The amount of damages already assessed and paid by the
Treasurer of the West Riding, in reparation of the injury done to property during the riots at the recent election for the borough of Halifax, is 3,3;J1!. is. Gd. The cotton market for some time back has been unusually active, and we understand that the manufacturers are all very busy. Such is the demand for new machinery, that one large house in that line, in Lancashire, has as many orders as it can execute in the next two years. —Liverpool Chronicle. Great progress has been made during the winter and spring in the construction of the nem docks at the north end of Liverpool. When finished, they will certainly make Liverpool one of the first, if not the first, port in the world for dock accommodation ; and yet so rapidly is the commerce of the town increasing, that it is still too great for all the docks united, and will be so when all the new ones are finished There are at present three large steam-boats building in a single yard, all for Liverpool trade ; and new ships of all sizes are launched every week.— Liverpool Chronicle. [This is an excellent cominentary on the un- ceasing complaints of the shipping interest that their trade has been ruined by the reciprocity system and the repeal of the Navigation-laws. It must be remembered that the London as well as the Liverpool ship- ping has recently increased in quantity, notwithstanding the diminution of the time in which voyages to all parts of the world are now made.] Lord Petre's gamekeepers have discovered, in a wood near Watley Common, a cave, which there is no doubt has been the retreat of a gang of thieves, several of whom have been recently apprehended. It was most carefully concealed with furze and bushes, and capacious enough to hold about twelve persons. There was a fireplace in it, a leg of mutton, and a gun; but being so near the metropolis, it seems they did not use it as a depot for their plunder.—Herts County Press. A few days.ago the remains of a farmer were interred at Stevenages; in Hertfordshire, who died many years ago, and bequeathed his estate, worth 400/. a year, to his two brothers, and if they should die, to his nephew, to be enjoyed by them for thirty years, at the expiration of which time be expected to return to life, when the estate was to return to him. Ile provided for his reappearance by ordering his coffin to be fixed on a beam in his barn, locked, and the key inclosed, that he might let himself out. He was allowed four days' grace beyond the time limited, and not presenting himself, was then honoured with Christian burial.
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