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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY 1-:_aracts from the Morning Pvers,J(4ll. 4, 1825 [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Mr. Canning communicated to all the Foreign Ministers, in the afternoon of Saturday last ; at the Foreign Office, that the Cabinet of his Bri tannic Majesty had come to the resolution of ac knowledging the independence of Mexico and Colombia, and that Commissioners would be sent to those States, charged with full powers to con clude treaties of commerce between them and Ois country, founded on that recognition. The recognition of Buenos Ayres, which has long pos sessed a settled Government, may soon be ex nected. We understand that some further in formation respecting its extent and external rela !ions, is wished for before recognizing this State. No report from Chili has yet been received. We understand also that Colonel Campbell and Mr. - Ward were an hour with Mr. Canning on Sunday, at Gloucester Lodge, when they received their final instructions from that Gentleman, previous to their leaving town on Wednes day next, to embark in the Egeria, at Ply mouth, for Colombia and Mexico, where they are to reside permanently, the former Commission being dissolved. These gentlemen are charged with full powers to negociate and conclude a Treaty of Commerce with the States in question. Mr. - Ward, who lately married a daughter of Sir John S‘‘inburne, is accompanied by his lady, and Mr. Ball, formerly attached to the Embassy in Spain, goes with Mr. Ward to Mexico.- - We congratu late the country on a measure fraught with such important consequences, and we give credit to Ministers, for their yielding once more to the wishes of the people, enforced by the minority of their own body, to whose enlightened views, on many subjects, we have been indebted on several occasions of late. We shall al ways be ready to acknowledge what appears to us meritorious in the conduct of the Admini stration. Indeed, we take no credit to ourselves, for liberality in so doing, for we have long been! persuaded that the factious snarling at all which proceeds from one set of men, and praising all that proceeds from another, is only calculated to deprive opinion of its proper weight, as the boy who was perpetually calling out wolf, was disre garded when the wolf actually appeared. We only wish that the ignorant selfishness of the Aristocracy of England would allow the more liberal and enlightened portion of the Ministry to give effect to their intentions with respect to the more important improvements in our policy. [MORNING POST.] The Catholic Association has finally deter mined that its first public act as a Body, shall be an attack on the Liberty of the Press.— Adopting all the forms of a regular Parliament, it had appointed a Committee to consider whether it would be proper to prosecute a London Paper for an alleged libel on Maynooth College. The Committee has of course reported in the sense of the Association, and the ball, after having been thus returned to each other, is to be hurled with the united strength of both at the offending Pub lication. In order, however, that the Jour nalist may be impartially tried, the venue is to be laid in any county in Ireland, where the Jury would probably he %%holly composed of Catholics; and he is to be called across the Channel to meet this array of fairness against him. But will he come, is the question ? Mr. O'Connell seems to imagine that (under an old Irish Act) he can be forced away from his natural Judges, and brought to obtain justice in the midst of enemies. Will the laws of this country sanc tion such an exposure to almost certain danger? 'We think not : and it require more than the eloquence of the new Catholic Ally, (converted Cobbett) to convince us that so barefaced an at tempt to defeat justice can be legally allowed. Mr.O'Connell's own trial was to take place yester day, and had excited the more interest and curi osity, as he intended to plead his own cause. [BRITISH PRESS.] It was stated yesterday with great confidence by those who ought to be well informed on the subject, that an official communication was made on Friday last to the Foreign Ministers at the British Court, informing them that his Majesty had resolved to conclude commercial treaties with the new Governments of Mexico and Colombia.— This resolution will of course lead immediately to the recognition of the independence of these States. The policy explicitly declared by the British Government, with respect to SOuth Ame rica, has left it perfectly free to pursue its own interests, without any reference to the feelings or prejudices of Spain, or the other European Powers. We knew, by the Parliamentary state ments of his Majesty's Ministers last Session, that this question was considered by the Cabinet as one purely British, and there can be no doubt that during the interval nothing has occurred to change their views of the subject. The sole reason for deferring the recognition was the want of accurate information as to the ability of the new American Governments to maintain the rank they had as. sumed. That information has been, we believe, most satisfactorily obtained by means of the Com missions sent out specially for that purpose last year. It seems to us, therefore, highly probable that the report of yesterday may prove well founded. The two states of Mexico and Colom bia appear to be as securely established as any indefoendant Power in the world. The Govern ments of both are in the tranquil exercise of their functions; and it may, without the !east exaggera tion, be affirmed, that either of them is more capable of subduing the mother country, than she is, unassisted, to reduce them again under her authority. The question has for some time been substantially decided. All that remained, then, on our part with regard to Spain, was that diplomatic courtesy which we owed to an unfor tunate a lly ;. and with regard to the new States, that politic. caution which should give our coun sels weight' in•th es of surrounding Potentates, and sav e us from the inextricable absurdities into which rashness might have plunged us. Let us hope that the time has at length come, when, in the judgment of his Majesty's Government, com mercial relations may safely and properly be formed with the new States. From this quarter we may calculate upon a progressive and an inde finite increase of our trade. What have we offered to us ? A vast continent to be gradually peopled by freemen, able to supply themselves in abund_ ance with the products of our manufactures. The external prospects of our country are, we thank Heaven, in every respect as cheering as we could wish. The wise policy of the Cabinet has car ried us with peace and honour through the per plexed mazes in which it was the hope of the Holy Alliance to have entangled us. His Ma jesty's Ministers have avoided Scylla without splitting upon Charybdis. They have prudently forborne from mixing themselves in the strug gles between the revolutionary spirit, which, on the one hand, would overthrow all institutions, and the monarchical principle, which, on the other hand, would consecrate all the abuses of power. Our renovated strength and increasing prosperity are the best evidences of the soundness of their judgment. We are now enabled, at our own unfettered discretion, to choose for ourselves, when we will acknowledge the political existence of the New States which supplicate our recog nition. One of the French journalists, when lamenting the degrading subserviency of his Court to the Holy Alliance, pointed in admiration to the dexterous manner in which the English Go vernment had, as he represented it, withdrawn from the league of Sovereigns without firing a shot, or even exchanging an angry word. In fact, however, England never formed part of the Holy Alliance. She belonged to the general confederation of European Powers for defensive and conservative purposes ; but the moment it was projected to convert the Alliance into a superintending authority to controul the internal affairs of every people, and compel them to conform their political institutions to the Russian and Austrian models of perfection, Eng land refused to become a party to the new com pact, and protested against the principle on which it was founded. We have thus been left free to consult our own benefit, while the other great Powers are involved in the endless intricacies of their tortuous policy. Let us feel grateful to Providence, in the first place, for our insular po sition ; next, for that excellently-balanced Con stitution which has fully demonstrated that— Orders and degrees jar not with liberty, but well consist ; and finally, for the sound neutrality which the King's Government has adopted, and which in- sures us the complete enjoyment of all the advan tages of our singularly happy situation. [NEW TIMES. It is asserted with more than usual confidence by the Houses connected with South America, that on Saturday, Mr. Canning read to the Foreign Ministers a Circular Letter intended to be ad dressed to all the European Powers of the deter mination of his Majesty's Government to recog nise the Independence of Buenos Ayres, Mexico, and Colombia as Free States, but that with regard to the other South American Provinces, informa tion had not been received sufficient to enable Government to come to a determination. A Commercial Treaty with each of the above States is said to be on the eve of being concluded by this country. The British Funds yesterday afternoon expe rienced a slight decline, in consequence of do mestic rumours of an unfavourable tendency ; among which were, the requisition for additional military aid for Ireland, and the forwarding troops to India, on account of the resistance offered by the Burmese. Consols opened at 956, and declined to 052 3 1- for the Account. The speculation in Foreign Securities and the Shares in the new Companies continues unabated; and the prices of both, as will he perceived by our lists, have experienced considerable fluctua tions, and they have ohta: d even higher prices than on Saturday. The shares in the Conti nental Gas Company were in demand at 2 per cent. premium ; and when compared with the other speculations, a considerable improvement is considered as likely to follow. The Speech of the President of the United States is hourly ex pected in town.—(ibib.) [THE TIMES.] There needed not much additional proof of wisdom or consistency in the Catholic Associa tion beyond those which have already been afforded by that grave and worshipful assembly. Mr. O'Connell, and his brethren of a sub-com mittee, who had received a special charge upon the subject, have brought in a report recommend ing seriously that a London Evening Paper shall be prosecuted for libelling the Royal Catholic College of Maynooth ; and quantum suificit of the rent, it appears, is to be set apart for that purpose. Now we are not shocked at such a determination of the Catholic leaders, nor indeed surprised at it ; it would, on the contrary, move us to ridicule if it did not affect us with something like regret. The Catholic Association is an ephemeral creature, whose interests have nothing definite about them, and whose merits or demerits are likely soon to be forgotten ; but it is not so with the commu nity from which the Association springs —the great body of our Catholic fellow-suhjects—pos sessing a fixed root in the land, and real, solid,' and permanent relations with the State itself, and with every individual, no matter what may be his creed or character, who lives under it. The advantage of incorporating the Catholics of the em pire with the rest of their countrym e n has long been manifest to us ; the impossibility of bringing about a change so important, by Constitutional means, in defiance of England, the chief seat of national feeling and opinion, must have surely been no less obvious : the policy, therefore, of the Catholics from the outset, was clearly to con ciliate the taste and affections of their fellow subjects here. Passing by all former mistakes of these gentry, we shall therefore satisfy ourselves with remarking, that a more inconsistent, odious, or despicable measure, could not have been adopted by the Catholics, with a view to its in fluence on the mind of Englishmen, than this pro secutiou of the Public Press by one collec tive body, for the ostensible vindication of an • other. The Catholics have professed to make their appeal to public opinion, and to rely on that alone. Is this a proof of their sincerity ? If they are desirous of nothing more than that the college of Maynooth should be set right with the English nation, what ought to be their course ? An evening paper published a series of direct at tacks upon the conduct of the Catholics generally —their leaders, their priests, and their college. Without transgressing the bounds of complaisance, we may affirm, that the hostile spirit observ able in a polemical writing, just takes away a proportionate amount from the credit which might be otherwise due to any statements of facts con tained in it. If there was, then, apparent in the letters or articles alluded to, a settled view of the present state of Irish politics the reverse of favourable to the hopes and pretensions of the Catholics, no impartial man who read them could feel otherwise than disposed to doubt the accu racy of such charges as were brought against that body for the sake of impeding their cause. The antidote to the poison was in the Press itself : it was administered with activity, and in profusion, and the effects of it were all that would have been wise or liberal in the Catholics to look for —a disbelief of the charge, and an exculpation of the party. But they demand a prosecution —not acquittal, but revenge. Is it possible to wish that such an attempt should prosper? They make a parade of suffering the truth to be given in evi dence. This is a silly ostentation ; for the Judge who allows it in a criminal case ' will not discharge his duty. They take advan tage of a law which enables the party prosecuting to bring his indictment where he likes— in a county, for instance, where hardly such a thing as a Protestant Jury could be formed. Would such a prosecution, if a verdict of guilty were delivered, be thought a justification of the Col lege half so satisfactory as the press itself has already furnished against the charges of the Evening Paper ? The famous " Constitutional Association " here, was execrated by the whole kingdom, for usurping the powers of the Attor ney-General, and striving to put down discus sion : why should a knot of Catholics be tole rated in an attempt, for which another junto (personally less respectable, we admit) were al most banished from society ? Mr. O'Connell must give op this stupid enterprise, or he must talk of free discussion no more. [MORNING lIERALD.I It seems somewhat extraordinary that while part of the Ministers of George the Fourth, as King of England, and those possessing hitherto apparently the greatest influence, are hostile to any further concession to the Catholics, the Ministers of the same Sovereign, as King of anover,have (as appears by the Proclamation to that effect in our Paper of Saturday) declared not only an unlimited toleration, but an actual community of religion throughout the latter Kingdom. We are at a loss to know upo❑ what grounds his Majesty's German sub jects can be entitled to, and thought fit for this enlarged and liberal system of Govern ment, which wouhl not equally apply to his British and Irish subjects. Nor can we perceive what real danger is to be apprehend ed from Popery in one country, which would not equally apply to the other. Surely it cannot be the Church property after all, that the alarm is about. We thought the advocates and toasters of Protestant Ascendancy had views and fears beyond mere lucre ; hut this we sadly fear is at the bottom of it all. But if the mere fear of losing tithes be the real object of alarm, we think they may (as far, at least, as the Catholic Association is concerned) rest very secure on that score. This farcical Parliament, which issues forth its Money Bills for the collection of the Catholic Rent, loves lucre quite as well as the wealthiest pluralist or the wealthiest patron of the Protestant Church can desire; and is by far too financial in its views, to dislike a moneyed hierarcy in any re spect. It is true the Catholics might like to 'I transfer the Church property from the pockets of its present possessors to their own—but that I►ope is equally vain and preposterous, though the " quills upon the fretful porcupine" be employed to cry down the Reformation, as they had previ ously done the Revolution. Nothing, we ap prehend, will more effectually expose the sinister views of the Catholic Junta than the profligate and venal purposes to which this monstrous impo sition, called Catholic Rent, is appropriated,— We are in possession of some facts upOn this sub ject, which are not yet ripe for disclosure. Not that we would have our readers suppose that we have any thing so awfully mysterious to announce as the Reverend Orange Baronet, whose ravings we are sometimes obliged to record. But every thing we see and hear upon the subject impresses us more and more with a conviction, that the wisest policy which could be pursued by the Govern ment would be to save these people from them selves, by taking the mass of the Catholics out of the hands of their crafty and designing leaders, by giving them at once all that they are entitled to ask, or that we could in prudence yield to them. This being done, the Catholic Parliament and its rent would soon fall to the ground. Lord Bacon says, " the surest way to prevent seditious (if the times do bear it), is to take away the matter of them." Nothing, we believe, would mortify these pseudo hegislators more than to deprive them of their causes of com plaint, and with them their consequent supplies. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] The report of its being the intention of his Majesty's Government to establish political re lations with the New States of America has gained ground in an extraordinary degree, since we first mentioned it on Saturday last. Yester day it was repeated with a confidence which re jected all doubts; and there would be au end, indeed, to all controversy, if a statement, that accompanied it, could be substantiated. It was asserted, for example, that a notifica tion to this effect had been made in due form to Foreign Powers ; but, without pretending to deny the truth of this assertion, we cannot help expressing surprise, that the Public, after so de cisive a step, and upon a matter of such import ance, should be left to the influence of conjecture or mere rumour. It was again said, that Mr. Ward would immediately proceed to Mexico ; though the precise object of his mission was variously stated. According to one account, he was not in the first instance to assume a di ' plomatic character, which appears to us to be inconsistent with that manly course of proceed ing, which should characterize a Government like ours ; and we therefore prefer another ver sion of it, which gives him at once a political character. This would be the most dignified, and, at the same time, the wisest mode of acting ; and we should infer from certain circum stances, that it has been actually adopted.— When it should be understood that the resolu tion was irrevocable, it would leave to Foreign Powers only the alternative of acquiescence, or open resistance ; and never was there a period in i our whole history, when we could vindicate, whatever a just policy might recommend, with less fear of consequences. At the same time, the proposed augmentation of our military force would seem to shew, that objections, should they present an unfriendly character, would be met with a vigonr, which should prove that, as far as our Government was concerned, the question had ceased to be one of diplomatic litigation. However, till we see Mr. Ward's ap pointment announced in the Gazette, we must suspend our belief, though our confidence, that his Majesty's Government will not much longer disappoint "public expectations, is almost un limited. Every thing seems strongly to indi cate that they have taken their stand ; though we are aware that this opinion is rather irrecon cileable with the mystery in which the matter is still somewhat involved. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR THE COUNTIES OF WORCESTER, STAF FORD, AND SALOP, DEc. 1824. The excessive rains and violent storms during the early part of the month, has very greatly impeded the busi ness of the farmer, and a very great breadth of land remains without seed ; although the latter part of the month the weather has been more favourable, and the uplands have enjoyed the benefit, yet the large portion of cold and wet land must remain for spring tillage.—The Barley has turned out but a small crop to what was expected, and keeps up a very remunerating price to the fortunate and early farmed.—Beans have not come gene rally to the barn floor ; what has been shewn are very soft, and good old Beans will retain their price.—The floods have done so much damage to the Grass in the lower parts of the country, that the hay-stack begins to shew a great reduction in size, and should we have a backward spring, (of which there is a great probability), the keep of sheep and cattle will be found very expensive, and at the most trying season of the year ; happy will that farmer be who has a few acres of Saintfoin or Lucern ; the value of these productive plants will then be Most appa rent.—Much land will be got ready for the sowing of Mange' Wurzel, Saintfoin, Lucern, and Carrots, this next spring; we shall be well pleased to see our farmers generally growing these productive plants, at present they were only grown by some of our most knowing and intelligent agriculturists.—The pros_ pects of the farmer are, generally speaking, very flattering; and two or three more such seasons as the last will restore them to their just weight in the State. Commerce and Agriculture go hand in hand, one cannot suffer without equal injury to the other. CALAIS. (FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.) SUNDAY MORNING.—Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant of this place there has been no winter, with so long a succession of boisterous weather, as the present. From all parts of France the complaints of the farmers are prevalent, as the heavy rains have completely rotted the food in the ground which was provided for the sheep ; and in some places there have been partial inundations, attended with disastrous conse quences to property. The destruction at sea has equalled, if not exceeded, that of the worst years, and there is scarcely a port on the coast which has not witnessed a wreck. Here a new vessel of 180 tons, from Dieppe, was driven ashore, and wreck ed. At Havre two or three vessels met that fate; but it is re markable that a steam vessel from Dieppe, the Duke d'Angou leme, succeeded in entering the port at the same moment that the sailing vessels were wrecked in sight of the basin. The Fury arrived here from Dover last night at eleven o'clock, with about 100 passengers, and dispatches for the British Ambas sador in Paris. Mr. Maggaw, confidential courier of Mr. Rothschild, was also passenger, on his way to Naples. Mr. M. is the courier who made the journey from Naples to London, not long ago, in eleven days. The unfortunate dispute which took place at Dover a few days ago between the French soldiers who put in there from stress of weather, on their way to Martinique, and some of the inhabitants, has been repre sented to the French Government by the Authorities of Calais ; but I am happy to hear that some of the principal persons at Dover, including many of the military, have borne testimony to the general good conduct ,of these men during their stay at Dover, and have much softened the anger which might be felt i'mards them by the French Government, on ac count of their having wounded some of the inhabitants. lam assured that th,.y were grossly insulted by the rabble before they drew their gwcvds. It is an extraordinary fact, that at this early period arrangements are making to profit by the Coronation, which is to take place at Rheims in May, and which will he the most s pl en did ceremony ever witnessed in France. Neurice, the innkeeper, is buying up all the car riages which he can obtain, with the expectation of selling or letting them for the journey at an enormous profit. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.— At the Eleventh Anniversary of the Chichester Diocesan Coln. mittee, held in the Library of the Cathedral, on Thursday the 30th of December, his Grace the Duke of It ichmond in the Chair, a most gratifying statement of the progress of that useful Insti tution, was laid before the Meeting, by which it appeared, that the objects and resources of the Committee had prospered to a degree unexampled in any preceding year. Several new Members had been added to the list of subscribers in the course of the year, and an enlarged distribution had been made, amounting to 397 Bibles, 287 Testaments, 1,087 Prayer Books, 979 bound Tracts, and 1,900 stiched Tracts, &c. the origin a l cost of which to the Parent Society was 3 22. Gs. 60., but the whole charge to the Committee was 1981. 13s. 7,3 d. 7 fhe amount of the donation from the funds of the Committee to the Parent Society (consisting of an entire third of all supscriptions and receipts by sale of books during the year 1824) is 1051.95. A most distressing event has taken place at Southampton—A respectable tradesman of the town was very suddenly seized, about a fortnight since, with a violent fit o f r a ving delirium, for which no possible cause could be assigned, but r'nat which gossips are always ready to infer in similar cases _love ; but, it appeared rather to be constitutional. lie was conveyed to Grove Place with great difficulty, and on Thursday last his earthly sufferings were closed by death. The event has caused some sensation. The deceased was a young man of ath. letic and prepossessing appearance, and had not long been an inhabitant of the town. - Wednesday night intelligence was received at the Police Office, Edinburgh, that a Mrs. D uou ID was danger ously wounded. On examining her head, it was found that her whole hair was matted with blood, but upon removing it no wound could be discovered at first. At length it was ob served, that the suture of the skull had been penetrated with some miuute instrument, such as a penknife, which had also pierced one of the branches of the temporal artery. The poor woman charged her husband with having stabbed her with his knife,. and, also with habitual maltreatment. He i s now i n custody. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET, Jan. 1. Clover, O. 1 lOs Od to 120 s Od Hay, Old Bus Od to 100 s Od —1nf..... 84s Ott to 105 s Od —New lnf. 63s Od to 85s Od —s Od to —s ud Straw .... 36s Od to 42s Ott ST. JAMES'S. Hay 67s Od to 110 s oe. ; Clovt r .... 80s Od t o 11 0 s a d New Ditto —s Od to —s Od I Sttaw ....3 Is 6d to 48s Od WHITECHAPEL. ('lover Bos ad to 120 s Od i Hay 6ss Od t o 100 s O d Straw ....36s ad to 42s od 1 Inferior —s Od to —6 Od PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt., Dec.3l. Kent Pockets Sussex Pockets Essex Pockets Farnham, 101 Os to 121 12s—Seconds, 91 Os to 101 Os Kent Bags Sussex ICags loss. to 115 s. to 120 s. per cwt. Es,vx Bags 1 10s. to 120 i. to 130 s. per cwt. R A W HIDES. Best Heifers &Si eers, per st. Orditil . try ... .. 2s 6d to 2s 8d 35 Od to 3s 6.: Market Calf .. each.. Ss Od NI iddlings SHEEP SKINS. Polled Ss Oil to 5s 9d I Sheep .... Os od to Os od Downs 2s 8d to 3s 2d j Lambs...... Os Od to Os Od PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 56Ihs each per lb 204 to 21d Ditto, 56 to 661bs each 224 to 23d Dressing Hides l6d to 18d Coach Hides 194 to 2lad Crop Hides, 35 to 40Ihs for cutting 141 to 170 Ditto .... 45 to :Albs Calf Skins-36 to 401bs Ditto 50 to 70Ibs 23d to 264 Ditto 7O to 80Ihs 224 to 24d Small Seals (Greenland) 174 to 18d Large ditto Tanned Horse Hides 134 to I6d Spanish Horse Hides NUCES OF TALLOW, so Town Tallow 46s 6d —s Od Yellow Russia 39s Od —s (al White ditto.. 37s 011 —s Od Soap ditto.... 36s 6d -s ad Nlenine: Stuff 31s On —s Od Ditto Rough.. 90s ad —s ad , Al', &c. per il-21b.—Dec. 31. Yell ~.w Soap 7St9 Mottled BO9 Curd Graves l6s od Good Dregs 6s Od PH ICE OF CANDLES, FROM TALLOW CHANDLER'S HALL. Price of Candles, per dozen, 6s a 7s— Moulds, 9s od. 6d per dozen allowed for ready money. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of 311).—Dec. 31. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters), 2s. COAL 111ARKET, JAN. 3. Ships at Market. Ships sold 58,} Newcastle - - 13 8 Sunderland - - Price. 28s 6d to 41s Od —s Od to 42s 6d ANOTHER MOVING BOG !—A respectable Gen tleman in l3elfast has received a letter from Bal lymoney, dated Dec. 24, in which it is stated that the peaty matter, Bally windlin bog, situated about two miles and a half from Ballymoney, began to move on Wednesday last, and has al ready covered about 40 acres of arable land, in some places from six to ten feet deep. Several fir blocks have been thrown up by the floating peat. We presume that some subterranean stream, swollen by the late rains, which may have penetrated to its channel through shallow and pervious soil, has burst through its usual boundaries, risen to the surface, and hurried thg boggy matter in its precipitate course from its former site.--(Belfast News Letter.) Sir,WALTut SCOTT, in conjunction with Mr. JOHN LocKnART, it is said, is busy in preparing for the press an edition of SIIAKSPEARE. This has long been a desideratum in our national lite rature, and from the known talent of the parties engaged, we have no doubt that the hiatus which this want has caused, will be most ably supplied. BIRTHS. At Bossington-house, Hants, on the 20th Ot., the lady of Harry Brereton Trelawny, Esq., of a son. On Monday last, the lady of Charles Covey, Esq., of Bir mingham, of a son. MARRIED. On Saturday last, the Ist inst., at Cudham church, Alfred. Nicholson, Esq. surgeon in the Royal Navy, to Lucin a , f ourt h : daughter of Luke Pocock, Esq., Ashmore-house, Kent. On Tuesday, at Wallingford, Berks, the Rev. John Hold. ing, A.M., of Oakley, in this county, to Susan, daughber of the late Robert Lovegrove, Esq., of Wallingford. DIED. On Friday morning last, the 31st ult., at Peckham-Rye, in her 85th year, Mrs. Sarah Kellet, one of the Society of Friends, and one of the oldest inhabitants of that place. On Friday, the 19th ult., in the 79th year of his age, at hig residence near 31 on aglian , the I t igh t Rev. James Al ur phy, D.D., late Catholic Bi s h op o f Cl ogher, On Friday last, at her brotHr-in-law's house at Blackheath, Mary, the eldest daughter of John Lee, Esq., of Lewisham, in Kent. On Tuesday, the 28th ult., at Upper Clapton, at a very ad vanced age, Mrs. Pearson, relict of Hugh Pearson, Esq., for merly of Lymington, Hants. On the 30th ult., in Liverpool, Alexander Hamilton, Esq., aged 62. "On Thursday, in Welbeck-street, Mr. Nicholas Shearly, sen. On the 2d inst., at his residence, Stourbridge, Worcester shire, Samuel Bate, Esq., aged 84. On Saturday, at Brighton, aged 13 years, Elizabeth Frances Carleton Orde, daughter of the Rev. John Orde, of Winslade, near Basingstoke, Printed and Published for the PaoPutETorts, at the SUN.- OFFICE, N0. , 112, Strand,. by J. B..CAItSTATHS.. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis, is l Id. for the 41b. loaf—there are ethers who sell from a halfpenny to three halfpence below that rate. IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. English. Irish. Foreign. Wheat Barley Malt 4,562 25 Oyes 14,284 9,820 25 55 Beans ... 1,640 Peas - 50 Tares Rapeseed Brink ... - , Mustard ... ..--.. Seeds 2O Flour .. Linseed ... ---- SEEDS, Jan. 3. New English R. Clover, per cwt...4Bs 63s Sts—fine 95s Old Ditto New Foreign ditto 6ls 70s 84s—fine 98s Old ditto dittc. 29s 41s 53s—fine 79s New ‘Vhiteditto s7s 74s 77s—fine 86s Old ditto . 33s 485 - 63 s—fine 94, New Trefoil per cwt lOs 21s 25s—fine Ws Old ditto ss 9s Iss—fine 23s New Kibgiass Old ditto 2ls 30s 33s—fine 4ds English Carraway Seeds 41s 45s 49s—fine —s Foreign ditto 32s 40s 44s—fine —s Coriander do. 7s 6d 9s 10s—fine —s . St.Foirt....per yi 425 44s—fine 46s Bye-Grass 22s 33s—fine 35s Macey ditto Linseed fur feeding 46s 48s—fine 48s Div°, fur crushing 38s 42s—fine 48s Canary Seed White Mustard Seed.. per bushel 7s Os—fine lls Brown ditto .. ..12s I4s—fine 17s Turnip Seeds 6s 8s 6d—fine los Tares Rape Seed . ~. per last NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MAItIiETS, Jan. 3. By the Carcase. Beef 2s 4d to 3s 8d I Veal 35 4d to 5s 4d Mutton ..... as Od to 4s 4d 1 Pork 3s 4d to 5s 4d Lamb, Os 0(1 to os od.