The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

LOG OF THE BRITANNIA

May Ist, course E. N., wind southerly, at 2 30, p.m.,
sailed from Boston ; at 3 40, discharged pilot ; fresh breezes
and dark, cloudy weather.
2d, course E. N., wind southerly, moderate breezes and
thick weather.

3d, course E.N.E., light winds and thick weather; in
company with the steam-ship Medway, from New York to
Halifax ; at 9, a.m., made fast to the wharf at Halifax.
4th, wind easterly, fresh breeze and cloudy ; waiting arri-
val of Canadian mail.

sth, course E.S.E., wind westerly, fine steady breeze and
clear, pleasant weather; at 11 30, a.m., sailed from Halifax.
6th, course N. 89 E., wind westerly, distance 221 miles,
lat. 44 32, lon. 58 20, steady breeze and fine clear weather.
7th, course east, wind southerly, distance 231 miles, lat.
44 38, lon. 52 41, steady fresh breeze and clear. Spoke the
bark Victoria, of St. Ives.

Bth, course N. 87 E., wind southerly, distance 236 miles,
lat. 44 49, lon. 47 17, moderate steady breezes and tine clear
weather. Several icebergs in sight.
9th, course N. 82 E., wind N.N.W., distance 254 miles,
lat. 45 23, lon. 41, steady breezes and fine clear weather.
Passed a namber of vessels outward-bound.
10th, course N. 76 E., wind northerly, distance 234 miles,
lat. 46 20, lon. 34 41, light wind and fine clear weather, with
a heavy swell from N.W.
11th, course N. 75 E., wind W., distance 236 miles, lat.
47 22, lon. 30 45, strong breeze and hazy weather, with
small rain.

12th, course N. 75 E., wind westerly, distance 266 miles,
lat. 48 49, lon. 24 25, moderate, unsteady winds, and damp
hazy weather.

13th, course N. 75 E., wind S.W., distance 267 miles, lat.
49 43, lon. 17 46, fresh gale and hazy weather.
14th, course N. 75 E., wind S.S.W., distance 274 miles,
lat. 50 45, lon. 11 5, fine, steady winds and clear weather, at
3 30 p. m., saw Cape Clear.
15th, running up Channel, fine weather, calm and hazy ;
at 445 p. in. received on board a pilot ; at 12 30 moored
ship in the Mersey.

The carpet trade in Kidderminster has experienced an im-
provement. The demand, it is confidently anticipated, will
be still further increased on the commercial measures of go-
vernment passing into law.—Ten Towns' Messenger.
THE CONFLAGRATION AT HAMBURGH.—Her Majesty
the Queen, with her usual sympathy and feeling for the
sufferings of the distressed, has graciously ordered £2OO to
be transmitted by Messrs. Coutts and Co. in aid of the fund
for the relief of the Hamburghers deprived of their homes
and all they possessed by the recent calamitous fire. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert has also sent £lOO for the
benevolent object. The number thus deprived of shelter is
estimated at 30,000. £lO,OOO was sent over in dollars and
money by the steamer, subscribed by some of the public
companies, merchants, bankers, and others in the course of
three days after the news of the catastrophe was known in
London.

HORSES rN INDlA,—Horses are one of the bores in India.
In one of Captain Fane's evening rides, a loose horse having
frightened the ladies, he gave his " own pugnacious gentle-
man" to be held by a soldier, while he attempted to drive the
other away. The soldier let his horse go, which immediately
dashed at the loose one, attacked him, followed him to the
lines, and was found with the other brute thrown down, and
he standing over him. This pugnacious propensity, to which
the country horses are more or less addicted, is one of the
great drawbacks to horse exercise in India. It often hap-
pens that one is roused from a pleasant conversation with
one's neighbour by a lion roar from either his or your horse.
A kick and a fight follow and if one escape having one's leg
broken, it is often at the expense of a bad fall in getting out
of the way of the combatants. An officer riding in the can-
tonments at Cawnpore was attacked by an artillery horse,
which rushed at him, knocked him and his horse down, and
killed him on the spot. Most people, on this account, prefer
Arab to the country horses as they are seldon troubled with
this quality.—Blackwood for April.
BANKING.—The Gazelle of Friday contained the return
under the new system of the average circulation of Bank
notes in the United Kingdom, for the four weeks preceding
the 30th of April. From this return it appears that the
average circulation of notes in England, for the four weeks
preceding the 30th of April, as compared with the four weeks
preceding the 2d of April, shows' an increase of £'2,036,383.
Phis increase is made up in the following manner :
g.gl'n'tandeaose in the circulation of the Bank of
By as inar.e.al.:eo. XL/ 30,000
$y increasef in the circulation of the private
banks, of
.... circulation of the joint- 193,139
stock banks,
..... ..

The average circulation of notes in England, for 2,
£03,383
the four
weeks preceding the 30th of April, as compared with the
four weeks preceding the 13th of November, 1841, (being six
months previous
cre is made up in the following manner :
By an increase in the notes of the Bank of Eng-
land of .................... .. ..... £1,339,000
Less decrease in the notes of the private
banks, of
Less decrease in the notes of the joint
stock banks, of .................. Z 269,235
------ 1,066,769

with the
The comparison of the last month, as compared 272,231
month previous, shows a slight decrease in the el--
Scotland and Ireland: The average circulation of the of
of England, for the tour weeks preceding the 30th ofeZtulk
was £18,494,000. The. average stock of bullion for the same
period is stated to De £7,082 ,000, which agrees with the
estimate which was formed from the last three monthly
averages. The increase in the amount of bullion, as com-
pared with the preceding month, is £76,000.