Old Colony Road, Boston to Plymouth, 37 miles-freight generally, 4 cents per ton per mile; light and bulky articles, 140 feet to the ton; passenger fare, $1, or 2.66 cents per mile.

Connecticut River Road, from Springfield to Greenfield, 36 miles-freight, iron, coal, manure, lumber, grain, sugar, butter, and salt, $2; dry-goods and groceries, $2 40 per ton through; fare, $1 10, or 3 cents per mile.

Providence and Worcester Road, 43 miles-freight, groceries, dry-goods, grain, sugar, salt, butter, iron, coal, manure, and lumber, $3 for 2,000 pounds; bulky articles, 15 cents per 100 pounds through; fares, 1st class, $125; 2d class, 85 cents, or 2.84 and 1.9 cents per mile.

Boston and Fitchburgh, Boston to Fitchburgh, 50 miles-freight, all heavy articles, as butter, salt, sugar, groceries, and dry-goods, through per ton $2, or 4 cents per ton per mile; light and bulky, 4 cents per ton of 150 cubic feet per mile; horses, at 1 ton each, or 4 cents per mile or $2 each; carriages, one horse, $1; two horse, $2, each through; fare, through, $1 25, or 2.5 cents per mile.

Western Railroad, Worcester to Albany, 156 miles-freight, sugar, salt, butter, grain, iron, coal, lumber, and groceries, $4 per ton of 2,000 pounds, or 2.56 per ton per mile; dry-goods and bulky articles, $7 per ton of 2,000 pounds through, or 4.44 per ton per mile; one horse, $10 50; two horses, $12 25; three horses, $14, at the risk of the owners; one horse carriage through, $12 23; two horse carriage, $15 75; stage-coach, or omnibus, $28, at the risk of the company; fare, through, $4 25, or 2.72 cents per mile. The fare through from Boston to Albany, is, we believe, $5, or 2.5 cents per mile. New Haven and Springfield Railroad, 62 miles-coal, iron, manure, lumber, sugar, salt, etc., $260, or 4.2 cents per ton per mile; groceries and dry-goods, $3 50; grain, $5 20 per ton; passenger fare, $1 87, or 3 cents per mile.

Bridgeport, 98 miles-coal, iron, and marble, $3 per ton; sugar, salt, butter, $3 20; dry-goods, $4; grain. 7 cents per bushel, through; horses and cattle, $3 50 each; two horse carriage, $5 25; passenger fare, $2, or 2.04 cents per mile.

New York and Harlem Railroad, 53 miles-coal, $2 per ton; iron, sugar, etc., 18 cents per 100 pounds; heavy merchandise, $3 50, and light, $4 per ton; lumber, $3 50 per 1,000 feet; horses and cattle, $3 50 each; passenger fare, $1, or 1.88 cents per mile. New York and Erie Railroad, New York to Port Jervis, 100 miles-25 miles by steamboat-freight to Otisville, 87 miles, coal, $2 20; iron, 42; heavy articles, such as grain, sugar, salt, butter, etc., etc., $3 50 to $4; groceries, $4 50; one horse carriage, $3; two horse, $4 50. We are not able now to give the rates charged upon milk, fruits, vegetables, etc., on this line, but they are exceedingly low, and morning and evening trains are run expressly for such freight. We have not obtained the rates for the current year, since the road was opened to Port Jervis.

Patterson Road, 10 miles-freights average about $2 50 per ton, delivered by the company; fare, 50 cents, or 3 cents per mile.

Morris and Essex Road, 324 miles-freight, coal, iron, and manure, $2 25 per ton; corn and grain, cents per bushel; lumber, $3 per 1,000 feet; flour, 25 cents per barrel; fare, $1, or 3 cents per mile.

New York to Philadelphia, via New Brunswick and Trenton, 90 miles. This line is owned by three distinct companies, and managed by two. The through fare is $4, or 4.44 cents per mile-while the way fare, or from place to place, is only $2 25, or 2.5 cents per mile, as follows:-From New York to New Brunswick, 31 miles, 75 cents; from thence to South Trenton, 29 miles, 75 cents; and from thence to Philadelphia, 30 miles, 75 cents. This is what the people of those places pay, and what others pay, if they wait over, at each place, for the next train; but if they pay through, from either end, it is $4. Yet many have, and more will, probably, hereafter pay three times, or from place to place, and go directly through, by the same train, for $2 25 to $2 75-while the stranger, or uninitiated, pay $4 in the same car-or they may do so if they will. This fine carries little through freight.

New York to Philadelphia, via Camden and Amboy, 88 miles. This line is owned by one company, and is partly by railroad and partly by steamboats-the fare through is $3, or 3.4 cents per mile. Freight, legal rates, fixed in their charter, 8 cents per ton per mile, or 32 cents per 100 pounds, or $7 20 per ton, through. The company have, however, exacted various prices, from 30 cents to $1 00 per 100 pounds, or from $7 to $22 40 per ton.

Reading Railroad, 92 miles-coal, $1 50 for 2,000 pounds; bituminous coal, iron ore, $2 10; pig iron and timber, $2 50; bar iron, flour, grain, fish, and tobacco, $2 90; groceries and hardware, $4 25; dry-goods and furniture, $5 25; one horse, $6, and carriage per agreement; passenger fare, $3 50, or 3.8 cents per mile.

Philadelphia and Columbia Road, 82 miles-the freighting is done by private individuals at about 25 cents per 100 pounds; passenger fare, $2 88, or 3.5 cents per mile. Lancaster and Harrisburgh, 36 miles-passenger fires, $150, or 4.1 cents per mile. Harrisburgh and Chambersburgh, 56 miles-coal, iron, manure, $1 50; lumber, corn, grain, 81 78; sugar, salt, butter, groceries, dry-goods, $2 per ton through; passenger fare, $2 12, or 3.78 cents per mile.

Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore, 97 miles-freight, 50 cents per 100 pounds through; passengers, $3, or 3.1 cents per mile. This road carries very little through freight.

Baltimore and Susquehannah, 71 miles-coal, $1 37; iron, $1 81; corn and grain, $2 20; salt and butter, $2; groceries, sugar, and dry-gods, $2.50 per ton through; horses, $3 75, and four wheeled carriage, $3 37 each; passenger fare, $2 12, or 3 cents per mile.

Baltimore and Ohio, 179 miles-coal, $2 75; iron, in open cars, $3 50; coffee, 25, dry-goods, 35 cents per 100 pounds through; passenger fare, $7, or 3.91 cents per inile. Baltimore and Washington, 40 miles-coal, iron, and grain, 4 cents per ton per mile; sugar, butter, salt, dry-goods, light and bulky merchandise, $2 30 per ton through; horse, or horse and wagen, $5 75; passenger fare, $1 89, or 4.5 cents per mile.

Winchester and Potomac, 32 miles-coal, $1; iron, $1 75 per ton; flour, 18 cents per barrel; grain, 10 per 100; sugar, dry-goods, and light bulky articles, 14 cents per 100 pounds; horses, $250 each; four wheel carriages, $4 50 to $7 50; fare, $2, or 6.25 cents per mile.

Louisa Road, 50 miles-iron, $1 66; lumber, $3 per 1,000; corn and grain, 14 cents per 100; sugar, salt, butter, 20 cents, and dry-goods, 22 cents per 100 pounds; horses, 84 66; four wheel carriages, $4 50 each; light articles, $4 per ton; fare, $2 50, or 5 cents per mile.

Richmond, Virginia, to Washington city, 133 miles-iron, 2 cents per ton per mile; sugir, salt, butter, groceries, and dry-goods, cent per cwt. per mile; bulky articles, 8 cents per cubic foot to Fredericksburgh; horses, 6 cents per mile; four wheel carriages, 11 cents per mile; passenger fare, $5 50, or 4.13 per mile.

Richmond and Petersburgh, 224 miles-sugar, salt, butter, cent per 100 pounds per mile; groceries and dry-goods, cent per 100 pounds per mile; passenger fare, $1, or 4.34 cents per mile.

Petersburgh to Welden, 63 miles-lumber, $5 per 1,000 feet; corn and grain, 64 to 8 cents per bushel; salt, sugar, and butter, 25 cents per 100 pounds; horses and carriages, $3 each through; passenger fare, $3, or 4.76 cents per mile; second class, $1 50, or 2.38 cents per mile.

Gaston and Raleigh, 87 miles-lumber, $7 per M.; corn and grain, 10 cents per bushel; sugar, salt, and butter, 35 cents; groceries, 55 cents per 100 pounds; light and bulky articles, 10 cents per cubic foot; horses, $1 20; carriages, $7 to $8 50; passenger fare, $4, or 4.6 cents per mile.

Wilmington and Welden, 1611⁄2 miles-corn and grain, 10 cents per bushel for 80 miles, 12 cents through; sugar, salt, and butter, 38 cents, and dry-goods, 80 cents per 100 pounds through; horses, $8; carriages, $10 through; passenger fares, $6 50, or 4 cents per mile.

South Carolina, 136 miles-iron, 25 cents per 100 pounds; corn and grain, 7 cents per bushel; sugar, salt, butter, 25 cents per 100 pounds; light bulky merchandise, 8 cents per cubic foot through; horses, each, $8; four wheel carriages, $10 through; passenger fare, 1st class. $6 75, or 4 97 cents per mile.

Columbia, 68 miles-coal, iron, and manure, 25 cents per 100 pounds; corn and grain, 7 cents per bushel; sugar, salt, and butter, 25 cents; dry-goods, 35 cents per 100 pounds; light bulky merchandise, 8 cents per cubic foot through; horses, $8 each; four wheel carriages, $10; two wheel carriages, $6 through; passenger fare, $3 38, or 4.97 cents per mile.

Georgia, 171 miles-iron, 15 cents per 100; corn and grain, 8 cents per bushel; sugar, salt, and butter, 30 cents, dry-goods, 60 cents per 100; light and bulky articles, 10 cents per cubic foot through; horses, $8; four wheel carriages, $10; passenger fare, $7, or 4.09 cents per mile.

Western and Atlantic, 100 miles-iron, 15 cents; sugar, salt, and butter, 25 cents; dry-goods, 40 cents per 100 pounds; grain, 8 cents per bushel; bulky merchandise, 8 cents per cubic foot through; horses, $5; two wheel carriages, $3; four wheel, $6; passenger fare, $5, or 5 cents per mile.

Centrai, 191 miles-iron, 30 cents; salt, sugar, and butter, 40 cents per 100 pounds; corn, 12 cents per bushel; light bulky articles, 13 cents per cubic foot through; one horse,

$10; four, or more, at $5 each; four wheel carriage, $10; passenger fare, $7, or 3.65 cents per mile.

Macon and Western, 101 miles-iron, sugar, salt, and butter, 25 cents, dry-goods, 44 cents per 100 pounds; grain, 8 cents per bushel; light bulky merchandise, 9 cents per cubic foot through; one horse, $8; four at $4 each; four wheel carriage, $8; passenger fare, $4, or 3.96 cents per mile.

Montgomery and West Point, 67 miles-barrels whiskey, etc., 60 cents; dry barrels, 55 cents; bulky merchandise, 8 cents per cubic foot; cotton, 95 cents per bale of 500 pounds; passenger fare, $3, or 4.47 cents per mile.

Vicksburgh and Jackson, 46 miles-sugar, coal, iron, and manure, 40 cents per 100 pounds; salt, 60 cents per sack; corn and grain, 10 cents per bushel; dry-goods, 8 cents per cubic foot; cotton, 874 cents per bale of 400 pounds; horses and carriages 12 cents per mile each; passenger fare, $3, or 6.35 cents per mile.

West Felicianna Road, 24 miles-freight, merchandise, provisions, etc., 50 cents per 100 pounds through; passenger fare, 75 cents, or 3.1 cents per mile.

Lexington and Ohio, 28 miles-coal, corn, and grain, 5 cents per bushel; iron, sugar, salt, butter, groceries and dry-goods, light and bulky merchandise, hemp, bagging, and rope, 12 cents per 100 pounds; horses, $2 each; carriages, $2 to $3 each; passenger fare, $1 25, or 4.46 cents per mile.

Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, 86 miles-coal, and wheat, 9 cents; corn, 8 cents; oats, 7 cents; flour, 35 cents; pork, lard, and salt, 50 cents per barrel; iron, $5 per ton; groceries, dry-goods, and light and bulky articles, 35 cents per 100 pounds; specie, $1 per 1,000; live hogs, 50 cents through; horses, $1 50 each, or $1 with a passenger; passenger fare, $2 50, or 2.9 per mile.

Little Miami, 84 miles-coal, iron, sugar, salt, butter, groceries, and dry-goods, $3 20 per ton; corn and grain, 7 cents per bushel; light and bulky articles, $4 per ton through; horses, 4 cents each per mile, carriages the same; passenger fare, $2, or 2.38 cents per mile.

Mad River, 102 miles-coal, iron, and manures, $5 per ton; corn, 11 cents, wheat, 124 cents per bushel; flour, 45 cents per barrel; sugar, salt, and butter, 32 cents, and bulky articles, 42 cents per 100 pounds; carriages by weight, and horses by agreement; passenger fares, $3 50, or 3.18 cents per mile.

Mansfield and Sandusky, 56 miles-iron, coal, and manure, $1 60 per ton; corn, 6 cents, wheat, 7 cents per bushel; sugar, salt, and butter, $2, dry-goods, $2 50, bulky and light articles, $3 per ton through; horses and carriages each 4 cents per mile; passenger fares, $1 50, or 2.67 cents per mile.

Michigan Central, 146 miles-iron, manure, coal, corn, grain, groceries, 39 cents per 100; salt, butter, beef, pork, fish, and sugar, $1, flour, 66 cents, whiskey, beer, and cider, $1 10 per barrel; corn and grain. 39, wheat, 33 cents per 100 through; carriages, 45 cents per 100 pounds; horses, $2 35; hogs and calves, $1 64; sheep, $1 10 each; passenger fares, $4 40, or 3 cents per mile.

Southern Michigan, 70 miles-manure and iron, 24 cents, sugar and butter, 34 cents per 100; corn and grain, 11 cents per bushel; flour, 40 cents per barrel; salt, 34 cents per barrel through; passenger fares, $2, or 2.85 cents per mile.

Albany and Schenectady, 17 miles-iron, coal, and manure, $1 per ton; sugar, salt, groceries, butter, dry-goods, and bulky articles, $1 25 per ton; horses, $2; carriages, $1 to $2 each; passenger fare, 50 cents, or 2.94 cents per mile.

Troy and Schenectady, 20 miles-rates same as on Albany and Schenectady; passenger fare, 50 cents, or 2.43 cents per mile.

Utica and Schenectady, 78 miles-prohibited from carrying freight, except when the canal is closed, and then canal tolls are added to the ordinary freight charges; passenger fare, $3, or 3.84 cents per mile.

This line, in connection with the other lines from Albany to Buffalo, run a train at l cents a mile for emigrants.

Utica and Syracuse, 53 miles-same as Utica and Schenectady Road; passenger fare, $2, or 3.77 cents per mile.

Syracuse and Auburn, 26 miles-coal, iron, and manure, 8 cents, sugar, salt, groceries, butter, and dry-goods, 10 cents, and bulky merchandise, 20 cents per 100 pounds; horses, $1; carriages, $1 to $1 50 each; passenger fare, $1, or 3.84 cents per mile.

Auburn and Rochester, 77 miles-corn and grain, 27 cents, sugar, salt, butter, groce ries, and dry-goods, 20 cents, light and bulky articles, 30 cents per 100 pounds; horses, $3; carriages, $5 to $7, according to size; passenger fare, $3, or 3.89 cents per mile.

Rochester and Attica, 44 miles-coal, iron, and manure, cent per ton; grain, 1-5 cent per bushel; butter, salt, and sugar, 2-5 cent per 100; groceries and dry-goods, 44

mills per 100; bulky and light articles, 5 mills-all per mile; horses and carriages, 64 cents per mile each; passenger fare, $1 56, or 3.54 cents per mile.

Attica and Buffalo, 31 miles-corn and grain, 3 cents per bushel; butter and sugar, 12 cents per 100 through; passenger fare, 94 cents, or 2.98 cents per mile.

Buffalo and Niagara Falls, 22 miles-freight, 10 to 12 cents per 100 pounds; passenger fare, 75 cents, or 3.4 cents per mile.

Lockport and Niagara Falls, 24 miles-passenger fare, 75 cents, or 3.12 cents per mile.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

STEAMERS' LIGHTS-TO PREVENT COLLISION.

THE following notice has been issued by the British Admiralty:-Whereas, under, and by virtue of, the Act of Parliament, passed in the 10th year of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled an "Act for the Regulation of Steam Navigation," &c., we hereby require, in pursuance of the said act, that lights shall be exhibited by all British steam vessels, between sunset and sunrise, of such description, and in such manner, as hereinafter mentioned; that is to say

When under Weigh-1. Bright white lamp at the foremast head; 2. Green light on the starboard side; 3. Red light on the port side.

When at Anchor-A common bright light.

The following conditions to be observed, viz.:

1. The mast-head light to be visible at a distance of at least five miles in a clear dark night, and the lantern to be so constructed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass-viz., from right a-head to two points abaft the beam on each side of the ship.

2. The colored side lights to be visible at a distance of at least two miles on a clear dark night, and the lanterns to be so constructed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass-viz., from right a-head to two points abaft the beam on their respective sides.

3. The side lights to be, moreover, fitted with inboard screens, of at least three feet long, to prevent them from being seen across the bow. The screens to be placed in a fore and aft line with the inner edge of the side lights.

4. The lantern used when at anchor to be so constructed as to show a good light all round the horizon.

It is understood to be the intention of the Lords of the Admiralty to issue regulations in accordance with the foregoing announcement, and to have them published in the London Gazette, so that they may be in force from the 21st day of July.

Diagrams illustrative of the above plan, and instructions as to the proper mode of fitting the lights, will be furnished to parties applying for them.

LIGHT-HOUSE ON LAKE SUPERIOR.

By an Act of Congress, approved by the President of the United States July 15th, 1848, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized "(if he deem it expedient) to change the site of the Light-house, authorized by the Act of March 3d, 1847, to be constructed at Copper Harbor, Fort Wilkins, Lake Superior, in the State of Michigan, to a more suitable place on said Lake: Provided, Such change shall not increase the cost of construction so as to exceed the appropriation made for such purpose by said Act."

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LANTERN ON CAPE ESPICHEL.

LISBON, 28th July, 1848.-Notice has been given of an intention to substitute the Lantern on Cape Espichel by another of iron, whose light may be seen from all sides of the horizon. From the 1st of September next until the work is completed, there will be shown a temporary light by lanterns, whose brilliancy will, if possible, be equal to the one now existing.

SWINEMUNDE, 24th July, 1848.-By a decree of the Royal Government, vessels arriving at this port from St. Petersburgh are subjected to a quarantine of seven days, from which, however, the days of voyage are to be deducted.

JOURNAL OF MINING AND MANUFACTURES.

STATISTICS OF MINES AND MINING IN IRELAND.

The principal minerals are coal, iron, copper, lead, and gold. The coal fields are seven in number-one in Leinster, occupying large portions of Kilkenny and Queen's counties, with a small part of Carlow; two in Munster; one in Tipperary, bordering on that of Kilkenny, the other spread over large portions of Clare, Limerick, Cork, and Kerry counties, being the most extensive development of the coal strata in the British empire. All these beds lie south of Dublin, and yield only stone coal, or anthracite, which burns without flame. The remaining fields, which lie to the north of Dublin, are formed of bituminous or flaming coal. Of the northern coal fields, three are in Ulster-one at Coal Island, near Dungannon; the second in the northern extremity of Antrim county; and the third in Monaghan. They are all small: the narrowness of the seams of coal renders the last named almost valueless. The Connaught coal field extends over a space of 16 miles in its greatest length and breadth, in Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim, and Cavan counties. The total area is 140,000 acres. Besides the stores of fuel applicable to manufacturing and domestic uses which lie imbedded in the coal fields, Ireland enjoys two others, lignite and turf or peat. Lignite, an intermediate species of fuel between wood and coal, is found in dense strata encompassing the southern half of Lough Neagh. The total area of turf bog is estimated at 2,830,000 acres, nearly one-seventh of the surface of the island. Of this quantity, 1,576,000 acres are flat bog, spread over the central portions of the great limestone plain; the remaining 1,254,000 are mountain bog, chiefly scattered over the hilly districts near the coast.

Iron ore is found in all the localities of coal, and was largely manufactured while timber for fuel was abundant. Latterly, the efforts to carry on the manufacture have been not only unprofitable but ruinous. Sir R. KANE, in his valuable work on the Industrial Resources of Ireland, gives the following table of the comparative contents, in metallic iron, of the native ores, and of the English, Scotch, and Welsh. One hundred parts of ore give of metal an average at

There is, therefore, no doubt that the Leinster and Connaught ores are equal, and even in average superior, to those generally employed in Great Britain. The iron stone of Kilkenny is little inferior to that of Arigna, and the ores of Lough Allen possess a richness in iron only equalled by the black-band ironstone of Glasgow. Sir R. KANE shows how, by the judicious application of turf fuel, iron of the best quality can be manufactured in this country as cheaply as in England.

The copper mines are distributed throughout the clay-slate districts in a great number of localities. The principal are the Ballymurtagh, Conoree, Cronebane and Tigroney, and Ballygahan mines, in Wicklow county; the Knockmahon, Kilduane, Bonmahon, and Balinasisla, in the Waterford district; the mines of Allihies or Berehaven, Audley, and Cosheen and Skull, in the south-western district. Indications of this metal have been discovered in several other parts. The amount and value of ore from each of the three principal localities exported to Swansea to be smelted, at three periods, was—

Wicklow.....

Waterford...

South-west.....

7,875

63,087

9,101

Value.
£55,819 6,647

Value. £12,918

62,956

3,588 33,166
6,418 74,880 4,808 40,981 4,446 36,348

The diminution in quantity and value of the produce of the Wicklow mines, as stated in the preceding table, is only apparent. The amounts therein are confined to the sales at Swansea, whither the whole of the ore was at first sent, but the copper is now extensively smelted at Liverpool, and much of the inferior ore is exported to chemical manofactories in other places, where the sulphur as well as the copper is economized. In the Ballymurtagh mine about £12,000 is annually paid in wages to about 700 persons. The total number of persons deriving employment from the mineral industry of the Ovoca district is about 2,000. The true produce of the district may be judged of by the following statement of the ores raised and sold from the Ballymurtagh mine in four years: