The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-16 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS of , YESTERDAY. ( From the Morning Chronicle.) We are unwilling to enter into any controversy with a writer in the Examiner, who contends that in the controversy re specting Mr. AP Leod we have no right to complain either of the sui reme Government or of the local authorities. We are as strongly impressed as he can be with the calamitous re . sults, both to this country and America, of which war cannot fail to be productive; but we entertain a confident hope that s e ar will be avoided. We differ, however, with the writer as to his assumption that the Americans are in the right and we are in the wrong. The statement which he adopts from Sir F. Head does not, for instance, bear out his remark, " that the attack (of . the Caroline) prima facie was un lawful. It was a midnight attack on American citizens in an American boat moored to the American shore. It was not an attack in the progress of hostilities ; for it appears that not a shot had before been fired by Mr. Mullah or his militiamen or volunteers." This, we apprehend, is sacrificing the spirit to the words. The force on Navy Island had cannonaded the British village of Chippewa. That the cannonade was ineffectual did not make it the less an attack. If a man aims a blow with a stick at the head of another, but the blow does not reach the head, the man struck at would not the less consider himself attacked. knotting that a constant communication was kept up between Fort Schlosser and the island, Mr. M'Nab might reasonably anticipate a mere effectual cannonade from the sympathisers obtaining possession of cannon of more extensive range, in which case the village of Chippewa would have been destroyed. The attack was made when armed men took possession of Navy Island and fired on Chippewa. The Caroline was hired by the ruffians to convey cannon and men from Fort Schlosser to the island, and in following the Caroline to Fort Schlosser and taking possession of her the Canadian militia were resisting hestiiities, and not commencing them. The case which the writer in the, Examiner afterwards supposes to prove that the American authorities are in the right, is not in point— " The American authorities," he says, "have done precisely what we should have, and, indeed, must have done, under si milar circUms`aoces. If a mixed band of French refugees and English ruffians were to take hart in a French civil war, to land on the French coast and annoy the neighbouring country ; if they derived recruits and supplies horn our shore, and, be fore our Government could prevent their doing so, a steamer should run from Dover to France, and entry them arms and men, and return at night and moor in Dover Harbour—if, are sae, under these circumstances; a band of French vo'unteers should at midnight enter Dover Harbour, attack the steamer, loose her from the pier, and endeavour to kill the crew and scuttle the vessel, should we or should we not, on the alarm being given in the town, interfere to stop such proceedings ?" To make the parallel complete, the writer should have al lowed this mixed bind of French refugees and English ruf fians to obtain possession' of Dover Castle, and leisurely, day after day, use the steamer in conveying cannon and other stores and men from it to the French coast. In such a case the English Government, being unable to vindicate its authority, could not justly blame the French Govern ment if, in self defence, it proceeded to attack and scuttle the steamer in Dover harbour. The question seems to us to b too serious to be left to the cognizance of a local court in the State of New York. It is possible that the plea suggested by the writer in the Examiner might be allowed, and that, even if convicted, M'Leod might not be executed; but even as a matter of prudence we question the propriety of the course re commended. We are persuaded, on the contrary, that the course on which Government has entered is much more likely to he attended with pacific results. If APNab and his party were in the wrong, 2nd it could be established that the Americans on grounds of international law are entitled to redress, the Government ought not to lose a moment in giving satisfaction. But we fair an abandonment by the British Government of in dividuals, whether regulars or militia, who in their mode of ' defending the British territory kept within the strict line of their duty, would be little likely to purchase a continuance of • peace, while it would entail dishonour on those who should consent to such a proceeding. (N tom the Mornina Post.) The long article of The San, which professes to comment upon the observations on home and foreign trade, which we offered to our readers on Thursday last, seems to us to go very wide of the mark. It is from no dist espect to oar Contem 'wary, or disregerd of the subject., that we do not reply to the article in question, but because we think that we have already s ated, with sufficient fulre ss and distinctness, our views upon the points to which the article relates. Let us repeat, how.. ever, that our great object is to ma'ntain (so far as it may he possible) such a system of proteeton and restriction as will afford opportunities of remunerative industry to all classes of the pe .ple, whether agricultural or manufacturing We are very jealeus of any change calculated to diminish the amount of our home agriculture, because, if that were wholly or in part abandoned ' , we hate no conception how the people now employed in it would find renur.erative employment. (From the Times.) The fresh perplexity into which the affairs of the East have been thrown is not cured by the answer of Lord Palmerston to the questions of Lord Francis Egerton aad Sir Robert Feel as to the authenticity and the tenour of the hatti-scheriff, by which the nominal hereditary Government of Egypt has been restored to Mehemet Ali. The House of Commons listened to that answer on Friday night not only with impatience, but wth contemptuous indignation. There is but one voice in all parties (unless we arc to except the Ministers of the Crown and the r morning organ of Donnhig-street) to reprobate a course which looks lilac double-dealing on the part of Eng land. There is but one feeling amongst political men united by nothing but a common sense of justice and honesty— namely, tt at the only proper disavowal of so discreditable a praceeding is the instant recall of the author of this mischief. That individual masks himself, wa are told, behind a diplomatic pre& nee : but we defy the Ministers, collectively and individually, to declare to Parlia ment that Lord Ponsonby did use due diligence to prevent the publication of this hatti-scheriff, or that he did not use undue and unauthorised diligence to promote it. The Foreign Se .cretary is advised that this stinted and suspicious readmission of the Pacha to the Pachalic which he governs, and to his master's favour, in an act of the Sultan attne. If it be so, it is certainly the very first step which the Sultan has thought pro k -.er to take on his own independent authomity with regard to the Pacha of Egypt since the collective note of July, 1639, was signed. The moment for acting proprio vigore is either not yet come or long since past. Are we, then, to infer that the Four Powers had no cognizance eT this hatti-scheriff? That not a whisper of ad vice has been allowed to reach the Divan since the Turkish fleet returned to a Turkish port ? And that the Sultan is left ' to put " his own acts," in force without the knowledge or against the consent of those by whose interference he has re I i - covered whatever power over Syria and Egypt he may now . possess ? These suppositions are ridiculous. . The Porte may be made to bear the odium of measures too dishonest, too crafty, and too indiscreet to be avowed by Christian Foreign Secretarie' ; but it is to our Ministers that the world looks For the fair and just exercise of the pewee they have helped the Sultan to resume. The Allies ought to have known the pro visions of this grant; they ought to have stipulated, that con ditions which had been backed by British men-of-war should be as exactly observed as if they had been made by British officers. I.ord Palmerston states, that it was un doubtedly the intention of the Four Powers to grant to Mehe met Ali the bona fide hereditary possession of Egypt in the direct line. If that was their intention, who has prevented it from being carried into execution ? Are their forces so con temptible, or their diplomacy so unskilful, that they cannotob tain from the Porte the ratification of their own promises, the fulfilment of their own desires? The agent who urged the Porte to the "act" which it is now alike inconvenient either to avow or to-disavow, was the same who urged the Porte to pronounce the decheance of the Pacha—contrary to the inten tions of the Four Powers : the same who denounced, in the most violent language, the -terms of the Napier convention— contrary to the intentions of the Four Powers : the same who advenced the time of the blockade of Alexandia—contrary .to the intention of the Four Powers : the same who, i n 1839, urged the dying Sultan to risk his last army in the fatal campaign of that year—contrary to the . desires of every . prudent statesman in Europe. That agent vas and is the British Ambassador at Constantinople. If these dis:strous end ill-judged measure:; were all " acts of the Sultan," Lord Ponsonby ought to he recalled for having failed in his duty cf using British influence to avert such precipitate emeeses. If they were, as we firmly believe, all or most ef them the consequent s of his direct in.tigation or indirect machination, Lord Ponsonby ought to be disavowed, recalled, and disgraced, for having presumed to frustrate the intentions of the Queen's Allies, for having thwarted the instructions of the Queen's Ministers, and for having allowed the promises of the Queen's officers to be broken. Is the peace of the world again to be placed in j. opardy because Lord Ponsonby is a well. connected Nobleman ? Is the influence of England to make the Porte more vindictive and unjust than has been the wont even of Turkish Princes? (From the Globe.) The Times has returned to the question of tae St. Sulpice Seminary. On Tuesday last we answered its article of the precedin g day. h now, on the very day of the discussion, returns to the matter. We cannot now touch upon every point of sophistry in its observa tions, nor unravel the jumble of Ideas into which it has purposely fallen. Our Contemporary' s notion as to the supremacy of the S.,vereigr, to which he triumphantly refers, i s perfectly unsound. It is a supremacy in tem poral not in ecclesiastical matters : it is not a negative of different churches, but the reverse. Henry VIII. was declared bead, not of the Lutheran but of the Catho lic church ; and though many discouragement; were employed in after times to put and it is, it not an down the latt er c h urc h , they have since - been removed, Esta blished, a recognised Church. The case is the reverse in Canada. No such discouragements have been employed there ;and .f they had, it would not only have been con trary to good faith, bat we 51 1 00 l havelost Canada l e- fore this,as we shall if we don't mind what we are is an The notion in Canada is that tl.e Ca thowe established religion there. As to the ()curt of national organ or not, that is quite a dii,ffe"n affair. A Church may be, al we have in stances stances in other countries, an Established Ch urcn, albeit not the national organ in religious matters. With respect to the passage quoted in the former Canada Act, that it was not intended to operate, nor did i' operate, as a defeaz ince of the right of prope ty or lands enjoyed by the Seminary of St. Suipice—it sim ply operated to take away the claim for the future to tithes, dues, and other personal payments, &e., from individuals not of the Roman Catholic f&tb. The other points we need not again refer to. The doughty Bishop is, we believe, not v,ry strong in the hole of persuading even his own party of the poVey of insulting the C:1- tholics of Canada, and repudiating. - the spirit, if not terms, of treaties and laws which had been aeeed upon for so long a time. (From the Standard). We should be extremely sorry to be oblige 1 to fear that public atteLtinn 13 not steadily fixe 1 upon the debate which will take Wave this n i g h t i n the House of Lords upon the Bishopof Eset et ' s motion relative to the San Sulpiee Ordinance. The ;In . '. is, as regards the present and the future, of a deete of importance which it is impossible to overrate. The Hectic:, of Lords, if we may respectfully speak the truth, is upon its trial before the people. if th e House decide according to law, and in the spirit of the Protestant Constitution, it will regain the position in the opinion of the country which it occu pied two sears ago. If, yielding to any influence, bow much soever respected, it connive at revoking the Reformation, it will continue to sink, as— we must not conceal the truth—it has been sinking since the passing of the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill, the Cler g y Reserves Confiscationß ill and some other such Bill s . We know c ‘tti that the m a i n t enance of its as well as any -; proper Oleo b y'the House. of L or d s , is as nee •sary to the pudic goud as to the safety of the.acti:twra .3 oni tha:. nothing hut a general ruin eau follow the humiliation of that branch of the sovereign power ; but the Peers cannot be saved in spite of them selves, and it were the part of an enemy, not of a friend, to conceal from them the truth, that their hold upon public confidence has diminished and is diminishing, under that guidance to which they have too often submitted. The question to be submitted to their Lordships is a simple one. It is this :—will they permit the Queen's Ministers to carry back her Ma jesty's empire to the superstitions of the fifteenth and to the policy of the thirteenth century ? The ordinance signed by Lord Sydenham is in direct vio lation of the Acts of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Elizabeth, for the establishment of the Protestant faith in all the British dominions ; but it is more—it is in violation of the Acts of Henry the Se cond and Edward the First, for restraining the grasping cupidity of the Romish Church, and securing the inde pendence of the Church of England, even while that Church remained in connection with the Papal See. LAN* FOR THE POOR. (.From the Examiner.) In our observations on the " priva'e arrangement" in favour of LenLerd Waldegrave, we promised t watch the issue of other prosecutions for the same offence, the parties in which might not happen to be lords. The first which bas occurred since the Waldegrave case is the prosecution of Stephen Hodge, on the Western cir cuit, for assaulting a constable in the exercise of his duty, and cutting him with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The judge in this case did not sugge t " a private ar rangement." The trial proceeded, and it appeared that the prisoner had a scuffle with the officer, in which he struck him with some cutting instrument. The act of violence was not wanton; it was committed in the heat of blood, and in an attempt to escape from apprehension. It was not an attack on the person of the officer fur the sport of cruelty. The constable was not injured for life ; at the end of seven weeks he was able to kayo the infirmary. The prisoner was of course convicted, and Mr. Justice Erskine passed sentence of fifteen years' transportation. Such is law for: the poor I What law for the rich is, Lord Denman has shown in a far worse case, and we may now more emphatically repeat the words of Lord Weide grave's counsel, the.; he has reason to fad " greatly in &toted to the Chief Justice." MALTA, MARCH, 1. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The continued drought has made it necessary, with a view of saving as much as possible the water of the aqueduct for the wants of the inhabitants, to send away the ships of war to water in Sicily. The Implacable and Beacon left for Syracuse for this pur pose on the 20th ult., and would have been fdliwed by the Ganges and other vessels, as their stocks had run out, had not some rain since fallen. _ _ _ The Inconstant, Captain Fring, arr:ved on the 23d ult., bringing 296 disposable seamen to fill up vacancies in the Me diterraneanfleet. The Athol troop-ship arrived from Corfu, on the 18th in stant, with detachments for the West Indies, with which she sailed on the 27th, but owing to contrary gales of wind she bore up yesterday. The French steam-packet from the Levant, which arrived "on the 25th ult., brought Mr. Parsons, mate of the Vesuvius, which vessel was fallen in with same day ninety miles to the eastward of Malta. under sail from Beyrout, having expended her coals. This officer is bearer of despatches for Sir Robert Stopford, and brings likewise an Indian mail via the Persian Gulf, despatched from Bambay on the 3d December. The Ve suvius did not get in until the 28th ult., when she was taken in tow by the Great Liverpool, coming in from Alexandria, whence she sailed the 23d ult., bringing the mail despatched from Bombay, the Ist ult , by the Perenice. The Pr.,metheus conveyed to Marseilles the overland mail, and left this morning. The Great Liverpool leaves this evening, and conveys the passengers:—Mr.following and Mrs. Larking, British Con sal at Alexandria, on sick leave, and child; Major Douglas, Capta , n Gray, Dr. Spence. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson, Mrs. Woodhouse, Mrs. Waddington and two children. Dr. Stephen. son, Messrs. Hergog, Niegre, Rury, Konasis, Nisbet, Smith, Frith, and three children; Little, Sackett, Aspinall, Cotton, Taylor, Pattula, Gray, Welle, Evans, Gordon, and Lieutenant Jerningham,R.N., Capt. Hathorn, RN., and four servan.s. The ships in port are the Princess Charlotte, Ceylon, Edin burgh, Ganges, Thunderer, Bellerophon, Carysfort, Dido, In constant, Wasp, Magp'e, Gorgon, Hydra, Vesuvius, Alecto, Locust, Medea, Confiance, Acheron, and Phoenix, all which are fitting for sea. A report is current that one division will ' troceed to Naples, and another to the coast of Syria, where it is more than probable that the Syrians may turn upon the Ot tomans with the arms so bountifully supplied them of late. It is rumoured that Admiral Sir Robert Stopford talks of breaking up his establishment at Malta soon after the 20th inst., as before that period he expects to be relieved from his command. The Edinburgh has just received orders to bend sails ; her destination is said to be Alexandria. WEST Her Majesty's packet Hope, Lieut. Creser arrived at Fal mouth on Thu , sday morning, from St. Thomas's Feb. 4, Cape Henri Feb, 9. On freight 70,000 dollars.—Fassengers :—The Hon. Captain Harris, of the Racehorse, invalided, and super seded by Captain Fitzgerald, of the Magnificent ; Mr. Ste phens, of London ; Mr. Fishburn, stipendiary magistrate, from Jamaica; Mr. Sarigenitti, Member of the Assembly far St. Catherine's, Jamaica; Mr. Drake ; Philip Miles, Esq., M.P. for Bristol, and Miss Atkins; also Mr. J. S. Wilkinson, of the Skip;ack, superseded by J. J. Warren, of the Cleopatra. The Ilecla, steamer, bronfiyht up the Jamaica mails of the 2d of Feb. The ship Matilda, oC London, from Jam-Ilea for Lon don, last Bermuda, where she had been to repir, was pas ed off Scilly by the Hope, 23 days from the latter island. We regret exceedingly to observe by cur advices from Ja maica, that the season had been particularly unhealthy in that island; which, it would appear, extended even to a prevalence of the preceding six months. The number of deaths amongst th c civilians has been unusually large, whilst the naval and military classes have also suffered considerably, particularly the 1 itter ; the 82.1 regiment is instanced as having lost up wards of one tenth of its strength since its arrival n April, 1810. Her Majesty's brig Pilot had at one time 63 cases of fever on board ; it is with pain we learn that she had lost her master, surgeon, and five men by that contagion. Of the productions of the island, little can be done this year, generally, owing to the drought of last year, at least not until August. Present appearances afford a prospect, moreover, that the ensuing sugar crops will exceed the average of late years, provided some unforeseen event does not transpire to blight the expectations of the planters. The negro population are said to exemplify, on most estates, a praiseworthy attention to their engagements. Singular enough, they appear to enter tain so great a dread of the treatment they had to endure, as bond-servants, by overwork, that instances are told us, in cases of pressing orders for sugar from certain estates, double pay has been offered them to work at night, but no inducement could prevail in overcoming their aversion to work over-hours. Their reply was, " We like de money very well, but de work make de flesh s well ." Hi; Excellency Sir Charles Metcalfe .had issued invitation cards for a ball to be given on the 10th of February, in cele bration of the birth of the Princess Royal. The Howe of Cor rection at Kingston contained at the close of last year as many as 200 inmates. The new Judges at Jamaica were to be W. C. M‘Dougall and W. Stevenson, Esqrs. ; Mr. Panton would accept the Vice-Chancellorship. On the 23th January the Governor of St. Thomas's gave a splendid ball to the officers of the Cleopatra and Ringdove, which was r. turned by the Cleopatra on the next day. On the 27th both men of war went to sea. On the 25th the Cleopatra rcturnel from her cru . s2,, having taken a vessel, on hoard of which were 28.5 slaves, end had sent her to Havannah fie 7 ad judication. She was bound to Porto Rico. J. P. Nissen, Esq., of Saint Thomas's, died on the 27th of January, in the 73d year of his age • the greater part of his life has been spent on the island, as his " Reminiseencys of his 46 years' Resi dence" iuform us, where his memory will be long cherished with esteem and respect. The Linnet packet had arrived at Barbadoes. ANCIENT BY-LAws.—The following were among the by-laws of Portsmouth, passed in 1241 :—" If the e be any thief, under the value of thirteen pence, his ear t , ) be nailed to the pillory, and he to choose whether he will cut or tear it off. And if there be any that coun terfeiteth false letters or false seals, or maketh any false bargains be to be set on the pillory on the market day. Also, if there be any baker that wi►l not bake after the as size he forfeit his. bread and his body to the pillory at the Mayor's grace ; and all other falsehoods in crafts the same. Also, if there be any chiders or scolds, they be put on the duckiog stool, and let fall into the Chamber. And if we take a thief be shall be flayed and his eyes put out. And if there be any man that slayeth another, he shall be bur: t at Catteeliffe. And if a woman slay a man, she shall be tied to a stake at low water, and let tita floods overflow her at Cattecliffe. COURTS•MARTIAL.,—A correspondent in his further exposure of the anornal'es of our Militlry Code justly animadverts on the agg.avation cf punishment in flicted by the delays in communic a ting th e S e nt ences o f Courts- Martha. Thia_is an evil that we have• always considered might be easily remedied, and we never met wit's any suffieiT.nt re.-son f)r its continuance. We will g ive two cases of very recent occurrence Arikirgly illus.- , trativc of the question. On the 14th of Dec. last, a Naval 1 Court-Martial was hell on board her Maje3ty's ship powerful, in the Mediterralca n , and in the course of that day the officer was tried, acquitted, a-,cl his sentence com municated to him. About the same period, a Captain of the 19th Foot was tried at Malta, and the general impression is the the sentence *f the Court fully and honourably c p tg r h a l ea . t n i c e di ,ee decision n ibomn armyitstsubmitted acquitted him. Bo that as it may, the officer and his r; 1 to remain in suspense as . to his fate until tho pro• mar , 5 f ami ly we - c obliged, es is Cie authorities t ) ceedings could th l e e Q s u e e n e t n, to an k c i Malt boA:ever, the intelligence arrived, th e He died suddenly a t the Auberge wife and three children. Had ago_ de Castillo, leaving a o much for his mind and holy ? nizing suspense teen too Captain ' vl, l3 •a e s f° nTmore War %IN take the matter into We trust the Socretary 1 , t and the guilty. —Navel which vanishes alike the innocent ard irovi le a remedy for a system his early ems.ileratior, dn tCbty:ll.ll:tthste.o and Military Gazette. The mansion in Hyde Park-terrace , recentl y occupied by Mr. Jerninghare, a p artner in the late firm of Wright and Co., has be'n let to , Nl , s. . Law, w o vdi h 11 t ake possession immediately after East r. . NEWLY-INVENTED SPECTACLE S.—The art 1- aid afforded to the Sight by Lenses, le one of t he most vale'' aide gifts derived from science, and it is indeed of vital importance that the adoption of Spectacles to imperfect vision, should be regu lated on proper principles. Messrs. S. and B. Solomo ns, 39, Al. bemarle-street, Piccadilly_ opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, Bank of England, having devoted their whole lives to this branch of Science, and their long extensive practice have enabled them to invent Spectacle Lenses, upon a new construction, which have gained universal approbation. Immediately they are Placed before imperfect vision, eiter by day or candle-light, every object becomes clear a distinct, so that the most aged imperfect sight becoixi bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful,/ tural, and original state. Their Invisible Operative Voic Conductor for deaf persons is not the least perceptible nor ore uncomfortable than having a piece of wool in its place; the ive immediate relief to old standing ex treme cases of deatii 3. Those valuable inventions have also gained the Patronage of the Royal Family, and the unqualified approbation of above four hundred of the principal members of the medical profession, and numerous individuals of high distinction who have been greatly benestcd by their use.—No connexion with persons of the same name. 39, Albernarla.strect, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King Witliam.street, Bank ofEngland. THE SUN, LON lION, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1841 ENGLAND AND AMERICA. (From the Paris Papers of Sunday.) The leading articles of the Paris Journals are almost ex clusively on the Eastern question, and on the dispute between England and the United States. We subjoin some extracts on the latter subject, which are net without interest. The Constitutionnel, in allusion to the remark that the desire for war manifested in the United States is but the expression of a discomfited party seeking to create embarrassment fur the new Government, says : " As far as we can judge from the information communi cated in the journals and letters from the United States, it is not a party, but the entire country, which has expressed its inflexible determination to put down the pretensions of England. The real question with the Americans is not as to whether M'Leod shall or shall not be hanged, or whether their territory shall be enlarged by a few hundred leagues, which are contested. These are the reasons assigned, and not the cause of rupture. What the Americans desire is, to deliver themselves for ever from the presence of the English in Canada, and to free the new northern world from the patronage of Europe ; and for this they have warm auxiliaries amongst the Canadians themselves, who have by so many acts of bold resistance and so many sacrifices, shown their di,like of the yoke which is imposed upon them. In this respect, then, the war which appears to be at hand will, in the United Stares, be a national one, and no Government can, on this point, modify the general feeling of the country, or even hesi tate to fellow the general impulsion. The rights of the Exe cutive are very limited, too limited perhaps by the constitution. The nation has delegates, but in reality it governs by itself. What it demands its agents must execute, awl the shades of political opinion which distinguish the two great parties, and which are very slight, have no importance as to the solution of a question upon which public op . mon, and the representatives of the States and of the Federal Union, have pronounced their will unanimously." The Courrier Francais considers a war as imminent, but offers some reflections on the subject which do honour to the writer, and which are the more important, as appearing in a Journal which has been charged by the advocates of the peace policy with a desire to put an end to the tranquillity which has so long existed in Europe, and by which the United States have so amply benefited. It says— " We hope that, on the eve of a struggle which would cause a great effusion of blood, and which presents no chance of compensation for the calamities of war, the two Governmews will give way to reflection, and feel some remorse for the passions which have led to the present danger. France, in deed, has no reason to be afflicted at the prospect of a war between England and the United States, for such a war might be for us, so far as a selfish policy is concerned, a source of joy and triumph ; but we must be above the paltry sugges tions of private interest. Viewing the question on a larger basis, such a war would interrupt the commercial relations which connect the two continents, and which during the last 25 years have reached a vast extension. In this pant of view the war would he a calamity for Europe. War sometimes promotes the cause of civilization. Thus the English could have rendered vast services in India, if theyjiad ameliorated the condition of the people whom they subjected. So, in con quering Algeria, we shall sooner or later have the power of doing good to the uncivilized tribes with whom we are now contending. But on what principle can a war between the English and the Americans be beneficial? The London journals announce the intention of stirring up the slaves of the Southern States to revolt ; and, on the other hand, the citizens of New York and the Maine have probably the intention of stirring up revolt among the oppressed French colonists in Canada. On both sides, then, social war would be added to foreign war, and the contest would be car ried on at the same time by scaffolds, and by cannon. What an example for the civilized world 1 If war should take place ' between these two nations, it will not be a war of principle, for there is no question of right involved; it will be a con flict prompted by ambition and fed by pride ; that is to say, the most odious spectacle that could be offered by human nature. We will not inquire which of the two countries could do most harm to the other. They are both powerful, and both persevering and obstinate in their designs. Eng land has an incontestible superiority at this moment, and her first blows would be strong ones With 11 ships of the line, 15 frigates, and 39 smaller vessels of war, the United States would find it difficult to contend against the most formidable navy of the universe ; but they have sailors and a warlike population, and money will not be wanting for the building of ships. England has been unfortunate hitherto in her wars with the United States, and her Government may desire to take signal vengeance for the past. The reminiscences of the past, on the contrary, raise the pride of the Americans, and they hope this time to take possession of Canada, and to drive the English from their continent. This is tl.e chapter of illusions of both countries ; the reality will be terrible. If war should take place, it will fall upon the two nations as a judgment from Heaven upon their reciprocal insolence, and the Satanic pride which led to it. The United States will thus expiate their ingratitude to France, which made them what they are, and England will pay the penalty of her dislo3 al in tervention in the East." The Gazette de France takes a different view from that of the Courrier, as to the probable effect of a war between Eng land and the United States, in the interest of France : ,‘ The consequences of such an event," says the Gazette, " wou'd be immense for us. All our commerchl interesti are engaged in our relations with America. Our silks, our wines, our jewellery, our furniture, our articles of fashion and luxury, form a large capital ; all this would be placed in jeopardy, for the first act of the English would be to blockade the ports of the Union." The National displays none of the calm reasoning and good feeling of the Courrier. It is rather like the evil spirit breath ing into the lungs of its intended victims the means of com mencing and prolonging a contest, which it desires shall be de structive to both. It urges the Americans to w3r, and pro mises that, if they will strike the first blow towards the free dom of the Ocean, they will find auxiliaries. It concludes an article full of violence towards England, and in which it de clares that she Whig Government is desirous of war as the only means of directing public attention from its incapacity and mismanagement, with the following paragraph We hope the United States will be firm and resolute to the end. It will not be the first time that they have lowered the 13rifsh pride, which has always increased in insolence with the humility of its adversaries. Let the Americans bear their own history in mind; they will find in it just grounds for con fidence, and the whole world will be indebted to them if they succeed in shaking a power, whose immoderate ambition is the source of annoyance acid anxiety both to old and new States." PORTUGAL. By the Iberia steamer, Captain Cooper, arrived at Fal mouth on Friday night, we have dates from Gibraltar of the 4th instant ; Cadiz of the sth ; Lisbon of the Bth ; Opprto, of the 9th ' • and Vigo, of the 9th. The British trans port, Abercrombie Robertson, sailed from Gibraltar on the 'sth inst. with the 47th regiment and part of the 33d, for Barba does. A melancholy accident happened at Catalan Bay on the 28th of February. A large stone, supposed to have been loosened by the late rains, fell from the rock above, and in its fall split into fragments, one of which unfortunately alighted upon a house below, and injured the tenants—a husband and his wife. The Iberia has 32 passengers, amongst them his Excellency Don Pedro de Souza Bo' elho. LISBON, MARCH 8. The instalment due on the Ist inst., on account of the claims of the Duke of Wellington, Lord Beresford, and others, was paid with great punctuality. The sum was 160 contos, and had been raised some time ago for the purpose. The Chamber of Deputies has been, principally occupied during the week with the debotes upon the treaty of commerce with the United States, which was finally approved of, without the least alteration, on the sth inst. The treaty consists of 14 articles, and is to continue in force for six years from the date of its ultimate ratification, and for one year more after the ex piration of that period, should either of the contracting parties so require it. Its pith and marrow is that vessels of either na tion shall be placed on a footing of perfect equality with na tional vessels in the ports of the other, as to port, anchorage, tonnage, and light duet, as likewise with respect to any draw backs or other advantages enjoyed by the latter; and that the goods of each shall pay no higher duties in the ports of the other than those now paid or hereafter to be paid by the most favoured fore:gn nation. These are the main features of the Treaty, but there is another provision, which, from its extraor dinary character, I must not omit to notice. This is, that. the Consuls of each shall, in the ports of the other, be invested with judicial power to decide disputes between the shipmasters and mariners, subjects of the'r own Government, quite independ ently of the local authorities, who are to be allowed no right of interference in such matters. The subject of the alterations to be 'made in the Custom house tariff is about to be brought forward before the Cortes, having been submitted to a Committee of each Chamber for consideration. The duties on some qualities of cotton goods will be raised, but on the whole the alterations are said to be rather favourable to British trade than otherwise. The question regarding the new militia is yet in abeyance. Petitions against the permanent restoration of that force, and for the re-establishment of the National Guard on its former footing, are flocking in from all parts of the country. That from the Municipal Chamber of Santarem was couched in terms so insulting to the Government and its supporters in the Cortes, that the Deputies have referred it to a Committee spe cially appointed to review it, and to repot whether it affords sufficient grounds for a prosecution against the parties sign ing it. I understand that rapid progress is making here with the draft of the new commercial treaty with England, and that it will very shortly be presented to Lord Howard for transmission home. Very alarming accounts continue to be received from the southern provinces, where the guerillas are committing frightful depredations upon those of the inhabitants known to * be of the Liberal party. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Pluto put in here for coals oo the 6th instant, on her way to the Mediterranean. The Government has raised a loan of 500 cantos from the bank on the mortgage of some branches of the revenue, from next April forward, for the express purpose of meeting the payment of the dividends on the foreign debt in London. I learn that Lord Palmerston has interposed his good offices to obtain for Portugal payment of the sums due to her by Spain, for the services of the Portuguese auxiliary legion. IRE LAND. DUBLIN, 111Ancit 13. Ma. O'CONNELL.—The Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin arrived last night at his residence, Merrion-square— we are h a ppy t o a dd, i n th e b es t h ea l t h and spirits. DISC RANCIIISEMENT IN IRELAND.—Even without the aid of Lord Stanley's Bill the work of disfranchisement has been in rapid progress. Mr. Henry Grattan, in a letter addressed to-day to the freeh o ld ers o f Ki ldare, regretting that he cannot attend their meeting, says, that he has analysed the return relative to the representation of Ireland, recently laid on the table of the House, and the result proves the a imfranehisement of Ireland. Since 1835 there has been a decrease of near 20,000 electors— at present, if we allow fur dew hs and absence, the number avail able probably does not exceed 70,000 effec , ive voters." MEETING IN DERRY,—A meeting was lately held in the Derry Court-house, for tl e purpose of co-operating with the society about being f orme d i n this town, for promoting the cul ture of flax Ireland. Th e various speakers all concurred in opinion that . . this country should not import that article from any other kingdom, since, with a little attention, it could be rendered as good in quality as the Dutch. The Earl of Aberdeen's excellent speech on eac. i i ind the Marquis of d o t f r!cl A a l r r a . tion, reached this The and a few of f e t r i V satisfac stNbec°cormnainPeb°dYii:tiornrfierrnomtf The Sun, o n Thursday creeping of the people of Aberdeen spread rapidly, and gave almost clergyaj seenor ity about with N h °ll-in g . are highly delighted that the infamous project of reward_ eeu face; ;ri II ns i° ; 11 hYuetst adhere nts t : h ri e '1 Y g ' r great tine erme ing a rebel has been so completely knocked 011 the head The healths of the Earl of Aberdeen and the Marquis o't Ncrmanby hate been drunk with great enthusiasm at se veral convivial parties, and the feeling of gratitude wa , extended, with justice, to the proprietor of The Sun through whose spirited exertions the people of Scotland were put in possession of the important intelligence twelve hours sooner than they other wise coul4 have beep.—Aber deen Herald of Saturday. THE MERCANTILE NAVY. The persons connected with the shipping of the out ports seem generally to be making a movement towards the selection of competent persons as masters and mates in the merchant servi ce . A t presen t t h e ap pointment rests with the ship owner a l one , an d con sidering the great risk to which persons and pro perty are exposed by the employment of improper persons in an office of- such responsibilty, and that the low rate of insurance does not allow the interests of the shipowner to be completely identified with those of the merchants and others who have an interest in the safe conveyance of their goods, the proposal is to establish hoards to test the qualification of masters and mates, so that their appointment may not he left solely to the inclination of an indi vidual. A deputation has come from G 1 tsgow charged with the mission o f h o ldi ng con f ereuces with the different bodies connected with the shipping of the United Kingdom; with a view to the esta blishment of a Legislative enactment for such a test as they consider clearable. This deputation has held a conference with the shipovi ners of Liverpool, at which it was resolved that it would he desirable to establ:sh boards for the examination of masters and mates in the merchant. service, s uc h b oar d s t o b e established in London, Liverpool, Bristol, • Newcastle, Dublin, and Glasgow (or Leith), and to examine as to qualification in navigation, seamanship, stow age of cargo, and knowledge of principal ports, with a power of re-examination is the event of a ship being lost. The funds, it was resolved, shoal he raised by fees for examining capt tins, and also by a charge of 3 , 1. per ton on registering new ships, or Id. per ton annually on all British shipping. It is the great desire of the persons who are bringing forward this scheme, that by the legis lative enactment appotfitmg the proposed boards ro patronage should be given to the Govern ment, nor, indeed, any right of interfering with the boards ; but that their appointment should rest with local bodie., such as the Town Councils of the place, or, where such associations exist, the associations of underwriters or shipowners. Tne duty of 3d. per ton, which is proposed to be levied on a prin ciple according to which the shipowners should bear part of the expenses, as well as the examined, is caleul ited on a basis according to which the mer chant ships in 1840 are 'letdown at 1,700, and th:ir tonnage at 250,000, supposing an increase similar to that of several preceding ye us." According to this calculation, the duty of 3d. on the tonnage would yield 3,125/.. besides the examination fees, which would be two guineas for a captain, and one guinea for a coasting master or a mate, and 103. 6d. fur the mate of a coaster. The account of British shipping, according to Mr. Johnson, who is one of the GI:, gow Deputation, gives as the number of vessels 16,000, which would require as many captains, and about 24.000 mates, altogether 40,000 officials. Allowing 10 per cent. of these to fall off annually, and of course to he renewed, the number of examinations would be 4,000. Taking in the increase, as given above, and allowing the vessels to be 1,700 in num ber, aryl, moreover, supposing that 700 would be supplied by old masters and mat?s, 1,000 vessels would be left, requiring 2,500 masters and mates. Now 2,000 Capt tins for foreign voyages, at two gui. neas, would give 4,2001. Masters of coasters and mates of foreign voyages, in number 3,000, and at the same rate, would give 3,150/. ; 1,500 mates of coasters at 10s. 61. would give 787/. ;and the whole, with the addition of C;e rate on tonnage, would amount to 11,262/. ; while the expenses of the total number of local boards are estimated to amount to no more than 10,000/. The Central Board of ex aminers would be fixed in London, and be appointed by the united committee of the general shipowners and Lloyd's. This proposal being as yet in so early a stage, it is impossible to tat what will be its chance of success, especi,Py as that will in a great mea sure depend en a proof that serious evils arise from de fects in the present system. The calculations, at all would seem to show that the plan has brea thoroughly considered as to its practical working by the parties who urge its adoption. HOP INTELLIGENCE. EAST RETFORD, MARCH 11, 1841. — At this se 1- SOO of the year (and particularly when we t Ike into consideration ,the short crop of hops we have expe riencel for the last two years) it is somewhat imper tent not only to have some knowledge of the amount of stock actually on hand, but also to possess some in formation "as to the present appearance of the young bine, in order to form an opinion of the actual state and prospect of this important, though precarious branch of our domestic agriculture. It must be ap parent to every person who has given the subject any consideration, that the stock of all ages of cid hops, of useable qualities, must be extremely limiter'. The annual average growth of the . last four years amounts to but 147,440/. of old duty ; being short of the real consumption by nearly 25,0001. During the years 1831, 18.32, - 1833, 1834, /835, and 1836, the ex cess of growth over the consumption atnounted to about 18,000/. per annum, or about 165 0001. in the whole ; which, taking into consideration the quantities exported, and those of such inferior qualities as were unfit for use, leaves the quantity now on hand considerably short of a year's consumption. Perhaps, however, owing to the dearness of the article, and the fact that when it is so other ingredients are substituted, there may be as many now in the hands of the growers arel factors as may serve the country until Midsummer 1842. Then sup posing we should grow less than an average crop this season; or, what is very probable, suppose it should be barely a half crop, what must be the price of hops be fore a sufficient quantity can be produced to. satisfy the wants of the community ? Besides, it is a well ascertained fact, that since the year 1837, such has been the low price of the article, and the great losses suffered by the growers, that the quantity of land under hop cultivation has been reduced from 56,323 acres to 50,749 acres, thereby creating a deficiency of 5,574 acres—or one-tenth of the which land thus appropriated in the kingdom. With these data be fore us, it becomes a question of considerable importance what is the nature of our future prospects ? To the growers they are certainly cheering, inasmuch as there is some probability that such will be i'he price of this necessary article of our home consumption, for some time to come, so as to yield them some reamaeration for the heavy losses they have been iustilning (a ith one one or two trifling exceptions) since the year 1834. Last year was cosy serious to most or all of our hop growers in the North Clays, many of whom lost up• in the s h ape o f mmanagement,oa,, cr t e ;ithout prod uc i ng so muc h a s a t ei l a k rl 4. s e, of i i l o 6 o / o , r, pe sc r single hop, by way of set-off, to such an immense outlay of capital. To the consumer the dearness of the article will be a matter of considerable importance, especially the general brewer and the victualler : to the latttr class more especially so, because the trade they are now doing, and the unfair competition with which content, has reduced their legi timateost possible limits ; aed, they have business had es s t to o its otto "it is the last feather which breaks the camel's back," so the high price of this indispensable article may and will in some instances prove of the most serious consequences. To the other section of consumers, con sisting of the nobility, gentry, and others, the cost of this, or any other article, is but of trifling moment, providing it can be obta;ned for what they possess— money. At the present period most of the hop planta tions are nearly finished being dug over, and on the roots being exposed, the fact is found to be general, that nearly every plant of last year's setting has perished, partly through the extensive smit with which they were afflicted, and partly from the excessive wet weather which they experienced during the latter part of the summer and the commencement of autumn. The late winter, although so excessively severe, ap pears natetahave been productive of - any injury to the older sets. This ma; principally be attributed to the great depth of the snow with which the ground was covered during the severity of the frost. The underground shoots are now from two to three inches in length ; of a good colour, and look rather pro mising (according to the judgment of many of the hop planters) ; still they are more slender than is usually the case in the best of ye ars. Thus far we may state that present appearances are rather more favouralA than otherwise, though such is the nature of this pro verbially fickle plant, that it is impossible to say " what a day may bring forth." The quantity of hops on hand in this district is unusually small—certainly not more than the neighbourhood will consume, so that another short growth must necessarily cause a greater scarcity than we have experienced since the year 1825. At present we have none of the growth of last year on sale. Fine bright ones of 1839 command from 91. 9s. to 10/. 10s. ; other kinds, according to colour and qua -1 ty, from 61. to Si. Bs. ; older ones from 41. 10s. to 71. 7s. The retail price of both Kente, Clays, and Sussex, is ls. 6d. per lb.—Doncaster Gazelle. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. —Yesterday about two while a gentleman of the name of Pritchard was riding up Regent-street, his horse started off near Glass house-street, and knocked down a man who was crossing the street, and who, in consequence of the severe inju , •s , he received, was carri:d to the Middlesex Hospital. , The horse which became quite unmana ;cable, afterwards ran • g.eat force Against a earrit r's cart, and was killed en the spot. Mr. Pritchard fe'l with great violence, and was carried to the shop of Mr. Warg'n, chemist and drug_ gist, in Regent-street The horse in the carrier's cart, .was knocked down, and a Ittle boy was thrown out of tl-,e cart among the feet of the horse which broke loose, but was finally caught near Maddox-street, without causing my fother injury. WARWICK SPRING RACES.—The beautiful weather of the present week has been exceedingly favour ibla to the rreprstion of our fine Race-course for Cc 'port of Wednesday. The Siring Races have rover pre mised more brightly; the ent-ies for t':e respective stakes h&ng of the first order, and likely to attv.et an unusually argo assemblage of visitors of rlnk and distinction. The Alowing horses gave already arrived in the town Jean, Colchicum, Petty Larceny, Syria, Fi2:-oy, B e Wiiitling Billy, Ditto, True Blue. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YEsTEnDAY. Our report of yesterday's betting will present few changes from the quotations made on Thursday. Business was languid in all respects, and particularly on the three favourites, who were in very little request. Coronation, it is said, will be sent to Coventry for the Trial Stakes. Of the next lot of favourites, taking in those from 20 to 2r..- to 1, Ralph was most in favour, having been backed in the first instance at 25 to 1 and after wards two or three timns at 1,000 to 45. Palaemon opened at 22 to 1, was' backed by two or three parties for small amounts, and closed at the average of the last fortni,tht, 20 to 1. Marshal Soult was taken for 1,000 even agst Knight of the Whistle, and found rather a powerful supporter at the odds stated below. Cameicon declined at one moment to 25 to 1, but this having been taken, he rallied, and at the finish, no one would have laid so much by a eouple of points. Galaor (Darioletta colt) had many friends, and several tens and scores were put on Van Amburgh. Mosque and Paul Potter at long odds. Scott's lot was backed for 2001. at 9to 2, and for 1001. at a fraction less The general odds at the close of a dull and unimportant eternoon stood as follows: DERBY. 4i to 1 agst Scott's lot 40 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Bruce's Rosalie colt—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—t. and aft. offered 15 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation—t. and aft. off. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Palmmon—t. and aft. off. 22 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Marshal Soult—taken 22 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph 23 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Prince Caradoc—taken 23 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Cameleon 33 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Sir Hags—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wahab—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Joachim—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Vancittart's Galaor—taken 40 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Mongolian 40 to 1 asst Col. Crawford's Ermengardis 50 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Knightsbridge—taken 1000 to 20 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—taken 50 to 1 agst Ld. Lichfield's Brother to Phosphorus—taken 1000 to 15 agst Lord Westminster's Morning Star—taken 2000 to 25 agst Mr. Wigram's Nebros—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Herbert's Nicias 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Weatherby's Paul Potter—taken 1000 to 8 agst Dr. Grafton's Mosque—taken 1000 even between Knight of the Whistle and M. Soult —taken. 600 to 500 on Eringo agst Coronation—taken. 650 to 100 agst Rosalie c. ani Coronation—taken. 11 to 1 agst Ralph and Palwrnon. OAKS. 13 to 2 agst Mr. Powlett's Kedge—taken - to 1001. Bto 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lampo•m—taken and aft. offered HER MAJESTY'S BUCK HOUNDS. The sport, during the three days the Royal stag hounds were out the past week was of a first-rate character. On one of the days, Monday last, such was the heat of the weather, and the heavy nature of the country, in consequence of the late rains, that several horses were cump'etely knocked up long be fore the deer was taken, and two of them, we have since heard, are dead, and others still labouring under the effects of the great fatigue they then endure'l. Lord Kinnaird, the Master of the hounds, went out with them cash day. . _ _ In consequence of its having been the intention of Prince Albert to have hunted on Friday last, a more numerous field had assembled at Southall, the place bf meeting on that morn ing, than had been present on any day during the whole of the season. His Royal Highness, however, abandoned his original intention ; but this determination on the part of the Prince was but little known (except to a few in the immediate neigh. bourhood of Windsor) until the hour of meeting at !=outhall. The hundreds who were present, on horseback and on foot, in the expectation of seeing Prince Albert in the field, were doomed to disappointment. The following is the result of the sport during the week : Monday.---The meet took pace at Gerard's Cross, and not at Denham Pound, as advertised. The celebrated deer, Rob Roy, which generally cuts out plenty of Mork for all parties engaged, was uncarted shortly after twelve o'clock, and started off at a tremendous pace—which it kept up during nearly the whole of a good two hours and forty minutes' run—towards Chalfont, thence to Pollard's Wood, by Chenies, to Chesharn Bottom. From thence it went direct to Latimer's, crossing Chippingfield Common to King's Langley, where, after bein g dead beaten, it was at length secured. Only a few of th - ,t more hardy and determined riders, who were well mounted, were in at the take. Wednesday.—The meet this day was at Winkfield Church, but very few were present. The dear, " Paddy," afforded but little sport, it having been run into, in less than half an hour, at St. Leonard's Dale, having taken the line of coun try through 'Winnfield and North-streets on to the forest, to the place where it. was secured. During this short run it took water twice—once in a pond near the vicarage at Winktield, and a second time in the enclosures at St. Leonard's. Another deer was then turned out from the Paddocks at Swin- W, which made towards Ramslade, the park o f Si r J o hn Walsh, to Brock. thence by Upton to Hollyport-green ; and after crossing the Great Western Railroad, it was taken, after a good run of upwards of two hours (which compensated for the flounderings of " Paddy"), at Cooltham Dean. • • Friday.—The field at the meet in the m wiling at Southall consisted of upwards of five hundred well-mounted red coats, many having travelled several miles in the anticipation of Prince Albert being present. A fine deer was uncarted at Perry- vale, which made direct towards Harrow•on-the hill. It then ran a circuit round the flat country, the church of Har row being the centre, and was taken, with only one check, at Boxey, after a good hunting run of one hour and ten minutes. Mr. C. Davis, her Majesty's huntsman, rode his celebrated horse, the Hermit, at the hunt on Monday last. From his great age, and the hard services he has rendered his rider for a period of now upwards of ten years, it is not expected that Mr. Davis will run the risk of aga'n riding his favourite horse, from the very natural fear, which he has lately expressed, that some of these fine mornings his strength, though not his heart, may fail him in the field. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Morgan's (Ruperra) hounds, Wednesday, at Croscor neinon ; Friday, at Marsfield—half-past eleven. Begelly hounds, Friday, at Templeton—half-past nine. Tivyside bounds, Thursday, at Llolyd Bridge ; Saturday, at GlaApant—ten. Pembrokeshire hounds, Thursdlv at the Mote--nine. N. F. H., Thursday, at Hill Top Gate, Beaulieu ; Satur day, at Fighting Cocks, Godshill—half-past ten. 11. H.. Thursday, at RotherSel I Park; Saturday, at La tham Village—half-past ten. Odiham harriers, Thur.day, at Sutton—ten. H. S. H., Friday, at Hur - sley Park—half-past ten. Mr. Archer's hounds, Thursday, at ChapLnan's Well--half past ten. Sir W. Carew's hounds, Thursday, at Cotleigh—eleven. Carlisle Hounds, Friday, at Corby—half-past n'ne. Lord Portman ' s hounds, Friday, at Elcomb. Mr. Wyndham's hounds, Wednesday, at Black Horse (Tef font) ; Friday, at Southleigh—half-past ten. F. B. H., Saturday, at Casawe's Wood—ten. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LownoN, MARCH 16.—Wind this day it noon W., very foggy at the early part of the morning. DEAL, MARCH 14.—Wind S.S.E., light.—Arrived the Fe lix, from Buenos Ayres ; Charles, Sierra Leone ' • Princess Sophia, Rotterdam, and sailed for Batavia. Arrived from the River and sailed the Elizabeth, Weighell, for Sydney, New South Wales; John Knox, White, ditto; Candahar, Ridley, Bombay ; Ca , tries, Peazley, St. Lucia; Tulloch Castle, Briggs, Jamaica; Columbia, Clarkson, Havannah ; Eclipse, Duncan, Boston; Robert Watt, Jones, Gibraltar. PORTSMOUTH, MA RCH I3.—Wind S. S.E.—Arrived the Robarts, Elder, from London f r Madras; Little Catherine, Alexander, London, for Musquito Shore. Sailed the Romu lus, Morton, London •, Fanny, Wells, Leith. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 13.—Arrived the Iberia steamer, Cooper, from Lisbon. Sailed the Leeds steamer, for Lisbon. COWES, Mallen 13.—Arrived the Frankland, Pearce. from Padang ; Little Catherine, for Musquito Shore. Sailed the Lemnos, Rowell, for Hamburgh ; F!ora, Howe, ditto ; George Ilendrich, ditto ; Sophia and Elizabeth, Mertens, Altona ; So, his, Adrick, Rotterdam. RAwSGATF, MARCH 13.—Ar•ived the William Thompson, King, from Newcastle, fir Palermo. The Osprey, which got on shore in putting to sea yesterday, was got off this morning, and proceeded without apparent damage. The Tonga Hero, from Rotterdam to Newhaven, has been assisted in here with loss of boats, anchors, &c., after being on the Goodwin Sand, but without apparent damage. DOVER, MA xcH 14.—Arrived the Hopewell, Hudson, from Wells, for Liverpool, leaky. Arrived off, the Aurora, Vaudin, from St. Michael's; Placid, from Sunderland, Constantinople. OFF THE SOUTH FORELAND.—Arrived the Erf Princess, Van Orange, from Kule4tock. BRISTOL, MARC!' 14.—Arrived the Volunturis, St. Übes. MiaFoen, MARCH 11.—Sailed the Pembrokeshire Lass, Davies, for Leghorn. DUBLIN, MARCH 12.—Arrived the Royal William steamer. Sailed the Sisters, Banks, for Berbice. WATERFORD, MARCH 11.—Arrived the Flora, Manning, from London. Sailed the Trusty, Hutchins, for Cadiz ; Juliet, Darby, Placentia. , Coax, MARCH Il.—Arrived the Elbe Packet, Croft, from London ; Adelaide, Godfrey, ditto; Eling, Lewens, Monte Vi. deo ; Favourite, Selk, London ; Rebecca, Daly, Baltimore; Ayrshire Lass, Antwerp. BELFAST, MARCH 11.—Arrived the Eclipse, Muyllart, from Ostend. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 13.—Wind S.S.E., moderate; 14th, S. S.E., light.—Arrived the Princess Victoria, from New Orleans; Jane Duphus, IPLean, Halifax ; Romanvito, Ran- Chawna. Sailed the Elizabeth, Radcliffe, Lima ; Mar garet and Elizabeth, Mhlver, Bahia; Wilsons, Campbell, Tri nidad; Oregon, Glidden, New York; Wiiliam Brown, Harris, Philadelphia ; Dash, Huntress, Newfoundland; Hereford, Rae burn, ltio Janeiro; Victoria, Goulding, Barbadoes ; Sheridan, De Peyster, New York ; Puella, Thomas, Smyrna; James and Ellen, Aticer, Mar,elles. The Royal Mint., from Morant Bay to Salt Riv,r, struck on Pelican Reef, off Old Harbour, 27th Jan. Assiitance was sent her. The Richard Watson, bound to this port, put in to Bcrbiee with two feet water in her hold, having struck on the bar. SUNDERLAND, MARCH lE—Arrived the New Darlington, Jennings ; Zephyr, Perdincl, from Calais ; Europe, M7Do ndld, Ostend ; Wardail, Scott, Amsterdam. Sailed the King Wiliam, for Constantinople. HULL, MARCH 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Gipsy ; Clara, from Rotterdam ; Princess Victoria, Ellis, Cephalonia ; Castlereagh, St. Michael's. HARWICH, MAncii 14. —The Exchange, from Bridlington, got or, shore in Helletley Bay, but was assisted off without much damage. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14. —Wind light and variable.—Ar rived the Sophia Margaretha, Haeslop, from llamburgh ; George Fyfe, London for Sydney; Saturne, Fecamp to New foundland ; ()lima, Singapore ; Pro mer , New Orleans for Havre. FALMOUTH, MARCH 12.—Wind S. E. to E., light.—Ar rived the Sir John Byng, from London, for Cape of Good Hope ; Iberia, Gibraltar. Sailed the Sir John Byng, for Cape of Good Hope ; Minerva, Matzen, Batavia ; Clementine, Bal timore, Bremen ; Hopewell, Reeites, Smyrna ; David Clarke, Mills, Calcutta. • GLOUCESTER, MARCH 14. —Arrived Diligent, Rotterdam. YARMOUTH, :MARCH 14.—The Cressmuss, from Middles borough„ grounded on Helmsley Hole yesterday, but was as sisted off. POOLE, MARCH 13.—Sailed the William Kelson, for Ca diz ; Nymph, ditto. WOREINTON, MARCH 13.—Siled the Thomson, Killala, for Quebec; Ayd, Greig, Sligo, for ditto. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Leila, from Liverpool to New York, 22d ult., lat. 42, lon. 33 • David Clarke, 14th Jan., lat. 16. loth 6, by the Frankland, arrived at Cowes. Lena, London to Alaurittus, 31st Jan., lat. 26, lon. 27. ; Tom Cringle, London to Charleston, 18th ult., lat 26, lon. 38 ; Snowden, Africa to Liverpool. 3d inst., lat. 44, lon. 31, by the Cling, arrived at Cork. Wilberforce, of Liverpool, lat. 50, lon. 10, by the Aurora, arrived off Dover. A steamer standing to the southward, supposed the Tagus, off Sesayes islands, by the Iberia, arrived at Southampton. Malcolm, bound to Singapore, 10th November, in the Straits of Banca ; St. George, bound to China, 15th, in the Straits of Sunda; Thomas Lowry, Manilla to Port Jackson, 22d Nov. ; Thirteen, Batavia tip Amsterdam; liriiish Isle, Singapore to Glasgow, 26, off Java Head, by the Orixa, Agar, arrrved off Plymouth. Lord Brougham has left Paris for his estate near C nee, LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, MARCH' 15 BOURNE V. THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, AND HARTLEY. This was a motio❑ on behalf of the plaintiff for an in junction to restrain the defendant, Hat t'ey, from selling or transferring three stem-vessels called the Brag,anta, the Royal Tar, and the Tagus, to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The object of the cp; li cation was to prevent the defendants from vinliting ah agreement into which the pl 6r:tiff alTed they had en tered with hint,tlte plaint if being the patentee of al inven tion for itnproVements in steam machiner:•, and which improvement it was said, the defendants had engaged to apply -to certain vcsstls bellnging to them, and to pay to the plaintiff, as a remuneration, nne-third of the amount of the saving of fuel which might be made by means of his machinery. We defer a detaCd report until both sides shall have been heard. The case, in which there is a great mass of conflicting evidence, is likely to occupy a couple of days. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. 11031 E CIRCUIT —3l.4insrdxm, MARCH 15. This being the day appointed for opening the Commission of Assize for the county of Kent, the Learned Judges arrived at Maidstone about two o'clock, and the Commission was opened with the usual formalities. There are oae or two serious cases f:r trial, and among them is a charge of murder on the high seas. The cause list is also somewhat heavier than is usual in this county. Lord Denman will sit on the Civil side, and Mr. Baron Parke is to preside in the Crown Court. TVESTERN CIRCUIT—ExicaRn, MAncu 13. The commission was opened on Thursday by Mr. Justice Erskine, who was met a short way from the city by Air. Harris Arundel, the High Sheriff. We have been accustomed to have a certain degree of pageantry attached to the office of High Sheriff, and for a long series of years were blessed with a mo,t grotesque and oril,inal Captain of the Sheriff's troop, the " noted and quoted" Captain Cooke. The Captain's commis sion was withdrawn a few months since, and he was gathered to his fathers. There was no successor to be found worthy of his glory, and thos, who want to see a vivid portraiture of this original genius may consult the Every-Day Book of Wm. Hone, who has handed hiin down to po.terity with a perfect truth to nature. The absence of the Captain gave an excuse for the curtailment of the pageant, which Mr. Arundel very properly availel himself of, and it. is to be hoped that future nigh Sheriffs will cut down the useless mummery, and, by following the example of Mr. Arundel, lay the foundation of a whole some and salutary reform. The subject, however, has cau - tel some little discantent, for this torn foalery of the javelin men was considered a " lime honoured institution," awl if it had not suited the convenience of the Tory Air. Arundel to upset it, we should have had a tremendous outcry in the event of any Liberal Genleman having undertaken the desecrating job. The Western Times noticesthe affair in the f Mowing pleasant vein : THE ASSIZES. ‘f. Mr. Justice Erskine entered the city yesterday. We had but a sorry ceremony of introduction, for the High Sheriff, Mr. Arundel, had not done the thing in that stylish manner which his princely disposition had led many persons to anticipate. A carnage and four proceeded out en the London roaA, in which the High Sheriff awaited the approach of the Judge. There was nothing very magnificent about the turn out. It might be all dickey to the sheriff, but there was no dickey to the car riage, and so, instead of the broad based full-bottom wigged coachman, we had two lank postilions •springing .ith professional ela,ticity quite 'unworthy of the dignity of the occasion ; and there was no gay cavalcade of staunch yeomen and smart tradesmen to gave weigh ito the mission of the Qracen's representative—twelve simple horsemen, pre ceded by three trumpeters, composed of bound bailiffs, and the County Clerk, Mr. 1). Moore, and the Under Sheriff, Mr. Charles Brutton, were all the mounted men who were trotted out on the occasion, and these having descried the Leatned Judge, received him with all solemnities. The trum peters then galloped back from Heavitree gallows " full chisel," as Mr. Slick would say, leaving the bound baliffs and Mr. Brutto a to bring in the Judge and Sheriff at a more orderly and becoming pace. The trumpeters having got back to the foot of Summerland place, there found several jave lin risen disniounted, their horses being knocked up by the " epizootie," now so prevalent —(a new name for an old disorder, which teas better in the farrier's bills, and firms part of the veterinary art.) '1 he bound bailiffs were all well mounted. We believe most of them owed their horses to the High Sheriff, who had done much to set them up on the occasion. You ma) travel a good many miles before you will see a finer looking man, with a more generous, frank and gentlemanly bearing than Mr. Harris Arundel, the High Sh•-riff of Devon, for this blesged year of grace —and on the present occasion, arrayed in the showy garb of a Deputy- Lieutenant, he looked magnificent. 'I he javelin men were headed by Mr. Howard, one of our pluralist policemen—a very humble apology for the late Captain Cooke, who for so many years headed this renowned band, th e pride and glory of past shrievalties. It ever departed spirits be really permitted, as the ghost of the good King Hamlet averred, to revisit the brief glimpses of the moon, we do not envy the feelings of the ghost of the late gallant chieftain on this occasion. Had Captain Cooke lived to sec this day and this turn-out, he never could have survived it." Notwithstanding the lingering affection of the Western Times for this ancient noodleism, the public will rejoice to see it curtailed, and I understand that the High Sheriff of Cornwrll, Mr. Gill, of Pickham, in this county, intends to show the Cornishmen a turn in this matter, which will astonish them. Mr. Gill is a thorough reformer, and will carry the pruning knife into the abuses of the shrievalty system in a style of fear less boldness which accord* so well with his consistent charac ter as a Reformer. I am dilating on this subject, as we have but little to report as yet. Mr. Justice Erskine was occupied all day yesterday in trying two eases. of no interest to any but the parties con cerned; and Mr. Justice Wightman, who did not arrive till yesterday afternoon, has been confined to his be.l with influenza. Mr. Rogers, the Recerder of Exeter, has been enzagcd all day in trying prisoners. He had only one case of interest, the trial and acquittal of a bigamist, for whom Mr. Cockburn made a most luminous and effective speech. But to return to the subject of the shrievalty. For several years past this has been a subject of remark, in consequence of one gentleman having occupied the post of Under-Sheriff. The practice has been for the High Sheriff to appoint his own attorney Under-Sheriff, bet this practice has in several cases been abandcned, so that the gentleman in question, tar. Charles Brutton. has held it year after year, each Sheriff nam leg him for his deputy as soon as he got the appointment. Mr. Brutton has the honour to enjoy the persotal friendship of Lord Devon, and he is a gentleman every way beyond suspi cion of unfair practices, and there is no doubt he has received these successive appointments partly from his high professional abilities, and partly from a de-ire on the part of the recipients of the honour to gratify Lord Devon, by advancing the inte rests of his friend Mr. Char:es Brutton. Complaints have been made by some of the aristocracy that an improper class of men have undertaken the post of High Sheriff, in order to raise.themselves up to the level of THE county families. But if the second-rate men have been exalted, it is owing to the shyness of the first-rate men, who have evaded the post. of High Sheriff, on account of the expenses attached t* the office, whilst they have grumbled at the ambition of t,econd clees men to rush into the post of honour. This year we have a case in point so for as regards the principle of evasion. Mr. Bulteel ( Earl Grey's son-in-law) having been set clown several years, is at last pricked. He kicks against the pricking, and is let off land then we get a gentleman as a volunteer, who chooses to curtail the office of all its splendidfoolery, and continues Mr. Brutton in his office of Under-Sheriff, whilst his own profes sional adviser, Mr. Denis Moore, is put into the very secondary post of County Cierk. Let it not be supposed that Mr. Arun del is not a proper man; he is in every respect qualified, being a man of ancient family, and having had a princely fortune. Why he did not make a more princely display it would he in vidious to inquire. But what I want to draw your attention to is, that the county gentlemen who shirk the office, and grumble at others for taking it, are the first to lecture a trades man or farmer who wishes o evade the onerous duties of pa rish constable, or any other post of unpaid labour. A ray of your bright, sunlight will show them how inconsistent and un constitutional they are. DEATH. OF DR. M'TURK.—We regret to have to announce the death of the Rev. Dr. Nl'Turk, Pracssor of Church History in the University of Glasgow, which trek place at his house, in the College, on Thursday. Dr. M'Turk was appointed to the chair of Church History, the patronage of which belongs to the Crown, in 1807. It is well known that the Non-Intrusion party have, with the most indecent haste, bi . en endeavouri , :g to secure the nopointrnert to the now vacant ch&ir in favour of one of their e:wn number ; but the events of the last few days, in re erence to the affairs of the neighbouring University, must have shown the hope Insness of their.project. If the Edit_ burgh appointment was found to be obnoxious, and, indeed, impracticable, that contemplated he e was infinitely more so, as we make no doubt the Non-Intrusioniats have, by this time, ascertained. We underst sod that the jab in fa vour of Mr. Cunningham, which was in process of con. coction, and which threatened to land t 1 , at firebrand among the citizens of Glasgow, has Inca fairly knocked on the head. —Glasgow chronicle. COLLISION AND SINKING OF AN IRON STEAMER.-0 Tuesday morning, as the Hirondelle steam-boat from Hull to Selby was on her passage, having on board fifty passervrs and idaety-threw sheep, she came into a viDlent collision with a vessel moored in the chan nel, and so great was the shock that her machinery rips upset, and the vessel filled and went down in less than five n inutcs. :1:ost fortunately, all the passengers were saved by getting on board the vessel upon which the steamer ran, but all their luggage was lost together with the ninety-three sheep, which were drowned. A Jew lost a box of jewellery which cost 300/. There was a very dense fog at the time of the collision, and it is quite mira. culous that the lives of the passeogers were preserved.. Hull Packet. MR. AINSWORTII AND MS CONSTITUENTS. —fn 1835 Mr, Ainsworth was returned to Parliament, as a representative of the Reform interest in Bolton, by 615 votes. In 1841, 575 of the registered electors, on the Liberal interest, have already signed a memorial to Ifm, in which they state that if he persist in opposing Lord Morpcth's Irish Registration Bi!), they will cease to look upon him as their representative. The number of names on the list is 1,442. from which number must be deducted 156 for removals, deaths, and doub'e eotries, leavaig 1,286 qua'ified voters. We understand that many more names will yet be added to the memorial ; and that a number of Ref.rmers have refused to sign it, although they say they will never again vote for Mr. Ainsworth.—Boron Free Press. SINGULAR BOAT FOR TILE NIGER EXPEDI TION.—There is now constructing, in the boat-house of the Woolwich dock-yard, a boat ut a singular ape( wanee, being formed simPar to some of the shallow creels used for carrying fish in seaport town=. The boat about 20 fet t long and 10 feat broad, nod abcut 21 feet deep ; and yet i: is so light that it is capable of being card d aly distance on the shoulders of four men. It is formed of thin strides of wood about two inches broad, and woven together exactly in the same way as Indian matting, and it is intended to cover the outside with water-proof canvas. The purneFe for which it will be used is to cross Oldie , creeks and rivers, and, from its size, appears capable cf carrying 30 men. It will be placed above the lire-boat on board the steam vessel when not in use, and tsilr answer as an ex cellent pro'ection to it from the rays of the sun in th•-! , tro- Ocal clirca'e to which the expedition is bound. The General Steam fi-a-v.f.Tiiiion Company's Vessel the Ocean, J. Fife ; nom Rottie:dam, artiv,:d off the Custom House at- icyclve c'c:00; yeatc:rday, ivitl4 the Dutch Mail, •••• • . . MORN LNG I T E MARKETS-YESTERDAY' CORN E 3 Last week's arrivals were me grain, and tolerably good of Oa plies were small. Fine Whea other sorts maintained their I sale, and distillers' parcels w( last stated. Oats of good qualit andother sorts maintained thci Flour unaltered. PRWEB OA B Wheat,Red (old) ...... —s —White (old) —v. —s. 544 l'!!?. ----- Fine 6os. -- Super Os. • ------ White ( 1e4,. ) co, - nine Superfine .6 & 7:ls. --Foreien O. Ryc :384 40; Barley - Grinding •6s ----- Malting as4. Malt -- Fine New Ws. 63:. Pease, Grey, New is. 3 it. - Maple New . 42.. - White 3 ,;,. Boilers 17s 38.. ARRIVALS OF GrIAIN IN 1. Wheat. English ... 4,1'5 qrs. Irish FL.reign KCHANGE. Aerate of most kinds o ' its from Ireland. he fre sup: a Is. per quarter dearer, arn last value. Barley very dull in ere lower. Beans and I.' hit, I Y , 6d. to Is. per quarter higherr it former rates with a slow sal*. AIM OF SFIP 43 , 451. Beans, Small ;new)...... 441. (old) ... 91, - Tick (now) ....... 4 3 4 ,, Bran!: ....................... Oats, Feed ................. ------- New .......... - Poland ................. - l'otatoe .............. Now ........ Scorch .................. --- Irish Flour Town i , cr -- Seconds .. 2 0. 1 1 1, ::21 • "ir-; - Jo 48 ----- Nwrth Country ....- 9 Il . Bran ........ s' .................... v g. ONDONI• DU fi IN(; 1 AST V"'" (YAM cloy" ~ 1t 52 1 i LIT& 3,195 :r Fe3o 053. 18, :39 ---. 5::0 LT) rl3 SMIT El FI EL D. the ~ a, n a - The supply of Cattle at Market was plentiful, an t he h t the lity generally fine. The bast met with a brisk sale, •••' t he middling and inferior quality went off slowly. Of , h",,... ,'P„ a nv ir, supply wa, very middling, but the demand was by The brisk. Of Veal the supply was short, the demand gOO% o, supply of Pork was middling, the demand brisk. 1):-,id. 2,720 ; Sheep, 18,06 U ; Pigs, 319 ; Calves, 6 9 . 13cef ', 3 „, .6s, ; to 4s. 6d. ; Mutton, 4s. 4d. to ss. 6d. ; Veal, 53. ' Pork, 4s. to ss. • TEA MARKET. ket The prices of this commodity were steady, was without activity- It is believed that under any Tice of stances the export of Tea wi I be very small. The P r Company's Congou was Is. 7id. cash. TALLOW MARKET. v C.° s Prices steady, aid a rrederate business done. P• "* l4 ., t et the spot 465. a 465. 3d. per cwt. The deliveries rather .tii i s than last )ear in the corresponding week, but we have great excess of stock, HOP MARKET. but the rh o . a lder' , The market very dull, and prices unaltered. The b , e i s o' however, are looking for a reaction, and the few Par' rs a ro laA year's growth remaining in the hands of the plan t ' withheld from the market atpreFent. POTA TOE MARKET. , , sr. The supply being large, and the demand dull, priee,i: Ass a little ; 3,800 tons have b een rece ived during w° B e es, week. York Red, 90s ; Scotch, 60i. to 755. ; Ke s/ " L ' and Suffolk whi•e, 70s. to 755. 40 1 E F D. The h ghes ri e of FII.IL -31 e.., i u th e M BRE A t opli•sis 9,14‘i for the I oaf Good Bread may be had at ”id. PRI_ E 3 Ok SEEDS. Per Cwt. 1 - Per Quarter so% S. wE:gl sh glenClover...6os Os St. Fein ... ...... -••••••"--- 18 5 .. ..., / Old I itr, , , Div o —s —a s Rye G ass. ................. 5 .... 0 1 New Foreign Di.to —s 5:33 'ins Pacey Grass . *.. ....... ...."" gli",„,. • ..--e v. 011 Di to IA to —s —s —s Linseed, for te..(13 g"_,s 60 4 6.4 is ew White Clover Os it's (i's Dit o, lb sowing •••• 'l§ 4t,. 4 . - 4.2.3 Old Di t Ditto —s —s -s Ditto, for crush'. g •••` - „,.•S"' 963 s‘w Tre oil .... —s 3 , 's 4:.s H in ........................ ....„ Os Old i itto s :Ns 20s Canary ...................... , Jr' folium s 4t's 10s! Per 13. shel• odlo ll 33 o r d E- glish Carraway —s 50s 5 s'Wbite Must..rd ...• l' ~i to o 'o • Foreign Ditto .... 7s 6,11 Coriander ... —s 1-is IFs;Tares PdICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton Olt o, relined Linseed Oil Liras ed Oil Cake at the Mill Rai-e'tk•ake, per to , i PRLE OF TALLOW Town Talkw XII, 11 61 Yellow Russia White ..... 0 Soap Ditto 0 0 q COAL N Ships arrived since L . d. Bell, RoLson & Co. Hartley 4", 6 J2olywed Ma n l9 1 Orig•nal Windsor's P0,.t0 . , 11 9 Smith's Pontop l6 Walls End Hilda. Walls End Killingworth e 2 Walls End Russell's tletton 3 0 Walls End Stewart'. I Walls End Kelloe Walls End Adel..,ide Walls End : arrington Tees .7 ! COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIi. £4 5 I ° 5 I°, :i 0 (per 10u0) 7 0 1 Whe2t. 4 1;arley r ' SOAP, &c. per 1121 b: . €1 Melting Stuff ............. 4 Ditto Rough ............. oti Graves ........................ Good Dregs .................. [ARKET. last M;Tkei day, 2t. I f ! Walls End Evenwo od ••''' ' ..1 , 0 5 W3llB End Gordon . * : """ ''''' ; 9 ‘N ail. , E n d Seymour 1 0 ,,. 0 5 ; Walls End St. Helen', • 5 Wal s End 'lees ,••• •• • Walls End Tees Hett•A„ IL 0 Walls End Wi.ton 1 r I, 5 Cowper' ..................... Howard's Netherton." New ton Main .............. qG LAS: NEj Ohts. Bean , . Per Quarter. s. to s. Varlisie 7O — llexham ' 5.1 IS Moryetli ,52 64 ' Beurith 65 Slug - nel,l I 67 Winchest r 56 66 I'er Bushel. 5. d. s. d. Carmarthen 0 7 0 Cowbri !ge , In 0 Swansea 7 4 8 4 Per 8011. Barnardeastl 16 0 18 9 8 0 9 3 Durham 13 6 16 6 ± 0 9 0 Richmond l, 0 19 0 7 0 9 Stockton l5 6 1: 0 9 0 91. WAKEFIELD C O'heat, Red, Nortclk xr. d Suffolk --- Lin. and Cain. 3. to S. S. to S. 21 23 22 IA 5 . to 5 . 46 32 34 27 30 20 f'.l s. d. s. d.l 0 0 3 5 0 5 ol 39 421 1.0 21 s. d. s.d. 00 2 1 36 4 1 1 6 29 _ 41 4' 40 s. d. 50 0 , 50 53 50 '"1 Pe s 6 - 4 1 si 35 0d• 00 0° 0' 00 74 8 6 1 11 0 12 a 9 6 9 8 0 10 56 80 90 11 6 70 8(i 80 100 ' ()RN MARKEL ...... —s. 60s. to 6-0. s. 618. to 0.1,. 0 I Al 0 I 1 10 " 8 0 9 (' 30 0 9 c 6O. 90 0. . .. Yorkshire —s. —s. to 5.- 0 ,, ~. White . --s. 620. to 66 ' role C" v i : ---- Foreign, hod —q. —s. fo 43 ' anew ---- White —s. ,to t ) ' , • t ine ~ Carley, Norfolk am.) Suffolk __.,.. too „ fife' ;, ---- Lincolnshire Yorkshire Wold -- Foreign - t iriel, Beans, New - - ' 4 6s• ';:* ------ Old Oats, l'etato s to ' ,6 *" ( . 0 ' ..... • .V.s. ' .13 3, -- Poland ......,,, .... s . to 5 , . fire ~,, vriczland and Small —s. ---i• 1° :I ': .t S t"g' i, —...... tv.:,alitig Sh..lang Malt ..... ..... L. .. 1 .. ...... . 3 . 4j . ff. e. fl . o : l e t i. 445.0 . r :. , , - I t ° itapesQed NE - vi;CASTLE CORN EXCII A NOk-:- while' tted, t• . . ' . 1 Wheat, Northutnerland O. —ft ....... 1 , 6 1 , 1, ' Norfolk and Suffolk 66.4 70 i....... , nr , Iscrw ck and Scotch fill. (32 firs ...... ~ 5 -03, ForciForeign, lid ~ ••• " --• s * I ,;'` 'lye, Norn):lr and Suffolk Foreign Barley,'Multing, Norfolk and Suflblii 3ls 3^ , ...•• 3'l - 31 s : . : : . .. ... ..... ... ,„,.. --1-- s s- : : - -i';-6:: 4 Grinding end Feeding 2., .'• l'. ..... „ ~,,g.l , Malt, Norfolk and Sufli - ilk Coatis, Small - Tick ... 42s 4Ss ....... ......... 6 . Pease, White - Gray Oats, Northumberland, l'otatoz ....... ..: - .. -- i Foreign .... ...- Flour (per sack) 47s. 501......• '• _ 45 4 2 ' .21 2- 4 4 6 6 4 0 1 ..... .... .... .1 . .... ..... .... .. . . 7 1 - 1 5 ' ..... ~:. . , . .. ... 0 ; : Z . , f - - ~ ' SCOTCH MARKETS. .0 1 ' Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. I BC 3n5. .. ( . 1 " ..- 99t C 0 S , .---. -----— --...- Aberdeen s': to 60 25 to 26 15 t o 02 -- to eq ..... 5 o , Berwick 33 45 191 21 17 23 2 qa '' Oolthtre.ain - - .A 1 Cupar (Fife) ,45 65 120 31 is 2.2, 22 ; - .2 i 4" " Dunbar '43 68 20 49 23 27 •40 7.: 2 ••• Elgin Inverness - '<else ....- 36 48 18 ' , 2 16 23 31 1 8 " 0 ••• Kirkaldy Perth 6O "4 30 40 25 35 41 .' 0 016') . a.".. Tho size of the me a 'ure vari es throughout toe so g ' HADDINGfON CORN SIARKET• e. 4 1 5 . e, 01l Wheat. Barley. oats. Pea' 0"I a n oi 4.' , ~,t First 7os Cd 42s 04 37s 04 r,,' fi f j 4'- Second 6-ts Od 3:ls Od 23s Gd 4 " 3 "4 - ' Third :' -8., 0 4 32s otl 27s Od :fos 0 Average, 34 '2, 10 i 1 '.- 12 " 4 01. DALKEITH CORN _MARKET. e fi ,!, 0 6 Wheat , Barney. , Oats. 1 ;r 4 0,„i 4 0 ')`' .1 0.1 First . of ~ ~, 35, 0 . , . so 82 4. - 0 (4 3 4 Second lily 0.1 3.!s Od i ..fis 01 4 04 Third sos 01 21s 01 29' 44 34 - 0 ,6 ,i, , ,i it) GLASGOW CORN 111 1 PH: ET • 0441 b. ,-;. 0000 Wheat, per 2401 b. s. 4. s. d. (MO, Pa o' .. t , 0 British ol i • i 320 to :;.5 6 Iv , .h .................... 1 j ~.. ----- new Cznada, free — 0 0 Beaus, 1 - Cr - il v g i o .. ,-0 4 Irish Barley, per 3201 b Scottish ...... ...• . . ._, „ ~, C.'nglish 26 Q 2' G Pease, Seotti:n g j... 17 1 1 bu S.:ottish ,225) t:4 0 Oatrneal,per 140 0, •: 41 Irish ......... 20 0 2.40 Flour, per 2 80h " - ' ... Al ..... -.. .M...... ..............NruCYR1K............- _ BREACH OF PROMISE MA 10114 ,,,.7% 5rbi the York Assist's on Saturday an ac ion ' o ' Bs i . : 11 110 1 ' . of f a woman of the name of Wcll3 fora breach °f marriage agaiast a Maltster and farmer 0 1 _ t r g 0 0- be ' llerry, living near Huddersfield. The di fen°3f.ng o f i h , first, the general issue; secondly, since the 0d thst s promise the plai n tiff h a d l e d a di sso lute life , a r - bear i :' was not bound to keep the engagement. Al* e ;he Jo e l re' greatt urned L o d i. ea ad v l ce o ra f dd e i c( v )tg i evidence c ti elhaeus plaintiff —Damages i fi a t i n t f i o ff r_p p u t a =l m i c a a g t e i : 5 , o r s sp I e a; dil pier to to ele,t.:d in the place Where the_ Bishop of Winchester's ,P a it d to ci i .P l e i e merly stood, and Mr. L. Cubitt has taken the ' l4 , - a. T he g c ile e n , ii in e s , t y r ,uic,tiocnhse 1 1 , 0 e t ,,pocper 0 ; 0 1 I re; a new street from the water up ibto the Killg' ; ' r not -a nce r " iron steam-boat!, after Good Friday, will °III- 0 ning to Battersea, Wandsworth. and 'Putekel• ---- -- 1 STEEL FIRE-IRONS, with firogi e .t u v of r t ,, 155. per Set, Bronzed Fenders, 9s. v h r ; ,t' ric e i t 0, tfenderserns a and i particularlyces , from handsome, s a c !: above t Frith3os; at "'"'" A I ee' r or splendid "e nd t he ' got richly intermixed with steel, the ends are steel , °I fic-ir f l ° porters for the fire-irons bronzed. Polished stee every article from 4s. per set. Catalogues gratis, containing--the prices of Furnishing Ironmongery. ,-,- RIPPON and Bil,RiON, Wells-street, Oxfot° _-- Established 1820. . _-- . , the B IR TH S. a-Pl" e ' On the sth inst., in Charlotte-street, Portlan ~, wife of J. Bennett, Esq., the vocalist, of a son. 4 o f C;.?, On the Bth inst., at Salterton, Devon, the l a, Y tr vo d,,ret Manning, Esq., of a daughter, which survived onlY „,,, s tas 31° On the Bth inst., at Bath, the lady of G. A d e' le. E.q., of a san. 1 ., ad, M g 3 i On the 9,h inst., at Anchindarroch, Loeligi l l l-e ~s ite r- , shire, the lady of J. E. Geils, Esq., of a dauh le , r 'd v of ‘ v On the 9th inst., in Park-street, Bath, the ' 3 ' 7 Jo lt ~ Irvine, M.D. of a son and heir. , f the 11 " On the 10th asst., at Hendon, the wife 0 Lawson, of a son. • ' stl'' MA RR I ED. c 0 Riis ° ' ,ter , On the 9!li inst., at Stiffkev, Norfolk, F. • of paned of Cley Hall, Norfolk, oLlv son , of Captain Ili"' f stiffl'e ) ,bi.. to Anna; second daughter of T. H. Baya,notlv'e(,lco".:siunaer,eci Ater -ter On the 10th inst., at St. George's, bald Borland, Esq., M.D., of Trinity-square, t'' fo4s ? of the late John Alacurdy, Esq., urge° Worce 11' s ;ershire, AI ., ~ On the 10th inst., at Oinbersley , youngest son of Air. J. Beading, fo r merlie( laitch., to. e • daughter of I. Williams, sq., of the pac i 0, 01 - DIED . beet , J r° ,l th e whilst in the discharge of his duty as rn of the late On the 10th of Ja:luary, supposed id to sbi h p a rn ye a „ on li A c t ,', . r. o• Windsor, off Calcutta, Alfred, third son ,nd. ll3 s li• Ellaby, Al. A., aged 15. f Arnw-- • fe oh On the 7th inst., the Bev. J. Watson, 0 . n _ ., the Fife ra n the 9th inst., at Peckham, Mary A u i 7 1 ' Parrett, Northampton-square, ag - ed 24. ~„., age' card' On the 9th inst., at Alelkshara, J Bond , :_:_i_ on , J, On the 9th inst., at Budleigh Salterton Pe' hell, Esq., aged 75. of Thar' d Veil On the 11th inst., T. Nash,Esq., ie _ eu , On the 12th inst., at Cottage-grove, ni" ILbert Brash, R.N., a , ei 56. _ ___ --ii c , On the 10,11 inst., Mr. W. Braasch, of Dals.esninagn.eda:t:l.o7l; ..:.•••s-r--,F:ar-------?,------.-s-sr_.—''''- — , ---- .7,3D0 Nrov ...„d, la London: Printed and Published by Ait.).,' . , 1 2, Sirs Ito. 112, Strand, at The See Office, 1 - ` o _ ` p 341. the county of icliddleses.—Ttiefdg Moen i 6, 7 1 y, t -~-/ L'lrj ~~`_ 1 1 1 - 1 E 1410 N U do 1 I,: r tzt, A Zv er ' ? l * I Ntl It, ITo2o er '''Pnti. N s k lialf to . 7 th e 30t , Die C e „? Vt . :, Tend - Y, 401 Vl, dnl hity lit Yl o,ls e ands %1111„: eij 4 %/7 I ) ti