The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-03 00:00:00

~. _. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1853. THE WEEK. WITH almost all public interest centered upon the doings in Parliament, where the important question of the reduction and imposition of Taxes is still under discussion, other subjects lose their influence upon the public mind until the fate of the Budget having been set at rest, attention may be turned to other matters. The Conference on Mercantile Law took place on Friday, and, with the exception of those from Manchester, the deputies agreed to a resolution affirming the advantage and necessity of establishing local tribunals for commercial questions, such as we advocated last week. The recommen dation of the Manchester deputies to substitute system of arbitration, is a mere offshoot from the crotchet of the Peace Society about international arbitration ; but the good sense of all the other members of the Conference prevailed, and Man chester was left alone in her glory. Some difficulty was raised as to the unwillingness of the Legislature to sanction a peculiar jurisdiction, which might afford a precedent for other interests demanding a similar privilege; but there is surely a vast differ ence between the commerce of Great Britain, to which, for-extent and importance, history knows no parallel, and any other interest ; though, in the instance of Shipping, it is provided _for by the Admiralty Court. The Council meeting, announced for to-morrow, will, no doubt, be interfered with by the much greater attraction of the race for the Chester cup, and some of our Radical contemporaries are already angry in anticipation that our Town Councillors should share in a recreation which will be enjoyed by many thousands. They may, however, safely leave the question to be decided at the Roodee, at Chester, where they will meet with more of their constituents than they would find in Liverpool, and the verdict would be sure to be in their favour. All honour to the House of Lords for vindicating their own reputation and maintaining the Christian character of the Legislature, by throwing out the Jewish Disabilities' Bill, on Friday, by a majority of 164 to 115. We may entertain the highest regard for our Jewish fellow-subjects, and believe, with the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, that they are destined in good time to become the sovereigns of the human race ; but so long as the laws of our country are based upon a recognition of Christianity, the Jews would be in a false position as Legislators, and few of them, we think, have any ambition to be so du biously distinguished. The negotiation as to the purchase of the Birken head Docks by the Liverpool Dock Trustees has not yet been brought to a conclusion, the repre sentatives of the property having to consult with their co-proprietors as to the amount to be asked as purchase money. We again repeat that it is much to be regretted if any extreme notions on either side interfere with the carrying out of the proposed transfer. Birkenhead will have much to gain by the Dock property being placed under more efficient management, without the :'necessary losses from competition ; and Liverpool must also gain, as she is in want of Dock accommodation, and has no available space except at very incon venient distances. The Shipping trade of the port has been considerably increasing, until it has sur passed that of the port of London ; and the pro babilities are that, as the trade of the country ex tends, and new markets are opened, it will still further increase ; and as more Docks are even now required, it will be niggard economy to throw away the .opportunity of making such a valuable acquisition, even if the price demanded should be something beyond the notions of some of our Radical economists. With reference to the growing trade of Liverpool, we may remark that Mr. GAGE has this week published a very curious and in structive chart, showing the tonnage of London and this port every year, from 1700 to 1852, with she addition of the population, and the amount received for Dock dues. Some amusement was created at the meeting of the Select Vestry on Tuesday, owing to Mr. Moss, from his recent domestic literary pursuits, assum ing to be a critic. He stated that a tender for beer was mis-spelt and badly written, but it was found that the charge originated in an obliquity of vision, caused by a flaw in his glasses. The forthcoming opening of the Exhibition in Dublin has formed an exciting topic, and Liverpool will send a respectable force to do honour to the inauguration, which, owing to the present forward ness of the preparations, will not, it is believed, be delayed beyond Thursday week next, the day fixed. This evening the Mayor entertains a distinguished party in honour of the event. THE SPIRIT-RAPPING IN FIDE LS.—There is a homage which vice pays to virtue ; and in like manner there appears to be a homage payable from infidelity to faith. The notorious Robert Owen, who has spent his life in denying the personality of the Divine Being, and the moral responsibility of man, who has denounced Christianity as one of the greatest curses that have ever befallen mankind, and marriage as the pest of human society, and who, in consideration of these distinguished services to the cause of religion and morality, was presented to the Queen by Lord Melbourne, and is, to this day, patronised by Lord Brougham, has given notice to the world of " a great moral revolution" which has taken place in his own mind, and " is about to be effected for the human race." This announcement is the result of " most important and gratifying" communications made to him by " in visible but audible persons, purporting to be from departed spirits." Benjamin Franklin, the late Duke of Kent, President Jefferson, and his own "first and most enlightened disciple," Grace Fletcher, are among the spiritual notabilities with whom, "through the proceedings of an American medium," Mr. Owen has been placed en rapport, and whose visitations have had the effect of making him exchange his theory of the eternity of matter, and of the extinction of all individual and conscious existence by death, for belief in " a future conscious state of life, existing in a refined material, or what is called a' spiritual state." Infidelity in its dotage is far from being an uninstructive spectacle.—John s ~, . ~; AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ANDES. TURKEY.—The Emperor of Russia issaid to have given way on some of the points for which hecontended, respecting the question of the holy places, and there is every pros pect of this affair being arranged in a friendly manner. At the Russian and Turkish Embassies in Paris, it is de clared positively that everything has assumed, as regards the Eastern question, a favourable aspect. SYRIA.—The four-and-twenty missionaries of the London Protestant Association have had a scuffle with the Jews in the streets of Jerusalem. On Palm Sunday there was a fight—and one in which several persons were wounded—between the Greeks and the Armenians. The fight took place in the Church of St. Sepulchre, and it was occasionod by some quarrel about the lamp. INDlA.—lntelligence by Overland Mail from Bombay is to the 29th of March. At Prome and Meaday all is quiet. Near Donabew a combined attack was in progress on the strong hold of the robber chief Meatoon, Sir John Cheape, the Commodore, and Captain Tarleton were each advancing by a different route, so as to surround him, all the creeks by which he could escape being guarded by gunboats ; the result was not yct known. It is not pro bable that sny move will be made during the little that remains of the hot season, but the commencement of the Burmese monsoon will open the high road to Ave to our large steamers, if anything then remains to be done. General Steel has reached Tonghoe, and opened commu nications with Prome and Meaday. At Tonghoo a rather extensive magazine, containing guns, muskets, and am munition, was taken possession of. CHINA.—The Chinese mail of the 25th of February has brought important intelligence regarding the progress of events in the Celestial Empire. The rebels have now got so far north as to threaten Shanghai, and are stated to have a force of 50,000 men within a few marches of that port. Seu•Kwyng-Tsin, appointed by the Emperor to the chief military command of the combined attack which had been ordered on the rebels, has been worsted, and has fallen, according to some accounts by his own hand, according to others by that of the enemy. Alto gether the affairs of the Tartar dynasty are considered to he in a most critical state, though the young Emperor is endeavouring to meet the emergency with a degree of energy and a disregard to antiquated Chinese maxims, which proves him to be far in advance of his predecessors. He has appealed to his people in an edict which, printed on yellow paper, is now posted up in every place of public resort in the empire. The militia were to be organised, each village or township forming its own band, the expense being defrayed by the gentry and head men, who were to have the management of the force, which was not to be employed in offensive operations, but simply for self-defence. A powerful American squadron is on its way to the China Seas, and it is stated that a powerful Russian land force has been despatched thither to watch its proceedings. Under these circumstances, and in the present position of affairs in China, it is complained that our naval force in these seas is inadequate for the protec tion of British interests. The Emperor has legalised the importation and sale of opium. The duty of 40 taels per chest which it is proposed to charge is stated to be as nearly as possible the figure at which chests can at present be smuggled into the port of Canton, the dollars, in the present state of thing's, going into the private purses of the officials, instead of into the Imperial Treasury. EGYPT.—Abbas Pasha is to obtain a fresh proof of the Sultan's favour by being officially acknowledged as the chief or head of the Viceregal family, by which all the princes, sons and grandsons of the late Mehemet Ali, will be bound to acknowledge the Viceroy's authority. Some mention has been made of an inclination on the part of the Sultan to offer to kbbas Pasha the Pashalic of the Holy Cities in the Hedjaz, in consideration of a subsidy. A considerable supply of rain having at length fallen in Syria, there is a prospect of a good harvest and an abun dant silk crop this year. Trade continues dull, and prices of produce are again on the decline. Freights are also a little lower. AUSTRALIA.—The Vimiera, Neatby, which sailed from Sydney on the Ist of February, has arrived at Ports mouth in 83 days. She brings, on freight, gold to the amount of £160,000 sterling, together with a considerable sum in the hands of her passengers not !enumerated. Exchange on England had fallen from 8 to 4 per cent., which would indicate a large increase in the amount of specie in circulation. The greater facilities enjoyed by the colonists, from the existence of a more extended cur rency and a more ready accommodation, rendered them comparatively independent of the local banking establish ments, which could now, as it appears, afford to grant bills for transmission to Europe on terms 50 per cent. lower than had been the case a few weeks previously, when the inherent resources of the colonists were less fully recognised. Gold had risen, in consequence of this beneficial change in the social progr,ss of the people of New South Wales, to 735. 6d. per ounce, and a corres ponding improvement had also taken place in the price of wool and tallow. The market for imports was very lively, and on some invoices an advance of 100 per cent. had been realised. Although the labour market was in a measure relieved, owing to the numerous arrivals of emi grants, yet very high rates of wages were paid for the services of skilled artisans and agricultural labourers. The large accession of wealth in the colony seemed to justify the intention which had manifested itself of commencing, upon a liberal scale, the architectural improvement of the capital. Projects for the construction of larger and highly decorated streets, proposed to be built of massive and substantial masonry, had been presented for the adoption of the municipal authorities, the geological formations in the vicinity furnishing material of the most eligible character. The gold mines at Ovens, Ophir, Turon, Hanging Rock, and Bengsra, were never more favourably reported of. The discoveries continued to be very large at Ovens, where the daily findings, by a single party, of £l,OO value were of no uncommon occurrence. Auriferous for mations were developing themselves in all parts of the colony, for it would appear that, from Bengara, in the north, to Ovens, in the south, gold has been found, the only exception being the carboniferous districts of the Lower Hunter River, as, by the present advices, it is positively announced that on the Upper Hunter and its tributaries, the Isis, and the Page rivers, gold had been met with. A shepherd at Gundy, on the latter river, had found some quartz exhibiting the presence of a rich im pregnation of the precious metal. The Sarah Sands steamer sailed two days before the departure of the Vimiera, and the announcement of her arrival may be daily expected. She received on board at Sydney £260,000 sterling, and had orders to call at Mel bourne, where she would probably receive abuut £500,000 more. Several sailing vessels had proceeded for Europe besides the Sarah Sands with large amounts of gold on board. By the screw steam-ship Andes, Captain Hutchings, which arrived in the Mersey on Saturday, we have advices from New York to the 18th ult. The Andes sailed from New York, at 4.50, p.m., on the 18th ult. ; on the 19th, at 11.50, a.m., passed the Royal mail-steamer Arabia, ience for New York ; and, on the 27th, at 7, a.m., passed the screw-steamer Glasgow, from the Clyde for New York. The Andes made Cape Clear at 4, p.m., on the 29th ; passed Holyhead, at 1 10, p.m., on Saturday ; and arrived in the river at 7.30, having made the run in 11 days and 22 hours. The United States mail-steamer Pacific, Captain Nye, which sailed from the Mersey at 9.50, a.m., on the 6th, arrived at New York, at 2, p.m., on the 17th, after a run of 11 days 8 hours and 55 minutes. The screw steam-ship City of Manchester, Capt. Leitch, which sailed from the Mersey, at 1, p.m., on the 30th March, arrived at Philadelphia at 10, a.m., on the 17th ult., after a run of 18 days 1 hour and 30 minutes. he screw steam-ship Alps, Captain Wickman, hence, arrived at New York, at 6, a.m., on the 18th ult. It was rumoured at Washington that the intention of sending a full minister to Central America had been abandoned, and that a chargi would be substituted. It was thought probable that Mr. Buchanan would conduct the Nicaragua and Central American negotiations in London. Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, had been offered the position of minister to Mexico, and, it was under stood, had accepted. A man, named Michael Reardon, had been arrested at New York charged with the murder of Henry Miller, cook on board the ship American Congress, on her pas sage from London to New York. Warrants had also been issued against John Ferris, mate of the same ship, and a man named Richmond, for using dangerous weapons, and assaulting and maiming several persons on the ship. MExrco.—We have accounts from the City of Mexico to the 6th, and from Vera Cruz to the 12th ult. General Santa Anna arrived at Vera Cruz on the Ist, in the West India mail steamer Avon, having been elected President of the Republic of Mexico for the fifth time. He was received with the greatest enthusiasm, firing of salutes, and other demonstrations of joy. The authorities of the city, and those recently arrived from the capital, went on board, and conducted him to Vera Cruz with great solemnity. On the 2d ult. General Santa Anna published a mani festo to the nation, in which he makes magnificent promises for the regeneration of his " beloved country." He proceeded to the capital on the 6th. An escort of one thousand men had been sent to meet him and conduct thither. The treaty confirming the grant to the Sloo Company of the Tehuantepec route had been signed by the American Ministers at Mexico, and by the Com missioners of the Mexican Government. CUBA.—From Havana we have advices to the 12th ult. On the 9th forty-five of the prisoners who were tried and convicted for alleged revolutionary attempts against the:go vernoent were sent to Cadiz, to await the decision of the- Queen of Spain. The new British commissioner, Mr. Backhouse, had arrived at Havana in H.M. steamer Medea. The West India mail steamer bed arrived at Havana on the 6th, from Mexico, with '8'2,500,000 in specie on freight, en route for England. Late accounts from Venezuela state that Don Joaquin Herrera hul been elected Vice-President of the Republic. A decree had been introduced by the Senate to celebrate a treaty between New Granada and Ecuador, on the limits of the two countries, under the arbitration of the Queen of Spain. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA . By tbeßrit c is a h p a ta n i d n sNorthhannoAnm which h n a ß rr o i y v a e l d A o l n ai l s s u t n e d a a m y: ship Europa, we have advices from New York to the 20th u lt. The Europa sailed from New York a t 3, p.m., on the 20th. On the 27 th, at 11 . 10 ., p.m., in l a t. 50 36, lon. 27.37, passed the steamer Asia, hence for New York. On the 30th, at 10.45, a.m., passed Cape Clear, and at 4, p.m., off Ballycotton, passed the ship lowa and barque Avon dale, bound out. She passed Holyhead at 5.30, a.m., on Sunday, and saluted the Rock Lighthouse at 11, a.m., having made the run in 10 da y s 15 hours and 15 minutes. The Royal Mail steam -ship Arabia, Captain Judkins, which sailed from the Mersey at 11, a.m., on the 9th, arrived at New York at 6 40, a.m., on the 20th nit., having made the run in eleven days and twenty-five minutes. She lay-to off Sandy Hook for two hours and forty-five minutes, waiting for daylight. The Europa has brought 100 passengers, and £201,000 in specie, on freight. PASSENGERS.—Mr. B. Ferdick and lady, Miss Frost, Mrs. and Miss Tulford, Dr. J. C. Dalton, Lord Bishop of Montreal and servant, Mrs. Molineaux, three children and servant, C ap t a i n R em i ngton , lady, and daughter, Rev. S. R. Ward, M r , F. Feilde, lady, two daughters? and son, Mrs. Roberts, Mr. A. Eddy and lady, Mr. Pary and lady, Mr. P. Tricon and Son, Mr. D. Tremeny and friend, Mr. G. Ynarra, lady, and infant, Mr. E. Celes, lady, four children, and servant, Mr. Belson and lady, Mr. Siffkin and lady, Mr. F. Rodevrald and lady, Mr. Vanderhausen and lady, Mr. B. M. Bull and lady, Mr. S. Bryan and - lady, Mes'srs. L. Fousilier. R. W. Nesbit, H. P. Wilson, John Goody, H. C. Eaton, P. R. Dalton, W. H. Fell, W. W. Marslon B. Seguieros, D. Gomez, A. Morgan, Darling, J. G. Yarker, C. C. Hudson, J. B. English, W. S. Shapleigh, Norvall, 11. F. Fisher, P. D. Dewal, F. Comees, J. Martinez, F. Equanner, Sebastian Eguelar, C. Ochoa, Molony, W. M. Thackeray, Crowe, Banendbal, J. Dean. H. Gaskell, E. Deformier, R. Kell, F. Muller, J. F. White, H. Barklie, Brown, Henry Green, W. G. Dyer, W. Craven, R. Decon, E. Orchard, J. Nater, Boyer, D. Fry, John Law, Wm. Howard, and James Moyes. The Hon. Wm. Rufus King, Vice• President of the United States, expired at his residence, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, on the 18th ult. He only reached that place, on his return from Cuba, the day previous. A very destructive fire had occurred in the United States Navy-yard, at Brooklyn, destroying property of the value of 105,000 dollars. The steamer Cherokee had arrived at New York, with Havana advices to the 14th ult., two days later. General Canedo had left Havanah on a visit to Santiago de Cuba. General Carrillo de Albornez was acting as Captain Gene ral during the absence of Gen. Canedo. Martin Gallieno, secretary to the Captain-General, had sailed for Spain, Advices from Cardenas, to the sth ult, state that the crops looked remarkably well, particularly the canes, second ciaap, which never presented so favourable an appearance. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, APRIL n. MONEY MARKET.—There has been a great increase of activity in the stock market during the past fortnight. Prices of almost all descriptions are buoyant, and the ad vance in some of the leading railroads is very great. The supply of money has become much more full, and rates of interest have rather a downward tendency. Loans on call may now be quoted at 6 to 7 per cent., and discount ranges at from 7to 9 per cent. for first.class paper. The payments for ditties are decreasing. The balance of coin in the Sub-Treasury in this city has been reduced to 43'6,622,127. Receipts of gold from California for the fortnight. 43'2,500,000. Export of specie, 5612,035. Ex changes have not varied materially from our last quota tions. The market is well supplied with bills,. and the de mand rather limited. The following are the curr en t rates on London, 91 to 9 per cent. prem.; Paris, j &c., 5,13 if. to 5,121 f., 60 days, and 5,144. to 5,110 f. short I sight; 1 - 13mburgli, 36+ to 363. COTTON.—(From the New York Courier and En quire?).—The sales since our last review of the market, as written for the Atlantic on the 15th inst., have been as follows :-16th, 2,000 ; 18th, 2,400 ; and to-day (19 , 11), 1,000. Very full prices have bten daily paid for all de scriptions, notwithstanding the receipt yesterday morning of the Pacific's advices from Liverpool of 6th instant quoting an easier market. We have direct a despatch from New Orleans of the 15th instant, quoting " mid dling 10 to 101 c: active, freight nominal to 9-16 d., excess in receipts reduced to 335,000 ;?'. and one of yesterday's date from Savannah has been received quoting " middling (at New Orleans), 101 c. excess reduced to 323,000." We have seen also despatches of 18th from New Orleans, quoting middling at 10+, strict middling 103, and French middling 101 c., freight d. The advices of the planting season are unfavourable from Carolina to Texas. Strict Liverpool classification : New Orleans Other and Texas. Gulf Ports. Atlantic. to 9 91— 9 8-t -- Si FOREIGN NEWS. FRANCE. —The Empress, it appears, has been seriously indisposed, and has b ad to be bled more than once. M". Dubois,the Imperial accoucheur , passed three nights at the Palace. Her Majesty is much better, and there is nothing at present in the state of her health to excite uneasiness. Prince Napoleon Bonaparte is going to Algeria, but not in an official capacity. He is to visit the three provinces, on what is called a tour d'explorati6n, and in the e n d, perhaps, he may obtain the title of viceroy ; but I, 3 i s very doubtful. It is said that, before his return to Paris, be will visit Corsica. _ The_ Moniteur of Sunday announc es that her Majesty the Empress, who has been enceinte for two months , and who has been unwell for the l a st few days, miscarried on the eveningofhe 29th April. Her Majesty's health is , however, as satisfactory as can be expected under the circumstances. HOLLAND.-- D.—The have been fixed for tog 17th of May. The session ss Ic: a,„ n will be opened on the 18th of June. The ministers e published their programme. intention o f They have no introducing any changes into s the c onstitution. The various T s are not to be inter fered with, but the government to resolved i narrowly to to o ess watch their proceedings. There is centraliza tion, and greater facilities will be given the action of the provinces and communes. The ministers intend modi fying the organic laws. The king is to have theexecutive not only in appearance, but also de facto. The program me concludes with an appeal to the nation. ITALY.—Advices from Rome state that a fresh mani. festo from th e pen of Mazzini ha d j us t been seized, and also that a quant i ty of arms had been di sc overed i n a Genoese house in that city. It is added that the Pontifi. cal Government was about to contract a new loan of 26,000,000 scudi. PRUSSIA.—The bill for placing all productions of the foreign (non. Prussian) press under the summary suppres sive control of the Minister of the Interior, was thrown out on Saturday week by a majority of eight. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1853. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. THE PRINTERS IN NEW YORK have formed a corn bination, and dictate to their employers an immediate advance of 25 per cent in their wages. The masters, in many cases, refuse to comply, and girls are being en gaged in scores to set up types. Miss ELIZABETH WETHEREL, the authoress of " Queechy," and the " Wide, Wide World," now so popular in England, is the daughter of Henry W. Warner, Esq., a distinguished member of the New York bar. The name of Wetherel was always understood to be a nonz de plume. A NEGRO VIEW OF SLAVERY.—The Examiner says that a dashing free negro from the United States married the daughter of a very respectable coloured citizen of Toronto, but getting no money with her, as he anticipated, went off south, where he said that he had rich friends, and there sold his wife and " absquatulated." The father is now left to find, if not to purchase, his recently married daughter in the slave market of the South.—American Paper. YANKEES, Cats, TIME,—The New York Tribune says :—" Many people grumble audibly at the overcrowd ing of the cars on the City railroads. A true New-Yorker will run three blocks to catch a fill car, and then hang at the risk of his life upon the step, sooner than take a seat in a car just going, because he would thereby lose two minutes of time. Rather than wait that small eternity, lie will abandon comfort, risk his life, and take satisfaction in grumbling at crowded vehicles." ANOTHER VICTIM OF SPIRITUAL 'MANIFESTATION.— We learn that Mr. Christian Snevely, a very worthy and industrious citizen of this borough, has become insane on this ridiculous and absurd sabject. This is the first in stance that has occurred from this vile and sacrilegious practice in our borough, and has caused a considerable sensation among our people. Ha has been conveyed to the Pennsylvania Lunatic Hospital, and is now a raving manaic. We trust that this sad result may prove a salu tary Warning to all who have made a practice of attending spirit rapping meetings, and giving countenance to this base and wicked system of imposition.—llarrisburg (Pa.) tr2zion, Sat. THE NEW YORK HERALD of the 16th April bee an indignant article on an American vessel having been fired into, forced to heave to, and boarded by the crew of her Britannic Majesty's steamer Devastation on the 31st of March last. The American vessel was the Harriet, Cap. James. Otis, of Bath. " Still," says the .Flerald, " view of the apparently acknowledged right of foreigners. to board our vessels and insult our flag, we are bound to admit that the Englishman displayed a very creditable moderation in respecting life and property." SHIPBUILDING IN AMF.I2.ICA.-Mr. INl'Kay, of East Boston, is building a ship 320 feet long and 55 feet beam, to measure 4000 tons, for California; to be propelled by the screw, and to have Mr. Forbes' new rig of inter mediate topsails Two other ships —one of 1510 tons, and another of 1200—for the same trade. A correspondent says :—" The seamen are so scarce, and so bad, that we must soon come to a steam-engine for making and taking in sail." ANOTHER MIRACLE.—The Official Journal rof the Tma Sicilies announces a miracle said to have taken place at Bari, where one of the thorns belonging to the crown with which-Our Saviour was - tortured let fail some drops of blood on Good Friday last, in the presence of a numerous concourse of people. A similar miracle is stated to have taken place at Andria on the same day with another thorn of the crown ; and it is added that this is not the first time such a thin.' has- occurred, but that it has been several times observed, the last being in IE-i2. A. BELGIUM EX2FLESS.—A laughable story of some carrier pigeons -is told in an Antwerp newspaper. The editor of a celebrated journal, published in that city, sent a reporter to Brussels for the king's speech, and with him a couple of carrier pigeons, to take back the document. At Brussels, he gave the pigeons in charge to a waiter, and called for breakfast. He was kept waiting for some time, but a very delicate fricassee atoned for the delay. After breakfast, he paid his bill, and called for his carrier pigeons. " Pigeons !" exclaimed the waiter, " why, you've eaten them !" StarGamAlt DUEL.—A singular duel took place a few days since in the Bois de Boulogne. Two private coach men who had for some time past felt a deep-rooted.' animosity towards each other, and never met without quarrelling, happening by chance to meet a few evenings since at a wine shop, one of them said to the other, " Our quarrelling has now lasted too long ; it is time to put an end to it. Let us have one fight, and let that be the last. We neither of us understand anything of sword or pistol a let us fight with-our whips." This proposition having been accepted, the parties repaired to the Bois, and accompanied by their seconds, soon-commenced the combat. A number of persons assembled to witness the scene, which was continued with great animation, when the keepers of the wood came up, and marched off the combatants to the guard-house. One of the men :re calved a very serious wound on the face, and the other had one of his ears almost cut off. PAssponTs.,—Persons travelling ought to know some thing, before they set out, of the passport system, as it is carried out in the various continental States. Prussia and Sardinia are the only States that permit a passport from the British Minister of Foreign Affairs to pass freely into or through their territories without a vise from their own Ministers or Consuls respectively. Prussia his intimated her intention to demand a vise" of her own authorities in confirmation of any passports granted by the consuls of foreign powers. The safest course is for every Englishman going abroad to provide himself with a passport from his own Minister for Foreign affairs. The cost is now reduced to 75..6d., no more than the charge for the old consular document. in all other countries the vise of the foreign authority is absolutely essential. Bavaria used to be content with a simple passport from the British Minister; but that privilege, granted to English men hi 1846, and confirmed in 1831, is now revoked. A BULL AND BEAR FIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS. The New Orleans. Crescent, of the 28th March, gives the following narrative, which illustrates the peculiar refinement of sporting circles in that part of the New World : Yesterday, pursuant to public notice, came off at Gretna, opposite the Fourth District, the long-heralded fight between the famous grizzly bear General Jackson (victor in fifty battles) and the Attakapas bull Santa Anna. The fame of the coining conflict had gone forth to the four winds, and women and children, old men and boys, from all parts of the city, and from the breezy banks of Lake Pontchartrain and Borgne, brushed up their Sun day suit, and prepared to see the fun. Long before the published hour, the quiet streets of the rural Gretna were filled with crowds of anxious denizens, flocking to the arena, and before the fight commenced such a crowd had collected as Gretna had not seen nor will be likely to see again. The arena for the sports was a cage twenty feet square, built upon the ground and constructed of heavy timbers and iron bars. Around it were seats, circularly placed, and intended to accommodate many thousands. About four or five thousand persons assembled, covering the seats as with a cloud, and crowding down around the cage, were within reach of the bars. The bull selected to sustain the honour and verify the pluck of Attakapas on the trying occasion was a black animal from the Opelousas, lithe and sinewy as a four year old courser, and with eyes like burning coals. His horns bore the appearance of having been filed at the tips, and wanted that keen and slashing appearance so common with others of his kith and kin, otherwise it would have been "all day" with Bruin at the first pass, and no mistake. The bear was an animal of note, and called General Jackson, from the fact of his licking up everything that came in his way, and taking " the responsibility" on all occasions. He was a wicked-looking beast, very lean and unamiable in aspect, with hair all standing the wrong way. He had fought some fifty bulls (so they said), always coming out victorious, but that either one of the fifty had been an Attakapas bull, the bills of the per formances did not say. Had he tackled Attakapas first it is likely his fifty battles would have remained unfought. About half-past four o'clock the performances com menced. _ The bull was first seen, standing in the cage alone, with head erect, and looking a very monarch in his capacity. At an appointed signal, a cage containing the bear was placed alongside the arena, and an opening being made, bruin stalked into the battle ground—not, however, with out sundry stirrings up with a ten foot pole, he being ex perienced in such matters and backward in raising a row. Once on the battle-field, both animals stood, like wary champions, eyeing each other, the bear cowering low, with head upturned and fangs exposed, while Attakapas stood wondering, with his eye dilated, lashing his sides with his long and bushy tail, and pawing up the earth in very wrath. The bear seemed little inclined to begin the attack, and the bull, standing a moment, made steps first backward and then forward, as if measuring his antagonist, and meditating where to plant a blow. Bruin wouldn't come to the scratch no way it could be fixed, till one of the keepers, with an iron rod, tickled his ribs and made him move. Seeing this, Attakapas took it as a hostile demon stration, and gathering his strength, dashed savagely at the enemy, catching him on the points of his horns and doubling him up like a sack of bran against the bars. Bruin " snug out" at this and made a dash for his opponent's nose. Missing this, the bull turned to the " about face," and the bear caught him by the ham, in flicting a ghastly wound. But Attakapas with a kick shook him off, and renewing the attack, went at him again, head on and with a rush. This time he was not so fortunate, for the bear caught him above the eye, burying his fangs in the tohgh hide and holding him as in a vice. It was now the bull's turn to " sing out," and he did it, bellowing forth with a voice more hideous than that of all the bulls of Bashan. Some minutes stood matters thus, and the cries of the bull, mingled with the hoarse growls of the bear, made hideous music, fit only for a dance of devils. Then came a pause (the bear hav ing relinquished his hold), and for a few minutes it was doubtful whether the fun was not up. But the magic wand of the keeper (the ten foot pole) again stirred up bruin, and at it they went, and with a rush. Bruin now tried to fasten on the bull's back, and drove his tusks in him in several places, making the red blood flow like wine from the vats of Luna. But Attakapas was pluck to the back bone, and, catching bruin on the tips of his horns, shuffled him up right merrily, making the fur fly like feathers in a gale of wind. Bruin cried " Nuff" (in bear language), but the bull followed up his advantage, and, making one furious plunge full at the figure head of the enemy, struck a horn into his eye. burying it there and dashing the tender organ into dark ness and atoms. Blood followed the blow, and poor bruin, blinded, bleeding, and in mortal agony, turned with a howl to leave, but Attakapas caught him in the retreat, and rolled him over like a ball. Over and over again this rolling over was enacted, and finally, after more than an hour, bruin curled himself up on his back, bruised, bloody, and dead beat. The thing was up with California, and Attakapas was declared the victor amidst the applause of the multitude that made the heavens ring. It was a most savage exhibition, and we chronicle it as we would a murder or other lamentable fact. day we never see such another. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY, APRIL 26. The Registration of Assurances Bill passed through committee with some amendments. STEAM TO AUSTRALIA. .. —In answer to a question from Lord Wharncliffe as to what steps the Postmaster- General had taken with regard to the Australian packet service, in consequence of the dissolution of the contract with the Australian Royal Mail Steam Company, Lord CANNING said the Government were under contract for the packet service to the extent of about £BOO,OOO annually, and had taken the opportunity of the failure of the Australian Packet Company to endeavour to effect a saving. The communication with Australia was carried on by means of the Peninsular and Oriental Mail Com pany, and it was the intention of Government to adver tise for tenders for the conveyance of one or more mails in alternate months to the Australian colonies. It was also their intention to fix the price to be paid for this service, and to fetter it with as few conditions as possible. IMPROVEMENTS IN NAVIGATION.—Lord Wunrms- LEY called attention to a correspondence between the United States' Government, her Majesty's Government, and the Royal Society, with reference to a comprehensive scheme for improving the art of navigation, and dilated very scientifically on the great importance of the scheme, as one well worthy the consideration of the house and of the Government —Earl GRANVILLE said the Government was by no means unwilling to further the proposals of the United States in this matter. They claimed, however, the right to see that the money granted for such purposes was expended with judicious economy, and they had ac cordingly abstained from granting aid to scientific investi gations which might be more fitly carried on by private means. THTIRSDAY, APRIL 28. The Earl of DERBY preiented 93 petitions from almost every part of the Kingdom, against the admission of Jews to Parliament. CANAE-A CLERGY RESERVES.—The Canada Clergy Reserves Bill was read a third time and. passed, after some opposition from the Earl of WICKLOW. TRANSPDRTATION.—In answer to Earl as to what arrangements had been made with regard to the ultimate destination of the convicts now in the penal establishments of Portland,- Dartmoor, Gibraltar, and Bermuda, since it was understood that transportation to Australia, except in very rare instances, was to cease, the Earl of ABEREEEIsT replied, that the question was- sur rounded with great difficulties,. but that it was now under the consideration of the Home Secretary, who, he hoped, would shortly propose a scheme to meet the case.—A brief discussion on the subject ensued, when the conver sation dropped, and their lordships adjourned. FRIDAY, APRIL 29. Numerous petitions were presented against the Jew Bill; COUNTY COURTS:—Lord BROUGHAM said the total number of suits instituted in those courts had been for not less than £6,750,000, and the court fees upon those suits amounted to £1,200,000, or to 25 per cent. of the whole amount. If the Premier could show any other country in , which such an abuse of justice prevailed, he should indeed be much surprised.—The LORD CHANOELLOR said that it was the intention of the Government to takethis subject into consideration. Unless some explanation, of which he was ignorant, were given of the fact, he should consider it to be most disgraceful to the country that 25 per cent. should be thus levied in coart fees on the whole amount of liti gation. THE Jsw BILL.—The Earl of ABERDEEN moved the second reading of the Jewish Disabilities Bill, and ex plained the reasons which• had induced him some time back to change his opinion with regard to this measure.— The Earl of SaAFTEsnualropposed the bill. Its principle amounted simply to telling people that Christianity was very good in private but occasionally misplaced in public life. He trembled at such an admission, and though he respected the Jews, and believed that if now under a cloud they were ultimately destined to be the sovereigns of the human race, he was forced to say no to their admission to the Legislature "on the true faith of a Christian." He moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months.—The Earl of ALI3F-11A11LE and the Archbishop of Duntirg supported the bill.—The Earl of DARNLEY and the Bishop of SALISBURY opposed the bill.—The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S supported and the Earl of HARROWBY op posed the bill; and, after some further discussion, in which the Duke of ARGYLL, Lord WINCHMSEA, Lordl BROUGHAM, and Lord COLCHESTER took part, their lord ships divided, when the numbers were— Contents ..., .......... Non-contents . Majority against Ministers .. 49 The bill was therefore lost. HOUSE OFCOMMONS.—TUESDAY, APRIL 26. ARCTIC EXPFDMON.—In answer to a question, Sir J. GRAHAM said that it was not intended to send any f-esh expedition within the ice on the western side. There were now within those dangerous regions either three or four expeditions. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.—Lord JOHN RUSSELL. said the President of the Board of Controul would; before Whitsuntide, give notice on what day between the 20th and 30th of May be intended to bring forward the mea sure in reference to the government of India. NATIONAL POLICE.—Mr. Rica moved, that a select committee be appointed to consider the expediency of adopting a more uniform system.of police in• England and Wales. An amendment that the inquiry should in clude Scotland was adopted, and the motion was agreed to. COMMUNICATION WITH IRF.LAND. - A motion by Mr. H. HERBERT " for a select committee to examine and re port upon the present state of the communication•between England and Ireland as regards the expeditious convey ance of the mails, the transport of troops, and the con venience afforded to the public, and to the Irish,repre sentatives in particular, in their attendance on this house; and to report what improvements modern science could suggest to establish a more speedy and commodious com munication between the two countries," was agreed to. NATIONAL. EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—Mr. G. A.. HAMILTON moved for a select committee to inquire into , the working of the national system of education in Ire land, with the view of ascertaining_ how far the instruc tions of 1830 had been followed or departed from ;,whether a combined education had been attained under the na tional system; and whether, by any further extension or modification of the rules, conscientious objections to the system might be reasonably obviated.—The motion was opposed by the members of the Government, and on a division was negatived by 181 to 111. REDUCTION OF THREE PER CENTS.—The motion for the third reading of the South Sea and other Annuities Commutation Bill, was opposed on account of the lateness of the hour, but, after some discussion, it was.read a third time ; and further proceedings postponed till next day. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27. The second reading of the Attorneys' Certificate Duty Bill was postponed till the Ist of June. PROPOSED NEW LICENSES.—Mr. BASS, alluding to the proposal to alter the duty on licenses, said that the amount which would be imposed on Messrs. Barclay, as brewers and maltsters, would amount to 4:2,850 a-year, and the total amount of the new duty on brewers and maltsters would approach to £lOO,OOO- per annum. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also proposed to levy a new duty on five other classes of tradesmen • but he (Mr. Bass) understood that it had been discovered this would be so impracticable in practice that the right hon. gentleman had undertaken to re-consider his measure, either with the view of renouncing it altogether, or rendering it fit for operation. The proposition, as it stood, was tantamount, more or less, to an additional malt-tax to the amount of £lOO,OOO a-year, and he therefore thought it fit that the House and the country should be acquainted with the facts he had mentioned. REDUCTION OF THE THREE-PER-CENTS.—The third reading of the South Sea, &c., Annuities Commutation Bill was further proceeded with, and some clauses were added. The object of one set of the amendments was to limit to £30,000,000 the power of conversion into 34 per Cents., as well as the power of conversion into 24 per Cents., plux the 10,000,000 of the minor stocks. But the Exchequer bonds were absolutely limited to £30,000,000 altogether. IRISH CHANCERY REFORM.—Mr. WHITESIDE ob tained leave to bring in a bill to facilitate the sale, parti tion, and exchange of lands by the Court of Chancery in Ireland, and the recovery of moneys secured by recogni zance. THURSDAY, APRIL 28. The Oldham Corporation and Oldham Gas and Water works Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. CHAS. TU RNER presented a petition from the Wes leyan Methodists, of the Liverpool northern circuit, against opening the Crystal Palace on the Lord's day. Mr. DUNLOP presented a petition from the inhabitants of St. Stephen the Martyr's district, Liverpool, to the same effect. TOBACCO AND TEA LICENSES.—In reply to a Aues. tion from Mr. Labouchere, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was very sensible that the scale of licenses proposed would operate with great severity, which was not at all intended on the part of the Government, and lie therefore freely gave a pledge that the scale should be reconsidered and reprinted in time to give notice to all parties concerned. CORPORATE PROPERTY.—In answer to a question, whether property in the possession of corporate bodies was to be subject to the duty on successions, the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that the terms of the proposal which had been submitted to the House, that certain duties should be imposed on the succession of property, in consequence of death, did not apply to cor porate property. The Government, however, would sub. mit a further proposition to the House, having reference to the property held by corporate bodies. TAX ON WAGES.—In answer to a question as to th e mode of calculating the wages of a family, with a view to the imposition of the income-tax, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that man and wife being, in the eye of the law, one person, they would be so considered in the assessment of the income-tax, but it was not pro posed that the earnings of the children should be brought within the scope of the assessment. DEBATE ON THE BUDGET. The adjourned debate on the resolution for imposing the Property and Income-tax for seven years, and ex tending it to Ireland, was resumed by Mr. COBDEN, who s poke generally in favour of the Budget, but condemned the relief of advertisement supplements only from stamp duty, as a boon to one paper. In the course of the discussion which ensued, Sir Chas. WOOD entered into an elaborate defence of the Budget against the various objections to it which had been raised. The debate was then adjourned till Friday. SCOTCH SHERIFFS COURT.—The Sheriff Courts (Scot land) Bill was referred to a Select Committee. FRIDAY, APRIL 29. Petitions were presented on a variety of subjects. THE KOSSUTH AFFAIR.—In reply to inquiries by Sir Joshua Walmsley, as to the result of the legal investiga tion into the seizure of warlike stores at Rotherhithe, and to the employment of the police to watch the residence of M. Kossuth or other political refugees,—Lord PALMER szoN said, the house was aware that one of the proceed ings before the police-court had closed, and that the magistrates had thought the other matter ought to be inquired into before another tribunal. With re. spect to the second question, it was the duty of the police to watch the proceedings of English men or foreigners suspected, rightly or wrongly, of mu. templating a breach of the law, and neither M. Kossuth nor any other political refugee could be exempted froul the ordinary precautions.— Mr. BRIGHT complained that Lord Palmerston abstained purposely from Whig anything that could lead the public to feel that there was no evidence against M. Kossuth. He asked whether the Home-office had instigated the proceedings, and whether there was any evidence to show any connexion betwee l l Kossuth and the making of the war lik e stores.-14°T.„ PALMERSTON, with some degree of war m th, ex pressed 11 1 : extreme surprise at the ignorance e v i nce d b y Mr. Bright of the constitutional principles which ought to govern 0 minister of the crown, and every member of that ba se ' in taking him to task for not choosing to answer a clu s e; tion which no man had a right to p u t t o hi m , an d whiff it would be contrary to his duty to answer, as to the effe ct of a judicial inquiry now pending. To the questioe whether the proceedings were authorized or directed him, he answered that they were. It was the duty of t he Secretary of State, if he had reason to think that refugees' who while in this country were free as the air the , breathed, abused its hospitality, t o t a k e s t eps t o 01:41 information, and to punish any ma n w h o o ff en ded the law, whether Englishman or foreigner. THE BUDGET. The adjourned debate was resumed by Mr. Moon-S i t who contended that the m easure , as app li e d to Irelands must be justified upon one of two separate and distine: grounds—either that Ireland was not sufficiently Wea l or that she would not be more t axe d un d er t h e budge t than at present; and neith er h a d b een or cou ld h e established. But, whatever became of the budget, l l was save there would be a universal feeling on the Pe r t of the committee that it ought to be pruned at lost e' one unnatural excrescence which- occasioned a suspicion"' a bare suspicion only (" but Caesar's wife should be above her)suspicion”—that there might have been a bargain be: tween Majesty's government and a portion of tbi' press —a suspicion which ought t o - b e remove d, for should not be permitted e ven t o b e suspecte d t h a t TA, government was capable of traffi c ki ng w ith th e pre ss, e` that the first journal in the empire was a hireling scribe' Mr. J. M I C-rfsEGOR, COL HARCOURT,Mr. H. HERBER T ' — Kr. C. FOSTER, and Mr. C. U RQUHART suppor t e d ti budget, and Mr. C. R. Moacior, Lord A. VANE, it Lord JOCELYN opposed it.—Mr. C ARDWELL sa id the question was, whether we were so satisfied with past 0" 1 perience of the income tax—upon the happy results,lt which in effecting financial improvements- he dwelt 07, much force—that we were willing to make another gre t t experiment. Thtinequalities of the assessment had bee; pressed into the discussion, but no plan had been ( l ife by which those inequalities could be redressed..--3 1 ,„' HENLEY subjected-the general scheme of the budget w t a minute critical examination, observing that it did not hold out any particular charm for the landed intere s t, and that the continuance of the income tam for set" years would, in effect, exempt our whole taxation fro the constitutional control which parliament had alt o 7 exercised over a certain portion of our revenue.—P r . CAIRNS spoke against the budget, and the debate eel adjourned till Monday. Inferior.. Low to good ord ...... 9} 104 94 to 104 9 to 93 Low to good mid.... wi Ili loi— lii loi 11* Mid. fair to fair 12 —12 i 124 114 —l2 Middiing.—New Orleans, Ile. ; Mobile, 11c. ; Florida and Uplands, 10:tc. to 11c. Freight to Liverpool declining and nominal at 9-32 d. Total import since Ist instant Export from Ist to 19th April, 1853, 27,642; 1852, 44,641. EXPORT FROM THE UNITED STATES. Since Ist of September, 1832 Same time, 1831 RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS - OF COTTON. Exports to Total Exports Stock, and Receipts. Gt. Britain to For. Ports. on shipb'd 1833.-- 2,684,303 1,220,632 1,737,309 679004 1852 2,521,268 1,066,613 1,621,209 536,999 Increase 363,035 154,019 116,300 142,105 STOCK Or COTTON IN INTERIOR TOWNS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECEIPTS. Ports. 17353. 1852. A.ugusta and Hainbun:, April 1 35,62G .... 24,689 Macon, Georgia, April 1 12,925 .... 13,247 Columbus, Georgia; April 9 .. . 4;957" .... 5;17:2 Rome, Georgia, April 6 Montgomery. Alabama, April IL 2,508 .... 2,385 Memphis, 'Tennessee, April 5 Columbia, S.C., April 5 VFSSELS LOADING FOR GREA.,7BRITAIN. New Orleans, April 9 • 59 vessels. Mobile, April 9 8 ~ Florida, April II Galveston, April 2 Savannah, April 15 Charleston,.April 15 9 New York, April 19 27 „31 Total 123 vessels. (From Mr. W. P. TVright's Circular) The business in Cotton continues to be done generally for England and France, with a large share on local speculation. Holders are very firm, and only sell , when full rates can be obtained ; and there seems to be great confidence in the maintenance of present prices, caused mainly by the continued declining receipts, as well as by the fact that the Liverpool market was already favourably influenced by the first two weeks of reduction• in the excess. BREADSTVFFS.—The advance in flour quoted on the 12th instant was sustained only foe a day or two after wards, the successive accounts from England of declining prices and forced sales having produced a dull feeling, but, so far, with only a slight decline in prices, say 6.1 c. per barrel, in shipping qualities only. Wheat is scarce, and commands relatively high prices. Corn has come forward freely, principally round, from Jersey and the North River, and as the demand for export is light, and that for home use not large, prices are lower, the market closing doll. PROTISIONS.—There has been an increased demand for pork during the past three days, with an advance in prices, but yesterday there was a little reaction, and some concession was made from the extreme rates of Monday. They are still, however, about 124 cents above those cur rent on Friday last. Beef continues unsaleable. though no lower, and the better grades are firm, with a fair de mand, but no higher. Cheese is in fair request for ex port and home use, and prices are slightly higher, say 9c. to 91c. for fair to prime, and 10c. for choice. SALT.—SaIt continues firm, the moderate supplies being taken readily on arrival. The sales are 8,150 sacks Liverpool ground and fine, part before arrival. NAVAL STORES.—The last sales of rough turpentine were at =81,75. Spirits of turpentine is firm, with sales at 60c. Rosin is dull at last week's prices. IRoN.—A few hundred tons of Scotch pig have changed hands for future delivery, chiefly at £33 to $34,50, and parcels here are selling in a small way at 535 to 537, 6 months. In English bars there is nothing doing. 35 tons Swedish steel iron brought 992,50 on time. COAL.—Liverpool coal continues depressed, with an accumulating stock ; 175 tons Orrel brought =87,50, four months, which is a decline. Hard is in good demand, at .B`s from the vessel, and 85,50, cash, delivered from yard. FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool there has been little going forward, and we have only to notice engagements of wheat at 54d. ; flour, 2s. to 2s. 3d. ; cotton, 4d. to 5-16 d. ; Sea Island, id. ; and tobacco, 30s. To London the offerings are fair, and engagements of flour and oil cake have been made at 2s. 9d. to 3s. ; beef, ss. 6d. ; pork, 4s. ; cheese and bacon, 355. ; tobacco, 3s. 6d. and 4s. ; and measure. ment goods, 255. to 30s. Two American barques have been chartered from St. John's, N. 8., to the Bristol Channel, at 110 s to 1155., and another to Dublin at 112 s. NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 18.—The sales of Cotton to day have been 4,500 bales, at firm prices, since the recep tion of the Pacific's news, which came to hand at noon. Middling, 101 c. to 101 c. ; good middling, 11c. ; mess pork sells at 815 to -8'15,25. Sterling exchange, 9c. to 94-c. prom. Cotton freights to Liverpool, 9-16 d. APRIL 19.—The sales of Cotton already to-day are 3,000 bales, prices remaining firm since the Pacific's ad vices. We quote strict middling at 101-c. to 104 c. MourLx, APRIL IG.—Receipts for the week, 5,000 bales. Sales for the week, 10,000 bales. Middling, 10e. Market irregular. Export for the week, 14,000 bales. Stock on hand, 85,000 bales. Freight to Liverpool, ad. Exchange on London, 9 per cent. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. By the United States mail steamer Atlantic, Captain West, which reached the Mersey on Wednesday, after a passage of about 10 days 19 hours, we have advices from New York to the 16th ult. She brought £'261,000 in specie, and 151 passengers. It is stated that Mr. Buchanan does not intend to re lieve Mr. Ingersoll at the Court of St. James till the close of the present fiscal year, the 30th June. A despatch from Washington announces that Dr. Kane has received his instructions relative to the new Arctic expedition, and expects to sail from New York about the Ist of May. CANADA.—The Canadian Assembly had adopted the hill making various alterations in the tariff, by which, among other things, goods that ascend the St. Lawrence Canal will pass the Welland Canal free of duty, and vice versa. Salt is to be entirely free ; printing presses and materials, except paper, are to pay 21 per cent. The produce of the sea from Newfoundland and Labrador is to come in at the same rate as from Nova Scotia, and will be virtually free. WEST INDIES.—The steamer Union had arrived at New York, with Jamaica advices to the 6th ult., and 8201,757 in specie. The impending disputes between the legislative council and house of assembly of Jamaica were not likely to be speedily adjusted. The effect was very injurious to trade. The loss of the retrenchment bill in the council had led to the adoption of some reso lutions, among which was one declaring the right of the legislature to reduce, without compensation, the salaries of public servants immediately, and to remodel, prospec tively, the entire institutions of the colony. MEXlCO.—General Santa Anna arrived on the Ist inst. at Vera Cruz, where he is said to have been very coldly received. He started immediately for his farm at Encerra, near Jalapa. AMERICAN MORALITY.—There is an interesting couple in Cincinnati who have been engaged to be married for the last five years, but no time has occurred, within that period, when they were both out of prison at the same time. LIGHTING GAS WITH THE TIP OF THE FINGER.—This is a feat any body may perform. Let a person in their shoes or slippers walk briskly over a woollen carpet, scuffing his feet thereon, or stand upon a chair with its legs in four tumblers, to insulate it, and be there rubbed up and down on the body a few times with a muff, by another person, and he will light his gas by simply touching hi s finger to the tube. It is only necessary to take the pre caution not to touch anything or be touched by anybody during the trial of the experiment. The stock of electri city acquired by th e p rocess we have :described is dis charged by contact with another object. A second person must turn on the gas while the other fires it. The writer has lighted it in this way, and seen it done by children not half a dozen years old. We are all peripatetic lucifer wadies, if we did but know it.—New York Tribune. SHIP-BUILDING ON THE CLYDE. st We learn from the Glasgow papers of l as t week it e--,0 numerous launches of iron ships and steam-boats taken place on the Clyde, and that there is every prospe r of a busy season, several of the boats now launched " ordered being for Liverpool houses. On Thu rs d a y aft noon, an iron screw steam vessel, the Vesta, was l a unch t from the building-yard of Messrs. Smith and Rodgen! Govan. The Vesta is built for Messrs. Malcomson fir"' se° thers, Waterford, for the cattle and dairy p r oduce tr between Haerlengen and London, Messrs. Smith o rl s Rodger are also building an iron sc r e w s t eamer of 45 0 t tons burthen, which will make the tenth ve s se l and t' e , twelfth pair of engines made by Messrs. S m ith an d Relic for the same Waterford company. A sm a ll s t eam er 1 1 1.,j, launched at Waterford, and belonging to Messrs. -1, comson, is daily expected here to have her engines pun. These enterprising Clyde ship-builders are also busy it s powerful screw steamer, of 800 tons, for the Austrej colonies. She is to be named the City of Mel bourne," will be ready about the month of October. -A new Bl o t steamer, building for Messrs. William Sloan and Co. the Glasgow and London trade, will be launch e d in Jag .She is to replace the Metropolitan, lost some time sem the English coast, and it is intended that she will bear, name of that ill-fated vessel. Last week Messrs. and Rodger contracted for the building of a screw ship of 1000 tons, for Messrs. W. S. Dixon and Co. Di r ie r pool. This vessel is intended for the Mediterranean tlll,O and is to he the dupli ca te o f th e P ers i a , built for the tie, firm in August l as t. M essrs .. S m i t h and Rodger have fly, commenced the ribs of an i ron sa ili ng vesse l o f 800 too er fcr Messrs. J. Richards o n an d C o ., w h o d es i gn to lay hot on for the trade to the Mauritius. We may conclude b present notice of this busy building-yard by st a ting, '; fi t on-Thursday another iron sailing vessel of 450 ta11.. • te commenced. She is for the West I n di a t ra d e , and 'Ott be the property of Messrs-, James Ewing and C 0.., jot Tuesday afternoon, a now-iron clipper ship, i n tendeu st i the Australian trade, was• launched f r om th e b u ildingik of - Messrs. Stephen and Sons, at K e lvinh aug h. The of ricane is owned by Messrs, Potter, Wilson and u"' GlMeasow. the g ssrs. Stephen and Sens, of Kelvinhau g h, 0Y 4 :01S Glasgow Citizen, are about to lay down two largej'd,oe in. the shed from which the Hurricane was launol e b eS. Tuesday. One of these is a sailing vessel of LSO t o register ; the other is a paddle-steamer of 800 d 1)1 register, with engines of-400 horse-power, co ntracte vi do Messrs. Randolph, Elder, and Co., w ho a re to PrLje the engines. The latter vessel is destined for the. the between Derry and LLverpool in connection wit d l3 o o ,, railways. On Tuesday, Messrs. J. W. Hoby and iron London Works, Renfrew, launched the Flaming"'„thet paddle-steamer. Messrs. Hoby and Co. have MO g paddle -steamers in their yard, and have four keels !alai - 4 about to be laid. Two launches came off on Mondal.l Port-Glasgow, the first, from the building-yard of MesTe John Wood and Co., of a fine wood screw schooner; no was gracefully named the Josefine, by Miss le g i - ,; ( 1 Gilkison. She is owned by Messrs. Salomon, 3/I „," ° ;iliart Leon, of Manchester, and is intended for the Bra"" a b coasting trade. She is to be fitted by Messrs. 148 „ i c a ll e s. and Clark, of Greenock, with a pair of osscillating THE BUDGET MADE EASY. Mr. PUNCH and Mr. GLADSTONE. (After Dinre r•~' Mr. P. What do you do with the Income Tax ? Mr. G. It must still lie on the people's backs. Mr. P. What 1 to be a perpetual fixity ? Mr. G. Not after 1860. Mr. P. Re-constructed, or lightened duty? Mr. G. Neither,; for either would spoil its beauty. Mr. P. Extended to humbler incomes, I fear Mr. G. To all exceeding .t'loo a year. Mr. P. Do you mean to lay it on Ireland, Gladdy Mr. G. Divil a claim to exemption has Paddy. Mr. P. Legacy. Ditty Reform we've prayed for. Mr. G. All successions must now be paid for. Mr. P. Any new tax on Spirit Distilling ? Mr. G. From tipsy Scotland an extra shilling. Mr. P. Not on " L. L." or potheen. I 'spose? Mr. G. We'll let Patt off fora couple of Joes. Mr. P. None of his burdens to be abated? Mr. G. Yes, All his debt in Consolidated. Mr. P. Isay, my William, you're making a purse— Mr. G. Over two million—it might be worse. Mr. P. Now you'll talk of Remission, I hope.; Mr. G. Off goes all the duty on Soap. Mr. P. Good! Go on till 1 bid you stop. Mr. G. At different rates these duties will:drop ; On Life Assurance, on 'Prentice Stamps, On Lawyers' Licenses. Mr. P. (aside). Bless the scamps !, Mr. G. On Cabs to keep up the tax were shabby, As Fitzroy's going to deal with Cabby Receipt Stamns we'll abolish—instead, Stamp your bill with a penny Queen's head. From the eighteenpence Advertisements pay Deduct a shilling—nay, hear me, pray ! We'll sponge out the crimson patch diurnal, On the supplemental sheet of the journal. Mr. P. I think I know who will like that move; However, we've got you in Gibson's groove. Mr. G. I give up something from various sources— Servants, carriages, dogs, and horses. Mr. P. (with intention). Fill your glass. 6 0e Mr. G. The sarcastlP But I can't take off the duty on Wine : No chance of that, as it seems to me, But fourpence-halfpenny off your Tea ; And in just three years that duty shall sink To a shilling a pound on the feminine drink. Mr. P. Te Duce? As will be, I trust, the case. Mr. G. Puncho .liivelde, I'll keep my place. I can't Give wine, but I'll give dessert ; The following things shall be cheap as dirt : Nuts and cocoa, raisins and cheese ; Eggs and butter front over tile seas : On lemons a lighter duty shall fail— Mr. P. One of the wisest provisions of all. Mr. G. On a hundred-and-twenty items, I says The whole of the duty I sweep away; And much reduce the duty that bore • On just a hundred-and-thirty more. Mr. P. How many millions of taxes cease? Mr. G. Two-and-a-half, if we keep the peace. Mr. P. Well, altogether, it does you credit. Mr. G. (earnestly). Think so? Mr. P. (patronizingly). William, my boy, I've sa id it. SPIRITUAL RAPPISTS' CONVENTION / MINISTER IN A TRANCE. bi er The spiritualists held a convent i on, on Wednesuaififtr, Thursday, at Springfield, U n it e d S tates. The RePu'ior' gives a long account of the farcical and wicked...4°ol! We copy a scene, in which John M. Spear, of P n ° o o,r e a sl n e d ep, ala s d u y bsl were theactors. The couple, having g'",i rose from their benches, a u lunatic somnambulists, belched forth thus : hbog, I Mr. Spear (h an d s t o hi s f ace —f ace re d as a co" or f 800 hoo ! Ahab boo hoo ! Oh-h-h boo hoo•0 0- 1 , My father is d e ad, my m o the r i s d ea d, an d my littAticl/ is dead ! I saw them all buried in the grave ( l5 must be buried in the grave ! (Wringing his D u ig 800 boo ! Oh, where is my mother? Wile te erie g ;t father ? And where is my little boy. (More blub i hw oot" „ Lady (arising and advancing) : Your father an d t DeT i , are here, and little Johnny is here. Don't -little ' Here they are, and here is little Johnny 4 headed fellow ! cl t Mr. Spear (more boo-hooing): My father is ej mother is dead, and little Johnny is dead. Oh ~o f to see little Johnny ! ! I wish I was dead, t!" ( 1;t P Lady (kindly): Here they are; they are not d es are living. di e ' Mr. Spear : Little Johnny is dead. I saw him Lady : No, Johnny is not dead. v at, Mr. Spear : It's a lie. xe Lady : Why, here he is. Can't you see hitn • 1, and is here by your side. ! Mr. Spear : It's a lie ! It' s an infernal li e itig where is Johnny ? are s 5 0' Mr. Finney, of Ohio (advancing, and partly ° es t f ° oo the audience) : Here is materialism in its gr° es n t. (Addressing the lady) : He comprehends You,l:-see° eyes are closed. With the material vision c os t e spiritual realities. He must be educated. 13 taught the very A B C's of spiritual being. cil f/ Mr. Spear : I want to see Johnny. ph Lady (impatiently sputtering) : Patience ! you see him ? LAmAnTINE hates r eco vere d his health , ..... bey, to a nd work is to be a history of the Constituent ASSe'-respe. MORE OF THE RAPPlNGS.—Ebenezer POPer n:Tlillg; able citizen of Milton, hung himself in his barn °lrosa the day. He leaves a family. Insanity, resulting was,ty, rapping delusion, caused the mournful act. v iT'settl l7l of the selectmen of the town,--Rome O r ' ' April 5. AT A Thursci: , A G: Caester, * Yes.; Per t oo colliers THE T uRAL Garde n ! society' i Was inr ia °ll Tu es the spot TH E number Wards o DANI a oaths a borougi, Iv TI Wanted cons e " of Man Water tc br PoRT by the eandles. tent to aic Soci bring hi! tant ha: weight tow nsini A IL sented Church Esq., as unweari a period A Cu; Colemar 7s. 6,1. ii and Std "hose di derstood f °r•-- Ti, I' URIC the stree Court, a grass, nc; It poor w street. of her ' reaaoval, 4t the ra T HE D "er le, C ebruan slip. becom e , clothes •• Th e „ am ' The bod for inter Itoth3l roe ney t O'clock i 6 ,1N1r. on (I f r. Birk enh, Part of t IV. and t thiel afe bo„ \ ~~