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SH CATHOLIC RENT tholics wan held at St. Patrick's Scheel, Dean, /day evening, for the purpose of taking into con. / means of promoting a general subscription in aid Charitable Institutions, and to promote the great : Emancipation. 'clock upwards of 400 of the lower classes of the at of whom were Irish, had assembled, and men lie gentlemen entered the room, and John Rua. imously called to the Chair. then addressed the miming, by observing, that to appear before them, not as a ineniber of .c Association, but as an humble individual who every one of themselves, to take into consideration hteving their religious emancipation. The very ,as but another name for loyalty, and therefore, met, the people might be well aesured that it constitutional purposes. At a time when their a their power, they failed to effect that which now so anxiously sought for, and which ought been done, namely, that of securing their natural them within the pale of the British Constitu. ow mat to consider what means were the best to : leaders in acquiring those thing.. He conceived doubt that that end would be beet effected by iniary contributions. The least thing they could thirty years had devoted themselves to their them a portion of their stiperfluitiee. It had were the ()thefts for which these contribu. and he could not too frequently reply to that fur two purposes: first to vindicate their retie _ •. unmerited reproach; and aecondly, to achieve I oeir civil emancipation . The manner by which they should ea- taro= to effect their first abject was, by watching the public ems—that calumniating and abusive part of it widen aimed by rem means to misrepresent their principles and motives, and to natio the good attentions of their leaders ; and then to enable heir learned and revered clergy, whose greatest honour was th e i r overly, to answer their opponents through the same nnediutn. It vas also a part of their design that, whenever they found an indi. feet moth whose power of doing good was crippled by his po may, to augment the income of such, and thus grit their body all • e edvantsge of their learning. talent, and zeal. Their second .bjeci, that of achieving their civil emancipation, they all knew mild not be effected without. considerable expense. The time and rouble attending the getting up of petitions is Parliament, the col. ecting the tense of the people from all parts of the United Em. ire, the defraying the expenses of those who were engaged :leavening ter those purposes—n one of these could be done with t money. Meier/ere tiy efficient means by which the great bjeets they bad in view could be attained. .Let them then use hew mt3Tlll, and they should at length convince their honourable' d erecirntious opponents,—those who from opinion, and not en an irrational and ill-natured prejudice, were opposed to them,— 1 hat that opposition' ought to give way. The business of the present electing would be best explained to them by the Resolutions, in. nndetl to be p:oposed fur their adoption seriatim, being read over them. Here the Chapman read a long string of Resolutions, the purport 1 f which was, that London and IVestrninster should be divided no ?Our dietricis,—the one then to be formed to be called the fatten district ; that there should be a President and Niemen, nil other nece'eary officers chosen for each district ; th•e the sub eripdon should not exceed a penny .a week from any one indivi. Cal; that 31r. liussen should be appointed Receiver-General of le Western District ; and that the money received should be paid no shaker's, and reruitted to the Catholic Association in Dublin very month. The CHAIRMAN having read the Resolutions, proceeded to ob ere, that if there were one class of people more than another in ne empire that ought to unite for any object, whatever that object nigh; ht, it was the Catholics, for their very name signified .nsnimier. All that was required was thie, and they were then are of ailaining that which they all so anxiously desired. Ile /weld new sit down, under the satisfactory conviction that he had tonehis duty In assisting to coinmence what he conceived to be a - in the history of British Catholics; and so convinced was Int, learning, and power which this union, aided by . contribution., would call forth and put into action ; rear would be dispelled from the minds of their the danger of admitting their Catholic fellow-sub. , e in those rights, from the enjoyment of which long excluded,—that a short time only would ice would be done them, and they should be re ivileges to which they had as strong and natural rho now so unjustly withheld them front them. tuon having been moved-- .D seconded it, and observed, that after what had .• Chairman, little was left for him to say. That truly observed, that the Catholics ought to go heart it their natural leaders in doing away their civil dis. unfortunately happened, that heretofore they had , ithout, lie might say, an amiy to lead; no union had among the members of the Catholic body ; there was vs purpose, no concentration of power, and thus for a of their best friends had failed. But now they were strength together, and notwithstanding bow weak strength when taken individually, yet when united irresistible effect. They should recollect that the more acceptable than all the wealth that had been _ the treasury. The Catholics had been much in press,—their loyalty had been impugned, and their .nresented ; let them this night convince those of the ' maligned them, that they could be as good cub. .d peaceable citizens, as any other body of mesa. sere taught by their religion to pay obedience unto they would answer their opponents in the words of 'Render unto Crease the things that are Cesar's, things that are God's." The Catholic paid hie id as conscientiously to the legitimate Power as inatioa of Christians, and inquired not whether hristian or Turk. lAN, in moving the third Resolution, said, that the Ithaca was necessary, in order that it should not be 'liament, when the petitions should be presented, that ipressive of the sentiments of a few, and not of the had been asked, why did not the Catholics speak were they silent when they were challenged on all their real opinions ? This lie felt to be a strong them, and it was necessary they should resort to as one side had already urged their reasons and , they should now do the came: they owed this le opponents, who judged of them only by the set from the writings of their adversaries, and .it to themselves. There was now no restraint on the :atholic had as free a use of it as the Protestant—they ere not now obliged to resort to foreign shores to print a book. Chen he looked back to the past reigm, he found sufficient to en- Curate them to hope for success. In the 35th year of Gen. 111.. has good Kin,• had granted them a portion of their rights, and his ought to encourage them to apply again. The kindness of heir present King, too, should give them hope : he was the first she visited Ireland to recommend peace and good.will among all Basses. Hall felt as he did, they would not now have to ask for that rights. Look at his conduct to Hanover : there religious dis fineness existed as here, and as in every pa r t of th e wor ld • but no 1 dell - disabilities were inciined there by any one who professed the faith of his ancestors, whatever that faith might be. The several Resolutions having been put er.d carried— Mr. Stria:rice') moved the thanks of the Meeting to the Chainrum, for his able and impartial conduct in the chair, in ken which he observed, that all of them ought to bear in mind, that they were as deeply interested in the question of Catholic Emancipation, however !tumble might be the station they held in littletY, as the highest peer in the realm. It had often happened a history, tnet their greatest men had sprung from the poorest sae of Pope Adrian himself was the ton of a poor labouring nan ot this country. If anybody should therefore sa to u . centinued the speaker), what itherest have ) oat in this questi on? roe may answer them—we have children ; they possess talent, but what benefit have we now in the cultivation of that talent, while try are excluded from attaining to those advantages which are he natural traits of Midi'', united with industry, because we, tide parents, happened to be Homan Catholics? The Chairman returned thanks, and then urged, as the re nnet speaker had done, the necessity of every individual being Ina. rinsed with the truth, that. he was as much interested in the clues. :ass an aleillbeT of the Catholic Busy, however illustrious in ant ; and be observed, thin many who now ma the highest sta tus Parents Gorsenenent were owes perhaps the humblest, and had heir ihrents been Catholic', would now perhaps have been assist. rag them in their efforts to attain to the saine honourable station /WM they were so fortunately enjoying. He concluded by asaur. ig the meeting that he had hitherto dedicated himself to their ease, ard he hoped he sleight live and die in their service. The meeting was then dissolved, but much conversation ensued it to the mode of collecting the rent fat that evening, and it was eereed each should give his subscription while keeping his seat, ...c .e. of paying it et ttoa door. Monday and Tuesday an adjournment of the Quarter 4 .wiiJus was held fur the registry of freeholds, when 365 n the interest of Mr. Rice were registered ; not a solitary mdividual register for the Corporation. Orer one hundred rf the shore were tenants of that independent gentleman Rich. Kenny, Esq. Green-Lawn, county Clare.—Lirneriek Ob.erner. On Saturday the business of the Northern Banking (; °"TatY commenced ; their capital Soo,ouol. aterling. the constitution of this establishment, our readers already Know, is founded on similar principles to the Scotch Banks, 'which bare long been so *table and useful in that country, Ind we doubt not that this, and other joint stock compa des, Will prove equally beneficial to Ireland.—Beyiut Orders have this week been issued to the recruiting eta .ions in Ireland, directing that boys not exceeding 17- Years, five feet tive and a half inches, and men not ex -ltding 25, fire feet six, may be received for the army.— An order has b een i ssue d to recru i t f or t h e f o ll ow i ng re :intents in this garrison :-2d or Queen's. 6th, 6th, 9th, . 3 ), 80th, Slat, 93d, 38th, 41st, 44th, 45th, 47th, 49th, , Ith . , 39th, 67th, 99th, 91 st, 93d, 94th, and 97th.—Li ler.,!: Clronick. Br 1 7'l S 1 rnieting of Cathol , Soho, yesterday ention the best meat the Catholic Charit Act of Catholic Ems About seven o'clock tbolic body, most o y ,er several Catholic g, Esi. was unaninto me it AIRMAN the had the honour to e British Catholic As ansious. like every e best means of achie ire fur Catholic was never Catholics mot for legal and coni ceston bad it in th try one of them now g since to have been 'lns. and placing the in. They were now ist their Catholic leap cre c 0n'...1 he no doul !dill , of tlioi r petunias y ar those who tin th melts, Ws. to give th 'en Leen asked what os were intended; ai quirt , . They were fo loos opinions from un .mtnorinatic new era in the loisu se of the talent, 1 heir Ft:Topiary con hat every idle fear trpnnents, u to thi lets to participate hey had been so I • lapse before justic oretl to those prix claim as those wh The first Resolut Mr. STANFIZLI en from their entleman had (nil nd hand to assist t bilities. It had u ad lenders, withoti ten existed among simultaneous pu me tie efforts of t 3infog their toren, light be that steer : amid hare an if Atli', mite was rr .fore taken into and by the press,. Sier misrcprese ten who hate so I ets, as loyal and the Catholics wen athority ; and tht to fienpture—" Ii ad unto God the ibtte as freely ant sy other deno:nir At Power was Chi A GENTLEMAN aims of the Cathol tid again in Parliai ley were only rape 'hole body. It ha e trath—why we, :des to declare thei Sjection against th to press, so that NJ lade their appeal, 3 their honourable he notions deri vet sty also owed it to ress—the Catholic THE WAREHOUSING SYSTEM. Commerce early becoming an object of importance in this country, mid the merchants Iming•possessed of a large proportion of the circulating money, it was natural for the State to look to imposts on trade as a source of re venue. This system of taxation, which commenced at a period almost coeval with the origin of our foreign com merce, has ever since been progressively extended, and at this time we draw upwards of nine millions, gross revenue, from duties on imports and exports, of which about five millions fire hundred thousand pounds are collected im mediately on importation. The advance of so large a sum, at a period much earlier than the safety or interest of the revenue demands, and of which about one million five hundred thousand pounds are repaid on exportation, must not only prove extremely distressing to the merchant, but also the mans of actually drawing so much money, together with the mercantile credit fairly attached thereto, out of the active capital of trade, for which the public receives no adequate compensation by the temporary use of ' the money. This heavy advance of duties has also hitherto been in part the means of depriving us of a branch of trade to which we have the fairest pretensions. As a general depot of the products both of the north and south of Europe, and also the Eastern and Western World, we possess many great and striking advantages, from our local situation, relatively both to Europe and America ; from our possessing almost a Complete monopoly of the trade of India and China; from the variety and superior quality of our manufactures, suited to every mar ket ; from the powerful influence of our great mercantile and manufacturing capital, and from the wisdom, energy, and enterprising spirit of our merchants. By admitting all the principal articles of merchandise to be deposited in warehouses immediately on importation, and requiring no part of the duties to be advanced until delivered out for home consumption, or, if exported, to be subject to no duty whatever, the revenue would also, in my humble opinion, be generally benefited.—Longloldr Review cf the Warehousiv System. ENGLISH ANDBitISTOL CHANNELS SHIP CANAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sett,—l will, with your permission, offer a few observations In reply to a letter which appeared in your Paper of the sth instant, signed A. 8., and dated from the Isle of Jan. 2. Your correspondent appears to be aware of the advantages that will arise from the proposed Canal, which he declares " is likely to save more lives, and prevent more shipwrecks, than the Royal Society lately most l au d a bly established for those purposes." He says, that " Nature has done more towards a g harbour at Beer, than millions of money could ever possibly do, and that its advantages have been strikingly apparent since the late gales and shipwrecks on the coasts." Although he does not appear to view so favoutably the proposed harbour at Stolford, or to regard it as " indispensably necessary," he yet considers that it will " be highly eligible hereafter, when the navigation multiplies." Ile thinks, too, that " the competition of the Welsh coals must be successful against the northern collieries," inasmuch as they can be sold cheaper; and he further declares his belief, that the tonnage from coals, iron, and bricks alone. insure complete interest of capital to the proprietors, whose profits may resemble those of the New River Company :" that is, some thousands per cent. After these admissions in favour of the proposed Canal, and I after indulging in other pleasing anticipations of the immense be nefits that will result front it when it is completed, it could hardly be expected that your correspondent A. B. would start objections to this great national undertaking, on the score of expense; and yet so it is! Although there will be, as he declares, an ample re muneration for the se/rule of the expense to be incurred, yet he 'smelts that so large a sum as 400.000!. should be laid out in the f,rmstion of the two harbours at Beer and Stolford, without which it must be evident, even on a very slight consideration, that the Canal would be comparatively of 'idle value. Instead of commencing at each end at the same time, and there forming the proposed harbours as expeditiously as possible, and from thence carrying on and completing the Canal, as the work advances towards the interior of the country. by which the earliest access to it would he gained, and a traffic would be progressively established along it as it advanced, and from which • revenue would be derivable ;—instead of thus proceeding with vigour and effect, A. B. recommends that we should now pause, and re-con sider our plans; and then proposes, that the Canal, in the first place, should only be carried from Beer to Bridgewater, and that a rail-road should be for.ited front that point on to Taunton, Tiver ton. I:xeter, Topsham, and Dartmouth. This is the age for rail roads, and I must not find fault with A. 1.1..f0r yielding to the prevailing influence: but I wish seriously to put it to him, whether it will be wise or patriotic to risk the ac complishment of a great national undertaking such as the proposed Ship Canal. with its harbours and all its collateral advantages, now that the whole scheme has been fairly and fully digested and ma tured, fur the possible acquisition of some minor and perhaps trifiiag consideration ? lum sure A. B. will here answer in the negative. Be has too lively a sense of the importance of our canal, to put it to hazard, or to lend himself to any attempt for diverting the public attention and support from it even in favour of rail roads; which, however useful they may be in some situations, he must Le well aware can be of little benefit us a communication be tween the two Channels, and, as opposed to the proposed Ship Canal, would Le worse than useless. _ Let me here urge A. a to unite with me in endeavouring to promote the completion—the full entire perfecting and completion, of this most important undertaaing, which, it Ito been shown in the Reports of :Ur. Telford and Captain Nicoll', will yield an ample return to the subscribers, and be productive of extensive benefits to the country at large. Jan. 7,11125. A SUBSCRIBER. QOANTITY or R•IN.—In a very early period of our labours we noticed the singular circumstance of the quan tity of rain which had fallen for the three last years being much beyond the average quantity. We then observed, that 1624 promised to be as bad as its watery predecessors. It now appears, that the rain which has fallen in Man chester within these last four months is more than equal to the average quantity of rain which falls in a whole year at London. From tables kept by Mr. John Dalton, at Man chester, we learn the following facts : In September rain fell to . 5 440 inches. October . 6.1;:16 November - . - 5 510 Daember, to 26th . 6.8.0 24.666 Since December 26, it appears that 1.015 inches have fallen, making a total of 25.682 inches; the average quan tity of rain which falls in Manchester being 84 inches, and in London 22. We hardly indeed require accurate observation by instruments to convince us that the quantity of rain of late has been excessive; but when we find casual remarks thus confirmed, and the quantity of rain increasing year after year, the important fact is too fir..ly established not to require philosophical investigation. We have no doubt that attentive observation will ultimately discover the causes of the variations of the seasons, though they are so numerous as at present to defy our classifica tion, and so subtle as to escape our notice. We have no doubt, too, when they are discovered, that that which now appears to be anomalous will then be fully explained ; and some preservative meteorological laws will be discovered, which will be as to the weather what the precession of the Equinox, and the astronomical law discovered by La Place, is in astronomy—the evident means of continually pre saving unchanged the order of the world.—The Chemist. Gas Beatitas.—lt has been customary to consume oil gas with the same sort of burners as coal gas, which causes a considerable waste, and gives rise to a mistaken idea of the quantity of light given out by each gas. The Argand burner, which admits the gas through a number of small holes, is the best species for perfect combustion; but, which would hardly have been imagined, it is found that these holes should be nearer together, and smaller, for oil gas than for coal gas. In any case, they should be so far apart that the flame from each should just coalesce with that from the next. The gas produced from oil contains more carbon than that from coal ; the light is in proportion to the quantity of carbon, and the same-sired holes which completely consume the carbon of the coal gas do not burn all that of the oil gas. It is consequently necessary that burners for oil gas should be made with smaller holes, and these boles should be closer together than those for coal gas. —The Chemist. PRESSCCE AND RAIIV:7•CTION or Tilt Ala.—The pressure of the air, and its rarefaction by butt, arc excel lently illustrated Ily the following simp le experiment : take hold of a wine glass in your right hand, and with your left pta into it a small piece of burning paper. When the paper has burned for a few seconds, strike the mouth of the glass against the palm of your left hand, and it will remain firmly fixed to it fur a considerable time. The cause of this is, that the internal air is so rarified by the burning paper, that the pressure upon the inside of the glass is greatly di minished. Ths equilibrium, therefore, of the pressures upon the outside and inside of the glass being destroyed, the glass must adhere to the band till that equilibrium is restored.—Mecialic's Mega:zinc. THE BRITISH PRESS. LIVERPOOL; FRIL/AY EVENING. • Wind,. N.W.—High-wster ' 14. Arrived the Matilda, fron t Mt-Salmi; Endeavour, from Seville; Hunter, from Belfast; Providence, from ditto ; Eliza Ann, from Cork ; John, tram ditto; Antelope, from Buenos Ayres; Stag, from Glasgow; Amity, from ditto; Ailsa, ditto; Manchester, ditto; William Pelle, from Limerick; arlequin, from London; Nederlands Printz, from Rotten '.n; Melainpus, from Leith; Latour, from ditto; Emerald Isle, from Newry ; Gomer, from Bristol; Felicity, from ditto; Lady Farde, from Fayal; City of Dublin, from Dublin; Mona Castle, from the Isle of Mann; Earl of Surrey, from ditto; Ann, from Newport; William, from ditto. INCREASI'p TRADE OF LIVERPOOL. Number of vessou reported at the Custom-house, Lira pool, in the last six months : From Foreign Paru - 2.651 Ireland - Cosstways - " 11 2. 1 T 636 7 60 ° 7 • 5,2 in In the year ending24th June. 1/121. From Foreigt. Pau . . 4,151 Ireland - - 2.200 Coast ways . 3,RA To n n age. 1 ILIO , 9'4 , 10.001 _ LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. Wind N. W.—High•water 27m. past 1. Arrived the Tagus, Lisbon ; Joseph, Baltimore, Ireland; Resolution, Dublin; Shamrock, Dublin; Ann and Mary, Grcenside; Friends, Newport. The transactions in the Cotton market this week have been very extensive. Including Monday and Tuesday, when the speculators came into the maiiet,, about 30,590 bags have been sold at an a;vance of *beta Id. generally. Corn market this day rather dull, and may be quoted— oats, Id. to 2d. lower ; Wheat, 3d. to 4d. lower also; Bar ley steady. Sugar is a little more in demand, upwards of 650 hogs heads sold at full prices. -No demand for for ign sugar. Some speculation iii Rum this week, and upwards of 1000 puncheons sold. SHIPPING INTE LI,I6E:WE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JAW. 7. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Hobbs, Buchanan, from Stan. ■te Creek ; Archibald, Sowell, front St. John's. New Brunswick ; Vrouw Elizabeth, Lammers, from Bilboa ; Hope, Dean, from Sierra Leone and Isle de Lou; Thetis, Crisp, front Messina ; .Margaret, Randall, from Cork. ENTERED OUTw*RDa.—Thsml■ Probst, for Bremen ; Doke of Wellington, Butler, for St. Michael's; Dew-drop, Bates, for Quebec and Montreal; Mariner, l'enterrick. fur St. AI ary's.Africa ; Nereid, Simms, for 'Trieste; Prince of Waterloo. I've, for Ostend; Cambria, Cook, for Madeira, Vera Crug, Alvarado, and Ta npico ; George, Betts, for Sierra Leone; Fortana, Catlow, for Corunna, Ferrol, and Vigo,; Amity, Johosan for Bombay. CLEARED OUTWARDS TINAI.I.T AT GRAVESEND, JANA...-. Zeno, Talbert, for St. Lucar and Seville; David Cargill, for Cadiz ; Dart, Stra: ..ck, for Ostend : Wilburn and Henry, Partridge, fur Grenada. CLE•RING OUTWARDS, JAN. 7.—The Patience, Best. for Fayal and Teneriffe ; Nile, Baker, for Port-an. Prince; Julie, l'reager, for Calais ; benison, Read. for Jamaica; Vriendschap, liaaewinkel, for Bouen ; Julius etesnr, Stafford, for Jamaica and esethwgena ; Pelican, Rieke, f u r An twer p ; D ove , Mill er , f or Smyrna And Constantinople. GRAVESEND, JAN. 7. —Arrived the Ward, Hare, from New Brunswick; ‘'roues Diewke, Tafery, from Worcum; hero, Owen, from Tenciffe ; Jane Walker, front Guernsey ; L'Alexander, Bogue, from Havre; William Wilberforce, White, from St. Domingo; Margaret, Johnson, from Antwerp. Sailed, the Lisitania, Gibbins, fur Oporto; Speedwell, Poole, for New Orleans . ; Nicholas, Edington, for Malta. SCARDOROUGII, JAW. 6.—Yesterday afternoon the Charles, of this port, Walker, took fire whilst lying in the upper part of the harbour. She was scuttled, but wan very materially damaged. SuNDEII..AND, JAN. fl.—The John, Waters, of London ; the Broach, Graham, and Milo, Ord, both of this port, which were stranded near llartlepool, were got off on Tuesday afternoon, and brought into the Tees, after sustaining trifling damage. LtvEttroob. JAN. G.—The Leeds for New York (stated in in yesterday's Listl which was on shore on the North Bank. has been got oft, and is now aground in the King's Bison, and full of water. The cargo is discharging. The Gulnare, from Virginia, which was on shore near the m:.gazines, has been got off, without damage. LTlltlt telt, Jaw. I.—By amounts readred here yesterday, from %Westport, of the le. inst. a vessel from this port had put in there, in dilutes+ ; the Master of %hid) Ptatrd, that a vessel from hence sunk off Shark Island, near Westport, and all on board drowned : he feared that three others, with which he was in company, also foundered, live vessels sailed from this river on the morning of the 29th ult. bound to the northward, the wind being then at S. to S.S.W. which are supposed to be those alluded to. Their names are as follows: Lady Goole, Duncan, of and fo- Greenock, from Kilrush, and the Diana, of and for Gree nock, from Clare. About twelve o'clock that night it blew a most tremendous gale at S.W. which continued all the following day. Baxter, Jaw. 4.—The William and Ann, Marshall, sailed from this port for London, 7th November, and has nut since been heard of. Boar oz. Dzc. 12.—Arrived the brig Pearl, White, from Rio Grande, 58 days. Spoke Oct. 29, lat. 17. 10. S. lon. 32. 30 W. ship Ontario, Bunker, from the Coast of Japan, via St. Cathe rine's, to repair, her foremast being rotten and badly sprung. Capt. P. stated that he fell in with two wrecks to the northward of the equator, and near the same place picked up four bales of cotton and an oar, marked" Bengal Co."; saw a great many bales of cot t in, but it blowing fresh could not pick them up.' NEW Tone, DEC. ll.—The Robert of Baltimore, from Gi braltar, is totally lost on the Chico Bank, River Plate. The Re becca, Stairs, from the West Indies to Halifax, was totally wrecked 20th inst. near Sandy Hook—part of the cargo saved. The Harriet, Baker, of and for Baltimore, from Trieste, upset and sunk in the Mediterranean 30th August—crew saved. Tne Ann, Ryan, and Rainbow, Davis, from Jamaica to North Carolina, have been plundered by a piratical schooner. DEC. 15 —The Hannah, Chase, from Demerara, in going into Portsmouth, N. 11. went on shore, but was got off, after discharging. The Charlotte, from Jamaica for St. John's, New Brunswick, was spoken with bth inst. with loss of foremast and main-topina.t. NEW BEDFORD, DEC. B.—Arrived the ship Golconda, Brock, from Pacific Ocean, with 200 barrels of oil. Passengers, Captain Wm. Brock, and his mate, of the British whale-ship I'olicy, cast away in .May last, on the island of Otaheite. The Robert, from Gibraltar, is totally lost in the River Plate. The Rebecca. Stairs, from the West Indies to Halifax, was totally lost near Sandy Hook ±d ult. The Harriet, Baler, from Trieste to Baltimore, was upset and sunk in the Mediterranean. Extract of a letter from Henry Canning, EN., to 11. Bell, Consul-General at Hamburgli, dated Jan. 2, 1825: " A great many merchant vesw:ls have been sheltered on the Elbe during the recent gales, bnt there has still been much damage in the river, the particulars of which you will have on the arrival of the mails. The continued stormy weather renders it imprac. ticable for the packets to proceed from Cuxhaven ; six of them are now detained there. Three mails from England are due. I send as express with this to Ostend, to be forwarded from thence via " To John Bennett, Esq. Lloyd's." From the same to the same, dated Jan. 2, respecting the li g ht. ve.sel and buoy at the mouth a the Elbe : " The Busting light.vessel and the red buoy which were fixed at the mouth of the Elbe, to mark the entrance to that river, have disappeared ; and there is every reason to fear, that the vessel and all on board are lost. I have made application to the proper autho rities here, to cause these most necessary signals to be replaced, and I have no doubt that any thing practicable will be done for that purpose. The Pisa of the light.vessel and buoy, renders the approach to Cuxhaven difficult and dangerous." LIVERPOOL I3IPORiS. JANUARY 7. Arutca.—Neptune, J. Cudd, from Angola and Bonny, with palm oil. elephant teeth, gum copal, bees' was and dunnage wood. James, R. Pince, from Bonny. with quicksilver, &c. BRITISH AMERICA. —Tusket, J. Clements, from Nova Scotia, aith oak timber, fir timber, deals, lalhwood, handspikes, and staves. Mary, J. Ferguson, from St. John's, New Brunswick, with fir timber, staves, and deals. 3latilda. J. Sullivan, from Prince Edward's Island. with birch, beech, and maple timber, &c. Robert Ker, It. Carter, from St. Andres's, New Brunswick, with pine, birch, deals, pine boards, masts, staves, and lathwood. Wa. terloo, W. Dudne, from St. John's, New B runswick, with birch, deals, deal ends, masts, oar rafters, staves, and lathwood. UNITED STax rs.—Silas Richards, H. Holdridge, from New Vork. ; ,with flaxseed, cotton, staves, apples. barrel ditto, and nuts. Mocill Vernon, J. Bursley, from Virginia, with tobacco, staves, and cotton. Peru, --, Goff, from New Orleans, with logwood, cotton, and bees' wax. LOYPT.—Lindsay, G. Hudson, from Alexandria, with cotton. Syreo, T. L. Downing, front Alexandria, with cotton and linseed. M EDIT EnR•NEAN.-04spee, P. Briarti, from Sicily, with le mons, oranges, raisins, brimstone, sumach, salted, Limns, hasel nuts, and Sicilian silk. NEWFOUNDLAND.—Agenoria, Whiteway, with train oil, blubber, cow hides, old junk, skins, codfish, salmon. cod sounds, mackaral, fire-wood, berries. fish, and cranberries. John, I). Jen nings, with blubber, train oil, dry codfish, salmon, s ki ns , cranber ries, molasses, caplins, cod-sounds, and firewood. Good Intent, J. Hopper+, with cod oil, blubber, dry codfish, cow and ox bides, calf A:ins, deals, sounds, caplins, old ropes, ate. Douglas, S. Eales,with train oil, caplins, codfi s h, salmon, cranberries, firewood, moLtsses, &r. SANG U1N.4111.' MURDER de WHADDON CHASE. The following letter vas received on Saturday morning by Mr. Stafford, Chief Clerk at Bow-street:— Stony-Stratlbrd, Jan. 7. 1825. 811—A murder, under the most horrid and peculiar circum stances, was committed at Whatidon, in this neighbourhood, yes ' terday, in the afternoon ; and I am desired by W. Selby Lowndea, Es+, a Magistrate, to convey to you the particulars, ar.d, as near Ins I can collect, the description of the parties ; neither of irhoin are known to any one here. Azi inquest has not yot been held. The Coroner has summoned a Jury to meet this evening. It appears from the statement of Wm. Weston (guard of the Eclipse coach), that two men (strangers to him) applied at little' Brickhill, yesterday, fir a conveyance to Birmingham : a bargain was made as to price, and they Tot on the coach, she guard intend ing to book them, and take their money at Stony-Stratford. The two men who got on the coach had with them a mink covered with paper, a handle In a blue and white handkerchief, a hat-box, and a gun in a cloth cover. When they reached Shepley, about nix miles from Little Briekhill, one of the men threw the gun on the ground, and jumped down es the coach was proceeding; the coach was stopped, and the other followed ; both ran away. The guard carried on the trunk, bundle, and hat-bus, and delivered them so the landlord at the Cock Inn. They have not yet been opened, the guard having arrived only this evening. The tao men alluded so were dressed nearly alike, and the guard says very much resembled each other. They were both dressed in blue coats, waistcoats, and ttowsers (kind of sailor's trowsers), and had on black hats ; one had a rough light.koloured shag great-coat the ether, a very large shooting-jacket. The oldest, about 30 years okl . ; the other, about 25. The one living has nothing particular in his countenance; the other is so dist:gun-1 that his features are not discernible. The murder was committed in Whaddon Chace, near to the re sitlence of Mr. Lowndes, and was effected by one of the men hav ing beat the other with the butt-eral of the gun until his brains were literally beat out. A labouring n-411, near the spot, be a rd me blows and the groans, and gave tbe alarm the murderer waa, in consequence. apprehended, and is now in custody. The object of this communicmion to you is, that the crime may be made known, in part, and partly that the murderer (who ap. pears very sullen, and refuses to answer any questions) may be re cognised. lie once spoke, and said •• that he was glad hie victim was dead, for he should not have had any of the motley ;" as if a division of soil was the cause of the horrible attack. As soon as the Jury have sat on the body, if any frnh matter comes out I will acquaint you with it; in the meantime I shall be glad to hear if any clue eta be, or is likely to be, given, as to the men—who they are, whence they came, and what is the object of their visit here. A hat was in the hat-box, the maker's name is Uare, Lambeth-walk.—l aro, Sir, your obedient servant. J. F. CONGREVE. The Burks CAronicle of Saturday contains the following article on the same subject : We have this day to state an occurrence, which, from the time and place at which it happened, and the obscurity with which the occasion and the parties are at present enveloped, has the character more of a tragical romance than a horrid scene in real life. On Thursday last, about four o'clock in the afternoon, two per sons of respectable appearance, not known in the neighbourhood, were seen walking on IVbaddon Chace. ll'haddon Chace is be tween 13 and lei miles front Aylesbury, and about three miles to the I.ollh-east of Winslow, on th e Buckingham road. It had for merly been a forest, and is now the haunt of straggling deer, but some parts of it have been enclosed as grazing land, and the re mainder, consisting of wool land, is intersected by roads, by which many a traveller has been perplexed an I lost his way. On this se. queatered wild these strangers were observed to enter, having stops a while, on their way, a: a little public-house, called the Robin Hoed, on the borders of the Chace, and then proceeded into the interior. In one of the remotest spots, where perhaps neither of the par. ties were aware that they were seen by human eye, one of them attached the other with such outrageous violence as lethally to beat out his brains. The weapon with which the assault was com mitted was a fowling-piece, which had been carried in a list cover. The scene was witnessed by a labourer who was at work at a dis. tance; and who, either form fear or from beieg unable to prevect the mischief , did rot attempt to interfere . He proceeded, how,. ever, to the village of ‘Vhaddon and alarmed the inhabitants, and a pursuit immediately taking place, the assailant was secured. The perpetrator of the bloody deed was forthwith brought, with the dead body of his companion, to the public-house at Whaddon, known by the sign of the Haunch of Venison. There the body has lain to await the Coroner's inquest, which, it is expected, will be held by 31r. Burnham to-day. The person in custody, it is understood, has refused to eommu. nicate his name, or explain the occasion of the assault, though he says he had reason for what he has done. It wan reported that he had attempted to poison himself, with a preparation he had in his possession ; but we are informed that this report probably ori ginated in a remark he tussle after he was brought in custody to the public-house, when, on a glass of ale being offered to him, he said he would rather have a glass of poison. W e h ave , however, heard another rumour, which has been hitherto usicont;adieted, that the unhappy man has since endeavoured to destroy himself with • pointed instrument, that happened accidentally to be within his reach. From the value of the fowling-piece, and the appearance of bosh the parties, the opinion of the neighbourhood is, that they were persons in a very respectable rank of lite. FURTHER PARTICULARS. Wriatmote, Soxtuthe EYwytsro. Since the perpetration of this horrible and misterlous murder on Whaddon Chase, the most indiseribable *coalition and terror has prevailed in the minds of the inhabitants of the nuolerous villages with which the desert abounds, such as been the effects of the alarm, that many of the villagers, whose business led them across the waste, would under no consideration whatever leave their cottages after sunset. The mangled body of the unfortunate car,. known (for no person has owned him as yet) was carried to the Haunch of Venison Public.house. at IVhaddon, where it remained for the Coroner's and Jurors' inspection. The whole of Friday, Saturday, and yesterday, persons were continually arri v i ng i n the village, who came from distant parts of the county, anxious to view the scene of the bloody deed. The murderer ' up to Friday last, refused t o a nswer any o f t h e interrogatories; but on Friday night he became more communica tive, and said that his name was Charles Lynn, and that lie was a cooper by trade, and lately worked at Vauxhall, in Surrey, where his widowed mother and two sisters now resided. He mai , ' that the name of his victim should never escape his lips; but in the course of the short time of his being in custody, he more than once men tioned the name of Ilogg; and when he had discovered that the name had escaped him, he seemed to wish to withdraw the atten tion of those persons with whom he was present, and appeared to regret lie had been so incautious. On being asked what brought them into that part of the country, he said that lie and his coin. panion were on their road to Liverpool . to seek employment. The object the prisoner hail in view in murdering his companion, still remains in darkness, and many are the rumours on that sub. ject ; but no credit can be placed in any of them. The prisoner admits having committed the horrid sited, and observed with a steal of levity to tbose who had hint it charge, that " he was glad it was done, for now he would have no more of the money than he would." And again he said, "he has wronged me, and lam re. 'caged." The prisoner has frequently attempted to destroy hint. self, but is prevented in his intention by three men who are con. atantly in attendance upon hint. On Friday night he jumped upon the table, in the Haunch of Venison, and threw himself head fore! moat to the ground, with such violence, that his skull was severely lacerated. In consequence of theae attempts, he wan strongly hand. cuffed, and his elbows pinioned behind hum lie is rather a good. looking man, round face, fresh coloured, and his whiskers are very large and black, his height is about 5 foot U inches, and his age between 20 and 30. Information having been sent to Mr. Burnham, the Coroner for that part of the county, who resides at Winslow, a village about three miles distant, that gentleman ordered a jury to be summoned to investigate the aehir on Saturday last. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. Precisely at one o'clock, on Saturday forenoon, the inquiry corn. menced. The Coroner and jury assembled at the Ilaunch of Venison public-house in the village of AVhaddon ; there were also present Richard S. Lowndes, Esq. the Magistrate actirt: fur that part of the county, and Ranger of \rum!don Chase, to whom the greater part of the wild belongs, and the .Nlinister of the parish, besides many other gentlemen residing in the county. The Coroner having empannelled the Jury in the usual way ; he said, they had been convened for the purpose of inquiring into the mysterious death of an unfsetunate man whose name was at present unknown. The circumstances attending it were known to the Jury, and had agitated the whole of the neighbouring villages. They would hear what the wanesses had to state, and from their testimony they would form their verdict. He would not occupy any more of their time, hut proceed to the first part of the business... that of viewing the corpse. The Jury then adjourned for that purpose. and on entering the room where the body laid, they were horror-muck at the spectacle, ' and averted their eyes front the object. The corpse was laying on a shutter, on which it had been brought twin the forest; it was dressed in ri blue jacket and trowsers. and on the feet were a pair of NVellington bouts. The nose was nearly destroyed. from the effects of the blows, and one of the eyes dreadfully injured; the ' face and head were covered with gore, and the foreheal wits beaten into the brains. Near the decease d lay the fowling-piece with which the horrid crime was effected; the stock was broken off near the lock, and the barrel was bent nearly double, at about a foot front the muzzle, caused by the violence with which it was used. The deceased, as will as could be judged from his disfigured fees. tures, seemed to he about twenty-tour years of age. The Jury having returned to the inquest_wool, the evidence ut the following witnesses was taken _ J. 31 eacham, sworr—T lire at Shenley Tirook-end, in the parish of Shenley, in the county of Bucks, and am a labourer in the employ of Mr. Smith, a farmer, in Whaddon ; a little before 3 o'clock, on Thursday morning last I was ditching on Whaddon Chase, between Whaddon and hhenley Coimnon, when my attention was drawn by the alarming cry of murder, which proceeded frem a copse near a wood at about two hundred yards from me. I was much alarm ed. and got out of the ditch, and bag. , a man strkitig something on the ground, with the butt end of a gun ; I concealed myself as well as I was able, and saw the UMW man strike in the same man. new upwards of a score times, when the butt end of the pnn fl. • off. I kept in my hiding place, and carefully watched the man, who, after the gun was broke, kept pacing the spot backwards, and forwards, and then I saw him more some clothes to a dislance of about sixty yards, when he took off his coat, and beaver hat, and put on a shoving jneket a...d a hair cap, *Act which he bot his course into the interior of the forest. I hastened immediately tw Whaddon. where I gave information to Mr. Clarke, the fame% of what I had seen, and told him I thought therebad been a; ,r -tier committed in the forest, and that h thought if he would accom pany me I could overtake the murderer. Mr. Clarke and tits three cone agreed to accompany me in the pursuit, and we took separate directions, but kept within hearing of each other, and just as we got across a place called Sherdercomnion,, I met the prisoner coming out of a remote pan of the wood ;, he was dressed as I before slated, and had his own hat in his hand ; I knew him directly, and, going up to him, I said. 6. You are the man I saw luU thrt man just now . " ' To which the prisoner repl . • " Well, ,irld what's your bounty (or taking me ?" I told him it was my duty, and so saying I collared him, and called my companions 1/11J joined me directly and assisted in conveying him back to mud don. He made no resistance; and as we were bringing him along, I asked hint if he had any tire-arms about him, in answer to which lie said he had rot, but if he had he would not have bent taken so easily. We then conveyed him to the Haunch of Venison, and delivered him to a constable, whilst we and others went agair. into the forest to search for his victim ; we found it lying on its back weltering in its blood, and the brains strewed about the spot ; a handkerchief wds placed upon the stomach, and another lay by the side : at a short distance we found a black coat, which I saw the prisoner divest himself of and put on the shooting.jackes. The broken gun also laid by the side of the deceased. The body was pineed on d shutter and carried to this house. Juror—You say you saw the prisoner striking something • antic times tin the ground, how did it happen yow did not see the object of his vengeance. Witness—My sight was intercepted by a abort cluster of hedges : I codhl only see him raise the gun and then strike the blow. Coroner—Are you quite posittie the prisones is the loan you said ad striking ? 'Witneas-1 am quite positive he la the maw. Juror— Was the body cold when you found h ?—lt was sal t it was warm. William Weston wee next called and sworn—l am guard of the Eclipse Birmingham coach that starts front Lad-Jane, in the city of London. About two o'clock in the alimmoon or Thursday las, as the coach was going down, we stopped at the George pulam house, at prickhill, fur a few minutes ; end whilst there the pet. super and the deceased man Caine up. to me and asked me them tarn ro BirmingVarn, I told them 161. each ; and they agreed to go taw journey, but said they would :loan to the White Lion, where they had stopped the night before, for the luggage. Presemly they came hack with a small mime:covered trunk, a hat-box, bundle. and a fowling.piece. They gut upon the coach ; and t intended, when the coach reached Fenny Stratford, to take their farm 'f hey rode aa far as Sherd, Common. when suddenly the prisoner threw the gun MI the coach and then jumped oft: and ran across the Oxman as fast as he could, leaving the piece in the road, in the conf.taboti the deceased sneaked down behind, and picking up the gun, fol. lowed his comnion. They left thei r l uggage on t h e root of the coach, which I pa delivered to Mr. Clare, the landlord of the Cock tavern, at jtratford, where we changed horses, with strict ovum not to deliver it to any person unless the fare was paid. lie had, since the murder, learned that both the men pail their full fast it- London, to go by the Express coach to Liverpool, but when they reached Briekhill they left the coach, and put up fol. the night at the White Lion, but the deceased only step: there. The prison,: was out MI night, and joined his companion in the morning. The prisoner was dressed in a black coat, and the deceased ball : tth shooting jacket and a hairy cap when they left the coach, Mr. Clare, the landlord of the George Inn. at F•nay Stradaed, produced the luggage left with Mtn by the last witness; it coralstma of shirts, stockings, neckhandkerchie' s most of which are tuarke4 with 11. A email memorandum book was amongst them, which contained minutes of money lent by Charles Lynn to .11, 1 e 7 4 11 0111: Hogg and William Hogg. Mr. Cowley sworn—l am a surgeon at Winslow; I saw the dew ceased on Thursday afternoon at this house ; lie was quite dead there was a tremendous fracture on the frontal bone, extsraing about fire inches in length and three in depth. penetrating to the brain. lam of opinion that the injury vas Inflicted with a blunt instrument ; the butt end of a gun would certainly produce sack injury. The blow on the forehead produced his death. Tarry the constable was next examined When the prisoner was delivered into my custody 1 hand-cuffed him, and he expressed a wish to write to his mother; • pen and ink and some paper went brought him, and he wrote—" Uy dear mother, I have commies, murder, and I am now handed over to the cussaly of a constattle at Whaddon." Ile then tore it to pieces, and burned it. He cested, very much agitated, end timing lie would commit suicide three men were instantly in attendance to watch him. This being the whole of the evidence, the ("broiler summed it up very briefly, and at three o'clock the Jury returned a verd`gt " Wilful murder against Charles Lynn." The prisoner was then counmthal on the Coroner's warrant to Aylesbury gaol, to await his trial at the Assizes. As he prooceden he made several attempts to throw himself out of the chaise win. dow, but was prevented by the constables that were with hint. When the chaise drove up to the prison, he again threw histuall headfirst out of the door on to the pavement, but received to injUrr ; and notwitlistannirg lie was watched carefully all night, ha thrust his heed into the lire. Ilia conduct is like that of a madman. but it is supposed to be all pretension. The governor of the psiso l behaved very kindly to him on his arrival, but such. wu his vita. lence, thai it was found expedient tie secure Mai with a strait waist, coat. The prieocer told some persons, that the deceased was • man named Alexander Hogg, and that he had done him, he kkouhl t 4; hare hall the property. EXTRAORDINARY 121 - QUEST. On 6aturda► evening ea Inquest was held at the sign of the Lord Nelson public-house, in the Kent-road, before C. JraistsittrT, on the body of Richard Nilson Dickson. :11.D, who died on the 17th of September last, ever since which time, a lady, the cousin of the tleceasails who is a most eccentric theri.etet, has kept the holy of her relative in the house, not permitting a creature to enter the apartment where the corpse was placed, and peremptority tJusing to admit the bod:• to be internd, declaring to those who made application to hie fur that purpose, that the remains of D:. Dickson should be unburied until the day of resurrection rather titan submit to hare it deposited in any sanctuary but that uhicti the King had promised to grant exclusively for the relics of the de ceased. The parish (Mimi; of Camberwell, having been lately ap [rated of these facts, judged it expedient to institute an inquiry into the circumstances of the deceased's death, as many extraordi_ nary reports had been circulated in the neighbourhood trespecther the manner in which the deceased came to his death. The Jury, alter having been sworn, proceeded, accompanied by the Coroner, to view the body of the deceased, whish was at his late residence, a neat house on Camlocrwell-tenace, near the Green Man turnpike in the Kontwoad. On entering the house the efflu vium arising from the corpse was intolerable. The body was placed in a leaden coffin, in onoof the rooms up stairs, the lid of which had not been fastened down during the space of nearly f0...r months. In one of the hands was a paper, containing an account cf the Doctur's Agricultural M'orks, losscs f &c. which was read to tho Jury. Philip Tuor, a coal and potato dealer, in the Kent-road, deposed that he had known the deceased for • considerable time. About two months before he died, the deceased came to his house for the pore pose of ordering 'ionic vegetables, and he then appeared to be in a. very debilitated state. Two days subsequent to his death, namely, the 17th of September last year, witness saw the body of the de. ceased, and he has no &obt hut that he died a natural death. Wit. nos understood that a female cousin of the deceased resided in the house with him for the last seven or eight years. Witness added, that he did not observe the slightest mark of violence upon body. By a Juror_-The witness does think that Miss Dickson is de.. ranged. Many people, added the wimess, suppose that she iS as mad as a March hare, but I think she is perfectly sane. Thomas Wicks, an undertaker, residing in the Kent-read, • deposed, that he was also acquainted ai) the deceased fur soma • years previous to his death. Three or tour months preceding the Doctor's death, he observed he was declining fast in health, and fur the purpose of securing a job, lie proceeded to the house of the deceased t had an interview with Mias Dickson, to whom he sweet • his opinion, at the same time soliciting the favour of being cme ployed in the event of her cousin's death, IVhen the dootot died., he accordingly proceeded to the house, when Miss Dickson galls him the job, and he supplied a leaden coffin ' in which he placed the deceased. After this Miss Dick so n t o ld him that she intended • that the ceremony of interment should take place in the month of .. December ; and, in the meantime, she desired him to make snot et' • coffin, not in the usual shape, but to imitation of a square shiest, to be lined magnificently throughout with crimson velvet. and ia. ' stead of putting brass handles to it, she wished that stfiut bullocks' ••• horns might be supplied. She also, on that occasion, informed him, that his Ms jesty had promised her a piece of ground tor building a temple upon over the remains of her deceased relative. The witness added that, most fortu.:ately for him, he did not tort., , ply with the latterorder, for when he sent in his bill for the leaders • coffin, he never got one farthing of it from the day he supplied tz, f until the present time. He saw the hotly of the deceased Mune, 0 diately after he expired, and be is convinced he died a natural ; death. l'he Jury observed that they were satisfied the decused hii died a natural death, and a verdtet to that effect was acct': ingly returned. The Coroner and Jury gave the necessary direc:ions for it,At immediate internmit ot the deceased. VINTRIr WARD.—A IVardmote was held on Sawa to proceed in the election of Common Councihntia, 314 Crook having demanded s scrutiny, he having been lso!, cessful at the poll. Some discussion arose on the whether the scrutineers had hen properly named at 14 election; and the Alderman at length expressed his coin that the scrutineer, not having beun named or appoint , 4 he was of opinion that it was fatal to Mr. Crook's cla is • , and that the names of the candidates, as r:turned on 4 .1 poll, were those duly elected. Ile then read them as t;* appeared in our report of the conclusion of the poll, they were reoeived with the greatest alapla l ac. Sir R. Sipping •isou a visit at Plyruoisih Dock-yard, uk4 a view to make some alteration in Axing the hawse-11J ... of ships of the line. It is undastood to be his inien tit ,:t to work the cables on the mid deck of farce-deck alai Ind upper deck of two-deck snits. I