The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-20 00:00:00

EXPORTS

Extreme apathy has prevailed since the date of our last
review in this branch of our commerce, nor can we confi-
dently anticipate any immediate improvement. _

COFFIE.—The continued unfavourable accounts from the
European markets has had less influence upon prices than
would have been produced were not the supply so very
limited. Superior has maintained within a shade of previous
quotations, and sales have been effected of small parcels, at
prices full 450 and 200 rs. above those we quote, but as we
repeatedly observed, these small parcels cannot in any degree
regulate : first good is 400 rs. lower, and in other descrip-
tions we quote a fall of from 50 to 70 rs. The sales since the
4 st. inst. do not exceed 26,000 bags, whilst the stock on
hand is not more than 9,000 bags. The shipments to-day
inclusive amount to
Cleared for export from 4st. to 44th. inclusive

SUGAR.—SaIes limited to 200 brls. at 2 dol:, and some
small parcels for ccnsumption at from 2 dol. 200 to 2 dol.
SOO rs.

FREIGHTS.-40 s. to 55 s.
MONEY

MARKET,

EXCHANGE.-With the exception of some bills received
from the south, negotiated at 301, the extreme rates upon
London have been 30 and 301 ; the amount of business tran-
sacted has been very limited, having in the whole not exceeded
L. 54,000. The first rate was 30, the last 301.
The extreme rates upon Hamburg have been 585 and 590,
the first amount having been negotiated at the former
quotation, and the last transaction to-day having occurred at
590.

DISCOUNTS.—Are a trifle less easy, but without any sen-
ble alteration in the rates.

SPECIE.-The market has been and is very inanimate and
the amount of business very limited. Spanish doubloons fell
to 27 dol., and improved 400 rs. to-day. Patriots have been
sold as low as 27 dol., and closed to-day at 27 dol. 200 rs.
Silver coin is flat at 76. Spanish dollars 4 dol. 725, and pa-
triots have been successively sold at 4 dol. 630, 4 dol. 660,
and 4 dol. 680 rs.

We have received a file of Sydney (N. S. W.) papers
to the 25th of June. We learn from the Sydney Ga-
zette of the above date that the interesting ceremony
of laying the foundation stone of a new church at Syd-
ney was performed by the Lord Bishop of Australia.
Great complaints were made at Sydney respecting
the high price of coals and firewood. Wood was at
the exorbitant charge of 9s. per load, and coals were at
265. per ton.

There is very little commercial news of importance
*-the papers before us. We subjoin the following
extracts from the Hobart Town papers of the most
recent dates :
WEATHER.—The late rains, which have proved general
throughout the island, have conferred great benefit upon our
farmers, who are all as busy as bees, preparing a bounteous
supply of corn for the next season. The autumn has been
fine, almost beyond precedent; and we have every reason to
expect a most propitious return for the labours of the agri-
culturist.—Colonial Times, June 9.

THE MARKETS.—Wheat is looking down ; good samples
are now selling at from 14s. to 15s. per bushel; oats, 7s. to
7s. 6d. ; Cape barley, 7s. to 7s. 6d. ; English ditto, 9s. to
10s. ; hay, loose, from £6 to £6 10s. per ton ; do., pressed,
£7 to £7 10s. ; potatoes, black, XS to .f.:9 ; ditto, apple, £7
to £9 ; coals, Port Arthur, 18s. per ton, delivered ; ditto,
Sydney, £1 ss. ; she oak, 16s. to 18s. ; gum, 13s. to 14s. ;
cabbages and carrots, ls. 6d. per doz. ; butter, fresh, 2s. 6d.
to 3s. per lb. ; turnips, 2s. per doz. ; apples, 14s. per bushel.
—Colonial Times.

PORT ARTHUR.—An attempt to escape from the coal-
mines at this establishment was made a short time since by
four men, who, on the night of their running away, attacked
one of the signal stations in charge of a constable named
Willan, and, after seriously ill-treating the man, robbed him
of his little savings in money, his provisions, &c., and but
for one of the parties he would have been shot. Three of the
men, named Jacks, Britton, and Hall, have been recaptured,
-end are fully committed for trial. The fourth, Dawkins, has
not yet been apprehended. It appears that he separated
from the others on the first night.—Courier.

We have received a copy of the British Colonist,
published at Toronto, Upper Canada, of the date of
September 23, which brings the latest intelligence from
the province. A public dinner, on a large' scale, had
been given by the inhabitants of Toronto to Dr.
Rolph, who was recently over in this country on a
mission for the promotion of emigration to Upper
Canada.

The British Colonist observes, that his Excellency
the Governor-General, during his recent tour through
the Province, was exceedingly well received, and that
the addresses presented to him were expressive of ge-
neral confidence in his administration, and of a desire
that all parties should unite in support of his govern-
ment. We should say that hese observations should
be received cum grano salis.

By the British Queen steam-ship, Lieut. Roberts,
R. N., which left New York on the afternoon of the
Ist instant, and which arrived off Southampton on
Saturday morning, at nine o'clock, after a passage of
15 days, we have received a file of the New York
Morning Herald to the Ist instant, inclusive, and con-
taining a few hours' later intelligence than the papers
of the same date brought by the Britannia. We sub-
join the most important extracts :

NEWS FOR ENGLAND.
(From Bennett's Morning Herald.)
The excitement on the subject of the approaching Presi-
dential election is hourly increasing. The whole country,
from Maine to the confines of Louisiana, is in a state of com-
motion. Never since the great contest between the federal
and democratic parties in 1801, has there been such an in-
tense, all-pervading feeling of interest and anxiety on a poli-
tical question. Four weeks will bring us to the time of com-
mencing the choice of Presidential electors, and the interme-
diate period will be occupied almost exclusively in prepara-
tions for the great struggle.—Several of the states have their
annual elections during these four weeks, and the result will
stimulate the excitement to increased activity, if that be
possible. _ _

The late state election in Maine resulted most disastrously
for the friends of Mr. Van Buren, and the sanguine hopes of
the whigs have now grown into absolute confidence.
Mr. Webster, who is regarded as the exponent of the views
of the whig party, in his elaborate speech to the merchants of
this city on Monday, avowed in direct and explicit terms his
preference for a national institution, to regulate the currency
of the country, and although he premised that he spoke for
himself alone, and disclaimed any authority to make an ex-
position of the doctrines or intentions of the new administra-
tion, still his declaration is looked upon as a decisive indica-
tion of the policy of the party, and as evidence of the deter-
mination of the whigs to establish a National Bank, in the
event of General Harrison's election.

During the Presidential campaign, the whig orators, and all
the authorized organs of the party, have studiously abstained
from any discussion of their own principles. The party op-
posed to Mr. 1 Buren embraces such a variety of dis-
cordant materials and is so heteorogeneous in its composition,
that any distinct avowal of its doctrines would disband and
scatter it to the four winds of heaven, at once. But by sink-
ing all minor differences of opinion, waiving the discussion of
all disturbing topics, and agreeing to coalesce for the expul-
sion of the Administration, they have gone on with great har-
mony. It is not often that the whigs agree, but when they
do, their unanimity is wonderful.

The growing expectation of whig success seems to have
had a beneficial influence on trade and business generally. It
has already created confidence in certain quarters, and Gen.
Harrison's election, with the adoption of any new measures,
will give an additional stimulus that will be temporarily ad-
vantageous to the country.
THE FLORIDA WAR is apparently no nearer its termina-
tion than when General Jessup intrigued General Scott out
of the command of the army. There has been no wholesale
massacre since the destruction of the settlement of Indian
Key. Almost every mail brings an account of a man or
woman murdered, and occasionally we hear of three or
four killed at a time. On the 6th instant, a scout of 30 men,
under Lieut. Hanson, was fired on by an ambuscade, near
Wacahoota. Orte man killed, and four wounded. On the
7th, the house of Mr. Dorsey, two miles and a half from
Chattahoochie, was plundered and burnt; Mr. Dorsey had
previously removed with his family to Alabama. On the
same day a young man named Geiger was killed by the same
party of Indians. His body was found on the 10th, hor-
ribly mangled, his head cut off and taken away. These ac-
counts are, now and then, interspersed with the history of
the capture of an Indian, the destruction of a cornfield, or
the fight of a squaw.—lf then, there is no additional energy
infused into the war department, this war will, no doubt,
last through the present century.

HEALTH OF THE SOUTHERN CITIES. —New Orleans
Mobile, Charleston, and the other southern cities, that suffer
almost every season with yellow fever, have escaped this
year with very little sickness of any kind; and the season is
now so far advanced that all apprehensions have ceased.
NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY.—There is nothing new
officially in regard to this question. Several writers in the
papers, and among the number is the Hon. Mr. Cushing,
member of Congress, frem Massachusets, have exposed,
with great ability, the absurd misstatement in the report of
Messrs. Mudge and Featherstonhaugh. Mr. Cushing has
dissected it with great power of sarcasm. The report is
shown to be the merest stuff imaginable. There is a grow.
ing confidence hi the amicable adjustment of the difficulty,
and a better feeling is prevailing along the frontier.
There is another question of territory that will soon be
surrounded with more difficulties and embarrassments than
that on our north-eastern frontier. We allude to the Oregon
Territory in the north-west. It is time that the question of
jurisdiction over the territory, now mooted by the English
and this government, was examined, and the fact clearly
ascertained and settled, whether we are entitled to that coun-
try, as is generally believed, or whether the English can claim
it by the laws of nations. The longer that the adjustment
of this question is delayed, the more difficult it will be to
come to an amicable settlement. The Hudson Bay Company
already act as if the whole of the country west of the Rocky
Mountains belonged to Great Britain, to the great detriment
of American citizens, who are engaged in similar undertak-
ings, and are struggling with difficulties thus thrown in their

way.
CANADA.—The union of the two provinces- seems to be
generally acceptable to the people, so far as we can judge from
the tone of the press. Governor Thompson was suffering
under severe indisposition at the last advices. The rumour
of his intended departure is entirely discredited, and he is
increasing in popularity. There is no great degree of asperity
exhibited now on either side of the line. The Upper Canada
papers have a small ebullition of wrath at Brother Jonathan
occasionally for some folly or other, but the feeling soon sub=
sides, and does not now, as formerly, run into malevolence.
The approaching election,. in a portion of Lower Canada, is
the topic of much discuspon in the papers, and many of the
candidates to the Colonial Assembly are canvassing their

respective district` with much assiduity, The craps are
represented to be unusually tine all over the provinces.
TEXAS.—Many of the difficulties incidental to a new go-
vernment are gradually disappearing before the judicious ma-

nagement of the administration of President Lamar. The
financial affairs of the young republic, however, are still in a
sad condition ; but the great resources of the country will
eventually carry them through. The Comanche Indians
made an irruption on the frontier, and destroyed some pro-
perty-, but were soon repelled. The efforts of certain indivi-
duals to enlist the sympathies of the Texians in behalf of the
federalists of Mexico, and to engage their assistance against
the centralists, were wisely discountenanced by the govern-
ment, and have now mainly ceased. The commerce of Texas
is gradually and steadily increasing, and a variety of new
agricultural articles have been introduced, which promise to
he of great profit to the growers. Among the rest is tobacco.
Some experiments have shown that a very superior quality
of tobacco can be raised there. The soil of Texas is ex-
tremely fertile, and this will no doubt become an important
product. . _„

MEXICO.-Our advices from Vera Cruz are up to the 28th

of August, and from the capital to the 17th. 'the civil war
in the capital was at an end, at least for the time being. It
is difficult to get at the precise results of the struggle in
Mexico. Our accounts have principally come through the
organs of the central party, and they, of course, depreciate
the advantages gained by their opponents ; but it is not to be
concealed that the federalists have acquired a position that
renders them extremely formidable. It is generally believed
that Urrea will retire to the province of Tamaulipas ; and it
is easy to foresee that the strife is merely put off, provided
the federalists find some sympathy among the people. In
fact, according to the terms of the convention, the insurgent
forces are not to be dispersed, but are to march to a place to
be appointed by the commander-in-chief of the centralists.

The foreign intelligence contained in the morning
papers of yesterday, is of a more peaceful character
than that which reached us during the past week. It
is stated that orders had been sent out to Lord Pon-
sonby, and the other ambassadors of the powers who
are parties to the treaty of the 15th of July, directing
them to inform the Porte that their respective govern-
ments acknowledge the right of the Sultan to proclaim
the deposition of Mehemet Ali; but, at the same time,
to express the hope of the four powers that the Sultan
will not refuse to return Egypt and the government of
Syria to the Viceroy, provided he makes an early sub-
mission to the terms of the treaty, by causing his army
to evacuate Syria, and by delivering up the Turkish fleet.

It is also added that, as the consuls of the four powers
have left Egypt, it would be advisable for the Sultan to
give as early an intimation as possible of his pacific
intentions towards Mehemet Ali.

From the French papers of Saturday, we learn that
on the 25th ultimo, the Libanus was tranquil, and that
Mehemet Ali was perfectly restored to health, and was
calm and resolute. It is stated positively that Mehe-
met Ali was not only preparing to send a great part
of his fleet out of harbour, but that he had ordered
Ibrahim Pacha to march at once on Constantinople.
The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with comments
on the recent attempt to assassinate the King of the
French, the particulars of which we have inserted in
another column. This is the sixth time that Louis
Philippe has been providentially screened from the
murderous designs of his enemies. There is something
almost verging on the miraculous in these singular
instances of preservation. It is impossible to contem-
plate them without being convinced of the merciful
interposition of the hand of Divine Providence. These

•epeated attempts upon the life of the French King,
here is every reason to believe, owe their origin to that
•evolutionary frenzy which is the bane of France.

This is the last opportunity that we shall have of di-
recting the attention of our readers to the approaching
ceremonies connected with the laying of the foundation
stone of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution—an insti-
tution destined, we have no doubt, to exercise a very
powerful influenee over the interests of this great com-
mercial community, and which will prove at once an
honour and ornament to the "good old town." Having
taken a very prominent part in urging upon our fellow-
townsmen the necessity of raising such an institution,
as well as in defending the plans and principles laid
down by the committee of management, we feel anxious
that Thursday next should not pass over without wit-

nessing such a demonstration, on the part of the popu-
lation of Liverpool, as shall clearly prove the popularity
of the scheme. We therefore trust that all parties will
unite in giving due echit to the proceedings, and espe-
cially that as many of the inhabitants as can make it
convenient will join in the procession which is to take
place.

We understand that the Bishop, clergy, nobility, and
gentry, will meet the governor and directors of the in-
stitution at the Town-hall, at half past ten, and thence
proceed with the mayor to St. Peter's Church, where
the sermon will be delivered by the Bishop. Upon the
conclusion of the service the procession will be formed
in the court of the Blue Coat Hospital. The route
which has been fixed upon is, through School-lane,
Hanover-street, Ranelagh-street, Lime-street, Commu-
tation-row, and Islington, to the ground in Shaw-street.
The dinner in the evening will probably prove the
most attractive of the general proceedings in connection
with the interesting ceremony of the day. Its chief
attraction will, no doubt, consist in the circumstance of
so many distinguished individuals having promised to
attend on the occasion. Among the nobility and gen-
try who have promised to attend are, the Right Hon.
Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., Lord Stanley, M.P., Lord
Sandon, M.P., the Right Hon. the Earl of Sefton,
Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., M.P., the Hon. R. B. Wil-
braham, M.P., Sir R. H. Cunliffe, Bart., J. Ireland
Blackburne, Esq., M.P., P. Ainsworth, Esq., M.P.

John Davenport, Esq., M.P., J. C. Colquhoun, Esq.,
M.P., T. Bright Crosse, Esq., J. Hodson Kearsley,
Esq., George Cornwall Legh, Esq., and G. R. War-
burton, Esq. Our excellent diocesan, the Lord Bishop
of Chester, the Rev. Chancellor Raikes, the Hon. and
Rev. Horace Powys, the Rev. Rector Brooks, the Rev.
Hugh M‘Neile, and many other distinguished divines
have also promised to be present. From such a host
of talent many splendid addresses may be anticipated,
which will prove a treat such as is rarely to be met
with.

We understand that the applications for ladies'
tickets are extremely numerous, and as a very large
proportion of the dinner tickets have already been taken
up, those who wish to secure admission for their female
friends must make an early application, as only a limited
number can possibly be accommodated. Gentlemen
neglecting this hint will only have themselves to blame
in case of any disappointment that may arise.
The private worth, splendid abilities, and inflexible
integrity of Lord Stanley require no encomium at our
hands. We feel assured that the assemblage of Thurs-
day evening next will afford an ample testimony to the
feelings of admiration so generally entertained towards
so munificent a patron of learning, and so ardent a
friend of the Established Church.

The strenuous efforts of the Whig-radical faction o:
Liverpool, to ensure the success of their candidates al
the approaching municipal election, would lead u:

naturally to the supposition that upon the issue of this
particular contest depends some contingency of more
than ordinary importance to the interests of that party.
For the whole of the last twelve months their agents

have been at work. The Reform Association and the
Protector Society—par nobile fratrunt,—have plotted
together ; the aristocratic whig of the former has rubbed
elbows with the hereditary hodman of the latter; some
thousands of pounds have been expended in a clumsy
attempt to debauch and swamp the constituency of
the various wards ; and all for what ? To decide
merely whether some merchant of high standing and
long family connexion with the town, or some radical
shopkeeper of yesterday, is to sit in the council as the
representative of its interests ? Not at all. The coming
contest, we may rely upon it, is not one of individual
against individual. The question of personal fitness
or respectability will not on this occasion be allowed
to weigh with the propapist faction. The contest now
is for the preponderance of party in the council—to
decide whether that body is in future to be an anti-
constitutional body, composed of Socinians, Papists,
and Deists, as at present, or an assembly of conserva-
tive and loyal men; whether shallow and conceited
coxcombs are to squander the funds of the town, upon
useless or worse than useless objects, or sane and sensi-
ble men, representing the opinions and wishes of the
better portion of the community, are to carry on the
business and protect the party of the public. Our past
contests have been indecisive skirmishes ; the present
is to be a pitched battle, which will decide the fate of
the campaign and the possession of the field.
With a view of forming a more accurate judgment
of the enemy's manoeuvres, let us briefly glance at our
own position and his. The whig-radicals up to this
time have preserved their first hold in the corporation,
and possess an overwhelming majority upon every
party question. The number of constrvative coun-
cillors is at present 19, whilst that of their opponents
is 29, the whole number elected by the burgess con.

stituency being 48, The body of aldermen is entirely
whig, having been elected by the whig majority in the
council. Of the 16 vacancies to be filled up at the en-
suing election 4 are conservative and 12 liberal, leaving
in the council 15 conservatives and 17 Whigs, whose
seats are safe for the present year. Of the latter num-
ber one seat, however,—that of Mr. Quayle for Everton
Ward—is contested in a court of law, whose decision
may probably reduce the number by one, and by seat-
ing a conservative in the place of the present member,

thus equalize the parties.
Here, then, we have a tolerable fair basis to begin
upon; and the next question is to decide how the 16
vacant seats are to be appropriated. One half given to
each party would make the conservatives as strong as
their opponents in the council, were it not for the 16
whig aldermen, who turn the scale. A conservative
majority in the present contest would give to that party
preponderance as councilmen, still leaving them, how-
ever, under the control of the whig-elected aldermen.
But, we may be asked, of what great importance
can this be ? So long as we are in a minority in the
whole body of the council, of what use is it that we
have a majority amongst the councillors ? Simply,
this, reader. That next year it will fall upon the coun-
cil to elect no less than eight aldermen ; and provided
the conservatives succeed in maintaining their superi-
ority—the forces of their opponents being for the time
reduced by eight votes—we need scarcely doubt that
such eight aldermen will be of the true loyal conserva-
tive stamp.

Here then we have the secret of whip-radical anxiety.

Here we can see some little reason for this unusual
activity in the enemy's camp, and above all, for the un-
usual liberality manifested in the payment of taxes for
the poorer portion of their party. We know that their
fears are roused. Office and patronage, they feel, is
slipping from their grasp ; and if the conservatives of
Liverpool do their duty at the election which is at hand,
we shall be able to play at the game of " change seats
—the king 's coming."
And we do trust that the conservative electors will
be active and persevering at this crisis. We need
scarcely doubt that during the ensuing year, which
may be the last of whig supremacy in the council, no
means will he left untried to appease or to purchase the
wavering friends of the faction. The funds of the
town will be freely lavished, and jobs and the other
dirty expedients by which whiggery thrives, will be
eagerly resorted to by the occupants of place with a view
so gaining popularity. But if the conservatives work
hard, we have no fear of the ultimate result. Whig-
radical supremacy in Liverpool is at the last gasp ; and
one bold and sustained attack from its loyal conserva-

Lye opponents will prostrate and trample in the dust
;s blatant and unsightly form.

We offered a few remarks in our last on the policy
of assimilating the duties on Honduras mahogany and
African teak. The subject is one of the greatest im-
portance in a commercial point of view, and we are
glad to find that most of our contemporaries agree in
recommending the alteration for which Mr. Chaloner
has memorialised the government.
One of the strongest.arguments in support of the
proposed alteration is, that both Honduras and Sierra
Leone stand in the same :relation in reference to this
country. The arguments in favour of protection to our
colonial products do not, therefore, apply in the pre-
sent case. There is no solid reason for imposing a dis-
criminating scale of duties on the woods of the two
provinces which we have named. They ought to be
placed on the same footing.
There is another reason, not yet glanced at, which
renders it advisable to reduce the duties on Honduras
mahogany. We mean the advantage which this line
of policy would give to the cabinet-maker of this coun-
try in competing with the continental exporters. Owing
to the present high scale of duties, the cabinet-makers
of Hamburg, and of other towns on the continent, have
obtained a complete monopoly of the foreign market.
Nay, even in this country, the foreign cabinet-maker
is enabled, owing to the low duty which he has to paY
on mahogany, to undersell the English tradesman'
Tho principle of protection to our native manufactures'
which is perfectly identical with. the principle of the
corn laws, demands that the British artisans should lje
placed on an equality with the seine class of trade/man
abroad. At all events, we should d.) away with the
strange anomaly of permitting the introduction of
.n,
ofo-
reign furniture at a smaller rate of duty, in proportion,
than that which is imposed on the log or curl m its
uncut form.

The decision of the revising barristers yesterday has
dealt a sad blow at the pretensions of Sir Joshua
Walmsley and the power of his friends of the Protector
Society. The flimsy and absurd pretence that the
money advanced to some twelve hundred Papists; for
the purpose of paying the rates upon their various cel-
lars, cottages, or piggeries, is to be viewed as an or-
dinary loan or even as a gift, or the supposition that
a payment of rates with money so advanced is a par
mant by the claimant himself, the revising barristers
have very properly scouted as opposed to the plain
letter and spirit of the reform act. The rate-paying
clauses of that act are obviously intended to impose $
test of respectability upon the voters : and by the par
ment of rates is meant a payment with money bona fide
the property of the occupier—for to view it in any
other light would be to suppose that the legislature
had instituted the test of rate-paying in order that
wholesale and indiscriminate bribery might be parctised
with impunity in every large borough throughout the
kingdom. Could such a doctrine be for a moment
seriously held by any legal tribunal, we must at once'
in effect, return to the old rotten system; every borough
in Great Britain would have its price, and the virtual
rate-payers of every place returning members to par-
liament would be the candidates themselves.

So far, however, as our parliamentary borough is
concerned, we venture to predict that the practice of
paying rates—a practice in itself so fraudulent, so de'
basing to the constituency, and, withal, so costly to
the party using it—will not again be ventured upon'
at the instance of the very indifferent lawyers who sect°
to be the advisers of the whig radical party in Liver'
pool. But, with respect to our municipal elections,
it unfortunately happens that the tribunal appointed £0
revise the register is not a legal tribunal of the sane
description as the revising court under the reform bill;
and we cordially agree with his worship the Mayor, 10
his observations of Thursday last, that " a legislative,
measure must be applied to remedy the grievance
which the municipal constituency of Liverpool have
sustained from the inconclusive proceedings of the last
fifteen days' sitting of his worship and his two learned
colleagues. It is now quite apparent that the decision
of that court, upon this same question of paying rate,
was in the teeth both of law and precedent; and thestrong probability is, that, even had it succeeded In
completing the revision and making a new register'
that register must have been set aside by the court°
above as illegal and utterly worthless.

A FINE NEW Vzssni..—There is now in the buildings
St;
:
yard of Messrs. Hazelden, Pearson, and Troughton, gnat,:
side the Queen's Dock Basin, a beautiful new ship, of
superior construction, intended for the China trade. Sr,
admeasures 396 tons, new, measurement, and was built for
Captain Arthur James Cookson, formerly captain of t_l,):
Jumna, of this port, and who will command her hfersv"'
She is to be called the " Meg o' Mellon,"—the name of
celebrated witch or sorceress, in, we believe, the reign of
the second Charles. Her materials are,: in every respect'
the very best quality, and they are put together in a manner
combining modern scientific improvement, with the utroos,
fidelity of workmanship. Her frame is of well-seasoneu
English oak, and her planks of English and African oak,:
and the lower streaks of elm. Her beams (also of choice Ent(
lish oak) are secured by Dixon's patent fastenings, an adln";
rable invention, in which great strength and neatness 11,,t
united. Her ceiling under the main deck is of English os'''
equal to her sides : that between decks is of Honduras 0.1;
hogany between the clamps fore and aft, and is left of
natural colour, to be varnished or oiled according to trate;
The clamps being painted relieve the mahogany, which has,
very rich appearance. The general fastenings of the ship. a';
as strong as wood, iron, and copper can make them. Toer,
are hanging and diagonal iron knees fore and aft ; iron poin 0
ers across the bow, and also abaft, besides a crutch and V.°,
transome knees, to secure the canting timber; iron lodge
knees under the upper deck, &c. The bolts in her bottolp
and those in her sides, (the former of copper), are unufstlaill
numerous, and secured through ; and through the timbers, f;
the butts are thorough bolted. There are air chambers Ida:
the ceiling below the main deck, as well as in the ceiling
tween decks. The combings of the hatches, and also Oar"
of the companion-way and cabin deck-lights, are of 11;
hogany. In point of model, the " Meg o Meldon is
clean abaft, has a fine bow, a straight floor of nearly
feet in length, and abundance of beam,—so that she will
a large cargo, and will, no doubt, " sail like a witch,
which she bears a handsome figure-head. No pains or
pense, indeed, have been spared to render this ship Perfechi
as a specimen of naval architecture, and she is admitted 4,
all to be one of the handsomest vessels ever built at this rot
She is ready for launching, but, as the next springs wiltirst
be high, it is probably she will not be launched until the "
high tides of next month.
The Queen Dowager has sent a liberal donation towaric
building a church at Matlock, there being no place of P"
worship.at that delightful watering place.