The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-12 00:00:00

SOIL, CLIMATE, AND NATURAL RESOURCES
OF NEW ZEALAND,

The soil, climate, and natural resources of New Zealand
may be best estimated from the rapidity of vegetation, the
vast number of rivers, and the robust and healthy appear-
ance of its native productions. All kinds of European vege-
tables, fruits, and grain, grow with astonishing rapidity.
Poultry of every description, and cattle of all kinds, fatten
and increase rapidly in numbers. The following facts, how-
ever, it is presumed, will afford satisfactory proofs of the
capabilities of the soil. The author, with his own hand,
stuck in peach cuttings in the month of June, the size of a
goose-quill, the growth of which has been so rapid as to bear
fruit in the space of eighteen months ; he has also sown
wheat in the middle of September, and reaped an excellent
crop in the first week of January following.. There are in
this country large tracts of the finest land, covered with the
rankest vegetation, and of every variety of rich soils. The
English grasses thrive well. The climate of New Zealand
is decidedly temperate •, neither exposed to scorching heats
in summer, nor to blighting frost in winter. It is very con-
genial to European constitutions ; those who go there sickly
are soon restored to health; the healthy become robust, and
the robust fat. North of the Thames snows are unknown,
and frosts are off the ground by nine o'clock in the morning.
The spring and autumn are delightfully temperate, but sub-
ject to showers from the W.S.W. The seasons are as fol-
low :—Spring commences in the middle of August, summer
in December, autumn in March, and winter in July. Most
of the trees and shrubs are evergreens, and vegetation is
scarcely, if ever, suspended, except in the case of exotics.
The native grasses flourish throughout the year, and, when
the fern has been destroyed, furnish an abundant supply of
food for cattle ; and, perhaps, there is no country in the
world better supplied with water of the most excellent qua-
deed, ittiidsgnootovfehryimea,sy to proceed in any direction,
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tivation of wheat has occurred since the attention of Euro-
peans and natives were turned to the cultivation of that ne-
cessary article of supply.
The natural resources of New Zealand, which are imme-
diatelyharearthicelresfozrtreestastarpttiesombnetr, and
availableflax,
toboftohreoitgnwehrsio,
will.her
fideolt ds otlef ss become of still greater importance to the
British nation, and her rising and interesting Colonies of
Australia—of the former of these, there are considerable
variety, some that are of excellent quality not only for house-
building, but also for the construction of vessels, masts, and
spars for the navy.
The following short account of a few of the principal trees
will be found correct :
measuring from 85 to 90 feet iu
I.—The Kauri. (Damman Australis., or pious Kauri.)
This tree is of large size,
in height, and from its lightness is admirably adapted for the
house-building. Some spars of this species have been sold
topmasts of the largest vessels, and for every purpose of
in London as high as £2OO each.
Tanakaha (Podocarpus asplenifolius.) This tree grows to
9 feet in circumference.
the height of 45 feet, and is from 8 to
It is used for all kinds of outside work, such as door posts
and floors for verandahs, and is much sought after.
its excellent
qualities, has been denominated the New Zealand
Puriri. (Vitex litteralis.) This tree, from
from
grows from 15 to 30 feet without a branch, and vares
oak. It
i
12 to 20 feet in circumference.
Towai. (Genus podocarpus,) is a heavy, close grained
red wood, answering all the purposes of the New South
Wales cedar, but much more durable and heavy. It is from
20 to 30 feet in height.
Pohutukaua. (ealistomon ellipticus.) It receives an ex-
cellent polish, and is a handsome substitute for rose-wood.
It is from 16 to 18 feet in height, and from 4 to 5 feet in
diameter.

Hinau, (dicera dentata,) is from 60 to 70 feet in height,
and about twenty feet in circumference. The bark of this
tree will dye an excellent black, or light brown, or puce
colour.
Bata. (Taxus Rata.) This is an excellent tree for ship
building, on account of the easiness with which knees may
be cut cut from it. It is a close-grained red wood, and is
from 20 to 70 feet in height, and from 18 inches to 7 feet in
circumference.
The trade of New Zealand in timber alone from its general
adaptation to building purposes, must, at no distant period,
prove a Considerable source of revenue to that country.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. Thomas Maitland, of the Scotch bar, is to be the new
Solicitor-General for Scotland.

Paganini continues in ill health, at Genoa. The citizens of
Naples recently presented him with the freedom of that city.

Mr. Grainger, the celebrated builder of Newcastle, is
amongst the competitors for building the Royal Exchange of
London.

Sunderland continues to be the most extensive ship-build-
ing port in England. There were 150 ships built there last
year, and there are 128 building at present.
The late Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson's celebrated
charger, which shared his dangers on the plains of Waterloo,
is to be shot by order of the will of his later master.
' The Hon. and Rev. Henry Watson is constructing a chapel
of ease at Guilsborouh, Northamptonshire, at his sole ex-
pense ; the cost of erecting which will amount to £7,000.
There is no truth in the report that Lord C. J. F. Russell
has declined to oppose Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill,
and will therefore vacate his seat in parliament.—Ministerial
paper.

On Tuesday last, Mr. Solomon Bray was elected town-
clerk of Birmingham, rift Mr. Wm. Redfurn, who resigned
after holding the office nearly a year and a half without being
able to obtain any salary !
TIIE WEAVERS' TURN-OUT AT STOCKPORT.—We regret
exceedingly to announce, that the breach, mentioned in our
last, as existing between the operative weavers and their em-
ployers, in consequence of a dispute about the rate of wages,
is not yet healed.—Stockport Advertiser.
An inquest was held at Wilmslow, on Tuesday, on the
body of a young man, who, having been at the fair on Satur.
day last, and meeting a young woman, who was " the apple
of his eye," on the arm of a more favoured swain, returned
home in the evening and hung himself.—Verdict " Lunacy."
—Stockport paper.

LAWYERS AND ATEORNIES.—The new law list for 1840
contains the names of nine thousand and eighty-two certifi-
cated attorneys and solicitors, viz :—in London, 2,802 ; in
the country 6,280—a pretty sum they pay, at £8 each.—
There are also 1,748 barristers and special pleaders at the
bar.

What a nice man is Baines, M.P. for Leeds ! He is pro-
prietor of the LeedB Mercury, in which he descants on the
Chinese war as a most disgraceful transaction; and yet he
votes with the government on Sir James Graham's motion !
What a nice man is Baines, M.P. for Leeds !—Argus.
FoLLY..—A few days ago a gentleman in a state of intox-
ication was so imprudent as to perambulate the streets of
Manchester with £450 in gold and silver on his person. On
his arrival in Deansgate, a most suspicious vicinity of the
town, he found that he had been completely eased of his
treasure. This discovery, it is said, sobered him a little.
No trace has yet been found of the depredators.
We have been informed, by an eye-witness, that there is
now blooming in the garden of Mr. Phelps, at Warminster,
a most magnificent specimen of that beautiful plant, the
Glycine Sinensis, now more commonly called the " Western,"
occupying above two thousand feet of wall. Its delicate azure
blossoms and foliage cover the entire surface, and dispense
their fragrance far around. It is thought that this plant is
not to be surpassed in the kingdom.—Salisbury Journal
The frail wife of Captain Heaviside, it would appear, con-
templated a change of name as well as of residence, as the
writing-desk carried off by the enraged husband bore on an
engraved plate the words " Mary Lardner." In that desk
there was evidence that would satisfy a jury, unless the
Reverend Dennis Dionysius should prefer exhibiting the
black and blue marks of the husband's cudgel. The un-re-
pentant lady is in the house of her father, Colonel Spicer,
at Boulogne. The gallant remains at Paris, still a little sore
from all he suffered for his love.

A few days after the death of the late Mr. J. Gibson, of
Ipswich, who died on the 10th of April last, the relatives of
the deceased gentleman, while engaged upon some business
of the house, discovered concealed in some old books that
had been kept for some years in a cupboard of a sitting-room,
bank notes, many of them of £lOO value each, and gold to
the amount of altogether of nearly, if not quite, £4OOO. The
whole were found in various deposits, and appeared to have
been placed there at distinct intervals of time. The property
is divisible among several parties.—Bury Post.
A FORTUNATE FELON.—Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst,
now under sentence of imprisonment for manslaughter, is
said to become entitled to £7OOO per annum, by the death of
his grandfather, G. N. W. Medhurst, Esq., of Medhurst
Hall, Yorkshire. That gentleman had been inmate of a
private lunatic asylum, near Uxbridge, for many years,
having murdered his wife in 1804, whilst labouring under a
fit of insanity. His grandson is now of age, but whether
under the peculiar circumstance in which he is placed, he
will inherit the property, or it will be forfeited to the Crown,
remains to be seen.
CLOSING SHOPS.—The retail hatters of Leeds have come
to the resolution of closing their shops at eight o'clock in
the evening the year round, except Saturday. The tea deal-
ers took the lead a few weeks ago in this march of improve-
ment, and we are glad they are thus determined, convinced
as we are that they will lose nothing by it, and that their as-
sistants will reap great benefit from the relaxation which they
will thus gain.—Leeds Intelligencer.
NAME OF THE CAPITAL OF NEW ZEALAND.—We are in-
formed that a full board of directors of the New Zealand
Company yesterday resolved unanimously, that their first
and principal town at Lambton Harbour, in Port Nicholson,
shall be called Wellington. The unrivalled situation of this
spot as a centre of commerce for the islands will probably
ensure its becoming the capital of New Zealand.—Colonial
Gazette.

NEW DOCKS AT LEEDS.—The Aire and Calder Company
have bought from Wm. Chadwick, Esq., thirteen acres of
land on the banks of the river Aire, and on the east side of
Bowman-lane, for the construction of new docks. The price
of the land was twenty-seven thousand pounds. The en-
trance to the new docks will be just above the Leeds locks,
and below the intended Crown Point Bridge. We under-
stand that the works will be undertaken forthwith.

CLOVER SEED.—A fraud is at present practised in many
places to a great extent ; old dead clover seed is coloured
and sold for genuine new seed. In London there are several
manufacturers who can make the most useless old red and
white clover or trefoil appear like the finest new seed, and in
some instances, old trefoil is made to appear so much like red
clover, that it is mixed to a great extent with it, and sold
without detection.

Outside of the city of Worcester a woman named Mary
Pierrepoint, fell into the Severn. Her feet and head alone
were under water, and a man immediately took her up, and
putting a string round her waist, tied her to the bank, leaving
her head just above water. The surgeon who was sent for
found the body then warm, but life had fled. Had the woman
been placed on the bank, her life might have been saved. The
reason assigned by the man for not taking the body out of the
water was, that he thought it unlawful to remove a dead body
without a constable being present.— Worcester Chronicle.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—About eighteen years
ago, a poor woman of the name of Elizabeth Charlesworth,
of Sheepshead, was in labour but not delivered of her child,
and on Saturday last she died, at the age of 50. At the re-
quest of the poor woman during her life, several surgeons
were present on Monday last, when a post mortem examina-
tion took place, and a large substance was discovered in her
inside, which proved to be a young child, in perfect preserva-
tion ; it was inclosed in a hard substance, and no doubt is
entertained of its having remained there from the time when
the poor woman was in labour, and not delivered, eighteen
years ago. The child is now in the possession of Messrs.
Palmer, surgeons, Loughborough, and weighs six pounds :
its legs and arms are quite perfect, and it is admitted by all
who have seen it, that such a circumstance was never known
to have occurred before.—Nottingham Review.
SCHOLES CHURCH' WIGAN.—On Monday last, the inte-
resting ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a new
church, to be erected in that part of Wigan called the Scholes,
took place. For years past it has been a matter of regret,
that a district, containing about eight thousand inhabitants,
should be left comparatively without a spiritual guide, or the
means of worshipping God in a temple in their own immedi-
ate neighbourhood. About eighteen months ago, at a meeting
called by the Rev. H. J. Gunning, rector of this parish, it
was agreed on that subscriptions should be obtained, and the
defect remedied ; and at subsequent meetings a spot was fixed
on, in a field belonging to John Woodcock, Esq., and suffi-
cient ground obtained on advantageous terms, through the
liberality of that gentleman. The mines under the field be-
longing to W. Lamb, Esq., were also in the most handsome
manner relinquished to the building committee for almost a
nominal sum. The spot selected could not be more appro-
priate. It is the highest, or nearly so, in that neighbour-
hood ; and the building, when completed, will, besides the
important use to which it is dedicated, form a most interest-
ing adjunct to the town, and will shortly lift its turret to
heaven in token of the religious feeling of the inhabitants.
Then will be verified the saying of one of our most beautiful
bards, and, in addition to
The never-failing brook—the busy mill,"
will be added,

" The decent church that topp`d the neighbouring hill."
—Wigan Gagette.

MORE POOR-LAW TYRANNY,—The Poor-law Commis-
sioners have published a report lately, from which it appears,
that they are so far from being dismayed at the misery and
suffering which they have occasioned in carrying out the act,
that they contemplate imposing fresh restrictions and priva-
tions on the pauper community, in all cases in which it shall
be proved that the comforts they enjoy are a temptation to
others to seek for the protection that the workhouses afford.
This, we apprehend, is a taunt of the most villainous descrip-
tion. They know perfectly well that their diet scale can only
be " stomached" by such as are on the verge of starvation,
or are utterly incapable of earning or procuring a mouthful
of food, by luck or by labour, of a better or more nourishing
sort. The threat, however, shows the lengths they are dis-
pbsed to go, to make the poor man more miserable than
pauperism itself would force him to be ; they are now devis-
ing means for rendering the workhouse the worst place that
a man can be brought to, as if it were not that naturally and
in itself.--Preston Chronicle.

CALAMITOUS AFFAIR.—About three o'clock yesterday
(Wednesday) morning a fire broke out in the paper manu-
factory of Messrs, Barrett and Coles (late Mr. Joseph Coles),
of Wookey, near Wells, which raged in a short time with
such violence, that before sufficient assistance could be ob-
tained it had become perfectly uncontrollable. The two new
engines from Wells arrived at about half-past four, but pro-
duced comparatively little effect, though a large pond of
water was close at hand. By mid-day the whole of the pre-
mises, excepting the dwelling and engine houses, were in
total ruins, and an immense stock of paper and rags wholly
consumed. The premises have within the last few years
been built from the ground for the purpose of manufacturing
by machine, instead of by hand, for which Mr. Coles has
been so long and so justly celebrated, and the loss is esti-
mated at from £B,OOO to £lO,OOO, only about one-half of
which is said to be insured.—Bath Chronicle.

Tn WHALE AT FLIMBY.— On the evening of this day
week an immense monster of the whale species was observed
floundering near low water-mark, opposite the village of
Flimby. The villagers assembled in great numbers, and
essayed .to make the monster captive. They procured a
strong rope, and succeeded in getting a noose over his whale,
ship's tail. There was the giant of the deep at one end of
the rope, and about fifty villagers pulling at the other ; find,
ing himself under a moment's restraint, he, by one tremen-
dous effort with his unwieldy bulk, laid prostrate the inhabi-
tants of. nearly a whole village. °um and hatchets were
soon procured, and the tide baying considerably receded, the
animal was not in a condition to resist or escape from his
numerous assailants, and thus the monarch of the deep
hesswtahsanl4sffieefteeitn from he e
Tsnhoeugtirttoh
ethfethenedheodf
ytheef tail,this
became at once their captive and their victim. He measured
lwniuoilt-gicel creature was upwards of 28 feet; and his jaw bones
were 14 feet long by 10 feet broad. The carcase was soon
mangled and cut to pieces by numerous operators, many of
whom report says quarrelled seriously in dividing their
and is becoming a great nuisance, in un-
wieldy prize. says
the above was put into type, we have
received the following particulars :—" The skeleton is still
conse-
quence having taken place. The blubber
and whalebone would have been much more valuable bad
taken off judiciously; but the spoilers, who set
they been
of the lord of
at defiance the just claims .
on the
ebfeadcelico,
decomposition
the manor, in a
out. It is
load themselves while the tide was reported that
great measure defeated their objects, by their eagerness to
supposed to be the mate of the one which
been seen during the week, blowing,
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sna
soi
ttbhieseertnehrcurnagpeetdufirshceld' has
o,
close to the shore. Should this be the case,
it will probably also be cap
captured, asit will scarcely leave the
spot, but it will linger about m search of its lost companion
till they share one common fate. There is no inhabitant of
the ocean that shows more
attachment for each other than
the whale.--Curnberland Pacquet. ...

Professor Berres has discovered a process by which the
pictures formed by the Daguerrotype can be immediately re-
produced, as from a lithographic stone.—Vienna Gazette.
Three letters, from a convict in New South Wales, were
last week found in a bag of wool at Leyster Dyke Mill, near
Bradford, addressed to his friends at Bradford.
It is stated in the New York Herald, that the fire insur-
ance offices of that city have lost two millions and a half out
of their capital of about six millions of dollars, since May,
1839.

SCIENTIFIC FRAUD.—The Times cautions brass-founders
against buying, as copper, iron nails washed with a solution
of sulphuric acid and copper, which gives them the appear-
ance of the latter.

The Duke of Norfolk has given a large piece of ground
near Skye Edge, Sheffield, for the purpose of building bar-
racks on a more extensive scale than those near the infir-
mary, and that Sheffield in future will be the head-quarters
of one or more regiments.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 6.—There is nothing
whatever doing in Sugars in this Market, the stocks having
long since passed into the hands of the Trade. Arrivals are
consequently looked for with anxiety.—Bristol Standard.
BURTON.—Within this last •fortnight there has been no
less than three broods of foxes discovered upon Clawthorpe
Fell, nine of which have been taken, including one old dog
weighing upwards of 18. pounds. In two of their dens were
found an innumerable quantity of rabbits, four lambs, four
hares, two pheasants, one turkey, one hen, and a quantity of
Hooks.—Lancaster Gazette.

SEDUCTION.•—A bill has been introduced into the house
of Commons, to enable justices of peace in special session,
on proof of two witnesses, whereof the woman seduced may
be one, to impose a penalty of not exceeding £3O to be paid
within eighteen months to the party complaining, or levied
by distress, or to commit for six months. The same power
is also proposed in case of breach of promise of marriage.
We have much pleasure in stating that the Venerable the
Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has recovered so much al-
ready during his short sojourn at Weymouth as to be ena-
bled to take equestrian exercise, to which his Lordship is
very partial, every day before breakfast.—Bath Chronicle.
The Melodists' Club, of which Lord Burghersh is presi-
dent, will give a prize of 15 guineas for the best national
song, composed by an honorary member of the society ; and
Lord Saltoun will give a prize of ten guineas for the best
ballad after the style of the old masters, to be awarded next
month, when ladies will be invited to witness the ceremony.

AN EARLY SWARM.—On Tuesday, the 28th of April,
about four o'clock in the afternoon, an unusual bustle was
observed in one of the hives at Mr. Harrill's, Eastwood farm,
Brislington, near the railway, and shortly after the young
bees were seen to leave the hive. The swarm was safely
lodged in a new house, and are now busily employed. The
time of day at which the swarming took place is not less
unusual than the early period of the season at which it hap-
pened.—Bristol Standard.
EXEMPTION OF OFFICERS IN THE ARMY FROM THE
PAYMENT OF TURNPIKE TOLL.—A' case recently occurred
at Swansea as to the liability of officers in the army to pay
turnpike tolls, and the magistrates being equally divided on
the point, the commanding officer of the district, Captain
Butler, 45th Regt., vrote to the Secretary of War, and his
decision upon the csnstruction of the Mutiny Act clearly
exempts officers in uniform or undress from the payment of
turnpike tolls.

CAUTION.—A fellow of genteel appearance has been re-
cently robbing several innkeepers in this neighbourhood,
under the guise of a commercial gentleman. Last week, he
stole five silver table-spoons from the Castle and Ball, and
several articles of plate from the commercial room of the
White Hart Hotel, Bristol. He is of middle age, with Ro-
man nose, hair nearly grey, and wore a black frock-coat, but-
toned up, with light trousers ; and the better to practise his
villany, he usually carries brown paper parcels under his arm.
In most cases he also contrives to leave without paying his
bill.—Bath Chronicle.

'The skin of a boa bas been.presented to the museum of the
Asiatic Society of Bengal, which measured 20 feet in length.
When shot, the boa measured 21 feet. "It had swallowed a
spotted deer, which was taken out of the inside, not too much
decomposed for the spots in the skin to be quite distinct.
Where the deer was, the skin measured three feet one inch
across."

The Earl of Chesterfield, we hear, intends giving up his
fine pack of hounds at Northampton, and, we understand,
Mr. Osbaldeston offered to take them if an adequate sub-
scription could be raised. The Northamptonshire sportsmen
are much indebted to the noble earl for the excellent sport he
provided for them during the past hunting season ' • and we
feel satisfied the retirement of his lordship will be much
regretted.
There is now in full bloom at the gardens of the Horticul-
tural Society at Chiswick, a fine tree of the glycinis sinensis,
on the south wall of the garden. The flower is of a blue
colour, and pendant like the laburnum, which flower it resem-
bles, and the tree, which occupies a space of 240 yards upon
the wall, exhibits a complete mass of foliage, having an ex-
tremely rich effect. The original tree was sent over by Mr.
Reeves, from Canton. •

M. Katchentoff, the proprietor of a vast domain in the
environs of Moscow, has discovered in one of his fields some
casks, containing a sum of 600,000 rubles, (about £96,000
sterling,) which amongst other conjectures hazarded on the
subject, are supposed to have been buried there by Mazeppa
and his companions in misfortune.

Some rural landowners in the neighbourhood of Presburg
have just tried to make pumpkin-sugar; and the experiment
has completely succeeded. Twenty-seven quintals of that
vegetable yields one quintal of raw sugar. This invention is
one of great importance to Hungary, whose soil is very
favourable to the cultivation of pumpkins, which attain here
so large a size that some are to be found weighing four hun-
dred pounds.—German print.
TRANSATLANTIC LAWYERS.—It becomes our painful duty
(says the Little Rock Times, of March 19) to notice a dis-
graceful affray which occurred in the Circuit Court on Satur-
day last, between two of our most distinguished lawyers,
when the lie was repeatedly given, and leaden inkstands
thrown from one to the other, until not only the records,
but the by-standers, were completely bespattered with ink
and blood.

The progress of vegetation upon a beech tree having been
attentively observed by a person in town during the last four
years, the following is the result, showing that the present
season is considerably in advance of its three predecessors :
On the 15th of May, 1837, it shot its first leaves ; on the 11th
ditto, 1838, it shot its first leaves; on the 6th ditto, 1839, it
shot its first leaves; and on the 24th April, 1840, it shot its
first leaves.—Kilmarnock Journal.

SIR THOMAS PHILLIPS.—In the Court of Common Pleas,
on Monday, Mr. Serjeant Talfourd made an application to
have the name of Sir Thomas Phillips struck off the rolls of
the Court as an attorney, that gentleman being about to be
called to the bar. The learned sergeant said that their Lord-
ships would recollect his client, who had done such good
service at Newport while mayor of that town, during the re-
cent disturbances there. Application granted.
AN EXTRAORDINARY JUMPER.—Lieut. Reynard, of the
2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade, now at Windsor, is one of
the most out-and-out jumpers on record. Notwithstanding
he is a stout-built man, with lots of flesh and fat upon his
loins, he will place eight chairs in a line, close to each other,
and without taking a run, and standing within a few inches
of the end chair, make a spring and clear the top of the
whole of them, the distance being upwards of twelve feet.—
Windsor and Eton Journal.

GREAT HARDSHIP.—At the Hereford Police Court an
order was made for the removal of Emma Porter from the
union workhouse to her husband's parish. The husband is
a Chelsea pensioner, and the woman left him some years ago
and lived with a man by whom she had several children; the
poor pensioner cannot prove their illegitimacy, and, under
the New Poor Law Bill, his pension will be attached for the
support of the children of another man.—Hereford Journal.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.—On
Saturday week the annual general meeting of the above so-
ciety was held in the Queen's Concert Room, Hanover-
square, the Bishop of Norwich, in the absence of Bishop
of London, in the chair. The chairman on taking the chair,
expatiated at great length and in the most eloquent manner
on the ill effects of intemperance. His lordship, in concluding
his address, said that there was supposed to be in great Britain
23,000,000 souls, who had consumed 35,000,000 gallons of
ardent spirits ; among them the cost of bread for the support
of that number of people would be £25,000,000, whilst the
money expended for the above quantity of spirits amounted
to £44,000,000. This quantity of spirits would form a river
100 miles long, 30 feet deep, and as wide. The secretary
then read the report from which it appeared that during the
year ending January, 1839. 30,868,562 gallons of spirits paid
duty for home consumption for England and Scotland. Up-
wards of 57,000 public-houses and 47,000 beer shops were
licensed in England and Wales ; 20,237 persons were taken
into custody for drunkenness, and upwards of 290,000 per-
sons were relieved by the hospitals, &c., &c., a large portion
of whom required the aid in consequence of le use of ardent
spirits. The report, after showing the low state of the funds,
stated that the consumption in spirits had greatly decreased
but that opium was being used in the manufacturing districts
in great abundance,
THE LATE LORD W, RUSSELL.---The atrocious murder
of this highly-respected nobleman has created quite a con-
sternation at the west end of the metropolis, the tragical
death of the venerable lord forming a general subject of con-
versation among the upper classes of society. The deceased
lord, who was the posthumous son of the fourth Duke of
Bedford, and brother of the late duke, was born the 20th
August, 1767, and was consequently within a few months of
completing his 73d year, when the hand of an assassin put a
period to his existence. On the 11th of July, 1789, his lord-
ship married Lady Charlotte Villiers, eldest daughter of the
late, and sister of the present Earl of Jersey, who died in
1808, leaving issue four children, three of whom are alive,
viz., the Hon. Mrs. Grey Bennet, widow of the late Hon.
Henry Bennet, brother of the Earl of Tankerville ; Mr. W.
Russell, attorney-general for the Duchy of Lancaster; and
Lady Wriothesley Russell. The deceased represented the
family borough of Tavistock for many years in the House of
Commons, and subsequently was our minister at the court of
Lisbon. By this melancholy occurrence the fathilies of the
Duke and Duchess of Bedford; Lord John Russell, Marquis
and Marchioness of Abercorn, Earl and Countess of Tan-
kerville ; Lord and Lady Wriothesley Russell, Earl and
countess of Jersey, Dowager-Duchess of Bedford, Lord and
Lady Charles. Russell, and upwards of nine others, are placed
in mourning.—Morning Herald.

PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE.—It affords us the most
sincere pleasure to hear from parties, who had opportunities
of acquiring an intimate knowledge of the disposition and
talents of this illustrious young prince, the most favourable
accounts of his varied acquirements, fine abilities, amiability
of manner, and goodness of heart. He is represented as
being an excellent classical scholar, a proficient in the modern
languages of Europe, refined in his tastes, high-spirited,
benevolent and affable, and an Englishman in predilections
and feeling. From some observations recently made by his
royal father we learn he is anxious to mix freely with his
countrymen when his military duties will permit him to do
so. At the anniversary dinner of the Marine Society, re-
cently held at the London Tavern, at which the Duke of
Cambridge presided, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, in a brief
but kind and graceful address, proposed the health of the
prince. He said that he had long and intimately known him,
and that to know was to love and honour him for his fine
talents and his many noble and good qualities. He trusted
next year to see him fill the chair now occupied by his royal
father, for he could assert with the greatest confidence that
the prince was never more happy than when contributing, in
however slight A degree, to the comfort and welfare of even
the poorest of his countrymen, and never more proud than
when engaged in advancing the interests of our charitable
institutions. The Duke of Cambridge, who seemed much
affected by the signal marks of applause with which this
toast was received, said, in returning thanks, " that he
should not be doing justice to his own feelings if he did not
avow that he believed his son was not wholly unworthy of
the enconiums bestowed upon him. It had been his aim to
rear him up as an Englishman, with pure English feelings
and honest English habits, and to set Constantly before him
the example of his grandfather." It is wholly impossible
to describe the burst of enthusiasm with which this allusion
to the virtues of the " good old king " was received. The ap-
plause, in which every person in the room heartily joined,
was continued for several minutes ; and when on the point of
dropping, was renewed again and again, each time more fer-
vently than before. When it at length subsided, his royal
highness said, in continuation, " that nothing would afford
him greater pleasure than to see his son fill that chair next
year, and as his father, he should feel the highest gratification
in sitting byhis side." The Prince is at present with his re-
giment at Brighton, and, we hear, is punctual in the discharge
of his military duties, and equally beloved both by officers and
men.—Brighton Gazette.

Abipping intelligentr.

FRIDAY, MAY B.—Wind S.E.

ARRIVED.—Wm, Largie, —, from Jamaica.
SAlLED.—Leopold Ist, Garling, for Antwerp—Danzic Packet,
Tannen, for Danzic—Goed. Hoop, de Boer, for Dordt—Bleng,
Stewart, for Manilla—Leila, Higgins, for New Orleans—Wm.
Badger, Tripe, for Portsmouth, U.S.—Zeemeuw, Noordhook, for
Rotterdam—Lucinde, Schultz, for Wismar—Nancy & Eliza, Tre-
garthen, for Messina and Palermo—Juliane Elizabeth, Larsen, for
Tonsberg—Drie Gesuters, Franken, for Narva—Newcastle Packet,
Galfo, for Hambro'—Camilla, Coster, for Harlingen—Cecilia, Bay,
for Callunborg—Rosabel, Colling-s, for Beirut and Alexandretta—
Harriet, Phillips, for Baltimore—Concord, Cobb, for St. Petersburg
—and Bellona, Symonds, for Montreal.

Josephine, Scott, from Barbados at this 'port: sailed 24th March.
On the 11th and 12th April, in lat. 36, long. 46, experienced a very
severe gale, commencing at N.W. and veering to N.N.E. and E.
with a very heavy sea running. The ship was laid to under reefed
main spencer. On the 2nd instant, off Tuskar, spoke the Leander,
-, hence to Quebec. On the 3rd instant, oft St. David% sig-
nalised the Nightingale, -, from Pernambuco to this port, out
40 days _

Cambria, Robertson, sailed from Calcutta for this port on the 15th
March

Wave, Millman, hence at Beyrout
Leveret, Ditcham, and Alert, Hurry, hence and Malta at Smyrna
Hazard, Churchward, sailed from Smyrna for this port on the 16th
April
Flying Fish, Edwards ; Sarah, ; Enchantress, —;
George Anson, Oakley, and Schyryd, Saunders, hence at Constan-
tinople
Douro, Bale, and Harriet, Searle, hence at Malta
Amelia, White, hence at Genoa
Vrow Margaretha, Boomgard, hence at Zoltkamp
BOMBAY, March 31.—The Mars, Gardner, from Manilla to China,
is lost on the Prata Shoal ; crew saved

CALCUTTA, March 16.—The Tory, Reid, sprung a leak at Tong-
k 00, with her cotton on board; she proceeded to Sincapore, and
has since arrived at Calcutta

ME3l.—The report of the Hindley, from Reaiijo, having arrived
off Falmouth, is supposed to be incorrect

SATURDAY, MAY g.—Wind S.E. fresh

ARRIVED.—Quiz, M'LaChlan, from Zante—J. & R. Perin,
from St. Antonia—Christiana, Simpson, from New Orleans
Europe, Marshall, and Frankfort, Russell, from New York—and
Nightingale, Hunter, from Pernambuco.
SAlLED.—lndian, Frost, and Kingston, M'f.ean, for Bombay—
Devon, Gething, for Sincapore—John Dennistoun, Pringle, for
Bay Chaleur—Leopold, Holtz, for Hamburg—Handelaars, Nyman,
for Harlingen—Alecto, Ayshford, and Appleton, Oliver, for Jamaica
—Wales, Watts, and Superb, Hamilton, for New York--Ann Mary
Ann, Chick, fox Portsmouth, U.S.—Champion, Cochrane, for Syd-
ney, N.S.W,—Margareita, Schottens, for Zwolle—Greyhound,
Revett, for Syra, &c.—Vigilante, Symonds, for Ostend—Nova Feliz,
Trinidade, for Oporto—Talahassee, Chadwick, for New Orleans—
Canton, Gibson, for Baltimore—Aylesford, Webster, for Revel—
General Wolfe, Denston, for Rio Grande—Mary, Robertson, for
Marseilles—Belize, Rodgers, for Montreal—Hercules, Marks, for
Philadelphia—and Uniao, Pamplona, for Lisbon.

Courier, Huntress, from Valparaiso, at this port: sailed 3rd Feb.
in company with the Gazelle for Liverpool. The Robert Finnic,
sailed the day previous for Liverpool, On 17th April. in lat. 35 Nt
long. 38 W, spoke the Catherine, from Monte Video for Liverpool.
The Courier had been detained 12 days in the Channel with light
easterly winds

Neptune, M'Donald, hence at Valparaiso
Ripley, Steward, from Calcutta, oft Holyhead, and proceeded to
Hamburg. On 20th March, in lat. 030 N, long. 21 30 W, spoke the
Dream, from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro. On 21st March, in lat. 1
30 N, long. 22 W, spoke the Litherland, Baxter, from Liverpool for
Sincapore, out 31 dafs
Wm. Russell, Bruce. hence at Pernambuco
James Matheson, Milward, hence at Sincapore 30th Jan.
A ship with loss of her topmasts was seen :oth April, off Chinco-
teague s s _

North Briton, Adams, from Liverpool, at Sydney, N.S.W.
China, Phillips, hence and Waterford, at ditto
Delhi, --, hence at South Australia
Mary Jones, -, hence at Monte Video
Hermes, , hence for Lima, was spoken 22nd Jan. in lat.
32 S, long. 77 W
Dona Maria, Millard, hence for Kertch, was spoken Ist May, in
lat. 49, long. 7
Euphrates, Wilson, and Dryad, Heard, from London, at Sydney,
N.S.W.

Georgina, -, from Valparaiso for Liverpool, off Cape Horn
Amelia Molholla►,d, , from the Cape of Good Hope, off
Falmouth. On 29th March, in lat. 3 N. long. 21 W, spoke the St.
Lucia from Liverpool for New South Wales. On 17th April, in lat.
35, long. 36, spoke the Falcon, from Benin for Liverpool
North Pole, Watt, from Pernambuco, at Trieste
Quebec Packet, Stephens, from Kertch, at Malta, and sailed 16th
April, in company with the Pacchetto di Trieste, both for Liverpool

Papia, Mathias.; Christian, Gardner; GalloviZlea, Rea, and Trio,
Peirce, hence at Swinemunde
Elise, Nieman, and Anna Agatha, Nieman, hence at Warnemunde
Sultana, - hence at Batavia 26th Dec.
Henry & Elizabeth, Shaul, hence at Flensburg
Spinster, Colquhoun, from Laguna for Liverpool, was spoken
18th April, in lat, 39, long. 48
Jadez, Fanner, from Odessa, at the Cove
Agnes, White, from Dragomestre, ditto
Wheaton, Hamlin, from Malaga, at Falmouth
Rosalie, Alsop, from Valparaiso, at Swansea
Areatus, Linnell ; John Holland, Snow; Constitution, Peabody,
and Byron, Purrington, hence at New Orleans

British Merchant, ; St. Petersburg, Trask ; New Hamp.
shire, Harding, and Trenton, Snow, hence at Mobile
Victoria, -, hence at Baltimore
Charles Humberston, Marshall; Ruby, IN estcott, and Tamerlane,
Theobald, hence at Savannah

Waldemaar, Grubber; Ganges, Corkan ; Queen Victoria, Black,
and Denmark, Frost, hence at Charleston
Mary Ann Hatton, , hence off ditto

St. Lawrence, Bunker, hence at New York gth April; Memphis,
Nichols, 11th; Sheridan, De Peyster, and South America, Bailey,
i2th April
Terra Nova, Deniston, hence at Newfoundland

MONTh VIDEO, Feb. 95.—Lancashire Witch, from Liverpool,
arrived here to-day, after being on shore on the English Bank since
1 gth Feb. She had been boarded by several men and plundered,
and was afterwards lightened and assisted off by H.M.S. Grecian.

SUNDAY, MAY 10.—Wind E.N.E. fresh.

ARRlVED.—Lancashire Lass, —, from Alexandria—Colom-
bian Packet, --, from Smyrna—Vixen, —, from
Sphynx, —, from Malaga—Arrow, Ryder, from Charente—
Johanna, Brandhoff, from Danzic—Carl, Westerbeg, from Wolgast
—Judith, Hamer, from St. Thomas—Henry Hoyle, —, from
Oporto—Lapwing, , from Mediterranean—Wilhelmine, Lind,
from An clam—J ohn Peat, —, from Rio Janeiro—and Creamore,
—, from Trieste
SAlLED.—Johannes, Sluick, for Hamburg—Cicely, Jeffs, for New
York—Renewal, Wildes, for Quebec—Eppien, Potjewyd, for Rotter-
dam—Elizabeth Bruce, Higgins, for Savannah—Earl. Grey, Douglas,
and Essex, Jones, for St. Petersburg—and Leopard, M'Donald, for
Boston.

Sheffield, Allen, from New York, at this purt. On sth May, in
lat. 5110, long. 11 34, spoke the St. Patrick, for Cork, with loss of
fore and maintopmast
Congaree. Doane, from Charleston, at this port, in 33 days. On
24th April, spoke the James Harris, of London, for Miramichi, with
loss of foretopmasts, all the yards belonging to the foremast, and
jibboom, She had been run into the night previously by the Due
de Orleans Also, saw the Due de Orleans, with loss of foretop-
mast and spanker boom, and gaft gone. The Congaree was twelve
days in the Channel detained by easterly winds
Robert, Lawson, from Savanilla, at this port; sailed Bth March.
Left the Fame, George Canning, Dalmarnock, and Lydia, all
loading for Liverpool
Arnold Wells, -, hence at Manilla
Enmore, Strickland, sailed from Colombo for London 22nd Feb.
Malay, Galbraith, hence at Mauritius
Helen Stewart, Stewart, from China, at the Cape of Good Hope,
and sailed Bth March for Liverpool

Cora, Melvill, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Liverpool
Bth March
Wm. 'Jardine, Crosbie, from Calcutta, at St. Helena
Friends, Arnold, from Sincapore, ditto
Kirkman Finlay, , hence for Bombay, was spoken Bth Feb.
in lat, 26 30 N, long. 65 30 E
Malabar, Southward, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 6th April,
in long. 18 W
Hector. -, hence for Calcutta, was spoken sth May, in lat.
48 N, long. la W
Charles Eyes, Moss, hence for Valparaiso, was spoken 21st
March, in lat. 3, long. 25
Fanny Palmer, , hence for Constantinople, was spoken
29th April, in lat. 49, long. 8 30
Shannon, M'Alpine, hence at Halifax, N.S.
Vigna, Napoli, hence at Naples
X L, Duncan, hence at Genoa
Astley, Stirling, hence for St. Petersburg, off the Lizard
Fenna, Sox, hence for Liebau, off the Start
Eugene, Moritz, from Uckermunde for Liverpool, off Portland
Hudson, -, hence for Callao, at Juan Fernandez
Wm. Prowse, Prowse, from Santos, at Valparaiso
Asia, - from New South Wales, ditto
Elizabeth, irice, hence at St. Thomas

Mary Imrie, Boyd, from London, at Mauritius
ST. GEORGE, BERMUDA, March 27.—The Mogul, Gallagher,
from Apalachicola for Liverpool, put in here 24th March, with da-
mage,_ having been struck by a sea
HALIFAX, April 13.—The Maitland, from Liverpool for St. John,
N.B. went on shore on Brownies Island Reef, during a heavy gale,
30th March; she afterwards beat over the Reef, drifted on some
rocks near the shore and bilged : crew (except the mate and two
seamen) saved