The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-14 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 151 1852,

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Union of Madrid .- • •
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MONEY arid COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export and on speculation. The market closed
with The sales comprised 6,500 American, at
40. to cp., 500 Pernam and Maranham at 411 to
6-ad., 150 Bahia at 51d. to 50., 200 Egyptian t 6d.
to q-d., and 700 Surat at 3d. to 34d. per lb.—Railway
Shares were flat.

The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 375. 41, and
the last week's sales were 94,734 qrs.
The accounts which yesterday came to hand from
California are particularly favourable for the gold com-
panies which intend to try the experiment of working
quartz by machinery, and it happens curiously that the
richness of the Mariposa district, where many of them
intend to carry on their operations, has only just been
ascertained to the extent anticipated, or in full justifica-
tion of the glaring statements made. The dis-
covery of new and rich veins is reported, and
-the profits are likely to be enormous. Seven persons
in one party are stated to have obtained 217,000
dollars in eight days. The formation in which the
gold exists is a soft greasy talcose slate, and, generally,
the precious metal is thickly interspersed in extremely
fine particles, and is separated through the agency of
quicksilver. Some of the specimens are of a yellowish
colour, and others have a greenish hue. Wherever the
same description of earth has been struck, it has
proved to be of astonishing richness. Some specimens
from the Mariposa region, in which the gold was almost
invisible, yielded nearly three dollars to the pound
weight. One party writes concerning the operations of
certain miners that—

"Out of a pound or two of quartz, they obtained 17
dollars. Shares in the company which, two months ago,
were selling for 100 dollars, are now (including the
ledge) valued at 300 dollars. Men are arriving from
the rivers, and Big Oak Flat, Big Creek, the Gerotas,
the Humbuge, and Cobbs' Creek are becoming thickly
populated. A miner at the last place took out a seven
pound chunek the other day, seven-eighths of it gold.
Those who work are making from two dollars to ten
dollars per day. About four dollars I suppose to be an
average day's work here. The quartz miners are doing
but little. We have a meeting to-morrow night, to get
machinery up here. If we could leartehow to flux quartz,
I think it would be better to melt it as they do iron ore;
for you may crush it as fine as flour, and get the gold
out with quicksilver, and then obtain gold by melting it.
I speak on Moffat's authority, for he, I am informed,
smelted some of the quartz that had been ground and
quieksilvercd, from Strect's ledge, Sonora, and obtained
gold.
" Sometime ago I estimated thatforty hands would get
out 8,000 lbs. of rock and crush it in a day. Quartz,
in the Alia, thought that that amount was too little.
Amyx,' who is working a vein here, says that they
cannot more than get it out. 17e says 200 lbs. is enough
for one man to get out in a day, and he has had as high
as twenty hands engaged at it. Amyx is down 80 feet
in his ledge. They have crushed 275 lbs., and obtained
14 oz, They probably have 1,000 lbs. more as rich.
Mr. Horenhousen, of this place, a practical miner of ex-
perience, thinks that it will not pay at present to work
quartz yielding 5 cents to the pound."
The Belgian accounts notice the return of Mr. Master-
man to Loudon, and ask whether the negotiations with
him for the loan have proved unsuccessful.
At Amsterdam, on the 13th inst. there was a decline
in the Funds, owing to the;reaction at Paris, and the fall
in the rate of exchange at Vienna.
The English Stock Market has quite recovered the
late depression, and there is an appearance of buoyancy,
stimulated probably by the state of the account which
has to be arranged to-morrow, and which is believed to
be Bearish. Certain it is that vigorous efforts have
been made within the last two or three days to get down
prices, and stock has been borrowed for the same pur-
pose. Consols have touched 96-ill„ and are now 961
for Transfer, and 961 a for the now Account. Ex-
chequer-bills are 575. to 595. premium, and India Bonds
68s. to 71s. premium. Bank Stock has risen to 2161
and 217, and India Stock to 259 and 260. South Sea
New Annuities are
The Foreign Securities have been in more favour, and
there is an increase of business in some of them.
Mexican Bonds have been quoted at 29i to Spanish
Five per Cents. have realized 231 to f, the Passive 5'
to 1, and the Three per Cents. 411 to 42, and the New
Deferred 181 to Portuguese Four per Cents. have
been marked 34 to I. Russian Bonds are worth 1001
to and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 581-1 i to 59k.
Railway Shares have been at improved rates with
moderate transactions.
The last week's Railway Receipts, ascertained up to
this day, are in round figures as under:-
1852.
Great Western £14,439
North-Western
South-Western 8,692
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
North Stafford 4,509
Caledonian .. 7,662

Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkbhire
York and North Midland
6.594

12,937 Newcastle and Berwick

1851.
14,669
38,064
8,226
7,682
19,740
11,684
4,407
7,544
7,056
13.396
6,001
11,060
1,220

Aberdeen 1,560
Gold Mine Shares are in demand, and dearer.
QUARTER TO T4SIREE.
Consols ... ,„,
... ... 96i• i
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE OCLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
,lank Stock 21634 217
3 F. r Cent. Reduced Annuities 97% N'
per Cent. Consols Ann-.
New 3!•4 per Cent. Amis. ........... ....
India Stock 259 200
Do. Bonds, 10001 7l 63 p
Ditto under 1.0001...... -
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Cowols for Account 96N % fit
1%, i,
E.-m.11(411m Bills.
1,0001..,.., — 57 5-,9 p
57 5 6 p
;,t,a'
Small
PRIUE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK',
111‘x.:ican Bonds, 1546, ex. Jan. Coupons 29 :
Ditto Account ... .. 29'' (tl/2
Ditto, Small - • 29:1 i
Portuguese Benda, 5 per Cent.--
Ditto 4 per Cent. ' 341, ‘34
Sardinian
Ditto
a n_isßilopndo;:,d, rifckl,
tspanieaniss
Rutsiau Bonds, 1322, 5 per Cent ll3
Ditto 4% per Cent. 10014;1% ex d
Ditto Bonds.
enlidgonds
en
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e3efaeprberorevaCee.p.n.aty.1810
5 li%
Divid ,
Dutch 214
Ditto 4 _
_ProyCent., 12 Guild
De Cent.
Certificates9o' 91
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LL snippy,. _
The Hut.ton has been got off
LONDON, JAN. 15.—.Windwt"heal.st—hderacTaitini:
a;
n-DAY.
o.
derats breeze and dull rainy
SUNDERLAND, JAN. 14.
IYAR3 OUTII, JAN. 14.—The St. Catherine, ft, Croustadt
shore. .
Sid. _.:l,raber last
tl Hull, which was brought in here 28th Sr
Humboldt
Evert°
a derelict, has been refitted and hasproceed
14.—Wind calm._ i
COWES, JAN.
9 p.m., 1 i ght airs.--
steamer, New York.
Mauritius; Naomi, Callao. ura Large,
QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 13.—V(Qiiirr.dp:i4:—.wAiri...ii I.; .
n,
Porto Rico, for Liverpool.
ArDrdE.AID„
eJurei.iilo.ln.,—syVva-ninedy,W-S•W;
New South Wal its; Falcon,
Africa; Tirris, Demerara. Sid. Brothers, South Seas;
Achilles,
S dne New South ,11; ales; Gli in Huntley,
y,
Adelaide, South Australia; Success, Geelon g; Merope. y
Swan River; Centurion, Calcutta; Scienc io, Cape of
Good Hope; Francis Yates, io Janeiro; Ca to, St. Vin-
cent; Zephyr, Dominica; Lady N. Barhau 4 Jamaica;
Glammis Castle, Brazils; St. John's, No' IV Orleans;
oho, Demerara; Cybele, ditto;
White S. pall, New
York; Meta, United States.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14.—wind S.S.F. to E., 3.E.---Artd.
Margaret Jsno, Mazigan. Sld. Adele la, Brazil;
Chrysolite, Hong-Kong; Mary Hannah, t, .".gins; Au-
gusto, Rio Janeiro; Woodland Cwtle, Barba jots; Free-
man,_The
JoOh Orleans le
Lanaisr;d P,
knt
Jamaica; Lucy Ann, New
Bal-
timore; Wyoming, Philadelphia; Conqueror, :New York.
GRAVESEND, JAN. 14
Falklands, has put back after being on the : (Louse Sand.
PORTSMOUTH. JAN. 14.—Wind S.S.W.- -Sld. Yaw
ii. t
t'u kn.:: to tlieGellie, Darian River; Hendrick, Hudson, Nt rtv York.
TORBAY, JAN. IC—Wind S.W.—Sid. Fet tercsirn, St.
Helena; and Cape of Good Hope.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 14.—Wind W.S W.—. (rrd. Rain-

LONDON,

bow. Tiondurr.. Off port, Helena, Christina, Batavia,
for Rott-nlltu.

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ILFRACOMBE, JAN. 1 I,—The Ei;za brig, of this port,
sprung a leak and sutik S.W. of Lundy Island; crew

G ITERNSEY, JAN. 14.—The Sorciere, Dartmouth ti
this isiand, is stranded on tho Nerth Beach, and is voty
much injured.
GRISThDY, JAN. 14.—The Th:;mas and Joseph, for
Sits..'ksunati, is Paky ; the Hoop (Dutch galhot),
Shields to Constcritinople, hay ben assisted in very
leaky.
LEITH, JAN. 14.—The London brig, of Stockton,
Hail,-,pool to Rochester, is oa Siz.3vvell Back and fact
breaking up; crew saved.

THE WEATHER 1N THE NORTH.
rom the Edinburgh Courant of Tuesday.)
In consequence of the very heavy fall of snow in
the north of Scotland the whole of the mails beyond
Perth have been put out of course. On the Highland
road the maihoonch could net get beyond Blair .A.tholl,
but after every possible exertion to get through the
guard was compelled to return with the bags on Fri-
day evening to Perth ; and up to the present time,
although a large number of persona have been em-
ployed in clearing the road, the passage has not been
mane practicable even for a horse, as the continued
wind fill up the drifts as soon
as cleared. On Sunday evening the railway to
snowstorm and the high
Aberdeen was open, but kept so with great difficulty,
and beyond Aberdeen there was no passage in any
direction.

We understand that yesterday there were no less
than 160 bags overdue at the Post-office, and although
some of these have since come in, no mails have ar-
rived from Inverness for three days, or any places
beyond that town. The guards state they do not re-
member so severely stormy weather since 1826.
The Post-office has dispatched extra officers to
Aberdeen and Perth, and every possible exertion is
used to obviate the serious inconvenience the public
must experience from this great and unusual detention
of the correspondence to and from so large a portion
of Scotland.

The mails in the Western Highlands have also been
t re
uct
Clydee d
rb:tyi
doeurde
dI nvveerrya ry,
°thb
irregular and t hbeys ttehaem- boa ts o
continuedn
gales and stormy weather.
PERTH, JAN. 11.—We have not experienced a
coarser day for these two years at least than we had
on Thursday last. Snow commenced to fall about ten
o'clock A.M., and continued heavily and without inter-
mission for three hours. It then changed to rain, and
this, combined with the melting snow, soon put the
streets and roads in very bad condition. Next night
was boisterous in the extreme. A cold north wind
continued to blow during the night and part of next
day, and, although but little additional snow fell in the
low country, travelling was exceedingly disagreeable.
The wind was so violent in the morning, that people
crossing the bridge over the Tay had numerous small
articles blown away, and a little girl was nearly
lifted over the parapet by a violent gust. Away
northward the night had been very violent. A goods
shed at the Forfar station of the Midland Railway
was blown about a yard off the perpendicular,
but recovered its position. But it is upon the Inver-
ness road that the storm has raged most violently.
There has been no mail from Inverness since
Thursday morning, and three different mails 'dis-
patched from Perth have been obliged to return.
They found it absolutely impossible to get above five
or six miles beyond Blair Atholl, notwithstanding all
the aid of man and horses that could be procured.
The snow is represented as lying very deep upon the
hills, and Inverness appears to be absolutely block-
aded, for there is at present no access to it either from
Perth or Aberdeen. The mails from Aberdeen to
Perth, by the Scottish Midland Railway have been
pretty regular, however, and have not been more than
an hour, or rather more, behind time. We have
heard of no damage or obstruction in the neighbour-
hood of Perth, with the exception of the partial giving
way of a bridge over the River May, at the Forteviot
station of the Central Railway, in consequence of
which only one of the lines of rail was available
for some time ; but the trains were very little de-
tained in consequence. We bad again heavy snow
last night from the north-east, but it has been melting
all day. There is, however, every appearance of
more at hand.

ABERDEIN.—The weather here somewhat suddenly
changed on Thursday to a snow-storm, which, though
it wore off towards the latter part of the evening, was
renewed next morning with redoubled severity,
abotiring
accompanied by a fierce north wind. The snow
storm completely prevented all communication with
the. . south, and no train, except one from the
ne!g
The storm on the west coast (says the
villages, was able to reach Aberdeen.
Glasgow
Herald) is considered to have equalled in severity
anything of
the kind which has been experienced for
a period of years. Strange to say, one of its results
is, that a large ship is ashore on Ailsa Craig. This
ship is the Lord 117arriston, of 1,144 tons burden,
.riles perpendicularly
which sailed from Liverpool for Mobile on the ht
current. In the greater part of its circumference the
Craig
from the deep to the
height of 1,100 feet; but on the east side there is a
small rapidly shelving beach, and here, fortunately
for the ship and all concerned, the Lord Warriston
lies. Loahryan seems to have suffered more than any
other part of the west coast. In the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Oban the roads were flooded to the depth
of four feet. On the village itself, three large rivers
from the surrounding heights descended in cataracts,
flooding most of the shops and houses, and it was
only after a channel had been cut in the streets that
the vvrelers flowed off. From the country the ac-
counts ore, if possible, still more alarming ; the
damage done to bridges is considerable. The fine
new br'ilge of Salmore was swept away, the bridge
of Kill echrenan, the bridge of Kilmore, .and the sus-
pension bridge at Feochan, were severely dammed by
the rag leg waters. Indeed, so far as we could learn,
nothing: could withstand the fury of the swollen rivers.
The eslimated cost of repairing roads and re-erecting
bridges in the district of Lorn, amounts to upwards
of 2,00 Dfl.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
Commander Belgrave, in the Hydra steam-sloop,
will convey the new governor,
to be c oanmissioned at Sheerness, as we stated yester-
day,the Hon. G. Cathcart, to the Cape of Good Hope.
Commander Savage, whose death we reported
vesterCia y, entered. the navy in November, 1796, on
lboard the Agincourt, 64, Captain John Williamson,
and was in the battle off Camperdown, Oct. 11, 1797.
stores for the use of France, Major-General
On his
.removal with Captain Lawford to the TiomneY,
50, he :assisted, in the course of 1798, at the capture
of a col ivoy of Swedish vessels, laden with naval and.
and accompanied,
imniltilitaeriratitumn of 1799, the expedition to
Whilst cu shore ;
'n the neighbourhood of Mount
Felix far the Purpose of procuring a Ripply of water,
his par t.J", 11. in number, was suddenly attacked by a
party of natives, lying in ambush, who murdered all
Holland.
but hit ni elf and a midshipman, the late retired Corn •
mandei! Jolla Manton.
a Being severely wounded
i in
the heed, his own lite wits only saved througn the
exertio 11J3 of his companion, who forcibly dragged
him i alco a boat, and succeeded in keeping the
enemy a t bay until they were both
On !ail return to
.England in May, 1803, he joined
La Sei aE •, 36, Captain David Milne and on that ship
being wrecked, July 21
following, off Schelling
Island, in the North Sea, h,,,, was received on board
the E af)ellent, 74; was
nominated May 51 1806,
acting Lieutenant of. the intrepid, out of danger.
64, and was con-
Sept. .17, in the same year; and was subae-
r appointed, February, 1807, to the Formidable,
9, ; A pril 6, 1810, to the Audacious, 74 ; Aug. 21,
of hall-pay, to the Centaur,' 74.
1811, to the Barbacloes, 24, commander for a short
time 1-7 himself, as acting captain ; July 6, 1812, to
tiqurmenetdi
a pension of 91/. sa,
the Pt ! h I,y p emus, 4 , and Feb.
6- 7 --L. -0 96 1813, after three
in Ma r., 1814,
.and vHe invalided
vas not afterwards afloat. He
per annum for wounds,
July 1.., 1815 ;and was advanced to the rank of com-
mona F.
Maildi a , Dec. 31, 1830.
MA XITA, JAN. 9.—The report of the ships going to
obtain al
zee, g: runs ground.. The Admiral, however, will not,
it is E aid, go out with the ileet 'alit will hoist his flag
pro It an. in the Traalgar. ,
Th a Indefatigable is Undf.r orders to proceed to
Corfu , and there relieve the Phaeton. She will sail
about the 15th instant.

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PO: LTSMOUTH, Tu. E.sDAy.
'II c Scourge may be daily
--To-day the examina-
tion i into the remaining stoclz of preserved mats in
store at the Royal Clarence Victualling Establish-
mrait -was proceede.d .with. expected from Leghorn.
The canisters opened
were eLf a size varying from. Glb. to lllb. each. 306
were ctxamined, 42 of which passed as consumable,
and 0 64 -were condemned.
....

to 1011 b. each, Th a Southampton, 50, Captain Co
weigl ',and left St. Helen's this afternoon,ry,
four ( i,olock, for Chatham, to be Paid
off,
at half-past
W EDNESDAY.—Today 468 cAnisters. of
got under
meat, , ,of the average of from 51b.
been •opened at the Clarence-yard '
out of which
numi nr 144 have been allowed to pas:ford' t 13 -
preserved
and : 1'24 have been condemned.
contents of theca
were similar in their character to those already
obsci ibed. r
Tatham,hise rr i
wu
atoantr
0.,
Ti le Fury steam-sloop, Commander
cuing,heP rl e compasses. coalsand i s
rived . this morning from Woo.lrwrmihacenhd,oo
the P. fediterranean, and came into harbour to rejple-
nish coal.
off to
Warden,
lapj'Afr:.ml4....-THer. to the steam to
Majesty's ship Tyne,
topgallantrnasts
'rblia.pnk for New York.Tt as Retribution steam-vessel
Thr3 Hendrik Hudson._American line of packet-
ahot hdfajisbsacesen 3 ling sails.
shilipv,s,
)z
o.iLleldvitcon-
Mast t •-Commending P. 11# ellington, arrived this day
from Barbadoes, whither she conveyed from Ports•
mout: a , on the 3d of November last, 10 officers. 183
soldic li s, 26 women, and 29 children of the Royal
ArtilJ .e ry and detachments; and brought home 2
office n ~ 76 soldiers, 12 women, and 23 children, in
charg o of Lieutenant Fraser, Royal Artillery ; also a
small x call bag, which was landed in the Downs yes-
tercia, r.. The Tyne experienced very bad weather on
the h 3: reward passage, and came in 27 days, having
thus I .11 lmpleted 301 days at sea out of the last 365
days 11 5 year, and traversed, by her log 36,205 miles.
Th a Iligbilyer steam stoop, fitted with a screw
props al er,and'engines of 400-horse power byMaudslay,
Son, at id Field, had her steam up yesterday to try her
engi! to 3, and they started
.and worked remarkably
well. The steam was again got up on board the
Mgt Oy‘ er to•day for further exercise of the engines,

Mr. Atherton, Mr. Field, and Mr. Maudslay, jun.,
being present on the occasion.

FOR MAIL STEA.NIERS.
FIRE BILL,*
TO PREVENT CONFUSION, SAVE LIFE, AND PRESERVE

THE MAIL.

At the sound of the fire-bell—Ease the engine.
The Captain to command -on quarter-deck,
Attended by Mr. , aid, Mr.
Two intelligent lads as aids.
Chief Officer, Mr. —To repair to the fire.
Second 01112er, Mr. , in charge of hose
and fire.engiues; attended by second engineer and
watch below of enginemen cf all denominations—To
work fire-engined, clear lumber, and use fire-buckets.
Third Officer, Mr. , with first parts of top-
men or seamen of both watches—To clear lumber,
and use fire-buckets.

, aid.

Fourth Officer, Mr. , in charge of boats first
ordered to be lowered—To see all ready ; and when
lowered to be dropped astern. Two men, at least, to
be kept ht each boat. Bread, water, compass, musket,
quadrant, Nerie, oars, tackle.
Chief Engineer, Mr. , in engine-room, with
the watch on deck, of enginemen of all denomi❑ations
—To ease the engine at the sound of fire bell, and
use buckets.

Second Engineer, Mr. —To attend hoses,
fire-engine, and fire-bucketl, and clear lumber.
The Carpenter and his crew—To scrlew on hoses,
rig, fire-engine, loose hatches ; attend with blankets
to smother fire.

The Boatswain—To attend on deck, prepare
paddle-pox boats, to see each boat with a slip rope,
painter to the foremast slings or rings ; then to
smother fire,

The Mail Agent with the mail-boats' crew—To
prepare the mail life-boat on the quarter ; each mail-
bag or package to have a lanyard, if practicable,
to be made fast to boat-thwarts. I also suggest that
in the mail-room a compass, quadrant, and navigation
bock be kept ; and that the mail ought to be kept on
after part of ship, at band.
The Surgeon—To take command of the passengers,
to get them ready to be placed in boats, in woollen
dresses if practicable.
The Stewards—To call passengers, light lamps,
shut doors to prevent drafts, to get packages of
bread ready for each boat (small oval breakers might
be kept always ready with a square opening) ; to take
a chronometer, quadrant, compass, chart, and Norie
into each boat with them, or all, if practicable.
The Gunner and crew—To be ready to destroy
with water the magazine, if practicable ; then to see
' that the boats are supplied with breakers.
The Cook and all his men—To fill water-breakers
for boats, and place them aft ready for use.
A Quartermaster and three men—To see each
paddle-boat ready for getting out.
A trustworthy Coxswain and one man to each
boat—To see boat ready, slip painter past falls, clear
boats, compass ready, oars lashed.
(See Boat's Crew List.)

SUGGESTIONS TO MAKE THE FIRE-BILL MORE
INTELLIGIBLE.
Every person to dress in woollen, as far as practi-
cable, even in the tropics.
Never to throw water on a fire, except in quan-

titles. Men to be instxucted to stoop as low as pos-
sible when employed in dense smoke. A silk hand-
kerchief tied over the head round the neck, is an
assistance, as it will contain air to support life for an
increased time.
Boat-slings to be fitted with hooks not in the tackle.
All boats' falls to be stopped up to davits not used
for lashings.
Boat's water-breakers to be kept near the boats.
13osts without water and provisions is only adding
to misery.
Beats, when lowered, to be dropped astern.
The engine to be eased, without orders, on sound
of the fire-bell.
The coxswain of each boat to see his boat ready at
each watch.

Every officer in charge to report to captain at sun-
Every man
set that his department is clear and fit for service, as
far as practicable.
Boats' oars to be lashed on then).
tion of seamen in each, an officer to each.
to ho stationed to a boat, a due propor-
Smoke is more effective than a small quantity of
water to put out fire ; consequently stop drafts.
Seamen not particularly stationed to assemble on
deck under charge of an officer.
Too many only create confusion.
No boat to be lowered without orders.
TO LADIES (I beg their pardon).—Ladies should
take to sea a loose flannel dressing-gown, with bathing
drawers attached. It would be a very great assistance
to theta if they could keep in their pocket or purse a
pebble ; if put into the mouth it reduces thirst.
The seamen use tobacco to reduce hunger.
Gentlemen are requested to assist to get the bread
and water, and as many nautical instruments into
I boats as can be got at.

P. A. HELPMAN, R.A.
Commander, R.N.
15, Alfred-street, Plymouth,, Jan. 14, 1552.

* This Bill is applicable for tither fire or wreck. If
or wreck, tho men not stationed to boats to obey orders,
;o get hawsers, anchors, and warps ready.

CHINA.

We hare received advices from Hong-Kong to the
28th November.

We extract the following from the Overland Friend
of China:—

"We have no important intelligence regarding the
still-continued rebellion. The Canton Mandarins are
purchasing warlike stores in groat quantities; we know
of one particular commission for a hundred barrels of
powder and one two and three pounder guns, with cor-
responding shot; besides hand grenades, rockets, and
rocket tubes, which have been &sly supplied. A party,
who has excellent means of ascertaining the real state of
affairs, writes:—' Matters are truly alarming—l feel
certain that Teeu-teh will be in Canton before the
Chinese new year. Lately we had some conversation
with a person who, three months ago, was in Peking,
end who reached Canton by the •way of liwang-si. He
says that at the capital every attempt was being
made to keep the people in the dark as to the progress
of the southern rebels (the abtsence of allusion to them
in the Peking gazettes is corroborative of this); Teen-
teh, he says, is no myth; he saw him, and spoke to se-
veral of his officers; he is of the elan Le, not of the clan
Fong as reported. Our informaaat did not think that
Teen-teh cared much about retushing Peking yet, being
content if he succeeds in dividing the empire into two
parts, of which ho rules the :teutl2ern. Teen-teb, he
added, is now only waiting until he gains more friends
in and about the city of Canton„ and he depends a good
deal on what the Toong-koon man will do for him.
" Governor Yeh has been more than usually cruel
during the last month, and ono unfortunate rebel leader
was, horrible to relate, flayed alive, as a warning to
others of what they may expect should they fall into his
hands.
The Yellow River has again burst its banks, and
has given some check to trade at the northern ports,
goods intended for the interior laving to be conveyed
by other and circuitops routes, with additional transit
dues, equalling nearly 10 per coat. on foreign manufac-
tures. Frcebootery is as rife as ever, but the robbers
(some call them Teen-teh reboil) having managed mat-
ters to their perfect satisfaction. below 35. degrees north
latitude, havenow prOceeded further up the ooast, and
hang about tho mouth of the Yellow River and the
Grand Canal."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CANTON, Nov. 27.—Business during the month has
been pretty good, and there has been on the whole a
fair demand for imports, although gross sales of long
cloths do not aggregate• so largely as in the month pre=
vious, and prices realised are considerably lower.
SLIANGIIAE, Nov. 19.—The junks which were lying at
this port at the date of last dispatch, having paid pretty
heavy black mail, were allowed to proceed on their
voyage to the northern provinces. and business has been
generally brisker sirce their depaxture. Some Japanese
brokers were busy purchasing cargoes for several junks
loading for Japan.

THE CITY RAILWAY TERMINUS.
TO THE•EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERTISER,
Sir,--It appears to me very much us if some oppo-
nent of the City Railway Terminus had, taken the trouble
to mislead you as to the state of the proceedings before
the committee to whom the Common Council have re-
ferred it to consider the report upon the matter. lam
not at liberty, as I said in a former letter, to correctct
errors by stating what has actually taken place
committee; but in justice to the gentlemen named in
your paper of yesterday, I think it right to say that,
although like several other members of the committee,
de-
I they may entertain doubts as to the practicability or
sirability of the project, on account of its cost
them or other-
wise, the measure has experienced from nothing
but the most fair and courteous treatment in the
com-
mittee. Whatever may be their ultimate decision in
the report, I shall feel and acknowledbgeeentihualtlyl hanavdeimno.
reason to complain of its not having
partially examined by me.
PEARSON.
I am, Sir, yours obediently,
Jan. 14, 1852.

COAL-A. IT ...CC S.—The following is a return
IDEDIT
of the colliery accidents which' have been recorded for the
last two years :- -1850 : Deaths from all causes, 632 ; injuries,
273-905. Half-year to June 30th, 1851: Deaths from all
causes, 310; injuries, 110-420. Half-year to December 31,
1851; Deaths from explosion, 160 ; deaths from fall of roof,
72 ; deaths from fall in shaft, 30 ; deaths from rope breaking,
38 ; various causes,
72 ; injuries from an causes, 136-508.
For the year : Deaths from all causes, 682 ; injuries, 246
928 : being 57 per month killed and 23 in
Mr. _-- 4. So, your name is Charley, is it ? Now,
Charley doesn't know who I am ?"Sharp Little Boy—" Oh
yes 1 but I do, though." Mr. Well, who am I?"
sharp Little Boy—" 'W hy, you're the gentleman who kissed
sister Sop in the library, on Twelfth Night, when you
thought no one was there. _Punch.
•

A VETERAN STILL IN THE FIELD.—The most
Noble the Marquis of Anglesey, although in his 83d year,
turned out on Tuesday week at Beaudesert, and killed 27
head of game with his own gun. The Noble Marquis was
not a little pleased with his capital sport.

LITERATURE.

A LITERARY MELANGE in PROSE and
VERSE. By S. Whiting. 011ivier.
There is considerable amusement to be met with
in this collection. The tales are very interest:rg,
and the plays exhibit great talent, the characters are
well drawn, and the incidents have the appearance of
truth while novel and entertaining. The short poems
are very pleasing ; they are chiefly on mythological
subjects' and display considerable classical know -
ledge. The following is an essay on eloquence and
oratory, which contains much valuable information on
subjects of the highest importance, which ar© unfortu-
nately too little consideredin the present day :—"A man
may be eloquent but not an orator, a logician but not an
orator, a rhetorician but not an orator ; but an orator
must possess the combination of all. Those who have
been great as orators have given their mind and time
to the pursuit, and deepl' erroneous. is the common
belief that oratory is more a gift than a science,
arising more from intuition than study. Eloquence,
indeed, is the only quality of oratory which can be
possessed without the remaining constituent parts,
for a man may be eloquent and know nothing of
logic or rhetoric, because eloquence arises from an
innate quality of the mitid, whereas logic and rhetoric
are acquired solely by st:udy and attention to the rules
of art. But an orator must possess eloquence as a
gift, and attain the rest by application. To illustrate
this necessity take, for :instance, the greatest orators
the world has ever known, Demosthenes, Cicero,
and Burke. The unceasing pains Demosthenes took
to overcome his natural impediments, and to improve
his deficiencies, are prol.rerbial; while Cicero, having
early the advantage of a patron in the person of
Scacrola, the eloquent jiurist, laboured with indefa-
tigable zeal. Burke neglected or evaded all studies
save rhetoric, logic, and metaphysics, and confined
himself to that cycle of Ithe sciences most immediately
calculated to make him what he so desired to become
—an orator. Thus it is evident that study and ab-
straction are essential to the acquirement of oratory,
and is it not surprising that oratory is so little
deemed a necessary part of education in our universi-
ties, where theological rhetoric should be the very
aim of the student, at the bar, where forensic abilities
are the summum bonum, and for the statesman, who to
sway men's minds must make the name synonymous
with orator."

VISITING MY RELATIONS, AND ITS
RESULTS. Pickering.
This is a series of social episodes in the life of a
recluse. The narrator is one of the species called
Old Bachelors. In the course of his travels he meets
with a great variety of characters, and becomes ac-
quainted with many strange schemes and impracticable
theories. These are ably described, their absurdity
made evident, their follies satirised, and their evil
tendencies clearly foreshadowed. Mrs. Melmotb,
wilfully blinding herself to all the growing faults
around her, leaving the affairs of her family to im-
pending ruin; Mrs. Square, surrounded with every
comfort in life, rendering herhusband indignant, and
her friends reproachful, by persisting in giving way to
chimerical fears concerning her son which were
totally without foundation ; Mr. Grey, abusing
his powers of mind, and debasing the influence
he possessed by fabricating one of the most senseless
plans that was ever heard,—all these furnish vivid
and apt exemplifications of the one ruling passion of
many. Absorbed in vanity, they shut out the world
and its worldly knowledge to envelope themselves in a
cloud of self-delusion, hick finally deters them from
obtaining even a partial glimpse of truth and nature,
without which nothing great or lasting was ever can-
summated. The whirs Lund is a quotation from the
conclusion :
"As it did not lie much out of my way, and not at
all cot of my inclination, I resolved to take one long-
ing,,lingering leek' at Cambridge, my Alma Mater, in
my journey homewards. IL was many, many yecra
since I had looked upon her academic bowers, and as I
sauntered forth on tho evening of my arrival I expe-
rienced some difficulty in recognising, the streets 'and
lanes of the old place, so manifest and decided were the
alterations, and, as I suppoae they should be called, the
improvements which it displayed, especially in the new
buildings at some of the colleges. They were in the
way, however, of my early and most delightful remi-
niscences, and I tried to forget them. 1 could look
at nothing but the objects. I could so 3 nothing but
the haunts that were asscciated with the feelings of
enchanting youth. Ye,l, it was indeed an almost
overwhelming influence that for a few moments, so
strongly operated upon my imagination, that I could
scarcely believe that I was not still young, or think
otherwise than that it was but last night that these
things happened, and that; perhaps in a few minutes my
dear old friend would be coming into the college
walks, and I should be luistening up to speak to him.
" But the delusion fades away, and the wesltness of
humanity involuntarily sighs over the conviction that
youth is gone, and all is gone ever which my truant
fancy has been staying. But whither gone ? I ask my-
self. Where are these well remembered ones ? In what
unknown region do they now exist ? Has lite nothing
real in it ? Is it all a phantasmagoria, an agitated
dream from which death awakens, and introduces us to
one only true and spiritual world ? Some latent asso-
ciation of ideas has recalled to my mind the concluding
passage of Addison's Vision of Mirza:—` At length,'
says Mirza, 'show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets
that lie under those dark clouds that cross the ocean on
the other side of the rock of adamant.'
" The genius making me no answer, I turned to ad-
dress him a second time, but I found that he had left me.
I then turned again to the vision I had so lung been
contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched
bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the
long hollow valley of Bagdad, with oxen, sheep, and
camels grazing upon the sales of it, and thus my vision
also passes away thought I, as I bent my way to my
inn. I too must return to my valley of Bagdad, and
the routine of small duties and serene enjoyments
which there await me. Well, these may suffice. It is
the small duties and pleasures of life which constitute
the sum of human satisfaction."