount of goods sold has been far from large. The manufac turers cannot replace the goods at the present prices; sad the sales that take place are chiefly made to avoid ruinous accumu lations in stock. In Yarns there is no change worth notice; but the spinners are curtailing their production, and as they re frain from buying, the stock of Wool in the market is diminish ing, the growers having no inducement to send further supplieS• LXICESTER.—The demand for goods is very dull, and especi ally so in the frame knit and straight-down branches; we hear of some manufacturers having stopped part of their machinery; Worsted is slack of sale, and the spinners have generally reducee , their prices id. per lb. from rates current a month or six week , since. In Wool but very few transactions have taken place, on terms a shade in favour of the buyer; but prices are remarkabil firm, considering the inactivity of the demand, the staplers b ing convinced that if they were to submit to lower prices for their stocks they would not be able to replace them at a coats . poncling reduction from the grower.