The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette

B R I D G ft* \1). THE INSPECTORS appointed in and for the LOWER HAMLET of COITY, under the provisions of the Lighting and Watching Act, (3rd and 4th Willm. 4, cap. 90), in Account with the said Hamlet, for the Yeaj ending 17th December, 1845. Dr. f. s. d. Cr. f. s. d. 1845. Cash due at the end of last Year from 1845. Balance due to the Inspector, as per the Overseer, on Inspector's Order, Account passed last year 0 6 11 and since received 34 19 3 Paid William Lott, Glazier, the amount Cash collected by Overseer, on Rate, of his bill for Painting and Glazing to beyond amount of order 4 16 2 December, 1844 1 6 6 Cash received from Overseer, on In- Paid him do. to December, 1845 2 4 10 spector's Order, dated 17th April, Paid Mr. Edwards, Cash paid by him for 1845 90 0 0 Advertisements 0 1S 6 Paid Mr. Cox balance due to him for Gas to 3rd January, 1845 J9 0 0 Paid him for new Lamps, Pillars, and Fittings. 30 0 0 Paid him for Gas for the present Year, (1845) .o o. 59 3 4 Paid Mr. Betterton for use of Room for the Year. 0 10 6 Balance in Treasurer's hands.. 16 9 10 jEt29 15 5 J6129 15 5 (Signed) JOHN RANDALL, )T WILLIAM EDWARDS, } P Audited and allowed at the Annual Meeting held on the 5th January, 1846, at the Wyndham Arms, Bridgend, W. LEWELLIN, (Churchwarden), Chairman.

Cardie Gas Light and Coke Company. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEET- ING of the Cardiff Gas Light and Coke Company, will be held at the GUILD HALL, CARDIFF, on WEDNES- DAY, the 21st day of JANUARY instant, at Noon. E. P. RICHARDS, Clerk to the Company. Cardiff, 7th Jan., 1846.

Britannia Life Assurance Company, No. 1, PRINCE'S STltKUT, B\NK, I.ONDOS. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament IV. Vict. cap. IX. DI RECTORS. William Hardgett, Ksq | Robert F^linton, Ksq Samuel Deviugtou Esq Erasmus llobt. 1- osier, lisq Win. Fechnpy Black, Ksq Peter Morrison Ksq. George Cohen, Ksq Henry Lewis S,u&le, Esq Millis Coventry, Ksq John Drewett, K»q Millis Coventry, Esq John Drewett, Eaq AUDITORS. J. H. Bevingtou, Esq.—F. P Oockerilf. Esq.— J. D. Dow, Rjq. MEDICAI. OFFICKR. John Ciendinnu)g,M.D.,F.R S., 16, Wiuipole St., Cavendish Square. STANDINU COUNSEL. The Hon. John Ashley. New Square, Linl"olll" Inn.—Mr. Stijuanl Mnrphv. M P., Teuiple. SOLICITOR. Wiliiam Bevaii, ¡;q., Old Jewry. DiNKCIij- Messrs. Drewett and Kowler. l'rinces Street, Bank. This Institution is empowered bv a-Special Act of Parlia- ment, and is so constituted as to atforJ the benefits of Lifi- Assurance in their fullest extent to PoLcy-Holders, and to present ^reatf?;- facilities and accommodation than are usually offered hy any other Companies. Amontj oihers, tha following Important Adoantages may be numerated: Increasing Hates of Premium, on a new and remarkable plau for s«otiii:.g i. or Debts a lea imnuidiate payment being required oa a policy for the whole term of life than in any other oj/i e. Cli EDIT i'AULF. — Hv this Table,lie Premiums may remain unpaid tor hve years, upon satisfactory security being given or the licj liilatiou of the same, at the expiration of that period. HALF CRLDIT RATES OF PREMIUM. Persons -«»*<;red according to these rules, a-.e allowed cre(lit (without security) for half the amount of the Jirtt set-en Annual Premium*, paying interest thereon, at the rate of Five per Cent. p-r Annum, <tt h the option of pay ins; off the Principal at any time, or having the amount deducted from the sum as-nrrd when the Policy becomes a claim. Policies in V thils be elfucied at lower rate" than are gene- j rally required tor the term of seven years only, wil/Ist tbe holders have the salllc secuiity for me payment ot their claims, whenever death may happen, as if they p"ld double the amount of premiums, which would be charged tor assurance effected in the same way. Po!ic:cs revived without the exaction of a fine, at any time within twelve Extract from Iaciea«in« Hates of Premium, for an Assil- rarcc for Whole Term of Life. Age of the Ass iied in everv ca.e a-'nuiird in the Policy. Medical Attendants remunerated in all cases for their '7Board of Director* in attendance daily at 2 o'clock. { Annual Premiums payable during } First Second Third Fourth Remain j Five Five Five Five der of | Years. Years. Yeats, j Years. ILife. j t s d.Is. d. £ s. d.i £ s. d..t: s. d. 1 I 4 1 5 10 1 10 IF I 16 9 2 3 1 6 4 1 12 2 1 19 1; 2 7 4 2 17 6¡ 1 1(5 1 2 4 41 2 14 6i 3 7 3 4 3 4 j 2 16 7 3 9 4 4 5 oj 5 6 3 0^13 >) Extraot from the Half Credit Hates of Premium- Annual Premium require) for an Assurance ot £100. for the whole Term of Life. Halt Premium for Whole Premium ° seven years. after seven years £ d. f. s, d. 39 l it? 236 35 } f" 2 9 10 4> ,i in 2 18 4 45 J o R 3 9 8 5!) 2 2 6 4 5 0 55 2 12 9 5 5 6 60 3 t) 8 6 13 4 PKTKK MORRISON, Resident Director. Detailed Prospectuses. aDd every requisite information as tothe mode of eHectin,( Assurances, may be obtained upon application to the following AGENTS- NEWPORT Mr. R. Jenkins, merchant. CHEPSTOW Mr. J. L, Baldwyn, solicitor. BRISTOL.. Mr. John Moxhar,. Bank-court, Corn-street. CARDIFF W. D. Horivood.

-M m •TAFF VALE RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at the WHITE LION INN, Bristol, on WEDNESDAY, the 21st day of JANUARY, 1846, for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of making certain Extensions, Branch Railways, and other Works, in con- nection with the Tatf Vale Railway; and to authorize the Directors, if so determined upon, to apply for an Act in the ensuing Session of Parliament, to empower the Company to make such Extensions, Branch Railways, and other Works, and to raise the Capital necessary to complete the same; and to take all such further steps as they shall deem necessary relative thereto. The Chair will be taken at half-past Twelve o'clock precisely. J. J. GUEST, Chairman. Railway Office. Cardiff,) January 7, 1840. C SOUTiI WALES RAILWAY. First Call of E2 10s. per Share, making, with the deposit of £ 2 10s., £ 5 paid. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, rf^HAT, pursuant to a Resolution of the Board of J(_ Directors, the Proprietors of Shares in this Company are required to pay the second instalment of E2 IOs. per Share, on or before the 22d day of January next, to any of the nndet mentioned Bankers: — London—Messrs. Glyn, H allifax, Mills, and Co. Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool. Manchester—Messrs. Jones, Lonl, and Co. Bristol and Exeter-The West of England and South Wales Bank. Cardiff-The National Provincial Bank of England. Carmarthen — Messrs, David Morris and Sons. Swansea and Neath—The Glamorganshire Banking Company. All Calls not paid on or before the 2?d January next, will be charged with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. By Order, N. ARMSTRONG, Secretary. South Wales Railway OTice, 449, West Strand, London, Dec. '21, 1845. [DUTY FREE.] IN the Matter of the Petition of EVAN EVANS, of Treforest, in the Parish of Lantwit Vardre, Glamor- ganshire, Carpenter and Pattern Maker late of Millicent- Street, Canliif, Glamorganshire, Carpenter and Pattern Maker before then of Bassalleg, in the Parish of Bis- selleg. Monmouthshire, Carpenter and Pattern Maker; previously of Rhymney Iron Works, Glamorganshire, Carpenter and Pattern Maker; and formerly of Rhymney Iron Works aforesaid, Shopkeeper: Notice is hereby given, that RICHARD STEVENSON, Esquire, the Commissioner acting in the matter of this Petition, will proceed to make a final ordar thereon, at the Bristol Dis- trict Court of Bankruptcy, at the City of Bristol, on THURSDAY, the 22nd day of JANUARY instant, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, unless cause be there and then shown to the contrary. THOS. GRIFFIN PHILLPOTTS. Solicitor, Cardiff. COUNTY OF BRECON. PURSUANT to an Act passed in the 8th and 9th P Years of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled "An Act to amend the laws for the provision and regulation of Lunatic Asylums for Counties and Boroughs, and for the maintenance and care of Pauper Lunatics in England," I do hereby give Notice that the Justices of the Peace of this County do intend to appoint, at the next General Quarter Sessions, which will be held in and for this County on TUESDAY, the SEVENTH day of APRIL next, a Committee of Justices either to superintend the erecting or providing of an Asvlutn for the Pauper Lunatics of this County alone, or to treat and enter into an agreement with the Justices of some other County or Counties, Borough or Boroughs, or with the Subscribers to some Lunatic Asylum there- tofore established by voluntary subscription for the erect- ing or providing an Asylum for the Pauper Lunatics of this County. Dated this 8th day of January, 1846. By order of the Court of Quarter Sessions, JOHN POWELL, Clerk of the Peace, ilx) tiers. GLAMORGANSHIRE, FOURTEEN MILESJFROM CARDIFF. TO BE LET ON LEASE, 'HHREE Seams of Superior COAL, lying under 800 X Acres of Land, through the middle of which the Taff Vale Railway passes. There is also a Canal Com- munication, by which this Coal could be delivered at the Port of Cardiff for Six Shillings per Ton, all charges included. It ie presumed this situation is not to be surpassed in eligibility when the flat position, extent, and pure Coking quality of the Coal are considered. Enquire of Messrs. Crowder & Maynard, 45, Coleman Street, London; or to view the Premises, of Mr. David Davies, Gellywhyon, Newbridge, Glamorgan. ALBION HOUSE ACADEMY, CARDIFF. sam. BEGS to make his acknowledgments to his numerous connexions for the valued confidence and support he has hitherto realized, assuring them of his unre- mitting exertions to merit continued approbation and preference. The Friends of his Pupils he is aware need no remarks as to the advantages of his Establish- ment; to others it may not be amiss to state that the System of Instruction pursued in the various departments of the School (Classical, Mathematical, and general) is cal- culated to secure a sound acquaintance with the different subjects of study, and impart an education of a valuable and superior kind. The Inhabitants of Glamorganshire and South Wales find here an Establishment affording all those advantages they are desirous of realizing for their sons, and which are often in vain sought in more distant situations. The Premises are ample, and in every way adapted to the healthful and agreeable recreation of the Pupils. An inspection of them, Mr. Burnett is persuaded, will afford satisfaction. The domestic arrangements are on a de- cidedly liberal scale, and the individual oversight of the Pupils is sedulously exercised with a view to their per- sonal enjoyments and comfort. References to Clergymen and other Gentlemen will be readily given. The School will Re-open on Monday, the 19/A January. AT MR. tiEOIUtii-: WM'OtR'S ACADEMY, ST. MICHAEL'S HILL, BRISTOL, YOUNG GENTLEMEN are instructed hi the vari- ous branches of a CLASSICAL, MATHEMA- TICAL, & COMMERCIAL EDUCATION; Practical Surveying, with Planning and Mapping of Estates, &c., &c. The usual Accomplishments by approved Masters. Terms may be had from Mr. Pocock, by applying per- sonally or by letter. AN ASSISTANT WANTED. The Academy will be Re-opened JANUARY 20th, 1846. Prospect Place, Jan. 5th, 1846. MRS. MAYBURFS -2-ta TO 33, PORTLAND-SQUARE, BRISTOL, WILL be RE-OPENED on the 21st JANUARY inst.—References will be given, on application, to respectable parties in the Principality who have entrusted the education of their children to Mrs. MAYBURY. BISHOP'S COLLEGE, BRISTOL PATRONS. His Grace the Duke of j The Right Rev. the Lord Beaufort. I Bishop of Glouces- ) ter & Bristol. VISITOR. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester & Bristol. PRINCIPAL. The Rev. H. Dale., M.A., late Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford. THE College will RE-OPEN after the Christmas Va- cation, on TUESDAY, the 27th of January instant. Terms for Tuition, including every charge except Books and Stationery, are- With a Nomination jEI5 Without a Nomination £ 24 Every Proprietor in the Institution possesses the right of Nominating one Pupil in respect of each of his Shares. The Rev. H. DALE, M.A., Principal, receives a li- mited number of Boarders into the College, at JE50 per annum, or if brothers, at JE45 each. Further Particulars may be obtained on application at the College, Park-street, Bristol. TO PARENTS & GUARDIANS. WT MTOn TWO APPRENTICES to VV AIM 1 EilJ, the DRAPERY BUSI- NESS—Youths 14 years of age, well educated and re- spectably connected. PREMIUM EXPECTED. Also, TWO YOUNG MEN. Apply to J. E. Price, Draper, &c., Merthyr. A Cook Wanted, IN a Gentleman's Family, who thoroughly understands her Business, and an unexceptionable character will be required from her last situation. Apply A.B., Post Office, Merthyr Tydvil. To Drapers' Assistants. STEADY YOUNG MAN, who understands his Business, WANTED IMMEDIATELY. Apply, pre-paid, to Edward Loveluck, Bridgend. TO GROCERS. WANTED, by a YOUNG WOMAN, 22 Yean of Age, a Situation to Serve iu a GROCER'S SHOP. Respectable references can be given. Apply, if by letter, post -paid, to S.A., Post-Office, Merthyr. Notice to Druggists and others. A HAMPER, containing SWEET MEATS, DRUGS, &c., and two small CASKS, supposed to be mis- sent.—Any person proving their claim to the above, can have them by paying the expenses. Apply to BATCHELOR, Brothers, Cardiff. January 9, 1846. Notice is hereby Given, I r|^H AT a separate Building, named The Tabernacle," situated at Bridgend, in the Lower Hamlet of the Parish of Coity, in the County of Glamorgan, in the District of Bridgend and Cowbridge, being a Building certified according to law as a Place of Religious Wor- ship, was on the fifth day of January, 181(5, duly Registered for solemnizing Marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wm. 4th, c. 85. Witness my hand this seventh day of Januarv, 1846. WM. EDMONDES, Superintendent Registrar.

PRESUMED POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. We know that the ministers will not propria a total and immediate repeal of the corn laws," as the Times asserted a month ago the Cabinet had decided upon doing; and this is all that can be known to any one not a member of the Cabinet. Meanwhile there has been a great deal of bold and ingenious «nd perhaps not improbable guessing, whicl. is no doubt our duty to present to our readers — ir not as what will be proposed, as what may be proposed — and what is therefore worth the while to consider maturely. The following scheme, for ex- ample, is among the conjectures n>o<t confidentially circulated. We give it, repeating our caution that it is to be considered as the calculation of men formed from the external indica- tions, and not from any information obtained either directly or indirectly from the Cabinet. It is said, then, that ministers will piopose the reduction of the duty upon imported corn to something merely nominal, 01 little more than nominal, after a certain period, say five or years. The rI,ouclÎuu to be arrived at by an annual diminution during the proposed period, beginning with a duty, sotrie- whete between lot. and '20s., and striking off 2s. each year, as thussuppose the maximum fiied duty of 184Q-1817, 18s.; 1847-1818, 16s. ami so on until it would come down to four shillings at the end of the peiiod. On the otlifr pnrt, it is surmised that as a concurrent mea- sure of compensation to the agriculturists, the hurtheu of the poor's-raies and county-rates may be assigned to the conso- lidated fund the increased charge upon that fund being met by a considerable augmentation of the property tax. Such is the plan which we find most generally received as probuhie; but we must not conceal that it is very generally connected w.th an expectation still entertained, that from an early day after the meeting of parliament porti will be thrown open for the admission 01 foreign grain, to the 1st of September, at about which time the new law, whatever it may lw, is expected to coine into operation. If it would be, as we think, an inadequate compensation, leaving, too, the question of general piotection untouched, there is more reason for agriculturists, and, indeed, for all classes inteiested ill protection, to exeit themselves to prevent any change; for it s ems impossible that any other change call give them as terms as these we have described. If, on the other hand, the parties interested se;> reason to l> satis- tied with these terms, it is no less necessary for them to act with zeal and energy at the present moment, for i; is ai true now as it was when said two thousand yea/s ago by the elo- quent Athenian p miot.that the possessions of the absent, are ever the spoil of those who are on the sput-the wealth of the negligent or supine—isever the prize of the vigilant and active Something affecting the agricultural, and alt the other pro- tected interests, whether to affect these interests for good or for evil, is contemplated that is a matter upon which there can be no doubt. is it not, therefore, the duty of all those wiiose interests aie to be aifected to awake betimes, and look alter their affairs if the Government means well by them, to support that Government, which will certainly meet with opposition more certainly indeed the bolder and more patriotic its designs-if the Government means ill, to resist the ill, and to depose the Government that threatens it—an achievement now more completely within the power of the agt iculturists and the other protected classes than at any time ot the present century. The impossibility of a Whig-'Iadical Government is now manifest, and the choice therefore lies between the present Government and one mjre deeply coin- milted to protectiou, it any such can be. In calling upon the country, however, to aronse itself at this crisis, we would as earnestly dissuade our fellow-citizens not to exchange apathy for ill-humour -this would be merely changing one pernicious folly for another. Hitherto the count.y has had every reason to be satisfied with Sir Robert Peel's administration, and even to be grateful for it. Why then presume wrong T We do not ask our fellow citiiens to acerpt a had measure, or even a doubtful one, from a miniate because tha minister has pioved hioiself worthy of their ad- miration and gratitude-far from it. We ourselves think any change in the present corn-law prima facie wrong, and we have not hesitated to declare our conviction, that it is not in the power of the legislature honestly to compeusate the agri- culturists for such a change, but we are willing to wait for the measure to be proposed, if not to condemn it, for we fear that we caunor help condemning it beforehand—we are willing to wait before condemning the m juistets. -Standard. I

THE REVENUE. ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the REVENUE O! GREAT BRITAIN, in the Years and Quarters ende l 5th of Jan., 1845, and 5th of Jan., 1846, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. .liuarters ended Jan. •). 1845. f 184J. Increase. Decrease. £ £ £ £ Customs 4,902,135 4,354,789 547,340 Excise 1 3,230,940| 3,338,8371 107,897 Stamps 1.601,658; 1,792,4031 190,744 Taxes 1,880,490' 1,876,051 4,439 Property Tax 487,511 ¡ 386,983. 100,556 Po*t Office 146,000 189,000 43,000 Crown Lands 50,000 25,000 25,000 Miscellaneous 9,190; 369,471 360,281 tmprst.&othermonies, 146,759: 64,084 82,675 Repayts. of Advances 250,980: 404,1791 153,199 1 -1--1-- Total Income tajOS.egs'SOO^JS 855,191 7o0,016 Deduct Decrease. 760,016 Increase on the Quarter 9-),10 ) Years ending Jan. 5. 1815. j 1846. Increase. Decrease. £ t £ £ £ Customs 20,378,672 18,105,206 2,273,466 Excise 17.001 Stamps 6,611,390 7,152.114 540,721 Taxes 4,216,488; 4,223,852 7,354 Fruperty Tax. 5,191,596 5,026,570 165,026 Post Office 675,000| 731,000 56,000 Crown Lands 155,000; 120,000 35,000 Miscellaneous 693,639 1,263,241 569,611 Imprst.&other monies 278.1381 323,944 45,800 Itepayts. of Advances 875,513: 1,478,959 633,446 Total Income 51,235,538 50.601,988 1,839,942(2,473,492 Deduct Increase 1,889,942 Decrease on the Year 631,550 (From the Morning Herald.) The Revenue returns for the year ended Monday are in the'highest degree satisfaetory, exhibiting a steadily progressive piosperity iu the finances of the country, and, by a necessary consequence, in its industry. The net re- venue for the year just terminated amounts to £ 50,601,988. The net revenue for the year ending January 5, 1845, amounted to £ 51,235,538. There has therefore been a decrease of £ 633,550. This decrease is, however, to be accounted for in a manner the most encouraging, namely, by the reduction of taxation viz., CUSTOMS reduction in Sugar duties. £ 1,300,000 Coal 118,000 Sundries. 320,000 Cotton Wool 680,000 JE:2,418,000 EXCISE, Auction duties £250,000 Glass. 640,000 JE890,000 Customs and Excise £ 3,308,000 Here then we have a reduction, of three millions three hundred thousand pounds of U|xes, and a decrease of six hundred and thirty-three thousand pounds of revenue— equivalent, as every one must see, to an actual increase of the difference—namely, two millions six hundred and fifty- three thousand pounds. This surely is prosperity. And if we look more closely into the items of revenue we shall find new reason to be satisfied that this prosperity rests upon a firm foundation. The great amount of decrease is necessarily under the head of Customs; under which, as we have seen, there has been a reduction of 1:2,418,000 and even under this head the decrease falls considerably short of the reduction -though, as must be apparent where so much revenue has been given up, absolutely and totally, as it has been given up in the case of cotton wool, coals, and sundries, there can be no compensation from increased consumption. In the Excise, notwithstanding the sacrifice of the auc- tion and glass duties to the extent of nearly £ 900,000, there is an actual increase upon the year to the amount of £ 17,000; while on the Stamps, the index to an active commerce, as the Excise is to the ease and comfort of the mass of the people, the increase upon the year greatly exceeds half a million. Upon the Post Office, too, there is a considerable increase. Is not all this proof of prosperity? Is not this an ar- gument against hazardous chaiigesl What better than this is wanted 1 Cannot men content themselves "to let well alone?" There is one item, however, in the returns upon which we must offer a remark. In the Property Tax there is a decrease of £ 165,000, £ 100,000 of it in the last quarter. How is this to be accounted for? The millownershave again and again boasted that they have doubled their capital within the last year, and yet the aggregate property and income of the country have declined, though in a trifling degree. Now from these two facts we must draw one of three conel usioiis: First—The millowners are a small and unimportant class; or, Second—Their prosperity has been accompanied by a proportionate deterioration in the property of others; or, Third-The millowners have made false returns. We leave it to Messrs. Cobden and Bright to choose among these conclusions. (From the Times.) The revenue table for the past year presents on the whole a satisfactory result. Although it shows a decrease of more than half a million on the year as compared with that ending the 5th of January, 1845, the items of the deficiency will not be found on inspection to furnish any proof of a decline it, the general prosperity. With the exception of £ 165,000 in the Property-tax, and £ 35,000 in the Crown lands, the whole decrease is in the Customs. This is easily accounted for by the recent revision of the tariff, and the greatly diminished scale of import duties. A suffL-ieut interval has not yet elapsed for the usual operation of an increased importation in making up the deficiency which must, of course, immediately ensue upon so large a reduction of duties. But turning to the items of increase, we see unerring signs of a greater commercial activity, and an improvement in the condi- tion of the people. CompariUg the present quarter with the corresponding one ending the 5th of January, 1815, we find an increase, instead of a decrease, of nearly 1: 100,000, the quarter's deficiency in the Customs, which preserves the due proportion to the annual, being coun- ter-balanced by a more than proportionate increase in the Excise, Stamps, laxes, and Post-office. Comparing it again with the last quarter, we are startled by a defici- ency of a million, halt of which, however, is caused by the falling off of the Customs. In the Excise there is again an increase of £ 100,000, in the Stamps of nearly 200,000, and in the Post-office of upwards of £ 40,000. The general result of the three comparisons is, an ill- creased consumption of excisable articles, which denotes an improved condition of the general population; an active commerce; and greater cheapness in the imported articles of food. In this state of the revenue Sir Robert Peel may face his Conservative Opposition without much fear. There being a surplus it, everything which can be taken as an indication of the prosperity of the country, his proposal to repeal the corn-laws cannot consistently meet with opposition from the alarmists. Even if the fluctuating and uncertain duties derived under the pre- sent system from the importation of corn be deemed a legitimate source of revenue, this is not generally of sulficient magnitude to excite any reasonable apprehen- sion from its abandonment. The finances of the country are too flourishing to suffer inconvenience from the abo- lition of a tax which may yield in one year a million, in another nothing. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The official tables of the revenue, for the year and quarter ending on the 5th of January, are given in ano- ther pa.rt of our paper. 011 the whole, they are calcu- lated to abate the fears which the serious diminution ex- hibited in the previous quarter's tables excited in the public mind. But they do much more than this. The rally in the accounts fur the quarter, notwithstanding the serious depression of commerce and trade during the last three months, is a significant commentary on the merits of that system of financial reduction which we hope will be extended next session to every article, the great as well as the small, in our tariff. Sir Robert Peel, in his financial statement of the 4th of February last, antici- pated a loss of £ 3,350,000 from the reductions he then proposed. The actual decrease on the year just ended is £ 635,550, the loss of £2,273,466 on the Customs being compensated by increase in other items, the Excise, the Stamps, and the Miscellaneous," which, of course, comprises the last receipt of China money. The increase in the Excise, both on the year, and especially on the quarter, is remarkable the increase in the Stamps indi- cates a business activity, part of which may be traced to railroad speculation but the steady progress in the Post- office revenue is, perhaps, the most gratifying feature of the whole. It is surprising that the Property-tax should exhibit a decrease both on the year and oil the quarter. Increased profits and renewed assessments ought, one would think, to have increased, rather than diminished this source of income. Whatever may be the cause, the ardent advocates of direct taxation may well ask whether or not it is more applicable to a complicated state of soci- ety, in which income fluctuates every day and every hour, than a judiciously-devised system of fiscal duties, levied for revenue purposes. Ihe decrease on the Propeity-tax is, for the year, £ 165,026, and for the quarter £ 100,556. The result is, that on the year Just ended, as compared I with the previous one, there is a decrease on the Customs of JE2,273,446, but an increase on the Excise of E17,001, on the Stamps of no less than £ ^40,724, and on the Taxes of £ 7,354. On the Property-tax there is a de- crease of £ 165,026, but on the Post-office an increase of £ 56,000. The Crown Lands have been diminished by £ 35,000, but the item Of Miscellaneous is increased by JM69.6U. On the entire items there is a decrease on the year of £ 633,550.

BANKRUPTS.-(p,.om the London Gazettes.) FRIDAY.— J. Coe, money scrivener, Size Lane, Bucklersbury, City. Eedlp. bookseller, Chancery-lane Within. G. S. Neale, innkeeper, Portsea. D. W. Lucas, hemp and flax dealer, Mark Lane, City. H. Le Jeune, maltster St. Alban's. R. Heading- ton, laceman, Bath. C. Barber, calico printer, Denham Springs, Brindle, Chorley, Lancaster. T. C. W. Pierce, merchant, Man- chester, TUESDAY—R. Hulse, chemist, Little Tower-street, City. G. Sirapkin, tailor, Faversham- J. J. Clark, builder, Bath-road, Hounslow. W. Ingall, auctioneer, Shipston-on-Stour, Worces- tershire. J. J. Clarke, builder, Durdham-down, Gloucestershire. J. Simpson, woolstapler, Leeds. J. Breterick, dyer, Newlay, Yorkshire. G. E. Schultz and H. E. Carr, stock-brokers, Liver- pool. S. Brown, hat manufacturer, Denton, Lancashire. W. Urosvenor, iron-founder, Stoke-upon-Trent. T. Nash, junior, builder, Stourbridge. G. Greenstoek, ironmonger, Weston-super- Waje. W, Gay, builder/ Cheltenham.

THE OREGON QUESTION. Mr. Polk's Message, and the correspondence between Mr. Pakenham, the British Minister at Washington, and Mr. Buchanan, the Secretary for Foreign Relations of the United States, seem to have produced a considerable chatige in the tone of many of the American papers on the subject of Oregon. A sort of irresistible conviction appears to have been forced upon the public mind in the United States, that England stands in a far better position than was imagined. We are not much surprised at this, for it is hardly possible, we think, that any impartial and intelligent person could read the diplomatic correspond- ence attentively, without being impressed by the conclu- sive reasonings and unassailable facts contained in Mr. Pakenham's communications. That gentleman had a clear cue of right and truth to maintain, while Mr Buchanan found himself driven to the shifts, evasions, and equivocations which an exactly opposite case re- quired; the consequence is, that the former always appears to have strengthened his position after every attempt to weaken it, and the latter to weaken his after every attempt to strengthen it. The controversy involves so many complicated consi- derations of original discovery, prior occupancy, cession by treaty, disputed frontiers, and natural boundaries, that it is impossible, within the compass of an article like this, to exhibit even a general outline of its character. It is almost equally impossible to separate the extraneous and irrelevant matters which have gradually accumulated round the primitive question. Some there are, indeed, who make short work of the difficult). The Hon. C. Cushing, for example, late Commissioner of the United States to China, in a lecture upon Oregon," delivered at the Lyceum, Boston, proves, to his own entire satis- faction, that all the right is with America, and all the wrong with England. This, however, was before the diplomatic correspondence between the two Governments had been made public: Mr. Cushing's lecture having been delivered in the month of November: we should like to know whetker he is still of the same opinion. Mr. Cushing concludes his lecture by asking what remains for the United States to do and answers it thus 1. Time. the great regulator of all things in this world. If nothing else occur to dispose of the Oregon question, in lime the backwoodsmen of the west will do it, with their axes, cattle, and ploughs, and, if need be, their rifles. Emigrant* from the United States have a land journey to Oregon, which if, comparatively speaking, easy, for their horses and cattle feed themselves on the road, canyor furnish provisions for the emigrants, and carry the utensils and constitute the capi- tal with which the settlers are to begin life in Oregon. Emi- grants from Great Britain have a much longer land journey 61 y to make, besides a sea voyage of 3,090 miles, or, in the whole, a sea voyage of enormous l'-ngth and expense, if they go by the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn. Besides which, all British emigrants in America have a great tendency to cease to be Britons and to become Americans. 2. Negociation.—And it is deeply to be regretted that, in the whole course of this affair, the British Government has manifested so little of the spirit either of equity or of concili- ation. The continuance 01 this root of bitterness between the two nations is no fault, I repeat, of the United States. We have stretched conciliation and compromise to the utmost verge of honour, in an effort of arrangement, and in so long suffering the divided occupancy of territory believed to be wholly our own. Or shall we, the United States, tamely place ourselves in the attitude of the degraded nations of Asia and Africa, and quietly permit England to leave Europe, where she belongs, and come over to us here in Am -.rica, as she goes to Asia and Africa, to take any part of the continent she may please to fancy. We can hear, in imagination, the hurrahs with which this specious declamation was received by the Bostonians in their Lyceum. But, as we have said, Mr. Cushing, when he delivered this lecture, knew nothing of Mr. Pakenham's correspondence with the Secretary for Fo- reign Relations. The effect of that correspondence upon his own countrymen will be seen by the following extract (one of many which we could make) from the New York Journal of Coininerce: From these data we infer that the responsibility of the fail- tire of the late negociation rests chiefly with our own G,I- vprnnvnt. We wish the case were otherwise—but truth is truth, notwithstanding. Had the overtures of the British Minister been met in a corresponding spirit-lia(i our Govern- ment advanced instead of retreating, it is not iu,probable that further concessions would have been made on behalf of Great Britain, but the dead recoil of those first presented naturally discouraged any further attempts in the same direction. The avowed object of the nefrociation was) to adjust4he dispute on the terms of "compromise." Compromise implies mutual concession. It is true that neither party was bound by the concessions offered in former negociations, yet it was reason- able to expect that no proposition less favourable than had been otfeted before would now be made. Had Great Britain done this, it would have been deemed little better than an insult. Why should not we be bound by !he saine rule ? If either party had announced in advance, its purpose to deduct from the concessions it had formerly made, without addin" an equivalent in some other way, we may safely say that 0 the negnciation woul.1 not have been entered upon. It were better that it had not been entered upon, than to result as it has. In the same spirit of truth and honesty towards this country the New York Albion says— We cannot suppose that Sir Robert Peel's Government will yield the territory up to the parallel of 49, as that wotihj de- prive Great Britain of Pu^ei's Sound, the loss of which would render all the country north of that line worthless. The best limiting grounds would be rendered inaccessible, and the Hudson's Bay Company put hots de combat. The occupation of Vancouver's I land, even if put wholly into the possession of England, would be no equivalent for the harbours in Puget's Sound. The land to the north of latitude 49 is barren and unfruitful its rivers are beset with impassable rapids, and the climate ill winter Siberian. We cannot admit, then, that Her Majesty's Government can or will consent to such an unfair or injurious division of the country. If the United States insist on taking the Columbia to its mouth, they should, in all fairness, leave Puget's Sound to England. The claim of the entire territory is as good ou the part of Great Britain as that of the United States. Both parties; indeed, deem their right to the whole, valid; but as they have a-reed to negociate, have mutually offered to make con- cessions, and have consented to a joint occupancy for nearly 20 years, the rights of each would seem to be coequal, and being coequal, the division should be in a similar spirit. We regard these articles as a remarkable indication of the change which public opinion in the United States is undergoing, in consequence of the more accurate know- ledge which has been disseminated by the papers laid before the Congress; and as of good omen for the main- tenance of peace John Bull.

FESTIVITIES AT BALL'S PARK, HERTS. Captain Townshend, R.N., on New Year's-eve, was honoured by a brilliant circle of the nobility and gentry of the county of Herts, at Ball's Park, when the great attractions provided for the entertainment of his nu- merous friends eomprisell amateur theatrical performances, followed by a ball and supper. Lord Tenterden, Baron and B:uonMS Ditnsdale, and Misses Ditnsdale, Sir Minto and Lady Farquhar, Mr. C. Stuart, Lord Dudley C. Stuart, Mr. R. G. Alston, Lady G. Paller, Mr. and Mrs. Gatnbier, Mr. and Mrs. Parker, &c., were present. The private theatricals afforded especial pleasure to the assembled audience, and the plaudits from the indulgent 11 company to the more youthful of the histrionics proved how successful were tljeir exertions. A temporary stage was erected in the spacious and elegant gallery. Lord Dudley Stuart ably discharged the functions of stage manager. The performances commenced with — RAISING THE WIND. A FAUCE IN Two ACTS. Plain way. Lord Tenterden. Fainvorld Mr. Seymour. Jeremy Master Townshend. Sarn Master J. Townshend. John (waiter) Master Abbott. Richard Master Seymour. Miss Durable Miss E. Townshend. Pe^y Miss Dixon. After which, in one act, GRETNA GREEN. Mr. Tomkins (guardian to Emily) Mr. It. G. Alston, Lord Lovewell (in love with Emily) Mr. Crichton Stuart. Larder (innkeeper at Gretna Green) Mr. Seymour, Jenkins { a runaway footman out > Lord Tenterden. f of place 3 Emily (in love with Lord Lovewell) Miss Seymour. Betty Finikin J a hoUS^"a^1 °Ut °f J Miss Townshend. The performance conclu led with a burlesque tragic opera, in one act, BOMB\STES FURIOSO. Artaxotmines (King of Utopia). Capt. Townshend, R.N. General Master Townshend: Fnsbos (Minister of State). Master J. Townshend. First Courtier. Master Abbott. Second Courtier. Master Seymour. Distam-m. Miss Townshend. At the termination of the several dramatic trifles, the whole of the guests repaired to the supper-room, where a sumptuous repast awaited their arrival. The festivities concluded with a ball, & the hour had far advanced when the gay party separated.

EXECUTION OF MARTHA BROWNING AND SAMUEL QUENNELL. Mattha Browning, aged 22, convicted at the last ses- sions of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of Klizabeth Mundell, was executed on Monday morning in front of the debtors'-door, Newgate but in consequence of the new prison regulations, issued by the Secretary of Slate for the Home Department, no one, except the sheriffs, the governor of the gaol, and the neceisary offi- cers were allowed to be present, and all the information as to the wretched woman's conduct immediately previous to her final exit was respectfully, but firmly refused to the reporters of the public press. As soon as workmen commenced erecting the scaffold at an eaily hour in the moruing, crowds of persons be- gan to assemble in the Old Bailey, and waited till the dreadful proceedings were over. The numbers, however, were not so great as on many former similar occasions, although it has been 14 years since a female was executed at the Old Bailey. Exactly at eight o'clock the wretched malefactor ap- peared on the scaffold she appeared to possess great firmness in her awful situation. She was immediately placed under the fatal beam, and after exclaiming, in rather a loud voice, The Lord have mercy on my sou)," the bolt was withdrawn, and in a few moments life was extinct. The body, after hanging the usual time, was cut down, and was interred within the precincts of the gaol in the evening. The brother and sister visited the convict once or twice last week, but her unfortunate and distressed mother has not had sufficient courage to venture on an interview. Samuel Quennell, bricklayer, aged 22, convicted at the December Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, of the murder of Daniel Fitzgerald, was executed on Monday morning on the drop in front of Horsemonger-lane prison. The criminal ascended the platform with a steady step his Qromess never appeared t9 have let; him; but, at in the foregoing case, the prison regulations now excluding reporters for the public press, it is impossible that an) details can with certainty be known. The struggles of the culprit were very brief. From the first moment of his entrance within the walls of Horsemonger-lane gaol, he appeared to have fully made tip his mind to the worst, and never entertained the slightest hope of any relaxation of the sentence that had been passed upon him. During his confinement in thi* prison he made no attempt to palliate the great crime that he had committed, but was most ready on all occa- sions to express his contrition for the deed, and to ac- knowledge the justice of his sentence.

fhteTltg nee. AspECT or THE WEEK.—There have been several important meetings this week. The principal character of the most important, is the amalgamation of rival inter- ests with several influential lines. Several calls have been made by old companies, and readily paid up. Amongst the late projected schemes which the panic has so seriously affected, there have been also meetings held to consider the best means to be adopted for the winding up of the different concerns. Railway directors are found reluctant to acknowledge their liability, but they are ready to admit the validity of the shareholders' interest in the projects, and press, m many cases, for the mutual co-operation of all parties to defray expenses. There is less talk of legal proceedings being taken by all parties, and things appear to be progressing more smoothly, with less fear of the results. Mr. George Smith, Redbank, Manchester, has in- vented a new mode of signals, by means of the electric telegraph. All arbitrary signs for the purpose of indicat- ing letters are discarded, each letter of the alphabet being represented upon the dial-plate, and capable of being pointed out with rapidity, precision, and simplicity.— Railway Chronicle. We understand that the consent of the Crown has been most decidedly refused to the project of the Westminster and West-End and Southern Counties Railway Extension and Terminus Company, the object of which was to have a terminus in the Strand, near Waterloo Bridge. The greater part of the property near the bridge belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster. Two railway accidents were reported on Saturday morning. One happened during an experimental trip on Thursday from York to Darlington, connected with the elucidation of the broad and narrow gauge question. While running at the rate of forty-seven miles an hour, the engine was thrown from the rails, dragging the car- riages with it. The stoker was the only person who sustained material injury. The mishap is attributed by some to the oscillation of the engine. The other accident occurred at the Bristol station of the Great Western Company, on Friday morning. A train from Birming- ham ran violently into the station, and struck an engine which was about to be attached to a train for London. The Birmingham train was over-due by an hour, having been delayed by a laud-slip at Stonehouse; and signals to stop at a certain point, so as to allow the London train to paas, were displayed from the Bristol station, but neglected. No persons were injured. RAILWAYS AND COASTBRS.-The South Western Rail- road was on Monday, for the first time, made the means of the conveyance of an entire ship's cargo from South- hampton to London. It consisted of the first portion of a freight of 1,100 boxes of oranges. GREAT WELSH CENTRAL RAILWAY.—By the London newspapers we perceive that the committee are paying to the subscribers the sum of 24s. 6d. per share, after payment of all expenses. The late panic in the money and share market seems to have operated against the present suc- cess of the Company; as we are informed, by a circular sent by the committee, that out of nearly five hundred thousand shares applied for, only a few above twenty thousand were paid upon. The late period at which it was brought out must also have operated against it, as we believe the project to have been generally favourably thought of. Many members of the committee are known to our readers as men of high station and respectability, and who, no doubt, honorably kept their engagements with the company but there were others who, like many of the allottees, have sheltered themselves under the pre- sent too-prevailing practice of repudiation. By the advertisement we observe the company has been dissolved, and that a new one has been formed; and we hear that the committee of the new company are adopting a course likely to secure the payment of the shares taken by the committee and the public, and that the support already given by the old subscribers and others is such as to leave no doubt of the ultimate success of the undertaking. THE ADVANTAGE OF JUDICIOUSLY EX- TENDING THE RAILWAY SYSTEM. The following table will show the progress of the rail- way system for the last four years:— Total Total Working Per Average centage Profit Amount of Amount receipts Expenses Profit on on per Miles per Traffic cent. Date. Capital of mile assumed the Capital returns on open. per to Capital expended as Traffic annum. to be expended. Capital ex- ex- pended. per Reports Returns. 10 per cent. pended. I £ £ £ £ £ 1842 52,380,000 4,341,781 1,520 2,856 1,730,712 2,600,068 8.29 4.97 1843 57,635,104 4,827,655 1,586 3,044 1,931,062 2,896,593 8.39 5.03 1814 63,489,056 5,584,982 1,805 3,094 2,233,992 3,550,989 8.79 5.27 1845 i 71,646,105 6,623,000 2,043 3,242 2,049,200 3,973,800 9.24 5.54 From the result given ill this table it appears, that up to a certain petiod of 1842, £52,380,000 were expended on railways, giving a profit of 4.97 per cent. at that time and that up.to a corresponding period in 1845, f71,646,105 were expended, and the receipts show a profit of 5.54 pet- cent. after deducting 40 per cent. for the working ex- penses. The great advantage of extending the railway system must be very evident from the facts stated in the above table, showing that a further outlay of £ 19,265,105 between the years 1842 and 1815 had produced a gradual and firm increase in the profits from 4.97 to 5.54, or of 0.57 per cent. Should the 7') millions authorised by Parliament in 1844 and 1845 to be raised for the railways now in course of construction be equally as beneficial in producing a further progressive increase in the traffic of the country, of which there cannot be much doubt, the further outlay of the 70 millions may be expected to in- crease the profits on the capital of the old and new rail- ways, when completed and in operation, as much as 2 per cent. more, which, added to the 5.54 per cent. of the present time, would motile that amount 7.54 per cent. Hut this calculation does not include any advantage to be derived in future from improvements in locomotives, or any of the economical changes in the working expenses of railways which have taken place since 1812 to a con- siderable extent upon most of the great lines and there call be no doubt that the increase of traffic consequent upon all extension of the railway system will further re- duce the proportion which the working expenses now bear to the total amount of the traffic receipts. It should be remarked, that although in the above table the working expenses are assumed to be 40 p?r cent., there can be no doubt that they have been reduced 4 or 5 per cent. at least since 1842 and, therefore, if the pro- fits were 4.92 per cent. in 1812, those at the present time should be estimated at G per cent. instead of 5.54, as stated in the table. The result is also highly favourable to the security, and a proof of the improving nature, of railway property, whether we consider it as respects the outlay of capital, or the extension of railways in length; as an instance, 1520 miles were in operation in 1842, and 204J miles in 1845—bjing an increase of 5*20 miles; at the former period the earnings were £ >,856 per mile per annum, and at the latter period £ 3,242 per mile per annum, showing an increase in the receipts per mile of 13.5 per cent., instead of a decrease, as many of the enemies to the extension of the railway system expected.—Hera- path's Journal.

iilwellaufous. LATEST FROM AMERICA. — By the packet ship New York, Captain Cropper, which left New York on the 17th ult.. and arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday even- ing, we have received a report of the discussion in the Senate on the Oregon question, founded upon General Cass's motion for the adoption of the resolutions he had already submitted to Congress, relative to the Army and Navy. He introduced these resolutions in a speech out- Heroding the most warlike passages in the President's message. The discussion was goiug on when the report left. MONEY MARKET, THURSDAY EVENING.-Consols opened for the Money Market at oil but they have since been done at 95 £ The last price of Three per Cents. Reduced was 95g the Three and a Quarter New 98j. DEATH OF EARL GRANVILLE.—We regret to learn the death of this noble earl, which event took place on Wed- nesday, at his residence in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, London. ANOTHER FREE PORT. —Tbe London Gazette of Fri day contains an official notice that the port of Newcastle, in New South Wales, has been constituted a free ware- housing port, with all the privileges which are by law attached to Iree warehousing porta in any of her Majesty's po^essioBS abroad. VERY TRUE.—An agent of the League was last I listributing their tracts in a village near Mansfield. ippears, however, that though he was in the full pay the faction, he was not a full convert to their principle* V person of his acquaintance askeil him what he had got, when he replied, A tract to show how there is to be large loaf for sixpence and threepence to bug it ivith- —Derby Mercury. EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES TO ENGLANO. Ever> packet-ship leaving this port for Liverpool is filled with our agricultural products, and it is highly interesting and gratifying to see the great and rapijty-increasint variety of our shipments. The packet-ship Fidelia sailed yesterday for Liverpool with the following cargo:—Out- ward cargo of the ship Fidelia for Liverpool:—441 halef of cotton, 1250 barrels of naval stores, 1000 barrels of flour, 775 barrels of apples, 50 barrels of provisions, 325 tierct's of provisions, 1050 boxes of cheese, 25 casks of oil* 126 barrels of lard, 11 hogsheads of lard, 300 barrels of iron ore, 114 bales of wool, 310 kegs of lard, 9000 hogs- head staves, 327 salted hides, 30 bundles of leather, 16 barrels of jewellers' sweeps, 308 bags of beans, 38 crates of onions, 14 cases of merchandize. Cotton appears to he a small item among this variety. In consequence of the quantity of Hour, provisions, &c., offering for shipment, freights rule very high. A few years since our packet- ships were compelled to load with cotton on their outward voyages, or go out in ballast; now, notwithstanding the increase in tbe number of packet and transient ships iø tbis trade, they all sail with full cargoes. The most eX- traordinary shipment in the Fidelia is the 300 barrels of iron ore. Onions, beans, and leather are very unusual expoits from this country to England, but we have DO doubt in a few years they will be staple shipments. There is a very large trade growiug up between this country and Great Britain in provisions, and our agricultural ex- ports alone must soon exceed in value the aggregate cost of our imports.—New York paper. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Friday night, as the Star tooach was returning from Clevedon to Wells, .b.. goiog up Easton hill, about three miles from the latter city, the coachman, in stooping to buckle tha apron, fell from his seat. A gentleman passenger jumped of to ascertain if he had sustained injury, upon which the hoW set off at full speed, with a young woman, the only other passenger, on the top of the coach The horses kept the road to Wells, turned all the corners as well as if under the care of an experienced driver, galloped into Wells, passed along three different streets, each with a sharp turn, and finally stepped at the Star Ion, all right! To add to the singularity of the occurrence, the night was exceed- ingly dark and boisterous. The young woman was una- ble to speak at the end of her perilous journey, but soon recovered. We are glad to add, that neither the coachman nor gentleman sustained any injury. COUNTY RATES.—By a Parliamentary document just issued (obtained by Viscount Marshara) it appears that il. 10 years, ending in 1844, of the grants made by Parlia- ment in aid of tbe county rates, there was expended £ 1,024,231 5s. 7d.of which £890,596 6s. 5d. was ex- pended by counties, and £133,63J 19s. 2d. by boroughs and liberties. It was required that the return should distinguish the proportions for expenses of prosecutions and for the conveyance of convicts. It hence appears that in 1844 the expenses of criminal prosecutions in coun- ties amounted to £ 94,159 18s., and for the conveyance of convicts £6.983 14s. 1 Id. In boroughs and liberties the sum in the same period on criminal prosecutions was £ 15,854 Is. I'd.; and for the conveyance of convicts £1,671 7s. 8d. In the ten years specified (from 1835 to .1844) the largest sum expended out of the Parliamentary grants in aid of the county rates, was in 1842, when it was £ 134,560 18s. 6d. 10 1844 it amounted to £ 118,669 2s. Id. for the prosecution of criminals and the removal of convicts in England and Wale*. DRUGGING HORSES.—On Monday week, at the Brom- yard petty sessions, a waggoner in the employ of Mr. Edward Drew, of the Court, Tedstone Wa'er, was re- manded on a charge of having poisoned his master's horses. It is supposed he has been in the habit of drug- ging the horses to make them work well, and ultimately gave them too much, for three out of four valuable horses died on Sunday, and tbe fourth is not expected to recover. Two of the animals were worth from f25 to f30 each. PIT ROPES.—Mr. Richard Barney, rope-iuanufacturer, of this town, has just completed the largest pair of a at ropes ever made in this neighbourhood; they are 'l,3¡IO feet in length, and nearly five tons in weight. The fre- quent accidents and loss of life which have occurred from the breakage of iron pit ropes, are fast bringing the flat hempen ropes again into use, and our spirited townsman appears disposed, and is every way capable, to take ad- vantage of the change in public opinion, as the colliers observe the hempen ropes" gi ve notice before they breath but the iron 'tins don't. — Worcestershire Chronicle. MORB FORTS.—We hear that an officer has been dis- patched to make a survey of the Government reservation at the head of the St. Clair river, and to fix upon a suit- able site for a new fortification there, in the place of the old stockade, known as Fort Gratiot, and to make the necessary estimates. These estimates will be laid before Congress, with a strong recommendation of the engineer department in favour of the work. We trust that Con- gress will at once grant the means necessary to make this defence to our neglected frontier, especially if we are to have war for Oregon.—Det. Adv. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—We understand that the exe- cutors of the late Miss Sargent, of Kempsey (W. H. Ricketts, Esq., and Mr. W. Powell), are about to pay the following munificent bequests of the lady, free of duty, to the undermentioned charities:—Worcester Infirmary, £1,000; Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, £ 1,000; Society for the Con version of the Jews, £.}()o; Church Building Society, £500; Worcester Dispensary, £500; Clergy Widows' and Orphans' Charity, j65()0; Refuge for the Destitute, £3UO Worcester Penitentiary, £ 300.—Worcester Journal THE LATB BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—The will of the Right Rev. Michael Solomon Alexander, D.D., the first Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem, whose death we recently announced te have taken place in November last, has just been proved in London the personal effects in this country were sworn under £7,000. It appears to have been made just pre- vious to his Lordship's departure from this country for Egypt. He has left to his executors and trustees, the Rev. John Christian Reichardt, clerk, and C. II. Corbett, Esq., both residents of London, the whole of his property, real and personal, in trust for his wife, to receive the interest for her life while unmarried, and at her death, or second marriage, then to his children absolutely. A mammoth on, named "Distribution," is creating a great sensation in Cincinnati. This extraordinary animal is now about seven and a half years old, measures II) feet 7 inches in girth, and weighs about 4,0J0 pounds growth. He is of tine form and excellent proportions.—New York Herald. As a proof of the mildness of the season, Mr. Jeffes, at the Waggon Inn, in this town, gathered on Christmas- day laiJt, a dish of green peas, and has now a promise of succeeding crops from the show of pods and blossoms.— Bury Herald. OPINION OF THE AGITATOR BY THE PRESS OF HOLLAND. -Amsterdam, Dec. 29th.—The restless and mischievous perturbator of Ireland is anything but popular in this country, if the press may be considered to be here the organ of the public opinion respecting him. His recent heartless conduct in enforcing his annual impost, at a time when millions of his countrymen were threatened with all the horrors of a far-extending famine, "Bnd when aU the continental journals were teeming with accounts of the miseries of Irelaud, called forth iu several news- papers here the bitterest expressions of disgust aud abhorrence. The young wheat plants are looking very promising, and there has seldom been a better prospect at Christmas for the ensuing harvest than this year. There is an apple tree at Hartford, Connecticut, 20J years old, and a fig tree in Palestine 780 years old, an olive on the Mount near Jerusalem 850 years, and a live oak in Louisana 1,000 years olJ. -NelV York paper. QUEUEC SUFFERERS.— £ 61,887 have been received in aid of the sufferers by the great fire in Quebec» of which sum JE39,260 have been distributed, leaving a balance of £2ä,620 to be distributed this winter. The committee of to relief have received from the Rev. Antoine Gagnon, Cure at Sheiliac, seven boxes of clothing, of the most useful description, with £4. Os. 3d. in cash. — Mirimichi Gleaner- We read from Gotha, iu the Frankfurter Journal of the 20th:—" There is much talk here at this moment of a. vast financial operation concerning the trusteeship of the ducal house. The late Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha left a large private fortune, consisting of capital placed in foreign funds, particularly in Belgium. His heirs are th<e reigning Duke and Prince Albert, husband of Queeo Victoria. Conformably to the desire expressed by th^ latter, aud immediately complied with by the Duke, thi# capital is to be withdrawn, and placed, out at mortg^g^ at home. According to the present quotations of the- public funds, this operation will cause a considerable loss- of capital." The states of the Duchy of Coburg were; dissolved suddenly on the 19th. This measure is said tD have been caus.-d by the complaints preferred by the states against the Ministry. PRESENTATION OF PLATE BY PAUPERS.—Lately, the inmates of the Honiton Union presented a silver tablf spoon to the master and matron, who have resigned having been appointed to the Wellington Union. It bore the following inscription:—"Presented by the in- mates of the Honiton Union workhouse to Mr. and Mrs- Passmore for their kind attention towards them during :l period of six years as master and matron of the Honiton Uuion workhouse.—Devonport Telegraph. The Upper Canada wheat is said to be very superb this fall, both in colour and quality and its intriMwifS value is not less than half a dollar better than last year- A lamentable accident happened on Saturday last near Zivelle, in Holland. Fifteen persons were crossing the river from Hallem in a small boat, when it upset in middle of the river, and every person, including the boatman perished. Most of these unfortunate haye left familiws in poverty. SHIPWRECK ON THE COAST Ot SUSSEX.—SEVEK LIVES LOST.—A Danish brigantine went ashore oit Sunday morning, at five o'clock, between the Tidemi'^ and the Buckle, in Seaford-Bay. The captain and six ot the crew, we are sorry to say, met with a watery grave- the only survivor was a seaman, who tl..es not under- stand English, who was found in the Cure hatchway. A> large dog was also found on board,. The vessel was out- ward bound, but having no cargo.. had taken iu ballast- She was copper bottomed. The sides of the vessel wei'^ stove in and tue masts wejre gone, but attempts will be! made iu a few days to to,w her off. ¡ Abberley Hall, Worcester, in the occupation of tL £ widow of James Moillett, Esq., formerly of Birmingham** was totally destroyed by fire on Christmas-day, which 1. supposed to have originated iq tbe store-room.