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paragraph in question which leads thus :—" The legitimate
sale of English books has, indeed, been contracted by the
circulation of French, Belgian, and American copies of
works; and the English publisher, though, in many cases,
giving considerable sums for manuscripts, and embarking his
capital in other large outlays, for paper, print, advertise-
ments, (including duty to Government,) &c., could not hope
for an entire possession even of the home market, where his
energies were defeated, where he was not protected (!) from
unfair rivalry, and where he was
_greatly undersold by .fo-
reign 'speculators, who, not having to pay for convright.

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could defy competition as to price."
Now, sir, this quotation contains, in substance, the most
powerful arguments that can be used against "free trade"

DRBA.DrUL CASE,UP BURNING.---AU inquest was held of
Wednesday, before Mr . Curry, the borough coroner, on view
of the body of Elltn Maynagh, a married fernale,.aged 38,
It appeared from, the evidence, that at one o'clock on the
morning of Tuesday last, the deceased, who resided with
family in Pall Mall, was found, by some persons who
the house on hearing her cries, to be enveloped
from head to foot. Her persc ,i,,
tinctly seen through the blaze and smu.,.
to extinguish the fire, the husband, who I-
bed, had his hands much burnt.

ndeed, e

came in to her assistance, had also his coat
such assistance as he could ; but notwithst

efforts

her clothes were entirely co,

dreadfully burnt over her whole pc
ately conveyed to the Northern Ho:

ing for abont six hours, she expired about nye]
same morning. The body, on being viewed
presented a shocking appearance, being intern
nearly to a cinder. The deceased stated, so(
accident, that she had been sitting on the fend
fallen asleep. Her husband had gone to bed,
child was lying on chairs close to her at the time
returned a verdict of " Accidental death."

DOCK COMMITTEE, YESTERDAY. - Presen
Sands, (chairman,) Horsfall, Bold, Aikin, Butte
Evans, Holmes, Holt, Molvneux, Royden, Sha
Martin, and Middleton. The sub committee of
department reported that the anchors and cable
to the North-west Light Ship, which were lost dni
gale, had been picked up. They had been vale
Logan, at £l2O, one-third of which was ordered
to the person who found them and brought thee
The committee also reported that the Steam Tu

would. in future, always have one of their boat
with the steam up, which
_mighthe had for t 4

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life-boats incase of need; she will be stationed off
Pier-head, and, when a signal of distress is fly
mediately take the first life-boat in tow. The

veyor recommended that means should be taken
the wreck of a schooner, lately sunk outside the
ferred to the harbour master.
relative to the duties of the pilots and the dog
the entry of Vessels, in consequence of a recommet
the sub-committee that the dock master should at
pier-head, in place of the pier-head master, Mr. 1
of opinion that relative duties of each were not p
fined. The ship Arlow having received some dam
into the Graving Dock, an application was recei'
the facts of the ease. but the committee did r
them: elle responsible. A letter was also re
Messrs. Rathbone Brothers, stating that the s)
burgh not being worth repairing, after lvi-
Grating Dock, they wished the dock t.
but the committee cold not retain the matter
the Birkenhead Cemetery Bill was sent in fop tl
Me of the committee, who then proceeded to the c
of financial matters, and soon afterwards adjourr

Some conversati

LIVERPOOL of
AND LIPE INSURANCE C
The annual meeting of the Liverpool Fire and Life I
Company *as held, yesterday, in the Clarer '
South John-street, for the purpose of receiving t
the directors, the declaration of a divider
ment of seven directors, in the place of t
by rotation. George Hall Lawrence, Esq., cha
sided. In introducing the report, the chairman s
the losses which the company. had sustained by t
conflagrations had been confined almost entireh, tc
cantile districts of Liverpool. the company was
excellent position, and he trusted, with the experi
had gained, they would continue to go on flourishil
had been driven to a painful experience, like all o
ponies, that the mercantile premiunis formerly cha
totally inadequate to protect them from the risk Vi
ran, And though they regretted to place the commie
port ender any additional burdens, they had been c
in their own protection, to increase the premiums
surance. After shewing the grounds on which
prosperity might be expected, the chairman called on 1‘
Ewalt to read the directors' report. This document sheet
that the losses during the year had been £46,528 16s. 8
leaving the reserved fund at £27,481 3s. 2d., after dischargi
all liabilities; and it recommended a dividend of £5 per ce
on the paid-up capital be declared. A long discussion follow
principally with reference to the protection of warehouse pro-
perty against fire, at the end of which the report was unani-
mously adopted. The dividend proposed by the directors
was ordered to be paid ; the thanks of the proprietors were
given to the directors and auditors; the retiring directors and
auditors were re-elected ; the usual sum of £420 was ordered
In be placed at the disposal of the directors for distribution
among themselves; and after some discussion upon several
matters of business, Mr. Lawrence was thanked for his con-
duct in the chair, and the meeting separated.

CANDID.—" How is your husband ?" said a dispensar
doctor to a middle-aged woman, who had come for medicin
" Oh, sir," she replied, " 'flatter myself he's worse."
It appears, from some statistics which have just been p-
lisbed, that notwithstanding the pressure upon trade am
pufactnres experienced since 1839, there has been an
an the value of property in the borough of Manche
the last three years, of not less than £224,494.

increase
;r within

AFFECTION OF THE SPARROW FOR ITS YOUNG
few years ago I was sitting in a cottage, when my att.-
was attracted by an unusual screaming of a small L.
immediately went to the back door, and saw that it
from a house-sparrow that was fluttering ab

at the base of Which was a duck with something in
which it was endeavouring to swallow. Upon attent
observing it, I found this to be a callow nestling, and
the agonies of the poor sparrow there was no mistakin
parent; the feathers of the latter were all erect, and in c
tinued hopping and *uttering about, and uttering -
distressing cries for the loss of one of its young, w
pose had fallen out of the nest.—Letter in the Zc

hich I st

Da. SHELTON MACKENZIE'S NEW ROMANCE.—)
Mr. Bentley's announcements for the coming sea
"Titian a Romance of Venice." by Dr. Mackenzie
we believe is editor of the Salopian Journal. This roi
we hear, is the first specimen in our literature, of tli
Novel—a species of fiction very popular on the Con
The hero is the great Venetian painter Titian ; and
the characters are his rival Giorgione, Ariosto.the
the celebrated Cornelius Agrippa. There are gliml
of Raphael and Michael Angelo. The scene is r
at Venice, and the time is that of the League of
There is a love story, of course, but the object o'"
to illustrate the romantic incidents of Titian's
The subject, it must be confessed, h
Literary Gazette

Las great ear.

THE WAR IN AFFGHANiSTAN.—One word on our I
affairs. How can impeachment be refused ? If the
were justified in invading Affghanistan, the conservz
were guilty of treachery when they evacuated the tong'
country. If the conservatives were justified in relinqui:
possession of Affghanistan, the Whigs were lawless plund
in the attack. Either there must be impeachment, o
sponsibility is a farce. If the treasure, blood, and oat
honour which England has sacrificed in that invasion,
quest, and retreat, do not call for the impeachment of
guilty authors of so much loss and disgrace, every natio
the world will ridicule our notion of England's respon
governors, and despise the name of Britain's greatr
Then it will be proved that the very kernel of the B
institutions is rotten, and that the sun of Britain's
set. —Well, we shall see.—Ostlers Fleet Papers.
NEW SPECIES OF CURRENCY.—When the late 11
Buckhardt was travelling in Africa he took payment on
occasion for exhibiting his head. His face and hands
feet had become very dark from the effects of the broil
sun ; hut his head, which he had shaved, and kept genes
covered with a cap or turban, retained the whiteness (
northern skin. A tradition of this having got abroad, it
intimated to Mr. Buckhardt, at
in m a town where he had a,
brief halt, that two of the ladies the vicinity were wil
to pay for a sight of his bead. Not being rich at the mon
the traveller consented, and the price of the exhibition
fixed at four onions each. At. the first glimpse of the v
skin the ladies ran off screaming that !hey had look-
the devil, and the traveller, putting his onions
(which in those parts no oubts TFn.ables very m
vision bag), went upon his way rejoicing.

LONDON ROYAL GEOGRAYRICAL SOCIETY .--The
nary meeting was held on Monday evening; Sir Chas.
color, Y.P., in the chair. A letter was read from Mr. J
son, of this town, stating that he
.had received a letter,
some new, important, and interesting intelligence, fror
Becroft, on the Niger river and the late expedition.
chief paper for the evening was a very voluminous rep(
the last expedition of Mr. Sehombirgek, in the inter
Guiana, forwarded to the Society by Lord Stanley, a,
panied by a great variety of mineralogical and geol
specimens, chiefly from the Tocatn and Roopoouverny
The heat of the country was intense, and the fatigues
expedition were great, but they made a great series of
nometrical and astronomical observations, and ricer
the heights of the varioss ranges of mountains. The
nnation of the paper, which was replete with informati
the nataral history of the country, as well as of the mi.
of the natives, was deferred till tin next meeting.

TURRET.—Letters have been received from Conatanti
to the 28th alt. A few days before M. he Bouteniefi
Russia' extraordinary envoy, had long conference
Sarin% t ffeedi on the *fairs of Servia. The Govern
confirmed to receive the most satisfactory- intelligence
that country. Prince Alexander was to have left Bel
to visit his mother, who was lying ill at Schahacz, bt
absence would not interfere with the regular course of
mess. A deputation from Albania presented, on the
a petition to the Sepreme Council of Justice, dema
the dismissal of the Govenor of that province. The
Mr. Curzon, private Secretary to Sir. S. Canning,
whc
to act as the British Commissioner at the deliberati
the Tarkishand Persian plenipotentiaries at Ezeroutn,
for the Trebizond on the 27th. Captain Williams, a
appointed to fill that mission, had been unable to undr
it in consequence of indisposition. The vessels comini
Smyrna were subjected to a quarantine of observati
six days, of account of an infraction of the sanatory
committed by the English steamer-of-war Hecate,
arrived there from Cyprus and the coast of Syria on the