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THE KING. —rem— BRIGHTON, JAlntalllt SO. toes health continues good; and I have the pleasure to haul., that his spirits are Improving. For the first time since his maseseg's arrival, the Royal Band were employed in the Concert Room last night; and they have orders to be in attendance this f ettling. There are no additions to the Royal Suite since the etrival of Lord and Lady STSIATIIIIIIIIII last eight. The weather to-day has been, comparatively, favourable. The benne of Giouccorta, with Lady Isaamir Teresa, not only wilted to the Chain Pier, and made ornamental purchases of fancy articles at the Belson there, but, returning to the Palace, her Royal gligheess then ascended her carriage, and visited Kemptown ; ooacc, in the opposite direcdon, passed the whole frontier of the O W to Hove; and lastly alighted at the Palace at half past three o'clock. Dir. Secretary Camerso is gradually recovering his health-4o *b u m, and Earl Barsorase, Measures" are frequently arriving. UW4 the many who have left their panne at the Palace to. lay, are-- lord and Lady Audley, Sir C. Lamb and Lady Montgomery, lady Ann Becket, Ca in and Lady E. Fielding, Lieut. General Sv ti Jones (fro" Worthing), Admiral Sir John Wells from gsbnore, near Cuckfield), Mrs. and Miss Barrington Price Lleet. Gonna Cosign, and Mr. Macdalf Baster, Attorney•Geser;l, New Iced Wales. Jail. 31.—We are most happy to say that the Knees Melds le not gob very good, bat considerably Improved. His Mummy looks numeely total, and says hgnself that be b weak PORTSMOUTH. JAS. M. The Gloucester passed through Spithead on Monday morning, on her way to the Eastward, from Lisbon. 11e Wellesley, 84, Captain G. T. falcon, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Sir I. M. Hardy, came up to Spithead, and went into harbour this day at twelve, ex. for the purpose of being paid off and recommis sioned.—The Ringdove, 18, Commander D. C. Cla vering, came into harbour yesterday to be docked. The Barham, 50, Captain Sir John Louis, bearing the flag of Vice Admiral Fleensing, has arrived at Siait bead, from Chatham ; she will shift her mainmast, and proceed to the West Indies to relieve the flag ship. The Massey, 20, Capt. G: M. Ferguson, has arrived from South America, and will come into harbour to• morrow to be paid off. Tim Arrow cutter is tome into harbour. The Starling cutter has this day been paid eff. AT linnuaas—Asia, Barham, asd klaney. Hanna—Victory, Royal George, WeSeam sybtlle, Chal. kopr, Sapphire, Wolt, Columbia., Ringdove, Anew, Starling, and High Flyer. Tie Sapphire, commissioned on the stocks b 1 Captain H. Dundas, was launched yesterday. Monday being the Anniversary of his Majesty's sc• session to the Throne, at one o'clock all the ships and vessels at spithead, and in the harbour, fired a salute of 21 guns, bells rung, &c. WOLVERHAMPTON, JANUARY SI. ADJOUENRD INQUUT ON 11111 BODY OD Ma. JOSZTH Flinn Yft.—lt appears from the depositions taken be fore the Cotoner, held yesterday by adjournment from Friday, that the deceased went with a companion to the Peacock, which he left a little past nine o'clock, and was not afterwards seen until lie was found at the time al ready stated, vie. in a ploughed field between Willer. ball and Wednesfield, lying upon his left side, with his head near the hedge row, having his waistcoat unbut toned. It was a hard frost, and the gtouad covered with snow, and the footsteps of only isne person could be traced from the foot road to the place where he was found; and these steps were visible f , ir about 200 yards, in which distance he had evidently been down seven or eight times, and a drop or two of blood was observed: there was blood about his nose and mouth, and on his hat, but about no other part of his person.—Mr. Haw. thorn, surgeon, examined the body, and said there were several slight bruises upon the head and knees, but none sufficient to cause death. On opening and dissecting the head, it was found in a ve►y natural state, nor did the body exhibit any mark to cause suspicion that he died in consequence of any violence; and wet of opi nion, that his death was caused from the extreme seve rity of the weather. Mr. Fowke, surgeon, was also of the same opinion. The Jury, after a long and attentive investigation, returned their verdict—Found dead. and bis death occasioned by the severity of the weather.— Wahrerhaaspiton Chronicle. Ye'terday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Captains took leave of the Court, previous to departing for their respective destinations, via.: Cap tain &mum Beaux, Inglis; Captain ANIBILOSI F. Psocroa, Wind ier—for Bengal and China; and Captain Joan Pavan Wasos, Bythe, for Bombay and China. The Royal Commission for inquiring into the stateof the Scots Universities have finished their business at Glasgow in sit days. The Commissioners are about to propose ■ premium of a kindred guineas for the best essay, on a subject to be given, by a student of Edinburgh College. The adjudication is to take place in April neat ; and we rejoice to observe a new stimulus of this kind, imparted to the system of education already so successfully cnitivated in the North. NATIONAL SOCllTT.—Yesterday. the General Com mittee of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, held a s Meeting in th e V estr y R oom o f S t . Martins in-the /31th, present his GraC• the Archbishop of CANTU. Duey, the Lord Bishops of LONDON and Emma, and other Members. Seven grants of money were voted. from 401. to 180!. PRIVY COUNCIL 01 IRILAWD.—Mindsy the 22d1 inst. a Privy Council, at which the Lord Lieutenant presided, was held at the Castle at one o'clock, for the purpose of heating appeals in tithe causes. The Court was open, and very fully attended, and it continued to sit nearly four hours. We we were happy to observe the Lord Lieutenant, who had been indisposed with a cold, appeared to be in pet fect health. The PrivyCoun cillors present were-•theLord Chancellor,the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Kildare, Lord Norbury, the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the Master of the Rolls, the Attorney General, Sir Georgie Murray, Dr. Radcliffe, Mr. Denis Browne, and Mr. Goulburn. o , i Wednesday his Excellency received the Lord fbhyor and Sheriffs of the City of Dublin with an Ad dress of Condolence to be transmitted to his Majesty, on the lamented death of the Duke of Yolk. His Excel lency received the Address in the most gracious man• ner, assuring the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs that he would imm?di tidy submit their " dutiful, loyal, and affec tionate Address to our beloved Sovereign, in whose deep a/Diction no human consolation could be more acceptable than the sympathy of his people." After receiving the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, his Excellency give a long audience to Mr. Justice Moore and Mr. Justice Jebh, upon criminal business; and also to Mr. Fiankland Lewis, upon the occasion of his approaching departure from Ireland. THE ARMY. The hd Divadon of the lath Regiment of Infantry has strived on board the Princess Royal transport. at Portsmouth, from the Lee ward blends, and is ordered to Plymouth. A Detachment belonging to the Sod Regiment of Foot.ls ordered to march from Westminster for Elton. A Detachment belonging to th 7th Regiment of Infantry Is ordered to march from Westminster for Windsor. REVIEW OF THE LIFE GUARDS. The Life Guards and Cuirassiers were inspected yesterday ib Ilyde Park by a Field Officer. The admirable espdpmente„and gallant bearing of this most distinguished and brilliant body of Cavalry afforded a fine spectacle. The evolutions of forming In upiadrona, wheeling into line, advancing in columns, and miter movements, appeared to be executed with admirable discipline. Many spectators were attrhcted by this military display. WAR OFFICE, JAW. 10, 1527. The King has been pleased to order, that the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards shall be placed exactly upon the same footing as the two Regiments of Life Guards, with regard to all promotions, appointments, and matters of interior regulation • which are in future to be submitted to his Maiesty through the Go ld Stick. HORSE GUARDS, Die. 27. It having appeared to the Commander-in-Chief, that some Commanding °truer* of Regiments entertain erroneous amines, as to the powers under which Non-Commissioned Officers may be reduced to the rank of Private Soldiers, his Royal Highness directs their attention to the 224 article of the 16th section of the Articles of War, by which they will perceive, that such power of reduction whiten; a trial by a Court Martial is vested in the Colonels of Re giments alone. His Royal Highness has reason to apprehend that these errro aeons impressions have their origin in the opinions promulgated lel unauthorised Treaties and Commentaries upon Military Law y and his Royal Highness must therefore desire, that Officers will look only to the Mutiny Act and Articles of War, fee the geidamee.of, , their conduct, In carrying into effect the regulations of the service. by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chiers commend, HENRY TORREN3, Adjutant Gansu*. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Industry, lizatanta, from Batavia, has arrived of ilaadillPL The Mary, Lug from Rio Janeiro, has arrived o ff Scilly. The Autumn, Warns, from Greiswald to London, was carried into Wivenbee yesterday, with lees of rudder, and three uneaten and cables, having been on Maplin Sand, and thrown pan of the cargo overboard. The Active, Wan, from Sunderland to Aberdeen, sunk near Whitby on Monday, having struck on a rock—crew saved. Faratorrn, Jan. 50.—Wind S.S. W.—Arrived the French brig 'La Prosperite, N . from Brest for Liverpool. PLTIEOUTN, Jaw. 30 --Arrived the Thetis transport, CLAYTON, free Tobago; Borodino transport, from Gibraltar; and Daphne, front Figueira. Poatsnoarn, Jaw. 51.—Wind S S.W.—ills Majesty's dap Wat.r.susr tame Into harbour, front Spithead, to be paid at. Char., Jaw. 51.—Wind &W.—His Mjesty's ship GIAKIIIIMS sailed far Chatham this morning. The Oared (American ship), ALLEN for Charleston, remains with the rest of the outward bound. Arrived the Security. Ross, front Batavia; William Pitt. Rows. son, front the Mauritius ; and Hermosa, Newnan, from Messina. owns, Jan. 31.—*Ind W.—The . brig Salinas Rigor Dose, from Serra Leone, in 59 days, with timber for Landes, is elf here, with loss of main-top, main-topmast and sails, and is expected in siert tide to repair. Guymon), ht. 51.—Arrived the Colylen Upton, Gags, from Seville; Alice, Fens, troll Rookfort ; Iris, —.., from Wises ; and Magnet, TAYLOR. from Nantes. Sailed the New Prospect, .CMITIIII/4 for Jamaica. NORTH AND SOUTH AMRRICAN COMUL-HOUSIL THIS -AY. Livaarecii., hamar, 30.Arri:reithe Donde, Our. from De. nserara ; Euphrates, &um, front New York—sailed dm 10th inst. in company with the packet ship York, Da Com, tor this port ; the Howard, from Havre, was going in ; Octavian. •CANDLIS, from mad d ens ; James, from Lisbon, in sixteen days • Fairy Queen, ewe, from Seviile ; General Brock,Kom, from Antwerp. Sailed tWAurora, Tanstax, for New York, and Prince Unpaid. ter Brasil. The Corinthian. Davis ; Nimrod, NICROLS ; and Jempkine, Cam, have arrived at New York from Liverpool; Atelier* Weston. from LaratPaali at Banes Hercule, Pastmen, from Greenock, at New York. The Delaware, Hammon, for Liverpool; and the Golconda, Samosas, for London. sailed front 'Virginia ea nth Dec. Mary Aso, WISAUUM, from Gibraltar, at New Tao; Ifseitanse, Sammy, from Mavis. at New York; Wiltlam Tell, HOLMIUM; from St. Petenburgh. at New York ; Duke of York Packet, front Falmouth, at New York; Minerva, Gratsv, front Hambargh, at New York. Off at Sun-set.—One ship, lye brigs, and one snow. Now OSLASS, PSC. O.—Arrived the ship Plato, from Lisboa, with 7,000 bushels of salt. Below—dhe brig Nautilus. from Lis bon ; brig Missionary, from Havre; ship Minerva, from Newlrest ; 412 English brig. and the ship Lionel, from Havre, all of which are on shore. flavairsast, Due.. 117.—Li Uplands Cotton ante badness bee boa done, but the market has not been animated. We de not know that there has been any variation treat tie prices of lase week; tIIII mks have been made from 9 to 10 calm but prindpally at Ili, and very fine will bring 10k. Sea Islands have beers in good 4.. mand during the week, at from 111 to 24 caw. very fire lots at 16—and a sale has been made of a crack band at considerably above that. fitscavoas. Ave. Sl.—The lion. Company's ship Orwell, Capt. neat', from England let May, has arrived here since our last.— We underaaod that a mutiny broke out on board of her during the passage, which appeared to have bees previously concerted amongst a part of the crew, SS in lumber ; it was, however, opportunely put a stop to, See of the ringleaders being seised and poidshed severely. T hree of the most refractory of these were subsequently put in 'roes, but on the ship entering the Straits of &ads, two of them broke loose during the night, and jumped overboard, The life buoys bad been cut away from the stern, and the unferousate men were heard bailing the skip several times. The darkness of the night, however, precluded all possibility of saving these, and it is more than probable that they met with a lingering &ult r as the street current in the Strait would soon have carried them into the ocean. The Hedleys, from England, had passed Apples, humid to Batavia. The brig Manilla packet, and ship Helm, have net yet arrived, sad apprehensions are entertained for their safety._ . . . _ . . _ _ Arrived on the 16th inst. the British brig Teak, Nees Abu &Iliad, from Penang, 25th July; 16th, Lee Goan, Rea Ur Cu., from Acheen, 16th July; British bark, Royal Charlotte, Dusoun, from Telloksansa, 34 August ; 20th, British ship Milford, Jaosson, from Bombay, 111th July ; British brig Catherine, Tau Hoeg, from the coast of Sumatra, sth August; British brig Ulysses, Teas Hoas, from Penang ; British brig Marla, Bacot', from Yedier, 10th August ; 25th; British brig Guardian, from Siam; SOth July, H.C. ship Thomas Coutts, Cimino, from Bombay, 23d August; the Hon. Compasiy's ship Berwickshire, Suerrams from Calcutta; on the 27th paned through, the &itisis ship Almeida, DALY, from Bombay, the 3th August ; British brig, Aurora, Loots, from Ma ; Inca, the 23th August ; on the 1111th the lion. Company's skip Duchess of Athol, Damn, from Bombay, 3d August, and British brig Rader Bus, Go Ton, from Rbio, the 25th August. Cowsa, Jas. 3,l.—Wind SW.—Arrived the Parmelia, Jowl. stay from St. Viacom's, with a detachment of the 21at Regiment, which were lanSed.and marched to Albany Barracks; Greenock, Mu.s.aa, from Sincapore, in three months' passage, fur orders, with mainmast sprung. Spoke on the 29th uk. in lat. 6. N. long. 23. W. the Saugeasey, of Liverpool, from St. John's to Pernambuco. A vessel has arrived Isom Sincapote; bringing ac- Counts from Batavia, stating that a skirmish had taken place b.- tween the Dutch and insurgent troops, in which the former were defeated: and a native Prince in the Dutch service was taken prisoner, and although a ransom was offered be was put to death. The Dutch troops were losing ground daily, and the merchants were all under arms. Dispatches were this day received at the Colonial Deice, Downing-street, from the Cape of Good Hope, from Deme rara, dated idik December, and from Sir Nau. Careerist at Sierra Leone, dated the 24th November. _ _ By tise arrival r f the Euphrates, Captain Sawn,. in twenty days, from New York, American Papers have beat received to the 10th January. They contain no political inteUigence. We have had during the past week another dreadful wow storm. The weather has been fur some time dngulaely change-' able, frost and thaw giving place to each other to rapid succesaion. The snow sod rain that have fallen have caused the river Tyne to be se much swollen that the water, while we are wsiting, has nearly rhea to the top of Newcastle Quay.—Tyne Mercury. F iday, five wild swans alighted in a field near St. Margaret's Bay. Eihau:ted with their Bight across the Channel v they allowed some Gentlemen who witnessed their arrival to approach them. With recruited stre.lgth they r enewed their Sigh; ; but two of theta wets speedily shot. DUBLIN, Buxom', Two o'CLooK,. • Before this roaches your office a duel will %se been decided on the Welch Coast between Mr. Sheriff Yates and Mr. Nicholas Murray Mansfield, several years the popular and able conductor of the Sheriff's Office of Dublin. The origin of this affdir of honour is briefly as follows 1... At the commencement of their official year the present Sheriffs. Bean and Yates, could not agree en the appointment of sub-Sheriff. Mr. Been objected to the nomination of a Mr. Ma lone on specilled grounds of ineficiency and ineligibility. as •Mr. Mansfield refused to remain in qffsce in conjunction with that no minee at Mr. Yates. no latter submitted a case for the teed &radon of the Solicitor-General, as to kis right to an equal parti cipaties la; the emoluments of the ones, upon finding that when be established a separate office. the professional men threw all the business into Mr. Sheriff Bun's hands. The law case contained queries regarding Mr. N. M. Mansfield, and the legal propriety of his eontinuing to act for so many years. To all these the Solicitor. General returned an elaborate opining. Mr. Mansfield consequently circulated an explanatory statement in a pamphlet, in which with no Inconsiderable portion of tact and satire be held Mr. Sheriff Tates and his dere Mr. Malone, up to ridicule, charging upon them specific objections en the score of traffic and exhibiting bath to no very enviable point of view. The Cor porations publicly returned thanks to Mr. Sheriff Bonn for the part he had taken (in behalf of Mr. Mansfield), thereby conveying very intelligibly by implication a censure on Mr. Sheriff Yates. In consequence of the death of his late and lamented Royal Highness the' Duke of York, Mr. Setif Bones Annual Dinner was postponed from the nth to the 56th instant, Friday evening, when It took place at Morrison's Tavern. " Hot with she Tram give," many political were delivered. Several oration of merely local application interest socceeded--the late leans and squabble between' the two High Sheriffs burst forth afresh. Mr. N. Mansfield attacked his Zrt Mr. Sheriff Yatesin a" roped unvarnished tale;" retort w rn eti,rebut succeeded, and words were • exchan ged, which, as Be Lucius mys " their honour c o uld' not brook ; ' a scene 'Wand. politesse sues:ceded to the festitities of the social board. and the whole pasty broke up in " most *irked disorder." It was well known to all present that a duel would ensue. There were several Aldermen and Sheriff Bunn spectators of these acerbities and warlike denunciations ; yet, strange to say—but we are it seems a fighting people—tat one exercised his Magisterial authority to I reform an observance side peace. Mr. Sheriff Yates sailed yes. bailey evening for Holyhead, after having challenged Mr. Mans field, who, It appears, has eluded the vigilance of our certainly very indefatigable and able police, and also repaired by some mere cir cuitous route as give the High Sheriff a meeting. JANUMIT 3*.—.Mr. Yates retanied to Dublin yesterday thoraces, by the paithet from Holyhead. Mr. Mansfield is soots eseastris. OXFORD UNIVERSITY, JAN. 29. The election of a DOW Margaret Peofesser of Divinky In the room of the late Dr. COLLAWOO, Prbwist of (Lumen's College, is just terminated in favour of Mr. Fa UMW, of Magdalen College. The Candidates at the time of election being the Rev. Dr. Sure. ft/moats, Wanks of New College; the Rev. Dr. Naas, Regis. Professor of Modern History; sod Mr. Fusses:, the stweewfol Candidate. Mr. Beams, of Wadham College, and Mr. lievrann, of Oriel, two academes of very distinguished learning and talents, having withdraws their names from the list of Candidates before the election centaseneed. At the close of the Election the numbers stood...for NG Fallow Dr. Nara • • • 42 . • • Z 5 The %rim el New College . 21 CAMBRIDGE.. After as Moses end protracted mateet, iE @YAWL both Gentle- Ines displayed talents asid acquirements of the highest welq, 0 The Sada Prizes" at the Weenie, of Cambridge, were eild this Flan Parse—Dr. Tema, Ten. fld Wrangler. SECOND Patna—De. Ham PSIICT 00 BOO; Pet. lst Wrangler. Earl prise is she sant of AU. The other Camillus@ also es bilked sossiderable Whim with great mathematical knowledge. This year has proved soceestsooly fertile la undies, saes is every bniub of Literature. A young man from Carriekbeg, who had gone to a funeral in kash on Sunday, and drank immoderately of spirits, was found dead oa the road neat morning. Saturday siennight, a coachman, belonging to a family from Cheshire, residing at Hastings, was riding one of the carriage horses and leading the other, when one of them became restive, and in attempting to manage it, he was thrown, and kicked to death. A new style of dramatic criticism has sprung up at Edinburgh. Mr. Ryder, of the. Caledonian, last week presented himself before the curtain, between the Play and Farce, favoured the audience with a running com mentary upon the Ediashoirgh Oiserwr's theatrical remarks, and challenged the Editor to mortal combat with the claymore. A wag was last week standing with a friend, before a shop in Fleet.street, observing some glass eyes exposed in the window. 44 I wonder* said his companion," what kind of glass they are manufactured from r Guess," replied the wag. The querist began — " plate gins, square glass, cut glass ?'' 4 , No; what should eyes be made of bat heed i ng glass." A private letter from Paris says, " You cannot con ceive the satisfaction which bas been' produced here among the Court party, by the news from Spain and Portugal. M. Fill& remains in office as firm as ever, and I not now think that there is any immediate prospect of his leaving the Ministry. Here it is re ported, that Ferdinand has sent the most positive as surances that so protection shall ever be given. either directly or indirectly, to the Portuguese rebels." Coaommes luctuesz t DEATH OF A CLIMBING BOT.—. Au Inquest hasbeen held at Hanwell, Middlesex, on a chimuey-sweeper, aged eleven years, upon whose body several marks of violent treatment appeared. T. Johnson, the master of the deceased, deposed that the injuries sustained by the boy were inconsequence of his falling down a chimney, which he was in the act of sweeping.—The surgeon, who ♦isited the deceased, stated that the boy informed him his wounds were pro. duced from his having fallen down a chimney, and that he had always been well treated•by his master. Other witnesses, however, deposed that in consequence of the boy, impelled by hunger, having begged for bread and butter at a neighbouring house, his master chastised him m severely as to break a stick with which he bad given him repeated violent blows. Two Surgeons, who had opened and examined the body, were of opinion that the death of the boy was caused by blowi inflicted in various parts. his state being very much weakened from apparent want of food.—CoroneesVerdict,Manadughter against the master of the deceased. • " This week has been dispensed to the poor of the 80-1 rough of Stafford, the bounty of the celebrated and ingenious " Izaak Walton," who was a native of the place, and who bequeathed a portion of " the rents and profits of a farme" to the purchase of coals " for some poor people," to be delivered in January or February ; " [say then," run the words of the humane testator, " because I take that time to be the hardest and most pinching times with poor people." The farm in ques tion is now of considerable value, bi inging in we believe about SOL a year ; and• after. deducting a moiety of the profits directed to be applied to the apprenticing of two boys, and in a gift to a maid -servant, or some "honest poor man's daughter, a sufficient sum has this year remained for the purchase of a small allowance of coal to.almost every poor family, winch has this week been distributed. The instrument is dated " August the 9th, 1683," and the testator war then inlis ." nine geth" year. •••••-• THE *JIM CAPTAIN AMHERST. /SOY TNT ONZUTPA oovriunteer 162 MT OV Avant? It le with sentiments of unfeigned eorrow, that ete trin. , elir.. the death of Om Hos Oman Amherst.. After suffering several re lapses of she were fever, with which he was at•a e l t ' ;., the begin. Dingo/ last he ea pired at half past nine y •te..be Morning, at Ilarraekpore. The premature close of a car et of the most honourable promise would alone awaken general regret ; but in Captain Amherst, the society of Calcutta have to lament an indivi dual endeared to them by familiar and friendly intercourse, by unaffected cheerfulness,- unassuming manners, and a disposition in variab obliging and kind. Few persons i n hi s stat i on wou ld h ave Inspired mere sincere or more general esteem, and few could be mere universally or truly mourned. Captain Amherst was aged lei years sad 11 months. Ile was to be interred this morning, in the burial VOUCCI of Ilerraciporst. The funeral was intended to be private, but a number of the elder foie. tionaries,ind principal members of the Society left mien Temerity , afternoon, to pay the last tribute of respedt to the deceased. The Governor-Generals departure has been neeenstily delayed by this srelancholy event, bet he would lea*, Barraetpore, we are informed, on Friday moralist. MANCHESTER GOODS MARKET. TOCIDAT. JAN. so: The market for the lest ten days has been rather flat, that is to say, the demand during that time has been rather stationary, instead of increasing, as most people anticipated. A sufficient reason , for this relative flat. loess is, however, to be found in the canals being closed, which has kept many London and Country buyers oat of the market. . The weather is now open, and the prices of goods in to•day's market have been well sustained in cons'. (lance. Well-informed people have a sober expecta tion of an advance in the price of goods, and in Me wages of weaveii; but there are many persons who think that any advance would drive purchasers out of the market. In this opinion Ido not agree, for I have nor, in many years' experience, seen a full employment 'of weavers in January, arid stocks moving off as fast as goods were made, without such a state of things being followed by an advance of prices when the extra spring demand began to manifest itself. There is, therefore, a reasonable hope that for a few months the working people may be able to earn sufficient for their sub. sistence. The Sc. rate, which was expected to last till the end of March, is exhausted, and another for the same amount is about to be laid on. A proof of the distress amongst a class of persons superior to- the artisans, was afforded the other day at the overseer's office, where there were nearly 200 applicants for a situation of 801. a-year. Two steam vessels, the Alban, and Canon, of XXI tons eaeh, have just been launched at Deptford; making six recently completed there for Government service. Upwards of 1001. was collected last week by the Rector and Churchwardens from the inhabitants of the parishes of Holy Trinity and St, Mary, in Guildford, in aid of the distressed manufacturers, after sermons preached in the churches of those parishes the preced;rig Sunday. A collection for the same object was alio made in St. Nicholas p%iish, the amount of which we have not yet heard. A package of comfortable clothing, containing 240 Wrments, was last week trAnmitted to the Vi c ar of estbury, from the Bristol Committee, for distribution amoag the poor of that place, being prittcinally the gratuitous work of Ladies of that city and its neigh- The Overseers of the parish of St. Bude applied to the Devonpurt Magistrates last week, to make an order for the maintenance of two illegitimate children (twins), which had been affiliated on a rustic youth, who de. scribed himself as " going in his twenty." Ou'being ' asked what his wages were, he said he Lammed for a farmer, who supplied hint with board and lodgings, and gave him in addirion,•ttue shillings per weep, to provide himself with clothes and luxuries. With these liberal funds at his command, the gallant Lubin pre- • posed to marry the mother of the twins, who had one child before, making a family of three to begin 'gib. The Overseers of St. Bude, however, endeavoury4 )1C restrain the marriage, and applied to the Magistrafti make an order of maintenance on the delinqnearits question. He was accordingly ordered to pa half of his weekly stipend (one shilling) for the suppo tt of tip children. PEARL AND CORAL FDIHRRT Coin...mt.—Yesterday a meeting of the Shareholders was held at the Comp pany's Office in Broad-street Buildings, for the purpose of coming to some resolution to enforce the payment of the calls. The Association was formed for the purpose of Fishing for Pearls and Coral by means of a peculiarly constructed diving bell, by which it was expected' that the divers would only have to seat themselves comfort ably in the bell and pick up pearls and cord without difficulty. It however seems, that the bell is too un wieldy an instrument to be moved with the expedition required; and that kis not practicable, owing to the rocks, to lower the men to those7places where pearls, &c. are to be met with. The attempts of the Directors therefore to compel the payment of the calls have been resisted. The door of the room where the meeting was held, was strictly guarded, in order to prevent any but Shareholders from entering. The capital of the-Cirn pany was intended to have been 609,0004 in 15,000 Shares-41. per Share have been called. Muarnm.—On Tuesday morning week, a young woman named Michael Bradley, who resided in Ashton under-Line, left her lodgings and took with her a young child, of which she had been delivered about six or seven weeks before. Her stetement on going out was, that she was going to the overseer of the township in Yorkshire tn which she belonged, and would either have more relief for the child, or She would leave it with him. She was met afterwards on the same day, on her return from Manchester, but did . not return to her lodg in4s until Thursday night, when she came without the child. The neighbours were alarmed, and charged her with hiving destroyed her infant, which - she denied, hilt at length said the wind had blown her and the childinto the canal, where it was drowned. The con. stable, however, being sent for, she was takes into custody, au,d then confessed that she had put the child into the canal, at the upper end of the tunnel, near Ashton-under-Line. The constable immediately set men to drag for the child, slid used all mein' in Mir power to ind it, but withont success, until Sunday, when the water was let off with the cosiseat of the canal proprietors, and the child's body was found, after having paused through the tuna-I, and one lock near to it. On Tuesday an inquest has hrld • n the body, atlhe Cernnaerclal Inn, in Astiton•under•Line. when the Jury .returned a verdict of wilful murder, and the woman was committed to Lancaster Castle - for Manchester Mercury. 1 , • t 1 : . 1 . t i 1i ; t i i I t i i V , e 1 1 . i 1 V 11 1 ' • i • 11 . i , 1 ,4: .1 • ; i t. ' ,I 4;i 1 . . . . ,' • ' V . 11 ' r 4 t! ' ',.., t ; I . r ti I, a ~; ~,~