The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-20 00:00:00

forgotten the keys in the vehicle that brought him and the
chests, and rushed out in order to catch the cab and get
his keys. A slight m'stake, however, hapJened, and w117,t-
-ever the cause, Mr. cllles Bernick, in a fit abstraction,
no doubt, forgot to zeturn to the house of Mr Solomon
Cohen, of Copperas hill. Like young L veil seeking
his lost bride, they sought Mr. Bernick that nigh:;and next
d ,y, but they might have sought him til! :bor.:slay
(whenever that might laap,en) lia.l it not been for the
int,: vension of a large and hanclsome,fellow named Red y,
with cabalistic figure;, resembling 91, on his hlue coat
collar. He found sir. Remick in an infinittsiimal periol
called "no time." I t the meantime, Mr. Solomon
Cohen becoming very at.xious to taste the quality of the
" weed," had the chests opened, and if a dead man in his
shroud had met his astonished gaze, he might have
tolerated it, but what think you was there ? Stones—aye
and bad stones—very bad stones indeed, lapped up in
faded sawdust and dry shavings ? One of the chests, with
its precious entrails, was exhibited pro bono publico, and
caused a shout of laughter, which even poor diddled Mr.
Salomon Cohen could not resist, bat he groaned in his
mirth, and ejaculated, "Oh, my £15," and every one
in coin felt for the poor fellow. On the prisoier was
found a purse which he had stolen from Mr. Cohen, and
he was sent for trial on two charges, one for obtaining
the £l5 by false representation, and the other for stealing
the purse which contained ss.

EIGHT HUNDRED MORMONS LANDED AT
BOSTON.

The eight hundred Mormons who arrived at Boston
lately, by the ship George Washington, from Liverpool,
were, says the Boston, Courier, divided in nationality, as
follow :—" The English were from all parts of England.
more, however, coming from Nottinghamshire than 'from
any other part. Among the passengers were forty elders,
who had been preaching the doctrines of the sect through-
out tne Old World. One of these elders, -named Mercer,
of Philadelphia, was on his return from a mission to the
Emit Indies. The rest of the passengers were collected by
the elders' representations of duty and the promised land
of Utah, and were of all ages and both sexes. • Fonr of
the women were over seventy years of age, and there
were twenty-four infants under one year old. The
prop wtion of married men and women and families was
somewhat larger than is usual among immigrants. The
married men had only one wife each. Many of the
families were possessed of considerable property. The
captain estimated the amount of British gold upon the
passengers at £20,000, and said that he knew of moie
than one person who had £l,OOO for his own use and
that of his family. Several had left relatives and friends
behind them. One woman had left her husband that she
might go to the land of the saints ; and there was another
beautiful, dark eyed young woman, with a young infant,
whose story, as told by the captain, was touching. The
captain noticed her when they started as possessed
of great beauty, but lost sight of ber in a day
or two, and, supposing she had changed her quarters,
did not enqnire for her for eight or ten days.
He was then told that she had been very sick, and was
still quite feeble. He had her brought from between decks,
where she was, upon the deck, and laid on a mattress ;
got her some port wine and cake, and tried to bring
her beak to health. Usder this treatment she improved
much, and in reply to his questions told him that she had
left a pleasant home in a quiet village in England, and a
husband to whom she had been married only a year or
two, for this journey. He asked her reasons ; she replied
that she had done so for Christ's sake, who had promised
that if any forsook father and mother and husband for him
they should reeeive more abundantly in this life, and in
the world to come everlasting life. Nearly all the men
were armed with from two to four revolvers, which they
purchased at the suggestion of the elders. The conduct
of the Mormons on board the vessel was exemplary. In
their personal habits they were cleanly, only four using
tobacco. As soon as the immigrants had left Liverpool
they formed themselves into eight divisions, with
about one hundred in each division, and
chose a bishop and an elder to preside over
each company. They had morning and evening service
—prayer and singing—and in the evening, generally a
sermon. Oa Sundays a sermon was preached to each
section. A considerable regard was paid to external
morality, no female being allowed on deck after eight p.m.,
and all the single men having a particular apaetmant for-
ward. Only one death occurred upon the passage, and
that was of a man eighty years old. The ceremonies over
the corpse were very short —much more so than the cap-
tain had anticipated. The laymen were all evidetnly
sincere, and filled with glowing anticipations of their
home in the Far West. The captain did not seem to
entertain a very h;gh opinion of the sincerity of the elders.
These -elders had impressed upon the minds of their
followers that in the "promised land" they would find a
pious and moral peop e and happy homes, and the cap-
tain's warm sailor's heart was grieved to think of the
bitter disappointment in store for his passengers. We
have heard that a number of these Mormons have not the
means to reach. Utah, and are stopping in this city at
various boarding houses.

GOVERNORSHIP O MALTA. —There is no troth in the
report that the Government of Malta is vacant. or that any
arrangements are contemplated for the appointment of a
successor to Sir William Reid.

GREAT BLAST AT H ,LYREAD.—S )m) of ur reieers
who may be going to Manchester, and others, will probably
be glad to knew, that on the 21st inst. a grand blasting
operation, in which 18,0001bs of powder will be used,
under the superintendence of Messrs Righy, the. contrac-
tors, is to take place at the Holyhead Harbour Work
Quarries.-7/se Builder.

DE GUTHRIE AND THE COTTAR.--It is often somewhat
difficult to make a selection of choice works for public
libraries so as to suit the tastes and intellectual capacities
of all the readers. This is more especially the case with
parish or church libraries, whose volumes are generally on
a more confined scale. In corrobaration of the above, we
may relate the following naive conversation that occurred
between the Rev. Dr. Guthrie and a cottar, when the formar
was minister of Arbirlot :—" Well, Juhn,"said the reverend
librarian, "do you want the other volume of this work ?"
" Na, na," replied the cottar, " I can mak neething o't ava,
ava " "I am surprised at that," replied the doctor, " it's
a capital work ; what fault have you to it ?" "Ye see,
sir, fin' I set doon an' read it, I've to hand it in ea hand,
and Johnston's dictionar' i' the ithqr, to get the meanin'
o' the Lang-nebbet words lift, which sae bamboozles me,
that I no' only lose the sense o' fat I've been readin', wi'
kirnin' an' kirnin' i' the dictionary, but even fin I do find
them oot, I'm just as wise as ever. Sae ye'l just gee me
some book that I can understan' an' keep that ane for
yourself an' the dominie."—Montrose S'anciard.

Smarrs.—Last year it appears that 28,197,065 gallons
of proof spirits were distilled in the United Kingiom,
namely-7,653,158 in England, 12,001,098 in Scotland,
and 8,542,809 in Ireland. 23,300,556 gallons paid duty
for home consamption in the three kingdoms to the amoant
of £8,698,624; 1,992,830 gallons were imported into
England from Irehind, 5, 172 into Scotland from Ireland,
and 886,984 into Ireland from Scotland. 7,279,405 gallons
of proof spirit were permitted oat of distillers' stocks in
England, and 709,123 gallons of British brandy and
277,810 gallons of spirits of wine out of rectifiers' stocks ;
621,897 gallons of British compounds and spirits of wine
were permitted from rectifiers' stocks for exportation to
foreign parts under drawback. There were 4,514,588
gallons of spirits in bonded stores on the 31st of D. comber
last in the whole of the United Kingdom ; 4,334,253
gallons of proof spirits were permitted out of distillers'
stocks for exportation in 1856 • 20,664 gallons of
methylated alcohol were sold by the excise, and 174,145
methylated spirits by persons licensed to sell the same.
CITY OF DUBLIN STEAaI PACKET COMPANY.—The half
yearly meeting of this company was held at Dublin, on
Sa'urday, Sir J. K. James in the chair. The net profits
during the half year were £16,653, out of which a dividend
at the rate of 5 oer cent per annum, free of income tax,
was declared. R 3 pecting the state of communication be-
tween England and Ireland, the report of the directors
says—" In the last half yearly report the directors com-
municated to the proprietors that, in conjunction with the
Boards of the London and North Wes'ern, and Chester and
Holyhead Railway Companies,they had forwarded to govern-
ment a proposal for undertakingtho improved postal andpas-
senger service b:tween Dublin and London, via Holyhead.
All the conditions required by the government were acceded
to by the united companies, with the exception of that
which proposed to inflict very heavy pec triiary penaltiis
for delay on the sea, arising from fogs, snowstorms, &c, as
well as those arising from other causes. When obj ction
was first made to this unreasonable condition, the boards
of the united companies hoped that the post office autho-
rities would not hesitate to aban len it, However, in the
new conditions of tender, which were submitted for consi-
deration late in November, this was again insisted on,
along with some new stipulations, which were likewise
deemed inadmissible. In the joint reply from the com-
panies of the sth of December, it was distinctly stated that
for no pecuniary consideration whatever would they agree
to a condition wh:ch would be so wholly incompatible with
the safety of the public, as well as of tne very costly ships
in contemplation for the line. The directors have now
the satisfaction .to state that a communication has been
recently received from the Lords of the Treasury, so modi-
fying the previous conditions on which tenders were invited
that they trust no further obstacle or unnecessary delay
may arise in concluding the arrangements for the long
expected improvements in the Holyhead postal and pas-
senger service, free from the extreme risk to human life as
well as to property which was inseparable from the original
conditions."

EXAMINATION OF T. F. BACON ON • THE
CdARGE OF POISONING HIS MOTH

On Saturday, Thomas Fuller Bacon ( v'co d t•oen con-
veyed from London on the previous n;g:i , of
Superintendent Reed and Inspector You-g) was brought
up bef ire the Stamford bench oo the charge of having
ttLinisteecd arsenic to his mother, Mrs. Ann Bacon, of
which sho died on the 15th May, 1855. At half-past ten,
Bacon (who was respectably attired in a suit of black, and
appeared perfec,ly cool and self-possessed) was brought into
court. The prisoner was a^commodated with a seat, and
only once during the day did he make any observation.
Then, perceiving a professional gentleman with pencil and
paper, apparently engaged in sketching his portrait, Bacon
rose, and with considerable warmth protested against being
made an exhibition of in this manner. He said : " I am
brought here, I suppose, into a court of justice ; or am I
brought here to be exhibited in my native town, where I
formerly resided ? I have done nothing to disgrace myself,
though there are all sorts of things flying about in the
public papers against me." Looking towards the gentle-
man who had unwittingly provoked this outburst, Bacon
added :—" I don't see why the thing should be taken in
my prasence ? "—The bench, who did not at first compre-
hend the drift of the prisoner's remarks, asked him
whether he objected to the depositions being taken in his
preesnce ? —Bacon : " No, that is not it. I can see that
there is a sort of exhibition' taking place in the room,
and I don't like it."—The bench told the prisoner they
could not interfere in the matter, and the enquiry then
proceeded. Mr. George Patterson, chemist and druggist,
proved that on the Bth May, 1855, (only a week before
Mrs. Bacon's death), he sold an ounce of arsenic to the
prisoner, who said he wanted it to poison rats. The sale,
entered in a book, is attested by the signatures of the
prisoner himself and a witness. William Mays Hibbins
(apprentice) d,posed that at the beginning of the week
before Bacon's mother died the prisoner sent him to the
shop of Mr. Wilford, for sixpennyworth of arsenic, telling
him that if asked what it was for he was to say it was for
hardening iron. Mr. Wilford refused to let the youth have
the arsenic without a witness. On being informed c f this,
Bacon " laughed it off," and said, "Oh, never mind, I'll get
it myself." The witness added. that when there was any
iron to harden at Bacon's workshop they had used pens-
slate of potash, not arsenic. Mary Riley, charwoman, whe
attended Mrs. Bacon through her brief but fatal illness,
described her symptoms (vomiting and spasms), and said
that deceased told her that having accepted, an invitation
to dine with her son Thomas (the prisoner) on Sunday the
13th of May, she was and lenly seized with vomiting and
purging after partaking of some broth. The deceased died
on the following Tuesday, Mrs. Ann Bacon, wife of the
prisoner's brother William, was examined at considerable
length. On Saturday, the lath of May, 1855, witness saw
deceased, who then appeared quite well. Next day the
witness was sent for to deceased, in consequence of her
illness. Either on the Monday or Tuesday (the day of
Mrs. Bacon's death), witness being in deceased's bedroom,
heard the prisoner say to his wire, " I think mother had
better have something out of that bottle," referring to abottle
standing on the dressing table, which witness supposed to
contain peppermint, or something of that kind. The bottle
contained a whitish liquid. On the Tuesday evening, shortly
after Mrs. Bacon's death, prisoner took up the bottle in
question, and s id, "This is my bottle ; it won't be wanted
any more ; I may as well take it away." Witness did not
see the bottle afterwards ; it was a little square bottle,
rather lower than an ordinary medicine bottle. Witness
recollected Mrs. Bacon being ill in March, 1855 ; her
symptoms then being similar to those of her last illness.
On the first occasion she had. a cup of tea or coffee at the
prisoner's house, about seven in the morning, and she was
taken ill about ten or eleven, Under the will of his father
the prisoner succeeded, at the death of his mother, to some
houses in Protection place, Stamford, which brought in
about £9O a year, subject to legacies to the amount of
remanded
nMd
erds . Bacon's
until decease.
Wednesday, Thep
rsiss o 01; epra3. a bwlae
s bix
thn
when the medical evidence, including that of Professor
Taylor, will be taken. Mrs. Bacon has not yet been
months
removed from Newgate, but she will eventually be con-
veyed to the criminal ward of Bethlehem Asylum.

The Quen has conferred the title and dignity of a
baronet of the United Kingdom upon Sir J imetses Jejec-
W-toy, Kni_elt of B)mhly. Mr. Charles O'Leary, actin;
congu! at Bogota, is appointed vice nasul at that place.—
Observer.
At a confirmation by the Bishop of Lon don, at St. Mary's
Greenwich, last Frithy, a lady, who at! en led the ceremony
with her maid-servant, a candidate, was robbed in the

aisle of her gold watch as she was leaving the church.
The person who is believed to have committed the robbery
was examined at Greenwich Polies-Court on Saturday,
and is under remand.
A yo,lng swell wis lately in Ilia desk, wi`h a glass in
one eye, " raiding him self in," arid when he clap to
the wards, " He that hath ears to hear, let him helr,"'he
travestied them thus, " He that hath yah3 to yah, let him
yah."
INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG PERSONS IN EMPLOYMENT.—A bill
presented by Lord ROSSIS enacts that ell persons and com-
panies employing young persols in any tr4de, handicraft,
or business shall, if such young persons be unable to read

in the English or the Gaelic ttinktiee, cause them to attend
a school for at least three hours a day for five lawful days
in every week. The expenses must be paid by the
employers. A certificate of ability to read maybe sup-
plied by a magistrate or justice of the peace.
LUNDHILL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. —"cue operations (luring
the past week, so far as regards the recovery of the bodies,
have been very unsuccessful, only twelve having been found.
This is on acciunt of the state of the workings, more parti-
cllar's, those on the north side, a great portion of which
has fallen in, causing an immense amount of labour in
removing the hundreds of tons of ruhle;sh. On Saturday,
the engineers, Messrs. Nicholas Wood, Elliott, Woodhouse,
and Ilelt, accompanied by the .c)lliery viewers, (with the
exception of Mr. Webster), who have the minnetnerit of
the works at present going on, descended the pit, and
made a most minute inspection of it so tar as they could.
On the south side they were enabled to penetrate to a coa-
sislerable distance. Oa the north side the state of the roof
e-as such as not to admit of examining to any extent. C.
Morton, E-q , the government inspector, accompanied the
gentlemen on their examination. The inquest will be
resumed on Thursday.
Yottern IRELAND.—The Belfast Mercury of Monday
contains the following bit of sarcasm : Thomas F.
Meagher—he of " the Sword"—is now pursuing a very
inglorious career in the United States. He broke his
parole in order to escape from the transportation to which
hls crimes consigned him, and ,when he reached America
he fraternised with slaver.% He and poor John Mitchel
have made for themselves a sorry bed. Meagher now
publishes a paper called the Irish News, and occasionally
we read some very spicy sketches about the shams that
still disgrace the Irish political scene. For example, here
is a sketch of Moore, the M.P. for Mayo, the Tenant-
right humbug, the man who affects to lead the
" Independent Opposition" in Parliament :—" So far,
I have treated this question of leadership on
general principles, and wholly irrespective of the per-
sonality of the individual who now assumes the position of
leader. It is impossible, however, to overlook the fact
that Mr. G. H. Moore adopts of late all the airsof a leader,
and endeavours to do the liberator in a stile that
would be ludicrous, if it were not so very offensive and
likely to prove very injurious. I have never seen this
gentleman, and though more or less actively engaged, one
way or another, with Irish politics since the year 1843,
have never, till within the last few months, heard parti-
cular—indeed any—mention of his name. Personal ani.
mosity towards him, therefore, I have none. I care not
to enquire into his history, personal or political. This
much, however, I know, that he was not with O'Connell
when to be with O'Connell was to be with Ireland.
Neither was he with Yonng Ireland when to be with it
was the highest test of patriotism. With whom he may
have been in those days I do not ask, nor do I care.
But what are his services? None, none, whatever. The
Titles Bill agitation—the meanest and most injurious
agitation Ireland ever saw—brought to the surface a
number of new men—that is, of men who had seen the
people pirish, and moved not, but could not tolerate an
insult to the hierarchy. The piety of these men was
excessive—their Catholicism heroic. They were entitled

" The Brigade ;"the; opposed the inning of the Title;
Bill, bttt still the bill passed. Mr. Moore was one of
this brigade. Behold, as far as I have been able to
ascertain, the extent of his services! Now for his sac.
rifices—surely they must be great ; what are they ?
Elected twice for the County Mayo, which, without a
good cry, he never could have been ; thanked, in con-
junction with some others, by the hierarchy, or a por-
tion of it ; puffed by a couple of newspapers, and enter-
tained at one or two public banquets ! Tremendous
sacrifices at the altar of patriotism ! Whet, now, of his
qualifications ? Does he possess cnimanding intellect ?
Is he a great orator? He has never given proofs- of
superior intellect, and he is nothing more than a smart
speaker. Is his integrity unimpeachable? It is to be
hoped so ; but till within the last few years, he has gene
rally been on the wrong side. Behold all that can be said
about him." Moore is a charlatan of the most approved
water, and no mistake about it. He traded, successfully
for a while, on the " Independent Opposition" dodge, but
it has now failed, and, like a true political Jeremy Diddler
as he is, he must look about for somenew character in
which to appear. It is amusing to observe the excellent
characters that these " patriots" give of one another. And
then to reflect; that all these pretenders, at one time or
other, from their pc,tty meeting places in Dublin, affected
not only to prescribe laws for Ireland, but for the empire.

THE BANK COMMITrE '.-THE FALLACY OF
, CHEAP '!(17,777Y.

The committee upon the .3 er has been re-
appointed, aim ,st veteent discesseee ellssrs apparently
acquiescing, in the illogical character of the too common
practice of debating a subject upon which an inquiry is to
take place, in the same manner as if it were one upon
which they were about to come to an immediate decision.
The only observations bearing upon the merits of this
important subject were made by Mr. Malins, the member
for Wallingford; and the chief importance attached to
those observations is, that they represent a fallacy too
common in the public mind, and one'which is likely to
raise exaggerated hopes and expectations as to the results
which may be expected from the enquiry about to take
place—results which it is beyond the power of !govern-
ments by any means to accomplish, always assuming that
the convertibility of the note is to be maintained, and that
a system of inundating the country with inconvertible
paper, without limit, is under every circumstance to be
avoided. Mr. Matins took up the popular cry of " dear
money," and of a " high rate of interest ; " and he
attempted to show, first, that these were.the consequences
of the act of 1844 ; and next, that they were the cause of
a great depression in trade, neither of which conclusions do
we believe can be sustained either by argument or by an
appeal to facts. But as they are the foundation of much mis-
conception in the practical working of the Bank of England,
they are worthy of some consideration. Unfortunately
the arguments by which the provisions of the Bank Act
of 1844 have been sustained, and the whole of the theory
upon which it is based, have greatly tended to favour
the exaggerated importance which the public have
attached to bank notes—and to lead to the dangerous and
most unfounded notion that every pressure upon what is
termed the " money market" and the consequent neces
sill, of raising the rate of interest, are caused by a
deficiency of bank notes or currency, instead of floating
capital seeking employment. Now, when it is borne in
mind that these periods of pressure, except in the very
rare cases of internal discredit, arise exclusively, from a
demand to meet obligations abroad, it must be apparent
to every one that bank notes, which are current only in
England, cannot satisfy that demaed, but that it can only
be met by bullion or by other commodities. It is, therefore,
a deficiency of bullion and not of bank notes that is the
real difficulty under which the country labours at such
times. It will accordingly be found by reference to the
Bank returns that the variations of the rate of interest can
in no way be accounted for by any corresponding varia-
fions in the amount of bank notes in the circulation,
but that the two are obviously altogether independent of
each other, or in other v ords, that they are governed by
entirely different considerations. Daring the last two
years the rate of discount has fluctuated from 3i to 7 per
cent. On the 16th of June, 1855, when the bank rate was
reduced to 3 per cent, the bank notes in circulation
amounted to £20,570,000. On the 2011 of October in
the same year, when pressure led to an increase of
the rate to the highest point of 7 per cent, the
amount of notes in circulation was £21,351,000. At the
former date the amount of advances to the public upon
private securities was £12,399,000; at the latter date it was
£18,789,000. It was, therefore, impossible to attribute the
scarcity of money to what is genorally called a contraction
of the circulation of notes, and much less to any contrac-
tion of the accommodation given by the bank. But if we
look to the state of the bullion at the two different periods,
the whole is explained. In June it stood at £lB 000,000 ;
in October: at £11,230,000. The demand had been for
foreign payments, which under no circumstances could be
met by notes, and which could only be met by bullion. In
like manner in 1856, the lowest Bank rate was 4i per
cent., to which it was reduced on the 28th of June, when
the amount of Bank notes in circulatioa was £2O 312,000.
On the 11th of October the rate of discount was raised to
7 per cent., when the circulation was £21,501,000. At
the former date, however, the bullion
,was £13.073,000,
and at the latter date it had fallen to X. 10,140,000. It
was not, therefore, any deficiency of b Ink notes, but a
demand for capital, acting upon the bullion, for foreign
payments, that led to the pressure and to the high rate of
discount complained of. Again, it must be evident that
no increased facility for issuing notes that could be given
to the Bank, always supposing that the denomination of
the notes continues to be limited as at present, would
have lessened the pressure, or, in point of fact, have led
to a larger circulation. We have already shown that
during the interval between the time when the rate of
discount was at 31 per cent, and when it rose to 7 per,
cent, the advances of the bank to the public increased
from £12,399,000 to £18,789,000, and that during
the whole period the amount of notes retained in the hands
of the public remained nearly stationary; the notes issued
from day to day which were not required for circulation,
being returned upon the bank for payment, and leading to
a drain of bullion, but not to an increase of paper circula-
' then. That the scarcity of capital and the high rate of
"
discount cannot in any way be traced to the Bane Act of
1844, whatever may be the other defects of that Act, is
obvious also from the fact that it is not confined to this
country. In Hamburg the rate of discount has varied from,
6 to 8 per cent. ; in Holland it has beeteunusually high ; in
France it has for long periods stood at 6 per cent., the
maximum allowed by the usury laws of that country, and it
has been regarded as a disadvantage that those laws have
stood in the way of its being raised still higher; in the
Halted States it has varied from Bto 12 per cent. All this
proves that the pressure has not arisen in this country
from any local cause; and'it proves also, that however de.
sirable it may be for the profitable prosecution of trade,
to have the use of capital at a moderate rate, yet that
great commercial progress and p.-osperi y are not neces-
sarily dependent upon cheap capital, but may exist in
spite of dear money. ft is obvious that the effect of a
high rate of discount must much depend upon the cause
from which it arises. If it is caused by a large and pre,
fitable demand it will not lead to inconvenient conse-
quences, hut if it arise from discredit from failing har-
vests, which really impoverish a country, from con-
ceived and ruinous speculations which absorb the means
of a people and make n 3 adequate return, it is then not
make money
so long as the convertibi-
lity r is n maintainedhv
tho neth
ybe disappointed ; and we
eY cheap only an evidence of commercial adversity, but becomes
the cause of a great aggravation of it. Whatever, there-
fore, may be done to remedy the defects of the act of
1844, or to place our currency arid banking regulations
upon a more Intelligible and satisfactory f4oting, those
p by any change of
eastivo siuils
do not understand that any, except a very small and
exceptional body. would even for an instant suggest a
departure from the all-important provision
of the act of
1819.—Economist.
pe
whichso ts'a

THE OYSTER FIiHERIE3 OF JERSEY.—Fiom September
last up to the present month, 261 b la's were e9gaged in
the Jersey oyster fisheries. The tonnage of these boats
was 4,885 tons, and the crews amounted. to 1,369 men.
The proluce of their fishing was 179,690 tubs of oyster%
the value of which was £37,248 ss, independent of the
charge for freight, which amounted to £7,161 8s 9d.
The great increase of fish in the Upper Shannon can
only be attributed to the strict enforcement of the weekly
close time, and the great watchfulness and attention in the
fish prohibited seasons, The gentlemen anglers are enjoy-
ing greater sport than was affJrded them for years. We
are s3tisfi d that ere long the Shannon will re=trne its
wonted celebri,y, and be the resort, as formerly, of sports-
men from all parts of th.! United Kingdom.--Limerick
Observer.

REDUCTION OF POSTAGE ON LETrEAS. TO THE CAPE op
GOOD HOPE.—On the of June next, and thenceforward,
the postage upon letters conveyed either by picket or by
private ship, between the United IClngdmn and the Cape
of Good Hope will be reduced to a combined British and,
colonial rate of 6d for a letter not exceeding
)z in weight, ls. for a letter exce.ding oz, and not
exceeding 1 oz., 23 for a letter exceeding 1 oz an! not
exceeding 2 ozs, and so on, lucre tsing,-1s for every addi-
tional ounce or fraction of an ounce. The postage of
letters to the Capo of Good Hope may ha paid in advance,
or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of
the sender.

NEW .MEMBERS.--Last session a transportation bill w nald
have been discussed in a house of some forty or fifty m?m-
bars ; but on Monday night Sir John Pakington, Mr. Hen-
ley, and Mr. Adderley found themselves, to their great
surprise, no doubt, with an audience of between three and
four hundred. And so it will be for a time. /led when
the house goes into committee on supply we should not be
surprised to see the benches filled, although this business
premises ,to dine, so important
of voting money is generally performed by sonic thirty or
forty members. At present the whole, thing is so fresh and
pu;l'otrhee dn iiffiicnutolt it.
to
novel to the " members," that it woul,clN:chb,e
rkeephey themeane outcannot
o evenf thea
leave
ta
theso than
do they deem it to be within call of the bell in case a divi-
sion should occur. It is sail that at least 200 members,
dined at thi refreshment rporn on Monday night and when
the house broke up at half-past one o'clock, although there
was not for the last hour anything but the most ordinary
routine business—business which we have often seen tran-
sacted by half a dozm members—at least a hundred walked
out.—lllustrated Times.
BILL STICKERS, BEWARE !-At the meeting of the Mary-
lebone Representative•Couneil, on Saturday, Sir James
Hamilton sail he was sure that there was no one who
crossed th 3 rubicon of Oxford-street but must have been
struck with the disreputable figure the lamp-poets of
Nfarytebone cut in being covered continually with paste
and paper possessed of all the colours of the chameleon.
Before his own as well as the rest of his neighbours hall-
doors, and he believed everywhere throughout the lowish
of Marylebone, might bo seen the lamp-posts disfigured.
They might there find Cardinal Wiseman in jests-position,
with a quack doctor—the cheap un:).ertaker with the
vendor of antibilious pills ; acid all these unpleasareries
were stuck on the lamp-posts in rho very front of their
hall doors, to the great annoyance of the eyesight as well
as to the senses of the inhabitants. The lamp-posts were
erected in a reseectable and ornamental manner for parochial
purp,ses—namely, to give light to the public at night;
and therefore they had no right to be used as a medium
for puffing quack doctors, or any other advertising purposes.
He moved " That the necessary steps be forthwith taken
for abolisbing and preventing for the future this very great
nuisance." The motion wad carried,