The Sun. — London, England, 1841-05-20 00:00:00

ICI OR : ING EDITION REPRESENTATION OF LtVER. POOL. (From the-Liverpool Times.) The conspicuous part which the Noble Lord who re presents this great commercial port has volunteered to take in resisting the measures now before Parliament, for liberating the commerce of this country from the shackles which restrain it, renders it absolutely necessary that those whose interests and fortunes are involved in the opening_ of the trade of the country, should take decided means at the approaching election, to show ,to Parliament and the country that their opinions and those of Lord Sandon do not agree. The Noble Lord has thought proper, at the present crisis, to sacri fice the interests of the manufactures and commerce of the country, and those of the majority of his constituents, to gain the favour and promote the interest of a small body of monopolists. Whether, in so doing, he has been actuated by gratitude for past, or the hope of future favours, by a disinterested love for monopoly and exclusion, or a practical calculation as to the effects which the breaking down of the system of monopoly will have on his own personal interests as a landowner, or whether his Lordship has acted without regard to his own inte rests and those of his friends, and from a desire to pro mote what he believes to be the interests of the country, we leave to the decision of those who have had better opportunities than we have of judging of his Lordship's character and motives. One thing, however, is perfectly clear, that his Lordship, for some reason or other, has volunteered to take the position of Advocate-Gene ral of monopoly and exclusion, and we, therefore, call upon all those who have any regard for their own inte rests, any wish to mitigate the sufferings of the working classes, any desire to put an end to the present unparalleled embarrassment of trade, and any wish to place their own interests and the interests of the country upon a solid and lasting foundation, to come forward and show that they am'determined to have those interests and opinions fairly represented in the Commons House of Parliament, and not sacrificed either to the selfish interests of a landed representative, to his complacency for his West India friends, or even to his Lordship's want of comprehension of the necessities of the country. Let not those who are opposed to the recent proceedings of the Noble Lord imagine, however, that they will gain what they and the country have a right to ask, without considerable exertion on their part. Sacrifices must be made if any good is to be done, . and they certainly will be made, unless present resolutions and professions are allowed to evaporate in empty threats. We, therefore, call upon those of our Brazilian mer chants, who know and feel that their interests have been shamefully assailed by the Noble Lord, to come forward and vindicate their rights, on those of the merchants who feel that the Noble Lord is jeopardising the commerce of the country, to come for ward likewise, and on all those who have considered it an honour to have the name and principles of Liver pool associated with the name and commercial principles of William Huskisson, to make a determined effort to place the representation of this town on such a footing as will save it from being used as the strongest argu ment for monopoly and exclusion. In a case like this, there is not the least need of mere ad captandum arguments or appeals. All that is necessary is, that the electors should calmly con sider what is their interest and the interest of their families. With regard to the sugar duties, for in stance, where is the man, not having a sinister in terest, who can doubt that it is for the interest of .every family in Liverpool to have sugar at reason able rates, and no longer to be subject to prices which press most cruelly on the comforts of the poor, and are also felt to have been a very heavy burden on the incomes of the middle classess ? Is it not enough, and more than enough, that every family in this town and throughout the country, besides paying a tax of at least 100 per cent. on sugar for the benefit of the general Government, should pay an additional tax of 50 per cent. for the benefit of a few West India proprietors ? Most persons would suppose that this was sufficient, but not so Lord Sandon. He is not satisfied with compelling every one of his constituents to pay this amount of protecti?n to his West Indian supporters. What he requires is, that they should have the total control of the market, and the right of extracting every shilling which can be screwed from th e pu bli c by an abso lute - monopoly. We are told, indeed, by the advocates of the West India interest, that the amount of re lief given by the Government measure, will be in significantly small. This may be a very sufficient reason why the proposed reductions should be car ried further, but it is a miserable one why 'they should not be carried so far. Indeed, the view taken by the grocers -of this town in the petition which they for warded to Parliament last week, and which Lord San don bad the pleasure of presenting, is evidently a sound one. They ask that the duty should be reduced to 30s. instead of 365., and if it is their interest, as sellers, that the duty should be no higher, it is certainly the interest of the consumers likewise. The great object, we suspect, of Lord Sandon, and of the other landowners to whom the town constituencies have had the folly to commit the guardianship of their interests, is the defence of their own monopoly at the expense of the community. Even if Lord Sandon was under no obligation to the West India interest, yet his interest in keeping up the price of corn would, we fear, be quite sufficient to induce him to make common cause with them. It is his own battle that is fought, and though we have not the slightest wish to insinuate that Lord Sandon is more selfish than men in general, yet we' must say, we have never seen any thing in his character or conduct which would in duce us to think him capable of sacrificing his own peculiar interests to the interests of the country. So far as those interests are fair and legiti mate; no one would ask him to make any such sacri fice, or would think any the worse of him if he re fused to make it ; but the shipowners of this great port have reason to complain that the Noble Lord should render it impossible for them to obtain freights in ordinary times in the corn-growing countries of Europe and America ; the merchants have a right to complain that he should destroy everything like regularity in the trade in foreign corn, and the public ge neially (that great unprotected and much injured interest), has a Tight to complain that the Noble Lord should be a party to inflict upon them all the evils of embarrassed trade and extravagant prices. At the present moment there is not a single merchant or shopkeeper in Liverpool who is not suffering from the dreadful depression in trade which the Corn-la"-s have produced in the monetary affairs and the bnsiness of the country ; and unless party spirit has destroyed every thing like reason or regard to their own interest in the mercantile and trading classes, the Noble Lord will be taught that the inhabitants of this large town Will no longer allow their business to be thrown into con fusion, and their fortunes to be destroyed, to gratify either his party objects or his personal interests. The Noble Lord, by volunteering to take the position of defender-ge neral of the monopolies which press upon the country, has rendered it unavoidable that the next contest for the repre sentation ofLiverpool should be a contest between liberal principles of trade and commercial monopoly. He has taken his ground ; on that he must be met, and on that ground we hope and believe he will be defeated. Our hope rests not on any fancied change of opinion as regards general politics, but upon the present position of the country, upon the lessons of wisdom which painful experience is pressing upon all men, and npon the odiou s an d ru i nous grounds which the Noble Lord himself has thought fit to take. We trust that no time will be lost in inviting the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Labou there, or some other man of good Parliamentary stending, and thoroughly pledged to the reduction o f the duties on the prime necessaries of life, and th e emancipation of the trade of the country, to come forward and contest the renresentatio n of Liverpool on those grounds. Lord Sand'on has himself thrown down the gauntlet, and no one entertains a hope that our legal representative, Mr. Cresswell, will show one whit more of sympathy for the. trade of the country than his noble colleague. If either of them is .returned again f or Liverpool, th e in fluence of this port goes against freedom of trade —against the principles of Huskisson—and this we trust the Liberal portion of the constituency will never allow without a struggle. TEETOTALLERS AT CROYDON. A disturbance, which at one time it was feared would h ave been attended with serious consequences, took place on Friday at Croydon, arising out of the attempt of a teetotaller to give a lecture to the inhabitants upon the subject of the evils of dram-drinking, and the beauties o f t e etotallism. The lecturer arrived in the to wn i t early part of the day, and he employed th e crie_.• . to p ,„ round t h e t o wn with his bell and give , noticeii The crier, o f -- a mee T_ ing, to be held at the back of the own-hr, notwithstanding the erra nd he W,TS UrA, had very little 'regard for the teetotal princip.ie, for , before he h a d gone half his round it was very ovid en . that he was no tee totaller, and the circumste - nce of his giving notice of a teetotal meeting while i 'this Condition caused a good deal of merriment, and th,s, together with the novel exhibition, caused a great cro,,vd of the lower orders of the town to assemble at t:ne appointed hour, and the lecturer, a melancholy - I'Joking middle-aged man , dressed in a seedy suit of blac. fc , soon afterwards made his appearance, and mounted on chair and commenced an address. During - this time some of the bystanders had obtained a quantity of beer, with whi c h they regaled themselves to the great horror of the lecturer, who declared, upon his being asked,to partake °Nome of the forbidden liquor, that he. EeSerred water to the best beer that could be obtained. was going on to expatiate upon the great virtues of ater, when some of the crowd upset his stool, 'and he fell am ong the mob, who pummelled him, tore his co a t o ff his back, " bonneted him, and used him so roughly that he was very glad to get away as well as he could from them, and take shelter in the house of Mr. Bunce, the grocer; he was - followed by the m o b, w h o expressed their determination to, give him a bellyful of his favorite liquor by drawing him through the pond. it was at length considered prn 'dent to send to the police-station for assistance, and Sergeant Culpepper, accompanied by three or four con sta'bles soon arrived at Mr. Bunce's, and on forcing their way through the crowd they found the unhappy: teeto taller in the kitchen in a miserable plight, covered with dirt, and his clothes nearly torn off his back, but with the exception of a few bruises he had, fortunately, not received any bodily injury. The officers then expressed their willingness to protect him to the railway station, but it was not until he had taken a drop of brandy, that he could muster up courage to face his tormentors, and when he came into the High street, accompanied by the constables, he was'greeted with a tremendous volley of groans and hisses, but by the firmness of the officers, and their remonstrating with the mob, he was prevented from sustaining any further injury, and was placed in the train, which speedily carried him o ut of the hearing of the hooting,s of th e crowd that had f o ll owed him A H .EAVY SENTENCE. A man has been sen tenced to ninety years' imprisonment. in Missouri, for the *rime of robbar,y, with iartat to raurder.—ivetv Faris Paper. SLAVERY AND SLAVE TRADE IN CUBA. The subjoined memorial, fiom the Havannah, has lately been received by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society : TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR, AND CAPTAIN-GENERAL. The subscribers, inhabitants of this city, proi,)rietors of urban and rural estates, approach your Excellency with the most profound respect, in virtue of the invitation ad dressed to this vicinity, in the proclamation which was published on the occasion of your assuming the govern ment of the island, respectfully declaring that one of the principal exigencies, if not the greatest and must urgent required from the chief by its actual situation, is an ener getic and irrevocable provision for the perpetual suppres sion of the contraband traffic in slaves from Africa. The memorialists, who are intimately acquainted with the material interests of Cuba in all their details, and with the best mode of preserving and securing them in the distressing crisis in which the island is involved, are intimately convinced that the only means of arresting the storms with which they are threatened, are to be found in what they have recommended to your Excel lency's superior discretion. The two corporations, the most respectable in the Havannah, viz., the most excel lent and most illustrious " Ay-untamiento," and the Royal " Junta de Fomento," are of the same opinion, and have thus addressed themselves to the Provisional Regency of the Kingdom, with reasons and arguments worthy of all consideration. The slave trade is the sole and exclusive cause of the displeasure with which the increasing agricultural and commercial prosperity of this island is regarded by . all-powerful England, and that trade is the real or appa rent motive for its having become the target of her di plomatic hostility. It is the slave trade which has excited the philanthro pic susceptibility of the powerful and numberless aboli tionists of England, who lose no opportunity, by word and writing, in books, periodicals, and newspapers, in private society, and in .legislative assemblies, to address themselves to the British Cabinet, in order that ours may be required at any price to consent to the perform ance of our treaties. It is for the sake of the suppression of the slave trade that the British Government has solemnly recognized the independence of the neighbouring republic of Hayti, from whence we are exposed to a degree of injury, com mitted with perfect impunity, which it horrifies the ima gination to conceive. It is on account of the slave trade that two active and enterprisinc , envoys of the British and Foreign Society established' in London for the destruction of slavery wherever it is to be found, have presented themselves in Spain, without any disguise, to the imminent peril of our tranquillity, for the general emancipation of our slaves, and we are already aware that in Madrid they have met with a very favourable reception, as they tell us themselves, and as is to be inferred from the articles which have appeared, without any impediment, in the metropolitan press, on a question, the mere agitation of which in public has opened the door to the most serious calamities. It is by the slave trade that the number of our natural enemies within the island is daily increased, according to the statistical information contained in the "Stranger's Guide for the Havannah," of the present year, they now amount to 660,000 persons of colour, or about 60 per cent. of the whole population, leaving only about 40 per cent. of whites. In the year 1775 the coloured inhabit ants formed no more than 36 per cent. of the general po pulation, so that since that period the whites have pro portionally and progressively decreased, to the extreme point in which they now appear, while the negroes have gained the relative ascendancy. It appears, therefore, as the result of that providential law deducible from these statistical facts, that the increase of the servile is destined to prejudice the increase of the dominant race ; since such has been the result observed by able statisti cians in the other West India Islands, and in the empire of Brazil, from whence the celebrated Humboldt and De Tocqueville have drawn the most disconsolate horo scope of the future fate of the white inhabitants of other countries similar situated. And it is the slave trade which is the efficient cause of this melancholy phenomenon. It is on account of the slave trade that the emigration of Europeans has not been increased, as, for our future welfare it ought to have been, under the written provisions of the Royal cedula of the 21st of September, 1817, under the contri bution of 4 per cent., imposed for its increase on the ex pense of the judicial proceedings, and under the Com mittee established for promoting it. During the quinquennial period, from 1835 to 1839, there entered 35,203 white passengers at the port of Havannah, where they generally arrive, one half of whom, as mere travellers, would probably not remain. During the same period there were landed on the coast of this western department only the moderate propor tion of 63,055 negroes from Africa. Hence it follows, that if future events should proceed in the same career, we shall be compelled, in a very few years, to lament, without the means of redress, over the disastrous and in evitable consequences which, thanks to our own apathy, and our incomprehensible want of foresight, are destined to overwhelm us. And this, most Excellent, Sir, is not all. Let us cast a glance only over the countries which surround us. The firmest mind may well tremble to contem plate the dense mass of negroes which so horribly ob scure our horizon. Nine hundred thousand are to be found to the eastward in the military republic of Hayti, with disciplined armies, and holding at their dispo sal the whole means of transport which Great Bri tain has to give. To the south there are 400,000 in Ja maica, who wait only the signal of their proud liberators , to fly to the rescue in our eastern mountains ; 12,000 at least are scattered over the Bahama Archipelago, and the islands in our immediate neighbourhood, where as many more have been placed by British policy from the captures which have been made at the expense of the trade to this island. And, setting aside the condition of the slaves of the French West India islands, which are now on the eve of emancipation, let us turn our eyes to wards the north, in the direction of the Capes of Florida, and the ports of Louisiana, Georgia, and the Carolinas, which place is almost in contact with the continent where nearly 3,000,000 of negroes are presented to us—a number so immense as to excite alarm, not in Cuba only, but throughout the whole American confederation, whose very heart is, sooner or later, to be in consequence con vulsively agitated and devoured. Sad to us will be the day when this event occurs, if we do not prepare our selves deliberately in due time, nay, this very day, for the tremendous explosion. This is so urgent, most Excellent Sir, that, although it were certain, as many erroneously suppose, that the ad vance of our agriculture would be paralysed without the aid of negro labour, we ought immediately to prefer to live in poverty, but security, rather than: with blind cupi dity aspiring to seize a rich harvest for a single year, expose ourselves the next to lose, not only this, but all that has preceded it, together with the soil, the machaery, and the whole territory of the island, in one 'general in surrection of the negroes, so easily stirr' up and in flamed by cunning emissaries, and f' - .1 in our very fields by those elements of combustion which will be thrown upon the fire from the great e,entres of rebellion I,vl-L e i, surround us on every side. But fortunately for tlie island of Cuba, for its present inhabitants, and for the interestsoft norbemothliy th erco e un st t e r r y i; it has not been con d emne d by Heaven, law of nature, to the necessity of cultivating its fertile soil by the sweat of African brows. This was the notion entertained in a former age when the most fatal errors were regarded as axioms ; but for the men of the pre sent day it is a duty to correct the economical and social mistakes of our ancestors. And guided by the light of experience, and by the prodigious progress which human reason has made in these latter times in all branches of knowledge, we shall doubtless succeed in accomplishing their correction. Already in the central portion of the island the glorious career of agricultural reform has been opened by a son of our industrious Catalonia. He, however, and all who follow hi; excellent example, must expect to have to struggle P.A. some time to come with the in numerable obstac]•es which habit, prejudice, bad faith, and, above all, the deleterious influence of the slave trade, will oppose to them ; for it is in that traffic alone that we are to seek for the origin of all the evils by which we are assa:,: ie d. It is fo r this reason that the memorialists beseech your Excenency to take what they have stated into considera ti'lm. Not to offend your Excellency's high intelligence, nor anticipate what your prudence will dictate in the im portant affairs to which this memorial refers, they look with confidence in the result to the illustrious chief by whom they are now governed, to whom is reserved the unfading honour of snatching this precious relict of the Spanish Indies from the precipice whose brink it over looks. 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The following is a copy of a letter written by the great Herbert Mayo, Esq., Senior Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital :—" To Thomas Holloway, Esq.—Sir : Will you excuse this informal answer ? The ointment has been of use in all the cases in which I have tried it. Send me, if you please, some more in a few days' time.—H. MAYo, 19, George-street, Hanover-square, 19th April, 1837." To be had at the Proprietor's Establishment, 244, Strand, seven doors from Temple Bar, and at every respectable Chemist's throughout the Kingdom ; in pots and boxes at ls. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., 11s., 225., and 335. each. SINGULAR DEATH.—An inquest was held at the St. Mary's Hotel, on Tu-sday evening last, before G. n. Corfe, Esq., Coroner, on the body of Louisa Alexander, an un married lady, residing in lodgings in St. Mary's-place. She had been in good health till recently ; on Saturday evening she took some peppermint cordial for the wind in her stomach ; she was cold and unwell next day, but refused to have medical attendance. In the morning of Monday, as she did not ap pear, and the door was, as usual, locked, it was forced open by a carpenter, in the presence of Mr. Ward, the surgeon, and the landlady. Deceased was lying on the floor, quite dead, and as if laid out : she had on only a clean linen chemise, and a dirty one was folded up, on which her head rested; a brown tik e t was pinned on her bosom. The bed in the deceased's ru had been laid in, but there was no appearance of strug- Olif• Verdict--" Died by the visitation of God." We un deratand the deceased gave, just prior to her death, every in struction respecting her funeral, and had lodged 251. in the ands of Mr. Bail, of French-stre.,:,t, towazcis the expenses of tte Num —IL-At., Advert - inn . THE CORN-LAW CRISIS. A meeting of the inhabitants of Salford, called by a public requisition, numerously signed, is to be held on Friday morning, to express their opinion at the present These are times for stern spirits and firm hands. We write advisedly ; we write for Irishmen ; we appeal to their memories ; we await, but we are sure of a stern and ominous response to that appeal. The time is no longer one of compromise, it is not a time for con ciliation. No ! The people of Ireland never can, Dever must forgive the Tories. If Sir Robert Peel and his despicable band of hypocritical scoundrels pre sent themselves to pass the threshold of office, Ireland will meet them ! And are their words burning enough to express the horror, contempt and indignant hatred with which their impudent profligacy might be rebuked. To England there are many reason why the Tories should not remain in office. The late debate contains a summary of them all. National prosperity, the public welfare—all that is greet or useful in laws or government were sought to be sacrificed to selfish and avowedly dishonest interest.. And under what pretences? The slave-trade. The Tories pleaded for their own plunder and monopolies on the score of huma nity, and the shameless hypocrites avow that they use both religion and philanthropy merely as instruments to obtain a factious party triumph. Leagued with the Chartists, combined with the West India planters, in fellowship with Anti-Slavery zealots, Sir R. Peel has placed his party before the empire in startling defer. mity. Irishmen. you have once already rebuked Sir Robert Peel from office ; and you must arise and do so again. He must never obtain one hour's dominion. But we do not fear it. Ministers will not resign, and the position of the Tories in an appeal to the people must be disastrous and contemptible. All their dishoneit tact, and unprincipled Chartism, and hypocritical hurna: nity will have gone for nothing. They must come for ward as the open and avowed supporters of selfish mo nopolists to the nation : they must hear, unanswerable, the taunt of the starving multitudes whom they plunder. If Engiand be roused ; above all, if Ireland bet horoughly awakened, they cannot succeed. But if they should ? Why, then, we hope that our hostility will be ui appea sable and undying! if a people must rise, can they rise in a holier cause ? For their rights, for their homes,for their altars, the people will stake every thing, if neces sary, but in Ireland the faction never returns to power. —Southern Reporter. MONOPOLY OR NO MONOPOLY.—We must buckle on our armour for a more serious warfare than any we have hitherto engaged in, and every man must feel that in the approaching general election the oligarchy are at length at bay. The present is no servile war for an agragarian or Spencean division of property, but a peace ful constitutional movement for the free use of our own I legs and arms. Let all plunderers and monopolists tremble ! Let the parasite classes fear They feel that a blow struck at one is a blow at all, and that in a country where no privileges are accorded to idleness, and no trammels imposed upon labour for their behoof, abuses cannot long exist. A magnate of their order said before of Reform—" If this Bill passes, England will not be a place for a gentleman to live in." To all such we can easily conceive that the Grand Material Reform contemplated by Ministers is a hateful scheme : but to the masses of the people it is " as manna in the wilderness.' Their cry is not revolutionary spoliation and robbery, but the honest, manly, independent cry of old Samuel Johnson—." Better stand in our own shoes than in our neighbours, after all, better in no shoes than in those !" Monopolists and anti-monopolists are now the distinctive divisions of the nation.—C'heltenhenz Free Press. THE PROPOSED ALTERATION IN THE CORN-LAWS. —The natural effect of the bolder and better course of policy adopted winthin these few days by Government, in proposing to bestow on the people a real and sub stantial benefit—something worth struggling to obtain—. is beginning to become everywhere unequivocally ap parent. The heartless apathy and mistrust engendered by the meaningless and fruitless character of the politico; of the last few years, is rapidly clearing away, and the old " Reform" spirit is awaking throughout the land in something like its former strength. Hundreds upon hundreds of petitions have already been sent up in ap proval of the proposal to untax the bread and sugar of the people, and everywhere is heard the din of prepa ration for the momentous struggle which is so nigh at hand—for it is now a matter almost of certainty that the Ministry, when defeated on the Budget, do no in tend to resign, but to appeal to the country by a disso lution. The struggle will be a keen and a doubtful one, and the aid of every friend of free trade and good Go vernment will require to he taxed to the utmost.—Ber wick Advertiser. While vast prospects are expanding before us abroad what is our condition at home ? Hourly threatened by the accession to power of a party opposed to all im• provement in our institutions at home, and fronowhose rule we have nothing to ezpect but domestic confusion in Ireland. The country ; however, must perform its duty. Ministers are engaged in the most arduous struggle, and unless supported by all classes of Re formers, must inevitably fall and make way for men whose conduct in the government of Ireland would endanger the happiness and greatness of the empire, in order to secure to themselves and the Orange party the ascendancy. The contest is now not between rival Statesmen, but between abuses and reform. Let the country look well into the result of supporting the present Government or its enemies.—Cambrian. We sincerely hope the nation will be true to itself' on this occasion, and, by thousands of petitions, strengthen the bands of Ministers, who, in this instance, have redeemed many of their by-past delinquencies, and shown th-t they both understand, and are determined to act o", such an enlightened principle of legislation, as shall prove to the world that they rightly appreciate the true and substantial interests of the empire, and are fully aware of the impolicy as well as injustice of any longer sanctioning a system which sacrifices the well being of the many to the rapacity of the few. Even to fag in such a good work will be to them, and to the Li beral cause, a signal triumph, as it will reveal + dullest capacity who are, and who are r the friends of the people.—Welshman. the real WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING . c . . 01 2 it is most im. derstand what it portant that every man a the empire should we ll un fight :he sho e' • s for which he is called up on t o , , be satisfied t h at his exertions are re quired fr ,r no shadowy or uncertain good, but for red sub. ..sandal benefits which he will sensibly feel in his pocket. There is nothing like figures oa such clues tioes as these. We propose to show the middle class man and the working man what each of them will gain by the proposed revision of the Import Duties. Let us take the case of a tradesman who has a family of six children, and keeps two servants. His weekly consumption of sugar averages at least llb. per head, or 101bs. per week. On this article alone he would save by the al . ered duties no less than 61. 10s. per annum. In the article of bread, taking his consumption at 15 loaves a week, he would save by ao alteration in the Corn laws about 61. 103. per annum. In the article of butcher's meat, taking his consumption at 401bs. per week, he would save, by an alteration in th e p rov i s i on laws, no less a sum than 171. per annum. If he builds • a house, he pays some 201. or 301. for his timber more than he will pay if the duties are revised. On a multitude of minor articles, such as coffee, treacle, rum, wine, &c., he pays a very heavy tax in the shape of protective duties. Thus, on the three ne cessaries of life we have named, a man of the middle classes will save, by a revision of the Import Duties, no less than 34/. per annum, or about one-twelfth of an in come of 4001. a year. Now let us take the case of a working man. To him the saving will be much greater in proportion to his income, and it must no t b e con cealed that the main obje c t of the proposed changes is to improve the condition of the poor. Suppose a working man to have a wife and four children, and to to earn 10s. a week. He consumes about 10 loaves, 2lbs. of bacon er other meat, lib. of sugar, and lib. of coffee. On these articles he is forced to pay, by the present law, taxes as follows ; on his bread I s . Bd., on his bacon 4d., on his sugar 3d., on his coffee 6d., in the whole 2s. 9d., or nearly one-fourth of his entire in come. Now, mark how unjustly these taxes fall ; the middle class man pays only one-twelfth of his income, but the poor man pays one-fourth of his ; while the rich man is not taxed by these duties to a hundredth part of his income. Here we have a practical reversal of the scriptural maxim " to whom much is given from him much shall be required," for these most cruel and iniqui tous laws take most from those who have the least. It will be seen from this, that the question so soon to be submitted to the electors of Great Britain is emphati cally a poor man's question—it is whether the labourer shall be relieved from taxes to the amount of a fourth of his little earnings. And it is also a very important question for the middle classes. To he deprived of one twelfth of their incomes by a law made, not for the be nefit of the country, but for the enrichment of a few at the expense of the many, is to them also a very serious grievance. Relief from such a burden is surely an ob ject worth fighting for. We say nothing at present of the other considerations, as the ruin that impends over commerce, and, consequently, over themselves, if the system of monopoly be continued, and which should rouse all the industrious classes to unrelaxing exertion to secure the benefits offered to them, for these we must treat of in another article.—Somerset County Gazelle DEATH OF MR. HENRY MORETON DYER, POLICE MAGISTRATE. —This much-esteemed gentleman, who has for many years been the chief Magistrate at Ma!borough street police-office, breathed his last about five o'clock en Mon day morning, at his residence, Devonshire-house, Wimpole street. He had been for some months in a weak state of health. but had lately so far recovered as to be able to attend to his Magisterial duties up to the latter end of last week. It was , however, evident that he was fast sinking, and although on Tlyir:day last, when for the last time he sat on the bench, he appeared to be better than he had been for some p rev i ous days, yet the fallacious hopes of his family and frie i d s h are been dissipated by his sudden dem ise. Mr. Dyer had been abouttwenty-four years in the commi?men of the Peace, and was foi merly Judge-Advocate in one of the West India Eland!, where be accumnlated the bulk of his fcrtwe. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. IMPORTANT TO SIIIPOWNEIRS.—Yesterday Alderman Pixie sat for the Lord Mayor for the especial purpose of hearing a case of great importance to shipowners; he was attended by the City Solicitor. Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, said the information was laid under the 3d and 4th Wm. IV., c. 55, to recover a penalty of 1001. against a Mr. Jordison, for wilfully and wrongfully detaining the ship's register of the Anne Mackenzie, whereby the owners of the vessel were un able to clear her out of the docks into which she had been entered on her arrival in January last, to discharge her cargo. The Act of Parliament in question was one of the greatest importance to shipowners, as it afforded the best security, by summary measures, to obtain possession of the ship's papers if improperly withheld by masters or other persons who might have got them into their power. The 27th section, which comprehended the whole matter, was substantially as follows :—" And whereas it is not proper that any person, under any pretence whatever, should detain the certificate of registry of any ship, or hold the same for any purpose other than the lawful use and navigation of the ship for which it was granted ; be it therefore enacted, that in case any person who shall have received or obtained by any means, or for any pur pose whatever, the certificate of the registry of any ship (whether such person shall claim to be the master or the owner) shall wilfully detain and refuse to deliver up the same to the proper officers, for the purposes of the ship, as occasion shall require, or to the person having the ac tual command, possession, and management, as the ostensible and reputed master or owner, it shall be law ful for any such last-mentioned person to make complaint, on oath, of such detainer and refusal to any Justice of the Peace ,• and on such complaint the Ma gistrate shall cause the person complained against to be brought before him to be examined as to such detainer and refusal ; and if it shall appear that the said certifi cate of .registry is not lost or mislaid, but is wilfully de tained by the person complained against, such person shall be convicted thereof, and shall forfeit and pay the sum of 100/., and, on failure of payment, be committed to the common gaol for not less than three, nor more than twelve months ; and the Magistrate shall certify the detainer, refusal, and conviction, to the person who granted the certificate of registry, who shall make re gistry of the ship de novo, and grant a certificate thereof conformably to law, notifying the ground on which the ship was registered de novo." Mr. Clarkson then called Mr. Gibson, who swore that the Anne Mackenzie, in July, 1840, belonged to his brother, a shipower at Sunderland, who had mortgaged her to a Mr. Ingo. The latter had appointed Captain Simpson master, and sent her on an outward bound voyage, from which she returned to the port of London in January of the present year. It appeared that both Mr. Gibson and Mr. Ingo had demanded the ship's register from Captain Simpson, but he refused to deliver it up to either until certain debts that had been incurred in re spect of the ship should be discharged. Mr. Clarkson contended that there was not the slight est pretext for retaining it on this account. The witness then proved the execution of the mort gage to Mr. Ingo, and a subsequent bill of sale to a Mr. Bainbridge, and a demand of the register on behalf of Mr. Bainbridge of the defendant. Mr. Boville, the barrister, who appeared for th e defend ant, severely cross examined the witness, from whom hi elicited that previously to Capt. Simpson leaving England two different informations had been lodged under the same statute against the Captain ; that they had been both dismissed by Mr. Ballantine; and that, on the last occa sion the certificate of the ship's register was sought to be recovered from Mr. Jordison, and was left in that gentleman's hands, with the consent of all parties, to abide any future proceedings that might be instituted. Mr. Boville *as proceeding by his cross-examination to impeach the validity of the transfer, but was stopped by Mr. Clarkson; who contended that his Learned Friend had no right to pursue that course. It was a maxim with which every attorney's clerk was acquainted, that it was not competent to him to vary, by parole evidence, the contents of a written instrument. Mr. Bovine admitted the doctrine of Mr. Clarkson, with one single exception, and that was precisely the one with which they were now dealing. He distinctly imputed fraud in the concoction of these documents, and if it were not permitted by parole evidence to explain the true character of the transaction, it would be in the power of dishonest persons to give validity to deeds, at complete variance with the facts of the case. Mr. Boville asked the witness whether the person who gave him instructions to prepare the bill of sale to Bain bridge, did not tell him that it was done for the express purpose of obtaining possession of the ship's registry, without paying the claims to which the ship was liable ? Mr. Clarkson having objected to the question, Alderman PIRIE said, if the witness refused to answer, he should draw his own conclusions from his silence. Mr. Gibson said that, no such observation was made ; no money passed at the time the bill of sale was exe cuted, but the consideration, which was 1,800/., might have been previously paid at his brother's office. Alderman PIRIE complained that so much time was consumed in the discussion of collateral matters ; it be hoved the parties who claimed the assistance of the Ma gistrate in this summary manner, to show that the bill of sale was a bona fide transaction, and that the purchase money had been actually paid. Mr. Boville said he was instructed that these facts were not capable of being proved, as, in truth, the whole was a contrivance to defeat the claim of Captain Simpson, Messrs. Carter and B onus , an d ot h er persons who had made advances on the credit of the ship. He, however, contended that the Magistrate ought not to exercise his jurisdiction, if he had any, in a case of this kind. These gentlemen claimed to have a lien upon the document now sought to be taken from them, and the parties ought to proceed for its recovery if they had any right, in a superior Court, where the whole matter could be fully inquired into. The Courts of Law had decided that the Ships' Registry Acts afforded no impediment to granting a lien upon a ship's papers. The City Solicitor—Are you alluding to the case of Mestacr and Atkins ? might be he hhealdd beenfor advances. shel%n tva at ease , 3 . the City Solicitor, and it app eare d that tb- - . o Mr. Boville—Precisely so ; an d a l so to the case of Bowen and Fox. There it w as expressly decided that the ship's Alderman q papers la i m E held for butcher's meat, and other r- ..., papers were the ship. Mr. Boville hard',-- --cessaries supplied to The Alderman aga;- .....y carried this case so far. clients expect - - -, repeated that, if Mr. Clarkson's must - ...,:ti to succeed in their application, they prove the validity of their assignments and the payment of the purchase money, otherwise he should dismiss the application. He was advised by the soli ! citor that he should be justified in doing so upon several other grounds, and it was too much to expect him to put in force the provisions of a highly penal statute when his mind was not thoroughly convinced of the moral justice of the case. Mr. Clarkson said, as this was a question of great im portance, he would propose to his Learned Friend that Mr. Jordison should admit the possession of the ship's re gister, so that an action of trover might be brought to try his right to retain it. Mr. Boville said that Messrs. Carter and Bonus, who were the parties substantially interested in the matter, would give the requisite undertaking, which being done, the information was withdrawn, PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (From the Dotes and Proceedings of Me House of Common.) 'MONDAY, MAY 17. LOUGH FOYLE DRAINAGE BILL. Motion made and Question proposed,—" That the Bill be now read the second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word ' now,' and at the end of the Question to add the words, upon this day six months :"—Question put, " That the word now' stand part of the Question :"—The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 58. Blake, Martin J.- Galway lO'Connall, John—Athlone Bridgeman, Hewitt—Ennis 'O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry Briscoe, J. L—Westbury C'Oonnell, Maurice—Tralee Itrotherton, J.—Salford Oswald, James—Glasgow Bustield, W.—Bradford Pattison, James—London Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co. Pechell, Captain—Brighton Callaghan, D.—Cork City Pryme, George—Cambridge Crawford, W.—London Rawdon, John Dawson—Armagh Dcnistoun, J.—Glasgow Roche, Wilham—Limtrick Divett, Edward—Exeter Salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow Duke, Sir James—Boston Scholetield, J.—Birmingham I)uncombe, T. S --Finsbury Sharpe, General—Dumfries Easthupe, .l.—Leicestrr Stens ti eld, W. R. C.—Huddersfield Ferguson, Colonel —Kirka'dy Stewart, James—Honiton Fleetwood, P. H.—Preston Stock, Dr.—Cashel Fort, J.—Clitheroe Strickland, Sir G.—W. Yorkshire Hall, Sir Benjamin—Mar ylebone Strutt, Edward—Derby Hamilton, Charles J. ll Aylei. Talbot, J. H.—New Ross bury Tallourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Tancred, H. W.—Banbury Hodges, T. L.—West Kent Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny Turner, W.—Blackburn Hutchins, E. J.—Touren Westenra, H0n.14 R.—Monaghan Hutton, Robert—Dublin White, AndreW—Sunderland Langdale, Hon. C.—Knaresbo. White, Luke —Longford roueh White, Lieut-Col.Saml.—Leitrim Lennox, Lord J. G.—West Sussex Wilbraham, George—Cheshire Lister, E. Conliffe—Bradford Yates, J. Ashton -Carlow Moreton, A H.—Gloucestershire Nagle, Sit n. —Westmeath O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare O'Brien, W. S.—Limerick Co, MAJORITY. Alexander, Nathaniei—Antrim Bagge, W.—West Norfolk Bailey, Joseph—Worcester Baring, H. B.—Marlborough Barneby, Joh: l —Worcestershire Barrington, Lord—Berkshire Bateson, Sir R.—Londonderry Blennerhassett, A.—Kern Bradshaw Jarries-LCZWrburf Broad ley, ' Henry—East Yorkshire . Brownr gg, J. S.—Boston Bruges, W. H. L—Bath Buck, L W.—North Devonshire Burr, D H. D.—Hereford Cartwright, Wm. R.—South Nor thamptonshire TELLERS. Wood, Sir Matthew—London Aurnphery, John—Southwark —NOES, 78. IJ a ckson,Mr.Serj...-Bandon Bridge Johnstone. .1. P —Dumfriesshire Jones, John—Carmarthenshire Kemble, H.—Fast Surrey Knatchbull, Sir E.—East Kent Knight. H. G.—Nottinghamshir. Lefroy, Rt. Hon. T.—Dublin Urn versity 'Litton, Edward—Coleraine Lock hart, A. M.—Lanarkshire !Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland Lowther. J. H.—York Lygon, Major-Gen. Hon. H. B.— Worcestershire West. ' Mackenzie, Thomas—Ress-shire Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire Martin, Thomas—Galway Co. 1 Marton, Geo.—Lahcaster :Maunsell, T. P —Northampt , nsh. Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Bristol Morgan, O.—Monmouthshire Parker, T. A. W.—Oxfordshire Perceval, Colonel—Sligo Co. ! Planta, Joseph—Hastings Plumptre, John P.—East Kent Pswerscourt, Viscount—Bath !Price, Richard—New Radnor Iftiehards, Richarri—Morinethqh. Round, Charles Gray—Essex N. m i Abrooke, Colnuel—Suffbiir Scarlett, Hon. J. Y.—Guildford Smythe, Hon. G.—Canterbury Stanley, Edward—Cumberland Tennen!, J. E.—Belfast [hornbill, G.—Huntingdonshire !Trotter, .lobn West Surrey 'Verner, William —Armagh Co. 1 Wood, 13enjamin—routhwark Wynn, C. W.—Montgomeryshire TELLERS. Jones, T.—li.ndoneerry Co. Conolly, Edward M.—Donegal Chute, - W. CV - V.—West Norfolk! Cooper, E J - Sligo Co. Coote, Sir C.—Queen's County Dalrymple, Sir A.—Brighton )arhy, George—East Sussex Doly,l4s, Sir C. E.—Warwick Drummond, H. 11.—Perthshire Dugdale, VV. S —Warwickshire Dunbar, George—Belfast Dungannon, Lord —Durham Egerton, W. 'Patton—Cheshire Esteourt, 'l'. G. B.—Oxford Univ. Feilden, NV:J.—Blackburn Ferguson,Si; R. A.—Londonderry Fremantle. Sir ° llmmr.s Bucks Fre hfisid, James Wm.—Peoryn Gaskell, James Milnes—. Wenlock Goddard, Ambrose —Crick lade Gordon, Hon. \V.—Aberdeenshire Gore, OrmsbT—Salop Grimsditch, I. —Macclesfield !' Hayes, Sir E.—Donegal Hodgson IRd.—Berwick-on..Tweed Hope, Charier—Linlithgowshire n, Samuel—Cumberland Irving, John_ Antrim Co. neslay Countess C raven , w h o a rrived in town on Wed went to Ilamstead Lodge, the seat of the Dowa g er Lad y from the f am ily sea t, Coombe Abbey , near Coventry , Craven, near Newbury, to jein the circle staying there pith the a[t toted Lady Louisa Johnston. , wh o. it is needle s ; to state ' , teels mo s t acately her domestic bereavement. Earl Craven has gore to Bectland to attend the obfequie! of hss unfortunate brothor-in-law. 1 PRICES OF CANAL,DOCh.,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 18. Number Divider d Price of per CANALS, Der Shares. Annum. Paid. Share ",766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97/.l'is.sh. 110 1,482 41. Ashby.de.le-Zouch A•crage 1 . .31.5h. 72 1, 60 ..... .. Basingstoke 1)01.0. 5 1,065 5117 Brecknock and Aber gav cnny / 50/. aft. 93 8,006 I•l6th. 101. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ....til. & 711. 200 4,000 .....« .. Ditto & Liverpool JunCt.IIIN. eh. 100 pi 25 600 31 Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. it, all pi 400 51. Chelmer mad Blackwater lOOl. eh . 101 500 321. Coventry'. 1001. sh. 600 Cr0yd0n........... Average3ll.2s.lod. sh. 2,060 51. Os. Dudley .......«....- ... . ....... 1001. sh. 94 600 131. Derby lool.sh. 120 141,0',0 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d .pd v 3 3,5751 4' Ellesinereand Chester Avertge 133:.5k. M 231 621 Erewasn .. ..... . ............. ..........1001. sn. 750 1,297 301. Forth undClyde....Averaye4.:Of. 16s. n. 6fo 11,060 8/. Grand Junction 1001. s n 127 2,8491 25e. Grand Union lool.Bh 26 1,500 .... .... Grand Surrey 1,0001 41:percent . Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. 096 ... .. . Grand Western .............. 11.1 h. allpd 10 600 131.1 . 2 Z 9d. Glamorgan:hire, Aver. cost 1721.130.4 d, tr.o 749 12%. Grantham 6,238 21. Os. HuddcrallTLl Average 5/1„ 6s. fkl.. sit 27 100 Kenaingtoa - 100 oh. allpd 10 2 1 ..329 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391,181.104. sh 2454 11,699 f 14 7s. Lancaster Average 471. Cs. 9d 27% 2,897 t 301. Leeds and Liverpool lthti.sh 750 544 11!. Leicester 1401. it, 151 1,897 51.9.. Leicester & Northampton Aver 931.10! 73 1,409 'lOl. Monmouthshire lOO/.sh 200 250 101. Melton Mowbray • 1091. eh. SIUG 00 251. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh . 555 3,000 21. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 34N 247 171. Neath lool.sh. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest . ...A vet ge about 7Sl.sh. 734 21,418 S. Regent's (or I...Cindon) Av. 331.185.8 d. sh. 94 5,669 VI. Rochdale Average 8'31.0. S 8 ZOO 81. Shropshire 1251. sh. 137 800 101. Os. Somerset Coal 1501.31i. 180 3,600/. 4h per cent Ditto Lock Fund 5t0ck......,.. 121 10s. sh. 11 1 4 700 361. Stafford and Worcester 140/. sh . 601 500 151 Shrewsbury 1251. sh. 280 310 91. ;s:tatirbrigge 1451.5h. 396 3,1147 V. Us. Strat ford-im. Avon A vcr....791. 9s. t.d. sh. 35 533 12/1 Swt.nrea ll,ol.sh. 265 3.762 21. 10s. Severn and Wyc and Railway Ar. 351. sh. 45 2,600 f sh. 322. 10s. Trent and Mersey, * share lOOl. ah. 5.0 8,149 .... ..... Thames and Medway Av. 191. Ss. Bd. eh. 2 1 ."1 162. Warwick and EV rmi R gham lOO/.sn 240 I,oooish. 950 13 • Warwick and Ciapip•n - 1001. sh. 160 7,000 41. Worcesicr & Birmingham Av.7dl.Bs. sh. 55 5.000 325. Wilts and Berk: Avreage 671. 108 Bd. sh. 2.1 600 66. Wytlev and Essington 1251. sh 74 .26 ........ W.eneacn ..:::::./. sh. 50 gm, 1/. Wey and Arun. llOl, sin. /2% DOCKS. 2,600 & 1 3p. c. Commerc 40 lOOl. sh. 63% 1,065/sh. 5 per cent. East and West India Stock 99 3,238,310 V. VI p ct. London Stock 70 Ditto Bonds 2,009 31. Gs. 541. Bristol Average 14°4 Os. sh. 75 68,3244 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOg 1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock :97 500,0e0 4/ per cent. Ditto Bonds 2004000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tar 10 years Deptford Pier ....4. 201. sh. 20!. pd 10 BRUMES. 1,600 14 Hammersmitl • 501. sh. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 031.25. Bd. oh. 31, 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, Now, on/ per cent., 501. sh. 16 ~,000 _......... Waterloo 1001. sh. 3% 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. p 4 21 5,000 19e, 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ... 4O/. pd 18% 50,0004 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 26s Vauxhall ........Average 701. 10e. 3d. oh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES: • 2,000 31 lOs Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 72 5 . 4000 1 6 fn e , r i c i ; V *l Allianceßritish & Foreignlool. sh. 114 pd 13% 10,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. sh. 51. pc] 5 24,000 el. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pcl 14 34 1,200/sh. 5/. Birmingham 0 ire.. 0 501, eh, 551. pd 1075 eO,OllO 41. percent. British Fire 2501. oh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5Ol. sh. 54 pd 5'4 5,000 51. percent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOLsh. 2/103 pd 4% 4,000 310 s County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd I r 20,000 ss. Eagle. 501. sh. 51. pd 5 „ no 05 per coma Economic Lito 1600/. sh. 2504 pd 400 j and 301 bs. 5 2,271 22s.percent. European Li • 020! sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New .., .000,000/. 61. per ct Globe Stock 118 23,000 Si* Guardian 36,000 4s. 01. Hope 504 sh. Si. pd 53 2,400 51. 12. i. 64. Imperial Fire 500!. sh. 501. pd ial 7,500 9s. Imperial Life lOO4 sh, 104 pd 10 13,459 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOOl.lll. 84 pd 29 2,020 31 10. Kent Fire iol. sh. all pd 92 31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 63 10,000 16s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 104 pd 303xs 5,000 10s. London, Fire 25/. oh. 121. 10s. rid IS% 3,900 10s. London, Ship "54 eh. 121. 10s. rod 1834 !,000,000/. .. Minerva Idle trele 100 110,0004 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium LIP:. .14, 50/. sh. 21. pd '2l Os 50,000 5/. per cent. Protean: I, l l' • 0 01. sh. 2/. pd 18s ocl 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Lossenters ....1604 sh. U. pd 534 9,500 1/, Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 104 pd 20 200,110 3s. Cd. Rock Life 5!. pd 4 99,220/ 51. per seat. Royal Each:Lugo Stock 190 6,009 5 per cent. Untversity Lite Yell. tn. Si. pd 54 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Lift.s 100/. sh. 51. pd 74 .10/14T STOCK BANKS. 25,000 Agric. and Com. of I reland2sl. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 8 percent. Australasia 40/. sh. 404 pd 55 10,006 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 50/. sh. 10/, pd 1:3% 0,000 IP per cent. Birmingham Bank 504 oh, 104 pd h% 30,000 6 per cent. London & WestminSter 100 i (iii. 204 pd 22% 60,000 5/. London Joint stnth 501. sh. 104 pd 12% .4000 4 nor cent. Lanopster lOO/..h. 204 pd 90 25,000 11; per cent, Littrpool 1001 sh. 1211. pd Ir3l 50,000 If per cent Manchester and Liver ] pool District sol.sh. 151 pd 10% 20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOO, sh. 104 pd 10,000 Bpe • cent. Provincial Bank ef !rola tidlool. sh. 2540 42 19,000 o,er t cid National Batik Of Ireland 510. sh 174/. lid 16 10,000 6 per cent National Prov! 'eta] Eng.loo4 sh. 254 pd 353,, 10,000 Ditto New int. oh. 101 pd 10% •• 4\ooo 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. oh. 51. yd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 20!. sh. 16/. pd 02 5,000 ....1.... British 40/. eh. 113!, pd 181,, 5, „ 0 „ emper cent. / Ditto Prorincial 2Ol. sh. 191. pd 25 `°°' land Bs. (is. 928 51 104 Birmingham 50/ sh. 88 1,250 V 10: Bristol 2Ol. sh. 30 2,250 31 lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 13% 750 31 10e Ditto, New 2,471 4 per cent. Brighton General ..901. oh, all pd 9 1,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated ....751. (12f1.pd 10234 1,000 101. City et London.. ... . ... . .1004 sh. all rid 195 1,000 N. Ditto, NeW . eli ..... •••1:10 0 .4. §h c 701. pd ISO 4,000 31.05. Ereilteble , . ... 60/. lid 24 10,1100 3/. per cent. littperial 5O/. di. 1 0 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanct 251. sh. 20/. pd 10% 2,350 114 per Cent. Independent 1304 sh. all r; 49 0,000 41. per cent. Phcenia. . iiiil6ol, 05. 1131.101 30 3 4 1,000 44 per cent. Ratcliff ~,,,. 1.001.811. 1104 IA (0 ,000 sßutet Metropolitan .....e.50/. sh. 111/. pd 16 9,000 54 per cent. United General ...... 40/. sh. 471. ed :30 240 5/. per cent. Ware/ink 41, 0 •10.111. ii ti eg11•0 ...... ssa i Mel .sh 50 400 5/. per cent Witketiold .1.,11•1 1 . .. ..1 ti • Vigo 0 1). 1,1 0,000 31. Weittnimitet OtitrtereS • 6,000 12s. Ditto New ..b. . 5 ll. sh. 104 pd 1130 790 3 per cent. Yarmouth ... ..i - ...0201. sh, 18/. pd WAl* 61 Wi)ft K S. 1,800 Th. Birminghant ...:iniinues.:2o 4 sh. e/P: i 4 01 IX 3 74 taSt Militlell 5,500 2/ Ips. ti r - , r.;, Junction Avcraee 411. 13s. 4d. sh. 61 2,000 " o-- ;tent. 100/. sh. 46% .2 104 Liverpool (tootle 2201. sh. 326 1,500 2 /les New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60 0,496 2/ 10s Manchester and Salford lool. sh. 5531 1,000 5 per cont. South London ..,,,,,, .. Wash. 104% 8,294 411. . . West Middlesex Average 034 12e. 9d. sh. 92 I ,:16‘) 11 lb York 110010110 g r,o, Lessee Plop. 1004 sh. 35 MON ItAILAVAYB. 6,300 ... liitit InghAin Mid Dertit .4. ..n...114 1 / pd 0 1 4 9,5 1 30 ...4ii... Ilifiiiingham and 01Micesteq •• ttfit: pd (1)1 15,1)00 ~i64;4. piiAtitit tied Egetet.:.o .. ::1001 lb. 13.9 pd 37 1 9 7,500 ,u.,..,, Chtlitenliatt it 13, WeWeld 100i:Sh. ex/. 30% 3,009 Clarenee oo4r i. PP! p 4 iti 8,000 Dublin and Drogheda IOU!. sh. 5!. pd 50.101 Eastern Counties 251. oh. 23/, pd 9 10,000 Great North of England 1001. sh. 904 ocl 7.i 10,918 14 per cent, Grand ,unction • • • 1001. oh. all pd el 9 25000 Oreat Westeetl ..ietiontiil/3114 H. fie!, o d pig 25,000 . . Ditto t , ttv F;111. sit. : , 11 , . it (IL. 3,000 per cent Gosport Junction.. 504 sh. 401. pd 47 2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/ pd 1453 8,000 ..... .... Hull and Selby 51)1. oh. 504 pd 403 2,100 4/. per cent. Leeds and Selby , 5.100 10 per cent. Liverpool & Manchester 101.46 h, 100/. psi 105 7,011F1 10 per cent. Ditto Half Sharer .„ :4 „„.1., hot, pd 90 . 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "51. p 8 45 3 0000) . 0 ...... London and Brighton 50/. sh. AO/. pd 465¢ 94,000 London and Blackwall 25/. sh. 251 pd 17% *O.OOO 3 per cent. London and Greenwich -.204 s!s. 00/. pd 8 , 4 ; 25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 1001. oh. 904 pd 159% 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares -231. sh. 5!. iel 221 31,250 Dit o New Shares 324 sh. 311. pd 52% 36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 384 17s. 9d. 57 1 4, 33,000 .... ..... London and Croydon] Av. 134 15s. 9d. 13 % Ditto New Scrip.... I i% ,IS 000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds... loo /. sh. / 0 /. pd 53 % 1 3,000 ..... .... Ditto Ilalf Shares ............501. 251. lid 21% 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham Men. 40/. 2.1 1 4 I )itto Extension 7l. pot 21i 10000, Midland Counties 'OW sh 100/ pd 8(S 15000 North Midland Ditto New • 404 rd 31 5,128 Northern and Eastern....loo/. sh. 50!. pd 28 r‘,Boo Preston and Wyre 504 sh. 35•1. pd 36 23,000 South Eastern and Dover ...... ... 33/. pd 15% IO 10/. par cent. Stockton and Darlington ...... ...100/.sh. 275 9,000 Thames Haven .50/. eh 5/, pd 6.0011 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501, pd 73 MINES. 8,0 00 00 ... Albion Copper 51.1 h 041. NI 12 4,000 11. ss. A Hen l5!. s h 121. Ii rpd 10 10.000 ......... Anglo 1110zican,iss. 54 pm. 1004 sh. a 1 0 d lit Ditto Subscription 25!, po 1% 2,000 101. Bolanos l5Ol. sh all pd 35 10,000 ii. 10s Brazilianlmp. iss. 51. pm 351. sh. 204 pd 5 6,000 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey ...20/. sh. 14/ pd 2% K,OOO ... .10000 20,000 ...... ... British Iron 10(1/. sh. 601. pd Erilish Copper 51. eh. 4//. pd I% AO ••. ~»..... Citi Br-,nca 6//. nd 6% Candonea ... 10,000 1 1 C 0 0 12 0 0 5,500 ~, Columbian, iSs. 51. pni 551. sh. 551. pd 0 3 4 2,850 Si English 20,000 .s. ...... General MiningAssociation2o/ 5h.184 pd I% 6,155 Mexican Company lOO4 sh. .07a1 pu 6 3,009 ..«..... Polberou Consols lO4 sh. 81. pd 4 11,500 ..... ... !teal del Monte, Unregistered.... ......... 21N Ditto Loan Notes. 150/. pd 160 20,000 isms.. United Mexican, les. 2 pm. 40/. eh. all pd 231 Mtn_ Scrip 3% Ditto New Scrip 51 p 4 4 West Cork ................ .... .501. sh 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1.000 ........ London, with Bronze Ticket ...75gs. sh. 16 1,500 700 King' College 1001. 1 930 MISCELLANEOUS. 10, vs) 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/osh. 28/, pd 39 05,X/0 I. per cent. British American Land Company 351 4pd 10,060 61. per ceist. Canada Company ...... ...1004 sh. 3214 pd 31 /0.000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,:.a Loan City Bonds, 4 par cent lOO 20,000 1/. fls. General Steam Navigation 15/. eh. 14/. pd 24% 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock .000 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. sh l9 0 - e)e ........ Caoutchouc Company 12/4 pd 12 New Brunswick Land Compa•sy...sol pd 12 2,;54 5!. per cent Reversionary Int. 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 107 0,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 1001. sh. low. pd 107 4.000 .p,OOO Bs. Van Die:lieu's Land... 1004 sh. 17/4 pd 0 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES MAY 8, 1841 BANKS. i ,0 4 10,(10 1 it. Al, p. ct. Bank of Scotland...B3l. tits. Bd. oh all pd ]59 2,000,000. 6 p. ct. Its yal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 154 500.000/. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company 1011/.sh. all pd 22 ; 50(1,0001. fit. ?. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 10(11. pd 10 500,000 t. Gn. cr. National loClosh. 10/. pd 14N 50n,0011. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union VIOL sh. 50!. pd 85 1,000,0001. 6p. ct. Western 01 Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 72 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 2Ol. sh. 1!. pd :45 Oil 7,500 7p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. IW. pd 13. 4 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd l!' 50,000 Bp. ct. North British 1,000 Bp. ct. CaledoniAn Fire lOW. sh. 101. psi 20 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh L,e 10 01. sh. 10/. IA 11 3 .4 100,010 3i p. (I. West of Scotian ' 10/. pd ;CSC ELLA N EO US. 4,815 ........ Edin. :Ind Was. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 14% Ditto Allocated! 'NI/. sh. all pd 56 2 5,461 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint StQck Water.tlsl. sh. all pd 3t .14 1.00003 :5 per cent. Shotts 1100 Fotindcry...... sol oh 4 ''l. "si 4' 0.00 0 3 per cvat. Edinburgh & Leith Glavc.'2ol.sh. 16/. pd 3 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal (las .25/. sh. all pa 4 1 6,450 10 iter cent. Clasgow G2,', ...... .. 's4 gh• all pd 52 75!. 7i per cont. '..c1(15 Coal (las ... .. 2ol.'h. ill pd t 7.5 1,1 4 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway 50/. sh 2.) We observe a Fancy Fair is announced to take place in the beautiful grounds of the Marquis of Westminster, at Moor Park, Itickinansworth, on Friday and Saturday next, under the august and noble patronage of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and many of the female nobility in tbe neigh bourhood, in aid of the funds fir erecting a new Church on ( hodey Wood Common. The easy distance from town, and the ready facilities of transit afforded by the adjacent railway, coupled with the benevolent object in view, and the attractive nature of. the scenery, will no doubt conduce to draw a large 11(10:11111. ei Yisitas do this delightful apt, FROM TUESDAY'S GAZETTE. The following places have been duly registered for i.oletriniz ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wil liam IV., chap. 85 : Pleasant-street Chapel, Liverpool. Bridge Croft Chapel, Wigan, Lancashire. E SUN, LONDON, THURSDA Y, MAY 20, 1811 DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. FREDERICK TAYLOR, plumber, Speldhurst, Kent. ROBERT EDMUNDS, builder, Bennett-street, Stam ford-street, Biackfriars. MARIA LOUISA JONES, victualler, Tredegar, Mon mouthshire. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. RICHARD REVELL. linen-draper, Plymouth. BANKRUPTS. JOHN KINGSFORD and FLAVIUS EBENEZER KINGSFORD, wine -merchants, Dover, to sw render May 26, 6t two, and June 29, at eleven, at the Cann of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Coleman•street-buildings, official assignee; Dim mock, Size-lane. WILLIAM MALLISON, merchant, Blackburn, June 8 and 29, at eleven, at the Town-h-11, Preston. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London ; Neville, Ainsworth, and Beardaworth, Blackburn. WILLIAM DAY and THOMAS DAY, oilmen, Grace church-street. May 29, at twelve, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frede rick's-place, Old Jewry ; Capes and Stuart, Field-court, Gray's Inn. ROBERT FIELD, banker, Cartmel, Lancashire, May 26 and June 29, at twelve, at the Commercial Inn, Kendal, West moreland. Wilson and Harrison, Kendal; Norris, Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's-buildings, London. RALPH HARRIS, merchant, Lower Thames-street, May 28, and June 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bel cher, official assignee; Luttly, Fourdrinier, and Morse, Dyers'- hill, College-street, Dowgate. HENRY WILSON FERNY HOUGH, bookseller, Reading, May 25 and JUne 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Lamb, Furnival's-inn, Holborn. JONAH WHEELER, victualler, Bath, June tI and 29, at eleven, at the Commercial-rooms, Bath. Horton, Furni val's-Inn, London; Mant and Harvey, Bath. WILLIAM KNO WL ES, clothesman, Hyde, Cheshire, May 28 at eleven, and June 29, at 2, at the Commissioner's rooms, Manchester. Clarke and Medcalf, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Brooks, Ashton-under-Lyne. PETER HIGGINS, brewer, Salford, Lancashire, Thy 28 and June 29, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Man chester. AdAngton, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford row, London ; Morris, Manchester. RALPH JOHNSON, builder, Newcastle-upon. Tyne, June 10, at eleven, and June 29. at two, at the Commksion-roorn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Cuyelje,Skilbeck, and Hall, London , Keenlyside. Ness e3stle-upon- Tyne. RICHARD RIMIER, tai!or, Liverpool, May 31 and June 29, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Neal, Liver pool; Hail, Bishop, and Mourilyan, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, London. 11-10 NJ AS DASH, innkeeper, New Windsor. Berkshire, May 21, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Ward, Essex street, Strand, London. JAMES CADIWRY, cheesemonger, New Bond-street, May 25, and June 29, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Humphreys, Newgate-street. JOHN NOBLE and JOSEPH FREER, hosiers, Leices ter, May 24, at eleven, and June 29, at three, at the Castle, Leicester. Stone and Paget, Leicester ; Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London. JOHN KNOWLES, HENRY RODWELL, GEORGE RUSSELL PARKER, and JOHN THOMAS KING, silk brokers, Throgmorton-street, May 31, at half-past ten, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Copthall-buildings; Crowder and Co., Man sion-house- yard. WILLIAM NORTHCROFT, builder, Egham, lr ay 28, and June 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cann n, official assignee, Finsbury square ; Dyte, Hare-court, Tempe. DWIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. T. A. Curtis, merchant, Tokenhouse•yard, City, June 10, at one—J. Barnett, builder, Sydenham, June 10, at twelve— A. D. Bottomley, tailor, Graceehurch-street, June 10, at eleven. In the Country. W. Swift, timber merchant, Ashton-under-Lyne, June 18, at eleven, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—W. Nut tall, grocer, Manchester, June 15, at one, at the Commission ers'-rooms, Manchester—J. Colquhoun, copper smith, Shef field, June to, a eleven, at the Town-hall, Sheffield—W. and J. Deeming, hotel keepers, Manchester, June 16, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester—J. Roberts, mer. chant, ( arnarvon, June 22, at ten, at the Castle Hotel, Car narvon—J. Beckett, ironfounder, Liverpool, June 10, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—E. Evans, draper, Liver pool, June 9, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool— W. Coombe, builder, Launceston, Cornwall, June 15, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth—P. Potter and W. Maude, caiico printers, Manchester, June 9, at ten, at the Corn missioners'-rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES—JU NE 8. G. N. Green and G. Courthorpe, paper makers, Kent— W. Wilson, innkeeper, Wakefield, Yorkshire—C. Todhunter, drysalttr, Mincing-lane—R. Cass, grocer, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. Cayley, C. Moberly, and A. Moberly, merchants, St. Petersburgh (so far as regards A. Moberley )—W. Birley, T. Birley, T. L. !lirley, C. Birley, and E. Birley, flax spinners, Kirkham, Lancashire (so far as regards W. arid E. Briley)— C. Swainson, NV. liirley, T. Birley, S. Ryley, W. B. Swain son, and W. Birley, jun, cotton spinners, Preston, Lanca shire (so far as regards T. Birle - .)—J. and H. Wallace, bakers, Hamcommon, Putney—J. Huddleston, J. Ritson, 1). Fletcher, and W. Ostle, ship builders, Maryport, Cumberland—J. G. Breach and H. Choules, Plough Tavern, Blackwall—S. and R. Lobley, tallow chandlers, Pulsey, Yorkshire—T. Dermcr and J. T. Brown, cigar manufacturers, Kennington-green— C. Liddell, W. Webster, and R. Liddell, wine merchants, New castle-upon-Tyne—Z. Artis and J. Burtt, tinmen, Poplar— F. Lime and V. Givry, importers of French goods, Addle street, Wood street, Cheapside—B. and F. M. Briggs, grocers, Newington, Kent—H. F. Baylis, H. U. Culley, and Brightwell, printing ink manufacturers, Whitechapcl W Mew ati4 E, Hoggett, saddlers, Belsay, Northumberland—G. R. Chappell, T. U. Chappell, and H. Marsden, cotton manu facturers, Manchester (so far as regards G. R. Chappell)—J. Kettpm, L. Bond, and H. H. Hopwood, cotton spinners, Blackburn, Lancashire (so far as regards J. Kenyon)—ll. Hyman and A. Jacobs, jewellers, Plymouth—F. R. Atkinson, H. Birch, and J. Saunders, attorneys, Manchester (so far as rettrit44 H. Birch) —W. and J. Bethom, bobbin manufactu rers, 0.-agsgtirth, Westmorland—F. Uliathorne and T. Rout lidge, wholesale grocers, Pontefract, Yorkshire—E. Lilley and R. Boyle, jun., mahogany merchants, Kingston-upon-Hull— W, Crompton and J. Keeley, silk dyers, Gaythorn, Manches ter—T, lbotson and G. J. Palmer, printers, Savoy•street, Strand—J. May, jun. and S. H. Crosswell, wine merchants, Devonport—R. 'stains and J. Fox, brewers, New-road, Mary lebone—D. Antrobus and C. Millar, rock-salt proprietors. Wincham, Cheshire—J. Bush and E. L. Master, attorneys, St. Mildred's-cond. Poultry. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ROBERT WATT, cotton spinner, Johnstone, May 24 and June I I, at twelve. at the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley. WILLIAM YOUNG, watch maker, Dundee, May 25 and Jiltl6 I I at t one, at the Star Inn, Dundee. AIXAANDER CATTO, spirit dealer, Peterhead, May 20 and June 111, at twelve, at Fryer's Ins, Peterhead. WILLIAM COOPER and CO., glass stainers, Edinburgh, May 24 and June 14, atone, at the Royal Exchange Coffee house, Edinburgh. JOHN GILKISON, merchant, Glygow, May 24 and June 14, at two, at the Black Bull Inn, Glasgow. JAMES MELVIN, merchant, Aberdeen, May 21 and June 11, at the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen. HENRY SMALL, mill-master, Water of Leith, May 24 and June 14, at one, at Ferguson's Ship Tavern, Edinburgh. ALEXANDER LOW, merchant, Dundee, May 24 and June 12, at twclve, at the British Hotel, Dundee. THE MARKETS-YESTERDAY. CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain since Monday have been very small. Wheat firm in value at last prices. barley, Beans, and Peace as last stated. The Oat trade slack at former quotations. Flour as last reported. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of Meat were moderate. trade pretty good, and prices remain the same as last quoted. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d.; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 45. Sd. Veal, 4s. to ss. 4d. ; Lamb, 6s. to 6s. Bd. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 4d. per stone of Blbs. The supply of Poultry was moderate, trade good, prices very high. Tame Rabbits Is. 3d. to Is. 9d. ; Leverets 35, to ss. ; Goslin g s ss. to Bs. ; Ducklings 3s 6d. to 7s. ; Pea Fowls 7s. to 105. ,• Gui nea Fowls 4s. to 55.; Turkey Poults 4s. to ss. ; large Surrey Fowls Bs. to 12s. ; Sussex Chickens, 4s. 6d. to 6s. ; Barn Door do. 3s. to ss. ; Cock Turkeys 4s. to ss. ; P!gecns lid. to Bd. each Eggs dull of sale, at 4s. tid. to ss. 6d. per 120 ; and Plover, 3s. per dozen. COLONIAL MARKET. A small amount of business transacted by private treaty, and the public sales went off with little spirit. In prices no mate rial variation took place. The imports were light. TEA MARKET. . Prices of Free Trade underwent little variation, hut the market was dull, and at the public sales the biddings were languid. Company's Congou flat at Is. BcL cash. The deli veries keep large. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of Minim on the aline, and the market dull, both for parcels on the spot and to arrive ; sellers fur the former purpose at 465. 6d. and for the latter at 475. 3d. per cwt. The supply of South American is large. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, 30. a. d. I. d. Buddle's West Hartley l7 6 W.E. Braddyll'sHetton ... '2l 9 New Tan field Moor l5 0 Walls End:H e dl e y . Old 'I anfleld Moor I.i 0 Walls End North Durham... 19 0 O r iginal Windsor's Pontop 15 6 Walls End vemberton l9 0 Pontop Windsor l6 0 WalleEnd Stewart's south Hartley l7 I Walls End Kelloe ..... ....... . 21 9 Tanfled Moor West Wylam . ... 16 0 Walls End Barrington Tees •6 6 Wylam Walls End Perkins l7 6 Walla End Seymour Tues... 19 3 Walls End Witham ...... (From the London Mercantile Journal qf May 18.) SUGAR.—There were extensive public sales of all kinds of Sugar available for home consumption to-day, which had the effect of depressing the market, but a very large proportion sold. Five parcels of British West India Sugar were brought to the hammer, consisting of 342 hhds 14 tierces new Barbadoes. and 292 hhds 59 barrels St. Lucia. There was a good attendance of the trade at these sales, and the Barhadoes all sold at full rates ; in some cases, however, prices gave way a little ; low to fine yellow went at 63s to 72s 6d ; the St. Lucia went without spirit, and prices declined Is per cwt ; the whole, however, sold at 69s to 70s 6d for low to fine yellow, and brown 60s. to 61s tid. There was not much business done privately, a few boards only being disposed of, but these realized rather better prices than were obtained at the public sales. The show of samples was very scanty. MAURITIUS.—By pnblie auction were offered 6,911 bags 29 casks, which met a dull demand, and a part only was sold at prices about is Gd per cwt below the rates of the sale on Friday last; ordinary to fine yellow at his fid to 68s Gd, and middling to fine brown at 55s to 60s Gd per cwt. EAST INDIA.—The public sales comprised 9,500 bags Bengal, which went off with considerable heaviness, and did net conclude until a very late hour; prices were in most cases Is to 2s lower than the current rates at the close of last week ; middling to fine white Gls 6d to 70s, low and middling brown at 49s 6d to 565, and washed ditto at 39s to 47s per cwt. Foreign East India sorts continue dull of sale, but prices are firmer ; at public sale 150 bags Madras at 325, and five per cent duty, were bought in at 52s Eid to 535. COFFEE.—The market generally was flat to-day, very little business was done privately, and the auctions were trivial, con sisting only of 36 bales Mocha, 10 casks Jamaica, and 47 bags Havannah. The former sold at 102 s 6,1 for floe ordinary old quality, being the full value ; the latter taken in at 45s for good ordinary, being about market rates. MOLASSES, &c.—At public sale were offered 38 casks Mau ritius Molasses, and 303 casks Bengal Syrup, which were chiefly bought in ; the former at 265, and the latter at 27s to 28s per cwt. PafErro continues to secure stiff prices, and.the demand is good : 94 bags offered at public s'a'e fetched 3id to 3id for low and middling quality.. • Glstoea.—For East India the demand is yet extremely limited, and prices remain low ; 220 bags 13engat were brough t to the hammer to day and sold at 17s for middling, being th fitll value, Rice.-'The demand for Bengal Rice continues dull, and 1,870 bags offered at public sale, went heavily at 8s 6d to 1 Is fAI for very low to stood misfiling white, being 6d to is. lowe , r._ TEA. A series public sales , T h m er prising a - Wu V' 92, full packages commenced this attendance of buyers, and the mess an ' s bel ei s n v the rates to realise at about lid to 2d per pouts. - s e , a fair t There being willing of Friday last for both black and green of the competition was experienced, and a large propci 1-- shout quantity that passed auction was disposed of, say a. 6,800 packages out of 9,800 packages. The Li:owing are the prices actually obtained : Congou, 0 00 d ord. heated flat and low Is 7d to is 7 3 / 4 d, bnt mid rtr .and old Is Bid to Is B:4d, but mid rather str o n g A n k o i ki n d is or, to Is NV, but mid blksh It ra str old II M P e k ft Is 11 0, to 2s, blksh leaf full 11 21i. 14d to 2s 2d ; Young Hyson strong and rather full 2s 8d to 2s 9d, mid strong 3 1 to 3s 34d; Hyson but mid ra str 2s 3id to 2s B?,d, middling rather fr and str 2s 10d to 2s I Id, middling str brit 300 1 Souchong but middling rather old is 7id to is 8d; Orit6g 4 Pekoe mid ra str and full but flat 2s 2d, good mid fr 2s Bd o 2s 9dh ; Imperial 2s 3id to 2s 9d ; Gunpowder 2s 6d to 4s lid; Twankay but mid ra coa la 79d to Is Bd, but idid very str bnt Is tsci to is Bid, but mid ra str fr but Is 10,id 10 Is I Id. Company's Congou dull of sale, and the cash price declitaa to Is 8d to is Bid l'er lb. SPIRITS.—The Rum Market remains inactive, and a shade easer prices have again been accepted ; the tran•actiue s of the week are about 100 puncheons Jamaica, 30 t ° 36 over at 5s 2d to 5s Sd, with fine marks et 6s to 6s 6d, 50 puncheons Leewards, proof to 11 ()le f t at 2s Id to 2s 41d, and about 100 casks Bengal. Pr° strength at is 5d per gaion ; 50 hteis of the latter deserietio ti were brought to the hammer, and bought in at Is 10d fur 23 to 25 over proof. The demand for Brandy is limited, vrithuw' any materal change in prices. Geneva steady at 2s for exports and 2s 4d to 2s tio fur home consumption. Peovisioes.—The Bacon market remains in an exceed:l4 l 4 flat state, and the tendency of prices is downw ar d ; th e trade std! being desirous to make sales, and offer prime sizeable Waterfor d at Stis to 58s ; ditto Limerick at 54s to 555, and heavy at 52s t 0 54s landed; there are, however, few buyers. The agents lit offe , s for Irish account still refuse to give way,, and 57 1) 58s are the rates gener a lly as k e d f or pr i me qua li ty. Old Iris Butter is totally unsaleable; consequently no prices can be quoted, not even an offer can be obtained. Of new butter have not yet any at market; best Waterford for immediAt° shipment :a offering at 92s to 96s per cwt, upon which terra. there are to buyers. Foreign Butter in fair request at stead,' prices ; Friesland 96s to 935, fine Holst e i n 90 s t o 96', 8 . 3 ' fine I:orai 4 z/2s to Ws per cwt. Tnet.ou . —The prices of this article continue to exhibit • do ,vnwarei tendency, and the market is very dull. Fine P.Y.G' or the spot lust quoted at 46s to 46s 3d per cwt. Oies.—The prices of Sperm Oil continues steady and a fair demand is t xperienced for the article ; about 65 tuns rican Oil, ex Massasoit from Boston, were put up to ptstb l ? sale on Wednesday, the whole of which found buyers with 1W spirit at 91/. to 921. for fine quality. There has beep fair demand for the common description. of Fish Oils, for bal k ', home use and exportation, but more especially for Seal 80 Southern, and full prices have Leen obtained. Linseed Oil has become dull of sale, and prices have further receded ;_ sales made on the spot at 28s 9d, which price is now with difficult; obtained. Rapeseed Oil is also very little inquired after, a n to effect a sale easier prices must be taken. Lenin o.—The little business doing in East India c lescriptin i°s continue to maintain the April sale prices, and the merchan ts continue fiam; a few picked lots which were considered chcaP, e . the sales have again been sold at a small profit. The " n t liveries are very good. Spanish is held firmly though n e much in demand ; at public sale 205 serons Guatemala ha been offered, but about half was bought in ; the remain der sold at 3d to 6d per lb advance on the previous sale for the be9t lots, but about 3d per lb cheaper for the lower sorts ; ordiea r s i to good middling at 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; 12 serons Caracca wen t bs 4d to 6s 4d per lb. IRISH MARKETS. OUBLIN MARKET NOTE for 'he Week ending Mi . " . 14. 34 0 0 (1 17 . 0 14 0 rum 29 4) tl 0 15 0 11 ti A vet , g ( if - 218 Wheat, per barrel •21 0 Here 409 Harley 581 Oats '4 Sul; - Flour, per cwt. .. 0 0 397 Oatmeal 8 atone l2 6 14 6 1 3 Sold to Bakers only. 21 g 9,7 6 Cwt. Flour 10 0 24 0 - Average price Jf N heat and lour 51, fkl per sack I ;7 4 Receipts of Flour, 11.70, from 2 s. tad to from 17s. ed. to 2 A;l s 5'144 of Do. 9 ' 746 Thirds from 10s, od. ro 1 54 4)4 PfIICR uY Dna AD. Quarterr. Loaf ...9d. 11411 tern ~...47 d. COM MARKETS—May AS 124. 641 Wheat (per 20st.:tr. 01. tt.331 0 Litiats per Itst.. 11- Ott ) ° Bark) , (per 16st.: 10 0 1:3 6 11.10 ,, , (per cwt II ir Oateal per cwt.)... ...... .4. aka. ed to le :,. s Od Meet; 4d. to 'M.—Mutton, sd. i[ Ott —Veal, 4.1 to (A Pork, 4jd. to sd..—Fre4h Buttes, led. te• lid per lb. PRICK OF RUTTER. To the Merchants. To the CO" 1411 First Quality... ..... ..... 96- •••••••••••••••••••• ••••., ••• S I .ncond 92 •. .. " Third . ............»......».». 87 .. Fourth . • 77 I 11. Fifth ........ ..».„........ Sixth ..........».»....» 56 ... .. 4) CLONMIfLL M A RKETS...May 15 Per t. wt. ~ 4 s. d. .. d. s d '4 . 0 New Butter ' .P 5 ott 100 c rLdes trawl ........ - ui , 4 1 5 0 Oatmeal l2 0 i 4 3 1iac0n1 ) 46........... 4 2 t ..... i Renderen Lard 0 52 'J Heads ................ 21 '' 1 - e) Bct. ''; " Fleur, Second ......... 0 :44 -1 k lout, 1 ~ .rd5..... ~- 0 0 —Household 0 30 01— -- Youstos..... 2 0 ° l'er Bartel 13 e :lapeseed 20 0 0I Barley .............. / 2 l - 0 here...." ***** .. 00000 10 0) C.. 1411 ................-...-- t KILKENNY ,46AltKE1'S. n , ed. tr Os. al •.•el.est.psr barrel)2Bo. Ott to 3.55. 04. Gael ' ' , et 1r..... ,7; ' 5 0 t) 11 fil Barley 12 0 15 10.te, "'''• "" • ' ' ts 4 0 I vats 14 0 15 tb l'ork ........•••••- 0 i Flour (rer totg) 20 0 bt) 0 Ve,' . .. .. ..... .4 0 s '., 0 Bit tter (pFT CWt.) 00 I/ WI. 0 Emil , Kroner " er ..- 0 9 JO Bacon Pigs IS 0 41 6 Salt Ditto ~....... 1) f. - Coals 1 0 1 2 totatotis wet mt.) 1.) 9 V DISTRESS AMONG THE PEOPLE. O t te Col' respondents in various parts of the country complain grievousii of the prevalence Lf distrrss among all the industrious classes 0 the population. The operatives in the West Riding are yell badly off— the hand-loom weavers in particular. A C r spoudent near Huddersfield informs us, that the opei . there can neither pay for food, rent, or clothing. The hous e t ; are becoming empty, and where the circumstances adin.tu_ °trisr•ers ill a number of families are congregating together. Distraint, _tr; rent are of almost every-day occurrence, and poor men e , soid out of house and home. About 40,000 pendent en the fancy weaving trade, are living on the'bi4 e sustenance, and their condition is becoming rapidly worse. 10, same is the ease in Leeds. Distress has rarely, if ever , be t e n o i general among the operatives and small tradesmen. L e to ono who is sceptical on the subject, only take the tronb , l e d in walk into the Court of the Honor of Pontefract, new , this town for the recovery of small debts, about once in ev e„J fortnight ; and he will find Ve Court crowded with suitorsi the a cause list amounting to perhaps two hundred. Then' ible inquirer is not yet quite satisfied, let him visit that for find hole at Rothwelt, called " the gaol." He will there e about seventy persons crowded together, of all. g and of both sexes ; from the young motherw ith : of sucking-infant in her arms, to the old won la ' ,- e. a seventy years, grown hoary with age, and in lull mature dotage with her accumulated miseries. Yes , Ye k U jec to see numbers of such cases as these ; and many of these e 't,lll are sent to prison at the suit of some petty tyrant and re; no , attorney, for perhaps the sum of fifteen or twenty " Oh, shame, where is thy blush I" Truly, if our c ottntrY _ or become the admiration of the world, it has not become the el:re of surrounding nations ! A correspondent in Manchester ins terday writes us :—" Never did I see such a time of snile i i v and distress as the present. Business of all kinds is 0 deplorable state, and if the present, or some other ene` rat ti throw off the Corn-laws do not prove successful, the e°, l , / , - . s elf is utterly done up a... regards trade and commerce.. For 700' I have been losing money all this year, and also during bo ne and unless some wim.fall turn up, I must drop nay f e bote businees, and that immedia'ely. My case is that of sands."—Where is this state of things to end?--Leedi A ' se 0 0 A FACT FOR THE CHURCH EXTE N D nd ir —ln the parish of Raubon, near Wrexham, there is a I )° E t hst lation of about fourteen thousand persons, and out of vie number nearly twelve thousand attend regularly the of smiting chapels. They have built twenty-three Plit.Tin 0 worship at a cost of nine thousand pounds, and that sot,iian's period of twenty-five years. Whilst the " Poor 1'1404 Church" have only erected two places of worship dur i lerly years, and hi those they have been aided by the 6° for ment grant. However, these two are amply sufficien t ;pis' the attendance at both places never exceeds 760, so tbst_ e , sent predominates in the proportion of fifteen to, eu Berwick Advertiser. PRIZE CUPS.—New and Second-hand S . 04 1 cgb, PRIZE CUPS are offered at very REDUCED PRI . o so selection may be made from a great variety, both of Su Patterns, at T. COX SAVORY'S, 6 ( eve° Goldsmith and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London , ' Doers from Gracechurch-greet). poP Drawings of Cups will be forwarded in ans wer t• - paid application. itb eg It is desirable Letters for Drawings should 0 ,0 .; 7L e v bs the size or about the price of the Cup or Cups required. - - ‘, l • SPOONS, FORKS, Bcc., superior to 1 ler t e r -01. f rability, equal in appearance. Table Spoons sr Fork l t .i c kft Dessert, 103. ; Tea Spoons, bs. per dozen; Table Cand le s 8 inches high, 7s. per pair; the particular metal of wij o iii these articles are made is so like silver, that it can only b e f i e from it by the stamp ; every article made in silver s tnin u Pared in this material by i tt LPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford.stroelos• Who, to p k . event imposition, confine the sale of it to, Allem° Catalogues of prices gratit. wi3RNING EDITION. FIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at Brighton, Mrs. Henry Stein l„'. of a daughter. of On the 13th inst., at Arcot, Northumberland, th e 1 sal Henry Shum, Esq. 3 If s. On the 15. h jest., at York-street, Portman-squto e ' WOnillson Yeates of a daughter. li d ' the 15th inst., at Hobart-place, E s.ton - sq uare, the of Thomas Plumptre Methuen, licq., of a son. l E °' On the 16th inst., at Stamloid-hill, the lady of.lauleg Esq., of a son, wo ved y a few hours. On the 16th li h st., sury at i Hyde onl Vale, Greenwich, 31r. T l ' °s° Allt, of a son MARRIED. 0 1 ! 071 the 13111 inst., at Trinity Church, Newingtonto,cl' Lavinia, youngest daughter of Jr.A James Brand, (4. .00' man-street, Borough, to John Surman, Esq., of Lin' e City. POI; On the 15th inst., at Holybourne, llants, Charles j o li Esq., to Arabella, elde,t surviving daughter of the W e Levy, E-q., of Alton. On the 17th inst., at St. Margaret's, Westminster, n u e t i ll ,t ( es; ford Alcock, Esq., of Bolton-street, to Henrietta A;aq' f vos child of the late Charles Bacon, Esq., of her 3lajest7 of Works. d tv DIED. t cls" On the lith inst., the Hon Caroline Curzon, elf'c s- A 1 0% t ß e e r a o u f m tl o : n e t fi: E st s . g a . n , d . s g is e t d er 67 of . the . late Lord Scarsdale , ar - peru` . On the 15th inst., in Regent-street, John Thous° 1/° °. On the 16th inst., at Wilmington-square, Mr. T. J. 6' • eldest s on o f M r . Gilson, of Buck;arsbury , a g ed 26. Jr. " On the 16th i ns t., at Wandsworth, Helen , wife of '' i°4' titer Bradley. a L On the 9th inst., Eleanor Eustatia , third eaug cf , tenant-Colonel Hulton, Preston, Lancashire. lat° it On the 10th inst ,at Croydo n, An n, relict of the 4 , Alfred Dan son of Dorking. ~,.I . boo P. On the 15th inst., at Brunswick-crescent, Cola e a 4 8 lane, Camberwell, Lieutenant George Hales, R.N. , sg London. Printed and Published by NIMIDO V-Ztosc) No. 112, Stra nd, at 7'hs San °flies, No. • the mi nty of Middens. —Tburaily, '2of• tow I