The Sun. — London, England, 1824-05-11 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY lixtraets from the Morning Papers, May 11. [NEW TIMES.] The business transacted in the Funds yester day was of little public interest ; and although reports were as abundant as they have been for the last few days, they failed to produce any al teration in the prices. The chief subject of these reports continues to be the policy likely to he pursued by France in conjunction with Portugal for the recovery of the Brazils ; and notwithstand ing the public contradictions from authority of the circumstance which first created an alarm, there are still some persons who pretend to be lieve in the probability of such an event. The "state of his Majesty's health being of course a matter of general interest, the idle rumours cir culated in consequence of the Drawing Room being again put off were listened to with greater attention than they deserved, or than they would under other circumstances have received. Con sols closed at 96-k for the Account. The addi tional amount of Exchequer Bills about to be created has not produced any considerable varia tion in the premium the present bear, the price - yesterday varying from 33 to 40. [Tux viltus.] This is the day which I►as been fixed by Lord Althorp for his motion upon the general state of Ireland. The subject is a fearful one. It relates to a country'of which, under the most favourable circumstances, no more apposite description has ever been given than in the answer to the follow ing question—" Was Ireland quiet when you left it ?" " Oh, yes, as quiet as gunpowder." if one were to be asked off hand to account for the ne ver-ending disorders of.that fine country, at once the most unsettled in Europe, and, except China Perhaps, the most unchanged on earth, it might be alleged with some appearance of reason, that the evil was perpetuated by a stubborn repug nance iu the ruling power to look deep enough into the bosom of society for the roots of what appeared on its surface, and by the conse quent habit of legislating under a mistake of effects for causes. There is no denying the truth which has been brought home to us every day more forcibly than the day pre ceding, that Ireland, so far from keeping pace with the progress of her sister island, has for many years been receding as England has ad vanced. In all those points which the people of this country might be supposed to consider the tests of national prosperity, Ireland has under gone a retrogression the most palpable aud griev ous. The relative number of Protestants to Roman Catholics has rapidly diminished—the number of gentlemen, as compared with the poor —the amount of revenue, as compared with the expenditure—the number of the loyal, as com pared with those who are not. On the other hand, the modes, the principles, and agents of coercion, have multiplied beyond all precedent. Penal laws and _military force have attained in Ireland to a melancholy vigour. Now, violent means, such as insurrection acts and armies, are in the nature of them applicable to no other end than merely to the repression of a disease which struggles for utterance. To seek the mischief in its source, or to provide for its extinction, has, excepting the two attempts of the T i the Bill, and the Burial Bill just now coming into activity, never formed a perceptible ingredient of the system of Irish Legislation. [BRITISH PRESS.] The last Bayonne letters state, that the report was prevalent at Madrid of an approaching change in the Spanish Ministry ; and that the Duke of San Carlos, some time since Ambassa dor from Spain at this Court, and now in the same rank at Paris, would be named Mini ster for • Foreign -A ffairs ; the Monk Saez be again called to the Cabinet as Minister of Jus tice ; D'Eroles or Compana to fill the place of War Minister ; and Vincente that of Finance.— This would be completely a Royalist Ministry. The last is certainly at present the most ardu ous office in the Spanish Cabinet. To find funds for endless applicants from an empty Treasury is a difficult undertaking. The sum of•five millions of francs, part of the produce of Guebhard's loan, ,had, however, it is said, arrived from Paris at Madrid, and were de posited in the bank of St. Carlos. This sum will go but a short way to supply the numerous and craving demands on the ipanish Treasury. The amount, it is stated, was to be applied to defray _the expences of an armament, consisting of three frig ates and 2500 men, now preparing at Cadiz for South America. For ourselves, we do not believe that any such expedition is really contemplated, - however confidently announced, or that: Ferdinand and his followers can spare the sumin question from• their own pressing wants. 11..cidpc., our enhirot has declared, that any ex pedition. proceeding against South America, from a Spanish port, while a foreign force controuls that country, would be considered as French, a nd. followed by an instant recognition of the un qualified independence of the Spanish Colonies ; an d will Spain. tempt such a result? The latest accounts from Madrid state, that Ferdinand had returned to Aranjuez on the 28th of April, and that the French troops who accompanied him resumed their cantonrnonts'on both banks of the Tagus. The despot was to return with his fa mily to Madrid by the 15th of June, after vi s it_ ing the Escurial and the Baths of the Sacedoii. [MORNING HERALD.] We are. not sorry to see that a Petition h as been presented to Parliament on the subject•of: the Turnpike Tolls. There is not a greater system of jobbing and exaction carried on than he these-roads:throughout 'the kingdom. Near London .the evil is more felt, on account of its and it is here that the axe should be laid to the root. Where there is mystery, there Is. generally fraud. In this respect almost the whole systern.was and is a secret. Generally speaking, the Attorney of some country town through which a turnpike-road passes, used to get himself appointed Clerk and Treasurer, and from time to time a sufficient number of his clients and dependants made Commissioners.— The money was useful in his business, and, of course was seldom applied to its proper purpose. The creditors of the roads never get their principal, and rarely their interest ; at length he breaks, or dies insolvent. It is true, the Act of Parliament requires that security should be taken from the treasurer ; but then the sort of Commissioners we have mentioned would not be over-nice upon the subject ; and if a bond were taken, it was to be deposited with the Clerk, who, of course, would be too wise to fur nish means against himself in his other capacity. To remedy this a law was passed (or a clause in troduced into the different local Turnpike Acts) to prevent the two offices of Clerk and Treasurer being held by the same person. This, however, was all delusion, the Clerk found some partner, or friend, to be the nominal Treasurer, or vice versa. In Middlesex, it would seem that these offices are sometimes held by more worshipful, if not more worthy persons. At length came Mr. Macadam ; he undertook to make good roads, and has succeeded ; but to do this he must have the money; and Messrs. the Clerks and Trea surers of the Roads had much rather the mail coaches had travelled three miles an hour slower for ever than that this " Colossus of Roads" had appeared. Next came the New Turnpike Act, of 100 folio pages, or thereabouts, and, the year after, another of as many more, to explain and amend and explain it ; the whole being more ob scure, as far as legislation goes, than ever. Good roads, however, we have got, thanks to Mr. Macadam; but the taxation and the accounts still remain to be remedied. [MORNING POST.] Mr. Dennis Browne is reported to have touched on what we deem a subject of great importance, in the course of his remarks respecting Mr. Flume's late motion. We allude to the fact, that owing to the mode in which the Catholic Clergy of Ireland derive their emoluments, and in most instances the amount of those emoluments, the Catholic Priesthood are, almost without an ex ception, drawn from the peasantry, or at least from the lower classes of the people—iu short, that they are the children of poor parents, the highest of whom do not rank above petty farmers and petty tradesmen. We appeal to every man acquainted with the subject, if this be not the case, and challenge the " Ca tholic Association " itself to she w how many ex ceptions exist to the general rule here affirmed. Assuming then the truth of this statement, will it be said that the practice is not fearfully inju. rious to Ireland generally, and does not essen tially derogate from the respectability and libe rality of the Catholic religion as professed in that country? We are far, however, from saying that the humility of a man's origin incapacitates him from filling the highest office, and adequately discharg ing its duties, whether civil or religious. On the contrary, we admit the Irish Catholic Clergy, at least in a great part of them, to possess as much talent, perhaps, as if one half or the whole of them were derived from the first Catholic fami lies in the United Kingdom. But does talent alone make a Gentleman in the true meaning of the designation, or can two or three years' resi dence at Maynooth school supply the deficiency —substitute knowledge for cunning—the feel ings of character of an accomplished scholar, for the " craft and subtlety" of a low-bred pedant? Our readers will readily decide this point for us. [MORNING CHRONICLE. j The Bill for the establishment of the Com pany, to which we have several times of late called the attention of our readers, was discussed in the House last night. One feature in the dis cussion deserving of remark, was the appearance' of Mr. Huskisson, the advocate of free trade, and enemy of monopolies, as a partisan of this mea sure, which has only one intelligible operation, to raise the price of sugar to the people of this country. West India Securities are not very acceptable in the market, because the price of produce does not allow of au adequate return for the advances. If prices were high, advances would readily be made at present by individuals. The anticipation from this Company then is, that it will have the effect of raising prices, and thereby give to the West Indians the power to impose thro' their monopoly a heavy tax on the people of this country.--" lf, said the liberal Mr. Huskisson, relief could be given without a gross violation of principle ; if the planters and the owners of estates could be aided by enabling them to obtain loans of money upon better terms than at pre sent, it did not seem to him that the House would be guilty of any injustice to the rest of the nation in passing the Bill upon the table."— What injustice in enabling the West Indians, who have the monopoly of our market, and who shut out competitors by a heavy protecting duty, to raise their prices on us, in order that they may borrow money in better terms !---" We put it to the House whether, if the Landowners of this country were distressed,and some scheme were brought for ward which offered probable relief, without injury to the rest of the community, it would not support such a project.—This v. as done at a home thrust; it was a pretty safe appeal to the House of Landholders. But were Mr. Huskisson to talk in the same way to others, we have little doubt as to the answer he would receive. The Landholders' is precisely a case in point—they have, like the West Indians, a monopoly of our market, which at one time raises prices ex travagant•ly high, and thereby gives an unnatu ral extension to cultivation. A glut of produce depresses the market next, and the Landholders are.distressed.- Mr. Huskisson would protect the LandhOlders against this re-action. He would support a projet for raising prices, which would give personal , relief without injuring the rest of the community. This is Mr. Huskisson's logic. 44 For his own part," 'said -the Right Hon. Gen tleman, " belled no interest in the West Indies, and no concern with the proposed Company.".— Perhaps not—Bnthas Mr. John Gladstone any interest in the West Indies, or any concern with the proposed Company ? Because though prin ciples are well for indifferent matters, it is quite another thing when there is a friend in the case a n d such a friend too !! A Alinister ought to have the interest of the people, and not that of any particular class at the expence of the people, constantly in view. Mr. Huskisso❑ is too clear headed a man not to know that the West India monopoly, which this Company is intended to bolster up, is a serious injury to Great Britain. LITERARY NOTICE. COWPER'S PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. As we understood that a new Edition of this most agreeable collection (recently given to the Public in two Volumes) will shortly appear, we are induced to make a few remarks on the sub ject. We find that none of these Letters have been hitherto published, either in Mr. HATLEY'S Life of the Poet, or in any other Work. Their novelty, and the high reputation of their Author, afforded much promise in their favour, which is amply realised in the perusal: indeed, they will be found to unite, in an extraordinary degree, all the qualities constituting excellence in this de partment of composition. Ease, simplicity, ele gance, wit, and learning are blended in the most happy proportions. No one, we think, has sur passed Mr. COWPER in the epistolary style—no one has succeeded in steering with more ability through the dangerous extremes of affectation on the one hand, and carelessness on the other—the Scylla and Charybdis of Letter Writers. Each incidental subject is treated with the same felici ty—and even amidst those ordinary themes of every day life, which seem to present but a barren track, the most charming little flowers of fancy and expression spring up to embelish and refresh. Such is the fairy power of genius. The air of candour which prevails through out these Letters is another striking peculia rity. The amiable Writer appears to exhibit his heart unreservedly to our view : and if we are sometimes pained with the disclosure of those religious fears and misgivings, and that depression of soul which he often endured, yet even these add an intensity and pathos to the interest excited, and seem to produce an effect somewhat allied to that of shadows in painting. It is indeed much to be deplored that so dark a cloud of melancholy should have hovered over, and sometimes enveloped so beautiful a spirit ; but the circumstance is not without its moral use, as a caution to those who are apt to believe that genius is oue of the most important acquisitions towards happiness. The Rev. Dr. JOHNSOY, who is the Editor of these Letters, has traced the source of Cowean's mental gloom to a bodily affliction ; and herein he has done well, for persons have not been want ing, who, in pretending to account for it, have substituted the cause for the effect. We conclude this notice by recommending our readers to make themselves acquainted with these volumes, which, we feel assured, will amply con. firm the sentiments that we have expressed in their favour. ON THE PHENOMENA OV SHADOWS, DT MK. MONGEZ.—When the sun is free from clouds, the shadow of bodies is surrounded by' a penumbra, very sensible, though much more obscure than the shadow. When two bodies, each projecting a shadow, are made to approach one another, at the moment preceding the contact, the shadows advance towards each other, and change their form at the point of contact; the shadow of a right line thus becomes a curve, and that of a globe, like the summit of a paraboloid. Mr. AttAoo attributes the effect to the superposition panying the bodies. Thus, of th e p e numbra neon] if the intensity of the penumbra was only half that instant o f wen shadow,the it would be doubled at the two were superposed, and thus t e part of equal depth with the shadow, which o bscure cbueri e ng added to it, would alter its produce an form u iEn ofsA that u laßce a s.-_ Bib. Univer. xxiii. 323.) an Antidote to Lead in Cases of Poisoning.—The following fact has been stated by Mr. REYNARD to the Society du Sciences of Lisle :—During the campaign in Russia several loaves of sugar had been inclosed in a chest, con taining some flasks of extract of lead. One of these having been broken, the extract escaped, and the sugar became impregnated with it. Dur- ing the distresses of the campaign it was neces sary to have recourse to this sugar; but far from producing the fatal effects that might have been expected, the sugar formed a salutary article of food to those who made use of it, and gave them a degree of vigour and of activity which was of the greatest service in enabling them to support the fatigues of the campaign. Hence Mr. R. thinks that sugar might be employed to prevent the efforts of subacetate of lead, instead of the sulphates of soda, and of magnesia, which are not always at hand. CAUTION.-On Thurday morning a child about nine years old was sent by his father with a bun die, containing two pair of boots and a pair of shoes, to a gentleman in'the Temple : he was met in Middle Temple-lane, near Temple bar, by a fashionably dressed personage, wear ing mustachios, who stopped the boy, and desired him to go to the fishing-tackle shop directly opposite to the lane, and ask for a fishing-rod in the name of Thomas or Thomp sou, at the same time giving him a piece of paper, which he represented as containing a sovereign, telling him he had to pay 55., and he was to bring back 15s. change, and was promised to be rewarded with a p e nny. The child immediate ly turned to go on the errand, the person, offer ing' to take care of the bundle, which the boy refused; the fellow, h o wever, succeeded in forcibly taking it from him, and the boy, without suspi cion, crossed over, and delivered the message. — Mrs. Unstonston received the paper, which, on opening, she found contained a halfpenny ; and suspecting the c hild had been made the dupe of some artful villain, qu estioned him if lie had had a parcel, to which he replied in the affirmative, Mrs. Ustonston told the boy he had been imposed upon, and on his returning in search of the mus tashioed gentleman, found he had decamped.— A similar trick had been played upon another boy, who had lost a dozen umbrellas in the neighbourhood of Lincoln's Inn-fields, by a per , son answering to the same description. MOUNT ETNA. The grandeur and sublimity of this celebrated Mountain is thus described in the Travels of WILLIAM RAE WILSON, who went to its summit during midnight to behold the rising of the Sun : " The imagination of a human being can hardly figure a spot which has been marked with such woeful desolation,and is more strikingly calculated to fill the human mind with wonder. During this journey the scene became more awfully grand and sublime, from that conspiracy, if it may be so termed, of the elements, which impeded my progress, by storms of rain and hail, with vivid lightning and awful rolling of thunder, threaten ing to dart in thunderbolts on our heads.— Overpowered with fatigue and drenched with rain, I landed at a small house of lava at the base of the cone, for the accommodation of travellers, the keys of which were brought from Nicolosa, and built by the British army, with an inscription to that purpose over its entrance. " The dead silence that reigns in this devoted spot, which is, as it were, totally shut out from the world, and the terrific devastation all around, where not an insect, or bird of the air is to be seen, strike deep on the mind sentiments of pro found awe and veneration. " After muffling myself up, and taking a staff in my hand, I set off with a guide, who carried a lighted lanthorn. _ _ In the course of proceeding, we stumbled among enormous blocks of lava, which I can only compare to prodigious masses of ice, hurled on each other in terrible confusion, in large gullies. Although we proceeded with cautious steps, yet we fell down at almost every other movement, and were apprehensive that we should break our legs. In about two hours, we got to the immediate base of the perpendicular height of the cone, which we began to ascend, when a slight glimmering of the light of day began to appear. Of all the tasks I had ever undertaken at any one period in the course of my long journies in ascending mountains, this was the most arduous and laborious. The difficulty chiefly arose from being unable to obtain a solid footing, to press the body forward, in consequence of the ashes being loose,since frequent ly, at acquiring a step, we slid down, and in fact lost more ground than we had gained. At this time the pure air in one part affected the lungs, , and prevented free respiration ; and at another the sulphurious vapour, which obscured the eye sight, as if exposed to smoke, occasioned sickness and violent vomiting. Having reached half way up the cone ; I was obliged, to lay down la a com plete state of exhaustion. I perceived below a spark of light moving quickly along, and not un like the torch of a lamplighter in full speed. This ignus fatuus is presumed by some to be oc casioned by swarms of flying glow-worms, or lu minous insects ; although others are disposed to consider them as meteors, or a species of natural phosphorus. On proceeding, I found the loose ashes still continuing, and after scrambling up and rolling down, thank God, we reached the top, and threw ourselves on the ground for some time, completely worn out by exertion. At this very critical moment the sun began to rise, and with a glorious majesty, altogether indescribable. —Most fortunately at this season there was no snow on the cone, otherwise our attempt to gain its summit would have been perfectly impracti cable." The Author then gives the following glowing description from its elevation : " The scene around, from this most command ing altitude, uniting objects so numerous and snblime, baffles all kind of description, and never could be attempted by the most fertile and lively mind. Silence, awfully solemn as the very re gions of death, appears to reign around. An horizon is unfolded of an extent incredible, a vast extent of country and numerous villages, like so many packs of cards, are scattered about; rivers in their serpentine directions; mountains and volcanoes. The ocean is boundless, and the islands of Lipari and Strambolo appear with their smoking summits. In short, all nature, nay, the very world itself, appeared, as it were, to be under the feet. If from such an elevation terrestrial objects appeared so small and diminutive to the eyes of a mere mortal, what idea must be entertained of that view in which all sublunary things appear to the Al mighty Being who created all by merely speak ing, and it was done, and sits on the circle of this earth, the inhabitants whereof are merely as grasshoppers. In short, the horrors arising from numerous caverns belching forth clouds of smoke, boiling cauldrons, and the overwhelming de struction occasioned by the lava from different eruptions that rushed down this mount in a state of fusion, with such tremendous fury, the vast elevation of the mountain, the purity of its air, where not a bird or the smallest insect rise to be seen, the yawning caverns, and the dead silence reigning throughout ; I say, the -combination of these is calculated to strike terror on- the mind, and shake the nerves of the traveller, however distinguished he may be for courage and in trepidity, and afford some idea of those hor rors that attend the approach of a day of judgment ! This place is infinitely more frightful than any part of Mount Vesuvius which I visited. The view which the rocks presents, being rent and torn in a thousand parts, brought. forcibly to my recollection that dreadful agitation of nature which arose, when the--Re deemer of a guilty world edured the penalty of the law, and said, " It is finished." And further, those flames of fire and smoke produced by the volcanoes around, m i g ht a lso convey to us an idea of the terrors displayed on that Mount, where the law and commandments were deliver ed, and spoken by the Majesty of Heaven." There are various other important observa tions respecting this stupendous mountain, which is calculated at twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea, but as our limits will not per mit us to introduce these, we shall just refer to the interesting work itself. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The pi ice of the 41b. Loaf is stated at 104d.by the fti4r. bakers. There are others of th e t ra d e who sell how* - penny to three halfpence below that rate. IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEBf. English. Imb. • FetOig g Wheat Barley Malt Oats Rye Beans Peas Tares Rapeseed Mustard Seeds. Flour . Brank . Linseed ........."' 73 ........-• 185 )36 99,18 140 SEEDS, May 10. New Eng. R. Clover, 44s 68s 80s—fine, 99' Old Ditto 30s 48s 68s—fine, 83s —s —s New Foreign ditto,— 611 70s 84s—fine, 939 Old ditto ditto,..29s 41s 535; fine, 79$ New Whit•ditto 57s 74s 771—fine, 85i Old ditto 33s 48s 63s—fin e, 946 Trefoil .. per cwt.. 3s 13s 14s—fine 16s Os per cwt. Ribgrass ... 4os 516 —6—fine, 606 Carraway Seeds 4Bs 50$ 52s—fine, 565 Coriander do 8s 9s I ls—fine, 136 Tares .....per bushel...... 36 46—fine, fis Od St.Foin 42s to 45i—fine 476 per lif• .., Rye-Grass... 22s to 33s— fi ne, 37 s — 6 —6 porg'' Pacey ditto 50s 53s ' Canary per yr sBs 63s—fine, 656 WV . ' ‘Vhite Mustard Seed 7s lOs to 12s Brown ditto lOs 14s 166 Od Rape Seed New Turnip Seeds 6s 8s 6d to lOs pr. hush. Linseed for feeding 49s 51s—fine, 53s per qi?_,. NEWGATE AND LE.A.DENHALL MAtthETS, May 10 ' By the Carcase. Besf ts 44 to 3s 4d I Veal as Od to 4 11 Mutton ..... 3s Od to 3s Bd Pork is Id to 45 " Lamb, 4s 0 - d to 6s Od ST. JAMES'S HAY MARKET, May 8. dO. Hay 41 Oi Od to 61 Ms od Clover, 5l 5s Od to 61 10 „a New Hay 01 es Od to 01 Os od 1 Straw 21 161 od to sl 14s SMITHFIELD. Old Hay 4l 15s od to 61 106 Od--Average, 51 1' 0 1 Straw Clover WHITECHAPEL. Hay New ditto... 01 Os Od to 01 Os od-Average, 01 0 ,1 A Straw / 7 4 Clover 51 Os Od to 6! 15s Od--Average, 51 lbs PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt., May to. Kent Pockets 91 Os to to 13105 Sussex Pockets 810 s to 91 5s to 101 Os Essex Pockets 81 8s to 91 15s to 101 1O Farnham, fine, 161 Oe to 201 Os—Second, 101 Os to 141 Kent Bags, 81 Os to PI 9s to 111 Sussex Bags, 71 is to 81 Os to 91 Os Essex Bags, 71 7s to 91 Os to 101 Os Old Duty for the year laid at 110,0001'. RAW HIDES. Best Heifers & Steers, per At. Ordinary .... 2 s 2d to is 4 0 0 3s 0(1 to 3s 2t: Market Calf .. each.. of „4 Middlings 2B 8d to 2s ICd Lambs.... Os Od to Os " SHEEP SKINS. Polled Fells PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, SO to 561hs each per1h....—.21d to tli Ditto, 56 to 66Ibs each Dressing Hides led to 0 4 Coach Hides *ld to gqi Crop Hides, 35 to 401hs for cutting 17d to litt' i Ditto .... 4$ to Solbs Calf Skins..s6 to 40Ihs 2Oll to vid Ditto 54 is nibs 24d to VI Ditto 70.t0 801bs ' 22(1 to O u id Small Seals (Greenland) Large ditto I Tanned Horse Hides Spanish Hors e Hid es 0 0 0 I: : ... . . . . . i ci PRICES OF TALLOW, ti( Town Tallow 57s Od —s Od Yellow Russia 36s Od —s o>l White ditto 333 Od—s Soap ditto.... 311 Od —s Od Melting Stuff 9s Od —s od Ditto Rough.. 18s Od —; Od PRICE OF CANDLES, FROM TALLow CHANuLtit's l " 4. , Price of Candles, per d ozen , s s 6 d—M ou ld s, 1 0106' 6d per dozen allowed for ready money. AP &c. per 11216.—Mar 8 ' Yellow Soap 7O Mottled • • • 7. Curd Graves 1 64 Good Dregs _,Au" &if , PRICE OF RAW FAT, iier Stone of slh.—May 13•,, A Price of Tallow (as stat e d by th e T a ll ow Melters) , 2, COUNTRY GUILDFORD M Wheat per 1. 14103 to 171 Iss Old Wheat 2010 s to —1 —s Oats, per qr ... 11 4s to 11 14s Old ditto Al o►+ to 01 Os MARKET. ARKET, May 1. Barley, 11 its to 11 l i g : Beans, per qr.ll ISt to i l. " Pease, per qr. 11 18s to il m ° Rye, per qr 01 Os to 0 1 '"- COAL MARKET, May to. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Prie.• t o 624 Newcastle 34i Sunderland Great agricultural improvements are now guiri on in Hayti, to which pursuit the Government affords 5 0 ' encouragement. It is said that the Bank of Brussels, after th e example of that of England, will lend money on mortgage " Three per Cent. There are no less than seventeen steam.veso el. now belonging to Liverpool. Vegetation has burst forth during the last wee lt with a rapidity proportioned to the restraint 0 1 which it has been held by the long continuance of the previous bleak and ungenial weatbere--- (Chester County Chronicle.) Last week a fire broke out in the Castle at Edinburgh, which was happily got under without doing Inn ° damage. It was not far distant from the powder magazine' and the consequences might have been awful, from the VW tity of gunpowder now deposited there, had the flames g ot head. • BIRTHS. On Tuesday, the 4th inst., at William Hammond's, E 941 Southgate, the lady of Timothy Smith, Esq., of the Hen. Ba s ' India Company's service, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Lord Caithorpe's, Grosvennr-sV aT T Lady Charlotte Calthorpe, wife of the Hon. Frederick CO thorpe, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, II"' '‘` Seally, Esq., of Haydon-square, to Mary, only daughter the late Mr. William Thompson, Irish provision-merchr.w. , Yesterday, at St. Saviour's, Southwark, Mr. Richard Smith, of Edmonton, to Elizabeth, third daughter of ) If ' William Leedham, of the Borough. On Monday, the 10th inst., at Hampstead, Charles Holfol d? Esq., to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Edward Toiler, Es‘t,, DIED. On the 7th inst., Mrs. Ann Maria Fairfax, of SoutharnPW, row, Russell-square, widow of Captain William FairfaX, 1 ,. ° ;; merly Commander of the Hon. East India Company's P" H u zh Inglis. of On Sunday evening, th e 9th inst., John 'Walker, Ns6.l Arno's-grove, Southgate, in the county of Middlesex. „„a On the 26th of March, on board the ship - Wallace; Jamaica, Henry Devis, Esq. of the firm of John iv and Co. On Sunday, the 9th inst., in the 57th year of her age, Emm a ' wife of N a th an i e l Gundry, Esq., of Richmond. On Monday, the 10th inst., at his cottage at ,Stockwell, Ri c% Price, Esq., of Symond's-inn, solicitor. On Sunday, the 9th inst., Mr. John Barlow, of Bishopega tr street. On th 28th of March last, on his passage from Jamaica, .„. New York, John jun., second son of John Higg s ' Esq., of London-fields, Hackney. Se On .c n h t a h m e b 6 e t r h s r , e . l a a d m n e e e s e l 4 .s 3 t l r i e c e h t e i l n , E t h s e q s . , st s o h l y i c e ir r o 0 , ff her S o 3_5.51/1 Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORI;• st the SO" „ t/rFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARBTAISII. V 1