The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-11 00:00:00

THE DYING PARLIAMENT.

The Times, adverting to the multifarious subjects intro-
duced into last night's debate, and the claptrap speeches,
says that, every night, till the fatal 25th, the circle will
widen, the range will become longer, freer utterance will
be given to spontaneous convictions and desultory ideas,
and all attempt at deliberative unity and continuancv
will be lost in the struggle of everybody and everything
to be heard.

INCREASED STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH
CHINA.

The increased communication will commence with the
Pera on the 20th inst. The steamers of the Peninsular
and Oriental Company will, in future, convey passengers,
parcels, specie, and goods, direct from Southampton for
China twice a month instead of as hitherto. The company
have no contract to convey mails for China by the addl.
tional steamer, nevertheless their vessels will take out
letter bags.

THE DUTCH 141AntNie—According to the official return
made up to the 31st December last, the mercantile marine
of Holland amounted, says the Annaks du Comnetee
Exterieur, to 2,343 vessels, measuring together 593,384
t ,/IF. In the above number are included 31 steamers of
10,428 tons, being 11 more than in -the Preceding year.
As compared with the return to the 31st December, 1855,
the number of vessels has increased by 113, and the tonnage
by 42,000 tons.
THE NEW BANK OF TURK PT.—The leadingpoints in the
construction of the National Bank of Turkey have transpired,
't he capitol is to be nominally £lO (100,000, of which only
about £2,000 000 will prob ib y be called ap. Its note
circulation will be limited to £15,000,000 with a reserve of
£5,000;000 in gold. The shar.s will be to bearer. This is
an important point, as it at once limits the liability _of the
shareholders to the amount they have n and no more.
The first call will be limiter! to £3 per hire, bey6nd.which
it is expected no further amour will be required. Tee
business of the bank will be ?egulated entirely on the
principles of Britishbanking. Great interest, is attached
to this undertaking, and there is every probability of the
shares being rapidly subscribed. The formation of the
hank will be beneficial to the interests of the holders of
Turkish bonds, as the whole of the business of the govern
went will be conducted by the company,
IMPROVEMENT IN BORING APPARATUR.—M. Rind, the
German engineer, has devoted the last twenty years to the
improvement• of an t speciel branch of his protession—
namely, the boring of rock to great depth. The main
feature of his improvement consists in this, that the boring
chisel is fastened to a ramrod of 5 to 6 cwt., which is
alternately elevated to a height of 1 or 2 feet by a wooden
Lod, and thus falls by its absolute weight on the rock, by
which even the hardest is reduced to powder. in the old
apparatus the rod was made of iron, which amounted, at a
depth of 1,000 feet, to 100 or 150 cwt. iinparted.to the
falling chisel vibrating motions, which nearly annihilated
its action: The Wooden rod; on the contrary, swims in the
water of the borehole, and rods of from 1,000 to 2,000 feet
in length do not considerably augment the weight of the
apparatus. The progress of the work varies, according to
the quality of the rock, from 1 to 10 feet daily ; but hard
rocks do not present the like difficulty as soft and loose
ones, which must be protected by tubes of strong sheet iron.
—The Builder.