13 SEPTEMBER 1834, Page 6

The Commissioners appointed to administer the Poor-Law Act are preparing

a circular, contailling several intcrro;;nturirs touching the manner jut which the paupers in every parish recover relief limn the I:Irish-officers at the present period.

An undertaking on a large scale is forming in the City for improving the eommunications with Spain and Portugal by means of steam-vessels.

This w ill include the Northern as well as the Seuthern ports of Spain, with the whole coast of Portugal ; and the points of departure are in. tended to be the river Thames, Portsmouth, am! Plymouth, as well as

Falmouth. As a pecuniary undertaking, we can offer no opinion of its merits ; and it See11111 to be entered into less with that object, than aside views beyond its mere attainment, adopted by merchants and capi- talists who kive a deep stake in the welfitre of the Peninsula eenerally. It is quite certain that the end of this association, if accomplished, will be a very useful one, since nothine can well be more defective than the peseta state of the communications with countries whose imporaince to England in all respects, commercial as well as eolitical, is rapidly on the Mere:lac. A weekly packet to Lisbon. and one neeithiy to /iilealter and Cadiz, forte all our regular means of areess to Spain and 1'',■a:g-J. To l'lurmuua or Vigo, or the ports in the eledieeraticatt, till 110 allpf011C11 ev•■•pt by some very eircei; mks ur ineoaveMent or 'beget ons route. It, 1110 Post-oilice department, tit main tot .ideration nee," etrily is, whether the chatinel is such as to meet. the eoeveyaiwe of letters and passengers a source Of profit. For commercial objeets, . the merchants mire left to their own activity and enterprise , mid this is , the aim of the new utelertaking. At sonic future period, when they Imre opened the way, the Post-office, as has been done m numerous other instances, will take up and appropriate to itself the diti'erent lines of conmemication.— Times.

About two months ago, the manager of a branch of the Bank of England made it his humble request to a country banker that he would supply hien with 3salt. in gold ; with which the latter immediately complied. A little while after, the country banker having occasion for some gold, epithet] in turn to the manager of the branch-hank ; but the answer he received was, that he could have no gold unless he was willing to pay A per cent. premium for it. It is by such devices that the country bankers arc tricked out of their gold, and which gold is then sent up to London to enable the Bank of England to make a splash in its periodical returns.—Times.

It is said that there are on the Out-pension list of Greenwich Hos- pital, 2-1,000 seaman able to do effective duty; and that the Admiralty would call on these men, in the event of seamen being wanted, to man the ships which are prepared for sea at the different ports ; and on their refusal to come forward to serve, or exhibiting a suffiaient reason, would erase them from the Pension-list.—/Hampshire Tel m !,raph.

A cargo of sugar has arrived at Liverpool from Lima. This is the first importation of that commodity from that quarter, and if it call be grown to any extent must prove of very great importance to the com- mercial world, as a return for the vast quantity of British manufirctures which are exported to Perm—Liverpool Standard.

Mr. Myers, the fishmonger of St. Peter's Alley, Lad a linnet whose cage was hung up in the open shop. It was singing on Wednesday, when suddenly a fine sparrow-hawk darted down, seized the cage, and flew with it into the churchyard ; where, finding itself greatly embarrassed i n the wire-work, it lost its strength, and was soon caught. The hawk etas no doubt starving, for he ate most ravenously. The linnet was :01111(1de:id in the cage.

Seventeen of the ducks in the water in the enclosure in St. James's Park have been lately found dead, supposed to have been designedly poisoned.