The Common Council of the city of Brooklyn do ordain as follows:

SEC. 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to store or receive on storage within the limits of the city of Brooklyn, except as provided in section 3 of this ordinance, any crude petroleum, rock or earth oil, under the penalty of $10 for each barrel, and for each and every day the same shall be stored, the penalty to be recovered from the owner or owners thereof, or from the party or parties storing or receiving the same on storage.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons owning or having on storage any petroleum, rock or earth oil, within the limits of the city of Brooklyn, shall cause the same to be removed within twenty days from the passage of this ordinance, under the penalty of $500 for each and every day thereafter until full compliance with the provisions hereof.

SEC. 3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep at any one time, either for use or for the pupose of manufacture, within the limits of city of Brooklyn, an amount exceeding twenty barrels of crude petroleum, rock or earth oil, and then only in sheds or open ground situate not less than 1,000 feet from any other building, and not less than 200 feet from any dock or pier, under the penalty of $250 for each and every offense, and for each and every day he or they shall so continue to keep the same. SEC. 4. No person or persons shall hereafter keep, sell, or dispose in any way, within the limits of the city of Brooklyn, any rectified petroleum, rock, or earth oil, commonly designated by the name of kerosene oil, which contains benzine or naptha, or both, in quantities sufficient to ignite at a temperature of 100° Fah.; and no such.oil shall be kept or sold of less density than 45° Reaumer, under the penalty of $500 for the first offence, and a like penalty, or imprisonment for six months in the county jail, or both, at the discretion of the magistrate before whom a conviction shall be had, for every offense thereafter.

SEC. 5. It is hereby made the duty of the fire wardens in the city of Brooklyn to examine into and make complaint to any jurisdiction of the subject matter, of any and all violations of this ordinance; and all penalties collected upon complaint made by said fire wardens, one-half thereof shall be paid over to the Widows' and Orphans' Fund of the Fire Department in the District in which the violation of the ordinance shall

occur.

At the same meeting a motion was made and adopted, that the joint fire committee be instructed to hear the views and objections, if any be offered, by parties interested in this business, to the operation of this law, and report the same to the Board.

Thus, it would seem that this action was not intended to be final.

On the 10th of June a large and enthusiastic meeting was held by the dealers in petroleum oil, at 34 Pine-street, in the room lately occupied as the Traders and Mechanics' Exchange, to take into consideration the above ordinance, in reference to the storage of this article within the city limits of Brooklyn. The ordinance in question, being calculated to affect the trade most injuriously, it was deemed an act of justice due to themselves to make an effort to induce the Common Council to re-consider its resolve. Mr. A. C. FERRIS was President, and Mr. J. WALES Secretary of the meeting. Remarks were made by the Chairman and Secretary, and also Professor JERLEY, after which it was

Resolved, That the ordinance of the Common Council of Brooklyn, passed June 2, 1862, in regard to the storage and manufacture of petroleum oil within the limits of that city, we think, was made without proper inquiry in regard to the heavy interests involved.

Resolved, That the demand for the crude oil and its products having become a matter of inquiry and demand from all parts of the civilized world, and being an article of large export as well as home use, we think the Hon. Aldermen should give to this trade every privilege consistent with the safety of adjoining interests, and afford us such facilities as this important and growing trade requires.

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by this meeting, to wait upon the committee appointed by that honorable body, for conference in regard to these interests.

The committee consisted of Messrs. J. G. .WILLIAMS, B. O. KEtchum, T. G. STEARNS, I. P. RUST, and M. J. FRISBIE-(also, A. C. FERRIS and J. WALES, ex-officio.) The committee to take charge of the interests involved, with authority to take such action as may be required, and to call future meetings.

We trust the subject will receive the consideration it deserves, before it is finally disposed of.

MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

All of us were brought up to believe that corporations have no soul. We wish now, however, to make a record of the fact that the idea is exploded. Still, we cannot yet believe that the converse of the proposition is true that all corporations have souls. The true guide to a correct decision on this point is, in our opinion, this-that where a corporation has a warm hearted President, the body corporate itself partakes and becomes a part of his enlarged humanity.

We think the following note to the Sanitary Commission illustrates this proposition:

THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE Co., 94 Broadway, New York, May 17, 1862.

J. S. Newberry, M. D., Resident Secretary of the Western Department of the United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland, Ohio.

DEAR SIR: In compliance with the instructions of our trustees, I have the gratification to enclose our check, payable to your order, for $1,000, to be used in the humane and patriotic work of relieving the sick and wounded of our army, in which yourself and your associates are so zealously and efficiently laboring. I am, with much respect,

Your obedient servant,

F. R. WINSTON, President.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

1. COENTIES REEF. 2. THE WOLF ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.

COENTIES REEF.

THE Submarine Engineering Company have obtained from the city government of New York the privilege of postponing the completion of their work on Coenties Reef until next spring. This postponement is made necessary, and fully justified, by the useful services which the company are now performing for the United States Govermnent in the department of North Carolina, and which require all their spare diving bells and best engineers. It is believed that the interests of commerce will not suffer to any appreciable extent from this delay in the removal of Coenties Reef. Portions of the rock have been blasted off to the specified depth of twenty feet below low water, and the remainder has been reduced from sixteen to fourteen feet. This is a decided improvement. and will permit the free passage of a large number of vessels which formerly could not get over the reef. With regard to ships of large draught, pilots must exercise their usual caution in steering clear of it. With ordinary care accidents may be avoided.

THE WOLF ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.

Midway between the Lizard Point and the Scilly Islands, at a distance of about two and twenty miles from each, lies a dangerous rock called the Wolf. It is about 58 yards long and 38 yards broad at low water; bold and steep on all sides. The set of the tides in the locality varies towards every point of the compass in the course of twelve hours; ordinary springs run very rapidly, and during S. W. gales and stormy weather, there are furious eddies, making it very hazardous to approach within a considerable distance of the rock; the rise of tide at such times is also full ten feet above the ordinary springs. The sea runs terrifically, as with the full force of the swell of the Atlantic it precipitates itself against the rock. In calm weather the noise is heard at a great distance.

It will be easily imagined that this rock is very difficult of access, except in very fine weather. It was only after long, patient, and per-evering toil, that the attendant difficulties were surmounted about twenty years ago, and a beacon was completed, having the centre of its globe 24 feet above the level of the sea at high water. Portions of the wrecks of several vessels jammed into the interstices of the rock were discovered, and told a fearful tale of the loss of life and property on this treacherous rock.

It was found that the beacon was so frequently completely buried in the waves that to make it effective it would be necessary to give it greater elevation. In 1848 the stone beacon was cased outside with thick iron plates, (perforated,) and a new iron mast and globe erected, with the centre ten feet higher than the former one. The total cost incurred in the erection of this beacon, with the last improvements, was £11,298 4s. 1d.

It has long been desired that a lighthouse should be substituted for this beacon, and in the course of last autumn steps were taken by the Trinity Corporation for commencing operations on the Wolf. The premises of Messrs. BOLITHO, at Penzanc, being found suitable for a building yard, and furnished with all other necessary accommodation, were rented, and shortly afterwards MR. JAMES DOUGLAS commenced his new undertaking. Owing to a long prevalence of weather unsuitable for working on the rock, the principal operations have hitherto been preparatory; but as summer comes on the work will be prosecuted with that energy and sagacity for which the family, who have for many years been employed in the erection of rock lighthouses, are eminently distinguished.

The diameter of the base will be 40 feet; over nine-tenths of this space the rock has to be squared down to 3 ft. 6 in. below the level of the upper point of the rock, and over the remaining tenth of the diameter 1 ft. 6 in. deeper, so that the lower courses will be built five feet in the solid rock, and sixteen feet below the level of high water springs. The first nineteen courses bringing the tower up to 38 feet from the base, will be of solid granite, the diameter of each succeeding course being reduced by 9 inches, that of the tower at the above elevation is reduced to 25 feet at this level, and on the south-east side of the tower will be the entrance door, made of strong metal, fitting so exactly as to be impervious to water, and capable of resisting the utmost impetuosity of the waves. The ascent to the door is by thirty-six metal steps, built in with the solid granite. From the level of this entrance door, a circular staircase, left out of the centre of the solid, leads to the water-room, the door of which forms a landing place for stores. The thickness of the walls of the six rooms above the solid decrease gradually from six to two feet, the height of each room being ten feet, with each stone floor forming an arch overhead, and nine inches thick-all granite.

In the store-room is a crane for hoisting in the supplies,-this is ingeniously contrived to launch out, when required, and when not in use it is completely housed, leaving the aperture through which it slides impenetrable by water. The parapet will project two feet, forming a gallery 3ft. 6 in. round the lantern, with a strong metal rail surrounding it.

The lantern will be 19 feet high and 14 feet in diameter, resting on a five feet pedestal, and surmounted by a five feet cowl and four feet gilt vane. The roof and frame work of the lantern are of gun-metal. The centre of the lantern is to be 110 feet above the high water spring tides. The crest of the waves, however, will frequently go clean over it, as proof of which, the fog-bell affixed to the gallery of the Bishop Rock Lighthouse-one hundred feet above the level of high water mark--was broken off by the sea in a heavy gale of wind during the winter of 1860. The part from which it was broken will be amongst the remarkable curiosities at the great Exhibition this year.-Plymouth Paper.

MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES.

1. "I DON'T LIKE MY BUSINESS." 2. VIOLENT DEATHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

"I DON'T LIKE MY BUSINESS."

THERE is no greater fallacy in the world than that entertained by many young men, that some pursuit in life can be found wholly suited to their tastes, whims, and fancies. This philosopher's stone can never be discovered; and every one who makes his life a search for it will be ruined. Much truth is contained in the Irishman's remark: "It is never asy to work hard." Let, therefore, the fact be always remembered by the young, that no life-work can be found entirely agreeable to a man. Success always lies at the top of a hill; if we would reach it, we can do so only by hard, persevering effort, while beset with difficulties of every kind. Genius counts for nothing in the battle of life! determined, obstinate, perseverance in one single channel, is everything. Hence, should any one of our young readers be debating in his mind a change of business, imagining he has a genius for some other, let him at once dismiss the thought as he would a temptation to do evil. If you think you made a mistake in choosing the pursuit or profession you did, don't make another by leaving it. Spend all your energies in working for, and clinging to it, as you would to the lifeboat that sustained you in the midst of the ocean. If you leave it, it is almost certain that you will go down! but if you cling to it, informing yourself about it until you are its master, bending your every energy to the work, success is certain. Good, hard, honest effort, steadily persevered in, will make your love for your business or profession grow. Since no one should expect to reach a period when he can feel that his life-work is just the one he could have done best and would have liked best. We are allowed to see and feel the roughness in our own pathway, but not in others'. Yet all have them.

VIOLENT DEATHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

In the year 1860, for which the returns have just been issued, 14,775 persons in England and Wales died a violent death-one person in every 1,328. Nearly 13,000 of the deaths are ascribed to accident or negligence; among them 5,417 were caused by fractures and contusions, 1,061 by suffocation, (760 at not a year old), 2,264 by drowning, and 3,166 by burns and scalds. The exposure of men to fire in coal mines and works causes their deaths from burns during the prime of life to outnumber those of women, notwithstanding the more combustible dress of the latter, but after 55 the deaths of women from this cause are more than double those of men, and, says Dr. Farr, the old women who are now burnt to death far exceed in numbers those who in cruel times were burnt as witches. In 1860, at least 1,365 persons wilfully sought their own destruction, one in 14,286 of the population; but there is no doubt that many suicides by drowning are classed as accidental deaths.