... ITS ACTIVE AND INACTIVE STATES. Read at the Liverpool Polytechnic Society, bp Mr. Spencer, November 8,1847. PART THIRD: IRON IN ITS INACTIVE STATE. Much more might be said on the principles which govern the corrosion of iron in air and water. Indeed a great many striking facts, together with the results of some notable experiments, have not even been glanced at, nor was it contemplated, at the ...

... The West Indian Bank —The draughts of the West India ink were yesterday refused acceptance by their averts, the Union Bank of London, the reason being that the West Ind'a Bank had. against the repeated and empha'ic warnings of the manager of the Union Bat k. continued to make purch ses of the bills of Higginson, Dean, and S?ott, of Barbadoes, on Barton, Irlam, and son, Liverpool, to an extent ...

... yean in the com trade: —Saturday, Dec. 20 ( 1800, Reading market wheat was £9, barley £5, pea?, £4, old beans £4 6s. per quarter; flour £6 16*. per sack. At Hen lev wheat was £10 per quarter.—&uu; day, July 25, 1801, wheat £9 per quarter, and fell the next Saturday 56 >. per quarter an average.** This amazing fall was owing to the news of the peace of Amiens. The same register states that in ...

... Friday Mav 21. —Ashborne, Ewhurst, lfatherlcigh, Lamberhurst, (Sussex,) Sputty, Trccastlo, Tring, Whitosinitii, Kettering, Orton, Ruthyn. Saturday, 22.—Abbot's Bronile}', Culmstock, Dunstable, Limpsfield, Macnclocbog, Onklcr, Ruabon, Wainfleet. Appleby, Booth, Malton, March, Now in, Skipton, Stag bawbank, Wisbech, (Isle of Ely.) Sunday, 23.—Albrighton, App'ebliaw, C'rickieth, Grays, Gucstling, ...

... It ia the boast of those who now rule the roast in thelseot Man,that theinhabitants,generally,arecontented with their domination,and that those who object things they are, are actuated only factious and interested motives. In the course of the recen libel prosecution, Mr. Deemster Hey wood challenged her Majesty's Attorney General name place where justice was better administered than in the ...

... THE PIKE SCHEME; AND THE E POLICY OF ITS PROMOTERS. I & UV.K, 1 u7%Wr i.or Many of our readers, and most of our contempo- raries, imagine that the decision come to by the Council, in regard to the Rivington water scheme, is conclusive as to the result of that project, and that the works must necessarily be fbithwith carried out. We do not subscribe to that opinioEn. It is true we have, at an ...

... Efte ibter-aol Mieerrurv. OALVS PPULI LEKX SUPREMA FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1849. EVILS OF INDIRECT TAXATION. si SECTION XIV.-THE TIMBRER DUTIES, AS AFFECTING r SHIPBUILDING. n t~ The repeal of the navigation laws has brought the timber duties more immediately before us (June, 1849) than otherwise they would have been.0 Momentous to the industrial interests of the country t -at all times oppressive ...

... ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S ChURCH. It'l (PROM A eORRESPONDENT.) eat The opening services at this splendid edifice were con- tinued on Sunday last, when a Pontifical High Mass was celebrated by the Right Rev. Dr. Brown, V.A., of the i Laicashire distric:, supported by the Rev. Dr. Enington as Archdeacon, the Rev. Joseph Johnsos as Deacon, the Rev. Francin West as Sub.Deacon, and the Rev. R. O'Carroll ...

... - anali link INSURRECTION AT VIENNA. the' II byretul db militi eted FLIGHT OF THEl EMPEROR. Al bion A second insurrec tion, more terrible than that of sided Dhi- March, and threatening the entire dismemberment Arse Itiw. of the Austrian empire, broke (olt at Vienna on the Turl jion 6Oh instant, and was attended with the most deplora- arnd of nbile excesses. 'The result may be thus summed upl. ...

... I3mperffa virtamtft. AMf HOUSE OF LORDS. withot THURSDAY, Julys 13.Th Lord IIROUGIIAM presented a Bill for the Prevention of The Sgeduction, free. osaid, from tbeobjectlonsbroulghtaglaittstthWst tipra of the Bishop Of Oxfoed, whiob wasn thrown out on Tuesday. Ket It Wax read a first time, and ordered to be rea~d again on Tuesday. W4Y, D31e Lordship also presented a Bill for the Exclusiona of ...

... I I PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OF WELLINGTON. of ,tl pu r Advices of November 17, from Wellington, New grr et Zealand, bring the important news that Port Nicholfon thr to had been visited by a series of earthquakes of a mobt do Ad alarming and prolonged nature, by which the fou- enl if rishing town of Wellington had been reduced to all but st Fi. a heip of ruins,the edifices of brick and ...

... I I This month has been very propitious to the ad g rops avnddepastured sheep and cattle, as d also to tillage and field labours generally, Its le temperature has been sufficiently mild, and there ad has been rain enough to refresh the whole range is of vegetation, and to give to rural scenery an in. rie viting and animated appearance ; as well as to mellow the soils that have been recently ...