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class of buyers from locating their agents here last season; and the few buyers in the market were often brought to a dead lock by these and other incidental obstructions. Thus were the farmers often obliged to take the road to Stratford or London with their wheat, when they would have given St. Mary's the preference, had our market been properly accommodated.

For the ensuing year we have no such stringency to dread. The railway accommodation will be ample. There has been a new wheat store erected for Mr. MCLEAN, at the railway switch, capable of storing 16,000 bushels of wheat, and several others are either built, or in the course of building, that will hold about 30,000 bushels more. We have been informed that two of the leading produce houses in Toronto intend to place agents this season in our market. We may therefore with confidence anticipate for our wheat market, in the ensuing season, abundant supply of accommodation, buyers and funds. Under such improved circumstances, and with the prospect of an abundant harvest, we make a moderate calculation if we multiply last year's wheat returns by three, to form an estimate of what we may expect to do in the ensuing season.

The population of St. Mary's, calculated from the last school census, is about 3,000. With such a population and so fair a prospect, the "Stone Village" cannot fail to secure the favorable attention of business people generally.

COTTON CULTURE ABANDONED IN INDIA.

Foreign papers contain the following very significant paragraph, showing that after all the protracted efforts to grow cotton in the British Indian possessions, the attempt has been at length abandoned as hopeless :

In the annual report of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce a statement announces that the Indian Government had finally abandoned, as being hopeless failures, their experiments at cotton-growing in that country. These experi ments had commenced as far back as 1789, and were prosecuted almost without intermission during the seventy-two years that have since elapsed. They had cost, from first to last, £350.000, and, as the report states, had absorbed “the energies and intelligence of governors, collectors, commissioners, American planters, and pains taking amateurs." Yet the result of all this prolonged effort and enormous outlay had been nothing but a continued series of disappointments. One solitary success is recorded as having been achieved, on " a small scale," by Mr. SHAW, Collector at Dharwar, who, taking up the enterprise in 1840, upon an area of only two hundred acres, developed the results so rapidly that in 1851 there were 31,688 "kupas " planted with American, and 224,314 with native cotton, and in 1856 the area increased to 156,316 kupas appropriated to the American, and 230,567 to the native variety of the plant. It does not appear that Mr. SHAW was assisted by any government grant in this work; and, at all events, all direct co-operation of the State with the cultivation of cotton is now summarily abandoned.

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JOURNAL OF INSURANCE.

FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES IN NEW YORK.

LIST OF INSURANCE COMPANIES OF OTHER STATES THAT HAVE COMPLIED WITH THE INSURANCE LAWS OF NEW YORK, AND HAVE BEEN ADMITTED TO TRANSACT THE BUSINESS OF INSURANCE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, FOR THE YEAR 1860.

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..Hartford, Ct.
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..Springfield, Mass.

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FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.

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FOREIGN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES.

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Liverpool and London....Liverpool, Eng.

INSURANCE COMPANIES OF OTHER STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN RE

FUSED CERTIFICATES, WITH THE REASONS FOR SUCH REFUSALS.

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FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN MASSACHUSETTS.

NAMES, AGENCIES, AMOUNT OF PREMIUM RECEIVED, AND AMOUNT OF TAX PAID BY FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 1ST, 1859.

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There is no data by which to determine the amount of loss sustained by these companies in the State, for the same period, given in the Massachusetts Commissoners' Report, from which we have taken our figures.

PENNSYLVANIA INSURANCE LAW.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT TO THE ACT, ENTITLED "AN ACT RELATIVE TO AGENCIES OF FOREIGN INSURANCE, TRUST, AND ANNUITY COMPANIES," APPROVED APRIL NINTH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX.

Whereas, The county of Wayne, by reason of its limited area, and small population, is deprived of the benefit of said act, as no foreign insurance, trust, or annuity company will pay the license fee required by said act; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the agent or agents of any such company or companies for the county of Luzerne, having complied with the terms of said act, shall be authorized to do business for such company or companies in said county of Wayne, and with like effect, and as fully as if the same were done in his or their proper county: Provided, That any party insured by any such agent or agents, within the county of Wayne, may prosecute any claim, growing out of such insurance, against such company or companies, in the Common Pleas of Wayne County; and in such case process shall, for such purpose, extend to Luzerne County, and be served on such agent or agents residing therein.

JOHN M. THOMPSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tem.
WM. M. FRANCIS, Speaker of the Senate.

Approved the second day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

LIST OF FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES

WM. F. PACKER.

BELONGING TO THE CHICAGO BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS, MARCH 18TH, 1860.

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NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREVENTION OF COLLISIONS AT SEA.

Lieut. DANIEL AMMERI, of our navy, has prepared an admirable system of lights and helm signals for sail and steam vessels-one which, if introduced, will undoubtedly lessen the risks of collisions at sea. The collisions at sea, and on our lakes, have been so frequent during the past few years, that any means which will lessen the chances of such dangers should be at once adopted. Lieut. AMMERI'S system has been submitted to the consideration of the Chamber of Commerce, and it is proposed to ask Congress to adopt it. The following are the details of his plan :-Steam vessels, when under way, will carry after night-1. A bright white light at the foremast head, pivoted so as to remain perpendicular; showing from ahead to two points abaft both beams; a red light on the port side, and a green one on the starboard side. The side lights to show from ahead to four points abaft the beam on their respective sides, and to be filled with side-covering, so as not to show across the deck. The lantern to be made as per pattern, slung in gimbals, and not less in size, and of as good quality as those to be seen at the principal custom-houses, and prescribed for this class of vessels.

2. Propellers, when under steam, or steam and fore and aft sails, will carry the lights of steam vessels; but when under square sails, with or without steam, will carry the light of a sail vessel.

3. Steam vessels will employ the whistle when a collision is feared, as follows:-A long whistle (twenty seconds) will indicate that the vessel making the signal has put her helm to port. Two short whistles or blows, (two seconds each, separated by an interval of two seconds,) will indicate that the vessel making them has put her helm starboard, which must never be done except when the opposite course would throw the vessel into immediate danger, or to pass astern of a vessel whose course is nearly at right angles to her own, which would be shown by the lights.

4. In case two steamers should give opposite whistles, when standing nearly head on, both engines will be instantly stopped and reversed and the helms put aport, unless the lights of the other vessel should point out the answer. They will not go ahead until they have a full understanding, by the one repeating the whistle of the other, when they will act accordingly.

5. Steamers, when under weight in fogs, will employ the whistle at distances not greater than half a marine mile apart, as follows:--When steering north, one long whistle, (ten seconds,) followed, after an interval of two seconds, by a short whistle (one second.) When steering east, one long whistle, and after a similar interval, three short ones. Steering south, one long whistle, followed by two short ones. Steering west, one long whistle and four short ones. For N. E., S. E., S. W., and N. W., the signal of the north or south point will be made first, to be followed after an interval of five seconds by the east or west signal, omitting for the last, the long whistle, thus, N. E. would be a long whistle followed by a short one, an interval of five seconds and three additional short Steamers should whistle as near the course they may be steering as possible, which can always be done within two points.

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