The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST.—Since the last
full moon we have had a delightful change in the weather,
bright warm days and cloudless skies having prevailed,
not only here, but, so far as we can learn, all over the
country. A correspondent at Delph, in Yorkshire, in-
forms us that the weather there has been most brilliant.
The harvest operations in this vicinity, in Yorkshire, and
elsewhere, are proceeding merrily. Large breadths of
land have been cleared of their produce, which has been
-secured in good condition.
IMPORTANT TO BREWERS.--11.1essrs Garrett and Son,
of this town, exported a quantity of ale, a few months
ago, to Liverpool, on which they refused paying duty,
die consequen.T of which was that the customs authori-
ties at Liverpool detained it, and the ale was only liberated,
at the time, by Messrs. G. paying a deposit amounting to
the duty. It appears that on application, Her Majesty's
Treasury have ordered the money to be returned, and the
ale to be admitted free, at the same time ordering the
expenses of the detention to be paid Messrs. Garrett and
Son.—Manx Liberal.
RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.—Patrick Maguire was on
Friday last brought before Mr. Rushton, at the Police-
court, and committed for trial to the sessions on a charge
of having received a silver dessert spoon, knowing it to
have been stolen. It appeared, from the evidence, that
on the previous day constable Kehoe went to the cellar of
the prisoner for the purpose of searching it, when the pri-
soner ran out. He was pursued by Kehoe, and seen to
throw something over a wall, which, on being found,
turned out to be a spoon which had been stolen from Miss
Keel's, in Chapel-street.
ADULTERATING TOBACCO.—David Hay, tobacco ma-
nufacturer, was charged by the excise authorities with
having on the 7th July adulterated a quantity of tobacco
with saccharine matter, contrary to the sth and 611 Vic-
toria, c. 93. Mr. Kent, for the excise, stated that
through this practice the revenue had suffered to the ex-
tent of a million annually ; the tobacco seized had been
analyzed, and he pressed for the full penalty of £3OO,
Mr. Hillier, for the defendant, pleaded for a mitigation.
on the ground that Mr. Hay was not cognizant of the
adulteration. The magistrates ultimately convicted in
one-fourth the penalty, or £75.
THE BOROUGH CONSTABULARY.—In reference to a
letter, which appeared in a recent number of the Albion.
and which, to some extent, reflected on the police of the
borough for their alleged inactivity in the suppression of
nu lances, we find, on inquire, that during the last four
months, namely from the 18th April to the 18th August,
there were 376 informations heard before the magistrates
against parties for having their chimneys on fire, 127 for
furious driving,. 61 for cruelty to animals, 249 for driving
at the wrong side of the streets, and 68 for riding and
driving without reins ; and that, in all these cases, the •
informations were laid at the instance of the constabulary
force.

BURGLARY.—On Tuesday morning last, between one
and two o'clock, as Mr. Robert Abraham, coach-propri-
etor, of Church-street, Everton, and Mr. H. Rainford,
were returning from Lydiate in a gig, the horse fell, and
broke the shafts of the gig. The gentlemen walked on to
the house of Mr. John Percival, Derby Arms Hotel,
Bootle-cum-Linacre, and knocked at the door. No an-
swer was given, but immediately one of the windows was
opened, and two men jumped out. They were pursued,
and one of them, who gave his name George Jordan, was
taken into custody. On going back to the house, the
drawers were found to be ransacked, and a large quantity
of wearing apparel and other articles ready for removal.
He has been committed for trial.
COUNCIL MEETING.—At the usual monthly meeting
of the Council, to-morrow, the proceedings of the Health
Committee will comprise a recommendation to appoint
Inspector Fresh to the Town-hall duty, under the Mayor,
the Health and Finance Committees, and the Town-clerk
and the prosecuting solicitor, (not comprising constable's
duty,) at a salary increased from about £9O to £lOO per
annum, besides clothing. The coroner's accounts,
amounting to £72 175., and other items of routine busi-
ness, will be submitted. Amongst the Mayor's commu-
nications will be the opinion of counsel on the case sub-
mitted to them, as to the recent collision between the
magistrates and the Watch Committee. We have alluded
to this subject elsewhere.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Abaut one o'clock, on Saturday,
a fatal and melancholy accident happened, in Water-street,
to a lad, seven years of age, named John Davies, the son
of a porter of that name. living at No. 31, Westmorland-
street. One of Wynne's lorries was going down the street
in question, heavily laden with bales of cotton, and the
little boy was sitting on the top of the load, when, sud-
denly, four or five of the bales tumbled off the lorry and
precipitated him upon the pavement; and, we regret to
state, that, in his. fall, his head came in front of one of
the wheels, and, before there was time to pull the horses
up, it was literally crushed to pieces, and presented one
of the most shocking sights it is possible to imagine. In-
stantaneous death was the consequence. No blame is
attributable to the driver.

INQUESTS.—On Saturday, three inquests were held
before the borough coroner. The first was on Thomas
Freeman, a carter, in the employ of Mr. Sherman, of
Circus-street, who was found in the stable, on Wednesday
last, bleeding from a wound in one of his temples. It ap-
peared that he had been kicked by one of the horses, and
received a compound fracture of the skull.—The second
was on Thomas Logan, of Bevington-bush, a lad five
years of age, who, whilst drowning a dog at Burlington-
bridge, on Wednesday last, slipped off the bank and fell
into the water.—The third was on James Leech, who while
driving a cart from Mr. James Muspratt's chemical works,
in Vauxhall-road, received a kick in the forehead from
one of the horses, which caused extravasation of blood on
the brain. Verdicts accordant with the evidence were re.
turned in the several cases.
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two young men were met near St. John's Church, Liscard,
carrying a large quantity of cabbages, onions, &c., which
had just been extracted from the garden of a farmer,
named Upton. One of the marauders, Frederick Myers,
was captured, but the other es-
caped.ght before Mr. Harden, on Tues-
day,tradeMyerswas and sentenced to pay twenty shillings and costs, be-
sides the value of the vegetables, and in default of payment
to be committed to the House of Correction for one month,
with hard labour. The magistrate declared that it was
the firm intention of the bench to lend all the assistance in
their power to put an end to these disgraceful depreda-
tions.
THE PRINCE Op PRUSSIA.— HIS Royal Highnesa
after his departure from this town, reached Birmingham-,
early that afternoon, and having expressed a wish to in-
spect some of the principal manufactories, Lord Hather
ton, and Thomas Weston, Esq., mayor,were in attend-
ance- to accompany him ; but the Prince, finding himself
pressed for time, visited only the Proof House, near the
railway station, and then proceeded by special train to
Coventry : and after having paid a visit to Warwick and
Kenilworth Castles, the same train conveyed his Royal
Highness and party to Tamworth, to visit Sir Robert Peel
at Drayton Manor. The Prince is not expected to take
his departure for the Continent until after the christening
of the infant Prince, which is understood to be fixed for
the 6th of September, at Windsor Castle; the Duke of
Wellington, and the Ministers and great officers of State,
are also expected to attend the august ceremonial ; and a
few days afterwards the Prince will leave town for the
Prussian dominions, paying the Duke of Wellington a
short visit at Walmer Castle.

THE CELEBRATED MIAMI HAMS.—By the kindness
of the importer, Mr. J. M. Henry, we have been favoured
with the opportunity of trying the quality of these hams,
which are cured by Mr. Charles Duffield, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, upon a system peculiarly his own. It has been a
complaint brought, and justly too, against most of the
cured meats imported foom the United States, that they
were excessively salted. Most of the hams that we have
hitherto tasted were only fit for boiling, and even for that
required previous steeping to make them at all endurable.
These hams, however are of a totally different character.
When boiled or fried they are equal if not superior to the
finest Westphalia or English smoked hams, and are very
rich and mellow when boiled. They require no steeping
to prepare them for any mode of cooking, inasmuch as
they are not at all more salted than the English taste and

necessity require. We venture to predict for them an ex-
tensive sale in this country, where they are likely to take
a very high standing. They are kept in stock, we ob-
serve, by Mr. Woodcille, Bold-street.

THE SCOTCH CHURCH, OLUHAM-STREET.—Judgment
has been given in the long-pending case of the Scotch
Church, in Oldman-street, in this town, which will pro.
bably settle the cases of many other Scotch Churches in
England similarly situated, or in litigation. It will be re-
membered that a suit had been instituted by those of the
trustees who adhered to the Established Church, against
Mr. Welsh, the minister, and a portion of the trustees who
abetted him, in using the church in a way contrary to its
originally intended connexion, or. in other words, con-
verting it into " a free church." Vice-chancellor Wigram
has, in giving judgment, decided against Mr. Welsh, and
the parties who have joined him. He states, that accord-
ing to the intention of the founders of the church, evi-
denced by the deeds of 1794, and subsequent documents,
and the uninterrupted previous usage, being levied by
Presbyters in Scotland, and in no other manner, the
trust required that the church be devoted to purposes
strictly in accordance with the established Church of
Scotland. He considers that each individual share-
holder has a right to insist that the church shall be
devoted to purposes corresponding withScolch Churches
locally situated in Scotland, and in strict communion
with the Established Church of Scotland; that Mr.
Welsh, the Lancashire Presbytery, the trustees who
are defendants, and all the shareholders who agree
and take part with them, are to be considered seceders
from the Established Church of Scotland, anl identified
with the Free Church of Scotland ; and he concludes a
long legal opinion by stating, " The grounds upon which
I think the court must interfere are, that by the original
contract, the Established Church of Scotland, was the
agreed model upon which the Oldham-street Church was
founded. 2nd, that the Established Church of Scotland
has undergone no change, but remains as a model the
same as it was in 1794. I think, therefore, the case is one
in which the court must interfere. I think, however, that
all the shareholders must be made plaintiffs or defendants,
and I think the bill should be amended in respect of par-
ties, before the motion is decided.
STRUCTURE OF THE TEETH.—The teeth, it is well-
known to physiologists, are composed of bony structure,
which is covered with a coating of enamel—a substance of
a fibrous nature, and so hard as,to strike fire with a steel.
Notwithstanding its apparent hardness, the enamel is,
however, extremely susceptible of injury, and it thus be-
comes highly important to ascertain what preparations are
best adapted to preserve so important a substance in its
pristine integrity and beauty. We do not hesitate to re-
commend ROWLAND'S ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, as
the most valuable means of purifying, embellishing, and
preserving the Teeth and Gums yet offered to the public.
—See advt.

CAUTION TO PERSONS BUILDING.—Mr. Walter Scott
building surveyor, last week appeared before the magis-
trates of Birkenhead to prefer some complaints against
parties for non-observance of certain clauses of the
Building Act. Mr. Peck, he said, had a building in pro-
gress in Chester-street, which was partly supported by
iron pillars eleven feet eight inches high, and not in his
opinion of sufficient strength. Mr. Snowball appeared
for Mr. Peck, and it was ultimately arranged that the
latter should place in the building pillars which in Mr.
Scott's opinion would be sufficiently strong.—An infor-
mation was next laid against Mr. John Hilton wills hav-
ing erected a party-wall of inadequate strength. Mr. H.
said that any alteration would subject him to very con-
siderable expense. The magistrates regretted this, but
said they had no discretion iu the matter, and that the act
must be complied with.
SABBATH BREAKING.—.OrI Thursday, five painters,
name I Joseph -Williams, Joseph Holden, Robert Evans,
Charles Johnstone, and Robert Johnstone, appeared, by
summons, before Mr. Rushton, charged with " exer-
cising their worldly calling on the Lord's Day," in a
public-house lately occupied by Mr. Kerr, at the bottom
of Redcross-street. One of the defendants stated he was
not aware that he was doing any thing wrong, as he had on
previous occasions been employed in painting both at the
Custom-house and the Dock-office, on Sundays. The
Magistrate expressed his surprise and regret that the
Dock Trustees should permit such a practice, as he con-
sidered the law, even apart from a religious opinion, was
one of the greatest benefits to the labouring classes, by
securing them one day out of the seven for rest. De-
fendant then expressed his determination to summon the
Dock Trustees for allowing him thus to desecrate the
Lord's Day. Mr. Rushton said he should most cordially
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wisely declined saying any more upon the subject, but
paid the fine and left the court. The defendants were
fined ss. each.
UNIQUE PRESENT.—Mr. Robert Harvey, of the estab-
lishment of Messrs. Corrie and Co., brokers of this town,
has lately been presented with an exceedingly unique
snuff-box, the lid of which is beautifully in 18
angular compartments, with as many d'fferent specimens
of oak and other woods.renowned in song and story, and
the names of which sufficiently proclaim their own fame.
They are as follow :—Oak of the ship which brought over
King William the Third, 1683—Oak of a cane found in
Loch Doon, 1831—Oak of Knox's pulpit—Birch of Aber-
feld—Oak of H.M.S. Boyne—Oak of H.M.S. Victory—
Oak of the piles of London Bridge, 1176—Cedar of Leba-
non, from the Holy Land—Oak of the ship Temeraire,
broken irp 1839—Highland Mary Thorn—Oak of Glasgow
Cathedral—Oak of the Royal Exchange—Oak of H.M.S.
Mary Rose, sunk 1545—0ak of Bothwell Castle—Oak of
the Bellerophon ship of war—Queen Mary's Yew—Oak
of the Tower of London, built 1067—Oak of the Royal
George, sunk 1782. The inscription within the lid of the
box is the following :—" Presented to Mr. Robert Harvey,
by Edwd. N. B. Wilde, chief officer of the ship Palatine,
and Mr. William Aitken, chief officer of the ship Eleanor
Lancaster, as a token of friendship and respect as a man,
a gentleman, and a friend. Liverpool, August 25, 1814."
These ships belong to the Messrs. Corrie, we believe, and
the officers named having experienced much courtesy and
kindness from Mr. Harvey, hive chosen this very ap-
propriate mode of acknowledging the obligation.
PAVING AND SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS.—At the
weekly meeting, on Thursday, Mr. John Holmes presided.
A small grating and sewer were ordered to be placed at
the corner of May-street, Mount-pleasant, in order to
prevent a nuisance complained of there. The Chairman,
in reply to questions, said that, under the new act, parties
laying down flagging, were compelled to put down curb
stones, or the commissioners could refuse to adopt the
street,- but, he thought. that, as in the case of flagging,
the commissioners had better pay half the expense of the
curb stones. This was agreed to.• The Chairman re-
ported, that, under the new act, there was a large amount
of property they could now assess, and directions were
given that Mr. Weightman should give in the valuation
of this property. The Chairman, suggested, also, that
Mr. Weightman should complete all th sewers as early
as possible, in order that the expenses might be included
in the present year's accounts.—Mr. Simpson sent in a
report, stating that the works in Green-lane were pro-
gressing very satisfactorily. The well had been sunk 80
feet, and the shaft 65 feet. £155 to the contractors, and
£2OO to Mr. Simpson, for professional services, were or-
dered to be paid. The Chairman reported that they had
this week paid £3630 for the land at Kensington ; it was
very cheap, seeing that it only cost 2s. 6d. per yard. Mr.
Plumpton: I have none at that price I can assure you.—
The wheelers in Water-street were ordered to be continued
50 feet higher up.

THE NORTHERN CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL,
ROSSALL HALL, FLEETWOOD.—We have before noticed
this fine seminary, and have now some further particu-
lars. Five large dormitories, capable of containing 15
to 25 beds each, have been made and fitted up with single
beds. A neat dining hall has been constructed, and
panelled in imitation of oak. The organ room has been
fitted up as a chapel for daily prayers, and in case of wet
weather, for divine service on Sundays, to which we hear
that Peter Bourne, Esq., of Liverpool, has contributed a
handsome oak chair and reading desk, similar to that in
the theatre of the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool. The
kitchens have been furnished with large range and steam-
ing, apparatus. The arrangements made for the boys'
wardrobe, under the superintendence of Mrs. Garth-
waits, whose experience in perfecting similar arrange-
ments at Marlborough institution have been highly ad-
vantageous to the new school. The school rooms,
four in number (to be extended to eight) will prove very
commodious, being fitted up with oak desks, both for
masters and scholars. By one o'clock on Thursday,
about 40 scholars and their parents had already arrived ;
and after a very appropriate prayer by Dr. Woolley, the
whole sat down together to an excellent dinner. At the
time of their departure the boys were already engaged in
a game of cricket, and we should think there were much
fewer tears shed than are usual on such occasions. We
hear that the number of scholars for this half year is
expected to amount to about 70.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On ThUltday last, Edward
Kendrick, the driver of one of Mr. David Evan William's
cars, was charged, at the police-court, with having thrown
his wife out of a window, two stories high, in Crosshall-
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from the prisoner, whose statement there seemed no rea-
sonable cause to doubt, and are as follow :—Kendrick was
very drunk on Wednesday night, and on reaching the
house where he lodges, about half-past eleven, found the
door open (it having been left so, it seems, by his wife,
who had gone out). As he was entering, Ballentine came
up, and saying " That's right," went into the house with
him, he believing, from her manner, that she was one of
the inmates. He proceeded up stairs to his bed-room,
and she accompanied him ; where he fell asleep, and was
awakened by the officer taking birn into custody on a
charge of having thrown his wife out of the window.
Sixteen shillings he had in his pocket, when he lay down
on the bed, were gone when he searched his clothes—this
was all he knew about the matter. It i 3 conjectured that
the unfortunate girl, hearing Kendrick's wife coming up
stairs, sought to make her escape through the window,
and in her descent, her legs struck against the parlour
window beneath—the force of the fall smashing in the
sash, and inflicting dreadful gashes on the lower part of
her limbs. It is also supposed that she was endeavouring
to steal one of the blankets from the bed, as it was found
tied up around her body, under her clothes. The magis-
trate caused Kendrick to enter into his own recognizance
to appear when called upon, and discharged him. The
wretched woman is at present in the hospital.
THE NEW IMSOLVENT ACT.—In the Liverpool dis-
trict court of bankruptcy, Mr. Serjeant Ludlow has de-
livered a decided opinion that the petitions and docu-
ments of insolvents who seek the benefit of the new act
must be attested by an attorney of the court, the attesta-
tion of an " agent" not being legal. This is in accord-
ance with the opinion of Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque,
expressed on the same question in Basinghall-street. and
in direct opposition to the opinion of Lord Brougham,
circulated with his lordship's signature through ail the
gaols in the kingdom. The effect has been to prolong the
imprisonment of Debtors in Lancaster Castle, from their
petitions having been returned for want of the attestation
of attorneys. The decisions of these learned commis.
sioners has been looked upon as somewhat important, not
only to the solicitors, but to the debtors themselves : had
it been otherwise, a wide field would have been opened
for " agents" of the " Ady" school, who haunt the gaols
and courts of law, and who, un ler the pretence of " get-
ting insolvents through" the court at a cheaper rate than
a respectable attorney, might fleece them of all they
possessed. By the new act, the deputy-registrars of the
courts of bankruptcy are to be styled " Registrars," with
an increased salary in lieu of fees, hitherto allowed in ad-
dition. Mr. T. B. 11. Abrahall, the late excellent re-
gistrar attached to the court of Mr. Commissioner Phil-
lips in Liverpool, has been promoted to a registrarship in
Mr. CommisSioner Evans's court in Basinghall-street,
his late office having been filled up by the appointment of
Mr. Lee, of Birmingham, who was one of the old com-
missioners in that town. A new scale of fees and charges
for solicitors, messengers, and appraisers, under the new
act, is in preparation by three London and two provincial
commissioners, under the sanction of the Lord Chancel-
lor.

APPLICATION OF EMIGRANT PASSENGERS.—OnWed..
nesdsy, and on the two following days, an investigation
involving some rather extraordinary circumstances rela-
tive to an emigrant ship and her passengers, was heard at
our Police-court. Mr. Davenport, as legal adviser of a
great number of persons about to emigrate, stated that on
the 22d of the present month, the nominal complainant,
Mr. Battery (who represented upwards of 200 persons),
had engaged and paid the money for their passages in a
vessel called the Metoka, hence for New York. The de-
fendants in the case, the charterers of the vessel, were
Messrs. C. Grimshaw and Co. The vessel was to have
sailed on the 23d instant, but on the day previously it was
discovered that, whilst in dock, she had sprung a leak,
and was making an inch of water each hour. She was
overhauled by Mr. Wingram, surveyor for Lloyd's, and
was ordered to discharge her cargo, and to undergo a
thorough repair: but the passengers having lost confidence
in the vessel, prayed the interference of the authorities,
and applied to have their passage money returned, under
the provisions of the act of parliament to enable them to
engage another vessel.—Lieut. Henry, the officer ap-
pointed by government to protect emigrants, said that the
vessel had undergone a thorough repair; was safer and
better than when launched; and if a leak had sprung he
could not discover it.—Mr. Rushton said he should order
that she should be officially inspected by the Surveyor
for Lloyd's. That gentleman, after the survey, reported
that she was perfectly seaworthy.—Mr. Rushton said that
if that were the fact, the parties must proceed with her,

but he should order their deteneion money to be paid to
them, and also that a further examination of her should
he made.—On Friday the parties again appeared, when
Mr. Rushton read a joint report from Mr. G. Wingram,
Lloyd's surveyor, and Mr. W. Alexander, surveyor to
the Liverpool Underwriters, to the effect, that although
the ship, after taking in her cargo, made a little water,
(less than half-an-inch in 30 minutes,) she had recently
teen thoroughly repaired under their inspection, and that
the water she made "ought not to prevent her going to
sea with safety," and that if she made no more when she
got outside, the captain ought to proceed on his intended
voyage.—Mr. Rushton (finding the parties still unwilling
to proceed with her) sent Captain Askew, the harbour-
master, to inspect her, who reported, " in half an hour
the water increased from twenty-one inches and a quarter
to twenty-two and a half; and it took seven minutes to
pump her out—six strong spells at the pump." A diffi-
culty here again arose. Mr. Rushton thought the parties
should not be compelled to go out with the ship, and that
some arrangement should be made by Mr. Grimshaw re-
specting them.—Mr. Grimshaw said he had already paid
the money to the captain ; if that were refunded he could
soon make an arrangement.—Mr. Rushton expressed his
opinion that the official personages called into notice in
the transaction were not in any way to blame, and advised
the emigrants not to annoy Messrs. Grimshaw by going
to the office in a body, but to appoint some one or two of
their number, in whom they had confidence, to wait upon
them for that purpose. All parties left the court with an
understanding that an amicable arrangement would- be
made.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

Intelligence has been received of the bombardment and
destruction of Mogadore, another. Moorish town, by the
French. The despatch of the Prince de Joinville states
that during the bombardment seventy-eight men, includ-
ing seven officers, were wounded or killed. The Prince
was engaged in establishing the garrison of the island, and
had put the port in a state of blockade. The intelligence
of this victory had the somewhat extraordinary effect of
depressing the French funds.

Adverting to Marshal Bugeand's defeat of the Moors,
the ltionileur Parisien says:—
" The Moorish army, which has attacked our trcops on
the banks of the Isly, reckoned 24,000 cavalry. The
enemy must, moreover, have had a numerous irregular
infantry ; and probably, also, regular troops to defend and
manage their artillery. Marshal Bugeaud, as is known,
had under his command only 7000 infantry, 1400 cavalry,
and twelve pieces of cannon."

The Moors left on the field of battle at least 800 killed,
almost all of them cavalry : of the infantry, which was
not numerous, the greater part escaped in consequence of
the ravines. The army has lost all its materiel. It must
have had from 1;500 to 2,000 wounded. The loss of the
French was, four officers killed and ten wounded, and 23
tub-officers or soldiers killed and 86 wounded.

Several accounts frost Morocco agree that Abd-el-
Kader is a prisorer at the imperial residence, and that
the Emperor has signified that he is disposed to grant all
the reparation demanded by France.
The reports are confirmed that the Emperor had agreed
to all the demands of Spain, even to the beheading of the
offending Bey ; that he had consented to pay the expense
of the Spanish armament, and to grant to Spain a territot y
of three leagues round Centa. The Spanish war ships
had sailed from Tangier to Algesiras.
We may mention that the town of Mogadore is built
upon a small arm of laod jutting into the sea, and in high
tides is nearly surrounded by water. The island of Mo-
gadore facing the town is about a mile in circumference,
and possesses what is called a " strong castle"—strong,
we suppose, in the Moorish sense of the word. The port
is between the town and the island, and from the shallow-
ness of the water only admits vessels of moderate ton-
nage ; hence, we suppose, the reason of the Prince de
Joinville taking possession' of the island. Mogadore is
walled round, but the defences are of too ancient a date
to withstand the effects of modern gunnery. The town is
about 123 miles west by south from Morocco. The po-
pulation of Mogadore may be estimated at about 12,000,
of which 1300 are Jews, and not more than fifteen or
twenty Europeans. It is the most commercial part of the
empire, and returns a customs revenue of nearly 1,000,000 f.
Saffi produces only between 50,000 f. and 60,000 f. and the
twin towns of liabat and Salee, whose united population
amounts to 52,000 souls, and are next in commercial im-
portance to Mogadore, produce no more than 380,000 f.