Star. — London, England, 1824-06-24 00:00:00

, TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF POLITICAL ECO NOMISTS. Ma. EDITOR—My father has frequently stated his conviction that the world had attained a point in civi lization, where an important change in the institutions of society was equally desirable and inevitable. A prin cipal reason for this belief he has, in general terms, stated to be deducible from the progress of scientific improvements, and, as it appears to me, with much rea son. If the following considerations on this important subject, which my father's numerous engagements pre vent him from explaining to the Public as fully as he wishes, should place the matter in a novel or striking point of view before anv of your Readers, I shall have attained the object which induced me to commit them to paper. Let us suppose a country, the inhabitants of which existed, in tolerable comfort, - by the produce of their own unassisted labour. to have discovered a nation of slaves whoexisted in full health and vigour without eating or drinking, or sleeping ; the end and aim of whose being was. labour; who would work for any length of time, even at the most monotonous and disagreeable occu pations, without becoming either impatient or far igued ; who always performed the allotted task with unwearied punctuality and undeviating steady uniformity and ex actness, day by day, and week by week, and year by year, yet without promise of hire or expectation of re ward, whose united efforts produced a gigantic and overwhelming power, yet one which was never exerted but in their master's service, and at his command, and which never injured him in any way but by the effect of accident only ; amongst whom no combinations against their master could be formed, no opposition to his wishes be ever shewn, nor his right of uncontrouled direction and absolute gove:nment be ever doubted or questioned ; with whom a touch was sufficient to ex press hit wishes, and to insure their fulfilment; for whom•no treatment was cruel, nor any demands on their exertions unjust or exorbitant; whose incidental infirmities could be easily and certainly cured, and whose bodies, when at last worn out by age and inces sant labour, their powers began to fail, might be taken for any purpose to which the materials which com posed them were applicable ; yet, Avitbal, a race sus ceptible of infinite and increasing improvement, with out incjiniices, and capable of being moulded to any thara(ner which their master reqnited them to assume. Suppose, too, that mildoes of these shves could le imported annually by the nation n hich had discovered them. Then; let me ask, what would be the effect of such an imi;o:tation ? Would the discovery, iu itself; he a fortunate or an unfortunate one ? I reply, it would be a most fortunate and valuable discovery in itself; yet capable, uithout a correspond ing change in the Institutions of the nation, of pro ducing iutinite misery and mischief. In this way.—The present Institutions of all civilized nations render each member of the working classes de rendent for siu,sistence on the cleman.l in the market for the articles, in tih, produce of which he may happen to be employed. Whatever, the:rime, diminishes the market demand, creates mi , ery in the same proportion. Now the influence which the importation of such slaves would produce is two-fold. Those a ha employ the working ciasses, ainl, by their labour, supply the mat ket, would find theniselve, called upon to ch(u)se between them and the newly-imported workmen. Cat: we doubt what the decision must be ? Is not the An se er, which they, as men of business, must make to any of their former servants, who might remonstrate against a deci)ic:n in favour of the slaves, evident and conclu hive: " Can you exist without eating, or drinking, or sleeping? Will you work without wages, and never ex hibit a sign of impatience or fatigue, however long' we may wish to employ you? Wall yin' never compiain of cruelty or injustice, in whatever manner you may be treated? Even then you are ulterior, as work-people, to this new race. flow can we be assured that you will form no combinations against us to our injury, that you s: ill never oppose our wishes, never diseuie our autho rity, or question our right of government? flow can , we be assured, in tine, that you will give up your wishes, your feelings, your prejudices and your interests, and become out w iiling slaves as this invaluable nation is ? If these dillies are so, how can you expect to 11.-.• p:e fei red, as workmen, to them? As supetiotendata.s, we are willing and desirous to employ some of you, but in any other capacity your labour is now useless to us." Thins, than, would the new ly-imported slaves become the 1.4.0: k-people of the nation who impoted them ; :tad the two-fold influence of their importation would con sist, Ist, In a vast increase or market produce, and, -secondly, In a diminished necessity for the Unita of the working classes. Now, certainly, in themselves, these effects are not calculated to produce much misery. '1 o have too much of everything that is desirable, find too hale to do in ob taining it, if it be a misfortune, is one, at least, of which the working classes seldom complain, and one which does not seem necessarily allied to penury and starva tion. Yet, assuredly, in countries where the market de rtand regulates the employment, and consequently the food which the labourer can obtain, supetfluity of the objects of desire, and increased facility in producing them, do prove positive and lamentable evils. In a nation, therefore, whose commercial arrange ments were similar to ours, the importation of a multi tude of slaves, possessed of the qualities I have enu merated, would be calculated, by affording extreme fa cility of production and inc!easiag its vsealth propor tionably, to glut its markets, :lid to deprive its labourers of employmeet and of food, kcitate they u ete pro clueing too much of eve; ythinz. Now, I believe that u state nj things, in which an in crease of wealth creates poverty, and in whizli thefacility of producing the means of subsistence expooes to alarm iron, cannot long continue in any nation. And this 1 believe to be the present state of things in Great Britain and Iretand. Great Britain has discovered an innumerable nation of mechanical and chemical slaves; and they are bectin• rung to produce aanost everything she requites. Her working classes have become superiiilendants of m e . chanism, and her real wealth is increasing to an er.ur- Ems extent. It power and wealth constitute prosperity, her scien tific discoveries have made her prosperous indeed. But if the effect of prosperity be to produce comfort and happiness, then has Great Britain s commercial system of arrangements (formed in a period of comparative ad versity, when an increase of production was the gi eatest blessing, anl a famine the greatest evil that could be• fall), nct only deprived her of all the benefits of pro ;privy, but turned a blessing to a curse, and proved it- Uf totally unadapted to the present state of knowledge and of scientific power. As long as the supply of our wants shal lbe made to depend an the artificial and fluctuating demand of the market, so long is prosperity a positive evil. If our storehouses were empty, and our markets ill supplied, then trade wcarld flourish, employ ment would be procured, the workmen would receive high wages, and the very expenditure of these wages would serve to increase the general demand, and with it the means of future employment for their labour— until, alas! prosperity again approached us, until our storehouses became filled, and our markets overflowed —and then our farmers would begin to starve, and our manufacturers to become bankrupt. Some new vent is, doubtless, occasionally found, either at home or abroad, producing a temporary relief from the evils of abundance, but part of the immense amount of spare capital which at present inundates this country, is in stantly employed to supply each increasing demand, and the subsequent revulsion in the market is only the I more quickly and painfully felt. If some malevolent being were to afford us the means of increasing our production, instantaneously, tenfold, on condition that the present commercial relation of de mand and supply should remain unaltered, we should probably all die of want before the end of the year; for the glut on the market would be insupportable, nothing would sell for half its prime cost, and the nation would become bankrupt. Surely we cannot long remain blind to the Ira, that increasing prosl•crity is but increasing misery, so long as our commercial system retains its present form ! Surely it need not continue to be a condition of enjoyment, that the means of enjoyment shall not superabound! Yet this condition, useless as it is at all gene,, and ruinous, as it has proved itself, in pioisortinn as we ap proach to abundance and prosperity, is viitualiy inn posed on the enjoyment of the wot Id, so long as men' continue to buy and sell i r the market against each other; in other words, so long as the existing system of individual commercial competition exits. Could a malignant spirit have imposed a restriction r: ore in• geniously fraught with destructive influence to society ? The more rapidly we accumulate all the goDd thing; of this world mound us, the more certainly do they eiude our grasp I Was TANTALUS mote severely putiiihe.i than this? And not to want and poverty alone ate the effects of this individual competition confined. I, as a merchant, wish to buy cheap, and td sell dear : but all other mer chants wish me to buy dear, and to sell cheap. Is Iva one man's hand against every man, and every man' , hand against him? Is it not a proof of the excellence of human nature that honest men should be foun i in al society with institutions such as this? If wealth, and Lonesty, and benevolence, aril union,' ale desirable to be attai:ied, do we act wiely in sur rounding ourselves by circumstances so pregnant with poverty, and dishonesty, and malevolence, and (lissom tion? Is it not possible to combine other circumstances, under ss hich abundance shall be indeed a blessing, and where it shall become cur appal t, as well as our real interest, to practise honesty and benevolence towards our fellow-creatures ? My father proposes to combine these circumstances in a comtnunity of persons, who shall unite their interests, like one large family, and produce, in the first place Jor their own consumption. They arc thus entii ely in dependent of any market, until their ow•n wants are supplied, and scarcely any inconvenience can arise from excess Of prodoct:on, escept that which re,ults from want of storehouses. In such establishments, the de tailed manaaements of which shall be shortly sub• witted to the Public, the evident effect of each new im portation of mechanical power is to diminish the neces sity for labour on the pai t of the members, and thus to afford them a real and certain advantage. Mechanical inventions have hitherto been brought into competition with the Working classes; may they not now be brought to theii . assistance? We have learnt how to create almost any amount of produce; can we not form ar rangements to distribute and to enjoy it? True it is, that the leisure time, which the employ ment of mechanical power would thus gradually afford to all classes, might produce inkirious consequences to those whose minds were uncultivated; but this appa rent disadvantage becomes the greatest of blessings. where ethieation is made, as it will be in all the new establishments, the first and most important object of s.ociety. am, Sir, your obedient Servant, ROBEILT DALE OWEN. Pall Mall, June 22,1824. A private letter from Greece states, that the Turks have effected a landing in Candia and Negropont, but that at the fir_t•mentioned place they were repulsed with great slaughter. The force of Ulysses at Negropont was considerable, and it was fully expected that the utmost extent of the evil of the arrival of Turkish troops would be, to prolong the resistance of the fortress of Nerropfort. No details are given of the affair in Candia. According to this letter, the Turks have aban doned all idea of invading the Morea this summer. Accounts from Perpignan say that a disorder of a ce►ions r.at•rme having appeared at Naples, and that it had even spread as f: ai the Streight of Messina, orders have been iLat goods arriving from Naples and Sicily shall Le provisionally subject to ten days quaran tine in the ports of tl.e Eastern Pyrennees. Thursday, a few hundreds of fresh herrings, chiefly from Lochlong, arrived at the Broomielaw, Glasgow. They were in good condition, and met a ready sale at Ns. and 14s. a hundred, and were retailed on the streets at 2d. each. A violent explosion of gas took place on Monday evening, at hand's china-s!iop, in the Westminster-road. The whsle front was blown to atoms, and a soldier on, the opposite side of the road received some of the con tents of the shop, but was not materially hurt. CAPE or GOOD HOYE, MARCH 17.—A few weeks ago,' as three soldiers of the Gth Regiment were travelling from Fort Beaufort to Wiltshire Barracks, they were at tacked by an elephant, which came suddenly upon them out of the wood, and killed one mars on the spot. The others with difficulty escaped. The purport of the clause introduced by the Lords as an amendment in the Vagrant Act, which they were afterwards induced to abandon, was to declare that the settlement of the children of female vagrants should fellow that of their mother. Dr. ROBERT HONEYMAN, a Physician of much repu tation and learning, who died on the list April, in Virginia, whither h . e emigrated f rom S cot l an d i n 1774 , h as l e f t the following bequest to his will, dated in 1821 :—" I also bequeath to my sons hi"' rib, which will be found in a small trunk in my chest, with my ear nest request that he will carefully keep the said rib, which is o f James the Fif t h Ki ng of Scotland, and transmit it carefully to has descendants." Ford, GOOD 11 d.aga 9 omA Brear ir s .--A f : asa eor days ago died, peaciabicangi it t M a womese atws, Ih d : was piaab example worthy of the ingiation of her neigabark PMCE LIST, JUN 22, 182 i. Price Dividend Number per per • of Mare. Annum. Shares. emus. s. s. d. 1001. 25 221 5:3 350 2G70 CANALS. Aberdare Andover do. S 350 Ashby-de-la-Zouch do. 23 1482 Do. Bonds ... 105 5 0 0 Xll,lBB 16 Ashton and Oldham ... 190 5 0 0 1760 Barnsley 1601.280 12 0 0 720 Basingstoke 1001. 8 8 1260 Do. Bonds 1001. SO 2 0 0 £50,000 Birmingham (141tb share) 171. 10s. 375 12 10 0 Bolton and Bury 2501.140 50 0 Breeknock and Aber gavenny 1501. 110 0 / Do. Notes Bristol and Taunton 1001. Carlisle 50/. -- Chelnior & Blackwat.lool. 100 5 Chesterfield do. 120 6 10 Coventry do. 1200 44 Crinan 601. 210 Cr milord 100/.290 14 Croydon do. 4 5 Da. Bonds do. 70 Derby do. 140 6 Dudley do. 82 Ellesmere & Chester 1331. 84 Erewash 1001.1000 58 Forth and Clyde db. 500 20 Giamorganshire do. 280 13 12 8 Glcue. & litrky O.S. do. Do. optional Loan 601. Grand Junction 100/. 348350103(101.h Grand Surrey do. 47 10 Do. Loan ... 106 Grand Union 1001. 30 0 Ditto Lon ... 106 Grand We!tctn 100/. 10 Cr3nthani 150/.190 10 ilerefol d & Glo'stcr 1001. 60 Hoed. rt:i...l do. 42 ()use do. and Avon do. 29 5 Lancaster do. 41 10 1 LeVkla and T.:Tv:Tool r.o. 550 15 Do. (New) 12 Leicester ... 7.60 14 Do. II 4 200 11 35 110 10 5 2 10 4000 477 5 0 0 5 0 0 - 5 5 5 958 56,465 600 1600 400 1500 500 1851 4516 £ll,BlO 600 2060 551 5 231 1287 600 1960 11,650 1521 £60,000 2849 k £19,327 3096 749 70 25,328 11,6991 25971 141 545 1907 70 250 600 L.eleester and lioetbn. l 001. 100 Loughbotoush .. 5000 Melton Mowbray 1001. : 0 .55 Mersey and Irwin ... 1200 Alonk laud 100/.2700 Monmouthshire 1001. 235 1/o. Debentures do. 105 Montgomery do. 72 Noah Walsbam and Diolsam 501. !death ... 350 Nottingham 1501. 240 Nutbrook 1001.105 Oakbant 130/. 50 Oxford 1001.820 Peak rarest . do. 120 Purtim. and Arundel 501. 23 Regent's 100/. 54 Rochdale 1901. 4 5631 Shrewsbury 1261. 190 9 10 500 Shropshire do. 140 7 RA) Somerset Coal SO!. 150 10 800 Do. Lock Fund 1-2/. 104 h. 12 10 5 1.5 p.ct. £45,000 Staff. and Worcester 1401. 800 40 7( .0 Stout bridge 1451. 230 12 300 Stratford on Avon 35 10 5647 Do. Bonds Stroud water 1501. 550 Sw..nsea 1001.2 _' 0 Tavistock do. 150 Thames and Medway .. 40 Do. Ist Loan .. 55 Do. 2d dn. ... 47 Do. 3d do. .. Do. 4th do. ••• Do. & Severn. New. .. an 1 10 1)o. Original 17 1 1 Trent and Mersey 1001. 2 ) 1180 75 5 hon. Warwick & Birm. } 320 11 I Do. and Napton 1 Co!, 288 Wey and Arun 110/. Wilts anri 11. rks .• 10 S Wisheach 1051. 45 Worcester nnd Birm. 43 Wyrlry & 1251. 1541 DOCKS. Landon West India Est India Commercial 13 12 6 1001. IQO 15 do. 240 du. 150 Loan Notes do. 86 Bristol Da. Notes East Country BRIDGES. Ilammersnlith 501. elO Deptford Creek 501. 35 Southwark 1001. 17 Do. New 7k per et. 1001. 62 Do. Loan •• 100• Vauxhall 108 14b1 70 . 1001. 105 do. 25 1001. 56 10 Do. Promiss. Notes 1001. 102 10 . Waterloo 1001. 615 Do. Annuities of Si. ad. 3g Du. Annuities of 71. 401. 55 Do. Bonds ... 112 ROA DS. New North Road 501. 66 Archway&Kent. Town ... 25 Barking 1001. Commercial do. )35 —E. 1. Branch do. 102 Great Dover-St.Road do. 49 Highgate Archway 501. 10 Cheltenham ••• 40 Croydon Railway 651. Surrey Railway 601. Severn Sc Wyc do. 501. 66 la Poplar& Greenw. Ferry ... , Woolwich Ferry 1001. Stockton & Darlingt. 1 0 04105 W A TER- WORKS. . Chelsea Colchester 1001. East London do. 173 Grand Junction SOL 87 Kent 10 01. 45 Liverpool Bootle 9201. 85 London Bridge 1000. 65 Alanchester & Salford ... 36 Portsmoutli&Farling. 501. 4 IDitto New. do. 25 Portsea Island do. 5 Swath London 100/. 60 West Middlesex 1001. 83 York Buildings 1001. 51 2 10 1 6 1 10 5 ' 1 1 5 2 10 5 0 5 0 2 8 1 12 S 0 3 0 3 10 2 10 1 10 2 10 1 10 INSURANCE& Alliance, Brit. do For. 100/. 26 10 Palladium 501. 210 Albion 5001. 58 10 Atlas 50/. 72 6 Bath • • 575 Beacon 1001. par Birmingham Fire 10001. 360 British 250/. 60 Do. Commercial Life 504 610 County 1001. 55 Do. Annuity 10 10 Eagle 501. 415 European 201. 20 Globe 1004123 Guardian ... 23 10 HoPe 301. 515 Imperial Fire 5001.132 Do. Life 50/. 12 Kent Fire ... 20 Do. Life ••• 6 2 10 6 2 10 10 2409 X 43,526 700 SOO 247 500 130 522 1786 €4OO 2520 12,294 6 £3,114,000 IGOO 7356 1700 '44)00 78,57$ 5000 .5000 Xtie, I 00 640 5 800 7540 1309 50000 40000 woo 44000 2000 300 a 2 10 20000 4000 2700 100 100 50000 1000000/. 20000 40000 2400 7.500 75 pd 21 10 pd 100 100 50 0 0 51 11 10 110 133 400 16 0 174 13 4 ••••• 100 0. 0 79 pd 150 57 14 100 55 5 47 6 8 140 110 83 10 142 17 35 pd 107 10 1 . 40 /7 50 pd 40 10 SS 140 759 8 42 9 S 50 40 100 isoo a sh. 1000 1000 sh. • 9::o 905 20,000 126 6000 ..... 110 105 V. pd 60 50 pd 200 100 70 0 0 ZO 8 0 90 pd. 41 15 4 4615 • 60 4 0 10 pd. I pd. 50 240 SO 5 pd. I 0 10 pd. 10 pd. 6^_3B £1,200,000 £450,000 2600 310 1065 1i sh. 4 10 10 5 1 9 5 5 268,324 V::09 £268,3134 1038 147 9 Law Life London Rire London Ship Norwich Union Protector Provident Rock Royal Exchange Sll Sun Fire ... 220 Sun Life ]OOl. 23 LO Union 2001. 42 10 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. London 75gs. 35 Russell 25gs. 9 Metropolitan 12gs. par MINES. Mexican (Association for working the Mines of Va lenciana, Tepeyac. Sirena, Cata, La Luz and Puris sima Concepcion 1091. 12 United Mexican Mining Association 401. 3 Real del Monte Mines, Mexican 4001. 80 Hibernian 2 Ailsborough Tin Beeraiston Alines Ctenni► Ditto East Cliff Down Consolidated ...14C0 Scotch Mine Stock 1001. 75 1001. 12 25A 24 10 ... 24 10 2501. 50 " ... 100/. 20 201. 4 4 • • • .... GAS LIGHTS. Gas Light and Coke Chart. Company 501. sh. 80 Ditto New 501. 10 pr Pliceniz or South Lon don 5Ct. 18 10 City Gas Light Co. 1001. 150 Ditto New do. 83 Imperial 501. 64 Ditto New SW. l 6 pr Gen. Unit. G. L. Co. do. 4 MISCELLANEOUS. Equitable Loan Bk. 501 sh. 2 Ditto Irish ... 2 .5 Manchester ... 012 Revers. Int. Society 1001. 22 10 Auction Mart 50!. 42 British Copper Com. 100/. 29 English ditto ... 5 5 Folkestone harbour ... 5 0 Ditto Loan ... 62 Golden Lane Brewery 801. 8 Ditto 501. 6 Lond.Com.Sale.rms. 15C/. 20 Hudson's Bay Stuck 160 Nlarpte Pier .. 170 10 Carnatic Stock,lst class .. 300 4 Ditto, 2d ditto ... 92 3 City Bonds .. 112 5 Ditto ditto .. 106 4 10 Ditto ditto (Navig.) I 07 f EDMONDS and WOLFE; 9, 'Chintz Alley, 3 10 7 6 16 3 12 9000 1000 1000 5000 5000 1000 sl.pd 85 pa 45 pd 40 psi • pti 2 visit. pd 4 oNlo r:oco 1 pd 2 pi t, pd cc/. pd. I .... i 570 16.0 , r1. 2299 5447 2000 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Esnsimrstorr.—Peter Ddcour, a young man of resp-ct .li!e pcaralice, was brought up for anal examination, charged with • :-- bezzling sums of money to a large amount, the proper:y of employers, hlessrs. Pirkford and Co. the carriers iu tht: —Contmitted for trial. 75 BIARLBOROUGII-STREET. Aczzoria Fitaxiss.—Mr. Bodkin attended to state that Mt against whom a warrant had been issued, was discuvervil to be a prisoner in the King's Bench. Mr. Boukin read sonic lettets. which stated that in addition to other sums obtained by Hswkirts fur pretended cbaiitable purposes, be had at different times obtained of the late Lord Dudley and Ward (whose hum.= and charnal , ie heart was proverbial) to the amount of 3,0001. and a ccnsiderable sum also from the late Duke of Kent. Various other acts of min,r fraud were alleged; and the Magistrates promised to do ever thing in their power to bring the accomplices of Hawkins, as w e i/ L as himself, to jostle.. HATTON-6 ARDEN. A. Trincen!, driver of the hackney-coach, Nc. 83E, was charged with extorting 41. 6d. for his fare trout the Bull Inn, %ld, ur , to Weston-street, Battle Bridge, and also for InAgage. The ..7.- gistrate tact - redo) the Regulations, and pronounced the fare to he only 34. 6d. Coacher, however, resolved not to give up the point easily, and insisted on having the ground measured, which is to be done this day.—With regard to the luggage, it is necessary the Public should know that the Commissioners have published a note, stating that " it is customary, where coachmen have to convey heavy luggage, to make a trifling charge; but rhitt charge must be agreed on before the luggage is put into the coach, or the coachman c a nna claim it."—ln the present case, however, the luggage only consisted of two schoolboy's trunks, consequently not liable to a charge. • BIRTII. Saturday, the Lady of the Rev. Dr. fLggitt, of a sm. MARRIED. Yesterday, Captain G. Wombwell, to Miss Cl:by Hunter. Thursday be'unight, Francis Synge Hutchinson, Esq. to Louisa Frances, youngest daughter of the lion. Francis Hely Hutchinson and niece to the Earl of Donoughmore and Lord I lutchitson. Monday se'nnight, at Salisbury. the Rev. Henry Playsted Jes ton, A. 13. of Worcester College. Oxford, to Elizabeth se cond daughter of the late W. Purvis Eyre, Esq. of New House, in the county of Wilts. June 21, at Canterbury, Lieutenant George Minter, 45th Re giment, to Mrs. Emma Wood, daughter of Mr. George Minter, Canterbury. June 8, at Rickling, the Rev. Francis Horsley, Rector of Match. ing, to Anne Jane, daughter of John P. Judd, Esq. of Mace's-place DIED. Wednesday se'nnigbt, Diana Elizabeth, wife of Sir Brodrick Chinnery, Bart. of Flintfield, county of Cork. Thursday, at Glaston, in Rutlandshire, aged 56, the Honourable George Watson. Lately, aged 79, the Rev. Richard Bevie, of March, in the Isle of Ely, the place of his nativity. June 14, at Devonport, aged 39, Robt. Mills, Esq. Purser, R.N. At sea, on the 3d inst. in his 29th year, on his return from Ma deira, Thomas Martineau, M.D. Assistant-Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Saturday, at Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, the Rev. George Wad dington, Vicar of that place, aged 70. , June 22, at Barnes, Surrey, John Edward, eldest son of the Rev. John Jeffreys, Rector of Barnes. June 11, Miss M. W. Norton, only daughter of Mr. G. Norton, late Printer, and Postmaster at Henley-on-Thames. June 11, at Horringer Parsonage, Suffolk, Henry Cameron, the infant son of the Rev. Henry Curtis Cherry. Saturday week, at the Countess's Bush, county of KilkencYs Mary Costello, aged 102. Her mother, Matilda Pickman, died precisely at the same age. Her grandmother died at the age of 120. Her great-grandmother's age is not exactly known, but it exceeded 125 years, and long before her death she bad to be rocked in a cradle like an infant. Mary Costello's brother lived beyond a hun dred years; at the age of 90 he worked regularly, and could down half an acre of heavy grass in one day. November 29, on his way from Rypoer to Nagpoor, Lieutenant W. Ord, of the 19th Regiment Madras N. I. and Adjutant to the 24 Battalion Nagpoor Brigade, in his 25th year. COAL MARKET, JUNE 23. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. 91 Newcastle 9} - 1 Stone Coal Dublin Waterford Guernsey and Jersey Lisbon Holland Jamaica Al A I LS- . A 1111. 1 O 1 O 0 0 1 0 O 0. O 0 31s. 9d. to Ps. edt - 45ss. od. to —I. ^ d. 'HIS DAY. All. sum France I 0 Hamburg!" 0 1 Flanders 1 0 Brasile 0 0 Goctenburgh 0 1 America 0 0 HIGH-% Al Elt LONDON-MUDGE TO-MOKHow. Murton - - 18 minutes alter 12 41tftrn..on - 52 minutes after 13 LONDON: triuttl rod publl,bcd by Limn Kiss, Matti- Flect , Temple-Bor. Average Cost. X 8. d. 115 0 0 100 0 0 97 IS 0 160 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 10 pd. 12 10 pd. 6 5 pd. 10000 3800 ziooo 2500 2 100000 4745100 8 W 10 1 8 1000 1500 1000 700 00 10,000 tz , 25 300 12000 6000 1 1 1 10 2 5 10 p 4, 12 10 I ,: 12 10 3u p 4. 10 9.0 5 5 Fu 20 I,' 2 pit 41.~l 10 '4 50 5 pd .seoo loso 1J•07 6 Pr' - l