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-; ~, :~a - 7 r - 1 // "7--1-- -Lc r _L-1 /,/~~' ~ / (,' MIitirtALTZ.OPFICE„ , DEC. i f lats. VOTICE is hereby'given, that a SESSION of OYER and TERMINER and GAOL DELI ERY for the TRIAL of OFFENCES committed on 4 HIGH SEAS,_within the Jurisdiction of the Admi- Iti of England, . will be held at Justice Hall, in the Old aNey, Letulon, on MONbAY, the 12th of January next, 'Right o'clock in the morning : —And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, id Keepers of ,Prisons, in whose custody any Prisoners, urged with Offences committed on the High Seas, or iibin the said Jurisdiction, may be, are hereby required transmit a copy of the Commitment of every such Pri 4Ger to Mr. CHARLES JONES, the Solicitor of the iimiralty, at his Office, No. 10, Lancaster-pace, Strand, oindon, in order that the necessary measures may be lien for removing all such . Prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol E. Newgate,, for trial at the said intended Session :—And 1 Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before 'hum any Inquisitions, Informations, Examinations, or Re synistances may have been taken touching any such Of mtes, are required to transmit the same forthwith to Ir. TYIOMAS SHELTON, the Clerk of Arraigns of the Figh Ceitrt of Admiralty of England, at his Office, at the 'iessions House in the 014 Bailey, London. J. 'W. CROKER. ARMY CONTRACTS. COBIMISSAIIIAT DRPARTMENT, TRRASURA CHAMBERS, JAN. 1, 1829. NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons de sirons of contracting to suppli the following Arti les for the Use of the 'Army, viz. BREAD, r. his Majesty's Land Forces in-Cantonatents, Quarters, and Barracks, in the under-mentioned Counties : )orsct I Nottingham BEEF and MUTTON, NI. his Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the under-mentioned Counties and Island in South Britain : Dorset Wilts Rants YZrk isle of Wight North and South Wales Kent And in the several Counties Somasset in North Britain. OATS, ro h is Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in Canton men is, and Quarters, in the ander-mentioned Counties:-- Bedford Oxford Derlay _ Glowisster Hereford Salop Hells; Westmoreland Hunts Worcester Norfolk York FORAGE, viz. °°h, Itly, and straw, to his Maje-sty's Cavalry, and iiorges in Barracks, in the undermentioned 'Counties : toznwaß Lancaster That the deliveries are to commence on and for the 25th day of February next ; that Proposals in writing, sealed 1 /P and marked " Tender for Army Supplies," will be re ceived at this Office en or before Wednesday, the 28th day . January ; but none will he received after Twelve e'Clock on that day. Proposals must be made separately for each County and Island, except for the Counties in North Britain ; all of 'which meat be included in One Tender, and each Proposal must 'have the Letter which is annexed to the Ten der properly filled up by two persons of known property en gaging to'become hound with t the party tendering in the amount ettted in the printed Particulars, for the due Per formance of tlso Contract; and no Proposal will he noticed unless made en a printed Tender, and the prices expressed in words at leagth ; and should it so happen that during the cant:nuance of the Contract no troop; shall be supplied laq virtue of the same, the Amount of the Stamps on the Contract and Bond, paid in the first instance by the Con tractor, will be refunded to him. Particuhrs of the Contracts may be had upon applica tion at this Office, between the hours of Ten and Four ; and Samples of the Meal may be seen at this Office. CARPETS, WHOLESALE AM) RETAIL. CARTER and FAWCETT beg leave re spectfully to inform their Friends and the Public, that having made arrangements with the First Artists, for the supply of a great number of Novel and Elegant Designs, they intend Selling their Stock at VERY REDUCED PRICES (for a few weeks only), in order to make room for the new Patterns. The Stock is most extensive, and comprizes a great variety of Elegant Patterns, in BRUSSELS, KID DERMINSTER, VENETIAN CARPETING, and HEARTH RUGS to correspond; STAIR CARPETS, DRUGGETTS, FLOOR-CLOTHS, DAMASK, MO &c. &c. J. age Consumers and the Trade will find it to their interest to make early purchases. N.B. Several Brussels Carpets of •ariona sizes to be sool,d, great Bargains. Cheapside, i■ Paternoster-rove, and S 9, Bishopsgate-street Without. FACONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 34, Bridge-street, Blackfrian. DIR ECTO RS. Th• Right+ Mon. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, M.P. Chairman. The Right Mon. THOMAS FRANKLAND LEWIS, M.P. Deputy Chairman. Lancelot Baugh Allen, Esq. William Grant, Eaq. Stephen Nicoloon Barker, John Knowles, Esq. F.A.S. isti. Thomas Meux, Esq. Robert Biddnlrlt, Esq. Henry Frederick Stephen- Robert Davies, Esq. son, Esq. Adam Gordon, Esq. Capt. A. A. Vincent, R.N. liamtio3s.—M. W. Clifton, Esq. F.R. S. ; Edward Jacob, Esq.; J. Whishaw, Esq., F.R.S. . - Faysecl.+s.--John Ayrton Paris, M.D. 28, Dover-street. aG Erm—Besjamiu Travers, Esq. P.R. S. 12,11ruton-st. SoLICITOA.—Henry Young, Esq. Essex-street, Strand. This Society is ss constituted as to present to the Public the moat economical system of Life Assurance—combined with perfect security to the Assured. Full particulars are stated in the Prespectus, which, with every requisite information, may be obtained by ap plication at the Office. ••• Notice is hereby given, that a half-yearly Dividend, at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum, is now payable to the Shareholders. By order of the Board of Directors, JOHN NAYI.OR, Actuary. London, Jun. 5. 1829. F. It. S GEORGE ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER FOR CISTERNS, AID PORTABLE FILTERS. E Season of the Tear is approaching when JL e public will have additional reason to congratulate themeelvis upon this important and national invention. So many attempts have been raade to mislead the good folks of the Metropolis, by pretending to vitro the Nying evil of bad water, Without the least pretension, that we were amongst the many who remained sceptical as to the pretensions of the Roy a l Filter, until we were led to seek ocular demonstra liott by having one fixed up in a large cistern, and we have now no sort of hesitation in pronouncing it QUIVE Coal -1,1,1,1E, aid in giving it ooa UNQUALIFIMO ettatev. The names of the hightet professional talent in the Metro pole have given the strangest testimony, that they may be emetitlered, in the metropolitan city of London as au ab polite .‘ God-send," but we will illustrate their opinions by stnithoru fee's, and proofs as strong as Holy Writ ; and tiro let cx examine the state of the water, as now drank by the thousand and ten thousand persons who bare not yet availed themselvem of this Filter, and our readers will bear in mind, that this evidence is supplied from evidence given l ast 6eCIA4II in the ARITISPI HOUSE Or TARLIAMENT• The following otatinent and learned men in their voca tions have given evidence, of which the following is ne ueesarily a shirt extract, viz. Sir Henry Raiford, Dr. Hooper, Mr. Keats, Thomas, Dr. Turner, Drs. Hume, Yatee,Kerrison, ville, Johnson, and' Paris, Sze. 81.4.—they pronounce the wa ttle- sent into their house.* to be a filthy fluid, it is saturated with ( eaved vegetable matters, and other substances pre iticiicial to health ; that such matters in the stomach greatly **attribute to the production of that state of FAULTY Dl 'fasorsow and isminnir of *Loon; that it is so FILTHY find txtroist, au to be unfit for the breakfast table and - 'far culinary purposes, and that it adds so much to the other utveholesmite ietistituents of bread, as to render every 'meal injurious to the health of thousands ; that the water darine the hot weather frequently. //,9, No. 11.336. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1829. LAW NOTICES.• continued use of it we/Hot/I' fittittaitiu is capable of pro ducing deleterious effects ; that the Thames water is ex tremely bad, foul, dirty, and unwholesome; from the great quantity of FILTHY MATTERS CONTINUALLY POUR. 1140 INTO IT PROM NUMEROUS SEWERS ; and Dr. Ker rison makes us acquainted with a fact, the .perusal of which will excite the same disgust in tl.e mind of the reader, as we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in specting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital, he saw " the foul and black stream from the Rhnelagh sewer, parsing between the Company's steam-engine and the Dolphin, LOADED WIWI/ NO SMALL PORTION OF wpm) rt.oirtzta EWEN FROM PRIVIES; „ from which he concludes, that " A CONSIDERABLE ANT/TY OF HUMAN EXCREMENT, IS I SUBDIVIDED AND UNDECOMPOSED COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings.appointed in Middlesex and London, before the • Right lion. 'Sir WILLIAM DRAPER:BEST, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, in and after Hilary. Term, 1829: WAYR, ACTUALLY TIMES lIITO OUR RISTERNS." Dr. Somerville, the physician to Chelsea Hospital, states the watec to be very impure. " The tide," he say., ":61 , 18.11 VP ?MI MASS OF AIIfURITY rRODUCED BY ALL PRICES OF LEATHER_ Per lb. d.tod. f ' Per lb. d. toil. ButtP«,..-50 to 561 b.— 19 20 1 Tonned horse Hides.... Id 20 1)itt0..........-60 to 601 b...... 22 23 Sp - tnish Ditto ...—..., 22 Ott Dresslug, 8ider,,....,... 15 17 Per dozen. Fine Coach hides —: 19 201 Calf Skins-30 to 411 b. 10 24 Crop 1 - lideA, 35 to lOlb. 15 17i Ditto ~.....,.5(l to l'Olb. .24 30 Ditt0—,.......45 to 501 b. 18 20 Ditto —7O to 801 b. 22 24 Ditto —.........,.............. n 21i Strati Se4l3, Greenland 2 - 2 23 • RAW HIDES.. Per Stone. s. A. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to e. d. Best Ileitars& Steers 2 10 S 2 Ordinary --................ 110 2 0 Middlings 2 f. 2 8 Market Caif...—...—. 5 0 eacli. PRICE OF TALLOW, Si Town Tallow --i3s. Od. Yellow Rus6ia--- I.lg. 6d. 428. Od. Soap Ditto------- 3.15. tid. Melted Stufr---- Od. Ditto Hough Al', &c. pr f I 121b.-3,1. 9. Yellow 76. Od Mottled -------- Od. SU. Od. Graves •20.5. Od Good Od. PRICE DF RAW FAT, per stone M 9. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow .111elterA) PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Stare Candles, in the retail shops, i s as follows : Candles, per doz. is. (hi. to Os. ed. I per dozen COA 1. AIA !i P~ 1 .-.lx". 0 Adair's -- 36s.od. Wall's End Hotspur 365. 61. Charlotte --......---- :33 6 Walls rind Newmarch— l 6 ICillingworth 37 6 Ditto Newcastle-- 38 6 Maitt----- 32 0 1 litto Northumberland ft 3 Pelaw — T. 3 0 Ditto Peareth -- 38 6 Percy East -- 29 6 Ditto Perkins and Co. 17 0 Peptop Windsor— 31 0 Ditto Russell's ......... 38 0 t'o'cnley 33 3 Walla End Stewart's .39 6 Willington 38 0 I W E. Henderson --... 28 .0 WallsEndliewicke&Cp. 38 6 I Slik , tone Field and Co. 33 6 Ditto Brown's----...—. 37 0 Walls End Bean SI 0 Ditto Burraton 37 6 W. E. Perkins Bean —26 0 Ditto Carr and Co--- 34 0 Tanfield Trader---- 36 3 Ditto Crainlington—. 32 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 3(3 0 Ditto Hilda ----- 36 9 Walls End snmli 16 9 Ditto Jesmond -- 37 3 Lambton sanall---- 22 0 Ships at market, 1303j—Ships sold, :32—Unsold. 1.1814. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE %YEE% . ..- . . . • . . ~ - • - =2 '-'-. _,., • Yi' - :0" :‘ A, Z ~, (7 -. :A."1.7. 4 „,,, t 4' : er ,P2,lo' .--',7"--•••_,......, -- , _:, I . 4 , , ... V 2 P. , 4 .• . ~. / -t,,,,, • . - . ,Ait,.4#o2 , - - ...,_ l • ~. -....:,-- , - , ,- i j ,,,,,!----- -. • „...... ‘,. .--- -...0r, . ' . ''ir:l4 • * I.' . . , Err 'it , 4/11,1 . ./i.‘" ' I CIOVA ' ' ,5 4-. a . 1 ' • : , 14 ..,„ ~. ' ~., r ." .: . ' ,es " t fr.- ' . ' . 4 1r1f •:‘- • • ~.,,, t,;.,.„. ~ , ...: , ...; . ..,... -,,,„ f. , -N, . ff, ‘,..*,,,,,,:,, , clAt - r?ita.:,- ,-,, ,,, i. 4 - : 41 i. .., --",-,,/ J . . ' > , ~,,,. I i t .: ~;,.. ~.:` , - .... ~...., . , r , ~ 40 "Zit , _,,,,,,, ~ 044 , • , - • , .:„ o_, ,, ii _ . 6 -..t ;5 .: - 4.0: 1 ;•, '''.4. _, 't. - . 0 1 % .1 ,,- ''''',, h . .........,-, - lalitalf„kiiiiir, c 4r :: • .v.,, 4 iit , q ~ - ' r l ,i 1 ' PRICE 7D. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. War-Office, Jan. "7, 11329. HOSPITAL STAFP.—Staff-Surgeon Donald Macleod, M.D. to he Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, vice Ebauzer Brewne, deceased. Nov. 27, 1828. MEMORAiinuitt.—The.Commissions of the under-mention ed Officers, in the 87th Regiment of Foot, have been ante dated to the dates stated against the respective names : Captain" J. Kennelly. Dated April 12, 1826. Captain H. 0. Baylee, now on half-pay. Aug. 13. Lieutenant R. Dudley, new in 138th Foot. Aug. 13. Commis ien in the Wilts Militia, signed by the Lord Lieu tenant of the County of Wilts. William Willock Malik, Gent. to be Ensign, vice John M'lnlity, promoted. Dated Dec. 28, 1828. Whitehall, lan. 5. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Spencer, of Atherstone, in the county of Warwick, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Coutt of Chancery. —.DECLARATIONS OP INSOLVENCY. John Getting, Lime-stregt * Loilliva,Pine-pos* o4 a" James Mackenzie, Watling-street, warehouseman. James Duffy, Tamworth, Stafford, brazier. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Goss, Newton Abbot, Devonshire, mercer, to surrender Jan 20, at eleven, 23, at twelve, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Williams, North-place, Gray's-inn-road, London. Samuel Osier, Helstoa, Cornwall, grocer, Jan. 29, 30, and Feb. 20, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Brown, Cook's-court, Carey-street, London. William Helroyd, Old Bailey, eating-house-keeper, Jan. 16, at eleven, 23, and Feb. 20, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Bowden and Walters, Aldermanbury. William Swonnell and John Harley, Nag's Head-court, Gracachurch-street, drysalters, Jan. 23, at nine, 30, at ten, and Feb. 20, at nine, at the Court of Commis sioners. Templer, Great Tower-street. William Middlecoat, Walworth, coal-men:ha:lt, Jan. 16, 30, at ten, and Feb. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Cora -1 missioners. Matlock, Sonthampton.street, Bloomsbury square. Joseph Lee, Leeds, tea-dealer, Jan. 17, at six, 19, at twelve, and Feb. 20, at one, at the Court House, Leeds. Scott and Sangster, Leeds; Strangwayes and Walker, Bar nard's-inn, London. James Newton, Dissington, Cumberland, joiner, Jan. 20, 21, and Feb. 20, at three, at Mr. Walker's office, Whitehaven. Helder, Clement's-ian, London ; Walker, Whitehaven. William Whiting, Manchester, oil of vitriol-ntanufae three, Jan. 16, at eleven, 23, and Feb. 20, at ten, at the Court of Cotmnissioners. Swain and Co., Frederick's place, Old Jewry. William Sands, Leeds, tailor, Jan. 17, at six, 19, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Few, Ashmore, and Hamilton, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, London ; Bloome and Gatliff, Leeds. Daniel Logan, Brightlaelmston, Sussex, builder, Jan. 16, at seven, 17, at ten, and Feb. 20, at one, at the Old Ship Tavern, Brighthelmston. Attre, Brighthelmston ; Sowton, Great James-street, Bedford-row. Thomas Brewin, Melton Mowbray, Leicester, mereer, Jan. 15, at five, 16, at nine, and Feb. 20, at four, at the • George Hotel, Melton Mowbray. Bishlp, Melton Mow bray ; Holme and Co., New inn. Thomas Wyatt, Hunter-street, Kent -1 tad, Surrey, flour factor, Jan. 16, 30, at ten, and Feb. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Wright, Little Alie-street, Goodman's-fields. John Cardinal, Leicester, currier, Jon. 13, at ten, 23, and Feb. 20, at one, at the Court of C9musissioners. Sandoni, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane. James Marshall, Vere-street, Oxford-street, linen-draper, Jan. 16, 20, 'and Feb: 20, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Bartlett and Beddome, Nicholas-lane, Lom bard-street. Thomas Shiers, Puddock, Yorkshire, woolitapler, Jan. 26, at six, Jan. 27, at ten, and Feh. 20, at nine, at the Pack Horse inn, Ho ldersfield. St phenson, flohnfirth; Battye, and Co., Chancery-lane. George Pound, Brudenell-place, New North-road, Alid dlesex, builder, Jan. 16, 23, and Feb. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Young and Gilbert, Mark-lane, Loudon. SHAT IS CORRUPTIBLE IN TfIE ANNEAL ♦ND VEGETABLE WORLD, TOGETHER WITH THE NOXIOUS FILTH OF GAS AND OTHER MANUI , AOTOILIES, TKAT• eotisTAISTLY 14..0W INTO 'fm THAMES FROM BATTERSEA DOWN TO GRAVESICND.' Dr. James Johnson, the author of the " Treatise on In digestion," says—," We sneer at the delicacy of the Hindoo, who slakes his thirst at the same tank where his neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina ; but what shall we say to the DELICATII CITIIINNI or WOSIMINSTER, WHO FILL THEW. 'PANTO AND STOMACIIS WITH WA- Tag PROM THE THAkEIi, AT THAT ♦R&T SPOT INTO willea A lIIINDItED THOUSAND 64040.11, CONTAINING immix srsoass OF au.Tki, AND ALL UNUTTERABLIS ASS DAILY DISCOAGING TH9III ILIDISOUS AND ADOILIKABI.4 CONTiNTS. The last professional gentleman to whose evidenee we shall refer, is Dr. Paris, the author of the popular work on Diet. He pronounces the water to be impure• and offensive, and siiys that it stinks shortly after it has come in. LARGE QUANTITIES OP MATTEL ARE MECHANICALLY SUSPENDED IN IT. "As A PHYSICIAN'," he says, " I CAN-- NOT TIND 'PERMS SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSIVE OF THE Aw- PUL EriErrs rr MAY BE LIKELY TO PRODUCE UPON THE HEALTH, AND BYRE LITES, OF THE INHABITANTS OP THE METROPOLIS " And in the last edition of his work he goes still further, and asserts, that if a remedy be not ap plied to the evil, " THE RAVAGES OP SOME EPIDEMIC MAI: BE FAIRLY ANTICIPATID." SUCH Is TUE PICTIIIOI---THE FAVIHFUL AND rAfOHI- FUL PICTURE - OF THE 11/CONDITION 01' THE 'MATES OF THE THAMES, AS SUPPLIED BY THE COMPANIES TO THEIR CUSTOMERS. That the inhabitants of the richest, largest, most populous city in the wog. I —the seat of a more opu lent body of nobility and gentry than is to be foand in and- other Metropolis—should, for so long a time, have been contented to have SECN DAILY RUNNING INTO THEIR CISTERNS, AND TO HAVE LTSED, FOR ALL DOMESTIC AN') CULINARY PURPOSES, A NECESSARY OP LIFE, SO LOADLD WITH ALL SORTS OF IMPURITIES AS TO RE PRONOUNCED, BY ruorLastoNAL MEN OF THE MAST EMINKNCE, TO SE OFFENSIVE TO THE SIGHT, disgusting to the imagination, and . destrnetive to the health, is a fact that would not have been credited, and that ought not to have bee❑ ectdited, but upon evidence unanswerable. THE RESULT OF TERM LAIIOURS IS TH'S RFOOMMEN DATION OF A GENERAL srsrEm OP FILTRATION-A SYS- TEM P ?UT LIMITED TO THE FIFTY-TIMER THOUIAND FAMILIES DAILY DILINEINO THE YILTIIT FLUID OF WHICH WE HAVE DEE): SPE•KING, BUT paTENniNG ITAALF TO THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND TENANTS OF THP NEW PIPER. AND 07WEIL ( ON:PA NIES, CONSUMING THE TWENTY-NINE MILLIONS Or GALLONS DAILY SDI, PLIED TO 'PHIL METROPOLIS. Unfortunately, at the moment when the Corornimeioners were drawing up their Report, the patent for " The Royal Filter for Cisterns" had not passed through the tedious or deal of office, OR IT WILL XOT RR rounrf 0, Arlifift READ ING, THE TOLLOWING TESVISIONIA LS, THAT ITMUST Hier FORMED" AN IMPORTANT AND HIGNIX SATISTACTORN CON cLuslos TO ritzta LABOU Ks. —The subjoined extract from arrospectus issued by the Proprietor, witr. BE YHEUSED WIT/1 'THE LIVELIEST INTEREST BE ALL WHO CONSIDER CLEANUNESS IiSSENTLAI, TO fIEALTH, AND THE PURITY OF THE ELEMENT OF WHICH WE ♦RE TILEA7ING, TO BE NEARLY OF EQUAL IMEORTA NCR WrEil THE AIR WE BREATHE :- " The Royal Filter for Cikeros will he *Rind superior to all filter* hitherto invented, inasmuch as it not only POSSESSES THE POWER OP eL•RIFTING THE WATER. IN A Fall-EMINDNr OTORED, DUT ALSO TtiAT Or CO.itPLETE itivicanoN, RENDERING THE MOST TURBID, STAGNANT, ANT 3 VORTID WATER, OF A CRYSTALLINE BRILLIANCY nv,ratvwci IT OF EVERY NOTIOUS.IN(:REDIENT, AND, IN PACT, PRODUCING NATURE'S NECTAR' IN TilE HIGHEST POSSIBLY. YBRFICTION ; THAT LS To SAY, CLEAR AND DESTITUTE OK TASTE AND SMELL.' The rvidity of the proce.s may be understood by a single observation, " TIIAT to VAST AS THE WATEII. IS SUPPLIED Ar TILE TOP or THE etsTattx, SO VAST IT WILL DISCH A RGE WULF' FROM 7HE 80T70H." " But where," the reader will naturally exclaim, " is the proof of all this to be found ? We must have some thing more solid and satisfactory than hare assertions."— The following statement must, we think, set the doublet of the most sceptical at rest for ever. Mr. flume, the respectable aid talented chemist of Long Acre, who has long been employed by Government in analysing waters, had two bottles sent to him for analysation; ONY FULL OF ♦LL SORTS OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE alATTtdttS IN A SIATE OF DECOMPOSITION, AND STRONGLY IMPREGN %TRD w)Tfl GAS; the other, a bottle which had contained the same foul ingredients, but hail been purified by the Royal In the unfiltered bottle he found, he says, forty-six grains and a half of solid matter, of which thirty grains consisted of impurities, and the remaining sixteen grains were the original ingredients peculiar to the water, and dissolved in it : " fur," he observes, " there is no water, however pare and wholesome, whether from deep wells, superfic.ial springs, or any othea source, that is free from saline and ether soluble salts, not at all injurious to health." In the filtered bottle he found only sixteea grains of substances, which, en examination, proved to he the same materials pe;:uliar to, and soluble in, the water in its pri mitive state, and perfectly free from the impurities and contingent foulness of the water, occasioned principally by decayed vegetable matters, a slight impregnation fry animal substance, some carbureted hydrogen or coal gas, and car bonic acid gas. Mr. Hume concludes with bearing the following high testimony to the merits of this discovery: " After a very careful analysis, I cannot hesitate to pro nounce the method which has been adopted to filter this specimen of water to be most effectual, and deserv ing of public encouragement." The same gentleman, at a subsequent period, analysed two other bottles, and says, the opinion I had tiormeal of this new process for filtering is fully confirmed." We should add, that the water thus analysed, ALTMOUGIS PORPO6ELY STRONGLY 114TREC- NA'PED WITH GAS A N 5) CrfilaiL IMPURIVIES, BECAME CRYITALLISED, AND DESTITUTF. OF TASTE AND SAIXI.L. Thus it is clearly proved, THAT OF"PHE FORTY-3NC GRAMS AND ♦ MALE OF SOLID MATTER ORIGINALLY PLACED INT THE ROYAL FILTNR, ONLY SIXTRFN GRAINS Or SUBSTANCES PASSED THROUGH It ; AND WHICH SIT- TEEN GRAINS ARE PROVHD TO BE PECULIAR 70 WATER. IN res PILIMITIVE STATE, AND NOT AT ALL DBLIITHRIOLIS TO taxa Wrii. However much, therefore, the observation of the Commissioners may apply to all former systems of filtration, it is greatly to he regretted that, before the close of their labours, they had not the benefit of the preceding experinients, and of the following striking testimonials to the excellence, of " The Royal Filter." Professor Braude, Dr. Clarke, Ir. Brodie, Mr.- Keats, Dr. Scudamore, and 30 other highly eminent and unpre judiced medical men, have each had the Royal Filter placed in their cisterns, and they all cancer in stating that it renders the most turbid, fietid water of chrystaline brilliancy, and free front taste and smell. • It should be observed that the difficulty of getting pure water is very common in most of the large towns, and indeed throughout the provinces. The difficulty or necessity of placing a Filter at this distance is now restored. Portable ones of all dimensions, capable of filtering from 50 to 500 gallons every 24. hours, have been adapted to prevent the inconvenience allatled to. Thesupence is front SOs. to 4/. or We trivst we have said enough to draw general attention to the merits of a discovery highly conducive to the cleanliness, comfort, and health of the inhabitants of this thickly peopled Metropolis. We shall only add that the apparatus may be inspected at the Office of the Patentee, Mr. George Robins, 69, Strand, opposite the Adelphi Theatre ; where the public are invited to have ocular de- THE PORTUGUESE REFUGEES. (From the Greenock Advertiser.) The following communication with which we have been favoured, discloses a new and important fact regarding the destination of the Portuguese refugees, now embarking at Plymouth. They are to debark, it seems, at Terceira, which still holds out against Don Miguel, and, protected by the almost impreg nable fortifications of Angra, await a favourable op portunity for making a descent upon Portugal in favour of the young Queen : " His Majesty's ship Badger, which was fur about two years on the Clyde station, was ordered about ten months ago to Lisbon, on Don Miguel assuming the Royal prerogative. The Badger ar rived twice at Plymouth with the unfortunate refu gees. About five months ago she was despatched on particular service, and on her orders being opened her destination was found to be for the Western Islands. She has been cruizing off the Islands of Madeira and Terceira, from which she returned home but a few days ago. It is said that the con templated embarkation of the Portuguese officers, &c. now in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, is for the island of Terceira, instead of the Brazils. 1 his is considered by those best acquainted with Portuguese matters to he the most judicious arrange ment for the interest of the young Queen, as well as that of the Constitutionalists. The island is held by a Brigadier-General of known and tried attach ment to the cause, and also one of great military talent. He has considerable !limbers of the regular army, though he would require more to garrison the Castle of Angra, which he was provisioning with all despatch w hen the Badger was last there. These strong 1101,18 are reckoned almost impregnable, and would set at defiance a largo attacking force. The local situation of Terceira is such, that a descent from it on the coasts of Portugal is rendered very easy, and the refugees can have early intelligence whenever a favourable change takes place in politics in the Court of Lisbon, or in the rising of the Con stitutionalists. To this spot in the Atlantic, there. fore, their brightest hopes and their dreams of liberty are entirely directed. " The particular details relative to the late cap. ture of the Castle of Fayal, are very interesting. The Bridgers was there at the time, and gave refuge to a young gentleman, who was one of the Consti tutionalists engaged; he escaped on board of the brig, under the sanction of her Commander and the English inhabitants. His grandfather, Mr. Parkins, has been for a long time Consul of the island ; he was for about six weeks on board, and finally fended at Plymouth. He mentioned that it is quite impos sible to calculate on the support of any party, except those to which the Monks are devotedly attached —that the hold they have over the consciences and actions of man would be matter of wonder to Britons in this enlightened age—that these men are them selves deplorably ignorant, and that whenever they see the least attempt at the spread of liberal opinions, or any thing which tends to forward the march of freedom, they stand forth in dreadful array with all the anathemas of the Church of Rome to arrest its rogress." • On Thursday evening, Mr. Batson, the li brAry-keeper of Trinity-eollege, was found prostrate on the library floor, beneath the baneful influence of an apop lectic fit. He was removed, and medical assistance imme diately applied, but he expired next morning.—Cambridge Independent Press. There, is now living at Lynn, a Mr. Henry Regester, formerly a considerable wholesale tailor and draper of that town, who, since he was seventy-four years of age, has cut six teeth ! He has been blind four and twenty years, and, though now in his eightieth year, he bar cut out and made himself a complete suit of clothes, with out any assistance whatever.—An instance of teeth cutting at seventy years of age is recorded upon an old gravestone in Holbeach churchyard. We hope Mr. Register will live longer to enjoy his new ivories than did his predecessor of Holbeach, of whom it is written, in a rustic couplet, ' She'd twenty new teeth at seventy years old, And at seventy-two she was laid in the mould. IN TEIIM. LONDON, XJPDLEsEx. Thursday Jan. 29 Saturday Jan. 31 Thursday Feb. 5 Friday Feb. 6 AFTER. Friday Feb. 131 N.l3:—The Court will hit the 29th and 314 ; and at ti TERM. Saturday Feb. 14 t at one o'clock on January ;en on each of the other days. SHIPPING INTELLIGILNC. LIVRRPOt L. THIS SLAV, JANUARY B.—Wind water minutes, past twelve.—Arrived the. Mary, Sti+ong t : from Vlverstou.; James Cropper, , from Virgint)2 l l . Diana, Fergus/ton, - from Messina; Shamrock, from the Isle of Man ; Flower .01 . the South, Balm, from ditto. Sailed—The Montezuma, West, for Philadelphia ; • Bir mingham, Harris, for ?'ew York ; Active, Mackie, for Savannah ; Esrl of Surrey, Barry, for Douglas ; Provi dentia, Down, for Messina ; Mary, Brown, for Malta; Philomele, for Ric; Janeiro. LONDON MARKETS. PRICES OF HOPS.—lin. O. 4!. 4i. 41. 19.5. to tit 10. s 5!. IS s. 4!. 4s. to 41. Ss. 41. 10s. s'. se. to. 6!. Os. 0/. Os. Si. Os. to 91. Os. 01. Os. tit. Os to 7/. 10d. 3/. IG.. 41. IVs. to 51. 10s. 31. 10s. 51. Itis. to U. Os. 41. 4s. 41. 16s to W. :at. Kent Pockets... , ••••••n0,"•...• Sussex Date ....«....«.«.*"««.«««6. ESS2X Ditto ,,. Farnham Ditto, Fine Seconds Kent liags.... Sussex I)itte Essex Ditto-. WiIITECHAPEL [IA 8. Hay sAi.Oti. to 8.33. Oct. I Clover 104. At. to 10E4i. Od. 30.. Ott. to 31.. Od PRICE OF 011.. .....- —..--- --.... Rape Oil, brown ---;—.. W. 05...,;.,.,. Refined .--.£16 0 Linseed Oil ------„ — _ , 19 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand --..„,-,.. 13 0 Rape Cake, per ton - — ~_ 510 PRICE OF POTATOES—Jan. 9. Marsh Champions: Kidneys Scotch Reds —.... es. to 4/. Os. per toll. Os. to 5!. Os. ditto. ss. to 5/. We. a.tto. • Oxnobles and Shaws 10s. to :it. Ps. ditto. Per Quarter. Achburn Ba,ing,toke Bath .--. Bridgewater .-- BriFtol-- Che,;terfield 50 55 35 4 44 52 38 46 40 48 50 51 46 44 42 48 41, 51 4S 58 46 56 34 48 I terby Devizes Doncaster Dorehester . Glotice,ter*. Hungerford Rornsey Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet Sherborne --- Taunton Yeovil Per Bushel. Shrewsbury 30 44 32 46 30 40 44 M 40 43 42 50 s. d. e. d 00 00 SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKKI'.—Jan. 7. We had a good supply of all sorts of Grain to-day, sales brisk, and prices the same as last tnirket day, except Oats, which srels. down. Wheat is up on the average 2s. 2d., but on the top Is. down. Wheat. \ Barley. \ Oats. Pease. Beaus. First B3s Ski 42s Oct 28s 61 33s Od 4.0 s (11 Vecond 7Bs Od :364 Od 2tis Od Od 38s 0.1 Third PRICES OF PROVISIONS, S.C. Beef, per lb. O. hi. to Os:7d. Mutton 0 31 0 7 Veal 0 5 0 0 l'ork—„-- 0 4 0 6 Lamb, per qr. 1 6 3 0 Tallow, cwt.... 32 0 33 1 . 1 Quartern Loaf 0 10 0 11 Potatoes. 141 b. 0 3 0 4 Fresh 8utter,11).5.10,1. to 15.0,1. Salt Ditto--... 0 S 0 10 Ditto, per CA t. 070 76 0 Eggs, per doe. 0 0 1 0 OatStraw(ky .) ti 0 6 6 Wheat Ditto— 5 8 6 0 Barley Ditto 5 0 0 0 Hay, per st.-- 0 6 0 7 EDINBURGH MBA .L MA RKET: —.l aft: 6. We h:(l;;;itidliug supply of Oatmeal at to-day's mar ket, which sold heavily at last week's prices. Per Sack of 28011). Imp. Per Stone 01 Mb. Imp. First Oatmeal £2 0 0 First Oatmeal .£0 2 2 Second ditto 1 18 0 Second ditto Barleymcal 1 If) 0 , Barleymeal t , 1 10 Pcasemeal ll2 01 Peasemeal Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 135.-2 d, 18s.-30, 'Ms.—Nail 2(is. GLASGOW CORN M A RKE r.—Jan. 7. At this day's market some business was done in Wheat, at our last quotations. Oats and Barley were both a shade lower, except for prime samples. Wheat, per 210Ib. F. d. F. d. 1 Oats, per itl4lb. a. d. s. d. British, old 39 0t042 0 Irish 22 0t025 0 new 3S 0 40 0 British I Canada, free 4l 0 43 0 Beans, per 2Oilb. Irish Barley, per 3`201b. Scottish English — 0 0 Pease, Scottish ... 19 0 21 0 Scottish 3211 31 0 Oatmeal, per 1101 b. 2111 22 0 I fish ... MARGATE, JAN. B.—A schooner or ketch was observed about nine this morning to go on the Long sand, and shortly afterwards disappeared. The boats which proceeded in that direction have returned without having discovered any thing of her : they report, however, to have fallen in with a vessel apparently sloop-rigged, sunk in seven fathoms water, the topmast above water and double cross-trees, both painted white, and has a dart vane. A gallint coming in from sea, got on the Nayland Rock this afternoon, disabled her rudder, and has proceeded upwards, in charge of and steered by a lugger from hence. INDICATIONS OF WHOLESOMENESS IN AICSIIROOMS.—Whenever a fungus is pleasant in flavour and odour, it may be considered as wholesome ; if, on the contrary, it have an offensive smell, a bitter, astringent, or styptic taste, or even if it leave an unpleasant flavour in the mouth, it should not be considered fit for food. The colour, figure, and texture of these vegetables do not afford any characters on which we may rely ; yet it may be re marked that in colour the pure yellow, geld colour, bluish pale, datk or lustre brown, wine red, or the violet, belong to many that are esculent; while the pale or sulphur yel low, bright or blood red, and the greenish, belong to few but the poisonous. The safe kinds have most frequently a compact, brittle texture; the flesh is white; they grow more readily in open places, such as dry pastures and waste lands, than in places humid or shaded by wood. In general, those.should be suspected which grow in caverns and subterraneous. passages, on animal matter undergoing putrefaction,as well as those whose flesh is soft or watery,— /7) trn rOor7” Wheat I'S 84 00 PO 60 8,8 6% 88 61 80 78 86 82 86 55 90 78 90 till 8% 46 AO 40 'O7 55 78 79 72 S 8 72 St 80 96 72 s. cl. s. d. 112 0 128 Barley. 1 Oats. 44 46 28 3S 32 42 38 41 38 42 34. 43 41 44 30 42 30 43 32 40 35 44 35 40 21 33 P 7 41 32 38 38 43 3 . 40 32 40 33 42 s. cl. La. 56 60 27 at 18 ;45 27 :35 28 32 26 30 30 St 25 35 20 32 27 31 28 30 21 32 22 31 20 40 24 32 US 38 - tffi 36 16 31 30 36 0. d. s. d. !36 60 Beans, DIVIDE3s7I:O3. William Broughton Flexney, Bedford-row, money. scrivener, Jan. 30, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. George Remington and Alexander Remington, Oxford street, cabinet-makers, Jan. SO, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Robert Thornley, Vale house, Mottram, Cheshire, cot ton-spinner, Feb. 9, at three, at White's Hetel, Manchester. Halm Benattar, Feoc•hurch-street, merchant, Jan. 23, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Richard Rutlidge,Weedon-Beck, Northampton, plumber, Jan. 18, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Thomas Hack, Bear-garden, St. Saviour, Southwark, anchor-smith, Jan. 30, at twelve, at the Court of Com missioners. Michael Cale, Sackville.street, Piccadilly, tailor, Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Henry Benison, Liverpool, money-scrivener, Jan. 31, at one, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. John Twigg, Earlsheaton, Yorkshire, blanket-manufac turer, Feb. 6, at one, at the Court-house, Wakefishi, York. shire. CERTIFICATES.—JA Cent 30. Frederic Greenfield, Whitecross-street, surgeon. Thomas Suffolk, Chenille, Staffordshire, innkeeper. Robert Jeffery, Abchurch-lane, merchant. William Mainwaring, Birmingham, surgeon. John Robison, Chelmsford, linen-draper. Richard Goodhugh, Glasshouse-street, St. James's, West. minster, dealer and chapman. Thomas Edward Brigg, St. James-street, Piccadilly ; feather-manufacturer. . J. Smith, Brighton, maker of sweets. M. S. Schlesinger, Upper Stamford.street, Waterloo road, merchant. William King, Upper Park-place, Regent's-park, car• penter. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. John Jes Bardwell, Thomas Poole, and Thomas Car lisle, silk-mercers, Cheapside. John Nathaniel Bird and Anthony Ellis, Liverpool, chemists. Thomas Killingley Heath and Edward Wood, Notting ham, lace-manufacturers. Daniel Wdlmott and John Pearcey, Rotherhithe-street, King's-stairs, Rotherhithe, linen-drapers. William Wells, William Morley, Sons, and Co., timber merchants. _ . Thomas Baby, Thomas Knott, sem, John Morgan Knott, and .1. henry Beilby, Birmingham, booksellers. Charles James Nelson Birkett, Abraham Townsend, and John Strangwayes, Old Swan Stairs, London, drysalters. John Wilson, William Burnside, and James Malthy, Nottingham, lace-manufacturers. Joseph Millington and William Anderson, Foley-place, Middlesex, surgeons. Samuel Pope and Joseph Pope, Manchester, cslico- printers. Edmund Sparshall and Joseph Sparshall, wine-mer chants. Benjamin Ryland and .Tehn Ryland, Biggleswade, Bed ford, diapers. William Carter and John Jenkins, Lower Whitecross street, Cripplegate, dealers in skins and gloves. C. M. Husband, John Sanderson, jun. and George San derson, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants. John Southall, sen. and John Southall, jun. Great Dover-street, linen-drapers. William Clough, John Rhodes Clough, Richard Brook, and James Norton, Pontefract, York, attorneys. Sarah Wye and Margaret Wye, Manor-place, Walworth, milliners. Thomas Stirling, stn., Thomas Stirling, James Filor, and David Jonathan, Commercial-road, filtering manu facturers. .1. S. Blount and W. Harris, Birmingham, surgeons. R. Blake and John Arthur, 11 , gli- street, Shadwell, surgeons. Edward Leman and Richard Simmonds, White-crons street, coal-dealers. Christopher Fuller and Win. Chenery, London. William Joshua Tilley and William Morton, jßlack friars-road, Surrey, fire-engine-makers. Ishmael Lonsdale and John Lonsdale, Stanbury, Yoik, cotton-spinners. Samuel Lloyd Flarford, Sir Richard Vaughan, Philip John Miles, John Scandrett Harford, Charles Ludlow Walker, Charles Gray Harford„ Hrnry Harford, and. Thomas Kiagton, wii e- rink Brisud. Samuel Williamson aid John Williamson, Highgate, grocers. James Milne and Robert Reid, Hanover-sqvare, tailors. Sam. Middleham and David Goldthorp, Clifton, York shire, wine-merchants. W. Smith and William Smith, jun., St. Albin mi almen. :~ --~ ~~~. LONDON BURNS' CLUB. riIHE ANNIVtRSARY of the BIRTH 1- of the Immortal Scottish Poet, ROBERT ?WRNS, will be celebrated this year by a PUBLIC DINNER, to be held at BAKER'S COFFEE-HOUSE, 'Change-alley, Cornhill, on THURSDAY, the 29th inst. Communications to be addreised, post-paid, to Mr. W. Taylor, 72, Lombard-street, of whom Tickets may ha had ; and also at the bar of Baker's Coffee-house. CITY OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. 165, Aldursgate-street. UNDER the Patronage of the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR,' and the Committee for the Relief of the Spanish and Italian Refugees. A CONCERT for the Benefit of the Spanish and Italian Refugees, will be given in . the Theatre of this Institution, on Tneasnar evening, the 15th instant. The following Performers are engaged—MaJaree Schutz, Miss Cawse, M. Schutz, Mr. Horneastle, and Mr. Phillips ; Harp, Mr. Chatterton ; Leader, Mr. Mori; Conductor, Mr. Forbes. Tickets, "i,y. . each, may be had on application to the Members of the Committee, to the Secretary at the Insti tution, 165, Aldersgate-street ; and of Messrs. Clementi and Co., Citeapsido ; Messrs. Gorilding and Co., Soho;. square; Messrs. BOosey and Co., MuSical Library, Helles street, Cavendish-square, • and Broad-street, City ; Mr. Vernon, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Munro and May, Hol born Bars. 'he Concert will commence at Eight o'Clock precisely. By Order, G. STACEY, Sec. Jan. 10, 1839. PATENT FRENCH - AND ENGLISH LAMPS, CHANDELIERS, &AL VEVANS, (Fialt-streetAlill), Manufacturer • and Improver of the deservedly much 'admired Fronola Lamps; begs kave is announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that he has just completed an ex tensive Stock of the above elegant and econossi••l Article, rombinieg all the late improvements, which may be had of all sizes sod designs, in Bronze, Plated,. and Ormolu, with plain or ornamental dome shades, adapted for the dinner table, sideboard, ball, staircase, conservatory, &c. at very reduced prices. This Lamp is warranted to diffuse a light equal to six wax candles at the sepence of only sue, and may be safely fiwwarded in packing bones (20. 6d. each) to any part' of the Kingdom. Orders of any extent executed in the course of a few hours, by addressing a lino to J. EVANS, at his Stove Grate, and Lamp Stellar, Fish-street-hill (corner of Great East Cheap) near the Monument, or at his Ware-rooms, No. 5, Finsbury-place (South), near Finsbury-square, London ; where may be had, Genuine unadulterated Sperm Oil (peodueini neither make nor smell), at 61% per Gallon. variety of BrGnu, and Ormolu GRAND/MIMS' Hall Lampe, &T. • ROYAL EXTRACT OF FLOWERS. THE extraordinary circulation of the above article, and it, very general adoption by the first ranks of Fashion, at the Toilette and in the Drawing-room, helve stimulated the I'reoprietors in an turleavenr to render it. in delicacy of scent and fragrance, equal, if not supe rior, to any tleseription of Perfnme for the Handkerchief. It is dist3ied from a combination of Flowers, selected for their excelling sweetn:ss and aromatic properties, when those Flowers are in their fullest vigour. _ _ . Manufactured and Sold by Biggs, Ilreckbank, and Iligge, Perfumers to his Majesty, 35, New Band-street, in Bottles at 155., Ss., 51., and 3s. 6d. The PERSIAN BOUQUET is also recommended to the notice of the Nobility and Gentry, as a pleasing, very powerful, and darable Pet fume. AMERICAN PAPERS; In consequence of the strong easterly winds, the Britannia packet ship, from New York, arrived off Liverpool, had not been able to get into that puff. The Leeds steamer, from Dublin,. had been along side of her, and brought up the letter bag. The pa pers are to the 17th ult. A report hsd reached New York, that peace had been made between Colombia and Peru. The ac count comes by way of Jamaica, where they had re• ceived letters from Bogota of the 23d October. These American Papers have brought us a docu ment of considerable importance, which ac( ompanie I the President's Message, and was laid by him, with others, for the consideration of Congress. This document is the Report from the Treasury. 7--- Though usually confined to the financial operations of the year, it is extended, in the present instance, to those of the three preceding years, and to their results. We shall give a brief outline and summary of the whole. Rush, by whom, as head of the Treasury, this Report is made, commences by confirming the state ment of the President, that the' Revenue of ISkB had exceeded the estimate of Congres s , while the expences had not one - beyond' tfie lfinittepre-eribed by law, with the exception of those occasione d by a greater 'reduction of the public debt than had been anticipated, in consequence of a surplus in the Tra sury arising out of the increased receipts. He very justly observes, " that it is 'amongst the highe:it duties of a nation, faithfully to keep to its pecuniary engagements, and that there need be no better de monstration of its pecuniary ability, than when it is seen to pay off with promptitude and. punctuality its funded debt." He then states, that in 1825, the amount paid on account of the debt, was 12,099,044 dollars, not, however, wholly out of' a surplus Re venue. In 1826, there were paid 11,039,441 dol lars, all from surplus Revenue. In 1827, 10,001,583 dollars, from a similar source ; and in 1828, 12,163,566 dollars, also from surplus Revenue, mak ing for the four years, 45,303,642 dulls., 30,373,188 of which had been applied to the reduction of the _ _ principal, and 1030,414.5 to the payment of the in , terest. He also states the important fact, that the whole of the reduction operated on the part of principal which bears the high interest of 6 per cent. - s not astonishing, therefore, that, as Mr. Rush " whatever the considerations of public :ells us, policy may be that have made the rapid extinguish ment of the debt a favourite object with the nation, the public creditor regards it individually as a hard ship to be paid off." By an Act of Congress passed in 1817, a Sinking Fund of ten millions of dollars, applicable annually to the payment of the interest and the redemption of the capital of the debt, was established. That Act, which only began to operate in 181 S, bed, pp to 1825, never received its full execution, from Ma- bility on the part of the Treasury. • But since that period, the deficiency has been entirely made up 10,- the excess of annual payments, and no arrears Fe nian at present due to the Sinking Fund. The total sum paid since the cemmeneement ,of 1818 to the close of 1828, an account of the debt, is .146,6(39,773 dollars (36,667,4131. sterling), of which 88,831,108 went to the reduction of the cipal, and 57,835,661 to the payment of interest. " Facts like these," Mr. Rush justly tells us, " at test the true character and value of a :Sinking, rued. which can only be effectively such, when income exceeds expenditure, and a clear surplus front the former is steadily applied to the diminution of die Debt." This is the principle on which the future operations of our own Sinking Fund are to be COI.. ducted, and as the flourishing state of our Revenue now supplies us with a yearly surplus, our progress will, we doubt not, become as regular and as satis factory as that of the United States. The next points on which the Report touches are the state of the funds and the amount of the im ports and exports. " The Stocks of the United states," we are told, " keep en elevation above par, indicative of the high credit of the Government," The three per cents. in particular, are favourites both at home and abroad, because they are the hiet to be redeemed. Since 1821, their price has ranged from 80 to 85. The importations into the United States, during the last four years, amount in value to 350,202,469 dollars; the exportations, during the same period, to 337,202,426 dollars ; the balance in favour ,of foreign trade is, therefore, 13,000,013 dollars. It may even be considered greater, for the experts of domestic produce and manufacture amounted only to 233,690,035 dollars, and the remaining 101,133,391 were re-exportations of foreign com modities. The imports and exports for the four years preceding 1824 were much less considerable, but maintained a similar proportion in favour of the foreign trade. The receipts into the Treasury during the last four years amounted to 97,957,559 dollars; the disbursements to 95,585,518, of which 14,000,000 were expended on internal works to benefit the country, and unconnected with the civil, military, or naval establishments. The receipts and exr eases of the four preceding years were also considerably less, but much more nearly balanced. The positive increase of Revenue during the period ending with 1828, exceeds 18,000,000 dollars, and is said to be derived wholly from the Customs. The average in crease of income in every year is estimated at upwards of twenty-four per cent., while that olthe expenses is only 10 per cent. The augmented con sumption of foreign articles during the same time averages 18 per cent each year. The shipping of the United States is believed to have increased during the same period; but the re turns were Hot sufficiently correct to speak with pre cision. The whole mercantile shipping of the Union is estimated at 1,50,000 tons, while in 1818 it was only 1,200,000. The Report then descants on the prosperity of the country advancing rapidly ill all its branches; and dwells with particular satisfaction on the benefits derived from the services of the Bank of the United • States, in the collection of the Revenue, and the payment of all the public charges. It also bestows high praise on the judgment with which it confines or enlarges its issue, so as to restrain excessive spe culations or to relieve scarcity. After pointing out the undertaking of great national works, it closes with a statement of the estimated Revenue and Expenses for 1829, similar to that given by the President in his Message-23,140,000 dollars the one, and 21,640,000 the other, leaving a surplus on the year of 1,500,000 dollars. New YORK, DEC. 16.—SAIUGGLING.—It is as• signed by the Secretary of War, in his Report, as one among other reasons for re-establishing the mi litary posts upon the northern and eastern frontiers of the United States, that the purpose had been avowed from high authority, and large preparations had accordingly been made with the view of smug gling goods from the British Provinces into the United States. Hence it is deemed necessary, on a frontier so thinly settled, that a force should be at hand to aid, in case of need, the civil authorities against any forcible attempt to contravene the laws of the Union. While we applaud this aed every other proper and reasonable precaution to uphold the supremacy of our laws, while they are laws, we cannot but view the very necessity that has led to the adoption of the measures now under considera, tion, as bearing strong testimony against the policy which requires to be taut upheld. CUARLESToN, Nov,. .B.s-eCo7roN.—lu uplands the business of the last.week was fair. The receipts were less than for a fortnight pi , esaouse and the artier des being sold generally as soon as landed, bases the stock now in the market very light.