The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-03 00:00:00

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DISH COVERS and HOT WATER DISHES to every venter W, d variety, sod of the ergot ood moot traterthe pallrree. 71e pith Coven, C.. the sat of al; Bloch TM, of,l. to the Mt of lii; elegant income paten., dn. to to., the art; Breath& Mena, wilts or without raver Woad bandit*, Pia to 10:r. the ,et ; Ithelhekl plaza, Sle to SIG lin the ret ; Mo th Tie llot Water Lit-los. wi th imitator intent In to 23a.; Dritamoia Kol a sin to Ca.; lihenteld plat. fl, toll tier, Stl lea. ••• LAMPS of all SORTS and PATIIIitN/3.—T 6 e largest se well m rhairest, swortsent of PAL3IZWA MAO. and ether CANDLFATICKS, CAMPHINE. ARGAMD, and 14 .LAR LAMM, with .11 the litwt improvement., and of the newest and newt realirrobi pit:erne, in °mule. Bohemian and plain &ma, or papier ametsi , , In eitotener. sa at W. B. bumbles, whirr ad the emeunable semi** are sow wiling. • • • 10ALMRR'S CANDLES, 60. a pound. PALM ER" PATENT CANDLE!, in marked "Naar." knelt o double wilts Opt per pound. ere, "deka Moen us, ;o r 1 wire The Iwo., reword foe every artier wed approved 1 h bated 'IMP.. with twerp. r well as of every Iron. ;nowt ry erre% rent ter pot) tree. WILLIAM $. KU later, 39, OAVOItruIeTREET, corner of New. etwetswel; mad No. I, NEWMAN-141MM. Tralefehed In Well... Wee% A.P. ISA THE ONLY STC)VH WITHOUT A FLUE.- JOTCEI4 PATV.NT, foe warnalpg remegm watirclorere, confer watorim, harnem-roottr, 'hop.. eaten,. and all tOamo req.orine artitimal warmth, mire from lee. nett upward.. Joyce . r slot'', not emit rannite tw unpleamot Voted with the J..tee'a ratent wit canututie to bum. tom. I to 4. boars without auto. ion or reotett lelong. To hr even in 41,in daily at the tolr rroprirtor'a, SWAN NASH, ISt, 011ont.etreet, Yurnioising Ironmonger ; and at the City Dena, Iltl, Newiatt- abort; and to ho had Isom the prmelp.l ironmordteru trrwn or emintry. Joyce's Prepared Purl for the Warm U. ed. per bitehel, only tote had :roniree with the real and name es the arks. —ll. ?Melt. DJ,I tatomi-Urett, eat Ill), INeeraute-etrewt. S.N. eulicite the Maw of .in invartion (at hie apatious Show Inn., Di, Ottued.street.) of Lade sad elegant umortment td Nat•e• tool Venders. Fire inap, kiloton itsages, Ti a Tray% and all Mona of Famishing Imernmerery. umoriomell for beauty of &own aNd on taste prier..--Itogoovro ti SYINI(ON Alit VENT COVES. tlatn, 3e.; with key, *. 04 ; do. 40., Y.tretro.Tlatril, So. awl So. Rol NA It BLE CH IMN EY- PI EC ES, G itATEs, and VEN DEM.—J. M. IngWragS4, 123, Oxford-diver, (nrar nd..circua). Land., tr.• on air. in his cs.enaire .how rousing a gnat Varany ad M MIII.Y. VIIIMMtIi•I'IIECLA. Itegrintar Onus and Varlet*, of the aiu egradst and prrfrrt gl,eriptton, insprorrd kitchen r.otro gnat nilscr cagticr algal gratua Every artier nrongdartured upon ling in , al amen ortnnolea, and at rtady matey pratts.—.la loantafacturer• of (\lady', Vageng Sigma. tO VEN C-11 1 .0 ItEQUIRED for 13ARLOWli NEW INVENTED SELE-ACTING 14VPIION TAP, which tually presents ale, beer, cider, or other Nears, from becersag flat or mid, prise Is. bd. ; or rekt tree to any part of England (It two Etre Wen) kir Sa. al. each; ditto Elretro Pissed. for Sherry, Ste., he. F.I. by using *lnch • great mends will be 'betted. The pridam Tap,, 'Mir turfed on, admits it, ono the cask sufllcient to canoe the liquor to bow arm nn more; and when the tap l• turned at the air an no limiter enter. 'I ha adeantagm are ob. •k.u.s. The Wt pint may be drawn in na brisk and be conditam as whew the cash was tint upped. The Intitortalle• of presemmit Dorn warty the fluids we drink cannot be overrated. It is • well known tack Mat mid liquor. , are often the ormliroolas cause ul cholera. *Wary be bad a meat variety of superior tape at gamily reduced =rr—JAllkb NADIADV, turniahing tronmorime, 11, king Wd eei lemmliala-howne. Esta MAN 10 Es nlkked twin. Tie shore ore nor =We milandactwe. None peniurra unlem .tanr tl c win 1. brims Mae Wad eatrem.—Tbe tzsds supplied.—J. B. teach. Peet , • sew wiled al taiga, whs. SEASONABLE PHESENTEL—At thin festive period of ts• yew • more than mild saskty iv created far— rowing attraction. and the Milan ow unrivalled dim...cries fat the toilet are tilled leis hiervamit requialtiosh 'MM.:NOW Mat:ASSAM OIL. ha erratrat and NAP( ainisi • luxuriant brad of Ws; KIiViLANUS . biALSI Olt, tor r• rowing the Min sat. talr, Wrid dimming; MA ROWLAND.. wiff TO, or pearl dentifrire, tar imparts* • prarldilie whiten. so to the teeth. The patronage of Roy toy throughout hump., and the high sprovelation by rank and Whim, with the wellAnown infallible of of them artkle*, rive them • celebrity unparalleled. and render thew • prodialy elegant awl mwasitele prevent. Dewar* of *plaint. imitation*. The only genuine of each WM. the name of " Howl-mita' " preceding that of 'finkon the wrapper or lab I.—Sold by them litt, Haltom London, awl by rbentiataatal perfumers. riIWENTY-FIVE TEARS' NERVOUSNESS, Corotlpatlon. Iningeotion. and Debility, ',bleb no rardieinc Wad remove or alt, ve, have been etirettally cured by DV BARRY% BEVALESTA ARA RICA Si Kith in a very short time.—W. R. Reeves. Pool Anthony, Tarr on." "Eight yam' dapreel, neranncee, debility, nab crania., anew, art nausea, have been effectually renewed by DU BARRY'S cicada. Ilealtareataind Food in • very ✓ant Urne.—Doer. Jinni!l. W. Snot% Ilidlinidon Raton, Norfola." "Three years' enema, OFTTOOMIBror, with Mina In soy nook and left are. and general debility. hae bees radially removed by DU BARRY'S Ilealth-rectovand Yotei—Aker. Stuart, Archdeacon of Kara saibbrfeen.”—Oad in weans with Inaractami, aelehleit I lb., at 2e. dd.; Slb., at in ed.; lib., at Ile.; 1/Ib., at 2a. Super. waned quality, lOW.. at 13a; 88. at 214.— DU BARRY and On, W. Saw tiseri4treet. lasiss.-11. IS sad Ulla, aervade hoe. • SPORTING. ADDITIONAL EICIIIIIIIL CHESTER CUP. Waite, °eine, Yades•b, Caadre. Captain Utas Nam, Qalskaand, Wilnann.,Tla• Sweep, Cabs!d ank, Rawl' B!rap (lat. Fits/. Jana,. Lind, Sir Flub% Usll_ LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP. Carl i Soignee or Holdersees, Christiana, Docility, Old C taint, leversien, D.mbe, Piney., Little George, Lord Worse, sad b f be Binanese est of Myrtle. LIVERPOOL 8 ESP LE•C H A E. 15;sike-a-liplet, and &avenger. We have gives the stele+ , es they reached us from Meson. Wi &theft', Chester and York, bet cannot vouch for their completeness. leis net hapeeshable when the lists w checked, that we shall hays sows esereetaas Ms make. Strff-CONKISOIONED OFFICES/1' BALL. —Yesterday evert, tits snarl ball of the non-commissioned lacers of the led We Guards took place at the Cimmercial Hall, King's-road, Chelsea, and under cireumstarms• (says a 'or raspoadeat) which mil.cted great cesclit spat thaw who undertook the general management of affair. The steward' on the occasion were Corporals Oreg o n, Kendall, Nem, sad Halt, and the mater of wanton's% was Kr. Orattao Cooke. All the popular dances of the sear were called ' tato requisition, and especial ear* was taken that the walla! ohm/acme of the visitors should not he forgotten. There was a most friendly and pie!urefque admixture of the representatives of different regiments betides theme of the 2nd Life Guards, and the flue tall e tures of the soldiers presented a very ef fective corral to the slender forms of the gentle damsels Imo appeared r their "companions in arms." In refer care to the dancing, it must be admitted that the corporals and their nmesmates exerted themselves to a surprising de gree. It and hardly be stated that the scene was altoge ther • eltirsrful and pleasant one, for the gay and gallant "writer" were avid , otly quite at home ander the fire of the music, whilst the ladies (the majority of whom ware as bewitching a ladies eau be, when Lifeguardsmen are their admirers) appeared to think that the proudest dattahters of the laud would envy their delis ',winos. Tao hall, which has been considerably enlarged of let*, was graces fully decorated, and was extremely well adapted for the merry making. DR. LAYARD AND NINEVEH. trees Bentley's Niecelimey for tannery.) When "Nineveh and its Remains" was published •wo years sae, the very title of the work was certain to excite the utmost estriaity, bat the disclosures contained in it fat xceeded ell the imagination could have seemived. That a toy, originally built, as we are informed la the S criptures u (0-nes v.ll and 12 verses) by one of the early descendants M Noah—a city, which for countless, or at leas* unknown, ogre, had vanished from the face of the earth, so that not one memorial or authentic record of the maaner e aid amass ef nee iabahitants bad been preserved—thst ancient Nioineb *mild have been, as it were, galled up to pass before the eyes of the mortal' of the oiastoenth century, was an event calcified to b. get the miaow interest and utonishmeot. That so marvellous a work should have been perforate 1 by tne enterprise, perseveranc-, and vides of a single unas sisted rasa, was ant the least au:pride' circumstance in the matter. Thu cat? of Nineveh was the metropolis of the great Assy rian emirate, and there is abundant evidence to prove that it was once the largest and most populous city in the world. Whether Niue, the build• r, or restart r, of that vast city, completed It before or after the overthrow of Zoreaster, , is uncertain. It is speed fey all profane writers, and coi.firmed by the Scripture., that it exosaded all others in Snot' and megofioence ; for it was in circumference four hundred and 'linty stadia, or feileogs (sixty miles), the walls being a buodred feet high, and so broad that threes chariots might be driven abreast on the ramparts. These walls were adorned ' with fifteen busked towers, oath two hundred feet high. But this city, built is the plains of Assyria, on the banks I of the river Tidria sad in the region of Eden, waa founded has before the time of Nthua, and, ancient Melodize re pay was galled Casepsor, until Nom amplified it aud gave it the sass of Nineveh. This Caspar, then, must have been founded by Mahar, who, as we learn from 0 nesis, went forth from the land of Shiner and built Nineveh. Nothing more concerning it, however, is told in the sacred writings till tie time of the prophet Jonah, who describes it se an "e• eroding great city of throe days' journey." He also indicates is immense yotpolation, saying that it contained " more than aix sure, thouland persons that could not discern between their right hand and their left hand." Suopoeing one.eizth of the inha bitants of Nineveh to have been in this deplorable ante of ignorance, we have a population more than seven hundred thousand in number. The preaching of the prophet Jonah caused the people of Nineveh to repent, and accordingly the city wss soared for a time: yet shortly afterwards Nahum wu commanded to de dare the burden of Nineveh, to proclaim the city's destruc sittn, and to moons's, the downf al of the Muria* empire. This prophet speaks of it us a city with many strongholds, and malty gates with here; that bad multiplied her mer chants ahoy* the 'tan of heaven; whose inbehitants and princes were 1101110,0161 as the lo.usts ; and who's store and jitney of pleasant furniture was endless. The destruction of the city, in the year n.c. 606, by the ennbiaed armies of Crouton ling of Penis, and Naloopo. !war, who wee, so Dr. Layard thinks, the Assyrian governor of Babylon, fa:tilled this prediction to the very letter. Nine veh was laid waste: she was indeed " made a desolation, and dry like a wildentess." We learn from Dlodorna Sieulus that the city wudeatroyed partly by water and partly by fire, and that many talent. of gold and silver rescued from the flames were carried to Ecbatan. Lutists of Sansosata. who &twain about aD. led, informs us that N . h had perisheo utterly—that not a vestige of the eity remained, and that oven the place where it stooe was no longer known. We aka it for granted that all our readers, !having in 'Petted the extraordinary sculptures now in the British Museum, or wen drawings from thene,and having forme: a due estimate of the obligations this country lies under to the discoverer, will have been anxious, long since, to know something of that remarkable person, and such information we are happy to be enabled, in part at but, to communicate. Since the time of Lucian nearly seventeen centuries have elapsed, and the name of Nineveh, until lately, alone re. main,d. Its very rats were no longer on the face of the land, and in this ago of science and inquiry no anti Tartan before Dr. La and ever seriously bethought himself art seeking out the Nineveh and Babylon of Holy Writ, and of searching for the buried palaces of the Anyrun monarchy. True it is, that the ooti.o of travellers in Aayria hen been attracted long ago to huge mounds, apparently composed of earth and rubbish, and that it was conjectured thet these wen the remains of the stupendous solids's, Nineveh and Babylon. A nun of brickwork, vitrified end rather out of the aggregated rubbish of centuries, was believed to Ise the remains of the tower of Babel. The temple of Bela, according to Hersdotus, end some mounds in the seighbaithood, were supposed to be the hanging gardens and marvellous structures attributed to Semiramis, the wife of Nicene, who built Babylon ; bet IL, &acuity of reaching those localities, while it reeked the iatenst of the satiquariaa, prevented the traveller from visiting them. Greater certhalty was awakened by the presumed site of Nineveh than of Babylon. S, viral Ben had noticed the numerate mounds on the lett bank of the Tigris, oppo site the modern city of Wool, and what tradition bed called the tomb of Jonah, on the top of one of the mounds, gave a tartan probability to the coojecture that it indicated the site of Nineveh ; but it is to Dr. Layard that we arc indebted for o koooledge of that important feet, 6:Alarmed as it is by the extraordinary remains he her forwarded to this country The Layartis are descended from a distioguishtd named Raymond, long settled in the south of France, who clam, d *Malty with the Raymond', sovereign Counts of Toulouse; were among the Guilts, supporters of the reformed religits in that country; and ',pound the those of the perse cuted Albigenses. The Rsymonds, nevertheless, continued to receive honours and grants from successive sovereigns of France, intermarrying with the noblest families, until the massacre of the Hugaenota, In 1872, when two of the brothers fell victims in that terrible slaughter, whilst a third (the heir) succeeded in effecting his escape into Holland. The immediate ancestor of the existing branch of the Raymonds, or rather Layarde, came over to this country with William Prince of Orange, mid held a high command wider that protestant prises at the battle of the 134 et, From that period the family definitively settled in ED glaniL Having already embraced the pro:obtain faith, Raymond wee content for its sake to give up his a/wary, and relinquish his property in Frain; want d by the revccatiwn of the edict at Nantes, he dropped his patrimonial name, sad assumed that of Leytted, probably the name of on estate, as one of the family was authequently tolled Raymond de Lvov's; destroying at the same time every document which, preserved and transmitted to his descendants, might tempt any one of them to return to catholicism, and enable him to recover the estates in France. This, the last of the Reyntoods, wee the grandfather of Dr. Leveed, the late Dean of Bristol, and of his two bro thers, both generals in the English army. The wood son of the Dean of Bristol, Henry Peter John, held for many yeas a high civil appointment in Ceylon, was a maw of great abilities sad varied acquiremenu, and was the father of Austen Hairy Layard, the subject of our present memoir, who was born at Paris, during a temporary visit of his parents to that metropolis, on the 6th March, 1817. The early youth of Ltyerd was pealed at Florence. Familiar with the language of Italy, it is no wonder that OS glorious literature of that runny subsequently solicited hie attention ; or that, born with a love of the fine arts, his taste should have been ennobled and purified by a con templation of the glorious models of sculpture and paintifig in which Florence abnunds. Was It here that he acquired that command over his pencil, which to sfiorwards forged infinitely serviceable to him amid the ruins of Nimriud ? Tit faculty was afterwards fully excited " by the appalling sight of slabs with the noblest sculptures and 'he finest in ecriptione, crumbing into dust before his eyes. No draughts man bed bees provided to help him : and had he not instantly determined to arrest by the quickness of his eye and the magic of his pencil thew fleeting forme, which were about to aisaopear for over, many of the finest remains of ancient art would have been irrecoverably lost." Layard returned from Italy to hie cativo country for oda. 0111q00. That being completed, he devoted himself to the ' , tidy of the law, which, however, proved little attractive to him. Pope, paying an elegant compliment to the accom plished Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield, exclainu— How sweeten Ovid wets in Surrey lost! For ear part, we should not greatly grieve if we knew tba , even a *scowl Murfl4d wesUat in a Layard. About the age 0(18, L• co d ' s travels in Italy, Ramie, and other anturies, suited In him a Moog passion for sill more extended adventure, which, accompanied by an ardent esire for knowledge, and an energy which "knew not what it was to intermit," (Waded him upon abandoning his profession, and settling in the East, where he had family cAsnexiiiiso. la the summer of 1839, with a friend for a oompanion, Dr. Layard left Boglend. Travening Germany, they passed through Dalmatia into 11..steteegro, whirs Dr. Layard was induced to stay for • brief pen. d having engaged to aid • young and energetic chief in titillate); and otherwise Un moving the condition of his brave but Kent batman sub jeerts. From Montenegro the friends made their way as they best mall through Albania and Rottman, an enterprise in which tisey encountered many adventures, and finally, and at the end of the year, arrived by Adrianople at Constant!. prude. We are informed that Dr. Layard proceeded to Baghdad and into Syria; bat we have no means of following his to.tsteps with accuracy or oertain'y during this period of his wandering and eventful life. At this time his friend quilted his, and new he was left to pursue his course alone. We earnestly hope that some day—and that not a distant one—Dr. Layard will give to the world an account of the e xtraordinary adventures which betel him, when the eager wish to acquire knowledge which he desired to exertiee for the profit and benefit of his fellow creatures, curled him alto strange and many lands. If other men have acquired • larger experience of diversified life, few have encountered and surmounted greater difficulties; and none have ever engaged themselves to the attainment of a nobler object. Wanderlust In the Desert, he was hi quently attacked sod plundered by wild Arabs, and was constantly in peril. Now he =iota be found settling disputed points of geography, or Peeking historical remain—now making his way as a Bairn over wilds hitherto nntrodden by the (cot of Euro peans, cr sojourning with the barbarous Bactyari in their mountains, civilising and teaching the people; and, hating 1131114 small knowledge of medicine, saving the life of their chief's only son. The foregoing are but brief and faint Indications of the eluded life and adventures of Dr. Lapsed previous to the happy accident a h.ch enabled him successfully to prosiest . ° that undertaking which fruited in the extrsordinary dis outfits that have rendered his same so re me te. As early as Mil, Dr. Layard bad inspecti d the ruins on the CM bank of the fiTtiTi4tio, which have been generally believed to be the ruins mt Nineveh. Let the doctor himself describe the 'cautions with which he viewed (h. m : "He " (the spectator) "ha left the land where nature is I still lovely, where, is his OULU'S eye, be can rebuild the temple, er the theatre, half doubting whether they would have made a more grateful impremion upon the Beaus than the ruin before We. He is new at a lose to give any form is the rude heaps upon which he is guing. Those of whose works they ere the notelets, unlike the It man and the Gr. ek, have left no visible traces of their civilisation or of their arts : their influence has long educe passed away. The more he coejectures the more va.ue the results spew. The seen. around is worthy of the ruin he is contemplating: desolation meets desolation : a feeling of awe succeed* to wonder ; for there is nothing to relieve the mind, to lead to hope, or to tell of what has gone by. These huge mound. of Mayen' made a deeper impression open me, gave rise to more serious thoughts aid tersest ri flectione, than the temple of Belbee and the theatres of lonM." Shortly etterwarde, Dr Loyard hed a second opportunity of viewing the ruins of Nimroud, end of 'Remitting ,hem ; and it 11101 upon this occas:on vat the thought sugursted itself to bin, sod impressed Pull upon his mind, of making excavations. He had, he tells us, hopes that some persons in England might have been Induced to aid in the under. taking. It would seem, however, although we are not expeenly told so, that despairing of fu:filliog the vision, or of realising the hopes, which the sight of these mysterious mounds had excited, h^ had determined upon abandoning his project and returning home. lie had nulled as for as Constantinople on his way back to England, when, in a happy moment, he obtained a letter of introduction to Sir Stratford Canning, her Majesty's ambassador at the Sublime Porte. It is not at all wonderful that so distinguished a statesman at once per ceived that no ordinary person lad been presented to hie notice, or that he should have invited him to prolong his stay its the ease, end discharge some extra duties of the em. bassy to which he has now become cfiicially attached. Neither is it surprising, whoi4the character cf Sir Stratford is remembered, and the interest be takes in such researches* as Dr. Llyard bed at heart is known, that, in the autumn of 1845, he should have mentioned to Dr. Layard his readi- Delli to incur, for a limited period, the expense of excava tions in Assyrie, in the hope that, should succese attend the attempt, means would be found to carry it out on au ad, quite scale. During Dr. Lanyard's stay in England he suffered greatly from an aguish fever which recurred monthly, and which he tad caught in the damp chambers it was necessary he should inhabit at Nintroud. In spite, however, of this severe indisposition, a, inimical to literary er intellecuel pursuit., he prepared for the press during hie brief reel demos in this country, the Nineveh and its Remains," and The Monument. of Nineveh, from Drawings made on the Spot;' besides a vOume of inscriptions in the cuneiform character for the British Museum, which we trust will soon be published and submitted to the ezaminetion of the learned world. Our reader' know the already triumphant result of Dr. Layard's enterprise and perseverance, which have brought iota the possession of this country treasures beyond all price. • In. Layer(' °Menet In bie " Nineveh," "I need scarcely re mind the reader that it is to Sir B. Cunning we owe the marbles of Ilehetreaasae now in the British Mumurn. The &flit oh:et which .Wed in the way of the acquisition of them invaluable relics, and the skill which was required to obtain them, are not generally known. I can testify to the efforts and labour which were neemeary for nearly three years, before the repugnance of the Ottoman government could be omitting, and petaltssion obtained to extract the eculptures irons the walls of a castle, which was more ,naleuely guarded than any InMitar edifies to the empire. Ther rt mond, notwitbstandmg the stir met instonnountable diMeultice raised by the euthorioes and in habitants of Badman, was most succeselully ,fretted by Mr. klison. The Elgin marbles, and all other remains from 'turkey and Greece, now in Europe, were obtained with comparative ease. THE RAPPITES. Some of oar readers may still recollect—for non age,: occasionally takes a stronger hold upon memory than mire valuable matter—an account transmitted by our New York correspondent of a set of ghosts who communicated with the men of this world by rapping upon !tors or tables. They appeared to be a cross between " Old J-firey," who (see Southey) so long haunted the house of the Wesley',' and the Coek•lans ghost. They dilfrred, however, from both in their readiness to change their place of residence wi mi their earthly friends wished them, and to become subservient to fortune-telling speculations. This might be owing to a growth of the mercantile spirit in the spirit world analogous to that which his been witnessed of late years in one own. Not having heard anything lately of the Rappitcs and their serviceable spirits, we assumed that the man& stations bad caaard. In this, however, we were awaken, se appears clearly funs the following piece of grave humbug, which appeared in the New Yo►k Ti ibune of the 20th ult.: • TALI ifini • DECEASED FatIND (Through a Clairvoyant). The following minutes of a cOr.firsation held with the spirit of &departed friend, who lett tide mortal state iu June, 11149, is not published u any evidence of the truth of the remarkable phenomena of alleged intercourse with disem bodied spirit., known in our says es clairvoyance, mys terious rapping', &e. The young man who was the medium of communication in this case has been consciously e!a,r voyant but • few weeks, and the tappings," so called, are also heard in hie presence, though he is no connexion of the Fox family. and has but the slightest acquaintance with any of them. We think none who know him would consider fraud on his put possible, though what delusion, hallucina tion or diabolic influence he may be subjected to, %hie deponent sixth not. We happen to know of still another family in this city, having so connezios with the Foxes, In which the " nye teethes rapping." are now hued, and no one can say how many more there m-y be, as in every instance the profoundest secrecy is enjoined and observed. The object of publishing the following is simply to refute the common assumption that nothing is ever communicated from the spirit world by this. new s:snciee that is of the slightest importance. The responses, it is said, are uniformly frivolous, useless, and uninteresting. We should say that, so far as we have observed, they are about ea worthy of regard as the questions to which they ass replies will permit them to he. li,wever, here is a specimen, copied verboten from notes hutily taken down as the words were uttered by the alleged clairvoyant. The deceased Mr. C., who purports to be the communicator through this medium, was a men of decided intelligence, energy, and philaathropy, and these responses are very like his manner of speaking while on firth. But to the questions and answers : Question—Mr. C., had the human race • random exiat *see before we came on this earth I—Answer: Soul matter had an existence, but not • conscious existence. Are there any spirits which curt an evil or malignant influence on human actions and conditions ?—Yes ; but not because they desire to do so, but because of their inferior or gross organisation. Are there any human spirits which have passed from earth which ate not an • state of Imes, or improvement 1—No; but some progress slowly, having a very gross organisation to begin with. Do you know Eder A. Poe, the poet?—Yes. In what sphere as he'-1 have a different classification from others. (Question pressed)—He is in (what I consider) the third society, second sphere. [Note—ln rervhaes made through Rapping* which purported to be from Poe Limulf, he Is said to be in the sixth sphere ] Are there any spirits in a state of misery or pain, so as to feel their existence a batten I—There are some who bane mental suffering, because they did net improve [or misused] their advantages while cm earth. Are there any **separated from their friends as to cause them unhappiness—not beteg allowed the society of thou they love best i—lf they might (now) have been astociated I I with those friends by improving their advantages (when) es earth, then they are uuhsppy. Are there any who despair of ever attaining the oondltles of the bleat 7—They may at times, but not lastingly. Does the state in which Mr. C. now is seem more lams- diathly, palpably under the Divine guars went rhea earl condition I—lts ishabitants see more clearly, as they haw progressed further. Are there any in that state who disbelieve the existents et the Deity I—They do not disbelieve it, but some do sot comprehend it. Tun the Deity is not visible from that sphere I—He ie nowhere visible. We runic, impressions from 13im, but do not see Him. Are the apostles and founders of Christianity visible to, Mr. C.l—No: None who are in a higher sphere are 'labs ' to those is a lower. Can thou in • higher either* communicate to those in a lower ?—Yes. When clairvoyants suppose that they see apostles, &a., are they deceived I—or do they really see as they suppose / Many of them think that they see the Apostle Paul, or whoever else they wish to communicate with, when they really do not. When a mother, who dearly loves her good child, but who has lived unworthily, goes to the spirit world, is she, or is she not, permitted to see her child before she has attained his sphere ?—She does not see him, but receives impressions from him. Does he see her I—Yes ; he communicates to her, and watches OVID? her. Have generations passed away, so that they cannot he WE from Mr. C.'s present sphere ?—Sorne have, and some have not. Could Kr. C. hre Adam and the ancient patriarchs ?—No. Is this new ability rn our part to communicate with the spirit world a ansequence of en) change or imorovsmsat in the beaten family ?—Yes ; the human race hare become more refitted sad susceptible (to impressions f 'ma the spirit world) than formerly. [lt was here casually stated by some one present that Mr. C. had awed, on a former occasion, that idiots have no im mortal ext.t.nce. The present Twist demurred to tb's, and asked—] Do children, who die in conscious infancy, live ip the future state I—The moment an talent has been n4herod into the world, an individuality has been formed, which continues to exist, provided the ph)sical constitution was perfected—not otherwise Then why do not animals also have an immortal exist ence I—Kan has a peculiar formation, which animals have nor. To all who have that formation, soul adheres—not to others. Can Mr. C. give 111 any Idea of his putout locality in apace—whether it is on any particular plane' or around this . earth?—Human spirits love to hover aroun d thii earth, but - they are of conflated to it. gb. Do these born on the several planet. usually remain eoch - - . ,a that which was his birthplace ? [Answer not taken down, M i but believed to have been effirmoter.] Are the planets Mottle to Mr. C. ? —Yes. Drea Mr C. sea this outer material earth—deer be see it se as we do, with our material eyes ?—Ha perceives tits earth as • highly material body. A SCIENTIFIC JOURNEYMAN PRINTER. The foliowieg intereatiug biographical sketch is I it from the Albano Dutchomn, -a paper publish' din Albany, 114 in the state of New York : at. . . " Mr. Paterson is a native of New Jersey, having been li born est Morristown on the 11th of Jahusry, 1799. He is, 50 therefore, in his 51st year. At the age of tour years he no 15 moved with hie parents to C..nede. His father was shoe- 2 1 maker by trade, and died poor; his mother is still living, i s and resides in Canada, near the city of Hamilton. Mr. ;4 Paterson was apprenticed to an uncle to learn the house- se carpenter's business. At this emrhyment he continued alts about three years, when his noels met with a reverse of 1 6 fortune, which compelled his nephew to pursue some other ql calling fora livelihood. 50 His nest attempt to be useful was as office boy to a 10 country physician, with whom Mr. Paterson remained till 15 he was -..early as well read in me dicine as his empl .yer. It is, doubtless to ' the Doctor's library' that Dlr. Paterson r e is mainly indebted for the literary tastes by which his alter 25 lila has been so singularly distinguished. 23 " Quitting the doctor, we shortly alter find him in Buffalo, alt. where he acted a clerk in a drug store for about three 15 month', when the offers and well filed shelves of S.ilisbury, 7 5 ., stations rof that city, induced him 'to throw physic to g the dogs,' and take a position under the tree that brought 121 blushes and aprons into the wotld—the tree of knowledge. If, 111 C0111:111/011 with their hook store, the Moser/. &Hahne's' 114 published a paper called the Buffalo Go:ette, which paper SO basing contained a dhel, the proprietors were sued, and „V judgment rendered against them fur 8,000 dole. They at 17 once proceeded to smuggle their stock into Niagara, Canada, so and sent John there for the purpose of disposing of it. lie 19 obtained part of a building occupied by a printer, and then Ile disposed of the stock of books in about eight months. So 'Being spin thrown on Lis own resources he agreed to set 1 4 1 type for Mr. Ferguton, publisher of the Niagara SpectlP)r. bt. At this time the celebrated It ill Gourley contributed to 93 its columns, and, being a radical reformer, he libelled the SO government. For this species of enjoyment Mr. Ferguson was imnrisoned, his paper teased its thistecce while p Paterson was again compelle dto seek his fortune elsewhere. a It was hi. inteaticn then to go to Montreal; but finding it se, ienoweible to raise the neetheary hands to carry him there, litt he was compelled to 'lout it' to Black Bich, and not 114 raving means sufficieht to pay hie ferriage, returned to le• Buffalo. At this latter city he remained three years, doting which time he I d his trade (that of a (tinter), in the ufßce of D. M. Day, publisher of the Buffalo Journal. so After having visited mid worked in a number of places, he SO toads up his residence in this city. is the year 1122, a real- 111 alnico that he has eontinaid to this day. His first work In te • Albany he found at E. W. Skinners. " The degree of A.M. was conferred on Mr. Paterson in pi the year 1836, by Union College. la " As we mentioned last week Mr. Paterson is • scholar in every sense of the term. He is not only thoroughly versed SO in every branch of mathematic', but can read and write 4 ,1 Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, wPh as much eau and to fluency se he can Bothell. In the different living hallows he is aerially well ported up, and is probably the only mth St. ea earth who can converse in every language spoken in His. 15 rope. Hie great work, "The Celculus of Operations," has I: jut Maned from the press, and is, in the opinion of scientific nen one ot the most profound pr,ductions that the maths tt - meatiest world has yet given to society. se " From what we have written above, the reader will per et. eels, that Mr. Paterson is not only a sell made, but a most 6t persevering man. With no aid but industry, and no higher r t a than teat which is bestowed on • journeyman primer, N , Mr. Paterson has become n onle thoroughly mousinted with every department of human knoweedge, rut has cc. 3 guired a handsome little property, and owns one of the beet it select libraries in the city. The latter contains some 3.000 volumes, while its estimated worth Is pot down at 6,000 30 dollars. 15 t. A week ago we stated that John Paterson, of Albany, it was the mat extraordinary man in America. The above 90 facts, we think, prove it. In our opinion, nature wid pro due* • half tiCith Sbaksperes before she produces another 1 1 man whose scouirements will compare with those belonging 43 to this modest, unpretending printer. To our young men, t o the history of this unaided g. nits should act as a stimulus to I exertion. Having the same me ass of progression, they abonld endeavour to emulate his success . . . "Before we conclude this rather hasty sketch, we may as well render it a little more complete. by siding that Mr. Vaterson married, in 1828, Miss Oril,a 13^sworth, by whom he has hod five et.ildren ; the elder, Eliza, Is married to Charles G. Roar, of this city. Mr. Peterson still works at journey wait, hie present employer being Joel Munsell, of IS tate-street." IRELAND. Dlrt.l:4, JAN. 2. The inauguration of the new Lord Mayor, which was celebrated yesterday with becoming pimp and circumstance, was the most pleasing demonstra tion of municipal unanimity and good-will which has been witnessed in Dublin at least within the memory of its present inhabitants, and as such it gave a cheering promise for the future proap, cts of the city. The preparations for the civic pageant were on a grander scale than on former years, and in the early part of the day the streets were croweed with groups of people assembled to see the show ; but, unfortunately, an unfavourable change,in the weather spoiled a goad deal of the effect, and compelled the greater portion of them to seek shelter during the procession. But the proceedings at the meeting of the corporation were of the moat cordial character. All the old piques and divisions seemed to have been town, n, only two very despi cable exceptions being evinced, and the whole scene was one for general congratulation. The new Lord Mayor entered upon his effin under peculiarly favour able auspices ; and his predecessor, Mr. Reynolds, relinquished the civic honours amidst compliments from all parts of the Assembly. The Town Clerk read the motion of the council, selecting Alderman B njamin Leo Guinness, as Lord Mayor for the year 1851, of er which the worthy alderman took the necessary declaration, and was in i stalled into office in due form. He then took his seat on the throne, which was vacated by the late Lord Mayor, who, having shaken hands with his successor, resigned to him his insignia of office. A letter which has been addressed by Lord Mont eagle to the Limerick Pueket Station Committee leaves no doubt that some intention exists on the part of the Transatlantic Packet Station Commis ; tuners of removing the packet station from Liverpool to Holyhead. His lordehip says that having accom panied a deputation of Irish members to the commis , sionere, a paper was shown to them by the latter as the result of the evidence which had hitherto been taken on the subject ; and he adds : You will observe trout this paper that the comparison relied on by the comosi•aionere is not the time between Liver pool sad New York or Halifax, as contrasted with the time of a passage from an Irish port to a transatlantic station , but I the passage between H.lylead when the harbour is com pleted and the American port. The following is the paper referred to: TABLE. Thee li of By Paeket from Voyage ham Holyhead to to the New Port Yerk. D. N. ■ D. S. N. Otlway ll 13 111 0 let Torbert 11 8 10 7 33 Oork Va/ends .... 13 20 10 4 14 Berebawm IS 40 10 86: Crookhavea .... 13 498 10 7 0 ACHILL COLONY.—We cakestand that the Rev. Edward Naugle bu concluded all the preliminaries for the psyche's of the island of Achill from Sir Richard OH ince), snhject to a rent to Lord Sligo. By this means the colony of Achill will be extended over a tract of won+r► hitherto muc► neglected, sod th. labour of tte mi.sionary b.. elnsi derably increased. The Lord Ilishcp of Timm has set on foot a subserip•ion list, for the purrose or stecilti ten churches it. the wilds of C .onestare. His lordship has I already received donations ascossatiag to several thousand goods.—Muyo Constitution. BAILTVAYS. THIS DAY. Two o'CLocz. The improving tone of the railway share market, roticed yesterday, still continues, more confidence being imparted to the dealers by the favourable nature of the retnrus eq shown in the it creased development of the Christmas traffic. The business has not been t xtensive, bat in nearly every case the rates of husiuesi have been higher than yesterday, as will be seen from the subjoined list of the day's sales : Closing pries' est erday. THIS DAY. Two o'Ctoce. The English stock market opened with a steady aspect this morning, and the operations since entered into have established a further improvement in prices. Money is mare ettai'y obtainable than has been the case for some days past, and the con sideration of the additional facilities which will be afforded by the pay went of the large dividends ac cruing in the course cf next week, has a further tendency to give a stimulus to the week markets. Consols opened at the closing figure of yesterday's market : 961 to ex div. for the 16th January ; the price has since tcwhed 97, and is now steady at 96; to 97. The transactions in this stock, as also in the other home securities now open for transfer, have been upon a rattler more cunider able male than of late, though still ter from exten sive. The prices of business in tho Reduced Three per Cents. are 974-, 1, and 1 ; and in the New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents., 961 and 99. Bank Stock mark, 2131. With the increase in the capital seeking employ ment, Excheq'eer Bills haeo bern in much better de mand to-dac, and the ra'e of premium has risen 2.. An extensive business has been done in bills of all sizes at 595., 625., SSe., and 60s, prem. successively. The fneign stock market is steady, what only a small business offering, and prices have undergone no change. The sales effected up to the present hour are at the following rates:—Brazilian New Five per Cents., 1829 and ',39, 865. Chilian Three per Cents., 64. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 581 ex div. ; ditto Four per Cent. Certifi cates, 91, 1. Mexican Bonds, 351; ditto for the 13th January, 33;, Z, Peruvian Deferred Bondi, 35. Portuguese Four per Cents., 341. Rus sian Four-and-a-Halt per Cents., 981 ex div. Spanish Active Five per Cents., fur account, 171. ; ditto Coupons, 8 ; ditto Three per Cents., 381 ex div. The following are the amounts of dividends which fall due on the sth instant : New Five per Cent At:unities Three per Cent. C Three per Cent. Annnities.l724 11.256 Bank Stock 619.355 &tab. Sea Stock 128,197 Time per Cents., 1751 New Annuities 316,000 £6.639,690 Taal LIDO Gain 10 from et Use by Holyhead Voyage •OiDDRI- to AVID Madam New Holyhead Ma Irish York. direct. Port. 0. Z. N. D. S. M. D. . 10 VS 201 II 3 493 20 10 11 41 o 31 II 0 134 " 10 13 4 lo fl 111, " I 31 10 30 491 0 .. P&I Samos RAILWATI. 50 Aberdeen by Do. Preference , gg Ambag., Nutt:og Boota. aad Fast Jonah - in ... • Pinto. at Banta. Est. (At. Wrot. perpetual 3 p.Ct.) Birtnirighoza&OhfordJunc callodolypd ,orwitLiguar. SO Do. without a goarmatet 13 Birm olv., and Dottie, talladolypd., ormitirguar. 13 Do. without a gtutrontet 131 Biren.Wolv.ikeitwar 100 Brixtol and DAVI ii 4 tlneainaTeautaltlnt So Caledonian_' IM. iTt; Pre fiif SO C/aster and Holyhead li _l??.Prorf, Ip‘i - b,U - .Ww. - 11.4 25 'East Anglian . . . 111 Do. (Xl* E. I Do. (11.171.)7p.0.Prer. 34 ])o.lJf. 10A.,8 p.et.Prof. 20 Eastern Counties to Do. New Kref.6 p.St B' 61 Do. do. No.I 30 Do. N. 3 Emil per (.1 13 _ Do. New 23 Eastern Unmet, class •' Date E. U. Nb.) SS Do. elan B. and C ditto 20 Do. Berth (pus. 6p. Ct.) 26 East Lancashire SS leastithicoti th.gusr.6 p.Ct SO Edinburgh mod Gimpy* 23 Edinhurgh,Perth,Dosiltel Exeter,Yrovil,l2 Dn. Suter nod Exisonin 21 Great Northern Uarehw. I 12;, Do. titharehA,Deferred; It. Do. share., 8., 6p. Cl. l 111 Do. per Cent. theL. so Gt. noullinod WestAlre.) py Uu. bightbii 111 Great Western ie tall and fray SO Lancaster and Car lied) ... I): Do. Thirds ... 117 i Lancaster and Preston ... lyp Lannuibire and Yorkshire Ili fth! •`. ••• IN; 100 Do. flp. O. Pref. &oak Ul Do. West Nang Union so Leeds and Englund .. 30 Leeds and TE,rea 9 Do. Pref. Quarters,lB44 1.114011 and Illaek•rill 100 lan., Brighton, k o.Cosot 100 Do. New gun 6p. Ct.... 9 Do. Nosranteed SALL late Croydon 10 Do. Pref. 5 pet CeaL . so Do. Conert. 5 p.Ct.,11162 111 London and Oreenwlek 20 Do. Preference 100 London Se North-Westera IT Do. do. New l snare*... 12 Do. fifths . I Do.f 10 rh.,'4.andN. (6) Ipp landow rt Suotb.Westera as Do. New, N 54 34 Do. New, N 44 w i LW. New . Preferenee ...I 20 InweetoW(ivar.4 pertent 01 elaneb.,Bus.,ana Mallcek me Msweb., , bet.,/el.ineolneh., se Do. 1 shares 110. 1 ..I 10 De. New LlO FreL I Do. CS Prefertneti di Do. Men... Laucl.Cnion 33 Do. A5O shares 100 to. Diem. and herby , 100 Do. Corw. R. &B. p. C, I pp Newmarket ... ..I 100 Norfolk 15 Do. New £20..._ _I 36 Do Estrentou I Do. Guertin. 52 per Ct. 23 North British 5 Do. Preference 174 North Staffordshire.. 50 Oxford, Wore., & Prawn end Wyre 101 taxa Ocoee (A) 18 Read, Guild., end Reigate / SI Royston ant 1 'Rehm .. 21 Do. Shepreth Latamion 25 Soottich Central 25 Scottish Midend IN Shrews. & Bin a., Clam A 111 Do., Class tl . Do., New Oni;en: 261 Shrewsbury and Charter (Nor. W. Min.) Ili Do. Mares .„ 20 Do. Osweetry 1 Do. New 10 Do. 8 per cent. Pea. Shropolnre Union „. 50 South Devon 23 Do. Preference N South Staffordshire... 50 South Pastern 60 South Wales 15 South Yorkshire & River Don N raw Vale Y.:tension 13 Vale of Neath 2) Waterford andKilkenny 50 Wear Yellen 6p. Cl. pm 25 Ditto Ditto 60 WUte, sontereet, &Werra. 25 York,Newcestleakßerertok 20 Do.Rxt. (York& News& 9 D0.0.N.E.r oichorPrel 17 Do. Ditto _ 6 Do. Ditto SO York end North Midland. 10 Do. Preference Foxe:oft RAILWAYS. 61 Anglo-Italian (late Italie& end Austrate) 20 Boulogne end Amiens 20 Centre Prance (Vterson) 8 Dutch Rhenish 11 East Indian S Greet Indian Pealniula If Do. 10 Nemezentlleie „ 16 Northern or Prance 7 Orleans awl Bordeaux .- 20 Parte end Orleeza PO Paris and Rotten 15 Ports end Straebotuß 20 Rouen end Haws 10 !Sumba* and Meuse 13 Tairs and Nsatea th 14 SI clls It !‘ 23 1117i1 - 4 dl9. 121 23 3 31 429 9 7 ch. 7j 61 Wm 3 5 94 21i 44 45 lfff ILt fit si 3 21 au. II )7 II 4* Sf di& 24 se 9 Is 14 41 se as 1 pt ?i 131 151 41 31 dies d i 34 36 261 21 6 Sidis 101 11j i 9 31 10 ; di. PI 151 j 4 i ex dir 2;1 i LI V EttPUUL, STOCK EICNKXOI.—The ~ January 2. 'rites was rather drooping - —Bir to-usy : business was scoot', anti prices were lower.-- kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (22/. shares), 61 d.- C4ledosias, 10/ —Eutern Counties, 6 c.—East Lancashire, 121 3.l6)—Great Western, 781—Lanceanire and Yorkshire, 671 7—Ditto (fif.h sharer), 7 3.16 ) d.—Laneaster and Preston, 28 p.—London and North Western, 1231—Ditto (new shares), 31 p.—Ditto (fifth shares), 41 p.—Midland, 471—Ditto (4 shares), 191 d.—Northern Union A, 244 Shrewbbury and Cheater (new 1311. shares), 61 —South Esatern and Dover, 23&—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (preference unpaid up), 3 d.—Datch Rhenish, 41 d. MANCHKSTEIt, January 2. STOCK EXCXAMO6.—We have had a much better feeling in the market, •no plc,' have slightly improved, with • rather large amount of transactions. BIRMINGHAM, January 2. STOCK Excliutos. —This market was rather flat today, that 1., as far as buem.s. wu elneerned, but prices were firmer Shrewsbury and Birmingham A's were done at 61. 13s. 9d. du. LEEDS, January 2 &rota Excnmeon.—The market this mor ning exhibited a further decliee is severaffnes, and there is still considerable stseculs , ive spirit. Bales:—East Lancashire, 111; East and West Y .rkshire, 91 ; Ditto pref. 41; Great Northern, 171 ; Leis and Think, 131 ; Nnrtb \Vattern', 121 die.; North British, SI n. ; 501. hlid!ends,l9/ clic WINDING•CP OP JOINT STOCK COMPANIES.—IO mom urn with the work of winding up railway and joint stock companies there is a cue in one of the courts of an ° s e w manager shin, evidence as former secretary against the company he is winding up, and of another official manager appearing nn the bats of contribwories in more than sees ill starred uedertaking. It is found by the Maiters in Chancery. on whom, is addition to the transaction of the bust ness of ordinary suits, devolves the winding.up of 10 companies a oboe, rack of which it more than equivalent to three or four individual cues in the Court of Bankruptcy, that these proceedings greatly embarrass the ordinary bushier of the moan., in rtsp.et of which all the suitors of the Court of Chancery pay, while the payments in respect of the winding. up of these companies, in lieu of hes, to the suitors' fee fund, are merely nominal. The first joint stock company likely to be completely wound up ir.cler the act is the Wheel Curtis Mining Company, the prow edines for the settlement of the sffsin of which were commenced in Jan., 1549, so that us arty two y. ars will k are been consumed in winding up this company's affairs, the liabilities amounting only to between 3,0001. and 4,0001. Wl ot 1 1 0. 3 1 Si ro 4 1 via 22 IS 27 IS 104 15 1 7 41 16 17 tip 14 14 22 do Se Si 11 11 at s pa 67 Spa 6i 7 16* 111 It 12; ill 77! 97 29 6 7 i i 171 lbe 1 6 11 1 6 11 14 121 38 40 - 4 - I Pga 784 701 4 3441.. 99 101 fiA 91 13 se '75 21 27 „ 371 391 101 lOt d. 74 7 di& 120 It 13 2 1 t. T -- ii eis. 94 F. "i pa 1 6 1 87 67 1 137 119 101 Ilj 57 GO ST GO It 12 256 24 124 125 4 pia 41 pm • 21 pm. 70 6 y 116 1 9 14 116. 111 9dl. 2 1 2 4 Pa ll IS 4/ 4do 26 17 106 116 • lul ,1 3 etls 47 11 4 014 lu 134 die 24 26 '126 130 21 34 22 24 :4 14 dbl. 16 17 4& 4 5 91 81 8 51 Ai. 174 IS 414 426 174 1981 ea 4p. 1 71 1 1 Pal I 3 141 7 $4 Ala, 44 .las. It MI 11 111, Y :9 a pr.. 8 pm. Ili 77 9 two to.o.Ar ay WI co't Tick. is ii a_ 1$ 12 1 324 2 18i 18 & 61 791 sa ite sil 1 41 '7 6i 86 I 1371 8 124i1 6 Eiat India Stock " This is exclusive of annuities now payable. The following securities held here likewiee become payable :—Canada Bosds, 30,0001.; Belgian Two and-a-Half per Cents ; Dutch Twoand-a•lialf per Outs.; French &toes Three per Cents.; Russian Fottr-and-a-llalf per Cents.; Maryl.tud State Stack; New York State Stock. _ . By the end of Jimmy the payment of a large amount of railway dividend., not less t h ee 2.000,0001. will begin; l kewise dividends on banks, cloche, canals and other public underakinge. The total amount cf dividends receivable in the moudis of January and February will not be less than 10,000,0001., of which a conilderable amount will be available foe re-investment, and come primarily into the Consol and English stock market; and the investments displaced there, together with some por tion of the dividend money, will be brought into the railway market. The amount forthcoming for the sock markets is perhaps 3,000,0001., and for the rail way markets 4,0000001. The operation of invest meat will materially influence the markets iu the earlier part of the quarter. INCILLSI3 VCAMS.—Tnts DAT. it,nt Ftvek. V:: 14 : per (A. (3.1. Art.. Ki 3 et. 11...1. Ant a., Ir! 3$ .3. el.. 13*: a .3 Alt Ct. tkas. shut I I.l.cheyw7 4; —• -•- . . FOP.EIoN r. NOW. fPee 4 • P C ~ 1:. L Ww‘teWel 11wwle. . 1 per Ct. Grenwle ILI,. 17 14 tz ..,..,,,,,,,. _ hoods, in :. i Grenada Lottarrol ilia, .4 1 Sp,/ L: . Mex. BA L. 1.41 4 61r CL Mr. slllwat 161,, 67 w 1W twe 06. Z ., e‘www 1 W 1 ... 7 4 MI 1/1110 New, S 5 7 Pactunew C .hv.. 34 '. _ li tar CL flue.. Avec% 4+S 6 per Lt. 1:u..... li 1... il . 111 I:itto Chcanti 1.1,, 163: 1:;:tw tWwwv.ll ..k.. 1:. I Iwitol2l.llllllll. Pet. 14..... 9 pqr CI. Sionui. 114. MI Culumbliut Equwler KU, :11 I 1 1.0. Def., ....I 11. t... 3 14.1 Vt. 0111165 111"., TS 1 1410 Pu..ave W.. 3! I 'll I." . I. Ihikib 1L1...al , i !t 1...1CC V% owsua !a Kt, 31 4 pow Ct. Duseb Cul:- pti l l %enamels 14.4wrrw4 I.M. 11 13 COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS MINCING-LAN It.-11118 There have been only two market-days this week, end the attendance in the Line Ism been very thin, so that it mar be said that we mast wait till neat week, when the public sales will he lance and radon•, before we give the result of the cloning week of the year. Sroam.—Today 900 bum Bengal sold in public sale, at 41s. 6d. 42c, which were fair prices. Correa.—N.tne ciftced in public sak, and the demand by titivate contract bas been very limited. Tree. —Public sales are declared for Wednesday neat. Rice.-460 bags hl .tras were offered end bought in at Sc. 61. to 9.. 200 litlC.l Mt.:ending, di t htly damaged, sold at Mc to 181. 61. Run.—Tbe market has not opened, and palms remain the Fame us quoted pervious :o the Lolidays. Cocantraa. has so.d heavily in public ale, sad prizes have declined Id. Eavrratraz.—A limited badness has been don►, at pre vious rates. Carrost.—Business to s moderate silent has bees dour, at about previous rater. . . In tither articles no Literati in, TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY. The watkst is firm t day in ul positions at the fistula subjoined : Town Ta;law. 3.3 a. Sd. net each ; Pettzsbutir Y. C. on tie spot, 37.. ; Feb., and Much, Cds. 01.; last three months of 13:'1. 39g. HIDES.-THIS DAY. Luostur -661'as. to 64:t0., to 721hs. 1/d. to U.; 72Ibs. to 80Ihs., 21. to 244.; 801ba. to 881bs., 24d. to 3d.; &.m. to 98105., 3d. to 34d.; 961 be. to 104 K, 314. to 4J.; 10411 w. to 1121bs 41. to 41d. Ilorse Hides, 6s. 64. Call Skins, light, Is. 61 to 3i ; full. 6s. BEIMUNDBEY.--Sheep Skins, Yulled , ss. 6d. to 7e ; Ktnts, ss. 3d. to Ss. ; haltbrel,„ is. Bd. to 6s. 4d. ; Downs, 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d. COALMARKET.-THIS DAY. Holywelf, 15t. 6d.; Ci2l . A Hartley, 140.; West Hanley, 14a.; Wells Ead di nwell, 17*.; Wens End Hetton, 1 74. Walls End Laatbtoo, 16s. 6d. ; Walls End Stewert's. 174. ; Walla ilad, Adelaide Teta, 161.—Salps at market, 320. MARK-LANE-THIS DAY. The few plumb, et Euglsak Wheat at market this morn ing were taken slowly by the millers ( at about Mon.lay' s quotations. The arrivals a revise Wheat this week ars again large, ebb fly Erten Mediterranean sad Blaok BM ports ; the demand was tritilag to the extreme, sad plums were nominally the same. Barley unaltered in rate. Otte were in moderate request, add late rite. were main taioed. li.;;ns and Peas dull, at Monday's eurrecey. anKIVALS INTO 1. , , , N DUN MOM 30th DEC. To 3rl JAN. Urn Ens.lsh. NW& Irish. lames. Wheat „ .... ........ I MOO 1 ...... 1 19150 1 5770 Oats I 4730 moot. 1430 web ; .„... tareels Mali, qrs. Lowlon AR/AO/B.—Whet% 42a. Id. Barley, 21a. 101; Oath IN. 10d.; Aye. 2L. Od.; Beans, 27 1 . 3d.; Peaa, 3(1.0,1. IMPV.RIAL AV6ILAOI 1114444.. 13.4 r ` Oster Rya. I Beam. I rem. Nov. I ns 114244 14.17 s 34,2114 44444 44'29.1 44 30 401 34 244 01 17. 1423. Elias 24.0. ad Dcc. 7 ... 10. 2424. 7417. 74144 id A. 0.1 294 04 14 ... '394 f . • 4 244 . 141 174 Id 23. 114 274 11:1 . 2.14 3d 21 ... ... 39 54 :..31 103 , 17; iiii; liii; * kg; id 25 ... ... 3-.4 1,4 23e 2411. BEI2. ad re 5E 33e Id tweeie' Age. kver. 304 9.: 24. lila. 14 344 10.1.33. 13 358 la Del - T.—What. nerlrf. Oats. Hee, ream, sad hes, Is. Mee. Nev. 33 Nov.lo. Dee... 7. rec. 14. Dec. 31. Dee. U. 1 .--- ... ... ... ... 391'—..J .. ' 71 . ! ... .... :a8 10 a I .... —..-1. 1 1 - I . ±._ . 3 . SMITHFIELD MARILET.-THIS DAY. Although the number of Beasts is small, it considerably exceeds the demand. N Awithatanding, there is a reduction in price el fully 2d. per 8:b. Seven' remain unsold. There are purchasers for the few Sheep we have on offer, at about but Monday's quotations. Calvet are about 41. par 81b,. lower than on )(wag last, the devout,' being exceedingly limited. Oar foredo supply casuists of 73 Beasts, 400 sh e , p, and 48 Calves; we have 80 sail& CJers front the Some Counties. Per .tone of alls ad.a. 4. 1 Per nose of SW. a. d. ~ ii. Bon Scot., Hereford... 3 I 3 1 9.4 Dm . lif..bola Ma 0 0 u • R„ t pt io n.h o pi, ...... 44 3 DattLoes-waals 563 II Second quality &tut, . I 6 I 1.)0. de. awe 0 U u 0 Canto.... .. ..... 2a 4 1 Ewa aailacooadquality 11 U 3 4 pi, 2 a 3 Do. do. Shorn 0 0 U 0 Bee: Boa & Ilialf.btadt 331 4 iamb, . Baum at a.at344. 36.); 133440 end. Loa s. Med ; thkrelle lea ; Pie& ;AL •Ilimmiimmommoolilli 1(4 tr, 91 1 171 i 15 11 di* 2 )1 i .: 24 2 91 9 Ai ,i , 'II , ..,,, i .he hn sl.