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I BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN STEAMSHIPS. The undernoted or other vessels are appointed to sail as follows DEPARTURES FROM L'VERPOOL. Eurona March 23. For New York Hibernia April 6... For Boston.

April 13...... For New York. America. Apiil 20...... For Boston.

DEPARTURES FROM AMERICA. April 17.. From New York Hibernia. May 1. From Boston May 8.

From New York May 15. From Boston. Auction Sales This Day. As Advertised in the British Whig. 03 NO SALE This Day.

The Daily British Whig. per Orbeit TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1850. LEONARD SCOTT RE-PUBLICATIONS OF THE BRITISH PERIODICALS. The London, Edinburgh, Westminster and North British Quarterly Reviews; together with Blackwood's Magazine, for $10 a year, exclusive of Canadian Postage. E.

W. Palmer, Agent, Kingston. The editor of a Canadian newspaper has but few pleasures, more particularly if he be publisher and printer into the bargain; but one of his choicest delights consists in the perusal of the periodical literature of the day. For buying and reading books he has no time, and rarely any funds; but if his journal can command a good circulation, he will readily the best American Magazines and procure Reviews, while of latter days, the enterprise and liberality of Mr. Leonard Scott have placed at his disposal the more expensive and more valuable periodicals of the British public.

These, as per heading, have been before us some weeks; and we need not assure the reader, have proved a source of infinite pleasure and profit. There is a charm in good English writing, so wholly wanting oll this side the Atlantic, as to turn that, which in London would be considered merely an ordinary gratification, in Canada into excitement of the most delightful kind. It brings a man home to the scenes of his youth, and in spite of hunger and annexation, makes him feel proud of being a British subject; of being a native of that country which can daily produce books so charmingly written. It is not the intention to inflict upon our readers any criticism upon the works on our table; an empire in imperio may exist, but a review on a review can scarcely do so. Leonard Scott's publications are fac-similes of the original publications; not got up in the cheap and nasty style of ordinary New York publishers, but printed and fit for binding.

Black wood's Magazine looks like Ebony;" and the London Quarterly Review appears like Murray's Quarterly." In price only do they differ, the whole five American books costing barely the price of one London publication! Neither have we spare room for extracts. One sheet is too small to indulge much in that sort of thing, although the best of information is contained in the pages before us. We shall however take advantage of the Westminster Review, to detail some of our opinions. Good wits jump." The scepticism which the Westminster entertains of the prevailing belief, as te the origin of hydrophobia, has been entertained by ourselves for years--the London writer has however the advantage of promulgating it first. Many scientific people wholly reject as idle and improbable, Newton's theoTy of the Tides.

They feel thoroughly satisfied that the great philosopher was wrong, yet they are utterly unable to advance or substitute in lieu any plausible doctrine of their own. Time is the great teacher, and the time will come, when learned men will blush at the ignorance and credultiy of their ancestors, in fancying that the moon could attract and move large masses of waters; or that hydrophobia is caused in man by the bite of a rabid animal! When we know more about electricity, the mighty puzzle may be solved The extract below is from a cleverarticle Epidemics, and is a review of the works upon of Dr. Hecker on the Epidemics of the Middie Age, Dr. Kensall on Cholera, and some other recent world is not so much wiser in our own that we can at all afford to smile at this day chimera of public credulity. The belief continues unabated, even among the majority, of medical men, of the connexion of hydrophobia in human beings with the bite of a mad dog.

and every year hundreds of persons bitten by dogs allow their wounds to be cruelly cauterized with a view of extirpating the poisupposed to be communicated by the salison va dog- poison abundantly proved by chemical analysis and experiment to have no An injury to a nerve, when of such a character as to be dillicult of healing, whether occasioned by a bite, a scratch, or the prick of a pin, may so affect the even system, as to bring on in some cases, tetanus, and in others death by convulsions; but bevond this the only poisonous influence to be feared is that of a morbid fancy: the effects of which may, however, be sufficiently seWestminster Review, Jan. 1850. We regret to see this popular error counteauthority as that of the Renanced by so high an gistrar-General. In his report for the third quarof the year it is after alluding ter present of affections, and to the to the decrease nervous fact that there had been no death bp hydrophobia recorded in London during the last five summers, that Hydrophobia disappears when the dogs which liable to become mad, or are to be bitten every summer, are removed by police regulations." This statement it would he very difficalt to port by any evidence entitled to credit. 1 There has been no such extraordinary vigilance of the police but that unmuzzled dogs have been seen about the streets in the summer! time; and running especielly on Mondays, In.

Smithfield-market; whatever formal instructions may have been issued respecting them. 2. In the cities of the East, as in Constantinople, where the heat of summer is greatest, and where dogs and pigs are 1 suffer the only seavengers, the inhabitants do not more from hydrophobia in Europe, 3. It has been proved by Mr. Trolliet, who published, in a memoir, the dates of all the cases of hydrophobia of which any account had appeared, that the greatest number had appeared in January, the coldest month of the year, and the smallest number in August, which is the hottest.

4. It has been showu by the records of hospitals, that not more than one person in twentyfive said to be bitten by mad dogs ever suffers from hydrophobia and in that case the influence of fear upon weak have been as much a cause as the actual laceration. 5. Although there are few pernerves may sore who have not been bitten by dogs or cats, the disease has frequently oceurred in human beings where no possible connexion could be traced between the malady and any previous bite or scratch. BROTHER OLIVER'S CONCERT.

It gave much pleasure to the town to see the City Council entertain so proper a sense of the acknowledgment due to Col. Horn and Major Crofton, while severally in command of the XXth for their kindness in loaning the regimental Band upon so many occasions. But thanks ate mere words and cost nothing. An opportunity is now presented to the inhabitants of Kingston to exhibit a more expressive token of approbation. The Band Master, Mr.

Oliver, gives a Farewell Concert at the City Hall on Friday night next. Brother Oliver, being a high and worthy Mason, and the Brotherhood being numerous and influential in Kingston, the Concert will be given under the patronage of the CRAFT. OthSocieties, of which Mr. Oliver is also an er associate, will probably turn out to support their departing Brother, and under the combined influence of many, and the known merits of the Concert itself, we expect to see the City Hall filled to repletion. But expectation alone will not sullice-every man who wishes well to Brother Oliver must go to work and not leave things to chance.

The honor of the city and the honor of the CRAFT are at stake. Mr. Oliver deserves a complimentary Benefit at the hands of the King stonese- let not that Benefit be merely complimentary- -let it be substantial. THE LIGHT HOUSE. In their first haste to curry favor with the unwashed, the dominant party in the City Council abolished the Light House in Kingston Harbor, on the score of its expense.

Maintaining the Light cost the city £100 a a large sum certainly, when the comyear parative inutility of the light is considered. But what is dear at £100 is often dit cheap at £20 a year. The Gas company offer to maintain the Light at the latter sum, to lay down the pipes to watch the lighting and extinguishing. If the members of the Council were anything but what they are, we might expect them to accept al once and with thankfulness, this liberal offer on the part of the Gas Company; but as they appear to legislate only to vex the people and see how much they can become detested, we make no doubt but they will haggle off and 09 till the season be half passed, and then consent to pay as much for three months' services as they would now for a whole season A (rood light in Kingston Harbor is much needed. Gas Light is the best and cheapest of lights.

Twenty Pounds a years is but a mere trifle in the expenditure of the city; and as the Council are about taxing the Wood Scows and Market Boats, the least they can do in return is to provide a good Light for their sate navigation. 03- NoTICE. The British Whig calls upon the citizens of Kingston to attend at the Council Chamber this Evening, at 7 o'clock precisely, the perpetration of a £500 job. 03- THE LaDy's -Our Canada friends are informed that they call have the Lady's Book at club price, by adding one dollar for postage to each subscription, thus a club of six copies would be $16, and SO in proportion to the No. sent.

Any person sending us $3 for a single subscription we will send the Lady's Book, postage free, but no premiums. We are in hopes that the present obnoxious Post Office regulation will soon be adjusted. We will club with any of the Canada papers the same as we do with those in the States, in any way that will net us $3, and out of that we will pay the postage. AM V. THE BISHOP OF consequence of the decision of the Privy Council, with reference to the case of Mr.

Gorham, we are enabled to state that the Bishop of Exeter has at this moment a letter in the press, addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, in which his Lordship fully expresses his views upon the matter in dispute. The contents of the letter have not yet transpired, but it is rumoured that, notwithstanding the decision of the supreme con.t, the right rev. prelate will refuse to institute Mr. Gorham, and that he is prepared to risk the consequences of this refusal. In the event of the bishop's determination to disobey the injunctions of the council, he may be suspended, and ultimately deprived of the episcopal supervision of his see.

The Rev Mr. Keble (one of the prime movers in the Oxford Tract movement) poblicly declared that the Crown is heretic. whilst the Rev. Mr. Jewell and the Rev.

Mr. Denison (brother to the Bishop of Salisbury) have announced their determination to resist the decision of the Council. Dr. Pusey has expressed his conviction that the Committee of Privy Council is not a properly constitutad body, and that the clergy are not bound to obey it. Mr.

G. A. Denison, who seems to have taken the lead in the crusade against the author ty of the Judicial, Committee of the Privy Council in ecclesiastical matters, has invited his clerical brethren to hold meetings in their various archdeaconries, with a view to the revival of the sy nodal functions of the church and, as a preparastep, a general meeting of the clergy of the tory of Glocester and Bristol, and Bath and diocese Wells, isto be held at Bristol on Monday next, the 18th to protest against the Council's de cision, and also to take measures for ascertaining the views of the Churchmen generally upon the matter in dispute. The Bishopof Bath and Wells 18 10 favour of Mr. Denison's movement, but the Bishop of Glocester and Bristol is understood to be opposed to it.

Requisitions to call meetings are in course of signature, addrossed to the Archdeacons of London and Middlesex; but it is not likely that they will be complied with. A general meeting of the clergy, however, will be held in London on Tuesday next, with a view to the adoption of in tiative measures Weekly Chronicle. POWDER-MILL EXPLOSION. A fearful explosion took place March 16th, the powde -mills of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, near Hounslow, attended by alamentable loss of life among the workmen present when the accident happened.

The buildings are situated about two iniles from the Hounslow Railway station, and about half a mile on the sonthern side of the public highway, and are surrounded by a belt of stately trees.They are approached by a narrow cart-road, and the situation in which they are placed appears to have been carefully selected to prevent the occurrence of a catastrophe like that which has just taken place. Yesterday afternoon, about half-past 3 o'clock, the inhabitants of the surrounding district were startled by a sound resembling the discharge of a whole park of artillery, which shook the houses to their founnations, and made the inmates rush forth in terror and dismay learn the cause. A dense cloud of smoke was seen rising high into the air, and the bodies of men hurled aloft with portions of the building were seen'to drop among the trees which surround the mills. Scarcely had this taken place when another explosion of still greater violence than the first, was heard, and the roof of one of the -houses was blown upwards to a great height. A third explosion then took place, londer than all the rest, and so tremendous that its effects were sensibly felt at Brentford, Kew, and even Richmond, from which places several hundred people started to ascertain what accident bad happened.

It is also said that horses and pedestrians nearly a mile away from the mills were thrown down by the concussior. Several other explosions are said to have taken place after this, but owing to the confusion and excitement which prevailed was impossible to ascertain the exact number. The scene which followed baffles all description; women rushed madly forward ascertain the fate of their bushands, and children also hurried to the spot to know their parents had been injured. A dreadful spectacle presented itself when the crowd anxious inquirers reached the mills. No less than seven of the buildings were found levelled to the ground, and scattered in different directions were the miserable workpeople, some bleeding profusely, while others, scorched and blackened by the explosions, could hardIv be identified by their friends.

Five were quite dead, and in the surrounding fields the shattered remains of three or four Inman bodies were found, so that the whole number killed on the spot is supposed to be eight nine. Several of the sufferers still alive are so frightfully injured that no hope of their recovery is entertained. Respecting the cause of the exploration nothing is at present known. It is believed that the first took place 111 one of the coming-! -houses, but all the workmen employed there have been either killed or dreadfully injured as to be unable to give account of the way in which the any cident happened. Besides the destruction the works already alluded to, all the small houses occupied by those employed on premises have had the glass in their windows broken and the roofs displaced.

Every exertion appears to have been made as soon as extent of the catastrophe was known to obtain medical aid for the sufferers, and to extinguish the flames which followed the expiosion. A body of police happened luckily to he at Hounslow to prevent a walking match which was expected to come off from taking place on the public thoroughfares.Their services were applied to keeping off crowd of spectators attracted to the spot, a large party of the 11th Hussars arrived with the fire engine from the barracks, and soon extinguished the fire in the ruins. Until night closed in men were employed in searching the surrounding fields for the mangled and shattered remains of the unfortunate beings who had perished in the explosion.Such has been the confusion and excitement caused by this terrible event, that it was possible last night to ascertain exactly amount of loss either in life or in property sustained. To-day, all uncertainty on these points will no doubt be set at rest. THE STATE OF ROME.

MOME, March 10. Politically speaking, Rome is now the city of the dead. The Cardinal Triumvirate have arrested every individual against whom the pretext for an accusation conld be found, and as the prisons are all full, that crying abuse of their prerogative 18 at an end. The French do little, and the General-in-Chief has no subject of importance to disturb his rest beyond the military which a large body of men demands Even cares the god citizens have returned to their ancient state of apathy and indifference, and as no the tre save the French Vaudeville is open, and the reof stabbing the dark can no longer creation practised, they have nothing better to do safely than to gape all day long and occupy the at night. We had a hope founded on tolerably good information from Portici, that the Pope would return for the ceremonies of the Holy Week, but end to by letters now received, that is put an giving an account of the Consistory last held, in which all the Cardinals voted onanimously that the Sacred Pontiff must postpone his appearance Easter.

What that vote means, beuntil after fact that Pio Nono will not be seen in yond the St. Peter's during the great festival of the year, 11 for me to say, and whether after is impossible Easter" mcans the Sunday following, or Christnext, can discover as well as the wisest mas you man in Rome. If the Pope continues to remain away, he gives a practical proof that his presence wanted in the Eternal City and if the 18 not Cardinals, for the purposes, restrain the persona intentions of His Holiness, people will at last good they also can be dispensed with. In fact. say that! vs that a crisis is at hand, everything connected with the temporal authority of the Papacy sho ins itution which even its own best and that an friends admit exists alone by sufferance, is tending of within it the interest the towards that limit Church itself that it should be Roman Catholic confined.

The time has arrived when a Fe becomes necessary for the repose of settlement and Austria in particular must be made Europe, that she is called on to take the initiative to feel of reform. During my late so great a work to Bologna and Ferrara, I became conexcursion vinced that Austria was then unpopular chiefly because her bayonets supported Papal governinen: I hear the people are making public deand now monstrations in favor of her troops The same be imagined at Rome, and I have no thing may doubt but that the Imperial army would be wel- colmed with open arni8 if it pronounced itself in favor of the people. It is only because French soldiers have acted under the Roman authorities or suffered the Roman authorities latterly to pursue their plans of vengeance without restraint, thai they are regarded with an unfavorable eye, and thus the truth becomes evident that intervention is only unpopular so far as it tends to protect the temporal power of the Church. Let any impartial man examine examine the state of things, if even the Cardinal Triumvirate be interrogated, you will find that I am night; and if the facts be as I state, and my Inferences correct, is it not full time that a wise and salutary reform should be made 1am glad to say that the higher classes of Rome have at length opened their palaces to the French and a great deal of social intercourse prevails between them, the Commander-in-Chief, the other officers of rank, and their families. The brilliant ball and receptions given by M.

Baraguay er during the Carnival led to this improved state, and as he continues to receive once week, the saloons of French embassy are filled with Roman nobilitv. I also find that several English families of rank are now at Rome, and so far as foreign society is concerned a great change for the better has taken place. ABOLITION OF THE VICE ROYALTY. The opposition to the project for the extinction of the Irish Court has met support in two metropolnian journals widely different from each other in political principles. The Evening Post, the organ of the Irish Government and of Whiggery In the aggregate, and the Evening Packet (Cona rvative and Protectionist) have mutually protested against the contemplated "grevance." In the Provinces, however there is as yet no voice lifted up in deprecation, but on the contrary there seems to be a tolerably unanimous opinion prevailing that the step is one taken in the right direction, and that the abatement of the anomaly of a distinctive form of joyernment for Ireland from which Scotland is exempt, so far from having the effect of "provincializing" this country, will in the end be the meansol elevating her position by teaching the people the great moral lesson of sellreliance, and to look beyond the narrow limits of a provincial court, with a circumscribed exceutive, for the progreseive advancement of Irish Interests.

Beyond the dissatisfaction of the two journals mentioned. Dublin, the only corner of the kingdom which could, by any possibility be affected by the change makes no sign ol may be from the belief that doom of the office is irrevocably fiated, and that a remonstrance would be a mere waste of words. But so it is; and even the few with whom I have spoken on the subject, and who anticipate gloomy consequences to trade of the withdrawal of the vice regal expenditure, admit that such loss 13 nearly balanced by the amount of positive good which must result from the cessation of public jobbing, corrupt place hunting, and the other nutsances of which Castle" has been from tune out of mind the sink and centre. It mattered not that the head of the Executive set his face against those deb sing influences; be was only a fraction of the machinery which had grown too corroded by long established custom to yield to a better system of administration. And so it has continued to work on until it became a marvel why its in evilable fate should have been so long protracted.

A ci-decant organ of Young Irelandism-but of late a plain speaker of plain truths- -thus touches on the question "The mock pageantry of the Viceregal d'ourt," says the Cork Reporter, "did more to repress and enervate the energies of the Irish metropolis than any one who has not actually been a witness to its effects can possibly imagine It made idleness fashionable a and industry despised; destroys self respect and encourages adulation. With its abolition men must rely on their on their own merits. up appearances' will cease to be the business of life, sham aristocracy that moved through St. Patrick's Hall, in court dies es borrowed from Moses, will betake itsell to some honest pursuit to obtain a livelihood. We believe that if every shilling of the £60,000 or £70,000 a year were to be withdrawn, would be a gainer, in money by the change.Dublin has hitherto been proverbial for prodigality and inexertion.

Henceforth she cannot indulge In these costly vices. 'The Newsletter of this morning has the joined programme of the arrangements consequent the deposition of the Lord Lieutenant: upon The contempla ed arrangements is to create a Secretary for Ireland with a sent in the Cabinet, and to transfer to him by Act of Parliament such of the execative rights as are at present vested in the Lord Lieutenant. The prerogative rights will have a Parliamentary Under-Secretary an office establishment, unitng the Chief Secretary's Office in Dublin Castle with the Irish office in London By the constant residence in London of the Secretary for Ireland, Irish members of Parliament will have the Government of Ireland always on the spot, without dropping in at the Irish Office, or going to the Home Office, as at present. These arrangements will of course involve some others. Such are understood to be the proposed changes.

An occasional visit of the Queen is part of the plan. -We observe PREJUDICE AGAINST CHLOROFORM it stated that chloroform has been employed in Edinburgh, in from 80.000 to 100 000 cases. without a single accident or bad effect of any kind traceable to its use. Mr Carmichael, a geon that city, commenting on the fact, says Would 80,000, or 100,000 full doses of opium, or antimony, or epsom salts, or any other potent medicine, have heen followed with as great impunity Chloroform is now habitually used in Edinburgh in all kinds of surgical operations, down to tooth-drawing. It saves many lives which otherwise would sink under the nervous shock which is experienced from a severe operation undergone in a state of consciousness.

Such is the published opinion of the discoverer: of its use as an anaesthetic, the now celebrated Dr. J. Y. Simpson: and this opinion has not been gainsaid by any of the profession in Edinburgh. At the same time chloroform has received the sanction and recommendation of the most authorative bodies in France and the United States.

Nevertheless, the public of London is almost whol denied the vast benefit of this agent, purely through the prejudices of the profession. This forms a curious illustration of the condition of medicine and of the medical mind in -the metropolis, but it not a new one. Not only is there a distaste amongst scientific men in England for every thing that comes from the North, but there is a general benightedness in the London medical world. They opposed vaccination while it was embraced in the provinces: and to the disgrace of all concerned, inoculation with mai tained its ground in a London hospital devoted to the purpose a quarter of a century after Jenner's discovery. The Landon public should take this matter into their own hands Let them not be too ready to lay stress ppon accounts of tal effects from chloroform.

Of such there have been a few; but it is remarkable that in Edinburgh, where the article is prepared in perfect purity, with the benefit of first rate apparatus, and where it is administered with due care, not one accident has happened Even admitting that the accidents which have happened elsewhere were not avoidable by any degree of care, they should be placed beside the lives which have been saved by the spect use of this agent. Taking the matter on still lower ground, the rejection of chloroform. because of a lev fatal cases, is no BIOrE: rational than it would be to refuse to travel by railways because one person in several millions has been killed by a collision. -Chambers Journal. INTERESTING DISCOVERY IN SOUTH AFRICA The Cape papers of the Ist of January refer to the discovery of a great lake in the interior of South Africa during a journey of exploration by two gentlemen named Murray and Oswall.

It is Bituated in longtitude 249 east, latitude 19 south, and its limits appear to have been undiscernible. According to the natives, however, it takes twenty-five days to travel round it. The vegetation on its banks is tropical, and palms are abundant, but it contains no crocodiles, alligators, or hippopotami. It is approached by a river, which for some distance is of small size, and which, as it approaches the lake, becomes as large as the Clyde. The lake itself has no islands in it, but it is said that there are many at the mouth of the river, and that these are densely populated by a race entirely different from those near the borders of the lake.

Pelicans are numerous, as also fish. some of which resemble perch and carp, and weigh 40bs and 50ibs There are likewise a great number of elephants, although of a much smaller description than those nearer the colony. The natives, whose language was unlike any known dialect spoken by the other tribes in South Afriea, appeared to be of an inferior nature, and to be much afflicted with pulmonary disease NINEVEH DISCOVERIES. late and highly satisfactory accounts have within these few nays been received from Mr. Layard.

in Assyria, giving intelligence of new and important discoveries in the Nimroud mound. He has made fresh and extensive excavations in parts of the eminence not yet explored, and the re-ult has been the find ing of nothing less than the throne upon which the monarch, reigning about 3,000 years ago. sat in his splendid palace. It is composed of metal and of ivory, the metal being richly wrought and the ivory beautifully carved. It seems that the throne was separated from the state apartments by means of a large curtain, the rings by which it was drawn and undrawn having been preserved.

No human remains have come to light, and everything indicates the destruction of the palace by fire. It is said that the throne has been partially fused by the heat -Standard. THE QUEEN'S -Dr. Murphy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, has issued an address to the clergy of the diocese, in which he echoes the emphatic pronouncement of the highest authority in the Catholic church, that the Queen's Colleges in Ireland are dangerous to faith and morals" Major Edwards arrived in Shrewsbury, the native county, and met with a capilenthusiastic reception. the mayor and corporation, with about 10,000 of the inhabitants, having assembled to do him honour.

A most complimentary and appropriate address was presented: TORONTO MARKET REPORT. FLOUR Market brisk daring 9d 19s has been freely paid for superfine in store. and transactions hare taken place to a considerable extent. Millers' superfine in bags 19s a 21 3 -farmers in bags and bbls 18s a 6d. WHEAT -Receipts light, as is osnal at this season samples command 4s 4d a 4s 5d on prime the market.

FREIGHTS--are offered to Kinsston or Oswego, schooner, at 14 per bush for wheat, and 3d a per 4d per bbl for flour. -Globe of Saturday. Kingston Imports. April 13. Schr.

S. Wright, Cape Vincent- in ballast, Capt. on board. Str. Niagara, Oswego--a general cargo, Browne and owners.

April 15. Schr Jessie Woods, Hamilton -1160 bols. four, Hugh McLennan. Lady Bagot. Hamilton-1560 bbls.

flour, McLennan. Eeach of these fine vessels made two trips between Kingston and the head of the lake during the past week. Arrivals in this City. ARRIVALS AT KENT'S BRITISH AMERICAN HOTEL. April 14-Jno.

Miller, R. Ramsay, Picton; Mrs. Courtney, Jas. Watson, New York: A. McFaul, Wellington; Mr.

Chandler, P. Hudon, Montreal: B. Davy, S. Lasher, Bath; J. Cary, Boston Mr.

Van Dyke, Oswego; Mr Ingersall and Daughter, Rochester. April 15- -J. W. Dunbar, J. L.

Mac Donald, Wm McDonald, Gananoque; Samuel Bull, Gen Bull, Belleville: David Roblin, Napanee; C. H. Miller, Newburgh; Jeremiah Scully, Wellington Jag Webster, Fergus; J. J. Fralick, J.

Vanee, Picton. DIED Major General the Hon. Sir Hercules Rowley Pakenham, K. brother to General Pakenham, who fell at New Orleans, and brother-in-law to the Duke of Wellington, died suddenly, on the 7th inst, about 10 o'clock, at Langford Lodge. his residence in the county of Antrim.

General Pakenham was about 70 years; and as an officer had earned a high character by his services in the Peninsular war. Subsequently to his retirement from active service, he received the appointment of Governor of Portsmouth. Latterly, he lived In the enjoyment of great domestic felicity. on the peaceful banks of Lough Neagh, amidst the of an amiable Tones March 9th. society In Toronto, on the 11th anst, Mr.

Patrick Ward. At Consecon, on Sunday evening, of Scarlet Fever, W. H. Pole, and on Tuesday evening, Henrietta Amelia, twin children of Mr. W.

Johnaged 1 year and 2 months. 'The deceased son, are two triplets. March 12. Frances, daughter of In, England, Jean Baptiste Le Compte- Dupre, of Quebec, und widow the late Gen. Lemoise, R.

in the 82nd year of her age. NEW PICTON DAY BOAT. THE FAST SAILING LOW PRESSURE STEAMER 30 7 JOHN M' GILL CHAMBERS, MASTER, DAILY between KINGSTON and PICTON, as Picton every Morning, (Sunday's excepted,) at 7 o'clock, cathing at all the interincdiate Ports on her way down. Leaving Kingston every Evening, excepted.) after the arrival of the River and American Mail Steomers, and calling at all the intermediate ports on her way up. 13 For Freight or Passage, apply to the Captain or board, or at McLennan's (harf.

Kingston, April 13, 1850. Last Night's Report. NEW YORK, April 15, 6 P. M. AsHES Pots easier with increased receipts -Pearls dull and market weak at 75.

FLOUR--demand for the East moderateCanadian dull and heavy at $4 4100 bbls at $4 25 a 4 50 for sour and New Orleans, 5 50 a 5 56 for pure Genesee. Corn Meal is firm -sales 150 bbls at Jersey at $2 25. There is a good demand for Wheat here and at Troy--sales 8000 bush superior lake on private terms, a cargo of white Southern at 1 21, and 1000 bush prime Genesee at 1 30. Sales of Pork limited owing to the firmness of holders sales are 700 bbls at $10 6 a 10 5 for mess, 8 37 for prime. Lard better- sales 300 bbls prime at a 67.

BUFFALO, 15th. We have few transactions to notice since our last -sales 150 bbls flour, new standard inspection at $4 564, 175 bbls common Wigconsin at 4 75. Nothing doing in Grain or Provisions Seed dull and nominal at $3 50 for clover, 2 a 2 50 for timothy. CLEAVLAND April 15. The steamer Atlantic went ashore at Point Au Pelee on the Canadian shore, on Saturday night during the gale, all the passengers are on board the Keystone State safe.

NEW YORK, 15th, 2 P. M. The steamers Ohio and Alabama sailed for Chagres from New York. WASHINGTON, April 15th. Mr.

Franklin H. Elmore has accepted the appointment tendered him by the Governor to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun.

The Nicaragua Treaty has been completed and its stipulations all agreed upon, and has been copied readv for signatures. It will be signed the beginning of this week, when it will be at once transmitted to the Senate. BALTIMORE, April 15th. John Maree, a yunng man formerly employed in the Western Telegraph Office, hung himself yesterday. Cause mental aberation.

MONTREAL, 7 P. No commercial news to report- -Montreal Bank Stock has reached 24 premium. The river navigation is now open, and steamers are plying from La Prarie. The steamer Jacques Cartier arrived this afternoon from Sorel. The water in the Lachine Canal has been let off.

The Montreal and Lachine Railroad was opened to the public today. Announcements of Births and Marriages are notineerted unless duly authenticated and paid for. POTASH KETTLES. TOR SALE, by the Subscribers, deliverable on the first opening of the navigation between this place and Three Rivers, which will probably be about the 15th instant, Three Hundred St. Maurice warranted Potash Kettles, Assorted all weights from to 11 These KETTLES, as announced by previous advertisements, are made altogether from St.

Maurice Ore, smelted only with charcoal, which renders them quite superior to any other make. They are, moreover, made in the most approved manner, being thin on the edges and upper part of the sides, and extra thick in the bottoms. The Subscribers continue their practice of undertaking to EXCHANGE every KETTLE that may Fly, Crack, or Leak, at any time during the first three months after it is put into use; and they are enabled to state that, out of upwards of 300 sold in this neighborhood during the past Winter, only one has heen returned, the defect being merely a sand hole, which cansed it to leak With this exception, they have not heard a complaint. Purchasers at a distance are reminded that SCOTCH KETTLES (of which there are none now in Market,) cannot in all probability be delivered here before the end of May or beginning of June -too late for Spring work. They have also on hand750 Flat Bottomed COOLERS, 14 inch.

2000 Common Shape do. assorted, all sizes. 500 American pattern BOILERS and CALDRONS. 35,40, 50 and 60 gallons. BRYSON FERRIERS.

Montreal, April 9th, 1850. 88 For Coteau du Lac. THE STEAMER Captain A. C' Connor. leave Kingston on THURSDAY WILL MORNING, at half-past o'clock for Coteau du Lac.

Kingston, April 16th, 1850. 88 NEW BOOKS. AND MORNING, by Sir E. NIGHT Bulwer Lytton. EVA ST.

CLAIR: and other collected Tales. by G. P. R. James THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS, by W.

M. Thackeray. Nos. I to 4. TRIAL PROFESSOR JOHN W.

WEBSTER for the Murder of DOCTOR JOHN PARKMAN, -Just received. RAMSAY, ARMOUR Co. 16, 1850. 88 April STENSON'S HOTEL, STREET, KINGSTON, C. w.

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