The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-06 00:00:00

ORNING EDITION. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF TIM MORNING JOURNALS. The Morning Herald of yester day contains a lea-ling ar ticle on the subject of Mr. H arne's panegyr ic on Lord Keane, which our Contemporary asserts is at variance wit't the opinim he e xpressel on Friday last in the House of Commons. on the same GMlant Officer.—The Morning Chronicle discusses the Church-rate question at some length, and observes that the simple abolition of the rate wilttatisfy Dissenters, and not Dissenters only, but a large portion of Churamen.—The Morning Post Ills some lengthy strctures on Romanism, whose object is to show that it is 1,-)t reasonable to suppose Ma' the Roman Ca tholic p r ie sts should ever bei• irndly to the --The Ti m es Ins a !ea.ling article on the subject of the presc.mt Army Ea!imatea., in the course of which our Con temporary argues that the army must be reinforced, and that it is a gr.; 93 deception on the part of Ministers to a- tempt to come forward with an estimwe they know c ulna be adhered to. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. • (From the Gli.be.) The ultra-Tories, by speeches in Pail;a - Tient a by p •ti:i ins prep. rad cut of doors to finial, occation for, t - mse spi eches—by pamphlrt;, by leading ar lads in th journals, and by a ) 1 t'se means at, their dispial, scent Lent on inter:upting the tranquillity which good go_ v rnrcent his produced in Ireland. No sooner i 3 the Bil. of Lord Stanley, which threcened the extinction of their politic, tigitts ) .,-poqp.med to another year by the aflinnatioa of the House of Commons of fie prin ciple c f Lord Morpeth's measure, than a new provcea, tivria adetinistetel i Abe shape of nearly simultaneeui attacks in both !louses of Parliament on the relig.om of, the I-l=h peop'e. Mr. Colquhmsn's speech, aid th.e Bill he iatroduccd, in the Music cf Commons on Wed nesd an :1 Bishop Pnilpotti' speech in the Howe of Lords fait night, bLvs the same tendency—that of feeding 1.1 e flame of discord, aid pc -petaa it g the feuds f out wi i !Is fac!iaa, under ditle ert names and forms, de rives it; I , l,asure, if not ..t; prof y. These a tempts t ) depri‘e the C tholics of any portion of the puldis money in ai 1 of their educalonal insftut:ons, althoug pl dged to thcm by si lemn en , sgetnents, and ratified by succws'ye Acts of the Legislature—. even 11. e Act of U.iion itse7—ar?' not less impolitic tJ an d'sho, est. They ate impo'it:e, %rhea the per. )(1 and (dreams' , 1.Ct33 Undcr which they are made is conside•-ed ; and al io because of their tendency t sprovAte a comparison he wecn the prMcelv revenues of the Protestant Churcl., and the pit, y vote wti ;Is is annually passed in aid of t refunds of M synooth Collage. and the small e ,dowment recognised. and te.lare 1 t ) S'. SApice by Government Ordnance Canada. O'Corn.ed li ile 1 M-. C4lquhouM as a Co.adjutor in tto" Repeal": csus and shone h;s ccirriate • f the assi4t.inec ae expocted to de LT from sti-h cc-or ersti in, by YA rig fur the i itroducti an c f his 111 . But the injurious eff cts of such discus-ions as these to which ue have alluded tike a wider range. They not Only ai I popular sgdation is a country, the inhabitants of which h ,- ve IP:en rendered psi dully sensi:iv by a seles of per3ecwi in, to any new interference with what they can cider their rights by those from whom they hay! su t i lc& frerv.e ,t wrongs—they lead to iuv •stigation into the amount of the re.e iuos of the Prote tint Este' t i t Great Bet Source; whence they i.ra der,y,rd, and the te nure by which they arc held ; &so into tie sums which have been app Led by PartiaMent to the support of a Pro. testant clergy in the Caiaie', a; c mtrasted will the in signific int sums whic!l have 'ls!en voted to the prics.s of the Roman Cathol , c.' cOrrintunion. (From the Staniard.) Tliff anorivillus system the N nth American conreec ration—we can hardly c mtinua to call it a common. w:alth—continue; t) mantle .t itse'f in aggravated da7 by day. The State of Maine has actually corn n eared, if it has not deekrert, , a delite , ate war upon the Biitish empire, tho fullosi. g resolutions having been re sent'y passed by that Sta'e " That the Governor be authorised to take immediate mea sures to remove the troops of the Queen of Great Britain, now quaxterei on the territory called disputed' by the British Government, but by the treaty of 1783, by the resolutions of both houses of Congress passed in 18'33, and by r..peated re solves of the leg Mature of Maine, clearly and unequivocllly a part of the rightful soil of this State. " Resolved,--That the resources of this Sta!e be, and they hereby are, placed at tho disposal of the Governor, an ! the specific sum of 400,000 dollars be, and the same is hereby ap priate l out of any money in the Treasury, for the purp,se of carrying the said resolutions into effect." If the State of Maine, which has commenced the war upon its own singl.: authority, is to bc I( f. to prosecute it by its own unaided resources, little need be said in the case. Tbir, hearev , r, is not to be expe,leci. The war, wantonly, and in defiance of the federal government, commenced by Maine, will b.) embraced by the whole confederation, and thus the new spectacle of a confederation bound to take part in tho quarr&ls of each or any of its members, v.itllont inquiring into the justice or injustice of aese quarrolr, will be presetit2d to the world. How 'the effeir shall be setticd no man can predict; but it is quite plain that the United States men are just now sclviug the prc llena of the darkness of the middle ages, which has puz zled so many of the wise and !earned, by showing that it is an easy thing to rctrograle from ci‘ilisati m into bar barism, under the guidance of greediness, hatred, and self-i iolatry. . MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MOR:siNG PAPERS VF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—Sornc surprise hasbeen expressed in the City at another stoppage of the " United States Bank," as announced this morning, from the New York papers, so soon after the at tempt to resume specie payments, but by persons well acquainted with what was going on the event was distinctly foreseen, though net, perhaps, so early as it has actually occurred. As this bank had acquired in immense increase of power just pre. rious to the resumption, on the 15th of January, by the draughts on the London agent, and has been compelled, nevertheless, to yield to the pressure, it is but reasonable to conclude that it has now fallen never to rise again. All that the shareholders, therefore, and other parties interested lave now to look for is a liquidation, rendered by far more disa.dvanta..leous to them than would otherwiie have been the case, through the delay and useless temporizing which has Caen place. Up to the period, however, of this new stoppage the notion has been very industriously spread that iheßank might go on and become more important than ever by only consenting to a declaration that one-half of the capital was lo,t, which w mid still leave it, as was alleged, the most powerful bank in the Union. The fallacy of all ths, though st served the purpose of those uhn circulated it, need hardly be painted our, sin:m the real ability to go on, and to become again prosperous, must depend upon the quality of the a...,ets, and n,t u l ion the amount of capital, whether real or nomi nal. 'lles t were notoriously bad previous'y to the new stop e, an I will he, of course,, much further deteriorated by That event. • Great uneasiness existed in New York fur the fate of the bills drawn on London by the United States Bank jUstprevious to the resumption, but there is reason to believe that they hive all been accepted, and by houses sulliciewly powerful to lease no doubt wf their ul , imate validity. The whole of the credits given amount, it is said, _to 1,000,00%; of which 1100,0001. was by Denison and Co., 170,03C1. by Brown and Co., and 730,0001. by Morrison and Sons. Of course it is to be presum - d that these houses have protected them-elves by a sufficient amount of security, and that they will feel indifferent about a lit:le delay, should it be of a nature not at once am- Tertible into m%.ney. The buoyancy of the English stock-market, which has been cain to the increlsing demand fir investment, and which it was supposed would continue on account of the Fable regard ing the home securities shwa as safe for the employment of 'their capital,. did not some political event of an urthroura' le nature occur, has received a check to-day on ace ,unt of the intelligence from America. 'lha inilictment r f Mr. M'Leod and the stoppage of the " United Sates Bank" have probably 'Loth contributed to the d cline in Coma:, which was about within an hour after the commencement of buslness; but t-.ere eta be little doubt that this e:Tect is chiefly to be attriblted to the former cau'e, the belief in the stabibty of the Bank being too weak for the toter part of the intelli g ence to have caused any matetial fluct u ati on . It may tend, however, to bring cn Jai increased scarcity of money. ik - "It°NICLE.—We deeply regret the inability of the Bin , of tie United State s to maint-on spee.:e payments ; and the last accounts received, by the Acadia .team-r,affordN l grauncia for exp ec ti ng a dATerent result. - Tt.ne " ' run " wad se resented as having ceased attoge h^r deposits, and the demand fer'speci e • ' far the withdrawal of s i i n . exchange for notes was also said to have been subsiding. thester influence s, how ever, n ere at work ; the machination s of . a n n ,r d ,3of the in stitution, supported by a portion of the Fneli- n s , American prev, have been sue eessful in the work of mi , ehief, an s d ee th w e h a a u t th t or e s of it have now the happiness , f being able to say, e that the hank of prophets ace have been !" It is not sin-prisin g the United Statee, crippled and damaged by the injudicious nature of its pa st management, having upwards of 40,000 ; 00 e dollars of its asFets locked up m.State stocks of various de nerninations, and assailed by a hest of enemies, personal and political, should have beeaa . unable to. res'st the f Before doing so, compelled led combined attack, and that it shoo e d have been at las ' : .` ;: e (.f r is to - yield to the torrent which so assailed it. however, we obServe that thel Beacnike-hadidpsa,iadnadni-ahyalitthtleeirsherot,-.0,1 6,000,000 dollars in coin au p to maintain specie cireement ef its payments had been*.rende, red . abortive by the intentional aecumu!atiou tend estraordinfaritys instant liabilities. A large amount o 4:0o-rteostialiesrow, ise w h r ic e h_ were arrang. , al to be exchanged for thrown on the market, tires, are $a d to have been surreptitiously . post notes, and the jealousy of the New Yerk houses was brought into efficient operation to clinch the business.. . We are concerned to find that this state-of thaiers ha - d pro dwd a serious derangement in trade on the other side, and 7 , 0 apprehend that it Inuit be attended with unfavourable resu..s in our own manufacturing districts. If, however, the Leg,slature- of Pennsyl , ania should recag nise the necessity of the suspension by modifying the law re garding the charters of the banks, and, giving it a legal sanc tion for a certain period, the suspension of specie payments in the present deranged state of the currency in the Southern and Western States would be a great auxiliary to the collections ef the bank; which, for the period from the 4th of Januiry to the 4th of February last, amounted to '51,007,000. If the suspension be legalized it will enatle the Hank to deiote their means to fulfil their current engagements in Europe ; and it will be satisfactory for the pubic to know that the three eminent houses connected with the • institution in this country hold State stocks and other undoubted securities for three times the amount of their commitments for its accounts. EndeavJurs are now making, we believe, to make matters even worse than the sAI realty, and tl frighten 0 e timorou', and particularly ladies, about the case of el -L , od, under the unfounded allegat i on that the Americans e gr, , tti ieainsg rid c f their teer etly foments estate quarrel for the secret purpo.; e engagements by hostii ities. Jonathan is mu , :h too mere:l,loe an animal to come to blows with his best customer::; but rs these rumours are propagated alibi no . salall deg ree o f hides -try in various quarters, rye think it r gilt to shiw that t h y scheme is totally absurd, and to remove all uneasiness on t h e sul3jeet by quoting the 10th article of the Treaty of Arn. ity and Commerce, a,,ad N ivNati an between Cireat Britain and the United States, dated Nov. 190701. . See "Mai ten's Iteaueil ale Traites," tom. V. p. 4f - 10, which runs as follows : " Neither the debts due from. individuals of the one nation to individuals of the other, nor shared, 'nor moneys which they may have i n the public funds, , er in' the p ublic or p rivy e hanks, shall even in any event , of war or national differences, be sequestered o r confiscated it being unjust and impolitic that debts. and engagements contracted, and made by individuals, having con'idenee in et o d th , er, and respectiv e. iretheir wernments, should oarGo national eArn)-ed or impaired by authority, on account oficinatiaaial differences and discontents. " On this Treat Law,' V.I. i• • p. respect of ArtiCle X., Chancellor Kent, in his 'Commentaries y There can beonno Americani) 16.5, observes:— that article was not impaired by the w t that the obligation of te ar of 1812, but remained -. _ ahroughout that war, ant continues ... this day binding upon 4 the two nations, and wi l continue so until they mutually agree to rescind the Article; for it is a principle of universal juris prudence, that a compact cannot be rescinded by one party 'only, if the other party does not consent to rescind it, and does not act to destroy it." This is conclusive. POST.—The intelligence communicated this _morning of the fresh shock sustained by the banking interest of the United States, caused considerable agitation among our commercial men. The explosion of the United States Bank, and the de rangement of money matters generally which followed that event at Philadelphia and in other parts of the Union, cannot but have a very bad effect in this country. The branch and other banks of the'western and southern States may be expected now, one and all, to suspend specie payments, a proceeding that must operate greatly to the prejudice of the commercial body of America, and of course of our own merchants and manufac turers. It had been hoped that the long interval of inactivity which had been experienced in the import trade would have been succeeded at length by one of extra. Oidinary. prosperity. Without the necessary money accommo dation the importing establishments win, however, be totally unable to run off their stocks, even should they have prow ded themselves with supplies • but orders will doubtless be coun termanded where time will admit of it, although money may have been remitted to pay for them ; and certainly nothing that had been in preparation for export, on consignment, will now go forward. The American community are absolutely left Without a currency. This second break-down is another proof of the fact for which we have over and over con'ended, namely, that the United States cannot maintain a me tallic circulation simultaneously with Great Britain, so long as they are borrowers of British capital. The shares 'of the United States Bank, which had previously been don at NI. to 101, were to-day quoted at no snore than 51. to 61. per share. The interest our capitalists have in the concern is believed to be about four millions out of the seven ; yet such has been their infatuation that they have themselves by their incessant abuse of it done even more than General Jackson and Mr. Van Buren to reduce it to its present posi tion. It not thought, now that the mischief has been com pleted, the Bank will be deprived of its charter. Many of the jobbers who fancied they might benefit largely by its fall, and who bought shares at 4P to 50 dollars each, must probably— and they will in this case be but little pitied—be ruined by the subsequent depreciation to 26 or 27 dollars per cent. The New York Courier and Enquirer makes the following remarks upon the subject a the second suspension : " We need scarcely say the intelligence that the Bank of the United States had again suspended specie payment; caused con siderable sensation in the City yesterday. To us it appears to be an event match to be deplored—not particularly on account of its stockholders or the holders of its notes, but en account of the deleterious effect it will have on the banking system generally, and on American public credit abroad, and that at a moment when both the Federal Government and the State Go vernments have occasion to resort to their credit on no insigni ficant scale. " Of the causes which have led to the suspension we have no doubt the moat prominent is the speculations which have been going on here, based upon the depres-ion of the value of the stock. There is no .o'her way of accounting for the excessive demand on the institution for specie. The demand for specie, on which the suspension took place, was made by brokers in New, York at a: time when the discount on the paper here was little or nothing more than the expense of send ng on the notes and bringing back the specie. Why, then, was the specie demanded ? We much mistake if there have been any who have really a s!ake in the general prosperity of the cointry, and who have lent their aid to promote these stock-jobbing assaults on the Bank—we much mistake, we say, if they d i not hare cause to deplore their conduct, for no bank is safe against such attacks. The' Bank has alresdy pail out in specie, since •the resumption; nearly as much as the whole amount of specie in the vaul s of the Balk of England ; quite as much as all the specie held by allehe banks of this Sta'e, according to. the Comptroller's Report, which amounted on the Ist of January last only to 5,423,122 dollars, arid yet the run on her was still conti;tued, and not for any foreign export demand. We repeat, no hank can . withs:and such assaults, and loelieviog„ as we firmly do, that the welfsre of the •country has been most materially promoted by the banking - system; we ean-• not lout. look. with dismay on a line of conduct which places the whole at the mercy. of stock gamblers; Take, to illustrate our view, the State Comptroller's Report j us t p u b- lisped. Our banks have a circulation of rising 15,000,003 dol., and deposits to an amount rising 17,000,000 dol., and to meet all this but, five millions and a half of specie, if specie is demanded. We cannot account for the really malevolent feel ing ev;nced by some journals at this, in our view, truly unfor tunate event. The Bank of the United Sta:es is certainly, now, at least, in no way connected with partisan politics, and why, therefore, its downfall, if downfall it should prove, should he considered by- any except the gamblers in its stock, as a matter of gratulation, is to us unaccountable We dread the consequence, besides, for this city ; we fear the evil will not stop with the United States Bank. We fear for every bank in Philadelphia and south of that city, and then it cannot be otherwise than that New York, wi h her commercial connec tions, should feel the shock, and most severely too." . _ _ The comparison made by the writer of the preceding, of the specie paid out by the United States Bank since the resump tion, mod the stock of the Bank of England, is false. The Bank of the United States has paid, by means of drafts on England, nearly six millions of dollars ; but the Bank of Eng land has in her vaults almost as many pounds. We douht, moreover, whether there is just gniund for the supposition that New York will suffer to the extent anticipated. his believed by well-informed parties here, that both the New York and Boston banks, at all events, will continue to answer their notes in specie. The English Funds have been supported better than was to have been expected. HERALD. —The financial and political news from New York produced a considerable impression on the Stock Mar ket to-day. But the depth of this impression would be ill measured by the actual decline merely in the quotations of stocks, for it must be remembered that the funds ware deci sively on the rise yesterday, and with a firm and evident ten dency to a greater rise still, so strong was the confidence in the renewed pacific aspect of public affairs, to which the greater easiness in discounts and money contributed materially. The failure of a wholesale grocery establi,hment of some standing in •he City, combined with various failures in Liver pool and other parts of the country tends rather to unsettle credit, but in feet there has Lot been more commercial de rangement of this sort than what is usual and might be ex pected after two or three years of indifferent trade. The accounts to-day from the United States of the third suspension of the United States Bank, and generally that of 1 the Philadelphia Banks which had so recently resumed specie payments, have proved the engrossing 'subject of conversation in the City to-day. It is believed that these events will prove the forerunners of greater commercial disasters still in the Union, and that foreign commerce must be deeply compro mised, if not almost paralysed for some time to come, by such a state of things, independent of the ruinous loss to which merchants may be exposed from past transactions upon which payments were at, or coming to, . maturity. There may be some reality in these apprehensions, but if the action of authority on the other side of the water be such as it ought to be—that is, to leave the Dunks to find their own level, and sink or swim according to their deserts or position, it is more than probable the crisis would be of short duration comparatively, and would be amply compensated by a more steady business and a mere solid money system for the future. This is not the first time that such an opini , n has been emitted, for in treating of the balance sheet of the United States Bank in the beginning of the present year in some detail, it was then observed and proved that as, upon the Bank's own show ing, taken conjunctively with the ruling value of States' stocks, of which it was and is so large a holder, it could not repay ten shillings in the pound of the original capital to the stockholders; the very best thing for them as for the United States was that it should go to a liquidation at once, be wound up and cease to be as a money institution, in which character for years past it had worked only a most tremendous amount of mischief. It was believed, according to the accounts now received, that the Bank must now inevitably come to a liquidation. Th.s el:max of misfortune or d.sgrace is no reflection or fault of tl.e present management, which, to do it bare justice. has from the commencement been saddled with the ungrateful task only of endeavouring vainly to redeem the i , redeemable errors of its predecessors. The effort has been vain. The prodigal, vast and moon-struck dreams of Mr. Biddle, to which th Bank had been p'etiged, and in which involved pist ail power of withdrawal, as is now clear, left nothing for ihis successors but a perpetual and daily struggle for existence, by all sorts of expedi nts more or less detrimental to credit, and always leav in' the Bank at the mercy of any accident, or any per y en which dependent at the moment. No position could he more disgraceful and di-creditable for an institution profrs.irg to have, and which ought to have, a capital of 35,000,000 dollar, Now that, as it may be hoped the Bank is brought to a stand still the effect will probably be all the a ore beneficial for general trade and whatever the present loss to the stockholders, it h ill per hags be less than if the Bank had continued business,:curtailed as a s pretensions were, and economically as the expenses bad been properly pared doWn by the present board of management. The bank paper syitem in America has altogether been so resklessly managed, or rather mismanaged, it has been in the hands almost unitersallv of such will and unprincipled specu lators, that, whatever the pre eot suffering of masses of indi viduals, it can only be a public benefit for the Union, and for all States triding with the Union, that it should come to its term and be altogether and for ever exploded as now and for time past conducted. It is tolerably certain that the banks of the south and south-nest, the delegates of which had had a meeting to consider of resumption and separated without a conclusion, would fol'ow on, if per mitted, in their career of insolvent suspension and irrespon sible paper system. It was doubted whether the New York banks would be able to keep up specie payments, and in that case the whole machinery of paper money would either be stopped at once, or like that of Buenos Ayres, would result in a depreciation of the paper dollar to th 4 specie value of one-fourteenth of its nominal amount. ri he following is g'ven as the last account of the number of report t s o tt f an t k he at ß h a o n m k e t a o nd th a e hr L o e ad - i la 'the"kliA°clcdoVitotgf- t t h o e th Uei p e ni l t asttture, the number o f s t oc kh o ld ers at home and abroad wssg psi; down ac foof o k ll s o t ara . : Number holders i n E ng l an d and elsewhere 1,390 Ditto Pennsylvania Ditto United Stases elsewhere than Pa. ...... Whole nurnbm..... ************** -- - ******** -•• 4 ,529 These held shares as fol'ows . Number of persons holding stock to the amount of fire shares and under Ditto, 10 shares and under ...................... . • . .............. 864 20 Of ... ........... 661 50 ~ .............. 732 ....... .. 9e4 100 11 500 11 fr t y h . at T th h e a n la u r m ge ber ho o l f d p e e r :so ni ns o h sti o y hli re_ stockholdersrptwo ties,,,e,i cal a_ ;3hoya whichersO i o . 1 i s th thisaar pepsceoau.rn.s. .............................. . . .... BO , ng less than 50 shares .was 3,251. These are principally the siding abroad, of whom 42 belong to the nobility. The valuel of the shares owned abroad is 27,000,000 dols., and of h maning 8,000,000 dole about 6,000,00 0 doll. are represented in this city, and the remainder in Philadelphia. It is there fore evident that much the larger portion of the capital be longs to foreign residents who can exercise no influence in Philadelphia, while, on the other hand, all the capital of the other banks is owr e I at home, where the proprietors are on the spot to look after their own interest, and if necessa , y to do so, even' at the sacrifice of other interests." The prodigious amount of the value of the stock held in this country may be estimAed from these particulars, if correct, as it is believed they substantially are The fallowing statement of the positioi of the Bank's affairs, taker , from the York Herald, if it could be now wound up and its property dis ci* at present prices, which of course in such quantities is . quite out of the question,.will not be very consul ng to those e a naknedr,s Circularjoint-stook p c u e ff u s n , t a ry n d bankers i v lh h i l ch b w r e o r k e e m mg is e le d pa b i d y, travellin g agents of certain London bankers a Y nd capitalists of the Banker's C i rcular is understood to be the under hand instrument, to take set large' amounts of United States more e k thSahir a s yr aid g 'Seciriti-s at very high, prices; not much United st a t, B , 'lt was shown under this head, that the year had lost Bank on its own exhibit at the beginning of the :-e.than one ha'f of its capital. . We hear that the Earl of Tanker;illei sight is rnue'l affcctee, the operatipn hie Lordship underwent a few months La-at u h eTr i ly g lo e st om th p e le s t i e g l b y t failed. We . helicve his eye. - LorOsiiip b THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1841. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, MARCH 5. sPEREY JUSTICE IN CHANCERY, THE MASTEk a the ROLLS heard causes to-d.iy, the circumstalces of which were devoid of interest. A no velty, however, pretreated itself in one of them, Davi s v. Davies, which shows that whatever the arrears may Le in :he Court of Chancery generally, there is no very great Err( ar of causes set down for hearing bef,ne the Master of tl.e Roll), fur it appesrel thLt the subi.cena to hear judg ment in thil case wa3 only returnab'e in January last, so that the cause was actually beard within two months of its being set down. [Mr. 1 3 .-mberton, shortly after entering the Court this morning, r.:evived by post the painful intelligence of the Leath of his mother. The Learned Gentleman im:nedi ately left the Coutt, and will not, of course, attend t) bu siness for some days.] CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, CASE OF THE DRYAD. Chief Justice Tim:al and Mr. Justice Bosanquet took their seats on the Beach at Ten o'C.ock, ind immediately after Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace was put to tho lair, and having pleaded Not guilty to an indictment fur being acces sory to the destruction of the ship Dryad, fur which offence his brother Patrick Wallace was comic' cd yes' erday, and who case will be found fully reported in this Morning's edition of The Say,. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL openei the case for the prmes cution in pi eci-ely the same ma .ner as in the former case, to-the report of which; the facts being the same,.we refer our readers. • The Learned Gentleman said, in addition, he would only say that when the Jury should find that the prisoner at the bar was in communication with Loo_e at Bristol, that lie ef feeted the fraudulent assurances; and participated iu the pro fits derived from them, he thought there was no exercise of Christian charity by which they could conclude that the pri soner was innocent t f the offence for which he stood indicted. He would, therefore. only further state that this charge was first made on the 27th of Novetub.r ' when an attempt was made to take the prisoner into custody at his residence in Tredegar-square, but he was not found until the 27th of De cember, when he was arrested at a little village on the sea coast in the coon yof Lancaster. It had been said the pri e.mer had gone there for the benefit of sea-bathing, but it was for th' Jury to consider how far it was probable at that season of the year the prisoner had gone there for that purpose. Before he sat down, be wished to say one word with respect to a tnisre pres.notation thut bad been made with respect to what lie (the Attorney-General) had said respecting the Poisoners' C..amsel Act. It was said yesierday that he had said that Act was a curse to the country. Now, he had never said so, nor any th ng that-would bear that construction. The facts were, that in a case for forging a will, which was a disputed will, an.l which ought to have been tried by way of ejectment, his client had been indicted for a criminal offence, in order .to prevent him (the Attorney - General) from reply ing to the prosecutor's case, uFon which he bad said that if such abuses were to be tolerated the Aet, which was a most excellent one, would become a curse to the country. He had assisted in-carrying that Act through Parliamt nt, and he had never entertained any other opinion of it than that he-1 had now expressed. Mr. JEKVIS said he would now, with their Lordships' per mission, take an objection he had to make with respect to the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Caurt in this case. • He would merely state what had fa 1 n from the Court on a previous occasion with respect to the proper time .to take the objection, that in the King and Easterby, re ported in Russell's Crown cases, the objection was taken by Mr. Erskine, when the facts were before the Court. * In that case the offence was a principal offence. 3iy the Ist Vic., c. 89, an accessory was made guilty of felony, and subjected to the same punishment as the principal offender; and by the 14th section, offences within the jurisdiction of the qcurt of Admiralty might be tried in'the same way as they were before the pa-sing of the Act, that was without reference to the Cen tral Crithinal 'Comet Act by commission, and it went on io state that the offences' of being accessory, procuring, or con niving at sueh)offences,• might be inquired • of, tried, and pa nished by aerzCourt that" should have jurisdiction' try the principal felon. The jurisdiction, therefore, conferred on the Court fir the trial of an accessory was a jurisdiction at tached to the person of the principal felon, and not to the ac cessory. The Act said that any Court that should have juris diction to try the principal felon, might try an accessory in the same manner as if the offence of the principal felon had been committed at the same place. In that section the words were important, as thawing a distinction between the principal felon and the person on his trial By the Central Criminal Court Act, 4 and 5 Wil. 4, c. 36, s. 22, it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Judges and Justices of Oyer and Ter miner, and for the Commissioners under the Act " to inquire into, hear, and determine any offence committed, or alleged to hare been committed, upon the high seas," and it went on further to say " and to deliver the gaol of Nesvgate of any person &taxied therein for any offence committed. or alleged to have been committed, on the high seas." So that the Court had the power to try any offence committed on the high seas when the offender was in custody. But Loose was not in custody, and the jurisdiction of the ' Court over the person of the offender depended neon the cus tody of the party. In the - King v. Easterby, it was decided that the mere fact of a party being an accessory on land to an offense committed .at sea would not make him liable to the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, and therefore the 14th section of the statute by which the offence was constituted could not give that Court jurisdiction to try the offence as an Admiralty offence. There was another point. It might be said an ac cessory might be tried in the county in which the acees sorial act took place ; but he (Mr. Jervis) took it from his Learned Friend's statement that Michael Wallace was at Lieerpool at the time of the sailing of the vessel , he appre hended, therefore, that on this point also the Court, as at pre sent constituted, had no jurisdiction to try this case. He would merely mention one other point, namely, the doubtful construe- tion of the Act as to the distinction of the ship being the pro perty of the party charged. Their Lordships knew that by the Act repealed by this Act, in the case of wilfully setting fire to a dwelling-house, it was not an offence, provided the house was the property of the party who set fire to it; but, by the 3d section of this Act, it was m sde felony whether the house was in the possession of the party or not; but with re ference to ships it said nothing of the kind. Ile therefore sub mitted these objections for the consideration of the Court. Chief Justice TINDAL said the Court would take the ob jections into consideration if the result of the !nil should rev - der it necessary. Mr. Herring, sbip-broker, No. 12, Bishopsgate-street, W►thin, produced the charter-party for the ship Dryad, signed by Michael Wallace, on behalf of the owners of the ve , sel. Witness was an attesting witness, and saw the document signed by Messrs. Zulieta and Michael Wa'lace. : Mr. Howden deposed to the sape effect as on Wednesday, as to his part ownership in the brig Dryad. with Michael Wal lace. An insurance for 2,0001. was effected on the ship, and Michael Wallace had a copy of the policy. In January, 1840, the amount of that assurance was paid to him, of which Mi chael Wallace received his share. He also effected a policy of 3001. at Lloyd's, on the freight, by desire of Michael Wallace. A total loss was claimed on both policies, and three fourths of the amount was paid by Michael Wallace. Mr. Shepherd, of the Alliance Aseirance-office, Mr. Quickly, the insurance broker, who effected the insurance on the fre ght at Lloyd's, and Mr. Stott, the ship-broker, who ef fect d the insurance in the Maritime-office, for Michael Wal lace, were severally examined and deposed to the same effect as in the former case, to the report of which we refer our readers, no new facts having been eheiteil. Mr. Stott cross-examined by Mr. JfiliVlS.—l became ac. quainted with the prisoner when I lived at Messrs. Selden and Johnson's. I lived with them for twelve years. They are well known, and carry on a respectable business. Ido not know that I have any business to tell )(in why I left them. I dec'ine answering that question. I do not like to answer it nor do I intend to do so. I left there in July or August 1837. Alter I had lea them I lived with my father. After that year was expired I was employed in the Metropolitan Gas Company's offices. I was employed there for four months. I left intending to take a situation in an attorney's office, but he declined employing me, and be tween the two stools I fell to the ground. After that I did nothing for three or four months. I then commen ed busi ness in Lower I hames-street as a Custom-house agent. I lived there our or five months. I was in partnership there with another person. I gave it up because it did not answer, and then went into business in Teething-lane as a ship broker and Custom-house agent. I remained there from the time I left hames-street to the March following. I gave up business there•because I obtained a situation with John Nichol). and Co., with whom I remained until I was taken into custody on this charge. I was kept in custody five weeks. I was not examined by the solicitor before I went before the Magistrates. I had no communication with any one but Mr. II obler, my at tor nay. I staled tohim what I knew. Ihe Magistrates then shifted me from the bar to the witness-box. I paid 2001. to Patrick Wallace as the balance of his accounts. My charges were 531. Ha paid premium arid duty on insurance. By Mr. CLAnKsort—ltle business in • this ca'e . was more than usually difficult. The greater portion of the money was paid to me for other matters. When my place was shifted as Mr. Jervis has sad from the bar to the witness-box, the Magistrate expressed his regret that I should have been placed there. I did not leave Messrs. Selden and Johnson for any dishonest act, or any thing affecting my moral character. It was respecting a lady. Mr. Lendall, Mr. Secretaire, Mr. S. Marshall, Mr. Lodge, and Mr. Bahr, gave similar evidence to that on the former occasion, with respect to the effecting the insurances on the Druid, and the payments thereon to the pri,oncr. Mr. Frost, in addition to his evidence in the former case, said he knew of the death of Loose by having received his effects from Captain Cuddy, of the Premier. He received in July the whole of his clothes, a bill for 4001., and cash amounting to 971. On the 27th of July he deliveredthe papers to Michael Wallace. He was then carrying on business at Crosby Hall Chae-bers. He had known Patrick do business for Michael on other occasions and for other shi t s; one was the Delta, and another the Lucy. The Court then adjourned for a short time. On the Court reassembling, Mr. Kelly, clerk in the employ of Ale , srs. Zulieta and Co. proved the freighting of the vessel. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. John Jarvis, but nothing new was elicited. The Clearing Clerk from the Custom-house proved that no goods were shippedon board the Dryad except those by Zulieta and Co. Ronald Maxwell, the mate of the ship, repeated the evidence given by him in the former case, and proved that there was scarcely beef and pork enough on board for the subsistence of the crew —that no goods were put on board after those sent from Zulieta and Co. He also proved the attempt made by Captai n Loose to throw away the vessel on the Si!ver Keys or Rocks, off the Virgin :Guarda, on which occasion they got off the rock with the loss of the rudder. The course then taken by the Captain was evidently a wrong one, and he had fre quently warned him of the danger, but the Captain would not see the rocks when they were within a few lengths of them, and when they were plainly visible. He also detai'ed the cir cumstances which took place off Cape Hayti. He was running on a dangerous reef of rocks, but he refused to make any signal for a pilnt, nor would he ta rn him. twice . of a gun fired 1 urn the Benceiolea to warn him. A yi!cit came on board from the latter sh:p and took her into the harbour. At Cape Ha ) ti witness solicited his dis charge and obtained it. .He told the Captain his reason for l eav i n g, and he heard of the loss of the Dryad before leaving that port. The witness was cross-examined at considerable length by m i .. J, rvis, but nothing was elicited to weaken his evidence, cr of a dill' rent nature toiiethmatumgei:etnofbhyilsiilinem(inngthtehfeo trial. Benjamin Schultz, the carpenter of the Dryad, corroborated in to pl t ained and threatened to leave the vessel. t'le last witness p vessel. At Santa Cruz, in the Island of Cuba, and on the upon a reef off Cape Cruz. On the ' n•glit voyage they struck n was on deck all night, he had neverbeen k the Captai they strue , ' whole voyage. - He told Simpson to leave the s i before durirgtne fie gave noorders to the crew to l ii i _ e ay v, t , i en t h t e on cre t v o v s c u o u l get her off, she continued to get make any effort toitif 11 o'clock. She struck about half higher and higher until 11 The vessel was quite sound all in the morning. Only one Pump wouti work past two o water. the time. the made n _ _ verpoo _ . aheel as he might get It was fine weather when from the time thoy left Li t . eof leaving Santa Cruz, the fro u..the time they struck, and , get hurt; they were in danger, and they done so they must le lead to be thrown. H a d has found Captain had never once order o e u d n the . . might have avoided it. The sails were set when they struck, and they were taken down by the men of their own accord, without, any orders from the Captain. Some Spaniards came off in a canoe, about 11 o'clock, with whom th- c..ptain wont ashore. He went ashore on the second day, when witness an others of the crew were rowing ab..ut in the jolly-boat. On _coming to the stern of the vesiel;they saw a cigar -boa in the water, near the captain's cabin. They fished it up, and on dr3 ing it and opening it, they found some leaves of the log. book. There was no water in the hold until the third day, when the captain came on board that night and asked witness as to the state of the pumps. Witness said the vessel was firm. Next morning he desired him to sound again. There was then five feet water in the hold. The captain said—" she has got a hola in her bottom now." The hole was under the captain's c .bin. He was on board all night ; and the vesse, was left high and dry on the rock, so that she could not bump. From what they had seen at the Silver Keys, the crew always kept their clothes ready in case of anyth'ng happening. They then went, to Falmouth in Jamaica. The witness then detailed the manner in which the captain had obliged the crew to sign the protest They signed the protest upon a promise th tt they would receive their wages. In place of do,ng so, he gave him an order on the prisoner for 41. 13s. 6d., which had never been paid. Before the captain left Falmouth he saw Simpsoa go in to the room where the captain was with the papers taken fro.n the cigar-box. When he came out he had tour Jamaica 1/. notes in his hand, worth 193. each. Cross-examined.—lt was a dark n;ght when they struck. They could not see the rocks then, and thq had CA( aved them all through the day when they cou!d see them. Davis, S me son, and others were present when he Sigucd the protest. '1 hey ht and the protest read over. He did not knew when he s'gned it that there was an agent of Lloyd's residing in Fel mr,u;h. The hole made in the bottom was about two feet and a half round. ,The crew heard no no:se during the night. Re-examined—When they were in Jamaica he knew nwhing of the ship being insured, nor had he ever heard of Lloyd's agents. • It being now seven o'clock, the trial was postponed till to morrow. The Jury were conveyed in the rare of Mr. Kemp, the Sheriff's officer, to the Ludgate Coffee .house. (NEW COURT.) Henry Jones was indicted tr teal r,g a jacket and hat, the property of Abraham Harris, clothes-dcaler, in Ratcliff Highway. Simon Simons deposed that he was standing at his own door, near Mr. Harris's residence, and observed the prisoner, in company with another lad, who took the articles namel in the indictment from Alr. Harris's shop, and handed them to the prisoner. The former made his escape, but witness, followed the latter, and gave him into custody. The prisoner, who had peen several times previously eon victed, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. Thomas Roser was indicted for stealing two live fowls and a copper, the pro, erty of John &oilers, of the Torrington Arms, Poplar. A policeman deposed to having taken the prisoner into cus tody on the night of the 27th ultimo, with the stolen property in his po;sessioa. Miss Emma Sellers identified the property as kelonging to her father. The prisoner said this was his first offence. The RECORDER said that it was a bad beginning. Had he suffered a previous conviction he should have been sent put of the country. His present sentence was that he be imir.sone I and kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL RACES. The Champion Hurdle Race Stakes of 15 sons. each, 10 ft., with 50 added. The second saves his stake. Four yrs, 10st. 91b. ;: five yrs, '1 ISt. 71b. ; sir yrs, 12st. ; and aged, 12st. 21b. Winners of one hurdle race 51h. extra; of two or more, 71b. extra. Hatt' bred horses allowed 71b., and bona fide hunterS 51b. ,Two miles. (15 Subs. ) Mr. Bond's b. g. Jupiter (Mr. Oliver) 1 Mr. Parker's d. m. Duenna, aged ...... 2 Mr, Ferguson's Rust, - aged The following also started, but were not placed :—Sir E. Mostyn's Tobacconist, aged ; Mr. Stevenson's True Blue, aged ; Sir R. Brooke's Emperor, aged ; Mr. Peise nd. De fence, aged; Mr. Wesley's Jessie, 6 yrs; Mr. Kel:ett's Now or never, aged; and Mr. I-lay s's Prince. Betting-7 to 4 agst Rust, 6to I agst Prince, and 10 to 1 agst any other. - True Blue made the running to the canal turn, where Duenna, Rust, and Defence headed him, and ran together 01 they had jumped the last hurdle, when Jupiter went up, and by diet of fine riding, won by half a length. Two finer races were never seen in this or any other course, and it is satisfactory to add that the plea , u!es of the day were not alloyed either by accident or wrangle. MILITARY STEEPLE CHASE.—The grand military steeple chase is announced to take place on Wednesday, the 24th inst., in the neighbourhood of Northampton. There a. e alrea iy 23 hors, s entered. The Pytchley Hunt races are fixed for Thursday, the 25th instant. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) GREAT WATERLOO COURSING MEETING. MARCH 2 AND 4. The Watt rho Cup, ;sUbscription of 25 sovs. each, was won by Mr. King's Bloomsbury beating Mr. Ker shaw's Sadler. The Altcai Stakes, for the 16 beaten dogs in the first ties for the Waterloo Cup, was won by Lord Eglintou's Waterloo beating Mr. P. lloug'iton's Tyrant. The Waterloo Purse of JO sow. each wai wen by Mr. UnrAorth's Unknown baating the Earl of Stradbroke's Minerva. SPLENDID RUN WITH SIR JOHN GERARD'S STAG HOUNDS.—Si.* John Gerari having signified his intention of turning out a stag on the B. ynan estate, near Ashton, on Saturday week, a number of sporting gentlemen avai'ed themselves of the oppartuni..y thus generously offered of participating in tha noble sport. A numerous and well mounted fic•ld of horsemen punctually p. eaented themselves at the meet, and the day beiag favattrahle, every one seemed to anticipate, with delight, the glowing and exhi larating pleasures of the chase. Nor did the sport fall short of their expectations. The noble stag bounded away in gallant style, not seeming to be ever anxious at starting to t-lx his powers of speed, and went off in his first course ali tle to the left of Ashton, and then made tight away through Ashton, through the-New Hall Park, and as far as Downhall Greer., going at the time at a rattling pace, many of the horsemen, however, being close in his wake ; he t'..e.a went dashing on ti raugh the Deer Park, helot g. ing to Garswoocl, and was at length taken near St. He len's, having aff„rded a very splendid run for upwards of an hour, almost without a check. Among the company we noticed the following gentlemen, who were well up at the close J. G-rraid, of Ne.v Hall; Captain Ge rartP; Frederick Gerrard Sylvester ' El. of North Hall ; J. H. Hodson, Esq., of Eleskin Hall ; W. Wamsley, Esq., the Plaits, Ric. The party afterwards proc‘eled to New Hall, where they partook of an excellent luncheon, to wbi:h they had late.) inv;tel by the %sell known kindness of the worthy Baronet, and which was laid before his guests artar that style Lf true old Etigish hospital ty, so peuliar to tl,e social character tf Sir J, hn Gerrard. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mlrtality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Registered, in the week enclitic , . Saturday, the 27th February, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General:--. Weekly CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. A verage 1838-9-40. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases l9O 204 Diseases of the Drain, Nerves, and Senses lBl 151 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of _ • Respiration _ Diseases of the lien-t and Bloodvessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidn .3s, &C. Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints ' Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c Diseases of Uncertain Seat Old Age, er Natural Decay 7B 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 20 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes... - Average Weekly Deaths .. 9f6 Deaths in the Average Weekly Week, Deaths, 1833-9-40. Western Districts ... 143 .....„ 139 North Districts Central. Districts 234 ..... 190 East Districts 235 .;.... 211 South Districts ... ...... Total lug) It is stated that under the term Metropolis are com prised the 32 districts herein mentioned, wh;cb include the City cf London within and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out parishes within the bill's of mortality—and the parishes of St. Marylebone ; St, Pancras ; Kensington ; Fulham ; Hammersmith cChapelry) ; St. Luke, Chc!sea; Paddington • St. Mary, btok e Newington ' • St. Leonard, BroMley ; St. Mary-le bovV ; Camherwell; Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St. Paul, Deptford; and Woolwich. The population as enu merated in 1831 was 1,594,890. The weekly average for 18341, 1839, 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. General Register-office, March 4, 1841. DETENTION OF A LARGE NUMBER OF LET TERS BY A POST-OFFICE CARRIER.--011 Saturday, Joseph Holloway, a letter-carrier in the Liverpool Post-office, was placed at the bar of the p.i'ce-court, charged aith basing detained a number of letters eotrated to him fur delivery. From tha evidence cf Mr. Jose ! h Banning, chief clerk in the Post-office, it appeared ttezt there had been many complaints of non-dc livery in the prisoner's district, Btrlington - street and the neighbourhood. Ou the 22d of February the prisoner being questioned by the Postmaster, said, he had about 20 letters undelivered, and these he produce.' as all that he bad. On the evening i f Wednesday se'rin'ght, Mr. H. 0. Cr 11..ri, inspector of letter carriers, went with Hassell, the constable, to the lodgings 6f tree I.,risoner, in Bond-stree , , and got from him 187 letters and two newspapers,. all .of which, with the exception rf one or two, were in the prisoner's del's ,. ry. Orr the fl. teeing day 307 lett-rs and seven newspai.ers, all cf Bh eti had been dt Isyed, were found io tie pi hor.er's dtaxer at the Post-office. Proof of deter.tierr, in the ease of 13 of the letters, was then produced. On being asked what lnc had to say, hollow ay replied, I I ave cotbirg 'further to state than that the district is too Is.rge for any wan to do, and I have said so to M-. Boning and Mr. Collard. One day thist I ea; sick, a r e:son was put on in my place, and it took h m until eight to deliver the mcrnii g delivery, and I have three deliver'es etch da y ." Mr. Collard admitted, at the preliminary examination on Thursday, that the prisoner had co m p lained of the too great extent of his district. W. Rushton com mit t ed t h e priioner to take hi s t r i a l at the assizes , b ut intimated that be might be liberated on finding bail, himself in 401. a:d y two sures in 20/. each. —Liverpool M ercur y . CURIOUS FACT.—On Monday last, a Cheviot e tit. w 7 e z a m t m E o a n st t e ti r in ll , g lo f ni ,r c a l( produced produced a single l amb ; and on the follo w i ng F r i 'a two more, finer and larg er t han the first. B ot h mot h er an d progen y are doing w ell . It is no to . have twins, but to In ve ! at such an intervel between the births, seems a NT, ry u nteiir fscr, FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE WHITEHALL, JAN. 30, 1141. The. Lo-d CiLincei! . - i' iii`; ;1, - tr. i:)(1 0F 79 Ci. y of Yoik, Gent., to be a .11a,ter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WAR-OFFICE, 111Aften 5. Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet A. J. Lord Kil leen to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilson, who retires ; J. Thompson, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Lord Killeen, March 5. loth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon A. Anderson, M.D., from the 8 . 11 Fo it, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Stewart, promoted in the 931 Foot, March 5. 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet H. 0. Hale to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mosey . who recites; M. C. B. Cave, Ge n t., t o be Cornet, by purchase vice hale, March 5. 1 ith ttegiment of Light Dragoons—Surgeon J. Dempster, M.D., from the 62d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Elkington, ap pointed to the Royal Hibernian School, March 5. 7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign W. R. Browne, from the 61st F )ot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maunsell, who retires, March 5. 36th Foot—Ensign E. C. Butler to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Hynes, who re , ire3 ; 0. H. Harris, G,nt„ to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Butler, March 5. 37th Foot—Captain th,! Hon. E. A. W. Keane, from Lalf pay Unattatled, to be Captain, vice W. Elliot, who exchanges receiving the difference, March 5. 61st Fcot—J. Massey, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brt,wne, promoted in the 7th Foot. Man h 5. 62d Fo ,t—Surgeon J. Campbell, M.D., from the 93d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Dempster, appointed to the 17th Light Dragoons, March 5. 82d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon R. C. Anderson, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice A. Anderson, appointed to the 10th Light Dragoons, March 5. 87th Foot—Lieutenant H. J. Jauncey, from the 99th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Jephson, who exchanges, March 5. 93d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon W. Stewart, from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Campbell, appointed to the 62d Foot, March 5. 99 h FoctLLieut. H. Jephson, fimm the 87. h Foot, to be Lieutenant, arc..!. Jauncey, who exchanges, March 5. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign W. H. Ridge, from the 3(1 West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir J. R. C. Smyth, who retires, March 5. 3d West India Regiment—Ensign A. Strange to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Hayes, who retires; C. Graves, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice St range ; G. C. Urmston, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice ttidge, pro moted in the Ist West India Regiment, March 5. UNATTACHED.—Lieut. R. Hutton, from the sSth Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, March 5. HOSPITAL STAFF.—To be Assistant-Surgeons to the Forces.—A. Collings, M.D., vice Langley, appointed to the 74th Foot, Feb. 26 ; S. Al' V. Lloyd, Gent., vice Anderson, appointed to the 82d Foot, March 5. ROYAL HIBERNIAN SCHOOL—Surgeon James Good .11 Elkington from the 17th Light Drago o n s , t o b e S urgeon , v i ce William Flunie, who retires upon half-pay, March 5. BREVET.—Captairi the 11€ n. Elward Arthur Wellington Keane, of the 37th Foot, to be Major in the Army ; March 5. Commission signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex. Royal Sussex Regiment of Militia—J. J. Edwards, Gent. to be Ensign, Feb. 18. tkly Liabilities and Assets of the 3th of December, 1840, to the 2d iye, published pursuant to the Quarterly Average of the Weer Bank of England, from the 8 of Alarch, 1841, both inclusi Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 9S LIABILITIES, Circulation ..£16,372,000 Securities ..... £22,725.900 Deposits 7,567,000 Bullion 4,076,000 £23,939,000.1 Downing-stret, AlArch 4, 1 ASSETS. .841. £26,801,000 BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. EDMUND LEAK E, el )thier, no7me,TY;rlZre. WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP, upholsterer, Birmingham BANKRUPTS. JOHN FAIR WE AT HER HAR BISON, wine merchant, New Broad-stre,it; City, to surrender, March 29 and April 16, at cleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Clark, New Broad street-court, official assignee ; Watson, King's Arms-yard. HENRY JOHN TODD, warehouseman, Wood -street, City, March 13, at twelve, and April 16, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee; Turner and Hensman, Basing-lane. BARNABY DUNN, glass dealer, Jermyn-street. St. Jamrs's, March 12 and April 16, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. I'ennell, official assignee; Biachford, Moorgate-street. THOMAS WARD, plumber, East Dereham, Norfolk, M.irch 19, at half-past twelve, and April 16, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, Cop hall-buildings, official assignee; Rhodes, lieevor, and Lane, Chancery-lane. ANDREW TURNBULL, lodging-house-keeper, Howard street, Strand, March 19, at eleven, and April 16, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Lofty and Potter, King-street, Cheapside. CHRISTOYHER PICARD, linen-draper, Friday-street, City, March 12, at ha'f-past twelve, and April 16. at e!even, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official assignee; Hardwick and Co., Cateaton-street. CHARLES KNIGHT and PETER KNIGHT, sa'e,meu, Ivy-lane, Newgate-market, March 16, at two, and April 16. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, Birchin-lane, C:Rnhill, official assignee ; Bullock, George-street, Mansion hou,e. JAMES KNIGHT, butcher, Wigan, Lancashire, March 25, at two, and April 16, at ten, at the Swan Inn, Great Bolton. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford row, London ' • Leigh, Wigan. ROBERT WORTERS, maltster, Melford, Suffolk, March 16 and April 16, at twelve, at the Angel :nn, Bury St. Ed munds. .Andrews, Sudbury, Suffolk. Stevens, Gray's lon s quare, London. HENRY GEMSON, builder, Preston, Lanca-hire, March 16 and April 16, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Preston. Adling ton, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London ; Pilkinzton and Wa'ker, or Ascrofts, Preston. WILLIAM HANNAFORD and NICHOLAS PRET TEJOHN, cattle-dealers, Kingsbridge, Devonshire, March 24 ant April 16, at eleven, at Whiddon's Royal Hotel, Plymouth. Horrea, Kingsbridge ; Surr, Lombard -street, London ; El wort hy, Plymouth. S A,VUEL MEGSON, woollen cloth manufacturer, Ossett, YorkAire, March 26, at ten, and April 16, at two, at the Cim missioners',rooms, Leeds. Makinson and Sanders, Middle Tempe. London ; Foden, Leedt,. JOt-IN FRANCIS MASTERS, perfumer, Bristol, March 23 and April 16, at two, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Whi e and Whitmore, Bedford-row, London ; Bridges, Bristol. THOMAS ROBERT WATER licensed-victual!er, Towcester, Northamptonshire, March 18 and April 16. at two, at the Angel Inn, Northampton. Wilkins, St. Benet's-place, Gracechurch-street, London; Cooke, Towcester. JOHN TOONE, builder, Leamington-priors, Warwick shire, March 26 and April 16, at twelve, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington •priors. Warrand, South-square, Gray's Inn, London ; Empson, Leamington. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Ba-inghall-street. R. Shea and T. Pinn, tailors, Great Pulteney-street, Goldeo-square, March 26, a; eleven—M. Cloke, draper, Hastings, March 26, at twelve—T. Vi 4 ers, brass founder, Brixton, March 26, at cloven—W. Hamilton, merchant, Leadenhall-street, March 30, at one—B. Palmer, tailor, Duke street, St. James's, March 28, at one—C. and R. D. Jacob, merchants, George-yard, Lombard-street, City, March 26, at half-past one . In the Country. J. Wade, grocer, Plymouth, April a, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth—A. Andrade and T. Worswick. bankers, Lancaster, March 26, at one, at the King's Arms. Lancaster— J. G. Galbreath, d. aper, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, March 26, at two, at the Bridge Inn, Sunderland—Z. Stirk, sen., Z. Stirk, jun., and J. W. Thornton, machine makers. Leeds, Mach 30, at one, at the Commercial-rooms, L•eds—P. Play fai-, innkeeper, Warwick, April 1, at one, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington-priors—W. Jackson, corn merchant, Louth, Lincolnshire ' March 23, at three, at the Public-building, Louth —J. Crouch, grocer, Liverpool, March 26, at one, at the Cia rendon-rolm,, Liverpool—J. F. B:dgood, woollen draper, Bris tol, March 30, at twe, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol—T. Crowther, wine merchant, Liverpool, April 14, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool—B. Butterworth, m6rcer, Liver pool, March 27, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES—MARCH 26. _ _ H. Edwards, surgeon, Edgware-road—S. King. steam•boat bidder, Vauxhall—T. Minshall, auctioneer, *orthing—J. Hi ocklehurst, fishmonger, Manchester--S.isan and J. Knight, builder?, Radford, Nottinghamshire—J. Bothwell, cotton spinner, Elton, Lancashire—C. Lacy, butcher, Hack ney—J. Phillips. linen draper, High-street, Whitechapel—N. A. Austen, banker, Ramsgate. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. A. Ames, T. W. Spooner, and R. S. Johnson, linen drapers, Clifto...street, Finsbury (so far as regards W. Spooner) —S. Bower and J. Alexander, improved spring mattress ma nufacturers, Portland-street, SAo—R. Latimer, D, Forster, and T. Twedale, common brewers, Longtown, Cumberl md— %V. Evans and E. Ellis, joiners, Thrkenhead. Cheshire—E. and B. L. Barnett, ship brokers, Leadenhall street, City--:?. and T. Ingram, farmers, Little Thurrock, Essex—T. Hyde and T. Salkeld, woolen drapers, Oxford—J. Esarn and T. Littlefield, to Tors, Yarmouth-- W. Smallwood, sen., and W. Smallwood jun., timber merchants, Birmingham—T. Piddocke and P. Fearnhead, attorneys, A‘hby-de-la-Znuch, Leicestershire—S. N. Evans and J. Hill, engineers, Wolverhampton—W. R. Preston and R. D. Hughes, coppersmiths, Liverpool—J. Adams and W. Cotterell, millers, Waleot, Shropshire—A. Etienne anti J. J Dressen, tailors, Frith-street, Soho—K. Hoyle and R. Gardiner, woollen manufacturers, Bury, Lanca shire—G. J. Taylor and Armstrong, Peckham House, Camberwe'il—W. Munday, P. T. Munday, and J. Monday, machine makers, Preston, Lancashire (so far as regards W. A\lurday)—H. and W. Bull, paper stainers, Moorfieds—T. lrewhall and H. G. Hill, warehousemen, Wood-street, Cheap side—ll. Barber and W. Eagiesfield, hosiers. Leicester—J. Sharpies and J. Richardson, coach builders, Salford—J. Han cock, T. Wrieht, and R. Burgess, earthenware manufacturers, Tunstall, Staffordshire Potter ies (so far as regards J. Hancock). SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. LACHLAN 111 . INTOSH, bather merchant, Tain, March 11, atone at the Chambers of H. M. Taylor, writer, Tain. ROBERT SOMMERVILLE, wright,D un fermline, March 13, at twelve, at the Spire Inn, Dunfermline. JOHN SCOTT, cattle dealer, Blueton, Perthshire March 11, at two, at the St. J o h n ' s Ta vern , P ert h . , JOHN BOYD, merchant, Leith, March 11, at two, at the Exchange Hotel, Leith. Th• Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the Ret urns made in the week ending March 2, 1841, is 48s. aid. per curt., exelibire of the Duties of Cus toms paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—As some difficulty has been experienced in understanding the new formof time table issued by the Manchester and Leeds Rala ay Company, which appeared in our paper of the 20th ult , in reference to their opening throughout, on the Ist of March next, wo h,ve been reques.ed to observe, that by taking the horizontal line opposite to the name of any station, you will at once perceive the times of depart ure from that station, either towards Leedror Winchester, and by noticing the names at the top and bottom of the vert'cal columns you will also see to what places you may proci ed by the trains of other Companies, aft .r le ,ving the Manchester and Leeds fire. The most important part, however, of the time table to the inhabitants of Man chester, is the fact of a second rail , ay route between this town and London, by means of which parties can travel to Rugby (thirty mites tower London) at the same fare as is now charged to Birmingham. The fare by this route fern Manchester to London, we perce'vc, is only 1/. 1.. for third class passengers.—Marrchester Guardian, Feb. 27. The General Steam Navigation Company's Vt sad, the Ocean, John Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived off t'e Cost - ma-house at eleven o'clock yesterday, with the Du eh Mail. Mi. Joseph Pease, jun., M.P., has been call e d from his Parliamentary duties in London 4 in consequenc e cf the d,ath of Hi mother-in-law, Mrs. Gurney, of Nor. a ich; NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. 7 ,- .rn o , n .Toitrnal ; . ••L it • • 1-filed S..a. ay ::,r a.. , Ttio Star pack: t saFed on Sunday for Falmouth. The Wilberforce, iron steamer, arrived on Monday from Liv-.yrpaol, and sliled the same day for Woolwich. The Swale lighter arrived on Monday, with old stores, from Falmouth. The Nelley tender sailed on Monday for Bristol, for vJlunteera. R maining icr Flamoarl —Caledonian, San Josef, Snipe, Sylph, Cairn steAmer, Adventurer N. 7, Rochester Iyhter. and Sisal . lighter. In the Sound.—lmpregibible. Brlteile, and Iris. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) LoN . now, MARCH s .— Wind this day at noon, S.W. DEAL, MARCH 4. —Wind W.S. W.—Arrived the Wool raansterne, Hinitrwell, from Calcutta ; John and Ann, from the westward. Arrived from the River and sailed, the Persian, M liman, for Hob trt Town ; Briton's Queen, Knell, St. Ali chael's. sailed the Renfrewshtre, Burns, for St. John's. DovER MARCH 4 .— Sailed the Eliza Russell, for Grenada. , , FALMOUTH. MAacit 3.—Wind W.N. W. to N., fresh gales and ,qually.—Arrived the Emiheden, Branstrom, from Lilies and, for St. Uhes ; Favourite, Silk, London, for Cork. Sailed the Lapwing packet, for the Wet Indies. LIVE SPOOL, MARCH 4.—Wield variable.—Arrived the United State., Britten, from New York; Two Sisters, New Orleans ; Neva, ditto. Sailed the Blakely, Downs, for Can ton ; Johnstone, Spence, Calcutta; Pilgrim, Rawlins, ditto ; Warlock, Pagan, ditto ; William Akers, Nicol, La Guayra; Cameron, Cockton, Trinidad ; Cessnoek, Atherson, Berbice ; Oswego, Wood, New York ; Clyde, Reid, Boston ; Minerva, Durk, ditto ; Coromando, Pearse, ditto.; Zuleika, Holmes, Con stantinople ; Packet, Beyrout ; Sylphide, Malin, Trieste ; Centaur, Fox, Gibraltar ; Jane, Pennington, Charen'e. Off port the Horatio, Barbadoes ; Susannah, Cumming, Mobile. RAMSGATE, MARCH 4.—Arrived off port the Vriendshap, Sap. from Riga. Sailed the Johanna, Clasin, for Hamburgh. PENZANCE, MARCH 2.—Arrived the Elbe packet, Croft, from London to Cork, with loss of mainsail. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 4. —Wind N.W. to W.—Arrtved the Romulus, Morton, from Demerara, with loss of boats, bul wa,ks, sail., &c. ; Betsey, Woodcock, Youghal ; Recovery, Western Islands to Liverpool, 26th ult., lat. 43, lon. 11, was spoke by the Romulus. COWES, MARCH 4.—Arrived the Maria Francisco, Hob beet, from New Orleans. T EIE MARKETS-YESTERDAY. CORN EXCHANGE, The supplies of most kinds of English Grain this week have been good, and of Oats from Ireland considerable. The Wheat traqe, except for very dry parcels, had a downward tendency. Barley, Beans, and Peas, 83 last quoted. The large quantity of Oats for sale made the trade very heavy, and Monday's terms were hardly supported. Flour has met a slack sale during this week. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply being short, and the demand brisk, the best sorts met with a reedy sale at our quotations, while the mid dling and inferior sorts met with a good trade, and everything was disposed of at an early hour. Beasts, 544 ; Sheep, '2,660 ; Piv, 427; Calves, 123. Beef, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. • Mutton, 4s. to 53. Bd. ; Veal, ss. to 6s. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 4d. COLONIAL - MARKET. The demand wa , limited by private treaty, and the public sales went off heavily at rather lower_ rates. , The arrivals were to a fair extent from most parts. TEA -MARKET. There wts little done in Free Trade, but prices were firm for all torts. Comfany's Congou, however, was in good re r quest, at Is. ill. cash. TALLOW MARKET; Prices firm, but the demand for, P..Y;C.. was limited, at 465. 6d. on the spot. PRICE OF BREAD. The Wghes • ri eo f -cre i • the Nitteoplis Is 9;4d for the Vb. Li af. God Bre4l may be had at 7;4d. PIII.:Ei OF SEEDS. Per Quarter Per C,ot Slew E gl sh ltd.; Clover...6os SOs St. Fein —s 1.6 s 66s Old it ~ DL o —s —s —s Rye Gass —, 18s 30s New Foreign Di to ...... —s 55s 70s Pacey Grass —s —s —.4 01: Di to IA to —s —s —s L'hseetl, for I'e:din ...—s 50i Its ew White Clover 45s 50s 4i:'s Dit o, for sowing .... ;.—s 60. Rs Old Dit Di., ...—s —s —s Ditto, for crushi..g ....—s 4(ls 48s w Tre 0i1... —s ails 41s IL m . . ..—s 36s -Iks Old : it:o rr folium - s 48s 10s, Per 8 . ..:5he1. E glish carraway —s 50s 5.s White Nust.,rd ....• Is Od to 11s Or Foreign .Atto .--., 46s LOs Brown Ditto 145 Od to 17s Go Coriander —s 14s 16s,Tares ...... PIi,CE iIF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton .£45 19 Dit,o, refined Linseed Oil Lies ed Oil Cake at th ; Mill (per I0u0) l4 0 ita,e ake per to , PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow .. ......... ...£2 II 6I Melting Stuff XI IR 0 Yellow Russia White Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs 0 5 0 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of bibs, Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow sielters) -, s 10d COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, 33. s. d.- Adair's i3ell, Hobson ttr Ca. Hartley 17 0 Carr's Hartley l9 Hebburn Main 2r) Orig'nal Windsor's ecito., 11 9 Shipcote l5 Tantied Moor Butes l7 6 Wylant Walls El.d Bewic.e and C. , '2l I Walk End Newmarch Walls End Haswel . ...... 23 F Walls End Hetton SS 6 Walls End Lambton t3 6 d 0 Walls End Pemberton 2l Walls End Stewart's/ 23 fi Walls End Whitwch 2 Walls End Hartlepool Wall, End Kelloe Walls End ,arringtou Tees 9 Wills End Gordon .... •...0 f i Walls End North Durham 21 0 Walls End South Durham 2 l- Wal a End Tees 'Howard's Netherton Main 1 B 0 Walls End Devonshire 2O shipeate l5 3 (From the London New Price Current of March 5.) Stic A R. - There has been an increased dullness in the market for British Plantation Sugar this week, and the demand has been extremely limited for grocery and refilling purposes, at a reduction on former rates of Is to Is 6d, making the decline du ring the last three weeks 3s on the better, and 4s to 5s on the lower descriptions. Fine yellow St. Kitt't; at 80s. Demerara dry brown quality for the pan 68s. To-day the market was in a very dull state, and the trifling purchases male were at prices in favour of buyers, making the decline for the week is 6d to 2s per cwt ; tho total sales for the week are only 450 hhds, REFINED.:--A further reduction of is fid to 2s has been acce.!ed to for Refined Goods ; Standard Lumps at 93s 63 to 945, Tittlers and Hambro Loaves fine 99s to 103 s, good 93s to 975, ordinary 93s to 945, brown Lumps - 99s to 92s per cwt. Treacle of common quality 32s to 335. Patent has produced :10s, best old make 39s to 40s, and Golden syrup 41s per cwt. Bastards have met with a heavy sale, and prices have further given way. Pieces, common sorts are rather lower than last week. Bsnded Crushed Sugar, at 32s 3d per cwt. Loaves, 14 lhs, 36s 6.i ; 101bs, 37s to 38s ; and 61bs, 40s 61 to 41s. Treacle at 143 6d to 14s 93 per cwt. Bastards at 13s to 19s ; and Pieces at 20s to 25s'. Dutch Crusitett Sugar at pre iriousrAtes. 111,,u RAT I s. —This afternoon 6,377 bag s were offered public sale, at which the biddings were dull, and not above half found buyers at Is to 2s under farmer rates ; low yellow sold at 67s 6d to 69s ; mid to good, 70s to 76s ; fine, 77s to 80s; low ant mid brown, 49s to bss per cwt.. EAST INDIA. —This afternoon the biaditlgs were languid at the public sa!es of Bengal, which comprised 7,502 bags, prices further gave way; one sale of 5,654: bags was with drawn, the merchants not being disposed to take the reduced rates the trade was disposed to pay, the remainder went 2s under former rates, low white sold at 7.9 s to 71s, middling 72s to 745, good 75; 6d to 764 damp and washed 693 to 735, damp brown 43s to 50s, yellow 62s per cwt. FOREIGN.—Ye low Havannah is held with firmness, at 24s to 24s 6d for middling and good strong qua lity ; for white prices remain firm. A auction 20 boxes of low washed quality went at 26s 6d per cwt, white descriptions of Brazil to a fair extent at full prices. Bahia at 25s Od for good middling ; brown sorts at. previous rates, by private treaty at 224 6d per cwt. Pol•to Rico at 23s to 23s 6d for good bright middling yellow, gootii yellow at 233 to 24s and washed 22s 6d per cwt., damp Santi Martha good white at 395, middling 26s to 29s,•fine ye low 25s to 26s low 22s per cwt. . . _ COFFEE.-The rates previously established hive been sup ported for British Plantation this week, and there has been rather more cl-mand for all clean sots, still the transactions privately have been only to a limited extent, but. nearly the whole of 111 casks lib brls at public sale was' disposed of, but there was little competition in the biddings. This afternoon the transactions in Coffee were c,onflned to the public sales, at which there was but a small attendance of the trade, and the biddings generally were languid, but prices in most cases were supported ; 169 bags Ceylon,, 250 bags Java, 130 bags Padang, 549 bags African, and 26 be'les Mocha were offered ; Ceylon sold at 68s 6d to 69s for good ordinary . brown, being the fall value ; Java was taken in at 4Ns a 50s, the quality nut being approveil of by the trade; Padang went at 33s to 39, for good ordinary, being - a shade loWer ; African all taken in, viz. good ord pate at 50s, and inferior 4 8s ; Mocha went at 97s to 102 s fir fair clean garbled, being rather lower. RUM, BRAND', AND HoLLANns.--The demand has been very limited for West India Rum, both from the tome trade and shippers, and the total sales this week havO not ex ceedeii 100 puns, Jamaica has generally brought previous rates, the supply being small, especia ly of the bF tter sorts, but to dispose of even trifling parcels of Leewardi holders have been compelled to submit to a reduction on former rates of ld to lid per gallon, and have taken 2s 4id to 2s 5d for proof strength. In East India nothing has been done, and Calcutta proof strength is offered at Is 10ifi. Mau ritius has decline l to 2s 2d for 3 per cent. over proof, at which rate 50 hhds have been sold, being 3d under the sales made two months back. The stock - of Foreign Rum consists of 900 puns, and of East India 800 puns and 1,500 hhds; the arrivals have been 300 puns and hhds this week. The stock of West India Rum is 2,637 puns 158 hhds larzer than last year at ti is time. Duty has been paid to the 13th February, 1840, on 80,547 gallons Brandy, and to the same time 1841, 74,191 gals; of Geneva 1840, 725 gals, 1841, 438 gals; a Rum, 1840, 122,629 gals, 1841, 113,634 gallons. Brandy has met with a slow sale, and prices have a down ward tendency for new sorts, of which the stock is large, old ' sorts however, have undergone littl e var i a ti on in -value ; the following are the quotations :—Cognac, first brands 1840, puns 3s 7d, hhds 3s 9d, second do, puns 3s 3d, hhds 3s Gel, 3rd do, puns 2s 10d, hhds 3s, common puns 2s Bd, hhds 2s 9d ; first brands 18',9, puns '4s 6d, hhds 4s Bd, and do, puns 4s, hhds 4s sd, 3rd do puss 3s, hhds 3s 2d ; first brands 1838, puns 4s 10d, hhds ,ss; first brands 1837, puns 5s Id, hhd3 5s 31 ; first brands 1836, puns 5s 4d, hhds 5s 6d; fine old, puns bs 10d, hhds 6s; Bordeaux, puns 2s 3d, hhds 2s 4d. For Geneva a fair demand has pre vailed, 2s ld paid for pale, and 2s 6d to 2s Ed for fine home. British Corn Spirits nave been only in limited request, and sales have been made at 9s lld cash, being rather lower. MOLASSES.—T he demand has been limited for West baffle,. but the supply being rather small prevents prices from nuo .e . terially going down, the trifling parcels disposed of by private treaty have however been rather under for'. er rates. Porto Rico bought in at 12s to 13s, and 28 ca. Mtu a itius ' Sugar and Molasses at 44s per cwt. ocoA.—For British Plantation, holde-.. 5 h ave su b mitted to a reduction on former rates of Is to 3s per cwt. Trinidad low middling to good red at 50s 6d to 55s 6d, mid to good grey 47s 6d to 50s, ord and very ord °.ss 6d to 44s per cwt. Fo reign, prices have been supported. SPICES.—This afternoon 3,311 bags 1131ack Pepper were offered at auction, not above half found bu% ers id under for mer rates for common sorts, but the better kinds nearly brought previous prices ; ordinary dusty to stalky Sumatra sold at 3d. good brown clean 34/1 to 31,11, 576 bags Bengal Ginger went at 15s 6d for good quality, being is lower. RlCE.—Bengal is held for former rates, a part only of 1,735 bags at auction found buyers at I3s to 6d for mid and good quality, 12s 9d to 13s for mid white. Java prices remain firm. Caro'ina for home use at last week's rates. This-afternoon prices were supported for East India, but the de - mand was lAipit 9 d, and 805 bags white Java, 350 sacks Bengal were offered at auction, the former sold at lOs 6d to Ils 6d, and the latter at 13s IT mid. TE %.—The mrrket for Free Trade has presented a firm aspect this week ; a good demand has prevailed for black Tel, by ti p ..' ate treaty for ac. '0 consumption, and prices MORNING EDITION I havehave further improved Id to 1 -1 d ; sales of comma° L ell t e as been. made at Is 7id to ls . 7id for cash. In gr'swe a fair buriness has been done, an rather ra'e s paid, except f:,,r ~; , 1 ' quoted. Ine pibi,c sal -s on rues ay vv:re, w ell 1 0 1 11 65 00 the bidiiings were Uri k, especially for black T( a rr package; o ff ered, the large proportion of nearly 5 ,, I ° o readily disposed of ; Congou, flue blackish leaf , strong ' aid to sold at 2s 5d to 2s 7(1; but mid blksh leaf str and true 15 , - 8;(1, is 10d, but mid r ather str Souchonr , kind Is ticl to ' faint but mid rather old ~nd flat Is 73-d to Is Sd ; Polieb°l44,;a, and odd Is 6d to is 7d, mid coarse ' is Sid to Is 90; " pit mid to good mid str 2s' 2 1 '-,cl to 2s 10d ; Young ,Hys en ' br ut mid ctn. 'f wan. fia 2s to 2s Id ; Twankay, but mid cot . r Is bid; Caper, good mid flat bnt Is tied to Is 64d The speculative market has ben active; and pr e, es 110! it vanced to Is 71d to is 7-id for Company's Co n g ,ou cta on! which large sales havebeen made. The stork h on t hedeer To-day deal. Ts were de irous to purchase Free; Tad'' by private treaty a good many purchases were made to sii , V er , both town and country order , , and rather higher 1 , 1 ,iat Paid ; Common Congou for cash was with di ffi culty to b e , 3 01 7icl per lb. Onnpany's Congou was 'n active reque'" - closed at Is 7ad cash. To-day at pub ic sale 907 chests C.ingou, 490 1 1 5 541- „,' 60 Imperial, 376 Gunpowder, and 81 boxes Young inn pkgs Caper, 60 do Souchong, 20 Pouchong were offered;a4 mos ly found 'buyers. Congou, but mid coarse littl e fetch fetched Is 7.4 d to Is Sd, damaged Is 5d to Is 54(1. Hyson fine 4s 40 to 4s 5d ; Hyson but mid rather freis“,;,,isl to 2s 4d, mid strong little burnt 2s 7 d to 2s 70 ; but mid and mid lather coarse 9s 6/1 to 2s Sid; mid - mid and good 3s ld to 3s 10d per lb. ' On 'Change, prices declined to Is 7id cash for CAt e r Congou, with but few buyers. 011,s. —Prices have been supported for common of Fish Oils this week. Pale Seal is held for 32/ to 32 0. Cod Oil 271. Sperm has brought previous rates. ' 0 6,64 seed Oil in the early part of the week prices declined to a of , on the spot, but during the last fex days a good d3tnin 3d prevailed at 26s 9d to 27s on the sp:st ; for delivery 24 041 27s 6d. Rape, prices are firm. Pale has produced 4fisi good brown 453 per cwt. Olive is held firmly. Palm 3:J/ for quality. CoCos Nut Oil 3 9 s to 395. Oil we re This afternoon at public sale, Southern 100 tuns all disposed of at 2:1. to 301. for ordinary to fine qitY: descri?itl. TALLOW.—Althoughla<ge the stock of Russian Talliw wino exceeding that of last bear by 7,300 casks, still holders c_sio firmness • on the spot, however , there has been a fair derf,,,, from both ' the Town and Country trade for P. Y. ( %.9 9 the prices have been paid ; 46s 3d to 46s 6d have b e to current rates daily. For delivery for the nex t two loth 46s,'for the last three months of the year 46s 6d., Is beet American has met with a slow sale. Town ' Trilow ° in good request. 'This afternlon the market was quiet for Petersburg )e Candle, but prices were supported, and parcels oil t , utli e ware not to be purchased under 46s 3d per cwt. ; a'4 o o sale, 74 casks Odessa, 274 pipes 92 hhds and 41 barrel,2', sn Video were offered, the former sold at 443 6 d t o 455 3(` soft t D the latter mostly found buye rs a t 34s to 4-Is 3d for w good hard quality. .1 Wheat. Barley. Oats, 1 "lean:. t'er Quarter. 1, s. s. s. t 's. $. to s. Bath 60 72 :.471 40 32 Illandford iS t 4 '29 33 25 27 t3ridport 6$ ' -- Chard 51 62 - 28 32 22 24 Gloucester '56 68 21 38 .20 28 Exg er •00 70 27 34 21 28 Guildford 68 71 3! 37 f 32 56 Newbury 5 r 69 'A 33 i2O 31 Reading 5' 71 37 20 90 _ _ • t. to F. 4t sf) A 4 41 44 40 4.; 5° aB 5° 40 V 40 a 36 44 39 52 tql 4 0 /. 40 ei ••• 4 6 40 0 46 $9 0 , ~ 2alishury ,53 641 :7 34 E l 20 ..6 # fl Shtrborne 6O f 4 ,30 37 26 `. 6 ; 40 .... SneptonNlallet t 2 63 30 3.i 23 26 Uxbridge i—. 37 43 21 24 1 ..... ..., W.rininstet —' • 5 CI 29 40 24 27 ..... I .... o f Winchester 6O 64 —' '-- I LO feovil i 56 60 ,22 32 ''4 26 ,42 - .. ~ . LEEDS CORN MARKET.' 10 ,3 1 61 , t t° ,o4 , . Wheat, Nlrfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. . 3 7 ,i• s/i. 1 ..--- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. ; Barley, Norftilk.and Sullblk - ' : ..............• ~2 , . Le ‘ , 64. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding. .., Beans 63lb. • •J ' i si ~ to Au, J e Oats. Potatoe .;;:id. P er i IP ! --:—Mealing, For. —tl. to—d Eng. Iwo. - t o 4,9). 4 18i. t° . iheilitig .. DEVIZES CORN MARKET , o• t d. o' d Por Sack. S. d. s. d. Per Quat ter. .. o 0 to . 0 . iirst Wheat q. 6 to :-3 0 Oats... .............. ',/, ~, 0 iii second Third Oakley , 9 0 37 0 Bread (per kai. 0 0, , .. , - ~............., .?l,‘ V' UNIVERSITY INTELLI 6 OXFORD, MARCH 4.—This day a C o ncreg g , ti ° ll o: bold 1.. r grantirg degrees, &e., when the folloluo conferred:— Ise BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW G M. Giffartl, College. bersli ; MASTERS CF ARTS.—E. N. Seeley, of Christ `',oy:bft Rev.' G. D. Whi eler, Wadharn College ; Brasinnose ecliege ; fter: J. Baron, Qucen's '- Rev. A. o.ake'e-, New Inn Hall. o f Orsi e g tv BACHELORS OF ARTS —H. C. Claughloo , A. nose College ; S. Hanley. Wadbatn Colleg e ;c o ileg A ' Tawney, Merton Cel;ege ;-J C. Seeley The Aldrichian Professor of Medieir:e 'Conollen course of lectures this day. A ve . ,. o ; The Regius Profersor ef Divinity had, in cent—e asP" h r of severe indisposition, been obliged to postpone his lectures lid Thursday the 18th List. t o o k P The election of Proctors for the ensuing Yeit r . ., yesterday at the. respective Caleges, to wan" i t gelsr i : came, when the Rev. %V. 'Tiremar, Fellow of "'; College, and the Rev. J. Fetty, Fellow cf %YA" - Merten eed lege were ehoie:.. ° A petition to the French Chamber o f P A e j l i P i for a Post-office reform similar to the one adoPte" oftP; c .untry has been ni ticed at great length t i n ym th°s p ro - r /e 'cl . Parisian papers that would advocate the reform ve-tctl Ti e p,taioneus appear to be chieflys w:t commerce, aid their demand is for an n n) t he} ir J pers . fora , low ret for all le to e, wl a'ever be the CLtsnee tan' to g); and, in the eof the petition not beilhosi: to this extent, they urge another measure, c tio n ° f : g merely be a reduc t ion of the rate and the a4O - ,,i110:, new system la h regard to the ee•ght larech ts; involving any change if principle. Admitting tor; ueiferm method is the only one .that ought to be s or oe° the journal ; observe that the lowest rate psi- 15 „ t ; if e h '': should be a3opted as the basis of the system, s i e r ' - .;u1 3 . 0 11- e of the higher rates were taken, ?rest iejusee rosi done to those accustomed to ray a loner rate, bi b . , s s that . Iw° to promote uniformity. Admittieg dt o I '," s ider t e principle, the French Administration is con rather hostile to the tefcrm , on the ground that t ;by uution the rases would not be eounterbalance. oun t 0 augmented number f e levers, and that. the a tn ,, business transacted in the kingdom, and net the 11 ; t ` ro sO c i de:e.mifics the amount of et reespondence. 111'50reig ieg, as it takes no see runt of domestic letter 3 with business, is reg.:rded as arbitrary; and, t° 5 1 0 0°' much the poorer c'asses who live in the remote pr yodel i t c t i stand in need of son.e reform in the postwar c r o a ; t i ei d e , : l ei f.renee is made to the ease of soldiers, which so urgent that for them an uniform rate of 1 5 e. i) ; e 1; enable them to reaeive levers from their fsti u- iikes . '", l , what would be expedi4 for them would s een ' ep olle so for working men en small wages. It is strang e the let,' that this law ia favour of soldiers mercy .refers t° e h tors they receive, while those th e y ? end have on _, 6ti sc eore vilege, so that the anomalous di s tinction is cresleu' h i s ter is gto which soldier may receive letters front u r eed i t tives but cannot answer them. In referring to 'f in England it is observed, that a reform in FlaTais4scis much less hazardous, since the p rese nt average r s ' - nr rat i f and the reduction claimed would only be to 2 0 ` .. ,',.;011,,5; less than half. The Belgian Government is e . .." - e en cupied with the considepatton of a similar reforw' 60 - French journals urge their Government to lose 13 ° foreien nations nay outstrip them. , NEW NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR O; MAINE."—The forthcoming novel by fris writer is sail to busy itself wil l scenes and evel e rsta ll i exci e towares it a great curiosity. W e ' c ° ,, r etsrL, g that in de;alit g the sin ular and v ' a 4 earcp' political aspira n t, f ro m bits umb!e prsv.ate ge: ng s ship t, his height cf wer and influence ;it b r d - ntig e ; tea let mtquai:ited with many of the Litiverto ;era • '. tlu ihm e hi t a t i oemel half pe e ct t mes s ornsarto c ntl f ty:rais p ls.p c aor l ner t drt : re e va ti mi I tbs a tgr thati g theu will for which t.. e'ebrated, will be found l e )0 iitnicoaeirsstaatnird e f t too, thathicb itobtrwsreistlie'er w ise g a love story fraught w absorbing inteler. p a t n ,l d bi te c i c l a b lt a culaecbre. rditrepeslcsoocin:t:liee Jo, to Obi THE HEROES OF SYRIA. The AUStriAcoir,", server states that tho Emperor has Conferred 03 or der v i S.r R. Stopford the cross of Commander of the tha t - Marisa Theresa , and on C ommo d ore Sir C. Na", t er i l Knight of the same Ord er . T o CaptAio t he Or- Imperial MAjesty ha; given the cross of:Koji / J ill °- der of Leopold. 800 Vo. ------_—._ 2 ; ~.eoe REGISTER STOVES, 3 . It.: Wi o ',, l- , 4 i- 3 :er 'fe , Poles for Window Curtains, Is. 3d. per foot; 'R e f', r ,t 't , 1 8 iwos cl i . at . hs3. p db : . r r i rbg erhi fronts,ar n ts c fs h o o e e l 312 bright ift o i e r s r t . 2 v., af S 4d. per , r e g i i ' saw' e t l' '. inches long, w . it ratis, curtains, li 1! l e 3 'c m . d'bl ive - . ) it e ru r r ‘ sn r i s nt , oskl,: b i l .ds li i‘e z • w e l l C ri - , /1 .. ° : 1 il ' ,''e et. tb e6 ' . . s, Is. Id. ; a 2 IRc h Pa t f l : 4 7 0 a, rings, and 13-aekets, C O , arntaining tbs . pried , 01 evert, t. Catalog ironmongery. , tre e RIPPON and BURTON, W 11 - treet, Osfe-r a ° ..--- '''''""m"'""`"'""`"='e... - •••,............. e . 5 ............_.... , -- - - - --- On the 27th ult., Mrs. B A plac e ' Clad n ha t m he -r 3 o d ad in , s o t f ., a a so t n N . ei :7 l : s ov, of 0 0 11 or s " .„ tom c E o l tAo m e:t e E a ct h shoge o en ; : t itotn , :f g o ai tin f oil en:::: J. We' 2'l' hill, of a daughte a r t. . 7nal St. PalluTlll7:uels _, I rar , a as t tl s e Aft ,.H .t u iv n t.k t ,:e s. e , , tl'ie ladS °f John A Ilei' to D iic O ikt ins Dickson, s econd i 1 • second daughter of D. ;1 : C : 1: an ; t re,llE's?-1:71:11::'''PC11:1:Ce' Cu t ' Finsb - ary. W. E" rof 4th inst., at St. James's, Nrestm:inster, daughte 3 1 . 191 : , F..sq., of Barnstaple, Devon, t 0 Eliza, elder t Lao' Vaughan, Esq., of Lloyd-square., Pentoriville. _ t _ . G• ter On the 4th inst., at St. James's, Westminster, 1711aughter man, of Duke-street, St. James's, to Juliann a ' Trenham Old, Esq., of Balham- 'rill, Sun' er ,•terr''' DA. ED. il• 0 -• On the 3d instant, at his residence Clar e t l6 Pentonville, Mr. Thomas John Smith, a,.;, , ,d 49 • f a 10: . ,i1e Drowned, on the Ist July last, by the uf lettia,g ° o wl, I ), z e the Kaipara ltiver,_ta the west coast of 1 se's' A t e .ihe r pv' ois s the ship " Anna Watson" lay there wind-b ° undo. ~ qbe ..ty .. from Sydney to the Bay of Islands, the l' eNthe livi M‘liitchie, late minister of Clunie, Perth shire, ii,' z er, sixth year of his age. ,1. , Be On the 2d inst., at Chester-place. Y.ennington:..„, .....100., Esq., late . cf h-r Majesty's Customs, London, aged i t! o ` s ol , r On the 26th nit ,in the Commercial-mad, Ant u '' d e r Esq., aged 91. k Al ' el ! 03 On the 9th ult., at Rearquha*, parish of Dornoc-9 en ti) Sutherland, who was born it-., 172•,, and consequ ..' u .tt, attained the patriarchal age of 119. , j. Gold lOs'h On the 15th of January, at Demerara, lb , o f t he youngest son of Captain Hupin Goldicutt, formerly ~ Rifles, aged 16. On the :3cl inst., at Upper Holloway, Kr. ' l * On the 3d inst., at B=. T. Ritt;Z:4,g.,...r a g ........--... 2 _ .7011P''''' jo London: Printed and Published by MURDO I goa d No. 112, Strand, at The San Office, Nn• 112 ' 6 ,1 E naed elh e a i r . t. the eernty of Middlesex.—Satureay, Mare 11 1