The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

It is said that Mr. Colburn has in the press a new
work by the author of " Coningsby."

On Friday last, Alderman T. R. Batson, of Newcastle-
on-Tyne, was killed by being thrown from his phaeton.

CHARLES DlCKENS.—Letters from Rome state that
Boz and the Pope are quite hand and toe!
On Friday a poor man, named Jonathan, a wireworker,
died from the inclemency of the weather in one of the
third-class carriages of the Great Western Railway.
On Saturday week the Earl of Harewood caused a
week's wages to be paid to the workmen employed on his
lands whose labours had been suspended by the frost.
About nine o'clock on Sunday morning week, two dis-
tinct vibrations of an earthquake were felt at Camrsie,
near Glasgow.

The corporation of London have purchased the Fleet
Prison from government for £29,000, and the building is
to be forthwith demolished.

A glass manuficturing firm at Sunderland is erecting
three additional glass-bottle houses, in consequence of
the proposed abolition of the duty.
Two more of the persons injured at the execution of
the murderer Saville. at Nottingham, died last week,
making about twenty lives lost on that occasion.
After Lady-day parish-officers can, whenever they see
necessary, have solicitor's bills, for parochial business,
taxed by the clerk of the peace.

A woman of penurious habits died the other day at
M tch el- Troy , Monmouthshire, from the stringent effects
of acorn tea, used as a cheap substitute for coffee.
The fountains in Trafalgar-square, London, have at
last got to work, and attract much attention. The jets
appear to be about three yards in height, and distribute a
large body of water.

At Stratford, on Wednesday last, John Brough, was
sentenced to death for the murder of his brother. The
deceased had ordered the mother to be distrained upon
which was the cause of the horrid deed.

Fluz.—A most alarming fire broke out late on Satur-
day night last, in the rick-yard of Mr. Allen, an extensive
farmer at Pewsey, Wilts, by which property to the amount
of £2OOO has been destroyed.

A very numerous meeting was held at Douglas, Isle of
Man, on Tursdiy, to petition government to make Dou-
glas Bay the site of their contemplated harbour of refuge.
Sir W. Hillary was in the chair.
At the Maidstone Assizes, a farmer recoverel £BOO
damages from the South Eastern Wrilway Company, being
the value of a stack of farm buildings, fired by sparks
from the chimney of one of the company's locomotives.
DARTMOUTH ELECTION.—The Parliamentary Com-
mittee have decided that " at the time of the last election
for Dartmouth, Joseph Somes, Esq., was not disqualified
from being elected by reason of being engaged in any go-
vernment contract."

Mrs. Ann Gardner, the postmistress at Enstone, was
convicted at the Oxford assizes, of having opened two
letters, and stolen a third containing two half sovereigns.
Sentence upon the prisoner (who is 64 years of age) was
deferred.

A surgeon, named Gashes, practising at a village near
Norwich, and who was fully committed for trial, charged
with the manslaughter of a married woman in his capacity
as accoucheur, contrived to make his escape from the po-
lice-inspector about three o'clock in the morning.
OLD BALLADS ARE WORTH SOMETHING.—A collection
in black-letter, extended over 110 years, from 1570 to
1680, and abode 900 in number, in 3 vols. folio, were sold
last week by Mr. Sotheby for £535. Understood to be
foi the British Museum.

In the case of the recent explosion at Blackwall, the
coroner's jury, on Thursday, brought in a verdict of
manslaughter against Mr. Lowe, and added that the ma-
chinery generally on Mr. Samnda's establishment was of
a most defective character.

A chironev.sweeper, fourteen years old, bas been killed
at Glasgoa;by falling from the top of a house, while en-
deavouring to get his father safely down from the roof,
the man being drunk ; the boy fell a height of four stories,
and was killed instantaneously ; his mother, who had sent
him up, being a witness of his death.

A chimney-sweeper, fourteen years old, has been killed
at Glasgow, by falling from the top of a house while en-
deavouring to get his father safely down from the roof,
the man being drunk ; the boy fell a height of four stories,
and was killed instantaneously ; his mother, who had sent
him up, being a witness of his death.
One of those brilliant operations which has crowned the
labours of modern surgery, and made it the instrument of
unspeakable value to the species, has been performed in
the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. A boy, labouring under
cancer of the lower jaw, which must inevitably have con-
signed him to his grave in a few weeks, had that bone cut
out of its joint at the temple, and with the bone the cancer
removed. The boy is doing well.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—On Monday afternoon the floor
of an apartment in the Exeter Female Penitentiary gave
way, and twenty-one of the inmates were precipated into
a tank of water, which extended underneath to the size of
the floor, and was at least 10 feet deep. In this awful
well were the unfortunate beings struggling for life. Six.
teen of them were taken out alive ; the remaining five
were suffocated.

ENGLAND A CHEAP COUNTRY.—It is our belief that
England on the whole is the cheapest country in the
world. Where the comparison of prices appears against
us, that difference will often disappear as soon as we ask
for a large supply of an equal quality. We would rather
undertake to furnish our metropolis with its present
weekly allowance of meat, drink, and clothing, in its pre-
sent situation, in the heart of this over-taxed country,
than in any part of the European continent.— Times.
PRESENT CF CHEESE TO HER MAJESTY.—Mr. 0.
P. Mills sends out by the Switzerland, (London packet-
ship,) several thousand pounds of cheese, the produce of
a Vermont dairy, which is intended to equal the best
Stilton or Cheshire Cheese. One box has been selected
as a present to her Majesty Queen Victoria.—New York
paper.—[We hope that some of our Cheshire farmers
will give her Majesty an opportunity of learning that this
Yankee brag about American cheese being equal to the
produce of our own dairies is all " gammon."]
A HUMANE DOG AND AN INHUMAN HUSBAND.—AD
inquest was held last week at Delph, in the parish of Kings-
winford, on the body of Elizabeth Hemeley, whose hus-
band was in the habit of ill-using and half-starving her,
though but recently married. On the Monday previous
to the inquest, the husband was seen to leave the house,
and immediately afterwards the woman was seen to run
out of the house in flames. A large dog came to the spot
and tore her burning clothes off by mouthruls, though his
mouth was badly burnt, and did not desist till the fire was
effectually put out. The poor woman died. The husband
was severely reprimanded, but it appeared her clothes
catching fire was accidental. Verdict accordingly.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—III our last we
stated that a special jury had been struck in the case Mears
v. Luccock, for trial at the present assizes. Previously to
the entry of causes, an arrangement, however, was made,
which prevented its beine tried. The plaintiff, Miss Mears,
is the daughter of Mr. Mears, for many years a jeweller in
this city ; she is about eighteen years of age, and has re-
cently made a very successful debut as a professional sin-
ger. The defendant, Mr. Luccock, is a merchant of Leeds,
an alderman of the borough, and probably will be elected
to the office of Chief Magistrate next year. It is reported
that the teems on which this action was settled, were, that
the plaintiff has received £lOOO as damages, and that the
defendant has paid the costs of legal proceedings.—York
paper. *.

CONDUCT OF HOCKER IN NEWGATE.—Since his com-
mittal to Newgate Rocker has manifested the same indif-
ference with respect to the charge of murder which he ex-
hibed before the coroner and at the police court. During
the day he takes exercise with the other prisoners in the
yard attached to the wing in which he is confined, and en-
ters freely into conversation with them. A great portion
of his time, however, is devoted to reading and writing.
He regularly attends chapel, and pays the greatest atten-
tion to the rules and regulations of the prison. Since his
incarceration he has been visited by his father and bro-
ther. To the latter he spoke of his innocence of the crime
imputed to him, and that he had no doubt about proving
•himself not guilty on his trial.
MISS MARTINEAU AND MESMERISM.—The last num-
ber of the Athenceum contains a letter from Dr. Brown,
of Bishopwearmouth, regarding a marvellous case of
second sight, or something similar, reported by Miss
Martineau, a few months ago, from which it seems very
clear that the celebrated " J," of whom that lady related
so many wonders, must have been an imposter. Those
who have read Miss Martineau's letters on mesmerism
will remember, that on one occasion " J," while in the
mesmeric trance, gave a full and particular account of a
shipwreck which had recently taken place, and of which,
according to Miss Martineau, it was utterly impossible
that the girl could have the slightest knowledge previous
to her having be en thrown into the magnetic sleep. it
now appears, however, from a statement made by the aunt
of " J," that the whole of the circumstances connected
with the wreck were the subject of conversation in the
presence of that girl, three hours before the mesmeric
exhibition during which she related them.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—A very numerously and res-
pectably attended meeting was held in the great room of
Exeter Hall, London, on Tuesday last, " for the purpose
of petitioning parliament against the new endowment of
the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth." The meet-
ing was composed of various evangelical nonconforming
bodies, and the most cordial union amongst the protestants
present was 'manifested. A few papists, however, had
obtained admission, and repeatedly attempted to inter-
rupt the proceedings. The chair was occupied by that
well-known and consistent advocate of protestantism, J.
P. Plumptre, Esq. M.P. The speakers were the Hoe.
and Rev. Baptist Noel. the Revs. Charles Prest, Edward
Bickersteth, George Cubitt, W. Chalmers, and Curling,
and Sir Culling Eardley Smith, and J. Cook Evans,
Esq. The eloquent addresses of these gentlemen were
heard with deep attention, and responded to with en-
thusiasm. A petition to parliament against the Maynooth
grint was agreed to, and a Metropolitan Committee to
conduct opposition to the Government proposal was ap-
pointed.

The great demand for seamen in the merchant service
presents some obstacles in the way of obtaining the 4000
additional seamen rtquired for the royal navy, and the
entries at most of the principal ports has been smaller
than was anticipated. Hull has, as yet, furnished only
about )00 hands—the entries during the past week averag-
ing only about one per day. We hear that, in consequence
oft his sc,reity of able and indeed of ordinary seamen, the
Admiralty have relaxed the restrictions as to the classes
to be admitted, and are admitting smart active lads from
17 to 20 years of age, indeed, nearly half of those received
at Hull have been of this class ; many of them are young
men extremely likely to obtain preferment. It is now
arranged that foreign sailors, domiciled in this country,
on presenting themselves at the Home Office and taking
the oath of allegiance, shall be entitled to register tickets
and certificates the same as natural born British seamen
now are. This was a matter of course, as a large number
of foreign seamen have married English women. and are
employed in the commercial shipping of this country ;
and the whole of those who are registered are eligible for
the royal navy.

MESMERISM.—CONFESSION OF FOUR IMPOSTORS.—
We perceive from the LtamingtonCourier that Dr. Lietch,
an eminent physician of that town, has thoroughly ex-
posed the tricks of four boys who had been exhibited,
with great ecldt, in the Music-hall in that place, by a Mr.
—, as illu,trating the truth of phreno-mesmerism. The
account of the exposure is too long for our columns. We
can only glance at the principal facts. Ihe examination
took place at the house of Dr. Lietch, in the presence of
a number of gentlemen. The four youths—one of whom
had been a subject for mesmerisers for between two and
three years—atter pretending to be put into the mesmeric
trance by Dr. Lietch, and displaying a great number of
phreno-mesmeric " manifestations" one after another,
confessed,. with the most circumstantial detail, that the
whole had been a trick on their part from beginning to
end. " One after another (says Dr. Lietch) of the boys
passed off into 'the sleep'—they exhibited all the tricks
shown at Mr. —'a lecture at the Music-hall, and they
were not aware until they were upbraided with their
deceit, and threatened with punishment, that there was
any danger of their being discovered. One after another
confessed their guilt; they went into details concerning
their plans which proved the trt.th of their confession;
their cross•examinations corroborated each other's tes-
timony ;—and they all signed a paper the next evening, in
the presence of respectable witnesses, stat,ng that the
whole was a trick, that none of them had ever at any lime
been asleep or unconscious when mesmerised ; that what
they had done, they had done for money ; and they con-
cluded by promising solemnly never to indulge in the
same knavery again. * * * As to a man like Mr.
being the dupe of the deceit of these poor silly boys, I do
not for one moment believe it. In my opinion he knew
as well as the lads themselves, that the catalepsies' and
' manifestations' were mere absurdities."

IMPORTATIONS ENDER THE NEW TARIFF.—Mr.
Gladstone, the late President of the Board of Trade, has
published a very able review of the recent commercial
measures of the present government. In the course of it
he points out, " that where there has been an increase
large enough to be worth naming in the import of an
agricultural or manufacturing product, it has still been
in almost every instance confined within very moderate
bounds." For example,—" The duty on potatoes was
reduced from 2s. to 2d. per cwt., in suite of the solemn
warning that with so small a protection the cultivation of
them in Yorkshire must be abandoned." The import
rose to about 5,000 tons in the second year of the new
law. " But this quantity is little more than the crop of
600 acres of land, and constitutes but one sixtieth part of
the estimated consumption of the metropolis alone, •per-
haps one six-hundredth part of the consumption of the
country." The duty on onions was reduced from 3s. to
6d. The import of the second year amounted to " the
yield of about 116 acres of land, whereas in the county of
Essex alone, eight or ten times that breadth is occupied
in raising, not onions, but onion seed." Again, among
manufactured articles, the increase in the importation of
boots and shoes would scarcely suffice for a hundredth
part of the population of the metropolis. In some few
instances government yielded to the importunities of
some feeble interest, and mitigated their intended redac-
tion on imports. The result has very commonly been
that the change eventually made is a nullity. Out of
sheer pity they substituted 10s. for their original inten-
tion of ss. per cwt. on starch ; and this duty of 10s. was
represente4 by manufacturers as a totally insufficient pro-
tection. " Now, mark the result. In the first twelve
montl s Of new law we find an experimental importa-
tion took place to the extent of 498 cwt. But in the se-
cond year it sank to 20 cwt., or a value of about £25."
Another case was remarkable. The duty on straw plat-
ting was reduced from 17s. per pound to 7s. 6d., and that
on straw hats and bonnets from about 18s. fid. to Bs. 6d.,
a more considerable reduction having been intended. The
importation actually declined. In the second year it re-
covered a little, bat still was not nearly a moiety of that
in 1838.

BEET-ROOT SUGAR.—Many persons probably are net
aware that we have manufactories of sugar from beet'
root and potatoes in Britain. It appears from a Parlie'
rventary return, that there is one at Stratford, in
which made 3,800 cwts. of sugar in 1843, and 5,420 evrte'
in 1844. There is another at Liverpool, which made 43it
cwts. in 1843, and 62 cwts. in 1844. There is a third 8
• Portaferry, in Ireland, which seems to have began le
1841, and in that year made 1154 cwts. This hen°
manufacture pays duty at the colonial rate, namely,
255. 24d. per cwt. Last year the duty came to £7,052.
As of
THE NEW SUGAR DUTIES.—The first public 8-
foreign free-labour, under the new scale of import dutip.t.
took place on Tuesday. This sale consisted of 13,0 W
bags of Manilla with certificates of origin, and it was Puri
chased by the refiners, we are informed, chiefly by WO' 1.
experiment. The prices ranged from 6d. to Is. per cw.t
higher than could be obtained by exportation, so that ;
appears that the arrangement of the scale is such as bare'l
to bring it in for consumption at the current article
Should prices sink lower the same quality of the article
would, as a matter of course, be excluded by the dut/I
whilst, on the contrary, should they advance, an increase
EsseX,
quantity will be brought into home consumption.—Herew
CASE OF IDENTITY.—At the Oxford assizes, on Atop,
day, three men were tried for a highway robbery. .'"w
prosecutor swore positively to them, and the circumsfae;
tial evidence was strong, but, in their defence, they prove;
by a host of creditable witnesses that they were in bed Oil
distant from the place at the time of the robbery. It Wss
then recollected that three other men were in custody for
the robbery, but against whom the grand jury had ignored
the bills ! As they were still in custody, the court ordered
that they be placed beside the men on trial. When this
was done the most marked likenesses appeared bettvee:
them. The prisoners were at once acquitted, and told eY
the judge that they left the dock untainted.
A GIGANTIC ROPE.—Messrs. Haggie Brothers, rope'
makers, at Gateshead, have this week completed a "
ster line" f,r the Liverpool and Manchester Rail!,
Company. It is intended for the incline plane from to
Liverpool to the Edgehill station ; and as it will be 01,
in a tunnel, and consequently under coy, r, it is a 801;
rope—a very unusual circums'ance. It was placed OP.,
vehicle, to which eighteen horses were harnessed that 1'
might be drawn to the station of the Newcastle and Pac;
lington Railway, in this borough ; but the " monster temp'
were unable to move the " monster line." It was thele•
fore sent to Redheugh by water, and forwarded to the 4411'
tion by the incline.—Gateshead Observer.
APPLICATION OF GLASS TO LOOM MOUNTING.--Fl,
some time past the weavers at Paisley have been in 1"a
habit of substituting rods of crystal for the complicate t
mass comprising hundreds of little wooden pulleys tued
were fixed in their harness carriages. Last week we Ile
an opportunity of seeing another preparation of crystal for
a different department of the shawl manufacture, where e
metal had formerly been employed. When it is considered
that crystal can be at once moulded into any form, Old
that, at its formation, it possesses all the smoothness ape
hardness of polished and tempered steel, we have b
doubt but, with the abolition of the duty, it will soon
applied to many departments of our manufactures wheref
light machinery is used, and that for a great number .°
purposes it will supersede cast metal and brass entire'
Besides its easy and complete formation, glass is invaluable,
,
from its being unaffected by damp, heat, or cold, Will" 4
wood, and all the metals, less or more are.

CELEBRATED AUTOGRAPHS.—At a sale on Thursdar;
in London, of autographs of kings, heroes, poets. 64e 'be
leaf from the copy-book of George IV., written whe" •
was six years of age—" Generous minds strive to excel I!
courtesy," sold fur 10s. A frank of Lord Nelson's• eu
dressed to the Lord Chancellor, and dated 1801, sold f°,
,',
£1 Is. ; and an ordar, signed by that great man, addresse:
to Captain Ca[craft, not to int"rrupt any Spanish sbir
dated on board the Arophion. May 30, 1803, sold for la 6;
A letter from the Duke of Wellington, in answer to on
from John Greenwood, with reference to the statue
Achilles, sold for Ils. In his reply, the Duke of Wel
lington answers in the following laconic and characterist,,
manner—" Of all men living the duke has the least to sal
to the statue about to he erected." Another letter of oie
t.l,
duke's, addressed to his banker, and one from the Duch"'
• len° of Wellington, s.dd for 15.=. An autograph of Nap-,
to an official document, sold for 17s. A letter of Gent
7:
Washington's, dated Mount Vernon, March 12, 114,
sold for 12s. The number of lots disposed of was 1
and the sum realised by the sale was near £3OO.
THE NEW GLASS DUTIES.—The following resolution,
is to be moved in Committee on the Customs Acts by thd
Chancellor of the Exchequer :—Resolved, That from 8,11,
after the expiration of Excise Duties on British Gle:;
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and unt;l the 10th day of October, 1846, the follo,'
duties of Customs be charged on the articles undermen'
f tioned, imported into the United Kingdom, in lieu 0
duties now chargeable thereon : _

GLASS, viz.:—
Any kind of window glass, white, or stained of one colour

only, not exc. eding one-ninth of an inch in thickness, 0
and shades a!,d c)linders, the cwt.
All glass exceeding one-ninth of an inch in thickness, all

sir. red or polished glass of whatever thickness, however
small each pane. plate, or sheetisuperficial measure, viz.
Not containing more than 9 square feet. the square foot..
Containing more than p square feet, and not more than 14
square feet, the square foot ....................
. .

Containing more than 14 square feet, and not more than 35 „ 6
square feet, the square foot .......................... ;
Containing more th n 36 square feet, the square foot • • • •
Glass, painted or oth rwise ornamented, the superficial fr.

All white flint glass bottles, not cut, engraved, or otherwise 0
ornamented, and beads and bugles of glass, the lb. • •
Wine glasses,tnmblers,and all oh er white flint glass goods, 4
not cut, engraved. r otherwise ornamented, the lb •• •
All flint cut glass, flint coloured glass, and fancy orna- g
0
mental glass, of whatever kind, the lb
Bottles of glass ei)vered with wicker (not being flint or cut
glass.) or of green or common glass, the cwt
Glass mann act ures not°, hei wise enumerated or described,
and old broken glass, fit only to be re-manufactured, the
t 4
cwt
That. from and after the 11th day of October, 1846, until
sth day of Ap il, 1848, there be charged on the said articles 71,
half of the said duties, and from and after the sth day of AP
1848, one fourth part of the said duties.
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THE CONVICT TAWELL.—On Tuesday this --n re,
received the visiting magistrates with great comPonia
and expressed his thankfulness for the consideration su°
to him. It was intimated that nobody would be 010,,
to visit him but those whom he expressed a wish to el
upon which he observed, that he desired to see nob;elf
but his wife, and he looked forward to another inter/ibis
with her. One of the magistrates suggested to birarogo
propriety of foregoing such a scene, and sparing the3fee'lkers
of his wife in particular, of whom he bad so lately to of
leave. lie, however, persisted in the wish and- b°l,ol
again seeing her, meekly alluding to the affectionate ter riv
upon which they they had lived together. It is renl,slbe
able that the culprit has never once complained 0' ape
sentence passed upon him. When the hope of etolf
(which had been very great within him) was st2"—Jger
J crushed, he observed that " the judge was a just ooto
but a stern one." He has once remarked, with re';sl9
reference to his sentence, " that he could conseient,i° pot
acquit himself of cruelty or treachery to anybody.: sto
he rarely, if ever, adverts to his crime. He conttnoetd.
receive numerous letters from all quarters of the cOO% he
His time is divided between writing rid praying; ang
pet
occasionally sees the chaplain, but no revelation iiBbort',
been made. Great care has been observed by the atilt:dr
ties to prevent, what is thought by many he will atte,.,o to
the making away with himself. Mrs. Tawell is kncTorsb
;lave been aware of the existence of such a person 05
Hart, and even of Tawell's having children by bef:ttri'
she was utterly unconscious of his visiting her, Ee!,%; the
butes. his last visit to purely humane motives. 1711"—„le$',
28 h instant is decidedly fixed for the execution, tat
the Secretary of State orders it otherwise. A Pelitifp
Sir James Graham has been set on foot in the 10; 10
Aylesbury, praying that the sentence of death 08'0 ill
commuted to transportation for life. This petiti° so:
grounded on an objection to the punishment of dvallsoo.
the prayer is set forth in behalf of all who lie uncle',.

a sentence.
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LEGACY DUTY.—The annual return of the esP'tant
which legacy duty has been paid, and of the alp° oil
revenge received in the United Kingdom for stamp t of;
on legacies, in the year ending the sth January l'9 'Or')
fords the following information :—lt appears,
in theo tlo
place, that the gross total amount of capital on Whit Orli ;
several rates of legacy duty have been paid in Grefotticof
taro during the year 1844, was £44,393,887, cu.ate,
amount the sum of £24,117,769 was paid at the 1;e01'.
£1 per cent, £107,262 at the rate of £2 10s. eer:t
£13,708,061 at the rate of £3 per cent., £11,317 it
rate of £4 tier cent., £1,496.230 at the rate of "593 ksi;
cent., £362,472 at the rate of £6 per cent., Xl°'at t"1
the rate of £8 per cent., and, lastly, £4,580,179 epers,
extreme rate of £lO per cent.; showing that the g cruet
rates—that is, those from which the largest amount lottlho
to the revenue—are those of 1 and 3 per cent. Theta
of the gross total amount under all these rates sl'ivilt4
year 1797 elves a sum of £1,293,819,797 sterlinc!!,°76ls.
£638,687,437 was under the £1 per cent rate. £333' der tg,
under the £3 per cent. rate, and £139,191,122 noire
£lO per cent. rate. A return from Ireland, which r kto
shows that the total amount of capital in the stitefe 4
dorn on which the several rates of legacy duty „bt,eseof
paid in 1841, is £2,140,021, of whice£1,271,774 -rste,ol
at the rate of £1 per cent., and £564.552 at the..eoely
£3 per cent. The total amount of legacy duty berit
on this capital was £53,618, being in round ell psY'd
the average rate of £2 10s. per cent. on the cal"thaatelV
the duty. The total amount of the duty on Pr°"iir 1 k
administrations received in Ireland during the ;',,e00 left
45, was £61,031, making, with the duty receive" tiler. Est,
cies, a grand total revenue of £114,649. It furro44,ll
pears, on examining the otber portions of this ecru ot
the gross total a n
mount of revenue received in leefiet
taro during the year 1844 was, for stamp duty 43-,,rq
£1,198,552, and for duty on probates, testament-or/I°e
tories, &c., £966,852. In Ireland the `angiloi°,ol'll
the revenue of the United Kitigdena was enrich were respectively £53,618 and £61,031. It 'tved tlo'
„net/
amount of £280,053 from these stamp-duties
.L's`-ja.oet,
legacies and probates, &c. The office tteeo"oll4lt
admit of any dist.nction of the duties received wool tr,
or reversionary bequests. The gross total i1i01,30,1 OF.
duty received since the year 1797 in the vv„g3 ere'
United Kingdom was, on legacies £38,396,'17 ;eat° ts"
probates, administrations, and testamentary 1."1.0014.00.
£30,719,090. The last branch of the retura,'9o
reader that the total amount of duty received letreff
from 1797 to 1845, a period of 48 years, was' 101'0
£767,869, and on probates and adrniiiistratiorst 000014
In Scotland, the duty received on legacies
__ceif_ti
amounts to the sum of £2,111,641, and that r.'..feaw
probates, administrations, and testamentary '`"
to the sum of £1,155,329.

AMERICAN SEAMEN.—Iay a report made Artt°c. 001
by the chairman of the Naval Committee (Lv- SO,A
it has been ascertained that out of 109,000 selfics°,o7
out of the United States, only 9,000 were ALT, 000:001,
a proportion of Ito 12. The Ohio ship-of-tu:',h-
from New York on a three years' ortiise, 71'15. 17
1,000 men, only 182 of whom were Arnehri,,el:-ii; V.
Delaware %Tot to sea with a less Mon"-
tiou.