The Sun. — London, England, 1825-02-22 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Mornin4 Papers, Feb. 22,1825. • [TH E TIM ES.] SPANISH Por.ic Y.-By the letters.received yes terday from Madrid, which are dated the Bth instant, we learn that some ludicrously impotent measures are contemplated by way of retaliation for the injurious and insulting conduct of Eng land. in the recognition of the new American States. The total prohibition of cotton goods (which it bad determined to admit at an ad alorem duty) is now to he continued, and the duty on fish, which there had been some .th,oughts of reducing, is now to remain at its full rate ; and, indeed, all thoughts of con ciliating so ungrateful a country as England is for ever laid aside. These letters also contain some particulars respecting the nature of the at tempt now making under the name of a loan, to rob the English of a few millions more. The prin cipal agent in the affair is a M. Gorbea, a banker of Madrid, who comes invested with very full powers on the subject. Provided the money can only be raised, no particular nicety will be put in practice with regard to the terms. The sum wanted is only 2,000,000,000 of reals (about 20,000,000/. sterling), for which the Spanish Government is willing to issue a stock bearing 5 per cent. at 40, on condition that the contractors will take out of the market quietly and unosten tatiously the odious Bonds issued under the Cortes, so that the Royal ear of Ferdinand may never again be insulted by the mention of them. It is calculated that this arrangement will give a value to these bonds of from 25 to 30 per cent., thus making the new stock cost the con tractors from 65 to 70 per cent. On the nature of the security for paying the in terest of the large debt proposed thus to be created, the letters are little explicit, the only one mentioned being that of the caisse d'amortis sement, or Sinking Fund, in which we believe, by the way, that there is not at this moment a single maravedi. There is something irresistibly amus ing in the situation under which this transaction presents Spain. Enraged to the highest degree, against England, and wanting nothing but power to do any act which might deeply injure us, she yet appears as a suppliant on the Royal Ex change of London, and that chiefly for a purpose which, if successful, would do us a much greater wrong than the loss of the money ; for it is not at all attempted to be concealed, that when ob tained, it is to be employed in raising troops to conquer the South American States. There is every appearance at present, however, that M. Gorbea will lose his labour ; and we believe that rot one capitalist of high character and respecta bility has yet lent a favourable ear to his propo sitions. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received the Paris papers of Saturday, and the Etoile, dated Sunday. The only im portant article of news they contain, relates to the King of Spain, for whose life serious appre hensions are expressed, the gout having, it is said, reached his stomach. This circumstance, and not the prospect of a new loan, is probably the secret of the rise that has taken place in the Spanish Bonds ; but we would advise the specu-, lators not to he too sanguine, as the probable successor of the present Monarch has the reputa tion of being more fanatical than himself—more a tool of the priesthood,and more likely to be a pup pet of the Holy Alliance.. Whilst any one of the fa mily is on the Throne, Spain will he a prey to the worst evils of despotism, or to the throes of revo lution ; and, if this be of any real consequence to us, her policy will be hostile to ours, an►l her' geets, armies, and treasures, such as they are, will be at the disposal of every Power that shall atm against this country. It is, therefore, of very little value to the Spanish nation, or the people of England, whether Ferdinand gets over the present danger, or succumbs to it; but when ever a scheme, which was once a favourite one of some of the best Patriots of Spain, happens to be realized, her soil will not only be cleared of the Upas tree of arbitrary Government, but her policy will be in unison with ours, and she will occupy the very first place in the rank of our friends.—At one time, the most enlightened men in the Peninsula were desir otts‘ of melting down the Crowns of Spain and Portugal into one, and placing it on the head of sk - Prince of the II ouse of Braganza, who should henceforth assume the character of a Constitu tiOnat King. If ever an emergency arises again, favourable to the execution of this plan, it will not, we imagine, be overlooked ; and it is pos sible that the Holy Alliance may create it. For example, they would bring it about, were they to urge the Court of Madrid to any hostile act towards this country, in consequence of her re cognition of the New Transatlantic States ; or should they attempt to put down violently our influence in Portugal. If either of these steps were taken, the plan we have mentioned would be resumed to a moral' certainty ; and we assert with equal confidence, that it would be - crowned with success. [BRITISH PRESSI The Bill for suppressing the unlawful Associa tidos now existing in Ireland was read a second time last hi-oc, after a discussion which, in point o f length an d interest, fell much below those which have preceded it. Indeed, the opi- T o" . of Parliament has been so clearly expressed as to this question, that there remains only the consideration of the meanss-to effectuate the ob ject in view. Some of those minor Members of the Opposition who could not obtain a healing on the previous evenings of debate, raised their voices last night against the Bill, but On the di vision the majority of votes was greater than ever. For - the second reading there were (2.53 against Amity 107, leaving a surplus maj ority in favour -4flt.he Bill of 146 Members. The call of the House was postponed for a week ; but it will be tiotkid;by the numbers, that the House . was much fuller than on any previous evening during tills . Se result: is, that the more the friends of the Catholic Association call for the opinion of Parliament and the country, the more de cidedly it is expressed against them. We observe that Mr. Grenfell thought fit to repeat the bold, lord, and patriotic sentiment to which he gave utterance a few evenings ago, viz. that " his dy ing prayers would be, that, if the Irish Catholics resisted, they might be successful." If any speaker or writer, out of Parliament, were, at this peculiar moment, to endeavour to inflame the Irish Catholics to rebellion, by preaching to them the sacred duty of insurrection, he would certainly and most deservedly be prosecuted for sedition. Such an incendiary would, however, expose himself to some risk in the act of scat tering his firebrands ; and, though we should abhor the atrocity of his design, we could not entirely despise him as a cowardly instigator of others to mischief, in dangers of which he dared not himself participate. But if there were a Member of Parliament, who, forgetting all that he owed to his country, should take advantage of the shelter given to him by the law, for pur poses of a far different character, to incite a mis led and ignorant population to the resistance of the King's Government and the authority of the Legislature, and to offer up publicly his prayers that the Empire might be torn to pieces by inter nal dissuasions and civil war ;—if there were such a Member, we say, as this, to be found in Par liament, in what terms ought we to describe him. [MORNING CIIIiONICLE.] We rejoice to see that the legality of setting spring -guns will probably be discussed in the House of Lords on Thursday, on the motion of Lord Suffield, who has published a valuable pam phlet on the subject, to which we shall allude more particularly on a future day. It is, in deed, time that this question should he set at rest. The argument that game is property is the only ground upon which the setting of these en gines can be defended ; nothing, however, can be more fallacious than so to represent it ; and even if it were property, the right of protecting it by such means would still be questionable ; if game were property, in the sense which any domes , ticated animal may be so considered, the owner of it would be responsible for any injury that it might do to the property of another person. If a horse strays from his owner's field, and damages the property of his neighbour, the horse may be impounded, arid the owner is responsible for the mischief; but, if pheasants and hares destroy the farmer's crops, he cannot render the 'Squire, on whose estate they were bred, or from whose preserves they had strayed, responsible for the injury. It is, therefore, idle to describe game as property in the strict sense of the term, though, undoubtedly, Parliament can make it property as easily as it pronounced a pound note and a shilling equivalent to a guinea. But if the Country Gentleman be legally empowered to set spring guns for the protection of his very ques tionable property in game, may not the farmer be permitted to set spring guns for the protection of his undoubted property in his crops, and what an outcry would the 'Squires make were they obliged by such a system of defence to abandon theirfield sports ; how they would exclaim against the farmer for resorting to a mode of protecting his produce by which the life of a fellow crea ture, or of a hound, might be endangered, and what lamentations would resound through the land, what weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth over a fox-hunter, cut off in the flower of fox-hunting by the shot of a spring-gun planted for the protection of the soil over which he was riding, or of the fences which he was breaking down in the prosecution of his innocent sport.— The principle, therefore, that the protection of property (even conceding game to be property, which we deny) will justify any means deemed necessary to its end cannot be consistently sup ported. What would the world say were the Lord Chancellor to plant spring-guns at his dinner table ? We say nothing of the extent of public peril in such a case, but the principle would seem unsocial and dangerous in the ex treme. [MORNING POST.] On the Resolution that 157,1761. he granted for the ex pences of his Majesty's Dock-yards at at home, Sir Edward Knatchbull last night com plained that artificers and shipwrights had been discharged from the Dock-yards in Kent, whilst those in Plymouth and Portsmouth were retained. Sir G. Clerk explained that the superfluous hands had been given the option of remaining to per form other sorts of work at a lower rate of wages. They all concur red at first in that arrangement, but last autumn the shipwrights in the Thames ex pressed dissatisfaction, and were told they were at liberty toseek employment elsewhere, whilst those of Plymouth continued to abide by the original ar rangement. Mr. II uskisson stated that there was a great demand for shipwrights in the private yards on the River Thames, but that owing to a spirit of combination amongst them, and a desire to dictate to their employers, numbers of them were out of work. " if such conduct were persevered in," add q d the Right Hon. Gentleman, " it would go far to induce those who were most friendly to the liberty of industry to call upon the House to reconsider the measure of last year which had been adopted with a view to the advantage of the work ing classes." We trust that this important hint will not he lost on the individuals to whom it is meant to apply, the more so as Mr. Ilume, the author of the measure, himself declared, that " in al most every part of the country, in Manchester, in Glasgow, and on the Thames, the workmen had abused the privileges conferred on them by a recent Act of Parliament. They were not sa tisfied with restraining their masters within equi table bounds, but would fain impose on them re strictions even more degrading than they had themselves previously endured. lie trusted the masters would succeed in rejectingsuc fo h l f i ez g r n s, and that artizans would see they were a track dangerous to the country, and ruinous to themselves." It is evident, therefore, that if they do not alter their conduct, there would be little short of an unanimous di,position in the House to abolish the privileges g ranted last year only to be abused. [MORNING HERALD.] The gallery of the Howe of Commons was aot opened yesterday till an hour later than usual, owing to the call of the House being fixed for such day ; but as soon as it was opened, it was filled, though not inconveniently crowd ed.—• During the exclusion of strangers much business was transacted. All the private business was disposed of. Sir J. Newport then rose, and stated (as we understand, for the exclusion of strangers still continued), that as the object of the call had thus far been answered, in accom plishing a full attendance of Members, it was not requisite to enforce the order : but as it would be desirable to secure a full attend ance of Members during the several stages of the Bill, instead of proposing the discharge of the order, he should move that it only be post poned. The Right lion. Bart. thereupon moved that the House be called over on Monday next. This was agreed to. The gallery was afterwards opened. The noise was so great for a consider able time, owing to the various Members quitting the House, the call requiring no further attend ance, that much of the succeeding proceedings could not be distinctly heard in the gallery.— Many petitions were presented by Mr. Brougham, Sir Francis Burdett, and divers other Members, against Mr. Goulburn's Bill ; and Mr. Brougham urged on presenting one of them, as the House had refused to hear the Association at their bar, that time should be given the Catholics to petition. He added, if such time were given, it would not. be long before their tables were covered with petitions. The Navy Estimates were subsequently moved, in the course of the discussions on which Mr. Hume protested against the building yearly of so many ships, as if we were afraid of the sudden combination of all the world against us ; and contended that many of those ships would be useless, in the event of war, because the inventions connected with steam would render any future warfare, particularly that carried on in narrow seas, very different from that of any preceding wars. The dis cussion on the second reading of Mr. Goul burn's Bill consequently did not begin till a late hour. But the debate on the Bill, if debate it may be called, was short and unimportant. Those who took part in the discussion were " minor " speakers, as they are termed at the House ; and at an unexpectedly early hour, the House divided on Lord Nugent's amendment, that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. The numbers were for such amendment, 107, against it, 253 ; but a division on the second question was not enforced. The minority is within one of that on the motion for introducing the Bill. After the result of last night, we apprehend there must be some rather extraordinary occur rence to produce further debate on this measure in the House of Commons. Discussion on the question appears to be finished i❑ that House. [New Times.] When Mr. O'Connell first bestrode the " fine animal," Cobbett, we thought it would prove a dangerous hobby—we anticipated that the beast would whisk his long tail in his rider's eyes, or throw him in the mud ; and so it has happened. Last November, as the Dublin Papers informed us at the time, the sagacious Barrister moved in the Committee of the Catholic Association, " that a copy of all Mr, Cobbett's writings should be purchased for the use of the Associa tion." This was of course ordered, without any consideration of possibility any more than of pro priety. Mr. Cobbett is the most voluminous writer of modern days ; but ninety-nine hundredths of his works have unfortunately flitted to that C( oblivious pool" whence " no traveller returns." The erudite and curious, however, have pre served some Siby line leaves, which are quite sufficient to cover poor Mr. O'Connell (albeit unused to the blushing mood) with shame and confusion of face. These pretty little cxcerpta some kind friend has put together, under the catching title of " Cobbett's Book of the Roman Catholic Church," addressed " to all sensible and just Catholics." The work is to be comprised in four parts, of which one has already issued from the press, " price three pence." We understand, that, when completed, an elegant Dedication Copy, in Asses-skin, is to be presented to the Learned Gentleman, with a special request, on the part of the Editor, that he will read it throughout, in the due emphasis and discretion, to" the Liberal Club," the lueres athi mus of all the follies of the defunct Catholic Asso ciation. In Chap.l.the " fine Animal" treats, in his own masterly way," of the Roman Catholic Church generally"—interspersing,ut sous est mos, sundry facetious hints about a Lady in scarlet, whose profession shall be nameless—as well as about " tying people to stakes and roasting them" — Monks living in " dens of laziness and de bauchery"—the travels of " the Virgin Mary's House at Loretto"—and many other topics offen sive in the highest degree to sincere and con sciencious Catholics. The (2,d and 3d chap ters treat of " the office of Pope," and give a sketch of the lives of " sundry Popes of Rome." If the Liberal Club follow up Mr. O'Connell's motion, by circulating this part of M r. Cobbett's works, they will do more than all the Bible Societies have yet been able to accon►{)lish towards obliterating all respect for the " Visible Head " of the Catholic Church, from the minds of the Irish peasantry ; for, upon the authority of a book recommend e d by the Catholic Associa tion, they will sh ew th at 44 the tradition which made St. Peter travel to Rome is purely apocry phal;" that consequ en tly the Popes have, without any ground a hatever, assumed " the pompous titles of successors of St. Peter ;" that they have been " the most aba►►doned and flagitious of mortals"—" monsters of immorality," and have given " occasion, by their example, to the per petration of all sorts of wickedness, de lusion, oppression, robbery, tyranny, m urder, and Cob bett follows up by Mr. massacre"—which horrible statements imposture, to detail, against Popes Stephen VI J ohn XI., John XI 1., Boniface &c. The 4th chapter attacks the" tenets of the Church of Rome ;" and specific charges, too shocking declares that ‘' no Sovereign can be safe, no people virtuous, where principles of so infernal a nature are recognised and inculcated;" and adds, " if that Church is again restored to unrestricted power, how easily will it find excuses for reviving its ancient decrees !" Lastly; the s th chapter assails the " Monks and Friars" in a body, with the most scurrilous invectives, declaring them all to be " a set of impostors," " impudent," and " hypocritical," who subsisted by playing " farcical tricks," and who have but one single ob ject in view—namely, that of " living well upon the labour of others." " This," says Cohbett, "is with them the law and the Gospel." Such are the writings which Mr. O'Connell ener getically pronounces to be " peculiarly calcu lated to meet the common sense of the people" ! Such are the writings recommended for general circulation by the Irish Catholic Association ! And be it remembered, that that Association purported to act in the name of all or nearly all the Catholic Peers and Gentry of Ireland—Nay, of all, or nearly all the Irish Catholic Bishops and Archbishops ! What these venerable persons will say to Mr. Cobbett's Book of the 1 - tornan Catholic Church we know not—flow Mr. O'Connell will venture to look them in the face after they have read it, we can still less conceive—but one thing we hold to be most certain, namely, that they are under the deepest obligation to Mr. Goulburn for breaking up a firm, in which they were included as sleeping partners with Mr. O'Connell and his " fine animal." EDINBURGH, FEB. 18. DESTRUCTION OF STOBBS' POWDER 3IILLS. We regret to have to record one of the most frightful accidents that has occurred in this neighbourhood for a considerable time. A few minutes before eight o'clock yes terday morning, the drying-house of Stobbs' powder-mills, si tuated about four miles south-west of Dalkeith, blew up with a terrible explosion, and almost instantly thereafter the " re lief house," or store room, exploded in a manner still more terrific. Cornwall, a very respectable workman, who has been about thirty years employed at the works, was in the drying house, removing a quantity of gunpowder. At the door stood a small waggon, attended by a man named Matthew Thom son, who was occupied in conveying the powder, in casks, from the drying house to the other building, called the " relief," about thirty feet distant. How the accident originated, cannot exactly be ascertained. The first explo sion certainly took place in the drying house, of which scarcely a stone remains in its original position, being scattered in all directions. At three o'clock, yesterday, part of the mangled remains of Cornwall had been found. The head and some parts of the body of Thompson were also found at some distance. It is, however, very difficult to say to which of the bodies the fragments that have been discovered belong. Our reporter saw part of the intestines of a man drawn from a burn that runs near by ; also part of a body picked up in a field nearly a mile distant. The horse which stood in the waggon was killed. It was hurled to a distance of forty feet, and the shoes of the fore and hinder feet of that side which was next the door of the house, were torn off. A large punc ture was visible in the animal's side, as though something had pierced through the body. It is scarcely possible to de scribe the effects of this awful explosion on the buildings and trees adjacent. The houses for carrying on the various branches of the work stand detached, and at a consider able distance from each other ; but, with one exception, all are more or less injured, either in walls or roofs. Some of the latter are completely driven in by the tremendous concus sion, but no part of the machinery seems to be injured. The houses in which the explosions took plrce are entirely destroyed. Many of the stones beloning to them are driven into the earth to a considerable depth. Most of the glass in the windows at Stobbs' village, and at Gorebridgc, are shattered—many of the casements forced in, and the tile-roofs partially, and in some cases completely destroyed. The trees in the neighbourhood, many of which are of considerable size, are shivered as if by lightning. To persons on the spot say the scene was truly ter rific. Several leapt into the water for safety, others were beaten to the ground by the concussion, and for a time no one had courage to enquire the extent of the devastation.— People who were on the high road were completely actounded, and felt a sudden pressure, of which they could not discover the cause, till a huge column of black smoke, mixed with large stones, &c. rose from the valley, like the irruption of a volcano, and completely darkened the firmament. The shock was felt at Edinburgh, at Lauder, and at Haddington. At Dalkeith one of the bells tolled, from the concussion of the air; and in Mus selburgh several panes of glass were broken. The two unfor tunate sufferers bore respectable characters. Cornwall was an elderly man. his family have arrived at maturity, but he has left an aged widow. When a similar accident occurred at these mills about eighteen years ago, he was severely burnt. Thom son was a younger man, and has left a widow and fiv e youn g children to bewail his untimely end. Such portions of the re mains of these unfortunate men as have been discovered are to be interred to-day. Several persons received contusions from stones—and a shoemaker, sitting at work at Gore-bridge, had his head cut by a piece of glass forced out of his window. Such are the facts our reporter, who was on the spot a few hours subsequent to the explosion, was able to collect. On the au thority of a correspondent at Dalkeith we subjoin [ANOTWER ACCOUNT.] DAI.KEITIf, FEB. 17.—" A few minutes before eight o'clock this morning, the cylinder in the drying-house at Stobbs' powder mill blew up with a dreadful explosion. A man in the house, and a carter,who was loading his cart at the door,were blown to atoms. Their hands and feet were found at a great distance. The horse was thrown 30 feet from where lie stood and killed—the cart blown to shivers. The house was razed to its founda tions and no vestige of a building left save the scattered stones, many of which were of_great weight, and in falling ploughed the earth to a considerable depth. Houses situated at the dis tance of a mile had their roofs damaged, and the tiles and win dows of the surrounding villages were generally injured. In Dalkeith and Musselburgh the explosion excited general con.. sternation. Many people. in these places imagined that their own dwellings were about to fall and crush them. I lost no time in visiting the scene of disaster, you may therefore depend on the accuracy of this report. ( Edinburgh Star. ) MALTA.—The following is an extract of a Malta, dated Jan. 15 :—" 'The only news we have here is, the from Naples, on the Bth inst., the Chanticleer, Cagt. Maena arrival of Admiral Sir Ilii ruin( NEALE, in the Revenge, 74, mara, from Plymouth, and the Prince , regent pack et , f rom Fal mouth, on the 11th, in 31 days. !lie Revenge brought here the news of the death of the King of Naples, and o f t h e murder, ner Postum, of Mr. and Mrs. King Hunt, by some brigands, who had previously robbed them. The Sybile, Captain S. G. Peschell, C. B. sails to-day for Naples, and the Weazle, Capt. T. Curtis, for Corfu. The Euryalus, Captain Clifford, C. 8., Seringapatam, Captain will sail for England as soon as she is refitted. The Numa the Alacrity, Captain transport, with invalids and stores, for England, sailed on the 13th instant. The ships of the squadron not at present here are thus stationed : Cambrian, Captain G. W. Hamilton, C. B. Yorke, at Smyrna, and in the Archipelago; Naiad, Captain yan;dincgyeonne,a Capdetached a s c e e r ; vi ce ); an d Hon. Robert Spencer; and Hind, Capt. Lord Henry Churchill (commanding at Corfu ; Sparrow-hawk, Captain . Roat Stuart, at Naples : the Medina, Capt. Walker, conveying the newly appointed Consul, Mr. Thomas, and hi s family, to Algiers.—The ships laying here are--Revenge (Flag), Sybille, burylus Weazle Al,g er ine, and Chanti clee r. A Coup Martial is h o ldi ng on the Boatswain of the Alger i ne, on a charge of embezzlement of stores. SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER TIIETYNE.—A pub lic Meeting will be held at the Northumberland Arms Inn, North Shields, on Wednesday the 23d inst., to resolve upon the adoption of measures for carrying into effect the proposed formation of a Patent Wrought-Iron Suspension -Bridge, in tended to he erected near the mouth of th e r i ver T yne, from North to South Shields. Several private preliminary meetings have already been held, and such is the state of feeling already ma nifested towards the undertaking, that littl e doubt is enter tained of its ultimate success. The total ex once of erecting m p the bridge will be 83,7001., an d t h e time completing it within two years. _ A Letter, dated Saint Petersburg!), 22d Jan., says—" After a few cold days, which ushered in the New Year, we have, since last week, experienced very mild wea ther, the thermometer being about 4 degrees of Reamer. The terrible storms from the S. W. no longer rage; but the ab sence of snow and frost, to give firmness to the roads, is a sad hindrance to traffic with the interior, and impedes the arrival of the Mails." On the 20th tilt. the 111,.rchants of Breslau of the Exchange' in that City, on which occa,sion the ceremo ny Waq celebrated i n the true E ng . opened the new Building s lish fashion, by an elegant entertaißment being served up in the great Saloon, at which all the mercantile body assisted. lON PON MARKETS. PRR 01 BREAD. The highest price• of Bread in the Metropolis, is I td. tor he 416. loat . --t here are ther3 who sell from a halfpenny to hree halfpence below Oa! tale. INIPORTATIONN OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. English. Irish. Fureign. 7,035 645 160 4,932 940 4,277 14,787 Wheat Barley Malt Oats Gye Beans 2,045 liras 'Fares ... Rapeseed Brank Mustard Seeds Flour • Linseed 13 30 10,117 7,855 1,720 10 ---- Goo I SO SEEDN, Feb. 21. New English R. Clover, per cwt...47s 62s 81s—fine 904 Old Ditto New Foreign ditto 6os 69s 83s—fine 90s Old ditto ditto 2Bs 40s 52s—fine.68s New Wllitetlitto 5 - s 74s 77s—fine 84s Old ditto 395 48s 63s—fine 74s New Trefoil per cwt 7s 18s 215—fine•26s Old ditto 5s 9s 15s—fine 235• New ltibgrass Old ditto 2ls 30s 33s—fine 48s English Catraway Seeds ..40s 44s 48s—fine 90s Foreign ditto 32s 40$ 44s—fine —s Coriander do. 7s 6d 9s 10 s — line — s St.Foit.... per yr 42s 46s—fine 70s Rye-Grass Ms 30s—fine 32s fr Pacey ditto sos 53s Linseed fur feeding . 44$ 45s—fine 46s Ditto, for crushing 3Bs 42s—fine 4as Canary Seed.. ... 6-Is 70s—fine 80s White Mustard Seed.. per bushel 7s 9s—fine 11s- Brown ditto • l2s 14s—fine 16s, Turnip Seeds Tares Rape Seed .... per last —l —i 241 281 Os NEIVGATE AND LEADENIIALL MARKETS, Fel►. 2) . By the Carcasc. Beef es 8,1 to 4s Od Vcal 4s Od to 5s fhl Mutton 35 4d 1045 4d Pork as 4d to 55 80. Lamb, os od to os O. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET, Feb. 19. 1 Clover,O. 100 s Od t o 110 s od Hay, Old 9os od to 100 , ON —1nf..... sOs Od to 953 Od —New lof. 65s od to P3s 04 —New.... —s Od to —s od Straw .... 40s Od to 45s OA ST. JAMES'S. Hay 63s Od to 100 s Od Cloect• ....70s Od to 100 s 04 New Ditto —s Od to —s Od I straw ....33s Od to 51s OA WHITECHAPEL. Clover ....80s 0(1 to 110 s Od I Hay 7os Od 100 s Od traw .... 40s Od to 48s Od Inferior —s Od to —s PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt., Feb. 21. Kent Pockets Sussex Pockets Essex Pockets Farnham, fine.— 101 los to 121 12s—Seconds, 91 Os to 101 ter.. Kent Bags Sussex Bags Essex Bags llss. to 1265. to 1355. per cwt .._ HAW Best Heifers & Steers, per st. IDES. Ss 2d to 3s 4,: Middlings is 10,1 to 3s Od Ordinary .... 2s 6d to 2s Sd' Market Calf .. each.. Ss OCR, Lambs.— . Os Oil to Os od SHEEP Polled Downs SKINS. Sheep .... Os 0,1 to Os Otl Lambs Os Od to Os 0,1, PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, 50 to 561hs each per It) l9d to 20d Ditto, 51; to 661bs each 22d to 2 3d Dressing Hides lsd to 19d Coach Hides Crop Hides, 35 to 4011)5 for cutting ..ibid to 17d I)itto .... 45 to 501bs Call Skins. .;.;6 to 401bs . Ditto 50 to 701bs 24el to 2601 44d to 48d Ditto 7O to 80Ibs Small Seals (Greenland) Lame ditto Tanned Horse Hides Spanish Horse Hides 22d to 25d —l7d to Isd .16d to Isd .ISA to 16d .14d .to 21d PRICES OF TALLOW, SO Town Tallow 49s od —s Od I Yellow Russia 40s Od —s Od White ditto.. 391 0.1 —s Od Soap ditto.... 38s Od —s Od Melting Stull' 33s On —s od Ditto Rough.. —s od —s Od I.l', &c. per 1121b.—Feb. 21. Ye 110,4 Soap Mottled Curd Sys Graves lB3 Good Dr egs.. PRICE OF CANDLES, raom TALLow CHANDLEa's HALL. Price of Candles, per dozen, 6s 6d a is Moulds, 9s tict. 6d per dozen allowed for ready money. PRICK. OF RAW FAT, per Stone of slb.—Fub. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters), . 911- Price. 23s 6cl to 37s 0( 1 30s 6cl to 39s 90 COAL MARKET, FEB. 18. Ships at Market. Ships sold 281 Newcastle . 131 4 Sunderland THE GRAVE OF BLIONAPARTE.—ft will be re collected that the remains of Napoleon Buonaparte were in terred in a retired spot about three miles from the town of SC. Helena, and near a well, from which water was procured for hirs at his particular desire. It is stated that the land on which this interment took place belonged to a Mr. Richard Torbet, wh°. is in the habit o f su pplyi ng s hip s w hi c h touc h at t h e I s l a nd with provisons and live-stock ; that Mr. Torbet allowed the body' to be buried on the request of the Authorities, without any condi tion or stipulation ; that subsequently a guard was placed over it , , and a temporary barrack erected ; that he urged his complaint', in a memorial, but got no re d res s ; an d t h at h e t h en reso lve" to obtain payment in another way, and by charging a dollar as a toll on all visitors, he expected to clear a sum of between three hundred and four hundred pounds, the average number of visitors to the grave being about fourteen hundred. He vir s4 ordered however to discontinue this toil after it had been col lected fora short time. Hereupon he repaired to England, order to claim compensation, and demanded 10001. for hisland• It is now settled that he shall receive 5001. to be paid by th e East India Company on his return to St. Helena. If this story be correct, there can be little doubt that the compensation l 5 liberal, unless indeed, land in St. Helena be peculiarly va luable:: Mr. Torbet could not have any ri g ht to f oun d hi s est i m ate value upon the possible profits which might have arisen. Leaving,. out of the question the alleged irregularity i n th e occu p a tion °I the land which would constitute a trespass, he can have no P s claim to more than what would be a fair equivalent aspurclias" money.—( Morning Chronicle.) BIRTFIS. On the 19th inst., in Gloucester-place, the lady of Georg e ' Sintson, jun., Esq., of a daughter. On Sunday, the 20th inst., Airs. I%latthew Clark, of Arial e ' street, of a son, still-born. MARRIED. On the 19th inst., at Ashford, Middlesex, J. E. Todd,. Elq . ' of Bedford-place, to Jane, only daughter of A. Downes, E s(l.' of the former place, and or Sloane-street. DIED. Last week, at Bath, Harriet, grand-daughter of the lo te :t and niece of the present General Brooke, universally beloYe and deservedly lamented. At Madras, on the 24th September last, Mr. Robert $; Theobalds, merchant, second son of Mr. John Theobalu (Bank of England), deeply regretted by all who knew him• o f On the 20th inst , at Puttenham Priory, in the countY, o Surrey, Mary, w id ow o f the late Admi ra l C orn i s h, a nd Os' to Admiral Lord Gambier. On the 19th inst., at Hammersmith, the Rev. Hugh TaY lol. ' 8.A., of St. John's College. Cambridge. On the 20th inst., aged 76, William Child, Esq., of 01319' ham-common. On Monday, the 21st inst., at Wimbledon-house, Sam Marryat, jun., Esq., aged 25. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the 5/1. OFFICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CA.ltswAlits•