The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

FAULTY CONDUCT OF ENGLAND TO IRELAND:

From the reign of James the First to the Revolution, the
hostile spirit of the Roman Catholic faith never ceased to
manifest itselt. In the massacre of the Protestants in 1631,
in the wars with Cromwell, in the troublous period of the
second Charles, and in the wars of James, the Roman
Catholics but asserted their unquenchable hostility to the
British connexion, and to the English Protestant settlers
in this country. The iron energy of Cromwell crushed
and for ever annihilated the power of the old Irish chief-
tains; but the envenomed spirit of religious rancour was
too subtle an antagonist even for his master-spirit to grap-
ple with. Ireland was thus everlastingly in revolt; there
was but one effectual means by which this could have
been prevented—namely, by sedulously spreading the
doctrines of the Reformation, and thus identifying the
sentiments of the two countries. This duty England
most shamefully neglected. Spencer tells us that the
Roman Catholic priests spared not to travel from Spain
and Rome to Ireland, where they knew peril of death
awaited them, and no reward was to be had only to draw
the people to the Church of Rome; but that our idle
ministers would, neither for the love of God, nor zeal for
religion, nor for all they could do by winning souls to
Christ, be drawn forth from their warm nests. So utterly
worth), ss was the ministration of the Established Church,
that very many of the settlers who came over with Crom-
well and with William, lapsed by degrees into the Roman
Catholic faith, and amalgamating with the ancient Irish
and original English settlers, added their numbers to
the array of the• numerous enemies of England. The
north escaped this evil by deriving its clergy chiefly
from the active and intelligent people of Scotland. But
when we recollect the number of Protestants who came
over with Cromwell and with William, and in the inter-
mediate period, and who settled on the lands which were
then confiscated and appropriated to their use, and com-
pare them with the comparative numbers of Protestant
and Roman Catholic as they now exist in three provinces
of Ireland. it is plain to demonstration, even if we were
without the aid of express authority on the subject, that
a large proportion of the new Protestant settlers must
have joined the Church of Rome; indeed we could point
to districts in Ireland where the same names, and
obviously the same families, are to be found, those of
them in the plains adhering to the Reformed faith, and
those in the adjacent mountain districts, which the zeal
of the clergy of the Established Church, at that day, was
unequal to penetrate, professing the doctrines of the
Church of Rome.

THE IRISH REBELS.—The London Times has lately
spoken of the proceedings of the repeal leaders as if they
were of rather a formidable nature, but yesterday our
contemporary spoke of them in the following altered
tone O'Brien has not a chance. Would that our
words could reach him, and would that he could listen to
them ! Let him giye himself up at once, and compro-
mise for lodgings and light work at Bermuda. As for the
other rebel chiefs, Doheny, it is said, follows the fortunes
of O'Brien, and by his want of respectability contributes
to the premature decay of the royal cause. No one
appears to know where Meagher is flourishing his sword,
but if he is fighting anything, it must be the air.
Dillon is equally inconspicuous. Lolor, the hero of
Holycross, has been arrested. O'Reilly has surrendered.
The rest are all hiding. Little will be heard of them for
some time, except in the Hue and Cry."

ARRESTS FOR SEDITION AND TREASON AT BELFAST.
—To-day, at the police-court in this town, says the Ban-
ner of Ulster, in a bulletin published on Saturday, P.
Kane, a compositor in the Northern Whig office, was
brought up, charged with firing pistols on Friday night
last, in Smithfield, to the terror and alarm of her majesty's
subjects in 'that neig hbourhocd. He was arrested by
Constable Slane. who, after having taken him to the
police-office, searched him and discovered upon his per-
son two pistols and a ticket of membership of the John
Mitchel Club at B elfast. The magistrates, after confer-
ring together for a length of time, stated that they would
suspend judgment until Tuesday. Application for bail
was applied for, and granted ; the bench, however, refused
to let him out on his own recognisance ; he was required
to find bail, himself in £lOO and two sureties in £5O each.
William Downing, a respectable tailor, residing in Castle-
place, was next charged with using seditious and treason-
able language against the statute. Tne expression he
made use of was, " To-h—l with the queen ! ' He was
also remanded till Tuesday, but was admitted to bail,
himself in £5O, and two sureties in £2O each.
LORD HARDINGE AND THE IRISH COMMAND.—It is
not improbable, says the Observer, that Lord Hardinge
will proceed to Ireland to assume an important military
command. 'The alarming condition of the south-of Ire-
land, and the necessity for a great increase of troops in
that quarter are in themselves sufficient reasons for the
establishment of a special and separate command. It is
not at all intended to interfere with the duties of the
Commander of the Forces in Ireland, Sir Edward
Blakeney, who has held that command so long, and whose
ability and judgement are equal to his great experience.
He will remain in Dublin to command in chief the troops
of the metropolis and to direct generally the military
movements throughout the entire kingdom. The condi-
tion of the southern district, however, is so serious, that
the presence and command of a soldier at once so sueces-
ful and so eminent as Lord Hardinge may be immediately
necessary, if it have not become so already. Notwith-
standing his rank and eminent services, Lord Hardinge
has at once waved all personal considerations, and placed
himself at the disposal of the Government, to be employed
in any capacity where his services might be deemed most
useful. His ready acquiescence, as well as his name and
reputation will be of themselyes-mOst serviceable in pro-
ducing confidence in all quarters. [We learn by the last
advices from London that Lord Hardinge would leave
London for Liverpool last night.]
POSTAL DISPUTE WITH AMERICA.—The answer given
in the House of Commons on Thursday to the question of
Mr. W. Brown, of Liverpool, concerning the postal dis-
pute with America, has been a subject of comment since
amongst the merchants connected with that country.
The point urged is that the matter has been too long in
uncertainty, and that an immediate settlement is esential,
not merely in deference to mercantile interests, but to
prevent that growth of ill-feeling which must inevitably
arise from every day's continuance of a system having for
its end nothing but mutual damage and annoyance.
After nearly a year of vain effort the statement of the
government, therefore, that negotiations are still " pen-
ding," whm the summary method just adopted by the
United States seems to indicate that on their side at least
all present hope of a settlement is over, affords very little
ground for satisfaction. The real thing on which the
public are anxious is, not as to whether negotiations are
pending, for it was of course not supposed, even in the
face of the retaliation just enforced against us, that the
question could have been altogether abandoned, but
whether there is any chance of these negotiations being
brought to a speedy termination. It is while the matter I
is "pending" that the merchants are suffering, and hence
the argument, that as the people on both sides seem dis-
posed
to come to an equitable conclusion if they could but
get at the matter as it stands, it would be better, unless
there be an immediate prospect of agreement, for the
English to follow the example of the American Govern- ,
ment, and by giving an open statement of their case to
facilitate the adjustment of it by the aid of public opinion.
THE WOUNDED IN THE LAST INSURRECTION IN
PARIS.—A friend has favoured us with a copy of the
Boulogne Gazette of the 25th ult., in which there appears
an interesting surgical account of the state and treatment
of the wounded in the recent insurrection, from the pen
of Mr. Bennett Lucas, an eminent Landon surgeon, who
visited the Parisian hospitals. It appears from this, that j
the wounds received by the combatants " entered in every !
direction, save one, and that was behind." He saw 400
patients at one hospital, and but one had to expose his
back to examine the orifice; the exit of a bullet which the
br:.ve fellow had received directly in front. There were
no sabre or bayonet wounds. The bullets were sent face
to face, at or from windows ; some balls consequently
entered the body in front, others entered it from above
downward, and a few in the contrary direction. A con-
siderable number entered the body laterally and with few
exceptions took an oblique course. Great attention was
paid by the surgeon in dressing the wounds. "A young
garde mobile received a shot in the centre of the forehead
between the eye-brows; this coursed beneath the skin,
following the direction of the brow and was extracted at
the temple, without doing any material mischief." Shat-
tered fineers were innumerable, and none of the principal
joints of the body escaped injury. "An injury to the hip
joint was of peculiar interest; a bullet entered it. in front
and fractured the neck of the thigh bone. The interest in
this case, as well as in some wounds of the shoulder and
elbow joints, arose from the well directed endeavours of
the surgeon to preserve the limbs to their owners. In
short it would take a volume, and that of no ordinary
pretensions as to size, to enumerate the number, variety,
and complications of the various injuries which came. under
my notice ; whilst a page would almost suffice to describe
their treatment." Apart from primary amputations,
nothing more was done than to assist nature, leaving the
rest to her handywork. At Boulogne and elsewhere, the
ladies were busily employed making lint for the use of the
Paris hospitals, and their exertions were gratefully
acknowledged by the medical and municipal bodies of the
city.

GENERAL TRADE REPORT.

Monday Night.

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We have got pretty well over the difficulties of the past
week; and a tolerably firm feeling prevailed on 'Change
to-day, as will be seen from the detailed report subjoined.
English funds have been somewhat depressed during the
week, but the lowest price for Consols was 85k, which they
touched on Thursday. They opened on Saturday at 86k,
and during the day, owing to the delay on the part of the
insurgents in Ireland in provoking any actual conflict,
together with some rather improved accounts of the po-
tato crop of that country, they experienced an advance of
a half per cent.—Two failures were announced in the
Stock Exchange, one in the share and one in the English
market, but the amounts were not important. The
foreign stock-market has not experienced much altera-
tion, but, influenced in a degree by English securities,
prices were slightly firmer towards the close of business.
Irish affairs have very much depressed the SHARE
Market during the past week, and until Saturday we
had a great preponderance of sellers. On that day, how-
ever, and to-day, the more favourable news and the pros-
pect of finer weather, have produced a change, and we
have had several good buyers at advanced prices. There
is a general impression that prices are very unduly de-
pressed in this market, and we think should there be a
continuance of fine weather and no serious disturbances in
Ireland, (which we do not apprehend), that a very consi-
derable rise will take place. Royal Assurance Shares
have declined 5 per cent, from a rumour that the directors
have resolved to pay only 2s. per share. This has given
great dissatisfaction to the shareholders, who think them-
selves entitled to a better dividend. They have incurred •
the risk and responsibility of holding the shares through
these troublous times, and think it only just that they
should receive the full amount of profit secured in such
-times. There is a talk of an amendment, proposing a
bonus in addition, being moved at the meeting on Thurs-
day, which appears likely to be carried.
The Corros market, having recovered from the preju-
dicial effect of the unfounded reports from Ireland, closed
on Friday at about the quotatious of the previous week ;
anct although the lower qualities of American declined a
trifle, it did not amount to a quotation. There was
a fair business transacted on Saturday. The sales
amounted to fully 5,000 bales, nearly all American, to the
trade: prices continued unchanged. There have been
a fair attendance of consumers here TO-DAY, and in the
absence of further " untoward" reports from Ireland, the
market has resumed a steadier appearance, holders con-
tinuing firm, so that the quotations of Friday have been
more easily realized again, particularly for the common
and middling class of American, which still almost entirely
engross the attention of the trade, whilst the good medium
qualities are almost wholly neglected. East Indian in
fair request, and prices very steady, with a poor selection
on view. The sales arc estimated at from 6,000 to 6,500
bales; some little for export. Imports come in pretty
freely, and we shall make a fair show for several weeks
yet.
The harvest is going on swimmingly in the South of
England, up to Shrewsbury, north of which the fields are
still looking a little green, and the crops are everywhere
looking well, though, generally speaking, somewhat
thin. The English markets, however, generally con-
tinue on the advance for Wheat and Flour, which has
the effect of rendering THE TRADE HERE firm, but
without any important change in prices. The imports
into this port since Thul-eday are :—Wheat, from Ireland
70 qrs., coastwise 10 ; Barley, coastwise 24 qrs.; Oats,
Ireland 75 qrs. ; Beans, Europe 2283 qrs. ; Indian Corn,
U. States 3826 qrs.; Indian Corn Meal, Ireland 40 brls.;
Flour, Ireland 350 sacks, coastwise 18 brls., U. States
52 brls. Exports:—Wheat, Ireland 200 qrs., coastwise
12 ; Oats, coastwise 150 qrs. ; Beans, coastwise 12 qrs. ;
Pease, coastwise 50 qrs.; Indian Corn, Ireland 4486 qrs. ;
Indian Corn Meal, Ireland 790 brls. ; Flour, Ireland 230
sacks 670 brls., coastwise 160 sacks 285 brls.—The Wheat
trade in London is steady TO-DAY, at about last Wednes-
day's prices. Barley, Beans, and Pease about ls. dearer.
Oats 6d. to Is. per qr. dearer.—We have received better
accounts of the POTATO crop. The following extracts
from well-authenticated Irish letters, only one of which
is of an unfavourable tendency, we here subjoin :
Limerick : The reports from the country tend to allay
the apprehensions which the first symptoms of disease in
Potatoes excited, as to the safety of the crop; and it is
certain there has been little observable extension of the
malady to previously uninfected plants, and that the dis-
eased have rather recovered than retrograded.— roughal
Potatoes are getting no worse with us. There was a large
delivery to market to-day, of excellent quality, price sd.
to 60. per stone.—Cork r:
The Potato market is largely
supplied; the size and quality are very good, at 7d. to H.
per wt. of 211b.—Villierstown: The Potato crop in this
neighbourhood as yet looks as well almost as could be
wished; however, an odd stalk could be found with
symptoms of disease.—Belfasl : Reports still prevail as
to the Potato crop being touched by the disease of 1846,
and I am sorry to say some better authenticated cases
have been spoken of than had appeared hitherto this
season.

Since Thursday last the SUGAR market has presented a
much more lively appearance. Holders are less anxious
to realise, whilst the grocers have been and are still buyers.
on fully previous terms. The sales made are very fair,
and stiffer rates obtained.-Rum is more in demand, and
purchases cannot be made unless at an advance on former
prices.-Saltpetre continues very flat.-A large business
has been concluded in Rice : the sales, including to-day,
are fully 14,000 bags at 9s. 9d. to Ils. 6d. for small broken
to mid. white Bengal. There arefurther orders unexecuted.
-In the London markets the business of the week has
been upon a moderate scale, and, with the exception of
rice, in which there have been considerable fluctuations,
prices generally are without alteration. The sugar mar-
ket has shown a more settled character, and, although the
duty question still remains to be discussed in Parliament,
buyers have come forward with more freedom than during
last week, and in some descriptions have purchased largely.
AMERICAN Lard has taken a turn towards higher prices ;
and owing to the lightness of stocks, and the competition
last week amongst country buyers, an advance of from 2s.
to 3s. per cwt. has been realised on all qualities except
inferior and Grease. We have no alteration in the range
of quotations for Bacon, although the business, which has
been considerable, has been mainly confined to inferior
descriptions. The market has been cleared of Hams in
dry salt, which are much wanted ; a few hundred packages
in pickle have been sold at 235. to 325. per cwt. Shoulders
are scarce, and fetch full prices. It will be seen from the
subjoined quotations, that the value of " Prime Mess "
Pork has receded from 40s. to 605., to 365. to 555., and
" Prime " is a shade lower ; in " Mess." holders display
more firmness, and previous prices are maintained. Beef
still continues scarce, and full prices have been realised.
Very little doing in Cheese. Prices Current :-
Cheese-(duty paid)-Fine, -s to -s per cwt. ;
40s to 43s ; ordinary, 35s to 38s. Beef-U.S. (free)-Prime
mess, per tree. 3041 b.,. 85s to 92s 6d ; ordinary, SOs to 83s, old
40s to 60s; extra, India, family, &c., 97s to 105 s; ditto, per
balf-barrel, 28s to 35s ;-mess, per barrel, 2001 b., 50s to 585 ;
ordinary, 40s to 465, old 36s to 40s; prime, 188 to 40s. Pork-
U.S. (free)-Prime mess, 36s to 555, old -s to -s per barrel,
2001 b.; prime, 33s to 365, old 33s to -s • mess, family mess,
&c., 42s to 3es, old 40s to 455. Bacon-{tree)-Eastern, -s to
-s ; western, 28s to 45s ; shoulders, 22s Od to 246 Od, old -s
per cwt. Hams-Dried, (duty paid,) 35s to 42s per cwt. ;
in salt, (free,) 25s to 325. Lard-(tree)-Fine, in kegs and bar-
rels, 42s to 44s per cwt. ; good, in do. do., 39s to 41s ; ordinary
to middling, 311 s to 38s ; inferior, and grease, 30s to 355.
soda B:settil-(duty paid)-26s to s per cwt. Pilot Biscuit
-(duty paid)-15s to 205 per cwt.
IRISH Butter has been more in request this week ; the
sale of best southern brands, however, has been somewhat
retarded, on account of holders wanting more money ; but
good northerns have been disposed of freely for shipment;
the trade in landed parcels is not brisk. There is little doing
in Irish Bacon, and Hams are only in moderate request.
The following are the prices this day (landed in Liver-
pool) : -Butt er : Waterford, new, 80s. to 81s. ; Kilkenny,
Carlow, and Clonmel, 80s. to 84s. ; Carrick, new, 795. to
82s. ; Wexford, Carlow, 80s. to 821.; Belfast, 80s. to 82s. ;
Ballymoney & Coleraine, 78s. to 80s. ; Banbridge, 783. to
795. ; Newry and Dundalk, 725. to 763. ; Londonderry,
765. to 78s. Bacon : Long Middles, free from bone,
new, 565. ; Short Middles, free from bone, new, 575.
Hams: Dry, 655. to 725. Lard : Fine Keg, 50s. to 525.
Arrivals for the week ending this day : -Butter, 5695
firkins, 1894 crocks; Bacon? 135 bales; Lard, 2 tierces,
50 kegs,
J. lie arrivals of Trmiam from British America during
the month consist of 14 vessels, 22,878 tons, 'Which com-
pared with same period last year, show 25 vessels, 15,329
tons, more this year than last, and, in like manner, coin-
paring the total import in each year since Ist February,
there appear to be 2b vessels, 22,150 tons, more this year
than last. But it should be borne in mind, that last year's
was less than an average import. The business of the
month opined with a firmer feeling for square Timber,
more particularly for St. John's Pine, which has continued
throughout and has closed with a slight advance being
established ; but Spruce Planks have yielded to the pres-
sure of increased arrivals, and lately lower rates have been
accepted for theta than had been previously known here.
There is still, however, a much less animated country de-
mand than we are accustomed to at this period of the
year, nor can much improvement be looked for until affairs
both at home and abroad assume a more settled appear-
ance. The arrivals since Ist February to present date,
compared with those in last year, are as follow :-
From Ist Feb. to 30th J uly, 1848. From Ist Feb. to 30th July, 1847.
Vessels. Tons. Vessels. Tons
Quebec l6 10,132
StQuebec
Szc 4 .... 2,454
St. John, &c 7O .... 40,435 . John, .. 54 .... 25,963
Baltic 3B 12,090 Baltic

Considerable improvement has taken place in the Wool.
market since our last monthly report, and the demand
has been extensive for many kinds, particularly in the
lower qualities. The accounts from Yorkshire and other
manufacturing districts are of a more cheering character,
yet we cannot report any advance generally, but we anti-
cipate before long, from the lightness of stocks, that a
„thic meet accrue ; it is obvious that the raw ma-
terial is far below a remunerating figure for the grower,
therefore it follows, that imports will be for a time cur-
tailed. Since the groundless statement propagated a few
days ago respecting Ireland, less has been doing ; how-
ever, there is no reason to doubt but in a short period,
trade will have resumed its late position, as there is not
much to be apprehended as to the ultimatum of the un-
pleasant state of heland, and as long as the news is of a
favourable nature from the continent. A fair busipess has
been done in East India, Servia, Oporto, Seopia and
Kalkland Lambs, Buenos Ayres, Smyrna and Russian
fleece (part, of the latter to arrive), with other low descrip-
tions. Good white East India is much vented, and Pe-
ruvian, which has been too long neglected, there is some
enquiry for. The sales in Alpaca have been limited ; first
class parcels will bring our quotations. In Scotland, at
the late Inverness fair, few parcels were sold, owing to the
unwillipgness of farmers to realise at the present rates.
The demand for Laid Highland is equal to the import;
the market is bare and what arrives is soon taken into
consumption ; a better feeling exists for Cheviot, but pur-
, chasers refuse to give any advance. The London wool
sales which commenced on the 22nd June, and terminated
I on the 19th ultimo, drew a good attendance of buyers ;
! towards the close, an advance was obtained on prices
*alined at the beginning of the sales, of id. to lid. Ifx lb.

on fine wool, which is sustained. Public sales will beheld
here on the 10th proximo. .
A better demand has arisen for OLIVE. OIL, the saleso
the month have been large ; both speculators and manu-
facturers have operated freely; and the market has an up-
ward tendency.
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The Scotch Pig IRON Market has been very quiet
throughout the week, but prices have remained steady at
453. to 455. 61. for mixed numbers, free on board, as
Glasgow. From the likelihood of the disturbances in
Ireland being now speedily quelled, a more active demand
is looked for. Bar Iron, ordinary sizes, in Wales, £5
15s. per ton.
The present prices of Tonacco are as follow :-,Tames'
River Leaf, faded, ad. to 3d. ; ordinary sound, 3d. to 34d. ;
middling, 34d. to 4d. ; good and fine, 44-d. to 51d. ; ditto
stemmed, faded, 2d. to 2W.; ordinary sound, 3d. to 34. d.
middling, 4d. to 44-d. ; good and fine, 4i-d. to 51d. and 6d.
Kentucky leaf, 2i-d. to 4d. ; stemmed 31d. to sd.
The last return from the Bank of England states that
the amount of notes in circulation is £19,040,720,
being a decrease of £104,340; and the stock of bullion in
both departments is £14,108,707, showing a decrease of
£154,469, when compared with the preceding return.
The accounts from the Amsterdam Bourse state, that
although little business had been transacted, the prices
for Dutch and, Russian were slightly better. Spanish
was dull, sales having latterly increased.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday, at 45f, ; the Five per Cents., 72f.
The overland mail which reached London yesterday
brings intelligence from Bombay to the effect that the
setting in of the south-west monsoon had put a stop to
business. Abundant rain had fallen. The money market
was in a healthy condition, supplies of specie coming
freely from China. The market for cotton piece goods
and cotton yarn was quiet. Freights, owing to a large
accumulation of tonnage, gave way. The last engagement
to Liverpool was at £3 per ton, but, as several additional
arrivals were reported, it was not expected this
rate would be maintained. Rates to London we quote at
£2 10s. to £2 12s. 6d. ' • and for China we hear of two
vessels taken up-one at Sir. per candy, and the other at
Sr. Exchanges had experienced a slight decline, a con-
siderable amount in Russell's draughts upon Baring's
having changed
,hands at ls. 10d. The banks asked ls.
9:1-d. for bills at six months' sight, but only one transac-
tion at this rate had taken place.
At Calcutta business was still extremely depressed. A.
better disposition to ship sugar was shown, but at a trifling
improvement in prices which holders were less inclined to
accept. Saltpetre had given way 4a. to 6a. per maund.
Little was doing in rice. The import market was still in
an unsatisfactory state. The demand for cotton piece
goods was limited, and prices were depressed. No change
had occurred in the money market. Exchange was no-
minally at 1-10 for six months' sight, paper, with docu-
ments, but there was none offering. The most experienced
brokers have no recollection of bills of exchange being so
very scarce. Freights remained pretty steady at our last
quotations, with a slight advance in the rates for some
articles to London. For sugar and saltpetre our quota-
tions are £4 ss. to £4 10s.

THE PACKET SHIP CONSTITUTION.

The increasing trade between this port and New York,
more particularly in the transit of passengers. has given
to the industry of America a stimulus in the building
of ships suited to that traffic, and produced a marked im-
provement in their size, capacity, model, and general
equipment. Hitherto clippers in speed and great in
burthen, they are now excelling in the more important
points—of producing fast-sailing, good carrying, well
ventilated and strong ships ; and in no instance is this
position more verified than in that of the packet-ship
Constitution, some particulars of which may not prove
uninteresting. In point of external appearance the Con-
stitution has all the symmetrical beauty of a line of battle-
ship. Her entrance is fine, her hearing good, and her
run such as would scarcely leave a ripple in her wake.
Her stem from the water-line has a graceful curve and is
surmounted by a colossal figure of General Washington,
with trail hoard richly carved; her stern is also relieved
with scroll work, surmounted by the American Eagle.
The length of the Constitution, from stem to stern
post, is 200 feet. Her keel is ISB feet. The breadth
of beam is forty feet ten inches, and the depth of
hold thirty-one feet. She has three decks. A prome-
nade deck,- usually sparred, but in this case planked and
caulked, a gun deck, and a berth deck. The between
decks are extremely lofty, and well ventilated, but no
conception of their capaciousness can be formed by de-
scription. On the gun deck most comfortable staterooms
are erected, while below the berths for steerage passen-
gers are in great part constructed of iron, and are so roomy
that for the four voyages and a passage she has made, not
a single case of sickness has occurred. Yet, in case of
need, she has that significant sign, so lauded by our
talented townswoman Mrs. Marry,—" This ship carries
a surgeon." The saloon is splendidly, and at the same
time substantially, decorated. The state-rooms, which
ru•a down each side, are cut off by pannelling, in dark
and richly-feathered mahogany, skirted with rosewood,
and relieved with intervening pilasters, in white enamel,
picked out with gold in correspondence with the mouldings
of the ceiling. The sofas and settees are upholstered
in crimson plush, and the whole has the appear-
ance. not only of splendour but of warmth and
comfort. The state-rooms, as may be conceived
in a vessel of upwards of forty feet beam are
roomy, convenient, and well lighted. They are pro-
vided with accommodation for thirty cabin passengers,
and though now fully a week from the sailing day, only
one room is unengaged. The Constitution was built at
New York, by Messrs. Brown and Bell, at the time of
the dispute as to the Oregon Territory, and in strength is
so superior, that had that question not been satisfactorily
settled, she would have been purchased by the govern-
ment, and rated as a 44 gun frigate, but is fully calculated
to mount 60 guns. Hor timbers are solid Live Oak, her
planking oak to the water-line, and above that pitch pine.
Her knees are all well grown and fitted, and she is copper
fastened throughout and coppered. The scale of spars is
fully equal to those of any American frigate. The Con.
stitution is commanded by Capt. J. Britton, whose long
connexion with the port as commander of the Rochester,
has gained him the esteem of the first in the trade, while
his generous, but seaman like conduct has secured
the acknowledged good wishes of all who had the
pleasure of his company at sea ; indeed, such is the
estimation in which he his held that his command will
give a preference to any ship. As a conveyance for
passengers the Constitution is most admirably suited ;
indeed the very fact of her being the largest merchant
ship. (British or American) that ever entered this port,
will give her a strong recommendation. Her tonnage is,
by register, 1,609, and her estimated burthen close on
2,000 tons. She is consigned in the passenger department
here to Mr. B. Byrne, jun., of Waterloo-road, whose ma-
nagement of her last voyage has been spoken of in high
terms of commendation. To strangers the sight of this
ship will be highly gratifying.

A telegraphic message received from Birtniwtham, on
Saturday, states that the detective sent to apprehend Dr.
Reynold, had succeeded in capturing him.
IRISH VANITY.—Gen. Cavaignac, the Military Dicta-
tor of Paris, who suppressed the insurrection, is of Irish
descent and of the once princely race of the Cavanaghs of
Barris.—Limerick Chronicle.

THE COM No HARVEST.—The Gardeners' Chronicle
publishes returns from various parts of the country of the
present appearance of the crops. They indicate a full
average produce of wheat, a various yield of barley, a
comparatively poor crop of oats and of beans, a very bad
crop of peas, rood promise of a turnip crop, and a heavy
crop of hay of variable quality. They indicate also a stock
of wheat on hand considerably beyond the average of past
years at this season. On the whole, we think there was
at the date of these returns every reason for thankful
anticipation regarding the ensuing harvest.
THE SEA LIONEss.--One of these amphibious crea-
tures having been captured in the South Seas, by a Cap-
tain Triscott, has been brotight to England, and is now
exhibiting in London. It evidently belongs to the seal
tribe, from which it differs in the general squareness of
its head and the specific flatness of its nose. Its eyes are
round, c49d brilliant, end its skin is covered with smooth
hbluanellainshb.gragy.baior,iwlehoilfe
teeth,
he 4inan,d,rss of the
grinders. A living specimen of the sea has
itsits tipne=rilititees tis
which consist of only four in front, besides‘ lioness"a few small
never before been seen in this country, and the present
opportunity, therefore, rill not. be lost by the students in
natural history. But we may remark the animal seems
rather to be in a dying than thriving condition. _

- - -
SILVER.--in the L'Ords Committee on the Bank Act of
1844, Mr. Glyn was asked, " Do you approve of that clause
of the act which restricts the Bank in the purchase of
si!ver bullion ?" To which he replied, " I certainly do
net. I think the restriction to one-fifth is very in-
convenient, ant practically, in the spring of last year,
was found so. Merchants from the Pacific, whose
returns are very much in silver bullion, found, when it ar-
rived last spring, that there was no market for it here, and
they had to send it over to Paris for returns in bills of ex-
change, and when they came back there was a difficulty in
discounting. The interval lost, which is about six weeks,
is a very serious thing to a mercantile house. And there is
another evil in it. Supposing the amount of bullion
held in the issue department to be in the exact propor-
tions allowed by the act, with one-fit-h silver, and supposing
that £400,000 of notes go in taking the same amount of
sovereigns out, that immediately alters the proportions,
and the issue department must necessarily sell silver
bullion to keep the proportions right, and thus reduce
the circulation another £lO,OOO to keep up the pro-
portion."
NARROW ESCAPee Or HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARD
FROM FrnE.—On Saturday morning her Majesty's dock-
yard at Devonport most narrowly escaped a serious con-
flagration. As an inspector was going• his rounds at one
o'clock, he 'Saw some smoke issuing from the Old Horn
engine-house, closely abutting on the roof of No. 4 dock,
in which the Cambridge, 78. is repairing, and on opening
the door discovered the workmens' dresses, which were
dtMnsited there, in a blaze, and a poliumart's lantern
hurtling ii; the midst of the fire. With the assistance of
the seijeant and the policeman on the beat he turned on
the ready prepared hose to the water-pipe, and very soon
extinguished it. On subsequent examination, by the
admiral superintendent and the Queen's solicitor, of the
policeman stationed on the beat, the man stated that he
lost a key in the engine-house, and lighted his. lantern
from the corporal of the guard's lantern, and by the aid of
which endeavoured to find it, when, hearing the inspector
of police coining the rounds, to avoid being detected with
his lantern lighted, he placed it on the floor of the build-
ing, and threw some of the workmens' clothes over it, and
thus the fire originated. The man was remanded until Mo-
nday, when he will be re-examined. It was fortunate that the
smoke was discovered so promptly, for the building wLg
full of inflammable materials ; and if the fire had acquired
any strength, the roof of the dock and the line of battle
ships would have been inevitably destroyed, and it would
have been impossible to have estimated the extent of the
damage her Majesty's dockyard would have sustained.

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~ 1848

To all the length of maintaining that
le out of the advocacy of a politi-
. On the contrary, we are satisfied
tat there was a great deal of truth in the charges,
brought on Wednesday night by Sir Wm. Moles-
worth, against the administration of affairs by the
Office; and some truth, too, in the views
net. Our colonial affairs have been
Our colonists have been deli-
mercies of a succession of
; and their interests have
Lnaterially in consequence. We have
many of our colonies, quite equal to bear
expense, those constitutional rights which every
Tishman seeks to attain ; and the result has
..ey have remained a burthen upon the
yner country, when they might have been made
source of streng

WE do not

ood can c

,pponent.

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that to

gth ; that colonial society has been
—Jug)* deteriorated in its tone and feeling, and
the most beneficial sort of colonisation—that of men
possessed of commercial enterprise and capital—has
been retarded.