The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-03 00:00:00

SHIPWRECK IN PEVENSEY-BAY. HASTINGS, DEC. 31.—An inquest was held to-day at the Star Inn, Pevensey, before Mr. John Phillips (who acted as coroner in the absence of Mr. J. G. Shorter), OR the body of a passenger of the Two Corneliuses, named Gronwald, who, it was supposed, was drowned in the above vessel. It appears that the Two Come liness, bound for Amsterdam, was. a Dutch vessel of 750 tons burden, and had come from Batavia laden with a valuable cargo, consisting of indigo, sugar, coffee, packages of blocked tin, and cane . O n S u nday morning last, about two o'clock, she was in Pevensey-bay, and while the captain was below he heard a noise, and on proceeding on deck he discovered she had struck. He attempted to put her to sea, but to no purpose. The wind at the time blew a perfect gale, and the sea ran moun tains high. Guns we re fired off as signals of distress, which being heard at one of the Martello Towers (55 station), a mounted coastguardsman was immediately dispatched to Eastbourne (about seven miles distant) for the life-boat, which was as soon as possible put off at Langley-point to render the poor fellows assistance. The crew who manned the boat acted with extraordinary bravery and coolness; and, notwithstanding the violence of the gale and the roughness of the sea, they succeeded in reaching the vessel (about a mile distant from shore and a short distance e istward of Beachey-head), and landed ten in safety. Aboat seven o'clock twenty more of the crew were landed in the ship's boat in a state of great exhaustion, but through the kindness of Lieutenant Nickoll they were plentifully supplied with restoratives. They lost the whole of their clothes, send were miserably clad. On a representation being made to the agent at Eastbourne to the Ship wrecked Mariners' Society, they were supplied with articles of clothing. The whole of the crew having been landed, as was supposed, some of the brave coast guardsmen ascertained that there was one poor fellow (the deceased) lashed in the rigging. One of them, named Driscoll, desired to go off to render him assistance ; but Lieut. Nickoll said that as it was thought the poor fellow was dead, having been ill for two months previously, and almost dead when the vessel struck, it was useless for him to risk his and the others' lives. Driscoll then ex claimed, with great emotion, " Then, Sir, I'll swim out' to him, for I can't bear to see a fellow creature there." Lieutenant Nickoll then gave leave, and Driscoll, with the Ashdown, John Yeates, Henry Veerhault, and Wm. Henry Selley, put off in a boat, and after many narrow escapes, the sea continuing very rough, they reached the vessel, when they discovered the poor fellow suspended in the rat-lines quite dead. The jury, having heard the ev id ence, returned a ver dict, that Deceased died from natural causes, accelerated by exposure to cold. Deceased was formerly a soldier at Batavia, and having been very lately pensioned off, h e i nten d ed to have spent the remainder of his days at Amsterdam, whither the vessel was bound. The weather has continued very boisterous, and since Sunday the v esse l h as gone to p i eces , an d th e ma j or portion of the cargo has been washed out and strewed along the coast for some miles eastward. Several boxes of indigo, however, have been secured at Hastings and other places ; and it is supposed there are some boxes of' coffee remaining in the small portion of the vessel left. Her hull is visible, and preparations are making to se cure what little it contains. The jury expressed their admiration of the bravery of the men in rendering assistance ; and we would add, that a more substantial proof of admiration should be shown by the Humane Society, for a more deserving case of reward could not possibly be brought under their notice. Since the above melancholy occurrence we have re ceived comntunications, stating that the weather has continued with unabated violence along this coast, and that two vessels, one a collier, and the other a small craft from Sunderland, have been wrecked off Rye. The whole of the crew in the collier perished, but the others were saved. THE LATE DREADFUL GALES. Never, perhaps, has there been known by the oldest mariner such a continuance of tempestuous weather as has prevailed during the whole of the past month. The accounts from all quarters detail the most heartrending casualties at sei. Onr columns have already announced the loss of more than 40 vessels ; upwards of 50 have since been utterly lost ; while, at a moderate calculation, the number of human beings who have perished cannot be less than 100. Amongst those of the most distressing character are the losses of the St. David steamer, trading with passen gers and goods between Havre, Plymouth and Liver pool ; and the Tom Bowling steam-vessel, with the loss of nearly 40 lives. The St. David steamer, it appears, was the joint property of th e mas t er , C apta i n E vans, and Mr. .Davidson, a merchant, residing at Havre, and was manned by a crew of about 20 hands. She was schooner-rigged, of 110 tons burden, with engines of 70-horse power, and was built at Liverpool, in 1824. Her principal trade was in the conveyance of goods, her accommodation for passengers being somewhat limited. From all that could be obtained respecting her fate, it seems she left Havre in the early part of last week, having on board several passengers, the number of whom could not be ascertained, and deeply laden, her decks being, according to reports received, loaded with casks of wine ; she was seen by a vessel the after noon of the day following her departure, and nothing was heard of her afterwards until a few days since, when several casks of wine were picked up by a fisherman, about 25 miles east of Havre, which were identified as having formed a portion of the cargo of the ill-fated steamer. The gale having sprung up within 12 hours after she left Havre, it was at first supposed that the casks had been thrown overboard to lighten her ; since then, however, from circumstances that have transpired, it is almost certain that she foundered during the gales, and that every soul on board perished with her ; for by the transit steamer, which arrived at Southampton a few days since, letters have been received, announcing that a large quantity of her cargo had been found off the coast of Fecamp, where a body has also been washed ashore, together with part of a ship's wheel much ornamented with copper. The body has been recognised as that of the engineer of the St. David A trunk has alsa been picked up containing women's apparel, which is known to have belonged to one of the passengers. By these discoveries not a doubt is entertained of her loss. The catastrophe has produced considerable sensation at Havre. The St. David is stated to have been insured for 7,0001. The other steamer, the Tom Bowling, is supposed to have foundered during the gales of the 16th and 17th ult., with all hands, off the Dutch coast. She was a per fectly new vessel, being only built at North Shields last summer, and was the property of the master, Mr. Murray, and engineer, Mr. Stewart, both of whom were on board of her, and of course perished. In the course of last autumn she was employed on the Thames in towing Indiamen from and to the Downs, and on several occa sions was employed in the Gravesend passenger traffic. She was of fifty-horse power, and a powerful tug-boat. According to the information furnished us, she left the river for Bremen, on the 11th ult., where she was to remain for a few months on a trial cruise, and, if found to . be successful, it was understood that she was to have been purchased. On leaving Gravesend her crew com prised Mr. Murray, master ; John Reed, chief mate ; the second mate (name not known) ; Mr. Stuart, engineer ; Payne, Tees, and Stephens, stokers ; two seamen, an apprentice, and a pilot. How far she proceeded is a mere matter of conjecture, nothing having been seen of her sine, although the passage is not more than three or four days. The probability is that she encountered the storm off the Dutch coast, as a boat bearing her name and the captain's has been washed ashore at Nerden, where so many frightful shipwrecks have occurred. The Dutch Indianian, Twe Cornelisens, wrecked in Pevensey Bay, near Eastbourne, on Sunday morning last, had a cargo valued at 30,000/., which was totally lost with the ship. Two other Indiamen were lost more to the westward: one called the Kate Nickleby, belong ing to Glasgow, laden with rum, sugar, and other West Indian Produce; and the other, named the Ness, from Demerara to Brist o l. ship, the only particulars - .of her 46 regards the loss of . the former disaster are dated Westport, el it i st received_d _which reports that she was totally wrecked on the night of the 23d, during a tremendous storm off the tof Erris, near Belwullel. Nothing has been mentioned to the fate of for several th ou _ the crew. She is insured, we believe, sands. The other wreck lAppened oa T u ing, on the coast near Pad ' w. The vessel wasYnrn. for, the bay for sh e lt er , w h en a tremendous seasul% her, and carried away her rudder; thus becoming un manageable, she was driven ashore. By the latest re port, although she still held together, bat little hopes were entertained that she would be saved. Her shear is very much broken, and it is expected that the sea of the next few tides will effect her destruetion. Part of her cargo has been saved, viz, about twenty casks of rum, and the same number of hogsheads of sugar, none of the latter seriously damaged. The wreck is under the protection of the military, who were called out by the Cuetom-house authorities, to prevent pil lage. The ship and cargo is valued at 40,0001. Within a short distance of the spot where the Ness went ashore, a vessel, which turned out to be the Albion schooner, 160 tons burden, belonging to Brixham, and laden with iron rails, was totally lost with all hands, except one man, and he was from Newport, bound to Ramsgate, her cargo of rails being for the intended railway at that town, now in course of formation. Being overtaken by the storm, the captain determined to run into Padstow, the nearest harbour, but was twice driven back, and being embayed and disabled, she was forced by the height of the storm on the Seaton Sands, situate to the north of the bar. The sea at the time was running fearfully high, and the moment the vessel struck the mainmast fell overboard. The foremast remaining the crew took to it, and lashed themselves to the rigging, where th e y remained for four hours exposed to the full fury of the storm, the surf sweeping completely over them. Every exertion was made to g e t the life-boat from th e Apple dorie coast guard station, but without avail, and the poor fellows were abandoned to their fate. The foremast, however, was shortly afterwards noticed to give way, when all the unfortunate men, save one, met with a 11 J 144 TY grave. Their names have been ascertained to be tasti.sbury Reynolds, master, a native of Ramsgate, Knowle. Tit ' awn "' 14 7, Weilliam Bole, Thomas Bennett, and John bowsp r i t , ins survivor was washed on shore on the The body of the mate is the n is William Viseley. To the westwolld °ne that has been cast on the beach. most: fatal wr ec k s ha c l bangeness Bay, near Rye, two the succeeding tegh t fted during Christmas-day and were the Elizabeth eosiqi.naeoes of the ill .fated vessels Rouen, and ,the lea, of itirt.ufrar Sunderland and of Mr. n aming:Also man i pl e - "odds, the property soul belongfng: to them lionfieur, and every 111110IIIIttilM Were A r ire sl ):trailsr netaattoph - e t° t went persons a Yarmouth Rohfuh ood . s _ off Wis.! Aktelotlya &stemmeport w as th e ll s i s sad ed 411.1rOUng Adam, of Skegress and go : f y, a _, b ,rig gt>ia r, went down (tfraw Feted. Off / Cromer, th e Ri c l ard, nee and - illtion'board, nine in numbs, -f 'amour, te , clolo er;":" rartOuth, some miles o Vt-seeil tq ri*dei and as their o ut, two vessel ' _ • • Crews have not been t • • • THE SUN, LONDON, SATUR DA Y EVENING. JANUARY 3 1846 seen or heard of, it is supposed that every soul belonging to th2m perished. At Calais, the Montague, of New castle, for Honfleur, also foundered; the crew, eight in number, took the boat just before she went down, and were making for the shore, when the boat capsized, and the whole of them sunk. _ Thirteen coasting vessels were driven ashore during the gales off different parts off the Welsh, and the more distant portion off the western coast; and in most in stances, in consequence of the continuance of the gales, the greater part of them, it is feared, will become total losses. Eight out of the thirteen were attended by loss of life, each vessel varying from two to three of their crew. Along the Dutch coast the sacrifice of property has been equally as great as off the English. The total number of vessels reported to have been lost amount to sixteen. The Belgian and French coasts have been visited with similar disasters, also occasioning a de plorable loss of life. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. John Kloba, the old Dutchman, who was some days ago charged with having robbed Mr. Burley, shopman in the employment of Mr. Viper, of Regent-street, cf three watches, the property of the latter, was brought up for final examination. The watches were valued at 1301. The following was the additional evidence. It will be recollected, that although several witnesses identified the prisoner as the person who called himself Mr. Delara, he stoutly declared that he was not the man, and also denied that he was in England at the time of the robbery. Ann Maria Whitehead said, she was servant to Mr. Salt, of 3, St. George's-terrace, Hyde Park, in June, and was left to take care of the house by her master. That the prisoner took the house of her master ready fur nished in that month, on a Friday, and after he had been there three or four days, Mr. Burley called, and asked for Mr. Delara, and witness showed him up to the drawing-room, in which the prisoner was seated. Witness then went down stairs. She had closed the hall door, after having admitted Mr. Burley, but soon after wards that person called to her from the bead of the stairs, and asked her for Mr. Delara. She replied that he had coma to the house on Friday night, and Mr. Burley said, "I am a ruined man, for he has stolen three watches from me." Witness observed that the street door which she bad closed, was wide open, ad she never a fterwards saw the prisoner until he was in custody . The LORD MAYOR—Are you satisfied that he is the man? Witness--Certainly : not the least doubt o f it. The LORD MAYOR—Had any other tradespeople called ? Witness—Yes, some dressing-cases were brought home to him on the day before, and some on the day after he disappeared, and the messenger with the latter made an apology for the delay.—(A laugh.) The Loan MAYOR—Prisoner, have you any ques tions to ask of this witness ? The prisoner—No. lam the man. The LORD MAYOR—You insisted before that you were not the man. The prisoner—But I consider it is now the best way to tell the truth. I have done wrong, but I hope you will have mercy on me. I am an old man, 65 years of age, and very poor. lam very sorry. The LORD MAYOR—AII that won't justify the robbery. Inspector Shackell said the prisoner was very near doing a jeweller out of a diamond ring, worth 75 gui noes, which ring the Dutchman actually had put upon his finger. • The prisoner said that he sold the watches fur for 36/. That was all he got for them. Alderman FAREBROTHER (who sat with the Lord Mayor), said that somehow or other the case showed that there continued to be great facilities for disposing of stolen goods. Inspector Shackell said, that Mr. Phillips, who pur chased the pearl watch of the prisoner, had done all in his power to further the ends of justice, and had himself caused the prisoner to be seized in the street. The prisoner —I hope your Lordship will have mercy upon me. I was a man of considerable property, but I lost it by speculating in the stocks. I have four chil dren and five grandchildren, and I was endeavouring to get out to New York to my son, who is a merchant there, but I could not get the means of paying my ex penses. The LORD MAYOR—The case is an exceedingly bad one, and I shall commit you for trial. The prisoner—Consider my age and my poverty. Committed for trial. James Fox and William Hannell were charged with having joined in a conspiracy with others to cheat and defraud Mr. Thomas Capps, warehouseman, of Leaden hall-street, of goods. Mr. W. Archer, who belongs to the house in question, at No. 21, Leadenhall-street, stated that about two months ago Fox came to the warehouse, and asked if the firm would give him credit to the amount of 30L if he produced good security, an d was t o ld th at if h e brought 10/. in cash, and would give good security, he should have the articles. The prisoner referred witness to a person, stated to be residing in Paradise-row, Beth nal-green, who stated himself to be a retired ship chandler. The referee, upon being communicated with, produced his receipts for his rents, and said he had been carrying on business there for three years, to show his own respectability, and he also gave the witness a re ference to a grocer in Limehouse as to his responsibility. The LORD MAYOR—And how did they turn out when you made the experiment ? Witness—We found them to be a regular nest of swindlers, robbing tradesmen by means of giving characters to each other. The prisoner Fox said that he was to open a shop at Walthamstow, and the firm sold him the goods, and at the time the goods were delivered to him, the prisoner Hannell was in the cart by his side, and passed as his partner. Inspector Shackell said the person who had been de scribed as a retired ship-chandler, and had been the re feree of Fox, had been lately tried at Newgate. Mr. Archer said he had no doubt of the attendance of many victims on the next day of examination. The prisoners were remanded till Mond a y. The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received 51. for the poor-box from Miss Sophy M. West, through Messrs. Gosling and Co. bankers, Fleet-street. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Concannen was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having committed the following robbery. Thomas Cheeter, potman at the Plough public-house, said there were three French gentlemen lodging for about two months at his master's house, to whom the prisoner acted as a sort of interp re t e r. n Monday last the prisoner came to the public-house and said to him, " I'm come for the Frenchmen's boxes, Tom, as they are going away ; so get a cab." Witness went for a cab, and then brought down the Frenchmen's boxes, and gave them into the custody of the prisoner, who took them away in the cab. Richard Williams, cab-driver, said he was called by the last witness to take up at the Plough public-house. Two boxes were placed outside his cab, and the prisoner then told him to follow. The prisoner went into a house, and came out with a bag. He then got into the cab, and witness, at his request, drove him to the Dover Railway. Police-sergeant Whicher, of the detective force, said —On Monday, in consequence of information he re ceived, he went to Dover, and at the Providence public house, he found the prisoner playing at cards. He called the prisoner out, and told him he was an officer, and had authority to apprehend him for stealing two boxes belonging to two foreigners. Witness afterwards went on board the Widgeon steam-packet, and there found two boxes. In the boxes were 59L in gold, be sides French money and wearing apparel. Nicholas Henriet said he was an engraver. The box now produced was his property. It was safe at the Plough on Monday last, and the prisoner had no autho rity to take it away. James Pierre identified the other box ; and Auguste Cardeen said part of the stolen property belonged to him.— The prisoner was fully committed. Mr. HARDWICK directed that the constable, witnesses, and the three prosecutors should have the whole of their expenses. LAMBETH. Thomas Smith, Wm. David Eales, and Anne Jones, alias Smith, who have been in custody for the last ten days, charged with being concerned in the gross outrage and robbery at the house of Mr. Hamblin, an aged and infirm gentleman, in Grayford-road, Camberwell, were placed at the bar for final examination before Mr. Henry, the nresiding magistrate. further emu case , Mr. HENRY asked Inspector Campbell, who had the e "' i ncting of the if he was prepared with any bell replied i n n ce tu against the prisoner Eales? Mr. Camp used his utmost writing, he h e negative, and said that, though . he had aaelZrtion to procure evidence to his hand- The prisoner v„jrrecessful• Games for his defen ce would put off the case until% _ere said he had retained Mr. hoped that his Worship Mr. HENRY observed that,aast gentleman came. Case would be taken in the absenr fee who d nst him, Eales, no as against Smith an d J ones hew OUif ; his 4 i solicitor, but tions taken at once, and comm i t them for the deposi- Mr. Phillips, the broth er o f M rs. Hamblin gave the prison er S m i t h the IV., spoke w i th tainty to his identity, as b e i ng t h e person w r 0 hu t car» ented a pistol to his breast in the hall of his brother i lt law's house, and who threatened to shoot him if he either followed him to the door, or made the slightest noise. When the depositions were read over, Mr. Games ap plied for the discharge of the prisoner Eales, on the around that the evidence adduced was not sufficient to implicate him in the serious charge in which the other prisoners were involved. Mr. HENRY replied, that on the former examination some evidence was given of a suspicious character as against his, Mr. Games', client; but as the officer en gaged in the case had not been able to strengthen it, and as he (Mr. Henry) was aware it was not sufficiently strong to insure a conviction, he should not trouble Mr. Games to have it read, but should at once grant his re quest, and discharge the prisoner Eales. The other two prisoners were fully committed to take their trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court. CLERKEN WELL. William Willis was charged with burglariously enter ing the houses of Messrs. Walker, surgeons, St. John street, Clerkenwell, of Messrs. Dallow and Neill, in the same street, and of Mr. Lerew, a chemist and druggist, residing in Milton-street, Cripplegate, and stealing therefrom gold and silver watches, plate, wearing ap parel, bank notes, and jewellery, the property of the above-mentioned persons. The prisoner is a very de mure-looking young man. On the night of the 22d of November the houses of four tradesmen in St. John-street were burglariously en tered from the house of Mr. Neill, HU, the contents of a cashbox, and some wearing apparel, were stolen; from the home of Mr. Walker, jewellery, wearing apparel, droo of : d e : e gokl in watc h. The watch was taken from the very ru eln in which Mr. Walker slept, and the cash-box from pr e • _ Mrs. Neill ; it was forced open on the ' and t hen thrust through the window of the ' counting-house, but so skilfully and silently were the robberies effected, that the burglar got clear off with the booty undetected and unseen. On the night of the 20th of the same month, the premises of Mr. Lerew, of Milton-street, were burglariously entered, and two watches, a signet ring, and guard chain, 10/. in gold and silver, a 51. bank note, and other property, were ab stracted in the same mysterious manner. The affair caused a :great deal of excitement and uneasiness, and particularly in St. John-street, where four houses were entered on the same night. The police, who were greatly blamed for not being more vigilant, spared no exertion to apprehend the offender. An old soldier was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in it, but the police failed in sustaining the charge ; he was, however, convicted of having five counterfeit crown pieces on his person when arrested,'and sentenced to 18 months'impri sonment at the last Old Bailey sessions. On the 20th ult., at 4 o'clock in the morning, police- cons t a bl e M oss, of the G division, being on duty in St. John-street, saw the prisoner coming out of Mitre-court ; seeing there was something bulky beneath his dress he questioned him, and finding his answers evasive and contradictory took him to the station, when, on being searched, all the ap paratus of a burglar were found upon him—lucifer match-box, pick-locks, screw-driver, four bunches of keys, &c. The prisoner gave his address, and the con stable after lodging him in the cell went to ascertain if it were genuine. The landlord of the house in which the prisoner lodged came to the door at the constable's knock ; sail, in answer to inquiries, declared the pri soner was at that moment in bed (which no doubt the landlord believed), for he was surprised to hear the pri soner had crept out in the same stealth) and silent way by which his movements at Messrs. Walker's had been regulated, and that he was then a prisoner at the police station. The prisoner's apartment was forthwith searched, and the duplicates of Mr. Walker's gold watch and other property belonging to the same gentle man found there. The duplicates of a great portion of Mr. Lerew's property were found in the prisoner's box, and a 5/. Bank of England note, stolen from the latter gentleman, has been found, and traced to the prisoner, whose name is endorsed upon it in his own handwriting. The greater part of the property was pawned. It was produced in Court by the pawnbrokers, and identified by the owners. The prisoner, who was undefended, having received the usual caution, confessed the burglary at Messrs. Walker's and Mr. Neill's. He denied that there was any money in Mr. Neill's cash-box, but Mrs. Neill swore the direct contrary.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2, 1846.—The following is the Admiralty official list of her Majesty's fleet up to the end of 1845 :—Tbose fitting, and, consequently, but re cently commissioned, are so marked ; the others are effective men-of-war, and may be met with in nearly all parts of the world, except the Baltic and the Black Sea, where they are not rt quired. As troop ships, surveying and discovery ships, steamers, transports, packets and revenue vessels, and yachts, are not considered men-of war, being only partially armed and manned, they have been omitted in this statement. The force on the coast of Africa alone consists of 25 vessels. SHIPS OF THE LINE. Guns! 1 St. Vincent l2O Albion ... Trafalgar l2b Canopus Queen Caledonia l2O Collingwood Hibernia lO4 Vanguard . Rodney The Victory, Ocean, Poictiers, and Imaum, are considered effective sea-going men-of-war. FIRST-CLASS FRIGATES. Eagle 5O Winchester...—. America 5O Vernon Warspite Vindictive 5O Grampus (fitting)...... .. Endyroion ...... .. 44 . _ SECOND-CLASS F 42 42 42 Fox.. Fisgard Melampus ...... .... THIRD-CLA. Eurydice Amazon .. 26 Conway 26 Tyne Alarm Juno .. . 26 Vestal Carysfort (fitting) North Star 26 Talbot :IGATES (at sea). Inconstant Castor ~, Pique . s FRIGATES. Crocodile Calliopo Cleopatra Iris Actaeon Curacoa 'Daedalus *Calypso (fitting) .. •Daphne These ships have a small, midable, armament. FIRST-CLASS STJ but most powerful and 'EA3I FRIGATES. Retribution, ready. Terrible... Sampson }fitting. Gladiator steamers are to form part of an experi- Iron, ar.d to put to sea in the spring. JECOYD-CLASS STEAMERS AT SEA. Vulture Thunderbolt Salamander Hecla Virago Styx Prometheus Driver Vixen Stromboli Hydra Cormorant Vesuvius Spiteful Hecate Alecto. The Rattler, Phcenix, and Scourge fitting ; and with the following—Medea, Devastation, Geyser, and Ardent, are to form part of the experimental squadron of steam ers in the spring. Penelope Cyclops Firebrand Gorgon at sea. These fou mental squad CORVETTIS AND BRIGS. Hyacinth ... Modeste ... 18 Frolic Orestes Rose lB Bittern ....... Sattelite Acorn Wolf lB Grecian Comus lB Lily Lame Persian l6 Racer ...... Si Racehorse ... l 6 lSappho Ringdove (fitting) Serpent l6 Wolverine Wasp Osprey l2 Flying Fish Mutine l2 Espiegle Kingfisher Daring l2 Pantaloon Nautilus ... ........... ...... 10 Heroine Rapid (fitting) Rolla Sealark lO Star Water Witch .. . lO Cygnet •• Nimrod (fitting) 2Ol In addition to the foregoing there are 22 armed steamers, brigs, and cutters, commanded by lieutenants. The whole force amounts to a formidable fleet of—. 12 Sail of the line. 34 Frigates. 8 Firit-class steamers. 19 Second-class steamers. 47 Corvettes and brigs. 22 Small craft. ... 16 • 16 ... 16 16 • 16 ... 16 ... 16 ... 16 .. 16 ... 16 Total... 142 Effective men-of-war. Her Majesty's ship Rodney sailed into harbour on Wednesday, and will go into dock this day week, when the tides will suit. Owing to there being at present but' one working dock, vessels only partially completed are removed to make room for those urgently required ; thus the Rattler was taken out to let in the Daring. She was in for twenty-four hours yesterday, and the pre vious afternoon, and now the Fairy yacht is in her place, to have a new screw of Mr. Smith's fitted. When that service is finished, the Scourge is to be in spected, and then Rodney. She is only expected to be shored up for twenty-four hours, and is to give place to Rattler, that she may be finished out of hand. The two unhoused docks are occupied by the Leander (building), and Amphitrite (re-constructing), and as they will not be ready to be floated out for some months, the services of these docks are lost for their original purposes. The Prince Regent, cutting down to a 90-gun two-decked ship, has been in dock upwards of four years ; if she were coppered, and made secure below, the shipwright department might complete the upper works in the basin, and a large dock be made available for small vessels with their masts in. Her Majesty's steamer Retribution arrived from the Nore yesterday. The detachment of Marine Artillery under command of Second Lieutenant Hall will be embarked to-morrow or Tuesday. She was caught in a heavy gale of wind on Wednesday night off the Owers, and had some of her skylights, head-rails, &c., washed away, and she is to go into the harbour to be put to rights. The Daring brig has completed ber refit, been in dock to hare her copper cleaned, and goes to Spithead to morrow. Her orders for the coast of Africa are coun termanded, and she is to sail on Sunday for Bermuda and the West Indies. The Bittern's orders for the coast of Africa still remain in force, and now the wind has got round to the north, she may be hourly expected to em bark the 8,000/. in specie sent from the Treasury for Sierra Leone, and the Government dispatches for Com modore Jones at Ascension. The .Alban steamer has some defects in the cylinders of her engines, and will be put in dick this afternoon to have them rectified; this will detain her in the harbour until the 15th inst., when it is intended she shall return to Cork. for Woolwich in charge of Mr. Brown, th e seconthem d °ch. attendant, and some seamen and riggers from The Centaur, Ist class steamer, jury-r igged, h d as sailed Y pu ard t • oa be eOrarnis3i oHe d. Th e Nautilus brig:accompames her Shehoar board will have the r i h r e e r r, , and engines, afterwards return machinery, and feurnen to e I as far as Shoreham. The Emerald tender sailed this afternoon to Devon port, with officers and men fur the Queen, Nimrod, and Rapid. The Earl of li addingtoH, on retiring from the Admi ralty,lffAie..nGwte.nitatnntt,hlviur;: Williams, z t, — has promote d D t . h .vir e F f . o up l r i n o lee w tca i uh n re g ,r, m l, av a n t .d es Fth. t e o the rank of Ar H ..eurs. W. K. Jaff e H. B. Hardman, Lord Ellenborough's private secretary h a sWH .o Honourable t been appoi n t e d. C aptain the Honourable R. S. Dundas l will remain for a short period. In naval circles, it is stated that Admiral Sir George Cockburn will retire from the Admiralty in a few months, and be succeeded by Admiral Sir Byam Martin, CHATHAM, JAN. 2.—The Columbine, 18 guns, is ordered to be prepared forthwith and fitted for service. The:Scout, 16 guns, was put out of dock on Wednesday last, and was taken alongside the sheer hulk, when her masts were placed on board ; she will be ready for com missioning by the middle of this month, when it is ex pected the pendant will be hoisted. The Eurotas, 42 guns, was taken into deck on the 31st ult., to be fitted for a steam guard-ship for this port ; most of the hired workmen employed in the Fortitude coal depcit, now nearly completed, have been transferred to her. The Calypso, 20 guns, Captain Henry J. Worth, fitting for sea, is getting fast with her rigging, and will be ready for sea in about three weeks ; she has a few hands on board, but seamen come forward very slowly for her. Th© La Hogue, 74 guns, fitting at Blackwall as a steam guard-ship for this port, and the Eurotes, fitting for the same service, are each to be fitted with galvanized rigging. The Janus steam-sloop has been under the hands of the: dockyard ever since her arrival from her last trip. She is ordered to Portsmouth, and left Chatham this day. The Earl of Dundonald, her constructor, arrived on Thursday afternoon, the Ist iret., from London, and is now staying at the residence of the Captain-Sup.T intendent, W. 11. Shirriff, R.N. The Noble Earl intends proceeding with the ship. Her last trip evidently proves that she will never, under her present construction, be able to head the sea. The following is the progress she made in her last trial, on her leaving this port on the 16th ult. : She started at 1 P.M., with a fine breeze aft, her wheels revolving about 3i turns per minute ; and on her arrival at Sheerness at a quarter-past three o'clock,:p.m., anchored off the Moue at four o'clock; P. 11., and on the 17th she proceeded at thirty minutes after eight o'clock a.m. for Portsmouth, with fine smooth water, with light breezes blowirg aft, she making 13 turns of the wheels per minute, and at two P.M. bar speed became reduced, and kept gradually slackening, in con sequence of a slight swell of the sea, and at nine P.M. she could only make nine turns per minute. On the 18th, at three o'clock A.M. she made nino turns per minute, and at five A.M. only seven turns per minute, and in con sequence of a head wind springing up, it was feared that she could not make head way a;ainst the wind, and she was compelled to return, and she set sail at one P.M., and anchored in the Downs for the night, and on the 10th, at thirty minutes after eight A.M., started her engines, with a light favourable breeze, her wheels revolving about thirteen turns per minute, and at nine o'clock the ship was put round to the wind, for the purpose of trying her, hut she could not be forced to go ahead, and she laid for the night. On the 21st, at thirty minutes after ten o'clock, the ship started for Chatham, but, owing to a strong wind, she could not go ahead, and it was found necessary to anchor two miles from Margate, keeping the engines at work until night ; and at thirty minutes after eight. A.?!., on the 22d, started again for Sheerness, attempted to beat up; not being able to steam against the wind, at thirty minutes after eleven, A.M., got aground, and after some difficulty got off, and anchored for the night. On the 23d it was found that she could not go ahead, and she was forced to remain at anchor. On the 24th the weather was fine, and took three hours to get her anchor; one of the hawse-holes was carried away, and the vessel arrived off Chatham-yard at fifteen minutes past four o'clock, P.M. She is now to be removed to Portsmouth, to see what can be done there with her. A new school is to be erected in the dockyard for the apprentices. THE NEW PLANET. Since tl:e'discovery of the exultra-zodiacid planet Ceres, on the Ist of January, 1801 (soon after followed by the discovery of Juno, Pallas, and Vesta), no occurrence has, perhaps, excited so much inter, st in the scientific world, as the newly-discovered member of our planetary family, Astrea. The observations of one of the greatest living authorities on the law of Bode, of whose sagacious and far-sighted conjecture the recent discovery would seem to afford =additional confirmation, will doubtless be peculiarly acceptable to those who have not Sir John Herschel's work immediately at hand. The concluding sentence is, however, remarkably curious, and shows that even the highest authorities may at times, from extreme caution, prove at fault:— " The planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, have been known from the earliest ages in which astronomy has been cultivated. Uranus was dis covered by Sir W. Herschel in 1781, March 13, in the course of a review of the heavens, in which every star visible in a telescope of a certain power was brought under close examination, when the new planet was im mediately detected by its disc under a high magnifying power. It has since been ascertained to have been ob served on many previous occasions with telescopes of insufficient power to show its disc, and even entered as a star, and some of the observations which have been so recorded have been used to improve and extend our knowledge of its orbit. The dis covery of the ultra-zodiacal planets dates from the Ist day of 1801, when Ceres was discovered by Piazzi at Palermo ; a discovery speedily followed by those of Juno by Professor Harding, of Gottingen ; and of Pallas and Vesta by Dr. Olbers, of Bremen. It is extremely remarkable that this important ad dition to our system had been in some sort surmised as a thing not unlikely, on the ground that the intervals between the planetary orbits go on doubling as we recede from the sun, or nearly so. Thus the interval between the orbits of the earth and Venus is nearly twice that between those of Venus and Mercury ; that between the orbits of Mars and the earth nearly twice that between the earth and Venus ; and so on. The interval between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, however, is too great, and would form an exception to this law, which is, however, again resumed in the case of the three remoter planets. It was, therefore, thrown out by the late Professor Bode, of Berlin, as a possible surmise, that a planet might exist between Mars and Jupiter, and it may easily then be imagined what was the astonish ment of astronomers to find four revolving in orbits tolerably well corresponding with the law in question. No account a priori, or from theory, can be given of this singular progression, which is not, like Kephi's laws, strictly exact in its numerical verification ; but the cir cumstances we have just mentioned lead to a strong be lief that it is something beyond a mere accidental co incidence, and belongs to the essential structure of the system. It bas been conjectured that the ultra zodiacal planets are fragments of some greater planet which formerly circulated in that interval, but has been blown to atoms by an explosion, and that more such fragments exist, and may be hereafter discovered. This may serve as a specimen of the dreams in which astronomers, like other speculators, occasionally and harmlessly indulge." Guns . 90 . 84 SHAMEFUL HOAX. At Hammersmith Police-court, yesterday, Inspector Howell stated that he had that morning received, by post, a communicationfrom Inspector H orne , o f t h e Stepney division of police, informing him that a piper, which was enclosed, had that morning beim found con tained in a bottle, which had been seen floating with the stream down the river Thames, off W a p p i ng , an d picked up, and desiring him to make immediate inquiries about the matter. The contents of the paper found in the bottle was as follows : " 20, Victoria-road, Kensington. " Christian Frie: ds,—Whoever may be fortunate enough to pick up this bottle, in the name of all that is holy I conjure him to repair to my dungeon, as above. For a trifling fault I am chained hand and foot in a dark, dismal cellar, with no prospect of liberation for months. My employer is most arbitrary and unjust, and after having violated my person six times, has confined me to this dreadful death. I have expectations, and can promise whoever rescues me my hand and a thou sand pounds. . _ _ (Signed) " ROSINA MAVERS, Governess." Inspector Howell further said, the document, which bore no date, was executed in a neat female's hand writing. He last no tin=e in making immediate inqui ries, but on reaching the Victoria-road he found there was not so many houses as twenty, and that from all the inquiries he had subsequently made in the neigbour hood he did not believe there was the slightest truth in the statement contained in the paper. DR. BUCKLAND'S EATING-HOUSE. (From Punch.) An eating-house on a novel, economic, and scientific principle, is about to be established, to be called the " Dr. Buckland's Head;" the dishes at which establish ment will be prepared on the principle recommended by the Reverend Dean of Westminster, who has identified himself with a new plan for feeding the people. The Doctor's favourite dishes of starch, peas, and mangel wurzel, will he served up in every variety to tempt the public appetite. There will be an ordinary at one, con sisting of three courses, the first of which will con sist of— False collars a la Brummell, which will comprise a very strong starchy soup, the nu tritious qualities of which will be quite indisputable. This will be followed up by Mouchoir de Poche a la Tutbury, consisting of a delicious entree of fricasseed pocket handkerchiefs, starched to the same degree that was found so beneficial in prolonging the existence of th, , old lady of the place alluded to. This will be followed by a third course of Split Peas au Naturel; and for the benefit of those who prefer it, there will be the alternative of burnt bones. There will of course be Mangel-wurzel a Discretion, which will render the eatables complete, while the drink able will consist of Eau Chaude a la Polar Party. We have very little doubt that a few eating-houses established on these principles in different parts of the town would be eminently successful as speculations ; and we strongly recommend some enterprising indivi dual, with capital enough to buy a pint of peas, a pound of starch, and a bunch of mangel• wurzel to try the experiment. NEGLECT OF MAGISTRATES.--Complaints from the country keep coming in upon us relative to the vast incon venience to which the public are put, for want of proper attention of the magistracy to their duties. This is an un pardonable inconvenience to the public, and it must find correction from the proper quarter. If gentlemen who are in the commission of the peace feel it enough to have the honour of being so, the sooner that notion is changed the better both for themselves and the community at large. The honour and credit (if it is to be looked upon as such) of being a magistrate is in the due attention to public duty. Neglect is derogatory to a magistrate, and prejudicial to society. Let us hope that the new year, upon which we have just entered, will produce better things, a n d b e f or e it terminates many needed, useful, and be ne fi c i a l changes w ill h ave b een b roug ht about and accomplished.—Front a Correspondent. 31ISTERIOUS DEATH OF A MARRIED WOMAN. — Last evening Mr. Wakley, m.p., held an inquest at the Rent Day, Cambridge-street, Edgeware-road, on the body of Sarah Bradbeer, aged 19, the wife of Mr. W. Bradbeer, late proprietor of the Polygon-mews. Mr. Bradbeer stated that his wife, who took two pills the previous night, died shortly after five o'clock last Tuesday morning. A few minutes be fore five o'clock she got out of bed and struck a light, and was a corpse in ten minutes afterwards. Medical at•sistance was instantly called in. Witness's two brothers declared that their brother had been very kind to deceased, and that there was no reason to suspect that she died from foul means. Mr. Reubens, surgeon, opened the body, and found the in ternal part healthy, with the exception of the stomach, which was highly inflamed. Dr. Day tested it for oxalic, arsenic, and other poisons, but not for all. The jury, not being satisfied with the analysis of the stomach , the Coroner adjourned th e i nquest. oßfocounide,hEesstqe; t a h n e d pr E es n en chn t 51 , S t h in e d rn CHELMSFORD BANK.—It is announced that George are about to join the bankin. estEajsbcl.ll: Sparrow and Co., and that in future i"'" W. E. Green, Esq., h o m f the ents f Home me Cir cuit,ssrs junction with B. constitute Sparrow, ffoorrdd,anEr Thomas s. gentlemen, in con . Green woo W d th,;3 E 3'fi scl irm. ., T. :e f l ilt e lle ; A : 9:n t e ll vd.'WWexmni P ir. WWatiaal°ll-1- a the pregent yoar.+Zie l / 4 , Standard, ' FRIDAY NIGHTS GAZETTE. 3IARLBOROUGH-HOUSE, JAN. 2, 1846. The Queen Dowager has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Mary Seymour to be one of her Majesty's Maids of Honour. The Queen Dowager has been pleased to appoint Lieute nant Robert Bedford, R.N., to be her Majesty's Gentleman Usher in Residence. OFFICE OF THE MASTER OF THE HORSE TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAciER, J.Ax. 2. The Queen Dowager has been pleased to appoint Lieut.- General Sir A. F. Barnard, G.C,B. and G.C.H., Colonel Commandant of the Rifle Brigade, to be her Majesty's Clerk Marshal. The Queen Dowager has been pleased to appoint the fol lowing gentlemen to be her Majesty's Equerries : Lieut.-Col. W. 11. Cornwall, of the Coldstream Guards. Capt A. J. Taylor, of the Royal Horse Artillery, Capt. E. A. Somerset, of the Rifle Brigade. WHITEHALL, DEC. 30, 1845. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing the Right Hon. Edward Granville Ea-1 St. Germans to the office of her Majesty's Postmaster General. 'DOWNING •STREET, DEC. 30. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Martin West Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the district of Natal, in South Africa. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Henry Cloete, Esq., to be Recorder for the district of Natal. Her Majest3 has also been pleased to appoint Donald Moodie, Esq., to be Secretary to Government for the district of Natal. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Hougham Hudson, sen., Esq., to be Civil Gimmissioner and Resident Magistrate of Albany, in the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Hougham Hudson, jun., Esq., to be Secretary to the Lieutenant Gover nor of the Eastern districts of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles Bell, Esq.. to be Assistant Surveyor-General for the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint S. P. Fairbanks, Esq., to be her Majesty's Treasurer f u r the pro vince of Nova cotia. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dorsetshire. Sir W. C. Medlycott, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Dec. 27. Commissions by the Lord• Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. The Right Hon. A. Viscount Valentia to be Deputy Lieutenant; G. A. F. Viscount Villiers to be Deputy Lieu tenant ; Charles Lane, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; J. H. Ashhurst, Esq., to be ditto ; L. Pickering, Esq., to be ditto ; H. Baskerville, Esq., to be ditto ; M. Ricardo, Esq., to be ditto; H. W. Dashwood, Esq., to be ditto, Dec. 29. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtown. R. V. Agnew, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Dec. 20. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire. First Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia— R. P. Dawson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Attwood, de ceased, Dec. 27; J. F. Slegg, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Borrow, deceased, Dec. 31. WHITEHALL, DEC. 29. The Right Honourable Sir Nicolas Conyngham Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Thomas Yarrall Johnson Daily, of Arundel, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Sussex. WHITEHALL, DEC . 24. _ _ The Right Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed James Winter, of the city of Norwich, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the ac knowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the city of Norwich, and county of the same city, also in and for the county of Norfolk. BANKRUPTS. James Coe, money scrivener, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury, to surrender, Jan. 15, at half-past one, and Feb. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Buchanan, Basinghall-street. Edward Eedle, bookseller, Chancery-lane, Jan. 13, at half•past twelve ' and Feb. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Shaw, Furnival's Inn, Holborn. George Seagrave Neale, innkeeper, Portsea, Hants, Jan, 13, at one, and Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Low, Chancery-lane; Low, Portsea. Daniel William Lucas, hemp dealer, Mark-lane, City, Jan. 14, at two, and Feb. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Bolton, Merriman, and Dunning, Austin-friars. Henry Le Jeune, maltster, St. Alban's, January 14, at half-past one, and Feb. 11, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street- buildings; Laurance and Flews, Bucklersbury. Robert Headington, laceman, Bath, Jan. 16, at twelve, and Feb. 10, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Chester and Co., Staple Inn, London ; Tyrer, Liverpool. Charles Barber, calico printer, Brindle, Lancashire, Jan. 13, and Feb. 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court; Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Chisholme, Hall, and Gibson, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Gibson, Manchester. Thomas Carey Williard Pierce, merchant, Manchester, Jan. 15, at eleven, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court,. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Abbott, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square; Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. S. Fawcett, linendraper, Chiswell-street —first div. of 3s. 9d. in the pound, on Saturday, Jan. 3, and two following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, T. Wood, wine merchant, Little Queen-street, Holborn— second div. of 2s. Bd. in the pound, on, Saturday, Jan. 3, and two following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Ab church-lane, City. T. Patterson and J. Codling, earthenware manufacturers, Sheriff-hill, Durham—first and final div. of 20s. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle upon-Tyne. J. Courtney, banker, Bristol—fourth div. of Is. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. A. Bower, banker, Manchester—third div. of ls. 3d. in the pound, and a first div. of 7s. in the pound on new proofs, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Schofield, grocer, Greenacres-moor, Lancashire—first div. of 2d. in the pound, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, or any sub sequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. H. Warburton, builder, Manchester—first div. of lid. in the pound, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Carruthers, woollendraper, Blackburn, Lancashire—first div. of 3s. lOid. in the pound, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. Sir R. Graham, Bart., J. and J. Railton, and J. Young, merchants, London and Manchester—fourth div. of 2id. in the pound, and a first div. of ss. 3d. in the pound on new proofs, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Clarke, R. Mitchell, J. Philips, and T. Smith, bankers, Leicester—first div. of 4s. in the pound, at Leicester, at the Three Crowns Inn, those creditors whose names commence from A to K on Friday, Jan. 9, L to Z on Saturday, Jan.lo ; at Oakham, on Monday, Jan. 12; at Lutterworth, on Tues day, Jan. 13 ; and on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall:street S. Solomon,tailor, Strand, Jail. 23, at one - -T. Howell, tavern keeper, Queen's Head •passage, Newgate-street, Jan. 23, at half-past eleven—T. Dousbery, boot factor, New Farringdon street, City, Jan. 23, at twelve—R. Hughes, upholsterer, Piccadilly, Jan. 27, at half-past eleven—J. Summers, cabinet maker, Cambridge, Jan. 23, at half-past one—J. A. Dow, draper, Romford, Essex, Jan. 23, at one—D. Baseley, cheese monger, Southwark, Jan. 23, at one—T. Standage, auctioneer, Chancery-lane, Jan. 27, at eleven—J. S. Clark, broker, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, City, Jan. 27, at twelve. Boston—W. Glyde, sen., J. Anstice, and W. Glyde, jun., clothiers, Lyme Regis (so far as regards J. Anstice)—R. and R. W. Johnson—H. Elkington and J. K. Haworth, chemists, St. Alban's-place, Edgeware. road—W. Edwards and H. Copncr, mercers, Ludlow—R. R. Bayley, F. H. Jansen, and P. Richardson, attorneys, Basinghall-street (so far as regards P. Richardson)—R. Scholes and R. Horsfall, st oc kb ro k ers, Liverpool—J. D. Powles, A. W. Powles, T. 0. Powles, and R. S. Illingworth, jun., merchants, Bogota, Now Granada (so far as retards R. S. Illingworth, jun.)—R. R Gowar, S. Gowar, J. H. Gowar, and F. Gowar, coachmakers, Church row, Aldgate—R. S. G. Kilbee and J. Macfie, merchants, Liverpool—E. Bilton and S. Wassermann, commission mer chants, Sunderland—J. Patchett, H. Jones, H. Stead, and J. M'Kay, carriers, Manchester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Macadam and Co., calico printers, Glasgow, Jan. 9 and 30, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Steele, jun., Glasgow. In the Cotintri. S. Rhodes, worsted spinner, Bradford, Yorkshire, Jan. 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—T. Mennell, cloth merchant, Leeds, Jan. 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. and T. Lamb, engineers, Kidderminster, Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Giles, pub lican, Headless-cros., Worcestershire, Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Rawsthorne, drysalter, Manchester, Jan. 26, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. S. Solomon, tailor, Strand, Jan. 23—J. C. Powell, apothe cary. Chiswell-street, Finsbury, Jan. 23—E. W. Wyon, or molu manufacturer, Gower-street, Bedford-square, Jan. 26 D. Froeschlen and S. Price, tailors, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Jan. 26—J. Breakenridge, tailor, Liverpol, Jan. 23—W. Burt, lodging-house keeper, Lisson-grove, Jan. 23—R. Clark, jun., wharfinger, Montagu-close, Southwark, Jan. 23—T. and C. Lockhart, florists, Cheapside, Jan. 23—D. Pugsley, ware houseman, City, Jan. 23—J. Barwick, livery-stable keeper, Great Carter lane, Doctors'-commons, Jan. 23—G. Hardy, innkeeper, St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, Jan. 23—D. Smith, ironmaster, Lantwit juxta Neath, Glamorgaushire, Jan. 23 L. Johnston, wine merchant, Hammersmith, Jan. 23—C Dalton, stonemason, Old Kent-road, Jan. 23. , PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. Yeoman and J. Parry, law stationers, Worcester—W. Geary and J. Sultzer, manufacturers, Norwich—J. Steains, T. Rowley, T. Davies, and J. P. SteaMs, tea-dealers, London (so far as regards J. P. Steains)—R. Beck and W. F. Ayr ton, wine merchants, Chester—J. Welch and W. K. Sidg wick, colour manufacturers, Bankside—W. G. Chambers and G. Chambers, jun., grocers, Portsmouth—J. R. and J. S. Ray, grocers, Clare, Suffolk—J. Joyce and H. Parker, Man chester-street, London—J. B. Atwood and J. Hardy, carpen ters, Poplar—G. L. Johnson and J. Brennan, merchants, Budge-yard, Bucklersbury—W. J. T. Stocken and 0. Cham bers, brewers, Walham-green—W. M. Short and M. J. Maliony, metalbrokers, Newman's-court, Cornhill—J. Holder, 1. Holder, and J. W. Holder, glass-bottle merchants, Cum berland-row, Walworth-road—H. Grace, T. Yallop, R. Grace, and 11. Grace, jun , colour manufacturers, Old-street, St. Luke's--J. Baldwin and J. H. Elliott, sadlers' ironmongers, Martin's-lane, Cannon-street—W. H. Holloway and W. Mar ten, sharebrokers, Bradford—W. Buddle and S. Tildesley, wood merchants, Irongate-wharf, Paddington—C. Saunders and E. Carr, dressmakers, Maddox-street—J. Thickbroom and J. Hirst, watch-case makers, Skinner-street Clerkenwell —T. Sidney and W. Hall—H. W. Bull and C. Underwood, attorneys, Ely-place, Holborn—J. Cuff and R. Fox, stock brokers, Derby—R. Wood and J. Thompson, well sinkers, Leeds—W. Bird and G. Gabain, iron-plate merchants, Lon don—J. Lawson and J. J. Barugh, sharebrokers, Bradford— J. H. Gledstanes, R. King, J. Coniugham, and A. Gledstanes, wine merchants, Regent-street (so far as regards J. H. Gled stanes and R. King)—J. Bentley, J. T. Harris. and J. Dixon, coal factors, Lore-lane, Eastcheap—J. Gledhill and J. Horner, jun., coal merchants, Churwell, Yorkshire—C. E. Michele and W. P. Byrne, proprietors of the Morning Pest newspaper, Wellington-street North, Strand—J. Parton, A. Thompson, and C. H. Percival, cottonbrokers, Liverpool (so far as re gards C. H. Percival)—T. Wilson, W. Wilson, and C. K. Wilson, undertakers, Liverpool (so far as regards T. Wilson) —L. Novelli and E. F. Ha'tli, commission merchants, Man chester—E. Spivey and S. Bilton, schoolmistresses, Beverley, Yorkshire—F. Allhusen and H. Schnelle, commission mer chants, London—J. Rvlands and S. Milne, manufacturers, Manchester—J. Smith and T. Watkins, painters, Bridge north—C. Allhusen an W. G. Turner, soap makers, Gates head—L. and W. Burbidge, school proprietors, Pent on - street, Pentonville—E. Fryer and G. Oliver, brewers, Baldock, Hert fordshire—S. B. Sowden and S. Blakelock, stockbrokers Leeds—E. Stent and C. Sumner, schoolmistresses, Dorking J. Reedman and F. Graham, bakers, Whitechapel High street—E. Symons, W. T. Fisher, and L. T. AL Rochet, foreign warehousemen, Old Fish-street, St. P au l' s—J. C. Duggan, E. Duggan, and W. Miskin, clay merchants, Chamberlain's wharf, Tonley-street-4. and W. Litton, miller., Warrington, Lancashire—J. H. and J. Wa i l er , wholesale cheesemongers, High-street, Southwark—R. Sankey and W. Sladden, attor neys, Canterbury—T. Sharp, J. Sharp, and:H. Sharp, stuff manufacturers, Horton, Yorkshire (so far as regarth J. Sharp) —H. B. Pack, John Palethorpe, and W. Claytco, drapers, DOCKS. Dividend : Amount 1 Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price. 1 Annum. Share. 1 --- i X s. d. £ s. d. Commercial .. .. ••.• • 3/. per cent. Stock. - East and West India... 5%1• pr cent. Stock. -135 U East Country - 21 London - 115 St Katharine .... ••- , 5 per cent. Stock. - 108% Southampton • • CANALS. Names of al , . 1 Names of t; Dividend (Dividend Price. Companies. ,._, per Price. Companies. e r Annum. Icc Annum. cc -'- - X £ Ashtn & Oldh 97 51.55• p c 72 sfonmouthsh 100 91. 160 Ashby-d-la-41131 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 81. 98 Barnsley • ...1160 121. 180 Macclesileli. 100 - 95 Basingstoke.. 100' - - Neath -•• • • 100 201. 365 Brktik&Abrg 1160 5/. 85 Nottingham. 150 121. 260 Cromford.... 100 181. 150 Peak Forest. 78 N. 40 Dudley lOO, 41. - Regent's ... •33 11. 263. Derby iloo, 81. 103 Rochdale .... 85 41. S 4 Ellsmre&Chs 133; 41. 80 Shropshire .. 125 81. - Erewash . • •1100; 321. j 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth & Clyd '100; 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. 11 GrandJunctn 100' 71. 100 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 440 Grand Union 100 1 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh ~1721 13%1. 210 Stourbridgs.. 145 201. - Glstr & Brkl 100 1 - - St r tfrdon Av 79 11. 10s. - y Grantham • •, ,15Oi 121. 100 Severn and} 26 11. Bs. - H 20 Wye Rail. uddersfield.! 571 "- Kennt & Avn 391 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-1 . 0 30 Lancaster 1. 4'7j 11. 10. 40 sey, 14 sh. j ‘' Leeds& Livrp 100, 341. 525 Thams &Med 19 - I 0 LetiefaStfir ... • 1401 101. 105 . Worestr k Leicstr &Nth, 83; 41. 62 Binning.} 78 id. 49 Loughbereghll42! 701. 1150 Wilts St Brks 67 IL 4s. 11 WATER-WORKS Dividend Amount Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X s, d. , East L0nd0n.......... ' 81. 100 0 0 - 210 Grand Junetion •.- • . 31. 46 13 4 - 90 Kent ........... •- - 2 l. 2l. 10s. 100 0 0 - 65 Vauxhall ....... ••• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 - 87 West Middlesex -- - 41. 16s. pr ct. 63 12 9 I - 130 MARKET INTELLIGENCE (From the London New Price Current of Jan. Si'GAß.—The quantity of West India Sugar received at this port from the Ist of January to the end of December was 11,679 hhds and tierces 3,695 barrels, of Mauritius 125,407 bags 5,611 casks, and of Bengal 21,985 bags greater than in 1844 to the same time, but of casks and chests there is a decrease of 622. RE,r,NED.—There has been a good demand from the homeeing trade for Refined Sugar this week, and the supply b small the trade have been compelled to pay rather higher rates. -- ko - LAssxs —Holders are reluctant to take lower rates for West India; but the business transacted has been extremely limited at 19s to 22s per cwt. COFFEE. —A fair business has been transacted privately in all descriptions of West India, and the rates paid have been rather above those previously quoted ; h o ld ers mani fest firmness and supply t h e market sparingly with all descriptions. Ceylon has met with increased atten tion, and of Native large parcels have been dis posed of by private treaty at improved rates. In Plantation a fait amount of business has been transacted privately at rather higher rates. The inferior kinds of Mocha are little wanted, but cannot be had upon lower terms. Java is held with firm ness, and there has been more desire manifested to do business. The low rates that prevail for all other East India descriptions cause merchants to be less inclined to re alise, and the quantity offering for sale is much less thani was. TEA.—The market has an improving appearance, mer chants show firmness, and still refrain from offering any a t public sale. In Congou a good business has been transacted, especially in the lower descriptions, and the rates paid have been rather above those previously quoted. Of Pouchong seve ral parcels have been disposed of at id to 10d. In Twankay a fair business has been transacted at superior rates. Fatn.T.—The purchases made in Raisins have been ex tremely limited, and holders experience difficulty in getting former rates. Currants are dull of sale, and at auction this afternoon the parcels offered were nearly all taken in. CorroN.—Holders of East India have manifested firmness this week, and refused to sell but at folly former rates ; a fair business has been transacted, and the private sale amount. to 1,000 bales of Surat at 2i-d to 3id per lb. There has been a much better demand for Cotton at Liverpool this week. SPHirrs.—The business transacted in Jamaica Rum has been extremely limited this week, but h o ld ers rema i n firm, i sud ngbt up= former rats for all cheriptiono. For Leo.. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or ➢Muscovado Sugar, the Produce of the British possessions in America, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 30, 1845, is 375. 3d. per cwt. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria. cap. 32, for the n eek eading cm Saturday, the 27th day of December, 1845. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ...... 26,771,510 Government debt 11,015,100 Other securities... 2,984,900 Gold coin and bul- lion 11,189,484 Silver bullion ... .. 1,582,026 £26,771,510 M. IV Dated the let day of Jamie] £26,771,510 [ARSHALL, Chief Cashier. •y, 1846. PARTMENT. BANKING DT eroprictors' capita 1,14,553,000 Rest Public deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings banks, Commis sioners of National Debt, and divi- Government secu rities (including Dead Weight Annuity) Other securities 16,252,051 Notes Gold and silver coin 514,376 deud accounts) 9,698,409 Other deposits...... 8,482,239 Seven day and other bills £36,922,950 £36,922,950 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. 7 , 1846. M. MA. Dated the Ist day of January LATEST PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM FAMES' STOCK. From tle Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. Australasia •• • „• • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 26 3 % Brash North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 46 Comnsercia of London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 1 ,1 Colonial... •• , • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 15% Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 26 London Joint-Stock ... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45% Ditto, New... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 17% National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 194 Nat. I'rovncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 9 36 Ditto, New......... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia .... 25 0 0 25 9 0 24% Union of London. •. , . 51. per cent.. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12 ' INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend same of Company. per Annum. Amount of Share. Albion .... Mance Wit. and For, ..)itto Marine.•. • • .. tlas.. . British Commercial .. Clericl,Med. & Gen. Life County Crown .............. Eagle .... • ...... Economic Life ••••••• Eng. & Scot. Law...... Europeaa Life • • • ... Freemasons' .......... Guardian . • .. • ....... Imperial Fire Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Life.. • ......... Legal and General Life Landon Fire ........ London Ship •. Marine .. Med.ln vlid & Gen. Life National Loan Fund.. National Life.... Palladium Life Phcenix Protector Life........ Provident Life • . Rock Life Royal Exchange Sun Fire . Ditto Life .......... Universal Life ....... 31. 102 6 per cent. 6/. per cent, 13s. 6d. pr 211. 72. per share 51. per cent. 31. 9s. and 61.55. bs. 6s. 5 per ct.,/ & 30s.bs. 51. per cent. 5% per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 5/. per cent. 12/. per cent. 12e. 11. sh. & be. 11.bs. 10s. 10s. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 81. per cent. Si. per cent. 31. p. ct. & bs. Si. per cent. 11. ss. 4s. Si. per cent. W. 10s. 1/. Gs. 101(1. pr cnt. 1 s. d. 1500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 1000 0 0 N 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 1100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 8 100 0 0 6 0 0 Stock. 100 0 LIST OF SOOT' Name of Company. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland British Linen Company Commercial Bank .. National Bank • ..... Union Bank of Scotland Western 8ank..... . - North of Scotland Bank Clydesdale Bank Eastern Bank Caledonian Bank Edinb.& Glasgow Bank City of Glasgow Bank . Scottish Union Ins. Co. Hercules Insurance Co. Incur. Co. of Scetlnd North Britsh Caledonian Fire Incur. Edinburgh Life Insur. Edin. & Glasg. Railway Ditto, 4 shares ':.din., Leith, & Grant' Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. Glasgw & Greenck Rail. Gisgw & Garnkirk Rail. Dundee & Arbroth Standard Li fe Assarnce.l 61. per cent. 6/. per cent. 8l• per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 7% /. pr cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 7%1. pr cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. Si. per cent. 1 5% 1. pr cent. 101. per cent.l 61. per cent. 51. per cent. Si. per cent. , 51. per cent. 21. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51 per cent. I X a. d. 120 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 1200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 2.5 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 I Paid. .£ s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 b 9 0 2 10 1 10 0 0 5 0 0 Isoe 1250 0 0 2 0 0 All paid. 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 6 2 10 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 6 15 0 9;4 21. 2s. 210 11. 3s. 4IA 180 IS' PRICES 'ISM Co Dividend per Annum :PANT: Amount of Share. rata. Price X a. d 100 0 0 100 0 • 100 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 60 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 2 10 0 5 0 1 8 15 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 All paid. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 All paid. 20 0 0 All paid. All paid. All paid. AU paid. 2 10 0 ward Island former prices are asked, but there are not rnPl i nuyers to be met with at present. For Calcutta the demand 0, been only for small parcels at is lid to 2s proof with certt . : ficate. Por Demerara late rates are asked, but the amo unt of business transacted has been upon a small scale on l y' Brandy has met with attention, and several parcels ha!! been disposed of at improved rates. For English Corn Spirtt+ prices have declined 3d, the quotation being now 103 6d gallon, net cash. Gin is not cheaper, but the demand I , s' been less active. INDIGO.—The quantity of East India Indigo received this port in 1845 was more than in 1844 by 581 chests total deliveries were 2 244 chests less than in the prevlc,r 9 season ; the stock was h eav i er a t tie close of 1845 by ere chests in comparison with 1844 at the' same time; prices vra; higher than in the former year but lover than in preview ones. Of Spanish the quantity imported in 1845 was 71 le; roils more than in 1841 ; th e total deliveeries differed little from those of last season, but the stock was 263 serons heavie t than it was at the close of 1844. Prices are welch lower tint° they were at that time. SALTPETRE.--Rough has been in good request by priest., treaty since this day week, and very full rates knave T to paid; the sales nearly-reached 5,000 bags of Calcutta, '„d 10 per cent refraction at 26 5 , 7 t o 5i per cen t 26 5 Of,""„ i small parcels of superior a t 27 s t o 28 s per cw t. H o ld er s . 1 . 1 % Artiness, and supply the market s c a n tily. Of-English lined small parcels have been disposed of at 30s 6d to 3 ,; Nitrate of Soda is little w a n t e d, an d 14 e t o 15 s per cwt Y' the rates accepted. CocanNEme—The quantity received in 1845 was less theas in 1844 by 420 bags, and the total deliveries were 2,197 baB less than they were during the previous year—the stock 0, ceeda that of 1844 by 573 bags, and prices exhibit an adverts' compared with that time of 7d to 9d per lb. OIL s.—Linseed Oil has been purchased with increased freedom, anti prices continue on the ascendency ; there ba t been an extensive business transacted on the spot at 25s t° 25s 3d per cwt, and for forward delivery many contral. have been entered into at 25s 6d to 265. The supply is at' diminishing, and likely so to continue. The market haS firm appearance for Rapeseed Oil: and the supply not bell large, prices keep firm. Cocoa Nut Oil has been disposed to a fair extent at firm prices. Palm has been purchased Wit t ' more freedom, and prices are fully as high as they We re ; Mere has been a good business transacted in Olive, and th stock being still on the decrease—holders show fur . nem. Seal has been purchased with caution by 5b,' 13 , 1 ; pers and the home trade, notwithstanding the 2 ° prices that prevail. Southern has been disposed to a fair extent, but not at higher Pric e 6 Sperm has been purchased with much caution, and not l a ° than 80/ per tun can be obtained for the finest British. L Oil is dull of sale at 391 to 431 per tun. The stock of all Fit Oils at the close of the past year was much larger than 'h . , the former one, but prices are lower than in 1844, by 4161 r, for Cod, 41 lOs to Si for Seal, 61 to 91 for Sperm, and b 6/ lOs per tun for Southern. fot TALLOW.—The market has a very firm appearance Russian, and the trade have shown a strong desire to opera., this week. On the spot an extensive business has bee_:: transacted by soap makers and chandlers at an advance . 7 1 previous rates of 3d to 6d per cwt. For delivery in the n e t two months a good business has been done at 42s 6d per 0 , 7, Home made has been in excellent request, and the market been nearly cleared at stifferrates. All other dexcript io ! of Tallow have been in request, and several parcels iver, l taken privately, at prices rather above thos,eformerly quotami the supply is still on the decrease. HAMBURGH MAIL, Fitom THE MAlNE.—There is no foundation whatel for the report that the Duke of Nassau will marry t sister of his deceased consort, daughter of the Ci Sa E Duchess Helen of Russia. The sudden departure of tb Grand Duchess from Italy, and her return to R 11 5: excites much sensation in certain circles. BERLIN, DEC. 23.—The Universal Prussian Gaze says, " The liamburgh Correspondent has ; 3 , article from Berlin, stating that among ! be persons arrested at Posen, there is Count B----9' ‘o i owner of more than thirty estates, who is thrown l t o f , prison, with most of his principal agents, the steward his estates, &c. While we declare that there is no tril arhatever in this statement, we must repeat our o bserf, gl : tions that vague newspaper reports relative to thet a vestigations at Posen, being destitute-of all foundatl°ll:' do not deserve any refutation, and we shall holedo . give them none." ro* POZEN ' DEC. 17 . —Some time ago the Archbishop posed to the Government of the province to establish cofel! vents for monks and nuns. The Government thollgbo! to evade the proposal by calling on the ArchbishoP, t ,i point out where the funds were to come from. He 'di swered, that it the state did not think fit to assign sp a of the funds raised from the resources of the suppres s d convent, he proposed the sum required might be recei /e / s by voluntary subscription. We learn that his Misjesti ti permission has been received to establish two conve y of Urseline nuns (who devote themselves to the eclat tion of youth), but that the permission to establis r ", monks' convents is refused. Thi s unex p ec t e d intel gence has given but partial pleasure to the Polish as Roman Catholic population. TRIESTE, DEc. 15.—The celebration of the three iircth anniversary of the Convent of Trieste had an / ill lancholy termination: the lamps in the churches were It burning in the evening of the last day of the fegi / o) i; when a fire broke out at half past four in the morning 4 the sugar manufactory. The Archbishop of Salzbul was among the first to hasten to the spot. The fire',,e ti , gines were in such bad condition, and the apathy of ' j i d people was so great, that the whole b u ildi ng was s not ' O l flames ; only the bare walls are standing. The dal o il the festival was a great delight to the people. 1 0° 010 ' 40,000 persons attended. Everything that flatters eyes and ears of the Italians was brought into u uj ii -, 0 1 Later accounts say that the palace of the Prime BiP is also destroyed by the fire. ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 16.—Yesterday mu• • foot passengers were enabl e d t o cross t h e Neva, Isey the establishment of the mining cor p s , an d at two o'ele 0 the bridge near the University was laid down, and t o h l i, communication between the two banks re-establisb During the last 100 years the Neva has been frozen of:, only ten times in December. This year the river 7, clear of ice on the night of the 3d of May. The n 5 OO gation has therefore been open 224 days-5 days long s , than the avera ge , w hi c h i s 219 days.—Hamburgh Pap Dec. 26. HAMBURGII BORSEMIALLE, DEC. 24. Bills. tionef• Austrian 5 per Cents .........• •• •• •• 113 ....- Bank Shares •.—••••••—•• • • • • • • • • 1629 --" _ Anglo-Russian Loan . • .... .•.••_ • • • •• 108 74 108,9 .... k Russian 5 per Cent., Hanth. Certificate. 103 15 Ditto Ist series Inscription ... .... • • • • • 104% IV I Ditto, flops and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99 14% Ditto, in Certificate •.••.•.•• • • • • • • • • 99 10 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • • 99 23A Ditto Stieglitz • • . .. • ..... • ... 89% 2431 Spanish New 5 per Cent........ ...... 21 1931 Ditto 3 per Cent .......... ..... .. • 32% 894 20% Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 24 per Cent • . Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• • • 59 Ditto 3 per Cent. .... ........ Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 813 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .. •• • . 86 National Bank Shares.. .............. THE SMALLEST VESSEL IN THE AFRICAN _i_iti-fj —A few weeks ago, the smallest vessel that ever oleo out of the Clyde for an Atl an ti c vo y age , measur i n g °o !p twelve tons N.M.. left the river with a general carO ty Cape Coast Castle. This yacht was built at P o rt natyne, in Buteshire, and was intended for pleasure eursions alone. Her sailin g ; qualities were well kner. o f during the time when she belonged to the gentleros o .o, whom and by whose directions she w as 10 0 and they attracted the attention of an Afril i , merchant who was in this count r y last Ora flier, and by whom the yacht was p urc h as ed the river trade in that country. He determined on se ll ing her out with goods; and so confident is he in the.% pabilities of his little ship, that he has arranged to her at Madeira. The gentleman to whom she now o o longs h as g i ven h er th e name o f th e O cean Q ueen ; 1/10 when she has reached Cape Coast Castle in safety ' t o , name will have been well earned ; for never surely P a d viously has a smaller craft navigated a sea so wide dangerous. The Ocean Queen is, however, a stroeg built and well-contrived little thing ; and no doubt, en t e rtained by her owner th a t s h e w ill h ave a prosP6:, ous voyage, although it has been retarded at the co b, mencement; for she met a Channel storm to begin 'A l 'l, but weathered it more gallantly than heavier ships; 1 / 1 0 though the master, from indisposition, was obliged put into Donaghadee, on the West Coast. We do !f know what the underwriters may say to this risk, j the crew and the owner are confident of success ; they have, looking to the tonnage of their craft, un'i e o taken the most daring feat in navigation of which remember to have heard since the days of Columbus' Glasgow National. We are authorised to state that the numbe m , Captains of the Royal Navy who have voluntee re d to re'po under the offer of theist August last, having amounted 0 ,0 more than 267, and whereas the number required to make 'is. measure of retirement effectual was 300, the L or d s ConA l r e sioners of the Admiralty cannot accept of the list of rai de r ment as it now stands, but the whole subject is still 1 0 consideration. On the 17th of Nov., 18 13 45 I , R a T t I ii S adeira, the wife of RicO rti Dart, Esq., of London, of a son. of On the 23d ult., at Lake House, Cheltenham, the lacli George Lynch, Esq., of a son. On the 27th ult., at Highbury-terrace, the wife of Dr. Smith, of a son. • ho On the 31 s t u lt., i n P or tl an d-place, the lady o f G . Roa d Esq., of a daughter. Jed ~,,, On the 31st ult., at Herne-hill, the lady of J ose ph -- Mason, of Mincing-lane, of a daughter. On the 31st ult., at Chastleton Rectory, the lady of tbe Rev. Horatio Westmacott, of a daughter. l i ftf On the Ist inst., at Cambridge-terrace, Hyd e -p a rk, - Charles Wood, of a dsughter. Dd On the Ist inst., in Portland-place, the lady of A-e Tritton, Esq., of a daughter. HARRIED. t he On the 2d inst., at. St. George's, Hanover-square, 1 140 Rev. J. J. Ellis, Rector of St . M art i n ' s Outwich, CaPiit, Macpherson, 68th Light I n f antry, to Sophia, relict of t he Francis A. Morris, Esq., of 25, Hyde-park-gardens. „ r e On the 24th ult., at Trinity Church, Brompton, Mr. Lawrence Eyle s , t o S arah Amelia, eldest daughter of the la John Berrimar, Esq. On the 27th ult., at Stewartstown Church, Ireland, the , Charles Ward, t o M ary, daughter of the late Very Bev'. IP Jackson, M.A., Dean of Armagh. DIED. LIO' Early on the mo rn i ng o f t h e 2 d i nst., most deeply 90'4 servedly lamented, Amos Swaisland, Esq., of Cra) Kent, aged 28. e On the 27th ult., at L ew i s - p l ace, M ary, relict of R. lifost Esq., aged 87. On the 29th ult., Mary, the beloved wife of the Rea Berry, Hackney. o.i the 29th ult., at Margate, Sarah, the wife of ''- Dedgety, E-q., aged El. v a irfO' On the 29th ult., at L ey b urn, Charles Gregory Esq., of Grilling Castle, York, aged 77. 9 1 On the 29th ult., at Calais, Colonel S. Hill, late of the Regiment of Foot, aged 72. 1 1 (' ff. On the 2d inst., i n Bi s h opsgate-street Within, Mrs. I'anson. On the 2(1 itltt., Tidd P ra tt, s i x th child of Edmund G;dtoo, 1.. o- Pr London : Printed and Puilisiei by iIURDO YQ,U 11/ No. 112, St ran d, P r i n t er , at Tire Sun Office, ty r Strand, in the Precinct of tie Savoy, in the CO" Bliddleaa, giaturday. •Jmaimuy 80$0. Price 14234 240 16j NATi At a ME hers, of 31 • Town l a 1' c d t : W : a t h e r n e e a be r gt tenlber neit ai ding tlae Aresent crisis EN, ALI nn antrnow Meeting, founded : A At a 8 , "Mber, ""w as raos. Tao That f NI, in ref( rescind the ( t a : ci titat tlth li n and di „,,.. 141 ,Ying for t Moved bY That a er ilatel • Of Y co Nr ce ,„ called in "Piller tholationn, George Cpl NPte „ a that th e e that A u "P' b een lel, b, then Present ."Y really cluenti_ y , • inen br la" ' n. 1. Dec.— 6: tzai Fu t as he but t 144 dist) h 14 tallt. 4 "i i en Dr —6 18 • 45 . Jan. 1. De c. G. be e . 6. C r , ' 4 . Jan. 1 De c . 6. tzar b ` which i b; 'Avis l sef,:wit th e rt f4 : t° rY, 4,Bl,,nitii then Dec. 6. Dec. 6,