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I. 28, 14 ,14, 2 ,_ tgi cv icr ~, c 0,.._ -s OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, 22 . a pens i o goo kl rck st. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) as 4 ,, Is ' cent. on 82% , Royal Irish Ditto — c c o urt tto, - `),, '• 3}‘ per cent. 89% :National Ditto :l ; Ott c - ew 9o:Patriotic Ditto erdict g• Gov, „elit, — 'Hibernian Bank — ueb sti each , 0 , 0 , .l af g per cent.... 84% Provincial Ditto 374 Royal Irish Mine — , for c a , i t kil e snat s t o oc ci k 24% :Imperial Mine exhibit& 1447tb. 4 per cent. — Mining Co of Ireland o T ttetib ,of t -- omce Deb. 4 p. c. --' Commercial Buildings withsts e "a4 45 5 HAILS. es for oiy. 'cx l Due. Arrived. Due. , Arr ier i is of tb e d • ' tr " ~) • 0 ~ asil of the ~,, 0 ztlenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 „ c, toted to b i I r t7nagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 perf°r°l(l I r44'' ; : r:n ld c kne e rs 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 0 Malta 0 idlers W te 0 0 Sweden „ 1 ~n e ill , ••••.„ I: !_h_ternsey &Jersey.. 0 . 1 Waterford ,Ir. P°l" )lutiong: v ariouo °; 0 0 the ob°.;11, ve ry es , which Olt, these tile,d, he ind' l' s liwcussio ti er ,eir to ago c/c 4' ituate i d ice frog fli'' he effect 0 0 in any tb'egli nary to ~ atents COUNTY NEWSPAPER. 4N SATURDAY, January 7, 1832, will be übl'sl ed rice Sevenpence, No, I. of a New 41 tt' ? ' itutional Journal, called THE BUCKS HERALD; ChLARMER'S JOURNAL, AND ADVERTISING 4„%tuNIcLE " for BUCKS, HERTS, BERKS , VS, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, OXFORDSHIRE, adjacent Counties. l+ilj l e4t4 are appointed in all the principal To wns, who Il t "ive Orders and Advertisements. Londo n A g ents, tm • Newton and Co., Warwick-square ; Barker and 'Nett -street. %,.): I _7 l bury, December 26, 1831. 14 ro mitt 4' * ,. ..",!% . -;.-r-T1:', 4 11 , LONDON, It tONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1831. I.IO LERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES, m ... 6 SUNDERLAND, DEC. 23, 1831. a'ned at last report e w " se , 3 I)* Total 9 l 140 mered 1 4 Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock, A NI 7 ° ,l l the Commencement of the Disease, ott Oct. 26, 1831. Cases, 517.—Died, 191. DEC. 21.. Ittrilained at last report 7 ew cases 5 12 Total 3 Recovered 1 Remaining at this date, 8 o'cicok, s.rg 8 the Commencement of the Disease, on Oct. 2G,1831. Cases, 522.—Died, 194. NEWCASTLE, DEC. 23. ),,-.sined at last report 'el, cases bi ed Total. 55 0 Re covered l4 Fromm R e maining at this dale, 8 o'clock, a.m. 39 ,1 1 the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 11331 'Cases, 177.—Died, til. DEC. 24. ermined at last report 39 "evr cases l2 bied Total SI 7 r ecovered' lO Remaining at this date, S o'clock, A NI 34 r ein the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7,1531. Cases, 189.—Died, 68. t e () RTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH, Dec , rna ined at last report 1 "w ca ses tled — ecovered 0 3 Remaining at this date From the Commencement of the Disease Cases, I3.—Died, 9. DEC. t:A. hen,ai N ; ned at last report 3 Dew cases 4 , :ted 0 0 R ecovered Remaining at this date 3 From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, 13.—Died, 9. HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING, DEC. M. lieu v ained at last report 7 i,!v cases 3 vied f2 R ecovered Remained at this date 8 From the Commencement of the Disease. ,Cases, —Died, not reported. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. t We h o p e th a t ere long the country will re : i te a f orma l public announcement, that it is the intention of Ministers to create a sufficient 11441 ber of Peers to insure an expeditious and qualifi e d tr i ump h t o the Reform Bill. Unless inisters d o this, and promptly too, they may lre ly on it that indignation will be added to regret 440 astonishment on the part of the people, arising from the conviction that Government, th ough 4 in full possession of all the means neces :!Y to carry their great measure, yet have not suffi le'n energy or decision of character to put these m eans into operation. As for Reform being tarried without a new and pretty plentiful crea tlo4, the idea is perfectly chimerical ; and the co,,untry is beginning to perceive that it is so. N ew Peers must be manufactured or the Bill 'll4 t be i rrecovera bly lost, and the present dis tresses o f t h e coun t r y be aggravated a thousand 1011. Already these distresses are of an unusually d eri eus character, produced in part, we have no : tib t , by that general want of confi dence am ong th er 'hants tradesmen, and manufacturers w hich e perplexing state of the Reform question I : 8 enge n d ere d. People refuse to speculate , ec ause i n the present unsettled, lowering condition of the political atmosphere they can not see their way clearly. But let a new batch of Peers be made, and much of this:general dis trust will subside, for commercial men will then see at once that the fate of the Reform Bill is no longer a matter of doubt, consequently that revolution need no longer be apprehended. By way of inducement to Ministers to ... h e prompt in their decision respecting these new Peers, and thereby restore that healthy tone of confidence so essential to the interests of commerce, we subjoin a statement (extracted from the Carlisle Journal) of the present condition of hundreds of the unemployed poor in the populous, commercial city of Carlisle. There is no work to be found for these wretched beings; because, owing to the precarious state o the Reform question, and the consequent feverish. ness of the public mind, the manufacturers re fuse to enlarge their stock, or venture on any fresh speculations :—‘, It is with feelings of deep commiseration we state that distress to a most alarming extent prevails in this city—to an ex. tent, indeed, which we believe is scarcely con. templated by those who have not personally in vestigated the subject. We have caused personal investigations to be instituted in all the principal quarters of the city and suburbs where the poor are congregated in great numbers ; and the result is a statistic return which it is appalling to contemplate. We have within a fraction of 2,000 persons—nearly one-ninth part of the entire population of the city—the greater portion of whom, be it re membered, are in employment—dragging on a miserable existence upon a sum amounting in the average to legs than one shilling each per week— that is to say, on less than twopence a day. This sum includes not only the earnings of the poor people themselves, but the amount of parish re lief which is given to them. In one district there are living six hundred and twenty-four indivi duals whose average weekly income amounts to less than tenpence each ! Out of this pittance they have to pay for house-rent, for coals, candles, and clothing—but what do we say ? how can such things be bought with such sums ?—when some slight deduction is made for such things, how, in the name of GOD, is life to be preserved by the remainder ! This is the condition of one-ninth part of the population of Carlisle. — To describe the condition in which their dwel lings were found far surpasses the powers of our pen. Their wretched dwellings were in many instances almost destitute of furniture of any kind ; others were without fires ; and several had not a bed, nor the semblance of a bed, to lie down upon. The inmates of some of the houses were found huddled together in a corner, without reference to age or sex, without even straw to lie upon, and with no other covering than the wretched rags which they had worn for clothes during the day. The stench issuing from many of the dwellings was almost insufferable ; and in all cases wretchedness appeared to have raised its awful throne and to proclaim, ' here I reign supreme.' Such is the state of Carlisle at this moment." The Foreign Papers contain no intelligence that calls for any particular remark. The King of HOLLAND was still sulky and persevering in his obstinacy, and the Emperor of RUSSIA Still shrouded his policy in mystery, as respects the dispute between Belgium and Holland. The Paris Papers are full of vague and contradictory rumours on the subject. We have just received the French Papers, dated Friday, from which the following are ex. ,racts (From the Journal des Debats.) Letters from Switzerland of Dec. IS, announce that a new attempt had been made by the insurgents against the town of Neufchatel, and they were completely repulsed and put to flight. A report prevailed on 'Change this day, that some dis orders bad taken place at Grenoble, but the Journals re ceived do not mention any thing about it. According to letters received from Pernambuco, it ap pears that there is an intention to form a federate union of the provinces, under separate Governments. It is thought if this project is put into execution, it will cause a civil war. It is assured that M. Mortemart, our Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, has given in his resignation. (From the Quotidienne.) Letters from Alexandria, of the 20th of November, state that the army of the Paella of Eaypt has entered into Syria, and made themselves masters of Jaffa without firing a shot. A letter received from Frankfort states that it is pre tended that Austria is not satisfied with the measures taken by the Conference at London, and the results it has caused, in consequence of which it is reported that Prince Ester hazy is to be recalled, as well as Baron Weissemberg. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O' CL 0 CK. We have no arrivals this morning of c onsequence. The French and Dutch mails still renaain due, in consequence of which a great scarcity of continental news prevails ; this no doubt is owing to the dense fogs. We have no further accounts to be depended upon in regard to the shipwreck of the Congress frigate belonging to Don Pedro's squadron ; the loss of which is still con sidered doubtful. THE FUNS. Consols, which were looking up on Saturday, and left off at 844 for the acesant, opened at 842, at present they are 84k ; thiG heaviness of the market is attributed to the continued warlike preparations in Holland, which the French are looking to with an evil eye, and are also pre paring on the frontiers of Belgium a sufficient force to counteract a coup-de-main on the part of the Dutch on Belgium. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols are at this moment very heavy ; in the early part of the morning they were 84i for the Account, since which they have been gradually going down to ti 4 9, at which price they are at present. It appears that a dark cloud is again spreading over the politics on the continent. A courier passed through Berlin on the 16th from St. Petersburgh, and is stated to have brought the Emperor of Russia's decision to the King of Holland. We have just heard that the Constitution frigate, one of Don Pedro's squadron, is not lost, but 69 of her crew had deserted her. In the Foreign Market little is doing. THREE 0 CLOCK. Console for Account, 84k. ----- Despatches were received this morning at the Colonial-office from Barbadoes. Earl GREY arrived in town this forenoon from his seat at East Sheen. What gives a cold—cures a cold—and pays the doctor ? A draft. VICE.CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR was occupied the whole morning with bankrupt petitions, possessing no points of importance except to the parties. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) PROM LLOYDS. PORTSMOUTH, Dsc. 24 AND 25.—Light airs, and va riable.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Curacos, Tweed, and Wellesley, from the Downs. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 23 AND 24.—Wind N. W. light.— Arrived the Clarence, Croker, from St. Übe's. FALMOUTH, Die. 23 AND 24 —Wind N.N W., mode rate.—Arrived the Maria, Ouston, from Virginia. Sailed the Eclipse packet, for the Brazils and Buenos Ayres; the Magnet packet, for Lisbon ; the Plover packet, for St. Domingo, Jamaica, and Mexico ; the Briseis packet, for the Leeward Islands ; and Bengal Merchant, Campbell, for Madrid and Bengal. LivaarooL, DEc. 24.—Arrived the Carahoo, from Buenos Ayres. Off port, the Bounty, Hall, from Bengal and the Mauritius ; and Wexford, from Quebec. GREENOCK, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Salus, Welsh, from Miramichi. STANDCATE CREEK, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Mantura, Croft, from St. Petersburgh ; Mignie, Murray, from Riga ; Bolivar, Petrie, from Ulsbory ; Amelia, Lista, and Prince of Orange, Goldiers, from Hamburg. The Eden, Lattimore, from Demarara, has arrived off the Wight. The Hannah, Walker, from St. John's, New Bruns wick, to Liverpool ; the Bello, from the Bay of Fundy to Kinsale; and the America, Millamore, from Newbury Port to Stockholm, have been abandoned at sea. A Cabinet Council was held this day at two o'clock at the Foreign-office. The Ministers were in de liberation when our Paper went to press. EQUIVOCAL TESTIMONY.- A witness was called upon to testify concerning the reputation of another witness for veracity. "why," said he, " I hardly know what to tell you. Mr. sometimes jests and jokes, and then I don't believe him ; but when he undertakes to tell any thing for a fact, I believe him about as much as I do the rest of my neighbours." In 1590 Prince MAURICE NASSAU took Breda by the following stratagem. A boat was loaded with turf, under which seventy men were concealed, the Spaniards themselves assisting to bring in the boat. MATTHEW HELT, a Lieutenant of the seventy, not being able to suppress a cough, begged his comrades to kill him, lest the enterprise should be frustrated by so inconvenient a compmion. —SWAIN E.--/Ifirror. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF THE Ray. MR. GRIFFITII.—A strong sensation has been excit ed in this town by the unaccountable disappearance of the Rev. Mr. GRIFFITH, Minister of the Methodist Chapel, in Morice-street. It appears that Mr. GRIFFITH visited Kingsane, a village about a mile and a half on the other side of the Tamar, on Tuesday evening last, where he preached, and received the quarterly ticket money. He left that place about nine o'clock, in company with a man named SANDERS, a mason by trade, and a member of the Society, who says he parted with him at half-past nine, near the Old Hospital, on Maker Heights, about a quarter of the distance to the Cremil Passage, since which no trace of him has been discovered, and there is too much reason to fear that he has come by an untimely end. There is no motive whatever for supposing that it can be otherwise. He was engaged to sup on that evening with several other dissenting clergymen at a friend's house in this town, and a boat was ordered to be in waiting for him at Cremill Passage at half-past nine o'clock. His character stood high with all that knew him, and he was a young man of considerable promise in the Wesleyan persuasion.— Devonport Telegraph. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—We find the fol lowing extraordinary case (a name which it well deserves) in the Lancet of Saturday, where it is published on the authority of Mr. HOARE, M.R.C.S., of Warminster:— The wife of a Mr. HIGGINS, a farmer of Baltonshorough, near Glastonbury, Somerset, having brought him three daughters in succession, and no son, he was so disconcerted at the repeated disappointment, that he vowed, should his next child be a daughter, he would never speak to her.— On the approach of his wife's fourth confinement, he repeated this vow. To his great joy, his wife gave birth to a son, and nothing occurred to lessen his satisfaction until the child began to speak. To his astonishment and dis tress he then found that while the boy would readily ad dress his mother and sisters, and, indeed, any female, no thing could induce him to utter a word to his father or any male person. This singularity continued during the whole of his father's life (30 years); entreaties, threats, or pro mines, were of uo avail, and the unhappy man frequently bewailed, with tears, the distressing consequences of this rash vow. On the death of Mr. Jimmies, which hap pened about two months since, the young man, to the astonishment of all who knew him, began to speak fluently to males as well as females, although for 30 years pre viously he had never been beard to utter a word to any one of the former sex. Mr. Hicones had no other son. The young man is in good health, and is ready, as are his mother and sisters, and many other respectable persons, to attest the truth of this narrative. DESTRUCTION OF A THEATRE OF ANA 'roux' IN ABERDEEN.—On Monday last the city of Aber deen was thrown into a state of indescribable consternation, arising from what we cannot but consider the very cub. psble negligence of some persons connected with a theatre of anatomy, which had been opened there by Mr. MAin, a surgeon, a few weeks ago. On the morning of Monday some boys observed a dog scratching up loose earth from a piece of ground forming part of the premi , es, in a manner which excited their suspicion. They gave an alarm, and a crowd instantly assembled, when it was found that the dog had been tearing up a part of a human body. A shout of horror was instantly raised, and the crowd was quickly increased to not less than 20,000 persons. The door of the theatre was opened on demand for their admission, and Mr. Mate s apprehensive of personal attick, escaped by leaping out of the window. Two of the students had a still more difficult escape. Three dead bodies were found in the theatre. The people became infuriated, and their cries for•vengeance were indescribable. " Burn the Burk_ ing-shop !" resounded on all sides. Shavings, fir, and tar-barrels were quickly procured, and within a few rub. notes the whole building was in a blaze. The walls fell down in succession ; but so determined were the people to ensure the destruction, that they undermined the small portions of wall that continued standing, and stock to it till eight o'clock at night, by which time there was not one stone left upon another. The Lord Provost and a number of Magistrates came to the spot, and assured the people that every investigation should take place. They al•o took the precaution of calling out the military, and the night passed off quietly. Every intelligent person must admit the necessity of Anatom ica I study ; but every bene volent mind must fsel that the bodies should be disposed of in a manner that should not outrage the feelings of our common nature.— Observer. THE SMUGGLER'S CAVE.—A RECENT P;scovaaY•—During a cold and dreary night, about the beginning of last November, a smuggling vessel arrived off Whitehead, at the entrance of Carrickfergus Bay, and landed her cargo, consisting of brandy, gin, and to bacco. These precious articles were conveyed into an adjoining cavern : the trim vessel was soon clear of the coast, without exciting the smallest alarm in his Majesty's lieges, the water-guard, who lay snugly moored in their watch-house, at a little distance. — About a fortnight afterwards, some boys, gathering ' bramble on the shore, observed, amongst the un derwood and withered grasses, several bars of rusty iron ; and, in attempting their removal, they disco vered that these bars formed a grating to a spacious apartment under ground, lined with boards, and filled with kegs of liquor and bales of tobacco. Their friends were soon made acquainted with the circumstance; and they proceeded to lay i❑ an ample stock of the treasures of the cave; and, as plenty still remained in store, the liquors were hawked about the country in jars and bottles at very moderate prices. In the mean time. the neigh bourhood was the scene of the utmost hilarity ; the farmers ceased to grumble about high rents, or even tithes; the merits of the Reform Bill did not for one moment attract their attention ; none were heard to complain at the con duct of their reverences the Bishops ; even the old wo ne,n did not murmur about the terrible price of to- Inca); and the approach of the cholera was as little regarded as the ten plagues of Egypt ! But, alas ! this good cheer was doomed to experience the fate of all sublunary things. Some good fellows, in their fond ness for thtse excellent beverages, got rather muggy, and boasted of their good fortune in words so unreserved, that their exprtaiions reached the ear of the water-guard. A strict search immediately took place—the cavern was dis covered and its utmost recesses explored. Kegs, jars, &C. were arrested in the neighbouring houses ; and some per sons were committed to prison for having foreign spirits in their posiession ; and to such lengths has this search been carried, it is feared that scarcely as much brandy or gin remains in this once happy district, as will bear out a merry Christmas, Glasgow Free Press. THE CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRRIPONDICNT.) NEWCASTLE, Dsc. 14. The official report of this day is not so favourable as that of yesterday. It states that there are 12 new cases, 10 recoveries, and 7 deaths. A great proportion of the cases is still at Dents and St. Peter's, three miles from New castle, and a still ereater proportion both of the new and old cases of a mild description. It is so far from being common to see aggravated cases of malignant cholera, or, in other words, well marked malignant cholera, that when two or three cases of that description do occur, the hearts of some of the medical gentlemen seem to be rejoiced, and they express great anxiety to induce the sceptical to go with them to witness them. I say the sceptical, for how ever absurd it may appear to you at a distance, there are absolutely still some few intelligent persons in this town who doubt the fact of our having the Asiatic cholera here at all. The moment I was myself convinced we had it, I candidly stated that such was the conclusion I had come to. Nothing has since occurred to induce me to change that belief ; but I am daily more and more satisfied that the all - air is now, and has, from the beginning, been grossly misrepresented. It is stated that there are at this moment 31 cases of malignant cholera under treatment. I doubt very much if there are IS. The majority are diarrhea, ordinary bowel complaints, or fever. There has been a great meeting of the medical gentlemen here to-day, Dr. Headlam in the chair, in consequence of an opinion that the disease is likely to spread into the different streets of the town, high as well as low, and it being thought neces sary to have affairs better organized to meet it than they have hitherto been. Dr. 111'Whirter brought forward some resolutions, to the effect that the town should be di vided into districts, certain medical gentlemen being ap pointed to each, so as to give immediate assistance when any individual may be attacked ; also that depots should be provided with such medicine+, &c. &c. as the sick might have occasion for. These were carried. The cholera is now, I am told, very mild at Seghill. We hear it is getting worse at North Shields, but by some d'eg aceful mismanagement, we at Newcastle, though only distant eight miles, either receive no official reports at all, or receive them very irregularly. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEC. 24. SMALL V. ♦TTWOOD. Sir EDWA no SUGDEN resumed his arguments in this case to-day, at nine o'clock, and was occupied for the most part of the day in reading and commenting upon corre spondence which passed between the different parties, re lative to the works in question, and also the answer of Mr. Attwood to some parts of the bill. In conclusion, he reca pitulated the evidence which he adduced, expressing his conviction that the Court, in considering all the circum stances of the case, would not rescind a contract which had bee❑ entered into after mature deliberation, and which was now impeached solely on account of the incompetency of this unwieldy Company to manage the works. He con cluded a few minutes after four o'clock. Lord LYNDHURST was not then prepared to name any time for resuming the subject, and could not say whether he should take it again before the next Term ; for be ap prehended he should sit in the Commission at the Old Bailey, in consequence of Mr. Justice Gaselee being named in the Special Commissio❑ for Bristol. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The last week's arrivals were very large, of nearly every de scription of Grain, and an unusually great supply of /lour. This morning there is a fair quantity of most kinds of Corn, fresh up. The Wheat trade continues extremely dull, and none but super fair parcels maintain last quotations. The same may be said of Barley. Malt meets a very heavy sale. Barley Pease, are more in demand, and rather dearer. Grey Pease are plentiful, Is. per quarter lower. There is not much doing in the Oat trade, and that article remains at last quotations. Flour is so very heavy on sale, that the top price may now be quoted at 60s. per sack. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) .... -s. -s. Beans, Small (new)... - s. - s. ----White (old) -s. s. --- Red 1831) ... 48s. 545. --- Tick (new)....35s 375. Fine ...... ... 555. 58 s. • (old) .... 40s. 425. Superfine.. 635. 665. -- Harrow (new) 375. 395. --White (1831). 4Bs. 568. ----- Fine s7s. 645. Brank 425. 455. ------ Superfine.. 68s. '74s. Oats, Feed 20s. 225. -- - Foreign free 503. 783. New 2os. 225. Rye . 365. 40s. - Poland 24s. 275. Barley --- Fine 323. 345. - Potatoe - Superfine New 355. 4os. Malt s6s. 60s. - Scotch 295. 30s. - Fine New 63s. 665. - Irish 20s 24s 265. Pease, Grey New 37s. 395. Flour Town (per sack) 55s 60s. --- Maple New 4os. 41s. - Seconds 50s. 555. -- White ... 363. 40s. I --- North Country 465. 525. -- Boilers SMITHFIELD INIARKE'I - - This day's market exhibited the most limited Monday's supply recollected to have been witnessed in it, and a great part of it consisted of stock turned out unsold from last week's markets. The trade was dull throughout, with feet at an advance of about 2d., Mutton and Veal 2d. to 4d. per stone; with Pork at Friday's quotations. Melts rits. STONE OF BLlis. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Large Lambs Second quality ditto 3 2 3 4 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Prime large Oxen... 310 4 01 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 8 Prime Scots, 4 2 4 41 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 8 Inferior 5heep....... 2 8 210 Large Hogs iecond quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Small Porkers 4 8 5 2 Hoarse-woolled ditto 4 0 4 6 Suckling Calves 12s. to 40s.eavh. S nithdownWethers 4 8 5 2 Quarter old Pigs 125. to 18s. each. stJPYLT, As Fait CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. 'Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. Pigs. 958 8,210 27 I 70 About 400 ot the beasts came up tat St. Alban's road ; about 50 ,up the other northern roads; out 20 (including Irish) from the western and midland districts; about 20 from Nor folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; about 10 ;from Kent an d Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c in the neighbourhood of London, including about 400 left un sold on Monday and Friday last. 14EWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. (1. s. d.tos. d. Beet.. ................ 2 4 3 8 Veal Mutton... N EWCASTLE CORN MARK ET —Dec. 24. We had about the usual supply of Wheat from our farmers to-day, for which there was a good demand, and the prices of last week fully supported. Fine Oats sell readily at our quotations ; but the others were heavy and lower Is. per quarter. The trade in Barley has been very dull during the week at a deline of Is per quarter ; only the finest Malt can now be sold. Rye sells in small quantities Pease, if . good breakers, wanted. Beans and Flour without change. New Old. Wheat, Northumberland s2s. 645. sBs. 635.1 Norfolk and Suffolk 565. 635 —s. S. --- Berwick and Scotch 545. 60s —s. —a. Foreign 50s. 62s —s. —s. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foreign als. 37s —s. —s. ''t B ar l e y, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 34 s. 37 s --.= Grinding and Feeding "4s 26s —s. —s. t Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 625. 64s —s. —s. ,„.. Beans, Small 40s. 42s —s. —s. F ; - . Tick lB3. 40s —s. —s. 9 Pease, White 425. 46s —s. —s. - Gray 3Bs. 405....... —s. —s. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 26s 28s. —s. —s. _____......--- Feed 22s 23s - Foreign Flour, Fine (per sack) •--.S. —s 4ss. 48s. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. 1 Barley Oats. 1 Beans. 'Oatmeal. i - Aberdeen Coldstream Cupar Dundee Elgin Inverness,.—. Kelso ..--. Kirkaldy..,.— Perth ..----. The size 44 fio 27 32 38 42 21 23 38 40 22 23 E 46 62 33 35 50 63 33 37 50 .56 32 35 50 56 30 33 38 40 21 23 40 45 27 39 60 65 21 27 of the measure vari 21 —32 36 15 22 26 27 38 42 16 IS 30 31 25 26 38 39 24 25 35 36 19 23 19 21 20 22 30 34 48 17 18 29 32 25 32 45 48 43 44 20 23 23 2d— •ies throughout the country. - EDINBURGH CORN MAltKl.ll'.—Deo. 21. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First 63s Od 37s Od 26s Od 34s Od 34s Od Second._ 58s Oct 34s Od 20s 0,1 32s Od 32s Od Third.— 60s 0,1 31s Od 20s Od 29s Od 29s Od FRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, peer lb. O. 3d. to Os. 6d. Fresh Butter, lb. s. 10,1. to Is. Od. 0 3 0 6 Salt Ditto-- 010 1 0 Veal 0 6 0 9 Ditto, per CVtt. 94 0 100 0 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 1 3 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 6 :3 0 OatStraw(tpl.)l2 0 13 6 Tallow, cwt.... 35 6 37 ti Wheat Ditto... 9 0 10 0 Quartern Loaf 0 6 0 9 Barley Ditto —S 0 9 0 Potatoes, 171 lb. 0 4 0 0 Hay,per5t......,... 1 1 1 6 EDINBURGH MEAI We had a middling supply of w Idch met with a ready sale, at Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal . £l 10 0 Second ditto 1 16 0 Barleymeal 1 10 0 Peasenteal 1 10 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12 L MA It K ET.—Dec. 9,0. Oatmeal at this day's market, last week's price. Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal ..... £0 2 0 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 8 Peasemeal is.-2d, 155.--3 d, 185.—Pea►l s. GLASGOW CORN Wheat, per 2401 b. S. d. s. d. 1 British, old 25 0 10 30 0 ---- new Canada, frce • ai 0 20 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 0 0 S co ttish 27 6 26 0 Irish MARKET 21. Oats, per 26410. s. d. s. d. Irish l6 0 to 18 0 British Beans, fier 26010. English Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 14010. I 0 17 0 'tour ) per . Elolb 4'7, 0 48 0 MININgINTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurday 2,872 0 Quantity of fine - 19 A ve rage Produce 9 1 A 0 Amount of Sale, 18,4371. Is. 6d.—Average Standard, 981. 16s. Od. The Christmas bills of a learneti ex-Chancel: lor, which his Lordship ordered his butler to • collect and di s charge, previous to llie departure for his' hospitable sea in the West of' England, were• handed to the Noble Earl together with the receipts, by his servants, at the moment he was getting intohis carriage, neatly foldedend tied round with red tape. The whole amount was 9.1. 13s. 71d. ! DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LIVERPOOL. (From the Liverpool Advertiser.) A fire more extensive and destructive than any we remem ber in Liverpool, and which is compared by those who can recollect that event, to the great fire of the old Goree ware houses, broke out on Thursday night, in Fenwick•street, and is now, at the hour of sending this account to press, still in its subdued or exhausted state, an object of no little terror, as it is beheld illuminating the extensive ruin which it has caused. Our readers in Liverpool are pro bably well acquainted with the locality of this conflagra tion. From Water-street, on the west side of Fenwick street, along nearly half the extent of that street towards Brunswick-street, was a vast pile of warehouses, once entirely occupied by the business of the great house of Lowndes and Co., and now, or before this fire, divided into tenements. This entire range of buildings, with the valuable property stored in it, and the books and papers of several of the parties occupying the premises, have been consumed. A part of the exterior wall only remains erect, tottering over the scene of destruction, and prohibiting approach. How the fire originated is unknown. About ten o'clock at night it was first observed, and the alarm-hell was immediately rung. The fire was be lieved to proceed from Livesey and Co.'s warehouse, but the respectable agent for that concern assures us it did not originate in that part of the building, but in a higher room or office ; and Mr. Pringle being able to rescue his books and other property from the danger is a confirmation of his statement. However, it was in that part of the pile of building occupied by him, as the agent for the paper-works, that the fire was first seen to burst forth with violence. The alarm bells soon brought a crowd of parties to the spot, as well the interested and the useful as others, and all was done that could be done, by exertion, to arrest the pro gress of the fire. The Mayor was entertaining company at the Town-hall. He and the company rose from table, and his Worship immediately proceeded to give such assistance as lay in his personal power and authority to afford to the means taken to preserve property and stay the progress of the destructive element. (From a Second Edition of the Liverpool Journal, 5 p m.) A report having been circulated through the town that several men had lost their lives, a few hours since, amidst the ruins in Fenwick-street, the public, perhaps, would wish to know the particulars of the fats! accident. This morning workmen commenced taking down the walls of the warehouses, and by one o'clock they had levelled them all. The place being thus clear, Mr. Barn well's porter proceeded to ascertain whether his master's safe was secure. He was assisted by two others, and they had began to remove the rubbish from the spot where it was, when the side wall of the warehouse, which had been left standing, and which overlooked the yard behind, suddenly fell in with a dreadful crash, and melancholy to relate, the unfortunate man was under it. He was killed upon the spot, and an inquest will be held this evening on the body. His name was Thomas Doran. One of his assistants bad his leg fractured, and another man was much bruised ; but no further accident occurred. At this moment the West of England engine is playing on the recently fallen ruins. LORD BROUGHAM.—Lord BROUGHAM has set out, we understand, with his brother, the Member for Southwark, on a visit to their mother in the country, where they will remain for the Christmas holidays. His Lordship cherishes the greatest possible respect and love for his mother, who is a lady of very superior mind. It is related of her, that when she heard of her son's elevation to the Peerage, she wrote to him thus, " You are wrong—as plain HENRY BROUGHAM you were a great man, but as a Peer you will be comparatively nothing ; and Lord BROUGHAM is stated to have exclaimed to a friend, on reading that part of the letter, " By —, mother, you are in the right." Mr. WlLLialt BROUGHAM, the Member for Southwark, is a great favourite with the CHANCELLOR, who treats him more as a soa thau as a brother, which may be explained by the great difference of years.—Court Journal. The Right Hon. THOMAS ERSKINE, now Chief Judge of the New Bankruptcy Court, is the second ,on of the late Lord ERSKINE, and the only immediate descendant of his Lordship brought up to the bar. Mr. ERSKINE, married, many years ago, Miss MAIL, a lady of great wealth and accomplishments, by whom he has a numerous family. The evidence tending to indicate that the cho lera is commmunicakd from individual to individual through contagion continues to accumulate. In the family of CA RR, in Stamp's-lane, where the mother was sei zed after having bad intercourse with her infected relations, the daughter contracted the complaint apparently from sleeping with the mother, and she died. Another child has since been carried off, and yesterday the father was seized, and he died also. The pestilence has been chiefly re,tricted to the east parts of the town, and it has prevailed in the streets along side the barrack, yet of the 400 men, and a considerable proportion of women, who reside in the barrack, not one has been attacked. The barrack owes nothing to its site in thus escaping. It is situated in the very worst part of the east-end —a flat. moist, and dirty locality. Neither the men nor the women, however, are permitted to hold free communication with the people of the town ; the gates of the barrack are kept shut, and all suspected persons debarred entrance.— Times. EXTRAORDINARY WIFE! ! Streatham church is the following singular inscription :—" ELIZA BETH, wife of Major-General HAmivrorr, who was mar ried 47 years, and never did one thing to disoblige her husband." THE WOOL TRADE.—The attendance o the manufacturers and others from the Yorkshire and other clothing dis'ricts has been very great during the last week, in consequence of several large sales of wool being an nounced. In all, about 2,200 bales and bags were off,red, viz., 1,610 bales of Van Dieman's land and New South Wales wools; 190 bales of Spanish wools; 40 bales of Cape wools ; and about SO bales and bags of Cape, Ger man, and Italian wools. The first mentioned descriptions were purchased with great briskness, and some of the samples were the finest that have ever come from our co lonies—some Sydney wools fetching 2s. 11d. per lb.— the inferior qualities obtained from Is. sd. to 2s. 4d. per lb., and low wools from ls_ to Is. sd. per lb. The wools were well cleaned in most instances. The Van Dieman's land wools also fetched good prices—low qualities from Is. .to Is. 44., and better samples from Is. 4d. to 101 d. per lb. Of these two growths about 1,600 bales were sold. The Spanish wools, of which there were 190 bales, went off at full prices, from Is. lib to Is. 5.1. for the low, and Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. per lb. for the better samples. Cape wools went off low. The German ob tained good prices for the quality. The arrivals of wools from New South Wales and Van Dieman's land are nearly closed for the season. The Company's wools from the lat ter were in good condition. ANOTHER VAGARY.--Four boys were charged by the New Police, with selling about the streets prints, representing a half denuded boy, with a cat in his bands.—Mr. Milasttur.r. said, " he thought they were very indecent; he should commit the boys for pnbliatiing obscene prints in the streets; and ordered Mr. CHUBB (the publisher) to find bail ; his object was to stop the circulation of such an infatnons publication." We have seen this terrible picture, and we will wager five pounds on the brains of a Magistrate—long odds !—that there is scarcely a lady's ulbum in the metropolis, no, nor a Bishop's library in the two kingdoms, whicit does not con tain a dozen prints of a more exciting nharacter. A child, of about three years old, a kitten in its petti coats, and in tip.% aa raises them about as high as an opera. dancer commonly does in the execution of a pirouette, this inflames the blood of the Justice, and sets 14in prattling of obscenities. We would not trust oqr grandmother among the antiquities of the British Museum, or to turn over the chaste pages of Sic WILLIAM HAMILTON, with any elderly gentleman of similar susceptibilities.—Examiner. SUSPECTED CASE of :MURDER.—A ‘eiy aged gentleman named BROMLRY, possessed of consider able property, residing in a cottage c l t 'otteridge, Hert• fordshire, died suddenly in the latter end of November, and was buried ; but circumstances have since transpired which lead the inhabitants to believe that he had been poisoned. It appears that a system ea' piondee had bees carried OR previous to his death, by some one resident in the house ; and, 00, an officer going down to inquire into the circumstances, he apprehended a man and his wife, named BRICE, and MARX Llrw, the deceased's house keeper. He found, in their possession fifty-three dupli cates of property belonging to Mr. BROMLEY, and they little% e boy, son committed to for th e psis trial fo ni r the ,r D robbery. morning of the death of My, !,-I,i.OULEY he was sent by his mother to meet SABAH BRIE, who had gone for gsoi;ei.ilauhdiamn,l;arifs. his The moth bo e y r i w ,a e d n t t o , l4 b z 1 37,, aitt:::awesoqfuuolertnl t A i n Y l o r a t . stated that on the BROMLEY, to make him slr!ap, BRIC has since admitt e d purchasing the laudac,,nin, and taking it to the residence of the deceased, The Res;. Mr. LYNPO,N, a magistrate, came to town upon the subiect, and after an interview with some of the Loodun magistrates, it was determined to have the dem:AO disinterred, and, if passible, at this lengthened period, to examine the contents of the stomach. The body was exhumed on Sat,urtiax. 10 Pt ( ! POLICE . iNTELL iOi Q UEEN- S O UA R E.Ne\rtottei On Saturday evening, just as Mr . TT, the sitting Magistrate, was about leaving the bench, a stout powerful man was brought up in custody by the police constables of the A division, charged with having obtained entrance into St. James's Palace by means of skeleton keys, with an intent to com mit a felony. Mr. MARRIOTT—What is your name' Phi soner—l don't know, I'm sure. Mr. MARRIOTT told him that he was acting a very foolish part, and only doing himself a great deal of harm. Prisoner—l can't tell my name. George Rarbury, the office-keeper to the Board of Green Cloth at St. James's Palace, stated that about five o'clock in the afternoon he left the office. At that time there was one of the mes sengers in the office. About a quarter past six o'clock, it being a dark foggy night, he returned to see that every thing was safe. On opening the door he observed a light, and thinking that the messenger had not left, he called out " You have not done then." At that moment he observed two strange men in the office, who rushed past him and ran away. Witness immediately followed ; one of the men ran up Pall-Mall, the prisoner ran up St. James's-street ; he called out " Stop thief," and some police constables seized the prisoner. Wit ness then went back to the Palace, and found that his desk had been wrenched open with a crow-bar, arid his papers all strewed about. He also found a I dark-lantern in the office, which had, no doubt, been left by the thieves in their hurry to escape. He had not yet had time to examine the office minutely, and could not say whether any thing was missing. In answer to a question, the witness stated that be never lost sight of the prisoner until he was in custody. William Martin, one of the messengers, stated that a little before six o'clock, he went up the State rooms with a letter; at that time all was safe; and when he left the office he locked the door. A police constable, who apprehended the pri soner, produced a number of skeleton keys of vari ous sizes, and several small crow bars, which he found on the prisoner. Mr. MARRIOTT—Have you any thing to say in answer to the charge? Prisoner—Why, ull I got to say is, that I was going up St. James's-street, when there was a cry of " Stop thief," and these oonstables laid hold of me, and this is all I know about it. Mr. MARRIOTT—Do you still refuse to give your name ? Prisoner—l shan't tell my name at present. Mr. Manniorr —What business are you ? Pri soner--I refuse to say anything now. Mr. AIARRIOTT—You are only exciting a pre judice against yourself, and doing yourself no pos sible good by refusing your name. Prisoner—l have my reasons for not telling my name. It was in vain to press the question, and Mr. Marriott ordered him to be remanded. The prisoner was then removed. THA MES- OFFICE. On Saturday Captain Samuel William Hurry, master of the Fenwick West Indiatnan, from Ber bice, now lying in the St. Katharine's Dock, was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE and Captain Men- BELL, charged with committing a series of cruel assaults on Joseph Bransen, a sailor boy, aged 17. The complainant, who was labouring under a severe illness and fever, stated that both on the outward and homeward bound voyage the Captain had frequently beaten and kicked him. About four days after the ship sailed, the Captain struck him with a speaking trumpet, and broke it to pieces over his back, as they were speaking a ship. He received serious bruises on that occasion. The next time he was beaten at, or near, Berbice, and severely kicked. One day he had a shivering and ague upon him, and the Captain knocked him down at the wheel and jumped upon him, because he was unable, from weakness, to steer. He had frequently, when ill, kept him steering four or five hours with out allowing him any grog. While the vessel was in Stangate creek, he was so ill with the fever and ague that he was unable to work ; and as they were about to leave after performing quarantine, the Captain came down and ordered him aloft. He told him he could not get up, when the Captain abused him, and kicked him repeatedly as he lay in his birth. One kick nearly put his backbone out, and, he could not move his neck without eilduring grew; pain. The lad with difficulty stood upright. The defendant said, that when he struck the boy with the speaking trumpet he was not steer ing properly. Captain RICHBELL said, a man ought to have bees placed at the ‘vneel while the ship was speaking another. The defendant said that the boy's illness arose through laziness, and he could not get him to at tend to his duty, and it was always necessary to punish boys to make them work. While he was at Berbice the boy had every attention paid to him by a doctor, and recovered sufficiently to work, but he skulked during the voyage homewards, though he (the Captain) and several of the crew were ill. Mr. BALLANTINE asked the prisoner what he had to say to the more serious charge of kickng the boy in Standgate-creek, and injuring hurt so as to affect the back of his neck. Captain Hurry said the pilot told him he must get the crew up, or he could not get the ship out of the creeks, but when he called the buy he wntibl not move, and he was compelled to kick him. The lad said he never refu-ed to work wutle he was able, and had been three voyages with am)! her Captain, who had given him a good character. The defendant was continually beating and kckng him, and he was unable to stir from his hammock at Standgat , -creek. Mr. BALLANTINE said he was surprised that Captain Hurry, who appeared a well-educated and respectable man, could justify such cruelty in the way he bad done. If the boy had been a thief, the punishment inflicted upon him w , puld not have been. warranted; but under the circumstances, it was quite uncalled for. When we hear of mutinies and ex ceases by seamen, we don't wonder at it, knowing the many cases of harsh treatment by masters of ships which are brought before us. Frivolous com plaints b,y sailors against their Captains would never be. listened to in that office; but this was a case that deserved severe reprobation. Captain 11.1cHnELA.,,—I think that Captain Hurr y was not at all justified in such treatment, as this. It is very, had incleed• Captain Hurry denied that the boy was ill, and asked what he was to doif not allowed to punish boys. Mr. BALLANTINV, said he thought it was impos sable to reach the defendant's mind; but he must tell him that his conduct at the bar showed that. his heard was not in the right place. In the Royal L h avy, where the discipline was very accurate, no per son from the Admiral of the Fleet downwards would be allowed to kick or trample on a boy, but if ill he would be taken care of. He and his colleagues often saw persons going into fits who never fainted, and others crying who never shed a tear, but every per Ban in the office could see that the boy's illness was not feigned, and that his white and parched tongue and ghastly looks were the indications of a severe fever and ague- The bench were of opinion that Captain Hurry's conduct was bad from beginning to end, and that he ought to be held to bail to appear at the Admiralty sessions for the assaults at sea, or fined 51. fur the assault in the county at Statuig4te ettrieeelti'd wAhso neither e e o n f e ill u s s e e d c , o u h r e se w s o % t s l o d u would lo b w e n e t e t parties to talk together, and see if they could cotne to any arrangement. Soon afterwards Mr. Evans, the principal sur veyor, said that the biry t h ls a a d tio co n i , is u e l i l i d ted th t e o receive t►so Vlagisira es ; o li v en ere o i r g d i e ls re a d s the s warrant c°m pie to be di sc h arge d, out tile defendant paying costs. Captain IttcnnELL also directed that the lad should be conveyed to the . 41 5,44 Dreadnaught hospital-ship, where he wouldhe taken "" proper care of, Mril • A,' Cent N I~ C HEERFUL CHRISTMAS AMUSEMENT. 1 1 In Two Vols. post Bvo. price 18s. OUR in ENGLAND, IRELAND, and 11, 41 FRANCE, in the Years 1828 and 1829 ; with and a .1. ne its en the Manners and Customs of th rae Inhabitants, cdotes of Distinguished Public Chacters. 4 By a GERMAN PRINCE. loti, 4 t contains the least prejudiced , and m ost acute 4ft: We have read, of the habits and modes of thin kin g licgi!ehmen, and the merits and defects of the country t 'neiety,"_Globe, Nov. 11. \-_,!ton; Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. NOTICE TO EXHIBITORS. ALL PICTURES and WORKS of ART e t „, intend e d f o r EXHIBITION and SALE must be tb t l t° the Gallery on MONDAY the 16 th an d TUESDAY til t 7 th January next, between the hours of Ten in bo/"rning and Five in the Evening, after which time lriti t . le ture or other Wor ks of Art can be receive d. Por- W a lld Drawings in Water Colours are inadmissible. 4 op b • No Picture will be received for sale th at is not fide the property of the Artist. WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper.