The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-09-09 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

FOR .811 E.  16 Furness 11870 l%hare 15 Lancaster Bank Shares 20 Cocke. mouth. Xeswick•and Penrith Shares 15 Barrow Steam 12,0r11 Mill Shares 60 Western Distrilt Bink,Sharee 10 Cumberland Union Banks WAN rED.  £lOOO Furness Stock 300 Furness (1872) Shares 20 , Furness (1873) Shares £suoo Furness 4 per cent. Debenture Stock. £lOOO Furness 41 per cent. Perpetull Preferecce &took Carnforth Iron Shares Loans onDebentureßon4 at 5 per Cent. 4SOO niaar.nr Stank Scholarships for women, tenable at University College, Bristol, have been established. In New York it is estimated that there ate 101,400 workmen of different kinds, out of whom 37,300 are now unemployed. 'Chia number is made up of unskilled labourers, carpenters, cabinet makers, stonemasons, bricklayers, plasterers painters, compositors and pressmen, cigar makers, and so forth. Jane Bird, the improvident wife of a provident husband, has been sent for trial by the Liverpool stipendiary, charged with having attempted to murder her infant son. Upon eiscovering how deeply she had involved him in debt, the husband refused to live with her any longer, and she thereupon attempted to destroy her own life and that of the child by taking and administering poison. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE POLAR LkNDS.—The impression of one's first approach to an Arctic land lingers long in the mem my. For weeks you may have been tossing about in mid-ocean; gradually the ship gets into quieter waters; the fogs, which fir days past have obscured any view beyond a few yards from the ship, clear away ; the land haze is seen ; the sun comes out of the leaden snowy sky; a bit of ice grates against the ship's side; and your attention is called to a white object tossing in the sea, a mile away. It is the first iceberg; and with the v.,ya gees mind filled with extravagant notions, derived from the pictures he has seen in books, he is apt to be disappointed with his 'first iceberg. The great mountains of ice "grow on one" after a time. You approach still nearer; icebergs become disagreeably numerous; numerous seals raise their heads above the cold water ; a white whale, or a little herd of nawhals, puff around the ship; or it is just possible that, far off, the thin line of vapour projected from its nostrils proclaims that a whale is "blowing." If you are near a cod-b.ink, the great fin-back whale— of little value either far its blubber or whalebone, though of much greater size than the " right " whalebone whale—will be sure to be seen in great numbers. The land is now close at hand. The narrow band of ice known as the ice-foot--the remnant of that great field which, during the past winter, has stretched many miles from the shores till hangs to the cliff, and will remain so until the warmth of the air, or the laying of the waves, heated above the freezing-point by the long summer sunshire —continuous day of four or five monthts, to he succeeded by an equally long night—breaks it off, and sends the fragments to mingle with the floating pieces of the winter's floes, which are ever and again scraping up against this ship's side, or bunaliing against it in a manner apt to alarm the voyager who, for the first time, experiences such a sensation. He soon becomes accustomed to these and still stranger concomitants of the land he is to live in for the next few months, or it may he years.— From " The Countries of Me World," by Br, Robert Brown for September.  On Saturday last a match was played between an eleven of Windermere College and a tike number from the village of Windertnere. In thst first innings the collegians scored 80, and the village team 67. Allay was hy the College eleven, but the rain sadly interfered with the game, and when the stumps were drawn, they had scored 46 for the loss of two wickets.  JOSEPH TURN:Sit, Sharebroker. Semw-inrFurae4s, Sept. 8, 1876.