The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

estimates of their own surveyor. This was not the
case after the tender of Mr. THO3IPSON was svith-

drawn, a

the committee, there

)re, felt themselves

k to Mr. HA P.T.

LEY, whose previous works
satisfaction. They had tried the experiment ,
getting it done cheaper by contract, and they
had not found that they could save anything in
the expense. On-the other hand, it is contended
that the clause in the advertisement was under-
stood by men in the trade to be simply a protection
against being compelled to accept a tender from in-
efficient contactors or at an exorbitant rate, but it
was evident that it was not so understood by the
members of the committee, whose high character as
Liverpool merchants must place them above all

had given gei.,

suspicion of improper motives. Another question
in the discussion was as to the legal right of the
Council to veto the proceedings of the committee,
and this also has given rise to considerable misunder-
standing. Many of the Council contend that while
therhave not the power to interfere in details they
have the right to interfere in this particular matter
of the contract. Others contend, and with some
of justice, that the right to veto can only apply
simple question whether the proposed docks
to be constructed, and this being conceded, it
rests with the committee to decide upon the best
means of carrying it out. It is to be hoped that
e benefit has arisen from the lengthened dis-
iion, which was adjourned from Wednesday
I yesterday (Monday), when the Council. by 31
- affirmed their pre

ous veto; but as this did
not constitute a majority of two-thirds, as required
by the Act, the veto fell to the ground, and the
works will, therefore, be proceeded with.
The question of imposing a halfpenny rate for a
Free Public Museum has led to some difference of
opinion in the Council. Of course the popular
feeling is in favour of saving any rate, however
small, in these times of reduction of taxation ; and,
as the corporate property is more than sufficient
for the ordinary demands upon it, there is less rea-
son for enforcing any addition upon the present
local burdens. The discussion gave rise to an ex-
hibition of temper unbecoming an assembly of
Liverpool gentlemen, and was finally disposed of
by an undestanding that the obnoxious rate should
not be enforced until an opportunity has been af-
forded of conferring with the representatives of the
parish.

Some misunderstanding appears to have arisen
in the Health Committee with rsferenee to a pro-
posal to affix signboards to the lamp-posts in the
chief thoroughfares, which should point out the
names of public buildngs, and the addresses of such
of the adjoining tradesmen as chose to pay for the
privilege of being so distinguished. It has been
opposed on the ground of its being converted into
a species of puffing advertisements, but the one
put un in Dale-street appears to be a simple direc-
tion after the plan of the postoffice directing signs
on the lamp-posts in the metropolis ; and the pro-
jector offers to place the whole affair under the di-
rection of the authorities, and pay an annual sum
for the privilege. The decision of the Committee
has been adjourned for a month, in order to obtain
the opinion of the tradesmen of Liverpool on the
subject. _ _ _ _

In common with weak minds, who are prone to
back their assertions with a wager, Mr. COBDEN—in
order to give a show of sincerity to his absurd pre-
dictions about the everlasting peace to be brought
about by the aid of cotton bales, disbanding the
army and dismantling the navy—offered our con-
temporary the Manchester Guardian to pay him
£lO,OOO in the event of a French invasion of this
country, upon condition of the latter paying one
shilling a week to the Manchester Infimary until
that event does occur. Our contemporary declined
the tempting proposal, but it appears that a Lieut.
General BROTHERTON has taken up the challenge,
and in a published correspondence Mr. COBDEN has
declared his willingness to pay the £lO,OOO whenever
a French invasion is attempted. In a subsequent letter,
Lieut.-Gen. BROTHERTON expresses his satisfaction
of Mr. COBDEN'S sincerity, and declines the proffered
bond, though he engages to pay the promised
subscription to the Infirmary. Mr. COBDEN
has thus cheaply earned a reputation with the
vulgar, but it can never ascend higher. Of
what value would be the bond thus confidently
offered, when no Court of Law would enforce the
payment, upon the ground of there being an illegal
consideration ? He might as well have offered a
bribe to any one to promote an invasion by the
QUEEN s enemies, a manifest act of treason; and
Mr. COBDEN, notwithstanding his mania about
Peace, and his political predictions, which have
always been falsified, has yet sense enough to knuw
that such an obligation would not be binding.
The important question of establishing local
tribunals for the decision of differences on mercantile
affairs, was again brought before the Chamber of
Commerce, at their meeting yesterday, of which a
report will be found in another column. The
chamber, by a unanimous resolution, requested the
new council of their body to petition in favour of the
proposal.

CENTRAL AMERICA..—The only achievement
that marked Sir H. Bulwer's residence atWashing
Washing-
ton was a treaty relating to Central America, which
opened a free passage across the isthmian states to
the commerce of the world. Against this treaty a
most unreasonable outcry has been lately raised in
the United States, for no better reason than that it
does not dispossess Great Britain of her old rights
over Honduras, which she never dreamed of sur-
rendering. A groundless charge of dishonesty has
been fastened on Mr. Clayton, the minister who
negotiated the treaty, and it stands in imminent
danger of being upset altogether. Here is a useful
illustration for Mr. Cobden. He will find, we sus-
pect, as he pursues his historical studies, that de-
mocracies are apt to be more unreasonable, more
grasping, more peevish, more subject to uncon-
trollable impulse than monarchies. Happily for
them, their resolutions are less quickly executed, and
a dread of taxation supplies to some extent the place
of a statesmanlike prudence and self-control. Had
the American government been as strong and cen-
tralised as the French, the monomania which
pos-
sesses them for monopolising
s long
their own continent
would have embroiled us
ago in a serious
quarrel.

TILE BIBLE IN TUSCANY.—A fact—a very
great fact—is stated by Dr. Cahill in his eagerness
to accumulate criminations upon the " atrocious "
Madiai. "They have distributed (he says) at least
eleven thousand copies of the Bible." About the
guilt of such an offence "let graceless zealots
fight." The fact is enough for us. It is an
admission of the utmost value, considering the
quarter from which in an unguarded moment it has
been wrung, that a desire for Scriptural knowledge
extensively pervades the people of Tuscany. If
two persons in so humble a station as the Madiai
have been enabled to circulate so many copies of
the Bible, where the mere possession of it is visited
with the heaviest penalties, it is manifest that
Popery is not alarmed without cause in its strong-
hold. Those eleven thousand Bibles represent a
doubt of the infallibility of Rome, and an earnest
determination to imbibe the truth at the fountain
head, in at least eleven thousand familie§, Truly

gandism is

uence oL

before the Doctor would put his elcti,
breath to defend him. His warmth in ta,
moral order is all nursed to advocate that
exercise of power which the Grand Duke of Tuscany
has exhibited against such atrocious revolutionists
as want to "turn the world upside down" • •
Bible.—Dublin Evening

MARRIAG

There

Louis NAPOLEON'S
something deeper than all this in the feeling of the
multitudes who suffered the Emperor and his bride
on this signal occasion to pass among them
out enthusiasm, almost without recognitir-
only giving no sign of loyalty, but grad;.
the most ordinary marks of respect. The to
seems to be, that whatever be the o
country of the love match of Louis

ng eve:

nion in a

Napoleo

has deeply wounded the sensibilities and alienated
the feelings, not merely of the frequenters of saloons,
but of the lower classes of Paris. Thev feel that

their Emperor has been rejected fr

1m the associat.

community of Monarchs, and their pride is hurt h,
seeing the diadem of France flung into the lap of a
lady whom they have seen for years a resident in
their city, and upon whose past career they are not
disposed to put a too favourabi.
They feel that they have made an Emperor,
not wish him to repeat the process by creating an
Empress. They feel that public considerations had
nothing to do with the marriage, and with the
quick instinct of the multitude perceive that they
have been treated merely as a pis alley,—that it was
only when the Emperor found that the palaces of

construction

but do

st him he dis

FRANCE.—The impulse given to the trade of Paris by
lute imperial fetes is said to have proved highly satis-
ory to the bourgeoisie. The etiquette at official balls
requiring gentlemen to wear embroidered
and vests, has caused the ladies to enter upon a
Ary in their toilettes, and already an enormous de-
and has been created for all kinds of the most costly
rticies of atti•
It is an,

I receutior

for both sex

)unced, on high authority, that the Queen of
is about to present the Empress Eugenie with a
ly coronet, rich!y and magnificen
The: Duchess of Al
an equipag

iariaonds

f sends hcz
crowd of

tly ad-orned with

, sister of the Empress,
of eight beautiful horses. The
[iedral of Notre Dame on

There w

e of people wait

By the Brit__
ship Company'
Commander,wehavea,,,,
The Arabia sailed frou

tion the adverse

steam-

and weather experienceu, is j

finest achievement in ocean stea

The Ara

the:: dero

ation everreca

a arrived i❑ the river about half-past

her mails, which were sent in a
the Bar, reached town about half-past f
The Arabia has brought 8150,000 in specie on freigl
and the following 66 passengers : —Mr. Sparr and lady
Mr. Russell and two ladies, Mr. J. M. Schaap, lady, am
infant, Mr. A. E. Beach and lady, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. E
E. Pratt, Miss Fiora, Captain S. W. Mather, Captain J
J. Robertson, Messrs. Scnieder, C. Gorissen, J. P. Can,
sittart, D. Gilmour, J, Hamilton, R. W. Harris, W
Bondreau, Neild, P. B. Badaux, J. Bi..'ucedry,--N. Rod-
gers, jun., W. Carrere, Dempster, F. Flora, W. C. Yew.
nit, L. L. Robinson' G. F. T. Reid, Blunt, W. Wenholt,
Houghton, P. Barredu, J. Robertson, J. G. Forbes, G. D
Street, Geo. Tandenhoff, H. Starrus, Cowell, Mayer, F
Taxen, L. Isaacs, H. Lodge, W. B. Duncan, Do-a
-gall
Sedley, M. H. Coby, W. C. Moore, W. H.
Armstrong, A. W. Hill, R. Benner, L. Darl, W. G
Reese, Turner, Jas. A. Welsh, R. Hutchingson, J. H
Nichols, C. W. Hunter, J. F. Schoellkoff, J. R. M`Nai
C. W. tewart, Robert Neil, and Kew
The Royal Mail steamer Eu
the 22d ultimo.
The United States mail steamer Arctic arrived at New
York, at 6 p.m. on the 26th ult.
In the Senate, the discussion on colonization in Central
America by Great Britain continued. Mr. Mason, chair-
man of the Committee on Foreign Relations, remarked,
that if the reported colonization of Honduras, by Great
Britain, should prove correct, the United States would
then have a practical issue to work upon : it would then
become the duty of his government to denounce such a
proceeding, and insist upon a relinquishment of the colony
by Great Britain, whether in violation of the treaty or not.
In accordance with a resolution of the Senate, asking for
information, the President had transmitted a message to
that body, enclosing over one hundred despatches, which
embrace the correspondence of en-Minister Lawrence
and others with the British Government, relative to Cen-
tral American affairs. These documents appear to have
been entirely too voluminous to allow the reporters to
give even an outline of their general contents. The im-
portance of the subject to which they advert will cause
them to be looked for with much anxiety. The President
also communicated the award of Louis Napoleon with re-
gard to the claim of the United States against Portugal,
in the case of the brig General Armstrong, which decided
that the claim was invalid, principally- for the reason that
hostilities were commenced by those on boaid the Gen.
A., who fired into the long boats which were sent from
the British vessel to reconnoitre her.
A bill has been reported in the Virginia House of Dele-
gates which provides for the appointment of overseers,
" who are to be required to hire out, at public auction, all
free persons of colour, to the highest bidder, and to pay
into the State Treasury the sums accruing from such hire,
The sums are to be devoted in future to sending free per-
sons of colour beyond the limits of the State. At the ex-
piration of five years all free persons of colour remaining
in the State are to he sold into slavery to the highest bid-
der at public auction, the proceeds of such 3ales to be paid
into the public treas-nry, provided that said free persons of
colour shall' be allowed the privilege of becoming the
slaves of any free white person whom they may'select, on
the payment by such person of a fair price."
The Seminole Indians had refused to remove from
Florida to the country consigned to them, and had,
according to the report, declared war against the United
States.

ive o'clock

a arrived at Boston on

The death of Junius Smith is announced. He was one
of the principal promoters of the British and American
Steam Navigation Company, and it was at his instigation
that the steamer Sirius was despatched froze, England to
the United States.
The Vice-president (elect) King had arrived at Key
West. All hopes of his recovery were at an end.
In the Albany Legislature, Mr. Vandcrbiit had intro-
duced a bill amending the ocean steam law of last year, so
as to permit the use of caloric engines. Great excitement
had been produced in Philadelphia in consequence of the
arrest of a free negro, charged with enticing slaves to
desert their masters in Maryland. An attempt was made
to convey the prisoner to Anne Arundel county to answer
the charge, but he was taken back by a writ of habces
corpus, and lodged ia prison.
MEXICO. —Adv!ces to the 15th ult. from Vera Cruz,
via New Orleans, announce the triumph of the revolu-
tionists. President Arista had resigned office ; he left
the capital on the 6th. Senor Cavellos, Judge of the
Supreme Court of Justice, had assumed the presidential
chair, ad interim. Governor Minon, in command of the
government troops, had been beaten in a regular engage-
ment. The revelationists were everywhere triumphant,
and looking for the return of Santa Anna. President
Arista's resignation was caused by the refusal of Congress '
to grant him extraordinary powers.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK. JAN. 26

MONEY MARKET.—The general tone of the market
during the fortnight has been firm, but rather inani-
mate. For the last few days, however, the demand for
stocks has become decidedly more active, and the market
to-day closes with an upward tendency. The prices of
Government and New York State loans are well sustained,
although the supply of the latter is increasing principally
from foreign sources, the high prices tempting European
ho!ders to realise. Money continues in good demand, at
six per cent. on call, but the supply is full. Foreign Ex-
changes are in better demand, and bills. on London and
Paris are firmer. London, 94 to 94 per cent. preen. ;
Paris, 5,1214. to 5,131 f. sixty days, and 5,10 f. to 5,114 f.
short sight.
CorroN.—(From the Shipping Lief, of January 26.)
The market, since the reception of the Europa's advices,
has been dull, and, except for the better grades, sales
have been made 4c. to 4c. lower. The stock is increased
by recent arrivals, but is still moderate. The sales since
our last are 1,900 bales. We quote ;

Atlantic Other
Ports. Florida. Gulf Ports.
Inferior none. none, none.
Low to good ord 9to 94 9to 92 9to 9i
Low to good mid....
Mid. fair to fair llk lli 114 0 Ili —12 i•
Fully fair to good fair
_ _

Total import since Ist instant 33,017 bales.
Export from Ist to 25th Jan., 1653, 9.800; 1852, 31,359,
EXPORT FROM THE IJNITHD STATES.
Since Ist of September, 1852 906,402 bales.
Same time, 1851 639,475 „
RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON.

Exports to Total Exports Stock, and
Receipts. Gt. Britain to For. Ports. on shipb'd
1852 1,707,867 692,033 906,402 606,234
1851 1,265,895 426,952 639,475 480,234.
Increase 441,972 265,081 266,929 126,000
(From W. P. Wright's Circular of January 26.)
During the past week the New York market has been
active and prices have steadily advanced, owing, in a great
measure, to our very limited stock, but influenced also
by a demand for the better qualities from our domestic
manufactures, and to the advance which has taken place
in all the southern markets. The Charleston and Savan-
nah markets have been very much excited, and the ad-
vance in each has been, in the last two weeks, tc. to lc.
per lb., the greater proportion during tha last. The
cause, it is asserted, is the execution of numerous orders
from our own manufacturers, hitherto limited, but now
being executed on the best possible terms, and generally
for the better qualities, which, from their scarcity, caused
much competition and led to the advance ; added to
which, the falling off in the receipta at the ports this
week and last, has given rise to a strong speculative feel-
ing, not only in the ports of the Atlantic States, but
throughout all the interior towns. As a consequence,
buyers for export have retired from the markets, and
freights are heavy at declining rates. In New Orleans
and Mobile the business has been to a very fair extent, at
a slight advance in price. The complaints as to scarcity
of good cotton in the late receipts at the south are more,
universal, and in all the markets it is difficult to find much
ranging over good middling quality. There is a further
decrease this week in the excess of receipts at the ports
of 22,000 bales, it now being 431,000 bales more than to
corresponding dates last season.

BREADSTUFFS.—Up to the close of last week prices
were maintained, but since the receipts of the advices
per Europa purchases have been effected at a reduction in
price of 64-c. per brl. The following are the current
rates :—Western canal, 8'5,374 to 5'5,50 per brl. ; Ohio
and pure Genesee, £5,50 to £5,75 ; common New York,
&c., $5,314 to 85,374 ; southern kinds, .8'5,624- to £'6 ;
Canada, in bond, 5'5,62i to $5,75. Wheat has been in
fair demand, but without change in price.—Indian Corn :
2c. to 4c. per bushel lower : northern round yellow, none ;
southern yellow, 68c. to 70c. per 56 lbs. ; white, 68c. to
69c. per 56 lbs. ; mixed, 72c. to 74c. per 561bs.
PROVISIONS.—Pork has continued quite dull,and prices
are rather lower, the market being better supplied, and the
demand light. Beef continues in fair request, and prices
are very steady and uniform. Lard is dull, and A little
lower. Cheese is in better request for export, and has
advanced to Bc. to no. for shipping qualities, and 9c. for
choice dairies. _

IRON.—Scotch pig is in small supply, and generally
held at £'3s, cash, with unimportant sales. In 'oars we have
only to notice a sale of 100 tons common English, and
something over .870 on time.
FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool freights are again higher,
nearly all the vessels up having been filled. Corn and
Wheat are taken to that port at 9d. to 10d. in bulk ;
Flour, 2s. 9d., 3s. 6d. asked ; Tobacco, 3s. -6d. ; Cheese,
30s. ; Rosin, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 41d. ; Cotton, 3.16 d. to id. ;
and, by the propeller Andes, Corn at 11d. in bags ; and
Beef, Pork, Lard, and Cheese, 40s. ; a IBritish brig took
Flour at 2s. 9d. MOBILE, JANUARY 24.

Middling Cotton, 81c.: market active. Freight
Liverpool the. ;Awe ; to NOY York)

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1853.

CHARLESTON, JANUARY 26.
ineas in Cotton, and the market dull. Sales
rices ranging from Bc. to 10iC.
NEW ORLEANS.

.t was high time for the Grand Duke to bring out against Newman is of European interest, and in famous Maine Law, forbidding the sale of intoxicating
rneapned,,,l vande rbee
en the law
,u
drinks. In the state of Massachussets, on the other A small bus
his guillotine; and, no doubt, he was actively every part of Europe will be read the triumph of
prompted to do so. The high crime of " prqpaga- British law, and the glory of British toleration.ist in e operation, abmutoatic;enwfso.orteiats 840 bales, at p
Ling Protestantism" must be as rife in the territory How much more valuable is this than it would be Cholera had broke-n
out on board the African colonization JAN. 24.—Cotton is firm
of his Serene Highness, as that of Ribbon P. ropa- to shut up Newman for a year or two, and. make a brig Zebra, for Liberia, and the brig had put back to bales, at Saturday rates.
.Fret
in Ireland. But Doctor Cahill, and martyr of him, perhaps ensure his canonisation, Savannah with twenty-seven deaths on board.—The JAN. 25.—Cotton operators are disappOinted at the
..4(eur jurists of his trove, can only find in their should he happen to die in his prison ! annual report of the secretary of the United States non-receipt of the Arctic's news ; 6,000 bales of cotton
treasury, shows that the receipts of the fiscal year, ended sold to-day at a decline of a quarter of a cent. from the
hearts to applaud the vindication of the laws in one _
' - 30th June, 1852, were 560,649.031, the expenditur •- - . -- tddlins is quoted 01-c.
of these cases. His quondam friend, Mr. Keogh,
might lie for ever under the obloquy of having con- FOREIGN NEWS. during the same period £16,00706, and the act
surplus in hand ten millioas of dollars.
tributed to the incarceration of a sworn Ribbonman, --.
__ =I-. --
_---- --
surplus in hand ten millions of dollars.

ssles this rcorninz
Freights to Liverpool, ft-d.

e I highest poin
zal Jan. 2G.—Cotton is very acti

the snies this morning

Prices are

7,000 bales, mostly for England
HAVANA, JAN. 21

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.
and North American Royal Mau ~.
-w steamer Arabia. C. H. E. Judkins,
-ices from New York to the 27th ult. the rretE
New York at 12.25 p.m. on the mar to (
att., and returned at 3.30 p.m., (the pivot considering ANEW
it unsafe to take the ship over the bar,) and came to an-
chor off the company's wharf, at Jersey City. On the
27th, at 7.5 a.m. she again proceeded to sea ; at 3.52,
passed Sandy Hook, and at 9.28 was abreast the Lightship.
HENRI PPA'CC
She started with a N.W. wind, and in the -first 24 Lours drome in Ne'w
ran 289 miles. On the 28th she had the wind N.E. ;at 2
p.m. passed a screw-steamer, bound west, (probably the A PUBLIC L.,
City of Glasgow, hence for Philadelphia;) and at 9 p-.m. the city, is
exchanged night signals with a large steamer, (probably A LETTER PROM WARSAW annotnces the death of
the Africa, hence for New York.) On the 29th, with a Count Francis Potocki, one of the most influential men in
moderate breeze from N.N.E., she made 290 miles ;at 11 Poland.
a.m. passed an American ship, supposed to be the Con- EBENEZER GRA-HA:if a little schoolboy in New York,
stantine, hence for New York. On the 30th she expo- was " snowballed?' by his thoughtless companions to such
rienced light winds ; and on the 31st, with a strong S.S.W. an extent that he died almost immediately.
gale, ran 302 miles. On the Ist, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th inst.,
she had N.W. and N. winds, and ran 300, 292, 300, and MADAIIE SONTAG, rerponding to the ea?'
320 miles per day. On the 4th, at 10.30 p.m., exchanged American ladies, has agreed to sing for the belie..
night-signals with a steamer. On the sth the wind changed Hope, " a charitable institution in New York.
to E.N.E., fresh breeze, when she ran 295 miles. At 5.55 NEW ROUTE TO INDIA.—A letter from Bagdad states
p.m. on that day she made Cape Clear. On Sunday, at that an English steamer had entered the Tigris, for the
3.40 n.m., she was abreast Tuskar-; at 10.30 a.m. passed purpose of ascertaining whether it will be practicable to
the Skerries ; and at 3.20 p.m, slowed at the bar to wait establish a regular communication with the Gulf of Persia.
for water. The run of the Arabia, taking into considers- CURRANT:I.—A committee of scientific and practical
‘, j men, appointed by the Greek Government to consider the
cause of failure of the currant-cro, he rerted that
they consider the extension of the blightav nextpo season as
very probable.

of some

:fit of " the

THE ALBANY "STATE TEMPEItANCE SOCIETY" have
resolved to enter the political arena, by nominating tee.
total candidates to promote their peculiar opinions as to
whether the people shall be abstainers or not. Temperance
meetings are in " blas-t" just now, as the New York papers
phrase it.

DUTCH TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.—ID con3equence of
the great number of Dutch ships now proceeding from
England to Australia, it has been resolved that Dutch
men-of-war proceeding to the Indian station from Europe
shall first go to Australia, and remain there for some time,
for the protection of Dutch interests.

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.—A criminal of a black dye,
a wretched parricide, misnamed Doici, was shot on the
111th ultimo, outside the Porter Pontese, for having mur-
dered his mother. He was a native of Perugia, and, after
having served for some time as.a gendarme, was,, when
the crime was committed, a soldier in the line. Whilst
the lugubrious mortuary procession was approaching the
place of execution, surrounded by soldiers and confrater-
nities, a couple of oxen, harnessed to a waggon, were
coming in from the country, and took fright at the black.
hooded brethren, called co; fortaiori; who, as usnal, ac-
companied the criminal with crucifixes and black banners,
The oxen charged into the midst of the melancholy
tus, kocked down several, and severely wounded cue of
the " comforters," nearly upset the cart in which the
criminal was sitting, and galloped towards the city: gate
through a lane of terrified spectators.

PIcCOVERY OF A BURIED CITY.—A buried city has
been discovered in Egypt, named Sacekareh. It appears
to be situate about five hours' journey from Cairo, near
the first cataract. An Arab having obEerved what ap-
peared to be the head of a sphinx appearing above the
ground near the spot, drew the attention of a French
gentleman to the circumstance, who commenced excava-
ting, and laid open a long-buried street', which contained
38 granite sarcophagi, each of which weighed about 60
tons, and which formerly held evidently the ashes of sa-
cred animals. The Fr.nicliman has got a grant of the
spot from the Egyptian Pacha, and has exhumed great
quantities of curiosities, some of them ancient earthenware
vessels of a diminutive size. The street, when lit up at
night, forms a magnificent sight. It is upwards of 1,600
yards in length. Many of the curiosities dug out have to
be kept buried in sand to preserve them from perishing.

CENsc5 or ROME.—Rome, as appeal-s from a recent
census, contains a population of 175,000, divided into 54
parishes, and'amongst them are 29 bishops, 1,280 priests,
2,092 monks and members of religious 0rder5,,,1,698 nuns,
and 537 ecclesiastical pupils. In 1848 thz:population was
179,000, but was reduced by the revolution to 166,000 in
the following year. The number of bishops in residence
in Rome was 49 in 1846, the highest known ; in 1849 it
was, as ner6. 29. The number of priests was never
greater than in 1848, when it was 1,541 ; nor lower than
in 1849, when it was 1,187; that of monks and members
of religious orders was 2,589 in 1848, and 1,764 in 1849.
The number of nuns was 1,592 in 1843, and being now
1,698, presents an increase of 1 per cent, after deducting
the losses from deaths. The number of ecclesiastical
pupils was 1,069' in 1844, and in 1849 it fell to 492. The
heretics of all shades—Turks, schismatics, Protestants,
and unbelievers—amount, exclusive of Jews, to 412; and
a very great number of them belong to the foreign em-

DR. LAYARD, M.P., has been lecturing at Nottingham
to the members of the Mechanics' Institute on Nineveh.
THE BISHOP OF SYDNEY.—In noticing the reception
given to the Bishop of Sydney by the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel, we adverted to the fact that
he had contributed to the Endowment of the Sees of
Melbourne and Newcastle, " by the voluntary surrender
of a fourth part of his own episcopal income." Though
this statement is literally true, it falls considerably short
of the whole truth. The bishop really offered, for this
purpose, one-half (under certain conditions) of his whole
episcopal income, and his contribution was ultimately
fixed by the authorities in this country at an amount
touch less than by his letter written from the antipodes,
he had nobly placed at their disposal,