The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

FRIDAY

The ROOOLI HANDICAP STAKES of £lO each, b ft, if de-
clared before twelve o'clock on the day of the race ; 50

added ; for three-yr-olds that have rua during the week ;

from the two mile post in.
8 4 Mr. F. R. Price's Colin Clink ,

, Cartwright 1

S 2 Capt. Harcourt's Sir Abstrupus
7 10 Mr. Worthington's Hooton

~ Lye 2
Oates 3

6 12 Mr. Rawcliffe% ch c Bizarre—Esperance.... Ebdale 4
Even on the winner ; won in a canter by two lengths.

IA
The PALATINE STAKES of £5O each, h it, for three-yr-old
colts, Sst 71b, and fillies Sst 21b ; to start at the Castle-
pole, go once round, and finish at the coming-in chair.
Off by consent.
. _ .

The CHESHIRE STAKES of X 25 each, ]sft, and 5 only if de-
clared on or before the Ist Feb., with 50 added ; two miles ;
the second to save his stake. 33 subs, 15 of whom de-
clared, and pay only £5 each.
7 6 Lord Eglinton's Jamie Forest
a fr Mr. Mostyn's br f Irony

7 a Sir W. Stanley's ch c Vakeel
5 0 Mr. It. Errington's b f Corelia
Betting : 2 to 1 agst Vakeel, 6 to 5 agst Jamie Forest, and
6to 1 agst Irony. This was a most splendid race, and was
only won by a head ; Vakeel struggled hard, and was only
beaten for second place by a head.
The WIRRAL STAKES of 10 each, with 50 added ; for two
and three-years old; two Gst 121 b, three 9st ; two-year-old
course; half a mile ; the second to save his stake.
Mr. Mostyn's Mandarin, by Velocipede, 3 yrs.... Marlow 1
Capt. Ilarcourt's Sir Abstrupus, 3 yrs
Mr. Osborne's The Ileir, 2 yrs

Mr. J. Peck's b c Peter Plirnley, 3 yrs Templernan 5
Betting : 7 to 4 agst Sir Abstrupus, 7 to 2 agst The Heir,
4 to 1 agst Mandarin, and 4 to 1 against Peter Plimley ; won
by a length easy.
The LADIES' PURSE of £5O, to be run for by horses beaten
during the week ; heats, twice round the course to a heat ;
to start at the corning-in chair; three yrs old Gat 121 b, four
Bst 21b, five Bst 101 b, six and aged Ost. The second to re-
ceive £lO. _

Gene;lSllarpe's cl► g Lara, 5 yrs
Capt. Harcourt's Arnagill,s yrs. .Lye 2 2
Sir W. Stanley's b c Pensive, 3 yrs Copeland 3 3
Lara carried Sst 121 b, Arnugill, 9st 41b, and Pensive 7st.

THE COMET.—A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 11th
of April, says—" Neither here nor at Pulmoma (?), where
the principal observatory is situated, have our astronomers
been able, with all their efforts, to discover the new comet.
It has not been visible in this part of the empire, though at
several places in Southern Russia it was discernible by the
naked eye (that is to say the tail) as far back as the month of
February, whenever the state of the atmosphere permitted.
As for the nucleus, it could not be seen without the aid of a
telescope."

THE FACTORY BILL.—DISSENTERS AND CHURCHMEN.
—The real cause of the disagreement between the Legisla-
ture and the Dissenters, is, that these two parties regard the
uestion from two entirely different points of view. TheG
overnment, having inquired into the matter by the agency
of a body of intelligent commissioners, bas become ac-
quainted with a state of things which all public men declare
to be fraught with the greatest danger to the State. It there-
fore declares, with the concurrence of Parliament, and of
the nation at large, that immediate measures for the removal
or alleviation of the evil must and shall be taken. The Dis-
senters, on the other hand, look less at the fearful ascertained
deficiency, than they do at their own doings in reduction of
that deficiency. They see that a good and efficient
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an increased and really sufficient provision.

The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Irish Auxiliary to
this truly interesting society was held in the Dublin Rotun-
da, on Tuesday. The room was crowdedin every part by
one of the largest and most respectable assemblies we have
ever seen in the Rotunda, and the deepest interest was ma-
nifested by the entire meeting in the proceedings.
The Dean of Clogher and Archdeacon of Derry, and seve-
ral clergymen addressed the meeting, but we have only room
for the following abbreviated report of the speech of the Rev.
THOMAS NOLAN, of this town. He said,—lt is rot among
the least remarkable features of the present time, the increas-
ing interest awakened in the minds and hearts of Christians
towards Jerusalem and the dispersed Judah. It is full of
good hope and encouragement; and even though the horizon
lowers, and danger seems to threaten, the thought of this bids
the Christian " thank God and take courage." God is faith-
ful who bath promised, and his word is, " They shall prosper
that love thee—blessed is lie that blesseth thee." The great
object of Christian doctrine is to set forth the glory, the cha-
rseter, and the will of God, and of Christian duty to promote
that glory, to emulate that character, and fulfil that will; the
sole depository where the record of God's will and the rule
of man's duty is to be found is the inspired word, the Holy
Bible; this is profitable equally for doctrine and for instruc-
tion in righteousness; and just so far as we are practically
penetrated by the power of that word, is God's will accom-
plished concerning us; and his will is our sanctification—so
our Lord prays for his people, " Sanctify them through thy
truth, thy word is truth." Now, it is plain from this prin-
ciple—which it would have been a pleasing and a profitable
task to expound more fully—that the value and importance
of every question, in the eye of a Christian, must be esei mated
by its tendency to acquaint us with the mind of God, by
bringing us fully and frequently in contact with his word.
In this respect we are hold to claim for the Jewish nation and
question a noble pre-eminence above all others; a depth of
intense interest clings to the Jew, that we look for in vain
elsewhere. Looking back to the very earliest period, like find
the Jews—for " Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord"
Throughout the entire history, fulfilled or unfulfilled, of the
church, they are not lost sight of ; for " though I make a full
end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will
I not make a full end of thee ;" and at the very end the glo-
rious promise is reserved and secure for them, " I will make
of thee an eternal excellency and a lay of many generations."
So that, in turning your attention to the patient and prayer-
ful study of the Jewish Scriptures, and bespeaking your ac-
tive sympathies in behalf of the Jewish cause, we do most
effectually promote your own growth in grace and in know-
ledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, inasmuch as to the Israelites
" pertaineth the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the ser-
vice of God, and the promises—whose are the fathers, and of
whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all,
God blessed for ever." The record of their polity is the
book of God, the charter of their hopes is the covenant of
God : to love them is to be like God, for they are graven on
the palms of his hands; they are beloved for the fathers'
sakes. To labour Ito do them good is to bring down a bles-
sing from God on ourselves, our church, and our country,
since " they shall prosper that love thee." The indirect col-
lateral advantages consequent upon a warm devotedness to
the cause of Israel, are both numerous and important—that
already alluded to, for instance, our being thereby familiarized
so much with the word of God ; and, beside this, the best
light at which to study the page of Eternal Truth is that
caught from the brightness of Israel's destiny. This is the
master-key to unlock most of the difficulties of Scripture; it
is the master-chord with which some of the sweetest and ho-
liest strains of Scripture are accurately in tune. These mo-
tives (and they are neither few nor weak,) are wholly exter-
nal to the subject itself—they consist of the advantages ac-
cruing to ourselves from the adoption and furtherance of the
Jewish cause ; whereas the claims of any cause, or society,
must rest upon their own intrinsic merit. (Hear, hear.)
The Jewish question is one purely of prophecy ; the subject
matter of it is simply the Word of God; the prominency as-
signed to the Jewish nation in that word—" Ye are my wit-
nesses," saith the Lord—is applicable to that nation, alike in
its spreadings over the past, its present calamitous dispersion,
and in its vast and glorious predicted outstretchings into
futurity. With this question the Jewish society, as such,
has no concern. It sends the Gospel to the Jews as to
poor sinners perishing for lack of knowledge; and any pe-
culiarity in this society, from an ordinary missionary society,
arises not from any difference in the objects aimed at,
but from the pesuliarity of the people, the objects of its
solicitude, who require missionaries peculiarly trained, and as
well furnished men of God, as are required for any other por-
tion of the Lord's vineyard. The Jewish question has to do
with the nation, Israel, and Judah, the ten tribes as well as
the two. The society is in quest of the " remnant according
to the election of grace," gathered out of Judah alone, and
his companions of the house of Israel. The great things,
which are most surely believed by many of us engaged in this
holy work, and looked forward to as the bright points of hope
for this interesting people, are not to be accomplished by the
agency of man. The tide of second causes seems certainly
now beginning' to flow towards Jerusalem : the sons of the
strangers may be said even now to be building her walls, but
their glorious conversion must be the direct work of the Lord
himself. He will restore all things—the kingdom of Israel
included His spirit will be poured out of grace and of sup-
plication upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. This is not a society for the accomplishment
of prophecy—the Lord will hasten His own work, in his own
time, " even so Lord Jesus come quickly—amen." But,
while he tarries, the Jewish society seeks, like a faithful ser-
vant, to fulfil the Lord's command—preach the Gospel to
every creature, "beginning at Jerusalem."—(Hear, bear,
and applause.) This distinction 'tis important to make,
equally for the society's sake as for our own—first, because
it places the matter on its true basis ; and, secondly, there
are many who, though unable to sympathize with us in our
hopes and views concerning the glory reserved for Jerusalem
at the coming of the Lord Jesus, yet fully concur in acknow-
ledging, the duty of sending the Gospel to the Jews now.—
(Hear, hear.) Again, it is of advantage to ourselves also to
realise to our own minds the hopeless wretchedness of the
unbelieving Jew; for there is danger lest, in contemplating
the grandeur of national pre-eminence designed for him in
the " revealed counsels of the Lord, that changeth not," we
may lose sight of the ruin in winch he is now involved,
" cast off because of unbelief." We must all agree in re-
garding the Jew especially as an object of anxious commis-
aeration and tender sympathy to the Christian ; his common
claim as a fellow-creature belonging to the family of fallen
man, is surely not weakened by his special claim as a Jew,
to whom " pertaineth the adoption." Every motive by
which we are exhorted to bring the tidings of great joy with-
in reach of the Heathen, apply as forcibly to the case of the
Jew, nay, more—are fearfully enhanced by the recollection of
the privileges which he still continues to neglect and despise.
His great advantage and profit above other nations was, that
" unto him were committed the oracles of God." To this
day he professes to reverence and to be guided by these
oracles, but, alas! he is blind to their contents. The veil is
upon his heart when Moses is read : he cannot find Him, of
whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, for the
spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. He has light
enough to aggravate fearfully his responsibility, but not
enough to secure his salvation. He has the words of salva-
tion in his hands, but, like the sEthopian eunuch, he under-
stands not what he reads, and with him may reply to us,
" How can I, except some man should guide me ?" Oh !
dear brethren, here is a great claim upon us to send some
Philip, to go near and speak unto him, " that through your
mercy he may obtain mercy." This is truly the object of
this society, and a glorious object it is, toe go out
ut;iitietotekthee
byways to seek the lost ones of the house of Judah, and to
speak to them words whereby they may be
them to their own Scriptures, and out of those same Scrip-
tures to preach unto them Jesus and the resurrection—ex-
horting them to repent, to be converted, and to be baptized.
It was thus we were dealt with ourselves by the ancestors
of those Jews, the first preachers of the word : it was in this
spirit of compassionating love our blessed Redeemer (him-
self a Jew) went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, to be-
stow peace and blessing upon the poor Syrophoenician woman,
as the first fruits of the Gentiles. So he commanded his
apostle St, Peter to go down from Joppa to Caesarea, nothing
doubting : to him had been committed the keys of the king-
dom of Heaven : with the Jewish key he opened up the Gos-
pel on the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem—and now he is
sent down with the Gentile key to Cornelius, to open a door
of mercy unto him, since God had granted to the Gentiles
repentance unto life. The middle wall of partition is broken
down. The Gospel was thenceforth to be the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth it—first, doubtless, to
the Jew : but, also, though after, to the Greek : and so the
Apostles testified both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
repentance toward God, and faith to our Lord Jesus Christ.
—(Hear.) The case is now reversed: we, who were not a
people, now are a people. These are the times of the Gen-
tiles : God is still visiting us to take of us a people for His
name. Jerusalem is still trodden down. Behold, therefore,
the goodness and severity of God—they were cast off because
of unbelief; and we stand by faith—we walk by faith—we
live by faith. Faith works by lore, as Christ also loved us
—and love keeps his commandments. " Preach the Gospel,
beginning at Jerusalem," is still unrepealed—" Blessed is
he that blesseth thee,".is still unrecallecl. Now is an oppor-
tunity, and so we read, even so have those also now not
believed that through your mercy they may obtain mercy.
The sympathy of the Lord Jesus is still undiminished to-
wards them ; they are beloved still for their father's sake :
his bowels of compassion still yearn towards them as when
he wept over Jerusalem, and mourned over her approaching
ruin. He wills us to speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and
to seek to do her good.—(Hear, hear.)

The body of Mr. E. F. Busfield, who was unfortunately
lately drowned near Blackwell, was found on Thursday last
about a mile and three qual ters from where the melancholy
accident took place. The coroner's jury, on view of the
body, found a verdict of accidental death.
DISASTER AT CAMDEN-TOWN.—On Wednesday evening,
about seven o'clock, the neighbourhood of Camden-town was
thrown into consternation by the following distressing cir-
cumstance :—Mr. T. Hall, about 40 years of age, upholsterer,
of 3, Stucley-terrace (near Mother Redcap's), was lying ill
in his chamber of brain fever. Being delirious, he attempted
to leap out of the window, two stories above the shop. His
brother tried to prevent the leap, but was immediately felled
up from the pavement,
to the floor by the unhappy maniac, who speedily
purpose.accom-
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arms he expired in about three minutes after. Deceased has
left a wife, but no family.

MURDERS AT SUNDERLAND.—On Tuesday an extraordi-
nary sensation was produced at Sunderland, by the following
tragical occurrence. William Ferry, a seaman, had been for
some time confined in the Gateshead Lunatic Asylum. On
Saturday he contrived to make his escape, and arrived at
whom
home on Monday. His family consisted of himself, his wife,
oa and dt
the
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Anne (the eldest) about
seventeen years of age, William, aged nine years, and Han-
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children went to bed
at their usual hour, and the wife did not entertain any doubts
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of her own or their safety, for a neighbour who was in the
house about nine o'clock, and suspecting the man's insanity
proposed to remain in the house during the night, but the
poor woman thought there was no necessity for this precau-
tion, and accordingly she left soon afterwards. The house
consists only of two rooms ; in the front room the wife slept
in a camp bed with her daughter, and in a desk bed were
the young boy and Duncan; in the trek room Ferry was to
sleep. About twelve o'clock the little boy was awakened
by hearing his father beating his sister over the head with a
fire shovel, which very speedily killed her, her head being
fractured in a shocking manner.. Not a word passed between
Whilst this was
them that he heard.going on Mrs. Ferry
awoke, and alive to the awful nature of her situation, jumped
out of bed and attempted to escape, probably to call the
woman above referred to; but her maniac husband pursued
her, and when she was at the top of the stairs, he threw a
water skeal at her, which hit her over the face, and she in-
stantly fell. He then took up a log of wood about ten inches
long, and six or seven inches in diameter, with which he beat
her head, as if in the act of beating a substance to powder,
and for the purpose of more effectually finishing the work
he used a fire poker. She of course immediately expired
under these repeated and furious. blows.
About the time of
her death, Duncan (who during this interval had got out of
the house) succeeded in arousing the neighbours, and some
of them with the police were speedily in the house, and the
author of this sad tragedy was secured and taken to the
Monkwearmouth police station, where he raved all the day.
The youngest child escaped uninjured, and the boy named
William was allowed to remain a spectator of the murder
of his mother and the child, his father promising not to hurt
him because his name was William. In the evening a coro-
ner's inquest was held and the jury returned a verdict of 1
" wilful murder" against the unfortunate man.

LEICESTER HOSIERY TRADE.—It is extremely difficult to
ascertain the actual state of trade in Leicester; the unex-
pected stoppage of the bank of Messrs. Clarke, Phillips, and
Co., has acted like the shock of an earthquake, and has pro-
duced the most intense alarm and concentration through all
grades of society. As it is accompanied by the failure of
another bank, in a neighbouring market town, it caused a
complete panic last Saturday, upon the fact being made
known. Its effect was even greateramongst the agriculturists
than the manufacturers and tradesmen, as cattle suddenly
lowered in price from £2 to £2 10s. in the Leicester market.
The glove trade is, to all appearance, in about the same stats
that it has been for some weeks past, the hands being pretty
generally employed. The woollen glove season appears to be
dawning, which holds out hopes that a good season may be
expected. It has come earlier than usual. The fancy hosiery
branch is improving ; more material has been given out, and
more is expected every ensuing week. The articles made are
cravats, shawls, children's boots, mitts, cuffs, and many
other articles, which, in addition to the frame-workers, em-
ploys many hands in warping, winding, and making-up.—
Nottingham Journal, of Friday.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The silk glove branch in
the town is in much the same state as last week, that is, the
hands are only partially employed, and that in a very un-
certain manner, making generally slop gloves, with cut thumb
holes, and other inferior and fradulent methods of fashioning.
On the other hand, at Derby, Belper, Duffield, and other
villages in that part of the county of Derby, the glove hands
are fully employed, making very superior qualities of gloves,
and, in many instances, having extra fashion.—lbid.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 24.
In the piece market there has been rather more business
done, but prices have been extremely low. There is also a
little improvement in the wool market, and the dealers are
asking rather higher prices.
THE IRON TRADE.—The iron and metal trade gets worse
and worse. It is in it that the went of the American market
is principally felt. This will readily be believed when it is
considered that in 1839 our exports to the United States of
iron and steel, copper and brass, and tin plates, amounted to
£1,227,808, besides hardware and cutlery, amounting to
£849,640: making a total of £2,077,448 worth of metals and
their manufactures, exported in one year to America. Fur-
ther, when we consider that of this prodigious sum no less
than £1,650,838 was for iron and its manufactures, and that
this extensive trade has falle❑ off to about one-third, we shall
have an important fact to assist us in guessing at the causes
of the depression of the iron trade. In Staffordshire, out of
111 furnaces, 53 are now lying cold, and have been blown
out for 12 months, and their non-production withdrawn at
least 220,480 tons weekly from the market; notwithstanding
this, the price of iron continues to fall, the demand to become
less, and the worst, but clearly inevitable, evil follows—
wages are reduced, and industrious men are driven out of
employment.— IVorcester Herald.

PROSPECTS OF THE RETURNING PROSPERITY
OF THE COUNTRY.

During the last month, if not within the last fortnight, we
have encountered so many complaints of public distress in
retail trade, in industrial occupation, in commerce, in manu-
factures, and we lament to be be compelled to add, in agri-
culture also, both as regards farmers and their labourers ;
and the question has been so often suggested to us, how long
this is to last, and whether there is any reasonable expecta-
tion of an improvement taking place, and from what quarter,
and at what time, that we can in truth scarcely direct our
thoughts to any other subject.
We admit the circumstances of the distress, and its gene-
ral existence among all classes. to the fullest extent in which
we find it alleged, as the proofs before us amount to evidence
admitting of no doubt. In retail trade, even in the very ne-
cessaries of household life, consumption has very greatly
fallen off; smaller profits are made even upon what is sold,
and thus the large class of our shopkeepers are suffering their
share in the common distress. In the industrial occupations
of great towns--we are not speaking here of manufacturing
towns, but of cities like London,—the wages of labswir, such
as that of mechanics, has not been proportionately reduced,
and therefore this class of people is suffering less than the
shopkeepers. In shipping and commerce we have had occa-
sion to know that the suffering is very great, and merchants
and shipowners can no longer find a due employment for
their capital. It is needless to say anything of manufactur-
ing distress as it existed about a month from the present
date. In agriculture the low price of corn and cattle has
spread a panic amongst the farmers, and their labourers are
necessarily suffering under its effect. So much as to the fact
of the distress. _

As to the causes, they are almost equally obvious with the
existence of the distress itself. The manufacturers have been
depressed, not to say ruined, by the three concurrent causes
of the total failure of the American market; of the prohibi-
tory system of the continent of Europe ; and of over-produc-
tion, and senseless competition, in the very jaws of ruin,
amongst themselves. Our shipping and commerce have suf-
fered from the state of the foreign, European, and American
markets ; our retail trade has suffered in like manner from
the impoverishment of its customers, and from the reduced
income and wages of the middle and labouring classes. in
the very midst of all this we have the income tax, which has
put all the higher and middle classes, from whom expendi-
ture mainly proceeds, each in itself, under the necessity of
saving the amount of the tax from their establishments, and
has thus still further reduced general consumption and em-
ployment. The weight of this has fallen chiefly upon the in-
dustrial and mechanic bodies, and has thus involved them in
the common distress of their masters and superiors. Again,
the vast proportion of the poor, who are now supported in
unions and by the parish, has also had a twofold operation in
adding to the common suffering ; first, by the increased bur-
den of parish rates ; and secondly, by the reduced consump-
tion of the poor in unions from what such consumption would
be upon the wages of their own labour. All these causes
and their operations are so obvious and evident as not to re-
quire a further word in explanation of the causes of public
distress.

In what we have above said, we must be understood as
speaking of the state and condition of the country as it ex-
isted a short time ago. We think we are not disposed to be
too sanguine, but our present impression is, that some light
is now beginning to dawn upon us, and we perceive plain
symptoms of approaching improvement.
The springs seem to be again rising ; and channels, which
have been hitherto dry, begin to exhibit the signs of the re-
turning waters. Our sources of production are, indeed, all
unimpaired. No country in the world is so rich in realised
and treasured capital, and in accumulated machinery—two
of the first instruments in trade and commerce. In agricul-
ture, our soil was never so fertile, and our mode of tillage,
and employment of manure, never so skilful and so diffused.
Ir. minerals also—iron, copper, tin, lead, &c.—our mines
were never more productive, or better and more scientifically
worked. In manufactures also, so far as workmanship goes,
we maintain our superiority over all the nations of the world.
Thus all our resources are unquestionably entire, and thus
the continuance or termination of the present stage of distress
is a question of markets only.
The main point of inquiry, therefore, comes to this :—is
there any reasonable ground for expecting that our markets
are improving, and that in the failure of the foreign manu-
facturing market of Europe, of which we fear we must nearly
take our final leave, other sources are about to open upon us,
which may in a great measure supply this defect, and restore
the former demand for British manufactures ? _ _

So large a portion of our national industry, or, in simpler
words, our labouring class, has been hitherto competently
and comfortably supported upon the extent of our foreign
commerce, that we feel a great and natural reluctance to
abandon all hope of the relurn of foreign trade. It affords
us, therefore, great satisfaction to be enabled to hold out
what we deem a very reasonable hope of the return of a great
portion of trade with the United States of America. Upon
general and obvious principles, we entertain no manner of
doubt that these states, in despite of themselves, will be com-
pelled to return to their former trade with Great Britain,
and after a very short trial to abandon their present restric-
tive system. America, with her new lands, and, what neces-
sarily accompanies such a state of society, her dear labour,
and her scattered population, cannot, with all her efforts,
manufacture for herself for some centuries to come, and
must therefore be driven by her natural necessities and phy-
sical circumstances to resort to the old states of Europe.
Another circumstance peculiar to her situation, that of her
common origin, and therefore common tastes and habits with
ourselves, must also as necessarily give us the preference
above the other nations of Europe. As these are indisputa-
bly first principles, and indeed natural and physical necessi-
ties, which it is impossible to resist, we cannot hesitate to
come to the conclusion, that the present condition of trade
between England and America is merely temporary ; in other
words, that, in despite of her present perverse policy, nature
and necessity will ultimately force their way, and that the
Americans will again be compelled to resort to the British
market. All experience shows that no nation can violently
force itself from one stage of occupation to another. All
new states must commence with the agricultural stage, and
can only pass into the second or manufacturing stage when
' their lands are fully occupied and cultivated, when their po-
pulation becomes condensed into cities, and when the com-
petition in the labour market between agriculture and manu-
factures shall cease. Dear labour, which is always the
ne-
cessary accompaniment of cheap lands, can never consist and
stand together with prosperous manufactures
Again, even as regards our European market although we
fear we must take our leave of a great part of it,' thetre still
some portion remaining, which, according to presenL.appearl
A circular from iverpoo
ances, seems to promise fairly.
is now before us, signed by Messrs. Buchanan and_. C. 0.,
which states that the cotton market is now obviously rising.
and that our prospects for the coming season are exceedingly
good. There has been a great increase for the foreign de..
mand for yarns, many of the German manufacturers having
increased their orders. The same circular gives a still more
flattering account of the inereisbod demand of our Immo mar-

( From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.)
The newest and most fashionable material of the season is
the carnel6on silk, deriving its name from the ever-varying
shades it a►sumes in different lights ; this, with taffetas na-
cre, Pekin Bengal, Ecossais gitana, bareges of many styles,
foulards, mousselines cachemire, &c., are now replacing the
thicker materials of winter ; all shades of grey and violet are
fashionable. Buttons are much used on redingotes and
robes of demi neglig6 ; they are made of coloured glass,
agate stones, &c., having a gold point in the centre, and are
of a round form. Black lace is almost an indispensable ac-
companiment of every toilette; camails are of lace, scarfs of
lace, flounces of lace, &c., &c. Point de Venise is also much
in demand, and is made in every colour ; and the patterns
are either antique, renaissance, or pompadour; it is also
made in black and white for shawls, or scarfs of cachemire
or barege. Dresses continue to be made unreasonably long,
particularly behind ; the trimmings are two very deep flounces
with ruche, two tucks, or two biais placed in a lengthened
wave ; the bodies continue high and tight, but many have
full backs, or a little fulness on the shoulders, and the cein-
ture is not excluded ; the pelerine is a little changed in form,
concealing less of the figure ; the sleeves are still tight, but
those a la Louis XIII. have many admirers, and it is ex-
pected will become more general as the season advances.
For evening dresses, gauze or linon, forming double skirts
in two colours, thAne pink, the other lilac, are much ad-
mired, producing the effect so much approved of the came-
leon silk. The same style is also applied to bonnets of gaze
lisse ; it produces the opal tints. Nlantilles of black filet,
with trimmings of the same, will be very fashionable this
season ; also the manteau Venitienne in black or white, tined
with lilac or pink silk ; scarfs of glac6 silk are hollowed out
at the throat, and trimmed ala gt andemere. Crispins and
camails of tarlatane over silk, are made with four rows of
lace and embroidery ; the various styles of mantelet all form
pelerine behind, and the ends are rounded ; they are trimmed
with ribbon a la vieille ; trimmings of ribbon quilled, and
bands of silk decoupees in festons, are much i❑ use. Bon-
nets are made inclining more over the face, and not quite so
deep at the ears, and the crowns are not so low behind, but
rather expose the hair; the more simple for morning wear
are trimmed with plain ribbons. Capotes a coulisses are not
much ornamented, and some are made of straw with silk
crowns, with merely a noeud, and long ends at the side ; the
chou is sometimes of plain net. White satin bonnets arc
covered with lace, and ornamented with a long white feather ;
the Penelope bonnet is the newest style, and capotes a la
Madonne, with long veils of tulle. Leghorns, whether plain
or sewed, are now in favour, and vary i❑ form and trimming
according to the use required. Bonnets of etoffe sylphide
are made rather close, with a narrow bouillonn6 of tulle, and
bunch of lilac or fieur de cedras ; pailles de riz mixed with
silk form pretty capotes, with sprigs of May and feather
leaves, or wreaths of aubiTine.

REBECCA AGAlN.—Trevanaghan Gate was once more en-
tirely demolished on Saturday night last, the toll-house le-
velled with the ground, and the stones of the building car-
ried away and thrown into the river at some distance from
the gate.

At the recent Penrith fair, half-bred sheep (between Lei-
cester and Cheviot,) sold at 225. Gd. each. The same kind
last year sold for 265. 6d., and tne year previously for 335.
each, so that in two years the prices have fallen fully one-
third. The show of fat cattle was large, and prices went down
considerably. The farmers are all looking out for a reduction
of rent.

The period being at hand for presenting to Parliament the
financial statements for the current year, much curiosity is
felt in the city as to their nature, which still appears to re-
main a profound secret. The chief points to which the atten-
tion of capitalists is directed are the possible reduction of the
31 per Cents., or a further reduction of the rate of interest
ou Exchequer bills. With respect to the first of these points
the opinion is, that a reduction to 31 per cent. instead of 3 is
far from improbable. At all events, it is believed that the
reduction is, if any there should be, will not take place before
next October.—Times.

We have much gratification in learning that a great part of
the body of dissenters called Irvingites last week returned to
the bosom of the Church of England. The members of the
denomination at Nottingham, Bridgnorth, Stourbridge, and
several other places were, we are informed, regularly pre-
sented to the bishops of the different dioceses. The so-called
" angels " of several churches now assemble daily at their
meeting-house, Newhall-street, in this town, where the larger
portion of the Church of England service is daily read. These
ministers in many respects conform to the ceremonies of the
Church of Rome.—Birmingham Advertiser.

LAUNCH OF A ROYAL STEAM YACHT.—The launch of
her Majesty's steam vessel, Victoria and Albert, took place
at the Pembroke dock yard, on Wednesday, in the presence
of ten thousand spectators. The vessel was named by Lady
Cawdon, and precisely at half-past three o'clock the last
supporter was knocked away, and the Victoria and Albert
glided gently and gracefully into the water, amidst the cheers
of the assembled thousands. The dockyard band, which
was in attendance, then struck up " God save the Queen,"
and immediately ten thousand voices joined in singing the
national anthem. The following are principal dimensions
of this beautiful vessel : Feet. Inches.
Length, extreme 225 0
Length on the deck 205 0
Length between perpendiculars 2OO 0
Length of keel for tonnage
Breadth outside paddle-boxes. 59 0
Breadth for tonnage . 33 0
Breadth moulded
Depth in hold 22 0
Burthen in tons 1,019. She is divided into five water-tight
compartments, and her engines are of 450-horse power.
Some idea may be formed of the novel and peculiar style of
her construction, as well as of her great strength. when it is
stated that she is built only with plank, the first two layers
being of oak, la inches thick, placed across each other diago-
nally, at an angle of forty-five degrees, the outside plank
being of larch, three inches thick, lying longitudinally, or with
the sheer of the ship, and the whole being bound up with
vertical and diagonal iron bands. Between each layer of
plank the surface is covered with thick tarred felt. The ves-
sel, therefore, cannot leak, nor be in the least degree damp,
inside, and being divided intofive compartments by four
water-tight bulkheads, extending as high as the state-deck,
it is impossible for the body ever to sink, although it might
be bilged in any part from accident. Her keel was laid on
thr 9th of November, 1842.

FOUNTAIN or Emsti A.-Our ride of the morning, though
trifling in respect of time or distance, had left some of our
party and myself but little disposed for further exertion.
Lady F., however, was unexhausted ; and the beauty of the
evening and its comparative coolness induced her and myself
to undertake a visit to the neighbouring spring, which bears
the name of the Prophet Elisha, and is the source of the
waters which he sweetened. Never was a trifling exertion
better rewarded. Our indefatigable jannissary and escort
mounted with the utmost alacrity ; and the latter skirmished
again incessantly during our ride of sonic twenty minutes
through the jungle. The fountain is situated at the base of
the hill chain, a neighbouring summit of which is pointed out
as the ecene of our Lord's fasting and temptation. I have
scarcely seen a nobler source. It might vie in volume with
Holywell, or with another spring dear to my recollections,
that of Woolmers, in Hertfordshire, whose waters the Duke
of Bridgewater projected to conduct to London in rivalry
with the New River. Some ancient masonry fences in the
water on the one side ; a gigantic fig tree, its white stem
gleaming through its leaves, overshadows the source ; and
the stream rushes on through high reeds and dense jungle,
over which the distant hills of Moab were seen, crimson
with the last glow of parting (lay. The red aspect of these
bare mountains is very striking, even when not thus illumi-
nated. The bare and bald effect of this species of Syrian scenery
has been very happily rendered in a panorama lately exhibited
of Damascus. It suggested here to the recollection the passage
of 2 Kings, iii, 22, which commemorates the dispersion of
the hosts of Moab, when the flood came down in the night
from a mountain rain which refreshed the exhausted hosts of
its
current, Israel, and Edom, and which, by the redness of
current, made the Moabite believe that the allied powers had
fought among themselves, and that the trenches e
red-
dened with the bloodshed. ' And they said this is blood.
Now, therefore, Moab to the spoil. The kings are surely
slain, and they have smitten one another. The reeking
horses of our escort needed no invitation to the stream ; and,
while they refreshed themselves in its pellucid waters, the
scene formed as compact, manageable, and complete a sub-
ject for the pencil, as ever made me sigh over my inability
to do it justice. We know that when Sir Walter Scott visited
Carlisle Castle, he was gravely shown the dungeon in which
Feargus Maclvor was confined. Had he been of our party,
he would doubtless have been told, as I was, that this was
the Diamond of the Desert so admirably described in his ro-
mance of the Talisman. I know not whether some traveller's
allusion to this scene may have suggested to him that lovely
passage of his later works; but no detailed account of it
would have supplied him with the peculiar features of that
passage, for which he drew on an imagination whose visions
he could invest with all the charms of reality. To his ad-
mirers it will probably be always a matte.- of doubt, whether
he most excelled in delineation from the life or from fancy.
Between Jenny Deans and Rebecca, Teviot or the Diamond
of the Desert, I, for one, should be at a loss to decide.”--
Medilerramea* Sketches by .Lord Francis .Egerlon.

We find that the Rev. A. M. Campbell has resigned the
office of Secretary of the Society for Propagating the Gospel
in Foreign Parts.
The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge have voted
£lOOO towards the restoration of the churches and chapels
in the diocese of Antigua, which were so seriously injured
s
by the late earthquake.
Dr. Chalmers states, that subscriptions and donations, for
the support of the " Free Presbyterian Church," are Coming
in thick and fast, " like a set rain, at the rate of £l,OOO a
day." It is intended to raise £300,000 for the building off
GOO churches, which are to be erected and finished by the end.
of May. This, we are inclined to think, will prove an archi-
tectural impossibility; least if the edifices are to he of such
solidity as to last for many future May-days.
OUTRAGE IN DERRY CATHEDRAL.—The Derry Journal
says, " In the course of divine service in the cathedral, on
the forenoon of Sunday last, the Rev. Mr. Henn ascended
the pulpit, and, after the customary prayer, commenced to
preach from Luke xvi., 31. This was a signal to about 50
fellows, who were scattered throughout the church, to rise
all at once, leave the pews in which they had been seated,
also slammed after them with as muchlv force as
slamming the doors after them with the greatest violence,
and then march out of the church in a body, the great doors
of which they
they could apply to it. During, this scene—so outrageous to
all decency, and so devoid of all religious feeling—the preacher
maintained the most perfect composure, and then proceeded
with his discourse. The bishop sititholeioedesvuedriuivtre.iynegdtilti,e hubbub,
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