The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

Dec. 1, 1846. LIVERPOOL DOCKS TO SHIPOWNERS, MERCHANTS, AND OTHERS. MASTER PORTERS. THE Committee of the Liverpool Docks DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the Persons whose Names and' Places of Business are mentioned underneath, ring, in compliance with the provisions of the Dock Act of e last Session of Parliament, executed, with two sufficient ~ureties, the Bond required by the said Act to be given to the yock Trustees, are authorised to act as MASTER PORTERS, for Receiving, Weighing, and Loading off the Caro of every Le, , ,gel arriving from any Foreign Port, entering and using any ""lle Docks or Basins of the Trustees , on the Quays of w hich no Warehouses are erected, in addition to the Master Porters Whose names have been already published: — Mr. William France, 9, Temple-lane. Mr. William Gardner, 8. North -street Mr. Bartholomew Breen, 7, or-pla( Mr. William Joseph M , Exchang Mr. James Bell. Mr. Edward H , atton- 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. Messrs. Papayanni and 3Jussabini, Fenwick-chambers. Mr. William Fisher, 5, Redcross-street. REGULATIONS. The Cargo of each Vessel from any Foreign Port entering a _nd using any of the said Docks or Basins, shall be received, 7eighed, and loaded off, by one set of Porters only, who shall i be n the employ, and under the direction and orders, of one of the authorised Master Porters. The Master Porters are required to act Il ljegalar rotation. 'very Master Por .8 r s far as practicable, upon receiving Goods from any Vessel, the e imniediate notice iTo the o or consie of the goods, giv and to proceed, without delay, in wner weighing and loading off .the same, unless the Owner or Consignee of the Goods shall give notice to such Master Porter that the same 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. And in case such Goods shall not have been removed, as aforesaid, the Dock Trustees may warehouse the same in any Warehouse,, whether belonging to the Trustees or not, and Such Goods may be detained in such Warehouse, as security for all expenses payable to the Master Porters, and for all rents, ratesount expenses, payable to the Trustees, or to the in respect of such Goods, and for the - 1 Goods, upon notice to detain Owner of the Warehous Payment of the Freight of the same for such Freight. y Master Porter, after receiving Goods from any Vessel, ,►red to receive, weigh, and load off, all the Goods from - , such Vessel; Every Owner or Consignee of the entire Cargo of any Vessel may employ such Master Porter as he may think proper, for the purpose of receiving, weighing, and loading oft; the Cargo of such Vessel. Any .daster Porter may he prohibited from acting, or con tinuing to act, as a Master Porter, for such period and for such cause as may render such proceeding. necessary. Any person acting . as Master Porter in receiving, weighing, and loading off, or in employing or directing any Porter to receive, weigh, or load off, any Goods, without having given to the Trustees a Bond, with two sufficient sureties, will incur a • tot'exceeding• 450, for every such offence. • 'nal or substituted persons will, from time to time, be in pursuance of and under the the said Act, shall undertake the re- Aing off of the Cargo of any Vessel ks, Basins, or Quays of the Trustees, Ito nominated by the Owners or Consignees proportion of the said Cargo, and con ination or—if such nomination be not blade within the space of forty-eight hours next after such Vessel shall have been reported at the Custom-house—until he be thereunbi nominated by the Owner or Consignee of such a Vessel. sense, ar entitled to the litrgE eurring in such n By bider Dock Offlie. Bet DANIEL MASON, Secretary r Buildings, November 19th, 1846. A SINGLE TOOTH FOR FIVE SHILLINGS. AI[ESSRS.. COOPER and Co., SUISGEON DENTISTS, 10, Slater-streetfLiverpool, beg to inform the inhabitants of Liverpool and vicinity, that they are at length enabled of '",,AKE TEETH AVAILABLE TO ALL CLASSES; their for a Single Tooth being 55., whatever quantity may be :Zquired. This, they assure their Friends and the Public, is 'ue full price of their best Teeth; and the price can only , be Increased by expensive mountings. f ,,The mechanical drtment is filled by. first-rate workmen °ln London and Pais; and it is only the immense quantity ma nufactured that enables them to fix their prices so low. All Z o erations of the Teeth equally moderate. Filling decayed eeth with the Mineral Mamoratum, 2s. 6d. Artificial Teeth repaired, remodelled, and brought 9;..their Toliner shape and aPZarance. eY also fasten loose Teet , particularly of aged persons, Waether arising from negle , the use sf calomel, disease of the tams, or any other cause SCURVY IN THE THUS EFFECTUALLY PREVENTED. Among thQ various isorders of the mouth, there are none Anore destruetiveth Scurvy; which, on first entering the gums, es ises them ,to bleed on the most trifling occasions. A soft Lance invariably a x mnulat es around the necks of the teeth , penetratinginto the gums, which gradually waste away, and the eeth then besorne 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 net speedily removed, will be the prunary cause of tooth-ache and decay. Messrs. COOPER and Co. are happy to state that they have discovered axertain remedy for the removal of this distressing 3 alady, whith, if used in conjunction with their VEGETABLE ANOyDfa,NE TINCTURE, will entirely extirpate the complaint.— Price ss. _ Attendance daily from Ten till Seven. No connexion with Ray other House. OBSERVY :-COOPER AND CO. 10, Slater-street, next Door to the Bible DepOsitory, Observe that the Signature of the proprietor, "G. C. Serjeant," is written on the Government Stamp. Q ERJEANT'S LOTION, the only effectual Remedy against Rheumatism ? Rheumatic Gout, Sciatica, and Lum bago. Sold by the Propnetor; G. C. SERJEANT, No. I, Lo vell's-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,--I 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 was made known to me, or I might have been to this day confined to my bed. After a close 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 Medi. tine was enabled to leave London.. Fearful of another attack, You will please to send six bottles.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, D. W. STONE. 4.--Paternoster-rov. „"Sin,—Having been informed of theficrprising cure of Mr. earnes, of St, Paul's Cluirchyarth.Who was so severely afflicted 0 3 , Rheumatism, the intense in causing delirium, that lieVvas 's s : l4 /Veiled to be confined b a strait waistcoat to prevent his 1 9rnmitting any violenc and whose case was considered en tirely hopeless, Iwa • c need to ascertain the particulars, and being satisfied of truth of my 'information, encouraged me ;1.! make a trial yonr most invaluable Medicine, entertaining ilttle hopes of success, having been many years so severe a suf lerer, and tried many said to be very valuable remedies. lam lerY happy :in being able to add my testimony of the benefit derived : after a few days' application the use of my limbs are Perfectly restored, and I am now able to attend my business, Old, making an allowance for my age, never was better in my To those, however severely afflicted and hopeless their feeling • may h#e been pronounced, I beg of them to make a trial, vling quite satisfied they will be restored to the use of their n' from the severe cases that have yielded to this Medicine. Health is a great blessing 'to those who can enjoy it, but to ._uose who are deprived, none feels it so severely as the trades is""Et.n or mechanic, as it generally causes loss of business, and ''rings ruin on families. I shall at all times feel it my duty to Intake it known to those afflicted, to evince how grateful I am 1 for my restoration, and am, Sir, yours tru_y GEORGE POLLARD. October 20, 1844. 14, Belmont place, Wandsworth-road, Oct. 26, 1844. Sia,—l feel in duty bound to acknowledge, that after suffer mg acute pains from Sciatica, or severe Rheumatic affection in the hip-jorrit, and being deprived of rest, I was persuaded to try your embrocation, and have the pleasure to say that after three applications I was restored to my usual health ; and, al _ ugh two have passed am, Sir, gratefully yours, 1, I have no return of thidisoriler EDWARD NOYES. Such are.the properties of this invaluable Specific that per sons labouring under the most distressing Rheumatism, Rheu- Fla tic Gout, and Lumbago, and rendered thereby incapable of a ssisting themselves, have been relieved in a few hours. The astonishing success which has crowned the application o f this external Medicine in the most hopeless and deplorable 'eases, when the unhappy sufferer had despaired of ever gaining even the least relief, and this after the ablest .advice and every ot her means had completely failed, most justly entitles it to the a ttention of the afflicted. This excellent Medicine, so universally esteemed, is unat tended with the least danger or inconvenience, and hundreds I'ave experienced its happy and salutary e ffects since it was feast introduced. Sold by.,Pendlebury, Russell-street; Titherington, Oxford; st reet; HOgarth, - Great George-street ; Fisher, Bold-street - toupland; Parker-street ; Gerrard, Oldhall -street ; Pa rkinson, New Scotland-road; Neal, Scotland-road; Simpson, Scotland road, opposite St. Martin's Market; Mackow, Vauxhall-road; liritten, corner of Dale-street and Haymarket; Smith, Great Homer-street ; Cox, Fox-street ; Gillard, Richmond-row; Low, Islington; Walker, 'London-road; Parry, Christian-street; Wagstaff, Great George-place ; Priestley, Lord-street; Smith, Woodside , ; Price, Wavertree. (ADVERTISEMENT.) NEWS, OF THE ORIENTAL.—Those who have not yet visited the Oriental Divan, Clayton-square, should not omit an opportutunity, for the arrangements not only surpass those of every similar hotel, but the viands are of the choicest kinds. An excellent steak, cut in the London st -Yl°, with all the etceteras, is charged Bd., and it may be finished with ball-pint of splendid amontillado sherry, or fine flavoured port, for one sbilling. This is but a single article, but others are charg ed pro p ortionately low; in !lced. so low and so excellent as to have called from the l ocal press the following notices : Th e elegance with -which it is fitted, the promptitude and n eatnesswith which every thing is served up, render it the most fashionable restaurant."—Stand ard. "The di nners and suppers canaot be excelled for variety, or 4.lrness of diarges."—Albieer: "It coenolidates therstation of the proprietor as a caterer ror the po,maii• " Suitable to all etas es.—the wine is undeniable."— Times. Connoisseurs jn" oysters are invited to taste the supply, teceived . eseryAnorning fresh from Londo n, Is. 6d. per score. blepers every day from one to fi ve o'clock. Scale of charg;estlaid on each table Splendid private and Public baniard-rooms attached •J. PeeNiv, Proprietor, SAGACITVOF ROOKS.—Rooks that are much shot at, Like those at Botisham, have the grea t es t possible dread 9.f a gun.' Oft en , w h en walking in the ne i g hbourhood of the trees, I observe they suffer me to approach within a _certain distance without taking fright, though they watch or are not morn oisturoeu as alking on; but the moment. I stop, ng-stick to m y shoulder, as if about are off directly ; and the distance at te, often!corisiderably more than a is outte surprising. It is also observable, would be frightened by any one walking the trees, they will often suffer avant or ; • to pass immediately , beneath t h em, taL hout dang er the. least notice, if conscious that th ere was no apprehended from such a source.—Rev. L. ' 71 ,01 s,ni. -evferPaliolu in Art:Aral History. which hurle r that or Stn 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 ;Hey North. first space. The humble-bre is an octave lower. The I 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 Jableel to see him on Sunday. Sir Jahleel 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 ►eturned for answer that he appreciated the motive for declining his invitation, and made an appointment for a week-day. CAUSE. OF MR. ROEBUCK'S FAILURES AS A SPEAKER. As he is an intemperate man, liable to be drawn by the 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 intruded himself 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 div'sion. But still an indul- gence had been extended to him bees position. He has availed himself of th afforded him to commence a speech in which he has perbps,e dashed with a bold and vigorous hand into the very core of the subject, holding the real question at issue up, for the first time, to the attention of his audience, cleared of all the fallacies infused into it by previous speakers. To ali appearance he is carrying the House pith him. Repeated cheers hail his terse and well 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 sneer, from some opponent. This stings his amour . . propre, and off he starts, on the instant, into persopality, sometimes uttering, without adequate provocation, un endurable insults and aspersions on character. From that moment his speech, so auspiciously commenced, be comes a failure. Ills infirmity of temper once touched, he becomes an altered man There is no longer vigour, gument, or even co herency, in vc he pours p, but Mulcts 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, and his display, which, at his cotxneicement, hid brought him honour and respect, ends by vered with ridicule and contempt.—Fraser's Conley porary Orators. 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 one , still 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 Livee 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, at a glance during au hour's ramble through its busy and 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.,—the beautiful gardens, rides, and promenades, for the enje3 ~t of the living, and the chaste, classic, and soul-inspirit . ig Fhad es for the repose of the dead,—the host of. mere :a.it 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,—tbe 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 thews, sinews, mind, and deter mination of Vnglishmen 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 ston, p. 422. Tug " EMIGRANTS' LARK."—Two emigrants, a man and his wife, sailed from the Tower in the year 1834 on beard 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, banded 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 he possessed in the world—his horse and cart. Patter son was immovable. He would not sell Charley. One morning. three years after he 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 Charley 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- being oo- son. Lo!—a wonder I—suspended again outside a humble dwelling, the bird began to sing as exquisitely as ever. THE BANKS OF THE GANGES.—Doubtless most of our readers have heard of the practice which obtains with natives of Bengal in the disposal of their dead. The custom among them is to carry the corpses of their de ceased to the banks of the Ganges, where they are depo sited with all due ceremony. On the rise of the river these are carried away by its waters, and hundreds of dead bodies may be seen at a time floating on its surface, and which are carried down by the stream into the sea. The sight is said to be disgusting in the extreme; some of the putrified carcases frequently resting against the cables of the vessels anchored in the river. Did the in habitants confine themselves to the deposition of none hut dead bodies on the banks, there would not be so much cause for complaint; but it has often been found that persons supposed to be at the point of death have been thus dealt with, and that in consequence many have died who would, had they been properly cared for, have re covered. Many have been taken from the river ; but it would have been better far for them bad they died, for they were turned out of caste, and refused admittance into their own homes, it being reckoned a sign of the displeasure of the deity of the river that they bad not died and been ingulphed in its stream ! Another method in practice of disposing of their dead bodies is by incre rnation. Hitherto the inhabitants of Calcutta have been permitted to burn their dead all along the banks of the river. People at the point of death are brought to the river, and there left till they die, when they are burnt, and their ashes thrown into the stream by their friends if able to afford it, or if not, they are allowed to lie on the bank till carried away by the tide. In order to put a stop to such a murderous system, the Government have or dered that the inhabitants shall dispose of their dead at either of five " Ghats" set apart for the purpose, where their proceedings may be watched by the police. We copy the following remarks on the subject from the Calcutta Christian Advocate of the 19th ultimo :—" We have often referred to the subject of Ghat murders, and to the, propriety and importance of their suppression. Little,, if any thing, has, we believe, been attempted by the authorities. The difficulties arising out of religious prejudice, and the extent of country over which the practiCe prevails, together with the difficulty of obtaining evidence on which the murderers could be convicted, have presented an almost insuperable barrier to the com mencement of reform in this department ; we therefore bail any, even the remotest effort, tending to check a practice so fraught with mischief to the people. Our con temporaries state that the authorities have determined that for Calcutta only five Ghats shall be used for burning the dead of the city. This may bring the evil within the grasp pf the police, and, if they be on the alert, enable them to check the practice. The many Ghats and other laces a t which the funeral rites of the Hindus was per .P - -- 4 rlahle obstacle formed, was one of the most formio.u.., way of the suppression of Gbat murders. This, to some extent, and as far as Calcutta is concerned, has now been remedied. This order should be extended all along the banks of the Ganges, places should be, set apart by th government, to which the dyinv , must be brought proper officers appointed to watch the move death parties. This would at least be a check upon crime and where such a sacrifice of life is concerned, surely the funds and officers of justice could not be more humanely or l eg iti m ately omployed,".-13combay Times. onents of the 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- SALT MONOPOLY IN FRANCE, SPAIN, AND I INDIA. 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 lst, 1846, on the Death of the Bee. 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 cent., has for several years caused F.R.S., A1.R.1.A. a general outcry among all classes of the community, who We have already given a short extract from this dis. consider it one of the most prejudicial that an industrious course, but did not receive it last week in time to notice people can be oppressed with. Numerous petitions, sex- it further, and by this time it• is probably in the hands of sion after session, have been presented to the Chamber, most of our readers. The reverend preacher (who was by free-trade Peers and Deputies, emanating from the lately the vice principal of our Collegiate Institution) leading interests of the kingdom ; notwithstanding which, selected his text from the thirteenth verse of the 4th and the many promises made by Government, that a mo- chapter of the Ist Thessalonians. The object of the -- antics should take place, no reduction sermon is, in the r, vet end preacher's words, "to briefly point out the influences and tendencies of religion as re- dification o is yet mad _ Amongst the most rema is which confessed gards this life merely." cessation of sanguinary warfare, and the growing sway of maxims of international policy so widely differing from those of heathen times—the enlarging and expand ing the kinky affections of our nature, and the action of the same principles in silently but surely effecting the abolition of slavery. The reverend gentleman then con• trasts, in pointed language, the sentiments and feelings those who have had no tope in affliction, with the conso lation of those who "sorrow not even as others which have no hope," and applies the whole to the melancholy circumstances in which the congregation was placed. The arguments in the sermon, as well as its diction, are very creditable to the scholastic attainments of Dr. Booth. We give the following extracts : " It is manifestly a conceivable state of things, that obedience to the coral-lands of God, and compliance with his will, should be attended with temporal unhappiness ; that a course of well-doing should be accompanied by mental disquietude; and that, in short, the conscquencPs which under the present constitution of things almost uniformly follow from sin. should be, by some inscrutable design of Providence, connected with the fri" fitment of duty, Such a constitution of nature, although it would cast a shadow upon our path, would render it more irk some, and leave it more open to the insidious attacks of doubt, as to the reality of God's goodness; yet it would not therefore, as might be easily shown, obliterate the line of our duty, or justify us in pausing in our course., en the Divine economy is for us so happily reversed. It calls, however, for no refined exer- bstraetion to conceive a re tween religion and unhappiness, between the fulfilment of duty and temporal misery, a relation that will be found tacitly, if not expressly, assumed in almost every system of false religion which from time to time has held domi nion over the minds of men. This is the predominant idea, round which all their minor considerations and details group themselves, as round a centre. Now widely do they differ in this respect from the spirit of that teach ing which said, ' Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. and learn of me: for I am meek and lowly of hearts and ye shall find rest unto your souls yoke is easy, and my burden is light."' For my " Whether we shall live again after death, was, when revelation had not as yet been given, a favourite subject of abstract speculation with men who were raised above • their fellows by the acuteness of their genius and their vast powers of thinking. With such it was an earnest employment to find out reasons, and t 4 excogitate argu ments, and to weigh probabilities in favour of that which they fondly hoped might still be true. Yet even to rennously fought for this hope, s, refuted obj-ctions, computed ils, and:-silenced who battled witb doub probabilities, exposed c gainsayers, there was no assurance of the hope that was ittthem ; but when the clouds of adversity brooded over, or when the hour of sorrow darkened their spirit, and,hope melted away like snow before the summer's sun, their bright and dazzling speculations, the employment of a happy leisure, faded away like those bright tints which gild the evening vapours in the west, to be followed by the leaden hues of hopeless grief and incurably despondency, leaving them harassed by fears, distracted by doubts, and tor. • ,_, hope ! This dreary feeling, this sense of unmitigated despair, pervades those writings which have come down to us, in which the loss of friends, of children, of parents is lamented. Nothing can be more touchingly beautiful, nothing of human composition more affecting, than those elegies, pervaded with the spirit of woe unutterable, of hopeless, irremediable despair. For them there was no future; and the past was but a dream—a vision, bright but transitory." Stories of Female Heroism. London : James Burns, 1846. A most interesting work, the perusal of which, we trust, wiil beguile the tedium of the winter evening by many a fireside. Stories of the Crusade:. London : James Burns 1 vol. ittle vc The enterprising publisher o furnished the lovers of historical romance with a rich The stories are only two in number, and arc, therefore, not of the bald, common-place sort ususlly met with in books n•bich bear similar titles. On the contrary, they are well sustained romances, with much historical information combined with romance--such " stories," in fact, Which, before the appearance of the Waver _ and of the productions of the host of Sir Walter's irni tators, would have placed the author in a very prominent position in the world of letters. We shall endeavour on a future occasion to give a few extracts, to enable our readers to judge fir themselves of the author's style. y series, CORRhSPONDENCE. TOWNSHIP OF TRANMERE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. .' Wheel about and turn about, P(e., Jim Crow." "We understar d they (the promi.tei 'of - the district lighting) magnanimously passed resolutions to light and watch them selves, at the cost of the township."—Chronicle, Nov. 13. " We cand Illy and frankly admit that it is proposed to rate only the residents in the district for the expense."— Chronicle, Nov. 27, Stn.—Pray allow me a corner in your valuable paper. It seems that " misunderstandings are the order of the day in Tranmere," and that a Phoenix has risen to en lighten us on the subject, which he does in a very long article in the Chronicle of Saturday last. That he is well qualified to do, being himself the author of the erroneous statement given to the public, and which he now contradicts " frankly and candidly." We are now assured that the promoters of the district lighting and watchin% do not wish the township to pay for their lights and watchmen. What tort of frankness and candour Isis must be, we leave the public to form their own opinion of, when they are told that, at the commenc.ment of the last article, he in effect republishes what he afterwards so " frankly" contradicts. _ The "hole and corner meeting" seems to vex him not a little; he should have used his influence, and have prevailed, on the overseers not to call a meeting "of those rate-payers only who were included within the proposed district." But such a meeting having been called by the overseers, the rate-payers within the district met pursuant to the notice; they then demanded their re quisition, which the overseer refused to let them have ; consequently they were obliged to read the printed one which the overseers issued, and then conduct the business of the meeting in the ordinary manner. As to its being a " hole-and-co — rner" one, one would imagine that the par ties in the " public room" knew something of it, from the fact of two of the leaders of the meeiiug held there having presented to the &strict one 'a demand of poll, signed by five rate-payers. How ridiculous, then, is the pretence that the " cat was let out of the bag." The Chronicle goes on to say, " they have carried their boundary line so as to include—that is, to tax—many in dividuals who will not receive any benefit whatever from the measure, and whom it was never intended to benefit." This I most distinctly and indignantly deny, and dare him to thelproof. Such imputation ought not to pass unquestioned, as there may possibly es these some base enough to b, the strictest inquiry as to the truth of the assertion that the promoters of the district meeting were anxious to in clude within their boundary those only who were willing to tax themselves for the purpose of being lighted and watched ; and had the slightest notice been given to them that the tenant of Prospect House did not wish to be in cluded withiu the boundary, he would have been left out. Unquestionably, some persons will derive less benefit from the lighting and watching than others; hut tbis is unavoidal le, the district must have a boundary some where. But why have a district at all ?—it may be asked. For this reason :—The promoters of the measure having tried to make the act general for the whole of the town ship last year, and having been defeated, were anxious this year to avoid all, opposition by choosing, as I have said, a district where the inhabitants were willing to tax 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 he can not only find his way borne, but also write in the dark ; for had he known anything of the subject on which he writes, be 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 be 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 raise a laugh, but 'tie a pity those who made the cen tr e of calls lighting the" centre of the pool , " he may perhaps the pool the boundary of the township are long since dead ; so that the sting of his wit is unfelt. Perhaps your contemporary, " 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—that personalities and base insinuations, such as " swindling," do no harm, and overshoot their mark. In conclusion, I cannot help expressing my opinion . . heiftmr rsloacati t rgnkiir! that the Chronicle would have wetter piruseu tne Purnic by a plein statement that could not have been " misunder stood,' then by his ingenious romance, notwithstanding the refined wit, choice expressions, and greet knowletke of facts. and of the subject it displays.—Your obAieut TT7 servant, To THE EDITOR OF TH beg leave to rep through the medium of feu POOL STANDARD. t to a r, the stA rnmer and clestuutiu,. ants of this large and populous parish are plunged by the total destruction of their sole means, subsistence—the Potato. The parish is situate . m . a very remote part of the province of Colinstight, contampg a population of nearly 10,000 souls, and out of about 1,500 able-bodied appli cants for labour, little more than a third are now em ployed on public works, at the miserable pittance of Bd. per day, which, from the high price of provisions in the markets, is not sufficient to maintain and clothe one of a family. lam almost unwilling to tax the '`•,. benevolent English public, or to harrow .gs, by attempting to describe the way in ~or around me are endeavouring merely to ex- Amy families, to my certain knowledge, can only procure one. scanty meal in the day, and that often com posed of cabbage or nettles, mixed up with mill-dust. I also beg leave to state, that all this accumulation of borne with the utmost patience and resignation, and, whilst some other parts of the country are marked by turbulence and disorder, this district is remarkable for the member credniiry distress peace and quietness of the poor And when I Etate tt circle of ten Miles round me, to assist in any case of emergency, I am quite sure I need say no more in order to excite the kind feelings and sympathy of the humane and charitable. W. TYNDALL, A.M Rector and Vicar of Kilmatigue, a: , tocese o ld Rural Dean P.S. Any communication to the writer, directed, " A Clare, Ballymote, county of Sligo, Ireland," shall be most gratefully acknowledced. lexp EIBENEEP Ql3l,gallal This building, which has excited much public admira tion and curiosity, is now drawing towards completion. The site, in Walton Breck, . near Cabbage Hall, and surrounded by numerous well-wooded mansions, yillag. s, and cottages, is at once beautiful and ap propriate; and the spire, although not yet completed in its lower embellishments. is already a beautiful and pro- minent object from many points in the surroundir and undulating landscape lidivard 111 The style is the decorated of We cannot but express our admiration of this specimen of church architecture. The spire is one of the most beautiful in the diocese, in proportion and delicacy of outline. The interior, for fine perspective, with the deer chancel in the vista, is admirable. The roof (an oper one) is a most skilful piece of carpentry, entirely original ant- combining strength, ►ightness, and economy wi b ec- clesiastical character and beauty. The church is built of tht best red freestone, and of good workmanship throughout, Kneel;ngs are provided for 800, and the benches are fitteC up with Honduras mahogany, having sloping backs, and terminating with ornamental ends ; combining all the good points of ancient accommodation with mo dern comforts, no invidious distinction being made between the free and approprEted parts of the church. It struck us, however, on our cursory visit on Saturday, that there was a deficiency of light, especially i n that to officiate, the two windows in the north - and south tran septs being, we conceive, insufficient, leaving the lofty roof apparently cold and gloomy. We also observed that the whole of the windows were contracted in dimensions, with mullions and tracery of stone, so thick, that the light was obstructed. We have since learned that the now sombre hue of the walls will hereafter be super seded (when the funds will permit) by light and brilliant Mosaic work, as contemplated in the first instance, which, it is stated, will entirely obviate the defect we had as sumed. An arrangement has been made for the position of the organ in accordance with ancient custom. It is to be placed in the north east angle of the churcb, enterin from a portion of the chancel to be appropriated as t suggestion made, we believe, by the much re spected and talented Rev. Thomas Mc. Gill, late curate of the Old Church, from whom the architect also re ceived much valuable information in other r he has ably carried into effect oints which The windows, chiefly of two lights, have been glazed by Mr. James Forrest, of the Old Haymarket. The tracery in the pointed arches is filled in with heads of the apostles, and with emblemsuf the evangelists in the windows of the transepts. A fine oak-leaf-and. acorn border, executed in the primary colours, runs round all the windows, producing a neat and pleasing effect, and the whole of the glasv reflects great credit on the artist. We are of opinion, however, that in windows so comparatively small, the mullions and tracery are rather heavy, and would have preferred these of much slighter dimensions, which woul ' aye admitted a greater volume of ' '‘, ,ght, pgroculari) hrough the tracery, which appears to be rather too dense. We have learned that designs for the three chancel windows were received from several eminent artists in various parts of the kingdom, and that those selected as most appropriate were by Mr. James Balantvne, of Edin burgh, the successful competitor for the royal commission to decorate her Majesty's new palace of 'Westminster with stained glace. As these three windows are not yet fitted in, we cannot offer an opinion u playet y the artist,7—who, by the way, is the author of a neat volume on painted glass, and of a very popular work of a different description, e n titl e d . th e " Gaberlunzv's Wallet, written by Dot, and it 'nitrated by Jot." We cannot close this hasty notice without expressing our high opinion of the talent of the architect, Mr. John Hay, of this town, under whose directions this work has • • •••.40. progressed towards completion s o qu i e tl y and unas sumingly. It is in itsel' a specimen sufficient to redeem this great commercial town from the imputations of igno rance and want of taste in ecclesiastical architecture, generally thrown upon modern church builders. The church, we learn, will be. opened for divine service in January next. sagae , ete,:t (1511z:welt!, tzietatz We visited this new place of worship (on the West Derby Road, and a short distance from the village,) on Saturday, and were much gratified by a brief inspectiun of its several parts. It is situated in the centre of a rapidly improving district, which is becoming thick with princely mansions, and other tasteful rural edifices of minor dimen• sions. It will consequently be accessible to a large popu lation in the first instance, and is undoubtedly a great ornament to the neighbourhood, the handsome spire being conspicuous for miles around. The building is in a transept form, of the earliest English style of Gothic architecture, of which Salisbury Cathedral is one of the finest examples, It was in this style that that beautiful object, " the SPIRE " first pre sented itself; and its adoption at West Derby is one of the boldest and most graceful we have seen in any modern edifice. If a.iy fault can be found with its fine propor tions it is that the tower at the ba , e of the spire seems to be scarcely broad enough ; but this objection applies only to some points of view, and as a whole it is a highly at tractive and elegant object. The height from the ground to the top of the spire is between 160 and 170 feet. On entering the interior of the church, a truly pretty effect is presented, by an open roof well decorated—a spacious range of pews with low doors, and the elbows of each pew ornamented with the old poppy head—the aisles spacious —and the whole terminated by a beautiful recessed chancel, with five lancet windows of painted glass, which, combined with the corresponding side-lights, impart a warmth and cheerfulness to the church, truly pleasing. The gables of the transepts have lofty triple lancet windows stained in a similar manner. The colours of the ass are gbt, bri liant, and wel harmonized whole are introduced into cast-iron frames of a large net work pattern, of proportions so slender as to give each window the appearance of a single sheet of beautifully are introduced in the glazing, which presents a rich, uni form, and striking effect, as of tessellated or Mosaic work illuminated. The pulpit and reading desk are simple in character but seem to harmonize with the general style of the building. At the west end is a small projecting orchestra supported on brackets, leaving the tower arch open. The pews are most su ntan tially bui best pine timbe t scarcely one sitt ; and it would appear thth they cannot bear to give up the revenue arising trom this in most injurious to every branch of industry post, although The greatest sufferers are, perhaps, the curers a enterprise to French industry, but is sadly cramped b 1 this monopoly; and the Chamber of Commerce has ad dressed a memorial to the Ministers of Commerce and Finance, with the object of obtaining permission to use foreign salt during the season of 1847; the object being to employ salt from the ports of Portugal, which can be obtained for 10s. sd. per ton ; while, in France, it 40s. At present no notice has been taken of this memo rial; but the Minister of Marine has announced, as usual, that he should be ready to receive contracts for 200,000 tons of salt, to be delivered at the port of Brest. Salt is annually getting more and more scarce in France, and the greatest exertions are required to keep up a supply equal to the demand, even at the present exorbitant prices. Some rumours are afloat, of the probability that the tax will be greatly reduced in the next session, and the jai- port duty on British and Belgic salt repealed—the Minis ter of Commerce wishing to show some signs of attention to petitions so respectably and numerously signed. SPAIN also has severely suffered and still suffers from the royal monopoly of the manufacture of salt ; through it a considerable portion of the fish of the Atlantic and Mediterrantan is entirely lost, which, in a Catholic coun try such as Spain, would add amazingly to the national food ; and, surrounded as she is with prolific fishing grounds, she is actually obliged to resort to England and Newfoundland for salted codfish, an indispensible article for the fast days of the people. The following extract t works (says Townsend, w ,o wrote about 8 formerly considered as private property; but in the year 1348 they were taken by Alonzo 11., and in 1564 Phillip 11. seized them as part of his domesne. The chief of them are in Andalucia, Valencia, Catalona, and Majorca. The salt works of Matra, in the kingdom of Valencia, would easily furnish 1,500,000 of fanegas, of about 100 lhs weight, which, could they find a market, would, at 22 reas the fanega, make £330,000 per annum ; but. by rais. ing the price, they have lessened the demand, so that the of whole amount of the kingdom is o what one work alone might furnish The effect?, of the tax on this necessary of health in INDIA we have on numerous occasions adverted to—it is totally indefensible even as revenue have before shown" that it brings to t y about two-t because we venue at all— he company no re- II they gain is a positive loss; while the population of 40,000,000 of peopl ..P thw first encit of the nrl are taxed 1200 per P.-1-110 nininrit vnF whom are del.rived 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, only 163 parts; and rock salt, 164 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 toony spot on the habitable globe. Our present exports are 11,000,000 bushels annually, employing shipping to the amount of 2911.000 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 large 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. THE MERCURY! vuilsus 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 al!. "In the first place," he says, "all summonses for breaches of local acts are issued for half-past ten o'clock in the morning, arid all witnesses against pris oners in custody are ordered to attend court at the same hour. If the business commenced punctually at that hour, and was proceeded with continuously, there would, perh,ps, 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 pubhc 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 bad a few hours sleep after walking the streets for eight or nine hours during a dreary night, and are entered again for duty in !he 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 the many demands necessarily made upon his attention. The 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 brought 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 done 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. 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 each man should give one day's wages to the charity. Mr. M'Cormick, the head contractor. who had, it appeared, started the pro- ject, was appointed treasurer, and a vote of thanks was passed to him and to parties not connected with the line, who had contributed to the fund. ST. ANDuzw'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•Kepzie'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. After the dinner, speech, song. and sentiment, kept the delighted company in a " roar," and the kindly national feelings that were reciprocated , flashed to the hearts of all present—reminded of their native .' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." •FOREIGN POTATOES.—The arrivals of potatoes in 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, 14/ tons. the produce of Normandy; the Ocean, from Rotterdam, 4 hampers, 6 baskets, and 12 bags, of Dutch produce; the Rob Roy, from St. Petersburg!), 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 comprises supplies from France, Holland, Russia, Normandy, Pert , . 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. With 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 separate notice- HANDFL .—Dr. Morel!, who urnished Handel with ~etry of many of his oratorios, related to Mr. Taylor, at one fine summer morning, he (Dr. More 11) was cursed out of bed.at five o'clock by Handel, who came short distance from London. The Doc- 111 11lD ~•• _ tor went to the window and spoke to H andel, who would not k ava his carriage; Handel was at that time composing au oraturio. When the Doctor asked him what he wanted, he said--" What is de meaning of de vord billow ?" (which was in the oratorio the Doctor bad written for him.). .• The Doctor, atter iaugning at so 'amorous a season ror disturiJing him, told ban that billow meant a wave—a wave of the sea• ." Oh, de wave!" said HandO, and bade his coachman Wag' NOPi.II. asidresBing another word to the Doctor, tilk Li vEitiloOL STANDARD painted in oak. These, with s arranged, and comfortable, ti churCh is preferable - to another The accommodation is for nearly eight hundred per sons ; and galleries may be added, when required, for four or fire hundred additional sittings. This church, as we have already nnticed, is built and endowed at the sole expense of Mrs. Thornton, of " The Elms," West Derby, of whose munificence, and Chris•ian feeling it will be a lasting memorial. The architectural designs were by our talented townsman Mr. Welch. The painted glass was. we are informed, by Mr. Forrest, who has, in this instance, been eminently successful. The church will be opened in January next. It is built of fine red free stone, the walls rusticated, with the exception of the buttresses, window sides, outward decorations of the tower, the spire, &e. SALE OF CADETSHIPS.—The grand jury have returned a trn • bill for a misdemeanour against John Charretie, James Rallett, Ann Stewart, and Sir William Young, Bart., a director of the East India Company. The first three are indicted as principals, and the latter as aiding and assisting, in the sale of a cadetship in the East India Company's service, contrary to the provisions of the 49th George 111 ,c. _ _ _ - RAILWAY TAXATION.—The last returns of the follow ing leading railways for the second half-year of 1846. give the following comparisons and results, in round nirtobers : —London and North Western, 350 miles, with a 'Capital or cost of £13,000,000 ; gross receipts, above £1,000,000 dividing to shareholders, £543,929 ; paid £21,425 for local rates and taxes, and £24,582 for the government duty of five per cent, on passengers, besides property tax, income, stamps, &c., being equal to about 9 per cent. on what the shareholders divided for rates and duty. Great Western, 222 miles ; capital, £8,000,000 ; gross receipts, £496,000 ; divided to shareholders; £301,807 ; paid £15,030 local rates, and £14,748, government tax; besides, &c., eqnal to about 10 per cent on the shareholders' profit. The Midland Railway, 178 miles; capital, 2,250,000 ; gross receipts, £324,000 ; divided to shareholders, £170.200; paid £7,130 for rates, and £6,645 for govern ment tax, besides. Sm., or 8 per cent on dividend. The Manchester and Leeds, 84 miles; capital, £3,750,000; gross receipts. £153,000 ; 1.000.000 Passengers ; divided among shareholders, £86,470, after paying £4,414 local rates, and £3,464 duty, besides, &v., or 10 per cent. On a rough estimate of the 12 leading English railways (those we have enumerated among the number) of 1,250 miles (or, at 10 .es per mile. 12,500 ac Only h If a year, £75,951 localrates u d £73,177 govern proper) went tax on passengers, besides income•ta tax, stamps, &e. Estimate that for a year, and we have £152,000 and 146,000 for these 12 railways, paid in reality by the public, to local and general taxation. Esiimathi the present railways at dcuble that length of miles, gives 2,500 miles, or 25,000 acres, paying about 96 times more as many three-penceq as railways do pounds extent of land to tin local taxes, &c. I LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS LONDON CORN F,XCIIAN3 Our arrivals of EnMish Wheat du' been large from Lineninahirp which A At this day's tree foreign the transact _ a ad inquiry for Irish, a a ndecl, as t 4 French r Malting and distilling F ices. Grinding the tun For Ind per qr. tdvanCe was held fc tendance of buyers good, the beef trade in the currencies obtained on Monday 1 effected. I at which a good cleara The droves from tt Itrade was steady, and last week's Calves moved off slowly, at lat as dear. ' ' . MONEY MARKET YESTERDAY Public Securities continue buoyant cause being assigned. Consols have h 954, and for the account it 95g. The I ing only 710 pm. Bai :ock has 1 DEPOSIT OF PLAN TON PIKE ' -RIVIN ER SCHEN' The manifested 'agitation of the pu procceJ, yester lay eveuin sorily to exao Clerk of the ,riitnent and to g Eftry fac ttorded us by M Ihed in The; project c,mmences by taking the River wertb in the township of Tockhotes, in the Blackburn, and, by an embankment, acros tt abou' one-third of a mile below, a reservoir. to I)ur other s rteen chains formed across a southern a Reservoir, from the name of a It is also 'supplied by a sma Isttnoor-house Itlke br oirs will be joined by a " connect which it is purposed to h end of the Rake-biook will be in close pr from Preston to 80l unence are very numerous. ble, are the Roddl [ctive, nd, from the gh with water, led us Parish of e valley, into ivb er embankment is to be of thevalleyomd t the Rake-brook tam taken from near k and Roddlesworth eaaiug re and Hounds Hotel. The line of gut or aqueduct thence proceeds past the Ibbey Mills," when a small stream is taken. At about a and a quarter from the comencement of the works they in the township of. Withnell, " Withnell Mills," econd from whence a small stria call Hall Bleach War t he water by which stance below. the they nre supplied, at gain taking tE this extensive est Near t is made avai boundary of the township of Wheelton it is d to construct a cast khout a a r waste weir ' proposed which connects with sotr "White Coppice," forme) marked Shortly be- in the township of An zarjc, stream the parish of B are led into the ago on-le-Moors, th duct, and immediat ly below GREAT ANGI ARK RESERVOIR, 1 which is about (according to the plan) one mile and f. quarter in length ; and connected with the posited are about eight or nine small streams, from Ulu eastern side, and two 'or three brooks, together with the River Yarrow, (the water in which when we passed on the NOrth Union Railway yesterday, was mar, This reservoir is formed by an embank vallt y between the townships of Heath C township of Rivington ; and the deviated as to run acioss 43- water here de melt' low II be so arm of 3 the western s will also have to v that Anglazark, and is near I supplied by several t of the township of ss a western is connected by a gut brooks. At the ( branch of (he vale and is to be constructed a little lower down. At the main 7.7= bankinent connected with this reservoir, which is acros the valley in the township of Ilorwich, there is a tank, waste water weir, acid four filter beds beds, which ate'cieht From these filie miles from the r the main pipes commerce. Over the c of the works ton reservoir an embankment will have t ntving provide for the deviation of a road from Rivingtou. Anderton mill, about half a mile below the filter beds, the River Douglas crosses the lines of pipes, but is pre viously made available in the Rivington reservoir, and an extensive stream that joins the Douglcs below is diverted' into it a/so. At abaut nine miles and a half from [toddles worth the piping crosses the 13olton and Preston Railway; proceeding through Aspull to Hindley, the project crosses the Liverpool and Bury Railway, and being car ried through the centre of Hinder, then over a bri lge of he Wigan and Leigh Canal, at about fifteen mites from. the rise the pipes arc laid in a cutting under the North Union Railway. At the seventeenth mile the works pass through the town of Aebton-in.Mackerfield, thence through the township of Ilaydock to the south of Stanley Hall, where they cross the canal three times. and proceed by St. Helen's, the four Lane Ends, and Pres cot, both of which towns are left a little to the south. After leaving the latter town, the pipes are to be carried a considerable distance on the highway between this town and Present; at.d in this and all similar cases no lines of deviation are mark, d on the plans, it not being intended to go beyond the width of the road. On arriving at the parish of .Walton, the pipes pass on the highway between Dovecot Farm and Westfield House, from which place they proceed to the present r es e rvo i r at Kensington ; but powers are being applied for, enable the Corporaticn to construct addit;- rt and to enlarge the present ono as to render it perfectly efficacious 1 reservoirs, would contain about a I the other three e united. The River Roddlea tingatown, will be about ity of„ both th, .orks from th isitendeci new reiercoirs, one of wt much water as the pr, severally about the gut extreme leng worth to the vservoir End twen of which will be laid with pi; of the undertaking, nearly 3 and a note on the plans depc to take all brooks, streams, ar means easy, and the cutti ely heavy, inely Fat cipal streams made avi Yarrow, and the Dou they drain is about nb ount of cour CLOCK I NIGHT PLANS DEPOSITIcD UP TO El stern Ralctay—F. d, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Rail Borth Bilker London and Ncrth-Western Railwa Station Extension, and Crewe Station Extension London and North-Western Railway—Branches, De viations, and Extension of Liverpool and Manchester District. —Lime•street Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Extension of Peel Pier. Additional Railway at Kirkscar Bay, in Po Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle. -Tyne; Junction Ruilvray. Manchester S'outh Junction and Altriugham Railway —a Branch in Salford, from the London Western Railway, to join the Manch Bury Railway. Fleetwood, Preston, and West-Ridit Lester, B d Nort! lway— liery Branches Manchester South Junction and Altringharn Branch to join the Bolton and Bury Railway. Blaelcbgrn, Darwen. and Bolton Railway. Rochdale Water Works. Darwen Water Works. Liverpool Corporation Water Woeks. Lytham Water Works. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Branches Ditto ditto other Branches St. Helen's Canal and Railway. Fleetwood, Presion,and West Riding Junction Railway Burnley and Colliery Branches. Branch from East Lancashire Railway, near Burnley_ to join the Burnley Branch of the Manchester and Leeds Railway at Burnley. London and North-Western Railway— Ormskirk and Rainford Branch; ,St. Helens and Rainford Extension and Deviation; Black Brood Branch; Huytou, Prescot, and St Helens Deviation, St. Helens and Runcorn Gay Preston Brook Collie; v Branch. Deviation of North-Western Railway Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Jt wav—Deviation,.Branches, and StatiOn at B Manchester and Leed wood Extension Branch Stockport Manorial Toll —Widness Branch, ant Railway and Southport R r Water be seen, .give. tainn)Cnt, on ion Rail_ ahead_ of the S in the 1 t oricnt and et ngir of the sew them6elves is vcry excelicut ook f r a crowded attendance at this concert. to say, : wbich at her 147,1 e made ava that it