The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

0,11 D• lutittllort faiiVarb' TUESDAY iIfORNING Pl. 0, T TT F. WEEK - e had a char to almost winter though there have been several falls of rain, sunny weather and high winds vened, and we believe that very little, if any damag:e has b. en done t Is of wheat still unhoused. There has been some disease among )otatoes,. and the market-. )ole have made it but in this they have only followed the example of the dealers in corn, who seem to have a mania for provicling against a scarcity in the face of a generally produc- tive harvest s of common necessaries are justified by natural causes, those who were so anxious to obt read have no reason to fled with the fruits The QUEEN has been in Dublin to s of Free-trade. she Great Exhibition, and drawn thither so many of out townsmE )artiallN panies have to and fro, and of the cheap and Holyhead •elled the rted. The fine steamers of the co' been crowded with passers; numbers trips by the Birkenhead, Chester, Railway. Both means of transit ha population . . of Dublin, nd the exuberance of Irish enthusiasm has been solidified by the more genuine, but less showy Saxon loyalty. Liverpool has, in consequence, been comparatively dull, and the change of wind having delayed many expected ar rivals, has, by no means, compensated for the paucity of incidents n which was expected to enliven the proceedings of the Town Council meeting to-morrow has been superseded by the The interesting diSeus adoption of a far wiser course, As there are some parties who cannot understand a joke when it touches themselves, Mr. FERNIHOUGH has con sented to apologise for having indulged in such a freak of his memory, which may have been treache rous, and attributed the incident he related to the wrong man. Upon this amende honorable being _ _ satisfactorily perfork riLDERMAN LANGSDAL will withdraw his offensive imputation of falsehood and in reading the minutes of the Health Commit tee forget the resolution. Such a course will be honourable to all parties, and a far more dignified termination of the affair than enacting another "scene" in the Town Council. At the meeting of the Dock Committee on Thursday, there was little business of public inte rest. The Secretary to the Treasury and Solicitor to the Customs acknowledged the compliment paid to them in the resolution passed at the previous meeting of the Committee. It was resolved to proceed with the foundations of the intended ware houses on the south quay of the Stanley Dock, as the great increase of the business of the port re quires more warehouse accommodation than can be conveniently supplied by present arrangements. The demands for increased wages of the Dock ser vants serve to prove that the augmented value of labour is beginning to tell upon every description of property, The weekly report of the medical officer shows that the rate of mortality in Liverpool is consider ably below the average, and without any cases of cholera, notwithstanding the season of the year when deaths from this cause mayreasonably be anticipated. Some unnecessary alarm was created by the fact of a single death from Asiatic cholera, but it proved, on examination, to be the case of a German immi grant who had neglected the premonitory symptoms $3. fortnight pierionsly, in 13ant - bnrgh.. The town was never freer from disease, and particularly from diarrhoea, than it is now and has been for the last five months. The new American ship Grecian, which has been lying in the Mersey, has excited much admiration for her nautical beauty. Her well-shaped hull, round stern, and neat stem, present an excellent specimen of the builders' art, and her appearance is further augmented by her tall tapering spars and her evident capabilities as a good sailing vessel. The first-rate ships lately sent us from the other side of the Atlantic must stimulate our builders to increased exertions, if they would maintain the sovereignty of the seas in the mercantile marine The Hon. Mrs. NORTON has published a crushing reply to the attack upon her by her husband, which we noticed last week. She has proved, at any rate, that, whatever may be her own faults, his conduct is worse than contemptible ; and it will be a per version of justice if he be allowed to retain his situation as a police magistrate. Some people may be uncharitable enough to suppose that she is about to publish a new work, and, BAnNum-like, has got up the late " scene" in order, by fictitious excite ment, to obtain a popular demand for it. The late boisterous weather has somewhat inter fered with the pleasure trips across the Mersey, but every fine afternoon has brought out thousands to enjoy the many pleasant spots on the Cheshire shore. The Birkenhead Model Yacht Club intend to have their next race on Saturday. Those unrivalled singers—Gnisi and MARIO, are engaged for the next Grand Conceit at the Phil harmonic -hall, on the 4th of October, and as it will most likely be their last appearance, the announce ment has created almost a furor of excitement amongst the lovers of the divine art. It will, therefore, be the most brilliant reunion of the season, such a one indeed as only the Philharmonic hall could accommodate. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, FRANCE.—The latest Parisian news of any importance concerns an expedient by which the French Government have endeavoured to trauquillige the people's fears of high priced food. From the rate of flour in the central market it became necessary for the bakers to increase the price of the 2 lb. loaf from 40 to 45 centimes, and the increase was publicly notified; but suddenly appeared an ordonnance of the Prefect of Police, fixing the price, for the first fort night of September, at the former sum. At the same time it is positively declared that the bakers are to be indemnified. This proceeding is, we believe, without precedent. The Emperor having offered a premium of 50,000 francs to any person who should apply electricity to Prac tical use or otherwise, an Italian engineer, named Bonelli, announces that he has discovered a plan by electricity to do away with an expensive and tedious part of the opera tion of the Jacquard loom. The " Ocean" squadron of evolution is now completely organised. It consists of the first-rate mixed vessel the Montebello, the second-class ship Hercule; the "mixed" or steam-sailing vessels Austerlitz and Jean Bart, the Duguesclin, the steamer Napoleon, expected from the Mediterranean squadron ; the mixed frigate Pomone ; the steam-frigate Caffarelli ; the steam corvette Infernal; and the steam corvette Roland. Brest is the rallying point of the squadron, and six of the above-named vessels have already arrived there. SPAIN.- - A decree, inserted in the Gaceta of Augus 29, Prohibits the circulation of the Times in Spain, ox account of some recent articles, in " which insiitutio: have been criticised and persons calumniated. News from Madrid to tin The Oppositiot are busily engaged in re-nrganisini ti the openi SWITZEiLAND.—Ac Assembl terra-Radical the Governn failed bi'thst project. II intended OW i of Ticino, 11 but, being left =sup st confusion separated in the grea: mo %liffereirs between Switzerl guidable and offer a varl zolinicm zd Aust govern ] ; I _ their various loci, , s,on s to Aof the policy:of rewistanc( l 'itussiA , —lt i s R%id lontoon 34,760 men, of which 6,960 are cavalry. Th( practice will be tested more than once during the opera tions, on a large scale, according to the Prussian system. The new cavalry manoeuvres will also be tried. AusTRIA.—A despatch from Vienna of the 31st ult. says : The Turkish Ambassador, Ariff Effendi, is to meet the Russian Ambassador in the course of this day. This meeting is considered the most striking proof of the tion of the difficulties between Russia and Turkey. A. ukase of the sth of August gives pub tv to a convention between Russia and Bavaria , for the RUSSIA Emperor declares that " throughout the lower course of the Danube, from the point where it first enters the Rus sian territory to its mouth in the Black Sea, Bavarian merchant vessels shall be placed on the same footing as the merchant vessels of Austria, and shall enjoy the same advantages as are conceded to the latter." The only advantages at present enjoyed by Austrian merchant ves sels at the mouth of the Danube seem to be the privilege of striking upon the bar which Russian indolence or bad faith has allowed to accumulate. The permission is, in fact, a practical joke. TURICEY. — The following is a translation of the note of the four Powers, with the alterations proposed by the Porte: " His Majesty the Sultan, having nothing more at heart than to re-establish between his Majesty and the Emperor of Russia the relations of good neighbourship and perfect harmony (entente), which have been unhappily disturbed by recent and painful complications, has carefully under taken the task to find the means to efface the traces of those different points. "A supreme irad6, in the date of —, having made known to him the imperial decision, the Sublime Porte, &c., congratulates itself at being able to communicate it to his Excellency Count de Nesselrode. If at all times the Emperors of Russia have shown their active solicitude (1) for the maintenance of the immunities and privileges of the Orthodox Greek Church in the Ottoman Empire, the Sultans never refused to confirm them anew by solemn acts which attested their ancient and constant benevolence towards their Christian subjects. "His Majesty the Sultan Abdul Medjid, now reigning, animated by the same dispositions, and being desirous to give to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia a personal proof of his most sincere friendship, only listened to his unbounded confidence in the eminent qualities of his august friend and ally, and has deigned to take into serious consideration the representations (2) of which his Excel lency Prince Menschikoff rendered himself the interpreter t the Sublime Porte. "The undersigned has consequently received the order to declare by the present that the Government of his Majesty the Sultan will remain faithful to the letter and the spirit of the stipulations of the treaties of Kuscuijki Kainardji (3) and of Adrianople, relative to the protection of the Christian worship (4), and that his Majesty regards it as a point of honour with him to cause to be preserved for ever from all attacks, either at present or in future, the enjoyment of the spiritual privileges which have been accorded by the au g ust ancestors of his Majesty to the Orthodox Church in the East, and which are maintained and confirmed by him ; and, moreover, to allow the Greek worship to participate in a spirit of high justice in the advantages conceded (5) to other Christians by convention or special agreement._ . " Moreover, as the Imperial firman, which has recently been given to the Greek patriarchate and clergy, and which contains the confirmation of their spiritual privileges, must be regarded as a new proof of those noble sentiments ; and as, moreover, the proclamation of that firman, which gives every security, must dispel for ever every anxiety as regards the worship which is the religion of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, I am happy to be charged with the duty of making the present notification. As regards the guarantee, that in future nothing shall be changed at the place of visitation at Jerusalem, it results from the firman provided with the Hatti Houmayon of the 15th of the Moon of Rebbi Ulakir, 1268 (February, 1852), explained and corroborated by the firmans of - ; and it is the formal intention of his Mcdesty the Sultan to cause his sovereign decisions to be executed without any alteration. " The Sublime Porte, moreover, officially promises that no modification shall be made in the state of things which has just been regulated, without a previous agrree. ment with the Governments of Russia and France, and without prejudice whatever to the different Christian communities. " In case the Imperial Court of Russia should demand it, a suitable locality shall be assigned in the city of Jerusalem, or in the vicinity, for the construction of a church consecrated for the performance of divine service by Russian ecclesiastics, and of an hospital for indigent sick pilgrims of the same nation. " The Sublime Porte engages itself even now to sub scribe in this respect a solemn act, which would place those pious foundations under the special surveillance of the consulate-general of Russia in Syria and Palestine. " The undersigned, &c." EPROPOSED ALTERATIONS.I " (1) For the worship of the Orthodox Greek Church, the Sultans have never ceased to watch over the mainte nance of the immunities and privileges of that worship and of that Church in the Ottoman Empire, and to confirm them anew by solemn acts which attest, &c. " (2) The communications. • " (3) Of Kouschouk-Kainarji, confirmed by that of Ad r ianople, relative to the protection by the Porte of the Christian worship. " (4) And to make known that his Majesty the Sultan, &c. " (5) The advantages accorded, and which may be ac corded, to other Christian communities, Ottoman subjects?' A telegraphic despatch, dated Bucharest, August 17, states that on the previous day the Austrian Consul- General received despatches, informing him that peace may be considered as established, and that the Russians will evacuate the principalities in September. . . . The Egyptian fleet arrived on the 14th instant in the Bosphorus. It consists of 12 fine vessels, of which two are first-rates and four frigates, with two large steamers. All communications from Constantinople were written before the decision of the Council of State was known. WEST InnEs.—The Royal West India mail packet Magdalena arrived at Southampton on Wednesday, bring ing accounts from St. Thomas's of a riot in the island of Tortola. The blacks-rose in a body, burned down many houses, and attacked the inhabitants, with what results does not appear. The Magdelena had been sent by the company's superintendent at St. Thomas's, Mr. Cameron, to fetch troops from Antigua, to quell the insurrection. All was quiet at Tortola when the Magdalena left. The riot is said to have been caused by the imposition of a tax for the repair of the poor-houses. _ _ _ MALTA..—Accounti have been received of the 29th ult. The mail, with letters from the fleet at Besika Bay, had arrived the day previous, and it was asserted that the fleet would return to Malta in the course of the month of September. All the letters written by the English naval officers to their families were in that sense. Several trans port vessels had been despatched from Malta, with coal and stores required by Admiral Dundas. The Austrian consul at Malta had returned to that island from Smyrna. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA By the liFitish and North American royal mail steam ship Africa, Captain Harrison, which arrived on Sunday, we have intelligence from New York to the 24th ult. The Africa sailed from New York at 10 20 p.m., on the 24th ult., and was abreast Tory Island Light at 9 11 am., on the 3d' inst., and saluted the Rock Light at 8 4() on the 4th. She brought 92 passengers, but no specie. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Judkins, arrived at New York on the 23d ult., after a splendid passage of 9 days, 22 hours and 23 minutes. The United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Capt. Nye, which sailed from this port on the 10th ult., met with a severe accident to her machinery. When four days out, her main centre shaft broke, and she lay to nine hours to disconnect her machinery and take the floats from the disabled wheel. The remainder of the voyage, 2,000 miles, was made with only one engine and one wheel. Even under these circumstances she made, in fair weather, eleven knots, and arrived at New York at 6 30, p.m., on the 23d ult., eleven hours after the Arabia. The screw steam-ship Glasgow, from the Clyde, arrived at New York on the 23d ult. The comet was exciting considerable attention. Pearl-street, New York. Williamsburg ha n d ad oc a c is urr o e 's d ulf in erePd confla gration. The ship Telegraph had arrived at Boston from Valparaiso in forty-eight days. During the voyage a whirlwind crossed the ship's bow, taking the head sails from her. The Star of the East had sailed for Para, having on board two steam-engines and boilers and two steamboats, intended for the river Amazon. _ Dispatches had been received from Commodore Perry, at Shanghai, dated May 16. He expected to sail imme diately for Japan. He had heard that the Japanese were preparing to receive him through the Dutch officials in a friendly manner, although they were increasing and strengthening their fortifications on the coast. A communication, dated New Orleans, Aug. 21, says, " The number of interments reported to-day was 270, in cluding 248 from yellow fever. The total number of deaths during the last week has been 1,580, of which 1,350 were from yellow fever." Another communication, dated Aug. 22, is to the following effect :—" The interments in all the cemeteries of the city for the week ending at six this morning show a total of 1,534, of which 1,365 were victims of the yellow fever. - The report exhibits a total increase of deaths over the previous week of 16 ; over those by yel low fever alone of 88 ; this, too, in the face of the fact that the population has been constantly declining by desertion and death. The total number of deaths for the four weeks ending this morning was 4,162, of which 3,669 were of yellow fever. It cannot be denied that the disease is fear fully on the increase. The weather continues intensely hot, and the authorities, in the hopes of staying the ravages of the epidemic, have oi .. - .lored tar barrels to be burned and cannon to be fired. We learn from Mobile that the yellow fever is slightly increasing in that city." Yellow fever was also raging at Natchez. Up to the 30th ult. there had been over 200 deaths out of a popula tion of 5,000. The Northern Light had arrived at New York, with advices from San Francisco to the Ist August, and $1,124,953 on freight, besides a large amount in the hands of passengers. The trip between San Francisco and New York occupied 22 days three hours. The British mail-steamer Trent was at Navy Bay, on the 15th. The season was highly favourable to mining operations in all the gold districts ; the miners seemed to be generally fortunate in possessing valuable claims, which were yield ing abundantly by the use of improved means for extract ing the metal. From appearances the total production of gold for the six months, commencing with the Ist of June, would be larger than during any similar period since the opening of the mines. This result would be effected, too, at larger profits to the miners engaged than In the south, murders and robberies were Some executions, according to Lynch law, 9. successful strike had taken place among _ics. The discovery of additional gold mines „e Santa Cruz was reported. Letters from St. John's, N. 8., state that, from some unexplained cause, the works on the Newfoundland Elec' rif Telegraph had been suspended, and Mr. Gisborne, he r intendent, had left the province. A subscription, —O. raised at St. John's for the relief by the wrecked heretof very frequent had occurred. the shipwrigb Electric to $6OO, .ovided a from I Edward's Island, of August 16th, ican schooner Starlight had been tqken - i.o. there, a priie, for fi) within bound THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVER the American Consul protested against the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court there, on the ground that she was taken in Canadian waters ; that the captain of the Devas tation then expressed his determination to take her to Quebec ; but, upon the captain of the Starlight promising to be more careful in future, he released her upon payment of costs. . . Letters of the 2nd ult., from Port-au-Prince report, that everything was quiet. The yellow fever continued to prevail. Advices from El Paso, Mexico, to July 22nd, reported the existence of a great excitement in consequence of a disturb- _ 0 ante between a party of AMericans and Mexicans, at that place. It appears that an American, who had recently re turned from California, was seized by the Mexicans, for some alleged offence, and cast into prison, on hearing of which circumstance, a party - of his friends, also Americans, commenced an attack upon the gaol, for the purpose of ef fecting his liberation and rescue. A guard of Mexican troops, however, soon came up, and witnessing the action of the Americans, fired upon-them, causing the latter to beat a partial retreat. The fight was afterwards renewed, and the District Attorney of El Paso County, Texas, who was present, killed. One person was also severely wounded. What the final result of the affair would be was not known, but the Mexican forces were, armed and drilling near the American town of Paso, which was in great danger. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, AUGUST 24 MoxEY.—The reception of favourable news from Eu rope by the Arabia has given a better tone to the market. Stocks improved at the first board ; but at the second board the sales were only to a moderate amount. Ex change on London, 84 to 94 per cent. prem. ; Paris, f. 5.131 to f. 5.15, sixty days, and f. 5.114, short sight. COTTON.—From the New York Shipping List of Au gust 24.—The market on Saturday and Monday was very quiet, and after the Arabia's accounts came to hand, there was so little done that their effect on the market is not yet perceptible. Two bales of the new crop were received here yesterday from Charleston, and were sold at 13e., grade fair, staple fine, silky, and well prepared. The sales for the last three days are 1,400 bales. We quote : Atlantic Other Gulf Ports. Florida. Ports. Inferior nom. nom. nom. Low to good ord. Low to good mid 10 —ll 10 —ll 10 4 11 4 Mid. fair to fair 111 111 111 111 12 —l3 Total import since Ist instant 17,071 bales. Export from Ist to 23d August, 1853, 12,914; 1852, 6,228. RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON. Exports to Total Exports Stock and Receipts. Gt. Britain. to For. Ports. on shipb'd. 1853....3,216,317 1,731,643 2,513,000 99,360 1852....3,011,969 1,658,959 2,432,386 71,200 Increase 203,348 72,684 80,614 28,160 (From W. P. Wright's Circular, of August 24.) We have again complaints from the south of too much rain, and its attendant consequences. They are pretty general from Georgia and South Carolina ; and from Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, they are more nume rous during the past few days than previously this year. There have been several further receipts of new cotton at the various ports in the south ' • and at all, except New Orleans,' they are earlier than last year. This, however, is no criterion as to the condition of the crop generally, which is admitted to be backward, and which the receipts of new cotton to be received prior to Ist September this year, as compared with receipts to same period last year, will fully prove. ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BREADiTtrFFS.—The flour market has been tolerably steady throughout the week. The advices per Arabia have had no effect on prices. Indian corn is better by lc. to 2c. per bushel. PRO - VlSlONS.—Western pork in good demand and mo- derate supply, and mess has advanced 124 c., while prime and prime.mess are a shade lower. Beef firm, especially for the better descriptions, and the demand is fair. Lard and butter less plenty, and with a good demand prices have advanced. Cheese in good demand at former rates. IN the St. Petersburg Journal, Dr. Hamel calls atten- I tion to the fact that,' the current year completes three centuries of nearly uninterrupted amicable relations between England and Russia. ' VEGETABLE SOAP.—The Vienna journals announce that a firm of California has sent home to that city some seeds of the soap plant. It grows wild in California, rising to the height of about a foot. The plant fades away in the month of May, and inside each is a ball of natural soap, superior, it is assured, to any that can be manufactured. THE CHOLERA has appeared at Spettin, 170 dying within the week. It is also reported at Konigsberg. After nineteen years, it is reappearing at Stockholm, but appears to be on the. decrease in Copenhagen, after having proved fatal to the large proportion, 3,902 out of 7,216 persons attacked. It appears that, notwithstanding the quarantine system, the cholera is in Christiania and other parts of Norway, while Sweden is completely at its mercy. It has even boarded Swedish quarantine guard-ships, which had no communication with the shore. Ina word, it now envelopes Sweden as in a net, and is doing its work from Stockholm in the north to Ystad in the south, and from Gothenburg in the east to Carlskrona in the west. RIOT IN LIEGE. — On Tuesday evening a large body of workmen and women assembled, in spite of the rain, on the Quai de la Batte, where a species of corn-market is held. The menacing attitude of numbers amongst them created considerable alarm ; and the authorities, apprised of the circumstance, called out the gendarmes, who were received with loud hisses. In a few minutes the populous streets in the vicinity sent forth their thousands of opera tives, who, in spite of remonstrances and all the attempts of the armed force, would not disperse. A manufactory of arms on the Quai d'Avroy was partly broken open by some of the rioters, and a quantity of fire-arms removed. Great excitement prevailed during the entire morning of Wednesday ; but a telegraphk despach of one p.m., states that no further disturbances have occurred. Too CLEVER TO LIVE. —We have heard something of an "Admirable Crichton," a proficient in twenty different arts and sciences ; but there is a youth in Moyamensing district, Tom Murphy by name, and only sixteen years of age, who far surpasses Crichton in varied accomplish ments. He can smoke out ls. worth of "half-Spanish" per day, chew up two 3c. plugs of tobacco, drink ten glasses of brandy and water between breakfast and dinner, dance a sailor's hornpipe on the top of a water-plug, handle a slung-shot with the most astonishing skill, and lasso a young negro with the end of a handkerchief. He also understands the thimblerig to perfection, likewise the games of poker and all fours, and amputates cats' tails with as much dexterity as if he had attended surgical lec tures and walked the hospitals. All the friends of his family believe that he is " the smartest boy in Philadel phia," and we rather think he is, considering that he has never been to High School, but his mother is afraid that his/I-mins will be the death of him.—New York Tribune. SALE OF THE GUILLOTINE AT RHEIMS.—OR Saturday last a considerable crowd was assembled on one of the boulevards at Rheims to witness, as we have already an nounced, the extraordinary sale of the guillotine and its accessories, even to the very basket which was used to catch the head of the unfortunate culprit. The upset price was 20fr., after which a voice in the crowd offered 25fr. The name of the amateur, was anxiously inquired for among the crowd, when suddenly a young man came forward and bid 50fr. at which, after some little delay, it was knocked down, and when it became known that it had been purchased in order to make a bonfire of it, the crowd gave way to a loud burst of applause, which in a short time after increased still more on seeing it piled up and blazing, every one present assisting to keep up the fire. Amongst the most energetic of them was a high functionary of the place.. Although the crowd assembled was very great, every thing passed off with the greatest order.— Galignani. • AN UNCLE Tom.—The Carrolton (Louisiana) Star, of the 23d ult., has the following :—" We grieve, for the honour of our town, to have to record an inhuman out rage practised on the body of an old negro of this place, named Johnson, the slave of Charles Hines, by Hines himself, which resulted in death. The negro was nearly 90 years of age, and universally venerated for his sober ness and honesty, as well as for his revolutionary remi niscences. The monster-master, taking umbrage at some petty offence, deliberately whipped, stamped, and kicked him to death on Saturday last. The fellow feigned sick ness, as is Supposed, to cover a design of escape, and even had the blasphemous hardihood to affect a fear of immedi ate death, and to go through the funereal farce of making a public will. Officer Kener left two deputies in guard at his residence till Monday, when the body of the negro was disinterred, and an inquest held over it by the coroner. The unanimous verdict of the jury—several physicians who were present also assenting—was that he died from the effects of the blows and kicks he had received from his master. Persons who witnessed the examination say that the sight was sickening, his whole back cut and bruised into a jelly, and the lower part of his body nearly kicked to pieces. Immediately after the inquest the monster was taken to gaol. Let him go down to fame hand-in-hand with Legree—a hideous verification of that horrible villain." JENNY SALT.—Liverpool continues depressed, and prices favour buyers ; 700 sacks fine sold on private terms. InoN.—Holders of Scotch pig are again demanding higher rates. 200 tons English bars, a poor assortment, sold at $62,50, but considerably more is now demanded. CoAL.—Foreign continues scarce, and wanted. FREIGHTS.—A dvises per Arabia have unsettled the market, and lower rates have been submitted to for grain and flour to England and France. To Liverpool, for cot ton, id. per lb. ; flour, 2s. 6d. to 2s. 7d. per bbl. ; grain, in bulk, 7d. to 7id. per bushel. To London, flour, 2s. 9d. to 3s. per bbl. ; grain, in bulk, 84d. to 9d. per bushel. To Havre, cotton, *c. per lb. ; flour, 65c. to 70c. per bbl. NEW ORLEANS, AUG. 16.—Our markets are exceedingly dull, owing to the prevailing epidemic. The sales of cot ton for the past two days are not 200 bales. Freights to Liverpool firm, at id. per lb. CHARLESTON 'MARKET, AUG. 22.—The demand, almost solely confined to orders for Spanish account. Freight to Liverpool, -id. Fair is quoted 11c. to llic. bonus, AUG. 16.—Holders are more anxious to dis pose of their stocks, but are prevented by the restrictions placed upon them by their constituents. Freight to Li verpool, none. SAN FRANCISCO.—The Alta California, of the Ist , of August, says :—" Since the departure of the last mail; our market has worn a more animated aspect, and presented more features of interest than for any similar period during the present season. The advanced rates obtained in most articles have been sustained thus far, and the impression seems to prevail that, after the arrival of the first steamer,. a further advance may be anticipated, should advices re present that shipments to this port continue small. " COURT AND FASHION. mother, having recently given birth to a son. HEn MAJESTY has conferred upon the Duke o T r“.rl Porirnrrpcb +ha (Ira Prg th istle, vacated 133 presen oquadrgns, With bit tell ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC, By the United States mail steamer Arctic, which arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday, we have advices from New York to the 20th ult. The Arctic passed the steamer Pacific, from this port, at 5 p.m. on, the 20th, going into New York ; and at 9 a.m. on the 29th passed the steamer Asia, hence for New York. . The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, says : " The British Government have presented the following propositions for the consideration of our Government : " 1. The free navigation of the river St. Lawrence. " 2. To permit colonial-built vessels to obtain registers, that privilege being already granted in England to Ame rican and other foreign-built vessels. " 3. To abolish the system of bounties to our fishermen. " 4. To throw open the Californian coasting-trade, that is to say, to allow British vessels to load in the Atlantic states for California. _ _ abolish the duty on fish brought here in colonial bottoms. _ _ " 6. Reciprocal trade with the provinces in certain arti cles, the growth of each country, based upon the Recipro city Bill introduced by Mr. Grinnell in 1848, and passed by the House of Representatives ; if their propositions were agreed to, a participation in the British North Ame rican fisheries was to be extended to American fishermen. " It is understood the proposition to permit colonial built vessels to obtain American register, has been declined by the Cabinet, on the grounds, principally, that it is pro perly a matter for Congressional action. Rather than the exercise of the treaty making the power, it would be for Congress to determine how far it is expedient to amend the tariff by modifying the duties on iron, copper, hemp, &c., so as to enable our shipbuilders to compete with the colonists on equal terms. " The proposition to abolish the system of bounties to our fishermen was declined, upon the ground that the bounties are matters of internal policy, with which Eng land cannot be permitted to interfere. " The propositions to throw open the California coasting trade was declined, on the ground that the constitution declares that all the States of the Union shall be on an equal footing, and that, therefore, the coasting trade of California could not be opened to England without the carrying with it also the whole coasting trade of the United States. As for the proposition of reciprocal trade, it was considered as much too limited ; and there appeared to be no disposition on the part of England to extend it to an interchange in all articles of growth, product, and manu facture of the country and the provinces respectively. This is the present position of the negotiations. It is, however, believed that a project of a treaty may yet be agreed upon, as there appears to be a strong desire on both sides to settle the matter." The yellow fever was very bad at New Orleans. A pri vate despatch states that, the authorities being unable to bury all the dead, 125 bodies were burnt. Yellow fever prevailed at Mobile, but the Board of Health had pro nounced it not epidemic. The New York Herald states that Lord Elgin, the Go vernor of Canada, is to return to England in the Sarah Sands. Advices from Havannah, of the 14th ult., state that the cholera had been terrific on one estate, belonging to Mrs. Seals. 131 negroes had died in six days. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. COITSTIMPTION Cune.BLE.—Dr. Cartwright, of New Orleans, asserts, from personal experience, that a few hours spent in a sugar manufactory, inhaling the saccharine fumes, is a certain cure for consumption. _ _ VACCINATION.—Dr. Tinsley, the English practitioner in Cuba, has discovered that vaccine virus, after passing through a negro's system, is valueless for the white race. FACTORY - LAW IN PRUSSIA.—The Minister of Com merce of Prussia has just addressed a circular to the authorities, recommending them to look to the careful execution of the law interdicting the employment of children in factories for more than six a hours a day. ERICSSON'S HOT-AIR MA.cnixE.—The experiments which were announced as about to be made at Havre by commissions of the Institute and of the Minister of Ma rine, on the hot-air machine of M. Ericsson, have taken place, but the report of the commissioners is, for the pre sent, kept secret. A Havre journal states that the expe riments were not so conclusive as had been expected, in consequence of the imperfections of the machine, from its having been got up hastily. A NEW Riddell, officiating superintendent surgeon of the Nizam's army, in making experiments on the maddar plant of India (Aselepia pigantea), had occasion to collect the milky juice, and found that as it gradually dried it became tough and hard like gutta percha. He was induced to treat the juice in the same manner as that of the gutta percha tree • and the result has been the obtaining of a substance analogous to gutta percha in all respects. - BARNUM'S LIST DODGE.—The New York papers con tained a long and minute report of the arrest of Barnum for swindling, upon a complaint preferred by a man who testifies that he had paid 25 cents to see the bearded woman, but that he had reason to believe that it was a fraud, and was got up by the said Barnum to deceive, defraud, and many other wicked things—as he had no doubt the person was a male, and not a female as repre sented. Of course Barnum was there, as he is every where; and protested his innocence. He moreover pre sented her father, who testified to her sex ; her husband, who swore that she had borne him two children ; and the physicians of the city prison, Dr. Valentine Mott, and • others high in the medical profession, all of whom testi fied that she was a female. Being a case of novel character, the newsmougers caught it up, and reported it at great length, giving friend Barnum the advantage, not only of a most extensive advertisement of the Bearded Lady, still At on exhibition at the Museum, free grati9 ' to which his money c 'ld not well have CIIHSPCI • Vuh.'" ;t all leaked out that J Barnum had 4 puremtatt. •d the fellow to tute the suit, and paid him well for it. How much con sists in a man's understanding bi business, and then advertising ThE .R.EVOLUTION IN CHINA. (FROM TIIE TIMES.) TILE Chinese revolution is in all respects the greatest revolution the world has yet seen. In mere magnitude it comprises a population equal to that of all Europe and all America put together. It unites the chief features of all the great changes that stand out in the history of the world. As a destruction of temples, and idols, and a total change of religion, it recalls to us the early ages of the Christian church, and those later times when the northern nations embraced Christianity in masses. As the exter mination of a people, it compares with the great conflicts of races, the irruptions, fusions, expulsions, and returns that occupy the earliest pages of authentic history, and resumed their prominence on the decline and fall of Rome. As a total change of system, and an opening of China to foreigners, it so far does in a day the usually slow work of modern civilization. This mighty change has come so fast on us that we have not yet realised its consequences. So great is the distance of China, and so small the sym pathy between it and the rest of the world, that the Em peror of China ranks in figure of speech with his alleged brother the moon, as a being who knows nothing, and of whom nothing is known in this our own sphere, and with whom we have no imaginable concern. - In a moment that wall is thrown down, that gulf is filled up, and that veil is rent asunder. China has hitherto been the very type of all that is unchangeable, formal, and slavish ; all of a sudden it not only yields, but absolutely falls to pieces at a foreign impulse. But the most marvellous feature of this revolution remains. The means are utterly insig nificant. The chief agent appears to be a person who has received some instruction from a missionary, and whose co nduct or apparent motives were such that the mission arYractised to baptise him.. I n f ac t , h e seeme d t o b e a mere ha rlatan. On comparing his success with the failure of another pretender nearer home, it certainly occurs to us that Mr.' Provis has mistaken his sphere, and that if he had made a dash for the throne of China he might have succeeded. The huge balloon has collapsed at the prick of a needle. There is an old saying that every thing has a handle, if we only knew where to find it. For ages it has been the complaint of the civilised world that China had no handle. We could not get at it, or into it, or do anything with it. The result shows that there was a way, nevertheless, for somebody has found it. He has pronounced " Open, Sesame," and the everlasting hinges begin to creak, the huge gates begin to turn, the deep recesses of ancient empire are opened to light, we enter, and China becomes part of the world. wh y , i n a couple of years we shall all be going to China. The last mail left Hongkong on the 10th of July, and arrived here on the 27th .of August, doing it in 48 days ; and there is every prospect of the time being much shortened. People are tired of Europe, now that it is railroaded, handbooked, and. " opened up," as the phrase is, to its very backbone. Moscow has been burnt ; Peters burg is a city of arsenals and palaces ; Constantinople, we have been lately told, is a city of wooden boxes ; Athens is a bad Herne Bay ; Germany has been so often scoured out by its thirty years' wars and its seven years' wars that its cities have nothing to show ; Berlin is a poor imita tion of Paris ; Munich is in pieces, fresh painted, and not yet put together ; Paris everybody has seen over and over again ; and these are the best—the rest are nowhere. But there is something new in China—something genuine and undiscovered. It is undoubtedly great, ancient, curious, and original. So in a couple of years we shall all be running to the Chinese Consulate, in Leadenhall-street or Bucklersbury to get our Foreign-office passport vised by a gentleman with small eyes, high-cheeked bones, and yellow skin, but without a tail, and dressed like every body else in the city. Those who don't wish to be the pioneers of the grand stream of British tourists may wait another twelvemonth, and Mr. Murray will have by that time a Handbook of China, or- perhaps Northern China with Japan, and-Southern China with the Indian Archi pelago. A column of indomitable John Bulls, with their carpet bags, and in that unmistakeable costume which de notes the nation all over the world, will force its way up all the rivers, over all the mountains, and along all the canals, till the great wall of China is surmounted by Eng lish ladies-maids and English parasols:- What splendid hotels we shall have at Pekin, and what incessant jokes at the exploded peculiarities of Celestial cookery ! In a few years every lad of Welty will have "done" Chiiia; and will have his budget of -stories of Chinese couriers, com missionaires; cabs, and — citstom-houses: What letters shall we have complaining of hotel charges and imposi tions on travellers, for John Chinaman is a bit of a rogue, and so *like the majority of Christians that it is wonderful why heis not otie of them In ten years' time we shall know much more of China than we now know of Russia or shall know within fifty years. Then what a country for railways, canals, gas compa nies, water companies, and all sorts of investments ! The Chinese pay most admirably. The effort of discharging the opium ransom has contributed to the present revolu tion by the exhaustion of the treasury. The people have always been ready to adopt whatever improvements the jealousy of their Tartar rulers permitted them to import ; and it appears, on the authority of Jesuit and other writers two hundred years ago, that aversion to change is not an original element of the Chinese character. We shall have steamers without end on the great rivers before long, with Chinese engineers and with Chinese engines. The amount of internal travelling in China is such, that we are assured by those who have managed to penetrate into the interior that there are continuous streams of travellers on horse, on foot, and on litters, from Canton to the great wall, some fifteen hundred miles ;—in many parts so crowded as to impede one another, and even in the mountain passes so numerous as to leave no traveller out of sight of others before and behind. Among these are long lines of merchandise. What a case of railway traffic Our children may see China as much a network of railways as England itself. This is not mere specula tion on the possible consequences of change, for it is evi dent that the successful insurgents are as disposed to in voke the aid of progress and civilization as defensive auxiliaries against.the tyrannical bigotry of the Mantchoos as the latter were always disposed to rely on the, fixedness of their institutions. It is felt that the most effectual way to seal the exclusion of the Tartars, and prevent them ever getting head again in China, is to revolutionize the country as much as possible, and as far as is consistent with a strict moral code. That our new relations with China will be without trouble we do not imagine, for the religion of , the conquerors is one which we cannot claim _ jurious and unnatural s t a t e o f thi ng s i s removed ; the Chinese population is no longer imprisoned within its walls and shons, pild . w , ,, gi-nli ,I, l v. iln ley, be v+nprr. - 1 at the threshold of the empire. of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dubli he THE HoN Park, the seat of Mrs. Byng the only child of Viscount Torrington THE Dux OF CAMBRIDGE visit( Thursday. He inspected the 13th Dr: Miss BYNG died on Friday last at'V in her 18th ye much care MR. DISRAELI, M.P., is to meet his constituents at the annual gathering of the Royal Bucks Agricultural Asso ciation at - AYlesbUry, on the 11th instant. LETTERS FROM OSTEND state that her Majesty the Queen intends making an excursion to that town, to re- the Duke and Duchess of Brabant on their marriage - THE MARRIAGE of the Emperor of Austria, it is said, will take place before Advent ; that is, somewhere in the month of November The Emperor and the bride elect being first cousins,the Papal dispensation must be procured. THE ROYAL CHILDREN.—The Princess Royal, and Alice and Helena, reached Holyrood on Wednesday even ing. They were to leave for Aberdeen on Thursday, and next day to proceed to Balmoral. MR. ROGER JOHNSON SMITH, the independent Con servative elected in opposition to the influence of the Marquis of Hertford, for Lisburn, died suddenly last week, at his residence in that town. There will, no doubt, be a strong contest for the seat. LORD ALFORD, who, by the recent decision of the House of Lords, has been put in possession of the Bridge water estates of £70,000 a-year, is only eleven years Of age. His grandfather, Earl Brownlow, is in his 75th year. A MARRIAGE, we understand, will occur in a few days, between a member of the family of a dignitary of the Church, resident in this city (nearly related to a distin guished Prime Minister), and the daughter of a rev. divine, in the neighbourhood of Hartlebury.— Worcester Journal. THE LATE GENERAL SIR CHARLES NA.PIER, G.C.8., will be interred in the Garrison Chapel of Portsmouth to-morrow. The coffin, which is made of polished English oak, has on the lid the inscription on a shield of brass— " Lieut.-General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.8., born August 10, 1782. Died, August 29, 1853." A Pic-Nic, on a large scale, visited Mulgrave woods, the domains of the Marquis of Normanby, on Wednesday. Not fewer than 1,500 congregated together, and engaged in all kinds of sports and games, and dancing. The Earl and Countess of Mulgrave, with their children, and the Hon. L. Phipps, the rejected candidate for Whitby, joined the party. GRAND FETE AT CHATSWORTH.—The Duke of Devon shire gave a splendid fete on Friday to her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia and the Duchess of Leuchtenberg, daughters of the Emperor Nicholas, who have been sojourning in this country the last few weeks. His Excellency Baron Brunow, the Earl of Burlington, Viscount Sydney, Hon. F. Leveson Gower, M.P., and many others, were invited to meet the illus trious guests. THE EARL OF ELLESMERE has returned from Ame rica in the Leander. His lordship is indisposed from gout. Admiral Sir 0. A. Oramanney proceeded on board. It is said there are loud complaints on board the Leander of the want of hospitality on the part of the Americans ; one illustration is given in the fact that they charged the or dinary price for the water required for the ship, which is quite contrary to the practice observed towards ships of the United States Navy in British ports. HER MAJESTY'S TRIP TO DUBLIN. ON Monday morning, last week, at a quarter past three o'clock, the royal squadron left Holyhead, and arrived in Kingstown Harbour at 20minutes past eight. The weather during the voyage across the channel was as fine as could be wished, and when the sun rose the spectacle presented was an exceedingly imposing one. Behind, and becoming fainter and fainter on the eye, lay the dim outline of the Anglesea coast, and in front could be distinguished the misty forms of the Wicklow mountains. Over the sea the royal yacht and her attendant fleet of steamers bravely held their way. As the fleet appeared off Kingstown Harbour a royal salute from the batteries and from the portholes of La Hogue thundered forth the news of its approach ; and the harbour, crowded with gaily decorated yachts, presented a highly animated appearance. Her Majesty's early arrival seemed to take the inhabitants by surprise. The reception given to her Majesty and Prince Albert on Monday was all that they could desire. The Earl and Countess of St. Germans presented themselves shortly before nine o'clock, and they were followed by the two Archbishops, the Duke of Leinster, Viscount Gough, the Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort, the Earl and Countess of Bective, the Lord Chancellor,. Chief Justice Monaghan, Mr. Daman, Mr. George Roe, the Earl of Howth, the Right Hon. J. Hatchell, the Right Hon. F. Blackburn, Colonel Taylor and Mr. Hamilton, members for the county of Dublin, and many other personages of distinction. _ _ At ten o'clock, amid the thunders of a general salute from the fleet, the Queen for the second time set foot on Irish soil, and it may be worth remarking that the spot selected for her doing so was precisely the same as that where she alighted on the first occasion. A handsome covered way led from the pier to the station; and along this approach, lined on either side by privileged spectators, the royal family and their suite were conducted. The cheering which now became general, swelled into a roar of popular congratulation when her Majesty, reaching a kind of pavilion at which the awning terminated, pre sented herself to the multitude outside. Within the station a large number of ladies had collected, and, arranged round the platform, their variegated dresses and their excitement gave an additional feature of in terest to the reception. The run up to Dublin was performed in very few minutes ; and there, at the West land-row terminus, arrayed with civic pomp, were the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin ready, in com pliance with ancient usage, to deliver up the keys of the city as a gage of their:fealty. Having graciously acknow ledged the loyal manifestations with which they were everywhere received, the Queen, and Prince entered the Park gate ; the procession, except the cavalry escort, filed off there, a royal salute was fired from the park guns, and Lord and Lady St. Germans received their Sovereign at the Viceregal Lodge. In the evening; all the public buildings, the leading hotels and shops, and many private dwellings in the metropolis, were brilliantly illuminated. The principal thoroughfares presented a very striking appearance thus lighted up, and the whole population turned out to witness the spectacle. Sackville-street and College-green were the chief objects of attraction, but all the leading streets were filled with people ; and a continuous stream of cars, which never gave foot passengers a moment's rest from the terror of being run over, flowed along them : pleasure was expressed in every face, and all seemed to think, as announced in one of the gaslight legends, that "the good time coming" had at last "come" for Ireland. _ _ On Tuesday the Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal children, accompanied by the Lord-Lieutenant and a brilliant cortege, paid a visit to the Exhibition. The interior of the building presented a magnificent spectacle. Every available corner was occupied from an early hour in the morning, and at the time of Her Majesty's arrival not less than from 15,000 to 20,000 persons of rank and fashion were present. The Queen's reception was most enthusiastic. Mr. Dargan having been introduced, Her Majesty honoured him with a cordial shake of the hand. In reply to the address, Her Majesty said—" It is my anxious desire to encourage the industry of my Irish sub jects, and promote the full development of the great natural resources of Ireland ; and I share with you the confident belief that the striking display of beautiful pro ductions of art and of industry by which I am surrounded is to be appreciated, not only as evidence of successful genius, but as a happy manifestation of that persevering energy, which, under the blessing of Divine Providence, is an unfailing source of national prosperity." Her Ma jesty's reception on her way to and at the Exhibition was most enthusiastic. In the afternoon of the same day the Queen and Prince Consort paid a highly flattering visit to Mr. Dargan at Mount Aunville, which had been postponed on Monday from the state of the weather. On Wednesday Her Majesty and the royal party paid a private visit to the Great Exhibition, at half-past nine o'clock, and remained in the building for two hours and a-half. A great portion of the time was devoted to an in spection of the Fine Arts Hall. Her lfajesty expressed her unqualified'aUrniration of al/ The had seen in the Ex hibition. A review took place in the Park at half-past four o'Cleck in the afternoon, at whielihour Her Majesty arrived on the ground in an open carriage. Just as the review' commenced the rain came down heavily. The review, nevertheless, proceeded. Prince Albert was on horseback. On Thursday, her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred, again visited the Exhibition. The Royal party arrived at the private entrance at half-past nine, and were received by the Chairman, Mr. George Roe, the secretary, Mr. Dean, and the various members of the Committee. The survey was at once resumed, and on this occasion her Majesty confined her notice principally to the Irish contri butions. The Japan work, a new feature in Irish manu factures, first engaged her Majesty's attention. The Royal party then witnessed the process of striking off medals, in honour of their visit. The comfit manufactory of Messrs. Graham, Lemon, and Co. was then visited, and the clean, pretty and expeditious method of producing confectionery of all sorts was greatly admired by the Royal family. Mr. Jones's process of making velvet next engaged her Majesty. The button-making machines, the section of mineral manu factures, and the mechanism of Mr. Kinnaw for making lathes, in turn attracted the Royal notice. Having com pleted for the present their view of the Irish sections, her Majesty and the Princes inspected the French department, which is a perfect model of arrangement. The manufac tures of Gobelin, Beauvais, and Sevres afforded evident gratification to each member of the Royal Family, who took their departure about twelve o'clock. Previously to doing so, however, her Majesty, with her usual considera tion for the wishes of all about her, passed down the whole length of the centre avenue, amidst the crowd of visitors, who retired with respectf. 1 propriety on each side, so as to afford a clear passage to the Royal party and suite, while they cheered most heartily as the Qneen passed by. It is also worth recording that her Majesty has gone through the formality of becoming a season ticket holder, having, indeed, purchased ten season tickets for the use of the Royal Family and suite. On Friday, Prince Albert reviewed the cavalry of the garrison in the Phcenix-park. The Prince of Wales pre sented a pair of colours to the boys of the Hibernian Military School. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Earl and Countess of Howth with a visit at Howth. Her Majesty left Kingstown on Saturday evening, at six o'clock, and arrived at Holyhead at Sunday morning, about eight o'clock. Her Majesty and suite proce e ded on board the Fairy, o n and went out for a cr . uls , epast the South Sunday evening Stack to the Menai Straits, , and e Trinity yacht Riena. Her Majesty returned to the Royal Vic ni 4,1-, n'elnelr sterday (Monday) eveni to 6cotlaaid i'y special train, Those st £40,000 s were IREL2 ) Dublin, there will be a brevet issued, to the troops stationed in the Irish ke stopped ANTIQUARIAN RELIC.—A pipe, resembling a rapt:len:l' 01)a:cc° pipe, except being somewhat thicker in the stem and wider in the bowl, was dug up on Tuesday Irish were wont to inhale the aroma of any narcotic re sembling tobacco, we are ignorant, but certes this pipe, like some others that have been exhumed, the fossil remains of ancient smokers, must have been in its resting-place many centuries before the introduction of the Virginian weed by Sir Walter Raleigh.—Galway Vindicator. Her Majesty on the Crowned at Westminster occasion of her visit to the crystal lenfical chair in which she was It appears that on the crown- ing of an English sovereign the lord chamberlain for the time being becomes entitled. to the chair in which the ceremony is performed. The Marquis of Conyngham was chamberlain when our gracious Sovereign was crowned, and obtained possession of the chair in question, and had it conveyed to his residence at Slane Castle, county Meath. His lordship, when asked for the chair by the committee, at once sent it to the exhibition, and Her Majesty sat upon it again on Tuesday last. IRIBII FISHERIES.—A. company is about being formed in London to fish the coasts of the United Kingdom, but more particularly those of Ireland and Scotland. The movement is headed by Sir Jas. Duke. The great power, both on land and water, will be steam. It is intended to build a fleet of sixty sailing smacks, of from fifty to eighty tons burthen, to be employed in fishing on the banks or in the open sea. These will be waited on by a sufficiently large number of well-provided steamers, of from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty tons bur then, to be propelled by the screw. The live fish will be transferred from the smacks to the steamers, and taken alive in the wells to a port where a railroad affords the most rapid mode of conveyance to the best markets. The petition for a charter of incorporation, limiting the lia bility of the shareholders, was to be presented to the Queen during her visit to the Irish metropolis. - A " COOLING FOUNTAlN."—lmmediately after the de livery of her 11LAjesty's reply to the address of the Dublin Exhibition Committee, an incident occurred which en tirely, disturbed for a moment the gravity of state ceremo nial. An elegant bronze fountain, which afforded sundry tempting, positions for a better view of the ceremonial, and which had been left au see, suddenly assuming its appropriate functions, discharged a copious shower bath upon a number of eager spectators that had availed them selves of the advantages which it so insidiously presented. Was this the work of some Jesuit traitor, who gratified his bitter spite by administering this coolinc , application to the enthusiasm of the people, or the effect of a dark re venge on the part of the fountain-maker, for the desecra tion of his handiwork ? Was it the envy of a less fortu nate spectator, who thus resented the inferiority of his own position, or was it simply meant as a demonstration to her Majesty of Paddy's penchant for a lark ? We incline to the last-named supposition. GLIMPSES OF DUBLIN.:-:-At the first cursory view Dublin seems very deficient in houses of public enter tainment. No swinging doors invite the passers by—no glistening bars dazzle the toper's eyes. He sees plenty of hotels and plenty of grocers, but few what may be called publichouses. When, however, he has been a very few days in Dublin, he discovers that in almost every " hotel" (the Sackville-street and aristocratic ones I exclude, of course) he may be provided with refreshment as moderate as a "dandy" of punch, or modicum of whisky and hot water, which costeth twopence ; or that in almost every shop where tea and coffee and sugar are sold there also is sold the enlivening beverage extolled by poets, but de nounced by Father Mathew, the " rale potheen," from a pennyworth up to a gallon, which costeth eight shillings. There are, I believe r some excise and municipal regula tions, limiting the drinking of whisky on the premises, which prompt some grocers of tender consciences to pro vide back yards, with back outlets, into which customers accidentally stray to drink their whisky, and find as ac cidentally such waifs and strays as " materials," f. e., hot water, sugar, and lemons, under a water-butt, or what not ; but, in general, there seems no disguise about the matter ; and, in the drain-drinking line, the grocer as plainly means whisky as, in England, the Alton alehouse means beer.—Household Words. ATTEMPTED SITICrDE.—A case of family embroilment took place recently in Belfast between parties in a re spectable line of life, which very nearly terminated fatally. A commercial traveller and his wife, both foreigners, have been residing at lodgings; and on SundaVevening, after dinner, some conversation ensued between them, the effect of which was to excite in the lady deep feelings of jealousy. The gentleman threw himself on a sofa, and fell into a sleep, and the lady left the house, having first written a note, which she left on the table, with her gold watch and jewellery. The poor woman repaired to Prince's Dock, about nine o'clock, into which she threw herself, and from which her rescue was almost miraculous. Three boys had been in a boat down the river, and were returning when a cry was raised of a body in the water. They pulled to the place indicated, and one of them succeeded in securing a hold of the poor woman's dress, and with great difficulty she was taken out. She was quite insensible, and it was the general opinion that she was dead. She was imme-. diately conveyed by one of the constables, aided by others, to the general hospital, where proper . means were adopted to resuscitate her, and fortunately with effect.. At a late hour last night she was recoveri n g , a nd continued in a fair way. Her husband had been searching through the town, immediately on his reading the note, but in vain. He called at the Police-office, with a view to obtain assist ance, and it subsequently turned out that the object of his search was then in the general hospital, under the circum stances detailed above.--Belfast Mercury. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. C. M. Arnold, M.A., to a Minor Canonry in West minster Abbey. Rev. W. J. Bennett, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. An drew, Manchester... Rei. R. Campbell, M.A., late Incumbent of Hawick, to a Canonry in Perth Cathedral, and to be Principal of the Dio cesan Model School. Rev. E. Evans, to the Rectory of Eccles St. Mary, next the sea, Norfolk. Rev. I. Durrant, M.A., to the Incumbency of Thornton, near Fleetwood. Rev. E. J. Green, M.A., to the Vicarage of Leintwardine, Herefordshire. _ _ _ Rev. J. Healy to the Rectory of Redmile, Leicestershire. Rev. J. Smithard, M.A., to the Curacy of Longbenton, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Rev. F. Taunton, Curate of Upwell, to be a Surrogate for the diocese of Norwich. Rev. R. Tomlins, M.A., to be Assistant Chaplain at Rome. Rev. C. J. Waterhouse, Curate of King's Langley. liens, to the Curacy of Egham, Surrey. THE LORD BISHOP OF ADELAIDE, the Right Rev. Augustus Short, D.D., has arrived in this country with Mrs. Short and three daughters, from Australia. THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF WESTMINSTER have arranged with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to have in future their fixed salaries of £2,000 and £l,OOO each, instead of the uncertain amounts dependent on fines, &c. THE ENGLISH CHURCH AT GENEVA, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was, we are informed, to have been conse crated by the Bishop of Winchester, who had arrived at Geneva for the purpose on the 30th ult. The foundation stone was laid by his lordship about two years since. ELECTIVE PATRONAGE.—The number of candidates for the living at St. Nicholas' Church, Ipswich, vacant by the death of the Rev. M. G. Edgar, is about 89. The living is worth £l7O a year, and is in the gift of the parishioners. "After the most eligible of the candidates have preached before the parishioners, the day of election will be fixed."--l_pswich Express. SIR ROBERT PEEL.—The Parish Church at Drayton, Warwickshire, has been restored at an expense of £2,000. The remains of the late Sir Robert Peel are buried there. The present baronet, on being applied to for a subscription, at once said—" Gentlemen, instead of putting my name upon the list as a subscriber, if you will permit me to see your plans carried out at my own cost, I shall be most happy to do so." DISTRICT CHURCHES.—It appears, from a parlia mentary-paper just issued, that the number of districts assigned to churches built and consecrated under the Ist and 2nd William IV., c. 48, sec. 2, in the respective dioceses, is as follows :—Chester, 74 ; Winchester, 37 ; Lichfield, 18 ; Worcester, 17 ; Ripon, 15 ; London, 9 ; Gloucester and Bristol, 6; Lincoln and Carlisle, 6 each; Rochester, Oxford, and Ely, 4 each ; Chichester, Hereford, and Salisbury, 3 each ; Bath and Wells, 2 ; Canterbury, St. Asaph, Bangor, Exeter, and Sodor and Man, 1 each ; No returns have been received from the dioceses of York, Manchester, and Peterborough ; and it would also appear that no districts have been created in the dioceses of St. David's, Llandaff, and Norwich. BISHOPRIC OF NATAL.—A sum of £5,000 is still re quired to complete the endowment of the see of Natal, so as to secure the bishop the moderate income (as recom mended by the Colonial Bishops' Council) of £BOO a year. It has been thought that an immediate endeavour should be made to raise as large a proportion of this amount as possible in the diocese of Norwich, both as a tribute of respect to Dr. Colenso, as a clergy . man of the diocese, well known to many by his connexion with Christian mis sions, and as a token of sympathy on behalf of the Zulu Kafirs, in whose history there are many points of special interest, and who number upwards of 150,000. THE BISHOP OF ST. Asaru has recently consecrated Pont Probert Church, beautifully situate on the margin of the Mechan, at the extremity of the Vale of Meiford. The building is described as a simple Gothic edifice, sixty feet in length, with lancets, and a couplet on the south side, and a three - light window, with circles in the head, at the east end. The western gable is surmounted by a double bell-gable, under which there is a two-li g ht win dow. The dressings of the doorway, windows, plinths, strings, and buttresses are of Caen stone. The bell-gable is also constructed of the same material, the stone of the neighbourhood being used for the walls. There is an open roof. The floor is, laid with black and red tiles, and II the seats are low open benches, which, together with the roof timbers, are stained and varnishes placed on the left of the south dos to be ffile ' " - The font is window is 11 stained g ft of the Earl of Powil ORDINATIONS T Sept. 25—By the Bishop of Linc 0 BE HOLDEN. :oln ......At Lincoln ,er ...... ...At Exeter. At Ripon At Peterborough. At Aberps , At Worcester N0v.20 Worcest kit Chester. By the Bishop %_t Linc At HeraQrcl o sit fo: ar. She was Birmingham on nnq and while at TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 18 '63. ST C.H.RYSOSTO3I"S CirvTlßC° EFERTON. This beautiful edifice, the foundation -stone ot was laid by the Bishop of the diocese in Th building Everton-ron", neigh' the and is bounded on the north by Brecx-road. TO: midst of a thickly-populated and rapidly-increasin,; ;o, bourhood, and has been erected to supply the nril is t r ict, mand for increased church acomninodation in that „t n "' as well as the neighbouring township, bordering toPe te a Derby. The style of architecture is of the dee_or;fr. Gothic order, the designs having been furnished b 3: Raffles Brown, architect, of thist'tOwn, and the intert?L„, 1 de , 'P' strictly in keeping with the general architectaa terP' There is a centre, and two side aisles, the latter of nating with north ' and south transepts. On each s ide; the centre aisles is a series of elegant archways, no is srtuate from light columns of polished granite, and there ft, galleries except those in the transept s. The °Toil placed on the ground floor, and enclosed within_ e archway, on the north side of the appro aches to thor;iir munion table. There is accommodation f or 1,2v1u Ere , pers all in pews, and the sittings are arrangeo 'classes, the last two of which comprehend 4013 s r lt,. l l s ll entirely free, and 250 sittings, which are to he letf, ei it annual rent of five shillings each. At the corameneet':,,,.?, of the morning service, the church was filled in everY and there was a considerable number of the local present, including the Ven. Archdeacon Brooks, tit e r! IV. Dr. M`Neile, H. Hampton, Barker, Sutton, Warre, Jones, &c. Prayers were read by the one o f the naught, who has been appointed to the incurebeneSiv, church, and the communion-service by the Bec• f Ewbank, after which the Rev. Canon St wen, Stoviis chester, preached from Genesis xxviii. 17—" no n e afraid, and said how dreadful is this place ! this 0.30 of other but the house of God, and this i s the 9s, heaven." At the conclusion of the service , f u n collected in aid of the building and endowment e 0 .0 connexion with the church. In the enin, ,ther e ev c again a full attendance. The Rev. J. 31°1311'11 rr incumbent, read prayers • after which a sego.. preached by the Rev. W. W. Ewbank from Ant9,ll6ocll. feelinglyTowards un der which t a h a e d tchlo appropriately church Power;,', -sc. " And the disciples were called Christians first at A ll ti oso ellihsadisdallchiersnde'etio.tehetethedle.e. Crire:el°o9:4rejtliel:4re " Though there are many in this congregation w thr , r. ' in the completion of this beautiful house of Pr s) '''i'do is not one who rejoices in it more sincerely 001 ,eO - b M e a e n n y loo of h y in o g u are forw a ar w d are to , t t h h a e t tfiraorefifteen ) th e w hch, • , 11 9. blessing of God, has at length arrived. Th e I lver rinlq tional School was established under the auspice' 0061, teemed and beloved predecessor, Mr. Buddieuln• came among you, I found it in full operation ; and came that tim l e, a l m am cia s i ur te e s i a t re has th b: r e e n a a b re les m sh a i a g y to 3 t hellel,4oo9 hood. present—for — or t w he e re ha a v r e e b n e l e a n ny tal y k o t i g g th p i e s rs ev a ei s i Ti p ili g Dz itn r`r c o tls t i l ii will have the happiest remembrances of the 0!" which they received in that school, and now, e s r ec e sceil el to the indefatigable and untiring exertions of you r r feioice„ minister, my dear friend and brother, whom 1) 110 ': see in this position ; at last, God has crown ed Ye..,,,ia , with success, and you are enabled to worship tra temple,—to worship Him, I trust, in spirit nu" f l ii - otV o t 4 What more, then, can I now say to you, than et," ? hope and pray, that God's blessing my enrieuoitio ll abundantly descend upon the whole of this coegre,oet May your minister be blessed. May he be an ab 1e1311 0,1 4/ 1 of the Lord Jesus Christ. May he be enabled too:E.< and Word. May he preach the Gospel in all its PZ I " i ; e p; silicity. May he be able to set forth the sin he sin e ; and comfort the( sinner, by setting fort „lag 4 and unsearchable riches of Christ." At the ec ) ",ided £3O 7s. 6d. was collected. Mr. D. C. Brown P re :ice° . the organ. On Sunday, two eloquent and imPr. e ile mons were preached by the Rev. J. :NlacnaughtL) ll,t bent, after which, the sum of I:51 was collect fwd aro the entire collection in aid of the endow:nen ( ' £176. As a mark of esteem for the Rev. J.1‘,34,1110,,,,0' new set of robes and surplices have been presen• by the congregation. The communion plate and have also been presented by Mrs. Tory and oth e i r ;tili t f ; Amongst other gifts, Mrs. Tory presented th e allif i o crimson cloth which covers the communion tabl ; b y elaborately worked monogram on it was exe,, cutc- Green, of Everton-road, assisted by her pillN"' was openec Andley-street :verion, a li THE RACE BETWEEN FAIRY AND THE MONA'S au-- Ox Wednesday, the new Ramsey steamer, last 01, built by Mr. John Laird, of Birkenhead , Douglas steamer Mona's Queen, built by Messrs o . Thomson,of Catisgow,ha.d a race from Liverpaeto po0 , 10 ) The Ben-my-Chree took the passenger s , 0 inter Sir the Mona's Queen having on board onlY tu e r o f the in the race, which was an acknowledged trial (vee p th . 4 tive speed of the two vessels. The Mona s ;1 7 g . his 5 commanded by Captain Edward Q ua yle, b t e e ' ro a.r je r trip to sea since his late accident; and th e ve f the bo,ht t 0 a ft , Gill, in compliance with the urgent r eties hart d r and. directors of the Ramsey company, toos-_,c Manx Fairy. Besides this, there was a Par` ) ,,, c v stg' r ee sons on board, exclusive of the crew. The vcr bou t tb ot i at eleven o'clock, the Fairy having a lead 01 „at, to or four lengths. There was a strong ebb tide run . '"a i eNr, both boats soon cleared the river. They 1 1 4 No contend, all the rest of the way, against a still ,0 6) breeze and a heavy sea. It soon became evideato ,4 :3 and thee.oclo Fairy was slowly but gradually inrreaging between herself and the Mona's Queen. At one fro.' the Fairy met the Tynwald steamer on her Pal o lt c ° ,;; the island to Liverpool. About three o'clock 3 4 , o f ', r e netted with one of the starboard paddle -11°a giri leading vessel gave way. The engines of t, 1 1 1 , 0 rolii! in consequence stopped, and a delay of ah°2o"f t he i i i , V po o took place. It is said that in conseque ° ""A n ot paddle-float the Fairy, after this time , u l ",,,,jouslY' the other vessel as she had been doing 11— m inut e ` Fairy rounded Douglas Head at thirt y .thre,,e my fired by four o'clock, and on getting into Douglas 0e.40 which were repeatedly answered from the was crowded with small boats, the crews a, to le w ere 9 13 i cheered the new steamer. Thousands of P gregated upon Douglas Head, upon the roc „a amp sh e ° ;iel l upon the pierhead, to witness the contest, ! I 'T ll ens them the greatest enthusiasm was exhibiteu• of the Fairy had been fired exactly twelve Tulin orris hat salute from the Mona's Queen announced tau s ide l'a j i that vessel. [lt is claimed on the losing; of . 0 0 two vessels, and that the stoppage only 104 minutes elapsed between the arrir;iryLd of the ViO occupied two minutes.] Allowing for tinte,, the;e stopped, that vessel sailed the distance, sixteen minutes less time than the 3lona's Quaocl ee ty greatest excitement was manifested in Rams% a sort of telegraphic communication was ma . e ale, . 11 r, Fairy had won the race, the enthusiasm of the Y, oai i -P no bounds. Thousands of people lined the I ) , le se rs i(f rounding heights, in anticipation of the c e f, there. The Manx Fairy left Douglas about s'' cord je, Ramsey, and on her arrival there those on coil! 0, , together at the Albert Hotel, and every one etisgtO on board displayed the greatest interest in one. ' r new vessel. On Mr. Laird's health bein hp l i; e y WO°, gentleman, in his reply, said that , althoug,hen a fair race, and had gained by a few minut es ' spn. v j satisfied, neither was the engineer, with the was attained. He hoped better results would, w - e 00.' 0 ot fact, he had no doubt that such would be itstlt9 her r, 0 that she would for some time maintain .„,.. 0 0m - g t being the swiftest boat sailing between 3 1)° ,11ef ; Isle of Man. He (Mr. Laird) felt some anv,_ea ra', passage, because, as they all knew, they pi,gr',o° loaded ship. The Mona's Queen excluded Pas,,,ssUgla.oryt everything else, save the coals to take her to v - e j, ia° o o , had been put into dock to be cleaned and s ra ther that she might beat the Fairy. A number of o ,in t be ea to were proposed, and th e compan y were natu r `a ll , ) re ta o spirits after their victory. The Manx FaJ rY Liverpool on Thursday. AT BRISTOL h . C lll:;if ti O4. GREAT CATTLE FAIR, Jo there was a good supply of stock, a of s' e ', - .o'iis ''' very remunerative prices. There was a oli al f r eell' i fir ante of buyers, and all descriptions moved off ,te a te 0,4 THE BISHOP or DURHAM, who finai lif . e g . ",,,, 1 itt if1. 0 6.4 takeable signs of the effects of age and Ja ) ," -- pe r "",i/ recent visitation tour, continues to be in a very tAo r o ta state of health. At the confirmations about t...0c1i Th S u A rs C da nl y LE n G ig E h r a 3 da ln A w n in different parts of the diocese, the Bishop of A" ~0 0 ~s• tie will officiate for the venerable prelate. ..,,,,,z i)* ill ; .,,t above church ; the school-room was also 0 0 :0 ,no oeY , Ail out sufficient panes of glass to admit tholeri,Al nights con‘,..wpolto maa. Various articles were stolen, such as sta'Au;i o ' a glCsacH Crilletr;uHas, gi.c.,,-,ittc,. inkstand, &c. A similar act was Coinvii,'"--ia. , frfOrc il ago in the Hilduston Parochial Sehool-r—aver, tee _ i ver' A PETRIFIED MAN. — An Arnericanji e " e IlleP ti t i)e Yeoman, states that, not long since,w,'"- sor eW ll3le f jil a digging in a coal bank near the canal, tli e .Y fge tioe• e a. tit as co a r i d id uro seam y cloth ; body of a man in a perfect state of Pe'ri„e- encas.oV nearly perfect, the cor the Irish The pp" 8 of which are nerfoctlY define labo tire $ f 4 posed to be the body of one of and ar -11 which the legs w—d,it is `en eir gaged in the construction of the can al ' e d WO l a egi BARGAINoffin AND SALE.--An a ll,lll. -- if lol led t V courtship, and matrimon were consiclerah 5 since. A young man of respectable conne.cu,,o;'estl° o t) as the sequel proves, not very scrupulous I "'., s two ) . ,til) , ; . e completeb; .aum.sforal. . • to self, had been in the habit of sitting- n i s :.\ lll ::teril P tl between them—one Srnday ladies, both living in the same neig,hbouro,9l_',di, 111?../A next with Marinda. In the due Bourse 0% 1- ric e grea10 1 :; nat rally does the stream of love flow to.wa,rn. • f ositis el 3, e g 8 .., .01? _„j of matrimony—hefoundhunsel P r . the cope. .011,; night with 14_ 10 44%0; 1J and with one of them appointed a day i e or, _ k e pt S 0 see.Pt', of their union. The marriage was t tied ~t it it .., ~,i ). . secret until the knot was actually t*„.( 1 1 _; :11 ,.ited g o i t ; that, through the leakage of some achedtle,,'", e 00 5 _, of 4 news of the projected wedding re_t. delic_.,6l,et.. rival candidate for matrimony. Of o.ssfted title _1,,,1Z breeze was the result. The two l a dies i 0 1 , 5 , P o u' utra cth'f, o i prepared to prove a bond fide matrioio al 'i n . e c old 0 1 "'cid ' herself and the double-dealing lover. e at il ief': --..—. l pnthusiasin in behalf of their respectis, __lig , - ---..1 A.Vg. the , 3r, 010 ,, ' i ",f , took the matter up, and quarrelled with a g r , e ~,,magscifro fire anu e.......—____ Thus the affair stood for several atty., -- teat iw e grace of a lover owning up, meanwhile , which 1100 " tight place." He had appointed a day on v....c0p 0, to be married to Lydia, and at the same timeiv.iicitAl engaged to Marinda. He acknowledged his,T t ir e s, ; e pleaded guilty to the charges of the youngot tires, was to be done ? Happily for him, he was 40;e r s t, abled to settle the affair in a very busillegoels tP r. , t He proposed to the fathers of the two , ~, t o allVtli settle the dispute, he had finally concluu ert , ~,,i girl whose father cotild give him the most Pl re d to,T e - - - ,_.4. r*.-rinclits 0 . - w ith iv 4 —a. ~ ception of 'a single aerP, that he would will to 1 lover. He insisted ut, before marriagE tials. Such co parties v Q a f r bog meadow on the Prellllo,74_le U 1 y truE