The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-08 00:00:00

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, r The usual monthly meeting of the Council took place on Wednesday, when there was a very full attendance. The proceedings of the Finance Committee, after some discussion, were confirmed. The Dock Committee's proceedings having been read, Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE moved their confirmation, and in doing so, availed himself of the opportunity to state that the rates had been completed the day before, and that they would be printed immediately and made public with all possible speed. Mr. ROBINSON . wished that somethi ng cou ld b e d one to allure more bus i ness to the Albert Dock. he Albert Dock was open to the pub open every tide, and no one could regret more tha❑ the Dock Committee that the dock had not been made more useful. The rates, as stated before, bad been agreed to, and they were now in course of being printed. They had been before every associated body in the town. As far as possible the views of the associated bodies had been adopted, and he had every reason to be would be exceedingly moderate, suf to cover the expenses of the dock. Those who had used the Albert Dock were perfectly sa tisfied, with some Few exceptions.—exceptions which had arisen mainly from the novelty of the system, and many of the servants in the warehouses not being so folly accus tomed to work at first as they were now. The committee bad received letters from different individuals expressing satisfaction at the way business had been conducted there, and they had received letters from others giving a com parative statement of the charges at other docks, with the -charge Mr. MANN sai t_ Tt gates lieve that the ra ficient, he trip at the Albert Dock ; and although the rates on ome of the goods had been reduced by the last revision, yet the expenses were very nearly the same,—in fact, he thought a little less on. cargoes from the Brazils than what they were in the other docks, with one exception— cotton. With regard to the staff, there could be no doubt that it was expensive, but no objection upon that head could be raised nut of doors. He thought the Council sad the public would be satisfied with the rates when printed and distributed ; and he also thought that if the parties would take a little trouble themselves to ascertain the way in which the warehouses were worked, and not receive, as he believed was too frequently the case, the reports of the servants they sent down to the dock, they would be perfectly satisfied. A great deal of prejudice and misrepresentation existed on the part of toremen and porters sent there with reference to the business of the dock, and they were very much inclined to raise impedi ments where there was no nec,!ssitv for them. d that t He bell Mr. H. HORNEY regret' money at less than rate of interest was only temporary y could not obtain eyed the present high said that whenever money be d—rest now given would be Mr. BRAMLEY ame plentiful, lowered rate of in He assured the Council that every possible exertion had been used by the committee to render the Albert Dock war houses as efficient as possible, but it was utterly impossible to expect, with a dock surrounded ..arehousei and with only two stacks open, that they old judge at all of its working. There was so small a portion open that they had no means of judging. There had been imp()• ted into the Albert Dock 15,320 tons. The average tonnage of the vessels that went in was 323 tons each, and the average time of discharging them was forty-one hours. If these vessels had gone into the ca sual docks thir discharge would have occupied, not forty hours, but forty days. Here, then, there was a clear gain to the ship owner, and there were numerous instances in which ship owners had spoken of the economy and the dispatch, and said that they could discharge at the Albert Dock cheaper tha❑ they could at the open docks. (Hear) Mr. Moore read a letter from Messrs. Jones, Mann, and Foster, in which they spoke of the facility afforded them at a sale of indigo at the Albert Dock, and he concluded Ilenging any one to cite an instance in which any Ling had been sent to the committee that estigated and redressed immediately. gs of the Fire Committee having been complaint in wr The proceedin read, Mr. HORSFALL moved, pursuant to notice "That it be an instruction to the Fire Committee to report upon the desirableness of holding an inquiry before the coroner in all cases of fire occurring within the borough." When he stated, that during the last five years not less than a aPillioia of property had been destroyed by fire in Liver pool, be thought the Council would be disposed to enter all calculated to arrest the progress Ain any proposition uch a state o judicial inq all cases of tir gases of fire on the very 13 Mr. RATRBONB explained, and said that in the re marks which had fallen from him, he never meant them to apply to Mr. Horsfall's tespected father. But there were a great many abuses under the unpaid magistrates of Liverpool. (Loud cries of no," and "yes.") Sir T. BRANCKER had been an unpaid magistrate, and knew of no abuse; and he thought the charge very un just, and very unworthy of Mr. ttatbbone. Mr. H. HORNBY disagreed with Mr. Ratbbone, be cause he believed the former magistrates of Liverpool discharged their duties admirably. Mr. HOLME regretted that any subject connected with the solemn administration of justice should be treated with any degree of lightness, and that the dignity of the council should be lowered by any personal remarks what ever. It had been his misfortune to be summoned, not only before Mr. Rushton, but before the magistrates of by-gone days, and while he would yield to no man in admi ration of the independent way in which Mr. Rushton per formed his duty, at the same time, he was only stating what he knew, in saying, equal independence and justice were evinced by magistrates in former years. With an in creasing population of three hundred thousand, and the great increase of informations which must take place, it would be utterly impossible for any man, whatever his physical strength, to undertake the labour that must be laid on the stipendairy magistrate in that borough, for some time to come. There were great complaints in Toxteth-park, especially amongst the timber merchants, of being dragged up to the Town-hall; and kept one or two hours waiting for their summonses. He trusted the courts would be entirely removed fro that neighbourhood, and either that they would centralize them or erect one at the north and another at the sc nth end of the town. When the subject came fully before them he would be prepared to go more into detail, but at present he should have been glad if a committee had been appointed to inquire into the whole of the circumstances of the case and to report at a future day. He believed the town, if appealed to, would decide in favour of pro viding an assistant by an enormous majority. It was not the magistrates, but the Council who would have to pay the increase, and the Chairman of the Finance Commit tee told them they bad no funds to pay for the most pal try improvements. Mr. Hall, as efficient a magistrate as ever sat in a chair, had only £l2OO. and other police ma gistrates had only £lOOO. He believed he was correct in saying Mr. Maude, of Manchester, had only £l2OO, and he did think Mr. Rushton, with all his merits, who re ceived £lOO a year more, could scarcely be said to be underpaid. Mr. Arius: was satisfied Mr. Rushton did render the bench of magistrates at the present day almost an hono rary office, but he wa. also satisfied there was not an in vidual member who sat beside him who did not acknow ledge the admirable manner in which he presided. His fame was not confined to Liverpool, but had spread throughout the country. He did not att3mpt to say Mr. Rushton was overworked, but if any person were there to argue on that ground, he (Mr. Aikin) was prepared to show he was paid less for the work done than they would find paid to a similar officer in any borough or town in the kingdom. If they took the amount of work, the way in which it was done, and the expense of doing it, they would find that, although Mr. Rushton got £lOO a-year more, yet the expenses of the whole establishment were less, owing entirely to the manner in which he conducted the business of the court. The subject then dropped, it being understood that Mr, Sands will bring forward a by-law next Council day. IRELAND, The Limerick papers contain accounts of a very despe rate attempt to assassinate a gentlemen of the county of Clare, for sending his wheat to market. A man named Connor died on Wednesday, at Skib bereen, of exhaustion, nine days wages being due to him from the board of works. Skibbereen workhouse has been closed against further admissions, the number now within its walls being 828, of which 130 are in the fever hospital. The deaths are daily increasing. _ The Cork repealers are quite dissatisfied with Mr. O'Connell's unmeaning reply to their address for recon ciliation of the Young and Old Ireland parties. They be lieve Mr. O'Connell determinedly adverse to the re-union. An Irish landholder. in a letter to the Times, asserts that much of the waste land in Ireland consists of peat, possessing a strong antiseptic principle, which will require great expense to reclaim, and continual cost to prevent its falling back into its old state. ADDRESS TO TOE LANDED PROPRIETORS.-Mr. Ralph Osborne, M.P., has just issued his " manifesto" directed to " the proprietors of small landed estates in Ireland." Mr. Osborne complains that this class i s unre presented in thelmperial Parliament, and on this ground, besides others, he conceives that, even yet, there is ample time for holding the meeting in Dublin which was prema turely, he thinks, abandoned on the appearance of Mr. Labouchere's letter. THE GUN TRADE! ! !—Since the 3d of last month, we understand, that ONLY one thousand one hundred and thirty•eight stand of arms have been disposed of in Clon mel. The trade, it will be seen, is brisk, and the price moderate. A man can procure a very handy gun for 18s. The " Fowlers" on Sunday last were most industrious ; from day dawn they fired away, and scarcely five minutes elapsed without " a bang." Prospects are cheering ! Tipperary Convtitution. At the usual weekly Repeal Meeting, on Monday, Mr Ambrose Sullivan, an attorney, was in the chair. Mr. O'Connell repelled the " lying" atta .ks made upon him by The Times respecting his tenantr3 ,—urged the work ing out of repeal,—enlarged on the terrible prospects of the country.-.-denounced the Tories. 0 ranaemea. phYsiosi force, and the patriotic pretensions of the Young Ire landers,to whom he attributed the" arming in the South," —and concluded by referring to his measures for national relief, especially the protection of tenants. The rent was only £46 14s. sd. END OF REPEAL.—Conciliation Hail has at length confessed its bankruptcy. Mr. O'Connell made the fol lowing statement of insolvency on Monday. We give his words as they are reported in the Freeman:—" Before we proceed further in the business of the day, I wish to state as a matter of fact, for the information of all whom it may concern, that the tenth general audit of accounts of this association is now completed—the vouchers all authenti cated and signed, and the balance struck (cheers). lam sorry to say that the balance is in my favour—the associa tion owes me £97 10s. 9d." Here then is the end of the monstrous system of embezzlement which has already swallowed the large sum of three hundred thousand pounds ! Considerable more than a quarter of a million vanished, and the association actually in debt !_ MONSTER MEETING OF THE "YOUNG IRELAND" PARTY.—On Wednesday evening the appointed meeting of Young Irelauders was held in the great room of the Rotunda, Dublin, which was crammed to overflowing with a body of men—the great majority of whom had the ap pearance of the best class of tradesmen. On the plat form was assembled about two hundred gentlemen, many of whom were active members of the Repeal Association, and of the 'B2 Club. This room is capable of accommo dating two thousand persons, and it was inconveniently filled all night. The speeches of Messrs. O'Gorman, Meagher, and Doheny, of Kithers O'Carroll and Meehan, were really finished and most exciting harangues. One of the priests spoke to the piety of Mr. Duffy, which, it seems, was never questioned except by Mr. O'Connell ; the other (Dr. O'Carroll) testified that the bishops were far from being unanimous with O'Connell, and that some of them had, even at his own (DA% O'Carroll's) table, professed himself a Young Irelander. ngs. His proposition was, that a I take place before the coroner in y shou They were are of the fact that most ge that in design or neglect ; and Il l iry of this kind would take place, would be the means of causing greater care on the one hand, and very probably of acting as an entire preventative on the other; and where fires should have *risen from purely accidental circumstances, much valua -itific information would be elicited relative to , us causes of combustion and the mal-con- struction of flues ' f r. EARLE seconded the motion, which, after a few of it from Mr. H. Hornby and Mr. looted. CLERK then read tt resolution of the ma- Council to consider the pro- :on's salary aid he was sure thnt the communication I be received by the Council with all that respect sting from the magistrates was en iys received. They could not come ment of the matter that day, for, if wreased at all, a bye-law would it effect at the next Council meet 'y express their sentiments on the MAYOR oything iy definitive se he salary was to but they could fr PARKER r e as to a point of order, and wished to netnbers of the Council who were ma had, as it were, prejudged the case, y to'a question from Mr. Nicol the TOWN id that an increase of salary t o M r . R us h ton 3e same amount to his ig was, first of all, to g the amount of salary. On that bye retary of state, her Majesty 1 in case of any fresh va- the Council to p ald have to be made. t the next Council meet abmit a bye-law and move that the salary HODGSON addressed the Council at great length. cate for paying every officer of the Id handsomely, because if the hey ought also to have the spirit nd adequately. But, in the pre seriously consider the propriety might act as an example to other e, as a magistrate, had not been th the meeting of the magistrates 'as adopted. (Oh oh ! from Mr. fore, the magistrates were called recommendation to increase the )f the Gaol, and the notice spe . In this case he had received .n applied .to directly to attend, ted that as he was to be a he could not be an advo re. He mead not in the )fficial management of Mr. (Mr, R.) was paid less Lanced were paid else ase at once ;" but he Rushton's salary ex- Corporation liberall Council had the func ry man fully ing a salar: s of the count at all ma f the Governc ri. If he f I by or mnds the largest remuneration untry. Mr. Hall, for of London, had only ted the affairs of the rates, he had done .e than . and if more exertion was re ole time could fairly and reason question was not one of salary nerous than he could be reason th, by all means, let assistance lie was not for appointing atipen having the 36 borough magistrates of the town in a sepa- nominally beside was don DREADFUL MURDER.—On Sunday, the 22nd instant, before eight o'clock at ❑ight, an armed body of men, amounting to between 30 and 40, supposed to be from the county of Westmeath, travelled the neighbourhood of ut if he was Castle Wilder, Foxhall, Longford, &c., in the south of this county, and visited several farmers' houses, inquiring of them it they had paid their rent,—and, on being told " No," ordered them not to do so, on pain of being *main visited and punished for it. On coming on towards the residence of J ohn Flood, of Ardanra, he being alarmed by the barking of his dog, went and opened the door, and demanded what the ruffians wanted,—when three or four of them came over to him, and, attempting to force in through the door, he defended himself, and with a shovel parried with a man who had a long gun, but who, finding ihe had .referred. He con sine that had been resorted ho wanted places m persons acquainted Ir. Rushton ar of the increa I the man in broad cloth revel, whereas a poor devil punisted." Mr. Rathbone d poor, radicals and ice with the firmness Id kind feeling of a ct from Mr. R. could not go the full ;baracter. He readily hrough more cases te. Th ndiary, ber of cases which 23,743, t year, was 1g that h the tt ,t four mlnutes to hea ix magistrates who and did nothing but sign declared he spoke the senti- Thabitants, when he said that ryas rel s. The old magistrates were to members of the old corpo hose gentlemen who sneered r duty, they might save an enor ilification for magistrates then ; now, they were made 3 into a number of figures ving to the public if Mr. . rarlier entE 'e would be a d it ill became Mr. Rathbone to asibtrates of former days, who had ntously. Hi s (M r. Horsfall'a) fa these magistrates ; the Mayor's fa r of them ; and he called upon Mr. iate the charge about broad cloth GGILI The remark was unbecoming the of a gentleman, and the dignity of a magistrate. of opinion that there must be a separate court. Mr. HOUGHTON was in favour of the increase. ie to su dropped - down and died in half an honr. Flood was a married man, in middling comfortable circumstances, and has left a wife and eight children. DREADFUL DESTITUTION.—At one of the inquests at Skibbereen, last week, on the bodies of persons died from starvation,. John M'Carthy, one of the witnesses, said, " Michael M'Carthy died last Monday week in his house at Litter. Previous to that he was an healthy man, and _on the Adrigole-road. I worked on the same road, which was two miles from our house. We as work were four weeks at work before he died wages for a fortnight before he died. On the Thursday before he died he ate some bread on the road. There were three pints of flour in a cake for me and my father. He did not come home that night, having taken a lod ging near the road at 3d per week. Neither he nor I ate anything that night. We went to work on Friday without any breakfast, not havine anythinz to eat. In evening I Kent and bought a- ?id: cake, which vided with my father ; I paid for it ; my father had the money in his pocket ; I pledged my jacket for 6d. on Saturday, having left the road at twelve o'clock to come 'ell on the work since two o'clock the day before, and then I came and pledged my jacket ; I was hungry myself, but bought a halfpenny cake for myself." LIBERALITY !—Lord Monteagle has been sending cir culars round Ireland wherever he holds an acre or owns a tenant, containing a receipt for cooking Indian corn 'he sent the corn with it, d be entit be telling the wretched creatures how they might he com fortable, when he does nothing to provide them with the means. The Armaph Gazette says :—" On Sunday morning week, as Mr. Lister, the curate of Shanagolden Chapel, had just commenced the performance of his cle rical duties, a document was handed to him, on the seal of which the coronet of the ct-devant Spring Rice dis played its . broad proportions. Knowing the state of destitution with which the poor creatures on the Mont eagle estates are at present struggling, Mr. Lister tore open the despatch, expecting to find a check for some £2OO or £3OO, or an order for an equivalent value of meal; but on the contents being turned out he found— a receipt for cooking Indian corn !" Now, as we have said, the receipt is very good if they only had the corn to try it on ; but without tl•at, no stomach will be the fuller for his lordship's unproductive attention to its wants. Very different is the conduct of other members of the nobility, as thus described :—" The Dowager Lady Cale don has given a sum of £5OO to be expended in purchasing clothes and provisions for the indigent poor on his lord ship's property, and Lady Caledon has given £75 for a similar purpose." THE LtVtiii , stiOL gTAMIAttn. LAW INTELLIGENCE. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, Mr. W. J. O'Connell obtained a verdict of £5O damages against Mr. Fergus O'Connor, for a libel published in the Northern Star. _ _ . The case of Mr. Russell, vocalist, against Mr. Smith, vocalist, was dissolved on Tuesday, in the Vice-Chancel lor's Court, Mr. Russell not having complied with the requisite formal conditions. THE LAW OF MARRIAGE.—Mr. Aspinal, a member of the northern circuit, has arrived in Manchester, with a commission to institute enquiries into the effects of the present law with relation to the marriage of widowers with the sisters or more remote female relatives of their de ceased wives. The statute of 1835 is supposed to have prohibited them. The number of such marriages in Manchester is stated to be upwards of five hundred. The subject is a most important one, and application will be made to Parliament in the ensuing session to legalise such marriages. Dr. Thorburne, of this town, who is now a member of the Temple, is sitting at Bristol as a legal commissioner, to receive information on the subject. IMPORTANT DECISION.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, the right of aliens to be members of incorporated joint-stock companies was brought before the court on demurrer on a mandamus issued against the of ficers of the customs at Liverpool, for refusing to grant a British register to the Escuador, the last steamer built for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, on the ground that some of the shareholders were foreigners. All the bearings of the case were ably and fully argued pro. and con.; and the precise and lucid judgment delivered by Lord Denman, not only decides the special case, but es tablishes a most important general principle in interna tional law. The mandamus is issued. The question was raised under the Navigation laws. IMPORTANT TO THE SHIPPING INTEREST.—The first cause under the Wreck and Salvage Act, which came into operation on the Ist of October, was tried in the Admi ralty Court, on Tuesday, by Dr. Lushington. It does appear from this particular case, that the fees under the Act operate greatly to the prejudice of the shipowner, merchant, or underwriter, where the property saved is of limited amount. In this case, the ship, the Aurora, is valued at £lOOO ; the fees amount to £45, charges £lO 14s. 2d., and 5 per cent. on net proceeds of sale of £4O, altogether £lO5 14s. 2d., or 104 per cent. Had the value of the property saved been £lOO,OOO, the fees would not have been greater, inasmuch as they are the same for all sums above £6OO, and only half the amount when under £6OO. Whether the working of the present act will be found an improvement upon previous enactments, time only will show. We are informed, however, that there is some doubt entertained of its effi ciency by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and that they have determined at present not to make any further appointments under it.—Shipping Gazette. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. INDIA The Overland Mail arrived on Tuesday. It brings se veral items of important intelligence. The insurrection in Cashmere is said to be nearly at an end. Sheik Emaurn ood-Deen has again temporised and made a show of yield ing. and has even withdrawn his troops from the siege of a small fort called Hubree Purvut. But the winter is about to set in, and then the greater number of the passes from Jamoo into the vale of Cashmere will be closed, and the Sheik, unless dispossessed previously, may laugh for a time at the armies sent to attai.k him. In the meantime there are considerable forces in movement towards Cash mere. The movement shows that the Governor-General ano the Commander-in-Chief look upon the proceedings at Cashmere as of great moment. There was an impor tant discussion going forward at Madras, where the Go vernment had removed the whole of the Judges of the Suddur and Foujdaree Adawlut, the upper courts of the Hon. Company. The cause of this removal was the de cisions of those courts in favour of the natives, and against certain acts of the missionaries at Tinnevally. The whole matter has been referred to the Court of Directors. In Bombay another subject of interest has been created, in consequence of the trial being ordered of a civilian of high standing for supporting a widow against some acts of op pression by a native functionary, who has since been dis placed. The mere words of the judge in expressing his convictions are the groands of this trial, which has not yet been brought forward. Sir H. Roper left Bombay on the 2nd of November, and Sir D. Pollock was to be sworn Chief Justice on the 3rd. Great curiosity existed to know who would be named Governor of that presidency, and also who would be next Commander-in-Chief. The mon soon burst at Madras with extraordinary violence. The fall of rain within 24 hours up to noon of the 21st was 17i inches. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA By the royal mail steam-ship Britannia, which left Boston on the 16th ult , and Halifax on the 18th, we have advices from New York to the 15th nit. inclusive. She reached this port on Tuesday morning about 7 o'clock, having made her passage from Halifax in twelve days. The Great Western steam-ship had not arrived at New York on the 15th, but was anxiously looked for. _ _ The packet-ship Liverpool from this port arrived at New York on the 14th ult. - _ The rates for sterling exchange had for several days been steadily declining, notwithstanding a fair demand. Quotations ruled about A per cent below those current at the departure of the previous steamer. Domestic ex changes continued dull, and the quotations were merely nominal. During the two or three weeks prior to the Britannia's sailing, upwards of seventy square rigged vessels cleared from New York, destined for Europe, loaded with flour and grain, (and one carrying out threz hundred barrels of onions,) scarcely one of which had left the bay on the 15th ult. owing to the bad weather. Accounts from Monterey of the 16th October, state that fever and ague were spreading rapidly through the United States army. About 2000 mules had been hired at Monterey for the use of the army, and 1500 had arrived from Camargo. An American mail from Camargo for the army, was taken by the Mexicans and forwarded to Santa Anna. A later mail from the same place had also been captured by the same force. An end had been put to the neutrality of Yucatan. and in consequence of an order from the secretary of the Treasury the United States Marshal at New Orleans bad seized a Yucata nese schooner, called the Ventura, which had arrived from Campeachy. She had 7000 dollars in specie, but these had been landed prior to the seizure. An other letter, received from Monterey, states that there never was seen a more starved and famished set of men than the American soldiers, and hunger, it was said, was making greater slaughter than all the efforts of the enemy, The Mexicans were not at all disheartened at the result of the battle of Monterey, but resolved to fight to the last. On the 25th September General Kearney left Santa Fe for California, taking with him about 400 men mounted on mules. The route of this small command was consi dered by many of the oldest and most experienced moun taineers as one of great hardship and suffering. Every thing was tranquil at Santa Fe on the 27th September, though a very current rumour existed that the Armijo family would endeavour to excite the population to open resistance as soon as General Kearney and the regular troops of the United States had left that part of the country. Gen. Kearney, by printed proclamation, had organised a government and appointed cfficers to execute the laws of New Mexico. Col. Doniphan's re giment had obtained permission of Gen. Kearney to march to Chihuahua, and effect there a junction with Gen. Wool. Provisio. s were very scarce, the army being obliged to subsist from July to the last of September without sugar or coffee, and on half rations of flour. An extra of the New Orleans Picayune, of the 7th ult. contains It from the squadron, dated off Anton Lizar- On the 13th all was bustle and preparation for an at tack o❑ Alvarado. For a month previous the sailors had been drilling for the attack, and were eager fur the fray. The Mexicans had a battery of te❑ guns at the mouth of the river.—On the 14th sailing orders were counter manded, the wind blowing too fresh for operations. On the 15th they sailed, but anchored again the same day, within ten miles of the mouth of the river. There was a heavy swel On the morning of the 16th, steamer Vixen, and cutter McLane, towed by steamer Mississippi, anchored at long- shot distance, and commenced their fire. The Comm 6 dore leading, in the Vixen, with the rest of the force fol lowing, passed by the fort—each vessel firing her broad side as she ranged ahead, with little or no effect, owing to the great distance. A long eighteen of the cutter Forward sent a shot directly into the fort. The shot was repeated with great effect. In the meantime the Mississippi had losed up, and was exploding her I'aixhans effectively mage to the fort During the morning several of cur boats sounded with in half a mile of the fort, and were fired upon, but re- At 1 p.m. the'line was formed, the steamer Vixen tow ing the gun-boats Reefer and Bonita ; the McLane, schooner Forward and gun-boat Petrel, two launches, three cutters, and a barge containing a force destined for boarding the vessels of war, brought up the rear. The Vixen and her tow passed the bar, and took a position within point blank range ; but the McLane stuck so fast that the Commodore was unable to bring up all his force, or stand the enemy's twelve gun battery, and was obliged to ietreat. The force in the boats was exposed to heavy fire, but none were hurt. The McLane is pronounced an abominable abortion. When she got afloat again, Captain Howard offered to make another attempt to pass the bar, but the Commo- of the 16th, the cutter Forward, gu n _ eefer, and Nonata, under Commodore Perry, left Anton lizard°, for an attacK c Two prizes had been taken, one the Cooza, and the other a 'Yucatan schooner American bark PASSENGERS PER BRITANNIA. --Fr om Boston :—Messrs. Fischet and lady, R. A. Silam?, G. Thompson, Tinson, Capt. Usher, G. Black, ship builder, Quebec, J. Robinson, E. Varnish, J. Moore, (Manilla). Chrs. Phillips and lady, Robt. Jackson. J. Lederer, G. Beswick, A. Bell, G. Burgess, Kamike, G. Happer Henry Wykoff, E. Mailiana, F. Stewart, 5211 d, Light Infantry, F. Thompson, Little.—From Halifax t—Robt. Morrow, Duff, 89th Regiment, Wilmott, Romer, 14th Regiment. LIST OF The New York Herald of Nov. 15, gives a list of ten candidates for the next presidency ; six whigs, Daniel Webster, J. M. Clayton, Henry Clay, J. J. Crittenden, John M'Clean, and Winfield Scott; and four democrats, Lewis Cass, Silas Wright, J. C. Calhoun, and Samuel Houston. FOOD.—We hope the news by this steamer will enable the hungry Eastern nations to see, that we shall have as much food to spare during the coming winter and spring, as we may have ships to carry away. Our new crop of Indian corn has none of it been shipped as yet, and it is a vast crop. It will be coming forward along through the middle and southern States, and pouring down the Missis sippi, all winter. The northern canals will be closed for several months, but during those months the supplies will come from more southern outlets. Our exports, there fore, will only be limited by the means of exportation.— New York Journal of Commerce, 14th ult. ---..4*.- -- L'lndicatore, a Maltese journal, says that there are 40,000 church-goers in New Zealand who once lived upon human flesh, and in the practice of idolatry. According to Mr. Wise, the American minister in Bra zil, 64,000 slaves were imported from Africa last year, and 5,000 since the month of August, all in American vessels. There is now a conference of learned Jews at Munster, Germany, to deliberate on a reform, adapted to the times, of their form of worship. The Duchess of Montpensier, the great court lionne at Paris, is thus described :—" Although she possesses no excess of beauty, her appearance is altogether pleasing She has a fine southern eye, and a rather prominent nose. In size, she is a little taller than the Duchess d'Aumale, but much firmer set, and appears ten years older than she really is—a difference, at her tender age, she can advantageously support. She speaks little or no French; and as the duke, her husband, does not know a word of Spanish, they converse together in Italian." UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS. The Bishop of Gibraltar is taking measures for raising funds for the erection of a Protestant Church at Corfu. The Rev. W. Dalton, of Pembroke College, Oxford, incorporated from Trinity College, Dublin, has had con ferred on him, by the former college, the degree of Bache lor of Divinity. The foundation stone of a fifth church to be erected by the Manchester Ten Churches' Association, was laid by the Ven. the Archdeacon, in Butler -street, on Wednes day last The Bishop of Exeter has instituted a commission to inquire into a charge against one of the clergy of his dio cese, of having solemnized marriage between parties not resident in the parish. The commissioners have reported that, as the clergyman had not inquired for parties at their residences, and as it was not his custom to do so, a prima facie case had been made out for the prosecution of fur ther proceedings. THE CURT FASHIONABLE WORLD. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived on Tuesday at Arundel Castle after a very rapid journey from Osborne House during which they were received with every demon stration of loyalty and respect, more especially from the people of Chichester and Arundel. The Royal travellers were again fortunate in having splendid weather—a sharp frost, out a clear and brilliant sun. The Royal party left Osborne House at half-past twelve, crossing to Ports mouth in the Royal yacht, and then proceeding through Emsworth and Chichester, to Arundel Castle, where they were received by the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk. The royal party were engaged daily in inspecting the various objects of interest in the immediate locality; among the guests invited to meet Her Majesty were the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere. On Thursday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, and a large party of the dis tinguished personages, went to Petworth House, to honour Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham with a visit. The royal party reached Petworth about half-past one o'clock, and returned to the castle from Petworth House at a quarter to three o'clock, and immediately after lunched with the guests in the dining-room. Her Majesty and the Prince, in the afternoon, proceeded to the lawn be neath the keep, and there planted two oak saplings, in the presence of a numerous circle of the nobility staying at the castle. After which, the royal party went to the ancient church of Arundel, adjoining the park. The Duke of Wellington and the Countess of Ellesmere were out taking equestrian exercise nearly two hours, and re turned to the castle shortly before two o'clock. Her Majesty left on Friday morning for Osborne House. On Friday Sir Robert Peel gave a soiree at Drayton Manor, the distinguished party numbering upwards of one hundred and fifty, and including members of the principal families in that and the adjoining counties. The Collins Family were present on the occasion. It is said that the validity of the marriage of the Mar quis of Tweedale, father of the Marchioness of Douro and the Countess of Dalhousie, is disputed by a lady who claims to have been previously married to the Marquis by the law of Scotland. Shoula this claim be established, it is understood that the succession of the title would be al tered, as the legitimacy of an elder brother would be esta blished. .RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE The number of railway plans Deposited with the Board of Trade last week amounted to 291. Mr. Watson, the locomotive engineer on the Chester and Birkenhead line, has resigned the situation, in conse quence of having been appointed to the same situation on the East Lancashire line. The meetings of the Birmingham and Oxford and Bir mingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley, on Friday, at Birmingham, severally confirmed the agreements entered into with the Great Western by their directors for the sale of both lines to the latter company. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednesday, an ac tion was brought by a man named Wareham, against the servants of the Great Western Railway Company, for false imprisonment, arising out of the celebrated robberies nn that tine. The jury, on a majority of the counts, gave him a farthing damages. On Thursday, at meetings of the shareholders of the Birkenhead and Chester Railway, and Cheshire Junction Railway, the amalgamation of the two companies was agreed to, on the terms which we announced a week or two since. Mr. Bentham spoke against the measure • but when the question was put to the vote, only four hands were held up against it. The Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal have assented to the lease of the London and North- Western, expressing at the same time their wish that the proposed dividend of seven-tenths of the larger company's dividend should be considered as a fixed seven per cent. dividend instead, and that the new branches should be in cluded in the agreement. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.—On the Ist of Ja nuary no goods trains are to run on the London and North-Western during the day, arrangements being in progress for conducting most if not the whole of the traf fic during the night. To facilitate this object, and enable the directors to run additional trains during the day, the company intend to take the carrying business into its own hands after that date. The Great Western held a special meeting on Friday, to consider the leasing of the Birmingham and Oxford and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley, and to sanction parliamentary proceedings for powers to make a number of other new lines. Mr. Williams, M.P. for Coventry, pointed out the expediency of a truce between the Company and its rivals the London and North-Western and South-Western. The proposal for leasing was carried by an overwhelming majority. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN.—fn the cause, Lee v. Nicholson, the jury have returned a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff is a surveyor, and the defendant provisional committeeman of the Southern Counties Union. The action was brought to recover compensa tion for services and labour. The plaintiff was employed by the committee, and in order to fix the defendant's liability, it was shown that he assented to be named on the provisional committee ; and a letter was put in con taining his assent thereto, in which he describes himself as a " promoter" of the scheme ; and he subsequently, as a provisional committeeman, applied for shares, which were allotted to him. Mr. Justice Cresswell said he would be guided by the recent decision of the Court of Exchequer, and ruled that there was no evidence of the defendant's liability. enteral ,iiiiiszellanp. By the death of John Barneby, Esq., M.P., a vacancy is caused in the representation of East Worcestershire. The convict Barber, is about to receive a tree pardon, on condition of not returning to England. In 1845, there was not a single stock or share-broker among the bankrupts; in 1846 there were thirty•six. The Vice-Chancellor has granted an injunction, at the suit of Mr. Spottiswcode, to restrain a man named Clark from publishing an imitation of the Pictorial Almanac. Tlie Morning Post denies positively that any morning paper is about to pass into the hands of the Roman Ca tholics. At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, the Copley gold metal was awarded to AL Le Verrier, on .... _ __ . . i;half it was received by Sir J. Herschel The Morning Herald asserts " with the utmost confi dence" that the Government has no intention of " pro posing any scheme of National Education." There is a rumour that Lord Morpeth, on the part of the Government, is negotiating the purchase of the house where Shakspeare was born. The average price of wheat, according to the Gazette, at the present time, is only two shillings per quarter higher than at the same period last year. .. It appears that 37,500 'tons of china-clay are annually shipped from the neighbourhood of Poole, Dorsetshire, to the Potteries, and that the value of this export must amount to nearly £50,000. The step taken by Lord Ponsonby, of paying his re spects to the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, after refusing to attend the public levee, is said to have been disapproved of in high quarters. A few dAvs since, an old lady, at Clerkenwell, who was engaged in a law-suit, suddenly fell down and expired. She had given way to a great depression of spirits, and the jury returned a verdict, that the deceased had died from over anxiety of mind. _ _ _ At the Salford sessions, on Monday, James Seddon, the lad who was charged. and acquitted for the murder of the " blacking-boy " at Greenheys, near Manchester - found guilty of felony, and sentenced to ten years' trans portation. Mr. Markham, whose violent attack on a fellow-pas senger, and extraordinary escape from a railway train while labouring under attack of brain fever, recently at tracted so much of public observation, is now restored to perfect health, and has left town to rejoin his family. His Excellency the Count de St. Auliare, the French Ambassador, arrived at his residence in Manchester square on Monday, from the Continent.—[This puts an end to a dispute that has been going on between the morn ing papers, as to whether the noble count was to be su perseded.] _ _ _ _ The Rev. Hobart Seymour, in a letter to the Morning Post, reiterates his assertion respecting the offer of secrecy made by Mr. Lisle Phillips to Mr. Merewether in the event of the conversion of the latter to Rome, and also that respecting the " thirty clergymen " prepared for perversion. The village of Upton, near Blewbury, Berks, fise had an awful visitation by the spread of a contagious fever. It first manifested itself about a month ago, in a cottager's family, and such has been its rapid and extensive spread since, that up to Saturday last no fewer than thirty-two deaths had arisen out of a village population of 150. The disease, we regret to add, is still raging. Captain Warner's long range was officially tried on the estate of the Marquis of Anglesey, on Wednesday, when the experiments failed. The object against which the missiles were to be projected, was a solitary tree, at the end of a valley eight miles long. On no occasion did the shell reach three miles. The object was, of course, out of sight, but its bearings were given to Captain Warner. This much-agitated question is therefore set at rest. Last week, a wag entered a small village in Oxford shire, and informed the inhabitants that he was a govern ment barber, sent from London to cut all the poor people's hair, gratis, it having been ascertained to be the most effectual way of keeping off the cholera, which had already made its appearance. The fellow succeeded in carrying away with him sufficient hair to make several wigs, and the deluded people were obliged to set to and make warm caps to defend their bare heads f:oaa the cold which set in nexi day. DISMISSAL OF THE CHAPLAIN OF CHESTER CASTLE. —At the Cheshire adjourned sessions, held at Knutsford, on Monday, a report was read in reference to an investi gation that had taken place respecting the Governor of Chester Castle. The Chaplain, Mr. Eaton, it appears, had preferred seven charges against Mr. Dunstan, the governor; but being unable to sustain them, the report recommended the chaplain's dismissal. A long conver sation ensued, but the report was eventually confirmed. A motion was then made to dismiss the governor, but it could not be entertained without notice. DREADFUL FIRE.—On Wednesday, a fire broke out at 31, Calcraft-terrace, New-cut, Lambeth, known as the Exhibition of Nature and Art, the property of a Mr. Fer gusson. Although there was an abundant supply of water, the exhibition was of so inflammable a character, the figures being composed principally of wax, that the build ing became fired from the ground floor to the roof before a drop of water could be discharged into the place. A female dwarf named Robertson was burnt to death, and it was feared that a daughter of Mr. Fergusson's house keeper also perished. The loss is calculated at £lOOO. EARLY CLOSlNG.—Several meetings were held last week in favour of this object. At one of them resolutions were passed to the effect that the early closing movement had now become a national question, which it was in cumbent on the assistants to keep alive by agitation, and that, in order to agitate the subject effectually, and place the assistants on a firm and lasting basis, it had become necessary that greater support should be secured, in order to which the meeting pledged itself to raise the sum of one hundred pounds, for the double purpose of discharging its liabilities and keeping the subject continually before the public. This certainly is the only way of securing success. A basket, which had been sent from Nottingham to London by railway, some time ago, and returned to the former place, as no owner could be found, was opened at the parcel office, at the Nottingham station, on Friday week. It was found to contain a dead infant. Under neath the infant was a quantity of clothes and straw, and a letter addressed to " W. J. Smith, Esq., Suffolk." The letter was in a decent handwriting, and from a young fe male in a village within six miles of Nottingham, and af ter requesting that the father of the infant would take care of it, warned him against seducing any one as he had done her. The basket, with the child and letter, were imme diately handed aver to the police. DIABOLICA.. ATTEMPT. — About five o'clock on Sunday morning week, a most diabolical attempt was made to blow up with gunpowder the house of Mr. Thomas Bertwistle, carpenter and house-builder, Bolton -street, Bury, and also a cottage at the back. It appears that a few minutes previous to the explosion, Mrs. Bertwistle, hearing some persons under the window, awoke her hus band, who immediately got out of bed, and, throwing up the slide, saw three men run from near the window ; in a short time afterwards the explosion took place. The premises are in a dreadfully shattered condition, the back and front windows being blown out; the parlour floor and flags in the lobby were also blown up, together with all the furniture. Providentially no lives were lost, al though there were fifteen persons in the two houses. The outrage is supposed to have been committed by turn-out sawyers. COURAGEOUS CONDUCT OF A CLERGYMAN.- On Wednesday, the 18th ult., at half-past nine o'clock at night, as the Rev. W. Powell, of Ragland, was sitting in the parlour at his vicarage, he was alarmed by one of his servants rushing in and screaming violently that two men had forced themselves after her into the ball. He seized the poker, and went to demand what they wanted, when they commenced an attack upon him with their clubs; but he parried the blows levelled at him with so much firmness, that though be received a severe cut on the tem ple, was knocked down, and severely bruised on the hands, shoulders, and knees, he succeeded in getting them out of his house. The cries of the females attracted the neighbours to their assistance, though a quarter of a mile distant ; and as soon as the rev. gentleman was a little recovered they searched the premises, and discovered the ruffians had left a hat, a hedge-stake, and a large club be hind them, and that a considerable quantity of blood was sprinkled over the hall in different places.—Hereford Journal. A controversy has been going on in the Times, having relation to the Abbess of Minsk, a lady who, with her whole conveat, was said, some months since, to have un dergone many barbarous cruelties at the hands, and by the order, of the Emperor of Russia. Lady Dufferin wrote some very pretty lines about the matter, in the " Book of Beauty." Thereupon sprung up a lop controversy be tween two gentlemen, one signing himself " LL.D.,' and the other putting his name at full length, " Howell J. Philips." One of these gentlemen denies that there does, or even did, exist any such person as the Abbess of Minsk ; while the other retorts with asseverations of so determined and sweeping a character that one is almost dinned into the belief that, so far from there being none, there are, as in a declaration in trover, twenty abbesses, twenty nuns, twenty abbeys, twenty emperors, and twenty LL.D.'S., so wonderfully mixed up and jumbled together, that out of pure spite, and merely to relieve the eye from the perpetual sore of the Minxes and Minskes, you throw down the paper. The Hon. Mrs. Norton, as editor of the book, has also defended her contributor. BANKRUPTS.—The Companion to the British Al manac, for 1817, gives an analysis of the bankrupts in the year ended the 2nd of November, from which we select a few of the trades and professions, in which there have been the largest numbers of bankrupts : Apothecaries 2B I Ironmongers 25 Brewers Builders Carpenters Chemists and druggists Linen drapers, Merchants ... Stock and Share brokers I Tailors Coal merchants Corn merchants and dealers 27 \Vine and Spirit merchants 32 Drapers 4l I Woollen manufacturers .... 21 Grocers.. We have given every trade and business in which more than 20 bankrupts have been gazetted during the year. The total number of bankrupts in the year ended the 2nd ultimo was 1326,—a larger number than in any year since 1842. In the year ended November, 1841, there were 1330 bankrupts; in 1842, there were 1373; in 1843, the number was 1168 : in 1'44, the bankrupts were 1064; in 1845, the number etas 1028: and in the year just ended, 1326, being nearly 300 more than last year, and 262 more than in the year ended November, 1814. DREADFUL WRECK AND Loss of LIFE. —On the 20th and 21st ultimo, the town of Milford, and adjacent coast, were visited by a terrific gale. A schooner, which subsequently proved to be the Victoria, from Youghall, Wheeland master, bound up the Bristol channel, laden with pit-props, was observed going up St. Bride's bay, on the former day, with her sails split to tatters, and a signal of distress flying. No boat could get out to her assis tance, and she ran for a place called Porthwen, be tween New Gale and Solva. The crew got out a boat, but a sea struck and upset it, and one man was drowned. The shore was near at hand, and one man attempted to land by swimming, but was drawn back by a surf, and also perished. The rest remained on board, and the vessel neared a rock, to which, four of the crew succeeded in establishing themselves ; but a woman, supposed to be a passenger, in making the on by a rope for some time, but went down. One of the crew made a bold attempt to swim from the rock ; he no bly contended with the surf for a long time, but the con- and return to his little foot of land— together wiih his forlorn companions, to suffix a brief reprieve from the greedy sea. The flood• tide soon commenced an invasion of their temporary abode, almost every wave washing over them. Their cry, " Can you do nothing to save us ?" was distinctly wafted to the ears of those on the beach. J ust at dark, three were observed on the rock, one having fal len into " -- The rising sea he sea about an hour before soon covered the rock, and numbered its trembling tenants amongst its victims. Every effort that could be devised to save them was long pursued, but without effect. The crew, eight in number, have nearly all left wives and fa- THE SHORT TIME MOVEMENT.—Yesterday week, a crowded meeting of the advocates of a Ten Hours' Bill was held in Leeds, the Rev. Dr. Hook, the Vicar, in the chair. He expressed his belief that the present s y s t em of long hours Vl7llB physically and sp iritually injurious to the factory population.—Dr. Lees argued on behalf of short hours ; deprecating that grasping spirit of Mammon which would sacrifice both the bodies and souls of men. wt. .11.1.11.1311 - loua , us, bpuice eloquently. One of the evils of the factory system of which he complained, was, that it destroyed the moral principles of the masters themselves, tendering them callous to the spiritual welfare of thnir fellow creatures; nd he demanded, in the name of religion, that it should not continue. He went on to show that the system had been a prolific source of crime, and that the evil could not be removed but by an act of Parliament. It was a fact, that the physical character of the people bad greatly , deteriorated in all the factory districts ; and well might I the prime minister of England exclaim, `• let the trade of England perish rather than it should flourish at the expense of the women and children of the land." The reverend Mr. Hill pointed out the necessity of giving the working classes more time to cultivate their minds and attend to their spiritual duties.—Mr. Ferrand, M. P. deprecated the present system, and said if there was one thing that disgusted him more than another in connexion with this question, it was to see the opposition manifested against it by the present Sir Robert Peel, who was in debted fur all his wealth and power to the working classes. The fact was, however, that the hon. baronet was bound by cotton-lord influence in the House of Commons, which he dare not oppose. But, considering his great wealth and power, he thought that out of gratitude, Sir Robert ought to vote for a Ten Hours' Bill. He urged all who heard him to persevere, and assured them of ulti mate victory.—A number of resolutions were then passed in accordance with the sentiments expressed, and it was nearly midnight before the proceedings terminated. Dec. 1848. STATE OF TRADE MANCIIESTER.—The number of inquiries on Tuesday, both for goods and yarn, would almost have !ed a mere casual observer to suppose that the market was about to assume a more active state than for some weeks past. This was, however, not the fact, for upon the whole the market was characterised by that dull state of things which it has been our grief lately to haven ported. We did hear of several lots of twist having been sold at figures below our quotation, but as these were extraordinary cases, we do not feel justified in taking them Into account. In our last we intimated our opinion that we had no real ground for expecting any revival of trade before Christmas, unless the short time system shall be more generally adopted We regret that our advice has not as yet been generally adopted; for We believe that, with the exception of Oldham and one or two other towns, the mills are running the usual time. A few weeks ago we stated in the columns of the Advertiser and Chronicle, that the spinners of the Ashton district had held a meeting for the purpose of considering the propriety of working short time. At that meeting, we believe, a resolution in favour of curtailing the hours of working the mills was adopted; but up to this mo ment not more than one concern near Ashton had adopted the principle, and the thing appears to have fallen to the ground at present. It would appear that some of the employers distrust their brethren, and hence the cause of disagreement ; but the sooner it is removed the better for all parties. The following are our quotations, from which it will be found that the varia tions from our last report are but trifling :-26-inch 6a reed printers, 4s to 4s 4id ; 26-inch 65 reed ditto, 4s 6d to 45 8d ; 27-, inch 66 reed ditto, 4s 6d to ss; 27-inch 72 reed ditto, 5s 4frd to 5s gd; 34-Inch 66 reed ditto, 5s to 6s; 36-inch 66 reed ditto, 5s 4id to 6s; 36-inch 72 reed ditto, 6s to 7s ; .36-inch shirtings iu proportion. 40-inch gold end shirtings, 60 reed, 7s gd to 81; 40-inch gold end shirtings, 66 reed, • s lid to gs lid ; 40-inch gold end shirtings, 72 reed, gs 6d to 10s. . ROCHDALE.—The Flannel market remains in its former de pressed state. and the severe frost that has set ,n has not yet had any effect upon the demand for goods. The Wool market is still languid, but prices are film. LEEDS.—Dulness and depression are the characteristic fea tures of the woollen trade of this neighbourhood, and but few goods are changing hands. Less business has been done this week than was done last, and there appears to be no good rea son that there will be much improvevement in the trade before the ensuing year has set in. BRADFORD.—WooI.—The business doing in combing wools during the past week has been more extensive, and an increased degree of firmness maniiested by the staplers, owing to the re duced supply in the market, and the growers and country deal ers seeking prices which cannot be realised here. Short wool and wills are somewhat better to call, the sales of colonial wool now progressing in London having commanded higher prices than was anticipated. Yarn.—Although the demand for yarn is chiefly confined to the home customers, still there is no in crease in stocks. The price it continues to command being so ruinously low, without any hope of alleviation from vi 00l at a reduced price, compels the spinner to abridge the production, which is now done to a considerable extent, and the only means whereby any improvement in price can be effected. Pieces. The business doing in dress goods has been limited. The rner. chants are all on the inquiry for new styles for the approaching season, and the mixture of silk and Alpaca is favour ably looked upon, from the elegance the combination affords. Heavy goods, such as Moreens, are eagerly sought up, and no stocks in the market. HUDDERSVIELD.—Rather more sales have been effected this week, and the manufacturers are well employed. Prices both of manufactured goods and wool keep up. HALIFAX.— Our staple trade is but slack, but prices remain unaltered. The yarn market continues very flat, with curtailed production ; but there is no alteration in prices A little more long wool has changed hands, which has given more firmness to the sellers. There has been rather more inquiry ti r short wools, and prices are somewhat firmer; but not much husiness has been done. LEICESTER.—The demand for goods continues dull ; but the houses engaged in manufacturing for the country trade have a better demand than those who are sole'y occupied for the Lon don market. A number of workmen are out of employ. The demand for yarn is not so good as it was; in price no alteration. There is rather more inquiry for wool. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The cotton hosiery manufac tures, as might be expected from the season of the year. have not amended. and considerable distress prevails. However, there is a shade of improvement in the cotton glove branch, which employs about 12,000 frames. The silk glove branch is in so forlorn a state as to have become half extinct. The drawer and pantaloon branch is in much the same state as for months past; that i'., a few of the hosiers keep their frames pretty well employed, while others have been for some time in a state of stagnation. The silk stocking trade is i❑ a lamentable state, and is imperceptibly falling away. This is the case throughout all Europe, except Rome. where the silk stocking trade is on. the increase. It was fondly hoped, on opening the trad eto China, that a demand would have taken place for knotted hose, but the articles now made are utterly unfit for that people, who wear silk articles of such a weight, that they are much heavier and stouter than European cloth. There is a prevailing opinion in some quarters that the fancy bobbin net trade is rather upon the stir. The warp lace is in much the same state as the bobbin net trade, the silk branch being in the best demand. The de pression has at last reached Tiverton, and the West of England, especially the former. We scarcely eve hear the Isle of Wight now mentioned The traverse br nch warp in this district is depressed beyond all former experience, though a few machines are kept working. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE IST DECEMBER., 1846. (From Colburn's United Service Magazine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is which the Depot of the Regiment is stationed.] Ist Life Guards—Windsor. 40 th—Winchester. 2nd Ditto—Regent's Park. 41st—Mullingar. Royal H.Guards—Hyde Park 42d—Malta ; Isle of 'cs Ist Dragn Gds.—Birmingham. Reserve batt., 2d—Newbt idge. 43d—Dover. 3d—Piershill. 44th—Belfast. 4th—Nottingham. 45th—Cape of Good Hope, LW sth—York. Reserve batt.. C.G.Hope 6th—Dublin. 46th—Canada; Guernsey 7th—C. G. Hope, Maidstone. 47th—Cork. Ist Dragoons—Cork. 48th—Jamaica; Dublit 2d—Clonmel. 49th—Galway. 3d—Bengal; Maidstone 50th—Bengal; Chatha 4th—Dublin. 51st—Van D.Land iith—Longford. 52d—Quebec ; Breco 7th Hussars—Athlone. 53d—Bengal ; Chathl Bth—Cahir. 54th—Gibraltar ; Kmsal 9th Lancers—Bengal ; ?Midst. 55th—Limerick. 10th Hussars—Bombay; Maidst 56th—Chatham 11th Hussars Coventry. 57th—Canterbury. 12th Lancers— Hounslow. 58th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham 13th Lt. Dragoons—Newbridge. 59th—Limcrick. 14th--Bombay; Maidstone. 60th(lgt hatt.)—Bombay ; Chat lath Uhlasesa—Madreca M•aton batt.)—Canada; Cl] wild= 16th Lancers—Bengal.*Maidst 61st—I Chatham 17th Lancers—Dundalk. 62d—Bengal ; Chatham. Gren.Gds. (Ist batt.)—Winch'r. 63d—Madras ; Chatham. (2d batt.)—St. John's Wood 64th—Kilkenny. (3d batt.)—Tower. 65th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham. Coldstream Guards, (Ist batt.) 66th—Gibraltar ; Templemorg. St. George's Barr. 67th Cork. (2d batt.)—Portman-st. Barr. 68th—Dublin. Scotch FusileerGrds—(lstbatt) 6gth—Bury, (Lancashire.) Wel'ington Barr. 70th—Templemore. (2d batt)—Windsor. 71st—Barbadoes ; I. of Wight Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Trinidad ; Reserve batt., Canada. Newbri go. 72d—Gibraltar ; Nenagh. (2d batt.)—Edinburgh. 73d—C. G. Hope ; Clare Castle, 2d Foot—Portsmouth. 74th—Aberdeen. 3d—Dublin. 75th—Athlone. 4th—Madras; Chatham. 76th—fort George, N.B. sth—Devon port. • 77th—Quebec; Fermoy. 6th—Cape Good Hope. 78th—Bombay; Chatham. Reserve batt., Buttevant. 79th—Gibraltar ; Castlebar. 7th—St. Vincent ; Newry. Both—Bengal ; Chatham Bth—Bombay, Chatham. 81st—Canada ; Jersey. gth—Bengal ; Chatham. 82d—Canada; Fermoy. 10th—Bengal ; Chatham. 83d—Dublin. 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham. 84th—Madras, 12th—Mauritius ; Isle Wight. 85th—Limerick Reserve batt., Mauritius 86th—Bombay ; Chatham 13th—Portsmouth. 87th—Newport. S. W. 14th—Halifax, N.S; Plymouth sSth—Malta ; Birr. 15th—Ceylon ; Waterford. 89th—Halifax, N.S. ; Hull 16th—Gibraltar; Fermoy. 90th—CapeG 17th—Bombay ; Chatham. 91st —Cape of 18th—China ;"f Chatham. Resery 18th—Barbacloes ; Boyle. 92d—Enniski 20th—Bermuda ; Isle of Wight 93d—Canada Reserve batt., Bermuti 21st—Madras; Chatham. 22d—Boinbay ; Chatham. 23d—Antigua ; Isle of V m;Chester I—Aden ; C I—China; C a—N.S.Wah Reserve hatt., Canada 24th—Bengal ; Chatham. 25th—Madras ; Chatham. 26th—Dublin 27th—C G. Hope ; Portsmouth. 28th—Bombay ; Chatham. fa ; Isli Reserve t k—China ; N. S. Wa B (Istb.)—Corfu ;' att.)—Halifax,N.S Reserve b, Ist W. I. Regt 2nd—Nassau. 30th—Newcastle-on-Tyne 31st—Bengal;* Chatham, 32d—Hengal ; Chatham. Ceylon Ri 33d—N. Brunswick ; Mullingar Cape Mou 34th—Corfu ; Clonmel of G 35th—Mauritius ; Charles Fort. R. Canada Rifle Reg.—Canada 36th—Weedon.2 Royal Newfoundland Veteran 37th —Ceylon—Chatham Companies—Newfoundland 38th—Jamaica; Londonlerry. Royal Malta Fencibles, Malta. nth —Bengal ; Chatham. St. Helena Regt.— St. Helena. 16th Lancers and 31st Foot ordered home. t Stith_ under 3d—Demerara, Sierra Leone, &C —Cape orders for I ** Ist Batt. Rifle Br 1 Island THE SEA SERPENT EXPLAINED.—I talked mous sea serpent. The explanation whi ye of the ice. He phenomenon seems to me to be worthy of no said he did not believe in the existence of suc have the habit of swimmi ther in a long use, they might narrow shoal, and that, as they dived ( present some appearances resembling the joir serpent. s of a vast liappiness does not so much consist in having much to enjoy, as in the faculty to enjoy life. He who cannot be I his pains greater than his happiness. It is a beautiful thought of Addison's that one man often takes more pleasure in the contemplation of a fine estate, without being burdened with the care of possession, the latter, burdened with the care of possession, derives little pleasure from tl The one finds an estate in the beauties—t no beauties in the estate happy without taking g possession of yment is better than the enjoyments Mr. Heighton advertises t establishment with clean brushes pairs in The Baths, in Cases•street and Great Geo conducted by Mr. Bird, having been recently are now in full'operation.. They present to in -street, proved, lids and to-day, originally a letter in th casual reader the writer may appear somew tic, all who have a knowledge of Mr. Carte: timony to the truth of every letter. In his is all that is descr:bed, and those who visi that, though he shaves clean, he never g( cut direct. to the husias- will bear tea stablishment bim will find r gives the GAS APPARATUS.—We were highly pleased, a short time since, by the inspection at the works of Messrs. Winspear, Hyde and Co., of a small but complete appa ratus for the manufacture of gas, which is admirably suited to the residences of those who are not within the precincts of town works, as the expense is not only small, bat the gas is manufactured at a price considerably below that at which it is generally supplied to large towns. One is now being completed for the Duke of Marlborough, for his residence at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock. All that have yet been completed answer admirably. EVERY MAN His OWN DOCTOR : or the way to cure any Disease, by Holloway's Pills.—The most compli cated complaints are cured with the greatest ease and certainty (even when every other means have failed) by the use alone of this admirable medicine. Such as may be afflicted with any of the following distressing ailments, may by this medicine soon be restored to health, viz. : asthmas, blotches on the skin, bowel complaints, con sumptions, debility, dropsy, female irregularities, head ache, indigestion, liver complaints, piles, rheumatism, scrofula or king's evil, stone or gravel, &c., so that hero is health for all! by these extraordinary rills, ofW, e batt., C. G.Hope, 'Good H 'hatham Cephalonit, att., Halifax, N.S . Jamaica, &c