The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Her Majesty's accouchment may be expected about the
beginning of July.
•Sunday last was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage
, of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster.
Swallows have made their appearance, and the cuckoo's
notes have been heard in various parts of the country.
The Marq 'is and M rghioness of Westminster are not
expected to visit London this season. The family will
shortly leave Eaton Hall for Halkin.
IRON TRADE.—PRICES ON THE CLYDE, APRIL 20.
Pig iron, No. 1, £3 10s. ; bar iron, £6; nail rods, L 7:
boiler plates and sheets, £9 : 10s. per ton.
Mr. Sergeant Merewether, has been elected recorder
of Devizes, vice Mr. Ludlow Brays, now one of the
membsTs of parliament for that town.
The dock company are canvassing the. borough for sig-
natures to a petition in favour of their bill for making
additional docks at this port. —Hull Herald.
Carpenters' wages at the Cape of Good Hope, an
ligihle colony for emigrants, are 30s a week.—Limerick
Chronic. e.
The Poor-law Commissioners have appointed Colonel
Thomas Francis Wade to be an assistant commissioner of
poor-laws.

The property sworn to under Sir Francis Burdett's will
is under £160,000. The personal property under Lady
Burdett's will is under £lO,OOO.
Prince Albert has made a donation of £5OO to the funds
of Christ's Hospital, and has become a governor of that
noble institution.
It is said the Poor Law Commissioners have adopted a
resolution that, wherever a union workhouse exists, a paid
chaplain shall officiate, whether the guardians approve or
not of the appointment.
The Marquis of Bute will, we hear, be again requested
to represent her MAjesty as Lord High Commissioner at
the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland, for the third time.—Edinburgh Evening Post.
Mr. Charles Kemble had the honour,' on Wednesday
evetdng, of reading to her Majesty and the Court, at
Buckingham Palace, Shakspeare's play of Cymbeline,
slightly compressed.
DEAL.—The atmosphere was, on Tuesday, so rarified
that Calais was plainly discernible with the naked eye.
The vessels could be seen leaving the harbour without the
aid of a glass.—Dover Chronicle.
It is said that -a lady violinist is about to make her
debut in the metropolis, her genius and talents are com-
pared by connoisseurs with those of a Paganiui and a
Sivori.
The Board of Trade has intimated that it considers the
statements of the Bristol Dock Company, in reference to
the Great Britain steamer, perfectly satisfactory, and that
the Great Western Company ought to give the guarantee
required. •
MORTALITY IN THE LINE.—Of nearly 600 young
active men, who composed the gallant regiment of the
22nd Highlanders, when it left this country for foreign
service nearly two years ago, only 143 have returned.—
Fife Herald.
THE POTATO PANIC.—The Greenock Advertiser al-

Ludes to the avidity with which potatoes were, some time
since, bought up, and announces, that after all the out-
cry, it is found that potatoes are not scarce, in conse-
quence of which prices are rapidly falling.
As a proof of the early season, and the effects of the
beautiful weather during the last four weeks, it may be
noticed that several broods of young thrushes were last
week discovered to have left their nests in various parts of
this neighbourhood.—Newcastle Herald.
CROP OF GRASS.—At Heaton Mersey, near this town,
there is a field of Italian rye grass, of about an acre, be-
longing to John Thorniley, so extraordinary in its growth
as to be at least two feet high at the present moment.—
Stockport Advertiser.
Out of the ten millowners at present in the House of
Commons it is said ttiat eight of them are in favour of
the ten hours bill for regulating factory labour. This fact
speaks volumes in favour of Lord Ashley's humane mea-
sure.

The letters and despatches of Nelson are at length about
to be collected and published, in a form corresponding
with Colonel Gurwood's celebrated work, ". The Welling-
ton Despatches." The task has been undertaken by Sir
Harris Nicolas.
The so!dier belonging to the 37th Regiment, who bad
deserted his post in the barracks at Sunderland, and when
in the guard-house committed a violent assault upon Ser-
geant M'Alligott, was tried by a general courtmartial in
the barracks in this town, a few days ago, and sentenced
to transportation for life.—Newcastle Herald.

. The Palace of Holyrood, so long tenantless and dreary,
has for the last few weeks been in a sense restored to its
former grandeur by the presence and occupancy of Her
Grace the Duchess of Hamilton, the Marquis of Douglas
and his amiable bride the Princess of Baden, the lovely
Countess of Lincoln, and their respective attendants.
Earl Howe. gives a grand entertainment to-morrow
at Curzon House, when the Queen Dowager and their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
are expected to honour the noble earl with their company.
The Archbishop of York, Duke of Wellington, and other
distinguished personages are invited to join the circle.
DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL SIR JAHLEEL BRENTON,
BART., K.C.B.—It is with much regret that we announce
the death of one of the most gallant and distinguished flag-
officers of the British navy, Tice-Admiral Sir Jahleel
Brenton, Bart., K.C.8., who died at Leamington Spa, on
Sunday afternoon last, in the 74th year of his age.

ANT Emma taiga ',mac&
dog, belonging to Mr. Richard Dixon, farrier, killed a rat
in one of the stables of Mr. Bagot, of the old Sir Simon's
Inn, which measured, from the snout to the tip of the
tail, twenty-two and a half inches. As Dominie Sampson
would have said—" Prodigious "—Lancaster Gazelle.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On Monday last a man
named Yeomans, living at Belper, Derbyshire, doubting
his wife's fidelity, struck her several times on the head
with a poker, from the effects of which she died on the
following day. The murderer cut his own throat after-
wards, and expired in a few minutes.
We understand that at a meeting of the Iron trade,
held on Wednesday (17th inst.) it was unanimously re-
solved, unasked, to advance the wages of the colliers and
miners in the Monkland distriet sixpence per day, on con-
dition of the absurd restriction by the miners to two-
thirds of their output being given up.—Glasgow Mail.
THE WELSH COLLIERS.—The colliers who struck
some time ago are now all at work, and exhibit evident
signs of their folly, having suffered severely during the
strike, and at Mold sessions two of the ringleaders, named
Parry and Hopkins, were brought up to take their trial,
but on their making a public-apology and acknowledge-
ment of their error, they were discharged.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—On Sunday evening last the
dwelling-house of Mr. James Dearlove, Bartholomew-
terrace, London, was broken open, and property to the
amount of £lO,OOO, consisting of bonds, bank notes,
leases, plate, &c. stolen. Daniel. Dearlove, nephew of
Mr. Dearlove, has been apprehended, examined, and re-
manded.
LORD ASHLEY'S NOTICE.—The last notice of the noble
lord the member for Dorsetshire stands upon the order
book exactly as follows :—" On the third reading of the
Factories Regulation Bill (No. 2), to move the addition
of clauses to limit the hours of labour, on and after the
Ist day of October of the present year (1844), for ail
young persons, to eleven in the day, or fifty-eight in the
week."

MEETING OF COLLIERS.—A meeting of the colliers
of Wigan and its neighbourhood, with a large number'
from Chorley, &c., took place on Monday afternoon last
on Amberswood Common. Several thousands were pre-
sent. Mr. Roberts, the attorney to the miners' associa-
tion, was present, and the principal speakers of the as-
sociation. They were very orderly, and quietly dispersed
at the close of the meeting.
CANDIDATES FOR THE BAR.—The Benchers of the

Inner Temple having resolved upon a more strict course
of examination of its younger members, with a view of
securing a greater degree of efficiency for the bar, have
appointed, in addition to two of its previous examiners,
several others. The present Lord Abinger was one of
the examiners at the same time with Mr. Adolphus and
Mr. Bullock, but his lordship resigned upon his succes-
sion to the peerage.
EXPORTATION OF COALS SUSPENDED.-M. Dillon,
the French Consul at Newcastle, has written to the Corn-
missalre-General of Havre, to say, that, in consequence
of the turn-out of the colliers in the North of England
(Northuinberland and Durham), there is every reason to
believe that, for the next month or five weeks, all ex-
portation of coals from Newcastle, Sunderland, Stockton,
Hartlepool, Seaham, and Blyth must be of necessity sus-
pended. M. Dillon prays him to communicate this fact
to the manufacturers of his arrondissement.

RELEASE OF CHARTIST PRISONERS.—Four Chartists,
named William Moorhouse, John Fairhurst, Robt. Wild,
and James Wild, were liberated from Knutsford House
of Correction on Thursday week, about four months be-
fore the expiration of the term of their imprisoment.
These parties were tried before Lord Abinger, at the Ches-
ter Assizes, 1842, on charges of sedition, &c., arising out
of the part they took at various meetings near Hyde
during the great turnout of factory open es.
Mons Vanvolsum, from Belgium, has peen staying at
Darlington for the fast few weeks, and has purchased 50
head of short-horned bulls and heifers from the eminent
breeders, Messrs. Maynard, Crofton Wood, Sbornton,
Lawson and others. Mr. Thornton, of Stapleton, sold
him two bulls and five heifers. The famous breeders in
the county of Durham annually have a considerable de-
mand for their young stock, for exportation to Germany,
Belgium, and France.—Newcastle Herald.
PAPER-MARING.—The Glocesler Journal says, "that
a most important patent has been taken out for the manu-
facture of paper on a new principle, and from an entirely
new material. If carried out to the full extent of the
wishes and expectations of the patentee (one orthe first
engineers in the kingdom), there is little doubt that it
will shortly supersede the use of rags, as the paper made
from the new material will be
_quite equal to the finest
Indian paper, and not so costly."
CHEESE.—A return of the quantities of cheese imported
into the several ports of Great Britain in each month of
the year 1843, distinguishing the European, United States,
and Colonial produce, has been printed on the motion of
Mr. Colvile, the member for Derbyshire. The aggregate
importations from all parts during the year ending Jan. 5,
1844, amounted to 179,389 cwt. From various countries
in Europe, there were imported during the year, 136,998
cwt. from the United States of America, (whence very
rich, fine flavoured cheeses are now being constantly im-
ported), 48,312 cwt. ; and from the British possessions
abroad only 79 cwt.

ANNUAL MOTION OF MR. VILLIERS, M.P., ON THE
CORN LAWS.—At the weekly meeting of the League, at
Covent Garden Theatre, on Wednesday last, the lion. C.
P. Villiers, in the course of his speech, said, that he had
neen prevailed upon to postpone the introduction of his
annual motion on the corn-laws up to this time, but would
certainly bring it forward on the first convenient day next
month.
OPPOSITION TO THE ANTI-CORN L LEAGUE.—A
requisition calling a public meeting of the county of Ren-
frew for the protection of agriculture, to be held in the
Town-hall of Renfrew, on Thursday next, appears in the
Glasgow Herald and Courier. The names of the Earls
of Glasgow and Eglinton and of Lord Blantyre head the
list. The list is signed by nearly 1,800 names—the names
of men of all ranks and classes in the county.—Edinburgh
Evening Post.
IMPROVEMENT IN SHIPPING.—We some time ago no-
ticed the sale of the ship Isabella Cooper at Greenock.
This vessel has since been refitted, and cleared out from
the Broomielaw, with the largest and most valuable cargo
that has yet left our port for Calcutta, having on board,
we understand nearly 800 tons of goods, amounting in
value to about £70,000, and also her fall complement of
cabin passengers. We have heard the amount of freight
and passage-money by this vessel estimated at £l6OO,
which is a sure indication of the rates of freight being
considerably above what they have been for several years
past.—Glasgow Guardian.
MILL BURNED DOWN.—At an early hour on Thurs-
day morning, a fire broke out in the Scarr End woollen
mill, at Earlsheaton, near Dewsbury ; and, despite the
efforts of the firemen snd the inhabitants of the sur-
rounding distr'ct, to arrest the progress of the devouring
element, the building was burnt to the ground, and the
bare, black looking walls now encompass a heap of smoking
ruins. The mill is what is called a company mill, and is
insured, but we cannot learn to what amount. The mill
was an extensive one, and the loss of property must be
great.----Bradford Observer.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—At St. George's Church,
Hanover-square, on the 22d instant, J. Talbot Clifton,
Esq., eldest son of J. Clifton, Esq., of
.Lytham Hall,
Lancashire, to Miss Lowther, daughter of the Hon. Col.
and Lady Lucy Eleanor Lowther. The ceremony was
performed in the presence of a numerous assemblage of
their noble relatives and friends. The bride was attended
by six bridesmaids, and the bridegroom was accompanied
by a numerous party of his brother officers of his late re-
giment, the Ist Life Guards. A splendid dejuner was
afterwards given by the Earl of Lonsdale to a select party,
at his mansion on Carlton-terrace.
WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—Tuesday morning, as Miss
Elizabeth Welch was, with her brother, taking a walk
oe the cliff of Bournemouth, near Christchurch, she lost
her footing and was precipitated down a shelving declivity
of thirty-five feet, when she was fortunately stopped in
her fall on a little projecting point, beyond which, had she
fallen, she must have been killed on the spot ; she had
the presence of mind, however, to lay perfectly still on
the spot were she had fallen, till assistance could be pro-
cured, which was full an hour and a halfafterwards, when,
with immense difficulty, by the means of ropes, she was
relieved from her perilous situation.
A MONSTER BELL.—The York Minster Restoration
Committee, at the suggestion of mat!), individuals in York,
are craving subscriptions for the purchase of a bell
weighing-not less than 160 cwt. ; 7 cwt. heavier than the
weight of " Great Tom," at Oxford, the largest bell in
England. This monster is to be used for striking the
hours; it is to be put in the north-west tower; and the
clock furnished with the second bells is to be removed
there also, thus separating the clock and the peal bells.
The cost is estimated at £2,000, exclusive of £2,000 to
be expended _by the dean and chapter in repairing the
tower, and rendering it fit for the reception of its ponder-
ous occupant.
RESULT OF FREE TRADE—ITS JUSTICE.—Some of
them (the free-trade party) tell us that corn will be
cheaper, others that it will not ; some that rents will fall,
others that they will rise ; some that we shall import
much more foreign corn, others that there is very little
more foreign corn to import, and so on. We care little
for, these discordant predictions, and see a mean which
reconciles them all. Commercial freedom is a high, a
natural, and a sate principle, which does not require the
aid of such calculations. Objectors, however, cavil, and
so defenders come down to meet them, unnecessarily and
dangerously. The ground of humanity and justice is suf-
ficient.—Times.
LAUNCH.—On Friaay, a magnificent iron steamer,
named the City of London, of 1100 tons burthen, was
launched from the new building-yard of Mr. R. Napier,
at Govan, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators,
and a select party of ladies and gentlemen, who were ad-
mitted by tickets into the yard. The launch of this large
and truly splendid vessel was completed with the most
perfect success. The length of the vessel, from stem to
stern, is upwards of 230 feet; breadth of beam, 31 feet;
depth of hold, 20 feet; height of poop, 4 feet. She be-
longs to the Aberdeen Steam Packet Company, and is
intended to ply betwixt that city and London. This is
the largest iron steamer yet built in the Clyde.—Glasgow
paper.

The Standard of Tuesday contains the following passage
with reference to Monday night's debate :—" The most
serious charge is that against Mr. Hogg, in respect to his
vote upon the Nottingham election committee. It seemed
to us at the time that the vote was wrong, and the more
we have considered it, the more thoroughly are we satis-
fied that it was a vote against law and evidence ; but
though, undoubtedly, such a vote is, prima facie, a just
ground of suspicion against the integrity of au unknown
man, Mr. Hogg's uprightness and honour were too well
known to us to allow that we could ascribe his error to
anything but an excess of self-distrust, or to one of those
crotchets which are very popular in the heads of old law-
yers.,.

STATISTICS OF INSOLVENCY.—During the month of
March, there appeared in the Gazette 97 bankrupts, 432
insolvents, who have received vesting orders, by which
their persons are protected against their creditors, and 42
assignments to trustees, making a total of 571 cases of in-
solvency. There is a gradual increase of insolvency. In
March, 1843, there were 98 bankrupts, 368 vesting orders
granted, and 28 assignments—a total of 494. It may be
assumed that not more than one case in ten is gazetted ;
this would make the insolvencies for March, 1844, 5,710;
and, if there be a deficiency of only £2OO in each, the
monthly loss would be £1,142,000. On these assumed
data the loss during the year 1843 was £12,000,000, or
considerably more than double the poor rates, and three-
sevenths of the interest of the national debt.

EGERTON' WATERWHEEL—Every stranger who visits
Bolton, should, if he has time, proceed to Egerton, a
place about four miles from Bolton, and see the large
waterwheel in Mr. Ashworth's dye-works : it is the largest
waterwheel in the kingdom, with the exception of one in
Scotland, which is a few feet larger. This immense ma-
chine is made entirely of iron, it is sixty feet in diameter,
and the breadth of the buckets is ten feet : it is of 130
horse power. A visitors' book is kept, in which those
who go to see it are requested to put their names, and
place of abode. Few people who come to Bolton for the
purpose of seeing the bleaching and paper-works, &c., go
back without seeing this wheel, which may be accounted
one of the greatest works which was ever made.—Corret-
pondent of the Bolton Chronicle.
11ELIQIOUS INSTRUCTIONS.—The following advertise-
ment we have cut out of the Watchman of Wednesday :
TO SHOEMAKERS.
WANTED, immediately as JOURNEYMAN, a good
workman in the women's branch of the above business.
A Wesleyan Local Preacher will be preferred. Also, an
APPRENTICE wanted.
.Raonchofoldrds,aEyisnsgexwhich might,
we think, be well applied here. Wanted a Wesleyan local
preacher, to attend to the women s branch In the .
Ne =tor ultraAppl cy rteopijci W.
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shoe-
making business—to enlighten the minds and mend the
understandings of the good people of Essex. But really
this is too deplorable to be considered a joke ; out of such
ignorant men undertaking to impart instruction to their
fellows arise too often" Revivalists," "Latter-day Saints,"
and other spiritual extravaganzas which are unfortunately
too rife in our time.—Bristol Times.

THE RECENT ELECTIONS.-At the' recent elections
which have been concluded during the present week, the
agents of the league have cut a more sorry figure than on
any preceding electioneering , occasion. At Exeter, the
new Attorney-General,- Sir Wm. W. Follett, beat his
free-trade opponent, Major-General Briggs, in a canter,
the numbers being for Follett, 1293 ; for Briggs, 529 ;
shOwing a majority against the league candidate of 764.
At Huntingdon, "James Acland, agent of the league,
delivered free-trade lectures, and published placards an-
nouncing that a free-trade candidate would assuredly be
proposed ; but after casting about in vain for a candidate,
he left the town the day before the election without re-
deeming his promise, and Mr. Thomas Baring, the late
candidate for London, was elected unanimously. At New
Woodstock, the league did not venture to show, and the
young Marquis of Blandford was elected by show of
hands.

M`NAUGHTEN, THE ASSASSIN OF MR. DRUMMOND.
—lt may be a matter of some interest to your readers to
know how M'Naughten, the murderer of the late Mr.
Drummond, is getting on in his splehdid quarters, Beth-
lehem. A recent visit to that abode enables me to state
that he has now, as he always had to me, the appearance
and manner of a perfectly sane person; features calm;
eyes steady and composed, appetite good ; he is, more-
over, getting fat, so prime is the food, the air, and the
exercise he is blessed with. He had one ground of corn..
plaint, however. What was it? 'Why that the books
furnished to him were not varied and interesting enough !
No sooner uttered was the complaint than Sir Peter
Laurie, good easy knight, ordered a supply for his country..
man 111`Naughten. He now picks his teeth, walks about
the garden, talks on all manner of subjects, except one;
which will readily suggest itself to your readers. He may
live forty years where he is.—London Correspondent of
the Edinburgh Weekly Register.
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April 30. 18 It.

EARLY CLOSING OF SHOPS.—A respeetahle and in-
fluential meeting was held on Friday week in Hull, in aid
of the Assistant Drapers' Association in that town, in
their endeavours to procure an earlier ciosing of shops'
namely at 7 p.m. No less than sigty-twe firms and
houses in the linen and woollen drapery Inc. have given i 3
their adhesion to the earlier closing, while only five "1"
out. Similar meetings, with nearly the same results,• bays
also been held in other large towns.
in THEinin
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into existence till 1843, for only £313,841 was received
in 1842, so that for revenue purposes it witl c
1846, which gives another year for the developement of
the national resources from other branches of revenue.
A very common notion prevails that this act requires if
be repealed to get rid of the tax, but its clauses espre-si,
limit its duration to three years fr ma the sth of •41'5,11;
1842, so that the tax will cease on the 6th of April, I
as a matter of course, if a new act is not passed to 1,
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CUSTOMS' DUTIES.—An account of the groSS an
receipts of the Customs' duties collected at each custom
house house of the United Kingdom during the year ea—n-'nts
sth of January, 1844, as compared with reoelr,4
during the previous year, has been printed in the shape -
a parliamentary paper, on the motion of the hon. re''tuber
for Montrose. We find that the total amount of the
receipts collected in the port of London was. ill 'lle
£11,354,702, against £11,422,251, collected in 1842•
total amount of the net receipts of the same port tvti,g,
1843 £10,784,959, and in the preceding year X 10.836,7,, 6
No grand total is given of the receipts througono
kingdom, but only the total amount collected at epa.
port; and hence it would require several long and "it
some additions in order to arrive at a general result.
is known, however; that the gross total receipts arisl
from our customs' duties amount to between £22,oootwv
and £23,000,000 annually; of which London alone eon"
tributes a proportion of 50 per cent.
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IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT IN WOOLLEN ...--
FACTURE.—There is now in full operation, upon the. Pr-
emises of Messrs. Kinghorn and Gill, engineers, Galli
hiels, a new wauk mill or fulling machine, which 91_
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cylinder, and if felted by being compressed
le-
vers attached to them. The web passes round
rollers and it ; being at the same time confined in a boT
with shifting sides, which expands or contracts, according
as the piece or web may be heavy or light. The machine
has been examined by all the manufacturers of the place'
and they are unanimous in pronouncing it as a first-rats
improvement. Its advantages are, that it only requires
about one-third of the power required by the old mills a'
stocks—that it can be placed in any part of the factoll::
that it does not occupy one-half of the room which to'
present ones do—that one man can attend to five or sLOt
as the'webs need no redding, and that in felting thCgOan
it can be done either from the length or the breadth, an
in one-half of the time now required.— Glavow Marl-
NEW GOVERNMENT POSTAGE STAMPED N(Yr-
PAPER.—We have had brought to us, by different owl:
some of the new postage stamped note-paper just 3d.i-sue
between the
which we understand is to be sold at the rate of 2s.
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for 24 sheets; or 2s. for stamps and 3d. per quire for
paper. This is the most convenient mode of using the
stamp we have yet seen, as, on the one hand, there is n„r
need of applying an adhesive stamp, and, on they°,_o
hand, the stamp being impressed on the sheet itself, tne•
is no need of any envelope ; and the letter, when writtena
requires only to be folded, sealed, and superscribed,012
is then ready for posting. The stamp is the white eini
bossed medallion bust of her majesty, on a pink grouniej
already in use for stamped envelopes. Two faint Para.
lines (coloured threads) pass through each sheet at a aw
tance of about a quarter of an inch, the upper one bill°
se
and the other red, which serve to identify the paperFo id
manufactured for the purpose. As the sheets are _
unfolded, we may just state that all that is requisite before
writing is to fold each sheet in the form of a sheet of
paper. When written, the note is to be folded
in thrin the usual manner, and the postage stamp will then e!!.
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found in the top right corner of the space for superscrip-
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which communication can be made most instantaneousilt
othe_rci
A. sheet or plate of zinc is placed at one terminus, 82'
a sheet or plate of copper at another ; the connection be-
tween them is by a copper wire. A voltaic batterY;l:s
thus created, the electric currents being produced bath
',.,
earth and this simple apparatus. The currents, are cc'i
stant, the variation during eighteen months being found
consiststo be
fs ma aolllo.
okla'hteemo
oehchtearnmiciaulups
,a part
with
hf
stoh einadrtfx',raa ;4
figures marked on a circular plate, from one to nine :
these figures point out certain letters or words, or senet:ncr
variousc es , in ao vocabulary,rents
can
be
communicatedmeans
these
to another. The Electric fluid operates upon
• ed fintreS l the
clocks so as to stop the index at the retina" v
clocks themselves being put and kept in motion by weights.
There are some other and more
details in the construction of inusi
which the accuracy is better secured than in formel:l%
ventions, and there is a contrivance by means of vilirer
the numbers are printed, without loss of time, oo
a leen
.attached to a cylinder or drum. The telegraph ha • s
Countte
at work at the terminus of the South-Ea.tern
Railway for several days, the plate of zinc being at ripe
of
e o ni satisfactory,
unun ie a.
Elms, the plate of copper at Wimbledon—a distance 01
andsix miles.established Thethreesrual
rapidity
ihavety anpdt
Moo, and the simplicity of the means i nba
highlyaccuracy of
ac-
complished. Mr. Bain has proved himself a most in e ' g nr•-
ous and meritorious inventor of a verynoveland
cious instrument.—Times. efaronms ine:ltiegi%
engines, sd ,mb yo
whichr e i delicatet
weans
is
o ..f

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—There is an impression abroad
that this ship is of such huge dimensions as to be likely to
stand the only one of her class for many years. It is butr
just the public should be set right upon this point. Her
greatest beam is fifty-one feet, and her beam at the water-
line 0
line not more than forty-three feet, so that she is noa
wide as the ordinary paddle-wheel steamers, which
fre-
quent every large port of the empire except Bristol, whereo,
the width of the locks requires that they should nbetatatae
much over forty-three feet, or about the
of the Great Britain. The Graaf Western's beflsm
fifty-nine feet, and that of all the royal mail vessels
ary
are informed, even more than that. It is the unnecessary
height of wall above the float level which makes the diffi-
culty in the Great Britain's case, calculated, we believue;.
for the high springs. If this were lowered about fo_y
feet, and what is called a uarter gate put over the calls,
pair of gates which keep the tide out on high sPrinfto
steamers of the largest class could use the port, and it w
for this purpose that the Great Western Company offere`;
water-line
is
£lOOO. When the natural river was s opped up, locks 0:
forty-five feet were considered ample for any trading ve,st
sels that could be even anticipated, but a new cloys
vessels has sprung into use since that time (nearly
century ago), and for these other ports have altered Pill,
entrances, and new ports, such as Cardiff and Netng
have made provision, the width of lock of the latter hero_
he
sixty feet ! ! At Liverpool the difficulty was met by the at
crease of the Clarence Dock to near 50 feet, and since t ed
was done of the Cobourg to 70 feet ; and we are inforto.ll
by a party interested, that the gates of the new docks w.ite
not be far short of 100 feet; so they at any rate anticipate
vessels of even larger dimensions than the Great Britslo*
—Bristol Mirror.
Wttihoeonrlcoleft
shtt ehi rne , s
labouring
awabnaotsu,
rht
ioenlad takeal
at s
sitnehste:
a'
consideration
tni
THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.—A meeting of influen f
landowners, clergy, and magistrates of the c:iunti
es AL,
ment of a society, with a view to ameliorate the con;_
and moral improvement, by disseminating information 0'
the advantages which they would receive by the 0111-0
ment of small portions of land, to be cultivated by spade husbandry, in their leisure hours. The Right. 11.3.
Lord Lyttleton, the lord lieutenant of the county, presideer
and amongst those present were Sir E B 1 lint'
dwward
Bart Sir
Thomas Winnington, Bart., Atp J. S. I-a'''.
ington, Esq., M.P., the Hon. and Rv. .Somers Cocks.
&c., &c. One of the leading features in the system, a. 5
odellaraciatvlilat %tVehetrhceeitsrat beirol
propounded, is, that the allotments shall not be larger 01
extent than can be cultivated by the labourers in tbeir
leisure hours. Among some of the interesting particulars
adduced at this meeting, as exemplifying the benefits of
the system, was a calculation of Captain Scobeß, COw'
tained in his evidence before a committee of the Hats!
of Commons. He estimated that there were in Englana
28,000,000 of acres of well cultivated land ; 4,0000
acres capable of improvement; and he was of opinioo
that if the allotment system were carried out, and spit
de
husbandry extensively adopted on the present unprofitaboll
land, there would accrue to the agricultural labourer-A:sot:
their families an annual net profit of 5,00000' at the
lutions for the formation of a societ to be call
" Worcestershire Labourers' Friend Society;" of thanks
to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, for her gracious con-
descension in consenting to become patroness of_the
society ; and for the appointment of Lord Lyttleton to
the presidency, were unanimously adowed.
AN IRON INTERLOPER ON THE WOODEN WALLS °?r
l
OLD ENGLAND.—The Nemesis was the first iron steam'.
that ever doubled the Cape. There was great and-reasole
able doubts of the the success of the experiment; butt
'anticipated difficult navigation of the numerous
rivers of the Chinese coast, justified its trial. Mr)„ase
nard's account of her passage out, from the notes of
mander Hall, is curious and striking. From the unlooca
for dangers of the stormy southern.seas, she seems to 139:5
had the r.arrowest conceivable escape. The tremend°;ot
storm, six days after her departure from the Ca
addle_
only carried away a large portion of one of her
In
the
wheels, but left, literally, an "immense crack' in a.•
iron of both her sides. In reality, she bad begun to $5OOO
rate amid-ships, from one side to the other. The to
of
temporary expedients adopted for safety, the steadinese
her commander, and the calm courage of every Othat
board, form an admirable picture. But it is deat„eat
without a quiet sea, and the happier accident of a :Ref
anchorage, she must have gone down. Mr. Bernard, A-11,
mentioning- the repairs she underwent at Delagos Poo
and by which " she was made a vast deal stronger oat
she ever was before," adds the very satisfactory assu:ted by
than in other iron vessels more recentlyconstr"visioa
the same builder (Mr. Laird of Birkenhead,) full Pr° cci-
has been made against the recurrence of any similarie, he
dent. In the case of the Phlegethon, for exarasilre ha
takes upon him to assert, that " not only could
.twatossi.
no apprehension of the accident, but an almost I _Phial-
bility of its recurrence." The reader will judge fol.„th as
self after reading Mr. Bernard's details : which' •t sag.
to the causes of the damage and the improverne°'
that
after
gested, are ample. It is certainly understood e roitd
o
three years' hard service, including a bad Passagotted to
the Cape, the last-named steamer has been rveransinera
have called for no alteration of strengthening.--3'