The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

GREAT REDUCTION

IN THE PRICE OF
VENETIAN BLINDS,

AT
W• LEDGER'S WINDOW BLIND MANUFACTORY,
31, PARADISE-STREET,
who has constantly on hand an • • and well-seasoned
STOCK, and can furnish a complete with them in
SIX RS' NOTICE.
Gauze Wire, and e - other description of Blinds, at very
moderate Prices superior Workmanship.
OBSERVE,
31, PARADISE-STREET,
Between the Unitarian Chapel and the Star and Garter Hotel.

FEATHER BED AND MATTRESS WAREHOUSE,
IN, WHITECHAPEL, LIVERPOOL.
T PENNELL and W. WHITTLE having succeeded
Mr. G. PENNELL in business, and purchased Purifying
Apparatus, Steam Engine, Machinery, &c., belonging to the
Establishment, respectfully state they are now SELLING
FEATHERS at exceedingly LOW PRICES. Mixed Feathers,
purified and dressed, 10d. per lb., Gray G itto, 15d., and.
other qualities proportionably cli , nd, as the Feathers are
prepared on their Premises, under their own inspection
they can be confidently r mended as thoroughly purified:
THE TRADE SU lED ON THE MOST LIBERAL
TERMS.
OLD BEDS PURIFIED AND DRESSED.
Bedsteads, Paillasses, Bedticks, Curled Hair, Wool, Silk, and
Cotton Flocks, Mattresses, Blankets, Quilts, Counterpanes
Sheeting, &c., at the FEATHER • BED AND MATTRESS
WAREHOUSE, 126, WHITECHAPEL, corner of Great Char-
lotte-street.
MANUFACTORY, FEATHER-STREET.

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ADMIRALTY ORDER.
SIGNAL LAMPS FOR STEAMERS.
VORREST and BROMLEY, S INED GLASS
l' MANUFACTURERS, 19, 0 AYMARKET Liverpool,
supply exclusively, by appoi ent, the ADMIRALTY GLASS..
The Proprietors and nts of Steam-vessels are cautioned
against using an er Glass, every square requiring to be
tested, so as to e sure distant effect.
Many of the Lamps otherwise fitted, have proved utterly. useless.

TO BANKERS, AIERCHANTS, AND
E. T. HALL,
METALLIC PEN MANUFACTURER,
BEGS to inform his Customers and the Public, that
he has Removed from 16, Houghton-street, to
23, SOUTH JOHN-STREET,
and most respectfully solicits a continuance of that liberal
patronage bestowed on him for the last en years.
E. T. H. having made great im ements in his Pens, par--
ticularly calls attention to • lue Steel Pens, well adapted
for all Writers.

Sold in Boxes, 2s. . per Gross.
Shippers and rade supplied Wholesale.
WHOLESAL AGENT for W. LYON'S ANTI-CORRO—
SIVE INK, a Substitute for Writing and Copying Inks com—
bined.

N.B.—Any description of Pen made to order,

SASSAFRAS CHOCOLATF.
DR. DE LA MOTTE'S nutritive, health-restoring
AROMATIC CHOCOLATE, prepared from the Nuts of
the Sassafras Tree. This Chocolate contains the peculiar vir-
tues of the Sassafras Root, which has been long held in great
estimation for its purifying and alterative properties. The
aromatic quality (which is very grateful to the stomach) most require for breakfast and evening repast, to promote
digestion; and to a deficiency of this pro he customary
breakfast and supper may, in a measure, be attributed
the frequency of cases of indi on generally termed bilious.
It has been found highly eficial in correcting the state of
the digestive organs, from whence arise many diseases,
such as eruptions o e skin, gout, rheumatism, and scrofula.
In cases of debit* of the stomach and a sluggish state of the
liver and int ines, occasioning flatulence, costiveness, &c.,
and in spasmodic asthma, it is much recommended.
Sold in pound packets, by the PATENTEE, 12, Southampton-
street, Strand, London; also by Chemists. Mr. F. G. JONES,
Patent Medicine Warehouse, 5, Paradise-street, Patent Medi-
cine Warehouse, Agent for Liverpool.

GREAT FIRE
IN MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER ;
ENTIRELY CONSUMING A LARGE SQUARE OF WARE..
HOUSES, OFFICES, AND SHOPS.
TN the last great Fire in George-street, Manchester,
I
nine large Houses had their Books burned in Iron Safes,
Closets with Iron Doors, Wrought Iron Fireproof (?) Safes,
&c. &c. &c. ; and again on the above r ion, a great
number of parties have suffered t e calamity. The only
Safe which brought its conte ninjured out of the burning
mass being the one allud below.
" Manchester, August 13th, ]which
entirely GICNTLEMEN n the late Fire in Market-street, which
entirely gutted e entire block of buildings of which my Ware-
house formed part, I have sincere pleasure in informing you
that my books, together with a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, which I strongly recommend to the public.
" I am your obedient servant,
" THOMAS HAIGH, Woollen Merchant,
• " New Brown-street Ind Market-street.
" Messrs. Milner and Son."
was partially melted: the contents
inside unsinged, being steamed (boiled instead of burned) by
the evaporating principle of the Safe. Near to it a large
Wrought Iron Fireproof (?) chambered Safe, full of valuable
Books and Dqcuments before the Fire, wasfound to contain
nothing but tinder and asses arte, tL
In the numerous accidental Fires and experimental tests
which Milners' Safes have been exposed to—every description
of Safe in use—Fireproof (so called) or otherwise have been
burnt out beside them, confirming the recommendation of the
scientific and practical authorities who have tested them, and
the Patentees' during seven years' active working of their
patent, on a rapidly extending scale, have spared no pains nor
cost in effecting improvements, by which they are enabled to
pledge themselves at all times to supply the most complete and
secure depositories for Books, Documents, and Valuables ; in-
cluding the strongest Wrought-iron Safes, Closets, and Doors
in the World. lined with their uneaualled Fire-resisting Cham-
bers. Out of upwards of 20.000 of their Sates in use amongst
the Manufacturing and Commercial Houses of Great Britain—
the class best able to appreciate their value—numerous cases of
exposure to accidental fire have occurred, from which Thomas
Milner and Son select the following as instances, in which they
are of opinion that no other Safe than their own would have
preserved its contents unburnt.

Fire at Mr. J. Blackaller's Ship and Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a strong and fierc Fire; Safe most
severely burnt outside; contents unsinged.
pre at Messrs. J. and W. Walkers', the extensive builders,
Birkenhead; buildings entirely gutted, everything burnt in
them, including the contents of large Iron Safe and drawers,
standing besides Milners'; the contents of Milners' uninjured,
and in use now.

Fire at Messrs. Garniss and Co.'s, Park-lane; a very strong
Ere; again the contents of Miners' Safe the only thing saved"
en the premises. . .

Fire at Plimsaul Brothers', of Plymouth ; a very extensive
and destructive fire; a large Iron Safe covered with brickwork
with double Iron doors burnt out; Milners' entirely preserving
its contents. . _

Fire in Queen-street, Glasgow; a great number of Safes and
Closets burnt out; no books saved throughout the buildings
excepting Messrs. S. R. and Thomas Browns', in Milners
Safe.
Milners' Fire-resisting Safes, Chests, and Boxes, suitable for
all classes of Buildings, impregnable Locks and Cash Boxes,
at the Works, 50A, Lord-street and Cable-street, and Show-
room, 15, South John-street, Liverpool.

THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE EVIDENCE that
can be given in relation to the
HEALING
ofQUALITIES
HOLLINGSWORTH'S

atsitiadl that
hopeless,i t
Providentially
AMERICAN INDIAN SUGAR-COATED PILLS
is a statement of cures effected by their use. Read the follow- -
ing : _ ---
•" To Messrs. Pearson & Co., 110, London- , Liverpool.—
Gentlemen,—l have much pleasure in ing you acquainted
with the great benefits I have realis in the use of - Hollings-
worth's American Indian Sugar- ated Pills. For six months
I had been afflicted with seve ains in my side, stomach, and
back, attended also with t loss of appetite. In the hope of
alleviating my suffering , applied to several medical advisers,
tried a variety of m s, and spent much money, but all to no
good purpose, fo otwithstanding all the medicines I took, F
stomach so loathd my food, that 1 became extremely weak
traa worsew i • 1
greatnd to suchdiffi eau i statet
difficulty
l could
,Isheiaktrnael
walk
s Iwt
pas stairs.l ed u clue d;
I noticed an advertisement in the and expected not to live to see another
Liver-
poolChristmas-
day. Mercury, describing the renovating properties of your
palatable Pills; 1 procured a box at your establishment, and
made a trial by taking a dose morning and evening for about
two weeks, according to the printed directions; and. now I am
happy in stating publicly, that the use of the Pills has removed
my distressing pains, and fully restored my appetite, so that I
may say. I have risen from near death's door. Any person
calling at my residence may have every information. Although
the time is so short since I first commenced taking your medi-
cine, I find my strength so increased that I can attend to my
domestic affairs with pleasure. I mean to take a dose of Pills
daily until I feel not a vestige of my late distressing complaint
remains. You are at liberty to make this public, and use it in
any way you think proper, for the benefit of my fellow-sufferers.
Hoping all that are afflicted as I have been may use and realise
the same benefits from your medicine, I remain, yours grate-
fully, " ELIZABETH WRIGHT.
" 3, Watkinson's-buildings, Pembroke-place, Liverpool."

THE AMERICAN INDIAN SUGAR-COATED PILLS

carry off all impure matter, purge the bowels and all the fluids,

cause a
FREE AND HEALTHY CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD,
give tone to the stomach, liver, lungs, and every organ of the
human body, and thus prevent, alleviate, and
CURE COMPLAINTS OF EVERY KIND,
becauSe
THEY STRIKE AT THE ROOT OF DISEASE,

and remove the cause : they cannot be taken according to di-
rections without decided benefit. Being enveloped with a
coating of sugar perfectly disguises the taste of the medicine,
and they are so agreeable that children will take them with
pleasure.—Sold Wholesale and Retail by
PEARSON & CO., 110, LONDON-ROAD, LIVERPOOL,
to whom all communications must be addressed.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.

Her Majesty's Honourable Commissioners of Stamps have
ordered the following inscription to be engraved on the Go-
vernment Stamp :—" American Indian Sugar-coated Pills G.
Pearson and Co., Proprietors."—Sold in boxes at 131 d., 28.9 d.,
and 4s. 6d., with full directions.

Agents in Liverpool :—Pearson and Co., 110, London-road;
Wm. Lea, Dale-street; T. Mucklow 137, Tithebarn-street ; M.
Aylward, bottom of Lord-street; J. and T. Britten, 53, Old
Haymarket ; A. Meyrick, 22, Hanover-street ; T. Lyon, 96,
Richmond-row; Rook, 113, St. James's-street; R. G. Sheldon,
159, Vauxhall-road ; Wm. Quiggin, 15, Berry-sreet ;J. Dalton,
115, Brownlow-hill ;H. and G. Haigh, 80, Scotland-road ;W.
Hetherington, 3, Toxteth-buildings, Mill-street.
Toxtet h-park.—W. Leighton, 83, Park-road; T. Pollock, 56,
Bedford-street, corner of Hill-street.
Warertree.—W. Price, Druggist.
Woolton.—T. Driver, Druggist.
Birkenhead.—J. Parrs, Chester-street.
Prescot.—W. H. Dodd, Druggist.
And by their Agents throughout the country.

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. made a remarkably quick passage, having arrived at least -4_
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FRANCE. two days before she was expected. The Teviot brings in- The Rev. Mr. Gorham is prosecuting his suit in the An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great
HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. The bureaux of the chamber continued on Monday the formation of an attempted revolt at Jacmel amongst the Ecclesiastical Court against the Bishop of Exeter, for Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended the sth of
The house having gone into committee on the sugar discussion of the project of the constitution, and more blacks. About 1000 riotously assembled, and attempted institution to Brampford Speke ; and we doubt not the July, 1847 and 1848, showing the Increase or Decrease
IDB. JULY 5.
11 Incr. Deer.
duties, and the first set of resolutions having been put, especially of its preamble containing the declaration of to destroy it by fire. The soldiers and inhabitants turned suit will be carried forward to a successful issue. thereof.
Sir J. PAKINGTON rose and moved as an amendment the rights of man. In three of the bureaux this declara- . turned out, and saved the town from destruction. It had THE COLLECTS IN VERSE.-Messrs. Hatchard have YEARS ENDE
that the duty
ion West India Muscovado sugar should, tion was altogether rejected, in some others, it was post- been set on fire in several places. When the steamer left just published this little work. The poetry is singularly
from the sth instant, be 10s. per cwt., instead of 135., as poned until after the discussion of the articles. The the inhabitants were hourly in expectation of another at- pure, and the adherence to the precise language of the 1847. 84
contemplated by the resolution; his intention being, if declaration of the right of every citizen to employment tack; if so, fears were entertained for the safety of the all but inspired" originals strikingly close and faithful.
that amendment was carried, further to move that the excited the strongest objections in all the bureaux, town. The consul bad written to Commodore Bennet, at M. Guizot has declined .the offer of the Chair of r £ £ £ £
duty on foreign sugar of the same class be continued at grounded chefly upon the manifest impossibility of the Jamaica, for assistance. Many families, who had fled Modern Languages made to him by the Curators of the Customs 18,792,348 17,888,988 .... 903,360
205., the same to continue for a period of three years. state answering such a claim. The right to relief, how- from Martinique in consequence of the'late disturbances, Taylor Institution in Oxford. M. Guizot declined the Excise 12,733,998 12,263,233 .... 470,765
The amendment was supported by Mr. H. Drummond, ever, in the cases of inability to labour, was generally had arrived at Porto Rico, and had taken up a temporary offer from personal motives, with every sense of the corn- Stamps 7,201,797 6,449,108 „ „ 752,689
Mr. B. Cochrane, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Godson, Mr. Man- admitted. The committee on labour has resolved to pro-. abode there. The accounts from the West India islands pliment, which we still think was paid to him by the Taxes 4,325,732 4,306,703 .... 19,029
gles, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Oswald, Mr. T. Baring, and pose the revocation of the decree of the Provisional are still of the usual desponding character. There is a Curators at the expense of the trust confided to them by Property Tax 5,491,936 5,411,253 .... 80,623
Mr. Disraeli ; and opposed by Mr. V. Smith, the Chan- Government which limited the hours of work. great depression everywhere, and, in fact, no business be- the University. Post Office 854,000 787,000 .... 67,000
cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. M. Gibson, and Lord John General Lebreton has been elected Questeur of the ing transacted whatever. Demerara was, in particular, in On Tuesday week, the new church at Hixon, within Crown Lands 112,000 71,000 .... 41,000
Russell. National Assembly. The Reforme shows some pique at a very distressed state. Great quantitiesof rain had fallen five or six miles of Stafford, erected at the expense of Miscellaneous
After some explanations, the committee divided, when this nomination, as affording an additional proof of the at Jamaica, which had been useful to the sugar Planta- Earl Talbot, was consecrated by the Bishop of the diocese. China Money 227,644 455,021 227,377 „ „
the amendment was negatived by a majority of 62-the military mania. " Nothing shines now (says this jour- tions, the crop being expected to be a very good one, but A collection was made, amounting to upwards of £134, Imprest &other
numbers 169 to 231. nal) but the epaulette,-there is no sound but that of the the rain had been disastrous in another way. The (Plan- which will be added to the endowment provided by Earl Moneys
After some debate as to proceeding with the resolutions, sabre. It is a Pleiad of generals ; the soldier is Minister tity which had fallen had caused inundations, and led to Talbot and the vicar of Colwich (Archdeacon Hodson), Repayments of
Lord J. RUSSELL said, as it appeared that the question -the soldier is Representive-he is the leader of party, great destruction of stock and property of all kinds. The in whose parish the church is situated. A parsonage- Advances 804,843 422,485 .... 382,358
could not be settled before the sth of July, he would the Chairman of Committees, he is diplomatist, he is ques- rivers rose to a great height, carrying down in their course house, adjacent to the church, has also been erected at
propose that the Chairman should report progresslo sit teur. One would say we had the Empire over again, with to the sea large trunks of trees and dead animal 3, whose the noble earl's expense. Total Income. 51,060,109 48,722,400 227,377 2,815,086
again on Friday. „ the exception of its epopees." bodies were to be seen floating, in vast numbers, on the OXFORD COMMEMORATION.-The Enecenia, or corn- Deduct Increase .
Mr. GLADSTONE was desirous of knowing what would The Minister of War brought in a Bill for the formation surface. The damage to the railway is stated to have memoration of founders and benefactors, was held on
be done in reference to the duties which would come into of a battalion of gendarmerie, which excited some emo- been immense. Wednesday in the Theatre, when the honorary degree of Decrease on the Year .. £2,587,709
operation on Thursday. It was not a question affecting con, from the belief that this corps is destined to act in It appears that the number of persons killed at Naples D.C.L. was conferred on the Earl of Harrowby, Baron QUARTERS ENDED JULY 5.
merely those who had sugar in bond, but those who had La Vendee. The reporter of the Committee on the Bill on the 15th of May and carried to Campo Santo amount- Hugel, Sir G. Arthur, Bart., W. E. Gladstone, Esq., -
it on its way to this country. said so without hesitation ; but the Minister of War eva- ed to 1,354, amongst whom were 891 Swiss and 200 bour- M.P., Sir C. Morgan, Bart., J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., 1847. 1848. I Incr. Deer.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it had been ded the explanations he was called on to make by stating geois. The wounded taken to the hospitals were 1,207. A. J. B. Hope, Esq., M.P., H. Hallam, Esq., the histo-
the invariable practice to give directions for the alteration that this corps was destined to act against all the enemies So common are fires at Constantinople, where the rian, W. Cotton, Esq., A. Leyland, Esq. All these indi- £ - £ £ £
of duties on a simple resolution of the house. By the (4 the Republic. houses are generally built with wood, instead of brick or viduals were received with unanimous applause, except Customs 4,519,119 4,447,832 .... 71,287
course now pursued, all the sugar that came in between The Gazette deFrance appeared on Thursday in mourn- stone, that landlords are said to calculate that their pre- Mr. Gladstone, who was received with mingled cheers Exci5e........ 3,291,052 3,473,803 182,751 ....
the sth and the time the resolution was reported, would lug for the death of the celebrated M. de Chateaubriand. mises will be burnt down once in seven years, and to fix and hisses, the former predominating. M. Guizot, with Stamps.
come in at the reduced duty. The following letter has been addressed by the well- their rents in conformity with that supposition. his son and two daughters, was present, and received a Taxes 2,075,001 2,034,133 ~ .. 40,868
Mr. GLADSTONE urged Lord John Russell to give no- known Abbe Beguerry to the Journal des Debats :- The steam-ship Acadia, Captain Stone, arrived in the most enthusiastic reception from all, which he appeared Property Tax 1,036,517 988,401 .... 48,116
tice of a resolution for Tuesday, for continuing the pre- " Paris, July 4. Mersey on Wednesday, with New York papers to the to feel most sensibly. The name of the Queen was re- Post Office 215,000 136,000 .... 79,000
sent duties for the interval that would elapse before the " Monsieur,-France has lost one of her noblest sons. 21st ult. She was detained ten hours, between New York ceived in a manner beyond all precedent, and the cheering Crown Lands .... 10,000 10,000 ....
other resolutions were reported ; but Lord John Russell M. de Chateaubriand died this morning, at a quarter-past and Halifax, by fog. She brought £26,000 in specie. from every part of the theatre and the ladies standing and Miscellaneous
did not respond to the desire thus expressed. eight o'clock. We received his last sigh. He died in The Britannia bad sailed from Halifax for New York waving their handkerchiefs, combined to make a scene China Money .... .... .... ....
full possession of his faculties. So fine an intelligence did previous to the arrival of the Acadia. that never will be forgotten by those present. As soon Imprest &other
HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY. of right conquer death and preserve in his grasp a visible THE CHOLERA.-Letters from St. Petersburgh con- as the procession entered the theatre, the organ struck up Moneys
The Game Certificates for Killing Hares Bill was read liberty. The death of Madame de Chateaubriand last firm the accounts of the fearful progress of the cholera- the national anthem, and the whole of the assembly rose Repayments of
a third time. year, affected him so much, that laying his hand on his morbus. The malady broke out in the Russian capital and sung it through, before they would allow the business Advances . 137,944 86,813 .... 51,131
A conversation took place consequent upon the presen- breast he said,-• I feel my life attacked and dried up in on tho 24th ult., and an immense number of patients of the day to commence. A grand horticultural fete took -
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tation of petitions by the Duke of RICHMOND relative to its source ; it is now only a question of some months.' have already succumbed beneath its virulence. Six hos- place in Worcester College Gardens' and was attended by Total Income. 13,240,190 12,912,449 1 274,485 602,226
juvenile offenders. The death of M. Ballauche. which followed immediately pitals have been prepared for the reception of cholera an immense number of persons. Mr. Green made an as- Deduct Increase
T.,,,1 IC7VTIAII2II remarked that the subiect was well after. was the last blow for his illustrious old friend. pationt. alone I.= I,luse.m a.. pestilence is decimating .ont in his balloon, accompanied by two ~.......i..... ur the 44 -

A conversation took place consequent upon the presen-
tation of petitions by the Duke of RICHMOND relative to
juvenile offenders.
Lord KINNAIIID remarked that the subject was well
worthy of attention. There were 100,000 children in the
metropolis without education, and 30.000 who were va-
grants, and who herded together in dens of iniquity. In
Aberdeen it had been proved that children could be kept
in a school, with a view to their reformation, for £5 a
year, and they could be maintained in London for £6 ;
and this would be much cheaper than transporting them.

Earl GREY said the boys who had been sent to Park-
hurst were often forwarded to Western Australia as ap-
prentices, and the system had been found to answer re-
markably well. They must be careful not to place chil-
dren who had been neglected by their parents in a better
situation than the children of poor honest people.
A complaint against the North Wales Railway Com-
bany by a shareholder, embodied in a petition, was stated
y Lord MONTEAGLE, the noble lord intimating that be
should move for a committee to inquire into the circum-
stances alleged by the petitioner.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY.
In committee on the Encumbered Estates (Ireland)
Bill,
Sir L. O'BRIEN moved that it be an instruction to the
committee to extend its operation to England and Scot-
land.
The motion was resisted by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL.
After a discussion, in which Mr. NAPIER and Mr.
IONSELL joined, the debate a•as adjourned till Monday.
Mr. BANKES moved for leave to bring in a bill to re-
peal the Railway Commission Act.
Mr. LABOUCIIERE resisted the motion; which, after
interesting speeches from Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. V. SMITH,
and Lord J. RUSSELL, was negatived by a majority of 73
over 62 voices.

Mr. URQUHART was proceeding to move two abstract
resolutions on the impolicy of interference in the internal
government of other countries, when the stream of his
eloquence was cut short by the discovery that 40 mem-
bers could not be prevailed upon to stop to hear him.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--WEDNESDAY.

After the presentation of a number of petitions the
House went into committee on the Places of Worship
Sites (Scotland) Bill. This measure, after considerable
discussion and two divisions, in which the Government
were successful by very narrow majorities, passed through
committee, and the report was ordered to be received
next day.
On the question being put for resuming the adjourned
debate on Mr. O'Connell's motion for the Repeal of the
Union,
Mr. REYNOLDS moved its further adjournment till that
day three weeks, which was agreed to. (This " important
measure" was introduced as far back as the 11th of April
last, and since then both the mover and seconder have ab-
sented themselves—while at the time of its introduc-
tion there were not more than a dozen Irish members
present !)
Mr. KEOGH denounced the motion for a repeal of the
Union as a false pretence, and accused the Repeal mem-
bers for playing with the question, holding it over the
House in terrorein, without having any serious intention
of bringing it to a vote.
After some observations by 11Ir. REYNOLDS,
Mr. KEOGH charged the Government with having
laved fast and loose with the Repeal question during
didates in order to obtain supporters douse.

Sir G. GREY emphatically denied the charge.
On the motion of Mr. EVELYN DENISON a select com-
mittee was appointed to consider the, beet means of pro-
moting the dispatch of public business in the House, to
consist of seventeen members.

" Monsieur,—France has lost one of her noblest- sons.
M. de Chateaubriand died this morning, at a quarter-past
eight o'clock. We received his last sigh. He died in
full possession of his faculties. So fine an intelligence did
of right conquer death and preserve in his grasp a visible
liberty. The death of Madame de Chateaubriand last
year, affected him so much, that laying his hand on his
breast he said,—• I feel my life attacked and dried up in
its source ; it is now only a question of some months.'
The death of M. Ballauche, which followed immediately
after, was the last blow for his illustrious old friend.
Since that time M. de Chateaubriand seemed rnther to
rush than to descend to the grave. A few minutes be-
fore his death M. de Chateaubriand, who had received
the sacrament on Sunday, embraced once more the cross
with the emotion of a lively faith and firm confidence.
One of the expressions which he repeated most frequently
of late years was, that the social questions which agitated
nations at present could not be solved without the Bible,
without the soul of Christ, whose doctrines and example
have denounced selfishness, this gnawing worm of all con-
cord. Thus M. de Chateaubriand hailed Christ as the
Saviour of the world, even in a social point of view, and
he loved to call him his king as well as his God. A priest
and a sister of charity knelt at the feet of M. de Chateau-
briand at the moment he expired. It was amidst prayers
and tears that the author of the Genius of Christianity
rendered his soul to God.

di /
have the honour, &c.,
"DEGuEnity, Curate of St. Eustache."

M. de Chateaubriand was born on the 4th of Septem-
ber, 1768. He has left ten volumes of Memoirs, which
he could not be induced to publish during his lifetime.
M. Emile de Girardin was liberated on Wednesday after
an imprisonment of twelve days, eight of them au secret,
and two-and-a-half hours of the time in a cell under
ground.
The journals of Thursday are still occupied with the late
insurrection, notwithstanding the continued existence of
the state of siege.
The prevailing impression is that the lite revolt
has inflicted a death-blow on communism, socialism, and
ultra-republicanism. All who in Paris were not in the
ranks of the National Guards are disarmed. Those who
fled into suburbs or departments are tracked, hunted
down, and captured. 100,000 soldiers are in the capital,
as well as 100,000 volunteers from the provinces: These
give a sense of security to the most timid, but the epoch
of the trial of the prisoners, and of the punishment (trans-
portation for those that may be convicted), is looked to
with anxiety and misgiving. " Their friends and asso-
ciates may not be able to effect their release by force,"
say the alarmists, " but they are capable of feat ful acts of
revenge !"
The I?eforme states that nothing has yet been decided
with respect to the place to which the insurgents are to
be transported. The Marquesas have been rejected on
account of their sterility. It is asserted that a number
of unemployed operatives, who did not take any part in
the insurrection, have united in a petition to be permitted
to form part of the new colony. They only require that
the Republic shall provide them with the instruments ne-
cessary for agriculture.
It is said that, according as the judicial authorities who
are investigating the causes which led to the late insur-
rection proceed with their labours, the facts developed
become more serious. Thirty-four additional warrants
were issued on Wednesday last, not against obscure
insurgents, but against persons who appear to have per-
formed an important part in the revolt, and who exer-
cised a decisive influence on the facts which preceded it.
The Paris papers of Thursday announce that the fune-
ral procession of the victims of the late insurrection,
which it was intended should proceed from the Place de
la Concorde to the Place de la Bastille, would stop at the
Madeleine, and that the bodies of the deceased would be
placed in the vaultsuf
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July were not yet ready for their reception. It was re-
ported, however, that this alteration of the programme
had been occasioned by information that the partisans of
the late insurgents intended firing upon Gen. Cavaignac
and other distinguished persons in the cortege..
M. Carnot, an ultra-Republican, has been replaced, as
Minister of Public Instruction, by M. Banlabelle.
General Bedeau has declined the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs.

Of the insurgents who escaped being shot or taken,
many are reported to be scouring the country, hunted
like wolves by dragoons through the woods and fields.
Others lurk in Paris, in numbers which it is impossible
to ascertain. Nightly assassinations and crimes of a still
darker dye (even poisoned lint has been sent to the hos-
pitals) prove that the deadly spirit of mischief is even now
alive in the city.
A ruffian named Manchon, who turns out to be a
grocer's shopman, has been seized by the police in conse-
quence of his having boasted that he is the one who fired
the bullet at Dennis, the sainted Archbishop of Paris,
displaying, in proof of his share in the assassination, a
portion of the pontifical belt, known to have been worn
by the Archbishop ou the day when he was murdered at
the foot of the barricade.

It appears that the number of persons killed at Naples
on the 15th of May and carried to Campo Santo amount-
ed to 1,354, amongst whom were 891 Swiss and 200 bour-
geois. The wounded taken to the hospitals were 1,207.
So common are fires at Constantinople, where the
houses are generally built with wood, instead of brick or
stone, that landlords are said to calculate that their pre-
mises will be burnt down once in seven years, and to fix
their rents in conformity with that supposition.
The steam-ship Acadia, Captain Stone, arrived in the
Mersey on Wednesday, with New York papers to the
21st ult. She was detained ten hours, between New York
and Halifax, by fog. She brought £26,000 in specie.
The Britannia bad sailed from Halifax for New York
previous to the arrival of the Acadia.
THE CHOLERA.—Letters from St. Petersburgh con-
firm the accounts of the fearful progress of the cholera-
morbus. The malady broke out in the Russian capital
on tho 24th ult., and an immense number of patients
have already succumbed beneath its virulence. Six hos-
pitals have been prepared for the reception of cholera
pationt. alone 1.. muse, m, bl.o pc.tilence is decimating
the population. In two days (the 11th and 12th June),
of 222 patients, 122, or more than one-half, succumbed.
Orel, a town in Russia, was destroyed by fire on the
7th of June, and most of the inhabitants lost all they
possessed. Upwards of 1,237 houses, including 50 of
stone, 80,000 tschetwerts of grain, 100,000 poods of flax,
and four bridges, were destroyed. The four stone churches
were much injured. The whole of this loss is officially
estimated at 3,425,000 silver roubles. The Diaperor has
forwarded the sum of 50,000 roubles to be distributed
amongst the poorer people, and the Ministers have also
sent 10,000 roubles for the same purpose.

IRELAND.

True bills were found in Dublin, on Monday, against
D. Reilly, on a charge of illegal training and drilling.
Malignant typhus fever is making fearful ravages in the
county of Cavan. Within the last week three medical
men have fallen victims.

The anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, on Friday
week, was celebrated with rejoicings in Enniskillen, Dun.
gannon, and other towns in Ireland.
Mr. Mitchel has arrived at Bermuda in health, though'
rather depressed in spirits. On his voyage he was re-
markably silent and reserved.
Mr. Sergeant Warren died in Dublin on Thursday.
This eminent counsel was called to the bar in 1806. The
equity law courts were closed for the day in consequence.
The Limerick Examiner gives a list of fifteen land-
owners in Clare against whom the poor-law guardians
have commenced proceedings in the superior courts.
Orange flags have been placed on Louggall church,
Caledon, Killelea, Grange, Dungannon, and almost on
all the churches in the counties of Tyrone, Monaghan,
Down, &c. •
UNANIMITY OF POPERY.—The Roman Catholic bishops
of Ireland have• republished the resolutions against the
clerical agitators, but the hierarch of Cashel, Dr.
Slattery, has written to say that he had nothing to do
with the meeting in question.
The Rev. William Archer Butler, rector of Raymaghy,
and late professor of moral philosophy, in Dublin Uni-
versity, fell a victim to typhus fever last Wednesday.
The lamented gentleman died at Sharon rectory, near
Londonderry.' He was only thirty four years of age, and
was possessed of brilliant talents and commanding elo-
quence.
THE JULY ANNIVERSARY.—Preparations on an ex-
tensive scale are being made in Ulster for the celebration
of the Aughrim anniversary, but government, after de-
luding the Orangemen into anti-repeal declarations, are
now going to play the old game of coercion once more.
Troops are pouring into Ulster from every quarter south
of Dundalk, and an immense staff of stipendiary magis-
trates have been despatched to the north with orders to
put down the processions.
ROYAL IRISH YACHT CLUB.—The Dublin regatta took
place on Wednesday and Friday. The prize of £5O, for
yachts of 25 tons and upwards, was won by Mr. Hodders'
cutter Enchantress, beating Water Wyvern, Druid, Ata-
lanta, Charm, and Enigma. The prize of £25, for yachts
under 25 tons, was won by Mr. Sweetman's Daring,
beating Moonbeam and Zephyr. The £3O plate, with 20
, 471-• -.1 .44.00 by
Mr. Sweetman's Daring.
The best body guard that the Lord Lieutenant could
receive on his visit to the Great Southern and Western
Railway was afforded to him in the assemblage of the
navigators of the line. A heavy shower of rain fell as we
reached the junction, says the Irish Railway Gazette,
where the labourers of the company were drawn up in a
line parallel with the railway, with their spades and picks
on their muscular shoulders. They received the Earl of
Clarendon with a loud and hearty cheer, which was raised
with the strength of non-consumptive lungs again and
again.
THE CROPS IN IRELAND.—At the meeting of the pro-
prietors of the Bank of Ireland last week, the chairman
said it would be gratifying to the proprietors to hear that
Sir J. Young, one of the directors then at the board, who
had just returned from Ireland, stated that in each dis-
trict through which he had passed the crops appeared in a
very luxuriant condition, and that there was every pros-
pect of a most abundant harvest. The statement fully
confirmed the advices which the directors had received
from every part of Ireland.
SENTENCES.—The trials of the persons charged in
Dublin with illegally drilling and training took place last
week. The jury came out three times to take the judge's
opinion as to the intent. It was supposed that they would
have finally disagreed, but the result has been very differ-
ent. At half-past four they found them guilty, and the sen-
tence was, " Gogarty, the chief, to be transported for seven
years; English to be imprisoned for two years, and the other
eight for twelve months." The wailing of their friends
was pitiable. All the prisoners were strongly recom-
mended to mercy.
THE LATE MR. STEELE.—The remains of the Head
Pacificator were consigned, on Monday, to their last
resting-place in Glasnevin Cemetery, beside the ashes of
his great leader. The funeral was announced to be a
public one, and no pains were spared to render the cere-
mony as imposing as impossible. But, alas for mob
mob popularity ! The corse of poor Mr. Steele, who bad
services to point to, and who lost his whole worldly sub-
stance in hunting after shadows, was followed to the grave
by just 16 carriages and about as many jaunting cars, and
accompanied by a noisy group of mere boys, whose at-
tendance at the ceremony might have been advantageously
dispensed with.
IRISH AGITATION.—A number of peers and members
of parliament connected with Ireland have presented to
the Home Secretary a memorial drawing the attention of
the government to the present alarming state of Ireland,
and arging that measures be taken to suppress the con-
federate clubs, to prohibit the manufacture and sale of
arms, and to afford protection to loyal subjects. The
memorialists urge the government to enforce to the
utmost extent the powers afforded by the law, and if those
should be insufficient to apply to parliament for other
means. The memorial is signed by thirty-five peers
(among whom are Lord Monteagle and the Earl of Devon)
and thirty-six members of the lower house.
The " trainers and drillers" in Ireland have got a lesson.
One of the scoundrels is transported, and two others are
imprisoned for periods that will cool the " felon" fever in
their blood. Some others, we hope, will be sent to keep
them company. They were the initiators in the assassin
system, and Government has done well to place the cul-
prits at the Bar. But it should not stop here. It is
mockery to be seizing the humbler instruments, while the
preachers of sedition—that is, the inculcators of assassin-
ation—are suffered to escape. Lay hold on them, but do
it impartially, without distinction and without exception,
and the land will soon have peace, notwithstanding the
bleating of what Mr. O'Connell used to call the bell-
wethers.

The Rev. Mr. Gorham is prosecuting his suit in the
Ecclesiastical Court against the Bishop of Exeter, for
institution to Brampford Speke ; and we doubt not the
suit will be carried forward to a successful issue.
THE COLLECTS IN VERSE.—Messrs. Hatchard have
just published this little work. The poetry is singularly
pure, and the adherence to the precise language of the
all but inspired" originals strikingly close and faithful.
M. Guizot has declined .the offer of the Chair of
Modern Languages made to him by the Curators of the
Taylor Institution in Oxford. M. Guizot declined the
offer from personal motives, with every sense of the com-
pliment, which we still think was paid to him by the
Curators at the expense of the trust confided to them by
the University.
On Tuesday week, the new church at Hixon, within
five or six miles of Stafford, erected at the expense of
Earl Talbot, was consecrated by the Bishop of the diocese.
A collection was made, amounting to upwards of £134,
which will be added to the endowment provided by Earl
Talbot and the vicar of Colwich (Archdeacon Hodson),
in whose parish the church is situated. A parsonage-
house, adjacent to the church, has also been erected at
the noble earl's expense.
OXFORD COMMEMORATION.—The Enecenia, Or COM-
meinoration of founders and benefactors, was held on
Wednesday in the Theatre, when the honorary degree of
D.C.L. was conferred on the Earl of Harrowby, Baron
Hugel, Sir G. Arthur, Bart., W. E. Gladstone, Esq.,
M.P., Sir C. Morgan, Bart., J. Masterman, Esq., M.P.,
A. J. B. Hope, Esq., M.P., H. Hallam, Esq., the histo-
rian, W. Cotton, Esq., A. Layland, Esq. All these indi-
viduals were received with unanimous applause, except
Mr. Gladstone, who was received with mingled cheers
and hisses, the former predominating. M. Guizot, with
his son and two daughters, was present, and received a
most enthusiastic reception from all, which he appeared
to feel most sensibly. The name of the Queen was re-
ceived in a manner 'beyond all precedent, and the cheering
from every part of the theatre and the ladies standing and
waving their handkerchiefs, combined to make a scene
that never will be forgotten by those present. As soon
as the procession entered the theatre, the organ struck up
the national anthem, and the whole of the assembly rose
and sung it through, before they would allow the business
of the day to commence. A grand horticultural fete took
place in Worcester College Gardens, and was attended by
an immense number of persons. Mr.i Green made an as-
cent in his balloon, accompanied by twn t,f the
University, from an adjoining close.
PEW RIGHTS.—The right of the possession and occu-
pation of particular pews in churches having caused va-
rious disputes in different parishes of the country,
we annex the following statement from a proper ecclesi-
astical authority :—" Cases have occurred of pews being
let, and of claims being set up by an individual to the
ownership of several pews. The right as to this matter
is plainly set forth in all the common treatises of ecclesi-
astical law. Nothing can legalise the selling or letting of
pews in old parish churches, except a special act of Par-
liament, such as that which has been obtaincd for St.
Alkmund's Church, in this town (Shrewsbury). The
pews in a parish church belong to, and are for the free use
of the parishioners ; and it is the duty of the churchwar-
dens, as the parochial officers of the ordinary, to make all
seats available, as far as may be, for the accommodation
of the parishioners, according to their respective stations.
The ordinary may indeed, by a faculty, grant to the in-
habitants of a particular house an exclusive right to the
use of a particular pew. This privilege, however, is al-
ways annexed to the house, and not to the person; and,
therefore, it cannot be granted to a man and his heirs,
nor (inasmuch as it is a privilege conferred on inhabitancy)
can it belong to a man in respect of his owning a particu-
lar estate in a parish."—FromArchdeaconAllen'sCharge,
1848.

Decrem

There is no political news in the journals of Friday 'of
any interest, which had not been anticipated in the de-
spatches the day before.
M. Lamartine has addressed a letter to the editors of
the Constitutionnel and the Journal des Debuts, in con-
sequence of a paragraph which appeared in the latter jour-
nal, accusing the late government of conniving at the late
insurrection. M. Lamartine replies by a general dis-
avowal, expressed in indignant terms.
M. de Girardin has addressed the following protestation
to all the Paris journals :—"Arrested without motive, and
imprisoned ' au secret' for eleven days on the most vague
grounds, and released in fine after a merely formal ex.
amination, and without any document produced against
me by which I could know why I was deprived of my
liberty on the 25th June, and why I was enlarged on the
sth July, my first act is to protest solemnly against this
sequestration of my person, and against the suppression of
the journal La Presse,—a double attack on my liberty and
property, which I reserve to myself the right of discussing
when La Presse shall re-appear, the bureaux and print-
ing-offices of that journal being now under the seals of the
government."
Contrary to what was expected, it was announced in the
Salle des Conferences, by General Lamoriciere, that the
state of siege would cease on Friday, or rather that it
would be seriously relaxed. Some restrictions will be re-
tained respecting the erection of barricades and the free-
dom of the press. It is said that the two journals La
Presse and L'Assemble Nationale, will, for the present,
continue suspended.
LAMARTINE.—M. de Lamartine is ostricised ! A por-
tion of his luggage has already proceeded to Marseilles,
whence he is going to cross the Mediterranean, accom-
panied by Madame de Lamartine, on a second pilgrimage
to Palestine.
THE FORCE OF HABIT.—An illustration of this and
of the spirit of the times was strikingly exhibited in a late
sitting of an association, recently formed in Paris. The
members were discussing the rules to be established,
when it suddenly became known that fighting; was going
on in the streets of the capital. A member immediately
proposed that the debate should be adjourned, as blood
was being shed in Paris ; but he was opposed by M.
Chaissaignac, who coolly observed that circumstances of
this description ought not to interfere with their pro-
ceedings, as their frequency would occasion too many in-
terruptions !
SAVED BY PorsoN.—During the late insurrection in
Paris, a vivandiere, accused of selling poisoned brandy,
was on the point of being killed. Two members of the
national assembly, MM. G. Sarrat and A. Mie, for some
time sought in vain to save her ; at length, M. Sarrat,
seeing that it was useless making further attempts to
appease the exasperation of the crowd, exclaimed,
" Wretch ! if you have poisoned the defenders of your
country, you are unworthy of death by the sword ; you
deserve only to die by poison ; swallow your own liquor."
The poor vivandiere eagerly seized upon this means of
safety, and being set at liberty, joined the regiment to
which she belonged.

;e on the Quarter 4.. £327,741

The total decrease of ordinary revenue on this quarter,
as compared with the corresponding period last year, is
only £276,783. That is the main fact in the table. The
decrease in the customs has been £71,287. This depart-
ment, however, has been effected by temporary causes of
contrary kinds, and the naked figure tells its tale but im-
perfectly. There have been large receipts on foreign grain,
but, on the other hand, colonial sugar has been extensively
held back for the lower duties expected to come into oper-
ation this day. In the Excise there is an apparent in-
crease to the amount of £182,751, and on several articles,
such as malt, soap, &c., there has been an actual increase.
As already mentioned, however, there has been a change
of accounts which renders it impossible to draw exact in-
ferences from these figures. The carriage duties, it is
said, have been transferred from the stamps and taxes to
the excise. It is evident, therefore, that there must be a
considerable decrease in some articles of excise, otherwise
the apparent increase in the table would be far greater.
In the stamps there is a decrease to the amount of
£311,824, which is accounted for partly by the above
change of accounts and partly by the abatement of railway
speculation. The taxes exhibit a decrease to the amount
of £40,868, and the property tax to the amount of £48,116.
In the present instance, as the assessment would be pro-
bably the same at the two dates, one cannot help looking
to ruined fortunes and pecuniary embarrassments for the
account of a deficiency which, supposing it to consist of
unpaid half-yearly assessments, represents income to the
amount of £3,000,000 per annum. In the Post-office there
is an apparent decrease of £79,000, which everybody who
knows the great increase of letter writing will at once as-
cribe to some adventitious cause. In fact, it arises not
from any falling off in the correspondence of the country
(though the rate of increase has been seriously checked by
the badness of trade), but from the payment of arrears,
greatly exceeding the deficiency in question, to one of the
railway companies for the conveyance of mails. Under
" Crown Lands " and " Miscellaneous Items " there has
been an increase respectively of £lO,OOO and £Bl,OOO.

THE BLOCKADE OF TRIESTE.-It is said in the ac-
counts from Augsburgh of the 2d instant, that through
the intervention of the Bavarian and Prussian Ambassa-
dors, the blockade of Trieste has been withdrawn, and
that the only control hereafter to be exercised will be
confined to the prevention of the transport of the mate-
rials of war.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

A warrant was issued on Monday under the Treason
Felony Act, against Mr. Martin, proprietor of The Irish
Felon newspaper. The officer entrusted with the warrant
has been unable to execute it, in consequence of the dis-
appearance of Mr. Martin, who is evidently keeping out
of the way to avoid capture. On Saturday, Mr. Martin
surrendered himself to the police, and was brought before
the magistrates, and, after an examination, was told that
he stood committed for two articles which had appeared
in The Irish Felon. He said that the reason he had got
out of the way was, that he wanted to get something like
a fair trial. The police had previously received orders to
inchotfhetyhateoudlda discover. Mr. Reilley
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the articles complained of, and that they are ready to take
the consequences, providing Mr. Martin be liberated.

_4_.

The receipts on the Chester and Holyhead Railway for
the week ended Ist July, amounted to £lO5l 6s. Bd.

THUNDER STORM.—On Friday, Londonderry was visi-
ted with a dreadful thunder storm. At the Rev. Edward
Bowen's mansion, Bogey, an electric bolt struck a stack
of chimneys, over the bed-room in which that gentleman
was sleeping. shattering them to pieces, a great quantity
of which fell down the flue, into the room. The fluid
then took the direction of the bell-wires, which it com-
pletely melted throughout the whole house, and marked
its track round the ceilings in a most fantastic manner.
So completely was the room filled with a sulphureous gas,
that when Mr. Bowen attempted to light a candle, he
found it would not burn until he got the windows and
doors opened. Another part of the fire struck the kitchen
chimneys, breaking them in pieces; on its way down the
flue it tore the wall, which is four feet thick, in several
places, smashing the bricks, which are of the hardest kind ;
it also tore out the nails that were in the walls and ceil-
ings, finally making its way through the flags down into
the earth. The house is considerablydamaged, but no
personal injury was systaingd.

A jury has awarded to Sir Edward Bulwer £7,533. as
compensation for land in Hertfordshire, taken by the
Great Northern Railway Company.
DIRECTORS AND THEIR SHAREHOLDERS.—The House
of Lords will, it seems, grant Committees of Inquiry into
the proceedings of the North Wales Company, and of
the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Company. Other Companies are likely to be subjected
to the same ordeal.
LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE RAIL-
WAY.—The adjourned meeting of this company was held
in London on Thursday. Mr. France took the chair, and
stated that the dissolution bill of the company had passed
the House of Commons without alteration, and stood last
evening for the second reading in the House of Lords, and
would no doubt be passed. Mr. Fisher and Mr. Newton
proposed a resolution, hoping that the Lords would throw
it out ; those gentlemen themselves, only voterl fo. th,
motion ; there were 16 against it.
INCREASE OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The traffic re-
turns on the railways in the United Kingdom during the
first half of the present year amounted to £4,477,000, and
the number of miles open at the end of that period was
3,830, giving an average return of £1,169 per mile. For
the corresponding period of last year the traffic returns
returns amounted to £4,002,740, and at the end of :that
time 3,150 miles were open, giving an average of £1,270 per
mile. It shows that while the mileage was increased
nearly 22 per cent., the traffic only increased 11.9 per
cent.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, an accident
of a frightful character, and attended with the loss of three
lives, happened on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway,
about a mile and a half from Ashton-under-Lyne. A
number of workmen being engaged to take down a tunnel
at North-bridge, a short distance from Guide-bridge, were
at work, when a workman of the name of Bromley fell in
with the top of the tunnel. The barrow he was wheeling
was smashed to atoms, but he remained unhurt. In a
short time after, he was engaged with two other persons
of the names of Law and Jackson, in excavating, when a
large lump of earth, with stones, bricks, &c., fell upon
them, and completely buried them alive. The rest of the
men set to work immediately to clear away the rubbish.
The poor fellows were dead when found, and presented a
sad mutilated spectacle.
GUNPOWDER CONVEYED BY RAILWAY.—It may not be
generally known that large quantities of gunpowder are
frequently and safely conveyed by railway, as much as 11
tons in one day ; and in the course of a few months above
100 tons of gunpowder have been carried on the London
and North-Western line to Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds,
and other places. The waggons in which the gunpowder
is conveyed are made expressly for the purpose. There
are eight of these waggons on the London and North-
Western Railway, constructed in accordance with the
patent of Mr. Henson. The body of the waggon is formed
with sheet iron on the outside ; the inside is lined with
two-inch plank, between which and the iron outside a
thickness of felt is carefully placed. These are screwed
together from the outside, so that there is nothing but
wood inside ; except on the floor which is covered with
sheet-lead. The door fits close with a double rabbit, so
that it is almost air-tight, and it is therefore impossible for
for any fire to get to the powder inside the waggon. The
axles are cased with wood. The comparative absence of
the usual noise and vibration in the movement of these
powder-waggons is very remarkable.—Herapath's Jrnl.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET MEETING.

DENMARK AND GERMANY.—ACCOUTAS from Ham-
burgh of the 4th July state, that it was generally believed
that an armistice of three months had been agreed to
between Germany and Denmark on the following condi-
tions :--1. The Swedes withdraw from the Danish terri-
tory. 2. The Germans withdraw from that part of the
Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, called Schleswig. 3.
Schleswi,, to remain neutral ground. 4. The blockade
by the &nes of German ports to be raised immediately.
5. The vessels captured by the Danes to be released after
settlement of the act of contribution levied on Jutland by
the Prussian army.

TUESDAY.—Tamarind won a Handicap Sweepstakes of
20 sovs each, beating Eothen and ten others.—St. Rosalia
won a Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, beating Banshee and
Chawryddes.—The Flying Dutchman won the July Stakes
of 50 sovs each, beating Sister to lodine and six others.
—Radulphus wan a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, beating
lapis and Tophana.—Matches : Festus received forfeit
from Maiden's Blush, and Querida from Harkaway.
WEDNESDAY.—The Flying Dutchman won a Sweep.
stakes of 100 cove each, beating Cracow and Chicot.—St.
Antonio won a Sweepstakes of 10 says, beating Passion
Flower and two others.—Epirus won a Sweepstakes of 10
sovs each, beating Caesar and six others.—Sotterley won
the Town Plate of 50 sovs, beating Swordplayer and two
others.—Tufthunter walked over for 50 sovs.—Match :
Miniver received forfeit from Francesca.

THURSDAY.—Vanguard won the Grosvenor Stakes of
100 sovs each, beating a colt by Cotherstone.—St. Ann
won a Handicap Stakes of 15 sovs each, beating Carrissima
and five others.—Farthingale won the Chesterfield Stakes
of 30 sovs each, beating Czarina and eight others. —Match :
Circassian Maid beat Touchy.—Kangaroo won a Sweep-
stakes of 10 sovs each, beating Coronet and other:—
Match : St. Rosalia beat Jereed.

LIVERPOOL RACES.—The number of acceptances for
the Liverpool Cup amount to twenty-one.
Lord Stanley is the new steward of the Jockey Club in
the place of Lord George Bentinck.
THE GENTLEMEN OF KENT V. THE GENTLEMEN OF
ENGLAND.--This grand cricket match took place on Mon-
day and Tuesday, at Lord's, the result of which was that
England won by five wickets.
GREAT FEAT OF LEAPING 1000 HURDLES IN THREE
HOURS AND A HALF.—The above extraordinary feat, un-
dertaken by Robert Coates, of London, came off at the
Red Lion, Knowle, near Bristol, on Monday. The hur-
dles were of the usual height, and placed at ten yards
apart. He started at five minutes to five, and jumped the
first 300 in fifty minutes. The fourth hundred was done
in 16} minutes ; the fifth hundred in 20 minutes ; the
sixth hundred in 241 minutes ; and the seventh hundred
in 22 minutes. At the 752 d leap he was again obliged to
rest, showing evident marks of distress ; but having taken
a cup of strong tea, be again started, saying he felt con-
fident of winning. The eighth hundred was done in 37
minutes. During the ninth hundred, which was finished
within the third hour, he shewed such evident signs of
weakness that many thought he could not finish his task
within the time, but having again refreshed himself with
strong tea, he accomplished this, the greatest of modern
feats, in 3 hours, 19 minutes, and 20 seconds.
A few days since, a boy about fourteen years of age,
who was fly-fishing in the river Greta, near Bowes, caught
104 trout during his day's sport.
Two fine young golden eagles were lately captured near
Tongue, Sutherland, and have been sent alive to a gentle-
man in the neighbourhood of London.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—The royal mail steam-ship
Teviot, arrived at' Southampton on. Tuesday, from the
West Indies, with the usual mails. On her homeward