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L.l t 5:5•4 Cstun .. _ wide' ri slu, rg?O , '' e Stu 50 sly; r the ll ' lin. ,‘ t wb ic ; takc' , their nort4 nee of lilver 10 RN ING EDI TION• IMPORT, STOCKS, AND CON- SUMPTION OF COTTON. From the Annual Circular of the Liverpool United Brokers.) LIVERPOOL, DEc. 31, 181 O.—There has seldom been a period during which the movements of the cotton trade have been so much in unison with general expec tation as the year just terminated. A state of depres sion so intense and wide-spreading as to be mistaken by some for the first symptoms of the decline and fell Of this branch of national industry, had been succeeded by a slow but progressive amendment ; and for several weeks before the commencement of the new year, almost Avery department of the cotton manufacture had resumed Its wonted activity. The stocks in the ports and the in terior, if not very heavy, were still ample in the face of comin g crop, which, according to all reports from the United States, gave promise of being most abundant ; Prices were moderate, compared with what they had b een ; and m one y, th o ugh not wanting for all the legi timate purposes of business, was neither thee, nor likely to so cheap as to invite extravagant speculation, or to provok e excessive production. Such being the posture of affairs in the month of December, 1839, it required no gift of prophecy to Predict that the approaching year would be one of great plenty, :ow prices, large consumption, and small Profits. If these results were pretty accurately fore seen, so have the incidents of the year been few and u ninteresting. The co.nmercial operations in cotton have, in fact been permitted to flow in their natural channel. The functions of the private trader have clued to be invaded and usurped by the American Banks ; and, the intercourse between the two countries being freed from this pernicious interference, prices on . both sides of the water have found their proper level, to the manifest advantage atr.l security of the planter, shipper, importer, and consumer. But the grand event of the year is the marvellous increase in the growth of cotton in the United States. In order to exhibit this important fact in its true mag nitude and proporti ons , it is necessary to take a retro spective glance at the question of crops for several years past. Beginning, then, with the y. at 1830, it will be seen that the crop of . 1830.31 was 1,038,848 bales. Increase 61 per cent. 1831 32 987,477 Decrease 5 1832.33 1,070,438 Increase 8} ' 833.34 1,205,394 1 834-35 1,254,328 4 1835_36 1,360,725 81 1 836-37 1,422,930 4. 18 37-39 1,801,497 261 1838 -39 1,360,532 Decrease 24 1 :40 2,177,835 Increase 60 In examining this statement, the eye will at once rest Upon the sudden and extraordinary increase in the crop 0 1837-38, and again, with au interval of a year only, in that of 1839-40, which contrasts strongly with the eagy and pretty equal stages by which the production had be e n a d vanc i ng f or t h e seve n preceding years. v i causee, or a combination of them, may be assigned for these remarkable results—an improved mode of cul ture, an extension of the cultivation, not only in the old districts, but into latitudes less exposed to frosts and to variable seasons, and chiefly (especially with reference to the last crop) the coincidence of a most favourable Inflamer, with an unprecedentedly open winter. But the filet itself, however brought about, is full of interest to the cotton trade, as it is destined probably to work important changes, and at no very distant period. T he new year had scarcely commenced before the apprehensions of an overwhelming import were mani• fested in a very general desire to realize existing prices ; and, by the last week in January, fair qualities of Ame rican had fallen id. per lb. N o change beyond an oc casional fluctuation of per lb. occurred until the be ginning of June, when prices experienced a further re duction of V. per la. making the deline Id. per lb. since the first week of the year. This was the lowest point of the market ; and it, is a cireurnstance worthy of notice, t hat, with an import almost unexampled in amount, with an average stock of 470,000 bales, and with money never eneap, and at times exorbitantly dear, fair Up lands should not have varied more than 1 1(1. to per lb. for the six months between June and November. Steady rather than extensive buying was the charac teristic of the market during this period. The trade as a body —some from not seeing any adequate induce ment to hold stock, end not a few from a necessity im posed upon them by the state of commercial credit— took little more than they required for their immediate wants. The business en speculation, though crippled from the latter cause, was by no means inconsiderable ; ibtudt,isithough spread pretty equally throughout the year, not assum e a very decided character till towards the middle of August, when the fate of the harvest was auppoled t o b e no longer doubtful. The market, ho ever, after a week or two , relap sed into its former apathy and wh a t w i t k the strin ' i t ie le nt p measures of the ha nk for curtailing discounts, and • threatening aspect o f poU tical affairs, it was as tom perhaps in point of feeling in the latter end of October and the beginning of Novem ber as at any period of the year. From th at t i me there has been a growing impression that prices had seen their lowest ; and the improvement which had been gradually taking place in the manufac turing business seemed to point to the probability and the re asonableness of sonic advance. Coming upon a market th us predisposed, it was to be expected that any accounts in the slightest degree unfavourable to the prospect of the crop would be eagerly pressed into the service. The reports accordingly received a fortnight a g° of frosts in some districts, and unpropitious wea ther in others, by which the picking had been prematurely suspended, had not been without their effect ; and though the i.ijury is not pretended to be to an extent to awaken any serious apprehensions for the safety of the crop, yet, coupled with other advices of a similar tendency, they g o far to negative the pos sibility of wh a t t h e holders hal the most reason to dread_the recurrence of another crop such as that of last year. Be this as it may, the market bus since worn a mote cheerful aspect, and both speculators and the t ra d e have purchased with more avidity than for months past, at a gradual advance of about Fl per lb., since the movement began in the second week in December ; thus placing the prices of American cot ttoh.ne omnidtahlngeila, and last day of the ear within id. per lb. fur id, per lb. for the better qualities, ~ 1 what th ey were on the first. Surats, which from the large quantity imported have played a more im portant part than usual, have partaken of the same fluc tuations as American, and bear the same relative price a t th e clos e as at the commencement of the year. or all d escr i pt i ons of long-stapled cotton this has been a year o f muc h di sappointment. Fair Sae Islands !bide o p ened at 22d. per lb. before the end of January, tell to 16d. per lb., and by the middle of the following month to 1311. per lb. ; in a few weeks they rallied Again to 14+1. per ib., and vibrated between that price and 15id per lb. for the remainder of the year. Egyptians iu the first two months experienced a reduc tion of 2d. per lb., of which they recovered Id in the cours e of the two next ; and during the last three months they have gained another id. per lb. Brazils con tinued at a decline of a Ad. per lb. for several months, and finally settled down in October at the lowest point, trove which they have never moved ; .'eratims and I3altias being in. per lb., and Maranhains lid• per lb. below what they were at the beginning of the year. Prom first to lust, the demand for these des criptions has been extremely languid, owing to the hurl- VA wants of the spinners of the finer numbers of yarn. The stocks on had are consequently disproportioned to the consumption, though the supply has been nether less thee, more than it was the previous year. For the details of stocks and imports, reference is requested to annexed tables. The import from the United states into the kingdom exceeds that of last year by 4 0 0,7 0 3 bales ; that of Surats is also larger by ) 83.819 bales, owing partly to an abundant crop, and Partly to the interrupt:on of the intercourse between India and China, %,‘ filch has been the means of divert ing a portion of the coten destined for the latter to this country. The growth of the Brazils appears to be on the decline, the supplies thence having been di minishing for sonic years. Prom Egypt the import has been the same v ithin three or four thousand bales in excess of last year's. The stock of all kinds in the Ports amounts to 464,100 hales, being an increase upon the stock s held at the corresponding period of last year of 198,610 bates. 'file deliveries to the trade, ac eording to the usual mode of ascertaining them, have ,beet i from Livervol, London, and Glasgow, 1,285,598 'bales, or at the rate of 24,921 bales per week, which psantity may be taken to represent also the consump tion, supposing the stocks in the interior to be the sam e as At this time last year. This latter is a point alweys difficult of pro,f ; but, from the known in ability of roany of the spinners to hold stock, and from general it.quiries, this may be assumed in the uffirnia ti''e ; but, Annitti:; ; ; that sonic 30,000 bales more, l'ecutding to the opinion of many, the difference, in del'in g e.ith such large quantities cannot materially affect tile result. This increase in the consumption of 3,015 I),de s per week, or 14 per cent. upon last year's, it the more retnarkabla as having beta accomplished without addition, i r any corresponding degree, of new mills or new machinery. 'l'h2 narrow margin left for profit has i•kel to the ird.roduction of more expeditious processes, whil st the cheapness of the raw material .has offered ev ery eireatt,c::genient for the production of a more sub 'tallaril f, brie, The demand, indeed, has been chiefly fo r low titiosbere of yarn and fur heavy goods, which fo r the !nit f, w months at least, have found a ready inerleet et Lome and abroad. The stocks of goods are L 'lii-Aed to be 1,.‘0r0 considerable than those of yarn ; t/w export of the latter having been, according to " Burn's C.tnimerci:al Gk; ncei" greater by about 83 Per Clint. during tire first nine months this year than foil 1.15 corresponding periodi,:sf. In goods, the export, a,. 10en by the same publication,lia . : , been less ; but owing to the variety in the denorniatr•ions, the comparison it P°Mt of weight cannot so readily he made. With respect to the future, upon which some opiniot: on tl:is annual occasion is expected, the issue of th, list crop hr.s involved the' subject in greatett difEcult • 111 91 usurt',. So long as the growth of cotton in Ame riei proceeded with the steady march which cherae. teriSed it for several years prior to 1837, a period dur' ing which the rate of increase was seldom less than 4 per cent. or more than 8 per cent. per annum, the supply might be regarded, if not as a fixed quantity, at least as vibrating between such narrow limits as rendered it not likely, singly considered, to t ffect any great or permanent revolution in the st aulard of prices. But what has been the experience of the last three years? The first gave a crop exceeding by no less than 261 per cent. that of the year before, which, ho it observed, was larger by five per cent. than any former one ; the second, though visited by a long drought, which materially injured the plant, produced a full average of the four previous years, omitting the large crop of the preceding year ; and the third yielded an increase of 21 per cent., not upon the failing crop which it followed, but upon that of the year but one before, which, it must be remembered, was larger by 261 per cent. than any upon record up to that time, thus showing an increase in the last crop of 53 per cent. upon that of the year 1836-37. From whatever cause arising (arid some, at least, of those mentioned in a former part as the most probable ones will not be considered to be purely accidental), these results cannot but tend to throat an uncertainty around all calculations founded on supply. and to unsettle the received notions as to what are high or low prices ; for, although it be true, that the consump tion has been able to cope with an import greater, into the kingdom, than last year's, by 484,000 bales, with out either an extraordinary depression of price or an inconvenient accumulation of stock, it must not be forgotten that the crop now under discussion cams upan the heels of one as deficient as the other was superabundant. To put a case more nearly parallel with the circumstances of the current year, it should be asked—what would have been the state of things at the present moment but for the casualty which befel the crop of 1837.38? It is difficult to resist the be lief, that the stocks on hand would have been larger, and the prices lo.vcr ; and if the forthcoming crop is not to fall short of 1,800,000 bales (which is admitted, in spite of all untoward events), the conclusion would seem to be as inevitable, that prices cannot, ou the average, much exceed, if at all, those of this year. Some allowance must, no doubt, be made for a rea sonable increase in the wants of all the cotton•con <nafm, ___ing countries ; but, on the other band, let it be kept steadily view, that Cee, first condition of that increase is a low price. Attempts to reduce to figures quantities so liable to disturbing causes are usually attended with but little success the following state ment, however, is submitted as a mere approximation, to bo taken for what it is worth. On the last occa sion of a crop of 1,800,000 bales, in 1838, din, coun try received 1,123,000 bales. The continent, as well as America herself, will require a I..rger supply than at the period alluded to ; but both have considerably anticipated these additional wants by the larger por tion they have either retained or imported of the late crop. The imports, indeed, of American cotton, into the diferent ports of the continent, have been more than double what they were last year, viz., 629 000 bales against 276,000 bales. Great Britain may then fairly claim 1,050,000 bales. To this add the import from all other quarters, estimated to be the same as this year, say And the stock now on hand in Liverpool, Landon, and Glasgow 464,100 1,878,100 Deducting what may be taken fur exportation Gives a total for the service of the car of 1,759,100 Now, allowing a weekly delivery of 25,500 bales, which s surely ample, the stock, on these data, this time next year, will be 433,100 bales ; a quantity large enough to allay all fears of anything bordering on a . deficiency, and to ensure moderate prices. The precise limits of the latter will be determined by public opinion, acted upon as it will be, not always according to sound reason, by the passing events of the day, by the prospects of peace or war, by the price of food, by the scarcity or abundance of money, real or artificial, and by many other considerations, often swelled on the impulse of the moment into undue importance. 'faking an enlarged, or as it may be termed, a na tional view of the subject, the greatest calamity that could 1)42E11 the cotton trade would be a return to high prices. If it is to maintain its supremacy, if it is to continue not only to extend the occupation of territory exclusively its own, but to encroach upon that of the kindred staples of silk, flax, and wool, it must rest on the broad and secure base of large stocks and low prices of the raw material ; else the skill, the enterprise, and the industry of our manufacturers will be defrauded of :heir just reward, and their labour will be in vain. The total import of Cotton Wool into Liverpool in :he yrar 1840, as compared with the years 1838 and 1839, was in 1838, 1,328,604 ; 1839, 1,016,510 ; 1840, 1,414,726. Total Imports, Export, and Stock cf Cotton for the King done, 3161. December, 1838, 1839, and 1840. IMPORT. Liverpool. London. Glasgow. Total. Total, 1840... 1,416,266 94,706 89,436 1,600,403 Total, 1839... 1,019,387 54,079 42.910 1,116,376 Total, 1838... 1,328,647 43,570 56,560 1,428,777 EXPORT. 1ota!, 1810... 62,200 53,800 200 1 16,200 Total, 1839... 78 . 950 34,100 250 113,300 Total, 1838... (10,500 40,900 970 102,370 STOCK. Total, 1849... 366,140 50,660 47,250 464,050 Total, 1839... 206,050 31,640 27,800 265,490 Total, 1838... 248 340 46,450 26,300 321,090 Stock of Cotton in Great Britain at the Close of the Years 1837 to 1840 inclusive. 1837 183 V 1839 1840 Total Stock... 259,340 321,090 265,490 464,050 Average Deliveries per Week from the Ports of Great Britain, for Home Consumption. 1837. 1838. 1839. 1840. 20,785 24,201 20.360 24,724 Growth and Consumption of Cotton in the United States, from the Year 1836 to 1840. Year!. Growth. Consumption. 1836-7 1837 8 1838-9 1839-40 2,177,835 291,279 C URCIP.RATES.--We understand that Mr. Dgniel Palfrey of this town bas at length been served the with a " citation," as it is termed, to " compeer" before the Arches Court at Canterbury, at the instance of Wm. Still and Joseph Bonn, Churchwardetis of St. Mary's parish, in a cause of, subtraction of Church-rates ; that is to show cause shy s he disputes the legality of the rates made by these persons, on a day afterwards to be fixed. As we lesrn Mr. Palfrey has made arrangements for entering on his defence, and is fully determined to resist to the utmost this i,iquituus impost. When the Churchwardens were , - 'eft ated before the Magistrates, in this very - gams case that they are tiaw about to take to the Arches Court, Mr. Kennett, the Magi2trate's clerk, told Mr. Gravener the parish clerk, that it was his opinion that if the caw were carried to the Eccle3iastical Court it would not share a better !ate. But, regardless of every warning, and of all consequences, we shculd nut wonder if these headstrong ignorant men plunge the parishioners into another load of useless law costs, similar to that with which one of them, Mr. Still, has bee,' instrumental in saddling the commu nity in the notorkus Mandamus affair. —Dover Chronicle. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—O❑ occasion of the funeral of General Lamarque, when the streets of Penis wer., strewed with dead and wounded to the amount of hun- dreds, and 1,500 criminals were consigned to its gaols, a singular occurrence took place. Toe detail of the ar rangements made to meet this anticipated movement, and to heal its consequences, and even the sanguinary and re volting particulars of the terrible march itself, would have little interest for our readers, fresh as its melancholy inci dents must be in their recollection. But it is a curious circumstance, not, we think, generally known, that among the wild schemes of that guilty day, one had been forakd to throw the illustrious Lafayette into the river, as the pro cession passed the Pont d'Austcrlitz, for the purpose of at tributing his murder to the police, and inflaming the pas sions of the multitude up to the point which would have insured the sacking of Paris. Such are the fearful stakes with which the political gamblers of France have played of late years. The General appears to have owed his escape to the maJ accident of another party of the insurgents, ignorant of the plot, having forced him into a fiacre, and carried him elf to the Hotel de Ville, to proclaim a repub lic, at the very moment and from the very scene of its in tended execution. It is an honourable fact, that, in spite of the terrible provocation, the blood which flowed on this occasion received no accession from the scaffold—a fact worth recalling here, because in the same spirit which, during the whole of the present troubled reign. has, in a remarkable degree, tempered the administration of a neces sary justice.— eltheiurum. DREADFUL FIRE—FOUR LIVES LOST.— On Saturday afternoon intelligence was received at the various insurance offices of the metropolis, of a most de structive fire, attended, we regret to say, with lament able sacrifice of human life, which took place on the even ing of Wednesday last at Huddersfield. It brckc out in the extensive mills belonging to Messrs. Roberts and Co., situated adjacent to the town. From the account received it appeared that it was discovered at about twenty mi nutcs to eight o'clock, and although the fire-engines belonging to the town were soon on the spot, and plenty of water obtained, the fire could not he stopped, and within two hours the splendid premises were burned to the ground. About seven o'cl.,ck on the following morning, the gable ml of the wall of the mill gave way, and fell with a tremendous crash on a small cottage beneath. The cottage was occupied by the engineer of the mills, and his wife and family, consisting of five chilli - en. They un fortunately were in the place at the time, and were a I buried in the ruins. A number of labourers were in. ,tantly yet to w ork to dig them out. The engineer, whose name was Grang, his wife, and, two children, were dug out dead, and the other children were dragged out alive, but so dreadfully injured, that their lives are despaired of. The fire commence d in the third floor of the mills, but ihe cause is unknown. The loss it 16,0001. DESTRUCTION OF A STEAMER BY FIRE.-- The following is an extract of a letter dated Corunna, December 21 ;—" The steam-packet Clyde, Captain Guthrie, bound from Neu castle for Gibraltar and Mar seilles, put in here (Coltman) on Saturday, the 19:11 lest., Ind soon after took fire, She was immediately put or. bore Rod scuttled, but the afterpart of the vessel was burnt down to the water's edge. No lives were hat. A WIIITE BLACKBIRD.---Last week Mr. R. [ Smart, of . Melton Mowbray, shot a perfectly white black bird at Long Clawson. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1841. DEATH OF A FORTUNE TELLER. A coroner's inquest was held at the London Ale [louse, in St. Mary Arches -street, before J. Warren, Esq., Coroner, on the body of a woman named Sarah (iribble, who had been found ded in her bed on Satur day afternoon. The deceased was well known as a celebrated teller of fortunes. This must be our excuse for trespassing upon our readers with some brief account of her manner of living. She occupied a tenement in a hack court in St. Mary Arches-street, consisting of two rooms on the smallest conceivable dimensions, ene on the ground floor and the other immediately over. The former of these was little better than a cold dark cell, as miserable and comfortless as can well be ima deed ; and it was here that the numerous visitors who carne to seek for information of the good or evil things in store for them were compelled to wait until the prophetess was at leisure to attend to them room above stairs was that in which the de ceased ate and slept, and in which she war accustomed to deliver her oracles ; and here, in fact, the whole of her time has been spent for several years past. To convey anything like an accurate idea of the scene ts i►ich presented itself on entering this apartm , nt would be altogether impossible ; it was a scene, indeed, of filth and wretchedness, which, altogether, defies descrip- tion. In one corner of the room a space was path. tioned off by a couple of deal planks, which served this singular being for a bed, and here, with nothing but a heap of filthy rags between her and the floor, and with a miserable covering of the same description, she was, accustomed to pass nearly every moment of her time. Clothes, or linen upon her person, she had r.one, if we except an old pair of stays, which she wore next her sk'n, and a piece of coarse fustian cloth, w‘tich was tied round her waist. A dirty _brown handkerchief was thrown :over her shoulders, and tied in a knot upon her breast, and her head was covered with a cap ;which she had never been known to change during the time she had resded in the house. She wore neither shoes nor stockings, but dressed (if we may use the term) as we above described, she used to sit continually in the place which we hate called her bed, remaining constantly in the same position, with (as one of the witnesses stated) " her nose and knees toge . .ltex." •In her bedplace were found after her death a great qthntity articles of food, which appeared to have accumulated for some time, and which there is much reason to fear bad been pur loined by servant girls, who probably found it more con venient to satisfy their curiosity at their masters' ex expense than at their own. There was heaped together is one heterogeneous mass potatoes, turnips, and vege tables of all kinds, fruit, butter, bacon, dripping, and a variety of other articles of a similar description, which the deceased was never known to have pur chased, and the possession of which by her can only be accounted for in the way we have described. The only articles of furniture which we ob served were two deal chairs, a small table, a tea kettle, and some trifling vessels of earthenware. There were heaps of rags and dirt covering the whole of the apartment, and upon the mantelpiece a bottle which had contained rum. The window was corn- pletely covered with cobwebs, and the odour exhaled from so much filth was, as may well be believed, intol lerahle. Oae thing struck us as curious ; it was an old tin candlestick with a deep bottom, which was en tirely filed with tho " snuffs" of candles, piled up so as completely to hide the tube in which the candle should have been placed. There was a fire•place in the room, but she bad never been known to have a fire in it, and her kettle was boiled for her by a neighbour who was paid seven pence a week for her trouble. About the loom were scattered several packs of ea rds, in which she pretended to read the talcs with which she used to gull the simple fair ones who resorted to her dweiling.The room was never cleaned, and she her self bad never washed her skin while she had resided in the house. And' yet, wretched as was her abode, Sall) Gribble had numerous visitors, many from among the more respectable classes of society ; and on a market day especially, her ante-room was thronged with cus tomers, anxious to obtain admittance. She always pre tended the greatest poverty, although, as will be seen, a large quantity of money was found in her apartment, and the necessaries of life were evidently supplied to her in abundance. The Jury having heard evidence, returned a verdict of—Nitural death. _ While the old woman Eyed, she was not known to have a relative in the world, but immediately on her death, and the discovery of the money (941.) becoming known, more than one person was found to claim kindred with her. The deceased was about sixty years of age, with large masculine features.—Western Luminary. RAILWAY TRAIN IN A SNOW STORM. The following lively eccount of a railway•passenger's altentures between New York and Philadelphia is taken from an American paper just received. It is the more isteresting as, it describes a scene which, we be lieve, no one has yet had an opportunity of witnessing in this country : The snow-storm which commenced on Friday even►ng and endured until Sunday night, accompanied all the while with a fierce north-east wind, will be long remembered by those who were travelling on Saturday netween New York and Philadelphia. As the night closed in, the storm increased ; nevertheless, the dis tance between Camden and Bordeutown was run over in reasonable time, considering the obstructions of the snow drifts ; but when the road between I3ordentown and Trenton, which is a side-cut along the canal, and laid with flat bars, came to be passed over, our troubles began. In anticipation thereof, we were provided with two engines —one to draw and the other to push. " Soon the engines began to labour—now dashing ith irresistible impetus through snow banks, and than the wheels flying round without adhesion, owing to the slipperiness of the rails—And ever and anon the strug gling giant that yet urged us onward would seem by his deep drawn sighs to intimate that his powers were elmost exhausted. Still we advanced gaily—for there is excitement in difficulty—and though proceeding slowly we yet believed we should get through. But suddenly, while under great headway, we felt a sharp check, which seemed, by the straining efforts of our fire steeds, to be formidable indeed ; they laboured strenuously, but with perceptibly-decreasing effect, till, after one long convul sive breathing, all became still. We then found our selves deeply imbedded in a snow-drift, and what was not less uofavourable, we soon perceived a-head of us, and also brought up in a snow-bank, the mail train from New York. It was then about twelve o'clock. Our only course now was, as there was no turn out, to endeavour to get the train back to Barden town, and accordingly all hands and the engines were at work to fire up and retrace our steps. But alas ! going back was us much cut of the question as going for ward. We were stuck fast, and vain were the attempts of the locomotives to stir us from the spot. After a brief consultation, the engine in the rear was detached, and ordered back to Borden-town, to bring up rein .... foreements. The interim of some two hours was no' without its incidents or alternations of hope and disap pointment, moodiness and merriment. " While this was going on with our train, that from N e w York, from which we now begun to hear, was cot idle. In the first place, the train was separated, and the ladies' car, with one other, were dropped, and the engine with the baggage trucks and forward car tried to get on. It advanced nearly a mile, and within a few hundred yards of ours, when the engine gave out. Some of the passengers came through the snow—no little undertaking, for it drifted iu sums spots leg-deep—to our cars, and gave us the first tidings that the bulks' car, in which were some twenty ladies and children, was left a mile behind. This redoubled the anxiety or all for the arrival of the en gines from 13Jrdentown, and at last their distant fires were seen, one, two, three, and, with such a force, de liverance seemed at hand. Still their slow approach indicated increased difficulties in forcing their way. 'rite wind and snow were fiercely raging, and doubts of the probability of extricating all the cars began to circulate. Finally the nearest c ar wa s reached, two engines were attached ahead, an d with the aid of that which had brought repeated checks, we were re-conveyed t o B or . d eafter n to wn , which was reached about three o'clo c k. us on, and now aided to push us back, slowly, and " The engines w ere all then sent back to bring it the Now York train, but the increasing violence o'. the indwi'ieh whirled th e snow i n edd i es on the road, rendered all efforts useless, and ono by one tha t the passengers of try engines gave out withou t reaching the cars, and Woe frozen-up on the track. The men succeeded in s crambling back, exhausted, and alm os t p er i s h e d with cold, c k to then, about half-peat four o whole New Yo rk train, ex cept the few who had suc ceeded in reaching the Philad elphia train, would be left till morning in the cars. T i, i t t h b e ee t a o n w l n e . certain Thus, It was a vain effort to obtain sleighs, or any other mode of reaching them ; the canal on one side, and morassy field s on the other side of the road, precluded approach in the night, and the drifts on the roads itself rendered a passage of sleighs ori it impracticable —the only consolation was that of knowine there was fuel e nough to keep up good fires. " Sunday rnwuiug came in _ dull, dreary, and beis terote#be st.ow and Kind still prevailing. All the force tuat could be mustered was early at work with snow-plough,' and scrapers, and spades-men, to extri cate engines and cars frozen up ; but as their progress was s'ow some of the passengers determined to approach the ladies' car as near as they could with sleighs, and taking with them hot coffee and hot milk tor the chil dren, with wine and various eatables, they started, but it was m id -day before any tidings were had of them. Meantime, through great difficulties, and one by one, the engines left on the road the night before were brought back. a bo ut one o'clock we were cheered by the return of the s leighs, having the women and children, who thus after 20 hours passed in the cars, were baouglit to the hotel in safety, and without having suXered much. The only ,mode of reaching the cars where they were was by Pun through the fields." Ri-,T.iOSPECT OF COLONIAL PROGRESS. (From the Colonial Gazette.) 1. The new Constitution of Canada is dated 1840. The Act for the Union of tha two Canadas seems to have already produced the main result which its framers had in view- —the separate nationality of French Canada is no more ; the war of races is over. When Canada shall enjoy popular government, it will be impossible to withhold from many other colonies that only means of preventing discontent and constant animosity between the colonists and the officials. The tendency of recent events in Canada is favourable to the whole colonial empire of Britain. It seems hardly too sanguine to in dulge a hope that England may ere long return to her ancient system of colonial government, under which the local affairs of every British settlement were left to the management of the settlers. If this prospect should be realised, 1840 will be deemed the most important epoch in our col snial history. 2. The departing year has witnessed a sudden end most satisfactory change of opinion in the West Indies. The colonists have made two great discoveries ; first, that immigration is the one thing needful to avert their ruin and establish their prosperity on a solid basis ; secon•ily, that in order to obtain immigration on a suffi cient scale, it is indispensable to render the colonies attractive to the people of the African race. Hence a zealous rivalry among these colonies, both in the pursuit of immigration projects and in asserting the principle of complete social equality for all colours of the skin. 'lire entire press of the West Indies has been recently occupied with these two subjects. Every arrival brings new evidence of the spread both of sound notions with respect to the economy of the West Indies, and of a sentiment of justice and kindness towards the negro. Tt►e whole of this change—may we not rather call it a revolution ?—has taken place within a twelvemonth. It has had effects here, the importance of which wiil soon be manifest. We arc assured that a considerable number of those who have been the erring leaders of the West India body in this country now declare their readiness to assist in " forming out of the ruins of sla very in the West Indies a free nation of the African blood." The- West Indian cry of " Freedom in all things" finds an echo - on this side the Atlantic, even from thoe, whose second nature was attachment to slavery ain't monopoly. We are told that some overt act expressive of these new opinions may he shortly expected. Mean while the home Government has performed one which should encourage the West Indians in their present course. Lord John Russell has authorised the colony of Trinidad to set on foot a measure of immigration from Sierra Leone. In order to set the fashion of African emigration to the West Indies, no expense should be spared at first ; no excess of males should obtain a free passage ; and every emigrant of either sex should be secured in the right to obtain at pleasure a free passage . back to Africa. Without such precautions, there is much risk that abuses may be practised, and the measure nipped in its bud. With them the com mencement of prosperity with freedom in the West Indies, and of civilization for Africa, may have to date in 1840. 3. Since last July, convict slavery has been abolished. Though the transportation of convicts is still continued, it is under circumstances which promise to put a speedy end to the system. 4. Various are the colonies as to whioh in 1840 the new method of colonization has been more completely applied. In this year the plan of a uniform price for public lands, instead of auction with an upset price, has been adopted for Port Philip, Van Diemen's Land, Western Australia, and New Zealand. By the last accounts from Sydney, it appears that the colonists of New South Wales have all but succeeded in their stre nuous endeavours to convince the local government that the fund derived from the sales of public land ought to be exclusively devoted to immigration; and the principle of this employment of the land fund has been acknowledged by acts :of the home (sovernment with respect to Port Phillip, Wes tern Australia, and New Zealand. Indeed the ap pointment by Lord John Russell of a board of com missioners for the disposal of colonial lands and the su perintendence of emigration, though little good has hitherto resulted from it, and though South Australia has greatly suffered by the change, was by itself on ample recognition of the nwrits of the South Australian system. In a year or two mere, Perhaps, the adminis tration may be got to tally better with the principles to which at length nobody objects. But even then, 1840 will be named as the year of this great and general im provement. 5. South Australia has been deeply injured this year ; in part, as before observed, by the loss of a special au thority charged with its colonization, but still more by the folly of its Governor. Yet we arc inclined to hope es en in this case that good may come, though out of evil, from late events. The instant recal of Colonel Gawler, when his mad expenditure became known here, should be a lesson of soma value to all colonial Governors ; and the appointment of his successor with the warm approbation, we believe, of everybody in England connected with the colony, is likely to prove an important event. Captain Grey is the first Governor, not only of South Australia, but of any colony, conversant with the South Australian plan of colonization and desirous to promote its success'. Referring to his other qualities likewise, we may almost conclude that the inhabitants of South Australia are not the on y colonists who will recollect that his appointment took place in 1840. 6. In 1840, the Western Australian Company was formed, and despatched its first expedition to plant the settlement of Australind. In 1840, the Colonial-office promptly and effectually exerted itself to save a coloniz ing company and prevent the abandonment of a coloni zing project. In 1840, after ten years of stagnation and almost oblivion, Western Australia became a popular emigration-field. 7. In 1840, the colonists of South Africa came to a right sense of the difficulties of their position, and a company was simultaneously formed in London. for the purpose of supplying them with capital and labour. 8. In 1840, " the Britain of the South " became part of our Colonial empire ; its future settlement by emigrants from these islands was subjected to wise re gulation ; and it was declared a separate and independ ent colony. The very history of the people of New Zealand begins in 1840. In this history, two events which occurred in 1840 will have a conspicuous place. They are these :—the Colonial Minister 'of England adopts as a principle of state policy the expe diency of making colonizing companies useful instru ments of the State for the purpose of colonization, and the Church of England seeks to extend herself in colo nies without requiring that any should be taxed for her support ; the Colonial-office finds favour with the tole nial public at home, and the Church of England takes means to render herself popular in the colonies. In each case, New Zealand furnishes as yet only the prin ciple and the example ; but these are so novel and im portant---so sure of bearing good fruit in abundance, thatlthey alone would give a great name to the year 1840 . Wishing on this occasion only to note the year's pro gress in colonial affairs, we purposely abstain from al luding to matters of a less grateful character. But to what, it will be asked, is all this alteration for the better due ? It is owing, we believe, to the progress of colonial knowledge—to the influence of more definite and far more active opinion, as well here as in the colonies, with respect to the colonisation and government of distant settlements. It has not, we think, been occasioned by mere pressure from without upon Downing-street ; for there are, udications that men in power have par ticipated in the general improvement of opinion on colonial questions. Nor in saying this do we detract from the credit that belongs to any individual. Lord John Russell not the less entitled hitnself to be called the best Colonial Minister that England ever saw, by baying in the reforms which ho has accomplished given way to the influence of that public opinion on colonial subjects to which he was recently a stranger. What higher praise could he de sire than the imputation of this motive ? And here, in concluding, we have a duty to perform. It has conic to our knowledge that Mr- Stephen has taken an active and very efficient part in what may almost be termed the new policy of the Colonial-office. Eighteen hundred and forty, has, indeed, been a remarkable year for the colonies. EXCISE INFORMATION.-IMPORTANT CASE _Mr. Benjamin Palmer, of Devizes, some time during the summer months, employed a number of poor per Eons to pick hawthorn leaves; and those leaves, after undergoing a certain process, were about to be forwarded to a Mr. [kale, in London, under whose direction Mr. Palmer acted, when the Exciie officers obtained a warrant, and on the 27th and 28th of July made seizures to the amount or-upwards of 2,000 lbs. weight, and charged Mr. Palmcr with manufacturing the leaves in imitation of tea, con trary to the stet. 17 Gco. 111., c. 29. The case came on to be heard in Devize3 on Friday last before the Magistrates. Mr. Stone, of Bath, appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Smith, of Bristol, appeared for the defendant, and Mr.Wtt tcy, from the office of Mr. Wall, Devizes, acted as attorney. The proceedings did not terminate till Saturday, when the case was brought to a conclusion. The information con -1 tamed various counts, but the substance of the cliart.:e against the defendant was—that on the day mentioned, he bad in his possession 401 b. weight of the leaves of haw tharn ; and that such leaves were manufactured, or under going the process of manufacture, in imitatio of t , a. There were two sections of the Act in question, which had been relied upon, in support of the charge. The. Court were of opinion that the charge had been established under the provision of the first section, and the defendant must be convicted of having 401 b. of hawthorn leaves in his pos session, manufactured in imitation of tea, and that be had thereby incurred the penalty of 2001., which the COurt ad judged him to pay accordingly. Tbe Court were unani mously of opinion that the imitation of tea was essential to a conviction under the Act, and to that pint they confined their attention in the course M inquiry. There was a se cond information ; but upon its being understood that the L defendant would not seek to disturb the judgment on the first, or give the Excise any further trouble in the matter, Mr. Mayew withdrew it. A warrant, with the consent of • the defendant, was then granted for burning the leaves.- - Dorset Chronicle. A PARIS MOB MAD From the Memoirs of Mi Guisquet, Prefect of Police in 1832.) • The cholera was beginning to rage, and already car ried all wore than one hundred persons daily, in the capital. The populace, terrified at the peculiar symp toms of this fearful malady, was inclined to seek a cause for the disease independent of the disease itself ; and there arose a rumour, which spread like lightning through Paris, attributing these terrible effects to poison. The masses, ready for all impressions in moments of excitement, were readily persuaded that the fountains and provisions were so tainted, by men employed for the purpose. Suddenly, whilst, in the further quarters of Paris, the mob were yet breaking and burning the Scavengers' carts, immense assemblages formed on the quays, on the Place de Greve, in the Faubourg Saint- Antoine, in the city, and at various other points. 'Thence, they invaded the streets St. Denis and St. Martin, and the Halles; and never, perhaps, was there seen in P.iris so frightful and numerous a mob,—mad darted by the dread of poison, and rushing in search i the authors of these imaginary crimes. Ever) person seen with battles, phials, or small packets, be came an object of insane suspicion ; and a simple flacon was received as convicting evidence by the delirious mul itude. My agents could not be at all points at oncv, to stem the fury of these innumerable hosts of men, — bare-armed and gaunt-visaged—such as are rarely seen save in moments like these ; and which appeared, on that day, to issue forth, as it were, from beneath the pavement. Willing to judge for myself of the truth of the alarming reports which reached me, I traversed alone, on foot, and with great difficulty, these mighty tuasses of half-clad beings ; and no words can describe their hideous appearance, or do justice to the impres sion of terror conveyed by their fierce and hollow mur murs. Though not easily shaken, yet, for a moment, 1 trembled for the city—for the lit es and properties of its respectable citizens. If the popular frenzy, instead of venting itself in acts of individual atrocity, had been di. rected to objects of plunder and revolution, it is impos sible to say what might have been the extent of the devas tation. No doubt the public authority would have tri umphed iu the end, but only by resorting to means the most energetic, and at the price of melancholy sacrifices. A young roar, employed in the ministry of the Inte rior, a relation of M. Delortne, was massacred in tho Rue St. Denis, on suspicion of having thrown poison imo the vessels of a wine merchant. Another was torn to pieces, on the same pretext, in the Quartier des Hades. A third victim, assassinated on the Place de Greve, was flung, dying, into the river. The mob tore, from the post at the hotel de Ville, whither he had tied for shelter, a wretched man, whom they slaughtered in an instant ; and a person, described to me us being a coal-heaver, actually set his dog to tear to pieces the body of this murdered victim. In the village of Vaugiraal, the populace pursued two men, on whom this suspicion had fallen, and who succeeded in gaining the shelter of the Mayor's house. But the Ma gistrate's abode was violated and invaded, and one of these unfortunates, a commercial traveller, mercilessly slaughtered. A similar scene, to which the sante de nouement appeared certain, occurred in the Fabourg St. Antoine. Two imprudent persons fled, pursued by thousands of men, who accused them of having given a poisoned tart to some children. The victims of this charge concealed themselves within the guard-house ; but it wes instantly surrounded, and the massacre of the fugitives was inevitable, but for a happy inspiration, which induced the Commissary of Police, and a retired officer, who happened to be present, to break between them the tart in question, and eat it, before the eyes of the crowd. Their presence of mind converted the rage of the multitude into mirth, so small a matter suffices, at times, to excite, or allay, the popular rage ! COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. JANUARY I.—Arrived the ship Crescent, John Domaille, from Rio Janeiro to Cowes, for orders ; with coffee. The barque Rhode Island, C. Burgess, from Virginia to Cowes, for orders ; cargo tobacco. The Bremen barque, New York, John Wachton, from New York ; cargo tobacco, oil and rum, for Bremen. Two other Bremen barques coining up. The frost, which has been very severe in the hle of Wight, since the night of the 14th of December, broke up on the evening of the 30th, and has been followed by a fine thaw without rain, which continues, (Jan. 1), the barometer being at 29.80, wind, West. REPAIRS OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH.—For some months past extensive repairs have . been in progress, be h in the circular nave and the choir of this remarkable structure. The admirers of ancient architecture will hear with satisfaction, that not only the substantial reparation, but the decorative portion of the edifice is to be restored with true antiquarian feeling. To give au idea of the proposed restorations, it may be sufficient to observe that the arches of communication between the round church and the choir have been opened, the effect of which is very striking. In the former portion of the building, a circu lar window over the western door-way has been uncovci ed, ,shlch is found to be occupied b; , wheel-formed tracery, in design greatly resembling that at Parfreston, Kent, and helping to fix the date of that curious structure. The marble columns of the church are to be polished, after the removal of the successive washes which have for many ears so greatly injured their appearance. The ancient ,vel of the floor is to be restored, and the choir entirejy fitted up, to correspond with the architecture and age Of the edifice. The organ will be placed hi a separate cham ber built outside the main building, and communicating with the interior by one of the windows of the church, front which the glass has been removed.—Gentleman's Magazine. FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE LONDON DOCK. —On Thursday night, about ten o'clock, the watchman dockman stationed about the picrhead and entrance of the London Dock at Lower Shadwell heard the splash of a man in the water just above the lock-gates, and the cry of " A man overboard" being raised, many persons got upon the top of the gates and others on the quay, when they saw a man struggling in the water, who called out, " For God's sake make haste, far I can't swim." A man preselt immediately put down a long boathook towards the person who was in the lock, but in his trepidation be dropped it, and directly afterwards the poor fellow disap peared, and nearly half an hour elapsed before the body was dragged out of the water, when he was identified as the steward of the ship Caroline, bound to Calcutta, lying in the corner of the entrance basin, not mote than fifty yards from the spot where he fell in. It is believed that the unfortunate deceased was endeavouring to get out of the dock by stinging his body round the sicding - partition overhanging the water, and was perhaps not aware he could have gone out of the dock through the wicket uato on the opposite side of the lock. The body was taken to the deadhouse in Shadwell Churchyard. ADULTERATION OF BUTTER.—Mr. Patrick Black brought under the notice of the Board the extent to which adulterated butter was sold in Glas- gow. Portions of it had been analysed by Pro fo.sor Thomson, who found one-half to consist of the ge nuine article, and the other of oatmeal. But this was not all, said Mr. R., for yellow turnips, baker's soda, and even weaver's dressing, were mixed up with the article for the purpose of imposing on the public. Mr. Black produced a quantity, which he had analysed himself, and only one-half of which appeared to deserve the name of butter; the rest was oatmeal. In the discussion which followed it was stated that many persons were in the habit of selling this butter without being aware of its adul teration. All, or most of it, was Irish butter; and Mr. Burnet stated that there was a regular establishment at Londonderry for the adulteration of it. He would recom mend the Magistrates of Glasgow to correspond with the Mayor of that city on the subject. It was finally resolved to leave the matter in the hands of the Magistrates, with a request that they would apply a remedy to an imposition alike mean and dishonest.—Scots Times. MORE SACRILEGE —A distinguished corres. pondent sends us the following important communication to which we wish to draw the especial attention of our readers t --'• We regret to say that. during the last week, two new attempts at sacrilegious robbery have been made in the central district. One was at Coughton, which was successful, the robbers having broken open the chapel, and carried off several articles of plate. The other was at the Convent of Atherstone, the same place the sacrilege in which gave rise to the blasphemous lampoon published in our last. The villains entered through the same narrow win dow in the porch, breaking down the wail, and removing the stanchions, then broke through the door. Fortunately every thing of value had been removed, and the robbers were still searching, when one of the nuns went into the chapel, to prepare for matins. The wretches fled ; but one of them left his hat behind hint, which, we trust, may lead to their detection. We cannot but suggest the pro le iety cf sub!ctiptions being entered into, for the purpose of offering adequate rewards for the detection of the per petrators of these outrages, as the only means of preventing their repetition. By means of such subscriptions proper police agents might be sent down from London to investi gate into the circumstances of these crimes, now very in efficiently looked after by country constables."—Tablet. BoutmoNE.—Arnongst the passengers who stilled on board the City of Boulogne, on Thursday morning, was Prince George of Cambridge and suite. The vessel, which left in the morning at one o'clock, ar rived safely at London-bridge wharf, in the ettornan, a few minutes after three, after a stormy passage. There arc four packets sail from London to this city every week and they carry altogether on an average eigh4 bursts fot the supply of the French army, which when they arrive are under the direction of the proprietor of the Hotel du Nord. Many of these are Irish horses, and they are sent off, in drafts of about 100, from Boulogne into the inte ' rior. Boulogne is now very thin of English residents, j and trade is represented as very dull. THE HOUSE OF LORDS REBLIKED.—The House of Lords sat till near six upon the business of my Lord Chief Justice and Judge Eyre, who kept to their point not to inform the House, any more than they did the Committee, of the reasons for their judgment in the Earl of Binbury's case, but stood upon it that they were at liberty not to answer in a matter that he charged upon them, nobody being bound to accuse himself, or furnish an accusation to his prejudice. If the judgments they gave showed a weakness in them, it might be a reason to the King for displacing them ; or i f they were guilty of cor ruption there was another way of providing against them ; and if their judgments were disliked, they might be re versed by writ of error. But they could not submit to be schooled and catechised fur all that they delivered upon the bench, where they were entrusted with the execution of the laws and thu dispensing of justice, and acted upon their oaths,—James's Court and Times of William WOOLWICH-FRIDAY THE ARMY. About ten o'clock yesterday morning, the streets of . Green w i c h presente d t h e s i ngu l ar spectac l e o f upwar d s o f 250 men, one or two from each of the line regiments, from the Ist Royals to the 99th inclusive, with the exception of the Highland regiments and the Rifles, and one or two others. The singularity consisted in their various-coloured facings and numb ers , eac h b e i ng att i re d i n t h e costume o f the regiment to which he belonged. They appear to be all young mem who have volunteered to join the regiments about to proceed to the East Indies, and were on their way to Chatham for that purpose. They only left Ireland, where the depots to which they were attached are stationed, on Tuesday, and were conveyed by steam to Euston-square, in the incredible short space of time of less than two days. They appear in excellent health and spirits at the idea of their intended journey to a foreign land. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Fairy surveying vessel liar now been given up as lost, At twelve o'clock yesterday the portion of the crew, consisting of Lieutenant Cudlip and nine men, who hap_ pened to be on board the Violet, tender to the late infor tundte vessel, attended at the Pay-office, in her Majesty's Dock) ard, Wc,olwich, when the crew received the amount due to them to the 31st December. It is now considered certain that the Fairy went down during the late gales, with Captain Hewett and forty-one hands on board, and all perished, leaving none to tell how the circumstance took place. The scene yesterday at the Pay-office was a most melancholy one, as several of the widows of those who kst their lives attended personally to obtain the respective amounts to which their husbands would have been entitled had they been alive. The Lords of the Admiralty, sympathizing with these unfortunate widows, of whom there are upwards of thirty, and 101 fatherless children, ordered that the pay should be calculated to the 31st December. It is gratifying to know that Captain Phipps llornby, the superintendent of the dockyard, has come forward in the most p'aiseworthy manner and originated a subscrip tion for the relief of the widows, many of whom must suffer great privations from the sudden loss of their hus bands and means of support, and there can be no doubt a generous public will cordially second him in the task of aff)rding some degree of consolation to those who have lost their natural protectors, who were employed in the public service fur the benefit of the country, and whose labours may be the means of saving the lives of thousands of our maritime countrymen. The Salamander steam frigate, Commander Ilastiugs Reginald Henry, arrived at Sheerness on Monday. The Lightning steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander J. M. Waugh, left Sheerness on Tuesday, wilt volun teers for her Majesty's vessels at Portsmouth and Plymouth. The Avon steam vessel, Lieutenant Commander R. O. Pritchard, arrived at Chatham on Monday from Ports mouth, with invalid soldiers, and returned on Tuesday to the latter station. The Falmouth, Second Master Everson, arrived at Woolwich yesterday from Plymouth. The Goodwill sailed yesterday for Portsmouth. The Boxer, steam-vessel, Captain Bullock, had a por tion of her wages due to her crew paid yesterday. The balance will be paid on the'r return from leave of absence. The Piuto, steam-vessel, Lieutenant W. S. Blount, will be ready for sea in a few days. The Prince Regent, transport ship, sailed yesterday from Deptford, with the 79th Regiment on boai . d, for Gibraltar. She was towed down the river by a steam vessel, and passed the Royal Arse: al, Woolwich, at about three o'clock, P.M. The Lizard.—Mr. William Stanley, Clerk in Charge, has been promoted to be Purser. ROYAL ARSENAL. The Little Ben, after being detained three days, owing to the quantity of ice on the river, sailed to-day, with the detachment of the Royal Artillery, for Purfleot. The Sir James Kempt, Ordnance sloop, arrived yester day from Portsmouth, with a cargo of large guns and other stores. . The Mary, schooner, arrived to-day with 1,500 ten inch and eight inch shells. The Vigilant, schooner, arrived about the same time, with 60 tons of shells of various sizes. Tne Fanny, brig, arrived to-day with a full cargo of 32 pounder shot, from Messrs Graham and Co. The William, schooner, arrived with a cargo of 12 and 18 pounder shot, from the same contractor, nearly at the same time. A number of arrivals are expected to-morrow, consist ing of vessels loaded with military stores, aff)rding proofs that the supply will be well kept up in the Royal Ar senal, in case the country may be called upon to forward them to various pa:ts of her Majesty's dominions for their protection, or for actual service in other varters of the world. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE• (LLOYDS.) LONDON, JAN. 2.—Wind this day at noon, light airs from N N. \V., and with fine mild clear weather. DEAL, JAN. I.—Wind W. by S., li g ht. —Arrived the Nautilus, Mackweod, Monte Video ; Quebec, Living stone, Dalhousie; Essex, Virginia ; Isabella, Blyth, Mau ritius ; Douglas, Douglas. Montreal ; Endymiou, Wheat leye, Quebec ; Ottawa, Chapman, ditto ; Ontario, Bra dish, New York ; Barbara, Gordon, Quebec. Sailed the Greyhound, Hutchinson, for China ; Circassian, Tatchell, Lima ; Britannia, East, Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL. JAN I.—Wind N. W., f t es h.—A rr i ve d t h e Mary Ann, Webb, from Calcutta ; Hellen Hamilton, Nichol, Maracaibo, sailed, Nov. 1 ; Diadem, Mitchell, Jamaica, sailed NOT. 2 ; Catarique, ; Simpson, ditto ; Mersey, ditto ; Robert Watson, ditto; 'Courier, Montreal ; Margaret, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Ann Rankin, Mirimichi ; Europe, Marshall, New York ; Leopard, New Oilcans ; William Rathbonc, Davis, Bonny ; Commerce, ditto. Off port William, Terceira ; Ann, Hine, from Wicklow to this port, was driven on shore on West Hoyle, 30th ult., crew saved. The J. P. Dobree was to sail from Black River, Jamaica, Nov. 19, for this port. Coin:, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Vistula, from Quebec. DEAL, JAN.l.—Thu Australia, Thompson, of Alloa, being waterlogged, wr.s abandoned in lat. 45, lon. 54 crew saved by the Ottawa, Chapman, arrived in the Downs. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind W. N. W., fresh breezes. —Sailed the George the Fourth, Ward, for Calcutta, and brought up at St. Helens. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. I.—Arrived the Lloyd's, Bland ford, from Quebec. CowEs, JAN. I.—Arrived the Francis Jeffray, Block, from Rio Janeiro ; Crescent, Domaille, Rio Jhneiro ; Rhode Island, Binger, Virginia; New York, Wachter, New York. DOVER, JAN. I.—Arrived the Constitution, Peabody, from New Orleans; British Empire, Seatly, Quebec. BRISTOL, JAN. I,—Arrived the Emanuel, Pearson, front Quebec ; Ann Eliza Jane, Craw, Quebec ; Bolivar, Tay lor, Quebec; Sir F. B. Head, Revely, Quebec; Thomas Worthington, Wakeham, Quebec; Wellington, Mirami chi ; Lovely Sally, Bushell, Newfoundland; Hope, New foundland. GLOUCESTER, JAN. I,—Arrived the William Duke, Pcr riman, from Xabia. CORK, DEC. 30.—Arrived the Lady Turner, Harvey, from Newfoundland. Oft port, Oporto, Spiers, Nassau; Mary Ann Henderson, Ewing, Monte Video. The Ganges, arrived here from Quebec, passed on the 25th instant, a vessel's bowsprit, &c., apparently of a vessel of about 200 tons, painted black, and at the end an iron crane instead of a heart. The Lady Turner, arrived here from New foundland, passed on the 16th instant, in lat. 54, lon. 23, a ship of about 400 tons, lower masts standing, main and mizen topmasts alongside; she had a poop and top-gallant forecastle; there were tents in the tops, and appeared to have been but lately abandoned ; was painted gieen in side, had brass capstan, and mahogany doors, with name and paint outside washed off. SWANSEA, DEC. 31.—Arrived Hortensia, Storey, Cuba. MILFORD, DEC. 31.—Arrived the Pembroke Castle, Stanbury, from Quebec ; Alpha, John, Dalhousie. KINOSToWN, DEC. 31.—Arrived the Dove, Woodburn, from St. John's, New Brunswick. LowesTOFF•E, JAN. I.—The Pioneer, of Cork, has been assisted into this harbour, with loss of bowsprit and bow stove, having been in contact with a laden vessel, off Orforduess. VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—The Exile, from Corunna to Plymouth, with mainsail spli►, lat. 49, lon. 8, by the Arid, arrived at F...linouth. Tyne, London to Honduras, Nov. 10, lat. 17, lon. 68 ; Isaac Newton, Liverpool to New Orleans, 20th, lat. 26, lon. 33; Hope, Quebec to Glou cester, 25th ult., lat. 50, lon. 10, by the Helen, Hamil ton, arrived at Liverpool. Nicholas Biddle, Mobile to Liverpool, 19th ult., Ist. 45, lon. 28, by the Diadem, Mit chell, arrived at Liverpool. Acadia, Liverpool to Halifax and Boston, 9th ult., lat. 50, lon. 21 ; Prince Albert, bound to Cork, 25th ult. ; Emerald, 29th, off Cork, by the Ganges., Blytb, arrived at Cork. Fame, Boston to Smyrna, Oct. 21, lat. 42, lon. 53, by the Euphemia, Cooper, arrived at Newfoundland. Olivia, Oct. 16, lat. 16 N., and Lach, London to Mauritius, by the . Roberis, 1 Elder, arrived at St. Helena. ENIIGRATION TO JAMAICA FROM IRELAND —.The agitation against emigration to Jamaica in the Wil. limn Kerr, has had its eflect. It appears from the Lime rick papers, that a meeting, at which some of the leading inhabitants of Limerick attended, was held a few days ago for the purpose of discouraging their fellow-citizens and countrymen from emigrating to Jamaica. Amongst those present were Sir David Roche, M.P. (who presided); Counsellor Moore, deputation from the Dibernian Anti- Slavery Association ; W. (lowly, Esq., J. P., &c. Christmas-day Mr. Moore, attended by some members 0!' the Society of Friends, visited the different chapels, "ti t denounced the plan of emigration to Jamaica, P- S " atrocious and damnable scheme to entrap the u nwary Irish man." On Saturday Mr. Thomas Steele harangute.dr. ' the peoWe in different parts of the streets, and follow, "d by a great multitude, proceeded to the place ' sl l_ , t ' u n c e .s v h ? s , - sel lay, which all approached as if it vr a e s r s e a b a y P th h e " Mr. Steele beggel of the mob to 1 ship "in dead silence.—an a dvice P LN !deb they strictly followed ; and on Sunday Mr. Steele resumed his a r d u ous task of admonishing for Jam sa a i i l c e vessel , the peo ple against emigr at i on. The Limerick Reporter states that the vessel from the quay:: of' the city yesterday mornin g with about twenty on b oard, the majority of wh om were unfortunate feinale: of bad character, although the num bers engaged a:row:lied to ore: three hundred.—Evening Paper. you know Mr. I::F fa E m ß o E u N s c fo E r .-__c, Do ?„ as k e d one friend of another, referring to an old his fondness for the extract Sir, I know him well." very " What kind of a man is be ?" he n h b y a e n e d r i . n , i , n th t e he m e o v r e n n i i n n g g w w h h e e n n he og g fe go e t n e Al i s it ol u t ep P o n:G b: ‘ d o' sYhnii he is beera .barrelbarrel,‘ o 'rile Duke of Wellington will leave Stratlifield sayc next week, for Apslcy house. A small party of friends are with his Grace, and he will recetre more visitera before coming to town for the season. Tug' Marquis and ;Marchioness of Douro will shortly go on a visit to the Noble Duke. MORN ING EDITION NAVAL iNT'LLIGENCS. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.—The Britant:ia, 120, Capt. Drake (with the flag of Sir J. Ommanney), and the Howe, 120, Capt. S.r W. 0. Pell, arrived at Malta, on the 16th Dee. The Soudan steam vessel, Commander Bird Allen, one of the vessels intended to form part of the Niger expedition, arrived here today from Liverpool, on her way to Deptford, where the whole squadron are to as semble. The Albert steamer will follow in a week, and the Wilherforee steamer in three weeks. The Soudan left Liverpool on Saturday, and arrived from Plymouth in 21 hours : her engine is of 35-horse power. The Viper, 6, Lieut. Burslern, arrived to-day from tha Coast of Africa, last from Plymouth. She has brought on freight 4,000 ounces of gold dust, which was landed this evening. The Avon steam-vessel, Lieut. Pritchard, arrived on Wednesday from Sheerness, with 150 wen. The Ptue steam-frigate, is ready for sea, and is only waiting for her Commander, %s ho has not yet ar rived, to pt oeee.dto the Mediterranean. The Hon. Cam. matlder Murray takes a passage in the Phoenix to join the Wesp. The Cuckoo, ;team :r, sailed on Tuesday for Wey• mouth ; and the Emerald cutter, the same day, for Plymouth, with men. The Noma, transport, arrived on Thursday from Woolwich, with a Company of the Royal Artillery on board, for Malta, whither she proceeded to -day. Tl:e Athol', troop-ship, was paid wugt•s to-clay, and sailed for Cork, Corfu, Barbadoes, and Quebec. She takes part of the 4'?d Regiment to Corfu the 59th to Barbadoes, 70th to Quebtoc ; and returns with the 73d to Portsmouth. _ In comparing the list of ships in commission at the present period, with the list of those in active service last January, we find the strength of the nary at sea is increased by three three-deckers, two eighty-fours, three fifties, five sloops of war, and seven first-class steamers, forming an addition to our defence of 794 guns and 6,300 men ; the whole of which arc in ad dition to any estimate proposed by Parliament, and is an expense which the pressure of the trues has com pelled the Government to incur, and under a full re fiance on the emergency of the case, justifying them in asking for the necessary supplies. The number of seamen, marines, and boys now in employ exceeds 43,000. In Harbour Queen, Victory, Indus, Excellent, Royal George, Tweed, Phcenix, Apollo, Rapid, and Avon, Soudan, and Echo steamers. At Spithead—Viper.. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMBNT3. Paomonoss.—Lieutenants—Alexander Murray, Of the Princess Charlotte, and Robert Duncan, of the Powerful, to t h e ran k o f C omman d er . Surgeon—Stephen Jennings Swayne, to be Deputy- Inspector of Hospitals. a C nd har t l o es t m o i s st ionie d r a n t , d of Nov. Lieutenant sB4o Mates—Hon. G eorge D . Keane, son of Lord K eane, L te nd Ca o r n ter t , ho co l t i ii s t- t. for seniority immediately after F. H. Stanfell. Clerks—Cornelius Dcaly, \V. G. Tomlinson, R. 'l'. Crispin, John Brit:I:wood, \Vm. Stanway, John Hark shavv, W. 11. Dutton, R. L. Sutherland, Edwin A. Smith, and Iler.ry li. Chitmno, to the rank of Purser. APPOlNTMENTS.—Commanders—Granville Loch, to Vesuvius steamer ; John Richardson (b) to Phceoix steamer ; lion. Anthony Murray, to Wasp ; Alexander Murray, to Hydra steamer ; Charles 13:rkett, to Belle rophon ; W. H. Hall, to Benbow ; W. Clark, to E iluburgh ; Douglass Curry, to Hastings ; Walter Tay, to Po erful ; Henry li. Blngliam, to Princess Charlotte ; GowLr Lowe, to Revenee. Lieutenants—Thomas Heard and Francis Polwhele, to Powerful ; Elwin \V. Sanders, to Bellerophon ; Charles D. O'Brien and F. 11. Stanfeil, to Benbow ; G. E. Patey, to Carysfort ; Henry Stewart, to Castor ; Samuel F. Short and G. J. R. Snow, to Cyclops ; John Biaclunorc, to Edinburgh ; R. D. Stupart, to Gorgon ; John A. Shears, to Hastings ; Ross M. Hotel to Hazard ; Marcus Knox, to Flaanix ; Henry \Verret:, to Pique ; A. Farquhar, Robert denier, A thur CUM.' ndng, Richard Hoops, John Allen, John M. D. Smith, Richard D. White, George Johnson, Thomas C. 0. D. Wnipple, Lialsey P. Burrell, and G. 11. G. Sun derland, to Princess Charlotte ; George Wycle, to Revenge; W. C. Ch imberlain, to Stromboli ; M. H. Rodney ah:l W. H. Gsnnys, to Talbot ; Richard Wil liams, CO Thurilerer ; J on,s M. Boxer, to Vesuvius ; 0. Pritie, to Wasp ; E•iward H. Kenney, to Excellent ; W. G. B. Esteourt, to command L'zartl steamer ; W F. L. Toilemache, to Pelican ; \V. S. Bl a gent, to command Pinto steamer ; Edward N. Trou bridge, to Seuthampton ; lion. G. D. Keane, to Ex cellent ; 11. J. Sullivan, to the Powerful. Master—Robert B. Graham, to Hazard. Second Master—W. Diaper, to Atholl troop-ship ; \V. C. Pettigrew, to Pluto ; George Ilieks, to Night- Chaplains—Rev. W. Guise Tucker, to Revenge ; George Bellamy, to Endymion. Assistant-Surgeons Alexander Stewart, to the Portsmouth Deck-yard ; Charles D. A. Newmark. to Plymouth Dockyard ; J. Peters, to Pluto ; T. K. Beatty, to Queen ; John Andrews, to Ringer ; W.R. Dalton (1838), to Lizard ; O'Neil Ferguson, to Night ingale ; James Harvey, to Raw. Clerks in Charge—John Haddock, to Pluto ; W. D. Bateman, to Lizard, vice Millingham, appointment can celled ; J. W. Cole, to Nightingale. Acting Assist.-Surgeons—Dr. Thomsen and D. P. Whipple, to Hasler Hospital. Mates—Breoke Young, to Phceeix ; G. S. Bays (late of Buzzard) to Vernon; William G. Willie (1837) to Albert steamer, vice Francis Martin (1837) to Ferret ; H. W. Baugh, to Impregnable ; Henry . Lloyd, to the Hecate. COAST GUARD.---LlCUtellallt—ll. B. Bowden (1815) to be Chief Officer. Mates—Wm, Henry Walters (1831), and Charles F. Collett (1834 to be Chief Officer. ROYAL MARlNES,—Lieutenants Alexander and J. E. Lawrence have been this week appointed to the Royal Marine Artillery, in consequence of the certifi cates of their high attainments in mathematical and other studies, awarded them by the Professor at the Royal Naval College. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 31.—The Inconstant sailed on Sunday to relieve the ships in the Channel.—La Sau meneze, French brig of six guns, sailed for Cherbourg on Thursday. The Alban steamer arrived with vo lunteers from Cork on Sunday, and sailed for Dart mouth on Tuesday, to embark a detachment of troops for Sheerness. The Lightning stemaer arrived on Tuesday with volunteers from the river. The Tortoise lighter sai'ed on Tuesday, with stores for Falmouth. The Emerald tender arrived on Wednesday from Ports mouth. The Viper, 3, Lieutenant Burshon, arrived on Wednesday front the coast of Affea. Her Majesty's brig Ferret is now lying at Talbot, in Ireland, waiting for men ; she is ordered up the Channel immediately to relieve the homeward bound ships with provision; and water.—Remaining in Hamoaze.—Caledonia, San Josef, Endymion, Raven, Sylph, Netley, and Carron, Comet and Lightning steamers, and Emerald tender. —ln the Sound—lmpregnable, Belleisle, arid Viper. AN EIIEUTE IN THE DOCK-YARD.—An excite ment has prevailed for the last three evenings, on the workmen quitting the yard, on the subject of searching their persons. We are authorised to say, they have no objection to this search, but to the manner in which it has been attempted to be done. Heretofore a man has been beckoned out of the crowd, and he has walked into a covered way, where, screened by a partition;' he has' been examined, and the matter, irksome as it must be to an honest mind, has been forgotten immediately ; but (se Thursday a policeman rudely stopped a young man not yet out of his time, and wanted to search him in the open air, thus subjecting him to the scrutiny of scores of spectators. The young man attempted to go to the covered way as usual, and the policeman col lared him ; a scuffle ensued, and the youngster was shouldered by his fellow workmen out of the yard with out being searched ; he was of course taken the follow ing morning before the Admiral S u perintendent and reprimanded, and an impression went abroad, s ee be lieve without foundation, that the young man was to be subject to a nightly search till further orders ; con sequently last night he wa s surrounded by some d out without hun dreds of the men, and walke e possibi lity of his being stoPetd, and we under s t an d t h e same thing was do ne this eventog, though the Ad miral was at the gate, supported by the whole of the police and the military guard. The result is, that the Admiral will, on Monday, see a deputation of some six or eight of the men, to hear what complaint they have to make, and to give such redress as the case requires. (From the Hampshire Independent.) PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY .2.—The S:damander steam frigate, Captain Henry, arrived at Sheerness on Wed nesday, alter an unsuccessful search for the Fairy. She left North Bergen on Saturdiiy last ; the Shetlands on Monday ; and I, , ith on Friday. She is hourly ex pected at this port to relit, previous to proceeding to the Mediterranean. The Apollo, Mr. W. White, is ordered to complete her outfit with all possible dispatch, and proceed hence to Cork, to crablrk the 97th Regiment, under Com mud of Colonel J. Campbell, for the Mediterranean. A MODEST SECRETARY OF STATF.—I have the honour of out Grace's letter of the 4th, and ant sorry your Grace should give into the mistake of other people, to think me capable of being Secretary of State. Icm so thoroughly convinced of the contrary, that I can't look upon myself to be in any such post, and therefore you will please to allow me not to alter anything in my manner of writing to you, for I only value myself upon being your Graces servant; the little reputation 1 had in that is alland I must now lose it again by ot.m,,,i)roper staion. But I shall pa removed t o o u support,t no t be so ill a prophet as'l ant a Secretary, for your beingi w a s Ca Grace will please to remember that I foretold this advance ment, if it ever betel me, would be my ruin. I have do:.e what I could to keep it off, and have pers(.scred in it to the last.—James's Court and Times of William 111. Silver coin and bullion shipped at Dover from Dec. 13 to 31, were 699 ; 600 ounces of siivar, and 1,485 ounces of gold. 1 k. . kiodt po • Rocc . iO9: • •or 'P re a r i or ; oi , -, gre are ) s coeu Oik 05'?, Ll 7 11 01 TV: nijoo