The southern press., 1851-07-10

ciudsd s1@ exceSding &300O. 900, dQIved
from tax nPoo ineoms. Fsapeetiog wAlph - en.
quiry tns been dfrected y - uandy by : ousrnit-
tee Of this house. on the result Of whoss lsbors
may depend the future renewal or modification
OF that important impost; that in this psaaeot
state OF The financial arrangement OF the country,
it appears to this house to be most consistent
with due regard to the maintenance Of public
credit and the exigencies Of the public service.
not to make any material sacrifice Of pubIic in
come, in offering such changes as may be deemed
advisable in other branches of taxation.
An unsuccessful attempt was ut the same
time made by Mr. Herbert to obtain from the
government some indemnity for the spfgarars
by the notorious Savings Bank frauds in Ire
land.
Captain Watson, Of the emigrsnt shin Jean.
at Galway, has been fined E2D and costa. for
having an excess Of five passengers on board.
Fifty Hungarian refugees have embarked nj
Portsmouth on board the emigrant ship Black
Emily, for America.
FRANCE.
A bill to interdict clubs has been adopted
without any attempt at alteration. General Au-
pick is announced as the new ambassador tn
Spain, and NJ. Corano Waeski TO England.
The solemnty of the Fete Dieu was cele.
brated with great pomp at the churches Of
Paris and suburbs, on Sunday On Monday, al
having been the anniversary Of the insurrectjon
of june l848, religious ceremonies were per-
formed in all the churches in Paris, in commem-
oration Of the numerous victims Of that San
culinary conflict. The churches were well at
tended
The Bank of France has announced divi.
dend of 55 francs per share for the first half
year of 1851.
Private letters from Madrid Of the 18th ult,
report that there is better probability of getting
from the Spanish government any ameliOration
of the terms Of the payment of the debt
Hopes are entertained that the British enyoy
will soon succeed in concluding a convention
to abolish deferential duties in shipping, or what
is termed in Spain the right Of flag.
PORTUGAL.
Continues tranquil.
The electoral law was deeroed on the 18th,
with few alterations, but the Cortes could not
meet till the middle of October.
Sir r. Riekenham, the new British minister to
Portugal arrived at Lisbon in the Severn on the
18th ult. and was duly received at an audience
by the Queen.
The Hon. Mr.. Haddock, u. 8. Charge de AT.
faires, was to be presented to Her Majesty on
the 2lst inst
The American frigate, st. Lawrence arrived
in the Tagus from Southampton on the 18th.
The agent of the press is indebted to the po
lteness Of Capt Lang for the following tele-
graphic despatch:
Later Nesos.--France, Paris Bourse, Friday.
Elves, 93f 23c. Paris letters mention that
the loan of f3,000,00O required for railroads
by the Sardinian government. is in course Of ar
rangement in London. AS far as several ofth
LEADING hon 70 cOncarnapd bowovar NJ o+cv,n
appear to have been taken.
Vienna advices of the 25th state that the pro-
posed Austrian loan has been concluded.
London.-The Cabinet Council sat two hours
yesterday.
The Exhibition.-The number of visitors
yesterday, 62,933-receipts, f2,969.
MECHANISM, No xI.-By Josiah HoIbrook.
The scale, dividers and triangle are g THE
THREE TOOLS" for juvenile mechanism. No
child over eight years old, either at home or at
school, ought to be without them. They NAV
furnish more instruction than ten times, proba-
bly, hundred times, their cost expended in
books. They also give the books value which
they cannot possibly possess by themselves
alone. They render books practical and en-
teraining. and schools places of delightful re-
sort. They are the instruments of "SELF-IN-
sTRUCTIoN."
For young pupils a six-inch scale, made of
wood, brass, or ivory, is convenient. Many
others, varying in material, length, graduation,
and use, may be had as occasions should call
for them. The dividers should be furnished
with point, pencil, and pen. The triangle
should have one right-angle, one angle of sixty
degrees, and the other will be necessarily thirty
degrees as the three ang es of triangle in all
cases amount precisely to hundred an 4 eighty
degrees. Both the scale and triangle should be
marked with inches and parts of inches Tho
former should contain the line of chords and the
scale of equal parts.
Such a triangle is probably the most com.
prehensive little instrument that exists, or that
can exist. 1t contains the elements of the
equiateral triangle and square and those two
figures together constitute the elements Of uni
versal mechanism both of divine and human
origin. The entire simplicity with the bound.
less and endless of the three TOOLS fits them
for training young hands and eyes, and for in
entertaining, and refining young
minds, to an extent much beyond any book, or
any number of books, which can be provided
for them; at the same time greatly increasing
the value Of books. BY their very great SIM
plicty they can even be made by The pupils
needing them. Several boys, not long since,
made some dividers of wood, fitted with point,
pencil, and pen, which they found to answer
good purpose. By making smooth and straight
a thin piece of board, with inches marked on it.,
the scale is provided BY setting pair Of d.
vders with the points distant Just six inches, an
equilateral triangle, with sides Of that length,
can be drawn in an instant-say on pasteboard.
line drawn from one corner of that triangle
to the centre Of the opposite side, will form two
triangles precisely of the character proposed
The pastcboard, thus divided by lines as des.
cribed, can be cut by scissors into the very tri-
angles desired-each having one right angle,
one angle of sixty degrees, and one of thirty.
The variety of work capable of being execn-
led by these three Juvenile instruments is liter
ally toundIess and endless, and applicable 10
every human pursuit, whether connected with
the highest departments of science, or the most
common operations Of the farmer, mechanic, or
housekeeper. They also afford to the users
pleasure so high and so pure, and usefulness
80 imtable, both pleasure and usefulness
increasing, as to afford surer safe
guard against juvenile pleasures of an imrorul