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3, ier .....,,,, 1. eif the t,ottod k • .t. Of the fret, therefore, that a wery considerable Iprechstmo had breii produced in our currency by the snspeusion of cash payments in 1797, no rational wood coo, for • marnetit, entertain • doubt, llo oiortl, it is sew almost universally acknowledged ..bat tholesereney of this realm had antlered some 1 ir:petslllllVoi lithongh there be nut quid concur , our of *Onion as to the amosint . of tine deprecia lingo lir. Ricardo maintains. that it did hot ez ' 3:511t1 or eight pee cent.; while Mr. Boring, 1 confidence, rates it is high as 331 pet cent. These two estimates appear to be the ea* trenses between which this depreciation fluctuoted between the year 1797 sod the year 1819. 11 wa rake the niers' amount of these two rationales, of itit per cent., it will probably give very nearly that aventge ambunt to which the pound sterl i ng liadi during, that period, been depreciated. To 'hew the additional pressure thrown upon this occupier 4,iy the opeiation of this alteration in the standoroly let me take the tortoni.' of one boodle acres of land hired, seven years ego, at 40s. per were. The truant then promised to pay his land., lord 200 i. sterling in paper ; gold bullion at the some time sold in the mothet as five of throe Swamis smiling per or. The :tool, sterling mint b sl.e tenant. therefore, promised to pay, as rent, fie throe 100 acres of land, would hive purchased at this rate just 40 oz. of gull!. Now every school boy must know that if quo/. steeling ere equivalent to 40 W. of gold, one of these pounds sterling muse he equivalent to the fifoli part of MI ounce. Of .0 96 grains. The statiderd of the pound sterling was. ilierefore,96 gismos of gold. The repeal of the Wink Restriction Art raises this staiiitard from 96 grate. to HO grains of gold (1 shall leave out the from, lions). that is, it rotors the stand .id of the !wand sterling from the depreciated rote taro abode it had fallen dining the suspension of cash pa 3 weeds by the Bout. and restorer it to its metallic volt** befoie that suspension. The rent which the truant contracted to pay his landlord for 100 acres of land. ass 9044. sterling, or 40 or. of gold. The net out of the Houk R.strietion Act raises the value of the slaostaral so ISO grains, and oblige's 101/1 to pay Ina landlord the oarwe member of pounds melding COOP tossing this quantity of gold. Before the repeal of thi. Act each K. of gold counted for fire pounds sterling. rime its tepeul It can comet only fur four I. J o/ . 6/ . ' . .STATE OF THE CURRENCY. EXTRACT FRO* A SECOND LETTER TO THE RIGHT NON. PREDERIcIC 3. ROBINSON. UN THE PRE- ! SENT STAIR of THE CURRENCY. • [From the 37th Moodier of the" Pamphleteer"] . 911a-al-Isving in the preceding letter discussed Imie of the sources from which the present dis- 'ls tiellaas of ogricalture Lave been supposed to spring. 1 doll men proceed to consider another cause to Which thy Mve been ascribed. This is a branch II o f the *lime which involves a quietists of very ; great ical merits the Most candid suia t • ' . ply im- ti, at the .. *- k tileakinol, ficelles spoilt .the 114iiilish *gri- t:z it , and which, if not by roam means al- Witted, must inevitable rain him, arises princi- iliglyy from the contreetion 0 the 'circulating .••sbidinat predated try the operation *1 what is -nputaiottly tiremeil Me. r.pr• Sill. enacting the - repeal of the Bunk Restrictino Art. . .-...- Those w 4. aseribeibe, didicalties of agriculture ~. v this Meoetsre, as their sourer, assert that the Act 11." rrtd in IS*, to regulate the standard or our cur- . racy. has tolitod nearly one foam& to the exchange- . obta vales of the pou;s4l steeling; ante thee this in- . revile its the edge of the pound *sterling. produced by to mere Act of the Legislative. has made an iiddi... .. ' . of U prr,gent. to the previous cietgaings of the . l'heyollbrns that Isis resit. those nominally t Us molly increased one fourth ; that his ineressed era fourth, and that parochial . ; tithes, end the wages of labour, hire iu- tasetl. at feast for a time, iu Nu equol proportion. ,4j eta me of preartut remelt, regulated upon atmesnessly teemed war prices, or upon the . 14 aloe wher.b existed previously to the '114! tita Sill esacting the prospective repeal elhilt Restriction Act. This, at least, is the all'faons let MI levees eseeuted before 1919. f the tart of ii depreciation having taken place in T • es', doting the euspemion of cash pity- r.4 ' foes been noanswerahly established by the Ire ... . &ems and prof.n of the Bullion Committee in - 1 : there Ufa kill who do mot two accede to the 6 "of the follows** resolutiors , recommended by ~ ` • (Nensissinee far the arloption of the Legislature. $ is the tenth of the re,olutious proposed by Mr. • timer in a Committee of the whisk Hamm of Coin- s .6., May 6, ler I :—" WWI vtdo That it appears the actual valise of the promissory notes of the af England Ineeasering such valise by weight *til eea e pe d nuel d so ofti d s ine ilv a rr a 4 d stilt if. COll has hemp , faarldliercuobnl; than that is eaniblialied by the laws of the las to he the legal tender in payntamt of tiny tons set ar atiptslation." The peeseot Chan - Itoe of that Rechequer strongly denied, mid. the is rattily astonishment or the public, , . deny,' that say arch ' deprecia- , 1111188 plAce su our currency, and on flee 14th and kith of May, 1811, among other memorable resolutions, he prevailed upon a ma. jority of the House of Commons to adopt the Mooing t—Resulved, " That the promissory notes of the Governor and Company of the Bank • sof ..fiowleost have Irtherto been, and are at this , . time held in public estimation to be equivalent . to the legal coin of the realm, and generally cc- , . • . ve'pted au such in till pecuniary transactions to which • such coin is lawfully applicable." But when it is a fact, notorious to all the world, that the guinea . • aryl for at least, It 6s. 3.1; nay, when it is known that Government itself gave 28s. a piece for guiness, to ~. .-.1 , . 4se rent abroad, it is an absolute waste of trouble .: . to argue with any man who, in the very teeth of *facts, has Still the hardihoed to maintain, that wines was mot worth " more than a pound oats and a alailling." 'At the very moment when this Might fistesounthle limiticisr maintained that a initialised a shilling were equivalent toe guinea, - ' agents awl canonic. were i rovers+ ig the country, pil direction,, and beyiug up all the gold which y could meet with, at the rate of tbs. for each Ines; which is as convincing a proof as that two .. . r. two mule font, that the depreciation- in the ear the posed steeling was at that time 331 per 1 I ~i I r • ' pounds; end, ill • makeup lit. tea, the occupier moat now purchase so oz., thus making an 'addition of one fourth to the quantity of gold which he had engaged to pay hie landlord. As it appears of great importance that this sub. ject should be rendered as plain us possible, to those who are not mush accustomed to think and reason on political economy, no apology nerd be made fur adding another illustration to point oat the effect produced by • variation it. the standard of value. Let it then be supposed thus. instead of gold, rents were paid in corn, and that the occupier of one hundred acres of land had covenanted to give the owner as rent, one hundred bushels of wheut, cootsiseiageight gallons each. A theoretical rcono. mist imagining ten to be the proper number of gallons ti constitute a bushel, prevails upon the Legislature to enact that, for the future, the standard English bushel should contain ten gallon.. The stlodard of value being thus increased from right to ten pitons, theoccupierof these hundred acres would be compelled to add one-fourth to the amount of rent which he had contracted to pay, supposing the owner still to exact from him the same number of bushels of this incrensed standard. He had agreed to pay 100 X 8 gulloris of wheat to his landlord as rent; but all addition of two gallons having been mode to the standard, by *lnch the bushel is measured, he is now called Upon to pay him 100 X 10 gallons of the same commodity. Every one, in this case, would instantly perceive that the share of the produce received by the landowner as rent had increased in the proportioil that 8 beam to 10, and the consequence of both •ao addition to corn rents would inevitably be found similar to the ruinous pressure which the agriculturists feel at present. For whether rents be paid in corn or gold, an addition to the size or weight of the stand. and by which the quantity of either of these com modities is measured, must product results pre cisely similar. The statement* of those individuals who have been examined by the Committee appointed to in vestigate the present state of agriculture, prove that the depreciation which has taken place in the money value of agricultural produce since the pass ing of the Bill enacting the prospective resump tion of cash payments, amounts to 2/1 or 90 per cent.; and this constitutes, very Dearly, the differ ence between the present standard of the pound sterling and the real value of the paper pound of the Bank of England, which was the only legal measure of value that existed in England from 1797 to 1819, while the obligation of the Bank to pay specie for its notes was suspended. A bushel of wheat will at this moment exchange fur, pretty nearly, the *erne quantity of all other commodi ties ; it will exchange even for the same weight of gold which it would Bove exchanged for before the resuasptiou of cash payments took place in 1820. Gold and wheat, when bartered fur any other com modities, bear nearly the same exchangeable value, at the present moment, that they did during the suspensiou of cash payments ; but, exchanged for pounds 'tering, they are depreciated in value one fourth : no change has taken place in the real value of gold or wheat, but the value of the pound ster ling is altered ; these commodities are still of the same relative valise in exchange, but the standard by which they are to be measured is increased. During some portion at least of the period which elapsed while cash payments were suspended, ass ox. of gold was equivalent to fire pounds sterling ; the standard" of the pound sierliog, therefore, contained no more than g 6 groins of gold : and all enutnicts, in money transactions, were fixed and settled upon this standard. When a landlord therefore let his land for 100 pounds, he let it for 100896 grains of gold : but the late regulation of the currency having raised this standard from 96 to 120 grains, and no reduction having taken place in the number of pounds. sterling claimed by the landlord, the tenaiit is obliged to pay hint now, tint the quantity of gold which lie had bargained to pay, nut 10006 grains of gold ; but he is com pelled to pay his rent in a different *titular(' ; he must now pay him 100)01 120 grains of golf. A grain of gold exchanges now for the same portion of wheat or any other commodity as it exchanged for before the lute regulation of the currency ; the occupier of land is now therefore forced to pay 1,400 grains of gold fur the lam which he had rented of his landlord for 860 grains ; the value of wheat, compared with gold, bring the same, the tenant must sell one-fourth more wheat than he suld before to procure the orlditiorrol quantity of gold which this increase of the standard obliges Jilin to pay his landlord. 1 am, therefore, disposed to concur with those who are of opinion dint the difficulties under which the agriculturists of this kingdom at present labour, most be attributed priocipolly, if not ex clusively, to Chia cause. 'rhe.slotre of tlir produce of land which the occupier pays in the form of resit, has received an addition proportioned to the increase of the standard by which _this portion is measured: • pound sterhng wtll' now exchange for or purchase at the least, one fourth more wheat, or any other commodity, than it would hove bartered for pre viously to the repeal of the Baiik Restriction Act; trot because the quantity of wheat is increased when compared with gold, nor yet with any other commodity, but because the politic! sterling HOW represents a greater weight of gold than it pie vinusly represented : the pound .i. &sag, as fixed by the late regulation of the ruireocy, contains 140 groins of gold, and is equal to rate pound ster. hog of the period between 1797 awl 1819, control ing only 96 grains, and the fouith of soother. It omit therefore follow, as a matter of course, that where tile nicotine of the landlord remains obtain -1114, the same, AS exchangeable 'riot., calculated oil the command over the tiecerawrirg of life o !itch it gives bin), hiss been improved foie-fourth by the operation of this recent regulation of the time-Hey : and fur the correctness of this a•orrtiost I ap peal to the experience of vvery landowner, and of any other individual who bees twins a fixed money pnyrnrtst. Alt rw,i Illtrilley 1 villa continuing still immorally the as Inv, . ilotw i di slander% the addition made to the standard of vols.-, ti a i e e who are entitled to ;,osier them ate all tweuty-five per cent. richer than tiny were before the resuutptinst of cash payments. Let ally man examine Iris butler, Ins baker, or hie corociniiirtlei's 1011. mid be will find that, obitli the some I romminp. lum at these articles, the uourount of hi. cspetadtture iha. been 11111 tt 100 .lly ilassioodiril woe-foisith. At. isseisr.ilual wills aa iiii•otate of 4,01.101. al the rstsciit _ •~- .ftiotbeut, hal as greats contemn(' over the necessaries of life as an income of 5,000/. would have given him before this alteration in the standard not be reave ally alteration has taken place in the real value of these• necessarie., but because an altera tion has been made in the standard by which tins value is meustired.—The quantity of corn then which the landlord, who exacts now the same nomi nal rent from his teuant, take► as his share of the produce. amounts to one-fourth mere than the grower bad contracted to give him. THE LATE STORM. In peculiarly imposed situations its M•nehester, and in many, parts of the outskirts, the inhabitants spent a sit seeable night. Some houses rocked on their fousidation, from the force of the tempest. This Wes the case in a row of houses in the vicinity tit the !roe'', near tddfleld. road. The inmates were in Tearful consternation, nu! screamed with horror from as appreheorion that flue whole pile would be laid prestrete upon them and their little one.. 'nay passod a night of terror, remaining up with lights. The antismog force of the wind was related at Islington, its Salford, by quantities of pure salt par ticles being scraped from the windows of I respect able houses on the following 'lay. Samples of it are pre served as a curiosity, whirls retain the proper taste of sea salt. The roofs of minty buildings bad the lead ceded up moat curiously: is insulated situations extensive walla were blown down, and bricks sad slates were scattered is every direction. Many windows Om wholly forced out of their frame.. Providentially these were no lives lest. Coed dereble damage was done in Charlton-row, wive, between two and three o'clock in the atomism it blew a complete hurricane. A large chimney was throws down is Grosirgeoi , street : it forced its way through the roof, bet happily so person was sleeping in the room beneath. Meek lead was tors up and holes made into the roofs of many houses. Un the approach of daylight the tersplke-reed was strewed with slates and bricks. _ At Heywood, wear Rory, three unfortunate people lost their live', by the falitug of a factory chimney upon a cot tage. CHISTRR. Daring the night of Friday re'onight we bad, in this city, one of the hardest gales of wired we remember since the 21st January, 1802. Many chisniiiirs were blown down, and se veral houses partially unroofed; but vials the city we have not heard of any other material damage. On the Welsh coast, however, and even in our own river, we have beard of several distressing occurrences. It is stated to as, that between the Dee sad Conway river, not lona than eleven vessels have been stranded, and we fear the loss of human life has heels great. The sloop Elisabeth, of Chester, laden with slates from Bess mark, went duwn near Hienery Woad, and remains there a perfect wreck. The only account received of the fate of this vessel has been brought by a Chester pilot, abs wsl taking out for sea • vessel ea Friday, arid spoke the Elizabeth about foar'o'crock that afternoon. During the night she must have sunk, and there is DO doubt lint all her Wads (three me.) moot have perished. The pilot just mealhassed was pet on shore on Friday evening ea the Cheshire side ; from whence, on the following moraieig, he beheld the ves. sel he had brought down espaised ; isisikruht remaining but that her crew had also perished.—(Ckester (Anomie' e.) • lettllSToll. We were visited last nigh' with a severe stir• floes the nortb-west, which coutiowed with unabated violence the gyrates' part of this morning (Saturday). The emseequesiee of it lies been, that about twenty live sheep, belonging to Calomel Hewstwee, have been drowned by the tide being driven by the wind to such an extraordinary height, as to cause the overdowlog of Primer-them Holmes, where the sheep were feeding. Several chimneys, and great quasiti tis of Oates, have 'wen blown from the roofs of the houses, is this luau; sod many of the houses whose aspect woe rortle.weat, have suffered severely by having the glans blows from the windows. Pert of a house is w erretieg at Slavin Rank, by Mr. Citenee, was thrown down by the violence of the ivied; and great part of the roof of a newly-built house is the Ditighbeurhimal of Mr. Cosset'. has been strips of its elate. Sway ides of the violence of the storms may be formed from the circumstance of all the hedges in the Neighbour hood of the town not only being covered with soli sensible to the taste, bet visible to the eye in crystals. Natty trees have been torn up by the route in the neighbourhood.— Preston Sentinel.) stAcsivaw, DECEMBER 5. On the night of Friday se'uli igloo mid /sturdily nsonsitig this town and neighboorniud was %hilted by a storm Groaned which increased to a complete hurricane. Slates were dislodged, a-hinnies prostrated, and several new Imildiagicesperiouccd much damage. A chimney lw loaging to some hack premises in Northgate wns blown down, and broke tbriiiigh the roof of an adjoining house, by which accident a man who was in bed received much injui y. At Plessisigton, the gable end of A house was blown down, the residents having previously observed it to be Insecure, had jest time to remise. Ois Saturday eves.- lag, about twelve o'clock, there was a storm, aensanpanied by thunder and lightning., A person at Bellthora, shoot two miles heserearned George Hawurth, 26 years of age, was struck deadoirith the elect4c fluid whilst sitting near his own Sre-side. A woman who was employed in making gruel foe the unfortunate man's wife, who had bens brought to bed the saw day, escaped unhurt. NAVAL INTELLIGA.VCE. PORTSMOUTH, DRORMITR 20. The wind this morning was N.E. and some of the out. word•bound got under wrizli, hat it again shifted to the S.E. when they came to anchor again. Came iato harbour the Grasshopper sud Ontario. DOVER, D.CIIIIIIII 20. No arrivals. Our Bar is gettiag bitter very fast; small vessels caw now NO owl and in. Sailed the Lady (:oeklinin pocket, with a mail from France. DEAL, DACIEMBAR 20. The Joliana East Indiansan, Capiain Ogilvie; mad Mary, Worts; and Tobago, tVestinoilaud i , hove sailed fur the River. The Atalanta anA thi Priire Leopold, with *event more ships from the Rtre►, are this evening turning into the Downs.. LIVERPOOL. DECEMBER 19. Arrived the George, Guthrie, hum Bahia ; moiled 181 k October. S I ships bare ism back. WATERFORD. DECEMBER IS. Yesterday the wield was S.S.W. to I. by E., IV.W , and 8.W., all the day clear, with light showers of rain and moderate breezes ail ohm slay. At night heavy gales, which suddenly iuereasiug, Immune, at 8 p as, a perfect storm, attended with thick da knead and heavy ram the sea al ill a foam, and the title mining in and out sit the docks quite irregular. which rusitinued with unabated luny for all hour and a half, during a hirli lime a I houses a el e damaged and many yes weladriveo UM shore how their anchuragt , but I hope mine of them materially isijured. All the remainder of the night dreadful thunder and lighitting wills heavy attualla. A ling is on shore under the Inn th pond of Broom Hill, and 04 Hie sea is co very heavy, I frar she will be lust. Duni.in, twine's,* IS. Nine (Math, p.m.--It has blown a gale all slay, sad still common... l i • The Prorpeet, Hull, from Kid to llull , and Coocordia, with tiniZwr, &c. are totally lust near Struiminds, with their The Minn, lawsraon, of Kincardine, from Petersburgh f or London, put into Copes.liagris about the 71b instant in ri very !silky stair, and work' be obliged to discharge great pars of her The Uuiuu , Wiltshire, f•um Riga fur Londonderry, rata on rhino sirs( I)rsigue ertvious so the Utir instaist. The Concord, (ruin Riga fur Loudon, was driers, on &ore at p o r o b e trit ur she let umlaut, bre gut of after thruttieig part of her cargo insrlawasd, and earrird ititobasbour. Mr. %Vatbora, Mr. 11'y and Mr. /Moguls, who were pa.s. migers is lb , Lady t.ashirgtur, klt Iry at Madras, rad hare ainv(ll as Calton'. M,,RKE7S. CORN EXCHANGE. FRIDAY, DICEMR:It Oiling :u the adverse wiuda we had bre little Cure of Soy deociptium since Monday, yet the quantity ►till ...eland is much greater than the ihrataud cue take ulf, ,ilttiough from die cusitioyaure of Wet somber we bad sailor none buyers of Vheat this massing. sod retinae dry samples sold 'ort full as good terms as us Mayday, and the inftrior stet rather [knee pale. Forte Bailey old:third Nonslay'a pore.. 1a Beaus, Peas, end Oats there is nu ■lttr4lWl. SALISBURY, Decitstort le. Wheat 3B. to 764 ltd Oats.... 174.04. totes. Od Barley. DEVIZES, Dscriasaa SO. Wheat.... 32s Od a 34s Od I Oats .. 14s Od a Sts $4 Barley—. O. Od a 2sa Id Beans .... lds 04 a lOs Od 1,004 Sacks of Wheat sold at the average of tbs. IMd. HUNGERFORD, Deccomaa 19. Wheat....2001.t0 89s. W. I (law 13s. 04. I n Or. Od. 8ar1ey....145. Od. tont. Od. Beans 18s. 0,1. to 34.. 04. SMITHFIELD MARKET, Fatose, DICEIIIIIM 21. The supply at markrt this morning wu sbuoilant, of all descriptions of Cattle, owing to • imautity which were un sold last nukes day, and the prices are rather lower. In the Hay.market Owe was no alteration. The following is an accurate statement of prices and °umbers : To tint the offal per ■time of Olb. Reef....2s. IL*. to 3s. 84i Head of Cattle t►is Asir: Mottoo. 2a. 8.1. to 3s. Sid. Beasts Yea1....24 81. to 4s. Od. Sheep . 6,210 enrk 04 to 4s. Ocl Calves Lamb...os. Od. to Os. 0.1. I Pie 5......... HAT-MARKET. Hay.. 3l. 10s. to 41. Os. C10ver..... et Os. to 51. 0.. Straw . 1/. /3a. to If 16a. NEW CATE AND LEA DENHALL MARKETS. (By the Carcass.) Reel.... Po Od to 3t 44 Veal .... Si Oil to illo ed I Mottos.. to Od to Si 04 Pork .... 29 Od to 4o Od PRICES OF HAY AND STRAWY . ST.: MRS/. H.y 31 O. 04 to 41 4. 0.1 Hay .... 3110. 04 to 414. 411traw 11 4. 0.1 to 11 111 6.1 I Clover-4/ Oa 04 to 51 Oa Od Ciover3/112s Od to 41 10a Od Straw 11 11140 d to 11 Iliad FOREIGN WOOLS, per 05. Spooled. Sbeep, Lenses& 3. Sd a 41 Sd ----- Segosia 3. 0.1 a 35 9.1 Soria 2• 9d • 36 3.1 Ss 3d a 35 04 Saz_Ljea ,Ist sa Sd a 75 3d id 45 Od • be 3d Bobealla,lst td 35 6d a 4. 6d RAW HIDES. I Best Heifere &Steers, pen at. Ordiauy.. to SA to t. 10d 3. 4d to 3* CI Markel Calf.. each to 04 Middliogs 3. Od to 3. td E.g. Horse It. 04 to Se Odi SHEEP SKINS. Polled Moos --- exelphave of duty, 7..7d. per genis. Port, SW, per 138 pikes 3Ol. to 481. New, ditto Lisboa, per pipe Madeira, per pipeof 110 gallons (East India) 451. to 7W. Sherry, per Nett . . 391 .-i OItILA par Ttem, of 11611 Gallons. New Greetal.Witele •—• Spermacet UIJ-e ' - L Li. useed Pale Seal 441 Pale 'tame COAL MARKET, Dr.cittioa* 21. Ships it Ilitukti. Ships Sold. Price. 301 Newcastle Soodertamt 0 (From the " London New Price Current."' FRIDAY. DECEMBER 41. Carrow.—Tbeer la no alteratiosi in the prices of Cotton : the ►alp *ince our last areeunsiderahle: they consist of -300 Bengal 200 Surat Ad. a 30 Pernams... nod. 100 Demerara and Berbite 10d. a 101 d. duty paid. 28 Bourbon ltd. 50 Smyrna The letters (rum Liverpool this moruisig state that market heavy. Nooas.—The Sugar market has been in a very depressed stale all the week ; 1.0 further eciluction iu flue prices has however bee* submitted to : manse low St. Incias have bees sold at 511. The quasitity of Refitted Goods oa sale is iscossiderahle, yet the market is very heavy ; the only desaiptioo is de mand this 11 et k is brown lumps, for which there appears Is be a few buyers. Is Foreign Stegarct here bag bees so buiesese dose. Correa.—The public sale a Coirre yesterday weal off s talker heavily ; the Demerara mad Beelike description' amid 441. a es. lower; Domingo at the dacha, of I". a le.; the latter, ordtuary i■ bags told at 111.., fair quality at 1601, sad (wry good 101 a. 641.; Dvisisics asipported the revises price. i the few lots Jamaica sold cou.itlerobl) 1 ' - r higher 'has soy priirtvlis sale; goad 13 6he tordisaly shrivelled 100 s. and 110 s. Q. There were two tuusideuable public sales this forenour, eltirlly 'Deane' ara sad Bettiee descriptions; the sad; p.„: portiou sold west at Ike redecireu we bare staled: 381 la. E . Mt. !loaning° raft with no hey**, all takes in at 'Ow,. 5 .,4 Ihts.: 74 casks ordinary flawassnals were tairetrisi at 94.. e;,j and 95.. 6J. batch Cuter if.,3 be btate.l ti. a 4.. loafr this week ; tt. b.riningo • Is.; all other nob, at the previous Orktis, the holden geutrally resoatug sell at nay seduction. Ries—By public sale ins W. dismiday, 31.1 barrels Cam. lots Rice were brought forward; eery ordinary and old a ,. believe no part sold; the willidras ins prices 265. a 2tts. i there were ieveral uteri about tors. Flattri.—There is *cry little alteration shit week : au Friday list were tarred at patithe sale 1,049 barrels Red Smyrna Raisins at 50a. • 525.; 326 !writs and 379 drum. Carabunrais dd. Ms. a 601.; the greater p 'otos appear, ZI to have beta bought fer; a nd 210 bared@ Black Smyrna Haien* et 495. a 49a. Yesterday a Awry large sale, emu., . int principally of French Fruit, which went oil briskly at Ingle pricer, all sold; mind • small parcel of here bunch Nterscatells realised 61. les.; thrlremsinder of the sale rent off exceedingly Retry, and • great part bought ra. Rug. BegAnDy, and Hou.attits.—There has been little business dose lately iu Rums by private culitraet ; the Ivor. mew prices have, however, been fully maintained, fiy public ask Ibis lierraume, 94 pitacheens Jamaica Rum trete brought forwanl -29 and 33 0. 11. gold ..... 2s. Id. •Is 3d. 23 •VI Is. 10d a Is I IJ. 14 al4 mostly taken in Is. 6.1. a Iv. 711. The 'thole went elrfrcely, and better than could be antiti. paled: generally lb. Ruin market may he stated very krea. Braaeliee are entirely nominal ; there are rtes buyers ; Sic b. at marks offer at 44.4 d., no puebasers.—Geseera n wittio t alteration. LoOwoow.—The I.isewood in London is all in fro har.As ; I panels Jamaica have hotel! been sold at ftl. tk .. b„ ; fur picked wood 10/. is reported, lod Hie holder* appear dein, aud ask now 10/. lea. ; we believe there Is pone offering under 101. Tat.t.om.—There are great ilueloatiors in the prices of Tallow, aid great inlerest excited as to the probable peen•, for the next two montlis. The public sale of Yellow Cam/le Tallow went about 475. it was yesterday reported that one of the great holders had Comm. need selling, sisal the price was elated at 46a. aid heavy ; the rumour kas however he., contiodicied this ntoruing, and the stemerti quotatiou at tour o'clork to-day is 40s. As to the probaide future prices ae have oily to stare the farts, sod leave the inference as to It. future currency for the conaideratiosi of user sobserittera ; the wield still continues wesiur ly, with stoi my weather, which pre vents arrivals. It is veiy true, that by former lista, aad by the Sooud list this morning, niauy Vel4rlll with Tat. low had passed through; y.t, with lite memo. wind, it 'rid he next to an impossibility thei► reaching the English roast ; and, as the extrusive routracts use tor delivery iu all this year, there is a general opietion that they will he trio late, particularly as as malty holidays intervene; and it is alto to be stated, there are extensive roatrietts for Jsasa►y, mid it is still a question whether the great sellers eats prom* the vitality if tie holders remain firm, tallith they appear iodised to de. ladependent of these cottsideratiook great losses at sea are anticipated from the late boisterous sea. thee, and Tallow hiss lately rated far below lOW medium prices, and claims great •Itent km as an Relic* of specula. title. Tows Tallow is to-day quoted 47a. which is the male as last week. ---- ----- PRICE OF HOPS, per Cot. - ..,..__ it tW POCK !TN II OW 11A911. COURSE OP EXCHANGE, Potosi', Dictums& 71. [eat —*Al 16 ° Io 51 0. Sussexl .... VOsto V Its Ditto" sight ll 9 11estoo . 43i Essex. .. .4/ 14s to 4/ 4s Essex .... 21 lOs to 1/ Sil Rotterdam ..... 2 U. 12 13 yenice .. V 60 Farnham, Sae, 71. to 191. Os.—Seassids, 41. 10s. to 71. 7s. I Antwerp l2 7 Malta 45 Hanibargis ....ti U. 37 II Naples PRICE OF POTATOES, from Dim. 10 to Dec. lb. Altos. ..11 U. 37 7 Palermo... . per es 119 Quebec Shows sod Oxauble., from.... 40s to 80s. per too. Paw 3 ,I, 2 •„i g h t. . 22 60 u,,/,„60 Champion from Marsh Qiiebees sad Maws, from Marsh Champions, from Ws. to 56.. Frankfort on the Mika ....... ...... 50 Red Potatoes, from Yorkshire Kidneys, at.... . ......... 90s. Pittersbargb,rbl. 3U. 9 CAA 9 ------ Vienna effect{ve! MlO 15 'summit. • PRICE OF RAW PAT, per stone of 811. Trieste ....do lO 18 I Portugal Gold in €•• 1. Price by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melton) to. 9J. M adr id .... 31 Coin, per 0z....0 0 9 Cadis .. PRICES OF TALLOW, SOAP, Ice. per 112 lb. Bilboa Town Tallow 47. Od —% Od Yellow Soap 6O. Barcelona l New Doubloons ..0 0 0 Yellow Reggie 50. Oil —z OJ Mottled gee Seville 35 New Dollars 0 4 9} White ditto...—. Od —I Od Curd ..... .. .. Soap ditto.... 451 Od —s Oil Graves lll. as Melting Stuff SO. 0.1 ..1 , Od I Good Dregs •74 Os __. Ditto rongh..2ss Od —s Oil Yesterday-9r. Twouss..—Holiday st the Rank, Exchequer, Yesterday-9T. Tssostaa.—Holids, at the Bask, Exchequer, East India soil South Sea Houses. . BIRTHS. At Ediaborgh, a the 16tb just. Lady Berriedale, of a sea sad heir. • On She Nth Inst. at Sammer-hill, Dublin, the Lady of Caplan: Bowen, of t►e Roy■l Nary, oda 1041. MARRIAGES. • On Friday morning, at St. Mary's, in Notiisgbaia, by the Rev. E. Nicholson, Peter Wright, sq. of the 7th dragoon guards, to Mary, the oaly daughter of Benjamin Drowsier, late of MasaGeld, Esq. deceased. At St. George's Church, Dublin, by the Hos. and Rer. Henry Pakesham, the Rev. W. H Foster. of Coon, to Cake i rine sister etiolate Hamilton, of Bruen H a ll, E sq . Os Thursday, December 20, at Dartford, by the Rev. J. Currey, Edmund, eldest lon of Mr. 11. T. Hodgaou, of Wimpole-afteet, to Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Jobs Duress, Esq. of Dartford. At Ipswich, W. Wake , Esq. of his Majesty's Stationery OMes, Loudon, to Mimi pwood, of the former place. On Tuesday last, at Fling, Hants, Robert Anchises, Erg. Captain R.N. son of William Anchises, 401 East Lothian, Esq. to Etiaa, daughter of the late listtioar Memo, Esq. of the bleed of Grenada. DEATHS. On the 14th nudist, William Gerald Begot, gsq.of Castle Begot, comet, Dahlia. At Birr, William, third son of Michael Hackett, Esq. aged 17 years. At the bow of her daughter, Lady Broughton, at H o ot', near Chester, at the advanced age of 7S, SI rs. Egerton, dale e tee of Sir Fotaitte Egerton, Bart. relict of the late moi l . Egerton, Esq. of Dutton Perk, in Cheshire, and mother of bur John Grey Egerton, Bart. At Greeohi,U, N. B. on the 4th instant, the Hon. Sir John Stewart, of Fettert•iru, Baronet, oue of the Batons of 'hit Majesty'. Court of Exehttitter. A death so midden and an lamented as that of Captain Rollo, the B kmitster at the Perth station, has seldom occurred in Perth. On tVedtscsday Mr. Nitro left big hou.e S. Melleresotreet, apparently it. good health; aml walked to the shop of Mr. Ross, merchant, High -street. He hat, however, only exchanged a few words with Mr. Ross, whet. be dropped down. Prufessioual aid was almost Masotti, tli atteadauce, but Dr. Clark tumid it impossible to extract on , drop uf blood from the lifeless corpse. The Captain'. sudden death is supposed to have beta occassotted either by the raptors of sonic of the large blood.vessels about the heart, or by a great aud sudden artesian upon the brace. i.4I Z !I Oo the 19th inst. Mr. J. H o g ar th, a Staple 100, Hot ', Lately, at Paris, alter a few da 3 s illness, the et 1" 1 . Calorie! Thorotun, late uf Thuraville Royal, in the cod io f York. Last Solidity, •1 Hutton Muse, sear Brentanoa, Etc.‘, alter • Nog awl painful allures, Mrs. Eharbeth Lukto, widow fr, the Isle Captain George Luke*, Marine Paymaster .1..1 Storekeeper aI Bunibay, and aepbe. of the Isle Right 11.1.. Witham Who Oa Sunday last, at Sawbridgewortb, in Herifurdshae. after a long • and painful Murata, Major Howard. late of the 96111 regiment. HIGH WATER THIS DAY •T LONDON lIRIDGE. Nerd • after I. I Rearrieg 34 after IL Primed mud Pleb&heft at THE BRITISH PRESS and Tif r GLOBE Oct,ffi Na. It?, Steam, by C. coftrorro a Hat Woad. NEWUCHY, BERKS, Dscr.r•as Wheat .. 26s to 941. I Oats Rye .... Bailey .. lbs to 20s I Prase 2114 to 30. Bread, per galls*, Is. ad. to Is. fld UXBRIDGE. Corn Inspector'. Return, Totossosv, DFCE7IIIIIEI 10. %Vilest, per load New ditto ... —s to nt —s Barley, per quarter ..18. —.it to 22. —4 Oots . Ids —.II to 24. —4 Beaus 224 —rl to 33. Yeaac Rye ......—s —d to —a —d PRICE OF CANDLES, From Tally's Chandlers Flail. Prire of Candles, per doses, 9s 64—Moulds, II s 04. 6d. per dozen allowed Ifor mody motley. .~ r