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1846. D BREAD EACH Le PROW , ri( will pro , ke SHARES• PENNY iD ECO 'ANY. No Share R, Esq . Piny pet' artures are may sq., Se- OMIC Der, 1, 1848. LIVERPOOL DOCKS TO Sgi-POWNERS, MERCHANTS, AND OTHERS, MASTER PORTERS, THE Committee of the Liverpool Docks DO I. HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the Persons whose Name's and Places of Business are mentioned underneath, having, in compliance with the provisions of the Dock Act of the last Session of Parliament, executed, with two sufficient Sureties, the Bond required by the said Act to be given to the Dock Trustees, are authorised to act as MASTER PORTERS, for Receiving, Weighing, and Loading off the Cargo of every Vessel arriving from any Foreign Port, entering and using any of the Docks or Basins of the Trustees, on the Quays of which no Warehouses are erected, in addition to the Master Porters whose names have been already published: — Mr. William France, 9 Temple-lane. Mr. Bartholomew Breen, 7, Mo Mr. William Joseph Myers, Exchab b Mr. James Bell. Mr. Edward Hart, Hatton-garden. Mr. Joseph Pater. Mr. James Harrison. Mr. James Browne, 26, James-street. Mr. William James Lamport, Fenwick-chambers Mr. Henry Cox, 1, Oldhall-street. Mr. Charles R. Taylor. North Messrs. Papayanni and Mussabini Mr. William Fisher, 5, Redcross-s Fenwick-chambers. REGULATIONS, The Cargo of each Vessel from any Foreign Port enteri: and using any of the said Docks or Basins, shall be receive weighed, and loaded off, by one set of Porters only, who sh, be in the employ, and under the direction and orders, of a of the authorised Master Porters. The Master Porters are required to act, as far as practicable 'in regular rotation. Every Master Porter, unon receiving Goods from any Vessel is required to give immediate notice to the owner or consigne( 'of the goods, and to proceed, without delay, in weighing and loading off the same, unless the Owner or Consignee of the Goods shall give notice to such Master Porter that the sonic Goods, or any part thereof, are to remain on the Quay ; and all Goods shall be loaded off, and removed from, the Quay within 48 hours next after the time in which the same shall have been landed. ace been removed And in case such Goods shall not aforesaid, the Dock Trustees may warehouse the same in an Warehouse, whether belonging to the Trustees or not, an such Goods may be detained in such Warehouse, as securit for all expenses payable to the Master Porters, and for a rents, rates, and expenses, payable to the Trustees, or to th Owner of the Warehouse in respect of such Goods, and for th payment of the Freight of such Goods, upon notice to detail the same for such Freight. Every Master Porter is required to receive such Vessel. Every Omner or Con may employ such Master Porter of the ( may think Any .Master Porter may be prohibited from acting, or con tinning to act, as a Master Porter, for such period and for suct cause as may render such proceeding necessary. Any Person acting as Master Porter in receiein, tc and loading off, or in employing or directing anyPorte r receive, weigh, or load off, any Goods, with ou t having. given tc the Trustees a Bond, with two sufficient sureties, will incur a penalty, not exceeding .. - 's9,'for every such offence. - Additional or substituted'persons will, from time to time, b( appointed Master Porters, 'as occasion may require. That no Master Porter actin.. in pursuance of and under the 1 undertake the re- powers and provisions of the ceiving, weighing, and loadir the Docks. entitled to the lar curring in such By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary Dock Office, Revenue Buildings, November 19th, 1846. • 10,000 souls, and out of about 1,500 able-bodied appli- LATEST INTELLIGENCE. cants for labour, little more than a third are now em (BY EXPnrcR ployed on publi c wor k s, at the miserable nittanef. a R EXCHAN E MAI pletion DEPOSIT OF PLANS AT PRESTO TON PIKE WATER SCHE The manifested of the b ath third of a n then rook whidt is stream taker Malting an, Grin 'mergency )vemher 26th o.ou opponent. ants stings his amour ) propre, and off he starts, on the instant, into personality, sometimes uttering, without adequate provocation, un endurable insults and aspersions on character. From that moment his speech, so auspiciously commenced, be comes a failure. His infirmity of temper once touched, he becomes an altered man. There is no longer vigour, ,• sense, argument, or even coherency, in what he pours forth. Yet he has not the discretion to stop. hot- ..,ASP. a long, rambling speech, full of feeble repetitions of what he has so forcibly put, or of offensive personalities, or outrageous defiance of the growing disapprobation of his hearers, until, at last., he fairly tires out their patience, arid his display, which, at his commencement, had brought him honour and respect, ends by his being co vered with ridicule and contempt.—Fraser's Contem porary Orators. cent. on the first cost of the article—the majority of whom are deprived of a sufficient quantity of this health preserving and savoury condiment. The salt of War wickshire contains only 12 parts of impurities to 288 parts of pure muriate of soda ; the common salt of Cheshire, on ly Hi parts; and ro c k sa lt, I 6 parts of impurities, out of 1000—while that manufactured in India, from the muddy shores, is black, filthy, and disgusting, and would not be recognised as salt by an Englishman, on its being first placed before him. The contiguity of the sea to our salt mines, enables our merchants to compete with any salt-producing country in supplying this article to any spot on the habitable globe. Our present exports are 11,000,000 bushels annually, employing shipping to the amount of 293.000 tons of dead weight ; and, if the duty on salt in India were only reduced to a more moderate sum, this amount would most probably be doubled. The United States of America manufacture a lurge quantity of excellent salt annually; and formerly, there was an impost on the admission of British salt of 400 per cent. As the population, however, increased, the production of salt did not increase with it ; and too wise to debar the nation of what they could not supply themselves, the tax has been so reduced, that 4,000,000 bushels are an nually imported into America from this country. We understand that no. fewer than nine memorials have been forwarded to the Indian authorities against the salt monopoly : they emanate from commercial bodies in Chester, Worcester, Blackburn, Manchester, and Liver pool. ;ion wit: h men who were ised above was obstructed LIVERPOOL.-1 am not acquainted with any seaport more worthy of being denominated a city than Liverpool, London alone excepted, for the ancient city of Bristol, the once celebrated " Queen of the West," and the second city in England, has long since fallen into con tempt ' • and though its port is a noble and safe o n e, s till its inhabitants have so befooled themselves, or allowed their authorities to do it for them, that their trade has been driven away, and the enterprising merchant, rather than be fettered by and mulcted in dock dues and harbour rates, and a variety of other vexatious and iniquitous imposts, which the old, oppressive, selfish, and execrable corporation managed to decree, have patronised Live-- pool, and made that which was a very few years ago a mere simple fishing village, the present great, powerful, and increasing town. No one can visit Liverpool without, i at a glance d ur i ng an h our ' s ram bl e th roug h i ts b usy an d magnificent streets, being fully convinced that British enterprise is, above all things, that which is most entitled to wonder and admiration. The skill, the energy, the wealth, which is there so constantly visi ble,—the vast riches that have accumulated and are accumulating,—the splendid edifices which it contains, devoted to religion, benevolence, science, commerce, &c..—}he beautiful gardens, rides, and promenades, for the eejoyrnent of the living, and the chaste, classic, and soul-in,piriti ng s h a d es f or th e re p ose o f the dead,—the host of merchant princes which it boasts, and the noble mansions which they inhabit,—the immense expenditure that has been devoted to the docks, and the forest of masts that fill them,—the daily and hourly arrival of ships from every quarter of the globe, from which articles of neces sity, taste, and luxury can be derived,—the sailing of ves sels to every point of the compass to which the produce of British skill, labour, and excellence can be wafted,—the flotilla of steamers that have annihilated space and brought the whole coasts of Great Britain within its grasp and in fluence, and then those quays loaded with their dense and lofty piles of merchandise, the concentration of the world's treasures, throwing into the most abject contempt all the accounts of the greatness of former places,—their com mercial character, general intellect, and capabilities, con vincing mankind that the th ews , s i news, m i n d , and deter mination of Englishmen are of more real value than the safe and positive possession of all the mines of Golcon !a, or the riches of ancient Ormus. —Memoirs of Paul Swan aton, p. 422. THE " EMIGRANTS' LARK." —TWO emigrants, a man and bis - wife, sailed from the Tower in the year 1834 on board a vessel bound for Quebec. 'A bird-catcher had promised to give the industrious pair, for a companion in their exile. a singing lark. The emigrants, however, had departed. and the bird-catcher had not kept his word. But the latter arrived with the gift at the Tower, a few hours after the ship had sailed, and he made his way as fast as possible to Gravesend. He overtook the ship, handed the bird from the gangway, shook hands with his friends, who christened the lark " Charley," for the donor's sake, In the gulf of St. Lawrence the vessel was wrecked, and all the property on board lost except " Charley," with whom—but with nothing in the world besides—the emigrants landed in Canada. They settled in Toronto, where the man, by name Patterson, gained a subsistence as a journeyman shoemaker. Outside the window of his small house a lark's cage was daily hung, and from its wiry front there issued notes that did much honour to the little throat that poured them forth. Passengers stopped, spell-bound, to listen to the English warbler; all men waited to listen, from the loyal governor to the most irreclaimable reformer. Three times was Patterson offered 100 dollars for the melodist, three times did he refuse the bribe. An old farmer offered 100 acres of land for him. A poor Sussex carter offered all be possessed in the world—his horse and cart. Patter son was immovable. He would not sell Charley. One morning, three years after be had quitted England, the owner of the bird was accidentally shot dead. The widow was ruined. She sold the pretty singer, and the governor, Francis Head, became the purchaser. Three months did Chatley hang in the conservatory of government-house, but not once did he open his mouth there. Either he mourned his master, or he was unhappy away from the smell of cobbler's wax. Leaving Canada, the governor presented the bird to Daniel Orris, a faithful loyal man, whose station in life was about equal to that of poor Patter son. Lo!—a wonder!—suspended again outside a humble __-. dwelling, the bird began to sing as exquisitely as ever. Such are the properties of this inv THE BANKS OF THE GANGES.—Doubtless most of ouraluable Specific that per readers have heard of the practi ce w hi c h o b ta i ns w i t h sons labouring under the moat distressing Rheumatism, Rheu matic Gout, and Lumbago, and rendered thereby incapable of natives of' Bengal in the disposal o f th e i r d ea d . T he assisting themselves, have been relieved in a few hours. custom among them is to carry the corpses of their de- The astonishing success which has crowned the application ceased to the banks of the Ganges, where they are de P o of this external Medicine in the mos t h o p e l ess an d d ep l ora bl e s i te d w i t h a ll d ue ceremony. On the rise of the river cases, when the unhappy sufferer had despaired of ever gaining these are carried away by its waters, and hundreds of even the least relief, and this after the ablest advice and ev ery be seen at a time floating justly en ti t l es on its surface, other means had co m pl e t e l y failed, it to the dead bodies may attention of the a ffl icted.and which are carried down by the stream into the sea. This excellent Medicine, so universally esteemed, is unat- The sight is said to be di sgus ti ng i n t h e extreme; some tended with the least danger or incon ven i ence , and hundred have experienced its happy and salutary effects s i nce i t was cables of the vessel s anc h ore d i n the river. Did the in- of the putrified car cases f requent l y resting against the first introduced. Sold by Pendlebury, Russell-street; Titherington, Oxford: habitants confine themselves to the deposition of none street; Hogarth, Great George-street; Fisher, Bold-street- but dead bodies on the banks, there would not be so much Coupland, Parker - street ; Gerrard, Oldhall-street ; Parkins on , cau se f or comp l a i nt; b ut it has often been found that New Scotland-road; Neal, Scotland-road; Simpson, Scotland- persons supposed to be at the point of death have been road, opposite St. Martin's ;HaMarket Mackow,"vauxhall-road; thus dealt with, and that in consequence many have died who would, had they been properly cared for, have Britten, corner of Dale-street and ymerket; Smith, Great re- Homer-street; Cox, Fox-street ; Gillard, Richmond-row; Low, covered. Many have been taken from the river •; but it Islington • Walker, London-road; Parry, Christian-street ; Wagstaff, Great George-place ; Priestley, Lord-street; Smith, would have been better far for them bad they died, for Woodside ; Price, Wavertree. they were turned out of caste, and refused admittance into their own homes, it being reckoned a sign of the (ADVERTISEMENT.) displeasure of the deity of the ri v e r th a t th ey h a d not died and been ingulphed in its str eam ! A not h er met h o d NEWS OF THE ORIENTAL.—Those who have not yet in practice of disposing of their dead b o di es i s b y incre visited the Oriental Divan, Clayton-square, should not mation. Hitherto the inhabitants of Calc u tt a h ave b een omit an opportutunity, for the arrangements not only permitted to btkrn their dead all along the ba n k s o f th e surpass those of every similar hotel, but the viands are of river. People at the point of death are brought to the the choicest kinds. An excellent steak, cut in the London river, and there left till they die, when they are burnt, style, with all the etceteras, is charged Bd., and it may be and their ashes thrown into the stream by their friends if finished with half-pint of splendid amontillado sherry, or able to afford it, or if not, they are allowed to lie on the fine flavoured port, for one shilling. This is but a single bank till carried away by the tide. In order to put a stop article, but others are charged proportionately low; in deed, so low and an excellent as to have called from the to such a murderous system, the Government have or local press the following notices : dered that the inhabitants shall di s p ose o f t h e i r d ea d at "The elegance with which it Is fitted, the promptitude and either of five " Ghats" set apart for the purpose, where neatness with which every thing is served up, render it the their proceedings may be watched by the poli ce . W e most fashionable restaurant."—Standard. copy the following remarks on the subject from the "The dinners and suppers cannot be ex ce ll e d f or variety, or Calcutta Ch r i s ti an Advocate of th e 19th u lti mo :—" W e lowness of charges."—Albion . have often referred to the subject of Ghat murders, and -It consolidates the reputation of the proprietor as a caterer to the propriety and importance of their su p press i on. for the public."—Mail- "Suitable to all classes — the wi n e is und e niabl e." — Times. Little, if any thine, has, we believe, been a tt emp t e d b y Connoisseurs in oysters are invited to taste the supply, the authorities. The difficulties arising out of religious received every morning fresh from London. Is. 6 d. per prejudi ce , an d th e ex te n t o f coun t r y over w hi ch the practice prevails, together with the difficulty of obt a i n i ng ' chargessOcrefa.Dinners every day from one to five o clock. Scale laid on each table Splendid private and evidence on which the murderers could be convicted, public billiard-rooms attached. have pr esen t e d an a l mos t i nsupera bl e b arr i er t o t h e com- J . FEENY, Proprietor. mencement of reform in this department ; we therefore bail any, even 'the remotest effort, tending to check a - ---sa _ _ practice so frau g ht w ith m i sc hi e f t o t h e peop l e. O ur con - SAGACITY OF Roods.—Rooks that are m uch shot a t, temporaries state that the authorities have determined like those at B ot i s h am , have t h e gre atest possible dread th a t fO r C a l cutta only five Ghats shall be used for burnin of a gun. oft en w h en wal ki ng i n the neighbourhood of th e d ea d o f the city. This may bring the evil within the g ' the trees, I observe they suffer me to approach within . a grasp of the p o li ce , an d , if they be on the alert, ena b le oertain dista nce w ith ou t t a ki ng f r ight, though they watch them to check th e p ract i ce. The many Ghats and ot h er ;my movements narrow ly ; or are not much disturbed as places at which the funeral - rites of the Hindus was per long as I continue walking on; but the moment I stop, formed, was one of ,the most formidable obstacles in the find put even a walking-stick to my shoulder, as if about way of the suppression of Ghat murders. Tils, to some to fire at th em , t h ey are off directly . and the distance at extent, and as far as Calcutta is concerned, has now been which this will , operate, often co - nsi'derably more than a remedied. This order should be extended all along the hundred yards, is quite surprising. It is also observable, banks of the Ganges, places should be set apart by the that wheat they would be frightened by any one walking government, to which the dying must be brought, and or stopping near the trees, they will often suffer a cart or proper officers appointed to watch the movements of the The Doctor, after laughing at a carriage to pass immediately beneath them, without d ea th p ar ti es , Thi s wo u ld at least be a check upon crime; disturbing him, told him that taking the le as t not i ce , a s if conscious that there was no and where such a sacrifice of life is concerned, surely the wave of the sea. " Oh, de vave danger to be app re hended from such a source. — Bev. L. funds and officers of justice could not be m ore h umane ly his coachman r e t urn w ith ou t a d Zeppn'fi o . oerpalianOn Natural History. or legitimately employed. Bombay Times. the Doctor. A SINGLE TOOTH FOR,FIVE SHILLINGS -- • 11TESSRS. COOPER and Co., SURGEON DENTISTS, IKIL 10, Slater-street, Liverpool, beg to inform theinhabitants of Liverpool and vicinity, that they are at length enabled of MAKE TEETH AVAILABLE TO . ALL CLASSES; their . . price for a Single Tooth being 55., whatever qiiantitYMaTbe required. This, they assure their Friends and the Public, is the full price of their best Teeth; and the price can only be increased by expensive mountings. _ _ The ineclianiC,al department is filial by first-rate workmen from London and Paris; and it is °My the immense quantity manufactured that enables them to fix their prices so low. All operations of the Teeth equally moderate. Filling . decayed Teeth with the Mineral Mamoratmn, 2s. fid. Artificial Teeth repaired, remodelled, and brought to their former shape and apjearance. they also fasten loose Teeth, particularly of aged persons, whether arising from neglect, the use sf calomel, disease of the gums, or any other cause. SCURVY IN THE GUMS EFFECTUALLY PREVENTED. Among the various disorders of the mouth, there are none more destructive than Scurvy, which, on first entering the gums, causes them to bleed on the most trifling occasions. A soft substance invariably a xumulates around the necks of the teeth, penetrating into the gums, which gradually waste away, and the Teeth then besome loose and drop out of their sockets, and it is well'known that the loss of Teeth arises more from this cause than any other ; in short, Scurvy in the Gums affects indivi duals of all ages and constitutions, and if not speedily removed, will be the primarycause of tooth-ache and decay. Messrs. CoorEa and Co. are happy to state that they have discovered a certain remedy for the removal of this distressing malady, Which, if used in conjunction with their VEGETABLE kNOYDONE TiNCTUWE, will entirely extirpate the complaint.— Price ss. THE MERCURY! VERSUS MR. RUSHTON'S COURT. Our contemporary of Friday, or rather a correspondent for him, has made the discovery that the business of Mr. Rushton's court is not so very satisfactorily conducted after all. "In the first place," be says, "all summonses for breaches of local acts are issued for half-past ten o'clock in the morning, and all witnesses against pris oners in custody arc ordered to attend court at the same hour. If the business commenced punctually at that hour, and was proceeded with continuously, there would, perhaps, be little to complain of, but, unfortunately, the magistrate seldom takes his seat at the time stated, and rarely, if ever, proceeds with the court business without interruption. It is said that he has public business to transact in his private room before taking his seat, but this, surely, is a very insufficient excuse for keeping the whole court waiting—professional men, witnesses, many of them poor and unable to sustain the loss of time, fe males taken from their families, and last, though not least, police officers, who have only had a few hours sleep after walking the streets for eight or nine hours during a dreary night, and are entered again for duty in the after noon. Again, parties who are in the habit of attending the court feel that the stipendiary is too much in the habit of leaving the bench to attend private individuals, instead of conducting the public business before allowing himself to be interrupted by -T aae many demands necessar il y ma d e upon his attention. he business of the court would be conducted with much more decorum and solemnity (if I may use so strong a word) were the cases proceeded with in a regular and systematic manner. Let the magistrate, like the judges, when on the bench, pay attention only to what is brougbt before him, and much time will be saved, and a great deal of dissatisfaction avoided." The same writer complains of the difficulty and loss of time experienced by parties attending for the granting of summonses, and, subsequently, for their hearing; and concludes by stating, that " The office of stipendiary magistrate of a borough like Liverpool is so important —the difficulty of any man placed in such a position giving general satisfaction is so great—that all cases of dissatisfaction, and especially those of routine, so easy of removal as the above enumerated, ought instantly to be doge away with. Depend upon it such a step would give general satisfaction," These are precisely the grounds upon which we advocate the appointment of a second court. The evils here pointed out can never be re moved by the adoption of any other course. Stories of the Crusades Attendance daily from Ten- till Seven any other House. No connexion with OBSERVE—COOPER AND CO., 10, Slater-street, next Door to the Bible Depository. Observe that the Signature of the proprietnr t "G. C. Serjeant," is written on the Gov : eminent Stamp. ERJEANT'S LOTION, the only effectual Remedy 1,1 against Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, Sciatica, and Lum bago. Sold by the Proprietor, G. C. SERJRANT, No. 1, Lo velPs-court, Paternoster-row, and 2, Bell-yard, Temple-bar, London; and by all Venders of Medicine. Price 2s. 9d. per Bottle. Amongst many which are being daily received are the follow ing testimonials : Well-street, Cripplegate. SIR, have been several weeks confined to my bed by Gout and Rheumatism, not a part from my head to my feet free from pain, and as helpless as an infant : not even a finger could I move. In this unpleasant situation I was informed by my me dical attendant he had applied all the usual remedies, and that I might remain months in my deplorable situation. Fortunately your remedy Wief; made known to me, or I might have been to this day confined to my bed. After a dose appli cation of four days, my troublesome companion began to dis appear; in a week I was capable of walking about my room, and by another week's perseverance in the use of your ➢ledi cine was enabled to leave Loodon. Fearful of another attack, you will please to send six bottles.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, D. W. STONE. 4. Paternoster-me. "SlR„—Having been informed of the surprising cure of Mr. Barnes, of St. Paul's Churchyard, who was so severely afflicted by Rheumatism, the intense pain causing delirium, that he was compelled to be confined by a strait waistcoat to prevent his committing any violence, and whose case was considered en tirely hopeless, I was induced to ascertain the particulars, and being satisfied of the truth of my information, encouraged me to make a trial of your most invaluable Medicine, entertaining little hopes of success, having been many years so severe a suf ferer, and tried many said to be very valuable remedies. lam very happy in being able to add my testimony of the benefit I derived: after a few days' application the use of my limbs are perfectly restored, and I am now able to attend my business, nd, making an allowance for my age, never was better in my life. To those however severely afflicted and hop e l ess their case may have been pronounced, I beg of them to make a trial, feeling quite satisfied they will be restored to the use of their limbs, from the severe cases that have yielded to this Medicine. Health is a great blessing to those who can enjoy it, but to hose who are deprived, none feels it so severely as the trades man or mechanic, as it generally causes loss of business, and brings ruin on families. I shall at all times feel it my duty to make it known to those afflicted, to evince how grateful I am for my restoration, and am, Sir, yours truly, MEETING IN BEHALF OF THE DESTITUTE IRISH POPULATION. —Last night, a meeting was held at St. Joseph's school-room, chiefly of the labourers on the Liverpool, Bolton, and Bury railway, for the pur pose of showing their own disposition to contribute their respective mites towards relieving their fellow country men in Ireland, of all denominations, from their present distress for want of food. Mr. Wilcock, head engineer of the line, presided, and spoke feelingly on the question. Several persons engaged on the line, chiefly workmen, spoke in a feeling manner. Some subscriptions were given in the room. A deputy from the further end of the line stated that what was done here would be followed out there by all the workmen, and it was finally agreed by resolution that eac h man s h ou ld g i ve one day's wages to the charity. Mr. M'Cormick, the head contractor, who bad, it appeared, started the pro ject, was appointed treasurer, and a vote of thanks was passed to him and t 3 parties not connected with the line, who had contributed to the fund. Glioitoß POLLARD. I October 20, 1844. 14, Belmont place, Wandsworth-road, Oct. 26, 1844. Sia,—l feel in duty bound to acknowledge, that after suffe.- ing acute pains from Sciatica , or severe Rheumatic a ff ec ti on i n the hip-joint, and being deprived of rest, I was persuaded to try your embrocation, and have the pleasure to say that after three applications 1 was restored to my usual health ; and, al though two years have passed, I have no return of the disorder. —I am, Sir, gratefully yours, EDWARD NOYES. ST. ANDREW'S DAY.—Yesterday, being the anniver sary of the birthday of the patron saint of Scotland, a very large party of "brother Scots," as on many former ' like occasions, celebrated the day by a dinner at Mr. M'Kenzie's, the " Caledonian Hotel," Lower Duke street. The tables were fairly loaded with most excellent viands, &c., and the liquors were of the best quality. Atter the dinner, speech, song, and sentiment, kept th e delighted c ompany i n a " roar ," and the kindly na ti ona l feelings that were reciprocated, flashed to the hearts of all present—reminded of their native A t T h e e E m s o ._ un T ta i i i n e and r r t i l v i e a I ll s oo o d f . " potatoes in a Land of brown h ea th and shaggy wood, FOREIGN Lan P d O o r f London from abroad during the past week have com prised the following :—The Gypsy, from Jersey, brought 45 tons, the produce of that island ; the Ruding, from Oporto, 10 baskets, of Portuguese produce ; the Johns, from Rouen, the large quantity of 135 tons, the, growth of France ' • the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, 20 baskets, of Dutch produce; the Faith, from Rouen, 105 tons, of French produce; the Charles, from Gravelines, 50 tons, also of French produce ; the Perseverance, from Dunkirk, 14i tons. the produce of Normandy ' • the Ocean, from Rotterdam, 4 hampers, 6 baskets, a n d 12 bags, of Dutch produce; the Rob Roy, from St. Petersburgh, 225 bags, the production of Russia ; the Sir Robert Peel, from Rotterdam, 6 bags, of Dutch produce; and the Artemus, from St. John's, Newfoundland, 10 barrels, the growth of that British province of North America. It will be observed that this list of the principal arrivals during the past week compris's j•-‘ !ifs from France, Holland, Russia, Normandy, l's.rtugal, and the Channel island first-mentioned, and from which latter place we have received parcels of the vegetable on former occasions. Of them, those from France are especially noticeable on account of their extent, and the individual importation from Russia on account of its increased extent, and from Portugal owing to its partial or entire novelty. Wi t h respect to the arrival from Newfoundland, we are not aware that a similar one has before taken place, and, although trifling in quantity, the importation, on account of its novelty, would appear to possess a considerable degree of interest, and to be worthy of particular and I separate notice. HANDEL.-Dr. Morel!, who urnished Handel with the poetry of many of his oratorios, related to Mr. Taylor, that one fine su mmer morning, he (D r . Morel!). was aroused out of bed at five o'clock by Handel, who came in his carriage a short distance from London. The Doc tor went to the window and spoke to Handel, who would not leave his carriage; Handel was at that time composing au oratorio. When the Doctor asked him what he wanted, he said—" What is de meaning of d e vor d bill ow? " (which was in the oratorio the Doctor had written a rough estin. the re wit, choice expressions, and great knowledge of facts, and of the subject it displays.—Your ob-dient servant, W. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, —I beg leave to represent to the English public so bil dre ason fOr misery and meant a I Handel, 1 g another Wave—a and bade ants of this large and populous parish at total destruction of their sol e means of re plunged by t subsistance—t 3 mote part of t iulation of near word to potato. The parish is situate in a very re province of Connaught, containing a pop, :he he he was hel( improved rate is difficult to q extensive parish, nor even a resi u ,.._ that it SMITHFIELD 1 - of ten miles round me, to assist in any case or The weather being favot I am quite sure I need say no more in order tendance of buyers good, th Ate the kind feelings and sympathy of the humane in the currencies obtained ( haritaf le. at which a good e ' er .-- ' The dro‘r^- W. TYNDALL, A.M Rector and Vicar of Kilmatigue, a; nd Rural D ;jocose of Achonry of En B With Sheep we we P.S. Any communication to the writer Clare, Ballymote, county of Sligo, Ireland, gratefully acknowledged. directed, " A I t shall be most Calves moved a s dear. IpeEp gmEN-Eep This building, which has excited much public ad ng toward ~,. 6 m u Ll4ll, ' surrounded by numerous well-wooded ansiona, ,ges, and cottages, is at once beautiful and ap prlate ; and the spire, although not yet completed in ower embellishments. i s nlrearty sa ___,,- noon: and undulating landscape. to proceed, yestero,_ and, surroune.ed as she is with -PrOri'ficm'fi‘sihuitniugi s c o a m st e a , shadow upon our path, would render it more irk- Edward 111. and leave it more open to the insidious attacks of 'We cannot but express our admiration of this specimen sorily to examine the t. grounds, she is actually obliged to resort to England and doubt, as to the reality of God's goodness; yet it would of church architecture. The spire is one of the most Clerk of the Peace, prio. Newfoundland for salted codfish, an indispensible article not therefore, as might be easily shown, obliterate the beautiful in the diocese, in proportion and delicacy of Parliament, and to give, it for the fast days of the people. The following extract line of our duty, or justify us in pausing in our course, outline. The interior, for fine perspective, with the deep project. Every facility a wall convey a clear idea of the effect of this impolitic tax : more than now, when the Divine economy is for us so chancel in the vista, is admirable. The: s roof (an open Gorst and Birch he , wb —" The salt works (says Townse n d, w h o wrot e about 80 happily reversed. It calls, however, for no refined exer- one) is a most skilful 1 iece of carpentry, entirely original, sections of this heavy and - years ago) yield a considerable revenue. These were &se of abstraction to conceive a relation as existing, be- and combining strength, lightness, and economy with ec- graphed in a most perhps,n dashed with a bold vigorous hand into the formerly considered as private property ; but in the year tween religion and unhappiness, between the fulfilment of clesiastical characterand beauty. The church is built of the featly impossible to r very core of the subject, holding the real question at issue 1348 they were taken by Alonzo 11., and in 1564 Phillip duty and temporal misery, a relation that will be found best red freestone, and of good workmanship throughout. lowing brief review up, for the first time, to the attention of his audience, 11. seized them as part of his demesne. The chief of tacitly, if not expressly, assumed in almost every system Kneelings are provided for 800, and the benches are fitted cleared of all the fallacies infused into it by previous them are in Andalucia, Valencia, Catalona, and Majorca. of false religion which from time to time has held vomi t up with Honduras mahogany, having sloping backs. speakers. To ali appearance he is carrying the House The sait works of Matra, in the kingdom of Valencia, nion over the minds of men. This is the predominant and terminating with ornamental ends ; combining all pith him. Repeated cheers hail his terse and well- would easily furnish 1,500,000 of fanegas, of about 100 lbs idea, round which all their minor considerations and the good points of ancient accommodation with mo pointed propositions, and his presumption is forgotten in the able exposition he makes of his case. But, suddenly, he says something which provokes an ironical cheer, or a weight, which, could they find a market, would, at 22 teas the fanega, make £330,000 per annum ; but, by rais ing the price, they have lessened the demand, so that the whole amount of the kingdom is only about two-thirds of details group themselves, as round a centre. How widely dern comforts, no invidious distinction being made do they differ in this respect from the spirit of that teach- between the free and approprited parts of the church. ing which said, ' Come unto me, all ye that labour and It struck us, however, on our cursory visit on Saturday what one work a l one m i g h t f urn i s h . are heavy lad en , an d I w ill g i ve you rest. Take my yoke that there was a deficiency of light especially in tea upon you, and learn o f me: f or l am meek and lowly of portion of the building in which the clergyman will hay The effects of the t a x on t hi s necessary of life and heart ; and ye shall find res t unto your sou l s. For my to officiate, the two windows in the north and s, health in I NDIA we h ave on numerous occasions adverted to—it is totally i n d e f ens ibl e even as revenue, because we yoke is easy, * and m a y burd en* i s light.'*" * seats being, w e conce i ve , i nsufficient, leaving roof apparently co ld an d g l oomy. We also observer: ma have before show n th a t it b r i ngs to the company no re- Whether we shall live again a ft er d ea th, was , when 1 the whole of th e w i n d ows were contram,..l: ~,. - •• venue at all—all they ga i n i s a pos i t i ve loss; while the „,„w-ion hart not n., ‘,..t- 1- , -- .....0.. ~ r - ' `-• - ' • ' zany points in the s urroun di ng r i c h Ui tiny uetait ea course of the. Sanitary C The style is the dec orate d of more adequate supp' The project can worth in the to Blackbur oy an e Roddlesworth reser AboutthirteetTCL;i; formeJacross a ;;;Wernarm o up the water, forms a reserve Reservoir, from the name of a It is also supplied by a sma Twistmoor-house. The Rake s, that the I reservoirs will b e j o i ne d b y a • , uth tran . the lofty roximitv we have enumerated amorg the number) of 1 (or, at 10 acres per mile, 12,500 acres) there we Railway zou trines Itx lußs. PHILLIPS'S ENTERTAINAI paid for lady, it will be seen, gives another_ frillraPlll_ _____ •• -ere end of the Rake-bi. . .......,fiCa 5 or tneir genius and their now sombre hue of the walls will hereafter be super- wall be in close p. vast powers of thinking. With such it was an earnest seded (when the funds will permit) by ► light and brilliaat from Preston to Bolton, ilt employment to find out reasons, and to excogitate argu- Mosaic work, as contemplated in the first instance, which, The line of gut or aqueduc, ments, and to weigh probabilities in favour of that which it is stated, will entirely obviate the defect we had as. " Abbey Mills," when a small s,. they fondly hoped might still be true. Yet even to sinned. An arrangement has been made for the position mile and a quarter from the comence nt of the v those who had most strenuously fought for this hope, of the organ in accordance with ancient custom. It is to pass in the township of Withnell, ' Withne w h o battled with doubts, refuted objections, computed be placed in the north east angle of the church, entering fro m whence a small stream is diver d. At probabilities, exposed cavils, and silenced gainsayers, from a portion of the chancel to be appropriated as the mile, in the township of Wheel i, the there was no assurance of the hope that was in them; but choir,—a suggestion made, we believe, by the much re- through one of two large lodges be' ing to • when the clouds of adversity brooded over, or when the spected and talented Rev. Thomas Mc. Gill, late curate call Hall Bleach Works," and 0 - the we hour of sorrow darkened their spirit, and hope melted of the Old Church, from whom the architect also re- they are supplied, and but a T istan , away like snow before the summer's sun, their bright ceived much valuable information in other points which cuts pass toed, the east of" 13 Hall and dazzling speculations, the employment of a happy he has ably carried into effect. again taking the water now us. is e leisure, faded away like those bright tints which gild the The windows, chiefly of two lights, have been glazed by ii s h ment. evening vapours in the west, to be followed by the leaden Mr. James Forrest, of the Old Haymarket. The tracery Near the boundary of the townsh. hues of hopeless grief and incur a bl e , desp on d enc y, leaving in the pointed arches is filled in with head s of the apostles, purposed to construct a waste wier. them harassed by fears, distracted by doubts, and tor- and with emblemsof the evangelists in the windows of the further down the valley, a brook, called the tured by apprehensions. Truly they lived as men without transepts. A fine oak-leaf-and. acorn border, executed in is made available, and another waste a hope ! This dreary feeling, this sense of unmitigated the primary colours, runs round all the windows, producing which connects with some lodges of w despair, pervades those writings which have come down a neat and pleasing effect, arid the whole of the glass-work " White Coppice " formerly bleach works. s z t a r r e k a , m to us, in which the loss of friends, of children, of parents reflects great credit on the artist. W e are of opinion, fore reaching the fourth mile, in the towns i s n ar c th is lamented. Nothing can be more touchingly beautiful, however, that in windows so comparatively small, the l e ed p i a n r t i o sh th o e f aci ß u o ed lt u o c n t - , le a - n iV d lc im or r s nothing of human composition more affecting, than those mullions and tracery are rather heavy,. and would have elegies, pervaded with the spirit of woe unutterable, of preferred these of much slighter dimensions, which would this is the ommencement of the hopeless, irremediable despair. For them there was no have admitted a greater volume of light, particularly GREAT ANGLAZARK RESERVOIR, future; and the past was but a dream—a vision, bright through the tracery, which appears to be rather too which is about (according to the plan) one mile and but transitory." dense, quarter in length; and connected with the water here di -- We have learned that designs for the three chancel posited are about eight or nine small streams, from tl Stories of Female Heroism. London: James Burns, 1846. windows were received from several eminent artists in eastern side, and two or three brooks, together with tl A most interesting work, the perus a l of which, we various parts of the kingdom, and that those selected as River Yarrow, (the water in which when we passed on th trust, will beguile the tedium of the winter evening by most appropriate were by Mr. James Balantyne, of Edin- North Union Railway yesterday. was extremely low.) many a fireside. burgh, the successful competitor for the royal commission This reservoir is formed by an embankment across V to decorate her Majesty's new palace of Westminster va ll e y between the townships of Heath Charnoek 5....,,0ti0n ....,,otion : James Burns. 1846. with stained glass. As these three windows are not yet township of Rivington ; and the present road .. in be ea. 1 vol. fitted in, we cannot offer an opinion upon the taste dis- deviated as to run across the embankment ; an arm of The enterprising publisher of this little volume has pl a y e d b y t h e artist,—who, by the way, is the author of a the valley on the western side will also have to be em f urn i s h e d the lovers of historical romance with a rich neat volume on painted glass, and of a very popular work banked to pen up the water. The next reser vo i r _r treat. The stories are only two in number, and are, of a different description, en titl e d th e .. Gaberlunzy'a Rivington Reservoir—is immediately below that a therefore, not of the bald, common-place sort usually met Wallet, written by Dot, and illustrated by Jot." Anglazark, and is nearly .two miles in length. with in books which bear similar titles. On the contrary, We cannot close this hasty notice without expressing is connec t by a gut, and is supplied b se , e they are well sustained romances, with much historical our high opinion of the talent of the architect Mr. John brooks. At the commencement of the tow y nsbir information combined with romance—such "stories," in Hay, of this town, under whose directions this. ork has Anderton an embankment is made across aw' fact, which, before the appearance of the Waverley series, progressed towards completion so quietly and unas- branch of the vale, and another of some length will have and of the productions of the host of Sir Walter's imi- Burningly. It is in itself a specimen sufficient to redeem to be constructed a little lower down. At the mein em tators, would have placed the author in a very prominent this great commercial town from the imputations of igno- bankment connected with this reservoir, which is across position in the world of letters. We shall endeavour on ranee and want of taste in ecclesiastical architecture, the valley in the township of Horwich, there is a tank, a a future occasion to give a few extracts, to enable our generally thrown upon modern church builders, waste water weir, and four filter beds. From these filter readers to judge for themselves of the author's style. The church, we learn, will be opened for divine service beds, which miles rise of are eight from the in January next. CORRtI SPONDENCE. the main pipe s commence. O ver the centre of the Riving ton reservoir an embankment will have to be thrown to c z nsive,- , :t g rw iticjit TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR D. Ea provide for the d ev i at i on o f a road from Rivington. At cs. • TOWNSHIP OF TRANMERE. aelsi39. Anderson mill, ab ou t h a lf a mile below the filter beds, the River Douglas crosses the lines of pipes, but is and viously made available in the Rivington reservoir and an "Wheel about and turn about, &c., Jim Crow." We visited this new place of worship (on the West extensive stream that joins the Douglas below is diverted "We understand they (the promoter of the district lighting) 9 froth the magnanimously passed resolutio ns t o li g h t and watch t h em. Derb Road, and a short di s t ance fr village,) on i n t o it a l so. At about nine miles and a h a lf f rom R o ddl eg- selves, at the cost.of the township."—Chronicle, Nov. 13. Saturday, and were much gratified by a brief inspection of worth the piping crosses the Bolton and Preston Railway; ~ We candidly and frankly admit that it is proposed to rate its several parts. It is situated in the centre of a rapidly proceeding through Aspull to Hindley, the project only the residents in the distrust for the expense. " —C hronicle. Chronscle, improving district, which is becoming thick with princely crosses the Liverpool and Bury Railway, and being ear Nov. 27. mansions, and other tasteful rural edifices of minor dimen- tied through the centre of Hindlev , then over a bridge of SlR—Pray allow me a corner in your valuable paper. sions. It will consequently be accessible to a large popu- he Wigan and Lei h Canal, at about fifteen miles from It seem that " misunderstandings are the order of the lotion in the first instance, and is undoubtedly a great the rise the pipes o g re laid in cutting under the North day in s Trere," and that a Phoenix has risen to en- ornament to the neighbourhood, the handsome spire being u n i on Railway. At the seaventee oth mile the works lighten us on the subject, which he does in a very long conspicuous for miles around. pass through the town offs-i Mackerfield thence article in the Chronicle of Saturday last. That he is The building is in a transept form, of the earliest through the township oHad ir 'h of well qualified to do, being himself the author of the English style of Gothic architecture, of which Salisbury Stanley Hall, where they cross the e oc to the sout an . erroneous statement given to the public, and which he I Cathedral is one of the finest examles, It was in this proceed by St. Helen's, the four ncanalcEthnrr times,-(1 .:Id' re s d now contradicts " frankly and candidly." We are now ' style that that beautiful object, " the SPIRE " first pre- cot, both of which towns are left a little t', t a h h. - assured that the promoters of the district lighting and sented itself ; an d i ts a d option a t W est D er by i s one of After leaving the latter town, the pipes are too be carried a watching do not wish the township to pay for their lights the bold es t an d most grace f u l we h ave seen i n any modern considerable distance on the highway between this town and watchmen. What sort of frankness and candour his edifice. If say fault can be found with its fine propor- and Prescot ; and in this and all similar cases no lines of must be, we leave the public to form their own opinion of, tions it is th a t th e t ower a t th e have o f th e spi r e seems to deviation are marked on tbe plans, it not being intended when they are told that, at the commencement of the last be scarcely broad enough ; but this objection applies only to go beyond the width of the road. On arriving at the article, he in effect republishes what he afterwards so to some points of view, and as a whole it is a highly at- parish of Walton, the pipes pass on the highway "frankly" contradicts. tractive and elegant object. The height from the ground between Dovecot Farm and Westfield House, from The "hole and corner meeting" seems to vex him to the top of the spire is between 160 and 170 feet. which place they proceed to the present reservoir not a little; he should have used his influence, a n d h ave On enter i ng the i nterior of the c h urc h , a t ru ly pretty at Kensington ; but powers are being applied for, to prevailed on the overseers not to call a meeting "of effect is presented, by an . open roof well decorated—a enable the Corporation to construct additional reservoirs, those rate-payers only who were included within the spacious range of pews with low doors, and the elbows of and to enlarge the present one, so as to render it d district." But such a meeting having been each p ew ornamente d with t h e o ld poppy head—the aisles perfectly efficacious. The plans. however, chew four propose terminated by a beautiful recessed reservoirs, one of which would called by the overseers, the rate-payers within the district spacious —and the whole . . new contain about as t t o t h e notice ; they then demanded their re- chancel, with five lancet windows of painted glass, which, much water as the present one, and th e o th er th ree met pursuant quisition, which the overseer refused to let them have ; combined with the cormsponding side-lights, impart a severally about the quantity of both these united. The consequently they were obliged to read the printed one warmth and cheerful ness to the church, truly pleasing. extreme length of the works from the River Roddles whi nh the overseers issued, and then conduct the business The gables pf th e tr anse pt s ha ve lofty triple lancet worth to the reservoir at Kingstown, will be about of t h e mee ti ng i n the ordinary manner. As to its being a windows stained in a similar manner. The colours of the thirty-two miles and t wenty-six chains, twenty_fo ur m il es " hole.and- , aarner one, o n e " would imagine that the par- glass are, light, brilliant, and well harmonized, and the of which will be laid with Oillirir_ rri , ...••••-i----• •• __ __. ties in the " public room" knew something of it, from whole are introduced let° ea...Aran f,-..,,e. ..o .. .__ the fact of two of the leaders of the meeting held there work pattern, of proportions so slender as to give eac, having presented to the district one a demand of poll, window the appearance of a single sheet of beautifully signed by five rate-payers. How ridiculous, then, i s th e var i egate d g l ass. N o figures of saints or other persons pretence that the " cat was let out of the bag." The are i n t ro d uce d i n t h e g l azing, which presents a rich, mai- ` red - sue s Chronicle goes on to say, " they have carried their fo rm , an d s t r iki ng e ff ect, as of tessellated or Mosaic work - boundary line so as to include—that is, t o t ax — many i n - ill um i nate d . ..ce a , dividuals who will not receive any benefit w h atever f rom Th e pulpit and reading desk are simple in character but dtlabi/Low the measure, and whom it was never intended to seem to harmonize with the general style of the building. .sou benefit." This I most distinctly and indi gnan tl y d eny , A t t h e west en d is a small projecting orchestra supported and dare him to the:proof. Such i m p u t a ti ons as t h ese on b rac k ets, leaving the tower arch open. The pews are s DV' ought not to pass unquestioned, as there may possibly be most substantially built, of the best pine tinder, to be N o e , some base enough to believe them. I assert and challenge painted in oak. These, with sloping backs, etc so well 1 the strictest strictest inquiry as to the truth of the assertion that arranged, and comfortable, that scarcely one sitting in the the promoters of the district meeting were anxious to in- church is preferable to another. elude within their boundary those only who were willing The accommodation is for nearly eight 'hundred per to tax themselves for the purpose of being lighted and sons ; and galleries may be added, when required, for four watched ; and had the slightest notice been given to them or five hundred additional sittings. that the tenant of Prospect House did not wish to be in- This church, as we have already noticed, is built and chided within the boundary, he would have been left out. endowed at the sole expense ot ,Mrs. Thornton, of " The Unquestionably, some persons will derive less benefit Elms," West Derby, of whose munificence, and Christian from the lighting and watching than others ; but this is feeling it will be a lasting memorial. The architectural unavoidable, the district most have a boundary some- designs were by our talented townsman Mr. Welch. The where. But why have a district at all ?—it may be asked. painted glass was, we are informed, by Mr. Forrest, who has, For this reason :—The pro mo t ers o f th e measure having in thi s i ns t ance , b een em i nent l y success f u l . The church will tried to make the act general for the whole of the town- be opened in January next. It is built of fine red free ship last year, and having been defe a t e d, were anx i ous stone, the walls rusticated, with the exception 0, ,. the this year to avoid all opposition by choosing, as I have buttresses, window sides, outward decorations of the said, a district where the inhabitants were willing to tax tower, the spire, &c. themselves. I may add, that the line originally contem plated, Was the one which the writer in the Chronicle ad mits he "should have had no reason to complain of," and it was only changed at the last minute, on information being received that it would be opposed. The writer in the Chronicle has further proved, perhaps unwittingly, that be can not only find his way home, but also write in the dark; fur had he known anything of the subject on which he writes, he would be aware that the promoters of the district lighting, &c., could not tax the rest of the township even had they wished ; and also that had he at tended the meeting " and represented to the promoters of the proposed measure the injustice, &c. of their plan, and endeavoured to induce them to modify it, &c.," they could not do so, however anxious they might have been. The writer is excessively facetious on the subject of what he calls lighting the" centre of the pool," he may perhaps raise a laugh, but 'tis a pity those who made the centre of the pool the boundary of the township are long since dead ; so that the sting of his wit is unfelt. Perhaps your contemporary, e Skilled to seek out and create new flaws, And make the worse appear the better cause," to imitate his doggrel, may yet discover that the honour of the press cannot he supported by - 'misrepresentations," arising either from design, or ignorance, or both—th a t personalities and base insinuations, such as "swindling," do no harm, and overshoot their mark. In conclusion, I cannot help expressing my opinion, that the Chron'cle would have better pleased the public statement that could not have been " misunder by a plain stood," than by his ingenious romance, notwithstanding -finee • f Whe Abou esters dm ane vanabt and a note on the plans deposited states tha m t it is a intendt to take all brooks, streams, and rivers which flow into c upon the sites of the reservoirs. The gradients are by 7 means easy, and the cuttings and embanking, though singly extremely heavy, are very numerous. The p cipal streams made available_ ar. Yarrow, and the Douglas. au4 they drain is about nineteen miles square PLANS DEPOSITED UP TO EIGHT O'CLOCK L. North Western Railway—Skiptop, &c., Diver Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Juncti war. T NIGH London and Ncrth-Western Railway —Li Station Extension, and Crewe Station Extensio London and North-Western Railway—Brans viations, and Extension of Liverpool and M District. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway. Extension of Peel Pier. Additional Railway at Kirkscar Bay, in Poulton. Liverpool. Manchester, and Newcastle - upon -Tyne Junction Railway. Manchester South Junction and Altriugham Railway —a Branch in Salford, from the London and North- Western Railway, to join the Manchester, Belton, and Bury Railway. Fleetwood, Preston, and West-Riding Br !tes. Junction— here ,ranc, SALE OF CADETSHIPS.—The grand jury have returned Manchester South Junction and Altringhatn Railw a true bill for a misdemeanour against John Charretie, Branch to join the Bolton and Bury Railway. James Rallett, Ann Stewart, and Sir William Young, Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway. Bart., a director of the East India Company. The first Rochdale Water Works. three are indicted as principals, and the latter as aiding D arwen W ater W orks. assisting, and in the sale of a cadetship in the East India Li verpoo l C orporation Water Woeks. Companys service, contrary to the provisions of the 49th Lytham Water Works. George 111 , c. 126.—Atlas. Huddersfield and. Manchester Railway and Branches. RAILWAY TAXATION.—The last returns of the follow- Ditto ditto other Branches. ing leading railways for the second half-year of 1846, give St. Helen's Canal and Railway. the following comparisons and results, in round numbers : Fleetwood, Preston,and West Riding Junction Railway —London and North Western, 350 miles, with a capital Burnley and Colliery Branches. or cost of £13,000,000; gross receipts, above X 1,000,000 ; Branch from East Lancashire Railway, near Burnley, dividing •to shareholders, £543,929; paid £21,425 for to join the Burnley Branch of the Manchester and Leeds local rates and taxes, and £24,582 for the government - Railway at Burnley. duty of five per cent. on p assengers , b es id es property tax, London and North-Western Railway—Ormskirk and income, stamps, &c., being equal to about 9 per cent. on Rainford Branch ; St. Helena and Rainford Extension what the shareholders divided for rates and duty. Great and Deviation; Black Brood Branch ; Iluyton, Pr - cc:cot, Western, 222 miles; capital, £8,000,000; gross receipts, and St. Helens Deviation. £496,000 ; divided to shareholders, £301,807 ; paid St. Helens and Runcorn Gap £15,030 local rates, and £14,748, government tax, besides, Preston Brook Collie; v Branch. &c., equal to about 10 per cent on the shareholders' profit. Deviation of North-Western Railway. The Midland Railway, 178 miles ; capital, 7,250,000; Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction R gross receipts, £324,000 ; divid e d to shareholders, way—Deviation, Branches, and Station a t BirkerJ. £.170,200 ; paid £7,130 for rates , an d £6 , 645 f or govern- Manchester and Leeds Railway—Branche. ' went tax, besides, &c., or 8 per cent on dividend. The wood Extension Branch. Manchester and Leeds, 81 miles; capital, £3,750,000; Stockport Manorial Tolls and 13 gross receipts, £153,000 ; 1,000,000 nassengers ; divided Manchester and Soutlip , -- - among shareholders, £86,470, after paying £4,414 local Oldham Alliance Railwt rates, and £3,464 duty, besides, &c., or 10 per cent. On Manchester Waterwork Widuess Branch, and a final entertainment, on Vi she will introduce some Irish ballad music, and meta tax on passengers, besides income-ta tax, stamps, Sze. Estimate that for a year £152,000 and 146,000 for these 12 railways propriy (I we hay 1 the present railways at double that length of miles, eir,es fund of anecdot e anu 2.500 miles, or 25,000 acres, paying about 96 times more torical descripti ons w hi ch shi. as many three-pences than agricultural l as railways do pounds f or th e same and, mills, or other property, w hi c h pay and charact ers i ntroduced are %. , ry instructive, whil s t h er iii a ging of extent of land to the local taxes, &c. ON ,_ a the songs themselves is very excellent. Wt for a crowded attendance at this concert. 1 the v VARIETIES. Among 3,125 who die ; it appears by the register that there is only one person of one hundred years of age. The following account of the termination of a duel is aken from an Irish paper of last month :—" We regret to say that the unfortunate gentleman was shot through the chest : his antagonist fired in the air." Who shot the wounded man ? MUSIC OF NATURE. — Gardiner, in his Music of Na ture, has put into notes the songs of twenty-four birds and twenty animals. Also about twenty expressions of human passion and feeling, and tones of eight or ten in sects. The gnat gives the note A on the second space. The death-watch calls in B flat, and an answer in G. The three notes of the cricket are in B. The buzz of a beehive is in F. The wings of the house-fly are Fin the first space. The humble-bee is an octave lower. The cock-chafer is F below the line. OBSERVANCE OF THE LORD'S-DAY.--Mr. Raikes, in his just published Life of Sir Jahleel Brenton, mentions that when in Paris, in 1833, the King of the French made an appointment with Sir Jahleel to see him on Sunday. Sir Jableel returned for answer that it was with great re gret that he could not obey the summons of his Majesty, as that day he regarded as sacred, and always devoted it to other objects. Louis-Philippe returned for answer that he appreciated the motive for declining his invitation, and made an appointment for a week-day. CA USE OF MR. ROEBUCK'S FA ILURES,AS A SPEAKER. As he is an intemperate man, liable to be drawn by tha slightest interruption away from his main theme into per sonal altercation, he is still more open to the risk of not being able to preserve that self-possession which is abso lutely necessary to an accomplished orator. An almost necessary consequence of this reliance on resources which are not always at command is, that Mr. Roebuck, how ever well informed he may be upon a subject, or however strongly he may feel upon it, is just as likely to break down as to achieve a success. We have known him to rise at the most critical and exciting period of a great de bate, when he has i n t ru d e d hi mse lf on the attention of the House, to the displacement of the heads of either party, when there was, perhaps, a general feeling that 1:e was presuming too much thus to stand in the way of a political manifesto or of a division. But still an indul gence had been extended to him because of his original position. He has availed himself of the opportunity thus afforded tin,• • •• • • • THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SALT MONOPOLY RI DIT ANCE, SPAIN, AND LITERARY NOTICES (From the Mining Journal.) A Sermon, preached in St. Augustine's Church, on Sun- The monopoly over the manufacture of salt, maintained . day, November Ist, 1846, on the Death of the Rec. Dr. by the Government in FRANCE, which increases the price Tattershall, D.D. By the Rev. James Booth, LL.D., to the consumer 200 per cen t., h as f or several years caused F.R.S., M.R.I.A. in a general outcry among all classes of the community, who We have already given a short extract from this dis- u! consider it one of the most prejudicial that an industrious course, but did not receive it last week in time to notice families to my certain can only people can be oppressed with. Numerous petitions, ses- it further, and by this time it is probably in the hands of ° . knowledge,y sion after session, have been presented to the Chamber, most of our readers. The reverend preacher (who was I " ma " ' by free-trade Peers and Deputies, emanating from the lately the vice principal of our Collegiate Institution) procure one scanty meal in the day, and that often com leading interests of the kingdom ; notwithstanding which, selected his text from the thirteenth verse of the 4th posed of cabbage or nettles, mixed up with mill-dust. and the many promises made by Government, that a mo- chapter of the Ist Thessalonians. The object of the I also beg leave to state, that all this accumulation of dification of these duties should take place, no reduction yet made ; and it would app ear th at t h ey cannot bear sermon is, in the revel end preacher's words, "to briefly distress is borne with the utmost patience and r es i gnat i on , is point out the influences and tendencies of religion as re- and, whilst some other parts of th country are marke to give up th e revenue ar i s i ng f rom t hi s i mpost, although gards this life merely." Amo ngs t th e most remarkable turbulen , ceati . tl disorder, this district is remarkable for d ' bs most injurious to every bra nc h o f i n d ustry. T he greatest and striking effects which confessedly arise fro m th e peat , 0 - - sufferers are, perhaps, the cu rers o f fi s h. Th e N ewfound- noon And wh en I st land fishery h as , o f l a t e y ears , b een a source of profitable spreading influences of Ch r i s ti an i ty are enumerated,—tlu .. resident in the enterprise to French industry, b u t i s sa dl y cramped by gradual cessation of sang u i nar y war f are, an d the growing -t maeistrate withit. this monopoly; and the Ch am b er o f C ommerce has ad- sway of maxims of int e r na ti ona l po li cy so w i dely differing from those of heathen times—the enlarging and expand dressed a memorial to the Ministers of Commerce and t he the kindly affections of our nature, and the action of Finance, with the object of obtaining permission to use the same principles in silently but surely effecting o ne to salt during the season of 1847; the object being abolition of slavery. The reverend gentleman then con to employ salt from the ports of Portugal, which can be trasts, in pointed language, the sentiments and feelings of obtained for 10s. sd. per ton ; while, in France, it costs those who have had no hope in affliction, with the conso 40s. At present no notice has been taken of this memo . lation of those who " sorrow not even as others which rial ; but the Minister of Marine has announced, as usual, have no hope," and applies the whole to the melancholy that he should be ready to receive contracts for 200,000 circumstances in which the congregation was placed. tons of salt, to be delivered at the port of Brest. Salt is The arguments in the sermon, as well as its diction, annually getting more and more scarce in France, and the are very creditable to the scholastic attainments of Dr. greatest exertions are required to keep up a supply equal Booth. to the demand, even at the present exorbitant prices. We give the following extracts : Some rumours are afloat, of the probability that the tax "It is manifestly a conceivable state of things, that will be greatly reduced in the next session, and the im port duty o 4 British and Belgic salt repealed—the Minis- obedience to the commands of God, and compliance with tii his will, should be attended with term ihappiness ; Ti ter of Commerce w i s hi ng t o s h ow some signs of attention to petitions so respect a bly an d numerous l y signed. that a course of well-d o i ng s h ou ld b e accompanied by an, SPAIN also has sever e ly su ff ere d an d st il l suffers from mental disquietude; and that, i n s h or t, t h e consequences vil' which under the present constitution of things almost pri the royal monopoly of the manufacture of salt ; through uniformly follow from sin, should be, by some inscrutable i' it a considerable portion of the fish of the Atlantic and design of Providence, connected with the fulfilment re Mediterranean is entirely lost, which, in a Catholic coup_ duty. Such a constitution of nature, although it try such as Spain, would add amazinplv t. rh. —.4,__, food ; quietness of the poor. And when I state tb is not one land-proprietor resident in this laree ai poral ur - - r • 4 , K4 1.11 ay, winch, fr om the high ice of rovisions in till ets, is not su ffi cient to m aintai n and clothe on( )er of a family. lam alitiost unwilling to tax the lity of the benevolent English public, or to harrow millers. At tni eir feelings, by attempting to describe the way in which met a at( the poor around m e are en d eavourinff A• • LONDON CO It ICE, NsoN rmitf