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WEST INDIA DOCKS. STOCK ACCOUNTiforthc ‘ire,ekending Saturday, the 13th of January, 1825. Articles. lilids West India {Trs Ills fl g i4 t . Brazil - Chests 1 IHavanah Boxes . East India & 1 Bag , Mauritius j Molasses - - Casks R um _ - 1 Pns llds Brand y . - { Pus Il ds Holland& - ' ns { 1)17 ', Arrai:k - Casks Win e . . f Pipes 1 Ills V rs otroe - - fi r il: . Bags Casks Dc`'fi - - I t j''a-gs ..,ag. Pimen to . - j Casks I. Bags Casks° lnger .-. - t Ba.rs Pepp er - - f Casks Bags Cotton . - { Bales Bags Aloes - . Clourds Arrow Root - ft. Casks I 13aleam - - { jßa a l c e s s ll 4 rk Serous' " ' 1111 s Bags r _ - Bags Fistula - Ca3k 3 CIOTOS - . i Casks A Bags Cochine a l . - { seroßsna' El ephants"feeth No. Gu m - .. ie t f ( 'asks• 1, ti Hid e ; ." . . Tons Horns - No. No.- . Indig o - . Serous IPecacctanha ' 5 Casks Sal - ( Bags a p Bales . Whale - oil Castor - Casks { Coco Nut Casks Palm . Galls Casks Pox' shell t Casks - Serous Pine Apple - - Casks Rice and Paddy j Casks S ago 1 Bags - - Boxes Sarsaparilla Bales Tallo w - Casks ... - l'ortase Shell - f Boxes Turtl e Casks - - Casks Export), turn. Stock on Hand. 34,084 2,539 393 950 0 ,992 6,377 1,027 23,810 1,447 369 1,502 1,108 9,288 1,754 28,851 1,631 4,456 2,927 16,130 12,021 346 32 sa ss 'lO 2,663 11 131 2,924 1'2,440 654 3,281 394 23 34 343 25 6,230 1,866 451 105 6,084 6,438 34,598 woOD. pia Logs Logs hogany Pieces Plks &Bds Cedar 1 Logs - 1 Pcs & Plks Al./jean Timber J Logs Pieces Satan Maria -I L ogs t t Pieces hony l iiig• Vitra Tons - tons iiaZ woo g7L Wood Tons td Tarr IN; - Tons icarativa Wood Ton s "In \V ood Tons ar oo Tons lirazWillettod T Sau nders W P ons ood ie Lancewood Sp ars No ces . Stay e 4 - .- No. !..........._ pulce OF STOCKS I'll is ltattk Stock $ ............ per Cent. R e d . ..... ...... .... tmail per cent. c0n.... 93i 4h 34. 1 / 4 4 0 R ed . ki.per Cent. .................... .......... 101 h 1001 4 p et . C ent ( 'lank L New —.106 5i ong Ann ............. 2 3 l udilt Inn). Viper Cent s . Ditto Stock . ...... .......... 281 i Bonds ........ 100 s. Sou th Sea Stock 1051 PILI CES OF FOR EIGN Ft iNtrin,llds, 5 p er ct.... llraziliati Scrip ............ 17 pr -96 IluenotiAyreh thilitin lids, .6 per ct. 00i 1 1%0101111)4m 116.6 per ct. 85bani1 do. 1 8i-1 ............ 04, (i ree &Ids 5 per cent...... 101 2 k ... ......Nezican 13db ........ 133 56A 58 ;i 8 41 efipolittin, 5 p er cent, ... 014 scrip ............ I>elivered. Home Con sumption, 2,916 161 DAY AT ONE 0-CLOC6. Old Annuities - New Ditto Ex. Bills 10001.2 d. 65 63 ►itto 1 .(1. —.67 65 69 Ditto 500/. 2d. Ditto - I4d. —.67 85 69 Ditto Small Ditto 1Ad....67 65 69 Ditto Advertised . Bank for Act. India for Acct. Cons. for Feb. 25 NOS, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds ......:85 4 Portuguese B4‘nds Scrip Prussian, 5 per ct. Ditto New Russian, New, 5 per et 403,1 , Spanish 1821, 5 per et....202i4 1823, ditto. French Rcntes lo3i Exchange ... —f —c. Scrip O'CLOCK. PrucEs OF suAgEs AT ONE lBi Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Company B-1 7i 8 , Ditto, Marine Department 100 t'rotector Fire Assurance Company Anglo-Mexican Mining Company 16 18 10 13 pm. 23 22 pm. Anglo-Chilian Mining -Company 36 28 30 Arigna Iron and Coal Mining Company 37 34 - 31 25 2 6 Erazilian Alining Company 44 38 39 eldlian Alining Company 11 1 i Coloinbian Alining Company - - Hibernian Alining, Company Real del Alonte Mining Company Rio de la Plata Mining CoMpany Arnited Alexican Mining Company Continental Gas Company A. 50 4 4 445 :1 15 Provincial Portable Gas Company 1 United General as Company 3 2):, 4 London and Bristol Railway Company 41 London and Northern Railway Company 31an I'and Liverpool Railway' Company „ c ies,cr 39 37 40 3 "/ .. ttustralian Company liti3tol Ship Canal Company Cluck Company .......................................... 22 P 2 3 i ..... 8i pm. Xquitable Loan Bank Company ____ General Steam Navigation Company 26 6 25 Cas Engine Carriage Company Pearl Fishery Company 3 4 Hibernian Joint Stock Company Aletropolitan Alderney Dairy Company PRICE OD 111.1 , 111 STOCKS, .IAN 11l'eftk Stock ... '- , 1 Loan, 6 P- 42 " 68: 4:),,, .............. !Grand Cana : Deb 3 i per cent ....... I i ...iuck, 34 per et ................ i I "----------(„ New DittoStock ... 13 Royal Canal Stock .... - ;1" 7 . Deb. 4 e . r . .. ... i . -...-- " t 1 ( 7 ) . 37 (1e-street Cert. 6 per ct- -- i ' 4 °lr• Deb. - per cent....... en....... Do. Deb. with Gov. Set.— - 7" - ock , 4 per cent. ...... 64 Pipe Water Deb. 5 per a• - g e ftury Bills ' , - Do. - - -ity Debent ere ' s,_ d g e p r er e‘ c n t. t. -- Balast Office Govt. Sec 41In in Hozpital 4 per et. A -. per cent. .•.....,t11...,' • - FOREIGN MAILS. CI ottenb urgh Hantburgh - Prance ARRIVED. DUE. .5 11 0 ZION WATER AT LOS DON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 26 minutes after 2.1 Evening, 48 Initiates after 2. THE SUN. BOLEN QUIS DICERE F.ILSUIf AUDEAT LON DON, TUESD..-IY EVENING, JAN. 18, 1815. It is reported that an Express arrived this morning from Liverpool, with accounts from Buenos Ayres to the 14th November, broegh tby the ship Flora, which left the latter port six days later than the packet, the arrival of which we an nounced yesterday. The Captain of the Flora states, that ou the eve of his departure a boat came alongside with the intelligence that an over land Express had been just received, confirming the account of the second defeat of CANTELLAC by Bor.ivAn, in which the Royalist Army is said to have been nearly aunihnated. The Paris Morning Papers of Saturday which arrived last night, are quite destitute of political intelligence. The Moniteur contains a Royal Ordinance for establishing a fund of pensions and allowances for retiring functionaries and persons employed in the Department of Finance, and to their widows and orphans ; the details of which are of little interest to the English reader. By the fillgemeine Zeitung of the 11th inst., I which arrived this morning, we have received the I interesting intelligence, that besides the Lakes of Genoa and Constance, those of Neufchatel, Biel, Zurich, and Wallerstadt, will have the advantage of steam-boats by the end of this year. It were to be wished that the Lakes of the four Cantons might participate in the advantage ; but though it would perhaps be more useful and agreeable there than else where, it is likely to meet with the most op position in the petty interests of the inhabitants of the little Cantons. M. PERDONNET, a Banker of Paris, and a native of Vevey in the Pays de Vaud, has proposed to the Governments of the Cantons of Vaud, Berne, Neufchatel, Solothurn, and Frey l.u7g, to advance two millions of francs to complete the canal of Entre Roches (which was commenced in 1640 to join the lakes of Geneva and Neuf chatel, but afterwards abandohed), on condition of their allowing him to levy a certain toll. It is hardly to be supposed that the Government con cerned will reject a proposal so interesting to all Switzerland, and which will not cause it any ex pence. But, independently of this, it deserves consideration, as it would lead to the gradual draining of the great marshes of the Ober and Jus, the lake of Geneva being 190 feet lower than that of Neufchatel. But for the Porte du Rhone, as it is called (which may, perhaps, soon cease to exist), it would then be possible to sail from the Mediterranean to the lake of Geneva, and thence through the canal of Entre Roches into the lakes of Neufchatel and Biel, the Ziehl, the Aar, and the Rhine, to the North Sea. The whole voyage might be performed in steam boats, and the beginning is already made by those between Lyons and Arles on the Rhone, those on the lakes of Neufchatel and Geneva, and that from Mayence to Cologne, &c. The Austrian Observer of the 6th instant, which arrived this morning, does not contain any news of the least importance. The following are the quotations of the Austrian Funds : VIENNA, JAN. s.—Metalliques, 94 15-16—Bank Shares, 1158 1-5. Hamburgh Papers to the 12. th, and the Adige meine Zcitung of the 10th instant, arrived last night. The latter contains intelligence from Constantinople of the 10th December ) which does not_mentjon the appearance of the plague in that capital. The former communicates the following article from St. Petersbur,gh respecting some changes in the Russian Tariff of Customs :- 4 ‘ ST. PETERSBURGII, DEC. 29. " An Imperial Ukase, published on the 9.31 instant, contains some changes in the Tariff of Customs, by which the duties on some articles of exportation, and those on some imports are in creased. According to the list annexed to the Ukase, the importation of the following articles is prohibited :—Wrought lather, sail-cloth, Flemish linen, mixed metals, cloths, half cloths, cassimeres, veils of every description," &c. Cox v. KEAN.—We have this day given in other columns a copious account of - ;his extraor dinary trial, as it has obviously excited a strong degree of public curiosity and interest. The substance of the letters from the defendant to the plaintiff's wife was so fully stated by the Cou►r sel for the plaintiff, that it is not necessary to give the letters themselves, particularly as they are altogether extravagant, frivolous, and ridicu lous, and in some respects low, vulgar, and indecent. The two following letters, however, which were written on the same day, one to the Plaintiff's wife, and the other to the Husband, and which Mr. DENM A N, the Plaintiffs Counsel, denominated " TVr IN LETTERS," we think pro per to submit to our Readers without presuming to give any opinion on the merits of the case, as the Public have sufficient materials to enable them to jt,:lge for themselves. (Post-mark—Exeter, fifth Jan. tan.) Dear little imprudent Girl—Your incaution has been very near bringing our acquaintance to the most lamentable crisis. Of course lie will chew you the letter I have written him. Ap pear to countenance it ; and let him think that we are never to meet again, and in so doing he has lost a Friend. Leave all further arrangements to me. My aunt desires her best wishes to you, notwithstanding her anger. She says of your conduct before him, " Love shields the object of its wishes, not exposes it." All shall be shortly as you wish. (Address--Mrs.iSimpson, care of Mrs. Mathews, 12, Tavis tock-row, Covent-garden.) (Post-mark—Exeter, Jan. 6, 187.3.) My dear Cox—l have been seriously eonsickring the mass of nonsense uttered by us the two last nights at Salisbury. r moat own, likewise, they have given me great uneasiness. HI have paid more attention to your family than any other of my ac quaintances, the simple motive was to chew the world, that I valued my friends as much in adversity as when I shared their hospitality in their prosperity. I am sorry my conduct has been misconstrued, as the inference is unworthy of Yourself Me and a Being whose conduct I am sure is unimpeachable. To remove all doubts upon the subject, and to counteract the effects of insidious men, I shall beg leave to withdraw a friend ship rendered unworthy by suspicion. I must be the worst of villians, if I could take that man by the hand while meditating towards him an act of injustice.— You do not know me, Lox. Mine are forties, not vices. It has been my text to do all the good I could in the world ; and when I am called to a superior bourne Tlr memory may be blamed, but not despised. Wishing you and your family every blessing the world can give you, believe me Nothing less than Yours most sincerely, EDMUND KEAN. (Address —R. A. Cox, Esq. Wellington street, Waterloo Bridge, London.) According to an article from Dresden, it ap pears that, during the Session of the Saxon Diet, which has just closed, the expellee of the army is diminished 60,000 dollars, but the augmenta tion in the votes to public libraries, schools, and poor-houses, has left the amount of the annual expenditure nearly the same. It appears by the Bills of Mortality of Vienna for 1824, that the number of Births was - - 12.986 Deaths - 10,537 Excess of Births - - - - - 2,449 This chews that the number of births exceeded by 228 that of 111 . 33, and the number of deaths was 623 less. Among the deaths no suicides are mentioned ; they may perhaps be in cluded in the casualties, which arc 116. _ _ Dispatchei were yesterday received at the Colonial Office from Sir FRED ERIC Ao.in, Lord High Commissioner at Corfu, dated the 26th of November, from the Marquis of HASTINGS, at Malta, dated the 7th of December; and from the Earl of CHATHAM, at Gibraltar, dated the 30th of December ; but none of these dispatches contain any intelligence of public importance. The Colombian, CHAPM AN, arrived at Milford, spoke on the 2d inst. a Portuguese squadron of two frigates, a brig, and a corvette, cruising off Cape St. Vincent. An Algerine frigate was said to have passed the Straits of Gibralt r, and the squadron was'on the look out for it. The Aurora, from Bombay to London, was spoken with on the 4th inst. in lat. 37. N. long. 29. W.,- out 120 days. A letter from Vienna of the 4th inst. received yesterday, states—" In consequence of intelli gence that the Turks had complied with all the conditions required by the Russian Government, the Russian. Ambassador has delivered his cre dentials, was very favourably received, and per fect harmony between the two Courts is now understood to be restored. The effect of this reconciliation on the fate of the Greeks remains to be ascertained. The Ambassador was most graciously received. It is said that England has now disclaimed all further interference in the affairs of Greece and Turkey, which are to be placed for the future under the guidance of Aus tria and Russia. The Blossom, 24, has again been put into commission at Woolwich, by Captain 11. W. B EEcnE y. This enterprising and intelligent Officer has been selected for Cze purpose of makiug a scientific voyage among the numerous I s l an ds in the North and South Pacific Ocean. The ship is to be equipped with stores and every thing requisite for four years; and it is intended that she should proceed to Behring's Straits, in order, if possible, to effect a communication with the expedition which sailed last y ear un d er Captain PARRY in the Itecla. ~~ '~~ pP.7..--, i-k- d r., ( W • .., f ). 4 _,., . A ,...,,-• ...--- t r 4 = 1 - s, E , t - -7 , - .2R :c•— or .g , sf:c-,:" . ksi 4 -,* ~ .ir'''' 4 .- ..4,.W/:''‘ , 1 4, ,f.4 4 : 4 . '`\' 0 " , • 44 ' ...t. L i 1 Ca -4412.1,V . ' IZY pßomurou FinE ASSURANCE COINI PA NY. CH A IRM A N. James Brogden, Esq., M. P. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN. Richardson Borradz,ile, Esq. DIRECTORS. William Peatt Lett, Fut+ agens Dorrien Magens, Esq. 'tont. Humphrey Marten,lisq. John .)lasterman, Esq Richard Price, Esq. R.)bert Pryor. Esq. William Williams, Esq. M.P. John Wilsln, Esq. Richard Wilson, Esq. Tim m& Allan., John Richard Baker, Esq. Dr. Cooke J. H. 31. Dawson, Esq. N.P. Thomas Gaitskell, Esq. L. A. Goldschmidt, Esq. Joseph Owen Harris, Esq. Rd. Peckoyer Harris, Esq. James Tunes, Esq. James Jacks., Esq. AUDITORS. %rillSnm Burradaile, jun. Esq. Benjamin Pead, Esq. John Dorrien Magens, Esq. c Charles Podmore, Esq. SOLIC /RS. Mows. Swain, Stevens, Maples, Pearce, and Hunt. BANKERS. Mesam. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, Masterman, and Co. The Proprietors of the ROCK LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY are hereby informed that they are at liberty to take any Shares in the PROT EC FOR FIRE I NSU RA NtE COM PA N Y (not exceeding the number respectively held by them in the Rock Company), upon paying 21. per Share to Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co., on or before Tuesday, the 18th day of January instant. SWAIN, STEVENS, MAPLES, PEARSE, 6th January, 1825. and HUNT. pitOT ECTO It FIRE 1N U NC E CONI PANY.--The DIRECTORS are ready to receive, at their House, N 0.35, OLD JEWRY, PROPOSALS for IN SURANCE from the Proprietors and the Public. Office hours from Ten till Four. For "A YEOMAN'," on RAIL-ROAD COMPANIILS, see oair Fourth Page. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Emily Marchioness of Londonderry, at her house in Saint James's-square, from her seat, North Cray, Kent ; Dowager- Duchess of Richmond and Ladies Lennox, at their house in Waterloo-place, from Ireland; Lord G. Lennox, in town, from his seat in Sussex ; Sit John Harrington, Bart., at his house in Berkeley-square, from Richmond ; Lord NWilliarn Lennox, Lord Sussex • Lennox, and Lord Frederick Lennox, in town, from a tour ; Lord Alvanley and tite Hon. H. de Roos, in town from a tour ; the Earl and Countess of Jersey, at Woburn Abbey, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bed ford; 11. Harman, Esq. in town from his seat in Herts ; C. Beering, Esq. in town, from his seat in Hens ; Sir T. Ormsby, Bart. and Gen. Rebon, at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from Wivenhoe Park, Colchester ; H. Magoni, Esq. at the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street. Cuaxc Es.—The Earl and Countess of Darlington, from their seat, Newton House, Yorkshire, for Raby Castle; Earl Spencer, from his seat Althorpe, Northamptonshire, for Sir C. Knightley's, Bart., Trowsly Park ; John George Lambton, Esq. 31.1'. and Lady Louisa Lambion, for their villa, at Wim bledon; Honourable C. C. Cavendish, M.P. for the seet of Lord Cavendish, Latimer's, Bucks ; Sir Alex. Hope, Bart., at the Military College, Bagshot, from his seat, N. 8.; Charles Majoribanks, Ksq. from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Hastings, Sussex ; Uvidale Price, Esq. from ditto, for Ox ford ; the lion. W. Burrell, at Paris, from Route. AMERICAN POETRY. ODE For the Sixth Triennial Festival of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. DT CHARLES SPRAGUE. When, from the sacred garden driven, Man fled before his Maker's wrath, An Angel left her place in Heaven, And crossed the wanderer's sunless path. 'T was Art , . sweet Art new radiance broke Where her light foot flew o'er the ground ; And thus with seraph voice she spoke, " The Curse a Blessing shall be found." She led him through the trackless wild Where noontide sunbeam never blazed ; The thistle shrunk—the harvest smiled, And nature gladdened as she gazed, Earth's thousand tribes of living things At Art's command to him are given, The village grows, the city springs, And point their spires of faith to Heaven. Ho rends the oak—and bids it ride, To guard the shores its beauty graced; He smites the rock—upheaved, in pride, See towers of strength and domes of taste. Earth's teeming caves their wealth reveal, Fire bears his banner on the wave, He bids the mortal poison heal, Anti leaps triumphant o'er the grave. He plucks the pearls that stud the deep, Admiring Beauty's lap to fill ; Ho breaks the stubborn marble's sleep, And mocks his own Creator's With thoughts that fill his glowing soul, He bids the ore illume the page, And, proudly scorning Time's controul, Commerce; .with an unborn age. In fields of air he writes his name, And treads the chambers of the sky; He reads the stars, and grasps the flame That quivers round the Throne on high. In war renowned, in peace sublime, He moves in greatness and in grace; His power subduing space and time, Links realm to realm, and race to race. The Duke of DORSET had an audience of his MAJESTY yesterday. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER arrived at his residence in Downing-street, from Becken ham, yesterday morning. The Duke of CUMBERLAND has been on a visit for some time to the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, at Hanover, which place his Royal Highness left the day after Christmas-day, on his return to Berlin. Prince GEORGE, the son of the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND, lately met with an accident by dislocating one of his elbows, from which the young Prince, we are happy to say, is recovered. :_landay morning, Mr. HARDENBERG, the King's Messenger, arrived at the Foreign Office, Down ing -street, with dispatches from our Ambassador at Vienna.—Mr. KATE, jun. the King's Mes senger, arrived at the Foreign Office, with dis patches from Paris. Letters were received from Prince LEOPOLD on Saturday last. In a very few days his Royal Highness will be in England. Saturday afternoon the Earl of HAartownv left town on a visit to his brother, the Right Hon. IL Ity oca, at his seat, Westbrook, Hefts, where the Noble Earl was expected to remain till yes terday, when his Lordship was to proceed to his seat in Staffordshire. Letters from Cadiz state, that the Guadal quiver Company have established a steam-packet to sail between Cadiz and Barcelona, touching on her passage at the intermediate ports of Gib raltar, Malaga, Alicant, &c. Advices from Mexico to the 17th, and from Alvarado to the 24th November, received by way of New York, state that a manifesto had been presented to the Mexican Union from the State of the legislature of Vera Cruz, demanding the expulsion of the Spaniards from the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, and from the fortifications on the coast. The attempt, it is said, was likely soon to be made by the general Government. The Mexican General Rincon, had taken possession, on the 10th November, of the island of Sacrifi cios, and erected batteries with the view of maintaining that post. Most of the Legislatures and executive branches had taken the oaths to the Constitution. Some Bishops and Ecclesias tical Councils had presented addresses of con gratulation to the President of the Union on the adoption of the federal republican system. Ge neral Santana had been elected Governor of Yucatan by the Congress of that State. A letter from an Officer of his Majesty's ship Cambridge, dated in Callao Roads, Sept. 1, states that Capt. MALING had been induced to land the Marines of that ship to protect the English merchants' property at Lima, which the near approach of a part of BOLIVAR'S army, to contend with the Royalist force for possession of that place, had rendered necessary. Admiral GUISE had made two attempts to take the batte ries, but without success. MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAL, J. 17.—Wind N.W. to W.-Arrived and re main the Atlas, Clark, from Calcutta, sailed the 7th of July ; Henry, Fenwick, from Alexandria; Caroline, Walter, Irons Lisbon; Gratitude, Bowen, from Rio Grande; and Pomona,' Bennett, from St. Michael's. The following vessels sailed its the course of the day, viz. :—David Lyon, Berry ; Lyon, Sleeman ; and Nelson, Dawson, for Jamaica; Camden, BB linghurst, for Antigua ; Darius, Clark, for M a l ta Roxburgh, for Batavia; and Express, Hamilton, for Charente. The Honourable Company's ship Hyth remains. PonTSMOU TU., JAN. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from the Downs the Julius Caesar, Stafford, for Jamaica and Carthagena. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 16.—Wind S.S.W. fresh gales.—Ar rived the Intrepid, —, from Africa, and the Fame, Gibbs, from Valencia. FaLstotmr, JAN. lG.—Wind S.S.W. blowing hard.—Put back the Duke of Marlborough packet for Lisbon. Arri►ed the Standley, Hall, fromGalipoli, sailed the3oth Of November ; and the Louisa, Menuir, from London for St. Michael's. LIVERPOOL, JAM. Pi.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Hannah, Murphy, from Maranham, sailed the 6th milt. ; Mediterranean Packet, Hogan, from Zante ; Amelia, Doyle, from Meslioa ; Margaret, Williamson, from Alexandria (E); and Flora, Far rent, Buenos Ayres. Off the Port the Globe, Hamilton; from Savannah. DOVER, JAY. 17.-8 r. Bt.—Passed by the Lonach, West, from Bombay, salted the 9th of September. CaLcu•T'ra, JuLr s.—The Morning Star, Vardon, was burnt off this place the 23d ult. The Medway, Wight, trmut Chili and Port Jackson, goes into dock to-day, having been oil shore in Bass's Straits. Off Dartmouth the Prince Leopold, -, from Demerara ; Hawke, Stanley, and Abeona, from Newfoundland. The Patriot, Hossack, from St. Andrew's, N. 8., was totary wrecked in the Pentland Frith the Bth instant, and eight of the crew drowned. The Eagle, Wardell, was nearly destroyed by fire at St. John's, N.B. the 13th ult. We observe that a Meeting has been held at the George Inn, Axminster, of Land Owner, and others, the object of which was to create an opposition to the proposed Ship Canal across the isthmus of Somersetshire, to unite the English and Bristol channels. We have made inquiry respecting this Meeting, and find that no previous notice was published to convene it, and that it was attended by from 14 to 16 persons, some of whom were not land-owners. It seems to us quite clear, from all which we have heard and seen respect ing the Canal, that the object of not previously advertising the Meeting was fully answered by confining it to the little junto we have al ready mentioned ; for we know enough of the sense of the owners and occupiers of laud generally to be convinced, that had publicity been given to the Meeting, such a string of resolutions would never have been carried. Indeed, we should have been surprised had their tenor not been► of the most opposite description. The character of the Meeting at Axminster is suffi ciently evinced by the circumstance that all the resolutions, which are in all respects decidedly hostile to the canal, were carried unanimo ►sly, which coul►l not have been the case had the - Meeting been properly convened. MEETING OF BRITISPI CATIIOLICL—A general meeting of the English Catholics was held yesterday at the Clown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, for the purpose of adopting such measures as should seem best for obtaining the repeal of those laws which exclude them from the constitutional privileges enjoyed by their Protestant fellow-subjects. A boat one o'clock the chair was taken by the Hon. Hugh CliflZ rd..— The meeting consisted of about 300 persons, amongst, w :.om were Charles Butler, Esq. ; James Wheble, Esq. ; Edwa d Blount, Esq. ; the Rev. Dr. Collins, the Rev. Messrs. Rolf , Horrabin, Dobson, O'Donnell of London, M'Donnell of rir mingham, Foley, Appleby, Delaney, Morris, and many other persons of great respectability. Mr. Eneas Macdont el at tended as the representative of the Catholic Association of Ire land. Letters of apology for nan-attendance were read by the Chairman from Lords Stafford, Stourton, and Clifford. A petition, proposed by Mr. Quin, and seconded by Mr. Rosson. was una - nimously adopted, and ordered to be prescnted to bosh Houses of Parliament. It was then resolved unanimously, on the motion of Dr. Colins, that Earl Grey be requested to piesent the same to the House of Lords, and Lord Nugent to the House of Commons. A motion was then made by Mr. Rode, and seconded by Mr. Wheble, thanking Mr. O'Connell ano the Catholic Association of Ireland for their great exertions in the cause of emancipation ; assuring them of the cordial union and co-operation of the Catholics of England, and expressing the most unqualified satisfaction and approbation at tae eon duct hitherto pursued by that body. This motion was ta7ricd with the most enthusiastic applause. A New Club is aboat to start up, which for rank and respectability will excel all others. A new Company, for supplying the western part of the Metropolis with genuine Milk, k forming in the City, under the title of e " Westminster Dairy Company." Sir RICHARD BigNIE has become a Vice-Pre sident of the Choral Fund. The appearance of Miss FOOTIE at Covent garden Theatre is deferred until the first week in February. Madame CATALANI 7 S first Concert took place on Wednesday night last, at the Guildhall, in Worcester: a very genteel company of about 500 persons (including many of the principal fa milies in the county) assembled on the occaEio . A few evenings since two of the Blockade Cq n tinels, stationed at Black Rock, near Brighton, observed a white galley towing two other boats toward the shore. Upon this, the ern tinels kept a sharp watch upon their proceedings, and as soon as the two boats touched the shore, the Blockade-men waded into the sea, up to their waists, to seize the crew, whom they supposed to be smugglers. The Fair Traders, however, observing it was not " all right," jumped overboard and swam to the gal ley, which took them on board and immediately rowed off to sea, leaving the two other boats and their whole cargo, consisting of 70 casks of fo reign spirits, as a prize to the vigilant blockaders. One of the captured boats is called the Prince of Coburg, of Brighton ; the other the Plough, o f w F e a l l i k i ke r Ts k dnoo. , ln._:: a n( n bhiluioln a tro c rrtit i dti o ilale u :g n apt l oip,ic o :cdvr f ilitilc,v t ,vi,b l d•a l .y e t):, Hastings. Nicky," at an early hour SHOCKING MUKDEIL.—We have received from am th uc e ordr a re p er p s on Sunday, the 9th inst. correspondent d t t porter, o a f t ion h a s perpetratedfor the e presentby hi s ownes c ap ed: --(.Mor n i ng eap