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. , . . T ESE IT AL , t f ( :l l w ( il l' e n l o i t r i t ' s l e i l i e l p f f r o u ll i O t i t n i i i i l s a o y, n ~4 ,__... ig .....„ - ' . -4 " - % .g:,,, . . '''..... tk e . ..---_‘, t n-rpi. f- -,0-__l 4 , ll'' id ~. ") 111)0 1 . v k i t ~,,, .- ( ....4._ .t„ - , ~, ..„, ~,, ~. .„, 1,,,- ( 4:1 ....... 0 ---1: .--., ... W tfok. I• ° ' • \.- - 1 ,, / 1 . '*: (ei ll t3 i t t Ye rl rb e?Wood, Secret.ary to the 4. ) ,,2,; ".b . Q'. 1.?: - `"--3/ ....., _ , ~,y "" • ir t -- 5 -I,P .11 ° ' .4 •- - • , ,;,„ ...,-,, t 1 ''''','. ‘...... ,e.-- ~ n - 1 -4 . ,i- .2..0, --._ , • ... 3 t l.N o cisrA t t i c i Cr e l memorial forwarded to their Lo, \ -,„ ' IN)\ ) k -:- -''- ', • 4 .p ~,„_, 4 i t 0t., , 4.' , • ~.. / It', , ,J . .411164 , 'Z' ' public meetlng of merchants and ship° •)` ' " .. .n . ill o ,„ 01, n -- .4 4 ,..-. ...-... w ,i -., ~,„ 1ii.161.1.14 • .° - :**l - , + ~..„. :: ~ .____.. • • _ . ,1 .• /' , ......„ (1.." . ( ~, v." ~- , r -.3, wir 5 - ~ I) , •qll 4 , -, , , Vtre regret that the late period of the .*'' '1, 4211 '' "' - V \ '-' ti 4 kketi: ii - t IP 111Mli '''''-- 7 11 . 11 ,-, ' 1 01.. -- '.-`. -, Vet?' ' DIA) \ \ lll 411/47'). 1 , 7,7, , h.,. ',., , v-, -....c....- offering, upon 6;4 "freezing" official ~....-, ~,,,-: :n4..., • -, - . - 'n 'r... c. s"; OFFICE OF COMMISSIONERS OF COMPENSATION. No. 25, Great George-street, Westminster, Jan. 10, 1837. NOTICE is hereby given, that the COMMIS SIONERS will proceed to consider the CONTESTED CLAIMS (according to the priority of the number of each case) in the undermentioned Colonies on the days and in the order after mentioned, at Twelve o'clock on each day, when the parties inte rested or their agents will attend accordingly : Hondurus and } Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1837. . Antigua St. Christopher Thursday 23 Grenada ... Tuesday 2B Dominica Thursday, March 2 British Guiana Tuesday St. Lucia Thursday 9 Bermuda and St. Vincent Tuesday Nevis Thursday......... 16 Bahamas and Montserrat 1 Tuesday .........21 Trinidad • Barbadoes Thursday 6 Tobago Tuesday ll Virgin Islands Thursday . 13 By Order of the Board, HENRY HILL, Secretary. 1 T. ( SHIP ' 4_,21., , y4,, -- -_,5, urnal ) 1--VC,C ,%'% - fk --- copy, was p\ iv iv 'or of Newcastle, froni,VAcl\"-. Admiralty, in reply irdships, adopted at a wners of this port. week prevents our I epistle, a SliitaliM _ commentary. In our next we will endeavour to do justice to Mr. Charles Wood and " My Lords Commissioner* of the Admiralty" : LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 11, 1837. No. 13,829. PRICE sd. " Admiralty, Jan. 3, 1837 . " Sir,—Having laid before my Lords Comn4,sioners of the Admiralty a memorial from certain merchants, ship_ owners, and other inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyn e , en closed in your letter of the 31st ult. on the subject of affording relief to som e wh a l ers n o w i ce -b oun d , I am com mandedby their Lordships to acquaint you that they have already received four memorials from Dundee, Hull, Aber deen, and Berwick-upon-Tweed upon the subject ; but that, after the fullest consideration, my Lords are of opinion that it would be unavailing to dispatch a vesscl or vessels as proposed, the experience of last year having shown that the strong current through Davis's Straits will almost certainly carry the vessels so far to the southward as to reach the open sea, unless they should unfortunately be crushed or wrecked in the ice, against which dreadful calamity no human aid could guard. (besides canals) by which goods may be brought to London from Bristol, at a freight but little exceeding one penny per ton per mile, or nearly 300 per cent. cheaper than the Railway, together with the fact already proved on thu Manchester Line, that owners of goods, not requiring dispatch, prefer the water line in the propor tion of ten to one. _ . MRS. SIIELLEVS NEW NOVEL. On Monday next in 3 vols. post Svo., A I. N E R ; A NOVEL. This day is published, in 2 vols. Bvo., price 245. in cloth, lIE AIVIERICANS, in their Social, Moral, and Political Relations. CORONERS' INQUESTS. By FRANCIS .1. GRUM/ " The author must at once be allowed an acquaintance approach ing familiarity with the matter he handles ; his thoughts on politics are liberal, just, and comprehensive ; he gives the most complete and extended view of American character we have yet met with in a single work ; and his style is clear and flowing."—Spectator. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co. Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the King's Head Inn, High-street, St. Giles's, on the body of George Masters, aged 50, whose death was occasioned by starva tion. William Thomas, a young man of squalid and mise rable appearance, lodged at No. ]6, Buckeridge-street, St. Giles's (commonly called the Rookery.) It was a public lodging-house, and kept by a man named Milberry. Witness had known the deceased for the last fortnight by his coming to lodge at the house. He (deceased) came on Monday week and stopped until Thursday, when he left. During the time he slept in the same cellar as witness. The poor old man appeared in a very wretched state ; he could scarcely walk from weakness. He complained to witness of not being able to get sufficient food. On Sun day evening last he again came to lodge at the house. He told witness that he had been run over by a cab in Rose mary-lane, and that his chest was hurt very much, and that lie had not had any thing to eat for three days. 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" The only object, therefore, of sending vessels out, would be to provide against a possible deficiency tF pro visions in the vessels detained, and my Lords co.anot be lieve that the owners of whale-ships, after the warning of last year, can have sent them to sea withorA an adequate supply of provisions, in the event of tireir being kept out through the winter. MOORE'S LALLA ROOKII. This day was published, Eighteenth Ediii;;,infoo Iscep Bvo., with Four Ergravings, from Drawings by Westall, price Ios. 6d, in cloth lettered, LALL A It 00K H: An Oriental Romance. WILLCOX and ANDERSON, Managers. N. B. A line of Steam Vessels has been established to run from Gibraltar to Marseilles, and vice versa, calling at Nine intermediate Ports on the South Coast of Spain The first of these vessels, the PHOCEEN, a large and powerful vessel, is announced to start from Gibraltar on the 2d February. Passengers by the Iberia will arrive in convenient time to proceed by the Phoceen. From Marseilles Steam Vessels now run to Genoa, Leghorn, Civita Vecchia, Naples, and Malta ; also to Messina and Palermo. UNNYMEDE'S" LETTERS AA) to the following ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES : The Prime Minister—Sir John Campbell—Mr. Thomas Att. wood, M.P.—Lord Brougham—Sir Robert Peel—Mr. Spring Rice—Lord John Russell—The People—Lord Stanley—Viscount Palmerston—Sir John Hobhouse—Lord Glenelg—The " Lords"— Chancellor Cottenham—Lord William Bentinck, &c., ARE THIS DAY PUBLISHED. Printed for John Macrone, St. James's-square. " ill the ships detained last year but one arrived at Stromness before the ship dest . ..ned to relieve them left that place ; and the extreme ir.,probability of meeting with any vessels in high northP:en latitudes, at mid-winter, is such, that my Lords wo'fid not feel themselves justified in expos ing the lives bf ships' companies to the imminent risk at tending s':.ch an expedition. " . t .';ith respect to the suggestion of the memorialists for 're-establishing the hospital at Stromness, my Lords have already expressed to their memorialists their opinion that the owners of the ships now detained in the ice, and the other persons connected with the trade, should lose no time in sending the means of succour, similar to that which was afforded last year, to Stromness, where there is every reason to believe the ships, should they happily escape from the ice, will first touch on their return. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq., London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co. By the Jury—The deceased paid 3d. per night for his lodging. There are ten beds in the cellar we slept in. The beds are flock. A banket is provided. The cellar is very damp and cold. All sorts of characters come to lodge at the house. The medicine sent by the surgeon for the de ceased was in a ginger -beer bottle. There was no direction sent as to the quantity to be given. 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By order of the Board, CHARLES TERRY, Secretary. 2, Lime-street-square, Dec. 31, 1836. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. EXTRACTS from PART 11. Of " The Anti-Railroad Journal ; or, Railroad Impositions Detected." It is not, therefore, too much to anticipate a similar termination to the minor Great Western Railway from Bristol to London ; for, tmay though prob a bl y it rea ch as far as Bath from Bri stol , after hav ing, like a mole, explored its way through t unnels, lo ng and deep, the Shareholder; who travel by it will be so heartily sick, w h at with prospect foul air, smoke, and sulphur, that the very mention of a R a il way w ill be worse than ipecacuanha, especially when the only t hey can find the least cheering in the midst of all this derangement of their stomachs, will be a granite tramway, actually in operation, alongsidebl • of their own dose of ipecacuanha, ready to follow up the black draught, so as to get rid of every particle of obstructio n with which the bottoms of their pockets might be otherwise afflict e d . True it is, that thou g h the last 40 miles fr om R eadin g to L ondon will not require quite so much mole-like engineering as through the first 13 miles to Bath et for the gratification of Mr. Brunet, w h o Bubble throuh InaY wis h to tunnel more successfully for the Great Western dry land, than throughhs hitherto rewarded the iugenuity and talent of his father through wet land, tsand aqueducts, throu g h skill and dexterity in the shape skill of viaducts and aqueducts, through which the Shareholders will find, as well as Mr. Brunel, solicitors, all the an d Others, Of "undoubted talent and activity," that the aqueducts sup er r iet s will doubtless form capital ducts to carry off )3 Cash of the Shareholders. ut to be serious--for in a question where so much is to be lost by o ne t mu t p ar y, and nothing to be gained by another, even ridicule sbe economised since it should be borne in mind, that the unless ; parties who have concocted the minor Great Western Railway w bubble ere conscious that they were putting forth nothing but a line would that thewhole line they ought to be able to show f even one per pay a liberal profit, and not fall short o . .. eseetnett profit, so as to induce the most cautious c apitalist to sub that th r else they must be willing to labour under the imputation miscalculation have miscalculated the traffic of the load ; and as such the could not be the result of ignorance, if founded, as assert, o n It" Stamp off u of malice prepense. - ice returns," it must have been the re- N ew, to P have arrived at th e t ruth, . prove, that they might, if they would, facts:_. it is only necessary to draw attention to the following besides lot 1 of total income in the waggon department for the first Great western Line of orange, I exclusive of the canal and coasting trade , nstar i t and trunio lemons, enough to keep the whole tribe of Israel in fruitsofthe e i v n il l e n ne P in h e ilpot...la ne ,. the grand mart for the Seville . Deduct for catti ... . ers, is estimated to be .............. ,015 . £143 Ditto p ar __, e included .... reels and posting, ditt o ---- 82,176 Total fo Consequently th e tota l' goods alone R. 61,337 at 41 4 -cl. per ton per raile tl , ‘ f matit Y of goods estimated to be conveyed being 8,000 tons more than end to end will be about 28,864 tons, vehicles on the Birmingh am whole of the traffic from similar latter is far more productive n the Bristol Line. than the it is notorious that the But, granting that the tons of goods, still the assn projectorsetti have least three-fourths, even me 'F , 35 ,750, must be reduced at not. over-credited 8,000 and owners of cattle will, out of cograltr to be possible that Bubbles throw away their own profits more liberally than they have proved willing to bestow them on the Manchinesodtereaonid Liverpool Line,_ af_ter more than three years trial of that e very fe w h orne d- ca ttl e , if any at all, havbe conveyance. In t - ct as few sh eep , b ecause it is impossibl e to conv e e n v carri such a natilm( alsuitaet rates suffici en tl y l ow t o p a y, for reasons ass ig ne d 6 the estimate for the Birmingham Line. From the total income, therefore, of 143,515/, will be deducted 26,813/. for cattle over credited, thus reducing the nett income to 11,702/. ; and if from this be abated the expenses, in the ratio of 73 i i per cent. of the income, as on the Manchester Line, say 85 ,880/„ it leaves a gross profit of not snore than 30 ,822/., which, Upon the estimated 3, capitalof 000 P " 000/ is about o ne per cent. But, as the cost of construction would more likely reach 4,000,000/., the gross profit would not be more than 6-Bths per cent. But it is not pretended that even this traffic can be obtained without superseding every other interest, and bidding defiance to any velo c it y or economy equal to what is now so fully established on many of our canals; and notwithstanding there is one water line How then the bubble makers at Bristol, even sleeping with one eye open, as they are said to do, could think of overloading the esti mate so prodigiously beyond the just limits, is only to be reconciled by the fact of their supposing the bubble payers were never awake even with both eyes open, consequently would never detect the same over-reaching principle in the coach department. But let us look at the revenue of the waggon department of the minor Great Western, and the sweets will be found still less like honey to the Shareholders. For, assuming that the whole quantity of goods will be one-third, with more than half of the whole dis tance cut off in the middle of the line, making the total quantity of conveyance 9,621 tons, and the gross income about 38,9001., from which deduct expenses in the ratio of 733 per cent. of the income, say 28,5431., and the total gross profit will be 10.3571., which, on a capital of 1,500,0001., the least sum requisite for such line, is about five-eighths per cent ! In the coach department it is notorious, that there is at least one third less travelling between London and Bristol, than between London and Birmingham ; yet the Bristol Committee assert, that they shall carry 110,403 passengers in one year more than the Bir mingham Line, and 208,072 more than the Manchester Line has carried on an average for the last three years, under the authority of areturn said to be from the Stamp Office, only taking care not to produce it as the Birmingham Committee have done. In fact the blowers of the Great Western Bubble stand charged with having designedly over-credited the annual income with no less a sum than 110,403/., on the asserted authority of a return from the Stamp Office, which never has and never will be obtained. But, granting the fact to have been proved, are Steam Car riages and Canals not to carry any portion of the traffic, merely be cause they will both condescend to do it many times cheaper, long before the Railway opens ? Is the Bristol Line, like the Birming ham Line, to monopolize all the traffic, even against &saving of 50 per cent. to three-fourths of the community, to whom money is more valuable than time ? Yet that saving must be sacrificed alto gether, before the Bristol Railway can expect to realize more than six times the income from passengers alone, than has been made by the mostfavourable line in the kingdom. Assuming, therefore, the total income to be 493,8331. for passen gers alone, and not 604,2361., and deducting the expense in the ratio of 44 per cent. of the income, say 214,200/., it leaves a gross profit of 279,633/. ; taking therefore one-half only of this sum as a more reasonable share of the road earnings, it brings the income to 138,8161. (without allowing for any additional tax to be in a par with common road stage coaches), being on a capital of 3,000,0001. about 4A per cent. ; or, supposing the capital to be 4,000,0001., 3i per cent. ; making, in the latter case, the total profit in both de partments about 4 per cent., or less than one per cent. net profit for the whole line, supposing the bubble blowers for the Great Western Railway to carry 203,072 passengers more in one year than the Manchester and Liverpool Line, the best in the world ! whilst the petitioners themselves against the Birmingham Railway con fess, that " without indulging in any extravagant expectations, there is now every reason to hope that, within no long time, these Steam Carriages, by means of successive improvements, will be brought to such a state of perfection, as to admit of their being advantageously used upon turnpike roads, without the expensive accompaniment of a Railway." Besides, it should be borne in mind, that the Projectors have founded their estimate on the result of the Manchester and Liver pool Line, which was tax-free for 214 months ; but after the facts disclosed in par. 93. every one must see, that no other Railway will be permitted to pocket profits at the expense of both the nation and the common road coach masters. _ _ Nor does the minor luminary from Reading to London, and Bisistol to Bath, hold out any stronger inducement in the coach de partment, to throw away income, for five or six years, merely to put a fortune into the pockets of a set of crafty Projectors, who are bound hand and foot, by their own interests, to reveal nothing to open the eyes of those:whose purses are scarcely ever free from the fingers of one or other of the party. For, if the gross profit of 138,8161. in the coach department for the whole line be nearly correct, the proposition for the minor bub ble line, in the ratio of one-third, will be 46,2721., which, after de ducting the expenses, 44i- per cent., as before, leaves a gross profit of 25,739/., being, on a capital of 1,500,0001., about 1 per cent. But what is the inference to be drawn from this last shift to the Maximum Bubble Line? The projectors must hare felt convinced, that the one-eye sleepers at Bristol, who knew best how to appre ciate the minimum, never would risk a shilling on the major cheat —seeing that it must in the end be far more ruinous than any one of the 7,000 bubbles of 1825, that helped to fill half the mad houses in London ; and consequently the blowers were well aware that they must all go out of commission, even without half-pay, if they did not beat up for recruits in other quarters ; whilst, by setting fire to the candle at both ends, they speculate to lighten the darkness of their opponents so effectually, as to place nearly 70 miles of inter mediate space, at present struck out of the way-bill, in so clear a light, that the ultimate junction may be insured in self defence. For neither engineers, lawyers, nor agents will work long in good hu mour, without slipping their fingers into the pockets of the com munity ; nor is there any good reason why they should waste brains of such elastic capability, oratory, law, and engineering, for an old song. Accordingly, a pic-nic party of Bubble Missionaries visit Reading, stick the Mayor in a chair, make him believe the moon is made of cream-cheese, or, what may be considered scarcely less absurd, that a Radioed, carried on for forty miles through a country entirely agricultural, and therefore not densely populated, would pay as much as the Manchester and Liverpool Railway, the object of which was to connect the largest manufacturing district in the world, with a port through which they obtained all the raw mate rial, and from which is exported full one-third of their manufac tured goods. For the Mayor of Reading, probably net over fond of reading statistical works, or not having Mr. Marshall's digest of 600 volumes of parliamentary papers to refer to, was not exactly familiar with the merits of the whole case, or he would not have swallowed the bait quite so greedily, though doubtless a lunatic cream cheese was a tit bit that could not be well resisted. But his eyes will now open, when he learns that a circle described from the centre of Manchester, with a radius of 30 miles, would include a population much larger than that of London and its environs ; four times more numerous than the whole population of Bucking hamshire, Berkshire, and Somersetshire put together, and where the inhabitants feel, more than in any other district in the empire, the necessity of cheap conveyance to a port like Liverpool. For in Manchester alone, in 1824, there were not less than 200 steam engines at work, and 30,000 power looms ; and in 1829, nearly 12,000 vessels paid dock duties at Liverpool. Whereas the whole burthen calculated for the first Great Western Railway, throughout the line, from Bristol to London in waggon and van goods, is only about 28,864 tons, being 1,219,136 tons less than the annual bur then estimated for conveyance on the Manchester Line ; yet, with all this enormous additional traffic, even the latter has not made one per cent. nett profit. What then can be thought of the maximum bubble, the minor Great Western, that cannot even speculate upon carrying more than 10,000 tons at most from vans and waggons. Yet his Worship, the good easy Mayor of Reading, doubtless must have thought the cream cheese most delicious, or he never would have recommended to his townsmen the utility of a conveyance that would bring the Welsh cheeses, already converted into Welsh rab bits, as a fit companion for the Kennet ale, to be carried over the heads of blocks and sleepers, without paying toll lower down, or having anything to do with canal water. Neither was his Worship duly apprized before his taste was con sulted, that the hilly country for 20 miles to the east of Bath is from 700 to 1,000 feet high above the level of Bath, and therefore forms almost an insurmountable barrier to a Rail-road at the end of the minor Great Western Line. What chance then his Worship of Reading can have for customers, to get rid of the moonshine rab bits, time alone can tell. For Mr. Brunel, according to Mr. Cundy, the civil engineer, proposes to tunnel though these hills, and one plan is to dig a huge gutter for delicate ladies and gentlemen, of infirm mind as well as body, to be poked through all the way under the good city of Bath : for the excavation must be long and deep for miles ; and the want of air, combined with the combustion of gas, smoke, steam, and sul phur, will render the tunnel almost fatal to human ex'stence. Besides his Worship may not see that the condensed or com pressed air in tunnels for one mile long, much less others for several miles, will give formidable resistance to the speed of the propelling engine, and train of carriages, that would require more than double the power to propel them, compared with the power on the same level in the open air; for though air shafts may be made, and other means provided, at a great expense, yet if two carriages enter at each end at the same time, the rapidity of motion would so compress the air before each of them, as to operate like wedges one against the other. Lastly, in driving the tunnels at the Bath end of the line, if only a few hundred feet below the surface of that country, it would be considerably below the level of several great springs that form the head of the rivers Isis, Kennet, and Avon ; and, cutting across the country by such tunnels, would no doubt tap these powerful springs ; drain all the high country, and convert the old road into something like a ship canal between Bath and Bristol ! so that the Granite Line Company must apply to the Humane Society to keep proper people in attendance, to taste the passengers home occasion ally in warm blankets, should the Great Western only get an act to make a Railway or Floating-road from Bath to Bristol, or the for mer Company will have no chance of saving a single passenger from a watery grave. No. 10, LUDGATE.HILL. ONS. JAMES M. 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GAS BOILERS for Tavern Keepers, which will also Mull Wine and Beer with extraordinary rapidity. DILUTED GAS APPARATUS for Chemical or Culinary uses. Manufactory, Agar-street, West Strand. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain reported this week are small, and of Flour the quantity is also inconsiderable. The Wheat trade remains as stated ou Monday. Barley is extremely dull in sale, and rather lower. Beans and Peas are unvaried. Oats have experienced little demand to-day, and prices continue without variation. In the Flour trade there is little doing. Ann 1 VALS. Wheat. 1 Barley. 1 Oats. Flour. 1,410 qrs 1 1,840 qrs. 1 900 qrs. 1,6..0 sacks 8,540 English Irish . Foreign... ....... lUNTRY CORN MARKETS. — Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. s. Roston 54 59 31 44 20 2S 41 52 Gainshorough — 53 37 26 53 Grantham Grimsby Horncastle 4l 60 32 37 20 24 36 42 Lincoln.. 6O 65 30 40 20 52 52 55 -- Spalding. — 60 35 21 49 Stamford 55 65 35 40 26 30 52 54 I York 52 64 i 36 44 24 34 42 51 i IRISH MARKETS. num.lN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK ENDING JAN. 6. From To Average. 469 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 24 0 40 0 36 4 0 sere l6 stone - 0 0 0 394 Barley 2VB Oats l4 stones. H 0 18 6 12 9 13,776 Flour, per cwt L 832 Oatmeal*. 8 stone lt 0 19 0 15 3 From To 469 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone IA 0 40 0 0 Bare l6 stone - 0 0 :194 Barley 204 Oats 13,776 Flour, per cwt 832 Oatmeal*. 8 stone I t 0 19 0 Sold to Bakers only. 12,211 Cwt. Flour l9 0 26 0I 21 134 Average price of Wheat is.Lisot a is, n a d 4 .............. ff s rr : oo h mm . 4 ,3 : 8 , ss.. per to,ilt s .. a tt e , ? ,2 . 262: .. 0,01. Receipts of Flour, 9,4q6 I Sales of Do. 13,776 ' Ai m, from Ils. 6,1. to 1.5 s Otl. PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf 10y1. I Half Quartern sUtl. CORK MARKETS.—Jun 7, Wheat (per 205t.)...17s ed. to:34s. 6(1.1 Oats (per 14st.) 7s, 04. to las. 6d. Barley (per 165 t.)... 7 0 17 0 Flour (per cwt.) 9 0 21 U Oatmeal (per cwt.) los. Od. to 16.5. Od. Beef, 4d. to tkl. ; Mutton, 4d. to G.I. ; Veal, 4d. to lid. ; Pork, 4d. to lid. ; Fresh Butter, 10,1. to lltl. per lb. PRICF. OF BINITER. To the Merchants. First nuality Second 94 Third Fourth B6 Fifth 74 Sixth To the Country 90s. CLONMELL MA Per I LItK ETs.—Jah. Cwt. s. d. s. d. _. New cutter o,to 105 0 Hides (raw) Oatmeal 12 6 13 6 Bacon Pigs 3S Rendered Lard 0 94 0 Heads .20 1 ) .:r slag. Flour, Second—, ..30 31 0 1 flour, Thirds 22 —Housahold...26 0 28 01 Fourths 15 I'er Barra s. d. s. d. 0 to N 8 o 42 0 0 0 o 28 0 0 18 0 Rapeseed 20 0 0 y --- - iiiiie l2 0 15 0 8ere........ ............. 8 4 10 0 1 Coale 0 3 6 l'er Stone. ___ Wheat. 0 15 024 Oats Tallow (rough) 4 0 4 6 Potatoes 0 3 0 KILKENNY Wheat (per barrel) 20; Zkl. to 265. Barley 9 9 11 9 Oats Flour (per bag) IS 0 32 0 Butter (per cwt.) GO 0 92 0 Bacon Pigs '27 0 20 0 Coals 1 0 1 1 SCC HADDING. Wheat. 646 6ls Od 5S Od 613 qrs. of ITCH M. First Second Third There wet Aqtrage..., MARKETS. ARKETS. FON CORN MARKET—Jan. 6. Barley. Oats. I Pease. 40.; Od 81i 84 47s rid 333 Od 28s Od 37i Od 28s Od 24s 01 1 34s Od Wheat in mat ket,W whereof wi Unsold.--0 Grey. 31. la. 4J. 5-12ths. Beans. 49s Od 4th Od 344 Od !re sold. ii,i(ie7 n;.... Os. 31. to os. 51 Mutton 0 3 0 5 Pork 0 2 0 3 _ . Veal 0 4 a 5 Fresh Butter . ..... 0 10 Salt Ditto 6 Potatoes (per st.) 0 2 3 lALKEITH CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. figs Od Litis Cui 32s 4d 55s Od :30s Ott 22s &t l 41s 01 231 Od 12s 01 —Jan. 5. Pease. 51s Od 443 Od 4C4 Od First Second Third . Beans. Od 41s Od 40s Od MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW. J. Bragg, builder, Wapping I at 12 C. and U. Coles, W est India brokers, Great Towcr.street l 11 LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. -- The sales of Cotton amount to 4,000 bags. The market is very firm, and in some instances a trifling advance has been obtained. Influenza has been raging in the metropolis since the frost has broke up, scarcely a family being free from it. There are upwards of 600 of the new police laid up with it. TILE WEATIIER.—The barometer has again been subject to very considerable and rapid variations, the rise of a few.days since having been followed by a sudden and as extensive a depression. Since the appearance of the thaw, the thermometer has on more than one occasion reached 50 out of doors. Much of the drifted snow is in many parts of the country still unmelted. Last night an inquest was held at the King's Arms, Broad -street, Bloomsbury, before Mr. STIRLING and .a re spectable Jury, on the body of John Colyer, aged 58, a Waterloo pensioner, who died in St. Giles's station-house. Richard Ethridge, police constable E, No. 163, about half-past five o'clock on Saturday evening last, observed the deceased in the street, surrounded by about a dozen persons. He (deceased) appeared intoxicated. A man, who said he was his (deceased's) friend, was supporting him. The de ceased expressing a wish to be taken to some place of safety, witness thought it best to take him to the station house. Witness also took his (deceased's) companion, who was also tipsy, to the station-house. The deceased, on reaching the station-house, inquired for his bundle and money. Fowler, the man who had been in his company, produced the bundle, but denied having any of his money. Witness, however, searched him, and found two half-sove reigns, two half-crowns, a sixpence, and some half-pence The deceased was placed in one of the cells, and witness did not see him again, but went on duty. Francis Fryer, police constable, E 69, repeatedly visited the deceased whilst in the cell. He (deceased) was laying along the bench. Witness at each visit inquired if all was right, when the deceased replied " Yes." Between twelve and one o'clock, on witness going into the cell, he found the deceased on the ground. He lifted him up on the bench. At one o'clock witness found him frothing at the mouth and insensible. He informed Inspector Campbell of it, who, after seeing the man, sent witness for a surgeon, but, the deceased getting worse he was placed on the stretcher, for the purpose of being conveyed to the workhouse. He expired on the way. Fowler said that the deceased had been in the army thirty years. On the Saturday he (de ceased) received his pension, and drank more than did him good. He had been wounded in the head at Waterloo. The Jury, after some consultation, returned a verdict— " That the deceased died from the effects of intoxication." Last evening an inquest was held at the London Hos pital, in the Mile-end-road, before Mr. BAKER, the coroner, on the remains of Elizabeth Sims, a very fine young woman, cf 18 years of age, who died in that institution on Friday, from the effects of the most frightful burnings. George Phillips, a youth of 14 years of age, the son of Mr. Phillips, of No. 2, Savage-gardens, Tower-hill, lighter man, on Wednesday afternoon last about three o'clock, was in the kitchen of his father's house, and saw the deceased, who was a servant in the family, go to the fire and take from between the bars of the grate a large poker, which from being in the fire for some time was quite red, and place it against the fender. She then commenced winding the stove so as to widen it, and her apron having touched the poker it became on fire. The deceased, who became dreadfully alarmed at the circumstance, called out to witness to extinguish her apron by rubbing it down. He attempted to do so, and had nearly succeeded when the de ceased kept going closer to the door, the flames broke out afresh, and with greater avidity. He went on to state that a young man who lodged in the house here entered the kitchen and threw a pail of water over the deceased, and this together with his (witness's) mother, having rolled a rug round her, extinguished the flames, and she was con veyed with as little delay as possible to the hospital. Mr. Frost, a pupil in the hospital, deposed that the de ceased lingered in the greatest agony until Tuesday even ing, when death terminated her sufferings. Verdict—Accidental Death. TILE LATE EXPLOSION AT LIMERICK.—The amount of property destroyed on this melancholy occasion, the loss sustained in furniture, shop • goods, and the fall of houses, cannot be less than 9,000/., at the lowest estima tion. How the innocent sufferers will be remunerated is matter for earnest consideration. Their case is really de serving commiseration, and we know the public sympathy for their distress is universal. There is something peculiar in the circumstances of this terrible casualty which present a strong claim for compensation. Respectable shopkeepers, but a day or two since in comparative affluence, are hum bled, with their families, we might hazard the assertion, to the verge of beggary, and not by their own carelessness or indiscretion. Thursday evening there was a meeting, to set forth the grievances under which they labour.— An explosion somewhat similar in its nature, but far more disastrous in its effects, occurred during the siege of Lime rick in 1693. One of the towers which defended the en trance of the quay fell down in the day-time ; it contained 250 barrels of gunpowder, which were blown up by the col lision of the stones. This accident occasioned the utmost consternation in the city and neighbourhood, and several lives were lost. The governor and several of the corpora tion were near the place, some of whom escaped. Mr. Sheriff Bowman, Counsellor Lacy, and Mr. Sellis, were killed, and two hundred and ten persons were killed, or either wounded in a shocking manner. Mr. Butler and Zec. Holland died of the fright. The whole town shook to a general degree ; the glass of the windows in general was shattered to pieces, and the roofs of several houses broken ; some persons were killed by stones which were blown up, and fell a mile from town. The noise of the erup tion was heard at the distance of 20 miles, and the concus slon of the earth was felt at Kilmallock. ELEMENTS OF Woon.—Two German chemists, Messrs. Petersen and Schodler, have made elaborate expe riments, in order to ascertain the quantities of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen contained in each species of wood. They have analysed twenty-four different kinds, and after having dried them and reduced them to powder, having taken 100 parts of each in weight, found that the quantity of carbon in each does not vary more than from 48 to 50 per cent., the hydrogen from five and one-third to nearly six per cent., and the oxygen from 43 and one-third to 451 per cent. The proportions would be different in relation to volume ; for instance, a cubic metre of oak weighs, 479, while the same body of poplar weighs only 221. Mr. W. W. Maitland, whose fine old mansion of Loughton Hall, Essex, was recently destroyed by a most calamitous fire, has, with most unexpected liberality, pre sented the eighteen firemen of the London Establishment who were sent down with engines to assist at the time of the fire, with the sum of twenty guineas to be divided amongst them, Mr. Maitland adding a request that Thos. Overton, who had a fall from a ladder, by which he was much bruised, should receive as his share 21. The loss of Mr. Maitland by the fire is understood to exceed the amount of his insurance by more than 20,000/. ; yet, in ad dition to the above instance of generosity, Mr. Maitland. supplied 450 of the poor of Loughton and the neighbour hood with roast b ee f an d p o t a t oes f or a Christmas dinner, adding, in the more di s tr esse d cases, a trifling in money. The weather for the last eight days has been ex tremely cold. On Friday we had a heavy fall of sn ow , succeeded by frost, which still continues. Firing is ex tremely dear, and quite out of the reach of the poor. The mendicity funds are quite exhausted, and at thi s momen t hundreds of starving creatures are in our streets. In a vil lage adjacent to town the inhabitants have even burnt their beds, and they now endeavour to proc ure a fi re i n one h ouse , whence they all flock to boil their potatoes—and next day they get a fire in another house. Ought not something be done for the relief of the poor in this town and neighbour hood ?—Ballyshannon Herald. FIRST DA T. The Two- Year-Old. Stakes of 30sovs. each, 10 ft. T. Y. C. Mr. Orde's ch. c. Charley Boy, Lord Chesterfield's b. c. by Tramp or Waverley, out of Sharpset's dam; Mr. Haywood's ch. f; Susanetta, Mr. Armitage's br. c. by Velocipede, dam by Saladin ; Mr. Wilkins's br. c. Wee Willie, Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Britanni cus, Duke of Leeds's gr. c. Vertumnus, Duke of Leeds's b. f. Barbarina, Duke of Leeds's'cb. c. Arcturus, Duke of Cleveland's br. c. Brother to Henriade, Lord Kelburne's eh. f. Actaeon, out of Purity; Mr. Jaques's ch. f. by Actaeon, out of Comedy; Mr. R. Peck's b. c. by Argantes, out of Washerwoman; Mr. Wise's ch. c. Contentment. SECOND DAY. The York Subscription Purse of 100 sons., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p. Two miles. Captain Taylor's b. c. Lincoln, 3 yrs ; Mr. Singleton's b. c. Resurrection, 4 yrs ; Mr. Arrow smith's ch. in. by Lanomr, out of Kalmia's dam, 5 yrs ; M r . 11. S . Th ompson ' s b r. c. by St Nicho las, out of Lady Fulford, 4 yrs ; Mr. Rhodes's br. c. Conservative, 3 yrs; Mr. Bowes's b. f. Cyprian, 4 yrs; Mr. C. M. St. Paul's br. or ro. c. Galewood, 4 yrs. ; Mr. Stephenson's b. c. Volney 4 yrs ; Mr. S. King's br. g. Remnant, 4 yrs. THIRD DAY. The Hornby Castle Stakes (Handicap) of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only five, &c. Two miles Lord Chesterfield's b. c. by Priam, out of Mayflower (half-bred), 3 yrs ; Duke of Cleveland's ch. c. Jordan , 4 yrs , Duke of Cleve land's br. c. Wedge, 4 yrs ; Mr. Jaques's ch. in. Burletta, 5 yrs ; Mr. Allen's b. f. Promise, 4 yrs. The Craven Stakes closed with four subscribers; the Selling Stakes with three ; and the Sweepstakes, of 5 sovs. each, with 20 sovs. added, with seven subscribers. YORK AUGUST MEETING, 1837. WEDNESDAY. The Yorkshire Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft., with 25 sovs. added, for three years old. One mile and three-quarters. Colonel Cradock's b. c. by Voltaire, out of Galena; Mr. Gol den's bl. b. by Robin Hood, dam (foaled in 1827) by Whisker ; Mr. Heseltine's br. c. Slashing Harry. THURSDAY. The Filly Stakes of 2.5 says. each, 10 ft., with 25 added. One mile and a half. Mr. M. Foulis's gr. f. Eaglet, Mr. Bell's ch. f. Golden Drop, Mr. S. L. Fox's b. f. Theresa. FRIDAY. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. T. Y. C. Mr. T. 0. Powlett's b. c. Mulatto, dam by Whisker ; Lord Westminster's ch. c. Muscovado, Lord Westminster's br. f. by Pantaloon, out of Bombas.ine; Lord Westminster's b. f. by Panta loon, out of Banter ; Lord Wilton's b. f. by Tramp, out of liam fvlde's dam ; Lord Eglinton's ch. c. Achilles, Duke of Leeds's b. c. Orcus, 11r. R. Peck's br. f. Leonardo, out of Theano's dam ; Mr. Thompson's b. f. by St. Nicholas, out of Harriet ; Mr. Ar rowsmith's hr. c. St. Kerni. Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft. One mile and a quarter. Mr. T. 0. Powlett's b. f, by Priam, out of Miss Fanny's dam ; Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Capulet, Mr. Bowes's ch. c. Miekle Fell, Lord Wilton's ch. c. Brother to Elis, Lord Westminster's br. f. Brocade, Mr. Heseltine's br. c. Slashing Harry. 100 sovs. from the Racing Fund, added to a Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5, sze. Two miles. Mr. Orde's b. f. Bee's Wing, 4 yrs ; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's hr. c. Wentworth, 4 yrs ; Lord Westminster's b. c. Snyders, 4 yrs ; Mr. Tilburn's b. c. Master Christopher, 4 yrs ; Mr. Bowes's b. f. Cyprian, 4 yrs ; Mr. Singleton's b. e. Resurrection, 4 yrs ; Duke of Cleveland's cit. e. Jordan, 4 yrs ; Duke of Cleveland's br. c. Wedge, 4 yrs ; Mr. Stephenson's b. c. by Brutandorf, dam by Whisker, 3 yrs ; Mr. R. Peck's br. f. Theano, 4 yrs ; Mr. R. Peck's gr. c. Clints, 3 yrs ; Mr. S. L. Fox's b. c. The Carpenter, 4 yrs ; Mr. Heseltine's b. c. The Bard, 4 yrs ; Mr. Allen sb. f. Promise, 4 yrs ; Mr. H. S. Thompson's b. f. by Humphrey Clinker, out of Wandering Boy's dam, 3 yrs ; Lord Eglinton's bl. c. The Black Diamond, 4 yrs; Mr. Rhodes's br. br. c. Conserva tive, 3 yrs ; Mr. C. M. St. Paul's br. or. ro. c. Galewood, 4 yrs. SATURDAY. The Wilton Stakes of 30 so;s.each,l. ft., for two yrs old. T. Y. C. Mr. Weather's gr. c. liackfall (31bs.) ; Colonel Cradock's ch. c. by Recovery, out of Primrose ; Mr. Watson's b. c. Rattlin the Reeser ; Lord Wilton's b. by Tramp, nut of llamfylde's dam. The Knavesmire Stakes closed with four subscribers. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CU TOM-HOUSE, JAN. 10. The Mary, Curd, from Guernsey; Pelican, Dowvcrs, Brus sels ; Hoop, De Belie, Bremen ; Three Sisters, Lind, Dun kirk; Louise, Jacobson, Kiel ; lZose in June, Ester, Nantes; Williams, Allan, Jersey ; Sultana, Scott, Alicante ; Matilda, Perkins, Bordeaux; Acasta, Hyle, Honduras; Beverley, Silly, Guernsey; Crown, Adams, Guernsey. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR. LOADING. The City of Glasgow, Fairbairn, for Bordeaux; Albion, Ives, Cadiz; Andrew M'Kcan, Balling, Constantinople ; George Canning, Gibbs, Charleston. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITII CARGO. The Dapper, Dickenson, for Demerara ; Emerald, Wea therly, Constantinople ; Emma, King, Cape of Good Hope ; Sarnia, Vanden, Guernsey and Jersey ; Abberton, Shuttle worth, Cape of Good Hope ; Queen Adelaide, Murray, Havre ; Cater, Merrels, Dunkirk ; Patriot, Dunn, Cape of Good Hope; City of Glasgow, Fairbairn. Boulogne. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Sackville, Mathers, for Sierra Leone ; Lieba, Barn hokit, Altona ; Virginia, Regnascr, St. Übe's. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, JAN. 9. The Niagara, Pike, from Savannah ; Britannia, Garrison, St. John's, N.B. ; Ganges, Brown, St. John's, N.B. ; titia, Demerara; Favourite, Williamson, Marseilles ; John Troughton, Jordan, Charleston ; Chase, Harrison, Bordeaux ; Arrow, Harris, Cadiz; Sultana, Rogers, Trieste; Helen Scott, Miller, Messina; Calmnes, Shreve, New Orleans; Tallyho, Nicholson, Virginia ; Tagus, Wade, Copenhagen ; Valetta, Mediterranean ; Trumfo, St. Übe's. ENTERED FOR LOADING. The Chatham, Graham, for Boston ; Tennessee, Matteson, New York; Edward Thorn, St. John's, N.B. ; Manchester, Roddock, St. John's, N. B. CLEARED OUTWARDS. The John Walker, Black, for Mobile ; Frances, Antmerp. MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTHER.— Some time ago the wife of a butcher, named Cahill, residing in Cashel, left his house, and went off with another man. A few days since she returned, but her husband refused to admit her again to his protection. On Tuesday night last, in the absence of Cahill, she came to his house, took a fine male child about seven months old, dashed its head to pieces, and then threw her mangled offspring into a pool of water on the road side. By the exertions of Police Ser geant Stack the unfortunate woman was apprehended, and has confessed her guilt. Mr. Hill, coroner, held an in quest, when a verdict of wilful murder against the mother was returned.—Clonnzel Advertiser. Between the hours of ten and eleven yeocrdal morning, a seaman belonging to a small towing steam , o, lying off the Custom-house, was in the act of stepping from tho vessel into a boat alongside, when, unfortunately, he missed his footing, and was precipitated into the water- Numerous watermeu put off to his assistance, but he back sunk and perished. Now Ready, in 2 vols. 12m0., 145., embellished with numerous high-finished Wood and Lithographic Engravings, T I A HOUGUE BIE de HAMBIE, A , Tradition of Jersey. An historical tale, with copious genealogical and antiquarian' notes, developing many minute and interesting particulars relative to the Norman Conquest ; selected from the " Roman de Ron," and other metrical romances, and from various rare manuscripts and ancient documents. By JAMES BULKELEY, Esq. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria lane.