1098
guely defined; but if it means nothing more than one who keeps a gig, there is something pleasing in the idea of the amount contributed to the assess od taxes by those whose names appear in the rail. way speculation list. The word "gentleman" is sprinkled through it with profusion, while stock broker, railway-agent" "clerk," "barrister forchant," and "officer on half-pay," make up a large proportion of the residue of the colume de voted to the "description" of the enterprising rail way adventurers. We were a little surprised to see Eo many barristers in the list, and we wondered for a moment how, if they had the leisure to attend to railway speculatione, they could have the money to embark in them. As we had never seen the names of most of the learned gentlemen before, it naturally occurred to us that their practice conld not be large; but, on consideration, we came to the conclusion that a map who lives by his profes. sional empluments would not act prudently in risking them, Many of the learned gentlemen whose names appear as subscribers in the list do not, of course, live by their earnings at the bar, And they consequently run no risk of sacrificing their professional incomes in supplying the capital for the construction of railways for which they have made themselves liable. There are other branches of industry which appear to be in a more flourish ing condition than we should have given them cre dit for. Among these we are glad to see that even commercial travellers are in a position to put down their names for a few thousands, while the term rentleman" probably covers a variety of other occupations more humble even than that of this active and energetic clase. In conclusish, we con- gratulate them all on making so good a thing of It, and we oply trust that when the time comes for paying the several calls neither the subscribers nor any one else may feel the smallest inconvenience, Times
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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
SHANGHAI
IMPORTS.
from Sydney, arrived JARDINE & Co.
Per " Nimrod,” Br. Barque, No, January, 1946.
9,435 picula Sandal Wood, con, about 154 tons,
54 pkgs. Stores, partly expended on the voyage.
6 cwts. Beche do Mer, quantity unknown. 25 Fowling Pieces.
3,950 pieces. White Shirtings
Grey Camlets
10,670
693
Habit Cloths and Spanish Suipés Fancy Shirtings Velvete Baize
60 dos Cotton Handkerchiefs
6 piecca Merino Vents-
9 page. Find Warn
2 single Barrel Fowling-pieces 3 double
And aundry personal Stores,
EXPORTS,
Per * Enquanto, Am. Barque, fựe Whampos, sailed January Stu, 1946.
Tea Congo,
WOLCOTT & Co..
8,333 169,
Twankay,
83,915
Hyeon Skin,
12,186
Young Hyson,
95,087
Hyson,
24,437
Imperial
13,148
Gunpowder.
16,767
- 215,449.
10. 233,783
176 bale Raw Silk,
16 pkgs Merchandizo,
Per Dart,"Am. Schooner for Whampos, sailed January.
WOLCOTT & Co. Ten Congou,
Hyson Sink,
2,020
15,295
Houng Hyson, 20.211
Hyson,
2,468
Imperial,
11,830
pupowder,
401
59,215
61,295
Fer Charles Wirgman, Am Brig for Manila, sailed
WOLCOTT & Co.
January, 1846,
Twankay
27,540
Hyson Skin,
1446
Young Hyeon.
1,063
Hyson,
16,997
Imperial,
10,928
Gunpowder, 93,105
81,600
Into the room, and putting down his hat
pling comment. Nothing can the fatal desk; "they are throwing them in
of the milk, the bread and batter loads. It's well you got out of sour's, Mr.
eat, the water is delicious, and the The little clerk, if he had touchés
les are plentiful and cheap. The the tip of his pen, might have
snd the many streams that water the valloys ground "Squabashes!". I'm not
lance of fish trout, grayling, and is, I'm in them! For God's sake
and for those who are fond of them, the di you can do for me. Sell six hopured of
ches yield crawfish of enormous size, the largest any price, and let me quite his inte clenched Ins band, smote the fatil desk, and forthe being sent to Brussels, and often sold in the market first time Theophilus seemed really dejected. His there for twenty francs each. Hares, partridges, pluck hüberto had been the admiration of the whole pigeons, greres, and genottes are abundant, and imed a of exquisite favour the mutton of the Ardennes room. "Hurrah! Squabashes dished," huge vulgar man, in a green short cut cost. "Previes with its venison, and for the epicure there is amble not proved! I've been bearing them through one dish that is incomparable; this is the jambon thick and thin. They're down to per to a quarter. de Bastogne, which we found so good that we beg I make two hundred pounds! "And I thought god the chef to give us his receipt for curing it, Theophilus, lose wear two thousands and here it isThe ham is cured in a brine of salt, saltpetre, and ammatje herbs, viz, a few bay worth's Magazine,
leaves, wild thyme, and a handful of juniper berries, and a litle garlic. It is steeped for about six weeks, POELIO EXHIBITIONS.A return of the annual and then dried in the smoke of the chimney, overa amount taken for admissions dering the years wood fire. When wanted for dressing it is buried 1941, 1842, 1843, and 1844, has been laid before in the ground for twenty-four hours, and then boll- Parliament. It appears that the total sum received, with the addition of the same aromatis herbs, ed at the doors of Westminster Abbey amounted in in the water. After boiling, the bone is taken out, 1841, to £1585, in 1842, to £1290; in 1843, to and the ham is pressed under a heavy weight" £1496; and in 1844, to £1330 The sum charged As a corollary to the dressing, it may be added 1940 each person is Gd to view all the mongments, but that it often happens that the ham, when produced the public are admitted to the south transept gratis, at table, disappears at one sitting, Castello's Tour. and each individual is only charged d. to view the whole of the monuments in the great nave of the abbey only, and an additional 3d, to view the re- minder. The monuments are explained by guides appointed for that purpose, and no further remu neration is on any account to be received. The appropriation of the above moneys is for such or- namental improvements of the abbey and buildings belonging thereto as do not fall within the ordinary repairs of the fabric (which is maintained out of the funds of the Dean and Chapter, usually appro- printed to that specific purpose), or in any manner at the discretion of the Dean and Chapter, so that it be not made use of for any other object for which the Dean and Chaptek, individually or collectively, are bound to provide. The total amount received at the doors of St. Paul's Cathedral amongted, in 1841, tp £429, in 1942, to £425 in 1843, to £588 and in 1844, to $517. The number of por song admitted to the armoury of the Tower of Lon- don from 1st of February, 1841, to 1st of February, 1845, amounted to 238,791, namely, 107,267 in 1841, 41,673 in 1842: 42,903 in 1843; and43,148 in 1844. The amount of money received from these 238,791 persons at d. each, was £5,989. The payment made during the above interval of four years, amounted to 25993 of which £1227 was appropriated in the purchase of armour and ancient weapons; £3376to allowances to warders, collectors and armoury keepers; and £1944 was paid to the Paymaster General. There was a balance due to the accountant, on the 31st of Jann ary last, of £23 10s: 10d. Since the reduction of the fees, free admissions have been granted only to artists for the purposes of study, and to free schools, on application to the Board of Ordnance, The number of visitors to the jewel house, amounted, in 1841, to 72,182, in 1842, to 32,957 ; in 1843,to 37010; and in 1844, to 29.679; the payment of fees being concurrently 41822, £593, £925, and £741. The total expenditure in 1841, was £1441; in 1842 £1370; in 1843, £1332. and in 1844, £1343. The falling off of the fees of the last three years as compared with 1841, has been occasioned by the destruction of the armoury by the fire of October, 1941, that exhibition being the chief at- traction to the visitors of the Tower. The number of visitors admitted free of charge, to view the apartments and pictures at Hampton court, amount- ed, in 1843, to 176,834; and in 1844, to 159,760. The number of visitors to that rural retreat is greatest in the months of May, June, July, and August, and always least in February,
WORKING THE ORACLE.Theophilus forcing his way through a very miscellaneous assembly, consisting chiefly of attorneys, clerks, and farmers anxiously eunaires, "How are the Squabashes "All right, is the reply, "government have given their consent. Committee seem to have made up their minds. Two of them have been asleep, the chairman writing letters all the time. They're as safe as the Bank 1 The heart of Theophilus leapt within him, Thank God, he had got out of a great mese in the case of the Squabashes, that he was no longer a bear, but a valorous bull again I Boing relieved from anxiety upon this scare, he rushes into room double X., where the Great North Cir- cumbentibus line is under consideration. He at rives apparently in the nick of time. There is evidently a hitch. Committee look as grave as Mr Calcraft on the day of an execution, counsel argue and argue, try to puzzle them, try to frighten them, to cajolo them-anything. Bystanders in a ferment. Heads peering forward in a huge red mass; a whole phalanx of hats elevated aloft on sticks. A datum error! Is it indeed a datum er ror Will it be fatal to the bill ? They can hard ly get over it, I should think. Committee seem to think so." Theophilus waited for no more, sed 500 Great North Circumbendibuses," he writes on a card, hands it to a jockey ready waiting on horseback, who starts off like a flash of lightning for the city. He returns to the roont, snapping his fingers, and rubbing his hair all round bis head like a man with a headacho; "there's a one and a half operation to a certainty, he exclaims. He has hardly entered the room, however, when he pre- ceives that the discussion is still going on, and with somewhat a different complexion. Mr Plamline the engineer, proves that it is a surface error and nat a datum error; and after some communing, the committee overrule all the apprehended fatal objections. How differently does an event affect one according to circumstances. Theophilus S none but smiling faces around him; very few, however, of the other Bort. Agents, counsel, wit-
THE PRESS AND THɛ BAR —49 amusing tria! pesecs, all pleased triumphant; whilst be, poor is pending on the western circuit, in which the bas animal of a bear, had nothing else to do but to
mess are plaintiffs and the bar reporters are the de- #camper into the city and undo fill he had done on fendants. The bar mass principally consist of the best terms he could. On jumping into a cab, gentlemen who do not report for the London news- he had the satisfaction of seeing a man on horse papers, and the defendants of those who do. The back start off at full tear, who would of course plaintiffs sit in the Court without briefs, and read anticipate him in the market, Well, by dint of newspapers; the defendants have but an occasional bullying and bribing the cabman, he gets into the brief, and write for the newspapere, The unem- city in seventeen minutes and a half, and finds played cannot earn their dinners, while the em himself in the little dark, unfurnished upper apart player of the papers carn them and their wine to ment dignified by the title of office by its occupant | boot. This is the sole distinction; for the counsel Mr Poppe, #Popps," he cried, "I have made a sad whose brief existence is marked by golden oppor mistake! Buy back all those Direct Circumbendi tunities have not yet discovered that the occepa- busca" Dear me, I thought you had made somotion which has been followed by some of the great. mistake. They want down thiity shillings ten minutes before your express arrived However, I Bold them, as you left me no option, at----- "Well, don't wait for that: go, buy them back close them and have done with them." Off went Popps, and in a few minutes returned. "I've closed them at four and four and a quarter; sold them at thres and two and a half. The clerk will make you out the contracts immediately. Very annoys ing affair, certainly and he proceeded then to other businnes, till another ensteiner called him away and sent him again into "the house. Mean time Theophilus chewed the cul of appointment in silence, watching the operations of the juvenile -plere, who, with wonderful expedition, made out
the following gratifying document
Theophilus Smith, Esq. Sold for you, for the 15th
300 Direct Cireumbentibuse
pard, 3pm.
200 Ditto, m.
Deduct Commission.
Bought for you
200 Direct Circumbend
est ornaments of the bar and the beach is degrad. ing and objectionable. The law reports quoted as authorities before the judges, have all, or very nearly so, been supplied by barristers-their legal knowledge enabling them to give the points of the cast in a few lines; while the mere reporter, howe ver shrewd he may be, would find half-s.column insuficiens for the purpose, if he mistook the points at issue, would do a serious injury to his employers and the public, and invalidate the ag thority of precedents. The plea of occupation being degrading is ridiculous, because the labour is intellectual as well as mechanical, and its ob- ject that of making known the law, and providing materials for the instruction and guidance of the practitioner. There are few of the mess who make the objection who would scruple to receive a fes for getting a pickpockes or any other rogue out of a mers, and if there be degradation at the bar at all, we should rather impute it to the defender of a secundrel than to him who reports his exposure- The legal reporter must be a man of
is therefore the more likely to be a genderasa; a mere messeaan is not required to have say intellect st all, sad may therefore have no preseasicas the character.
have zo privat
2025 0
Per Kelple," Gr. Berque, from Hongkong, arrived 15th. January, 1846,
No, in
RETURN of the Quantities and Value of Merchandise Exported from the Port of Canton in 181 British Vessels of the burthen of 90,279 Tans, and in 24 Lorchus of the burthen of 1440 Tons, to the Countries and Places undermentioned during the YEAR ending the 31st December, 1845,
"the" Tarif
1 Alum
2 Aniseed Stars,
10 Canes,
Estimated
Quantities,
To what Countries and Places Exported.
Value in Spanish Drs.
Denomination of Articles.
1. Baw PRODUCE.
Picula 30,789
Calcutta and Bombay,
53.986
106
Singapore.
1,054
9. Camphor,
1,202
London, Madras, Bombay.
24.123
12
Casais Lignes,
Mille Piculs
117
London, Liverpool, Leith, Bombay.
- 1,437 ;
15,897
London, Singapore, Bombay.
171,230
Cassia Buds,
502
London, Manila, India.
8,246
13
China root,
tr
.3,016
London, Liverpool, Bombay,
9:120
18
Hartall or Orpiment,
207
Calcutta, Madras, Bombay.
2,028
37
Musk,
Catties
106
Bombay.
9,171
Quicksilver,
Piculs
130
Caleutta and Bouhay.
15,324
Rhubarb,
1,505
London, Manila, Singapore, India.
60,834
46
Silk, Raw, Nankin,
.3167
Do Canton,
1725
5,192
London, Liverpool, Calcutta, Bonıbay,
2,004,260
Silk, coarse muul refuse,
4,191
Bombay.
420.637
136,283
London, Singapore, Calcutta, Bombay,
Hobart Town.
£83,841
289,160
10,856
5,248
16,734
10,481
45
32 | Sugar, Raw, i
55
Ten, viz.
Congou,
Souchong,
Pekor, Orange Pekoe, Caper,
Miscellaneous sorts, 7,753 Twonkey,
Hyson,⚫ Hyson Skin, Young Hyson, Imperial, Gunpowder,
56 Tobacco,
4. Bangles or Glass Armlein,
5 Bambao ware,
6 Brass leaf,
8 Bong and Hom ware, 14 China waze,
Crockery.
Black Tea,
340,267.
Green Tea,
16 | Copper, Tin, and Pewter ware, 18 Crackers and Fireworks, 20 | Fans of all sorts,
21 | Fumiture and Wood wprs, 24 | Glass and Glass-wyre, 25 Glass Beads,
89,600,
429,867*
Great Britain and Ireland, British India, Singapore, Manila, Australia, British Anterics, Cape of Good Hope.
15,825,944
2,496
24,137
11,786
1,463
23,098
8,154
18,062
278
London, Calcutta, Bombay.
II. MANUFACTURED ARTICLES,
19,293,262
Boxes
127
Bombay, Calcutta, the Cape.
7,867
Piculs
138
London, British India, Australia.
2,520
Boxes
117
Bombay and Madras,
2,663
Catties
329
London, Calcutta, Madras, Bombay.
682
Piculs
4,718 ||| London, Liverpool, British India,
94,628
Value $1,055
Australia, Manila.
1,055
Piculs 173
London, Liverpool, British India.
7,652
791
British India, Australia.
3,843
Catties
Piculs
3,406 268
Great Britain, British India, Australia.
6,240
Great Britalo, British India, Australia.
6,032
275
Calcutta, Madras, Bombay.
4,963
Boxes 1,639
Calcutta, Madras, Hombay.
31,985
Catties 2,266
London, Liverpool, British India.
5,860
878
13
Great Britain, British India, Australia.
4,392
Boxes
935
Madras, Bombay, Colombo,
11,767
Picula
263
Great Britain, British India, Australia.
12,583
35 Mais and Matting
1.765
38 Nankrens and Cotton cloth,
12
233
British India, Australja, the Cape. London and Bombay.
10,556
12,736
re
21 | London, Singapore, British India,
3,254
72
35 12
Manila
8,646
2,149
London, British India, Australia.
32,186
43 Preserves and Sweetments, 44 | Rattan work..
Boxca
5,003
Picus
148
Great Britain, British India, Australia. Bombay, Sydney, the Cape.
22,612
2,975
Cattles
2831
Laadon Madras, Bombay.
19,726
69,349 }|{ Great Britain, British India, Australia,
483,848
24487 1
the Cape.
72,520
$4,250
Bombay, Calcutta, Madras.
310,127
Londai, Borahay, Calcutta.
6,670
660
Bombay, Calcutta, the Cape.
29,946
20,504,494
27 | Graza Cloth,,
29 Ivory, Mother of Pearl, Sandal Wood. Tortoiseshell ware, 30 Kittysols,
31 Lackered wase, -
| 2 | 05) of Aniseedi
12 Da Cassia,
41 | Paper of all sorts,
46 | Silk thread mad Ribbona, Silk manufactures,„,
47 | Silk and Cotton toistures,-
33 Suger Candy,
^50 | Trunks of Lenther,
Version,
61
III. MiceBankiss EnvoORTE; AND ARTICLEs not Excus BATED IN TON TARIFE.
Including Bers Wax, Cochineal, Capoor Cutchery, Curiosities and Fancy Articles. Brady wonder Clotite, Drums, Dragons Blood Artificial Flowers, Glass Picturas, Histad Cane, Glue, Incense Sticker, Chies Inciga, fenith, Gambage, Heng, China Ish, Lanterns, Lect
Mirrors Fussings in 011, Ficture on Race Paper, Pearls factitiota,
Pleuts 430
路
242,614
Nesta 262
Loadan, British Indie, Manila.
Valse estimated Great Erstuia, British India, Australia,
at #209,521.
eat Menila.
200,521
Total of
$20,734,018
€4732,370
PRANCIS G. MACGREGOR,
The clerk was too perfect to draw de
but Theophiles taw at a glance that if was
where between $600 and 2709 Er his aken
exertions. He began new to thick atzina keket
serions, and had only the Squabecher to depend on who vejosey
upon as his sucet nochor. "Why, what's the mat | of that brieizes barrures of the ter with the Squabashes F' saal Fopps, es be rama
REMARKS -The gereeding Beturn to beeg compiled terms the empties in che Hooka kept at this Odico, und
kties sewdied see those und Bare padd duty. The weights and womens rested any those in use. At Conten
sal to 1j Fać pouchvuur net 190 Catter rivierpond with 137j8s in Logand. 1 Changis & English -
The Panan terea Can to muss insecurge fees computed upon the strange prices of layer in the Caston kök, mark times this has been ungemak ve sporalmate eskasts has been anketused. The maluction of the
Manga Bago Mindagi has been made so the ruchange of ly. Wh per buler,
ublished by Joma Casa, At The Friens of China and thungking com Brazer, Yurratza, Hosows9, 1846.
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