The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

3t. 8, 1816: ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH ON SUNDAY next, the 13th instant, Two SER MONS will be preached in ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH, Key-street, by the Rev. JOHN BIRKETT, Incumbent of the Watermen's Church, Winsford ; and on TUESDAY EVENING next, the 15th instant, a SERMON will be preached by the Rev. ALFRED HEWLETT, M.A., Incumbent of Astley. A Collection will be made after each Sermon towards defraying the expenses of conducting Divine Service. Service to commence, in the Morning, at a Quarter before Eleven o'clock, and in the Evening, at Half-past Six o'clock ; and on Tuesday Evening, at Seven o'clock. LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S LOAN COMPANY. Completely Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic. c. 110, for granting Loans from to I'soo. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on and after the Election of Directors, on THURSDAY next, the 10th instant, this Company will be hi FULL OPERATION, for the purpose of GRANTING LOANS from 150 to £5OO, on Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Deposit of Title Deeds, Shares in Railway or other Companies (in actual operation) or other approved personal security. Applications to be made at the Office of the Company, Lord street Chambers, Lord-street, Liverpool, after the 10th instant. Dated this 3d day of September, 1846. By order of the Provisional Directors, J. JONES, Eldon-chambers, South John-street, Liverpool, Solicitor to the Company.' i. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT, i t COMPANY is in course of formation for CON TRACTING with the CORPORATION to REMOVE and POSSESS the MANURE of the TOWN under the new Sana tory Bill, and for its preparation and application to the sur rounding Agricultural Districts. From u careful calculation it can confidently be stated, that a Profit of fifteen per Cent will be realised on the Capital engaged. A detached Prospectus will be issued in a few days. Communications, in the meantime, to be addressed to Messrs. ROOERSON and RADCLIFFE, Solicitors, Chapel-street, Liver pool. On behalf of the Promoters, W. MURRAY ROSS, Manager, pro tem. BIRKENHEAD DOCK COMPANY INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 8 and 9 VICTORIA, Session 1845 Capital One Million, in 10,060 Shares of £lOO each DIRECTORS. Joseph Bailey, Jun., Esq., M.P., Chairman. Wm. Potter, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. John Laird, Esq.! I J. T. Clay, Esq., M. F. Brownrigg, Esq., Augustus Radcliffe, Fsq. John Macvicar, Esq. Henry Winch, Esq., Robert Barbour, Esq. Wm. Whitwell, Esq., Ambrose Lace, Esq. Wm. Laird, Esq. MACGREGOR LAIRD, Esq., Secretary, Offices, Argyle-street, Birkenhead. TO MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, AND OTHERS GENTLEMEN, TN consequence of the great demand for increased 1 accommodation to the trade of the Mersey, Parliament sanctioned, in 1844, the construction of Dock Works on the west bank of the river, by the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners ,an exempted vessels entering their works from the payment of th Liverpool dock rates. In 1845, a second act empowered the Commissioners to deepen and wall in Wallasey Pool, conve ing it into a Floating Dock of 150 acres—making, with works authorised under the act of 1844,an anea.oF2o74;cres dock accommodation. In 1845, the Birkenhead Dock Company was incorporated, with a capital of one million, for the purpose of constructing warehouses and other conveniences for trade, on the plan of the London DOck Companies, upon the south side of the Bir kenhead Dock. This company has purchased the ground co loured red on the accompanying plan, from the railway station to lichester road; having a frontage to the Birkenhead Dock of 2500 yards, which form its northern boundary, while on the south side it is bounded by a railway, communicating via Ches ter with the general railway system of the kingdom. By this arrangement the owners of all goods warehoused on the premises of the Birkenhead Dock Company will save in ex penses : - Ist. The cartage to and from the ship and warehouse. 2nd. At least one-third the present expense of porterage. 3rd. One-half the present rate of fire insurance. 4th. All dock dues, no rates being levied on produce of any description entering the Birkenhead Docks. sth. All pilferage. 6th. Damage from exposure to the weather, the goods being under cover from the time they leave the ship's hold until de livered into the river craft or upon the railway truck. The annexed plan of the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks shows the relative position and dimensions of the dock works on both sides of the Mersey, and the distances from the Ex change, which may be considered the common centre of busi ness, The Birkenhead Dock Commissioners are a public body, created in 1844 by the Act of Parliament which authorised the construction of the docks; to them the crown has granted an area of wharfage and water space of 2723 acres, which form the site of the works ; on the security of this property and the rates which are to be levied on the shipping making use of the docks, they have borrowed money for their construction. The maximum rate they are allowed by the act to charge is one shilling and sixpence per register ton (or such less rate as may be sufficient to pay the interest of the money borrowed for the construction of the works on the shipping entering their docks, but they have no power to charge dock rates upon goods or produce from any part of the world ; all cargoes. therefore, discharged in these docks are free of dock-rates. In Liverpool the dock rates are levied upon all goods entering the docks, and the statement, No. 1 annexed, will show the saving that would accrue in dock dues alone to each trade by making use of the Birkenhead docks. In addition► to dock dues, the Corporation of Liverpool levy a rate, called Town's dues, on all goods landed and shipped. In 1845 these dues amounted to 480,000. It is believed that they cannot be enforced on goods landed or shipped at Birk enhead. The Commissioners of Birkenhead, having their first dock nearly completed, expect to open for general trade in the course of the present year, and the Birkenhead Dock Company will have warehouses for a considerable quantity of produce ready at the same time. I, therefore, beg to call your attention to the advantages they offer, particularly for bulky goods, in the saving of charges, and to suggest that in any shipments made to this port, the bills of ladinc , may be filled up to Liverpool or Bi r k en h ea d , at the option of consignee. —I remain, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, MACGREGGOR LAlltll, Secretary. Birkenhead Dock Company's Offices, Birkenhead, let Sept., 1846. No.l.—Statement of Dock Rates received at the Port of Liver pool, on Goods and Shipping, in the Year ending 24th June, 1845. WHERE FROM. ON GOODS. ON SHIPPING. East Indies £11,041 16 4 ...t10,281 18 8 Neu- S. Wales and New Zealand 389 17 10 .. 355 7 3 West Coast of South America 1,429 17 5.. 2,584 13 3 Brazils . West Indies and Gulf of Mexico 6,156 19 4.. 5,9262 0 5 5 - United States of America 55,166 16 9 .. 44,121 1 15 16 9 0 Brit. America & Newfoundland 9,787 7 8.. 18,451 10 0 West Coast of Africa 2,022 2 3.. 7,259 8 3 Mediterranean 7,046 12 4.. 6,994 3 4 Ports in the Baltic European Ports Coasters 0 0 0.. 21,174 16 6 ------ 105,032 3 2 4 ;127447 7 7 In addition to the sum of . 4 105,032 3s. 2d. levied upon the Cargoes of Ships entering and leaving the Liverpool Docks, a further sum of .4'80,000 was paid as Town Dues, making a total sum of .4185,032 3s. 2d., which, if the same quantity of Goods had entered the Birkenhead Docks, would have been saved to the proprietors. No. 2.—Eslimated comparative statement attending the Import, into Liverpool, of 1,000 bales New Orleans Cotton, fair qua lity, Liverpool classification, supposing the Cotton to be Warehoused and held for Six Months in Warehouses on Dock Quays and in the 'Town Warehouses. Value of Cotton, say 42 0,0001b5. at 4!( - 1. per lb., X 8,023 15s. Rate of charges LIVERPOOL Charges. per cent. on value Town dues, 2d. per b a l e . .t'B 6 8 of Cotton Dock dues, 3d. per lOOlbs., less Is. 3d 35 0 0 Weighing on quay loading, lighting, and stowing in Warehouse, dd. per bare 2O 16 8 Cartage, first length, 2id. per bale 9 7 6 Mending, canvas and twine, say in good order, 4d. per bale Warehouse rent, 6 months at td. per bale per week 67 14 2 Re -weighing. in Warehouse and delivering, li pe d. r bale 6 5 0 Removing scales and weights, if only once 0 3 0 Fire Insurance in certified Warehouses, (10s. Gd. per cent., Is. Gd. duty,) 12s. per cent.* Cartage from Warehouse to Railway, or Duke's Dock, 3rd length, at 3d. per bale 12 10 0 4'225 7 6 .t 2 15 Rate o BIRKENHEAD Charges. per cen on vain of Cotto _ _ Town dues, None Dock dues, None Weighing on quay, and stowing in Ware house, at 3d. per bale—(No loading or lighting) Cartage to Warehouse, None Mending, canvas and twine, say in good order, 4d. per bale Warehouse rent, 6 months, at id. per bale per week Re-weighing in Warehouse and delivering, lid. per bale Removing weights and scales Fire Insurance (at ss. prem., duty Is. 6d.), 6s. 6d. per cent.t Cartage to Railway or Water conveyance, None required to 0 0 0 0 0 12 10 0 0 0 0 54 3 4 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 ( 17 t _ Charges by the present system, t 2.25 7s. 6d. By Birkenhead Dock Warehouses, .4115 17s. Pd. Saying by proposed plan on every 1,000 bales of cotto £lO9 9s. 9d. * This rate is on Floating Policies, under which most of the cotton in Liverpool is charged ; in warehouses not certified, the rate should by 17s. Gd. per cent. t The rate of Insurance being only 2s. Gd. per cent. on shni lar dock warehouses in London, it is expected this rate will be reduced. —Comparative statement of charges on Timber dis charged in Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks. Per 1000 feet. Liverpool. Birkenhead. Dock dues, 6d. per load of 50 feet 4:0 10 0 . - 0 0 0 'Town dues, 6d. per do. do. Drawing timber from ship to quay, 12s. per 1000 feet Carting to yard per ditto t ili ding and piling per ditto Load Only in Birkenhead per ditto Carting in for delivery Bd. per 250 feet g th Car • - team of 250 feet Farrier , 3s. 6d. per O 12 0 0 12 0 014 0 0 0 0 012 0 0 0 0 000 0 9 0 028 0 0 0 Cranage at Wharf, 10d. per 50 feet 0 0 0 0 16 8 :4 Diffe rence in favo ur o f Bi rkenhead per 1000 . 4 `' ll et 4 el 17 8 i." 2 13 8 fio • 4 . — Amount of Dock and Town Daft charged , 44 upon the cargo of a Flou r tons from New Dock Rates on 5260 barr els,eraging each 19C) lbs., 9205 cwt. at lit, per cwt .... .. ............ Town Dues on Ditto, ditto, at per barrel ...... Dock Rates on 2060 bales Cotton, averaging each 4 cwt. 922 ,8801b5. at 2d. per 10011)s-476 18 2 Town Duties on ditto ditto, at hl. per bale 17 3 4 On the cargo bv tering the Birkenhead D0ck5.4154 6 11 On Flour, grain, provisions, t ur p ent i ne, oils, and all articl( of great bulk, and comparatively small value, th e sav i nc , charges will be _ Is great as in the N.B.—Ships in the Birkenhead Docks will be allowed, under proper regulations, the use of fire and lights ; the heavy charge for boarding the crew on s h ore, et present incurred in Liver pool, may therefore be saved. LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETN. PATRON. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DERBY. PRESIDENT. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD STANLEY. VICE-PRESIDENTS. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SEFTON, RICHARD WILI.IS, Esq., I DAVID HODGSON, Esq., JAAIES LAWRENCE, Esq., THOS. WELD BLUNDELL, Esq TIIE SHOW of LIVE STOCK, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, SEEDS, ROOTS, &c., will take place on THURSDAY, the 24th instant, in the NORTH HAYMARKET. The Prize's are open to competition of all parties residing in the district of the Society (viz., 40 miles round Liverpool), whether Subscribers or not, but Non-subscribers will be charged Two Shillings for each Entry. The Entry must be made at the NEPTUNE HOTEL, Clayton-square, on the day before the Show, between the hours of Ten and hree. The Cattle must be in the Show-yard before Eight o'clock in the Morning, or they will be excluded. The Exhibition will open at Half-past Twelve, and close at Four. Admittance to Non•subscribers until Two o'clock, 2s. 6d., and afterwards One Shilling. The DINNER will be held at Messrs. LUCAS' REPOSITORY, at Five o'clock. Tickets, 4s. 6d. each, to be had at Mr. CAN NELL'S, Slater-court, Castle-street. Members are requested to apply for , their Tickets on or before the 22nd instant, as there will only be a limited number issued, and if all are not taken by Members, they will be sold to the Public on the 23rd and 24th. After Dinner the Prizes will be distributed. • • . Lists of the Premiums, &c., may be had by applying to Mr. CANNELL, or to the Secretaries, Mr. H. WHITE, Warrington, and Mr. LEDGER, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE of CALL on GRAND JUNCTION .i'2s SHARES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Directors, in execution of the Acts of Parliament relating to the said Company, have, pursuant to the provisions thereof, made a CALL of FIVE POUNDS in respect of each of the .t - '25 Shares which were created by the Grand Junction Railway Company on the 10th day of September, 1845, and have ordered that such Call be paid to one of the undermentioned Bankers, namely : London Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, and Co.; Birmingham .The Birmingham Banking Company, or, Messrs. Molliet and Son ;- Liverpool Messrs. Moss and Co; or The Bank of Liverpool ; Manchester.. Sir Benj. Heywood and Co. ; or, The Manchester and Salford Bank, on or before the 15th day of September next. And the several Proprietors of such .t 25 Shares are required to pay such Call accordingly. - GEO. CARR GLYN, Chairman. CHAS. LAWRENCE, Deputy Chairman. By order, RICHARD CREED, 1 Secretaries, HENRY BOOTH, Euston Station, London, August 20, 1846. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCAS TLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, (Late Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction and Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Companies, now amalgamated.) THE Register of Shares in this undertaking being now nearly completed, all holders of Scrip who have not yet forwarded the same for Registration are requested to do so without delay, as the Share Register will be absolutely closed on the first day of October next, after which time all Shares not transmitted for that purpose will be registered in the names of the original Allottees. It is requested that the Scrip in the original Liverpool, Man chester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company may be forwarded to the Secretary, at 22, Parliament-street, London; and the Scrip in the original Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Company to the Secretary, at 31, Princess street, Manchester, who will send an acknowledgment for the same. The Certificates under the Common Seal of the Company will be ready for delivery in a short time, of which due notice will be given to the •Shareholders. By order, (Signed,) THOS. ROBERTWILSONyRANCE, Chairman. W. K. INGRAM, Secretaries, C. MOORE WILSON, August 11th, 1846 THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. THE POTATO CROP.—The letters from all districts of Ireland continue to report the complete destruction of the potato crop. It is stated that there is hardly in any part of the country a sufficiency of supply up to Christmas, and in most places the crop fit for human consumption will not last to the middle of November. A REMEDY FOR 'HIE POTATO DISEASE.—Take a three pronged fork, put it in just sufficient to raise the root and soil surrounding it, and I will guarantee it answering. This will cost ss. 9d: per acre, which I am now paying. I found this out last year by pulling up a few roots, as every one is apt to do, to see how they go on ; the disease did not touch them, although the remainder were as bad as possible.—J. Evans, Newton Abbot.—Agricultural Gazette. . The Downpatrick Recorder says : " we have had as fine a week of glorious weather as the anxious husband man could desire for the securing of his crops. A great breadth of ground has been cleared in consequence, and in the finest order. The wheat crop is not only abundant, but of superior quality. Oats are not so favourably spoken of ; they are represented as being light and small in the pickle. Barley is an average crop and of fair qua lity. Should this fine weather continue another week, the harvest would be well nigh completed in this neigh bourhood. SCARCITY OF FRUIT.—We believe the price now paid in London for good ripe fruit is much above what it has been for the last twenty years. The following compara tive statement shews how scarce and dear good apples, pears, and stone-fruit are : 1845 1846 Pears, per pot .. is. to 95.-28 s. to 30s. Plums, ditto 4s. to ss. —lBs. to 225. Damascenes, ditto Apricots, per dozen.... 4d. to Is.-Is. 6d. to 3s. Peaches, ditt0...... Is. to Is. 6d.-2s. to 3s. 6d. CUCUMBERS.—The very warm weather with which we have been favoured this summer, seems to have been favourable to the growth of cucumbers; no less than two tons of which (a novel way of reckoning this fruit) were brought to Norwich on Tuesday night last. They were taken to the market the next morning, and in a few hours nearly the whole of them were disposed of. Two or three small heaps remained about one o'clock, which were being retailed at four-a-penny. They were brought from Bed fordshire, where they were grown in the open air in great quantities. Though small and not very inviting in ap pearance, they were by no means ill-flavoured, and were well adapted for pickling.—Norfolk Chronicle. IMPROVED CENTRAL FIRE GUN--There can be no thing more important to our sporting friends, the shoot ing season having commenced, than to observe the im provement that has recently been made by our townsman, Mr. Bentley (whose advertisement appears in our paper of to-day) in the construction of the ordinary fowling pieces. By the ordinary principle, combustion is com municated to the charge in the barrel by an angle or el bow, and is consequently slow ; but, by the new principle, it is direct, the nipple bri'ig placed angni4rly at the breach of the gun. 11w oily abjection that could ever be urged against this loin , iplt was the probability of the rapid explosion blowing off the nipple ; but this is now so arranged (fitting with a cone into the interior of the part), that three or four threads of screws are beyond the reach of the explosive power, and the powder cannot exert any force upon it. To use the words of the circular, " the patent guns have given satisfaction to every sportsman that have tried them ; they shot quicker, stronger, and are considered safer to use than the usual gun. They can be made with back or fore action locks, and old guns can be altered to the patent principle. PRESERVATION OF FLOWERS.—ASI you are fond of having flowers in your room, and as your present garden is so far from your house, you will perhaps be glad to know how to preserve cut flowers as long as possible. The most simple rules are, not to put too many flowers in a glass, to change the water every morning, and to remove every decayed leaf as soon as it appears, cutting off the ends of the stems occasionally, as soon as they show any symptoms to decay. A more efficacious way, however, is to put nitrate of soda in the water ; as much as can be easily taken up between the forefinger and the thumb, put into the glass every time the water is changed, will pre serve cut flowers in all their beauty for above a fortnight. Nitrate of potash (that is, common salt petre), in powder, has nearly the same effect, but it is not quite so effi cacious.—Mrs. Loudon's Lady's Country Companion. THE ERRORS OF ROME.—The Romish Church-is in fallible and contradictory to herself ; she reduces the whole sacrament to one half ; scripture is veiled by her own traditions; prayer is made in public in an unknown tongue; fasting is elevated to the rank of a meritorious performance for salvation, and not retained as a mere dis cipline of the soul; reliance is placed too often in crea tures, and not exclusively in God ; dependance on outward acts of religious worship and alms is substituted for in ward acts of thought and grace ; the intention of the priest is made the cause of withholding the presence of Christ in the holy sacrament ; salvation is denied in the most posi tive terms to all who do not unite with these peculiarerrors, and adopt them as a standard of true religion. Is not this catalogue of practices error ? and ate they not additions to the Apostles' Nicene and Athanasian creeds? Where will you find them binding on the conscience, even in the Roman communion before the Council of Trent? At that fatal assembly Rome committed an act of religious sui cide. She bound the millstone of changeless additions in the creeds of her triple crown, and it must sink, and is doomed at last never to rise again. This impolitic Council rivetted the chains of infallibility upon those subject to her community. It is equally fatal to break and to bear the chain. She lost in that city her freedom, and wrote anathemas against her throne.—Hollingsworth's Folly of . going to Rome for a Religion. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE OXEN.—The sagacity and do cility of the Cape ox, when properly trained, is amazing : good cattle, without any guide, and on the darkest night, will adhere to a road, and never leave it whilst in harness; should they by any accident lose their way, they will stop. On these occasions the two leading oxen, always the best in the span, carry their heads close to the ground, and seem to be exercising all their powers of discernment. They obey the voice of the driver, when desired to go to the right or left, with great readiness. I have even heard of a trader to Port Natal, whose oxen would bring an empty waggon across narrow but deep rivers, if they only alv their master wave a white handkerchief on the oppo ite b au !“ the leaders appeared to watch for this signal, holding it, at once dashed in and swam in its this story may appear incredible, but I had it :bpe eta ble person. It may assist the reader light description of the Cape ox-waggon : co,uth in its appearance, but never was cairably adapted for contending with r vicissitudes of South African direCtie:. l from a vei to give him I. it is clumsy am. any vthicle more bad roads, upsets, at travelling. Should an o that the sides, roof, and themselves from the bed, trturn occur, it is so constructed e tt k ar portions, easily detach ig half an hour all may be pting in replaced; or if a fracture have t may tie mended the wheels. which can rarely happen, ' 4. thY• " olc and so _ e or supplied on the path, by the aid of ai green wood. — Wanderings in South Afr:ca. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE SANATORY INFLUENCE OF THE ATMOSPHERE. (From the Edinburgh Weekly Register.) Our constant warnings of the malignant effects of un genial climate and vitiated air are received by some with indifference, as built only upon theory. The statist, in deed, is well aware that the alarm is warranted by every species of fact within his observation, and enforced by every fresh research into the condition of man in respect to things about him ; but the many still jog on in the ways of their fathers, unheeding or unbelieving. It be comes the more our duty to ring the unwelcome truth continually in their ears, to dun them to their own good, to repeat and repeat again, till the lesson is learned. We will, therefore, now avail ourselves of a report of the sickness among the Edinburgh police, drawn up by Dr. Tait, to which our attention has been called by some re marks in a contemporary. The extraordinary effect of the atmosphere on the human frame is written in striking chat acters on every page of this document. The first general fact to which we advert is the result of exposure to the vicissitudes of the weather which the watching force are compelled to undergo. The whole force c.msists of 304. The annual per centage of sick ness is 248.49 ; that is, every man passes through the hands of the physician twice, and 48 out of every 100, or about 145, three times a year. This is almost unparalleled. The ratio per cent. of sickness among the scavengers is only 46.39, and among the friendly societies 21.70. The severity of police disease is also greater. The average number of days' sickness among them is 10.31 ; among the benefit societies 5.74 ; among the males of families in the winds of Edinburgh, 8.3; and among males in prison of Edinburgh, 2.72. Among 755 cases of disease, we find 264 of the respi ratory organs, and 180 of the stomach and bowels ; the latter being chiefly diarrhoea, traceable to cold or wet. The amount of disease also differs greatly among the different classes of police. The ratio per cent. of sickness among the day farce is 170'26. Among the night force— who do duty for nine weary hours between nine at night and six in the morning —it is much higher, 260 95. Among a third class, the supernumeraries, it is enormously higher, 525'76. This is owing to the fact, that when a day watch man falls sick, a night one is put in his place, and a su pernumerary, without any previous gradual prepa ration, is exposed all at once to the cold winds of mid night. Every two months two-thirds of the day force are shifted to night duty ; and the bad effects of these shifts, when the weather is severe, are very striking. For in stance, the shift in May, 1845, raised the ratio of sickness among the force from 20'72 to 26.31 ; but while the ratio varied little among the day-force and supernumeraries, it rose among the night force from 22.22 to 30 15. The ad ditional number of patients at the next shift in July was 24, of whom 17 were in the night•force. Another curious fact is the effect of locality upon the health ; for it is manifest upon the face of the report that every part of Edinburgh is not equally unhealthy. The city is divided into twelve sections ; and the ratio per cent. of sickness in these is very different. The most healthy appear to have been the twelfth, eighth, and fifth sections, the per centage in the first being 168-75 ; in the second, 192-30; in the last, 194-11. The first includes Canon mills, lnyerleith-row, Stockbridge, Comely Bank, Scot land -street, &c. The second includes Lothian•road, Water of Leith, Queensferry street. &c. The last in cludes Newington, Grange Loan to Canaan, Sylvan-place to Sciennes, &c. The most unhealthy appear to have been the fourth and sixth sections, the percentage in the former being 393-33, in the latter 333,33. The one includes the Cowgate from South Bridge to George IV Bridge, Bristo-street, &c. ; the other the Grassmarket, Cowfeeder-row, &c. This is the more striking, as no part of this excess can be due to the filth and ill-ventilation of the houses, but simply to the pestilent malaria that must be hovering over the streets. It will astonish many to be told that the next in order of unhealthiness is the ninth section, being Royal Institution to Great King-street, west to Donne -terrace, Moray-place to Queen's Ferry-street, East Prinee's street, and all within. The percentage is no less than 305. This appears to be owing to exposure to the north and east winds, for it is in the spring and winter months that the excess of sickness prevails. The percentage in January is as high as 720. For the first three spring months it is 252 per cent. higher than the fourth or Caw gate section. The thing is reversed, however, as the warm weather sets in. Then these pestilent winds miti gate, while the malaria thickens and intensifies, and the sickness of the Cowgate is then 360 per cent. over that of the Moray•place and East Prince's street district. The last point which we notice is the effect upon the health of an ill-ventilated section-house, in which part of the police are boarded. We may premise tbat the section house men were the best and youngest in the force. The ratio of sickness among the men out of the section-house was 205.59, and amongst those in it 351.35, being a diffe rence in favour of the former of 145.76. Out of the 37 men boarded in it only one was found free of functional disorder, the prominent symptoms of which were great sensibility to cold, copious cold perspirations, constant sense of fatigue, pain in the eye-balls, loss of appetite, &c. It is thus manifest that the malignant influence of foul or ungenial air is no dream of enthusiastic journalists or physicians, but a terrible reality, decimating society, which cannot be ignored or contemned without striking and formidable avengement. SUITABLE TREAT.—On Saturday last, Mr. Bishop, of St. Helen's, gave the workmen and women employed at his glassworks an excellent dinner at Birkenhead. He provided them with a gratuitous trip to Liverpool by rail way ; and from the station here they walked in procession with a band of music and banners to the Pier-head, where a steam-hoat was ready to convey them to Birkenhead, at which Ware they enjoyed themselves to the utmost. A SKELETON.—The bodies of a human body were, on Friday night, found by some boys in an old quarry in Prescot-street. At first there was a considerable sensa tion in the neighbourhood, the gossips insisting that some deed of blood had been perpetrated, but it was ultimately discovered that the bones were connected by wires, and it was evident that the skeleton had belonged to some student of anatomy. It was then remembered that a sur geon, who was largely indebted to his landlord and others, had suddenly decamped some time since, from the conti guous premises, and it is believed that he had thrown the skeleton into the quarry. SPLIT IN THE LEaGuE.—There is a very palpable split in the Manchester League, or rather amongst the survi vors of the League. Many members of the defunct com bination are for putting forward Mr. Cobden for Man chester, notwithstanding his refusal to stand ; the other members are for introducing Mr. John Bright. There have been several meetings, but there has been a wonderful absence of unanimity. In point of position and talents Mr. Cobden is incomparably the better man, but Mr. Bright is a busy demagogue of the first water, who makes up for the higher qualities of whi,:h he is deficient by un measured assurance and loud talking. Such is the posi tion of the parties to this difference. Of course we, says the Manchester Courier, look upon the squabble with un concern. It is of very little consequence to us, and can only become of consequence in the event of the Conserva tives and Moderate party so far forgetting their duty to the borough, as to allow it to be ridden over roughshod by the worst remnant of the League. Then, if common de cency is to be regarded, it will become of consequence to ensure the return of the more respectable of the rival candidates amongst our opponents. Not that we shall do more than look on : but, apart from party considerations, every man's local pride will make him anxious not to see the borough represented in Parliament by a man who can reflect no honour upon the community, but quite the con trary. Besides, the going to Rochdale for a candidate, argues a poverty of talent and competency in this vast town, which we should think and hope cannot be tolerated for a moment. We happen to know that the recent move ment in favour of Mr. John Bright has disgusted the most respectable members of the defunct League, and that the leaders of the Liberal party set their face against his nomination. However, as we have just said, we have nothing to do with this. We look on. _ CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—On Friday, a porter of the name of Barnes, was brought before Mr. Rushton to an swer the complaint of Thomas Todd, Esq. The corn plainant said he was going the day before along the land ing stage to the New Brighton boat, and on crossing a narrow gangway for the Princess Royal, (Glasgow boat,) was rudely pushed by the defendant, who, on being re- I monstrated with, pushed against him a second time, I thrust his elbow into his (complainant's) side, and broke the glass of his watch, and afterwards assailed him with foul language. Mr. Todd said he would not have brought the case forward, only that he wished the authorities to be informed of the inconvenience of permitting sea-going steamers to land or embark passengers at the same places at which the ferry steamers land and embark theirs. No body can have an idea of the indiscribable confusion which sometimes occurs. There is danger that persons going to New Brighton may be conveyed to Glasgow. It was only the other day, that a lady going to Wales was taken across to Egremont ; and she had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing, whilst crossing, the Mostyn boat going out of the harbour, with her luggage on board. Mr. Rushton admitted the inconvenience, but asked how it was to be dealt with. The defendant said he had a very heavy hamper on his shoulder, and that in his endeavour to push through, when the complainant was purposely stopping up the passage, three dozen of his bottles were smashed. Mr. Rushton said that heavy hampers ought not to be carried on board under such circumstances. The defendant had behaved very improperly—first, in taking the hamper on board in such a crowd, and next, in not waiting with propriety when he was requested to do so. He was ordered to pay a fine of 10s. and costs. Mr. Todd begged that the fine might be mitigated, because the only reason for which he had brought it before the court was to expose the thing on public grounds. Mr. Rushton said the fine was a very moderate one, and that the public must be protected, particularly as unprotected ladies were constantly in the habit of going on board these boats. Extra officers should be placed there when sea-going steamers were alongside, and every means ought to be used to prevent hampers from being taken along the the crowded and dangerous gangway. lie promised to take a note of Mr. Todd's objections. SERIOUS AFFRAY AMONGST SHIPWRIGHTS.—On Tuesday, three men, named David Beggs, William Tol lock, and John Hamilton, were brought up charged with assaulting John Haspy and John Lough, all shipwrights. It appears that for some time back there has existed a great jealousy on the part of the Liverpool shipwrights against certain men who have not served their time in this town. Some contention has consequently arisen. and on the 19th ult., while Haspy, who served his time at Ches ter, was getting his dinner at the Brunswick Graving Dock, the prisoner Beegs threw several stones at him, one of them striking him on his back. Whilst endeavour ing to ascertain the name of the party who had struck him 20 or thirty others attacked him. He was knocked down and kicked in the mouth, and afterwards kicked into the Graving Dock, and, had it not been for a gangway plank which he caught hold of in his descent, he would have fallen to the bottom of the dock. Hamilton and Tollock were recognised among the parties who had com mitted the outrage. On the following day, an assault, by the same parties, was committed upon John Lough. This case was next heard. The complainant stated that he had worked in the town fifteen years, but had not served his time here. On the day in question, Beggs entered the Graving Dock and struck him. Beggs then asked a fellow workman for an axe which he bad in his hand, that he might " cut the old b 's bead off," pointing to the complainant. On being refused, he struck the complainant, seized bold of his coat collar, and was about throwing him down, when ten or a dozen men came up and beat him (complainant) violently. Thomas Samson, master shipwright, deposed to having seen both the assaults ; and said, further, that when the assault was being committed, bodies of from twenty to thirty men, making about 150 in all, moved from all parts of the Graving Dock to aid and assist the assaulters. The poor men who were beaten were driven on shipboard, and prevented from working further. During the as sault a man was stationed at the dock gates, which were closed in order to keep out the police. Haspy and Lough were laid up for several days from the violent usage they met with. Mr. Rushton commented on the extreme folly and wickedness of the prisoners' conduct, observing, that, if none were allowed to work for a living in this town , but those wbo bad served their time in it, two-thirds of the adult population would have to leave the place; and they themselves, if they went to wurk at Woolwich or other dockyards, would be the first to complain of any such regulations there as should drive them from employ. ment. The case was so serious that he should send the prisoners for trial at the session. They were committed, but bail was accepted for their appearance. THE COTTON BROKERS AND THE ALBERT WARE HOUSES.—The notice, by the council, of the rates for por terage and warehousing, framed by the Dock Committee, will be read with interest. On Friday the cotton brokers held a special meeting on the subject, Mr. Thomas Haigh in the chair, when an animated discussion, in which there was but one feeling, took place upon the general manage ment of the new warehouses with regard to cotton. The objections of the associated cotton brokers do not, as in the case of the African Association and some others, lay so much against the rate of rents, as to points which indi rectly affect their customers in Manchester aad the manu facturing districts. One of their objections is to the re gulation which prohibits the buyers of cotton lodged in these warehouses, from sending their own men to sample, the Dock Committee claiming to exercise the power of sampling, by means of their own servants. The conces sion from this rule offered to the Brokers is, that the sampling shall still be made by the dock servants, but in the presence of an agent from the brokers. It was re solved to give this system, which is altogether novel here, a fair trial, but, at the same time, doubts were expressed whether it would work satisfactorily. Another regulation objected to was one which requires any given delivery of cotton from the dock to be removed at one and the same time, also an entirely new practice, and one likely to be productive of unnecessary expense. The case of the bro kers, es to this regulation, is thus put:-1f 100 bales were to be delivered out of dock, it is required they must all be removed at once, whereby at least five carts would be ne cessary. At present two carts do the lime work, by each going a second or a third "length, as it is called, by which a saving is effected, as, under any circumstances, if the five carts are on the spot at once, two or three must ne cessarily be idle, whilst the others are loading. A third objection seems to us very forcible. According to the new regulation tickets for the delivery of cotton, or other produce, from the warehouses, will be available only for the day on which they are dated, whilst by the present system at private warehouses, they may stand over for se veral days, even a week—in fact, until the whole of the delivery order is completed. Much inconvenience is an ticipated if this rule be persisted in, because the ticket must then be renewed from day to day, until the whole of the delivery order is completed. The opinion was general that in these three points much hinderance will be thrown in the way of trade, and that some comprehensive and less objectionable plan must be adopted. It was not, however, thought advisable to make any formal representation on the subject, until the new system had been tried a short time, when it was considered the objections to it would be much more effectively urged. It was also unanimously resolved that for the future the ticket attached to each sample of cotton should state where the bulk lay. This is an arrangement between the brokers themselves, and has been adopted in order to obviate the complaints of purchasers who object to cotton that has been stored in cellars, because it loses weight. It must be acknowledged that in framing the schedule of warehouse rates, the Dock Committee have had to discharge a most difficult task ; but much regret is felt that they have not, by more liberal terms in the first instance, superseded all grounds for dis satisfaction, as such a feeling must long operate to the prejudice of thin noble dock, and its magnificent pile of warehouses. ZOOLOGICAL GAADENS. — Last night the Foresters had an extra grand gala at this fashionable resort. To. mor row evening, and on Friday and Monday night next, Madame Rosena will make her extraordinary and daring ascent on a rope 300 feet lone, at an elevation of 70 feet, completely enve►oped in splendid changeable coloured fires. The ease and confidence with which this wonderful lady accomplishes this unusual feat, divests it of terror in the beholder, who witnesses it only with surprise. The other attractions will of course be added, and no one can complain, at this place of amusement, that he has Lot "enough for his nap ey," LOCAL NEWS, The royal-mail steam-ship, Cambria, sailed on Friday for Boston. She bad a full complement of passengers, iucluding Mr. Washington Irving. Toe Rev. W. E. Jones, M.A., curate of Trinity Church, Birkenhead, has been licensed by the Lerd Bishop of St. Asaph to the incumbency of St. Mary's Church, Bagillt, Flintshire. The Earl of Lincoln has let his splendid seat Ranby Hall, near East Retford, which his lordship inherited from the late Dowager Duchess of Newcastle, to Horsfall, Esq., of Liverpool, the noble lord, it is under stood, having determined to break up his establishment in that county. WOOLTON FLORAL HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICUL TURAL EXHIBITION.—This meeting, the second and last of the season, took place on Thursday last, and was well attended. There was a brisk competition, especially for stove and greenhouse plants, of which some splendid spe cimens were exhibited. The fineness of the weather caused a numerous and fashionable attendance. PROSPEROUS TOWNSHIP.—There is not a single case of pauperism in the township of Childwall, and the sur geon's salary last year did not exceed thirty shillings. A warrant was applied for, at the last Board of Guardians held at West Derby Workhouse, for a person deserting his wife, which was the first case of the kind brought be fore the board, for that place, during the last two years. WHEN A MAN IS DRUNK !—On Wednesday a coarse looking Irishman was brought up at the Police -court, charged with being drunk and forcing his way into a penny show without paying. On the prisoner hearing the charge, he indignantly denied the statement, and said, I was not drunk, for I do not consider a man drunk tiil he is deprived of the senses which God gave him." Mr. Rushton said in reply, " I fear we do not agree in the definition of a man when he is drunk. You must pay ss. and costs." ABSENCE OF MIND.—A butcher of Garstang, on re turning last Tuesday from Hornby fair, seems to have got so be-mused on his journey as to mistake his pony for a fine Scots' heifer, and be accordingly led it to the slaughter-house, knocked it down in a business-like man ner, stuck it in due form, and began skinning it; nor would he then have discovered his mistake had not some neighbours, in passing, perceived what he was about, and caused him, by force as well as by entreaty, to desist from his wild adventure.—Preston Chronicle. MR. ROWLINSON'S LECTURES AT TUE LORD NELSON-STREET ASSEMBLY ROOMS. —We observe that this gentleman, with whose lectures on music and song, with the illustrations given by him, the public were so highly gratified on the occasion of his first appearance at these concerts, will next Saturday give a similar treat. Mr. Rowlinson is more than an every day lecturer upon the subject which he has undertaken to handle ; and moreover a chaste and correct singer. The lovers of song may therefore rely confidently upon receiving both grati fication and instruction from his lecture. DISMISSAL OF A POLICEMAN.—On Saturday, Police officer Wade, No. 220, was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having committed an assault upon his su perior officer, Acting-Inspector Yates. It appeared that the prisoner, who had been in the force six years, went to lodge some time since at the house of a man named Mor gan. The female who lived with him he continued to re present to be his wife until a day or two ago, when he brought in another woman, and said that she, and not the other female, was, in reality, his better half. Mor gan, in a fit of rage at his impudence and immorality, threw him and the two women into the street, and there the prisoner, who was in liquor at the time, assaulted Yates on the latter making his appearance to quell the affray. iklr. Rushton ordered him to pay a fine of £5 for the assault, and to be dismissed the force for his gross impropriety of conduct, as manifested by his cohabiting with a female during the life-time of his wife. MODEL OF .JERUSALEM.—We have rarely been more gratified than by a view of this model, now exhibited at No. 100, Bold-street, accompanied, as it is, by the lucid description of the various interesting scenes pourtrayed upon it ; which is given by Mr. Dumatti, the gentleman entrusted with its exhibition. As a work of art it is in ferior to no similar one which we have seen ; and, when its sacred character is taken into consideration, it challenges eminently the notice of all interested in the history of those events of which .Ternealcin was the ordained scene. Illustrative, as it ,e life and suffering of the Sa viour of mankind, it ought to be inspected by every reader of his bible, as calculated to verify and explain many passages in scripture, otherwise not clearly intelligible . and, as well, to fortify the history of the events handed down to us by scripture, by the evidence of cotemporary writers. CHINESE BRICKS.—We noticed some time since the arrival of a cargo of bricks from China, and commented on the singularity of the importation, and of the evidently advancing state of commercial enterprise and speculation when such a description of article of merchandize should be brought to this country from so unusual a quarter and so great a distance. We find that a parcel of bricks which had been imported into the port of Liverpool by a vessel called the Annie, from Shanghae (China), which were originally reported by the master of the vessel as be ing for exportation, are to be landed. The parcel com prises the large number of 15,000, and bears good our former remarks on the subject with respect to the impor tation of bricks from China for actual use in this country for the general purposes to which they are applied. The importations which now take place from foreign, anti fre quently from distant parts of the world, are so varied and remarkable as continually to call for especial notice, and it is their frequency alone, and the manner in which the enterprising spirit of the age prepares the public mind for volution which has taken place in com mercialr ifi te h e r a h e which prevents them exciting the stir p naturally be the case, which r a t sal o ; iw 179414 THE PERILS OF PROTESTANTISM The committee of the National Club have just issued a second address to the Protestants of the empire, urging them to unite against the dangers that threaten their faith and institutions : SECOND ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL CLUB. We are asked why we think our national institutions are in danger, and what the danger is ? Does any states man move in Parliament that our Church be abolished? Does any Government threaten to invade our colleges and schools? Do they tell us that they will commit our Protestant rights to the will of a hostile priesthood ? These are not the quarters to which, if well advised, we shall turn our eyes to read the signs of events tbat are at hand. !t is in the thoughts and opinions of a nation that the seeds of their future actions are sown. That is the field to which men must look for the promise either of good or evil. . . It is true, statesmen profess to respect our church ; they affect regard for our religious scruples ; they have not yet openly assailed our schools. But, turn from their pro fessions to the real field of action—the influence sought to be exercised over the public mind. Observe the march of hostile opinions ; see their progress, their force, the mus ter of their army ; mark with what vigour they ply their work, and with what weapons. Do they address our con sciences ? Do they appeal to our calmer judgments ? Do they warn us to prize our religious rights, and to cherish the principles which are the basis of our national greatness? . - They ridicule, they slander, they decry them. They brand the Church as an instrument of tigotry, and the provision for her teachers as a public robbery. They treat our schools as nurseries of ignorance, and decry our religious instructions as the lessons of fools. And what is the remedy they propose ? A rad!cal change, casting dow.'s the institutions which uphold religion, and setting up those which deify reason ; declaring that human wisdom alone should govern a nation, and that faith should be barred from senates and from schools. These are the lessons of our would-be teachers—these they seek to instil into the public mind ! . . 'With what result ? Do we think that their influence is slight ; We deceive ourselves. Their advance is steady ; each day marks its progress. Does this danger rouse us to exertion ? Have we laid aside our petty differences, and rallied in defence of those vital principles on which we are all agreed ? On the con trary : while our opponents bring to the attack courage and constancy, we are listless and irresolute, neglecting to combat their maxims, and turning with unconcern from subjects which do not touch our selfish interests. What has been the consequence ? The steady progress of their opinions, and the ebb of ours. Our national church indeed stands ; our colleges are yet entire ; our schools are not supplanted : but the ground is hollow below them. The mines are driven, cut deep into the public sentiment.' A moment, a popular cry, a turn of parties, a pressure on government, the signal will be given, the attack will come, and the institutions which now seem to stand secure, must fall without a struggle. Where, therefore, we are asked, where is the danger ? we reply, that is not the question. Danger there is ; but we would rather ask, what are the means of escape ? What forces have we to rally ? What materials for' a defence ? _ . He that admits in argument that religion has no place in politics has abandoned the ground of a national church. He that allows that our colleges and schools may be con ducted without religion has given up the basis of scriptural education. He that argues that Popery and Protestant ism alike deserve the favour of Government tears up by the roots our Protestant constitution. He that declares that Christianity may be taught without its peculiar doc trines betrays our faith. Where these - maxims run cur rent among politicians, they will soon be acted on by the people. Admitted in the debates of Parliament, they will speedily find their place in the Statute-Book. This is the evil which we fear. It is at hand. It presses upon us. The moment for action is come. Not an hour remains for delay. Doubt, division, are mad ness. What the danger is, is clear. How to meet it, and with whom—these are the only questions for earnest men. Signed, by order of the committee, RICHARD NUGENT, Honorary Secretary 13, Cockspur-street, Allyust 26, 1816. LORD LYNDHURST'S POLICY, (From the Church and State Gazelle.) What we have long asserted as being the case is making itself manifest and appearing before the public in its proper form. Jf the eyes of the country he not now opened to the danger which threatens its institutions, through the political depravity and treachery of their rulers, our destruction as a great and mighty nation is sealed. For ourselves we cannot find words to express our indignation at their dissimulation and hypocrisy. Lord Lyndhurst, once an honoured name, after assisting the late administration to carry every measure abhorrent to the spirit of Conservatism, having discovered, by their last act, the spirit of the Conservative body roused to a determined opposition, and "the party," as he says, split to pieces, with honied lips sues to Lord George Bentinck for his assistance in reconstructing it. What party is that ? The party which undertook to " walk in the light of the constitution"—to conserve our institutions in "Church and State," and to act upon the principle of national protection; the professed leaders of which have in every point deceived and deserted the nation. 0 God if Thou abhorrest perjury and treachery, pity a wronged insulted, and oppressed nation, and raise up one honest man,faithful and true to the interests of his country. LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS THE FRENCH IN TAHITI. The Boston Advertiser publishes the followin portant intelligence from Tahiti. The latest accou have previously _ seen reported the fact of a cc curred between the natives and the Fr t will be obse toe statement now given adds, - the town had been evacuated alike by E French : " FROM THE SOCIEr by a recent arrival at :n received from Tahiti to New Bedford, advices " - TA 15th. The n flood made a vigorous assault upon the French garri and had driven them from the land. The European dents hid been compelled to flee with their effect board the French vessels of war. After the evacuz of the town the French vessels opened a fire upon it THE CAFFRE WAR.--The South African COMMeI Advertiser of the 20th of June, received by the Gu Captain Paine, arrived at Liverpool, which on her NO from Zanzibar called at the Cape, contains the &Jim official despatches relative to the late engagements • the Caffres on the frontier. This paper, which is five( later than previous advices, gives no other intelligenc consequence than special reports from the chief distri CANADIAN TRADE.—Considerable anxiet I by some of the Canadian papers as to the growing disproportion between the exports and imports of the province. The Toronto Globe of a rt date has an article upon the subject, from which it pears that in 1841 the aggregate imports of Canada evince not far short of £5,000,0'60, as folloics At Montreal.. At Quebec.... At other ports £4,015,( In 1845 they were still gmter, amounting to ai £5,300,000. This does not include the freights, char interest, &c., a small portion only of which remain the country, and it is stated that at least £7,000,000 e be annually paid to the foreign creditor. But on other hand the exports of the province by which this I sum should be paid, have not, in either of the two y mentioned, reached £2,000,000. The value of proi exported from Canada in those two years is set dowr 1844, at £850,000; in 1845, at £550,000. In this su large 'deficit has annually accrued against Canada—a Um; of which, the Globe says, has not been paid, but .still standing o❑ the account current between the Em merchant and the colonial trader. The business of country is mainly done upon credit, and the settleme the account, which must come ere lung, is looked fon to. with no little apprehension. This is certainly a r unpromising presentation of commercial affairs in Can but the best authorities agree in deeming it accur The next ten years will offer many problems, political commercial, for the Canadian authorities and peopl solve.—American Paper. A SECOND BERNARD CAVANAGH.—Lord ners visited at the workhouse J ohn Harden ' a pa diseacpd mind, who is now for thirty-three days tasting a particle of solid food. The unfortunat, little altered in person, except about the region stomach, which is sunk in, and quite reduced. compelled, with great difficulty, to take a noggin or of broth in the twenty-four hours.—Limerick Chroia. .flow TO MAKE GuANo.—A gentleman walking on beach in the vicinity of Harwich observed a man by engaged with a pickaxe, raising a material from the lc pait of the cliff, and on asking the man his employm was told "he was raising stones for manure." This ra red our friend, who became more minute in his The man observed, " These, which look stones, are crystallized fish, and, although very hard r will, when put through a mill, crumble to powder. master ships a treat quantity of it to London, there t ground, and then mixed with guano to give it weight, Bury Post. I quiriep —At the Spittleg sions, a few days ago, the question about " off!' for " God save the Queen" came before the m trates. It seems the Foresters Court of \Voolsthorp birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton) bad assembled in a to celebrate their anniversary, and, when the band p 1 tne national anthem, the chairman called for all part, be uncovered • this request three visitors (not membt the fraternity) refused to comply with. One man's was taken off, and he put it on again. The order given to turn them out, which they resisted, and in scuffle the disloyal guests had their clothes torn. sault warrants were taken out, which, however, the gistrates dismissed, deciding that visitors at a festiva that kind are bound to comply with the reasonable ouirements of the chairman. petty s I ' MR. ISAAC'S CONCERT.—This recherche affair off on Tuesday night, and seldom have we seen the of our Amphitheatre so respectably encircled as o excellent i . The orchestra was good, but not power talent, but not great in number. It was n • and the overtures, Beethoven's Flu Tell, were very finely played. ' effective, however and Rosini's William first part of the concert was very striking, Mr. Isaac's fant the most attractive perTormanc .sia on the piano-farte e. We notice consider greater proficiency in this gentleman's performance when last we had the pleasure to hear him. It wor ark upon the sing John I'arry, and o ork of surererog tion to ren Lableche, nriist sorry to observe ,ogize ler what I His memory, in fact, failed Is John Parry, he is sure t _ ._ .. Such we are persuaded is the prayer, if we may judge \ ""'- ---- - , Ppmethlng which deliguLs ..., _ from our own hearts, offered up by hundreds and thou sands of our fellow-countrymen at this distressing junc- gets would have dJne. As a whole, '.e .. tore ; and we trust the prayer will prevail. tended so delightful a concert as this with &- Reconstruct the Conservative party ! With what de- Isaacs has presented us. sign does Lord Lyndhurst sue for its reconstruction? TrIE HARVEST MOUSE. plaited,Thainsdcompos w w h a e s a tf found quadrupeds is supposed to be the harvest mouse, ... For the purpose of retracing his steps, and carrying out those great principles to which he and his associates found only in Hampshire, and which is so diminutive t pledged themselves when they accepted o ffi ce? Does he two of them put into a scale just weighed down one afi' the - li e ds O i zt n he e aot o f fi it w h mo e uu n sl kedsetrtso roll loafil across these I t little a w a b tabu imagine that he can induce the public to believe such to , be his motives ? Certainly not : we bate the very name wonderful e d cradle of was procured by Mr. 'White. It was n't of Conservatism ; and it will be a bye-word and a re proach to them upon whom the title was conferred to the latest generation. pactround , p r fi a a n i about f d - p w n ll n d in a wheal We tell Lord Lyndhurat his stratagem will not take. out being discomposed, though it contained eight ' ones. He has exposed his own treachery and that of all who have acted with him. Ile has supported a measure of which suspended in the bead of a thistle. he did not approve, for the purpose, we suppose, of keep- SPONTANEOUS SOUNDS IN IRON AND STONE.- ing together his party ; and now, when that measure has gularly illustrative of the much-disputed property affi a t broken down, he wishes to reconstruct his party — not for by the ncients of the sound emitt e d a t sunr i se la the purpose of preserving the institutions of his country— statue of Memnon in Lower Egypt is th e s i agu l a i but for supporting his party. Surely, we shall not suffer nomenon of sound occasioned by the vibrati on o f ourselves to be again deluded by a name : we have already iron produced by a galvanic current. It was first d suffered too much, and shall not permit ourselves to be vered by Mr. Sage, and since verified by the observe ruled a second time by men who can play a double game, of a French philosopher, M. Marian. The experin like Lord Lyndhurst. They have now been fairly de- were made on a bar of iron which was fixed at the m tected. We reject the name of Conservatism and cast it in a horizontal position, each half being enclosed from us, as we would the mask we had torn from the face large glass tube, around which were wound spirals of of an intimate friend in his attem per wle. A cord of co: tvire was afterward s se pt to violate the sacred tat. . f , t t l i, LX , ' :e nest; of our household. We again tell Lcrd Lyndhurst it will not do. The eyes drat `v::11 t.. , of the people of this country are wide open. If Lord longitudinal 15, f Lynyhurst did not approve of the projects of Sir Robert ed, the bar of iron being I Peel, why did he assist him in carrying his measures ? in the direction of its axis. and, if he did approve of them, why does he attempt by therefore, been attributed to vibrato a wily manceuure, to circumvent the honest remnant who the iron bar, or now indignantly denounce the treachery of the leaders explana“- whom they so lately supported. —The smallest of E and pe wed with it of the bar. lA, although f, a little lengthened or ex The origin of the sou he int new arras -it of tt Ls been more t us phenom with the history of the Merano" 1 ORIGIN OF THE Qt REL BETWEEN FRAN AN OLD HAT.—Jobn Smith, of Heywood Nevrroad, ALGIERS.—In relating the I l-known 'new t [leap, near Bury, is wearing a hat which he purchased rise to hostilities between F ce and the Dey , for half-a-crown, in Rochdale, in 1799, and has had it in Count St. Marie goes a the I regular wear ever since, a period of forty-seven years.— by his account. vr- I the t Cambridge Advertiser. .: male A VALUABLE MONKEY.—Some time ago, . a col kept in the stable-yard of the hotel at Launceston, . o get observed to be scrutinising the inside of an old glove, with he II( an air of unusual mystery and importance. Upon ex- , 'id fn amining the glove it was found to contain a £lO note, and h r usani the pieces of about five £1 notes of the old Tamar Bank, i h the dated ten years since. This became the property of ill, 1 " boots;" who sold his bargain for £3 10s., and the pied a sc were secured by the ostler. The monkey must have 7ont lected the glove from a quantity of rubbish for been lying in the yard for seven or eight years. ..._ f fr, Tamar Bank had merged into the Union, which latter and the Bourbons u,,...__ y ; gave £l2 for the notes. to interest the Dey of Algiers in his cans, GUN AND PISTOL STOCKS.—We have on a former strances were addressed to the French governs. occasion noticed the extensive arrivals, at times, of stocks affair dragged on for years, and at last, in ]B2t7, for guns and pistols from Belgium, made of the wood of eve of a festival, when the diplomatic corps wei the walnut tree, and we recently mentioned that the same rnitted to pay their respects to the Dey, the latter description of article had latterly been brought. to a lesser postulated with the French consul on the subject of extent, from Holland, which was not formerly the case. long delay. The answer was unsatisfactory, and the c An arrival of the kind has just taken place from the latter sequence was the celebrated rap with a fan or fly-tz mentioned state, to an extent which has not before come which sent its giver into exile, and converted Algeria i under our observation, by a vessel named the Alkmaar, a French province. On visiting the Kasha, or citad' which has arrived at one of the quays near London-bridge Algiers, Captain Kennedy was shown the little rr from Rotterdam, having on board, in addition to a variety which the insult of other articles of Dutch produce, the large number of France. It . 12,281 of these gun and 499 pistol stocks, consigned to enough," says the captain, "as we entered, aco the British government. ing on the deserted divan, proclaimed his DISTRESS IN CORK.- 4 ' We," saysthe Cork Examiner some feebler rival by a triu- - of Friday, " devote about eleven columns to reports of emblem of the real state public meetings held in Fermoy, Middleton, Mallow, cock is game ; and ale' Kinsale, Bantry, and in other parts of this county, all con- versary's spurs, he rep,...._ _ versed for the purpose of taking into consideration the —Blackwood's Magazine. failure of the potato crop, and the consequences which INTERESTING CONFLICT.—A singular cm.. that failure is certain to entail on all classes in the country. connected with a kestrel occurred at Dover som There is no attempt to make the blight less destructive since. The common guillemot (aria troile) v than it really is, nor to exaggerate the distress and misery considerable quantities in the cliffs to the ea which are certain to flow from a calamity so dreadful and town, where they are rarely disturbed, excepzus t , so universal. All is alarm and apprehension. The land- adventurer lowering himself from above to take eggs, lord trembles for the consequences; so does the middle- some gunner, anxious to try his dexterity. from belo man ; so does the tenant-farmer. And well they may if the present instance a kestrel, soaring al, some decisive step be not taken by the government, and cliff, bore off a squab guillemot from 1, prompt exertion be made by individuals. It is time for the r i dges . Thi s , f rom the weight of tbe ye each man to set his own house in order. a matter of some difficulty, and enabled tb AMUSING CORRESPONDENCE.—There is a curious car- had taken the alarm and become desper respondence in the Dublin Nation, of Saturday, which its young, to come up to the kestrel holds out some hope that the dull monotony of the dog test began between them. The '- days may be broken by an action at law, between the re doubtable Father Kenyon, of Limerick, and the magnates and determined to keep his pre of Conciliation Hall. We may remind our readers that it s flight, was enabled to push h his reverence is the writer of the warlike letter which ap- much, that, in self-defence, he e peared in the Herald, about a month ago—in which he young one, which fell unhurt ou -guillemot, therefore, notwithstt said he would rather be shot than starved to death— began the battle in good earnet and the whole policy of Young Ireland upheld as the guillemot had the decided m as t ( hawk a posterior: wio ' a d c e m sc e ri o b f ed lr t i h sl l t is p — ol , i , c A y. s yTouhishcaovreresstpoopnpdeednetriernivaya• tbieonb,rigeifl,ye some success me back my subscription." To which Tom Ray replies— attaev " Rev. sir, according to our rules, no mo ne y is eater re turned. His reverence rejoins—" I don't care about your rules, the money I must have." . another letter follows, but the gist of_tir, wh dv. In the time of Napole monkey I ordered, country, N sed wi 'lhere c en to b Jew sold his grai which had I 0 ,,, t ha d manag the French go cs. Napoleon went f but the Jew co offered to the representativ a now used as a poultry- ,hant crow—at But the Con( again to the c stward s nest in when a sty e hack s 1 pin I w i Another and ~,1 hawk 1] is to be s, the v found in the postcript to Fatner think it as well to state if you refuse to return the m. it is my intention to hand over m y claim to a so licitor . Bravo 1 Father Kenyon, and should your solicitor ex press any doubt of your being able to succeed at law, ' al , why not try a prosecution of 11r. O'Connell himself, for obtaining money under false pi eteuces , and retaining it i but so after be wee " foood out ?" I Book of a Naturalist. with its o young .. one, One, forms a portion o f m y cabluet.— zutllemot The watc and, from the d the foe on these occas at last, one unlucky star -:-.1--..1.1e ►,P;sht_ struck t with such violence that it could not recov - •od tit Aing to the xhausted that it was picked up ty in Fr o the army contractors